In the UK, we have a living legend called Delia Smith who outsells almost anyone else with her cookbooks, and can cause booms in the sales of ingredients.
She recently did some series called "How to cook" which covered lots of stuff. Book 1 is href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/ -/0789471868/qid=1085998768/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002- 4412197-2796065?v=glance&s=books">here
The other book that's great is Nigel Slater's Real Fast Food: here which is my book for people who use the excuse of "not enough time to cook". It's full of great recipes and hundreds of ideas for cooking varieties of simple recipes.
I also know dozens of other good books.
My own tips...
1. Practice, practice, practice. I'm a reasonable cook because I've been doing it for years.
2. Buy good ingredients. Find suppliers of premium foods that are
3. Buy good equipment. Not ludicrously expensive stuff made with carbon fibre handles or something, just good solid kit. Cheap knives are a waste of money.
Pub violence in the UK is about areas of towns. I know the areas to drink in, and which are good and bad.
Most of it is young kids (about 16-21). Mostly, they'll give people a punch, at worst. The towns are starting to put all the pubs for kids in "zoned" areas so the police can hang around near there.
The rest of us can drink in mostly trouble-free pubs.
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I'm not against cel animation. The cel/CGI discussion is as worthless as arguments about guitars and synths.
Sure, they've got Snow White, Tinkerbell, Belle and the Pixars.
But home grown, post-Lion King, what do they have? Anything about The Emperor's New Groove, or Treasure Planet, or Brother Bear?
I don't know about Robin Hood, Cinderella or Peter Pan. They're OK, but I wouldn't call any of those "classics", even though Disney like to put that moniker on everything they release.
Good to see the UK price on that is as bad as ever. 279UKP is rubbish considering the current exchange rate.
Ethernet is possibly enough of a reason for me to buy one!
I'd much prefer it over USB. USB is driver dependent, so that potentially, you have to have software for your hardware to move it. Ethernet means that there's nothing to install to get files on, so no conflicts.
I've been working with some younger guys, and they are very switched on to Linux. They also seem to be the kind of people who get the job done (whether on Linux or MS).
The movement of those people into the business world is going to have a dramatic effect on Microsoft's business.
Nemo is really a film for adults, and particularly parents. When you think of older Disney films, they are moral tales for kids - Nemo is a moral tale for parents.
BTW Did Aladdin start this, or was it maybe Who Framed Roger Rabbit - the whole genre of movies for kids with enough lines to keep the adults happy?
There's some great one-liners in Aladdin between Al and the Genie. Nothing that would have parents feeling uncomfortable to explain, but would go over kids heads.
Better for them that the fool bean counters in their competition think that it's all about the CGI and spend millions on that than hiring good writers (although I think that Katzenberg knows it's all about the story).
Oh yeah, Mickey Mouse. The main cultural reference I ever see to Mickey Mouse is - the adverts for Walt Disney World. I never see Mickey cartoons on TV (don't get Disney channel).
Aren't a lot of the characters pretty much has-beens now? Cinderella? That was a lousy Disney movie. Goofy, Minnie, Pluto. Don't see them much either.
The stuff they've got are Pixar characters, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
The way Disney are going, what will they have in 10 years? Probably not much more. They've added nothing bankable since the Lion King.
I was thinking about how much Disney depends on the quality/sales of their animated films.
I see these ads on TV for Disneyland with Mickey Mouse. When I was a kid, Mickey was still being animated. Is he anymore?
Without characters, there's no toys, no lucrative burger sponsorship. If you don't have any characters, why are kids going to go to your theme park, and not someone else's?
Sure, I can watch Monsters Inc and say "how the fuck did they do the hair on Sully" (before being reminded not to say "fuck" in front of someones kids in the cinema).
The kids in the cinema don't care about the CG. They care about Sully and Mike and the story.
Watch the extras on Beauty and the Beast Platinum Edition, and you get the impression that the guy really tried to raise the quality - bringing in script writers from outside of animation departments.
I get a bit fed up with all the PHP/VB bashing as well.
A LOT of companies use these tools, partly because they are simple and quick.
I've also used MS Access when it suited. For getting something implemented in a department in a very short deadline as an interim solution to something more scalable and stable.
What do you think would be the benefits of adding Bittorrent rather than having a separate app?
That's a serious question, not an attempt to flame, because for me, I'd rather have something separate, particularly so I can close down the browser and have the torrent running in the background.
I think one of the things that people ignore when people talk about speed of loading is that Mozilla has this powerful XUL stuff. How much it is used by people, I don't know. Has anyone any experience of using it for data collection or whatever?
One of the problems with solar at the moment is that it's expensive partly because of the niche sales. It needs an injection.
If the UK govt enacted legislation that gave a tax break to solar roofing (they do with cavity wall insulation), apart from the takeup increasing, it would also improve the takeup because the increase in sales would result in more manufacturers, which would then reduce costs. It really needs a kickstart to get going though.
The double taxes are irritating. If you buy a bottle of whisky, you pay both duty on the bottle AND VAT on the purchase price which includes the duty.
So, when the chancellor says he's adding 2p to the price of a bottle of wine, he's really adding 2p+VAT.
Personally, I'd get rid of VAT. It's a real waste of businesses time. One part of a supply chain has to charge it and then the next part claims it back.
I'd vote for any government that would promise to simplify the tax system too. Get rid of National Insurance, stamp duty, beer duty, IPT and rates and make it a graduated income tax.
Alternatively, get Adobe to port Photoshop to Linux. I can't understand why this isn't being done (correct me if it is).
Apart from the GIMP threat, don't most major software firms have an interest in seeing Microsoft brought down a bit to prevent them being such a threat?
When I started work 18 years ago, we still had no word processors and had to write our notes. Secretaries would type them, get things wrong, we'd have to redraft them and they'd do them again. Of course, any later changes would have to go back to them.
I don't even think about handwriting now. It's just terribly wasteful.
The only handwritten things I see nowadays are things like compliments on report approvals, where someone is trying to add a personal touch (and birthday cards).
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She recently did some series called "How to cook" which covered lots of stuff. Book 1 is href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/ -/0789471868/qid=1085998768/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002- 4412197-2796065?v=glance&s=books">here
The other book that's great is Nigel Slater's Real Fast Food: here which is my book for people who use the excuse of "not enough time to cook". It's full of great recipes and hundreds of ideas for cooking varieties of simple recipes.
I also know dozens of other good books.
My own tips...
1. Practice, practice, practice. I'm a reasonable cook because I've been doing it for years.
2. Buy good ingredients. Find suppliers of premium foods that are
3. Buy good equipment. Not ludicrously expensive stuff made with carbon fibre handles or something, just good solid kit. Cheap knives are a waste of money.
4. Start out simple and build up.
Let me guess... Tony Martin is one of those, a man who shot someone in the back who was leaving his farm.
Proportionate response? Hardly.
He was tried and convicted by a jury of his peers.
Pub violence in the UK is about areas of towns. I know the areas to drink in, and which are good and bad.
Most of it is young kids (about 16-21). Mostly, they'll give people a punch, at worst. The towns are starting to put all the pubs for kids in "zoned" areas so the police can hang around near there.
The rest of us can drink in mostly trouble-free pubs.
If so, those are some great machines.
Can we get one that finds huge caches of WMDs in Iraq?
Sure, they've got Snow White, Tinkerbell, Belle and the Pixars.
But home grown, post-Lion King, what do they have? Anything about The Emperor's New Groove, or Treasure Planet, or Brother Bear?
I don't know about Robin Hood, Cinderella or Peter Pan. They're OK, but I wouldn't call any of those "classics", even though Disney like to put that moniker on everything they release.
Ethernet is possibly enough of a reason for me to buy one!
I'd much prefer it over USB. USB is driver dependent, so that potentially, you have to have software for your hardware to move it. Ethernet means that there's nothing to install to get files on, so no conflicts.
BTW Does it have DHCP?
The movement of those people into the business world is going to have a dramatic effect on Microsoft's business.
BTW Did Aladdin start this, or was it maybe Who Framed Roger Rabbit - the whole genre of movies for kids with enough lines to keep the adults happy?
There's some great one-liners in Aladdin between Al and the Genie. Nothing that would have parents feeling uncomfortable to explain, but would go over kids heads.
Better for them that the fool bean counters in their competition think that it's all about the CGI and spend millions on that than hiring good writers (although I think that Katzenberg knows it's all about the story).
WHAT DISNEY DVD CHARACTERS?
Oh yeah, Mickey Mouse. The main cultural reference I ever see to Mickey Mouse is - the adverts for Walt Disney World. I never see Mickey cartoons on TV (don't get Disney channel).
Aren't a lot of the characters pretty much has-beens now? Cinderella? That was a lousy Disney movie. Goofy, Minnie, Pluto. Don't see them much either.
The stuff they've got are Pixar characters, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
The way Disney are going, what will they have in 10 years? Probably not much more. They've added nothing bankable since the Lion King.
I see these ads on TV for Disneyland with Mickey Mouse. When I was a kid, Mickey was still being animated. Is he anymore?
Without characters, there's no toys, no lucrative burger sponsorship. If you don't have any characters, why are kids going to go to your theme park, and not someone else's?
Sure, I can watch Monsters Inc and say "how the fuck did they do the hair on Sully" (before being reminded not to say "fuck" in front of someones kids in the cinema).
The kids in the cinema don't care about the CG. They care about Sully and Mike and the story.
Watch the extras on Beauty and the Beast Platinum Edition, and you get the impression that the guy really tried to raise the quality - bringing in script writers from outside of animation departments.
I mean, that's generally reserved for garbage, and TS2 most definitely wasn't that.
Makes me wonder about the people at Disney.
Apart from maybe Cinema Paradiso, what's Italy given world culture in the past 30 years?
I'm sure MS have a ton of guys, very skilled guys working on the next version of Office to add a ton of features that no-one wants.
A LOT of companies use these tools, partly because they are simple and quick.
I've also used MS Access when it suited. For getting something implemented in a department in a very short deadline as an interim solution to something more scalable and stable.
That's a serious question, not an attempt to flame, because for me, I'd rather have something separate, particularly so I can close down the browser and have the torrent running in the background.
I think one of the things that people ignore when people talk about speed of loading is that Mozilla has this powerful XUL stuff. How much it is used by people, I don't know. Has anyone any experience of using it for data collection or whatever?
If the UK govt enacted legislation that gave a tax break to solar roofing (they do with cavity wall insulation), apart from the takeup increasing, it would also improve the takeup because the increase in sales would result in more manufacturers, which would then reduce costs. It really needs a kickstart to get going though.
Thanks, but I'd rather have my 17.5 pence back than see the government spend it on Yet Another Failed Computer System.
So, when the chancellor says he's adding 2p to the price of a bottle of wine, he's really adding 2p+VAT.
Personally, I'd get rid of VAT. It's a real waste of businesses time. One part of a supply chain has to charge it and then the next part claims it back.
I'd vote for any government that would promise to simplify the tax system too. Get rid of National Insurance, stamp duty, beer duty, IPT and rates and make it a graduated income tax.
Apart from the GIMP threat, don't most major software firms have an interest in seeing Microsoft brought down a bit to prevent them being such a threat?
When I started work 18 years ago, we still had no word processors and had to write our notes. Secretaries would type them, get things wrong, we'd have to redraft them and they'd do them again. Of course, any later changes would have to go back to them.
I don't even think about handwriting now. It's just terribly wasteful.
The only handwritten things I see nowadays are things like compliments on report approvals, where someone is trying to add a personal touch (and birthday cards).
Very smart move IMO.