The trouble I have is that not all the measures are 12. If they were, that would be fine.
There's 16oz in a lb, 20fl.oz in a pint.
That just doesn't make sense.
In some ways, the imperial system is better. For cooking, the ratios often work out. I've gone metric, though because the best set of kitchen scales I found were in France.
It sounds like a "monorail" of an idea (ref: The Simpsons).
Someone somewhere thinks of a new idea, lobbies some politicians hard, and as the technology is the next big thing, something they are ignorant of, and want some kudos, the politician backs it. We're getting the same thing with trams in the UK, even though buses are a much more practical, but more boring solution.
A much better idea to get breaks is what they do in France - have free drinks stops occassionally.
I think a lot of people use the RIAA Radar site for this.
You are also right about some indie labels. They are just another marketing device for some big labels, to sell manufactured rock music to youths as "indie".
IANAL, but the words "sort of addicted" and "drug dealer" seem to me to kind of go together. The Brazillian can call me if he wants $20 towards his lawsuit.
Once you have crafted a sufficiently featured product that most of the market is now using how do you generate more sales?
Actually, this is the situation that Microsoft will find itself in. People won't upgrade off 2000 or XP to whatevers next, because except for bugs, they do what they need them to. OK, there's always new features, but the last feature in Office that made me go "cooool..." was VBA in Word, and that was in Office 97. For the average user who isn't a programmer, what is it? Tables in Word 6?
Microsoft have a number of revenue problems coming up...
a) PC Install base is maxed out. No new PCs, just replacements. I'm generalising - there are undoubtedly people buying a new PC, just not many. So, virgin OS sales are down.
b) Applications are "good enough". Most people don't use anything in Office post-97. In the 90s, those apps improved considerably, and upgrading was worth it. Not now they're not. So, they don't need new machines for the new software, because they aren't buying it.
Language performance rarely matters. I imagine network speed and database IO are far more significant now. And yes, programmers cost a lot more than hardware.
I've seen MS Access derided on Slashdot, but for some ancillary applications, you can throw something together in very little time. Performance wise, yeah, it may not be great. But if it's just for updating a product table that happens once a month and affects a few rows in a database, who cares?
Is the Indy racing stuff to do with Americans liking to see Americans win?
Looking at the sports Americans like, it's quite localised - American Football, Baseball, Ice Hockey. Basically, hardly anyone else plays them.
They've picked up Football (the proper one) only as a ladies game (where there's little competition). I wonder how long interest will be held if someone gets a better ladies team out there.
From what I've heard, he works well with the team and gives a lot of feedback to the engineers, far more than many drivers such as certain British world champions whose cars failed and they always blamed the team.
I think he's the best driver ever. How? Look at how far ahead he always is of his compatriots or co-drivers. If there's two cars, in a team, and one is streets ahead of the other, what does that tell you? Remember, Mansell and Piquet, Senna and Prost? Both pairs were in teams and were very close. AFAIK, no driver in the same team as Schumacher has come close.
I've also heard that he makes far more adjustments to his steering than most drivers, so can take corners just that bit quicker.
Everyone mentions Ayrton Senna, and he was great, but then so was Alain Prost. Senna was rarely more than a notch above Prost. I seriously think, though that paired up, Schumacher would have beaten either of them.
BTW Have fun at Silverstone. Set your alarm early, or better still, get a flight in!
I think the term for this is generally "reuse" rather than "recycle".
And yes, it makes sense, like when I visit my local brewery and a jug and they fill it up, instead of me spending 50 pence on a new jug.
I'd also love my kids to be able to walk bottles to the shop to collect 6 pence like I did as a kid to buy some sweets. Helped me learn about earning money from an early age (Small Boys in the Park, Jumpers for Goalposts, Enduring image, isn't it). Of course, there's no collection of bottles as it's all plastic, and the local shops are being killed by supermarkets.
We've also become less green because of our living habits. OK, cars are cleaner, but we all drive further to shops and work, buy food from further away (even things that CAN be produced locally), buy more gadgets that get thrown away rather than repaired and take holidays further and further away.
The problem with recycling is that it rarely looks at the total environmental impact, and often works on emotions. Recycling paper was very popular because people thought it saved trees, when we are all now aware that the trees in Norway are grown for this purpose. Recycling paper does save land fill, although paper breaks down very quickly. Then, there's the chemical costs of treating the paper.
I can't remember who said it, it may have been PJ O'Rourke, but the best thing to do with waste dumps etc is to have towns that don't want them to pay towns or areas to have them. You just find the lowest bidder.
A few years ago, someone I know who was involved with local politics in the UK told me that a lot of glass that goes into "bottle banks" just gets dumped anyway because of the low demand for the glass.
To really deal with the environment, there's a better way, reuse. Encourage people to buy things using their own bottles, like from wine producers or breweries.
It's not really resale, it's more about market access.
It seems from research that I can't use the iTunes France shop because I don't have a French address.
There was recently some letters written by the EU Commission to some airlines about people were being priced differently for flights depending upon the country they were buying from.
This isn't the same as buying goods in different countries. A company could have a.co.uk and a.fr, and there can be price differences. That is allowed. But if the company checked my IP before going to the French site, or I think if it redirected me, this would not be.
THAT may be legal as your account is in the UK. If you can't set up an account in France, that may not be.
I've just had a look on the French site, and filling in the credit card details, it prefills with "France". In other words, I can't open an account on iTunes France as a UK resident to get access to that market.
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I don't know if an open source software project would be able to get charity status in the UK.
The schools could just contact Naxos who would probably offer them a very good, non-RIAA deal on classical music.
There's 16oz in a lb, 20fl.oz in a pint.
That just doesn't make sense.
In some ways, the imperial system is better. For cooking, the ratios often work out. I've gone metric, though because the best set of kitchen scales I found were in France.
Someone somewhere thinks of a new idea, lobbies some politicians hard, and as the technology is the next big thing, something they are ignorant of, and want some kudos, the politician backs it. We're getting the same thing with trams in the UK, even though buses are a much more practical, but more boring solution.
A much better idea to get breaks is what they do in France - have free drinks stops occassionally.
You are also right about some indie labels. They are just another marketing device for some big labels, to sell manufactured rock music to youths as "indie".
Tell all your friends about it. That's what I'm doing, and I've had a few converts already.
I'd say that if the non-IE market can reach 20+%, then people are absolutely going to have to support IE + others.
IANAL, but the words "sort of addicted" and "drug dealer" seem to me to kind of go together. The Brazillian can call me if he wants $20 towards his lawsuit.
Once you have crafted a sufficiently featured product that most of the market is now using how do you generate more sales?
Actually, this is the situation that Microsoft will find itself in. People won't upgrade off 2000 or XP to whatevers next, because except for bugs, they do what they need them to. OK, there's always new features, but the last feature in Office that made me go "cooool..." was VBA in Word, and that was in Office 97. For the average user who isn't a programmer, what is it? Tables in Word 6?
Do Microsoft have much of a "consultancy" arm? IBMs is huge, as are those of some other ex-Mainframe companies.
But if consumers just want "what they are used to", why would they get a new machine?
Microsoft have a number of revenue problems coming up... a) PC Install base is maxed out. No new PCs, just replacements. I'm generalising - there are undoubtedly people buying a new PC, just not many. So, virgin OS sales are down. b) Applications are "good enough". Most people don't use anything in Office post-97. In the 90s, those apps improved considerably, and upgrading was worth it. Not now they're not. So, they don't need new machines for the new software, because they aren't buying it.
Go and watch "Falling Down".
I've seen MS Access derided on Slashdot, but for some ancillary applications, you can throw something together in very little time. Performance wise, yeah, it may not be great. But if it's just for updating a product table that happens once a month and affects a few rows in a database, who cares?
Looking at the sports Americans like, it's quite localised - American Football, Baseball, Ice Hockey. Basically, hardly anyone else plays them.
They've picked up Football (the proper one) only as a ladies game (where there's little competition). I wonder how long interest will be held if someone gets a better ladies team out there.
From what I've heard, he works well with the team and gives a lot of feedback to the engineers, far more than many drivers such as certain British world champions whose cars failed and they always blamed the team.
I think he's the best driver ever. How? Look at how far ahead he always is of his compatriots or co-drivers. If there's two cars, in a team, and one is streets ahead of the other, what does that tell you? Remember, Mansell and Piquet, Senna and Prost? Both pairs were in teams and were very close. AFAIK, no driver in the same team as Schumacher has come close.
I've also heard that he makes far more adjustments to his steering than most drivers, so can take corners just that bit quicker.
Everyone mentions Ayrton Senna, and he was great, but then so was Alain Prost. Senna was rarely more than a notch above Prost. I seriously think, though that paired up, Schumacher would have beaten either of them.
BTW Have fun at Silverstone. Set your alarm early, or better still, get a flight in!
Sergei Bubka in the Pole Vault not only broke the world record a number of times, but dominated for years.
Also, Ed Moses in the 400m hurdles had some staggering unbeaten run (can't remember exactly).
That's not to take anything away from Schumacher, who I rate as the best all-time driver, particularly when you compare him with any team mate he has.
And yes, it makes sense, like when I visit my local brewery and a jug and they fill it up, instead of me spending 50 pence on a new jug.
I'd also love my kids to be able to walk bottles to the shop to collect 6 pence like I did as a kid to buy some sweets. Helped me learn about earning money from an early age (Small Boys in the Park, Jumpers for Goalposts, Enduring image, isn't it). Of course, there's no collection of bottles as it's all plastic, and the local shops are being killed by supermarkets.
We've also become less green because of our living habits. OK, cars are cleaner, but we all drive further to shops and work, buy food from further away (even things that CAN be produced locally), buy more gadgets that get thrown away rather than repaired and take holidays further and further away.
The problem with recycling is that it rarely looks at the total environmental impact, and often works on emotions. Recycling paper was very popular because people thought it saved trees, when we are all now aware that the trees in Norway are grown for this purpose. Recycling paper does save land fill, although paper breaks down very quickly. Then, there's the chemical costs of treating the paper.
I can't remember who said it, it may have been PJ O'Rourke, but the best thing to do with waste dumps etc is to have towns that don't want them to pay towns or areas to have them. You just find the lowest bidder.
To really deal with the environment, there's a better way, reuse. Encourage people to buy things using their own bottles, like from wine producers or breweries.
I'd tend to agree with Ebert. The best adaptations are sometimes those that get the gist of the work, rather than trying to be too literal.
It felt like someone had cherry picked scenes from the book and stitched them together. It didn't "feel" right to me.
Most non-HP readers I met didn't like it, and the HP readers were all, like you say, using it as a book companion.
Is there an equivalent of either MS Project or PMW out there in the open source space?
It seems from research that I can't use the iTunes France shop because I don't have a French address.
There was recently some letters written by the EU Commission to some airlines about people were being priced differently for flights depending upon the country they were buying from.
This isn't the same as buying goods in different countries. A company could have a .co.uk and a .fr, and there can be price differences. That is allowed. But if the company checked my IP before going to the French site, or I think if it redirected me, this would not be.
I've just had a look on the French site, and filling in the credit card details, it prefills with "France". In other words, I can't open an account on iTunes France as a UK resident to get access to that market.
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