I read a book when I was a kid in which the governments of the world had decided that war was essential for the well-being of society, but rather than have a messy ground war (or sea-war, the world being flooded), the war was conducted in space. The battles were choreographed and the participants were 90cm tall clones (smaller ships use fewer resources).
I wonder, if the toilet wars go nuclear, whether this might be our future.
Sure, if you buy from the network's that's the case. But you can also buy phones SIM-free and unlocked if you go elsewhere. Play.com has a good selection - they even sell imported iPhones SIM-free and unlocked now.
It's right to say that, for example, selling phones SIM-free in Belgium is 'the Belgian way', because subsidising phones is illegal there, but to say that subsidising is 'the UK way' is misleading.
Learning 'enquiry skills' was certainly part of my (ordinary Scottish comprehensive school) Standard Grade history class, and there wasn't much emphasis on dates at all. Really, being able to remember dates isn't much use if one book has one date and another book has another date. What matters is knowing which book to trust.
I didn't do WWII either, I somehow managed to get right through both primary and secondary school without studying it. We did study WWI quite extensively though. The above link shows three units on differing topics, and different schools are able to choose which topics they teach. For example, this school teaches WWII instead of Russian history.
The Scottish curriculum consistently separates out knowledge and understanding (KU) and problem solving (PS), I think to the point where it's denoted on exam papers which category a question falls under. It's pretty easy to see at-a-glance where teaching and testing of analytical skills is being neglected.
Normally I would've complained that the summary should have specified that this only applies to schools in England, not the rest of the UK... but even the Guardian article didn't specify. Bad Guardian!
What if your users don't click on your ads? Worse, what if they don't even see your ads, because they're using Adblock?
And it's not just a case of clicking on the ads, your users need to buy the products being advertised or your advertisers will not see any return on investment, and will stop buying ads. Advertising to the tight-fisted isn't a business model, and there are a lot more tight-fisted people around these days.
Even MMS is kind of pointless with an email enabled device.
When phone numbers come with email accounts attached, and SIM cards contain all the information necessary to connect to that email account, then I will agree with you.
MMS works out of the box, and works with an existing phone number. Email doesn't, and even when it's set up on your recipient's phone there's no guarantee that they're using push, or any guarantee that they actually check their email on a regular basis.
Email may be an MMS replacement in the future, but it's not an MMS replacement now.
You can get Skype support on the iPhone using the Fring application, which is free on the App Store. It's largely useless right now though, because Fring has to be open for you to receive calls, but hopefully this will change with the introduction of push notifications in 3.0.
MMS was developed by the 3GPP. If it were supportable on the first gen iPhone hardware, why do you think Apple would block it?
Because new iPhone models are expected around the same time as the new software, and Apple would like to sell some.
I can't think of a reason why MMS wouldn't be supported on 1st-gen iPhone hardware. My ignorance might be showing, but I thought that MMS worked on top of existing SMS and GPRS standards. Even if I'm wrong, what was Apple doing sourcing chips that were antiquated before the iPhone was released?
Even so, your car is likely to spend more time at the mechanic's over its lifetime than your laptop will spend at the shop getting its battery replaced, even if all you need is regular servicing and MOTs.
On top of that, my car has had both driveshafts replaced on separate occasions, plus two exhaust replacements, which I wouldn't consider user-serviceable parts.
It's not the most ridiculous thing in the world. Facts could be seen to be more deserving of copyright protection because, unlike creative works, they have to be collected and, depending on the context, kept up-to-date. This takes time and money. I'd be pretty pissed off if I collected large amounts of information, putting substantial resources into making sure it was accurate and up-to-date, with the intention of recovering that investment through advertising (for example) only to have someone reproduce it sans-advertising for free.
Obviously there has to be a distinction between the fact and the collected data, and it probably shouldn't apply to data that already exists, but a knee-jerk reaction against copyright might not be helpful.
Not necessarily; if you're on Jobseekers Allowance for example you could lose your unemployment benefits (PDF) by turning down a job. Admittedly that's still a choice, but one that's not necessarily viable.
They do say "without good reason". I'm unsure about whether "they looked at information I made publicly available" would be a good enough reason, definitely worth asking Job Centre staff about first.
If you're buying a health insurance policy and are concealing a pre-existing condition that the company then finds out about through your online activities, then I don't think you should be surprised to find your insurance declined or invalidated. If you're perpetrating a fraud, then you shouldn't be able to hide behind privacy laws.
The economic incentive just isn't there yet for this kind of thing to be practical on terra firma, even without taking into account accidents and vandals as others have mentioned. It's still cheaper to pay workers to build roads than to invest heavily in the R&D for this kind of thing.
Once you start to think about doing these things on the moon, the resources required to sustain humans while there become significant, not to mention the cost and danger in getting them there in the first place.
But it is an easy thing to do, as the left in the UK like to say that everything bad and oppressive is right wing, which simply isn't true. Right of centre politics as practiced mainly means individuals not state.
Yes, but 'tough on crime' and protecting the individual is also a core right-wing policy, and it generally involves expanding the powers of the police to deal with threats real and perceived. A government is generally pretty harmless, but police officers who act with impunity because they know they can count on the support of their government are as big a danger to civil rights as anything else, because they are the ones with the handcuffs and the truncheons and the cells.
Only a centrist, liberal government can limit the powers of the police, the Tories certainly won't.
In as much as a government will usually adhere to the policies of the party that forms it, yes (although not always, as in coalition or minority government).
But party issues such as campaigning and finance must remain separate from government, and should not use government resources. The register of party donations and the register of interests are, as far as I'm aware, separate from (and older than) Freedom of Information.
You would say, "This company of people is ", but you wouldn't say, "This Google of people is ". 'Google' is a proper noun (and a verb), not a collective noun.
And that's not Joe Shmoe of Backwater Inc with data nobody might be interested in, it's the Justice Secretary.
This person is an elected official. Essentially, the mails he receives and sends (related to his office, of course, not his private communication) are property of the voters of the United Kingdom. It's time that people realize again that their officials are supposed to work for them, not for themselves.
He's also the MP for Blackburn, and a member of the Blackburn Labour Party. The email address in question was "blackburnlabour@hotmail.com", which you would expect to be used for constituency correspondence and party business, both of which fall outside the purview of the Freedom of Information Act.
I would expect government business to be conducted through a Parliamentary or Ministry of Justice email address, as appropriate. I wouldn't expect party business to be conducted using a Parliamentary or Ministry email address, in fact I would be surprised if this wasn't against the rules of those organisations.
The article alleges (or very strongly implies) that Straw was using his Hotmail account to conduct government business, without providing any evidence to back up its claim.
In summary, Jack Straw has many hats, and the email address he uses should depend on the hat he is wearing at the time. There is no suggestion that he is doing otherwise.
Yeah, I don't think the scammer quite appreciated the fact that nobody in the UK really gives a stuff if our government ministers are stuck in Africa. As for giving any money to them...
I keep apps that supplement or extend the online services that I already use.
I think this sums up not just what's successful from the iPhone App Store, but the general usage pattern of a mobile device. A phone is a communications device, so it's no surprise that Facebook and Twitter apps are more commonly used than any others.
A phone is also an instant notification device. Phones have had ringers for a long time, telling the recipient of a call that someone would like to speak to them now. It's also true that many iPhone apps are crippled, and many potential iPhone apps unworkable, because of the lack of a push notification system so far. IM apps are almost useless, for example. If the five-months-late push notification system every makes an appearance, I think we'll see a significant rise in the diversity and quality of App Store offerings, because the applications will become that much more useful.
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I read a book when I was a kid in which the governments of the world had decided that war was essential for the well-being of society, but rather than have a messy ground war (or sea-war, the world being flooded), the war was conducted in space. The battles were choreographed and the participants were 90cm tall clones (smaller ships use fewer resources).
I wonder, if the toilet wars go nuclear, whether this might be our future.
Sure, if you buy from the network's that's the case. But you can also buy phones SIM-free and unlocked if you go elsewhere. Play.com has a good selection - they even sell imported iPhones SIM-free and unlocked now.
It's right to say that, for example, selling phones SIM-free in Belgium is 'the Belgian way', because subsidising phones is illegal there, but to say that subsidising is 'the UK way' is misleading.
Learning 'enquiry skills' was certainly part of my (ordinary Scottish comprehensive school) Standard Grade history class, and there wasn't much emphasis on dates at all. Really, being able to remember dates isn't much use if one book has one date and another book has another date. What matters is knowing which book to trust.
I didn't do WWII either, I somehow managed to get right through both primary and secondary school without studying it. We did study WWI quite extensively though. The above link shows three units on differing topics, and different schools are able to choose which topics they teach. For example, this school teaches WWII instead of Russian history.
The Scottish curriculum consistently separates out knowledge and understanding (KU) and problem solving (PS), I think to the point where it's denoted on exam papers which category a question falls under. It's pretty easy to see at-a-glance where teaching and testing of analytical skills is being neglected.
Normally I would've complained that the summary should have specified that this only applies to schools in England, not the rest of the UK... but even the Guardian article didn't specify. Bad Guardian!
Do you get an exemption if you keep your car in a garage?
What if your users don't click on your ads? Worse, what if they don't even see your ads, because they're using Adblock?
And it's not just a case of clicking on the ads, your users need to buy the products being advertised or your advertisers will not see any return on investment, and will stop buying ads. Advertising to the tight-fisted isn't a business model, and there are a lot more tight-fisted people around these days.
When phone numbers come with email accounts attached, and SIM cards contain all the information necessary to connect to that email account, then I will agree with you.
MMS works out of the box, and works with an existing phone number. Email doesn't, and even when it's set up on your recipient's phone there's no guarantee that they're using push, or any guarantee that they actually check their email on a regular basis.
Email may be an MMS replacement in the future, but it's not an MMS replacement now.
You can get Skype support on the iPhone using the Fring application, which is free on the App Store. It's largely useless right now though, because Fring has to be open for you to receive calls, but hopefully this will change with the introduction of push notifications in 3.0.
Because new iPhone models are expected around the same time as the new software, and Apple would like to sell some.
I can't think of a reason why MMS wouldn't be supported on 1st-gen iPhone hardware. My ignorance might be showing, but I thought that MMS worked on top of existing SMS and GPRS standards. Even if I'm wrong, what was Apple doing sourcing chips that were antiquated before the iPhone was released?
iTunes works over 3G, EDGE and GPRS now. It was announced at MacWorld earlier this year. I don't think they mentioned why it wasn't possible before.
Even so, your car is likely to spend more time at the mechanic's over its lifetime than your laptop will spend at the shop getting its battery replaced, even if all you need is regular servicing and MOTs.
On top of that, my car has had both driveshafts replaced on separate occasions, plus two exhaust replacements, which I wouldn't consider user-serviceable parts.
It's not the most ridiculous thing in the world. Facts could be seen to be more deserving of copyright protection because, unlike creative works, they have to be collected and, depending on the context, kept up-to-date. This takes time and money. I'd be pretty pissed off if I collected large amounts of information, putting substantial resources into making sure it was accurate and up-to-date, with the intention of recovering that investment through advertising (for example) only to have someone reproduce it sans-advertising for free.
Obviously there has to be a distinction between the fact and the collected data, and it probably shouldn't apply to data that already exists, but a knee-jerk reaction against copyright might not be helpful.
Not necessarily; if you're on Jobseekers Allowance for example you could lose your unemployment benefits (PDF) by turning down a job. Admittedly that's still a choice, but one that's not necessarily viable.
They do say "without good reason". I'm unsure about whether "they looked at information I made publicly available" would be a good enough reason, definitely worth asking Job Centre staff about first.
What if she's obviously pregnant? Do they just have to assume that she's fat for the duration of the hiring process?
If you're buying a health insurance policy and are concealing a pre-existing condition that the company then finds out about through your online activities, then I don't think you should be surprised to find your insurance declined or invalidated. If you're perpetrating a fraud, then you shouldn't be able to hide behind privacy laws.
The economic incentive just isn't there yet for this kind of thing to be practical on terra firma, even without taking into account accidents and vandals as others have mentioned. It's still cheaper to pay workers to build roads than to invest heavily in the R&D for this kind of thing.
Once you start to think about doing these things on the moon, the resources required to sustain humans while there become significant, not to mention the cost and danger in getting them there in the first place.
Yes, but 'tough on crime' and protecting the individual is also a core right-wing policy, and it generally involves expanding the powers of the police to deal with threats real and perceived. A government is generally pretty harmless, but police officers who act with impunity because they know they can count on the support of their government are as big a danger to civil rights as anything else, because they are the ones with the handcuffs and the truncheons and the cells.
Only a centrist, liberal government can limit the powers of the police, the Tories certainly won't.
In as much as a government will usually adhere to the policies of the party that forms it, yes (although not always, as in coalition or minority government).
But party issues such as campaigning and finance must remain separate from government, and should not use government resources. The register of party donations and the register of interests are, as far as I'm aware, separate from (and older than) Freedom of Information.
Wouldn't a committed American slacker say, "February two, two thousand nine"? Cutting thirteen syllables down to nine.
It makes me cringe every time I hear a date expressed this way...
You would say, "This company of people is ", but you wouldn't say, "This Google of people is ". 'Google' is a proper noun (and a verb), not a collective noun.
This is why Superman dresses as he does. He landed in America, and was told to wear his pants on the outside.
He's also the MP for Blackburn, and a member of the Blackburn Labour Party. The email address in question was "blackburnlabour@hotmail.com", which you would expect to be used for constituency correspondence and party business, both of which fall outside the purview of the Freedom of Information Act.
I would expect government business to be conducted through a Parliamentary or Ministry of Justice email address, as appropriate. I wouldn't expect party business to be conducted using a Parliamentary or Ministry email address, in fact I would be surprised if this wasn't against the rules of those organisations.
The article alleges (or very strongly implies) that Straw was using his Hotmail account to conduct government business, without providing any evidence to back up its claim.
In summary, Jack Straw has many hats, and the email address he uses should depend on the hat he is wearing at the time. There is no suggestion that he is doing otherwise.
Yeah, I don't think the scammer quite appreciated the fact that nobody in the UK really gives a stuff if our government ministers are stuck in Africa. As for giving any money to them...
Oh dear. You would have had an insightful comment if you'd mentioned Straw's veto of the FoI release of cabinet minutes relating to the decision to invade Iraq.
Instead, you've made a tenuous link between the Freedom of Information Act and the government's freeing of citizens' information for government use.
All what cameras? And anyway, it's only the southern half of the UK that's sinking into the sea, Scotland is very slowly rising.
I think this sums up not just what's successful from the iPhone App Store, but the general usage pattern of a mobile device. A phone is a communications device, so it's no surprise that Facebook and Twitter apps are more commonly used than any others.
A phone is also an instant notification device. Phones have had ringers for a long time, telling the recipient of a call that someone would like to speak to them now. It's also true that many iPhone apps are crippled, and many potential iPhone apps unworkable, because of the lack of a push notification system so far. IM apps are almost useless, for example. If the five-months-late push notification system every makes an appearance, I think we'll see a significant rise in the diversity and quality of App Store offerings, because the applications will become that much more useful.