I'd dunno... PM J Howard of Australia spent considerable effort trying to convince us Iraq was a threat. PM Blair too I believe. It sort of worked too. ~ 1/3 of the people I spoke to on the street (I was a taxi driver) believed WMD were possessed by Iraq. Almost 2/3 of the remaining population (sorry, these figures are approximations) just used the bad logic "Would you want Saddam to be the president of the superpower?" as justification for backing President Bush.
Can you elaborate? How can dialling and receiving a call/txt msg be mediocre? I've got an apple bug biting me but I'm wary that it may be all about the glitz.
Heh, in Australia, the cost of a mobile over a contract can be around 1/3 more than to buy it out right. I've always bought my phones out right and got it cheaper. But then, I always make sure I'm working with a surplus.
I dunno, I'm thinking of moving from Linux to OSX; things just seem more completed with minor advances... is there time machine-esc on linux? Though kde 4 seems to have a similar take.
MS Windows not so much.
Except the hardware isn't that standardised (it just has minimum specs) and the server allocations depend on the time and team that installed it. There is little "managed" about it except the password. MOE is a crock. Yeah fair enough, they do install the same apps in each school. But Every server I've worked with has been slightly different to the others in its structure. Lets not go into permissions... gah.
Gordonjcp http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=993269&cid=25348749 is wrong about efficiency. It does make a difference to fuel economy, at least in my diesel ute. Just as turning off your engine if you are likely to be at a stop light for >10 - 20 s does save fuel. I've been recording the numbers for over 6 months and it has increased efficiency. I haven't had a chance to do it in a small fuel efficient car (barring the Prius of course), but it definitely works in the Rodeo.
I personally have been using the inertia of the car rather than selecting a particular speed as the 'efficiency speed'. I've gone from 9km/l to 12km/l. I've added 200 km to my 55 litre tank around town by driving up to the speed that will get me to the next point of change without a loss of noticeable time spent driving. I originally based my idea on the Toyota Prius which I had driven for ~ 12 months as a taxi driver. I deliberately practice consideration i.e. I don't do it if it is against the general flow of traffic or drivers are unable to get round me. Gordonjcp has it right, and practice consideration that other drivers may not understand what you are doing so get out of their way.
This past week I used an iMac -- the AUD1599 1gb ram model -- for two days (20+ previous years on Dos, Windows and linux successively). I noted that to get similar performance from Vista required major beefing on many machines -- it was non-consistently variable depending on manufacturer for some reason... Working it out was too much hassle so hence the major beefing. I'm very impressed. In most areas it stands heads and shoulders other systems. Proprietary lock in, minimal window management and mouse usage are the biggest gripes... a problem on Windows anyway.
Wouldn't an ID advocate say that the trigger is a statistical nightmare to have been constructed by random clumping in a presumably adverse environment? I understood that the argument was: at a certain amount of complexity was required for a 'device' to have existed in the first place. That while random chance can produce interesting groupings or patterns etc, physical demands actually makes it impossible to the parts to have 'self-assembled' because physics actually prevents all parts from occurring originally? Thus the need for a designer. If I'm mistaken, then I need to rework a lot of past arguments.
Hear, Hear! And then they want us to 'bail out' those who deliberately (they knew it was bad debt) lied to the clients.*
*Yes, I understand that effectively without some measure our wealthy (comparatively) lifestyle will completely collapse. It is still disgusting -- especially as this is the way our economy/ies work
Yes, Linux et al has a dearth of buzzwords. They focus far too much on recursives, substituting the first letter of a name for their brand or just getting the job done without extra mouse clicks. Gnome is an anomaly.
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I'd dunno... PM J Howard of Australia spent considerable effort trying to convince us Iraq was a threat. PM Blair too I believe. It sort of worked too. ~ 1/3 of the people I spoke to on the street (I was a taxi driver) believed WMD were possessed by Iraq. Almost 2/3 of the remaining population (sorry, these figures are approximations) just used the bad logic "Would you want Saddam to be the president of the superpower?" as justification for backing President Bush.
Can you elaborate? How can dialling and receiving a call/txt msg be mediocre? I've got an apple bug biting me but I'm wary that it may be all about the glitz.
Heh, in Australia, the cost of a mobile over a contract can be around 1/3 more than to buy it out right. I've always bought my phones out right and got it cheaper. But then, I always make sure I'm working with a surplus.
Huh? Katz were all pathetic primary school-yard jokes except the internet which wasn't funny anyway. Munroe's worst was 1999 - a bit bland.
Yeah, that was the cincher for me... Munroe is brilliant.
Bloke, it is Canadian...
cept my isp's calculation of my downloading is done in flash... why, I can't fathom but it is a pretty graph.
I dunno, I'm thinking of moving from Linux to OSX; things just seem more completed with minor advances... is there time machine-esc on linux? Though kde 4 seems to have a similar take. MS Windows not so much.
Except the hardware isn't that standardised (it just has minimum specs) and the server allocations depend on the time and team that installed it. There is little "managed" about it except the password. MOE is a crock. Yeah fair enough, they do install the same apps in each school. But Every server I've worked with has been slightly different to the others in its structure. Lets not go into permissions... gah.
Damn it! were you TRYING to get me to pirate?
Where were you during the Olympics?
... except that my vote doesn't count as much as McRich's votes. As long as I've done my civic duty though.
I believe so. Does that make me amoral?
It is believe by some that it is possible to buy a licensed version of Leopard, from an Apple Store no less!
Gordonjcp http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=993269&cid=25348749 is wrong about efficiency. It does make a difference to fuel economy, at least in my diesel ute. Just as turning off your engine if you are likely to be at a stop light for >10 - 20 s does save fuel. I've been recording the numbers for over 6 months and it has increased efficiency. I haven't had a chance to do it in a small fuel efficient car (barring the Prius of course), but it definitely works in the Rodeo.
I personally have been using the inertia of the car rather than selecting a particular speed as the 'efficiency speed'. I've gone from 9km/l to 12km/l. I've added 200 km to my 55 litre tank around town by driving up to the speed that will get me to the next point of change without a loss of noticeable time spent driving. I originally based my idea on the Toyota Prius which I had driven for ~ 12 months as a taxi driver. I deliberately practice consideration i.e. I don't do it if it is against the general flow of traffic or drivers are unable to get round me. Gordonjcp has it right, and practice consideration that other drivers may not understand what you are doing so get out of their way.
Dvorak discredited? But I've just begun teaching myself!
This past week I used an iMac -- the AUD1599 1gb ram model -- for two days (20+ previous years on Dos, Windows and linux successively). I noted that to get similar performance from Vista required major beefing on many machines -- it was non-consistently variable depending on manufacturer for some reason... Working it out was too much hassle so hence the major beefing. I'm very impressed. In most areas it stands heads and shoulders other systems. Proprietary lock in, minimal window management and mouse usage are the biggest gripes... a problem on Windows anyway.
It is almost enough to get me to switch.
He has been eaten by a grue
Diamonds, rare metals
I'm not real good at maths, how long would a case-sensitive, alphanumeric, randomly inserted, symbol, punctuated, 56 character pass-phrase take?
Wouldn't an ID advocate say that the trigger is a statistical nightmare to have been constructed by random clumping in a presumably adverse environment? I understood that the argument was: at a certain amount of complexity was required for a 'device' to have existed in the first place. That while random chance can produce interesting groupings or patterns etc, physical demands actually makes it impossible to the parts to have 'self-assembled' because physics actually prevents all parts from occurring originally? Thus the need for a designer. If I'm mistaken, then I need to rework a lot of past arguments.
I'm sorry, I fail to see where the car fits in.
Hear, Hear! And then they want us to 'bail out' those who deliberately (they knew it was bad debt) lied to the clients.*
*Yes, I understand that effectively without some measure our wealthy (comparatively) lifestyle will completely collapse. It is still disgusting -- especially as this is the way our economy/ies work
Yes, Linux et al has a dearth of buzzwords. They focus far too much on recursives, substituting the first letter of a name for their brand or just getting the job done without extra mouse clicks. Gnome is an anomaly.