Re: With any luck .....
Lawrence Kasdan who wrote (or contributed) Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi is part of the writing team and Lucas is still retained as consultant.
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Isn't it more like the difference between iPad/iOS and an Airbook/OS X?
You can't expect to do on the former what you can on the latter. But whereas one can tell the difference between the two Apple products, the Windows 8 on ARM and Windows 8 on x86 appear similar. Similar things are expected, but not delivered.
I'm supposing as its the average domestic user version of Windows8-on-a-tablet, the mail app on the Surface RT is supposed to be simple and do a few things efficiently. Sufficient to enable you to keep in contact with your family, receive newsletters, forward links of youtube videos to your mates.
The mail app can connect to several different types of email accounts - ie presets to make it relatively simple to connect to the major email providers but in theory to any pop/smtp or imap account. It could be seen as a successor to Outlook Express/Live Mail.
By contrast, Outlook does many things for those who use email in a business (or other heavy lifting) situation and it integrates with the rest of the MS office suite and is best in tandem with Exchange. Working offline, it can take a couple of gig of email/attachments etc (all too easy to amass in a business environment) which would be a fair proportion of the RT's available storage if it was achievable.
From my limited experience setting up a Surface RT, it will interact with a home network of computers- particularly the MS homegroup kind - but not with a domain/business network (that might have been me though). Which makes it seem a poor choice for semi-business use in the UK, though given the absence of the Surface Pro for the foreseeable, there wasn't a lot of choice within the MS eco-system.
It may be that an RT can be used for work within a business provided the business can present its content through http (Remote Web Workplace, OWA etc). But then there's a loss of integration with the start menu/tiles (Mail, contacts, Skydrive) and you might as well have had some other device...
I'll agree that some of what you say is true. I remember three channels, the broadcast Shutdown overnight and such and the era before VCRs made it possible to watch films and programmes when they weren't scheduled.
I think there is a lost generation to books, I know (relative) youngsters in their early-late 20s who don't read. They didn't have the need to read as you say.
On the other hand, schools in the UK are trying to improve literacy in all its forms through encouraging reading.
My son's school base target is for every child to read to their parents for 15mins a day.
An NHS trust defines anonymised data as "data concerning an individual from which the identity of the individual cannot be determined"
"In practice, anonymised data should exclude the name [list of stuff], and any other information which when combined with other information....available to the recipent could allow the individual to be identified. "
Now if the public version of the data replaced every "Smith" and "Jones" with a number, there would be less of a problem. Up until individuals start making their DNA sequence and surnames available ( Genebook?) and inadvertently providing a new key.
As I haven't read the published article, is it the case with Dr Ventner , that there were only a few individuals in the database from Utah with his age?
+1 for the first paragraph, but I can't support the second.
For a start, law is supposed to be society's rules reflecting its collective mores, and therefore is a form of majority opinion albeit one that changes and evolves with the actual alterations to legislation following in due (or much later) course..
Perhaps it could be possible to find a mechanism whereby you can charge more for safely storing a Porsche than an Astra - both take up roughly the same space but their value differs.
Rather than all your storage being the same flat rate, you could pay less for storing a software distribution package (recreatable content - albeit time and effort) and more for the photo's from a family holiday.
Further the access to the data could be differentiated, your music collection available at a faster download rate than an ebook.
The host system would have to know how you classify your data, or to automate giving you different rates from different data types inspect the data and determine its type.
You are socialising after work and wearing your subtle laser-wielding glasses and meet a person (of either gender) who you find interesting and attractive.
"Can I have your number?", you say.
"Yes", they say - because they do mean it," its 07771 1231456"
"I'll just put that in my phone" you say (and think "this will wow them - or not")
Laser on, tappy tappy on your sleeve.
"was that 1456? or just 456?" you say looking up at them.
"My eyes!", they yell, as the half-finished input is projected directly onto their retina.
Are the fees extortionate? Is it more likely the move is to avoid the added burden of compliance than just the cost of the licence, or are margins that small?
£10,000 for companies worth more than £26 milllion it says in the article. the cost of regulation is £1 per £2,600 which doesn't look much at first glance. Providing extra services cost the company more.
The AVTOD cost for a sub £6.5 million company is £771
In either case, maximum licensing cost for a company is limited to £25,000
Non-profits and tiny commercial operations only have to pay £100 to £200.
On one hand, the rules seem to have been worked out to avoid splitting up providers into smaller, but linked units, to get lower fees and on the other to allow providers to group together to limit the overall cost.
http://www.atvod.co.uk/uploads/files/2012_13_Fee_Tariff.pdf
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rental saved and earned aside, they don't get that £650 million back until they sell (or mortgage) the place.
Up til then they've spent a lot of money which would have gone a lot further if spent elsewhere.
Its not like they need to be in the centre of London, is it? I thought the point of all this techno-wizardry was that business was no longer tied to being next door to its customers.
a quick search at ANSI shows "ISO ICS 49 AIRCRAFT AND SPACE VEHICLE ENGINEERING" as a category listing 530 standards.
I suspect many standards have content that is aligned with ISO9001 but my expertise is only in ISO17025 (requirements for technical competence in testing and calibration) which is a standard that requires one to demonstrate that everything you do is not only according to the manual but has sound technical reasoning underlying it.
@MrXavia
"late opening every week" - that's one night late opening each week, and not every night.
For Norwich it's Thursday. I think that might once have been the half-day closing day.
I don't go down the city as often as I could/should but when I've been there on the weekend its generally busy.
A commentator on the radio said that chains like HMV, JJ Sports, Comet gave a chance at employment experience in retail for those who didn't come out of school with high grades or go on to university.
One advantage that independent department stores may have is that being long established businesses they own the premises and therefore lease/rent on the shopfloor is effectively just internal accounting rather than a drain on the income
Company websites seem quite capable of enforcing me to type a number in the "telephone" part of a webform (though fortunately not all check to see that the digits after the area code aren't 000000), it shouldn't be beyond them to ensure that a customer has ticked either "Yes I enjoy receiving post, even if I have to throw most of it away" or "No, I don't want your mates to send me crap".
Presumably once clear consent has to be achieved with Data Protection, the next stop will be Pre-ticked insurance, and other add-ons to the purchase in web forms (mentioning no Irish economy airlines of course)
Businesses aren't spending money and have just spent most of what they have transitioning to Windows 7 from earlier versions.
But if they weren't expecting to sell many, shouldn't this article be titled
"Microsoft sales of Windows 8 to business much as expected
- nothing to see here, move along, move along"
less punchy I suppose and less likely to draw attention and comment. But if the Metro-haters, or anti-Linux crowd want to express their opinions they will whatever the subject of the article.
Didn't see that mentioned
take two companies in similar business
Company A has tatty old office block and brand new factory with room for expansion
Company B in the next town has office space but an ancient factory filled with new machines.
A merger should see that "A&B Ltd" has the latest equipment in a modern efficient factory and its combined head office staff working not far down the road. Being a bigger player they can tender for larger contracts. and they have two brownfield sites to sell off for redevelopment.
In theory......
Equally, the management merge the two business, lay off the workforce at one site while moving the machinery to the other where they get the factory floor to work twice as hard. Squeeze the office staff into a spare corner of the factory and sell off three sites for housing. Then it's down to the golf course for "a good walk ruined" before into the clubhouse and doubles all round.
"pay for it out of the other tax revenues received."
At which point it would dissappear into some sort of governement accounting type blackhole, and the public would have little to no idea what they are actually paying.
This way it's up front and known about - and you can write letters to the newspapers starting "is this what I pay my licence fee for...."
while many comments have been helpful advice about how to get more power, few if any have congratulated the man on living frugally. Given that energy costs money, this is an example of living within his means (or more accurately his capacity) and one that others could emulate.
I'm not saying I fancy the idea of going without abundant electricity, but a week or two on limited kW through physical rather than monetary constraint might be a way for people to grasp what it means to live in the modern world. Might be a bit fun too.
Another problem with WWI Zeppelins for the Allies was the height at which they flew compared to the wood, linen and wire aircraft of the time.
An Airco DH2 in 1915 took about 25 minutes to reach 5,000 ft. In the time it took to achieve an interception, the Zepppelin could have unloaded its bombs and be flying - even higher - for home.
As anti-submarine patrols, the British put a lot of non-rigid airships into the air. How about using an airship to as escort shipping in pirate zones.
My interpretation of the US and world wars is that in neither case was the US ready for the fight. Staying out allowed them time to organize the manpower and industrial resources.
In both 1914 and 1939, the US did not have either a sizeable body of men in uniform nor the equipment for them to use. The US Navy was smaller than the Royal Navy at the start of the Second piece of unpleasantness, their tanks were useless and there weren't many of them.
That said US industry (and Canada's) both benefitted from the large amounts of cash that the UK was prepared to hand over for war materiel. Canada's "billion dollar gift" part way through the war can be seen as an attempt to keep British orders with Canadian businesses rather than see them move them south of the border under Lend-Lease
Foreign spammers can only spam regular email addresses because the cost of spamming is so low.
In theory, a higher cost to deliver the message should limit it to "genuine" advertising. (Virgin media must spend about a couple of pounds on advertising to me each month - at least one A4 envelope with glossy brochure and a couple of DLs. licence mail around 30p per DL?)
And a few letters from financial services, but I don't get many letters inviting me to contact a Nigerian banker for my share of misappropiated funds.
From what I've read here today, coders know what bad code looks like and that its something they have to write themselves due to the limitations of the situation. Presumably managers either don't know, don't care, or are also mindful of the limitations of "get it done now" and "no, there is no more overtime".
To a non-coder all code looks like a mess of numbers and letters, and bad code looks no worse than good code. Is there a parallel with mechanial engineering where it is said "it it looks right, it is right" ?
Perhaps I've got a "practical" mind, if you took the back off a piece of equipment I could (after some peering about) guess whether it was a bit of a lash up or a properly laid out mechanical masterpiece - a mix up of cables and gears or nicely routed and pinned wiring.
Are there tools that can represent code into a schematic form to make it easier to see how much of a lash-up they are?