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http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09...8&art_pos=2 Supercomputer modelling predicts this will go pandemic sometime next week. On the other hand, the article aggregated states: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217201126 On a related note in the article: Also, the WHO has renamed this to the Colbert Flu to avoid offending ethnic minorities. Report at 11.

Here here eh.

Processors are about 5 years newer -> better optimisations and technology, 2 cores instead of one, more ram (less use of paging), faster BUS, fasting grahpics card... oh I'd certainly say 4 times faster is a reasonable statement. You of all people know that CPU speed isn't the only bottleneck. Did I say it was? It's certainly a clever OS and while Ubuntu rivals it in the innovation department, there are still a lot of clever and innovative things about it I really like. Great, so even the console users of the future won't have a clue what they're actually doing... That's so silly. It's like saying Python coders don't know what they're doing because it's duck-typed. Anyway, Ubuntu does the same thing, AFAIK.

No problem. It was a CDC statement, and I can't be bothered digging it up (I read so many news articles on google each day and bookmark so very few), so take it with a grain of salt. It certainly wasn't a slight on America as Gromnir got irrationaly riled up about; many other countries would have responded similarly.

Also, if this is happening, it is pretty shocking. Don't worry, they're not. It's just Guard Dog's usual talent for mischaracterising the stances of individual MP's with an agenda as the stances of an big tent entire party. He is, of course, free to try and back up his claim with evidence to the contrary.

Just FYI, this will happen in 2010 or some such. Seriously, it's going to take at least until June. Incorrect, it will happen in June/July this year.

learn2QM Learn to... quantum mechanics? As in the Hiesenburg (I spelt that wrong) uncertainty principle? Which would validate the original post... Hmmm...so he knows either the location of the inhibition center of his brain, or its velocity, but not both at the same time? Unfortunately, I'm not sure scientists have figured that one out yet. Incorrect.

The US has already admitted it acted too slowly to the outbreak, and the WHO has voiced similar concerns. Really? Do you have a link for that, please? don't need a link or proof. it is a Given that the vast majority o' the world's tragedies in the post WWII era is the result o' American incompetence or greed. some folks start with the assumption that the US flubbed the swine flu thing and then work backwards... look for proof after the fact. why you gotta rock the boat? Gromnir is old fashioned-- we blame the Pope for all the world's ills. not any more valid than American hate, but at least our stoopidity gots pedigree and tradition. n00bs. HA! Good Fun! Way to completely misinterpret my post and have a bit of a paranoid rant while you're at it.

My Mac Mini arrived. I installed apt-get, OpenOffice 3, Firefox, VLC and WINE and it's purring like a kitten. Will test out some games on WINE soon, but I plan to install an XP dual-boot for my old games. I'm loving the fact that's it about 4 times more powerful than my previous PC. Old PC: 1.4 Ghz Intel Centrino 512 MiB DDR1 SDRAM Geforce 5200 32MiB New PC: 2 Ghz Intel Dual Core (C2D) 4 GiB DDR3 SDRAM Geforce 9400 256 MiB And holy **** is it small. It's smaller than my 5 year-old DVD burner in all dimensions. Oh, the console on OS X Leopard is really interesting. It automatically switches between sh, bash, Tcl, etc, depending on the command you enter.

They shouldn't be, but what's happening is they ARE becoming the Republican party, which is where a lot of the problem lies.

Sort of. There has been over 150 flu deaths in Mexico, most of them presumed to be Swine flu, but of those tested so far (which isn't many, since testing is slow), only 7 have been confirmed to be swine flu deaths.

True. I was also a fan of nanoblade attacks in their backs. In that case, I think your mouse skills need some have mods to be of any use. Seriously, silenced SMG = BEST GUN EVAR. One mouse click to their head and they go down without a sound.

You are awesome.

Eh, Combat in DX1 was very enjoyable and leagues above DX2's combat.

You of all people think Obama is a lefty? I know it's hip and rad in America to call anybody not a Republican left-wing, but I was hoping you'd be able to avoid that sort of nonsense.

Wow, what? And here I thought British chicks would be like Aussie chicks in this regard. Rserved? Yeah. Might want to opt for a beach (does Britain have those?) or something. Edit: Come to Australia and root a convict. I hear we're easy.

Good point, but people have pretty short memories when it comes to the media.

Of course, it's losing 'security through obscurity' as it becomes more widely known, but it's still safer than IE purely by design. And it still renders pages more correctly. Eh, I'll switch to Chrome when it actually becomes available on Ubuntu and Mac. I'll seriously miss Firefox's "recently visited pages", "reopen closed tabs", and "bookmark all tabs" features, though.

I tried to play it by taking it on its own value, it's still rubbish. Their attempts at a streamlined, more user-friendly interface ended up to be intrusive, convoluted, and I'm still not sure how it works. It's a giant circle that is planted around the center of the screen and has a slot-based inventory, except there are two "layers" of slots except you can only see the first layer unless you stop and open the full inventory, and all sorts of crazy garbage like that. You select from a circular menu, what's so hard about that? Ah, no, that's not the point at all. If you're not screwed when you run out of ammo, there's no point of having limited ammo. The point of universal ammo was so that it was up to you which gun you wanted to use in any situation, but more powerful weapons used a lot more ammo, so you weren't overpowered. I didn't have any of these problems, but then I played on the almighty Xbox. I thought the areas were pretty decent size, in fact about the same size as HL2, and loading was about the same. Also the areas although not terribly large were quite detailed. The gameplay was about siding with whomever, and having several options on how to do the mission. There is a bit of reputation actually, like the Illuminati will send Elite troopers after you if you don't do what they want. In any case, the game offered a lot more freedom than most. tl;dr: "DX2 was not crap!" Yes it was.

Lieberman is one of the most liberal Democrats around. He certainly won't vote against the administration on anything but foreign policy (he's extremely hawkish). Specter is a health nut (it saved his life - cancer), and is all for extra health funding and research, so I imagine he'd also be for better health insurance.

Link me and I'll probably read it when I get bored later today. I dunno about Britian. I'm assuming their system is similar enough to ours. Perhaps wrongly? Ours is certainly about 30 years younger than theirs. But I figure that considering half of Australians have private healthcare insurance, that's a fairly vibrant private market. Or did you have something else in mind when you said a mix of private and public healthcare?

learn2QM

Indeed. Both Mexico and America reacted far too sluggishly to this threat. The WHO moved it to Phase 4, which is effectively an admission that border control is now useless and impossible. The WHO just moved the threat to Phase 5 (significant outbreaks in multiple countries), which is one level below full-blown pandemic. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid...7&art_pos=1

I just figured out my speed too accurately so now I'm lost.

Oh man, I'm replaying Divine Divinity now and the music is effing superb. So very glad the same guy is doing the music for DD2.