This morning I must have woken up on a different planet
I know I did because I read a positive story in El Reg on an NHS IT subject.
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(presumably that's how Kurgan would view me) I can't understand his/her point. Growing artificial livers seems OK to me: no more against God's will than artificial knee-joints, coronary artery bypass surgery or public health measures to prevent disease (the field I work in).
I think his/her comments say more about him/her than about the subject of this article.
Icon? Couldn't resist! Who'd have guessed - a God-squaddie with sense of humour. How unstereotypical!
I find myself in the odd position of agreeing with David W (an American perhaps?). Though I still have reservations about the 'Team America World Police' thing which is pervasive even though the splendid Mr Obama (for so he is) has changed the White House's direction on this issue. I look forward to the same change in the general population's mindset (with more hope than expectation).
"Maybe, in the grey, grey, gloom of midsummer, with the nostalgic stupor of the French, the passionless precision of the Swiss and the Teutonic "Vorsprung durch Technik" just a one-armed dog paddle and a quick jog away, your heart is an insulated plastic cool box within which lies the sogged leftover meat paste sandwiches of regret, but down here, where even the deepest winter is a glory of sunshine and blue skies from horizon to horizon, our Eskis are packed solid with frosty bottles of home-brewed opportunity. Slightly hoppy with an afternote of malt and new hope. Have one. Theres plenty to go around."
Forget FOTW - can we have a mention for the best prose? Give this guy a job on the Reg!
... if my travel arrangements had been disrupted by this. I was flying back to the UK through Logan (fortunately terminal B).
Having lived in London through the bombings in the '70s I can understand the reaction of both the authorities and the public at the total idiocy and lack of thought of this kid. Anyone walking through an airport at the present time with a bunch of electronics and a handful of Play-doh has obviously not thought through the consequences of their actions and should be left in no doubts as to the magnitude of their stupidity. "She's kind of counter culture. She's prone to do whimsical things" the news article puts it. No, not whimsical. Just stupid, thoughtless, ill-judged and offensive.
A card for charging small-value transactions is a good idea (though with the price of second-rate coffee in some of the chains in London it can hardly be classed as 'small-value') but why Oyster? I wonder how many people top up Oyster cards for their teenagers to make sure they can always get home in the evenings and will find they are paying for coffee, burgers, possibly booze and other stuff?
Will there be an 'opt-out' for categories of purchase and how long before tech-savvy kids find ways of getting round it?
Think again, tfl.
I've been a Pandora listener for a while now and as a result of introducing me to new groups that I had not heard before I have bought several CDs that I would not otherwise have considered. And from someone who buys only a few CDs per year, that represents a large increase in my music purchases, new money coming into the industry. Multiply that by the number who have done the same, it's an industry gain, not loss.
Typical of the unimaginative, uncreative approach beloved of a supposedly creative industry who are unable to distinguish between piracy and legitimate listening.
Or perhaps they are worried that if we listened to moreof the music instead of watching the videos and absorbing the hype we'd never buy anything?
"MSDN is a gift to you. You should be honored to have access of any kind."
Let's see who benefits most from this: after all, the more applications are written for their OS, the "better" it looks. Microsoft derives huge revenues from its operations, and if there were few third-party apps produced, would it have such a large user base?
I would say that, contrary to the above comment, Microsoft is almost totally dependent for its market position on the efforts of third-party producers, and it makes sound business sense to assist them in every way possible, including decent software development information and tools.
So it's not an honour: the development community is keeping Microsoft in business.