I only visited Manchester (and Cumberton / Sellafield, beautiful country, by the way) once, but I didn't see much evidence of cultural diversity in the streets of elsewhere, i.e., I saw 95% white people.
You obviously never went to Rochdale (near Manchester), Brixton (in London), Southall (near London), St Pauls (in Bristol).
Hell in Southall the street signs are written in Urdu, for crying out loud.
The point in the article regarding the Television Licensing Authority is that they have the right to check your home for a television.
The reason for this?
The BBC, instead of using advertising on it's channels charges an annual fee to viewers (around £80 per household). The methods they employ to enforce it, from my experience are as follows:
The Send a letter stating that they don't have a record of a license to each address. In the letter they include the application form for the license and a reply-paid form which allows you to state that you do not own a television at that address.
Those who state that they don't have a television might have a "television detector van" pass down their street more often than not or they might get a doorstep visit from a TLA agent... (I had one of these, when I didn't have a television... you can just turn them away.) I've never known of a case where they broke into a home to check. I did, however, hear of someone winning a case by stating that although he had a television he refused to watch the BBC channels - could just be an urban legend.
I do think that you extrapolate too far.
The point of the article is that, in Britain, we don't seem to care too much. I suppose that if a right-wing dictator were to get into power in the UK then we'd have a real problem, because the surveilance infrastructure would already be there for it's abuse, but then we have the oldest democracy in the world yet still have a monarch with the technical authority to overturn government.
Your assertion that Britain is one race is seriously flawed, come to the UK sometime. We are three countries each with distinct cultures, we have many naturalised British who originate from many areas of the former British Empire. We do have racial problems. We have had a few riots in the past ten years, because of racial tensions.
We've come out of a weekend where there was another suspected RIRA bomb in North London and you ask me how this CCTV puts me at ease?
The RIRA wouldn't be able to bomb the City of London, because of CCTV... I'm sure they would have rather bombed Mount Pleasant (The Main PO) instead of the small sorting office that they eventually targeted.
The internet is built in such a way that it is capable of adaptiing.
The reason that routers are slow is that there isn't enough reasonable route summarisation that is relevant to a global basis.
This will fix itself over time as the internet is built in such a way that it can adapt itself in an evolutionary fashion. Very much as open source can do the same.
Is *BSD, or Linux distributions such as Slackware, Suse or Madrake for that matter, ready for the desktop at all?
How you approach this question really depends on who you are. For a normal everyday user I would say that none of the Open Source Operating Systems (OSOS) are really ready for normal desktop use.
Yet for the type of person who likes to open up their boxes, do their own upgrades, compile their own software and fiddle with the kernel then the chances are that these OSOS are ideal for them.
Gnome and KDE are, I'm sure, making great ground in making the desktop a reality for the average user on an OSOS machine. But, to be honest both these projects are so riddled with bugs that it's not going to take long before the average user returns to the (not necessary better) familiar Windows or MacOS look and feel.
Just my thoughts, on-topic, not-flamebait, and really not trying to troll... may be full of lack of insight and completely uninsteresting, but there you go.
While the 2.5 talks are going on, at the rate their releasing kernels, 2.7 will be out while they speak about 2.5.
For starters major releases are always delayed.
Minor releases on the stable kernel are only bug fixes, and minor updates, they don't add features to the kernel.
I don't want to have to wait three months for a bug fix thank you very much.
It's just not possible for anyone to "release 2.7" before "2.5" - you seem to think that Linux kernel development is really muddled.
I can only assume that you're a BSD zealot, as some of your other posts lately have been quite reasonable. If this is the case why not just ease up a little and keep your posts to the BSD area until you've done adequate research to base your arguments on fact.
Anyone else annoyed that it's been cut? There's no robots fighting here, just half an hour before they wake up the astronauts on the space station. I doubt that will have much action.
hmmmm.. yes it would be very bad if one company sponsered and entire faculty, but this wasn't what I was trying to say.
I think work experience is very important. I'd like to see Microsoft, Sun, RedHat, and whatever sponsoring say 5/10/15 places each.
Students will then learn not just the theory, but it's application.
University, for me, was a real bore, and didn't prepare me for the real tech world at all. I just don't want to see others wasting their time on stupid things that they keep in the courses. Putting the students out there for a year to actually work accomplishes this - and hey we can't all afford the tuition fees let alone the living expenses these days, taking a year off to earn some hard cash and getting sponsership from a corporate entity is probably required, especially in the UK, possibly more so in the US.
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It's a bit silly to hold these matches in Spain, isn't it?
These matches should be held in Cyberspace (oooooh - I cringe at the word)
The exchange of bandwidth between the two partys is minimal, the TCP/IP headers themselves outweigh the data for each move.
I do wish that Everything would just get a bit faster....
Who manages the site? Are they working on a 56k modem or something?
I'll be happy to offer advice on their bandwidth.
Actually Direct Debit
and the amount is so small that I don't really notice it...
Northern Ireland is a province, not a country.
Sad, but true.
I only visited Manchester (and Cumberton / Sellafield, beautiful country, by the way) once, but I didn't see much evidence of cultural diversity in the streets of elsewhere, i.e., I saw 95% white people.
You obviously never went to Rochdale (near Manchester), Brixton (in London), Southall (near London), St Pauls (in Bristol).
Hell in Southall the street signs are written in Urdu, for crying out loud.
Heh...
Some of our most senior police chiefs in Britain have campaigned for the legalisation of Marijuana...
Their justification?
They want to spend time on real crimes.
You Sir, are an...
The point in the article regarding the Television Licensing Authority is that they have the right to check your home for a television.
The reason for this?
The BBC, instead of using advertising on it's channels charges an annual fee to viewers (around £80 per household). The methods they employ to enforce it, from my experience are as follows:
The Send a letter stating that they don't have a record of a license to each address. In the letter they include the application form for the license and a reply-paid form which allows you to state that you do not own a television at that address.
Those who state that they don't have a television might have a "television detector van" pass down their street more often than not or they might get a doorstep visit from a TLA agent... (I had one of these, when I didn't have a television... you can just turn them away.) I've never known of a case where they broke into a home to check. I did, however, hear of someone winning a case by stating that although he had a television he refused to watch the BBC channels - could just be an urban legend.
I do think that you extrapolate too far.
The point of the article is that, in Britain, we don't seem to care too much. I suppose that if a right-wing dictator were to get into power in the UK then we'd have a real problem, because the surveilance infrastructure would already be there for it's abuse, but then we have the oldest democracy in the world yet still have a monarch with the technical authority to overturn government.
Your assertion that Britain is one race is seriously flawed, come to the UK sometime. We are three countries each with distinct cultures, we have many naturalised British who originate from many areas of the former British Empire. We do have racial problems. We have had a few riots in the past ten years, because of racial tensions.
We've come out of a weekend where there was another suspected RIRA bomb in North London and you ask me how this CCTV puts me at ease?
The RIRA wouldn't be able to bomb the City of London, because of CCTV... I'm sure they would have rather bombed Mount Pleasant (The Main PO) instead of the small sorting office that they eventually targeted.
I do feel safer, because of this.
blooody hell
karma to kill...
bully for you...
Actually, the majority of your articles are years old.... amazing what you can find on the internet, isn't it.
I would like to belive you, but the timestamps just don't figure...
No one ever wants to be the first to say that we're in a "recession".... just for marketing reasons.... but the fact is....
we all know we are really/B?
The pentium 4 offers no new ingenuity into the buisness///
It's just another marketing hike onto the world of no where.
Kind of what is exactly hitting the business as a whole is lack of real ingenuity.
Come on, revive the whole industry with real foresight like we saw in the early nineties.
I doubt it....
lamers....
The internet is built in such a way that it is capable of adaptiing.
The reason that routers are slow is that there isn't enough reasonable route summarisation that is relevant to a global basis.
This will fix itself over time as the internet is built in such a way that it can adapt itself in an evolutionary fashion. Very much as open source can do the same.
Stop worrying...
Let the "corporate entities" sort it all out...
I'm laughing.... are you a troll?
The AF on avian carriers beats this hands down.
Not to mention the follow-up RFC update with QoS
I assume this is another April fool...
Moderators... this is not flamebait... this is pointing at lack of journatlistic standards.
Seriously.... don't you spellcheck stuff that goes on the front page?
who cannot spell maybe.
Is *BSD, or Linux distributions such as Slackware, Suse or Madrake for that matter, ready for the desktop at all?
How you approach this question really depends on who you are. For a normal everyday user I would say that none of the Open Source Operating Systems (OSOS) are really ready for normal desktop use.
Yet for the type of person who likes to open up their boxes, do their own upgrades, compile their own software and fiddle with the kernel then the chances are that these OSOS are ideal for them.
Gnome and KDE are, I'm sure, making great ground in making the desktop a reality for the average user on an OSOS machine. But, to be honest both these projects are so riddled with bugs that it's not going to take long before the average user returns to the (not necessary better) familiar Windows or MacOS look and feel.
Just my thoughts, on-topic, not-flamebait, and really not trying to troll... may be full of lack of insight and completely uninsteresting, but there you go.
What are you on?
While the 2.5 talks are going on, at the rate their releasing kernels, 2.7 will be out while they speak about 2.5.
For starters major releases are always delayed.
Minor releases on the stable kernel are only bug fixes, and minor updates, they don't add features to the kernel.
I don't want to have to wait three months for a bug fix thank you very much.
It's just not possible for anyone to "release 2.7" before "2.5" - you seem to think that Linux kernel development is really muddled.
I can only assume that you're a BSD zealot, as some of your other posts lately have been quite reasonable. If this is the case why not just ease up a little and keep your posts to the BSD area until you've done adequate research to base your arguments on fact.
Yes,
:-)
You're right about the application of Pascal to demonstrate the concepts of programming.
top-down design or bottom-up? I cannot remember anymore it was so long ago.
I thought about mentioning that in the original post, but then... I have a point to make
Linux is not US Software, it is from Finland.
about time you changed your sig...
Anyone else annoyed that it's been cut? There's no robots fighting here, just half an hour before they wake up the astronauts on the space station. I doubt that will have much action.
Yep... I was watching too... then we lost sound, video, and now we're on board the shuttle...
hmmmm.. yes it would be very bad if one company sponsered and entire faculty, but this wasn't what I was trying to say.
I think work experience is very important. I'd like to see Microsoft, Sun, RedHat, and whatever sponsoring say 5/10/15 places each.
Students will then learn not just the theory, but it's application.
University, for me, was a real bore, and didn't prepare me for the real tech world at all. I just don't want to see others wasting their time on stupid things that they keep in the courses. Putting the students out there for a year to actually work accomplishes this - and hey we can't all afford the tuition fees let alone the living expenses these days, taking a year off to earn some hard cash and getting sponsership from a corporate entity is probably required, especially in the UK, possibly more so in the US.