That's because the Pommies almost got their butts handed to them on a silver platter at the Battle of Gate Pa. That's when the Pommies found out that the Pa is a little more resilient than they first thought.
Not only that, I think the Pommies were scared by the fact they ate an entire race of people called the Morioris. I hear pasty white guys taste like chicken.
As to being complicated: If that is your argument, then all the English speaking countries should switch to metric according to your logic.
All countries should move to metric anyway because as much as people hate it it's far more accurate than the width of two acorns (inches).
People have been using "Kilo" for a thousand for millenniums longer than we've been using "Kilo" in a Base2 sense. That only started in the digital age and the digital age is really the upstart.
People think 1000 when they think of Kilo so they're not going to think Kilo as 1024 which is wrong in the real world. 1 Kilometer is not 1024 meters it's 1000. Sure nerds may like to think they're right but history is far greater than their ego and will win out every time.
I'm sorry but you are so wrong. Macs are for PRODUCTIVE people. That's why photographers, videographers, scientists, developers, and just people who like to sit at their computer and do some work use Macs.
We have UNIX level security whereas Windows has Tomy Tippee security. Actually that's not fair, Tomy Tippee computers have more security. We have a nice, well laid out interface that is uncluttered and above all functional which Windows tries to copy but keeps failing to do well.
We can do more things right from opening up our computer from a blank install than Windows can dream about. We can even connect to Microsoft's Exchange Server platform without buying any extra software and yet Windows can't.
It's true that Windows can play solitaire right from the word go without having to install anything but then once again it just proves that Macs are for PRODUCTIVE people. Windows is just for lazy leeches of society. Want proof? What does big business run their gear on? What do politicians generally run? What do lawyers and accountants generally run? How much benefit to society are they. NONE.
The idea of having ads at the start or beginning isn't so bad but interrupting a 15 minute video just for the purposes of video is retarded. I know I'll never use YouTube or Google Video again if they implemented this. Just wouldn't be worth it.
Easier said than done down here.
That being said I did hack my DVD player to play region free.
Problem is I also want to do it on my Mac and while I've found a firmware patch for my drive the Region X software doesn't seem to work with Leopard so I'm forced to wait until I can rip it using Mac The Ripper which defeats the "watch it now" ideal behind the DVD.
I can't think of one legitimate reason for Region encoding OR hobbled discs.
I like to buy DVDs but I have to tell you I'm doing it less and less now because we get shafted here in New Zealand.
DVDs cost around $35(NZ) and are generally single disc editions. If I paid the same amount for a DVD in America I can get special editions.
The movie industry only has itself to blame by incorporating pathetic Region encoding and not giving us the same value for money as the rest of the world.
Once Apple finally brings video to the Australia and New Zealand iTS then it's all over for DVD purchases because I know I'm getting the right value for money from there.
Actually you're wrong. The word day is used in many contexts in the Bible.
The creative days mentioned in the Bible are not literal 24 hour days. In context they refer to periods. There are also scriptures in both Old and New Testaments that say "a thousand years are but as a day in God's eyes" so at bare minimum the creative days would be 6000 years.
But what people fail to realise is that there are two creative periods. Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" but from Genesis 1:2 onwards it talks about creative days on Earth and in the original Hebrew the language indicated it was from the perspective of someone standing on the earth looking up so the creation of the sun, moon, and stars would have seemed to have just happened as a dark cloud was removed thus unveiling the luminaries.
The problem with those decrying the Bible is that most of them have never read it so they know stuff all about it.
For all the mocking if people read it they'd realise it is a fascinating book with prophecies which have been so accurate that in many cases it's been accused of being written after the fact which is wrong considering that Daniel had the book of Isaiah before the fall of Babylon and Isaiah had written not only that Babylon will fall but who and how (Isaiah 45:1-25) which is the only prophecy to mention a person by name and was written 200 years before the event.
Archeology backs up most of the Bible so it's not just a book to be taken on faith.
The company I work for are contracted by Acer to do the hardware support on their gear and every Acer we've worked on has been cheap hardware and poor design.
Anyone buying Acer gets exactly what they deserve, dead machines and a laugh in the face.
Camino seems to be a bit faster than FireFox in my opinion so it seems this argument is somewhat flawed.
Might the speed increase of Safari be because it is using KHTML instead of the bloated Gecko engine I wonder?
I'm willing to bet that Apple doesn't want to patent this but HAS to. Apple's been burned in the past with frivolous lawsuits based on some dickwad taking out a patent for technology that Apple has been using for years.
Apple has had multitouch computers since around the time the MacBook and MacBook Pros came out so it's nothing new but to avoid needless litigation they've had to patent the multitouch system.
Look at how many technologies Apple had developed that it did not patent and then how many court cases came from it (anyone remember Creative?).
Actually the book of Genesis talks about the tree of life in chapter 3 and that was written thousands of years before Darwin was a glimmer in the milkman's eye.
And before you use that whole genetics context think about what the book of Genesis starts off talking about, the creation of mankind via two individuals.
Have you ever noticed that these idiot FUD spewers never allow commenting on their sites?
Is it maybe because the world is able to call them out on their senseless, fact less dribbles?
Pity more people read Slashdot and Digg than his pathetic columns.
I agree in principle but intelligent people would do the search before moving off or pull over to the side of the road. Of course I see very few intelligent drivers out there.
I see people reading the newspaper while driving, there was a case last year where a doctor of all people was reading a book while driving at 120km/h. I see people putting on their makeup, not to mention texting and the like.
Of course Dvorak's calling option is flawed as well because you have to take your eyes off the road to dial the numbers or note down the numbers from Directory Assistance so Google BEFORE moving is by far the better option.
And no one is flocking to smartphones of any sort? How many iPhones did Apple sell in the first month or two? If that's not flocking then I'm buggered if I know.
It seems most of these problems happen in America.
I've asked around people here in New Zealand and not one occurance of all the problems posted on the Net have happened here.
I've also asked people in Australia as well and still nothing.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen but if anywhere is going to have big problems it's going to be New Zealand and Australia because we have 240V systems as opposed to America's 110V.
I think a number of issues need to be looked at such as whether or not these people are using multiboxes with surge protectors.
How does merely changing to a different processor automagically open one up to viruses?
A virus is OS dependant not processor dependant and therefore there is equal chance of PPC OS X getting the same virus as Intel OS X if the virus writer has any degree of skill - although very few virus writers seem to be anything more than just little pathetic script kiddies.
Bring back the good old days where viruses destroyed your BIOS and knackered the bootsectors of your drives.
Many hospitals in Europe have been performing mostly bloodless surgeries since late 80's early 90's.
The fact that America is only just realising the benefits is pathetic.
Yes Jehovah's Witnesses have been the major players with regards developing this but the medical benefits noted in this article have been known for decades.
In most cases bloodloss can be replaced with volume expanders such as saline but for more complex operations there are a number of techniques including laser scapels which quarterise the wound when cuttin thus preventing bloodloss. There is also blood recycling where blood is pumped from the body and put through a machine to be cleaned then pumped back into the body thus reducing bloodloss.
Doctors that insist on blood transfusions should be avoided because they are not keeping up with the latest procesdures and are probably not careful.
I just upgraded from the Sony T39M to the Motorola V550 and I love it.
I purchased the USB lead and it works really well.
Go to http://www.taniwha.org.uk/ to download the modem script for either GPRS or CDMA depending on your provider and you can then use the phone as a modem.
As for ringtones? Go to iTunes, convert your favourite song to a 32Kb MP3 then upload to the audio folder on the phone (you'll need Bluetooth for that or a copy of VPC running W2K if you're going to use the software). Now your ringtone is something you like and because it's an MP3 of a REAL song you get something people won't necessarily want to kill you for.:D
The only thing it won't sync is the Tasklist in iCal but it will do the calendars themselves.
I've been interested in steam powered cars ever since I first heard about the Stanley Steamer. This car was capable of doing 200Km/h when there were no petrol powered cars that could come close to that speed.
Obviously today this is not the case but in reality who needs a car that can do 200 when the roads stop those speeds from being reasonable?
Anyhow, I've also had a theory about making this car run without any fossil fuels whatsoever but I'm not really clued in as to whether or not it would work effectively so maybe you lot can help out.
My theory is to use magnetic induction to heat up the water instead of propane, gasoline/kerosene. The other benefit is that you don't have to wait long for the water to heat up.
From then on it's basically just steam turning a shaft or a turbine. Power would be supplied by batteries of course and the batteries would be charged by a generator running off the shaft.
But the issue really is would batteries be able to supply enough power to run the magnetic induction initially?
Thoughts?
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That's because the Pommies almost got their butts handed to them on a silver platter at the Battle of Gate Pa. That's when the Pommies found out that the Pa is a little more resilient than they first thought. Not only that, I think the Pommies were scared by the fact they ate an entire race of people called the Morioris. I hear pasty white guys taste like chicken.
Precisely. New Zealanders don't screw sheep... we screw cows on account of them being more accommodating of our larger penises.
That just proves how out of touch with reality America is.
How can you have a "World" series when only one country from the "World" competes.
And America wonders why people hate it so much.
As to being complicated: If that is your argument, then all the English speaking countries should switch to metric according to your logic.
All countries should move to metric anyway because as much as people hate it it's far more accurate than the width of two acorns (inches).
People have been using "Kilo" for a thousand for millenniums longer than we've been using "Kilo" in a Base2 sense. That only started in the digital age and the digital age is really the upstart.
People think 1000 when they think of Kilo so they're not going to think Kilo as 1024 which is wrong in the real world. 1 Kilometer is not 1024 meters it's 1000. Sure nerds may like to think they're right but history is far greater than their ego and will win out every time.
I'm sorry but you are so wrong. Macs are for PRODUCTIVE people. That's why photographers, videographers, scientists, developers, and just people who like to sit at their computer and do some work use Macs. We have UNIX level security whereas Windows has Tomy Tippee security. Actually that's not fair, Tomy Tippee computers have more security. We have a nice, well laid out interface that is uncluttered and above all functional which Windows tries to copy but keeps failing to do well. We can do more things right from opening up our computer from a blank install than Windows can dream about. We can even connect to Microsoft's Exchange Server platform without buying any extra software and yet Windows can't. It's true that Windows can play solitaire right from the word go without having to install anything but then once again it just proves that Macs are for PRODUCTIVE people. Windows is just for lazy leeches of society. Want proof? What does big business run their gear on? What do politicians generally run? What do lawyers and accountants generally run? How much benefit to society are they. NONE.
The idea of having ads at the start or beginning isn't so bad but interrupting a 15 minute video just for the purposes of video is retarded. I know I'll never use YouTube or Google Video again if they implemented this. Just wouldn't be worth it.
Easier said than done down here. That being said I did hack my DVD player to play region free. Problem is I also want to do it on my Mac and while I've found a firmware patch for my drive the Region X software doesn't seem to work with Leopard so I'm forced to wait until I can rip it using Mac The Ripper which defeats the "watch it now" ideal behind the DVD. I can't think of one legitimate reason for Region encoding OR hobbled discs.
I like to buy DVDs but I have to tell you I'm doing it less and less now because we get shafted here in New Zealand. DVDs cost around $35(NZ) and are generally single disc editions. If I paid the same amount for a DVD in America I can get special editions. The movie industry only has itself to blame by incorporating pathetic Region encoding and not giving us the same value for money as the rest of the world. Once Apple finally brings video to the Australia and New Zealand iTS then it's all over for DVD purchases because I know I'm getting the right value for money from there.
Actually you're wrong. The word day is used in many contexts in the Bible. The creative days mentioned in the Bible are not literal 24 hour days. In context they refer to periods. There are also scriptures in both Old and New Testaments that say "a thousand years are but as a day in God's eyes" so at bare minimum the creative days would be 6000 years. But what people fail to realise is that there are two creative periods. Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" but from Genesis 1:2 onwards it talks about creative days on Earth and in the original Hebrew the language indicated it was from the perspective of someone standing on the earth looking up so the creation of the sun, moon, and stars would have seemed to have just happened as a dark cloud was removed thus unveiling the luminaries. The problem with those decrying the Bible is that most of them have never read it so they know stuff all about it. For all the mocking if people read it they'd realise it is a fascinating book with prophecies which have been so accurate that in many cases it's been accused of being written after the fact which is wrong considering that Daniel had the book of Isaiah before the fall of Babylon and Isaiah had written not only that Babylon will fall but who and how (Isaiah 45:1-25) which is the only prophecy to mention a person by name and was written 200 years before the event. Archeology backs up most of the Bible so it's not just a book to be taken on faith.
The company I work for are contracted by Acer to do the hardware support on their gear and every Acer we've worked on has been cheap hardware and poor design. Anyone buying Acer gets exactly what they deserve, dead machines and a laugh in the face.
Camino seems to be a bit faster than FireFox in my opinion so it seems this argument is somewhat flawed. Might the speed increase of Safari be because it is using KHTML instead of the bloated Gecko engine I wonder?
I'm willing to bet that Apple doesn't want to patent this but HAS to. Apple's been burned in the past with frivolous lawsuits based on some dickwad taking out a patent for technology that Apple has been using for years. Apple has had multitouch computers since around the time the MacBook and MacBook Pros came out so it's nothing new but to avoid needless litigation they've had to patent the multitouch system. Look at how many technologies Apple had developed that it did not patent and then how many court cases came from it (anyone remember Creative?).
Actually the book of Genesis talks about the tree of life in chapter 3 and that was written thousands of years before Darwin was a glimmer in the milkman's eye. And before you use that whole genetics context think about what the book of Genesis starts off talking about, the creation of mankind via two individuals.
Have you ever noticed that these idiot FUD spewers never allow commenting on their sites? Is it maybe because the world is able to call them out on their senseless, fact less dribbles? Pity more people read Slashdot and Digg than his pathetic columns.
I agree in principle but intelligent people would do the search before moving off or pull over to the side of the road. Of course I see very few intelligent drivers out there. I see people reading the newspaper while driving, there was a case last year where a doctor of all people was reading a book while driving at 120km/h. I see people putting on their makeup, not to mention texting and the like. Of course Dvorak's calling option is flawed as well because you have to take your eyes off the road to dial the numbers or note down the numbers from Directory Assistance so Google BEFORE moving is by far the better option. And no one is flocking to smartphones of any sort? How many iPhones did Apple sell in the first month or two? If that's not flocking then I'm buggered if I know.
It seems most of these problems happen in America. I've asked around people here in New Zealand and not one occurance of all the problems posted on the Net have happened here. I've also asked people in Australia as well and still nothing. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but if anywhere is going to have big problems it's going to be New Zealand and Australia because we have 240V systems as opposed to America's 110V. I think a number of issues need to be looked at such as whether or not these people are using multiboxes with surge protectors.
A virus is OS dependant not processor dependant and therefore there is equal chance of PPC OS X getting the same virus as Intel OS X if the virus writer has any degree of skill - although very few virus writers seem to be anything more than just little pathetic script kiddies.
Bring back the good old days where viruses destroyed your BIOS and knackered the bootsectors of your drives.
I use the Queen's English not that bastardised version you Americans use. As such I use "s" instead of the "z" that you lot seem to use.
Of course I did screw up when I typed "cuttin" instead of "cutting" but that comes down to typing faster than I was reading. :-)
I also spell "colour" correctly as opposed to your lazy "color". ;-)
Many hospitals in Europe have been performing mostly bloodless surgeries since late 80's early 90's. The fact that America is only just realising the benefits is pathetic. Yes Jehovah's Witnesses have been the major players with regards developing this but the medical benefits noted in this article have been known for decades. In most cases bloodloss can be replaced with volume expanders such as saline but for more complex operations there are a number of techniques including laser scapels which quarterise the wound when cuttin thus preventing bloodloss. There is also blood recycling where blood is pumped from the body and put through a machine to be cleaned then pumped back into the body thus reducing bloodloss. Doctors that insist on blood transfusions should be avoided because they are not keeping up with the latest procesdures and are probably not careful.
I just upgraded from the Sony T39M to the Motorola V550 and I love it. I purchased the USB lead and it works really well. Go to http://www.taniwha.org.uk/ to download the modem script for either GPRS or CDMA depending on your provider and you can then use the phone as a modem. As for ringtones? Go to iTunes, convert your favourite song to a 32Kb MP3 then upload to the audio folder on the phone (you'll need Bluetooth for that or a copy of VPC running W2K if you're going to use the software). Now your ringtone is something you like and because it's an MP3 of a REAL song you get something people won't necessarily want to kill you for. :D
The only thing it won't sync is the Tasklist in iCal but it will do the calendars themselves.
I've been interested in steam powered cars ever since I first heard about the Stanley Steamer. This car was capable of doing 200Km/h when there were no petrol powered cars that could come close to that speed. Obviously today this is not the case but in reality who needs a car that can do 200 when the roads stop those speeds from being reasonable? Anyhow, I've also had a theory about making this car run without any fossil fuels whatsoever but I'm not really clued in as to whether or not it would work effectively so maybe you lot can help out. My theory is to use magnetic induction to heat up the water instead of propane, gasoline/kerosene. The other benefit is that you don't have to wait long for the water to heat up. From then on it's basically just steam turning a shaft or a turbine. Power would be supplied by batteries of course and the batteries would be charged by a generator running off the shaft. But the issue really is would batteries be able to supply enough power to run the magnetic induction initially? Thoughts?