I didn't pay a licence fee for my tuner when i was at uni. Supposedly in a shared house every room that has a lock on the door needs a seperate TV licence. I was asked for my name and address when I bought the card, didn't understand why at the time but the TV licence people never caught up to me.
I recently read a book called The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. Its a enviromental disaster story, one of the things that happens in the book is that most children are born with some of abnormality, even if thery aren't then they tend to have lower IQ's then the previous generation. This all leads to america producing less engineers, graduates and technicians.
Its an itneresting read even if it is a bit out of date and a bit right on. As mentioned in the wikipedia article the president in the book is a dead ringer for our current glorious leader, George W Bush.
THe assetion that everyone wants to get into IT just beacuse they associate it with money is true IME.
I am at the start of my career, working in a call center for an ISP (not making very good money), before that I have had many temp IT jobs. I have met so many people that are only interested in IT because they think it will make them rich, most of these people are really stupid/naive. I working with people that think that in ten years time they will be earning 75 grand a year (english pounds, ~ 130,000 dollars) just because they have seen jobs advertised on the web with that salary. I have yet to actually have it out with any of these people tho I did mention that in the uk only 10% of the population earn more than 30 grand a year. Basically if you can look around the 10 closest people to you in the office and say that you are the cleverest and most qualified (and know the right people) person there then you may have chance of earning megabucks. Most of the people I work with are still chasing dot com silly money and have very little interest in technology or computing (I don't know anyone at work who reads/., not that that is an indication of competance). I met a 40 year old guy who reckons that if he learns SQL in his spare time someone will hire him on 20k even tho he has no experience, he was driving instructor up until a couple of years ago.
What annoys me most is that I literally can't do anything else and wouldn't want to, I will be working in IT all my life (hopefully) no matter what the pay because I enjoy working with computers and like the technical stuff.
There is a little bit of jealously to this (get off my turf!) but it really would be nice to work with people who are hardcore into tech as me (and not be embarassed when people clock me reading a website that sya news for nerds on it).
I don't see the EU as one big happy mutual-interest zone when it comes to transportation, telecommunications, and conflict engagement. I'm betting that the people in Eastern Europe feel somewhat differently about such policy issues than do, say, the politicians in France, Spain, Denmark, etc.
Studios would not do that, even if the people behind one of the formats came up with enough cash it would piss off the consumer too much to make it worth while. Makes much more sense just to release two versions of the same movie on two different formats.
Even though this is probably not true it is an interesting idea. In order to make a google PC with a non MS OS usable google would have to create a whole suite of applications (web browser, mail client, office) as well as developing drivers for popular peripherals. This is a pretty big task, the effort reward ratio seems wrong, unless they use already developed software like linux.
Of course any major competition to MS is welcome, I'm just not sure if even google could pull it off.
They should compare only articles of a certain age in wikipedia with the brittanica articles, and myabe wikipedia should warn if an article is either new or been hardly accessed.
It seems like there is a fundamental clash between the google centric p2p methodology of letting the users decide on mass what should be valid and the more traditional editorial methodology. I can see the argument from both sides, mob rule is notorious for getting things wrong, yet traditional edititorialism seems to waste the potentially huge knowledge sharing aspects of the internet.
Personally I think that as long as people know what wikipedia is then there is no problem, afterall wikipedia can (and do) play around with certain filtering methods to help sort the signal from the noise.
I hope the guys behind portable firefox get to work quickly, they won't let me install things at work, we have 1.0 of firefox but 1.5 is so much faster and generally better
they should make it vibrate or something, maybe not vibrate that could interfere slighty with what you are doing but it could give off some touch sensory feedback
They make the information available, they just don't try to make it really all that well accessible. "Oh, we're just building the software, here's the download
And sometimes they don't even bother providing a binary, showing they really don't care about the layman user.
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Nobody likes paying taxes but us british realise that it is neccessary.
Your supposed to, yeah.
I didn't pay a licence fee for my tuner when i was at uni. Supposedly in a shared house every room that has a lock on the door needs a seperate TV licence. I was asked for my name and address when I bought the card, didn't understand why at the time but the TV licence people never caught up to me.
I recently read a book called The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. Its a enviromental disaster story, one of the things that happens in the book is that most children are born with some of abnormality, even if thery aren't then they tend to have lower IQ's then the previous generation. This all leads to america producing less engineers, graduates and technicians.
Its an itneresting read even if it is a bit out of date and a bit right on. As mentioned in the wikipedia article the president in the book is a dead ringer for our current glorious leader, George W Bush.
THe assetion that everyone wants to get into IT just beacuse they associate it with money is true IME.
/., not that that is an indication of competance). I met a 40 year old guy who reckons that if he learns SQL in his spare time someone will hire him on 20k even tho he has no experience, he was driving instructor up until a couple of years ago.
I am at the start of my career, working in a call center for an ISP (not making very good money), before that I have had many temp IT jobs. I have met so many people that are only interested in IT because they think it will make them rich, most of these people are really stupid/naive. I working with people that think that in ten years time they will be earning 75 grand a year (english pounds, ~ 130,000 dollars) just because they have seen jobs advertised on the web with that salary. I have yet to actually have it out with any of these people tho I did mention that in the uk only 10% of the population earn more than 30 grand a year. Basically if you can look around the 10 closest people to you in the office and say that you are the cleverest and most qualified (and know the right people) person there then you may have chance of earning megabucks. Most of the people I work with are still chasing dot com silly money and have very little interest in technology or computing (I don't know anyone at work who reads
What annoys me most is that I literally can't do anything else and wouldn't want to, I will be working in IT all my life (hopefully) no matter what the pay because I enjoy working with computers and like the technical stuff.
There is a little bit of jealously to this (get off my turf!) but it really would be nice to work with people who are hardcore into tech as me (and not be embarassed when people clock me reading a website that sya news for nerds on it).
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think about it
I don't see the EU as one big happy mutual-interest zone when it comes to transportation, telecommunications, and conflict engagement. I'm betting that the people in Eastern Europe feel somewhat differently about such policy issues than do, say, the politicians in France, Spain, Denmark, etc.
a bit like red states and blue states ?
The USA has always been a bit crypto fascist but it really is insane how much it seems to have *increased* since the end of the cold war.
"we believe in freedom and peace yet also we must also spend 4 times as much as china on our military per citizen"
step out of your geek world dude
Ok I'll bite.
In terms of evolution maybe the soceities where these things are allowed to happen should not be the ones to survive...
Studios would not do that, even if the people behind one of the formats came up with enough cash it would piss off the consumer too much to make it worth while. Makes much more sense just to release two versions of the same movie on two different formats.
Jeez louise, maybe we shall all go back to living in caves cause you know pretty much every invention ever can and has been abused.
Even though this is probably not true it is an interesting idea. In order to make a google PC with a non
MS OS usable google would have to create a whole suite of applications (web browser, mail client, office) as well as developing drivers for popular peripherals. This is a pretty big task, the effort reward ratio seems wrong, unless they use already developed software like linux.
Of course any major competition to MS is welcome, I'm just not sure if even google could pull it off.
And being dell it is all intel, I was amazed when i saw them advertising gaming pcs with no amd based model.
They should compare only articles of a certain age in wikipedia with the brittanica articles, and myabe wikipedia should warn if an article is either new or been hardly accessed.
The Real World was around long before Big Brother, americans were just stupid enough to think of it but too stupid to actually implement it.
It seems like there is a fundamental clash between the google centric p2p methodology of letting the users decide on mass what should be valid and the more traditional editorial methodology. I can see the argument from both sides, mob rule is notorious for getting things wrong, yet traditional edititorialism seems to waste the potentially huge knowledge sharing aspects of the internet.
Personally I think that as long as people know what wikipedia is then there is no problem, afterall wikipedia can (and do) play around with certain filtering methods to help sort the signal from the noise.
2. Don't have anger towards God. If life is bad, you didn't prepare properly.
Tell that to kids who are born and die on the same day.
I hope the guys behind portable firefox get to work quickly, they won't let me install things at work, we have 1.0 of firefox but 1.5 is so much faster and generally better
Reagan? Goddamn appeaser.
He was almost as much of a clown as Bush the second.
they should make it vibrate or something, maybe not vibrate that could interfere slighty with what you are doing but it could give off some touch sensory feedback
They make the information available, they just don't try to make it really all that well accessible. "Oh, we're just building the software, here's the download
And sometimes they don't even bother providing a binary, showing they really don't care about the layman user.
I'd love to see the BBC's Jeremy Paxman interview George Bush, for example - nah! never going to happen.
A goldfish could interview Bush better than most american journalists.
But I am not given to such nasty remarks. No, I am an angel, a lovely angel
Your a silly arse.
Tea != Software
Felt like that had to be said.
cant we see the sun in 3d everyday ?