Posts by Joss Attridge

They can hit the target

No real reason not to upgrade. The key thing is not even (perhaps) the extra stuff windows 10 offers it is the fact that they are switching to a rolling upgrade cycle after that so no windows 12 in two years. Therefore if you get windows 10 you will have your pc supported until Microsoft dies whereas if you keep on XP or whatever then at some close point your pc will no longer be supported.

Now I know the haters will all shout how common users should just switch to some weird non-ms operating system but it wont happen so there is a good chance that the ecosystem Microsoft proposes will happen.

As an aside Windows 10 seems a good improvement to me and I am enjoying playing around with it. MS have taken great steps to try and improve useability and bloat which is a pleasant change from the Windows 8 'you will use tablet mode'.

Historical figure in missing eye mystery

Wellington the famous two eyed general would have been confounded by the mystery of which working eye to close whilst Nelson the famous one eyed Admiral would not have had such an issue.

JossA

Read a book a few years back which gave a solution to this problem (failing schools, failing cities I think). Anyway he said each county needs remedial schools. Disruptive pupils get sent there where the pupil to teacher ratio starts decreasing until for the worse offenders the pupil teacher ratio becomes 1:1 and there are no other people to play up to.

Removes the worse pupils from the standard schools and ensures the punishment is actually getting educated.

Wont happen though as it will involve money and solves the problem. Cant have any problem solving.

Go for it

Forget the politics Space is probably the best chance humanity has of surviving as we will make ourselves extinct due to our hugely expanding population.

Whichever country can make something happen in space will be the future and if China has the guts then good for them.