Someone who read the article -- will wonders never cease?
You're correct. The "researchers" in question sent out an e-mail to students, staff, etc., at the Technion technology institute (where they work), asking if the institute had a biology faculty. This is rather different from someone sending out an e-mail to 10,000 random addresses, offering... well, you know what they offer... and hoping for a bite from a small percentage.
The methodology utilized, the fact they were seeking information rather than selling something a la normal spam, etc., etc. -- I just don't think there's any way you can legitimately extrapolate this to apply to spam in the accepted sense of the word.
The car starts on diesel and after several miles Mr. Noe-Hays flips a switch and changes to his other fuel source. At the end of the day he switches back to diesel to clean the engine of grease.
Now, I wonder if it's just at the beginning of the day, or if he has to be on diesel every time he turns the key. If the latter, and you're mostly driving around town, then you'll never get the chance to use the oil part of it. (Not to detract from its usefulness on long journeys, of course.)
I had a quick look at the greasecar site, but couldn't find the answer to this question. Anyone know the deal?
In the hopes of stemming the flood of purely silly questions, here's the article which will answer something like 95% of the questions I've seen posted thus far. You lazy sods, I'll bet you don't indicate when you turn a corner while driving either.
Hitachi Ltd. has announced the commercial launch of its water-cooled notebook PC, a 1.8GHz mobile Pentium 4-based machine which uses a patented Hitachi system to aid heat dissipation.
Most notebooks are cooled by air fans, and as processors have grown more powerful and begun to generate more heat, these fans have become more numerous, larger, and have needed to spin faster.
This has also meant that fans have become noisier and might not be suitable for use in places like libraries, Hitachi said.
The new Flora 270W Silent Model uses a water-based solution tank, instead of a fan or fans for cooling down the processor. Hitachi announced a working prototype using this technology in February.
"The efficiency of a water cooling system and the air cooling system are about the same but the biggest difference is the noise the latter creates," said Masayuki Akabane, a Hitachi spokesman.
The water-based solution runs through a flexible tube that is placed over the chips and absorbs heat. The heated water solution is then sent to the display part of the notebook to be stored in a tank where it cools down.
The solution can last for more than five years, the flexible tube can circulate the solution over 20,000 times and the pump works for more than 44,000 hours, the statement said.
Plastic panels separate these water-cooling elements from high-voltage areas, in case of a solution leak from the cooling system. The Tokyo company also offers a three-year guarantee service for the product.
The new products are slightly thicker than existing air-cooled Flora models, in order to show the tank at the back of the LCD (liquid crystal display) panel and hence differentiate the water-cooled machine, Akabane said. The tank also be hidden, he said.
The products are equipped with a 1.8GHz mobile Intel 4 processor, 128M bytes of RAM, a 20G-byte hard disk drive and a 15-inch (37.5-centimeter) color TFT (thin film transistor) LCD (liquid crystal display), and are priced at ¥341,000 (US$2,941). The products can be customized to connect via Ethernet, a modem or an IEEE802.11b interface.
Hitachi started taking custom orders from corporate customers at its online shopping site on Wednesday. The products are expected to be shipped on Sept. 30 in Japan, Akabane said. The company can provide the product for corporate users outside Japan on demand, he said.
The company is still looking at market trends before deciding when to launch the product for the consumer market, he said.
Hitachi has patents for this unique water-cooling system, and is trying to promote it as a standard throughout the industry. Several high-end product makers are in talks with Hitachi for possible adoption of the technology in servers and PDPs (plasma display panels), Akabane said.
Any DVDs that force me to watch adverts are taken straight back for a refund as "broken" by the way - hopefully other people do this as well...
Seriously -- you get away with this? I'm honestly curious -- how do you persuade the store that it's broken if you're forced to admit that it's purely the adverts at the beginning that you're miffed about? They irritate me, too, but I just can't imagine being able to pull this off. But then I'm a wimp.
It is both possible and common for two people to respect each other, even while openly acknowledging that they each think the other's beliefs are a load of crap...I have every right to insult the beliefs of whomever I see fit
Do you see the contradiction inherent here? No, evidently not.
"Respecting each other" is at least partly about recognising a person's beliefs are important to that individual, and hence deliberately avoiding judgemental and hatred-laden phrases such as "your beliefs are a load of crap".
I am sick and tired of self-righteous bigots like you proclaiming their imagined "rights" to allow them to be as rude, crude, and offensive as possible and then hypocritically pouring scorn on anyone whose actions you despise or disdain. You demand respect and blind obedience to your belief system, and yet refuse to extend the same courtesy to those from whom you demand this supplication.
Ironically enough, a verse in the Bible instructs readers to remove the plank from their own eye before attempting to remove the speck from their brother's eye. Think about it.
Just curious, but how would you prefer a foreigner address the U.S. president? "Sir"?
Which is an aside to my actual point. Which, roughly stated, is this. Get over it.
Personally, as someone who doesn't give a stuff where you live, I show the accepted level of respect to anyone, regardless of their nationality. Perhaps if more people did the same, the world would be a happier place. Too bad common courtesy isn't.
No it isn't. And it isn't what geeks want either. What some of the public want and more geeks want is the capability to play MP3s in their car -- not the capability to rip MP3s in their car. One is about convenience and choice. The other is about enabling a gee-whiz function which has no bl**dy place in a car.
Am I missing something? I followed the link, and couldn't see anything to indicate the hard drive could be removed so you could hook it up to your PC and rip tunes that way. On the contrary; there's a slot in the unit so you can use memory sticks and transfer files from your PC to your car stereo.
You want to rip MP3s? Fine. Do it in the right context -- at home, in your office, where ever you have your burners. But the moment I see someone trying to do this in a car on the same road as me, I'm dialling the police and reporting dangerous driving.
Major thumbs down to Sony for the sheer stupidity inherent in even conceiving of such a device.
The book is (as everyone has confirmed) titled "On The Beach".
The author is (as no-one has yet pointed out -- preen) Nevil Shute. (FWIW, he also wrote "A Town Like Alice", and several other books.) Chances are he had more than a passing knowledge about this sort of thing as he was an engineer who founded an aircraft manufacturing company.
We're just outside of Philadelphia. We were planning on watching the 12:30 replay which was listed on the schedule (even on the local tv station web site). But the news continued, and then some move started at 1:00. Couldn't figure out what was going on -- finally went on their website and found a short note saying "we apologize for the inconvenience". Oh yes -- and a headline announcing THE BL**DY SCORE!!! Thanks a lot, ABC.
Disclaimer: this is not a rant against the original poster to whom I'm replying. It's a rant against every idiotic/. user who needs to learn how to read and understand. Next time, read the article and use your alleged brains.
- You may refuse any (software) licenses donated since you have not accepted them.
This isn't the point. Apparently the simple rules aren't stated explicitly enough for the typical/. reader (or maybe they are, but hey, we can go into MS-bash mode -- who needs to worry about trivial things like facts?).
The point is...
I have a computer with a pre-installed version of Windows. It's a package deal. This Is Significant And Important (TM). I donate the PC to a school. The Windows license must accompany it.
* They don't have to use the software; they just have to keep it attached to the PC somehow. They can stick it in a library and run any OS they like on the PC. However, they have the license, and so that brings us to...
* I no longer have the license to that pre-installed version, and so can't keep the media and install the OS on another brand spanking new PC I buy to replace my old PC that I've just donated.
The second point is the crux. I got the pre-installed OS as a part of the PC package, therefore I can't split it up when I donate the hardware. Ergo, I have to legally acquire a new OS for my next machine, whether it be a legitimate copy of XP from Dick Smith's CompUSA or a downloaded Linux ISO. Moan about the whole I-want-to-be-able-to-buy-a-Hewlett-Dell-Gateway-PC -without-paying-the-MS-tax if you like (I do), but for crying out loud get the story straight. Pretty please.
There are currently three countries that have not officially switched over to the metric system (depending on your definition of "switched over" -- try driving in England if you don't want to use MPH). They are USA, Liberia, and Myanmar (also known as Burma). This makes the US the only industrialized country to not have officially adopted the metric system.
However, anecdotally (because I didn't grow up in the US, so can't confirm this from personal experience), I understand that you will often find the metric system being used in education, science, etc. For example, I know someone who was a chemistry major at Penn about 40 years ago who had to use the metric system for everything during her studies.
Yes, but I want to have the freedom to choose how I want to obtain my PC-and-OS. If I want to buy a fully-built PC with a preinstalled OS, no problem. If I want to buy the components and build it from scratch, no big deal as I have the necessary know-how.
But I don't. I don't want to pay for the OS; I'd rather install MY operating system MY way. If that means Win 2K, then fine, I'll go out and buy a copy off the shelf. If that means SuSE or RedHat, fine, I can download it or buy it off the shelf. But I usually don't want to build the PC; I've been doing it for the last ten years, so I don't need the practise, and at this point I'm just as happy to buy the lowest-end desktop I can find and use it for bopping around, checking out different distros, that sort of thing. I'd rather spend the time loading software and experimenting with whatever-it-is I'm currently investigating. (Okay, breaking whatever-it-is I'm currently investigating, if you want to be pedantic.)
But I can't. Anyone see the problem here? I can buy everything as separate components and put it all together, or get the full package including OS from Dell or HP, but I can't get the in-between service that I want. Maybe it's just me (although at least one or two of the posts here make me think not), but I want the in-between service. I want to be able to buy a ready-built PC from Dell (or whomever) with a blank HDD and then choose what I want to do with it.
By the way, I sent in three e-mails at the beginning of this year to Dell customer service asking precisely how they could assist me with this request (i.e. to be able to buy a PC without an OS). Yep, I'm still waiting to hear back from them -- not even an acknowledgement of receipt thus far. Customer service? What customer service?
Yep! AND...if you want to, you can order a server with no OS installed -- not Windows, not Linux, not anything. So you can do it from scratch and choose your own distro. Mighty good stuff, IMHO.
I was crossing the street one day and a few steps in front of me was a young lady talking animatedly on a cellphone. So animatedly was she talking, in fact, that she failed to notice the height of the curb and consequently stumbled when she reached the other side. The cellphone flew out of her hand and crashed down in the gutter, whereupon the battery fell off the back of the phone.
Leaving two very small black rectangular objects.
Both of which were easily small enough to fit in the gaps between the bars of the sewer grating on which they landed.
...unfortunately, as much fun as it may be to leave it there, I have to report they didn't fall down the drain, but instead both bounced off the bars and onto the road. Pure dumb luck she didn't lose them both.
I sent an e-mail to X10 a few days ago when I'd finally had enough. Complaining about the existence of the ads? No -- that's sure to fall in their category of "necessary evil", i.e. marketing dollars, and I knew that if I was to have any chance of not being deleted (vicariously through my e-mail), I'd better not trip down that lane.
No, what I objected to was the content of the ads. Now, call me a prude if you must, but frankly I am turned off by a company who will insist on popping up ads which feature shots of cameras panning over scantily-clad females and lingering on the cleavage whilst accompanied by a tag line reading "see what you're missing" or "who knows what you'll see?". Okay, so I'm an adult -- what about those parents who (rightly or wrongly) wish to be able to have their children surf the Net through a supposedly safe medium such as Yahoo and not be inundated with sleazy ads?
We all know that children aren't safe from the spammers or the mistyped domain names that have been pounced upon by the porn people; but they're up-front (yes, ha-ha, no pun intended) about their intentions. X10, on the other hand, is just being tacky, and overloading at least this particular consumer with their tackiness.
By the way, I also pointed out to them that, for what it was worth, I am probably in one of their prized target demographics -- early 30s and technically astute with a reasonable amount of disposable cash.
No reply from X10 customer service so far. There's a surprise.
Yep. Most backup software vendors charge hefty sums for "open file" agents or "SQL Server" agents, the latter at least of which has never made much sense to me. Schedule a dump -- backup the dumps with your file backup software. Case closed.
I don't live in New Zealand any more, but I used to, and back in my younger and poorer days (i.e. the only fridge we could afford had been scavenged from a rubbish dump and had had the handle removed so little kids wouldn't get stuck inside), we had a fridge in our flat with an icebox bearing a remarkable resemblance to the one in the photographs. Which also got chunked up with ice on an alarmingly regular basis.
We used an electric drill to break up the ice into chunks which we then dumped on the lawn outside to melt away at their leisure. Very little mess, and no danger unless you got a bit too eager with the drill and cracked the back of the freezer (no, we didn't -- we might have been misguided, but not that misguided).
Ah, those were the good old days. Remind me to tell you the story about the rental washing machine that exploded the first time we used it -- memories of flames shooting out the back of a Fisher and Paykel and the receptionist at the rental agency telling us "ooh, yes, it's quite impressive when they do that, isn't it? Just make sure you don't throw any water on it, and we'll send someone around in a couple of days to have a look at it". Silly cow. Mind you, on the bright side, we did have three fire engines come over to put it out -- really livened up the day!
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Someone who read the article -- will wonders never cease?
You're correct. The "researchers" in question sent out an e-mail to students, staff, etc., at the Technion technology institute (where they work), asking if the institute had a biology faculty. This is rather different from someone sending out an e-mail to 10,000 random addresses, offering... well, you know what they offer... and hoping for a bite from a small percentage.
The methodology utilized, the fact they were seeking information rather than selling something a la normal spam, etc., etc. -- I just don't think there's any way you can legitimately extrapolate this to apply to spam in the accepted sense of the word.
I thought the ACLU didn't like things like identification papers.
???
The car starts on diesel and after several miles Mr. Noe-Hays flips a switch and changes to his other fuel source. At the end of the day he switches back to diesel to clean the engine of grease.
Now, I wonder if it's just at the beginning of the day, or if he has to be on diesel every time he turns the key. If the latter, and you're mostly driving around town, then you'll never get the chance to use the oil part of it. (Not to detract from its usefulness on long journeys, of course.)
I had a quick look at the greasecar site, but couldn't find the answer to this question. Anyone know the deal?
In the hopes of stemming the flood of purely silly questions, here's the article which will answer something like 95% of the questions I've seen posted thus far. You lazy sods, I'll bet you don't indicate when you turn a corner while driving either.
Hitachi Ltd. has announced the commercial launch of its water-cooled notebook PC, a 1.8GHz mobile Pentium 4-based machine which uses a patented Hitachi system to aid heat dissipation.
Most notebooks are cooled by air fans, and as processors have grown more powerful and begun to generate more heat, these fans have become more numerous, larger, and have needed to spin faster.
This has also meant that fans have become noisier and might not be suitable for use in places like libraries, Hitachi said.
The new Flora 270W Silent Model uses a water-based solution tank, instead of a fan or fans for cooling down the processor. Hitachi announced a working prototype using this technology in February.
"The efficiency of a water cooling system and the air cooling system are about the same but the biggest difference is the noise the latter creates," said Masayuki Akabane, a Hitachi spokesman.
The water-based solution runs through a flexible tube that is placed over the chips and absorbs heat. The heated water solution is then sent to the display part of the notebook to be stored in a tank where it cools down.
The solution can last for more than five years, the flexible tube can circulate the solution over 20,000 times and the pump works for more than 44,000 hours, the statement said.
Plastic panels separate these water-cooling elements from high-voltage areas, in case of a solution leak from the cooling system. The Tokyo company also offers a three-year guarantee service for the product.
The new products are slightly thicker than existing air-cooled Flora models, in order to show the tank at the back of the LCD (liquid crystal display) panel and hence differentiate the water-cooled machine, Akabane said. The tank also be hidden, he said.
The products are equipped with a 1.8GHz mobile Intel 4 processor, 128M bytes of RAM, a 20G-byte hard disk drive and a 15-inch (37.5-centimeter) color TFT (thin film transistor) LCD (liquid crystal display), and are priced at ¥341,000 (US$2,941). The products can be customized to connect via Ethernet, a modem or an IEEE802.11b interface.
Hitachi started taking custom orders from corporate customers at its online shopping site on Wednesday. The products are expected to be shipped on Sept. 30 in Japan, Akabane said. The company can provide the product for corporate users outside Japan on demand, he said.
The company is still looking at market trends before deciding when to launch the product for the consumer market, he said.
Hitachi has patents for this unique water-cooling system, and is trying to promote it as a standard throughout the industry. Several high-end product makers are in talks with Hitachi for possible adoption of the technology in servers and PDPs (plasma display panels), Akabane said.
Hmm...would this be the same iDrive system that runs Windows CE?
Any DVDs that force me to watch adverts are taken straight back for a refund as "broken" by the way - hopefully other people do this as well...
Seriously -- you get away with this? I'm honestly curious -- how do you persuade the store that it's broken if you're forced to admit that it's purely the adverts at the beginning that you're miffed about? They irritate me, too, but I just can't imagine being able to pull this off. But then I'm a wimp.
It is both possible and common for two people to respect each other, even while openly acknowledging that they each think the other's beliefs are a load of crap...I have every right to insult the beliefs of whomever I see fit
Do you see the contradiction inherent here? No, evidently not.
"Respecting each other" is at least partly about recognising a person's beliefs are important to that individual, and hence deliberately avoiding judgemental and hatred-laden phrases such as "your beliefs are a load of crap".
I am sick and tired of self-righteous bigots like you proclaiming their imagined "rights" to allow them to be as rude, crude, and offensive as possible and then hypocritically pouring scorn on anyone whose actions you despise or disdain. You demand respect and blind obedience to your belief system, and yet refuse to extend the same courtesy to those from whom you demand this supplication.
Ironically enough, a verse in the Bible instructs readers to remove the plank from their own eye before attempting to remove the speck from their brother's eye. Think about it.
Generic PC -- spend a few hundred dollars and you can try Mandrake, RedHat, SUSE, Windows XP, Windows 2000...
Macintosh -- spend over a grand and you can try os x. Tough luck if you don't like it.
Just curious, but how would you prefer a foreigner address the U.S. president? "Sir"?
Which is an aside to my actual point. Which, roughly stated, is this. Get over it.
Personally, as someone who doesn't give a stuff where you live, I show the accepted level of respect to anyone, regardless of their nationality. Perhaps if more people did the same, the world would be a happier place. Too bad common courtesy isn't.
this is what the public wants
No it isn't. And it isn't what geeks want either. What some of the public want and more geeks want is the capability to play MP3s in their car -- not the capability to rip MP3s in their car. One is about convenience and choice. The other is about enabling a gee-whiz function which has no bl**dy place in a car.
Am I missing something? I followed the link, and couldn't see anything to indicate the hard drive could be removed so you could hook it up to your PC and rip tunes that way. On the contrary; there's a slot in the unit so you can use memory sticks and transfer files from your PC to your car stereo.
You want to rip MP3s? Fine. Do it in the right context -- at home, in your office, where ever you have your burners. But the moment I see someone trying to do this in a car on the same road as me, I'm dialling the police and reporting dangerous driving.
Major thumbs down to Sony for the sheer stupidity inherent in even conceiving of such a device.
The book is (as everyone has confirmed) titled "On The Beach".
The author is (as no-one has yet pointed out -- preen) Nevil Shute. (FWIW, he also wrote "A Town Like Alice", and several other books.) Chances are he had more than a passing knowledge about this sort of thing as he was an engineer who founded an aircraft manufacturing company.
We're just outside of Philadelphia. We were planning on watching the 12:30 replay which was listed on the schedule (even on the local tv station web site). But the news continued, and then some move started at 1:00. Couldn't figure out what was going on -- finally went on their website and found a short note saying "we apologize for the inconvenience". Oh yes -- and a headline announcing THE BL**DY SCORE!!! Thanks a lot, ABC.
Disclaimer: this is not a rant against the original poster to whom I'm replying. It's a rant against every idiotic /. user who needs to learn how to read and understand. Next time, read the article and use your alleged brains.
/. reader (or maybe they are, but hey, we can go into MS-bash mode -- who needs to worry about trivial things like facts?).
C -without-paying-the-MS-tax if you like (I do), but for crying out loud get the story straight. Pretty please.
- You may refuse any (software) licenses donated since you have not accepted them.
This isn't the point. Apparently the simple rules aren't stated explicitly enough for the typical
The point is...
I have a computer with a pre-installed version of Windows. It's a package deal. This Is Significant And Important (TM). I donate the PC to a school. The Windows license must accompany it.
* They don't have to use the software; they just have to keep it attached to the PC somehow. They can stick it in a library and run any OS they like on the PC. However, they have the license, and so that brings us to...
* I no longer have the license to that pre-installed version, and so can't keep the media and install the OS on another brand spanking new PC I buy to replace my old PC that I've just donated.
The second point is the crux. I got the pre-installed OS as a part of the PC package, therefore I can't split it up when I donate the hardware. Ergo, I have to legally acquire a new OS for my next machine, whether it be a legitimate copy of XP from Dick Smith's CompUSA or a downloaded Linux ISO. Moan about the whole I-want-to-be-able-to-buy-a-Hewlett-Dell-Gateway-P
FWIW
There are currently three countries that have not officially switched over to the metric system (depending on your definition of "switched over" -- try driving in England if you don't want to use MPH). They are USA, Liberia, and Myanmar (also known as Burma). This makes the US the only industrialized country to not have officially adopted the metric system.
However, anecdotally (because I didn't grow up in the US, so can't confirm this from personal experience), I understand that you will often find the metric system being used in education, science, etc. For example, I know someone who was a chemistry major at Penn about 40 years ago who had to use the metric system for everything during her studies.
Yep. IBM has alliances with Caldera, SuSE, and TurboLinux.
Yes, but I want to have the freedom to choose how I want to obtain my PC-and-OS. If I want to buy a fully-built PC with a preinstalled OS, no problem. If I want to buy the components and build it from scratch, no big deal as I have the necessary know-how.
But I don't. I don't want to pay for the OS; I'd rather install MY operating system MY way. If that means Win 2K, then fine, I'll go out and buy a copy off the shelf. If that means SuSE or RedHat, fine, I can download it or buy it off the shelf. But I usually don't want to build the PC; I've been doing it for the last ten years, so I don't need the practise, and at this point I'm just as happy to buy the lowest-end desktop I can find and use it for bopping around, checking out different distros, that sort of thing. I'd rather spend the time loading software and experimenting with whatever-it-is I'm currently investigating. (Okay, breaking whatever-it-is I'm currently investigating, if you want to be pedantic.)
But I can't. Anyone see the problem here? I can buy everything as separate components and put it all together, or get the full package including OS from Dell or HP, but I can't get the in-between service that I want. Maybe it's just me (although at least one or two of the posts here make me think not), but I want the in-between service. I want to be able to buy a ready-built PC from Dell (or whomever) with a blank HDD and then choose what I want to do with it.
By the way, I sent in three e-mails at the beginning of this year to Dell customer service asking precisely how they could assist me with this request (i.e. to be able to buy a PC without an OS). Yep, I'm still waiting to hear back from them -- not even an acknowledgement of receipt thus far. Customer service? What customer service?
Yep! AND...if you want to, you can order a server with no OS installed -- not Windows, not Linux, not anything. So you can do it from scratch and choose your own distro. Mighty good stuff, IMHO.
I was crossing the street one day and a few steps in front of me was a young lady talking animatedly on a cellphone. So animatedly was she talking, in fact, that she failed to notice the height of the curb and consequently stumbled when she reached the other side. The cellphone flew out of her hand and crashed down in the gutter, whereupon the battery fell off the back of the phone.
Leaving two very small black rectangular objects.
Both of which were easily small enough to fit in the gaps between the bars of the sewer grating on which they landed.
...unfortunately, as much fun as it may be to leave it there, I have to report they didn't fall down the drain, but instead both bounced off the bars and onto the road. Pure dumb luck she didn't lose them both.
I sent an e-mail to X10 a few days ago when I'd finally had enough. Complaining about the existence of the ads? No -- that's sure to fall in their category of "necessary evil", i.e. marketing dollars, and I knew that if I was to have any chance of not being deleted (vicariously through my e-mail), I'd better not trip down that lane.
No, what I objected to was the content of the ads. Now, call me a prude if you must, but frankly I am turned off by a company who will insist on popping up ads which feature shots of cameras panning over scantily-clad females and lingering on the cleavage whilst accompanied by a tag line reading "see what you're missing" or "who knows what you'll see?". Okay, so I'm an adult -- what about those parents who (rightly or wrongly) wish to be able to have their children surf the Net through a supposedly safe medium such as Yahoo and not be inundated with sleazy ads?
We all know that children aren't safe from the spammers or the mistyped domain names that have been pounced upon by the porn people; but they're up-front (yes, ha-ha, no pun intended) about their intentions. X10, on the other hand, is just being tacky, and overloading at least this particular consumer with their tackiness.
By the way, I also pointed out to them that, for what it was worth, I am probably in one of their prized target demographics -- early 30s and technically astute with a reasonable amount of disposable cash.
No reply from X10 customer service so far. There's a surprise.
I don't imagine it'll be a huge problem, just one more long-term nusance we could've lived without!
Just like deer used to be.
Yep, they were considered a huge pest a few decades ago. Now it's not at all difficult to find a 6 metre fence to keep the damn things inside.
Every island -- several million sheep. *
And let's not forget about Waiheke Island, Great Barrier Island, the Three Sisters, etc., etc. Some of them are even populated. By people.
* (Okay, maybe not on Stewart or the Chathams, but it sounds better that way.)
Why bother? They already sound like that anyhow.
The earth [is] 90% water
??
I thought it was 70% water.
Bugger...that global warming effect really is playing havoc.
Yep. Most backup software vendors charge hefty sums for "open file" agents or "SQL Server" agents, the latter at least of which has never made much sense to me. Schedule a dump -- backup the dumps with your file backup software. Case closed.
I don't live in New Zealand any more, but I used to, and back in my younger and poorer days (i.e. the only fridge we could afford had been scavenged from a rubbish dump and had had the handle removed so little kids wouldn't get stuck inside), we had a fridge in our flat with an icebox bearing a remarkable resemblance to the one in the photographs. Which also got chunked up with ice on an alarmingly regular basis.
We used an electric drill to break up the ice into chunks which we then dumped on the lawn outside to melt away at their leisure. Very little mess, and no danger unless you got a bit too eager with the drill and cracked the back of the freezer (no, we didn't -- we might have been misguided, but not that misguided).
Ah, those were the good old days. Remind me to tell you the story about the rental washing machine that exploded the first time we used it -- memories of flames shooting out the back of a Fisher and Paykel and the receptionist at the rental agency telling us "ooh, yes, it's quite impressive when they do that, isn't it? Just make sure you don't throw any water on it, and we'll send someone around in a couple of days to have a look at it". Silly cow. Mind you, on the bright side, we did have three fire engines come over to put it out -- really livened up the day!