Re: <misty eyed>
Seconded. Still the proud owner of an NTK tee shirt.The "Elite" one.
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> we can get ourselves a new government if they don't fix it.
You'd like to think so. Others are not so sure.
Britain’s one-party state
Labour’s implosion leaves Britain without a functioning opposition. That is more dangerous than many realise
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21707209-labours-implosion-leaves-britain-without-functioning-opposition-more-dangerous
That sort of thing has already happened...
" I crashed my car playing Pokémon Go
"I saw this Lapras was close. As it’s a water-type creature I assumed it must be down by the nearby lake. I jumped into my younger brother’s car
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/05/playing-pokemon-go-crashed-car-experience
One effect of the Brexit vote is that there has been a huge upswing in support for the EU across the continent .
"Support for the European Union has surged to multi-year highs in the bloc’s biggest countries following last month’s Brexit vote, according to a poll that will disappoint Eurosceptic parties hoping to usher their own nations out of the EU.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/eu-support-surges-in-big-european-countries-after-brexit-vote/article31017083/
Except that Great Britain is the name of the island that comprises England, Scotland and Wales.
So, if Scotland leaves we can't call what's left the UK (the union of the the kingdoms of Scotland and England) nor Great Britain, because we only have half the island.
Not that only having part of the continent stops the USA referring to themselves as "America".
True, but our Intellectual Property laws are such that no other company can take on support for Windows XP until 2096 or thereabouts, even though Microsoft don't want it. They should either support it, sell it to a willing third party, or open source it so we can all support and develop it collaboratively.
If you follow the link to netmarketshare you can see the data in a variety of ways.
Desktop OS share gives Windows 90.72%, Mac OS 7.68%, Linux 1.6%, Other 0%
So Linux at 1.6% has about 1/6th the market share of Windows 8 (inc. 8.1) at 10.58%.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
Cinnamon 2 is already available in other distributions, Fedora for example:
# rpm -qi cinnamon
Name : cinnamon
Version : 2.0.3
Release : 1.fc19
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Wed 23 Oct 2013 11:58:06 BST
Group : Unspecified
Size : 6762352
License : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Sat 19 Oct 2013 02:02:52 BST, Key ID 07477e65fb4b18e6
Source RPM : cinnamon-2.0.3-1.fc19.src.rpm
Build Date : Fri 18 Oct 2013 17:57:02 BST
Build Host : buildvm-16.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : Fedora Project
Vendor : Fedora Project
URL : http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com
Summary : Window management and application launching for GNOME
Description :
Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced
innovative features and a traditional user experience.
The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2.
The underlying technology is forked from Gnome Shell.
The emphasis is put on making users feel at home and providing
them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience.
> Nobody can say whether the LEO lived up to Thompson’s promise to cut expenses or whether
> it helped Lyons become efficient - I asked Frank and Ralph, and they reckon nobody really knew.
You would probably be interested in the following paper:
The Case For The First Business Computer
Author: Nick Pelling, 26th March 2002, Kingston University Business School, Surrey, UK
ABSTRACT
The business cases behind the five proposals made to the board of J.Lyons & Co. by Thompson and Standingford in 1947 - which led to the construction of the first business computer [#1] - are analysed, but found to be strategically lacking. Both an alternate reading of the case and some contemporary implications are then developed.
http://www.nickpelling.com/Leo1.html
We already know there's water on the moon, found by a rover in the 70s. Going back to find more is still a good idea though.
(Phys.org) -- In August 1976 Luna 24 landed on the moon and returned to Earth with samples of rocks, which were found to contain water, but this finding was ignored by scientists in the West.
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-soviet-moon-1970s-west.html
Rubbish. What about Late Junction for just one example? Do Classic FM have anything like that? Not any time I've listened to it. Classic FM seems to have, generally, what I'd term "chocolate box" classical, whereas Radio 3 has a wider variety of music, of all genres, than any other radio station I can think of. Classical, Opera, Rock, Jazz, Folk, Electronica, Experimental, you name it. I've discovered so many great things through hearing them first on Radio 3.
Exactly. I can't find a citation at the moment, but some years ago a research group did the maths for three consecutive years. It turned out that "free" ITV was, in effect, funded by a hidden sales tax of about £230 a year added to your grocery bill. At least if you don't have a TV you don't need to pay the licence fee, try asking Tesco for your TV subsidy back. As I recall the group in question were forced to stop publishing the numbers under pressure from the commercial broadcasters. Shame because I would love to see updated figures.
It's to keep it separate from the government, as with the police and the courts. One of the BBC's prinicpal duties is to be a publicly owned body reliably and accurately reporting to the British people what the government are doing and why. It's one of our safeguards against fascism. Becoming a directly funded media arm of the government itself would be a very, very bad thing.
I've just had a notification pop up that an app (Angry Birds) requires updating. Clicked on the notice and I get the message "By using Google Play you agree to the Google Play Terms of Service, the Google Books Terms of Service and the Youtube Rentals Terms of Service" with accept and decline buttons. I read the first of those (Google Play Terms of Service) and did not like it, especially the bit that says, more-or-less, we reserve the right to delete anything we want off your phone any time we like. So I hit the decline button. That just quits the app, so now I can't update Angry Birds (as it is in this instance). Presumably I now cannot update any of my apps ever again until I accept these new terms, let alone install anything new - not even the ad supported freebies. This is not good at all.
> Musicians can always make money from T-shirts and playing live,
> and as far as I know, no one plans to take that away.
Unfortunately, they do want to take that away:
"Time was when bands would supplement their income from selling
merchandise. Now, though, greedy venues want their share of the proceeds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/jun/11/costoftouring