I've never understood the reluctance to purchase Diesel cars in th US - I have a perfectly ordinary Renault Clio diesel that gets 65 MPG. It positively sips fuel... I guess that's the advantage of small cars though.
Most successful driver of all time: Michael Schumacher. He owns nearly all of the records (no. of championships, no of race wins, no. of points, most wins in a season, most wins at a single track, most points in a season etc...) About the only exception is the number of poles: Senna still holds that - 65 but Schumacher is rapidly closing in... however he has needed a lot more races to do so.
Contrary to the stated opinion of most people, Schumacher is not arrogant - he just seems that way. Actually the people who know him say he is a Family man, private and his team loves him (his engineers and the people back in the factory basically work for him) He is always thanking them...
Obviously I',m a Schumi fan - so don't take it from me: The (in)famous British Commentator Murray Walker says so top!
I agree that to say one is the best is to forget history. Schumacher has said that it is impossible to compare drivers from different eras - Fangio was awesome in his time etc...
One comment that is consistently said about Schumacher is that he only uses part of his brain to drive, unlike most drivers. He gets a constant commentary from the pits about _EVERYTHING_ else that is happening on the track... No other driver can do that.
He took a crap team (Before he won it in 2000, Ferrari hadn't won a championship since 1979) to the absolute pinnacle...
Good site: http://www.itv-f1.com: ITV-F1 - Great commentary during the race too...
Not necessarily true; Famine was caused by several factors including:
* Farms were split between all of the children resulting in smaller and smaller pieces of land, which only potato (-e if you're Dan Quale) farming produced enough food to feed the families.
* 8 million people on the island (currently around 5.5m) dropped to under 3 after the famine.
* Best land was taken by mainly absentee landlords. (btw. 1845 was a bumper year for Wheat etc. Much more food was exported that year than usual)
Photocopiers and most scanners etc. look for 1mm sized circles on the banknote. All Euro notes have them; not sure about the US$, but I think they have them too. On a Euro note (I have checked the 100, 50, 20 and 10 notes) the circles are yellow on all but the 10 note and are located on both sides in the middle of the note. tom.
This is the problem with the US being so far behind the rest of the world. For me (Europe) where text messaging is _very_ popular, I just type 43556 for hello!
3G however is pointless unless _ALL_ the world is on one standard. I hate going to the states and having to leave my phone behind.
tom
Turn off Javascript
The problem with turning off Javascript is that some sites use Javascript legitimately.
What would be nice is a more advanced mechanism for handling Javascript, such as a global on/off option and a list for specifying which sites shouldn't be processed by that filter. That allows the user a lot of flexibility; they can turn off all Javascript except for those sites where it is absolutely needed, or can leave Javascript on except for the few sites that they find to be too much of a hassle to navigate with it enabled.
With konqueror there is an option to do just this - and another one to disable cookies for individual sites which means for me I can autologon to Slashdot but doubleclick doesn't know me from adam!
Just a couple of the features ever browser needs....
A Method or System of transmitting information generated by a single person or organisation for the purpose of allowing multiple individuals to receive a notification of the availibility of a product or service. This would be called Service Product Authority Message.
Its one of the features in KDE2 that I like - the ability to shred files.
What you must realise it is quite easy to remove
files if you expend some effort in the task.
Overwriting tools have been available for years and the ammount of time required to use them is very small.
My advice would be to shed the files that you really dont want to see again.:-)
That said - It can be quite useful sometimes (as the Justice says) to recover "lost Masterpieces", A coworker of mine was in that position a few weeks ago...
I have a much simpler method of disabling cookies...just make your cookies file read-only. I have stuck my Slashdot cookie and one or two more for sites I want to autologin to and then read onlyify (sic) my.netscape/cookies file - and it works. Sites that insist on sending you cookies work fine but nothing is saved.... just my two euros...
For those Unix folks, probably one of the most technical savvy ppl on the net, ie. likely customers - the glassbook reader supports : Windows blah blah, ie 4.0 blah....
You would think that they would a least provide a UNIX reader (or can someone point me to one...)
What laws, if any, does Germany have regarding parody material?
It doesn't matter what laws Germany has, because the EU's Laws take precedence (once you have fought your way through a member countries court system) and we do have freedom of speech (its under the European Court of Human Rights) so they are probably safe....but's that's just my opinion and i could be wrong;-).
Well here (Ireland) and as far as I know costs are accessed outside of winning etc. Some times you win and have to pay your own costs, other times the loser pays both. 'bout 2 years back our X-Prime Minister won a case against a British newspaper (in England), had to pay costs and was awarded a single penny!! [They called him a hick or something....]
> Also, I hope that RedHat replaces FVWM95 with something else for 6.0.
From what I've seen of 5.9 (6.0 pre) they are using Windowmaker & GNOME / KDE with a nifty mangager switcher thingy that _works_!!! Its very swish....Installation help provided ala SuSE... Now if only I could get StarOffice to work..hmmm
If you consider it this way, if M$ do port Office (I don't think so...more vapourware) they WILL have to conform to one particular standard : The Kernel. I cannot see them requiring a "Microsoft Kernel" in order to have office so, Office maybe as unstable as Windoze but LINUX will still be stable. Remember its the fact that the kernel is OpenSource and under Peer review that makes it stable...
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I've never understood the reluctance to purchase Diesel cars in th US - I have a perfectly ordinary Renault Clio diesel that gets 65 MPG. It positively sips fuel... I guess that's the advantage of small cars though.
You need to understand the basic principles of modern contracts:
"What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away."
Most successful driver of all time: Michael Schumacher. He owns nearly all of the records (no. of championships, no of race wins, no. of points, most wins in a season, most wins at a single track, most points in a season etc...) About the only exception is the number of poles: Senna still holds that - 65 but Schumacher is rapidly closing in... however he has needed a lot more races to do so.
:-)))))
Contrary to the stated opinion of most people, Schumacher is not arrogant - he just seems that way. Actually the people who know him say he is a Family man, private and his team loves him (his engineers and the people back in the factory basically work for him) He is always thanking them...
Obviously I',m a Schumi fan - so don't take it from me:
The (in)famous British Commentator Murray Walker says so top!
I agree that to say one is the best is to forget history.
Schumacher has said that it is impossible to compare drivers from different eras - Fangio was awesome in his time etc...
One comment that is consistently said about Schumacher is that he only uses part of his brain to drive, unlike most drivers. He gets a constant commentary from the pits about _EVERYTHING_ else that is happening on the track... No other driver can do that.
He took a crap team (Before he won it in 2000, Ferrari hadn't won a championship since 1979) to the absolute
pinnacle...
Good site: http://www.itv-f1.com: ITV-F1 - Great commentary during the race too...
Cant wait for the British GP -I'm going
tom.
Not necessarily true; Famine was caused by several factors including:
* Farms were split between all of the children resulting in smaller and smaller pieces of land, which only potato (-e if you're Dan Quale) farming produced enough food to feed the families.
* 8 million people on the island (currently around 5.5m) dropped to under 3 after the famine.
* Best land was taken by mainly absentee landlords. (btw. 1845 was a bumper year for Wheat etc. Much more food was exported that year than usual)
tom.
Photocopiers and most scanners etc. look for 1mm sized circles on the banknote. All Euro notes have them; not sure about the US$, but I think they have them too. On a Euro note (I have checked the 100, 50, 20 and 10 notes) the circles are yellow on all but the 10 note and are located on both sides in the middle of the note.
tom.
This is the problem with the US being so far behind the rest of the world. For me (Europe) where text messaging is _very_ popular, I just type 43556 for hello!
3G however is pointless unless _ALL_ the world is on one standard. I hate going to the states and having to leave my phone behind.
tom
Turn off Javascript The problem with turning off Javascript is that some sites use Javascript legitimately. What would be nice is a more advanced mechanism for handling Javascript, such as a global on/off option and a list for specifying which sites shouldn't be processed by that filter. That allows the user a lot of flexibility; they can turn off all Javascript except for those sites where it is absolutely needed, or can leave Javascript on except for the few sites that they find to be too much of a hassle to navigate with it enabled.
With konqueror there is an option to do just this - and another one to disable cookies for individual sites which means for me I can autologon to Slashdot but doubleclick doesn't know me from adam!
Just a couple of the features ever browser needs....
tom.
A Method or System of transmitting information generated by a single person or organisation for the purpose of allowing multiple individuals to receive a notification of the availibility of a product or service. This would be called Service Product Authority Message.
tom.
Its one of the features in KDE2 that I like - the ability to shred files.
:-)
:-)
tom.
What you must realise it is quite easy to remove files if you expend some effort in the task. Overwriting tools have been available for years and the ammount of time required to use them is very small.
My advice would be to shed the files that you really dont want to see again.
That said - It can be quite useful sometimes (as the Justice says) to recover "lost Masterpieces", A coworker of mine was in that position a few weeks ago...
anyway just my 2cents (thats Eurocents
I have a much simpler method of disabling cookies...just make your cookies file read-only. .netscape/cookies file - and it works. Sites that insist on sending you cookies work fine but nothing is saved....
I have stuck my Slashdot cookie and one or two more for sites I want to autologin to and then read onlyify (sic) my
just my two euros...
tom
For those Unix folks, probably one of the most technical savvy ppl on the net, ie. likely customers - the glassbook reader supports :
Windows blah blah, ie 4.0 blah....
You would think that they would a least provide a UNIX reader (or can someone point me to one...)
tom.
What laws, if any, does Germany have regarding parody material?
;-).
It doesn't matter what laws Germany has, because the EU's Laws take precedence (once you have fought your way through a member countries court system) and we do have freedom of speech (its under the European Court of Human Rights) so they are probably safe....but's that's just my opinion and i could be wrong
tom.
Well here (Ireland) and as far as I know costs are accessed outside of winning etc. Some times you win and have to pay your own costs, other times the loser pays both. 'bout 2 years back our X-Prime Minister won a case against a British newspaper (in England), had to pay costs and was awarded a single penny!! [They called him a hick or something....]
tom.
Yep....We were all expecting a FUD outbreak...well it has arrived.
tom.
> Also, I hope that RedHat replaces FVWM95 with something else for 6.0.
From what I've seen of 5.9 (6.0 pre) they are using Windowmaker & GNOME / KDE with a nifty mangager switcher thingy that _works_!!! Its very swish....Installation help provided ala SuSE...
Now if only I could get StarOffice to work..hmmm
If you consider it this way, if M$ do port Office (I don't think so...more vapourware) they WILL have to conform to one particular standard : The Kernel. I cannot see them requiring a "Microsoft Kernel" in order to have office so, Office maybe as unstable as Windoze but LINUX will still be stable. Remember its the fact that the kernel is OpenSource and under Peer review that makes it stable...
just my 2 Euros...