Seatbelts don't just protect those who are wearing them. Passengers in the rear who aren't wearing seatbelts can seriously injure the front seat passengers, and passengers in the front without seatbelts will be thrown through the windscreen if the car is going fast enough, which as well as being not too good for them, could potentially cause problems for others.
In the UK there was a TV ad that was designed to encourage people to wear seatbelts. It showed a mother driving a car with her two teenage children as passengers, the daughter in the front passenger seat and the son sitting behind the mother. It showed a collision in which the son, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was thrown forward into the back of his mother, smashing her head against the steering wheel and killing her instantly (this was an older car with no airbag). The son was unharmed as his mother had cushioned the impact for him, and the daughter was screaming hysterically.
Banner ads on your browser and pages really doesn't help increase speed when you are on dialup.
That's not the case as Opera only downloads its adverts once a week. It caches them and rotates them throughout the week. You also get to configure the adverts from the preferences based on your interests, age, location etc. so that you at least get adverts that are likely to be relevant to you.
I've never even noticed Opera downloading the ads, and I've been using it on dial-up for 18 months now.
There are two features that Opera has that blow the competition (including IE, Mozilla and Galeon) away as far as I'm concerned.
The first is its Multiple Document Interface, which is vastly better than Mozilla/Galeon's tabs and infinitely superior to IE's single document interface.
The second is the mouse short-cuts for back and forward, which I now can't live without (hold down left button and click right button to go forward, hold down right and click left to go back). Simple but brilliant. Add to these the fact that it's highly configurable to suit your own preferences and I wouldn't use anything else.
The only site I've had problems with in Opera recently is this one, but that wouldn't work in Mozilla, Galeon or Netscape 4 either, so it's obviously another case of shoddy IE-only web development.
ITV Digital shot themselves in the foot by paying nearly £400 million for the television rights for the three divisions of the Football League (lots of people said at the time it was a ridiculous price).
The number one reason for Murdoch's success with Sky was that he managed to get rights for the Premiership football, which meant anyone who wanted to watch the matches (which is a lot of people in the UK) had to get Sky.
ITV tried the same trick with the Football League rights but somehow didn't understand that very few people would subscribe just to be able to watch Football League matches.
Premiership football has (inter)national appeal, people all over the country (and indeed the World) will watch it because it is one of the top three domestic leagues in the World (along with the La Liga in Spain and Serie A in Italy), the quality is good and many of the World's top players play in the Premiership. In contrast, the lower levels of football have only regional appeal. When Grimsby play Gillingham the only people interested are those in Grimsby and Gillingham (and many of these will actually go to the game rather than watching it on TV) the rest of the country doesn't care.
However, I think (though I may be wrong) that the rights have already reverted back to the Football League so that they can resell them to the highest bidder (which is bound to be much lower than the original deal), so Microsoft acquiring ITV Digital would not necessarily mean Microsoft acquiring the broadcasting rights for the Football League.
That's correct, but hardly anybody uses the old British billion definition any more. Here in the UK when we refer to a billion we mean the same as Americans (and presumably the rest of the world) - one thousand million.
The US as a whole probably has the cleanest vehicals around.
I couldn't say whether that's true or not (though certain American cars that are allowed in the US do not meet European emission standards).
However, in the US cars tend to be bigger, heavier and have larger engines, all of which means more fuel burned per mile. In places like Japan and Europe small cars are much more popular. One reason for this is that petrol is several times more expensive in Europe (particularly Britain, where 80% of the cost of a litre is tax and duty) than it is in the States, so buying a more efficient car becomes much more financially worthwhile.
Open source is not about being anti-Microsoft (OK, for some people it is). I have no love of Microsoft but Open Source is more than that, it's a whole new way of doing things. I expect to see Microsoft and Open Source co-existing for quite some time yet. They are not direct competitors.
The British people on the whole don't trust the EU. The EU is rife with corruption (I forget the figures but the amount of money it loses through corruption is obscene).
Also the British public is much less in favour of European integration than the other EU states. This is probably due in part to geography, we've always been separate from the continent and don't like the idea of being ruled from Brussels.
European integration has had many benefits (European Human Rights laws, freedom of movement of labour, relaxed customs rules etc.) but for some people it's going too far. They don't like the idea of the economy being run by unelected officials in Frankfurt, or the fact that we wouldn't be in control of our own interest rates. Member states cannot make local adjustments, there will be one European rate, which is worrying given that there are very different circumstances in different countries. So for you could get a situation where one country has to suffer for the benefit of another because there is a single economic policy.
I live in Dover (which for those of you who don't know, is the closest place in Britain to mainland Europe, just 22 miles from France) and what I see is that the British are happy to have better relations with Europe but don't want to surrender any powers to a central government.
We are in a position where the government have promised a referendum but will not call one until they are confident of winning it. What this means is that we will probably join up quite rapidly if the Euro is a run-away success and people can see the real benefits, otherwise we will stay out and watch it fail miserably with a smug, superior attitude.
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Why do parents need to be locked out?
MS would probably be a lot less keen about providing/supporting Office/IE for Macs under those circumstances.
Seatbelts don't just protect those who are wearing them. Passengers in the rear who aren't wearing seatbelts can seriously injure the front seat passengers, and passengers in the front without seatbelts will be thrown through the windscreen if the car is going fast enough, which as well as being not too good for them, could potentially cause problems for others.
In the UK there was a TV ad that was designed to encourage people to wear seatbelts. It showed a mother driving a car with her two teenage children as passengers, the daughter in the front passenger seat and the son sitting behind the mother. It showed a collision in which the son, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was thrown forward into the back of his mother, smashing her head against the steering wheel and killing her instantly (this was an older car with no airbag). The son was unharmed as his mother had cushioned the impact for him, and the daughter was screaming hysterically.
Banner ads on your browser and pages really doesn't help increase speed when you are on dialup.
That's not the case as Opera only downloads its adverts once a week. It caches them and rotates them throughout the week. You also get to configure the adverts from the preferences based on your interests, age, location etc. so that you at least get adverts that are likely to be relevant to you.
I've never even noticed Opera downloading the ads, and I've been using it on dial-up for 18 months now.
There are two features that Opera has that blow the competition (including IE, Mozilla and Galeon) away as far as I'm concerned. The first is its Multiple Document Interface, which is vastly better than Mozilla/Galeon's tabs and infinitely superior to IE's single document interface. The second is the mouse short-cuts for back and forward, which I now can't live without (hold down left button and click right button to go forward, hold down right and click left to go back). Simple but brilliant. Add to these the fact that it's highly configurable to suit your own preferences and I wouldn't use anything else.
The only site I've had problems with in Opera recently is this one, but that wouldn't work in Mozilla, Galeon or Netscape 4 either, so it's obviously another case of shoddy IE-only web development.
Well I ****ed that up didn't I? The link is here.
The new Windows version includes a module for
I've been using Opera for about 18 months now. I use it all the time at work on Win NT, I haven't touched IE for months.
When I was working on e-commerce stuff it was much better for testing stuff, better standards compliance, right-click validate HTML option, useful JavaScript error messages (unlike IE), etc.
The "hold right button/click left" for back and "hold left/click right" for forward have become indispensible.
I also use it as my main browser on Linux at home (using it now), occassionally use Mozilla to check the look of pages, but Opera's number 1 for me.
The hotlist is useful too. Can set up a page of links to include in the sidebar, or using the integrated news client, browse USENET groups easily. I've got the Slashdot headlines in there as well.
The MDI knocks spots of IE and even the tabbed browsing of Mozilla/Galeon.
Along with <a href="http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net">Fluxbox&l t;/a>, it's one of my most valuable pieces of software.
There are several including IBM, TowerJ and KaffePro.
uninformed, or knowingly ignorant
As opposed to ignorantly ignorant?
The money is owed to the Football League (72 professional clubs), not the Football Association (national governing body for the sport).
ITV Digital shot themselves in the foot by paying nearly £400 million for the television rights for the three divisions of the Football League (lots of people said at the time it was a ridiculous price).
The number one reason for Murdoch's success with Sky was that he managed to get rights for the Premiership football, which meant anyone who wanted to watch the matches (which is a lot of people in the UK) had to get Sky.
ITV tried the same trick with the Football League rights but somehow didn't understand that very few people would subscribe just to be able to watch Football League matches.
Premiership football has (inter)national appeal, people all over the country (and indeed the World) will watch it because it is one of the top three domestic leagues in the World (along with the La Liga in Spain and Serie A in Italy), the quality is good and many of the World's top players play in the Premiership. In contrast, the lower levels of football have only regional appeal. When Grimsby play Gillingham the only people interested are those in Grimsby and Gillingham (and many of these will actually go to the game rather than watching it on TV) the rest of the country doesn't care.
However, I think (though I may be wrong) that the rights have already reverted back to the Football League so that they can resell them to the highest bidder (which is bound to be much lower than the original deal), so Microsoft acquiring ITV Digital would not necessarily mean Microsoft acquiring the broadcasting rights for the Football League.
That's correct, but hardly anybody uses the old British billion definition any more. Here in the UK when we refer to a billion we mean the same as Americans (and presumably the rest of the world) - one thousand million.
I couldn't say whether that's true or not (though certain American cars that are allowed in the US do not meet European emission standards).
However, in the US cars tend to be bigger, heavier and have larger engines, all of which means more fuel burned per mile. In places like Japan and Europe small cars are much more popular. One reason for this is that petrol is several times more expensive in Europe (particularly Britain, where 80% of the cost of a litre is tax and duty) than it is in the States, so buying a more efficient car becomes much more financially worthwhile.
Anyone want to start an open-source initiative to put a man on Mars?
They called it the Etch-A-Sketch.
Open source is not about being anti-Microsoft (OK, for some people it is). I have no love of Microsoft but Open Source is more than that, it's a whole new way of doing things. I expect to see Microsoft and Open Source co-existing for quite some time yet. They are not direct competitors.
Presumably if somebody else posted a follow-up that quoted your original you're stuffed?
The British people on the whole don't trust the EU. The EU is rife with corruption (I forget the figures but the amount of money it loses through corruption is obscene). Also the British public is much less in favour of European integration than the other EU states. This is probably due in part to geography, we've always been separate from the continent and don't like the idea of being ruled from Brussels. European integration has had many benefits (European Human Rights laws, freedom of movement of labour, relaxed customs rules etc.) but for some people it's going too far. They don't like the idea of the economy being run by unelected officials in Frankfurt, or the fact that we wouldn't be in control of our own interest rates. Member states cannot make local adjustments, there will be one European rate, which is worrying given that there are very different circumstances in different countries. So for you could get a situation where one country has to suffer for the benefit of another because there is a single economic policy. I live in Dover (which for those of you who don't know, is the closest place in Britain to mainland Europe, just 22 miles from France) and what I see is that the British are happy to have better relations with Europe but don't want to surrender any powers to a central government. We are in a position where the government have promised a referendum but will not call one until they are confident of winning it. What this means is that we will probably join up quite rapidly if the Euro is a run-away success and people can see the real benefits, otherwise we will stay out and watch it fail miserably with a smug, superior attitude.