'Invasion of the Bee Girls' (Sometimes called 'Invasion of the Bee Women') is my all time phantasy. There's something about swarms of buxom women with black eyes and an insatiable desire to be impregnated that interests me.
If Dell were serious about Linux then they have a few options: 1. Contact Canonical and get them to fine tune the OS for Dell machines. I can't see Canonical saying no. 2. Get a Software Distribution Package that includes legal versions of everything missing from the installation. 3. Put some of their own effort into supporting the OS on their hardware.
It's early days yet and Dell (occasionally) do listen. That's why they're still selling XP as an alternative to Vista. I really think that any company (OS/Hardware) who is giving the people choice, would be working towards a working system. In fact, I can see a 3rd party CD that would have all the patches/drivers/codecs/software ready to install ove Dell's version of Ubuntu. Any takers???
A little knowledge is dangerous. I used to be a Homeopathic Practitioner. Really I was. I was a Traditional Homeopathic Practitioner. There is a huge difference between 'modern' homeopathy and traditional. The split happened in the late 60s and both forms have diverged significantly since. The modern approach is inclusive of as many therapies as you can shake a stick at, while the die-hard traditional won't adopt anything else.
So what is it?
- Homeopathy is based on the concept of "Like Cures Like" - So the best thing you can do for a hangover is to take a spoonful of brandy the next morning. - Homeopathy works. Why do you take Quinine tablets for malaria? Because taking quinine causes similar symptoms to malaria. Ever had eczema or skin issues? Ever taken coal byproducts for it? That's a Sulphur based product - Another homeopathic remedy. Have a bruise? Want to get rid of it? Get some Arnica cream. Bitten by a mosquito? Try Urtica cream. Want an effective disinfectant? Try Calendula. All of these are proven homeopathic creams that work. No faith required. Sure, nowadays there's alternative remedies for general conditions like this, but there is no reason to discount alternative and older remedies. - All of what we term 'immunization' is Homeopathy in its traditional form. You ingest a serum made from the very substance that causes the disease. - Quackery was just that. Real doctors in the 1800's and beyond (especially in the US) used Homeopathic remedies whilst the quacks used opium, alcohol and wild herbs as a panacea. - Homeopathy has a rating system. All remedies ending with an 'X' are dilutions eg 1 part per 10. All those ending in 'C' are 1 part per 100 and so on - following the roman numeric system. - Homeopathy works from the general to the specific. Never the other way around. There is a huge difference in the efficacy of super-high dilutions 'M' for example and 'X'. A practitioner worth their salt would never give an 'M' first off. Very high dilutions are only used once a particular condition has been aggravated and only rarely.'X' and 'C' have measurable concentrations of whatever remedy is used. It is not water. - Remedies are 'proven'. That means that a statistical sample of people are given 'X' doses of a remedy and observed closely as in all drug trials, looking for symptomatology. If the remedy gives consistent results then it is tested with patients who exhibit similar symptoms. - Remedies come as creams, powders, solutions, pills, sprays, inhalations and injection (hypodermic). - Homeopathy has a pharmacopoeia of thousands of proven remedies. - Homeopathy ONLY WORKS if a condition is diagnosed properly. As proper diagnosis involves checking for a myriad of 'symptoms', it becomes a challenge to arrive at the right diagnosis. Get it wrong and the remedy doesn't work. There are a few pitfalls like that. I say that because if you've been given a remedy and it didn't work, then that's probably why.
Modern Homeopathy however has really gone astray. That's why I got out of it. Modern homeopathy considers that effective remedies can be made by shining a light through a slide that purportedly has the same 'vibrations' as the remedy is supposed to represent. And this is supposed to work? That sort of stuff goes against the grain of traditional practice and I would have to agree with many of the placebo comments made here.
I know I won't convince many, but when you see it working properly, all doubts fade. Just keep an open mind. One day you may need it.
Firstly, Dean Swift related experiments from the Royal Society. Storing Sunbeams in Cucumbers, Feeding dyed flies to spiders etc etc were real experiments. I'm not sure if your comment brings this out. Swift was an anti-Newtonian, thus very much against the mathematical model of the universe.
I have also practiced homeopathy (although I do not do so nowadays), and I have experienced patients having complete cures that they did not get through ordinary medical means. Actually seeing it DO SOMETHING is an experience that just didn't fit the accepted scientific paradigm and made me change my world view enough to accept aspects of 'Traditional' Homeopathy.
Yeah... except trying to remember where to find what you've already forgotten. Geez! I lose files now that I can't find on any search method, only to come across them 6 months later on a drive I didn't know I had. Imagine trying to find a ph number across terabytes of mundane personal history...
A way to have a solar plane in maximum light is to follow the sun along an equatorial path, allow the 'night' to overtake the plane (as it would in any case), then turn the plane 180 degrees and run into the 'day', turn 180 degrees and follow the sun, then wait for the night to catch up etc etc. Repeat ad nauseum.
Thus, the plane would be in the light for many more hours than a static diurnal flight plan. Mind you it won't get you to a destination directly. Like taking 2 steps forward and one step back, but it will work.
"And anyway, a goodly portion of my movies are really old. Like the Thin Man series. There's no way that an HD-DVD copy of that is going to be significantly better than the DVD version."
Yep. I've got massess of old movies/series too, some of which are digitally remastered (eg Gerry Anderson). The rule of thumb here is that you can't get better than the original stock. Now IF HD media process can get better resolution of old film stock with superior digital remastering, then I'll consider it for a few titles, but that would really be rare and occasionally pointless. Also, (legal) DVD rips I made 5 years ago are beginning to fail, so I'm stuck with masses of DVD folders on larger HDs just for the sake of preservation. Ripping to DivX sucks due to loss. There's no guarantee that any form of optical media is going to last more than 20 years - unlike vinyl or bakelite (so far). So trying to preserve digital media is 'backing up the backup'.
Your basic point is correct. 100 features are necessary because of expectations, however if you've played with MS Office 2007, you can easily see 'bloat' that are not 'features' relating to output or of efficiency of work. The other aspect of 'bloat' is training and management. MS Office 2007 only becomes efficient if: 1. Everybody else has it on LAN VPN etc 2. The rest of the world has it. 3. AND you or your organization adopts the best practice policies that comes with the new business management overhead that needs to be implemented for this piece of 'wonder' to work. Just reading some of the rss crap that comes in automatically with Outlook 2007 of 'How To' shows pretty much immediately that you have to adopt a new regime of 'workflow' to get the most of MS Office 2007. This is an incredibly wasteful cycle of adoption-training-peer assistance-retraining and so on. MS should be admonished by trying to force corporations, students, educators (read Trainers), and everyone else to adopt this schema. I really think that MS thinks that they own computing and computer literacy. I suppose that's one reason for why there is so much angst against MS. They define the rules, procedures, policies and business models. What right do they have to do that???
Better than MS PAINT or Irfanview is something called Photoeditor. Yes it's an MS app, very small (for MS) and I think only came in MS Office XP. Brilliant for printscreen and alt-printscreen. Rotating centre wheel zooms, simple 'crop-copy-then paste' into any app you want. Fantastic if you write manuals.
Agreed. Keeps losing my main library playlist, keeps adding tracks to the last playlists and removing playlists just because I close them. Maybe I should save them.... Kinda needs a 'back' or History button. Album List is the only way I can navigate. Mind you I've only been using it for a few weeks and of course it doesn't come with a FA.
Geez! This brings a tear to the eye! I thought I was the only one left alive! PR#1 My last Apple//e was a 384k + Rocket Chip + 20MB SCSI HD running Mousedesk! Still works too!!
A 16 bit computer with 128 registers and an 8k memory. Pretty good as in 1977 I was playing Star Trek (simple grid system)on an IBM at uni with 8k. The Voyager was cutting edge at the time.
"The difference is, that Windows does NOT exist without the GUI ".... Ummm... Do you want to think about that for a few minutes longer before you commit to that statement?
Yep. If you download Windows Defender (for example) when WGA activex is running then all ok. Now transfer that exe to another box with no internet connection and it would refuse to install because it needs to validate windows again.
LOL - So if we ditch the metric, then we might as well use the British Imperial Units in the UK and the US Standard in the US, with proper conversion tables....
So 1k = 1048335 grains if you do it by weight, or maybe 1000 US fluid ounces = 1040.84 Imperial Fluid Ounces. Now 1 grain = 64.7989 grams and if 1 cc = 1 ml = 1 gram (density of water), then.... ummm... hmmm... Where's my calculator?
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'Invasion of the Bee Girls' (Sometimes called 'Invasion of the Bee Women') is my all time phantasy.
There's something about swarms of buxom women with black eyes and an insatiable desire to be impregnated that interests me.
Don't listen to those 'Chinese Whispers' above! .... ... !
Only I have the true message!
And it is...
3 Natalie Portman Androids are here ready and waiting, ready to tinker with!
If Dell were serious about Linux then they have a few options:
1. Contact Canonical and get them to fine tune the OS for Dell machines. I can't see Canonical saying no.
2. Get a Software Distribution Package that includes legal versions of everything missing from the installation.
3. Put some of their own effort into supporting the OS on their hardware.
It's early days yet and Dell (occasionally) do listen. That's why they're still selling XP as an alternative to Vista.
I really think that any company (OS/Hardware) who is giving the people choice, would be working towards a working system.
In fact, I can see a 3rd party CD that would have all the patches/drivers/codecs/software ready to install ove Dell's version of Ubuntu.
Any takers???
Thanks for saying that. Not many people know about the NSA backdoor.
A little knowledge is dangerous.
I used to be a Homeopathic Practitioner. Really I was. I was a Traditional Homeopathic Practitioner. There is a huge difference between 'modern' homeopathy and traditional. The split happened in the late 60s and both forms have diverged significantly since.
The modern approach is inclusive of as many therapies as you can shake a stick at, while the die-hard traditional won't adopt anything else.
So what is it?
- Homeopathy is based on the concept of "Like Cures Like" - So the best thing you can do for a hangover is to take a spoonful of brandy the next morning.
- Homeopathy works. Why do you take Quinine tablets for malaria? Because taking quinine causes similar symptoms to malaria.
Ever had eczema or skin issues? Ever taken coal byproducts for it? That's a Sulphur based product - Another homeopathic remedy.
Have a bruise? Want to get rid of it? Get some Arnica cream. Bitten by a mosquito? Try Urtica cream. Want an effective disinfectant? Try Calendula. All of these are proven homeopathic creams that work. No faith required. Sure, nowadays there's alternative remedies for general conditions like this, but there is no reason to discount alternative and older remedies.
- All of what we term 'immunization' is Homeopathy in its traditional form. You ingest a serum made from the very substance that causes the disease.
- Quackery was just that. Real doctors in the 1800's and beyond (especially in the US) used Homeopathic remedies whilst the quacks used opium, alcohol and wild herbs as a panacea.
- Homeopathy has a rating system. All remedies ending with an 'X' are dilutions eg 1 part per 10. All those ending in 'C' are 1 part per 100 and so on - following the roman numeric system.
- Homeopathy works from the general to the specific. Never the other way around. There is a huge difference in the efficacy of super-high dilutions 'M' for example and 'X'. A practitioner worth their salt would never give an 'M' first off. Very high dilutions are only used once a particular condition has been aggravated and only rarely.'X' and 'C' have measurable concentrations of whatever remedy is used. It is not water.
- Remedies are 'proven'. That means that a statistical sample of people are given 'X' doses of a remedy and observed closely as in all drug trials, looking for symptomatology. If the remedy gives consistent results then it is tested with patients who exhibit similar symptoms.
- Remedies come as creams, powders, solutions, pills, sprays, inhalations and injection (hypodermic).
- Homeopathy has a pharmacopoeia of thousands of proven remedies.
- Homeopathy ONLY WORKS if a condition is diagnosed properly. As proper diagnosis involves checking for a myriad of 'symptoms', it becomes a challenge to arrive at the right diagnosis. Get it wrong and the remedy doesn't work. There are a few pitfalls like that. I say that because if you've been given a remedy and it didn't work, then that's probably why.
Modern Homeopathy however has really gone astray. That's why I got out of it. Modern homeopathy considers that effective remedies can be made by shining a light through a slide that purportedly has the same 'vibrations' as the remedy is supposed to represent. And this is supposed to work? That sort of stuff goes against the grain of traditional practice and I would have to agree with many of the placebo comments made here.
I know I won't convince many, but when you see it working properly, all doubts fade.
Just keep an open mind. One day you may need it.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Firstly, Dean Swift related experiments from the Royal Society. Storing Sunbeams in Cucumbers, Feeding dyed flies to spiders etc etc were real experiments. I'm not sure if your comment brings this out. Swift was an anti-Newtonian, thus very much against the mathematical model of the universe.
I have also practiced homeopathy (although I do not do so nowadays), and I have experienced patients having complete cures that they did not get through ordinary medical means. Actually seeing it DO SOMETHING is an experience that just didn't fit the accepted scientific paradigm and made me change my world view enough to accept aspects of 'Traditional' Homeopathy.
Nice to see someone who still remembers Swift.
I can't see any amount of monkeys trying to solder billions of bits of short wire onto the edge of a silicon chip happening at all. Just too fiddly!
Yeah... except trying to remember where to find what you've already forgotten.
Geez! I lose files now that I can't find on any search method, only to come across them 6 months later on a drive I didn't know I had.
Imagine trying to find a ph number across terabytes of mundane personal history...
Yeah, and that was written over 30 years ago.
A way to have a solar plane in maximum light is to follow the sun along an equatorial path, allow the 'night' to overtake the plane (as it would in any case), then turn the plane 180 degrees and run into the 'day', turn 180 degrees and follow the sun, then wait for the night to catch up etc etc.
Repeat ad nauseum.
Thus, the plane would be in the light for many more hours than a static diurnal flight plan. Mind you it won't get you to a destination directly. Like taking 2 steps forward and one step back, but it will work.
Simple really!
"And anyway, a goodly portion of my movies are really old. Like the Thin Man series. There's no way that an HD-DVD copy of that is going to be significantly better than the DVD version."
Yep. I've got massess of old movies/series too, some of which are digitally remastered (eg Gerry Anderson). The rule of thumb here is that you can't get better than the original stock. Now IF HD media process can get better resolution of old film stock with superior digital remastering, then I'll consider it for a few titles, but that would really be rare and occasionally pointless.
Also, (legal) DVD rips I made 5 years ago are beginning to fail, so I'm stuck with masses of DVD folders on larger HDs just for the sake of preservation. Ripping to DivX sucks due to loss.
There's no guarantee that any form of optical media is going to last more than 20 years - unlike vinyl or bakelite (so far). So trying to preserve digital media is 'backing up the backup'.
I thought Mousedesk was the first Apple // GUI.
Geoworks came later.
Your basic point is correct. 100 features are necessary because of expectations, however if you've played with MS Office 2007, you can easily see 'bloat' that are not 'features' relating to output or of efficiency of work.
The other aspect of 'bloat' is training and management. MS Office 2007 only becomes efficient if:
1. Everybody else has it on LAN VPN etc
2. The rest of the world has it.
3. AND you or your organization adopts the best practice policies that comes with the new business management overhead that needs to be implemented for this piece of 'wonder' to work.
Just reading some of the rss crap that comes in automatically with Outlook 2007 of 'How To' shows pretty much immediately that you have to adopt a new regime of 'workflow' to get the most of MS Office 2007.
This is an incredibly wasteful cycle of adoption-training-peer assistance-retraining and so on.
MS should be admonished by trying to force corporations, students, educators (read Trainers), and everyone else to adopt this schema.
I really think that MS thinks that they own computing and computer literacy. I suppose that's one reason for why there is so much angst against MS. They define the rules, procedures, policies and business models. What right do they have to do that???
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Better than MS PAINT or Irfanview is something called Photoeditor. Yes it's an MS app, very small (for MS) and I think only came in MS Office XP. Brilliant for printscreen and alt-printscreen. Rotating centre wheel zooms, simple 'crop-copy-then paste' into any app you want. Fantastic if you write manuals.
Wombat ][ for me!
I've still got a few clones lying about!
Agreed. Keeps losing my main library playlist, keeps adding tracks to the last playlists and removing playlists just because I close them. Maybe I should save them.... Kinda needs a 'back' or History button. Album List is the only way I can navigate. Mind you I've only been using it for a few weeks and of course it doesn't come with a FA.
Geez! This brings a tear to the eye! I thought I was the only one left alive! PR#1 //e was a 384k + Rocket Chip + 20MB SCSI HD running Mousedesk! Still works too!!
My last Apple
Pic here (from a post above) about half way down the page: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computer s/Ch6-2.html
A 16 bit computer with 128 registers and an 8k memory. Pretty good as in 1977 I was playing Star Trek (simple grid system)on an IBM at uni with 8k. The Voyager was cutting edge at the time.
"The difference is, that Windows does NOT exist without the GUI "....
Ummm... Do you want to think about that for a few minutes longer before you commit to that statement?
What a great article on Vista. I, for one, didn't realize how bad things were in the HDCP sector. Thanks for that! http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_c ost.html
Yep.
If you download Windows Defender (for example) when WGA activex is running then all ok.
Now transfer that exe to another box with no internet connection and it would refuse to install because it needs to validate windows again.
Probably happens for more ms downloads as well.
NO IT ISN'T!!!!
It's the MUTANT STAR GOAT!!!!
Those Golgafrincham's were right after all!
Hey! After you've finished with him, could you leave what's left to me?
LOL - So if we ditch the metric, then we might as well use the British Imperial Units in the UK and the US Standard in the US, with proper conversion tables....
So 1k = 1048335 grains if you do it by weight, or maybe 1000 US fluid ounces = 1040.84 Imperial Fluid Ounces.
Now 1 grain = 64.7989 grams and if 1 cc = 1 ml = 1 gram (density of water), then.... ummm... hmmm... Where's my calculator?