is one of the things we in the UK just don't get about a large proportion of the USA. For instance, the determining factors in your 2004 presidential election were abortion and gay marriage, not war in Iraq or the fscked-up state of the economy. In an age when we can send men to the moon and clone cats, why are people still disputing evolution FFS? If you want to believe in God, then believe he was clever and thought of evolution too. I mean, he didn't actually *design* wasps, did he?
AMD IS a giant corporation. I don't think they're especially evil, but they long ago reached the critical size where they disappeared up their own corporate backsides. They gave their employees a keyring saying "I am the KEY to AMD!" and sent them on numerous "empowerment" courses of the type that made you wonder whether you were the only sane person, or the only mad person, in the room. My mother, who worked for AMD for a few years, was in tears after one of these courses, because she could see the pointlessness and the waste of money and no-one else could - or would admit to it.
Speeding is a problem
That is very debatable. The speed limits here in the UK are now so absurd in many places that the vast majority of motorists exceed the limit, yet no accidents ever result (literally; speed limits have been dropped on roads that haven't had even a minor injury accident in a decade).
3,500 killed each year is obviously not enough, then? Speed limits are a blanket and fairly ineffective road safety control, I'll give you that - but given the woeful standard of driving in the UK (and it's worse everywhere else, apparently!), they have to be aimed at the lowest common denominator, such as the half-blind grandad, the chav who passed his test that morning or the harassed mother with three screaming kids in the back. Now everyone THINKS they're better than that, including the aforesaid grandad, chav and mum, but they're not. The speed lobby think that people can be trusted to decide whether they're an above average driver or not, which is quite laughable as 99% of people will put themselves into that category and ignore any unenforced limits.
For everyone else's sake, leave home earlier or, if you really, really like speed, book a track day.
With a BMI of 600/(3^2) = 66.6 he was one big fat ape (the healthy limit for a human is 25). I guess these creatures were intelligent enough to invent fast food and maple syrup pancakes.
Occam's Razor suggests that the original tests were wrong. I know he had multiple tests, but they're not 100% accurate.
There's something fishy about the way this story is being stage managed by the News Of The World (a notoriously downmarket and sensationalist paper). I predict an expose and retraction within the week.
Quake 4 uses DirectX (Direct3D), not SGI's OpenGL. A shame, because OpenGL was independent of Microsoft as well as looking better IMO. DirectX gives a cheesecloth effect on underpowered systems - Quake 4 looks as bad on my PC as Unreal did all those years ago.
I wonder if the loss of big names like this has hit royalties, or was OpenGL free as in beer?
Sounds like the old arsequake concept has been resurrected. For those who can't be bothered to read the link, various armies have tried to find a bass frequency that, aimed at enemy soldiers, would cause them to involuntarily lose bowel control. Of course, as bass is omnidirectional, you need to make sure your own troops have earplugs or a full enema beforehand;-)
HAN should shoot first, as in the original release. The inference is that Han is a bit ruthless, and the fans like that. Having Greedo shoot first in later releases is wrong because
(a) it changes Han's character; he only shoots in self-defence and (b) how did Greedo MISS at point blank range? It's just stupid.
Let's be honest, George. The first one was a hit so you thought a sequel was in order. That was surprisingly good because someone else directed it, but since then you've been flogging a dead horse.
I'll let you off for Ep. III, because the last 30 seconds are a homage to Ep. IV;-)
Whatever they put in place, it will get hacked. EVERYTHING gets hacked. The stuff they're trying to prevent, like copying movies, is illegal anyway, so what's the difference?
It's common to take out indemnity policies against the possibility of future legal action where all steps have been taken to try and resolve the issue beforehand. A real estate example would be where a new access road crosses a strip of land, the owner of which is unknown and cannot be traced after an exhaustive search. A policy is put in place to pay $m if the owner ever appears and wants paying for the "ransom strip" or threatens to build a wall along it.
Now if the buyers of the policy KNEW there was copyright SCO code in the software then no, they shouldn't expect the policy to cover them and I'm sure the T&Cs make that clear.
Or Alaska, provided you can get people to work there. The principle of the idea is good though - natural air cooling should be used a *lot* more. Imagine if your car had to use an a/c unit to remove heat from the engine rather than natural (occasionally fan-assisted) airflow through the radiator. The engine would barely be able to drive it, seeing as more of the fuel goes into producing heat than moving the car.
Which self-respecting pirate wants to watch saccharine Disney material anyway? If they fsck up the Narnia books the same way as they usually do with existing literature, I shall not be happy.
You're describing mechanical automatic watches, which have been around for donkeys' years. The Seiko/Epson Kinetic mechanism uses a rotating pendulum - like the old automatic watches - but the motion of the pendulum is geared up to turn a tiny electrical generator at high speed. The actual power store is a capacitor, because a rechargeable battery would have a limited life.
The Mythbusters assumed that some things were too big to do. This would not have been a problem for a man who engineered the roofing of big Greek buildings.
Greek roofs were described as "intellectually squalid" by the late civil engineer J E Gordon. The Greeks didn't manage to invent the simple A-frame roof truss, so Greek roofs were comprised of stone lintels which cracked all the time - look at the Parthenon - or, on smaller buildings, wooden beams, covered with a mass of soil over which tiles were placed. The roof weighed several tons, was prone to rotting and infestation and didn't really work all that well because the pitch was so limited. The only thing it had going for it was that there was no sideways thrust on the walls, which a roof truss also avoids with minimal weight.
If only we could stop the Americans using weird middle-endian dates. I've checked and checked, but I still can't see why 9th November 2001 was so infamous;-)
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You didn't see the "Funny" mod, did you...?
is one of the things we in the UK just don't get about a large proportion of the USA. For instance, the determining factors in your 2004 presidential election were abortion and gay marriage, not war in Iraq or the fscked-up state of the economy. In an age when we can send men to the moon and clone cats, why are people still disputing evolution FFS? If you want to believe in God, then believe he was clever and thought of evolution too. I mean, he didn't actually *design* wasps, did he?
Development on the Dragon CPU isn't working out too well, then?
They make good CPUs, though!
Superb. Works on two levels.
Fear is the path to the Dark Side! Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering...
3,500 killed each year is obviously not enough, then? Speed limits are a blanket and fairly ineffective road safety control, I'll give you that - but given the woeful standard of driving in the UK (and it's worse everywhere else, apparently!), they have to be aimed at the lowest common denominator, such as the half-blind grandad, the chav who passed his test that morning or the harassed mother with three screaming kids in the back. Now everyone THINKS they're better than that, including the aforesaid grandad, chav and mum, but they're not. The speed lobby think that people can be trusted to decide whether they're an above average driver or not, which is quite laughable as 99% of people will put themselves into that category and ignore any unenforced limits.
For everyone else's sake, leave home earlier or, if you really, really like speed, book a track day.
New price fixing allegations
In other news, they found a Google f**king buried near the ape's remains.
With a BMI of 600/(3^2) = 66.6 he was one big fat ape (the healthy limit for a human is 25). I guess these creatures were intelligent enough to invent fast food and maple syrup pancakes.
There's something fishy about the way this story is being stage managed by the News Of The World (a notoriously downmarket and sensationalist paper). I predict an expose and retraction within the week.
Quake 4 uses DirectX (Direct3D), not SGI's OpenGL. A shame, because OpenGL was independent of Microsoft as well as looking better IMO. DirectX gives a cheesecloth effect on underpowered systems - Quake 4 looks as bad on my PC as Unreal did all those years ago. I wonder if the loss of big names like this has hit royalties, or was OpenGL free as in beer?
Sounds like the old arsequake concept has been resurrected. For those who can't be bothered to read the link, various armies have tried to find a bass frequency that, aimed at enemy soldiers, would cause them to involuntarily lose bowel control. Of course, as bass is omnidirectional, you need to make sure your own troops have earplugs or a full enema beforehand ;-)
(a) it changes Han's character; he only shoots in self-defence and
(b) how did Greedo MISS at point blank range? It's just stupid.
I'll let you off for Ep. III, because the last 30 seconds are a homage to Ep. IV ;-)
Whatever they put in place, it will get hacked. EVERYTHING gets hacked. The stuff they're trying to prevent, like copying movies, is illegal anyway, so what's the difference?
It's common to take out indemnity policies against the possibility of future legal action where all steps have been taken to try and resolve the issue beforehand. A real estate example would be where a new access road crosses a strip of land, the owner of which is unknown and cannot be traced after an exhaustive search. A policy is put in place to pay $m if the owner ever appears and wants paying for the "ransom strip" or threatens to build a wall along it.
Now if the buyers of the policy KNEW there was copyright SCO code in the software then no, they shouldn't expect the policy to cover them and I'm sure the T&Cs make that clear.
And yes, I am an auditor.
The 6809 still had HCF, and the 6809 begat the 68000. But I was joking, hence the smiley ;-)
Actually, that's why Apple are moving from PPC to x86, but don't tell anyone ;-)
Or Alaska, provided you can get people to work there. The principle of the idea is good though - natural air cooling should be used a *lot* more. Imagine if your car had to use an a/c unit to remove heat from the engine rather than natural (occasionally fan-assisted) airflow through the radiator. The engine would barely be able to drive it, seeing as more of the fuel goes into producing heat than moving the car.
Try living in Europe. Believe me, the US is still living in a wonderland when it comes to fuel prices. Over here it's something like 3x the price.
Which self-respecting pirate wants to watch saccharine Disney material anyway? If they fsck up the Narnia books the same way as they usually do with existing literature, I shall not be happy.
You're describing mechanical automatic watches, which have been around for donkeys' years. The Seiko/Epson Kinetic mechanism uses a rotating pendulum - like the old automatic watches - but the motion of the pendulum is geared up to turn a tiny electrical generator at high speed. The actual power store is a capacitor, because a rechargeable battery would have a limited life.
Greek roofs were described as "intellectually squalid" by the late civil engineer J E Gordon. The Greeks didn't manage to invent the simple A-frame roof truss, so Greek roofs were comprised of stone lintels which cracked all the time - look at the Parthenon - or, on smaller buildings, wooden beams, covered with a mass of soil over which tiles were placed. The roof weighed several tons, was prone to rotting and infestation and didn't really work all that well because the pitch was so limited. The only thing it had going for it was that there was no sideways thrust on the walls, which a roof truss also avoids with minimal weight.
If only we could stop the Americans using weird middle-endian dates. I've checked and checked, but I still can't see why 9th November 2001 was so infamous ;-)