I was going through the DW V Concordance and noticed the sentence "The lingonberry is a sweet-tart reddish fruit somewhat reminiscient of cranberries." This is not a big surprise - ligonberries are classified biologically as Order Ericales, Family Ericaceae, Genus Vaccinium, Subgenus Vitis-idaea, while cranberries are classified biologically as Order Ericales, Family Ericaceae, Genus Vaccinium, Subgenus Oxycoccus... They aren't very different.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Ladies and gentleman, I give you A.D.Police - the game!.... (Except it's actually a trailer for a new game by polish developers cdprojekt red the people behind the witcher games in which you are part of an elite police team that hunts down dangerous psychos-people who have overdosed on artificial enhancements and tech untill they lose thier humanity and go on insane destructive rampages in a futuristic cyberpunk dytsopia)

(Sorry for the double post btw)

I'm currently towards the "fiddly bits" of trying to get an XMBCuntu 11 install to talk to my television. The video card - the ONLY one I can use on the box - is VGA/HDMI/DVI (PNY GeForce 210 DDR2 512M PCie 2.0). My television is a 10-year-old Panasonic, Composite/Component/Svideo inputs. I'm trying to use an older Apple DVI-Composite/Svideo adapter. I can see video, of sorts... all sorts of "bad sync and resolution" oddness.
Does anyone have any recommendation for a resolution/refresh setting that will work with this combination? It's fairly obvious to me that it's really just a "correct settings" issue.
And for the record, replacing the television with a flat panel isn't an option, both budget wise, and that I have a large number of old-school light-gun video games that I like to bust out. Plus, I'm only really doing this so I can watch YouTube video on the television, without relying on the Xbox's broken YouTube app, because otherwise I watch so little television at home it isn't even funny. And I just happened to have the parts handy to try to build a media center PC.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

Interesting things are afoot. And that's all I can say. That's all I'm at liberty to say. For now. 

Except - 

Have a little hope. And watch the skies. 

-Logan
"If he were any more cryptic he'd be working at the CIA."

Apparently, http://comicsbeat.com/tokyopop-is-back/]they never left... although they could have fooled me, given the long break in publishing and the dearth of titles at the moment.

Here's hoping they can finally publish the rest of the Aria manga.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I wonder if it's something I'm doing.

About 6 months ago, my Dell died when its harddisk let go. Being 4 and a bit years old, I bought a new one and stuffed it under the bed.

About 6 weeks ago, a laptop in work died. It was a decade old, so it passed without concern. I was sitting beside it at the time.

Just befor xmas, my personal laptop, not six months old, decided to shit its fan, and then have the HDD fail. It went back to manufacturer.

I borrowed a computer. 3 hours ago, while sitting at my desk at work, it went pop. Just shut down and died completely. No power anywhere.

Currently posting on the old Dell. Which just about manages to work with a HDD stolen from the broken borrowed machine.....

Joy.

Is it something I'm doing. Seriously? Because I commuted on a bus/train with this thing for over three years and it's still pretty solid. Aside from the HDD. Then left it running for a month or more at a time without shutting down. It never complained. Until I started commuting to work by car.

Now I've killed many computers.

What the hell is going on?
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

While it's no surprise that a toy company's Managing Director would still have a sense of humour, the fact that a government Private Secretary can match it is... well, difficult to believe. But the proof is right here:

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/09/bigjigs_bid/]Toy train company bids for West Coast Mainline
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

"Bottle the energy of a child, and you could sell it for a fortune," they said.

And yet, when I told them it could be done... They laughed! LAUGHED! Laughed at my GENIUS!

Now with the proof before them, what do the short sighted fools do? Do they marvel at the womders my mind has wrought, at the Soul-a-cells all but bursting with renewable, environment freindly power? Power extracted nearly completely harmlessly, with no lasting effect but a small pinch and some fatigue? NO!! FOOLS! I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!!
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Physicists create quantum gas which can get colder than absolute zero.
I kid you not.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Some days you have to wonder why someone would bother inventing a Three-Letter Abbreviation... for me, this was Tuesday. This Tuesday.

From the notes about http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/m ... 16565.html]today's NASA Image of the Day:

Quote:This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the patch of rock cleaned by the first use of the rover's Dust Removal Tool (DRT).

The tool is a motorized, wire-bristle brush on the turret at the end of the rover's arm.