(Source: Tokyo Metro Survey 2001 estimate for 2003)
Size: approx 2187 square Km
Which is interesting - I always thought Tokyo had a higher population density than London. But Tokyo isn't three times bigger - population wise it's the same (near as dammit) and by area it's less than twice the size.
In the past 3 years I have hit two cars with my motorcycle. One pulled out on a roundabout, so I hit his drivers door and wrote his car off, the other decided that the traffic wasn't going over the traffic light junction fast enough, so did an (illegal) U turn across the turning right at the lights filter lane I was travelling in (without looking or indicating) so I bounced off his wing and the bike wrote off a car coming the other way.
I was doing sub 30mph in both situations, which is why I'm alive now.
Car drivers get the bad press because frankly I have to brake hard or swerve to avoid some twat or other EVERY DAY on my commute to work. Speeding or irresponsible motorcyclists are NOT the main cause of accidents involving a bike and another vehicle - a lazy, uncaring, unskilled IDIOT sitting in a car usually is.
I'm not disputing that irresponsible bikers exist - it's just that the harm they cause is usually to themselves. Car drivers picking their noses, talking on the phone, tuning the radio, eating, putting on makeup, reading the paper, sending e-mail, not defrosting their car and driving while looking through a letter box or just plain not looking where they are going are far, far more common. And it's not their lfe they are risking either - it's pedestrians, cyclists, bikers and everyone else not wrapped in metal.
THAT's why they get the bad press.
You sound like a sensible, law abiding chap. If you got a bike tomorrow, trained up, and rode responsibly and within the speed limit for a few years I can guarantee that sooner or later you will get knocked off. It's up to you, and the speed you are doing, the clothes you are wearing, and just plain luck, as to how much you get injured.
Oh please. So Apple have the corner on decently build personal computers, and Dell and everyone else who use the X86 family of processors build boxes of lower quality?
Who is making shit up? Don't let your predudices get in the way of your arguments.....
I can guarantee they didn't kill all the rats
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Rats living in the wild 'elect' a food taster, who tastes any new food, while the rest of the pack watches. If he/she becmes ill, the rest of the rats don't touch the food.
Even when living in captivity alone, rats will taste a tiny bit of new food, and see if they become ill, finishing the food if not, so the posion they used would have to be increadibly strong to kill a single rat with a single bite, or very slow acting to kill a pack after the taster has sampled it and given it the OK.
Clever little critters. I've kept domesticated ones for many years, and they never cease to amaze me with things they do or learn. You can house train them, get them to come when called, and do simple tricks for treats, just like dogs.
It is reckoned that living in a big city, you are never more than 3 yards away from a wild rat. Nuff said!
Reminds me of the crossbow I made when I was 12 - out of a car leaf spring and a bit of 4x2. Had to use a car jack to tension it. Copied the trigger release out of a library book and made it in metal at school in CDT.
Mom took it off me when I fired a 2 foot long 1/4 inch threaded bar through the garage wall.
Now why did she have to go and do that? I couldn't pick the thing up - it was nearly 4 feet long!
Anyone know how long the rail would have to be to get a craft to Mach 2-3 with survivable acceleration? Perhaps one of those supersonic ramjets could take over at that point - they need to be supersonic to light up, don't they?
You'd still save shedloads of fuel - and increase payload, and thats the point, right?
> CCBill has had an incident that compromised a minimal percentage of our
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investigating the circumstances, as an added precaution, we feel it is
important that all of our customers consider the following:
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> In order for your account to have been potentially affected, your setup
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CCBill.
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> 1. Please change your server password(s) or have your host do so.
> 2. Please have your host scan your server(s) for an installation of
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> 3. If the instance does occur and your host is unfamiliar with how to
disable the installation, please have them contact eggdrop@ccbill.com with
the Subject line - Eggdrop removal - and someone in our support department
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>
>
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> We want you to know that:
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> 2. We are working diligently to discover who was behind this.
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They do this in France on the motorways (can't remember what they are called) - it's a toll based system, and you get booths and a ticket. Cops wait at the end of the toll stretch and chek times.
The whole world has NEVER paid for radio - (well, except indirectly through the TV license in the UK) If advertising revenue can't support it, like terestrial radio, it's dead in the water.
A mate of mine runs a small pr0n website and uses them for credit card payments - They supply a nice integrated payment page for you to stick on your site - quite cheap too....
www.topshelfsoftware.com if you are interested.....
Advertising campaign running currently has the strapline "You either love it or hate it..."
Shops in Brussels (EU parliment is based here) trade exclusively on Marmite, teabags etc etc for each cultural group in the EU - because of all the politicians from all the counries that make up the EU miss the tastes of home...
Printing is quite easy to fiddle.
Run an lpd on your local box. Then....
Create a remote outq on the 400 pointing to it, using host transform to get nicely formatted prints for whatever printer is attached to your linux box (the lpd uses straight ASCII so is transparent to the data stream in practice).
Create a dummy device despription of the same name as the outq, set it not to vary on at IPL, change the user ID or workstation description to point to your dummy device and the 400 will print to quite happily....
The IFS is a different issue. Basically you are running SMB services on the 400. If you have an ID on the box and a Windows login of the same name and password it's all quite painless. You can convert text, CSV etc files from native format as you copy them via stream files, then pick them up from your share. I used this to migrate a 500 user site from client access downloads (a resource hog at the best of times) to IFS quite painlessly.
YMMV
Re:some old games never died
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Ultima Revived
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Total Annihilation!
Oh yes!
I bought it for 5UKP a year ago and it sucks about 5 hours a week out of my life....
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London - population 12 million. (Including Greater London)
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(Source (http://www.discover-london.info/london_informati
Size: approx 1620 square Km
Tokyo - population 12.3 million,
(Source: Tokyo Metro Survey 2001 estimate for 2003)
Size: approx 2187 square Km
Which is interesting - I always thought Tokyo had a higher population density than London. But Tokyo isn't three times bigger - population wise it's the same (near as dammit) and by area it's less than twice the size.
Perhaps you were talking about London GA?
Nice idea if you can convieniently forget the 14, count them, 14, US vetos of UN security council resolutions over Israel's recent behaviour.
Don't forget:
If it wasn't for the French you'd be English.
If it wasn't for the English you'd still be in England.
And if it wasn't for the USA the French would be German.
You need to get a global perspective. And a grip.
Why does the motorist get the blame?
In the past 3 years I have hit two cars with my motorcycle. One pulled out on a roundabout, so I hit his drivers door and wrote his car off, the other decided that the traffic wasn't going over the traffic light junction fast enough, so did an (illegal) U turn across the turning right at the lights filter lane I was travelling in (without looking or indicating) so I bounced off his wing and the bike wrote off a car coming the other way.
I was doing sub 30mph in both situations, which is why I'm alive now.
Car drivers get the bad press because frankly I have to brake hard or swerve to avoid some twat or other EVERY DAY on my commute to work. Speeding or irresponsible motorcyclists are NOT the main cause of accidents involving a bike and another vehicle - a lazy, uncaring, unskilled IDIOT sitting in a car usually is.
I'm not disputing that irresponsible bikers exist - it's just that the harm they cause is usually to themselves. Car drivers picking their noses, talking on the phone, tuning the radio, eating, putting on makeup, reading the paper, sending e-mail, not defrosting their car and driving while looking through a letter box or just plain not looking where they are going are far, far more common. And it's not their lfe they are risking either - it's pedestrians, cyclists, bikers and everyone else not wrapped in metal.
THAT's why they get the bad press.
You sound like a sensible, law abiding chap. If you got a bike tomorrow, trained up, and rode responsibly and within the speed limit for a few years I can guarantee that sooner or later you will get knocked off. It's up to you, and the speed you are doing, the clothes you are wearing, and just plain luck, as to how much you get injured.
Yeah - the correct way to spell color is colour!
Oh please. So Apple have the corner on decently build personal computers, and Dell and everyone else who use the X86 family of processors build boxes of lower quality?
Who is making shit up? Don't let your predudices get in the way of your arguments.....
Rats living in the wild 'elect' a food taster, who tastes any new food, while the rest of the pack watches. If he/she becmes ill, the rest of the rats don't touch the food.
Even when living in captivity alone, rats will taste a tiny bit of new food, and see if they become ill, finishing the food if not, so the posion they used would have to be increadibly strong to kill a single rat with a single bite, or very slow acting to kill a pack after the taster has sampled it and given it the OK.
Clever little critters. I've kept domesticated ones for many years, and they never cease to amaze me with things they do or learn. You can house train them, get them to come when called, and do simple tricks for treats, just like dogs.
It is reckoned that living in a big city, you are never more than 3 yards away from a wild rat. Nuff said!
Reminds me of the crossbow I made when I was 12 - out of a car leaf spring and a bit of 4x2. Had to use a car jack to tension it. Copied the trigger release out of a library book and made it in metal at school in CDT.
Mom took it off me when I fired a 2 foot long 1/4 inch threaded bar through the garage wall.
Now why did she have to go and do that? I couldn't pick the thing up - it was nearly 4 feet long!
Polled terminals? 3270?
Uh oh - Flashback
3420, 3480, TSO, CICS, JES, Netview!
5250!
T Tur Tt ttur turw...
TWINAX!
NOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo!
Current AS/400s use the same processor, memory, etc etc as RS6000s. It's not unique hardware anymore (But it's still fairly special!)
;-)
AS/400's can run multiple Linux instances in LPARs.
Guess what this links session is running on
Anyone know how long the rail would have to be to get a craft to Mach 2-3 with survivable acceleration? Perhaps one of those supersonic ramjets could take over at that point - they need to be supersonic to light up, don't they?
You'd still save shedloads of fuel - and increase payload, and thats the point, right?
Yeah - but if you get mugged you can beat the assailant and his mates to death with the thinkpad, and it'll still keep booting for another 5 years.
The Dell would fold up at the slightest impact, and you'd need to have it removed. Surgically.
I've had Dell and IBM laptops, and the Dell ones always blow up eventually (literally in the case of my Inspiron!).
Some info:
> CCBill has had an incident that compromised a minimal percentage of our
customer's hosting server user names and passwords. While we are
investigating the circumstances, as an added precaution, we feel it is
important that all of our customers consider the following:
>
> In order for your account to have been potentially affected, your setup
must meet the following criteria:
>
> 1. Unix/Linux box.
> 2. Submitted ftp/telnet/ssh information about your current server to
CCBill.
>
>
> At this time we are asking all of our CCBill clients to take the following
steps:
>
> 1. Please change your server password(s) or have your host do so.
> 2. Please have your host scan your server(s) for an installation of
'eggdrop' and to see if port 9872 is open.
> 3. If the instance does occur and your host is unfamiliar with how to
disable the installation, please have them contact eggdrop@ccbill.com with
the Subject line - Eggdrop removal - and someone in our support department
will contact them immediately.
>
>
>
> We want you to know that:
>
> 1. We have corrected the source of the problem.
> 2. We are working diligently to discover who was behind this.
> 3. No other systems at CCBill were affected and only hosting passwords
need to be changed.
>
> Any other questions may be addressed to your sales person at CCBill.
>
>
>
> Ron Cadwell, CEO
>
A Fugazi fan - splendid.
But on full afterburner I think you've got something like 9 minutes of fuel with an EE Lightning......
Hmmmm.
They do this in France on the motorways (can't remember what they are called) - it's a toll based system, and you get booths and a ticket. Cops wait at the end of the toll stretch and chek times.
And then nick you.
You are completely correct.
The whole world has NEVER paid for radio - (well, except indirectly through the TV license in the UK) If advertising revenue can't support it, like terestrial radio, it's dead in the water.
Have a look at ccBill.
A mate of mine runs a small pr0n website and uses them for credit card payments - They supply a nice integrated payment page for you to stick on your site - quite cheap too....
www.topshelfsoftware.com if you are interested.....
Well I can - I have a lathe etc - I've even built a few engines from scratch (2 cycle 1 cylinder ones - keep it simple!)
It also cost very little, apart from time - the raw materials are very cheap.
Does that make me a hardware hacker?
I suppose a lathe could be the equivalent of a commercial compiler, that makes the plans (source code) into an object (program).
I could distribute the plans for my engine and anyone with access to a lathe and pillar drill could make it.
The analogy breaks down because gcc is free - a decent lathe is most definately not.
In conclusion - dunno.
According to RD, Jxta is the noise a cat makes when it catches it's spuds in a door....
Brits have Marmite.
Advertising campaign running currently has the strapline "You either love it or hate it..."
Shops in Brussels (EU parliment is based here) trade exclusively on Marmite, teabags etc etc for each cultural group in the EU - because of all the politicians from all the counries that make up the EU miss the tastes of home...
Yeah - but if you mishandle a bike thing happen to YOU a whole lot faster and the consequences are far more serious than in a car.
Still getting used to my just purchased 1975 Laverda Jota - someone put the gearlever on the wrong side!
My question about this theory would be:
If this was before the universe was created, what was He/She sitting on?
Ha!
Printing is quite easy to fiddle.
Run an lpd on your local box. Then....
Create a remote outq on the 400 pointing to it, using host transform to get nicely formatted prints for whatever printer is attached to your linux box (the lpd uses straight ASCII so is transparent to the data stream in practice).
Create a dummy device despription of the same name as the outq, set it not to vary on at IPL, change the user ID or workstation description to point to your dummy device and the 400 will print to quite happily....
The IFS is a different issue. Basically you are running SMB services on the 400. If you have an ID on the box and a Windows login of the same name and password it's all quite painless. You can convert text, CSV etc files from native format as you copy them via stream files, then pick them up from your share. I used this to migrate a 500 user site from client access downloads (a resource hog at the best of times) to IFS quite painlessly.
YMMV
Total Annihilation!
Oh yes!
I bought it for 5UKP a year ago and it sucks about 5 hours a week out of my life....
Play it stoned.
Just goes to show how stupid it all is.
So I can now go to Amsterdam, smoke a fat one, and then get arrested in America as part of the war on drugs?
Don't think so.
So why is software different?