Tell that to all the unemployed Germans and they'll laugh you out of the room.
The UK could definitely use a bit of Europeanisation, but French and German economic policies are not conspicuously successsful at the moment. I'll vote YES to the Euro if we ever get our fabled referendum.
"You don't have to start using the Euro, you know, you can always just stay dollar-linked."
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Since when has Sterling been 'dollar-linked'. Sterling is the ONLY currency not quoted against the US Dollar, in fact, the US Dollar is quoted against Sterling.
That's a slightly baffling statement. Britain is (NET) self-sufficient, Norway is a NET exporter and Russia has enormous untapped resources. Much more importantly, Europe could fairly easily become self sufficient in fuel if it substituted ethanol for petrol and vegetable oil for Diesel - why we don't do this is a total mystery to me.
"Non military GPS is already +/- 1 meter, isn't it?"
It can be degraded whenever the US sees fit to. And who knows, with their current "elevated" threat advisory, what the current non-military accuracy is?
"Not to mention that, of the eight trillion-dollar economies in the world today, three of them (UK, France, Germany) are in Europe"
You forgot Italy ($1.44 Trillion), and Spain isn't far off the big T ($828 Billion). EU GDP is larger than that of the USA, as is population - but the combined armed forces are no match for America's ludicrously expensive collection of death toys. We tend to spend our money on hospitals instead...
it's such a massive waste of resources though, isn't it? The USA already has Navstar GPS in place but because of their paranoia there are actually TWO entirely new networks being built! Cellphone companies cooperate more than that!
" (Built in what Michael Moore claimed in BFC was a "missile factory", as it happens.)"
He actually refers to them as "rockets with a Pentagon payload", which is about right. There's a good chance that the kind of payload that those Titan and Atlas rockets carry is a LOT more dangerous than a Tomahawk.
You've got that the wrong way round, Britain would be DELIGHTED if the US Air Force were to abandon it's UK bases - they're a lot more valuable to you than they are to us.
"Yes, it's annoying to have a learned keystroke changed - I won't argue that as I keep get getting caught, though likely not as often as you. And the different view behavior is annoying. BUT JUST HIT RETURN."
I know that, but what I'VE ALWAYS DONE (and what STILL WORKS in two thirds of the views) is to create and name the folder in the same little flurry of keystrokes - what took about half a second in OS9 now takes several - and that's a big pain in the arse for me. I'll accept the point that CMD-N giving a NEW 'thing' is now consistent across apps, but the Finder never has been a normal app, and it never will be until it's an optional thing to run.
But hey - I hate the single-window-fits-all paradigm anyway - give me back my Spatial finder you bastards!
Sounds about right, but laptops are WAY slower than desktops, if you had a 733 or 800 Mhz Powermac there instead, I think you'd find it a little faster than your Athlon. I have a 733 PM with L3 cache here and it's about as quick as the 1.2Ghz Athlon T-Bird that's next to it.
I make new folders WAY more than i call new Finder windows (which is much easier to achieve, anyway, by either hitting CMD-UP or just double hitting one of you mounted volumes).
And while I'm on the subject, why the fuck does CMD-SHIFT-N give you a new folder ready for labelling in the Icon or Column views but not in the List view? You have to grab the mouse/pen to select the label in List?
Why not get yourself a 14" iBook? It's 900Mhz PPC 750fx is a hell of a lot faster than your old beige beast. Filemaker doesn't use Altivec, so no loss there. Actually quite a good desktop replacement, funnily enough.
Yeah, so what? OS9 runs a LOT faster than OSX on the same Apple hardware - OSX just does more, plain and simple. It's no surprise to find that the lightest code runs the quickest (not to mention the longest optimised). OSX has sped up significantly since the public beta release, and it's later features (like Quartz Extreme) provide a really solid path towards huge speed improvements on future hardware.
Funnily enough, all the development time that Apple has been forced to expend on Altivec optimisations to counter the clock speed stagnation of the G4 should reall pay dividends when (if) the 970 comes to be used in its stead.
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Who cares? It's just a question of energy source portability, after all.
"This is actually good news for whole humanity."
Until the mushrooms start sprouting.
Tell that to all the unemployed Germans and they'll laugh you out of the room.
The UK could definitely use a bit of Europeanisation, but French and German economic policies are not conspicuously successsful at the moment. I'll vote YES to the Euro if we ever get our fabled referendum.
"You don't have to start using the Euro, you know, you can always just stay dollar-linked."
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Since when has Sterling been 'dollar-linked'. Sterling is the ONLY currency not quoted against the US Dollar, in fact, the US Dollar is quoted against Sterling.
Upstart.
That's a slightly baffling statement. Britain is (NET) self-sufficient, Norway is a NET exporter and Russia has enormous untapped resources. Much more importantly, Europe could fairly easily become self sufficient in fuel if it substituted ethanol for petrol and vegetable oil for Diesel - why we don't do this is a total mystery to me.
Damn those crappy leftover SU-27s, MIG 29s and Antonovs! If only they had some decent aircraft...
a Tomahawk usually carries a fairly small bomb but, yes, a satellite could WELL be more dangerous than a large bomb.
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Haven't you seen Akira?
"Non military GPS is already +/- 1 meter, isn't it?"
It can be degraded whenever the US sees fit to. And who knows, with their current "elevated" threat advisory, what the current non-military accuracy is?
where's my copy of Trans Europe Express when I need it?
"Not to mention that, of the eight trillion-dollar economies in the world today, three of them (UK, France, Germany) are in Europe"
You forgot Italy ($1.44 Trillion), and Spain isn't far off the big T ($828 Billion). EU GDP is larger than that of the USA, as is population - but the combined armed forces are no match for America's ludicrously expensive collection of death toys. We tend to spend our money on hospitals instead...
it's such a massive waste of resources though, isn't it? The USA already has Navstar GPS in place but because of their paranoia there are actually TWO entirely new networks being built! Cellphone companies cooperate more than that!
mod AC up!
should I duck & cover right now?
" (Built in what Michael Moore claimed in BFC was a "missile factory", as it happens.)"
He actually refers to them as "rockets with a Pentagon payload", which is about right. There's a good chance that the kind of payload that those Titan and Atlas rockets carry is a LOT more dangerous than a Tomahawk.
You've got that the wrong way round, Britain would be DELIGHTED if the US Air Force were to abandon it's UK bases - they're a lot more valuable to you than they are to us.
got it
it's crap, it crashes and has MANY bugs
illiterate, are you?
did he just call me Len again?
"Yes, it's annoying to have a learned keystroke changed - I won't argue that as I keep get getting caught, though likely not as often as you. And the different view behavior is annoying. BUT JUST HIT RETURN."
I know that, but what I'VE ALWAYS DONE (and what STILL WORKS in two thirds of the views) is to create and name the folder in the same little flurry of keystrokes - what took about half a second in OS9 now takes several - and that's a big pain in the arse for me. I'll accept the point that CMD-N giving a NEW 'thing' is now consistent across apps, but the Finder never has been a normal app, and it never will be until it's an optional thing to run.
But hey - I hate the single-window-fits-all paradigm anyway - give me back my Spatial finder you bastards!
Sounds about right, but laptops are WAY slower than desktops, if you had a 733 or 800 Mhz Powermac there instead, I think you'd find it a little faster than your Athlon. I have a 733 PM with L3 cache here and it's about as quick as the 1.2Ghz Athlon T-Bird that's next to it.
I make new folders WAY more than i call new Finder windows (which is much easier to achieve, anyway, by either hitting CMD-UP or just double hitting one of you mounted volumes).
And while I'm on the subject, why the fuck does CMD-SHIFT-N give you a new folder ready for labelling in the Icon or Column views but not in the List view? You have to grab the mouse/pen to select the label in List?
It's SHITE!
I found it fun, too, but it feels like most of the levels are virtually deserted, and what the hell happened with the Mac OSX update?
Why not get yourself a 14" iBook? It's 900Mhz PPC 750fx is a hell of a lot faster than your old beige beast. Filemaker doesn't use Altivec, so no loss there. Actually quite a good desktop replacement, funnily enough.
you mean explicitly, I presume?
Yeah, so what? OS9 runs a LOT faster than OSX on the same Apple hardware - OSX just does more, plain and simple. It's no surprise to find that the lightest code runs the quickest (not to mention the longest optimised). OSX has sped up significantly since the public beta release, and it's later features (like Quartz Extreme) provide a really solid path towards huge speed improvements on future hardware.
Funnily enough, all the development time that Apple has been forced to expend on Altivec optimisations to counter the clock speed stagnation of the G4 should reall pay dividends when (if) the 970 comes to be used in its stead.