I gather it was decided that they needed someone to shoot the bad guys. Neither The Doctor nor Rose do. That's probably why Jack has an American accent.
The first major laptop/food interface wasn't really a spill. The laptop was on my coffee table, downloading something. I put a bowl of noodles on the floor whilst I went out to the kitchen for another beer. Unfortunately I caught my foot in the power cable and dragged the laptop off into the noodles. After a bit of a wipe and a brief stay in the airing cupboard it was none the worse.
More recently, I had the machine on my lap, checking my email whilst I ate a bowl of breakfast cereal. Half a pint of milk and miscellaneous grains really didn't do it a lot of good. I thought for a while it was dead, but after disassembling it, cleaning the keyboard in the shower and leaving it to dry out for a couple of days it seems to be OK, although I do still find the occasionaly grain of barley.
It's a Dell Inspiron, by the way. Very robust, if a bit slow by modern standards.
I think that proper teaching of the scientific method - what it is, how to use it, why it's been so useful to us - would reduce at least the first of those positions.
One might put forward a hypothesis that some supernatural being designed human beings, but there is no way of testing such a hypothesis. Therefore it has no place in science. That doesn't mean it's not so; just that it's not a useful hypothesis and we should move on to something we *can* test. There's nothing that says we have to understand everything: what's wrong with a little mystery?
One of the problems I have with the creationists and their ilk is that they're not formulating a hypothesis to explain diversity etc: they've decided that evolution - regardless of any proof for it - cannot, must not be correct and have attempted to come up with an alternative. Not something to better explain the world about us, but something that simply casts doubt on the theory of evolution.
In theory, I don't much care what the citizens of Kansas choose to do in their own State. However, I am a little concerned that people of my own country might be inspired to waste a lot of time and effort with similar nonsense, rather than geting on with something useful.
For the purpose of the article it was necessary that Card used examples that people would be familiar with. Using Harry Harrison made a clearer example than, say, M John Harrison. Similarly, he referred to two extremely well known shows in Buffy and Smallville.
His purpose was not to define what is good SF, but to demonstrate that Star Trek was not the pinacle of SF. Having thought about it, I'd have to agree - somewhat. I don't think it was universally dreadful but there are certainly far, far superior shows now - including but not limited to those he mentioned.
Looking at my Video and DVD purchases, I've got a couple of the Trek films but nothing else, and no particular desire to buy any of them, (with the possible exception of Enterprise). By contrast, I've got loads of B5 stuff, Stargate, Buffy...
I find that I'm quicker on a keyboard than with a pen these days, and my fingers tend to get a bit stiff if I have to write more than a page or so.
My mother - who is solidly anti-PC: refuses even to think about using email - recently had a go with handwriting recognition (on a Sony U71) and was genuinely enthusiastic.
I also find it's very handy for taking notes but I wouldn't want a tablet that was as large as a conventional laptop. About half that size would be pretty good. The Vaio U71 is not the perfect size, but it's pretty good.
(For brief notes in meetings, or when FRPing, hand-writing recognition plus a spell-checker gives results at least as good as trying to read my own writing a week or so later!)
The problem we're seeing in the UK general Election at the moment is that parties become more and more similar not as a result of acheiving power but as a MEANS of acheiving power.
The Labour and Conservative parties are almost indistinguishable. Their campaigns struggle and generally fail to highlight any significant differences between them. Even the Liberal Democrats - our third party: not to be confused with US Liberals and/or Democrats - are falling into step.
The three main parties - just like your Republicans and Democrats - are using sophisticated databases to identify floating voters, (by name!), and those are the ONLY voters they're targetting. It's inevitable that they end up sounding the same because they're all targeting the same people.
There's an argument that you've got to be in power in order to do anything, so taking whatever steps are necessary to get elected is legitimate. But if you're only going to end up the same as the other parties what's the point?
Whether it's one or both sides of a street will vary from place to place. It would typically cover the entirety of a small cul-de-sac, for example. Every place in a single postcode will be on the same delivery route, (but there might be multiple postcodes in any given route, because that;s urely an operational matter).
Well, I have driven (well: ridden) in the USA and I really missed roundabouts. They're a very efficient way of dealing with junctions without using traffic lights. The big disadvantage is that they take up more space, but that shouldn't be a problem.
They're not suitable for every situation but in the right place they work very well and they're not difficult to use.
Google Maps UK does look nice and I expect I'll make some use of it. However, one of the things I like about Multimap is that you can actually see the Ordnance Survey map, which gives you loads of lovely detail, including topographic information. This is very nice if you're just looking for a scenic ride.
So a shock transmitted through the hips is unlikely to cause heart problems. But there might be other unwanted side-effects. Brown trousers should be compulsory.
It depends on what you mean by "bigger and better". Peter Davidson has certainly had a succesful career in British TV. Same goes for Pertwee and Troughton. Tom Baker's done reasonably well with his writing, and various speaking appearances, (not just at Dr Who conventions). I'm not sure what Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy have done since their stints.
Back when I was using Windows I found Copernic to be excellent. It did a really good job of putting relevant sites to the top of the list - or at least *near* the top. I still tended to use Google or Yahoo first but if they didn't give me a good answer immediately I'd turn to Copernic.
I found excellent answers to some really quite obscure and vague questions.
I just wish there was something like it for Linux. (I know: "write it yourself".)
I'd agree with that. Figures can be helpful to keep things straight in a complex fight with a lot of movement but most of the rest of it's in the mind.
I have noticed a marked increase in the use of PDAs and laptops by both GMs and players. I find it helpful to have my character sheets and all of the background information and maps in one convenient object. When I go to a gaming session I just need to grab the computer and a bag of dice (random number generators never did take off) and I'm good to go.
I think, though, that Kraft believe that there *is* trademark infringement going on, as indicated by their several references to the special purple/lillac colour used as part of the Milka brand.
If milka.fr wasn't purple originally, (she's changed it, now) none of this might ever have occurred.
You might also like to note that her business is actually called "Milka Couture": that's what's on the shop signs so whay NOT call her web site that?
If she wanted to use milka.fr for her own personal stuff I'm sure that would have been fine. But she didn't.
Registering domains costs money. If you get into doing that you've got to do.fr,.co.fr,.org.fr,.net.fr etc etc Do that for every country in the world, then do each of your individual brands, then every product under those brands, then obvious distortions/derivations... That could cost a lot of money.
It's unreasonable to expect them to do more than the few main ones, which for Milka I guess would be.com,.co.de and a few others. For the rest, rely on the courts to take car of anything that crops up later: what's wrong with that, at least in principle?
Philip Morris do NOT own Dunhill, as far as I am aware. It is likely that they have a distribution deal, so that they sell Dunhill cigarettes in the USA.
Philip Morris do sell some Marlboro branded goods - including clothing. Kraft Foods, however, do not do this sort of thing and my experience with the company leads me to believe that they will not in the foreseeable future. They have a history of divesting themselves of anything that is not directly related to their core business.
Do you want to do away with trademarks altogether and return to the days of adulterated flour? If not, then you have to accept that it's legitimate to protect trademarks.
As to Kraft registering milka.fr previously, there's something to be said for that, but how far do you go? If a company were to register all of the relevent domains they deny them to other people. Now for things which are clearly associated with a particular brand and couldn't reasonably be used for anything else - e.g. microsoft, coca-cola, texaco - there's no real problem. But proper names are a bit different. If your name happens to be the same as that of a business, then if you have a web site it would seem only sensible to put up a nice clear warning that you're nothing to do with that company, and makde damn sure that even the most dim-witted visitor couldn't possibly think you were anything to do with that company.
Do you really want companies to register every conceivable domain, just to stop other people using them? Why isn't it better to trust that people will use the domains responsibly, and only go after those who don't?
I've got a slight interest in this, since Kraft are one of my customers and I used to work for them. However...
Most major companies are extremely interested in brand names. They see the brand name itself as more important than any individual product that's associated with it. They're always looking for new products to associate with succesful brands. It also means they get very concerned at any threat to the brand image.
In this particular case, Kraft are not in the clothing business, nor are they ever likely to be. But they *do* have interests in promotional items which might well include clothes.
The Milka brand has for a very long time been associated with a particular colour: a shade of lilac/purple. Compared side-by-side there's not much similarity between that and the milka.fr site. But milka.fr does use a sort of purple/mauve colour: someone going to that site might conceivably mistake it for the trade-marked colour - if they didn't have an example to hand - and think that the site was associated with the chocolate in some way.
I suspect that Kraft's objection is not so much that Ms Milka might make soome money out of it, but that their customers might wonder "why is Milka associated with this tatty little fashion site?", thus damaging the name.
Not a big risk, but if they let one site get away with it - however innocently - they leave themselves wide-open to future abuse.
Coming down on the side of big business isn't going to be popular around here, but I think that Kraft are quite justified in this case, provided that they don't get too heavy-handed.
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Don't be so parochial! You're assuming they were all talking about Earth years.
I gather it was decided that they needed someone to shoot the bad guys. Neither The Doctor nor Rose do. That's probably why Jack has an American accent.
Actors generally object to too many repeats, despite royalties. They'd much rather see new programmes being made.
Mulligatawny soup is a spicy meat soup. Like a lot of English food it has a strong Indian influence.
Very tasty and well worth trying.
It works great for cleaning the limescale of skinks...
Is this method approved by herpetologists?
Crumbs are nothing!
The first major laptop/food interface wasn't really a spill. The laptop was on my coffee table, downloading something. I put a bowl of noodles on the floor whilst I went out to the kitchen for another beer. Unfortunately I caught my foot in the power cable and dragged the laptop off into the noodles. After a bit of a wipe and a brief stay in the airing cupboard it was none the worse.
More recently, I had the machine on my lap, checking my email whilst I ate a bowl of breakfast cereal. Half a pint of milk and miscellaneous grains really didn't do it a lot of good. I thought for a while it was dead, but after disassembling it, cleaning the keyboard in the shower and leaving it to dry out for a couple of days it seems to be OK, although I do still find the occasionaly grain of barley.
It's a Dell Inspiron, by the way. Very robust, if a bit slow by modern standards.
I think that proper teaching of the scientific method - what it is, how to use it, why it's been so useful to us - would reduce at least the first of those positions.
One might put forward a hypothesis that some supernatural being designed human beings, but there is no way of testing such a hypothesis. Therefore it has no place in science. That doesn't mean it's not so; just that it's not a useful hypothesis and we should move on to something we *can* test. There's nothing that says we have to understand everything: what's wrong with a little mystery?
One of the problems I have with the creationists and their ilk is that they're not formulating a hypothesis to explain diversity etc: they've decided that evolution - regardless of any proof for it - cannot, must not be correct and have attempted to come up with an alternative. Not something to better explain the world about us, but something that simply casts doubt on the theory of evolution.
In theory, I don't much care what the citizens of Kansas choose to do in their own State. However, I am a little concerned that people of my own country might be inspired to waste a lot of time and effort with similar nonsense, rather than geting on with something useful.
For the purpose of the article it was necessary that Card used examples that people would be familiar with. Using Harry Harrison made a clearer example than, say, M John Harrison. Similarly, he referred to two extremely well known shows in Buffy and Smallville.
His purpose was not to define what is good SF, but to demonstrate that Star Trek was not the pinacle of SF. Having thought about it, I'd have to agree - somewhat. I don't think it was universally dreadful but there are certainly far, far superior shows now - including but not limited to those he mentioned.
Looking at my Video and DVD purchases, I've got a couple of the Trek films but nothing else, and no particular desire to buy any of them, (with the possible exception of Enterprise). By contrast, I've got loads of B5 stuff, Stargate, Buffy...
I find that I'm quicker on a keyboard than with a pen these days, and my fingers tend to get a bit stiff if I have to write more than a page or so.
My mother - who is solidly anti-PC: refuses even to think about using email - recently had a go with handwriting recognition (on a Sony U71) and was genuinely enthusiastic.
I also find it's very handy for taking notes but I wouldn't want a tablet that was as large as a conventional laptop. About half that size would be pretty good. The Vaio U71 is not the perfect size, but it's pretty good.
(For brief notes in meetings, or when FRPing, hand-writing recognition plus a spell-checker gives results at least as good as trying to read my own writing a week or so later!)
The problem we're seeing in the UK general Election at the moment is that parties become more and more similar not as a result of acheiving power but as a MEANS of acheiving power.
The Labour and Conservative parties are almost indistinguishable. Their campaigns struggle and generally fail to highlight any significant differences between them. Even the Liberal Democrats - our third party: not to be confused with US Liberals and/or Democrats - are falling into step.
The three main parties - just like your Republicans and Democrats - are using sophisticated databases to identify floating voters, (by name!), and those are the ONLY voters they're targetting. It's inevitable that they end up sounding the same because they're all targeting the same people.
There's an argument that you've got to be in power in order to do anything, so taking whatever steps are necessary to get elected is legitimate. But if you're only going to end up the same as the other parties what's the point?
I know plenty of people who seem to be stuck on 29; The Doctor's just scared of the big 1000.
Whether it's one or both sides of a street will vary from place to place. It would typically cover the entirety of a small cul-de-sac, for example. Every place in a single postcode will be on the same delivery route, (but there might be multiple postcodes in any given route, because that;s urely an operational matter).
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Here's the official Post Code standard. Not terribly exciting, but what the hell...
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/gdsc/html/frames/PostCo
Well, I have driven (well: ridden) in the USA and I really missed roundabouts. They're a very efficient way of dealing with junctions without using traffic lights. The big disadvantage is that they take up more space, but that shouldn't be a problem.
They're not suitable for every situation but in the right place they work very well and they're not difficult to use.
Google Maps UK does look nice and I expect I'll make some use of it. However, one of the things I like about Multimap is that you can actually see the Ordnance Survey map, which gives you loads of lovely detail, including topographic information. This is very nice if you're just looking for a scenic ride.
So a shock transmitted through the hips is unlikely to cause heart problems. But there might be other unwanted side-effects.
Brown trousers should be compulsory.
Stuffing live ferrets down his trousers?
It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
It depends on what you mean by "bigger and better". Peter Davidson has certainly had a succesful career in British TV. Same goes for Pertwee and Troughton.
Tom Baker's done reasonably well with his writing, and various speaking appearances, (not just at Dr Who conventions).
I'm not sure what Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy have done since their stints.
Back when I was using Windows I found Copernic to be excellent. It did a really good job of putting relevant sites to the top of the list - or at least *near* the top. I still tended to use Google or Yahoo first but if they didn't give me a good answer immediately I'd turn to Copernic.
I found excellent answers to some really quite obscure and vague questions.
I just wish there was something like it for Linux.
(I know: "write it yourself".)
I'd agree with that. Figures can be helpful to keep things straight in a complex fight with a lot of movement but most of the rest of it's in the mind.
I have noticed a marked increase in the use of PDAs and laptops by both GMs and players. I find it helpful to have my character sheets and all of the background information and maps in one convenient object. When I go to a gaming session I just need to grab the computer and a bag of dice (random number generators never did take off) and I'm good to go.
I think, though, that Kraft believe that there *is* trademark infringement going on, as indicated by their several references to the special purple/lillac colour used as part of the Milka brand.
If milka.fr wasn't purple originally, (she's changed it, now) none of this might ever have occurred.
You might also like to note that her business is actually called "Milka Couture": that's what's on the shop signs so whay NOT call her web site that?
If she wanted to use milka.fr for her own personal stuff I'm sure that would have been fine. But she didn't.
Registering domains costs money. If you get into doing that you've got to do .fr, .co.fr, .org.fr, .net.fr etc etc
.com, .co.de and a few others. For the rest, rely on the courts to take car of anything that crops up later: what's wrong with that, at least in principle?
Do that for every country in the world, then do each of your individual brands, then every product under those brands, then obvious distortions/derivations... That could cost a lot of money.
It's unreasonable to expect them to do more than the few main ones, which for Milka I guess would be
Philip Morris do NOT own Dunhill, as far as I am aware. It is likely that they have a distribution deal, so that they sell Dunhill cigarettes in the USA.
Philip Morris do sell some Marlboro branded goods - including clothing. Kraft Foods, however, do not do this sort of thing and my experience with the company leads me to believe that they will not in the foreseeable future. They have a history of divesting themselves of anything that is not directly related to their core business.
Do you want to do away with trademarks altogether and return to the days of adulterated flour? If not, then you have to accept that it's legitimate to protect trademarks.
As to Kraft registering milka.fr previously, there's something to be said for that, but how far do you go? If a company were to register all of the relevent domains they deny them to other people. Now for things which are clearly associated with a particular brand and couldn't reasonably be used for anything else - e.g. microsoft, coca-cola, texaco - there's no real problem. But proper names are a bit different. If your name happens to be the same as that of a business, then if you have a web site it would seem only sensible to put up a nice clear warning that you're nothing to do with that company, and makde damn sure that even the most dim-witted visitor couldn't possibly think you were anything to do with that company.
Do you really want companies to register every conceivable domain, just to stop other people using them? Why isn't it better to trust that people will use the domains responsibly, and only go after those who don't?
Have they abused her? They've asked her to kindly use a different name for her web site - not herself, or her business.
I've got a slight interest in this, since Kraft are one of my customers and I used to work for them. However...
Most major companies are extremely interested in brand names. They see the brand name itself as more important than any individual product that's associated with it. They're always looking for new products to associate with succesful brands. It also means they get very concerned at any threat to the brand image.
In this particular case, Kraft are not in the clothing business, nor are they ever likely to be. But they *do* have interests in promotional items which might well include clothes.
The Milka brand has for a very long time been associated with a particular colour: a shade of lilac/purple. Compared side-by-side there's not much similarity between that and the milka.fr site. But milka.fr does use a sort of purple/mauve colour: someone going to that site might conceivably mistake it for the trade-marked colour - if they didn't have an example to hand - and think that the site was associated with the chocolate in some way.
I suspect that Kraft's objection is not so much that Ms Milka might make soome money out of it, but that their customers might wonder "why is Milka associated with this tatty little fashion site?", thus damaging the name.
Not a big risk, but if they let one site get away with it - however innocently - they leave themselves wide-open to future abuse.
Coming down on the side of big business isn't going to be popular around here, but I think that Kraft are quite justified in this case, provided that they don't get too heavy-handed.