Because the world has long had the misunderstanding that PCs have an Intel CPU and run Microsoft Windows.
The only Intel CPU in my house is in a laptop. The other PCs have got various Athalons. There is a Pentium system in my shed. I think some mice live in it...
Certainly I agree that as gun crime has dropped, other types - knife clubs physical etc. The difference is, how much more random is gun violence.
When was the last time you heard of innocents killed in a drive by punching???
The law abiding will always be a source of interest to the sociopathic. Criminals are rarely trained in the use of their weapons. I would suggest that guns should not only be licenced, but the licences should only be available to those who have been trained, have no police records and have a valid reason for carrying them. Political opinions based on pholosophies created in the 17th century and codified in the 18th century are no reason at all.
Let me respond then.
Having less guns around in Canada, UK and many other countries is another point to indicate that they have more freedom than the USA!
If someone gets shot on the street in the UK, it is major news. Over a year ago, 2 girls were shot in Birmingham. It is still in the news.
How many people were shot in Birmingham Alabama last year? Are many of them still in the news?
Less Guns = less bullets = less killed.
More guns != more safety.
The last country that invaded Canada had its capital burned down. They made such a mess of the leaders residence that it has had to be whitewashed for nearly 2 centuries now.
With an example like that, the world should conclude that you people are good friends but lousy enemies!
It all depends on what you do with your phone.
Most teenagers here in the UK wouldn't consider a phone that didn't do text messages. I don't care. I would consider getting one that might replace my ageing PDA. I doubt they would.
When I was travelling on a long train journey in 2003, I used it to check train times on a website. I have not used the browser since but I like the idea of it being there.
Pictures would be interesting if it was a better camera than the one I've got.
Right now, this PC is running Firefox, SETI, radio, apache, firewall, anti-virus and email.
The AV and firewall are because my kids want MS for the games. Them aside, I get this PC to do plenty of different things. Does your PC only do 1 thing then?
It is a Yahoo UK address. Try it and see if that works for you. I don't know if Yahoo has chosen to be bound by UK/European privacy rules instead of US ones but that would be another advantage. Email is still not private though...
Yahoo gives the details for POP3/SMTP access to its servers. The catch? You have to tick a box to allow the very occasional advert from them. It doesn't seem to come from anywhere else and you can easily filter it out. No additional software required.
They are a LOT less common (per 1000 head of population etc) in the UK than they are in the USA.
You have the right to bear arms to overthrow wicked governments, but you never will.
I have the right to walk down the street more freely than you but even a bunch of Ruperts can break into parliament to protest about bad laws!
I thought BT was supposed to get better when it receives the/. effect?
Thank goodness for broadband! I hate to think what it would be like if I was on 56k... I suppose I would get a friend to get it. That's what people do to me...
The grammar checker in Word is one of its most annoying 'features'. Perhaps my grammar is poor, perhaps Word is using US grammar styles which may differ from the rest of the planet or perhaps it's cr4p.
The only useful feature I've found in it is the "double word" finder. I do not need something telling me that it does like the use of passive case or even that it considers the word "postman" liable to cause offence!
OOo hasn't got one (yet) and when it does I will be turning as much of it off as possible.
"DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER:"
I would never download the "smaller, more appropriate download" and nobody should. It doesn't matter if people have broadband or not, they should always download the patch and not something that will get your computer connected to then sit there until MS thinks they are finished.
The processor ID is set to off in all BIOS I have seen and people are not going to turn it on. A lot of people are not even going to know how. Those of us who do know how won't.
I have 2 PCs and a laptop in my house at present, does that mean I need to register 3 times to use the stuff?
The first flaw I see is that it is only 19GB at best. At the bottom, in the small print, there is that well known fraud "**1MB equals 1,000,000 bytes". That is incorrect. Whether you are running Linux or Windows (I don't have a Mac) 1 GB is 2^10 MB or 1048576.
It would be like inventing a 'metric pint' and rounding it down to the nearest hundred ml.
We have to spend a lot of time telling people to **NOT** save to local drives. If it is important or confidential, or may be in the future, this should not be saved locally unless you want to loose it or explain to an enquiry why it was found on sale in a car boot sale after a break in. This is what a network is for.
The answer to the problem in the article is quotas. *nix has them, Novell has them and even Windows has them. Our email quota works as follows
Limit 1 - email user once per day marked high importance that they are getting close.
Limit 2 - disable sending and continue with (2k) warning message.
Limit 3 - disable receiving apart from one final message saying that it would all start working again when the user clears some space
When they can't send/receive, they get a dialogue box reminding them when they try and when they can't receive, the sender gets a messge.
This does make for support calls like...
"Why does my computer tell me that the email is full up and I can't send any more?"
"Because your email is full up. You have a message explaining this to you."
"X tried to send me an email and it bounced saying that my mailbox was full up. Why?"
"Because your mailbox is full up."
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I see craters but they look like the moon though.
Pink tinge though, so could be somewhere else!
Because the world has long had the misunderstanding that PCs have an Intel CPU and run Microsoft Windows.
The only Intel CPU in my house is in a laptop. The other PCs have got various Athalons. There is a Pentium system in my shed. I think some mice live in it...
Certainly I agree that as gun crime has dropped, other types - knife clubs physical etc. The difference is, how much more random is gun violence.
When was the last time you heard of innocents killed in a drive by punching???
The law abiding will always be a source of interest to the sociopathic. Criminals are rarely trained in the use of their weapons. I would suggest that guns should not only be licenced, but the licences should only be available to those who have been trained, have no police records and have a valid reason for carrying them. Political opinions based on pholosophies created in the 17th century and codified in the 18th century are no reason at all.
Let me respond then.
Having less guns around in Canada, UK and many other countries is another point to indicate that they have more freedom than the USA!
If someone gets shot on the street in the UK, it is major news. Over a year ago, 2 girls were shot in Birmingham. It is still in the news.
How many people were shot in Birmingham Alabama last year? Are many of them still in the news?
Less Guns = less bullets = less killed.
More guns != more safety.
The last country that invaded Canada had its capital burned down. They made such a mess of the leaders residence that it has had to be whitewashed for nearly 2 centuries now.
With an example like that, the world should conclude that you people are good friends but lousy enemies!
It all depends on what you do with your phone.
Most teenagers here in the UK wouldn't consider a phone that didn't do text messages. I don't care. I would consider getting one that might replace my ageing PDA. I doubt they would.
When I was travelling on a long train journey in 2003, I used it to check train times on a website. I have not used the browser since but I like the idea of it being there.
Pictures would be interesting if it was a better camera than the one I've got.
Right now, this PC is running Firefox, SETI, radio, apache, firewall, anti-virus and email.
The AV and firewall are because my kids want MS for the games. Them aside, I get this PC to do plenty of different things. Does your PC only do 1 thing then?
It is a Yahoo UK address. Try it and see if that works for you. I don't know if Yahoo has chosen to be bound by UK/European privacy rules instead of US ones but that would be another advantage. Email is still not private though...
No. He went to a very expensive Public School called Fettes College. Have a look at their website www.fettes.com and see what you think.
He would have had to pass exams to get in there but it may have cost his Barrister father a bit of money too.
Yahoo gives the details for POP3/SMTP access to its servers. The catch? You have to tick a box to allow the very occasional advert from them. It doesn't seem to come from anywhere else and you can easily filter it out. No additional software required.
In the UK we say that our leaders are all from public schools. It's just that we have different meanings for the phrase...
I was talking about walking down the street. If someone is carrying a gun, then they are a valid target - for police and criminals.
If I am burgled, it is less likely that I will be shot than you would in the same situation.
You have the right to defend yourself.
I have the right not be shot at so often.
They are a LOT less common (per 1000 head of population etc) in the UK than they are in the USA.
You have the right to bear arms to overthrow wicked governments, but you never will.
I have the right to walk down the street more freely than you but even a bunch of Ruperts can break into parliament to protest about bad laws!
You might also want to ban such things as...
Helping the police
If you help them less they will have more job security as there is more to do.
Helping war victims
They should help themselves!
This also goes for helping any disadvantaged group.
not droppinng litter.
more job security for the low paid
Helping lil' ol' ladies accross the road
they need to get their act together and do it themselves
Any form of altruism
people should help themselves. Self reliance should be encouraged.
Somebody give me a link to a torrent...
I thought BT was supposed to get better when it receives the /. effect?
Thank goodness for broadband! I hate to think what it would be like if I was on 56k... I suppose I would get a friend to get it. That's what people do to me...
The grammar checker in Word is one of its most annoying 'features'. Perhaps my grammar is poor, perhaps Word is using US grammar styles which may differ from the rest of the planet or perhaps it's cr4p.
The only useful feature I've found in it is the "double word" finder. I do not need something telling me that it does like the use of passive case or even that it considers the word "postman" liable to cause offence!
OOo hasn't got one (yet) and when it does I will be turning as much of it off as possible.
"DO NOT CLICK DOWNLOAD IF YOU ARE UPDATING JUST ONE COMPUTER:"
I would never download the "smaller, more appropriate download" and nobody should. It doesn't matter if people have broadband or not, they should always download the patch and not something that will get your computer connected to then sit there until MS thinks they are finished.
The processor ID is set to off in all BIOS I have seen and people are not going to turn it on. A lot of people are not even going to know how. Those of us who do know how won't.
I have 2 PCs and a laptop in my house at present, does that mean I need to register 3 times to use the stuff?
I know that BOINC is able to run several different projects at once. Is there anything apart from SETI yet?
IME those who cannot do wear suits and become managers.
Those who cannot manage become consultants and wear even more expensive suits.
I meant to say 1 MB is 2^10 Bytes.
The first flaw I see is that it is only 19GB at best. At the bottom, in the small print, there is that well known fraud "**1MB equals 1,000,000 bytes". That is incorrect. Whether you are running Linux or Windows (I don't have a Mac) 1 GB is 2^10 MB or 1048576.
It would be like inventing a 'metric pint' and rounding it down to the nearest hundred ml.
We have to spend a lot of time telling people to **NOT** save to local drives. If it is important or confidential, or may be in the future, this should not be saved locally unless you want to loose it or explain to an enquiry why it was found on sale in a car boot sale after a break in. This is what a network is for.
The answer to the problem in the article is quotas. *nix has them, Novell has them and even Windows has them. Our email quota works as follows
Limit 1 - email user once per day marked high importance that they are getting close.
Limit 2 - disable sending and continue with (2k) warning message.
Limit 3 - disable receiving apart from one final message saying that it would all start working again when the user clears some space
When they can't send/receive, they get a dialogue box reminding them when they try and when they can't receive, the sender gets a messge.
This does make for support calls like...
"Why does my computer tell me that the email is full up and I can't send any more?"
"Because your email is full up. You have a message explaining this to you."
"X tried to send me an email and it bounced saying that my mailbox was full up. Why?"
"Because your mailbox is full up."