I'm guessing (from a little google sleuthing) that He's Pete Williams the original base player from Dexy's Midnight Runners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexy%27s_Midnight_Ru nners). They had a huge hit in Australia with "Come on Eileen" in about '82 (I was 14 at the time and LOVED that song).
No dude. HSV is Herpies Simplex Virus (same thing as a cold sore but when it's down there they call it herpies). HPV (Human Pappiloma Virus) - genital warts - is the main cause of cervical cancer. Not HSV.
I've been buying electronics and then, in the early 80's, computer magazines for years until I stopped a couple of years ago. The publishing lag time means they were always out of date with what I'd already read on the internet. The only thing I miss about a physical magazine is taking it with me to the dunny.
Not really trivial. It's not just any old XML but SVG (scaleable vector graphics) a W3C recommendation. This means it is a recognised standard and is implimented by Adobe, the Mozilla project, and others. The raw format of inkscape is directly usable in other tools.
You can still look pretty spiffy without ironing (not good enough for climbing the corporate ladder or an interview - but who wants to do that anyway?).
What you do is wash and spin your clothes on a lower rinse spin speed and as soon as soon the machine is finished hang the clothes out on the line. Put the shirts on coat hangers and peg your dud up under the belt line (where the peg marks will be hidden. When you take the things off the line fold or hang the straight away.
This works best with thick cotton clothes or polyp/cotton. You can't put things in the drier so I suppose this advice is void in the UK and Canada (works fine in Australia).
My first job in 1989 was on an IBM 36something under vm/cms. We migrated off this to one of the first RS6000s under AIX. I was stoked because I got to use vi (just like the PDP11/Unix at University). My long haired bearded boss was sad until he discovered Kedit. It made an old programmer happy.
No. The lack of eavesdropping refers to the quantum properties of entangled photons used to encrypt communications in a theoretically unbreakable way. See here. There was also a slashdot story on this a few years ago.
When I used to work at a mac shop ('88) we had this guy downstairs in dispatch who wore glasses. One day when he took time off to go to the optometrists we opened his Mac SE and turned the magnets on the back of the CRT. When he came back and switched on his machine everything was rotated 45 degrees. Span him right out.
My current boss also wears glasses. We got one of those battery free torches (from thinkgeek) and held it near the screen. It puts a pretty rainbow oil pattern over everything. Span him out too.
This is an ugly story. The current government doesn't represent my views at all at the moment and I'm sad about many of the things they get up to in my name.
Having said that it would be nice to have some more details. What were the full names of the people you dealt with (Ben C* etc.)? Have you taken this any further with any official complaint here or in Germany? Are you able to actually tell us who you are? Or failing that get another well-known person in the community to vouch for your identity and story's truth?
These are pretty extraordinary claims and although possible it seems very unlikely that Australian Federal Police would act in this manner.
If true please accept my apologies.
Brett the programmer (and fellow conf.au attendee)
Is this prior art (from the original smiley thread)for the slashdot moderation system? Assuming they're into patenting things:-)
19-Sep-82 18:56 Jeff Shrager at CMU-10A 38521,03,9(6),9(9),1(5),0 Just signifying that a message is a joke is certainly not sufficient. One can develop a taxonomy of bboard message types along several different dimensions. Also, where a continuum is preferable to a taxonomy (such as where humor value is at issue) one can similarly use a scale to indicate where along that scale this message lies. Suppose that all dimensions are refered to by a ten point scale (we'll use all integers here although one can certainly imagine reals in the case of fine grain continuous scales). Some dimensions will be bitwise encoded as well. Here is a sample of a coding scheme:
COMMUNITY: (this is a binary scale with a bit position for
each department totalling about 32 bits) TOPIC: (two digits 00-99)
(00) Political, (01) Scientific, (02) Computer, (03) Meta, etc FLAME VALUE: (continuous 0.0-10.0) HUMOR VALUE: (0.0-10.0) BORDOM VALUE: (0.0-10.0) INFORMATIONAL CONTENT: (-10.0 (for queries) to 10.0 (for their answers))
Note that some of these scales are purely according to the opinion of the author. Thus, we provide, also, a confidence scale: to go along with each continuous scale (to be enclosed in parens after the value).
Since Oracle's database runs on Linux perhaps Financials will run on Linux too? Does anyone know? It's a bit of an academic point really because the purchase price and maintenance cost of the software usually dawfs the hardware cost people generally go with the common hardware / software platform (in Perth here it seems to be Sun / Solaris or IBM / AIX). No one wants to be bleeding edge with their mission critical corporate data. Even in our own company's office, which is entirely Linux, we have to keep an old windows box on the network just to run MYOB. Sad really.
I guess it won't get as much traffic as slashdot - a superduper pipe won't be needed. Some university will probably donate the hosting. Didn't they say the hard copy will be published by MIT Press?. The editor in chief is from MIT. The whois contact is from MIT.
They're not light emitting - they're reflective. But that still doesn't make them any good for billboards. They don't last long enough and -yes- they may degrade in the sun.
Slashdot Mirror
So are you Pete Williams from Dexy's Midnight Runners?
I'm guessing (from a little google sleuthing) that He's Pete Williams the original base player from Dexy's Midnight Runners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexy%27s_Midnight_Ru nners). They had a huge hit in Australia with "Come on Eileen" in about '82 (I was 14 at the time and LOVED that song).
Am I right Pete?
I heard the national radio (ABC News Radio) science reporter interview the guy and it seems like a legitimate story. Here's more info .
No dude. HSV is Herpies Simplex Virus (same thing as a cold sore but when it's down there they call it herpies). HPV (Human Pappiloma Virus) - genital warts - is the main cause of cervical cancer. Not HSV.
The NYT one is more accurate.
I've been buying electronics and then, in the early 80's, computer magazines for years until I stopped a couple of years ago. The publishing lag time means they were always out of date with what I'd already read on the internet. The only thing I miss about a physical magazine is taking it with me to the dunny.
What I buy now...
Australian Wood Review
Wooden Boat
Australian Amateur Boat Builder
is much more fun anyway. It's good to leave work at work and get into something totally different when I get home.
Not really trivial. It's not just any old XML but SVG (scaleable vector graphics) a W3C recommendation. This means it is a recognised standard and is implimented by Adobe, the Mozilla project, and others. The raw format of inkscape is directly usable in other tools.
You can still look pretty spiffy without ironing (not good enough for climbing the corporate ladder or an interview - but who wants to do that anyway?).
What you do is wash and spin your clothes on a lower rinse spin speed and as soon as soon the machine is finished hang the clothes out on the line. Put the shirts on coat hangers and peg your dud up under the belt line (where the peg marks will be hidden. When you take the things off the line fold or hang the straight away.
This works best with thick cotton clothes or polyp/cotton. You can't put things in the drier so I suppose this advice is void in the UK and Canada (works fine in Australia).
Have fun.
My first job in 1989 was on an IBM 36something under vm/cms. We migrated off this to one of the first RS6000s under AIX. I was stoked because I got to use vi (just like the PDP11/Unix at University). My long haired bearded boss was sad until he discovered Kedit. It made an old programmer happy.
No. The lack of eavesdropping refers to the quantum properties of entangled photons used to encrypt communications in a theoretically unbreakable way. See here. There was also a slashdot story on this a few years ago.
According to http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html Bengali is the 5th most popular language in the world with 189 million speakers.
When I used to work at a mac shop ('88) we had this guy downstairs in dispatch who wore glasses. One day when he took time off to go to the optometrists we opened his Mac SE and turned the magnets on the back of the CRT. When he came back and switched on his machine everything was rotated 45 degrees. Span him right out.
My current boss also wears glasses. We got one of those battery free torches (from thinkgeek) and held it near the screen. It puts a pretty rainbow oil pattern over everything. Span him out too.
You mean this Movie OS?
That was just the authors funny (ha, ha, joke, jest jape) way of introducing his fictional interview made up of real PKD quotes.
Or was your comment meant to be humour and it's gone over my head?
young whippersnapper....
it was the 4004 in 1971
Sony took some people selling mod chips to court and lost.
This is an ugly story. The current government doesn't represent my views at all at the moment and I'm sad about many of the things they get up to in my name.
Having said that it would be nice to have some more details. What were the full names of the people you dealt with (Ben C* etc.)? Have you taken this any further with any official complaint here or in Germany? Are you able to actually tell us who you are? Or failing that get another well-known person in the community to vouch for your identity and story's truth?
These are pretty extraordinary claims and although possible it seems very unlikely that Australian Federal Police would act in this manner.
If true please accept my apologies.
Brett the programmer (and fellow conf.au attendee)
Since Oracle's database runs on Linux perhaps Financials will run on Linux too? Does anyone know? It's a bit of an academic point really because the purchase price and maintenance cost of the software usually dawfs the hardware cost people generally go with the common hardware / software platform (in Perth here it seems to be Sun / Solaris or IBM / AIX). No one wants to be bleeding edge with their mission critical corporate data. Even in our own company's office, which is entirely Linux, we have to keep an old windows box on the network just to run MYOB. Sad really.
Brett.
I guess it won't get as much traffic as slashdot - a superduper pipe won't be needed. Some university will probably donate the hosting. Didn't they say the hard copy will be published by MIT Press?. The editor in chief is from MIT. The whois contact is from MIT.
I don't think MIT will go bust hosting this.
They're not light emitting - they're reflective. But that still doesn't make them any good for billboards. They don't last long enough and -yes- they may degrade in the sun.