I couldn't agree more. I went there recently (to donate some stuff to the Computer Museum) and driving onto the site makes little cold feet walk up and down one's spine - Station X! The actual place! Alan Turing Was Here. And yet, the Government and the bozos at the Heritage Lottery Fund won't hand over a bean, despite pissing away billions on pointless crap like the Millenium Dome (not to mention sucking up to George Bush and pretending we still have an Empire to send a gunboat to.)
It makes me despair of this bloody country.
Paypal may not be a bank, but in the UK it's regulated by the Financial Services Authority just the same.
Oh, and since eBay is not an auction, the UK Distance Selling Regulations apply, at least if the seller is a dealer (and it could be argued that anyone with a feedback over a 100 or so is).
Must be a different USA to the one I know; the one that routinely spies on its citizens, operates extra-territorial concentration camps, performs political assassinations, invades other people's countries on the basis of a lie, has legislation enabling non-citizens to be "disappeared" and so on. Still, they could solve their energy crisis in a jiffy; harness generators to the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.
Not all the world is a PC and despite your (not unreasonable) suspicions that this the person is a Microsoft shill, there are people in the world, myself included, who have only recently been exposed to Windows. NT4 was several years old before I actually sat in front of a PC for any length of time (and was appropriately appalled at was a dire interface it was, and is.) My background was in minicomputers, and by the time the PC started its rise to dominance, I was sitting in front of Xerox workstations (Star and InterLISP, both) followed by various flavours of Unix machine. I do not actually own a PC to this day, although I am forced by my employers to use one.
American washing machines are one very small step above beating stuff on a rock, and are at about the level that European ones were 40 years ago. If you want a real hoot, have a look at a top-loader with a tumble-dryer stacked on top of it.
Phillip2,
Good point about summary trials for foreigners, but you're wrong about entry without warrant. The US legal system has a concept called "the fruit of the poisoned tree", where evidence obtained by illegal means (for example, warrantless searches) is inadmissible. This principle does not exist in UK law.
(Of course, with Bush's determined efforts to convert the USA into a Police State, it may not exist there any more, either. IANAL.)
If they weren't, nobody would pay you to do them. Have you ever noticed that jobs which are "vocations" or doing things that people are desperate to do, are really badly paid?
Yes, they are useful. One of the zillions of things I hate about Windows is the inability to create symlinks, and the half-arsed useless cack that "short cuts" turned out to be.
Oh, and to all the responders whining along the lines of "What, so Linux never stole an idea from anywhere else", Linux doesn't have the richest man in the world arrogantly spouting nonsense about what a "great experience" his scabby junk product provides. If Gates kept his mouth shut, I for one would object to Windows slightly less. Only slightly, mind you.
"the completely untrustworthy, unstable and unorganized UN"...
The same one that allocates telephone dialling codes, radio callsigns and aircraft registration numbers, through the ITU, you mean? Perhaps you've let your tin-foil hat fall down over your eyes?
AFAIAC, the problem is that Windows Mobile is a hideous festering puddle of rancid tapir vomit. I'd be happy with my 'Mobile iPaq if it (i) didn't crash at least 2 or 3 times a day (ii) refuse to start up in the mornings if I leave any apps running overnight, (iii) behaved like a "real" PC in that clicking on the "X" actually exited an app and (iv, and the real killer) is actually a peripheral for a desktop, and not really a general purpose computer in its own right. Until the N&A Book has a "File -> Import" which will read a proper vCard file, it's just a pretty paperweight.
BTW, the requirement to confirm identities was forced on the UK by the American Government's War on (Some) Drugs, so I suggest you pucker up and write (to) your Conressman. Good luck.
Stargate ran out of plots ages ago. Around series 6 or 7. When was it they produced a trillion dollar starship out of more-or-less nowhere without warning? Perhaps they should have called it the "Shark Jump"? That and the limitation of the weekly format. The principal entertainment value now is watching for the "mighty bound moment" when someone invents a new element or does something else impossible to get SG-1 out of a tight squeeze.
Other than for rush hours in major urban conurbations, if public transport were scrapped tomorrow, the difference would be in the noise; 97% of journeys in the UK are made by road.
You cannot indeed lower taxes without spending less. But that's the wrong question. The right question is "is this money spent well?", and the answer generally is "No." Money is best spent when you spend your own money on something you want, and worst spent when you spend someone elses (i.e. taxpayers) money on something you have no interest in (i.e. an NHS you, as a highly privileged politician do not use.)
The NHS is not a "shadow" of anything. It spends more money, in real terms than ever, and I recently read somewhere (the Economist? I forget) that it is the world's second or third largest employer.
Sadly, the vast majority of the money spent on NHS IT has been spectacularly wasted, a trend which seems likely to continue.
Likely the most unreliable piece of software I've *ever* used. Which is why my iPaq 5550 is sitting unused and I'm still using my Psion 5MX. No, there are no fancy features, no colour, no wireless networking, but the PIM software is way better than Winblows Mobile and it never, ever, goes wrong.
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I couldn't agree more. I went there recently (to donate some stuff to the Computer Museum) and driving onto the site makes little cold feet walk up and down one's spine - Station X! The actual place! Alan Turing Was Here. And yet, the Government and the bozos at the Heritage Lottery Fund won't hand over a bean, despite pissing away billions on pointless crap like the Millenium Dome (not to mention sucking up to George Bush and pretending we still have an Empire to send a gunboat to.) It makes me despair of this bloody country.
Paypal may not be a bank, but in the UK it's regulated by the Financial Services Authority just the same.
Oh, and since eBay is not an auction, the UK Distance Selling Regulations apply, at least if the seller is a dealer (and it could be argued that anyone with a feedback over a 100 or so is).
I'm a heroine addict. Particularly Sandra Bullock.
Did you perhaps mean "heroin"?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Arrogant moronic twat. You must be an American.
Must be a different USA to the one I know; the one that routinely spies on its citizens, operates extra-territorial concentration camps, performs political assassinations, invades other people's countries on the basis of a lie, has legislation enabling non-citizens to be "disappeared" and so on. Still, they could solve their energy crisis in a jiffy; harness generators to the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.
Not all the world is a PC and despite your (not unreasonable) suspicions that this the person is a Microsoft shill, there are people in the world, myself included, who have only recently been exposed to Windows. NT4 was several years old before I actually sat in front of a PC for any length of time (and was appropriately appalled at was a dire interface it was, and is.) My background was in minicomputers, and by the time the PC started its rise to dominance, I was sitting in front of Xerox workstations (Star and InterLISP, both) followed by various flavours of Unix machine. I do not actually own a PC to this day, although I am forced by my employers to use one.
American washing machines are one very small step above beating stuff on a rock, and are at about the level that European ones were 40 years ago. If you want a real hoot, have a look at a top-loader with a tumble-dryer stacked on top of it.
... making the Advanced Passenger Train work?
It doesn't stop people from buying Microsoft.
Once again, some MS weenie confuses "familiar" with "intuitive".
Phillip2, Good point about summary trials for foreigners, but you're wrong about entry without warrant. The US legal system has a concept called "the fruit of the poisoned tree", where evidence obtained by illegal means (for example, warrantless searches) is inadmissible. This principle does not exist in UK law. (Of course, with Bush's determined efforts to convert the USA into a Police State, it may not exist there any more, either. IANAL.)
If they weren't, nobody would pay you to do them. Have you ever noticed that jobs which are "vocations" or doing things that people are desperate to do, are really badly paid?
Ender's Game was a cr*p book, and doubtless will make a cr*p (straight to video) movie. Who cares?
Yes, they are useful. One of the zillions of things I hate about Windows is the inability to create symlinks, and the half-arsed useless cack that "short cuts" turned out to be. Oh, and to all the responders whining along the lines of "What, so Linux never stole an idea from anywhere else", Linux doesn't have the richest man in the world arrogantly spouting nonsense about what a "great experience" his scabby junk product provides. If Gates kept his mouth shut, I for one would object to Windows slightly less. Only slightly, mind you.
"the completely untrustworthy, unstable and unorganized UN"... The same one that allocates telephone dialling codes, radio callsigns and aircraft registration numbers, through the ITU, you mean? Perhaps you've let your tin-foil hat fall down over your eyes?
AFAIAC, the problem is that Windows Mobile is a hideous festering puddle of rancid tapir vomit. I'd be happy with my 'Mobile iPaq if it (i) didn't crash at least 2 or 3 times a day (ii) refuse to start up in the mornings if I leave any apps running overnight, (iii) behaved like a "real" PC in that clicking on the "X" actually exited an app and (iv, and the real killer) is actually a peripheral for a desktop, and not really a general purpose computer in its own right. Until the N&A Book has a "File -> Import" which will read a proper vCard file, it's just a pretty paperweight.
Those are Euro, not Sterling.
BTW, the requirement to confirm identities was forced on the UK by the American Government's War on (Some) Drugs, so I suggest you pucker up and write (to) your Conressman. Good luck.
Sorry, but Scottish money is not legal tender even in Scotland.
In English, not whatever it is you speak, the expression is "on the cards".
Stargate ran out of plots ages ago. Around series 6 or 7. When was it they produced a trillion dollar starship out of more-or-less nowhere without warning? Perhaps they should have called it the "Shark Jump"? That and the limitation of the weekly format. The principal entertainment value now is watching for the "mighty bound moment" when someone invents a new element or does something else impossible to get SG-1 out of a tight squeeze.
No. Databases suck for handling free text.
Other than for rush hours in major urban conurbations, if public transport were scrapped tomorrow, the difference would be in the noise; 97% of journeys in the UK are made by road.
You cannot indeed lower taxes without spending less. But that's the wrong question. The right question is "is this money spent well?", and the answer generally is "No." Money is best spent when you spend your own money on something you want, and worst spent when you spend someone elses (i.e. taxpayers) money on something you have no interest in (i.e. an NHS you, as a highly privileged politician do not use.)
The NHS is not a "shadow" of anything. It spends more money, in real terms than ever, and I recently read somewhere (the Economist? I forget) that it is the world's second or third largest employer.
Sadly, the vast majority of the money spent on NHS IT has been spectacularly wasted, a trend which seems likely to continue.
Likely the most unreliable piece of software I've *ever* used. Which is why my iPaq 5550 is sitting unused and I'm still using my Psion 5MX. No, there are no fancy features, no colour, no wireless networking, but the PIM software is way better than Winblows Mobile and it never, ever, goes wrong.
"Gey" is a proper noun (it's someone's name) and therefore not allowed....