I didn't say that at all. I said that Switzerland doesn't have that much gun control, it's the ammunition that they strictly control.

As that point has been firmly debunked, I can't be arsed to further the line of questioning. I'm very anti-gun (indeed, anti-weaponry outside of armed response - though I'm ok with them in video games etc) and as I grew up in the UK where you genuinely can go through you entire life without seeing a gun, hearing people nonchalantly discuss them when talking about "self-defence" scared the crap out of me.

Wow, I see why you're called "JockTroll" now. You might not be a US citizen, but you certainly have the attitude (and weaponry knowledge) to fit right into certain places in the Mid-West.

I'd like to see some evidence there, please!

You see, the correlation between gun ownership and violent crime is present - at 10% gun ownership, violent crime is at half the levels of gun ownership in the 70-80% region. It makes sense, it's a lot easier to escalate things when there are guns involved.

The murder rate in gun-friendly countries is higher by a few percent (largely insignificant) except in the US where it is literally thousands of percent higher. Switzerland has relatively low gun crime because while the vast majority have guns, they don't have access to ammunition - it's strictly controlled, and the guns/ammunition that is doled out to reservists is regularly inspected and counted to make sure it hasn't been used.

You keep attacking the UK for things, you're obviously just trolling because every single time I read an anti-UK statement in your post, I just think "yeah, but the US does worse" on every single thing you've criticised us for doing.

That's probably the most arrogant thing I've ever heard from an American. May I remind you that in the past 50 years, the USA has not been attacked at home by a foreign state once. You fight because you have interests elsewhere you want to protect. Stop making the world a shittier place for the rest of us.

Arguably, the world would be a better place if the USA did not unilaterally screw around with other countries. From Somalia to Venezuela. From Vietnam to Afghanistan. You don't do it out of humanitarian kindness, you do it because you have a vested interest.

We have the UN for a reason. Realise that, and stick by the treaties you've signed rather than weaselling out of them on legal technicalities.

The GUI word processor (with WYSIWYG rendering) has been around for about 20 years in the home market, and 30 or more in the professional market.

TeX might be smaller than Word, but if you compare the number of people who use "Styles" such as "Heading 1" etc in MSWord versus TeX users, I imagine the numbers will be roughly comparable.

EFI... Or LVM. LVM gives you additional benefits you may want to consider.

> If you look at demographics on manual transmissions over the last 5 years though, you'll see a big trend away from them in general and the average driver using a manual is an enthusiast.

I've met possibly 5 people in my life in Europe that have driven automatic transmissions - manual transmissions are by far the most common over here.

I'm in Nottinghamshire, my mum is out rural and gets 5.5Mb/s with Be - and consistently 5.5Mb/s too. If you can, I'd swap to them in a heartbeat.

If you don't mind paying a *little* extra, Andrews and Arnold do a fantastic service too, and will run your service down a Be line instead of BT.

And indeed, the OSI model isn't even used in modern networking. It can be loosely applied to IP networking, but it was meant for the CLNP networking infrastructure.

Seriously, try Meraki. Their software is pretty neat, and it'll auto configure to give you the best situation.

A case study: http://meraki.com/general/2009/12/09/does-it-scale-absolutely-blazing-fast-meraki-wireless-at-leweb-conference-in-paris/

No, they're not.

You see, one radar installation can feed multiple stations, and it's quite common for modern ATCOs to sit at a screen that has feeds from multiple radar sources.

In fact, in the UK we recently pulled out all the old PDPs out of West Drayton and transferred radar control down to Swanwick running on relatively new equipment. I believe this was not done by "clearing the skies" first, they just handed over control to the new guys.

I've heard things about US traffic control being old and antiquated, but I'd hazard a guess to say the vast majority aren't using vacuum tubes, CRTs or the like. I imagine many have converted to electronic paper strip bays for the flight plans too.

That blurb genuinely does annoy me - it's almost like it's being made out to be a Europe vs USA thing. It's not - the labs do different experiments for the most part, and it's pretty sad to see science turned into a "who gets there first" style gameshow. Makes me sad :(

I think you ought to do some research first. Lord Avebury asked the question, he did not make up the response.

Also, Lord Avebury is one of the few peers you *want* in the House of Lords, he's a genuinely honest and trustworthy man, who also does a lot of work defending Human Rights in places like Turkey.

Let's say your ISP has a /32. The ISP uses a /64 for every point-to-point link between their router and your home router, and you have a /64 within your own home. Additionally, you have a second /64 reserved for you to make VoIP easier. Then, your ISP can clearly only have 1.1 billion customers.

I realise the above is a bit silly, but seriously, there are enough /64s for everyone. There is no need for a /128, no need for a /126, no need for anything but a /64.

Even if the ISP was "wasteful" and allocated each residential customer a /56 to do whatever they want with, their /32 will be able to support 16.7 million customers. If you've got more than 16.7 million customers, you just get another /32, in 2000/3 there are 500 million /32s.

I'm waffling. /64 is fine.

Historically, OpenGL has always been *easier* to code for, faster code execution, and generally able to compete based on the fact it's a graphics library and *NOT* a 3D Gaming API. That's not what it's for at all, it's a Graphics Library.

DirectX, on the other hand, has been more interested in providing a one-size-fits-all solution, doing user-input, networking, sound etc, all of which is rapidly becoming deprecated in the eyes of Microsoft.

As a 30,000 foot view of the two projects would imply, OpenGL defines a series of methods of doing things, with common physical/mathematical operations being specified as functions to make it both easier and faster to do things, while DirectX focuses on defining a new specification and forcing the hardware manufacturers to "keep up".

DirectX is the monopoly, beating manufacturers with a stick and screaming at customers going "I'm better!" while OpenGL has just got on with the job. The fact is, these days, there isn't much between them, and it comes down to what your use case is. If you want something that is going to be used in a gaming environment, you tend to lean towards DirectX. If you want something that is going to be used for a simulation environment, you tend to lean towards OpenGL. YMMV.