They are made scarce by the fact that the overwhelming majority of productive diamond mines are controlled by one company, which jealously guards that scarcity (literally, the "extra" diamonds are guarded in huge warehouses).
I'm surprised they don't destroy them instead in order to keep them scarce...
Dry Steam... it isn't wet... wet steam has water droplets in it, Dry steam is entirely H2O in the gaseous state...If you watch a kettle spout when the water inside is boiling, then you'll see the clear stream of dry steam for approx one inch and then it mixes with air and the droplets start forming and it changes to wet steam (which you can see). Dry steam is very dangerous in that you can't actually see it.
As i progressed in my career and my salary went up i payed an increasing proportion of it as income tax. At this moment i work as a freelancer in IT and i make more than twice as much monthly (after taxes) as i did when i started working here.
At the moment, and due to the freaky way freelancers are taxed (i'm paying both employer's and employee's taxes and mandatory costs) the total ammount of tax levied on my base rate (the ammount that is payed for my services) is around 55%. In other words, for every 8 hours i work a day, about 4h20m of those i'm working to pay the belastingdienst (tax office).
In two days time i will move to England.
hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously, it's just as bad here in good old blighty...
um, you haven't actually used Linux have you... if you select some things in the file manager and then right click, then one of the things in the actions menu is to create a data CD. In KDE the item uses K3b and with Gnome, it uses Gnomebaker... strangely enough, if you install Gnome or KDE, then the distro usually installs all the necessary software. That's if you're using a sane distro... there are those for diehards where they have to individually select things and find the dependencies, but as I say, those distros are for diehards...
and KDE... KDesktop asks for the filename you want to call it... Nice... didn't know it could do it... and it was a drag from Firefox to the KDE desktop as well... not just from a KDE app.
I can just see Bush declaring an emergency on polling day which has the side-effect of banning exit polls... oh so convenient... get rid of those pesky exit polls... then no-one knows how the voting is going except those controlling the magic software...
just make it installable exactly like the windows plugin... one click from the browser... without having to download and extract it
if you want it system wide, then make a standalone executable that only needs to be double clicked in Konqueror or Nautilus (or whaever else takes your fancy) and have the installer quiz you for the options and password
It ISN'T EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE now is it... durr...
Let the distros worry about packaging issues (deb, rpm, tar.gz...) then they can tailor it for themselves from the tar.gz or however you pack up the binary (I'm guessing it's gonna be closed source)
50,000 lines of code is nowhere near the complexity of the US Tax Code... that mother is in danger of gravitational collapse and pinching itself off into it's own universe... come to think of it, taxmen, tax-accountants and tax-lawyers do appear to be from another universe...
Wouldn't be much easier to put the data in a RFID chip? That could be easily integrated in a reader, and from the point of view of the user the only difference would be that the "new-improved" DVD would simply only play in the "new-improved" DVD-Player.
Since the RIAA began their suicidal jihad, I taught myself to play the guitar. I'm no virtuoso or even very good by any objective measure, but there's about 100 times the satisfaction and enjoyment in playing the 10 tunes I know than in just listening to any song I've ever heard.
and the bastards are running a "Jihad" against the tab sharing sites... alledgedly, someone sharing their personal interpretation of the notes being played is a copyright violation...
It doesn't help their sales when the professionally produced "licensed" tabs are often wrong and are ridiculously overpriced to boot... A book of Lyrics and Bass Tab for Green Day is some £20 in our local music shop !!! just the fancy, schmancy book, nothing else with it... For that price, I'd have expected "official" backing tracks to practice with...
I'm just waiting for more recent "fake" books to appear, then I'll be helping the samizdat type distribution of them... the current "fake" books I've found are fine for covering oldies, but next to useless for recent hits...
If you want our data, then we want yours... after all, if you've nothing to hide... then you've nothing to fear by having ex-communist countries and others having the goodies on Americans coming to visit them... and think of our children... and it's all in the fight against terrorists...
no one "needs" Microsoft anymore... everything is on the web and all you need is a cheapo whitebox with Ubuntu installed... email, wordprocessing, spreadsheets... all can be done with that cheapo box...
Microsoft is desperately trying to move the PC upmarket into multimedia entertainment centres (DRM'd to the eyeballs) but joe consumer (as long as he's not easily diverted by ohh shiny shiny...) is gonna balk at the cost of Vista and the hardware required to run it decently. and is gonna balk even more furiously when he discovers just how restrictive things will be in Visat land...
The world moves on... and Microsoft is getting behind the wave and has some desperate paddling to do to even think of catching up with it. They missed this wave BIG TIME...
I hate to burst your bubble, but I think this has already been accomplished by Youtube, to the tune of 1.64 billion dollars worth of "public discourse".
who owns Youtube??? a corporation... next please...
Ubuntu is a free, open source Linux-based operating system that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability (it should "Just Work", TM) and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of support for every release (and with 6.06 LTS you get 3 years on the desktop and 5 on the server!).
Having something like this that allows me to exercise while using my computer is good enough, don't force me to use it by powering off my computer if I stop for a breather.
come on... you're supposed to be a geek... how long would it take you to bypass the thing so you could run the PC without having to pedal at all???
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I get my games fix with a PS2. All I care about is slinging the disk in and having a blast...
they lost me 7 years ago. That was the last box I bought with windows on. Since then, I've dumped them and switched to Linux. Never regretted it.
brill, so if this causes the price of diamonds to crash, then I can have my diamond studded Bass guitar after all... mmm shiny shiny...
I'm surprised they don't destroy them instead in order to keep them scarce...
Dry Steam... it isn't wet... wet steam has water droplets in it, Dry steam is entirely H2O in the gaseous state...If you watch a kettle spout when the water inside is boiling, then you'll see the clear stream of dry steam for approx one inch and then it mixes with air and the droplets start forming and it changes to wet steam (which you can see). Dry steam is very dangerous in that you can't actually see it.
hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously, it's just as bad here in good old blighty...
correct, the best way of getting the bitter pill of truth swallowed is to sugar coat it in comedy...
especially when lawyers get involved...
um, you haven't actually used Linux have you... if you select some things in the file manager and then right click, then one of the things in the actions menu is to create a data CD. In KDE the item uses K3b and with Gnome, it uses Gnomebaker... strangely enough, if you install Gnome or KDE, then the distro usually installs all the necessary software. That's if you're using a sane distro... there are those for diehards where they have to individually select things and find the dependencies, but as I say, those distros are for diehards...
and KDE... KDesktop asks for the filename you want to call it... Nice... didn't know it could do it... and it was a drag from Firefox to the KDE desktop as well... not just from a KDE app.
I can just see Bush declaring an emergency on polling day which has the side-effect of banning exit polls... oh so convenient... get rid of those pesky exit polls... then no-one knows how the voting is going except those controlling the magic software...
but they can provide a handler package that does the downloading and installing automatically...
if you want it system wide, then make a standalone executable that only needs to be double clicked in Konqueror or Nautilus (or whaever else takes your fancy) and have the installer quiz you for the options and password
It ISN'T EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE now is it... durr...
Let the distros worry about packaging issues (deb, rpm, tar.gz...) then they can tailor it for themselves from the tar.gz or however you pack up the binary (I'm guessing it's gonna be closed source)
they should have put another couple of rows of doors around the place then... apparently doors are very effective at reducing radiation levels...
50,000 lines of code is nowhere near the complexity of the US Tax Code... that mother is in danger of gravitational collapse and pinching itself off into it's own universe... come to think of it, taxmen, tax-accountants and tax-lawyers do appear to be from another universe...
That's someone else's patent...
and the bastards are running a "Jihad" against the tab sharing sites... alledgedly, someone sharing their personal interpretation of the notes being played is a copyright violation...
It doesn't help their sales when the professionally produced "licensed" tabs are often wrong and are ridiculously overpriced to boot... A book of Lyrics and Bass Tab for Green Day is some £20 in our local music shop !!! just the fancy, schmancy book, nothing else with it... For that price, I'd have expected "official" backing tracks to practice with...
rip off alert...
I'm just waiting for more recent "fake" books to appear, then I'll be helping the samizdat type distribution of them... the current "fake" books I've found are fine for covering oldies, but next to useless for recent hits...
Just as long as it's not something Steve Ballmer is squirting to his friends and family....
If you want our data, then we want yours... after all, if you've nothing to hide... then you've nothing to fear by having ex-communist countries and others having the goodies on Americans coming to visit them... and think of our children... and it's all in the fight against terrorists...
mods on crack again... can't recognise a valid comment when it smacks them in the face. Just look at the serious debate it sparked off...
no one "needs" Microsoft anymore... everything is on the web and all you need is a cheapo whitebox with Ubuntu installed... email, wordprocessing, spreadsheets... all can be done with that cheapo box...
Microsoft is desperately trying to move the PC upmarket into multimedia entertainment centres (DRM'd to the eyeballs) but joe consumer (as long as he's not easily diverted by ohh shiny shiny...) is gonna balk at the cost of Vista and the hardware required to run it decently. and is gonna balk even more furiously when he discovers just how restrictive things will be in Visat land...
The world moves on... and Microsoft is getting behind the wave and has some desperate paddling to do to even think of catching up with it. They missed this wave BIG TIME...
Microsoft and Vista are irrelevant... and he just can't stand it... they're jealous and they're trying to lash out at anything they can't control.
who owns Youtube??? a corporation... next please...
come on... you're supposed to be a geek... how long would it take you to bypass the thing so you could run the PC without having to pedal at all???