Don't be ridiculous. It would be the height of folly to base our infrastructure and security on the "promises" of the US. Perhaps in past it would be conceivable that we rely upon GPS, but in the Bush era, such actions are reckless.
The Iraq fiasco has shown Europe that the US cannot be trusted, nor relied upon. Therefore we must build our own network of satellites.
What about Channel 4 News? They go into much deeper into issues of the day than any other newcast, and press guests when they don't answer the question asked (i.e. doing a Blair).
As for papers, have you ever read the Independent? The story on the front page is actually a story. They don't publish stories about David Beckham's latest haircut, and the don't publish idle celebrity gossip (in fact, no mention was made of the Blunkett affair until it transpired that he may have used his powers inappropriately). Admittedly, sometimes they can be a bit heavy with the anti-Bush sentiment, but I think they are the most impartial of the dailies.
The OO.o equation editor syntax is amazing, but it's useless for all but the most simplest of documents until they get the equations properly aligned. Manually aligning fives pages of equations is no fun, I can assure you.
AFAIK, the product is called OpenOffice.org; IIRC this is because "Open Office" isn't a trademakable name (but I could be wrong). They asked people not to refer to it as "Open Office" a while back.
Yes but to use a cheque in Britain you have to show a card from your bank that is basically a replacement for a ID card.
It's called a cheque guarantee card; when paying by cheque in stores you need to produce it to "guarantee" that the cheque will be paid. It's perfectly possible to use cheques without a cheque guarantee card (e.g. mail order). The card isn't really an ID card at all - it's your debit (or if you prefer, ATM) card.
Nominet (administrators of the.uk TLD) allow individuals to withold their personal details from WHOIS via the Registrants Online interface. The only visible information is your name.
Registrant's Address:
THE REGISTRANT IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS ELECTED TO HAVE THEIR ADDRESS OMITTED FROM THE WHOIS DATABASE
Also, Portage is the single best software management I've ever encountered, bar none...though occasionally, user error means you wait awhile for packages to become stable.
Hmmmm...USE flags are great, but I wouldn't say Portage is the best package management system; it doesn't even have reverse dependency checking!
One must learn to drive a car, ride a bike, row a boat, swim, operate power tools, et cetera. Why should one not have to learn to use a computer?
If the user interface of a computer could be designed so that it were not necessary to learn how to use a computer, why should that not be done? Why can there not be a DE for power users, and another DE for everybody else?
Let me rephrase your question: Why should one have to learn how to use a computer?
We already have these. They're called "function keys." Why people refuse to use them is totally beyond me.
Suppose I assign F12 to Play/Pause. I'm working in OO.org and I want to pause my music to take a call. Whoops! F12 is already used in OO.org to toggle numbering. The function keys are context sensitive, and as such are totally unsuitable for use as global hotkeys.
I use the hotkeys on my Microsoft Internet Keyboard (I like the key action). They control Muine (music player); Back is mapped to Previous Track, Forward to Next Track, and Stop to Play/Pause (wierd scheme, I know). Much easier than changing to the player and clicking the relevant button.
I prefer to use dedicated hotkeys rather than reassigning arbitrary keys on my keyboard.
I'm merely speculating here, but I've read that curved letters need to be ever so slightly larger so that the eye percieves them to be of the same height as the surrounding (non-curved) characters. I don't know whether it's true though.
I don't read about (insert shithole little country here) fighting against (another shithole country) because I don't care. Small countries will continue to fight each other for power forever, there's nothing we can do to stop that short of bombing the fuck out of them all. So why should I keep up on it?
Just to know what's going in the world? To be informed? So you can decide which potential President (I'm assuming you're from the US) has the best foreign policy?
You can't make a judgement on British spelling and grammar from an article in The Grauniad; it's renowned for being riddled with (spelling and grammar) mistakes.
They've even been known to mispell their own name from time to time (hence the nickname The Grauniad).
Totally. I've bought CDs by bands whose tracks I've downloaded from P2P. I could've downloaded the whole album (in perfect quality) on my 600k cable connection, but I didn't. I also go to see my favourite bands play.
However, the only reason I paid for those CDs was because the bands were signed to relatively small labels. I wouldn't have paid if it were from a huge conglomerate. I suppose part of this because of their unfair practices wrt the artists and their vandalism of London.
I found it particularly funny that the record labels were slapped with anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs), introduced by the Labour government primarily to deal with trouble-makers on the streets.
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Don't be ridiculous. It would be the height of folly to base our infrastructure and security on the "promises" of the US. Perhaps in past it would be conceivable that we rely upon GPS, but in the Bush era, such actions are reckless.
The Iraq fiasco has shown Europe that the US cannot be trusted, nor relied upon. Therefore we must build our own network of satellites.
It's like the Cold War all over again.
What about Channel 4 News? They go into much deeper into issues of the day than any other newcast, and press guests when they don't answer the question asked (i.e. doing a Blair).
As for papers, have you ever read the Independent? The story on the front page is actually a story. They don't publish stories about David Beckham's latest haircut, and the don't publish idle celebrity gossip (in fact, no mention was made of the Blunkett affair until it transpired that he may have used his powers inappropriately). Admittedly, sometimes they can be a bit heavy with the anti-Bush sentiment, but I think they are the most impartial of the dailies.
He's an impostor! The British are supposed to be the ones that like us over there!
Not so much anymore.The OO.o equation editor syntax is amazing, but it's useless for all but the most simplest of documents until they get the equations properly aligned. Manually aligning fives pages of equations is no fun, I can assure you.
Oh well, back to MathType and Word.
AFAIK, the product is called OpenOffice.org; IIRC this is because "Open Office" isn't a trademakable name (but I could be wrong). They asked people not to refer to it as "Open Office" a while back.
Yes but to use a cheque in Britain you have to show a card from your bank that is basically a replacement for a ID card.
It's called a cheque guarantee card; when paying by cheque in stores you need to produce it to "guarantee" that the cheque will be paid. It's perfectly possible to use cheques without a cheque guarantee card (e.g. mail order). The card isn't really an ID card at all - it's your debit (or if you prefer, ATM) card.
Water?
It might be broadcast on Radio 5 Live's Up all night programme. The Presidential and Vice Presidential debates were broadcast at least.
The Plextor 712SA is a SATA variant of the (IDE) 712A. I think MSI do a SATA optical drive too.
I have the 3C857 referenced and it seems to work fine with BitTorrent (upwards of 200 connections).
I have the said "router". It works fine with Linux. The web-based adminstration interface works perfectly.
Also, Portage is the single best software management I've ever encountered, bar none...though occasionally, user error means you wait awhile for packages to become stable.
Hmmmm...USE flags are great, but I wouldn't say Portage is the best package management system; it doesn't even have reverse dependency checking!
One must learn to drive a car, ride a bike, row a boat, swim, operate power tools, et cetera. Why should one not have to learn to use a computer?
If the user interface of a computer could be designed so that it were not necessary to learn how to use a computer, why should that not be done? Why can there not be a DE for power users, and another DE for everybody else?
Let me rephrase your question: Why should one have to learn how to use a computer?
We already have these. They're called "function keys." Why people refuse to use them is totally beyond me.
Suppose I assign F12 to Play/Pause. I'm working in OO.org and I want to pause my music to take a call. Whoops! F12 is already used in OO.org to toggle numbering. The function keys are context sensitive, and as such are totally unsuitable for use as global hotkeys.
I use the hotkeys on my Microsoft Internet Keyboard (I like the key action). They control Muine (music player); Back is mapped to Previous Track, Forward to Next Track, and Stop to Play/Pause (wierd scheme, I know). Much easier than changing to the player and clicking the relevant button.
I prefer to use dedicated hotkeys rather than reassigning arbitrary keys on my keyboard.
L-shaped enter keys are standard on all UK (and European?) keyboards, including my current Microsoft Internet keyboard. I don't know why though.
I'm merely speculating here, but I've read that curved letters need to be ever so slightly larger so that the eye percieves them to be of the same height as the surrounding (non-curved) characters. I don't know whether it's true though.
Maybe some typographer can clue us in.
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I don't read about (insert shithole little country here) fighting against (another shithole country) because I don't care. Small countries will continue to fight each other for power forever, there's nothing we can do to stop that short of bombing the fuck out of them all. So why should I keep up on it?
Just to know what's going in the world? To be informed? So you can decide which potential President (I'm assuming you're from the US) has the best foreign policy?
They've even been known to mispell their own name from time to time (hence the nickname The Grauniad).
mplayer, with the Codecs package will play it. Use mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/radioseq/analysi s.ram
Though I don't see what's wrong with Realplayer 8. I have it installed and I don't find it intrusive in any way.
However, the only reason I paid for those CDs was because the bands were signed to relatively small labels. I wouldn't have paid if it were from a huge conglomerate. I suppose part of this because of their unfair practices wrt the artists and their vandalism of London.
I found it particularly funny that the record labels were slapped with anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs), introduced by the Labour government primarily to deal with trouble-makers on the streets.
Two words: PR disaster
The industry groups may be stupid, but they not that dumb. Or are they?