Does that apply even when you're currently overtaking even slower moving traffic? I.E. if there is traffic in the slow lane doing 30, and traffic in the fast lane is doing 80, is it legal to move out into the fast lane doing 50 for the duration of the overtaking manoeuvre (as long as you pull out into a suitable gap in the traffic)?
That assumes that Earth wasn't created in 4004 BCE with 95 929 layers pre-packaged. Such a thing is of course untestable and therefore not scientific, but there is room for such a viewpoint.
I'd liken it to my ability to start virtual machine instances from certain saved states. In an odd way, familiarity with computers has brought me round to the creationist way of thinking a little.
That's not strictly true. Science is very much conclusions seeking evidence, but with the requirement of falsifiability. And I don't believe that religion seeks evidence at all. It is simply conclusions, and if some corroborating evidence happens to come along, then all the better.
I think that the fact that a theory is controversial should be taught in a science class, and the reasons for it should be discussed, in the context of scientific method. You can't teach scientific method without discussing what constitutes scientific method and what does not.
Just tell people that on (Ubunto/) Linux, firefox is called iceweasel.
No, no, no, what you want is a shortcut, either on the desktop or in the main menu, labelled 'Web'. Or 'Internet'. Real people don't care if it's called Firefox or Iceweasel, they just want the web.
Microsoft have had this sussed for years. If you were a non-technical user and wanted to use the internet, and you were confronted with two shortcuts labelled 'Internet Explorer' and 'Mozilla Firefox', which one would you pick?
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It's actually quite useful to have details of the platform as well. On desktops it doesn't matter too much, it's the difference between offering a Windows, Linux or Mac download link for example.
On mobiles, it's the difference between a single download link for your handset and a site like this, that requires the user to know the model of handset they have, and to wade through large menus on a small screen.
User agent strings make this possible. I still hate them though, because they don't make it easy.
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Add 'Incognito feature' to that post.
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You obviously missed Chrome's, which never writes that private information to your hard drive in the first place. Much more secure. Safari also does this, has done for a while.
Exactly. This is along the same lines of Apple forbidding the use of Safari for Windows on Windows. They've copied their standard licence, which is written with web-apps in mind. If you actually read the licence, a lot of it makes very little sense in the context of a web browser.
It's shocked me since I became part of the corporate world what people will agree to when told, "It's just a standard document". At least in this case you don't have to be bound by it, as long as you're willing to build from source.
(This comment was posted from the Chrome binary, so if Google start to reproduce it elsewhere I will be incredibly amused.)
Google describe Chrome as 'multi-platform'. They also say that they're tailoring each version to the platform it runs on, so that it doesn't have the 'rough edges' that (for example) Firefox and Safari have.
Chromium's overall design has been multi-platform from the start, but we are also committed to getting the details right for users on each platform.
So it does seem that, medium to long-term, the BBC might have made a big mistake.
I don't see how. First of all, this is a trial. The On2 VP6 codec is still the default codec, and the BBC is putting in place a mechanism for automatically choosing the best codec based on your download speed. There is no mention as yet of the older codec ceasing to be available.
Second (and perhaps more to the point), the BBC will not be tied to H.264 even after this trial. If anything, this trial will prove that they are capable of switching codecs when a more suitable one comes along. Presumably the knowledge gained from their experience here will be put to use once Dirac is ready for production use.
Oh and by the way, it's looking very likely indeed that, come the 2010 General Election, the Tories will form a government with an overall majority.
Scotland's policies on constitutional matters, foreign matters, defence, the economy, immigration, energy, trade and industry, drugs, broadcasting, election, employment, health and safety, social security, gambling, data protection (yay for relevance), firearms, extradition and emergency powers, medicines, abortion, human fertilisation and embryology, equal opportunities, treason, time zones, fishing and weights and measures will be decided by a party that is consistently polling third in Scotland.
They only took power again because of the Scottish vote
That's a myth perpetuated by the right-wing English press. It's not true.
Labour has a majority of 64. Scotland only elects 59 MPs.
Labour has 38 of those Scottish MPs. So removing Scotland entirely from the picture would leave Labour with a majority of 37 in England, Wales and NI (the English press often forgets that you can't just remove the Scottish Labour MPs, you have to remove the Scottish opposition too).
If you were getting sore thumbs, you were pressing way too hard. The feeling of your finger touching the screen should have been feedback enough, the screen is that sensitive.
And the clicking noise can be turned off, Settings -> Sounds -> Keyboard Clicks. Turning it off was the first thing I did when I got my iPhone.
I've never had a problem telling whether a key has been pressed on an iPhone or Touch. The touchscreen is sensitive enough that if I can feel the screen with my finger, the key has been pressed.
(In fact, the reverse problem with my work Nokia N95 causes me no end of frustration - sometimes the buttons 'click', but the hardware doesn't register the key-press. Bad feedback is worse than no feedback.)
The real problem with the soft keyboard is that you can't feel the location of the keys before you press them.
They're not even shy about it. Labour MP Brian Donohoe is on the record as saying that the decision on which voting system is to be used should be decided "on the basis of party interest" (i.e. not the public interest). It's no surprise that he favours the system that massively over-represents his party in parliament.
To illustrate just how poorly the Westminster voting system misrepresents us, I would refer you to the Constituency results from the 2007 Scottish election, which uses the same system. Had the Scottish election not been supplemented by the List results, Labour could have retained power with a majority of parliamentary seats, despite having gathered less votes than the SNP.
I understand the reasons for keeping the current system, but it's advantages are easily outweighed by its democratic deficiencies, and on that basis it has to be replaced.
The OED prefers Z spellings to S spellings, and doesn't follow conventional UK usage in this regard. Nobody really pays any attention, and the S spellings are still considered correct.
I know people that would question anything that the government says. If the government says crime is down, they'd refute it. If the government says that man has been to the moon, they'd give it a healthy dose of scepticism. If the government says that the moon isn't, in fact, made of cheese, they'd still pack crackers in their rocket ships.
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Does that apply even when you're currently overtaking even slower moving traffic? I.E. if there is traffic in the slow lane doing 30, and traffic in the fast lane is doing 80, is it legal to move out into the fast lane doing 50 for the duration of the overtaking manoeuvre (as long as you pull out into a suitable gap in the traffic)?
It's labelled 'Firefox Web Browser' in Feisty, so yes, it's a bit of a non-issue. I only use Linux as a server OS these days, that's my excuse ;)
That assumes that Earth wasn't created in 4004 BCE with 95 929 layers pre-packaged. Such a thing is of course untestable and therefore not scientific, but there is room for such a viewpoint.
I'd liken it to my ability to start virtual machine instances from certain saved states. In an odd way, familiarity with computers has brought me round to the creationist way of thinking a little.
That's not strictly true. Science is very much conclusions seeking evidence, but with the requirement of falsifiability. And I don't believe that religion seeks evidence at all. It is simply conclusions, and if some corroborating evidence happens to come along, then all the better.
I think that the fact that a theory is controversial should be taught in a science class, and the reasons for it should be discussed, in the context of scientific method. You can't teach scientific method without discussing what constitutes scientific method and what does not.
No, no, no, what you want is a shortcut, either on the desktop or in the main menu, labelled 'Web'. Or 'Internet'. Real people don't care if it's called Firefox or Iceweasel, they just want the web.
Microsoft have had this sussed for years. If you were a non-technical user and wanted to use the internet, and you were confronted with two shortcuts labelled 'Internet Explorer' and 'Mozilla Firefox', which one would you pick?
You mean there are people here that are sad enough to actually give a shit about their Slashdot karma rating? Oh dear.
How do you find a MAC address that works?
The Glasgow Subway runs in a big circle, so it's not without precedent.
It would be cool if they could re-use the electromagnets to drive the trains.
This isn't unusual. Here is the user agent string for the browser that comes with the Nokia N95 mobile phone:
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95_8GB/20.0.016; Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
It's actually quite useful to have details of the platform as well. On desktops it doesn't matter too much, it's the difference between offering a Windows, Linux or Mac download link for example.
On mobiles, it's the difference between a single download link for your handset and a site like this, that requires the user to know the model of handset they have, and to wade through large menus on a small screen.
User agent strings make this possible. I still hate them though, because they don't make it easy.
Add 'Incognito feature' to that post.
You obviously missed Chrome's, which never writes that private information to your hard drive in the first place. Much more secure. Safari also does this, has done for a while.
Exactly. This is along the same lines of Apple forbidding the use of Safari for Windows on Windows. They've copied their standard licence, which is written with web-apps in mind. If you actually read the licence, a lot of it makes very little sense in the context of a web browser.
It's shocked me since I became part of the corporate world what people will agree to when told, "It's just a standard document". At least in this case you don't have to be bound by it, as long as you're willing to build from source.
(This comment was posted from the Chrome binary, so if Google start to reproduce it elsewhere I will be incredibly amused.)
Google describe Chrome as 'multi-platform'. They also say that they're tailoring each version to the platform it runs on, so that it doesn't have the 'rough edges' that (for example) Firefox and Safari have.
I don't see how. First of all, this is a trial. The On2 VP6 codec is still the default codec, and the BBC is putting in place a mechanism for automatically choosing the best codec based on your download speed. There is no mention as yet of the older codec ceasing to be available.
Second (and perhaps more to the point), the BBC will not be tied to H.264 even after this trial. If anything, this trial will prove that they are capable of switching codecs when a more suitable one comes along. Presumably the knowledge gained from their experience here will be put to use once Dirac is ready for production use.
Oh and by the way, it's looking very likely indeed that, come the 2010 General Election, the Tories will form a government with an overall majority.
Scotland's policies on constitutional matters, foreign matters, defence, the economy, immigration, energy, trade and industry, drugs, broadcasting, election, employment, health and safety, social security, gambling, data protection (yay for relevance), firearms, extradition and emergency powers, medicines, abortion, human fertilisation and embryology, equal opportunities, treason, time zones, fishing and weights and measures will be decided by a party that is consistently polling third in Scotland.
Is that fair?
That's a myth perpetuated by the right-wing English press. It's not true.
Labour has a majority of 64. Scotland only elects 59 MPs.
Labour has 38 of those Scottish MPs. So removing Scotland entirely from the picture would leave Labour with a majority of 37 in England, Wales and NI (the English press often forgets that you can't just remove the Scottish Labour MPs, you have to remove the Scottish opposition too).
€ is your friend ;)
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This is the Daily Mail. I would not put it past them.
If you were getting sore thumbs, you were pressing way too hard. The feeling of your finger touching the screen should have been feedback enough, the screen is that sensitive.
And the clicking noise can be turned off, Settings -> Sounds -> Keyboard Clicks. Turning it off was the first thing I did when I got my iPhone.
I've never had a problem telling whether a key has been pressed on an iPhone or Touch. The touchscreen is sensitive enough that if I can feel the screen with my finger, the key has been pressed.
(In fact, the reverse problem with my work Nokia N95 causes me no end of frustration - sometimes the buttons 'click', but the hardware doesn't register the key-press. Bad feedback is worse than no feedback.)
The real problem with the soft keyboard is that you can't feel the location of the keys before you press them.
I didn't know that. I've been refraining from modding posts 'Funny' when they're unintentionally funny by being hopelessly and obviously wrong.
They're not even shy about it. Labour MP Brian Donohoe is on the record as saying that the decision on which voting system is to be used should be decided "on the basis of party interest" (i.e. not the public interest). It's no surprise that he favours the system that massively over-represents his party in parliament.
To illustrate just how poorly the Westminster voting system misrepresents us, I would refer you to the Constituency results from the 2007 Scottish election, which uses the same system. Had the Scottish election not been supplemented by the List results, Labour could have retained power with a majority of parliamentary seats, despite having gathered less votes than the SNP.
I understand the reasons for keeping the current system, but it's advantages are easily outweighed by its democratic deficiencies, and on that basis it has to be replaced.
The OED prefers Z spellings to S spellings, and doesn't follow conventional UK usage in this regard. Nobody really pays any attention, and the S spellings are still considered correct.
I know people that would question anything that the government says. If the government says crime is down, they'd refute it. If the government says that man has been to the moon, they'd give it a healthy dose of scepticism. If the government says that the moon isn't, in fact, made of cheese, they'd still pack crackers in their rocket ships.