They can live the high life on the loan, which should be "repayable but not recoverable". "I've always wanted to go to the South Pole, lets do the video there!" "Oh, we need to buy a stately home and build a recording studio in the basement to record the next album".
There is serious money to be made out of publishing. Write one song that loads of people cover and -- well, you get nothing from it. Except it gives you the power to renegotiate your contract so you get a decent cut of the proceeds of your next song that loads of people cover.
In fact we may need to use SNPs (Single nucleotide polymorphisms) to be good enough for a database of millions (or eventually billions) to reduce collisions to acceptable levels.
Even then there's the problem of sample collection errors, lab errors and so on. A DNA match will never give certainty, just give the police a useful lead.
That works, although last time I looked streaming data to cellphones was horribly expensive in the UK. It's been a while since I bothered looking, though, so I don't know whether that's still the case.
Yes, but the women are searching for Agnes Wagner, the incredibly obscure 18th century German composer. Don't bother doing a web search for her, you're not in the right demographic to find anything.
of course, there's a difference between actually have some skill on whatever you use to make that sound (like playing a midi keyboard isn't the same as playing a piano, but you'll find it hard to call either a fake), and just pressing a button to play the music.
Another quote (and I can't remember the source). "If I just had to press a button to make a hit record, I'd be pressing it all the time". No hit record is "just pressing a button".
Meet Nobuo Uematsu and others, inspired me in ways that real instruments could not.
And you know what ? I don't care.
It's all about the heart.
Yes, I think that's the point. I can enjoy early folk field recordings of performers who had very little technical skill, I can enjoy virtuoso performers, I can enjoy things that have been completely constructed in the studio. What matters isn't the technicality of how it's produced, it's something abstract about how it moves me which for the sake of it we might as well call "heart".
Well, I heard Lady Gaga before I saw her or heard any of the hype. What I heard was well constructed and fun bubblegum. And I am easily old enough to remember Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy etc. Lady Gaga is doing something completely different, more akin to Aqua, Toni Basil, Abba, The Archies (told you I was old). It doesn't push the frontiers of music, but it's still fun and bloody hard to pull off as well as Lady Gaga does.
I think reception is a major DAB killer. I live in London, and still can't get a usable DAB signal. The 24% of the country listening on DAB are probably pretty much the 24% who can receive DAB. DAB is a looking like a failed technology at the moment. I use internet radio at home, and there's no real alternative to FM in my car.
It might be possible, but it's not obvious how it would work. The tea has to steep in very hot water for a couple of minutes, but it gets bitter if left for too long, so by its nature it is an on-demand batch process rather than a continuous process. If there were a high turnover of tea I could see a line of such machines like a coffee bar, with barristas taking tea out, serving the tea, and reloading for the next batch. In places like McDonalds, though, most of the demand is for sodas, and the tea demand would be too erratic. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's not easy.
Of course, some places put the milk in at the same time as the water, taking the heat off too soon. But McDonalds, whilst not serving great tea, is better than that.
I usually agree that if you hurt yourself then it's your own fault. But I also think that if you sell someone something, it should be usable for it's intended purpose, or you've committed an act of fraud. If you drank a 180+ degrees Fahrenheit beverage you'd probably die, but drinking is the intended purpose.
I hardly think that hot tea is unfit for purpose. My local supermarket sells packs of fruit, half ready-to-eat and half under-ripe to eat in a couple of days. If you ate the under-ripe fruit then you'd probably get an upset stomach, but that doesn't make it unfit for purpose. If you think there should be a sign saying "we make our tea fresh, so wait a couple of minutes before drinking it" then fine (although I think it's overkill), but if you think that freshly made tea is unfit for purpose then you have a strange idea of purpose.
Only civil servants, the terminally stupid, and the class war obsessed would ever vote for them while there is a choice.
Or those who see the Tories as the only alternative and who remember what they were like last time. As somebody said a couple of elections ago, we have a choice between being forced to eat shit or eat shit with razorblades.
Well, apparently McDonalds and Starbucks are both being sued right now for burns caused by tea.
In the case of the McDonalds' one the tea spilt over him as the car he was in went over a speed bump. The problem wasn't that he was served hot tea, it's that he treated it irresponsibly.
But, really, anything that can cause third degree burns shouldn't be served.
In India, tea is usually served along with an empty cup. You pour the tea from one cup to the other until it's cool enough to drink. The trouble with insisting that tea be served cooler is that the water must be boiling when it hits the tea if you're going to make a decent brew. Fast-food restaurants are not going to spend five minutes waiting for your tea to cool down, they're going to make it with tepid water which results in terrible tea. I don't go along with the mentality that you shouldn't sell people stuff that can harm them if treated irresponsibly. Maybe builders' yards shouldn't be allowed to sell bricks because they can break bones if dropped on your toes, and supermarkets shouldn't sell oven cleaner because it can cause blindness if used in the eyes?
This would make energy a little bit more expensive as more safety is always a little bit pricey while unsafe structures only cost lives. As long as the public makes no issue out of it nothing will happen.
Actually, the safety can be cheaper than the lawsuits. Sure, you'll want a margin for error on the safety, but the insurers will put a margin for error on the cost of the lawsuits, so safety can still work out cheaper.
Maybe so, but when you were a lad, hardly *anyone* did computers, you had to be seriously geeky to be online.
True enough: I guess that's why I'm here. But:
Being online only became ubiquitous around the year 2000.
I strongly doubt either the Prime Minister nor Deputy Prime Minister were online much before 2000, and even then, not in a pervasive manner.
I know that the Liberal Democrats were using online conferencing as far back as the early 90s, possibly even as far back as the late 80s, using a CoSy based system. The DPM at least is quite likely to have been online well before 2000.
For the vast majority of the population, it's only people who are kids now who actually grew up with it being pervasively around them. 99.9% of the people over about 30 are "digital immigrants" by and large.
But 30 years is a decent enough time for them to have become naturalised citizens.
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1 in 100,000 trained and qualified people. The driving test might not amount to much, but it does weed out part of the population.
I still feel glad whenever I feel any form of anxiety
Tell me more about such feelings.
There are probably other ways.
If I wasn't listening to different tracks all the time, I'd just load them onto my phone anyway. It's good to know that data plans are better now.
In fact we may need to use SNPs (Single nucleotide polymorphisms) to be good enough for a database of millions (or eventually billions) to reduce collisions to acceptable levels.
Even then there's the problem of sample collection errors, lab errors and so on. A DNA match will never give certainty, just give the police a useful lead.
Every government department should have a useless official.
That works, although last time I looked streaming data to cellphones was horribly expensive in the UK. It's been a while since I bothered looking, though, so I don't know whether that's still the case.
Men do everything they do in order to get laid.
Posting to /. just isn't working like we'd all hoped, is it?
Yes, but the women are searching for Agnes Wagner, the incredibly obscure 18th century German composer. Don't bother doing a web search for her, you're not in the right demographic to find anything.
It wasn't, but it's spot on, I think. Coming from the same sort of place.
of course, there's a difference between actually have some skill on whatever you use to make that sound (like playing a midi keyboard isn't the same as playing a piano, but you'll find it hard to call either a fake), and just pressing a button to play the music.
Another quote (and I can't remember the source). "If I just had to press a button to make a hit record, I'd be pressing it all the time". No hit record is "just pressing a button".
I heard it from the (not late) Pete "Memory" Banks of After The Fire, but he may have been quoting.
Meet Nobuo Uematsu and others, inspired me in ways that real instruments could not.
And you know what ? I don't care.
It's all about the heart.
Yes, I think that's the point. I can enjoy early folk field recordings of performers who had very little technical skill, I can enjoy virtuoso performers, I can enjoy things that have been completely constructed in the studio. What matters isn't the technicality of how it's produced, it's something abstract about how it moves me which for the sake of it we might as well call "heart".
Well, I heard Lady Gaga before I saw her or heard any of the hype. What I heard was well constructed and fun bubblegum. And I am easily old enough to remember Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy etc. Lady Gaga is doing something completely different, more akin to Aqua, Toni Basil, Abba, The Archies (told you I was old). It doesn't push the frontiers of music, but it's still fun and bloody hard to pull off as well as Lady Gaga does.
I don't know who it was, but someone here in /. had a sig I totally agree with:
"Remember kids, if they're not playing real instruments, it's not real music"
Techno fans, flame away, I won't respond to them.
On the other hand, I once heard a very skilled keyboard player in a band comment "I'll use whatever technology is available to get the sound I want."
Not much of a solution in the UK.
I think reception is a major DAB killer. I live in London, and still can't get a usable DAB signal. The 24% of the country listening on DAB are probably pretty much the 24% who can receive DAB. DAB is a looking like a failed technology at the moment. I use internet radio at home, and there's no real alternative to FM in my car.
It might be possible, but it's not obvious how it would work. The tea has to steep in very hot water for a couple of minutes, but it gets bitter if left for too long, so by its nature it is an on-demand batch process rather than a continuous process. If there were a high turnover of tea I could see a line of such machines like a coffee bar, with barristas taking tea out, serving the tea, and reloading for the next batch. In places like McDonalds, though, most of the demand is for sodas, and the tea demand would be too erratic. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's not easy.
Of course, some places put the milk in at the same time as the water, taking the heat off too soon. But McDonalds, whilst not serving great tea, is better than that.
I usually agree that if you hurt yourself then it's your own fault. But I also think that if you sell someone something, it should be usable for it's intended purpose, or you've committed an act of fraud. If you drank a 180+ degrees Fahrenheit beverage you'd probably die, but drinking is the intended purpose.
I hardly think that hot tea is unfit for purpose. My local supermarket sells packs of fruit, half ready-to-eat and half under-ripe to eat in a couple of days. If you ate the under-ripe fruit then you'd probably get an upset stomach, but that doesn't make it unfit for purpose. If you think there should be a sign saying "we make our tea fresh, so wait a couple of minutes before drinking it" then fine (although I think it's overkill), but if you think that freshly made tea is unfit for purpose then you have a strange idea of purpose.
Only civil servants, the terminally stupid, and the class war obsessed would ever vote for them while there is a choice.
Or those who see the Tories as the only alternative and who remember what they were like last time. As somebody said a couple of elections ago, we have a choice between being forced to eat shit or eat shit with razorblades.
I said it was very close. "2A or not 2A" is the question, "2A" is the answer.
Well, apparently McDonalds and Starbucks are both being sued right now for burns caused by tea.
In the case of the McDonalds' one the tea spilt over him as the car he was in went over a speed bump. The problem wasn't that he was served hot tea, it's that he treated it irresponsibly.
But, really, anything that can cause third degree burns shouldn't be served.
In India, tea is usually served along with an empty cup. You pour the tea from one cup to the other until it's cool enough to drink. The trouble with insisting that tea be served cooler is that the water must be boiling when it hits the tea if you're going to make a decent brew. Fast-food restaurants are not going to spend five minutes waiting for your tea to cool down, they're going to make it with tepid water which results in terrible tea. I don't go along with the mentality that you shouldn't sell people stuff that can harm them if treated irresponsibly. Maybe builders' yards shouldn't be allowed to sell bricks because they can break bones if dropped on your toes, and supermarkets shouldn't sell oven cleaner because it can cause blindness if used in the eyes?
This would make energy a little bit more expensive as more safety is always a little bit pricey while unsafe structures only cost lives. As long as the public makes no issue out of it nothing will happen.
Actually, the safety can be cheaper than the lawsuits. Sure, you'll want a margin for error on the safety, but the insurers will put a margin for error on the cost of the lawsuits, so safety can still work out cheaper.
So would there have been no case had it been tea, which should be near-boiling when served?
Maybe so, but when you were a lad, hardly *anyone* did computers, you had to be seriously geeky to be online.
True enough: I guess that's why I'm here. But:
Being online only became ubiquitous around the year 2000.
I strongly doubt either the Prime Minister nor Deputy Prime Minister were online much before 2000, and even then, not in a pervasive manner.
I know that the Liberal Democrats were using online conferencing as far back as the early 90s, possibly even as far back as the late 80s, using a CoSy based system. The DPM at least is quite likely to have been online well before 2000.
For the vast majority of the population, it's only people who are kids now who actually grew up with it being pervasively around them. 99.9% of the people over about 30 are "digital immigrants" by and large.
But 30 years is a decent enough time for them to have become naturalised citizens.