I used to sleep on a Cray 1 X/MP during night shifts, nice warm seats. I remember the demo Cray 2 had plastic goldfish in the cooling tubes, pretty cool at the time.
Yup, couldn't agree more. Schools here in the UK are pretty much the same with most teachers too afraid to do anything or not allowed to. I've taught all my kids to fight back and do it hard, even getting them to learn a martial art to build confidence. And it works, kids walk away from my youngest two, even the older kids, as they know they'll get a smack in the nose. So long as they use reasonable force and don't attack first then they are quite safe, and they know this. My kids also look out for their friends and this is good for team building, all things that schools say is good lol. In my Dad's day the bully would be put in the school boxing ring and have the shit knocked out of them, shame it doesn't happen now.
CPM 2.2 had shell scripts of a sort, I used them a lot in the old days. The disk tracks did indeed have the sectors out of sequence (called sector interleave), this was so you didn't have to wait for the disk to come round again to read the next sector or jump to the next track. We did some pretty neat stuff on CPM, like re-writing the bios so that the screen handler started from bottom right and wrote from right to left, or just printed random characters so you had to really trust your fingers whilst typing. Oh to be a young programmer again.
We do have a written one, actually two, Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights, both of these guarantee us certain rights that cannot be easily taken away (in the case of Magna Carta they would have to disolve the monarchy to do so). The current government really would like us not to have these as it restricts what they can do to British Nationals.
Or put the cameras in the police station, especially the cells, bathrooms, other places where suspects somehow manage to fall down a lot and sustain injury. Of course the cops wouldn't mind this as they obviously have nothing to hide at all.
Does the term fuckwit apply to you? By saying that devices shouldn't have standby mode then it does actually mean that people like my wife shouldn't be able to use them. Or do you get two choices of equipment, one without standby or one with that you have to show some form of disability id to get?
I post one reply and the only two comments I get are from arseholes.
Also, what do these critics say that my disabled wife should do to turn on the TV when she can't physically reach the switch? Maybe she should just sit there till someone can do it for here.
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The Univac engineers did this at a site I worked at in the mid 80s. 19 tape drives configured to play Beethovens 5th I think, was quite a sureal thing.
In the UK you can't use Halon in new installations. We had FM200 installed, safe to breath, but it requires a sealed room, we even had to get the windows bricked up cos if the FM200 ever went off the sudden increase in pressure would pop the windows.
lossless jpeg? no such thing, even at 100% quality it will still compress it and by its very nature it will lose some clarity, esp if in black and white. Buy the disk space and stick to TIFF with LZW and get 2:1 compression at best but no loss. I have not looked at medical imagery for a long time, has it changed from 12bit now cos I know that 10 years plus ago you had to buy some very expensive graphics cards to view x-rays.
does this http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n ews/2004/09/26/nnuke26.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/26 /ixhome.html help with the waste storage problem?
The main issue with conventional nuclear plants is not the initial cost, or even the safty of the plants, but the de-commissioning. This really does push up the cost of providing energy, but maybe we should just accept that energy costs will have to rise unless we all fancy going back to the stoneage and do without it. By thinking carefully about energy conservation (better cars, insulation in buildings, more efficient air-con, different lightbulbs, etc) we could absorb the higher costs of nuclear energy. it seems to me that most people say they care about saving the planet, global warming, etc but if solving these problems means dipping into their pocket then things suddenly look different.
you could download it from the BBC listen again site and then convert it to the format of your choice, not the simplest of things to do but it can be done.
Ok I should have said relaxed border checks maybe (like not being able to ask an EU citizen what they are doing in the country and where they are staying), prob still not clear enough what I mean, but I've a head cold today and feel like crap.
ur right about tomatoes, i was wrong, it should have been carrots (now that makes no sense at all)
there are no accurate figure for French BSE because lots of the farmers buried the dead cows in fields and did nor report them. This prob did not happen in the UK because all our cattle are recorded.
Some of the EU laws and ideas make sense, but governments and countries don't seem to like sensible stuff so pass all the stupid things.
Now if they could force the UK to adopt the French roundabout design I'd be happy.
Ok, not only a list of bad things, but also some of the stupid expensive things.
straight cucumbers
metric weights and measures for food
litres for fuel
common agricultral policy
fishing quotas
fishing zones
VAT
not being able to use the Honda fuel efficient engine because it had the 'wrong' valve fitted to it
the butter mountain
the beef mountain
increased sugar prices
illegally aiding Spain's banana trade
forcing up the price of school milk in primary schools
stopping border checks
punishing Britain for BSE but not France where the problem was worse
making a tomato a fruit because Portugal makes tomato jam and jam MUST be made from fruit
not being able to call British sausages 'sausages' outside of Britain
not being able to call British chocolate 'chocolate' outside of Britain
forcing Britain to accept inferior French and Spanish milk even when there were no buyers for it
Ignoring the massive fraud in olive oil subsidies
not enforcing the same rules across the EU, like when France twice bailed out Bull with massive state-aid
trying to say that Cornish pasties can only come from Cornwall
letting the French sell un-pasturised soft cheese because it's a cultural thing, but not anyone else
Isn't this what Oracle did with the Oracle virtual jvm that started in 8i? and that was a looooong time ago. Though having used SAP I can see why it would take them years to catch up with the rest of the world.
Jeeez, that's expensive, I just paid roughly 6 Euros for 25 blank DVD-Rs here in the UK, but then again we don't have any stupid blank media tax. We do have lots of other stupid taxes tho.
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stick a global file system on top of it.
Even if they are in your home there is no invasion of privacy as the UK doesn't recognise privacy from a legal standpoint.
My company have two of them and is due to get a third one.
Just a small point, Britain stopped the tax on tea before your little tiff with us.
I used to sleep on a Cray 1 X/MP during night shifts, nice warm seats. I remember the demo Cray 2 had plastic goldfish in the cooling tubes, pretty cool at the time.
Yup, couldn't agree more. Schools here in the UK are pretty much the same with most teachers too afraid to do anything or not allowed to. I've taught all my kids to fight back and do it hard, even getting them to learn a martial art to build confidence. And it works, kids walk away from my youngest two, even the older kids, as they know they'll get a smack in the nose. So long as they use reasonable force and don't attack first then they are quite safe, and they know this. My kids also look out for their friends and this is good for team building, all things that schools say is good lol. In my Dad's day the bully would be put in the school boxing ring and have the shit knocked out of them, shame it doesn't happen now.
CPM 2.2 had shell scripts of a sort, I used them a lot in the old days. The disk tracks did indeed have the sectors out of sequence (called sector interleave), this was so you didn't have to wait for the disk to come round again to read the next sector or jump to the next track. We did some pretty neat stuff on CPM, like re-writing the bios so that the screen handler started from bottom right and wrote from right to left, or just printed random characters so you had to really trust your fingers whilst typing. Oh to be a young programmer again.
We do have a written one, actually two, Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights, both of these guarantee us certain rights that cannot be easily taken away (in the case of Magna Carta they would have to disolve the monarchy to do so). The current government really would like us not to have these as it restricts what they can do to British Nationals.
That is exactly what happened here in the UK when our tax rates went up to 85% for the rich, a lot of them went overseas to tax havens.
Or put the cameras in the police station, especially the cells, bathrooms, other places where suspects somehow manage to fall down a lot and sustain injury. Of course the cops wouldn't mind this as they obviously have nothing to hide at all.
Did you actually read and understand what I said?
Does the term fuckwit apply to you? By saying that devices shouldn't have standby mode then it does actually mean that people like my wife shouldn't be able to use them. Or do you get two choices of equipment, one without standby or one with that you have to show some form of disability id to get? I post one reply and the only two comments I get are from arseholes.
Also, what do these critics say that my disabled wife should do to turn on the TV when she can't physically reach the switch? Maybe she should just sit there till someone can do it for here.
The Univac engineers did this at a site I worked at in the mid 80s. 19 tape drives configured to play Beethovens 5th I think, was quite a sureal thing.
Is that similar to a camel-toe, just a bit smaller?
In the UK you can't use Halon in new installations. We had FM200 installed, safe to breath, but it requires a sealed room, we even had to get the windows bricked up cos if the FM200 ever went off the sudden increase in pressure would pop the windows.
lossless jpeg? no such thing, even at 100% quality it will still compress it and by its very nature it will lose some clarity, esp if in black and white. Buy the disk space and stick to TIFF with LZW and get 2:1 compression at best but no loss. I have not looked at medical imagery for a long time, has it changed from 12bit now cos I know that 10 years plus ago you had to buy some very expensive graphics cards to view x-rays.
does this http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n ews/2004/09/26/nnuke26.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/26 /ixhome.html help with the waste storage problem?
The main issue with conventional nuclear plants is not the initial cost, or even the safty of the plants, but the de-commissioning. This really does push up the cost of providing energy, but maybe we should just accept that energy costs will have to rise unless we all fancy going back to the stoneage and do without it. By thinking carefully about energy conservation (better cars, insulation in buildings, more efficient air-con, different lightbulbs, etc) we could absorb the higher costs of nuclear energy. it seems to me that most people say they care about saving the planet, global warming, etc but if solving these problems means dipping into their pocket then things suddenly look different.
And what does the 2nd 'C' in BBC stand for?
you could download it from the BBC listen again site and then convert it to the format of your choice, not the simplest of things to do but it can be done.
dunno who Brinkhorst is but 'telling porkies' is 'telling porky pies' which is rhyming slang for telling lies
Ok I should have said relaxed border checks maybe (like not being able to ask an EU citizen what they are doing in the country and where they are staying), prob still not clear enough what I mean, but I've a head cold today and feel like crap. ur right about tomatoes, i was wrong, it should have been carrots (now that makes no sense at all) there are no accurate figure for French BSE because lots of the farmers buried the dead cows in fields and did nor report them. This prob did not happen in the UK because all our cattle are recorded. Some of the EU laws and ideas make sense, but governments and countries don't seem to like sensible stuff so pass all the stupid things. Now if they could force the UK to adopt the French roundabout design I'd be happy.
Ok, not only a list of bad things, but also some of the stupid expensive things.
straight cucumbers
metric weights and measures for food
litres for fuel
common agricultral policy
fishing quotas
fishing zones
VAT
not being able to use the Honda fuel efficient
engine because it had the 'wrong' valve fitted to it
the butter mountain
the beef mountain
increased sugar prices
illegally aiding Spain's banana trade
forcing up the price of school milk in primary schools
stopping border checks
punishing Britain for BSE but not France where the problem was worse
making a tomato a fruit because Portugal makes tomato jam and jam MUST be made from fruit
not being able to call British sausages 'sausages' outside of Britain
not being able to call British chocolate 'chocolate' outside of Britain
forcing Britain to accept inferior French and Spanish milk even when there were no buyers for it
Ignoring the massive fraud in olive oil subsidies
not enforcing the same rules across the EU, like when France twice bailed out Bull with massive state-aid
trying to say that Cornish pasties can only come from Cornwall
letting the French sell un-pasturised soft cheese because it's a cultural thing, but not anyone else
Isn't this what Oracle did with the Oracle virtual jvm that started in 8i? and that was a looooong time ago. Though having used SAP I can see why it would take them years to catch up with the rest of the world.
Jeeez, that's expensive, I just paid roughly 6 Euros for 25 blank DVD-Rs here in the UK, but then again we don't have any stupid blank media tax. We do have lots of other stupid taxes tho.