Most Gulf countries have a single-ID requirement (e.g. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman), even for expats. The only time you are *required* to use it is when you are asked by security officials to declare your residency situation. Other than, it serves to quicken government processes requiring one (or any) of the following: birth certificate, proof of address, health certificate, passport, photographic proof of ID.
If the UK's uni-ID was designed to serve the same purpose (i.e. the swiss knife of IDs, so instead of having to bring in piles of photocopies and contracts, you'd just use your uni-ID), it wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Read the paper. 2,700 something. Hardly representative. Do you have any clue who those 2,700 were? What kind of education they had? How they were chosen. It's pathetic when people assume the moral high ground based on some ludicriously inaccurate statistic. It doesn't need a genius to figure that the Iraq has gone up in flames, now burning.
Ah, now I'm going to be pedantic.
A lot of religions do not bury in boxes. Bodies decompose, and mass transfers from human to earth.
So: it depends on who those 1 billion are.
30,000 is those dead because of the heatwave. I say, let's pull some figures together, and somehow botch up the figures to get the correct number of dead people. Hmmm...what else can we pin on 'her':p ?
No seriously now. This hyper-reactive, conscious earth idea is just that - an idea. I'm just trying to point to earth's ecology and how little credit we give it. We certainly are a burden, and there is a lot about our 'behaviour' that needs to change, but then again, we are part of that ecology. I understand that we have to be responsible about our role (maybe fossil fuels do need to go, I don't know yet), but at the end of the day, we can't crawl back and live in caves, which seems to be the direction a certain group of people want us to head to (given things I've read elsewhere).
You guys are way to serious. I said 'we' lose mass, which means 'we the humans' not earth. When we die, mass is transferred back to earth. This thing was supposed to be a parody. Maybe I'm just bad at it, and this isn't a tech forum, but a scientific community?
Mother nature is commonly referred to as 'her.' This isn't a scientific dissertation, I'm free to make my own labels.
Get a life, my analysis? It's a comment! Where's your clever take on all of this then? If the scientists don't know whats going, telling us its too early to judge, and yet we should be cautious, you have the 'answer' that gives you the right to call other people's 'comments' idiotic?
I never suggested we do otherwise. That's why I made it clear most people on here don't infact drive 5.0 SUVs. I do my part, and I expect most people do to. But being overly cautious and paranoid doesn't help anyone either.
Most of the people here look like they drive 5.0 SUVs, but I doubt they do. Not accepting treehugger mentality does not mean we work for oil companies.
I think this 'runaway' global warming effect isn't run away at all. If 30,000 died in last summer's heatwave, why can't we assume that earth is just getting rid of 'excess' baggage? I think earth has a few tricks up its sleeve, and everytime we push her to her limits, she'll fart back and wipe a few of us off until we reach the correct mass again.
Hell, you haven't cleared out anything. Arguments still stand because you never answered them.
I've got Mac fanatics at work who want this more than their G5 because it looks good.
Wake up: real world performance IS gamer performance. If it performs in a game, it performs everywhere. Chances are, if it DOESN'T perform in a game, it probably won't anywhere. And question: how do YOU know it's purpose? Macs are Macs, you got a lot of money, you buy expensive machine, you got no money, you buy cheap iMac. Simple. At the end of the day, all Macs are supposedly created equal. With a 5200 graphics card, I'd say the iMac is about 3 years behind.
Yup, 256Mb RAM isn't enough. What can you answer with to that? So, "uncheck" please.
And G5 hotness is not a joke. If you know anything about the laws of thermodynamics, which - surprise, surprise, still apply to Macs, you'd know that laptops are plagued with heat problems, hence the Celeron. I wonder which corners Apple had to cut to get this thing in production. So "uncheck" there as well.
The rest of your 'retorts'? Non-existent.
P.S. I run an AMD box at home, and have to put up with a Mac in the office. Been like this for 4 years now, and I think Macs are a fancy fashion statement.
I mean, if they can get trains to use it, why not cars? Ok, you'd need an electromagnet the size of a small country to lift a car up to 'Jetson'-level heights, but I think if you levitated a train you'd be fine - if you only knew how to control it. If 'they' (whose they anyway?) develop adequate controls (maybe through space-shuttle technology jets) to keep a magnetically levitated car stationary in mid air, and then create a system to use polarity to direct the vehicle, it would be great!
Was assembling a box at one point, and had bought everything but the case, so I kept it all precariously wired on a desk top with the power supply sitting to one side. I had a Ringed Indian parrot back then that I used to let him out of his cage, and one day I came home to find him politely sunning himself on the blast from the CPU fan (if he had stuck his head in there, I'd be in jail by now). Anyway, put him back in his cage and that was that, until I got the case about 3 weeks afterwards and started sticking everything into it. That's when I found out that the parrot had crapped his guts out onto the entire motherboard and basically plastered it all in a rich lining of filth. I hadn't known and the damn thing didn't twitch.
Is it just me or does this thing not even work on Macs? I'm using IE something or the other on OSX and I get nada - newsbot.msn.com no work.
Tried it on PC and it looks like MSNBC to me. What a waste of electricity.
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Most Gulf countries have a single-ID requirement (e.g. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman), even for expats. The only time you are *required* to use it is when you are asked by security officials to declare your residency situation. Other than, it serves to quicken government processes requiring one (or any) of the following: birth certificate, proof of address, health certificate, passport, photographic proof of ID. If the UK's uni-ID was designed to serve the same purpose (i.e. the swiss knife of IDs, so instead of having to bring in piles of photocopies and contracts, you'd just use your uni-ID), it wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Read the paper. 2,700 something. Hardly representative. Do you have any clue who those 2,700 were? What kind of education they had? How they were chosen. It's pathetic when people assume the moral high ground based on some ludicriously inaccurate statistic. It doesn't need a genius to figure that the Iraq has gone up in flames, now burning.
Ah, now I'm going to be pedantic. A lot of religions do not bury in boxes. Bodies decompose, and mass transfers from human to earth. So: it depends on who those 1 billion are.
The mass of humans on earth would if a billion die.
30,000 is those dead because of the heatwave. I say, let's pull some figures together, and somehow botch up the figures to get the correct number of dead people. Hmmm...what else can we pin on 'her' :p ?
No seriously now. This hyper-reactive, conscious earth idea is just that - an idea. I'm just trying to point to earth's ecology and how little credit we give it. We certainly are a burden, and there is a lot about our 'behaviour' that needs to change, but then again, we are part of that ecology. I understand that we have to be responsible about our role (maybe fossil fuels do need to go, I don't know yet), but at the end of the day, we can't crawl back and live in caves, which seems to be the direction a certain group of people want us to head to (given things I've read elsewhere).
You guys are way to serious. I said 'we' lose mass, which means 'we the humans' not earth. When we die, mass is transferred back to earth. This thing was supposed to be a parody. Maybe I'm just bad at it, and this isn't a tech forum, but a scientific community?
Mother nature is commonly referred to as 'her.' This isn't a scientific dissertation, I'm free to make my own labels. Get a life, my analysis? It's a comment! Where's your clever take on all of this then? If the scientists don't know whats going, telling us its too early to judge, and yet we should be cautious, you have the 'answer' that gives you the right to call other people's 'comments' idiotic?
I never suggested we do otherwise. That's why I made it clear most people on here don't infact drive 5.0 SUVs. I do my part, and I expect most people do to. But being overly cautious and paranoid doesn't help anyone either.
True, true. Mass will be transferred to something else then. Bigot :)
Most of the people here look like they drive 5.0 SUVs, but I doubt they do. Not accepting treehugger mentality does not mean we work for oil companies.
I think this 'runaway' global warming effect isn't run away at all. If 30,000 died in last summer's heatwave, why can't we assume that earth is just getting rid of 'excess' baggage? I think earth has a few tricks up its sleeve, and everytime we push her to her limits, she'll fart back and wipe a few of us off until we reach the correct mass again.
Hell, you haven't cleared out anything. Arguments still stand because you never answered them. I've got Mac fanatics at work who want this more than their G5 because it looks good. Wake up: real world performance IS gamer performance. If it performs in a game, it performs everywhere. Chances are, if it DOESN'T perform in a game, it probably won't anywhere. And question: how do YOU know it's purpose? Macs are Macs, you got a lot of money, you buy expensive machine, you got no money, you buy cheap iMac. Simple. At the end of the day, all Macs are supposedly created equal. With a 5200 graphics card, I'd say the iMac is about 3 years behind. Yup, 256Mb RAM isn't enough. What can you answer with to that? So, "uncheck" please. And G5 hotness is not a joke. If you know anything about the laws of thermodynamics, which - surprise, surprise, still apply to Macs, you'd know that laptops are plagued with heat problems, hence the Celeron. I wonder which corners Apple had to cut to get this thing in production. So "uncheck" there as well. The rest of your 'retorts'? Non-existent. P.S. I run an AMD box at home, and have to put up with a Mac in the office. Been like this for 4 years now, and I think Macs are a fancy fashion statement.
I mean, if they can get trains to use it, why not cars? Ok, you'd need an electromagnet the size of a small country to lift a car up to 'Jetson'-level heights, but I think if you levitated a train you'd be fine - if you only knew how to control it. If 'they' (whose they anyway?) develop adequate controls (maybe through space-shuttle technology jets) to keep a magnetically levitated car stationary in mid air, and then create a system to use polarity to direct the vehicle, it would be great!
Was assembling a box at one point, and had bought everything but the case, so I kept it all precariously wired on a desk top with the power supply sitting to one side. I had a Ringed Indian parrot back then that I used to let him out of his cage, and one day I came home to find him politely sunning himself on the blast from the CPU fan (if he had stuck his head in there, I'd be in jail by now). Anyway, put him back in his cage and that was that, until I got the case about 3 weeks afterwards and started sticking everything into it. That's when I found out that the parrot had crapped his guts out onto the entire motherboard and basically plastered it all in a rich lining of filth. I hadn't known and the damn thing didn't twitch.
Is it just me or does this thing not even work on Macs? I'm using IE something or the other on OSX and I get nada - newsbot.msn.com no work. Tried it on PC and it looks like MSNBC to me. What a waste of electricity.