OTOH, Dealers who get cold feet about selling machines with pirated copies of Windows MIGHT just switch to pushing computers with a default installation of Linux instead.
(Which do you think Joe Cheap will get, a cheap computer with $XX added to cover a legitimite Windows license, or the same computer minus $XX fee with Linux?)
I had similar problems back with the last 0.9.whatever release. After I thought about it a bit, I ran Ad-aware and Spybot. BINGO! Three new spywares detected! (I may have gotten a tad over enthusiastic looking for new plug-ins.) Seems that they expected IE, and bollixed Firefox trying to do their dirty deeds. Lessons learned: 1) Only accept plugins from known safe sources. (https://update.mozilla.org/extension) 2) Firefox is a great browser, but it ain't idiot proof! (And Even I can be an idiot if I don't think first!) };-) 3) The number of people that'll yell at you when you ask an honest question, instead of offering help, is discouragingly high.
I remember reading about an aboriginal tribe in New Guinea with similar habits. They were still using stone axes, and and after several seasons, when the ax head had been sharpened to a nub, it's owner would bury it with the same ceremony used for any dear departed. Just shows that the more things change...
Real Men (TM) use these of course you also need this
to run it and this to keep your system from shorting out!
(Make Tim PROUD of you! grunt grunt grunt...) };-)
Seems like a reasonable idea, except... What happens when they need to work on something _outside_? (Geez, Commander, I'm trying to re-align the radar dish, but there's just too much shit in the way!) };-)
Geez, just call me low tech. I just poked two holes in an index card and held it over the screen so just the two squares showed. };-) (Darn good illusion, though!)
At a gala wedding, "I do" is only a small part of the entire ceremony. So changing it to "no" shouldn't alter the wedding at all, should it?
Note: I am only a marginal Star Wars fan. But I believe ANY alteration to ANY movie classic just to pull in a few more bucks is an abomination that should NOT be tolerated!
I remember reading an article about the first LED which showed a picture of it; a piece of carborundum (silicon carbide) taped to a ruler with two wires used to "tickle" the crystal to find the sweet spot. Googled around and all I could find was this short piece at http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/information/312_e lectronics/ncsr/devices/led.asp
An LED works in a similar fashion to the pn-junction diode electrically, though the first LED was created as a Schottky-like diode with a rectifying contact on carborundum (SiC) by H.L. Round in 1907. He applied up to 110V to crystals and noted orange to blue electroluminescence.
(Probably not strictly on topic, but I thought it was interesting)
Bah! When a beverage is chilled (About 40 degrees F IIRC), most of the ability to taste it is lost. So if the beer needs to be ice cold to drink it, it means the beer didn't taste that good to begin with. (Bonus points for relating that observation to most American beer being served cold, and the statement "American beer is like making love in a canoe")
I think the most unforgivable part of the whole mess is that most of the bombs lost in the US were done using LIVE bombs for practice flights! Geez, a mock-up or even a ballast weight wouldn't have worked as well?
Actually yes, if you count inland as being offshore. http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/lead.html What I've heard that's different from the story at the web site:
Broken neck? Probably the least of the worries since an eye witness (Who was on the search team) told me that they found the body after finding his rib cage in another tree.
And what I've heard from other sources only parts of ONE bomb was ever located, the other one was simply to deeply buried to be detected with the resources avaiable then. (And since, they've actually lost track of the exact location, due to the shifting of the river and redevelopement that's occured over the years.)
The parts of the bomb that was recovered showed that two of it's three failsafes had failed, and no one really knows what condition the other one is in. BTW, Seymour Johnson AFB, and Goldsboro are Only 15 miles from Faro, and the population of the area is about 10 times what it was then.
"Big city draining cold water from big lake means lake will heat up, dis is a bayud t'ing!"
Cheez, Anyone look at the relative sizes?
Ok, to make it simple: Imagine the lake is the size of a bucket. Now imagine the city has the same relative size to the bucket it has to the lake, got it? Ok the water being extracted is literally a drop in the bucket, net effect; negligible!
And if anyone had paid attention to the article or several previous posts, they were ALREADY extracting the water, had been for years. Now they're just gonna run it through heat exchangers first, to cool buildings, THEN use it like they always have, drinking, washing, water ballooons, whatever. Net change to impact on lake, ZIP!
Until I came across the "Difficulty of 0wning Windows vs Difficulty to make this graph" pie chart. Second time in two days I've nearly choked on my cigar! };-> (Geez, Ma was right, smoking CAN be hazardous to my health!)
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OTOH, Dealers who get cold feet about selling machines with pirated copies of Windows MIGHT just switch to pushing computers with a default installation of Linux instead.
(Which do you think Joe Cheap will get, a cheap computer with $XX added to cover a legitimite Windows license, or the same computer minus $XX fee with Linux?)
> OK, the mice I can understand, but how do you get the men in the blender?
Easy, tell'em there's pr0n at the bottom!
(Insert rimshot here)
I had similar problems back with the last 0.9.whatever release. After I thought about it a bit, I ran Ad-aware and Spybot. BINGO! Three new spywares detected! (I may have gotten a tad over enthusiastic looking for new plug-ins.)
Seems that they expected IE, and bollixed Firefox trying to do their dirty deeds.
Lessons learned:
1) Only accept plugins from known safe sources. (https://update.mozilla.org/extension)
2) Firefox is a great browser, but it ain't idiot proof! (And Even I can be an idiot if I don't think first!) };-)
3) The number of people that'll yell at you when you ask an honest question, instead of offering help, is discouragingly high.
I remember reading about an aboriginal tribe in New Guinea with similar habits.
They were still using stone axes, and and after several seasons, when the ax head had been sharpened to a nub, it's owner would bury it with the same ceremony used for any dear departed.
Just shows that the more things change...
Real Men (TM) use these
of course you also need this
to run it and this to keep your system from shorting out!
(Make Tim PROUD of you! grunt grunt grunt...) };-)
Wow! If nothing else, it'd really look cool!
(Kinda like one of the old wurlitzer jukeboxes!)
Oh just great! Now they've invented a computer that has to sleep?
(if it's bilogical, it must need a rest cycle, right?)
Hell, My old trash-80 Mico Color Computer still works! Kin I join the lan party? (I'll even spring for the beer!) };-)
Just curious. Has anyone, in the history of mankind, ever said, "Now is the perfect time for something to totally screw up!"?
At least you can find out who all the candidates are, here:
http://www.politics1.com/p2004.htm
Seems like a reasonable idea, except... What happens when they need to work on something _outside_?
(Geez, Commander, I'm trying to re-align the radar dish, but there's just too much shit in the way!) };-)
Do what I did. Just set the firewall to quietly block it.
Geez, just call me low tech. I just poked two holes in an index card and held it over the screen so just the two squares showed. };-) (Darn good illusion, though!)
At a gala wedding, "I do" is only a small part of the entire ceremony. So changing it to "no" shouldn't alter the wedding at all, should it?
Note: I am only a marginal Star Wars fan. But I believe ANY alteration to ANY movie classic just to pull in a few more bucks is an abomination that should NOT be tolerated!
"and is hidef'ing the video is a plus"
At first glance, I read this as "hide f*cking" (which IS what I think he did to the movies!), and wondered why you considered it a "plus"
Or for the less literate; Skynet?
I remember reading an article about the first LED which showed a picture of it; a piece of carborundum (silicon carbide) taped to a ruler with two wires used to "tickle" the crystal to find the sweet spot.e lectronics/ncsr/devices/led.asp
Googled around and all I could find was this short piece at http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/information/312_
An LED works in a similar fashion to the pn-junction diode electrically, though the first LED was created as a Schottky-like diode with a rectifying contact on carborundum (SiC) by H.L. Round in 1907. He applied up to 110V to crystals and noted orange to blue electroluminescence.
(Probably not strictly on topic, but I thought it was interesting)
Bah! When a beverage is chilled (About 40 degrees F IIRC), most of the ability to taste it is lost. So if the beer needs to be ice cold to drink it, it means the beer didn't taste that good to begin with.
(Bonus points for relating that observation to most American beer being served cold, and the statement "American beer is like making love in a canoe")
I think the most unforgivable part of the whole mess is that most of the bombs lost in the US were done using LIVE bombs for practice flights! Geez, a mock-up or even a ballast weight wouldn't have worked as well?
Actually yes, if you count inland as being offshore.
http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/lead.html
What I've heard that's different from the story at the web site:
Broken neck? Probably the least of the worries since an eye witness (Who was on the search team) told me that they found the body after finding his rib cage in another tree.
And what I've heard from other sources only parts of ONE bomb was ever located, the other one was simply to deeply buried to be detected with the resources avaiable then. (And since, they've actually lost track of the exact location, due to the shifting of the river and redevelopement that's occured over the years.)
The parts of the bomb that was recovered showed that two of it's three failsafes had failed, and no one really knows what condition the other one is in.
BTW, Seymour Johnson AFB, and Goldsboro are Only 15 miles from Faro, and the population of the area is about 10 times what it was then.
"Big city draining cold water from big lake means lake will heat up, dis is a bayud t'ing!"
Cheez, Anyone look at the relative sizes?
Ok, to make it simple: Imagine the lake is the size of a bucket. Now imagine the city has the same relative size to the bucket it has to the lake, got it?
Ok the water being extracted is literally a drop in the bucket, net effect; negligible!
And if anyone had paid attention to the article or several previous posts, they were ALREADY extracting the water, had been for years. Now they're just gonna run it through heat exchangers first, to cool buildings, THEN use it like they always have, drinking, washing, water ballooons, whatever. Net change to impact on lake, ZIP!
"before long they will be sitting at a table with all their nuts smashed."
Heh... If only... };->
"If it is or uses either Electricity or a Chemical, and/or its not found in nature in any way, it will kill you slowly"
Okay, I hereby declare this statement "Death Lizard's Law"!
(Hope ya don't mind I corrected the spelling.) };->
The reason for the cliche:
You're always turning a corner when you keep going round in circles. };->
Until I came across the "Difficulty of 0wning Windows vs Difficulty to make this graph" pie chart.
Second time in two days I've nearly choked on my cigar! };->
(Geez, Ma was right, smoking CAN be hazardous to my health!)