It does depend on what the levels of graphics requirements are for each level of compatibility with Aero Glass/Aero/WinXp/Win.
If anything Direct X 9 and above will do everything without an issue, then great. If Direct X 8 can do most things except a couple of things then better. If it is still accelerated on Direct X 7 cards, albeit without features that require 8 or 9, then fine, that will be all that is required in my head.
If it is DX9+: Aero Glass. Everything else software rendered by the CPU; fast CPU: Aero, Slower CPU: WinXp, then boo.
Mac OS X also has similar features, but runs with full OpenGL acceleration on DX7 class cards (sans various effects like genie, splash and so on), and according to other posts here might even run okay on DX6 class cards.
'legally allowed'? No. As a consumer, with a display capable of showing HD content (720P on a 1280x1024 monitor) without an issue, I pretty much expect to be able to view HD content on said monitor, over DVI, without needing to buy a new monitor and graphics card. Okay, maybe decoding H.264 might require a graphics card upgrade, or a CPU with good H.264 support, but apart from that... hell, even if it is a Satellite receiver or Bluray drive, I expect DVI to be an output option. Then again, I'm in Europe, where a lot of these artificial restrictions are always worked around and sold openly. I don't mind DRM, as long as it is fair to the consumer - however I don't think that some DRM is really a fair relationship, as it assumes there is no trust at all between the provider and the consumer.
And I'd like to see how a revoked key for hardware is handled in Europe. I buy a Bluray or HDDVD player, and then at some point its key is revoked, giving me a player that can't play future releases - I'm going to be pissed off. When it is revealed that it isn't the hardware, but the media companies to blame there'll be hell to pay - they expect me to buy a new player each time a key is compromised that my player uses? Not bloody likely.
I'm hoping my new iBook will be running 10.8 in 3 - 5 years time and handling it all without a problem.
And Exposé... well there is something altogether different, and it puts Mac OS X in a different league. 32MB of VRAM RAM, lots of open windows - some with transparency, and it is totally smooth, I can't see any frame stutter at all. Now if I open 20 transparent terminal windows I notice a little stutter, but it still works in the same amount of time, it doesn't slow it down.
But yes, Mac OS X Tiger will degrade gracefully when the hardware doesn't support all features. Just like Vista is going to do... on December 7th 2006. LOL.
Have you ever compared the speed-feel of using a crappy XP machine (say my 1.3Ghz Pentium M laptop) to, oh, say a top-of-the-line OS X machine? The PC wins hands down, every time, in tests like "opening a folder with lots of files" and "launching an application."
Yep, I've got both. On a clean install, XP isn't too bad - boots up quickly, etc. However over time XP gets slower, whereas OS X doesn't.
Launching an application? Seems quick enough on my iBook - could be a little quicker, but not anything majorly different from my 2GHz Athlon XP system.
You must have a pretty poor folder layout if you spend a lot of time manipulating files. I tend to save them in the correct location in the first place myself. As for the desktop... okay for temporary files, disk images and the like. Then you drag them to the trash. Easy.
What slow Finder animations? You do realise that effects like the genie minimisation are actually worthwhile features, they show you where the window has minimised to on the dock. They're quick anyway.
Great, you can make XP look like a dog. Good on you. In the meantime I'll have my realtime, extremely fast, good looking, alpha-channel windows on my Apple laptop. And what giant child-size icons? You do know you can set the size of the icons?
Oh wait, but maybe you are just trolling, because you can't have actually/used/ Mac OS X, certainly not 10.3 or 10.4. It is just that the UI feels really snappy on my system for the most part. And I've got a 4200 RPM hard drive in here. Were you using Mac OS X on a machine with 128MB or something?
Mac OS X has issues, some of the applications have some bad things - iPhoto - to save a photo in your library somewhere else you have to use the Export menu item. Fair enough, except this isn't under the File menu. WTF?!
However Quartz 2D and Quartz 2D Extreme are two large speedups that aren't down to mere optimisation that should have been done originally. Taking all that 2D compositing off of the G3 or G4 must have really improved performance.
Of course, in other areas they've implemented real optimisations. Anyway, 10.1 was free, and if Apple never released anything until it was 'perfect' we'd still be using Apple IIs or something.
On the other hand, Tiger was released too early. I'm hoping that 10.4.3 fixes issues with Firewire that I have been getting irked by.
Heh, don't worry. Whilst my Windows rig has a Radeon 9500 (gosh, that's 30 months old), my Linux rig is using an old Voodoo 4500!
Thing is, I'd reasonably expect the latter to be able to handle a desktop created using standard 3D primitives. It isn't like there will be 1 million polygons to display...
Well, it is wrong because they haven't notified their customers and given them a choice about leaving or staying. It isn't a hard sell ('our servers will be more secure, you'll lose China and Korean readers - but if you want a specific IP we can assist you') but customers deserve to know the state of play.
In fact, I think this should go as far as sending a daily email of blocked spam emails (from and subject lines only, of course).
But the lake was breached because Herr Bushenführer diverted funds from necessary levee and dyke work in those states to the war in Iraq. Well, that is what several news sources are stating, and it seems to be correct.
Oh, did Bush, knowing he would be required because of the scale of this hurricane, leave his umpteenth holiday as President of the United States of Abused-citizens BEFORE this happened? No. It's like 9/11 all over again, isn't it, although we may give him the benefit of the doubt as to knowing it will happen beforehand there, it's not as if the FBI and NSA weren't all over it beforehand?
In the meantime, Bush's friends celebrate as oil hits $70... $80 a barrel.
Disclaimer: I think that Bush is a retarded grabber of monkey's butts, so my viewpoint is liable to a slight slant, but you might not detect it because I am fair and even handed with a person's record.
I suppose that is fair enough, maybe if enough of us got together and paid say $10 each into a bounty we might get a reasonable amount of money, enough to tempt the current hackers to have a good session or two at least. Doing tedious stuff for no return isn't that fun, I agree.
Considering that Apple's desktop runs fine on ancient crap like Radeon 9200s (and probably 7500s), if Microsoft somehow require you to buy a modern card to run their desktop it will look rather silly. Then again, I'm sure Microsoft could do it, but it'd require a momentus effort on their part!
Oh, don't forget the DRM stuff. You might need to buy a new monitor and graphics card to watch a HD movie in HD via HDMI or DisplayPort! However if you are half sensible you won't care because you'll be watching your HD movies playing from your HD disc player on your HD television.
I've never upgraded for windows, however I have noticed slowdowns over previous releases on the same hardware. On the contrary however, Mac OS X has only got faster. Once they fix their latest Quartz 2D stuff and enable it there will be even more accelleration. More work on the GPU leads to less work on the processor, and it will be interesting to benchmark Mac OS X 10.5 on Intel against Windows Hasta la Vista in terms of desktop speed, responsiveness and features.
Oh, and to do low-polygon (i.e., 1 quad or two tris) 3D appearance buttons in a GUI, make use of bump maps and normal maps in addition to the texture map. Hell, add a reflectance map in there too and whatever other types of map you can have.
*waits for 'lakewater' theme which has all GUI elements using a water pixel shader, with real distortion of what is beneath, and realtime water movement, and all that wizardry. You might have to have another polygon on top with the button text and so on of course, otherwise that might get affected by the shaders and maps used which wouldn't be a great plan in the great scheme of things.
The article says that Linux may as well accept it will be the last to a fully GL (or equivalent) accellerated desktop, blah blah blah.
Well, yes, Mac OS X has been using OpenGL for a couple of years now, with great results. Sure, it doesn't use real drop shadows like the article mentions, but that is because a more consistent look is achieved by putting a few polygons around the window with the alpha channel drop shadow bitmap on it. Probably a lot quicker as well.
Windows XP (the currently available version) doesn't use DirectX yet however. Avalon will be in Longwait, but that's over a year away still. It currently looks awful however, the nasty translucent blurry see through window borders, ugh. Bet they aren't in the final version.
He then goes on to say that 95% of the code to do what is a good idea is already done. It just needs that last 5% done, and proper integration.
Come on! Yes, it is the last 5%, but you've got a year! A few weekends of uber-hacking by those familiar with the current code bases, and you could beat Windows to having a modern desktop architecture. Get to it! *cracks whip*
I'm sure Apple are merely thinking 'Interface Patent' and thus ignoring it completely.
It is just hot air from Creative. In reality the patent is probably specific enough to only apply to Creative's devices, and various things that are on other devices are probably obvious, or clear copies of similar computer UI functions (a way of navigating a heirarchy of folders presented in a list view? Yeah, big woooooooo, I bet Apple can find patents from the '80s relating to such functionality on a computer, and then successfully argue that because the iPod has a processor, memory, backing store, a display, an input mechanism and so on that it is a computer as well.
Really, what it all distills down to is that the patent system is royally messed up in the US, and I think that every time something like this happens us Europeans should let their MEP know about it to ensure that such laws are never implemented over here. We won round one recently, but that won't stop those corporations. It's not that I'm against software patents, but only for groundbreaking things, and interface designs, etc, aren't in that, nor are obvious business methods and so on.
Well, I suppose that's why I weighted it to 1 in 10,000 in 10,000:) A little lie, and a bit of infective sex before the donation:)
But yes, there isn't anything else you can do at the moment. But in a dire shortage of blood, I expect you'll be accepting blood from tourists to Britain before people that had teh gay buttsechs a few days ago. However I'm sure you have books full of manual guidance and discussion about these issues, so I can't possibly recreate them in my head after a pile of alcohol:)
Poor frenchy (loving affectionate term for a frog) can't handle the fact that people in other countries can ride bicycles as well? If your riders took the strings of onions and garlic off they'd have a chance of winning.
Lance Armstrong is a cancer survivor that has taken hundreds of drugs tests during the past 6 years, and he passed them all. As he said himself, he'd be retarded to put his health at risk. What he has done should be seen as an inspiration to everyone. What is it with human nature and the need to put successful people down anyway? We British are masters of this insane behaviour:(
Now that our cricket team is on the verge of winning a test match against the Australians for the first time in 18 years or so, it won't be long before they get negative attacking press from The Scum, The Spews Of The World and so on.
btw: What do you call a Frenchman with Mad Cow Disease? Crazy Frog!
Isn't American beef full of growth hormones that is giving preteen girls tig ol' bitties because of the number of burgers they eat each year (I'm sure that there is plenty of more expensive 'organic' beef available as well, just like you can buy tastier free range chicken instead of battery farmed chicken, but how many people/care/ about these aspects?)
I know what I don't want in food, and that is things added deliberately by humans to increase yield without any consideration of the ongoing effects. Genetically Modified crops, growth hormones... yuck. I think that American beef is banned in many parts of the world (probably in Europe as well) because of this. If British beef is still banned in the US despite being totally safe to eat, then the reasons are probably more political than actual concern about the health of the serfs.
Some people would rather die than run a risk of 1 in a million of getting some naughty prions in their blood transfusion. Before dying they'd make some lawyers richers however, and the publicity just isn't worth it for the American government.
I wonder how many AIDS infected blood transfusion get past the tests each year? I sure more than 1 in a million Americans have AIDS, it's probably more like 1 in 10,000? (Fake Edit: I've looked it up, there are 1 million Americans with AIDS or HIV, that's 1 in 300, and those are the people that know about it). If 1 in 10,000 HIV enfected blood samples got past the tests, and 1 in 10,000 donations is unknowingly HIV infected, then 1 in 100,000,000 donations is bad. That's probably one every year or two. I expect that is a far more risky issue than this one. Oh well.
Emailchemy says to export to PST, then use Outlook Express to import the emails, then use their $25 product to export to any format they support. Not bad for $25, and I'm sure there are other free solutions that can convert OE to Maildir or whatever. http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/
However I thought that Thunderbird supported importing from.pst files directly. Am I mistaken? What's the issue with converting your.pst into maildir or whatever anyway?
Amazing, the problem only arose in the UK in the mid-80s as well due to the Conservative government allowing their farmer friends to cut costs by feeding animal waste to bovines.
It isn't as if BSE is UK only, there are plenty of cases throughout Europe and the US as well - not on the same scale as the problem *was* over here, then again you didn't have pure evil corruption in government at the time. As an aside, I notice that BSE is occuring more often in the US these days...
Well my girlfriend, who is doing a course in Microsoft Office, uses Office 2003 on her computer. However the course is done in Office XP. The changes are significant enough to completely make some of the taught material totally incorrect for 2003.
I thought the sign of a good program was a stable consistent interface that is logical and easy to use.
The worst bit about the linked review was that OpenOffice.org Impress was better because it now copied the PowerPoint interface. Go go opensource initiative and design skills:( It probably isn't worth a penny compared to Keynote - why not copy that interface?! The rest of the review was "I'm used to using it, therefore I like it and prefer it to software I haven't used for ages". It did point out the terrible 'get them young' student deal that Microsoft does to get people hooked into using their software - $25 is like a twentieth of the normal retail price, that isn't a standard level of student discount, that's using a monopoly to sell for virtually nothing to ensure the monopoly is kept. Fucking useless American anti-monopoly laws.
There seems to be a general long term trend towards warmer temperatures world wide. Quite possibly this is natural, we're still coming out of the last ice age, and the earth has been a lot hotter in the past. We might be accellerating it - if we are, what inertia are we adding to the rising temperatures?
There are also short cycles hot/cool periods. The mini-ice age in the 18th Century. Melons and wine production in the 16th and 17th Century. Romans also made wine over in the UK. The dark ages might have been relatively colder. I do not know how localised these shorter cycles are however - they could be mere fluctuations in the gulf stream which affect Europe and the UK in particular (note that the UK is at the same latitude as some pretty cold areas of Canada), or they could just be a global phenomenon that happens naturally, as the climate tries to reach an equilibrium.
Whatever, if the Earth warms up enough to have ice-free Artic summers, them we will be having ice-free Artic winters as well because the entire ocean current system will be massively affected by having this new major route for warm currents. If the globe warms up enough to melt the Artic and Greenland (some 40ft extra sea level), then it will also be warm enough to melt the Antartic (100ft on top of that). I'd invest in 'future beach-front' estate between the 100ft and 150ft altitude levels. If only that evil dude in one of the Superman movies had known about this...
It's funny to watch Slashdot. A single article said Google is evil, now, reading the posts, according to Slashdot Google is evil.
What makes me laugh is that some of these people are the same people who will make jokes about Apple's RDF.
Everything you said is true. It's like reading a Mac website now, 3 months ago it was all 'PowerPC blah blah, x86 is teh suck though', now it is all 'Intel are gods and x86 is the one true path, G5 sucks'.
What I've taken from it is that 99% of people are lemmings who can't (won't?) think for themselves (is this an education system thing?). Unfortunately they don't have a self-destruct mechanism. I'm still investigating if the sheeple can be roasted with rosemary and garlic however.
Free wifi is getting bogged down in court because it is the government competiting with companies, and you can see the point of the companies who want to make a livelihood from these services.
Google is a company. There is nothing wifi providers can do if suddenly GoogleWireless is free or cheap across the country. Google is hardly a monopoly, just a rich company, and if this expansion of services will lead to longer term benefits to the company (there will be a few duds, of course) then they should be doing this stuff.
What I'd do if I was a company is offer free wireless whereever you can, but rate limited to 5KB a second or so unless you are subscribed to the service. If you are poor yet somehow have a wifi enabled computer/PDA/phone/toaster, then you will still be able to get wireless access everywhere, which is the point of these free metropolitan networks.
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It does depend on what the levels of graphics requirements are for each level of compatibility with Aero Glass/Aero/WinXp/Win.
If anything Direct X 9 and above will do everything without an issue, then great. If Direct X 8 can do most things except a couple of things then better. If it is still accelerated on Direct X 7 cards, albeit without features that require 8 or 9, then fine, that will be all that is required in my head.
If it is DX9+: Aero Glass. Everything else software rendered by the CPU; fast CPU: Aero, Slower CPU: WinXp, then boo.
Mac OS X also has similar features, but runs with full OpenGL acceleration on DX7 class cards (sans various effects like genie, splash and so on), and according to other posts here might even run okay on DX6 class cards.
'legally allowed'? No. As a consumer, with a display capable of showing HD content (720P on a 1280x1024 monitor) without an issue, I pretty much expect to be able to view HD content on said monitor, over DVI, without needing to buy a new monitor and graphics card. Okay, maybe decoding H.264 might require a graphics card upgrade, or a CPU with good H.264 support, but apart from that... hell, even if it is a Satellite receiver or Bluray drive, I expect DVI to be an output option. Then again, I'm in Europe, where a lot of these artificial restrictions are always worked around and sold openly. I don't mind DRM, as long as it is fair to the consumer - however I don't think that some DRM is really a fair relationship, as it assumes there is no trust at all between the provider and the consumer.
And I'd like to see how a revoked key for hardware is handled in Europe. I buy a Bluray or HDDVD player, and then at some point its key is revoked, giving me a player that can't play future releases - I'm going to be pissed off. When it is revealed that it isn't the hardware, but the media companies to blame there'll be hell to pay - they expect me to buy a new player each time a key is compromised that my player uses? Not bloody likely.
I'm hoping my new iBook will be running 10.8 in 3 - 5 years time and handling it all without a problem.
... well there is something altogether different, and it puts Mac OS X in a different league. 32MB of VRAM RAM, lots of open windows - some with transparency, and it is totally smooth, I can't see any frame stutter at all. Now if I open 20 transparent terminal windows I notice a little stutter, but it still works in the same amount of time, it doesn't slow it down.
... on December 7th 2006. LOL.
And Exposé
But yes, Mac OS X Tiger will degrade gracefully when the hardware doesn't support all features. Just like Vista is going to do
Have you ever compared the speed-feel of using a crappy XP machine (say my 1.3Ghz Pentium M laptop) to, oh, say a top-of-the-line OS X machine? The PC wins hands down, every time, in tests like "opening a folder with lots of files" and "launching an application."
... okay for temporary files, disk images and the like. Then you drag them to the trash. Easy.
/used/ Mac OS X, certainly not 10.3 or 10.4. It is just that the UI feels really snappy on my system for the most part. And I've got a 4200 RPM hard drive in here. Were you using Mac OS X on a machine with 128MB or something?
Yep, I've got both. On a clean install, XP isn't too bad - boots up quickly, etc. However over time XP gets slower, whereas OS X doesn't.
Launching an application? Seems quick enough on my iBook - could be a little quicker, but not anything majorly different from my 2GHz Athlon XP system.
You must have a pretty poor folder layout if you spend a lot of time manipulating files. I tend to save them in the correct location in the first place myself. As for the desktop
What slow Finder animations? You do realise that effects like the genie minimisation are actually worthwhile features, they show you where the window has minimised to on the dock. They're quick anyway.
Great, you can make XP look like a dog. Good on you. In the meantime I'll have my realtime, extremely fast, good looking, alpha-channel windows on my Apple laptop. And what giant child-size icons? You do know you can set the size of the icons?
Oh wait, but maybe you are just trolling, because you can't have actually
Mac OS X has issues, some of the applications have some bad things - iPhoto - to save a photo in your library somewhere else you have to use the Export menu item. Fair enough, except this isn't under the File menu. WTF?!
I agree, I was going to mention that aspect.
However Quartz 2D and Quartz 2D Extreme are two large speedups that aren't down to mere optimisation that should have been done originally. Taking all that 2D compositing off of the G3 or G4 must have really improved performance.
Of course, in other areas they've implemented real optimisations. Anyway, 10.1 was free, and if Apple never released anything until it was 'perfect' we'd still be using Apple IIs or something.
On the other hand, Tiger was released too early. I'm hoping that 10.4.3 fixes issues with Firewire that I have been getting irked by.
Heh, don't worry. Whilst my Windows rig has a Radeon 9500 (gosh, that's 30 months old), my Linux rig is using an old Voodoo 4500!
...
Thing is, I'd reasonably expect the latter to be able to handle a desktop created using standard 3D primitives. It isn't like there will be 1 million polygons to display
But maybe this would be more acceptable for traditionally wary and skittish corporations?
I agree, it's wrong.
Well, it is wrong because they haven't notified their customers and given them a choice about leaving or staying. It isn't a hard sell ('our servers will be more secure, you'll lose China and Korean readers - but if you want a specific IP we can assist you') but customers deserve to know the state of play.
In fact, I think this should go as far as sending a daily email of blocked spam emails (from and subject lines only, of course).
But the lake was breached because Herr Bushenführer diverted funds from necessary levee and dyke work in those states to the war in Iraq. Well, that is what several news sources are stating, and it seems to be correct.
... $80 a barrel.
Oh, did Bush, knowing he would be required because of the scale of this hurricane, leave his umpteenth holiday as President of the United States of Abused-citizens BEFORE this happened? No. It's like 9/11 all over again, isn't it, although we may give him the benefit of the doubt as to knowing it will happen beforehand there, it's not as if the FBI and NSA weren't all over it beforehand?
In the meantime, Bush's friends celebrate as oil hits $70
Disclaimer: I think that Bush is a retarded grabber of monkey's butts, so my viewpoint is liable to a slight slant, but you might not detect it because I am fair and even handed with a person's record.
I suppose that is fair enough, maybe if enough of us got together and paid say $10 each into a bounty we might get a reasonable amount of money, enough to tempt the current hackers to have a good session or two at least. Doing tedious stuff for no return isn't that fun, I agree.
Considering that Apple's desktop runs fine on ancient crap like Radeon 9200s (and probably 7500s), if Microsoft somehow require you to buy a modern card to run their desktop it will look rather silly. Then again, I'm sure Microsoft could do it, but it'd require a momentus effort on their part!
Oh, don't forget the DRM stuff. You might need to buy a new monitor and graphics card to watch a HD movie in HD via HDMI or DisplayPort! However if you are half sensible you won't care because you'll be watching your HD movies playing from your HD disc player on your HD television.
I've never upgraded for windows, however I have noticed slowdowns over previous releases on the same hardware. On the contrary however, Mac OS X has only got faster. Once they fix their latest Quartz 2D stuff and enable it there will be even more accelleration. More work on the GPU leads to less work on the processor, and it will be interesting to benchmark Mac OS X 10.5 on Intel against Windows Hasta la Vista in terms of desktop speed, responsiveness and features.
Oh, and to do low-polygon (i.e., 1 quad or two tris) 3D appearance buttons in a GUI, make use of bump maps and normal maps in addition to the texture map. Hell, add a reflectance map in there too and whatever other types of map you can have.
*waits for 'lakewater' theme which has all GUI elements using a water pixel shader, with real distortion of what is beneath, and realtime water movement, and all that wizardry. You might have to have another polygon on top with the button text and so on of course, otherwise that might get affected by the shaders and maps used which wouldn't be a great plan in the great scheme of things.
The article says that Linux may as well accept it will be the last to a fully GL (or equivalent) accellerated desktop, blah blah blah.
Well, yes, Mac OS X has been using OpenGL for a couple of years now, with great results. Sure, it doesn't use real drop shadows like the article mentions, but that is because a more consistent look is achieved by putting a few polygons around the window with the alpha channel drop shadow bitmap on it. Probably a lot quicker as well.
Windows XP (the currently available version) doesn't use DirectX yet however. Avalon will be in Longwait, but that's over a year away still. It currently looks awful however, the nasty translucent blurry see through window borders, ugh. Bet they aren't in the final version.
He then goes on to say that 95% of the code to do what is a good idea is already done. It just needs that last 5% done, and proper integration.
Come on! Yes, it is the last 5%, but you've got a year! A few weekends of uber-hacking by those familiar with the current code bases, and you could beat Windows to having a modern desktop architecture. Get to it! *cracks whip*
I'm sure Apple are merely thinking 'Interface Patent' and thus ignoring it completely.
It is just hot air from Creative. In reality the patent is probably specific enough to only apply to Creative's devices, and various things that are on other devices are probably obvious, or clear copies of similar computer UI functions (a way of navigating a heirarchy of folders presented in a list view? Yeah, big woooooooo, I bet Apple can find patents from the '80s relating to such functionality on a computer, and then successfully argue that because the iPod has a processor, memory, backing store, a display, an input mechanism and so on that it is a computer as well.
Really, what it all distills down to is that the patent system is royally messed up in the US, and I think that every time something like this happens us Europeans should let their MEP know about it to ensure that such laws are never implemented over here. We won round one recently, but that won't stop those corporations. It's not that I'm against software patents, but only for groundbreaking things, and interface designs, etc, aren't in that, nor are obvious business methods and so on.
And that is why this isn't the big thing that Apple is going to release next week.
I'm all hot for videoPods or lifePods or whatever they'll be called.
Well, I suppose that's why I weighted it to 1 in 10,000 in 10,000 :) A little lie, and a bit of infective sex before the donation :)
:)
But yes, there isn't anything else you can do at the moment. But in a dire shortage of blood, I expect you'll be accepting blood from tourists to Britain before people that had teh gay buttsechs a few days ago. However I'm sure you have books full of manual guidance and discussion about these issues, so I can't possibly recreate them in my head after a pile of alcohol
Poor frenchy (loving affectionate term for a frog) can't handle the fact that people in other countries can ride bicycles as well? If your riders took the strings of onions and garlic off they'd have a chance of winning.
:(
Lance Armstrong is a cancer survivor that has taken hundreds of drugs tests during the past 6 years, and he passed them all. As he said himself, he'd be retarded to put his health at risk. What he has done should be seen as an inspiration to everyone. What is it with human nature and the need to put successful people down anyway? We British are masters of this insane behaviour
Now that our cricket team is on the verge of winning a test match against the Australians for the first time in 18 years or so, it won't be long before they get negative attacking press from The Scum, The Spews Of The World and so on.
btw: What do you call a Frenchman with Mad Cow Disease? Crazy Frog!
Isn't American beef full of growth hormones that is giving preteen girls tig ol' bitties because of the number of burgers they eat each year (I'm sure that there is plenty of more expensive 'organic' beef available as well, just like you can buy tastier free range chicken instead of battery farmed chicken, but how many people /care/ about these aspects?)
... yuck. I think that American beef is banned in many parts of the world (probably in Europe as well) because of this. If British beef is still banned in the US despite being totally safe to eat, then the reasons are probably more political than actual concern about the health of the serfs.
I know what I don't want in food, and that is things added deliberately by humans to increase yield without any consideration of the ongoing effects. Genetically Modified crops, growth hormones
Some people would rather die than run a risk of 1 in a million of getting some naughty prions in their blood transfusion. Before dying they'd make some lawyers richers however, and the publicity just isn't worth it for the American government.
I wonder how many AIDS infected blood transfusion get past the tests each year? I sure more than 1 in a million Americans have AIDS, it's probably more like 1 in 10,000? (Fake Edit: I've looked it up, there are 1 million Americans with AIDS or HIV, that's 1 in 300, and those are the people that know about it). If 1 in 10,000 HIV enfected blood samples got past the tests, and 1 in 10,000 donations is unknowingly HIV infected, then 1 in 100,000,000 donations is bad. That's probably one every year or two. I expect that is a far more risky issue than this one. Oh well.
out2mdir?
.pst files directly. Am I mistaken? What's the issue with converting your .pst into maildir or whatever anyway?
Emailchemy says to export to PST, then use Outlook Express to import the emails, then use their $25 product to export to any format they support. Not bad for $25, and I'm sure there are other free solutions that can convert OE to Maildir or whatever. http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/
However I thought that Thunderbird supported importing from
Amazing, the problem only arose in the UK in the mid-80s as well due to the Conservative government allowing their farmer friends to cut costs by feeding animal waste to bovines.
...
It isn't as if BSE is UK only, there are plenty of cases throughout Europe and the US as well - not on the same scale as the problem *was* over here, then again you didn't have pure evil corruption in government at the time. As an aside, I notice that BSE is occuring more often in the US these days
Well my girlfriend, who is doing a course in Microsoft Office, uses Office 2003 on her computer. However the course is done in Office XP. The changes are significant enough to completely make some of the taught material totally incorrect for 2003.
:( It probably isn't worth a penny compared to Keynote - why not copy that interface?! The rest of the review was "I'm used to using it, therefore I like it and prefer it to software I haven't used for ages". It did point out the terrible 'get them young' student deal that Microsoft does to get people hooked into using their software - $25 is like a twentieth of the normal retail price, that isn't a standard level of student discount, that's using a monopoly to sell for virtually nothing to ensure the monopoly is kept. Fucking useless American anti-monopoly laws.
I thought the sign of a good program was a stable consistent interface that is logical and easy to use.
The worst bit about the linked review was that OpenOffice.org Impress was better because it now copied the PowerPoint interface. Go go opensource initiative and design skills
There seems to be a general long term trend towards warmer temperatures world wide. Quite possibly this is natural, we're still coming out of the last ice age, and the earth has been a lot hotter in the past. We might be accellerating it - if we are, what inertia are we adding to the rising temperatures?
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There are also short cycles hot/cool periods. The mini-ice age in the 18th Century. Melons and wine production in the 16th and 17th Century. Romans also made wine over in the UK. The dark ages might have been relatively colder. I do not know how localised these shorter cycles are however - they could be mere fluctuations in the gulf stream which affect Europe and the UK in particular (note that the UK is at the same latitude as some pretty cold areas of Canada), or they could just be a global phenomenon that happens naturally, as the climate tries to reach an equilibrium.
Whatever, if the Earth warms up enough to have ice-free Artic summers, them we will be having ice-free Artic winters as well because the entire ocean current system will be massively affected by having this new major route for warm currents. If the globe warms up enough to melt the Artic and Greenland (some 40ft extra sea level), then it will also be warm enough to melt the Antartic (100ft on top of that). I'd invest in 'future beach-front' estate between the 100ft and 150ft altitude levels. If only that evil dude in one of the Superman movies had known about this
It's funny to watch Slashdot. A single article said Google is evil, now, reading the posts, according to Slashdot Google is evil.
What makes me laugh is that some of these people are the same people who will make jokes about Apple's RDF.
Everything you said is true. It's like reading a Mac website now, 3 months ago it was all 'PowerPC blah blah, x86 is teh suck though', now it is all 'Intel are gods and x86 is the one true path, G5 sucks'.
What I've taken from it is that 99% of people are lemmings who can't (won't?) think for themselves (is this an education system thing?). Unfortunately they don't have a self-destruct mechanism. I'm still investigating if the sheeple can be roasted with rosemary and garlic however.
Soft or hard? American or non-American? Penile or Lactic? 70s or 80s? Rounds or slices?
Free wifi is getting bogged down in court because it is the government competiting with companies, and you can see the point of the companies who want to make a livelihood from these services.
Google is a company. There is nothing wifi providers can do if suddenly GoogleWireless is free or cheap across the country. Google is hardly a monopoly, just a rich company, and if this expansion of services will lead to longer term benefits to the company (there will be a few duds, of course) then they should be doing this stuff.
What I'd do if I was a company is offer free wireless whereever you can, but rate limited to 5KB a second or so unless you are subscribed to the service. If you are poor yet somehow have a wifi enabled computer/PDA/phone/toaster, then you will still be able to get wireless access everywhere, which is the point of these free metropolitan networks.