"she's a total bitch, just what it takes to run a country." you might want to read up on Margaret Thatcher's reign of terror and reconsider that view - what a fucking nightmare
I couldn't possibly do without superb films like Chopper or top-notch TV entertainment like Rex Hunt's Fishing World. I wouldn't mind if there were just a FEW less aussies in London though... i mean EVERY fucking bartender? surely OZ can't be that bad that an English pub seems better?
it's a bit rich seeing as BOTH nations commited genocide on their native populations. That's the beauty of you guys being independent from Britain, we can blame you for all the horrible things we did, because we no longer includes you.
yeah, It's not perfect by any means - it's still the only browser I've ever used that can make reading vast swathes of text like a slashdot page bearable to even look at. Omniweb MUST move on soon, coz my java's WAY broken under 10.1.1. I have been using NS 6.2.1 recently and I'll admit it's pretty good - definitely beats Opera, ICab and MSIE under OSX.
yeah, imagine having only 5% of the worldwide desktop computer market. I mean, it's hardly worth getting out of bed for a turnover of less than $100Bn these days isn't it? You DO realise that 5% means 1 in 20 of EVERY desktop computer sold is one of Apple's. What share of the worldwide car market do you think BMW has by comparison. I wish I owned a company that had 0.5% share...
this is absolutely unacceptable. SHUT THIS FUCKING COMPANY DOWN before I have to install MS dreadful crapware into my toilet before I can take a dump in the morning. Surely Sony aren't going to stand for this shit?
only 0.38% for Omniweb?:-[ I must be the ONLY one who doesn't have it set to Netscape ID default then. ATTENTION ALL OSX USERS! Omniweb is FANTASTIC, cease and desist all IE use immediately! there, that ought to do it...
not really, but it's quite happy to display (and link) HTML with all media types it supports rendered intact. As one of those media types is Flash 4, it actually does a pretty sweet job. But it's NOT a browser in any conventional sense.
"You have no more idea what it is like here than I do about your country, so why are you qualified to pass ANY judgement? " you say that confidently but, for the record, I grew up in Rochester NY but have spent the majority of my adult life in London. Americans have very little idea just how much less threatening the police are when they aren't carrying a gun. When you see an armed cop in the UK, you'll see two guys in helmets and bullet-proofs with H&Ks across their chests. Same thing in Paris (I lived there for a little while also). The only non-police gun I've EVER seen in europe was carried by a guy i saw shooting AT the police in Catania, Sicily. They shot him dead right in front of us, most of the locals were shocked, but clearly they were more used to that kind of scene than us northern-euros.
throughout history, it has been proven time and time again that arming oneself heavily against the threat of attack has very little deterrent effect. Just like the death penalty doesn't stop people committing murder, arms races are futile and make the world MORE not LESS dangerous. Americans clearly cannot even conceive of life without guns now, how shocked would they be to live in the UK, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Finland etc etc etc
are you going to amend "competent" to the constitution then? and who judges competence? your evil, overbearing federal government? a jury of your peers? the local barber? If YOU have a right to bear arms, then so does the guy next door who hates you, that guy who blew his horn at you when you hesitated for a nanosecond at the green traffic light this morning, that guy who's beer you spilt when someone knocked into you in a crowded bar - not to mention that guy with the crack habit who is just about to break into your house to steal your TV when you're at home. And he's EXPECTING you to be there...
OK then, it is clearly justifiable to issue EVERY citizen of the US with a gun so that they might be able to fairly compete with all of those who are armed right now. I wonder what the police would think of that idea? In fact, why stop at guns? Why not hand grenades, RPGs amd mines? Surely mines are IDEAL for home defence? I wonder what postmen would thonk of that idea?
ante up is not the solution. I would contend that a polite society need not be armed. Soldiers need guns, using them is what soldiers DO. Police officers SOMETIMES need guns, to protect private citizens from criminals who would violate their individual freedoms. Criminals will ALWAYS TRY to obtain guns and those who would use or supply firearms illegally should be prosecuted to the fullest extent that the law allows. Farmers and hunters/rangers PROBABLY need guns to cover a whole range of problems that they may encounter whilst working alone without any realistic chance of support. If the only reason why a private citizen needs a gun is that the police can't protect them adequately from criminals, then it's a policing problem that you've got.
are you actually suggesting that gunplay should be on the curriculum alongside maths and history? I suppose that having guns on the premises would make it easier for the Columbine kids to go on a rampage - they wouldn't even have to go home to get their weapons first. Or maybe the idea is that the teachers could grab a gun each and start a shoot-out? hell, why not give each child his or her OWN gun - it'd put a stop to playground bullying wouldn't it?
are you suggesting that the gun wasn't bought/stolen from a legal owner somewhere along the line? it's having guns in circulation among the general public AT ALL that's the problem - only criminals WANT to use those guns in a criminal way. Maybe there are just too many guns in circulation in the US to EVER get the shit back into the horse, but you don't even seem to be trying.
"A bank manager or secretary who is about to be murdered or raped needs a gun very very badly." Compare your (ie America's) murder/rape stats to those in Europe and you may start to understand exactly why you don't want millions of people carrying guns. I really don't get this aspect of the US - even if you FEEL safer when carrying a gun, statistically you are in considerable danger.
fair comment EXCEPT where's the violence in an action toy? Americans make me laugh - you have groups like these Lion and Lambers trying to prohibit the sale of action figures to 5 yera olds (who the hell else are action figures for?) and yet you can apparently wander into a corner shop and buy a shotgun that you kids can have GREAT fun playing with when you're out! Get some perspective, and get rid of the guns. Soldiers need guns, bank managers and secretaries don't.
you're wrong. my G4 has the "superdrive" (Pioneer DVR A-03) which reads CD s at 8X (ie slowly), writes CD-R at 8x (moderately - but not ONE coaster yet!!), writes CDRW at 4x (slowly) reads DVDs at 4x (nicely!), writes DVD-R at 2x (very nicely) and DVD-RW at 2x (never use 'em). That's why they call it a "superdrive" - you don't need any others - it's built beautifully as well.
sounds very much like my experience. If Paypal were like MS, there'd have to be an Apple equivalent - charging $5 per transaction with a smaller range of features but, at least, providing a professional (ie non-criminal) service.
You just wait... they kept nearly $400 of mine in limbo for SEVEN WEEKS, and were nigh on impossible to contact. Do they even have a head office? Anyone know where it is?
No it isn't. The only thing Divx is "based around" is Microsoft's "ISO MPEG4" codec, which they have been TOLD by ISO not to label as such because it's totally proprietry. Divx themselves now assure us that there's no more nicked MS code in their stuff - but by the same token their codec is shit anyway and falls well short of WM7 and 8, Sorenson 3, VP3, Zygo Video and Real 8 are doing right now ANYWAY. Fuck Divx. Fuck MS. WAIT for MPEG4, or use QuickTime / Real NOW.
Are you OK? The Mozilla Public Licence is obviously a LICENCE isn't it? Therefore, if Apple or Real make use of VP3 under the terms of that licence they can be said to have LICENCED it. I think you need to get some sleep, buddy.
without any shadow of a doubt, the crappiest article about consoles I've EVER read. It's completely pointless - apparently the Mega Drive (Genesis?) and Playstation never existed. What a waste of bandwidth. THG seem to think that ID invented computer games. SHIT.
one more thing, check out the dnetc multi-processor benchmarks too! the linear scaling of the "RISC" architectures is a thing to behold! There have been various discussions as to why - exactly - the various CPUs show the RC5 and OGR results that they do, apart from the Altivec units, the G4 series (and to a lesser extent the G3) have very large L2 and L3 caches which seem to allow almost no need for main memory access on the tiny dnetc client, this is precisely the opposite of what happens with the P4, despite it's otherwise superior memory bus design. Apple have exploited Motorola's G4 design features to the limit on their latest machines, using both the superb MERSI SMP capabilites and the provision of 2MB (per chip) of L3 cache. When combined with SIMD-able operations like video compression (which is what i do), these systems - as evidenced by the RC5 results you seen - are absolutely unbeatable. However unfair Steve Jobs benchmarketing seems (and it IS mostly bullshit) there's no doubt that the G4 class is a stunning solution for Photoshop / After Effects type apps.
there's actually a tech note regarding the poor RC5 results from non x86 and PPC chips - apparently they do not have a "rotate" instruction of some sort in their sets and have to spend several instructions on something that the PPC and x86 can do in one, the OGR stats give a fairer picture of the high-end CPUs. The reason why you couldn't find any 74xx info at IBM is that they don't make it! All the IBM PowerPC designs are "PPC XXXabc" with Motorola's as "MPC XXX or XXXX". Moto do have some estimated SPEC numbers, but they're VERY hidden. Bear in mind that the current G4s are the MPC 7451 (733-867Mhz shipping in Apples) and MPC 7441 (550-667Mhz shipping in Apples).
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"she's a total bitch, just what it takes to run a country." you might want to read up on Margaret Thatcher's reign of terror and reconsider that view - what a fucking nightmare
I couldn't possibly do without superb films like Chopper or top-notch TV entertainment like Rex Hunt's Fishing World. I wouldn't mind if there were just a FEW less aussies in London though... i mean EVERY fucking bartender? surely OZ can't be that bad that an English pub seems better?
it's a bit rich seeing as BOTH nations commited genocide on their native populations. That's the beauty of you guys being independent from Britain, we can blame you for all the horrible things we did, because we no longer includes you.
yeah, It's not perfect by any means - it's still the only browser I've ever used that can make reading vast swathes of text like a slashdot page bearable to even look at. Omniweb MUST move on soon, coz my java's WAY broken under 10.1.1. I have been using NS 6.2.1 recently and I'll admit it's pretty good - definitely beats Opera, ICab and MSIE under OSX.
yeah, imagine having only 5% of the worldwide desktop computer market. I mean, it's hardly worth getting out of bed for a turnover of less than $100Bn these days isn't it? You DO realise that 5% means 1 in 20 of EVERY desktop computer sold is one of Apple's. What share of the worldwide car market do you think BMW has by comparison. I wish I owned a company that had 0.5% share...
this is absolutely unacceptable. SHUT THIS FUCKING COMPANY DOWN before I have to install MS dreadful crapware into my toilet before I can take a dump in the morning. Surely Sony aren't going to stand for this shit?
only 0.38% for Omniweb? :-[ I must be the ONLY one who doesn't have it set to Netscape ID default then. ATTENTION ALL OSX USERS! Omniweb is FANTASTIC, cease and desist all IE use immediately! there, that ought to do it...
not really, but it's quite happy to display (and link) HTML with all media types it supports rendered intact. As one of those media types is Flash 4, it actually does a pretty sweet job. But it's NOT a browser in any conventional sense.
"You have no more idea what it is like here than I do about your country, so why are you qualified to pass ANY judgement? " you say that confidently but, for the record, I grew up in Rochester NY but have spent the majority of my adult life in London. Americans have very little idea just how much less threatening the police are when they aren't carrying a gun. When you see an armed cop in the UK, you'll see two guys in helmets and bullet-proofs with H&Ks across their chests. Same thing in Paris (I lived there for a little while also). The only non-police gun I've EVER seen in europe was carried by a guy i saw shooting AT the police in Catania, Sicily. They shot him dead right in front of us, most of the locals were shocked, but clearly they were more used to that kind of scene than us northern-euros.
throughout history, it has been proven time and time again that arming oneself heavily against the threat of attack has very little deterrent effect. Just like the death penalty doesn't stop people committing murder, arms races are futile and make the world MORE not LESS dangerous. Americans clearly cannot even conceive of life without guns now, how shocked would they be to live in the UK, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Finland etc etc etc
are you going to amend "competent" to the constitution then? and who judges competence? your evil, overbearing federal government? a jury of your peers? the local barber? If YOU have a right to bear arms, then so does the guy next door who hates you, that guy who blew his horn at you when you hesitated for a nanosecond at the green traffic light this morning, that guy who's beer you spilt when someone knocked into you in a crowded bar - not to mention that guy with the crack habit who is just about to break into your house to steal your TV when you're at home. And he's EXPECTING you to be there...
OK then, it is clearly justifiable to issue EVERY citizen of the US with a gun so that they might be able to fairly compete with all of those who are armed right now. I wonder what the police would think of that idea? In fact, why stop at guns? Why not hand grenades, RPGs amd mines? Surely mines are IDEAL for home defence? I wonder what postmen would thonk of that idea?
ante up is not the solution. I would contend that a polite society need not be armed. Soldiers need guns, using them is what soldiers DO. Police officers SOMETIMES need guns, to protect private citizens from criminals who would violate their individual freedoms. Criminals will ALWAYS TRY to obtain guns and those who would use or supply firearms illegally should be prosecuted to the fullest extent that the law allows. Farmers and hunters/rangers PROBABLY need guns to cover a whole range of problems that they may encounter whilst working alone without any realistic chance of support. If the only reason why a private citizen needs a gun is that the police can't protect them adequately from criminals, then it's a policing problem that you've got.
are you actually suggesting that gunplay should be on the curriculum alongside maths and history? I suppose that having guns on the premises would make it easier for the Columbine kids to go on a rampage - they wouldn't even have to go home to get their weapons first. Or maybe the idea is that the teachers could grab a gun each and start a shoot-out? hell, why not give each child his or her OWN gun - it'd put a stop to playground bullying wouldn't it?
are you suggesting that the gun wasn't bought/stolen from a legal owner somewhere along the line? it's having guns in circulation among the general public AT ALL that's the problem - only criminals WANT to use those guns in a criminal way. Maybe there are just too many guns in circulation in the US to EVER get the shit back into the horse, but you don't even seem to be trying.
"A bank manager or secretary who is about to be murdered or raped needs a gun very very badly." Compare your (ie America's) murder/rape stats to those in Europe and you may start to understand exactly why you don't want millions of people carrying guns. I really don't get this aspect of the US - even if you FEEL safer when carrying a gun, statistically you are in considerable danger.
fair comment EXCEPT where's the violence in an action toy? Americans make me laugh - you have groups like these Lion and Lambers trying to prohibit the sale of action figures to 5 yera olds (who the hell else are action figures for?) and yet you can apparently wander into a corner shop and buy a shotgun that you kids can have GREAT fun playing with when you're out! Get some perspective, and get rid of the guns. Soldiers need guns, bank managers and secretaries don't.
you're wrong. my G4 has the "superdrive" (Pioneer DVR A-03) which reads CD s at 8X (ie slowly), writes CD-R at 8x (moderately - but not ONE coaster yet!!), writes CDRW at 4x (slowly) reads DVDs at 4x (nicely!), writes DVD-R at 2x (very nicely) and DVD-RW at 2x (never use 'em). That's why they call it a "superdrive" - you don't need any others - it's built beautifully as well.
sounds very much like my experience. If Paypal were like MS, there'd have to be an Apple equivalent - charging $5 per transaction with a smaller range of features but, at least, providing a professional (ie non-criminal) service.
You just wait... they kept nearly $400 of mine in limbo for SEVEN WEEKS, and were nigh on impossible to contact. Do they even have a head office? Anyone know where it is?
No it isn't. The only thing Divx is "based around" is Microsoft's "ISO MPEG4" codec, which they have been TOLD by ISO not to label as such because it's totally proprietry. Divx themselves now assure us that there's no more nicked MS code in their stuff - but by the same token their codec is shit anyway and falls well short of WM7 and 8, Sorenson 3, VP3, Zygo Video and Real 8 are doing right now ANYWAY. Fuck Divx. Fuck MS. WAIT for MPEG4, or use QuickTime / Real NOW.
Are you OK? The Mozilla Public Licence is obviously a LICENCE isn't it? Therefore, if Apple or Real make use of VP3 under the terms of that licence they can be said to have LICENCED it. I think you need to get some sleep, buddy.
without any shadow of a doubt, the crappiest article about consoles I've EVER read. It's completely pointless - apparently the Mega Drive (Genesis?) and Playstation never existed. What a waste of bandwidth. THG seem to think that ID invented computer games. SHIT.
one more thing, check out the dnetc multi-processor benchmarks too! the linear scaling of the "RISC" architectures is a thing to behold! There have been various discussions as to why - exactly - the various CPUs show the RC5 and OGR results that they do, apart from the Altivec units, the G4 series (and to a lesser extent the G3) have very large L2 and L3 caches which seem to allow almost no need for main memory access on the tiny dnetc client, this is precisely the opposite of what happens with the P4, despite it's otherwise superior memory bus design. Apple have exploited Motorola's G4 design features to the limit on their latest machines, using both the superb MERSI SMP capabilites and the provision of 2MB (per chip) of L3 cache. When combined with SIMD-able operations like video compression (which is what i do), these systems - as evidenced by the RC5 results you seen - are absolutely unbeatable. However unfair Steve Jobs benchmarketing seems (and it IS mostly bullshit) there's no doubt that the G4 class is a stunning solution for Photoshop / After Effects type apps.
there's actually a tech note regarding the poor RC5 results from non x86 and PPC chips - apparently they do not have a "rotate" instruction of some sort in their sets and have to spend several instructions on something that the PPC and x86 can do in one, the OGR stats give a fairer picture of the high-end CPUs. The reason why you couldn't find any 74xx info at IBM is that they don't make it! All the IBM PowerPC designs are "PPC XXXabc" with Motorola's as "MPC XXX or XXXX". Moto do have some estimated SPEC numbers, but they're VERY hidden. Bear in mind that the current G4s are the MPC 7451 (733-867Mhz shipping in Apples) and MPC 7441 (550-667Mhz shipping in Apples).