I do not think Renaldo will be around next time. And if he is then he will be a second round star player.
The difference with the German team is that most of the players are young.
Um, Ronaldo is only 25, he'll be 29 at the next world cup. Hardly ancient. He'll be younger at the next world cup than Linke, Rehmer, Ziege, Bierhoff and Bode were for this one.
Oh, and American football had semi-pro teams in the early 20th century. The modern game of soccer branched from rugby in the late 19th century according to FIFA.
Wow, that would be impressive, given that the first recorded football (sorry, 'soccer') match took place in 1848. Of course, the game was played long before then. In fact, Rugby is widely acknowledged to have diverged from football in 1823 when William Webb-Ellis picked up the ball, while playing at Rugby school (hence the name).
SuSE don't provide ISOs. But you can install by ftp direct from their ftp server or a mirror. See here (in English) for details. I'd recommend SuSE highly, I'm using SuSE 7.3 at the moment, but will upgrade once I get around to buying the set (downloaded the last couple of versions I used, feel obliged to contribute some money...).
In the UK (and presumably the rest of the EU), if a book includes a CD, it becomes liable for VAT (our sales tax) at 17.5%. Hence, I generally steer clear of books with CDs. Now if the content can be downloaded from the web, that;'s far more useful. If you're not planning on selling the bookin Europe then I guess this isn't a problem.
I find that conference calls are the best way out of the "It's not our fault, blame the mobo manufacturer" "It's not our fault, blaime the CPU manufacturer" crap...
I find the privacy implications of having the location of every car being monitored by GPS to be quite disturbing. Particularly as our (ie UK) govt has a great track record of cocking up computing projects.
Surely "This is not something we are going to do next year" (from the Guardian article) has to go down as one of the biggest understatements of the year.....
What good is it going to do sending two hundred people to a star that may or may not have a human-habitable planet around it? Be a major bummer to get there and find that there is nothing there. Can't exactly go "Ah well, there's always the next star...."
Even there, most of them are simply a different colour to an ordinary case, and that's it. There's very little attempt to actually alter the shape of the case. For example, have the motherboard flat, with the drives above it, and the PSU above that, stick it in a pyramid case, et voila something that looks different. Okay, might look crap, but it's a start...
Having said that, the dog, cat and penguin in the 0600 series looked cool. Cheers for the link.
Given how successful the original iMac was, and that this one is probably going to be, how come the vast majority of PC cases are just plain dull? Beyond a different colour, or a small curve somewhere, they are all essentially identical. There's got to be a market for mass-produced decent looking PC cases.
Shame you can't order an iMac with wintel innards....
I'm not sure I understand you; how, by examining human DNA can a researcher claim to have invented the gene that they discover? It was already there waiting for them.
If the researcher in question generates an entirely synthetic gene, fair enough. However, the cases in question here deal with gene discoveries in existing DNA. It's kind of like claiming that, because you've 'discovered' you can use an AOL CD as a frisbee, that you can claim a patent on CDs.
There's an article about a talk at LinuxWorld by Jay Beale (of Bastille Linux) concerning the security risks of an out-of-the box linux distro here . M
ain thrust of the article is that, even if you don't think your computer is a target, it's still in jeopardy.
I can see where Linus is coming from; Linux and Linus Torvalds are inextricably linked in the public perception, so any huge blunders that occur with the Linux kernel will sully his reputation. If it's his reputation on the line, he probably wants to keep control of potential disasters close to him.
Better to get blamed for your own mistakes than for someone elses.
Kudos to the BBC for being innovative and trying something new. As a Scot living in England, I listen to the webcast of BBC Radio Scotland quite a bit (mainly for the football commentaries).
However, slightly off-topic, what's with the BBCs funding model? We pay about 100 pounds per household for a TV license, which funds BBC Radio and Televison. No complaints about that, we get some good telly programs, without any irritating commercials. But why is the license fee paying for the website (and satellite and digital telly channels)? Surely they should carry adverts on the website to at least partly defray the cost of the on-line content?
Your comment seems to suggest that you think that the retail cost is so much greater than the manufacturing costs is entirely down to "research&development (and marketing)" you're making a huge leap. Companies have many, many other costs. Capital investment into things like fab plants. rent for things like offices, salaries, distribution costs, insurance, legal fees, etc, etc. R&D costs do contribute, but are certainly not the "major costs of ANY product".
That would obviously explain why Railtrack has just gone bust, since they were doing such a brilliant job. (<- that was sarcasm, by the way)
A quote from here shows you're also wrong about train performance:
"The Shadow Strategic Rail Authority (SSRA) said punctuality worsened on routes run by 20 out of 25 train companies. "
And of course, the safety record has improved immeasurably since privatisation, without incidents such as Ladbroke Grove and Hatfield... (<- More sarcasm)
Just as well that Air traffic control was privatised with a similar model here in the UK three months ago. Being the successor to Rail privatisation means it couldn't possibly fail. (<- Yet More Sarcasm)
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I've always been nervous about the idea of mixing water and electricity...
The difference with the German team is that most of the players are young.
Um, Ronaldo is only 25, he'll be 29 at the next world cup. Hardly ancient. He'll be younger at the next world cup than Linke, Rehmer, Ziege, Bierhoff and Bode were for this one.
Wow, that would be impressive, given that the first recorded football (sorry, 'soccer') match took place in 1848. Of course, the game was played long before then. In fact, Rugby is widely acknowledged to have diverged from football in 1823 when William Webb-Ellis picked up the ball, while playing at Rugby school (hence the name).
Secondly, Newton's demonstration that white light was composed of many colours of light using two prisms. Very neat, and very simple.
SuSE don't provide ISOs. But you can install by ftp direct from their ftp server or a mirror. See here (in English) for details. I'd recommend SuSE highly, I'm using SuSE 7.3 at the moment, but will upgrade once I get around to buying the set (downloaded the last couple of versions I used, feel obliged to contribute some money...).
In the UK (and presumably the rest of the EU), if a book includes a CD, it becomes liable for VAT (our sales tax) at 17.5%. Hence, I generally steer clear of books with CDs. Now if the content can be downloaded from the web, that;'s far more useful. If you're not planning on selling the bookin Europe then I guess this isn't a problem.
I find that conference calls are the best way out of the "It's not our fault, blame the mobo manufacturer" "It's not our fault, blaime the CPU manufacturer" crap...
I find the privacy implications of having the location of every car being monitored by GPS to be quite disturbing. Particularly as our (ie UK) govt has a great track record of cocking up computing projects.
Surely "This is not something we are going to do next year" (from the Guardian article) has to go down as one of the biggest understatements of the year.....
What good is it going to do sending two hundred people to a star that may or may not have a human-habitable planet around it? Be a major bummer to get there and find that there is nothing there. Can't exactly go "Ah well, there's always the next star...."
Like Perl wasn't confusing enough....
Even there, most of them are simply a different colour to an ordinary case, and that's it. There's very little attempt to actually alter the shape of the case. For example, have the motherboard flat, with the drives above it, and the PSU above that, stick it in a pyramid case, et voila something that looks different. Okay, might look crap, but it's a start...
Having said that, the dog, cat and penguin in the 0600 series looked cool. Cheers for the link.
Given how successful the original iMac was, and that this one is probably going to be, how come the vast majority of PC cases are just plain dull? Beyond a different colour, or a small curve somewhere, they are all essentially identical. There's got to be a market for mass-produced decent looking PC cases.
Shame you can't order an iMac with wintel innards....
I'm not sure I understand you; how, by examining human DNA can a researcher claim to have invented the gene that they discover? It was already there waiting for them.
If the researcher in question generates an entirely synthetic gene, fair enough. However, the cases in question here deal with gene discoveries in existing DNA. It's kind of like claiming that, because you've 'discovered' you can use an AOL CD as a frisbee, that you can claim a patent on CDs.
How on Earth did they persuade regular radio stations to go along with this?
It's amazing how much the wearable eye monitor looks like a refugee from the film Aliens. Cool!
It's exactly this sort of behaviour that made so many people nervous about the AOL buying RedHat story.
I, for one, am glad that that turned out to be a non-story
There's an article about a talk at LinuxWorld by Jay Beale (of Bastille Linux) concerning the security risks of an out-of-the box linux distro here . M
ain thrust of the article is that, even if you don't think your computer is a target, it's still in jeopardy.
In addition, the fine is probaly less than the cost of a billboard advertising campaign, and yet got them far more publicity. Clever.
I can see where Linus is coming from; Linux and Linus Torvalds are inextricably linked in the public perception, so any huge blunders that occur with the Linux kernel will sully his reputation. If it's his reputation on the line, he probably wants to keep control of potential disasters close to him.
Better to get blamed for your own mistakes than for someone elses.
Hmm, the big drawback that I can see is the cost (article quotes $3-5) and equally importantly convenience of refilling the fuel cell.
Good luck to them though.
Kudos to the BBC for being innovative and trying something new. As a Scot living in England, I listen to the webcast of BBC Radio Scotland quite a bit (mainly for the football commentaries). However, slightly off-topic, what's with the BBCs funding model? We pay about 100 pounds per household for a TV license, which funds BBC Radio and Televison. No complaints about that, we get some good telly programs, without any irritating commercials. But why is the license fee paying for the website (and satellite and digital telly channels)? Surely they should carry adverts on the website to at least partly defray the cost of the on-line content?
Your comment seems to suggest that you think that the retail cost is so much greater than the manufacturing costs is entirely down to "research&development (and marketing)" you're making a huge leap. Companies have many, many other costs. Capital investment into things like fab plants. rent for things like offices, salaries, distribution costs, insurance, legal fees, etc, etc. R&D costs do contribute, but are certainly not the "major costs of ANY product".
From your quote: "Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?"
Surely you're describing Hurd?
That would obviously explain why Railtrack has just gone bust, since they were doing such a brilliant job. (<- that was sarcasm, by the way)
A quote from here shows you're also wrong about train performance:
"The Shadow Strategic Rail Authority (SSRA) said punctuality worsened on routes run by 20 out of 25 train companies. "
And of course, the safety record has improved immeasurably since privatisation, without incidents such as Ladbroke Grove and Hatfield... (<- More sarcasm)
Just as well that Air traffic control was privatised with a similar model here in the UK three months ago. Being the successor to Rail privatisation means it couldn't possibly fail. (<- Yet More Sarcasm)