can't stand all these free market fans "it is proven that it works better and will give the most efficient solution". BS. Nothing is proven, except maybe in some chosen economic theory with some chosen premises.
The free market is a damn, often a damn good *tool*, but not more than that.
To true a couple of sections were outsourced to IBM in my department recently they have already gone over budget in there first 2 months and are demanding more money to cover any unseen requirements. Private companies are not a charity they are there to make profit for themselves, I have yet to hear of an outsourcing that provide the same quality of service at the same cost whilst making a profit, it can't be done.
Actually When BT was still public they wanted to lay fiber optics around the entire country Thatcher stoped them as she thought it wil creat to big a monopoly when they were privatised. If it weren't for politicians public services could run fine.
Well, the really mad money is in the number of people who will buy a subscription, forget they have it and let it recur for years. Or the ones too embarassed to call to cancel, and just live with it til their wife finds out.:)
Thats too funny. Now im going to sue you for damage to my split sides.
The world comes to us with their hand out. The world gets their handout. The world complains because we have more and they have less, though they have not worked for it. The world stomps it feet,pounds its fists,unpuckers its sphincter and out drops the U.N. to make sure it can get what it wants under the thin guise of " whirled peas" World peace. And you want me to sign where? ROFLMAO! sheeeeit boy,you ain't gonna sell any used yugos here today! As far as Kyoto goes,well I bet you'd buy that same yugo sight unseen without a test drive. Thanks,I'll drive my big reliable full size chevy truck.
Wake up to the new world it's 2004 not the 1980's most countries will run a mile than get into debt to the US know, they know it's cheaper to find partners who are a bit less free with there money and and lot less restrictive over how the govern themselves. I bet you presume that Chevy is reliable because it's American built, have you ever looked at any consumer surveys about reliability and safety? They show an interesting pattern involving American cars. You won't sell any cars that are unreliable, unstable, have vats of treacle for suspension, and can't get round a corner at speed and pretty dismal off-road performance for off-road vehicles.
The rest of the world and a lot of your countrymen have moved on and improved themselves over the last 24 years, you are a dinosaur living of the glories of the cold war Americas century was the last one not this one.
BTW your Fucked and your fucked for 4 more years LOLOLOL, bend over boy and grip you ankles uncle Bush is here and he's can't contain himself.
The world,inasmuch as business is conducted mutually with us,will be intervened in,just like china or any other entity with vested interests anywhere.Is that so fucking hard to figure out?
Engage us on our terms,the golden rule.
Please do then we can stop time being wasted with lies about WMD's and actually take action against the real problems i.e. north Korea, Iran, and Sudan all things the UN are trying to sort out, both Iran and North Korea are bigger threats than Iraq ever was . All these things were delayed by a bunch of liars for no good purpose.
Finally, stop crying that the organisation setup by America to try impose it's view on others has grown a pair and become independent, a bit like the WTO.
I don't have spyware cuz I check processes for new things that pop up (XP Pro). I've had malware before and I reformat ASAP. Now, one nifty line of defense I use is a freeware program called Startup Monitor. http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml
Run some you might me supprised, my company firewall regularley blocks known spyware in websites like hotmail. Just because a site isn't seedy doesn't meen it won't contain spyware, hell i even found some that got installed by ubisoft when i used to play IL2-Sturmovik. Last ubisoft game i ever bought. I wouldn't be complacent if i were you.
I like it the site says and LCD will always pass and my work LCD failed miserabley on the 1 and 2 pixel horezontal lines, everything else looked good. Will have to see how my CRT does when i get back home.
have yet to see an LCD come close to CRT picture quality.
I beg to differ. Spending many hours a day writing résumés in front of a (very high quality) CRT had a seriously detrimental effect on my mother's eyes. She went from having better-than-perfect vision to having to wear bifocals in a very short period of time.
strangely i had the exact opposite experience when i we first used an LCD at work my eyes were tired all the time and I would get headaches and I started to need glasses, fortunately I was able to get it replaced with a higher quality model that I could setup to be more comfortable. I used an Iiyama 19" CRT at home often for longer periods with no strain at all.
Any VDU will cause damage to your eye's the most important thing is how it is setup i.e. refresh rate resolution etc. rather than type of display. But personally in have found CRT's easier to setup well and less annoying with regards to picture quality.
Definitely high qualities CRT is best, but as you go down in quality LCD catches up fast. There is also radiation to consider and LCD's normally come out on top in this regard.
personally I prefer top quality CRT in general as they are comfortable on the eyes and have superior picture quality too.
I'm afraid eye strain is inevitable with all VDU's. According to my opticians in the last 2 years my eye's have aged about 6 years and i now need glasses at 24, nobody else in my family has needed glasses until they were in there 40's, such is the price of computing.
We have laserjets from model 3 upto modern 8100. The 8000 near me has done 1,667,137 prints with only 30 failures all from the same paper tray, unfortunatley it doesn't give any dates so i don't know how old it is. I would say stear clear of any HP stuff made for the home but there laserjets are something else built like brick shiat houses to.
What Blunkett wants is to allow nearly every parasite employed by the government to have access to everything. Just like rulebook for the RIP act where he wanted to allow the Post Office (which was already private at the time) and local councils access to anybody's keys and encrypted data. That is the problem. Not the database.
Why would you be stupid enough to put your personal keys and encrypted data on there? and if that is the problem surley the database that holds this ionformation is the heart of the problem.
> "Sorry pal, you have deliberately consumed too much high holesterol food. We cannot aprove your claim as the problem is selfinflicted"
They already find this stuff out with the compulsery medical tests thry have
Now let's have this again. Let's see... You make a life insurance or a health claim and your insurer goes through several years of your shopping history and tells you "Sorry pal, you have deliberately consumed too much high holesterol food. We cannot aprove your claim as the problem is selfinflicted". While the example is an extreme case, the possibilities for doing this are right there. And this is the actual reason why all of the insurance lowlife is sucking Nectar data feeds. If you use the card of course. As I said, his Blunkettness is pale by comparison.
You honestley think Blunkett won't make national ID information available to any compnay that wants to pay for it? any can already get your adress if they know your car registration for a £5 fee paid to the DVLA. Blunkett is not pale in comparision what he is proposing makes nectar seem benign take everything you have said about nectar now add alot more information to that make it available to everyone who pays a small fee. Blair and Blunkett belive privacy is an evil thing to be denied.
But if enought people believe the world is flat, that's what's going in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, too.
Actually that's what goes into wiki. When popular ideas change encyclopeadia's acutually check the evidence, in this case they would look at all the evidence and go "nope sorry it's still round not flat".
i can see why many people are frustrated... being tracked in places like supermarkets for worthless points is as annoying as being asked for your phone number when buying batteries (to which i always reply "i havn't had a phone for years")
Why do they ask for your telephone number when buying batteries?
the author say there are "no means to resolve" but I beg to differ. There is clearly a means to resolve these inconsistencies in that particular article! Edit it!! If he has found something wrong with the article, he should take a few minutes and correct it. Enough of that and the article will go into dispute and moderators will resolve it. If this author is interested in Alexander Hamilton, he should watch that thread unfold using the Wikipedia tools to stay on top of it, making changes as he goes.
That is only useful if you know about this inconsistency and most people who are using an encyclopaedia are using because they are not experts on the subject matter they are researching (if they are experts why the encyclopaedia?), what's to stop some one "correcting" it back again?
Are you seriously suggesting that he spend all his time correcting peoples mistakes on wiki (even if it's one article) when there are perfectly good reference's i.e. other online encyclopaedia that don't let any tom dick or harry but anything they want in there.
The nice part about a Wiki is that the changes are tracked, so the wiki on a whole is bigger than the page you are looking at. You can see how articles evolve, and where disputes may find fuel. Furthermore, this kind of thinking requires more depth than the printed page ever could.
why would you want to wade through rubbish and factual error to get to the truth? How do you tell and as time goes on they get more fragmented and inaccurate. His issue is with wiki not online encyclopaedia.
When you are a dinosaur, you ought to be extinct or you ought to adapt, IMHO. Make way for the Humans!
that attitude is as helpful as a stone age one and just as wrong. BTW there is no such thing as expressing a humble opinion if you where humble you would not express you opinion. Not that there is anything wrong with expressing your opinion just don't pretend it is humble especially when making a stupid and inacurate insult.
It's apparent to me that this author understands neither the concept nor the spirit of Wiki, and considering he is in the Encyclopaedia business.
The author does seem to understand how wiki works as he points out it obvious and non obvious flaws (i.e. any idiot can edit it without regard to fact or reality), also understands the spirit that drives these people as he has been watching long before wiki was on the scene, from the article.
Away back about 1993, '94 -- in retrospect, the last of the halcyon days when a relatively small and rather homogeneous group of people around the globe could reasonably consider themselves as constituting the Internet community and could take a strongly proprietary view of its future development -- back then, I am recalling, a cluster of enthusiasts coalesced in an online discussion group devoted to the creation of an encyclopedia on the Internet, an Interpedia, as they called it. As one of the proponents described it,
"the Interpedia will be a reference source for people who have connectivity to the internet. It will encompass, at the least, articles submitted by individuals, and articles gleaned from non-copyrighted material. It will have mechanisms for submission, browsing, and authentication of articles. It is, currently, a completely volunteer project with no source of funding except for the contributions of the volunteers and their respective institutions. It also has no governing structure except for a group of people who have volunteered to do specific tasks or who have made major contributions to the discussion.... Everyone is encouraged to make a contribution, small or large."
The discussion group generated a great quantity of writing, none of it encyclopedic in nature. There were discussions of the software needed for authoring and databasing and registering and validating and so on; discussions of how to attract contributors and of how teams for larger articles might be organized; of how to ensure that articles were ed
It is disgusting that Business As Usual goes on at Slashdot while the American government murders thousands, treating Iraqi civilians and dead American soldiers as so much trash to be traded for oil. Stop reporting drivel, Slashdot. Do your existential duty to Stop the War.
Don't expect the world to hold your hand everytime your president has problems with telling right from wrong. hell i don't expect other countries to remove tony blair for me i and others will do it at the next election. This is the direction that your fellow citizens wants to take it is up to you to sort them out not us.
I played and finished Doom 3. I just played 3 hours off half-life2 and I can tell you that when you compare the two you too might get that feeling that the levels in Doom3 where "slapped together". As far as I am concerned, the Doom3 engine and every other game engine just became obsoleet. Yes hl2 is that good.
But when will the mods come out. the best thng about Half life was Day of defeat and counterstrike, the single player was boring on HL.
Doom 3 made me feel dirty playing it to much evil, no FPS has made me have emotions full stop let alone feeling like i was slowley being possesd.
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To true a couple of sections were outsourced to IBM in my department recently they have already gone over budget in there first 2 months and are demanding more money to cover any unseen requirements. Private companies are not a charity they are there to make profit for themselves, I have yet to hear of an outsourcing that provide the same quality of service at the same cost whilst making a profit, it can't be done.
Actually When BT was still public they wanted to lay fiber optics around the entire country Thatcher stoped them as she thought it wil creat to big a monopoly when they were privatised. If it weren't for politicians public services could run fine.
Thats too funny. Now im going to sue you for damage to my split sides.
Wake up to the new world it's 2004 not the 1980's most countries will run a mile than get into debt to the US know, they know it's cheaper to find partners who are a bit less free with there money and and lot less restrictive over how the govern themselves. I bet you presume that Chevy is reliable because it's American built, have you ever looked at any consumer surveys about reliability and safety? They show an interesting pattern involving American cars. You won't sell any cars that are unreliable, unstable, have vats of treacle for suspension, and can't get round a corner at speed and pretty dismal off-road performance for off-road vehicles.
The rest of the world and a lot of your countrymen have moved on and improved themselves over the last 24 years, you are a dinosaur living of the glories of the cold war Americas century was the last one not this one.
BTW your Fucked and your fucked for 4 more years LOLOLOL, bend over boy and grip you ankles uncle Bush is here and he's can't contain himself.
Why does america keep trying to break that rule?
Why don't you. You keep talking about it, please do.
Finally, stop crying that the organisation setup by America to try impose it's view on others has grown a pair and become independent, a bit like the WTO.
what sort of job does that do on cookies?
Spyware doesn't just include a .exe on startup.
This was an issue about4-5 years ago but i haven't seen anyone complain since then.
Run some you might me supprised, my company firewall regularley blocks known spyware in websites like hotmail. Just because a site isn't seedy doesn't meen it won't contain spyware, hell i even found some that got installed by ubisoft when i used to play IL2-Sturmovik. Last ubisoft game i ever bought. I wouldn't be complacent if i were you.
Why is everyone who praises LCD's doing so as an AC?
have yet to see an LCD come close to CRT picture quality.
strangely i had the exact opposite experience when i we first used an LCD at work my eyes were tired all the time and I would get headaches and I started to need glasses, fortunately I was able to get it replaced with a higher quality model that I could setup to be more comfortable. I used an Iiyama 19" CRT at home often for longer periods with no strain at all.
Any VDU will cause damage to your eye's the most important thing is how it is setup i.e. refresh rate resolution etc. rather than type of display. But personally in have found CRT's easier to setup well and less annoying with regards to picture quality.
personally I prefer top quality CRT in general as they are comfortable on the eyes and have superior picture quality too.
I'm afraid eye strain is inevitable with all VDU's. According to my opticians in the last 2 years my eye's have aged about 6 years and i now need glasses at 24, nobody else in my family has needed glasses until they were in there 40's, such is the price of computing.
We have laserjets from model 3 upto modern 8100. The 8000 near me has done 1,667,137 prints with only 30 failures all from the same paper tray, unfortunatley it doesn't give any dates so i don't know how old it is. I would say stear clear of any HP stuff made for the home but there laserjets are something else built like brick shiat houses to.
Why would you be stupid enough to put your personal keys and encrypted data on there? and if that is the problem surley the database that holds this ionformation is the heart of the problem.
> "Sorry pal, you have deliberately consumed too much high holesterol food. We cannot aprove your claim as the problem is selfinflicted"
They already find this stuff out with the compulsery medical tests thry have Now let's have this again. Let's see... You make a life insurance or a health claim and your insurer goes through several years of your shopping history and tells you "Sorry pal, you have deliberately consumed too much high holesterol food. We cannot aprove your claim as the problem is selfinflicted". While the example is an extreme case, the possibilities for doing this are right there. And this is the actual reason why all of the insurance lowlife is sucking Nectar data feeds. If you use the card of course. As I said, his Blunkettness is pale by comparison.
You honestley think Blunkett won't make national ID information available to any compnay that wants to pay for it? any can already get your adress if they know your car registration for a £5 fee paid to the DVLA. Blunkett is not pale in comparision what he is proposing makes nectar seem benign take everything you have said about nectar now add alot more information to that make it available to everyone who pays a small fee. Blair and Blunkett belive privacy is an evil thing to be denied.
Actually that's what goes into wiki. When popular ideas change encyclopeadia's acutually check the evidence, in this case they would look at all the evidence and go "nope sorry it's still round not flat".
Why do they ask for your telephone number when buying batteries?
That is only useful if you know about this inconsistency and most people who are using an encyclopaedia are using because they are not experts on the subject matter they are researching (if they are experts why the encyclopaedia?), what's to stop some one "correcting" it back again? Are you seriously suggesting that he spend all his time correcting peoples mistakes on wiki (even if it's one article) when there are perfectly good reference's i.e. other online encyclopaedia that don't let any tom dick or harry but anything they want in there.
The nice part about a Wiki is that the changes are tracked, so the wiki on a whole is bigger than the page you are looking at. You can see how articles evolve, and where disputes may find fuel. Furthermore, this kind of thinking requires more depth than the printed page ever could.
why would you want to wade through rubbish and factual error to get to the truth? How do you tell and as time goes on they get more fragmented and inaccurate. His issue is with wiki not online encyclopaedia.
When you are a dinosaur, you ought to be extinct or you ought to adapt, IMHO. Make way for the Humans!
that attitude is as helpful as a stone age one and just as wrong. BTW there is no such thing as expressing a humble opinion if you where humble you would not express you opinion. Not that there is anything wrong with expressing your opinion just don't pretend it is humble especially when making a stupid and inacurate insult.
It's apparent to me that this author understands neither the concept nor the spirit of Wiki, and considering he is in the Encyclopaedia business.
The author does seem to understand how wiki works as he points out it obvious and non obvious flaws (i.e. any idiot can edit it without regard to fact or reality), also understands the spirit that drives these people as he has been watching long before wiki was on the scene, from the article.
the clit is just a very very small underdeveloped penis.
I like it Janes (possibley the best military reference) is last and wiki (dubiouse reference) is first.
She got the job
Is it me or has just about everything new MS have announced recently already been in Mac OS or Linux?
Don't expect the world to hold your hand everytime your president has problems with telling right from wrong. hell i don't expect other countries to remove tony blair for me i and others will do it at the next election. This is the direction that your fellow citizens wants to take it is up to you to sort them out not us.
But when will the mods come out. the best thng about Half life was Day of defeat and counterstrike, the single player was boring on HL.
Doom 3 made me feel dirty playing it to much evil, no FPS has made me have emotions full stop let alone feeling like i was slowley being possesd.