dfawcus

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by dfawcus 8y ago
Yes, that has been going on for a little while now. It started with refugees having to have such, and is getting rolled out wider now. It is rather a pointless exercise, since people can slip past the border, and once within the country th
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by dfawcus 8y ago
It is a bit more amusing than that, sort of a Catch 22 situation. In neither Ireland nor the UK, nor for travel between them (except by 'plane) is one required to have or produce ID. What one has to do (if asked, and then a right asser
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by dfawcus 8y ago
It was killed by a Motorist refusing to present an ID card to the police, and the resultant court case. That is what lead to Parliament being "forced" to scrap them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine&#
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by dfawcus 8y ago
Definitely not in the UK. We had them after WWII until sometime in the 50's when they were removed due to abuse by the authorities. Hence there is still a distrust of them. The scheme recently introduced and then scrapped could have
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by dfawcus 8y ago
There are some interesting articles here: http://emulators.com/nx_toc.htm , where Darek Mihocka advocates a similar approach; however pushing for emulation rather than JIT.
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by dfawcus 8y ago
Also in the RM Nimbus PC-186 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM_Nimbus ). I remember some of those being at university running a DOS NFS client and windows, alongside a bunch of Sun workstations. That would have been ar
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by dfawcus 8y ago
Also DRI's FlexOS 2.2 had it, it was not a unix clone per-se. The COMMAND SVC had/has 4 variants: - Execute program (akin to posix_spawn) - Chain program (akin to posix_spawn, and parent exit) - Execute subprocess (start a thread,
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by dfawcus 8y ago
I looked a those, but found the 5400 series more practical (I use a 5480). US keyboard, 3 button mouse, and it has the same screen resolution, but a slightly more readable dot pitch. For me the choice was based on the 3 button mouse, and t
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by dfawcus 8y ago
As I understand it, the fact that 1.00 is included in the range of CI indicates that the result in question could well be down to random chance/variation. i.e. because 1.00 is included, chance has not been eliminated.