Comment Re:They should call it "The Spanish Inquisition".. (Score 3, Funny) 136
... because none of us expected it.
Except when you are, like me, Cardinal Ximinez.
... because none of us expected it.
Except when you are, like me, Cardinal Ximinez.
10% is more than a handful in my case. Quite a lot more.
Daily I wish people would indeed stop doing this.
Ever since I used speech recognition software for a while for entering text, I have worried that it would become popular and take us back to the noisy days of typewriters. Except this time for people talking to their electronic devices all the time.
I recently bought a zoomfloppy to connect a 1571 drive to USB:
http://store.go4retro.com/products/ZoomFloppy.html
I'm up to about 200 C64/C128 floppies from around 1990 backed up, and about 90% still work.
€600 ($820) for a basic device, about €1200 ($1640) for a good device, and up to €2500 ($3420) for a superior hearing aid in Holland:
http://www.hetgehoor.net/info/hoorapparaten-prijzen
http://www.optiekvangorp.be/index.php?id_wp=46&id_ws=1
The US price situation looks like a cartel to me then.
The Dutch national library has been storing every book and magazine published in Holland since 1974 (and has the majority of works published before that), now about 100km of paperwork.
Digitisation is under way.
http://kb.nl/index-en.html
Interesting, thanks.
>>But I guess I am a fucktard for even worrying about it.
>Yeah, pretty much.
Well, that discloses you as a person with a somewhat vile and therefore irrational view of the world.
So how will the fertility rates decline, according to those models?
The population will peak, and then stabilize or decline.
I worry if it will be because of careful planning of fertility and resources, or by running out of resources.
Agriculture is fed by energy, mostly oil, and that's ever harder to extract from the ground.
But I guess I am a fucktard for even worrying about it.
'Terrorism', now there's scaremongering for you.
Burying your head in the sand.
I left behind an anachronism.
Why should we expect a worse sun spot maximum than previous maxima?
Nowhere in the two linked articles does it say anything about why it would be worse than 2006.
They don't even talk about the unusually long sun spot miminum we've had.
I was hoping for some science about how that might affect the coming maximum...
User agent switcher turns some things on in Firefox.
http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
with following settings:
Safari
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; ja-jp)
Mozilla
Safari
4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7
MacIntel
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A lot is broken though.
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_