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TACD posted:I have no idea where to find it now, but I remember reading a good essay on this at some point. The overall gist was that people who aren't Good With Computers often have trouble because it's very unclear what it's doing, and why, and which bits are important, and so on. A household appliance on the other hand specifically does one thing, often in an obvious and intuitive way. The genius of the iOS paradigm is that it turns a very complicated universal computer into a very powerful universal appliance by removing or hiding all the unnecessary guff and dedicating the whole device to doing one thing at a time. You press the camera button and your phone becomes a camera, until you tell it to be a calculator or a music player. Palm did that way earlier (and was a commercial product too), down to the scrollable icon-based list of apps which you can get off internet. Even shareware was prolific there. The things that Apple did bring to the table were multi-touch and gestures. And incidentally Apple funds quite a bit of research too, they've founded OpenCL and ARM for one. e: 93 A.D.: Not much happened, some Christians got prosecuted in Rome. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:It's the stock image from seven years ago that shows that Jeremy Corbyn is unfit to lead the Labour party, my op ed in the Telegraph. You are Jonathan Jones and I claim my £5.
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Private Speech posted:founded OpenCL Now if only they'd ever update their implementation of it. Apple didn't found ARM though, despite giving them lots of money over a very long period of time.
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Pork Pie Hat posted:You are Jonathan Jones and I claim my £5. I read this thing and I don't have a single clue what his point or joke was supposed to be. It's a staggeringly incoherent torrent of slurry.
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Noxville posted:I read this thing and I don't have a single clue what his point or joke was supposed to be. It's a staggeringly incoherent torrent of slurry. It's peak Granuid, basically.
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Oberleutnant posted:Nixon specifically ordered the CIA to "make the economy scream" in Chile when it elected Allende on a platform of nationalisation. But really latinamerica.txt and middleeast.txt so yeah. I think you mean everywhere.txt :killinghopesay:
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josh04 posted:Now if only they'd ever update their implementation of it. Apple didn't found ARM though, despite giving them lots of money over a very long period of time. I suppose it depends on how you define founded. They made them spin-off from Acorn, and funded the venture. link quote:In the early 1990s Apple was developing a “Personal Digital Assistant” called Newton and were looking for a low power processor to power it. Apple was very interested in ARM but were reluctant to base a product on Acorn’s IP and so ARM Ltd. was founded on 27th November 1990 as a joint venture between Apple, Acorn, and VLSI Technology. The first office was in a beautiful 17C converted barn just outside Cambridge UK . Apple put in £1.5M of cash, Acorn put in the 12 Engineers who had worked on ARM and VLSI provided the design tools. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Guavanaut posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...meron-says.html e: Well, not quite nobody, I think in maybe a Guardian piece they had a couple of quotes from people complaining that their budgets were cut and that's unlikely to make things better, but they're never actually confronted on it e2: The comments on that article are amazing, real people complaining about the UN charter on the rights of the child and how oppressive it is and how social services are harassing them and are misandrist etc. I'm willing to bet there's a good reason that social services are getting called on them XMNN fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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ultrabindu posted:Labour MP Jess Phillips pledges to openly 'knife' Jeremy Corbyn if he fails to perform "You take the right sphere, the truth ends. You read up the news and believe whatever you want to be told. You take the left sphere, you stay in 21th century, and I show you how deep this toryhell goes."
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LemonDrizzle posted:That's alright, we'll just fill the gaps in the rosters with locums who cost ten times as much per hour as regular nurses but are massively more overworked. Just-in-time approaches work well in supply chain management so there's no reason they can't work equally well with human resources! From the last page but unfortunately that won't even be an option to fill the gaps any more. As of a few weeks ago, agency rates are now capped: http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Care-News/agency-pay-cap-comes-into-effect-today As far as I'm aware the big money locum shifts are the ones where the hospital is desperately phoning round at 5 for someone to cover a 12 hour shift starting at 6pm on a Friday or Saturday night. I tried to find some stats on how many locum shifts are covered by doctors/nurses/allied health professionals who are already in substantive posts but couldn't find anything useful. I'd wager it's a reasonable percentage, and this will just remove the only incentive they had to work another 12 hours on their 60 hour week when they don't have to.
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Jedit posted:Add in that endocrinal clinics are so overworked now that they no longer do blood glucose tests on diabetics, just HbA1c. There is zero reason for clinics to measure precise blood glucose over hba1c given how easily and accurately people with diabetes can check it themselves. I really don't think it's a cost thing, just it would be a complete waste of time with no medical benefit.
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Hello all, want to read about how poo poo things are? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35093837 Beeb posted:Domestic abuse: Police nearly 'overwhelmed' by increase Although hopefully at least in part this is indeed due to improved reporting of such crimes and a greater willingness to come forward, I'd be startled if the entire statistic can be explained by that. I'd wager the same pressures that are encouraging abusive behavior are those very same austerity measures that are stopping the cops from responding adequately and ramping up the parts of their forces that deal with such crimes, and if I'm right that's a Tory twofer right there!
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Can we have a rule to the effect that only good, happy, uplifting news can be posted between the hours of 6am and 10am? I struggle enough in the mornings as is, and news about a rise in domestic assaults is just.... you know. I suggest something to do with puppies or like a cat adopting an orphaned fox cub or whatever.
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Oberleutnant posted:Can we have a rule to the effect that only good, happy, uplifting news can be posted between the hours of 6am and 10am? Combine that news with the report from yesterday that due to funding cuts almost all of the womens shelters will be forced to close.
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UKMT: Getting through the day one happy hour at a time
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serious gaylord posted:Combine that news with the report from yesterday that due to funding cuts almost all of the womens shelters will be forced to close. This.... this is exactly the opposite of what i asked for
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SA has a thread dedicated to cute pet pictures, if you’re coming to UKMT for good news you’re making things very difficult for yourself. That said, when things are darkest never forget that David Cameron hosed a Dead Pig.
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Oberleutnant posted:Can we have a rule to the effect that only good, happy, uplifting news can be posted between the hours of 6am and 10am? The mirror has you covered for that http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/feel-good-news
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Oberleutnant posted:Can we have a rule to the effect that only good, happy, uplifting news can be posted between the hours of 6am and 10am?
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Noxville posted:I read this thing and I don't have a single clue what his point or joke was supposed to be. It's a staggeringly incoherent torrent of slurry. Congratulations, you have now read every Jonathan Jones column.
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LemonDrizzle posted:I did mention it yesterday, but it bears repeating: Chelsea. There you go. They got beaten by Leicester City 2-1?
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Oberleutnant posted:Did I already do an effort post itt about how every bit of high technology in an ipad is derived from publicly funded scientific research or the military? Or did I just think about doing it and then not bother? I had a list somewhere and I'll be hosed if I can remember where I put it. At the very least the touchscreen and internet came from CERN with input from the US Military who also brought along GPS, and as I recall mobile telephony got its start in american government research in dubya dubya two. Obviously the computer had huge amounts of development funded by governments.
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Noxville posted:I read this thing and I don't have a single clue what his point or joke was supposed to be. It's a staggeringly incoherent torrent of slurry. e: quote:Every attack on Corbyn makes him more famous, and ours is a celebrity age. His supporters are right to hold on to that. Don’t the Conservative party and Tristram Hunt know there’s no such thing as bad publicity? The Oldham byelection proved it. The trouble is, most people don’t pay much attention to politics. What actually gets through to the non-political from all this endless denunciation of Corbyn is just a beard and a name. He’s unelectable? Yeah, but he looks kind. A bit like Father Christmas. my only regret is that this guy is clearly a loving idiot so he's probably wrong XMNN fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Private Speech posted:I suppose it depends on how you define founded. They made them spin-off from Acorn, and funded the venture. link edit: RIP RISC OS, you were too beautiful for this fallen world
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I thought Johnathan Jones was building up to make a point about how hysterical the coverage of Corbyn was but no, it's just a complaint about how it isn't working. Is this Right Wing comedy? No wonder it's never taken off.
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Lucy Allan just posted (then deleted) this on Facebook. Do Tory MPs having meltdowns count as good news?
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Baron Corbyn posted:Lucy Allan just posted (then deleted) this on Facebook. Do Tory MPs having meltdowns count as good news?
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I didn't know where Telford was so I looked it up on Google Maps.
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http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2015/12/15/email-row-telford-mp-lucy-allan-now-faces-grilling-over-video/ Apparently she also posted then deleted a video, but I can't find it.
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XMNN posted:http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2015/12/15/email-row-telford-mp-lucy-allan-now-faces-grilling-over-video/ Is this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7HbOB2POWo
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Private Speech posted:Palm did that way earlier (and was a commercial product too), down to the scrollable icon-based list of apps which you can get off internet. Even shareware was prolific there. The things that Apple did bring to the table were multi-touch and gestures. The Opera browser had gestures as far back as 2001, it used to be one of their unique things compared to other browsers. Apple in general doesn't invent stuff; it refines what's already out there, claims it invented it then sells it for $$$. Edit: though even they don't claim they 'founded' ARM. The UK megathread of all places is a weird place to claim that, it's like our one big high tech company. Edit edit: RISC OS is still around, btw. You can run it on a Raspberry Pi. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Baron Corbyn posted:Lucy Allan just posted (then deleted) this on Facebook. Do Tory MPs having meltdowns count as good news? I love how she's double downing on "I never edited a letter to add a death threat" despite it being blatantly obvious that's exactly what she did.
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Sounds like it.
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Baron Corbyn posted:Lucy Allan just posted (then deleted) this on Facebook. Do Tory MPs having meltdowns count as good news? Zephro posted:The only customers for integrated circuits through the 60s and early 70s was the American military, because 1) they wanted to put them in nuclear missiles and 2) they were too expensive for anyone else. The government was Fairchild Semiconductor's only customer for years. Silicon Valley owes its existence to decades of military procurement. Zephro posted:edit: RIP RISC OS, you were too beautiful for this fallen world
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Baron Corbyn posted:Lucy Allan just posted (then deleted) this on Facebook. Do Tory MPs having meltdowns count as good news? Rusty Shackleford loving lol.
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Anybody catch this hilarity this morning? Hackers Trace ISIS Twitter Accounts to DWP IP Addresses quote:Hackers have claimed that a number of Islamic State supporters' social media accounts are being run from internet addresses linked to the Department of Work and Pensions
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feedmegin posted:Edit edit: RISC OS is still around, btw. You can run it on a Raspberry Pi. I dug up an Archimedes emulator, too.
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WE'RE EXPORTING PRECIOUS BRITISH IP ADDRESSES TO TERRORISTS
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If only the Department of Work and Pensions hadn't sold ISIS this advanced " Zephro fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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Guavanaut posted:Isn't saying "a female" one of the hallmarks of MRA poo poo? Zephro posted:WE'RE EXPORTING PRECIOUS BRITISH IP ADDRESSES TO TERRORISTS
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