The curriculum in Scotland is only slightly better than the UK. Yes, we learn programming, but no, teachers are still unprepared to teach it and use notes and rote learning. My teacher was so bad that instead of the class asking the teacher for help, they'd come to me and my geeky friends for help because 'we knew what we were doing'. Looking back, I didn't know what I was doing. I was still learning, just as much as the rest of the class, but the fact that the head of the computing dept came and took over our class 3 months before the exams and basically taught us all the whole 2 year course again shows how bad that teacher was. She's still teaching there as far as I'm aware.
my first programming experience was controlling a turtle. Back when I was about 8. I also remember someone (ie, adults, not some weird savant show-and-tell) coming into school with a pack of Lego, LEDs and a microcontroller and teaching us about how traffic lights work when I was about 10.
It's not a backup solution. It's a Sync tool. Like SVN. If they took the servers down tomorrow drop box wouldn't get the latest list of files and wouldn't change the data on your pc.
While both words effectively mean the same thing, their usage does differ slightly. Enquiry is normally used when one person is asking another a question, for example if you phone up a Customer Services line you make an Enquiry . Inquiry when there are many people involved (on either side) and is more official in tone. Inquiry would be related to Investigation (indeed, they share the same suffix). A person Enquires, The police Inquire.
But again, it's not a hard and fast rule. Both are acceptable in either case.
In this case however, the official title is an Inquiry.
It's more the fact that BBC 3 is the 'reruns' channel. I think Frankie Howards Good News is pretty much their only original content and that gets repeated ad nauseum between series
I watch QI on BBC 1... wait, no, that's BBC 2. University Challenge then... wait, BBC 2. Top Gear... ah, no, 2 again. Mock the Week... BBC 2. Newsnight... BBC 2... Have I got News for You... Ah! Yes. BBC 1!
You act like BBC 2 is some obscure channel no-one gets. That joke is old and is more suited to BBC 3 or BBC 4. BBC 3 especially since it's about on par with "Dave" since it's reruns of Top Gear and anything starring the cast of Mock the Week obscure any kind of decent programming they'd care to put on. Not to mention they advertised it hard on BBC 1 between programmes and it was in alot of the paper TV Guides. I'll admit, the only way I know about the TV Guides is because my gran buys them.
What would blacking out slashdot actually do? Closing Wikipedia and Google actually affects the normal person, and indeed, Wikipedia is the most cited example in the news. This is pretty much the first and only time BBC News has actually picked up on SOPA since it's inception, and same with murdoch-owned Sky News. Blacking out/. wouldn't have that effect, and since it's a Tech News Aggregator it's a good place to read roundups like the one posted in this fucking article. Yes it would be affected by SOPA/PIPA tremendously, but, like Twitter, I can see it doing much more in spreading the word by remaining open and reporting on others actions, than blacking out themselves.
TechGuy's a troll who's gotten the most first-posts in the last week AND every one has either promoted an MS product or bashed a Google one. One even said "Use Silverlight instead of Dreamweaver for making a website".
We investigated a number of possible UK manufacturers, but encountered a few problems, some of which made matters impossible. Firstly, the schedule for manufacture for every UK business we approached was between 12 and 14 weeks (compared to a 3-4 week turnaround in the Far East). That would have meant you’d be waiting three months rather than three weeks to buy your Raspberry Pi, and we didn’t think that was acceptable.
Secondly, we found that pricing in the UK varied enormously with factories’ capacity. If a factory had sufficient capacity to do the work for us, they were typically quoting very high prices; we’d expected a delta between manufacture pricing between the UK and the Far East, but these build prices not only wiped out all our margin, but actually pushed us into the red. Some factories were able to offer us prices which were marginally profitable, but they were only able to produce at most a few hundred units a month; and even then, we were doing better by more than five dollars per unit if we moved that manufacture to the Far East. When you’re talking about tens of thousands of units per batch, losing that sum of money for the charity – a sum that we can spend on more manufacture, more outreach work and more research and development – just to be able to say we’d kept all the work in one country, starts to look irresponsible.
I’d like to draw attention to one cost in particular that really created problems for us in Britain. Simply put, if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax. If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all. This means that it’s really, really tax inefficient for an electronics company to do its manufacturing in Britain, and it’s one of the reasons that so much of our manufacturing goes overseas. Right now, the way things stand means that a company doing its manufacturing abroad, depriving the UK economy, gets a tax break. It’s an absolutely mad way for the Inland Revenue to be running things, and it’s an issue we’ve taken up with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
I concur. While many of us may not consider being an MCP 'worth' of anything, it's still something above and beyond what those arseholes who posted above could ever achieve, even at 39 rather than 9 (yes, thats how old she was when she got MCP), she even got certified to FLY at age 10. This is someone who was gifted at something. Yes, I'd call myself jealous of her talent, but that's no excuse to bad mouth anyone. Dead or not.
Compare and Contrast with News Corp's News of the World Phone Tapping/Hacking/Listening to Voicemail scandal which went all the way up to Murdochs Dragon-in-chief. That was something that was endemic and part of the corporate culture and was rightfully put down in the face of it. An enquiry is underway to see if it permeated any of the other newspapers under the control of News Corp.
If said Phone Hacking was actually only an isolated incident, or restricted to one or two reporters, they would rightly be fired and the company investigated (indeed, that's what was done, and it revealed more shenanigans). The same is true in the case of Google Kenya.
If it's restricted to one or two people, or (as a multinational) restricted to one country, then Googles reputation as a whole would be tarnished by this, and potentially the excising of an entire branch of it's overseas operations, but I'd say it'd be unfair to call for a tarring and feathering of Schmitt, followed by a public castration of the board of directors.
Well, my screenshot was from Outlook 2007, so it's been around since then (released in Jan 07). The patent was filed in September 2006. My question is why it took 6 years to look at and grant the patent? We've now got countless mail clients that now use this as a standard feature. Have IBM been warning them they have a Patent Pending on this (or other, as yet ungranted) item? What happens to all these mail clients? How much will IBM be charging for use of this patent? What if they can't/wont pay up?
Slashdot Mirror
that was meant to be *rest of the UK.
atleast for now
mwhahahahah.
They're owned by Mercedes too.
The curriculum in Scotland is only slightly better than the UK. Yes, we learn programming, but no, teachers are still unprepared to teach it and use notes and rote learning. My teacher was so bad that instead of the class asking the teacher for help, they'd come to me and my geeky friends for help because 'we knew what we were doing'. Looking back, I didn't know what I was doing. I was still learning, just as much as the rest of the class, but the fact that the head of the computing dept came and took over our class 3 months before the exams and basically taught us all the whole 2 year course again shows how bad that teacher was. She's still teaching there as far as I'm aware.
my first programming experience was controlling a turtle. Back when I was about 8.
I also remember someone (ie, adults, not some weird savant show-and-tell) coming into school with a pack of Lego, LEDs and a microcontroller and teaching us about how traffic lights work when I was about 10.
Leviticus 16:15 "He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people"
and Leviticus 16:20-22 (Origin of the "Scape goat")
and those that give out their FB Passwords are a 'trust gesture' in relationships.
Gief Yum Yum
It's not a backup solution. It's a Sync tool. Like SVN. If they took the servers down tomorrow drop box wouldn't get the latest list of files and wouldn't change the data on your pc.
While both words effectively mean the same thing, their usage does differ slightly. Enquiry is normally used when one person is asking another a question, for example if you phone up a Customer Services line you make an Enquiry . Inquiry when there are many people involved (on either side) and is more official in tone. Inquiry would be related to Investigation (indeed, they share the same suffix). A person Enquires, The police Inquire.
But again, it's not a hard and fast rule. Both are acceptable in either case.
In this case however, the official title is an Inquiry.
I think I just merged Frankie Boyle and Russel Howard.
I scared myself.
It's more the fact that BBC 3 is the 'reruns' channel. I think Frankie Howards Good News is pretty much their only original content and that gets repeated ad nauseum between series
I watch QI on BBC 1... wait, no, that's BBC 2.
University Challenge then... wait, BBC 2.
Top Gear... ah, no, 2 again.
Mock the Week... BBC 2.
Newsnight... BBC 2...
Have I got News for You... Ah! Yes. BBC 1!
You act like BBC 2 is some obscure channel no-one gets.
That joke is old and is more suited to BBC 3 or BBC 4. BBC 3 especially since it's about on par with "Dave" since it's reruns of Top Gear and anything starring the cast of Mock the Week obscure any kind of decent programming they'd care to put on.
Not to mention they advertised it hard on BBC 1 between programmes and it was in alot of the paper TV Guides. I'll admit, the only way I know about the TV Guides is because my gran buys them.
What would blacking out slashdot actually do? /. wouldn't have that effect, and since it's a Tech News Aggregator it's a good place to read roundups like the one posted in this fucking article. Yes it would be affected by SOPA/PIPA tremendously, but, like Twitter, I can see it doing much more in spreading the word by remaining open and reporting on others actions, than blacking out themselves.
Closing Wikipedia and Google actually affects the normal person, and indeed, Wikipedia is the most cited example in the news. This is pretty much the first and only time BBC News has actually picked up on SOPA since it's inception, and same with murdoch-owned Sky News.
Blacking out
NOSCRIPT!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
I think if anyone left Digg to come to Slashdot, the next stage would be suicide, not going back to Digg.
No-one hams it up like Phil Lynott and David Essex. I got the Live version for christmas and it's utter pants compared to the original.
TechGuy's a troll who's gotten the most first-posts in the last week AND every one has either promoted an MS product or bashed a Google one. One even said "Use Silverlight instead of Dreamweaver for making a website".
this is the blog post: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509
She was a programmer. A gifted, young programmer.
Slashdot reported on the death of Denis Ritchie, why not her? Or do you feel that they don't matter?
I concur. While many of us may not consider being an MCP 'worth' of anything, it's still something above and beyond what those arseholes who posted above could ever achieve, even at 39 rather than 9 (yes, thats how old she was when she got MCP), she even got certified to FLY at age 10.
This is someone who was gifted at something. Yes, I'd call myself jealous of her talent, but that's no excuse to bad mouth anyone. Dead or not.
Compare and Contrast with News Corp's News of the World Phone Tapping/Hacking/Listening to Voicemail scandal which went all the way up to Murdochs Dragon-in-chief.
That was something that was endemic and part of the corporate culture and was rightfully put down in the face of it. An enquiry is underway to see if it permeated any of the other newspapers under the control of News Corp.
If said Phone Hacking was actually only an isolated incident, or restricted to one or two reporters, they would rightly be fired and the company investigated (indeed, that's what was done, and it revealed more shenanigans). The same is true in the case of Google Kenya.
If it's restricted to one or two people, or (as a multinational) restricted to one country, then Googles reputation as a whole would be tarnished by this, and potentially the excising of an entire branch of it's overseas operations, but I'd say it'd be unfair to call for a tarring and feathering of Schmitt, followed by a public castration of the board of directors.
Well, my screenshot was from Outlook 2007, so it's been around since then (released in Jan 07). The patent was filed in September 2006.
My question is why it took 6 years to look at and grant the patent? We've now got countless mail clients that now use this as a standard feature.
Have IBM been warning them they have a Patent Pending on this (or other, as yet ungranted) item? What happens to all these mail clients? How much will IBM be charging for use of this patent? What if they can't/wont pay up?
My outlook does exactly this, it's almost identical to the image they submitted...
http://canazza.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/outofofficeobviously.jpg
Septuagenarian surely...