I thought this article was going to say "So they've hired an entire team of moneys to get them to write the next Windows". Infact it's just a load of machines doing nothing. I prefered my idea, much more chance of shit-fights between the moneys.
However, i had a similar thing to that at school. Clippy popped up and gave me one of those "It's time to save your work" messages. Angered that it even appeared i clicked No. A few seconds later, owing to bad wiring, the PC powered off as the power cord fell out.
It seemed to manage a bit better, but as the PSU got closer to blowing (Of course, all without me knowing it), it caused Linux to freeze, refuse to boot properly and cause errors too. It also enjoyed reporting my 120GB HDD as being 9 Exabytes, and then 17 Exabytes.
VAT in the UK is 17.5% on all goods, excluding a few tax exempt neccessities (Bread, Flour, Children's Clothing, etc).
It's always applied at the end when the product is on sale, however all goods must be priced including VAT (So the price you see is the price you pay).
Maybe not over half the US population, but there's a very large number of computer-users that use USB flash drives as a method of data storage. They aren't just "geek only" devices.
We've been selling USB drives at school as part of a Young Enterprise company. We're taking orders from teachers that know nothing about computers, students in the lower years that don't know much, the school secretaries, my mum has one. These things are pretty much replacing the floppy as a means of easy, cheap and compatable removable storage.
Nowhere near the railway line and infact the totally wrong road, it's not even on Station Approach (Zoom to read name). Now when i try searching for "Elmstead" it gives one result elsewhere, "Elmstead Woods" doesn't exist.
Fine, i've never had a real problem with spyware, and as i've grown older i've eliminated it. Spyware isn't an issue for me because i'm not stupid enough to go around installing and clicking on whatever i see. Just did a random scan on Ad-Aware and got 0 results.
Viruses? I think i've had a couple of false positives if that's what you mean...
These aren't really problems that affect you if you know what you're doing, or even if you simply don't click on everything you see. It may also help that i use Firefox and Thunderbird and only IE whenever i need to (Windows update, my bank now likes Firefox).
...there's a heck of a lot of other stuff that it doesn't make commercial sense to publish in that manner - e.g. programmes like Horizon and Top Gear ).
I agree. I've been downloading lots of programmes off a torrent network that are BBC shows that they never released. Quite a few of them are OU programmes, so this fits the bill perfectly.
I think they're going to know that these things aren't foolproof, and it's really simple to use a proxy. The point is that 95% of people don't even know what a proxy is, let alone how to use one. It'll stop a large number of non-techy people outside the UK downloading content.
If i remember correctly, adblock just sets the property of the blocked area to hidden, or an equivalent. So all content is actually loaded, including the 1x1 gif and JS, it's just not shown to the user.
Back when it was thought of, i can see it being relevant. The ability to overthrow a government was there and the ability for a government to easily become corrupt was there too. However in a modern society, i can't see a government becoming corrupt, or to be more accurate, corrupt to the extent where Americans will rise-up and attempt to overthrow them with their firearms.
...and how will carrying a little card prevent anything? They've already had the debates in the UK and the government have admitted that ID cards won't do anything to help prevent terrorism, they'll just do some other good things...
Tax evasion is not paying taxes that you have to pay. EG: not paying stamp duty on a house. This is illegal and expect to get in trouble for it.
Tax avoidance is avoiding paying taxes by shuffling things about a bit. It's perfectly legal to pay £119,000 for a house, and then pay another £5,000 for "fixtures and fittings" in cash. The house costs less than £120,000 and so is exempt from paying stamp duty. Or giving your wife a "gift" of a few thousand pounds, making it tax free, at the end of the financial year. Nothing illegal about it, and no-one will do anything either.
What good would raising the minimum wage to a higher level do? You'll just cause inflation and the new minimum wage will be worth the same as the old one.
Raise wages, people spend more, prices rise, wages rise...
The wage-price spiral, enjoy your newfound economic disaster. Alternatively, you raise it and instead of helping all those "poor" people, you'll just make them unemployed because companies can't afford them.
The minimum wage is to stop the exploitation of workers, not to ensure that they live a lovely life. If it's too high, the economy will suffer.
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I thought this article was going to say "So they've hired an entire team of moneys to get them to write the next Windows". Infact it's just a load of machines doing nothing. I prefered my idea, much more chance of shit-fights between the moneys.
Yea, see the above reply.
However, i had a similar thing to that at school. Clippy popped up and gave me one of those "It's time to save your work" messages. Angered that it even appeared i clicked No. A few seconds later, owing to bad wiring, the PC powered off as the power cord fell out.
It seemed to manage a bit better, but as the PSU got closer to blowing (Of course, all without me knowing it), it caused Linux to freeze, refuse to boot properly and cause errors too. It also enjoyed reporting my 120GB HDD as being 9 Exabytes, and then 17 Exabytes.
Very true, i was getting annoyed by frequent BSODs. They were random, seemed to pop up without warning and always at the wrong moment.
They've all gone away after my PSU blew and i replaced it with a decent one that didn't come with the case and weigh less than an empty cardboard box.
If you're typing your credit-card or SSN on non secure connections, such as using email, then you deserve what you get...
VAT in the UK is 17.5% on all goods, excluding a few tax exempt neccessities (Bread, Flour, Children's Clothing, etc).
It's always applied at the end when the product is on sale, however all goods must be priced including VAT (So the price you see is the price you pay).
Go take your political correctness back to your TPLACs!
Yea, because it's not like you pay "Sales Tax" on goods, and have to add it on when you get to the checkout is it? Oh wait...
Maybe not over half the US population, but there's a very large number of computer-users that use USB flash drives as a method of data storage. They aren't just "geek only" devices.
We've been selling USB drives at school as part of a Young Enterprise company. We're taking orders from teachers that know nothing about computers, students in the lower years that don't know much, the school secretaries, my mum has one. These things are pretty much replacing the floppy as a means of easy, cheap and compatable removable storage.
It's also got some strange problems:
Elmstead Woods Station
Nowhere near the railway line and infact the totally wrong road, it's not even on Station Approach (Zoom to read name). Now when i try searching for "Elmstead" it gives one result elsewhere, "Elmstead Woods" doesn't exist.
Okay, the map data may be "Map data ©Crown copyright. Licence number 100026920". However the search should still work.
The flaw with that is that everyone is redirecting to 127.0.0.1 instead. Maybe we've found a way to slashdot our own PCs!
Fine, i've never had a real problem with spyware, and as i've grown older i've eliminated it. Spyware isn't an issue for me because i'm not stupid enough to go around installing and clicking on whatever i see. Just did a random scan on Ad-Aware and got 0 results.
Viruses? I think i've had a couple of false positives if that's what you mean...
These aren't really problems that affect you if you know what you're doing, or even if you simply don't click on everything you see. It may also help that i use Firefox and Thunderbird and only IE whenever i need to (Windows update, my bank now likes Firefox).
They have a FAQ entry saying this:
I heard that Creative Archive will be using P2P technology. Isn't that illegal?
So they are using P2P methods of distribution.
...there's a heck of a lot of other stuff that it doesn't make commercial sense to publish in that manner - e.g. programmes like Horizon and Top Gear ).
I agree. I've been downloading lots of programmes off a torrent network that are BBC shows that they never released. Quite a few of them are OU programmes, so this fits the bill perfectly.
Won't these people ever learn???
I think they're going to know that these things aren't foolproof, and it's really simple to use a proxy. The point is that 95% of people don't even know what a proxy is, let alone how to use one. It'll stop a large number of non-techy people outside the UK downloading content.
If i remember correctly, adblock just sets the property of the blocked area to hidden, or an equivalent. So all content is actually loaded, including the 1x1 gif and JS, it's just not shown to the user.
Back when it was thought of, i can see it being relevant. The ability to overthrow a government was there and the ability for a government to easily become corrupt was there too. However in a modern society, i can't see a government becoming corrupt, or to be more accurate, corrupt to the extent where Americans will rise-up and attempt to overthrow them with their firearms.
...and how will carrying a little card prevent anything? They've already had the debates in the UK and the government have admitted that ID cards won't do anything to help prevent terrorism, they'll just do some other good things...
Exactly, what about situations where you cover the mouthpiece and mouth to someone something? All goes through to the other end of the call!
Only if argued at the same critical and scientific level, and not argued on the "It's written here, so it's true" logic.
Do we expect the film to ever go into production?
There are 5 UK free-to-air terrestrial channels. Channel 5 has: http://www.five.tv
Tax evasion is not paying taxes that you have to pay. EG: not paying stamp duty on a house. This is illegal and expect to get in trouble for it.
Tax avoidance is avoiding paying taxes by shuffling things about a bit. It's perfectly legal to pay £119,000 for a house, and then pay another £5,000 for "fixtures and fittings" in cash. The house costs less than £120,000 and so is exempt from paying stamp duty. Or giving your wife a "gift" of a few thousand pounds, making it tax free, at the end of the financial year. Nothing illegal about it, and no-one will do anything either.
What good would raising the minimum wage to a higher level do? You'll just cause inflation and the new minimum wage will be worth the same as the old one.
Raise wages, people spend more, prices rise, wages rise...
The wage-price spiral, enjoy your newfound economic disaster. Alternatively, you raise it and instead of helping all those "poor" people, you'll just make them unemployed because companies can't afford them.
The minimum wage is to stop the exploitation of workers, not to ensure that they live a lovely life. If it's too high, the economy will suffer.