Well Margareth Thatcher gave one as a gift to the Japanese prime minister on a visit in 1983. I sure hope he was able to use it. The original ZX was not imported in the U.S. except on the "grey market", but in '83 a licensed clone was launced on the there by Timex under the name "TS 2068". And as another commenter here pointed out, illegal clones were made "everywhere" (from Hong Kong to Brazil)
The SX Spectrum Sinclair isn't mentioned at all. Released in 1982 it quickly gained worldwide popularity, and is till this day considered Britains most famous computer. It had a strong (but presumably unintended) appeal to latex fetishists, provided by a slippery rubber button keyboard. The software was loaded from compact audio cassettes in an external casette player. One would listen in awe to the music of every byte, as they left the storage device and reassembled to create the wonderful gaming scene of the 48K memory, 16 color technical wonder. Didn't load? Hit rewind, adjust volume and try again.
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I find sound in flash adds highly annoying and intruding - they make me jump and at times the sound goes on, distracting and ruining the reader experience. So I block any addsite using flash sound - the whole domain.
I also block add-sites which deliver adds I find offensive - no mercy. Peeing dogs etc.
Other than that I don't really mind adds, if they keep still. I have animations set to play once only, because I find the continous flicker very distracting. But the size of adds dlayout can actually be interesting. In a way they are a "natural" part of contemporary design. Some adds are even good, humorous, now and then I even have an interest in reading more about a product. So adds as such are fine with me. Just keep them in one place and muted and I'm fine.
Indeed. Untill now we have failed to communicate with any other lifeforms than our own, right here on planet Earth.
We also fail to accnowledge other lifeforms the rights to a habitat or even life itself.
This might just indicate that we should rehearse our understanding and dealing with other lifeforms locally, before even considering any intergalactic chit chat.
Parameters are simply missing here. It does not say that ALL the soldiers sent for evaluation were sent there because they answered yes to taking part in games. That would actually be very unlikely. There is such a fine plethora of contemporary character disorders. I mean.. if 100 people were sent for evaluation all in all; 50 gamers and 50 psychopaths... and then the 50 psychos passed the clearance but the 50 gamers failed... etc. You get the drift.
Agreed. That's what BENCHMARKS are for. Hah. They're just fishing for attention if you ask me. Next thing you know and they'll be rolling the numbers backwards, just for the fun of it.. I mean funding. You don't calibrate near identical instruments with different rocks. You use the same rock. And after that, it doesn't matter where you place which instrument. Calibrated is calibrated.
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Global Edition" can be seen every saturday night on CNN's european edition, transmitted via cable and satellite througout Europe. They transmit Business Asia here as well, so they probably broadcast Stewart in Asia too.
Quite hard, since the official changelog isn't updated yet. An unofficial one exists though, and two "Frame injection vulnerabilities" are fixed. Links to the (unofficially) fixed bug-reports here: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/relea ses/1.0.1.html
I wonder if they've fixed Mozilla though.. it downloaded "bla.exe" without my knowledge two weeks ago (new build). bla.exe is an agent for "Trojan.Vundo". The firewall blocked its attempt to download the actual damaging code, but all the same - an unpeasant surprice.
I switched from Gnome to WinXP, actually, because of how the Gtk2 crew broke the filepicker. The Gtk2 filepicker is now broken in both Mozilla and current Gimp, the apps i used most. And the filepicker is unusable if you edit images and upload to pbase, for instance - and for disabled people. Nowhere to paste a filename anymore, without using the keyboard first.
So after 6 years on Redhat I'm back on Windows and have invested so much in software now it'll have to last for some years. Are you listening Redhat? You can save yourself the Desktop trouble for another.. hmm.. 5 years.
They were not forwarned. They actually can speak. Yes: They have a language! And according to the norwegian press, they told interviewers that they have for generations talked about the dangers of the earthquakes. About how - when they occur - the forefathers always insisted they must flee up into the mountains - o be safe. So the quake came, they went up into the mountain - and survived the tsunami. Simple, really. No 6th sense mumbo-jumbo. Just ordinary mumbo-jumbo, if you like.
A colleague of mine had gotten into trouble with his private laptop PC, an XP machine without network access. He uses it for games and music.
For music he had a player from Creative, which now gave error message: "Jet Engine Error: Music Library cannot be opened because the database is corrupt". I looked around and found that he needed to upgrade something called Jet and also to "MDAC 2.8".
The laptop had USB ports and I had a USB memory thingie (actually a camera with USB2 and a CF card). So I plugged it into the only PC we had there with a USB port - a Linux PC, and tried to download. No go. I was blocked because I couldn't verify it was a MS OS. Idiots..
I then tried to download from a Windows XP PC, thinking i could ftp the file over to the Linux machine. Again: No Go. I needed administrator access to install the verifying software that could verify that I was actually on a Windows PC. But I don't have admin on that PC. Onced upon a time we had to decide whether to remove admin access or network access to the Internet - it got too many worms. So it was decided to remove our admin access.
In the end I had to wait till after work and download from my private PC's XP installation, then copy to the CF card, then bring it back to work the next day, transfer the broken laptop and install the files and upgrades there. Turned out it didn't work after all:)
Anwyays: It could hade taken me 2 minutes to realize I was on the wrong track. It took 18 hours instead. That's absolutly horrible and extremely poor service from Microsoft.
Mozilla is far superior in that I can tune it once and then download upgrades in one swift sweep. WIth Firefox I would have to download a zillion addons as well - addons that are already included and set - once and for all - as my user preferences in Mozilla.
Easy usage and integration with Composer and Mailnews is also important. But it's all those little things that really make it excel - like the search function. In Firefox its impossible to perform a search from URL-bar - or even the "search bar" - without using the keyboard.
In Mozilla I just paste whatever words i want to search for, then click the GO button.
In Firefox, i have to paste - then i don't see half of what i pasted because the search-bar is too small - and then i have to go out of bed, across the room, over to the PC and keyboard, and then hit the Enter button, to perform the search.
Mozilla goes that extra mile for me. Ease of use is why I use a computer in the first place. Firefox is clunky and amateurish in comparition to the suite.
I can understand why they wanted a more clean cut alternative to MSIE, but less is always less - not more. Mozilla is just the best browser/mail/composer suite around. Even if I didn't use mail or the editor, I would still stick with Mozilla. I can't see any benefits from the stripped down version that is Firefox. If i want similar features i will have to download from several places. All it all it takes me much longer than to deal with the suite.
I find it regrettable that the great Mozilla project now seems to disintegrate into inferior fractions of itself. It slows down development.
"Thor the Conqueror" [1983] is THE worst film I ever saw. And I've seen a lot. It's a "spaghetti Conan", and halfway through, I still had no idea what it was all about. If you rent or buy: Half way through is when you wonder whether to turn the shit off, weep or just go crazy and laugh your ass off. Smoking something and watching with friends might help. You may also want to instruct a friend to say "hold... it might still pick up..give it a chance" every 5th minute. (So others don't shoot the VHS player.)
"Thor the Conqueror" makes it painfully obvious that "Plan 9 from outher space"'s position as Golden Turkey #1 is utterly undeserved. "Plan 9" shines like an ingenious and organized masterpiece in comparision to THE all time worst movie ever: The one and only.... "Thor the Conqueror"!
Did a handpicked upgrade from RH9, and the system beep went missing in action.
After several weeks (of not trying too hard) I stumbled across the reason: pcspkr module wasn't loaded. A funny default, but maybe rooted in some half documented problems regarding speaker volume.
So in other words: A quick "/sbin/modprobe pcspkr" will fix the problem on the fly.
I believe referred to black powder being a chinese invention; they were the forefathers of fireworks.
I was about to write something in the same lane really, but "blaming America".
Around 80 years ago Nylon was invented. I live in Norway but my grandmother lived in New York in the 20ties / 30ties. She told me Nylon was short for "NOW, You Lousy Old Nip'" - a reference to Japan, and the new Nylons replacing the old silk stockins. I later learned that silk - like paper money for that matter - are of chinese origin. So with Nylon, AmEx and now also gas-powered fireworks, the plot... umm...no.. it doesn't really thicken. But there's a trend there somewhere.
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Now if they would only end IE on PCs as well..
Well Margareth Thatcher gave one as a gift to the Japanese prime minister on a visit in 1983. I sure hope he was able to use it. The original ZX was not imported in the U.S. except on the "grey market", but in '83 a licensed clone was launced on the there by Timex under the name "TS 2068". And as another commenter here pointed out, illegal clones were made "everywhere" (from Hong Kong to Brazil)
The SX Spectrum Sinclair isn't mentioned at all. Released in 1982 it quickly gained worldwide popularity, and is till this day considered Britains most famous computer. It had a strong (but presumably unintended) appeal to latex fetishists, provided by a slippery rubber button keyboard. The software was loaded from compact audio cassettes in an external casette player. One would listen in awe to the music of every byte, as they left the storage device and reassembled to create the wonderful gaming scene of the 48K memory, 16 color technical wonder. Didn't load? Hit rewind, adjust volume and try again.
For the enjoyment of new readers:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/04/network.html
I find sound in flash adds highly annoying and intruding - they make me jump and at times the sound goes on, distracting and ruining the reader experience. So I block any addsite using flash sound - the whole domain.
I also block add-sites which deliver adds I find offensive - no mercy. Peeing dogs etc.
Other than that I don't really mind adds, if they keep still. I have animations set to play once only, because I find the continous flicker very distracting.
But the size of adds dlayout can actually be interesting. In a way they are a "natural" part of contemporary design. Some adds are even good, humorous, now and then I even have an interest in reading more about a product. So adds as such are fine with me. Just keep them in one place and muted and I'm fine.
Indeed. Untill now we have failed to communicate with any other lifeforms than our own, right here on planet Earth.
We also fail to accnowledge other lifeforms the rights to a habitat or even life itself.
This might just indicate that we should rehearse our understanding and dealing with other lifeforms locally, before even considering any intergalactic chit chat.
I was beeing repeatedly hit over the head with a 60lb UNIX manual!
Parameters are simply missing here. It does not say that ALL the soldiers sent for evaluation were sent there because they answered yes to taking part in games. That would actually be very unlikely. There is such a fine plethora of contemporary character disorders. I mean.. if 100 people were sent for evaluation all in all; 50 gamers and 50 psychopaths... and then the 50 psychos passed the clearance but the 50 gamers failed... etc. You get the drift.
Him name is Gecko green lizard
Agreed. That's what BENCHMARKS are for. Hah. They're just fishing for attention if you ask me. Next thing you know and they'll be rolling the numbers backwards, just for the fun of it.. I mean funding. You don't calibrate near identical instruments with different rocks. You use the same rock. And after that, it doesn't matter where you place which instrument. Calibrated is calibrated.
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Global Edition" can be seen every saturday night on CNN's european edition, transmitted via cable and satellite througout Europe. They transmit Business Asia here as well, so they probably broadcast Stewart in Asia too.
Quite hard, since the official changelog isn't updated yet. An unofficial one exists though, and two "Frame injection vulnerabilities" are fixed.a ses/1.0 .1.html
Links to the (unofficially) fixed bug-reports here:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/rele
I wonder if they've fixed Mozilla though.. it downloaded "bla.exe" without my knowledge two weeks ago (new build). bla.exe is an agent for "Trojan.Vundo". The firewall blocked its attempt to download the actual damaging code, but all the same - an unpeasant surprice.
I switched from Gnome to WinXP, actually, because of how the Gtk2 crew broke the filepicker. The Gtk2 filepicker is now broken in both Mozilla and current Gimp, the apps i used most. And the filepicker is unusable if you edit images and upload to pbase, for instance - and for disabled people. Nowhere to paste a filename anymore, without using the keyboard first.
So after 6 years on Redhat I'm back on Windows and have invested so much in software now it'll have to last for some years. Are you listening Redhat? You can save yourself the Desktop trouble for another.. hmm.. 5 years.
:D
They were not forwarned. They actually can speak. Yes: They have a language! And according to the norwegian press, they told interviewers that they have for generations talked about the dangers of the earthquakes. About how - when they occur - the forefathers always insisted they must flee up into the mountains - o be safe. So the quake came, they went up into the mountain - and survived the tsunami. Simple, really. No 6th sense mumbo-jumbo. Just ordinary mumbo-jumbo, if you like.
A colleague of mine had gotten into trouble with his private laptop PC, an XP machine without network access. He uses it for games and music.
:)
For music he had a player from Creative, which now gave error message: "Jet Engine Error: Music Library cannot be opened because the database is corrupt". I looked around and found that he needed to upgrade something called Jet and also to "MDAC 2.8".
The laptop had USB ports and I had a USB memory thingie (actually a camera with USB2 and a CF card). So I plugged it into the only PC we had there with a USB port - a Linux PC, and tried to download. No go. I was blocked because I couldn't verify it was a MS OS. Idiots..
I then tried to download from a Windows XP PC, thinking i could ftp the file over to the Linux machine. Again: No Go. I needed administrator access to install the verifying software that could verify that I was actually on a Windows PC. But I don't have admin on that PC. Onced upon a time we had to decide whether to remove admin access or network access to the Internet - it got too many worms. So it was decided to remove our admin access.
In the end I had to wait till after work and download from my private PC's XP installation, then copy to the CF card, then bring it back to work the next day, transfer the broken laptop and install the files and upgrades there. Turned out it didn't work after all
Anwyays: It could hade taken me 2 minutes to realize I was on the wrong track. It took 18 hours instead. That's absolutly horrible and extremely poor service from Microsoft.
Mozilla is far superior in that I can tune it once and then download upgrades in one swift sweep. WIth Firefox I would have to download a zillion addons as well - addons that are already included and set - once and for all - as my user preferences in Mozilla.
Easy usage and integration with Composer and Mailnews is also important. But it's all those little things that really make it excel - like the search function. In Firefox its impossible to perform a search from URL-bar - or even the "search bar" - without using the keyboard.
In Mozilla I just paste whatever words i want to search for, then click the GO button.
In Firefox, i have to paste - then i don't see half of what i pasted because the search-bar is too small - and then i have to go out of bed, across the room, over to the PC and keyboard, and then hit the Enter button, to perform the search.
Mozilla goes that extra mile for me. Ease of use is why I use a computer in the first place. Firefox is clunky and amateurish in comparition to the suite.
I can understand why they wanted a more clean cut alternative to MSIE, but less is always less - not more. Mozilla is just the best browser/mail/composer suite around. Even if I didn't use mail or the editor, I would still stick with Mozilla. I can't see any benefits from the stripped down version that is Firefox. If i want similar features i will have to download from several places. All it all it takes me much longer than to deal with the suite.
I find it regrettable that the great Mozilla project now seems to disintegrate into inferior fractions of itself. It slows down development.
"Thor the Conqueror" [1983] is THE worst film I ever saw. And I've seen a lot. It's a "spaghetti Conan", and halfway through, I still had no idea what it was all about. If you rent or buy: Half way through is when you wonder whether to turn the shit off, weep or just go crazy and laugh your ass off. Smoking something and watching with friends might help. You may also want to instruct a friend to say "hold... it might still pick up..give it a chance" every 5th minute. (So others don't shoot the VHS player.)
"Thor the Conqueror" makes it painfully obvious that "Plan 9 from outher space"'s position as Golden Turkey #1 is utterly undeserved. "Plan 9" shines like an ingenious and organized masterpiece in comparision to THE all time worst movie ever: The one and only.... "Thor the Conqueror"!
You have been warned.
Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And plunged it deep into the VAX;
Don't you envy people who
Do all the things YOU want to do?
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After several weeks (of not trying too hard) I stumbled across the reason: pcspkr module wasn't loaded.
A funny default, but maybe rooted in some half documented problems regarding speaker volume.
So in other words: A quick "/sbin/modprobe pcspkr" will fix the problem on the fly.
bug 124339 and bug 123689
1, 2, 3, 4
Perhaps that version of the folklore hit a tone in Europe, where WWII was just breaking out. (And I bet DuPont's PR department didn't really mind..)
Yes.. it was street lore of the day. She knew that, I knew that, and you realized it too - that makes three of us :)
I believe referred to black powder being a chinese invention; they were the forefathers of fireworks.
I was about to write something in the same lane really, but "blaming America".
Around 80 years ago Nylon was invented. I live in Norway but my grandmother lived in New York in the 20ties / 30ties. She told me Nylon was short for "NOW, You Lousy Old Nip'" - a reference to Japan, and the new Nylons replacing the old silk stockins. I later learned that silk - like paper money for that matter - are of chinese origin. So with Nylon, AmEx and now also gas-powered fireworks, the plot... umm...no.. it doesn't really thicken. But there's a trend there somewhere.
I find no information confirming that claim.
Do you have anything to back it up with?
Oh come on moderators.. Parent isn't funny, it's INSIGHTFUL! Please read beyond the first 5 lines.