The word kindergarten isn't used in Britain. The term nursery school is instead.
The are very few modern german words in use in Britain - much fewer than the US, which had a large germanic population in the early part of it's history.
In deaths per mile travelled by car, the UK has one of the lowest road death rates in world - about half what it is in the US. Despite the fact that:
The population density is more than 10x that of the US.
higher speed limits than the US.
Now obviously, Americans travel further by car than Brits, so that'll have a major impact. However, from the Anecdotal point of view of a British ex-pat living in the US I have to say that the road layout design in the US is appalling. I was also shocked by how easy it was to pass the drivers test.
Expect to see 720p and 480p become the winners, since they're low bandwidth and lower cost.
(Note that there's no PAL progressive format. The reason for this is that there's no real need. Segmented frame PAL is as good, since there's no need for any pull-down. Most PAL TV's these days are 100Hz, too.)
The point should perhaps be made that The Times is ultimately owned by the same company as Fox News, that purveyor of "Fair and Balanced" news.
The wierd thing is that Murdoch and the BBC have long had a hateful relationship (as demonstrated by Fox's anti-BBC news reports during the Iraq war). Quite why the BBC is offering free marketing to Murdoch, I'm not sure.
GPS was paid for by the US for use by the US military. The US military still gets primary use from it, at a level not available to civilians. Furthermore, the system is passive, so it doesn't cost the US government anything to have civilians use the cut down version. In essence, US taxpayers aren't paying anything for the use of GPS by foreign nations.
For the BBC, there will be a direct cost - the cost of the bandwidth to serve the programming out to foreign nations, combined with the cost of potential future licensing. Why should UK taxpayers pay for that?
Well, according to the Oxford English Style Guide:
The main use is to indicate the possessive case, as in John's book, the girls' mother, etc. It comes before the s in singular and plural nouns not ending in s, as in the boy's games and the women's games. It comes after the s in plural nouns ending is s, as in the boys' games.
In singular nouns ending in s practice differs between (for example) Charles' and Charles's; in some cases the shorter form is preferable for reasons of sound, as in Xerxes' fleet.
So, its kinda up to you. I was brought up in England, so maybe opinion differs.
LOL! Coal is clean? What, do you own stock in a coal mining company? Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel we use for power generation. Coal pumps out far more Sulfur dioxides, nitrogen dioxides and greenhouse gasses than any other fuel in use.
The problem with Nuclear power isn't so much the immediate threat as what you do with the spent fuel. You can't keep burying it, or sinking it. You can't launch it into space. Instead it just sort of hangs around - that's the dangerous part.
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Fifty million Americans can't be wrong
I'm on the list, and I'm not an American - I'm a British expat.
I guess that makes 49,999,999 Americans.
The word kindergarten isn't used in Britain. The term nursery school is instead.
The are very few modern german words in use in Britain - much fewer than the US, which had a large germanic population in the early part of it's history.
I can't find the per-mile stats in my limited surfing time (I'm at work)
The per-capita stats are here. The per-capita stats will be even more skewed by the longer journeys in the US, though.
Projecting onto a glass screen is hardly the same thing.
- The population density is more than 10x that of the US.
- higher speed limits than the US.
Now obviously, Americans travel further by car than Brits, so that'll have a major impact. However, from the Anecdotal point of view of a British ex-pat living in the US I have to say that the road layout design in the US is appalling. I was also shocked by how easy it was to pass the drivers test.Actually, his English is perfectly correct. The word willing is being used as a verb.
For example:
Their running for the train meant that they weren't late.
Actually, Nokia has been making Digital TV decoder set-top boxes for a while in the UK - probably Europe, too.
I can't imagine it's much of a stretch, therefore, to move into the PVR market.
I saw "Pulp Fiction" at the Cornerhouse in Manchester.
All I can remember was the complete lack of air conditioning. Mmm toasty.
HDTV covers pretty much everything. The big formats for the future, though are:
720p 5994fps
1080i 2997fps
1080i 25fps (for the Non-NTSC market)
480p 5994
Expect to see 720p and 480p become the winners, since they're low bandwidth and lower cost.
(Note that there's no PAL progressive format. The reason for this is that there's no real need. Segmented frame PAL is as good, since there's no need for any pull-down. Most PAL TV's these days are 100Hz, too.)
Film is projected at 24 fps (although each frame is projected twice to improve the light levels).
In the USA, Canada and a few other countries, TV is 29.97 two-field frames per second, or 50.94 field per second (NTSC).
In the rest of the world, TV is 25 two-field frames per second, or 50 fields per second (PAL).
India.
that not even England uses anymore
If you trully think that, I pray you never drive in Britain.
Actually, I don't think the original request came from a Brit.
Brits don't use SI either.
The point should perhaps be made that The Times is ultimately owned by the same company as Fox News, that purveyor of "Fair and Balanced" news.
The wierd thing is that Murdoch and the BBC have long had a hateful relationship (as demonstrated by Fox's anti-BBC news reports during the Iraq war). Quite why the BBC is offering free marketing to Murdoch, I'm not sure.
Actually, I think the Romans invented concrete.
That was the British government's claim. The US Government claim would go more like:
You are aware that Perot used to work for IBM, right?
That's a poor example
GPS was paid for by the US for use by the US military. The US military still gets primary use from it, at a level not available to civilians. Furthermore, the system is passive, so it doesn't cost the US government anything to have civilians use the cut down version. In essence, US taxpayers aren't paying anything for the use of GPS by foreign nations.
For the BBC, there will be a direct cost - the cost of the bandwidth to serve the programming out to foreign nations, combined with the cost of potential future licensing. Why should UK taxpayers pay for that?
Add "hearse" to round of the example.
Well, according to the Oxford English Style Guide:
The main use is to indicate the possessive case, as in John's book, the girls' mother, etc. It comes before the s in singular and plural nouns not ending in s, as in the boy's games and the women's games. It comes after the s in plural nouns ending is s, as in the boys' games.
In singular nouns ending in s practice differs between (for example) Charles' and Charles's; in some cases the shorter form is preferable for reasons of sound, as in Xerxes' fleet.
So, its kinda up to you. I was brought up in England, so maybe opinion differs.
It goes after the "s"; you don't need to provide an extra "s". There shouldn't be an apostrophe in "comments", either.
Like this: Torvalds' comments
SiliCOn Graphics, eh? Must be a SCOncpiracy...
oh ye of little faith :-)
The only differences to the US keyboard are:
Coal [and nuclear power] are very clean
LOL! Coal is clean? What, do you own stock in a coal mining company? Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel we use for power generation.
Coal pumps out far more Sulfur dioxides, nitrogen dioxides and greenhouse gasses than any other fuel in use.
The problem with Nuclear power isn't so much the immediate threat as what you do with the spent fuel. You can't keep burying it, or sinking it. You can't launch it into space. Instead it just sort of hangs around - that's the dangerous part.