Well, to be fair, a lot of the pdfs on alt.binaries.ebook.technical are made from a bunch of images that are put in order and "printed" to a pdf file, regardless of the orientation / paper size of the source. In that regards, yeah, it sucks. But that's not the proper way to do it;) Properly made PDFs are quite good - but it actually takes a fair bit of effort to make a bad chm.
Most of the stuff in that group is PDF, btw. Which I suppose is the "democratic" way of looking at it.
Reflow never worked worth a damn on my pocketpc - although I haven't used it for about 2 years now - there may be advances.
As a Canadian I was ABSOLUTELY APALLED by the manner in which he was treated. After politely explaining the situation as he did, I'd have told them all to fuck off in no uncertain terms long before I got to this cutoms jerk
You haven't been through Canadian Customs lately, have you? Complainers get their car or suitcase torn apart and sent to a back room for "the blue latex gove" treatment.
Because the people who work at Canada Customs have a tendency to go on power trips - which is sort of understandable because they do have pretty much unlimited power when you're at their mercy. They could of easily have ordered a cavity search.
Doesn't help that they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. (This applies to American border agents too)
Step 2: Fast-forward to that scene where Pacino and his friends try a coke deal with some Colombians. The Colombians want to take the money and keep the coke. They try to persuade Pacino to tell them where the money is by handcuffing him and his buddy to the wall, revvin' up a chainsaw and sawing off his friend's arms and legs till the whole room is so splattered with blood you can't see who's killing who any more.
Step 3: Replay this scene over and over. And over.
Congratulations! You have just learned the history and culture of Colombia!
If you factor in the size of the average american, the cell phones aren't that big.... A 280 pound man would look stupid talking on a european cell phone - to say nothing of the special dialing wand he'd have to use to press the buttons...
That said, I find it funny that 8 year old kids in poland got a RAZR before my dad did...
Sony is going to be paying for the batteries, dell's financials took only a very small hit. I do admit I have a ditty, I won it in their christmas game with the lezbo delf chick;)
Oh, and one more thing too that bugged me about SC:BW interface was that although the list of commands could have been made to easily adapt to the number pad on a keyboard, they still stuck with the somewhat backwards way of doing it in Warcraft 2 where each command had a hotkey letter associated with it.
That bothered you? Really? I think it helped a lot of people to start using the hotkeys because it was easy to remember that SZ was Spawn Zerglings or Select larva and breed to Zerglings or whatever.
Crazy question though, are you left handed? I could see how you'd feel cramped if the mouse was on the left side of your keyboard..
I thought SC was a great game before people started doing stupid stuff like building 300 hatcheries to screw with the unit limits. Having valks not able to fire was pretty lame too...
only really messed-up people like it We're talking about the British here... About the only place you'd find more leather shops or bdsm dungeons is in San Francisco.
You can still type with broken fingers - painful, but possible. Break the metacarpels and the hand is useless for some time. I'll personally attest to the fact that it is a great way to stop playing video games for a while...
Problem is that very few people have a basic understanding of the $3 thing hanging off their keychain. It might as well be magic... Or an act of god to the uneducated.
Although I don't listen to "music" over fm anymore, I'll have to admit that it would be nice to be able to get NPR or CBC occasionally and maybe the traffic report if I'm travelling. The power requirments are virtually nothing and the chip is tiny.
Podcasts are nice, but you really can't listen to the news...
You can get a police officer to show up when you are a victim of theft? Wow... That's really odd... (No, we can't look for your stolen car, half of us are sitting in schools and outside walmart arresting shoplifters)
The explosives would be detonated over the atlantic (to ensure maximum fatalities).
Incorrect - destruction of an aircraft over populated areas once the aircraft has reached 1000 feet or so will ensure maximum casualties. When I was in london in may, I went to see the changing of the guard at buckingham palace - aircraft were still flying directly overhead at an altitude of I'd guess 3500 feet or so. Bringing an aircraft down on or around the palace would have a significant impact on morale and would have the possibility of inflicting many, many casualties if it was timed right (during the changing of the guard). I'm not sure what the palace has for defence - I'm guessing that it is more than a couple people with SAMs - but unless they have some way of vaporizing the plane in mid air, it wouldn't help. Even a phalanx system would drop thousands of pounds of lead onto london which would inflict more casualties.
Likewise, bringing a relatively low flying aircraft down over a city would have tremendous psycological effects, in addition to any damage the planes themselves would cause. Depending on the airport and flight paths, the damage could be quite significant. If you factor in aircraft in landing patterns and on approach (granted, less fuel, but still), you could create quite a mess.
To continue with what you've said - destruction of an aircraft over populated areas once the aircraft has reached 1000 feet or so will ensure maximum casualties. When I was in london in may, I went to see the changing of the guard at buckingham palace - aircraft were still flying directly overhead at an altitude of I'd guess 3500 feet or so. Bringing an aircraft down on or around the palace would have a significant impact on morale and would have the possibility of inflicting many, many casualties if it was timed right (during the changing of the guard). I'm not sure what the palace has for defence - I'm guessing that it is more than a couple people with SAMs - but unless they have some way of vaporizing the plane in mid air, it wouldn't help. Even a phalanx system would drop thousands of pounds of lead onto london which would inflict more casualties.
Likewise, bringing a relatively low flying aircraft down over a city would have tremendous psycological effects, in addition to any damage the planes themselves would cause. Depending on the airport and flight paths, the damage could be quite significant. If you factor in aircraft in landing patterns and on approach (granted, less fuel, but still), you could create quite a mess.
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Or from the library... Got a couple math textbooks that way...
Well, to be fair, a lot of the pdfs on alt.binaries.ebook.technical are made from a bunch of images that are put in order and "printed" to a pdf file, regardless of the orientation / paper size of the source. In that regards, yeah, it sucks. But that's not the proper way to do it ;)
Properly made PDFs are quite good - but it actually takes a fair bit of effort to make a bad chm.
Most of the stuff in that group is PDF, btw. Which I suppose is the "democratic" way of looking at it.
Reflow never worked worth a damn on my pocketpc - although I haven't used it for about 2 years now - there may be advances.
As a Canadian I was ABSOLUTELY APALLED by the manner in which he was treated. After politely explaining the situation as he did, I'd have told them all to fuck off in no uncertain terms long before I got to this cutoms jerk
You haven't been through Canadian Customs lately, have you? Complainers get their car or suitcase torn apart and sent to a back room for "the blue latex gove" treatment.
Hate speech is banned, even books like "The Turner Diaries" will be confiscated.
They don't like certain kids of porn either. linky
Because the people who work at Canada Customs have a tendency to go on power trips - which is sort of understandable because they do have pretty much unlimited power when you're at their mercy. They could of easily have ordered a cavity search.
Doesn't help that they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.
(This applies to American border agents too)
Colombian History and Culture in Three E-Z Steps!
Step 1: Rent Scarface.
Step 2: Fast-forward to that scene where Pacino and his friends try a coke deal with some Colombians. The Colombians want to take the money and keep the coke. They try to persuade Pacino to tell them where the money is by handcuffing him and his buddy to the wall, revvin' up a chainsaw and sawing off his friend's arms and legs till the whole room is so splattered with blood you can't see who's killing who any more.
Step 3: Replay this scene over and over. And over.
Congratulations! You have just learned the history and culture of Colombia!
If you factor in the size of the average american, the cell phones aren't that big.... A 280 pound man would look stupid talking on a european cell phone - to say nothing of the special dialing wand he'd have to use to press the buttons...
That said, I find it funny that 8 year old kids in poland got a RAZR before my dad did...
You do know of this company called dhl, yes?
A female lawyer not wearing a skirt to court is contempt in some courtrooms in the South. Judges tend to have a wee bit warped view of the world...
Sony is going to be paying for the batteries, dell's financials took only a very small hit. I do admit I have a ditty, I won it in their christmas game with the lezbo delf chick ;)
Yah, but it was like, a fucking woman who ate the apple and condemned the human race.
Or something...
Oh, and one more thing too that bugged me about SC:BW interface was that although the list of commands could have been made to easily adapt to the number pad on a keyboard, they still stuck with the somewhat backwards way of doing it in Warcraft 2 where each command had a hotkey letter associated with it.
That bothered you? Really? I think it helped a lot of people to start using the hotkeys because it was easy to remember that SZ was Spawn Zerglings or Select larva and breed to Zerglings or whatever.
Crazy question though, are you left handed? I could see how you'd feel cramped if the mouse was on the left side of your keyboard..
I thought SC was a great game before people started doing stupid stuff like building 300 hatcheries to screw with the unit limits. Having valks not able to fire was pretty lame too...
only really messed-up people like it
We're talking about the British here... About the only place you'd find more leather shops or bdsm dungeons is in San Francisco.
Not saying that is a bad thing, mind you..
He's a british guy which means he would probably get off on the s/m action...
Hardly a punishment...
You can still type with broken fingers - painful, but possible. Break the metacarpels and the hand is useless for some time. I'll personally attest to the fact that it is a great way to stop playing video games for a while...
Repeat after me, "would you like fries with that?"
Being able to say that in a foreign language may prove to be helpful in two or three generations...
Problem is that very few people have a basic understanding of the $3 thing hanging off their keychain. It might as well be magic... Or an act of god to the uneducated.
Haha, right. I'm sure that wal mart will stop using illegals for janitorial.
Although I don't listen to "music" over fm anymore, I'll have to admit that it would be nice to be able to get NPR or CBC occasionally and maybe the traffic report if I'm travelling. The power requirments are virtually nothing and the chip is tiny.
Podcasts are nice, but you really can't listen to the news...
You can get a police officer to show up when you are a victim of theft? Wow... That's really odd...
(No, we can't look for your stolen car, half of us are sitting in schools and outside walmart arresting shoplifters)
What does a DVR run on? Fairy power?
Scheduled wakeups probably make it more efficient.
Direct TV's retention department is laughably bad. You'd think they would want to keep customers, but what they offer is a joke.
The explosives would be detonated over the atlantic (to ensure maximum fatalities).
Incorrect - destruction of an aircraft over populated areas once the aircraft has reached 1000 feet or so will ensure maximum casualties.
When I was in london in may, I went to see the changing of the guard at buckingham palace - aircraft were still flying directly overhead at an altitude of I'd guess 3500 feet or so. Bringing an aircraft down on or around the palace would have a significant impact on morale and would have the possibility of inflicting many, many casualties if it was timed right (during the changing of the guard). I'm not sure what the palace has for defence - I'm guessing that it is more than a couple people with SAMs - but unless they have some way of vaporizing the plane in mid air, it wouldn't help. Even a phalanx system would drop thousands of pounds of lead onto london which would inflict more casualties.
Likewise, bringing a relatively low flying aircraft down over a city would have tremendous psycological effects, in addition to any damage the planes themselves would cause. Depending on the airport and flight paths, the damage could be quite significant. If you factor in aircraft in landing patterns and on approach (granted, less fuel, but still), you could create quite a mess.
To continue with what you've said - destruction of an aircraft over populated areas once the aircraft has reached 1000 feet or so will ensure maximum casualties.
When I was in london in may, I went to see the changing of the guard at buckingham palace - aircraft were still flying directly overhead at an altitude of I'd guess 3500 feet or so. Bringing an aircraft down on or around the palace would have a significant impact on morale and would have the possibility of inflicting many, many casualties if it was timed right (during the changing of the guard). I'm not sure what the palace has for defence - I'm guessing that it is more than a couple people with SAMs - but unless they have some way of vaporizing the plane in mid air, it wouldn't help. Even a phalanx system would drop thousands of pounds of lead onto london which would inflict more casualties.
Likewise, bringing a relatively low flying aircraft down over a city would have tremendous psycological effects, in addition to any damage the planes themselves would cause. Depending on the airport and flight paths, the damage could be quite significant. If you factor in aircraft in landing patterns and on approach (granted, less fuel, but still), you could create quite a mess.
/golf clap for your sig.
Really seems to apply today.