"Peter Kirkham, a former investigating officer in the Metropolitan Police, directly contradicted claims from Home Secretary Amber Rudd last week that "by the end of this year there will be as many armed police as there have ever been.""
In 2010, there were 6,976 armed officers in England and Wales. That had fallen by 2014 to 5,875.
"By train, plane and sedan chair, Peter Ustinov retraces a journey made by Mark Twain a century ago. The highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."
"1. But I use windows for gaming! Steam has more than 200 titles that run just fine in Linux. Popular indie games and mainstream shoot-em-ups alike. they even offer steam machines as a platform if youd rather not fuss with Ubuntu."
I think your numbers are a bit out of date there, it's now 1652.
"While our competing companies in Russia or spending their cycles mounting the CD drive from the command line and rebuilding the kernel to fix GPU failures, we'll be adding the innovation customers in a free market would choose to buy."
Perhaps we could innovate a functioning grammar checker?
You don't seem to understand how the I.Q. scale works either. Oh dear. Perhaps this will help others understand why giving you firearms isn't such a good idea my primitive friend.
"I live in zero fear. Do you "live in fear" because you buckle a seatbelt in a car? No, you do so just as a precaution."
Very few people are killed by criminals carrying seatbelts.
I don't carry a gun around with me because I don't live in some fantasy wild-west world where having a shoot out is going to have any kind of good outcome.
"You already live in that world. The only question left is if every sane and law abiding citizen should also be able to get a gun to protect themselves."
Maybe you do.
If you live in so much fear you feel the need to protect yourself with a gun you may want to consider moving to a more civilized part of the world.
To many people guns are things you see on television, or occasionally carried by specially trained armed response police.
"Android's Google Play store has just officially reached over 1 million apps and it is now finally outgrown the Apple App Store and its 900 000 applications."
I suppose you think PC software has to be tested on every individual PC in the world too?
Yet you still choose it as the base OS to run your appliance on. Presumably it's still better than any of the alternatives.
All software has bugs. I'm sure plenty of device drivers written in brightly lit offices by people with smart haircuts and shiny shoes have some absolutely horrific code too. I doubt which floor you work on has any significant effect.
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"Peter Kirkham, a former investigating officer in the Metropolitan Police, directly contradicted claims from Home Secretary Amber Rudd last week that "by the end of this year there will be as many armed police as there have ever been.""
In 2010, there were 6,976 armed officers in England and Wales. That had fallen by 2014 to 5,875.
The more important question is why it took the best part of two days to get things up and running again.
As for the power outage - A UPS test to check if power transferred to battery/generator that failed maybe?
Nope, with an SD card. You'll need to supply your own tape recorder:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
From a TV listing in The Times:
"By train, plane and sedan chair, Peter Ustinov retraces a journey made by Mark Twain a century ago. The highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."
That should put an end to copyright infringement once and for all!
Well done to all involved!!
SharePoint is where documents go to die.
Perhaps this new fangled email thing they have nowadays would fit the bill?
I believe they even have it on computers now.
"Florian Mueller said...."
Who dug this idiot up again? Next story.
All buses should have a polar bear as a passenger.
The added excitement and danger would make bus travel more attractive to potential customers.
"1. But I use windows for gaming! Steam has more than 200 titles that run just fine in Linux. Popular indie games and mainstream shoot-em-ups alike. they even offer steam machines as a platform if youd rather not fuss with Ubuntu."
I think your numbers are a bit out of date there, it's now 1652.
https://steamdb.info/linux/
Hopefully with Vulkan supplementing OpenGL the increase in Linux games will continue to accelerate.
"While our competing companies in Russia or spending their cycles mounting the CD drive from the command line and rebuilding the kernel to fix GPU failures, we'll be adding the innovation customers in a free market would choose to buy."
Perhaps we could innovate a functioning grammar checker?
"No one will get these fixes."
Not even the people who are mentioned in the article you're replying to? The ones with Nexus devices that the fixes were pushed out to on Monday?
You can disable the auto retrieval of MMS though.
Type Clinton into the search box, it's the second story right after this one. http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/12/06/2252209/hillary-clinton-urges-silicon-valley-to-disrupt-isis
Just because your paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
"You've never ordered Himalayan salt bricks form Amazon then."
Pfft, lucky guess.
You don't seem to understand how the I.Q. scale works either. Oh dear. Perhaps this will help others understand why giving you firearms isn't such a good idea my primitive friend.
You don't appear to understand how the I.Q. scale works either. Oh dear.
"I live in zero fear. Do you "live in fear" because you buckle a seatbelt in a car? No, you do so just as a precaution."
Very few people are killed by criminals carrying seatbelts.
I don't carry a gun around with me because I don't live in some fantasy wild-west world where having a shoot out is going to have any kind of good outcome.
"You already live in that world. The only question left is if every sane and law abiding citizen should also be able to get a gun to protect themselves."
Maybe you do.
If you live in so much fear you feel the need to protect yourself with a gun you may want to consider moving to a more civilized part of the world.
To many people guns are things you see on television, or occasionally carried by specially trained armed response police.
"Put the cash on the table for an iPhone or iPad: your deal is done."
You forget the "Create ITunes account" bit.
" Dear James Cameron, You might ring Barbra Streisand and ask her how this'll work out for you. Love, The Internet "
This thing goes deeper than you can imagine.
"So either apps don't get written for android or if they do blah blah blah belm"
Lol. Nice troll there Ian.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Androids-Google-Play-beats-App-Store-with-over-1-million-apps-now-officially-largest_id45680
"Android's Google Play store has just officially reached over 1 million apps and it is now finally outgrown the Apple App Store and its 900 000 applications."
I suppose you think PC software has to be tested on every individual PC in the world too?
Insightful my arse.
Finance has no relevance any more. What??
Yet you still choose it as the base OS to run your appliance on. Presumably it's still better than any of the alternatives.
All software has bugs. I'm sure plenty of device drivers written in brightly lit offices by people with smart haircuts and shiny shoes have some absolutely horrific code too. I doubt which floor you work on has any significant effect.