that article's title is sensationalist. As it says in the article, cash fares are inflated to promote adoption of the oyster card. These days pretty much everyone uses them. Very convenient and removes the need for cash & credit card transactions for travel.. the small shops all over london deal with the cash transactions instead
buses are £2 cash, £1 with oyster
I'm not sure about tube fares but I guess its a similar ratio
Did you really read all the source code for every app that runs on your computer? Knowing that you could do that then not doing it seems rather irresponsible if its so damn important. If you can't trust the campus IT department then you certainly can't trust a stranger.
If I was that paranoid I'd still be soldering the connections on my home made cpu.
This guy making some nice noises costs nothing... and his argument is only that they shouldn't have to spend money to police themselves. At least consider the possibility that its nothing more than good PR.
Earlier comments gave me the impression that TalkTalk gives crappy service, awful support and uses packet shaping heavily to save costs (off course they're hardly gonna put that in the press release)
Fair enough. I didn't know they broadcast in the US themselves. Ofc they've got to play by your rules there. There's a seperate website for the US too it seems.
This is kind of missing the point. The BBC doesn't make any money from advertising so it's content is only made freely available to those who have already paid for it (UK licence payers).
"I guarantee you that all but the most die-hard Vista-hating gamers would flock to Vista if a) enough games had sweet DX10 graphics, and b) some hot new game was DX10/Vista only"
- Its not in Valve's interests to push DX10/Vista.. its in their interests to sell as many games as possible.
In my home we've been aware of these power issues for a while. TV(s), video, set-top-box, dvd player, stereo. All get fully turned off when not needed.
Our digital set-top-box doesn't even have an off switch.. you have to unplug it. Sky box has to be left on at all times to work at all? It seems the law could require these devices to at the very least support a non-standby/fully off mode even if standby were not made illegal.
I assume the majority of this 'standby' power usage is not due to monitors but tvs, videos and dvd players etc which are operated by an infra-red remote. The constant monitoring for an infra red control signal to tell them to come out of standby means they are essentially still 'on'.
animals have been killing animals for millions of years, yes.
You seem to be justifying eating animals purely on the basis that animals have been doing it for millions of years and that its 'natural'.
Is it natural then for humans to kill animals? For humans to kill humans? For humans to eat humans?
There is certainly a distinction made between animals and humans. Acceptable behaviour is not based purely on the past behaviour of animals. It is not based purely on the past behaviour of humans either. Morality is constantly under review and what is seen as acceptable is always changing. I'm not a vegetarian, but I can't actually justify killing animals to eat them any more than I can explain the meaning of the universe.
ok.. not natural in the sense that "flowers are natural". But it was something accepted. I guess its always been more controversial than meat eating though, yeah. How about slavery? That was pretty universally accepted.. but is certainly not acceptable these days.
The issues of human rights have become second nature and human abuse is, these days, morally repugnant to most. Animal rights are gaining ground but really its a very confused area.. cruelty to animals is against the law, yet killing them is acceptable under many circumstances even if it is simply for human entertainment. Clearly this is nonsensical.
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"just a side thought: i think animal rights activists should be the most pro-genetically modified special interest group in the world. reason being, if you could genetically engineer foie gras in vats, or animal flesh, you would:"
- And by that logic those who dislike Bush should actively support his assassination. Not every solution is going to be a good one.
"animal rights activists are an abomination: eating meat is perfectly natural"
- things change. Paedophilia was perfectly natural a few hundred years ago. Human rights is a concept in its infancy and animal rights can be seen as the obvious next step. You accuse these people of being 'luddites': afraid of technological change.. yet you are the one showing intolerance of changes in morality.
This seems like the natural progression of a couple of existing ideas:
http://www.smart.com/
Smart cars are popular in uk (I don't know about elsewhere). Small, efficient and comfortable. Yeah, everyone thought they looked stupid at first but they are immensely practical.
http://www.streetcar.co.uk/
A similar hire a car by the hour type scheme with no human interaction. This has been running for a few years in uk and appears to be growing steadily.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/1/
Yeah but thats just lame.. how do they come up with 'wii sports resort' but miss 'immortal swordman hacking off zombies head's in a gritty dystopia'?
It does sound like your objections might be corroborating his story nicely.
How does prepaid fit into any conspiracy? That means you can buy them anonymously from a shop, you can't have an anonymous credit/debit card.
RFID streamlines payment to touching a pad as you walk past. Ofc, that doesn't rule out a conspiracy, but its a damn good idea regardless.
In london the tube is the most expensive
that article's title is sensationalist. As it says in the article, cash fares are inflated to promote adoption of the oyster card. These days pretty much everyone uses them. Very convenient and removes the need for cash & credit card transactions for travel.. the small shops all over london deal with the cash transactions instead
buses are £2 cash, £1 with oyster I'm not sure about tube fares but I guess its a similar ratio
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skewing the data for specific searches would be impractical
really? that sounds trivial to me.
If we were talking single-word phrases, I might be convinced, but phrases push this conspiracy theory into implausibility.
Its hardly a great leap from a single word to a combination: windows + expensive why + is + so are likely ignored anyway.
Did you really read all the source code for every app that runs on your computer? Knowing that you could do that then not doing it seems rather irresponsible if its so damn important. If you can't trust the campus IT department then you certainly can't trust a stranger.
If I was that paranoid I'd still be soldering the connections on my home made cpu.
This guy making some nice noises costs nothing... and his argument is only that they shouldn't have to spend money to police themselves. At least consider the possibility that its nothing more than good PR.
Earlier comments gave me the impression that TalkTalk gives crappy service, awful support and uses packet shaping heavily to save costs (off course they're hardly gonna put that in the press release)
They must have forgotten to put the videos on your version of the website.
Fair enough. I didn't know they broadcast in the US themselves. Ofc they've got to play by your rules there. There's a seperate website for the US too it seems.
This is kind of missing the point. The BBC doesn't make any money from advertising so it's content is only made freely available to those who have already paid for it (UK licence payers).
The BBC doesn't run any advertising at all so there is even less incentive to make the content freely available outside the UK.
Go on, spend a few seconds imagining the conversation as you phone them to accept their kind offer.
FTFS: Of course, a cable is damaged once every three days, on average
I didn't see him insulting anyone. If something sucks then it sucks regardless of who's fault this might or might not be.
IE 7 has solved a lot of that
IE7 does not "solve" anything. Its another platform that needs to be tested on. IE6 still has more market share than IE7 according to this:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
"I guarantee you that all but the most die-hard Vista-hating gamers would flock to Vista if a) enough games had sweet DX10 graphics, and b) some hot new game was DX10/Vista only"
- Its not in Valve's interests to push DX10/Vista.. its in their interests to sell as many games as possible.
"sweet DX10 graphics,"
- How much better is DX10 than DX9 really?
RTFA. If the capacitor runs dry you click the on switch.
In my home we've been aware of these power issues for a while. TV(s), video, set-top-box, dvd player, stereo. All get fully turned off when not needed.
Our digital set-top-box doesn't even have an off switch.. you have to unplug it. Sky box has to be left on at all times to work at all? It seems the law could require these devices to at the very least support a non-standby/fully off mode even if standby were not made illegal.
I assume the majority of this 'standby' power usage is not due to monitors but tvs, videos and dvd players etc which are operated by an infra-red remote. The constant monitoring for an infra red control signal to tell them to come out of standby means they are essentially still 'on'.
animals have been killing animals for millions of years, yes. You seem to be justifying eating animals purely on the basis that animals have been doing it for millions of years and that its 'natural'. Is it natural then for humans to kill animals? For humans to kill humans? For humans to eat humans? There is certainly a distinction made between animals and humans. Acceptable behaviour is not based purely on the past behaviour of animals. It is not based purely on the past behaviour of humans either. Morality is constantly under review and what is seen as acceptable is always changing. I'm not a vegetarian, but I can't actually justify killing animals to eat them any more than I can explain the meaning of the universe.
ok.. not natural in the sense that "flowers are natural". But it was something accepted. I guess its always been more controversial than meat eating though, yeah. How about slavery? That was pretty universally accepted.. but is certainly not acceptable these days.
The issues of human rights have become second nature and human abuse is, these days, morally repugnant to most. Animal rights are gaining ground but really its a very confused area.. cruelty to animals is against the law, yet killing them is acceptable under many circumstances even if it is simply for human entertainment. Clearly this is nonsensical.
"just a side thought: i think animal rights activists should be the most pro-genetically modified special interest group in the world. reason being, if you could genetically engineer foie gras in vats, or animal flesh, you would:" - And by that logic those who dislike Bush should actively support his assassination. Not every solution is going to be a good one. "animal rights activists are an abomination: eating meat is perfectly natural" - things change. Paedophilia was perfectly natural a few hundred years ago. Human rights is a concept in its infancy and animal rights can be seen as the obvious next step. You accuse these people of being 'luddites': afraid of technological change.. yet you are the one showing intolerance of changes in morality.
This seems like the natural progression of a couple of existing ideas: http://www.smart.com/ Smart cars are popular in uk (I don't know about elsewhere). Small, efficient and comfortable. Yeah, everyone thought they looked stupid at first but they are immensely practical. http://www.streetcar.co.uk/ A similar hire a car by the hour type scheme with no human interaction. This has been running for a few years in uk and appears to be growing steadily.