While the rest of world's media reported this as "Wow! We've landed on a comet!", all the US media seemed to portray this as "huh, they did it all wrong".
Space exploration is not for Americans only, guys.
As a Brit who visits the US quite a lot, can I just point out that every liquor store I've visited in the States (from Texas to Maine) has a selection of craft beer that puts our selections to shame...
Uh, not in London - it has a noticeable chemical taste, compared to tap water in e.g. Yorkshire. And let's not even think about the tap water in Iceland, which smells of eggs.
For the last year or so I've been using an Amazon EC2 small server, running Xubuntu Desktop (and accessed via NoMachine remote desktop) as my main development environment. I'm a LAMP developer who works at home a fair bit, and since I already had the EC2 server running a couple of client sites I decided to try and get remote desktop access to it, as described here:
Well, I needed a static IP address to access certain things for work (private, ip-locked rss feeds for example). I had got around that previously by dialing in via GoToMyPC to my office Windows PC (where we have a static IP). The main problem there was it could be a bit laggy (especially when our office connection was being hogged by outgoing offsite backups), especially for some reason when I was using my virtual linux environment (running on VirtualBox).
It works really well - I have nice and reliable (linux) desktop environment that I can get access to from any of my machines, with the added bonus that I can demo things straight from my 'local' dev envirnoment as it's actually on the web.
I'm amazed by this thread - at my current position (where I'm now the lead dev) I have it written in to my contract that I'll give two months of notice (this was a requirement when the gave me a raise). That's not really that odd here in the UK - previously I've had a three month notice period.
YMMV - personally I learnt best by listening to the lecturer and digesting what they're saying (and, even better, asking the odd question). Writing things down doesn't help me remember, and never has - I actually find it distracting.
On the other hand (here in the UK) my Dad was rushed to hospital when he had a blood clot in his lung and received first class treatment. My wife was admitted straight away for a gall bladder infection (after a visit to the GP), and our baby was born in a brand new birth centre with fantastic facilities and great midwives.
Generally speaking, the NHS is fantastic when anything life-threatening happens, but after care can be crap (for example, my Dad having to queue up to get his medication outside the clinic every week, even in snowy weather).
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I've had MySQL servers run out of disk space many times (oops) and never had any data integrity problems....
http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad...
That's enough to buy half an F-35C!
How do you know if somebody you meet at a party is a vegan or marathon runner?
They'll tell you.
While the rest of world's media reported this as "Wow! We've landed on a comet!", all the US media seemed to portray this as "huh, they did it all wrong".
Space exploration is not for Americans only, guys.
I don't remember doing that. Maybe I was drunk?
Don't forget to fill out that Donor Card
As a Brit who visits the US quite a lot, can I just point out that every liquor store I've visited in the States (from Texas to Maine) has a selection of craft beer that puts our selections to shame...
Yaay! I loved Pang, with the bubbles and the harpoon and the globetrotting and everything!
Oh...
'Pong'...
never mind.
Mac admins don't require toilets any more, they removed the port a few generations back.
>Capitalism on the other hand? It doesn't require any faith to work.
Wrong - it requires faith in the banking system. That money in your hand isn't really worth anything, we just have faith that it does.
Is it going to have "R:Tape Loading Error"?
That was always my favourite.
> By far the best drink is tap water,
Uh, not in London - it has a noticeable chemical taste, compared to tap water in e.g. Yorkshire. And let's not even think about the tap water in Iceland, which smells of eggs.
That's what she said, WOOOOOOOO
And that it pretends it wasn't.
Please reconsider your stance on evolution before it's too late, or you will have all eternity to consider your foolishness as you rot in the pit.
Your god is evil.
> You cannot live in a free society if there is a class of people that are born with rights to which the majority have no claim.
You just described every society on the planet. Whether it's due to aristocratic privilege or good ol' money, that's how the world works.
Just don't plug it into a Mac keyboard.
For the last year or so I've been using an Amazon EC2 small server, running Xubuntu Desktop (and accessed via NoMachine remote desktop) as my main development environment. I'm a LAMP developer who works at home a fair bit, and since I already had the EC2 server running a couple of client sites I decided to try and get remote desktop access to it, as described here:
/usr/lib/nx/nxsetup --install' command won't work )
http://aws-musings.com/4-easy-steps-to-enable-remote-desktop-on-your-ubuntu-ec2-instance/
(ps - see step 6 here also: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX or the 'sudo
Why bother?
Well, I needed a static IP address to access certain things for work (private, ip-locked rss feeds for example). I had got around that previously by dialing in via GoToMyPC to my office Windows PC (where we have a static IP). The main problem there was it could be a bit laggy (especially when our office connection was being hogged by outgoing offsite backups), especially for some reason when I was using my virtual linux environment (running on VirtualBox).
It works really well - I have nice and reliable (linux) desktop environment that I can get access to from any of my machines, with the added bonus that I can demo things straight from my 'local' dev envirnoment as it's actually on the web.
I'm amazed by this thread - at my current position (where I'm now the lead dev) I have it written in to my contract that I'll give two months of notice (this was a requirement when the gave me a raise). That's not really that odd here in the UK - previously I've had a three month notice period.
YMMV - personally I learnt best by listening to the lecturer and digesting what they're saying (and, even better, asking the odd question). Writing things down doesn't help me remember, and never has - I actually find it distracting.
On the other hand (here in the UK) my Dad was rushed to hospital when he had a blood clot in his lung and received first class treatment. My wife was admitted straight away for a gall bladder infection (after a visit to the GP), and our baby was born in a brand new birth centre with fantastic facilities and great midwives.
Generally speaking, the NHS is fantastic when anything life-threatening happens, but after care can be crap (for example, my Dad having to queue up to get his medication outside the clinic every week, even in snowy weather).
Jeez, remind me never to go drinking with you around closing time.
I'd add:
* Don't use your phone while driving
* Keep your distance from the car in front
* Expect everyone else on the road to be an idiot
That's how.