It seems the museum in Belgrade is vastly superior. He was Serbian after all, and it looks like they inherited a lot of his artifacts -- including him. (his urn is there).
I've been to BG a few times in the past, and never stopped at the museum. WTF is wrong with me?
I've never used a phone with better battery life than S60, moreso the later models. Because it runs an OS that was designed ground up for ancient mobiles, it uses very little resources.
Always been very stable in the past. Some stuff was clunky as hell, though. But battery life, and reception was the best I've ever experienced. Great for... phoning.
How would Stalin's purges have gone if after the first one every door they kicked in had five to ten people armed with these behind them?
Well, seeing as the purged included marshals, admirals, and generals, (among lower ranks as well) I'd have a hard time believing guns would have made much of a difference, as certainly the military members had arms. They'd just be prolonging the the inevitable. Stalin's gonna getcha anyhow.
That's precisely what the GP states... Take the petroleum that would be used for fueling the fishing boats, and just directly turn it into chairs, bypassing the harvesting plastic from the ocean part.
This is pretty common, here in Canada at least. On parcels over $30-40 or so, but it depends... about 3/4 of the time they will tax you. Not sure if it depends what day, or what agent you get, but some they don't bother taxing, or miss your parcel. This is usually based on the information based on the customs slip. They also add a generous $5 'tax handling' fee... They are doing you a favour, collecting the tax, obviously. If duty is applicable they will apply it as well.
Occasionally they will open the parcels to determine if the information is falsified or not, or perhaps determine country of origin for duty purposes... something like this. Surely it takes a lot of manpower, which is why they charge the $5 fee.
On one occasion they held a package I had - some old tube radio parts someone gifted me, worthless old junk. Guy made the mistake of claiming $0 instead of say.. $5. So they held the package, and sent me a letter stating that this stuff obviously has value if someone is shipping it, and to tell them the true value. I wrote a reply saying it's worthless old electronics; I couldn't see anyone paying more than $5 for it, etc. A week or two later the parcel showed up, and they decided it was worth a hundred bucks. Awesome. Thanks guys.
Now, if you get packages through the couriers it's even worse. UPS has the following rates for customs clearance (express is exempt, but they charge enough for that to make up for it generally).
Value fee $20 $7 >$40 $20 >$100 $30 >$200 $45 (rate has reasonably lower increases after this)
Now, this is in addition to the actual tax and duty. So If I buy a $41 widget from the US, and spend say.. $10 to ship it UPS ground - I get hit with:
$41 (item) + $10 shipping + $20 (brokerage) + $4.10 (sales tax) + (duty if applicable - we'll assume this is a duty free item), for a grand total of $75. By the time you add in paypal dicking you on exchange rate, your $40 item from the US is now $80.
So - never send anything via courier to a Canadian unless you hate them, or (in the case of UPS at least) you pay for express, which waives the fees.
Something like a third to half of the cigarettes in Ontario and Quebec are smuggled in.
Smuggling is a fair bit lower in western provinces, afaik, under 10%, IIRC. Probably partially due to less close-border large population centres out there. Seem to recall that a lot of the smokes in the east are smuggled through some cross/near border indian reservation(s), although certainly not all of them.
Ontario, or Quebec, I forget... maybe both, had to actually cut their provincial cig taxes because smuggling was getting so high. I presume this is the same reason that cigs are 5 euros in germany and not 10 - because in eastern europe and balkans they are 2 euros or less... if they were much more expensive it would make smuggling very profitable, and probably actually reduce tax income for the government.
Yeah, that's a poorly worded sentence. It should state that 200+ countries each have a smaller GDP than apple's market cap. It is written like they are combined.
Bagger is series of gigantic bucket-wheel excavators, for the unitiated. Some (the biggest, at least) were made by East German TAKRAF. I think others were made in west.
They made some pretty bizarre machines, like RB293 (of bagger series) and F60
I think T60 was the first to get windows keys - coincidentally, T60 is the first non-IBM T, afaik... I don't think IBM ever made one with windows keys. Can't say I blame them.
-70 might be a bonus - here I still have to go to work when it's -40. at -70 I think they'd let us stay home... I'd think -70 might freeze a fully charged lead acid battery, even.
Gotta love when you get in the car, the seat is a rock. start it up (maybe). Wait a while. Start driving. Let the clutch out and the pedal hangs out for a second after you let go (if it's hydraulic). The tires are square for a mile or two. suspension is frozen... gear oil is reduced to grease... Steering is heavy... fun stuff. Poor cars.
Me too. And it's too bloody cold here, even being a native. If I immigrated from somewhere warmer I'd want to kill myself (more than I already want to) all winter long (all 8 months of it).
Yeah, Our 'fiscal conservative' govn't that blew through the liberal's surplus, and is creating the largest deficit in the history of the nation. Some fucking fiscal conservatism that is.
I'm old enough to have lived through provincial NDP governments, and they've been the most fiscally sound we've ever had, while at the same time increasing social programs.
Seeing as he lived in Sweden for some time, I'm sure he knows how to drive on the right... Unless there was some sort of time warp and he lived in Sweden in the 60's.
Well, at least traditionally, Nokia had two OSes. S40 was the lightweight one that only did java apps, for dumbphones (which is what the phones from the TFA happen to run). S60 was the hotrod with native apps and so on, multitasking, etc. The 'smartphone'... Perhaps the quintessential smartphone until iphone and android rolled around.
That's the angle they're working on, at least - that S40 isn't smart, because it wasn't smart. But 1GHz sounds pretty smart to me... just why the fuck not run S60 or maemo, then? Because Elop hates anything better than windows phone? Wonder if they've added some multitasking and/or native apps to S40, if that's even possible without the thing being a completely different OS.
RS-232 dates to the early 60's, however I don't think the DE-9 connector is part of the standard, it only specifies the DB-25 connector / wiring. (think IBM PC, big serial port).
Although PC AT already moved to the DE9, so I guess I'd place it around then..? Not sure if that was the instigator, but it would have had enough market share to move things over to the nine pin connector.
(side note.. the connectors used, 'D-subminiature', are from the 50's.. I wonder how big the non subminiature ones were, if they ever existed..?)
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It seems the museum in Belgrade is vastly superior. He was Serbian after all, and it looks like they inherited a lot of his artifacts -- including him. (his urn is there).
I've been to BG a few times in the past, and never stopped at the museum. WTF is wrong with me?
I've never used a phone with better battery life than S60, moreso the later models. Because it runs an OS that was designed ground up for ancient mobiles, it uses very little resources.
Always been very stable in the past. Some stuff was clunky as hell, though. But battery life, and reception was the best I've ever experienced. Great for... phoning.
You need a PAL to acquire cartridges, since 1995 or 96. I think for muzzleloaders it probably only applies to the powder, not the bullets.
How would Stalin's purges have gone if after the first one every door they kicked in had five to ten people armed with these behind them?
Well, seeing as the purged included marshals, admirals, and generals, (among lower ranks as well) I'd have a hard time believing guns would have made much of a difference, as certainly the military members had arms.
They'd just be prolonging the the inevitable. Stalin's gonna getcha anyhow.
Yeah, going by the 8 hours to dry stated in the summary - almost all electronics are washable by that standard (provided batteries are removed, etc).
And to think that motherboard manufacturers have been missing out on marketing them as "washable" all these years...
That's precisely what the GP states... Take the petroleum that would be used for fueling the fishing boats, and just directly turn it into chairs, bypassing the harvesting plastic from the ocean part.
This is pretty common, here in Canada at least. On parcels over $30-40 or so, but it depends... about 3/4 of the time they will tax you. Not sure if it depends what day, or what agent you get, but some they don't bother taxing, or miss your parcel. This is usually based on the information based on the customs slip.
They also add a generous $5 'tax handling' fee... They are doing you a favour, collecting the tax, obviously. If duty is applicable they will apply it as well.
Occasionally they will open the parcels to determine if the information is falsified or not, or perhaps determine country of origin for duty purposes... something like this. Surely it takes a lot of manpower, which is why they charge the $5 fee.
On one occasion they held a package I had - some old tube radio parts someone gifted me, worthless old junk. Guy made the mistake of claiming $0 instead of say.. $5. So they held the package, and sent me a letter stating that this stuff obviously has value if someone is shipping it, and to tell them the true value.
I wrote a reply saying it's worthless old electronics; I couldn't see anyone paying more than $5 for it, etc. A week or two later the parcel showed up, and they decided it was worth a hundred bucks. Awesome. Thanks guys.
Now, if you get packages through the couriers it's even worse. UPS has the following rates for customs clearance (express is exempt, but they charge enough for that to make up for it generally).
Value fee
$20 $7
>$40 $20
>$100 $30
>$200 $45
(rate has reasonably lower increases after this)
Now, this is in addition to the actual tax and duty. So If I buy a $41 widget from the US, and spend say.. $10 to ship it UPS ground - I get hit with:
$41 (item) + $10 shipping + $20 (brokerage) + $4.10 (sales tax) + (duty if applicable - we'll assume this is a duty free item), for a grand total of $75. By the time you add in paypal dicking you on exchange rate, your $40 item from the US is now $80.
So - never send anything via courier to a Canadian unless you hate them, or (in the case of UPS at least) you pay for express, which waives the fees.
Sorry for the rant
Yugoslavia (the 1943 - 1991 edition) was reasonably democratic, not perfect mind you, but the best that comes to mind.
Although there has been no 'functionally' communist state... they were only in name, so I suppose it doesn't apply under that clause.
Something like a third to half of the cigarettes in Ontario and Quebec are smuggled in.
Smuggling is a fair bit lower in western provinces, afaik, under 10%, IIRC. Probably partially due to less close-border large population centres out there. Seem to recall that a lot of the smokes in the east are smuggled through some cross/near border indian reservation(s), although certainly not all of them.
Ontario, or Quebec, I forget... maybe both, had to actually cut their provincial cig taxes because smuggling was getting so high. I presume this is the same reason that cigs are 5 euros in germany and not 10 - because in eastern europe and balkans they are 2 euros or less... if they were much more expensive it would make smuggling very profitable, and probably actually reduce tax income for the government.
Yeah, that's a poorly worded sentence. It should state that 200+ countries each have a smaller GDP than apple's market cap. It is written like they are combined.
I really look forward to the gunfights over a can of ham.
95% of the readers just wooshed.
Bagger is series of gigantic bucket-wheel excavators, for the unitiated. Some (the biggest, at least) were made by East German TAKRAF. I think others were made in west.
They made some pretty bizarre machines, like RB293 (of bagger series) and F60
Gotta move that coal...
I think T60 was the first to get windows keys - coincidentally, T60 is the first non-IBM T, afaik... I don't think IBM ever made one with windows keys. Can't say I blame them.
Yeah, we could never (almost) eradicate polio without some drug company patenting it, could we?
I seem to think the funding for that research was via a non profit, as well, if not mistaken.
Plenty of govn't funded research too.
Sorry, forgot to mention that is GPL.
Deluge is quite nice on linux. There is a windows port, but I haven't run it... So I can't say if the experience is the same there.
-70 might be a bonus - here I still have to go to work when it's -40. at -70 I think they'd let us stay home... I'd think -70 might freeze a fully charged lead acid battery, even.
Gotta love when you get in the car, the seat is a rock. start it up (maybe). Wait a while. Start driving. Let the clutch out and the pedal hangs out for a second after you let go (if it's hydraulic). The tires are square for a mile or two. suspension is frozen... gear oil is reduced to grease... Steering is heavy... fun stuff. Poor cars.
I greatly prefer apt over yum, but that might just be what I'm used to.
Everything just feels wrong when I'm stuck with arch.
Me too. And it's too bloody cold here, even being a native. If I immigrated from somewhere warmer I'd want to kill myself (more than I already want to) all winter long (all 8 months of it).
Yeah, Our 'fiscal conservative' govn't that blew through the liberal's surplus, and is creating the largest deficit in the history of the nation. Some fucking fiscal conservatism that is.
I'm old enough to have lived through provincial NDP governments, and they've been the most fiscally sound we've ever had, while at the same time increasing social programs.
tory times are tough times.
Canada? In the west? No. The U.S. is still being used as the world's currency for trading the world's fuel: Oil.
Western Canada is where a bunch of that oil is coming from. Seems more important than what IOU-slips-of-paper are used, to me.
Seeing as he lived in Sweden for some time, I'm sure he knows how to drive on the right... Unless there was some sort of time warp and he lived in Sweden in the 60's.
Well, at least traditionally, Nokia had two OSes. S40 was the lightweight one that only did java apps, for dumbphones (which is what the phones from the TFA happen to run). S60 was the hotrod with native apps and so on, multitasking, etc. The 'smartphone'... Perhaps the quintessential smartphone until iphone and android rolled around.
That's the angle they're working on, at least - that S40 isn't smart, because it wasn't smart. But 1GHz sounds pretty smart to me... just why the fuck not run S60 or maemo, then? Because Elop hates anything better than windows phone? Wonder if they've added some multitasking and/or native apps to S40, if that's even possible without the thing being a completely different OS.
Came in here to post this. Maybe I have a new project to make... electromechanical punch and punchcard reader. :)
RS-232 dates to the early 60's, however I don't think the DE-9 connector is part of the standard, it only specifies the DB-25 connector / wiring. (think IBM PC, big serial port).
Although PC AT already moved to the DE9, so I guess I'd place it around then..? Not sure if that was the instigator, but it would have had enough market share to move things over to the nine pin connector.
(side note.. the connectors used, 'D-subminiature', are from the 50's.. I wonder how big the non subminiature ones were, if they ever existed..?)