It's great for employment though, as so many people have to be watching all the screens. I like to wave at my watcher occasionally. I'm sure it brightens up her day. I like being watched all the time, it makes me feel really important.
There's no such thing as "road tax" in the UK. It's called Vehicle Excise Duty. The revenue from it isn't "ring-fenced" for maintaining roads. That comes out of general (+ local) taxation (of which VED is a small part).
I believe the far side actually gets slightly more sunlight overall than the Earth-facing side, because when it is lit, it is closer to the sun. It also doesn't get eclipsed by the Earth. However, you don't get earthshine on the far side, so it will have darker nights. That would be important for an observatory, as earthshine is a couple of orders of magnitude brighter than moonshine... Lots of light pollution.
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I just started Pocket Excel on my MDA Compact (Magician) and it took about a second to load. Five minutes? Try to keep your FUD plausible, eh?
Vienna is Bécs to Hungarians, as it says in the page you link to. Pécs is in the south of Hungary, about 50km northeast of where Hungary, Croatia and Serbia meet.
I, for one, continue to embrace our existing x86 overlords. And I'd like to welcome all the Mac users as they prepare to toil in Intel's underground caves. Perhaps now would be a good time to extend an olive branch of friendship to our new friends. Don't worry about the high tension device on the end, it's not switched... OWWW! Ooops, wrong end;-)
I just started a 14 day trial of Eve Online... It's not bad but it takes sooooo long to get anything done. I like the idea of Vendetta, so I'll check it out. I always wanted to play a game where you could fly multi crew ships... Is this implemented in Vendetta yet?
I don't have any of those. Could anyone who has access to the aforementioned CD-ROMs try to find this video? Given how embarrassing the quote would be if it were real, and that Gates has repeatedly denied saying it, and given how many people would like to stick one on him, isn't it strange that no-one has ever been able to cite a specific, verifiable source?
Isn't it strange that every single copy of "the actual interview" has disappeared? Maybe they were stolen by Bill's army of leprechaun minions. Or maybe, just maybe, he didn't say it.
Only beer and cider... I found a good BBC article about it here. I like one of the comments... "It is easier to count in 10s than 16s." But I'm a computer programmer, you insensitive c10d!
Well, perhaps it is in general. But one of my Hungarian friends has a Renault Clio, and there's this funny yellow light that keeps coming on. It's something to do with the ignition system. He can drive it all day, fine, no problems, then the light comes on and the car goes into some sort of "safe mode". It won't go above 3000 revs or 50mph. He's taken it back to the Renault garage many times. Each time they replace something, or install new software, or whatever. He gets charged a packet. Off he goes, it works fine, but then an hour later... Yellow light. Power down. D'oh!
Sad innit. The funniest thing is, the more you spend on your car (or bikes:-) the less money you have to spend on other things... And cars depreciate rapidly, especially expensive ones (with the exception of *really* expensive and rare ones for which there's a waiting list). Boy: Check out my car. Bling, no? Girl: Aha, that's nice. So you were going to buy me a drink? Boy: Uhh.. I'm a bit skint.. Just bought these new rims, shiny huh? Girl: Oh, I have to go now.
Dude seriously, for a 65 degree hill you would need climbing equipment. Even at 45 degrees, you would need some sticky shoes... Good luck with the sextant.
But that's my point, in a way. If a mutually assured destruction position is taken, I imagine the USA would understand it... We guarantee destruction of any offensive weapon placed in space*, and you're welcome to destroy any we may choose to launch, so let's both chill the fuck out.
* Well, I don't know how you would destroy a space based weapon... Fun to think about...
Absolutely. Would it not be reasonable for the rest of the world to take the stance, that if the USA deployed any such device, it should be destroyed by any means necessary? In fact I think it's not just reasonable, it's imperative that such a position be taken.
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It's great for employment though, as so many people have to be watching all the screens. I like to wave at my watcher occasionally. I'm sure it brightens up her day. I like being watched all the time, it makes me feel really important.
There's no such thing as "road tax" in the UK. It's called Vehicle Excise Duty. The revenue from it isn't "ring-fenced" for maintaining roads. That comes out of general (+ local) taxation (of which VED is a small part).
I believe the far side actually gets slightly more sunlight overall than the Earth-facing side, because when it is lit, it is closer to the sun. It also doesn't get eclipsed by the Earth. However, you don't get earthshine on the far side, so it will have darker nights. That would be important for an observatory, as earthshine is a couple of orders of magnitude brighter than moonshine... Lots of light pollution.
I just started Pocket Excel on my MDA Compact (Magician) and it took about a second to load. Five minutes? Try to keep your FUD plausible, eh?
I'm rolling.
That's as may be, but perhaps Joe should think of it as a solid, albeit a very fast one?
I travel sometimes between Vienna and Gyor (Hungary), and the train passes through a great big wind farm. I think they look pretty sweet.
Ottakringer Zwickl for the win! I live in Ottakring (for the loss...)
Vienna is Bécs to Hungarians, as it says in the page you link to. Pécs is in the south of Hungary, about 50km northeast of where Hungary, Croatia and Serbia meet.
That's what I went with, though I hear Herbalism/Skinning is also a good combination ;-)
Nice that RMS realises he's writing for a UK audience, but we say "program" not "programme".
Here you go, the Grauniad's own style guide.
I, for one, continue to embrace our existing x86 overlords. And I'd like to welcome all the Mac users as they prepare to toil in Intel's underground caves. Perhaps now would be a good time to extend an olive branch of friendship to our new friends. Don't worry about the high tension device on the end, it's not switched... OWWW! Ooops, wrong end ;-)
Of that there is no doubt. Still, you can't blame the French for everything.
I think you'll find it's Belgian.
Nigel Tufnel! The other guitarist/singer was David St. Hubbins.
I just started a 14 day trial of Eve Online... It's not bad but it takes sooooo long to get anything done. I like the idea of Vendetta, so I'll check it out.
I always wanted to play a game where you could fly multi crew ships... Is this implemented in Vendetta yet?
I don't have any of those. Could anyone who has access to the aforementioned CD-ROMs try to find this video?
Given how embarrassing the quote would be if it were real, and that Gates has repeatedly denied saying it, and given how many people would like to stick one on him, isn't it strange that no-one has ever been able to cite a specific, verifiable source?
Isn't it strange that every single copy of "the actual interview" has disappeared? Maybe they were stolen by Bill's army of leprechaun minions. Or maybe, just maybe, he didn't say it.
I don't know 6809, but I know ASCII... Shouldn't the 45 be a 46?
Only beer and cider...
I found a good BBC article about it here.
I like one of the comments... "It is easier to count in 10s than 16s."
But I'm a computer programmer, you insensitive c10d!
Well, perhaps it is in general. But one of my Hungarian friends has a Renault Clio, and there's this funny yellow light that keeps coming on. It's something to do with the ignition system. He can drive it all day, fine, no problems, then the light comes on and the car goes into some sort of "safe mode". It won't go above 3000 revs or 50mph.
He's taken it back to the Renault garage many times. Each time they replace something, or install new software, or whatever. He gets charged a packet. Off he goes, it works fine, but then an hour later... Yellow light. Power down. D'oh!
Sad innit. The funniest thing is, the more you spend on your car (or bikes :-) the less money you have to spend on other things... And cars depreciate rapidly, especially expensive ones (with the exception of *really* expensive and rare ones for which there's a waiting list).
Boy: Check out my car. Bling, no?
Girl: Aha, that's nice. So you were going to buy me a drink?
Boy: Uhh.. I'm a bit skint.. Just bought these new rims, shiny huh?
Girl: Oh, I have to go now.
Dude seriously, for a 65 degree hill you would need climbing equipment. Even at 45 degrees, you would need some sticky shoes... Good luck with the sextant.
But that's my point, in a way. If a mutually assured destruction position is taken, I imagine the USA would understand it... We guarantee destruction of any offensive weapon placed in space*, and you're welcome to destroy any we may choose to launch, so let's both chill the fuck out.
* Well, I don't know how you would destroy a space based weapon... Fun to think about...
Absolutely. Would it not be reasonable for the rest of the world to take the stance, that if the USA deployed any such device, it should be destroyed by any means necessary? In fact I think it's not just reasonable, it's imperative that such a position be taken.