The current world may have the tech but also the legacy of pollution and rampant debt to contend with.
Assuming the budget was approved, the impact of such a massive project on the environment would be a significant hurdle to overcome before the project could begin in earnest.
Due to the harsh Winter in the UK most of the roads are in dire need of repair: Cripes!
Perhaps the government can provide an incentive to share the cost of digging up the roads and resurfacing. The Highways Department will have to spend the money anyway so it may as well schedule this with the Telcos who will roll out the fibre at the same rate as the roads are renewed.
People keep banging on about the market share of Symbian but it grew to the size it did as there was no viable alternative. It was good before iOS and Android but it became outdated very quickly. I had a Nokia E71 with which I was very happy but recently switched to a HTC Desire HD which is tons better. The E71 was great up to the point that I replaced it at which time I realised it was flawed, limited and deeply outdated.
Technology filters from rich to poor economies and whilst Symbian might still be viable in developing countries, it will be replaced by Android and iOS in the absence of an updated Symbian variant.
Any Intel i3 or i5 system with Win7 premium will do the trick. 3 or 4Gb of memory seems the norm. GFX determine the price after that - dedicated GFX costs a bundle extra but if there is no gaming involved this is superfluous.
Walt Disney's first works are STILL under copyright and the man has been a corpse for longer than many of us have been on this earth
He might be dead but he is frozen which means he can claim his royalties when technology can bring him back to life again. Now THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is playing the *long game*
That's a good point. Where a spurious law suit ends with a punitive settlement, the recipient should be required to pay the tax up front and only be able to reclaim that amount after it becomes clear that the defendant does not have the means to pay. I propose 6 years as a start (the basic time limitation in UK law). I am open to other suggestions.
The laptop was probably stolen anyway so he may as well say he found/stole it but was hoping to strip it for parts. Clearly he was not the criminal genius in all respects.
Pray? Let us not blow this out of all proportion - we can survive without PS3 and, dare I say it, without Sony. If they want to ruin their own market-share that is entirely up to them.
Those unfortunate souls who bought a PS3 are unlikely yo buy Sony products in the future, what with all of the dicking around.
That might be, but nobody forced her to take the job or change her feelings. If the children were that dim there are ways of handling it. Sometimes parents do need to be told that the student isn't performing adequately. Typically that's done via report card, note home or possible home visit. Handling it via social networking site is completely unforgivable.
Dear parent, I am concerned about your son's 'rat-like' appearance. Whilst this does not effect the other children it does make me feel slightly bilious whilst teaching him. As such, your son's presence in class is deemed as disruptive.
In order to address this unfortunate 'problem' I request that your son is sent to school in headwear large enough to obscure his face. In the Summer months a large wide-brimmed would be appropriate subject to the brim casting a full shadow over his sickening rat-like features.
I trust that you will be in agreement with the proposed change in school attire.
Yours sincerely
Natalie Munroe
PS Well done on last terms charity obstacle course. Your son aced the drain-pipe obstable!
Sony and MS's current offerings are actually unbelievably similar - I don't think I've ever known a console generation where there was less to actually separate two competitors.
Uh what? They are different in every way it is possible to be different while still offering the same basic features.
The Xbox 360 is a 3-way SMP system. The PS3 is a CPU/GPU/Coprocessor system.
The Xbox 360 has added features with each new major update. The PS3 has removed features with each new major update.
The Xbox 360 has motion-detecting equipment (Kinect) which does not require a controller. Sony has motion-detecting equipment which does.
Xbox Live costs money, PSN is free.
The Xbox 360 is the first console that looks decent compared to the competition, mostly because the PS3 looks like a George Foreman grill.
The PS3 uses Bluetooth for wireless controllers, while the 360 uses a proprietary protocol.
The Xbox 360 has a helicopter installed as part of the internal cooling - not one of those stealth ones - a LOUD one. The PS3 is much quieter.
I never thought I'd like console gaming but after getting a (free) xbox360 I am pleasantly surprised with the gameplay. Black Ops is excellent and I know that the 360 is good for many years without constant upgrading.
My AMD Socket A PC was great for Counterstrike Source but couldn't cope with Halflife 2 thus ending my PC gaming experience.
Sure, I have enough money now to build a new PC that will cope with new games but the cost of the GFX card alone is more than the entire 360. If you are a serious gamer it is probably worth the investment but otherwise consoles capture both the serious and casual gamer markets not least due to ease of use.
It's swings and roundabouts. Dell and the like pile it high and sell it cheap due to bulk purchasing.
I am probably stating the obvious here but Norton, AOL(!) and all of the other companies that provide the crapware probably pay Dell 'per install' in the hope that whatever subscription service they are punting will be paid for once the trial period finishes.
Techies can take advantage of the Dell business model by purchasing cheap equipment and uninstalling the crapware for a perfectly useable system. I can't see what the problem is with that.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority are already on the case. He will be feeling very hot under the collar for a while. I would be very surprised is he doesn't get struck off.
Wasn't that buggy software designed by MS though which they admitted to? This article seems to suggest that the charge for data is over and above the actual data used.
You're barking up the wrong tree there I'm afraid. Apple Fanbois will respond in the following fashion depending upon how far you advance the argument:
"The figures are misrepresented"
"The figures are inaccurate"
"Too much demand for the short supply"
"Quality, not quantity, is what counts"
"Apple doesn't want to be # 1 anyway"
"The antenna works just fine and is only affected by an insignificant sample of the user base (Canadians)"
"I'm going home...and I'm taking my ball with me"
I'm not against Apple but Apple fans do annoy me. They might think that Appletech is the best thing since sliced bread but not everybody is in agreement. Personally, I am pleased that Apple has driven the advance for desirable tech and that others have followed suit. Such competition is great for the consumer.
If everybody was at risk of being banned for mad skill useage, I would be the last person to receive a ban as I am utterly hopeless.
On Modern Warfare 2 I absolutely have to unload a whole clip at my opponent's feet before trying to inflict any significant damage.
When a knife is called for I am more likely to offer my opponent a packet of sweets that try to stick a knife through their stinking custom painted war face.
If mad skill useage was banned, it would only be a matter of time before I was King of the World. Shortly before killing myself with a cooked pineapple.
And you take exception with that? The sanctity of marriage has clearly been devalued such that assuming the husband to be the father is a concept considered 'far-fetched'.
I'm no prude but it's a reasonable assumption for a husband to be the father of his wife's children isn't it?
I can imagine the atmosphere in the room as the father is handed the new-born baby and says "so...whose is it then?"
Nope, you must have made that up or 'heard it from a friend'. Does your country carry out a DNA test each time a child is born to establish who the true father is? Generally the father is named on the birth certificate and would normally be the husband/partner of the mother. It has been known for the mother to 'be mistaken' or to lie to avoid embarassment.
Should any claim for child maintenance be made and subsequently challenged by the putative father - the agency responsible for collecting child support will commission a DNA test. If the result is positive, the father bears the cost of the test.
DNA profiling was pioneered right around the middle of the UK and has been exported to the rest of the world. It even works on non-human subjects too in case you are interested;-)
I believe that Motorola is learning by Apple's mistakes. If you are upfront with the customer and tell them that circumventing the system will brick your device the customers cannot complaint when they do just that.
However, Motorola is no Apple and the product has to be largely bug-free and user-friendly otherwise the customers will be throwing it back and seeking a refund in the absence of any other option. From experience, Motorola products - particularly cell phones - are not bug-free and are never user-friendly.
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It that argument a little sensationalist? How much of the world's helium is squandred on pointless activities such as the aforementioned balloons?
Is this the same argument as motor vehicles causing pollution whereas motor vehicles account for only a small fraction of that pollution?
The current world may have the tech but also the legacy of pollution and rampant debt to contend with.
Assuming the budget was approved, the impact of such a massive project on the environment would be a significant hurdle to overcome before the project could begin in earnest.
Due to the harsh Winter in the UK most of the roads are in dire need of repair: Cripes!
Perhaps the government can provide an incentive to share the cost of digging up the roads and resurfacing. The Highways Department will have to spend the money anyway so it may as well schedule this with the Telcos who will roll out the fibre at the same rate as the roads are renewed.
People keep banging on about the market share of Symbian but it grew to the size it did as there was no viable alternative. It was good before iOS and Android but it became outdated very quickly. I had a Nokia E71 with which I was very happy but recently switched to a HTC Desire HD which is tons better. The E71 was great up to the point that I replaced it at which time I realised it was flawed, limited and deeply outdated.
Technology filters from rich to poor economies and whilst Symbian might still be viable in developing countries, it will be replaced by Android and iOS in the absence of an updated Symbian variant.
+1
Any Intel i3 or i5 system with Win7 premium will do the trick. 3 or 4Gb of memory seems the norm. GFX determine the price after that - dedicated GFX costs a bundle extra but if there is no gaming involved this is superfluous.
Walt Disney's first works are STILL under copyright and the man has been a corpse for longer than many of us have been on this earth
He might be dead but he is frozen which means he can claim his royalties when technology can bring him back to life again. Now THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is playing the *long game*
That's a good point. Where a spurious law suit ends with a punitive settlement, the recipient should be required to pay the tax up front and only be able to reclaim that amount after it becomes clear that the defendant does not have the means to pay. I propose 6 years as a start (the basic time limitation in UK law). I am open to other suggestions.
When your DVR disk corrupts do you say it "chewed up the tape"? ;)
The laptop was probably stolen anyway so he may as well say he found/stole it but was hoping to strip it for parts. Clearly he was not the criminal genius in all respects.
...Post-op.
I believe you should be *more* cynical.
By purchasing - then shelving - McAfee, the current CPUs will appear to be faster without any intervention.
Intel can extend its current model range for another 10-20 years without the crappy bloatware shite that is McAfee.
Pray? Let us not blow this out of all proportion - we can survive without PS3 and, dare I say it, without Sony. If they want to ruin their own market-share that is entirely up to them.
Those unfortunate souls who bought a PS3 are unlikely yo buy Sony products in the future, what with all of the dicking around.
That might be, but nobody forced her to take the job or change her feelings. If the children were that dim there are ways of handling it. Sometimes parents do need to be told that the student isn't performing adequately. Typically that's done via report card, note home or possible home visit. Handling it via social networking site is completely unforgivable.
Dear parent, I am concerned about your son's 'rat-like' appearance. Whilst this does not effect the other children it does make me feel slightly bilious whilst teaching him. As such, your son's presence in class is deemed as disruptive.
In order to address this unfortunate 'problem' I request that your son is sent to school in headwear large enough to obscure his face. In the Summer months a large wide-brimmed would be appropriate subject to the brim casting a full shadow over his sickening rat-like features.
I trust that you will be in agreement with the proposed change in school attire.
Yours sincerely
Natalie Munroe
PS Well done on last terms charity obstacle course. Your son aced the drain-pipe obstable!
Sony and MS's current offerings are actually unbelievably similar - I don't think I've ever known a console generation where there was less to actually separate two competitors.
Uh what? They are different in every way it is possible to be different while still offering the same basic features.
Fixed that for you.
I never thought I'd like console gaming but after getting a (free) xbox360 I am pleasantly surprised with the gameplay. Black Ops is excellent and I know that the 360 is good for many years without constant upgrading.
My AMD Socket A PC was great for Counterstrike Source but couldn't cope with Halflife 2 thus ending my PC gaming experience.
Sure, I have enough money now to build a new PC that will cope with new games but the cost of the GFX card alone is more than the entire 360. If you are a serious gamer it is probably worth the investment but otherwise consoles capture both the serious and casual gamer markets not least due to ease of use.
It's swings and roundabouts. Dell and the like pile it high and sell it cheap due to bulk purchasing.
I am probably stating the obvious here but Norton, AOL(!) and all of the other companies that provide the crapware probably pay Dell 'per install' in the hope that whatever subscription service they are punting will be paid for once the trial period finishes.
Techies can take advantage of the Dell business model by purchasing cheap equipment and uninstalling the crapware for a perfectly useable system. I can't see what the problem is with that.
Yeah but Stonehenge is open source.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority are already on the case. He will be feeling very hot under the collar for a while. I would be very surprised is he doesn't get struck off.
Wasn't that buggy software designed by MS though which they admitted to? This article seems to suggest that the charge for data is over and above the actual data used.
You're barking up the wrong tree there I'm afraid. Apple Fanbois will respond in the following fashion depending upon how far you advance the argument:
"The figures are misrepresented"
"The figures are inaccurate"
"Too much demand for the short supply"
"Quality, not quantity, is what counts"
"Apple doesn't want to be # 1 anyway"
"The antenna works just fine and is only affected by an insignificant sample of the user base (Canadians)"
"I'm going home...and I'm taking my ball with me"
I'm not against Apple but Apple fans do annoy me. They might think that Appletech is the best thing since sliced bread but not everybody is in agreement. Personally, I am pleased that Apple has driven the advance for desirable tech and that others have followed suit. Such competition is great for the consumer.
If everybody was at risk of being banned for mad skill useage, I would be the last person to receive a ban as I am utterly hopeless.
On Modern Warfare 2 I absolutely have to unload a whole clip at my opponent's feet before trying to inflict any significant damage.
When a knife is called for I am more likely to offer my opponent a packet of sweets that try to stick a knife through their stinking custom painted war face.
If mad skill useage was banned, it would only be a matter of time before I was King of the World. Shortly before killing myself with a cooked pineapple.
And you take exception with that? The sanctity of marriage has clearly been devalued such that assuming the husband to be the father is a concept considered 'far-fetched'.
I'm no prude but it's a reasonable assumption for a husband to be the father of his wife's children isn't it?
I can imagine the atmosphere in the room as the father is handed the new-born baby and says "so...whose is it then?"
Nope, you must have made that up or 'heard it from a friend'. Does your country carry out a DNA test each time a child is born to establish who the true father is? Generally the father is named on the birth certificate and would normally be the husband/partner of the mother. It has been known for the mother to 'be mistaken' or to lie to avoid embarassment.
Should any claim for child maintenance be made and subsequently challenged by the putative father - the agency responsible for collecting child support will commission a DNA test. If the result is positive, the father bears the cost of the test.
DNA profiling was pioneered right around the middle of the UK and has been exported to the rest of the world. It even works on non-human subjects too in case you are interested ;-)
Just drop the drives into a bitorrent seedbox for a pr0n site - the data will be overwritten many times in the first few hours.
I believe that Motorola is learning by Apple's mistakes. If you are upfront with the customer and tell them that circumventing the system will brick your device the customers cannot complaint when they do just that.
However, Motorola is no Apple and the product has to be largely bug-free and user-friendly otherwise the customers will be throwing it back and seeking a refund in the absence of any other option. From experience, Motorola products - particularly cell phones - are not bug-free and are never user-friendly.