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Its not pure Lithium in there though its Lithium cobalt oxide LiCoO2 so you should be alright in water I would think. http://industrial.panasonic.com/www-data/pdf/ACA4000/ACA4000PE3.pdf

Exactly right - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Small-Island-Bill-Bryson/dp/0552996009/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213886994&sr=8-3 To say that Fleet Street in the early 1980s was out of control barely hints at the scale of matters. The National Graphical Association, the printers’ union, decided how many people were needed on each paper (hundreds and hundreds) and how many were to be laid off during a recession (none), and billed the management accordingly. Managements didn’t have the power to hire and fire their own print workers, indeed generally didn’t know how many print workers they employed. I have before me a headline from December 1985 saying “Auditors find 300 extra printing staff at Telegraph.” That is to say, the Telegraph was paying salaries to 300 people who didn’t actually work there. On top of plump salaries, printers received special bonus payments for handling type of irregular sizes, for dealing with heavily edited copy, for setting words in a language other than English, for the white space at the end of lines. If work was done out of house – for instance, advertising copy that was set outside the building – they were compensated for not doing it. In consequence, many senior printers, with skills no more advanced than you would expect to find in any back-street print shop, enjoyed incomes in the top 2 per cent of British earnings. It was crazy.

Very nice, shame about the TUPEing though would put me off personally. The position is a 15 month contract so it does not sound like transfer under TUPE is guaranteed for management, only the technicians?

Use VMWare Server

eh Hello - Shell make £1.3 billion every month so it is certainly affordable to pay them whatever they like, they could be on £100k and Shell would still be have enough money to wallpaper their HQ in €500 notes http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/images/burns.gif

Viva la Revolucion! The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

29,000 litres of diesel that's £37,700 at £1.30 a litre. Perhaps their salary is due to the value of their cargo?

I'm sure this is not fair to everyone in the Armed Forces but that is exactly how they come across when I have had to work with people just out of the forces and into a management role. When I tried to have discussion about how best to implement something or made suggestions, you could just see their fury that you were questioning their decision. Will they have the soft skills necessary?

They tried that in the 1950s when demobbed from the 2nd World War, and they used teachers who could shout the loudest and use physical force to keep order. Wasn't too successful then as teachers tended to be either cruel or stupid (or both) This (excellent) film covers the period very well. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)

Fair enough if you are happy to take on the risk that's your business, and managed is often better than unmanaged. You obviously trust your brother enough to make investments for you, if he is generating returns of greater than say 5-6% then go for it! I meant generally investing in shares just now should only really be done with money you are willing to lose or at least not see gains ie not your house deposit! I wouldn't mention "risk management" to some of the bigger banks ie Bear Stearns who now know full well the dangers of thinking you understand all the risks and can hedge your bets when in fact you don't know if the whole shebang is spinning out of control. I am not an economist but there's a lot of miserable people walking around the City just now!

I wouldn't like to drive a fuel tanker through a busy city, No Way!

If your saving for a deposit I wouldn't buy shares! Put it in the bank at high interest 8%+ Why take a risk? You need to remember to cut your losses sometimes rather than ploughing in more money IMHO

Yeah I used to be a NM but now work in 2nd Line at a Uni (hey what can I say they offered me more money & better training opportunities) If your school has a NM and some techs then I would say the Techs are doing 1/2nd line stuff, while the Nm is doing 2/3rd line. 1st line is the most basic helpdesk stuff. When a teacher comes to you with a problem and you ask basic information and suggest a solution (without going out to the pc) then that's 1st line. When you have identified the problem, done some research and actually fix the problem that's 2nd line. 3rd line actually run things technically speaking, they are responsible for development and production, highly specialised often split into groups such as Security, Windows Admin, Networks etc. We also have 4th line - they are always external companies eg Oracle, MS, HP, CISCO etc. 3rd line call on them when they are really stuck. To you give you a better idea i have attached the list of IT teams at my uni so you can see how they are split. Key 1L - 1st Line 2L - 2nd Line 3L - 3rd Line 4L - 4th Line BS - Business Support 1L2L3L.pdf

I'd love to be able to buy a 1 bed flat for £109,000, even a studio here would cost £150,000 at least

Any Business could use a DBMS system! This forum uses one to enable me to talk to you just now Any business that wants to store and easily access information using computers is going to use a DBMS, whether that is Banking, IT, Supermarkets, whatever. A good case study is Oracle vs MySQL. Oracle pretty much invented the RDBMS (relational database using T-SQL). It used to be if you wanted to run a large database with very important mission critical info, you went to oracle paid a ton of money and bought their DBMS. The advantages were it was very robust, reliable and if you had any problems you could go to Oracle and ask them to fix it. Really if you had any problems you had a large billion dollar corporation to sue! Oracle Database - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Along came MySQL essentially programmed by volunteers that has now grown into a system that MySQL claims is as robust as Oracle, but which is offered for free. There are also paid versions that offer certain levels of support but overall it could be seen as riskier to entrust your data to a non-commercial DBMS. MySQL is commonly used by many large websites to host their data. MySQL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You will find it hard to find a neutral comparison of DBMS as all software companies tout theirs as the best. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Database/Miscellaneous/Q_21200353.html From experts exchange - rebies: I'll start from my experiences: Microsoft SQL Server: It has a fairly intuitive Enterprise Manager which makes it easy to use. It's fairly expensive to start off and can get extremely expensive when you want more advanced features and reliability. This is where I have 99% of my database experience. It is nice in that a lot of people know it and finding developers who are familiar with it is not too hard. It’s full-text searching capabilities are quite advanced in my opinion too. The Query Analyzer and other wizards like DTS Import/Export make MS SQL Server much simpler and easier to learn too! (My experience: 8 / 10) Oracle: This is very expensive for both hardware and for the people to manage it. From everything I hear it is a very tough learning curve, however it could be the most powerful relational database out there... But I have not used it. (My experience: 0 / 10) MySQL: Its very powerful and fairly easy to use. It is completely free which makes it an excellent choice and lots of people know it due to it’s wide success as an open source program. From what I hear, the latest revision of MySQL makes it quite comparable to Microsoft’s SQL server in terms of performance and scalability. Even though it does not ship with a user interface, PHPMyAdmin is decent at doing the job. Though PHPMyAdmin does not seem nearly as powerful or easy to use as Microsoft's Enterprise Manager. (My experience: 1 / 10) PostreSQL: Unfortunately I don’t know anything about it. 11.09.2004 at 04:11PM PST, ID: 12540035 Rank: Guru rherguth: I like this link for feature comparisons and theoretical limits: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/features.html A DB's primary feature is data integrity (which requires stability) and I do not know of any that are not stable once you have your apps working with them. An inexperienced admin can make any of these DBs unstable in a hurry, so having an experieneced DBA on hand is a good thing. SQL Server is nice to develop for and easy to maintain. Why? Because support for it via the MDAC is likely to be already installed on the user's computer. Because the syntax favors making things easier on the developer. Because Microsoft has tried to make the engine self-tuning more than the other companies. Oracle's record locking is not only different in design, but more granular than SQL Server, so for large scale transaction processing applications, it may be the better choice. Sybase is no longer that similar to MS SQL. It has similar syntax, but the philosophy behind how to squeeze performance out of it has gone down a different path than MS SQL. The admin tools weren't as nice for this DB as MS SQL Server, so I built a tool in a couple of weeks that has much of the same functionality as Enterprise Manager. For any of these DBs, you're sure to find a company that has developed a better administrative interface. Ultimately, you need to look at the requirements of the applications that you intend to build to determine which is best. Any of the products you mention could be the "best" depending on the requirements. Or you could ask different questions. Assisted Solution 11.09.2004 at 08:21PM PST, ID: 12541091 mrnaz: Unbiased? I'll do my best, here's my *opniion* on Microsoft’s SQL vs MySQL vs Oracle vs PostgreSQL. As far as features, performance and power goes, Oracle is leader of the pack clearly. There are more features and tools available for Oracle than for any other DB. However, you will be paying, and paying dearly. You will be able to rest assured that your DB system is the best that money can buy. Now in most cases, money *is* an object, and as such tradeoffs must be made. In my opinion, PostgreSQL is just below Oracle for powerand features. In fact, there are some things now that PGSQL even do better than Oracle especially in terms of transaction concurrency, PGSQL's MVCC (Multi Version Concurrency Control) model is widely accepted as beign the best conscurrency handling system there is. And its catching up. PGSQL version 8 is due out any day now, there are huge performance increases and features being added in the new version such as native Windows support (it will now install and run on any Win32 system including NT, 2000, XP and 2003), replication in the Slony-I project which brings PGSQL's scaleability to Oracle's calibre. MySQL is a non-fitter in my opinion. It would be a great product, but since PGSQL's performance has taken great steps in the last few years there is little room for this between PGSQL and SQLite for MySQL to fit in. (SQLite is an ultralightweight, ultrafast SQL database that is embeddable and can be used for small simple projects, and is blisteringly fast in such uses.) MySQL has a *huge* following, and I'm risking a lynching bad mouthing it here, but I personally feel that it is a has-been product with benefits that were once leaders of the pack but have since been overtaken by superior products, namely PostgreSQL and SQLite. MS SQL is a good product to work with if you're a die hard Windows and Microsoft user and are familiar enough with the other software that goes with it, and are comfortable paying large amounts of money for licences. Personally, with far superior open source options, I feel that MS SQL is a silly choice unless you have your hands tied by other considerations such as licencing constraints or compatibility with other MS products. Finally, my overall view is that I use SQLite for small projects such as web polls and guestbooks where only the standard SQL commands are sufficient and there is no need for transactions, row/column/table locking, stored procedures and the like. I use PostgreSQL for large projects requiring transactions, stored procedures and with replication I cannot see myself involved in anything too big for PG. In fact I can't think of anything outside genetics and other highly specialised fields where PG would not suffice. Finally, PG is distributed under the BSD licence, which means there is no chance of licencing compliance issues in your application, and you are guaranteed that there will never be any costs associated with the use of the DB itself. I hope this information has been helpful.

TBH anyone who says the market will bottom out this year is just guessing, it is almost certain prices will fall for the rest of this year, but for how long? The Governor of the Bank of England today said Britain faces its worst financial crisis for 20 years. The credit crunch, inflation etc. could all be combining for a perfect storm that makes the next decade look more like the 1970s (and hopefully not the 1930s). BBC NEWS | Business | Bank governor offers bleak view

I heard some lenders will want a 25% deposit. It depends on your credit history. If you have made any slip ups, even minor expect to find it very difficult. Banks are not at all into any sort of "risk" now. If you have a good income, a hefty deposit (at least 10%) then it should be alright. Note: for the 97% Halifax you will need an HBOS Current Account into which you pay your salary otherwise max LTV is 90%.

Is this coursework? Why don't you read this. http://www.devx.com/dbzone/Article/20743 Basically Commercial (such as Oracle, MSSQL etc) will cost money, Non Commercial (MySQL, PostgreSQL) are "free" or at least opensource. They are developed in different ways and come with different levels of support. If you want extra support (or even any) you are able to buy a support contract even with opensource.

Schools 'timebomb' as 55% of heads near retirement | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk The poll, by Mori, reported that 28% of people felt that only teachers should be promoted in the job of heads, but 65% suggested people in other professions and jobs could run schools. One in seven said business leaders would be qualified, one in 10 suggested police officers and 8% said military officers. Oh god I can just imagine that

You might prefer to use VMware Server -It seems a lot easier to get bridged networking up and working than Virtualbox IMHO

Not at current petrol prices!

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It looks like all round sleazeball Kelvin McKenzie of the Sun (backed by Murdoch) will run against Davis. The Sun columnist said he was approached by the paper's proprietor Rupert Murdoch and current editor Rebekah Wade who suggested he could step up to the challenge. Ex-Sun man to challenge Davis | The Sun |HomePage|News From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_MacKenzie MacKenzie was educated at Alleyn's School but little else is known about his background or early journalistic career. MacKenzie himself has said that he discovered early on in his career that he had little writing ability and that his talents lay in making up headlines and laying out pages. He has been described by Piers Morgan as a man possessing a "particular form of dangerous genius". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7453035.stm

Middle-aged male teacher sacked after bizarre striptease in front of stunned class | Mail Online

But he already is the Tory MP! Sorry I took it that as the Conservative party will not pay for his campaign that he will not represent them? It seems very strange to select a candidate but have them pay all their own costs? Why don't the Conservative party pay his expenses if they agree with him taking a stand on principle? Does Cameron think the campaign is a waste of money? http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5246/davisdm2406468x703wo3.jpg