Linux advocacy? Not a chance. There's no way to contact the MVV/MVG (public transport operating companies). Furthermore, they paid big bucks (OK, Deutschmarks) for the Win32 program and aren't about to pay for it all over again on another OS. Even if they were willing, they'd be hard-pressed to explain why they were doing so and why they went with the crappy Win program to begin with.
Actually, I didn't mean the administration, but rather your fellow commuters. What better way to dispell boredom and anger due to late commutes than to strike up an interesting conversation with your fellow travellers? You'll still wouldn't arrive any earlyer at home or at work, but at least you'd have done sth useful and fun during that time...
On a network as complex and messy as theirs? That's basically the situation where you need spanning tree, or else it just crumbles to dust once they do produce a loop...
It's more than 2^16, which proves that the mozilla project's bug tracking code is able to deal with numbers that large. Unlike Micro$oft, which never have more than 65535 open bugs, because else the counter overflows...
$50.00 + cost of removal is NOT the same thing as $50.00.
Trouble is, if they wait a while, the things might just disappear on their own. While they're shiny and new, they'll be "stolen" by passersby as souvenirs. The remaining ones will eventually be washed away into the gutter by the rain. After a weeks time, almost none will be left. Maybe there could be issues with clogged drains, but with a little bit of luck, cost of removal might be very small.
Lastly, it protects my image content. My images are not stellar, and yet other sites continue to use them on their pages. I can use the referrer to limit the damage done by only allowing the images to be referred by pages from my own site.
How lame! Rather than blocking those offiste image references, just replace them by redirects to the goatse picture. Much more funny that way, and gets the point accross really quick...
Small dragons do minor mischief, such as making roofs leak, or causing rice to be sticky.
Why would causing rice to become sticky be considered to be mischief in China? Ever tried to eat Uncle Ben's(tm) rice with chopsticks?
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I know well that the original post was not meant to be taken seriously but...
... there is indeed something special about blue: it's slightly out of focus! The reason for this is that red and green are relatively close to each other in wavelength (533nm fir max of green , and 564nm for max of red), whereas blue is much further away (437nm). The eye's lens refracts each wavelength slightly differently (
chromatic aberration), and by default focuses for red/green. Hence blue is out of focus. Moreover, blue cones are far less numerous than red and green (there is no point for nature to supply a high retinal resolution if the image is blurred anyways for optical reasons).
That's the reason why tiny yellow text (red+green) on white background (red+green+blue) is so difficult to read: the only difference is blue, which is blurred! However, big yellow text on white background is quite easily readable, as the blurring won't affect large text.
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I know the original post was not meant to be taken seriously, but...
... human hearing works as described even though it is a passive system too (we're not bats). The trick is phase difference: even though the ears cannot know when exactly the sound was emitted, they can compare the difference between the time it arrives at the left ear and at the right ear. And this difference allows us to localize sounds.
The reason why vision cannot work like this is not because the eyes are passive receivers. The real reason is that light waves have a far higher frequency and speed than sound which makes detecting run-time differences and phase shifts rather hard for our "slow" nerve cells.
The axis powers were hoping that the US wouldn't get involved in the war, because they knew that the US would shift the balance of power greatly on the side of the Allies.
... and the axis powers would have been right, if Japan hadn't become foolhardy. Indeed, without Pearl Harbor, the US wouldn't have had any reason to get involved in that war. After all, there is no petrol in Europe (North Sea oilfields weren't discovered yet, and are too tiny to bother anyways).
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Actually, I didn't mean the administration, but rather your fellow commuters. What better way to dispell boredom and anger due to late commutes than to strike up an interesting conversation with your fellow travellers? You'll still wouldn't arrive any earlyer at home or at work, but at least you'd have done sth useful and fun during that time ...
Why do you consider that this is making things worse? Just consider this as a golden opportunity for Linux advocacy while communiting...
Like, errr, tiptoeing on one foot? And 140 lbs is nothing, as far as geeks are concerned...
That pressure difference is the same as 10 meter shallow water, and surface. And for a ten meter dive, you don't even need to do a safety stop!
They are already down here, although they did miss the Taco target!
... boost it to a 36000km orbit, and sell it to SES Astra as a replacement for their failed 1K satellite!
On a network as complex and messy as theirs? That's basically the situation where you need spanning tree, or else it just crumbles to dust once they do produce a loop...
Did you actually read that study? I think not ;-)?
... they'll discontinue support for Sequel Server, to punish all those developpers that leave their database apps open to SQL injection attacks?
Boy, you must have a tiny URL!
What? Do you honestly think that the Inuit all use Microsoft?
It's more than 2^16, which proves that the mozilla project's bug tracking code is able to deal with numbers that large. Unlike Micro$oft, which never have more than 65535 open bugs, because else the counter overflows...
"what is the atomic number of molybdenum?"
Trouble is, if they wait a while, the things might just disappear on their own. While they're shiny and new, they'll be "stolen" by passersby as souvenirs. The remaining ones will eventually be washed away into the gutter by the rain. After a weeks time, almost none will be left. Maybe there could be issues with clogged drains, but with a little bit of luck, cost of removal might be very small.
Because the next time, the fine might be much larger (repeat offender?). At least, I dear to hope so...
How lame! Rather than blocking those offiste image references, just replace them by redirects to the goatse picture. Much more funny that way, and gets the point accross really quick...
Note that the answering machine is on the list (item number #6).
And now, red as in hat?
Why would causing rice to become sticky be considered to be mischief in China? Ever tried to eat Uncle Ben's(tm) rice with chopsticks?
That's the reason why tiny yellow text (red+green) on white background (red+green+blue) is so difficult to read: the only difference is blue, which is blurred! However, big yellow text on white background is quite easily readable, as the blurring won't affect large text.
The reason why vision cannot work like this is not because the eyes are passive receivers. The real reason is that light waves have a far higher frequency and speed than sound which makes detecting run-time differences and phase shifts rather hard for our "slow" nerve cells.
But it's still a nice camera, even if you no longer can use it as a phone...