For me, Swiss watches represent the pinnacle of hand crafted micro engineering. I also own a quartz watch that keeps better time and runs for years on a single battery for a micro-fraction of the cost (and requires no expensive servicing). So what? I find it refreshing to use an entirely mechanical device with amazing latent complexity. It serves a single purpose simply and elegantly yet almost perfectly.
I use electronic readers for work/hobby related reference material, however I'll always buy paperback novels when travelling. That's my preference when reading for pleasure.
Frankly, I find video games and other sedentary screen based activities to be the most dangerous pastime for children. Childhood obesity is deadly and is a direct result of a) parents restricting their kids activities away from bikes, exploring, football and other normal activities and b) the impact of junk food marketing aimed directly at kids.
*Always* check the voltage rails first. Schematics may help but aren't always necessary. Look for swollen capacitors or black legs/PCB on or near the switching transistors(they're probably mounted to a heatsink). There is no reason a $2.00 part should bring down a $2000 television set.
So put your name to your comment, AC. My experience with Dell has been less than 2% failure over 1000's of Optiplex, Latitude and Vostro units. The main cause of warranty claim has been DIMM at > 80%, PSU at ~18%, MB at ~2%.
A lot of folks whinge about Dell, I suspect that's because these folks would rather roll their own PC. That's fine, until you have to roll 1000 in a week.
Hmmm, unless you have an enterprise at home, all the enterprise grade gear is doing is costing you money. Mac mini, small mirrored 4TB NAS backing up to bus powered USB drives, FritzBox AP/Router/DECT. Super cheap to run, more than enough storage and grunt for the five of us.
I found this article and, sure enough, found the usual bunch of anti-bicycle riding, pro-car trolls, making the usual threats to crush riders under their wheels etc etc. You worthless bunch of fucking cunts. Bicycle riding as utilitarian private transport is your fucking saviour you fuckwits. You just don't realise it yet. Get the fuck off my road.
Don't barbecue them?! Speak for yourself. Soak green king prawns in lemon juice and garlic until the lemon begins to cook them slightly, then throw on the barbecue. Fuckin' unreal.
The use of machinery and intensive nutrients/pesticides has driven food prices to such low levels that good, wholesome corn fed, SUV drivin', soda guzzlin', beef chompin' Americans (and Canadians, and Europeans, and Australians) have been the fattest they've ever been.
I find it really funny when some fatty boomsticks whinges about the high price of wholesome, un-processed food, fruit and vegetables, as if they're gonna eat that stuff anyway. Too easy to visit TrippelFatSlurp on the corner and get a Double Guzzle Combo for $10 than to do a weekly food shop for $50.
To the dumbos who are down-modding comments on the atrocious use of the word "hear" instead of "here" in the summary, I offer you this piece from Mark Twain:
A PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ENGLISH SPELLING
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.
The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.
Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
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Exactly this. Most sensible response yet.
For me, Swiss watches represent the pinnacle of hand crafted micro engineering. I also own a quartz watch that keeps better time and runs for years on a single battery for a micro-fraction of the cost (and requires no expensive servicing). So what? I find it refreshing to use an entirely mechanical device with amazing latent complexity. It serves a single purpose simply and elegantly yet almost perfectly.
"you're" "udderly" "loo" "miner" "grammer" "misstake" "bourne" Fuck me, I think I'm about to have an aneurism...
was not with him :(
I use electronic readers for work/hobby related reference material, however I'll always buy paperback novels when travelling. That's my preference when reading for pleasure.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0or9-xYdU0k
Who is this "Bill New Years Eve" of whom we speak?
Frankly, I find video games and other sedentary screen based activities to be the most dangerous pastime for children. Childhood obesity is deadly and is a direct result of a) parents restricting their kids activities away from bikes, exploring, football and other normal activities and b) the impact of junk food marketing aimed directly at kids.
I, for one, welcome our new star guzzlin' overlords.
*Always* check the voltage rails first. Schematics may help but aren't always necessary. Look for swollen capacitors or black legs/PCB on or near the switching transistors(they're probably mounted to a heatsink). There is no reason a $2.00 part should bring down a $2000 television set.
prefer 4:20.
Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four. One to do it and three to claim that they could do it better.
Forgive me for rehashing this old chestnut, it seemed appropriate.
DeathElks-MacBook-Pro:~ deathelk$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
this is a test
Yeah right, MS fuckwit. You're getting fucked right now and you don't even realise it.
So put your name to your comment, AC. My experience with Dell has been less than 2% failure over 1000's of Optiplex, Latitude and Vostro units. The main cause of warranty claim has been DIMM at > 80%, PSU at ~18%, MB at ~2%.
A lot of folks whinge about Dell, I suspect that's because these folks would rather roll their own PC. That's fine, until you have to roll 1000 in a week.
Hmmm, unless you have an enterprise at home, all the enterprise grade gear is doing is costing you money. Mac mini, small mirrored 4TB NAS backing up to bus powered USB drives, FritzBox AP/Router/DECT. Super cheap to run, more than enough storage and grunt for the five of us.
I see what you mean by "slow death"
Yes. And I predict MS putting it up for sale in a few years for about $200M
I found this article and, sure enough, found the usual bunch of anti-bicycle riding, pro-car trolls, making the usual threats to crush riders under their wheels etc etc. You worthless bunch of fucking cunts. Bicycle riding as utilitarian private transport is your fucking saviour you fuckwits. You just don't realise it yet. Get the fuck off my road.
Fuck you, cage head cunt.
Don't barbecue them?! Speak for yourself. Soak green king prawns in lemon juice and garlic until the lemon begins to cook them slightly, then throw on the barbecue. Fuckin' unreal.
Design a system to be idiot proof, and they will simply design a better idiot.
Oh, Solar and Wind look ugly.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/PS20andPS10.jpg
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2010/07/wind-farms-1.jpg
I'm glad coal and nuclear are so beautiful then.
http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/08/coal-regulations-537x331.jpg
http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/05/RatcliffePowerPlantBlackAndWhite-537x384.jpg
The use of machinery and intensive nutrients/pesticides has driven food prices to such low levels that good, wholesome corn fed, SUV drivin', soda guzzlin', beef chompin' Americans (and Canadians, and Europeans, and Australians) have been the fattest they've ever been.
I find it really funny when some fatty boomsticks whinges about the high price of wholesome, un-processed food, fruit and vegetables, as if they're gonna eat that stuff anyway. Too easy to visit TrippelFatSlurp on the corner and get a Double Guzzle Combo for $10 than to do a weekly food shop for $50.
To the dumbos who are down-modding comments on the atrocious use of the word "hear" instead of "here" in the summary, I offer you this piece from Mark Twain:
A PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ENGLISH SPELLING
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.
The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.
Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Try this: http://community.skype.com/t5/Mac/My-solution-to-continue-using-Skype-2-8-on-older-OS-X-Lion-etc/td-p/3454441
Simple firewall rule to block access to ui.skype.com. Also, I don't see why /etc/hosts wouldn't work..
127.0.0.1 ui.skype.com
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