As an Australian married to an American, I've been to the US a few times now (although only once since we've actually been married). The one thing I can say is that San Francisco Airport rocks. Friendly staff, no long waits, organised/helpful customs and immigrations personel. Plus, if the "citizen's" line at immigration is done, they send people in the "non-citizen" line through, further speeding things up.
The laptop thing still bugs me. I didn't take mine when we went last year, and really missed it.
As a doctor (practicing General Practice in Australia), what I tell my patients is that chiropractors may help certain problems, usually chronic, related to the spine. However, there are a lot of dodgy chiropractors out there, and a lot who mislead patients as to what exactly they can help with.
That's what I tell patients. My private opinion isn't nearly so polite. There are too many parents out there not having their child adequately treated or not getting them immunised, based on their chiropractors advice.
You know, I agree completely. I absolutely cannot wait for Moffat to take over, his stuff has been some of the best TV I have seen... ever. Davies on the other hand... his stories have been piles of sentimental, unsubtle mess. I do give him credit though for resurrecting the series, and for making good decisions on casting and on choosing writers/producers etc...
I guess my original point is while the individual stories of the old series may have had internal continuity (and not all of them had that, there were enough crap ones through the series run), overall there was very little continuity, and each season's writers rewrote the backstory to suit their own needs. I actually think the format of the revival suits the new Doctor Who - (deliberately) based on the Buffy model of stand alone episodes leading to a season big bad. It's just that Davies is no Joss Whedon, and he wrote far too many of the episodes himself.
If I hadn't already commented above, I'd mod you funny (intentional or not).
The limit on regenerations only came in part-way through Tom Baker's time, as a motivation for the Master in "The Deadly Assassin". Prior to that, the second Doctor made a comment about being able to live "practically forever".
Also, in "The Five Doctors" the Time Lord Council offered the Master a new set of regenerations - and in season 3 of the new stuff, it implies that he accepted in exchange for fighting in the time war.
The original series was a mass of contradictions, incontinuities, and general scar-tissue in the fabric of space-time. And it was great.
So even though Top Gear USA isn't on yet you know it was "destroyed" by Americanizing it? Has Top Gear Australia also been destroyed by Australianizing it?
Heh, this is (almost) exactly my home setup. High powered dual-booting desktop (and when wine runs Source games just a bit better then goodbye XP), and an EeePC 401 running Ubuntu Netbook Remix for lounging around the house and taking around with me (I also have a mini-box running MythTV plugged into my TV)
Also, to add to the list of emulators Eli Gottlieb listed above, DOSBox is great to have on there, it's what I'm using the most at the moment. Ah, Red Alert, I remember now why you rocked.
That's why I now make sure I've checked here to see if there's a review before I buy a game. Actual (sarcastic as hell) reviews, rather than paid-for fluff pieces.
There are several games I haven't bought because of this site, and had friends confirm their crappiness. Also, there have been a couple of games I have bought, that I otherwise wouldn't have looked twice at.
IAAD, and I worked in hospitals up until earlier this year - one reason I'm glad to be out in private practice is not having to carry a damn pager!
I haven't yet seen an area in a hospital, or met a doctor of any specialty, who didn't carry a phone as well as a pager. One of the primary reasons the hospital I worked at still had pagers was for handover. At the end of your shift you gave the pager to the doctor working the next one, meaning that instead of having to work out whose phone to call, you just page the doctor and get whoever is on.
If you'd forget to hand it over and take it home, you soon work it out...
Australian author Matthew Reilly did just that with his book Hover Car Racer. He made it freely available for download as a PDF with embedded ads several months before the hardcopy version was available in stores. He also had for download images and a paper model of the main vehicle.
I recall reading an interview with the author where he said that it made sense financially, and he disparaged the earlier effort by Stephen King with his "pay as you go" model. I personally downloaded it but also bought the hardcover when it was available, but I was likely to do so anyway as I'm a fan of his work. My wife had a teenager in a class she was teaching (the book is aimed at "young adults", very much unlike his other works) who after reading the downloaded version went and bought a copy.
Open-soure in my mind often tends to depend a lot on a decent connection to the 'net. Downloading CD ISO images, installing packages/updates from apt/etc, downloading packages or source files, reading online documentation, etc. It could be that "down under" is simply being hindered by a case of lacking resources, mainly comparatively crappy internet service.
I'd agree with this completely. Australia in general has crappy internet services, and in Adelaide (a smaller state capital) prices for broadband have only in the last year dropped enough for usage to take off. I personally tried to move my home computer to linux a few times on dial-up but it wasn't until I got broadband that it finally "clicked", and I'm now running Ubuntu pretty much exclusively.
Dark Angel was great in season 1, set the social tone well (borrowing heavily from William Gibson, esp. Virtual Light) and had a hot chickie.
Season 2 went crap with all the emphasis on the mutants that have to look half animal.
*sigh*
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The only time I every saw someone fall out of a chair drunk, it was after one small glass of wine.
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... and it was some of my homebrew ...
Of course, he hadn't had a drink in 5 years
Shame that one study about semen preventing cervical cancer if taken orally was fake!
True, but it does reduce the risk of at least one pregnancy complication.
(Yes, IAAD)
Sleep is a poor caffeine substitute.
You want some fun?
Try adding instant coffee to coke. You get a head on it like a pint of good stout.
(The author of this post makes no gaurantees about the above advice resulting in something drinkable)
Several years ago, when I used to be able to get Jolt "Orange and Cream", I'd mix a glass of that with a double shot of Blue Curacoa .... mmmmmmm
(Side note: this New Years just gone, I found a new favourite cocktail - a Sonic Screwdriver. It's a screwdriver with a shot of Blue Curacoa)
As an Australian married to an American, I've been to the US a few times now (although only once since we've actually been married). The one thing I can say is that San Francisco Airport rocks. Friendly staff, no long waits, organised/helpful customs and immigrations personel. Plus, if the "citizen's" line at immigration is done, they send people in the "non-citizen" line through, further speeding things up.
The laptop thing still bugs me. I didn't take mine when we went last year, and really missed it.
As a doctor (practicing General Practice in Australia), what I tell my patients is that chiropractors may help certain problems, usually chronic, related to the spine. However, there are a lot of dodgy chiropractors out there, and a lot who mislead patients as to what exactly they can help with.
That's what I tell patients. My private opinion isn't nearly so polite. There are too many parents out there not having their child adequately treated or not getting them immunised, based on their chiropractors advice.
The Beatles will still be popular in the 26th century ...
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Cry baby cry, make your mother sigh
Although, historically, I prefer the IBM/lenovo touch point / mouse stick
A lot of people I know refer to those as a "clitoris"
must ... not ... make ... joke!
Q: What's the difference between an orthopedic surgeon and a carpenter?
A: A carpenter usually knows the names of more than two antibiotics
Naw, that's not EMTs, that's doctors.
(Yes, IAAD)
You know, I agree completely. I absolutely cannot wait for Moffat to take over, his stuff has been some of the best TV I have seen ... ever. Davies on the other hand ... his stories have been piles of sentimental, unsubtle mess. I do give him credit though for resurrecting the series, and for making good decisions on casting and on choosing writers/producers etc ...
I guess my original point is while the individual stories of the old series may have had internal continuity (and not all of them had that, there were enough crap ones through the series run), overall there was very little continuity, and each season's writers rewrote the backstory to suit their own needs. I actually think the format of the revival suits the new Doctor Who - (deliberately) based on the Buffy model of stand alone episodes leading to a season big bad. It's just that Davies is no Joss Whedon, and he wrote far too many of the episodes himself.
If I hadn't already commented above, I'd mod you funny (intentional or not).
The limit on regenerations only came in part-way through Tom Baker's time, as a motivation for the Master in "The Deadly Assassin". Prior to that, the second Doctor made a comment about being able to live "practically forever".
Also, in "The Five Doctors" the Time Lord Council offered the Master a new set of regenerations - and in season 3 of the new stuff, it implies that he accepted in exchange for fighting in the time war.
The original series was a mass of contradictions, incontinuities, and general scar-tissue in the fabric of space-time. And it was great.
So even though Top Gear USA isn't on yet you know it was "destroyed" by Americanizing it? Has Top Gear Australia also been destroyed by Australianizing it?
Yes
- An Australian
Heh, this is (almost) exactly my home setup. High powered dual-booting desktop (and when wine runs Source games just a bit better then goodbye XP), and an EeePC 401 running Ubuntu Netbook Remix for lounging around the house and taking around with me (I also have a mini-box running MythTV plugged into my TV)
Also, to add to the list of emulators Eli Gottlieb listed above, DOSBox is great to have on there, it's what I'm using the most at the moment. Ah, Red Alert, I remember now why you rocked.
That's why I now make sure I've checked here to see if there's a review before I buy a game. Actual (sarcastic as hell) reviews, rather than paid-for fluff pieces.
There are several games I haven't bought because of this site, and had friends confirm their crappiness. Also, there have been a couple of games I have bought, that I otherwise wouldn't have looked twice at.
IAAD, and I worked in hospitals up until earlier this year - one reason I'm glad to be out in private practice is not having to carry a damn pager! I haven't yet seen an area in a hospital, or met a doctor of any specialty, who didn't carry a phone as well as a pager. One of the primary reasons the hospital I worked at still had pagers was for handover. At the end of your shift you gave the pager to the doctor working the next one, meaning that instead of having to work out whose phone to call, you just page the doctor and get whoever is on. If you'd forget to hand it over and take it home, you soon work it out ...
That's because you're too sober when you're coding. You need to be drunk to code in Java effectively.
Australian author Matthew Reilly did just that with his book Hover Car Racer. He made it freely available for download as a PDF with embedded ads several months before the hardcopy version was available in stores. He also had for download images and a paper model of the main vehicle.
I recall reading an interview with the author where he said that it made sense financially, and he disparaged the earlier effort by Stephen King with his "pay as you go" model. I personally downloaded it but also bought the hardcover when it was available, but I was likely to do so anyway as I'm a fan of his work. My wife had a teenager in a class she was teaching (the book is aimed at "young adults", very much unlike his other works) who after reading the downloaded version went and bought a copy.
Reminds me of the last episode of Dr Who for this season:
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Dalek: Identify yourself
Cyberman: You identify yourself first
Dalek: No you identify yourself first
Ahhh, what we've been waiting to see for a long time
Rodents of unsusual size? I dont believe they exist.
Open-soure in my mind often tends to depend a lot on a decent connection to the 'net. Downloading CD ISO images, installing packages/updates from apt/etc, downloading packages or source files, reading online documentation, etc. It could be that "down under" is simply being hindered by a case of lacking resources, mainly comparatively crappy internet service. I'd agree with this completely. Australia in general has crappy internet services, and in Adelaide (a smaller state capital) prices for broadband have only in the last year dropped enough for usage to take off. I personally tried to move my home computer to linux a few times on dial-up but it wasn't until I got broadband that it finally "clicked", and I'm now running Ubuntu pretty much exclusively.
Dark Angel was great in season 1, set the social tone well (borrowing heavily from William Gibson, esp. Virtual Light) and had a hot chickie. Season 2 went crap with all the emphasis on the mutants that have to look half animal. *sigh*