"Think again if you use a hands-free kit to protect yourself from mobile phone radiation - the two we tested increase the radiation levels inside your head compared with holding the phone by your ear."
Unfortunately, it's a pay site, and this is from the article summary. (http://www.which.net/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=&res trict=&exclude=&method=&words=radiation)
According to The Register (and the WHO), anyhow, there's no noticeable risk:
But then, this is the channel that shows "The Mark Thomas Comedy Product", which once got the head of the Indonesian military to admit to torturing people on camera, amongst other things.
According to this article, Jupiter has wind speeds of 192 mph at eight miles above the cloud tops. As you go deeper, wind speed increases - 232 mph at the cloud tops, 313 mph at 10 miles down and by 28 miles down, the wind speed is 391 mph.
Temperature is also an issue - in the range I just mentioned, temperature ranged from -230F at the top to 306F at the bottom.
Pressure is also an issue for balloons - and the pressure ranged from.5 bar at the top, to 21 bar at the bottom. That's 21 times Earth atmospheric pressure.
Not being a balloonist, I don't know if you can construct a balloon that would be functional in these circumstances, but the environment would certainly be extreme. --
"I admit that ACLs would be nice in certain circumstances, though as a former VAX admin I can testify that in business environments they can be an enormous amount of headache for little tangible gain. (Think "office politics".) "
I admin VMS for a living and I detest ACLs - they just generate work and complication. Thankfully, here they are verboten unless there is No Other Way. And there is ALWAYS Another Way. --
1) The applications I use are here today, not tomorrow, not next year. I got tired of trying out really beta software for Linux for the stuff I use, and the stuff that wasn't beta was very unpolished, very cluttered, very unfocused. Think GNUCash vs. Quicken or even Money and you'll see what I mean.
I'll give you that. But remember that Windows has a six or eight year head start in the applications market; more, if you count the apps that started life in DOS.
2) X is slow and crappy and unresponsive. I run a dual CPU system and it annoys the hell out of me. X likes to crash, taking my whole system with it, usually. It just sucks balls. I stated before that the client-server architecture inherent in X is NOT NEEDED for typical home/end users. BeOS does the GUI right. You want to beat the GUI experience that Win2K gives? Ditch X and come up with something new.
This paragraph is unmitigated shite. Wrong, wrong, wrong. XF864.0 (comparing like for like) is *as* fast, if not *faster* than the wretched excuse for a GUI that W2K has. (Look at the pretty fading menus! Never mind that all the UI stuff that was fucked in W95 (shortcuts [this one "feature" alone makes Explorer blow goats], what happens when you copy a.EXE file, Start menu) is STILL fucked now. Never mind that the UI is tied into the kernel, and so crappy display drivers can blow away your PC. Oopsie. X blows, but the Windows Way blows a whole lot more.
3) I've not *touched* my registry since installing Win2k. I had to "touch" all kinds of config files weekly under Linux, just to install stuff.
Not yet you haven't... You will. There's STILL stuff in W2K that you have to fiddle with the registry to fix. The registry sucks planetary masses through garden hoses and everyone with half a brain about OS design knows this. It's a friggin' Jet database, fergawdsake. And Jet is well regarded, right? Hell, we all know what's wrong with the registry. Single point of failure, binary, crap tools for fixing... same ol', same ol', nothing's changed here since W95.
4) Who cares about freedom to do with the software? Can't you see that RMS wants you to be paid MINIMUM WAGE for your work? How dare you code for money! nono, that was a rant, sorry. Rather, most users don't give a rat's ass about GPL or whatever. They want to install a software package and then use it. They don't want to have to search freshmeat.net for some obscure graphics lib or a specific version or whatever. Win2K at least halfway has this right. how many updates have I done to Win2K? Two or Three, the security update patch, couple drivers. And they installed *smoothly* with a double click. Every week I was scouring for the latest glibc or whatever to get whatever to work. Too much of a hassle.
You're just trolling with that second sentence, so we'll skip over that. Users don't care about the licence right up until the point at which I (as Software Vendor) say to you (as User) "Your licenced usage time is up. More money or no more MyWinApp for you". Myth : you don't "have to search freshmeat.net for some obscure graphics lib". You just use a tool like apt or rpmfind and the dependencies (which you don't care about) get fetched automatically for the thing you're focussing on - like the app. Sure, updates to W2K install with a double click. The Windows Installer ensures that you can fuck your machine with the minimum of effort - see Office 2000 SR1 for evidence. And MS don't have a good track record on updates - remember NT SP2? SP4? SP6? Each of these caused major headaches, because MS don't seem able to either produce pure fixes (SP 4 and 5 both introduced new functionality while at least one fix - a major bug in the SNMP stack - introduced in SP4 was backed out of SP5). Nah, software installation on Windows still sucks rocks. You still can't uninstall things properly. Windows Installer may help this, but it's too early to tell.
4. Linux just felt too beta to do anything that I would want to do. The feel is not right on the OS. I don't care how smooth the architecture is or how stable it is (to an extent). Think of it this way: My Ti Graphing Calculator I had for engineering never crashed on me, but you don't hear me extolling it's stability virtues. Win2K didn't crash on me until I installed EverCrack.
You're confusing flashy UI with stable UI. Don't be confusing alpha blending menus and sliding menus with stability. I blew away W2K within a week of installing it, just by daring to play Quake III. (FWIW, I bluescreened it after about 30 minutes of play. It appears that W2K was trying to resize the swap file on a disk with 2GB free, and failing. Maybe something with the display drivers fucked up when memory moved around.)
Anytime 150, is my tariff. 'bout 17 quid a month, 150 free minutes, low rates to land lines, unused free minutes carry over from month to month. The main thing I like about this is it let me get a nice phone (Motorola L7089) quite cheap (£70). --
3) Having people from diverse backgrounds working on design and problem solving often yields better results.
Can't argue with that. Good point. Although, arguably, removing immigration barriers accomplishes this too. Perhaps even moreso.
4) People already in the industry (both male and female) would, all other things being equal, enjoy having some more women in the office.
This is hardly a good reason to push girls into science and engineering. So that it's easier to put together a co-ed office softball team? =)
From my 4-year experience at the coalface, there is one big skill that women have more of: management.
Women seem to make better managers than men: less confrontational, more willing to take advice, less territorial, more approachable, more willing to listen to underlings and so on and so forth. Of course there are exceptions. But I can safely say that I've preferred working for female managers over working for male managers. --
...is fabbed by Intel, according to designs by DEC/Compaq, which is involved in a cross-licensing agreement with ARM Ltd, which was spun off from Acorn Ltd early in the 1990s. Acorn Ltd is now know as Element 14.
But it isn't, and people fsck up their documents and hand them to me for fixing.
"Fix the styles, and you've fixed the document. It's not as if they're hidden. Where's the need for Reveal Codes?"
Yeh. Right. That kinda assumes that there isn't half a dozen styles depending on the style you fix, and that there isn't any local formatting buggering things up, and that it's not a subdocument (my god, how craply is this implemented in Word?) which has its own styles... --
Multiple versions of SourceSafe (because newer versions aren't compatible with older ones) and multiple databases.
This is life in the real world, where you have to maintain stupid.ini files just to let the dumb client programs know where to find stuff. Don't tell me that this isn't necessary, I've spent two years administrating this shite product over two dozen databases and three versions. Which I suspect is a whole heap more experience than you have with it.
Using the remote administration tool trashes the ini files, meaning you have to go back and reconstruct SRCSAFE.INI by hand for each version you're running. It's no fun at all.
If you get a service that failed to complete either starting or stopping, it goes into an uncontrollable state where you can neither start nor stop the service.
You cannot control the process from the task manager at this point and the only cure is a reboot.
It's way, WAY worse than zombie processes under *NIX - in fact, it's as bad as RWAST processes under VMS. --
"aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash dot dot dot dot dot dot"
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And Windows still runs like shit over a network (have you played with metaframe yet?) and has sucky remote support (have you tried using a console window over a VNC link yet?) and can't support multiple displays (in the X sense of:0.0,:0.1 etc) and can't have more than one user at a time, but hey, it's got pretty fonts.
And remember kiddies, there is no antialiasing in Windows, just a quick'n'dirty adaptive smoothing facility that only works at font sizes that don't need it. Cool.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/7727. html
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Which? said this:
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"Think again if you use a hands-free kit to protect yourself from mobile phone radiation - the two we tested increase the radiation levels inside your head compared with holding the phone by your ear."
Unfortunately, it's a pay site, and this is from the article summary. (http://www.which.net/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=&re
According to The Register (and the WHO), anyhow, there's no noticeable risk:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11
I don't use my phone on the road, and I don't use a hands-free kit. So I guess I'm gonna live forever
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Well, sort of. Giving up your job isn't exactly good. But it's good to see that he's prepared to stand by his convictions.
It does of course raise the question of confidentiality of journalistic sources - at what point does a journo HAVE to reveal his sources?
IANAL, so I'm not going to even guess.
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http://www.channel4.com/mark_thomas/intro.html
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Still gets his airtime on C4 in the UK...
But then, this is the channel that shows "The Mark Thomas Comedy Product", which once got the head of the Indonesian military to admit to torturing people on camera, amongst other things.
MTCP is the bizness.
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Temperature is also an issue - in the range I just mentioned, temperature ranged from -230F at the top to 306F at the bottom.
Pressure is also an issue for balloons - and the pressure ranged from .5 bar at the top, to 21 bar at the bottom. That's 21 times Earth atmospheric pressure.
Not being a balloonist, I don't know if you can construct a balloon that would be functional in these circumstances, but the environment would certainly be extreme.
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of Neo-Fartists.
We hark back to when Fartism was something to be proud of.
We also polish our boots a lot.
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"I admit that ACLs would be nice in certain circumstances, though as a former VAX admin I can testify that in business environments they can be an enormous amount of headache for little tangible gain. (Think "office politics".) "
I admin VMS for a living and I detest ACLs - they just generate work and complication. Thankfully, here they are verboten unless there is No Other Way. And there is ALWAYS Another Way.
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I'll give you that. But remember that Windows has a six or eight year head start in the applications market; more, if you count the apps that started life in DOS.
2) X is slow and crappy and unresponsive. I run a dual CPU system and it annoys the hell out of me. X likes to crash, taking my whole system with it, usually. It just sucks balls. I stated before that the client-server architecture inherent in X is NOT NEEDED for typical home/end users. BeOS does the GUI right. You want to beat the GUI experience that Win2K gives? Ditch X and come up with something new.
This paragraph is unmitigated shite. Wrong, wrong, wrong. XF864.0 (comparing like for like) is *as* fast, if not *faster* than the wretched excuse for a GUI that W2K has. (Look at the pretty fading menus! Never mind that all the UI stuff that was fucked in W95 (shortcuts [this one "feature" alone makes Explorer blow goats], what happens when you copy a .EXE file, Start menu) is STILL fucked now. Never mind that the UI is tied into the kernel, and so crappy display drivers can blow away your PC. Oopsie. X blows, but the Windows Way blows a whole lot more.
3) I've not *touched* my registry since installing Win2k. I had to "touch" all kinds of config files weekly under Linux, just to install stuff.
Not yet you haven't... You will. There's STILL stuff in W2K that you have to fiddle with the registry to fix. The registry sucks planetary masses through garden hoses and everyone with half a brain about OS design knows this. It's a friggin' Jet database, fergawdsake. And Jet is well regarded, right? Hell, we all know what's wrong with the registry. Single point of failure, binary, crap tools for fixing... same ol', same ol', nothing's changed here since W95.
4) Who cares about freedom to do with the software? Can't you see that RMS wants you to be paid MINIMUM WAGE for your work? How dare you code for money! nono, that was a rant, sorry. Rather, most users don't give a rat's ass about GPL or whatever. They want to install a software package and then use it. They don't want to have to search freshmeat.net for some obscure graphics lib or a specific version or whatever. Win2K at least halfway has this right. how many updates have I done to Win2K? Two or Three, the security update patch, couple drivers. And they installed *smoothly* with a double click. Every week I was scouring for the latest glibc or whatever to get whatever to work. Too much of a hassle.
You're just trolling with that second sentence, so we'll skip over that. Users don't care about the licence right up until the point at which I (as Software Vendor) say to you (as User) "Your licenced usage time is up. More money or no more MyWinApp for you". Myth : you don't "have to search freshmeat.net for some obscure graphics lib". You just use a tool like apt or rpmfind and the dependencies (which you don't care about) get fetched automatically for the thing you're focussing on - like the app. Sure, updates to W2K install with a double click. The Windows Installer ensures that you can fuck your machine with the minimum of effort - see Office 2000 SR1 for evidence. And MS don't have a good track record on updates - remember NT SP2? SP4? SP6? Each of these caused major headaches, because MS don't seem able to either produce pure fixes (SP 4 and 5 both introduced new functionality while at least one fix - a major bug in the SNMP stack - introduced in SP4 was backed out of SP5). Nah, software installation on Windows still sucks rocks. You still can't uninstall things properly. Windows Installer may help this, but it's too early to tell.
4. Linux just felt too beta to do anything that I would want to do. The feel is not right on the OS. I don't care how smooth the architecture is or how stable it is (to an extent). Think of it this way: My Ti Graphing Calculator I had for engineering never crashed on me, but you don't hear me extolling it's stability virtues. Win2K didn't crash on me until I installed EverCrack.
You're confusing flashy UI with stable UI. Don't be confusing alpha blending menus and sliding menus with stability. I blew away W2K within a week of installing it, just by daring to play Quake III. (FWIW, I bluescreened it after about 30 minutes of play. It appears that W2K was trying to resize the swap file on a disk with 2GB free, and failing. Maybe something with the display drivers fucked up when memory moved around.)
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Anytime 150, is my tariff. 'bout 17 quid a month, 150 free minutes, low rates to land lines, unused free minutes carry over from month to month. The main thing I like about this is it let me get a nice phone (Motorola L7089) quite cheap (£70).
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50 free minutes A DAY!?
1p/min after that!?
What network/contract are you on, cuz I want some!
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"Gateway may have shipped some PCs with a PSU that may have a small problem".
Oh look. It's no longer interesting.
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Can't argue with that. Good point. Although, arguably, removing immigration barriers accomplishes this too. Perhaps even moreso.
This is hardly a good reason to push girls into science and engineering. So that it's easier to put together a co-ed office softball team? =)
From my 4-year experience at the coalface, there is one big skill that women have more of: management.
Women seem to make better managers than men: less confrontational, more willing to take advice, less territorial, more approachable, more willing to listen to underlings and so on and so forth. Of course there are exceptions. But I can safely say that I've preferred working for female managers over working for male managers.
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...is fabbed by Intel, according to designs by DEC/Compaq, which is involved in a cross-licensing agreement with ARM Ltd, which was spun off from Acorn Ltd early in the 1990s. Acorn Ltd is now know as Element 14.
:)
Hope that clears things up.
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for services which "cannot respond to the control function", to quote the error message...
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But it isn't, and people fsck up their documents and hand them to me for fixing.
"Fix the styles, and you've fixed the document. It's not as if they're hidden. Where's the need for Reveal Codes?"
Yeh. Right. That kinda assumes that there isn't half a dozen styles depending on the style you fix, and that there isn't any local formatting buggering things up, and that it's not a subdocument (my god, how craply is this implemented in Word?) which has its own styles...
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Up to version 7, that is.
It's gone in 8.
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As anyone who's had to do lot of actual wordprocessing will tell you, WP is so much of a better *word processor* than Word that it's just not funny.
It has more sane style handling. It has better number handling. It has better table handling.
In short, it does better wordprocessing.
It doesn't have sparkly text.
It doesn't have a pinball game.
It doesn't have a paperclip.
It does have totally broken sections.
It does have smashed page numbering (How many pages your document is depends on your version of Word. That's broke.)
It has lame TOCing.
It has crap indexing.
But it has a paper clip.
And wizards to help you write a letter to granny.
And sparkly text.
But for real, 700 page tech documents like the ones we deal with, it sucks.
It's slow.
It's unstable (Word 97 SR-2b) on boxes with 128MB of RAM and 600MHz PIII processors, running NT4 SP6.
The bullets/numbering system is so baroque and non-deterministic that people here only use it when forced to.
Compared to something like LaTeX or Interleaf it blows donkeys for REAL work.
It's a toy, suitable for parish newsletters and recipe cards.
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You can hang it all together nicely with grip, too.
LAME Home Page
Grip home page
CDparanoia home page
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They're just hiding.
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Multiple versions of SourceSafe (because newer versions aren't compatible with older ones) and multiple databases.
.ini files just to let the dumb client programs know where to find stuff. Don't tell me that this isn't necessary, I've spent two years administrating this shite product over two dozen databases and three versions. Which I suspect is a whole heap more experience than you have with it.
This is life in the real world, where you have to maintain stupid
Using the remote administration tool trashes the ini files, meaning you have to go back and reconstruct SRCSAFE.INI by hand for each version you're running. It's no fun at all.
Source Safe Sucks. CVS Rules.
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If you get a service that failed to complete either starting or stopping, it goes into an uncontrollable state where you can neither start nor stop the service.
You cannot control the process from the task manager at this point and the only cure is a reboot.
It's way, WAY worse than zombie processes under *NIX - in fact, it's as bad as RWAST processes under VMS.
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Here's the program for "99 bottles of beer"
e r_i_m.html#labview
http://www.ionet.net/~timtroyr/funhouse/beer/be
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http://dot.dot.dot?
"aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash dot dot dot dot dot dot"
*giggle*
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And Windows still runs like shit over a network (have you played with metaframe yet?) and has sucky remote support (have you tried using a console window over a VNC link yet?) and can't support multiple displays (in the X sense of :0.0, :0.1 etc) and can't have more than one user at a time, but hey, it's got pretty fonts.
And remember kiddies, there is no antialiasing in Windows, just a quick'n'dirty adaptive smoothing facility that only works at font sizes that don't need it. Cool.
Now what X really needs is a paperclip.
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