You see, this story is the perfect combination of 3 key fears of people lacking the facts (In the US, at least - most of the rest of the world doesn't care about point 1): 1. Government control of health care 2. Government using vaccinations to brainwash people (or something equally stupid) 3. Flu vaccinations killed some people once at some point in history so therefore this one will kill you if you have it
But 57 percent of parents were still concerned about their child getting sick with swine flu.
See, that number is almost 2/3 and it's right there on the same page as the bit about parents refusing to vaccinate their children. It makes perfect sense!
Let's see; people who have a very good chance of coming into direct contact with those infected with H1N1 flu on a daily basis and then subsequently coming into contact with others who may be in high-risk groups for said virus being required to get vaccinated against it? Madness, I say. This is what happens when you let government have control over health care. Socialism. Communists. Sky...falling etc.
Now termination may be a bit harsh, but removal from front-line duties for those who refuse the vaccination seems more than reasonable to me. H1N1 may not be the epic disaster that was predicted, but that doesn't mean we should just ignore it entirely.
The EU isn't saying "Only these browsers can appear on the ballot", they're saying "At least these browsers must appear on the ballot". Microsoft are free to add as many additional browsers as they like to the list.
So it's 1-in-250,000 instead of 1-in-200,000 or 1-in-166,666ish?
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That's not the SG:U ship, that's the Hammond (Or any other ship in the same class). This is the SG:U Ship a sort of bastard child of the Millennium Falcon and that ship from Crusade.
My thoughts exactly - it's Voyager (Stuck in the middle of nowhere) + Sliders (Limited time window to explore planets without any control of which ones).
That's not to say it's bad - I enjoyed the first episode(s), apart from the annoying flashback (they'd better be one-offs because if it turns into Lost then I'm out) and I think it's got a lot of potential if they're clever about it.
One thing that gets me though; the ancients built thousands of Stargates with 9 chevrons - 6 co-ordinates, 1 point of origin, 1 "area code", 1 apparently special one - and then only ever use the 9th one to allow them to get from one specific Stargate (that was seemingly in the wrong place) to one specific ship. Why the hell didn't they just give the ship its own "area code" instead?
One vendor recently installed their latest document management system onto our Windows 2008 server, only to discover the indexing service had been replaced by "microsoft search". They hadn't tested it on anything beyond Windows 2003/XP as "that's what everyone else runs". Yay for corporate software!
That's nothing, one of the clinical systems in use within the NHS at the moment (iSOFT's Premiere) only supports running on Windows 2000 (Which is now out of Microsoft extended support) on the server end; apparently the new version out later this year will add support for Server 2003 (Yes, 2003). They're actually still providing HP G4 servers to GP surgeries because they can't get supported Windows 2000 drivers for current hardware.
I'm not entirely sure what the actual reasoning behind this is. It seems as if:
The rights holders won't let the BBC and other free-to-air networks broadcast their stuff in HD without DRM
None (or very few) of the current Freeview/Freesat (DVB) hardware supports their DRM
In order to get the DRM-compatibility out there ASAP the BBC have come up with the idea of trivially encoding their EPG data and then requiring hardware manufacturers to implement the DRM if they want a license to use the "keys" to the EPG data (Note that this is not the same as the EPG data being protected by the DRM)
It's a clever idea but I can only assume that some or all of the non-terrestrial networks operating in the UK have already agreed to the demands of the rights-holders, otherwise the BBC (and other free-to-air networks) could simply refuse to do anything about it - after all, the content providers aren't going to get very far if they refuse to allow their stuff aired on any networks because none of them will broadcast it with DRM in place.
As a license-payer I can't say I like it, but with the info I have I can't see that the BBC has much choice in the matter; either they and the other FTA networks agree to broadcast some or all HD content with DRM or the idiot content providers won't sell shows to them any more.
Not really, I've been running Windows 7 x64 RTM since it was available on Technet on the 14th of August. I imagine most of the current Windows 7 users are either Technet/MSDN subscribers or have downloaded cracked copies for the RTM, rather than RC users.
Actually, it resurfaced again following a later hotfix and then appeared to have been fixed again with SP2; not sure of its current state as I've moved to Windows 7.
Some Facebookers accept any friend requests they get, no matter who it is or if they know them.
Amazingly so, in fact. A friend of mine had his shop broken into last week. He offered a reward for anyone who could ID the guy caught on CCTV, found out the guy's Facebook ID through it and successfully got himself added as the burglar's friend. He's now passed the name, photographs and location on to the police.
Achieve, discover, invent, create something for future generations to enjoy, experience, remember you for.
A lot of religous people are amazed that anyone can function if you know that there's nothing there after you die; I have to wonder why you would want to do anything meaningful with your life if you knew there was.
They want you to see them, but only when *they* say so, not whenever you feel like it.
It's the same reason they'll (illegally) pay broadcast radio stations to play their new songs, but charge money for on-demand streaming services to do the same thing - Control.
I don't get this whole "Dropped Calls" thing - apart from when the network is totally overwhelmed, such as New Year, I've never had a call disconnect for any reason other than lack of signal (Usually moving into an elevator or a tunnel) in the UK.
It's not so much the data collection, but the data collation.
Right now it it (or at least should be) easy to control who has access to what information about individuals, but if you start collating all of the disparate databases into one, linked off a single identifier and allow tens of thousands of people access to at least parts of it, then your asking for trouble. Especially when the current British government has shown both an amazing disregard for the wishes of the public and a level of incompetence that is frankly embarrassing for all concerned, particularly with regards to the collection, storage and dissemination of personally identifyable data.
As has been said before, the only thing of note that Gordon Brown has achieved during his premiership is to make Tony Blair look like a great Prime Minister.
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And I have no doubt that you'd be doing exactly the same if they were running Linux. No amount of technology can overcome user error.
You see, this story is the perfect combination of 3 key fears of people lacking the facts (In the US, at least - most of the rest of the world doesn't care about point 1):
1. Government control of health care
2. Government using vaccinations to brainwash people (or something equally stupid)
3. Flu vaccinations killed some people once at some point in history so therefore this one will kill you if you have it
But 57 percent of parents were still concerned about their child getting sick with swine flu.
See, that number is almost 2/3 and it's right there on the same page as the bit about parents refusing to vaccinate their children. It makes perfect sense!
Let's see; people who have a very good chance of coming into direct contact with those infected with H1N1 flu on a daily basis and then subsequently coming into contact with others who may be in high-risk groups for said virus being required to get vaccinated against it? Madness, I say. This is what happens when you let government have control over health care. Socialism. Communists. Sky...falling etc.
Now termination may be a bit harsh, but removal from front-line duties for those who refuse the vaccination seems more than reasonable to me. H1N1 may not be the epic disaster that was predicted, but that doesn't mean we should just ignore it entirely.
The EU isn't saying "Only these browsers can appear on the ballot", they're saying "At least these browsers must appear on the ballot". Microsoft are free to add as many additional browsers as they like to the list.
Million-to-one chances crop up 9 times out of 10.
So it's 1-in-250,000 instead of 1-in-200,000 or 1-in-166,666ish?
That's not the SG:U ship, that's the Hammond (Or any other ship in the same class). This is the SG:U Ship a sort of bastard child of the Millennium Falcon and that ship from Crusade.
I always felt it was the humour - of which Richard Dean Anderson was the main proponent - that made Stargate really stand out for other similar Sci-Fi shows. It never took itself too seriously (like Star Trek) and the whole of the main cast were very Genre Savvy (Except where the plot required it) which made for a lot of the entertaining exchanges with what would otherwise be horribly clichéd villains.
My thoughts exactly - it's Voyager (Stuck in the middle of nowhere) + Sliders (Limited time window to explore planets without any control of which ones).
That's not to say it's bad - I enjoyed the first episode(s), apart from the annoying flashback (they'd better be one-offs because if it turns into Lost then I'm out) and I think it's got a lot of potential if they're clever about it.
One thing that gets me though; the ancients built thousands of Stargates with 9 chevrons - 6 co-ordinates, 1 point of origin, 1 "area code", 1 apparently special one - and then only ever use the 9th one to allow them to get from one specific Stargate (that was seemingly in the wrong place) to one specific ship. Why the hell didn't they just give the ship its own "area code" instead?
I suspect the IE upgrade pace is controlled almost exclusively by companies refusing to upgrade from IE6 because of shoddily written apps.
One vendor recently installed their latest document management system onto our Windows 2008 server, only to discover the indexing service had been replaced by "microsoft search". They hadn't tested it on anything beyond Windows 2003/XP as "that's what everyone else runs". Yay for corporate software!
That's nothing, one of the clinical systems in use within the NHS at the moment (iSOFT's Premiere) only supports running on Windows 2000 (Which is now out of Microsoft extended support) on the server end; apparently the new version out later this year will add support for Server 2003 (Yes, 2003). They're actually still providing HP G4 servers to GP surgeries because they can't get supported Windows 2000 drivers for current hardware.
+1 Depressing
I'm not entirely sure what the actual reasoning behind this is. It seems as if:
It's a clever idea but I can only assume that some or all of the non-terrestrial networks operating in the UK have already agreed to the demands of the rights-holders, otherwise the BBC (and other free-to-air networks) could simply refuse to do anything about it - after all, the content providers aren't going to get very far if they refuse to allow their stuff aired on any networks because none of them will broadcast it with DRM in place.
As a license-payer I can't say I like it, but with the info I have I can't see that the BBC has much choice in the matter; either they and the other FTA networks agree to broadcast some or all HD content with DRM or the idiot content providers won't sell shows to them any more.
Microsoft stopped selling XP as a product last June.
Not really, I've been running Windows 7 x64 RTM since it was available on Technet on the 14th of August. I imagine most of the current Windows 7 users are either Technet/MSDN subscribers or have downloaded cracked copies for the RTM, rather than RC users.
Actually, it resurfaced again following a later hotfix and then appeared to have been fixed again with SP2; not sure of its current state as I've moved to Windows 7.
Some Facebookers accept any friend requests they get, no matter who it is or if they know them.
Amazingly so, in fact. A friend of mine had his shop broken into last week. He offered a reward for anyone who could ID the guy caught on CCTV, found out the guy's Facebook ID through it and successfully got himself added as the burglar's friend. He's now passed the name, photographs and location on to the police.
Achieve, discover, invent, create something for future generations to enjoy, experience, remember you for.
A lot of religous people are amazed that anyone can function if you know that there's nothing there after you die; I have to wonder why you would want to do anything meaningful with your life if you knew there was.
They want you to see them, but only when *they* say so, not whenever you feel like it.
It's the same reason they'll (illegally) pay broadcast radio stations to play their new songs, but charge money for on-demand streaming services to do the same thing - Control.
PRS != RIAA
PRS is the Performing Rights Society; the UK equivalent of the RIAA is the BPI. The PRS is more like ASCAP.
And we have an entire infrastructure of pipes dedicated to moving steam around every ship or building complex, for some reason.
It seems to be predated in the UK by at least ENIAC, EDSAC and Baby, though not by a long time.
I can't find anything written about it that implies anything particularly special about it that would allow it to be "first" in a given area.
I don't get this whole "Dropped Calls" thing - apart from when the network is totally overwhelmed, such as New Year, I've never had a call disconnect for any reason other than lack of signal (Usually moving into an elevator or a tunnel) in the UK.
It's not so much the data collection, but the data collation.
Right now it it (or at least should be) easy to control who has access to what information about individuals, but if you start collating all of the disparate databases into one, linked off a single identifier and allow tens of thousands of people access to at least parts of it, then your asking for trouble. Especially when the current British government has shown both an amazing disregard for the wishes of the public and a level of incompetence that is frankly embarrassing for all concerned, particularly with regards to the collection, storage and dissemination of personally identifyable data.
As has been said before, the only thing of note that Gordon Brown has achieved during his premiership is to make Tony Blair look like a great Prime Minister.