4) Generally speaking, the head of any educational institution in the UK is referred to as the "Principal", including both Universities, and primary and secondary schools.
I don't know about that...
At Primary and Secondary schools, we had a headmistress / headmaster - although this is a bit dated and Principal has probably just about completely taken over by now.
Heads of universities in the UK, however, are definitely Vice Chancellors, not Principals.
Lines on the Underground can be classified into two types: subsurface and deep-level.
The subsurface lines were dug by the cut-and-cover method, with the tracks running about 5 m below the surface. Trains on the subsurface lines slightly exceed the standard British loading gauge.
The deep-level or tube lines, bored using a tunnelling shield, run about 20 m below the surface (although this varies considerably), with each track in a separate tunnel lined with cast-iron or precast concrete rings. These tunnels can have a diameter as small as 3.56 m (11 ft 8.25 in) and the loading gauge is thus considerably smaller than on the subsurface lines.
Lines of both types usually emerge onto the surface outside the central area, except the Victoria line, which is in tunnel except for its depot, and the very short Waterloo & City line, which runs entirely in the central area and has no surface section. Only 45% of the Underground is in tunnel.
While the tube lines are for the most part self-contained, the subsurface lines are part of an interconnected network: Each shares track with at least two other lines. The subsurface arrangement is somewhat similar to the New York City Subway, which also runs separate "lines" over shared tracks.
The full WP material on the tube is pretty decent and worth reading in full, if you're ever insomniac or something and feel like geeking out about huge mass transit systems (large scale civil engineering infrastructure being a pet geekism for me, I don't know about anyone else at slashdot...)
Anyway, I don't know anything at all about Lodz' trams, but as a fellow European city, I would imagine the explanation is ultimately much the same, namely: our cities are ancient, and tram and rail and metro services were built considerably later than the 700 years worth of other stuff, so there isn't room for fully dedicated physical tracks for every conceptual service "line".
Actually, you'd have to steal the card from my wallet, the card reader from my bedroom, and a 10-digit ID number from my brain, and a > 10 character password from my brain. (Little papers? Please.) Best of luck.
Oh, and by the way, my account is permanently negative, so you'd only be stealing debt.
Speak for yourself, my bank supplied me and all their online banking customers with a card reader. I believe all other major competitors in the UK banking sector do similar things.
Embracing broken "MS Extensions" is wrong. Yet the people behind ACID2 seem to think that it's a good idea that a web browser should take a badly broken webpage and guess at what the "intent" of the webpage is. Why on earth is this modded insightful, it's hogwash. The ACID2 test is not about browsers guessing what the "intent" of the page is, it's about browsers failing in the way the standards specify.
NB, I'm rather sceptical of the ACID2 test, for the reasons perfectly expressed in this comment, but your comment is nonsense.
Sadly not, advertisers get to play to different rules to mere mortals like you or me.
Compare to billboards/graffiti - if it's a tax-dodging, third-world exploiting corporation telling you that your life is worthless shit because you don't buy their product, they're welcome to stick it in your face in 20ft letters. If it's a resident of the city brightening up an otherwise featureless wall with art, it's evil and it gets removed.
Heaven forbid actual human beings should be treated on a level with legal embodiments of greed.
Oh, sorry, wait, this is slashdot, I forgot, the market solves everything, and any bad word against corporations makes you a raving commie.
It is penetrating my space purposefully and unavoidably to sell me a product that I do not want.
As do any and all of billboards, store signage, window displays, the front, back, sides or rooftops of buildings, bus benches, municipal trash cans, city buses (inside and out), chartered and private buses, subways, taxi cabs, commerical vehicles, T-shirts, baseball caps, designer clothing, street vendors (with or without wearable billboards), shopping bags, and, on rare occasions, tatoos... Yes, and I utterly resent advertising there, too.
People think that Bill Hicks sketch was comedy; as far as I'm concerned, it's the truth.
The first book of the trilogy -- known as "The Golden Compass" in the U.S. and "The Northern Lights" in Britain -- opened in theaters last week.
And if your IQ is over 60, for the love of God don't go and see it.
:: POTENTIAL VERY SLIGHT SPOILERS::
(I will avoid saying anything at all specific about the plot, but in case you're utterly paranoid about spoilerism, I thought I'd give you a warning anyway)
Hollywood at its patronising, intelligence-insulting worst. Endless needless exposition (characters talking to their daemons massively overused as a way of spelling things out which you could quite easily infer, gets very annoying very quickly), doubly irritating since so much of the action was Predictable Hollywood 101 anyway (OH NOES, character A is just about to get the chop! but YAY! character B appears from nowhere and saves them at the last instant but then OH NOES, character B is about to get the chop but then character C appears from nowhere and saves them at the last instant YAY!... oh please).
Besides the lead 13 y/o girl, who was somewhat impressive, all the acting was dire. Hammy as hell, the characters had all the depth of pantomime caricatures: although it's slightly hard to blame the actors, given such contrived, pantomime dialogue it's hard to see how they could have done better.
The anti-religious allegorical aspect simply didn't make sense. (Disclaimer: I'm an atheist, so it's not like I criticise this because it offends my beliefs, it just didn't add up.) For the most part the religious bad guys seemed like bad guys because of their secular, not spiritual, totalitarianism; the only obvious religious parallel to them was the transposition of the "original sin" doctrine, but that felt lazy and unsubstantiated; and how anti-religious can a film honestly be when it simultaenously encourages us to believe in unscientific nonsense like souls and daemons and magical dust?
About the only good thing I can say for it is that some of the cinematography was fairly nice; but even then, in a cheap own-brand LOTR rip-off kind of way.
Truly awful, reminded me why it's been years since I went to the cinema. $18 for a ticket, before you even include transport and a bit of popcorn, then you get unwatchable, patronising dross like this - and the MPAA blame falling attendance on thepiratebay? What a joke.
You seem to place excessive faith in PC gaming. Just because it's important to you, doesn't mean it dominates the computer-using population as a whole. For starters, you've got people like me - not immune to the odd blast of UT a couple of times a year, but haven't installed any games since then. For seconds, you've got a lot of people who do their gaming on a separate device (ie. console(s)).
Basically, Linux could be the undisputed ultimate gamers platform, but I don't see why that would translate to "Linux victory over Windows" unless you have a significantly inflated sense of the importance / population % of gamers.
Very far from my type of music, yet I appreciate that you sell 320kbps mp3s. Yup, and LAME-encoded, and DRM-free, as all MP3s should be;-)
Hell, one guy had a problem downloading with the store, so I found him on AIM and sent him the tracks personally.
As for the music, if you didn't listen and judged by the "live drum'n'bass" description, why not give it a listen - it's not as strange as all that really. The latest EP in particular has a strong element of "normal rock song" to it, just decorated with the odd synthesised bleep and bassline:)
I didn't have any trouble making sense of it, but I guess that puts me in the minority.
Nor did I. The sheer preponderance of people saying they couldn't make head nor tail of a perfectly straightforward piece of English is rather worrying...
Oh, do please grow up. We pay a TV license, not a TV tax, and in return we get television (and radio, and internet) that doesn't [i]completely[/i] suck in it's chase for the lowest common denominator, isn't 40% advertising, etc. And the "going around with TV scanners" is a myth.
You want a cast iron way of getting rid of people like this? Tell 'em you're unemployed.
Seriously. A few years back, when I actually WAS jobless, I was getting sales calls on my mobile, trying to "upgrade" me from Pay-as-you-go to a monthly Contract with a flashy handset. I must have said no several times, explaining that my usage pattern made it *less* economical for me - but they expect that kind of objection and keep coming out with the "but you'll save money, you get 800 free minutes other month" stuff. The fact I use about 90 seconds of talk time each month simply wouldn't penetrate. However, the instant I said, "look, I really can't afford a contract, I'm on unemployment benefit", the guy's tone completely changed. "Oh, right, bye then" *hangs up* simple as that.
Since then I've used it a few other times (when it's not true) and it always works...
Disclosure: I am a web developer, but my use of javascript extends only as far as your "simple things like rollovers". (Well, not actually rollovers, that's done in CSS unless you're an idiot, but...) I am not a "proper" Developer. Hence, this genuine question:
To solve the problem of "the UI stalls the processing or the other way around" (which, funnily enough, I only ever really encounter right here on Slashdot), why would the script language need to provide multithreading to the script author (typical or otherwise).
Surely you could solve that particular issue by running Firefox-itself code in one thread, and on-page-javascript-or-whatever-script in another thread (or perhaps one thread per.js, or per site, or per tab, or whatever). You wouldn't need to actually let the script writer work in multiple threads, would you?
Not only that, but the received wisdom seems to be that they ruined it even then.
(Personally I hated Logic before Apple bought Emagic, so I don't have a judgement on this myself - but I moderate a forum for "prosumer" music technology people, and we've had several massive "So Apple ruined Logic" threads.)
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I don't know about that...
At Primary and Secondary schools, we had a headmistress / headmaster - although this is a bit dated and Principal has probably just about completely taken over by now.
Heads of universities in the UK, however, are definitely Vice Chancellors, not Principals.
From the (rather high quality) Wikipedia article:
The full WP material on the tube is pretty decent and worth reading in full, if you're ever insomniac or something and feel like geeking out about huge mass transit systems (large scale civil engineering infrastructure being a pet geekism for me, I don't know about anyone else at slashdot...)
Anyway, I don't know anything at all about Lodz' trams, but as a fellow European city, I would imagine the explanation is ultimately much the same, namely: our cities are ancient, and tram and rail and metro services were built considerably later than the 700 years worth of other stuff, so there isn't room for fully dedicated physical tracks for every conceptual service "line".
Actually, you'd have to steal the card from my wallet, the card reader from my bedroom, and a 10-digit ID number from my brain, and a > 10 character password from my brain. (Little papers? Please.) Best of luck.
Oh, and by the way, my account is permanently negative, so you'd only be stealing debt.
Speak for yourself, my bank supplied me and all their online banking customers with a card reader. I believe all other major competitors in the UK banking sector do similar things.
NB, I'm rather sceptical of the ACID2 test, for the reasons perfectly expressed in this comment, but your comment is nonsense.
Sadly not, advertisers get to play to different rules to mere mortals like you or me.
Compare to billboards/graffiti - if it's a tax-dodging, third-world exploiting corporation telling you that your life is worthless shit because you don't buy their product, they're welcome to stick it in your face in 20ft letters. If it's a resident of the city brightening up an otherwise featureless wall with art, it's evil and it gets removed.
Heaven forbid actual human beings should be treated on a level with legal embodiments of greed.
Oh, sorry, wait, this is slashdot, I forgot, the market solves everything, and any bad word against corporations makes you a raving commie.
As do any and all of billboards, store signage, window displays, the front, back, sides or rooftops of buildings, bus benches, municipal trash cans, city buses (inside and out), chartered and private buses, subways, taxi cabs, commerical vehicles, T-shirts, baseball caps, designer clothing, street vendors (with or without wearable billboards), shopping bags, and, on rare occasions, tatoos... Yes, and I utterly resent advertising there, too.
People think that Bill Hicks sketch was comedy; as far as I'm concerned, it's the truth.
(I will avoid saying anything at all specific about the plot, but in case you're utterly paranoid about spoilerism, I thought I'd give you a warning anyway)
Hollywood at its patronising, intelligence-insulting worst. Endless needless exposition (characters talking to their daemons massively overused as a way of spelling things out which you could quite easily infer, gets very annoying very quickly), doubly irritating since so much of the action was Predictable Hollywood 101 anyway (OH NOES, character A is just about to get the chop! but YAY! character B appears from nowhere and saves them at the last instant but then OH NOES, character B is about to get the chop but then character C appears from nowhere and saves them at the last instant YAY!
Besides the lead 13 y/o girl, who was somewhat impressive, all the acting was dire. Hammy as hell, the characters had all the depth of pantomime caricatures: although it's slightly hard to blame the actors, given such contrived, pantomime dialogue it's hard to see how they could have done better.
The anti-religious allegorical aspect simply didn't make sense. (Disclaimer: I'm an atheist, so it's not like I criticise this because it offends my beliefs, it just didn't add up.) For the most part the religious bad guys seemed like bad guys because of their secular, not spiritual, totalitarianism; the only obvious religious parallel to them was the transposition of the "original sin" doctrine, but that felt lazy and unsubstantiated; and how anti-religious can a film honestly be when it simultaenously encourages us to believe in unscientific nonsense like souls and daemons and magical dust?
About the only good thing I can say for it is that some of the cinematography was fairly nice; but even then, in a cheap own-brand LOTR rip-off kind of way.
Truly awful, reminded me why it's been years since I went to the cinema. $18 for a ticket, before you even include transport and a bit of popcorn, then you get unwatchable, patronising dross like this - and the MPAA blame falling attendance on thepiratebay? What a joke.
Hand in your geek membership card immediately!
So if you're second, who's first?
You seem to place excessive faith in PC gaming. Just because it's important to you, doesn't mean it dominates the computer-using population as a whole. For starters, you've got people like me - not immune to the odd blast of UT a couple of times a year, but haven't installed any games since then. For seconds, you've got a lot of people who do their gaming on a separate device (ie. console(s)).
Basically, Linux could be the undisputed ultimate gamers platform, but I don't see why that would translate to "Linux victory over Windows" unless you have a significantly inflated sense of the importance / population % of gamers.
oh for mod points - your post says it all.
Hell, one guy had a problem downloading with the store, so I found him on AIM and sent him the tracks personally.
As for the music, if you didn't listen and judged by the "live drum'n'bass" description, why not give it a listen - it's not as strange as all that really. The latest EP in particular has a strong element of "normal rock song" to it, just decorated with the odd synthesised bleep and bassline
Here's my band :)
Binned = thrown in the bin = (Americanised -- er, sorry, Americanized) tossed in the trash
So, a metaphorical way of saying "discarded". Not "banned".
I think that's exactly what he meant :)
Seconded. Brilliant explanation. Many thanks.
Oh, do please grow up. We pay a TV license, not a TV tax, and in return we get television (and radio, and internet) that doesn't [i]completely[/i] suck in it's chase for the lowest common denominator, isn't 40% advertising, etc. And the "going around with TV scanners" is a myth.
You want a cast iron way of getting rid of people like this? Tell 'em you're unemployed.
Seriously. A few years back, when I actually WAS jobless, I was getting sales calls on my mobile, trying to "upgrade" me from Pay-as-you-go to a monthly Contract with a flashy handset. I must have said no several times, explaining that my usage pattern made it *less* economical for me - but they expect that kind of objection and keep coming out with the "but you'll save money, you get 800 free minutes other month" stuff. The fact I use about 90 seconds of talk time each month simply wouldn't penetrate. However, the instant I said, "look, I really can't afford a contract, I'm on unemployment benefit", the guy's tone completely changed. "Oh, right, bye then" *hangs up* simple as that.
Since then I've used it a few other times (when it's not true) and it always works...
Disclosure: I am a web developer, but my use of javascript extends only as far as your "simple things like rollovers". (Well, not actually rollovers, that's done in CSS unless you're an idiot, but...) I am not a "proper" Developer. Hence, this genuine question:
To solve the problem of "the UI stalls the processing or the other way around" (which, funnily enough, I only ever really encounter right here on Slashdot), why would the script language need to provide multithreading to the script author (typical or otherwise).
Surely you could solve that particular issue by running Firefox-itself code in one thread, and on-page-javascript-or-whatever-script in another thread (or perhaps one thread per .js, or per site, or per tab, or whatever). You wouldn't need to actually let the script writer work in multiple threads, would you?
Not only that, but the received wisdom seems to be that they ruined it even then.
(Personally I hated Logic before Apple bought Emagic, so I don't have a judgement on this myself - but I moderate a forum for "prosumer" music technology people, and we've had several massive "So Apple ruined Logic" threads.)
Well done on so spectacularly confirming that GP's use of "nut job" was completely fair.