Didn't E.E Smith talk about this years ago in the Lensman books. I'm pretty sure the Galactic Patrol moved on tear-drop shaped warships over their original spheres purely because their intertialess drive allowed them to move so fast the the occurrences of interstellar hydrogen atoms began to act on the hulls as friction and slowed them down.
BBC.
The TV license in the UK pays for the BBC news service, including its web site. I already pay for my primary news source and certainly wouldn't be paying more for additional sites.
Especially not if they are run by Murdoch.
Personally I stopped reading newspapers years ago, they are a vastly outdated form of media.
I get my news from the BBC news website and a couple of other news websites on the internet, this content is paid for. The BBC collects a TV license fee from us here in the UK and some of that money goes to their online division. Sky charges a subscription to access their channels. etc.
I can get my morning headlines via RSS Feed on my cellphone, the BBC even do a mobile specific video area where I can watch headlines and news on my cellphone while on the train into work.
The news paper companies need to adapt to the changes in media delivery. Most cellphone companies offer an unlimited data package now, I'm with Vodafone and they do one for £7/month. So given that I can access all this news and content in real time on my phone, why would I want to buy a newspaper?
Nicholas Fisk wrote a series of books years ago called Starstormers. They would be awesome for kids, I remember I loved them.
I'd also throw in another vote for Anne McAffry, she's great.
What most people seem to be forgetting here is that just because the House of Commons has voted for it doesn't mean that it is law. The bill has to pass the House of Lords, who many people are hoping will not accept it and send it back to the Commons for another reading.
At the very least this will prevent it being written into law until after the summer recess. Then even if it does come back to the Lords they are under no obligation to approve it.
Only if the House of Lords rejects the bill 3 times can the Commons use the Parliment Act to force it through into law but even then they still need a majority vote to do so.
So, all you UK citizens out there, we need to do something about this, write to the House of Lords and ask them to oppose the bill, write to your MPs and tell them you don't want this to be passed into law and get your friends to do the same.
Its simple really, it just means I won't be buying those games. The company putting them out loses out on my £50 and I keep on playing Warcraft and just play Mass Effect on my housemates 360.
Ok so I have a few things to say here, first of all I'm not an 'average user', my PC at home is custom built by me, I work in IT as a tech support guy and I have done for many years.
I do not use linux. Why?
Well, couple of reasons. First off games, my home PC is a games machine I use it to play World of Warcraft, Command and Conquer and many other PC games, none of which run reliably on Linux. Or if the game does then the hardware I run isn't supported.
Second is attitude. A few years ago when I had a spare machine (don't have it anymore, gave it to a friend who was going back to uni) I decided to have a look at Linux and see if it was any good, so I got myself a copy of SUSE Linux and went for the install. Wow, talk about unfriendly. But I fought through it and then encountered a load of problems configuring the thing and trying to get it to do stuff. So I posted up some questions to various forums and boards, the universal response I got was a bunch of elitist idiots posting up responses like "RTFM Noob" and "If you can't figure it out for yourself then you don't deserve a computer.". Seriously, that kind of attitude isn't going to help any.
So what did I do, that's right I binned it and went back to XP Pro. You want to know something else, guess how many times my XP Pro machine has crashed in the last 12 months. None.
Now I'm not exactly a big fan of the MS Business model but why would I want to get rid of an OS that runs well and with stability, supports my hardware and allows me to play all the latest games? I wouldn't really would I.
Until Linux can compete on that level it will never become a viable home OS.
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Didn't E.E Smith talk about this years ago in the Lensman books. I'm pretty sure the Galactic Patrol moved on tear-drop shaped warships over their original spheres purely because their intertialess drive allowed them to move so fast the the occurrences of interstellar hydrogen atoms began to act on the hulls as friction and slowed them down.
BBC. The TV license in the UK pays for the BBC news service, including its web site. I already pay for my primary news source and certainly wouldn't be paying more for additional sites. Especially not if they are run by Murdoch.
Personally I stopped reading newspapers years ago, they are a vastly outdated form of media.
I get my news from the BBC news website and a couple of other news websites on the internet, this content is paid for. The BBC collects a TV license fee from us here in the UK and some of that money goes to their online division. Sky charges a subscription to access their channels. etc.
I can get my morning headlines via RSS Feed on my cellphone, the BBC even do a mobile specific video area where I can watch headlines and news on my cellphone while on the train into work.
The news paper companies need to adapt to the changes in media delivery. Most cellphone companies offer an unlimited data package now, I'm with Vodafone and they do one for £7/month. So given that I can access all this news and content in real time on my phone, why would I want to buy a newspaper?
Nicholas Fisk wrote a series of books years ago called Starstormers. They would be awesome for kids, I remember I loved them. I'd also throw in another vote for Anne McAffry, she's great.
What most people seem to be forgetting here is that just because the House of Commons has voted for it doesn't mean that it is law. The bill has to pass the House of Lords, who many people are hoping will not accept it and send it back to the Commons for another reading. At the very least this will prevent it being written into law until after the summer recess. Then even if it does come back to the Lords they are under no obligation to approve it. Only if the House of Lords rejects the bill 3 times can the Commons use the Parliment Act to force it through into law but even then they still need a majority vote to do so. So, all you UK citizens out there, we need to do something about this, write to the House of Lords and ask them to oppose the bill, write to your MPs and tell them you don't want this to be passed into law and get your friends to do the same.
Its simple really, it just means I won't be buying those games. The company putting them out loses out on my £50 and I keep on playing Warcraft and just play Mass Effect on my housemates 360.
Ok so I have a few things to say here, first of all I'm not an 'average user', my PC at home is custom built by me, I work in IT as a tech support guy and I have done for many years. I do not use linux. Why? Well, couple of reasons. First off games, my home PC is a games machine I use it to play World of Warcraft, Command and Conquer and many other PC games, none of which run reliably on Linux. Or if the game does then the hardware I run isn't supported. Second is attitude. A few years ago when I had a spare machine (don't have it anymore, gave it to a friend who was going back to uni) I decided to have a look at Linux and see if it was any good, so I got myself a copy of SUSE Linux and went for the install. Wow, talk about unfriendly. But I fought through it and then encountered a load of problems configuring the thing and trying to get it to do stuff. So I posted up some questions to various forums and boards, the universal response I got was a bunch of elitist idiots posting up responses like "RTFM Noob" and "If you can't figure it out for yourself then you don't deserve a computer.". Seriously, that kind of attitude isn't going to help any. So what did I do, that's right I binned it and went back to XP Pro. You want to know something else, guess how many times my XP Pro machine has crashed in the last 12 months. None. Now I'm not exactly a big fan of the MS Business model but why would I want to get rid of an OS that runs well and with stability, supports my hardware and allows me to play all the latest games? I wouldn't really would I. Until Linux can compete on that level it will never become a viable home OS.