It's always strange for me to listen to Pink Floyd songs out of context from the rest of the album. It probably stems from listening to those albums start to finish in my youth, and many of the songs blending in to one an other. For example, at the end of Dark Side of the Moon, "Brain Damage" flows directly in to "Eclipse," and separating those two tracks should be illegal.
The funny thing is you could do that in Photoshop without much problem. Not that he did - it's an incredible picture and he went to extraordinary efforts to get it but -
I would have Photoshopped the damned thing. The idea of taking a 10 inch reflector with assorted support gear on a bunch of airplanes to the middle of nowhere gives me a headache just thinking about it.
... The PowerBooks / MacBooks Pro have a small cover on the underside, held in with four (philips head) screws, with the RAM slots directly underneath. I've not looked at the MacBook, but the iBook just required moving a few clips so the keyboard slid out and then putting the RAM in underneath.
I think he's just used to Dell laptops - you just drop them on the floor and the RAM (and hard drive and 8 flimsy plastic doors) pop off. Really can't get easier than that.
Ive heard arguments like this for things like Sharepoint, and usually what it really means is that "we have a solution, we're just not sure what the problem is yet".
Get a better monitor and / or turn down the brightness a tad? Really. I look at LCD monitors ALL DAY sometimes. No eyestrain until I go outside and see the bright shiny thing.
This seems to be some sort of urban myth. It's quoted forever but people's experience varies so widely that I don't think it is really true. Of course, I've seen many, many computers with LCD displays that are set up so poorly with terrible fonts, colors, resolutions and brightness settings that I start getting nauseated after 5 minutes, but I don't think it's an LCD issue per se.
Can I invest £50 and then get £1.50 from it? I think I have found a way to create infinite money!
Seriously though is there anything stopping me from doing this? Facebook doesn't look like it's going to fail anytime soon...
If you already have money, it's easy to make more money. Especially if you have lots and lots of money - so much money that if you lose money, everybody else gets worried and gives you more money.
The hard part is getting a lot of money in the first place, the rest is so easy even a banker can do it.
... but I'd like to see a list that would encourage me to think positively about the feds. I'm having real trouble thinking of appropriate areas. Perhaps it's just me.
1. (Relatively) Clean water.
2. (Relatively) Clean air.
3. (Mostly) Society based on rule of law.
4. (Generally) Secure borders.
5. (Mostly) Significant protections for individuals from the Government.
6. Roads
7. A functioning Civil Aviation system
8. A truly excellent Coast Guard.
9. GPS.
10. The National Science Foundation / National Institutes of Health.
And I could go on. Yes, in each and every case I mention there are significant problems, even horrifying problems, but placed against the metric of the rest of the world and the rest of history, we're doing pretty good. Now, as a card carrying (as in Social Security card, you have one, right?) American you can and should complain about each and every thing you see as working less well as possible. And hopefully you will do something other than complain, like hop over to the rest of the world to see how Not To Do Things.
For the record, I think the US is in deep doo doo on a number of fronts and it's partly our fault and partly the way complex civilizations deal (or fail to) with the challenges of organizing a couple of billion people on a small planet. But all in all, the Federal Government does a credible job of a lot of things.
Preview has a nasty habit of not displaying the PDF correctly, though. I'd rather slow-and-correct than fast-but-graphic-elements-get-randomly-shifted-on-the-page-or-dropped-entirely.
The couple of times I've had issues with Preview not displaying a PDF file, I have noticed that even in the full (OS X) version of Acrobat, the file is pretty wonky. I'm not sure that Adobe even knows what Adobe is doing.
No, the OP's father's problem is that he tried to print an Apple document on a Windows computer. This is NOT to be countenanced and, in point of fact, is just this side of Total Blasphemy. It's a good thing he stopped when he did -he's lucky he didn't open a portal to Hell in the process.
I just want to know what you mean by 'improvised' individuals? Is that different from a rugged individualist? Are they duct taped together? Ad hoc human? Inquiring minds want to know.
You do realize that Israel has exactly ONE major airport and probably 50 all total.
Now, I'm perfectly cognizant of the fact that the TSA is doing batshit insane things and doesn't appear to have a clue what actual security is, but don't think that you can scale Israel's approach to the US. Remember, the whole country is the size of New Jersey.
HIPPA automatically DOESN'T apply to legal proceedings. You do not need personal permission to give records to a duly constituted legal body. A blood alcohol level for DUI enforcement would not be a 'medical' test at any rate. It isn't ordered by a medical provider and not evaluated by a medical provider. It is legal evidence, just as hair / skin / yuccky stuff samples scraped off a victim in an assault or rape.
HIPPA is a US Federal medical data privacy law and specifically excepts legal proceedings from the privacy protections, so somebody is right out there if they're claiming judicial overreach on those grounds. Further, while, of course, IANAL, a blood EtOH determination for legal purposes isn't really a medical issue - it's a legal one and thus doesn't have to be performed or evaluated by medical personnel.
Fourth Amendment issues are certainly separate from that. And someone involved in a DUI checkpoint who was convicted of something in a state court could certainly appeal to a Federal District Court on US Constitutional grounds. However, IIRC, that's been done a bunch of times and it's been ruled OK on the basis of implied consent when you scribble your name at the bottom of your driver's license.
Nothing worse than in the Midwest where we're only delayed an hour and yet we watch the ball go down in NY and then wait through an hour of more after-ball-dropped third string acts to see the ball drop again. God it's painful.
What kind of twisted masochist are you that watches that stupid thing more than once? Don't you have anything else on the TV where you live? Gillagan's Island reruns? Hell man, you could log into Slashdot. Even that would be better. You need help.
>I wonder if that is to include the incandescent IR lamps as well?
Nope. Not according to my local Boat parts house. They probably will get more expensive because the demand will be there (that's what they said, I guess there isn't a whole lot of 'spare' capacity in the heat lamp business).
Of course, everything about boats gets 'more expensive' so that's not surprising.
If you look around, they're claiming it's the 'worst winter' since about 1918. An eyelash of time, a blink of the eye, a tiny diatom in the geological record.
Climate change is really about changes over thousands of years, not less than hundreds. It makes it hard to appreciate especially in our short span media. But it's no less true.
Everybody shut up and watch for a couple more decades.
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I have to use Lotus Notes et all at work.
It is, bar none, the worst office suite I have ever used.
It that was it's supposed to be? Never could figure it out myself. My condolences towards you and anyone else so afflicted....
It's always strange for me to listen to Pink Floyd songs out of context from the rest of the album. It probably stems from listening to those albums start to finish in my youth, and many of the songs blending in to one an other. For example, at the end of Dark Side of the Moon, "Brain Damage" flows directly in to "Eclipse," and separating those two tracks should be illegal.
You're just not as stoned as you were back then. State dependent learning, and all that.
The funny thing is you could do that in Photoshop without much problem. Not that he did - it's an incredible picture and he went to extraordinary efforts to get it but -
I would have Photoshopped the damned thing. The idea of taking a 10 inch reflector with assorted support gear on a bunch of airplanes to the middle of nowhere gives me a headache just thinking about it.
... The PowerBooks / MacBooks Pro have a small cover on the underside, held in with four (philips head) screws, with the RAM slots directly underneath. I've not looked at the MacBook, but the iBook just required moving a few clips so the keyboard slid out and then putting the RAM in underneath.
I think he's just used to Dell laptops - you just drop them on the floor and the RAM (and hard drive and 8 flimsy plastic doors) pop off. Really can't get easier than that.
Yeah, we're just so smart. I have just three words for you:
Daylight Savings Time.
Maybe the next civilization will get it right.
guffaw.
Still, where do I get two of these bots from so I can use the T3 lanes on the way to work in the morning?
Lots of places on the Internet.
Ive heard arguments like this for things like Sharepoint, and usually what it really means is that "we have a solution, we're just not sure what the problem is yet".
No, that was Lotus Notes.
I'll bet your clunky ol data center doesn't have lots of blue lights.
I've used an iPad to manage a server from 35K feet on a Virgin Atlantic flight. Not everyone uses it for games.
Where'd you get the Airbus app? Sounds neat. Did the pilots mind?
Get a better monitor and / or turn down the brightness a tad? Really. I look at LCD monitors ALL DAY sometimes. No eyestrain until I go outside and see the bright shiny thing.
This seems to be some sort of urban myth. It's quoted forever but people's experience varies so widely that I don't think it is really true. Of course, I've seen many, many computers with LCD displays that are set up so poorly with terrible fonts, colors, resolutions and brightness settings that I start getting nauseated after 5 minutes, but I don't think it's an LCD issue per se.
Can I invest £50 and then get £1.50 from it? I think I have found a way to create infinite money!
Seriously though is there anything stopping me from doing this? Facebook doesn't look like it's going to fail anytime soon...
If you already have money, it's easy to make more money. Especially if you have lots and lots of money - so much money that if you lose money, everybody else gets worried and gives you more money.
The hard part is getting a lot of money in the first place, the rest is so easy even a banker can do it.
... but I'd like to see a list that would encourage me to think positively about the feds. I'm having real trouble thinking of appropriate areas. Perhaps it's just me.
1. (Relatively) Clean water.
2. (Relatively) Clean air.
3. (Mostly) Society based on rule of law.
4. (Generally) Secure borders.
5. (Mostly) Significant protections for individuals from the Government.
6. Roads
7. A functioning Civil Aviation system
8. A truly excellent Coast Guard.
9. GPS.
10. The National Science Foundation / National Institutes of Health.
And I could go on. Yes, in each and every case I mention there are significant problems, even horrifying problems, but placed against the metric of the rest of the world and the rest of history, we're doing pretty good. Now, as a card carrying (as in Social Security card, you have one, right?) American you can and should complain about each and every thing you see as working less well as possible. And hopefully you will do something other than complain, like hop over to the rest of the world to see how Not To Do Things.
For the record, I think the US is in deep doo doo on a number of fronts and it's partly our fault and partly the way complex civilizations deal (or fail to) with the challenges of organizing a couple of billion people on a small planet. But all in all, the Federal Government does a credible job of a lot of things.
Preview has a nasty habit of not displaying the PDF correctly, though. I'd rather slow-and-correct than fast-but-graphic-elements-get-randomly-shifted-on-the-page-or-dropped-entirely.
The couple of times I've had issues with Preview not displaying a PDF file, I have noticed that even in the full (OS X) version of Acrobat, the file is pretty wonky. I'm not sure that Adobe even knows what Adobe is doing.
No, the OP's father's problem is that he tried to print an Apple document on a Windows computer. This is NOT to be countenanced and, in point of fact, is just this side of Total Blasphemy. It's a good thing he stopped when he did -he's lucky he didn't open a portal to Hell in the process.
I just want to know what you mean by 'improvised' individuals? Is that different from a rugged individualist? Are they duct taped together? Ad hoc human? Inquiring minds want to know.
An interesting contrast between the US and China vis-a-vis automobiles.
Nah, lets go back to the old SCSI connectors. Those you could insert with your feet.
You do realize that Israel has exactly ONE major airport and probably 50 all total.
Now, I'm perfectly cognizant of the fact that the TSA is doing batshit insane things and doesn't appear to have a clue what actual security is, but don't think that you can scale Israel's approach to the US. Remember, the whole country is the size of New Jersey.
HIPPA automatically DOESN'T apply to legal proceedings. You do not need personal permission to give records to a duly constituted legal body. A blood alcohol level for DUI enforcement would not be a 'medical' test at any rate. It isn't ordered by a medical provider and not evaluated by a medical provider. It is legal evidence, just as hair / skin / yuccky stuff samples scraped off a victim in an assault or rape.
HIPPA is a US Federal medical data privacy law and specifically excepts legal proceedings from the privacy protections, so somebody is right out there if they're claiming judicial overreach on those grounds. Further, while, of course, IANAL, a blood EtOH determination for legal purposes isn't really a medical issue - it's a legal one and thus doesn't have to be performed or evaluated by medical personnel.
Fourth Amendment issues are certainly separate from that. And someone involved in a DUI checkpoint who was convicted of something in a state court could certainly appeal to a Federal District Court on US Constitutional grounds. However, IIRC, that's been done a bunch of times and it's been ruled OK on the basis of implied consent when you scribble your name at the bottom of your driver's license.
Here come da Judge! Here come da Judge!
Man, the sixties were way better.
Nothing worse than in the Midwest where we're only delayed an hour and yet we watch the ball go down in NY and then wait through an hour of more after-ball-dropped third string acts to see the ball drop again. God it's painful.
What kind of twisted masochist are you that watches that stupid thing more than once? Don't you have anything else on the TV where you live? Gillagan's Island reruns? Hell man, you could log into Slashdot. Even that would be better. You need help.
I just visited youtube.com and saw the following
<title>YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.</title>
OK. 255.255.255.255
Look Ma! I'm on Television!
>I wonder if that is to include the incandescent IR lamps as well?
Nope. Not according to my local Boat parts house. They probably will get more expensive because the demand will be there (that's what they said, I guess there isn't a whole lot of 'spare' capacity in the heat lamp business).
Of course, everything about boats gets 'more expensive' so that's not surprising.
If you look around, they're claiming it's the 'worst winter' since about 1918. An eyelash of time, a blink of the eye, a tiny diatom in the geological record.
Climate change is really about changes over thousands of years, not less than hundreds. It makes it hard to appreciate especially in our short span media. But it's no less true.
Everybody shut up and watch for a couple more decades.