I believe the stereotype is that the British drink it warm, but I don't know if that's true.
That's not a stereotype. It was the worst beer I ever had, while in transit in the Heathrow Airport. I think they do it in order to make the experience of drinking piss more accurate. God knows the taste is already there.
What about the girls who made second and third places? What about the girl who is in 4th place without a medal, though she really deserved the 3rd?
I agree that it sucks, but the penalty shouldn't go to the innocent. Besides, having trained for these events all of their lives, I'm sure that they know the rules and that they were breaking them, which makes them complicit (though I do understand that they probably never had a choice).
That's a state run "world class gymnast" factory in the worst sense of the word: the production is high and those who don't make it are cast aside like a microchip which failed the automated tests.
Can you argue that such a system would be acceptable in a western country? You've obviously never been anywhere near China.
Why do you think everyone fears HIV? Why do you think we go to great lengths to avoid it?
Because it kills. If all it did was make you sneeze, it would probably be spread over 80% of the world's population. Hell, if it made you burn fat easier or something, it would have 100% infection rate.
My GF's laptop from HP had the same problem. The vent canals were blocked with dust, so we opened a small door on the back that exposed the fan, and from there, cleaned everything easily.
A month later my mother called me up with the same problem, so I went fully confident that I knew how to fix it. Her laptop was also an HP, but one of the newer ones, with the more stylish appearance. For some reason HP decided that the fan door was no longer necessary, so in order to reach the fan I would have to completely open the laptop's case.
I didn't want to do that because it wasn't my laptop, and I had a previous bad experience with an Acer laptop, so I decided to just put the most powerful vacuum cleaner I could find to the fan holes for a really long time.
In the end I managed to suck out at least 2 large dust bunnies through the holes, and the laptop improved considerably, but I'm still not sure if it's completely clean.
It surprised me that HP had such a convenient door for easily fixing what seems like a common problem, and decided to kill it on the newer designs.
So uhh, not to defend Apple, but PCs also have their share of bad design decisions when it comes to maintenance.
Not only that, but if we assume he's a valuable member of society (he probably is -- most people are contributing to society one way or the other) then the costs of his brain damage are even higher than just his medical bills.
Furthermore, a society is much more productive and happy if there aren't as many mutilated, unprotected adrenaline seekers.
Same here. I have a super powerful 17" laptop because I need the power for work and the mobility for presentations and what not (it's also nice to have power when I need it at home), but for personal use I'm considering one of those low-powered laptops because frankly I'm getting tired of lugging this beast everywhere just to check my email and browse Slashdot.
The only reason I don't have one yet is that the current crop are almost there, but not yet there. I think the Dell might be the one. The Acer one and the MSI are also interesting, but the Asus is a little bit too expensive, at least in Europe.
Since this week slashdot started making me wait 1-3 seconds for the tab to close. It seems like it's updating something, probably in support of this feature:
So D2 now remembers what you have read.
I mean, the feature seems cool, but couldn't it have been implemented in some other, more subtle? Like saving every N seconds, or something? I just wonder if the network goes down, or the connection fails for some reason, if it will be impossible to close my tab without bringing the whole browser down.
What's up with idle.slashdot.org? Why is the new commenting system working seamlessly for all sections except for that one? It is the one place in slashdot where you can't set your preferences, and that doesn't respect the ones you set somewhere else on the site.
Is it supposed to be some kind of an easter egg? Because it sure as hell doesn't look like a bug to me.
beowulf cluster of Linux servers running Duke Nukem Forever on virtualised copies of Vista, whilst at the same time running a grid/distributed computing program that's testing proteins for possible AIDs/MRSA cures in spare GPU cycles
Dude, you wouldn't have spare cycles if you were running vista directly on the hardware, much less if it were virtualized.
The manual crop is a joke. It doesn't even give you any information on the size of the crop (pixels would be nice), and, as you say, it should be possible to type either exact pixels or a ratio, like Gimp does.
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Happened to me, but luckily I didn't give him money the first time around.
The second time he asked me (one week later, same spot) I told him "you seem to get lost a lot".
He just went away to try and scam someone else.
I believe the stereotype is that the British drink it warm, but I don't know if that's true.
That's not a stereotype. It was the worst beer I ever had, while in transit in the Heathrow Airport.
I think they do it in order to make the experience of drinking piss more accurate. God knows the taste is already there.
And worse is that it seems that the enter key doesn't work anymore.
What about the girls who made second and third places? What about the girl who is in 4th place without a medal, though she really deserved the 3rd?
I agree that it sucks, but the penalty shouldn't go to the innocent. Besides, having trained for these events all of their lives, I'm sure that they know the rules and that they were breaking them, which makes them complicit (though I do understand that they probably never had a choice).
Ignore the German guy and jump to around 30 seconds: http://www.pcwelt.de/index.cfm?pid=573&pk=69698&fk=1747296
That's a state run "world class gymnast" factory in the worst sense of the word: the production is high and those who don't make it are cast aside like a microchip which failed the automated tests.
Can you argue that such a system would be acceptable in a western country?
You've obviously never been anywhere near China.
The IOC has little choice but to accept the national passports as sufficient proof of their age.
Yeah, but if they have proof that the documents were forged, they should investigate and impose the required penalties.
It's like if someone was accused of doping and the IOC asked that athlete's country to supply proof without further investigation.
Yeah, it's also not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.
Maybe not unsuccessful, but not that successful.
Why do you think everyone fears HIV? Why do you think we go to great lengths to avoid it?
Because it kills. If all it did was make you sneeze, it would probably be spread over 80% of the world's population.
Hell, if it made you burn fat easier or something, it would have 100% infection rate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acne
I heard that pandas are sexually attracted to fire, that it explains their tendency for extinction.
I've never been able to confirm this, so I tend to dismiss it as hearsay, but it's a funny story nonetheless.
My GF's laptop from HP had the same problem. The vent canals were blocked with dust, so we opened a small door on the back that exposed the fan, and from there, cleaned everything easily.
A month later my mother called me up with the same problem, so I went fully confident that I knew how to fix it. Her laptop was also an HP, but one of the newer ones, with the more stylish appearance. For some reason HP decided that the fan door was no longer necessary, so in order to reach the fan I would have to completely open the laptop's case.
I didn't want to do that because it wasn't my laptop, and I had a previous bad experience with an Acer laptop, so I decided to just put the most powerful vacuum cleaner I could find to the fan holes for a really long time.
In the end I managed to suck out at least 2 large dust bunnies through the holes, and the laptop improved considerably, but I'm still not sure if it's completely clean.
It surprised me that HP had such a convenient door for easily fixing what seems like a common problem, and decided to kill it on the newer designs.
So uhh, not to defend Apple, but PCs also have their share of bad design decisions when it comes to maintenance.
Canon also does this.
It was also how I discovered the "USB symbol" rule.
Not only that, but if we assume he's a valuable member of society (he probably is -- most people are contributing to society one way or the other) then the costs of his brain damage are even higher than just his medical bills.
Furthermore, a society is much more productive and happy if there aren't as many mutilated, unprotected adrenaline seekers.
I'm skeptical that turning this laptop by 180 degrees will turn it into a viola.
Same here.
I have a super powerful 17" laptop because I need the power for work and the mobility for presentations and what not (it's also nice to have power when I need it at home), but for personal use I'm considering one of those low-powered laptops because frankly I'm getting tired of lugging this beast everywhere just to check my email and browse Slashdot.
The only reason I don't have one yet is that the current crop are almost there, but not yet there. I think the Dell might be the one. The Acer one and the MSI are also interesting, but the Asus is a little bit too expensive, at least in Europe.
The more you smoke, the more insightful Elisa gets.
Ops. Sorry, my bad :-)
Also anoying: people who don't use the signature facility and instead sign their messages manually so that others have no choice but to read them.
Since this week slashdot started making me wait 1-3 seconds for the tab to close.
It seems like it's updating something, probably in support of this feature:
So D2 now remembers what you have read.
I mean, the feature seems cool, but couldn't it have been implemented in some other, more subtle? Like saving every N seconds, or something?
I just wonder if the network goes down, or the connection fails for some reason, if it will be impossible to close my tab without bringing the whole browser down.
What's up with idle.slashdot.org?
Why is the new commenting system working seamlessly for all sections except for that one?
It is the one place in slashdot where you can't set your preferences, and that doesn't respect the ones you set somewhere else on the site.
Is it supposed to be some kind of an easter egg? Because it sure as hell doesn't look like a bug to me.
No. It works in Google Reader (j for next post, k for previous)
What's that sound?
My joke going over your head?
beowulf cluster of Linux servers running Duke Nukem Forever on virtualised copies of Vista, whilst at the same time running a grid/distributed computing program that's testing proteins for possible AIDs/MRSA cures in spare GPU cycles
Dude, you wouldn't have spare cycles if you were running vista directly on the hardware, much less if it were virtualized.
I was kidding, man :-)
The manual crop is a joke. It doesn't even give you any information on the size of the crop (pixels would be nice), and, as you say, it should be possible to type either exact pixels or a ratio, like Gimp does.
Picasa allows it, it's the "Manual" option on the crop menu. :-)
Of course it requires a good eye and stable hands, but is *is* possible
(...) since I static-zapped my desktop (...)