Hello, when you refer to Americans please don't conflate a meddling, incompetent President with Americans in general. Most Americans did not actually vote for that guy, he's lost most credibility in the US and among allies and other countries around the world. Thanks.
Why are you bringing GW Bush into the conversation?
a ZX 80, Commodore PET and BBC Micros. And some huge Research Machines (RM) thing running DOS that no-one used.
I find it interesting that I know a lot more about computers than those claiming 'kids should be taught Windows in schools as that is what they'll encounter when they enter the workforce'. It's about understanding how computers work, not particular interfaces, peeps! What they're talking about is a slightly glorified typing class, which is NOT teaching about computers.
The touch, and wifi iPad both use skyhook wifi base station triangulation. Neither have gps hardware. Can be pretty accurate, especially in urban areas.
The iPad 3G and iPhones do have gps hardware. They can use skyhook and phone network triangulation to speed up the initial acquisition, but they're real GPS by any definition of the term.
Actual E-Mail capable cell phones have been on the German and Dutch market for only a few months now, and only by one of the smaller cell phone providers.
Hanno - I suspect you're not 100% up to date on the mobile market then - I've been emailing for more than a year, first with an Ericsson T39 in the UK, Netherlands and France, and now with a T68i. Before that I used an early version of the Nokia Communicator to, you guessed it, e-mail.
"Didn't the Dutch stage a successful invastion of sorts in 1688 or therearound?"
Too bloody right we did - see http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/dutch.html
In fact, we kicked some serious English bottom over and over again.
Nothing at all, but then that's not too surprising considering the company's rather entertaining approach to life, the universe and everything.
A google search on Darek Mihocka, the company's owner, is always good for a laugh...
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'realtively low taxes compared to the UK'
Urr, no. Not by any stretch of the imagination does Ireland have lower taxes than the UK. Now, what they do have is lots and lots of incentives for business to set up operations there - along the lines of close-to-zero taxes for a couple of years, that sort of thing.
You wouldn't believe how much income tax I used to pay when I lived in Ireland. Dreadful. The only good thing about living in Dublin from a financial point of view was that the Guinness was a lot cheaper than here in the UK.
I know it's fashionable to believe that the UK has higher taxes than the rest of Europe, but a little research proves the opposite.
Quote: 'Microsoft's technical support is the best in the industry and is superior to that offered by the Linux community.'
This is sad. so very, very sad.
Felinoid, you're being a sissy - cutting lasers indeed. You want some sort of EMP device, and none of this electrically generated nonsense either - you want a couple of kilotons of particularly dirty nuclear weapon. Set it off - Aibo doesn't even need to be close - and hey presto, you win the battle.
As an added advantage you also get your very own glass floored, self lighting car park, completely free.
Uhh, JCR - Sherlock is NOT a web browser. It is a search engine that can index and search both local and remote volumes, and also query multiple search engines online simultaneously. Omniweb is just a (extremely good) browser.
Where on earth do you get the 50% figure from? You do know the SEC regulations that come into force when a company owns more than a set amount of stock, don't you?
Or are you yet another clueless windroid?
> I remember the first time I used a Mac with one > of those bloody control strips. I spent an hour > trying to switch it off. I defies use. Like the > Windows Start menu and the Gnome/KDE strips it > take up space and is a half-arsed replacement
> for a decent file/application manager.
You do realise that the control strip is NOT a file/application manager? Yes, you can turn it into a lightweight one with one of the many third party plug ins for it, but its primary purpose is to give easy access to various system bits and pieces - volume, cd playing, file sharing, status indicators, remote access, location manager etc.
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Have you any idea how much those processors cost? And how much heat they put out. They are not desktop CPUs by any stretch of the imagination. You'd need to do some serious modifying of the processors to make them suitable for putting in a desktop machine's case, and I suspect you'd end up with something very similar, if not identical to the PPCs.
Yes, well done. Only the third person to post it, though I admire your eschewing of even the most basic formatting on your message.
Despite that I agree that the merkans should learn to play real sports and speak properly. But I doubt that is going to happen.
Uhm, LTW isn't as tasteful as his previous works? Have you read some of his other books, especially the non SF ones like the Wasp Factory and Walking on Glass? You'd be in for a bit of a shock.
And Asimov is dead. Has been for quite some time...
That would be Friesian. I'm half Friesian (no, I don't have white markings, and I rarely say 'moo').
It is a language unlike any other in Europe. It doesn't have a particularly close relationship to Germanic tongues, nor Scandinavian ones, for that matter.
And old English is closely related to Dutch rather than Friesian - I went to a school in the UK, and learning Chaucer was a breeze because it was so similar to Dutch (same holds for Afrikaans, which is just a bastardised and pretty old dialect of Dutch).
Nah, I believe you - it really wouldn't surprise me given a suitable amount of available energy. But I don't think I'd like to have to be in a situation where I would have to chase one for that long... I've been on horseback for two days straight without the thing getting unduly tired (just trotting).
Well, actually, IIRC human beings probably can't do that. However a dog could, partly due to its efficient use of its foodstuffs, but also because it has a Rete Mirabelae (sp?), cooling its noggin down under properly. That's the reason rabbits sometimes just drop dead while being chased by cats - the cat has the RM, the rabbit doesn't. Rabbit brain overheats, bye bye rabbit. New toy, and possibly lunch for cat.
Well, actually, IIRC human beings probably can't do that. However a dog could, partly due to its efficient use of its foodstuffs, but also because it has a Rete Mirabelae (sp?), cooling its noggin down under properly. That's the reason rabbits sometimes just drop dead while being chased by cats - the cat has the RM, the rabbit doesn't. Rabbit brain overheats, bye bye rabbit. New toy, and possibly lunch for cat.
> We have neither the sharpened teeth nor the
> intestinal infrastructure necessary to be meat
> eaters.
No, we're omnivores, just like pigs. We also don't have the intestinal infrastructure to process a purely vegetarian diet efficiently either.
Uhm, I was joining in the general fun poking at Mr Gore that seems to be de riguer these days. Well, slap my wrists for running with the herd once in my life. It has nothing to do with me being either for or against him.
And not being a US citizen I couldn't give a stuff about who is elected in your country, as long as they're not some excessively ignorant right wing gun toting nutcase.
On the contrary, penguins are really rather advanced, and extremely well suited to their niche - ie underwater flight. Just like ostriches are extremely well suited to running very quickly and kicking the stuffing out of anything they don't like. Structurally we are more primive than penguins, being a generalist design, whereas a penguin's design is very focussed.
Penguins are actually quite smart, probably up to the level of a starling, which is considerably better than chickens (ick) or pigeons (double ick)
No, the SAS blow other people's buildings up. The building that got hit by an antitank missile was MI6 HQ. Apparently the thing broke a window, no more. Tough little place.
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Hello, when you refer to Americans please don't conflate a meddling, incompetent President with Americans in general. Most Americans did not actually vote for that guy, he's lost most credibility in the US and among allies and other countries around the world. Thanks.
Why are you bringing GW Bush into the conversation?
You clearly didn't see Scoble's Google Glass selfies while in the shower.
Unfortunately, in that case, the Goggles, zey did something.
a ZX 80, Commodore PET and BBC Micros. And some huge Research Machines (RM) thing running DOS that no-one used.
I find it interesting that I know a lot more about computers than those claiming 'kids should be taught Windows in schools as that is what they'll encounter when they enter the workforce'. It's about understanding how computers work, not particular interfaces, peeps! What they're talking about is a slightly glorified typing class, which is NOT teaching about computers.
The touch, and wifi iPad both use skyhook wifi base station triangulation. Neither have gps hardware. Can be pretty accurate, especially in urban areas.
The iPad 3G and iPhones do have gps hardware. They can use skyhook and phone network triangulation to speed up the initial acquisition, but they're real GPS by any definition of the term.
Hanno - I suspect you're not 100% up to date on the mobile market then - I've been emailing for more than a year, first with an Ericsson T39 in the UK, Netherlands and France, and now with a T68i. Before that I used an early version of the Nokia Communicator to, you guessed it, e-mail.
"Didn't the Dutch stage a successful invastion of sorts in 1688 or therearound?" Too bloody right we did - see http://www.hrofi.demon.co.uk/dutch.html In fact, we kicked some serious English bottom over and over again.
Nothing at all, but then that's not too surprising considering the company's rather entertaining approach to life, the universe and everything. A google search on Darek Mihocka, the company's owner, is always good for a laugh...
'realtively low taxes compared to the UK'
Urr, no. Not by any stretch of the imagination does Ireland have lower taxes than the UK. Now, what they do have is lots and lots of incentives for business to set up operations there - along the lines of close-to-zero taxes for a couple of years, that sort of thing.
You wouldn't believe how much income tax I used to pay when I lived in Ireland. Dreadful. The only good thing about living in Dublin from a financial point of view was that the Guinness was a lot cheaper than here in the UK.
I know it's fashionable to believe that the UK has higher taxes than the rest of Europe, but a little research proves the opposite.
Quote: 'Microsoft's technical support is the best in the industry and is superior to that offered by the Linux community.' This is sad. so very, very sad.
Felinoid, you're being a sissy - cutting lasers indeed. You want some sort of EMP device, and none of this electrically generated nonsense either - you want a couple of kilotons of particularly dirty nuclear weapon. Set it off - Aibo doesn't even need to be close - and hey presto, you win the battle. As an added advantage you also get your very own glass floored, self lighting car park, completely free.
Uhh, JCR - Sherlock is NOT a web browser. It is a search engine that can index and search both local and remote volumes, and also query multiple search engines online simultaneously. Omniweb is just a (extremely good) browser.
Where on earth do you get the 50% figure from? You do know the SEC regulations that come into force when a company owns more than a set amount of stock, don't you? Or are you yet another clueless windroid?
> I remember the first time I used a Mac with one > of those bloody control strips. I spent an hour > trying to switch it off. I defies use. Like the > Windows Start menu and the Gnome/KDE strips it > take up space and is a half-arsed replacement > for a decent file/application manager. You do realise that the control strip is NOT a file/application manager? Yes, you can turn it into a lightweight one with one of the many third party plug ins for it, but its primary purpose is to give easy access to various system bits and pieces - volume, cd playing, file sharing, status indicators, remote access, location manager etc. ck
Have you any idea how much those processors cost? And how much heat they put out. They are not desktop CPUs by any stretch of the imagination. You'd need to do some serious modifying of the processors to make them suitable for putting in a desktop machine's case, and I suspect you'd end up with something very similar, if not identical to the PPCs.
Yes, well done. Only the third person to post it, though I admire your eschewing of even the most basic formatting on your message. Despite that I agree that the merkans should learn to play real sports and speak properly. But I doubt that is going to happen.
Uhm, LTW isn't as tasteful as his previous works? Have you read some of his other books, especially the non SF ones like the Wasp Factory and Walking on Glass? You'd be in for a bit of a shock. And Asimov is dead. Has been for quite some time...
That would be Friesian. I'm half Friesian (no, I don't have white markings, and I rarely say 'moo'). It is a language unlike any other in Europe. It doesn't have a particularly close relationship to Germanic tongues, nor Scandinavian ones, for that matter. And old English is closely related to Dutch rather than Friesian - I went to a school in the UK, and learning Chaucer was a breeze because it was so similar to Dutch (same holds for Afrikaans, which is just a bastardised and pretty old dialect of Dutch).
Nah, I believe you - it really wouldn't surprise me given a suitable amount of available energy. But I don't think I'd like to have to be in a situation where I would have to chase one for that long... I've been on horseback for two days straight without the thing getting unduly tired (just trotting).
Well, actually, IIRC human beings probably can't do that. However a dog could, partly due to its efficient use of its foodstuffs, but also because it has a Rete Mirabelae (sp?), cooling its noggin down under properly. That's the reason rabbits sometimes just drop dead while being chased by cats - the cat has the RM, the rabbit doesn't. Rabbit brain overheats, bye bye rabbit. New toy, and possibly lunch for cat.
Well, actually, IIRC human beings probably can't do that. However a dog could, partly due to its efficient use of its foodstuffs, but also because it has a Rete Mirabelae (sp?), cooling its noggin down under properly. That's the reason rabbits sometimes just drop dead while being chased by cats - the cat has the RM, the rabbit doesn't. Rabbit brain overheats, bye bye rabbit. New toy, and possibly lunch for cat.
> We have neither the sharpened teeth nor the > intestinal infrastructure necessary to be meat > eaters. No, we're omnivores, just like pigs. We also don't have the intestinal infrastructure to process a purely vegetarian diet efficiently either.
Uhm, I was joining in the general fun poking at Mr Gore that seems to be de riguer these days. Well, slap my wrists for running with the herd once in my life. It has nothing to do with me being either for or against him. And not being a US citizen I couldn't give a stuff about who is elected in your country, as long as they're not some excessively ignorant right wing gun toting nutcase.
On the contrary, penguins are really rather advanced, and extremely well suited to their niche - ie underwater flight. Just like ostriches are extremely well suited to running very quickly and kicking the stuffing out of anything they don't like. Structurally we are more primive than penguins, being a generalist design, whereas a penguin's design is very focussed. Penguins are actually quite smart, probably up to the level of a starling, which is considerably better than chickens (ick) or pigeons (double ick)
No, the SAS blow other people's buildings up. The building that got hit by an antitank missile was MI6 HQ. Apparently the thing broke a window, no more. Tough little place.
And to think he invented the calculator while simultaneously working on perfecting the wheel. Sheesh, the man's a wonder.