I wish it was like this where I live. We have one 'major' record store here, and the rest are little mall outlets that are 3/4 DVD's now. The problem at this record store is the amount of actual music for sale over the last five years has decreased very quickly. The store is two stories and when I first moved here the entire second floor was music, about four years ago the DVD's moved upstairs and consumed about a third of the space, then it was half, but over the summer now the entire music department has been reduced to less space than they use to give to Imports, as to make room for more home electronics.
The sad thing is I use to love buying music. My friends use to go every Tuesday and buy new albums, now they never have the records I want to buy, they are as bad as those small mall outlets that only have top 40. Because of this my music purchasing is a quarter of what it use to be, even though my disposable income has quadrupled over the same time.
For me the biggest benefit of a labtop is the ability to use it in bed. I kid you not. I'm an early riser and a workaholic so the ability to still be in bed when my better half wakes up hours after me, and not waste those hours keeps us both sane and together. Actually maybe that's not sane, now that I think about it.
Or maybe some bed sports. I had a girlfriend who was always told me to get more exercise (even though i jog and play soccer in the park all the time) and would always agree that I could always use more bed sports. Did would she get cross.
I figure I must somehow have been put on a terrorist watch-list because last year i was 'randomly' searched on three of the four flights that started or ended in the states. I have never been searched here in canada, where I live, or in europe. Just on these US flight. Is that normal? I counted that they randomly search about one on twenty people, so chance of actually being randomly searched that much has to be really low. Not just my person either, but my check in luggage had been searched and nice "for your protection... department of homeland security" letters put in them. And i'm a white male with no criminal record anywhere. On one of the flights I had to supply hotel receipts for where I had stayed, ski receipts (as i said I had done some skiing) and rail tickets. I mean that can't possibly be normal, can it?
Well if you come to my house you will notice one of my APs is names "HoneyPot" the other is named "Driving Range". Both are open, but I live on a 10 acre lot overlooking the ocean. Unless you drive up my driveway, bushwhack through the empty lots on either side of me or are in a boat within golfball driving range of my makeshift teebox you aren't going to get any free internet from me. Not that I really would care though<br><br>
Plus my ISP is clueless. One of my neighbours had her computer stolen (as well as all her other nice stuff) and I went to the local ISP to ask if they could see if they could find out if her now stolen Cable Modem MAC was online and they said they have no idea where any of the internet goes or how to track any traffic back to where. All they could tell was that her digital Cable box was in use somewhere on the island (Population 3,000) but no way to see what was going on with the internet. I asked if their was any access on her account with it, and if they could log it to get an idea who this person way, but the cable company said they had no idea of knowing if internet was used, let alone what people did with it. All they could do was send a kill throughout their entire network that would only effect that MAC.
Am I the only one that thinks good might come of this? I'd expect lawsuits against other spam and Multi-Level-Market companies by years end for infringing on their intellectual properties.
Sure SCO is scum, but if scum fights scum what do you get? less scum?
I think the biggest problem with MLS is that it is rubbish compared to the other Football (Soccer) leagues you can watch on TV and its only ten years old. Most hardcore football fan have followed a team with real talent from europe all their lives. Try to convince those people to follow a relatively new team that isn't anywhere as good as the team you have been watching your entire life. Its a real tough sell. Its like trying to convince a Yankees fan or Red Socks fan to support their local single A baseball team.
Thunderball, which was the fourth Bond film (well fifth if you want to count the TV Casino Royale as the first), was one of the best of the franchise. As far as im concerned the only time the bond series took a real hit in quality was in during films 11 through 14 (Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy and A View to a Kill). I would argue as a Bond fan that Licence to Kill (#16) and Die Another Day (#20) were also rubbish, but only because they both catered to the film climate of the time and did not feel like bond films.
I know at least at my school all science students have to take an introduction to computer science class that 90% of them will never use. And all students had to take a basic computer class with html and excel. I did about 6 of those assignments a week when I lived in residence during my first year. Its the reason i built up the tolerance to alcohol I still have to this day.
I had a Math class in first year were the prof gave the same 4 midterms (and no final) every semester. To make matters worse he posted the midterms answer key on the net. Someone found this out and downloaded them from the past semester. Some people I know didn't even bother memorizing the answers, and brought crib sheets to the tests. Talk about lazy. At least I learned to answer those questions even if I couldn't do anything but the five questions on those tests. It did catch up to me though as I got a C and really struggled through the second year class that was the sequel to that class.
Group projects were and still are my least favorite thing to do in university. In first and second year here where I am you could choose your groups so, for at least for me, it was pretty good. But in third year and now in my fourth year the professors all switched to assigning groups.
The reason this turned out so wrong for me was because every single time (I kid you not, its happened 7 out of 8 time, the only exception was was I asked if I could be a team of one) I end up with a group of slackers. To make matters worse, always being the outgoing person in each group, I end up being team leader. We would make arrangements to meet up at 9 am and my first team member shows up at 11, and the last shows up at 2:20. I think that partly I'm to blame because it seems that I've lead some pretty bad groups.
The very worst experience, which caused me to take a two year break between third and fourth year, involved writing almost 80 pages of a 150 page report in two days because my other three group members didn't have their parts done, or even really started at that point. "What do you mean you don't have your final copy done? Well lets work from your draft. No draft, ok what do you have? We need to fill 20-30 pages, this is ten lines on the back of a physics worksheet, plus I think these are the headings that I gave you to research and write about two months ago. Anyone done more than this? No-one, really?" Maybe a but of an exaggeration, one of group members did have 10 pages of good work done, but the other two had less than a page done. Talk about panic attack.
Does anyone know of, or even better can recommend, a inkwell compatible touch screen?
I would love to put an iMac on my kitchen wall, but inkwell would be a must. From my limited knowledge inkwell seems to only work with tablets. And that would wouldn't be too good for what I have in mind.
Joking aside i think I have been put on some watch-list. Last month I caught four flights and on each one I was flagged for a 'random search'. From watching the line on my fourth time they seem to do a random search on about every twentieth person so the chances that I was randomly searched four time is about one in sixteen thousand. My luggage was checked each time too and a little letter from the TSA telling me that "Your luggage has been searched for your safety as well as that of others...". Does anyone know how to find out if I have been somehow put on a list to be searched every-time i try to get on a plane? I mean other than fly again and see if it happens.
Well i have managed to kill four apple keyboards with diet coke. Those things die realy, really easily. A little spill and they are done for. I've never had a big spill with a powerbook, but I have had a few minor ones and they keep ticking. Those keyboards though. An ounce and they are done for. Not like the old beige ones that would last through anything.
On the other side of things I once dropped a 512MB compact flash card into my coffee while on vacation. I thought I had lost a week of pictures, but I dried it out and it still works.
Wow beats me. My original 400Mhz tibook went through five before its applecare ran out. During the third, fourth and fifth replacements the stores that fixed it advised me to call apple and get it replaced. But each time apple refused. Claiming it had already had been replaced. Which was true, after waiting two months for it to ship it came with half a dozen dead pixels so I had to send it in to get a new screen, and after three months of waiting for it to be repaired they had decided to replace the whole unit. Also since the power connects at the back at a bad angle the cord kept fraying so I went through three of them. It also had problems with the metal cracking around the headphone jack. You just couldn't use the thing. If you tried to use it as a portable opening the lid would break the logic board or crack the case. I worked fine on a desk, but it broke if you tried to use it a a portable.
Damn Right. Three beers is what you pre-drink at home before going pre-drinking at a friends. Sports games pre-drinking for me is normally a four pack of Guinness. Hmmm, Guinness. There are some exceptions to this. I never pre-drink for premiership or champions league soccer while here in Canada. Just something wrong about pre-drinking for sports games that start before noon. You have to wait until kickoff before you can drink;)
And before M.A.D. people start yelling, please note that I always cab it, even when I have only had a single drink. Not because i'm drunk but out of principle and the fact that once I got a 24 hour suspension because I had a drink with dinner. What a jerk that cop was, I blew under and he wouldn't let me walk a line or any of the stuff you see on tv to see if you are drunk. Just I admitted I was drinking so I was busted. After that I never have taken my chances again.
On a much smaller scale I have seen this happen here in Vancouver with the new soccer stadium. As an avid soccer fan I post and frequent the Canadian soccer supporter boards as well as Big Soccer. About a few months ago many of the people in the know posted information they had obtained about the then unannounced SSS. Everything from developers learning that the property had been sold to a company held by the Whitecaps (Local pro soccer team) owner, to talks posters had with local politicians.
Kind of scary to read your posts in the press word for word with the exception of lead in "I would really like to see the stadium have..." changed with "sources close to the organization have leaked the stadiums will have..."
To make matter worse the authors of the news articles outright denied that they had took their information from the soccer boards, when they were sent proof that entire paragraphs had been cut and paste. One editor said it was possible that information could have been taken from the posts, but would not admit any wrongdoing or that things were plagiarized. I sould add the big two papers the Province and the Sun didn't steal anything world for world, but did run articles on the information posted. It was the smaller and more local papers that copied directly.
Sounds like my local paper. Their tech section seems to be lifted straight from slashdot. Every article in that sec ion of the paper is about something that was on here a day or two before and often includes alot of the 'incite' posted here by slashdot users. What a sweet job, just reword two slashdot topics a day and get a nice paycheck.
Actually if the stadium is done on time the FA Cup Final will be held at the stadium on May 13th. Also they hope to hold a smaller event at the stadium as a test before they pack it with 90k for the Cup Final. So while Bon Jovi will 'open' the new stadium they will not be the first big event in the stadium. Unless everything goes to hell and the stadium is late.
Also as to why Bon Jovi will be the first band to open the stadium. They were the last ones to play in the Old Wembley before it was torn down. World is that the opening concert will feature many more bands than Bon Jovi, and currently the Rolling Stones are being courted.
The average music collection for normal people may be only 100 CDs; however, I am willing to bet those with enough disposable income to buy the most expensive portable music player on the market (This new 80GB iPod) have much larger CD collections.
I personally am a bit of a music nut, and have about 800 CDs which translate into about 110 GB. I'm waiting for an iPod big enough to store all that, until then I'll stick with my mini (I would have stuck with my original 10GB, but it died due to a loose firewire connector)
Does this seem a little dangerous to anyone? Reminds me of an article about f1 in the thirties where 1/4 of all the drivers would die every year. I wonder if this sort of thing could even get insurance and clearance to race. Oh well I guess there is always Mexico;)
Many Bars in switzerland and I'm guessing elsewhere have this. When you need another round you press a button on the wall and like magic the round appears. Unfortunately so does a bill, so its not real magic i guess.
Slashdot Mirror
I wish it was like this where I live. We have one 'major' record store here, and the rest are little mall outlets that are 3/4 DVD's now. The problem at this record store is the amount of actual music for sale over the last five years has decreased very quickly. The store is two stories and when I first moved here the entire second floor was music, about four years ago the DVD's moved upstairs and consumed about a third of the space, then it was half, but over the summer now the entire music department has been reduced to less space than they use to give to Imports, as to make room for more home electronics.
The sad thing is I use to love buying music. My friends use to go every Tuesday and buy new albums, now they never have the records I want to buy, they are as bad as those small mall outlets that only have top 40. Because of this my music purchasing is a quarter of what it use to be, even though my disposable income has quadrupled over the same time.
For me the biggest benefit of a labtop is the ability to use it in bed. I kid you not. I'm an early riser and a workaholic so the ability to still be in bed when my better half wakes up hours after me, and not waste those hours keeps us both sane and together. Actually maybe that's not sane, now that I think about it.
Twister?
Or maybe some bed sports. I had a girlfriend who was always told me to get more exercise (even though i jog and play soccer in the park all the time) and would always agree that I could always use more bed sports. Did would she get cross.
Well it could be worst.
... department of homeland security" letters put in them. And i'm a white male with no criminal record anywhere. On one of the flights I had to supply hotel receipts for where I had stayed, ski receipts (as i said I had done some skiing) and rail tickets. I mean that can't possibly be normal, can it?
I figure I must somehow have been put on a terrorist watch-list because last year i was 'randomly' searched on three of the four flights that started or ended in the states. I have never been searched here in canada, where I live, or in europe. Just on these US flight. Is that normal? I counted that they randomly search about one on twenty people, so chance of actually being randomly searched that much has to be really low. Not just my person either, but my check in luggage had been searched and nice "for your protection
Well if you come to my house you will notice one of my APs is names "HoneyPot" the other is named "Driving Range". Both are open, but I live on a 10 acre lot overlooking the ocean. Unless you drive up my driveway, bushwhack through the empty lots on either side of me or are in a boat within golfball driving range of my makeshift teebox you aren't going to get any free internet from me. Not that I really would care though<br><br>
Plus my ISP is clueless. One of my neighbours had her computer stolen (as well as all her other nice stuff) and I went to the local ISP to ask if they could see if they could find out if her now stolen Cable Modem MAC was online and they said they have no idea where any of the internet goes or how to track any traffic back to where. All they could tell was that her digital Cable box was in use somewhere on the island (Population 3,000) but no way to see what was going on with the internet. I asked if their was any access on her account with it, and if they could log it to get an idea who this person way, but the cable company said they had no idea of knowing if internet was used, let alone what people did with it. All they could do was send a kill throughout their entire network that would only effect that MAC.
Am I the only one that thinks good might come of this? I'd expect lawsuits against other spam and Multi-Level-Market companies by years end for infringing on their intellectual properties.
Sure SCO is scum, but if scum fights scum what do you get? less scum?
I think the biggest problem with MLS is that it is rubbish compared to the other Football (Soccer) leagues you can watch on TV and its only ten years old. Most hardcore football fan have followed a team with real talent from europe all their lives. Try to convince those people to follow a relatively new team that isn't anywhere as good as the team you have been watching your entire life. Its a real tough sell. Its like trying to convince a Yankees fan or Red Socks fan to support their local single A baseball team.
Thunderball, which was the fourth Bond film (well fifth if you want to count the TV Casino Royale as the first), was one of the best of the franchise. As far as im concerned the only time the bond series took a real hit in quality was in during films 11 through 14 (Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy and A View to a Kill). I would argue as a Bond fan that Licence to Kill (#16) and Die Another Day (#20) were also rubbish, but only because they both catered to the film climate of the time and did not feel like bond films.
I know at least at my school all science students have to take an introduction to computer science class that 90% of them will never use. And all students had to take a basic computer class with html and excel. I did about 6 of those assignments a week when I lived in residence during my first year. Its the reason i built up the tolerance to alcohol I still have to this day.
I had a Math class in first year were the prof gave the same 4 midterms (and no final) every semester. To make matters worse he posted the midterms answer key on the net. Someone found this out and downloaded them from the past semester. Some people I know didn't even bother memorizing the answers, and brought crib sheets to the tests. Talk about lazy. At least I learned to answer those questions even if I couldn't do anything but the five questions on those tests. It did catch up to me though as I got a C and really struggled through the second year class that was the sequel to that class.
Group projects were and still are my least favorite thing to do in university. In first and second year here where I am you could choose your groups so, for at least for me, it was pretty good. But in third year and now in my fourth year the professors all switched to assigning groups.
The reason this turned out so wrong for me was because every single time (I kid you not, its happened 7 out of 8 time, the only exception was was I asked if I could be a team of one) I end up with a group of slackers. To make matters worse, always being the outgoing person in each group, I end up being team leader. We would make arrangements to meet up at 9 am and my first team member shows up at 11, and the last shows up at 2:20. I think that partly I'm to blame because it seems that I've lead some pretty bad groups.
The very worst experience, which caused me to take a two year break between third and fourth year, involved writing almost 80 pages of a 150 page report in two days because my other three group members didn't have their parts done, or even really started at that point. "What do you mean you don't have your final copy done? Well lets work from your draft. No draft, ok what do you have? We need to fill 20-30 pages, this is ten lines on the back of a physics worksheet, plus I think these are the headings that I gave you to research and write about two months ago. Anyone done more than this? No-one, really?" Maybe a but of an exaggeration, one of group members did have 10 pages of good work done, but the other two had less than a page done. Talk about panic attack.
Half a TB of porn? I'd watch out dude, your gonna go blind
Does anyone know of, or even better can recommend, a inkwell compatible touch screen?
I would love to put an iMac on my kitchen wall, but inkwell would be a must. From my limited knowledge inkwell seems to only work with tablets. And that would wouldn't be too good for what I have in mind.
Thanx in advance
Joking aside i think I have been put on some watch-list. Last month I caught four flights and on each one I was flagged for a 'random search'. From watching the line on my fourth time they seem to do a random search on about every twentieth person so the chances that I was randomly searched four time is about one in sixteen thousand. My luggage was checked each time too and a little letter from the TSA telling me that "Your luggage has been searched for your safety as well as that of others ...". Does anyone know how to find out if I have been somehow put on a list to be searched every-time i try to get on a plane? I mean other than fly again and see if it happens.
Well i have managed to kill four apple keyboards with diet coke. Those things die realy, really easily. A little spill and they are done for. I've never had a big spill with a powerbook, but I have had a few minor ones and they keep ticking. Those keyboards though. An ounce and they are done for. Not like the old beige ones that would last through anything.
On the other side of things I once dropped a 512MB compact flash card into my coffee while on vacation. I thought I had lost a week of pictures, but I dried it out and it still works.
Wow beats me. My original 400Mhz tibook went through five before its applecare ran out. During the third, fourth and fifth replacements the stores that fixed it advised me to call apple and get it replaced. But each time apple refused. Claiming it had already had been replaced. Which was true, after waiting two months for it to ship it came with half a dozen dead pixels so I had to send it in to get a new screen, and after three months of waiting for it to be repaired they had decided to replace the whole unit. Also since the power connects at the back at a bad angle the cord kept fraying so I went through three of them. It also had problems with the metal cracking around the headphone jack. You just couldn't use the thing. If you tried to use it as a portable opening the lid would break the logic board or crack the case. I worked fine on a desk, but it broke if you tried to use it a a portable.
Damn Right. Three beers is what you pre-drink at home before going pre-drinking at a friends. Sports games pre-drinking for me is normally a four pack of Guinness. Hmmm, Guinness. There are some exceptions to this. I never pre-drink for premiership or champions league soccer while here in Canada. Just something wrong about pre-drinking for sports games that start before noon. You have to wait until kickoff before you can drink ;)
And before M.A.D. people start yelling, please note that I always cab it, even when I have only had a single drink. Not because i'm drunk but out of principle and the fact that once I got a 24 hour suspension because I had a drink with dinner. What a jerk that cop was, I blew under and he wouldn't let me walk a line or any of the stuff you see on tv to see if you are drunk. Just I admitted I was drinking so I was busted. After that I never have taken my chances again.
Not where I would start when mastering Ajax Amersterdam. Here would be my primer:
The Official Site
or The English Offical Site
also their Fixture List for the '05-'06 Season
then there is Tickets site
So there you go all the Ajax Websites to get you started!
On a much smaller scale I have seen this happen here in Vancouver with the new soccer stadium. As an avid soccer fan I post and frequent the Canadian soccer supporter boards as well as Big Soccer. About a few months ago many of the people in the know posted information they had obtained about the then unannounced SSS. Everything from developers learning that the property had been sold to a company held by the Whitecaps (Local pro soccer team) owner, to talks posters had with local politicians.
..." changed with "sources close to the organization have leaked the stadiums will have ..."
Kind of scary to read your posts in the press word for word with the exception of lead in "I would really like to see the stadium have
To make matter worse the authors of the news articles outright denied that they had took their information from the soccer boards, when they were sent proof that entire paragraphs had been cut and paste. One editor said it was possible that information could have been taken from the posts, but would not admit any wrongdoing or that things were plagiarized.
I sould add the big two papers the Province and the Sun didn't steal anything world for world, but did run articles on the information posted. It was the smaller and more local papers that copied directly.
Sounds like my local paper. Their tech section seems to be lifted straight from slashdot. Every article in that sec ion of the paper is about something that was on here a day or two before and often includes alot of the 'incite' posted here by slashdot users. What a sweet job, just reword two slashdot topics a day and get a nice paycheck.
Watch who you are calling a hoax ;)
Actually if the stadium is done on time the FA Cup Final will be held at the stadium on May 13th. Also they hope to hold a smaller event at the stadium as a test before they pack it with 90k for the Cup Final. So while Bon Jovi will 'open' the new stadium they will not be the first big event in the stadium. Unless everything goes to hell and the stadium is late.
Also as to why Bon Jovi will be the first band to open the stadium. They were the last ones to play in the Old Wembley before it was torn down. World is that the opening concert will feature many more bands than Bon Jovi, and currently the Rolling Stones are being courted.
The average music collection for normal people may be only 100 CDs; however, I am willing to bet those with enough disposable income to buy the most expensive portable music player on the market (This new 80GB iPod) have much larger CD collections.
I personally am a bit of a music nut, and have about 800 CDs which translate into about 110 GB. I'm waiting for an iPod big enough to store all that, until then I'll stick with my mini (I would have stuck with my original 10GB, but it died due to a loose firewire connector)
Does this seem a little dangerous to anyone? Reminds me of an article about f1 in the thirties where 1/4 of all the drivers would die every year. I wonder if this sort of thing could even get insurance and clearance to race. Oh well I guess there is always Mexico ;)
Many Bars in switzerland and I'm guessing elsewhere have this. When you need another round you press a button on the wall and like magic the round appears. Unfortunately so does a bill, so its not real magic i guess.