For that, anywhere you like. We don't care about your manners. That's your mothers problem. It would be nice if you didn't wipe it on someone else though.
I wonder why a population would allow such a thing. General apathy?
I work in a hospital in the UK. We have dozens of cameras around us. We want more!
This is not apathy, we know they are there. Walk down a public corridor and you are on camera. Sit in a waiting toom, you are seen. walk to your car and you will be recorded. This is good because...
Hit someone and your picture is taken.
Have a scream at the A&E reception desk and we can prosecute.
Steal my backpack from my locker and we have you.
Yes, I dislike speed cameras but other people dislike being killed by braindead morons doing 60mph where they should be doing 30. Their right to life, safety and quality of life far outweighs my "right" to get to the shops 30 seconds faster.
I agree, it takes getting used to. They have just relaunched/expanded their site. It certainly looks much prettier and individual pages are easier to use but I just keep hoping that they don't rate form over function. I am more interested in content than eye candy. There is some pretty good content in there - and some seriously weird stuff too!
I mentioned podshow because they don't seem to be claiming to have invented this sort of thing. They are taking it further.
Myspace is not an innovator. I don't think I like them because of their owner. He hasn't done the media, here in the UK, any good. I hear people saying the same for his companies in the US. I don't want him to be an increasingly big player in the internet as well...
In case you haven't heard of it, there is http://www.podshow.com/ selling tracks at 99c a throw. There is a huge amount of stuff in there. Some of it is good but someof it does not appeal to me at all!Maybe it is bad, or maybe it's just not my taste.
Or are people here avoiding it because Adam Curry is not suitable for nerds? I like his show anyway.
How much more support does someone using a Linux PC use than someone using a Windows one? I would suggest that the difference for the average office worker, the difference is zero, or less.
Why? A word processor is that, no more and no less. A web browser should just work. Email is email, whatever you are running. And so on...
I would suggest that people need less support once things are up and running. They need exactly the same training to get started. The technicians who set up or image the PCs in the first place will likely have an easier time too. Ubuntu, for example, is a LOT easier and faster to install than XP. It doesn't need hand-holding anti-virus software it is far better at network updates and is a lot more secure from the start.
1. Have you checked all the wires are plugged in?
2. Have you tried turning it off & on again?
3. What happens when you try?
4. have you moved your computer recently?
With 1. I often get embarrased laughs as they unplug the desk fan or phone charger.
With 2. I am regularly accused of black magic as this cures perhaps 25% of non functioning equipment.
3. often works because users have calmed down and do it properly this time - whatever it is.
4. gives me a chance to "tell off" people who think the whole hospital revolves around their office work rather than the patients, doctors, therapists & nurses that I often think the place is for!
So do I but, here in the UK, the ethos does not seem to be what it used to be. The people who actually do things (doctors, nurses, cleaners, engineers etc) are not the ones setting the policy.
The people who are actually in a position to make it work - senior managers & directors are appointed by politicians who seem keen to get rid of the NHS and replace it with what people in the USA have to endure...
The illiterate will still be unable to read.
The functionally illiterate will continue to be so.
Those who have worked hard to reach a good level will find themselves back at the start.
The well educated will find themselves with the reading level of a third grader.
In 50 years, 20th century literature and even newspapers will be as easy to read as Chaucer is to 15 year olds now.
Perhaps these clever people would like to change our musical system too? Surely it would be more logical to have 10 semitones in an octave! And we could get rid of that horrible musical notation stuff and replace it with something more modern looking...
It's a good thing that it isn't static or never changing then! Words and ideas become obsolete and new ones replace them. English in all its varieties evolves by changing its content. The last thing its users need is to render everything old incomprehensible.
I think, to most of the world, the US Democrats sound like our conservatives.
We would vote for our conservatives, but not so many would vote for them if they were like yours...
Of course, we could be getting a misrepresentation from those notorious socialists in Fox news.
Does it really matter for most individuals that their website is not too memorable? That's what your bookmarks files (or favorites) are for.
You just send a link to anyone interested and put one in your email.sig. I remember about 3 phone numbers. The rest are in my phone. It seems the same to me...
Did they mean 2.56 terrabits or 2,560,000,000,000 bits? Unless you are a hard disc seller or unclear on your units, the two are very different.
Let me say that I am one of those tiresome people who think that there are 1,024 bits in a kilobit, 1,024 kilobits in a megabit and so on. KiB and its relatives are just an invention dsigned to confuse people and they serve no real purpose.
2,560,000,000,000 bits is about 2.32 terrabits and 2.56 terrabits is 2,814,749,767,107 bits. The two are not the same.
It's a bit like saying my cars top speed is 140 MPH or 287 KPH because car manufacturers have decided to redefine the kilometre. You can't. 1 Mile = 1.609 Km so my car does 225KM/hr.
You are not going to get much bigger an audience. Aside from the USA and a very small group, the whole world plays this game and they call it football, not soccer.
Perhaps not everyone is enthusiastic - but that still leaves you a few billion who are. It is a global link from S America, Australia, Middle East, Europe and everywhere else. The World Cup is not named after some forgotten newspaper. It concerns the whole world - except, perhaps the USA.
They were not taking pictures of his Daughter. They had sent some creep fron the Netherlands to the UK to follow her. FFS she is 16! What would you think of someone who follows a girl (with well off parents) to school and then puts in the paper details of her daily route etc?
Pictures were apparently stolen off the Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamc1999/sets/ where you can get pictures of his family, friends, plane, car and even the table he does his podcasts on. It's his family photo album.
Anywhere that lets passwords run for 3 months does not really consider security a high priority.
28 days, 8 character minimum and 2 non alpha keys is a minimum. Any weaker than that and the sales dept must be in control of security. If not them some other technical illiterates.
Pounds, miles, hogsheads etc are not "English" units. Please call them by their correct name "Imperial Units". This is not a joke name, it is what I was taught to call them when I was a child.
I went to an English "Public School" and am now over 40. I only know my weight in kilogrammes. We went metric a long time ago!
Not neccesarily English. British certainly, but quite possibly Scottish with that hat on. Many English police wear those pointy things unless they are in cars.
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That many wires running together like that are bound to have a few EM fields somewhere.
Find out who I am
You are the one in handcuffs. Assault someone here and that would happen.
it helps against "normal people" who have a more or less stable life
If the police release you without prosecuting. The Health Service will do a private prosecution. Your family life may not be so normal then
If someone wanted by the police comes in, does not cause a fuss and gives false details, how would we know?
For that, anywhere you like. We don't care about your manners. That's your mothers problem. It would be nice if you didn't wipe it on someone else though.
I wonder why a population would allow such a thing. General apathy?
I work in a hospital in the UK. We have dozens of cameras around us. We want more!
This is not apathy, we know they are there. Walk down a public corridor and you are on camera. Sit in a waiting toom, you are seen. walk to your car and you will be recorded. This is good because...
Hit someone and your picture is taken.
Have a scream at the A&E reception desk and we can prosecute.
Steal my backpack from my locker and we have you.
Yes, I dislike speed cameras but other people dislike being killed by braindead morons doing 60mph where they should be doing 30. Their right to life, safety and quality of life far outweighs my "right" to get to the shops 30 seconds faster.
I agree, it takes getting used to. They have just relaunched/expanded their site. It certainly looks much prettier and individual pages are easier to use but I just keep hoping that they don't rate form over function. I am more interested in content than eye candy. There is some pretty good content in there - and some seriously weird stuff too!
I mentioned podshow because they don't seem to be claiming to have invented this sort of thing. They are taking it further.
Myspace is not an innovator. I don't think I like them because of their owner. He hasn't done the media, here in the UK, any good. I hear people saying the same for his companies in the US. I don't want him to be an increasingly big player in the internet as well...
In case you haven't heard of it, there is http://www.podshow.com/ selling tracks at 99c a throw. There is a huge amount of stuff in there. Some of it is good but someof it does not appeal to me at all!Maybe it is bad, or maybe it's just not my taste.
Or are people here avoiding it because Adam Curry is not suitable for nerds? I like his show anyway.
How much more support does someone using a Linux PC use than someone using a Windows one? I would suggest that the difference for the average office worker, the difference is zero, or less.
Why? A word processor is that, no more and no less. A web browser should just work. Email is email, whatever you are running. And so on...
I would suggest that people need less support once things are up and running. They need exactly the same training to get started. The technicians who set up or image the PCs in the first place will likely have an easier time too. Ubuntu, for example, is a LOT easier and faster to install than XP. It doesn't need hand-holding anti-virus software it is far better at network updates and is a lot more secure from the start.
But many/most(?) people here knew this anyway.2. Have you tried turning it off & on again?
3. What happens when you try?
4. have you moved your computer recently?
With 1. I often get embarrased laughs as they unplug the desk fan or phone charger.
With 2. I am regularly accused of black magic as this cures perhaps 25% of non functioning equipment.
3. often works because users have calmed down and do it properly this time - whatever it is.
4. gives me a chance to "tell off" people who think the whole hospital revolves around their office work rather than the patients, doctors, therapists & nurses that I often think the place is for!
with Yahoo mail you have to pay
Incorrect. I get POP3 for free. All you have to do is let them send you an occasional advert. Do you have a mail filter?
Hence, I work in healthcare
So do I but, here in the UK, the ethos does not seem to be what it used to be. The people who actually do things (doctors, nurses, cleaners, engineers etc) are not the ones setting the policy.
The people who are actually in a position to make it work - senior managers & directors are appointed by politicians who seem keen to get rid of the NHS and replace it with what people in the USA have to endure...
There is no benefit to a change like this.
The illiterate will still be unable to read.The functionally illiterate will continue to be so.
Those who have worked hard to reach a good level will find themselves back at the start.
The well educated will find themselves with the reading level of a third grader.
In 50 years, 20th century literature and even newspapers will be as easy to read as Chaucer is to 15 year olds now.
Perhaps these clever people would like to change our musical system too? Surely it would be more logical to have 10 semitones in an octave! And we could get rid of that horrible musical notation stuff and replace it with something more modern looking...
a static and never-changing lexicon
It's a good thing that it isn't static or never changing then! Words and ideas become obsolete and new ones replace them. English in all its varieties evolves by changing its content. The last thing its users need is to render everything old incomprehensible.
Is parthogenesis inbreeding?
"Deconstruction" - is a PHB word and as such has no place with anyone with an IQ above room temperature.
Construction is a erudite word meaning "building". You cannot 'de-build'. If you mean dismantle or demolish, say so.
Apart from use in philosophy etc, this word is not valid.
I am sure I came accross this in a history book about technology that the Germans had developed in the closing part of WWII.
I think, to most of the world, the US Democrats sound like our conservatives.
We would vote for our conservatives, but not so many would vote for them if they were like yours...
Of course, we could be getting a misrepresentation from those notorious socialists in Fox news.
Republicans would be the far right
I think much of Europe sees the Republicans as even further right than that..
Does it really matter for most individuals that their website is not too memorable? That's what your bookmarks files (or favorites) are for.
You just send a link to anyone interested and put one in your email .sig. I remember about 3 phone numbers. The rest are in my phone. It seems the same to me...
Did they mean 2.56 terrabits or 2,560,000,000,000 bits? Unless you are a hard disc seller or unclear on your units, the two are very different.
Let me say that I am one of those tiresome people who think that there are 1,024 bits in a kilobit, 1,024 kilobits in a megabit and so on. KiB and its relatives are just an invention dsigned to confuse people and they serve no real purpose.2,560,000,000,000 bits is about 2.32 terrabits and 2.56 terrabits is 2,814,749,767,107 bits. The two are not the same.
It's a bit like saying my cars top speed is 140 MPH or 287 KPH because car manufacturers have decided to redefine the kilometre. You can't. 1 Mile = 1.609 Km so my car does 225KM/hr.
Fellow geeks and pedants, let us get this right!
End pointless rant...
You are not going to get much bigger an audience. Aside from the USA and a very small group, the whole world plays this game and they call it football, not soccer.
Perhaps not everyone is enthusiastic - but that still leaves you a few billion who are. It is a global link from S America, Australia, Middle East, Europe and everywhere else. The World Cup is not named after some forgotten newspaper. It concerns the whole world - except, perhaps the USA.
They were not taking pictures of his Daughter. They had sent some creep fron the Netherlands to the UK to follow her. FFS she is 16! What would you think of someone who follows a girl (with well off parents) to school and then puts in the paper details of her daily route etc?
Pictures were apparently stolen off the Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamc1999/sets/ where you can get pictures of his family, friends, plane, car and even the table he does his podcasts on. It's his family photo album.
Anywhere that lets passwords run for 3 months does not really consider security a high priority.
28 days, 8 character minimum and 2 non alpha keys is a minimum. Any weaker than that and the sales dept must be in control of security. If not them some other technical illiterates.
3 feet in a yard
22 yards in a chain
8 chains in a furlong
10 furlongs in a mile
or 63360 inches in a mile
1,000 millimetres in a metre
1,000 metres in a kilometre
Which sounds more consistent? - assuming I got the first section right anyway...
Pounds, miles, hogsheads etc are not "English" units. Please call them by their correct name "Imperial Units". This is not a joke name, it is what I was taught to call them when I was a child.
I went to an English "Public School" and am now over 40. I only know my weight in kilogrammes. We went metric a long time ago!
slim English Bobby
Not neccesarily English. British certainly, but quite possibly Scottish with that hat on. Many English police wear those pointy things unless they are in cars.