That was a pretty arrogant move, even for his standards, and I'm sure he's be humbled (somewhat) after being taken down a peg.
He was humbled and has publicly gone back on everything he said.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm:
"I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."
Police were called in to search for the two discs, which contained the entire database of child benefit claimants and apparently got lost in the post in October 2007. The loss, which led to an apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, created fears of identity fraud.
Clarkson now says of the case: "Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy."
TFA implies that there was, in fact, error correction: "If the semaphore on that tower was put into a certain position, the telegrapher copied that symbol on his own tower. Next he used the telescope to look at the succeeding tower in the chain, to control if the next telegrapher had copied the symbol correctly." I presume there was a way to make the correction (else, why check?)
I imagine there was a measure of error correction, but the reason for checking the following tower might just be to know when you could put up your next symbol. That control would be necessary while error correction would be a luxury.
Any computer than can run Home Basic can run any other edition. Yes, you won't get Aero without a graphics card that supports DX9+ hardware acceleration. That's the kind of sentence which GETS YOU OUTED AS WORKING FOR THE MS MARKETING DEPARTMENT!
Great news!
So these expert sexchange cases are actually shown, eh? Right there in the cache, huh? 'cause to be honest, I never really understood how they did 'em.
One final note. You state that Israel only managed to advance X miles. How many miles did Hezbollah advance? Okay, yards then. Feet? Inches? So much for low tech then. Hezbollah has never once manage to threaten Israels survival. Christ, that's not what the Israeli PR guys would have the world believe. Y'know the line: gotta take out their power plant because a home-made rocket landed on someone's lawn.
Agreed. I run Linux and it's faster to open MSOffice under Wine than to open up OpenOffice (and that's without Wine already running). I still like OpenOffice - it's certainly more stable than running MSOffice in Linux, but it's certainly bloated.
I'm just wating for the day that KWord supports.odt properly. That's what I want to be using.
In a statement released to Reuters this afternoon:
"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to human error."
It's helpful if you think of it in these terms.
It all comes down to the fact that dividing the zero emissions by an integer greater than two (so that we may have several "parts") resulting in something non-zero (because there are in fact emissions) is an impossibility.
Now as you may have read in TFA, these cars cannot legally be sold in most places. This actually stems from the fact that Honda has priced the cars at partially free.
Cunningly, Honda simply divided the partially-free price tag by the partially-zero emissions (and vice versa) and found that the equation worked.
1,000,000 Turkish Lira (TL) are now worth one New Turkish Lira (YTL). But most of us old hands still speak as though the currency is millions and not lira: "the beer is 5 million", "my rent is 400 million", etc (and bread is "350 thousand" these days). What can I say? Old habits die hard.
In Turkey, you can get 10, 20 or 50 lira notes (one lira being worth slightly less than a US dollar). I had to withdraw 1,200 lira for a friend and the money came out in 10s. The stack was so thick that I had trouble pulling it out of the machine and a few bills ripped in the process.
A couple of years ago, before the currency revaluation, you'd get 10,000,000 lira notes. Beat that!
If we're going to do it, then let's do it properly:
"It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me," said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, "Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it."
The walls of the swaying cabin were also black, the ceiling was black, the seats were black, the control panel was black, the instruments were black, the little screws that held them in place were black, the thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when they had lifted up a corner of it they had discovered that the foam underlay also was black.
I can hardly think of any way to demonstrate more clearly that freedom of speech is not something that is not practiced in Turkey. And I can hardly think of a better way to demonstrate the danger of using not too many times in one sentence.
Now more to the point, when I saw that I couldn't access youTube this morning, I immediately guessed what might have happened. No one familiar with events in Turkey should be surprised by this kind of thing at all.
And finally, the rational is nationalist not religious as is usually the case in Turkey.
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He was humbled and has publicly gone back on everything he said. From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm: "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."
Police were called in to search for the two discs, which contained the entire database of child benefit claimants and apparently got lost in the post in October 2007. The loss, which led to an apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, created fears of identity fraud.
Clarkson now says of the case: "Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy."
What, like that dude who got his DNA mapped?
Oh my ... the pots and kettles have nothing on this one.
I imagine there was a measure of error correction, but the reason for checking the following tower might just be to know when you could put up your next symbol. That control would be necessary while error correction would be a luxury.
Angola is a country in Africa. Angora [Ankara] is a city in Turkey.
Jesus Christ. Where are our ant overlords when we need them?
Great news!
So these expert sexchange cases are actually shown, eh? Right there in the cache, huh? 'cause to be honest, I never really understood how they did 'em.
Agreed. I run Linux and it's faster to open MSOffice under Wine than to open up OpenOffice (and that's without Wine already running). I still like OpenOffice - it's certainly more stable than running MSOffice in Linux, but it's certainly bloated.
.odt properly. That's what I want to be using.
I'm just wating for the day that KWord supports
In a statement released to Reuters this afternoon:
"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to human error."
... infrared cameras capable of detecting human skin will be installedIt's helpful if you think of it in these terms.
It all comes down to the fact that dividing the zero emissions by an integer greater than two (so that we may have several "parts") resulting in something non-zero (because there are in fact emissions) is an impossibility.
Now as you may have read in TFA, these cars cannot legally be sold in most places. This actually stems from the fact that Honda has priced the cars at partially free.
Cunningly, Honda simply divided the partially-free price tag by the partially-zero emissions (and vice versa) and found that the equation worked.
Fuck me. Someone please go and wipe the postmodernism wiki now!
because I just found myself agreeing with Microsoft ...
1,000,000 Turkish Lira (TL) are now worth one New Turkish Lira (YTL). But most of us old hands still speak as though the currency is millions and not lira: "the beer is 5 million", "my rent is 400 million", etc (and bread is "350 thousand" these days). What can I say? Old habits die hard.
In Turkey, you can get 10, 20 or 50 lira notes (one lira being worth slightly less than a US dollar). I had to withdraw 1,200 lira for a friend and the money came out in 10s. The stack was so thick that I had trouble pulling it out of the machine and a few bills ripped in the process.
A couple of years ago, before the currency revaluation, you'd get 10,000,000 lira notes. Beat that!
The walls of the swaying cabin were also black, the ceiling was black, the seats were black, the control panel was black, the instruments were black, the little screws that held them in place were black, the thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when they had lifted up a corner of it they had discovered that the foam underlay also was black.
Hell, at this rate they might even top the 3,628 copies of XP sold in China so far.
Turkish Batman? Been there ... dusty, oil town. Not much to see.
Party at my place everyone!
PS. I'm going to write everything off as a business expense.
So you must be using a Polish spell-checker, right? My lousy English one didn't pick up either Nowack or Nowak. Strange.
I tried both http://208.65.153.251/ and http://208.65.153.253/, but neither are working. I guess they've blocked these two as well ...
Maybe not Stanford, but they will still be able to get into Harvard (check out the page about the teacher: http://menlo.ca.schoolwebpages.com/education/compo nents/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=165&sc _id=1173020340)