Governments are simply groups of people who don't have to answer to anyone else.
The election process is not really answering to anyone, because it happens before most governments get into power, and it is such a convoluted process that even those who have something to answer won't necessarily do it.
I had this vision in my head of a bunch of US senators looking at a recent report, and declaring 'this is all just too hard, let them have it, we've got a war to fight!'
Of course, the US haven't given anything up, and this is just sensational journalism at it worst (ok, not really worst, but you know!)
Fair enough, this works for a lot of things. But what about a pineapple, or watermelon. Bananas are pretty easy, you can tell by the colour usually, but not everything.
But I do agree, this sticker is almost useless. If parents actually taught their kids how to check for fruit, things would be better - that is, if they actually ate fruit.
Damn! I was hoping since you were talking about vidoes and office competitors in the same line, that you were suggesting the Google would come out with its own version of the BBCs The Office.
Serg: "What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It's the engineers, investment in engineers. My proudest moment here wasn't when I increased profits by 1000%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went, 'Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?', Didn't happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish"
Energy future trading is about trying to figure out how much energy will cost in a week, month, year even longer, and trading on values of that. You try to predict whether energy will be cheaper or more expensive, by looking at a whole range of factors, including weather, wars, politics, etc...Of course, trading on those future values will actually change those future values, so this needs to be taken into consideration. Yes, it is a load of bollocks, to an even greater degree than the stock market, but by manipluting those values, you can make a lot of money (just like Enron).
My personal belief, is that it is a complicated system, setup so the rich can make even more money, otherwise they might have to do something smart with it.
Regular people understand the issues far more than geeks give them credit for.
Yeah, regular people who don't know why they need a video card since they don't play videos on their machine. Regular people who want to know why you want them to bring in their 'hard drive', when it is the computer that is the problem. Regular people who are using Office 2003 as their operating system. Regular people who don't know why their computers aren't running during a blackout.
These are the regular people.
The people you are talking about are computer savvy - almost geniuses compared to regular people.
Great rant, I am sure many people here would agree.
The problem as I see it, is the ones who want to get far in a company, are not the same people who should be making decisions. Part of the problem is smart people who want to keep doing what they enjoy doing - engineering, rather than making the transition to managers. This is nobodys fault per se, but this is were the problem lies.
Well, there is clever, and then there is the impossible. When you application is running in a sandbox, and you are really limited to what you can do... that doesn't leave a lot open to virus writers to do. I remember trying to write an application that set itself to run at a certain time, before it even ran you would have to allow it to do this (a box would popup asking if you want to allow th app to change the alarm) - then everytime you set the alarm, you would get another box popping up asking for persmission(maybe this is what Vista will be like?) - this was just for setting a time to run the application - nothing insiduous.
... that microsoft doesn't make OS for mobile phones (or at least not all of them).
Most mobiles run J2ME, and you can't do anything interesting in J2ME. You can't even get the whole screen on some mobiles, let alone use directory services. And because J2ME allows the phone creators to load on different modules to there phones (JSR-182, etc), you don't even know if you will be able to do something when you get to a phone. You would have to be very clever indeed!
And no, the UK is not politically in Europe. Geographically and in the mentality of its dwellers, it's still an island (20km away from the mainland too). Whether it's a good or a bad thing is another matter.
What does this mean? They are a part of the EU, surely that means that politically they are in Europe. Geographically it is definately a part of Europe. Tasmania is a part of Australia, and it is 200km away.
The mentatility of its dwellers, I think you are right about that one.
Or at least, that is what I tried to do - no internet at home. Of course, now I just waste time on the net at work, so maybe no a solution for you.
But this is some serious downloading, shouldn't you be spending your money on cidar, and banging fat chicks at students parties? Throwing up your guts after the quid nights, passing out in someones garden?....ah, fond memories!
Do you count the UK as Europe? The UK is full of the biggest rip-off and con artist companies I have ever come across, and people over rhere just see this as a normal. Almost every company tried to overcharge, and you have to check your bills. Even the government wants to scam you. For council tax and tv license, I can't pay for six months, I have to pay the whole amount, and apply for a refund when I finish - even though I will have left the country. So, instead, they get nothing!
As a technical type guy, let me assure you that it feels good, feels damn good. Gotta put those machines in place, every now and again, or you never know what will happen!
LIDL also stocks one of each product, and about 100 products in the whole store. You get one can of baked beans, one can of tomatoes, one big jar of olives, one small jar of olives. This means one palate of baked beans, next to one palate of canned tomatoes. And most of the stuff is from eastern europe (this is in the UK)
They also have a unique checkout system, you wait in line before you get to the checkouts, for one to be free. Seems to work well.
Cheaper than anything tho, and fruit and veg is half price this month...woohoo.
Welcome to the new Walmart world. Because of the tiny amount walmart pays their clerks, it is cheaper to hire human labour than buy one of those machines, with costs spread out over 20 years.
Reminds me of the stupid ANZ atms that plagues Australia for years. For some stupid reason, the designer decided to add two decimal places to the withdrawal amount - even tho you can only withdraw amount in multiples of $20 notes. So everytime, I had to enter 00 - no, you couldn't just put in the dollars and press enter, that would have been simple - you have to enter in two zeros. If you enter in anything but 2 zeros, it gave an error. Brillant! Thanks a lot.
2 MB is ridiculous, but app installers (like MSI) also need to keep a record of what changes are made, so that you can uninstall an app. It also needs to create registry entries, and keep track of dlls that are used by other applications.
For XP, 2k and 98, not all files were installed, so it need to extract certain files from an archive, and auto-detect hardware. (which is easier and faster these days)
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Governments are simply groups of people who don't have to answer to anyone else.
The election process is not really answering to anyone, because it happens before most governments get into power, and it is such a convoluted process that even those who have something to answer won't necessarily do it.
I had this vision in my head of a bunch of US senators looking at a recent report, and declaring 'this is all just too hard, let them have it, we've got a war to fight!'
Of course, the US haven't given anything up, and this is just sensational journalism at it worst (ok, not really worst, but you know!)
What happens if they look at the size of the disk - wouldn't it report being a 1gb?
Not that I could see anybody doing this - or even checking a usb disk at all.
Fair enough, this works for a lot of things. But what about a pineapple, or watermelon. Bananas are pretty easy, you can tell by the colour usually, but not everything.
But I do agree, this sticker is almost useless. If parents actually taught their kids how to check for fruit, things would be better - that is, if they actually ate fruit.
So would your setup really only cost 20% as much, if you didn't host that extra 80% of music?
No.
Damn! I was hoping since you were talking about vidoes and office competitors in the same line, that you were suggesting the Google would come out with its own version of the BBCs The Office.
Serg: "What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It's the engineers, investment in engineers. My proudest moment here wasn't when I increased profits by 1000%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went, 'Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?', Didn't happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish"
Energy future trading is about trying to figure out how much energy will cost in a week, month, year even longer, and trading on values of that. You try to predict whether energy will be cheaper or more expensive, by looking at a whole range of factors, including weather, wars, politics, etc...Of course, trading on those future values will actually change those future values, so this needs to be taken into consideration. Yes, it is a load of bollocks, to an even greater degree than the stock market, but by manipluting those values, you can make a lot of money (just like Enron).
My personal belief, is that it is a complicated system, setup so the rich can make even more money, otherwise they might have to do something smart with it.
Regular people understand the issues far more than geeks give them credit for.
Yeah, regular people who don't know why they need a video card since they don't play videos on their machine. Regular people who want to know why you want them to bring in their 'hard drive', when it is the computer that is the problem. Regular people who are using Office 2003 as their operating system. Regular people who don't know why their computers aren't running during a blackout.
These are the regular people.
The people you are talking about are computer savvy - almost geniuses compared to regular people.
Great rant, I am sure many people here would agree.
The problem as I see it, is the ones who want to get far in a company, are not the same people who should be making decisions. Part of the problem is smart people who want to keep doing what they enjoy doing - engineering, rather than making the transition to managers. This is nobodys fault per se, but this is were the problem lies.
Wow, best version of windows ever!
Well, there is clever, and then there is the impossible. When you application is running in a sandbox, and you are really limited to what you can do... that doesn't leave a lot open to virus writers to do. I remember trying to write an application that set itself to run at a certain time, before it even ran you would have to allow it to do this (a box would popup asking if you want to allow th app to change the alarm) - then everytime you set the alarm, you would get another box popping up asking for persmission(maybe this is what Vista will be like?) - this was just for setting a time to run the application - nothing insiduous.
... that microsoft doesn't make OS for mobile phones (or at least not all of them).
Most mobiles run J2ME, and you can't do anything interesting in J2ME. You can't even get the whole screen on some mobiles, let alone use directory services. And because J2ME allows the phone creators to load on different modules to there phones (JSR-182, etc), you don't even know if you will be able to do something when you get to a phone. You would have to be very clever indeed!
And no, the UK is not politically in Europe. Geographically and in the mentality of its dwellers, it's still an island (20km away from the mainland too). Whether it's a good or a bad thing is another matter.
What does this mean? They are a part of the EU, surely that means that politically they are in Europe. Geographically it is definately a part of Europe. Tasmania is a part of Australia, and it is 200km away.
The mentatility of its dwellers, I think you are right about that one.
Sounds like this gives a huge advantage to corporations.
It is either true, of the someone at the Council tax office in Edinburgh is having a laugh. (wouldn't be surprised!)
I wanted to pay the entire 6 months, because I don't want them to automatically take it out of my bank account. They would not do this.
Even after proclaiming 'I am trying to give you money here, don't you want it?'
Thursday... Intel plans to announce details about the branding strategy and systems that will appear with Merom processors
So no actual details, so don't bother reading the article. This is not worth an article!
Or at least, that is what I tried to do - no internet at home. Of course, now I just waste time on the net at work, so maybe no a solution for you.
....ah, fond memories!
But this is some serious downloading, shouldn't you be spending your money on cidar, and banging fat chicks at students parties? Throwing up your guts after the quid nights, passing out in someones garden?
So how does it work when one parties denies the verbal contract, or the wording of it?
Do you count the UK as Europe? The UK is full of the biggest rip-off and con artist companies I have ever come across, and people over rhere just see this as a normal. Almost every company tried to overcharge, and you have to check your bills. Even the government wants to scam you. For council tax and tv license, I can't pay for six months, I have to pay the whole amount, and apply for a refund when I finish - even though I will have left the country. So, instead, they get nothing!
As a technical type guy, let me assure you that it feels good, feels damn good. Gotta put those machines in place, every now and again, or you never know what will happen!
LIDL also stocks one of each product, and about 100 products in the whole store. You get one can of baked beans, one can of tomatoes, one big jar of olives, one small jar of olives. This means one palate of baked beans, next to one palate of canned tomatoes. And most of the stuff is from eastern europe (this is in the UK)
They also have a unique checkout system, you wait in line before you get to the checkouts, for one to be free. Seems to work well.
Cheaper than anything tho, and fruit and veg is half price this month...woohoo.
Welcome to the new Walmart world. Because of the tiny amount walmart pays their clerks, it is cheaper to hire human labour than buy one of those machines, with costs spread out over 20 years.
Reminds me of the stupid ANZ atms that plagues Australia for years. For some stupid reason, the designer decided to add two decimal places to the withdrawal amount - even tho you can only withdraw amount in multiples of $20 notes. So everytime, I had to enter 00 - no, you couldn't just put in the dollars and press enter, that would have been simple - you have to enter in two zeros. If you enter in anything but 2 zeros, it gave an error. Brillant! Thanks a lot.
2 MB is ridiculous, but app installers (like MSI) also need to keep a record of what changes are made, so that you can uninstall an app. It also needs to create registry entries, and keep track of dlls that are used by other applications.
For XP, 2k and 98, not all files were installed, so it need to extract certain files from an archive, and auto-detect hardware. (which is easier and faster these days)