So if the distributor owns the content creator, does that mean no ads? I grew up with paying the equivalent of $20/month for TV and getting no ads, so I found it highly irritating in N. America paying $40/month or more, and being bombarded with the most mindless of advertising.
You miss-read my comments: I'm very supportive of the Poles in this country. Those working in the service industry have reminded what good service is all about. I think they've been positive influence. But, there was a massive outcry against them for whatever small-minded reasons, and the government has decided to appear tough on immigration. The fact of the matter is, they can't do much about it, so these tough measures are affecting a small percentage of people and thus make little difference.
Don't make me laugh. The Labour party is busy playing diversionary tactics at the moment, constantly blaming the bankers. Yet this recession wouldn't hurt as much if they hadn't been running a deficit when the economy was at its peak. I'll be glad to see the back of them, although our tax burden will go up even further for years, just to cover the interest payments on the debt they've run up.
I think the free market will sort itself out. No jobs? The immigrants will go home. And yes, I think we still need competition in wages - isolationalism will push prices, reduce demand, and slow the recovery. All of my colleagues have been laid-off and replaced by engineers in China who cost a fifth our rate, and work harder and more willingly. Immigration isn't the only source of competition.
We need the labours and other unskilled workers too. The ones born in the UK charge excessively high prices and do a shoddy job. Why does it cost a couple of hundred quid to call out a locksmith when locked out of one's house? It cost £20 when I needed one in Toronto. Competition all around is good, and those who are competent at their jobs have nothing to fear.
I'm not afraid if Muslims bombing our trains either, as that is what you're implying. We didn't turf out everybody of Irish descent and seal the border with the Republic, and there's no need to do the same with other peoples. I have friends who are Muslim, and I know I have no fear of them getting drunk and causing trouble when I'm out on the town.
Do you also want the system like Canada where doctors end up working as janitors?
Note: I'm a Briton who emmigrated to Canada in 1996, and now hold a passport there. I returned to the UK a couple of months ago. I think you're wrong about immigration. Your comments are bigotted - this country needs a culture of acceptance, like Canada has.
Rubbish. The population is expected to grow by another 10-15% in the next few decades, to reach 70 million. Have you seen how over-populated it is, particularly in the south east, and the impact that has on land prices?
This whole immigration thing by the current government is a joke. The real problem is the massive immigration from EU countries, yet they can't do anything about that. Cracking down on non-EU immigrants won't make that much difference, but it surely makes for good headlines. Why is it getting harder to sponsor my Australian partner when the Sun and Daily Mail reading masses are upset about Poles?
Indeed. I've been going around uninstalling Safari from my computers, because I missed that check box. I want to keep iTunes and QuickTime up-to-date. I don't need a web browaer, nor iPhone configuration utilities, etc. I probably don't need Bonjour either.
I use Perforce every day. Every day it irritates me.
I used it once on Mac OS X. It annoyed me there. It clearly wasn't a Mac app. Most of the time I use it on Windows. I couldn't care less whether it's identical on all platforms or not. I care that it feels and behaves like a native to the platform, especially as I rarely work on the other platforms.
Perforce has a discontinued native Windows client. Some of my colleagues still use that because they can't stand the newer cross-platform version. Maybe it's because it's not a native app. Maybe it's because it has a UI designed by somebody who knows nothing about UIs.
Kevin Rudd's broadband plan that he announced earlier in the year is ridiculous and should be canned. AUD$43 billion could be better spent in other areas. What a waste of money.
Qt does not make a good UI on Windows, and is certainly worse than WinForms. I'm driven to distraction by Qt's quirkiness everyday. Maybe it's ok on more heterogeneous platforms, but it's irritating on Windows. I've yet to see a cross-platform toolkit that really works as well for the user as native apps. Who gives a shit how easy they make it for the the programmer, unless you don't care about the end-user or they're the kind of people who use Linux everyday?
It's shocking how little value CC companies place in the security of their cards, and make it so easy for criminals.
I've recently been a victim of identity theft and fraud.
I have a CC with MBNA Canada. Somebody called up and said the card was lost or stolen. All MBNA confirmed was my DoB, then they allowed this person to change the address on the account, issue a new card, and a order a new PIN.
Maybe the same person went to Sears. Sears Canada only requires that you to have an existing CC before they issue you one. If they'd bothered checking with Experian or Transunion, they would have discovered a fraud victim alert. What's more, they issue a temporary card that can be used in the store for a day. So now I have to waste time on the phone, and completing paperwork, etc to say it wasn't me who spent $1,500 on a Toshiba laptop.
Home Depot Canada, are just as bad. Perhaps the same person got them to issue a CC to me. They won't tell me over the phone the details, but apparently there were transactions, again, on an unactivated card.
I called Toronto Police. They don't take fraud reports over the phone. Typical of their lazy arsed existence. I'd just moved to the UK before this all happened, so I can't exactly go in person.
The UK needs to change the voting system and introduce partial or full Proportional Representation. This is the only way smaller parties like this will get a voice. The Canadians (one of about three countries in the world that still have the same broken first-past-the-post system as the UK) have been reviewing an interesting option: part of parliament with direct representatives per the current system, and part of parliament consisting of PR of people off party lists. Keeping with the theme of countries that culturally close to the UK, the Aussies take voting to a whole new level in trying to find the least unpopular person, but still doesn't really guarantee that party that might garner 5% of votes nationally will have any representation.
5. The bizzarre situation in the Windows host before it was rebuilt was that if we did (I told the commands over the phone for my dad to execute) ping or traceroute to a destination like www.google.co.in, it would work. It would resolve the right IP. However, with any of the browsers, as soon as access to a site was attempted - We would get a message "Connection Reset" or the browsers equivalent. (Firefox, Chrome and IE tried). Has anyone seen that one before?
Did you try to debug HTTP using telnet? What about to sites that weren't on port 80?
You can't delete files because they're in use. Otherwise, if you're admin, there are no files you can't delete - take ownership and reset the ACLs, then you can do what you like.
I spent June in Toronto and Ottawa with friends and my family, all of whom have internet service provided by Rogers. Now I have a bunch of type-o URLs in FF's history when I'm typing the in the address bar. Anybody in the province who can get DSL should go to Teksavvy where you'll get good service and none of this crap.
I just thought my standards were changing as I got older, but it turns out it's just science!
Sounds like you're oggling the fresh jailbait every year because this story is about newer generations looking better, not graceful ageing of one age group.
Be careful with that attitude. My Creative Labs speakers were drawing 75% of their switched on power when apparently off, according to my Killawatt meter. The AC/DC converter was always warm, a good clue as to where the power was going. Even things like phone chargers will cost you $20 a year just for being there, even when not attached to your phone. That adds up across devices, which is a few nights down the pub from my perspective, and from the green hippies perspective, a lot of environmental damage on a national or global scale.
N. America needs power bars with individual switches per socket, like most of the rest of the world. It makes it much easier to turn off individual devices, rather than only have control over the whole switch (which caused an organisational issue for the author of the story).
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So if the distributor owns the content creator, does that mean no ads? I grew up with paying the equivalent of $20/month for TV and getting no ads, so I found it highly irritating in N. America paying $40/month or more, and being bombarded with the most mindless of advertising.
Dream on.
You miss-read my comments: I'm very supportive of the Poles in this country. Those working in the service industry have reminded what good service is all about. I think they've been positive influence. But, there was a massive outcry against them for whatever small-minded reasons, and the government has decided to appear tough on immigration. The fact of the matter is, they can't do much about it, so these tough measures are affecting a small percentage of people and thus make little difference.
Don't make me laugh. The Labour party is busy playing diversionary tactics at the moment, constantly blaming the bankers. Yet this recession wouldn't hurt as much if they hadn't been running a deficit when the economy was at its peak. I'll be glad to see the back of them, although our tax burden will go up even further for years, just to cover the interest payments on the debt they've run up.
I think the free market will sort itself out. No jobs? The immigrants will go home. And yes, I think we still need competition in wages - isolationalism will push prices, reduce demand, and slow the recovery. All of my colleagues have been laid-off and replaced by engineers in China who cost a fifth our rate, and work harder and more willingly. Immigration isn't the only source of competition.
Indeed, Canada is huge, and that space certainly elevates a lot of social pressure.
My partner is Australian, and teaches at primary school in London. What you wrote is grossly inaccurate.
Standard rhetoric as response, that adds absolutely nothing
We need the labours and other unskilled workers too. The ones born in the UK charge excessively high prices and do a shoddy job. Why does it cost a couple of hundred quid to call out a locksmith when locked out of one's house? It cost £20 when I needed one in Toronto. Competition all around is good, and those who are competent at their jobs have nothing to fear.
I'm not afraid if Muslims bombing our trains either, as that is what you're implying. We didn't turf out everybody of Irish descent and seal the border with the Republic, and there's no need to do the same with other peoples. I have friends who are Muslim, and I know I have no fear of them getting drunk and causing trouble when I'm out on the town.
Do you also want the system like Canada where doctors end up working as janitors?
Note: I'm a Briton who emmigrated to Canada in 1996, and now hold a passport there. I returned to the UK a couple of months ago. I think you're wrong about immigration. Your comments are bigotted - this country needs a culture of acceptance, like Canada has.
Rubbish. The population is expected to grow by another 10-15% in the next few decades, to reach 70 million. Have you seen how over-populated it is, particularly in the south east, and the impact that has on land prices?
This whole immigration thing by the current government is a joke. The real problem is the massive immigration from EU countries, yet they can't do anything about that. Cracking down on non-EU immigrants won't make that much difference, but it surely makes for good headlines. Why is it getting harder to sponsor my Australian partner when the Sun and Daily Mail reading masses are upset about Poles?
Indeed. I've been going around uninstalling Safari from my computers, because I missed that check box. I want to keep iTunes and QuickTime up-to-date. I don't need a web browaer, nor iPhone configuration utilities, etc. I probably don't need Bonjour either.
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Malc
I use Perforce every day. Every day it irritates me.
I used it once on Mac OS X. It annoyed me there. It clearly wasn't a Mac app. Most of the time I use it on Windows. I couldn't care less whether it's identical on all platforms or not. I care that it feels and behaves like a native to the platform, especially as I rarely work on the other platforms.
Perforce has a discontinued native Windows client. Some of my colleagues still use that because they can't stand the newer cross-platform version. Maybe it's because it's not a native app. Maybe it's because it has a UI designed by somebody who knows nothing about UIs.
Kevin Rudd's broadband plan that he announced earlier in the year is ridiculous and should be canned. AUD$43 billion could be better spent in other areas. What a waste of money.
Qt does not make a good UI on Windows, and is certainly worse than WinForms. I'm driven to distraction by Qt's quirkiness everyday. Maybe it's ok on more heterogeneous platforms, but it's irritating on Windows. I've yet to see a cross-platform toolkit that really works as well for the user as native apps. Who gives a shit how easy they make it for the the programmer, unless you don't care about the end-user or they're the kind of people who use Linux everyday?
XP x64 and 2003 Server, not the 32-bit version of XP. That said, the difference NT 5.2 and 5.1 is much smaller than that between 5.1 and 5.0.
That's funny: if you go to Experian.co.uk, there's a link right there on the home page to check your credit score...
It's shocking how little value CC companies place in the security of their cards, and make it so easy for criminals.
I've recently been a victim of identity theft and fraud.
I have a CC with MBNA Canada. Somebody called up and said the card was lost or stolen. All MBNA confirmed was my DoB, then they allowed this person to change the address on the account, issue a new card, and a order a new PIN.
Maybe the same person went to Sears. Sears Canada only requires that you to have an existing CC before they issue you one. If they'd bothered checking with Experian or Transunion, they would have discovered a fraud victim alert. What's more, they issue a temporary card that can be used in the store for a day. So now I have to waste time on the phone, and completing paperwork, etc to say it wasn't me who spent $1,500 on a Toshiba laptop.
Home Depot Canada, are just as bad. Perhaps the same person got them to issue a CC to me. They won't tell me over the phone the details, but apparently there were transactions, again, on an unactivated card.
I called Toronto Police. They don't take fraud reports over the phone. Typical of their lazy arsed existence. I'd just moved to the UK before this all happened, so I can't exactly go in person.
The UK needs to change the voting system and introduce partial or full Proportional Representation. This is the only way smaller parties like this will get a voice. The Canadians (one of about three countries in the world that still have the same broken first-past-the-post system as the UK) have been reviewing an interesting option: part of parliament with direct representatives per the current system, and part of parliament consisting of PR of people off party lists. Keeping with the theme of countries that culturally close to the UK, the Aussies take voting to a whole new level in trying to find the least unpopular person, but still doesn't really guarantee that party that might garner 5% of votes nationally will have any representation.
Did you try to debug HTTP using telnet? What about to sites that weren't on port 80?
You can't delete files because they're in use. Otherwise, if you're admin, there are no files you can't delete - take ownership and reset the ACLs, then you can do what you like.
Sounds like they could be had for copyright violation then...
I spent June in Toronto and Ottawa with friends and my family, all of whom have internet service provided by Rogers. Now I have a bunch of type-o URLs in FF's history when I'm typing the in the address bar. Anybody in the province who can get DSL should go to Teksavvy where you'll get good service and none of this crap.
You might find this article interesting: The Truth About 2K, 4K and The Future of Pixels
Sounds like you're oggling the fresh jailbait every year because this story is about newer generations looking better, not graceful ageing of one age group.
So what? Geological time is on a different scale to what we're doing.
Be careful with that attitude. My Creative Labs speakers were drawing 75% of their switched on power when apparently off, according to my Killawatt meter. The AC/DC converter was always warm, a good clue as to where the power was going. Even things like phone chargers will cost you $20 a year just for being there, even when not attached to your phone. That adds up across devices, which is a few nights down the pub from my perspective, and from the green hippies perspective, a lot of environmental damage on a national or global scale.
N. America needs power bars with individual switches per socket, like most of the rest of the world. It makes it much easier to turn off individual devices, rather than only have control over the whole switch (which caused an organisational issue for the author of the story).