Making your own protocol is only good for a on-off job with a limited and predetermined set of users; once you have to exchange data with a lot of systems you need to have a standard. When writing software to send data between suppliers and supermarkets I could look at the Tradacoms standard and be sure what fields were manditory, the type of data they held, the length, etc, and I didn't have to make a new version for each one.
We bought a server recently and made it clear on the order that an OS wasn't needed, we didn't want one on disk and we didn't want on installing. But we still got phone calls from a sales droid, then a manager droid, making really, really, really sure we knew it wouldn't run without an OS, and that it wasn't suitable for a desktop, or for playing games.
DOUGAL: I read somewhere, I think it was in an article about priest socks that priest socks are blacker than any other type of socks.
TED: That's right Dougal. Sometimes you see lay people wear what look like black socks but if you look closely you'll see they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.
DOUGAL: Actually that's true. I thought my uncle Tommy was wearing black socks but when I looked at them closely they were just very, very, very, very, very, very, VERY, very, very, very dark blue.
TED: Never buy black socks in a normal shop. They'll shaft you every time!
It's the SouthCenter one, a strip mall close-ish to Seattle.
There's no large official looking signs, just some single page notices stuck to the doors saying that they're not taking in any more repairs, and that all sales are final. Nothing inside pointing out where the bargains are, and there wasn't any bargains other than the regular sales anyway - if there's going to be a clearance sale then it hasn't started yet.
But there's a lot of staff, talking in groups, many more than usual, and it seems that some of the displays are being taken down.
Our Solaris servers need patching for the changes, and will need rebooting afterwards; our Windows servers need a line in the reg changing and no reboot.
Perhaps it's an American language thing, but I've never understood how someone can be retired and still have a job - to me retirement means stopping work and getting a pension, if you start working again then you're no longer retired.
At a very basic level a sites page rank is a reflection on how much other sites think it's relevent, and is based on how important the sites are that link to it. Get a link from the BBC, CNN, or somewhere like that and it's worth thousands or millions of links from Geocities sites.
It sounds like it could be a joke by Bernard Righton, a parody of the Bernard Manning style: A Christian, a Muslin, and a Hindu set up a wireless network, and two hours later they had it working.
I've met several left-wingers that don't get Colbert's character - and have you noticed how the right-wingers being interviewed cope with him much better than left-wingers?
If I'm watching a local news program then I want to see local news, of which there's less to cover and so less chance of deliberatly leaving something out.
And isn't it the editor, or producer, who decides on the running order, not the reporter?
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Making your own protocol is only good for a on-off job with a limited and predetermined set of users; once you have to exchange data with a lot of systems you need to have a standard. When writing software to send data between suppliers and supermarkets I could look at the Tradacoms standard and be sure what fields were manditory, the type of data they held, the length, etc, and I didn't have to make a new version for each one.
We bought a server recently and made it clear on the order that an OS wasn't needed, we didn't want one on disk and we didn't want on installing. But we still got phone calls from a sales droid, then a manager droid, making really, really, really sure we knew it wouldn't run without an OS, and that it wasn't suitable for a desktop, or for playing games.
And are you going to tell everyone his number?
But when told of "Stratos" I usually think of an aftershave than a floating city.
Wouldn't Yahoos explain most UFO sightings as Laputa?
DOUGAL: Anyway, what else did you order?
TED: Priest socks. Really black ones.
DOUGAL: I read somewhere, I think it was in an article about priest socks that priest socks are blacker than any other type of socks.
TED: That's right Dougal. Sometimes you see lay people wear what look like black socks but if you look closely you'll see they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.
DOUGAL: Actually that's true. I thought my uncle Tommy was wearing black socks but when I looked at them closely they were just very, very, very, very, very, very, VERY, very, very, very dark blue.
TED: Never buy black socks in a normal shop. They'll shaft you every time!
It's the SouthCenter one, a strip mall close-ish to Seattle.
There's no large official looking signs, just some single page notices stuck to the doors saying that they're not taking in any more repairs, and that all sales are final. Nothing inside pointing out where the bargains are, and there wasn't any bargains other than the regular sales anyway - if there's going to be a clearance sale then it hasn't started yet.
But there's a lot of staff, talking in groups, many more than usual, and it seems that some of the displays are being taken down.
And have your ISP turn off email for your account, you won't get any regular spam either.
Available on any street corner for $1.50?
Black Books is available in the US, possibly only the first series though.
Damn, sorry about the dupe, it was fingers working faster than brain.
It's only a comment on a blog, there's no quotes or anything about the source of the story, so it's speculation rather than a news story.
It's a comment on a blog, with nothing about the source of the story.
Our Solaris servers need patching for the changes, and will need rebooting afterwards; our Windows servers need a line in the reg changing and no reboot.
Unless your a farmer or a meteorologist, you can't talk for more than a few seconds about the weather.
You're not English, are you.
Perhaps it's an American language thing, but I've never understood how someone can be retired and still have a job - to me retirement means stopping work and getting a pension, if you start working again then you're no longer retired.
It's the one I'm using to post to Slashdot with.
Can you point out the news stories which The Register has made up?
My book "101 uses for a dead hooker" will be published in time for Christmas.
Why try to imagine it, can't we just remember it?
Brainiac would probably put in in a microwave with some thermite.
At a very basic level a sites page rank is a reflection on how much other sites think it's relevent, and is based on how important the sites are that link to it. Get a link from the BBC, CNN, or somewhere like that and it's worth thousands or millions of links from Geocities sites.
It sounds like it could be a joke by Bernard Righton, a parody of the Bernard Manning style: A Christian, a Muslin, and a Hindu set up a wireless network, and two hours later they had it working.
I've met several left-wingers that don't get Colbert's character - and have you noticed how the right-wingers being interviewed cope with him much better than left-wingers?
If I'm watching a local news program then I want to see local news, of which there's less to cover and so less chance of deliberatly leaving something out. And isn't it the editor, or producer, who decides on the running order, not the reporter?