I sleep hooked up to one of them darn fangled cpap machines... planning a trip soon and bought a 222Wh lithium-ion battery to allow me to go camping etc.
what annoys me is that whenever the British government/local government or other British institutions put this sort of information online here in the UK - they expect to be able to charge for it (our taxes paid for the running of these institutions etc)...
compare that to the way the US gov./institutions tends to free up information... imagine paying to download nasa/hubble images !!
(tho sometimes US orgs tend to go a bit too far - eg Americas Army)
any biologists have any recommended reading / courses for this kind of stuff... ie what's the best starting point etc
I've been reading a lot of Richard Dawkins - find it interesting - gave up biology at GCSE level (exam in UK we take at 16yo) - but could do some OU (www.open.ac.uk) courses etc.
I first used Linux over 10 years ago... something like the ygdrassil (???) oct94 release... my main machine is currently XPSP2... and it gets rebooted less often then when it was a linux machine, has never had a virus, there's no spyware on it and it last crashed a few months ago... it's on 24x7... runs all my software flawlessly and recognises all my hardware...
I love linux and look forward to the time when I can boot it as my primary o/s... but at the moment... there's not a lot of point...
like with the browser being part of the o/s argument of yesteryear...
MS only need to provide the hooks, not necessarily the full functionality... MS could provide the hooks for av software, other vendors could supply the virus definition library, regular updates, nice ui etc
emperor concert written around 1809 (first google result) - people still listen to it... even if people don't know what the full concerto sounds like they often know bits of it from adverts/films etc
britney - been around 5-10 years...
will people be listening to Beethoven in 20 (or 300) years? - more than likely... britney ? probably not.
(I wonder if the number of people hearing Beethoven over the last 200 years is really less than the number of people who listened to Britney...)
modal dialogs - e.g alert boxes for the site not being found or the user/password for a secure site...
I reckon it would be better to 'render' the dialog into the main browser window... more space for help etc, no modality so can do a ctrl-l to get to the location bar etc. without dismissing a dialog then getting there...
rather than OO.org producing clip art, wouldn't it be better if there was a (Creative Commons?) project to produce art which could be reused by different projects which need it ??
it'd be much cooler if you could start tagging the real world & leaving markups on things. subways, unfortunately, while one of the coolest places to do this, are also some of the most likely to get you shot on sight for being a terrorist.
you could always use 'virtual' tags... using pda connected to gps, enter a 'tag' which gets sent to a webservice noting the tag details and position... anyone else coming close to that location could be prompted by their own gps/pda that a tag exists and downloads it....
(just need gps to work underground and in built up areas really well)
I believe the BBC has been accused of anti-competitive practices surrounding some of their internet content - ie. if they produce a cult tv website, then it makes it very difficult for anyone else to produce one...
Slashdot Mirror
I sleep hooked up to one of them darn fangled cpap machines ... planning a trip soon and bought a 222Wh lithium-ion battery to allow me to go camping etc.
found out I can't use the bloody thing now!
:| their site is not responding ...
Player1: 32.33--repeating of course--percentage of survival.
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that one line there is why I will never play any sort of online RPG
4x£30 to see Ricky Gervais
4x£4.25 'service charge'
£2.75 postage
so I guess we all know where cnet.co.uk are based then ....
what annoys me is that whenever the British government/local government or other British institutions put this sort of information online here in the UK - they expect to be able to charge for it (our taxes paid for the running of these institutions etc) ...
... imagine paying to download nasa/hubble images !!
compare that to the way the US gov./institutions tends to free up information
(tho sometimes US orgs tend to go a bit too far - eg Americas Army)
cheers for that - I've added it to my favourites in amazon - from the uk it's about 47pounds ... only a little cheaper used ...
any biologists have any recommended reading / courses for this kind of stuff ... ie what's the best starting point etc
I've been reading a lot of Richard Dawkins - find it interesting - gave up biology at GCSE level (exam in UK we take at 16yo) - but could do some OU (www.open.ac.uk) courses etc.
I first used Linux over 10 years ago ... something like the ygdrassil (???) oct94 release ... my main machine is currently XPSP2 ... and it gets rebooted less often then when it was a linux machine, has never had a virus, there's no spyware on it and it last crashed a few months ago ... it's on 24x7 ... runs all my software flawlessly and recognises all my hardware ...
... but at the moment ... there's not a lot of point ...
I love linux and look forward to the time when I can boot it as my primary o/s
I'd avoid copilot ... software is buggy and they tend to only fix things in new releases which cost $$$ to upgrade to ...
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I bought copilot 5 - should have stuck to tomtom
106ms after ~3 beers ...
a pillock?
didn't notice this when I bought my copy of the cd, immediately ripped it to mp3 and put the cd away in a box where it'll probably stay...
I may be very drunk ... but I think poster has a point .. please mod up ...
+ What will happen to my documents/material when I stop subscribing to the software?
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perhaps the only way people will move over to this form of software licensing is with 'open' document formats
presumably you'd need permission from whoever owns the copyright on the software installed on the image ...
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this doesn't get you round having a legitimate windows licence for example
like with the browser being part of the o/s argument of yesteryear ...
... MS could provide the hooks for av software, other vendors could supply the virus definition library, regular updates, nice ui etc
MS only need to provide the hooks, not necessarily the full functionality
emperor concert written around 1809 (first google result) - people still listen to it ... even if people don't know what the full concerto sounds like they often know bits of it from adverts/films etc
...
...
...)
britney - been around 5-10 years
will people be listening to Beethoven in 20 (or 300) years? - more than likely
britney ? probably not.
(I wonder if the number of people hearing Beethoven over the last 200 years is really less than the number of people who listened to Britney
whilst I can't really correct you (IANAL etc) just some points...
US Bill of Rights - based on the English Bill of Rights
As for the Humand Rights Act most of that is based on existing English/British laws/traditions anyway...
eg..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
modal dialogs - e.g alert boxes for the site not being found or the user/password for a secure site ...
... more space for help etc, no modality so can do a ctrl-l to get to the location bar etc. without dismissing a dialog then getting there ...
I reckon it would be better to 'render' the dialog into the main browser window
i believe our company is even more traditional .... senior management get to work from home - no one else.
rather than OO.org producing clip art, wouldn't it be better if there was a (Creative Commons?) project to produce art which could be reused by different projects which need it ??
top right of linked image - there are some elements marked simply with '?' - are these undiscovered/unamed ?
it'd be much cooler if you could start tagging the real world & leaving markups on things. subways, unfortunately, while one of the coolest places to do this, are also some of the most likely to get you shot on sight for being a terrorist.
... using pda connected to gps, enter a 'tag' which gets sent to a webservice noting the tag details and position ... anyone else coming close to that location could be prompted by their own gps/pda that a tag exists and downloads it ....
(just need gps to work underground and in built up areas really well)
you could always use 'virtual' tags
I believe the BBC has been accused of anti-competitive practices surrounding some of their internet content - ie. if they produce a cult tv website, then it makes it very difficult for anyone else to produce one ...