I'd rather be a human under a gunsight than a brit under a microscope.
It's much safer under a microscope, and you can criticise the person using it. Most of us tend to be fairly quiet when guns are pointed at us. Intelligent people with guns are pretty quiet when the other guy has a gun too!
Guns are undemocratic. Guess who said "Power comes from the barrel of a gun." He was not really into fair elections was he?
>> We Britons find it offensive
> No offence, but please, don't presume to speak
> for the whole of the population of Britain. WE BRITONS - apart from a few idiots then!
My employer has provided me with a Jornada. If they were to buy new Jornadas, it would need to connect up and work in the same way as the present ones.
Most 'business' users don't care what OS it is running. They just need it to connect up to their Outlook, transfer a few files and maybe play some music.
I have never got around to connecting it up to Linux but I understand I could. It would be nice to connect it to M$ at work and a grown up" OS at home though. This may be easier if they do change.
I'm biased, I work for the NHS. However I have been to various other parts of the world.
The standard of care in the UK National Health Service is extremely high. Do some comparisons with hospitalsin other developed countries. Don't compare it to ones that charge $2,500 per day. Compare it to what most of the citizens in a country have access to.
What we are very good at, in the UK, is dissatisfaction. Idiots here will look accross the atlantic and see one of your many fine hospitals and compare ours to them.
It would be far more use to compare needle exchanges in Harlem and Edinburgh, or the facilities available to someone with an annual income of $5k - who doesn't have their employer pay their medical insurance for them.
I don't want to criticise the US healthcare system. You have nice hospitals. Our systems are different. You don't have your taxes spent on welfare, just star wars. I can get sick without worrying about bankrupcy. Each to their own.
(ftr - I am not a medical type. I look after computer systems/users.)
No, your government is too stupid.
Please note, I am not insulting US citizens, just the lawyers that control you. Lawyers make a lot of money from all your bizzarre customs and pactices.
For example, I think your NRA pays the salaries of a LOT of legal types. In general your system is in the control of seriously big money. If we had any doubt of that it would have vanished at your recent election. It was won by the guy with the biggest bank balance and most legal help.
Rest easy, you are unlikely to have gun control, road safety or any of those other nasty things we compel our governments to deliver, like decent health care or safe cities.
This law would protect my 2 children from being endangered when crossing the road to get to school in the morning. There are morons who regularly jump the vehicle queue at the crossing whilst doing a lot more than the speed limit. This would at least slow them down and give people ore time to get out of their way.
Could be worse I suppose. At least they don't have the US gun "control" situation where any moron redneck (redundant) can teach his 5 year old to use a gun. We have very few gun incidents at schools here.
In the US, you may see censorship as a sign of the rise of socialism. You are wrong.
A generation ago all your "Draft Dodgers" were censored by the media. Thye were seen to be part of the communist threat. There may have really been one then. There sure isn't now!
Further back than that the Nazis, Facists etc burned books theye didn't like and smashed up newspapers that said things they didn't approve of.
In Europe today, many people see censorship as a right wing way of fighting imaginary socialism.
I understand that you people have just got some new "senior management". As they have been put in by your new Pres' they will probably ban VPorn as it is sinful.
Don't worry about it though, you would never see it from your Libraries now anyway...
I work for the IT department in a UK hospital. We have an ever increasing number of (CE) PDAs. They are probably not used for medical things but they are keeping our consultants organised and in the right places at the right times.
Like the rest of the planet we are looking into wireless networking. The UK National Health Service hopes to sort out an electronic patient record for everyone.
To us outsiders, your mistrust of your government is what seems to keep your gunsellers, lawyers, insurance sellers and undertakers in business!
It doesn't keep your government on its toes. It does make much of the rest of the worls laughing at you. I don't trust politicians in this country either. I don't feel the need to cary a rifle to deal with that. We have a monarchy who the government has to defer to. They haven't used their authority in a long time. We like to think they are in charge.
The actual altitude will vary but just because orbits are eliptical, not circular.
Satelites do not generally need to use fuel to stay in orbit. That just happens in Star Trek when the Enterprise is in danger of crashing because someone has turned the engines off.
The first pocket calculator I had was a "Sinclair Scientific" way back in 1975! It used RPN and this made it unlikely ever to be borrowed! It was brilliant and it must have guided my career even though long broken now.
Unfortunately, this statement has given my age range away!
The reason Concorde and competitors is not in wide use may be because of Boeing and other members of the US aviation industry. When it first appeared, they tried to delay it until they could bring out something of their own. Their weapon was an early Environmental Impact Assessment. They ended up making themselves unable to do anything which aroused this much public hostility.
It's a bit like if Microsoft said that open Source is a bad thing and then finding that they can never take advantage of it. They would then be forced to write bloated closed source apps.
Sheer unremitted c**p! Sorry to let the side down by glorifying a troll like that with an answer but I think most people who are not "mentally disadvantaged" would agree that the sender is round the twist... We have to be wary of such a device but there could be a place for it. I am Tech support in a hospital. We need seroius system security, but doctors & nurses tell me that they have got better things to do than mess about with passwords all day! If you got this mixed in with a nice Open Source encryption method it would be really secure and could be made impossible to misuse - like some proprietary products...
Does this give my age away? You may all sneer at it if you like but your taxes are probably calculated in it! Hopefully DFlat will be just another of those ephemeral things that go away. The things that will stick around are C, Cobol and (sadly) Basic. Cobol is what Corporations and Governments run on. C and its Variants like C++ are what real work is done on making serious stuff. Basic was just about the only good thing MS ever put on the PC. They just scr*w*d it up trying to make it fit for grown ups. Don't worry about it. C# or DFlat is just a spoiler. If the US legal system can get its' finger out, it will be quietly forgotten.
> get a real portable MP3 player What normal person buys one of those anyway? My employer got them. They are trying hard to become a Micro$oft only site. When there is a Linux one for 1/3 the price that is (bound to be) more reliable I may think about it, if I can get it to talk to Outlook2000.
FYI my employer is the British National Health Service. I understand that the only bigger employer is the Chinese army! No lowly IT tecchie is going to have much success changing their mind overnight.
Could we have more frequent but smaller shows. I'm having difficulty in getting them onto my PDA to listen to when I should be working. I am having to delete appointments and contacts to make enough room. Perhaps that is a good idea though. If I don't go to the meetings, I can listen to GIS and do some work.
I always hope some people here would give credit where it's due. Here, someone is. Just because it's from Micro$oft doesn't mean it musr be c**p. It just happens a lot! I have received a Jordana430 from my work. It is small, battery life useable and has enough space inside for the Geeks in Space.MP3 if they don't grow too much more. It has never crashed on me. It does all I expect it to and is expandable. I just want to connect it to Linux!
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I'd rather be a human under a gunsight than a brit under a microscope.
It's much safer under a microscope, and you can criticise the person using it. Most of us tend to be fairly quiet when guns are pointed at us. Intelligent people with guns are pretty quiet when the other guy has a gun too!
Guns are undemocratic. Guess who said "Power comes from the barrel of a gun." He was not really into fair elections was he?
>> We Britons find it offensive
> No offence, but please, don't presume to speak
> for the whole of the population of Britain.
WE BRITONS - apart from a few idiots then!
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My employer has provided me with a Jornada. If they were to buy new Jornadas, it would need to connect up and work in the same way as the present ones.
Most 'business' users don't care what OS it is running. They just need it to connect up to their Outlook, transfer a few files and maybe play some music.
I have never got around to connecting it up to Linux but I understand I could. It would be nice to connect it to M$ at work and a grown up" OS at home though. This may be easier if they do change.
In Europe, we are less likely to be tracked by big business. We just get tracked by big Government.
Personally I feel safer. At least the Goverment thinks it is looking after me. Business just wants to look after my money!
the standard of healthcare is extremely low
I'm biased, I work for the NHS. However I have been to various other parts of the world.
The standard of care in the UK National Health Service is extremely high. Do some comparisons with hospitalsin other developed countries. Don't compare it to ones that charge $2,500 per day. Compare it to what most of the citizens in a country have access to.
What we are very good at, in the UK, is dissatisfaction. Idiots here will look accross the atlantic and see one of your many fine hospitals and compare ours to them.
It would be far more use to compare needle exchanges in Harlem and Edinburgh, or the facilities available to someone with an annual income of $5k - who doesn't have their employer pay their medical insurance for them.
I don't want to criticise the US healthcare system. You have nice hospitals. Our systems are different. You don't have your taxes spent on welfare, just star wars. I can get sick without worrying about bankrupcy. Each to their own.
(ftr - I am not a medical type. I look after computer systems/users.)
If I am cycling at 20mph and hit someone, what is the probable outcome? Bruising and perhaps a broken arm?
If I do the exact same speed in a car? Someone will have a good chance of being dead!
Also, if I find my bike heading towards a small child, I may well take a dive and risk injuring myself. You can't do that in a car!
No, your government is too stupid.
Please note, I am not insulting US citizens, just the lawyers that control you. Lawyers make a lot of money from all your bizzarre customs and pactices.
For example, I think your NRA pays the salaries of a LOT of legal types. In general your system is in the control of seriously big money. If we had any doubt of that it would have vanished at your recent election. It was won by the guy with the biggest bank balance and most legal help.
Rest easy, you are unlikely to have gun control, road safety or any of those other nasty things we compel our governments to deliver, like decent health care or safe cities.
This law would protect my 2 children from being endangered when crossing the road to get to school in the morning. There are morons who regularly jump the vehicle queue at the crossing whilst doing a lot more than the speed limit. This would at least slow them down and give people ore time to get out of their way.
Could be worse I suppose. At least they don't have the US gun "control" situation where any moron redneck (redundant) can teach his 5 year old to use a gun. We have very few gun incidents at schools here.
In the US, you may see censorship as a sign of the rise of socialism. You are wrong.
A generation ago all your "Draft Dodgers" were censored by the media. Thye were seen to be part of the communist threat. There may have really been one then. There sure isn't now!
Further back than that the Nazis, Facists etc burned books theye didn't like and smashed up newspapers that said things they didn't approve of.
In Europe today, many people see censorship as a right wing way of fighting imaginary socialism.
I understand that you people have just got some new "senior management". As they have been put in by your new Pres' they will probably ban VPorn as it is sinful.
Don't worry about it though, you would never see it from your Libraries now anyway...
I work for the IT department in a UK hospital. We have an ever increasing number of (CE) PDAs. They are probably not used for medical things but they are keeping our consultants organised and in the right places at the right times.
Like the rest of the planet we are looking into wireless networking. The UK National Health Service hopes to sort out an electronic patient record for everyone.
Maybe we will see that paperless office one day?
Surely that should have been moderated as a troll?
To us outsiders, your mistrust of your government is what seems to keep your gunsellers, lawyers, insurance sellers and undertakers in business!
It doesn't keep your government on its toes. It does make much of the rest of the worls laughing at you. I don't trust politicians in this country either. I don't feel the need to cary a rifle to deal with that. We have a monarchy who the government has to defer to. They haven't used their authority in a long time. We like to think they are in charge.
One of the nice things about OS is that someone could change things to strip out the undesirable information from packets and put in dummy stuff.
We could then decide whether to put random stuff in there or one set of information for everyone!
I wonder if anyone will?
But how do you make space "yooser friendly"?
I certainly didn't see any animated paperclips on DS9.
The actual altitude will vary but just because orbits are eliptical, not circular.
Satelites do not generally need to use fuel to stay in orbit. That just happens in Star Trek when the Enterprise is in danger of crashing because someone has turned the engines off.
The first pocket calculator I had was a "Sinclair Scientific" way back in 1975! It used RPN and this made it unlikely ever to be borrowed! It was brilliant and it must have guided my career even though long broken now.
Unfortunately, this statement has given my age range away!
No. Spammers are those who send out Unsolicited Commercial Email. Hence CAUCE
The reason Concorde and competitors is not in wide use may be because of Boeing and other members of the US aviation industry. When it first appeared, they tried to delay it until they could bring out something of their own. Their weapon was an early Environmental Impact Assessment. They ended up making themselves unable to do anything which aroused this much public hostility.
It's a bit like if Microsoft said that open Source is a bad thing and then finding that they can never take advantage of it. They would then be forced to write bloated closed source apps.
Sheer unremitted c**p!
Sorry to let the side down by glorifying a troll like that with an answer but I think most people who are not "mentally disadvantaged" would agree that the sender is round the twist...
We have to be wary of such a device but there could be a place for it. I am Tech support in a hospital. We need seroius system security, but doctors & nurses tell me that they have got better things to do than mess about with passwords all day!
If you got this mixed in with a nice Open Source encryption method it would be really secure and could be made impossible to misuse - like some proprietary products...
Does this give my age away? You may all sneer at it if you like but your taxes are probably calculated in it!
Hopefully DFlat will be just another of those ephemeral things that go away. The things that will stick around are C, Cobol and (sadly) Basic.
Cobol is what Corporations and Governments run on. C and its Variants like C++ are what real work is done on making serious stuff. Basic was just about the only good thing MS ever put on the PC. They just scr*w*d it up trying to make it fit for grown ups.
Don't worry about it. C# or DFlat is just a spoiler. If the US legal system can get its' finger out, it will be quietly forgotten.
> get a real portable MP3 player
What normal person buys one of those anyway? My employer got them. They are trying hard to become a Micro$oft only site.
When there is a Linux one for 1/3 the price that is (bound to be) more reliable I may think about it, if I can get it to talk to Outlook2000.
FYI my employer is the British National Health Service. I understand that the only bigger employer is the Chinese army! No lowly IT tecchie is going to have much success changing their mind overnight.
Could we have more frequent but smaller shows. I'm having difficulty in getting them onto my PDA to listen to when I should be working. I am having to delete appointments and contacts to make enough room.
Perhaps that is a good idea though. If I don't go to the meetings, I can listen to GIS and do some work.
I always hope some people here would give credit where it's due. Here, someone is. Just because it's from Micro$oft doesn't mean it musr be c**p. It just happens a lot! .MP3 if they don't grow too much more.
I have received a Jordana430 from my work. It is small, battery life useable and has enough space inside for the Geeks in Space
It has never crashed on me. It does all I expect it to and is expandable.
I just want to connect it to Linux!