I bought a Daihatsu Charade last year and I'll have to tax it for the first time this year. Apparently, I'm only going to be paying £75 road tax because of the low emissions from my vehicle. It gets about 52 mpg (Imperial) on average.
Glad that britain is still an island, it still is time to seal off the canal and close the tunnel, you guys definitely need a good quarantine to come to your senses.
CAUTION: This post contains a very mild spoiler, but the link herein contains a huge spoiler. Don't follow the link unless you've seen all the episodes!
I agree. I think it's wonderful, in the main. Have you seen the website that goes with the series? [SPOILER WARNING] Do not follow the link unless you have seen all the episodes so far!!!Who is Doctor Who website[SPOILER WARNING] This website was alluded to in the first episode, but you really should not go to the website if you've not seen the episodes. Interestingly, it looks like there is a.com (as opposed to.co.uk) version of the URL which doesn't have any content yet. Hopefully the producers are keeping this one for when the series is shown in America. It really is a clever idea and one which shows how much thought has been put into this series.
The rest of us want to use cell phones, eat, sing, and run our mouths while we drive. We don't CARE that it makes the roads more dangerous, or that it might kill us someday. We would rather take the risk and enjoy the benefits.
What about the risk of hurting or killing someone else? That's the problem, isn't it? Driving dangerously isn't just dangerous to the person who is driving dangerously.
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Well, I look forward to reading a Slashdot review of your book on this topic. Perhaps Carter's work represents a step towards whatever it is you are striving for.
But lets be honest, if I can get an AMD system with a 15inch LCD screen, Sempron 2200 proc, and half a gig of ram for about 450usd, how am I gonna convince my wife that I should buy a 600usd mac mini, plus 250usd for the monitor, plus the keyboard and the silly one button mouse?
Why pay $250 for a 15-inch monitor? Why get a one-button mouse?
"If you want to know what ordinary people will be doing with computers in ten years, just walk around the CS department at a good university. Whatever they're doing, you'll be doing."
Seriously, this guy lives in fantasy land. It's been a long long time since universities have done anything that has influence the software industry.
Are you sure about that? Think about messing around on the Internet. Ten years ago that was just getting popular in universities and now it's perfectly normal in the home.
I just had a look at the screenshot for the 'easy to use' network config dialog. It lists nice clueless user friendly things like
eth0 running Ethernet adapter lo running Loopback adapter
All of which is perfectly clear to the average end user so presumably this is why there is no help button.
I think you're being pretty harsh here. It's years since I looked at a network setup screen on my linux boxes; nowadays all that just seems to work immediately after installation. I suspect that the only people who use such tools are experts. As for the spelling thing, who cares? It's not as if anyone would fail to see what is meant by the word. The guy has created a whole distribution. I am personally prepared to overlook the odd spelling mistake from someone who offers me so much of his time for nothing.
The government said the BBC reported wrongly on the information and that it didn't "sex up" the documents.
It was later proven they did to the point of out right lying. So yes it is.
No it was not proven that they "sexed up" the documents. There is no doubt that the documents were wrong, but nowhere has anyone proven that the government caused the documents to be "sexed up". Regardless of what you think of the war and the UK's part in it, what you are saying simply did not happen. I would point out that you have changed what you originally said in this thread, but you're still wrong about what went on.
No it is not the same thing. What you said (in quotes, I might add) bears zero relationship to the argument that the government was having with the BBC.
Last time the government got involved with the BBC the director general was fired for saying "The war was illegal, there are no WMDs" and it seems we've all forgotten that doctor who killed himself over the war... funny isn't it. No one remembers this sort of thing..
Nobody remembers it because it didn't happen. The government scientist risked his reputation and career by saying in an unofficial briefing to a journalist that the government "transformed [in] w[ee]k before pub[lication] to make it sexier". The scientist killed himself when it became clear that he was going to be exposed as the source of that view. The Director General was forced to quit because the Governors thought his response to the original furore (ie the report about the "sexed-up" dossier) was not appropriate. Please note, I'm not saying that I agree with what happened to the DG, I'm just telling you what happened.
I think that it is ridiculous that 50 million lines of proprietary code that cost millions of dollars to write should suddenly become available to all just because a 200 line compression routine was used.
For fuck's sake, it's not your routine! You don't get to say what is ridiculous about it! It's as meaningless as saying that it's ridiculous that your customers should all have to buy Microsoft Windows (or whatever OS your software runs on) to run your 50 million lines of code.
But Michael is no communist. He is just an insecure geek who seeks to bolster his street cred among the other nerds by adopting a faddish software ideology that happens to be in style at the moment.
Let me get this straight: you are saying that GPLed software is "faddish"?
It seems that most GPL developers are so scared that someone is going to take their software and make money on it - or worse still, take control over their project.
Has it occurred to you that not everyone sees the world in the same terms as you? That's the wonder of the Internet: you get to interact with lots of different types of people; people whose motivations are different from yours. The reason for GPLing some software is to ensure that the freedoms the author passes on to the recipients of the software are preserved for anyone who might receive it later, no matter where they get it from. It doesn't relate even slightly to people making money on the software. And the GPL doesn't help to preserve control over software (obviously) because anyone who receives the software has freedom to modify it in any way they like.
That's real charity - not the cowardly selfish charity that the GPL embodies.
The A380 is no different than the Concorde in that it's all about being first and not about being sustainable. Look for the A380 in a desert storage airport near you in 10 years.
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I bought a Daihatsu Charade last year and I'll have to tax it for the first time this year. Apparently, I'm only going to be paying £75 road tax because of the low emissions from my vehicle. It gets about 52 mpg (Imperial) on average.
I presume you've heard of aeroplanes?
My guess is that the submarine is the cheapest option.
I agree. I think it's wonderful, in the main. Have you seen the website that goes with the series? [SPOILER WARNING] Do not follow the link unless you have seen all the episodes so far!!! Who is Doctor Who website [SPOILER WARNING] This website was alluded to in the first episode, but you really should not go to the website if you've not seen the episodes. Interestingly, it looks like there is a
What about the risk of hurting or killing someone else? That's the problem, isn't it? Driving dangerously isn't just dangerous to the person who is driving dangerously.
Here are some sites created with Bricolage.
Well, I look forward to reading a Slashdot review of your book on this topic. Perhaps Carter's work represents a step towards whatever it is you are striving for.
I read some comparative figures on page two of the article.
Presumably, you didn't read the article. It answers these questions.
Nope. He meant, "owt for nowt". That's how it is spoken in Lancashire at least. It is a colloquialism.
Why pay $250 for a 15-inch monitor? Why get a one-button mouse?
Are you sure about that? Think about messing around on the Internet. Ten years ago that was just getting popular in universities and now it's perfectly normal in the home.
I think you're being pretty harsh here. It's years since I looked at a network setup screen on my linux boxes; nowadays all that just seems to work immediately after installation. I suspect that the only people who use such tools are experts. As for the spelling thing, who cares? It's not as if anyone would fail to see what is meant by the word. The guy has created a whole distribution. I am personally prepared to overlook the odd spelling mistake from someone who offers me so much of his time for nothing.
No it was not proven that they "sexed up" the documents. There is no doubt that the documents were wrong, but nowhere has anyone proven that the government caused the documents to be "sexed up". Regardless of what you think of the war and the UK's part in it, what you are saying simply did not happen. I would point out that you have changed what you originally said in this thread, but you're still wrong about what went on.
No it is not the same thing. What you said (in quotes, I might add) bears zero relationship to the argument that the government was having with the BBC.
Nobody remembers it because it didn't happen. The government scientist risked his reputation and career by saying in an unofficial briefing to a journalist that the government "transformed [in] w[ee]k before pub[lication] to make it sexier". The scientist killed himself when it became clear that he was going to be exposed as the source of that view. The Director General was forced to quit because the Governors thought his response to the original furore (ie the report about the "sexed-up" dossier) was not appropriate. Please note, I'm not saying that I agree with what happened to the DG, I'm just telling you what happened.
Unless you have a time machine that you are not telling us about, it matters now, which is when I live.
Pardon? This is Fabrice Bellard ! Show a little respect!
For fuck's sake, it's not your routine! You don't get to say what is ridiculous about it! It's as meaningless as saying that it's ridiculous that your customers should all have to buy Microsoft Windows (or whatever OS your software runs on) to run your 50 million lines of code.
Let me get this straight: you are saying that GPLed software is "faddish"?
Has it occurred to you that not everyone sees the world in the same terms as you? That's the wonder of the Internet: you get to interact with lots of different types of people; people whose motivations are different from yours. The reason for GPLing some software is to ensure that the freedoms the author passes on to the recipients of the software are preserved for anyone who might receive it later, no matter where they get it from. It doesn't relate even slightly to people making money on the software. And the GPL doesn't help to preserve control over software (obviously) because anyone who receives the software has freedom to modify it in any way they like.
What has charity got to do with it?
Take out all the bars, shopping malls and all the other stuff that will probably never materialise and the A380 can carry 800 people.
Surely the 747 was first in this market?
Snopes debunks this story But that's not going to stop me using it to recommend one of my favourite books: A Fish Caught in Time: The Hunt for the Coelacanth, by Samantha Weinberger. I couldn't put it down and I had to blink back a tear at one point. Not bad for a factual book.
Something about that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Goodness knows how he feels today!