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> Flight search interfaces don’t seem to filter on equipment. I suspect this is going to change as booking web sites can use that feature as a selling point. Here in Australia just recently I booked a flight for mid December and was very
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If I was in Boeing's shoes I would be doing everything to ensure the real test is repeated and the test is passed. They already face a MAJOR plane credibility issue with the MAX and to have another plane enter service without it actual
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> They could probably implement the Win32 API as an API for a distro I'm no sure the powers that be at Microsoft have any great love for Win32. Back when Windows 8 was released they introduced UPM (Universal Windows Platform) and th
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Funnily enough I was hired on a 12 month contract as a software developer. Four months into that contract I was moved over to a struggling 'Slack' enabled project, to help them work through their ever growing backlog. I knew someo
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> The most prominent example is when the Amazon had to learn the hard way after poorly-paid temporary workers and poor working conditions resulted in the labour union being called in as well as widespread condemnation of the company. &gt
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> here what you don't know - how long is that situation going to hold up. And how exactly does Bitcoin help to answer that question? Just looking at roller coaster ride that is the Bitcoin to USD exchange rate suggests it is an extr
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Europe has lived history of governments collecting data on it's citizens. Since Google openly collects data on it's users, I suspect that fact does not sit well with that same populous.
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> Violence meets definition of ‘terrorist acts’ according to local and international laws When a populous perpetrates violence against it's own government and that government is authoritarian, then that is not a definition of terror
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> That's space permanently lost if the powerplant is run forever. Many Australian farmers who lease their land to electricity companies for use as solar farms run sheep on those same solar farms. Since the solar panels track the sun
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That also ties in well with this other comment from the article: For Collins executives, it was also validation of a dramatic transformation the company had undertaken years earlier, in response to demands from Boeing, to do more with less
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Historically South Australia has generally had the most expensive electricity in Australia. The Australian Energy Minister, Mr Frydenberg has even placed some of that blame on the SA Government's and it's "self-inflicted woun
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The Win is just one layer in the OS/2 API and suspect you might be right in that this layer was probably modeled on early Windows. However OS/2 had many other layers to it's programming SDK that were not found in early Window
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History is full of examples of over priced bubble assets that have eventually collapsed. So I don't think the questions is will it collapse but instead when will it collapse?
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The design of Win32 is incredibly close to the design of Win16 and since Win16 dates back to early 90's you need to comparing it to GUI programming layers of that same era. So the question is, back then was there any better GUI program
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The last decade has seen global monetary policy create a situation where cash is very cheap (i.e. many central banks are now offering close to zero interest rates and some have actually seen negative interest rates). That cheap cash then fi
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> and I faced this obscure Win32 API, which looks ugly, appalling, antiquated and plainly awful. As you point out, the code you had to deal with was actually written using the Win16 API. That Win16 API dates back to the first ever versio
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You only have to look at worrying trend of declining minimum wages in very many developed countries to find employer exploitation is alive and well. My preference would be for law makers started with laws that forced companies to give the
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In my many decades working as a professional programmer I have never made a conscious effort to try an memorize any information relating to programming. I would also say that if you are finding yourself spending lots of time trying to memor
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Australia and it's approach to climate change is rather depressing. There have plenty of signs indicating the country is facing serious climate change issues. But despite these warnings, we as a nation have had decades with little or n
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> these farmers have seen dramatic floods in 2017 and then droughts in 2018 They should be so lucky. Here in Australia we have large swaths of the country entering their fourth, fifth and sixth years of drought with cities and towns now
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Add to that getting additional software installed. In most large organisations non IT users have very limited permissions, even to their own machine.
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The OP is just pointing out that the rotting matter is organic in nature, which means it is made from hydrocarbons and not carbon.
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And you can add to that list several natural forces as well. For example, the Australia tropical rain forest, which by it's definition is wet, never has to deal with fire. But this year that change as some parts of the Australian rain
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I just checked Wikipedia and you are correct. It was the OS/2 1.3 release that should have been targeted at the 386 chip.
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> I wouldn't count OS/2 as a part of that, however. OS/2 1.3 came out at the beginning of 1990 and OS/2 2.x came out 1992. By comparison Windows 95 came out in 1995. So you need to compare OS/2 to MS-DOS, Windows
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> it said that there is not enough free space available to run the installer. So I deleted a bunch of files and tried again. This sounds like the Samsung phone I purchased new some 5+ years ago. This brand new phone never managed to do a
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However the more important point made by the OP still remains which was some random Google employee chooses to ignore it .
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There was a time when they did put lead in petrol (i.e. gasoline) and that was then burnt by cars, which meant lead did end up in the atmosphere.
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There are several fusion reactors currently in existence and operational as of this day. The problem is none of those reactors produce more energy than they consume.
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> the disaster of the nbn was created by the left, and made worse by the right The left proposed an NBN based on 'fiber to the home' technology. The right threw out that plan and replaced it with 'fiber to the node and cop

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