Can you give some better source for these statistics? As someone from the UK they look bizarre to me.
For instance this site reports survival rates for prostate cancer as USA 88%, UK 70%.
I wonder how old these statistics are after finding the following on another site;
"The estimated relative five-year survival rate for women diagnosed in England and Wales in 2001-2003 was 80 per cent, compared with only 52 per cent for women diagnosed in 1971-1975..."
Also, while it is common practice to quote statistics for the USA vs the UK, the British NHS has been underfunded for a long time and is only now catching up in a lot of areas. Many other European state funded systems have far better statistics.
The only man who never lusted after a woman (or a man), was Jesus Christ.
I think you just committed heresy there. The whole point of 'God becoming man' is negated unless Jesus became a real man with all the fears and lusts that is part of being a man. If he didn't experience those then he did not do what the Bible claims.
I think it is a shame that Jesus did not, according to the Bible anyway, get married and raise kids. If he had then the Bible would be a much better source of guidance for couples and parents. As it is most religious teaching on this subject is very much a guess about what Jesus actually believed.
Overall there is just no good teaching for kids. Official sex education is pretty bad, porn is pretty bad but less boring. Between the two there ought to be some more honest and thoughtfull matrial about sex but our societies don't allow it to exist.
In a discussion on a usenet group someone who had worked on nuclear weapons denied this. He said smaller yields can be obtained and said "we call these failures".
Could this event be a test that was not completely successful and did not release the full energy of the critical mass ?
To me the debate about Swing vs SWT is far more important than Netbeans vs Eclipse vs JBuilder vd Idea.
I can change my IDE in a week or two but my choice of GUI toolkit will probably influence my code for years. Even if I eventually decide I have made the wrong choice it will be a lot of work to change my existing code.
I am personally in the Swing camp. Since about 1.3 the performance I have seen is fine. Wherever we thought we had a problem with performance it turned out, on analysis, to be excessive object creation not the GUI, which people had been too quick to blame.
Despite that I think defining Swing as the standard Gui implementation was a mistake. The standard Gui should be defineds as an *Interface* which could have different implemetations. I would particularly like to see the graphic card manufacturers given the opportunity to boost Gui performance.
Ooops, here are the links; http://media.guardian.co.uk/firstnight/sto ry/0,111 31,892731,00.html and http://www.bbc.co.uk/manch ester/features/2003/02/0 7/second_coming.shtml
Davies is also (IMHO) the writer of the best TV drama to be seen in the UK for many years. the Second Coming, broadcast earlier this year, portrays the chillingly believable story of the second coming of the son of God to the northern UK city of Manchester. There are no cop outs, this really is the son of God, and everything follows naturally from that.
Here is a list of reviews and here is a brief description of the plot.
I liked it enough to buy the DVD, where the writer and director's commentary revealed he is a Buffy fan, and then buy another copy when I lost the first one.
UK SF fans used to be quite involved in postal Diplomacy. One of them was late orgsanising his moves once and sent a telegram to a potential ally reading "suggest we join forces for an attack on Liverpool".
He spent the following day deep in conversation with gentlemen wearing black raincoats.
My experience was just the reverse. NeWS absolutely flew on machines that ran X very slowly. Note that this was original NeWS not the later NeWS/X11 hybrid.
A friend of mine claimed to have seen NeWS running on an Atari via a serial cable and said that also ran very fast.
NeWS had an advantage in low bandwidth environments because the bulk of the client side could be downloaded and stored on the client for multiple uses.
The other potential capabilities that I liked, but which were never developed, were that you could cut and paste graphics between apps and you could also have designed your UI using a choice of graphics design tools.
I still hope that something like NeWS evolves to make use of the new graphics chips, when we are not busy rendering Hollywood movies that is:)
Would it really improve if someone took it and came out with Toccata & Fuge 1.1?
This does actually happen in the music industry. A recent BBC radio documentary pointed out that the Beatles and the Stones based a lot of their early music on American Jazz (and even recommended the original recordings to audiences).
The questions that arise from this are;
Should people like Muddy Waters have received a share of their income ?
Why has no Open Source based business broken through to the kind of success enjoyed by those groups ?
Not only are the awards voted on by fans they also make the rules.
The rules covering the Hugos are determined by the Worldcon business meeting which is open to all attendees who may propose and vote on amendments. Any amendment has to be ratified at next years convention which may be thousands of miles away but that is intended to prevent any local group packing the meeting.
In practice nobody has ever been able to come up with a definition which seperates SF and Fantasy. How, for instance, would you classify 'Jack of Shadows' where magic works in one hemisphere of the planet and Science in the other ?
I voted for the Harry Potter in second place, and I while think it is good enough to get a Hugo, this was a weak year for the novel. Last year I was torn between 'A Deepness in the Sky' and 'Cryptonomicon'.
I think 'Look to Windward ' by Iain M. Banks and the film 'Memento' are eligible next year so I'm going to nominate them if possible.
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Can you give some better source for these statistics? As someone from the UK they look bizarre to me.
For instance this site reports survival rates for prostate cancer as USA 88%, UK 70%.
I wonder how old these statistics are after finding the following on another site;
"The estimated relative five-year survival rate for women diagnosed in England and Wales in 2001-2003 was 80 per cent, compared with only 52 per cent for women diagnosed in 1971-1975..."
Also, while it is common practice to quote statistics for the USA vs the UK, the British NHS has been underfunded for a long time and is only now catching up in a lot of areas. Many other European state funded systems have far better statistics.
I think you just committed heresy there. The whole point of 'God becoming man' is negated unless Jesus became a real man with all the fears and lusts that is part of being a man. If he didn't experience those then he did not do what the Bible claims.
I think it is a shame that Jesus did not, according to the Bible anyway, get married and raise kids. If he had then the Bible would be a much better source of guidance for couples and parents. As it is most religious teaching on this subject is very much a guess about what Jesus actually believed.
Overall there is just no good teaching for kids. Official sex education is pretty bad, porn is pretty bad but less boring. Between the two there ought to be some more honest and thoughtfull matrial about sex but our societies don't allow it to exist.
Is here. His comment begins "All right, now I have to jump in and set the record straight"
Can anybody translate the Japanese here; http://ezaurus.com/ and here ; http://ezaurus.com/lineup/sl/index.html#slc3000
to provide more details ?
There are other pages linked off these.
Could you use a large conventional explosion, which this now appears to be, to mask the signature of an underground nuclear test ?
In a discussion on a usenet group someone who had worked on nuclear weapons denied this. He said smaller yields can be obtained and said "we call these failures". Could this event be a test that was not completely successful and did not release the full energy of the critical mass ?
To me the debate about Swing vs SWT is far more important than Netbeans vs Eclipse vs JBuilder vd Idea.
I can change my IDE in a week or two but my choice of GUI toolkit will probably influence my code for years. Even if I eventually decide I have made the wrong choice it will be a lot of work to change my existing code.
I am personally in the Swing camp. Since about 1.3 the performance I have seen is fine. Wherever we thought we had a problem with performance it turned out, on analysis, to be excessive object creation not the GUI, which people had been too quick to blame.
Despite that I think defining Swing as the standard Gui implementation was a mistake. The standard Gui should be defineds as an *Interface* which could have different implemetations. I would particularly like to see the graphic card manufacturers given the opportunity to boost Gui performance.
Ooops, here are the links;o ry/0,111 31,892731,00.htmlh ester/features/2003/02/0 7/second_coming.shtml
http://media.guardian.co.uk/firstnight/st
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manc
Davies is also (IMHO) the writer of the best TV drama to be seen in the UK for many years.
the Second Coming, broadcast earlier this year, portrays the chillingly believable story of the second coming of the son of God to the northern UK city of Manchester.
There are no cop outs, this really is the son of God, and everything follows naturally from that.
Here is a list of reviews and here is a brief description of the plot. I liked it enough to buy the DVD, where the writer and director's commentary revealed he is a Buffy fan, and then buy another copy when I lost the first one.
This makes investing in SCO actually look a pretty good deal.
If they win (fat chance) you make a bundle. If they lose you sue Ren and make a bundle.
The SMS usage I see takes place on trains and buses.
An enormous number of kids seem to spend their entire journey texting each other. It's cheap and nobody can overhear them.
In the US traveling by car is the norm where it isn't so socialy acceptable to ignore everyone around you and just sit there texting.
I remember working for a company which was trying to sell computer hardware to an organisation developing a system like this.
The system had a plant recognition benchmark we had to run. It was calibrated in 'cabbages per second'.
This warning is about 40 years too late.
UK SF fans used to be quite involved in postal Diplomacy. One of them was late orgsanising his moves once and sent a telegram to a potential ally reading "suggest we join forces for an attack on Liverpool".
He spent the following day deep in conversation with gentlemen wearing black raincoats.
My experience was just the reverse. NeWS absolutely flew on machines that ran X very slowly. Note that this was original NeWS not the later NeWS/X11 hybrid.
:)
A friend of mine claimed to have seen NeWS running on an Atari via a serial cable and said that also ran very fast.
NeWS had an advantage in low bandwidth environments because the bulk of the client side could be downloaded and stored on the client for multiple uses.
The other potential capabilities that I liked, but which were never developed, were that you could cut and paste graphics between apps and you could also have designed your UI using a choice of graphics design tools.
I still hope that something like NeWS evolves to make use of the new graphics chips, when we are not busy rendering Hollywood movies that is
Would it really improve if someone took it and came out with Toccata & Fuge 1.1?
This does actually happen in the music industry. A recent BBC radio documentary pointed out that the Beatles and the Stones based a lot of their early music on American Jazz (and even recommended the original recordings to audiences).
The questions that arise from this are;
Should people like Muddy Waters have received a share of their income ?
Why has no Open Source based business broken through to the kind of success enjoyed by those groups ?
So I can find my TV remote !
Not only are the awards voted on by fans they also make the rules.
The rules covering the Hugos are determined by the Worldcon business meeting which is open to all attendees who may propose and vote on amendments. Any amendment has to be ratified at next years convention which may be thousands of miles away but that is intended to prevent any local group packing the meeting.
In practice nobody has ever been able to come up with a definition which seperates SF and Fantasy. How, for instance, would you classify 'Jack of Shadows' where magic works in one hemisphere of the planet and Science in the other ?
I voted for the Harry Potter in second place, and I while think it is good enough to get a Hugo, this was a weak year for the novel. Last year I was torn between 'A Deepness in the Sky' and 'Cryptonomicon'.
I think 'Look to Windward ' by Iain M. Banks and the film 'Memento' are eligible next year so I'm going to nominate them if possible.