A quick search on any P2P file-sharing programme (for those of us in Europe) quickly reveals that most pirated games and films being shared and available for download are in the French language. The next two runners-up are Spanish in second place and Italian in third. Perhaps this is a new technique the government is using to get people to buy legal copies of software and films?
Even though I am quite cultured and well-travelled because I was made to visit museums and learn lots of history when I was younger, the truth is that most of it bores me (with the exception of heavy metal music). The fact that I enjoy games will now allow me boast that I am indeed very much in-tune with the art world:)
I read that same review perhaps a month ago and I was pleasantly surprised that Hexus said what they did about that Alienware system. I've been thinking about buying a new computer for the last couple of months and I was wondering if I should build my own super system and save some money, or buying another from Alienware (this time a desktop). I'm not impressed with Alienware's technical support or their prices, but this laptop I bought from them about three years ago was blazing fast, played all the games at the time with their superior GPUs, and had a big screen. Those are three things that computer manufacturer's didn't really offer on their laptops at the time. I definitely have some complaints about the system, especially the "replaceable video card" which is indeed replaceable, but they never made any that I could buy to replace it with. Alienware changed the architecture of the replaceable GPU shortly after I bought my system. Then after about a year, they stopped updating their proprietary video drivers and essentially hung me out to dry. My problems with Alienware are off-topic and beyond the scope of this writing, but I just wanted to tell people to beware of them. Apparently since Dell purchased Alienware, their quality and speed have also declined. I'm glad Hexus was there to tell it like it is and stop people like me from giving them anymore money. Bollocks to Alienware!
I wonder how many other last-minute bugs in Vista won't be found before production? Sadly, nothing has changed over at Microsoft in all of these years.
And that's completely false what you're saying about Germans, Dutch, and Scandinavian people having no sense of humour. The Dutch are pioneers of hilarious commercials and when you go out in the evening anywhere in Scandinavia all people are doing are telling jokes, funny stories, and laughing. Germans might not laugh very much, or smile very much at that, but it doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humour. They laugh at the fact that so many people in Ireland died of starvation during the "potato famine" of 1845-1849 when Ireland is completely surrounded by water. All they had to do was go fishing.
I had this formatted nicely into many paragraphs but forgot to change the format settings below. My apologies.
I wasn't born in the US but my parents were so I gained citizenship at birth. We lived in several countries before I finally moved there, though I was too young to remember most of it. I remember living on a boat in Amsterdam (Steiger 13), and a little bit about Nepal and India. I don't remember New Zealand or Iceland, though I've been back to Iceland several time since and lived there for several months.
Despite this, I grew up for the most part in the States just like anyone who was born there. My parents were different than most of the other upper middle class and I learned much about the outside world and had important lessons like not to hate homosexuals and people who were "different," unlike most of my high school classmates.
It wasn't until my senior year of high school and first year of university that I woke up. My mind had matured and been opened sufficiently to introspection by then that when I travelled abroad, I knew I couldn't go back. I visited London and Paris (and many things in-between) on a trip organised through a teacher at my high school. That was the starting point of my awaking. The final point was a few months later when I visited Montréal, Québec with some friends from my university (I went to RPI, a couple of hours from the Canadian border). It was then that realised how different I am from most Americans and why I never felt like I fit in there. To make a long story short, I travelled to Canada and to Europe quite a bit during my university years. I finished my undergraduate degree and moved to Cambridge, MA to further my studies. After obtaining the level of education that I wanted to seek there, and after experiencing all the America I could stand, I finally moved back to The Netherlands where I sought entrance to medical school. So many things in my life have gotten better since that decision to leave, and nothing has gotten worse. I've since moved away from NL to better places but I regret nothing, I've not looked back, and I would do it again in an instant.
In retrospect, I can see now that it helped to be the person I am and be from the family that I'm from to make easier what people would call a drastic change in life. However, I would like to emphasise that I did this all myself without financial assistance from my family. In all modesty, even if I didn't possess the qualities of determination and intelligence that I do, I would have still found a way to make it happen. One could argue, though, that experience and intelligence are what helped me to realise all of this in the first place.
To answer your question, I've felt most at home in Scandinavia and I believe it is here that I will spend the rest of my life. I am currently training as a radiologist in Norway. If I do decide to go somewhere, then perhaps it will be somewhere in the UK. Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are fantastic. I come to slashdot everyday to read the news and it is partially do to this that I have absolutely no desire to go back to the States. It might be interesting for you to note that my brother, who was born in the States, has finished school and is living in New York City. He possesses the same desire to leave that I did and once I get sufficiently settled into my new career, I will move him over.
I wasn't born in the US but my parents were so I gained citizenship at birth. We lived in several countries before I finally moved there, though I was too young to remember most of it. I remember living on a boat in Amsterdam (Steiger 13), and a little bit about Nepal and India. I don't remember New Zealand or Iceland, though I've been back to Iceland several time since and lived there for several months.
Despite this, I grew up for the most part in the States just like anyone who was born there. My parents were different than most of the other upper middle class and I learned much about the outside world and had important lessons like not to hate homosexuals and people who were "different," unlike most of my high school classmates.
It wasn't until my senior year of high school and first year of university that I woke up. My mind had matured and been opened sufficiently to introspection by then that when I travelled abroad, I knew I couldn't go back. I visited London and Paris (and many things in-between) on a trip organised through a teacher at my high school. That was the starting point of my awaking. The final point was a few months later when I visited Montréal, Québec with some friends from my university (I went to RPI, a couple of hours from the Canadian border). It was then that realised how different I am from most Americans and why I never felt like I fit in there. To make a long story short, I travelled to Canada and to Europe quite a bit during my university years. I finished my undergraduate degree and moved to Cambridge, MA to further my studies. After obtaining the level of education that I wanted to seek there, and after experiencing all the America I could stand, I finally moved back to The Netherlands where I sought entrance to medical school. So many things in my life have gotten better since that decision to leave, and nothing has gotten worse. I've since moved away from NL to better places but I regret nothing, I've not looked back, and I would do it again in an instant.
In retrospect, I can see now that it helped to be the person I am and be from the family that I'm from to make easier what people would call a drastic change in life. However, I would like to emphasise that I did this all myself without financial assistance from my family. In all modesty, even if I didn't possess the qualities of determination and intelligence that I do, I would have still found a way to make it happen. One could argue, though, that experience and intelligence are what helped me to realise all of this in the first place.
To answer your question, I've felt most at home in Scandinavia and I believe it is here that I will spend the rest of my life. I am currently training as a radiologist in Norway. If I do decide to go somewhere, then perhaps it will be somewhere in the UK. Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are fantastic. I come to slashdot everyday to read the news and it is partially do to this that I have absolutely no desire to go back to the States. It might be interesting for you to note that my brother, who was born in the States, has finished school and is living in New York City. He possesses the same desire to leave that I did and once I get sufficiently settled into my new career, I will move him over.
Then I could download it off a p2p file-sharing programme, put it on my iPod, and listen to it during boring neurology seminars or at the library whilst trying to study. Just blasting Slayer has a deleterious effect on my concentration. Not because of the volume level, but because I'm forced to play air guitar.
Something tells me that the follow up to the quad core processor isn't going to contain five cores. Call it a "funny feeling."
For those of us needing an upgrade or a new PC now or very soon, it would have been nice for the article to mention some dates as to when we can expect this new hardware. I just don't think it would sit well with me if I went for a dual core and then something like this suddenly appeared on the market. I'm also not thrilled about going with Intel even though my last five PCs have been Intel processor-based. I'm anxious to see what all the AMD fuss is about, but I will buy from Intel if they have the fastest processor at the time of my purchase.
I just finished downloading the new Metallica album and started listening to it. Instead of hearing Metallica, I heard an advertisement for the new Megadeth Live DVD. So I went back and downloaded both the real Metallica album AND the new Megadeth Live DVD.:)
I'm in my final year of medical school and I find it interesting that in our diabetology course, which was about six months ago, they didn't mention either 1. DPP-4 inhibitors or 2. the incretin system. In fact, I've never even heard of either. Most people think that medical schools teach their students everything known in medicine, but this is impossible (as evidenced here). The next time you're visiting your GP, ask him to recount the Kreb's cycle for you (a famous biochemical pathway). I highly doubt that he still can! Back to the topic, since I'm not familiar with this new class of drugs, I cannot speak intelligently about them. However, I do hope that the research done and the testing for approval has been adequate and that Merck didn't just "push this one through" as they did with Rofecoxib (Vioxx). It'll be interesting to see whether or not more and more patients can meet their HBA1C goal of 7%, and how this will affect the average diabetic's daily insulin dosage plan. Another interesting question is how they arrived at a price of 4.86$US per tablet!
I have no sense of what it will really cost corporations/organisations/etc to upgrade their computers to Vista. I do know, however, that it would take between 3250$ and 5000$ for me to upgrade. Any givers? I'll even take that in Canadian dollars.
I have a four year-old Canon Powershot G2 that has been indispensible in the digitising of my documents. Given adequate lighting, all you need is to line up the document in the view-finder and take the photo. Autofocus is usually adequate, but if you just can't seem to get a clear shot (certain things will prove problematic), manual focus is your next best feature to utilise. If you're doing James Bond-type work and are in a hurry, then you'll often end up with blurry images that won't be useful in OCR.
Given that I already own a digital camera, I will never invest money in a scanner. If anything, I'll buy a better camera when I can find one with all the features I want.
Hope this helps in some strange way:)
Someone "out there" is taking the piss, right? I once visited Belgium for three weeks and it became apparent quite quickly that there wasn't anything news-worthy going on. All they seem to have is really, really excellent beer.
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Let me know when someone teaches them to do the music in "Jaws".
A quick search on any P2P file-sharing programme (for those of us in Europe) quickly reveals that most pirated games and films being shared and available for download are in the French language. The next two runners-up are Spanish in second place and Italian in third. Perhaps this is a new technique the government is using to get people to buy legal copies of software and films?
:)
Even though I am quite cultured and well-travelled because I was made to visit museums and learn lots of history when I was younger, the truth is that most of it bores me (with the exception of heavy metal music). The fact that I enjoy games will now allow me boast that I am indeed very much in-tune with the art world
They're calling this one 'Y2Day?'
In my mind, this along with the recent "martial law" bill is one very big warning sign. Glad I don't live in Yank-land.
I read that same review perhaps a month ago and I was pleasantly surprised that Hexus said what they did about that Alienware system. I've been thinking about buying a new computer for the last couple of months and I was wondering if I should build my own super system and save some money, or buying another from Alienware (this time a desktop). I'm not impressed with Alienware's technical support or their prices, but this laptop I bought from them about three years ago was blazing fast, played all the games at the time with their superior GPUs, and had a big screen. Those are three things that computer manufacturer's didn't really offer on their laptops at the time. I definitely have some complaints about the system, especially the "replaceable video card" which is indeed replaceable, but they never made any that I could buy to replace it with. Alienware changed the architecture of the replaceable GPU shortly after I bought my system. Then after about a year, they stopped updating their proprietary video drivers and essentially hung me out to dry. My problems with Alienware are off-topic and beyond the scope of this writing, but I just wanted to tell people to beware of them. Apparently since Dell purchased Alienware, their quality and speed have also declined. I'm glad Hexus was there to tell it like it is and stop people like me from giving them anymore money. Bollocks to Alienware!
Since when do we care what a woman thinks about Slashdot?
I wonder how many other last-minute bugs in Vista won't be found before production? Sadly, nothing has changed over at Microsoft in all of these years.
Actually, Denmark is the happiest place to live with the happiest people so bollocks to Ireland at #11.
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http://www.le.ac.uk/pc/aw57/world/sample.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/uo
And that's completely false what you're saying about Germans, Dutch, and Scandinavian people having no sense of humour. The Dutch are pioneers of hilarious commercials and when you go out in the evening anywhere in Scandinavia all people are doing are telling jokes, funny stories, and laughing. Germans might not laugh very much, or smile very much at that, but it doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humour. They laugh at the fact that so many people in Ireland died of starvation during the "potato famine" of 1845-1849 when Ireland is completely surrounded by water. All they had to do was go fishing.
I had this formatted nicely into many paragraphs but forgot to change the format settings below. My apologies.
I wasn't born in the US but my parents were so I gained citizenship at birth. We lived in several countries before I finally moved there, though I was too young to remember most of it. I remember living on a boat in Amsterdam (Steiger 13), and a little bit about Nepal and India. I don't remember New Zealand or Iceland, though I've been back to Iceland several time since and lived there for several months.
Despite this, I grew up for the most part in the States just like anyone who was born there. My parents were different than most of the other upper middle class and I learned much about the outside world and had important lessons like not to hate homosexuals and people who were "different," unlike most of my high school classmates.
It wasn't until my senior year of high school and first year of university that I woke up. My mind had matured and been opened sufficiently to introspection by then that when I travelled abroad, I knew I couldn't go back. I visited London and Paris (and many things in-between) on a trip organised through a teacher at my high school. That was the starting point of my awaking. The final point was a few months later when I visited Montréal, Québec with some friends from my university (I went to RPI, a couple of hours from the Canadian border). It was then that realised how different I am from most Americans and why I never felt like I fit in there. To make a long story short, I travelled to Canada and to Europe quite a bit during my university years. I finished my undergraduate degree and moved to Cambridge, MA to further my studies. After obtaining the level of education that I wanted to seek there, and after experiencing all the America I could stand, I finally moved back to The Netherlands where I sought entrance to medical school. So many things in my life have gotten better since that decision to leave, and nothing has gotten worse. I've since moved away from NL to better places but I regret nothing, I've not looked back, and I would do it again in an instant.
In retrospect, I can see now that it helped to be the person I am and be from the family that I'm from to make easier what people would call a drastic change in life. However, I would like to emphasise that I did this all myself without financial assistance from my family. In all modesty, even if I didn't possess the qualities of determination and intelligence that I do, I would have still found a way to make it happen. One could argue, though, that experience and intelligence are what helped me to realise all of this in the first place.
To answer your question, I've felt most at home in Scandinavia and I believe it is here that I will spend the rest of my life. I am currently training as a radiologist in Norway. If I do decide to go somewhere, then perhaps it will be somewhere in the UK. Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are fantastic. I come to slashdot everyday to read the news and it is partially do to this that I have absolutely no desire to go back to the States. It might be interesting for you to note that my brother, who was born in the States, has finished school and is living in New York City. He possesses the same desire to leave that I did and once I get sufficiently settled into my new career, I will move him over.
I wasn't born in the US but my parents were so I gained citizenship at birth. We lived in several countries before I finally moved there, though I was too young to remember most of it. I remember living on a boat in Amsterdam (Steiger 13), and a little bit about Nepal and India. I don't remember New Zealand or Iceland, though I've been back to Iceland several time since and lived there for several months. Despite this, I grew up for the most part in the States just like anyone who was born there. My parents were different than most of the other upper middle class and I learned much about the outside world and had important lessons like not to hate homosexuals and people who were "different," unlike most of my high school classmates. It wasn't until my senior year of high school and first year of university that I woke up. My mind had matured and been opened sufficiently to introspection by then that when I travelled abroad, I knew I couldn't go back. I visited London and Paris (and many things in-between) on a trip organised through a teacher at my high school. That was the starting point of my awaking. The final point was a few months later when I visited Montréal, Québec with some friends from my university (I went to RPI, a couple of hours from the Canadian border). It was then that realised how different I am from most Americans and why I never felt like I fit in there. To make a long story short, I travelled to Canada and to Europe quite a bit during my university years. I finished my undergraduate degree and moved to Cambridge, MA to further my studies. After obtaining the level of education that I wanted to seek there, and after experiencing all the America I could stand, I finally moved back to The Netherlands where I sought entrance to medical school. So many things in my life have gotten better since that decision to leave, and nothing has gotten worse. I've since moved away from NL to better places but I regret nothing, I've not looked back, and I would do it again in an instant. In retrospect, I can see now that it helped to be the person I am and be from the family that I'm from to make easier what people would call a drastic change in life. However, I would like to emphasise that I did this all myself without financial assistance from my family. In all modesty, even if I didn't possess the qualities of determination and intelligence that I do, I would have still found a way to make it happen. One could argue, though, that experience and intelligence are what helped me to realise all of this in the first place. To answer your question, I've felt most at home in Scandinavia and I believe it is here that I will spend the rest of my life. I am currently training as a radiologist in Norway. If I do decide to go somewhere, then perhaps it will be somewhere in the UK. Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are fantastic. I come to slashdot everyday to read the news and it is partially do to this that I have absolutely no desire to go back to the States. It might be interesting for you to note that my brother, who was born in the States, has finished school and is living in New York City. He possesses the same desire to leave that I did and once I get sufficiently settled into my new career, I will move him over.
Those mother fuckers. I can't even think of anything intelligent to say because I'm too fucked off.
Then I could download it off a p2p file-sharing programme, put it on my iPod, and listen to it during boring neurology seminars or at the library whilst trying to study. Just blasting Slayer has a deleterious effect on my concentration. Not because of the volume level, but because I'm forced to play air guitar.
They should have called it "Quadzilla" or "Quaddamage".
Something tells me that the follow up to the quad core processor isn't going to contain five cores. Call it a "funny feeling." For those of us needing an upgrade or a new PC now or very soon, it would have been nice for the article to mention some dates as to when we can expect this new hardware. I just don't think it would sit well with me if I went for a dual core and then something like this suddenly appeared on the market. I'm also not thrilled about going with Intel even though my last five PCs have been Intel processor-based. I'm anxious to see what all the AMD fuss is about, but I will buy from Intel if they have the fastest processor at the time of my purchase.
I just finished downloading the new Metallica album and started listening to it. Instead of hearing Metallica, I heard an advertisement for the new Megadeth Live DVD. So I went back and downloaded both the real Metallica album AND the new Megadeth Live DVD. :)
I'm in my final year of medical school and I find it interesting that in our diabetology course, which was about six months ago, they didn't mention either 1. DPP-4 inhibitors or 2. the incretin system. In fact, I've never even heard of either. Most people think that medical schools teach their students everything known in medicine, but this is impossible (as evidenced here). The next time you're visiting your GP, ask him to recount the Kreb's cycle for you (a famous biochemical pathway). I highly doubt that he still can! Back to the topic, since I'm not familiar with this new class of drugs, I cannot speak intelligently about them. However, I do hope that the research done and the testing for approval has been adequate and that Merck didn't just "push this one through" as they did with Rofecoxib (Vioxx). It'll be interesting to see whether or not more and more patients can meet their HBA1C goal of 7%, and how this will affect the average diabetic's daily insulin dosage plan. Another interesting question is how they arrived at a price of 4.86$US per tablet!
So basically what these benchmarks are saying is buy an nvidia 7950 gx2.
I'm so happy I was made aware of this on Saturday the 14th at about 1am.
I have no sense of what it will really cost corporations/organisations/etc to upgrade their computers to Vista. I do know, however, that it would take between 3250$ and 5000$ for me to upgrade. Any givers? I'll even take that in Canadian dollars.
Fitta.
I'd like to see ATI give us more than a yellow stream.
He also joined three fraternities and a sorority.
I have a four year-old Canon Powershot G2 that has been indispensible in the digitising of my documents. Given adequate lighting, all you need is to line up the document in the view-finder and take the photo. Autofocus is usually adequate, but if you just can't seem to get a clear shot (certain things will prove problematic), manual focus is your next best feature to utilise. If you're doing James Bond-type work and are in a hurry, then you'll often end up with blurry images that won't be useful in OCR. Given that I already own a digital camera, I will never invest money in a scanner. If anything, I'll buy a better camera when I can find one with all the features I want. Hope this helps in some strange way :)
Bollocks to waffles!
Someone "out there" is taking the piss, right? I once visited Belgium for three weeks and it became apparent quite quickly that there wasn't anything news-worthy going on. All they seem to have is really, really excellent beer.