Um, I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me, but I was just trying to make the point that Dell would do it to make money, which is what I think you are saying too...
Not to sound like a broken record around here, but why would Dell go out of their way to find components that work on an OS that is in direct competition with the one that ships with (currently) 100% of their hardware?
A few years back, I built a 20X40 swimming pool with diving board and slide, and built a 70X40 concrete deck (yes, I mixed and poured it myself) with cedar railing to surround it.
I must be tired, I read "cedar railing" as "radar ceiling". It didn't make sense.:)
For example, use it to fling food and water up to the space station
Space Station Resident 1: "The food's arrived!"
Space Station Resident 2: "What have we got today?"
Space Station Resident 1: (opens box) "Damn, pancakes again!"
Is it? Off topic, but say people reproduce at about 30 or thereabouts (a sweeping generalization which I'm making up off the top of my head, but it's certainly less than 100), then wouldn't 100 years be 3 and a bit generations?
Perhaps, but imagine if half of your country's population died within a short space of time. Do you think that your local and national government would be able to cope with the disposal of hundreds of thousands, millions of bodies? How about if half of those goverment workers were deceased themselves?
The disease that resulted from millions and billions of rotting corpses in houses and in the street would surely put paid to everyone else...
On a dual carriageway you are required to stay in the left hand land unless you need to overtake or the path ahead of you is hard to pass (slow sunday driver for example)
That's also true on motorways, but it's widely flouted (the nasty habit of calling the lanes 'slow lane' and 'fast lane' doesn't help here).
I recall hearing on the radio that older drivers, esp pensioners, who learned "long ago" were taught that the left hand lane was for going 45-55 (or so), the middle lane for 55-65 and the right for overtaking (I suppose this was when cars took a long time to get up to 70). This isn't the case now, but old habits die hard.
I'm not sure as the the authenticity of this statement, but it seems plausible to me.
>Why would the Autons, the Rift, the Slovenes, the gas creatures, and Rose's home all be in Cardiff?
Because they aren't? Most of the present-day terrestrial action -- apart from the Rift follow-up with the last Slovene -- takes place in London, not Cardiff. Rose's home, and the store she worked in, were in London. (Hints: establishing shots of famous London landmarks, the Millenium Eye used a plot device, alien saucer crashing into Big Ben, accents, etc)
I don't think this is what they meant, but GP may be referring to the fact that a large part of the series was filmed in Cardiff, and for example some of the street scenes are clearly recognizable as Cardiff to someone familiar with the area
In Norway they have done something even more extreme. They have a camera taking your picture at one place, then several kilometers further down they take a new picture and calculate how fast you have driven between the two cameras, basically, your speed on average must meet the speed limit on average over quite a distance... They are testing this solution right now and it most likely will be legal to set it up.
We've had these in Britain for a while now, it's called SPECS over here. The first such system was set up here in 2000
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Haven't we seen this posted on /. before?
Yes, but it's appeared again, thanks to a bug.
No, over here, we'd hit him with a spanner.
I'm afraid so.
He's obviously doing it one-handed.
They seem to handle it pretty well in Google Suggest:
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
According to the BBC, a third person has died. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6918540. stm
Um, I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me, but I was just trying to make the point that Dell would do it to make money, which is what I think you are saying too...
Not to sound like a broken record around here, but why would Dell go out of their way to find components that work on an OS that is in direct competition with the one that ships with (currently) 100% of their hardware?
For three simple reasons:
I think it might be more like:
Yes, it's an int, but it always returns 2
It sounds like you're using multiple bulbs - did you try mixing the different types to get a different light?
Yes, but he crossed the seal - I think the immortality was conditional on not doing that...
Yes! I can see it! A big, yellow square in the sky! :-)
I think it's called the "vomit comet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_comet - although I quite like "vomit rocket" :-)
A few years back, I built a 20X40 swimming pool with diving board and slide, and built a 70X40 concrete deck (yes, I mixed and poured it myself) with cedar railing to surround it.
:)
I must be tired, I read "cedar railing" as "radar ceiling". It didn't make sense.
Although, to be fair, TFA does say "The good, the bad and the ugly...?" and not just "the bad and the ugly".
For example, use it to fling food and water up to the space station
Space Station Resident 1: "The food's arrived!"
Space Station Resident 2: "What have we got today?"
Space Station Resident 1: (opens box) "Damn, pancakes again!"
well, 100 years is only one generation
Is it? Off topic, but say people reproduce at about 30 or thereabouts (a sweeping generalization which I'm making up off the top of my head, but it's certainly less than 100), then wouldn't 100 years be 3 and a bit generations?
?Perhaps, but imagine if half of your country's population died within a short space of time. Do you think that your local and national government would be able to cope with the disposal of hundreds of thousands, millions of bodies? How about if half of those goverment workers were deceased themselves?
The disease that resulted from millions and billions of rotting corpses in houses and in the street would surely put paid to everyone else...
Is there any guarantee that each camera's filter will be at the same angle though?
I remember this quote (with "shotgun" not "machine gun") from Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy.
On a dual carriageway you are required to stay in the left hand land unless you need to overtake or the path ahead of you is hard to pass (slow sunday driver for example)
That's also true on motorways, but it's widely flouted (the nasty habit of calling the lanes 'slow lane' and 'fast lane' doesn't help here).
I recall hearing on the radio that older drivers, esp pensioners, who learned "long ago" were taught that the left hand lane was for going 45-55 (or so), the middle lane for 55-65 and the right for overtaking (I suppose this was when cars took a long time to get up to 70). This isn't the case now, but old habits die hard.
I'm not sure as the the authenticity of this statement, but it seems plausible to me.
i think the knightrider idea of rotating number plates is about to become reality.
IIRC James Bond's Aston Martin had revolving numberplates in Goldfinger in 1964...slighty before Knight Rider.
>Why would the Autons, the Rift, the Slovenes, the gas creatures, and Rose's home all be in Cardiff?
Because they aren't? Most of the present-day terrestrial action -- apart from the Rift follow-up with the last Slovene -- takes place in London, not Cardiff. Rose's home, and the store she worked in, were in London. (Hints: establishing shots of famous London landmarks, the Millenium Eye used a plot device, alien saucer crashing into Big Ben, accents, etc)
I don't think this is what they meant, but GP may be referring to the fact that a large part of the series was filmed in Cardiff, and for example some of the street scenes are clearly recognizable as Cardiff to someone familiar with the area
In Norway they have done something even more extreme. They have a camera taking your picture at one place, then several kilometers further down they take a new picture and calculate how fast you have driven between the two cameras, basically, your speed on average must meet the speed limit on average over quite a distance... They are testing this solution right now and it most likely will be legal to set it up.
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We've had these in Britain for a while now, it's called SPECS over here. The first such system was set up here in 2000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/46815
http://www.abd.org.uk/specs.htm
http://www.speedcamerasuk.com/SPECS.htm
I'd really like to see a bit more attention paid to making Slashdot headlines accurate, both by submitters and editors.
;)
If you did see that, it would probably just be an illusion