thats the end result of standardised exams and league tables built on them (with concepts like "value added" to avoid too much peanalisation of schools/collages with a shitty intake) that pit schools and 6th form colleges against each other.
i'm not sure there is much you can do about it though, there are far too many schools and 6th form collages to make them award there own qualifications and compete on reputation (like universities do) so standardised tests are the only way.
i belive the reason maths is often percived as hard is because its not really possible to cram for it. you actually have to solve the questions posed in the exam and there are a huge number of variants possible. Other subjects are harder to test in this way.
caffine isn't really a performance enhancer if your already managing your life well, it may help a little bit but its main purpose is for when you've screwed up on sleep management but need to stay at least somewhat awake (though how productive you will be in that state is another matter).
The laws of thermodynamics forbid it. the laws of thermodynamics say that any closed system will die eventually, but they don't preculude a person living billions of years with appropriate medical support.
You will die, your body will grow old. thats true with our current medical technology level, we don't know if it will stay that way.
is that drugs can have nasty side effects both short and long term (yes I include caffine in this, but caffine is pretty damn mild as stimulants go).
the worrying bit is that people could feel pressured into using drugs without a proper understanding of any bad side effects they may have, I wonder if this was more of the reason for drug testing in sports than fairness considerations.
but is helping actually sideline Sun's particular Java version in favor of more robust ones such as IBM's isn't IBMs java variant based on sun source and under even more draconian (sun java you can binary redistribute under certain conditions, IBMs i'm pretty sure you can't) terms?
well the recently fitted ones here in the sackville street building at manchester university its somewhat noticeable, if the button is held it will start to close before its finished announcing "LiFt GoInG uP" in the most irritating female voice possible. If you don't press it it waits until that announcement is finished.
so you either need buttons or a reliable occupation detection system
and also if pranksters left something in your lift (assuming the list is publically accessible) would you wan't it wasting power moving up and down constantly.
and you'd also wan't buttons for panic alarm, close doors now (i HATE lifts that lack this or respond slowly to it) etc.
1: there are a lot of objects that are pluto like, all but one so far are smaller than pluto but i don't belive there is a huge margin. Scientists HATE drawing arbitary lines in a known continum.
2: its just pluto and xena now but with more KBOs being discovered all the time is it going to stay that way.
are you using unstable? if not you won't have seen any of this. if you are then the packages are there in non-free now.
basically what has happened is that sun recently introduced a new license for binary distribution of JAVA. The new license is intended for use by linux distros, but some are concerned that the interpretation of the license thats in suns FAQ is incorrect and could cause legal issues in the future (debian is paranoid about legal issues for a reason, they are a big project with pretty much everything they do publically visible).
The people in control of debian are supporting it but many others (including apparently debian-legal and spi) aren't.
how much scheduled downtime is needed (minimally disruptive on most services)
how many brief outages that mean no significant downtime but could possiblly cause users problems (e.g. losing thier place in an online form sequence and having to start from scratch, losing a file they were trying to save etc) happen.
how many and how long are the significant periods of unplanned downtime.
I guess a partnership between sega and one of the current console makers could work if both were willing.
sony could possiblly try but as another poster has pointed out the fact thier history only goes back as far as the playstation would be a major hinderance (playstation games actually often used a full CD so downloading them would be a PITA).
nintendos only real competitor in this arena is pirate games running on emulators (mostly on PCs but also to a lesser extent on consoles).
ethics concensus (what you just mentioned) good of the many (noone wan'ts to pay tax but its nessacery for a goverment to operate) administrative (we all need to go vote on the same day) curruption (the government is not fully representative of the wishes of the people, in a democracy this is caused by the fact that most people don't care about most things and its easy to bribe polititions, copyright is an example that will be familiar to/.ers most people don't care enough to make the big parties stop accepting bribes on the issue)
yet how many widely used desktop apps do you see written in java (and i mean written in java not just offering java for scripting or applet like ooo and most web browsers do)?
the only one that springs to mind is azerus. Eclipse is also popular but afaict only really with java developers.
now sure javas popular for internal apps where the users can be forced to use it but thats another matter.
borland made a very high quality very successfull compiler from extending pascal that lasted many years (still going on today in the form of delphi though the recent versions are unfortunately both megabloat and going down the dubious path of.net)
pascal was a well structured easy to follow language, it just needed a few tweaks in certain areas (string handling, giving the programmer the power to force stuff with typecasts etc) to become a great language.
they decided to make the addresses far bigger for several reasons
1: they didn't wan't a repeat of the IPV4 mess of running short of addresses in the space of a few decades and having to implement a lot of additional complexity in network routing to overcome this (classless routing). 2: they wanted stateless autoconfiguration for machines on a lan based on thier mac address (this is why half the address is alocated for use within a lan). 3: they wanted to have a clear demarcation between hirachy levels (/16 for really major groupings, currently 6bone, production and 6to4,/32 for ISPs,/48 for end sites,/64 for lans).
As for the "funky" style (groups of 4 hexadecimal digits) its just to make the human readable form of a 128 bit quantity a bit more concise. It also makes it easier to see how CIDR masks will apply to the address.
well through 6to4 you can do just that and gain connectivity to the public IPV6 internet into the bargin thanks to a routing convention involving IPV4 anycast. Though the address is obviously much longer than just an extra byte.
the 6bone shutting down is the result of thier belief that the production IPV6 network is now stable enough not to need it.
if you wan't IPV6 and only have IPV4 connectivity then provided you have a capable machine direct on a public IP you have no need for a tunnel broker you can just use 6to4
if you can get hold of a copy then you could use XPe to install your system and use trial and error to find out what skype needs. though this will probablly mainly save you hdd rather than ram.
cutting out explorer (edit shell= in system.ini to just run your app of choice) may also help.
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is 522 weeks assuming 635.25 days/year.
thats the end result of standardised exams and league tables built on them (with concepts like "value added" to avoid too much peanalisation of schools/collages with a shitty intake) that pit schools and 6th form colleges against each other.
i'm not sure there is much you can do about it though, there are far too many schools and 6th form collages to make them award there own qualifications and compete on reputation (like universities do) so standardised tests are the only way.
i belive the reason maths is often percived as hard is because its not really possible to cram for it. you actually have to solve the questions posed in the exam and there are a huge number of variants possible. Other subjects are harder to test in this way.
caffine isn't really a performance enhancer if your already managing your life well, it may help a little bit but its main purpose is for when you've screwed up on sleep management but need to stay at least somewhat awake (though how productive you will be in that state is another matter).
The laws of thermodynamics forbid it.
the laws of thermodynamics say that any closed system will die eventually, but they don't preculude a person living billions of years with appropriate medical support.
You will die, your body will grow old.
thats true with our current medical technology level, we don't know if it will stay that way.
is that drugs can have nasty side effects both short and long term (yes I include caffine in this, but caffine is pretty damn mild as stimulants go).
the worrying bit is that people could feel pressured into using drugs without a proper understanding of any bad side effects they may have, I wonder if this was more of the reason for drug testing in sports than fairness considerations.
well its in unstable/non-free right now and being held out of testing by a RC bug on license issues.
I wouldn't call it in until its in testing and looking like it has a hope of staying there for the next stable release.
but is helping actually sideline Sun's particular Java version in favor of more robust ones such as IBM's
isn't IBMs java variant based on sun source and under even more draconian (sun java you can binary redistribute under certain conditions, IBMs i'm pretty sure you can't) terms?
while the source is often free the game content generally isn't usually legally availible for free.
well the recently fitted ones here in the sackville street building at manchester university its somewhat noticeable, if the button is held it will start to close before its finished announcing "LiFt GoInG uP" in the most irritating female voice possible. If you don't press it it waits until that announcement is finished.
so you either need buttons or a reliable occupation detection system
and also if pranksters left something in your lift (assuming the list is publically accessible) would you wan't it wasting power moving up and down constantly.
and you'd also wan't buttons for panic alarm, close doors now (i HATE lifts that lack this or respond slowly to it) etc.
trouble is
1: there are a lot of objects that are pluto like, all but one so far are smaller than pluto but i don't belive there is a huge margin. Scientists HATE drawing arbitary lines in a known continum.
2: its just pluto and xena now but with more KBOs being discovered all the time is it going to stay that way.
yes special case games are a pita for emulators.
otoh if they wanted doom on the wii they could just go back to the original source from ID.
are you using unstable? if not you won't have seen any of this. if you are then the packages are there in non-free now.
basically what has happened is that sun recently introduced a new license for binary distribution of JAVA. The new license is intended for use by linux distros, but some are concerned that the interpretation of the license thats in suns FAQ is incorrect and could cause legal issues in the future (debian is paranoid about legal issues for a reason, they are a big project with pretty much everything they do publically visible).
The people in control of debian are supporting it but many others (including apparently debian-legal and spi) aren't.
ssh is something of a special case designed and packaged VERY carefully to allow such upgrading.
did you see the warnings in the sarge release notes telling you not to run the upgrade by any methods except ssh and local text console?
there are several stats to consider
how much scheduled downtime is needed (minimally disruptive on most services)
how many brief outages that mean no significant downtime but could possiblly cause users problems (e.g. losing thier place in an online form sequence and having to start from scratch, losing a file they were trying to save etc) happen.
how many and how long are the significant periods of unplanned downtime.
I guess a partnership between sega and one of the current console makers could work if both were willing.
sony could possiblly try but as another poster has pointed out the fact thier history only goes back as far as the playstation would be a major hinderance (playstation games actually often used a full CD so downloading them would be a PITA).
nintendos only real competitor in this arena is pirate games running on emulators (mostly on PCs but also to a lesser extent on consoles).
laws come into several categories.
/.ers most people don't care enough to make the big parties stop accepting bribes on the issue)
ethics concensus (what you just mentioned)
good of the many (noone wan'ts to pay tax but its nessacery for a goverment to operate)
administrative (we all need to go vote on the same day)
curruption (the government is not fully representative of the wishes of the people, in a democracy this is caused by the fact that most people don't care about most things and its easy to bribe polititions, copyright is an example that will be familiar to
theres probablly others too
yet how many widely used desktop apps do you see written in java (and i mean written in java not just offering java for scripting or applet like ooo and most web browsers do)?
the only one that springs to mind is azerus. Eclipse is also popular but afaict only really with java developers.
now sure javas popular for internal apps where the users can be forced to use it but thats another matter.
borland made a very high quality very successfull compiler from extending pascal that lasted many years (still going on today in the form of delphi though the recent versions are unfortunately both megabloat and going down the dubious path of .net)
pascal was a well structured easy to follow language, it just needed a few tweaks in certain areas (string handling, giving the programmer the power to force stuff with typecasts etc) to become a great language.
its likely just a link local address (it begins with fe80 right?).
g -ipv6to4-tunnels.html
/64 to the lan and set up routing within the /48 that 6to4 gives you.
first assuming the linux box has a public IPV4 ip and your isp isn't providing native IPV6 connectivity you wan't to setup 6to4 on the linux box.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/configurin
then you'll need to use other parts of that howto to assign a
through 6to4 everyone with a public IPV4 address gets a /48 IPV6 prefix free.
they decided to make the addresses far bigger for several reasons
/64 for lans).
1: they didn't wan't a repeat of the IPV4 mess of running short of addresses in the space of a few decades and having to implement a lot of additional complexity in network routing to overcome this (classless routing).
2: they wanted stateless autoconfiguration for machines on a lan based on thier mac address (this is why half the address is alocated for use within a lan).
3: they wanted to have a clear demarcation between hirachy levels (/16 for really major groupings, currently 6bone, production and 6to4,/32 for ISPs,/48 for end sites,
As for the "funky" style (groups of 4 hexadecimal digits) its just to make the human readable form of a 128 bit quantity a bit more concise. It also makes it easier to see how CIDR masks will apply to the address.
well through 6to4 you can do just that and gain connectivity to the public IPV6 internet into the bargin thanks to a routing convention involving IPV4 anycast. Though the address is obviously much longer than just an extra byte.
the 6bone shutting down is the result of thier belief that the production IPV6 network is now stable enough not to need it.
if you wan't IPV6 and only have IPV4 connectivity then provided you have a capable machine direct on a public IP you have no need for a tunnel broker you can just use 6to4
if you can get hold of a copy then you could use XPe to install your system and use trial and error to find out what skype needs. though this will probablly mainly save you hdd rather than ram.
cutting out explorer (edit shell= in system.ini to just run your app of choice) may also help.