The purpose of the US is not to be nice, or fair, but act as a sovereign nation that will do whatever it takes to gain every advantage for itself
True, but the worrying aspect of US foreign policy is that decisions are being made under the tacit assumption that America's allies today will at some point be enemies in the future. This is hardly a respectful manner in which to treat ones friends; imagine if your friends always had a gun pointed at you, so they could shoot you if an argument developed?
Um. Isn't that why they advertise 20-minute skip protection?
Erm, if the heads embed themselves in the platters, no amount of data buffering is going to help you out. But, as I said in my OP, I don't know what sort of mechanical protection is built into iPods.
It appears that iPod's DIRTY little secret is a flash-only site. Bravo, AC, for presenting your anti-iPod case in such an easily-accessible manner -- you truly are a Grandmaster of the Interweb!
One thing I've never quite understood about iPods: in the recent TV adverts, we are shown happy iPod owners moshing to loud music. I'm wondering whether one can actually jump around to this extent, without the iPod's drive heads nosediving into the platters? Anyone willing to try?
...and on a similar note, anyone know where I can find a Gemtek micro-USB (internal) wireless card? I've fried the one which came inside my laptop (bad firmware flash), and I'm having real difficulty locating a replacement. Gemtek themselves don't reply to my emails.
I'm well aware of the meaning. I first suggested the 'fucktard' epithet in response to the racist and homophobic crap posted by PhoenixSpirit001. Your decision to apply this term to me, in your pitiful "Proud to be your foe" drivel, is an instance of plagiarism.
Clearly, this dialogue holds nothing further for either of us; I suggest you could occupy yourself with more fruitful tasks, such as pondering why a self-confessed racist is one of your fans.
'Plagiarise' is the conventional English spelling, 'plagiarize' is an alternative which arises in the American dialect. An example of the former can be found in the title of this article from The Observer (one of the UK Sunday broadsheets).
As I live and breathe...the real life Wesley Crusher.
...and AC/DC. However, not Mel Gibson, because I'd rather he didn't eat, but instead starved to death in restitution for his historical film travesties.
Rearrange the letters of "Tony Blair, MP" and you get "I'm Tory plan B" (for those from outside the UK, 'MP' is Member of Parliament, and 'Tory' is a nickname for the opposition Conservative party).
In fact, I put you on my foe list because of your sig. The site you reference there concerns me greatly; its first-grade knee-jerk attitude reeks of hysterical MacCarthyism and, despite its claims to the contrary, I see it primarily as a tool for vigilante justice, which is the worst possible facet of civilization.
I'm not going to take you off my foe list; if this upsets you, then you'll just have to grow a thicker skin. Keep up the good work on the ad hominems -- but next time, try to come up with something yourself, rather than plagiarising from your betters.
Oh, and for the record, I have a PhD in astrophysics. I'm absolutely flattered that you think I hold this qualification at the age of 17, but honesty forces me to admit that I wasn't awarded it until I turned 24. But thanks for the compliment.
Ahh, I see that PhoenixSpirit001 is the genius who's been posting all the GNAA stuff. Except, this time he forgot to post anonymously. If there were any content on his website, I would suggest a Slashdot DOS. In lieu of the pleasure of watching his content die, however, can I suggest that every single post of his is now replied to with the single word "fucktard"?
you see, Sparkle's real name is WVG and is 90% identical to SVG.
Funny how Microsoft never manages complete compliance with a standard. How does it go again? Oh yes: embrace, extend, cripple, discard. Repeat ad nauseam.
One devfs gotcha in 2.6, which caught me out for a while, is that the devpts (pseudo-tty) functionality has been separated out. In 2.4 kernels, mounting/dev using devfs automatically mounted/dev/pts too; however, this behaviour has changed in 2.6, and you have to mount/dev/pts explicitly:
mount -t devpts none/dev/pts
On some systems (such as Gentoo), the rc scripts are smart enough to do this automatically.
Will Son of Concorde be twice the economic failure that Concorde was? On technological and inspirational grounds, Concorde was fantastic; but let's never forget that British Airways and Air France lost money hand-over-fist with the whole venture. As long as air resistance scales super-linearly with velocity, getting there faster will always prove less economical than travelling at a more sedate speed.
Yeah, when I lived in England, you could always spot the ones coming from Germany; not only was the dubbing appalling, but the fake tan gave away the game every single time. Orange skin? No thanks, Hans, I don't want your chocolate egg with a surprising plastic toy cunningly hidden in the centre...
Sure, the Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha have brought in Germanic blood. However, the fact remains that the British royal family is more Scottish than English.
(Yes, I know Scotland was an independent country in the past, but it hasn't been in quite some time.)
Not since James VI of Scotland took over the English crown, meanining that the nations making up Great Britain (i.e., England and Scotland) became (and have been ever since) ruled by Scots. Which the Scots tend to forget when they harp on about losing their independence.
...and lets not forget that the successor to the BBC, the Acorn Archimedes, was the first-ever RISC-based home computer, despite claims that Apple make to the contrary regarding their PPC machines. The Archimeded' innovative RiscOS operating system introduced the task bar, a design we now see ripped off in Microsoft Windows. Furthermore, it was BillG himself, when shown a demonstration of Acorn's low-cost networking setup (Econet), who commented that the idea of linking computers together "wouldn't catch on".
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i believe he was referring to the title of the post.
And there's the egg on my face. Hmmm, mustn't post after 3 bottles of wine. Still, the OP made a funny remark, and the pedantry of the responder just exposed the latter as a wanky curmudgeon. Which was my hic point hic.
<sarcasm>I can't agree more; and I completely trust Walmart's religious convictions, and the decisions they make to censor their product lines based on these convictions.</sarcasm>
Remember, America, the notion of free speech and free choice has meaning only so long as the citizenry has the ability excercise them. Without this ability, these rights become nothing more than wishful thinking on some pretty paper in a fancy library.
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The problem with this is that scientists want to get credit for what they are doing.
And how, exactly, is this problematical?
The purpose of the US is not to be nice, or fair, but act as a sovereign nation that will do whatever it takes to gain every advantage for itself
True, but the worrying aspect of US foreign policy is that decisions are being made under the tacit assumption that America's allies today will at some point be enemies in the future. This is hardly a respectful manner in which to treat ones friends; imagine if your friends always had a gun pointed at you, so they could shoot you if an argument developed?
...and this will help with the robustness too -- neat! Thanks for the info.
Um. Isn't that why they advertise 20-minute skip protection?
Erm, if the heads embed themselves in the platters, no amount of data buffering is going to help you out. But, as I said in my OP, I don't know what sort of mechanical protection is built into iPods.
It appears that iPod's DIRTY little secret is a flash-only site. Bravo, AC, for presenting your anti-iPod case in such an easily-accessible manner -- you truly are a Grandmaster of the Interweb!
One thing I've never quite understood about iPods: in the recent TV adverts, we are shown happy iPod owners moshing to loud music. I'm wondering whether one can actually jump around to this extent, without the iPod's drive heads nosediving into the platters? Anyone willing to try?
...and on a similar note, anyone know where I can find a Gemtek micro-USB (internal) wireless card? I've fried the one which came inside my laptop (bad firmware flash), and I'm having real difficulty locating a replacement. Gemtek themselves don't reply to my emails.
Not the spelling, you dope. The meaning.
I'm well aware of the meaning. I first suggested the 'fucktard' epithet in response to the racist and homophobic crap posted by PhoenixSpirit001. Your decision to apply this term to me, in your pitiful "Proud to be your foe" drivel, is an instance of plagiarism.
Clearly, this dialogue holds nothing further for either of us; I suggest you could occupy yourself with more fruitful tasks, such as pondering why a self-confessed racist is one of your fans.
You must have had a tough first grade class.
Look up 'metaphor' sometime
BTW, you really should look up plagiarize.
'Plagiarise' is the conventional English spelling, 'plagiarize' is an alternative which arises in the American dialect. An example of the former can be found in the title of this article from The Observer (one of the UK Sunday broadsheets).
As I live and breathe...the real life Wesley Crusher.
Wow, you know sarcasm! But can you do irony?
No worries, wouldn't blame anyone for Gibson. Him being a complete wanker is totally his own fault. BTW, nice website!
...and AC/DC. However, not Mel Gibson, because I'd rather he didn't eat, but instead starved to death in restitution for his historical film travesties.
Rearrange the letters of "Tony Blair, MP" and you get "I'm Tory plan B" (for those from outside the UK, 'MP' is Member of Parliament, and 'Tory' is a nickname for the opposition Conservative party).
In fact, I put you on my foe list because of your sig. The site you reference there concerns me greatly; its first-grade knee-jerk attitude reeks of hysterical MacCarthyism and, despite its claims to the contrary, I see it primarily as a tool for vigilante justice, which is the worst possible facet of civilization.
I'm not going to take you off my foe list; if this upsets you, then you'll just have to grow a thicker skin. Keep up the good work on the ad hominems -- but next time, try to come up with something yourself, rather than plagiarising from your betters.
Oh, and for the record, I have a PhD in astrophysics. I'm absolutely flattered that you think I hold this qualification at the age of 17, but honesty forces me to admit that I wasn't awarded it until I turned 24. But thanks for the compliment.
Ahh, I see that PhoenixSpirit001 is the genius who's been posting all the GNAA stuff. Except, this time he forgot to post anonymously. If there were any content on his website, I would suggest a Slashdot DOS. In lieu of the pleasure of watching his content die, however, can I suggest that every single post of his is now replied to with the single word "fucktard"?
you won't have the vanity of familysmith.com
Sod the vanity, that Kelly is HOT!
you see, Sparkle's real name is WVG and is 90% identical to SVG.
Funny how Microsoft never manages complete compliance with a standard. How does it go again? Oh yes: embrace, extend, cripple, discard. Repeat ad nauseam.
One devfs gotcha in 2.6, which caught me out for a while, is that the devpts (pseudo-tty) functionality has been separated out. In 2.4 kernels, mounting /dev using devfs automatically mounted /dev/pts too; however, this behaviour has changed in 2.6, and you have to mount /dev/pts explicitly:
On some systems (such as Gentoo), the rc scripts are smart enough to do this automatically.
Will Son of Concorde be twice the economic failure that Concorde was? On technological and inspirational grounds, Concorde was fantastic; but let's never forget that British Airways and Air France lost money hand-over-fist with the whole venture. As long as air resistance scales super-linearly with velocity, getting there faster will always prove less economical than travelling at a more sedate speed.
Yeah, when I lived in England, you could always spot the ones coming from Germany; not only was the dubbing appalling, but the fake tan gave away the game every single time. Orange skin? No thanks, Hans, I don't want your chocolate egg with a surprising plastic toy cunningly hidden in the centre...
Actually, RISC OS's UI is a vague rip-off of the original Windows GUI before they changed it.
I find this highly unlikely; RiscOS came out, IIRC, in 1988, predating Windows 3.0 by 2 years.
Sure, the Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha have brought in Germanic blood. However, the fact remains that the British royal family is more Scottish than English.
(Yes, I know Scotland was an independent country in the past, but it hasn't been in quite some time.)
Not since James VI of Scotland took over the English crown, meanining that the nations making up Great Britain (i.e., England and Scotland) became (and have been ever since) ruled by Scots. Which the Scots tend to forget when they harp on about losing their independence.
...and lets not forget that the successor to the BBC, the Acorn Archimedes, was the first-ever RISC-based home computer, despite claims that Apple make to the contrary regarding their PPC machines. The Archimeded' innovative RiscOS operating system introduced the task bar, a design we now see ripped off in Microsoft Windows. Furthermore, it was BillG himself, when shown a demonstration of Acorn's low-cost networking setup (Econet), who commented that the idea of linking computers together "wouldn't catch on".
i believe he was referring to the title of the post.
And there's the egg on my face. Hmmm, mustn't post after 3 bottles of wine. Still, the OP made a funny remark, and the pedantry of the responder just exposed the latter as a wanky curmudgeon. Which was my hic point hic.
This can only be good...
<sarcasm>I can't agree more; and I completely trust Walmart's religious convictions, and the decisions they make to censor their product lines based on these convictions.</sarcasm>
Remember, America, the notion of free speech and free choice has meaning only so long as the citizenry has the ability excercise them. Without this ability, these rights become nothing more than wishful thinking on some pretty paper in a fancy library.