Perhaps the search engine might not be the real attraction?
"It's almost quaint to think of Google as a search engine, but the astronomical estimates for the value of its flotation are based on its potential value as an advertising business. Google's own google.com front page is a valuable property, but it's conceivable that the business could prosper without its free flagship public search."
From this article on The Register.
The only thing I read from Project Gutenburg was Earnest Shackleton's "South" the remarkable story of his expedition to Antarctica that set off in 1914 just the first world war was breaking out. I read it after having seen Channel 4's dramatisation with Kenneth Brannagh.
The expedition went pear shaped but all of the men survived for two years in the Antarctic Circle - camped out on floating pieces of ice, eating penguins and seals, travelling 900 miles across the most inhospitable sea on the planet in an open-topped lifeboat and not one of them died.
It was an interesting read but I'd have preferred a paper version, my eyes hurt when I had finished.
I like Mandrake but on my newish Toshiba Satellite laptop it doesn't install properly, ACPI issues I believe. I had to choose the alternative kernel to install 9.1 then use a rescue CD from an older version to boot it and build my own patched kernel, more effort than I would have liked.
I tried 9.2 RC2 and the problems were the same so, unless somebody knows otherwise, I doubt the final version will work either.
That is the pattern for a traditional 32-panel ball, most footballs (sorry can't bring myself to use that awful s-word) these days (e.g the ones used competetively such as Mitre, Adidas and Nike balls) have very different arrangements to enable them to keep their shape and balance better.
Blackadder: "First Name?" Baldrick: "I'm not sure." Blackadder: "Come on, you MUST have a first name." Baldrick: "It might be Sod Off." Blackadder: "Sod Off??" Baldrick: "Yeah, when I was a young lad playing in the gutter, I used to say to all the other snipes, "Hello, my names Baldrick". And they'd say, "Yes we know, Sod Off Baldrick"
It would be quicker, safer and probably cheaper to drive your amphibious car on to Le Shuttle (a car-carrying train service through the Channel Tunnel) at Folkestone and get to France that way. It would take 35 minutes, use less fuel and be a hell of a lot safer than driving a floating car across the world's busiest shipping lane. Not quite as impressive though.
18? You're shopping at the wrong places. If you want the "popular" stuff, Tesco does the top 100 albums. The vast majority at 9.87, and the others no more than 11.99. If you buy online, new releases at Amazon are 8.49, which is a good deal if you spend enough to qualify for free delivery.
If you go to the specialist record shops like HMV or Our Price (or whatever they call it now) you get more choice, but most stuff is still no more than 14.99, which is expensive, but still a fair bit less than 18.
(All prices above are pounds sterling, but Slashdot doesn't seem to like pound signs)
It maybe a joke of a paper but it is also the biggest selling newspaper in the UK by some distance, and has a scary amount of influence on the opinions of the nation.
I agree that opposing the single currency for nationalistic reasons is silly, but for the UK at least this is not the only reason (though there are a large number of people who feel that way).
The decision should be a matter of economics. Blair is very pro-Euro, and with out any serious political opposition in the UK over the last six years he could have forced it through, but it would have been an economic disaster. The UK economy is so different from the continental economies that central economic control would not work. That's why Gordon Brown has his "five key economic tests" that have to be passed before we enter. At the last evaluation only one test had passed. Until there is convergence (which will probably not be any time soon) we will be keeping the pound. It's not the Euro currency that is the problem, it's the surrendering of economic control (interest rates, government borrowing, etc.) that comes with it.
You are correct about the government taking a percentage from the lottery. My Economics teacher used to love it, he thought it was brilliant that he could go to supermarket on a Saturday afternoon and see long queues of people waiting to voluntarily pay taxes.
You are wrong about the payments though, they get one big cheque.
As for online gambling, it's fine in the UK, there are loads of companies that offer it. Some are the online version of highstreet bookmakers such as William Hill while others such as Blue Square specialise in online betting (via Internet and digital TV).
If you have less than 100,000 listeners you get a license to broadcast on FM in the UK for 339 pounds a year, not enough to be a barrier to entry for somebody who seriously wants to broadcast. The problem is all available FM frequencies have already been licensed, there's none available. They don't want people interfering with legal, licensed transmissions, which, on a very local scale, these devices would.
But as others have pointed out, this legislation dates back over 50 years, this isn't a case of the government deliberately outlawing something new. This is not controversial legislation, I'm sure if the majority supported a change it would happen, but I doubt you'll find enough people who care, particularly if it means somebody's going to interrupt their car radio reception. If you want to use your iPod in the car there are a number of alternative solutions.
"It's the lowest base jump in the world," said jump organiser Stefan Aufschnaiter.
"Normally you need 50 or 60 metres. It's extremely dangerous," he said.
As you can imagine. BASE jumping is a sport with a pretty high fatality rate.
I live in Dover (where he jumped from) and the local radio was reporting yesterday about how the coastguard were pretty pissed off with him, he hadn't checked with them first and there was a decent chance that he was going to come down in the World's busiest shipping lane and they would have to go rescue him.
"The Dry Valleys are from north to south Victoria, Wright and Taylor, and they are unusual in as much as no rain has fallen there for at least two million years. They have no ice or snow either because the air is too dry for any to exist (ice-free spaces in the Antarctic are called oases). They are enormous, desolate places covering around 3000 sq km (1170 sq mi) and were first happened upon by Robert Scott in December 1903. He wrote '...we have seen no living thing, not even a moss or a lichen...it certainly is the valley of the dead; even the great glacier that once pushed through it has withered away'."
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It's not just a straight port (there is also a Sun-branded Linux JVM) but includes various patches that improve performance over Sun's offering. I can't find the figures at the moment, but in my testing (with JBoss) Blackdown was approx. 15-20% faster than Sun on Linux.
Sun's performance traditionally improves with every release, the recent 1.4.2 made noticeable advances in start-up times (which along with memory footprint is one of the two most significant remaining performance problems in client-side Java).
There also Linux JVMs available from GNU and BEA.
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In my head I visualised that post with copious whitespace. Life is such a disappointment (or maybe it's just my HTML skills).
Perhaps the search engine might not be the real attraction? "It's almost quaint to think of Google as a search engine, but the astronomical estimates for the value of its flotation are based on its potential value as an advertising business. Google's own google.com front page is a valuable property, but it's conceivable that the business could prosper without its free flagship public search." From this article on The Register.
I for one welcome our new stale overlords.
oh, Vienna.
(I'll get my coat...)
The only thing I read from Project Gutenburg was Earnest Shackleton's "South" the remarkable story of his expedition to Antarctica that set off in 1914 just the first world war was breaking out. I read it after having seen Channel 4's dramatisation with Kenneth Brannagh.
The expedition went pear shaped but all of the men survived for two years in the Antarctic Circle - camped out on floating pieces of ice, eating penguins and seals, travelling 900 miles across the most inhospitable sea on the planet in an open-topped lifeboat and not one of them died.
It was an interesting read but I'd have preferred a paper version, my eyes hurt when I had finished.
I like Mandrake but on my newish Toshiba Satellite laptop it doesn't install properly, ACPI issues I believe. I had to choose the alternative kernel to install 9.1 then use a rescue CD from an older version to boot it and build my own patched kernel, more effort than I would have liked.
I tried 9.2 RC2 and the problems were the same so, unless somebody knows otherwise, I doubt the final version will work either.
Or more correctly, the original poster was indeed correct, so just ignore me.
Actually, it's still wrong. In British English licence is a noun and license is a verb (c.f. practice and practise).
Having said that, the two in the boot (trunk) of my car are 32-panel, so maybe "most" was an overstatement.
That is the pattern for a traditional 32-panel ball, most footballs (sorry can't bring myself to use that awful s-word) these days (e.g the ones used competetively such as Mitre, Adidas and Nike balls) have very different arrangements to enable them to keep their shape and balance better.
Blackadder: "First Name?"
Baldrick: "I'm not sure."
Blackadder: "Come on, you MUST have a first name."
Baldrick: "It might be Sod Off."
Blackadder: "Sod Off??"
Baldrick: "Yeah, when I was a young lad playing in the gutter, I used to say to all the other snipes, "Hello, my names Baldrick". And they'd say, "Yes we know, Sod Off Baldrick"
It would be quicker, safer and probably cheaper to drive your amphibious car on to Le Shuttle (a car-carrying train service through the Channel Tunnel) at Folkestone and get to France that way. It would take 35 minutes, use less fuel and be a hell of a lot safer than driving a floating car across the world's busiest shipping lane. Not quite as impressive though.
18? You're shopping at the wrong places. If you want the "popular" stuff, Tesco does the top 100 albums. The vast majority at 9.87, and the others no more than 11.99. If you buy online, new releases at Amazon are 8.49, which is a good deal if you spend enough to qualify for free delivery.
If you go to the specialist record shops like HMV or Our Price (or whatever they call it now) you get more choice, but most stuff is still no more than 14.99, which is expensive, but still a fair bit less than 18.
(All prices above are pounds sterling, but Slashdot doesn't seem to like pound signs)
In a perfect world you wouldn't need a Utopia.
It maybe a joke of a paper but it is also the biggest selling newspaper in the UK by some distance, and has a scary amount of influence on the opinions of the nation.
I agree that opposing the single currency for nationalistic reasons is silly, but for the UK at least this is not the only reason (though there are a large number of people who feel that way).
The decision should be a matter of economics. Blair is very pro-Euro, and with out any serious political opposition in the UK over the last six years he could have forced it through, but it would have been an economic disaster. The UK economy is so different from the continental economies that central economic control would not work. That's why Gordon Brown has his "five key economic tests" that have to be passed before we enter. At the last evaluation only one test had passed. Until there is convergence (which will probably not be any time soon) we will be keeping the pound. It's not the Euro currency that is the problem, it's the surrendering of economic control (interest rates, government borrowing, etc.) that comes with it.
Why do we have to queue them? Can't we have them all at once?
You are correct about the government taking a percentage from the lottery. My Economics teacher used to love it, he thought it was brilliant that he could go to supermarket on a Saturday afternoon and see long queues of people waiting to voluntarily pay taxes.
You are wrong about the payments though, they get one big cheque.
As for online gambling, it's fine in the UK, there are loads of companies that offer it. Some are the online version of highstreet bookmakers such as William Hill while others such as Blue Square specialise in online betting (via Internet and digital TV).
It used to be that all betting was subject to 9% tax, but the goverment have recently abolished that.
See this map.
If you have less than 100,000 listeners you get a license to broadcast on FM in the UK for 339 pounds a year, not enough to be a barrier to entry for somebody who seriously wants to broadcast. The problem is all available FM frequencies have already been licensed, there's none available. They don't want people interfering with legal, licensed transmissions, which, on a very local scale, these devices would.
But as others have pointed out, this legislation dates back over 50 years, this isn't a case of the government deliberately outlawing something new. This is not controversial legislation, I'm sure if the majority supported a change it would happen, but I doubt you'll find enough people who care, particularly if it means somebody's going to interrupt their car radio reception. If you want to use your iPod in the car there are a number of alternative solutions.
BASE jumped off the statue of Christ in Rio, which is 30m.
"It's the lowest base jump in the world," said jump organiser Stefan Aufschnaiter. "Normally you need 50 or 60 metres. It's extremely dangerous," he said.
As you can imagine. BASE jumping is a sport with a pretty high fatality rate.
I live in Dover (where he jumped from) and the local radio was reporting yesterday about how the coastguard were pretty pissed off with him, he hadn't checked with them first and there was a decent chance that he was going to come down in the World's busiest shipping lane and they would have to go rescue him.
"The Dry Valleys are from north to south Victoria, Wright and Taylor, and they are unusual in as much as no rain has fallen there for at least two million years. They have no ice or snow either because the air is too dry for any to exist (ice-free spaces in the Antarctic are called oases). They are enormous, desolate places covering around 3000 sq km (1170 sq mi) and were first happened upon by Robert Scott in December 1903. He wrote '...we have seen no living thing, not even a moss or a lichen...it certainly is the valley of the dead; even the great glacier that once pushed through it has withered away'."
From the Lonely Planet guide (for those who want to holiday there).
It's not just a straight port (there is also a Sun-branded Linux JVM) but includes various patches that improve performance over Sun's offering. I can't find the figures at the moment, but in my testing (with JBoss) Blackdown was approx. 15-20% faster than Sun on Linux.
Sun's performance traditionally improves with every release, the recent 1.4.2 made noticeable advances in start-up times (which along with memory footprint is one of the two most significant remaining performance problems in client-side Java).
There also Linux JVMs available from GNU and BEA.
I liked The Register's take on it:
"Java: Write once, wrong somewhere else."
And here's the link. Also Roedy Green maintains a pretty extensive Java Glossary.