Although kind of funny, what application does it have? To REALLY piss off a large bull with LARGE horns... That thing took the bull down for about 5 seconds, then the film ends with a REALLY pissed off bull that was just itching to kill something.
Im still laughing about it, but from images of someone shooting a bull, and then being mowed down while doing a "victory dance"
A great trick (which might be obvious to some) is to first boot it "to harddisk" (i cant remember the setting but its in the readme), then subsequently boot "to ram". The 50 odd MB images goes from HD to RAM very quickly and runs even quicker. Much better than doing "to ram" from the CD everytime.
damn, ok i take it back. Those instructions are now way to complicated for any lay person.
It would appear that the profile directory *might* be able to stay. It does say that it shouldnt be installed over a 'zipped' package, so i took it to assume that if it wasnt zipped then it was ok. However if you read on and on and on it does say to put it into a new directory and to uninstall the old one, so which one do/can i do???
The installer should just fix it all for me, i.e.
"It appears you have an old install of Firefox, It is highly recomended that you allow this installer to uninstall your old version first and then install this new version. Dont worry, your old settings will be automatically transferred to the new install. But you have a backup dont you???
Not sure where i read it, but that rather largeish north american country used to be called "These United States". As in a group of places (mostly) living in cooperation.
Now its just another place called "the youess" or "youessay"
Thats how i *started* on my "evil pirate ripping" ways...
Put DVD in computer to watch it. "You cant play this on a device with a TV out" (or it just dosent work) Hmmm Im not even allowed to *watch* the DVD i own...
Google is my friend, lets see what it has to say... Dvd-decryptor will help... hmmm yup. I can now watch DVD with just a 500kb file. Google also helped me find Div-x at the same time... so i dont have to go though that crap every time. So i am forced to (easily) break the law just to do some perfectly lawful activity.
How much respect for the media companies do you think i have now...
At least in australia i havnt seen these lockin DVD's. i get annoyed when i have to watch a minute of intro just to get to a menu.
umm no, well unless you are actually having problems. Firefox *will* install over an older version since around 0.9 (?)
Yes the autoupdate does get the whole install file, but it runs and updates Fx and then just asks for Fx to be restarted (not a reboot). So its not that much different than WU (except without for the constant *&%$# nagging to reboot every 5 minutes)
Why does everyone assume that *testing* the tank mean that it has to be flown? 1) fill with liquid (fuel, water, beer), look for puddles under tank (in case of beer, call party afterwards) 2) fill with pressurised gas (air, not *fuel*) monitor pressure 3) Test at alititude? fill with fuel and put in vacuum chamber (granted a *very* big one)
There are lots of ways of testing a system without needing to fly around in a circle for 3 days or drop 9 tons of fuel on some unsuspecting farmer.
Im not sure how it saved their servers either. You may as well as download the whole thing, as this is what the automatic update does. And then it just autoruns the installer. The firefox setup 1.0.1.exe (4704kb-windows) is left on the desktop afterwards. I too was going to just download it, but the autoupdate finally came up yesterday afternoon.
ok you have the spark, but that bottle of vodka is no use to you. You need around 75% alcohol (151 proof) to actually burn, and that sort of *flammable liquid* is just as banned as a lighter.
Note to others, do *not* try to drink Bacardi 151 proof straight up.
Thanks. And in those links are links to a very informative site on getting around refills (at least for epson)
I was thinking that it was just lexmark that was *really* evil. I knew that epson often guessed the cartridges were empty and you used to be able to just pull them out and put them back, but with all this chipping going on you cant do that anymore. And shame to HP for expiring their inks (toner?). I was considering buying a HP laser but am i now to believe that they are evil too?
I think i will go back to using a pencil, no wait, a lump of charcoal (that i made myself). That way i can be sure that i'll get information on paper when i want it without any silly restrictions.
quite possibly not off-topic is that i have often seen large "value" packs that are *more* expensive than the the smaller packs. But because of the odd volume/weight sizes its not always obvious.
Your suggestion of price per gram would certainly help in this regard so that i didnt have to hurt my brain trying to work out if the 1 *litre* pack with 30% "Free" is better than the 624 *gram* pack.
Ok i could live with the "buy the blade" model and buy expensive refills occasionally, but to have the printer determine that its out-of-date and then refuse to print is not an option.
Then again i have recieved all the dont touch Lexmark with a 10 foot pole messages so probably wouldnt buy one anyway.
Id like to add that "back in the days" (80's) when i would be talking long distance (on a phone, IDD and all) from australia to UK and would almost always have long lag times and echos of 1 to 2 seconds or more. You could actually have a conversation with yourself because of the lag and echo and thoroughly confuse the other person.
500ms lag may suck for playing quake, but is perfectly ok for a conversation once you know its there and dont try to butt in all the time (hmm maybe mum and the gf *will* have trouble with 500ms lag)
yes and no... anything with the word nukalar in it will cause hysteria. so it dosent really matter if causes harm or not if a dirty bomb goes off and spreads nukalar material in a small area of a city we will have people behaving irrationally and there will be "bear patrols". So terror will be imparted and the terror-ist's job is done.
But i am not against nuclear power. The pebble bed reactor does look like a sound idea.
Golden rice was not actually done by a non-profit group as such, but in hind sight decided that they should give it away. *Then* they discovered that they had infringed on 50 odd patents and they needed everyone to agree. Luckily there is a non-profit org that wanted to organise this (ISAAA).
But the short of the story is this. A *lot* of children in developing countries either die or are maimed for life from malnutrition. the availability of golden rice (no need for terminator seed, just re-sow) and the vitamin A and iron in it would save tens of thousands of children a year from blindess and other disabilaties.
"Wont somebody *please* think of the children", and just let them grow it already.
Well in Western Australia a large proportion, if not most, electric power comes from gas. WA could actually be self sufficient using natural gas for quite a while, but stupid oil agreements (OPEC?) mean that we have to pay for stuff we could provide ourselves.
And i think you will find that with market forces the cost per MW would be very close for various sources. Just because fusion power is promised to be cheap to run do you thing the consumers are going to benefit, or will the big corporations just make huge profits?
If you want a 'dirty bomb' the processing you need stops at getting the raw materials and strapping some quantity of explosive to it. It goes bang, there is radioactivity, therefore there is mass hysteria.
Getting fatal doses (or dying) while preparing the bomb is also not a consideration given that people are willing to strap a bomb on themselves and scatter themselves over public places in the name of some deiety.
Never mind the issue that uranium and/or plutonium make really bad ingredients for a dirty bomb (in terms of inflicting actual harm) because they are very hard to dispurse and settle quickly.
As for the pathfinder??? material (pathfinder didnt have a RTG or RHU), i doubt it was *spent* material, but rather highly purified Pu238. This stuff gets hot all on its own. No use in a nukalar explosion (and actually a bad contaminant to have). Although it does put out a lot of radioactivity in itself, so it would be slightly more effective over reactor uranium in a dirty bomb.
It was probably a *very* large gas cylinder to push start the jet engine. You cant really push the aircraft down the runway fast enough and drop the clutch (so to speak), so you push some air through it instead.
Starter motors for big jets are either unrelaible or have limited lifespans, so those jumpstarters are always around.
It will often result in flames coming out the back of the engine, and at least one lot of passengers has decided that wasnt kosher and emergency evactuated themselves despite being told by the crew everything was OK.
1st commandment of flying the shuttle: "though shalt not touch the thermal protection system". So a reusable capsule would be rather difficult to land without wheels. (or you could try capturing it with a helicopter...)
And on being able to control the landing, I have read that the shuttle could pratically land itself, but the main landing gear release is still completely manually controlled, so the shuttle 'pilots' have something real to do.
And well 3 points in a post is bad, but what the hell... The shuttle was designed with wings so it could land in the US in the same place it took off after one orbit *after* having flown **over** the USSR and done its covert task. Flying around the USSR is just changing the perspective of the military capabilities of the craft.
Had a dog chew on a CF card. Found it dirty on the floor with obvious teeth marks in the corner. And it still worked. At least it was only a 16MB freebie.
Id like to see any of those exposed terminal plate cards taking even remotely the same beating.
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I think it was funnier when it was ambiguous :)
Although kind of funny, what application does it have? To REALLY piss off a large bull with LARGE horns... That thing took the bull down for about 5 seconds, then the film ends with a REALLY pissed off bull that was just itching to kill something.
Im still laughing about it, but from images of someone shooting a bull, and then being mowed down while doing a "victory dance"
A great trick (which might be obvious to some) is to first boot it "to harddisk" (i cant remember the setting but its in the readme), then subsequently boot "to ram". The 50 odd MB images goes from HD to RAM very quickly and runs even quicker. Much better than doing "to ram" from the CD everytime.
It would appear that the profile directory *might* be able to stay. It does say that it shouldnt be installed over a 'zipped' package, so i took it to assume that if it wasnt zipped then it was ok. However if you read on and on and on it does say to put it into a new directory and to uninstall the old one, so which one do/can i do???
The installer should just fix it all for me, i.e.
Not sure where i read it, but that rather largeish north american country used to be called "These United States". As in a group of places (mostly) living in cooperation.
Now its just another place called "the youess" or "youessay"
Thats how i *started* on my "evil pirate ripping" ways...
Put DVD in computer to watch it. "You cant play this on a device with a TV out" (or it just dosent work) Hmmm Im not even allowed to *watch* the DVD i own...
Google is my friend, lets see what it has to say... Dvd-decryptor will help... hmmm yup. I can now watch DVD with just a 500kb file. Google also helped me find Div-x at the same time... so i dont have to go though that crap every time. So i am forced to (easily) break the law just to do some perfectly lawful activity.
How much respect for the media companies do you think i have now...
At least in australia i havnt seen these lockin DVD's. i get annoyed when i have to watch a minute of intro just to get to a menu.
umm no, well unless you are actually having problems. Firefox *will* install over an older version since around 0.9 (?)
Yes the autoupdate does get the whole install file, but it runs and updates Fx and then just asks for Fx to be restarted (not a reboot). So its not that much different than WU (except without for the constant *&%$# nagging to reboot every 5 minutes)
Macs have 'lickable' interfaces? I feel the need to go get a mac mini...
Why does everyone assume that *testing* the tank mean that it has to be flown?
1) fill with liquid (fuel, water, beer), look for puddles under tank (in case of beer, call party afterwards)
2) fill with pressurised gas (air, not *fuel*) monitor pressure
3) Test at alititude? fill with fuel and put in vacuum chamber (granted a *very* big one)
There are lots of ways of testing a system without needing to fly around in a circle for 3 days or drop 9 tons of fuel on some unsuspecting farmer.
Im not sure how it saved their servers either. You may as well as download the whole thing, as this is what the automatic update does. And then it just autoruns the installer. The firefox setup 1.0.1.exe (4704kb-windows) is left on the desktop afterwards.
I too was going to just download it, but the autoupdate finally came up yesterday afternoon.
ok you have the spark, but that bottle of vodka is no use to you. You need around 75% alcohol (151 proof) to actually burn, and that sort of *flammable liquid* is just as banned as a lighter.
Note to others, do *not* try to drink Bacardi 151 proof straight up.
And what is radar other than very precisely calibrated electromagnetic radiation (ie light)?
Or you could just put the cat in zero g and let it spin...
http://216.40.242.213/mirror/cat.mov
Thanks. And in those links are links to a very informative site on getting around refills (at least for epson)
I was thinking that it was just lexmark that was *really* evil. I knew that epson often guessed the cartridges were empty and you used to be able to just pull them out and put them back, but with all this chipping going on you cant do that anymore. And shame to HP for expiring their inks (toner?). I was considering buying a HP laser but am i now to believe that they are evil too?
I think i will go back to using a pencil, no wait, a lump of charcoal (that i made myself). That way i can be sure that i'll get information on paper when i want it without any silly restrictions.
and they'll be needing solar panels the size of your respective version of football to power them...
or else make 'em nukalar powered.
quite possibly not off-topic is that i have often seen large "value" packs that are *more* expensive than the the smaller packs. But because of the odd volume/weight sizes its not always obvious.
Your suggestion of price per gram would certainly help in this regard so that i didnt have to hurt my brain trying to work out if the 1 *litre* pack with 30% "Free" is better than the 624 *gram* pack.
Can somone confirm/give a reference for this?
Ok i could live with the "buy the blade" model and buy expensive refills occasionally, but to have the printer determine that its out-of-date and then refuse to print is not an option.
Then again i have recieved all the dont touch Lexmark with a 10 foot pole messages so probably wouldnt buy one anyway.
Id like to add that "back in the days" (80's) when i would be talking long distance (on a phone, IDD and all) from australia to UK and would almost always have long lag times and echos of 1 to 2 seconds or more. You could actually have a conversation with yourself because of the lag and echo and thoroughly confuse the other person.
500ms lag may suck for playing quake, but is perfectly ok for a conversation once you know its there and dont try to butt in all the time (hmm maybe mum and the gf *will* have trouble with 500ms lag)
yes and no... anything with the word nukalar in it will cause hysteria. so it dosent really matter if causes harm or not if a dirty bomb goes off and spreads nukalar material in a small area of a city we will have people behaving irrationally and there will be "bear patrols". So terror will be imparted and the terror-ist's job is done.
But i am not against nuclear power. The pebble bed reactor does look like a sound idea.
Golden rice was not actually done by a non-profit group as such, but in hind sight decided that they should give it away. *Then* they discovered that they had infringed on 50 odd patents and they needed everyone to agree. Luckily there is a non-profit org that wanted to organise this (ISAAA).
But the short of the story is this. A *lot* of children in developing countries either die or are maimed for life from malnutrition. the availability of golden rice (no need for terminator seed, just re-sow) and the vitamin A and iron in it would save tens of thousands of children a year from blindess and other disabilaties.
"Wont somebody *please* think of the children", and just let them grow it already.
Well in Western Australia a large proportion, if not most, electric power comes from gas. WA could actually be self sufficient using natural gas for quite a while, but stupid oil agreements (OPEC?) mean that we have to pay for stuff we could provide ourselves.
And i think you will find that with market forces the cost per MW would be very close for various sources. Just because fusion power is promised to be cheap to run do you thing the consumers are going to benefit, or will the big corporations just make huge profits?
If you want a 'dirty bomb' the processing you need stops at getting the raw materials and strapping some quantity of explosive to it. It goes bang, there is radioactivity, therefore there is mass
hysteria.
Getting fatal doses (or dying) while preparing the bomb is also not a consideration given that people are willing to strap a bomb on themselves and scatter themselves over public places in the name of some deiety.
Never mind the issue that uranium and/or plutonium make really bad ingredients for a dirty bomb (in terms of inflicting actual harm) because they are very hard to dispurse and settle quickly.
As for the pathfinder??? material (pathfinder didnt have a RTG or RHU), i doubt it was *spent* material, but rather highly purified Pu238. This stuff gets hot all on its own. No use in a nukalar explosion (and actually a bad contaminant to have). Although it does put out a lot of radioactivity in itself, so it would be slightly more effective over reactor uranium in a dirty bomb.
It was probably a *very* large gas cylinder to push start the jet engine. You cant really push the aircraft down the runway fast enough and drop the clutch (so to speak), so you push some air through it instead.
Starter motors for big jets are either unrelaible or have limited lifespans, so those jumpstarters are always around.
It will often result in flames coming out the back of the engine, and at least one lot of passengers has decided that wasnt kosher and emergency evactuated themselves despite being told by the crew everything was OK.
1st commandment of flying the shuttle: "though shalt not touch the thermal protection system". So a reusable capsule would be rather difficult to land without wheels. (or you could try capturing it with a helicopter...)
And on being able to control the landing, I have read that the shuttle could pratically land itself, but the main landing gear release is still completely manually controlled, so the shuttle 'pilots' have something real to do.
And well 3 points in a post is bad, but what the hell... The shuttle was designed with wings so it could land in the US in the same place it took off after one orbit *after* having flown **over** the USSR and done its covert task. Flying around the USSR is just changing the perspective of the military capabilities of the craft.
Had a dog chew on a CF card. Found it dirty on the floor with obvious teeth marks in the corner. And it still worked. At least it was only a 16MB freebie.
Id like to see any of those exposed terminal plate cards taking even remotely the same beating.