Yes, you are quite right. Humans are too greedy and power hungry for such a system to not become corrupt and oppressive. What a shame, hey?

Steven.

I`ve been a bit busy recently, adding value to goods and services in Japan. However, I will address a few points. On the question of what is defined as market capitalism (raised by jephthah), I was...

Hi everyone. Now, I`m sure that by now most of you are pretty tired of hearing the world`s politicians blaming everyone they can think of for the financial crisis, but....bear with me. My argument...

Result:

When you open your eyes again it feels like a inordinately long span of time has passed, almost as long as it was since the last post in this thread. You find yourself in a place of...

Perhaps a worse fate is to survive for so long that we become weary of our own existance and long for it to end. Forever is a long time.

Steven.

Hi. You are certainly correct in saying that even at 0 K a quantum system still contains energy. However, a quantum system in it`s ground state cannot emit any energy because the ground state is...

I wouldn`t have believed time travel was possible through the use of programming, before I watched the Futurama feature length episode "Bender`s Big Score". It turns out you just need to utter the...

Hi. If you gained the ability to look inside every other mind that exists, do you think you would lose the ability to hold any particular point of view, given that you were now aware of how everyone...

Hi. Some people might remember a post made a long time ago, which contained a link to one of this set of irritating games (http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/jeuxchiants/index_eng.htm). Well, as you...

Hi guys and girls. Has anyone else heard the new Radiohead album In Rainbows? The gimmick is, you can choose what yoy want to pay for it on their website.

Steven.

It's more a case of where we'll draw the line. I'd just refuse to give a sample if it came to that. Same with identity cards or having to tell the government the moment I move house. In any case,...

Firstly, I work on a BT Business technical desk in Bristol. I must say Serunsun, there is nothing more satisfying than getting a residential customer come through to you and politely transfering...

I think there is another option to consider here. Perhaps it would benefit some people to ditch the OS concept and run software on the "bare metal". You'd have to write the stuff first of course,...

May I take this opportunity to point out a few other treats from "over the pond" to our American members? OK, great....

1. Phoenix Nights: It's difficult to make Oldham famous, but Peter Kay...

Hi everyone. My apologies if this has already been said but....having come to this thread late I'm too lazy to read all 52 pages. I have read enough to get the gist of it, honest :) . So, what you...

In fact, what you just said makes them seem pretty related. State changes in materials usually do occur as a result in temperature change and it is usually a progressive transition that can occur...

Just a quick update about how the forum is going:

1. The website has "gone multiple", with a Haskell forum being added today.

2. A Major Site Update (MSU) is currently in progress. When it's...

Hello everyone. We were introduced to a nifty little tool in my job today (I'm in broadband tech support). It's called Go To Assist and it lets you "share" a customers desktop to help solve their...

If you think that's bad Davey; prepare to cringe;) . In my work today we were asked to take part in a game about questioning (related to questioning customers). The object was for each team to pick...

Try to get some voluntary work for a while. It is usually easier to get then paid work and can look pretty good on your CV. I worked in Oxfam bookshops voluntarily several times over the last few...

Well, it's no wonder you were a Prolient fan. What a useful feature.

Steven.

As an update to what I said about the job earlier; I failed the trial at the mill and the owner replaced me with someone else :mad: . However, a couple of weeks after that I got a job in a call...

Hello everyone. A few months ago I got a cheap new mobile phone with video recording. I'd just heard about Youtube at the time. So, the obvious came to mind (video myself playing a tune on the...

I read an article in Computer Shopper once (that mag where 70% of the pages were adverts) about one of the staff writers trying to install NT 4.0 on their home PC. This was in the days when NT 4.0...

Surely you're not the oldest member at the moment, but perhaps you will be soon. I mean when Daniweb becomes a teenage hangout zone like Myspace and all the IT pros who know what they're talking...

Hello everyone. You might or might not have heard of these poeple, namely the Bulletin (of the Atomic Scientists):

http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/

Their publications monitor...

Just check my home page again, it's now in place. Be warned that a broken link lurks behind that image, under no circumstances click it (yet) :) . What it will link to soon will be a project...

Well, version 0.5 is now installed on my home page. The following features have been added over version 0.4:

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The front end still looks a bit...

For a minute there I thought something good might come out of this whole thing. Jade Goody, shot? Along with Shilpa and the C4 bosses :p ! Now that's a reality show that would be worth watching. ...

Ah, I see you have seen the dark side as well. I started thinking the words in various songs were talking about me for a while once. As for seeking professional help, I've had mixed experiences. ...

Hello everyone. If you live in the UK and you watch the news this will not need explaining to you. But....that rubbish reality TV show Big Brother on C4 has caused a diplomatic crisis. Why? Jade...

Radiohead - "OK Computer"
Sigur Ros - "Takk"
Flaming Lips - "1983 - 1988 collection"
Nirvana - "In Utero"
Mars Volta - "Deloused in the Comatorium"

Just some that I like. I don't tend to rank...

Perhaps I should have said in the OP, I'm not actually moving house. The mill is just outside my village. Still, a laptop would be nice if I could afford one. At the moment I'd rather spend my...

Hello everyone. After 15 months without a job I have been offered a trial run in a......flour mill (water wheel included, but they don't use it). If I get the job I'll as close as matters be...

Now, take a look at an alternative view point:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

Steven.

What, what? Am I missing somthing here? :confused: . Maybe you're talking about someone with a similar name.

Steven.

None of us would have been born, so we would be nowhere. Which raises an interesting question


Does it feel the same to have never been born as it does to
have once lived and now be dead?
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Hello everyone. Has anyone heard of Sigur Ros (the band from Iceland)? I got their last album for Christmas and its A - mazing :p . They even invented their own language to sing on the songs. If...

Well, I saw the new year in in Bristol with a primal scream. I was in a pub garden with my sister (and loads of others, obviously) and some guy we knew started screaming "aaarrrhhh....". Soon...

Thanks for the feedback Joe. I agree the HTML front end does look a bit ropey. The thing is, the main reason I put an early version online is to see if it can take the heat. If I came back the...