Malala Yousafzay campaigns for womens and girls rights, and in the UK she gets sent to a private, segregated all girls school... I always found that slightly ironic.
Perhaps the developers ended up being concerned with the frequency of motion sickness related issues coming up (I'm highly speculating here) and didn't want any negative PR from it?
And on the day of unveiling, the immediate comment from the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union was "we don't like driverless trains". Why? Because the drivers are members of that union. Nuff said really.
Driverless trains have worked fine on the Docklands Light Railway for years, about time we switched the tube over.
Depends how far you want to go back - there were special bricks when I had the castle range back in the early 1980's, and that wasn't the first special range either.
And if it doesn't, why the hell didn't someone flag that up before signing on for 3 years of payments with no legal recourse? The problem isn't really the vendor here, its the dumb ass that signed the contract which allows the vendor to get away with shit like this.
Pull the contract, when they threaten to sue for breach then you threaten to counter sue for non-performance and non-compliance as the product isn't fit for use.
Why is the mention of teleporting a virus immediately taken as something bad? I read it and immediately took it to be the next step beyond a simple molecule - a virus can be not much larger than a molecule, but at the same time can be many times more complex and would also demonstrate
that teleportation wouldn't have any adverse effects on such things as DNA or RNA strands.
Basically, a virus is the step between a simple molecule and an actual living organism.
To me it would be the logical step after molecules.
Not entirely sure what you see is missing, but contacts and calendar stuff is synced via your Microsoft account automatically, and when you open the Office app there is a "phone" option which opens documents on your phone (including the folder which you copy stuff to over USB).
The system isn't fully online, and you have always needed either the V5 document number or renewal number to buy your tax through the DVLA website anyway.
If you didn't have tax previously, you were driving your car illegally on the road (unless you were in one of the few tax exempt bands which don't require you to get a zero cost disc) and would have been caught long before by ANPR cameras already installed.
Depends how much spare capacity you want to keep around - by some accounts, the upsurge in visitors peaked around 400% over the same day the previous year, so do we really think keeping that amount of spare capacity in reserve, or building on a public cloud system for extremely rare occasions is worth it?
The sole reason the website broke is because there was a massive upsurge in people accessing it, well beyond the normal rate for tax renewals as people were for some reason waiting for it.
I've done my previous 8 vehicle tax renewals online via the DVLA website just fine (yes, this isn't the first time you could buy your vehicle tax online, they've had it for years, all they are doing now is not sending you a physical tax disc) and the website has been fine - in this case I wouldn't lay all the blame on the service provider as they were working to previous usage levels that have been long established.
As for health care services, well I've never had to fill out a form relating to health care in the UK, I just receive the care that I need. Oh, and I can book appointments, order prescription renewals and even choose a specific doctor to have an operation with online. Have done for years:)
In summary, the system isn't as broken as the story makes out.
If that were to happen, you could say good bye to more than 99% of all mass produced content as most is created for the non-commercial consumer and has no comparable alternative commercial consumer.
You ignore the fact that there have been many many in-depth criticisms of GIMP over the years, from people who have taken the time to ensure they understand that its the tool that is lacking rather than their understanding.
From Windows 98 onward you had the shortcut bars which you could create on the task bar - thats where the majority of my most often used applications were started from.
That morphed into pinning applications to the task bar in Windows 7, and became much more useful as pinning an application and running that same application took up no more room on the task bar, so you could have more.
These days I pretty much have all my applications pinned to the task bar, and I hit the start menu probably once or twice a week, if that. I can lock the computer, minimise all windows, start applications, open task manager, get to the control panel and lots of other things via either interaction with the task bar itself or via keyboard shortcuts, where as before I had to use the start menu for a lot of that.
The problem with these style of arguments (including the buggy whip one) is that blacksmiths etc saw their products stopped being in demand, while in most of the discussions where those arguments are used here on Slashdot the product is still in demand, people just don't want the producers...
People do not want the electricity grid to go away, because then they couldn't use it as a cheap and easy "storage" mechanism for when they aren't generating their own electricity.
Why can we remove network costs and VAT from calculations? Removing them only supports my argument - they both become representative of costs which were hidden from the end price charged to the consumer.
And other costs subsidised includes the UK coal and natural gas industry, which was costing the Treasury billions in subsidisation as coal and natural gas purchased from abroad was cheaper and easier - but then we get into the thorny topic of Thatcher...
Inflated wholesale? You mean the market that Ofgem has said there is plenty of competition in and is working fine?
Network costs are pretty much the same for every energy company, since both the gas and electricity networks are independent of the generation and consumption side of the business, so no energy company can inflate their costs there...
What you seem to have missed from my original point is that I specifically said "on residential business". EDF made money last year from its commercial business (selling to high consumption businesses) and selling power from its generation side to the grid.
If they lose money in the residential market, why shouldn't residential rates go up? That was the point of the post I replied to - rates going up.
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Malala Yousafzay campaigns for womens and girls rights, and in the UK she gets sent to a private, segregated all girls school... I always found that slightly ironic.
Perhaps the developers ended up being concerned with the frequency of motion sickness related issues coming up (I'm highly speculating here) and didn't want any negative PR from it?
And on the day of unveiling, the immediate comment from the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union was "we don't like driverless trains". Why? Because the drivers are members of that union. Nuff said really.
Driverless trains have worked fine on the Docklands Light Railway for years, about time we switched the tube over.
Depends how far you want to go back - there were special bricks when I had the castle range back in the early 1980's, and that wasn't the first special range either.
And if it doesn't, why the hell didn't someone flag that up before signing on for 3 years of payments with no legal recourse? The problem isn't really the vendor here, its the dumb ass that signed the contract which allows the vendor to get away with shit like this.
Pull the contract, when they threaten to sue for breach then you threaten to counter sue for non-performance and non-compliance as the product isn't fit for use.
Why is the mention of teleporting a virus immediately taken as something bad? I read it and immediately took it to be the next step beyond a simple molecule - a virus can be not much larger than a molecule, but at the same time can be many times more complex and would also demonstrate
that teleportation wouldn't have any adverse effects on such things as DNA or RNA strands.
Basically, a virus is the step between a simple molecule and an actual living organism.
To me it would be the logical step after molecules.
The Shuttles bring back capability was actually used on more than one occasion.
Not entirely sure what you see is missing, but contacts and calendar stuff is synced via your Microsoft account automatically, and when you open the Office app there is a "phone" option which opens documents on your phone (including the folder which you copy stuff to over USB).
The system isn't fully online, and you have always needed either the V5 document number or renewal number to buy your tax through the DVLA website anyway.
If you didn't have tax previously, you were driving your car illegally on the road (unless you were in one of the few tax exempt bands which don't require you to get a zero cost disc) and would have been caught long before by ANPR cameras already installed.
The post office definitely isn't, they have always had an electronic system in place.
Depends how much spare capacity you want to keep around - by some accounts, the upsurge in visitors peaked around 400% over the same day the previous year, so do we really think keeping that amount of spare capacity in reserve, or building on a public cloud system for extremely rare occasions is worth it?
The sole reason the website broke is because there was a massive upsurge in people accessing it, well beyond the normal rate for tax renewals as people were for some reason waiting for it.
I've done my previous 8 vehicle tax renewals online via the DVLA website just fine (yes, this isn't the first time you could buy your vehicle tax online, they've had it for years, all they are doing now is not sending you a physical tax disc) and the website has been fine - in this case I wouldn't lay all the blame on the service provider as they were working to previous usage levels that have been long established.
As for health care services, well I've never had to fill out a form relating to health care in the UK, I just receive the care that I need. Oh, and I can book appointments, order prescription renewals and even choose a specific doctor to have an operation with online. Have done for years :)
In summary, the system isn't as broken as the story makes out.
If that were to happen, you could say good bye to more than 99% of all mass produced content as most is created for the non-commercial consumer and has no comparable alternative commercial consumer.
Why? Works fine on my Surface 2 RT.
User friendliness is one small part of why GIMP has been lambasted over the years.
Why would I want to do that? I like the switch to pinning :)
You ignore the fact that there have been many many in-depth criticisms of GIMP over the years, from people who have taken the time to ensure they understand that its the tool that is lacking rather than their understanding.
Having followed your posts on Slashdot now for years, you never needed an excuse to bash Microsoft so why use one now?
From Windows 98 onward you had the shortcut bars which you could create on the task bar - thats where the majority of my most often used applications were started from.
That morphed into pinning applications to the task bar in Windows 7, and became much more useful as pinning an application and running that same application took up no more room on the task bar, so you could have more.
These days I pretty much have all my applications pinned to the task bar, and I hit the start menu probably once or twice a week, if that. I can lock the computer, minimise all windows, start applications, open task manager, get to the control panel and lots of other things via either interaction with the task bar itself or via keyboard shortcuts, where as before I had to use the start menu for a lot of that.
Try getting the equivalent Mac OSX product...
The problem with these style of arguments (including the buggy whip one) is that blacksmiths etc saw their products stopped being in demand, while in most of the discussions where those arguments are used here on Slashdot the product is still in demand, people just don't want the producers...
People do not want the electricity grid to go away, because then they couldn't use it as a cheap and easy "storage" mechanism for when they aren't generating their own electricity.
Why can we remove network costs and VAT from calculations? Removing them only supports my argument - they both become representative of costs which were hidden from the end price charged to the consumer.
And other costs subsidised includes the UK coal and natural gas industry, which was costing the Treasury billions in subsidisation as coal and natural gas purchased from abroad was cheaper and easier - but then we get into the thorny topic of Thatcher...
Inflated wholesale? You mean the market that Ofgem has said there is plenty of competition in and is working fine?
Network costs are pretty much the same for every energy company, since both the gas and electricity networks are independent of the generation and consumption side of the business, so no energy company can inflate their costs there...
What you seem to have missed from my original point is that I specifically said "on residential business". EDF made money last year from its commercial business (selling to high consumption businesses) and selling power from its generation side to the grid.
If they lose money in the residential market, why shouldn't residential rates go up? That was the point of the post I replied to - rates going up.