Erm, OS/2 is an IBM thing:) Microsoft may have been involved in the creation of the original OS/2 in the days before Win95 but OS/2 is now pretty much all IBM's fault:)
plug a wacom graphire tablet into any mac running os 10.2+ and you can use it as a pointing device AND suddenly a handwriting recognition panel becomes available in the system preferences.
I admit it's not the same as a touchscreen on a tablet pc or whatever but it does mean pen-based input.
Most celestial objects, including meteors are spotted by amateurs anyway, so it'd be almost impossible for governments to keep it quiet. It would require a superhuman effort on the part of the world's combined governments to locate, track and watch every bloke with a telescope, just in case they saw something..........
(unless you subscribe to the Hollywood-US-centric view in which case only USAians spot them and the government is actually efficient:)
This court case is in the Guinness book of records I believe for having been adjourned the most number of times or something.......
Troc
PS Another very happy Xs4all customer.
Re:that is a road
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I have always suspected the M5 of being "more" than just a road. All those caravans must be up to something, the way they all travel in swarms to the same places at the same times. I firmly think the bad driving, weird lane usage, flat caps and children are all either a secret language or simply designed to throw us off the scent.
Except I quite like NZ. Can we just blow some other stuff up? please?
Oh hello, would you like to blow some stuff up? No? What are you doing? Get off me, leggo of me arm. Ouch. Noooooooooo, I don't want to go back in th.........
Great a Heat Pipe manmufacturer with no grasp of simple thermodynamics. They state that the gas gets hot at one end, goes up in pressure and moves to the other end. Erm, BZZZZZZT, wrong!
Simple thermodynamics - in a closed system the gas must all be at the same temperature and pressure all the time, it can't be anything else. So the instant one end gets hot, the other end gets hot. To say the hot gasses move to the cold end is not really correct and infers there's a delay as pressure is equalised or something.
If you make a heat pipe, hold one and and stick the other in boiling water, your hand gets as hot as fast as it would if you stuck it in the water. It's instantaneous.
Scary stuff, putting Northeners in charge of the building. Brickies are hard enough to understand as it is......
Troc
PS Brief aside for non-brits. A Geordie is from the North East of England, specifically Northumberland, more specifically Newcastle (noocassle) upon Tyne.
Here in Holland, most of the waiters in the cafes with outdoor terraces use wireless handsets to transmit their orders to the kitchen and to receive a signal the order is ready. This way you get the interaction without the hassle of the waiter buggering off to chat to the chef:)
The IBM 970 is a 64 bit processor that can run 32 bit without a penalty. The rumours are that the next version of OS X will be a 64 compatible OS which will then fully support the new chip etc etc
Troc
Re:Underhanded?
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Yes, BUT they bought them for a different reason....
If they bought them as replacement parts (for which they have an agreement with Apple) and then sold them as new machines, they would be trading under false pretenses and in violation of their agreement with Apple. Apple can therefore do exactly what they have done.
We can debate the "niceness" of the agreement, or of Apple and we can debate the naievity (or stupidity...) of the company but they have broken an agreement with Apple and that's all there is to it.
It's like obtaining software "for non-commercial use" at a reduced cost and then using it for commercial reasons, or buying something in place X and taking it to place Y when you signed an agreement not to... you are breaking that agreement whether you like it or not.
Yeah. IBM gave 64 processor SMP to the terrorists so they could clone Hitler and restart the Third Reich and then wipe out all the gay commie black zionist bastards in the world, thus allowing all the sensible, mild easy going Nazis to live peacefully with the Arabs.
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Erm, OS/2 is an IBM thing :) Microsoft may have been involved in the creation of the original OS/2 in the days before Win95 but OS/2 is now pretty much all IBM's fault :)
Troc
plug a wacom graphire tablet into any mac running os 10.2+ and you can use it as a pointing device AND suddenly a handwriting recognition panel becomes available in the system preferences.
I admit it's not the same as a touchscreen on a tablet pc or whatever but it does mean pen-based input.
Troc
Most celestial objects, including meteors are spotted by amateurs anyway, so it'd be almost impossible for governments to keep it quiet. It would require a superhuman effort on the part of the world's combined governments to locate, track and watch every bloke with a telescope, just in case they saw something..........
:)
(unless you subscribe to the Hollywood-US-centric view in which case only USAians spot them and the government is actually efficient
Troc
By drinking beer of course :)
LP? as in 12" vinyl? I'm trying to see which pocket that'd go in but I'm having trouble. Anyway, wouldn't it skip?
ooh, you could spool the LP to tape as a buffer and then on to your headphones. *ponder*
Troc
I guess this means we'd be wearing a Beowulf cluster?
Interesting, it would mean computing power was greater in winter with more clothing layers.
Sorry for using "interesting" and Beowulf cluster" in the same post.
Troc
Hmm, so it blocks C, N and T. Well, add that U and you have a rude word :)
:)
So there you are, that's why it's blocked.
Ok, so I admit that's not really a reason but it's an interesting coincidence
Troc
Yes, just ask the Scientologists. :)
Troc
I am trying but it's taking a long time. I guess we could simulate a beowulf cluster of them?
Troc
This court case is in the Guinness book of records I believe for having been adjourned the most number of times or something.......
Troc
PS Another very happy Xs4all customer.
I have always suspected the M5 of being "more" than just a road. All those caravans must be up to something, the way they all travel in swarms to the same places at the same times. I firmly think the bad driving, weird lane usage, flat caps and children are all either a secret language or simply designed to throw us off the scent.
:)
Or maybe I need to take my pills.
Troc
You are in the marines?
:)
oooh, what instrument do you play?
troc
We should take off and nuke the site from orbit
:)
It's the only way to be sure..........
(yeah yeah paraphrased badly)
Except I quite like NZ. Can we just blow some other stuff up? please?
Oh hello, would you like to blow some stuff up?
No?
What are you doing? Get off me, leggo of me arm. Ouch.
Noooooooooo, I don't want to go back in th.........
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Simple thermodynamics - in a closed system the gas must all be at the same temperature and pressure all the time, it can't be anything else. So the instant one end gets hot, the other end gets hot. To say the hot gasses move to the cold end is not really correct and infers there's a delay as pressure is equalised or something.
If you make a heat pipe, hold one and and stick the other in boiling water, your hand gets as hot as fast as it would if you stuck it in the water. It's instantaneous.
Troc.
A Georde Foreman?
Scary stuff, putting Northeners in charge of the building. Brickies are hard enough to understand as it is......
Troc
PS Brief aside for non-brits. A Geordie is from the North East of England, specifically Northumberland, more specifically Newcastle (noocassle) upon Tyne.
Hey, if you are selling an Slashdot account then at least make it a 4 digit one or less. Everyone knows those are the only accounts to have. ;)
Troc
Just think of all those Aussies who wear thongs on their feet.........
Or, for all you Aussies, imagine where everyone else puts their thongs.
ooh, matron
Troc
Here in Holland, most of the waiters in the cafes with outdoor terraces use wireless handsets to transmit their orders to the kitchen and to receive a signal the order is ready. This way you get the interaction without the hassle of the waiter buggering off to chat to the chef :)
Troc
Troc
The IBM 970 is a 64 bit processor that can run 32 bit without a penalty. The rumours are that the next version of OS X will be a 64 compatible OS which will then fully support the new chip etc etc
Troc
Yes, BUT they bought them for a different reason....
If they bought them as replacement parts (for which they have an agreement with Apple) and then sold them as new machines, they would be trading under false pretenses and in violation of their agreement with Apple. Apple can therefore do exactly what they have done.
We can debate the "niceness" of the agreement, or of Apple and we can debate the naievity (or stupidity...) of the company but they have broken an agreement with Apple and that's all there is to it.
It's like obtaining software "for non-commercial use" at a reduced cost and then using it for commercial reasons, or buying something in place X and taking it to place Y when you signed an agreement not to... you are breaking that agreement whether you like it or not.
hohum
Troc
Yeah. IBM gave 64 processor SMP to the terrorists so they could clone Hitler and restart the Third Reich and then wipe out all the gay commie black zionist bastards in the world, thus allowing all the sensible, mild easy going Nazis to live peacefully with the Arabs.
;)
In Brazil
Troc
so you have an ipod then?
;)
ooh you joined the cult^h^h^hlan then
Troc
That's why Play.com ship each disc individually ;)
Well, it's one reason. The other is so they fit through the letterbox.
Troc
It's a simple fix actually .......
You could use the battery in your phone to power the headset, just attact a wire.... oh
erm
oops?
Troc