Posts by H2Nick91 posts • joined Friday 9th February 2007 12:58 GMT
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Shouldn't that be 10 mountain bikes ?
:)
Using Dollar bill size 6.6294 x 15.5956 cm
9.8 x 10 ^^ 10 USD
10 ^^ -10 to convert sq cm to sq km
gives just over 1000 sq km
Wales area seems to be about 20770 sq km, so just under a twentieth of a Wales.
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when the paper goes tits-up
Maybe you also skip the "previously on..." recap & the next week trailer as well as the TV station trailers...
That can reduce some stuff considerably...
I've set one button on my Humax PVR to skip 3 mins forward, & that gets past the majority of ad breaks exactly, so all I see it the bumper with a slight jump.
So a nominal "hour" program has 3x3 minute commercials, = the 9 in max.
But I don't need to watch them, so I'm happy.
So despite the fact the UK's been in recession several years (I'm ignoring the growth of 0.made_up_percent) it seems the Gov spunk-o-tron is still in overdrive.
Thing that get's me is that they never seem to learn
eg buying £250 milion worth of helicopters then keeping them in storage as they didn't buy the reqd software...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/6085909/MoD-software-blunder-keeps-Chinook-helicopters-grounded.html
It's much worse than a simple "fail"
While I can see that one SAP system could support a load of local councils (not just 2), so provide good value, the public sector IT record says we will probably be reading "lessons learned" in about 2016, once this is all scrapped..
It's not even like Haringey has a good record so far...
http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/issues/haringey-council
Spot on !
If the standard levels are close to sweet FA, then 30 x SFA = still SFA
Sounds like FUD.
Jail them but outsource it.
I hear Morroco has some nice ones...
Less fun for the perps & cheaper for everyone else.
Nasty.
OK - I just read the steps to avoid ID theft, including the gem where one govt dept recommends opting out of the edited electoral register, run by another govt dept.
Well here's an idea - if HM Govt knows it helps ID theft, then why doesn't HM Govt scrap it & stop selling these details.
Result would be less ID theft & less junk mail & less crim aiding & abetting by HM Govt.
Sadly, with the govt record on IT spending, it's more likely to be £30 billion spent for something that dosen't really work...
a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster ?
Reminds me of a 1994 article in IBM system user "If operating systems were airlines"
DOS Air
All the passengers go out onto the runway, grab hold of the plane, push it till it gets into the air, hop on, jump off when it hits the ground again.
Windows Air
The terminal is very neat & clean, the attendants are all very attractive, the pilots very capable.
The fleet of Lear jets the company operates is immense. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushing above the clouds and, at 20,000 feet, it explodes without warning.
Looks like he let the little head do the thinking...
Naked kiddie in bath?
Call The Paedofinder General !
As soon as you see "self funding" anywhere, you know you will either be paying for something useless (like ID cards) or paying for something previously paid for out of general taxation.
What's £2.7 million in these affluent times.
They must be, as barely a day goes by without another politician "making a commitment" on how He/She will spend billions.
Actually I spose we should count ourselves lucky they didn't commision some IT.
If they'd done that it would be £2.7 billion instead of million
Great - country's almost bust & the state spunks money on crap like this.
Not to mention the dubious "fishing" aspects of the article
Population.
Needs to be reduced.
Example : Recently, the Bangladesh finance minister warned that 20 million might be forced to leave the country due to climate change in the next 40 years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/30/rich-west-climate-change
This is less than the expected growth in population, which has nearly doubled in the last 30 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangladesh-demography.png
Est 156 million now
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html
Time for (more?) state-sponsored contraception
If they average £90K, I doubt many are receiving tax credits/benefits
More generally, HMRC should tax UK generated profits (not like at present where Google, News International etc pay nearly sweet FA).
Maybe they would have got more tax if they hadn't been so busy with their own tax dodging schemes (Stuff like where they sold all their buildings to Mapely Steps, who were gave the best price as they pay no UK tax...)
My Quad core PC still hangs for a few seconds while Windows decides it needs to refresh something or other.
I'm sure another 12 cores will make no difference.
Ditto startup - that always seems to wait, rather than really running stuff in parallel.
like these guys had
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/golgafrincham.shtml
Maybe they could cut some of the police budget - they clearly have too much if they can afford to waste time chasing photographers
After recent reports that their Irish branch protected dozens of paedos masquerading as priests, they should just STFU & get their own house in order.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6662086/Catholic-Church-in-Ireland-given-immunity-for-child-sexual-abuse-cover-up-report-says.html
Assume I'm 15 & my mates at school have GBs of songs I'd like a copy of.
What am I going to do - spend ages on the net or just get a copy with a 16GB memory stick...
Meanwhile, if gas/leccy can cut people off by mistake & take months to correct errors, how long do you think it will take ISPs to restore connections, due to misdiagnosis of packets etc ?
(especially as this has no effect on physical wellbeing)
EG of pensioner cut off
http://www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk/news/s/1033775_electricity_cut_off_for_six_months
Dumb & Dumber
& I thought sun was ageing...
"and sex is nothing compared to a lifetime of happy memories."
You're not doing it right then !!!
There I was, thinking there was a recession & that HM Gov would be cutting unnecessary spending.
Guess pi55ing away another £500K doesn't really matter
...looks like some very good coders have crossed to the dark side.
As requested in the first 2 posts - what detects/gets rid of it ???
XP does mostly what I want (with a few annoying random freezes) & seems fairly stable too.
Why would I want to get W7 & have to relearn where M$ has decided to put everything this time...
Hopefully by the time I need to upgrade it will be simple enough to go to Ubuntu or similar.
I don't want to pay M$ any more to have to jump thru their hoops (eg WGA) for DRMd crap (eg fista file copy)
& I can create mp3s as & when I need them
Fancy me not being citizeny enough to know which year over 100 years ago women got the right to vote... & a load of other pretty irrelevent fails
Yep - after 100 copies it's broken & can be copied no more...
How the f@ck can "supplies" of software run out ???
I'm guessing anything stronger & closer to what I really feel re Phorm might have got moderated....
Are you kidding ???
What about the removal of the 10% tax rate then - he either didn't think it through or he very cynically didn't care that some of the poorest people would see their tax nearly doubled -
(not quite doubled, as personal allowance was originally going to be increased by (only) £210)
I think he tries hard to do the right thing (just fails miserably), which only leaves not-very-bright
This will work to eBay's favour I think..
Heard it on the telly breakfast news & on the radio news too.
Oxygen of publicity etc..
Yeah - & Jean Charles de Menezes was wearing a puffer jacket, running & jumped the barrier...
Best guess here is that they hope the tapes have been erased already...
22000 of the critters
Do hope I don't get to many nightmares triggered by the the Über-Wacqui image though...
...Like Newham Council managed (I speculate) a few years ago
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39163383,00.htm
Not much on googling radio WTF2 either
Like he's got a choice now
Sack the parasitic waste of space.
We should have minimum IQ requirements for MPs.
a) Get the costs subsidised in return for access to the data by Phorm-like peddlars
b) Let the scope creep - after all, the prevention of terrorism has now been used to :
- Keep the MP Walter Wolfganh out of the Labour conference
- Freeze Icelandic bank assets in the UK
- probably more....
