exactly, even with MS, people have to be retrain when a system is upgraded, I know most of the people at my mums office have had to under retaining 2 times in the last year. Just because geeks can easily switch from word under win95 to office XP under winXP, does not mean the average user will do so. change the accounts software, another period of retraining, followed by a period of getting up to speed, upgrade the operating system to the latest version of windows, accounting software needs upgrading, more retraining. switching over to linux would require retraining, but that is also needed for most windows upgrades by the average user.
I think it's that no-one wants to pay good money for crap music. If the record companies would go out and find some bands that have been playing small gigs, university bars etc, and know how to produce good music, instead of just manufacturing a band out of good looking boys and girls, they might see sales going up again.
I don't know about the prices in the USA but in the uk calls from mobile phones are approx 12 times the cost of land lines, so it makes it expensive to switch all calls from a land line to mobile phones. if the costs were similar i'd agree with you 100%.
the people using GMO have no right to force these GMO onto people that don't want them. pollonation does not just happen within the boundaries of a single farm, ever heard of wind, flying insects, birds, animals, these things all spread pollon over large distances, causing contamination of nearby farms.
If I own a farm and have gone through several years of hardship whilst trying to convert my farm to organic, what gives you the right to stop me from gaining organic certifaction by contaminating my crops with your GM pollon. do you have the right to bankrupt me in this way?
heh, the uk is not far behind the USA when it comes to selling bombs, weapons and interagation equipment to governments known for their human rights abuses.
has anyone considered coating the laptop case with this, it would not produce enough electricity to run a lap top, but you do not use a lap top 24 hours a day, surely this would help to increase the length of time needed between recharging.
these was similar to my area of study for my BSc. but rather than maglev, i used the meisner effect and high temperature superconductors.
By making a circular disc of high temperature superconductor and surrunding this with a ring of permenent magnet you create an almost frictionless bearing requiring no lubricant, only problem was that the superconductor had to be keep below its crictical temp.
this was in 1995 and i know the max temp for superconductors has increased quite a bit since then. good idea for low friction bearings in space, no problem with lubricants leaking or freezing.
you only pay subscription costs if you want cable or satalite channels, bbc 1 & 2, itv, channel 4 and channel 5 plus a number of digital channels are covered by the license fee
They can catch people using the tv with detector vans
they work by detecting the TV tuner's local oscillator which always leaks a small amount of radiation back up the aerial.
Most TVs, apparently, are sufficiently poorly designed such that the local oscillator signal is effectively transmitted for a short distance, but far enough to be picked up by the detector vans.
just like to take you up on your point about fast food( junk food) being good for productivity, how much productivity is lost through obesity, and ill health caused by the fast food culture? I don't know the figures but i would guess that it costs western countries a lot of money.
In my opion , and that of the judges in the
Mclibel case Mcdonalds aims there adverts purely at young children, ie happy meals, clowns, disney figures. By getting young children eating junk food it becomes a habit, one that would not have formed without this relentless advertising. all this just makes me glad that the bbc has not been privatised yet. one more rant , this a bit off topic but, it is not just the advertisers who are getting more extreme in their attempts to brainwash the public, read this
and weep.
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers..... Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life..... But why would I want to do a thing like that? says it all really? chose whatever you want but make sure it is what you want , not just what you have been told you want.
london traffic would move a lot easier if cars with less than 2 people and all 4WD/(status-symbols for middle class mothers) where banned how many cyclists, motorcyclists, pedestrians get killed each year by car drivers who didn't see them( didn't bother to look)? how many people get hit by cars ignoring red lights, no turn & no entry signs? I am a car driver, a cyclist and a pedestrian, and I think that inconsiderate/dangerous/selfish motorists are more common and a much greater danger to everyone than inconsiderate/dangerous/selfish cyclists. Consider a 20lb bike with a 150lb cyclist travelling at 30 mph compared with a 2 ton 4X4 with bull bars travelling at the same speed.
they're pretty close to that in the uk allready. Almost every town in the uk has a large number of cctv camaras,monitoring the public ( to cut crime ), and there was a short article on the local tv news (south today IIRC) where they demonstrated the cctv camaras by following someone from the moment they left their front door, walked into town, went shopping and returned home, there was only 2 times in the whole trip where this person was not on camara.
according to the article "Michel Fournier, 58, who has 8,300 jumps to his credit, will pass through temperatures as low as minus 115C and reach a top speed of Mach 1.68 (1,680kph at that height) " so yes he will treavel faster than the speed of sound at that height, 1.68 times the speed of sound. easy when you read the article you are commenting on.
I thought the governments( all of those invovled in eschelon & carnivore) allready had a record of e-mails, telephone conversations,etc of all the ordinary people. and i'm sure they will be keeping them safe for a long time.
not sure how long hard drives should last but i'm still using a hard drive from 1995 and haven't had any problems so far, the floppy drive is getting a bit dodgy but that came from the first computer i built back in 1991. But I don't have anything that I consider really important stored on my computer, I'm a bit paranoid.
if they are interested in our discarded rubbish, then in a couple of hundred years, the most common item found will be nappies(diapers),due to their lack of bio-degrading and the numbers thrown out. Does this mean that they will think that the world was populated by a race of incontinent midgets?
they are right wing, just not as far right as repulicans. well thats what most of the world outside the US see them as. British politics are heading the same way with the labour party ( supposed to be left wing) becomeing a right wing party with the conservatives started off right wing and have just moved further to the right. but at least in the uk there are more than 2 parties to chose from ( although it has been a very long time since any party other than labour or conserative have been in power).
how about one of the presidents nuclear fallout shelters, built to protect from radiation, withstand direct nuclear strike, air and water tight, i would assume they are not built on falut lines, seem perfect to me and if the storage of nuclear waste is so safe, i'm sure the president wouldn't mind storing some under the whitehouse
sorry, but your post about this was submmitted while i was submmiting my post, therefore i only read it afterwords. but what you said does not change the fact that this argument is used by a lot of people to defend there faith( particularly by creationists),who will attack science saying we can not prove 100% a particular scientific law or idea, then answer that they can not prove that god exists because he is built on faith.
this gets modded as funny? I read all of this, practially word for word from a page of a website linked to on slashdot a couple of months ago. it that the way to get my karma back above zero, cut and paste someones website, that i read about on slashdot?
i'm pissed off cause I've just become a victim of downsizing, don't take it personally
there is something I have never understood about this argument, could someone please explain how god existed before the creation of man, when there was noone in existance that could have faith in god, so how can could god be based on faith and unable to prove his/her/its existance?
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I couldn't of put it better myself.
I take it all the people in the US who cann't afford decent health insurance have perfect teeth.
exactly, even with MS, people have to be retrain when a system is upgraded, I know most of the people at my mums office have had to under retaining 2 times in the last year. Just because geeks can easily switch from word under win95 to office XP under winXP, does not mean the average user will do so.
change the accounts software, another period of retraining, followed by a period of getting up to speed, upgrade the operating system to the latest version of windows, accounting software needs upgrading, more retraining.
switching over to linux would require retraining, but that is also needed for most windows upgrades by the average user.
I think it's that no-one wants to pay good money for crap music. If the record companies would go out and find some bands that have been playing small gigs, university bars etc, and know how to produce good music, instead of just manufacturing a band out of good looking boys and girls, they might see sales going up again.
I don't know about the prices in the USA but in the uk calls from mobile phones are approx 12 times the cost of land lines, so it makes it expensive to switch all calls from a land line to mobile phones.
if the costs were similar i'd agree with you 100%.
the people using GMO have no right to force these GMO onto people that don't want them. pollonation does not just happen within the boundaries of a single farm, ever heard of wind, flying insects, birds, animals, these things all spread pollon over large distances, causing contamination of nearby farms.
If I own a farm and have gone through several years of hardship whilst trying to convert my farm to organic, what gives you the right to stop me from gaining organic certifaction by contaminating my crops with your GM pollon. do you have the right to bankrupt me in this way?
heh, the uk is not far behind the USA when it comes to selling bombs, weapons and interagation equipment to governments known for their human rights abuses.
has anyone considered coating the laptop case with this, it would not produce enough electricity to run a lap top, but you do not use a lap top 24 hours a day, surely this would help to increase the length of time needed between recharging.
these was similar to my area of study for my BSc. but rather than maglev, i used the meisner effect and high temperature superconductors.
By making a circular disc of high temperature superconductor and surrunding this with a ring of permenent magnet you create an almost frictionless bearing requiring no lubricant, only problem was that the superconductor had to be keep below its crictical temp.
this was in 1995 and i know the max temp for superconductors has increased quite a bit since then. good idea for low friction bearings in space, no problem with lubricants leaking or freezing.
i'll second that
you must have sick people living on the floor above you. hasn't it started stinking yet?
you're closer than you think you must cheer the president or else!
you only pay subscription costs if you want cable or satalite channels, bbc 1 & 2, itv, channel 4 and channel 5 plus a number of digital channels are covered by the license fee
They can catch people using the tv with detector vans
they work by detecting the TV tuner's local oscillator which always leaks a small amount of radiation back up the aerial.
Most TVs, apparently, are sufficiently poorly designed such that the local oscillator signal is effectively transmitted for a short distance, but far enough to be picked up by the detector vans.
just like to take you up on your point about fast food( junk food) being good for productivity, how much productivity is lost through obesity, and ill health caused by the fast food culture? I don't know the figures but i would guess that it costs western countries a lot of money.
In my opion , and that of the judges in the Mclibel case Mcdonalds aims there adverts purely at young children, ie happy meals, clowns, disney figures. By getting young children eating junk food it becomes a habit, one that would not have formed without this relentless advertising.
all this just makes me glad that the bbc has not been privatised yet.
one more rant , this a bit off topic but, it is not just the advertisers who are getting more extreme in their attempts to brainwash the public, read this and weep.
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers..... Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life..... But why would I want to do a thing like that?
says it all really? chose whatever you want but make sure it is what you want , not just what you have been told you want.
london traffic would move a lot easier if cars with less than 2 people and all 4WD/(status-symbols for middle class mothers) where banned
how many cyclists, motorcyclists, pedestrians get killed each year by car drivers who didn't see them( didn't bother to look)?
how many people get hit by cars ignoring red lights, no turn & no entry signs?
I am a car driver, a cyclist and a pedestrian, and I think that inconsiderate/dangerous/selfish motorists are more common and a much greater danger to everyone than inconsiderate/dangerous/selfish cyclists. Consider a 20lb bike with a 150lb cyclist travelling at 30 mph compared with a 2 ton 4X4 with bull bars travelling at the same speed.
they're pretty close to that in the uk allready. Almost every town in the uk has a large number of cctv camaras,monitoring the public ( to cut crime ), and there was a short article on the local tv news (south today IIRC) where they demonstrated the cctv camaras by following someone from the moment they left their front door, walked into town, went shopping and returned home, there was only 2 times in the whole trip where this person was not on camara.
according to the article "Michel Fournier, 58, who has 8,300 jumps to his credit, will pass through temperatures as low as minus 115C and reach a top speed of Mach 1.68 (1,680kph at that height) " so yes he will treavel faster than the speed of sound at that height, 1.68 times the speed of sound.
easy when you read the article you are commenting on.
I thought the governments( all of those invovled in eschelon & carnivore) allready had a record of e-mails, telephone conversations,etc of all the ordinary people. and i'm sure they will be keeping them safe for a long time.
not sure how long hard drives should last but i'm still using a hard drive from 1995 and haven't had any problems so far, the floppy drive is getting a bit dodgy but that came from the first computer i built back in 1991. But I don't have anything that I consider really important stored on my computer, I'm a bit paranoid.
if they are interested in our discarded rubbish, then in a couple of hundred years, the most common item found will be nappies(diapers),due to their lack of bio-degrading and the numbers thrown out.
Does this mean that they will think that the world was populated by a race of incontinent midgets?
they are right wing, just not as far right as repulicans. well thats what most of the world outside the US see them as. British politics are heading the same way with the labour party ( supposed to be left wing) becomeing a right wing party with the conservatives started off right wing and have just moved further to the right. but at least in the uk there are more than 2 parties to chose from ( although it has been a very long time since any party other than labour or conserative have been in power).
how about one of the presidents nuclear fallout shelters, built to protect from radiation, withstand direct nuclear strike, air and water tight, i would assume they are not built on falut lines, seem perfect to me and if the storage of nuclear waste is so safe, i'm sure the president wouldn't mind storing some under the whitehouse
sorry, but your post about this was submmitted while i was submmiting my post, therefore i only read it afterwords.
but what you said does not change the fact that this argument is used by a lot of people to defend there faith( particularly by creationists),who will attack science saying we can not prove 100% a particular scientific law or idea, then answer that they can not prove that god exists because he is built on faith.
this gets modded as funny?
I read all of this, practially word for word from a page of a website linked to on slashdot a couple of months ago.
it that the way to get my karma back above zero, cut and paste someones website, that i read about on slashdot?
i'm pissed off cause I've just become a victim of downsizing, don't take it personally
there is something I have never understood about this argument, could someone please explain how god existed before the creation of man, when there was noone in existance that could have faith in god, so how can could god be based on faith and unable to prove his/her/its existance?