And they also need to pay for:
6) Over half a million pounds for the National Codes Centre at Bletchley Park
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/571874
An announcement from March 2009. The funding came via a government body called English Heritage whose remit is to fund historical monuments and heritage centres.
The story here is that the government refused to provide funding on the basis that they were already providing funding.
They have a working reconstruction of the Colossus at the Bletchley Park museum:
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/visit/attractions.rhtm
Bletchley Park is not particularly neglected— they're canny fundraisers and this is a good way of drumming up some publicity.
As a Brit and a CS PhD student, you should definitely visit if you're passing near Milton Keynes. There is a museum there; I've been and it's a really great one. The article title is just plain misleading—what actually happened is that they weren't given the same national status as the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum.
More cash for them would of course be nice, but the evidence if you visit says they're not doing badly without it.
I visited the Bletchley Park museum last time I was in Milton Keynes on business. As you'll see from the link in the article, it's a fascinating site and an interesting collection, complete with reconstructions of the Bombe and Collossus. The place seems in pretty good shape and pretty well supported; lots of plaques announcing funding from big corporates (IBM, I seem to remember)—better funded, certainly, than a lot of museums.
It recently got a grant from English Heritage, the UK government agency responsible for supporting museums and sites of historical interest. This story is about it not getting a direct grant from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (but that's not how most of our museums are funded anyway).
And the beauty is that you just described the complex way of doing it. If I'm no power user, I can just select "applications", "add/remove" and pick what I want.
Try doing that add/remove trick using what I believe in Windows is called the "control panel", and if I remember correctly it doesn't even give you a list of programs to install; you have to scrape around for something called an "exe". Will Windows ever be ready for the desktop?
PS. We seem to see a lot of these comments about the insurmountable difficulty of installing apps in Ubuntu. A subtle troll doing the rounds, surely.
Are they going to ban all the videos that teach you how to cook too?
No, I wouldn't think so. Would you?
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