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Here you are: https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&rls=en-GB&q=site:.ltd.uk+OR+site:.plc.uk

It's much less popular than .co.uk.

Brazilian GNP - as sourced by Google.

the one with the bridges in Philadelphia made me piss so hard I had to look it up on Google Maps as well...

it ain't much better on there! (zoom in on the bridges)

It's been tried. Apparently it doesn't even qualify for indecent expose if you claim it's a protest..

Shorting doesn't change anything for the better

Yes, it does: it aids in price discovery by allowing someone who has a negative view of a company's prospects to put his money where his mouth is, thus discouraging the formation of bubbles.

(In addition, it is necessary in order for options market makers to be able to hedge their positions -- but that's a subject for another very, very long post...)

No that is an idiot. Blue Cheese is blue cheese here in yank land.

Apparently there *are* some people out there who call it "bleu cheese", but it's definitely not used in Britain. :-/

As for pronouncing the silent "h" in herbs, silent letters aren't supposed to be pronounced.

Well, yes, I guess that it *is* meant to be a silent letter... if you're trying to affect a silly cod-French accent, that is. ;-P

I could understand this as being a part of the American accent's supposed relation to the English "West Country" accent, but when they drop the "h" on words it sounds natural, whereas the way Americans say "erbs" grates, like it *hasn't* got an implied apstrophe at the start. :-)

Er, anyway, that's enough slagging off bizarre American pronounciations for one day. (^_^)

Okay.

Studies? Here you go.

But let's take the Galaxy Tab or the Galaxy S. The dock connector, the charger, the packaging, the silver rim around the edges of the Galaxy S. They are all almost identical to what Apple made.

Samsung Galaxy charger cable.

Samsung packaging.

But let's take the Galaxy Tab or the Galaxy S. The dock connector, the charger, the packaging, the silver rim around the edges of the Galaxy S. They are all almost identical to what Apple made.

Samsung Galaxy charger cable.

Samsung packaging.

Hm, maybe too strict. Comcast wouldn't be high speed then: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&output=search&q=250+gb+%2F1+month+in+bits+%2F+second
Strike that suggestion, but they should definitely include the caps in the consideration

with that spelling, he'll need UK Google!

Digia

Annual Report

Market Cap of â55m so its not as big as say, RedHat, but it is bigger than Nokia... or will be in a few months :)

Incidentally, Nokia bought Qt from Trolltech for â104m... I don't think they sold it for anything near that amount.

It's a piss ant little island with more fibre than most densely populated nations and for what? the whole six inbred people that live down there?

Actually its population is about the same as that of Whyoming.

It's a piss ant little island with more fibre than most densely populated nations and for what? the whole six inbred people that live down there?

Actually its population is about the same as that of Whyoming.

The Muzzies are coming!
The Muzzies are coming!
Everyone keep calm
They're violent and they're evil,
And they mean to do us harm

This is on topic for once. I just hope that Facebook pay particular attention to conversations in Urdu.

Honestly I don't really think much of Samsung, here. It's obvious just from walking down the tablet aisle that Samsung went out of their way to copy the iPad in as much detail as they thought they could get away with. I have yet to run across one other tablet that I would have this confusion with.

Honestly?! You've never seen a JooJoo? On the market before the iPad and it looks a shit-load like one...

I don't think much of Apple for the crappy behaviour - and I think even less of the morons that will bend the truth in infinite ways to justify that behaviour.

Google doesn't recognize him either. There's no doodle of him. But if you search for him on Bing, you find all the relevant info.

I think this google search shows that there are lies, damn lies, and Microsoft fanboiism.

and what about the offline part?

What about the "offline access" available?

The article says that the 13-year-old computer hacker in question was male, but I strongly suspect they were thrown by her name and strange androgynous appearance.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=brownies&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=fsjsT5faGKqj0QXZ7KT6DA&biw=1618&bih=986&sei=gMjsT__pLeOm0QWrh-j5DA

I see delicious food, but nothing else. And that's with safesearch off. I'm sure you can find a word that is both innocent to children and produces a lot of porn, but that isn't one.

I was hoping that "Power Over the Internet" was analogous to "Power Over Ethernet". That would've been cool, especially if the protocol was compatible with wireless.

The good news is that they *do* have that facility working over long-range wireless- here are some photos of it in action!

Nah, they're different. Well, technically.

Donuts, the American spelling, are toruses and are frequently iced. They're okay but they're frequently too dry and sweet for me.

Doughnuts, the British spelling, are oblate spheroids with jam injected into the middle. I've never seen an iced doughnut.They're frequently called 'jam doughnuts' to disambiguate them from the American version. To my mind they're loads nicer as the sharp jam offsets the sugar, and the dough stays moist. Pictures here: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jam+doughnut&num=30&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnse&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ZWjWT7XRJYjE0QX78KGIBA&ved=0CNQBELAE&biw=1051&bih=780

I'm just glad that nobody in the GP's class had seen a jam doughnut, otherwise they'd have been really confused.

(It's not true that I'm a card-carrying member of the pedant's society. It's actually made out of plastic.)

The global fertility rate is steadily decreasing. This makes your post based on false premise.

Planning is good, but there's two process here to accounted for: As the absolute well being of a population increases, in the first stage the population will grow explosively because while there's a sudden drop in child mortality, the reproduction habits do not change in the same time. But, as in the forth cycle of demographic stage kicks in, sexual habits are changing in the adult population due to the increasing education. This has multiple effects, such as clearing out religious, superstitious fear of using contraception, gender equality raising the women from their baby producer, and full time childcare status, consequently women consider their life more valuable than continuously churning out new babies.

The fact is, that we need to find the balance. Given the data that global fertility rate, we have already the desirable rate of population growth. The problem is rather the bad geographic distribution of the fertility rate. While the developing nations just about to stabilize their population growth, the developed nations seem to decline, which is in no way good thing, given the problems with the ageing population (cultural, political and economical).

https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&q=calvin+and+hobbes+surest+sign+of+intelligent+life

Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.

Google Maps sometimes shows postcode boundaries, here's one in Glasgow that's about 200m across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=G2+4jq&hl=en&sll=55.86512,-4.267604&sspn=0.002071,0.004506&hnear=G2+4JQ,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16
Wheras this one near Inverness is about 1km across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=IV6+7XN&hl=en&ll=57.528981,-4.470577&spn=0.015852,0.036049&sll=57.529572,-4.536686&sspn=0.253622,0.576782&geocode=CZh9Pqs90U35Fd3rbQMdgOy4_ynT6PPhdwCPSDE0q-qJe8xFvw&hnear=Muir+of+Ord+IV6+7XN,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15

Postcode boundaries are just the prefix and don't have anything to do with a grid. See the data on the wikileaks download.

Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.

Google Maps sometimes shows postcode boundaries, here's one in Glasgow that's about 200m across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=G2+4jq&hl=en&sll=55.86512,-4.267604&sspn=0.002071,0.004506&hnear=G2+4JQ,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16
Wheras this one near Inverness is about 1km across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=IV6+7XN&hl=en&ll=57.528981,-4.470577&spn=0.015852,0.036049&sll=57.529572,-4.536686&sspn=0.253622,0.576782&geocode=CZh9Pqs90U35Fd3rbQMdgOy4_ynT6PPhdwCPSDE0q-qJe8xFvw&hnear=Muir+of+Ord+IV6+7XN,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15

Postcode boundaries are just the prefix and don't have anything to do with a grid. See the data on the wikileaks download.

Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.

Google Maps sometimes shows postcode boundaries, here's one in Glasgow that's about 200m across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=G2+4jq&hl=en&sll=55.86512,-4.267604&sspn=0.002071,0.004506&hnear=G2+4JQ,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16
Wheras this one near Inverness is about 1km across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=IV6+7XN&hl=en&ll=57.528981,-4.470577&spn=0.015852,0.036049&sll=57.529572,-4.536686&sspn=0.253622,0.576782&geocode=CZh9Pqs90U35Fd3rbQMdgOy4_ynT6PPhdwCPSDE0q-qJe8xFvw&hnear=Muir+of+Ord+IV6+7XN,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15

Indeed, in a city a Postcode is usually a street, part of a street, or a single block of flats. Out in the countryside a postcode can cover square miles of farmland.

Google Maps sometimes shows postcode boundaries, here's one in Glasgow that's about 200m across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=G2+4jq&hl=en&sll=55.86512,-4.267604&sspn=0.002071,0.004506&hnear=G2+4JQ,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16
Wheras this one near Inverness is about 1km across
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=IV6+7XN&hl=en&ll=57.528981,-4.470577&spn=0.015852,0.036049&sll=57.529572,-4.536686&sspn=0.253622,0.576782&geocode=CZh9Pqs90U35Fd3rbQMdgOy4_ynT6PPhdwCPSDE0q-qJe8xFvw&hnear=Muir+of+Ord+IV6+7XN,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=15

Uh... Microwave ovens use a magnetron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Design

I've repaired many a Microwave ovens and I have never seen any vacuum tubes.

Nathan

Indeed they do use magnetrons. And to quote from the first line of the Wikipedia article on magnetrons" "The cavity magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube..." (my emphasis). Do you repair the microwaves with your eyes closed?

It is off a bit ;-) ((335,258,000 sq km * 0.77mm) * 1000 kg per metre cubed) / 200000 tonnes = about 1.2 million suezmax tankers.

What's the secret?

I get that 'YOu may be running a counterfeit version" popup **constantly**!!

I've had good results with this one. Google link since different torrent sites might be down for you. Enjoy :)

Ok , some smartphones have gone back to that and now have a SIM slot on the outside but most STILL require you to disassemble the phones first. Why??

Because saying that space is at a premium in modern phones is a massive understatement. The space needed to accommodate what you describe, especially with a full-size SIM card just isn't available. As this image shows, the space devoted to even a micro-SIM is a significant fraction of what is available. The SIM holder is directly beneath the A4 chip and it's fairly plain to see why Apple are pushing to do away with physical SIMs altogether. FWIW I'm still against the idea, but I do see why they're so keen on it.

Sorry, but where, exactly? Sounds like you just made that up.

Sorry, but where, exactly? Sounds like you just made that up.

Sorry, but where, exactly? Sounds like you just made that up.

Here's a map showing London City airport and the Excel centre. The Excel centre will be hosting a number of events:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=London+City+Airport&daddr=Excel+Centre&hl=en&ll=51.506499,0.036221&spn=0.015332,0.033689&sll=51.506552,0.036736&sspn=0.015332,0.033689&geocode=FUDnEQMdnLgAACGXIwusGd58DA%3BFYL1EQMdZ2QAACFvpN_R5J6N5ylDamBrc6jYRzEwRZWyLa4OEw&dirflg=w&mra=ltm&t=m&z=15

Aircraft already fly over that event location on a very regular basis. How will missiles stop me crashing a plane there? All I have to do is start my descent a few hundred metres early.

For comparison with a water droplet (the closer to 180 degrees you get, the closer to a perfect non-wettable/sticky surface you have):

This new glass (165 degree contact angle)
The upcoming Neverwet material (160 to 175 degrees)
Lotus leaf or even some birds' feather (150 degrees)
Rain-X (110 degrees - car windshield protector)
Teflon (95-110 degrees - surprisingly low, but then it needs to be tough and heat-proof)
Car wax (90 degrees)
Human skin (90 degrees - PDF warning)

I wonder what the durability of the glass is compared to Neverwet w(which is pervious to solvents, detergents, soap and high pressure water)...

If you want detail beyond just the road network, then give Bing Maps a try, although if you are on Windows you may want to use IE as it occassionally has issues with other browsers. It varies from country to country, but for the UK they use the full Ordnance Survey maps which are so much better than Google's it's not funny, so YMMV depending on what area of the world you are interested in maps for. Open Street Map is also heavy on the street detail in areas where Google Maps might only show a single road, and no, that doesn't necessarily mean in the middle of nowhere, for instance here's Sarajevo at a similar level of zoom in Google Maps and Open Street Map.

wouldnt u realize that before makeing big city duh

Firstly, the siting of the camp for the prisoners that originally worked the mine was a political decision, not a reasoned, geologically-informed decision.

Secondly, it seems (TFA isn't terribly detailed) that there wasn't a problem until about 2000, when they encountered a fresh water flow which they couldn't control adequately, and which started to corrode the "pillars" which had been left in place to support the roof. Only once they'd dissolved did the sink holes start to develop. So, the sequence is (1) site camp ; (2) camp develops into (a fairly small) city ; (3) problem underground ; (4) sink holes work their way from underground to surface in the middle of the city.

The sink holes didn't exist (or didn't have any surface expression) before the camp (city) was positioned.

As a caver and a geologist, I spend some of my leisure time searching for sink holes in sink-prone areas. Since the ground is largely covered by glacial debris, spotting a sink hole which isn't actively in use by a stream can be really difficult.

There's a team at the University of Zaragosa who are trying to develop ground-penetrating radar techniques for (1) detecting pre-existing sink holes in the ground ; and (2) monitoring for changes before the problems reach the surface. But even they don't find it easy. Certainly the GPR work that I was involved in wasn't terribly successful at finding known sink holes.

Did you want a simple answer? There isn't one.

View Larger Map Will a Google map link work?

Or this link?

So ... the city in question is on the margins of the Urals (hence likely to have glacial outwash debris blanketing the landscape) ; it's sited on the banks of a river (so, one would expect that 750 to 1000m below the ground, the rock is likely to be saturated with water). So mine flooding is likely to be a difficult issue (if they were on the top of a hill, drainage can be much easier - dig an adit drain).

It looks to me as if the simplest solution would be to move the city. But that largely depends on if it's a company town or if property has been sold to people.

wouldnt u realize that before makeing big city duh

Firstly, the siting of the camp for the prisoners that originally worked the mine was a political decision, not a reasoned, geologically-informed decision.

Secondly, it seems (TFA isn't terribly detailed) that there wasn't a problem until about 2000, when they encountered a fresh water flow which they couldn't control adequately, and which started to corrode the "pillars" which had been left in place to support the roof. Only once they'd dissolved did the sink holes start to develop. So, the sequence is (1) site camp ; (2) camp develops into (a fairly small) city ; (3) problem underground ; (4) sink holes work their way from underground to surface in the middle of the city.

The sink holes didn't exist (or didn't have any surface expression) before the camp (city) was positioned.

As a caver and a geologist, I spend some of my leisure time searching for sink holes in sink-prone areas. Since the ground is largely covered by glacial debris, spotting a sink hole which isn't actively in use by a stream can be really difficult.

There's a team at the University of Zaragosa who are trying to develop ground-penetrating radar techniques for (1) detecting pre-existing sink holes in the ground ; and (2) monitoring for changes before the problems reach the surface. But even they don't find it easy. Certainly the GPR work that I was involved in wasn't terribly successful at finding known sink holes.

Did you want a simple answer? There isn't one.

View Larger Map Will a Google map link work?

Or this link?

So ... the city in question is on the margins of the Urals (hence likely to have glacial outwash debris blanketing the landscape) ; it's sited on the banks of a river (so, one would expect that 750 to 1000m below the ground, the rock is likely to be saturated with water). So mine flooding is likely to be a difficult issue (if they were on the top of a hill, drainage can be much easier - dig an adit drain).

It looks to me as if the simplest solution would be to move the city. But that largely depends on if it's a company town or if property has been sold to people.

Ah, but when I first saw it, it was not possible to turn it off. You could minimise it a little, but you still had a bar across your stream

Do a quick google for this problem and you'll see what the issue was back before Google gave in to user disgust.

Take a look at the googleplususers post that describes using adblock or css filters to get rid of it.

Insurance companies and their clients also have an adversarial relationship. The company can directly decrease costs by working against the interests of the client, by denying coverage and rejecting claims. The insurance company has the problem of asymmetric information - the client knows more about their own health than the insurance company does, thus in any market based system, people who have poor health will take advantage of their knowledge, which increases costs for everyone else, to the point where the people in good health feel refuse to overpay and stop buying the insurance, which in turn increases costs for everyone else. Akerlof showed that this kind of asymmetric information problem will eventually cause the market itself to fail. We can already see the start of this - insurance companies denying preexisting conditions, government regulating that they must accept, and insurance costs rising.

The per capita admin cost of the U.S. health care system alone exceeds the entire per capita expenditure of the Singapore health care system, despite both having similar healthcare outcomes.

"The reason why Singapore's success is uncommon is probably that policy debates get stuck with one side claiming that we should rely on the market and the other side asserting that the government would do a better job. So, government or market? We've learned that the question doesn't make any sense in isolation. To answer it we need to understand why markets might work, and how and why they fail." - The Undercover Economist

I have one of those. Very, very handy indeed.

Roman cities were actually designed like this, with all of a particular type of shop being on the same street. You can still see some street names that are relics of this, being corruptions of the latin for 'street of butchers' or 'street of bakers'.

Just look at the City of London for examples of this: Poultry, Cannon Street, Ironmonger Lane, Milk Street, Bread Street, Shoe Lane, Ropemaker Street, Silk Street, ...

No way we need a manly game where the players dress up in tights and protective gear. And have a good portion of the game staring at each others butts.

I'm a rugby fan you insensitive clod! OK replace tights with shorts and reduce the protective gear to a floppy helmet but the rest is the same.

However, if it pleases you, feel free to think about it as a euphemism for trickle-down economics. By posting links, I get moderated positively for being helpful. Likewise, by those posting the unobfuscated links below me, they also get a share of some moderation points. Everybody wins!

Here's a link to explain what I'm talking about: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CD4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTrickle-down_economics&ei=7qxwT8jVF8Hq8QPjzLG_DQ&usg=AFQjCNEKrPDk6MfpMhBcd_9VTKBTjnqj_w

I was just about to post the same thought. I remember the show, it was about a "crazy" TV Chef Personality trying to tackle places where food was notoriously bad.

Chef in question - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal
Show in question - http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.channel4.com%2Fprogrammes%2Fhestons-mission-impossible&ei=Q4hwT8GrEsii8QPNhay_DQ&usg=AFQjCNFV9XA0VmmjP41FvOGX8fjKBTKZig

I can't find any links that go into detail about what the program found out, but this isn't a bad place to start: www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEoQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.terminalu.com%2Ftravel-news%2Fheston-blumenthal-proves-that-british-airways-can-improve-inflight-food-standards%2F6728%2F&ei=ZYhwT83XNsr_8QPLmJ2_DQ&usg=AFQjCNGkMupkhlsjgyVT2VRbmVFHAThPGw

All of the reasons in the summary are gone over - dried out senses, pressurised environments etc. except Heston went a step further and discovered that certain flavours aren't as affected by the different atmosphere. This show aired over a year ago.

Old news indeed.

Are you stupid or just trolling? The issue is not one of fearing anything which might possibly happen, but with giving someone so much power that all that's required is a minor change in the law for you to be fucked. Anyway, it's commonplace for people to be found out selling medical records in a legally dubious manner (why do you guys think you have HIPAA - or, rather, why do you think it took such a long time for HIPAA to appear?) - if you concentrate hard enough you might also find some fairly strong government pushes to sell medical data to private companies, part of the reason there was such a backlash at attempts to NHS records.

And anyone with the most basic security clearance will know that you do disclose information on your purchases because they will find out and ask you about it anyway otherwise. It used to be that homosexuality was considered a liability for certain intelligence work (Martin+Mitchell, Cambridge Five...). In the UK for tax or welfare investigations various public bodies (not just the police!) have the power to obtain copies of financial transactions without your consent, and government has repeatedly tried in the last decade to use its investigative powers to discover and freeze the accounts of suspected terrorists and their families - although some such orders have fortunately been quashed by the courts after years of fighting (HM Treasury v. Ahmed (2010)). So, in short, centralised databases of everything are used to abuse power all the time.

Like others here I started to lose sympathy for the pub owners when I saw they had used images from the movies in their publicity and were clearly trading on a Tolkien-based theme. However I wonder whether those suing will be asking the residents of this Essex town to change their addresses: plenty of names and places from Tolkien's Midd-earth in there (no Hobbit though) ;) I have friends who live in Gandalf's Ride and whenever I visit I always think it must be cool to put one of these roads down as your address.