# to offer adoption instead of feticide to women with unwanted unborn children ("thou shalt not kill"), # to recommend execution of people convicted of murder who have lost their appeal ("a life for a life"), and
Hmm, don't these contradict each other? How can you execute someone without killing?
....as the Bill in question has only been passed by the House of Commons. It's got to go before the House of Lords yet. Many commentators think it is not going to do too well there. So Brown will force it through with the parliament act.
They plant a tree, everyone's happy. 10 years later, someone else comes along and chops down the tree to make some paper (or worse, burns the tree down for room for cattle)
Indeed, however tobacco killed over 10 times more people than terrorism in the USA alone in September 2001. In the first week of July 2005, 52 people died on the London Underground. 61 people died on UK roads. One of those events had wall to wall media coverage, and people decided to commute by road rather than tube as it was "safer". An order of magnitude more people died on London roads in 2005 than on London public transport. The more bombings you get, the less people are bothered, its when something unsual happens -- like when the IRA murdered two kids in Warrington in 93, that people are shocked and will change their lives slightly. Everyone I knew was back in Manchester the week after the 96 bomb, it was just one of those things that had was a (not so) slim chance of happening to a given person, like car crashes or smoking.
I own a tiny Citroen, which although nearly 20 years old still gets 45 miles per UK Gallon (10 miles per litre). I recently went to Canada (BC) though, and we hired a Ford Escape. It was ridiculously overpowered, but the gas was so cheap ($1.30/litre -- that's about 30% less than the UK). Still, we took it up some forest roads and through some ditches that my little car at home wouldn't have a hope in hell of thinking about, but that was just for fun -- there's no way I'd drive one for normal use.
However, we stayed in some communities in the middle of nowhere where people had battered pickup trucks, which I guess you need when your driveway gets washed out several times a year and you have to drag a tree out of the way. These are the minority though, and hardly anyone there had SUVs, most of the ones we saw were in Vancouver, and the only Hummers we saw were in Vancouver.
actually, you should be impressed with us spy satellite technology: it can swoop down into the atmosphere for closer looks;-) Or perhaps Chinese fighters that can reach low orbit?
Microsoft created that capability only with Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate. Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Home Premium are unable to downgrade to Windows XP. But can they upgrade from Vista to XP?
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I've just installed a 710 server through apt-cacher. It went fine. I then tried installing 300k of debs I'd not used before and it crawled. That was using gb.ubuntu
The solution is simple: Only take things you absolutely have to when you go or from to the United States. It's easier than that. Don't go to the United States. It's a dying country and a dying economy anyway.
You can do so much if you control the hardware, yet you'll never climb out of the niche market. Yes, after all noone's heard of the ipod, it's a niche market. Don't get me started on that mobile phone fad either.
Right now I can kill my Linux install by moving PCI cards from slot to slot in my tower. While that doesn't sound very good (I assume you arent moving your disk controller to a non-working slot, I'm not sure any software could recover from that), it's hardly something the inlaws would do.
The OP said it couldn't be simpler. He didn't say windows was simpler. Simpler would be to buy the monitor from the store, and a little robot takes it home for you and connects it before you get out of the car. That's not going to happen, so we have to get to a point between editing xorg.conf and the robot thing.
We're now at a 15 minute walkthrough for dummies. It's better, but still not good enough. Windows has it down to a "works some of the time if you've got the right drivers and enable the right screen at the right time". If you do have the right drivers, it's easier that Linux. If you don't, theres nowhere like ubuntuforums to go for help.
Joe sixpack doesn't know what a driver is, and with Linux he doesn't need to. He plugs it in and it works, as the drivers that do work are almost always included in the system. I recently bought a HP laserjet. I plugged it in (USB) to my laptop, and before I moved the mouse to the "administration" menu, a bubble popped up saying my printer was ready for use. Clicked File/Print, selected the printer from the dropdown*
I did this on SWMBO's fully-uptodate XP laptop, and I had to go to the HP site, find the right part, select the right drivers, agere to a legal agreement, download and install.
Ubuntu could still be simpler, it could have detected that my other (network) printers I had installed were offline, detected that I'd just plugged in a new printer, and changed my default printer to the HP.
Windows could be a hell of a lot simpler, I shouldn't need to insert a CD (into a laptop with no internal CD drive) or visit a website to install a driver. The OS should do this for me.
Or maybe German math education is better than American math education? I don't think the three R's are taught in American schools anymore. Righteousness, Rhetoric and Religion?
If I watch a programme on ITV, but don't buy the products advertised, I don't get taken to court. That's the difference between commercial TV and the BBC. Yes it is, that's a way of enforcing a license fee though. You could also add it to general taxation, but then the government has more influence with the BBC, and people that dont watch TV have to pay. On the otherhand it's a more "progressive" tax if you throw it on income tax, so the poor pay less (unless it's a labour government). A license fee is effectivly a flat tax which so many on slashdot think is a great thing.
I don't see why the licence fee can't fund individual programmes rather than channels. Because there would be an uproar from joe-twelvepack. They dont watch "pompus junk" like Planet Earth
So the licence would pay for Planet Earth, Life in Cold Blood etc, but they'd have to put adverts in the shit like the Andrew Lloyd-Webber adverts^W talent shows. The most popular ones? If the BBC only did what you and I consider good shows (would you put Doctor Who in the license-fee category?), the majority of the country wouldn't pay. In effect, populist, cheap, crap like Eastenders subsidises Planet Earth.
And British TV as a whole would be better off if they cut off the BBC3/4, ITV2/3/4/2+1 E4, More4, E4+1 and all those other pointless channels, and instead gave more bandwidth to the main channels so they weren't full of compression artifacts. Most people dont care about picture quality. Besides, when there's bandwidth available, the regulators wouldn't allow it to be used for higher-bitrate transmissions, and instead would insist on 15 channels of roulette.
Thing is, back when I used linux full time (99-2003) I didn't own a house. I didn't have kids. I enjoyed building my own computers and futzing around with configuration and getting packages to build for hours or days at a time. Now I've got kids, a house to maintain, and little or no free time. Ironically that's the exact reason I dont use windows at home. And why my inlaws have recently moved to linux. I dont have time to do anything when I'm at home, I get to spend time on the train reading slashdot, and I spend all day working with computers, but the only computer-related things we do at home are 1) Watch TV (mythtv) 2) Banking 3) Looking up occasional facts on wikipedia etc.
I dont have the time to admin a windows box, let alone the inlaw's box. I dont have time to play PC games (although we're getting a wii and a few controllers). A mac might well work, but I've got a macbook pro at work, and it's a right pain. I hate the trackpad, and I dont spend enough time on it to customise it correctly. Hell, I tried to install VLC the other day, haven't got a clue how to get it working in safari or firefox. It just works with linux.
At the moment the shows I am interested in are: Dr. Who, Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica, and Terminator. Yes, I am a card carrying geek! Half those shows are BBC production. You pay for X-Factor though, everytime you buy something from Tesco.
I still say the market should decide. Yep, we lose great shows like Firefly, but it's only a show, not the end of the world. The market decides and we get wall to wall cheap reality TV and soaps. Arguably not watching TV is laudable, but you'd still pay because you buy products from companies that advertise. Even if you dont, other people spend their money on advertising rather than on the economy. Advertising isn't productive, it's not like the building industry, where at the end you get a product you can use. It's not like the entertainment industry, where you get a product you can use. It's like the finance industry, a necessary evil, but one which does no real good for the world.
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# to offer adoption instead of feticide to women with unwanted unborn children ("thou shalt not kill"),
# to recommend execution of people convicted of murder who have lost their appeal ("a life for a life"), and
Hmm, don't these contradict each other? How can you execute someone without killing?
....as the Bill in question has only been passed by the House of Commons. It's got to go before the House of Lords yet. Many commentators think it is not going to do too well there. So Brown will force it through with the parliament act.They plant a tree, everyone's happy. 10 years later, someone else comes along and chops down the tree to make some paper (or worse, burns the tree down for room for cattle)
Indeed, however tobacco killed over 10 times more people than terrorism in the USA alone in September 2001. In the first week of July 2005, 52 people died on the London Underground. 61 people died on UK roads. One of those events had wall to wall media coverage, and people decided to commute by road rather than tube as it was "safer". An order of magnitude more people died on London roads in 2005 than on London public transport. The more bombings you get, the less people are bothered, its when something unsual happens -- like when the IRA murdered two kids in Warrington in 93, that people are shocked and will change their lives slightly. Everyone I knew was back in Manchester the week after the 96 bomb, it was just one of those things that had was a (not so) slim chance of happening to a given person, like car crashes or smoking.
I own a tiny Citroen, which although nearly 20 years old still gets 45 miles per UK Gallon (10 miles per litre). I recently went to Canada (BC) though, and we hired a Ford Escape. It was ridiculously overpowered, but the gas was so cheap ($1.30/litre -- that's about 30% less than the UK). Still, we took it up some forest roads and through some ditches that my little car at home wouldn't have a hope in hell of thinking about, but that was just for fun -- there's no way I'd drive one for normal use.
However, we stayed in some communities in the middle of nowhere where people had battered pickup trucks, which I guess you need when your driveway gets washed out several times a year and you have to drag a tree out of the way. These are the minority though, and hardly anyone there had SUVs, most of the ones we saw were in Vancouver, and the only Hummers we saw were in Vancouver.
Wow, that's awful, so soon after the last issue?
Instead, you build the query inside special tags, and the interpreter can keep an eye out for errant quotes.
It's called a prepared statement
About half a cup of coffee
I've just installed a 710 server through apt-cacher. It went fine. I then tried installing 300k of debs I'd not used before and it crawled. That was using gb.ubuntu
I dont recommend it.
Face it, traditional PCs are the niche market.
The OP said it couldn't be simpler. He didn't say windows was simpler. Simpler would be to buy the monitor from the store, and a little robot takes it home for you and connects it before you get out of the car. That's not going to happen, so we have to get to a point between editing xorg.conf and the robot thing.
We're now at a 15 minute walkthrough for dummies. It's better, but still not good enough. Windows has it down to a "works some of the time if you've got the right drivers and enable the right screen at the right time". If you do have the right drivers, it's easier that Linux. If you don't, theres nowhere like ubuntuforums to go for help.
Joe sixpack doesn't know what a driver is, and with Linux he doesn't need to. He plugs it in and it works, as the drivers that do work are almost always included in the system. I recently bought a HP laserjet. I plugged it in (USB) to my laptop, and before I moved the mouse to the "administration" menu, a bubble popped up saying my printer was ready for use. Clicked File/Print, selected the printer from the dropdown*
I did this on SWMBO's fully-uptodate XP laptop, and I had to go to the HP site, find the right part, select the right drivers, agere to a legal agreement, download and install.
Ubuntu could still be simpler, it could have detected that my other (network) printers I had installed were offline, detected that I'd just plugged in a new printer, and changed my default printer to the HP.
Windows could be a hell of a lot simpler, I shouldn't need to insert a CD (into a laptop with no internal CD drive) or visit a website to install a driver. The OS should do this for me.
Because without others they wouldn't be rich. They'd have to clean their own toilets, make their own food, shoot each other themselves...
1) Watch TV (mythtv)
2) Banking
3) Looking up occasional facts on wikipedia etc.
I dont have the time to admin a windows box, let alone the inlaw's box. I dont have time to play PC games (although we're getting a wii and a few controllers). A mac might well work, but I've got a macbook pro at work, and it's a right pain. I hate the trackpad, and I dont spend enough time on it to customise it correctly. Hell, I tried to install VLC the other day, haven't got a clue how to get it working in safari or firefox. It just works with linux.