You mistake the UK economic system: they basically take an awful lot away in taxes and then give it back in benefits. Most UK families are in receipt of one benefit or the other. There are even people in receipt of incapacity benefit for bad acne...
Of course one can point out that if they didn't take the money, via taxes, from the hard working families in the first place they wouldn't have to give it back, as benefits, and side effects such as this data loss, fraud, etc. could never happen... Such considerations are heresy inside a socialist system.
Worryingly no one in the chain of decision making about this project stood up and said that this is so wrong they refuse to have anything to do with it.
It is after all Hungerhill school in Edenthorpe and something needs to be done, but this is just so wrong.
Apparently there is a major problem with over-staffing at the BBC. I can easily see this issue is down to having to ask several different departments what the 'scores on the doors' are, and at the first count actually only one department had replied to the inquiring email. This revised number is simply due to the numbers from several other departments being returned and accumulated into the result.
Expect the number to keep climbing for some days yet, and then actually to go up and down like some strange kind of under-damped oscillation. This tail effect is due to the various business units actually re-reading the email and responding to it with 'corrected' figures.
Remember never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity when considering the organisational structure of an juggernaut such as the BBC is really quite archaic.
Well, it is all quite simple really: the policeman in question obviously put a bogus number down as the speed on the ticket, and got caught out. Whether it was accidental or malicious doesn't really matter. Many speed cops do this as it comes down to a combination of (a) they don't really know how to operate the equipment properly, but they have to keep the stats up or get screamed at by their supervisor, (b) most people speed and have little clue to how fast they're really going, so just take it on the chin as another tax on driving.
It is not an accident that nowadays the police rarely ticket lorries for speeding as they have tachographs...
If speed was really a major factor in accidents as TPTB would have us believe then motorways would be the most dangerous place to drive!
Rowan Atkinson also holds higher levels of British Driving license allowing him to drive HGVs aka articulated trucks on the highways. I'm told he performs many of the car stunts in the shows himself.
If I have a big pile of windows machines I can employ cheap admins to point and click all day long to keep it up. With a solution like this I have to have specially trained staff, i.e. expensive. There would have to be an enormous saving on staffing levels to make it worthwhile. Yet, then I'm in the situation of say one staff member leaving causing a major headache when it comes to finding a replacement.
Like, yeah, I'd use one of these as my living room hub of choice, if it didn't blow or suck quite as much.;-) The noise these things put out is phenomenal, and then there's the noise from the DVD drive. I have multi-core boxes running serious number cruching apps that are quieter.
Nah, living room entertainment centre? Don't think so somehow.
Has to be 37Signals:
We believe most software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion. We build easy to use web-based products with elegant interfaces and thoughtful features. We're focused on executing on the basics beautifully.
Crowds contain individuals, and some of these individuals know what they are on about. Collect together a sufficiently large crowd and you will find a number of experts on many different subject.
..there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead. Hey uh, you want a drink?
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You mistake the UK economic system: they basically take an awful lot away in taxes and then give it back in benefits. Most UK families are in receipt of one benefit or the other. There are even people in receipt of incapacity benefit for bad acne...
Of course one can point out that if they didn't take the money, via taxes, from the hard working families in the first place they wouldn't have to give it back, as benefits, and side effects such as this data loss, fraud, etc. could never happen... Such considerations are heresy inside a socialist system.
Worryingly no one in the chain of decision making about this project stood up and said that this is so wrong they refuse to have anything to do with it.
It is after all Hungerhill school in Edenthorpe and something needs to be done, but this is just so wrong.
Apparently there is a major problem with over-staffing at the BBC. I can easily see this issue is down to having to ask several different departments what the 'scores on the doors' are, and at the first count actually only one department had replied to the inquiring email. This revised number is simply due to the numbers from several other departments being returned and accumulated into the result.
Expect the number to keep climbing for some days yet, and then actually to go up and down like some strange kind of under-damped oscillation. This tail effect is due to the various business units actually re-reading the email and responding to it with 'corrected' figures.
Remember never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity when considering the organisational structure of an juggernaut such as the BBC is really quite archaic.
Well, it is all quite simple really: the policeman in question obviously put a bogus number down as the speed on the ticket, and got caught out. Whether it was accidental or malicious doesn't really matter. Many speed cops do this as it comes down to a combination of (a) they don't really know how to operate the equipment properly, but they have to keep the stats up or get screamed at by their supervisor, (b) most people speed and have little clue to how fast they're really going, so just take it on the chin as another tax on driving.
It is not an accident that nowadays the police rarely ticket lorries for speeding as they have tachographs...
If speed was really a major factor in accidents as TPTB would have us believe then motorways would be the most dangerous place to drive!
Where's the link? You can't make a statement like that and not give us a link: it leaves us all frozen and petrified.
Rowan Atkinson also holds higher levels of British Driving license allowing him to drive HGVs aka articulated trucks on the highways. I'm told he performs many of the car stunts in the shows himself.
If I have a big pile of windows machines I can employ cheap admins to point and click all day long to keep it up. With a solution like this I have to have specially trained staff, i.e. expensive. There would have to be an enormous saving on staffing levels to make it worthwhile. Yet, then I'm in the situation of say one staff member leaving causing a major headache when it comes to finding a replacement.
Like, yeah, I'd use one of these as my living room hub of choice, if it didn't blow or suck quite as much. ;-) The noise these things put out is phenomenal, and then there's the noise from the DVD drive. I have multi-core boxes running serious number cruching apps that are quieter.
Nah, living room entertainment centre? Don't think so somehow.
Blooming bearded hippie ought to get a job. ;-)
Well them suckers in the UK voted for that shower of sh1t they call a government. They can just lay back and wallow in it now.
What is it with animals that make make people go yuck that they then think it OK to do horrid things to them?
Merchandise - where the real money from the movie is made!
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Oh, and the sequels, and the repeat fees, and the spin offs
10 years? The internet will be a footnote in history by then.
...to predict fast, jerky actions. Sorry, but that has to be the QOTD, made me ROFL.We believe most software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion. We build easy to use web-based products with elegant interfaces and thoughtful features. We're focused on executing on the basics beautifully.
Crowds contain individuals, and some of these individuals know what they are on about. Collect together a sufficiently large crowd and you will find a number of experts on many different subject.
Isn't that the obvious conclusion?
I wonder if aeroplanes could surf these waves and thereby save fuel?
..there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead. Hey uh, you want a drink?
I bet those developers wish they'd written more test cases now.
Just a little clue to the developers from someone who has written code for a long long time:
The UI goes on top of the OS, g'damn it!
Well, thanks to the terrorists, these cell phone users will be safe from a little old lady with a hammer!
Your dorm room sat in front of your computer?
It must be a cathartic feeling smashing the equipment of your nemesis.
Isn't "Ubuntu" an ancient word meaning "Can't install Gentoo"?
Maybe his research grant doesn't stretch as far as heating the office. Win-win situation in that case.