Here in Spain the anti-smoking laws basically left it up to the owners of small bars (less than 100 square metres) to decide whether they want to be smoking or non-smoking. Unfortunately for the non-smoking bars, if a group of people going bar-hopping includes at least one smoker, he/she will naturally prefer the smoking bar.
18 months later, I don't know of one such bar - NOT ONE - where the owner has stuck with his original 'non-smoking' designation (and a good bit fewer than 5% of bars went no-smoking originally.) Granted, I don't yet know all the bars in Barcelona, but I'm working on it:-)
They did it right in Ireland. You can arrive home after a night's drinking smelling of nothing more than drink.
"Nothing [in science] contradicts the Bible's account of the origins."
God almighty, preserve us from your followers. I've never understood the reverence afforded to a story book written by barely-literate nomads; especially when othercreationmyths are far more entertaining (and not to mention whose gods are less dour.) Indeed Genesis itself is a heavily plagiarised version of the much earlier Enuma Elish Babylonian creationist myth...
"But what, I ask wonderingly, about those fossilised remains of early man-like creatures? Marsh knows all about that: 'There are no such things. Humans are basically as you see them today. Those skeletons they've found, what's the word?... they could have been deformed, diseased or something. I've seen people like that running round the streets of New York.'"
= To a foreigner, the US immigration papers look more than silly, they make a laugh of the entire US (first impressions, you know). You have to answer questions on whether you were ever a member of a communist organization, whether you are going to the US to commit terrorist acts, etc, etc. Do they really expect the communists or terrorists to answer Yes in any of these forms? How naive are those immigration officials really?
There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that the editor of a London newspaper used to respond to "Are you going to overthrow the lawfully elected government of teh USA" with "Sole purpose of visit".
but keep at it, child. you have the earnestness of a teenager who has a lot of philosophy books under his belt, but no real world experience. you'll get that real world experience someday, and then you'll know what i'm talking about
So you like Vista?"
"Not really, no. I run a Vista simulator."
"Virtual Server?" the Boss asks.
"Nah, I just turned on all the flashy crap in XP, changed the background image, took some memory out of my box and clocked down the CPU. Then broke Media player. Works like a charm."
http://www.qdq.com/ already has this for some of the major cities in Spain.
(Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Santander, Valladolid.)
It has aerial photos and street-level photos of streets too. You can navigate as if you were driving.
Intriguingly, the photo of the building I live in must have been taken more than five years ago, as there's some grafitti of a willy on the front wall. Dunno what it says about the previous owners.
Thats a one-dimensional dataset where the sole (sorry) variable has a fairly high variance.
Good pun!
Well, being altruistic may equally well have a "fairly high variance." I mean, it's hardly a binary attribute -- or is it?
Plus of course the volunteers, were, well, volunteers - already a sign of incipient altruism. Did they know that they were volunteering for an altruism survey? It's like asking people
"We're doing a survey on what percentage of people regularly lie, OK? Well, here's the question: Do you lie on a regular basis?"
Aside from the question of why would anyone believe any of the answers;-), the parts of the brain lighting-up could equally well be associated with "Hmm, I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing here, not necessarily what I would normally do." Maybe they've found the conscience;-)
People keep talking about MS's "long-term strategies", that the first version of anything MS does is crap. "Quality being job 1.1 at Microsoft" and all that.
And it's all very true, but begs the obvious question: why should anyone buy a Zune instead of an iPod or Zen NOW? At least with everything you mentioned above (IE, DirectX) you're not plonking down $249 for a slightly polished turd.
If you really must go MS, why not wait for Zune v2 or v3 or whatever? There are better, smaller, cheaper, more useful, more chic products out there today. So why be an early adopter of something that needs work? "Hey MS, this product isn't as good as it should be, here's $249 to make it better, and I'll give you another $249 when the next version comes out next year."
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
That's interesting. I always thought that Motorola 6502s were just a second-source on the chip - one of more than a dozen second-sources. They certainly didn't sell any that I ever saw, presumably preferring instead to push their own 6800/6802/6809 (now THAT was a nice 8-bitter!)
Here's another
article for you to not read;-) It doesn't mention that Moto got "the right to build them, with little or no royalty to MOS Technology", merely a dropping of the 6800-pin-compatible 6501, plus a $200K payment to Motorola. I must confess that I haven't read all of
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore", but I did read the bits about MOS Technology (remember that Commodore owned them from 1976 on), and no mention is made of reduced-royalty manufacturing rights being ceded to Motorola as a result of the 6501 lawsuit. (Moto were also miffed that the 6520 PIA was an almost exact copy of their 6820, but they let that one slide as it wasn't a CPU.) That book, btw, is quite entertaining, if a tad long. Did you know that Bill Mensch did the 6501 chip layout by hand (no CAD systems back then!) and got it working first time? Amazing. Sometimes it takes me two attempts to tie my shoelaces! Plus they had some 10MHz 6502s running in 1976. Yes, ten megahertz.
Anyway, enough of my wafflings - this has been a good trip down memory lane:-)
Dunno what you're smoking, fella, but Motorola never "got" the 6502. From this article:
The 6502 was designed primarily by the same engineering team that had designed the Motorola 6800. After quitting Motorola en masse, they quickly designed the 6501, a completely new processor that was pin-compatible with the 6800 (that is, it could be plugged into motherboards designed for the Motorola processor, although its instruction set was different). Motorola sued immediately, and MOS agreed to stop producing the 6501 and went back to the drawing board.
The result was the "lawsuit-compatible" 6502, which was by design unusable in a 6800 motherboard; Motorola dropped their objection.
...
The 6502 was introduced at $25 in September 1975, when the 6800 and Intel 8080 were selling for $179. At first many people thought the new chip's price was a hoax or a mistake, but shortly both Motorola and Intel had dropped their chips to $79. Far from the intended result, these price reductions actually legitimized the 6502, which started selling by the hundreds.
Poor old RMS has been getting a bit of a bad press recently. He'd want to have a thick skin.
Here's Forbes Magazine's David "Incontinentia" Lyons' latest hatchet-job on him.
Some quotes:
Stallman is "a cantankerous and finger-wagging freewheeler", and "He is corpulent and slovenly, with long, scraggly hair, strands of which he has been known to pluck out and toss into a bowl of soup he is eating."
Of course this is that bastion of corporatism, Forbes Magazine. And of course this is David "Incontinentia" Lyons.
This is because most works today are assigned to corporations. And corporations are in essence immortal persons, with no notion of "personal" responsibility. So obviously the corporation wants the Gravy Train to keep rolling for as long as possible. Watch the Corporate machine bribe congress in return for more than 95 years before the next Mickey Mouse Copyright Expiry in 2019.
(The last Mickey Mouse Copyright Expiry was to have been in 2003, but after intense lobbying, Congress passed The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998 -- though a fat lot of good it did Sonny. The fact that Disney donated some $6.3 million of campaign cash that same year is purely a coincidence.)
Yeats had it right:
What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer
Bashrc's experience may be bad, but there are others: I spend time equally in Cork, Ireland and Barcelona, Spain.
In Cork I paid E48.40 for 2Mbit up/ 2Mbit down wireless (IrishBroadBand). In Spain I pay E38.50 for ADSL2+ with free national calls (ya.com).
All prices including VAT/IVA.
Doing speed checks on irishisptest.com, in general I get 5000 kbits/sec from Barcelona (sometimes 7500 kbits/sec). In Cork, the most I *ever* got on irishisptest.com was 700kbits/sec.
I know I'm comparing wired with wireless, but I'd happily take that ya.com service anywhere I could get it.
I don't know where bashrc lives or which ISP he's with - I suggest he look around more. Or move:-)
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Just wondering...
18 months later, I don't know of one such bar - NOT ONE - where the owner has stuck with his original 'non-smoking' designation (and a good bit fewer than 5% of bars went no-smoking originally.) Granted, I don't yet know all the bars in Barcelona, but I'm working on it :-)
They did it right in Ireland. You can arrive home after a night's drinking smelling of nothing more than drink.
Sorry, I don't have mod points, but that was fscking hilarious!
-- The Guardian has a piece on the World's First Creationist Museum, opening soon in deepest flyover-state, USA.
God almighty, preserve us from your followers. I've never understood the reverence afforded to a story book written by barely-literate nomads; especially when other creation myths are far more entertaining (and not to mention whose gods are less dour.) Indeed Genesis itself is a heavily plagiarised version of the much earlier Enuma Elish Babylonian creationist myth... Jeez, New Yorkers ain't that bad.Joke! Honest!
Good post, but the "fee market" typo in your Subject line made me smile...
(Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Santander, Valladolid.)
It has aerial photos and street-level photos of streets too. You can navigate as if you were driving.
Intriguingly, the photo of the building I live in must have been taken more than five years ago, as there's some grafitti of a willy on the front wall. Dunno what it says about the previous owners.
Mondo props if you can find it, though :-)
Laugh? I nearly bought a round.
Good pun!
Well, being altruistic may equally well have a "fairly high variance." I mean, it's hardly a binary attribute -- or is it?
Plus of course the volunteers, were, well, volunteers - already a sign of incipient altruism. Did they know that they were volunteering for an altruism survey? It's like asking people
"We're doing a survey on what percentage of people regularly lie, OK? Well, here's the question: Do you lie on a regular basis?"
Aside from the question of why would anyone believe any of the answers ;-), the parts of the brain lighting-up could equally well be associated with "Hmm, I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing here, not necessarily what I would normally do." Maybe they've found the conscience ;-)
OK, I'll shut up now.
Jesus Christ. I mean, their shoe-size is as likely to correlate to altruism.
And it's all very true, but begs the obvious question: why should anyone buy a Zune instead of an iPod or Zen NOW? At least with everything you mentioned above (IE, DirectX) you're not plonking down $249 for a slightly polished turd.
If you really must go MS, why not wait for Zune v2 or v3 or whatever? There are better, smaller, cheaper, more useful, more chic products out there today. So why be an early adopter of something that needs work? "Hey MS, this product isn't as good as it should be, here's $249 to make it better, and I'll give you another $249 when the next version comes out next year."
Sheesh.
Or at least an ogre.
Of course business can do no wrong! :-)
Glad that your memory is better than mine!
That's interesting. I always thought that Motorola 6502s were just a second-source on the chip - one of more than a dozen second-sources. They certainly didn't sell any that I ever saw, presumably preferring instead to push their own 6800/6802/6809 (now THAT was a nice 8-bitter!)
Here's another article for you to not read ;-) It doesn't mention that Moto got "the right to build them, with little or no royalty to MOS Technology", merely a dropping of the 6800-pin-compatible 6501, plus a $200K payment to Motorola. I must confess that I haven't read all of
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore", but I did read the bits about MOS Technology (remember that Commodore owned them from 1976 on), and no mention is made of reduced-royalty manufacturing rights being ceded to Motorola as a result of the 6501 lawsuit. (Moto were also miffed that the 6520 PIA was an almost exact copy of their 6820, but they let that one slide as it wasn't a CPU.) That book, btw, is quite entertaining, if a tad long. Did you know that Bill Mensch did the 6501 chip layout by hand (no CAD systems back then!) and got it working first time? Amazing. Sometimes it takes me two attempts to tie my shoelaces! Plus they had some 10MHz 6502s running in 1976. Yes, ten megahertz.
Anyway, enough of my wafflings - this has been a good trip down memory lane :-)
Here's Forbes Magazine's David "Incontinentia" Lyons' latest hatchet-job on him.
Some quotes:
Stallman is "a cantankerous and finger-wagging freewheeler", and "He is corpulent and slovenly, with long, scraggly hair, strands of which he has been known to pluck out and toss into a bowl of soup he is eating."
Of course this is that bastion of corporatism, Forbes Magazine. And of course this is David "Incontinentia" Lyons.
(The last Mickey Mouse Copyright Expiry was to have been in 2003, but after intense lobbying, Congress passed The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998 -- though a fat lot of good it did Sonny. The fact that Disney donated some $6.3 million of campaign cash that same year is purely a coincidence.)
Yeats had it right:
What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer
I think I'll wait for Vista SP1.
Bashrc's experience may be bad, but there are others: I spend time equally in Cork, Ireland and Barcelona, Spain.
:-)
In Cork I paid E48.40 for 2Mbit up/ 2Mbit down wireless (IrishBroadBand).
In Spain I pay E38.50 for ADSL2+ with free national calls (ya.com).
All prices including VAT/IVA.
Doing speed checks on irishisptest.com, in general I get 5000 kbits/sec from Barcelona (sometimes 7500 kbits/sec). In Cork, the most I *ever* got on irishisptest.com was 700kbits/sec.
I know I'm comparing wired with wireless, but I'd happily take that ya.com service anywhere I could get it.
I don't know where bashrc lives or which ISP he's with - I suggest he look around more. Or move