Hang on - you're suggesting that the submitter launch his own satellites? Are you trying to be funny (but not entirely succeeding) or has Mr Brain not had his first coffee today?
(and this is informative how exactly? - it's worse than "I wouldn't start from here" when giving directions)
This article does not cite any references or sources.
Shock, horror - some things are more expensive in some locales and cheaper in others. If you don't like it, put down the Daily Mail, stop whinging, and move.
There are significant differences in prices and wages across the UK (and of course across the US and other countries as well). There are no inverse price restrictions ensuring that "iTunes Store songs" (there's a staple, obviously...) are priced as they are in the UK - they're priced in accordance with what the market will bear. If you think something is too expensive, don't buy it.
You seem to be assuming that the badge on the front of the car matches where it was made. If it was a Honda Civic in the UK, it'd probably be from Swindon. I thought that US Civics were US-built.
Also, whether people will buy X rather than Y rather depends on X being any good. Although Chrysler used to sell the Neon over here (Europe) it didn't exactly set the world on fire, and GM don't try importing many US cars (or indeed any? UK Cadillacs are Saab-built I think). GM use the Chevrolet badge in Europe on the cars formerly known as Daewoos.
A collapsing exchange rate from the 60s to the 80s didn't save the UK car industry, it just prolonged the inevitable while they kept making cars that no-one actually wanted to buy. What comprises the mass-market UK car industry now is a series of largely successful plants built on green-field sites from the 80s on by the likes of Honda, Toyota and Nissan. There are a couple of exceptions - BMW seem to be doing OK with the former Morris plant at Cowley and Ford or whoever-owns-Jaguar-now with the former Ford plant in Liverpool. That quality from the last of these was so bad that early 90s Escorts from there couldn't be exported.
Funnily enough, so's San Jose airport just down the road and San Francisco not far up the road. Are you suggesting that those are moved to rural Nevada or something?
Anyway, shouldn't Google have got themselves an airship if they're going to operate from there? There's convenient parking on-site...
Fusion power, planetary settlements and the like were all "about 50 years away" then. The only "new" bits are terrorism being an issue (it only is now because we haven't had a real war for a while) and perhaps the public / private split.
The big question not asked? Whose flag flies beside those space elevators in the Pacific...
If "their favourite news site" requires jumping through hoops to pretend to be Internet Explorer on Windows before showing anything, the Linux answers above probably aren't going to be helpful. Although there really isn't much out there that isn't accessible from other platforms*, it's worth checking people's expectations first.
The last time I did this for someone (this was setting up a PC for one 80-year-old rather than a roomful of people though) Windows was the way to go because other required applications only ran on Windows, but we went with Firefox as a web browser because it was a bit clearer to use than IE6 - it has a separate search box, which IE6 didn't, for example. IE7 might be a consideration now for people who aren't familiar with the Windows UI.
Issues were: o Text size of course (which you've already mentioned).
o Double-clicking versus Single-clicking - if people do need to go outside the browser it might be worth setting whichever OS it is to "single click to open an item" so that there's no single / double click confusion.
o Mouse Control tricky for people unfamiliar with it.
Another thought - maybe something like one of Nokia's Internet Tablets? (http://europe.nokia.com/A4145104). I can't vouch for how old-person-friendly they are, but the old ones (770s) are now very cheap - around 80 quid in the UK
Thank you for proving my point: there is no English parliamentary system
Sort of...
It's true that there aren't a bunch of people elected only by people in England (i.e. an English parliament). But there are people (actually from all of the UK) voting on matters that don't apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, since they've been devolved to the local executive.
I'm sorry to have to correct you, but it pained me to read those in an otherwise-intelligent post. Unfortunately, that's exactly the sort of thing that makes the difference between a scientific report being readable or not. It's also exactly the sort of thing that you can't test for with "multiple guess" questions.
If I was the CPS I would certainly argue that both (a) and (b) apply in this case (this isn't the first time that an example like this has come up). It'd be an interesting argument in court though, if someone had enough money to fight it.
Now whether the law is sensible or is auditioning for A Midsummer Night's Dream here is another thing entirely. Clearly also the Met must have cleared up all other crime in London as well first...
The Wright Brothers were successful because they DIDN'T just copy from nature and tested their designs to see what worked and what didn't with the materials that they had to hand - they didn't have the most money but they were the best engineers of the bunch, and their plane flew first because of it.
I (as a US citizen) would be willing to pay the British TV-Tax if I could access an unencumbered SD/HD version of the shows they make No worries, just buy a beer for the next licence-payer that you meet!
The whole blocking ports garbage just doesn't work in the real world Traffic shaping works rather well for the ISPs, unfortunately. You can pick any port you like, and unless you pick a port identified with "priority" traffic and whatever you send to/from that port is identifiable via packet inspection as "priority" traffic it will get put in the slow lane.
Doing anything based on IP address ("go after their class b/c block") isn't going to be straightforward with p2p, either.
"Sources that incorrectly date Crowther's original to 1972 or 1974, or that identify it as a cartographic data file with no game or fantasy elements, are sourced thinly if at all. The new evidence establishes that Crowther wrote the game during the 1975-76 academic year and probably abandoned it in early 1976. "
I'm sure that I can remember examples of those interactive books (including self-written ones) at primary school, which would date some of them to pre-1975.
It's probably a lot more complicated than simple cause and effect (although the real cave was there first of course!) - a spirit of adventure (in the most general terms) at the end of the sixties and early seventies, the huge success or LOTR, and so on.
Also, while the recorded part made up the "Shuttle" bit, James Oberg didn't exactly come over clearly when asked the direct question "well what is the story then?".
Perhaps if NASA had more understanding of how the news media would react to a report like this we wouldn't have this "story"?
I've got one* - it's not badged as a Sharp, but as a "Microwriter AgendA". I'm not sure who made it, but wasn't the Sharp Agenda a different cheap-as-chips PDA that didn't really interface with anything?
The two big things going for it were ridiculously fast text entry via the Microwriter keys and the way that absolutely any text entered was indexed.
The biggest problems were the screen (as you can see in the picture in the link) and the size and weight of it - much heavier than a modern PDA. Also, having the Microwriter keys on the front wasn't ideal (given that humans have opposable thumbs).
*no longer in use of course - it lost out to a Handspring 8 or so years ago which in turn got replaced by a work-issued Blackberry. Still, not bad for 20 quid.
However, as it's a story about a bunch of foreigners trying to get to the UK, it's standard Daily Mail fare, really. These ducks are different to us - they're not even the same species!
No, you've got to allow for the odds of someone being bothered to mention whether their replacement(s) worked or not when they came back. If a unit comes back and works, you don't mention it. If 10 come back and don't, you do.
That and he's getting refurbs sent back (which every man and his dog has already mentioned).
Just a thought - it would be useful to be able to have two different comment view thresholds. One would be the current one, which works as it does now, another would be for use when you have moderator points (so that it could be set to a lower value.
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Hang on - you're suggesting that the submitter launch his own satellites? Are you trying to be funny (but not entirely succeeding) or has Mr Brain not had his first coffee today?
(and this is informative how exactly? - it's worse than "I wouldn't start from here" when giving directions)
At the very top of the Wikipedia link:
This article does not cite any references or sources.
Shock, horror - some things are more expensive in some locales and cheaper in others. If you don't like it, put down the Daily Mail, stop whinging, and move.
There are significant differences in prices and wages across the UK (and of course across the US and other countries as well). There are no inverse price restrictions ensuring that "iTunes Store songs" (there's a staple, obviously...) are priced as they are in the UK - they're priced in accordance with what the market will bear. If you think something is too expensive, don't buy it.
You seem to be assuming that the badge on the front of the car matches where it was made. If it was a Honda Civic in the UK, it'd probably be from Swindon. I thought that US Civics were US-built.
Also, whether people will buy X rather than Y rather depends on X being any good. Although Chrysler used to sell the Neon over here (Europe) it didn't exactly set the world on fire, and GM don't try importing many US cars (or indeed any? UK Cadillacs are Saab-built I think). GM use the Chevrolet badge in Europe on the cars formerly known as Daewoos.
A collapsing exchange rate from the 60s to the 80s didn't save the UK car industry, it just prolonged the inevitable while they kept making cars that no-one actually wanted to buy. What comprises the mass-market UK car industry now is a series of largely successful plants built on green-field sites from the 80s on by the likes of Honda, Toyota and Nissan. There are a couple of exceptions - BMW seem to be doing OK with the former Morris plant at Cowley and Ford or whoever-owns-Jaguar-now with the former Ford plant in Liverpool. That quality from the last of these was so bad that early 90s Escorts from there couldn't be exported.
Funnily enough, so's San Jose airport just down the road and San Francisco not far up the road. Are you suggesting that those are moved to rural Nevada or something?
Anyway, shouldn't Google have got themselves an airship if they're going to operate from there? There's convenient parking on-site...
http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder/
Replace iTunes with a shell script...
Fusion power, planetary settlements and the like were all "about 50 years away" then. The only "new" bits are terrorism being an issue (it only is now because we haven't had a real war for a while) and perhaps the public / private split.
The big question not asked? Whose flag flies beside those space elevators in the Pacific...
If "their favourite news site" requires jumping through hoops to pretend to be Internet Explorer on Windows before showing anything, the Linux answers above probably aren't going to be helpful. Although there really isn't much out there that isn't accessible from other platforms*, it's worth checking people's expectations first.
The last time I did this for someone (this was setting up a PC for one 80-year-old rather than a roomful of people though) Windows was the way to go because other required applications only ran on Windows, but we went with Firefox as a web browser because it was a bit clearer to use than IE6 - it has a separate search box, which IE6 didn't, for example. IE7 might be a consideration now for people who aren't familiar with the Windows UI.
Issues were:
o Text size of course (which you've already mentioned).
o Double-clicking versus Single-clicking - if people do need to go outside the browser it might be worth setting whichever OS it is to "single click to open an item" so that there's no single / double click confusion.
o Mouse Control tricky for people unfamiliar with it.
Another thought - maybe something like one of Nokia's Internet Tablets? (http://europe.nokia.com/A4145104). I can't vouch for how old-person-friendly they are, but the old ones (770s) are now very cheap - around 80 quid in the UK
Thank you for proving my point: there is no English parliamentary system
Sort of...It's true that there aren't a bunch of people elected only by people in England (i.e. an English parliament). But there are people (actually from all of the UK) voting on matters that don't apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, since they've been devolved to the local executive.
Obligatory lazy Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lothian_questio
Otherwise, the GP got it spot on.
We WERE playing Buzzword Bingo, weren't we? I thought that "Anti-Tivoization" was never going to come up.
If I was the CPS I would certainly argue that both (a) and (b) apply in this case (this isn't the first time that an example like this has come up). It'd be an interesting argument in court though, if someone had enough money to fight it.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/ukpga_200300
Now whether the law is sensible or is auditioning for A Midsummer Night's Dream here is another thing entirely. Clearly also the Met must have cleared up all other crime in London as well first...
The Wright Brothers were successful because they DIDN'T just copy from nature and tested their designs to see what worked and what didn't with the materials that they had to hand - they didn't have the most money but they were the best engineers of the bunch, and their plane flew first because of it.
Doing anything based on IP address ("go after their class b/c block") isn't going to be straightforward with p2p, either.
It's almost as good as taping it... on tapes that self-destruct after a week.
Sure about that? From the Usenet post:
"Sources that incorrectly date
Crowther's original to 1972 or 1974, or that identify it as a
cartographic data file with no game or fantasy elements, are sourced
thinly if at all. The new evidence establishes that Crowther wrote the
game during the 1975-76 academic year and probably abandoned it in
early 1976. "
I'm sure that I can remember examples of those interactive books (including self-written ones) at primary school, which would date some of them to pre-1975.
It's probably a lot more complicated than simple cause and effect (although the real cave was there first of course!) - a spirit of adventure (in the most general terms) at the end of the sixties and early seventies, the huge success or LOTR, and so on.
According to Amazon, "Product Dimensions: 2.8 pounds". No wonder it's called "The Cadillac of trackballs" there.
(Logitech TrackMan Wheel here, FWIW)
It's from Channel 4 News, made by ITN.
Also, while the recorded part made up the "Shuttle" bit, James Oberg didn't exactly come over clearly when asked the direct question "well what is the story then?".
Perhaps if NASA had more understanding of how the news media would react to a report like this we wouldn't have this "story"?
I've got one* - it's not badged as a Sharp, but as a "Microwriter AgendA". I'm not sure who made it, but wasn't the Sharp Agenda a different cheap-as-chips PDA that didn't really interface with anything?
The two big things going for it were ridiculously fast text entry via the Microwriter keys and the way that absolutely any text entered was indexed.
The biggest problems were the screen (as you can see in the picture in the link) and the size and weight of it - much heavier than a modern PDA. Also, having the Microwriter keys on the front wasn't ideal (given that humans have opposable thumbs).
*no longer in use of course - it lost out to a Handspring 8 or so years ago which in turn got replaced by a work-issued Blackberry. Still, not bad for 20 quid.
If it's possible to condense a whole book into three paragraphs:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shil1883/condense.html
Surely it should be possible to do better with 30 minutes of TV?
Allegedly, Paul Dacre (Daily Mail editor) is a friend of Gordon Brown (new UK Prime Minister, for those not keeping up at the back). Not sure if that has any bearing on things or not:5 307,00.html
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,,211
However, as it's a story about a bunch of foreigners trying to get to the UK, it's standard Daily Mail fare, really. These ducks are different to us - they're not even the same species!
No, you've got to allow for the odds of someone being bothered to mention whether their replacement(s) worked or not when they came back. If a unit comes back and works, you don't mention it. If 10 come back and don't, you do.
That and he's getting refurbs sent back (which every man and his dog has already mentioned).
It's an anagram of "Puerile Bypassed Ones".
Whether this is MS or the bloggers I couldn't say...
(yes, of course I cheated)
http://wordsmith.org/anagram
Just a thought - it would be useful to be able to have two different comment view thresholds. One would be the current one, which works as it does now, another would be for use when you have moderator points (so that it could be set to a lower value.