There was a TV programme in the UK recently where some US 'expert' bemoaned how the internet is constantly selling us stuff and invading our privacy.
I don't know if this is some difference in language between the USA and the UK, but advertising is not selling! Advertising is trying to start the process of me thinking about buying something.
Bad, invasive and annoying browser advertising is actually a very useful guide about what not to buy.
There are several points to prison. As well as punishment, there is also rehabilitation of criminals so that they are less likely to repeat their crimes.
In violent societies, there is also the protection of the criminals from self appointed vigilantes. This is done by giving the criminals a sufficiently unpleasant time that morons feel that they don't need to do anything else.The more advanced the society, the less this is needed.
IT departments did not generally want Windows either. That would mean replacing their nice mainframes etc with uncontrolled PCs. The idea of allowing any end user physical access to even these "toy computers" was actually popular with senior management because it put power into their hands and took it away from people they didn't understand or like.
Those managers have gone on and some will have moved much further up. I have met some who still see that move to Windows as a liberation. They see any move from certain things as a move back to the Bad Old Days!
Do not blame the IT from then. It wasn't their idea. Some were for it - some weren't. The managers were seen by MS as the way in as IT departments were not cooperative. It was just a seriously good business strategy by MS to promote themselves to the people at the top, rather than to those who actually recognised them for what they were!
But they did put a computer on every desk. It is now up to us to get those computers working right...
How many machines can you reimage in a day? Even if you only do one at a time, I imagine you could do 4 or 5 in a working day. If you have an entire office full, ready connected up to the network, you just have to pop in a CD (if you even need one) start the PC and move on. A couple of dozen people could do that lot in a weekends worth of overtime.
Most of the time I spend on rolling out a new PC is delivery, connection and admin. Where's the problem here?
This device is a charging device for low power devices. Someone doesn't seem to have read the article. There are plenty of ordinary devices that can be powered by solar panels. I got a neat little one for Christmas. It charges my phone and iPod. The novelty in this device is that it is so good at running small devices that can be left alone for a long time - not that it will make your phone or flashlight into sealed devices.
We know now how much banks are international. Could some court in Iceland persuade an Icelandic subsidiary of my own bank to turn over what I "owed" following a court case?
We might not think so, but finance looks very incestuous to me.
It doesn't sound too bad from the UK either. The one problem I see is the possible application of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
How about them making sure it is not just another waf for the rich and powerful to keep the peasants quiet worldwide in case they are countersued in Iceland?
For the benefit of people in the US, let me tell them a few things about the UK Conservative party.
The UK Conservative party is so far right that it has difficulty in finding allies in other European countries.The only groups available are banned because of Godwins Law. They are, however quite able to deal with US all mainstream parties.
There is sometimes a perception that better educated and technically aware individuals do not vote for them much. I certainly don't. I don't know if that is true but it may be part of the reason for this story. They want to persuade us to forget about having a fair society so that we can have better broadband speed. I would rather have a modem!
I have known a number of people from "northern states" who seemed to have a fear of anything particularly strong tasting.
Texans, however, seem to have no such problem!
I cannot think of any type of philosophy that has not been misused in this way. They have all been used as ways of dealing with, or resisting, that control as well.
Just because some ideas are used to control people, it does not mean the ideas are bad or untrue.
In a few hundred years, how do you know that people won't look back on us and feel sorry for us being oppressed?/p?
No one was picking on Scottish banks
But what was it doing there in the first place? The reason, that I understand anyway, is that major UK organisations feel they need to have a major office in the remote south east of the UK.
People from North England often complain
That was why I said Watford - somewhere not far out of London. People beyond that are often joked about as having hard to understand accents and peculiar cultures. Coming from the North Isles, I have had people amazed that they could understand me!
There is a lot more to it than just tax money in this you know.
For example, if there needs to be a naval dockyard closed, guess where it is? The one with the more skilled but lower paid workers, or the one in England?
Further back, when motorways were becoming more common, much Scottish "motorway" was actually dual carriageway without even hard shoulders. That has taken a long time to fix.
More recently, all large companies are encouraged to get a proper headquarters in London. The protesters breaking up the Royal Bank of Scotland building were in London, weren't they?
It is not the fact that the oil was taken out of what could have been called Scotlands "part" of the north sea. It was the fact that petrol cost more. My father once told me that we paid more because it was fresh...
If we are supposed to have a "United" kingdom much longer (which I want to keep), the rich and powerful in the UK capital really ought to find out that civilisation does not end at Watford as you travel north. For example, some people in Orkney feel closer to Brussels than to London. Why? In Brussels, they know where it is.
A good idea is to avoid version 1.0 of any commercial offering. It's not a bad idea to avoid.0 versions in general.
If you have to get one, wait a month. They don't call it the Bleeding Edge of technology for nothing. I prefer it to be someone else's blood...
Easy to write for? - check
removable standard storage? - check
GSM? - if they want to sell it outside the USA - so check
touch screen? - check
replacable battery? - check
keyboard? - FAIL!
Until they get one of these (not just a picture) these things will not be of much use to people who actually have work to do. A picture of one on a touch screen might be handy for a 3 word text message but I use my blackberry for email.
I am still waiting for something. Surely someone has to want business sales rather than just people who want an iPhone lookalike at a lower price...
Like many people, I think that the USA should be worth visiting but...
I have no wish to be treated like a criminal. Even domestic UK flights are barely tolerable and it is getting worse.
I am not being driven away from your country by the scumbag terrorists. I am being kept away by all that I hear about the security tripe.
You allegedly lost the next Olympics because of it. It can't be helping your economy. Billions spent on the TSA and other useless rubbish as well as an indeterminate amount not collected from foreigners - despite the rather amusing adverts starring the Governator.
That still leaves me cars, boats and trains for the summer.
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Everyone I know gets a hearing aid if they need it. But I am not in the USA.
There was a TV programme in the UK recently where some US 'expert' bemoaned how the internet is constantly selling us stuff and invading our privacy.
I don't know if this is some difference in language between the USA and the UK, but advertising is not selling! Advertising is trying to start the process of me thinking about buying something.
Bad, invasive and annoying browser advertising is actually a very useful guide about what not to buy.
There are several points to prison. As well as punishment, there is also rehabilitation of criminals so that they are less likely to repeat their crimes.
In violent societies, there is also the protection of the criminals from self appointed vigilantes. This is done by giving the criminals a sufficiently unpleasant time that morons feel that they don't need to do anything else.The more advanced the society, the less this is needed.
IT departments did not generally want Windows either. That would mean replacing their nice mainframes etc with uncontrolled PCs. The idea of allowing any end user physical access to even these "toy computers" was actually popular with senior management because it put power into their hands and took it away from people they didn't understand or like.
Those managers have gone on and some will have moved much further up. I have met some who still see that move to Windows as a liberation. They see any move from certain things as a move back to the Bad Old Days!
Do not blame the IT from then. It wasn't their idea. Some were for it - some weren't. The managers were seen by MS as the way in as IT departments were not cooperative. It was just a seriously good business strategy by MS to promote themselves to the people at the top, rather than to those who actually recognised them for what they were!
But they did put a computer on every desk. It is now up to us to get those computers working right...
Myalgic encephalomyelitis is not the same as muscular sclerosis. MS is also a medical condition.
ME is not an operating system. It's a medical Condition.
How many machines can you reimage in a day? Even if you only do one at a time, I imagine you could do 4 or 5 in a working day. If you have an entire office full, ready connected up to the network, you just have to pop in a CD (if you even need one) start the PC and move on. A couple of dozen people could do that lot in a weekends worth of overtime.
Most of the time I spend on rolling out a new PC is delivery, connection and admin. Where's the problem here?
This device is a charging device for low power devices. Someone doesn't seem to have read the article. There are plenty of ordinary devices that can be powered by solar panels. I got a neat little one for Christmas. It charges my phone and iPod. The novelty in this device is that it is so good at running small devices that can be left alone for a long time - not that it will make your phone or flashlight into sealed devices.
We know now how much banks are international. Could some court in Iceland persuade an Icelandic subsidiary of my own bank to turn over what I "owed" following a court case?
We might not think so, but finance looks very incestuous to me.
It's my opinion, based on what I have seen on the news and heard from a political activist in my family.
It doesn't sound too bad from the UK either. The one problem I see is the possible application of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
How about them making sure it is not just another waf for the rich and powerful to keep the peasants quiet worldwide in case they are countersued in Iceland?
For the benefit of people in the US, let me tell them a few things about the UK Conservative party.
The UK Conservative party is so far right that it has difficulty in finding allies in other European countries.The only groups available are banned because of Godwins Law. They are, however quite able to deal with US all mainstream parties.
There is sometimes a perception that better educated and technically aware individuals do not vote for them much. I certainly don't. I don't know if that is true but it may be part of the reason for this story. They want to persuade us to forget about having a fair society so that we can have better broadband speed. I would rather have a modem!
I have known a number of people from "northern states" who seemed to have a fear of anything particularly strong tasting.
Texans, however, seem to have no such problem!
Education and medical care are some of the basics provided in a modern civilised society.
They are pretty similar to the state providing such things as police to catch criminals, sewers and rules for driving on the road.
used in old times to control people
I cannot think of any type of philosophy that has not been misused in this way. They have all been used as ways of dealing with, or resisting, that control as well.
Just because some ideas are used to control people, it does not mean the ideas are bad or untrue.
In a few hundred years, how do you know that people won't look back on us and feel sorry for us being oppressed?/p?
England has won libel cases English law.
No one was picking on Scottish banks
But what was it doing there in the first place? The reason, that I understand anyway, is that major UK organisations feel they need to have a major office in the remote south east of the UK.
People from North England often complain
That was why I said Watford - somewhere not far out of London. People beyond that are often joked about as having hard to understand accents and peculiar cultures. Coming from the North Isles, I have had people amazed that they could understand me!
There is a lot more to it than just tax money in this you know.
For example, if there needs to be a naval dockyard closed, guess where it is? The one with the more skilled but lower paid workers, or the one in England?
Further back, when motorways were becoming more common, much Scottish "motorway" was actually dual carriageway without even hard shoulders. That has taken a long time to fix.
More recently, all large companies are encouraged to get a proper headquarters in London. The protesters breaking up the Royal Bank of Scotland building were in London, weren't they?
It is not the fact that the oil was taken out of what could have been called Scotlands "part" of the north sea. It was the fact that petrol cost more. My father once told me that we paid more because it was fresh...
If we are supposed to have a "United" kingdom much longer (which I want to keep), the rich and powerful in the UK capital really ought to find out that civilisation does not end at Watford as you travel north. For example, some people in Orkney feel closer to Brussels than to London. Why? In Brussels, they know where it is.
Can we have a parliament representing England's interests, please?
We have had one of those for 300 years. That is why the non-English parts of the UK have kicked up such a fuss...
True but also
Faith != confidence^-1
A good idea is to avoid version 1.0 of any commercial offering. It's not a bad idea to avoid .0 versions in general.
If you have to get one, wait a month. They don't call it the Bleeding Edge of technology for nothing. I prefer it to be someone else's blood...
I live & work 600 road miles and a 2 hour boat trip from where my family comes from. That's quite a bike trip even for someone on /.
removable standard storage? - check
GSM? - if they want to sell it outside the USA - so check
touch screen? - check
replacable battery? - check
keyboard? - FAIL!
Until they get one of these (not just a picture) these things will not be of much use to people who actually have work to do. A picture of one on a touch screen might be handy for a 3 word text message but I use my blackberry for email.
I am still waiting for something. Surely someone has to want business sales rather than just people who want an iPhone lookalike at a lower price...
Like many people, I think that the USA should be worth visiting but...
I have no wish to be treated like a criminal. Even domestic UK flights are barely tolerable and it is getting worse.
I am not being driven away from your country by the scumbag terrorists. I am being kept away by all that I hear about the security tripe.
You allegedly lost the next Olympics because of it. It can't be helping your economy. Billions spent on the TSA and other useless rubbish as well as an indeterminate amount not collected from foreigners - despite the rather amusing adverts starring the Governator.
That still leaves me cars, boats and trains for the summer.