Hurrah, can't believe a 19 year old movie has continued to have such good theater attendance to break the record gross for an 80s horror movie. Congrats!
The USB features (shared printers and USB disks) makes it more than worthwhile to spend the extra money to me. You can plug a USB hub into it and have disks hanging off it, all network accessible. Bit like a cheap NAS. Other than that, the way you set it up and configure it from a desktop app is quite nice.
One thing about the speed cameras, though, is that they might present a "better the devil you know" scenario. I remember 10 - 15 years ago it was VERY common to have the cops hiding on bends, motorway bridges, etc, getting people who were speeding. You couldn't see these guys from afar, like you can the cameras. Now we have the cameras, I rarely see cops doing speed checks in person, but as long as you can see the cameras, you can almost get away with speeding wherever you like!
I can't speak for every single other instance you've heard, but in this case attacks on public property are cowardly. The cameras are merely objects that will be replaced in a bureaucratic way and tallied up as expenses. That is a cowardly and ineffective way to have an effect upon policy. Someone who is not a coward would protest in a less covert way.
This speed camera vandalizing is nothing new. It's been going on for at least seven years now. It's usually idiots who've been caught by the camera that day who go back to destroy the evidence. Thankfully the new "digital" speed cameras that transmit pictures back to the base instantly will resolve this.
However, I think this sort of cowardly attack on public property is nothing new in the UK. Whereas citizens of other countries will attempt to use the law to defeat things, the British are typically content to moan and be passive aggressive about things rather than effect real change. One curious development in the last several years here has been the increase in attacks against firefighters and paramedics. You can't go a week without hearing about firefighters getting rocks thrown at them and their tenders by gangs of feral teens. Even paramedics rushing to people's aid have been attacked and beaten up for no reason at all. Why? The British underclass is powerless, and aggression is all they know, because our legal and political systems are so limp wristed that the ordinary man on the street cannot effect change.
I always wondered about that. Because if multiple cameras down a road can capture you once, then what's stopping the coppers from catching you multiple times with their radar while they're following you?
If you're going around the M25 in the variable speed limit section and you stay in the same lane doing, say, 15 mph over the posted speed limit (e.g. 65 in a 50), you could actually rack up about 21 penalty points with the inevitable disqualification.. just in two miles!
.. but the Internet is far from ideal. The Internet is not as resilient to attack as it was initially anticipated to be. You can have a single line go down between two sites and even though the sites both have multiple routes in and out, the traffic flow can stop completely due to dumb routing tables, commercial arrangements, and other interests. The Internet is not full of unbiased routers connected together in a mathematically ideal, impartial way. It's more like a social network.. where if two people fall out, communications between friends of those two people can become socially impossible even though it's not physically impossible.
You're probably right. It's most likely just the reality of 24/7 news, mass communication, and the ability to get news about things that, previously, would never have either been discovered or were deliberately held back from the presses.
England doesn't work that way. There's no significant history of implementing local laws, other than bylaws which cover little more than things like "don't walk on the grass". On the plus side, this means you don't end up with American levels of law variance from town to town.
Aside from the fact that Gitmo is similar to a concentration camp, what did you read in the article that leads you to that point of view?
It was the implicit notion I had that went.. "hey, reading this actually seems semi-normal nowadays.. and that shouldn't be the case." We shouldn't have to read about this crap because it shouldn't be going on in the first place but now it's part of the same-old.
Reading this article made me realize just how we've all fallen victim to the "boiling frog syndrome". Ten years ago it would have seemed nuts to be reading, and hearing about, the operation of concentration camps in the West, other than when reading about WWII. Now we read stuff about concentration camps, internment, loss of habeas corpus, the US kidnapping people from around the world, etc, and it's all just regular, "same old" news. A few people still feel a little shock, and even fewer actually bother to do anything about it, while the rest of us twiddle our thumbs and either hope it'll all go away or think that "well, we've done nothing wrong, so we'll be fine."
I wonder what sort of stories we'll be reading in another ten years that would shock us now but will seem like regular occurrences in 2017? Thoughtcrime executions, archived recording of all telephone calls (the European Union is already working on this!), incarcerating people because they have the "genes" of a potential psychopath (again, the EU is looking into this)? It's gunna happen and we'll just keep boiling like the frogs we are.
One of the good things about Snippets in particular is the taggability.. kinda like searching for stuff in del.icio.us. So.. I can just kinda guess some URLs and know I'll get something relevant (I hope!)
Likewise. I did upgrades on my machines too, and all has been well. Only one minor issue is my girlfriend's MacBook got the commonplace keyboard problem (no response for 10 seconds, randomly) but resetting PRAM seemed to fix that.
Running a whole suite of apps, lots of technical stuff (lots of compilation, various interpreters, libraries, etc) going on, and Leopard has been good. The interface feels a lot nicer than Tiger, which looks toy like in comparison (can't get used to brushed metal in Safari when I go back to using my old iMac occasionally!). No kernel panics at all and network access is far improved.. no longer does Finder freeze up randomly on network browsing.
WTF is going on in the Network Prefs? It's been simple and straightforward since OS 8, and now it's like a circus.
The Network Prefs is probably one of the better enhancements. It was weird before with the rather odd shifts in interface layout occurring when you merely selected different items from the combo. Now, at least, you have all the interfaces down the left, you click on those, and you can edit each one's settings without too much button clicking.
I don't know what's going on with your machine, but I've upgraded several to Leopard with none of the odd bugs you appear to have. My pre-Leopard release of Cyberduck works fine, and continues to do so. I also use X (rarely) and that works.
Perhaps the difference is I did an upgrade rather than an archive and install on all of my machines? Anyway, no Leopard glitches here and all these machines get heavy use with lots of different apps. In fact, the only real thing that's ticking me off is that "Copy Link" in Safari now does a rich text copy rather than just a plain text URL.. and that's probably an enhancement for everyone else;-)
This same technology was on the business investment show "Dragons' Den" but invented by a British guy. The investors ended up laughing it out of the room as they couldn't see how it could have any practical application whatsoever. The company's called "Virtual Puppet Ltd" and if you're in the UK (or possibly elsewhere) you can watch their presentation to the dragons here.
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Checked an hour ago, already registered to them now..
You, sir, deserve an award for the most obscure way to put together a random 8 letter "word." Bravo!
Ridiculing religion is like ridiculing conspiracy theorists. To be fair, that's kinda what religious people are.
If they make one for caffeine, the whole of the open source movement is down the tubes!
Hurrah, can't believe a 19 year old movie has continued to have such good theater attendance to break the record gross for an 80s horror movie. Congrats!
The USB features (shared printers and USB disks) makes it more than worthwhile to spend the extra money to me. You can plug a USB hub into it and have disks hanging off it, all network accessible. Bit like a cheap NAS. Other than that, the way you set it up and configure it from a desktop app is quite nice.
One thing about the speed cameras, though, is that they might present a "better the devil you know" scenario. I remember 10 - 15 years ago it was VERY common to have the cops hiding on bends, motorway bridges, etc, getting people who were speeding. You couldn't see these guys from afar, like you can the cameras. Now we have the cameras, I rarely see cops doing speed checks in person, but as long as you can see the cameras, you can almost get away with speeding wherever you like!
I can't speak for every single other instance you've heard, but in this case attacks on public property are cowardly. The cameras are merely objects that will be replaced in a bureaucratic way and tallied up as expenses. That is a cowardly and ineffective way to have an effect upon policy. Someone who is not a coward would protest in a less covert way.
I love your sense of irony.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4387706.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_3986000/3986227.stm
http://www.salfordadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/518880_firemen_attacked_by_firework_yobs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7139876.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6974095.stm
All found within 60 seconds. This literally happens all the time so the news.bbc.co.uk archive is full of stories like this.
This speed camera vandalizing is nothing new. It's been going on for at least seven years now. It's usually idiots who've been caught by the camera that day who go back to destroy the evidence. Thankfully the new "digital" speed cameras that transmit pictures back to the base instantly will resolve this.
However, I think this sort of cowardly attack on public property is nothing new in the UK. Whereas citizens of other countries will attempt to use the law to defeat things, the British are typically content to moan and be passive aggressive about things rather than effect real change. One curious development in the last several years here has been the increase in attacks against firefighters and paramedics. You can't go a week without hearing about firefighters getting rocks thrown at them and their tenders by gangs of feral teens. Even paramedics rushing to people's aid have been attacked and beaten up for no reason at all. Why? The British underclass is powerless, and aggression is all they know, because our legal and political systems are so limp wristed that the ordinary man on the street cannot effect change.
I actually thought Cloverfield sounded like an Intel chip name.
I always wondered about that. Because if multiple cameras down a road can capture you once, then what's stopping the coppers from catching you multiple times with their radar while they're following you?
If you're going around the M25 in the variable speed limit section and you stay in the same lane doing, say, 15 mph over the posted speed limit (e.g. 65 in a 50), you could actually rack up about 21 penalty points with the inevitable disqualification.. just in two miles!
In a list of files, etc, Perl 5.10 will come between 5.1 and 5.2, which makes no sense at all.
.. but the Internet is far from ideal. The Internet is not as resilient to attack as it was initially anticipated to be. You can have a single line go down between two sites and even though the sites both have multiple routes in and out, the traffic flow can stop completely due to dumb routing tables, commercial arrangements, and other interests. The Internet is not full of unbiased routers connected together in a mathematically ideal, impartial way. It's more like a social network.. where if two people fall out, communications between friends of those two people can become socially impossible even though it's not physically impossible.
You're probably right. It's most likely just the reality of 24/7 news, mass communication, and the ability to get news about things that, previously, would never have either been discovered or were deliberately held back from the presses.
England doesn't work that way. There's no significant history of implementing local laws, other than bylaws which cover little more than things like "don't walk on the grass". On the plus side, this means you don't end up with American levels of law variance from town to town.
You mean, as opposed to the millions of fat, bearded slobs on WOW who are "level 70 warlocks" for real? :)
Aside from the fact that Gitmo is similar to a concentration camp, what did you read in the article that leads you to that point of view?
It was the implicit notion I had that went.. "hey, reading this actually seems semi-normal nowadays.. and that shouldn't be the case." We shouldn't have to read about this crap because it shouldn't be going on in the first place but now it's part of the same-old.
Reading this article made me realize just how we've all fallen victim to the "boiling frog syndrome". Ten years ago it would have seemed nuts to be reading, and hearing about, the operation of concentration camps in the West, other than when reading about WWII. Now we read stuff about concentration camps, internment, loss of habeas corpus, the US kidnapping people from around the world, etc, and it's all just regular, "same old" news. A few people still feel a little shock, and even fewer actually bother to do anything about it, while the rest of us twiddle our thumbs and either hope it'll all go away or think that "well, we've done nothing wrong, so we'll be fine."
I wonder what sort of stories we'll be reading in another ten years that would shock us now but will seem like regular occurrences in 2017? Thoughtcrime executions, archived recording of all telephone calls (the European Union is already working on this!), incarcerating people because they have the "genes" of a potential psychopath (again, the EU is looking into this)? It's gunna happen and we'll just keep boiling like the frogs we are.
One of the good things about Snippets in particular is the taggability.. kinda like searching for stuff in del.icio.us. So.. I can just kinda guess some URLs and know I'll get something relevant (I hope!)
http://snippets.dzone.com/tags/ruby
http://snippets.dzone.com/tags/ruby/http
http://snippets.dzone.com/tags/python/windows
http://snippets.dzone.com/tags/rebol
And so on..
Likewise. I did upgrades on my machines too, and all has been well. Only one minor issue is my girlfriend's MacBook got the commonplace keyboard problem (no response for 10 seconds, randomly) but resetting PRAM seemed to fix that.
Running a whole suite of apps, lots of technical stuff (lots of compilation, various interpreters, libraries, etc) going on, and Leopard has been good. The interface feels a lot nicer than Tiger, which looks toy like in comparison (can't get used to brushed metal in Safari when I go back to using my old iMac occasionally!). No kernel panics at all and network access is far improved.. no longer does Finder freeze up randomly on network browsing.
I guess you win some, you lose some.
WTF is going on in the Network Prefs? It's been simple and straightforward since OS 8, and now it's like a circus.
;-)
The Network Prefs is probably one of the better enhancements. It was weird before with the rather odd shifts in interface layout occurring when you merely selected different items from the combo. Now, at least, you have all the interfaces down the left, you click on those, and you can edit each one's settings without too much button clicking.
I don't know what's going on with your machine, but I've upgraded several to Leopard with none of the odd bugs you appear to have. My pre-Leopard release of Cyberduck works fine, and continues to do so. I also use X (rarely) and that works.
Perhaps the difference is I did an upgrade rather than an archive and install on all of my machines? Anyway, no Leopard glitches here and all these machines get heavy use with lots of different apps. In fact, the only real thing that's ticking me off is that "Copy Link" in Safari now does a rich text copy rather than just a plain text URL.. and that's probably an enhancement for everyone else
This same technology was on the business investment show "Dragons' Den" but invented by a British guy. The investors ended up laughing it out of the room as they couldn't see how it could have any practical application whatsoever. The company's called "Virtual Puppet Ltd" and if you're in the UK (or possibly elsewhere) you can watch their presentation to the dragons here.