It was the Metropolitan Police who shot the Brazillian, not the BTP - otherwise it wouldn't be Sir Ian Blair (Met Commissioner) taking all the criticism over the shooting.
And yet, with CCTV footage we've caught the people who tried to blow up more trains on July 21, and probably gained more intelligence about the whole operation because of that.
The IRA famously said to Margaret Thatcher (When she was British Primeminister): "We have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky all the time." Same applies today to London.
Heck, everyone seems to have one - I was in a lift at Russell Square tube station yesterday and there were two people in there tapping away on their PSPs.
Won't stop me when I go to university in September. As long as it works with little hassle (unlike my experience with windows), I'll buy a G4 Powerbook in September and you won't see me complain about it through university. There are still advantages to Apple in terms of notebook durability and technical support (ProCare is worldwide, useful for a year abroad), and if the retail sales take a hit, well, a cheaper laptop means I've got more money for beer.
In the good old days BBC news intros/studios were totally rendered by SGI machines, we had the proper BBC crest at the start of news, a decent news fanfare and not an apocalyptic remix of the Greenwich Time Signal (see the Apocalypse BBC video here from Bill Bailey here) and we had a VR studio and not the pathetic "we have our newsroom in the background with people yelling at each other/their computers/their office chairs to distract your attention from the real news." studio layout.
The new weather is an another needless attempt by the BBC to look more modern - change for changes sake, and I doubt the BBC would have to lay off people if they didn't waste money on unwanted projects like this.
Err, Microsoft WAS the disease for SGI. For some reason they decided after the 320s that intel was the way to go and then started the line of failed products once they cut the development budget for MIPS. Until the managment changed and decided "Woo, we could do a really funky NT4 box" SGI was pretty much fine.
They can't do that. They'd end up with an excess of those balsa wood planes that they give away. After 5 or 6 different exhibitions/trade shows, you have your own little air force:D
Can't remember the exact context of the radio article (this was BBC Radio 4's 6:00 news), but I'm sure there were three actual pancreases used for the right amount of islet cells. Aparrently a lot are lost in the transfusion.
However, the news item also mentioned about efforts to develop synthetic islet cells - not sure how that'd work, though.
I listened to TFA, and BBC radio's making a lot of news out of it. Slow day, probably.
...I see is the need for three pancreases for the process - it'd take a lot of donations to cure every Type 1 Diabetic out there. Stiil, they interviewed the guy on the radio, and he seems happy that he's got the flexibility, so its still an improvement (drugs compared to needles - tough choice)
The question is - how much will it cost, and like the original XBox, will it be subsidised by Microsoft again? If so, then either Microsoft is either willing to take risks, or desperate to take over the console market. Three 3.0Ghz PPC cores can't be that cheap...
Seriously, this has gone on for too long. I'm going to go to the Autumn gaming shows in London, and find the new N-Gage will be the highlight of the show.
Nokia, you're fighting a losing battle, give up now and go back to developing phones. And save those of us who have to go to these trade shows the embarassment of having to talk to you about a handheld console that we didn't think would work, and didn't work.
.. if enough research was done by the company/user wishing to implement a new system, instead of managers going "this looks good, we'll have it" or "*os name here*, I hear that there's massive security holes in it", we wouldn't need all this FUD flying around. A symptom of the lack of thought that goes into the buying process nowadays, I think.
where do they get all these letters from? There seems to be 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g and now 802.11s, and I have no idea why the letters are what they are. Anyone care to explain?
In about 1998, the "Computer Life" (no longer published, but it was the best PC magazine ever, with everything from the latest screensavers to modding an exercise bike to play doom) magazine ran an article about doing this with the Duke 3D level editor. I don't have the magazine/cd still, or I'd scan in the article and upload the level files, but you mioght find something if you google long enough.
Oddly enough, UK universities are cutting back on Japanese/Chineese degrees - Durham closed their entire Oriental department, and Oxford is crushing under the pressure of the majority of "Oriental Studies" candidates wanting to do Egyptology. Thankfully, in the UK we have SOAS which is a specialist Oriental/African studies university in London, which is the best in the country at most of the specialised subjects (Chinese/Japanese and other languages) I'm off to do Japanese there in september for four years, and I'm looking forward to it.
Ah, but I'm also stuck with the fact that the monitor won't go any further back, and the desk is attached to the wall. I should get a grant for some new kit quite soon, considering I need a laptop, I may also try to squeeze in a 17" tft.
£35 for a newly released (PC) game is already sky-high. £5 higher and its not going to sell anywhere near as well until it drops in price. I'm not as up to date on the console situation, but I believe the cost of console games is even higher in the UK.
Not that it matters, I never buy games until 6-12 months after they've been released just because of the £10-15 price drop.
Not stricly a degree, but learn a real language (French/German/Japanese) and you can actually get some quite interesting jobs. Worst case scenario, you'd be translating software or giving foreign language tech support, but employers quite like people with language skills for some unknown reason.
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In Central London, the Underground is Underground. Therefore, there's no mobile phone reception - and a good thing that is, too.
It was the Metropolitan Police who shot the Brazillian, not the BTP - otherwise it wouldn't be Sir Ian Blair (Met Commissioner) taking all the criticism over the shooting.
Why do you think he's had so many problems with regaining his possessions? Forensics probably can't understand how to get the data off a BeBox!
And yet, with CCTV footage we've caught the people who tried to blow up more trains on July 21, and probably gained more intelligence about the whole operation because of that.
The IRA famously said to Margaret Thatcher (When she was British Primeminister): "We have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky all the time." Same applies today to London.
Heck, everyone seems to have one - I was in a lift at Russell Square tube station yesterday and there were two people in there tapping away on their PSPs.
...I look forward to downloading Duke Nukem Forever with it.
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpid=1418&dmp= 230&display=motions
And there's Dr Jones's voting history. I would fax her myself, but I'm never one to preach to the converted.
Won't stop me when I go to university in September. As long as it works with little hassle (unlike my experience with windows), I'll buy a G4 Powerbook in September and you won't see me complain about it through university. There are still advantages to Apple in terms of notebook durability and technical support (ProCare is worldwide, useful for a year abroad), and if the retail sales take a hit, well, a cheaper laptop means I've got more money for beer.
In the good old days BBC news intros/studios were totally rendered by SGI machines, we had the proper BBC crest at the start of news, a decent news fanfare and not an apocalyptic remix of the Greenwich Time Signal (see the Apocalypse BBC video here from Bill Bailey here) and we had a VR studio and not the pathetic "we have our newsroom in the background with people yelling at each other/their computers/their office chairs to distract your attention from the real news." studio layout.
The new weather is an another needless attempt by the BBC to look more modern - change for changes sake, and I doubt the BBC would have to lay off people if they didn't waste money on unwanted projects like this.
Err, Microsoft WAS the disease for SGI. For some reason they decided after the 320s that intel was the way to go and then started the line of failed products once they cut the development budget for MIPS. Until the managment changed and decided "Woo, we could do a really funky NT4 box" SGI was pretty much fine.
They can't do that. They'd end up with an excess of those balsa wood planes that they give away. After 5 or 6 different exhibitions/trade shows, you have your own little air force :D
Can't remember the exact context of the radio article (this was BBC Radio 4's 6:00 news), but I'm sure there were three actual pancreases used for the right amount of islet cells. Aparrently a lot are lost in the transfusion.
However, the news item also mentioned about efforts to develop synthetic islet cells - not sure how that'd work, though.
I listened to TFA, and BBC radio's making a lot of news out of it. Slow day, probably.
...I see is the need for three pancreases for the process - it'd take a lot of donations to cure every Type 1 Diabetic out there. Stiil, they interviewed the guy on the radio, and he seems happy that he's got the flexibility, so its still an improvement (drugs compared to needles - tough choice)
The question is - how much will it cost, and like the original XBox, will it be subsidised by Microsoft again? If so, then either Microsoft is either willing to take risks, or desperate to take over the console market. Three 3.0Ghz PPC cores can't be that cheap...
Seriously, this has gone on for too long. I'm going to go to the Autumn gaming shows in London, and find the new N-Gage will be the highlight of the show.
Nokia, you're fighting a losing battle, give up now and go back to developing phones. And save those of us who have to go to these trade shows the embarassment of having to talk to you about a handheld console that we didn't think would work, and didn't work.
.. if enough research was done by the company/user wishing to implement a new system, instead of managers going "this looks good, we'll have it" or "*os name here*, I hear that there's massive security holes in it", we wouldn't need all this FUD flying around. A symptom of the lack of thought that goes into the buying process nowadays, I think.
But if/when they kill off FM in 5 years in the UK, your MP3 player loses a feature.
Then again, will it last for 5 years?
where do they get all these letters from? There seems to be 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g and now 802.11s, and I have no idea why the letters are what they are. Anyone care to explain?
In about 1998, the "Computer Life" (no longer published, but it was the best PC magazine ever, with everything from the latest screensavers to modding an exercise bike to play doom) magazine ran an article about doing this with the Duke 3D level editor. I don't have the magazine/cd still, or I'd scan in the article and upload the level files, but you mioght find something if you google long enough.
Oddly enough, UK universities are cutting back on Japanese/Chineese degrees - Durham closed their entire Oriental department, and Oxford is crushing under the pressure of the majority of "Oriental Studies" candidates wanting to do Egyptology. Thankfully, in the UK we have SOAS which is a specialist Oriental/African studies university in London, which is the best in the country at most of the specialised subjects (Chinese/Japanese and other languages) I'm off to do Japanese there in september for four years, and I'm looking forward to it.
Ah, but I'm also stuck with the fact that the monitor won't go any further back, and the desk is attached to the wall. I should get a grant for some new kit quite soon, considering I need a laptop, I may also try to squeeze in a 17" tft.
£35 for a newly released (PC) game is already sky-high. £5 higher and its not going to sell anywhere near as well until it drops in price. I'm not as up to date on the console situation, but I believe the cost of console games is even higher in the UK.
Not that it matters, I never buy games until 6-12 months after they've been released just because of the £10-15 price drop.
Just out of interest - would you have taken a degree in Japanese instead?
Not stricly a degree, but learn a real language (French/German/Japanese) and you can actually get some quite interesting jobs. Worst case scenario, you'd be translating software or giving foreign language tech support, but employers quite like people with language skills for some unknown reason.
I'm a student and can't afford a TFT. I also can't fit my legs under my desk. It's an ergonomics nightmare, honestly.