Here in Paris (France, not Texas), it is sometimes hard to find a parking space.
In fact, the locals have a special technique, which makes full use of the bumpers... When you park your car, you shouldn't pull the hand brake (parking brake) too hard; you want your car to be nudgable...
Now, getting back to the point of the article, it's all well and good having a system that parks your own car into a tight space, but how is this going to stop the arsehole in his F150 from breaking your poxy little plastic bumpers, when he decides to gently nudge your little yoghurt pot in order to fit his pickup into a space the size of a Micra?
There are all too many ISPs who appear to be happy to turn a blind eye to this type of activity, in spite of the fact that it costs them money.
Well, in France, many ISPs have premium rate phone numbers for the helpdesk. So, if you're on a dial-up connection, the ISP makes money hand-over-fist!
First, you pay to download the spam (because the ISP doesn't block it).
Then you pay for the pleasure of listening to 10 minutes of vivaldi's Four Seasons, before explaining to helpdesker No.1, who then passes you on to helpdesker No.2, who wants all the same details again... you get the picture.
Finally, if you manage to get any help at all, you'll be sent an e-mail with a 650KByte MS Word attachment, with details of how to set up spam filtering *on your home computer*, so as to filter out spam *after you've downloaded it*
Stupid, those ISPs? No, they have a profitable, if immoral, business model.
Keith.
I don't think that the amount of alcohol in small beer is sufficient. I doubt that the amount in modern beers and ales would be enough, either.
What made beer much safer than plain well-water, was the process: boiling the water to extract the sugars from the grain killed many of the bacteria and amoebae.
Add to this the phenol compounds found in the hops, which helped to kill the other single-celled organisms that would turn the beer sour, and maybe also make the drinker ill.
Any brewer who has made beer from chlorinated tap water, without boiling the water sufficiently, will have smelt the easily identified smell of tri-chloro phenol, commonly known as TCP.
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A few years ago, a female colleague had a furry cover, with a pointy nose, eyes, whiskers and a tail, so that her mouse looked more like a mouse...
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That he wasn't good at arithmetic in primary school?
You rent a house, put some cops inside it, then deliberately lose the door key, with the address marked on the keyring. Then you just wait for the burglars to come visiting.
The key with the address on it is the honeytoken, the house is the honeypot.
Or would this be thrown out of court for being "entrapment"?
IANAL.
Land-based radionavigational systems like loran and shoran have existed for decades.
Land-based optical systems like lighthouses have existed for centuries.
The whole point of satellite-based systems is that they work in very remote areas, where it would be prohibitively expensive to put lighthouses/transmitters.
Aren't these echo/reverb chips simply bucket brigade devices with feedback?
Analog devices had been churning these things out for *years* at very affrodable prices....
Leaving aside the Germisch fonetik transkription, "Gossudarstwenoje" means "State", and not "national" in the sense most usually used in English. This would more correktlii in Russian be "Narodnoje" (keeping the Germisch fonetiks)
That really is a good idea, except that you missed a really important detail.
Your piece of meat needs to weigh about twelve ounces, and be at least an inch thick.
Oh, and it should be accompanied by a bottle of reasonable wine, like maybe a Gigondas, or a Chateauneuf du Pape. Something with enough body to carry the flavour of the meat.
My own pereference, however, would be to just sear the meat for about 90 seconds per side, so the inside is still bleeding raw.
There have been two-wheel drive motorcycles, and as a matter of fact, I saw one in the small ads in a bike magazine a couple of weeks ago.
Moreover, they are almost always intended as rallye racers (like the Dakar rallye).
So, you fell when you hit an icy patch on your pedal bike? I bet it wasn't front-wheel driven... so your anecdote has nothing to do with the possibel merits of front-wheel drive for motorcycles / motorized-pedal-cycles.
It's true that on a motorbike, there's a big difference between losing front-wheel grip and rear-wheel grip.
If the rear wheel loses grip, you can usually recover, whereas when the front wheel loses grip, you can very easily find yourself kissing tarmac. That's bad news at the best of times, but in traffic.......
In my (admittedly limited to three years, but in ice and snow) experience on a motorbike, the front end loses it under hasty braking, whereas the rear end loses it under hasty acceleration... but then that too may be a side effect of only ever having ridden rear-wheel-drive bikes...
Well, I reckon he used some translation engine to translate "the French are cheese-eating surrender-monkeys".
I'd like to know which one...The Babelfish does a bad job on this phrase, giving:
"les Français fromage-mangent des rendre-singes"
This brings up an interesting point about Babelfish: you get a better translation if you tweak the English wording to suit the target language.
"The French are surrender monkeys who eat cheese"
"Les Français sont des singes de reddition qui mangent du fromage"
I've used Babelfish to help me to write in German and in Spanish (since I only have a basic knowledge of these languages, but that little certainly helps), and I compare the fish's attempts at translating my good French into English... and I ROFL!
seems ot kill most of our equipment around the end of thier warrenty periods
If I was really cynical, I would say that
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology could be used to deliberately smoke a hard disc at a random moment three to six months after the end of its warranty period...
Fill water in your mouth and hold your nose with your hand
And as the glottis blocks your throat, increase the pressure in your mouth as is you wanted to force the water out of your ears. That old fish nerve thinks the water is going through your gills, and the hiccup is cured.
She is paid to get an idea into areas of public debate. A few months ago, she was hanging around in bars, railway stations, shopping centres, talking into her mobile phone and saying "just take a look at the picture I'm sending you now, I just took it on my new mobile phone"...
This month, her job is te get us all to believe that PowerBooks are so robust, you can really mistreat them, and they still work.
She almost got the job of promoting Oracle's "unbreakable" slogan... Hey, maybe that could be given to the "crack a Mac" focus group...
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Here in Paris (France, not Texas), it is sometimes hard to find a parking space.
In fact, the locals have a special technique, which makes full use of the bumpers... When you park your car, you shouldn't pull the hand brake (parking brake) too hard; you want your car to be nudgable...
Now, getting back to the point of the article, it's all well and good having a system that parks your own car into a tight space, but how is this going to stop the arsehole in his F150 from breaking your poxy little plastic bumpers, when he decides to gently nudge your little yoghurt pot in order to fit his pickup into a space the size of a Micra?
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And you try telling that to young people today. They won't believe you! .
Almost everyday, I get spam telling me I can download images of stoned beaver... I never realised it was a new kernel! .
I don't think that the amount of alcohol in small beer is sufficient. I doubt that the amount in modern beers and ales would be enough, either.
What made beer much safer than plain well-water, was the process: boiling the water to extract the sugars from the grain killed many of the bacteria and amoebae.
Add to this the phenol compounds found in the hops, which helped to kill the other single-celled organisms that would turn the beer sour, and maybe also make the drinker ill.
Any brewer who has made beer from chlorinated tap water, without boiling the water sufficiently, will have smelt the easily identified smell of tri-chloro phenol, commonly known as TCP.
A few years ago, a female colleague had a furry cover, with a pointy nose, eyes, whiskers and a tail, so that her mouse looked more like a mouse...
That he wasn't good at arithmetic in primary school?
You rent a house, put some cops inside it, then deliberately lose the door key, with the address marked on the keyring. Then you just wait for the burglars to come visiting. The key with the address on it is the honeytoken, the house is the honeypot. Or would this be thrown out of court for being "entrapment"? IANAL.
Land-based radionavigational systems like loran and shoran have existed for decades.
Land-based optical systems like lighthouses have existed for centuries.
The whole point of satellite-based systems is that they work in very remote areas, where it would be prohibitively expensive to put lighthouses/transmitters.
Aren't these echo/reverb chips simply bucket brigade devices with feedback? Analog devices had been churning these things out for *years* at very affrodable prices....
Leaving aside the Germisch fonetik transkription, "Gossudarstwenoje" means "State", and not "national" in the sense most usually used in English. This would more correktlii in Russian be "Narodnoje" (keeping the Germisch fonetiks)
That really is a good idea, except that you missed a really important detail.
Your piece of meat needs to weigh about twelve ounces, and be at least an inch thick.
Oh, and it should be accompanied by a bottle of reasonable wine, like maybe a Gigondas, or a Chateauneuf du Pape. Something with enough body to carry the flavour of the meat.
My own pereference, however, would be to just sear the meat for about 90 seconds per side, so the inside is still bleeding raw.
The oil is not mixed with the petrol for combustion, but for lubrication of the top-end of the engine.
There have been two-wheel drive motorcycles, and as a matter of fact, I saw one in the small ads in a bike magazine a couple of weeks ago.
Moreover, they are almost always intended as rallye racers (like the Dakar rallye).
So, you fell when you hit an icy patch on your pedal bike? I bet it wasn't front-wheel driven... so your anecdote has nothing to do with the possibel merits of front-wheel drive for motorcycles / motorized-pedal-cycles.
It's true that on a motorbike, there's a big difference between losing front-wheel grip and rear-wheel grip. .......
If the rear wheel loses grip, you can usually recover, whereas when the front wheel loses grip, you can very easily find yourself kissing tarmac. That's bad news at the best of times, but in traffic
In my (admittedly limited to three years, but in ice and snow) experience on a motorbike, the front end loses it under hasty braking, whereas the rear end loses it under hasty acceleration... but then that too may be a side effect of only ever having ridden rear-wheel-drive bikes...
Well, I reckon he used some translation engine to translate "the French are cheese-eating surrender-monkeys".
I'd like to know which one...The Babelfish does a bad job on this phrase, giving:
"les Français fromage-mangent des rendre-singes"
This brings up an interesting point about Babelfish: you get a better translation if you tweak the English wording to suit the target language.
"The French are surrender monkeys who eat cheese"
"Les Français sont des singes de reddition qui mangent du fromage"
I've used Babelfish to help me to write in German and in Spanish (since I only have a basic knowledge of these languages, but that little certainly helps), and I compare the fish's attempts at translating my good French into English... and I ROFL!
I had a drum synth program (I must still have it somewhere on a tape) for my Sinclair ZX81 (I think you Merkans called it a Timex).
It worked by generating RF interference, that you needed to pick up and amplify using a transistor radio.
Here's another link: the Observer
That's a good idea. I'll pick somebody out of a phone book, and the rest of you can call the poor victim, er, I mean respondant, and ask the question.
If I was really cynical, I would say that Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology could be used to deliberately smoke a hard disc at a random moment three to six months after the end of its warranty period...
And as the glottis blocks your throat, increase the pressure in your mouth as is you wanted to force the water out of your ears. That old fish nerve thinks the water is going through your gills, and the hiccup is cured.
Maybe she is astroturfing.
She is paid to get an idea into areas of public debate. A few months ago, she was hanging around in bars, railway stations, shopping centres, talking into her mobile phone and saying "just take a look at the picture I'm sending you now, I just took it on my new mobile phone"...
This month, her job is te get us all to believe that PowerBooks are so robust, you can really mistreat them, and they still work.
She almost got the job of promoting Oracle's "unbreakable" slogan... Hey, maybe that could be given to the "crack a Mac" focus group...
My guinness recipe poster had that one down as a snakebite.
From the lame Ananova article:
I thought that black velvet was 60% Guinness and 40% Champagne...