How is that remarkable ? My pc can recognise my mobile phone and sync to it when the phone is in my pocket - I think they call it Blootoot or something....
Stealing ? I have been paying into this for 25 years ! These kids have been educated at schools I have helped pay for. They have got there on roads I have subsidized. They were born in hospitals I helped subsidize. they vandalize things I pay for every week through my paypacket. Seems to me the whole credit culture has become the norm. The world seems to be full of people who believe that the government pays for stuff, so why shouldn't they have as much of it as they like - completely forgetting where the govt. got the money from in the first place. i.e. ME and people like me ! And how can I steal from a 16 year old who HAS NEVER CONTRIBUTED to government funds ?
Ok, explain how giving electoral power to a body of people with LESS experience of the consequences is going to change things for the better. Where did this "deserve to live" crap come from ? All I said was why should I pay towards people who CHOOSE to have 6 kids knowing they can't support them ? And as for people having an easy life off my money, it is in no way propaganda. I have a 45 year old idiot who lives above me. He does not work, he makes no money, the state provide everything. And I am regularly woken at 3 or 4 am by him returning home with a bunch of friends, pissed up, and they turn the music on and right up. I resent paying taxes to support this guy. Who has the better life ? I don't get pissed up every day, I have to work 14 or 15 hours and then try to get some rest despite the best efforts of the guy I am paying for ! Your last statement is just stupid. How is expecting a pension you have paid for "leeching" ? How is preventing teenagers from voting any different from preventing teenagers from smoking ? In both cases, they have no experience of the consequences of their actions. Where do you draw the line ? Should we let 12 year olds vote too ? After all, they are human beings. In the UK at least, you reach the age of majority at 18, which means your parents are no longer responsible for you. Are we to say that parents cease being responsible for their offsprings wellbeing at 16 or 12 ?
How many 16 year olds have experience of getting up at 4am to go to work, year after fucking year, just to meet the payments on a mortgage/credit card/loan/gas bill/electric bill/whatever ? How many 16 year olds can be trusted to vote for politicians that promise decent care for the elderly, and reasonable pension provisioning ? How many 16 year olds actually give a flying fuck about anything except themselves, or things that affect them directly ? The reason I mention 16 is because Bliars govt. has mooted the idea of lowering the voting age to 16, thereby increasing the number of impressionable people who are most likely to vote Labour, just because they don't know any better, and after all Labour has given them The Vote !
Yes, I realise that you can't tar all 16 year olds with the same brush regarding their opinions, but you can definitely say they haven't had to work for a living ever. And most of what govt. does is payed for by those who pay income tax. How can you make an informed decision on a proposed piece of legislation, if you have no concept of what it will cost YOU in terms of your pay packet/standard of living, and whether it's a good trade off.
I have been paying taxes and National Insurance to the govt. for the past 25 years, and what have I got to look forward to ? My state pension as provided for by the NI payments will be so small as to be useless. If I need hospital treatment in the future, I am likely to be refused because I smoke (despite the fact that in 25 years, I have never required hospital treatment, and have never clogged up accident and emergency because of a cut finger) Where has my money gone ? Am I entitled to nothing I was promised and have payed for (in advance)? And yet the govt. is happy to pay people to do nothing rather than work, to pay people grants for life choices, to give people tax breaks for life choices (marriage, pregnancy, multiple children) while I as a single white male, am taxed the most and receive the least (nothing to be precise). I agree with the principle of social support, but I don't agree with being treated as a cash cow for other peoples life choices. The whole social support structure was intended for people who had fallen on hard times, not to provide a nice side line for people who decided to have 6 kids, but couldn't afford to provide for them.
How can you expect a 16 year old to have a sense of grievance like that, without which, any political decision they make is rather shallow and open to manipulation.
As I understand it, the whole reason RMS got into the GPL thing was because he wanted the freedom/ability to fix a buggy printer driver. What use would that freedom be, if the printer refused to acknowledge the commands because the code wasn't signed ? What is the point of Tivo releasing their code to the community, if, once modified, that code can no longer be used on the Tivo hardware ? If they wanted to lock the hardware down to running specific approved code only, then they shouldn't use GPL'd code in the first place. I can understand that they would not want to support modified code, but surely the hardware can report if there have been any third party modifications to the software, and thereby give them a get out clause to avoid responsibilty for damage/malfunction caused by such code.
<Bad Analogy> Imagine if your car was running badly, so you adjusted the fuel/air mixture to correct a misfire, BUT the car then refused to run because the adjustment wasn't made by an approved technician. </Bad Analogy>
Can you imagine the outcry if Dell, having sold machines preloaded with linux, used hardware signing to ensure that only their version of linux ran on it, and modifications were impossible ? What if there was a bug in the kernel that affected disk access ? You would have to wait for them to issue a patch before you could use your own hardware. How is that different from proprietary software now ?
<Mr Anderson>I want my rights, I want my phone call ! <Agent Smith>What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak ?
Not to detract from your point, but... These creatures are red, because red light wavelengths don't penetrate to the bottom of the ocean, which means that these creatures appear black (black is after all, an absence of colour). The issue of synthesizing black pigment is irrelevant. Most creatures are transparent, and use photophors or bioluminescence to generate colour. Watch a David Attenborough program sometime (The Blue Planet Ep2 The Deep) Some predators even use red bioluminescence to illuminate red prey, as most sea creatures eyes can't even detect red light.
Huh? The moment you looked in the folder - you proved you had neither morals or ethics. You turned him in in an attempt to make yourself feel better and to make up for your failure.
You are an idiot. Did you read the sentence where he said that it is illegal *not* to report such a matter ? If a petty thief witnesses a murder while casing a joint, should they stay quiet because they shouldn't have been there in the first place ?
You prove yourself untrustworthy by snooping - and then you blame the community for treating you as untrustworthy?
Surely, the very fact that he did report the matter shows that there is some good in everybody, and therefore hope. Or should we just bang up every petty criminal or maybe cut their hands off ? I repeat, you are an idiot.
Abbey National had a WAP mobile solution in 2000 that was simply a thin presentation veneer on their J2EE eBanking platform (that also served SKY Digital Satelite TV at the time). It was never very popular and has been switched off now - which is a pity because the guys working on this really struggled to get it the interface to work on a 12x6 char screen!
I was quite pissed off when they switched that off. As I travel quite a bit, and the actual high street service has gone downhill for some time, it was really useful. What has happened is that I have now got a pocket pc device and can access the normal on-line banking page, and get all the normal functions as I would at a PC. It is useful to be able to transfer money between accounts, pay bills and check balances "on the run" so to speak. My only gripe with their system, is that it complains that your browser is not supported if you are not using IE or Nutscrape (since when was netscape relevant). But the list of browsers they "support" is restricted to Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows, Netscape 7.0 on Windows , Netscape 7.0 on Mac OS 8 and 9 and Netscape 7.2 on Mac OSX. It's not like they support them anyway, just write web code and test in those browsers. Firefox and Opera are therefore not supported ! However, at least they don't block other browsers completely or use activex, unlike certain banks and on-line vendors.
Funny, but probably true. Author Bill Bryson had a story of someone who was trying for a residence permit, and had to provide fingerprints. Unfortunately the person only had 9 fingers, having lost one years before. The last we heard, the person was still trying to get it through to the officials that not having 10 prints to give, he couldn't fully comply. They still insisted on having the full set though....
non-commerical broadcaster.... Non-commercially funded TV.... Non-commercially funded TV
And which part of Microsoft windows is "non-commercial" ? If the BBC are non-commercial, then where is the open source, and free as in beer player ? One of the main reasons I don't subscribe to Sky or Virgin is that a good proportion of the programming is produced by the BBC ! It pisses me off that as a non-commercial entity, they are free to take our money and make profits by selling the productions to 3rd parties. We do not get any say in this, nor do we receive any share nor discount - in fact the fee keeps going up. The sooner the BBC gets off the taxpayers tit, the better !
And every country needs unskilled labour, most people do not have the inborn intelligence or the right education and upbringing for skilled work. The world only needs so many lawyers, doctors, scientists etc. If everyone took up a skilled job, most of them would be unemployed as it would be a top-heavy society.
Witness - the situation in the UK, where everybody is being funnelled into higher education to achieve degrees for a job market that doesn't require them. So, we have open borders with eastern europe to provide an unskilled labour force, thereby making sure we don't starve due to the surfeit of lawyers, civil servants, traffic wardens, counsellors, charity workers etc etc.
For example, if you have a FORM that submits when the mouse "leaves" the drop down box, please explain how that event will be triggered since there/is no cursor/.
I thought onChange was used for actions initiated by drop down boxes. You don't have to have the drop down box lose focus for that. Otherwise, you would be clicking a blank bit of page every time you used one.
Well, if you're using firefox, double click to highlight the name and right click to select 'search google for "Mark Shuttleworth"'. Is that too advanced for you ? It even opens in a new tab.
3ghz in less space than a dime! Cool, but why can't they just extend outwards?
Three words : Speed Of Light The clock speed (of a cpu) is limited by the speed of light, and the bigger the chip, the further stuff has to travel. Even at light speed, you can only go so far and get back again in a certain time. I'm not brilliant at explaining this, but I'm sure someone else will pick this up. In the meantime, have a look at this interesting paper from 2005.
Not entirely sure if this is a pisstake or not, but one possible application could be bluetooth headsets. The current generation are, well, crap basically. They don't stay in your ear very well and the mic is either on a long boom and ridiculous or doesn't pick up too well with background noise (driving). How about a device (patches) that sends and receives signals by bone and relays to the phone by bluetooth. The ear relies on sound waves already, and I'm sure there is enough bone vibration from your voice to send a usable signal. Voice controlled computer apps could use this tech too, and the sound levels could be kept low enough to be private (sub-vocalisation). Tempest my ass (ok no bones in there, but you know what I mean).
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How is that remarkable ?
My pc can recognise my mobile phone and sync to it when the phone is in my pocket - I think they call it Blootoot or something....
Woohoo, look Marge, I'm a troll
iPhone apps are web - pages
iPhone apps are web - pages !
Hmmm, I'm a troll, but the OP can't spell - which would I rather be ?
Stealing ?
I have been paying into this for 25 years ! These kids have been educated at schools I have helped pay for. They have got there on roads I have subsidized. They were born in hospitals I helped subsidize. they vandalize things I pay for every week through my paypacket.
Seems to me the whole credit culture has become the norm. The world seems to be full of people who believe that the government pays for stuff, so why shouldn't they have as much of it as they like - completely forgetting where the govt. got the money from in the first place.
i.e. ME and people like me !
And how can I steal from a 16 year old who HAS NEVER CONTRIBUTED to government funds ?
Ok, explain how giving electoral power to a body of people with LESS experience of the consequences is going to change things for the better.
Where did this "deserve to live" crap come from ? All I said was why should I pay towards people who CHOOSE to have 6 kids knowing they can't support them ?
And as for people having an easy life off my money, it is in no way propaganda. I have a 45 year old idiot who lives above me. He does not work, he makes no money, the state provide everything. And I am regularly woken at 3 or 4 am by him returning home with a bunch of friends, pissed up, and they turn the music on and right up. I resent paying taxes to support this guy. Who has the better life ? I don't get pissed up every day, I have to work 14 or 15 hours and then try to get some rest despite the best efforts of the guy I am paying for !
Your last statement is just stupid. How is expecting a pension you have paid for "leeching" ? How is preventing teenagers from voting any different from preventing teenagers from smoking ? In both cases, they have no experience of the consequences of their actions. Where do you draw the line ? Should we let 12 year olds vote too ? After all, they are human beings. In the UK at least, you reach the age of majority at 18, which means your parents are no longer responsible for you. Are we to say that parents cease being responsible for their offsprings wellbeing at 16 or 12 ?
No worries, I thought for a while that I had plagiarized your sig unconsciously. Seems apt though.
How many 16 year olds have experience of getting up at 4am to go to work, year after fucking year, just to meet the payments on a mortgage/credit card/loan/gas bill/electric bill/whatever ?
How many 16 year olds can be trusted to vote for politicians that promise decent care for the elderly, and reasonable pension provisioning ?
How many 16 year olds actually give a flying fuck about anything except themselves, or things that affect them directly ?
The reason I mention 16 is because Bliars govt. has mooted the idea of lowering the voting age to 16, thereby increasing the number of impressionable people who are most likely to vote Labour, just because they don't know any better, and after all Labour has given them The Vote !
Yes, I realise that you can't tar all 16 year olds with the same brush regarding their opinions, but you can definitely say they haven't had to work for a living ever. And most of what govt. does is payed for by those who pay income tax. How can you make an informed decision on a proposed piece of legislation, if you have no concept of what it will cost YOU in terms of your pay packet/standard of living, and whether it's a good trade off.
I have been paying taxes and National Insurance to the govt. for the past 25 years, and what have I got to look forward to ?
My state pension as provided for by the NI payments will be so small as to be useless.
If I need hospital treatment in the future, I am likely to be refused because I smoke (despite the fact that in 25 years, I have never required hospital treatment, and have never clogged up accident and emergency because of a cut finger)
Where has my money gone ? Am I entitled to nothing I was promised and have payed for (in advance)?
And yet the govt. is happy to pay people to do nothing rather than work, to pay people grants for life choices, to give people tax breaks for life choices (marriage, pregnancy, multiple children) while I as a single white male, am taxed the most and receive the least (nothing to be precise). I agree with the principle of social support, but I don't agree with being treated as a cash cow for other peoples life choices. The whole social support structure was intended for people who had fallen on hard times, not to provide a nice side line for people who decided to have 6 kids, but couldn't afford to provide for them.
How can you expect a 16 year old to have a sense of grievance like that, without which, any political decision they make is rather shallow and open to manipulation.
Bah ! Get off my lawn !
As I understand it, the whole reason RMS got into the GPL thing was because he wanted the freedom/ability to fix a buggy printer driver. What use would that freedom be, if the printer refused to acknowledge the commands because the code wasn't signed ?
What is the point of Tivo releasing their code to the community, if, once modified, that code can no longer be used on the Tivo hardware ?
If they wanted to lock the hardware down to running specific approved code only, then they shouldn't use GPL'd code in the first place. I can understand that they would not want to support modified code, but surely the hardware can report if there have been any third party modifications to the software, and thereby give them a get out clause to avoid responsibilty for damage/malfunction caused by such code.
<Bad Analogy>
Imagine if your car was running badly, so you adjusted the fuel/air mixture to correct a misfire, BUT the car then refused to run because the adjustment wasn't made by an approved technician.
</Bad Analogy>
Can you imagine the outcry if Dell, having sold machines preloaded with linux, used hardware signing to ensure that only their version of linux ran on it, and modifications were impossible ? What if there was a bug in the kernel that affected disk access ? You would have to wait for them to issue a patch before you could use your own hardware. How is that different from proprietary software now ?
<Mr Anderson>I want my rights, I want my phone call !
<Agent Smith>What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak ?
Does the dust fly by itself ?
never has a post been more correctly labelled, *Anonymous Coward*
Not to detract from your point, but ...
These creatures are red, because red light wavelengths don't penetrate to the bottom of the ocean, which means that these creatures appear black (black is after all, an absence of colour). The issue of synthesizing black pigment is irrelevant. Most creatures are transparent, and use photophors or bioluminescence to generate colour. Watch a David Attenborough program sometime (The Blue Planet Ep2 The Deep)
Some predators even use red bioluminescence to illuminate red prey, as most sea creatures eyes can't even detect red light.
Did you read the sentence where he said that it is illegal *not* to report such a matter ?
If a petty thief witnesses a murder while casing a joint, should they stay quiet because they shouldn't have been there in the first place ?
Surely, the very fact that he did report the matter shows that there is some good in everybody, and therefore hope. Or should we just bang up every petty criminal or maybe cut their hands off ?
I repeat, you are an idiot.
What has happened is that I have now got a pocket pc device and can access the normal on-line banking page, and get all the normal functions as I would at a PC. It is useful to be able to transfer money between accounts, pay bills and check balances "on the run" so to speak.
My only gripe with their system, is that it complains that your browser is not supported if you are not using IE or Nutscrape (since when was netscape relevant). But the list of browsers they "support" is restricted to Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows, Netscape 7.0 on Windows , Netscape 7.0 on Mac OS 8 and 9 and Netscape 7.2 on Mac OSX.
It's not like they support them anyway, just write web code and test in those browsers. Firefox and Opera are therefore not supported !
However, at least they don't block other browsers completely or use activex, unlike certain banks and on-line vendors.
Funny, but probably true. ....
Author Bill Bryson had a story of someone who was trying for a residence permit, and had to provide fingerprints. Unfortunately the person only had 9 fingers, having lost one years before. The last we heard, the person was still trying to get it through to the officials that not having 10 prints to give, he couldn't fully comply. They still insisted on having the full set though
If the BBC are non-commercial, then where is the open source, and free as in beer player ?
One of the main reasons I don't subscribe to Sky or Virgin is that a good proportion of the programming is produced by the BBC ! It pisses me off that as a non-commercial entity, they are free to take our money and make profits by selling the productions to 3rd parties. We do not get any say in this, nor do we receive any share nor discount - in fact the fee keeps going up.
The sooner the BBC gets off the taxpayers tit, the better !
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Stupid question obviously...
http://www.lumigram.com/catalog/product_info.php?
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And where you got 5 or 9 hundred from I have no idea.
Buy Opera
Well, if you're using firefox, double click to highlight the name and right click to select 'search google for "Mark Shuttleworth"'.
Is that too advanced for you ? It even opens in a new tab.
Speed Of Light
The clock speed (of a cpu) is limited by the speed of light, and the bigger the chip, the further stuff has to travel. Even at light speed, you can only go so far and get back again in a certain time.
I'm not brilliant at explaining this, but I'm sure someone else will pick this up.
In the meantime, have a look at this interesting paper from 2005.
Yeah and you don't even need to harpoon them first !
Bit of a bother getting greenpeace blockading cemeteries though !
Not entirely sure if this is a pisstake or not, but one possible application could be bluetooth headsets.
The current generation are, well, crap basically. They don't stay in your ear very well and the mic is either on a long boom and ridiculous or doesn't pick up too well with background noise (driving).
How about a device (patches) that sends and receives signals by bone and relays to the phone by bluetooth. The ear relies on sound waves already, and I'm sure there is enough bone vibration from your voice to send a usable signal.
Voice controlled computer apps could use this tech too, and the sound levels could be kept low enough to be private (sub-vocalisation). Tempest my ass (ok no bones in there, but you know what I mean).
In Iraq.