Paracetamol's problem (acetaminophen) is that it's effective dose is quite close to its toxic dose. I have often wondered why the tablets aren't sold with the antidote, acetylcysteine, mixed together and usually concluded it was down to the additional costs involved - which of course invites a comparison of those costs against those of treating overdose patients.
I'm sure ol' George won't let this get far, he'll probably sue for millions, like that chap in London who made the replica/recast the original stormtrooper outfits. I wonder how he got on?
If I delete my cookies (and assuming the server doesn't just send me a whole bunch of new ones), aren't I lessening internet traffic? All your cookies for a given domain, path and protocol (http or https) will be sent with each and every request you make - and that includes image requests etc. made while rendering HTML. Surely the less cookies you transmit the better.
Following on from that, the less requests you make the better. At work we found that the number of individual requests made by an old-school internet page (tables & spacer images) with poor HTTP header caching values amounted to some ungodly bandwidth, and after we fixed the caching headers for the images etc, the load dropped off enormously. It goes to show how many requests your browser makes for you and also how many times it'll transmit all your relevant cookies to the server.
Their Internet Security product absolutely stank. Thank goodness they offered a no-quibble 56-day money back guarantee, even for the downloaded versions.
Try sending email over an encrypted connection - it won't let you, even with the email scanning options disabled. Try checking a batch of files into CVS - it blocked the cvs.exe application time and time again asking whether it should be authorised. In the end, temporarily disabling (or as it happens, totally uninstalling) the NIS 2005 was the only solution.
So no, I won't be buying it either.
Isn't Opera supported on mobile/cell phone operating systems other than the MS variants?
If so, buying Opera would give MS a way into other mobile OSs, wouldn't it? How would that fare in an anti-trust hearing as regards Windows CE and its version of IE?
Surely the stability is based around what apps you run on it and the kernel version? Since I was preparing the box for life as a server, I only installed what I needed (cue discussion about what to include, what not to...). So far it's worked fine and the only problems are when I reconfigure (aka screw up) the firewall and my SSH connection dies!
The government were pushing the 90-day detention-without-charge limit with the supposed safeguard that a judge would have to approve their continued detention every seven days.
You can bet that when the barrister for the police service shows up at court, that he will claim to have sensitive intelligence which he is not allowed to share with the detainee's legal team. Whether he is permitted to share this with the judge is another matter, but if the detainee cannot challenge the material, it remains a one-sided fight. Unless therefore the judge exhibits the same degree of independent thinking as our MPs thankfully exhibited this week, there is unlikely to be any effective oversight of the continued detention.
As SteveAyre pointed out above, this story and the unlucky detainee's continued account (which makes for frightening reading) show that the police and government in the UK just will not admit that they are wrong. I cannot foresee them rushing to release anyone, even if they were as obviously innocent as a newborn child. I can, however, foresee them ruining an individual's life and then refusing to admit that they were wrong. There are plenty of examples of entrenchment by the establishment in the face of obvious wrongdoing: Gulf War Syndrome, Iraq WMD and Deepcut are some that come to mind.
That then the Sun ran a headline screaming "Traitors" which denounced the MPs which held true to our liberal traditions, is nothing short of scandallous. That same newspaper's editor was arrested last week for assaulting her husband and held for nine hours and it was not even mentioned. I would have loved it dearly if that woman was subjected to the type of media harrassment that she dishes out on a daily basis.
Tony Blair almost lost his rag in the House of Commons on Wednesday when he was heckled that Britain was developing into a "Police State". Unfortunately, I believe that this is where we are inevitably headed.
I guess it has a lot to do with the culture where you're working now. I know guys who are happy at a small firm who have implemented XP who are well paid and have no inclination to jump ship. I was at a very large consultancy, itching for more responsibility and more design work and left without a contract to go to a couple of years ago. As soon as I had a leaving date, the interviews came in and I sorted out a contract within a week of resigning. Since then I haven't looked back.
Where do you work to get fit staff to hit on? The places I've ended up has been almost entirely wall-to-wall blokes. Not what you'd call a target-rich environment...
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Paracetamol's problem (acetaminophen) is that it's effective dose is quite close to its toxic dose. I have often wondered why the tablets aren't sold with the antidote, acetylcysteine, mixed together and usually concluded it was down to the additional costs involved - which of course invites a comparison of those costs against those of treating overdose patients.
I'm sure ol' George won't let this get far, he'll probably sue for millions, like that chap in London who made the replica/recast the original stormtrooper outfits. I wonder how he got on?
If I delete my cookies (and assuming the server doesn't just send me a whole bunch of new ones), aren't I lessening internet traffic? All your cookies for a given domain, path and protocol (http or https) will be sent with each and every request you make - and that includes image requests etc. made while rendering HTML. Surely the less cookies you transmit the better.
Following on from that, the less requests you make the better. At work we found that the number of individual requests made by an old-school internet page (tables & spacer images) with poor HTTP header caching values amounted to some ungodly bandwidth, and after we fixed the caching headers for the images etc, the load dropped off enormously. It goes to show how many requests your browser makes for you and also how many times it'll transmit all your relevant cookies to the server.
So get deleting...
Cheers
Mike
Their Internet Security product absolutely stank. Thank goodness they offered a no-quibble 56-day money back guarantee, even for the downloaded versions. Try sending email over an encrypted connection - it won't let you, even with the email scanning options disabled. Try checking a batch of files into CVS - it blocked the cvs.exe application time and time again asking whether it should be authorised. In the end, temporarily disabling (or as it happens, totally uninstalling) the NIS 2005 was the only solution. So no, I won't be buying it either.
Isn't Opera supported on mobile/cell phone operating systems other than the MS variants? If so, buying Opera would give MS a way into other mobile OSs, wouldn't it? How would that fare in an anti-trust hearing as regards Windows CE and its version of IE?
Surely the stability is based around what apps you run on it and the kernel version? Since I was preparing the box for life as a server, I only installed what I needed (cue discussion about what to include, what not to...). So far it's worked fine and the only problems are when I reconfigure (aka screw up) the firewall and my SSH connection dies!
The government were pushing the 90-day detention-without-charge limit with the supposed safeguard that a judge would have to approve their continued detention every seven days.
You can bet that when the barrister for the police service shows up at court, that he will claim to have sensitive intelligence which he is not allowed to share with the detainee's legal team. Whether he is permitted to share this with the judge is another matter, but if the detainee cannot challenge the material, it remains a one-sided fight. Unless therefore the judge exhibits the same degree of independent thinking as our MPs thankfully exhibited this week, there is unlikely to be any effective oversight of the continued detention.
As SteveAyre pointed out above, this story and the unlucky detainee's continued account (which makes for frightening reading) show that the police and government in the UK just will not admit that they are wrong. I cannot foresee them rushing to release anyone, even if they were as obviously innocent as a newborn child. I can, however, foresee them ruining an individual's life and then refusing to admit that they were wrong. There are plenty of examples of entrenchment by the establishment in the face of obvious wrongdoing: Gulf War Syndrome, Iraq WMD and Deepcut are some that come to mind.
That then the Sun ran a headline screaming "Traitors" which denounced the MPs which held true to our liberal traditions, is nothing short of scandallous. That same newspaper's editor was arrested last week for assaulting her husband and held for nine hours and it was not even mentioned. I would have loved it dearly if that woman was subjected to the type of media harrassment that she dishes out on a daily basis.
Tony Blair almost lost his rag in the House of Commons on Wednesday when he was heckled that Britain was developing into a "Police State". Unfortunately, I believe that this is where we are inevitably headed.
I guess it has a lot to do with the culture where you're working now. I know guys who are happy at a small firm who have implemented XP who are well paid and have no inclination to jump ship. I was at a very large consultancy, itching for more responsibility and more design work and left without a contract to go to a couple of years ago. As soon as I had a leaving date, the interviews came in and I sorted out a contract within a week of resigning. Since then I haven't looked back.
Where do you work to get fit staff to hit on? The places I've ended up has been almost entirely wall-to-wall blokes. Not what you'd call a target-rich environment...