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by bobdvb 13y ago
Agreed, I give occasionally when I am feeling generous and regularly to certain charities. But I also demand a certain value from the charities I donate to, I chastise any charity that sends me paper mailings because they are wasting my mon
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Hi Randall, If you need any help in Europe then please let me know. I've got a great deal of experience in this area. Bob
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I've had a succession of Thinkpad laptops, don't think I would pick any other for Linux. I have had various other laptops but none was comparable for Linux.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Noticing he is a veteran reminds me of the phrase "barrack-room lawyer": http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Barrack%20roo... The constitution was intended to defend and hold together the nation, not to
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by bobdvb 13y ago
MTBF is quite well tied to a contract purchasing when you buy large quantities of components for manufacturing. Intel don't know where people are going to use their products and the range of environments they get exposed to can't
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Many DC elevator systems also included Mercury Arc Valve rectifiers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve They are still in use in some places and a few can be found in abandoned stations on the London Underg
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by bobdvb 13y ago
If much of that cable is copper then the material recovery could be a substantial offset to the investment.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I suspect many other people would as well, but I have never been able to convince anyone else that there is sufficiently large enough market to make it viable. Remove the tuner: $2-5 Remove the codecs: £15 You still need a graphics plane, i
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Which might not have those features if it wasn't subsidised.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I've worked in the consumer electronics business for quite some time so let me present some information for your consideration, I don't expect you to like it but it will explain context: 1) Adverts: These are often used to subsidi
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I am due for a new passport soon, which is a shame because I will loose a few interesting stamps. But it is probably a good thing as my travel seems to be gravitating towards the US soon. I have avoided the US for >10 years now, but work
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I read that as "to have my canyon manually inspected", which would have been a very different experience.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
A hackneyed anti-nuclear rant, not a decent dissection.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
People who campaign for wealth distribution refuse to acknowledge that the rise the in the standards of living in the UK was not mainly enabled by governments or unions but by industrialists. People like Salt, Peabody, Rowntree, these rich
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Can I suggest that the loss of signal during the impact caused an issue with the encoder but because of the encoding of video if the disrupted frame was an i-frame or a b-frame then it might cause effects on p-frames?
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Mum is in her 60s and I installed debian for her some years ago when I replaced her Win2k machine that I got second hand for her. She has been mostly happy, I found running printers to be less fun than it could be and the linux photo manage
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Broken on the latest Opera for some reason.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I have an Acer Revo that has served me very well for many years, I recently put an SSD in it and gave it a new lease of life. Not sure how innovative this is.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
This summer I was talking to my wife's cousin, he wanted to be a programmer but his English was poor and he struggled. That was a long time ago, now he is trying to learn English again and is also learning Java.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Yet again glad to be in Europe...
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Agreed, if you can find the name of the exact location on the bottle then you are probably protected under a European PDO. Kalamata is an island famed for the quality of its olives. In the UK I buy Iliada oil from the supermarket, it is a g
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by bobdvb 13y ago
What is worth mentioning is that in Europe you don't need a six figure salary to be well-off. In the US you have all sorts of expenses that just don't correlate in most European countries. The main ones being healthcare & educ
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by bobdvb 13y ago
It was six years before I moved from a practical to a strategic technology role, now at board level I try to keep my hand in but I don't really touch anything that customers see, I just write documents, have meetings and direct people.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Many many years ago I was a specialist in satellites for a major European broadcasting company. We had a problem with couriers who used radar speed trap jamming devices. They had really noisy oscillators which leaked huge quantities of out
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by bobdvb 13y ago
What incentive is there in the USA to reduce healthcare costs? The system is totally corrupt.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
My view is that if we are going to have a Mars manned mission it should be one-way. Send some resources to the planet, automated mechanisms to build out some basic infrastructure (cabins, greenhouses, barricades, etc). Then once things are
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Sorry, I might not be old, but I do like my professionals to be professionally dressed, I consider professional to involve being smart and smart generally involves wearing a shirt. You might think I am wrong, but in equal measure I too thin
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Noses and hands also spread infections, I don't want my doctor to have them either.
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I upgraded to 11ac from an early generation powerline adaptor because it wasn't reliable. It is much more reliable over the short distance, but as my house is brick/block construction I find the range at 5GHz drops off quickly. So
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Its the maximum physical rate of the mains interface, but in reality they won't achieve close to that rate unless they are welded to each other in an anechoic chamber with a noiseless sine wave supply.

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