Looking more closely, unless Google Earth's model is very far from Earth's oblate spheroid shape (or its ruler widget is broken) then there are a lot of paths from Sierra Leone through Suez to China and with a lot of wiggle room to spare. I wonder if the model TFA used has the Suez Canal marked as a coast-line and so discounted these paths.
Smuggled back into China? Rubbish!
Far, far more likely is that the factory that makes them is making a hell of a lot more than they are reporting to apple and selling these on the sly.
I suspect the reason for the maglev ending where it does is so that the government could forget about it if it flopped. If it was a success they could tell the world and if not it would be conveniently lost in the burbs where noone would see it.
A couple of blocks further (and there doesn't seem to be much trouble getting residents evicted in Shanghai) and they could have run the thing straight across Century Park and right up Century Ave to the Pearl Dildo. It would have actually been useful to a lot of people, ending there. As is, it's just a fun-park ride.
The last Dell I bought must have had at least $100 worth (to Dell) of crapware installed. With some hard work and building on this lead I don't see why a $10 laptop can't have windows. It should be able to be sold at a profit, in fact. If it runs linux or some other free software it will be far more of a surprise.
The author of the essay seems to have made the common fallacy that viewers of tv shows are the customers of those who produce tv shows.
In fact, the customers of tv stations are those who buy advertising time. The viewer is the product which the stations sell to their advertisers. The programs are merely the means towards gaining lots of viewers to be sold.
It works a lot like farming. The tv station is the farm. The viewers are the vegetables, grown in the field, harvested, packaged and sold off to the consumers (the advertising agencies). The programs are the fertiliser that helps all this happen.
Just like in real farming the best way to ensure a full harvest of vegetables is to spread them with liberal doses of shit.
Cable changes the picture a little - the vegetables actually pay for the shit they get covered in - but the idea of ad-free pay-per-view is just not compatible with the industry as it is.
Tv stations at the moment really don't care whether or not you like their shows except in so far as you watch them and the ads they contain. Anything that makes it easy to avoid ads undermines the business model completely and would have to have the promise of instant and huge revenues to get them even thinking about it. This will only happen if a completely new player enters into the market, takes it by storm and the rest are forced to follow. The start-up costs are massive though and I just can't see it happening anytime soon.
Having recently had a broadband internet connection in China and having one currently in Australia I can say that the Chinese clearly get a lot more from their dollar than Australians do from their 200.
In an industry barely 10 years old Australia is already about 5 years behind in the technology generally available.
In South Korea there is a building regulation that means all non-residential constructions over 3 stories MUST have at least one such gaming room. They must also have an English teaching institute, a taekwondo school and at least two haidressers.
Well, I haven't used tables for my layout, I've used css. But this leaves me with html that you cannot deduce the layout from alone. Sure it will degrade and be displayable on all sorts of displays, but I'm not suggesting replacing css with a table sheet. A layout sheet could cascade too. I mean a second css type document that would hold all the tags and perhaps the css declarations that have anything to do with layout (column widths and the like). You would be able to deduce the desired layout from such a sheet but it could still be ignored by the browser if desired and text would be able to scale within it. It might look similar to an html page where all of the actual content is in php includes or some similar such device only with a linking mechanism that allows the page to be reused more easily.
This is offtopic, but I've just taught myself a bit of html and css and while it seems pretty capable it just feels like a huge kludge. I can set my page layout using css and html divs but this results in the styling being in the css sheet, the data in the html and the layout sort of strewn between the two with the result that there is no one document I can look at which would give me a good idea whatthe page will actually look like.
My question then, seeing as there might be a few people in the know on/., is there any plan for the introduction of some sort of layout sheet? Formatting could go in css, data in the html (or links to it anyway) and page layout in a third document (lss?). Are there good reasons why this is a bad idea? If so, why is the current set-up better? Just interested.
Cheers, df
I went to Rottnest after my college exams a few years back. I was obviously kidnapped by aliens as when I returned I had severe dehydration, nausea, a splitting headache and my memory had been erased. Don't trust the place!
I don't really understand why ubuntu are making an 'enterprise' version. I thought the whole point of ubuntu was to get a fairly package-stable version of debian that was up-to-date so funky new desktop apps would have a nice home to live in. Great for home users and for pinching market share from other operating systems, but would you take newness over proven reliability for work? The debian release schedule (or lack thereof) seems perfectly suited to business needs to me. So wots it all about then?
A warmer climate ought to lead to more evaporation from the oceans and in turn to more precipitation. If a lot of that falls on antarctica you could end up with more of the world's water being locked up in non-floating ice and hence a lower sea level. At least for as long as antarctica stays cold enough to keep it all frozen.
Has anyone looked into or modelled this? It would be interesting to hear the results.
Noone swaps songs or software in China - there's absolutely no point. You can buy pretty much any software, music or movie from a shop on the street for a price of about 70 cents per dvd, irrespective of what's on the disc. Factor in the cost of a pc and this is cheaper than downloading by far. Information is shared in China on a huge scale. It's getting the information to China in the first place that's the problem.
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... or regarded the whole Dead Sea basin as water as it is below sea level.
Looking more closely, unless Google Earth's model is very far from Earth's oblate spheroid shape (or its ruler widget is broken) then there are a lot of paths from Sierra Leone through Suez to China and with a lot of wiggle room to spare. I wonder if the model TFA used has the Suez Canal marked as a coast-line and so discounted these paths.
Certainly seems to pass through the bottleneck at Suez and misses the Caspian Sea.
Add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-experimental/ubuntu intrepid main
and upgrade to 4.2RC.
I'm not sure whether they will push 4.2 into the backports repo but this doesn't mean you can't have it.
Great! We no longer have Windows Vista, we have Windows Bush!
In order to win some new RAM
Tracy replied to all of her spam
Her account now abounds
in Nigerian Pounds
And her cock is the size of Wuhan.
Smuggled back into China? Rubbish! Far, far more likely is that the factory that makes them is making a hell of a lot more than they are reporting to apple and selling these on the sly.
I suspect the reason for the maglev ending where it does is so that the government could forget about it if it flopped. If it was a success they could tell the world and if not it would be conveniently lost in the burbs where noone would see it. A couple of blocks further (and there doesn't seem to be much trouble getting residents evicted in Shanghai) and they could have run the thing straight across Century Park and right up Century Ave to the Pearl Dildo. It would have actually been useful to a lot of people, ending there. As is, it's just a fun-park ride.
10RMB! No wonder the Chinese think all foreigners are rich dumbarses. No need to pay more than 6.
I read it as astrologers baffled by solar observations and felt my whole world come crumbling down, but it's astronomers, so it's alright.
The last Dell I bought must have had at least $100 worth (to Dell) of crapware installed. With some hard work and building on this lead I don't see why a $10 laptop can't have windows. It should be able to be sold at a profit, in fact. If it runs linux or some other free software it will be far more of a surprise.
Don't be silly. Debian don't release their April Fool's jokes until October.
The author of the essay seems to have made the common fallacy that viewers of tv shows are the customers of those who produce tv shows.
In fact, the customers of tv stations are those who buy advertising time. The viewer is the product which the stations sell to their advertisers. The programs are merely the means towards gaining lots of viewers to be sold.
It works a lot like farming. The tv station is the farm. The viewers are the vegetables, grown in the field, harvested, packaged and sold off to the consumers (the advertising agencies). The programs are the fertiliser that helps all this happen.
Just like in real farming the best way to ensure a full harvest of vegetables is to spread them with liberal doses of shit.
Cable changes the picture a little - the vegetables actually pay for the shit they get covered in - but the idea of ad-free pay-per-view is just not compatible with the industry as it is.
Tv stations at the moment really don't care whether or not you like their shows except in so far as you watch them and the ads they contain. Anything that makes it easy to avoid ads undermines the business model completely and would have to have the promise of instant and huge revenues to get them even thinking about it. This will only happen if a completely new player enters into the market, takes it by storm and the rest are forced to follow. The start-up costs are massive though and I just can't see it happening anytime soon.
They could strap the suits to the heavy patients and have them move themselves.
Having recently had a broadband internet connection in China and having one currently in Australia I can say that the Chinese clearly get a lot more from their dollar than Australians do from their 200. In an industry barely 10 years old Australia is already about 5 years behind in the technology generally available.
In South Korea there is a building regulation that means all non-residential constructions over 3 stories MUST have at least one such gaming room. They must also have an English teaching institute, a taekwondo school and at least two haidressers.
The last Microsoft beta I bought was around $200 although the exact cost was hidden in the price of the computer ...
Well, I haven't used tables for my layout, I've used css. But this leaves me with html that you cannot deduce the layout from alone. Sure it will degrade and be displayable on all sorts of displays, but I'm not suggesting replacing css with a table sheet. A layout sheet could cascade too. I mean a second css type document that would hold all the tags and perhaps the css declarations that have anything to do with layout (column widths and the like). You would be able to deduce the desired layout from such a sheet but it could still be ignored by the browser if desired and text would be able to scale within it. It might look similar to an html page where all of the actual content is in php includes or some similar such device only with a linking mechanism that allows the page to be reused more easily.
This is offtopic, but I've just taught myself a bit of html and css and while it seems pretty capable it just feels like a huge kludge. I can set my page layout using css and html divs but this results in the styling being in the css sheet, the data in the html and the layout sort of strewn between the two with the result that there is no one document I can look at which would give me a good idea whatthe page will actually look like. My question then, seeing as there might be a few people in the know on /., is there any plan for the introduction of some sort of layout sheet? Formatting could go in css, data in the html (or links to it anyway) and page layout in a third document (lss?). Are there good reasons why this is a bad idea? If so, why is the current set-up better? Just interested.
Cheers, df
I went to Rottnest after my college exams a few years back. I was obviously kidnapped by aliens as when I returned I had severe dehydration, nausea, a splitting headache and my memory had been erased. Don't trust the place!
I don't really understand why ubuntu are making an 'enterprise' version. I thought the whole point of ubuntu was to get a fairly package-stable version of debian that was up-to-date so funky new desktop apps would have a nice home to live in. Great for home users and for pinching market share from other operating systems, but would you take newness over proven reliability for work? The debian release schedule (or lack thereof) seems perfectly suited to business needs to me. So wots it all about then?
What does it say about MS's development process if the difference between Office and OOO is all they could manage in ten years?
Plenty of prior art there I'm afraid.
A warmer climate ought to lead to more evaporation from the oceans and in turn to more precipitation. If a lot of that falls on antarctica you could end up with more of the world's water being locked up in non-floating ice and hence a lower sea level. At least for as long as antarctica stays cold enough to keep it all frozen. Has anyone looked into or modelled this? It would be interesting to hear the results.
Noone swaps songs or software in China - there's absolutely no point. You can buy pretty much any software, music or movie from a shop on the street for a price of about 70 cents per dvd, irrespective of what's on the disc. Factor in the cost of a pc and this is cheaper than downloading by far. Information is shared in China on a huge scale. It's getting the information to China in the first place that's the problem.