I suspect my wife has reinstalled things to the wrong place then - bloody women - I really shouldn't let her even know the admin password (even though it is her pc)
I've always wondered why US schools and universities don't consider changing the assignments each year? And more importantly changing the exams they give.
I did a 1 year exchange program from the uk to the us and almost got thrown off a course by a very irate professor when I asked him for copies of the last couple of years exam papers for revision purposes.
He thought I was trying to bribe him to cheat. It took me a while to realise he used the same exam paper each year (or similar) and then it took me even longer to explain to him that EVERY exam paper for each course in my (and most other) uk universities can be found in bound editions in the library. They are one of the best forms of revision material, and most lecturers (or atleast your tutor) will be happy to go over your attempts at the papers and help correct your mistakes in preparation for the exam. Brand new courses even have to be provided with 3 sample exam papers of what the exam would have been like if the course had existed in previous years.
Plagairsm on papers and assignments happens here too, but generally its not between students, its from published papers and essays available on the internet. And since most students use google with the same search terms for a given assignment to find it the information and far too many just copy verbatum it can be pretty obvious when several students have copied fromt he same source - however thats a very different problem to people handing in previous year's students work.
My biggest issue with WoW now is that it is impossible to run it as a non priveleged user!!
It used to be that you could set the ACL equiv of chmod -R a+rw on the WoW install directory (to allow the patch to run and install) but otherwise could play the game as a normal user.
Now (unless I am very much mistaken) due to the warden software the game insists on running as an Admin.
Why may I ask should a game need root on my box just so my wife can play a computer game?????
While I think the brawling claim is true its generally a catch all thing for the police to cover fights where neither clearly started it.
The law in the UK allows the use of reasonable force in defense of self, others or property and it leaves it for the courts to judge reasonable.
One example, I friend of mine was jumped (litterally from a 6' wall) by 2 guys trying to mug him at about 2 in the morning
30 seconds later he picked them up one on each shoulder, walked back round the corner he had just come from, into the police station and dropped them infront of the desk, politely informing the officer that they had tried to mug him. After giving a statement he left.
Ok not everone is 6'6 and a martial arts instructor but in general the police in the UK are pretty fair when it comes to reasonable force (and when they know the scum that you just gave a good kicking really deserved it have been known to turn a blind eye to unreasonable force)
Ok I'll admit its been over a year since I had sid on my desktop, but with that configured to download updates daily I do remember it was a rare day that saw less than 50Mb of packages... thats already a third of the limit...
I must say I'm not too fond of my current ISP, but atleast they only apply limits between 4pm and midnight, and then its not a cut off, just a gradual throttling (which at worst leaves p2p blocked and the rest throttled to 256kbits) the rest of the time doesn't have limits and isn't counted against peak time usage (the limit starts at 15Gb with the throttlings kicking in from 10Gb)
Fairly standard recruiting practice I'm sure for certain branches of the goverment...
Agent 1: I like that kids skills, lets hire him. Agent 2: Yeah he looks ok
Kid: Screw you, I refuse to work for a corrupt establisment!!
Agent 1: Hmmm what have we got on him? Agent 2: Not much, a misdemeanor they can't even be bothered to prosecute in his own country... Agent 1: Perfect, dig out that pad of extradition forms and lets draft his new "employment contract"
it was an ok film, and I'll admit I still haven't gotten around to watchnig firefly yet, but I'm not sure I'd say that in 10 or 25 years time that serenity will attain the same cult status and recognition as the other films listed...
Perhaps it will, but I wouldn't want to go to Lloyds and put a bet on it... would you?
While your interpretation isprobably closer to the literal truth, the actual word is derived in the same way as optician or physician, given that poli refers to city.
So a politician is one that cares for the health of the city - or atleast should be....
Doesn't that suggest that the way in for bloggers is to affiliate to an organisation - probably creating it first themselves - effectively creating their own newspaper comprised of the blogs/rrs feeds of the writers they have within it.
However since most bloggers seem to be primadonnas and very unbending in their attitudes (they probably wouldn't have a blog if these two didn't apply) getting even a subset to work within the same organisation is going to be an exercise similar to herding cats.
but then he would be serving that image from his server, which would open him up to all kinds of prosecution about indecent materials being displayed to minors without warning screens.
By doing it this way he has an image on his own site which is satire, and therefore probably fair use - the fact that someone else is displaing that image themselves in a rather daft place is not his problem!!
It does depend on the company, I've worked permanant at one of the worlds biggest IT companies that did have a formal overtime system (though sometimes there was an overtime ban on but they would arrange time in lieu) and a start up company that couldn't afford to pay the overtime as it was on a budget, but again would agree time in lieu but the need was much rarer.
I just always made it clear that I would happily do the extra work/extra time, but the payment or time off would need to be agreed first.
Time in lieu works quite well as it covers rare occurances, sure paying overtime is great, and I'll take it when I can, but any company that is frequently trying to get unpaid overtime worked is obviously under staffed.
It came up so rarely at the start up that it wasn't an issue. It came up very often at the large company but they didn't treat me any better or any worse (ie still treat like dirt) than those people that always worked extra hours but never claimed the over time even when it was pre approved for the whole department.
Maybe the issue was balanced by the fact I was always willing to do it and just put the ball into thei court - but personally I think its just that companies treat most of their people the same way (be it well or be it crap) and they will try to get what work out of you they can, but will rarely resent you sticking up for yourself on the overtime issue. But then I've always been in a position to be choosey with what jobs to take, I view an interview to be atleast as much about what I think of them to what they think of me.
If a company is not set up to pay overtime then fine, I'll take time in lieu - but my time is valuable, a fact the company obviously aknowledge by paying me my salary, and my time does not come for free. I'm sure this attitude may not go down too well with some managers, tough!! I'm damn good at my job, am able to knock out work twice as fast as most people when I have to, am very flexible and possibly unusual for a techie, very good at getting on and working with others - but on the issue of overtime I will not budge.
In the uk unpaid overtime is technically illegal though I've never heard of a prosecution for it in the higher paid professions (doesn't mean there haven't been any)
I guess it comes down to the old uk/us difference on freedom, in the us you are free to sign away your rights, in the uk you are not, no contract can affect your statutory rights
I work damn hard in the hours I am working, but if more work needs to be done then:
either its impotant enough to preauthorise paying me for it
or
its not important enough to need doing
There is no middle ground.
And yes as you might have guessed I'm a contractor, but I've been permanant too and had the same attitude there, I never refused extra work but my response has always been the same "Sure I can do that, is the extra time authorised? Get back to me when it is" the manager then usually goes away at that point and either comes back with a yes it is, or drops the matter
No, most "head bangin metal" is small unsigned bands that you go and listen to live at your local club for a 5 quid entry fee and pick up their CD and T shirt from the stall they man themselves after their set!!
Ok my son (3) enjoys the gran tourismo 4 that came with it but i somehow doubt I'll be buying one of the software compatability jobs - I'll either get a us/jap import or if they do the same for that too I'll wait til some of the first million shipped turn up on ebay shipping to the uk at a decent price
You have it so wrong, someone working there could have mentioned the snafu casually to his IT knowing friend, who then would approach the goverment office with a portable desktop machine, the right software and offered his consultancy services at 2000 or so a day to recover the data with a garuntee of returning atleast 90% or no fee would be charged.
A goverment office (or a business) would never believe that a cheap piece of software would solve their problem so you have to package it in a way they will understand and accept... not to mention making 20k or so out of it (it obviously isn't going to be a 1 day job, is it????)
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to make patents only valid while the holder is actively exploiting them (ie using them to build the device in question - filing suits against anyone that looks like they might be using it shouldn't count) - allow a 3 year grace period between filing the patent and when they first start using it to cover developement to market window
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I suspect my wife has reinstalled things to the wrong place then - bloody women - I really shouldn't let her even know the admin password (even though it is her pc)
I've always wondered why US schools and universities don't consider changing the assignments each year? And more importantly changing the exams they give.
I did a 1 year exchange program from the uk to the us and almost got thrown off a course by a very irate professor when I asked him for copies of the last couple of years exam papers for revision purposes.
He thought I was trying to bribe him to cheat. It took me a while to realise he used the same exam paper each year (or similar) and then it took me even longer to explain to him that EVERY exam paper for each course in my (and most other) uk universities can be found in bound editions in the library. They are one of the best forms of revision material, and most lecturers (or atleast your tutor) will be happy to go over your attempts at the papers and help correct your mistakes in preparation for the exam. Brand new courses even have to be provided with 3 sample exam papers of what the exam would have been like if the course had existed in previous years.
Plagairsm on papers and assignments happens here too, but generally its not between students, its from published papers and essays available on the internet. And since most students use google with the same search terms for a given assignment to find it the information and far too many just copy verbatum it can be pretty obvious when several students have copied fromt he same source - however thats a very different problem to people handing in previous year's students work.
My biggest issue with WoW now is that it is impossible to run it as a non priveleged user!!
It used to be that you could set the ACL equiv of chmod -R a+rw on the WoW install directory (to allow the patch to run and install) but otherwise could play the game as a normal user.
Now (unless I am very much mistaken) due to the warden software the game insists on running as an Admin.
Why may I ask should a game need root on my box just so my wife can play a computer game?????
While I think the brawling claim is true its generally a catch all thing for the police to cover fights where neither clearly started it.
The law in the UK allows the use of reasonable force in defense of self, others or property and it leaves it for the courts to judge reasonable.
One example, I friend of mine was jumped (litterally from a 6' wall) by 2 guys trying to mug him at about 2 in the morning
30 seconds later he picked them up one on each shoulder, walked back round the corner he had just come from, into the police station and dropped them infront of the desk, politely informing the officer that they had tried to mug him. After giving a statement he left.
Ok not everone is 6'6 and a martial arts instructor but in general the police in the UK are pretty fair when it comes to reasonable force (and when they know the scum that you just gave a good kicking really deserved it have been known to turn a blind eye to unreasonable force)
Pack em in tight enough and you don't need beds in cells - if its standing room only then how can they fall over?
;)
If its good enough for every london commuter then its good enough for the criminals
No he couldn't have done it. On the 7th day he exited from append mode and ran chmod 511 !$
One can only wonder what would have happened if he had set it 4511 instead...
Ok I'll admit its been over a year since I had sid on my desktop, but with that configured to download updates daily I do remember it was a rare day that saw less than 50Mb of packages... thats already a third of the limit...
I must say I'm not too fond of my current ISP, but atleast they only apply limits between 4pm and midnight, and then its not a cut off, just a gradual throttling (which at worst leaves p2p blocked and the rest throttled to 256kbits) the rest of the time doesn't have limits and isn't counted against peak time usage (the limit starts at 15Gb with the throttlings kicking in from 10Gb)
The original terrorism act in the uk (dated some time in the 80's I think) removed the right to remain silent.
Ever since then remaining silent was counted as an admission of guilt in terrorism cases.
Oh and we STILL don't have bins (translation for across the pond: trash cans) at train stations!
Or just someone the US goverment wants to hire...
Fairly standard recruiting practice I'm sure for certain branches of the goverment...
Agent 1: I like that kids skills, lets hire him.
Agent 2: Yeah he looks ok
Kid: Screw you, I refuse to work for a corrupt establisment!!
Agent 1: Hmmm what have we got on him?
Agent 2: Not much, a misdemeanor they can't even be bothered to prosecute in his own country...
Agent 1: Perfect, dig out that pad of extradition forms and lets draft his new "employment contract"
Interesting argument,
it was an ok film, and I'll admit I still haven't gotten around to watchnig firefly yet, but I'm not sure I'd say that in 10 or 25 years time that serenity will attain the same cult status and recognition as the other films listed...
Perhaps it will, but I wouldn't want to go to Lloyds and put a bet on it... would you?
There is no loss of quality in moving from AAC to FLAC or raw audio :)
True moving to mp3 will lose quality, but then how many people actually have a good enough pair of headphones on their ipod to be able to tell?
Real linux users:
Have beards
Drink (free) beer
And ROLL THEIR OWN DISTROs!!!!!
*cue insane laughter*
Most people use their Hi-Fi to listen to music
:)
Audiophiles use their music to listen to their stereo
While your interpretation isprobably closer to the literal truth, the actual word is derived in the same way as optician or physician, given that poli refers to city.
So a politician is one that cares for the health of the city - or atleast should be....
(polite and police come from a similar source)
Doesn't that suggest that the way in for bloggers is to affiliate to an organisation - probably creating it first themselves - effectively creating their own newspaper comprised of the blogs/rrs feeds of the writers they have within it.
However since most bloggers seem to be primadonnas and very unbending in their attitudes (they probably wouldn't have a blog if these two didn't apply) getting even a subset to work within the same organisation is going to be an exercise similar to herding cats.
but then he would be serving that image from his server, which would open him up to all kinds of prosecution about indecent materials being displayed to minors without warning screens.
By doing it this way he has an image on his own site which is satire, and therefore probably fair use - the fact that someone else is displaing that image themselves in a rather daft place is not his problem!!
It does depend on the company, I've worked permanant at one of the worlds biggest IT companies that did have a formal overtime system (though sometimes there was an overtime ban on but they would arrange time in lieu) and a start up company that couldn't afford to pay the overtime as it was on a budget, but again would agree time in lieu but the need was much rarer.
I just always made it clear that I would happily do the extra work/extra time, but the payment or time off would need to be agreed first.
Time in lieu works quite well as it covers rare occurances, sure paying overtime is great, and I'll take it when I can, but any company that is frequently trying to get unpaid overtime worked is obviously under staffed.
It came up so rarely at the start up that it wasn't an issue. It came up very often at the large company but they didn't treat me any better or any worse (ie still treat like dirt) than those people that always worked extra hours but never claimed the over time even when it was pre approved for the whole department.
Maybe the issue was balanced by the fact I was always willing to do it and just put the ball into thei court - but personally I think its just that companies treat most of their people the same way (be it well or be it crap) and they will try to get what work out of you they can, but will rarely resent you sticking up for yourself on the overtime issue. But then I've always been in a position to be choosey with what jobs to take, I view an interview to be atleast as much about what I think of them to what they think of me.
I understand completely
If a company is not set up to pay overtime then fine, I'll take time in lieu - but my time is valuable, a fact the company obviously aknowledge by paying me my salary, and my time does not come for free. I'm sure this attitude may not go down too well with some managers, tough!! I'm damn good at my job, am able to knock out work twice as fast as most people when I have to, am very flexible and possibly unusual for a techie, very good at getting on and working with others - but on the issue of overtime I will not budge.
In the uk unpaid overtime is technically illegal though I've never heard of a prosecution for it in the higher paid professions (doesn't mean there haven't been any)
I guess it comes down to the old uk/us difference on freedom, in the us you are free to sign away your rights, in the uk you are not, no contract can affect your statutory rights
Sorry but I don't work unpaid overtime.
I work damn hard in the hours I am working, but if more work needs to be done then:
either its impotant enough to preauthorise paying me for it
or
its not important enough to need doing
There is no middle ground.
And yes as you might have guessed I'm a contractor, but I've been permanant too and had the same attitude there, I never refused extra work but my response has always been the same "Sure I can do that, is the extra time authorised? Get back to me when it is" the manager then usually goes away at that point and either comes back with a yes it is, or drops the matter
No, most "head bangin metal" is small unsigned bands that you go and listen to live at your local club for a 5 quid entry fee and pick up their CD and T shirt from the stall they man themselves after their set!!
The PS3 was billed as being region free....
Did they include region encoding on the US and Jap compatability chips?
Final fantasy is the sole reason I own a PS2...
Ok my son (3) enjoys the gran tourismo 4 that came with it but i somehow doubt I'll be buying one of the software compatability jobs - I'll either get a us/jap import or if they do the same for that too I'll wait til some of the first million shipped turn up on ebay shipping to the uk at a decent price
No no no no no!!!
You have it so wrong, someone working there could have mentioned the snafu casually to his IT knowing friend, who then would approach the goverment office with a portable desktop machine, the right software and offered his consultancy services at 2000 or so a day to recover the data with a garuntee of returning atleast 90% or no fee would be charged.
A goverment office (or a business) would never believe that a cheap piece of software would solve their problem so you have to package it in a way they will understand and accept... not to mention making 20k or so out of it (it obviously isn't going to be a 1 day job, is it????)
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to make patents only valid while the holder is actively exploiting them (ie using them to build the device in question - filing suits against anyone that looks like they might be using it shouldn't count) - allow a 3 year grace period between filing the patent and when they first start using it to cover developement to market window
thats not a reference, thats a pointer!!
;)
*smack*
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