The UK gov't has a long history of staggeringly expensive IT disasters. The current national ID card plan has been blinking red since inception.
David Davis, the tory shadow home secretary - (the ID card scheme is owned by the Home Office) - has a BSc Joint Hons Molecular Science/Computer Science 1968-1971 and is OPPOSED to the ID cards scheme.
I don't care if the case is white, black or metal terribly much, but I find the 13.3 inch MacBook a step down in portability from my 12 inch powerbook.
If you ride a bicycle to work, or fly on planes alot, you really want a small laptop.
I've been thinking/dithering about getting a MacBook but I cycle a lot. Will it fit into a standard sized pannier, or do you need some custom carrying accessory?
The government will pay for you to take 3 years of free Dutch classes (maybe depending on the gemeente, but Gemeente Zuid Amsterdam certainly does as I'm currently in the program).
I've always heard that dutch is supposed to be very difficult to learn, how have you found it?
I think the point is not that the phone can make VoIP calls, but that it automatically selects VoIP when its available. BT offer a similar service under the BT Fusion brand.
Affirmative Action is indeed racism, as its own name implies. It doesn't pretend to ignore race. Instead it engages the racist preferences and denials in their own terms. By looking at the results of recruiting practices, rather than the gamed mechanics.
But I agree with the other comments that find it silly to blame the iPods. You have to blame the people willing to steal anything for the act of stealing. Before it was iPods, it was just cash.
No, before iPods it was TVs, Video/DVD players and stereos.
There's a similar hoo-ha about this every year. Street crime is up, but burglary is down - 2002.
The gadgets criminals used to steal from your house are now too cheap to be worth the bother, while high ticket items like smart phones and iPods make mugging more profitable than it used to be.
I had one friend who wondered why she was suspended and it was simple, Google logs the IP of the address you check your account from and matches it up against the click throughs.
Do you KNOW this, or are you guessing?
I use dialup internet access so the IP address I have when I check my Google Adsense account would match heaps of people.
It's to be expected that a coding or Linux forum would have a higher number of users using FireFox than a more general website such as BBC (which requires WMP to play media) or myspace.
Not so, the BBC offers vid/audio content in either Real format or offers a choice between Real and WMP.
So we can speculate that Leopard might not only be fast but also encourage a partitioned Windows installation using boot camp so that it can reference everything within Windows and run Windows apps flawlessly without having to reboot or (more importantly) reverse engineer Windows.
They already do something very similar in the 'classic' environment on PPC Macs where you run non-native apps but don't see the Classic Mac OS desktop, just the app window.
While I find some of Microsoft's business practices to be anticompetitive, handing over monies to governments isn't really going to do anything.
It's a fine. The theory is that MS will find having to "hand over monies" unpleasant and choose to comply with the terms of the EU commission's 2004 ruling to avoid having to "hand over monies" again.
Similiar choices between between "hand over monies to government" OR do not drive your car faster than the legal speed limit have proven sucessful.
Giving money to competitors won't help anything, since they won't learn to be competitive with handouts...
To the best of my knowledge none of the governments of the EU member states see themselves as competitors to MS.
(From the article) Microsoft was instructed by European regulators to share its Windows communications protocols with competitors,
MSs competitors are being given documentation to enable them to interact with MS systems, not money.
I took a look at their Accounting Plus package a while back which offered a multi-currency option I was keen on and I thought it looked pretty user friendly. I think multi-user capability is tied to Filemaker - you have to have a multi-user Filemaker app installed.
Its Win/Mac cross-platform, no idea what data format it uses.
To draw the conclusion that "it used to be warmer than it is now so therefore there is no problem" is asinine at best.
The conclusion I made was that the Earth's climate is always getting warmer or colder. The current warming trend is no greater than that which has gone before.
And it's not like the Earth hasn't been warmer before in human history. In the 12th century there were orange groves in Berlin and vineyards in England. http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm [john-daly.com]
Funnily enough the Food Program (radio program) dealt with global warming's effect on wine makers this week. In the show they mentioned how England had been much hotter when the romans first introduced vinyards in England. This was the first concrete evidence I had heard that 'global warming' was - ' the sky is falling ballyhoo' that I felt it was.
There is a body in the UK, the BCS, pretending to offer something comparable. When they stop handing it out to people that do data entry for a living just because they've been in the scheme for eight years I may consider giving it some credibility. Until then employers are going to (quite rightly) ignore it.
Are they really not respected at all? I only ask because I am studying for one of their qualifications.
Not ugly sells, but simple sells? I'd put it in graphic design terms: "pretty alone doesn't sell".
I think the article is looking for clever reasons that aren't there. The attraction of 'ugly' websites isn't that they look amateurish. They look amateurish because they are. There is no design budget.
From personal experience working with a large data warehousing company, the anti-M$ 'attitude' is the norm. As my boss once put it:
If it's development, we run Solaris, if it's serving, we run Linux, if it's graphics, we run Mac, and if its the sales guy's laptop, we run Windows."
These old-school guys love their unix. I cant see this happening any time soon.
Yet unix server sales are stagnant, while wintel server sales are increasing.
I think I heard that safari passed the ACID 2.0 test, and then I hear tons of people complaining that Safari doesn't render things properly.
While the latest version of Safari may pass Acid2, Safari is not available as a standalone download. Apple control distribution of it which they have tied to the OS.
Many/most users of Safari, who are possibly complaining about pages not rendering properly, are using an earlier version.
I use Safari 1.3.2 on Mac OS 10.3.9 and it doesn't pass the Acid 2 test. Of the other browsers on my machine, FF 1.5.0.1 is closest to passing, IE 5.2.3 shows a blank page.
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1) Posture is important. Have a look on Google for guidance on arranging your workspace on ergonomic guidelines.
Sit with your back straight and your feet, either flat on the floor or on a foot rest. You should be arms length, 12-30 inches (25-75cm), from your computer monitor (VDU). Raise the monitor (VDU) so the your eyes are level with the top of the screen. Make sure the F and J keys of the keyboard are immediately opposite the middle of your body.
When typing, keep your elbows close to your body, wrists and forearms level. After striking each key return your fingers to their resting position over the home row.
They also have links to rest reminder software for various platforms.
this doesn't exactly relate to RSI, but recently I find myself with sore eyes after using either my computer or reading for more then an hour or so at a time
I developed a problem with my eyes that I put down to spending too long staring at a monitor screen. It wasn't painful as such, but I could feel a nerve in my eyelid twitching very fast, you couldn't see it, but you could feel it. I had to stop using a computer at all for about a month, after that, I started using a rest timer. Now I make sure to take a ten minute break every hour.
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The UK gov't has a long history of staggeringly expensive IT disasters. The current national ID card plan has been blinking red since inception.
David Davis, the tory shadow home secretary - (the ID card scheme is owned by the Home Office) - has a BSc Joint Hons Molecular Science/Computer Science 1968-1971 and is OPPOSED to the ID cards scheme.
I've been thinking/dithering about getting a MacBook but I cycle a lot. Will it fit into a standard sized pannier, or do you need some custom carrying accessory?
Not my experience.
I've always heard that dutch is supposed to be very difficult to learn, how have you found it?
I don't see that you've anything to be ashamed of, the system described in the original post sounds fine to me.
If you stack them, they make great big buildings too.
I think the pretentious asshole in question may have got his sums wrong.
I suspect he meant to write 35 x 103mm, not cm.
I think the point is not that the phone can make VoIP calls, but that it automatically selects VoIP when its available. BT offer a similar service under the BT Fusion brand.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
No, before iPods it was TVs, Video/DVD players and stereos.
There's a similar hoo-ha about this every year. Street crime is up, but burglary is down - 2002.
The gadgets criminals used to steal from your house are now too cheap to be worth the bother, while high ticket items like smart phones and iPods make mugging more profitable than it used to be.
Do you KNOW this, or are you guessing?
I use dialup internet access so the IP address I have when I check my Google Adsense account would match heaps of people.
From the article:
Not so, the BBC offers vid/audio content in either Real format or offers a choice between Real and WMP.
Link to the One Stat statistics mentioned.
They already do something very similar in the 'classic' environment on PPC Macs where you run non-native apps but don't see the Classic Mac OS desktop, just the app window.
It's a fine. The theory is that MS will find having to "hand over monies" unpleasant and choose to comply with the terms of the EU commission's 2004 ruling to avoid having to "hand over monies" again.
Similiar choices between between "hand over monies to government" OR do not drive your car faster than the legal speed limit have proven sucessful.
To the best of my knowledge none of the governments of the EU member states see themselves as competitors to MS.
(From the article) Microsoft was instructed by European regulators to share its Windows communications protocols with competitors,
MSs competitors are being given documentation to enable them to interact with MS systems, not money.
Have you looked at MYOB?
I took a look at their Accounting Plus package a while back which offered a multi-currency option I was keen on and I thought it looked pretty user friendly. I think multi-user capability is tied to Filemaker - you have to have a multi-user Filemaker app installed.
Its Win/Mac cross-platform, no idea what data format it uses.
The conclusion I made was that the Earth's climate is always getting warmer or colder. The current warming trend is no greater than that which has gone before.
Funnily enough the Food Program (radio program) dealt with global warming's effect on wine makers this week. In the show they mentioned how England had been much hotter when the romans first introduced vinyards in England. This was the first concrete evidence I had heard that 'global warming' was - ' the sky is falling ballyhoo' that I felt it was.
The Earth's climate is not static!
What makes you think Intel is selling parts at a loss?
Can you name names?
Are they really not respected at all? I only ask because I am studying for one of their qualifications.
I think the article is looking for clever reasons that aren't there. The attraction of 'ugly' websites isn't that they look amateurish. They look amateurish because they are. There is no design budget.
What makes these websites successful, or not, is:
We're all cheapskates at heart :-)
Yet unix server sales are stagnant, while wintel server sales are increasing.
While the latest version of Safari may pass Acid2, Safari is not available as a standalone download. Apple control distribution of it which they have tied to the OS.
Many/most users of Safari, who are possibly complaining about pages not rendering properly, are using an earlier version.
I use Safari 1.3.2 on Mac OS 10.3.9 and it doesn't pass the Acid 2 test. Of the other browsers on my machine, FF 1.5.0.1 is closest to passing, IE 5.2.3 shows a blank page.
Quote below is taken from Typeonline's "safety first" page.
They also have links to rest reminder software for various platforms.
I developed a problem with my eyes that I put down to spending too long staring at a monitor screen. It wasn't painful as such, but I could feel a nerve in my eyelid twitching very fast, you couldn't see it, but you could feel it. I had to stop using a computer at all for about a month, after that, I started using a rest timer. Now I make sure to take a ten minute break every hour.
Wikipedia's RSI page, some interesting links.