Sorry to disillusion you, but even under the Human Rights act we do not have 'Freedom of Speech'. There are so many exclusions that we're really no better off than before and in fact in some areas (such race/religion) have more restrictions.
Still at least our judges are a lot more sensible than those in the US as the Elton John example shows.
An artist friend of mine was given a piece of clay and told to go make a model as a test for one job she'd applied for, so it's not just IT.
Also, as many others have said. Written experience counts for nothing, you can still be a muppet. I do interviews for new technical staff and I'm no longer amazed how many people look good on paper but are unable to explain/demonstrate the basics in their own technology area.
1. Most if not all of the UK banks post on their websites about the importance of PC security, give advice, and some even provide tools, or at least links to security tools.
2. Most, if not all of teh UK banks do send out warnings about hijack emails.
3. The UK banks who are now pushing the the chip'n'pin code generator are giving these away for free. I have my Natwest sitting next to my home PC and it cost me nothing.
This is not the US and I do not know how the US banks deal with their customers. I would not comment about the US system as I live in the UK, but over here the banks have been trying to educate their account holders, but can only go so far. If a punter still insists on responding to a 'security' farming email then it's their fault, fair and square. You can't blame the banks for the stupidity of the individual, especially as they do work hard to counter fraud in other areas (such as when a colleague of mine had his cash card cloned).
So does this mean Negroponte has finally found a country that's willing to stump up the cash for the million units (minimum order size) of laptops their younger kids may want, as opposed to actually need ?
I'm at the other end of the payscale as far as the UK perspective is concerned and would love to see the results of a similar survey over here. I moved from the outsourcing/consulting role (5 years) to the banking industry (almost 2 years ago) and still see the same pay scales, the same pay increases, the latter always being below inflation by some margin. In fact the only difference between the two sectors is that I now receive an annual bonus (or more accurately a profit share - glad I don't work for Northern Bank).
I'm not sure of any UK sector that actually gives inflation or higher sallary increases, though I can only really go by my experience and those of my friends (those not trying to avoid being outsourced/off shored to India).
Ahh, but this is the United Kingdom. We do not have the right to freedom of speech, despite what people may think.
Oh and before anyone uses the Magna Carta argument against this (I've heard this one too many times before when I've highlighted the above), that only provides the rights for free men to own property and land (and yes I have read it).
The problem is that the way the cheating was done totally imballanced the game, and in such a way that unpicking would be extemely hard.
To equate it to a form non-players might understand. A group of you are playing monopoly. it is still near the start and people are slowly buying properties with the initial funds. Suddenly the owner of the game gives himself the title deeds to the properties on the final row, plus the funds to build hotels on all of them. The effect on the Eve universe was that extreme.
One of the reasons I effectively soloed the game when my old corp (which was a small mining one) split up, was because it was pointless trying to compete with the big boys in the big drop areas, so I just carried on doing missions. I was talked in to joning a friend's corp and connecting alliance, and now partly regret it as the old issues are now affecting me. Still I've only played Eve part time since WoW came out. It is an intersting game with beautiful graphics, but unless you join BoB or one of their clones, you'll never make it big (or get big things and survive).
If it was an official warning, then it will be all documented and would be brought to court.
I agree there may be some thing else here, however the article I read on it stated it was oneof his colleagues who made the complaint, which makes you wonder if it was personal - he might not have been the easiest of people to work with, or maybe the 'snitch' was the local barsteward.
Who knows, but if IBM can prove he had been given a prior official warning for browsing sexual content at work, and can show their 'Net usage T&Cs specifically bar sex related sites (I've not worked at a place that did not have this in), then I can't see him winning.
There is one thing every one is missing due to their needs to jump on the anti big PC manufacturer wagon.
There is no proof that the fire was caused by the laptop. If you read the article it says the fire chief asked if he had a laptop as it might have been that, the battery, or the power cord. For all we know a pan may have been left on, or another electrical device shorted.....
I'm not sure what planet the Motorola guy who was quoted is on, and we know that author has wet dreams about Apple products, but his own evidence if wrong. In the UK a lot of small traders will unlock mobile phones so they can be used on other networks (note Vodafone and T-Mobile do not lock their phones). While provider specific content may be lost, MMS, Internet, etc is not - only the configuration information, which will be sent down upon request in the form of a system SMS from your new provider.
I do interviews for my company (one of the world's largest banks - UK based) and we are advised not to give feedback to interviewies due to the legal implications if they were to take umbridge over the comments.
Alas the UK is rapidly following the US as a litegous society and so we now have to take care with what we say as you never know how the other person will behave, which is a shame really because I was a fan of giving feedback when asked.
Normally I do not trust wikkipedia in the slightest, but you're righht I have my time line screwed, but people were still cabled in to radio hubs in the 1930s.
It has never been legal to broadcast on radiowave in the UK without a licence (AM, SW and LW included).
The main reason was to prevent emergency and millitary channels being interefered with (remember in the UK in the last 40s, early 50s radio was still wired in to the home, not broadcast). To broadcast on across a frequency range, approval had to be sought (in part so the authorities could check there were no conflicts), then registered. At the time there were no thougts about power as incredibly short range devices were not about.
As a side note, to broadcast on a radio frequency you also have to be licenced and certified (I assume the new act to allow the short range MP3 device transmitters will negate this as well).
There must have been a covert ops double agent for Microsoft/SUN on a grassy knoll outside the Birmingham Library with a targetting device to being the sattelite rays down on the heads of those unsuspecting techies who were not wearing their foil caps.
I would have thought in the US you'd have a similar system to the UK, where each party provides a group of volunteers, so there are representatives from each over looking every counting table.
Perhaps people are starting to get fed up with having to replace their iPods every few years due to their batteries dying. I've a reasonable number of friends who've bought iPods over the years, lauding them over my Creative Zen, yet now all of them are having to use them plugged in to a power supply or are looking to replace them because the internal battery has died. Ok after 4+ years of moderate use the battery is now going on my Zen, but hey I still get 8 hours from one charge.
Another thing is Apple's support. Yes in the US they would replace the internal batteries for free or low cost, but not outside, well certainly not in the UK.
The iPod has been one of The fashion statement accessories of the late 1990s, and has without doubt been a tremendous sucess, yet perhaps now the reality of these little devices is starting to hit home and consumers are starting to get more fussy, especially as there is now so much choice in the market place.
While this might not be in the direction of the article, getting a URL wrong can be equally as dangerous.
I was at a public access terminal in an airport. The terminal was set up so no new windows could be opened. Ever heard of the web comic Sinfest ? I read it daily. Did you know there is also a sinfest.org ? I got confused. Never have I had to close so many pop-up windows so quickly while also trying to click on the HOME button
The fact that an Apple costs almost twice as much as it's PC rival (in the UK anyhow), would generally bring about that expectation of superior quality and reliability.
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Sorry to disillusion you, but even under the Human Rights act we do not have 'Freedom of Speech'. There are so many exclusions that we're really no better off than before and in fact in some areas (such race/religion) have more restrictions.
Still at least our judges are a lot more sensible than those in the US as the Elton John example shows.
An artist friend of mine was given a piece of clay and told to go make a model as a test for one job she'd applied for, so it's not just IT.
Also, as many others have said. Written experience counts for nothing, you can still be a muppet. I do interviews for new technical staff and I'm no longer amazed how many people look good on paper but are unable to explain/demonstrate the basics in their own technology area.
That is just so 2005.
Actually that is the reason I did not buy a Sony Erricson P990 in 2006, instead going for a Vodafone branded TyTn (which I've done well by).
Lets get some facts down about this.
1. Most if not all of the UK banks post on their websites about the importance of PC security, give advice, and some even provide tools, or at least links to security tools.
2. Most, if not all of teh UK banks do send out warnings about hijack emails.
3. The UK banks who are now pushing the the chip'n'pin code generator are giving these away for free. I have my Natwest sitting next to my home PC and it cost me nothing.
This is not the US and I do not know how the US banks deal with their customers. I would not comment about the US system as I live in the UK, but over here the banks have been trying to educate their account holders, but can only go so far. If a punter still insists on responding to a 'security' farming email then it's their fault, fair and square. You can't blame the banks for the stupidity of the individual, especially as they do work hard to counter fraud in other areas (such as when a colleague of mine had his cash card cloned).
Didn't Budweiser do an alien wasaaap advert one superbowel ?
Being a Brit I only saw this video after so have no proof, but rather liked what I saw.
Whato.
So does this mean Negroponte has finally found a country that's willing to stump up the cash for the million units (minimum order size) of laptops their younger kids may want, as opposed to actually need ?
Not quite.
my understanding is JANET came about as an experiment to replicate ARPAnet.
As to Cern - that is where html was created (by TBL and his team) to allow data to be easilly shared in a visual manner.
Simple answer. Poor wages.
I'm at the other end of the payscale as far as the UK perspective is concerned and would love to see the results of a similar survey over here. I moved from the outsourcing/consulting role (5 years) to the banking industry (almost 2 years ago) and still see the same pay scales, the same pay increases, the latter always being below inflation by some margin. In fact the only difference between the two sectors is that I now receive an annual bonus (or more accurately a profit share - glad I don't work for Northern Bank).
I'm not sure of any UK sector that actually gives inflation or higher sallary increases, though I can only really go by my experience and those of my friends (those not trying to avoid being outsourced/off shored to India).
Ahh, but this is the United Kingdom. We do not have the right to freedom of speech, despite what people may think.
Oh and before anyone uses the Magna Carta argument against this (I've heard this one too many times before when I've highlighted the above), that only provides the rights for free men to own property and land (and yes I have read it).
I take it you've never played the game.
;) )
Plus it was not just 1 or 2 T2 blue prints, it was a lot, and awful lot, and it did give BoB a ratehr larger advantage.
Still I'm just a part time player and happy to keep that way (and out of BoBs way
The problem is that the way the cheating was done totally imballanced the game, and in such a way that unpicking would be extemely hard.
To equate it to a form non-players might understand.
A group of you are playing monopoly. it is still near the start and people are slowly buying properties with the initial funds. Suddenly the owner of the game gives himself the title deeds to the properties on the final row, plus the funds to build hotels on all of them. The effect on the Eve universe was that extreme.
One of the reasons I effectively soloed the game when my old corp (which was a small mining one) split up, was because it was pointless trying to compete with the big boys in the big drop areas, so I just carried on doing missions. I was talked in to joning a friend's corp and connecting alliance, and now partly regret it as the old issues are now affecting me. Still I've only played Eve part time since WoW came out. It is an intersting game with beautiful graphics, but unless you join BoB or one of their clones, you'll never make it big (or get big things and survive).
36,000 file on the disk, 36,000 files,
...
I clicked delete and clicked the yes,
And now there's 35,999 files on the disk.
35,999 file on the disk, 35,999 files,
I clicked delete and clicked the yes,
And now there's 35,998 files on the disk.
If it was an official warning, then it will be all documented and would be brought to court.
I agree there may be some thing else here, however the article I read on it stated it was oneof his colleagues who made the complaint, which makes you wonder if it was personal - he might not have been the easiest of people to work with, or maybe the 'snitch' was the local barsteward.
Who knows, but if IBM can prove he had been given a prior official warning for browsing sexual content at work, and can show their 'Net usage T&Cs specifically bar sex related sites (I've not worked at a place that did not have this in), then I can't see him winning.
There is one thing every one is missing due to their needs to jump on the anti big PC manufacturer wagon.
.....
There is no proof that the fire was caused by the laptop. If you read the article it says the fire chief asked if he had a laptop as it might have been that, the battery, or the power cord. For all we know a pan may have been left on, or another electrical device shorted
You must never catch colds with all the vit C you must take as an obvious lover of apples ^^
I'm not sure what planet the Motorola guy who was quoted is on, and we know that author has wet dreams about Apple products, but his own evidence if wrong.
In the UK a lot of small traders will unlock mobile phones so they can be used on other networks (note Vodafone and T-Mobile do not lock their phones). While provider specific content may be lost, MMS, Internet, etc is not - only the configuration information, which will be sent down upon request in the form of a system SMS from your new provider.
Alas the UK is rapidly following the US as a litegous society and so we now have to take care with what we say as you never know how the other person will behave, which is a shame really because I was a fan of giving feedback when asked.
Normally I do not trust wikkipedia in the slightest, but you're righht I have my time line screwed, but people were still cabled in to radio hubs in the 1930s.
It has never been legal to broadcast on radiowave in the UK without a licence (AM, SW and LW included).
The main reason was to prevent emergency and millitary channels being interefered with (remember in the UK in the last 40s, early 50s radio was still wired in to the home, not broadcast). To broadcast on across a frequency range, approval had to be sought (in part so the authorities could check there were no conflicts), then registered. At the time there were no thougts about power as incredibly short range devices were not about.
As a side note, to broadcast on a radio frequency you also have to be licenced and certified (I assume the new act to allow the short range MP3 device transmitters will negate this as well).
The frequency used it covered by the stated act.
There must have been a covert ops double agent for Microsoft/SUN on a grassy knoll outside the Birmingham Library with a targetting device to being the sattelite rays down on the heads of those unsuspecting techies who were not wearing their foil caps.
I would have thought in the US you'd have a similar system to the UK, where each party provides a group of volunteers, so there are representatives from each over looking every counting table.
Perhaps people are starting to get fed up with having to replace their iPods every few years due to their batteries dying. I've a reasonable number of friends who've bought iPods over the years, lauding them over my Creative Zen, yet now all of them are having to use them plugged in to a power supply or are looking to replace them because the internal battery has died. Ok after 4+ years of moderate use the battery is now going on my Zen, but hey I still get 8 hours from one charge.
Another thing is Apple's support. Yes in the US they would replace the internal batteries for free or low cost, but not outside, well certainly not in the UK.
The iPod has been one of The fashion statement accessories of the late 1990s, and has without doubt been a tremendous sucess, yet perhaps now the reality of these little devices is starting to hit home and consumers are starting to get more fussy, especially as there is now so much choice in the market place.
While this might not be in the direction of the article, getting a URL wrong can be equally as dangerous.
I was at a public access terminal in an airport. The terminal was set up so no new windows could be opened. Ever heard of the web comic Sinfest ? I read it daily. Did you know there is also a sinfest.org ? I got confused. Never have I had to close so many pop-up windows so quickly while also trying to click on the HOME button
The fact that an Apple costs almost twice as much as it's PC rival (in the UK anyhow), would generally bring about that expectation of superior quality and reliability.