Fat Tire's shit. It's just another generic beer. I lived in Denver for a few years in the 90's shortly after it started becoming popular. The Wynkoop Brewery in Denver made some fantastic beers back then. As does Mill St in downtown Toronto today. But in general, both Canada and the US make shitty, bland, tasteless beers that must be drunk over-chilled.
I've seen a rather nasty prank where an apparently zero byte file consumes all remaining disk space by having very large alternate data stream(s). It's rather hard to find the culprit using Explorer.
That's got to be annoying hasn't it? Doesn't Windows prompt about loss of information when copying/moving files with alternative data streams to files systems that don't support them? Most people won't even know or understand what Windows is going on about, or whether they're about to lose legitimate data or not.
Six half lives will reduce the amount of Pu to 1.5625% of the original amount. If you have the half-life of 20,000 right, then that's 120,000 years. 1 million years will take it down to 8.88x10^-14%. Where do you get the millions (plural) from? There's a reason why there's little naturally occurring Pu - isn't most of it created in uranium ores from spare neutrons or something as it decays?
Oh, and people seem to forget that things with really long half-lives aren't intensely radioactive.
Stop splitting hairs. The message was clear. If one were to do use that command often enough then presumably one would add it to the path, which makes it technically correct too.
Not available as GSM. Stupid backwards wireless phone system that we have.
Do Virgin operate over here like they do in the UK, or more like the incumbents? For instance my PAYG account with Rogers expires my credit after a month, not six months like Virgin Mobile UK does. What about data rates? Just a few pence to send and receive email in the UK. Several dollars with Rogers PAYG - they're obviously trying to force people in to a monthly plan.
Missed Dr. Who on Monday. Thanks Azureus. Quick download of 350MB, and then hooked my laptop up to my TV via S-Video. Picture quality better than Rogers Cable's CBC feed here in Toronto. No adverts to skip through either. Sweet.
Their goal of course is to squeeze people as far as possible before the pain drives them away in droves. Enjoy it... maybe that's the real entertainment factor.
I'd take NTFS over ext2 any day. Far far far superior filesystem.
Curious: why wouldn't you suggest ext3? Is it not supported so well or something? At least suggest a journalling filesystem instead of something old and suffer obsolescence. Really you should be suggesting ext3 + ACLs, or something better thank you.
Of course it's Thunderbird, that's the only thing that's changed. Just because it works for you doesn't mean there isn't any issue there. In fact you've just explained that there were major changes in how it works with IMAP... a clue perhaps?
Strewth: and you wonder why software in general has so many problems.
Oh and then there's it's moronic behaviour with updates. Google search shows it's been a known issue under limited user accounts for a very long time. How much effort is it to put the update files in the All Users folder and prompt for admin credentials to install?
Since the last major revision it's been bringing my mail server to its knees if I use IMAP. I don't have a powerful server, but it's been chugging away happily and problem free for years. New version of Thunderbird has started opening more and more IMAP session/connections until I exit the app. I guess more poor little server doesn't respond quickly enough or something. Who knows, but it's really irritating. I only use Thunderbird because it was a natural progression from Netscape - I still have some messages in my Thunderbird folders from a decade ago. I really don't want to switch mail client... but I can do that in a few hours compared to the time and cost of building a new server. I already have Outlook (unused) on my home computer, and I'm happy with it at work (combined with X1).
I got a used Samsung SGH-E730 off eBay last year. Originally from Hong Kong IIRC, cost $120, brand new condition, just a few months usage. It's a tiny clamshell weighing in at 80g... I don't even notice it in my pocket. So so so much better than the over-sized and over-weight crap I had from Motorola before that. Don't even get me started on RAZRs - far too big. It does email, web, and as a phone, works better than anything I've tried from Motorola. It comes with me everywhere in the world, and I just plug in new SIM cards wherever I am.
Only problem with it is the lack of choice of GSM phone providers here. Rogers Wireless is utter over-priced shit. I can bypass the shitty choice of phones in N. America, but I can't get away from the wanky service providers.
Interesting how during the last presidential election in the US that GWB proposed changes to bring about economies of scale. What bigger economy of scale is there than a national health service?
When I left the US and moved north of the border to Canada, it was like a weight came off my shoulders. I no longer have to worry about health care. If I get sick, I won't be imprisoned by my job for fear of losing coverage. It's insane - why would any intelligent person want to restrict their freedom by handing over their well-being to their employer? The first thing a friend of mine did when her husband was diagnosed with ALS was to start looking for new job with a more stable company, who also had a health plan that accepted pre-existing conditions. Can you imagine?
A friend of mine has recurrent cancer and has been in and out of work a lot. Under Californian law, her job is no longer guaranteed for when she gets back. Without the job she will lose health coverage for herself and family. If her husband has problems with his job, what then? So she's forced to stay on long-term disability without attempting to come back to work until she's sure that she's ok, and can take the risk of not being put back on pay-roll. Ugh.
Another thing to note about the American health providers is that they spend a disproportionate amount on admin costs. Perhaps that's investigating claims, etc. A few years ago an article in something like the New England Journal of Medicine attributed most of the difference in cost between American and Canadian health care (almost a factor of 2, IIRC) to admin costs in the American system. I.e. spending per person on actual health care was only slightly higher in the US. What a waste of money.
Recently some supporters of Dallas's MLS team were in town. We all got rat-arsed in the pub then invited them to come and play some footie with us. One of them refused because he'd just lost his job. What a miserable existence, IMHO. Childish, and probably not relevant to many Americans, but we continue to chant about our health care being free when we go to away games:D
Sure, there are people who play the system, but I'm happy to fund universal health care out of my income taxes because my own quality of life is better.
Depends where you live. Here in Toronto it seems to have gone well past its college roots. It's actually getting annoying because everybody everywhere is talking about Facebook, be they walking in the street, sitting in coffee shops/pubs/parks, or riding on public transport. The Toronto, ON group has 664,000 members, which is 2.5x NYC or Chicago, and 5x LA, and those cities are much bigger. The London network is a similar size... so perhaps Facebook demographics and/or social behaviours are just different outside the US.
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Fat Tire's shit. It's just another generic beer. I lived in Denver for a few years in the 90's shortly after it started becoming popular. The Wynkoop Brewery in Denver made some fantastic beers back then. As does Mill St in downtown Toronto today. But in general, both Canada and the US make shitty, bland, tasteless beers that must be drunk over-chilled.
I've seen a rather nasty prank where an apparently zero byte file consumes all remaining disk space by having very large alternate data stream(s). It's rather hard to find the culprit using Explorer.
That's got to be annoying hasn't it? Doesn't Windows prompt about loss of information when copying/moving files with alternative data streams to files systems that don't support them? Most people won't even know or understand what Windows is going on about, or whether they're about to lose legitimate data or not.
Six half lives will reduce the amount of Pu to 1.5625% of the original amount. If you have the half-life of 20,000 right, then that's 120,000 years. 1 million years will take it down to 8.88x10^-14%. Where do you get the millions (plural) from? There's a reason why there's little naturally occurring Pu - isn't most of it created in uranium ores from spare neutrons or something as it decays?
Oh, and people seem to forget that things with really long half-lives aren't intensely radioactive.
And Aaron Margosis' blog explains how to make it more useful (PrivBar).
Stop splitting hairs. The message was clear. If one were to do use that command often enough then presumably one would add it to the path, which makes it technically correct too.
This is why it's called "Treasure Island" by businesses, especially the car industry a few years ago.
Not available as GSM. Stupid backwards wireless phone system that we have.
Do Virgin operate over here like they do in the UK, or more like the incumbents? For instance my PAYG account with Rogers expires my credit after a month, not six months like Virgin Mobile UK does. What about data rates? Just a few pence to send and receive email in the UK. Several dollars with Rogers PAYG - they're obviously trying to force people in to a monthly plan.
That's price gouging.
"It's the difference between 1/2 second to open OpenOffice 2.1 vs. 2+ seconds on one of my systems."
And that's really worth it? This sounds more like a pissing competition. I'll stick with my pre-compiled binaries thanks.
From the very post of TFA:
"I can see it's not cpu usage, as it happens even while the video/audio is paused"
Missed Dr. Who on Monday. Thanks Azureus. Quick download of 350MB, and then hooked my laptop up to my TV via S-Video. Picture quality better than Rogers Cable's CBC feed here in Toronto. No adverts to skip through either. Sweet.
Where's the iPlayer that they made earlier (c), that works?
But that's a break in concentration.
You never used a shared network, like at work or a university, or an Internet Cafe?
Translation: "because they're greedy bastards"
Their goal of course is to squeeze people as far as possible before the pain drives them away in droves. Enjoy it... maybe that's the real entertainment factor.
I'd take NTFS over ext2 any day. Far far far superior filesystem.
Curious: why wouldn't you suggest ext3? Is it not supported so well or something? At least suggest a journalling filesystem instead of something old and suffer obsolescence. Really you should be suggesting ext3 + ACLs, or something better thank you.
Chalk it up to society's over-developed sense of entitlement.
Of course it's Thunderbird, that's the only thing that's changed. Just because it works for you doesn't mean there isn't any issue there. In fact you've just explained that there were major changes in how it works with IMAP... a clue perhaps?
Strewth: and you wonder why software in general has so many problems.
Oh and then there's it's moronic behaviour with updates. Google search shows it's been a known issue under limited user accounts for a very long time. How much effort is it to put the update files in the All Users folder and prompt for admin credentials to install?
Since the last major revision it's been bringing my mail server to its knees if I use IMAP. I don't have a powerful server, but it's been chugging away happily and problem free for years. New version of Thunderbird has started opening more and more IMAP session/connections until I exit the app. I guess more poor little server doesn't respond quickly enough or something. Who knows, but it's really irritating. I only use Thunderbird because it was a natural progression from Netscape - I still have some messages in my Thunderbird folders from a decade ago. I really don't want to switch mail client... but I can do that in a few hours compared to the time and cost of building a new server. I already have Outlook (unused) on my home computer, and I'm happy with it at work (combined with X1).
I got a used Samsung SGH-E730 off eBay last year. Originally from Hong Kong IIRC, cost $120, brand new condition, just a few months usage. It's a tiny clamshell weighing in at 80g... I don't even notice it in my pocket. So so so much better than the over-sized and over-weight crap I had from Motorola before that. Don't even get me started on RAZRs - far too big. It does email, web, and as a phone, works better than anything I've tried from Motorola. It comes with me everywhere in the world, and I just plug in new SIM cards wherever I am.
Only problem with it is the lack of choice of GSM phone providers here. Rogers Wireless is utter over-priced shit. I can bypass the shitty choice of phones in N. America, but I can't get away from the wanky service providers.
Interesting how during the last presidential election in the US that GWB proposed changes to bring about economies of scale. What bigger economy of scale is there than a national health service?
:D
When I left the US and moved north of the border to Canada, it was like a weight came off my shoulders. I no longer have to worry about health care. If I get sick, I won't be imprisoned by my job for fear of losing coverage. It's insane - why would any intelligent person want to restrict their freedom by handing over their well-being to their employer? The first thing a friend of mine did when her husband was diagnosed with ALS was to start looking for new job with a more stable company, who also had a health plan that accepted pre-existing conditions. Can you imagine?
A friend of mine has recurrent cancer and has been in and out of work a lot. Under Californian law, her job is no longer guaranteed for when she gets back. Without the job she will lose health coverage for herself and family. If her husband has problems with his job, what then? So she's forced to stay on long-term disability without attempting to come back to work until she's sure that she's ok, and can take the risk of not being put back on pay-roll. Ugh.
Another thing to note about the American health providers is that they spend a disproportionate amount on admin costs. Perhaps that's investigating claims, etc. A few years ago an article in something like the New England Journal of Medicine attributed most of the difference in cost between American and Canadian health care (almost a factor of 2, IIRC) to admin costs in the American system. I.e. spending per person on actual health care was only slightly higher in the US. What a waste of money.
Recently some supporters of Dallas's MLS team were in town. We all got rat-arsed in the pub then invited them to come and play some footie with us. One of them refused because he'd just lost his job. What a miserable existence, IMHO. Childish, and probably not relevant to many Americans, but we continue to chant about our health care being free when we go to away games
Sure, there are people who play the system, but I'm happy to fund universal health care out of my income taxes because my own quality of life is better.
Depends where you live. Here in Toronto it seems to have gone well past its college roots. It's actually getting annoying because everybody everywhere is talking about Facebook, be they walking in the street, sitting in coffee shops/pubs/parks, or riding on public transport. The Toronto, ON group has 664,000 members, which is 2.5x NYC or Chicago, and 5x LA, and those cities are much bigger. The London network is a similar size... so perhaps Facebook demographics and/or social behaviours are just different outside the US.
If that's so easy, then I expect they'll be applying the same principles on Earth. No need to worry about global warming at home then?
HD DVD players are considerably cheaper than $500.