if you do any damage to the house robots, you have to pay for it!
That's sick. It's obviously just a way to make sure that the house robots continue to look tougher than they really are. I hope somoene with deep pockets decides "what the heck" and takes one of them out sometime.
I bought an IBM harddrive just last week. Was my first and now it will be my last. Added to my list of vendors which "it just wouldn't feel right" to buy software from
The governemnt has to get involved somewhere. You can't just have people go around building roads, laying lines, running pipe, building power plants wherever they want. So the government has to either do it themselves (leading to inefficiency) or licence it out (leading to unbridled greed if effective regulation is not in place which it isn't for nearly all of the UKs privatised industries)
OTOH, it means that it's a lot more visible. In the UK, the government has managed to keep it creeping up (now at 17.5%) because it's effectively invisible as a tax. In the US, when you take something to the checkout that's $5 and they charge you $5.40, at least it reminds you that the government is a bunch of crooks.
Very true... however there may be a place for it in backend/server solutions where having a ubiquitous
global time might be useful.
As the above poster said, there is already a ubiquitous global time, UTC which is pretty much the same as GMT. Why would you need anything else? The French tried to introduce metric time after their revolution and it failed.
Two things I would like to see change in the time systems we use though. 1)Daylight Savings. If you want an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings, just get up an hour earlier and 2)Lose the AM/PM thing. military time makes much more sense.
Not a bad idea. But it's zeroed over Swatch HQ so I realy don't see how it's "internet" time. Perhaps if it were centred over the birthplace of the internet or something. I don't really see anyone moving off GMT anytime soon though.
Cows (which are just horses in black and white anyway) eat meat in the UK (hence BSE) and monkeys (whose DNA is not doubt 100% compatible with yours) taste good with a spicy sauce so therefore eating meat is compulsory.
Suppose a being can memorize all of our world history, art and literature in one day, has the computing
power of a PC in it's head, is 100 times stronger than humans, etc. Does this being deserve only one
vote in a democracy or more?
I don't know but turn it around. Suppose a being can barely remember which day of the week it is, can't hold down a job, sits around in its underwear all day drinking beer and watching Springer. Does this being deserve less than one vote in a democracy? The law says not (although slaves only counted for a fraction of a vote once upon a time)
Visual Basic may share a nomative similarity to the original basic but it is by no means the same thing. The original basic required very little understanding of how computers work. Visual Basic requires at least a cursory knowledge of advance modern architectures (event cues, OLE etc)
the fact that its still in use speaks
wonders about how far ahead of it's time it was
I don't think so. It wasn't impossible to write useful software then and people are still writing useless software today. I think it's time that we lose the assumption that just because something's old, it's likely to be crap.
Thy (the users, not Apple) should start work on an open source version. Expandable, modifiable and portable to all platforms. Of course, the latter of these probably scares those irrationally loyal Apple users a little too much
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That's sick. It's obviously just a way to make sure that the house robots continue to look tougher than they really are. I hope somoene with deep pockets decides "what the heck" and takes one of them out sometime.
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As the above poster said, there is already a ubiquitous global time, UTC which is pretty much the same as GMT. Why would you need anything else? The French tried to introduce metric time after their revolution and it failed.
Two things I would like to see change in the time systems we use though. 1)Daylight Savings. If you want an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings, just get up an hour earlier and 2)Lose the AM/PM thing. military time makes much more sense.
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Cows (which are just horses in black and white anyway) eat meat in the UK (hence BSE) and monkeys (whose DNA is not doubt 100% compatible with yours) taste good with a spicy sauce so therefore eating meat is compulsory.
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What would Xenu do?
I don't know but turn it around. Suppose a being can barely remember which day of the week it is, can't hold down a job, sits around in its underwear all day drinking beer and watching Springer. Does this being deserve less than one vote in a democracy? The law says not (although slaves only counted for a fraction of a vote once upon a time)
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Having seen the goatsex picture, I think it would be quite easy to lose the whole lunchbox in there.
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I don't think so. It wasn't impossible to write useful software then and people are still writing useless software today. I think it's time that we lose the assumption that just because something's old, it's likely to be crap.
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It's the moustache right?
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"Hope I die before I get old" - The Who, song
"I hope I'm not still rocking on when I'm middle aged, that would be sad" (paraphrased)- Elton John, Parkinson interview
The moral: The you 20, 40, 400 years down the line is a different person to you now. Don't go making decisions for them now.
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