Actually whales and porpoises taste nothing like tuna. The meat is very tender and tastes a bit like premium beef. I doubt dolphins taste much different. Last time Rainbow Warrior was in port we had a Barbecue on the wharf right next to it. No prizes for guessing what we were barbecuing...
I drive my car to get away from being driven around.
I'd say Cars vs. Mountainbike and Mass Transit. At first I took mass transit to get to the general are of my destination and cycled the rest of the way. Today I cycle everywhere except in really bad weather and when I am in a hurry. On the whole travelling takes a little longer with the bike/bus/train combination but sometimes, like in the city centerfor example, the bike is often alot faster than a car. It hasn't done my bank account any harm and it doesn't hurt either that for the first time in years I am able to squeeze into a pair of jeans I bought many, many kilograms ago.......:-D
A minor nitpick--Russia is part of Asia, not Europe.
Only Trans-Ural Russia qualifies as being in Asia. The rest of it is in Europe. So it depends on your point of view how you want to classify the Russians. Being a European myself, I tend to count Russians as fellow Europeans.
AFAIK some European countries already have spy satilites up, first among them Russia. What makes the Chinese ones special is that they will not be for spying on the Europeans, Americans, Australians or Africans. Nor are they intended to keep an eye on the Middle east. They will be a instrument with 100% coverage of Chinese national territory for the Chinese govt. to use for monitoring the Chinese. That makes them uniqe. Of course monitoring "various activities of society" can cover anything from something as innocent as traffic control to spying on the private citizen. Even so, judging from the limited information in this story, these plans look more like a rather innocent survey/management network than a 1984-esque Orwellian spy apparatus.
can anyone expect to process and audit that data in a reasonable timeframe?
Not to affect this election but perhaps they will come up with valid criticisms which will result in improvements that contribute to enhancing the reliability of future electronic elections and not just in the USA but world wide. With a bit of luck the NeoCons of this world will eventually have to learn to live with something as 'communist' and disgustingly 'liberal' but eminently democratic as open source voting software/hardware and fully audited elections.
... but the prospect of four more years of his politics does not bother me half as much as the possibility that he might die in an accident and we would end up with.... ughhhhh.... Dick Cheney as president in his place. Even a sack of potates would be a more inspiring president than Cheney.
Hopefully, Photoshop and Illustrator will be ported. If they are, Linux can count me in as one of their users. My Adobe applications are the only reason I still use Windows.
I used to run Windows for this precise reason as well as you. Now I run both Photoshop and Illustrator quite happily on OS.X. I am free from Windows viruses/worms/trojans nor do I have to put up with the multitude of petty annoyances brought on by immature open source apps when running Linux as a desktop OS (Linux as a server OS is a whole other chapter of course). I did try to run Photoshop for Windows under Linux/Wine but it does not work 100% and it's generally just to much hassel for my taste to run Windows apps on Linux when I can run most of them natively on a Mac or find an acceptable substitute. The only thing I'm missing now is a G5 PowerBook (not on the market yet) although Photoshop runs amazingly well on my current 1.25Ghz G4 PowerBook.
The one time I tried the HW reckognition on the i910 it did not work well enough to impress me. Having somebody test it who's handwriting (unlike mine) is more than just marginally legable didn't help either.
You can fall on your face in this respect with more commands than just rm. On AIX the command:
usr@localhost: sudo chown -R user:group.*
includes '..' and '.'
Thankfully I realised that about a second after committing and a combination of a very crowded parent directory and a speedy [Ctrl]+[C] spared me from finding out how completely the directory tree would have been chown'ed.
I once watched somebody do that while logged in as root on a unix machine. The guy was a really fast typist with an ushakable faith in his ability, before I had a chance to stop him he had managed to type and commit the command:
root@localhost# rm -rf / somedir/somesubdir
instead of:
root@localhost# rm -rf/somedir/somesubdir
That inadvertent space made all the difference. Fortunately we had a very good backup system.
1. Fork out an obscene amount of money to get men to the moon. 2. Spend 30 years getting increasingly pissed of while watching the tinfoil hat crowd trying to prove those men were never there. 3. Get fed up with it and send in the robots to prove them wrong.
Of course we all know that even if NASA does take the time to drive a moonrover righ up to some of the equipment left on the moon by the Apollo expeditions and filmed the stuff those crackpots will still go on claiming the whole thing is staged. But it would be fun to see how long it takes them to come up with a new theory, I'm predicting.... ummm... five minutes?
Just don't get too excited. One of my coworkers made this same discovery a while back. Now he runs around the office wearing an "I love Opteron" T-Shirt and starts shouting"Intel is history - Power PC is dead!" everytime somebody mentions the words Opteron or AMD in a sentence. Worst of all he attacks anybody who disagrees and tries to bite them. We tried to knock him out with a dart gun after he savaged a visiting IBM sales rep but even heavy duty veterinary tranqulisers don't seem to have any effect.
... you could buy an oilrig and set up your own prinipality fron which to thumb your nose at the world. Although international reckognition might be a problem.
His name is "BJ" He was a regular on a soap opera He was a gay guy on "Will and Grace" He was a dancer in a Christina Aguilera video
How do you go from the above to Superman?
You must have been living in a box for the last 20 years so I will take pity on you and explain. The Superman of the 21'st century is metrosexual you insensitive clod!.
metrosexual Function: noun Definition: a young, urban and usually heterosexual male who is concerned with fashion, food and grooming Etymology: Coined by Mark Simpson in 1994 article for The Independent
Sure I also have an XP boxen that gives me as little trouble as my Mac. But that is because I went out and bougth a high-end PC system from a manufacturer that properly tests every piece of hardware that goes into the box. I also have several friends who went for the "ceaper must be better principle". They built their WinTel boxen them selves from individual parts bought off the shelf at a local electronics shop . Both my Mac and my high-end PC are considerably more stable than these homebuilt systems. You can get a PC system that is just as stable as a Mac you can probably also scratch build your own PC system that is as stable as a Mac but either of those PC systems will end up costing you considerably more than the $500 the above poster suggested. I don't care whether we are talking PC or Mac computers, quality costs.
Not really, the people who shock and disrupt my reality are the ones who are in love with Windows. I like OS.X as a desktop OS because unlike Linux, everything works out of the box practically all of the time and unlike Windows I don't spend half my time pruning the massive field fortifications needed to keep out trojans, worms and viruses. I suppose one can probably get Linux to a mostly similar quality level as OS.X in the desktop role but it just takes to much time for my taste.
...possible to build an El Cheapo $500 AMD/Intel boxen to match or even ouperform G5 Apple boxen, the trouble with such a box is still that IT WOULD NOT RUN OS.X. It would probably not be as stable as a Mac either.
I once walked into a crowded McDonalds resturant in Germany with a friend of mine. I ordered my McDonalds meal and so did my friend. When he was done he looked around the place which was pretty crowded and added that he would also like a couple of McChairs and a McTable with his meal. It took the drone at the counter all of 10 seconds to figure out he was being sarcastic....
... the native OS.X installer for *.pkg packages does not seem to have an uninstall feature (at least on one that I am aware of) which obviously starts to really suck as soon as you try to remove some crappy *.pkg packaged program you downloaded on a whim. Fortunately there is OSXPM but it still sucks that Apple did not do a better job at thinking the OS.X package manager system throug.
I can relate to all of what you said. I used to be a PC/Windows use because of the broad Software selection and ease of use (Point n click has some advantages), I was a also a PC/Linux user because of the stability security powerful server apps etc... OS.X is an acceptable compromise, even on my G4 PowerBook (which incidentally makes any PC laptop I have yet seen look like a brick when you see them side by side). Plus OS.X beats both Linux and Windows hands down when it comes to ergonomics (I am relly hooked on Exposé for example). Another boon is immunity to Worms/Viruses and best of all it integrates 95% into the windows network at work. My only gripe is that I wish Apple would increase the stability of its OS and the Window manager instead of adding so many 'eyecandy' features. In eight months of using OS.X have had one Kernel panic and five window manager crashes which is only marginally better than my experience with Windows XP, considering what I paid for the Mac I expected the stability of OS.X to be greater.
...Quake 1 gave me a big scare. The first time I played this game I started by looking around in the room where I spawned at the start of one of the levels. One of those chainsaw toting Ogre monsters (which I had not seen since he had gotten behind me) revs up his saw and lets out a loud scream. The combination of speakers on a high volume setting and a sound quality I was not used to (I had previous played DOOM on a 386 with a crapy sound card) combined to startle me to the point that I dropped a can of Coke on the keyboard.
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Actually whales and porpoises taste nothing like tuna. The meat is very tender and tastes a bit like premium beef. I doubt dolphins taste much different. Last time Rainbow Warrior was in port we had a Barbecue on the wharf right next to it. No prizes for guessing what we were barbecuing ...
I drive my car to get away from being driven around.
....... :-D
I'd say Cars vs. Mountainbike and Mass Transit. At first I took mass transit to get to the general are of my destination and cycled the rest of the way. Today I cycle everywhere except in really bad weather and when I am in a hurry. On the whole travelling takes a little longer with the bike/bus/train combination but sometimes, like in the city centerfor example, the bike is often alot faster than a car. It hasn't done my bank account any harm and it doesn't hurt either that for the first time in years I am able to squeeze into a pair of jeans I bought many, many kilograms ago
A minor nitpick--Russia is part of Asia, not Europe.
Only Trans-Ural Russia qualifies as being in Asia. The rest of it is in Europe. So it depends on your point of view how you want to classify the Russians. Being a European myself, I tend to count Russians as fellow Europeans.
Europe wants spy satellites up.
. That makes them uniqe. Of course monitoring "various activities of society" can cover anything from something as innocent as traffic control to spying on the private citizen. Even so, judging from the limited information in this story, these plans look more like a rather innocent survey/management network than a 1984-esque Orwellian spy apparatus.
AFAIK some European countries already have spy satilites up, first among them Russia. What makes the Chinese ones special is that they will not be for spying on the Europeans, Americans, Australians or Africans. Nor are they intended to keep an eye on the Middle east. They will be a instrument with 100% coverage of Chinese national territory for the Chinese govt. to use for monitoring the Chinese
For each Shakespeare literature there would be another million monkeys reading and discussing the article.
Hmmm... We can rephrase that, can't we?
For each Slashdot headline there are another million monkeys reading and discussing the article.
... Schröder, Chirac, Blair, Sharon and Berlusconi on the second trip?
can anyone expect to process and audit that data in a reasonable timeframe?
Not to affect this election but perhaps they will come up with valid criticisms which will result in improvements that contribute to enhancing the reliability of future electronic elections and not just in the USA but world wide. With a bit of luck the NeoCons of this world will eventually have to learn to live with something as 'communist' and disgustingly 'liberal' but eminently democratic as open source voting software/hardware and fully audited elections.
... but the prospect of four more years of his politics does not bother me half as much as the possibility that he might die in an accident and we would end up with .... ughhhhh.... Dick Cheney as president in his place. Even a sack of potates would be a more inspiring president than Cheney.
Hopefully, Photoshop and Illustrator will be ported. If they are, Linux can count me in as one of their users. My Adobe applications are the only reason I still use Windows.
I used to run Windows for this precise reason as well as you. Now I run both Photoshop and Illustrator quite happily on OS.X. I am free from Windows viruses/worms/trojans nor do I have to put up with the multitude of petty annoyances brought on by immature open source apps when running Linux as a desktop OS (Linux as a server OS is a whole other chapter of course). I did try to run Photoshop for Windows under Linux/Wine but it does not work 100% and it's generally just to much hassel for my taste to run Windows apps on Linux when I can run most of them natively on a Mac or find an acceptable substitute. The only thing I'm missing now is a G5 PowerBook (not on the market yet) although Photoshop runs amazingly well on my current 1.25Ghz G4 PowerBook.
The one time I tried the HW reckognition on the i910 it did not work well enough to impress me. Having somebody test it who's handwriting (unlike mine) is more than just marginally legable didn't help either.
Thankfully I realised that about a second after committing and a combination of a very crowded parent directory and a speedy [Ctrl]+[C] spared me from finding out how completely the directory tree would have been chown'ed.
... not really.
.... ummm ... five minutes?
1. Fork out an obscene amount of money to get men to the moon.
2. Spend 30 years getting increasingly pissed of while watching the tinfoil hat crowd trying to prove those men were never there.
3. Get fed up with it and send in the robots to prove them wrong.
Of course we all know that even if NASA does take the time to drive a moonrover righ up to some of the equipment left on the moon by the Apollo expeditions and filmed the stuff those crackpots will still go on claiming the whole thing is staged. But it would be fun to see how long it takes them to come up with a new theory, I'm predicting
it will be like upgradingin for free :)
:-D
Just don't get too excited. One of my coworkers made this same discovery a while back. Now he runs around the office wearing an "I love Opteron" T-Shirt and starts shouting"Intel is history - Power PC is dead!" everytime somebody mentions the words Opteron or AMD in a sentence. Worst of all he attacks anybody who disagrees and tries to bite them. We tried to knock him out with a dart gun after he savaged a visiting IBM sales rep but even heavy duty veterinary tranqulisers don't seem to have any effect.
... you could buy an oilrig and set up your own prinipality fron which to thumb your nose at the world. Although international reckognition might be a problem.
He was a regular on a soap opera
He was a gay guy on "Will and Grace"
He was a dancer in a Christina Aguilera video
How do you go from the above to Superman?
You must have been living in a box for the last 20 years so I will take pity on you and explain. The Superman of the 21'st century is metrosexual you insensitive clod!.
Sure I also have an XP boxen that gives me as little trouble as my Mac. But that is because I went out and bougth a high-end PC system from a manufacturer that properly tests every piece of hardware that goes into the box. I also have several friends who went for the "ceaper must be better principle". They built their WinTel boxen them selves from individual parts bought off the shelf at a local electronics shop . Both my Mac and my high-end PC are considerably more stable than these homebuilt systems. You can get a PC system that is just as stable as a Mac you can probably also scratch build your own PC system that is as stable as a Mac but either of those PC systems will end up costing you considerably more than the $500 the above poster suggested. I don't care whether we are talking PC or Mac computers, quality costs.
Not really, the people who shock and disrupt my reality are the ones who are in love with Windows. I like OS.X as a desktop OS because unlike Linux, everything works out of the box practically all of the time and unlike Windows I don't spend half my time pruning the massive field fortifications needed to keep out trojans, worms and viruses. I suppose one can probably get Linux to a mostly similar quality level as OS.X in the desktop role but it just takes to much time for my taste.
...possible to build an El Cheapo $500 AMD/Intel boxen to match or even ouperform G5 Apple boxen, the trouble with such a box is still that IT WOULD NOT RUN OS.X. It would probably not be as stable as a Mac either.
...I read:
"...the British Pornographic Industry (BPI), the UK equivalent of the RIAA."
Dyslexia can be funny.
Hehe.. That cracked me up!
I once walked into a crowded McDonalds resturant in Germany with a friend of mine. I ordered my McDonalds meal and so did my friend. When he was done he looked around the place which was pretty crowded and added that he would also like a couple of McChairs and a McTable with his meal. It took the drone at the counter all of 10 seconds to figure out he was being sarcastic....
... the native OS.X installer for *.pkg packages does not seem to have an uninstall feature (at least on one that I am aware of) which obviously starts to really suck as soon as you try to remove some crappy *.pkg packaged program you downloaded on a whim. Fortunately there is OSXPM but it still sucks that Apple did not do a better job at thinking the OS.X package manager system throug.
I can relate to all of what you said. I used to be a PC/Windows use because of the broad Software selection and ease of use (Point n click has some advantages), I was a also a PC/Linux user because of the stability security powerful server apps etc... OS.X is an acceptable compromise, even on my G4 PowerBook (which incidentally makes any PC laptop I have yet seen look like a brick when you see them side by side). Plus OS.X beats both Linux and Windows hands down when it comes to ergonomics (I am relly hooked on Exposé for example). Another boon is immunity to Worms/Viruses and best of all it integrates 95% into the windows network at work. My only gripe is that I wish Apple would increase the stability of its OS and the Window manager instead of adding so many 'eyecandy' features. In eight months of using OS.X have had one Kernel panic and five window manager crashes which is only marginally better than my experience with Windows XP, considering what I paid for the Mac I expected the stability of OS.X to be greater.
...Quake 1 gave me a big scare. The first time I played this game I started by looking around in the room where I spawned at the start of one of the levels. One of those chainsaw toting Ogre monsters (which I had not seen since he had gotten behind me) revs up his saw and lets out a loud scream. The combination of speakers on a high volume setting and a sound quality I was not used to (I had previous played DOOM on a 386 with a crapy sound card) combined to startle me to the point that I dropped a can of Coke on the keyboard.
...was posted by a CIA operative and is part of the plan drawn up by George Bush's campaign strategists for the US invasion of North-Korea next week.
The truth is out there.... believe!