Umm, 68 isn't really that old. It's just right about retirement age.
His wife, if any, is probably still alive - but some time apart from each other each day is probably welcome. My grandpa mowed his yard and our yard a LOT - he was probably mowing 3 or 4 times a week between the two yards. Wasn't because he thought it needed it.
Lots of retired people have hobbies. Why can't this guy's hobby be helping other people figure out technology? Maybe he doesn't like golfing.
I work in IT. A lot of the guys talk about working at Home Depot or similar after they retire, not because they think they'll need the money, but because they like the idea of getting out of the house (and getting an employee discount.)
I live in Illinois, arguably one of the most corrupt states in the country. (Governor Rod is just the tip of an iceberg, folks.)
This is a state where elected officials use public funds to put their names on signs attached to public works projects, taking credit for those projects. And it is accepted as normal.
That said, broadband access cries for governmental intervention. There was the rural electrification act of 1936, and subsidy for telephone service later. These technologies were the broadband of their day, in a sense, and the country made sure they were available to everyone.
Today, even in a major metropolitan area (I live in a Chicago suburb) it can be hit or miss whether you can get residential broadband at a decent speed.
I work for a major international retailer, in the US division. Broadband isn't mission critical into our locations, so we're not willing to invest in very expensive options. It's OK to just have a residential service SLA.
There is a shockingly high percentage of our locations where wired broadband just isn't available at all, and we have to fall back to either dial-up modems or satellite.
At the time of the purchase, Daimler was saying things like "buying Chrysler gives us access to their front-wheel-drive technology." It didn't make much sense, but I distinctly remember that one, because we had some good laughs about it.
I was in the auto repair business at the time, doing general auto repair with a guy with a strong import autos background. This guy couldn't figure out how to change the tail light bulb on a Mustang (I literally had to stop him from prying the lens off) but he sure knew the Japanese and European stuff.
We had some good laughs at the that and some of the other foolishness coming out of Daimler.
Chrysler was crap then and it's crap now, although the full size RWD platform seems less bad than a lot of their stuff.
That said, all the domestics - Chrysler included - seem to be making better cars than they were 15 years ago.
Maybe the niche of people who work comparatively close to home (I have a 10-mile commute) and don't want to show up at work sweaty?
I really don't get this "ride your bike to work" theory. Do you all work jobs where you're going to smell bad and be sweaty anyhow? Or do your workplaces all have showers?
I'd be more interested in how many murders overall in the UK, for a few reasons.
First, blaming it on guns is like blaming the knife when you cut yourself chopping onions. Unless the handle broke off, you cut yourself, the knife was just the tool. If I want to kill you and don't have a gun, I'll find another way.
Second, the FBI statistics don't seem to break out gun-related crime. In 2005, FBI statistics show 16,692 murders, or 5.6 per 100,000 people.
Third, "gun-related deaths" would include accidental deaths while handling a firearm. If the UK doesn't allow guns, obviously there's going to be fewer gun-related deaths.
Might as well ask about chainsaw-related injuries per thousand, and compare between Northern Wisconsin (rural area) and New York City. I would expect chainsaw-related injuries (relative to population) to be higher in Wisconsin - who the heck in NYC has a chainsaw?
Based on the tiny little bit I now about this case, he would probably have been tried and convicted in the US, too. Doubt he'd get life, though.
As far as I know, you can use deadly force to protect yourself and others, but not to protect your property.
However, US law in general seems to understand (as someone else in this topic said) that an uninvited stranger in your home at night constitutes a threat to your safety and that of your family, and you can defend yourself from that threat in a reasonable way.
What does not constitute a threat is an uninvited stranger, armed or unarmed, fleeing your property.
According to Wikipedia, Tony Martin was released "after serving a total of three years of his five year sentence,[3] the maximum period for which he could be held following good behaviour." The British apparently have a different definition of "life in prison" than the term implies.
Based on looking at the sample capture, it actually requires some knowledge of 3-dimensional reality.
For example, make the user match a top-view of an airplane to a side-view of an airplane. Most people (at least, those who would be using a computer) can do that. But the pictures look totally different.
I've actually been having this conversation at work a lot lately with a certain group.
They don't seem to understand that we are operating within a business, and there is no reason to pursue a technology just because it's cool. If there is no business benefit then it should not be done.
In the case of a critical older system on its last legs, addressing its impending failure before it fails is a business benefit. If what it does is critical you must have a disaster plan.
In the case of a legacy system running on older hardware that can fairly easily be replaced, or that you have a closet full of waiting as spares, the risk is addressed. As long as it meets the business need it should be left alone. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's inherently bad.
Most businesses aren't in the business of having their employees play with cool new technology. They're in the business of their business.
Any modern PC will allow you to "play" with virtualization. What you're describing (in my opinion, of course) are things you want if you're going to do serious work with virtualization.
At work we're deploying Windows Server 2003 + 2 VMs on VMware Server to Pentium 4 and older Core 2 systems with 1G of memory. In significant volume. I think we have around 2,000 out so far and we're still rolling.
I was in the auto repair business through much of the 90's and we never saw one, despite a pretty decent number of them being sold locally. I don't think they made it out of the 80's still running.
One of my store managers had been working at an import auto parts store while the Yugo was on sale as a new car.
I recall him saying that the Yugo dealer bought a lot of starters from them - for new cars before they sold them. Fortunately for the dealer, a new Yugo was mostly just a old Fiat.
Try to get your mind around that total lack of quality - the dealer replacing an OEM, brand new, factory part with an aftermarket part to get one that would work.
There aren't many, [safety features] but it's far safer than the bicycles and scooters that many Nano buyers will be trading up from. Tata's engineers are working on a series of upgrades, including airbags, anti-lock brakes, power steering, more powerful three-cylinder petrol and diesel engines and five-speed and automatic gearboxes which will allow the Nano to go on sale beyond its home market, and capitalise on the colossal potential created by its base price.
So basically it's "safe enough for India" but you couldn't sell it as-is anywhere that has vehicle safety standards.
Of course, you probably couldn't sell a Geo Metro or a Honda CRX (two 1980's high mileage cars) as a new car in the US today either for the same reasons.
I'm not convinced that changing the vehicular population makeup of India from bicycles and scooters to have a higher volume of these actually raises the overall safety of the traveling population - and it surely doesn't improve the fuel economy.
For those of us who are used to dollars, according to Google, the base price of 1700 pounds in the article is about $2500.
A lot of stuff ships as part of the IE package. Depending on the OS, there are UI and networking pieces that may be changed out when you go to the next IE.
One of the teams at work was having trouble getting SSL working on XPe systems. I advised them to install the IE package and things were OK....
We've got a bunch of toll roads around the Chicago area, and most of them have made it to "open road tolling" which means that, if you have an IPass, you just keep driving under the detectors, nobody slows down.
If you don't have the IPass, you have to take something that almost looks like an exit ramp and either throw some coins in a machine or give money to an actual human.
The IPass toll rate is about half of the cash rate, I think.
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Umm, 68 isn't really that old. It's just right about retirement age.
His wife, if any, is probably still alive - but some time apart from each other each day is probably welcome. My grandpa mowed his yard and our yard a LOT - he was probably mowing 3 or 4 times a week between the two yards. Wasn't because he thought it needed it.
Lots of retired people have hobbies. Why can't this guy's hobby be helping other people figure out technology? Maybe he doesn't like golfing.
I work in IT. A lot of the guys talk about working at Home Depot or similar after they retire, not because they think they'll need the money, but because they like the idea of getting out of the house (and getting an employee discount.)
If a letter is never written, does it exist?
I live in Illinois, arguably one of the most corrupt states in the country. (Governor Rod is just the tip of an iceberg, folks.)
This is a state where elected officials use public funds to put their names on signs attached to public works projects, taking credit for those projects. And it is accepted as normal.
That said, broadband access cries for governmental intervention. There was the rural electrification act of 1936, and subsidy for telephone service later. These technologies were the broadband of their day, in a sense, and the country made sure they were available to everyone.
Today, even in a major metropolitan area (I live in a Chicago suburb) it can be hit or miss whether you can get residential broadband at a decent speed.
I work for a major international retailer, in the US division. Broadband isn't mission critical into our locations, so we're not willing to invest in very expensive options. It's OK to just have a residential service SLA.
There is a shockingly high percentage of our locations where wired broadband just isn't available at all, and we have to fall back to either dial-up modems or satellite.
I never find my USB drive until I'm unloading the dryer. Seems to be fine so far.
At the time of the purchase, Daimler was saying things like "buying Chrysler gives us access to their front-wheel-drive technology." It didn't make much sense, but I distinctly remember that one, because we had some good laughs about it.
I was in the auto repair business at the time, doing general auto repair with a guy with a strong import autos background. This guy couldn't figure out how to change the tail light bulb on a Mustang (I literally had to stop him from prying the lens off) but he sure knew the Japanese and European stuff.
We had some good laughs at the that and some of the other foolishness coming out of Daimler.
Chrysler was crap then and it's crap now, although the full size RWD platform seems less bad than a lot of their stuff.
That said, all the domestics - Chrysler included - seem to be making better cars than they were 15 years ago.
Maybe the niche of people who work comparatively close to home (I have a 10-mile commute) and don't want to show up at work sweaty?
I really don't get this "ride your bike to work" theory. Do you all work jobs where you're going to smell bad and be sweaty anyhow? Or do your workplaces all have showers?
Chrysler didn't do anything to Mercedes except be acquired by them.
Mercedes may now smell but they rolled in the manure on their own.
One BMW makes up for a lot of 2-cent trinkets.
I'd be more interested in how many murders overall in the UK, for a few reasons.
First, blaming it on guns is like blaming the knife when you cut yourself chopping onions. Unless the handle broke off, you cut yourself, the knife was just the tool. If I want to kill you and don't have a gun, I'll find another way.
Second, the FBI statistics don't seem to break out gun-related crime. In 2005, FBI statistics show 16,692 murders, or 5.6 per 100,000 people.
Third, "gun-related deaths" would include accidental deaths while handling a firearm. If the UK doesn't allow guns, obviously there's going to be fewer gun-related deaths.
Might as well ask about chainsaw-related injuries per thousand, and compare between Northern Wisconsin (rural area) and New York City. I would expect chainsaw-related injuries (relative to population) to be higher in Wisconsin - who the heck in NYC has a chainsaw?
Based on the tiny little bit I now about this case, he would probably have been tried and convicted in the US, too. Doubt he'd get life, though.
As far as I know, you can use deadly force to protect yourself and others, but not to protect your property.
However, US law in general seems to understand (as someone else in this topic said) that an uninvited stranger in your home at night constitutes a threat to your safety and that of your family, and you can defend yourself from that threat in a reasonable way.
What does not constitute a threat is an uninvited stranger, armed or unarmed, fleeing your property.
According to Wikipedia, Tony Martin was released "after serving a total of three years of his five year sentence,[3] the maximum period for which he could be held following good behaviour." The British apparently have a different definition of "life in prison" than the term implies.
I don't believe this is the case any longer. I think there was a lawsuit that resulted in this being deemed not allowed.
Plus, I have two cards from Citibank. One is a MasterCard, the other an American Express.
Based on looking at the sample capture, it actually requires some knowledge of 3-dimensional reality.
For example, make the user match a top-view of an airplane to a side-view of an airplane. Most people (at least, those who would be using a computer) can do that. But the pictures look totally different.
I've actually been having this conversation at work a lot lately with a certain group.
They don't seem to understand that we are operating within a business, and there is no reason to pursue a technology just because it's cool. If there is no business benefit then it should not be done.
In the case of a critical older system on its last legs, addressing its impending failure before it fails is a business benefit. If what it does is critical you must have a disaster plan.
In the case of a legacy system running on older hardware that can fairly easily be replaced, or that you have a closet full of waiting as spares, the risk is addressed. As long as it meets the business need it should be left alone. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's inherently bad.
Most businesses aren't in the business of having their employees play with cool new technology. They're in the business of their business.
No, what are you doing at Dunkin? You should be at McDonald's.
I think you define "play" differently than I do.
Any modern PC will allow you to "play" with virtualization. What you're describing (in my opinion, of course) are things you want if you're going to do serious work with virtualization.
At work we're deploying Windows Server 2003 + 2 VMs on VMware Server to Pentium 4 and older Core 2 systems with 1G of memory. In significant volume. I think we have around 2,000 out so far and we're still rolling.
A lot of the Yugo failure was quality.
I was in the auto repair business through much of the 90's and we never saw one, despite a pretty decent number of them being sold locally. I don't think they made it out of the 80's still running.
One of my store managers had been working at an import auto parts store while the Yugo was on sale as a new car.
I recall him saying that the Yugo dealer bought a lot of starters from them - for new cars before they sold them. Fortunately for the dealer, a new Yugo was mostly just a old Fiat.
Try to get your mind around that total lack of quality - the dealer replacing an OEM, brand new, factory part with an aftermarket part to get one that would work.
Wow, talk about crappy.
So basically it's "safe enough for India" but you couldn't sell it as-is anywhere that has vehicle safety standards.
Of course, you probably couldn't sell a Geo Metro or a Honda CRX (two 1980's high mileage cars) as a new car in the US today either for the same reasons.
I'm not convinced that changing the vehicular population makeup of India from bicycles and scooters to have a higher volume of these actually raises the overall safety of the traveling population - and it surely doesn't improve the fuel economy.
For those of us who are used to dollars, according to Google, the base price of 1700 pounds in the article is about $2500.
It isn't the rendering engines.
A lot of stuff ships as part of the IE package. Depending on the OS, there are UI and networking pieces that may be changed out when you go to the next IE.
One of the teams at work was having trouble getting SSL working on XPe systems. I advised them to install the IE package and things were OK....
Wow, where are you getting "system admins"?
In my experience the typical Microsoft sys admin knows where to click when, and that in case of trouble, try rebooting.
I don't really get that - you would rather sit there staring at a black screen than see the ad? Why?
I've seen precious few ads that are truly offensive, and none are as boring as 30 seconds of dead air.
Although I am about tired of some of the ones from Trojan and KY.
They will send you a bill. The bill will involve a large "fine" or "service fee" or something.
If you blow a toll in Illinois, there's a web site you can go to and pay before they bill you. I believe it pays to be proactive in this matter.
So you never come down to Illinois, eh?
We've got a bunch of toll roads around the Chicago area, and most of them have made it to "open road tolling" which means that, if you have an IPass, you just keep driving under the detectors, nobody slows down.
If you don't have the IPass, you have to take something that almost looks like an exit ramp and either throw some coins in a machine or give money to an actual human.
The IPass toll rate is about half of the cash rate, I think.
You aren't supposed to verify ID.
The signature on the back of a card has nothing to do with ID. It is there as acceptance of the card agreement.
The USPS won't accept credit cards where you've written "SEE ID" on the signature line because it isn't about ID at all.
RFID chips are kind of cart-vs-horse at the moment.
Aside from McDonald's there aren't a lot of merchants where you can use them.
Without a lot of merchants where you can use them, there isn't much incentive to issue them.
Er, no.
Someone doing what you say doesn't depend on physical means, it depends on respect.
Plenty of parents exert lots of control over their high school students - even though there's no physical advantage.
Otherwise I'd never be able to get the 6'4" kid I live with to do anything, cause I'm pretty sure I can't take him in a fight.