I thought it was 0320GMT 20031225? 5 hours earlier than you say... It's landing 5 hours earlier from the point of view of East Coast Americans... Not five hours later in the UK. Could be wrong, though.
You saw "Greatest Britons" with Jeremy Clarkson on Isambard Kingdom Brunel then;) I do like being British. We can stand on a moral high ground because we tend not to get involved anymore...
"When Beagle gets to the surface its power is almost spent and it must immediately open up and expose its solar panels to the sunlight to charge its batteries and run its systems. Too much of a delay and it will die."
Actually, you're missing the point. The bit I've highlighted... Look at it. Needs sunlight. Imagine if the parachute falls on top of it. Or the Martian Dust Storms cover it... NOW you laugh;)
Both are very similar countries in some ways, exploited by the british for all their worth,
Yar!
but when the US won its indipendence is grew to become a major world power.
Ssh... Don't tell him that the although the US gained their independance, Canada didn't and is in fact a better country in so many ways. For a start, they didn't kill all the Red Indians. Sorry, "Native Americans".
Yeah, all right. The European "theatre of conflict" was aided by the US, but they left it until the last possible minute! And the pacific area, if America had asked, and we were able to help, we would have obliged.
Linus bought a Z3, yeah big deal. He has like $3 or 4 million if memory serves me right, and he spends wisely, like on his house. Bill Gates has $50 odd BILLION and gives 0.01 % to charity. Big deal. Linus Torvalds doesn't get money as people pay for linux, he gets it as a thank you from companies granting him stock interests. He isn't even the head developer (Andrew Morton is now...) so basically, he's just the face. Bill Gates OWNS Microsoft. Linux doesn't own Linux. He owns the copyright, but not the source. It's free for all, and every Linux developer (even user?) owns a share. Correct me if I'm wrong, IANAL.
Yup, they can land on the moon to show off to the Russians they are better!
"Bu hu, we'll build or own GPS and you can get lost!"
Too right, for the simple reason that every time the US goes to war, we don't want to have crap GPS in Europe. Put simply, if we owned it, it'd stay up all the time, rather than bowing to political pressure.
"Bu hu, the Euro is strong, the dollar is weak"
But the GBP is in the middle reaping the benefits!
"Bu hu, we saved you weakling European ass in WWI and WWII".
Bollocks... You haven't won a war. Ever. Well, apart from your own Civil War, and you couldn't lose! The Allies won WWII, thanks to the Russians, thanks to the British, and in part thanks to the Americans. That's because we were allied. The Americans don't get to steal the thunder, no sir. WWI was in fact won by the British by the way, the British were helped by the Americans, in such small numbers, that we would have won anyway. Just remember, we won through negotiation with the enemy, not blowing them to smithereens. November 11th, 11am, a day each Briton remembers that those who died, did die for a just cause, and that it would have been worse had negotiations have been abandoned. Maybe the US could learn a lesson from the Europeans... Beating the crap out of people isn't always the greatest idea.
Not an attack on Americans there, just America and it's politics. Americans are generally nice people, they just have a really shitty government. Move here to Britain while you still can!;)
Errr. OGG support is like really tiny, and could EASILY fit into space left on a ROM etc... I'm sorry, but there is no excuse not to support all the major codecs on a player (MP3/OGG/WMA/WAV) as the data they take up is minimal. Who fills up a ROM chip these days anyway? They're ridiculously cheap, and they often have loads of space...
No reason not to upgrade? Errr.. Sorry, but by upgrading, we show support for the "pay ridiculous amounts for software that was previously free and has had very little to upgrade that is useful in the payfor edition". So I don't upgrade.
Video in Winamp 2.91 is quite cool actually, more over it's fast at loading, unlike Winblows Media PLayer. Yeah, I've stuck with 2.91 for months now, and I don't want to upgrade to do the same stuff, but with "modern skins". Sorry, but Justin leaving has corrupted Winamp. I can see why he left. AOL's presence can be felt. I mean why should I pay 10 ($14.95) for a media player? Come on! Chances are, Winamp 5 has DRM and everything too... And it probably abuses third world children... No wait, that's another well known media program!
Errr... Food service? Did you read how fast they travel? You are hardly going to want a food service if you can go trans-continental in less than an hour! Anyway, just to dig it in:
Hitting Mach 5 going from London to New York: 35 minutes.
Flying with BA from London to New York at 600 knots: 5 hours.
Cruising up to 88 miles an hour and arriving before you left in a DeLorean: Timeless!
Yar! Anti-american sentiment is cool! No wait, that was LAST fortnight... Now wait for it... Famous words coming up...
Get real... I'm a Brit and I can see that the Americans are all right. THe government is a pile of poo (how juvenile...) but the Americans are all right, and they'll pull through Bush without too much trouble. Wonder if the next candidate will be called William Clinton too..
Imagine if you could do this;) Hilarity would ensue! Why did you steal those diamonds? Preventing a crime! Preventing a "crime"? Yes, I was making sure no-one else nicked 'em!
Hang on, let me get this right, they DON'T have diplomatic immunity? So let me get THIS right...
This imaginary person called L. H. Oswald II (made him up...) could attempt to shoot the President, doesn't matter if he fails or not, and the SS (oh... bad choice of name lads) go shoot his arse from here to Widmerpool. Oooh, hang on, 20 SS arrested for illegal use of a firearm? That's not right! Wait, the US wants to get them off scott free?
This is a disaster waiting to happen... Well done Rt Hon Blunkett! I knew you'd pull through in the end!
If the UN basically had control over the internet - imagine what chaos would ensue. For example, what if the US decided it didn't like Mexico anymore and wanted to impose sanctions. Snip! Internet gone! A country devastated... But the UN wouldn't allow that. The internet is a peoples thing, not to be owned by one government or one company. I still don't like that fact that there aren't any more "real" people on the ICANN board, and it's all businesses. And those kind of businesses are kinda evil. Sure, business is good, like the guy down the road who sells groceries, but can we really trust something that defies normal logic to a bunch of faceless corporations? The internet is not merely do when needed, it's got to be one step ahead of the game, spending now to further knowledge exchange, not cut back to let the cash roll in! Don't let ICANN be the next Pfizer!
Note... I'm not a business hater, I just don't trust trans-national corporations. And for good reason...
It's nuclear.. Yes. And although Ion Drives are possible (the first is en route to the moon as we speak!) this nuclear reactor powers stuff. Onec heated, the matter is ejected and not used for propulsion. Quite wasteful, but very very pioneering for its time... Presumably it uses an isotope so weak it'd only last 50 years...
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Is there an American English (British?) dictionary? I'm inclined to start one...
Bonnet = Hood
Boot = Trunk
Fag = Cigarette
Big Gay [insert name] = Fag
Chippy = Fish and Chip Emporium (Nobody says Emporium, I just like the word...)
Great Britain is England, Wales, Scotland
United Kingdom != England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland (not Eire!)
Oh, and we don't like the French, if you hadn't noticed. France is nice. The French aren't.
I thought it was 0320GMT 20031225? 5 hours earlier than you say... It's landing 5 hours earlier from the point of view of East Coast Americans... Not five hours later in the UK. Could be wrong, though.
You saw "Greatest Britons" with Jeremy Clarkson on Isambard Kingdom Brunel then ;) I do like being British. We can stand on a moral high ground because we tend not to get involved anymore...
"When Beagle gets to the surface its power is almost spent and it must immediately open up and expose its solar panels to the sunlight to charge its batteries and run its systems. Too much of a delay and it will die."
;)
Actually, you're missing the point. The bit I've highlighted... Look at it. Needs sunlight. Imagine if the parachute falls on top of it. Or the Martian Dust Storms cover it... NOW you laugh
Actually, no it isn't. That's where it's controlled from until the landing is completed. Then it's controlled from Leicester.
Dehydrated British Food! Yar! Love it! Better any day than Non-dehydrated Martian Food any day! Or indeed, McDonalds... And that's all water anyway...
Both are very similar countries in some ways, exploited by the british for all their worth,
Yar!
but when the US won its indipendence is grew to become a major world power.
Ssh... Don't tell him that the although the US gained their independance, Canada didn't and is in fact a better country in so many ways. For a start, they didn't kill all the Red Indians. Sorry, "Native Americans".
2.7 hasn't been announced yet, he's in limbo atm. By the way, when are mm's patches going to be integrated in 2.6? They're rather useful!
Yeah, all right. The European "theatre of conflict" was aided by the US, but they left it until the last possible minute! And the pacific area, if America had asked, and we were able to help, we would have obliged.
Thanks, I do my best ;) "You" by the way, was directed at the previous posters kin-folk.
Linus bought a Z3, yeah big deal. He has like $3 or 4 million if memory serves me right, and he spends wisely, like on his house. Bill Gates has $50 odd BILLION and gives 0.01 % to charity. Big deal. Linus Torvalds doesn't get money as people pay for linux, he gets it as a thank you from companies granting him stock interests. He isn't even the head developer (Andrew Morton is now...) so basically, he's just the face. Bill Gates OWNS Microsoft. Linux doesn't own Linux. He owns the copyright, but not the source. It's free for all, and every Linux developer (even user?) owns a share. Correct me if I'm wrong, IANAL.
"Bu hu, look at what the Americans can do!"
;)
Yup, they can land on the moon to show off to the Russians they are better!
"Bu hu, we'll build or own GPS and you can get lost!"
Too right, for the simple reason that every time the US goes to war, we don't want to have crap GPS in Europe. Put simply, if we owned it, it'd stay up all the time, rather than bowing to political pressure.
"Bu hu, the Euro is strong, the dollar is weak"
But the GBP is in the middle reaping the benefits!
"Bu hu, we saved you weakling European ass in WWI and WWII".
Bollocks... You haven't won a war. Ever. Well, apart from your own Civil War, and you couldn't lose! The Allies won WWII, thanks to the Russians, thanks to the British, and in part thanks to the Americans. That's because we were allied. The Americans don't get to steal the thunder, no sir. WWI was in fact won by the British by the way, the British were helped by the Americans, in such small numbers, that we would have won anyway. Just remember, we won through negotiation with the enemy, not blowing them to smithereens. November 11th, 11am, a day each Briton remembers that those who died, did die for a just cause, and that it would have been worse had negotiations have been abandoned. Maybe the US could learn a lesson from the Europeans... Beating the crap out of people isn't always the greatest idea.
Not an attack on Americans there, just America and it's politics. Americans are generally nice people, they just have a really shitty government. Move here to Britain while you still can!
They're probably having trouble logging in to update it ;) Check the bandwidth meter! It's all the way to the top! 250-odd Mbits!
Errr. OGG support is like really tiny, and could EASILY fit into space left on a ROM etc... I'm sorry, but there is no excuse not to support all the major codecs on a player (MP3/OGG/WMA/WAV) as the data they take up is minimal. Who fills up a ROM chip these days anyway? They're ridiculously cheap, and they often have loads of space...
No reason not to upgrade? Errr.. Sorry, but by upgrading, we show support for the "pay ridiculous amounts for software that was previously free and has had very little to upgrade that is useful in the payfor edition". So I don't upgrade.
Video in Winamp 2.91 is quite cool actually, more over it's fast at loading, unlike Winblows Media PLayer. Yeah, I've stuck with 2.91 for months now, and I don't want to upgrade to do the same stuff, but with "modern skins". Sorry, but Justin leaving has corrupted Winamp. I can see why he left. AOL's presence can be felt. I mean why should I pay 10 ($14.95) for a media player? Come on! Chances are, Winamp 5 has DRM and everything too... And it probably abuses third world children... No wait, that's another well known media program!
Errr... Food service? Did you read how fast they travel? You are hardly going to want a food service if you can go trans-continental in less than an hour! Anyway, just to dig it in:
Hitting Mach 5 going from London to New York: 35 minutes.
Flying with BA from London to New York at 600 knots: 5 hours.
Cruising up to 88 miles an hour and arriving before you left in a DeLorean: Timeless!
I just think nobody cares anymore. It's no big deal. This happens all the time now. Old news... NEXT!
I patent working on the internet. Now you all owe me mega-bucks!
Yar! Anti-american sentiment is cool! No wait, that was LAST fortnight... Now wait for it... Famous words coming up...
Get real... I'm a Brit and I can see that the Americans are all right. THe government is a pile of poo (how juvenile...) but the Americans are all right, and they'll pull through Bush without too much trouble. Wonder if the next candidate will be called William Clinton too..
Imagine if you could do this ;) Hilarity would ensue! Why did you steal those diamonds? Preventing a crime! Preventing a "crime"? Yes, I was making sure no-one else nicked 'em!
Hang on, let me get this right, they DON'T have diplomatic immunity? So let me get THIS right...
This imaginary person called L. H. Oswald II (made him up...) could attempt to shoot the President, doesn't matter if he fails or not, and the SS (oh... bad choice of name lads) go shoot his arse from here to Widmerpool. Oooh, hang on, 20 SS arrested for illegal use of a firearm? That's not right! Wait, the US wants to get them off scott free?
This is a disaster waiting to happen... Well done Rt Hon Blunkett! I knew you'd pull through in the end!
If the UN basically had control over the internet - imagine what chaos would ensue. For example, what if the US decided it didn't like Mexico anymore and wanted to impose sanctions. Snip! Internet gone! A country devastated... But the UN wouldn't allow that. The internet is a peoples thing, not to be owned by one government or one company. I still don't like that fact that there aren't any more "real" people on the ICANN board, and it's all businesses. And those kind of businesses are kinda evil. Sure, business is good, like the guy down the road who sells groceries, but can we really trust something that defies normal logic to a bunch of faceless corporations? The internet is not merely do when needed, it's got to be one step ahead of the game, spending now to further knowledge exchange, not cut back to let the cash roll in! Don't let ICANN be the next Pfizer!
Note... I'm not a business hater, I just don't trust trans-national corporations. And for good reason...
It's nuclear.. Yes. And although Ion Drives are possible (the first is en route to the moon as we speak!) this nuclear reactor powers stuff. Onec heated, the matter is ejected and not used for propulsion. Quite wasteful, but very very pioneering for its time... Presumably it uses an isotope so weak it'd only last 50 years...
didn't the klingons destroy it in star trek 2 or something? or 5... one of the weird ones.