"but only a very limited amount of people outside Spain and Morocco will choose to travel through the tunnel as air travel is much cheaper these days."
I think you're wrong about this. Don't forget that Spain - like Belgium and Britain - is now committed to the French TGV system, and that Morocco was (most recently) a French colony, and therefore SPEAKS FRENCH and has a large number of French tourists. Would the French choose to travel via TGV or Boeing 737 to Marrakech, do you think?
Much more important to Morocco would be the large consignment of EU tourists that the train would disgorge at Fes, Casablanca and Marrakech.
It can only be a good thing, Marrakech is a wondeful place - anyone who's read Dune will see it as nothing less than Arrakine itself as soon as they step off the train. Shield wall and all!
There's no such thing as Saddam Loyalists. There ARE, however, a great many Arab and Iraqi nationalists who will never be able to tolerate being occupied by the US Army.
"Do you honestly think that modern speakers are going to attempt to play something outside of their frequency range?"
Modern speakers? There's NO magic in loudspeakers, "modern" or otherwise. Most 'speakers have fairly primitive capacitors for filtering out undesirable frequencies, but that's only really for crossover purposes - and the slope is usually pretty gentle anyway.
Well, I looked at that feature and i didn't find it a particularly obvious visual metaphor, MS Outlook's 'nesting' ability seems more immediately useful to me - though I use Apple's Mail most of the time.
But, really, the thrust of this article is that IBM have reinvented email, yet the truth is that they're CONSIDERING adding some new MINOR features to an email CLIENT. If IBM has any corporate self confidence they should just release these features in a new version of Notes and be done with it - why trail them in this way? Why would a corporate Outlook user care about what a coming version of the Notes client MIGHT be like? Or has IBM put up the white flag to MS once and for all?
Those "List Seperators" are just Apple "Labels". The only person who would think they are innovative is someone who's been under the thumb of Pine for the last 20 years.
And threading has been available in Microsoft's Outlook Express for at least 3 years, and in Apple's Mail since Panther was released. If this is the best IBM can come up with, it's time for their stockholders to ask for the R&D spend back.
You're absolutely right! I completely forgot about the rudder pedals - still, I don't see ANY reason why those couldn't be duplicated in an office environment - couple of analogue foot pedals should be pretty easy after all those console racing controllers.
"You know, I'd agree with you, but ever since books and magazines became 3-D, they've been so much easier to read. Remember those old flat pages we suffered with? Blech."
Tell me about it! It was just IMPOSSIBLE to turn the pages on those old 2D books and magazines.
I saw this Ferrari 456GT on 'sale' at Maranello Concessionaires for 'only' 170358 UKP, so I went down there to check her out. On the way I picked up a car magazine and it turns out that it's the same price EVERYONE sells 'em for! This shit's got to stop! No Ferrari 456GT for me, I guess.
You certainly have a point, but - as you well know - NHS pension provisions are absolutely fantastic by normal standards, so the pay issue isn't that clear cut. As for GPs pay - how much is enough? At my local surgery, one of the GPs is a Kiwi and another Canadian - clearly THEY were prepared to work for the money on offer.
My PERSONAL experience of the NHS is pretty positive, though I am right now in the 11th month of a 12 month wait for minor vascular surgery that was supposed to happen 8 months ago. What my girlfriend has to do is firefight all the time because the inner city trusts are stuffed full of the most appalling staff working in dilapidated buildings and not earning enough to pay for decent housing due - in the main - to the UKs insane housing market. My girlfriend actually relishes her job because it's so challenging compared to the private sector!
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The medieval city of Fes is a designated UNESCO world heritage site.
There is already a McDonalds in Marrakech new ville, it's right across the road from the main Post Office.
As to Starbucks, I'd rather drink Moroccan tea and a 'corne de gazelle' than a skinny fucking latte and a granola bar.
Morocco has been capitalist since the very dawn of history, certainly before Europe was thought of.
EVERYONE with tastebuds hates McDonalds.
Nice racism.
I think you'll find Cortes was pretty efficient.
"but only a very limited amount of people outside Spain and Morocco will choose to travel through the tunnel as air travel is much cheaper these days."
I think you're wrong about this. Don't forget that Spain - like Belgium and Britain - is now committed to the French TGV system, and that Morocco was (most recently) a French colony, and therefore SPEAKS FRENCH and has a large number of French tourists. Would the French choose to travel via TGV or Boeing 737 to Marrakech, do you think?
Much more important to Morocco would be the large consignment of EU tourists that the train would disgorge at Fes, Casablanca and Marrakech.
It can only be a good thing, Marrakech is a wondeful place - anyone who's read Dune will see it as nothing less than Arrakine itself as soon as they step off the train. Shield wall and all!
There's no such thing as Saddam Loyalists. There ARE, however, a great many Arab and Iraqi nationalists who will never be able to tolerate being occupied by the US Army.
...and not making it to become 30-somethings.
I'm sure riding around on a cruise missile would be a fucking good laugh, too.
Scoot Jockeys, surely?
I think you'll find that the Toecutter knows...
"Do you honestly think that modern speakers are going to attempt to play something outside of their frequency range?"
Modern speakers? There's NO magic in loudspeakers, "modern" or otherwise. Most 'speakers have fairly primitive capacitors for filtering out undesirable frequencies, but that's only really for crossover purposes - and the slope is usually pretty gentle anyway.
Well, I looked at that feature and i didn't find it a particularly obvious visual metaphor, MS Outlook's 'nesting' ability seems more immediately useful to me - though I use Apple's Mail most of the time.
But, really, the thrust of this article is that IBM have reinvented email, yet the truth is that they're CONSIDERING adding some new MINOR features to an email CLIENT. If IBM has any corporate self confidence they should just release these features in a new version of Notes and be done with it - why trail them in this way? Why would a corporate Outlook user care about what a coming version of the Notes client MIGHT be like? Or has IBM put up the white flag to MS once and for all?
Those "List Seperators" are just Apple "Labels". The only person who would think they are innovative is someone who's been under the thumb of Pine for the last 20 years.
DEFINITELY
And threading has been available in Microsoft's Outlook Express for at least 3 years, and in Apple's Mail since Panther was released. If this is the best IBM can come up with, it's time for their stockholders to ask for the R&D spend back.
You're absolutely right! I completely forgot about the rudder pedals - still, I don't see ANY reason why those couldn't be duplicated in an office environment - couple of analogue foot pedals should be pretty easy after all those console racing controllers.
"You know, I'd agree with you, but ever since books and magazines became 3-D, they've been so much easier to read. Remember those old flat pages we suffered with? Blech."
Tell me about it! It was just IMPOSSIBLE to turn the pages on those old 2D books and magazines.
Nah - you need TWO controllers for 3D navigation, cyclic and collective.
That's capitalism, baby! Love it or hate it, you cannot deny its logic.
Closer to $295502.9868.
Give or take a few bucks.
I hear ya, man.
I saw this Ferrari 456GT on 'sale' at Maranello Concessionaires for 'only' 170358 UKP, so I went down there to check her out. On the way I picked up a car magazine and it turns out that it's the same price EVERYONE sells 'em for! This shit's got to stop! No Ferrari 456GT for me, I guess.
Maybe the answer is a LOT simpler.
Have you considered that the margin on iPods might just be crap? If retailers discount, they make no profit - maybe even a LOSS.
Who cares? You got what you paid for.
Caveat emptor, dickhead.
Amen!
The handouts from Uncle Sam are reserved for the mega rich, oil and arms barons. How dare you suggest otherwise?
On average.
Oh, in that case
R E S I G N !
You certainly have a point, but - as you well know - NHS pension provisions are absolutely fantastic by normal standards, so the pay issue isn't that clear cut. As for GPs pay - how much is enough? At my local surgery, one of the GPs is a Kiwi and another Canadian - clearly THEY were prepared to work for the money on offer.
My PERSONAL experience of the NHS is pretty positive, though I am right now in the 11th month of a 12 month wait for minor vascular surgery that was supposed to happen 8 months ago. What my girlfriend has to do is firefight all the time because the inner city trusts are stuffed full of the most appalling staff working in dilapidated buildings and not earning enough to pay for decent housing due - in the main - to the UKs insane housing market. My girlfriend actually relishes her job because it's so challenging compared to the private sector!