Indeed. I used Cherry keyboards when I was living in Germany, and I loved those keyboards. I liked them so much, that when I came back to the U.S., I brought a Cherry keyboard with me and used it happily for years.
I finally sold it when I decided I would rather have a U.S. instead of a German layout (much more convenient for programming), and I sure wish I could get another one with a U.S. layout.
Those keyboards felt great to use, and you could tell that they were of good quality. A total difference from the really cheap "mushy" keyboards .
It would be pretty stupid of the military to train their soldiers to take unnecessary risks.
Soldiers are expensive to train. When soldiers do something stupid to get themselves killed, you have to spend money to retrain their replacements, who won't have the experience of the dead soldier.
If they get wounded, the military has to pay for cleaning them up, taking care of them, and paying them disability for the rest of their life.
The military wants compliant soldiers, not stupid soldiers.
The CIA factbook says "Fuerstentum Liechtenstein" which I've always translated as Principality.
Yep. In German, Fuerst = Prince, Fuerstentum = Principality.
I've been to Liechtenstein and seen the Prince's castle. It's a nice little country, although not that distinguishable from Switzerland, as they use Swiss Post and Swiss currency. At the border there is just a sign beside the road that says "Fuerstentum Liechtenstein".
I live in the U.S., and I've been to Canada a number of times, and the border guards are usually quite friendly to me (much more so than the U.S. ones).
One time when I was a kid, however, I was with my family going camping in Canada, and we were stopped at the border of Canada for quite a while. The border guard asked my dad if he had any handguns (illegal in Canada, but legal in the U.S.) My dad has never owned a gun in his life, so naturally he said no.
The Canadian border guard then proceeded to talk at length about Canadian laws and how handguns were illegal. She then proceeded to question my dad for the next five minutes about guns and kept asking if he had any. My dad was very polite and answered all the questions.
She apparently was convinced that my dad was a gun-toting nutcase (those crazy gun-loving Americans, eh?), so our vehicle and the camper on the back of the truck was thoroughly searched, with Canadian border guards going through every cupboard and even the refridgerator, looking for the mythical guns that guard was convinced we were carrying.
In the end, of course, no guns were found, and we were sent on our way. I guess it was a disappointment to her that she didn't get to crack some American skulls.
A friend of mine in Germany once pointed to some German border guards and said "Those are people who like to cause other people pain and misery". I'll have to say that there seems to be quite a few of those people in the border guard services around the world. I've met border guards who were very nice and polite, but others seemed convinced that everyone is a criminal, and regard you as a criminal whose crime hasn't been revealed yet, and think if they try hard enough, they can uncover it. It's sad, really.
I would personally much prefer to travel to Spain, Ireland, and Italy than Louisiana, Texas, and Colorado.
Those countries are far, far more interesting than some states containing slightly different variations in U.S. culture. I must say, however, that those parts of the U.S. contain some nice scenery.
The differences over 100km in Europe are generally far greater than the differences over 100km in the United States, which is why I find traveling there so much more interesting.
I was absolutely certain when I clicked on the comments link that I would immediately see a joke involving downloading 4x the porn over someone else's wireless connection.
I didn't know what else I'd find in the comments, but knowing Slashdot, that joke should have been an absolute certainty.
I say that instead of yelling at terrorists when they blow up the Statue of Liberty, we silently remove it and replace it with a cheap copy.
When it gets blown up, we can just shrug our shoulders, and put up another one. We keep doing the same every time it gets blown up. "Blow it up all you want, we'll make more"
I'll bet that would actually be a cheaper solution than all the security measures they currently have in place.
That's the problem with large publicly-traded companies. The high-paid executives boost the stock price in the short-term, meanwhile screwing the company over in the long-term.
After the high-paid executives are finish screwing up the company, they collect their fat bonus for the high stock price, and then bail with their money before the company suffers due to the lack of long-term focus.
Then on they go to the next company, showing them how well they performed at the last company. The downward slide of their last company is of course not due to them, but their successors. After all, it was doing great when they left!
...so this mission doesn't have to worry about providing power like the missions to the outer planets. There should be more solar power than they could possibly want. That's probably why the solar panels are 1/3 solar cells and 2/3 mirrors.
Of course, they have other problems that don't occur on outer planet missions like making sure your space craft doesn't melt.
O'Dowd is obviously making some kind of lame attempt to "diss" open-source software, probably because he fears it.
If he posted this on Slashdot, he would be considered a troll and modded down appropriately. His comments look like a well-crafted troll to me. One might think he said it just to giggle with delight at all the Slashdotters in an uproar.
I noticed that there are a lot of visited confluences in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia. It turns out they are all taken by a soldier in the U.S. army station there, who goes on camping expeditions with his buddies in the desert.
There's also some pretty remote ones in Siberia taken by a Russian guy, who I think works for some oil or gas company.
It's interesting to read the comments about how someone got to these remote spots.
There's a confluence in Germany that's in some farmer's back yard. The people taking the pictures explained what they were doing, and the farmer was totally cool with it. He had no idea there was such a spot near him.
The people taking the pictures said he seemed to think that they were a bit eccentric, but amusing in a way.
I saw one like this somewhere in California. The closest they could get was to a road along the fenced area of the base, within several hundred meters of the confluence.
They ended up taking pictures in the direction of the confluence and posted comments saying it was X hundred meters behind the fence.
Apparently if you're going to stab someone, it's gotta be with a switchblade. It seems that authorities believe that criminals are too fussy to be carrying around any other kind of knife.
It seems strange to me that a switchblade is illegal, but folding knives are sold widely. What the hell? Does the fact that it automatically pops out somehow encourages criminal acts?
"Oh yeah, I saw gonna stab that bastard, but unfolding my knife takes so much effort. So I just let him go. That foo' was lucky I didn't have a switchblade, 'cause I would have gutted him."
Like those new self-checkout cash registers, ATMs gained popularity because they saved the banks money. They didn't have to hire as many employees or open as many branches, which was a great cost-saving measure.
The difference between the self-checkout cash registers and ATMs is that ATMs are generally much more convenient and quicker to use.
Those self-checkout things are absolutely horrible. It would be one thing if you simply had to scan it and throw it in the bag, paying at the end. But no, it can't be that simple! You have to constantly mess around with the screen, constantly adding and removing items from the bagging area, and the stupid machine is getting pissed off with you for putting the wrong item in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not to mention the things often can't figure out how to handle certain items, so you have to wait for an employee to help you. Waiting in line for a cashier is almost always much faster and easier. The stupid machines are just popular because the company saves money by not having to hire as many employees.
Get a clue, companies! Either keep your employees or make your self-checkout machines quick and easy!
..the ATMs will often dispense a variety of bills. When I would withdraw 100 DM (pre-Euro days), it would give me a 50, two 20's, and 10.
I rather liked that. It was nice to have a variety. What would have been nicer if it had an option to allow me to choose which bills I wanted. The trick to such a thing is to make it unobtrusive and optional. Making you do something like that when all you want is quick money would get annoying.
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Indeed. I used Cherry keyboards when I was living in Germany, and I loved those keyboards. I liked them so much, that when I came back to the U.S., I brought a Cherry keyboard with me and used it happily for years.
I finally sold it when I decided I would rather have a U.S. instead of a German layout (much more convenient for programming), and I sure wish I could get another one with a U.S. layout.
Those keyboards felt great to use, and you could tell that they were of good quality. A total difference from the really cheap "mushy" keyboards .
I don't think Cheney makes a very good backup.
Testoring from backup in this case would result in a "Backup is corrupt" error.
It would be pretty stupid of the military to train their soldiers to take unnecessary risks.
Soldiers are expensive to train. When soldiers do something stupid to get themselves killed, you have to spend money to retrain their replacements, who won't have the experience of the dead soldier.
If they get wounded, the military has to pay for cleaning them up, taking care of them, and paying them disability for the rest of their life.
The military wants compliant soldiers, not stupid soldiers.
The CIA factbook says "Fuerstentum Liechtenstein" which I've always translated as Principality.
Yep. In German, Fuerst = Prince, Fuerstentum = Principality.
I've been to Liechtenstein and seen the Prince's castle. It's a nice little country, although not that distinguishable from Switzerland, as they use Swiss Post and Swiss currency. At the border there is just a sign beside the road that says "Fuerstentum Liechtenstein".
I live in the U.S., and I've been to Canada a number of times, and the border guards are usually quite friendly to me (much more so than the U.S. ones).
One time when I was a kid, however, I was with my family going camping in Canada, and we were stopped at the border of Canada for quite a while. The border guard asked my dad if he had any handguns (illegal in Canada, but legal in the U.S.) My dad has never owned a gun in his life, so naturally he said no.
The Canadian border guard then proceeded to talk at length about Canadian laws and how handguns were illegal. She then proceeded to question my dad for the next five minutes about guns and kept asking if he had any. My dad was very polite and answered all the questions.
She apparently was convinced that my dad was a gun-toting nutcase (those crazy gun-loving Americans, eh?), so our vehicle and the camper on the back of the truck was thoroughly searched, with Canadian border guards going through every cupboard and even the refridgerator, looking for the mythical guns that guard was convinced we were carrying.
In the end, of course, no guns were found, and we were sent on our way. I guess it was a disappointment to her that she didn't get to crack some American skulls.
A friend of mine in Germany once pointed to some German border guards and said "Those are people who like to cause other people pain and misery". I'll have to say that there seems to be quite a few of those people in the border guard services around the world. I've met border guards who were very nice and polite, but others seemed convinced that everyone is a criminal, and regard you as a criminal whose crime hasn't been revealed yet, and think if they try hard enough, they can uncover it. It's sad, really.
I would personally much prefer to travel to Spain, Ireland, and Italy than Louisiana, Texas, and Colorado.
Those countries are far, far more interesting than some states containing slightly different variations in U.S. culture. I must say, however, that those parts of the U.S. contain some nice scenery.
The differences over 100km in Europe are generally far greater than the differences over 100km in the United States, which is why I find traveling there so much more interesting.
I take it that Dijkstra the radio scientist just published a paper.
I was absolutely certain when I clicked on the comments link that I would immediately see a joke involving downloading 4x the porn over someone else's wireless connection.
I didn't know what else I'd find in the comments, but knowing Slashdot, that joke should have been an absolute certainty.
How disappointing
I say that instead of yelling at terrorists when they blow up the Statue of Liberty, we silently remove it and replace it with a cheap copy.
When it gets blown up, we can just shrug our shoulders, and put up another one. We keep doing the same every time it gets blown up. "Blow it up all you want, we'll make more"
I'll bet that would actually be a cheaper solution than all the security measures they currently have in place.
Having experienced the horrible traffic in New Jersey and NYC, I'd say catching people speeding is not exactly high on the list of priorities.
As for Boston, I guess the only reason people there buy cars that go over 35 mph is for out-of-town travel.
That's the problem with large publicly-traded companies. The high-paid executives boost the stock price in the short-term, meanwhile screwing the company over in the long-term.
After the high-paid executives are finish screwing up the company, they collect their fat bonus for the high stock price, and then bail with their money before the company suffers due to the lack of long-term focus.
Then on they go to the next company, showing them how well they performed at the last company. The downward slide of their last company is of course not due to them, but their successors. After all, it was doing great when they left!
Where's the "+1, Weird" moderation?
...so this mission doesn't have to worry about providing power like the missions to the outer planets. There should be more solar power than they could possibly want. That's probably why the solar panels are 1/3 solar cells and 2/3 mirrors.
Of course, they have other problems that don't occur on outer planet missions like making sure your space craft doesn't melt.
O'Dowd is obviously making some kind of lame attempt to "diss" open-source software, probably because he fears it.
If he posted this on Slashdot, he would be considered a troll and modded down appropriately. His comments look like a well-crafted troll to me. One might think he said it just to giggle with delight at all the Slashdotters in an uproar.
Great, now we'll have even more annoying ring tones that will go off in restaurants or cinemas.
It would be great fun to replace someone's ring tone with an mp3 of a voice that says something like "I'm an annoying person!" over and over.
I noticed that there are a lot of visited confluences in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia. It turns out they are all taken by a soldier in the U.S. army station there, who goes on camping expeditions with his buddies in the desert.
There's also some pretty remote ones in Siberia taken by a Russian guy, who I think works for some oil or gas company.
It's interesting to read the comments about how someone got to these remote spots.
There's a confluence in Germany that's in some farmer's back yard. The people taking the pictures explained what they were doing, and the farmer was totally cool with it. He had no idea there was such a spot near him. The people taking the pictures said he seemed to think that they were a bit eccentric, but amusing in a way.
I saw one like this somewhere in California. The closest they could get was to a road along the fenced area of the base, within several hundred meters of the confluence.
They ended up taking pictures in the direction of the confluence and posted comments saying it was X hundred meters behind the fence.
I'm sure you can get some decent 5, 10, or 20 GB hard drives off of eBay or from some surplus computer parts store for a good price.
It's interesting that some people have such bad luck with Windows XP. I run Windows XP on several computers and I've never seen the thing crash.
I don't think you should be terribly worried about XP on a new laptop. It will probably run just fine.
I'm curious, never having had much to do with knives other than in the kitchen. How is one supposed to hold the knife if not a waist level?
Apparently if you're going to stab someone, it's gotta be with a switchblade. It seems that authorities believe that criminals are too fussy to be carrying around any other kind of knife.
It seems strange to me that a switchblade is illegal, but folding knives are sold widely. What the hell? Does the fact that it automatically pops out somehow encourages criminal acts?
"Oh yeah, I saw gonna stab that bastard, but unfolding my knife takes so much effort. So I just let him go. That foo' was lucky I didn't have a switchblade, 'cause I would have gutted him."
Like those new self-checkout cash registers, ATMs gained popularity because they saved the banks money. They didn't have to hire as many employees or open as many branches, which was a great cost-saving measure.
The difference between the self-checkout cash registers and ATMs is that ATMs are generally much more convenient and quicker to use.
Those self-checkout things are absolutely horrible. It would be one thing if you simply had to scan it and throw it in the bag, paying at the end. But no, it can't be that simple! You have to constantly mess around with the screen, constantly adding and removing items from the bagging area, and the stupid machine is getting pissed off with you for putting the wrong item in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not to mention the things often can't figure out how to handle certain items, so you have to wait for an employee to help you. Waiting in line for a cashier is almost always much faster and easier. The stupid machines are just popular because the company saves money by not having to hire as many employees.
Get a clue, companies! Either keep your employees or make your self-checkout machines quick and easy!
Yeah, that was pretty dumb of that article to say stuff like that. Tellers cost money: much more money than ATMs. Branches also cost money.
Are tellers and branches also "loss leaders"? No, they're just the cost of doing business.
..the ATMs will often dispense a variety of bills. When I would withdraw 100 DM (pre-Euro days), it would give me a 50, two 20's, and 10.
I rather liked that. It was nice to have a variety. What would have been nicer if it had an option to allow me to choose which bills I wanted. The trick to such a thing is to make it unobtrusive and optional. Making you do something like that when all you want is quick money would get annoying.