I do find it sad that one by one all the planes that used to excite and enthral me as a kid are slowly dissapearing from the skies. I remember the thrill of making model kits of Tomcats, Vulcan Bombers (Brit), F-111s and Phantoms and the thought that they're all now relagated to air-shows (if you're lucky) is like losing a part of myself.
God I'm feeling maudlin this morning.
Let's be honest here.
Ipod is synonamous with MP3 player now. Even grannies going to the shops for their grandchildren will ask for an iPod by name. We say podcast, podcasting. I can't see people Zunecasting. Unless the Zune offers something substantially better or a great and highly compelling new feature (Actually, I've just thought of one, maybe I should copyright it right now..) no-one else has thought of then it's just not going to sell. The only hope MS have is to back it up with an extremely cheap song purchase system but I can't see them doing that without oodles of DRM involved.
>U.S., Canada, Russia and the EU jockey for control of the newly opened passages.
I was going to say something about the US just declaring it was a terrorist passage and sending in the troops to take control of it but then I decided that any sentance with 'jockey' and 'newly opened passages' just sounded rude/funny enough without comment (except this one).
>1. So it happened earlier in recorded human history?
>2. There was technology throughout most of human history that recorded Arctic ice cover?
Haven't you heard of diaries?
Mar 4th 1437
Still cold and boring. Caught breakfast. Fish again. Went for a walk to warm up. Noticed a bit of a crack in the ice and followed that for a while. Bumped into a big pole sticking out the ground. WTF? Some gnarly guy nearby said 'That'll be the North one, sonny.' Maybe someone hammered the pole in too hard and it cracked the ice? Walked back home. Fish for supper.
>Firstly we have a massive tradition of DJs
That creates such wierd images in my head. An almost Python like sketch of DJs wandering around the town centre in funny hats and floppy tops with a 12inch box in one hand and a portable record deck in the other, pubs full of people drinking a pint with one hand and scratching with the other (with a record, not scratching their bodies), looking at old books of Victorians grinning maniacally over a pair of wax cyclinder mixing two music hall hits together. You get the drift. I'll go and lie down.
Reminds me of the UK poll to see if people wanted ID cards. I can't remember the exact numbers but it was something like:
Do you want an ID card? 85%
Do you want an ID card if you have to pay for it? 7%
So the govt reports 85% support and that will cost you GBP150 pounds each please.
That was pretty common not that long ago. Most people I know who did programming/science/engineering at University in the 80's did it on clunky old timeshare systems where they wrote the programs (Fortran, usually), punched the cards, sent them off and waited a week. Don't even start talking to them about dropping their card stacks...
On a slight tangent, I worked for a UK bank around 1988 who had a service where they sent big customers mag tapes of the previous nights checks/cheques for reconcilliation. One tape merged two accounts in error so we had to reproduce the two accounts by hand by having an entire department type out and check 20,000 punch cards over a few days and nights. To add insult to injury, the completed tape was then couriered by motorbike to the customer but the bike crashed and the tape got smashed so we had to get another tape done which took a further 24 hours.
Youngsters these days with that there Inteenet thang don't know they're born!
Buy Lego Mindstorms
Make Robot
Teach it English
Program it to hit keys on a keyboard
No-one would ever guess you're not a real person.
Unexpected Next without For
Core Dump
EEEE:3244
You may laugh, I knew someone that coded that way. They sat, thought, mapped it all out in their head then typed it all in top to bottom in one go. Worse still, it worked first time 99% of the time and I don't recall them ever producing a single bug. Git. This was Dbase III+ FWIW.
In the UK we have the official secrets act which in theory every citizen is party to but when you join up with e.g. the armed forces, government etc. you are required to confirm your understanding of what is required of you by signing a form.
Why is this a troll? It is a serious point about how an identical economic position can be differently viewed and is based upon comment by one of the most respected(?) economy magazines in the world. You might not like the message but marking it troll is IMO dodging the issue and somewhat immature.
Because when it starts getting that hard to be honest..
I buy loads of CDs from other countries, mainly US & Japan and if this will stop me being able to play them then sorry guys, I'm going to start to explore other avenues..
>Fraud happens, there were several legitimate cases of Democrats
>committing election fraud
So then both sides are guilty. Are you seriously suggesting that because the Dems committed fraud (and were thus in the wrong) that we should ignore it when the Republicans commit fraud?
Over here (UK) I read time and time again that the US economy is currently being built on in unsustainable ways and that it could crash and burn any time. Add in that all the overseas oil is purchased by creating debt (effectively printing a bunch of money to buy it) and that said debt is being bought up by ther Chinese by the ton that we now have the position that China could effectively pull the rug on the US at any time but obviously, its not currently in their interests to do so. It does give them some leverage though. Lots of inetresting stuff to be found in magazines like The Economist etc.
But that's what the US does, assumes whatever works there works throughout the world whether it's laws or just general ways of life. people and companies throughout the world are constantly fending off legal actions in regard to things that are quite legal on their home turf but illegal in the US.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm in the SE of the UK and I'd say about 8-9/10 MP3 players I see are iPods.
I do find it sad that one by one all the planes that used to excite and enthral me as a kid are slowly dissapearing from the skies. I remember the thrill of making model kits of Tomcats, Vulcan Bombers (Brit), F-111s and Phantoms and the thought that they're all now relagated to air-shows (if you're lucky) is like losing a part of myself.
God I'm feeling maudlin this morning.
>Navy dumped Tom Cruise
Everyone else seems to be dropping Tom so it wasn't an unreasonable thought.
Oh for some mod points... +2 funny
>I'd call them turd burglars
Grin. I haven't heard that phrase for years. Not as good as Chutney Ferret though.
>Maybe in parts of the US
I'm not in the US. The only place I can think where it's not likely to be synonamous is China or Japan but I don't know.
Maybe that's why Vista prices are so high - you get a 'free' Zune?
Let's be honest here.
Ipod is synonamous with MP3 player now. Even grannies going to the shops for their grandchildren will ask for an iPod by name. We say podcast, podcasting. I can't see people Zunecasting. Unless the Zune offers something substantially better or a great and highly compelling new feature (Actually, I've just thought of one, maybe I should copyright it right now..) no-one else has thought of then it's just not going to sell. The only hope MS have is to back it up with an extremely cheap song purchase system but I can't see them doing that without oodles of DRM involved.
>stupid "dogs" that bimbos like Paris Hiton carry
I think you'll find Paris is the dog's pet, not the other way around.
>U.S., Canada, Russia and the EU jockey for control of the newly opened passages.
I was going to say something about the US just declaring it was a terrorist passage and sending in the troops to take control of it but then I decided that any sentance with 'jockey' and 'newly opened passages' just sounded rude/funny enough without comment (except this one).
>1. So it happened earlier in recorded human history?
>2. There was technology throughout most of human history that recorded Arctic ice cover?
Haven't you heard of diaries?
Mar 4th 1437
Still cold and boring. Caught breakfast. Fish again. Went for a walk to warm up. Noticed a bit of a crack in the ice and followed that for a while. Bumped into a big pole sticking out the ground. WTF? Some gnarly guy nearby said 'That'll be the North one, sonny.' Maybe someone hammered the pole in too hard and it cracked the ice? Walked back home. Fish for supper.
If that's not evidence, I don't know what is.
>Firstly we have a massive tradition of DJs
That creates such wierd images in my head. An almost Python like sketch of DJs wandering around the town centre in funny hats and floppy tops with a 12inch box in one hand and a portable record deck in the other, pubs full of people drinking a pint with one hand and scratching with the other (with a record, not scratching their bodies), looking at old books of Victorians grinning maniacally over a pair of wax cyclinder mixing two music hall hits together. You get the drift. I'll go and lie down.
They haven't actually confirmed the final cost but at one point it was rumoured to be nearer GBP400!!!
Reminds me of the UK poll to see if people wanted ID cards. I can't remember the exact numbers but it was something like:
Do you want an ID card? 85%
Do you want an ID card if you have to pay for it? 7%
So the govt reports 85% support and that will cost you GBP150 pounds each please.
>Americans don't know what net neutrality is, and they don't want it
How can anyone have an opinion on something if they don't know what it is?
That was pretty common not that long ago. Most people I know who did programming/science/engineering at University in the 80's did it on clunky old timeshare systems where they wrote the programs (Fortran, usually), punched the cards, sent them off and waited a week. Don't even start talking to them about dropping their card stacks...
On a slight tangent, I worked for a UK bank around 1988 who had a service where they sent big customers mag tapes of the previous nights checks/cheques for reconcilliation. One tape merged two accounts in error so we had to reproduce the two accounts by hand by having an entire department type out and check 20,000 punch cards over a few days and nights. To add insult to injury, the completed tape was then couriered by motorbike to the customer but the bike crashed and the tape got smashed so we had to get another tape done which took a further 24 hours.
Youngsters these days with that there Inteenet thang don't know they're born!
Buy Lego Mindstorms
Make Robot
Teach it English
Program it to hit keys on a keyboard
No-one would ever guess you're not a real person.
Unexpected Next without For
Core Dump
EEEE:3244
You may laugh, I knew someone that coded that way. They sat, thought, mapped it all out in their head then typed it all in top to bottom in one go. Worse still, it worked first time 99% of the time and I don't recall them ever producing a single bug. Git. This was Dbase III+ FWIW.
>Van Dyck
His cockney accent was pretty poor in Mark Poppins though.
In the UK we have the official secrets act which in theory every citizen is party to but when you join up with e.g. the armed forces, government etc. you are required to confirm your understanding of what is required of you by signing a form.
Why is this a troll? It is a serious point about how an identical economic position can be differently viewed and is based upon comment by one of the most respected(?) economy magazines in the world. You might not like the message but marking it troll is IMO dodging the issue and somewhat immature.
Because when it starts getting that hard to be honest..
I buy loads of CDs from other countries, mainly US & Japan and if this will stop me being able to play them then sorry guys, I'm going to start to explore other avenues..
>Fraud happens, there were several legitimate cases of Democrats
>committing election fraud So then both sides are guilty. Are you seriously suggesting that because the Dems committed fraud (and were thus in the wrong) that we should ignore it when the Republicans commit fraud?
Over here (UK) I read time and time again that the US economy is currently being built on in unsustainable ways and that it could crash and burn any time. Add in that all the overseas oil is purchased by creating debt (effectively printing a bunch of money to buy it) and that said debt is being bought up by ther Chinese by the ton that we now have the position that China could effectively pull the rug on the US at any time but obviously, its not currently in their interests to do so. It does give them some leverage though. Lots of inetresting stuff to be found in magazines like The Economist etc.
But that's what the US does, assumes whatever works there works throughout the world whether it's laws or just general ways of life. people and companies throughout the world are constantly fending off legal actions in regard to things that are quite legal on their home turf but illegal in the US.