... but since I upgraded to KDE3.0 its stopped rendering GIFs, only JPGs and PNGs. I supposes it has something to do with copyright reasons but it still sucks. Hence its Opera for me - I might even pay for it eventually.
If they don't like it they can refuse to sell to people with UK shipping/billing addresses. It all seems rather simple. US companies that sell goods the traditional way to British consumers have to register for VAT, it's rather unfair that web-based businesses (that usually employ far fewer people, and so give less back to society) are exempt.
They'd install a pirated version of Windows like everyone else does. With all those cracks/serialz out there Windows is esentially free (as in beer) software anyway.
All-you-can drink special *never* get boring! In fact I think the entire problem with your humourously named town is lack of real drinking. Instead of wasting money on AS/400s the local government should lead the whole town on a week long beer-fest.
Lots of programmers still work on big iron Unix boxes (usually the best programmers as they are often working on mission critical software handling billions of dollars a year). On these machines there is no bloatware like Visual Studio so you basically get a choice between VI, VIm, Emacs, and nedit.
Plus, on big (2+ million lines of code) systems the auto-complete intellisense stuff is as slow as a very slow thing. Because I actually know the system I'm working on I don't need the machine to figure out what a method is called: I know it already and can type it in well under a second.
Brilliant - by following your example I can go to work smelly and unwashed! That'll be worth the 15 minute saving in the morning! I'll never again have the problem of people standing too close on tube, fantastic.
All you could track is how many times the user had hot sync'd. The actual browsing is done locally on the downloaded pages. Hardly a huge privacy risk.
Vote for a party that wants to put 10% on the higher rate of tax (already at a horrendous 40%)? Not a chance in hell - I'd rather vote for Iain Duncan Whats-his-name's Tories!
There is plenty of tax revenue available already, its just badly spent. If they removed all the bureacracy from the NHS, stopped bailing out privatised industries, stopped giving billions of pounds a year to the EU, and scrapped all welfare benefits (aka the working-class beer & fags support fund) then we'd have plenty of cash for more nurses, policemen, etc...
You have clearly never worked in the City. The old boy networks are as active as ever in the capital's banks. Same as in PR, you're paid 20K a year and expected to live in Kensington - try that without a using the family's London residence.
As for people not inheriting power: when the Duke of Westminster dies his some (the current Earl Of Grovsner) will inherit vast chunks of the most expensive real estate in the country. Now if that kind of wealth doesn't provide power then I don't know what does.
In the UK you're only billed for people calling you if you're 'roaming' on an overseas network. Within the UK it costs nothing to receive a call, one of the reasons mobiles are so popular here.
350lbs ??? I'm 6'1" and I only weigh 160lbs. Anyone who weights 350 has rather more problems than being unable to use a Segway. Like avoiding a being harpooned by the Norwegians.
Both Game and EB have 10 day return policies. They'll take games back for any reason (including "it sucks") as long as its not damaged (no CD scratches or mangled boxes).
If you program in a language like C or C++ that is so lacking in fault isolation and safety features, you have to use separate processes to keep things out of each other's hair.
This is a sweeping generalisation. I have worked on a large number of multithreaded applications (at work and home) of which 90+% were written in c/c++ and all of which used threads.
Without wishing to sound too rude: the myth that production quality multithreaded programming is difficult in c/c++ tends to be propagated by people who are bad c/c++ coders and/or who lack experience developing multithreaded applications.
In the same way bad java coders produce slow code, bad c/c++ coders produce leaky code. This is not a fault of the language, but of the coder (who should take the time to learn the language properly or stick to QBASIC).
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... but since I upgraded to KDE3.0 its stopped rendering GIFs, only JPGs and PNGs. I supposes it has something to do with copyright reasons but it still sucks. Hence its Opera for me - I might even pay for it eventually.
If they don't like it they can refuse to sell to people with UK shipping/billing addresses. It all seems rather simple. US companies that sell goods the traditional way to British consumers have to register for VAT, it's rather unfair that web-based businesses (that usually employ far fewer people, and so give less back to society) are exempt.
Of couse if the police catch doing >160 you'll have bigger problems than a red-light citation.
They'd install a pirated version of Windows like everyone else does. With all those cracks/serialz out there Windows is esentially free (as in beer) software anyway.
All-you-can drink special *never* get boring! In fact I think the entire problem with your humourously named town is lack of real drinking. Instead of wasting money on AS/400s the local government should lead the whole town on a week long beer-fest.
Plus, on big (2+ million lines of code) systems the auto-complete intellisense stuff is as slow as a very slow thing. Because I actually know the system I'm working on I don't need the machine to figure out what a method is called: I know it already and can type it in well under a second.
Brilliant - by following your example I can go to work smelly and unwashed! That'll be worth the 15 minute saving in the morning! I'll never again have the problem of people standing too close on tube, fantastic.
All you could track is how many times the user had hot sync'd. The actual browsing is done locally on the downloaded pages. Hardly a huge privacy risk.
There is plenty of tax revenue available already, its just badly spent. If they removed all the bureacracy from the NHS, stopped bailing out privatised industries, stopped giving billions of pounds a year to the EU, and scrapped all welfare benefits (aka the working-class beer & fags support fund) then we'd have plenty of cash for more nurses, policemen, etc ...
As for people not inheriting power: when the Duke of Westminster dies his some (the current Earl Of Grovsner) will inherit vast chunks of the most expensive real estate in the country. Now if that kind of wealth doesn't provide power then I don't know what does.
In the UK you're only billed for people calling you if you're 'roaming' on an overseas network. Within the UK it costs nothing to receive a call, one of the reasons mobiles are so popular here.
Then just switch to PAL - the colour encoding is far better than NTSC and the vertical resolution is better to boot!
350lbs ??? I'm 6'1" and I only weigh 160lbs. Anyone who weights 350 has rather more problems than being unable to use a Segway. Like avoiding a being harpooned by the Norwegians.
Both Game and EB have 10 day return policies. They'll take games back for any reason (including "it sucks") as long as its not damaged (no CD scratches or mangled boxes).
This is a sweeping generalisation. I have worked on a large number of multithreaded applications (at work and home) of which 90+% were written in c/c++ and all of which used threads.
Without wishing to sound too rude: the myth that production quality multithreaded programming is difficult in c/c++ tends to be propagated by people who are bad c/c++ coders and/or who lack experience developing multithreaded applications.
In the same way bad java coders produce slow code, bad c/c++ coders produce leaky code. This is not a fault of the language, but of the coder (who should take the time to learn the language properly or stick to QBASIC).
I've got a Nokia 8890 and the main criteria for my next phone is that it must be no larger or heavier.
Phones are now fashion accessories and consumers are not going to accept big bricks of phones regardless of what wonderful 3G services they provide.
The exception is if you take a UK band mobile overseas and someone calls you. You then pay for the internation portion of that call.