Re: If prices go up, we'll know who to blame.
"thay have armed border guards at every crossing?"
Not these days, but I remember the news during the 70s..
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I know I'm slowing down with age but...
Apple allocate a number of phones for sale prior to announcement.
(these are for retail sale, sale through other shops, sale online, sale other online etc)
Said electro-goodies are then piled up in warehouses ready for dispatch.
A number of people unable to get to (or not wanting to be seen in?) a queue outside a shop, place orders online.
These orders >> number allocated, so all orders delayed?!?
You'd think that those who baggsied a phone first in pre-order before the allocation was reached would get theirs when it was available. Everyone after then has to wait until the next load arrive on blighty's shores.
Is there something I'm missing, save a few neurons?
It's not the last chance of independence. The last chance of independence is the one where they vote for independence and then go independent.
There's nothing stopping another 5 or 10 years (or however long) passing and if there's a political will for another referendum, then there will be one.
By comparison, the bid for Irish home rule (a devolved government) started in 1880-ish. It was in 1922 that the independent Irish Free State was created.
While Scotland may already have regional offices for many functions carried out across the (current UK), they will need to create head offices for those organizations based futher south.
They'll want their own: DVLA (Swansea), UKAS (not the university one), IPO, Companies House, MHRA (all London), HSE (Liverpool), Space Agency (Swindon?), Ordnance Survey (Southampton), Met Office (Exeter), Medical Research Council, UCAS. So many acronyms and abbreviations needing an extra "S"....
They'll also be able to nationalise the railways - all change at Carlisle and Berwick, something that may or not be called "Royal Mail". And other fun stuff.
They'll also want a Staff College for their armed forces as they are staying in NATO.
Some stuff will be entirely internal to the surgery system.
A GP could have a consultation, write a prescription, book the patient back for three more visits and it could all be internal up save the prescription being sent to HSCIC for the central records eg the GP Presentation Level Prescribing Data (available for download in monthly chunks if you fancy flicking through it)
But initiate a scan, or some tests and the messages are sure to start flying....
Not commenting on the specifics of this case, but in general
If a banking executive or other money handling organization can make a problem disappear through the application of money, then isn't there going to be the temptation of taking a chance in the expectations (hope?) that the funds accumulated can be used to avoid prison if it gets found out.
Would the guarantee of a prison sentence if convicted of these sort of "white collar crimes" be more or less likely to keep people on the straight and narrow?
Just for safety's (and privacy) sake, you could make the drone follow the line of the roads so that it doesn't overfly anyone's property and cause annoyance etc.
Don't forget to put some wheels on it for soft landings. In cases where trees and other overhead obstacles compromise flying it could then use the wheels to do part of the journey on the ground. Don't forget to make it a strong colour so it can be seen - yellow or red are good.
To be more cost and routing efficient you could make a bigger one to carry more parcels and packages, though initially the rotors might not be up to the job and it would need to use the wheels. Tell you what, take off the rotors and give it a new name - how about "Van"
A completely unjustifiable thought no doubt, but could this be a bit of distraction on google's part.
Electric cars, delivery drones, and the like. Some of which work, some of which won't but all publicly burning up cash.
So when the man in the street asks his neighbour, "what does google do with all that advertising revenue?" His neighbour says "driverless cars". "Oh, really", says the man, "did you watch the game last night"
Meanwhile, somewhere underneath a dead volcano, google execs are assembling the progenitors of the master race......
Perhaps I've misunderstood, but a defibrillator needs to be on location, or very near by, before the emergency. Hence the push to get the automatic kind (AED) into shopping malls, community centres and the like.
picture on this page http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/life-saving-skills/defibrillators.aspx shows one marked "IPAD" (apparently from Public Access Defibrillation )
"there any special gadgetry for those with a taste for tea"
No, there is no special gadgetry, but plenty of traps for the unwary to be parted from his money.
If you want boiling water, take a container, put water in it, apply heat. remove heat before all the water has evaporated. if you can't be around to monitor this fascinating process, any of the large supermarkets will sell you something that will do this for less than a tenner.
If you want water at a certain temperature less than boiling, get a calculator and work out how much tap water (about 11 degrees C typically?) is needed to add to the boiling water to get the right result. More fun and cheaper. You can save the money for trying out different teas.
If you need a lot of boiling water on tap, get a Burco, or a Hydroboil wall mount - your kitchen will look like the annex to a village hall but call it "retro". At the same time, get one of those teapots that take about a gallon of water. Even if a synod of thirsty prelates turned up you'd still be able to say "more tea, vicar" before refilling.
So 6 complaints out of a viewership of around 8 to 9 million - seems quite underwhelming.
How many complained about the portrayals of other things in the episode, eg
1) setting a non-dangerous T-Rex alight
2) the Doctor threatening a Victorian homeless person (played by Brian Miller, Liz Sladen's husband if you're interested) and possibly robbing him
3) Organ-harvesting robots
4) The Doctor pushing (or not?) a sentinent being to its death
Same principles as the invention of the 1st US Army Group and British Fourth Army in the lead up to the Normandy landings. For the deception to be convincing, it not only has to look right but also behave right. The Allied preparations included some fake installations and camps but a lot of authentic looking signal traffic.
Perhaps they could also make the systems browse the internet during lunch hours.
Anyone invented a honeypot that is actually a Q-ship?
well, as the article says "...Copyright Office, the matter is formally settled" - in the US.
Which is good for wikpedia/Wikimedia Foundation because they rely upon US copyright law. In their own words "accepts content that is free in the United States even if it may be under copyright in some other countries"
But if another country found that it was Slater's copyright, then in that country he could claim royalties. I guess it depends whether he thinks it's worth the fight.
"text reader (e.g. SMS.."
My Winphone has read text messages out to me since I bought it last year. When I have headphones in anyway.
Personally, I think the unbundling of the audio (music, video, podcasts, third-party apps) under the "Music" tile was a bad idea; though now the podcasts feature does work in the UK (on the other hand, it took them long enough by which time I'd found a very good Podcast app to make up for the gap)
Installing apps on the SD card a good one, again a bit late to that party. Good for me; not because I fill my phone with apps but because I find that the free phone memory space gets slowly eaten up (I suspect the system caches photos from the social media notifications etc)
It brings in a modicum of income for the council, which is not of itself a bad thing.
But it's only reasonable provided the product electorate are properly informed and enabled to make the decision for themselves.
In the olden days, the likes of 192 would have to copy the names and addresses off a printed copy - which would be one way of slowing them down...
"...that you can learn something useful about programming from scratch in an “Hour of Code”.
Perhaps the first thing useful to be learnt about programming could be a half-hour beforehand in which it is explained what programming is, and how it is used.
[My son - 9 - has been using Scratch at his school. And has shown a passing interest in it outside of school. He also learnt the name "C#" somewhere along the way. I couldn't explain what C# is or how it differs from Scratch, let alone any other C-language, but he can now namedrop "Assembler", "Fortran", "Pascal" and "BBC Basic" as well (it's the least I could do)]
"Welsh Slough-based Logicalis"
headquartered in Slough for one business reason, but employing personnel within the principality for others?
any reason it couldn't go the whole hog and be a wholly Welsh company. If it had been a Scottish York-based company I'd have made up some jibe about a tartan fig-leaf, is there a Welsh equivalent?
What happened to form following function?
sounds like a waste of energy in design on making it a bit prettier in belief it might edge a sale. While in reality, for most people these days the engine bay contains more arcane mysteries than a wizard's library and owners scarcely lift the bonnet except to top up the wash bottle.
design, if you must, for design's sake but make it look electrical not petrolhead: like something from Metropolis or ST:TNG
I'm afraid then @keef, that best you can hope for is Industrial Tribunal for constructive dismissal
keep clean, but also keep lots of notes, companies who are bad at management are usually bad at all sorts of paperwork so you might get a crack at illegal dismissal as well as unfair dismissal.
but as others suggested, you are better off out. And take them to the cleaners from there. A proud man might turn down any non-disclosure element of a settlement in order that the company's misdeeds are publicised. But a poor man might prefer the extra money
You are already protected by various employment acts that have passed over the years.
what does your contract say about overtime? Does it specify the length of the working week?
Raise the issue with your manager, their manager, HR, talk to CAB, a union rep... But don't put up with it.
In general they seem to be made up of the companies that make their money out of networking, or devices. But not the companies that actually make the kit that might be expected to be joined over this internetmarketing bod's wet dream of things.
No Hotpoint or Honeywell, Miele or Bosch? Are these standards being develops, in isolation from the end devices? Orr will Bekoes et al be expected to like it or lump it.
I think electric drills with torque "control" meant Yankee screwdrivers fell out of favour. Stanley don't do them anymore. Still they did the job at the time, and had replaceable tips.
But for real torque that you can get your weight behind, put a screwbit into a "brace and bit" drill.