The advantage of using ancient languages - Greek in this case, BTW, not Latin - is that it allows a common vocabulary for use among speakers of many different mother tongues. Just as "petabyte" is founded on Greek "pente" ("five"), "yottabyte" is founded on the Greek "okto" ("eight"); so the next iteration would most usefully be founded on Greek "ennea" ("nine").
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...
No information here about sentences handed out, but I've never read of any derisory sentences being handed out. We generally hold our police officers to account.
Microwaves are non-ionising, you backward fear mongering anti-scientific luddite. Get your head out of your ass and out of your bronze aged superstitions about magic wands and flying donkeys lol.
This doesn’t accord with my memories. I joined ICL (the product of earlier mergers) in 1972 and as a programmer worked with three women on the team. Later, at a publishing company, the chief programmer was female, as were two senior systems analysts. I don’t recall any animosity or other bad feeling towards any of the women I’ve worked with. As for minicomputers, their design really didn’t fit the corporate processing requirement; though by the end of the 60s ICL had developed a successful small 24-bit mainframe comparable to (say) the PDP-11 in processing power, though arguably with the wrong form factor for laboratory use. I do wonder whether a US issue is being projected onto the UK here.
I must have missed something here. When did LO start being touted as a competitor to LaTeX? Was it about the same time it started being criticized for not having a thesaurus?
Based on concerns expressed here, I have investigated traffic coming across my desk directed to the www.nsa.gov IP address, and found innocent explanations for it. Are there examples anywhere of syslog records for traffic confirmed as being generated by compromised equipment?
We have an example in the UK of a comparably embarrassing prediction. On Oct 15th, 1987, the BBC weather forecaster, Michael Fish, stated: "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way; well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't..." . It is a matter of record that later that night winds of hurricane force lashed the southern UK, killing 18 people.
The difference is that we didn't find Michael Fish guilty of manslaughter. We laughed at him. We laughed at him because even the worst-educated person in the UK can see that with the best will in the world, predictions (even assuming that prediction is the right word for what the geologists did) can go wrong.
In whatever God-forsaken part of the world I might have imagined that this earthquake episode might have taken place, I could scarcely have imagined a Western European country. To imagine that all, or indeed any, of the deaths that occurred could be laid directly at the door of these geologists is beyond insane. It's positively Neolithic.
It's easy to dismiss today's pop-music as simplistic and look up to Wagners and Mozarts of the past. However, 200 years ago, most of the western worlds population never heard an opera and the music they were playing/singing and listening to was just as simplistic. A typical tune, like Pastime with Good Company was nowhere near the complexity of the Ride of the Valkyries
On the other hand, there is still a lot of serious music being made now-days that is being listened to by a minority, just like before.
"Pastime with Good Company" is a lot older than 200 years. It's attributed to King Henry VIII (which could well mean that one of his court musicians n2helped" him with it).
And what is the root of the OP's problems? Answer: Windows.
I certainly wouldn't recommend the ECDL as a qualification to be used in job-hunting. However, the syllabus does appear to address basic desktop PC security issues, so could be valuable for in-service training.
No, stealing is not the act of depriving someone of the thing's economic value, it is depriving someone of the thing itself. If I want to deprive someone of the economic value, I can do so, for instance, by destroying the thing: this is called "criminal damage" in the UK, and is not theft.
I find it absolutely amazing that, 17 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the word "communist" still constitutes an effective slur in arguments involving US citizens and organizations.
Wake up and smell the coffee - Kerala's political leanings are not an issue here: lots of us with very un-Communist political leanings are quite in sympathy with its decision to distance itself from MS' monopolistic practices.
On Windows NT/2000/XP, try resetting the I/O memory buffer size to a sensible value (considering that when loading, OOo is rather I/O-bound), using the method given below (lifted from www.windowsnetworking.com). I find that a value of 8MB for my XP system (256MB) results in a significant improvement in startup and document load times.
------------ IoPageLockLimit controls the size of memory buffers for I/O devices. The default minimizes RAM usage. An I/O intensive system could benefit from larger buffer sizes. Caution: setting this parm too high can result in slower performance. Set it in increments and see how it effects your system. Windows NT / W2K / XP.
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Worth remembering this oldie but goldie. http://www.ahajokes.com/com065...
The advantage of using ancient languages - Greek in this case, BTW, not Latin - is that it allows a common vocabulary for use among speakers of many different mother tongues. Just as "petabyte" is founded on Greek "pente" ("five"), "yottabyte" is founded on the Greek "okto" ("eight"); so the next iteration would most usefully be founded on Greek "ennea" ("nine").
...is the name the Romans used for what we call the Mediterranean.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/... No information here about sentences handed out, but I've never read of any derisory sentences being handed out. We generally hold our police officers to account.
Microwaves are non-ionising, you backward fear mongering anti-scientific luddite. Get your head out of your ass and out of your bronze aged superstitions about magic wands and flying donkeys lol.
Did we ever work together? :-)
...with 300 KW of microwave energy? Good luck with starting a family after that.
If you want a UK equivalent to The Onion, I'd suggest the Daily Mash.
1968 to 1971.
This doesn’t accord with my memories. I joined ICL (the product of earlier mergers) in 1972 and as a programmer worked with three women on the team. Later, at a publishing company, the chief programmer was female, as were two senior systems analysts. I don’t recall any animosity or other bad feeling towards any of the women I’ve worked with. As for minicomputers, their design really didn’t fit the corporate processing requirement; though by the end of the 60s ICL had developed a successful small 24-bit mainframe comparable to (say) the PDP-11 in processing power, though arguably with the wrong form factor for laboratory use. I do wonder whether a US issue is being projected onto the UK here.
I must have missed something here. When did LO start being touted as a competitor to LaTeX? Was it about the same time it started being criticized for not having a thesaurus?
"Significantly larger than a 747", eh? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare it to an A380?
Based on concerns expressed here, I have investigated traffic coming across my desk directed to the www.nsa.gov IP address, and found innocent explanations for it. Are there examples anywhere of syslog records for traffic confirmed as being generated by compromised equipment?
...change the number of photons impinging on the asteroid, or increase their effect?
We have an example in the UK of a comparably embarrassing prediction. On Oct 15th, 1987, the BBC weather forecaster, Michael Fish, stated: "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way; well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't..." . It is a matter of record that later that night winds of hurricane force lashed the southern UK, killing 18 people. The difference is that we didn't find Michael Fish guilty of manslaughter. We laughed at him. We laughed at him because even the worst-educated person in the UK can see that with the best will in the world, predictions (even assuming that prediction is the right word for what the geologists did) can go wrong. In whatever God-forsaken part of the world I might have imagined that this earthquake episode might have taken place, I could scarcely have imagined a Western European country. To imagine that all, or indeed any, of the deaths that occurred could be laid directly at the door of these geologists is beyond insane. It's positively Neolithic.
It's easy to dismiss today's pop-music as simplistic and look up to Wagners and Mozarts of the past. However, 200 years ago, most of the western worlds population never heard an opera and the music they were playing/singing and listening to was just as simplistic. A typical tune, like Pastime with Good Company was nowhere near the complexity of the Ride of the Valkyries
On the other hand, there is still a lot of serious music being made now-days that is being listened to by a minority, just like before.
"Pastime with Good Company" is a lot older than 200 years. It's attributed to King Henry VIII (which could well mean that one of his court musicians n2helped" him with it).
But why are they shipping with 9.04???
And what is the root of the OP's problems? Answer: Windows. I certainly wouldn't recommend the ECDL as a qualification to be used in job-hunting. However, the syllabus does appear to address basic desktop PC security issues, so could be valuable for in-service training.
The European Computer Driving License may be helpful here. See http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5829 for a syllabus.
No, stealing is not the act of depriving someone of the thing's economic value, it is depriving someone of the thing itself. If I want to deprive someone of the economic value, I can do so, for instance, by destroying the thing: this is called "criminal damage" in the UK, and is not theft.
I find it absolutely amazing that, 17 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the word "communist" still constitutes an effective slur in arguments involving US citizens and organizations. Wake up and smell the coffee - Kerala's political leanings are not an issue here: lots of us with very un-Communist political leanings are quite in sympathy with its decision to distance itself from MS' monopolistic practices.
On Windows NT/2000/XP, try resetting the I/O memory buffer size to a sensible value (considering that when loading, OOo is rather I/O-bound), using the method given below (lifted from www.windowsnetworking.com). I find that a value of 8MB for my XP system (256MB) results in a significant improvement in startup and document load times.
o l\Session Manager
------------
IoPageLockLimit controls the size of memory buffers for I/O devices. The default minimizes RAM usage. An I/O intensive system could benefit from larger buffer sizes. Caution: setting this parm too high can result in slower performance. Set it in increments and see how it effects your system. Windows NT / W2K / XP.
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr
Key: Memory Management
Name: IoPageLockLimit
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0x00000000 512KB
Value: 0x00100000 1MB
Value: 0x00200000 2MB
Value: 0x00400000 4MB
Value: 0x00800000 8MB