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if you're gonna put money into R&D I'd put in to developing a space elevator. It's a gamble but the first nation to develop one isn't going to have a nation debt for very long. Success will pay for all the maglev trains you could want - who cares if they work or not!

Growing up - I was fascinated with the law. Wanted to be a Bobby at one point, then barrister. My english (subject) was never good enough for that one. Looking back - I wish I'd worked harder at english (subject) and realised games journalism could be a serious career. Now - I think I found the round hole this square peg fits in. I hate to say it, but I'm probably in the right place now.

That's one of the reasons for suggesting storage spaces. So long as you have the SATA/SAS ports and free bays (or indeed just replacing physical drives with higher capacity) it is very easy to increase space later. That's the other reason for suggesting storage pools. SATA drive are cheap compared to SAS drives. You can get the benefits of RAID1 with the capacity of RAID5. Use Tb+ enterprise SATA disks in a storage spaces mirror and use an SSD cache for extra speed boost. I did some fag paper maths and came out at about £1000 cheaper than the SAS drives!

DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

At the risk of increasing the deficit, I think some serious public spending is needed, to the point I'm tempted to acquiesce on HS2. Not just NHS and Education, but other areas too. Especially Social Housing. Austarity hasn't worked, in fact it seems to be making things worse. We need to concentrate on growing the economy first. Create jobs, improve GDP. Then that becomes the linchpin for taxation and reducing the deficit, maybe even as late as next parliament if necessary. If the Tories had focused more on growing the economy and less on austerity we might be in a better position now with regards to the deficit and national debt - a waisted 5 years IMHO.

Yep, the BBC/ITV/Sky exit polls at around 10pm tonight should give a very good early indication of the direction of the next government.

Yeah, I beginning to favour SSD/SATA tiers using Server2012 storage pools. I reckon 4x2Tb WD RE4's with a 100Gb Intel S3700 on a HBA controller in a storage pool would be cheaper than 6x600GB 15k SAS drives on a RAID controller. Given the size of the school I'd be surprised if there was a performance issue on that set up.

Did my civil duty before coming to work. (And praying that the Milipede, Balls and Sturgeon Brigade do get in)

Not to worry, in the interests of political fairness I can burn some blue and yellow rosettes as well...

That as well. Drive round town wearing bed sheets and burning purple rosettes outside suspected supporters homes. The UKKKIP

I'll be up and about around 3-4ish on Friday morning to watch the important results roll in. Might as well get some kip while the counting is going on.

My understanding is they wouldn't have to. For something like Trident or Europe they'd have Tory support, so a majority of the house. They'll be putting forward Labour policies and working with which ever parties, on a vote by vote basis, happen to agree with those particular policies. It's either 'Confidence and Supply' or a full formal coalition that would require deals with the SNP. By all accounts Labour are saying they won't do that, and from what I can see they might be best served by avoiding any deals with other parties. Remember they left primarily want to keep Cameron out, so that puts Ed in government de facto.

I think I put a similar prediction above. It's going to come down to SNP vs LD. Current Polls suggest the LD's seats will half and SNP will clean up Scotland. If that's the case then Tories+LD won't have enough seats to form a majority coalition and SNP + Labour will be big enough to block option 2 from ever happening. If you look at the progressive alliance (LD, Plaid Cymru, SNP, Respect, SDLP) then Labour could potentially survive 5 years on a vote-by-vote minority basis. However, I think we'll be back at the polls before the years out. The question is would another general election result in anything other than another hung parliament?

Yeah, it made a good (Dagenham) dustbin - - - Updated - - - Yeah, it made a good (Dagenham) dustbin

It's worth putting 'everyone' into context... USA, Russia, China, UK, France, India, Pakistan, possibly (most likely) Israel, soon North Korea, Iran Argentina not on that list Also had IRA, ISIS or Al-Qaeda got their hands on nukes, I'm not sure us having them would stop them from using. Also I'm not sure who we retaliate against if they do...

And they would have had we not had nukes? That kind of thinking works great on the scale of Russia - USA - China. Given their proximity, it works brilliantly for Pakistan and India. According to the fountain of all miss-knowledge, wikipedia, we currently have 4 subs with 16 missiles each. I believe it's 3 at sea and 1 docked in Scotland at any one moment in time. The three at sea are deployed in different parts of the world. If Russia launched their 2000-something nukes at us, how many of our 64 will do any damage to them? We'd be gone before we know what's happened. (apparently we have about 160 operational nukes but I assume that means the subs being able to get back and restock to deploy). Israel, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea - all too far away to cause us a problem in this little island. Besides Team America are the worlds police let them have the expense of dishing out nukes to the bad guys.

Since they didn't stop the IRA, Al-Quida, ISIS. 9/11 and 7/7 both happened. Fawklands. I'm not sure who they are supposed to be deterring. North Korea? Pakistan? Iran? If there was the possibility of the EU failing and either France or Germany getting trigger happy I might agree with you. I can't think of any other scenario were us having nukes would be more beneficial than better intelligence and special forces. I'm trying to be a hippie and suggest flowers will suddenly grow out of tank turrets the day all nukes are destroyed. I'm not even suggesting that the world has complete nuclear disarmament. I just don't see the value of 3 subs bobbing under the sea. The only message they send to the Kremlin or Beijing is - "look we're still relevant, we're big boys, look, over here, please take notice of this poor island", aw bless.

Of course not. The whole point of discussion is to have points you disagree on otherwise there'd be nothing to talk about. Surely if you felt strongly that we are stronger with nuclear weapons then you'll be able to suggest how losing them would weaken us? I don't see why decommissioning would weaken, especially if the money was reinvested in the right areas. As for the Manhatten project, I honestly don't know. It was a different country, at a different time, international politics was very different, and our knowledge of nuclear wasn't as it is now. In the middle of a world war building a bigger bomb seems like a sensible thing to do. Any way, the Manhatten project (and the research that proceeded it) lead to nuclear power stations, and that's a good thing. I'm not anti-nuclear. And right now I'd be funding more research in to nuclear fussion, see another use for trident money. Besides I'm not arguing for whole world total disarmament. I certainly don't think the Americans should be reducing their nuclear capabilities. Other than a perminent seat on the UN security council and debt, I'm not sure what nuclear weapons give us as a nation.

I disagree. Given the vast sums of money, £100bn over 40years, well be paying out on something that will almost certainly go unused. I can't help think that if even a small proportion of that was redirected into our intelligence services and regular military we'll be a lot stronger and still have cash to spare education and health.

Agree. Disagree - raise taxes elsewhere, income tax? Education free at point of deliver, at least till 21/first degree. Disgree-kinda - Scrap fossil fuels. Nuclear doesn't use 'em. Anti-Green but...we need more nuclear power! Disagree - Really, really don't see the benefits of our own nuclear stock pile. Russia, China, and USA are welcome to squabble amongst themselves. I'm sure we won't be kicked out of NATO for getting rid of them. Isn't Canada a NATO member? How'd they manage without nuclear subs? But, yes, back to your point - Green policies are generally ill thought out

Don't know if it will work on an OEM copy but the following article discusses applying MAK/KMS keys to Windows 7 Pro: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ff793406.aspx My gut instinct says you need to build the image with the Volume Licence media from the Volume License Service Centre website. You will need an active Academic Select/Open/EES agreement and at least 1 copy of the Windows Professional/Enterprise Upgrade Licence brought through that agreement to access the media, then the downgrade rights should cover so long as you only install Windows 7 Pro VL.

I think there are a number of questions that need to be answered first... Is it your only server? If not, what is its role - what service is it providing? How old is the existing server? And how long was it warranty for? When did the warranty run out - and how much will it cost to extend? Who's being employed to maintain the network/server/computers on a day to day basis? And what is their professional advice? We regularly run servers out of warranty but... We multiple servers with multiple levels of redundancy between them Replace hard disks on an annual cycle Replace servers on a five year cycle Have a good disaster recovery plan Have a team on site to deal with problems You should never run a server till it breaks. Warranties are debatable, but you should have a regular upgrade replacement strategy for most IT equipment - especially core equipment like servers and switches that everything else relies on. As to the question of what will happen if it breaks - it depends on what services where being offered, the nature of the fault, and quality of the backup/disaster recovery plan. Worse can scenario, yes all data can be lost irrecoverably.

Looking at that paragraph in the Cabinet Manual it seems to me the election rests on two things for Cameron. Him getting a majority or SNP not gaining seats. If SNP get the gains polls expect then it shouldn't matter how far short of a majority Cameron fulls, it doesn't sound like the SNP would allow him to carry the confidence of the house regardless. Which is probably why Labour are saying they can go it alone in a minority government on a vote-by-vote basis.

I know it's about time to move on, but, to be honest, I'm struggling and probably never will because there are too many positives (as much as we like to complain) to my current position Wage is about right for my level in local industry Lack of formal qualifications Hours Responsibility Autonomy Wide range of disciplines Strategic responsibility Financial responsibility The only thing I will say is progression appears to grind to a halt at the NM level. At least as far as my formal qualifications go. I think the £45k+ senior network role largely doesn't exist in education and getting that in industry normally means specialisation in one area (networks, virtualisation, servers, sans, etc) and some formal paper qualifications schools are reluctant to pay out for.

Was watching a documentary on BBC iPlayer last night about the rise of the Nazi party and Hitlers charisma, how in convinced a nation to follow him. The parallels with Nigel Farage and UKIP (from the perspective of this documentary) were scarily striking! Charismatic Leader Blame problems on foreigners (Jews) Nationalism Rise in popularity after financial crises (recession/austerity) *No I'm not trying to suggest Farage could become Hitler