darwin award winner
no need to cremate him when it explodes
blah blah
unless he is actually crazy, he won't do it without being confident of success. im sure he's done more than a little bit of research and planning.
you could argue that anyone who has got inside a missile to be blasted 100km directly upwards was mad. but then without those people taking (calculated) risks we wouldn't even know what the earth looks like from space.
i say good on him, and good luck.
good idea, but at least burnt coal is mostly co2 i'd much rather that, than who knows what noxious crap like benzene emitted from car exhausts (especially bad if the catalytic converter is old).
there's a house in Queensland, Australia that uses solar power and batteries to sustain itself. In summer it puts power back into the grid.
It cost AUD$13,000 to set this up, and took 10 years before they broke even, but after that they produce more power than they use.
Other than the lead in the batteries and whatever it takes to make the solar cells it's pollution-free.
It wouldn't be hard to make setups like this attractive to people building houses, especially if they could be helped with the initial outlay which they could repay over time with their power credits.
theres no reason for Apple to let the hoardes have its pretty software for nothing.
why not, Apple got their entire OS for nothing and added some pretty icons
this was on abc.net.au a couple of days ago, i was going to submit it, but then i thought who on slashdot would be interested in a story about beer and cd's?;)
It's a common misconception that a majority of Australian people are of convict descent. Only something like 10% of the population has a convict ancestor in the family tree. It is more likely less, I don't have a source I can find right now.
Even then, most of the convicts were petty criminals, the old story of stealing a loaf of bread got you transportation and hard labour. There's books outlining the convicts transported, and the crime they committed to get the sentence - the one I remember most clearly was a woman, transportation and 10 years hard labour for "leaving the house without her husband's permission".(!!)
Most of the initial arrivals here were free settlers - they were offered free land and passage and it sounded good compared to eating dirt in a life of poverty in the UK.
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im going to patent posting on a web forum.
i'll settle with you lot for $699 each, since you are writing another cheque for that much anyway.
send to paypal account h4h4_5ux0r5.
other than someone sniffing your local LAN for a plain text password what's the practical security risk with ftp? as a user i mean, not server admin.
darwin award winner no need to cremate him when it explodes blah blah unless he is actually crazy, he won't do it without being confident of success. im sure he's done more than a little bit of research and planning. you could argue that anyone who has got inside a missile to be blasted 100km directly upwards was mad. but then without those people taking (calculated) risks we wouldn't even know what the earth looks like from space. i say good on him, and good luck.
good idea, but at least burnt coal is mostly co2 i'd much rather that, than who knows what noxious crap like benzene emitted from car exhausts (especially bad if the catalytic converter is old).
there's a house in Queensland, Australia that uses solar power and batteries to sustain itself. In summer it puts power back into the grid.
It cost AUD$13,000 to set this up, and took 10 years before they broke even, but after that they produce more power than they use.
Other than the lead in the batteries and whatever it takes to make the solar cells it's pollution-free.
It wouldn't be hard to make setups like this attractive to people building houses, especially if they could be helped with the initial outlay which they could repay over time with their power credits.
theres no reason for Apple to let the hoardes have its pretty software for nothing. why not, Apple got their entire OS for nothing and added some pretty icons
he read that on teh intraweb
i use firebird daily on both windows and linux and i have never had one single problem with it, not even a crash in months. dont listen to this guy!
i also use thunderbird on both platforms, no problems yet.. but i havent used it as extensively as firebird
download it and try for yourself.
i disagree, they are both as dependent on each other. what you think MS would have adopted the Linux kernel? SUN?
i suspect we wouldnt have even heard of linux without GNU.
the problem is linux sounds cool, GNU doesnt especially when pronounced 'ganoo' - its probably as simple as that.
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comment redundant? this is 10 year old news, maybe it's the story thats redundant
Gross Domestic Product is how it's usually determined.
That will have a proper linux version, look how good Enemy Territory is.
and in their own words they "bet the company on .NET" - so it's a significant investment.
ive only ever heard it about american beer too at least we can agree beer should be COLD! ;)
this was on abc.net.au a couple of days ago, i was going to submit it, but then i thought who on slashdot would be interested in a story about beer and cd's? ;)
call it SCO? ;)
the XP installations ive seen connect to some .gov time server these days, not MS servers..
haha, why is this still at 1 :)
interesting, thanks, would mod up if i could ;)
envirofreaks lol good on you, damn hippies want to ban benzene, toluene and other lovely stuff like that too, real men like you drink the stuff!
McAfee has a removal tool that works well detects 28 other trojans/worms/virii too, if i remembered the name i'd let you know ;)
an economy in the top 10 in the world (and standard of living to match) with a population of only 20 million
a free market but with strong enough social policies that -EVERYONE- can afford the best health care and education we offer
a relatively unpolluted environment indeed pristine in many locations
about 3 handgun deaths per year
all the sheep we could possibly ever shag next door in NZ
so what were you saying?
it was a good laugh :)
It's a common misconception that a majority of Australian people are of convict descent. Only something like 10% of the population has a convict ancestor in the family tree. It is more likely less, I don't have a source I can find right now. Even then, most of the convicts were petty criminals, the old story of stealing a loaf of bread got you transportation and hard labour. There's books outlining the convicts transported, and the crime they committed to get the sentence - the one I remember most clearly was a woman, transportation and 10 years hard labour for "leaving the house without her husband's permission".(!!) Most of the initial arrivals here were free settlers - they were offered free land and passage and it sounded good compared to eating dirt in a life of poverty in the UK.
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