As much as i hate Murdoch's shit rags, i have to disagree. The Australian stands out from among all the other rubbish as an uncharacteristically good paper - and there is no non-Murdoch equivalent. I wouldn't buy it myself, if i could get the Sydney Morning Herald, but it's certainly got some value.
I have, although i'm on the other side of the planet from them at the moment, so i can't check them. Last time i looked at them they were in good condition though.
Yeah, i've done tree work and i don't like cutting down trees unless there's a good reason. But surely it wouldn't be that hard to find someone to fell and mill them for him? It would be pretty easy in most rural parts of Australia - and probably in the cities, too.
A mate of mine had to get some trees felled a few years back and he got a couple of local guys to mill them for him. He stored them for a couple of years under a tarp with a frame to make sure air circulated freely, and once they were nicely cured, he built a verandah with the planks.
It's a dying industry because it's not sustainable. However, there are new pulp mills planned. Gunns are currently (controversially) building one in Tasmania. And i believe there's a new one being planned for Victoria.
"Virgin" paper does not come from beautiful protected forests, it comes from tree farms.
Maybe you could explain the purpose of the woodchip mill at Eden, in the south east corner of Australia, then. Old growth forest is logged and then chipped in that mill and shipped to Japan to make paper. And i'm certain that's not the only place in the world where old growth forests are logged for paper production.
For some values of "related", maybe not. But, for others, toner and printing ink are definitely related.
I wouldn't mind betting that the development of rotary drum based xerography was partly inspired by the mechanisms of offset lithography, too. They are very similar.
When i worked as an offset litho printer, back in the early 90s, we used soya bean ink. It was good stuff - and, as far as i remember, gave off less chemical fumes than standard ink.
Yeah, i would. So long as the charges were sane and the contributors got a reasonable cut.
I don't spend much time watching stuff on youtube, but i reckon if it's worth watching, it's worth paying a bit for. And if it's not worth paying for then it's not worth google paying to host it.
It's a bug not a feature. It's pointless, stupid and annoying.
Facebook does it (with some links but not others) - and there's just no point to it. The link opens in a new tab and the old tab is still there. It might make sense if you were going to open the link in the same tab, but you're not.
What possible advantage is there in opening a link in a frame in a new tab - apart from annoying users?
The first time i used Linux was over a dialup terminal connection from a 286 running DOS, in Brisbane, Australia, in about August 1994. I quickly learnt about 'screen' and (for some inexplicable reason) i was a fan of emacs. I used lynx to browse what i could find of the web in those pre-google days.
I installed Linux on my DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) Hinote laptop in 1995. I downloaded the files for the installation floppy disk set via the FTP by mail service that, as far as i remember, DEC operated in those days. That was a lot easier than FTPing them direct, over my dialup connection - as the mail only had to be downloaded from my ISP's server. I was in the UK at the time, and the ISP was Demon.
I used the command line exclusively for a few months, until i bought a Unix book from a bookshop in Madras, India, and worked out how to set up X. And i've run Linux on all my laptops since then.
God is not going to ask Stephen Hawking what his GPA was, or how many department chairs he has held, or how many papers he has published.
Too right, it's not. It ain't going to ask him anything. Sorry to have to tell you this, but your invisible friend is just a figment of your imagination!
I had to translate a couple of texts from Spanish to English a few weeks back. That was the first time i've done something like that for years and i used google translator for the first time.
I had to do some serious editing, but it did make the job considerably easier. If i had to translate a book, i reckon i'd do it the same way. But then i'm not a professional translater.
I mean, seriously, what the heck are you doing on a site for computer nerds, if you didn't even get online until *after* the average end users off the street started getting dialup accounts in the mid nineties?
AC is only 10, you insensitive clod, and first went online in the womb!
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There's quite a bit of Basque blood in there too, apparently. But Pashtun? Where did that come into the picture?
As much as i hate Murdoch's shit rags, i have to disagree. The Australian stands out from among all the other rubbish as an uncharacteristically good paper - and there is no non-Murdoch equivalent. I wouldn't buy it myself, if i could get the Sydney Morning Herald, but it's certainly got some value.
You're wasting your breath! They've modded and gone - and they'll never look at this page again.
Rather like the British then?
I have, although i'm on the other side of the planet from them at the moment, so i can't check them. Last time i looked at them they were in good condition though.
Too right they are! It's completely crazy that those forests are being turned into woodchips - and they're sold for ridiculously low prices, too.
Yeah, i've done tree work and i don't like cutting down trees unless there's a good reason. But surely it wouldn't be that hard to find someone to fell and mill them for him? It would be pretty easy in most rural parts of Australia - and probably in the cities, too.
A mate of mine had to get some trees felled a few years back and he got a couple of local guys to mill them for him. He stored them for a couple of years under a tarp with a frame to make sure air circulated freely, and once they were nicely cured, he built a verandah with the planks.
It's a dying industry because it's not sustainable. However, there are new pulp mills planned. Gunns are currently (controversially) building one in Tasmania. And i believe there's a new one being planned for Victoria.
Maybe you could explain the purpose of the woodchip mill at Eden, in the south east corner of Australia, then. Old growth forest is logged and then chipped in that mill and shipped to Japan to make paper. And i'm certain that's not the only place in the world where old growth forests are logged for paper production.
For some values of "related", maybe not. But, for others, toner and printing ink are definitely related.
I wouldn't mind betting that the development of rotary drum based xerography was partly inspired by the mechanisms of offset lithography, too. They are very similar.
No, but soya is the same as soya.
Soya printing ink has been around since at least the beginning of the 90s - i used to use it back then, when i was working as a printer.
When i worked as an offset litho printer, back in the early 90s, we used soya bean ink. It was good stuff - and, as far as i remember, gave off less chemical fumes than standard ink.
Yeah, i would. So long as the charges were sane and the contributors got a reasonable cut.
I don't spend much time watching stuff on youtube, but i reckon if it's worth watching, it's worth paying a bit for. And if it's not worth paying for then it's not worth google paying to host it.
I'd rather pay for it than see it disappear.
If they're not worth paying to watch, then it's not worth google paying to host them, is it?
Why? Youporn.com's free!
Do you know what "tongue in cheek" and "get over it" mean?
It's a bug not a feature. It's pointless, stupid and annoying.
Facebook does it (with some links but not others) - and there's just no point to it. The link opens in a new tab and the old tab is still there. It might make sense if you were going to open the link in the same tab, but you're not.
What possible advantage is there in opening a link in a frame in a new tab - apart from annoying users?
And my first distro, of course, was Slackware.
The first time i used Linux was over a dialup terminal connection from a 286 running DOS, in Brisbane, Australia, in about August 1994. I quickly learnt about 'screen' and (for some inexplicable reason) i was a fan of emacs. I used lynx to browse what i could find of the web in those pre-google days.
I installed Linux on my DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) Hinote laptop in 1995. I downloaded the files for the installation floppy disk set via the FTP by mail service that, as far as i remember, DEC operated in those days. That was a lot easier than FTPing them direct, over my dialup connection - as the mail only had to be downloaded from my ISP's server. I was in the UK at the time, and the ISP was Demon.
I used the command line exclusively for a few months, until i bought a Unix book from a bookshop in Madras, India, and worked out how to set up X. And i've run Linux on all my laptops since then.
Too right, it's not. It ain't going to ask him anything. Sorry to have to tell you this, but your invisible friend is just a figment of your imagination!
I had to translate a couple of texts from Spanish to English a few weeks back. That was the first time i've done something like that for years and i used google translator for the first time.
I had to do some serious editing, but it did make the job considerably easier. If i had to translate a book, i reckon i'd do it the same way. But then i'm not a professional translater.
There will be trouble if their dogma gets run over by their karma!
AC is only 10, you insensitive clod, and first went online in the womb!
Some mobile networks are CDMA - and CDMA doesn't do multi-part messages (or, at least, it didn't when i used it last).