The House Of Lords do a lot of good in protecting the rights of ordinary people, among other things. In theory I'd be against them, but they seem to show a great deal more common sense, and lack of cronyism and corruption compared to MPs. Compare and contrast live feeds from Parliament and the Lords - the latter are polite and intelligent, the former are seriously depressing.
Back in the 80's I was an operator for ICL Mainframes. They had a volume control, which allowed us to listen to what was called the Hoot. This allowed us to diagnose problems by learning to recognise the sounds. For example, if the Hoot began to squeal, then a program was in a tight loop.
I think that the most interesting idea is the ability to tap into a database, and retrieve data. A police officer sees a suspicious car, and gets the details by thinking the number plate. A helpdesk drone thinks a set of keywords for a problem, and retrieves a solution. A programmer gets an error message that they don't understand, and gets the full details just by thinking the error number. This could open up whole new vistas...
Perhaps a small power station strapped to the cow, which burns the gas and charges a battery. The battery could be drained during milking. Also it would be easy to find the cows at night, due to the flames.
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This may have been posted already, but I can't find it. There's a feedback form if anyone wants to point out how wrong their EULA is: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/request.py?contact_type=feedback Go and give them a good kicking.
high fidelity duct tape
If I had any mod points, that would get you one.
Spray paint is your friend...
The House Of Lords do a lot of good in protecting the rights of ordinary people, among other things. In theory I'd be against them, but they seem to show a great deal more common sense, and lack of cronyism and corruption compared to MPs. Compare and contrast live feeds from Parliament and the Lords - the latter are polite and intelligent, the former are seriously depressing.
Back in the 80's I was an operator for ICL Mainframes. They had a volume control, which allowed us to listen to what was called the Hoot. This allowed us to diagnose problems by learning to recognise the sounds. For example, if the Hoot began to squeal, then a program was in a tight loop.
I think that the most interesting idea is the ability to tap into a database, and retrieve data. A police officer sees a suspicious car, and gets the details by thinking the number plate. A helpdesk drone thinks a set of keywords for a problem, and retrieves a solution. A programmer gets an error message that they don't understand, and gets the full details just by thinking the error number. This could open up whole new vistas...
Does this mean that I can use my health insurance to pay for cat food?
There's a petition to save Jodrell bank here.
I like the fact that, according to wikipedia, "he graduated in moral philosophy".
You can't have seen the following then: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=230962657
Try scrolling for the full horror...
... and is getting ready to go full size with their inflatables.
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Perhaps we could use cow farts to power turbines...
Perhaps a small power station strapped to the cow, which burns the gas and charges a battery. The battery could be drained during milking. Also it would be easy to find the cows at night, due to the flames.
Perhaps they should rename it yourPhone.
So, you're suggesting that they invented hot cross buns?
So, we were misLED...