Posts by Wind Farmer 66 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2009
Just think how bad the sales numbers would be without the replacement PC sales arising from organisations finally beginning to move from WinXP... This long-deferred investment (akin to the pre Y2K splurge) must be propping up sales, but I bet most organisations are looking to install Win7 and avoid Win8/8.1
You missed your own link to the previous Gates investment: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/12/gates_buys_piece_of_pineapple/
Hope Larry retires soon and doesn't bother anyone, but no doubt he'll downsize the island's population, in his typical acquisition mode.
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Fucking,+Austria&daddr=Twatt,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=53.93022,6.679688&spn=10.985075,32.189941&sll=48.06733,12.86327&sspn=0.024319,0.062871&geocode=FQJz3QIdJkfEACmjWwR0kNR1RzHxkQxmsJI_JQ%3BFbrFhQMdNQrO_ykhSB4ve1aaSDHY-mmh54tz6g&oq=twatt&t=h&mra=ls&z=6
See step 39 for orientation.
Remember MSX? It was a supposedly good idea, borne from a common platform and implemented by numerous suppliers. Did it last long - I don't recall that it did, partly because the ones that the electrical store stocked were usually the wrong make or model, or just plain out of date.
(this would probably slow them down even more than a 1-finger typist on downers) but I recall 10+ years ago that the keypad for entry to an office I worked at had the digits re-order on every use, so the key that used to be 1 would become 0,2-9 / 2 would become 0,1,3-9 / etc. Then you actually had to see what the values were at the time the keypad was used (only illuminated on scanning of id card).
You, sir, have a rather peculiar sensibility, that I cannot bring myself to concur with (*)
VMS, DEC machine code, Assembler, JCL and Ultrix were my best friends back in the day.
* : Downside was seeing a VAX (I recall it being an 11/750) swapping out its VMS Swapper, thereby requiring a hard restart.
Scripting to rename my user process to a preferred (not currently chosen) Process ID was also standard practice. Being a Marillion fan, "Warm wet ()()()" was first choice.
If it is necessary to energise "a cylinder of air just a millimetre long, situated at the place to be scanned, and turns it into a gas laser aimed back at the scanner", how do you place the cylinder beside the point to be scanned? And move it to the next point? And are there issues with ensuring that it is aligned in a manner that aims it "back at the scanner"?
It has been suggested that atleast one large multinational is paying very little tax in Ireland, due to adopting complex company/tax structures and Irish tax loopholes:
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/google-double-dutch
http://www.cfoinnovation.com/content/tax-and-cfo-how-save-billions-your-bill?page=0%2C1
http://shareholdersunite.com/2010/10/25/google-ta/
The type of tat that is soon to be transformed into shiny foil/plastic inflatable balloons in some East Asian sweatshop, ready for inflation and the relief of obscene amounts of parents' cash to satisfy the whiny desires of young visitors - well, until they let them float of into the path of a passing aircraft. Ashcloud permitting (of course).
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