Do you really imagine Blair, Brown, et al. really consciously want a bunch of mindless zombies when they could have a population of intelligent, creative people who could solve the country's problems and revitalize the economy?
I knew there was a reason that Prescott attended the Brit Awards in '98, and Blair was trying to get friendly with the Britpop crew of Oasis and such.
His "we like wot you like" policy will surely endear him to far more people than, say, scrapping Top-Up fees in our Universities, and insisting that students should be taught together regardless of ability.
Very pro-academic, our Government.
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Sadly, I can vouch for this. I'm currently studying a BSc in Computer Science at a University in the UK, and upon joining we were asked to complete an English test and maths test. Essentially, it was a spelling test, and checking that we could do basic algebra ( a + 5 = 10. a = ?)
It scared the hell out of me... and still does to this day.
Admittedly, everything that could be turned off on my machine 'is' turned off - but still, it should be in essence Win 2k. I won't argue, the laptop isn't an ideal development machine, but it's fine for reviewing my code and such. Just don't hit Build.:)
I have to do a lot of sound recording for my current coding project, and I was very impressed at just how long Audacity can record for, with only 128 MB, on XP.
I have to admit to being somewhat surprised by that. I've got a P3-600 with 128 MB PC-133, and I've got XP Pro running on it. I've also got a full install of Office 2003, as well as Visual Studio. I play movies on it, browse the net with Firefox, heck, you name it. It might not be particularly fast, but it is certainly usable.
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Do you really imagine Blair, Brown, et al. really consciously want a bunch of mindless zombies when they could have a population of intelligent, creative people who could solve the country's problems and revitalize the economy? I knew there was a reason that Prescott attended the Brit Awards in '98, and Blair was trying to get friendly with the Britpop crew of Oasis and such. His "we like wot you like" policy will surely endear him to far more people than, say, scrapping Top-Up fees in our Universities, and insisting that students should be taught together regardless of ability. Very pro-academic, our Government. (Editing disabled while spellchecking) Stop spell checking
Sadly, I can vouch for this. I'm currently studying a BSc in Computer Science at a University in the UK, and upon joining we were asked to complete an English test and maths test. Essentially, it was a spelling test, and checking that we could do basic algebra ( a + 5 = 10. a = ?) It scared the hell out of me... and still does to this day.
Admittedly, everything that could be turned off on my machine 'is' turned off - but still, it should be in essence Win 2k. I won't argue, the laptop isn't an ideal development machine, but it's fine for reviewing my code and such. Just don't hit Build. :)
I have to do a lot of sound recording for my current coding project, and I was very impressed at just how long Audacity can record for, with only 128 MB, on XP.
I have to admit to being somewhat surprised by that. I've got a P3-600 with 128 MB PC-133, and I've got XP Pro running on it. I've also got a full install of Office 2003, as well as Visual Studio. I play movies on it, browse the net with Firefox, heck, you name it. It might not be particularly fast, but it is certainly usable.