Beware !
If you study "unusual languages" which suggest problems with a Universal Grammar you may get kicked out for being a racist!
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/03/28/poisonous-dispute/
Posts by Paul Johnston
184 posts • joined Friday 13th April 2007 10:39 GMT
"OUR" Markets?
"they undermine the integrity of our markets "
Says it all really doesn't it!
Re: Patrick Moore
We all sometimes have the wrong word come out.
Just most of us are not being recorded or played on air.
Sport and Statistics
Rant!
Will someone please take out all the bl**dy statisticians from sport and have them shot!
Who really cares if X got Y % of first server in whereas A got B % with a SD of J????
Rant Over!
Re: hmm
It's sold in lower volumes because it costs more .
Bright young man!
"after graduating with a first in mathematics in 1996 aged 17"
Very sad the way his name has been dragged through the mud!
Oh No!
Where is the Flying Scotsman with realistic chuffing sound?
My son is going to be distraught!
Re: Must be a fake
Guess you mean the Wehrmacht, thought the Bundeswehr were on our side, it wasn't formed until well after the end of WW II.
Seriously why cannot they make it available now?
Er wrong!
The Judge said:
"Those who find abortion repugnant do not use it as an excuse to justify deliberately committing offences"
They do, have a look at Barnett Slepian.
That they find it repugnant is their whole justification. This is something the opposing sites are never going to agree on. As this thread has shown it is a hugely emotive issue.
Why not..
Just ignore it?
Re: Re: Re: Easy fix
Cheers :-)
Re: Easy fix
Microsucks!
Microsoft?
Curious why a company whose major output is software would outsource to the Taiwanese hardware giant Foxconn.
Apologies if you meant some other company
More interesting!
Have they found the squirrel which lost the nut and ended up in the permafrost itself?
Now bringing that back to life would be interesting!
No news is good news!
An alternative take on not hearing much about RoR is that it has got past the hype and is at the point where people decide to use it or not based on its merits rather than you must use it because all the cool kid do!
Funnily enough bringing RoR and Javascript in the same article doesn't mention the former now uses the latter
http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-3-1-adopts-coffeescript-jquery-sass-and-controversy-4669.html
Not all bad then!
"and warned that the European arrest warrant system could collapse if the WikiLeaker-in-chief walks"
Result IMHO
A Guess
Assuming most laptop disk failures come from mechanical shock i.e. dropping the thing how many people will dare drop a 5K laptop?
Thanks!
Ever since I read this I've had that bloody "New Model Army" song going through my head!
I could be wrong but...
Don't corporations have to justify their actions by saying they "increase shareholder value!".
Hence the reason given might be an economic cloak for what is really a moral stance.
If they came out and said we just think this is right would that leave them up to legal action?
We are talking about the USA here.
Well
If it turns out the lady was homeless, unemployed, had mental health problems or something like that this is just really a rather sad story.
Tough yes!
This it his first tackle in Rugby League
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YILC-7k2VDM
Bit of a wobble but did stop him coming back for more.
Just a thought!
I've always assumed buying online using a credit card was the sensible way to go. However is there going to be a point where the credit card issuing banks are going to say "with all these details being leaked to the world and his dog so frequently it seems we need to look at other systems".
All well and good setting up secure payment systems but if the details are out in the wild what use are they?
Making Donations
Party membership is one thing for a legal party but don't financial donations to political parties have to be declared? Suppose I give x million to a party and then they exclude my business from some tobacco advertising laws or I give a couple of million to another party then seem to get rather nice tax breaks this surely should be in the public domain!
Ceiling
30000 feet seems rather high!
Anyone care to give a estimate of the highest a helicopter can reach?
If it's a fake?
A couple of points come to mind,
Why would the US ask for it back and not just say it's a con job?
How are you sure the high resolution pictures proving this were not themselves faked?
Just a thought
شب بخیر
Not kidding
Have a look at http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/storydetail.php?irn=470&master=424
This is about 1/10th of the East Timor site !
Posted in Olympus PEN Mini E-PM1
My worry
Being a long term user of Olympus cameras, my OM-4 Ti is still going strong, I just hope Olympus can survive the financial mess it seems to be in at the moment.
Pardon
"We found that the turbulent eddies on the surface of the plasma produced surface flows that eventually grow large enough to shred the eddies, turning off the turbulence," says Schmitz. "Much like the population of predators and prey find a balance in the wild, we find that the plasma flow and the plasma turbulence reach an equilibrium in the tokamak plasma."
Err ?
I thought the whole point of Lotka–Volterra equations were their ability to generate totally unstable outcomes.
Why not try?
OpenIndiana
See http://openindiana.org/
That has ZFS!
Have a look.
My Finnish is rather poor but looking at their web site http://www.patriootti.com/ is rather informative.
A link to a video from Ex-Grand Wizard David Duke and a cartoon about Israeli nuclear weapons suggest they worry about Zionism quite a lot!
Dead my a**e
Had to pop into Boots this afternoon to get my glasses sorted. Whilst waiting for the guy to come back I looked around at the computers.
All using XP, no sign of Vista, Windows 7 or any Linux machines.
Works for them!
Don't care which computer I use!
Just as long as it has a spell checker! (Is that one or two words?)
But
There is always the question of perspective, impartial doesn't mean not taking sides.
Recently the BBC showed clips of demonstrations it claimed were in Libya but were in fact India.
Now I put that down to cock-up but other people think it's all part of a sinister plot.
Basically I will defend the BBC as one of the best broadcasting outfits in the world but don't kid yourself it does not push the states agenda.
Just look at how much more coverage the revolt in Egypt got compared to the one in Bahrain.
Of course Egypt is a much bigger country but does anyone think the BBC are going to start annoying the Saudis?
By the way Press TV maybe bonkers but it can be good fun at times
There has to be one!
Waiting for the first joke about "pundits"
Filesystems
Interesting they chose XFS and say they will also look a Lustre and GPFS.
However I would like to see them do it under ZFS!
And?
What if your name is Michael Gove?
Posted in Oracle's UK server bellyache continues
There is only one way to sort this out!
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!!
Only joking!
Horn of Africa?
Not sure how close you would get to that bit from China.
Also guess Chinese ships might have a fairly robust attitude to pirates a bit like the old Soviet ones were supposed to have.
Basically their merchant ships were rather well armed!
Yes
As above, you got the cash now move on please!
Agreed!
That's why I put "some" in capital letters.
Cutting Redtape
What's the bet the thing that really irks "SOME" employers is all that Health and Safety rubbish.
I did an apprenticeship with BP in 1979 and some of the stuff we did and worked with was really dangerous stuff (hydrazine anyone?)
Symptoms of acute (short-term) exposure to high levels of hydrazine may include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, dizziness, headache, nausea, pulmonary edema, seizures, coma in humans. Acute exposure can also damage the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system. The liquid is corrosive and may produce dermatitis from skin contact in humans and animals. Effects to the lungs, liver, spleen, and thyroid have been reported in animals chronically exposed to hydrazine via inhalation. Increased incidences of lung, nasal cavity, and liver tumors have been observed in rodents exposed to hydrazine.
Luckily BP did take Health and Safety more serious than a lot of companies I have worked for.
Just feel sorry for the poor buggers who for £2.50 an hour who will be exploited and most likely some will die.
Still every little helps when generating profit eh!
Remind me!
How much does this service from Facebook cost?
Same old story
"However, speaking in general, Roy Grimsey, director at Harvey Nash, said that wage reductions for staff, whether contract or permanent, could be useful in the current climate"
Assume by "in general" he means other people taking a pay cut not actually him!
DTrace
"and with DTrace, they can do things he says they've never done before."
Personally DTrace enabled me to see things I've never understood and probably never will!
Posted in Death haunts government petitions site
No need, we have all the organs we need!
Well at least kidneys!
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Debthit-students-urged-to-sell.6811975.jp
xml
Now if your data was in xml we might have an idea of what on earth you are on about!
What did the Baptists do wrong?
How much can he con from them?
And now!
Nicked :-)
Another candidate
Don't dislike REM but prefer "Man on the Moon" by Sugar!
Posted in FBI probes claims of Murdoch 9/11 hack
Yes not exactly impartial
But it does make you think the Mirror thinks it's clean otherwise why "go to the mattresses"?
Opinion
David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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