finding one episode out of the many legit postings, spam, incomplete files, bad encodings, etc... is a real hassle and PITA.
Dude. One word: Easynews.com (or is that two?)
They have a PAR file viewer - click on a par file and it finds all the parts. If it's something like a multipart rar of an.avi they unrar it for you. They also have a global search to find stuff no matter what newsgroup it's in. Headers? Nobody uses nntp any more, come on:-)
Terminal is naff, slow and has useless copy/paste.
iTerm is, unbelievably, slower. Still no decent copy/paste
GLTerm is a bit quicker and even has an option for auto-copy.
However, TBQH if I want to be doing real work I actually fire up my PC for the exclusive reason that I can use putty. Maybe I should get an intel mac and use parallels. Mmmm. Shiny new mac mini...
Slashdot now crashes my browser of choice (opera 9 beta 2) since the CSS change. I know others who find it slowing firefox to a crawl.
I'm sure there's a discussion about it *somewhere*...
Yeah, but the win3.x calculator was buggy anyway. There's the classic 3.11 - 3.1 = 0.00 (what's the difference between win 3.11 and win 3.1?) for example.
It was basically down to the usage of floating point (as some decimal numbers can't be exactly represented in binary, just as 1/3 can't be represented exactly in decimal), nothing to do with the processor.
The communication protocols are disclosed during a two-way connection between client and server. Trying to use trade secret laws to protect them is impossible when it's the equivalent of publishing the *exact* ingredients and *exact* quantities of coca-cola on the tin.
The Amiga didn't have an MMU or the ability to use "virtual memory" without a replacement processor. And finding one with a hard drive was pretty rare until towards the end of its life.
yes, but no matter how much TFA says it was released on Wednesday, it's been around since the last article. I built a site, other people built sites. This is nothing new, just TFA being slow.
"Bringing democracy to an oppressed people" is not even close to being a legitimate reason to invade a country. It smacks of arrogance, especially when hardly a day goes by without another story about the shortcomings of the democratic process in the US.
Not to mention the half-assed excuse for a democracy installed in Iraq.
You may also wish to count how many UN resolutions Israel is in breach of (Hint: around 30) before counting that as a reason to invade.
(PS: I think the nuclear waste thing was alluding to depleted uranium - not sure tho...)
OK, OK, OK. I forgot the proviso "in the UK", which is what this article is all about. About 60% of the population have digital TV (cable, satellite or terrestrial (aka Freeview)) here.
And that's quickly going to become a huge, huge problem, as we've built our entire civilization around cheap hydrocarbons.
But the useful thing about this process is that it isn't just for electricity generation. We have a whole slew of alternative electricity generating technologies (wind/wave/hydro/geothermal/solar/nuclear) but none of them can be used to make plastics, pharmaceuticals, or other oil-based products.
Personally I think they'd be better off concentrating on sewage rather than turkeys (constant supply, can be piped) but hey.
I'm not pretending to know everything, that's for sure. There are no easy answers. I just feel that the rest of the world shouldn't be the US's plaything. They have no right to kill tens of thousands of people so they can play political games in the middle east. I guess that's the underlying reason behind the current anti-AmericanGovernment (not anti-american per-se, just that people are scared shitless of the current government) - they really do consider US citizens to be "better" than everyone else and consider other peoples to be expendable for the betterment and expansion of the American Way. I guess you could call it a "crusade"?
But the most galling thing is the constant references to Christianity and Morality. WWJD? He certainally wouldn't kill people, no matter who they are, where they live or how much oil they have. Even if they did annoy his Daddy.
but eventually those people will be better off.
Except the dead ones, natch.
Saddam should have been removed long before now
You just don't get it, do you. The gassings of the kurds and iranians was over 10 years ago, when Saddam was the US's "friend" vs Iran. Dissing him for being "stupid-ass" is a little comical in light of your own leader's academic ability; "power hungry" is laughable in the face of an America hell-bent on bombing anyone who is against the "american way".
The question isn't about Iraq. All the reasons that have been given for the war with Iraq are just distractions. Dictator? Lots of those about. Human rights? Oooh. the US executes minors doesn't it? Tortures prisoners, holds people in no-mans-land without recourse to legal representation. Does Saudi Arabia have a wonderful record on Human rights or democracy?
Saddam was no worse than a whole list of other world leaders. He had fewer links to Al Quaida than almost any other middle eastern state (especially those "best buddy" Saudis). The country was fairly peaceful - a little repressive, some disappearances, but nothing over-the-top in comparison to other middle eastern states, or even your own (Hmmm, does the name Maher Arar ring any bells?).
We in Europe "turn our backs" on the US's use of capital punishment, indefinite internment of people without trial, electoral anomalies (Gerrymandering is pretty much a way of life in the US), free trade restrictions (Steel tariffs, for example), unilateral invasions of sovereign states and many other "misdemeanours". We share a world, and each have our own ways of running our countries. You can't just decide that someone made your daddy look silly and therefore you have to kill tens of thousands of people to remove him from power.
War in Iraq wasn't even close to being a last resort unless you decide that Saddam being in power was the underlying "problem".
He agreed with GW that Saddam should be taken out, *given the evidence that GW gave him*. On reflection, that evidence was flawed, and chances are that GW talked up the evidence that he was privy to.
But from that chart, the annual increase has consistently been around 1-2ppm for the last 50 years. A 4ppm increase in the annual figure could therefore be argued to be statistically significant.
Y'see we get stressed about references to hitler and WW2 when nobody was invaded by saddam. We get stressed when your president compares himself to Churchill when there aren't bombs landing on your home soil every night and your "brave" fighters are dropping laser-guided bombs and describing suicide bombers as "cowards". You were attacked by Al Qaida - fair enough, that's a Bad Thing, and most of the world supported you in going to Afghanistan to sort it out. But the whole Iraq thing - it's just a bit odd. No terrorists, no threat to the US, plenty of far worse dictatorships around the world. Zimbabwe? China? Saudi? Was it that old "flouting UN resolutions"? In which case you really ought to add Israel (flouting resolution 425 for 21 years now) to that list.
And the whole top gun thing. People have died, you've invaded a sovereign state unilaterally, you've left the place in a mess and really pissed off a whole shedload of people. So you do the whole macho, warmongering stunt just to make a point as to how much more firepower you have than these people. It's just the arrogance of it all that really grates. Some humility and respect for all the people bush killed for no apparent reason would be nice.
And yeah - I don't care much for Kerry but Bush scares the shit out of me. He reminds me of the man who rode the bomb down in Dr Strangelove.
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finding one episode out of the many legit postings, spam, incomplete files, bad encodings, etc... is a real hassle and PITA.
.avi they unrar it for you. They also have a global search to find stuff no matter what newsgroup it's in. Headers? Nobody uses nntp any more, come on :-)
Dude. One word: Easynews.com (or is that two?)
They have a PAR file viewer - click on a par file and it finds all the parts. If it's something like a multipart rar of an
Terminal is naff, slow and has useless copy/paste.
iTerm is, unbelievably, slower. Still no decent copy/paste
GLTerm is a bit quicker and even has an option for auto-copy.
However, TBQH if I want to be doing real work I actually fire up my PC for the exclusive reason that I can use putty. Maybe I should get an intel mac and use parallels. Mmmm. Shiny new mac mini...
Do you format it as a floppy? HDD? Zip (boot from physical partition 4)?
Now let's see which of those your BIOS supports, and if it will only boot from it if all other devices fail (like on this dell 5150 here).
Slashdot now crashes my browser of choice (opera 9 beta 2) since the CSS change. I know others who find it slowing firefox to a crawl. I'm sure there's a discussion about it *somewhere*...
It was basically down to the usage of floating point (as some decimal numbers can't be exactly represented in binary, just as 1/3 can't be represented exactly in decimal), nothing to do with the processor.
The communication protocols are disclosed during a two-way connection between client and server. Trying to use trade secret laws to protect them is impossible when it's the equivalent of publishing the *exact* ingredients and *exact* quantities of coca-cola on the tin.
"Linux" covers a whole world of possibilities, from uclinux up to linspire. Saying it's bloated drags us back to the Negroponte article
The Amiga didn't have an MMU or the ability to use "virtual memory" without a replacement processor. And finding one with a hard drive was pretty rare until towards the end of its life.
yes, but no matter how much TFA says it was released on Wednesday, it's been around since the last article. I built a site, other people built sites. This is nothing new, just TFA being slow.
"Bringing democracy to an oppressed people" is not even close to being a legitimate reason to invade a country. It smacks of arrogance, especially when hardly a day goes by without another story about the shortcomings of the democratic process in the US.
Not to mention the half-assed excuse for a democracy installed in Iraq.
You may also wish to count how many UN resolutions Israel is in breach of (Hint: around 30) before counting that as a reason to invade.
(PS: I think the nuclear waste thing was alluding to depleted uranium - not sure tho...)
Nintendo (SP/DS/Micro)? Check.
IPod? Check.
PSP? Check.
Palm? Check.
Lots of phones will charge over USB, too (nokia, many motorola, possibly more...)
OK, OK, OK. I forgot the proviso "in the UK", which is what this article is all about. About 60% of the population have digital TV (cable, satellite or terrestrial (aka Freeview)) here.
Yes, it just saves the raw digital streams. Nobody uses analogue TV these days :-)
6 muxes at 22mbps (averaged over the 18 & 24 mbps muxes) gives 132mbps or 16.5 mebibytes/sec. 2592000 seconds/mo * 16.5 = ~41Tb
Although the machine itself can't have more than 7Tb. It certainally sits on a desktop. About the same size as 14" TV.
random picture
Erm.. Except the screen is just a *teeny* bit smaller than the humungous psp screen.
But the useful thing about this process is that it isn't just for electricity generation. We have a whole slew of alternative electricity generating technologies (wind/wave/hydro/geothermal/solar/nuclear) but none of them can be used to make plastics, pharmaceuticals, or other oil-based products.
Personally I think they'd be better off concentrating on sewage rather than turkeys (constant supply, can be piped) but hey.
But the most galling thing is the constant references to Christianity and Morality. WWJD? He certainally wouldn't kill people, no matter who they are, where they live or how much oil they have. Even if they did annoy his Daddy.
Except the dead ones, natch.
Saddam should have been removed long before now
You just don't get it, do you. The gassings of the kurds and iranians was over 10 years ago, when Saddam was the US's "friend" vs Iran. Dissing him for being "stupid-ass" is a little comical in light of your own leader's academic ability; "power hungry" is laughable in the face of an America hell-bent on bombing anyone who is against the "american way". The question isn't about Iraq. All the reasons that have been given for the war with Iraq are just distractions. Dictator? Lots of those about. Human rights? Oooh. the US executes minors doesn't it? Tortures prisoners, holds people in no-mans-land without recourse to legal representation. Does Saudi Arabia have a wonderful record on Human rights or democracy?
Saddam was no worse than a whole list of other world leaders. He had fewer links to Al Quaida than almost any other middle eastern state (especially those "best buddy" Saudis). The country was fairly peaceful - a little repressive, some disappearances, but nothing over-the-top in comparison to other middle eastern states, or even your own (Hmmm, does the name Maher Arar ring any bells?).
We in Europe "turn our backs" on the US's use of capital punishment, indefinite internment of people without trial, electoral anomalies (Gerrymandering is pretty much a way of life in the US), free trade restrictions (Steel tariffs, for example), unilateral invasions of sovereign states and many other "misdemeanours". We share a world, and each have our own ways of running our countries. You can't just decide that someone made your daddy look silly and therefore you have to kill tens of thousands of people to remove him from power.
War in Iraq wasn't even close to being a last resort unless you decide that Saddam being in power was the underlying "problem".
You do know that the cartridges that come with new printers are half empty, don't you?
But of course, they could get some free electricity if they were clever...
He agreed with GW that Saddam should be taken out, *given the evidence that GW gave him*. On reflection, that evidence was flawed, and chances are that GW talked up the evidence that he was privy to.
But from that chart, the annual increase has consistently been around 1-2ppm for the last 50 years. A 4ppm increase in the annual figure could therefore be argued to be statistically significant.
"...Fight Back"
And how exactly does Iraq fit in here?
Y'see we get stressed about references to hitler and WW2 when nobody was invaded by saddam. We get stressed when your president compares himself to Churchill when there aren't bombs landing on your home soil every night and your "brave" fighters are dropping laser-guided bombs and describing suicide bombers as "cowards". You were attacked by Al Qaida - fair enough, that's a Bad Thing, and most of the world supported you in going to Afghanistan to sort it out. But the whole Iraq thing - it's just a bit odd. No terrorists, no threat to the US, plenty of far worse dictatorships around the world. Zimbabwe? China? Saudi? Was it that old "flouting UN resolutions"? In which case you really ought to add Israel (flouting resolution 425 for 21 years now) to that list.
And the whole top gun thing. People have died, you've invaded a sovereign state unilaterally, you've left the place in a mess and really pissed off a whole shedload of people. So you do the whole macho, warmongering stunt just to make a point as to how much more firepower you have than these people. It's just the arrogance of it all that really grates. Some humility and respect for all the people bush killed for no apparent reason would be nice.
And yeah - I don't care much for Kerry but Bush scares the shit out of me. He reminds me of the man who rode the bomb down in Dr Strangelove.
Like canada you mean?
Now try and find a sub-20ms 19" panel...