I've just finished watching the Discovery channel doco too. It's available from Amazon UK.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but the reason for standards like nautical miles etc, is for navigation as it ties to navigation.
A nautical mile (symbol M, NM or nmi) is a unit of distance that is approximately one minute of arc measured along any meridian. By international agreement it has been set at 1,852 metres exactly (about 6,076 feet).
Try navigating in kilometres, and you'll rapidly get lost.
In other news, sales of that great low-tech security device, string, have soared, making it possible for a blackberry to stay within a predetermined radius of the opposing end of the string.
Yep, you're right, it's hardly even english, is it?
I don't 'try to make people' do anything.
I'm just trying to help keep you all alive. Idiots and all.
I just offer advice, you're quite entitled to ignore it if you wish. It worrys me, not at all.
And, yes, it is acceptable to qualify any advice you give with references as to how accurate it may be. Quite unlike. "Hey d000dz, smoke waaakes u up!!!!!!"
I don't need to impress people with my qualifications. I'm happy with my life.
Oh, and bonus points points for posting AC. Still working on growing that spine huh?
Oppps, there I go with all that fancy doctor talk again.
It used to be sharks, or I'd imagine volcanic rumblings.
The thing with fibre, is that it need a repeater every x km's to boost the signal, and the repeater needs to be powered, so you need to run power across the sea bed as well. Aparently the magnetic field from the power cable was thought to upset the sharks, who used to attack the cables.
Don't you just hate receiving Word documents in email messages? Word attachments are annoying, but worse than that, they impede people from switching to free software. Maybe we can stop this practice with a simple collective effort. All we have to do is ask each person who sends us a Word file to reconsider that way of doing things.
"A french appeal court ruled yesterday in favour of somebody who downloaded about 500 movies, on the ground that those were private copies, and that he didn't redistribute them, and that a tax was payed on blank media. This sets the huge precedent that P2P is legal over there."
Also from the French, "the French courts have banned DRM copy-protection on DVDs, because it is a consumer right to make a backup or to change formats (in this case, to VHS)"
I think Wikipedia has grown into what Douglas had envisioned.
A Free encyclopedia, updated by almost anyone who wants to update it.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
TV shows exist for one reason, to make money for networks. They do this through ad revenue, which is tied to ratings.
There's your problem.
Rather than producing a product, and selling it for what it's worth, they're producing a product to fit around something else, in this case, advertising, which is really what they're trying to sell.
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I've just finished watching the Discovery channel doco too. It's available from Amazon UK.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but the reason for standards like nautical miles etc, is for navigation as it ties to navigation.
A nautical mile (symbol M, NM or nmi) is a unit of distance that is approximately one minute of arc measured along any meridian. By international agreement it has been set at 1,852 metres exactly (about 6,076 feet).
Try navigating in kilometres, and you'll rapidly get lost.
>Reminds me of what someone said in a movie: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
_ The_Empire_Strikes_Back
Darth Vader - The Empire Strikes Back
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_V:
I don't think the problem is a fear of cameras, as much as a fear of their inevitable misuse.
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Check this out...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftranspa
A very interesting essay on two completely different ways the cameras can be used. On by the secret police, the other by everyone.
Don
Here you go...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060933267
In other news, sales of that great low-tech security device, string, have soared, making it possible for a blackberry to stay within a predetermined radius of the opposing end of the string.
Thefts of Model T Cars are at an all time low.
Sure.
I mean, it's not like they'll notice the dupe.
"so I can use that to make people think I things"
Yep, you're right, it's hardly even english, is it?
I don't 'try to make people' do anything.
I'm just trying to help keep you all alive. Idiots and all.
I just offer advice, you're quite entitled to ignore it if you wish. It worrys me, not at all.
And, yes, it is acceptable to qualify any advice you give with references as to how accurate it may be. Quite unlike. "Hey d000dz, smoke waaakes u up!!!!!!"
I don't need to impress people with my qualifications. I'm happy with my life.
Oh, and bonus points points for posting AC. Still working on growing that spine huh?
Oppps, there I go with all that fancy doctor talk again.
I really hate to disappoint you, but the smoke and gasses WILL NOT WAKE YOU.
They put you into a deeper sleep, while removing all the oxygen from the air.
Then you die. Not from the flames. From not having oxygen.
At least that's what they taught me at paramedic school.
Get yourself a smoke alarm for every bedroom. It might save your life one day.
>The sad thing is, I can talk more-or-less for free
:-/
I hate to burst your bubble buddy, but it's not 'free' it's for a fixed price each month. Nothing free there.
Those that don't read, are no beter off than those who can't read ?
It used to be sharks, or I'd imagine volcanic rumblings.
The thing with fibre, is that it need a repeater every x km's to boost the signal, and the repeater needs to be powered, so you need to run power across the sea bed as well. Aparently the magnetic field from the power cable was thought to upset the sharks, who used to attack the cables.
D.
9/11 ?
The Ninth of November
Oh, the fall of the berlin wall.
Of Course.
I'd pay good money to fire Jeff Bezos out into deep space.
Where do I sign?
Computers can smell fear !
Didn't someone once say "Give me liberty, or give me death" ?
:-/
Can't remember who it might have been.
In the words of Richard Stallman...
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Don't you just hate receiving Word documents in email messages? Word attachments are annoying, but worse than that, they impede people from switching to free software. Maybe we can stop this practice with a simple collective effort. All we have to do is ask each person who sends us a Word file to reconsider that way of doing things.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments
Again !
I see it's almost 20 years since the french state terrorists sunk the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour.
There's a wee doco on the telly about it this weekend I believe.
Disney has a soul?
Now, THAT's news.
Maybe they've been slashdotted. :-)
The BSOD, coming to a screen near you !
You don't need to steal.
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According to this earlier slashdot article,
"A french appeal court ruled yesterday in favour of somebody who downloaded about 500 movies, on the ground that those were private copies, and that he didn't redistribute them, and that a tax was payed on blank media. This sets the huge precedent that P2P is legal over there."
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/11/1
Also from the French,
"the French courts have banned DRM copy-protection on DVDs, because it is a consumer right to make a backup or to change formats (in this case, to VHS)"
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/25/1
Douglas would be happy.
I think Wikipedia has grown into what Douglas had envisioned.
A Free encyclopedia, updated by almost anyone who wants to update it.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
Sounds a lot like the guide to me.
The thing you have to remember with the hitchhikers story, is that every time the format changes, so does the story.
Compare the differences between the books, the radio show, the tv series etc.
It's the way Douglas has always done it.
NG.
TV shows exist for one reason, to make money for networks. They do this through ad revenue, which is tied to ratings.
There's your problem.
Rather than producing a product, and selling it for what it's worth, they're producing a product to fit around something else, in this case, advertising, which is really what they're trying to sell.
Does this seem screwed up to anyone else???
Yep, his name was Strowger.
http://www.seg.co.uk/telecomm/automat1.htm/
NG.