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[NotAllThere]

Welcome to Local Government (and some central)

And a fair few very rich pharma companies.

[basshead]

WTF?

Seriously, even Microserfs don't use that anymore...

Welcome to Local Government (and some central)

[TimberWolf]

Good bit in the Times this morning. Handbags at dawn.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4727894.ece

He [Higgs] has, however, stayed in touch closely enough to pour scorn on the views of Professor Hawking and on scientists who predicted that the LHC might bring the end of the world.

Good for Higgs. I suspect most think finding the Higgs particle is less likely than not finding it though, but it's still good science.

[Hawking] generally considered to be the greatest physicist of his time.

Did someone do a poll, or is this a journalist making things up because he knows fook all?

[Incognito]

The whole Nobel thing and Cern hinges on whether or not they find the Higgs boson. Hawkings thinks they won't and what they will find is something akin to supersymmetric partners to particles already known about. He believes this is the elusive 'dark matter' and if found would go onto to confirm his work on string theory.

I think you're a little bit too dismissive of a very intelligent man (disability or not).

Good bit in the Times this morning. Handbags at dawn.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4727894.ece

[Incognito]

WTF?

Seriously, even Microserfs don't use that anymore... the only reason to have a system still running IE6 is as a debugging platform for web developers, so we can accommodate the needs of those in the Third World using ancient boxes delivered by charities.

If you've more than tuppence in your pocket and don't expect your drinking water to be brought from the well once a day, you have no reason on Earth to be using IE6.

Seriously.

EDIT: and if this is a constraint imposed by your client's IT people, you should point out to them that they are incompetent fools who need to learn their jobs rather than playing some game all day.

I'm not paid to advise them on their internal systems. IR35 and all that.

[NotAllThere]

They just upgraded our desktops. Still on IE6 though.

Doesn't bother me. I run firefox from U3.

[DaveB]

It's ok Zeity, we know you're still on the txt version of the internet. When do they upgrade you to Win95?

As soon as they get rid of the teleprinter he uses to print our the pages he wants to read.

[Mort]

It's ok Zeity, we know you're still on the txt version of the internet. When do they upgrade you to Win95?

He wishes. He's reading all this in binary over a telegraph. Dee-deee-dee. Can't be using modern tech, might alert the

[Moscow Mule]

Guess wot I'm using...

It's ok Zeity, we know you're still on the txt version of the internet. When do they upgrade you to Win95?

[NickFitz]

ie6

WTF?

Seriously, even Microserfs don't use that anymore... the only reason to have a system still running IE6 is as a debugging platform for web developers, so we can accommodate the needs of those in the Third World using ancient boxes delivered by charities.

If you've more than tuppence in your pocket and don't expect your drinking water to be brought from the well once a day, you have no reason on Earth to be using IE6.

Seriously.

EDIT: and if this is a constraint imposed by your client's IT people, you should point out to them that they are incompetent fools who need to learn their jobs rather than playing some game all day.

[d000hg]

Strange, I read the book and I thought it was carp. I know everyone else goes on about how good it is though, and that it was a best seller. I don't remember much about its content now though. Unfortunately in my wanting to put Hawking more in his rightful place it sounds as if I am saying he is a dunce, which isn't true. He is more in-between a dunce and a genius IMO

I read it and found it interesting and not especially hard work. But then, I studied physics at university. Modern books are easier, but they've had 20 years since Hawking's book...

[Spacecadet]

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[Mort]

What browser you using? I can't view the source in ie6, Notepad doesn't open. I can view CUK's though so I know it's not my work settings.

IE6 and Firefox 3.0.1, can see source with both

[oracleslave]

What browser you using? I can't view the source in ie6, Notepad doesn't open. I can view CUK's though so I know it's not my work settings.

Works fine with firefox

[Incognito]

What browser you using? I can't view the source in ie6, Notepad doesn't open. I can view CUK's though so I know it's not my work settings.