I know you're kidding but it's actually smart from the rat's perspective. They get bananas from it, and no explosion.
Rats are: *Effective *Cheap *Relentless *Not attractive *Not heavy enough to detonate mines
Therefore, the ultimate mine-detecting device.
from the article:
Rats are abundant, cheap and easily transported. At three pounds, they are too light to detonate mines accidentally. They can sift the bouquet of land-mine aromas far better than any machine. Unlike even the best mine-detecting dog or human, they are relentlessly single-minded.
"Throw a stick for a dog to fetch, and after 10 times the dog will say, `Get it yourself, buddy,' " Mr. Weetjens said. "Rats will keep working as long as they want food."
I can see a future blurring of the bounderies between 'super case-mod' and 'mobile home'...
BTW what house has a home theater, but an option on the bed and bathroom? I'd say the bathroom at least had to be an essential with the cold beer and home theater setup!
I would also like to suggest that Tocqueville create a report on how an illegally maintained monopolies can hurt the computer industry.
Money talks louder than sense. To increase volume, increase back handers.
The software industry is only the latest victim of money-greased government. It's always happened - the only difference is that the modern well educated citizen with freedom of information knows a lot more about it than our ancestors.
my bad... slashdot loses the pound sign. 300GBP is approx 500USD - still a little short but a rough guess. Sony will be paying a lot less for them of course.
It's not too bad, you have to compare it to some of the other ugly stuff people have sitting next to their TVs. The 7 tuners is just a gimmick though. I can only get 5 channels anyway, including the satallite as one. Bet it costs a lot for a a 1TB PVR though. Bear in mind 4x250GB ATA is only 300 these days.
The web page is just saying 'Internal Server Error: Process limit exceeded for uid 11363' at the moment. Cue some joke about them running the webserver on the PVR.
Oh yeah, the CD is useless as a rapid response option. The only use of it is to take off the top 200Mb of your download, hence saving you some of the dialup costs. once the CD is installed, you must get the latest stuff, hopefully just a few mb, from win update.
Even better: Submita story, watch it appear on the front page, and still see it labelled 'rejected' on the submission page (and eventually disappear), dispite emailing slashdot with news of the error. It happens, get over it.
KCeasy's author is based in Germany. The C&D letter is invalid but the author cannot take risks with lawsuits. As with all other projects of this kind, Sharman are try to pick up litres of dihydrogen monoxide with their fingers - the GFL license enables anyone to take the ball and run with it.
KCeasy are only starting the game. Now it's time for others to play the next move.
In continental Europe and the USA, the idea of importing a car to save money is a seen as an oddity. In the UK, entire industries are built around the simple fact that it is cheaper to re-import vehicles constructed in UK from countries such as the Netherlands. As an illustration, see Jamjar, the UK's largest independent car retailer, selling UK spec models sourced from Europe.
This is nothing to do with minor exchange rate differences either. Standard retail prices of cars are regularly 20-60% higher in the UK.
As geograpical price-fixing goes, 'Ripoff Britain' has USA and continental Europe beaten hands-down.
I think the only way for the highlander to actually be in the church would be to somehow embed himself in the webpage, or maybe be touching the web server.
As long as the highlander is actually logged in, I reckon it should count.
Course, there would need to be a long timeout too. In real churches, its common for the congregation not to react for > 5 mins, but they don't get kicked out for it.
I think that maybe this is a good idea. There are always going to be people out there who are just looking for information, and don't want to confronted by their sterotypical church-goer.
Unfortunatly, the combination of anti-terrorist 'get-out-of-jail-free' rules and the signs saying 'we can do what we want' means they literally can steal the thing.
Of course, you have the train companies' general incompetance on your side. A decent lock should keep em out.
Mind you, at any London station a piece of paper with PTO on both sides is probably good enough.
Although expensive, there is a lot here that is superior to what is available on civilan shelves. The vessel is just 300' long, but can carry 350 troops, Abrams MBTs and Sea Knights at 35+ knots. And with just 3 people on the bridge. That's a very different shelf.
Besides, they can remotely control the ship through a Mozilla interface. How cool is that?
It depends on the area, but yes, it is different over here. I've never had any problems myself, but I am 6'2" well built male, and in the UK I have never even seen a real gun that was not firmly attached to a member of the police or the armed forces. The bulk of the UK has a much higher population density than the US too - so there are normally more people around in a given area.
I always carry at least jump leads, a tow rope, a small toolkit and big torch. I've used some or all the above to help out stranded male and female strangers on major roads or well lit housing areas, as well as car parks - but always politely asking first if they want help.
Any sane person uses their RAC or AA card instead though.
It's got to be consipiracy theory BS. Patenting IPX? give me a break. Also it says that SCOs main earner will be MS... seems unlikely given their track to date... So far MS seem to be getting very poor value for money, no evidence that the SCO campaign is in any way helping MS or even that it will.
I think it was meant to be a list of free (speech) software releasing companies. WMP is merely released without a price - namely, bundled with an OS. This is an example of the monopoly abusing its position to remove smaller players from the game. The loser is Joe Public XP, who uses it ahead of superior alternatives (e.g. WinAmp 5). Internet Explorer/Outlook Express is a similar example.
I'd probably base the "power" and "greatness" of a nation on more than just the land the occupied, but thats just me. OK pick a statistic. I can't see any way in which the US is more powerful than the British Empire was in 1900 or the Roman Empire in AD100. Damit, Israel, Iraq and the half-hearted support of the UK is NOT an empire. Get of your high horse.
(Obviously if I could type my comment would have read: 'half-assed victory in the middle east' and 'mighty legions'. Real men don't preview:))
And yeah that is a bit of a troll but you can see the angle yeah?
...We're the richest, most powerful, most prosperous country in the history of mankind...Leading in spam is a small price to pay...
Dream on sunshine. Ever heard of the Roman Empire? Greeks? British? Germans? Even the French were more powerful in their day. You have some of North America, a little in the Middle East, and not a lot more. The greatest spammer in the history of mankind is not really an accolade to stand in the history books. In time, people will look back and say 'So they were number 1 in a well contended field for a short time... so what?'. You got a way to go yet sunshine. Don't think that one half-assed victory in the middle will make the emperors of old start saying 'Fuck me, wish we'd had that 'e-mail spam' thing to go along with our might legions'.
Damn I just realised I got trolled properly there.
Photoshop is only better if you have already used it. I went to choose between PS and the GIMP a few weeks back - never having used either - and couldn't find any reason to crack PS, let alone pay for it. Pre 2.0 GIMP is already a competitor, 2.0 can only be better.
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I know you're kidding but it's actually smart from the rat's perspective. They get bananas from it, and no explosion.
Rats are:
*Effective
*Cheap
*Relentless
*Not attractive
*Not heavy enough to detonate mines
Therefore, the ultimate mine-detecting device.
from the article:
Rats are abundant, cheap and easily transported. At three pounds, they are too light to detonate mines accidentally. They can sift the bouquet of land-mine aromas far better than any machine. Unlike even the best mine-detecting dog or human, they are relentlessly single-minded.
"Throw a stick for a dog to fetch, and after 10 times the dog will say, `Get it yourself, buddy,' " Mr. Weetjens said. "Rats will keep working as long as they want food."
I can see a future blurring of the bounderies between 'super case-mod' and 'mobile home'...
BTW what house has a home theater, but an option on the bed and bathroom? I'd say the bathroom at least had to be an essential with the cold beer and home theater setup!
a sink and oven, maybe a bed and bathroom, oh and a home theater... in a much larger wooden case...a house.
Where I come from, we call that a 'caravan' or 'trailer'...
I would also like to suggest that Tocqueville create a report on how an illegally maintained monopolies can hurt the computer industry.
Money talks louder than sense. To increase volume, increase back handers.
The software industry is only the latest victim of money-greased government. It's always happened - the only difference is that the modern well educated citizen with freedom of information knows a lot more about it than our ancestors.
my bad... slashdot loses the pound sign. 300GBP is approx 500USD - still a little short but a rough guess. Sony will be paying a lot less for them of course.
It's not too bad, you have to compare it to some of the other ugly stuff people have sitting next to their TVs. The 7 tuners is just a gimmick though. I can only get 5 channels anyway, including the satallite as one. Bet it costs a lot for a a 1TB PVR though. Bear in mind 4x250GB ATA is only 300 these days.
The web page is just saying 'Internal Server Error: Process limit exceeded for uid 11363' at the moment. Cue some joke about them running the webserver on the PVR.
Oh yeah, the CD is useless as a rapid response option. The only use of it is to take off the top 200Mb of your download, hence saving you some of the dialup costs. once the CD is installed, you must get the latest stuff, hopefully just a few mb, from win update.
Microsoft will send you an update on CD for free. There was a link posted here a while back, or try googling for it.
Even better: Submita story, watch it appear on the front page, and still see it labelled 'rejected' on the submission page (and eventually disappear), dispite emailing slashdot with news of the error. It happens, get over it.
KCeasy's author is based in Germany. The C&D letter is invalid but the author cannot take risks with lawsuits. As with all other projects of this kind, Sharman are try to pick up litres of dihydrogen monoxide with their fingers - the GFL license enables anyone to take the ball and run with it.
KCeasy are only starting the game. Now it's time for others to play the next move.
In continental Europe and the USA, the idea of importing a car to save money is a seen as an oddity. In the UK, entire industries are built around the simple fact that it is cheaper to re-import vehicles constructed in UK from countries such as the Netherlands. As an illustration, see Jamjar, the UK's largest independent car retailer, selling UK spec models sourced from Europe.
This is nothing to do with minor exchange rate differences either. Standard retail prices of cars are regularly 20-60% higher in the UK.
As geograpical price-fixing goes, 'Ripoff Britain' has USA and continental Europe beaten hands-down.
I think the only way for the highlander to actually be in the church would be to somehow embed himself in the webpage, or maybe be touching the web server.
As long as the highlander is actually logged in, I reckon it should count.
Course, there would need to be a long timeout too. In real churches, its common for the congregation not to react for > 5 mins, but they don't get kicked out for it.
I think that maybe this is a good idea. There are always going to be people out there who are just looking for information, and don't want to confronted by their sterotypical church-goer.
Unfortunatly, the combination of anti-terrorist 'get-out-of-jail-free' rules and the signs saying 'we can do what we want' means they literally can steal the thing.
Of course, you have the train companies' general incompetance on your side. A decent lock should keep em out.
Mind you, at any London station a piece of paper with PTO on both sides is probably good enough.
Although expensive, there is a lot here that is superior to what is available on civilan shelves. The vessel is just 300' long, but can carry 350 troops, Abrams MBTs and Sea Knights at 35+ knots. And with just 3 people on the bridge. That's a very different shelf.
Besides, they can remotely control the ship through a Mozilla interface. How cool is that?
the CD would have cost a hundred and fifteen quintillion dollars
Dear Sir/Madam,
The RIAA would like to invite you to join our cartel. Your CD pricing strategy is an example to us all.
Additionally, you too will be able to benifit from the new law we are sponsering to allow us to take money directly from our suckers paychecks.
Yours Sincerely.
The RIAA (on behalf of the US Government)
Another interesting one of his appears on first sight to be a patent on grid computing - 6,711,616. Surely SETI counts as prior art on that?
I have a very badly broken access DB
Sounds like it's working normally then. I'd get some sleep if I were you.
It depends on the area, but yes, it is different over here.
I've never had any problems myself, but I am 6'2" well built male, and in the UK I have never even seen a real gun that was not firmly attached to a member of the police or the armed forces. The bulk of the UK has a much higher population density than the US too - so there are normally more people around in a given area.
I always carry at least jump leads, a tow rope, a small toolkit and big torch. I've used some or all the above to help out stranded male and female strangers on major roads or well lit housing areas, as well as car parks - but always politely asking first if they want help.
Any sane person uses their RAC or AA card instead though.
It's got to be consipiracy theory BS. Patenting IPX? give me a break. Also it says that SCOs main earner will be MS... seems unlikely given their track to date... So far MS seem to be getting very poor value for money, no evidence that the SCO campaign is in any way helping MS or even that it will.
I call BS on the whole article.
I think it was meant to be a list of free (speech) software releasing companies. WMP is merely released without a price - namely, bundled with an OS. This is an example of the monopoly abusing its position to remove smaller players from the game. The loser is Joe Public XP, who uses it ahead of superior alternatives (e.g. WinAmp 5). Internet Explorer/Outlook Express is a similar example.
I'd probably base the "power" and "greatness" of a nation on more than just the land the occupied, but thats just me.
:))
OK pick a statistic. I can't see any way in which the US is more powerful than the British Empire was in 1900 or the Roman Empire in AD100. Damit, Israel, Iraq and the half-hearted support of the UK is NOT an empire. Get of your high horse.
(Obviously if I could type my comment would have read: 'half-assed victory in the middle east' and 'mighty legions'. Real men don't preview
And yeah that is a bit of a troll but you can see the angle yeah?
...We're the richest, most powerful, most prosperous country in the history of mankind...Leading in spam is a small price to pay...
Dream on sunshine. Ever heard of the Roman Empire? Greeks? British? Germans? Even the French were more powerful in their day. You have some of North America, a little in the Middle East, and not a lot more. The greatest spammer in the history of mankind is not really an accolade to stand in the history books. In time, people will look back and say 'So they were number 1 in a well contended field for a short time... so what?'. You got a way to go yet sunshine. Don't think that one half-assed victory in the middle will make the emperors of old start saying 'Fuck me, wish we'd had that 'e-mail spam' thing to go along with our might legions'.
Damn I just realised I got trolled properly there.
...someone's calender is a month or so off...
Trials of the new OS are going as expected in the MS press release office then.
Photoshop is only better if you have already used it. I went to choose between PS and the GIMP a few weeks back - never having used either - and couldn't find any reason to crack PS, let alone pay for it. Pre 2.0 GIMP is already a competitor, 2.0 can only be better.
...Green, Purple and White...Aren't those the colors of the Windows logo?
I think you need a new 'display' pen...
either that or your display pen is using WEP... i should check for a SMTP server on it... you might be peddling gen.er.ic V!I!A!G!R!A! to the world...