Ditto for me, as a fellow Irish trekkie, in terms of sticking with Star Trek... except I gave up at Voyager Season 2 and DS9 season 6 (Ezri Dax?) Oh, and gave up on the Factfiles after about 5 folders or so (wonder can I sell them on ebay or somesuch).
Recently housemates have had Voyager on in the afternoon at the weekend. I don't know why. Absolutely pants. Really stupid stuff (ohhh, lets bust up the ship, that'll be great for viewership).
Lets face it, Trekdom always had a lame side (think that soap opera in space episode of TNG where Worf sitting in a mud bath asks "do we just sit here" - very apt line). Unfortunately, the lame side has had the upper hand for a while now.
Let it die. Who knows, there might be a day for good Star Trek again. Failing that, we always have a large amount of good Trek. If you want new stuff with old crews just read the better novels. If you want new decent sci-fi, try something else (there's not always something worthwhile, but some shows come and go that are good).
ATM, I'm enjoying the admittedly light (not serious sci-fi) Doctor Who as decent entertainment. Hope that continues to go well. Also enjoying reruns on occasion of DS9 and Red Dwarf (although both seem to have ended on Sky recently) as well as Trek movies (II and III on SciFi channel was nice light weekend afternoon viewing).
I have no intentions of ever watching Enterprise. Nor have I seen ST:Nemesis (though I may relent on that when it's on TV).
Alternatively, get a diesel car, and just stick rapeseed oil into it. Not sure how refined the oil needs to be, but this is possible. I think it's even the case that a petrol (gasoline) car can be suitably rigged up to use biodiesel (maybe I'm wrong on this point).
Using vegetable oil in existing internal combustion engines is a comforting thought for when the black stuff runs out, even the solution does have its own problems (i.e. using all that arable land for oil crops rather than food!).
That said, having a ready replacement for diesel fuel does dismiss the notion that all global commerce will end when the oil runs out.
GB more often stands for Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland is not in Great Britain, so GB is a bit of a misnomer to use in place of UK.
I haven't seen any NI cars with the standard EU-type numberplates yet. Will they have GB on them the same way English ones do? It makes little sense if they do.
Simple answer. Turn off the eye-candy. It's pointless. I use WinXP with classic theme (and theme service turned off), and along with turning off other unneeded services, WinXP runs with a memory profile of about 70MB when idle with no apps loaded.
Now as you do want to run multiple apps, even 128MB isn't enough leeway - but I do get by fine with 256MB.
It certainly must be good from a cost perspective. Limerick city in Ireland only has one cinema (read monopoly) so we have ticket prices of about €8 (~$10.50) as opposed to the national average of about €5.60 (~$7)
Think the ticket prices will go down? Yeah RIGHT!
Bunch of blood-sucking money-grabbing capitalists.
I hope they get infested with rats and the building condemned. Like the previous cinema did.
Actually, we are third last in the EU25 for broadband access according to the most recent EU survey (by this stage we are probably last!).
Only 70% or so of lines connected to a broadband-enabled exchange are suitably good quality (i.e. not faulty/broken) to allow a connection. The enabled exchanges only cover the cities and major towns. So contrary to Eircon's outright *lies* to the people and government (they've pretty much successfully brainwashed people that only techies are aware there's a problem) there is a pitiful amount of broadband coverage.
Yeah, I'm one of those tuned-out ex-Trekkies. Gave up on Voyager after a year or two. Never watched Enterprise.
I miss the good old days of TNG. And DS9 had a good spell in the middle (and the concept/setting was good, there were always some good characters, and there were some great episodes even in the not so good early seasons).
I haven't bothered watching the Nemesis film either though, it sounds like it is complete drivel also, and I wouldn't be surprised.
No trek for a decade, or until someone tries something new with it. That would probably be the best course of action.
The distressing thing about the shock and awe campaign was not only the physical act, but the propaganda or presentation of it. Officials (and media) were openly gloating and praising the destruction. One of the reasons I was content to have our obviously biased and anti-US news in Ireland (RTÉ) as one of my news sources.
"Shock and awe" was quite despicable all in all. I can say that regardless of what it was in response to (or what it was "pre-empting").
Going out to "shock and awe" people is really no more than going out to "terrorise" (i.e. instill terror) them.
...is that the slashdot story doesn't mention that it is US-only. Clicking the link and discovering that it's US only is inclined to p*ss off any non-US readers.
I mean it IS a more important point than saying IE/Firefox only. Talk about US-centricism at Slashdot.
Well, it was nice to get rid of McCreevy from the Irish government - but I hope he doesn't cause too much trouble at a European level.
He is typical Fianna Fáil, more concerned with helping business pals than looking after the public.
I mean really - his Minister of Finance period was so heartless (Rich-poor gap growing hugely despite the country rolling in dosh) that after he left the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) declared himself a Socialist just to placate the public. (Quite an absurd statement, there's nothing remotely leftist about Fianna Fáil!!!).
I think it's probably valid enough though to hypothesise that we will be freezing our butts off here in Ireland, and in the UK if the Gulf Stream just suddenly stops.
Like, one/two season's delay. Normal winter, normal spring, Gulf Stream stops, normal summer, autumn, MOSCOW-STYLE WINTER! (Look at the other places as far north as Dublin)
So no, it won't be "day after tomorrow" nonsense, but we'll be dropped straight into it, no time to adapt properly, with the first killer winter (literally - cause we can't cope with even an inch or two of snow, or at most a foot in the North) shaking people up rightly.
On the bright side, Ireland's nearly the richest country in Europe now, and our PM Bertie Ahern's declared himself a socialist. We'll just declare ourselves Nordic, bump up the state welfare system, and Bob's your uncle - another rich Scandinavian state.
HAH! Hell will freeze over first! The euro only dipped below the dollar because there was no confidence in a new currency! Both the starting rate and current rates are WELL above the dollar!
FYI, 1 will theoretically buy you about $1.30 at present - i.e. $1 = 0.77
Even if the euro declined for an extended period, it would be at least a year if not more before we would see the dollar worth more than it!
Bah! They're a bunch of blood-sucking money-hungry capitalist pigs.
Yeah we know how to do big engineering projects... like a giant spike. Also known as the world's tallest sculpture (i.e. anything taller that other countries have built actually DOES something, e.g. Eiffel Tower - radio transmitter).
It is no great stretch of the imagination to see different variations of a single species evolve - selective breeding achieves this. Humans have achieved a lot with such techniques with plants and animals in just a couple thousand years.
Where the evolution theory breaks down for me is the theory that all life came from a single source, or even much earlier, that for example, mammals started out as one mammalish creature.
Of course, there's a problem even with the "variations on a species" theory for "Creationists" (really, that's kind of tarring people with the one brush to use that label). The idea that humans, apes and monkeys came from the same source *is* in contradiction with the Bible's assertion that humans have been made in God's image. I can't really see how anyone claiming to be Christian (or indeed other such religions) can sit comfortably with the more involved evolution theories being thrown around, and more importantly, *sold as fact* to children. Not just in science lessons either, but everyday in many areas.
I don't claim to have it all worked out, or to necessarily take the "7 day creation" story entirely literally. But I do consider many aspects of contemporary evolutionary hypothesising to be quite irresolvable with certain Biblical issues fundamental to the Christian faith. Humans being considered "just another mammal", and "things happening by accident" are not reconcilable with Christian beliefs.
The Huygens probe was piggybacked on NASA's Cassini probe.
Of course, the whole mission is *joint* as the signals from the Huygens probe have to be relayed by Cassini, not to mention Cassini getting it there in the first place.
But the Huygens probe and all the details retrieved by it are ESA (and Italian) work, NOT NASA.
> No new nuclear power plant has been built since the Three Mile Island incident, which similar to Chernobyl, was a combination of untrained workers and poor design.
Unfortunately, the problem is that one has to expect that these will always be with us. Never underestimate the ability of even a very *well-trained* person to do something incredibly stupid. The results are seen all the time, but unlike with a nuclear power plant, for most other things in life we can cope with the results of accidents. Personally, the prospect of even one Chernobyl-like accident/incident is a lot less appealing than, well, a big whopping huge fire, or oil spill, or such. Even toxic chemicals and gas emissions are not quite at the same level (for one thing, Chernobyl could have been even *worse*!) despite occurances such as the Bhopal disaster (again, ultimately you have to account for some people not taking safety seriously and companies behaving in an appalling money-grabbing fashion).
Buy a digital projector (and possibly a screen). The picture quality is fantastic on the recent models I've had experience of, and with the right kind of screen and room lighting, you can even be finicky about brightness/contrast and still be happy.
Besides, it just has that "home cinema" feel.
If you work for really nice people, they might let you bring one home from work! More fool them (and you if you can't afford to replace it). But if you trust yourself, it's a cheap way to have a home cinema (and you can just use a wall rather than screen!)
I can testify that it's the only way to play games console car racing games . Or watch LOTR.
And no, this isn't some foreign language affectation - I'm speaking as one from a country where we actually speak English (note the lack of adjective before "English").
Does it show that this annoys me, just a tad? Honestly... "Legos"?
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Ditto for me, as a fellow Irish trekkie, in terms of sticking with Star Trek... except I gave up at Voyager Season 2 and DS9 season 6 (Ezri Dax?) Oh, and gave up on the Factfiles after about 5 folders or so (wonder can I sell them on ebay or somesuch).
Recently housemates have had Voyager on in the afternoon at the weekend. I don't know why. Absolutely pants. Really stupid stuff (ohhh, lets bust up the ship, that'll be great for viewership).
Lets face it, Trekdom always had a lame side (think that soap opera in space episode of TNG where Worf sitting in a mud bath asks "do we just sit here" - very apt line). Unfortunately, the lame side has had the upper hand for a while now.
Let it die. Who knows, there might be a day for good Star Trek again. Failing that, we always have a large amount of good Trek. If you want new stuff with old crews just read the better novels. If you want new decent sci-fi, try something else (there's not always something worthwhile, but some shows come and go that are good).
ATM, I'm enjoying the admittedly light (not serious sci-fi) Doctor Who as decent entertainment. Hope that continues to go well. Also enjoying reruns on occasion of DS9 and Red Dwarf (although both seem to have ended on Sky recently) as well as Trek movies (II and III on SciFi channel was nice light weekend afternoon viewing).
I have no intentions of ever watching Enterprise. Nor have I seen ST:Nemesis (though I may relent on that when it's on TV).
..Use all that money that people collected for a new series of "Enterprise".
Alternatively, get a diesel car, and just stick rapeseed oil into it. Not sure how refined the oil needs to be, but this is possible. I think it's even the case that a petrol (gasoline) car can be suitably rigged up to use biodiesel (maybe I'm wrong on this point).
Using vegetable oil in existing internal combustion engines is a comforting thought for when the black stuff runs out, even the solution does have its own problems (i.e. using all that arable land for oil crops rather than food!).
That said, having a ready replacement for diesel fuel does dismiss the notion that all global commerce will end when the oil runs out.
Patrick Stewart was also in one of the better Christmas Carol renditions I've seen, playing Scrooge.
GB more often stands for Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland is not in Great Britain, so GB is a bit of a misnomer to use in place of UK.
I haven't seen any NI cars with the standard EU-type numberplates yet. Will they have GB on them the same way English ones do? It makes little sense if they do.
Simple answer. Turn off the eye-candy. It's pointless. I use WinXP with classic theme (and theme service turned off), and along with turning off other unneeded services, WinXP runs with a memory profile of about 70MB when idle with no apps loaded.
Now as you do want to run multiple apps, even 128MB isn't enough leeway - but I do get by fine with 256MB.
I wonder who has the highest attendance?
It certainly must be good from a cost perspective. Limerick city in Ireland only has one cinema (read monopoly) so we have ticket prices of about €8 (~$10.50) as opposed to the national average of about €5.60 (~$7)
Think the ticket prices will go down? Yeah RIGHT!
Bunch of blood-sucking money-grabbing capitalists.
I hope they get infested with rats and the building condemned. Like the previous cinema did.
Actually, we are third last in the EU25 for broadband access according to the most recent EU survey (by this stage we are probably last!).
Only 70% or so of lines connected to a broadband-enabled exchange are suitably good quality (i.e. not faulty/broken) to allow a connection. The enabled exchanges only cover the cities and major towns. So contrary to Eircon's outright *lies* to the people and government (they've pretty much successfully brainwashed people that only techies are aware there's a problem) there is a pitiful amount of broadband coverage.
Yeah, I'm one of those tuned-out ex-Trekkies. Gave up on Voyager after a year or two. Never watched Enterprise.
I miss the good old days of TNG. And DS9 had a good spell in the middle (and the concept/setting was good, there were always some good characters, and there were some great episodes even in the not so good early seasons).
I haven't bothered watching the Nemesis film either though, it sounds like it is complete drivel also, and I wouldn't be surprised.
No trek for a decade, or until someone tries something new with it. That would probably be the best course of action.
And for more on FUD see: :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUD
"Shock and Awe" or Blitzkrieg?
The distressing thing about the shock and awe campaign was not only the physical act, but the propaganda or presentation of it. Officials (and media) were openly gloating and praising the destruction. One of the reasons I was content to have our obviously biased and anti-US news in Ireland (RTÉ) as one of my news sources.
"Shock and awe" was quite despicable all in all. I can say that regardless of what it was in response to (or what it was "pre-empting").
Going out to "shock and awe" people is really no more than going out to "terrorise" (i.e. instill terror) them.
...is that the slashdot story doesn't mention that it is US-only. Clicking the link and discovering that it's US only is inclined to p*ss off any non-US readers.
I mean it IS a more important point than saying IE/Firefox only. Talk about US-centricism at Slashdot.
Well, it was nice to get rid of McCreevy from the Irish government - but I hope he doesn't cause too much trouble at a European level.
He is typical Fianna Fáil, more concerned with helping business pals than looking after the public.
I mean really - his Minister of Finance period was so heartless (Rich-poor gap growing hugely despite the country rolling in dosh) that after he left the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) declared himself a Socialist just to placate the public. (Quite an absurd statement, there's nothing remotely leftist about Fianna Fáil!!!).
...the Pentium Pro! Wonder where that fits!!!
I think it's probably valid enough though to hypothesise that we will be freezing our butts off here in Ireland, and in the UK if the Gulf Stream just suddenly stops.
Like, one/two season's delay. Normal winter, normal spring, Gulf Stream stops, normal summer, autumn, MOSCOW-STYLE WINTER! (Look at the other places as far north as Dublin)
So no, it won't be "day after tomorrow" nonsense, but we'll be dropped straight into it, no time to adapt properly, with the first killer winter (literally - cause we can't cope with even an inch or two of snow, or at most a foot in the North) shaking people up rightly.
On the bright side, Ireland's nearly the richest country in Europe now, and our PM Bertie Ahern's declared himself a socialist. We'll just declare ourselves Nordic, bump up the state welfare system, and Bob's your uncle - another rich Scandinavian state.
HAH! Hell will freeze over first! The euro only dipped below the dollar because there was no confidence in a new currency! Both the starting rate and current rates are WELL above the dollar!
FYI, 1 will theoretically buy you about $1.30 at present - i.e. $1 = 0.77
Even if the euro declined for an extended period, it would be at least a year if not more before we would see the dollar worth more than it!
Bah! They're a bunch of blood-sucking money-hungry capitalist pigs.
Yeah we know how to do big engineering projects... like a giant spike. Also known as the world's tallest sculpture (i.e. anything taller that other countries have built actually DOES something, e.g. Eiffel Tower - radio transmitter).
José Manuel Barraso (head of European Commission, Portuguese ex-PM) will also attend to mark the pan-European Union nature of the project.
It is no great stretch of the imagination to see different variations of a single species evolve - selective breeding achieves this. Humans have achieved a lot with such techniques with plants and animals in just a couple thousand years.
Where the evolution theory breaks down for me is the theory that all life came from a single source, or even much earlier, that for example, mammals started out as one mammalish creature.
Of course, there's a problem even with the "variations on a species" theory for "Creationists" (really, that's kind of tarring people with the one brush to use that label). The idea that humans, apes and monkeys came from the same source *is* in contradiction with the Bible's assertion that humans have been made in God's image. I can't really see how anyone claiming to be Christian (or indeed other such religions) can sit comfortably with the more involved evolution theories being thrown around, and more importantly, *sold as fact* to children. Not just in science lessons either, but everyday in many areas.
I don't claim to have it all worked out, or to necessarily take the "7 day creation" story entirely literally. But I do consider many aspects of contemporary evolutionary hypothesising to be quite irresolvable with certain Biblical issues fundamental to the Christian faith. Humans being considered "just another mammal", and "things happening by accident" are not reconcilable with Christian beliefs.
The Huygens probe was piggybacked on NASA's Cassini probe.
Of course, the whole mission is *joint* as the signals from the Huygens probe have to be relayed by Cassini, not to mention Cassini getting it there in the first place.
But the Huygens probe and all the details retrieved by it are ESA (and Italian) work, NOT NASA.
> No new nuclear power plant has been built since the Three Mile Island incident, which similar to Chernobyl, was a combination of untrained workers and poor design.
Unfortunately, the problem is that one has to expect that these will always be with us. Never underestimate the ability of even a very *well-trained* person to do something incredibly stupid. The results are seen all the time, but unlike with a nuclear power plant, for most other things in life we can cope with the results of accidents. Personally, the prospect of even one Chernobyl-like accident/incident is a lot less appealing than, well, a big whopping huge fire, or oil spill, or such. Even toxic chemicals and gas emissions are not quite at the same level (for one thing, Chernobyl could have been even *worse*!) despite occurances such as the Bhopal disaster (again, ultimately you have to account for some people not taking safety seriously and companies behaving in an appalling money-grabbing fashion).
Buy a digital projector (and possibly a screen). The picture quality is fantastic on the recent models I've had experience of, and with the right kind of screen and room lighting, you can even be finicky about brightness/contrast and still be happy.
Besides, it just has that "home cinema" feel.
If you work for really nice people, they might let you bring one home from work! More fool them (and you if you can't afford to replace it). But if you trust yourself, it's a cheap way to have a home cinema (and you can just use a wall rather than screen!)
I can testify that it's the only way to play games console car racing games . Or watch LOTR.
It's LEGO bricks not "legos".
Bah!
And no, this isn't some foreign language affectation - I'm speaking as one from a country where we actually speak English (note the lack of adjective before "English").
Does it show that this annoys me, just a tad? Honestly... "Legos"?
Once you've clicked the link to open the citibank site, go back and close the Secunia site window/tab.
:)
The exploit should not now work.
This is actually Secunia's advice for avoiding real usage of this exploit - do not browse trusted and untrusted sites at the same time.
There we go - tabbed browsing has its drawbacks