Hey Im raised Catholic and even I cant understand it too well:) One of the odd things about being educated in a Catholic school in a liberal western democracy(I was educated in Australia by the MSC order - a french missionary order that arent really that strict like say The Christian Brothers) is that I often found Priest and Brothers teaching me that were of the opinion that some of Romes theology was pretty nuts. I was taught by one priest in particular(who happened to have something like two PhDs and 4 masters degrees in things ranging from History to Philosophy to Psychology) who was pretty firmly against the birth control doctrines and while not being completely pro-choice was very close too it.
Catholics are a pretty diverse bunch... from say those guys that reproduce the crucification every easter using real nails in (I think) the Philippines to people like me that think those people are nuts:)
I was raised a Catholic and from what I recall(its been a while) the opposition to contraception is based on the position that man doesn't have the right to judge weather someone can live or die. Only God has that right. Hence the church opposes capital punishment, abortion and birth control. The birth control argument is that man is interfering with the natural course of God plan... or whatever. I don't agree with their stance n birth control or abortion but I can have some sympathy for the capital punishment one.
Also I think most Catholics, at least in the west, pretty much ignore the whole no condom/no pill business. I know most of my (pretty Irish catholic) extended family do.
As a contractor working in Europe(mostly the UK and Germany) there is usually a clause defining the release conditions from both sides. Its usually in the four week notice period zone... ie they have to give me four weeks notice and so do I. The only exception I have come across has been with a financial services organisation where they the right to give one week notice and I had the right of four weeks.
I would agree that he was probably unwise to say what he said in the workplace, but honestly is that a sackable offense? If I was the manager in that situation I probably would have taken him aside and mentioned that what he said , particularly at the time of saying it, was insensitive and potentially offensive to others. Im a contractor(albeit in the UK) and have never been released(ie sacked:) ) from my contract. Ive never worked in the US, but my wife is American and one day I might find myself there. Stories like this confuse and alarm me.
Ive also heard stories from Brits who have worked in the US and they tend to paint working in the US as painful and annoying. Please USians tell me this is not so. I like Americans. I mean Im married to one for starters:) Tell me working there is not a process of putting up with jerks.
Why just this weekend I took an American friend to Buckingham Palace to show him the policman with the semiautomatic rifle. And Americans seem under the impression that the police arent armed here.
The things is that that can get very fuzzy, when some people procounce things and others dont. For example I worked with some Germans that pronounced VOIP. The told me that everyone in germany says VOIP. I used to know a guy that called ATMs "at ems".
I would agree with you on the memory fragmentation. At least its *some* kind of memory issue. One thing Ive notice when I use Firefox on OS X(on a G4) I dont get what *appear* to be memory leaks like I get in Windows... but every now and again on OS X Firefox will throw a hissy fit, lock up and then suddenly SIGSEGV. It looks to me like some kind of memory corruption has gone on when that happens.
Some years ago I was working on a windows app I had developed in something of a rush(it was for a particularly valued customer and they needed it yesterday). Once I got a pretty stable version going and installed on site I went back to do a bit of cleanup and search for all the bugs I knew were probably lurking in there:) One very minor thing(I thought at least) was that the main form of this app had a bunch of edit boxes and some of the tab ordering was wrong... that is hitting the tab key sent focus to odd edit boxes... I fixed it to be sane and went on to fix a few more things. About 3 weeks after Id got it into the clients site I told them I had a fixed version(to fix a few of the bugs *theyd* discovered as well) and did a patch. I got a panicked phone call after about 2 mins from a poor woman pleading to fix the tab ordering. Turns out she had been doing data entry for the three weeks and her brain had adapted to my random tab ordering:)
As these people were our only clients for that subsystem I changed the tab order back to what it was with big comments as to why it was done this way. Ive often wondered if it ever got changed back... or were there other users of this software somewhere in the world wondering wat kinda crack the programmer was on when s/he chose the tab ordering...
Speaking as an Australian I think Canada and us Aussies should start thinking of the future now. I foresee a world dominated by the glorious alliance between our two nations. You guys can kick everyones arses in Hockey and well take the Cricket.
Im glad you mentioned this because I thought it was just me. But Ive also noticed in the last 6 odd months that this has happened also. Ive had about a half dozen discs that did the same thing on my old DVD player(and my games console player as well) but played just fine on my laptop.
You know I'd never considered it before... but Whorf, considering he was like this high strung warrior dude, got a lot of action. Maybe there are shots of him in that spandex outfit we didnt get to see.
I agree with you about magnetic connectors being around... Ive seen them on audio equipment as well... didnt know about deep fat fryers. However... it did make me think for a laptop its actually a great idea. I hope it catches onto all other laptop makers.
Ive seen the same in a lot of Natwest ATMs in the UK also. A friend of mine did the roll out many years ago when they used OS/2. These days of course apparently we need touch screens and fancy graphics on an ATM. And I see bluescreens of death on them. Seen BSODs on a lot of the fancy new BT telephones with email as well.
Ive worked many years in the security industry and this is whats called a deadly mantrap. These are illegal in most countries in the world under tort law. There are non lethal mantraps used(usually a variation on a airlock that gets sealed under certain circumstances... but you have to be quite careful that even those are very safe.
Oddly enough my PowerBooks adapter died three weeks ago now. It was chargaing overnight on the kitchen table and I awoke to find a quite smoky kitchen and a pretty obvious short on the DC cable side of the adapter(it got quite hot apparently and left a burnt mark on the table). Im not bagging Apple here at all... Im very happy with my PowerBook. But I took it into the London Apple store for replacment(Applecare is a good idea it turns out). Had this unit for 2.5 years now and other than the hard disk dying in the first week thats the only problem Ive had(and hey... Ive had more hard disks die than Ive had hot dinners... but then I was a big fan of Maxtor:) ). The apple employee at the "genius" desk told me that they get quite a few returns on them apparently. Just my story... but there you are.
Ill chip in as another that got upset at Floyds passing. And it may sound stupid to say it but I felt a little guilt. You can spend most of the came punching floyd and stuff and he takes it with an all round bouncy cheerfulness.
OK thats fair enough. My point was tho that QNX uses a send-receive-reply mechanism to control message passing. The control on the CPU is passed to the receive, bypassing the schedular. THis not only allows for fast message parsing it also allows it to be a hard real-time operating system and timing can predicted.
You're still dependent on sane message passing for the system to function. Further, no one has yet to argue that message passing doesn't badly impact system performance. That's because it does.
Ive coded under QNX a lot and would stronghly disagree with your view on the message passing overhead. From this QNX page.
QNX interprocess communication consists of sending a message from one process to another and waiting for a reply. This is a single operation, called MsgSend. The message is copied, by the kernel, from the address space of the sending process to that of the receiving process. If the receiving process is waiting for the message, control of the CPU is transferred at the same time, without a pass through the CPU scheduler. Thus, sending a message to another process and waiting for a reply does not result in "losing one's turn" for the CPU. This tight integration between message passing and CPU scheduling is one of the key mechanisms that makes QNX message passing broadly usable. Most UNIX and Linux interprocess communication mechanisms lack this tight integration, although an implementation of QNX-type messaging for Linux does exist. Mishandling of this subtle issue is a primary reason for the disappointing performance of some other microkernel systems.
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Hey Im raised Catholic and even I cant understand it too well :) One of the odd things about being educated in a Catholic school in a liberal western democracy(I was educated in Australia by the MSC order - a french missionary order that arent really that strict like say The Christian Brothers) is that I often found Priest and Brothers teaching me that were of the opinion that some of Romes theology was pretty nuts. I was taught by one priest in particular(who happened to have something like two PhDs and 4 masters degrees in things ranging from History to Philosophy to Psychology) who was pretty firmly against the birth control doctrines and while not being completely pro-choice was very close too it.
:)
Catholics are a pretty diverse bunch... from say those guys that reproduce the crucification every easter using real nails in (I think) the Philippines to people like me that think those people are nuts
I was raised a Catholic and from what I recall(its been a while) the opposition to contraception is based on the position that man doesn't have the right to judge weather someone can live or die. Only God has that right. Hence the church opposes capital punishment, abortion and birth control. The birth control argument is that man is interfering with the natural course of God plan... or whatever. I don't agree with their stance n birth control or abortion but I can have some sympathy for the capital punishment one.
Also I think most Catholics, at least in the west, pretty much ignore the whole no condom/no pill business. I know most of my (pretty Irish catholic) extended family do.
As a contractor working in Europe(mostly the UK and Germany) there is usually a clause defining the release conditions from both sides. Its usually in the four week notice period zone... ie they have to give me four weeks notice and so do I. The only exception I have come across has been with a financial services organisation where they the right to give one week notice and I had the right of four weeks.
I would agree that he was probably unwise to say what he said in the workplace, but honestly is that a sackable offense? If I was the manager in that situation I probably would have taken him aside and mentioned that what he said , particularly at the time of saying it, was insensitive and potentially offensive to others. Im a contractor(albeit in the UK) and have never been released(ie sacked :) ) from my contract. Ive never worked in the US, but my wife is American and one day I might find myself there. Stories like this confuse and alarm me.
:) Tell me working there is not a process of putting up with jerks.
Ive also heard stories from Brits who have worked in the US and they tend to paint working in the US as painful and annoying. Please USians tell me this is not so. I like Americans. I mean Im married to one for starters
Why just this weekend I took an American friend to Buckingham Palace to show him the policman with the semiautomatic rifle. And Americans seem under the impression that the police arent armed here.
Also lung cancer isnt always related to smoking. If you live somewhere where there is lotsa Radon you are at risk.
Na.. the Polish have taken that particular niche :)
I dont actually. I always say Voice Over Eye Pee. But Im an Australian living in London... I usually say Ess Emm Essing rather than texting.
The things is that that can get very fuzzy, when some people procounce things and others dont. For example I worked with some Germans that pronounced VOIP. The told me that everyone in germany says VOIP. I used to know a guy that called ATMs "at ems".
I would agree with you on the memory fragmentation. At least its *some* kind of memory issue. One thing Ive notice when I use Firefox on OS X(on a G4) I dont get what *appear* to be memory leaks like I get in Windows... but every now and again on OS X Firefox will throw a hissy fit, lock up and then suddenly SIGSEGV. It looks to me like some kind of memory corruption has gone on when that happens.
Some years ago I was working on a windows app I had developed in something of a rush(it was for a particularly valued customer and they needed it yesterday). Once I got a pretty stable version going and installed on site I went back to do a bit of cleanup and search for all the bugs I knew were probably lurking in there :) One very minor thing(I thought at least) was that the main form of this app had a bunch of edit boxes and some of the tab ordering was wrong... that is hitting the tab key sent focus to odd edit boxes... I fixed it to be sane and went on to fix a few more things. About 3 weeks after Id got it into the clients site I told them I had a fixed version(to fix a few of the bugs *theyd* discovered as well) and did a patch. I got a panicked phone call after about 2 mins from a poor woman pleading to fix the tab ordering. Turns out she had been doing data entry for the three weeks and her brain had adapted to my random tab ordering :)
As these people were our only clients for that subsystem I changed the tab order back to what it was with big comments as to why it was done this way. Ive often wondered if it ever got changed back... or were there other users of this software somewhere in the world wondering wat kinda crack the programmer was on when s/he chose the tab ordering...
Speaking as an Australian I think Canada and us Aussies should start thinking of the future now. I foresee a world dominated by the glorious alliance between our two nations. You guys can kick everyones arses in Hockey and well take the Cricket.
Im glad you mentioned this because I thought it was just me. But Ive also noticed in the last 6 odd months that this has happened also. Ive had about a half dozen discs that did the same thing on my old DVD player(and my games console player as well) but played just fine on my laptop.
You know I'd never considered it before... but Whorf, considering he was like this high strung warrior dude, got a lot of action. Maybe there are shots of him in that spandex outfit we didnt get to see.
OS/2 would probably make a much better version of XP mobile to be honest. That and amiaga OS. But there you are. We live in heathen times.
I agree with you about magnetic connectors being around... Ive seen them on audio equipment as well... didnt know about deep fat fryers. However... it did make me think for a laptop its actually a great idea. I hope it catches onto all other laptop makers.
Ive seen the same in a lot of Natwest ATMs in the UK also. A friend of mine did the roll out many years ago when they used OS/2. These days of course apparently we need touch screens and fancy graphics on an ATM. And I see bluescreens of death on them. Seen BSODs on a lot of the fancy new BT telephones with email as well.
Ive worked many years in the security industry and this is whats called a deadly mantrap. These are illegal in most countries in the world under tort law. There are non lethal mantraps used(usually a variation on a airlock that gets sealed under certain circumstances... but you have to be quite careful that even those are very safe.
Oddly enough my PowerBooks adapter died three weeks ago now. It was chargaing overnight on the kitchen table and I awoke to find a quite smoky kitchen and a pretty obvious short on the DC cable side of the adapter(it got quite hot apparently and left a burnt mark on the table). Im not bagging Apple here at all... Im very happy with my PowerBook. But I took it into the London Apple store for replacment(Applecare is a good idea it turns out). Had this unit for 2.5 years now and other than the hard disk dying in the first week thats the only problem Ive had(and hey... Ive had more hard disks die than Ive had hot dinners... but then I was a big fan of Maxtor :) ). The apple employee at the "genius" desk told me that they get quite a few returns on them apparently. Just my story... but there you are.
Ill chip in as another that got upset at Floyds passing. And it may sound stupid to say it but I felt a little guilt. You can spend most of the came punching floyd and stuff and he takes it with an all round bouncy cheerfulness.
And it would seem that the opening title promotion of "See you on some other channel" has now come true :)
Just a gues, but Id suspect its becuase they are being targeted at kids... nice big buttons etc are easier for young kids to use.
OK thats fair enough. My point was tho that QNX uses a send-receive-reply mechanism to control message passing. The control on the CPU is passed to the receive, bypassing the schedular. THis not only allows for fast message parsing it also allows it to be a hard real-time operating system and timing can predicted.
You're still dependent on sane message passing for the system to function. Further, no one has yet to argue that message passing doesn't badly impact system performance. That's because it does.
Ive coded under QNX a lot and would stronghly disagree with your view on the message passing overhead. From this QNX page.
QNX interprocess communication consists of sending a message from one process to another and waiting for a reply. This is a single operation, called MsgSend. The message is copied, by the kernel, from the address space of the sending process to that of the receiving process. If the receiving process is waiting for the message, control of the CPU is transferred at the same time, without a pass through the CPU scheduler. Thus, sending a message to another process and waiting for a reply does not result in "losing one's turn" for the CPU. This tight integration between message passing and CPU scheduling is one of the key mechanisms that makes QNX message passing broadly usable. Most UNIX and Linux interprocess communication mechanisms lack this tight integration, although an implementation of QNX-type messaging for Linux does exist. Mishandling of this subtle issue is a primary reason for the disappointing performance of some other microkernel systems.