It is not acceptable to park completely blocking someones drive, and dissappear for 20 minutes. I certainly wouldnt do it, but then I wouldnt park across someones drive, nor would any of my relatives or friends. I was going shopping I could have been going to work. If you have someone visiting you, do you not have a responsibility for their behavior. They could have parked outside the neighbours drive, that would have been logical.
Someone has parked over the road from me in an awkward place that stops my neighbours parking in front of their house. The car has been there for four months now without moving. It's taxed and MOTed but who just parks a car randomly like that and just leaves it? Â
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
...how odd .. when I left school in '72, I went to be a quantity surveyor for the local council in Brighton, then a more 'glamorous' (?)/interesting job in computers came up - and went into that instead.
First machine I worked on was a Honeywell-Bull GE-115 with 16k of memory, 4 tape drives, card reader (hand punching cards was fun - especially correcting mistakes by putting the chads back in!), tape reader and printer. The whole lot took an air conditioned room about 20ftx20ft. More power in the chip in my daughter's Fit Bit today. Writing 'stuff' to run in 16k was amusing...
Computers have moved on a bit haven't they. I started working in IT in 74, on a mainframe computer with 64k memory. That in a cabinet about 6 feet long, 5 feet high and 3 feet deep! Computer room was about 60' x 30' to accommodate the tape drives, new disk drives of 8 and 64 mb capacity and you needed to be a weightlifter to swap them.
Software had to be written carefully due to limitations but I doubt most people would actually need any more computing power if everything wasn't so bloated. I moved on to PC support in the early 90s and then entire installation of Windows 3.1 needed just 3 1.44mb capacity floppy disks. Times change.
Lol.. it certainly has advanced somewhat. I retired in august and I managed 4 physical servers but, each physical server had 5 virtual servers running on them. In effect 20 servers were loaded on 4 physical devices. the virtualization of server O/S's has exploded. Look at any data centre now and for every physical server you see there will be multiple virtual servers running as many as 20 virtual servers per physical server depending on the O/S load and the virtual server designation. The benefit is enormous to companies like Google, Dell, Microsoft ete.. the saving in power alone must be in the billions over time.
Which makes you wonder why I had to go to a bank to pay a bl**dy check in. Who sends checks anymore for **(*)( sake. Unfortunately Barclays only allow the scanning by phone of cheques under £500 so anything over you have to go the bank. My first trip to a bank in many years.
Will the technology advance enough to provide me with a new body before I pop my cloggs , mines knackered   Damn! born in the wrong century. Anyone have Gene Roddenberry's number he seems to be up on this future tech stuff
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
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I retired in august and I managed 4 physical servers but, each physical server had 5 virtual servers running on them. In effect 20 servers were loaded on 4 physical devices. the virtualization of server O/S's has exploded. Look at any data centre now and for every physical server you see there will be multiple virtual servers running as many as 20 virtual servers per physical server depending on the O/S load and the virtual server designation.
The benefit is enormous to companies like Google, Dell, Microsoft ete.. the saving in power alone must be in the billions over time.
Which makes you wonder why I had to go to a bank to pay a bl**dy check in. Who sends checks anymore for **(*)( sake. Unfortunately Barclays only allow the scanning by phone of cheques under £500 so anything over you have to go the bank. My first trip to a bank in many years.
Will the technology advance enough to provide me with a new body before I pop my cloggs , mines knackered
Damn! born in the wrong century. Anyone have Gene Roddenberry's number he seems to be up on this future tech stuff
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'