As far as I'm concerned, no one should be using their phone whilst driving (unless they're calling emergency services). Being in control of a car demands your full attention, if a call is that important, pull over and stop.
Buy Buffalo. I have this router. It came with DD-WRT preinstalled, so it was a cinch to install Tomato over that. It's been solid as a rock, and, due to its excellent traffic shaping, I can barely tell when a torrent is downloading, when before, other traffic would slow to a crawl during peak hours.
Interestingly, the new Computing AS Level curriculum seems a lot more rigourous. Less ICTish database/word processing stuff and instead boolean algebra, two's complement etc.
I wouldn't disagree that science needs to be taught well to those who want, but for people who don't want to continue with science, I think that education about scientific issues and critical reading are a good alternative. The problem with todays curriculum is the idea that everyone needs to be excelling at maths, english and science, when many are not cut out for it, not interested in it, and are put off learning for life by it.
The flip side though is that kids who find science boring might come out better informed about scientific issues (like nuclear power) and how to examine science related news stories critically when they would have got nothing out of the old syllabus. The hysteria over the MMR jab is just one example of general ignorance (especially in the media) about science, and the people who pushed that story would have gone to school in the 'good old days' of 'proper' science education.
I agree that kids who actually want to do science should be able to do a course with more rigourous intellectual content, but equally, it seems stupid that those who would drop science at A level anyway should get nothing out of three years of GCSE course.
This seems such a trivial question as to be laughable. In my sixth form computing course (high school level) we were taught not to use integers for things like phone numbers. Anyone who's spent five minutes with a database would know this.
Apple do not need a mini tower. It's something a lot of people want, but firstly, it dilutes the product line, and secondly, it would cannibalise their own sales of other products. I would personally love a cheaper tower from Apple, but I don't confuse my own personal desire for one with a need for Apple to build one.
It's true that often Apple will start with an open source solution, but they will extend it, make sure it works flawlessly on their hardware and build a decent UI for it.
The Democrats have had the slimmest of slim majorities for the past two years, and besides, the current economic crisis has been years in the making, and caused by deregulation by both parties And if you really think the Community Redevelopment Act is the cause of the crisis, you are deluded. The act simply forces banks to apply their criteria for giving mortgages equally to any prospective borrower.
With regard to Obama's purported support of conscription, I can't actually find any reputable news sources which gives that quote, and even if he did support the draft, he would probably be opposed by the Democratic congress, making its return unlikely. His support of community service basically amounts to community service to get a high school diploma, and to get a refundable tax credit for higher education. You could call the community service for high school diplomas forced, but it would be forced in much the same way that you must complete a maths course to get a diploma.
Are you so stupid that you think 0 is a capital o, or is it some kind of pathetic joke? And why do you think that Democrats cause downturns, we seem to be in one now, with a Republican president for the past eight years, and most of the past two decades, we've had a Republican senate (Although to be honest I think the causes of the current downturn were stupidity on the part of both parties). And weirdest of all, what leads you to believe Obama will institute conscription?
Obviously the chances of it hitting anything are low, but say it actually hits something of value: a house, a car, a person... Is anyone liable for it?
Why on Earth would I want to spend hours with my arms extended to use a touchscreen? Five minutes would be painful enough. Besides that, there's the issue of fingerprints all over the screen. Touchscreens might have application on mobile devices, and kiosk style computers, but I don't see them replacing displays in mainstream use anytime soon.
That's rubbish. Although in Britain we use debit cards and direct debits more, checks are commonly used for transferring money between individuals, when cash is inconvenient.
Obama rose to prominence through the Chicago Machine, a system so notoriously dirty it's a cliche. Where is the Palin-like digging into that?
You're using the corruption argument? Obama has zero corruption scandals in his political career. Whereas Palin has been surrounded by scandal from day one. There is no need to go into the details, everyone by now has heard of her support for the bridge to nowhere, and her firing of Walt Monegan.
Obama wears this community organizer thing on his sleeve as if it really means something other than partisan rabble-rouser. WTF did he accomplish?
From Wikipedia: '...accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens'. But I suppose as a liberation you frown on anyone helping people less fortunate than themselves.
What were and are his ties to ACORN, the wildly partisan and corrupt get-out-the-dead-vote organization?
His only tie to ACORN is that he once represented them in a case against the governor of Illinois, to demand the enforcement of a federal law. Furthermore, ACORN is not the organisation the right wing make it out to be, it encourages voter registration, and in its 40 year history has had only a few issues with made up registration data being submitted. Furthermore, McCain himself has in the past supported ACORN.
What about his ties to William Ayers, in whose living room he essentially launched his political career. The Ayers who tried to blow up the Pentagon and only didn't get life in prison due to a botched investigation that got evidence thrown out. Rather than deny it, Ayers said on 9/11 his only regret was "not doing more."
Pathetic. Ayers once hosted an event in his house in support of Obama, and they served on an education reform board together. Your point here seems to be that Ayers did bad things, which I will not dispute, however, it has little relevance to Obama.
Tony Rezko, slumlord, Obama buddy, and general scumbag. Where is the story investigating their ties?
They live in the same neighbourhood, Obama once did a small amount of work for his company. Those are the only ties.
Reverend Wright. Where is the penetrating investigation as to why Obama had his children going to this nutty racist's church. The guy he called his "spiritual mentor" who called 9/11 "the chickens coming home to roost." Already covered? Not quite. Obama gives one speech lecturing us on race, and the media nods in approval and drops it. Meanwhile, 25 years later we are still hearing about the "Keating Five" about McCain, something McCain has long since explained away as non-criminal error in judgment. That's fair?
Are you actually comparing Obama being associated with a man who said some things you disagree with, and McCain actually breaking the law? There is a dichotomy there. Wright's chickens coming home to roost comment seems pretty insightful to me, given America's constant meddling in middle eastern affairs.
Obama's advocacy for the CRA in pressuring and suing banks to make bad home loans. Relevant?
The CRA made discriminating against minorities by banks illegal. This is bad how?
Obama's "I sent a letter" nonsense about the mortgage mess, while opposing McCain's reform bill in 2005. Sent a letter? My grandma could have done that. Where's the media scrutiny?
Nothing either candidate did in 2005 could have averted the mortgage crisis. Deregulation in the 80s and 90s is the root of the problem.
Obama's admitted drug use, likely a felony. Apparently off-limits, unlike Bush's supposed DUI two weeks before the election.
Teenagers use drugs. Get over it. Obama's alleged drug use would have had no victims. DUI however, recklessly endangers yourself and those around you. A far more serious matter in my mind.
Startup Monitor is a pretty old program, but it works great on Windows XP, the developer says he has not tested on Vista. It prompts for every change to startup, it's great for blocking programs which try to add themselves every time they run.
At my college, Pascal (in Delphi) is used to teach programming for the A-level computing course. Although Delphi can be a nightmare to work with, Pascal several advantages for new programmers: '=' tests for equality, and ':=' is the assignment operator. This completely avoids any confusion between the two.
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As far as I'm concerned, no one should be using their phone whilst driving (unless they're calling emergency services). Being in control of a car demands your full attention, if a call is that important, pull over and stop.
Buy Buffalo. I have this router. It came with DD-WRT preinstalled, so it was a cinch to install Tomato over that. It's been solid as a rock, and, due to its excellent traffic shaping, I can barely tell when a torrent is downloading, when before, other traffic would slow to a crawl during peak hours.
Interestingly, the new Computing AS Level curriculum seems a lot more rigourous. Less ICTish database/word processing stuff and instead boolean algebra, two's complement etc.
I wouldn't disagree that science needs to be taught well to those who want, but for people who don't want to continue with science, I think that education about scientific issues and critical reading are a good alternative. The problem with todays curriculum is the idea that everyone needs to be excelling at maths, english and science, when many are not cut out for it, not interested in it, and are put off learning for life by it.
The flip side though is that kids who find science boring might come out better informed about scientific issues (like nuclear power) and how to examine science related news stories critically when they would have got nothing out of the old syllabus. The hysteria over the MMR jab is just one example of general ignorance (especially in the media) about science, and the people who pushed that story would have gone to school in the 'good old days' of 'proper' science education.
I agree that kids who actually want to do science should be able to do a course with more rigourous intellectual content, but equally, it seems stupid that those who would drop science at A level anyway should get nothing out of three years of GCSE course.
This will make tech support a lot more fun.
This seems such a trivial question as to be laughable. In my sixth form computing course (high school level) we were taught not to use integers for things like phone numbers. Anyone who's spent five minutes with a database would know this.
Actually, we don't have zip codes, we have post codes. What does the 'zip' in zip code mean anyway?
Apple do not need a mini tower. It's something a lot of people want, but firstly, it dilutes the product line, and secondly, it would cannibalise their own sales of other products. I would personally love a cheaper tower from Apple, but I don't confuse my own personal desire for one with a need for Apple to build one.
It's true that often Apple will start with an open source solution, but they will extend it, make sure it works flawlessly on their hardware and build a decent UI for it.
The Democrats have had the slimmest of slim majorities for the past two years, and besides, the current economic crisis has been years in the making, and caused by deregulation by both parties And if you really think the Community Redevelopment Act is the cause of the crisis, you are deluded. The act simply forces banks to apply their criteria for giving mortgages equally to any prospective borrower.
With regard to Obama's purported support of conscription, I can't actually find any reputable news sources which gives that quote, and even if he did support the draft, he would probably be opposed by the Democratic congress, making its return unlikely. His support of community service basically amounts to community service to get a high school diploma, and to get a refundable tax credit for higher education. You could call the community service for high school diplomas forced, but it would be forced in much the same way that you must complete a maths course to get a diploma.
Are you so stupid that you think 0 is a capital o, or is it some kind of pathetic joke? And why do you think that Democrats cause downturns, we seem to be in one now, with a Republican president for the past eight years, and most of the past two decades, we've had a Republican senate (Although to be honest I think the causes of the current downturn were stupidity on the part of both parties). And weirdest of all, what leads you to believe Obama will institute conscription?
Obviously the chances of it hitting anything are low, but say it actually hits something of value: a house, a car, a person... Is anyone liable for it?
Why on Earth would I want to spend hours with my arms extended to use a touchscreen? Five minutes would be painful enough. Besides that, there's the issue of fingerprints all over the screen. Touchscreens might have application on mobile devices, and kiosk style computers, but I don't see them replacing displays in mainstream use anytime soon.
All this reading American is damaging my brain! Colour, Aluminium, Centre, Grey, Oestrogen.
That's rubbish. Although in Britain we use debit cards and direct debits more, checks are commonly used for transferring money between individuals, when cash is inconvenient.
There was a meme a while back, where people would post a photo of everything in their pockets (or handbag).
When I installed Leopard on my Mac, if performence didn't improve, it certainly stayed the same.
Obama rose to prominence through the Chicago Machine, a system so notoriously dirty it's a cliche. Where is the Palin-like digging into that?
You're using the corruption argument? Obama has zero corruption scandals in his political career. Whereas Palin has been surrounded by scandal from day one. There is no need to go into the details, everyone by now has heard of her support for the bridge to nowhere, and her firing of Walt Monegan.
Obama wears this community organizer thing on his sleeve as if it really means something other than partisan rabble-rouser. WTF did he accomplish?
From Wikipedia: '...accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens'. But I suppose as a liberation you frown on anyone helping people less fortunate than themselves.
What were and are his ties to ACORN, the wildly partisan and corrupt get-out-the-dead-vote organization?
His only tie to ACORN is that he once represented them in a case against the governor of Illinois, to demand the enforcement of a federal law. Furthermore, ACORN is not the organisation the right wing make it out to be, it encourages voter registration, and in its 40 year history has had only a few issues with made up registration data being submitted. Furthermore, McCain himself has in the past supported ACORN.
What about his ties to William Ayers, in whose living room he essentially launched his political career. The Ayers who tried to blow up the Pentagon and only didn't get life in prison due to a botched investigation that got evidence thrown out. Rather than deny it, Ayers said on 9/11 his only regret was "not doing more."
Pathetic. Ayers once hosted an event in his house in support of Obama, and they served on an education reform board together. Your point here seems to be that Ayers did bad things, which I will not dispute, however, it has little relevance to Obama.
Tony Rezko, slumlord, Obama buddy, and general scumbag. Where is the story investigating their ties?
They live in the same neighbourhood, Obama once did a small amount of work for his company. Those are the only ties.
Reverend Wright. Where is the penetrating investigation as to why Obama had his children going to this nutty racist's church. The guy he called his "spiritual mentor" who called 9/11 "the chickens coming home to roost." Already covered? Not quite. Obama gives one speech lecturing us on race, and the media nods in approval and drops it. Meanwhile, 25 years later we are still hearing about the "Keating Five" about McCain, something McCain has long since explained away as non-criminal error in judgment. That's fair?
Are you actually comparing Obama being associated with a man who said some things you disagree with, and McCain actually breaking the law? There is a dichotomy there. Wright's chickens coming home to roost comment seems pretty insightful to me, given America's constant meddling in middle eastern affairs.
Obama's advocacy for the CRA in pressuring and suing banks to make bad home loans. Relevant?
The CRA made discriminating against minorities by banks illegal. This is bad how?
Obama's "I sent a letter" nonsense about the mortgage mess, while opposing McCain's reform bill in 2005. Sent a letter? My grandma could have done that. Where's the media scrutiny?
Nothing either candidate did in 2005 could have averted the mortgage crisis. Deregulation in the 80s and 90s is the root of the problem.
Obama's admitted drug use, likely a felony. Apparently off-limits, unlike Bush's supposed DUI two weeks before the election.
Teenagers use drugs. Get over it. Obama's alleged drug use would have had no victims. DUI however, recklessly endangers yourself and those around you. A far more serious matter in my mind.
Exposure to Fox News can be hazardous to your intelligence.
Startup Monitor is a pretty old program, but it works great on Windows XP, the developer says he has not tested on Vista. It prompts for every change to startup, it's great for blocking programs which try to add themselves every time they run.
At my college, Pascal (in Delphi) is used to teach programming for the A-level computing course. Although Delphi can be a nightmare to work with, Pascal several advantages for new programmers: '=' tests for equality, and ':=' is the assignment operator. This completely avoids any confusion between the two.
Have you tried burying the cables?
At least iWork uses zip compressed XML. Would be great if they'd implement editing of ODF though.
First insightful comment re Top Gear I've ever seen on Slashdot.