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Greatest Prime Minister we never had.

> I'm just sad he's the exception rather than the norm.

Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer, worked as a scientist and became PM, despite huge party opposition at the time because she was middle class. Gordon Brown went to a comprehensive. John Major didn't even go to university...

I dunno, how would you feel about putting it on your CV? Like calling a business Smelly Bottom Industries would be funny and populist, but people who actually worked there would struggle to take pride in the fact.

I suspect '300 years' takes us back to 1707 and the Acts of Union.

I think most (not 'some') people would disagree with the hardline nationalist view that we've endured 300 years of human rights abuses since then.

This is starting to sound like the plot of an NCIS episode.

And <Cmd Shift 4> <Space> lets you take a screenshot of a window!

Getting annoyed at people for choosing to give you gifts has to be the very definition of 'first world problems'.

Exactly. And those creating content are the ones who fork out for a paid account. It wasn't designed for 'curators' because they add nothing but noise to the ecosystem.

Bandai/Namco certainly do hold multiple registered trademarks on PAC-MAN, at least in Europe. They cover not just the video game side[1], but everything from kitchen appliances[2] to lotteries[3] and even beer[4].

[1] https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU004977906

[2] https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU000361600

[3] https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU003574076

[4] https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU008125031

There's a little more in the wiki entry for Mezzo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo_%28desktop_environment%2...

Looks like it challenges elements of the desktop metaphor. The white paper (from 2005) on the ideas behind Mezzo explains a bit more: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/voyager/docs/MezzoGreypaper.pdf

I don't know enough about the admin side, but perhaps it's something that needs to be enabled separately. From a user perspective it 'just works' in our office:

If several people open a document shared on OneDrive, that document is opened in a collaboration mode where you can see others working on it, similar to Google Drive.

A menu appears at the bottom of the screen[1] showing who's editing that file. If you have Lync/Skype for Business, clicking on those names opens an IM to that person.

Re privacy, a quick search shows their cloud services are compliant with ISO 27018 as of February this year[2]

(and no, I don't work for Microsoft!)

[1] http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2013/04/who-is-e...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adopts-international-...

No, not against open standards. Microsoft OOXML is an open format. You might recall it's (controversially) the Ecma, ISO and IEC standard format, and is supported by LibreOffice and OpenOffice. So even if MS did something terrible, the documents would still be editable when everyone switches over to LibreOffice - dependent on how well they've implemented OOXML.

And I'm not even against what Collabora are doing, I think it's very clever. It's an interesting way of hitting back at Microsoft by lobbying for open standards in order to create an alternative solution and a profitable business.

I just don't think LibreOffice stands up to MS Office as a product (yes, I've worked with both) for day-to-day use by normal humans.

+1 for Office 365. I wasn't convinced until I actually started working at a company that uses it properly. The collaboration features in the native desktop apps work beautifully.

Not having to endure emailed-round documents with multiple competing versions like "Report-Dec2015 Draft v5(FP,PL,KM) (2).doc" is worth the price of entry alone.

I feel sorry for those like the UK government who've been successfully lobbied by The Document Foundation into using open standards, and are now locked in to using one vendor - Collabora - and their proprietary fork of LibreOffice.

This desperately needs someone who can write in plain English to actually explain it without the MIT imagineering jargon. The video helps somewhat, but I suspect if someone described this in plain English it'd seem a lot less exciting than they want it to be.

I agree journalists are a potential audience for materials produced by marketing, but that's not the same thing as PR.

If you ever want a free firework display, tell any PR professional that their role is a subset of marketing... don't forget to stand well back when you light that particular touchpaper though!

Some interesting stuff, although confusing how it keeps conflating PR and content marketing. They're very much not the same thing.

There seem to be swathes of this article that are about online PR and getting coverage from tech journalists, rather than actually doing content marketing.

Anyone looking for real content marketing advice should check out resources like Moz and the (excellent) Content Marketing Institute blog.

I'm not sure I would add pauses when saying "the horse raced past the barn died"... mainly because in real life there'd be enough context to parse it properly. These sentences are just very artificial examples.

> should never be written like that

In my view it's as valid as something like:

  The dog with the red nose died

which would never be written

  The dog, with the red nose, died

Just because it's not easy to parse doesn't mean there's a hard-and-fast rule about adding punctuation.

Yes, it's been done by some prominent composers. It doesn't always sound good without some tweaking!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_%28music%29#Melodies

On my third year of membership and wouldn't hesitate to recommend Fastmail.

Only ever had one issue (a small bug to do with some very specific domain config) - their support team emailed me back straight away, it was escalated to the devs, and fixed almost immediately.

Now with CalDAV and CardDAV support it's a no-brainer.

English: signal

Bosnian (Latin): signala

Bulgarian: сигнал

Catalan: senyal

Croatian: signala

Czech: signál

Danish: signal

Dutch: signaal

Estonian: signaali

Finnish: signaali

French: signal

German: Signal

Indonesian: sinyal

Italian: segnale

Latvian: signāls

Lithuanian: signalas

Yucatec Maya: señal

Norwegian: signalet

Querétaro Otomi: señal

Polish: sygnał

Portuguese: sinal

Russian: сигнал

Serbian (Latin): signal

Slovak: signál

Slovenian: signala

Spanish: señal

Swedish: signal

Ukrainian: сигнал

Welsh: signal

I can only think of one commercial track that uses the voice synth - Cow Cud is a Twin by Aphex Twin[1] uses the 'Hysterical' and 'Bells' voices.

And those aren't "remixed" - they're used straight - which makes me wonder what the full license terms are (I agreed blindly and can't find a copy of the license now...)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbOqgWifXgU

This kind of TV is the 'default' here in the UK (Freeview) - we get about 50-60 digital channels and 10 HD channels.

I suspect cable TV is actually on the rise here, but can't find stats to back that up.

Finance.

Having actually spoken to some of the people who work on this stuff at the BBC, they don't want to. They want to make as much quality television accessible to as many people as possible.

In fact, internal systems already exist for accessing any BBC programme from the last (n) years. There's also a system for schools and universities that gives you access to the last year or so of programming. It's pressures from external production companies that prevent these from being rolled out to the public.

However, there will always be rights issues until the state has complete ownership over all TV production - which is never going to happen.

(Also - what's 'evil' about content creators wanting to protect their intellectual property and income?)

I once had to help out a struggling interviewee whose Prezi had failed because his laptop wifi wasn't working. Talk about poor choices.

As a long-time Adblock Edge user, thanks. It's a shame they don't have a mechanism to alert users about that.

Interesting, and very much an American thing - never heard anyone say 'on accident' here in the UK.

"armchair quarterbacky" would make quite a good password, but unfortunately it's 1 character over their limit.

As I understand it the microphone is connected to two always-on telephone lines (second one as a backup).