Actually it's "TO all intents and purposes", or, as originally used in an Act of Parliament under Henry VIII, "to all intents, constructions and purposes".
The OP who used "for intensive purposes" is without doubt an idiot but he does at least need to be corrected accurately:)
Every day's a school day.
Familiar, happy days. I cut my teeth on Slackware 3.4 floppies in 1995. In 1996 I treated myself by ordering Slackware '96 on CD-ROM. I remained a Slackware user up until 2008, when I finally switched to CentOS and now I use Ubuntu.
Happy days.
(Additionally, Dell and Apple seems to be the only one offering US keyboards in Italy, and Dell costs WAY less than Apple for the same specs.)
Same specs? Can you show me where on the Dell configuration tool I can add Mac OS? I'd be very interested to see these computers of the same specification as Apple models.
I don't think I'll ever stop getting annoyed at Americans whining about fuel bills, whether they be petrol, gas or electricity.
I pay the best part of $200 per month to power my 850 square foot apartment in Manchester, and I'm *careful* with my electricity usage. I hardly use the heating, I have one 24x7 Mac Mini and I use energy saving light bulbs.
Couple that with our $6.30/gallon petrol prices (which is "cheap" at the moment) and I'm afraid that I've no sympathy or time for Americans droning on about fuel prices.
You've got to remember that BT are, essentially, still a huge group of civil servants. BT is a privatised deparment of the former General Post Office, and is completely indoctrinated with civil servant and union-led work ethics. It would never have grown to be as big and overbearing as it is today had it started out as a private company.
While that rule of thumb is a good one, there may in fact be applications today in the graphics and processing world that require insane amounts of memory. While Firefox is probably never going to reach that critical mass [..]
I quite agree with you. For some time now I've maintained that there's a gap in their line-up. They need either a mini-tower or a slimline desktop box with similar specifications to the iMac. The MacMini has its place but it's almost complete lack of upgrade path limits its usefulness dramatically, and I could never live without multi-monitors.
The iMac supports multimonitors but of course it looks ridiculous next to a third party monitor. The solution to this is simple. Apple should sell a range of monitors that look just like iMacs. They'd be easy to produce, since they would actually use iMac shells and iMac screens; they'd just not put the guts of a computer inside. They already have all the tooling and components available to do this, and I think it would be a great way of allowing people who use their iMac as their primary work computer to use a matching second display without having to plump for a Mac Pro which, although nice and fast, are expensive when compared to the iMac.
> no no no, the proper term for journalists to use is library of congresses
I know you'll probably flame me for this, but it's a personal bugbear. It's "libraries of congress", dammit.
Easy. A fry-up, it works every time. You need an injection of calories to kick-start your metabolism. That and plenty of water. Have a fry-up within 30 minutes of waking up, and within 2 hours you'll be right as rain.
And yet, this is exactly what Midland Expressway, the company behind the M6 Toll is doing:
Disappointing traffic figures for Summer 2005 led to a price rise in June and for MIG Chief Executive Steve Allen to comment in the Australian newspaper The Age: "What we need is to slow down the M6"
Who said anything about 100,000 years? It seems to me that it's already in an accelerated process of doing so. We have those who can read, write, obey laws, work for a living and who are generally net contributors to society and the species, and then we have those who CAN'T BE FUCKED WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE.
That definitely works for me, and easily extends to amendments to software systems too. Make it so that the person has to do a little bit of work in order to get you to do something and they'll think twice about it. Goes a long way to separate the wheat from the chaff (sp?).
"The Pick Up Your Own Dog's Shit Bill is necessary in light of terrorist plots."
Bring it on!
Under my new world order, pet excrement, especially that excreted by dogs, must be dealt with immediately by the owner responsible directly after an incident in a public place.
Vets recommend to pet owners whose pets have a toilet problem in the house that they should rub their pets nose in their own excrement. The pet soon learns that this is wrong and must not do this if it is to avoid this unpleasantness. The method is tried and tested.
Under my new world order, if a dog shits on the pavement and the owner does nothing about it, the owner will have their nose smothered in their pet's excrement until they learn that it is completely unacceptable.
We didn't vote for any ID cards or biometrics on passports, since it wasn't put to the vote. The scum in power want more power though, so it was bound to come without a public vote.
Everyone knew that New Labour [tm] wanted to introduce ID cards way before the election last year, and yet, they still won it. I'm sorry, but we did vote for it.
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Come on.
Actually it's "TO all intents and purposes", or, as originally used in an Act of Parliament under Henry VIII, "to all intents, constructions and purposes". The OP who used "for intensive purposes" is without doubt an idiot but he does at least need to be corrected accurately :)
Every day's a school day.
Familiar, happy days. I cut my teeth on Slackware 3.4 floppies in 1995. In 1996 I treated myself by ordering Slackware '96 on CD-ROM. I remained a Slackware user up until 2008, when I finally switched to CentOS and now I use Ubuntu. Happy days.
Luxury. My first Linux box was a 486 DX2/66 with 16Mb of RAM. It ran a web server and hosted shells for all my mates, and it did so well. Etc.
(Additionally, Dell and Apple seems to be the only one offering US keyboards in Italy, and Dell costs WAY less than Apple for the same specs.)
Same specs? Can you show me where on the Dell configuration tool I can add Mac OS? I'd be very interested to see these computers of the same specification as Apple models.
Yeah, if Britain was 11 miles long.
I don't think I'll ever stop getting annoyed at Americans whining about fuel bills, whether they be petrol, gas or electricity.
I pay the best part of $200 per month to power my 850 square foot apartment in Manchester, and I'm *careful* with my electricity usage. I hardly use the heating, I have one 24x7 Mac Mini and I use energy saving light bulbs.
Couple that with our $6.30/gallon petrol prices (which is "cheap" at the moment) and I'm afraid that I've no sympathy or time for Americans droning on about fuel prices.
You've got to remember that BT are, essentially, still a huge group of civil servants. BT is a privatised deparment of the former General Post Office, and is completely indoctrinated with civil servant and union-led work ethics. It would never have grown to be as big and overbearing as it is today had it started out as a private company.
While that rule of thumb is a good one, there may in fact be applications today in the graphics and processing world that require insane amounts of memory. While Firefox is probably never going to reach that critical mass [..]
You've clearly never run FireFox on a Mac :)
I quite agree with you. For some time now I've maintained that there's a gap in their line-up. They need either a mini-tower or a slimline desktop box with similar specifications to the iMac. The MacMini has its place but it's almost complete lack of upgrade path limits its usefulness dramatically, and I could never live without multi-monitors.
The iMac supports multimonitors but of course it looks ridiculous next to a third party monitor. The solution to this is simple. Apple should sell a range of monitors that look just like iMacs. They'd be easy to produce, since they would actually use iMac shells and iMac screens; they'd just not put the guts of a computer inside. They already have all the tooling and components available to do this, and I think it would be a great way of allowing people who use their iMac as their primary work computer to use a matching second display without having to plump for a Mac Pro which, although nice and fast, are expensive when compared to the iMac.
Mockup: http://www.stuiitimes.com/images/sitesupport/double-imac.jpg
Two obvious gaps in the market which I'm very surprised Apple aren't doing anything about!
Gah and there I go forgetting to select the correct formatting. I'll get my coat.
> no no no, the proper term for journalists to use is library of congresses I know you'll probably flame me for this, but it's a personal bugbear. It's "libraries of congress", dammit.
You can keep the mushrooms and the black pudding, but everything else is pretty much spot-on.
> (2) Cure for the hangover.
Easy. A fry-up, it works every time. You need an injection of calories to kick-start your metabolism. That and plenty of water. Have a fry-up within 30 minutes of waking up, and within 2 hours you'll be right as rain.
And yet, this is exactly what Midland Expressway, the company behind the M6 Toll is doing:
Twats.
My Slashdot ID is *much* lower than I thought. Get me!
Who said anything about 100,000 years? It seems to me that it's already in an accelerated process of doing so. We have those who can read, write, obey laws, work for a living and who are generally net contributors to society and the species, and then we have those who CAN'T BE FUCKED WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE.
"at an attractive $299/£225 launch price"
How is that "attractive"? According to xe.com, at today's exchange rate, $299 is worth £159. How do they justify the £66 ($124) price difference?
Stuii!
That definitely works for me, and easily extends to amendments to software systems too. Make it so that the person has to do a little bit of work in order to get you to do something and they'll think twice about it. Goes a long way to separate the wheat from the chaff (sp?).
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Har! I did exactly the same thing! I bought four-pot pack and left the other three pots in the boardroom.
No, neither did I. But a sufficient amount of us did, and that's what counts :(
"The Pick Up Your Own Dog's Shit Bill is necessary in light of terrorist plots."
Bring it on!
Under my new world order, pet excrement, especially that excreted by dogs, must be dealt with immediately by the owner responsible directly after an incident in a public place.
Vets recommend to pet owners whose pets have a toilet problem in the house that they should rub their pets nose in their own excrement. The pet soon learns that this is wrong and must not do this if it is to avoid this unpleasantness. The method is tried and tested.
Under my new world order, if a dog shits on the pavement and the owner does nothing about it, the owner will have their nose smothered in their pet's excrement until they learn that it is completely unacceptable.
We didn't vote for any ID cards or biometrics on passports, since it wasn't put to the vote. The scum in power want more power though, so it was bound to come without a public vote.
Everyone knew that New Labour [tm] wanted to introduce ID cards way before the election last year, and yet, they still won it. I'm sorry, but we did vote for it.