we could probably make sailing vessels similar in size to the old wooden ships out of fiberglass instead, which might prove a little more useful.
Fibreglass is far inferior to wood for boatbuilding. It has a very limited lifespan, as repairs are very difficult. However, steel is good for boatbuilding.
Oil or coal powered boats need to be big to undertake long journeys, not so with sailing boats. Sailing boats were killed by high interest rates: the interest on the value of goods in transit meant slow journeys were uneconomic - when interest was 12%. Today, sailing boats are probably very economic. However, there are few modern designs in service for evaluation.
Well before 1960 in most of Europe. I was taught SI Units in secondazry school, which I started in 1960 in the UK. The UK lags behind the rest of Europe in using SI units. I think Germany dropped Fahrenheit before 1900, and the rest of Europe during Napoleon's time. (Bonaparte, not Solo)
Why do I have to have a dozen different transformer bricks underneath my desk to power all of my computer, network, and phone stuff?
Because, unlike the Chinese, your government refuses to kill the manufacturers responsible for this particular destruction of the environment. Clearly a rocket propelled grenade up Nokia's posterior would go a long way to putting an end to this particular scam (Thin-pin, fat-pin, error message saying "Not Charging". I'd vote for state sponsored violence on this one!)
Here in London, moe people are killed by being run over by pushbikes than die of AIDS. (well last time I checked in my local hospital, anyway).
I drive a 4x4 cos I can't reverse a trailer on wet grass with a compact. My X-Trail does 40mpg (its a manual diesel), my wife' small Volvo V40 does about 25MPG with her driving (town), and about 36MPG with me driving (mixed), (its a petrol automatic).
It would be if OS tools provided an actual better and more advanced way of writing software. Well, I for one, think that the ability to hack apalling, non standard keyboard shortcuts is a killer. Free or otherwise.
However, the win for me is that the free tools are available everywhere, and I dont have to learn a new IDE each time I work on a different project.
Whiel you are at it, tell Keil I hate their IDE, and I am not too find of the 10 year old bugs in their 8051 compiler either.
owned by the ruling ethnic groupNo. owned by the shareholders, or subsidiaries of well-known internaitonal banks (British, American, etc).
Banking in Nigeria is not significantly less reputable than anywhere else.
The problem with Nigerian scams is because there are a lot Nigerians, and a significant fraction of them do not trust random people they don't know from Adam (or in some cases, members of their own family) and think that "europeans" must be a bunch of illiterate cretins if they are willing to believe things they read in random e-mails from strangers, and hence deserve to be scammed.
The main factor in Nigerian fraud, is that part of the Nigerian population that believe that God created cretins so they could be scammed. Not a very christian beliefe:
Yes its true, Christianity would stop Nigerian scams - send more missionaries:-)
The only known cure for "repetitive stain injury" is to take up embroidery (hand, not computer).
The underlying cause of RSI is that you dont need to be very accurate to hit keys on a keyboard, and so you can be fairly indiscriminate about which keys you hit. The nerves all activate together, and, over a long period, you lose the ability to distinguish between nerve fibres.
Enbroidery requires you to be very accurate, and you re-learn the use of the individual nerves.
I leave google as an exercise for the reader, while I get back to my needlework.
Sure you need lawyers to tell you picking people's pockets is illegal, and ignoring "no trespassing" signs is a risky move.
Companies who think "we'll steal the stuff from those hippies cos they wont do anything about it" are being told "some of those hippies might just have the same minders as the coke dealers, so watch it" They need to be told in terms they understand.
Sure its self promotion by a lawyer - he is a lawyer, what do you expect?
The logical progression is of course to ban children.
I am sure the UK government is working on this. After all, children will grow up, and some of them might be abusers. We can't take the risk. Think of the children!... ("Oh, Wait" is not supported by the present "government by knee jerk" strategy)
I have an e61, no i, no camera, with putty. I has saved me £100s through testing/fixing on site via ssh.
No camera is a feature, because many sites won't let camera phones in for security reasons.
Prior to that, I used an SE k750i with putty - horrendous, but it worked!
I also have an SE p1i, but owing to the fact that it doesnt have profiles, its useless as a business phone, and the contract its on is so expensive for data, I was very careful to remove putty after one bill.(O2, you really know how to attract business users, dont you:-(
ritualistic cannibalism in Christianity consists of eating bread and drinking wine. In today's English, what Jesus said approximates to "I gave my body and blood (died) so you can share bread and wine together, so every time you get together to eat bread, and drink wine, remember that!" along the same lines as a Victorian Yorkshire miner saying to the family over Sunday dinner "I sweated blood and risked my life for you to have this dinner on the table, and never you forget it!".
Unlike many churches, Jesus had a sense of humour, and a major part of his message was that "the law" (like most everything else) should not be taken to seriously, too far, or get bogged down in applying the letter without regard for the big picture. And the big picture includes the fact that we have very little understanding of life, suffering and death, even after he tried to show us the truth.
OTOH, L Ron Hubbard was set as coursework at Cambridge University, "Invent a Religion, and convert people to it". He invented Scientology. AFAICR, he did not return to life after death, even as a zombie.
Because without Bletchley, there would be no computers, and Bill Gates would probably be a failed lawyer working in his Dad's company
Because any time you use a computer to process a string, you are using technology decended from the work done at Bletchley.
Its not just the buildings, they have actual working rebuilds of WWII technology, and indeed many different types of computer that
predate the PC. They have a fully working Ferranti Argus that was built to control a power station, in the 1960's and still works good as new!
You can see the computer developing from WWII to the present day, and I certainly believe that is important that people in the future can see from working examples how computer technology developed, not least because in many respects it has gone backwards! (Obviously not in MIPS). How many of today's computers will have a single working example in 30 years?
30 years ago, there were hundreds of different architecture, not just the five or so we have today. 50 years ago, computer architecture was on the saae scale as building architecture - machines weighed over 50 tons!
If you want to know what computing was like before the PC, Bletchley IS the place to go and see it, because the prehistoric machines still run!
Or, in the language of the non-scientific, "God sees all, God knows everything, God is all powerful".
Perhaps instead of condemning Christians for being unscientific, modern scientists, like Newton, should put more effort into understanding religious language!
people in the UK are more likely to be killed by sidewalk dog poop than acts of terrorism?
Yes. Its true!Not having any statistics, I will do the honourable slashdot thing, and make them up:
In the last 10 years or so, roughly 100 people have been killed by terrorists. This is massively lower than the ten years before that, when the American funded IRA was killing huge numbers of people and cute furry animals every year.
However, then the same last ten years, the police have shot and killed about 100 people, most of them innocent, and some of them other policemen. In the previous 10 years, the police shot very few people, most of them Jamaican, or close relatives of armed robbers. (but the deceased were not actually guilty of anything other than being Jamaican or related to an armed robber).This was in part because very few police were armed, and partly because Jamaicans rarely prosecute the police.
Hundreds of people die or go blind each year as a result of dog-poop spread diseases.(and quite a few cute babies are killed by dangerous dogs)
Give them results like they got in the recent elections?
AFAICR, the vote was not very supportive of the government, but did "back Boris"
quite strongly. Classing pooping dogs as terrorists is more like one of Livingstone's
policies than Boris's, I would guess.
However, I think most of the UK population is aware that the problem with democracy is that "no matter who you vote for, its always the politician that gets elected".
To avoid confusion, we have referred to our local Chinese takeway as "the Golden Whatsit" for many years. They call us "Mr and Mrs No-Prawn". It myst work, we know we are us, and they know they are them!
7 cents/minHere in the UK they do that by having 270 minutes per hour.
The voice says "you have 110 mintes" and 8 minutes later, it says "you do not have enough credit for this call".
I am not sure why the telephone regulator has not done something about this, but I suspect corruption might have a bearing on it.
In other cases, notice that an unactivated phone card is worth about $0.005, while an activated one is worth $5. If you wanted a convenient waay to launder money, perhaps you should consider carrying a suitcase filled with unactivated phone cards over the boarder, and then activating them? More profitable than smuggling drugs, and you are less likely to go to jail.
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I'm desperate for *any* good movies! If you can survice the language and not-very-special effects, try Nigerian movies.
Yes, my youngest has passed his drving test, and No, I am not Nigerian.
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There are cities in Wyoming? I thought there was only tumbleweed!
Fibreglass is far inferior to wood for boatbuilding. It has a very limited lifespan, as repairs are very difficult. However, steel is good for boatbuilding.
Oil or coal powered boats need to be big to undertake long journeys, not so with sailing boats. Sailing boats were killed by high interest rates: the interest on the value of goods in transit meant slow journeys were uneconomic - when interest was 12%. Today, sailing boats are probably very economic. However, there are few modern designs in service for evaluation.
Well before 1960 in most of Europe. I was taught SI Units in secondazry school, which I started in 1960 in the UK. The UK lags behind the rest of Europe in using SI units. I think Germany dropped Fahrenheit before 1900, and the rest of Europe during Napoleon's time. (Bonaparte, not Solo)
Because, unlike the Chinese, your government refuses to kill the manufacturers responsible for this particular destruction of the environment. Clearly a rocket propelled grenade up Nokia's posterior would go a long way to putting an end to this particular scam (Thin-pin, fat-pin, error message saying "Not Charging". I'd vote for state sponsored violence on this one!)
I drive a 4x4 cos I can't reverse a trailer on wet grass with a compact. My X-Trail does 40mpg (its a manual diesel), my wife' small Volvo V40 does about 25MPG with her driving (town), and about 36MPG with me driving (mixed), (its a petrol automatic).
However, the win for me is that the free tools are available everywhere, and I dont have to learn a new IDE each time I work on a different project.
Whiel you are at it, tell Keil I hate their IDE, and I am not too find of the 10 year old bugs in their 8051 compiler either.
Banking in Nigeria is not significantly less reputable than anywhere else.
The problem with Nigerian scams is because there are a lot Nigerians, and a significant fraction of them do not trust random people they don't know from Adam (or in some cases, members of their own family) and think that "europeans" must be a bunch of illiterate cretins if they are willing to believe things they read in random e-mails from strangers, and hence deserve to be scammed.
The main factor in Nigerian fraud, is that part of the Nigerian population that believe that God created cretins so they could be scammed. Not a very christian beliefe:
Yes its true, Christianity would stop Nigerian scams - send more missionaries :-)
Yes, I have been to Nigeria.
Because you know you are one click away from redundancy by SMS message.
The underlying cause of RSI is that you dont need to be very accurate to hit keys on a keyboard, and so you can be fairly indiscriminate about which keys you hit. The nerves all activate together, and, over a long period, you lose the ability to distinguish between nerve fibres.
Enbroidery requires you to be very accurate, and you re-learn the use of the individual nerves.
I leave google as an exercise for the reader, while I get back to my needlework.
Dont you read /.?
Yesterday they announced MicroSoft "Touch" - today they announce a reason to want it.
Plus ca change...
Companies who think "we'll steal the stuff from those hippies cos they wont do anything about it" are being told "some of those hippies might just have the same minders as the coke dealers, so watch it" They need to be told in terms they understand.
Sure its self promotion by a lawyer - he is a lawyer, what do you expect?
I am sure the UK government is working on this. After all, children will grow up, and some of them might be abusers. We can't take the risk. Think of the children!... ("Oh, Wait" is not supported by the present "government by knee jerk" strategy)
Please supply 1 off only, pig, flying, Mk1.
(a major reason for free software is that people who can't do it right, make a start, give it away, and let others who can, fix it)
No camera is a feature, because many sites won't let camera phones in for security reasons.
Prior to that, I used an SE k750i with putty - horrendous, but it worked!
I also have an SE p1i, but owing to the fact that it doesnt have profiles, its useless as a business phone, and the contract its on is so expensive for data, I was very careful to remove putty after one bill.(O2, you really know how to attract business users, dont you :-(
Unlike many churches, Jesus had a sense of humour, and a major part of his message was that "the law" (like most everything else) should not be taken to seriously, too far, or get bogged down in applying the letter without regard for the big picture. And the big picture includes the fact that we have very little understanding of life, suffering and death, even after he tried to show us the truth.
OTOH, L Ron Hubbard was set as coursework at Cambridge University, "Invent a Religion, and convert people to it". He invented Scientology. AFAICR, he did not return to life after death, even as a zombie.
Taco Bell needs more highly skilled managers than some of the off-shore outfits, because its easier for irate customers to trash the place.
Maybe where you live, but 50c in an Internet cafe will do it for the rest of us.
In most other parts of the world, you can send e-mails from your mobile phone for free if you can be bothered
Because any time you use a computer to process a string, you are using technology decended from the work done at Bletchley.
Its not just the buildings, they have actual working rebuilds of WWII technology, and indeed many different types of computer that predate the PC. They have a fully working Ferranti Argus that was built to control a power station, in the 1960's and still works good as new! You can see the computer developing from WWII to the present day, and I certainly believe that is important that people in the future can see from working examples how computer technology developed, not least because in many respects it has gone backwards! (Obviously not in MIPS). How many of today's computers will have a single working example in 30 years?
30 years ago, there were hundreds of different architecture, not just the five or so we have today. 50 years ago, computer architecture was on the saae scale as building architecture - machines weighed over 50 tons!
If you want to know what computing was like before the PC, Bletchley IS the place to go and see it, because the prehistoric machines still run!
Or, in the language of the non-scientific, "God sees all, God knows everything, God is all powerful".
Perhaps instead of condemning Christians for being unscientific, modern scientists, like Newton, should put more effort into understanding religious language!
I had a take-a-survey popup, and I am running FreeBSD. Perhaps its the revenge of the bug!
Yes. Its true!Not having any statistics, I will do the honourable slashdot thing, and make them up:
In the last 10 years or so, roughly 100 people have been killed by terrorists. This is massively lower than the ten years before that, when the American funded IRA was killing huge numbers of people and cute furry animals every year.
However, then the same last ten years, the police have shot and killed about 100 people, most of them innocent, and some of them other policemen. In the previous 10 years, the police shot very few people, most of them Jamaican, or close relatives of armed robbers. (but the deceased were not actually guilty of anything other than being Jamaican or related to an armed robber).This was in part because very few police were armed, and partly because Jamaicans rarely prosecute the police.
Hundreds of people die or go blind each year as a result of dog-poop spread diseases.(and quite a few cute babies are killed by dangerous dogs)
SO, lets just pay the IRA to kill the dogs!
AFAICR, the vote was not very supportive of the government, but did "back Boris" quite strongly. Classing pooping dogs as terrorists is more like one of Livingstone's policies than Boris's, I would guess.
However, I think most of the UK population is aware that the problem with democracy is that "no matter who you vote for, its always the politician that gets elected".
To avoid confusion, we have referred to our local Chinese takeway as "the Golden Whatsit" for many years. They call us "Mr and Mrs No-Prawn". It myst work, we know we are us, and they know they are them!
The voice says "you have 110 mintes" and 8 minutes later, it says "you do not have enough credit for this call".
I am not sure why the telephone regulator has not done something about this, but I suspect corruption might have a bearing on it.
In other cases, notice that an unactivated phone card is worth about $0.005, while an activated one is worth $5. If you wanted a convenient waay to launder money, perhaps you should consider carrying a suitcase filled with unactivated phone cards over the boarder, and then activating them? More profitable than smuggling drugs, and you are less likely to go to jail.
Yes, my youngest has passed his drving test, and No, I am not Nigerian.