>The last time I checked, "Microsoft" had not become a verb
Speak for yourself. Here we have lots of systems that are Microsofting their data. And it ain't pretty.
>(2) How many have ever used it at all?
Tried it a couple of times and to be honest quite liked it and it produced good results. However, Google is my home page and well, it's there when I fire up my browser and intertia sort of takes over.
Every site I look after typically has 90-95% of incoming search engine hits coming from Google. People I talk to report the same. I'm surprised Google's share is said to be as low as 50%.
Depends what you want from a program, I guess. Personally I love it. I can only think of one duff (the boxing one) and one half duff (Adama's wife - duff/Chief in airlock - good) episode to date.
>Not to be anal but you cannot measure a liquid in kilograms
Sure you can. Stick a big bucket on some scales, fill it until the scales say 540Kgs. Not the best way of measuring it, to be sure, but you can do it.
>You know, this blanket animosity towards our world leader's grows tiresome to read
Agreed. It would be so much better if they pulled their act together and acted with integrity.
>Some of us actually vote
Indeed. Alas, many are a tad apathetic as you say and Blair got voted in by a very small % of the population and most of them are regretting it now anyway.The fact that there was no sensible opposition at the time of the elections helped him greatly.
>how on Earth would most of the UK have heard about it?
Word of mouth from politically aware friends? At least you know the website exists now and can check for new petitions periodically. Oh, and pass the URL on to your friends;-)
>thanks for exaggerating the myth of the all intrusive CCTV camera
I stood near Southwark Bridge in London recently and did a 360 and counted 27 cameras looking in my direction. Where I used to live (medium sized town) the high street and other major areas are awash with cameras. I now live in a small village and our community police officer asked if we'd be willing to put a hidden camera on our house to watch the local kids getting drunk(which frankly, I'm tempted by).
>National Identity Register will make this much more difficult
How? We already have national drivers license, passports etc and they get cloned routinely. What's so clever about this new one? It also becomes a single point of failure, crack that one and everyone trusts you, wrongly.
You are the one hiding behind anonymous and suggesting I be ritually murdered for not liking rap. What impression do YOU think that gives and what sort of case does that put for it?
>Who'd want a 25 million year old princess? She'd be more than a little wrinkly.
It could be Princess Leia? I wouldn't say no, especially in that metal bikini number.
>Say, that's some nice climate you have there buddy ! And only a few hours >tank drive away !
Bush: OK, here's the plan, we tell Fox News that the Canadians are aiding Al-queda. Next we tell the teacher's to tell the kids that snow makes people hate democracy and we need to go there to help restore it. Finally, we remind everyone that they speak French and we all know about the French.
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>BogoMIPS?
Does dual-core give you BOGOFMIPS?
80's. You know, DOS, 128k-512k RAM, CGA or maybe Hercules? Not web apps.
>The last time I checked, "Microsoft" had not become a verb
Speak for yourself. Here we have lots of systems that are Microsofting their data. And it ain't pretty.
>(2) How many have ever used it at all?
Tried it a couple of times and to be honest quite liked it and it produced good results. However, Google is my home page and well, it's there when I fire up my browser and intertia sort of takes over.
I think you missed the point. The query was regarding the 80's, you know, long before the web...
Every site I look after typically has 90-95% of incoming search engine hits coming from Google. People I talk to report the same. I'm surprised Google's share is said to be as low as 50%.
Depends what you want from a program, I guess. Personally I love it. I can only think of one duff (the boxing one) and one half duff (Adama's wife - duff/Chief in airlock - good) episode to date.
>Not to be anal but you cannot measure a liquid in kilograms
Sure you can. Stick a big bucket on some scales, fill it until the scales say 540Kgs. Not the best way of measuring it, to be sure, but you can do it.
Wish I still had some mod-points - insightful+1
That they are found by the Galactica and Adama promptly puts them all out their misery.
>Remember the $40/Meg RAM days?
Heck, I remember paying $200 for 48K in my Atari 400. $40/Meg? Luxury!
>they don't impede they meaning nor miss the point, like you Ahem.
>your spelling seems as bad as your statistics
What happened to capital letters to begin a sentence and full stops/periods to end?
>You know, this blanket animosity towards our world leader's grows tiresome to read
Agreed. It would be so much better if they pulled their act together and acted with integrity. >Some of us actually vote
Indeed. Alas, many are a tad apathetic as you say and Blair got voted in by a very small % of the population and most of them are regretting it now anyway.The fact that there was no sensible opposition at the time of the elections helped him greatly.
>how on Earth would most of the UK have heard about it? ;-)
Word of mouth from politically aware friends? At least you know the website exists now and can check for new petitions periodically. Oh, and pass the URL on to your friends
>thanks for exaggerating the myth of the all intrusive CCTV camera
I stood near Southwark Bridge in London recently and did a 360 and counted 27 cameras looking in my direction. Where I used to live (medium sized town) the high street and other major areas are awash with cameras. I now live in a small village and our community police officer asked if we'd be willing to put a hidden camera on our house to watch the local kids getting drunk(which frankly, I'm tempted by).
>National Identity Register will make this much more difficult
How? We already have national drivers license, passports etc and they get cloned routinely. What's so clever about this new one? It also becomes a single point of failure, crack that one and everyone trusts you, wrongly.
>Terrorists routinely use multiple identities - up to 50 at a time
Nice round number - what happens at 51 and who do they stop there?
You are the one hiding behind anonymous and suggesting I be ritually murdered for not liking rap. What impression do YOU think that gives and what sort of case does that put for it?
And with that, m'lud, I rest my case.
Anyone that can help cut down on hip-hop gets my vote.
>Who'd want a 25 million year old princess? She'd be more than a little wrinkly.
It could be Princess Leia? I wouldn't say no, especially in that metal bikini number.
>Say, that's some nice climate you have there buddy ! And only a few hours
>tank drive away !
Bush: OK, here's the plan, we tell Fox News that the Canadians are aiding Al-queda. Next we tell the teacher's to tell the kids that snow makes people hate democracy and we need to go there to help restore it. Finally, we remind everyone that they speak French and we all know about the French.
>Where does commuting fit into that?
As someone who has a 2hr commute each way, I'd like to know too! I'm betting it's not the work chunk..
Maybe it's just that people who work long hours like to have Blackberries?