Ahh! So the Israeli settlers are righting the wrongs of ancient history by committing new ones. Glad we've got that one reasoned out! Presumably it would be OK by you for the various native American tribes to start killing white, black and yellow Americans and bulldozing their houses?
Having lived in the USA, UK and France I would observe that I've never seen the kind of insane Chrisitian-nonsense (or, indeed, pro-gun) bumper stickers in Europe that are so commonplace in the US.
You see the odd pro-hunting sticker in both the UK and France, but more for Greenpeace!
Israel is NOT a who, it is an artificial construct and (IMHO, of course) an evil one. I was delighted to watch Israeli settlers protesting against Sharon on the TV the other day and declaring that the land that they had stolen was theirs because God said so and it was - therefore - perfectly reasonable to kill non-jews who trespassed on it, not to mention perfectly reasonable to kill any Israeli state agency that tried to evict them.
Damn right - most Europeans have a REALLY hard time coming to terms with the American bible-thumping right wing. That's why we're never really sure if you're civilised or not - I mean, what the fuck are Bush's "faith based initiatives" doing in a country with a supposed strict segregation of church and state? The French are taking a lot of heat over their banning of school-worn hijabs, but it seems entirely consistent with their constitution to me.
Surely it IS pointless to preserve ANOTHER Saturn V when there are already two perfectly preserved display examples? The money would be FAR better spent on science, such as NASA's FUTURE projects.
On the subject of spelling, I use Mac OSX which has a built in spelling service (Applespell) which runs by default. My browser, Omniweb 4.5, provides proper integration with this service such that as I type away in its magic zoomed text box, it underlines apparent errors and allows updating of the dictionary right there.
Now, I don't extensively use a Linux, Windows XP or Solaris machines, but I ASSUME that these other modern OSs can also do this type of thing, so it rather seems to me that NO self respecting geek should be making consistent spelling errors in their posts to/. in 2004 - if they are doing so, I can only assume that they're too dumb to enable a spell checker on their system.
As for your mistake - it's an easy typo, and wouldn't be caught by a checker anyway!
I don't think either one of us represents a statistically significant sample, I was just relating my experience - added to the fact that I've always admired the (seemingly) robust design of the LaCie Pocket Drive.
Anyway, Australia's largely deserted interior and huge distances make it a natural application for air transport rather than HST. A country like Australia needs plenty of airports/airfields and cheap/reliable 'planes. A few airports are a LOT more cost effective than five thousand KMs of track.
Having said all that, it's really only Perth, Broome and Darwin that are FAR away from the majority of the Aussie population, which is MOSTLY concentrated in the large coastal arc between Adelaide and Brisbane, so an HST system might make sense for Victoria, NSW etc.
I disagree. In my work we see a great many portable firewire drives though our doors, and LaCie's models are notoriously GOOD in terms of reliability. We've seen EZ Quest, Maxtor and FireLite drives fail several times now.
Oh, and the LaCie pocket drive you mention was based on a better performing laptop drive and incorporated a rubber bumper protection design and both Firewire AND USB interfaces.
Well before "digital" TVs (by this I assume you mean TFT and Plasma displays) you could certainly, quite clearly see the phosphor stripes/dots/rectangles (design dependent) on your lovely CRT display. Only monochromatic CRT do not have phosphor patch patterns, and they exhibit a slightly grainy texture when up close.
It has to be said though, that this Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB that I'm using here has an AG pitch so fine that my eyes can barely resolve it at minimum focus distance. You can't beat a GOOD CRT!
Absolutely right - in terms of frequency response, lack of colouration, dynamic range and transient response headphones are LEAGUES ahead of ANY loud speaker - even low energy storage types like electrostatics. The only downside to headphones is a difficulty in conveying good stereo imagery, but much music is poorly recorded/mixed these days for image anyway, so it may not be much of a handicap. For really outstanding transparency I'd recommend some ultra-small earbud type 'phones (though not those horrid shove-in Sony EX 71s that I bought, unless you like to listen to mechanical noise from your own body).
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Ahh! So the Israeli settlers are righting the wrongs of ancient history by committing new ones. Glad we've got that one reasoned out! Presumably it would be OK by you for the various native American tribes to start killing white, black and yellow Americans and bulldozing their houses?
Are hurricanes motivated by debts owed to their oil business partners, friends and family?
nonsense is nonsense
Having lived in the USA, UK and France I would observe that I've never seen the kind of insane Chrisitian-nonsense (or, indeed, pro-gun) bumper stickers in Europe that are so commonplace in the US.
You see the odd pro-hunting sticker in both the UK and France, but more for Greenpeace!
"I'm always delighted to be told who to hate."
Israel is NOT a who, it is an artificial construct and (IMHO, of course) an evil one. I was delighted to watch Israeli settlers protesting against Sharon on the TV the other day and declaring that the land that they had stolen was theirs because God said so and it was - therefore - perfectly reasonable to kill non-jews who trespassed on it, not to mention perfectly reasonable to kill any Israeli state agency that tried to evict them.
So you admit that the Bush DIDN'T win the vote, then? :-]
I'm sure it would still keep a few engineers/scientists in employment for a year.
And deep down you know that every foreign innocent life snuffed out by American imperial wars of conquest are equally indefensible.
Collateral damage is MURDER.
Of course they do, your vile American imperialist filth spam infects all the world.
The sheer amount of American anal porn spam that I get in my inbox each day would seem to suggest that it's Americans who treat women badly.
Arabs don't hate Jews, they hate Israel. A racist state set up by terrorists and supported by racists.
EVERYONE should hate Israel, just as they shouldn't hate Jews.
Damn right - most Europeans have a REALLY hard time coming to terms with the American bible-thumping right wing. That's why we're never really sure if you're civilised or not - I mean, what the fuck are Bush's "faith based initiatives" doing in a country with a supposed strict segregation of church and state? The French are taking a lot of heat over their banning of school-worn hijabs, but it seems entirely consistent with their constitution to me.
Surely it IS pointless to preserve ANOTHER Saturn V when there are already two perfectly preserved display examples? The money would be FAR better spent on science, such as NASA's FUTURE projects.
Good grief!
On the subject of spelling, I use Mac OSX which has a built in spelling service (Applespell) which runs by default. My browser, Omniweb 4.5, provides proper integration with this service such that as I type away in its magic zoomed text box, it underlines apparent errors and allows updating of the dictionary right there.
/. in 2004 - if they are doing so, I can only assume that they're too dumb to enable a spell checker on their system.
Now, I don't extensively use a Linux, Windows XP or Solaris machines, but I ASSUME that these other modern OSs can also do this type of thing, so it rather seems to me that NO self respecting geek should be making consistent spelling errors in their posts to
As for your mistake - it's an easy typo, and wouldn't be caught by a checker anyway!
I don't think either one of us represents a statistically significant sample, I was just relating my experience - added to the fact that I've always admired the (seemingly) robust design of the LaCie Pocket Drive.
'Dessert' is spelled 'desert'.
Anyway, Australia's largely deserted interior and huge distances make it a natural application for air transport rather than HST. A country like Australia needs plenty of airports/airfields and cheap/reliable 'planes. A few airports are a LOT more cost effective than five thousand KMs of track.
Having said all that, it's really only Perth, Broome and Darwin that are FAR away from the majority of the Aussie population, which is MOSTLY concentrated in the large coastal arc between Adelaide and Brisbane, so an HST system might make sense for Victoria, NSW etc.
Imagine the effect those rare earth magnets in your headphones are having on your brain then!
Yowsa!
I disagree. In my work we see a great many portable firewire drives though our doors, and LaCie's models are notoriously GOOD in terms of reliability. We've seen EZ Quest, Maxtor and FireLite drives fail several times now.
Oh, and the LaCie pocket drive you mention was based on a better performing laptop drive and incorporated a rubber bumper protection design and both Firewire AND USB interfaces.
So you don't think it'll go on a pallet, then?
So what? My cock is MUCH bigger than yours.
This is a PLASMA display - pixel density is nowhere near as high as a TFT can manage.
Biggest TFT I saw was a 40 inch diagonal Samsung, the resolution was a fair bit better than this 60+ inch beast.
Well before "digital" TVs (by this I assume you mean TFT and Plasma displays) you could certainly, quite clearly see the phosphor stripes/dots/rectangles (design dependent) on your lovely CRT display. Only monochromatic CRT do not have phosphor patch patterns, and they exhibit a slightly grainy texture when up close.
It has to be said though, that this Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB that I'm using here has an AG pitch so fine that my eyes can barely resolve it at minimum focus distance. You can't beat a GOOD CRT!
It was YOU wasn't it?
Why do you post as an AC? Don't you realise that your Slashdot username and it's associated karma is NOT a respected or valued commodity?
Why would ANYONE waste a mod point on that little comment?
Strange shit is afoot at slashdot.org...
Absolutely right - in terms of frequency response, lack of colouration, dynamic range and transient response headphones are LEAGUES ahead of ANY loud speaker - even low energy storage types like electrostatics. The only downside to headphones is a difficulty in conveying good stereo imagery, but much music is poorly recorded/mixed these days for image anyway, so it may not be much of a handicap. For really outstanding transparency I'd recommend some ultra-small earbud type 'phones (though not those horrid shove-in Sony EX 71s that I bought, unless you like to listen to mechanical noise from your own body).