A few years ago there was a comedy in the UK set in a newsroom where the storyline featured up to the minute news items. After a brainstorming session where they wanted something to reflect a minor news item they called it 'Drop The Dead Donkey' - the relevance to this thread is that the initial favourite title was 'Dead Belgians Don't Count'
I was wondering about this too. Aren't HDMI to DVI cables pretty common? Why didn't this come up before?
Perhaps something to do with the lightpeak/Thunderbolt cable? From what I have read that connector is aimed at being capable of driving displays as well as other peripherals - it may be HDMI guys trying to flex their muscles right from the start on this one.
I believe the Shuttle has a larger cargo bay than standard alternative mechanisms for carrying stuff up to the ISS, which is why this last mission is so mundane in the cargo its carrying.
I wonder if part of the culture of 'we can get by without backup for our IT guy' is down to total length of vacation time that someone has? In the UK its something like 25 days minimum (as opposed to the 10 or so including National holidays that were on offer in the US) and so maybe being able to cope with the systems administrator being away for a couple of weeks at a time is forced upon the organisation.
Just in time for me to release my new "lemonade stand app" it tells you if you are approaching a lemonade stand, and to slow down just in case you are thirsty, or take a different route if you don't like lemonade at all.
You fool! Of course that will get banned! Apple will only approve stalls selling cider!
Odd that they don't simply spread their message by not buying these types of food.
That is actually one of the reasons GM food isn't a big thing in the EU - there is a labelling requirement. Ironically Monsanto et al have been lobbying for this requirement to be removed (as it is in the US) strangely arguing the removal of a GM food labelling requirement would increase consumer choice!
Can't find the original article but I recall reading the BSG creators did feasibility studies on bullets or rayguns for the series and came up with laser powered handguns just not being as effective as bullets.
I'd prefer to reserve 'evil' as a monicker for tobacco companies, arms companies and Nestle (http://www.babymilkaction.org/).
Apple are just more restrictive and controlling - probably more so than Microsoft ever were.
Actually, for traffic cameras its usually a case of having those driving through neighbourhood slowing down and driving at a sensible speed. From personal experience a yellow box beats having to walk past a blood splattered street.
It was a big change for the person who used the system to decide she never wanted to use it again within a week of using it - and getting a new PC was the easiest way to sort things out at the time.
Personally I know I can dislike something at first but trying the old system brings home that the new system is better. On 90s UNIX systems I remember switching from an OS where the active window was whatever the mouse cursor was hovering over to one where the active window needed to be clicked on to be active. Hated it at first, but then switching back meant I had to start paying attention to the position of the mouse.
At the time I did a hunt for changing the positions round on the Ubuntu forums, and from what I read there there seemed to be there was no way of doing that. Maybe noone else there also knew how to do it - it certainly didn't come up on the desktop manager options available at the time - and in fact the ability to switch was put in as a feature request on the ubuntu feature request system which it sounds like has since been implemented. The one attempt I had at changing themes just didn't work - maybe the graphics card was too old for what I tried but I just didn't have the time to go around debugging this, getting a new PC was the easier option.
The point being - something that worked nicely and had been something I viewed as a selling point for Ubuntu (that the GUI had been perfect out the box for a non-techy traditional Windows user to start using straight away) - got messed up to the point the person who I was maintaining this for who had been using Ubuntu quite happily for two years, refused to use it anymore.
That was definitely the case in our house. Long story short Ubuntu went from being used on our communal home built desktop to being replaced by a new Windows 7 PC within two weeks of the installation of a version with the buttons on the other side, and the move to get a new PC came mainly as it became unusable to the other half because of the buttons being shifted round. (It was an oldish PC but did the job it was used for). This was particularly ironic as when I first got her to start using it (four years ago) as the main desktop PC I was filled with trepidation about how easy it would be for her to use - but she took to using it very well and I'd smugly being going round saying how Linux desktops are ready for common use. I've switched to Kubuntu myself.
I personally get by with Opera the 'Enable Plug-Ins' checkbox placed on the status bar and turned off by default. This stops any flash ads. This works for me as I follow the 'Ad blocking hurts the websites you love' approach, and its the flash ads that are the really annoying ones - YMMV.
I make sure I carry round a Logitech Trackman Wheel for using with my laptop. As someone who has had RSI in the past its just something I have in my laptop carry bag. I went for the corded in the end rather than wireless (only one extra thing to carry round and no batteries to worry about).
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A few years ago there was a comedy in the UK set in a newsroom where the storyline featured up to the minute news items. After a brainstorming session where they wanted something to reflect a minor news item they called it 'Drop The Dead Donkey' - the relevance to this thread is that the initial favourite title was 'Dead Belgians Don't Count'
I was wondering about this too. Aren't HDMI to DVI cables pretty common? Why didn't this come up before?
Perhaps something to do with the lightpeak/Thunderbolt cable? From what I have read that connector is aimed at being capable of driving displays as well as other peripherals - it may be HDMI guys trying to flex their muscles right from the start on this one.
I believe the Shuttle has a larger cargo bay than standard alternative mechanisms for carrying stuff up to the ISS, which is why this last mission is so mundane in the cargo its carrying.
I wonder if part of the culture of 'we can get by without backup for our IT guy' is down to total length of vacation time that someone has? In the UK its something like 25 days minimum (as opposed to the 10 or so including National holidays that were on offer in the US) and so maybe being able to cope with the systems administrator being away for a couple of weeks at a time is forced upon the organisation.
Hugh Grant did a reverse sting operation on a journalist who stated that Rebekah Brookes was well aware about the phone hacking operations. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/06/phone-hacking-hugh-grant-taped
I'm more than happy using the Opera browser mail client.
It looks like that would be under threat from Chrome.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/jun/15/google-chromebook-os-microsoft-threat
Just in time for me to release my new "lemonade stand app" it tells you if you are approaching a lemonade stand, and to slow down just in case you are thirsty, or take a different route if you don't like lemonade at all.
You fool! Of course that will get banned! Apple will only approve stalls selling cider!
..by Bowser but Mario always gets the data back.
Odd that they don't simply spread their message by not buying these types of food.
That is actually one of the reasons GM food isn't a big thing in the EU - there is a labelling requirement. Ironically Monsanto et al have been lobbying for this requirement to be removed (as it is in the US) strangely arguing the removal of a GM food labelling requirement would increase consumer choice!
Can't find the original article but I recall reading the BSG creators did feasibility studies on bullets or rayguns for the series and came up with laser powered handguns just not being as effective as bullets.
There is a song about commemorating the event here http://geekpop.bandcamp.com/track/radio-gagarin
I'd prefer to reserve 'evil' as a monicker for tobacco companies, arms companies and Nestle (http://www.babymilkaction.org/). Apple are just more restrictive and controlling - probably more so than Microsoft ever were.
Actually, for traffic cameras its usually a case of having those driving through neighbourhood slowing down and driving at a sensible speed. From personal experience a yellow box beats having to walk past a blood splattered street.
Just because its part of peoples lives doesn't mean its linked to things. Slashdot is part of all our lives, but linked to 0% of marriages. Probably!
It was a big change for the person who used the system to decide she never wanted to use it again within a week of using it - and getting a new PC was the easiest way to sort things out at the time.
Personally I know I can dislike something at first but trying the old system brings home that the new system is better. On 90s UNIX systems I remember switching from an OS where the active window was whatever the mouse cursor was hovering over to one where the active window needed to be clicked on to be active. Hated it at first, but then switching back meant I had to start paying attention to the position of the mouse.
At the time I did a hunt for changing the positions round on the Ubuntu forums, and from what I read there there seemed to be there was no way of doing that. Maybe noone else there also knew how to do it - it certainly didn't come up on the desktop manager options available at the time - and in fact the ability to switch was put in as a feature request on the ubuntu feature request system which it sounds like has since been implemented. The one attempt I had at changing themes just didn't work - maybe the graphics card was too old for what I tried but I just didn't have the time to go around debugging this, getting a new PC was the easier option.
The point being - something that worked nicely and had been something I viewed as a selling point for Ubuntu (that the GUI had been perfect out the box for a non-techy traditional Windows user to start using straight away) - got messed up to the point the person who I was maintaining this for who had been using Ubuntu quite happily for two years, refused to use it anymore.
That was definitely the case in our house. Long story short Ubuntu went from being used on our communal home built desktop to being replaced by a new Windows 7 PC within two weeks of the installation of a version with the buttons on the other side, and the move to get a new PC came mainly as it became unusable to the other half because of the buttons being shifted round. (It was an oldish PC but did the job it was used for). This was particularly ironic as when I first got her to start using it (four years ago) as the main desktop PC I was filled with trepidation about how easy it would be for her to use - but she took to using it very well and I'd smugly being going round saying how Linux desktops are ready for common use. I've switched to Kubuntu myself.
Plus don't forget the 30% they take from the artist/label for any music they sell on iTunes as well.
Either way, its got to beat being stashed up someones a**e.
In Britain its a lingerie shop. We win!!!!
This is why we need Sarah Palin as president - she would do it herself!
(*hoping that gets taken as humourous)
Did someone let them know that the Apple Computer they'd been using from the era had sold?
I personally get by with Opera the 'Enable Plug-Ins' checkbox placed on the status bar and turned off by default. This stops any flash ads. This works for me as I follow the 'Ad blocking hurts the websites you love' approach, and its the flash ads that are the really annoying ones - YMMV.
I make sure I carry round a Logitech Trackman Wheel for using with my laptop. As someone who has had RSI in the past its just something I have in my laptop carry bag. I went for the corded in the end rather than wireless (only one extra thing to carry round and no batteries to worry about).