Ah another Rolex lover:) I'm so enamoured with my 1960s Rolex 'Oyster Perpetual' Explorer. It was a present too, but I can't imagine for a moment why I would want to dangle anything less from my wrist - it is after all the only jewellery I wear. 40 odd years old, still looks amazing, still keeps great time.
They have already and mainly (from the debate that I heard) on the basis of this 'creeping compulsiom' - ie if you apply for a passport your name goes on the register, and then after a while a compulsory card is issued.
The British public were told this was an 'opt in' system. I have to travel abroad to work effectively. This gives me no choice at all.
I have already signed the No2ID refuse pledge, and I will do everything in my personal power to prevent myself from ending up with one of these.
I feel disgusted that my government feels free to treat me like a criminal in my own country. They want ID cards, they want to take my DNA if I'm arrested for a crime I haven't committed, cameras on the roads tracking vehicles.
If the Tories pledge next election to scrap the legislation altogether, I'll vote for them on that basis alone. And.. I just don't vote that way... but the Blairite government deserve a kicking for the way they've treated the electorate since they arrived.
Well I was wandering down a typical UK city high street, and Virgin has 360's and PSPs and DS units in stock (yes I actually went and looked at them). Admittedly the 360's were all core systems, but its the first time I've seen stocks in..
I very much dount that many people asked about ID actually knew what it really is, or how hotly debated a non-topic it is.
Grab 2000 of any random population off the streets of any city, and ask them to define "Intelligent Design" and I bet less than 17% will give you anything approaching what the proponents of this idoicy are spouting.
I've realised all the fun games are on the GBA. Armed with a GBmicro and a few choice games I've been playing more in the last month than I probably did last year (ok well if you don't count HL-2;)).
SPIM is a simulated assembly language written for MIPS architecture R2000 and R3000 processors, copyrighted by James R. Larus. This language is often taught in college-level assembly language courses, especially those using the textbook Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, and Nitin Indurkhya (ISBN 1558604286). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIM
of the guy who led the Tamiflu development team. She was exteremely bright, very cute and completely dyslexic and I completely failed to make any kind of romantic impact on her. Curse my failed dreams of marrying into a monied geek/scientist family!
Yes completely offtopic and mod me whichever way you like:)
"Overall the quality of the missions is higher than in City of Heroes, with the violent and petty nature of criminality making your actions a lot more sensical than in some CoH missions"
Under the "Regulation of Investigatory Powers' (or RIP) bill - failure to disclose the encryption key to something the police believe you have encrypted gets you 2 years in jail...
This is an excellent point, it is true it is illegal to withold encryption passphrases etc. from the police if they ask you to surrender them. This is why there is a fight in the UK to stop this 90 day 'hold without evidence' the police and government are pushing. The opposition parties have been making this exact point - just bust them on the lesser charge, sling them into jail on something they've *actually done* rather than something they *may have done* and then use that time to gather the rest of the information. Makes perfect sense to me.
No, the person you replied to was just a bit overzealous in banging out the bases. U = Uracil, but is really only ever seen in RNA species where it replaces T (Thymine). HTH.
*blushes* no it was an honest mistake. I have to work in all environments so I'm not as anti-MS as some folks around here. I did indeed end up being pointed to the SDK as opposed to the 22mb redistributable stuff - which tbh is a lot more palatable to me, and means I will give it a whirl later;)
OK so I had hoped to look at this (I need to do some Windows based scripting), but after downloading the application I'm required to download and install.NET framwork 2.0 Beta 2.0 coming in at around 317Mb?
Hmm it seems to be a new release of something called Hacker Defender. Apparently available here for the curious. Interesting comment in the box about how the commercial version is not released under the GPL:p
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but certainly not a +1 funny ;)
MSN and cybering doesn't count, I'm sorry...
Ah another Rolex lover :) I'm so enamoured with my 1960s Rolex 'Oyster Perpetual' Explorer. It was a present too, but I can't imagine for a moment why I would want to dangle anything less from my wrist - it is after all the only jewellery I wear. 40 odd years old, still looks amazing, still keeps great time.
and a proper index of the book you can get a preview on the O'Reilly microsite for the book here
do CEO's of companies have time to sit around playing WoW?
I barely have enough time to post to slashdot these days!
interesting karma tactic, reproducing comments from an anonymous coward earlier in the thread
They have already and mainly (from the debate that I heard) on the basis of this 'creeping compulsiom' - ie if you apply for a passport your name goes on the register, and then after a while a compulsory card is issued.
The British public were told this was an 'opt in' system. I have to travel abroad to work effectively. This gives me no choice at all.
I have already signed the No2ID refuse pledge, and I will do everything in my personal power to prevent myself from ending up with one of these.
I feel disgusted that my government feels free to treat me like a criminal in my own country. They want ID cards, they want to take my DNA if I'm arrested for a crime I haven't committed, cameras on the roads tracking vehicles.
If the Tories pledge next election to scrap the legislation altogether, I'll vote for them on that basis alone. And.. I just don't vote that way... but the Blairite government deserve a kicking for the way they've treated the electorate since they arrived.
Which delayed the writing of my PhD for at least 6 months. 4 player, single shot kills action - still my fave multiplayer FPS :)
Well I was wandering down a typical UK city high street, and Virgin has 360's and PSPs and DS units in stock (yes I actually went and looked at them). Admittedly the 360's were all core systems, but its the first time I've seen stocks in..
I very much dount that many people asked about ID actually knew what it really is, or how hotly debated a non-topic it is.
Grab 2000 of any random population off the streets of any city, and ask them to define "Intelligent Design" and I bet less than 17% will give you anything approaching what the proponents of this idoicy are spouting.
Is this the of which you speak?
I've realised all the fun games are on the GBA. Armed with a GBmicro and a few choice games I've been playing more in the last month than I probably did last year (ok well if you don't count HL-2 ;)).
SPIM?
SPIM is a simulated assembly language written for MIPS architecture R2000 and R3000 processors, copyrighted by James R. Larus. This language is often taught in college-level assembly language courses, especially those using the textbook Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, and Nitin Indurkhya (ISBN 1558604286).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIM
argh brain has no more space for acronyms!!!
pray tell what is SPIM in this context?
of the guy who led the Tamiflu development team. She was exteremely bright, very cute and completely dyslexic and I completely failed to make any kind of romantic impact on her. Curse my failed dreams of marrying into a monied geek/scientist family!
:)
Yes completely offtopic and mod me whichever way you like
Is this a mission statement from the early 1990's or something?
Actually its a comic from UserFriendly
Um London is the Reuters news source - if you read TFA, rather than the first word you would realise these were American researchers.
genius, if only this once I had mod points. Shame to see this at (Score:3, Funny) ++ from me
"Overall the quality of the missions is higher than in City of Heroes, with the violent and petty nature of criminality making your actions a lot more sensical than in some CoH missions"
I'd love to know what sensical actions are...
Under the "Regulation of Investigatory Powers' (or RIP) bill - failure to disclose the encryption key to something the police believe you have encrypted gets you 2 years in jail...
see here for a good writeup
This is an excellent point, it is true it is illegal to withold encryption passphrases etc. from the police if they ask you to surrender them. This is why there is a fight in the UK to stop this 90 day 'hold without evidence' the police and government are pushing. The opposition parties have been making this exact point - just bust them on the lesser charge, sling them into jail on something they've *actually done* rather than something they *may have done* and then use that time to gather the rest of the information. Makes perfect sense to me.
No, the person you replied to was just a bit overzealous in banging out the bases. U = Uracil, but is really only ever seen in RNA species where it replaces T (Thymine). HTH.
*blushes* no it was an honest mistake. I have to work in all environments so I'm not as anti-MS as some folks around here. I did indeed end up being pointed to the SDK as opposed to the 22mb redistributable stuff - which tbh is a lot more palatable to me, and means I will give it a whirl later ;)
OK so I had hoped to look at this (I need to do some Windows based scripting), but after downloading the application I'm required to download and install .NET framwork 2.0 Beta 2.0 coming in at around 317Mb?
Screw that.
Hmm it seems to be a new release of something called Hacker Defender. Apparently available here for the curious. Interesting comment in the box about how the commercial version is not released under the GPL :p