I'm the opposite. I had a bad NTL experience in the midlands, never able to get customer service, then the introduction of the stupid 3-2-1 tarrif which I never accepted.
When I moved to Yorks I stuck with BT, but unable to get DSL took BlueYonder for broadband only. When ADSL became available I negotiated a cheaper rate even though I wouldn't take Telewest phone service; cos otherwise I'd go ADSL.
Lately I tried to do the unmetered calls with Telewest to "give them a try" as it would work out 10 per month cheaper than BT if I included the costs to get an ADSL modem and leave Blueyonder altogether.
While I could get hold of a BT sales person (well informed) in a few seconds it took 20 minutes to get a human on Telewest SALES line! So I made a "formal complaint" to see how they would handle it.
I expect a call back with the usual excuses, but not even that! A few weeks later someone phoned thinking I wanted to change service, I said I was waiting to see how the complaint was handled.
A short while after my complaint was handled with the "usual" excuse but not given in a convincing tone of voice (poor soul asked to cover up).
Consequence, no BY.
My BY cable service has been dogged by problems, I'm sick of it, and poor customer support. If I hve no service for 3 days, I'll get back 3 days rental OR my dialup paid! So at their option they can downgrade me to dialup at the same cost using MY BT PHONE LINE! That made me really mad!
So when I move (soon I hope) I'll be taking BT only and ADSL from Demon or Pipex as I don't expect they will put stupid restrictions on use of service. I can't see demon banning servers given their history.
My suggestion about tipping GM corn into the sea was not literal, it was to make the point that if the US make us buy it they can't make us eat it.
And yes, activists are vandalizing farms that trial GM food.
I've been on the bad side of too-few-police-resources so I allow myself to smile this time.
What I have described is not anarchy; supermarkets (as I said) have declared they WILL NOT use GM ingredients because the customers already feels that strongly against it.
There is also some of cousin vinnie with his baseball bat against USA and WTO trade restrictions, which as I hinted will likely force UK to take GM food even though no-one wants it.
Who, thought, judges whether or not someone understands science enough to participate in scientific decision-making?
I'm saying because the UK populace don't want GM for a variety of reasons, the scientific debate is without effect, the decision has been made - perhaps on poor basis, but thats the right of the wise man and the wise guy.
Are there risks associated with GM organisms? Yes. Will GM orgamisms destroy the world as we know it? No
And I suppose if you are wrong you'll have the good grace to blush.
Everything mankind does destroys the world as we know it.
Some people prefer the change and call it progress, some don't.
Is the sphinx better with or without the destroyed nose?
The real issue is whether or not people want them, the next issue is if their reasons are valid to them, and then if they are valid to you. But valid or not, I hope the majority vote wins and if food labelling of GM ingredients is followed the market can decide without legislation or even formal vote.
British customers do not want GM food, for variety of poor, good and debatable reasons.
But they do not want it, they want to avoid it.
Supermarkets know this and most (if not all) have declared their own brands of food will not contain GM food (apart from leaked genes no doubt).
Are any big brands going to risk using GM ingredients? I think not!
So in the UK who actually wants GM food? If anyone, it's mostly not the people eating it.
Mostly its the people who want to sell/control it.
I'm sure I don't know who they think their market is going to be whether or not they get a "green light".
And the USA can bandy around trade-threats all they like, if the UK is forced to take GM food from US based multi-nationals it will be tipped in the harbour. The fishing industry is already ruined so no danger of it entering the food chain.
I don't care so much whether or not permission be given, as long as clear labelling is a requirement.
I'm certain of this, if the food is clearly labelled with any GM ingredients, very little GM food will be grown for UK consumption whatever other endorsement may be given.
Any profit sneaky farmers may hope to get through mislabelled increased-yeild crops will be offset by burning and vandalism from anti-GM activists.
And the police are so busy these days with stretched resources, they'll all be around the inner cities when these incidents happen.
The homescreen app in the MS Smartphone has it's config specified by XML.
For speed, and to avoid parser-usage memory leaks that may exist or be introduced by improper usage of other homescreen plugin developers a seperate app loads all the homescreen plugins feeding them their xml config. This app then streams the plugins out in a binary format (each plugin must support streaming) and then quits, solvin gany memory leaks.
Then the homescreen app streams them back in and out again as needed without the xml speed hit or danger of leaks from xml parser.
The idea that people should be logged on to a workstation without their knowledge just because they were told a joke round the corner is enough to make me laugh.
Which might not be such a good idea, not so much as it a silly idea.
Logging on should always be a deliberate and considered act.
If the artists have accountants as good as the record labels they can surely manage to make a "loss" on all the tours after charging "consultancy" and "music services" etc, and having their own highly paid company of roadies, etc.
Give the record labels a taste of their own accounting!
Unless you want the prestige of a well known university (reads: I failed 2nd year of a prestigous university, if only I had studied C.S. - my real passion - instead of Electronics) UK readers could take a degree course with the Open University, you can get a degree in 3 years at 28 hours per week at a cost of less than £1000 per year, books included.
Thats what I'm doing now, except spread over 6 years to fit around my career and family life, currently in my penultimate year.
We had a redundant sotory distribution distributing to many hosts that the sum of the per-host latencies was too high when there were lots of stories that it couldn't keep up even though the CPU was idle.
Parallelizing it WAS the answer and it ran like a dream from then onwards; arrivals were more synchronized and end-to-end time was much less and CPU was more utilized.
GutenMark is excellent, once it has chapter recognition for contents table linking directly yo chapters in it's HTML output it will be top notch
If you take html output from GutenMark you can feed it to the free (as in beer, not speach) MobiPocket Publisher you can then view the resulting compressed ebook practically on any platform including the new P800 using the free mobi pocket reader.
In my schools there was no "popularity" culture. Brainy folk were somewhat revered, but not much. I suppose sport types were also revered but not much; they got to read out match reports during school assembly.
But it seems an American thing to worship sports players and cheerleaders, and I find it amazing and ridiculous.
In the UK we are more successful at being civil and otherwise ignoring eachother as irrelevant.
Withdraw the domain name? French don't control the.org registry I think; all they need to do is sell the domain name for a nominal amount "to help them recover legal costs" to someone not based in France who will continue to host the service.
Why should the French care? What if Obelix was similar to an ancient mythical Hindu character (to pick an unlikely case at random) that's been around a lot longer; it would be foolish to suggest Obelix stop being used if that occurs; (especially as far as I can tell Obelix is a play on Obelisk (those Menhir things he makes)).
By this argument Mobilix should be left alone even if it is similar, and who cares if the French get confused, what about the rest of the world. Will we stop everything if we can find one nation that has some citizens that might confused by it?
I was figuring whatever else the farmer does he only supports most of the animals while they are useful and a good few are eaten.
However in the analogy I'm not sure who is the farmer and who the animals, but it does make the consideration of who supports who a bit more meaningful.
...as Lessig shows; we can easily see who will "let us play" and who won't. Let Disney keep their "better" ball which they paid all of $1 to retain;
once we can identify all the other public domain stuff we'll leave Disney to play on their own while we have a jolly good party and rediscover all the old stuff that is worth holding on to. And that will be a good networking project; discovering promoting the "good" old stuff.
And when Disney trot out some new toy, we'll go and pay a bit of attention till it gets old and go back to ignoring Disney again and playing with all the other old stuff.
And it still has the effect of making new stuff even better if it is to get our attention in place of the public domain stuff.
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and glibc is a libc emulator and linux is a unix emulator, yawn yawn.
WINE may be an emulator by some peoples standards, to me it doesn't emulate the windows API it IS the windows API.
I'm the opposite.
I had a bad NTL experience in the midlands, never able to get customer service, then the introduction of the stupid 3-2-1 tarrif which I never accepted.
When I moved to Yorks I stuck with BT, but unable to get DSL took BlueYonder for broadband only. When ADSL became available I negotiated a cheaper rate even though I wouldn't take Telewest phone service; cos otherwise I'd go ADSL.
Lately I tried to do the unmetered calls with Telewest to "give them a try" as it would work out 10 per month cheaper than BT if I included the costs to get an ADSL modem and leave Blueyonder altogether.
While I could get hold of a BT sales person (well informed) in a few seconds it took 20 minutes to get a human on Telewest SALES line! So I made a "formal complaint" to see how they would handle it.
I expect a call back with the usual excuses, but not even that! A few weeks later someone phoned thinking I wanted to change service, I said I was waiting to see how the complaint was handled.
A short while after my complaint was handled with the "usual" excuse but not given in a convincing tone of voice (poor soul asked to cover up).
Consequence, no BY.
My BY cable service has been dogged by problems, I'm sick of it, and poor customer support. If I hve no service for 3 days, I'll get back 3 days rental OR my dialup paid! So at their option they can downgrade me to dialup at the same cost using MY BT PHONE LINE! That made me really mad!
So when I move (soon I hope) I'll be taking BT only and ADSL from Demon or Pipex as I don't expect they will put stupid restrictions on use of service. I can't see demon banning servers given their history.
Sam
Because of SCO's hobbyest delinqency I considering a swicth to deian for purity reasons.
Does debian support reiserfs, or lvm out of the box?
Or cyrptofs in the fs utils?
The only significant difference is HOW the mutations are caused - that's it!
Wrong!
The significant difference is WHO and WHY
We know the WHO (I dont mean the world health organisation), we all debate the WHY and its not for solving world hunger
My suggestion about tipping GM corn into the sea was not literal, it was to make the point that if the US make us buy it they can't make us eat it.
And yes, activists are vandalizing farms that trial GM food.
I've been on the bad side of too-few-police-resources so I allow myself to smile this time.
What I have described is not anarchy; supermarkets (as I said) have declared they WILL NOT use GM ingredients because the customers already feels that strongly against it.
There is also some of cousin vinnie with his baseball bat against USA and WTO trade restrictions, which as I hinted will likely force UK to take GM food even though no-one wants it.
And yes, cops are too busy.
Who, thought, judges whether or not someone understands science enough to participate in scientific decision-making?
I'm saying because the UK populace don't want GM for a variety of reasons, the scientific debate is without effect, the decision has been made - perhaps on poor basis, but thats the right of the wise man and the wise guy.
Sam
Are there risks associated with GM organisms? Yes. Will GM orgamisms destroy the world as we know it? No
And I suppose if you are wrong you'll have the good grace to blush.
Everything mankind does destroys the world as we know it.
Some people prefer the change and call it progress, some don't.
Is the sphinx better with or without the destroyed nose?
The real issue is whether or not people want them, the next issue is if their reasons are valid to them, and then if they are valid to you. But valid or not, I hope the majority vote wins and if food labelling of GM ingredients is followed the market can decide without legislation or even formal vote.
British customers do not want GM food, for variety of poor, good and debatable reasons.
But they do not want it, they want to avoid it.
Supermarkets know this and most (if not all) have declared their own brands of food will not contain GM food (apart from leaked genes no doubt).
Are any big brands going to risk using GM ingredients? I think not!
So in the UK who actually wants GM food? If anyone, it's mostly not the people eating it.
Mostly its the people who want to sell/control it.
I'm sure I don't know who they think their market is going to be whether or not they get a "green light".
And the USA can bandy around trade-threats all they like, if the UK is forced to take GM food from US based multi-nationals it will be tipped in the harbour. The fishing industry is already ruined so no danger of it entering the food chain.
I don't care so much whether or not permission be given, as long as clear labelling is a requirement.
I'm certain of this, if the food is clearly labelled with any GM ingredients, very little GM food will be grown for UK consumption whatever other endorsement may be given.
Any profit sneaky farmers may hope to get through mislabelled increased-yeild crops will be offset by burning and vandalism from anti-GM activists.
And the police are so busy these days with stretched resources, they'll all be around the inner cities when these incidents happen.
Its the state of the world!
The homescreen app in the MS Smartphone has it's config specified by XML.
For speed, and to avoid parser-usage memory leaks that may exist or be introduced by improper usage of other homescreen plugin developers a seperate app loads all the homescreen plugins feeding them their xml config. This app then streams the plugins out in a binary format (each plugin must support streaming) and then quits, solvin gany memory leaks.
Then the homescreen app streams them back in and out again as needed without the xml speed hit or danger of leaks from xml parser.
The idea that people should be logged on to a workstation without their knowledge just because they were told a joke round the corner is enough to make me laugh.
Which might not be such a good idea, not so much as it a silly idea.
Logging on should always be a deliberate and considered act.
If the artists have accountants as good as the record labels they can surely manage to make a "loss" on all the tours after charging "consultancy" and "music services" etc, and having their own highly paid company of roadies, etc.
Give the record labels a taste of their own accounting!
Cybersoft http://www.cybersoft.com/products/index.shtml have good recursive anti-virus products for linux
I'm a satisifed customer, it ran for all incoming emails for customers at a small ISP I worked for.
Sam
It would say more if you used less powerful machines and still did well.
If you show how well it can run on stock hardware (as opposed to buying more) it may impress more people.
That means 800MHz to 1GHz maybe?
Just a thought.
Sam
Unless you want the prestige of a well known university (reads: I failed 2nd year of a prestigous university, if only I had studied C.S. - my real passion - instead of Electronics) UK readers could take a degree course with the Open University, you can get a degree in 3 years at 28 hours per week at a cost of less than £1000 per year, books included.
Thats what I'm doing now, except spread over 6 years to fit around my career and family life, currently in my penultimate year.
Sam
We had a redundant sotory distribution distributing to many hosts that the sum of the per-host latencies was too high when there were lots of stories that it couldn't keep up even though the CPU was idle.
Parallelizing it WAS the answer and it ran like a dream from then onwards; arrivals were more synchronized and end-to-end time was much less and CPU was more utilized.
Sam
The icing on this huge cake is the email and chat without an Internet connection.
The shame is that it doesn't have an internet connection?
you can chat online (when you're not actually 'online')
Wow, thats pretty tricky
The email can be in any Indian language
No english then?
Seriously, it does look like it has everything.
I want one.
GutenMark is excellent, once it has chapter recognition for contents table linking directly yo chapters in it's HTML output it will be top notch
If you take html output from GutenMark you can feed it to the free (as in beer, not speach) MobiPocket Publisher you can then view the resulting compressed ebook practically on any platform including the new P800 using the free mobi pocket reader.
1) What are you talking about dependancy hell?
I've been using redhat for years and there is no dependancy hell, just use "up2date" it manages all dependancies perfectly well.
up2date
and it will also get any dependancies
In my schools there was no "popularity" culture.
Brainy folk were somewhat revered, but not much.
I suppose sport types were also revered but not much; they got to read out match reports during school assembly.
But it seems an American thing to worship sports players and cheerleaders, and I find it amazing and ridiculous.
In the UK we are more successful at being civil and otherwise ignoring eachother as irrelevant.
Sam
In Soviet Russia, the jokes tell YOU!
Sam
are not very efficient, and I'm told it takes more energy to manufacture one than they ever generate in their useful life.
This means solar panel factories are not solar powered, so they must be using something.
Taxing SOLAR PANELS is not so daft as they are not energy efficient (yet).
Sam
Withdraw the domain name? French don't control the .org registry I think; all they need to do is sell the domain name for a nominal amount "to help them recover legal costs" to someone not based in France who will continue to host the service.
Why should the French care? What if Obelix was similar to an ancient mythical Hindu character (to pick an unlikely case at random) that's been around a lot longer; it would be foolish to suggest Obelix stop being used if that occurs; (especially as far as I can tell Obelix is a play on Obelisk (those Menhir things he makes)).
By this argument Mobilix should be left alone even if it is similar, and who cares if the French get confused, what about the rest of the world. Will we stop everything if we can find one nation that has some citizens that might confused by it?
An offender because of a word indeed!
Sam
I was figuring whatever else the farmer does he only supports most of the animals while they are useful and a good few are eaten.
However in the analogy I'm not sure who is the farmer and who the animals, but it does make the consideration of who supports who a bit more meaningful.
Sam
Fellow farmyard animals:
Do we support the farmer or does he support us?
That should give some context to your question.
...as Lessig shows; we can easily see who will "let us play" and who won't. Let Disney keep their "better" ball which they paid all of $1 to retain;
once we can identify all the other public domain stuff we'll leave Disney to play on their own while we have a jolly good party and rediscover all the old stuff that is worth holding on to. And that will be a good networking project; discovering promoting the "good" old stuff.
And when Disney trot out some new toy, we'll go and pay a bit of attention till it gets old and go back to ignoring Disney again and playing with all the other old stuff.
And it still has the effect of making new stuff even better if it is to get our attention in place of the public domain stuff.
Heh heh
Sam