I understand what you mean, being from the UK, I used to automatically spell it occour as in colour, favour, vapour etc. and would get annoyed at my spellchecker for changeing it because I thought it was changing it to the american spelling, even though I'd set it to british english. I looked it up and found i was wrong.
Don't tar all religion with the same brush; I happen to be a hindu, I believe in evolution, there's nothing in my religion that goes against any science that I know of (even if there was I would probably come down on the side of science). This is probably because hinduism is such a flexable religion that it accomodates almost anything. However I have many christian friends who believe in evolution, they, as I, rationalise their religion as a metaphor. Take genisis for exaample, if you don't take the word 'day' literally, but take it to mean a period of time most things happen in the correct order, first light, then water, then animals, then humans. Think of religion this way:
Early man: how did light start?
god: About 5 billion years ago I gathered dust and particles of hydrogen and helium
Early man: (interupting): huh? What's a billion, and what are hydrogen and helium?
god: A billion is a big number hydrogen and helium are elements
Early man: can you show me some hydrogen and helium, the only elements i know are fire, water air and earth
god: *sigh* light happened because I just put it there, OK?
Early man: sounds good, I'll write that down.
I can't deside wheather this is funny, or just sadly too true. With the prospect of 90 days detention without charge (the equivelant of a 6 month jail sentance*) and ID cards on the horizon I fear the latter
*No, that's not a typo, just a quirk of the English legal system, people often serve only half to three quaters of their sentance behind bars, the rest is served out in the community on licence.
Either that, or I'm still young and at university, thus havn't yet earned enough; despite which I still have high return on investments I have been able too afford.
No, however in this instance, in my opinion, the investment lacks sense. Of course there are people all over the world making different investments than myself, many (probably most) getting richer than me. I hope this guy makes a ton aswell, however as things currently stand, I belive, given the choice, that I would opt for a different investment. In other words this investment would lack sense for me (especially seeing as I don't have £50,000 to invest).
Possibly, but IMO it's still a waste of money. If I had >£50,000 to invest, I wouldn't spend it on virtual land in a computer game; hence too much money and not enough sense.
Well if I had >£50,000 I know I wouldn't spend it on virtual land in a computer game; I can think of a dozen lower risk, higher return (proportionally) investments. Various stocks and share in the FTSE for a start.
I understand that, I just wish I had that kind of money to waste. Infact that could be one thing nearly all slashdotters could agree on; we would all like more money.
No, starting low and increasing price is a normal english acution, a dutch auction is where the auctioneer begins with a high asking price and continues too lower the price untill somone accepts it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction
Your country could be killing hundreds of innocents right now and no one would no[sic].
I think you'll find that most Europian countries have as good as if not better human rights records than the USA*, hell we won't even extradite murders to the USA if they're charged with the death peanalty; every western democracy apart from the USA has abolished it and considers it barbaric. We still have a free media here in the UK, and if my country was killing its civilians I would have heard about it. We have a robust democracy here, the judicary still stands up to the executive; just see how pi$$ed the government was when recent anti-terror legislation was considered unlawful (it was our equivelent of Guantanimo, just look up Bellmarsh detainees on google)
*in modern times, i live near a pub that's older than your country, so I'm sure unsavory things can be brought up from our history.
For the majority of non-technical people, http\the world wide web is the internet. See how far American (or any other) bussinees and commerce would get on the internet without it.
As matters stand today, any vicious murderer can escape the death penalty in the US; all he has to do is get to Canada or any EU country, since these countries will not extradite until the death penalty is waived. Worse, countries like France lionize American murderers such as Ira Einhorn.
Well on the flip side the US could become more civilised and abolish the death penalty. The rest of the Western world's democracies abolished it for a reason. It was done here in the UK against public opinion, but slowly public opinion has moved against the death penalty, and since the initial vote in parliment, every time somone has tried too revive the death penalty the minority of supporters has decreased. Why Americans seem too believe the rest of the world should take lectures (like yours) on freedom and democracy from a reigeme who keeps this barbaric practice going is beyond me.
Actually, I'd say a lions share of the credit of making the internet what it is today should go to Tim Berners Lee and CERN, imagine if he had patented the hyperlink, the world wide web (all most non-techie people know of the internet) is down to him. The internet may be a US invention, but the World wide web, probably the most important part of the internet, is a Europian one, or to be precice a British one. What would you be saying now if the UK had kept control of hyperlinks?
You forget all the people who'll get given free tickets too see the new Wembley stadium before all their friends, nevermind what's going on on the pitch, they're on the 'hallowed turf' of the "iconic" national stadium. add to that all the techie people who will go, and the people (like myself) who'll go for both reasons (I didn't go to the launch of XP, but if they're launcing it on the pitch of Wembley stadium, I'd think about it). Alternatively they might be launching it to a select few in one of the corperate hospitality sweets or media boxes.
It's not, and that's why I'll probably continue using MySQL, google and Yahoo! (I live in the UK, so Cheney's not my problem). I'm used to using a MySQL\PHP\Apche development envionment, and it works. I'm not about to change over a petty dispute. However, that's not to say i won't change if there is a better development envionment out there. If there's somthing better that I can learn, pickup and go quickly I will, but only if it's better suited for the task.
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I was *trying* to be subtle. ;D
I'm a pirate living in the UK; my parrot used to say that, unfortunatly it just died
"I launched a satellite..." is a hell of a way to start a term paper!
Academic papers are meant to be written in the third person, so it would be "A satellite was launched..."
/pedantry
occur
I understand what you mean, being from the UK, I used to automatically spell it occour as in colour, favour, vapour etc. and would get annoyed at my spellchecker for changeing it because I thought it was changing it to the american spelling, even though I'd set it to british english. I looked it up and found i was wrong.
Don't tar all religion with the same brush; I happen to be a hindu, I believe in evolution, there's nothing in my religion that goes against any science that I know of (even if there was I would probably come down on the side of science). This is probably because hinduism is such a flexable religion that it accomodates almost anything. However I have many christian friends who believe in evolution, they, as I, rationalise their religion as a metaphor. Take genisis for exaample, if you don't take the word 'day' literally, but take it to mean a period of time most things happen in the correct order, first light, then water, then animals, then humans. Think of religion this way:
Early man: how did light start?
god: About 5 billion years ago I gathered dust and particles of hydrogen and helium
Early man: (interupting): huh? What's a billion, and what are hydrogen and helium?
god: A billion is a big number hydrogen and helium are elements
Early man: can you show me some hydrogen and helium, the only elements i know are fire, water air and earth
god: *sigh* light happened because I just put it there, OK?
Early man: sounds good, I'll write that down.
I'm guessing "elite experts".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
I read at -1 nested; no one is below my threshold (the slashdot collapser greasemonkey script makes this stay readable)
So would it be Seaman Seaman for this guy? ;)
I can't deside wheather this is funny, or just sadly too true. With the prospect of 90 days detention without charge (the equivelant of a 6 month jail sentance*) and ID cards on the horizon I fear the latter
*No, that's not a typo, just a quirk of the English legal system, people often serve only half to three quaters of their sentance behind bars, the rest is served out in the community on licence.
Either that, or I'm still young and at university, thus havn't yet earned enough; despite which I still have high return on investments I have been able too afford.
The TFA says he got a pay rise and a promotion out of it; he must have done somthing right.
Seeing as TFA says he got a pay rise and a promotion, I don't think they are.
No, however in this instance, in my opinion, the investment lacks sense. Of course there are people all over the world making different investments than myself, many (probably most) getting richer than me. I hope this guy makes a ton aswell, however as things currently stand, I belive, given the choice, that I would opt for a different investment. In other words this investment would lack sense for me (especially seeing as I don't have £50,000 to invest).
Possibly, but IMO it's still a waste of money. If I had >£50,000 to invest, I wouldn't spend it on virtual land in a computer game; hence too much money and not enough sense.
Well if I had >£50,000 I know I wouldn't spend it on virtual land in a computer game; I can think of a dozen lower risk, higher return (proportionally) investments. Various stocks and share in the FTSE for a start.
I understand that, I just wish I had that kind of money to waste. Infact that could be one thing nearly all slashdotters could agree on; we would all like more money.
Somone's got more money than sense. (I wish it was me ;) )
fp?
Those pressurized pens that write underwater and upside down are cool.
Whilst the Americans were developing this space pen, the Russians just used a pencil.
No, starting low and increasing price is a normal english acution, a dutch auction is where the auctioneer begins with a high asking price and continues too lower the price untill somone accepts it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction
Your country could be killing hundreds of innocents right now and no one would no[sic].
I think you'll find that most Europian countries have as good as if not better human rights records than the USA*, hell we won't even extradite murders to the USA if they're charged with the death peanalty; every western democracy apart from the USA has abolished it and considers it barbaric. We still have a free media here in the UK, and if my country was killing its civilians I would have heard about it. We have a robust democracy here, the judicary still stands up to the executive; just see how pi$$ed the government was when recent anti-terror legislation was considered unlawful (it was our equivelent of Guantanimo, just look up Bellmarsh detainees on google)
*in modern times, i live near a pub that's older than your country, so I'm sure unsavory things can be brought up from our history.
For the majority of non-technical people, http\the world wide web is the internet. See how far American (or any other) bussinees and commerce would get on the internet without it.
As matters stand today, any vicious murderer can escape the death penalty in the US; all he has to do is get to Canada or any EU country, since these countries will not extradite until the death penalty is waived. Worse, countries like France lionize American murderers such as Ira Einhorn.
Well on the flip side the US could become more civilised and abolish the death penalty. The rest of the Western world's democracies abolished it for a reason. It was done here in the UK against public opinion, but slowly public opinion has moved against the death penalty, and since the initial vote in parliment, every time somone has tried too revive the death penalty the minority of supporters has decreased. Why Americans seem too believe the rest of the world should take lectures (like yours) on freedom and democracy from a reigeme who keeps this barbaric practice going is beyond me.
Actually, I'd say a lions share of the credit of making the internet what it is today should go to Tim Berners Lee and CERN, imagine if he had patented the hyperlink, the world wide web (all most non-techie people know of the internet) is down to him. The internet may be a US invention, but the World wide web, probably the most important part of the internet, is a Europian one, or to be precice a British one. What would you be saying now if the UK had kept control of hyperlinks?
You forget all the people who'll get given free tickets too see the new Wembley stadium before all their friends, nevermind what's going on on the pitch, they're on the 'hallowed turf' of the "iconic" national stadium. add to that all the techie people who will go, and the people (like myself) who'll go for both reasons (I didn't go to the launch of XP, but if they're launcing it on the pitch of Wembley stadium, I'd think about it).
Alternatively they might be launching it to a select few in one of the corperate hospitality sweets or media boxes.
It's not, and that's why I'll probably continue using MySQL, google and Yahoo! (I live in the UK, so Cheney's not my problem). I'm used to using a MySQL\PHP\Apche development envionment, and it works. I'm not about to change over a petty dispute. However, that's not to say i won't change if there is a better development envionment out there. If there's somthing better that I can learn, pickup and go quickly I will, but only if it's better suited for the task.