Google's immortal cookie:There's no such thing unless you want there to be: I delete all cookies on exit and have done for two years now.
Google records everything they can: Let them, then delete the cookie.
Google retains all data indefinitely: That would probably be a good idea for a search engine.
Google won't say why they need this data: Market research? Duh! Did I mention that you could always delete your cookie?
Google hires spooks: Ex-spooks need to eat too, you know. So what if Google is talking to the government about running a search on the web? Here's a clue for you: YOUR WEB PAGES ARE PUBLIC. The government can look at them, so can neo-nazis. If you don't like that then why did you put the pages up?
Google's toolbar is spyware: Then don't install it. You might want to delete that cookie while you're at it.
Google's cache copy is illegal: Then all squid caches are illegal too. You're just talking shite now, aren't you?
Google is not your friend: Well, it's my friend! Finally we get to the nub of the issue - this is a list of "problems" motivated by a failed rival. Get over it or build a better search engine. Google itself is an illustration of how little loyalty there is in this field. We all left Alta Vista when Google became better than it and we'll all leave Google if your engine was better too. Grow up.
Google is a privacy time bomb: Did you delete that cookie and take your "secret" web page down yet?
Ok multiply it times the number of hours you've spent trying to get around the "windows tax" well, congratulations, you've lost money in the long run.
Give me fifty quid or I'll cut your throat. Multiply your hourly rate by the time taken up with finding the police, going to court, and talking to your lawyer, congratulations, you've lost money in the long run.
Wouldn't it be feasible to simply dig onto the crust of Mars and provoking volcanoes?
It is not yet clear whether the interior of Mars has ANY "liquid" magma left or not. It is much smaller than Earth and has probably lost its internal heat already.
No, that would be sensible, rational and expensive.
And impossible. The tube already runs at maximum capacity at rush hour (longer platforms might just possibly cost too much to implement), so that leaves the buses. How exactly do you get buses to travel faster before you reduce the traffic they are caught up in? Get real.
Everybody whines about the charges but they never have a better idea to offer
Applications are as welcome fron NI as from the south.
My own domain is in.cx (Christmas Island); it is pushing it to say that.cx "applies" to people from NI even though they can buy such domains.
Well, i meant that even those in the north who would consider themselves more english than irish get on fine down south
Such people are vanishingly rare in NI; it is a common belief amoungst Southern Irish and even Northern Catholics that non-Catholic Northerners think of themselves as more English than Irish. In fact, Ireland's Rugby team (for example) will be cheered on in any pub especially when playing England. England is regarded very poorly for obvious reasons. I have never met anyone in NI of any background (other than born in England) that would not be insulted by your idea that they would regard themselves as more English than Irish. But I have met plenty that are more British than Irish.
I was talking more of the likes of Erskine Childers, the first president of the Free State, Sir Roger Casement, yer man who married Kitty O'Shea and many many other men who were involved in the long struggle for indepedence
That's the people I meant too: politicians and other low-lifes that want the high-life.
Well, the president of the European Parliament is an Irish man (like yourself:) ).
I'm no more Irish than a Canadian is American and I don't see why that's a problem.
But who has influence in the EU anyway? That's a general problem with the EU at the moment, very little accountability and even lower perception of the accountability there is.
Certainly, I didn't mean that it was a particular issue for Ireland. The EU is a fundimentally undemocratic organisation for all its "citizens".
we were able to get some concessions, chiefly on neutrality.
Ah, Irish neutrality. I often wonder about a country that's still proud that it refused to stand up to the Nazis. I can't imagine why anyone would even want to talk about such a disgraceful act against humanity let alone try to ensure that it could happen again.
we / agreed/ to enter the EU and to the processes, overseeing institutions and international law that go with it, just as has the UK i'll note.
I think that once you are contributing instead of receiving it will start to dawn just how poor a bargain it is, just as the UK is.
we're still a sovereign state,
For sufficently small values of "sovereign".
Personally, i rate the leader of the PUP (the guy with the moustache) very very highly.
You must know very little about him, then; I would be more than happy to see him behind bars. Unfortunately, he's always been very careful. Internment was invented for people like him.
Actually, one of the best arguments i've heard for the 6 counties / Northern Ireland ceding from the UK and joining "Ireland" was that immediately all reasons for republican paramilitarism would cease, and presumably loyalist too, if they wanted this.
This is not true. The Ireland that republican "true-believers" want to join no longer exists (ie a truly Catholic country) and the vast majority of the ones causing the trouble are no longer interested in the issue of a united Ireland. They're making their money from drugs, protection rackets and prostitution. What relevance has a united Ireland to them? They same applies to the loyalist gangs.
This is a problem that can never be solved by politics. Historically, the only thing that has lessened the troubles over the 3-4000 years that they've been going has been low unemployment: idle hands and all that. Poverty breeds discontent and discontent make people easy to manipulate into joining "the cause". If there was zero unemployment in NI the troubles would just end. Until the next economic downturn.
Well, according to article 4 of its constitution, it's the official name of the country where you live in its native language. Now you know!
The ie. domain does not make distinctions between the South and North.
That's a matter of opinion...
There are lots of Northern Irish down here, many of whom'd be of the more orange persuasion, and they get on fine.
Having different cultures does not have to mean not getting on.
Irish independence was originally a middle-class protestant cause and many of the well-known names involved in gaining that independence were protestant.
I think you're confusing "independance" and "wanting to be able to bully anyone they like with no fear of public opinion". Rather like today's "Loyalists": their cause was one of convienience in which only a few intellectuals had any genuine interest. Most people, then and now, would prefer them all to piss off and leave them to earning enough cash to retire on.
They'd have a lot more seats and influence for a start - ~25%.
Yes, and zero influence on the EU, just like the people in Northern Ireland. Big deal! Ireland votes the "wrong way"? Have another vote. Keep on having votes until they give in and vote the "right way". Still, as long as the hand-outs keep coming who gives a toss about independance now, eh?
And btw, I have a protestant dutch father, and i've lived in scotland.:)
I have a mildly protestant Northern Irish family, I'm an athest and my girlfriend's family is Catholic and we live (at the moment) in Surrey although we would move to NI if the government ever decided to lock the criminals up (again) and stop pretending that crack sellers are politically motivated.
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The Euro bills are made of a paper that consists of mainly cotton.
High-quality paper is always made with linen, cotton and other natural fibres. It is a common misunderstanding that "paper" is synonymous with "wood pulp".
That's for Eire, or The Republic of Ireland, which has the same sort of relationship to Northern Ireland as the US has to Canada: same language, common border, totally different culture.
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and is much closer culturally to Scotland, even down to its internal religion-based troubles, than to "The South".
You forgot the bit about how, if you deleted all the dross and programming for the mentally handicaped (Kilroy, anything with Andrew Neil etc), it would be hard to fill one channel for any given 24hr period unless you throw in a bunch of films than are already available on video. I don't know what we'll watch after David Attenbourgh snuffs it; at that point I genuinely think I'd be inclined to get rid of the TV altogether.
However, I failed to get Java and flash work properly on Linux,
I've not had any trouble with Flash on Linux Opera. I know a lot of people have had trouble with Java but, since I've yet to see a Java app worth running, I always have it switched off anyway so I don't know.
When Sony rolled their first non-Japan machine, the LV-1901, out to the US it had a 1hr record time in late '75. By late '77 they had pushed that up to 2hrs and by mid '78 they reached 3hrs on the LV-1901. Blah blah blah. It doesn't really matter: the machines and tapes where too expensive and their complexity made getting service hard while the picture and sound quality difference was not enough to matter to Joe Public. The introduction of high-quality slow-mo and freeze-frame helped but VHS caught up in that area quite quickly as I recall.
After all, if VHS offered no advantages whatsoever (as you appear to believe)
What part of "Betamax was too expensive" are you having trouble with?
VHS tapes could record an entire movie. BetaMax tapes couldn't.
When Beta launched to could record 2hrs which was enough for most movies at the time and it later extended beyond 3hrs. I don't think this was as important as the cost.
It was originally incapable of being used to tape anything much longer than Seinfeld, and at its peak managed to record no more than about an hour.
How do you think video rental places worked with Beta?
How shite like this gets published is beyond me. I was there; our house had VHS and my friend's had Beta and the picture quality was obviously better to anyone with eyes while the player's functionality was far better than a same-price VHS. We used the Beta as the source machine for copying because the quality was better. VHS was cheaper, nothing else.
This is classic Urban Myth revisionism: the writer gets his kicks by simply labelling any common, but old and hard to prove if you weren't there, knowledge as "an Urban Myth" and then sells it to gullible editors.
Complete crap from start to end, just like his insane assertion that the PC was better than the alternatives - what a toss-pot.
It's called "irony". I can't believe someone modded you up for being thick.
TWW
Re:For the most part, looks like the exhibit sucks
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Life+x terms are simply to benefit the corporations that bought the laws in the first place.
My preference is for 50 years or life, whichever is longer. I think an artist should have the chance to pass their earnings to their children either in cash earned from work that they did early in their life (the stuff that is caught by "life" in the above formula) or in the form of copyright in material they created near the end of their life (the "50 years" bit). Just "life" seems unfair on people that snuff it just after doing something which goes on to being really popular and just "x years" leaves people in the position of losing control of their work and possibly seeing it totally ripped off (like Robert Crumb and "Keep on Truckin'") in their lifetime which must be a source of real bitterness in some cases.
On the other hand, I'd really like to have seen Tolkien and Milne's works passed into the public domain as soon as they died because their children frankly abused their inheritance. Disney should not be in control of Winnie The Pooh and a talentless hack like Jackson should not be left as the definitive LotR director for the forseeable future.
For if there is one unexplained incident, it becomes a valid subject for intense research and investigation
If students with a GPS system do 99 crop circles and there's one where you don't know how they did it, it just means that you're smarter than only 99% of students that make crop circles.
perhaps the authors in question are liars and fools.
It's also worth remebering who we are: apes that have evolved somewhat but hardly to perfection. Our brains are good at working with trees, animals, running, hunting, talking, calculating etc. but are susceptible even after training to making strange interpretations of things in the sky, which is not our natural habitat. You don't have to be a liar or a fool to be thrown off by lights in the sky. I have lived near airports for years have often watched distant aircraft at night and seen the tricks caused by only being able to see the lights and not the airframe.
I once looked out of my living room window and thought I saw a spacecraft hovering over the bay with a thin trail of smoke coming out of the top left corner. I really thought that this was it - aliens had arrived in broad daylight! In the space of about two or three seconds the object turned and my brain finally managed to work out that a large grey-green object suspended in the air is called a "helicopter" and that the "smoke" was the rotor seen almost edge-on. I continued to watch the army doing their training exercise but that was the point when I really started to wonder about UFO's. If I had seen that in a situation where I couldn't just stand and watch until my brain caught up, or if it had been night and no further clues had been visible, I would have been one of those people that have seen alien craft "with my own eyes". And, I would have thought that because my faith at that point was that there really were UFO's to be seen. If I hadn't had that faith perhaps I would have seen a fiery chariot or a starcase to heaven or a cloud or whatever my brain initially tried to categorise the strange shape as.
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In a project this size, probably no one ever will.
TWW
Perhaps if they had it wouldn't have taken 20 years to come up with a Windows that doesn't crash daily.
TWW
A) Take a stand and tell your boss "It'll be ready when it's ready" (and clear your desk), or
B) Kludge something together and hope you get a chance to do it "properly" sometime before release?
Daily builds are not a good idea.
TWW
In short: what a load of bullshit.
TWW
Give me fifty quid or I'll cut your throat. Multiply your hourly rate by the time taken up with finding the police, going to court, and talking to your lawyer, congratulations, you've lost money in the long run.
Get it?
TWW
65 million years since the dinosaurs died out, about 3 billion since the earliest evidence of bacteria (the last I looked)
TWW
It is not yet clear whether the interior of Mars has ANY "liquid" magma left or not. It is much smaller than Earth and has probably lost its internal heat already.
TWW
I agree. A good start would be to move the capital to York or, better, Carlisle. Never going to happen, though.
TWW
And impossible. The tube already runs at maximum capacity at rush hour (longer platforms might just possibly cost too much to implement), so that leaves the buses. How exactly do you get buses to travel faster before you reduce the traffic they are caught up in? Get real.
Everybody whines about the charges but they never have a better idea to offer
TWW
Isn't that a good reason to use it?
TWW
My own domain is in .cx (Christmas Island); it is pushing it to say that .cx "applies" to people from NI even though they can buy such domains.
Well, i meant that even those in the north who would consider themselves more english than irish get on fine down south
Such people are vanishingly rare in NI; it is a common belief amoungst Southern Irish and even Northern Catholics that non-Catholic Northerners think of themselves as more English than Irish. In fact, Ireland's Rugby team (for example) will be cheered on in any pub especially when playing England. England is regarded very poorly for obvious reasons. I have never met anyone in NI of any background (other than born in England) that would not be insulted by your idea that they would regard themselves as more English than Irish. But I have met plenty that are more British than Irish.
I was talking more of the likes of Erskine Childers, the first president of the Free State, Sir Roger Casement, yer man who married Kitty O'Shea and many many other men who were involved in the long struggle for indepedence
That's the people I meant too: politicians and other low-lifes that want the high-life.
Well, the president of the European Parliament is an Irish man (like yourself :) ).
I'm no more Irish than a Canadian is American and I don't see why that's a problem.
But who has influence in the EU anyway? That's a general problem with the EU at the moment, very little accountability and even lower perception of the accountability there is.
Certainly, I didn't mean that it was a particular issue for Ireland. The EU is a fundimentally undemocratic organisation for all its "citizens".
we were able to get some concessions, chiefly on neutrality.
Ah, Irish neutrality. I often wonder about a country that's still proud that it refused to stand up to the Nazis. I can't imagine why anyone would even want to talk about such a disgraceful act against humanity let alone try to ensure that it could happen again.
we / agreed/ to enter the EU and to the processes, overseeing institutions and international law that go with it, just as has the UK i'll note.
I think that once you are contributing instead of receiving it will start to dawn just how poor a bargain it is, just as the UK is.
we're still a sovereign state,
For sufficently small values of "sovereign".
Personally, i rate the leader of the PUP (the guy with the moustache) very very highly.
You must know very little about him, then; I would be more than happy to see him behind bars. Unfortunately, he's always been very careful. Internment was invented for people like him.
Actually, one of the best arguments i've heard for the 6 counties / Northern Ireland ceding from the UK and joining "Ireland" was that immediately all reasons for republican paramilitarism would cease, and presumably loyalist too, if they wanted this.
This is not true. The Ireland that republican "true-believers" want to join no longer exists (ie a truly Catholic country) and the vast majority of the ones causing the trouble are no longer interested in the issue of a united Ireland. They're making their money from drugs, protection rackets and prostitution. What relevance has a united Ireland to them? They same applies to the loyalist gangs.
This is a problem that can never be solved by politics. Historically, the only thing that has lessened the troubles over the 3-4000 years that they've been going has been low unemployment: idle hands and all that. Poverty breeds discontent and discontent make people easy to manipulate into joining "the cause". If there was zero unemployment in NI the troubles would just end. Until the next economic downturn.
TWW
Eire? I dont know of a country called Eire.
Well, according to article 4 of its constitution, it's the official name of the country where you live in its native language. Now you know!
The ie. domain does not make distinctions between the South and North.
That's a matter of opinion...
There are lots of Northern Irish down here, many of whom'd be of the more orange persuasion, and they get on fine.
Having different cultures does not have to mean not getting on.
Irish independence was originally a middle-class protestant cause and many of the well-known names involved in gaining that independence were protestant.
I think you're confusing "independance" and "wanting to be able to bully anyone they like with no fear of public opinion". Rather like today's "Loyalists": their cause was one of convienience in which only a few intellectuals had any genuine interest. Most people, then and now, would prefer them all to piss off and leave them to earning enough cash to retire on.
They'd have a lot more seats and influence for a start - ~25%.
Yes, and zero influence on the EU, just like the people in Northern Ireland. Big deal! Ireland votes the "wrong way"? Have another vote. Keep on having votes until they give in and vote the "right way". Still, as long as the hand-outs keep coming who gives a toss about independance now, eh?
And btw, I have a protestant dutch father, and i've lived in scotland. :)
I have a mildly protestant Northern Irish family, I'm an athest and my girlfriend's family is Catholic and we live (at the moment) in Surrey although we would move to NI if the government ever decided to lock the criminals up (again) and stop pretending that crack sellers are politically motivated.
TWW
High-quality paper is always made with linen, cotton and other natural fibres. It is a common misunderstanding that "paper" is synonymous with "wood pulp".
TWW
That's for Eire, or The Republic of Ireland, which has the same sort of relationship to Northern Ireland as the US has to Canada: same language, common border, totally different culture.
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and is much closer culturally to Scotland, even down to its internal religion-based troubles, than to "The South".
TWW
ANSWER: they can't.
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TWW
There's an Opera 6 bug regarding the margin (hence the -30)
I've coded against Opera for a long time now and never encountered this. Is that astroturf I smell?
TWW
I've not had any trouble with Flash on Linux Opera. I know a lot of people have had trouble with Java but, since I've yet to see a Java app worth running, I always have it switched off anyway so I don't know.
TWW
When Sony rolled their first non-Japan machine, the LV-1901, out to the US it had a 1hr record time in late '75. By late '77 they had pushed that up to 2hrs and by mid '78 they reached 3hrs on the LV-1901. Blah blah blah. It doesn't really matter: the machines and tapes where too expensive and their complexity made getting service hard while the picture and sound quality difference was not enough to matter to Joe Public. The introduction of high-quality slow-mo and freeze-frame helped but VHS caught up in that area quite quickly as I recall.
After all, if VHS offered no advantages whatsoever (as you appear to believe)
What part of "Betamax was too expensive" are you having trouble with?
TWW
When Beta launched to could record 2hrs which was enough for most movies at the time and it later extended beyond 3hrs. I don't think this was as important as the cost.
It was originally incapable of being used to tape anything much longer than Seinfeld, and at its peak managed to record no more than about an hour.
How do you think video rental places worked with Beta?
TWW
This is classic Urban Myth revisionism: the writer gets his kicks by simply labelling any common, but old and hard to prove if you weren't there, knowledge as "an Urban Myth" and then sells it to gullible editors.
Complete crap from start to end, just like his insane assertion that the PC was better than the alternatives - what a toss-pot.
TWW
It's called "irony". I can't believe someone modded you up for being thick.
TWW
My preference is for 50 years or life, whichever is longer. I think an artist should have the chance to pass their earnings to their children either in cash earned from work that they did early in their life (the stuff that is caught by "life" in the above formula) or in the form of copyright in material they created near the end of their life (the "50 years" bit). Just "life" seems unfair on people that snuff it just after doing something which goes on to being really popular and just "x years" leaves people in the position of losing control of their work and possibly seeing it totally ripped off (like Robert Crumb and "Keep on Truckin'") in their lifetime which must be a source of real bitterness in some cases.
On the other hand, I'd really like to have seen Tolkien and Milne's works passed into the public domain as soon as they died because their children frankly abused their inheritance. Disney should not be in control of Winnie The Pooh and a talentless hack like Jackson should not be left as the definitive LotR director for the forseeable future.
TWW
If students with a GPS system do 99 crop circles and there's one where you don't know how they did it, it just means that you're smarter than only 99% of students that make crop circles.
TWW
It's also worth remebering who we are: apes that have evolved somewhat but hardly to perfection. Our brains are good at working with trees, animals, running, hunting, talking, calculating etc. but are susceptible even after training to making strange interpretations of things in the sky, which is not our natural habitat. You don't have to be a liar or a fool to be thrown off by lights in the sky. I have lived near airports for years have often watched distant aircraft at night and seen the tricks caused by only being able to see the lights and not the airframe.
I once looked out of my living room window and thought I saw a spacecraft hovering over the bay with a thin trail of smoke coming out of the top left corner. I really thought that this was it - aliens had arrived in broad daylight! In the space of about two or three seconds the object turned and my brain finally managed to work out that a large grey-green object suspended in the air is called a "helicopter" and that the "smoke" was the rotor seen almost edge-on. I continued to watch the army doing their training exercise but that was the point when I really started to wonder about UFO's. If I had seen that in a situation where I couldn't just stand and watch until my brain caught up, or if it had been night and no further clues had been visible, I would have been one of those people that have seen alien craft "with my own eyes". And, I would have thought that because my faith at that point was that there really were UFO's to be seen. If I hadn't had that faith perhaps I would have seen a fiery chariot or a starcase to heaven or a cloud or whatever my brain initially tried to categorise the strange shape as.
Food for thought.
TWW