eg. I've been vaccinated against Polio (primary school) and they tried to give me a TB jab in secondary school but I failed the skin test. As far as I know things like MMR didn't exist when I was at school. At 14 the girls in the class had to have a rubella jab, but that's about it.
That would be mid 70's to the early 80's.
I caught measles as a child (we used to call it german measles.. when did the german bit get dropped?), so am immune. Several of my friends caught mumps but I stubbornly failed to catch it despite the best efforts of my parents. It's very possible the parents of these children have never had either and have no immunity.
I thought mcdonalds had abandoned that project? Of the 3 in this town only 1 ever got it, and that never worked... it brought up a login page but the routing was fubar. They eventually gave up a few months back.
Even paid wifi is becoming scarce here... with 3G being so prevalent and laptops being offered cheap/free with 3G dongles the use of wifi is dropping.. there's no money in running a hotspot any more. Both starbucks have shut down their Wifi and the only one left is Costa Coffee at £5/hour.
Not true. I was tought darwinism at school long before I even heard that such a thing a creationism actually existed. It's just another word for evolutionism, but a bit easier to say so everyone uses it.
News is entertainment. It's only tangenitally factual.. Why do you think they have things like headlines - is the number of silly awards that film of the week received *really* more important than anytihng else going on that day? Not at all.. but people like to hear about it.
On the contrary, emerging markets haven't got all our legacy infrastructure. They started with mobile phones, wifi and mobile data.. none of this digging holes in the ground crap. AIM/MSN & Skype are hugely popular.
WfW didn't come with a TCP/IP stack though it was all Netbeui... workgroup = local LAN, bascially. You downloaded the TCP/IP addon from microsoft research (it never left beta, but was pretty stable).
If as was common then you were using dialup then you used Trumpet to handle it.
In fact the opposite is true. You can't determine when events happened with any accuracy if you store in local time *precisely* because it's subject to the whims of local laws. You should always store in GMT so you can determine exactly the time that two events happened wherever they are in the world and not caring whether it's summer or winter. Only Humans care for local time.. and converting to it is a solved problem.
Windows gets itself into such a mess because it tries to use local time, hence stupid things like adjusting the BIOS clock when DST changes, and all files on the system getting their creation dates shifted by an hour twice a year (a bug introduced in NT4 still not fixed in Vista)... the OS should never try to handle human dates except for display.
I got one so I could make sure my wife had some spare cash around... dropped it after a while though, as they charged 12% of all deposits and 7.5% of all withdrawls - it's about the most expensive way of handling money there is (and that was the cheapest one available).
Changing the UAC level is something you do maybe once (or maybe never, since in Win7 the UAC is a lot less annoying).. you'll never see it again.
However if an app manages to exploit a hole in one of MS' signed apps, run itself elevated silently and attempt to change the UAC level, you'll be warned (Of course if said app manages to do that changing UAC will be the least of your worries...).
I reckon the order will be economy, crime, immigration*, education with the rest just thrown out there at random.
Depending on which statistics look most favourable (or can be twisted) the order will change.
Whether the tories can finally outlive the thatcher legacy remains to be seen.
* Got to keep the Daily Mail readers on-side, after all they're a huge chunk of the voters. Of course saying unpleasant things about foreigners then loses them a huge chunk of other votes.. so they may not make it so high priority this time.
That's true - we can go into a company consulting about configuration management and the most the company knows is often some low level programmer that's downloaded TortoiseCVS and liked it. And these are companies that are interested enough to pay us.
(which is often 'we want to use version control' which is like saying 'teach us to use spanners!' - it then takes a couple of days of training for them to work out what they want to actually *do* with it.).
Anyway, I've both worked for and worked in a *lot* of companies and the number who actually use group policies I could count on one hand - and I don't count 'removing the requirement for ctrl/alt/del' as using a group policy.
If you read the right books, we need them to be prepared to repel alien visitations.
Been off the medication too long have we?
Any aliens - if they exist at all, and if they consider our small rock in the vastness of the universe worth invading - would have such advanced tech (by virtue of the ability to travel insterstallar distances) that any weapons we could create would be like trying to defend against a nuclear attack with medieval armour.
Same way that every other 3G phone on the market does.
It's really not a lot of bandwidth, and video calling predates 3G data by some years.. I remember only 5 years ago trying to arrange data for a 3G phone and being told by the operator that they had no plans to implement it (they did so 2 years later).
Actually SMS and MMS are increasing and Email is decreasing. It's apple who are in the past.
It's *months* since I've received an email off my friends. I get several SMS and MMS a day.
Spam has killed email... plus you need a PC to read it, and lots of people don't have PCs (this being slashdot you may not believe that but it's true). *everyone* has a phone.. and *everyone* except iphone users has a phone that can do MMS.
As another poster wrote, this is the vista equivalent of XP SP2.. it gets the major bugs out and finally produces something usable.
Yeah it still has some of the UI stupidities of Vista (although they've fixed quite a few too) but at least it's not actively preventing you from getting any work done any more..
No it wasn't, it was the fact the release was barely beta quality (corrupting files during copy, UAC going nutso and not letting you do simple things, etc.), it hit the hard drive almost constantly, took 3 times as long as XP to start apps even when fed 4GB of RAM.
A lot of the ones aren't now.. go in a big enough service plan and you can get a quite decent laptop for free. You see a lot of students with them now.
1)A legal right to broadband in every home is *up to* 2Mb only. I know people who "technically" have broadband and *at best* up to 512Mb.
I believe they said 2Mb minimum with opt-out clauses for places that were hard to reach.
The problem is they said this could be achieved over any medium - including Mobile. 3G already reaches 95% of the population, which (given enough capacity on the backhaul) provides more than this already... so the politicians have basically said that nothing is going to happen.
They'll then announce this as a 'success' just before the next election.
I love all the series... yeah the early ones were better, but it's still one of the few programmes I don't mind watching repeats of.
I can understand Americans not following it - it was *full* of cultural references - the norweb federation joke for instance, is funniest when you're form north west england.
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If they're over about 35 then probably not.
eg. I've been vaccinated against Polio (primary school) and they tried to give me a TB jab in secondary school but I failed the skin test. As far as I know things like MMR didn't exist when I was at school. At 14 the girls in the class had to have a rubella jab, but that's about it.
That would be mid 70's to the early 80's.
I caught measles as a child (we used to call it german measles.. when did the german bit get dropped?), so am immune. Several of my friends caught mumps but I stubbornly failed to catch it despite the best efforts of my parents. It's very possible the parents of these children have never had either and have no immunity.
ipod touch, surely. Phones are banned in pretty much all hospitals.
Funnily enough, yes :p
Although only simple games and crappy music.
I thought mcdonalds had abandoned that project? Of the 3 in this town only 1 ever got it, and that never worked... it brought up a login page but the routing was fubar. They eventually gave up a few months back.
Even paid wifi is becoming scarce here... with 3G being so prevalent and laptops being offered cheap/free with 3G dongles the use of wifi is dropping.. there's no money in running a hotspot any more. Both starbucks have shut down their Wifi and the only one left is Costa Coffee at £5/hour.
Not true. I was tought darwinism at school long before I even heard that such a thing a creationism actually existed. It's just another word for evolutionism, but a bit easier to say so everyone uses it.
News is entertainment. It's only tangenitally factual.. Why do you think they have things like headlines - is the number of silly awards that film of the week received *really* more important than anytihng else going on that day? Not at all.. but people like to hear about it.
On the contrary, emerging markets haven't got all our legacy infrastructure. They started with mobile phones, wifi and mobile data.. none of this digging holes in the ground crap. AIM/MSN & Skype are hugely popular.
WfW didn't come with a TCP/IP stack though it was all Netbeui... workgroup = local LAN, bascially. You downloaded the TCP/IP addon from microsoft research (it never left beta, but was pretty stable).
If as was common then you were using dialup then you used Trumpet to handle it.
In fact the opposite is true. You can't determine when events happened with any accuracy if you store in local time *precisely* because it's subject to the whims of local laws. You should always store in GMT so you can determine exactly the time that two events happened wherever they are in the world and not caring whether it's summer or winter. Only Humans care for local time.. and converting to it is a solved problem.
Windows gets itself into such a mess because it tries to use local time, hence stupid things like adjusting the BIOS clock when DST changes, and all files on the system getting their creation dates shifted by an hour twice a year (a bug introduced in NT4 still not fixed in Vista)... the OS should never try to handle human dates except for display.
Not true. On a leap second unix boxes count the extra second.
Nobody sticks that strictly to POSIX because it's basically broken.
I got one so I could make sure my wife had some spare cash around... dropped it after a while though, as they charged 12% of all deposits and 7.5% of all withdrawls - it's about the most expensive way of handling money there is (and that was the cheapest one available).
Changing the UAC level is something you do maybe once (or maybe never, since in Win7 the UAC is a lot less annoying).. you'll never see it again.
However if an app manages to exploit a hole in one of MS' signed apps, run itself elevated silently and attempt to change the UAC level, you'll be warned (Of course if said app manages to do that changing UAC will be the least of your worries...).
I reckon the order will be economy, crime, immigration*, education with the rest just thrown out there at random.
Depending on which statistics look most favourable (or can be twisted) the order will change.
Whether the tories can finally outlive the thatcher legacy remains to be seen.
* Got to keep the Daily Mail readers on-side, after all they're a huge chunk of the voters. Of course saying unpleasant things about foreigners then loses them a huge chunk of other votes.. so they may not make it so high priority this time.
That's true - we can go into a company consulting about configuration management and the most the company knows is often some low level programmer that's downloaded TortoiseCVS and liked it. And these are companies that are interested enough to pay us.
(which is often 'we want to use version control' which is like saying 'teach us to use spanners!' - it then takes a couple of days of training for them to work out what they want to actually *do* with it.).
There's nothing to configure, it's a browser FFS.
Anyway, I've both worked for and worked in a *lot* of companies and the number who actually use group policies I could count on one hand - and I don't count 'removing the requirement for ctrl/alt/del' as using a group policy.
If you read the right books, we need them to be prepared to repel alien visitations.
Been off the medication too long have we?
Any aliens - if they exist at all, and if they consider our small rock in the vastness of the universe worth invading - would have such advanced tech (by virtue of the ability to travel insterstallar distances) that any weapons we could create would be like trying to defend against a nuclear attack with medieval armour.
Same way that every other 3G phone on the market does.
It's really not a lot of bandwidth, and video calling predates 3G data by some years.. I remember only 5 years ago trying to arrange data for a 3G phone and being told by the operator that they had no plans to implement it (they did so 2 years later).
Actually SMS and MMS are increasing and Email is decreasing. It's apple who are in the past.
It's *months* since I've received an email off my friends. I get several SMS and MMS a day.
Spam has killed email... plus you need a PC to read it, and lots of people don't have PCs (this being slashdot you may not believe that but it's true). *everyone* has a phone.. and *everyone* except iphone users has a phone that can do MMS.
As another poster wrote, this is the vista equivalent of XP SP2.. it gets the major bugs out and finally produces something usable.
Yeah it still has some of the UI stupidities of Vista (although they've fixed quite a few too) but at least it's not actively preventing you from getting any work done any more..
No it wasn't, it was the fact the release was barely beta quality (corrupting files during copy, UAC going nutso and not letting you do simple things, etc.), it hit the hard drive almost constantly, took 3 times as long as XP to start apps even when fed 4GB of RAM.
Drivers just wasn't the issue.
A lot of the ones aren't now.. go in a big enough service plan and you can get a quite decent laptop for free. You see a lot of students with them now.
1)A legal right to broadband in every home is *up to* 2Mb only. I know people who "technically" have broadband and *at best* up to 512Mb.
I believe they said 2Mb minimum with opt-out clauses for places that were hard to reach.
The problem is they said this could be achieved over any medium - including Mobile. 3G already reaches 95% of the population, which (given enough capacity on the backhaul) provides more than this already... so the politicians have basically said that nothing is going to happen.
They'll then announce this as a 'success' just before the next election.
I love all the series... yeah the early ones were better, but it's still one of the few programmes I don't mind watching repeats of.
I can understand Americans not following it - it was *full* of cultural references - the norweb federation joke for instance, is funniest when you're form north west england.
The books kinda sucked though... Not sure I'd want those considered as canon.