Europe is quite a save place, a lot less murder/robbery etc. as in the USA on average AFAIK. But we do get a lot of tourists, and all the mayor tourist attractions have a high pick-pocketing rate.
- Tourists tend to stand out from the crowd (both clothing and sound (another language) - Their attention is focused on other things - They are not at home in the surrounding and therefore less able to spot something out of the ordinairy - Most tourists are comparitively wealthy ( they were able to travel and finance their accomodation) - tourists carry around expensive equipement (camera's) - tourists have a lot of money on them because the had to change their currency for the local one.
A few tips I have found usefull when visiting other countries: - Dress like the local popupation, no shorts/t-shirt, when everybody wears a long sleeved shirt and long trousers. - have two wallets, one reachable with a little money, that you use when in public, and one with your passport/main stash of money, that you cary on your body beneath your clothes. - learn some of the local language. Being able to order your beer and pay in the local language makes a huge difference in how much you pay in a lot of places. And you do not stand out from the crown so much. And if you are lost in some african city, it helps a lot if you can ask directions (it did for me). - Walk like you know where you are going. Do not have maps visible on you. - Do not have your valuables in sight. Use a lockable backpack in preference to a shoulder bag, as it can not be grabbed as easily.
Even with a different skin colour, if you look like you belong somewhere you are a lot less likely to become a target IMHO.
OT. Oh and one last thing to think about: a lot of people in poor countries tend to think all western people are increadibly rich, because the only ones that they see are the ones that could afford the 14 day african safari with ***** service.
>MS Word already allows table and cell editing similar to Excel, >graphics manipulation, and desktop publishing.
WP 5.1 did do a lot of that in the nineties already. WP 6.0 did all of it in 1994. In features WordPerfect was and is still way ahead of MS Word.
You could do calculations, references and use variables in WP5.1 tables.
WP was always a more serious DTP tool. WP 6.0 already supports folding signatures to do 2-up, 4-up, 16-up, booklet, separate font libraries, absolute page positioning styles, kerning, ligatures, a good equation editor, TextArt, fully WYSIWYG, etc.
And lo' and behold, it still uses the same file format for all versions since 6.0. I can make a file in WP 10+ for XP and my dad can use it on his 486 in WP 6.0 for DOS.
Where Word had the advantage is in usability and OS support (!) It lost it in the win3 and win32 steps MS took, where playing catch-up - only having a version about 2 years after the OS arrived - gave Word the opportunity to overtake WP.
I could go on, but I've found that this site is very complete http://www.wpvsword.com might you be actually interested in the difference between WP and Word.
>the discussion wasnt about supporting dictators or terrorism, it was >about the use of proxies for warfare.
You're right I'm drifting off topic
-snip-
>We didnt do a very good job, in some case we were down right evil. >But at least recognize the success stories too.
Point taken, during/after WWII the USA did great, both in W.Europe and Japan, we here in Europe are still in dept to you for that.
One last question you do not need to answer: what's the difference between Castro and Hussain that they got treated so differently? (both before and after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990)
They bought a New P4 system from HP, preloaded with win2000, to run as a dedicated system for our software. But their company policy dictated all systems had to run NT, so they installed NT. We installed our software, but the machine chrashed 2-3/week in tcpip.sys. We tried about 17 different tcpip.sys for winNT (there are lot's of tcpip.sys versions, for a file of just a few kb !!) There were very angry with us that we could not get our software working (it worked fine elsewhere on NT). We figured it was a problem between the HP and NT, that we could not fix, but they did not want to contact MS or HP. After almost a year of trouble they agreed to install the original Win2000 back, and the problem was gone.
I've worked in a company that has made software for industrial water/sewage treatment plants. They have made software from DOS, trough win3, win 95, win NT, win 2000, win XP and (embedded) linux We recently had a client complaining his WinXP laptop did not run our version 4 (win3.0) software properly (his win98 laptop did) His company had put his laptop in "win95 compatibility mode", which came out to be a win95 installed in VMware, quite a lot more as "compatibility mode". We told him we could not support win3.0 app on win 95 in VMware on windowsXP. He left with version 7 of the application, still capable of talking to his early nineties equipment.
My favorite writer Isaac Asimov, has said that he considered the problem that when people leave school/education very ofte they are not required to learn much anymore. He said that if you keep learning all your life that you can still do it at a higher age (like he did being a SF writer, and techology column writer well after being 75+) I endeavour to follow his example and keep learning all my life, to keep the "learning muscles" flexible. I'd like to think i'll be able to use the mobile phones of 2060, if I live that long. Anf I think I know a few people 70+ that would pass your test.
Not sure how nasty business taxes are, and there's obviously a host of other variables involved, but...
I beleive the business taxes aren't the nicest in the world. We have a highly developed social security/public health system, and therefore high taxes.
The hub dynamo is very old already, my dad's bike ('60's Raleigh Superbe) has one, the dynohub, it just never became very popular for some reason. google found some info on: http://sheldonbrown.com/dynohubs.html
I think we in the EU have more free speech as you, except when it comes to racism and slander, those are forbidden, for good reasons. A lot of questionable organisations have their headquarders in The Hague, Berlin or London for this reason.
The American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002 was nice, it authorises an invasion of my country (The Netherlands) if an USA soldier is ever brought to the International Court in The Hague. I do not understand that our government could support Mr. Bush after that, but they beleived the WMD lie.
The USA might not be the only one supporting dictators and terrorists, but they have quite an impressive list, and do not seem to learn from their mistakes. A few examples: - Ngo Dinh Diem (South vietnam) - Marcos (Philipines) - Mobutu (Zaire/Congo) - Batista (Cuba) - Banzer (Bolivia) - Pinochet (Chili) - Duvalier (Haiti) - Somoza, Contra's (Nigueragua) - Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Persia, now Iran) - Chang kai chek (Taiwan) - Ian smith (zimbabwe) - Franco (Spain) - Salazar (Portugal) - Halie Selassie (Ethiopia) - Papadopoulos (Greece) - Park Chung Hee, Chun Doo Hwan (South korea) - Jonas Savimbi (Angola) - Garcia, Martinez (El Salvador) - Branco (Brasil) - Videla (Argentina) - Noriega (Panama) - Suharto (Indonesia, East Timor, West Papua) - Bin Laden (Afganistan) - Saddam Houssain (Irak) - King Fahd (Saudi Arabia)
I bought my first linux as SuSE 6.1, I installed it and ran it. Everything worked. I did have some previous unix (IRIX, HP-UX) experience. For a newbie like me, the manuals and Yast were very good. I had to recompile my kernel to support my TV-card, so back-then it was not completely newbie friendly, but the manual walked me though it, giving me enough confidence to do it (and I did get it working).
Our sys admin (windows only) at my previous employer had never seen a unix environment, and installed SuSE 7.1, including CVS, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Webadmin, Samba on the new server to "try it out". After that SuSE was the main server operating system, doing more on a P-133/32Mb as Win NT4 could on a PII-233/64Mb. The NT box survived the install of a SuSE linux brother by only two months before joining the club.
My point is: SuSE has always been a very user friendly newbie friendly and polished distro, with all the software on the CDs/DVD, one click install, and it works. I have found the large amount of supplied and tested software a big bonus, no need to find it on the net, and it just works out of the box, because SuSE compiled/tested/configured it to work with the distro version.
I just bought SuSE 9.1, and will be installing it this evening.
all you want to do is just print the damn thing outfor the bloody conference call
Then just push the "start" button and it will continue anyway. I agree with the other poster that accepting letter fromat and printing it on A4 is no solution. Esp. NT4 keeps forgetting the "A4" setting. I do not understand why the dutch/french/etc. version of MS Windows/Office defaults to A4.
I would prefer the padded cell with the computer to one without, I don't see your particular problem with the 486sx or win3.1? I'd rather not be in the padded cell though.
I do buy their stuff (6.2, 7.1, 8.0 and i'll buy 9.1) It's nice to have the books for me as a not so adept Linux user, and the DVD to install where internet is only 56k.
The books are good, I learned Linux though them mostly, even got my Miro PCTV card working in 6.2 back in 1998. (needed to build my own kernel, the books told me how)
I still have a functioning 5.25" in my PC (Athlon 1.4), at least a month ago it could still read one of my "floppies". I do not use it very often, but it nicely fill's in the B: in the alphabet in Windows;-)
Let's assume 200 Watts per machine for power and cooling, that makes 16 MW, at a price of 40/MW gets you a bill of around 6 million a year. compared to the prices of 80.000 machines it's peanuts. The electricity bill of something like a big aluminium smelter would be realy nasty, they might need several 100 MW
borland c++ builder is from 1997 and I beleive they have always been following the (draft versions) of the ANSI C++ standard quite closely, before 1997 with their borland c/c++
Bah, I'm trying to do that, but finding a nic that works, and a distro that can use it and install over it has not succeded yet. I have this nice tulip 5/133 *only a floppy, and 2 times pcmcia, not even plip*, I have a smc8016 (not supported under linux) a dynalink l10bc (should be supported). The device only has 32Mb ram so to install over ftp is going to be a chalenge once I get it working...
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Europe is quite a save place, a lot less murder/robbery etc. as in the USA on average AFAIK.
But we do get a lot of tourists, and all the mayor tourist attractions have a high pick-pocketing rate.
- Tourists tend to stand out from the crowd (both clothing and sound (another language)
- Their attention is focused on other things
- They are not at home in the surrounding and therefore less able to spot something out of the ordinairy
- Most tourists are comparitively wealthy ( they were able to travel and finance their accomodation)
- tourists carry around expensive equipement (camera's)
- tourists have a lot of money on them because the had to change their currency for the local one.
A few tips I have found usefull when visiting other countries:
- Dress like the local popupation, no shorts/t-shirt, when everybody wears a long sleeved shirt and long trousers.
- have two wallets, one reachable with a little money, that you use when in public, and one with your passport/main stash of money, that you cary on your body beneath your clothes.
- learn some of the local language. Being able to order your beer and pay in the local language makes a huge difference in how much you pay in a lot of places. And you do not stand out from the crown so much. And if you are lost in some african city, it helps a lot if you can ask directions (it did for me).
- Walk like you know where you are going. Do not have maps visible on you.
- Do not have your valuables in sight. Use a lockable backpack in preference to a shoulder bag, as it can not be grabbed as easily.
Even with a different skin colour, if you look like you belong somewhere you are a lot less likely to become a target IMHO.
OT.
Oh and one last thing to think about: a lot of people in poor countries tend to think all western people are increadibly rich, because the only ones that they see are the ones that could afford the 14 day african safari with ***** service.
>MS Word already allows table and cell editing similar to Excel,
>graphics manipulation, and desktop publishing.
WP 5.1 did do a lot of that in the nineties already.
WP 6.0 did all of it in 1994.
In features WordPerfect was and is still way ahead of MS Word.
You could do calculations, references and use variables in WP5.1 tables.
WP was always a more serious DTP tool. WP 6.0 already supports folding signatures to do 2-up, 4-up, 16-up, booklet, separate font libraries, absolute page positioning styles, kerning, ligatures, a good equation editor, TextArt, fully WYSIWYG, etc.
And lo' and behold, it still uses the same file format for all versions since 6.0. I can make a file in WP 10+ for XP and my dad can use it on his 486 in WP 6.0 for DOS.
Where Word had the advantage is in usability and OS support (!)
It lost it in the win3 and win32 steps MS took, where playing catch-up - only having a version about 2 years after the OS arrived -
gave Word the opportunity to overtake WP.
I could go on, but I've found that this site is very complete
http://www.wpvsword.com might you be actually interested in the difference between WP and Word.
>the discussion wasnt about supporting dictators or terrorism, it was >about the use of proxies for warfare.
You're right I'm drifting off topic
-snip-
>We didnt do a very good job, in some case we were down right evil. >But at least recognize the success stories too.
Point taken, during/after WWII the USA did great, both in W.Europe and Japan, we here in Europe are still in dept to you for that.
One last question you do not need to answer: what's the difference between Castro and Hussain that they got treated so differently?
(both before and after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990)
You're talking about the so called "pebble reactor"
They bought a New P4 system from HP, preloaded with win2000, to run as a dedicated system for our software.
But their company policy dictated all systems had to run NT, so they installed NT.
We installed our software, but the machine chrashed 2-3/week in tcpip.sys. We tried about 17 different tcpip.sys for winNT (there are lot's of tcpip.sys versions, for a file of just a few kb !!)
There were very angry with us that we could not get our software working (it worked fine elsewhere on NT). We figured it was a problem between the HP and NT, that we could not fix, but they did not want to contact MS or HP. After almost a year of trouble they agreed to install the original Win2000 back, and the problem was gone.
I agree with you,
If they want to use mark-up, then send me an e-mail with an attachment,
in whatever format they like.
I've worked in a company that has made software for industrial water/sewage treatment plants. They have made software from DOS, trough win3, win 95, win NT, win 2000, win XP and (embedded) linux
We recently had a client complaining his WinXP laptop did not run our version 4 (win3.0) software properly (his win98 laptop did)
His company had put his laptop in "win95 compatibility mode", which came out to be a win95 installed in VMware, quite a lot more as "compatibility mode".
We told him we could not support win3.0 app on win 95 in VMware on windowsXP. He left with version 7 of the application, still capable of talking to his early nineties equipment.
My favorite writer Isaac Asimov, has said that he considered the problem that when people leave school/education very ofte they are not required to learn much anymore. He said that if you keep learning all your life that you can still do it at a higher age (like he did being a SF writer, and techology column writer well after being 75+)
I endeavour to follow his example and keep learning all my life, to keep the "learning muscles" flexible. I'd like to think i'll be able to use the mobile phones of 2060, if I live that long.
Anf I think I know a few people 70+ that would pass your test.
Not sure how nasty business taxes are, and there's obviously a host of other variables involved, but...
I beleive the business taxes aren't the nicest in the world. We have a highly developed social security/public health system, and therefore high taxes.
I do not agree with you, (except for your last reason ;-)
These could be ridden by everyone in the Netherlands. With a maximum speed of 20 km/h they do not fall into the regulated category.
The hub dynamo is very old already, my dad's bike ('60's Raleigh Superbe) has one, the dynohub, it just never became very popular for some reason.
google found some info on: http://sheldonbrown.com/dynohubs.html
I think we in the EU have more free speech as you, except when it comes to racism and slander, those are forbidden, for good reasons.
A lot of questionable organisations have their headquarders in The Hague, Berlin or London for this reason.
The American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002 was nice,
it authorises an invasion of my country (The Netherlands) if an USA soldier is ever brought to the International Court in The Hague.
I do not understand that our government could support Mr. Bush after that, but they beleived the WMD lie.
The USA might not be the only one supporting dictators and terrorists,
but they have quite an impressive list, and do not seem to learn from their mistakes.
A few examples:
- Ngo Dinh Diem (South vietnam)
- Marcos (Philipines)
- Mobutu (Zaire/Congo)
- Batista (Cuba)
- Banzer (Bolivia)
- Pinochet (Chili)
- Duvalier (Haiti)
- Somoza, Contra's (Nigueragua)
- Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Persia, now Iran)
- Chang kai chek (Taiwan)
- Ian smith (zimbabwe)
- Franco (Spain)
- Salazar (Portugal)
- Halie Selassie (Ethiopia)
- Papadopoulos (Greece)
- Park Chung Hee, Chun Doo Hwan (South korea)
- Jonas Savimbi (Angola)
- Garcia, Martinez (El Salvador)
- Branco (Brasil)
- Videla (Argentina)
- Noriega (Panama)
- Suharto (Indonesia, East Timor, West Papua)
- Bin Laden (Afganistan)
- Saddam Houssain (Irak)
- King Fahd (Saudi Arabia)
On user friendlyness:
I bought my first linux as SuSE 6.1, I installed it and ran it. Everything worked. I did have some previous unix (IRIX, HP-UX) experience. For a newbie like me, the manuals and Yast were very good.
I had to recompile my kernel to support my TV-card, so back-then it was not completely newbie friendly, but the manual walked me though it, giving me enough confidence to do it (and I did get it working).
Our sys admin (windows only) at my previous employer had never seen a unix environment, and installed SuSE 7.1, including CVS, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Webadmin, Samba on the new server to "try it out". After that SuSE was the main server operating system, doing more on a P-133/32Mb as Win NT4 could on a PII-233/64Mb. The NT box survived the install of a SuSE linux brother by only two months before joining the club.
My point is:
SuSE has always been a very user friendly newbie friendly and polished distro, with all the software on the CDs/DVD, one click install, and it works. I have found the large amount of supplied and tested software a big bonus, no need to find it on the net, and it just works out of the box, because SuSE compiled/tested/configured it to work with the distro version.
I just bought SuSE 9.1, and will be installing it this evening.
all you want to do is just print the damn thing outfor the bloody conference call
Then just push the "start" button and it will continue anyway. I agree with the other poster that accepting letter fromat and printing it on A4 is no solution.
Esp. NT4 keeps forgetting the "A4" setting. I do not understand why the dutch/french/etc. version of MS Windows/Office defaults to A4.
Don't forget the "hands" (4 inches) my (american) AD&D book uses them,
I had no idea it even existed (I live in europe)
You mean you do not consider this standard Highschool material?
I would prefer the padded cell with the computer to one without, I don't see your particular problem with the 486sx or win3.1?
I'd rather not be in the padded cell though.
I do buy their stuff (6.2, 7.1, 8.0 and i'll buy 9.1)
It's nice to have the books for me as a not so adept Linux user, and the DVD to install where internet is only 56k.
The books are good, I learned Linux though them mostly, even got my Miro PCTV card working in 6.2 back in 1998. (needed to build my own kernel, the books told me how)
I still have a functioning 5.25" in my PC (Athlon 1.4), at least a month ago it could still read one of my "floppies". ;-)
I do not use it very often, but it nicely fill's in the B: in the alphabet in Windows
Copies of my CD's only work in my car stereo when burned at 4x (lowest I can go)
Let's assume 200 Watts per machine for power and cooling, that makes 16 MW, at a price of 40/MW gets you a bill of around 6 million a year.
compared to the prices of 80.000 machines it's peanuts.
The electricity bill of something like a big aluminium smelter would be realy nasty, they might need several 100 MW
borland c++ builder is from 1997
j 2/pape r.pdf
and I beleive they have always been following the (draft versions) of the ANSI C++ standard quite closely, before 1997 with their borland c/c++
You might like
http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~malloy/papers/dd
ANSI compliance
VC++ 6 83%
VC++ 7 98%
gcc 2.95 92%
gcc 3.3 96%
borland 5.5 92%
Bah, I'm trying to do that, but finding a nic that works, and a distro that can use it and install over it has not succeded yet.
I have this nice tulip 5/133 *only a floppy, and 2 times pcmcia, not even plip*, I have a smc8016 (not supported under linux) a dynalink l10bc (should be supported). The device only has 32Mb ram so to install over ftp is going to be a chalenge once I get it working...