i've been reading his stuff for years (and years) and get all nostaligic over the callahans series. a good place for a spin off is callahnas lady and lady slings the booze. this is mike callahans wife - lady sally - who runs the best whorehouse in brooklyn. those have to be checked out.
physical security on most sites is a joke. at my last job i used to work for the u.k government and we had a running competition to see who could get past the security guard station with the most rediculous item. i think that the winner used a tin of sardines that looked nothing like the site pass, but was approximately the same shape. i used to use a cigarette packet most of the time. the mag swipes to enter various blocks did actually look for your pass number on a list of approved numbers however - but a large portion of these were left unlocked or propped open during warm periods.
lh
all i need now is to get one of these working at room temperature for less than the cost of my current house and then convince microsoft it might be a good idea to do a vista driver for it and then maybe, just maybe vista will boot in under four minutes.
happy day!
just worked out that my pda has more memory combined than my first six computers combined (vic20, zx81, spectrum48, spectrum128 and pc with a shocking 8mb ram and another pc with 68Mb of ram.) don't get me started on storage space!
sounds to me like he was just unlucky... he had some 'extraordinary' requirements that bt couldn't resolve because they suffer from the same problems that any large company has - one hand doesn't know what the other one is doing. i've been a bt customer from _years_ and had bb from them since they first activated the service.
i ordered bb, they delivered on the day they said they would. they've upgraded the service and recuded the price to at least appear competative - i'm now paying was i used to pay for 512k for 2mb and i have never had a single days downtime that was caused by bt... touch wood. i've had a fault on the line before, but that it just what they tell customers. my particular 'fault' was caused by an 'engineer' unplugging something at the local exchange. everyone gets crappy service now and again but that's no reason to go whining about it on the net. unless you can gather an army of like minded customers and start your own website....
there are sites on the internet that are _bad_!'
well done. must have had some spare budget sitting around doing nothing. no, seriously - next you'll be telling us that google is watching us or those kind blokes in nigeria are lying to us too!
sheesh. bloggers are getting it in the neck at the minute - americans want to censor blogs, even tho they haven't read one, people who blog about work get sacked and now they're remotely installing keglogging software onto pcs. where will it end?
off topic? rtfa and oafa and you'll see that they are linked to the computer taxation. replacing tv licencing (a tax on tv) with a tax on computers? tax. my post involved the word tax. hardly off topic. man, when i get some mod points...
... hike up the price! the government did this to us when we moved from rates to poll tax - this smells like another excuse to raise prices.
we pay tax on the money we earn, then we are taxed on the equipment we buy, then we are taxed to use that equipment? what's next? breathing tax? sex tax? is there no aspect of lives left that the government cannot regulate or charge us for?
actually having now rtfa it says this
"We know that 2003-type hot summers and associated heatwaves won't happen every year, but continuing man-made global warming will increase the chance," adds, Peter Stott. "According to our model, by the middle of this century every other summer could be even hotter than 2003."
which means 2005 should be 'good' and 2006 should be time for me to book another vacation - in somewhere like iraq.
lh
yeah but tfa mentions the fact that the heatwaves should get progressively worse/better (depending on your point of view.) that means that 2004 should have been better. unless you take into account the 'one on, one off' principal.
i have a really bad habit of buying domain names while drunk. there's nothing like 6 pints of beer to make me think 'i wonder if that is registered...' all they seem to do is generate spam for me!:(
what summer heatwave? on my holidays this year it rained so hard the village where we were staying was was washed into the sea!
seriously tho - i live in a place that is so unnacustomed to snow, that when it finally does get around to snowing it makes the front page of the local newspaper. my daughter said to me the other day "dad, remember when it snowed three years ago, there was enough snow for us to make a snowman!". and i can remember building snow forts as a boy. the weather is seriously messed up, we don't need science to tell us that it is.
...i'm going to say that i like it! but that is probably because i haven't fully explorered the options and, contrary to slashdot membership criteria, i actually have friends who _aren't_ geeks. explaining to them why they shouldn't use something that comes with their pc just takes too much effort. besides, i'm too busy plugging the holes in their security settings;)
i worked for eds about a year ago and i can tell you now that the 'about seven' win xp boxes is a blatant lie. the room that i worked in had over seven desktops with it on. and they were all legal ones too. i had to laugh at the local office staff using the fax to communicate with one anoother tho - 'do you see the white thing on your desk? the thing with all the numbered buttons and the thing that looks like a handle? well, that's called a telephone and it's used to talking to people. remotely. no really. give it a go'.
non issue? don't think so.
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true enough, this has been going on for years. true enough that tv shows are broadcast for 'free'.
but when some many people are downloading shows that tv companies are also trying to make revenue from via dvd sales - then they will start to make an issue of it.
in the uk, tv isn't free. you have to pay a licence fee. there may be issues with people downloading these programs, watching them on their pcs, without having a tv licence. admittedly, this is probably a tiny minority - but it is possible. however, in the copyright/piracy mudfight, money is the underpinning agenda.
up until earlier this year i used to think that piracy of movies, tv shows and music was just a minor thing - not very many people doing it. but even i was amazed by the amount of people actually involved in this and the extent that they were involved.
i've been using smart phones for a while now - i work with a lot of different models and use a pda to manage my data. smarter smart phones is a fantastic idea, but i really don't see what all this fuss is about this next generation.
for a start, reminding you that you have a presentation the next day is something that a pda or smart phone will do _now_. it's up to you to remind yourself not to drink too much. for it to actually learn that you go drinking on, say, thursday nights regularly you are going to have to tell it. do any pda users actually put into their schedule subject: get wasted
location : pub
starts: 19:00
ends: 23:10
all day: i'm considering it
occurs: every thursday
reminder: remind me not not over do it
categories: recreation
?
as for the other stuff, it sounds like grouping the most frequently used functions and presenting them based on the frequency of their use. win xp has been doing that for a while now. sort of.
this isn't to say that i'm not going to get one - i'll probably end up with one as soon as they are available. it just sounds like p.r spin.
i work for a small company heading up their i.t dept. and i make sure that all the pc's that i support use firefox. trouble is, they are all windows xp machines (through necessity - if i had my way it would be otherwise dammit!!) and windows keeps on launching ie in a number of nefarious ways such as links embedded in outlook and sent via msn messenger. unless someone can suggest a quick fix (other than the obvious 'ditch windows' response - i would be interested) it's going to stay that way as i haven't got the time to visit all of our pcs and hack at them for an hour or so. but, back to my point, surely this sort of thing has an impact on stats?
$50 for the wreckage
$8000 p+p
$2.5b for raising it from the bottom of the south pacific
buyer pays postage and all associated costs. pay pal accepted.
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try stardance, starseed and starmind.
i've been reading his stuff for years (and years) and get all nostaligic over the callahans series. a good place for a spin off is callahnas lady and lady slings the booze. this is mike callahans wife - lady sally - who runs the best whorehouse in brooklyn. those have to be checked out.
be warned, spider's style is not heinlein's.
lh
physical security on most sites is a joke. at my last job i used to work for the u.k government and we had a running competition to see who could get past the security guard station with the most rediculous item. i think that the winner used a tin of sardines that looked nothing like the site pass, but was approximately the same shape. i used to use a cigarette packet most of the time. the mag swipes to enter various blocks did actually look for your pass number on a list of approved numbers however - but a large portion of these were left unlocked or propped open during warm periods. lh
all i need now is to get one of these working at room temperature for less than the cost of my current house and then convince microsoft it might be a good idea to do a vista driver for it and then maybe, just maybe vista will boot in under four minutes. happy day!
just worked out that my pda has more memory combined than my first six computers combined (vic20, zx81, spectrum48, spectrum128 and pc with a shocking 8mb ram and another pc with 68Mb of ram.) don't get me started on storage space!
sounds to me like he was just unlucky... he had some 'extraordinary' requirements that bt couldn't resolve because they suffer from the same problems that any large company has - one hand doesn't know what the other one is doing. i've been a bt customer from _years_ and had bb from them since they first activated the service. i ordered bb, they delivered on the day they said they would. they've upgraded the service and recuded the price to at least appear competative - i'm now paying was i used to pay for 512k for 2mb and i have never had a single days downtime that was caused by bt... touch wood. i've had a fault on the line before, but that it just what they tell customers. my particular 'fault' was caused by an 'engineer' unplugging something at the local exchange. everyone gets crappy service now and again but that's no reason to go whining about it on the net. unless you can gather an army of like minded customers and start your own website....
thought that there were a few to many g's in that last post. do like the sound of a 'keglogger' tho!
there are sites on the internet that are _bad_!' well done. must have had some spare budget sitting around doing nothing. no, seriously - next you'll be telling us that google is watching us or those kind blokes in nigeria are lying to us too! sheesh. bloggers are getting it in the neck at the minute - americans want to censor blogs, even tho they haven't read one, people who blog about work get sacked and now they're remotely installing keglogging software onto pcs. where will it end?
off topic? rtfa and oafa and you'll see that they are linked to the computer taxation. replacing tv licencing (a tax on tv) with a tax on computers? tax. my post involved the word tax. hardly off topic. man, when i get some mod points...
... hike up the price! the government did this to us when we moved from rates to poll tax - this smells like another excuse to raise prices. we pay tax on the money we earn, then we are taxed on the equipment we buy, then we are taxed to use that equipment? what's next? breathing tax? sex tax? is there no aspect of lives left that the government cannot regulate or charge us for?
i like the idea of this. just so i can find stuff after i put it down somewhere...
actually having now rtfa it says this
"We know that 2003-type hot summers and associated heatwaves won't happen every year, but continuing man-made global warming will increase the chance," adds, Peter Stott. "According to our model, by the middle of this century every other summer could be even hotter than 2003."
which means 2005 should be 'good' and 2006 should be time for me to book another vacation - in somewhere like iraq. lh
yeah but tfa mentions the fact that the heatwaves should get progressively worse/better (depending on your point of view.) that means that 2004 should have been better. unless you take into account the 'one on, one off' principal.
i have a really bad habit of buying domain names while drunk. there's nothing like 6 pints of beer to make me think 'i wonder if that is registered...' all they seem to do is generate spam for me! :(
what summer heatwave? on my holidays this year it rained so hard the village where we were staying was was washed into the sea!
seriously tho - i live in a place that is so unnacustomed to snow, that when it finally does get around to snowing it makes the front page of the local newspaper. my daughter said to me the other day "dad, remember when it snowed three years ago, there was enough snow for us to make a snowman!". and i can remember building snow forts as a boy. the weather is seriously messed up, we don't need science to tell us that it is.
if it wasn't for spam - i wouldn't get any mail at all!
...i'm going to say that i like it! ;)
but that is probably because i haven't fully explorered the options and, contrary to slashdot membership criteria, i actually have friends who _aren't_ geeks. explaining to them why they shouldn't use something that comes with their pc just takes too much effort. besides, i'm too busy plugging the holes in their security settings
i worked for eds about a year ago and i can tell you now that the 'about seven' win xp boxes is a blatant lie. the room that i worked in had over seven desktops with it on. and they were all legal ones too. i had to laugh at the local office staff using the fax to communicate with one anoother tho - 'do you see the white thing on your desk? the thing with all the numbered buttons and the thing that looks like a handle? well, that's called a telephone and it's used to talking to people. remotely. no really. give it a go'.
true enough, this has been going on for years. true enough that tv shows are broadcast for 'free'.
but when some many people are downloading shows that tv companies are also trying to make revenue from via dvd sales - then they will start to make an issue of it.
in the uk, tv isn't free. you have to pay a licence fee. there may be issues with people downloading these programs, watching them on their pcs, without having a tv licence. admittedly, this is probably a tiny minority - but it is possible. however, in the copyright/piracy mudfight, money is the underpinning agenda.
up until earlier this year i used to think that piracy of movies, tv shows and music was just a minor thing - not very many people doing it. but even i was amazed by the amount of people actually involved in this and the extent that they were involved.
i've been using smart phones for a while now - i work with a lot of different models and use a pda to manage my data. smarter smart phones is a fantastic idea, but i really don't see what all this fuss is about this next generation.
for a start, reminding you that you have a presentation the next day is something that a pda or smart phone will do _now_. it's up to you to remind yourself not to drink too much. for it to actually learn that you go drinking on, say, thursday nights regularly you are going to have to tell it. do any pda users actually put into their schedule
subject: get wasted
location : pub
starts: 19:00
ends: 23:10
all day: i'm considering it
occurs: every thursday
reminder: remind me not not over do it
categories: recreation
?
as for the other stuff, it sounds like grouping the most frequently used functions and presenting them based on the frequency of their use. win xp has been doing that for a while now. sort of.
this isn't to say that i'm not going to get one - i'll probably end up with one as soon as they are available. it just sounds like p.r spin.
... and you gotta admit that he got a fairly good price!
i wonder if he's getting it in cash or a couple of SQL Server licences...
perfect! ta very much!
i work for a small company heading up their i.t dept. and i make sure that all the pc's that i support use firefox. trouble is, they are all windows xp machines (through necessity - if i had my way it would be otherwise dammit!!) and windows keeps on launching ie in a number of nefarious ways such as links embedded in outlook and sent via msn messenger. unless someone can suggest a quick fix (other than the obvious 'ditch windows' response - i would be interested) it's going to stay that way as i haven't got the time to visit all of our pcs and hack at them for an hour or so. but, back to my point, surely this sort of thing has an impact on stats?
$50 for the wreckage $8000 p+p $2.5b for raising it from the bottom of the south pacific buyer pays postage and all associated costs. pay pal accepted.