Actually the reason for all caps in legal documents is that certain parts of the text are required to have greater visual emphasis relative to the rest of the document, as they tend to be the important parts. If you're working in plain text then all caps is your only option.
I'm sure that the fact that all caps is harder to read hasn't escaped the notice of these bloodsuckers either.
The fact that Mandelson can walk in and change government policy by diktat is worrying not just because of his agenda on copyright but because he isn't bloody well elected. It really scares me that while everybody's been complaining about the Big Brother state, surveillance and CCTV cameras, this dictator seems to have slipped in under the radar.
So if I've read the summary correctly (RTFA? What?), laughing gas isn't becoming an increasing problem, it's just becoming an increasing proportion of the problem because we're reducing the use of other harmful gases. In fact, the situation is actually improving. We've drastically reduced our use of CFCs in recent years, so the 5-6% thinning of the ozone layer is actually being reversed.
Therefore the suggestion that this is actually a problem is laughable.
One of the local pubs around here, the White Swan, registered the domain name whiteswankelso.co.uk. It's amazing how the dirty words jump out at you when you're drunk.
Seriously though, people have been saying for years that the music industry needs to look at alternative business models in response to rampant piracy, and Spotify is one of the first that looks like being a success, in Europe at least. The iPhone/iPod Touch is I believe the official Spotify client's debut on a mobile platform, which is crucial for the service's success. Surely that's notable in itself, no matter what platform it's on.
The physical keyboard on these Nokias is the biggest reason that I won't be buying one. I'm too used to the iPhone soft keyboard. It requires a feather touch to activate a key (no sore thumbs from having to push a physical key down), and it's very forgiving if I miss a key. I've yet to find a physical keyboard that handles gracefully my hitting two keys at once. And I have the opportunity to change the function of the keys based on context or the language that I'm using.
The layout of the Nokia keyboard is also pretty awful. It's way too wide and there's too much lateral thumb movement required (at least on the iPhone you get a choice of portrait vs landscape), and the location of the space bar is awkward. The layout of the keys isn't even proper QWERTY - the keys are lined up vertically which I find is really irritating to type on.
I don't mind people saying they prefer hardware keyboards, because that's your opinion and it's just as valid as mine. But stop acting like a phone with a hardware keyboard is objectively better than one with a soft keyboard, because it's not.
BTW, "A-GPS" means exactly nothing. It's a marketing terms.
It does mean something, you just don't know what it is. A-GPS does not replace 'real' GPS, it is a technique for getting a quicker fix on the GPS signal that uses data provided by your current cell. Without A-GPS, it can take a few minutes to get a fix. With A-GPS, a few seconds.
The original 2G iPhone did not have GPS, and relied on cell and WiFi locations. The iPhone 3G and 3GS have 'real' GPS and use A-GPS for quick fixes.
The reason for this is that mobile phone manufacturers have agreed to standardise on micro-USB for charging. Sure, it means you'll need another cable now, but it means you'll never have to worry about having the wrong charger again.
Wasn't Hitler also riding on a wave of nationalism that was generated from the humiliation of the Versailles treaty (which essentially blamed Germany for starting WWI), the crippling effect of reparations to France and the UK on the German economy, and the infringement of national sovereignty that the western demilitarised zone represented?
Those that did support Hitler weren't necessarily Jew-killers, some of them just wanted their country back.
You can't draw a comparison at all between this situation and Microsoft's. Choosing a Microsoft operating system is not like choosing Hitler.
In my opinion, taking the organs from a dead body is a minor 'offence' compared to the execution itself. If China accepts that execution is an acceptable punishment, then I don't see why organ confiscation shouldn't be.
That's of course aside from the problem of incentivising execution, but my favoured solution would be to stop executions rather than stopping organ harvesting.
And that's better? The last time I checked knives are just as deadly as a firearm. I'd rather face someone with a firearm than a knife -- it's easier to take a firearm away from someone.
Knives only work within the attacker's reach, unless they are particularly skilled at throwing them. And it's much easier to dodge a stab than it is to dodge a bullet.
Yes, I jaywalk all the time without being beaten up by the police. WTF are you trying to say here?
I'm trying to say that Americans talk a lot about their 'freedoms', usually in relation to guns, without realising that they lack basic freedoms that people in other countries take for granted. And yes, American police will wrestle you to the ground if you jaywalk (because hey, you might be carrying a gun).
I'm almost certain we'll still be using the same AC outlets in 17 years time.
Even if you're not, the country-specific plug is usually detachable on laptop power supplies and connected by a standardised connector. These are in use all over the world they're unlikely to be phased out in the next 17 years.
You don't need a gun until you run into a thug intent on using violence against you. Since I can't choose when or where that will happen I choose to carry a firearm wherever it is legal to do so. I'm sorry if that offends your evolved sensibilities, but thankfully I still have my freedoms in my country.
If you lived in a country with gun control laws, then your attacker is probably not going to be carrying one. Partly because it's difficult to get hold of one, partly because he doesn't need one. You're not carrying one either. He'll probably just threaten you with a pocket knife or something.
Seeing as you live in a country where you "still have your freedoms" (can you cross the road on a red man without being beaten up by the police?), your attacker is going to be carrying a gun, and is going to have it drawn before you can reach yours. Good luck not getting shot.
Funny real-life example: I was forwarded an email from someone at a haulage company who was obviously relying on a spellchecker, as he had referred to his heavy goods vehicle operators as 'divers'.
Since I started using an iPhone, I've found that I use "it's" a lot more frequently than I use "its". I'm thankful that the keyboard works the way it does, because it requires fewer taps to explicitly choose "its" after being suggested "it's" (i.e. one tap on the word itself) than it does to manually add the apostrophe.
When I used a non-QWERTY phone, I always turned T9 predictive text on because it makes it easier to type properly spelled words than compressed textspeak.
You also lose the benefit of the iPhone's missed-key correction, unless the misplaced keys are right next to each other.
One great thing the metric system has given us is a single standard. But now that the US is the only big player left, the US system of measures are a single standard as well, so that argument is bust.
Actually for £65 I might actually consider buying a full copy of Windows for the first time as opposed to downloading it. It's always been too expensive to justify before.
A short, brutal, disease-filled existence might not seem appealing to you, but you've not been cooped up on a ship for the past few years, eating processed algae and breathing recycled air. One year of life eating fresh food on a planet might be preferable to ten years in space.
In any case, the moral was actually more like, "As long as we have this technology our enemies will consider us a threat and will wage war on us. Therefore we will get rid of our technology and they will leave us alone."
It's the same attitude that the nuclear-armed West hopes Iran will take regarding its nuclear power/weapons programme.
I caught an episode of UFO once. From a modern perspective it wasn't great but I could almost watch it - until one of the shots where the actors were wearing space helmets and bell-bottoms. I just couldn't take it seriously after that.
IMO Gerry Anderson should have stuck to puppets. I know it was always his ambition to do live-action, but supermarionation was what he did best. Thunderbirds has barely aged at all.
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Actually the reason for all caps in legal documents is that certain parts of the text are required to have greater visual emphasis relative to the rest of the document, as they tend to be the important parts. If you're working in plain text then all caps is your only option.
I'm sure that the fact that all caps is harder to read hasn't escaped the notice of these bloodsuckers either.
The fact that Mandelson can walk in and change government policy by diktat is worrying not just because of his agenda on copyright but because he isn't bloody well elected. It really scares me that while everybody's been complaining about the Big Brother state, surveillance and CCTV cameras, this dictator seems to have slipped in under the radar.
So if I've read the summary correctly (RTFA? What?), laughing gas isn't becoming an increasing problem, it's just becoming an increasing proportion of the problem because we're reducing the use of other harmful gases. In fact, the situation is actually improving. We've drastically reduced our use of CFCs in recent years, so the 5-6% thinning of the ozone layer is actually being reversed.
Therefore the suggestion that this is actually a problem is laughable.
One of the local pubs around here, the White Swan, registered the domain name whiteswankelso.co.uk. It's amazing how the dirty words jump out at you when you're drunk.
This is not just another platform... </M&S>
Seriously though, people have been saying for years that the music industry needs to look at alternative business models in response to rampant piracy, and Spotify is one of the first that looks like being a success, in Europe at least. The iPhone/iPod Touch is I believe the official Spotify client's debut on a mobile platform, which is crucial for the service's success. Surely that's notable in itself, no matter what platform it's on.
(For those that don't get my initial joke).
This makes me think of the Halfords sponsor ads on Dave, where the cartoon man says, "Your MP3 plugs in here..."
Bloody luddites!
Short-term/long-term memory? The analogy works, and they're terms that everybody understands.
The physical keyboard on these Nokias is the biggest reason that I won't be buying one. I'm too used to the iPhone soft keyboard. It requires a feather touch to activate a key (no sore thumbs from having to push a physical key down), and it's very forgiving if I miss a key. I've yet to find a physical keyboard that handles gracefully my hitting two keys at once. And I have the opportunity to change the function of the keys based on context or the language that I'm using.
The layout of the Nokia keyboard is also pretty awful. It's way too wide and there's too much lateral thumb movement required (at least on the iPhone you get a choice of portrait vs landscape), and the location of the space bar is awkward. The layout of the keys isn't even proper QWERTY - the keys are lined up vertically which I find is really irritating to type on.
I don't mind people saying they prefer hardware keyboards, because that's your opinion and it's just as valid as mine. But stop acting like a phone with a hardware keyboard is objectively better than one with a soft keyboard, because it's not.
It does mean something, you just don't know what it is. A-GPS does not replace 'real' GPS, it is a technique for getting a quicker fix on the GPS signal that uses data provided by your current cell. Without A-GPS, it can take a few minutes to get a fix. With A-GPS, a few seconds.
The original 2G iPhone did not have GPS, and relied on cell and WiFi locations. The iPhone 3G and 3GS have 'real' GPS and use A-GPS for quick fixes.
The reason for this is that mobile phone manufacturers have agreed to standardise on micro-USB for charging. Sure, it means you'll need another cable now, but it means you'll never have to worry about having the wrong charger again.
Wasn't Hitler also riding on a wave of nationalism that was generated from the humiliation of the Versailles treaty (which essentially blamed Germany for starting WWI), the crippling effect of reparations to France and the UK on the German economy, and the infringement of national sovereignty that the western demilitarised zone represented?
Those that did support Hitler weren't necessarily Jew-killers, some of them just wanted their country back.
You can't draw a comparison at all between this situation and Microsoft's. Choosing a Microsoft operating system is not like choosing Hitler.
In my opinion, taking the organs from a dead body is a minor 'offence' compared to the execution itself. If China accepts that execution is an acceptable punishment, then I don't see why organ confiscation shouldn't be.
That's of course aside from the problem of incentivising execution, but my favoured solution would be to stop executions rather than stopping organ harvesting.
Taken. Even 'American handball' exists, apparently. My vote is still 'handegg'.
Knives only work within the attacker's reach, unless they are particularly skilled at throwing them. And it's much easier to dodge a stab than it is to dodge a bullet.
I'm trying to say that Americans talk a lot about their 'freedoms', usually in relation to guns, without realising that they lack basic freedoms that people in other countries take for granted. And yes, American police will wrestle you to the ground if you jaywalk (because hey, you might be carrying a gun).
Even if you're not, the country-specific plug is usually detachable on laptop power supplies and connected by a standardised connector. These are in use all over the world they're unlikely to be phased out in the next 17 years.
If you lived in a country with gun control laws, then your attacker is probably not going to be carrying one. Partly because it's difficult to get hold of one, partly because he doesn't need one. You're not carrying one either. He'll probably just threaten you with a pocket knife or something.
Seeing as you live in a country where you "still have your freedoms" (can you cross the road on a red man without being beaten up by the police?), your attacker is going to be carrying a gun, and is going to have it drawn before you can reach yours. Good luck not getting shot.
Funny real-life example: I was forwarded an email from someone at a haulage company who was obviously relying on a spellchecker, as he had referred to his heavy goods vehicle operators as 'divers'.
Since I started using an iPhone, I've found that I use "it's" a lot more frequently than I use "its". I'm thankful that the keyboard works the way it does, because it requires fewer taps to explicitly choose "its" after being suggested "it's" (i.e. one tap on the word itself) than it does to manually add the apostrophe.
When I used a non-QWERTY phone, I always turned T9 predictive text on because it makes it easier to type properly spelled words than compressed textspeak.
You also lose the benefit of the iPhone's missed-key correction, unless the misplaced keys are right next to each other.
The £152 price of the iPod Touch includes 15% VAT. The ex-VAT price is £132.17 (US$218.61).
American advertised prices don't include sales tax, UK advertised prices do (or are marked as ex-VAT if they don't).
A centimetre is the difference in length between my right foot and my left foot. Which one is a foot?
Single standard my arse.
Actually for £65 I might actually consider buying a full copy of Windows for the first time as opposed to downloading it. It's always been too expensive to justify before.
A short, brutal, disease-filled existence might not seem appealing to you, but you've not been cooped up on a ship for the past few years, eating processed algae and breathing recycled air. One year of life eating fresh food on a planet might be preferable to ten years in space.
In any case, the moral was actually more like, "As long as we have this technology our enemies will consider us a threat and will wage war on us. Therefore we will get rid of our technology and they will leave us alone."
It's the same attitude that the nuclear-armed West hopes Iran will take regarding its nuclear power/weapons programme.
I caught an episode of UFO once. From a modern perspective it wasn't great but I could almost watch it - until one of the shots where the actors were wearing space helmets and bell-bottoms. I just couldn't take it seriously after that.
IMO Gerry Anderson should have stuck to puppets. I know it was always his ambition to do live-action, but supermarionation was what he did best. Thunderbirds has barely aged at all.