So they should have invested some of the money while they were making it, instead of spending it on Colombian marching powder, groupies and hotel room repairs.
Everyone else has to save for a pension or end up on income support. Why not musicians?
before GUIs and full-color displays, suggested amber on dark brown was optimal. Amber on black is almost as good, and used to be reasonably common as an alternative to the ubiquitous "green screen".
On a Fender Telecaster (design little changed since 1948) you undo two woodscrews and pull all the electronics out on a little oval control plate. It's never been quite so easy since, as most later guitars hide stuff under the pickguard or fasten them directly to the body.
Mind you, a crude 3-way switch, two rotary potentiometers and a capacitor aren't exactly cutting-edge electronics.
Back on topic, I recently built on of these and the modern solder I used was hopeless, even using extra flux. How many people are *really* affected by lead poisoning from the old stuff?
True, but barely anyone in Europe has air-conditioning in the home; the climate just doesn't require it. TVs really are a big energy consumer here, after the good old tumble drier.
Advertise non-existent laptop computers or high-end bicycles on eBay. Ask for payment by Western Union money transfer, then scram.
It seems to have worked for a number of people in the past, anyway;-)
They have already encouraged unlicensed users to turn off automatic updates (WGA nagware is compulsory, and if removed it has to be reinstalled before any other security updates can be downloaded, so most unlicensed users will just turn off auto updating).
This is going to increase the proliferation of malware once again. Ho hum.
...is that nearly all local power cables are underground, and it's just the backbone 132kV stuff that's on pylons. People don't like the look of overhead cables, and they are a blight to nearby properties because of unproven cancer fears.
We still get rare powercuts, usually because a thunderstorm has tripped something at a substation. This still happens with underground cables.
The only metal-bodied phones I've seen are the boutique ones like a Motorola V3. Everything else is firmly plastic, although most seem to have some kind of metal shielding inside when you open them up.
Does it have to be metal in contact with the skin?
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As everyone knows, the Daily Express is merely the paramilitary wing of the Daily Mail...with a disturbing Princess Diana obsession.
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According to The Register, the Metropolitan Police have received a complaint about "improper use of communications networks" and are investigating. Whether the complaint was made by the eBay seller, we don't know. There's also an amusing-in-a-schadenfreude-way article in the (right wing scandal rag) Daily Mail today, where someone else claims to have been shafted by the seller on eBay.
It's not the number of individual rabbits, it's the number of pairs. From Wikipedia:
In the West, [the Fibonacci sequence] was first studied by Leonardo of Pisa, who was also known as Fibonacci (c. 1200), to describe the growth of an idealised (although biologically unrealistic) rabbit population. The numbers describe the number of pairs in the rabbit population after n months if it is assumed that:
in the first month there is just one newly-born pair,
new-born pairs become fertile from their second month on
each month every fertile pair begets a new pair, and
the rabbits never die.
Suppose that in month n we have a total of a pairs of rabbits and in month n + 1 we have b pairs. In month n + 2 we will necessarily have a + b pairs, because all a pairs of rabbits from month n will be fertile and produce a new pairs of offspring (since all a rabbits are at least two months old) -- plus b, which are the existing pairs of rabbits at n + 1 (remember the assumption that no rabbit ever dies).
I have to say that overcharging people for mediocre software, and maintaining a near-monopoly by leaning heavily on PC makers (aka "Microsoft tax"), then donating a portion of the profit to charity in order to immortalise the chairman/chief software architect strikes me as a slightly uneasy concept.
Maybe Gates genuinely believes that MS needs to be a conduit for overseas aid, and this is the only way to get rich Westerners to cough up, but then he could simply have called it "The Microsoft Foundation", couldn't he?
There really was a Jesus brand? I can see the advertising slogans now. "Jesus - your saviour in consumer electronics" or "Redeem yourself this Father's Day with a Jesus shaver".
For your average wage slave, income is determined by one simple factor: how hard you are to replace. That's the market at work. Hence firemen aren't paid much because there are tens of applicants for every vacancy (the uniforms are a babe magnet, you know), whereas certain specialist roles, like IT consultants, command ludicrous rates because there are few "sellers" in the market.
The rule breaks down for top execs, who have their fantasy salaries set by committees of other companies' top execs in a "scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" arrangement, but it works for 99% of salaried employees.
1) First off, Chernobyl exploded because of idiocy in the Ukraine. You do not conduct an experiment on a nuclear power plant and turn all the safeties off. That is asking for trouble. However, NO FALLOUT WAS EVER RELEASED FROM THE FACILITY.
Tell that to Cumbrian farmers in England, who still have restrictions on selling their milk 20 years after the event. I can assure you that there was a LOT of fallout, and it travelled a LONG way (depsite this, I'm still very pro-nuclear).
The people "smart enough" are not having kids for more selfish reasons; they want to maintain their dual income (speaking as a parent, kids aren't all THAT expensive in expenditure terms: it's the loss of nearly half your income that hurts).
Nevertheless, it's true that the chavs and poorer immigrants have substantially more children than the average white middle-class family. Basically the Government pays for them anyway, so they have nothing to lose.
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So they should have invested some of the money while they were making it, instead of spending it on Colombian marching powder, groupies and hotel room repairs.
Everyone else has to save for a pension or end up on income support. Why not musicians?
before GUIs and full-color displays, suggested amber on dark brown was optimal. Amber on black is almost as good, and used to be reasonably common as an alternative to the ubiquitous "green screen".
On a Fender Telecaster (design little changed since 1948) you undo two woodscrews and pull all the electronics out on a little oval control plate. It's never been quite so easy since, as most later guitars hide stuff under the pickguard or fasten them directly to the body. Mind you, a crude 3-way switch, two rotary potentiometers and a capacitor aren't exactly cutting-edge electronics. Back on topic, I recently built on of these and the modern solder I used was hopeless, even using extra flux. How many people are *really* affected by lead poisoning from the old stuff?
Sorry, but pigtails on any girl over 16 == pr0n. I have established this following extensive Internet research.
True, but barely anyone in Europe has air-conditioning in the home; the climate just doesn't require it. TVs really are a big energy consumer here, after the good old tumble drier.
I disagree. Just ask Claire Swire how many copies can be made of a document in a short time, and how persistent they are.
Advertise non-existent laptop computers or high-end bicycles on eBay. Ask for payment by Western Union money transfer, then scram. It seems to have worked for a number of people in the past, anyway ;-)
They have already encouraged unlicensed users to turn off automatic updates (WGA nagware is compulsory, and if removed it has to be reinstalled before any other security updates can be downloaded, so most unlicensed users will just turn off auto updating).
This is going to increase the proliferation of malware once again. Ho hum.
...is that nearly all local power cables are underground, and it's just the backbone 132kV stuff that's on pylons. People don't like the look of overhead cables, and they are a blight to nearby properties because of unproven cancer fears.
We still get rare powercuts, usually because a thunderstorm has tripped something at a substation. This still happens with underground cables.
The only metal-bodied phones I've seen are the boutique ones like a Motorola V3. Everything else is firmly plastic, although most seem to have some kind of metal shielding inside when you open them up.
Does it have to be metal in contact with the skin?
As everyone knows, the Daily Express is merely the paramilitary wing of the Daily Mail...with a disturbing Princess Diana obsession.
According to The Register, the Metropolitan Police have received a complaint about "improper use of communications networks" and are investigating. Whether the complaint was made by the eBay seller, we don't know. There's also an amusing-in-a-schadenfreude-way article in the (right wing scandal rag) Daily Mail today, where someone else claims to have been shafted by the seller on eBay.
Now you're just being silly.
Please explain how downloading a .torrent funds anyone at all.
In the West, [the Fibonacci sequence] was first studied by Leonardo of Pisa, who was also known as Fibonacci (c. 1200), to describe the growth of an idealised (although biologically unrealistic) rabbit population. The numbers describe the number of pairs in the rabbit population after n months if it is assumed that:
in the first month there is just one newly-born pair, new-born pairs become fertile from their second month on each month every fertile pair begets a new pair, and the rabbits never die.
Suppose that in month n we have a total of a pairs of rabbits and in month n + 1 we have b pairs. In month n + 2 we will necessarily have a + b pairs, because all a pairs of rabbits from month n will be fertile and produce a new pairs of offspring (since all a rabbits are at least two months old) -- plus b, which are the existing pairs of rabbits at n + 1 (remember the assumption that no rabbit ever dies).
Did
You
Know That
The Sequence
Originally
Described The Humping Of Rabbits?
Will Toyota fix your kerbed/curbed alloys for free? Surely the system isn't so accurate that it doesn't sometimes scrape a wheel?
Maybe Gates genuinely believes that MS needs to be a conduit for overseas aid, and this is the only way to get rich Westerners to cough up, but then he could simply have called it "The Microsoft Foundation", couldn't he?
There really was a Jesus brand? I can see the advertising slogans now. "Jesus - your saviour in consumer electronics" or "Redeem yourself this Father's Day with a Jesus shaver".
"Was passiert?"
"Jemand stellte uns die Bombe auf"
"Alles Ihren Merchantschiffs sind zu wir belongen".
The long-awaited infinite monkeys and typewriters scenario is just around the corner. I await an outpouring of classic literature ;-)
The rule breaks down for top execs, who have their fantasy salaries set by committees of other companies' top execs in a "scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" arrangement, but it works for 99% of salaried employees.
Tell that to Cumbrian farmers in England, who still have restrictions on selling their milk 20 years after the event. I can assure you that there was a LOT of fallout, and it travelled a LONG way (depsite this, I'm still very pro-nuclear).
Nevertheless, it's true that the chavs and poorer immigrants have substantially more children than the average white middle-class family. Basically the Government pays for them anyway, so they have nothing to lose.