Posts by J.G.Harston 3725 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Mar 2009
From memory, based on picturing in my head where the furniture was and assigning standard-ish values, it was about 12ft x 16ft internally, but that was reduced by a wall around the kitchen/bathroom so subtract 6inches by 16ft. My best estimate is here.
Yep. I met my then-wife on a Computing Science course - she was actually doing a "higher" course than me, I was doing some micky mouse CompSci undergraduate degree that left my brain turning to cheese, she was doing an IT Masters, but was actually doing real proper programming stuff, her final project was an interactive CPU emulator/disassembler/single-stepper. (My course should have been called IT, her course should have been called CompSci, but that's a rant for another day.)
She then used her degree and programming expertise to parlay her way into a top-level Social Worker post. So even if you do bulldozer 50% of girls into programming, just expect it to result in them going into non-tech jobs afterwards, and there to be calls demanding that tech graduates be forced into tech jobs.
Especially in Scots law before 1995 where a signiture was not what we'd normally call a signiture unless accompanied by something else.
It's more then 30 years since I had experience of this, but I vaugely remember something about "holograph", something about a signiture is only valid if the document is also in the hand of the signiture, so signing a printed document does not have any legal effect unless accompanied by additional words by the signer so there is more that just the signiture in the signer's hand.
I was fighting with just such documentation a couple of days ago. The crucial missing information (amongst lots) was "this option will not be displayed unless you have the appropriate edit permissions, and there will be nothing displayed to tell you that you do not have the appropriate edit permissions".
I mean! Are people *REALLY* still doing the "remove the option until certain condition fulfilled" thing instead of "grey the option until valid SO THAT YOU KNOW THE BLOODY OPTION ACTUALLY EXISTS".
I worked for a company that *replaced* those original GP Windows machines. Yea gods, they weighed a ton. Being surgeries, I had the opportunity to put one on the scales. 30 lbooyd kg! Three of 'em weighed more than me.
A couple of weeks later the suspension in my car went from the weight of ferrying them back to the depot.
Stealing assets off the private sector will send them bankrupt. Stealing public sector assets off them and they have taxation powers.
Not to mention destroy the UK's reputation for rule of law and property rights. Who the **** is going to pay for anything if the state can take it off you like some 95-year-old African dictator?
I don't understand the complaints. Your browser will still send a packet asking for content from 123.234.345.456 the IP will still see the address in the packets, they will still be able to monitor where you're fetching content from. Where and how your browser translates "foo.bar.zim" into 123.234.345.456 is irrelevant.
I had a friend how came from Hong Kong along with a load of her Hong Kong DVDs. She bought a combo TV-DVD player in the UK, but it refused to play her HK Region DVDs. She phoned the helpline whose advice was along the lines of:
Right-click on the start menu....
"How do I do that?" Point your mouse at the button in the bottom corner and press the right button. "What mouse?" etc.
"Post codes should be retired now the OCR is good enough to read printed text and handwritten block capitals and most hand writing on-the-fly as the letters go through the machine."
So how you would deal with 12 High Street, Marton, Yorkshire and 12 High Street, Marton, Yorkshire and 12 High Street, Marton, Yorkshire, not to mention mis-reading 12 High Street, Malton, Yorkshire. The thing is, postcodes are unique, addresses are not, whereas both DNS addresses and IP addresses are unique.
When I lived in Hong Kong I had to fax some mortgage documents to my bank in the UK. After several failed attempts, I stayed up until bird-squeek* to phone and tell them their fax machine wasn't working.
"Oh, we turn it off outside office hours."
Gaghh!!!!
*The time difference seems to be wrong for this, but it's 30 years ago and my memory is something something.
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