Where I work we can use either. Inboxes on the mail server have a 16MB limit and they regularly fill up. Because I need to keep more than that I use POP.
And if you don't believe there were any of those in use, then I suggest you have no idea what's really happening at your bank.
The bank I use still uses two digit dates on its paper forms. That was the root cause of Y2K and
nothing was actually done about it.
Or in the US air traffic control system, for that matter.
Incidently leap seconds are a big problem for ATC systems. When your radar and radar processor are synchronised from GPS a one second skip in the synchronised time can cause chaos.
Considering the Australia currently has five time zones (only including the states and mainland territories) I think Austrlians cope fairly well.
Its only the half hour time difference in SA which makes me dispair. Everywhere else in the world you can change the hour hand and you are done. Setting my watch in SA means I have to synchronise it again. Grrr
I don't play games at all, but I had a look at Second Life recently and I think that it (and the systems which will come after it) will appeal to a much broader market than games like Warcraft.
Most of the legislators at the state level are those who aren't even smart enough to make it into the US Congress (and considering some of the blithering idiots who have infested that institution, that's saying something.)
I think politics in general is an employer of last resort. Like the army and the police.
I suggest we go the whole way and return to VT-100 terminals
The keyboard on the VT-100 was horrid. I am sure I am still paying for it with my RSI. OTH the 320 was a nice little terminal. I installed a couple of dozen of them at one stage in the 80's and I can still remember that new terminal right out of the box smell. Mmmm polystyrene.
Thanks for producing shiny garbage, Motorola, you're not getting any more money out of me.
Well I just changed from Sony Ericsson for most of the same reasons, and I am pretty happy with my Motorola C139. Phones seem to be converging on the same crap standard so I don't think you are going to be impressed.
So before everyone starts ragging on Dell, remember there are at least a couple of good apples there.
I used to know a guy who worked for the local council cutting grass. One day he was driving to a job and noticed someone trying to cut a big site full of high grass with a small domestic lawn mower. He stopped, unloaded the slasher, did the job as a favour and was on his way in five minutes.
All was fine until the guy with the mower called the council to publicly thank the employee who had helped him, wherupon all hell broke lose.
So whatever you do don't ring Dell to report this guy for being good. Dell don't want to be good and we should judge the company by its official actions, despite the fact that 99% of the people who work there are nice people who rescue kittens, etc.
At first I thought Nick Gisburne might be this guy. Fortunately, that video is still up. Hillarious and oh so telling.
No thats John Safran who is a regular on (off-beat) Australian TV. Incidently safran is Jewish.
The funny thing is that in his first appearence on Australian TV (Race around the world) he did a stunt at Disneyland by replacing signs in a museum with new ones which point to Walt Disney's apparently anti-semitic activities. I remember that program going to air but there is nothing on Safran's web sites about it now.
in the first few weeks of the system's operation there were two accidents - the robotic arm with the elcetromagnets ripped of their roofs.
I hear that happens in Iraq from time to time as well:(
I have to say I don't like the idea of picking the cars up by the roof with a magnet. Roofs are only designed to be structural in compression (if you roll over), not routinely as a way of moving the car around. What happens if the roof distorts slightly and stuffs up the seal around the doors?
These automatic parking systems are everywhere in Japan. Especially in the craped city centers
For a minute there I thought you were talking about Kuala Lumpur. There is a machine like that near the Hotel Malaya in KL. It is a horrible big steel thing. Four stories high. You wouldn't want to stick your hand in. It was working when I was there in 2000 and (surprisingly) still working a couple of months ago. I don't think its very automatic though.
Funny you should ask that. This morning I was waking up at my desk. Slurping coffee and deleting spam when a co-worker wandered past with a discharged mobile phone. He borrowed a USB cable to charge it from his PC but came back because windows tried and failed to find drivers for that type of phone and refused to supply electrons to charge it.
He solved the problem by plugging it into a linux box, which doesn't expect to have drivers for mobile phones, but it raises an issue about the "drivers for everything, even standard things" approach of windows. Will you be told that a windows controlled car park can't accept your car because it doesn't have the drivers to interrogate your sound system to verify the validity of your CD collection?
acknowledged a sort of EULA in which you certified that you didn't leave life animals in your car
Gee those Swiss are civilised. If the car park was outside an Australian casino the EULA would have to make you certify that you didn't leave your children in the car.
Add some bullshit stats ("it's a million to one chance that...")and suddenly we see people being declared guilty with very little extra evidence.
About five years ago when I wife was pregnant with our son we applied for a welfare payments from the Federal deparment of health and community services. This is a small payment which most people get when they are having children. It offsets about 1% of the cost of having a child so people don't take it very seriously.
A couple of days after we put the paper work in my wife got a call at home from the welfare people asking if her husband was the same Michael Smith who has a family of four in $some_other_suburb. Needless to say she was a bit pissed off (at them, not me) but there were more cases recently in the paper about similar things happening in the another department.
Its not the professional cop who you have to worry about. Its the dopey contractor charged with reducing fraud by 0.01% over the financial year who is let lose with a tool to grep a database of not particularly useful data. They do the obvious things with the results they get, not caring about the consequences.
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Where I work we can use either. Inboxes on the mail server have a 16MB limit and they regularly fill up. Because I need to keep more than that I use POP.
The bank I use still uses two digit dates on its paper forms. That was the root cause of Y2K and nothing was actually done about it.
Incidently leap seconds are a big problem for ATC systems. When your radar and radar processor are synchronised from GPS a one second skip in the synchronised time can cause chaos.
Its only the half hour time difference in SA which makes me dispair. Everywhere else in the world you can change the hour hand and you are done. Setting my watch in SA means I have to synchronise it again. Grrr
Better tell the local doctor to leave the bloody thing alone then.
I don't play games at all, but I had a look at Second Life recently and I think that it (and the systems which will come after it) will appeal to a much broader market than games like Warcraft.
What are the Arabian stallions in your bedroom really for?
I think politics in general is an employer of last resort. Like the army and the police.
The keyboard on the VT-100 was horrid. I am sure I am still paying for it with my RSI. OTH the 320 was a nice little terminal. I installed a couple of dozen of them at one stage in the 80's and I can still remember that new terminal right out of the box smell. Mmmm polystyrene.
You forgot cats and dogs living together
Well I just changed from Sony Ericsson for most of the same reasons, and I am pretty happy with my Motorola C139. Phones seem to be converging on the same crap standard so I don't think you are going to be impressed.
Sounds like an ideal candidate for chrooting
Try to connect to home through your VPN and get computer on fire instead of printer on fire
I used to know a guy who worked for the local council cutting grass. One day he was driving to a job and noticed someone trying to cut a big site full of high grass with a small domestic lawn mower. He stopped, unloaded the slasher, did the job as a favour and was on his way in five minutes.
All was fine until the guy with the mower called the council to publicly thank the employee who had helped him, wherupon all hell broke lose.
So whatever you do don't ring Dell to report this guy for being good. Dell don't want to be good and we should judge the company by its official actions, despite the fact that 99% of the people who work there are nice people who rescue kittens, etc.
What about all those abortion clinics which get attcked in the USA? Thats a pretty consistent pattern of Christian terrorism.
Disney must have sued Safran and/or the ABC because there is no reference to that incident on the web now.
No thats John Safran who is a regular on (off-beat) Australian TV. Incidently safran is Jewish.
The funny thing is that in his first appearence on Australian TV (Race around the world) he did a stunt at Disneyland by replacing signs in a museum with new ones which point to Walt Disney's apparently anti-semitic activities. I remember that program going to air but there is nothing on Safran's web sites about it now.
We do it here with domestic water heaters. Its called night rate power.
Maybe hanging out in smoke filled spaces will come back into fashion. Incidently this guy is doing more with sea kayaks than most.
But if there is a nine year old girl who understands UNIX handy you should be ok.
I hear that happens in Iraq from time to time as well :(
I have to say I don't like the idea of picking the cars up by the roof with a magnet. Roofs are only designed to be structural in compression (if you roll over), not routinely as a way of moving the car around. What happens if the roof distorts slightly and stuffs up the seal around the doors?
For a minute there I thought you were talking about Kuala Lumpur. There is a machine like that near the Hotel Malaya in KL. It is a horrible big steel thing. Four stories high. You wouldn't want to stick your hand in. It was working when I was there in 2000 and (surprisingly) still working a couple of months ago. I don't think its very automatic though.
Funny you should ask that. This morning I was waking up at my desk. Slurping coffee and deleting spam when a co-worker wandered past with a discharged mobile phone. He borrowed a USB cable to charge it from his PC but came back because windows tried and failed to find drivers for that type of phone and refused to supply electrons to charge it.
He solved the problem by plugging it into a linux box, which doesn't expect to have drivers for mobile phones, but it raises an issue about the "drivers for everything, even standard things" approach of windows. Will you be told that a windows controlled car park can't accept your car because it doesn't have the drivers to interrogate your sound system to verify the validity of your CD collection?
Gee those Swiss are civilised. If the car park was outside an Australian casino the EULA would have to make you certify that you didn't leave your children in the car.
About five years ago when I wife was pregnant with our son we applied for a welfare payments from the Federal deparment of health and community services. This is a small payment which most people get when they are having children. It offsets about 1% of the cost of having a child so people don't take it very seriously.
A couple of days after we put the paper work in my wife got a call at home from the welfare people asking if her husband was the same Michael Smith who has a family of four in $some_other_suburb. Needless to say she was a bit pissed off (at them, not me) but there were more cases recently in the paper about similar things happening in the another department.
Its not the professional cop who you have to worry about. Its the dopey contractor charged with reducing fraud by 0.01% over the financial year who is let lose with a tool to grep a database of not particularly useful data. They do the obvious things with the results they get, not caring about the consequences.