At last, something that is cheaper in the UK! When I moved into my flat two years ago I bought an energy efficient washer dryer for £300 and it works great. Uses less than 1 KW to wash and about 2.5KW to dry.
Well, if Mac users cannot get hold of a supported copy of IE, then it might force websites (such as your bank), to test their websites against browsers other than IE.
One of my lecturers back when I was at uni, did a technically correct rap about c#. Microsoft filmed it, but never made it available. I did film it. I'm just trying to dig it out.
Since you can drive more on the same amount of fuel, taxes need to be increased at the same amount to compensate for wear and tear on our shared roads.
Yes, we do need to pay our fair share of road usage. In the UK (the nation I was refering to), this is called the Road Tax (Source), although for newer cars this is based upon CO2 emmisions. I agree, it should be the same and should also be quite a bit lower, with the extra being made up by an increase in fuel tax. That way ppl might think twice about making a journey, as the more you drive the more it costs.
If it's very cold (over here in Scotland very cold is below 4C for more than a few days) you can chuck a gallon of unleaded in on top to thin it out
You put unleaded in with your biodiesel! Does that work? I would have thought you would mix in normal fossil based diesel fuel, NOT unleaded. Surely unleaded would cause damage to your engine.
Although small, this processing plant in Canada is at least a good step, we need more setups like this.
In the UK, there is a 20p/litre tax relief for biodiesel, but this isn't enough. Even with current oil prices biodiesel is still more expensive. What we need is to completely drop the tax on biodiesel, that way oil companies and others will see a reason to invest. The tax break would also need to be guaranteed for a decent length of time, say 20 years so that investments would pay off.
There are problems with biodiesel. It would require vast tracts of land, and would probably end up using land in the 3rd and developing worlds to meet our needs for fuel. This land may have been better used for local food production. IMHO, this is not a huge problem, as it would provide much needed investment into developing and 3rd world nations, and of course many ppl would be employed to harvest the crops.
How did you find out when your transmitter is getting upgraded? I'm waiting for mine to be upgraded.
In the meantime I'm considering subscribing to Sky for a year or purchasing one of their non-contract systems for £150: http://www.freesatfromsky.com/, or just putting up with the lousy four channels I currently have:|
It seems that the reason why they want a camera every 400 yards is so that they can enforce variable speed limits. From the article: "400 yards along motorways, and a trial on the M42 near Birmingham will first be used to enforce variable speed limits".
I last drove along the M42 just over a week ago, and there are plenty of new temporary speed limit signs, one above each lane. These were in use to slow the traffic down to help remove a traffic jam. It seems that all of this has been put in with the intention of these camera trials.
Personally, I think this is a good idea. Variable speed limits might help to curb congestion, especially on the M42 which regularly gets jammed with traffic going to the NEC and the many motorways that connect to it. We have had variable speed limits in the UK for a while now, but everyone (including the police) ignores them.
In the UK, driving is a privilage and not a right. You are issued with a licence which of course can be revoked by a court. A lot of speed limits do seem like BS, and the motorway speed limit IMHO ought to be 80, but if everyone is doing the same speed things might be safer.
The only problem I have with this, is that they want to hold the records for two years. Why? This will probably get tied into our expensive ID cards. Might be time to migrate.
Who decides when a page becomes a stable page? If take a copy of a page on a regular basis (eg yearly or monthly), then you are just as likely to end up with pages containing incorrect content.
You make a good point about being able to "cite a stable version". But, you can already cite particular versions by going into the history of a page and clicking on the date of a version that you want. That page never changes; you can cite this page.
Doesn't the "near infrared imaging" pick up the increased heat in those areas of the brain with increased blood flow? Doesn't that data then get artificially coloured in to represent the increased blood flow in an understandable way to us humans?
They just updated the version number thoughout and made sure beta was mentioned nowhere anymore. Once they were sure no (major) bugs were found in the latest beta they could push it as a final version. Just keep your RC3, it's the same as 2.0 final.
That'll work until the first time he tries to install some other program and gets a dialog box that says: Please install Open Office version 2.0.0 or greater before installing this program.
Last year, Channel 4 axed a very long running quiz show with guaranteed -daytime- viewing figures of over 400000. So why was it axed? Because the majority of the viewers are retirees, and thus don't spend much, and thus aren't of interest to advertisers. A popular, and much liked show axed because of a viewing figure requirement.
WTF? I assume you are talking about Countdown. The reason it was taken off the air was because the presenter, Richard Whiteley died. It would have been a little insensitive for Channel 4 to keep the show running regardles. Apparantly the show will be back on shortly, this time presented by Des Lynam.
It concerns me that the Chinese government might spread their control of companies to locations outside of their territory. For example, they could ask Google to stop linking to any negative articles about China or its human rights record. In exchange Google would continue to have access to the vast Chinese market. If not, they would have to pull out which would loose them a lot of potential revenue. Wall Street would likely demand that they bow down to the Chinese government.
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At last, something that is cheaper in the UK! When I moved into my flat two years ago I bought an energy efficient washer dryer for £300 and it works great. Uses less than 1 KW to wash and about 2.5KW to dry.
In firefox you can remove CSS by going to View > Page Style > No Style.
If a newspaper doesn't want to be indexed, then they can update their robots.txt file.
Additionally, I noticed that there is no message at the bottom of those search results to say that some results are censored.
I thought that at first too, but soon realised that it was just some text at the bottom of one of his screen shots.
Wikipedia entry on the subject of Ocean thermal energy conversion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTEC
How do you not have it installed on your machines? By default IE is installed with Windows and I haven't managed to remove it.
Well, if Mac users cannot get hold of a supported copy of IE, then it might force websites (such as your bank), to test their websites against browsers other than IE.
OK, I've found the video, unfortunatelly the sound is very distored and I can't find the lyrics :(
Rob's Red Nose Day Lecture
One of my lecturers back when I was at uni, did a technically correct rap about c#. Microsoft filmed it, but never made it available. I did film it. I'm just trying to dig it out.
Yes, we do need to pay our fair share of road usage. In the UK (the nation I was refering to), this is called the Road Tax (Source), although for newer cars this is based upon CO2 emmisions. I agree, it should be the same and should also be quite a bit lower, with the extra being made up by an increase in fuel tax. That way ppl might think twice about making a journey, as the more you drive the more it costs.
In the UK there is an excise duty to pay, of 25.82p/litre. Source
You put unleaded in with your biodiesel! Does that work? I would have thought you would mix in normal fossil based diesel fuel, NOT unleaded. Surely unleaded would cause damage to your engine.
Although small, this processing plant in Canada is at least a good step, we need more setups like this.
In the UK, there is a 20p/litre tax relief for biodiesel, but this isn't enough. Even with current oil prices biodiesel is still more expensive. What we need is to completely drop the tax on biodiesel, that way oil companies and others will see a reason to invest. The tax break would also need to be guaranteed for a decent length of time, say 20 years so that investments would pay off.
There are problems with biodiesel. It would require vast tracts of land, and would probably end up using land in the 3rd and developing worlds to meet our needs for fuel. This land may have been better used for local food production. IMHO, this is not a huge problem, as it would provide much needed investment into developing and 3rd world nations, and of course many ppl would be employed to harvest the crops.
Some interesting biodiesel sites:
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html
http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/
Well, they do want to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_ra dio/4328514.stm
How did you find out when your transmitter is getting upgraded? I'm waiting for mine to be upgraded.
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In the meantime I'm considering subscribing to Sky for a year or purchasing one of their non-contract systems for £150: http://www.freesatfromsky.com/, or just putting up with the lousy four channels I currently have
The Highway Code states that the sign is a "Temporary maximum speed limit".
It seems that the reason why they want a camera every 400 yards is so that they can enforce variable speed limits. From the article: "400 yards along motorways, and a trial on the M42 near Birmingham will first be used to enforce variable speed limits".
I last drove along the M42 just over a week ago, and there are plenty of new temporary speed limit signs, one above each lane. These were in use to slow the traffic down to help remove a traffic jam. It seems that all of this has been put in with the intention of these camera trials.
Personally, I think this is a good idea. Variable speed limits might help to curb congestion, especially on the M42 which regularly gets jammed with traffic going to the NEC and the many motorways that connect to it. We have had variable speed limits in the UK for a while now, but everyone (including the police) ignores them.
In the UK, driving is a privilage and not a right. You are issued with a licence which of course can be revoked by a court. A lot of speed limits do seem like BS, and the motorway speed limit IMHO ought to be 80, but if everyone is doing the same speed things might be safer.
The only problem I have with this, is that they want to hold the records for two years. Why? This will probably get tied into our expensive ID cards. Might be time to migrate.
Why can't the small retailer purchase their stock from Wal-mart?
Paintball on Quad-bikes
Who decides when a page becomes a stable page? If take a copy of a page on a regular basis (eg yearly or monthly), then you are just as likely to end up with pages containing incorrect content.
You make a good point about being able to "cite a stable version". But, you can already cite particular versions by going into the history of a page and clicking on the date of a version that you want. That page never changes; you can cite this page.
Doesn't the "near infrared imaging" pick up the increased heat in those areas of the brain with increased blood flow? Doesn't that data then get artificially coloured in to represent the increased blood flow in an understandable way to us humans?
And what programs require OpenOffice.org 2.0?
WTF? I assume you are talking about Countdown. The reason it was taken off the air was because the presenter, Richard Whiteley died. It would have been a little insensitive for Channel 4 to keep the show running regardles. Apparantly the show will be back on shortly, this time presented by Des Lynam.
It concerns me that the Chinese government might spread their control of companies to locations outside of their territory. For example, they could ask Google to stop linking to any negative articles about China or its human rights record. In exchange Google would continue to have access to the vast Chinese market. If not, they would have to pull out which would loose them a lot of potential revenue. Wall Street would likely demand that they bow down to the Chinese government.