Today's guardian has an article about these fungal diseases which threaten this staple of many poorer countries "Yes - in 10 years we may have no bananas" so this reseach comes not a moment to soon. Apparently some Honduran scientists peeled and sieved 400 tonnes of bananas to find just 15 seeds for breeding - and have come up with a fungus resistant variety which can be grown organically, so hopefully the GM route maybe a non-starter...
Offtopic:
I liked your sig link so much I tried the url without the jpg and got a french 401! Since my french is schoolboy level, I stuck it thru Babelfish:
Error 401: Skin of zob!
Cabbage, guy! The URL that your babasse refilé is good with nibe! Would have you interest to turn you the fingers seven times in the tarin before jacter, rather than to unpack conneries!
Why would I waste good money on a new version of a program which historically produced some of the worst HTML out there? There's plenty of decent free ones around - though you can't beat "roll your own" (Notepad, etc.)
Nah, I didn't miss him. Some fruit running around the woods singing god-awful songs? *Shudder*
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I thought hardware manufacturers want to sell new hardware. Game developers want to sell new games. Or do game developers get their initial funding from hardware manufacturers? Sounds like payola to me...
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Not neccessarily true - Unreal tournament worked fine on old and new systems. No hardware acceleration? Still looked and played good. Monster latest card? Looks excellent, plays the same. Designers spend so much effort on getting it looking excellent, and forget they are loosing sales without supporting older setups. I've got other things I'd rather do with a spare grand.
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I got tired of chasing this tech curve. Sure, I like playing computer games, but keeping up with the spec required just ticks me off. I've got an old P1 233mmx with a Voodoo2 (which Quake3 runs just fine on, thank you), and a P3 laptop with no hardware acceleration.
So I go to the games store these days, and (with the exception of Civ3) there's nothing to buy - unless I want to stump up a couple of thousand for a new system. Thanks, but no thanks.
Views are also one of the worst pigs ever created.
Oh, you enjoy recompiling every application referencing a table when it needs a new column? Using views can save you from that, so only the applications that need the new field get recompiled, as well enabling restricting access in a simple straight-forward fashion.
Sinn Fein is a legal political both in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Provisional IRA is an illegal para-military organisation in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, although membership does not currently result in imprisonment as a result of the Good Friday Agreement and the continuing ceasefire.
Membership of the "Real" or "Continuity" IRA continues to be an imprisonable offence in both countries. If, as you suggest, a member of this organisation detonated a bomb in the UK, and was captured in the Republic Ireland, he would most certainly be extradited to the UK. I have never heard of Ireland insisting of extraditing people to a Catholic country instead of a secular one.
btw - when you are communicating in English, the country's name is Ireland. Eire is only used in Gaelic.
Here in Dublin the cafe I went to for lunch had a minutes silence (they normally have music playing, kids screaming, etc.). It touched me, as it touched me back then.
NeonSpirit wrote: good beer can be found in America
I spent a few years in Oregon, and good microbrews are available all over the Pacific Northwest. Upon returning to England I was delighted to find some Rogue (from Oregon) ales available in my local store!
Anonymous Coward wrote: Boddingtons, Watneys, Samuel Smiths, Bass Ale
while these might be wussey enough for yankee tastebuds, for real flavour I'd recommend Fuller's "London Pride", Burton Ale, Badger Ale, Shepherd's Neame "Bishop's Finger" (dont ask where it's been), Old Specled Hen...(insert your favourite ale here).
Over in Ireland local brews are a very rare treat, most places you're best making do with Guinness, which is treated with the esteemed respect rightly it deserves.
maybe the people you are hiring have psychological problems after a few weeks of working for you. i usually employ a psychoanalytical style of interivewing to check for the likelihood of this.
I am not surprised if your employees shows signs of psychological problems if you treat them in this manner. Basing decisions on pseudo-sciences such as psychology, in particular the behaviourist strand, is as socially damaging as religious fundamentalism, IMHO.
To my knowledge you simply cannot buy good floppies (that is to say, floppies you can actually trust with your data) anymore.
Yeah, the quality of floppies has gone way down. I don't currently have Internet access at home, so I frequently disk span zip files across a bunch of floppies to get them home, and I've learnt the hard way to always try to unzip back onto the machine you have just copied from before taking them home. The failure rate is atrocious.
I think its a shame the Iomega zip drive didn't catch on as a replacement, because mine's been running steady for 4+ years.
Four folk showed/found each other - meeting outside wasn't such a bright idea since half the pavement (sidewalk) was under construction.
Sorry I forget everybody's name (I'm hopeless like that) but it was an interesting cross-section:
C++ grrl uber-hardware geek boy (the equivelent of mainframe disk pack in his rucksack!) math geek COBOL revisionist (me)
Much beer consumed, and many interesting discussions across a range of geeky topics. Much fun had (and maybe a couple of Go converts!). Thanks guys, catch you next time - and let's see the rest of you Dublin geeks next time!
Intel may assist Apple in a mobo design, but Apple will not release it for general consumption. If they want to continue to survive as a business, it would be suicide to do so. Apple is a hardware company. They have to keep some things closed to keep a competitive edge. The hardware would be generally closed-source, along with the upper layers of Mac OS X (Darwin, the core of OS X, is open source and works right now on x86 as well as PPC.).
The revenue stream that M$ gets from pre-loading the OS by the hardware distributors could be a nice chunk of change for Apple.
Wouldn't it be nice if the next time you bought a PC you were given the choice of Windows, OS X or both?
Even if Apple were to come out with an x86 version of MacOS X, none of the apps would work unless the vendors recompiled them for the new architecture.
I Think you'll find 99% of the vendors already have Wintel versions of their software - they would be dumb to ignore that user base - so I doubt such a recompile would give them many problems.
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Today's guardian has an article about these fungal diseases which threaten this staple of many poorer countries "Yes - in 10 years we may have no bananas" so this reseach comes not a moment to soon. Apparently some Honduran scientists peeled and sieved 400 tonnes of bananas to find just 15 seeds for breeding - and have come up with a fungus resistant variety which can be grown organically, so hopefully the GM route maybe a non-starter...
yea, Go is awesome. I've been playing 10 years, and there's still stuff to learn! No clubs in your area? See you on Dragon!
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I liked your sig link so much I tried the url without the jpg and got a french 401! Since my french is schoolboy level, I stuck it thru Babelfish:
Error 401: Skin of zob!
Cabbage, guy! The URL that your babasse refilé is good with nibe! Would have you interest to turn you the fingers seven times in the tarin before jacter, rather than to unpack conneries!
When guns are finally outlawed by the left wingers, do you think the criminals will turn theirs in?
No, but it'll sure make it a hell of alot easier to tell the good guys from the bad guys...
Why would I waste good money on a new version of a program which historically produced some of the worst HTML out there? There's plenty of decent free ones around - though you can't beat "roll your own" (Notepad, etc.)
yeah, kinda brain-dead on the white space. Why not just cange the font color to be the same as the background instead?
Nah, I didn't miss him. Some fruit running around the woods singing god-awful songs? *Shudder*
I thought hardware manufacturers want to sell new hardware. Game developers want to sell new games. Or do game developers get their initial funding from hardware manufacturers? Sounds like payola to me...
Not neccessarily true - Unreal tournament worked fine on old and new systems. No hardware acceleration? Still looked and played good. Monster latest card? Looks excellent, plays the same.
Designers spend so much effort on getting it looking excellent, and forget they are loosing sales without supporting older setups. I've got other things I'd rather do with a spare grand.
I got tired of chasing this tech curve. Sure, I like playing computer games, but keeping up with the spec required just ticks me off. I've got an old P1 233mmx with a Voodoo2 (which Quake3 runs just fine on, thank you), and a P3 laptop with no hardware acceleration.
So I go to the games store these days, and (with the exception of Civ3) there's nothing to buy - unless I want to stump up a couple of thousand for a new system. Thanks, but no thanks.
Views are also one of the worst pigs ever created.
Oh, you enjoy recompiling every application referencing a table when it needs a new column? Using views can save you from that, so only the applications that need the new field get recompiled, as well enabling restricting access in a simple straight-forward fashion.
Thanks for Thadgavin, pretty cool, though some means of exiting other that alt-cntl-del would have been useful...
I have to disagree about this exhibition - I particularly liked the piece by Mark Napier and recommend a visit to his website.
Strange that the disallowed Flash entries but not Shockwave. There's alot of fun Flash sites out there (aside from the irritating ads).
Sinn Fein is a legal political both in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Provisional IRA is an illegal para-military organisation in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, although membership does not currently result in imprisonment as a result of the Good Friday Agreement and the continuing ceasefire.
Membership of the "Real" or "Continuity" IRA continues to be an imprisonable offence in both countries. If, as you suggest, a member of this organisation detonated a bomb in the UK, and was captured in the Republic Ireland, he would most certainly be extradited to the UK. I have never heard of Ireland insisting of extraditing people to a Catholic country instead of a secular one.
btw - when you are communicating in English, the country's name is Ireland. Eire is only used in Gaelic.
Not really - the Republic does not condone the violence in the North, and imprisons and extradites terrorists, unlike the Taliban.
Kudos to OSDN for that.
Here in Dublin the cafe I went to for lunch had a minutes silence (they normally have music playing, kids screaming, etc.). It touched me, as it touched me back then.
God bless y'all.
NeonSpirit wrote:
good beer can be found in America
I spent a few years in Oregon, and good microbrews are available all over the Pacific Northwest. Upon returning to England I was delighted to find some Rogue (from Oregon) ales available in my local store!
Anonymous Coward wrote:
Boddingtons, Watneys, Samuel Smiths, Bass Ale
while these might be wussey enough for yankee tastebuds, for real flavour I'd recommend Fuller's "London Pride", Burton Ale, Badger Ale, Shepherd's Neame "Bishop's Finger" (dont ask where it's been), Old Specled Hen...(insert your favourite ale here).
Over in Ireland local brews are a very rare treat, most places you're best making do with Guinness, which is treated with the esteemed respect rightly it deserves.
maybe the people you are hiring have psychological problems after a few weeks of working for you. i usually employ a psychoanalytical style of interivewing to check for the likelihood of this.
I am not surprised if your employees shows signs of psychological problems if you treat them in this manner. Basing decisions on pseudo-sciences such as psychology, in particular the behaviourist strand, is as socially damaging as religious fundamentalism, IMHO.
To my knowledge you simply cannot buy good floppies (that is to say, floppies you can actually trust with your data) anymore.
Yeah, the quality of floppies has gone way down. I don't currently have Internet access at home, so I frequently disk span zip files across a bunch of floppies to get them home, and I've learnt the hard way to always try to unzip back onto the machine you have just copied from before taking them home. The failure rate is atrocious.
I think its a shame the Iomega zip drive didn't catch on as a replacement, because mine's been running steady for 4+ years.
Like I said earlier...#3957083
Na such place mate! Unless Columbia has decided to rejoin the Glorious Empire...
Four folk showed/found each other - meeting outside wasn't such a bright idea since half the pavement (sidewalk) was under construction.
Sorry I forget everybody's name (I'm hopeless like that) but it was an interesting cross-section:
C++ grrl
uber-hardware geek boy (the equivelent of mainframe disk pack in his rucksack!)
math geek
COBOL revisionist (me)
Much beer consumed, and many interesting discussions across a range of geeky topics. Much fun had (and maybe a couple of Go converts!). Thanks guys, catch you next time - and let's see the rest of you Dublin geeks next time!
delete it? I'm gonna cut'n'paste it into all my geocities pages! Thanks :)
Intel may assist Apple in a mobo design, but Apple will not release it for general consumption. If they want to continue to survive as a business, it would be suicide to do so. Apple is a hardware company. They have to keep some things closed to keep a competitive edge. The hardware would be generally closed-source, along with the upper layers of Mac OS X (Darwin, the core of OS X, is open source and works right now on x86 as well as PPC.).
The revenue stream that M$ gets from pre-loading the OS by the hardware distributors could be a nice chunk of change for Apple.
Wouldn't it be nice if the next time you bought a PC you were given the choice of Windows, OS X or both?
My 0.02 is worth more than your $ 0.02!
Even if Apple were to come out with an x86 version of MacOS X, none of the apps would work unless the vendors recompiled them for the new architecture.
I Think you'll find 99% of the vendors already have Wintel versions of their software - they would be dumb to ignore that user base - so I doubt such a recompile would give them many problems.
Just my 0.02
Isn't this lying under oweth? ;)
No, that would be lying under oaf