Drive into town & park your car and you used to get a slip of paper with the time printed on it. A man at the kiosk would look at the time and charge accordingly.
Then they changed it to a piece of paper with magnetic strip and the machine did the reading.
Both pretty wasteful.
Nowadays you get a coin sized token with no markings which is read electronically by the machine.
I'm all for removing the waste of paper but I've got to wonder if, even experimentally, that there aren't RFID readers placed in the mall to monitor my movements. Time to buy a lead wallet to keep them in;)
George W. Bush inherited a $127 billion fiscal surplus but ran through all of that and more in his first year. He has turned a $5.6 trillion 10 year forecast surplus into a $3+ trillion forecast loss-an almost unimaginable reversal of $9 trillion in only three years. And this, in an economy that has grown for ten of the last twelve quarters.
And in the UK it is a policy that would be illegal under the terms of the 'Sale of Goods Act 1979' (summary) . Subsequent ammendments would mean that it would also fall foul of EU Leglislation.
I expect you are wrong anyway, I can see them attempting to not give you a refund but refusing to swap it for the exact same title and you having no recourse seems unlikely, even in the land of the free.
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No I couldn't give a flying fuck about the /. editors.
I don't need to repost other people's comments to get 5's thanks.
I already have a great time thinking of my own comments.
Now then, fuck off.
Nope, tin-foil isn't good enough.
If you want to stop shop-tags and other radio sensitive items lead lining is the way to go. Great for getting cd's & dvd's out of HMV.
ekkoBSD is OpenBSD with an as yet unwritten web front end to the config files.
Good luck to them but I can't help thinking
"quick, set up a bit torrent mirror before it gets
Drive into town & park your car and you used to get a slip of paper with the time printed on it. A man at the kiosk would look at the time and charge accordingly.
;)
Then they changed it to a piece of paper with magnetic strip and the machine did the reading.
Both pretty wasteful.
Nowadays you get a coin sized token with no markings which is read electronically by the machine.
I'm all for removing the waste of paper but I've got to wonder if, even experimentally, that there aren't RFID readers placed in the mall to monitor my movements. Time to buy a lead wallet to keep them in
because the Inferno VOS kicks the crap out of the Java platform.
In theory, theory and practice are the same.
Mickey J would be getting his diamond encrusted credit card out
mods are about the post not the poster
if it's redundant it's redundant
it's *only* karma
if you post for long enough you'll get excellent eventually
lol, my stupidity
even though I saw the exponent I didn't link the two.
in the code that does the display
for many many applications graphics display is not part of the brief
Windowing systems and GUIs should do the colour matching but again, to say it is *necessary* is overstating it's importance.
stop whining
yes, it's more than a kernel but to say that colour matching *should* be part of the OS is overstating the importance just a tad.
the USians had better start learning that one for when the national debt gets that high.
So a trillion is what I used to call a billion.
At least I now I can put the US $374 billion budget deficit into numbers.
$374,000,000,000
George W. Bush inherited a $127 billion fiscal surplus but ran through all of that and more in his first year. He has turned a $5.6 trillion 10 year forecast surplus into a $3+ trillion forecast loss-an almost unimaginable reversal of $9 trillion in only three years. And this, in an economy that has grown for ten of the last twelve quarters.
USA #1
nooooo
And in the UK it is a policy that would be illegal under the terms of the 'Sale of Goods Act 1979' (summary) . Subsequent ammendments would mean that it would also fall foul of EU Leglislation.
I expect you are wrong anyway, I can see them attempting to not give you a refund but refusing to swap it for the exact same title and you having no recourse seems unlikely, even in the land of the free.
you could try One of these titanium hip replacment's
I guess you could dig up Barry Sheen and use his titanium bits too.
That must be why we keep sending all those mules to Mars.
er, welcome our, er, robot dog overlords.
perhaps that's why Salut blew up, all that graphite dust and zero G tend not to play with the electronics too well.
oh wait, I remember, it's not true.
can I think about saying 'hey, windows boy, boot a live CD with Knoppix / Suse / Gentoo / FreeBSD on it and stop whining'
yes, let's put colour calibration in the kernel
My web server will benefit greatly from being able to calibrate colour of the million pages a month it pushes out.
My PDA will wet itself with excitement that it too can match Pantone colours.
My router will be able to colour match incoming packets for firewalling.
My in-car mp3 player will be able to match the road surface
I think perhaps you should go and read up on what an OS is.
Colour Calibration is for userland.
ah, thanks for that
makes me sad though
was it really so difficult to say one thousand million?
god damn these robotic eyes
seeing as they are currently 50% through their expected lifespan
"... and that they are complaining over a 12-degree difference."
Who's complaining?
Observation != complaint.
for my 2 pence, this twin bit is just bunkum
They are 0.3 billion years different in age (presumably USian billions)
Which is almost 10% of their total age, that's like your human twin being born when you are 8 years old but you both weigh the same!
It is a bad analogy.