Does Rolls Royce actually deliver a vehicle that is useful to anybody? Actually, yes. If I could afford to buy and run and garage one, I'd put it next to the Ferrari and make my gf jealous at how I caressed the pair of them.
If I look specifically for the difference, can I see it? Yes. If I glance at the two, do I notice it? Sorry, no.
The guy I sit next to at work can. I was comparing two screenshots, he immediately identified that one was far better than the other. Me, I was sat there wondering how he'd even worked out which was which.
I can't complain, means I get higher framerates for the same money.
When I was a teenager I hated the shite music my peers were listening to.
It's only now I'm older I've discovered the good music that was around when I was a teen. There's good music released now - but there's still a lot of kiddie pop that's utter shite, just as there was when I were a lad.
Dunno. If they're fat enough we can probably make a net contribution to the power grid. Especially if we use a treadmill attached to a generator to tire them out before we gas them.
How dare I swim three mornings a week, for an hour at a time. Can I also apologise for going out at weekends and actively engaging in sporting activities that build muscle.
I'm 6 foot tall, and around 255lb right now. I have a 42-44" waistline.
By BMI I'm obese. By waistline measurement I'm obese.
I have a 52-54" chest, no fat. I have no fat on my arms, my legs, my chest. Even my backside is firm these days.
I do have a lot of fat around my waist, but am I really at a significant health risk, compared to lighter people with smaller waistlines? I doubt it.
When you swim three times a week and shoot competitive archery (I'm shooting at the National Championships next month) you build muscle. My girlfriend adores it. My nurse wants me to lose around 54lb. But am I healthy? Yes. Am I fit? Fairly. Could I be fitter? Actually, no - I'm borderline disabled because of my knees. Should I pay more health insurance than someone skinnier? Fuck no.
I didn't say they only consider the issue when it comes upon them. I would say that most of them go from not wanting a baby, to being in an established relationship, to then wanting children. Until that cycle has completed the issue just doesn't exist.
Maybe my friends and colleagues are all just strange.
I'd say his first six books and many of his short stories all contain hard sci-fi. And just because only a few parts have come to pass doesn't discredit them at all.
He has been trading on it's success ever since IMO. Pattern Recognition isn't even sci-fi. It's still beautifully written, and shows a view of the world that's very different to the norm. If Gibson couldn't write well, he wouldn't still be selling books. Neuromancer was merely the book that brought him fame and recognition, the rest of his work stands up very well all on its own.
I'm buying Spook Country when it comes out, and it's not sci fi, and I still expect to enjoy it.
Oh, fuck yes. A year off work, on 90% pay? Give! Getting supported by a partner (against their will, if you've kicked them out) to not work? Give! Avoiding redundancy through tactical pregnancy? Give!
I've seen all these, many many times.
Most guys I know, it's not even a blip on their radar, it's just not something that comes to mind when they think about having kids. Most guys I know, it's a serious issue and one they think about very carefully and discuss to a tremendous depth with their partner. Losing half the household income is pretty significant, raising a child is not taken lightly, the impact on their partner's career is indeed a concern.
Still doesn't alter the basic discrimination against men on these matters.
They have the right and the power to prevent me connecting to their network. They do not have the right or authority to invasively damage my computer.
I'm talking about UK law here, which isn't applicable as this issue is in the US, but I've never read a TOS that gives permission for the ISP to change PC software anyway.
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The author of the software is irrelevant. It's my PC, if a company hacks into it and changes it then they're breaking the law.
That they're using previously installed malware to do so is completely irrelevant to this.
Can they even demonstrate that I don't know of the existance of that malware? Maybe I installed it myself, maybe I'm monitoring it.
Childish? Only someone so young would stop reading something because it's childish.
I'm in my thirties. At the age of 8 I read Jane Eyre, by 13 I'd read every sci-fi/fantasy book in the school library, I personally own 400 fiction books (or so) and over 50 non-fiction (mostly work related). I've got a full set of Alistair McLean, Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, Robin Hobb, Gerald Seymour..
Not trying to show off, I know people with far larger collections. My point however is this: I've read all of the Harry Potter books. I've enjoyed them all. I read the last one last night, in a single setting.
Is it high literature? No. Is it an adult book? No. Is it entertaining? Yes. Is it enjoyable? Yes.
Why avoid something if you can enjoy it?
If you don't read fiction, you're missing out. A lot of good fiction makes you think, and sci-fi and fantasy often create alternate environments with different rules that really experiment and set out different moral perspectives and choices. That's a very healthy thing for people to be thinking about, and even if Rowling targeted her books at children, she still puts her characters through some very adult choices.
Perhaps the quality of the writing isn't at the Bach level. The straightforward and approachable manner with which Rowling tackles some pretty complex ethical and moral issues does however show a degree of skill and sensibility and wrapping it all in an entertaining story is very far from easy.
Is it great writing? No. Is it a great series of books? Yes.
Personally I enjoyed the whole series, but they are just children's books, they aren't a patch on Philip Pullman's Subtle Knife trilogy, but I'd happily chuck them all at my nephew so he could enjoy them.
Then again, at the age these books are targeted at I was reading hard sci-fi at the rate of ten books a week, so maybe I should buy him a large chunk of heinlein, clarke and asimov.
Nonetheless the raid was very unusual compared to the high altitude carpet bombing approach of the Garman and British airforces that had been followed prior to that. Bombing accuracy was considered good if you hit the right city; to land a bomb within a few centimetres was unheard of, and they learned a lot about precision flying and bombing to achieve that.
(I know the Germans had Stuka dive bombers. I'm talking of rather bigger bombs here)
I'm sorry. You want me to contact the creators of every single one of the 280 software packages we use (many of which are bespoke, several of which were written so long ago the author is dead, some of which no longer have source code, etc) to find out whether their software will work with a patch in every other piece of software we use?
This sounds improbable.
I do admire the work that distro maintainers do, and the effort they put in. I've also yet to work for any organisation that can handle 0 day patches and roll them out across a significant enterprise.
If it's that easy, go make yourself a tidy fortune doing it. Blue chips will pay vast sums for that headache to be removed.
I'm not denying that package managers, or other configuration management tools can help tremendously. I do feel it trivialises a complex scenario to just suggest delegating the work to one - there's rather more than that to do in most heterogeneous commercial deployment environments.
The physical roll-out of the patch isn't necessarily a problem, although it could be.
For Java there are likely to be a minimal number of applications on desktops, and Java backwards compatibility tends to be both very good, and also predictable. So testing on the new VM should mitigate most of the risks and it should be fairly straightforward as an upgrade.
Where it's something like VB in Windows, an upgrade can break a hell of a lot of stuff. And if there are multiple user types in the organisation, each will have their own set of applications. The interdependencies can get very complicated, and you need to test every combination. Even if you only do high level regression testing, if that's needed across 70 different applications, with a dozen ways they may be combined on a desktop, that's a significant labour and management overhead. And those teams tend to be under-resourced and over-committed already..
I mentioned that physical roll-out can be complicated. Just three years ago an organisation I worked for had around 1200 retail outlets. They shared the same pipe into head office, and all had just 56kbps burst (28k committed) lines into the outlets themselves. A roll-out to update each of the half dozen PCs in all of the outlets physically couldn't complete in a single night.
Things just aren't as simple when you go multi-site, multi-configuration, multi-platform and refuse to spend the money needed to make it easy.
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I must admit, I fail at seeing.
If I look specifically for the difference, can I see it? Yes. If I glance at the two, do I notice it? Sorry, no.
The guy I sit next to at work can. I was comparing two screenshots, he immediately identified that one was far better than the other. Me, I was sat there wondering how he'd even worked out which was which.
I can't complain, means I get higher framerates for the same money.
When I was a teenager I hated the shite music my peers were listening to.
It's only now I'm older I've discovered the good music that was around when I was a teen. There's good music released now - but there's still a lot of kiddie pop that's utter shite, just as there was when I were a lad.
Dunno. If they're fat enough we can probably make a net contribution to the power grid. Especially if we use a treadmill attached to a generator to tire them out before we gas them.
You're right, it's entirely my fault.
How dare I swim three mornings a week, for an hour at a time. Can I also apologise for going out at weekends and actively engaging in sporting activities that build muscle.
I feel ashamed.
I'm 6 foot tall, and around 255lb right now. I have a 42-44" waistline.
By BMI I'm obese. By waistline measurement I'm obese.
I have a 52-54" chest, no fat. I have no fat on my arms, my legs, my chest. Even my backside is firm these days.
I do have a lot of fat around my waist, but am I really at a significant health risk, compared to lighter people with smaller waistlines? I doubt it.
When you swim three times a week and shoot competitive archery (I'm shooting at the National Championships next month) you build muscle. My girlfriend adores it. My nurse wants me to lose around 54lb. But am I healthy? Yes. Am I fit? Fairly. Could I be fitter? Actually, no - I'm borderline disabled because of my knees. Should I pay more health insurance than someone skinnier? Fuck no.
Welcome to the UK.
Government mandated maternity leave isn't that generous. The type of company I work for are.
I didn't say they only consider the issue when it comes upon them. I would say that most of them go from not wanting a baby, to being in an established relationship, to then wanting children. Until that cycle has completed the issue just doesn't exist.
Maybe my friends and colleagues are all just strange.
I'd say his first six books and many of his short stories all contain hard sci-fi. And just because only a few parts have come to pass doesn't discredit them at all. He has been trading on it's success ever since IMO. Pattern Recognition isn't even sci-fi. It's still beautifully written, and shows a view of the world that's very different to the norm. If Gibson couldn't write well, he wouldn't still be selling books. Neuromancer was merely the book that brought him fame and recognition, the rest of his work stands up very well all on its own.
I'm buying Spook Country when it comes out, and it's not sci fi, and I still expect to enjoy it.
Getting supported by a partner (against their will, if you've kicked them out) to not work? Give!
Avoiding redundancy through tactical pregnancy? Give!
I've seen all these, many many times. Most guys I know, it's not even a blip on their radar, it's just not something that comes to mind when they think about having kids. Most guys I know, it's a serious issue and one they think about very carefully and discuss to a tremendous depth with their partner. Losing half the household income is pretty significant, raising a child is not taken lightly, the impact on their partner's career is indeed a concern.
Still doesn't alter the basic discrimination against men on these matters.
At which point I demand that the UK CPS prosecute the FBI under the Computer Misuse Act, as they'll have broken UK law.
Sorry, shutting down processes on my computer remotely without permission is harmless? No.
They have the right and the power to prevent me connecting to their network. They do not have the right or authority to invasively damage my computer.
I'm talking about UK law here, which isn't applicable as this issue is in the US, but I've never read a TOS that gives permission for the ISP to change PC software anyway.
The author of the software is irrelevant. It's my PC, if a company hacks into it and changes it then they're breaking the law.
That they're using previously installed malware to do so is completely irrelevant to this.
Can they even demonstrate that I don't know of the existance of that malware? Maybe I installed it myself, maybe I'm monitoring it.
It's illegal, and they should be prosecuted.
Childish? Only someone so young would stop reading something because it's childish.
I'm in my thirties. At the age of 8 I read Jane Eyre, by 13 I'd read every sci-fi/fantasy book in the school library, I personally own 400 fiction books (or so) and over 50 non-fiction (mostly work related). I've got a full set of Alistair McLean, Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, Robin Hobb, Gerald Seymour..
Not trying to show off, I know people with far larger collections. My point however is this: I've read all of the Harry Potter books. I've enjoyed them all. I read the last one last night, in a single setting.
Is it high literature? No. Is it an adult book? No.
Is it entertaining? Yes. Is it enjoyable? Yes.
Why avoid something if you can enjoy it?
If you don't read fiction, you're missing out. A lot of good fiction makes you think, and sci-fi and fantasy often create alternate environments with different rules that really experiment and set out different moral perspectives and choices. That's a very healthy thing for people to be thinking about, and even if Rowling targeted her books at children, she still puts her characters through some very adult choices.
Perhaps the quality of the writing isn't at the Bach level. The straightforward and approachable manner with which Rowling tackles some pretty complex ethical and moral issues does however show a degree of skill and sensibility and wrapping it all in an entertaining story is very far from easy.
Is it great writing? No. Is it a great series of books? Yes.
Personally I enjoyed the whole series, but they are just children's books, they aren't a patch on Philip Pullman's Subtle Knife trilogy, but I'd happily chuck them all at my nephew so he could enjoy them.
Then again, at the age these books are targeted at I was reading hard sci-fi at the rate of ten books a week, so maybe I should buy him a large chunk of heinlein, clarke and asimov.
Which is odd, because I never encountered any hate when living in parts of Germany that had been bombed by us, or when I visited the Mohne dam.
Come to that, I don't encounter hate of the Germans in Coventry either, and don't pretend aero engine factories justified what happened to that city.
Nonetheless the raid was very unusual compared to the high altitude carpet bombing approach of the Garman and British airforces that had been followed prior to that. Bombing accuracy was considered good if you hit the right city; to land a bomb within a few centimetres was unheard of, and they learned a lot about precision flying and bombing to achieve that.
(I know the Germans had Stuka dive bombers. I'm talking of rather bigger bombs here)
As far as I'm aware, there were no ground troops involved in Operation Chastise. Just a few chaps from the RAF.
~Cederic went to a school called 'Barnes Wallis' and another school called 'Merlin'.
Sadly at the weekend when The Dam Busters was broadcast on UK TV references to Nigger were cut.
I hate censorship. I also believe that denying the past is foolish. I also hate people cutting a film for tv.
I'm sorry. You want me to contact the creators of every single one of the 280 software packages we use (many of which are bespoke, several of which were written so long ago the author is dead, some of which no longer have source code, etc) to find out whether their software will work with a patch in every other piece of software we use?
This sounds improbable.
I do admire the work that distro maintainers do, and the effort they put in. I've also yet to work for any organisation that can handle 0 day patches and roll them out across a significant enterprise.
If it's that easy, go make yourself a tidy fortune doing it. Blue chips will pay vast sums for that headache to be removed.
I'm not denying that package managers, or other configuration management tools can help tremendously. I do feel it trivialises a complex scenario to just suggest delegating the work to one - there's rather more than that to do in most heterogeneous commercial deployment environments.
The physical roll-out of the patch isn't necessarily a problem, although it could be.
For Java there are likely to be a minimal number of applications on desktops, and Java backwards compatibility tends to be both very good, and also predictable. So testing on the new VM should mitigate most of the risks and it should be fairly straightforward as an upgrade.
Where it's something like VB in Windows, an upgrade can break a hell of a lot of stuff. And if there are multiple user types in the organisation, each will have their own set of applications. The interdependencies can get very complicated, and you need to test every combination. Even if you only do high level regression testing, if that's needed across 70 different applications, with a dozen ways they may be combined on a desktop, that's a significant labour and management overhead. And those teams tend to be under-resourced and over-committed already..
I mentioned that physical roll-out can be complicated. Just three years ago an organisation I worked for had around 1200 retail outlets. They shared the same pipe into head office, and all had just 56kbps burst (28k committed) lines into the outlets themselves. A roll-out to update each of the half dozen PCs in all of the outlets physically couldn't complete in a single night.
Things just aren't as simple when you go multi-site, multi-configuration, multi-platform and refuse to spend the money needed to make it easy.
Although the West End isn't exactly devoid of ANPR technology.
In fact- if any hole is left open in the security web, then the criminals and terrorist will gravitate to it Unintended innuendo. Marvellous.