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Seriously, this guy don't get it. Having to screens filled with two full space windows is very, very inefficient. Having switched to Mac recently, I find the mentality of MDI-ness a bit strange, as I'm used to the fullscreen windows on Windows. But on my Powerbook, during a lecture I can actually juggle Powerpoint to see the professor's notes, Word to type my notes and iChat all on my laptop screen at one time. It is not a matter of size. Sex is, but not screens.
At work I use Windows with dual monitor, but nowhere near as inefficient as he does. The setup (a newsdesk) has one screen constanly reloading a Reuters / AP / APTN/etc newsfeed, the flash for some seconds as the updates come in. You can only look at one screen at the time, but your eyes notice the flashing to make youu aware of the news coming in. Red flash = important! look at me NOW!, Green flash = Just some 'ol news coming in, Yellow flash = Just a lead (followup).
CNN is not liberal, and you know it. To an uninformed person it might seem like it, because they are compared to Fox "news". Both CNN and Fox are, however, piss poor compared to a real TV news system; BBC.
How is this man -- who has never worked outside of comedy -- going to critique actual journalists, and get taken seriously?
By intellectually plowing them into the ground and kicking them in their weak kidneys like he did in Crossfire. The pundits are weak, their "journalism" is weak, their partisan angle is bullshit and he strips them naked in front of a TV audience. By simply having a better journalistic stance ( "What do do think about the vibrator story?" JS:"I Don't."), exposing the blended-in setting (JS: "How old are you?" "35" "And you wear a bow-tie") and requesting that they DEBATE not just chit-chat in a semi-aggressive way.
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You can print to PDF from ANY application in OS X. No need to "convert" or use a specific program.
And this is truly useful! the last days I've use this feature to PDF-print booking confirmations etc., so much more practical than having stuff floating around. I think I'm approaching the paperless office now. I've ditched the printer and only use the PowerBook for all things that would include a paper sheet.
I also got kudos from a teacher for turing in the paper in PDF where the others used DOC, even if one girl couldn't open it. We had a discussion around this, and most of them agreed that it is better to support open standards than becoming thieves.
Well, it screams: "Our leaders lied to us to justify a war! Now there's even irrefutable proof that they withheld information to use 200 000 000 000 USD to oust the alreayd weak leader of a country that tried to kill my daddy!!
USA: HOW MUCH EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED? Vote right, my girlfriend is in the military here in Norway, and I DO NOT WANT TO SEE HER GO TO WAR, BECAUSE YOU LET THAT BOY-KING FUCK UP THE WORLD SO ROYALLy!
Sorry, had to say it. Vote Kerry, the lesser of two evils.
f Iraq wanted them for nuclear centrifuges, we SHOULD LET THEM HAVE THEM, because they were a HUGE step BACK
Not only that; if they used these tubes, they'd have to have a plant of 16 000(!) of them to be able to make ONE a-bomb a year. In the last centrifuge they had operational, they only managed to have ONE centrifuge operational, the rest broke down or malfuncyioned. Hence, letting them try this would have completely drained their resourced and weakened the Baathist regime. If they'd do it. Which they wouldn't since they weren't that dumb. But Cheney was, since he only believe facts that match his point of view.
Acutally, I ordrered a keyboard, and they sent me one with a slightly bent space key (Think 3 mm offsett from the left o the right). I called, they UPSed me a return package along with a new KB. I opened the package after the UPS guy (Jaq!) left, and they had sent me an English KB. That makes it kinda hard to write Æ Ø and Å. I called, they sent a new UPS guy next day with a KB. This time it had ÆØÅ, but it was the 1/2 year older version of the KB, still new, though. I actually liked it a bit better. So I called them and said that I'd take that KB, but how 'bout some compensation? I was thinking 1/2 price off a wired mouse, they gave me a free Bluetooth mouse.
That is customer service. Note that this is also the only time ever that I had any problem with the Apple customer service, and it ended beautifully.
I haven't paid Apple one dime in extended waranty, yet they have done more than I ever expected from a company. Once, when they screwd up a warranty replacement (it was a bit of a hassle and involved sending back the keyboard twice), they gave me a Apple Bluetooth mouse as a way of saying "We fucked up, we're sorry. Now go play with theis shiny thing". And it worked on me!
then this is exactly what you want to happen in excercises.
Oh, it happened all right. And from what I heared, their commander (LT, capt. or something) was of your opinion. Which is the same as mine. These guys probably go into combat, fully ready to get surprised and to handle that situation.
CS does not kill or harm. It simply confuses the enemy. I was not in this excersise, it was a navy / HG buddy. Anyway, the HG thought the SEALs had the proper equipment. You know, gas mask IS default equipment in combat...
The following text was located at BoingBoing, and is supposed to be from Wall Street Journalist, Farnaz Fassihi, located in Bagdhad. I Googled her name a bit, and Farnaz Fassihi is indeed on WSJ staff as a journalist. I do not know if this e-mail she sent is real so I asked her. A reply is pending. Anyway, it is good reading, and it is A LOT more like the AP and AFP newswire reports I see every day than the hard-ass edited Fox News and CNN stuff I see (Yes, we get Fox News in Norway. No, it is not "fair and balanced")
9/30/2004
Farnaz Fassihi, a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Iraq, confirmed that a widely-redistributed letter she emailed to friends about the nightmarish situation in Iraq was indeed written by her. Too bad the WSJ doesn't allow this reporter to write these kinds of stories for the paper.
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Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest. Forget about the reasons that lured me to this job: a chance to see the world, explore the exotic, meet new people in far away lands, discover their ways and tell stories that could make a difference.
Little by little, day-by-day, being based in Iraq has defied all those reasons. I am house bound. I leave when I have a very good reason to and a scheduled interview. I avoid going to people's homes and never walk in the streets. I can't go grocery shopping any more, can't eat in restaurants, can't strike a conversation with strangers, can't look for stories, can't drive in any thing but a full armored car, can't go to scenes of breaking news stories, can't be stuck in traffic, can't speak English outside, can't take a road trip, can't say I'm an American, can't linger at checkpoints, can't be curious about what people are saying, doing, feeling. And can't and can't.
There has been one too many close calls, including a car bomb so near our house that it blew out all the windows. So now my most pressing concern every day is not to write a kick-ass story but to stay alive and make sure our Iraqi employees stay alive. In Baghdad I am a security personnel first, a reporter second.
It's hard to pinpoint when the turning point exactly began. Was it April when the Fallujah fell out of the grasp of the Americans? Was it when Moqtada and Jish Mahdi declared war on the U.S. military? Was it when Sadr City, home to ten percent of Iraq's population, became a nightly battlefield for the Americans? Or was it when the insurgency began spreading from isolated pockets in the Sunni triangle to include most of Iraq? Despite President Bush's rosy assessments, Iraq remains a disaster. If under Saddam it was a potential threat, under the Americans it has been transformed to imminent and active threat, a foreign policy failure bound to haunt the United States for decades to come.
Iraqis like to call this mess the situation. ÊWhen asked how are things? they reply: the situation is very bad.
What they mean by situation is this: the Iraqi government doesn't control most Iraqi cities, there are several car bombs going off each day around the country killing and injuring scores of innocent people, the country's roads are becoming impassable and littered by hundreds of landmines and explosive devices aimed to kill American soldiers, there are assassinations, kidnappings and beheadings. The situation, basically, means a raging barbaric guerilla war.
In four days, 110 people died and over 300 got injured in Baghdad alone. The numbers are so shocking that the ministry of health, which was attempting an exercise of public transparency by releasing the numbers-- has now stopped disclosing them.
Insurgents now attack Americans 87 times a day.
A friend drove thru the Shiite slum of Sadr City yesterday. He said young men were openly placing improvised explosive devices into the ground. They melt a shallow hole into the asphalt, dig the explosive, cover it with dirt and put an old tire or plastic can over it to signal to the locals this is booby-trap
I have a nice story to tell about a hypothetical situation. Well, half of it is anyway. I was working with a document at work, it was a looong document taking days to compile. As I neard the finish, I accidentally bumped into the soft-power-button on the keyboard. You know, the one that turns off the computer without having to reach down under the desk. Anyhoo, this was Windows 95, so touching that button actually meant instant bluescreen of death. I did not know that, since I changed the keyboards a short time before. The computer b0rked, the document got screwed up and was not possible to recover, and I had to do the work again. The point? My work lost more money on that idiotic bug in Windows, than actually buying me a new Mac instead of a PC. Not to mention Linux...
When I had a cat (May he rest in peace), the litter box was in the bathroom, because it was near the toilet for disposing lumps 'o crap. It was a really bonding experience to go to the bathromm, the cat following behind you and taking a huge dump together. Needless to say, my logs always beat his, thus he was a moody cat...
Four here. I inherited some Windows machines (with Windows serial sticker and all!) from work, and they now serve as servers running Debian. Well, three of them. The last one burned (!) so I bought a PowerBook to serve as my main machine.
I agree. As a soldier, you can't afford to be a hotshot. Hotshots get killed, humble and careful soldiers live.
I would bet that the situation you describe was something similar. If they had performed flawlessly that would have been great.
The first one might be so, yes. But the second one was clearly a mistake, caused by SEAL egos being the size of their Hummer. The Navy SEALs here have a moethod of teaching the soldiers to not dump their equipment, no matter how silly it might seem to drag it along. They walk 50 clicks in total, with some 25 - 30 kgs of weapons and equipent. since this is in the beginning of the course, they have an old suck-ass steel helmet. Heavy as hell and no air holes. At 25 clicks, they are told that if they want to, they can leave the helmet there as there won't be a live fire excersise. Most do. When they get to 50 clicks, the ones that left their helmet are told that they can go back and pick it up, since there will be a live fire excersise in the morning. It is very, very frustrating and humbling.
most americans only see Norwegian-grade snowfalls on tv
Well, I'm not thumping my chest at anything. I was in the navy. These are the stories from a guy in the Telemark Battalion, when they were on excercise. Anyhoo, it is more a story on how the US soldiers ignored obvious climate changes, and that is why they train here to start with, and rely only on their egos.
As for the gassing, no wonder why a 1000 US soldiers are dead in Iraq.
Well, they had the equipment. But they chose to leave it behind. If they hadn't, they would stand a much better chance in the fight.
You see, we know it is against the rules to torture prisoners. But we prepare for it and show up prepared. The SEALs prepare for gas attacks, and chose not to show up prepared for everything.
This is frequently used in banks. The cashiers have complete control over the doors, and the robber have to make one of them open the first, then second door to get out.
Problem being: This is the point when they start taking hostagesto force the cashiers to open the doors.
Also being Norwegian (Halla, kompis!) I'm pissed off at the Oslo Art Collection Fund, for totally ignoring security once again. The security in Norwegian museums is so bad, it is a separate subject in the museum curator classes at the University of Oslo.
As I recall, there are four or five separate complete works of Skrik (The Scream). One is oil on canvas, one is crayon on canvas, one is pastel on paper and the last is coal on paper. The oil painting, widely recgonized as the original, hangs at our National Museum. But it was stolen once. The thieves put a ladder next to a window, and walked in, picked up the painting and left within seconds. They even left a postcard saying "Thanks for the sucking security" or something to that effect. This was in 1991, they were caught and the painting returned.
Anyway, the ONLY way to secure art is to have exclusion zones. That would be a physical barrier that prevent robbers from accessing the painting. The only thing securing the painting at the time of theft was a steel thread wire. The thieves were not prepared, since they only had steel wire cutters which made the job a bit longer and frustrating than it had to be.
What I'm trying to say is: how hard can it be to 1) make a hole in the wall, 2) hook up some electromotors to a rail guide holding the picture 3) make the picture gilde fast in to the recess in the wall 4) have a couple of steel barriers close to 3/4s of the opening (to prevent that kids touching the picture cut their hands off), all this activated by an alarm? come on! It can't be that hard?
While the "Doctor No" theory is dismissed by art theft investigators, there might just be some to it. I'm thinking the craziest, most moronic dictator the world has; Kim Jong Il.
There are two different kinds of false alarms. The motion detection thingy is practical for notifying the local guards that some joker is trying to fondle the painting, and stopping that from happening. The other kind is, of course, when that motion alarm automatically alerts the police. Which might be what happened prior to the Scream theft. neither the museum nor the police wnat to comment on how many times they were called out to a motion alert prior to the theft.
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Seriously, this guy don't get it. Having to screens filled with two full space windows is very, very inefficient. Having switched to Mac recently, I find the mentality of MDI-ness a bit strange, as I'm used to the fullscreen windows on Windows. But on my Powerbook, during a lecture I can actually juggle Powerpoint to see the professor's notes, Word to type my notes and iChat all on my laptop screen at one time. It is not a matter of size. Sex is, but not screens.
At work I use Windows with dual monitor, but nowhere near as inefficient as he does. The setup (a newsdesk) has one screen constanly reloading a Reuters / AP / APTN
CNN is not liberal, and you know it. To an uninformed person it might seem like it, because they are compared to Fox "news". Both CNN and Fox are, however, piss poor compared to a real TV news system; BBC.
By intellectually plowing them into the ground and kicking them in their weak kidneys like he did in Crossfire. The pundits are weak, their "journalism" is weak, their partisan angle is bullshit and he strips them naked in front of a TV audience. By simply having a better journalistic stance ( "What do do think about the vibrator story?" JS:"I Don't."), exposing the blended-in setting (JS: "How old are you?" "35" "And you wear a bow-tie") and requesting that they DEBATE not just chit-chat in a semi-aggressive way.
And this is truly useful! the last days I've use this feature to PDF-print booking confirmations etc., so much more practical than having stuff floating around. I think I'm approaching the paperless office now. I've ditched the printer and only use the PowerBook for all things that would include a paper sheet.
I also got kudos from a teacher for turing in the paper in PDF where the others used DOC, even if one girl couldn't open it. We had a discussion around this, and most of them agreed that it is better to support open standards than becoming thieves.
As soon as the vehicle comes to a violent stop at any larger sized object, your're not.
USA: HOW MUCH EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED? Vote right, my girlfriend is in the military here in Norway, and I DO NOT WANT TO SEE HER GO TO WAR, BECAUSE YOU LET THAT BOY-KING FUCK UP THE WORLD SO ROYALLy!
Sorry, had to say it. Vote Kerry, the lesser of two evils.
Not only that; if they used these tubes, they'd have to have a plant of 16 000(!) of them to be able to make ONE a-bomb a year. In the last centrifuge they had operational, they only managed to have ONE centrifuge operational, the rest broke down or malfuncyioned. Hence, letting them try this would have completely drained their resourced and weakened the Baathist regime. If they'd do it. Which they wouldn't since they weren't that dumb. But Cheney was, since he only believe facts that match his point of view.
That is customer service. Note that this is also the only time ever that I had any problem with the Apple customer service, and it ended beautifully.
I haven't paid Apple one dime in extended waranty, yet they have done more than I ever expected from a company. Once, when they screwd up a warranty replacement (it was a bit of a hassle and involved sending back the keyboard twice), they gave me a Apple Bluetooth mouse as a way of saying "We fucked up, we're sorry. Now go play with theis shiny thing". And it worked on me!
Oh, it happened all right. And from what I heared, their commander (LT, capt. or something) was of your opinion. Which is the same as mine. These guys probably go into combat, fully ready to get surprised and to handle that situation.
CS does not kill or harm. It simply confuses the enemy. I was not in this excersise, it was a navy / HG buddy. Anyway, the HG thought the SEALs had the proper equipment. You know, gas mask IS default equipment in combat...
The following text was located at BoingBoing, and is supposed to be from Wall Street Journalist, Farnaz Fassihi, located in Bagdhad. I Googled her name a bit, and Farnaz Fassihi is indeed on WSJ staff as a journalist. I do not know if this e-mail she sent is real so I asked her. A reply is pending. Anyway, it is good reading, and it is A LOT more like the AP and AFP newswire reports I see every day than the hard-ass edited Fox News and CNN stuff I see (Yes, we get Fox News in Norway. No, it is not "fair and balanced")
9/30/2004
Farnaz Fassihi, a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Iraq, confirmed that a widely-redistributed letter she emailed to friends about the nightmarish situation in Iraq was indeed written by her. Too bad the WSJ doesn't allow this reporter to write these kinds of stories for the paper.
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Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest. Forget about the reasons that lured me to this job: a chance to see the world, explore the exotic, meet new people in far away lands, discover their ways and tell stories that could make a difference.
Little by little, day-by-day, being based in Iraq has defied all those reasons. I am house bound. I leave when I have a very good reason to and a scheduled interview. I avoid going to people's homes and never walk in the streets. I can't go grocery shopping any more, can't eat in restaurants, can't strike a conversation with strangers, can't look for stories, can't drive in any thing but a full armored car, can't go to scenes of breaking news stories, can't be stuck in traffic, can't speak English outside, can't take a road trip, can't say I'm an American, can't linger at checkpoints, can't be curious about what people are saying, doing, feeling. And can't and can't.
There has been one too many close calls, including a car bomb so near our house that it blew out all the windows. So now my most pressing concern every day is not to write a kick-ass story but to stay alive and make sure our Iraqi employees stay alive. In Baghdad I am a security personnel first, a reporter second.
It's hard to pinpoint when the turning point exactly began. Was it April when the Fallujah fell out of the grasp of the Americans? Was it when Moqtada and Jish Mahdi declared war on the U.S. military? Was it when Sadr City, home to ten percent of Iraq's population, became a nightly battlefield for the Americans? Or was it when the insurgency began spreading from isolated pockets in the Sunni triangle to include most of Iraq? Despite President Bush's rosy assessments, Iraq remains a disaster. If under Saddam it was a potential threat, under the Americans it has been transformed to imminent and active threat, a foreign policy failure bound to haunt the United States for decades to come.
Iraqis like to call this mess the situation. ÊWhen asked how are things? they reply: the situation is very bad.
What they mean by situation is this: the Iraqi government doesn't control most Iraqi cities, there are several car bombs going off each day around the country killing and injuring scores of innocent people, the country's roads are becoming impassable and littered by hundreds of landmines and explosive devices aimed to kill American soldiers, there are assassinations, kidnappings and beheadings. The situation, basically, means a raging barbaric guerilla war.
In four days, 110 people died and over 300 got injured in Baghdad alone. The numbers are so shocking that the ministry of health, which was attempting an exercise of public transparency by releasing the numbers-- has now stopped disclosing them.
Insurgents now attack Americans 87 times a day.
A friend drove thru the Shiite slum of Sadr City yesterday. He said young men were openly placing improvised explosive devices into the ground. They melt a shallow hole into the asphalt, dig the explosive, cover it with dirt and put an old tire or plastic can over it to signal to the locals this is booby-trap
I have a nice story to tell about a hypothetical situation. Well, half of it is anyway. I was working with a document at work, it was a looong document taking days to compile. As I neard the finish, I accidentally bumped into the soft-power-button on the keyboard. You know, the one that turns off the computer without having to reach down under the desk. Anyhoo, this was Windows 95, so touching that button actually meant instant bluescreen of death. I did not know that, since I changed the keyboards a short time before. The computer b0rked, the document got screwed up and was not possible to recover, and I had to do the work again. The point? My work lost more money on that idiotic bug in Windows, than actually buying me a new Mac instead of a PC. Not to mention Linux...
When I had a cat (May he rest in peace), the litter box was in the bathroom, because it was near the toilet for disposing lumps 'o crap. It was a really bonding experience to go to the bathromm, the cat following behind you and taking a huge dump together. Needless to say, my logs always beat his, thus he was a moody cat...
Four here. I inherited some Windows machines (with Windows serial sticker and all!) from work, and they now serve as servers running Debian. Well, three of them. The last one burned (!) so I bought a PowerBook to serve as my main machine.
Very, very true. Specially for officers that show off and let the grunts take the heat.
Am I the only one to think that there are two contradictions in that sentence? If not, Ausse politics has got to be a confusing system...
I would bet that the situation you describe was something similar. If they had performed flawlessly that would have been great.
The first one might be so, yes. But the second one was clearly a mistake, caused by SEAL egos being the size of their Hummer. The Navy SEALs here have a moethod of teaching the soldiers to not dump their equipment, no matter how silly it might seem to drag it along. They walk 50 clicks in total, with some 25 - 30 kgs of weapons and equipent. since this is in the beginning of the course, they have an old suck-ass steel helmet. Heavy as hell and no air holes. At 25 clicks, they are told that if they want to, they can leave the helmet there as there won't be a live fire excersise. Most do. When they get to 50 clicks, the ones that left their helmet are told that they can go back and pick it up, since there will be a live fire excersise in the morning. It is very, very frustrating and humbling.
Strange. I checked the link before submitting. Oh well, here's another link to the same picture: LINK
Well, I'm not thumping my chest at anything. I was in the navy. These are the stories from a guy in the Telemark Battalion, when they were on excercise. Anyhoo, it is more a story on how the US soldiers ignored obvious climate changes, and that is why they train here to start with, and rely only on their egos.
As for the gassing, no wonder why a 1000 US soldiers are dead in Iraq.
You see, we know it is against the rules to torture prisoners. But we prepare for it and show up prepared. The SEALs prepare for gas attacks, and chose not to show up prepared for everything.
Problem being: This is the point when they start taking hostagesto force the cashiers to open the doors.
As I recall, there are four or five separate complete works of Skrik (The Scream). One is oil on canvas, one is crayon on canvas, one is pastel on paper and the last is coal on paper. The oil painting, widely recgonized as the original, hangs at our National Museum. But it was stolen once. The thieves put a ladder next to a window, and walked in, picked up the painting and left within seconds. They even left a postcard saying "Thanks for the sucking security" or something to that effect. This was in 1991, they were caught and the painting returned.
Anyway, the ONLY way to secure art is to have exclusion zones. That would be a physical barrier that prevent robbers from accessing the painting. The only thing securing the painting at the time of theft was a steel thread wire. The thieves were not prepared, since they only had steel wire cutters which made the job a bit longer and frustrating than it had to be.
What I'm trying to say is: how hard can it be to 1) make a hole in the wall, 2) hook up some electromotors to a rail guide holding the picture 3) make the picture gilde fast in to the recess in the wall 4) have a couple of steel barriers close to 3/4s of the opening (to prevent that kids touching the picture cut their hands off), all this activated by an alarm? come on! It can't be that hard?
But I digress.
There are two different kinds of false alarms. The motion detection thingy is practical for notifying the local guards that some joker is trying to fondle the painting, and stopping that from happening. The other kind is, of course, when that motion alarm automatically alerts the police. Which might be what happened prior to the Scream theft. neither the museum nor the police wnat to comment on how many times they were called out to a motion alert prior to the theft.