the £5 a month unlimited web use is only for Web Access via the phone. There is a version which allows laptop and modem use its about £11 a month, and also allows you to use T-Mobile hotspots.
I doubt its largely "just" symbolic. Remember, her majesty has a weekly meeting with the prime minister, and from all accounts, this is hardly a cup of tea, as many people think. Its VERY businesslike, and although we will never find out what she exactly says to the prime minister, it is known she has spoken very strongly against some, regarding her concerns.
The best part is, she doesnt act as a dictator, she properly follows rules and procedures which got her into hot water too (just after Diana's death, a period which I personally think she handled well, but the media hyped a hysteria beyond anything)
She is far more of a credit to this country than some of our governments. For example during 9/11, she quickly requested that the american anthem be played during the Changing of the Guard a few days later. Sounds simple? Not quite, firstly its totally unprecedented. And the logistics in training and inviting people, considering she herself was not in London during the time. It was a powerful and tear jerking event to show solidarity with America, and was repeated later after the madrid bombing, with the spanish anthem.
Compare that to our shameful government who's PR people decided to use 9/11 to announce some "bad government reports" in the hope that with the nation's mind being occupied with the events in New York that these news would not be noticed. That failed, and they got blasted for that.
Well said, I have had the pleasure of meeting Her Majesty, and I can tell you she is no simpleton. She is an intelligent witty person, who actually has a "can do" mind.
People forget that in WW2, she drove ambulances carrying injured people to the Hospital. She is a trained mechanic, and does actually know more about cars and engines than most normal people.
She even has a blackberry, which she uses to keep in touch with her grandchildren. Talking of Grandchildren, Remember Princess Beatrice once said "she is lucky to have a cool grandmother"
She is a charming, intelligent and lovely person, and one of the things that makes me as a Brit, feel proud.
Admittedly, the android market is not the ONLY place you have to download applications. The G1 does allow installs (once you enable the option) from other sources, so its not as bad at the iPhone.
My T-Mobile UK data plan DOES allow tethering. Its called Mobile Broadband Plus, and indeed does allow you to use a phone as a modem (and I have used it on my N95). Hmm, so does this mean I cant do tethering on my G1? Its a bit unfair I am being held to the terms of some T-Mobile contracts, especially ones not in my own country.
The British "understand" Standard American, mainly thanks to TV shows rather than any other reasons. If you were to find someone in the UK who was never exposed to American English, they would find some difficulties with the accent, and some of the words used (Washroom, zee instead of zed, popsicle, cookie/biscuit, scone, and many others).
Likewise, you find some British accents hard to understand (Newcastle, Scottish, etc) for the same reason, lack of exposure.
My wife is a Sri Lankan, who has lived in Sri Lanka (most of her life), USA (3 years), and Singapore (3 years). She speaks far better English than most Native Brits. She not only knows the language, she also knows the culture, and has great literacy skills (Note this is different from just knowing the language, and can make a huge difference).
You could try what my wife does. She does like "new and shiney" but does not nessasarily trust it on day to day work, so she has two user accounts, one for "normal" and the other "Experimental". And she trials out the new stuff, then asks me to help switch the "normal" one if she likes the new stuff.
She found she preferred KDE even though the change was quite drastic.
Get a UK keyboard, they still have the " on the 2 key! And if you regularly have to type emails/letter to UK/Europe, those keyboards also have the GBP £ and EUR â chars in them.
(if you are concerned about "loosing" chars to get the UK specific one, remember the UK standard keyboard actually has one extra key to the US standard keyboard (102 vs 101)
Reason being, ID itself can be defined in different ways. Its a broad Theological subject, and only the person talking knows its context.
If in context ID means that. If we were to pursue that intelligent design is just a "force" that influences evolution, as opposed to Selection of the fittest, or chaotic evolution.
However, in the above, ID is a form of which Evolution "happens" or rather a proposed mechanism of evolution. Its not against evolution as such.
So you can say instead ID vs Darwinism (Survival of the fittest) vs Chaos thoery vs any other mechanism.
AS you said though, Creation vs Evolution is a valid comparision, and is EXACTLY what the good Dr is trying to do. Creation does not agree with evolution.
ITs not mixed up at all. It just means you are a human, and you are unique.
I am a hindu, and my wife is Christian. We respect each other well, and have absolutely no issues in regard to religion.
At core, we are both deists, and scientists. We love science, and we love the mythical emotional concepts of deistism. Its great, there is no conflict, and we live productive and happy lives.
I am glad you also live a happy and productive life with your believes too, and just wish others would too, rather than just saying "my imaginary friend is better than yours"
Partial Software emulation, it still had one of the Chips (i think the GFX chip). When they removed that too, software emulation also dissapeared. To be honest they DO have coders trying to get emulation working entirely via software, but the PS2 itself was a strange beast, at to that the PS3 is a strange beast too.
Even good old "police state Britain" would not ask many questions.
I recently got married to a foreign lady, and when applying for her Visa for the UK, I found that although the questions were thorough, they were reasonable, and didn't ask anything undue.
Further more, on the visa itself, it specifically doesn't include my first name on her visa stamp (only my initial) and one of the reasons for not including the full name is that in the case of same sex marriages, they do not want the visa to imply that the marriage is such. For example if you are Susan Smith, and your "spouse" is Teresa Smith.
Since showing the visa is required for employment, and other Identify, as well as the fact it may be observed on entry to a third country, where same sex marriages are a prisonable offense.
But seriously, as the parent above said, those questions are illegal in the UK.
Oh I have cupcake installed, and actually I have more than that as I compile Andriod myself), and actually have a ADP1 (Android Developers phone). The new firmware and features are excellent, though still its BT feature are lacking compared to the K800 and others.
When i mentioned the G1, and the iPhone, I was mentioning current firmware available on Those devices to ordinary customers, without resorting to hackery, or jailbreaking.
Even more of an issue is the fact that his suggestion that JS delivered from the site, should be able to be replaced by the user throws up even more of a can of worms.
a) if the site was to change its API, and you do not check it, it may cause your user create script to fail. Worse, it may cause some serious damage too (this is not like changing CSS ala GreaseMonkey, where arguably the danger is minimised by only changing style, and not functionality).
b) having such a feature in a browser, leaves another possible exploit for scamware artists to target "Joe 6 pack" by sneaking a javascript to their browser that does, for example, send their CC/username details to another server, or something.
Currently Browsers do not allow a local script to override a remote delivered script (it is arguable that extensions may exist to allow it, but at least the extensions are separate code that needs to be installed/etc). Allowing browsers to programatically override external scripts as part of its core feature set is dangerous.
Daley Thompsons Decathalon, now that brigns memories. Thoguh the only damage that did was wear down the labels on the the n and m keys on the Chiclet keyboard!:)
Even at release the PS3 was a capable BluRay player, and was used as such, as well as a games console. It also had upscaling DVD, and DivX playback, from either USB, HD, or network. Add to that the built in Folding@home client, PlayTV DVB DVR system, Web Browsing (with YouTube) and a few other tricks meant that the PS3 was being used for more than just playing games, and that non game use is increasing.
Yet it seems the system is takign it with stride.
I certainly use my PS3 for much more than just a games machine.
It's interesting that the G1 (which I have) and the iPhone are the only "smartphones" which such crippled bluetooth stacks.
Lack of A2DP was shortsighted (admittedly cupcake firmware for the Android rectified the A2DP issue for android handsets, but its still lacking compared to other phones)
My Nokia N95 did a lot better in terms of Bluetooth.
In fact, one of the best Bluetooth implementations I have seen was on a SonyEricsson phone, which was not even a smartphone, the K800i.
It has - OBEX (send files/contacts/calendars to other devices)
- OBEX FTP,
- A2DP,
- HCI (Aka bluetooth remote control built in, use it to control media player, and even a mouse pointer)
- HDCP (print to a bluetooth equiped printer)
- Blutetooth PAN gateway (a Network Access point via bluetooth, allows one or more computers to wirelessly tether the internet connection on the phone.) This is unique as I have not seen any other phone implement this, and implement this well. IT also exposes a USB based Ethernet network too, for wired access. No need to remember APNs, or do a dial up on the computer using either of these two methods.
- Bluetooth modem the "alternative" common method of accessing the net/modem/fax wirelessly
- BlueTooth SIM- A funky way of allowing another mobile device (such as a car phone) to use the SIM card on your handset to log in to the network. So you can have a car phone, with the full radio stack, and everything, but keep the SIM in the phone (this will cause your car phone to handle all calls, instead of the mobile handset)
- A2DP implemented WELL (For example, I had a iPaq as a music device, and i was able to connect this and the ipaq to the BT headphones, and when a call came through it woudl take over the headset using the headset profile, then properly release it afterwards, if the ipaq was NOT paired, then it would also use the A2DP to have a single device connection).
- Bluetooth serial port.
It even had an option to allow more than one device to connect at the same time (at the expense of greater battery usage). With this option, I was able to have my Moto A2DP headset, iPaq, and K800 connected to each other. with music going from ipaq to headset. Calls from k800 to Headset, and internet from k800 to ipaq. It worked pretty well.
Not bad for a non-smartphone. I really miss that trio now, with my "next generation devices".
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Plenty of public loos in London (No, I am not talking about the ones where you have to spend money to go).
Dont have a clue what you are talking about.
I was expecting a "hail the new robot overlords" thing actually.
the £5 a month unlimited web use is only for Web Access via the phone. There is a version which allows laptop and modem use its about £11 a month, and also allows you to use T-Mobile hotspots.
I doubt its largely "just" symbolic. Remember, her majesty has a weekly meeting with the prime minister, and from all accounts, this is hardly a cup of tea, as many people think. Its VERY businesslike, and although we will never find out what she exactly says to the prime minister, it is known she has spoken very strongly against some, regarding her concerns.
The best part is, she doesnt act as a dictator, she properly follows rules and procedures which got her into hot water too (just after Diana's death, a period which I personally think she handled well, but the media hyped a hysteria beyond anything)
She is far more of a credit to this country than some of our governments. For example during 9/11, she quickly requested that the american anthem be played during the Changing of the Guard a few days later. Sounds simple? Not quite, firstly its totally unprecedented. And the logistics in training and inviting people, considering she herself was not in London during the time. It was a powerful and tear jerking event to show solidarity with America, and was repeated later after the madrid bombing, with the spanish anthem.
Compare that to our shameful government who's PR people decided to use 9/11 to announce some "bad government reports" in the hope that with the nation's mind being occupied with the events in New York that these news would not be noticed. That failed, and they got blasted for that.
Actually she already has an iPod, bought in 2005, google it.
She also has a blackberry (uses it to communicate with her grandchildren, etc)
Sorry to answer myself again, but I believe she has an iPod already.. since 2005... a 6GB iPod mini.
Its pretty well known actually (google queen ipod).
Not sure what she uses it for, but if i remember rightly, she (or maybe Prince Philip) are avid podcast listeners.
Well said, I have had the pleasure of meeting Her Majesty, and I can tell you she is no simpleton. She is an intelligent witty person, who actually has a "can do" mind.
People forget that in WW2, she drove ambulances carrying injured people to the Hospital. She is a trained mechanic, and does actually know more about cars and engines than most normal people.
She even has a blackberry, which she uses to keep in touch with her grandchildren. Talking of Grandchildren, Remember Princess Beatrice once said "she is lucky to have a cool grandmother"
She is a charming, intelligent and lovely person, and one of the things that makes me as a Brit, feel proud.
God Bless you maam.
Admittedly, the android market is not the ONLY place you have to download applications. The G1 does allow installs (once you enable the option) from other sources, so its not as bad at the iPhone.
My T-Mobile UK data plan DOES allow tethering. Its called Mobile Broadband Plus, and indeed does allow you to use a phone as a modem (and I have used it on my N95). Hmm, so does this mean I cant do tethering on my G1? Its a bit unfair I am being held to the terms of some T-Mobile contracts, especially ones not in my own country.
The British "understand" Standard American, mainly thanks to TV shows rather than any other reasons. If you were to find someone in the UK who was never exposed to American English, they would find some difficulties with the accent, and some of the words used (Washroom, zee instead of zed, popsicle, cookie/biscuit, scone, and many others).
Likewise, you find some British accents hard to understand (Newcastle, Scottish, etc) for the same reason, lack of exposure.
Not that surprising actually.
My wife is a Sri Lankan, who has lived in Sri Lanka (most of her life), USA (3 years), and Singapore (3 years). She speaks far better English than most Native Brits. She not only knows the language, she also knows the culture, and has great literacy skills (Note this is different from just knowing the language, and can make a huge difference).
To boot she can also speak French and German.
You could try what my wife does. She does like "new and shiney" but does not nessasarily trust it on day to day work, so she has two user accounts, one for "normal" and the other "Experimental". And she trials out the new stuff, then asks me to help switch the "normal" one if she likes the new stuff.
She found she preferred KDE even though the change was quite drastic.
If they charge more than 10, or 15 pounds, report to Ofcom. Ofcom will slap them to the moon and back.
They are not supposed to charge any more than 10 or 15
I cant see how a 160 char URL, is worse than the sometimes 2MB resulting page!
Get a UK keyboard, they still have the " on the 2 key! And if you regularly have to type emails/letter to UK/Europe, those keyboards also have the GBP £ and EUR â chars in them.
(if you are concerned about "loosing" chars to get the UK specific one, remember the UK standard keyboard actually has one extra key to the US standard keyboard (102 vs 101)
Firstly ID vs Evolution is not a good comparison.
Reason being, ID itself can be defined in different ways. Its a broad Theological subject, and only the person talking knows its context.
If in context ID means that. If we were to pursue that intelligent design is just a "force" that influences evolution, as opposed to Selection of the fittest, or chaotic evolution.
However, in the above, ID is a form of which Evolution "happens" or rather a proposed mechanism of evolution. Its not against evolution as such.
So you can say instead ID vs Darwinism (Survival of the fittest) vs Chaos thoery vs any other mechanism.
AS you said though, Creation vs Evolution is a valid comparision, and is EXACTLY what the good Dr is trying to do. Creation does not agree with evolution.
ITs not mixed up at all. It just means you are a human, and you are unique.
I am a hindu, and my wife is Christian. We respect each other well, and have absolutely no issues in regard to religion.
At core, we are both deists, and scientists. We love science, and we love the mythical emotional concepts of deistism. Its great, there is no conflict, and we live productive and happy lives.
I am glad you also live a happy and productive life with your believes too, and just wish others would too, rather than just saying "my imaginary friend is better than yours"
Partial Software emulation, it still had one of the Chips (i think the GFX chip). When they removed that too, software emulation also dissapeared. To be honest they DO have coders trying to get emulation working entirely via software, but the PS2 itself was a strange beast, at to that the PS3 is a strange beast too.
There is also the addons for the PS3 which are not comparable to the Xbox.
Play TV (digital DVB TV box, for PS3, turns it into a DVR too, AND saves in standard MPEG2 format for writing to DVD/Transcoding) £50
User replacable HD with normal 2.5inch SATA
ability to use NORMAL BT headsets/keyboards/mice
Ability to use normal USB hubs/keyboards/mice/blah
so you do actually save more in hidden costs.
Even good old "police state Britain" would not ask many questions.
I recently got married to a foreign lady, and when applying for her Visa for the UK, I found that although the questions were thorough, they were reasonable, and didn't ask anything undue.
Further more, on the visa itself, it specifically doesn't include my first name on her visa stamp (only my initial) and one of the reasons for not including the full name is that in the case of same sex marriages, they do not want the visa to imply that the marriage is such. For example if you are Susan Smith, and your "spouse" is Teresa Smith.
Since showing the visa is required for employment, and other Identify, as well as the fact it may be observed on entry to a third country, where same sex marriages are a prisonable offense.
But seriously, as the parent above said, those questions are illegal in the UK.
Oh I have cupcake installed, and actually I have more than that as I compile Andriod myself), and actually have a ADP1 (Android Developers phone). The new firmware and features are excellent, though still its BT feature are lacking compared to the K800 and others.
When i mentioned the G1, and the iPhone, I was mentioning current firmware available on Those devices to ordinary customers, without resorting to hackery, or jailbreaking.
Even more of an issue is the fact that his suggestion that JS delivered from the site, should be able to be replaced by the user throws up even more of a can of worms.
a) if the site was to change its API, and you do not check it, it may cause your user create script to fail. Worse, it may cause some serious damage too (this is not like changing CSS ala GreaseMonkey, where arguably the danger is minimised by only changing style, and not functionality).
b) having such a feature in a browser, leaves another possible exploit for scamware artists to target "Joe 6 pack" by sneaking a javascript to their browser that does, for example, send their CC/username details to another server, or something.
Currently Browsers do not allow a local script to override a remote delivered script (it is arguable that extensions may exist to allow it, but at least the extensions are separate code that needs to be installed/etc). Allowing browsers to programatically override external scripts as part of its core feature set is dangerous.
Daley Thompsons Decathalon, now that brigns memories. Thoguh the only damage that did was wear down the labels on the the n and m keys on the Chiclet keyboard! :)
Disagree totally.
Even at release the PS3 was a capable BluRay player, and was used as such, as well as a games console. It also had upscaling DVD, and DivX playback, from either USB, HD, or network. Add to that the built in Folding@home client, PlayTV DVB DVR system, Web Browsing (with YouTube) and a few other tricks meant that the PS3 was being used for more than just playing games, and that non game use is increasing.
Yet it seems the system is takign it with stride.
I certainly use my PS3 for much more than just a games machine.
use ed? ;)
It's interesting that the G1 (which I have) and the iPhone are the only "smartphones" which such crippled bluetooth stacks.
Lack of A2DP was shortsighted (admittedly cupcake firmware for the Android rectified the A2DP issue for android handsets, but its still lacking compared to other phones)
My Nokia N95 did a lot better in terms of Bluetooth.
In fact, one of the best Bluetooth implementations I have seen was on a SonyEricsson phone, which was not even a smartphone, the K800i.
It has
- OBEX (send files/contacts/calendars to other devices)
- OBEX FTP,
- A2DP,
- HCI (Aka bluetooth remote control built in, use it to control media player, and even a mouse pointer)
- HDCP (print to a bluetooth equiped printer)
- Blutetooth PAN gateway (a Network Access point via bluetooth, allows one or more computers to wirelessly tether the internet connection on the phone.) This is unique as I have not seen any other phone implement this, and implement this well. IT also exposes a USB based Ethernet network too, for wired access. No need to remember APNs, or do a dial up on the computer using either of these two methods.
- Bluetooth modem the "alternative" common method of accessing the net/modem/fax wirelessly
- BlueTooth SIM- A funky way of allowing another mobile device (such as a car phone) to use the SIM card on your handset to log in to the network. So you can have a car phone, with the full radio stack, and everything, but keep the SIM in the phone (this will cause your car phone to handle all calls, instead of the mobile handset)
- A2DP implemented WELL (For example, I had a iPaq as a music device, and i was able to connect this and the ipaq to the BT headphones, and when a call came through it woudl take over the headset using the headset profile, then properly release it afterwards, if the ipaq was NOT paired, then it would also use the A2DP to have a single device connection).
- Bluetooth serial port.
It even had an option to allow more than one device to connect at the same time (at the expense of greater battery usage). With this option, I was able to have my Moto A2DP headset, iPaq, and K800 connected to each other. with music going from ipaq to headset. Calls from k800 to Headset, and internet from k800 to ipaq. It worked pretty well.
Not bad for a non-smartphone. I really miss that trio now, with my "next generation devices".