I totally agree. I'm sitting opposite a friend who considers himself an audiophile - at least he would be if he had the money. He spends a large part of his income on his stereo which is fair enough. But he listens to manufactured pop music.
I listen to most of my music in the car on MiniDisk , but I'm seriously picky as to what I listen to. Now tell me who is getting the best experience. Him listening to Brittany on £5000 worth of equipment or me listening to Floyd/Zep/Beatles etc on my £200 head unit?
Because assuming that space aliens understand English would be pathetically stupid?
If Star Trek has taught us nothing else - and it hasn't - its that all sentient biengs in the universe speak English as their mother tongue.
This is of course at odds with the beliefs of the hitchhikers who get around that by sticking a fish in their ear.
Hmm.... now that would make it worth my while...
A method of software development whereby the source code for an application would be entirely propritiary to ensure that buggy software is never fixed and customers have to shell out huge amounts of money for upgrades
I hereby propose a patent for a system for the marketing of copywrited items of printed matter, videos, compact disks, DVD's or any future media via banner ads on any national or international network including, but not restricted to the Internet, by way of redirecting users to a centralised server. I further propose to patent the use of such a webserver for reviewing, advertising or selling of such items or for the auctioning of any old crap that nobody wants anyway.
In adition to point 3 above, the advantage of hotkeys on the Mac is that they are placed sensibly, assuming you are righthanded. With the mouse in your right hand, and your thumb on cmd, you can access all the commonly used keystrokes - cmd-w,q,x,c,v,f,a and z. No need for sloppy popup edit menus and less need for a second button. I have an old beige G3 with the curvy ADB mouse and a PC with a Logitech trackball and I think the Apple keyboard/mouse beats the trackball with scroll wheel and 3 buttons for ease and speed.
Pot doesn't affect short term...emmm....thingy. I know from personal experience that it...emmm.... usually....errrr...emmmm..... sometimes when you....errrr...I'm hungry....
Umm... I remember reading a study on this which said that people who drove stoned overcompensated for being stoned and drove a lot more slowly than normal. I think something like 90-95% of people who were stopped for driving under the infulence had other drugs such as alcohol taken.
Oh, and on teh subject of lethal doses, the lethal dose of cannabis is a kilo........droppped on your head from a 10th story window!
1. Outlaw Kilobytes, Megabytes etc, and just measure everything in discreet bytes, which involves remembering huge numbers just to buy a few Megs (Sorry! A few million bytes) of RAM . Not really an option.
2. Ditch the decimal system. Lets face it, its obselete in the computer age. Lets teach our kids to count in binary. Just think of the desk real estate you'd save - 16 fewer keys on a keyboard. Just 2 keys on a phone.
3. Build computers which can operate on base 10. Of course we'd have to invent a new kind of logic and stuff, but computers have had it far too easy for too long.
In my days we had to program in one's and zeros. And during the war there was a shortage of ones and they had to be rationed. I wrote a whole operating system using just zeros......
Ah Jeasus. This brings me back. Not that I remember much about college. I do remember writing my first few lines of REAL (non BASIC) code on TP. (not in the Beavis sense). And then on to Turbo C, followed by Windows coding on BC++ 3.1. I even used BC3.1 last year on a clients product. Ahhh they don't build compilers like they used to!
And yes, Brief. Brief features on my top 5 programs of all time. The Keyboard macros were FANTASTIC! Saved my arse and my deadlines more than once.
Of course, Its all Microsoft now. Shoddy, shoddy workmanship...
Well, I'd certainly trust it with my Jamison... What the hell is that??? A poor copy of Jameson I suppose... Next thing you American lads will be calling it Whisky or something:o)
Well yes, but I think the poster was referring to the period of relative peace and stability (although not of any kind of social justice) between partition and the civil rights campaign in the North.
If there was "peace and stability" why was there a civil rights campaign??? To be honest, I'm not sure the poster knew what he was talking about.
OK Let me clear up some misconceptions. There have been over 2000 terrorist related murders in connection with the troubles over the past 30 years. A lot of Semtex had been used in the years leading up to the ceasefire. While the Republic has been relatively free of terrorism, there HAVE been incidents. E.g. the Parnell St. & Capel St (i think) bombings in the 70's which is believed to have been the work of the British Secret Service.
The female crime reporter who was killed was drug related
Very true. Veronica Guerin's murder was done by the Dublin crime underworld. But this shows that there are guns in the Republic being used by others - not just the IRA.
As for the police - they CAN carry firearms, but this is only done on special occasions. There is no need for the police on the beat to be armed. I can't remember the last time a member of the Gardaí was shot in the line of duty.
even though Ireland was occupied for a long time, the troubles and bombings only really took off about 30 years ago. Activity before rarely got above calling the English bastards.
OK, the English moved in here about 800 years ago, and for most of that time, there had been resistance. For Gods sake, there was the 1916 rising, the War of Independance in the 20's and a civil war after that. Beleive me, there was a LOT more going on than calling the English Bastards. Why don't you get a book on the subject....
Congratulations lads. I reckon you should take a month off and relax. On first seeing the headline I thought SELL OUT. But I read the article and I see your reasons, and its good you've sold to sombody responsible and retain creative control over/. This has to be a good thing
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I listen to most of my music in the car on MiniDisk , but I'm seriously picky as to what I listen to. Now tell me who is getting the best experience. Him listening to Brittany on £5000 worth of equipment or me listening to Floyd/Zep/Beatles etc on my £200 head unit?
Because assuming that space aliens understand English would be pathetically stupid? If Star Trek has taught us nothing else - and it hasn't - its that all sentient biengs in the universe speak English as their mother tongue. This is of course at odds with the beliefs of the hitchhikers who get around that by sticking a fish in their ear.
...actually encouraged bootlegging of their gigs!
that Windows is time consuming, expensive and troublesome!
Hmm.... now that would make it worth my while... A method of software development whereby the source code for an application would be entirely propritiary to ensure that buggy software is never fixed and customers have to shell out huge amounts of money for upgrades
Although I'm sure it would make me quite unpopular around here
I hereby propose a patent for a system for the marketing of copywrited items of printed matter, videos, compact disks, DVD's or any future media via banner ads on any national or international network including, but not restricted to the Internet, by way of redirecting users to a centralised server. I further propose to patent the use of such a webserver for reviewing, advertising or selling of such items or for the auctioning of any old crap that nobody wants anyway.
Actually, Irony is so called because its like Silverey and Goldy except its made from Iron!
In adition to point 3 above, the advantage of hotkeys on the Mac is that they are placed sensibly, assuming you are righthanded. With the mouse in your right hand, and your thumb on cmd, you can access all the commonly used keystrokes - cmd-w,q,x,c,v,f,a and z. No need for sloppy popup edit menus and less need for a second button. I have an old beige G3 with the curvy ADB mouse and a PC with a Logitech trackball and I think the Apple keyboard/mouse beats the trackball with scroll wheel and 3 buttons for ease and speed.
There has been so many Guinness stories on /. recently, how long before we get a Guinness Icon??
Drinking age is actually 18 in Ireland - but most of us start around 14 or so....
No wonder the Irish times was so slow this morning. I atually had to do some work!
Christianity isn't a religion. Roman Catholisim, Anglicanism etc are, but AFAIK, there is no "Christian Church"
you can also upgrade the 4400 to G3 via the cache socket.
Pot doesn't affect short term...emmm....thingy. I know from personal experience that it ...emmm.... usually....errrr...emmmm..... sometimes when you....errrr...I'm hungry....
Oh, and on teh subject of lethal doses, the lethal dose of cannabis is a kilo........droppped on your head from a 10th story window!
1. Outlaw Kilobytes, Megabytes etc, and just measure everything in discreet bytes, which involves remembering huge numbers just to buy a few Megs (Sorry! A few million bytes) of RAM . Not really an option.
2. Ditch the decimal system. Lets face it, its obselete in the computer age. Lets teach our kids to count in binary. Just think of the desk real estate you'd save - 16 fewer keys on a keyboard. Just 2 keys on a phone.
3. Build computers which can operate on base 10. Of course we'd have to invent a new kind of logic and stuff, but computers have had it far too easy for too long.
In my days we had to program in one's and zeros. And during the war there was a shortage of ones and they had to be rationed. I wrote a whole operating system using just zeros......
And yes, Brief. Brief features on my top 5 programs of all time. The Keyboard macros were FANTASTIC! Saved my arse and my deadlines more than once.
Of course, Its all Microsoft now. Shoddy, shoddy workmanship...
Well, I'd certainly trust it with my Jamison... What the hell is that??? A poor copy of Jameson I suppose... Next thing you American lads will be calling it Whisky or something :o)
In my day we had to program in 1's and 0's. And some days we didn't even have 1's....
If there was "peace and stability" why was there a civil rights campaign??? To be honest, I'm not sure the poster knew what he was talking about.
OK Let me clear up some misconceptions. There have been over 2000 terrorist related murders in connection with the troubles over the past 30 years. A lot of Semtex had been used in the years leading up to the ceasefire. While the Republic has been relatively free of terrorism, there HAVE been incidents. E.g. the Parnell St. & Capel St (i think) bombings in the 70's which is believed to have been the work of the British Secret Service.
The female crime reporter who was killed was drug related
Very true. Veronica Guerin's murder was done by the Dublin crime underworld. But this shows that there are guns in the Republic being used by others - not just the IRA.
As for the police - they CAN carry firearms, but this is only done on special occasions. There is no need for the police on the beat to be armed. I can't remember the last time a member of the Gardaí was shot in the line of duty.
even though Ireland was occupied for a long time, the troubles and bombings only really took off about 30 years ago. Activity before rarely got above calling the English bastards.
OK, the English moved in here about 800 years ago, and for most of that time, there had been resistance. For Gods sake, there was the 1916 rising, the War of Independance in the 20's and a civil war after that. Beleive me, there was a LOT more going on than calling the English Bastards. Why don't you get a book on the subject....
Keep up the good work guys!
He looks like one of the Beasties in the Sabotage video :o)
Nice threads though !
He looks like one of the Beasties in the Sabotage video :o)