Pah, Manchester (specifically UMIST when it was around) was the place to be. Much more student-oriented and not so cold! You get a better degree from a bigger/more recognised Uni, lots of beer, good rock/metal clubs and I got married to the girl I met in the first semester nearly six weeks ago now;)
Close, but my understanding (supported by Wikipedia's article) is that a vegan doesn't use any animal related/derived products. That means vegetarian eating along with no dairy products/eggs (you're exploiting the animals) or leather/lard etc (where you're exploiting the dead animal, even if it was already dead for meat purposes). Apparently wool is also included (presumably as it causes the sheep to suffer being cold until it grows back).
The vegan society says:
[T]he word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude -- as far as is possible and practical -- all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.
You can probably think of vegan as vegetarian extremists:D
I think I was too young for that. Blackadder has been repeated more on British TV since then, but I don't remember Not The Nine O'Clock News being repeated.
Some Universities just like to crap up perfectly good degrees. It wasn't quite going to end up as a BA, because we'd already started it, but when the University of Manchester 'took over' UMIST (they said it was a merger) then the UMIST Computation department became Informatics in the Faculty of Humanities.
Quite how you could be taken seriously with a BSc Computing Science from the Faculty of Humanities I don't know - luckily I got an old-style certificate as well.
So, in summary, Universities do stupid things with degrees;)
That's probably because Mr Bean is one of Rowan Atkinson's worst characters ever and well below his normal level of quality with Edmund Blackadder.
Having seen the comedy he does in things like Blackadder then it doesn't surprise me that he's a bright guy. Interesting that it was Electrical Engineering, though.
Over $200? As in around £100? For Internet access?
Okay, so I'm only on "up to 2MB" ADSL, but we pay £15 per month. We could get up to 8MB if we wanted to pay £25-£30. Okay, so it's not synchronous, which will up the price, but three times as much as an up to 8MB connection? I'm glad I have low bandwidth requirements and am in the UK!
~£30 for 20/20 wouldn't be too bad if I felt I needed the bandwidth, though:)
No, this is not subjective. The same rose will give off the same chemicals regardless of who does the smelling. The same colour red has always the same wavelength regardless of who does the looking.
But is the chemical the smell, and is the wavelength the colour?
It's a bit philosophical, but a chemical mix of odours detected by a sensor isn't necessarily acting as a nose depending on what you want an "electronic nose" for.
I also wonder how it works on things where the 'known' composition can vary. Will it mis-identify them like some other robot did identifying a reporter's hand as bacon (or something similar)?
If my geography serves me right then it might even be in California;)
I know it's in America, but that doesn't mean that every comment should be written in American. Relise is correct English (even if Firefox currently seems to disagree), while realize is correct American. It's called international diversity of language.
Loads of people are already doing it as part of Apache's mod_rewrite (amongst other things). What worries me, though is:
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/792,405, filed Mar. 3, 2004 now abandoned, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
It's a continuation of something they abandoned? You mean there was something similar requested as a patent earlier? That's worrying.
TBH I don't think most of us can tell the difference with capitalisation, or don't care. There's various other things like the MOD/DOD that shouldn't be capitalised in certain ways, but people still do.
As for the nose, how do they know that what is smells is correct? Surely it's a bit like colour in that it is entirely subjective as to how it is represented: does everyone see red in the same way as I do? Do roses smell the same to everyone? That means they've either made a chemical sensor with a lookup table or they've made one hell of a clever robot that can perceptualise and abstract away from the chemicals to the 'actual' smell.
Not that it's not an achievement to make a chemical sensor for smells, just that it might not be quite the same as a nose.
That always depends on what the article means by "confidential". I'm in the same situation - I've got clearance and have worked with the information, and when working with commercial companies it annoys people no end that they insist on the footer "private and confidential" when what they mean is "private and in confidence because it is [insert company name] proprietary".
It's even worse when you've got an outbound mail filter that then trips over it and blocks it. It's a lower case "confidential" in the article so it could very easily be the civilian rather than military/government meaning.
As for not being connected to the Internet, that depends. Standard procedure in the UK is to not connect them but I know of a trial recently where they had an accredited (and therefore approved as safe) connection from Secret to an Unclassified/Internet network. That was just a trial, though, so I can't see anything happening from that any time soon.
Is it just me or did that video in the flash page not show where your neighbours managed to park?
It's all well and good having a lift to your door on a higher floor (although they could have made it a bit taller and a bit more worth it than those few stories) but what if you live in the area of the building that was blacked out? There only seemed to be the one car lift, so you're stuck walking up the stairs while you get to hear your neighbour revving their car in and out of their garage and car lift every morning and evening!
Not even RTFA - just hover over the link and you'll see it's manchester.ac.uk. Or even simpler then RTFS and see that it mentiones "...team at the UK Centre for Tissue Regeneration (UKCTR)".
Basically, it's the real and original Manchester;)
It's not quite the "real and original" Uni of Manchester though as Victoria University, Manchester, took over UMIST and stole our established date! It wasn't a merger, it was a takeover. A takeover I tell you! TAKEOVER!
Browsers actually did a good thing by automatically adding "http://" if you forgot it.
Yes, that's a good feature, but it doesn't explain why domain names are bad, just why having to specify a protocol can be bad. It is also good as well, though, because it lets me specify that I want to use the secured on the unsecured version of my Webmail (for example).
Really, why should any casual user have to remember the protocol identifier, and the colon-slash-slash? They just didn't take this idea far enough.
They shouldn't, and I didn't say that they should. It's important for the browser to know so that it accesses the correct resource, though (either HTTP, secured HTTP, FTP, etc).
If you did away with the address bar then how would you easily know where you were and that you hadn't suddenly been pushed to another site?
Why should you care? I thought that was one of the points of the web? And don't tell me about phishing, people still fall for phishing scams even when the URL is exposed. It's just not helpful.
Simple example 1: I read a story on Slashdot, and (shock!) I RTFA. TFA then has a link to a blog post (because Slashdot seems to have people posting links to blogs that link to blogs that link to news). That blog post has a link to a BBC branded page. With an address bar I can easily see whether it is a spoof trying to gain reputability or whether it is the real thing and therefore credible.
Simple example 2: Phishing. Yes, there's a percentage of people who fall for it even with the address bar, but how many more would fall for it without the address bar? That's a bit like saying speed limit signs don't stop some people doing 40mph in a slow residential 20mph zone, so lets just remove all of the speed limits so people have to guess whether it is a 20 or 30mph zone (or higher).
Or how would you know what to enter into the popup box next time you wanted to visit the site, especially when you were visiting another computer?
A good browser would recognize it without the protocol id, the colon-slash-slash...
Strangely enough, they do.
...and without the dots.
Erm, maybe not. Quick question: How does your theoretical browser tell the difference between the subdomain "del" of the "icio.us" domain and the domain "delicio.us"? And if it can't then how do you plan to control people so that the owners of the "icio.us" domain can't add the "del" subdomain or so that "delicio.us" can't be registered after the subdomain was created? And how do you stop someone buying up a two or three letter domain and stopping people registering domains by filling their site with subdomains of all combinations of letters? And what about if it was 'intelligent' enough not to need to know the TLD, how would it know you didn't mean delicious.com?
Or you could just type "bookmarks" and it would locate a list of bookmark storage sites.
How would it do that without knowing what the bookmark sites were? And who would determine which bookmark sites should and shouldn't be listed?
If you are the type of user who wouldn't use a well-known bookmark site, then you are the type of user who knows how to find it without a search engine.
And before you have bookmarks if you're not a search engine person and someone can't guarantee they'll turn up top for a result? How would Audi guarantee to get visitors to their website if all they could say was "search 'audi cars' online" and they weren't always top because there were dozens of search engines?
And back in the original time when they made the 'mistake' of making the address bar visible then how would you have found things then? I don't think there were too many top-quality search engines and bookmarking sites?
A lot of it is very idyllic, but I don't think it would work.
It already does cover computers - on the condition that they can receive terrestrial and related broadcast signals. I think it also covers mobile phones (although I don't know of a standard tuner card for a mobile!)
Having said that I'd be somewhat worried if a computer without a tuner required a TV license. The only way I'd think it was reasonable was if it didn't increase the cost, since I already have to pay for my TV (which is mainly used for watching BBC News 24, QI and Formula 1!)
If people don't have issues with iTunes I don't see the whole "omg it requires iTunes"-point.
I don't have a problem with iTunes, just the DRM store
iTunes as a player is okay on the whole, but iTunes as a music store is bad. The DRM is awkward and incompatible with other players and it is only recently they started doing DRM free music.
If I am buying music then I preferred the web-based interface of some site I can't remember the name of that stocked independents. I got a free month subscription with Linux Format one issue and used it then cancelled it. I'd not normally bother with subscription, but DRM-free MP3s on a free month is okay:)
They did have a client as well for mass download, but it was optional and you could download from a normal browser if you wanted. That's a better way round that is more accessible, rather than forcing iTunes on you if you want to buy MP3s.
Possibly is a bit painful, but we do have some part albums and some freebies from Coke label offers so the tagging wouldn't work for those. My car has a tape player, so having a CD isn't much use there. We do have an FM transmitter though, so that's where the MP3 player gets used.
I did consider burning and ripping but didn't feel like wasting the CDs (and I don't own any RWs). At least with the "play, record and cut" I can listen through the album at the same time before slicing it into individual MP3s.
Sorry, mistake in the original post. She had an iPod, which she now doesn't have. She has a different MP3 player instead.
Yes, you don't have to buy through iTunes, but if you've got an iPod and want to buy occasional tracks or buy whole albums cheaper than most places sell them (except perhaps Amazon, where you have to pay postage instead if you're buying a single album at a time) then iTunes store is the simple choice. Two years ago there weren't many other (legit) options, especially if you didn't get enough music to make one of these subscription-based services worth it.
I use iTunes in Windows, but only because I like the party shuffle and its filter, and because other options like WinAmp or Media Player don't appeal. Other than the fact that it stands out and is different then I don't have a problem with iTunes, just the DRM store. In Linux I personally use Exaile.
I'd be interested to see how you buy your iTunes Plus songs without iTunes;)
DRM is a pain. My, erm, brother's sister's nephew's uncle's wife bought some old iTunes MP3s back when they were all DRMed. She now doesn't have an MP3 player and my brother's sister's nephew's uncle is having to play them through iTunes, record them through Goldwave and save them as MP3s. Not perfect, but it works for those who aren't audiophiles. It does mean that she realises buying from iTunes with DRM was a bad idea, though.
I don't know whether it is licensing costs going up or paybacks going down (roughly the same thing I guess) but I spent a year of my degree working for one of the newer big names in branded computers (I won't say who specifically, but they're an offshoot company from two other big electronics firms).
During that time I worked in IS Dev, so we made the software that let Sales edit the websites while not letting them break things. From what I was told then there was a ranked scheme as to where the "X recommends Windows Y" was and how much money MS paid. When I started there it was moderately high (top quarter) and reasonably discrete. By the time I left they were looking to mirror Dell and get extra money by ruining the header of the page and plastering it in the top 30-40 pixels.
The many joys of corporate funding.
Now, if only customer Dell survived as well with matching support to a corporate Dell (which seems to be good and stable) then maybe I'd consider buying one for being so quiet. Having said that, maybe I'd rather know what brand is in my machine and just pick it all myself and build it.
And to all who modded me "Troll" and "Flamebait" I say "bah" at your inability to see an insightful and tongue-in-cheek comment about the number of Slashvertisements there are:P
Your URL plugged in the story where we announce the auction winners.
Why not save your money and just do what others do - post a pure slashvertisement or an article that uses your blog (or similar website) that's filled with adverts and a link to the real news source as "TFA"?
Alternatively, why pay to see your server go down in flames when someone can post an article on Slashdot, Digg or one of the others and you can have it done for free?
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Either that or I pay attention to BBC and more reputable sources;)
Okay, so in hindsight then "make" isn't the best choice of word, but the BBC and the Times seem to have good grammar. ITV, Five, and any of the Fox/CNN-like news from the US that we see over here is potentially a bit more borderline.
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Pah, Manchester (specifically UMIST when it was around) was the place to be. Much more student-oriented and not so cold! You get a better degree from a bigger/more recognised Uni, lots of beer, good rock/metal clubs and I got married to the girl I met in the first semester nearly six weeks ago now ;)
The vegan society says:
You can probably think of vegan as vegetarian extremists
I think I was too young for that. Blackadder has been repeated more on British TV since then, but I don't remember Not The Nine O'Clock News being repeated.
Some Universities just like to crap up perfectly good degrees. It wasn't quite going to end up as a BA, because we'd already started it, but when the University of Manchester 'took over' UMIST (they said it was a merger) then the UMIST Computation department became Informatics in the Faculty of Humanities.
;)
Quite how you could be taken seriously with a BSc Computing Science from the Faculty of Humanities I don't know - luckily I got an old-style certificate as well.
So, in summary, Universities do stupid things with degrees
That's probably because Mr Bean is one of Rowan Atkinson's worst characters ever and well below his normal level of quality with Edmund Blackadder.
Having seen the comedy he does in things like Blackadder then it doesn't surprise me that he's a bright guy. Interesting that it was Electrical Engineering, though.
That would explain why it didn't like it :D
Realise is a correct English word, though, and Firefox's English dictionary thinks it is correct (even if it doesn't think Firefox is)
Over $200? As in around £100? For Internet access?
:)
Okay, so I'm only on "up to 2MB" ADSL, but we pay £15 per month. We could get up to 8MB if we wanted to pay £25-£30. Okay, so it's not synchronous, which will up the price, but three times as much as an up to 8MB connection? I'm glad I have low bandwidth requirements and am in the UK!
~£30 for 20/20 wouldn't be too bad if I felt I needed the bandwidth, though
But is the chemical the smell, and is the wavelength the colour?
It's a bit philosophical, but a chemical mix of odours detected by a sensor isn't necessarily acting as a nose depending on what you want an "electronic nose" for.
I also wonder how it works on things where the 'known' composition can vary. Will it mis-identify them like some other robot did identifying a reporter's hand as bacon (or something similar)?
If my geography serves me right then it might even be in California ;)
I know it's in America, but that doesn't mean that every comment should be written in American. Relise is correct English (even if Firefox currently seems to disagree), while realize is correct American. It's called international diversity of language.
It's a continuation of something they abandoned? You mean there was something similar requested as a patent earlier? That's worrying.
Only if you're American ;)
TBH I don't think most of us can tell the difference with capitalisation, or don't care. There's various other things like the MOD/DOD that shouldn't be capitalised in certain ways, but people still do.
As for the nose, how do they know that what is smells is correct? Surely it's a bit like colour in that it is entirely subjective as to how it is represented: does everyone see red in the same way as I do? Do roses smell the same to everyone? That means they've either made a chemical sensor with a lookup table or they've made one hell of a clever robot that can perceptualise and abstract away from the chemicals to the 'actual' smell.
Not that it's not an achievement to make a chemical sensor for smells, just that it might not be quite the same as a nose.
That always depends on what the article means by "confidential". I'm in the same situation - I've got clearance and have worked with the information, and when working with commercial companies it annoys people no end that they insist on the footer "private and confidential" when what they mean is "private and in confidence because it is [insert company name] proprietary".
It's even worse when you've got an outbound mail filter that then trips over it and blocks it. It's a lower case "confidential" in the article so it could very easily be the civilian rather than military/government meaning.
As for not being connected to the Internet, that depends. Standard procedure in the UK is to not connect them but I know of a trial recently where they had an accredited (and therefore approved as safe) connection from Secret to an Unclassified/Internet network. That was just a trial, though, so I can't see anything happening from that any time soon.
Is it just me or did that video in the flash page not show where your neighbours managed to park?
It's all well and good having a lift to your door on a higher floor (although they could have made it a bit taller and a bit more worth it than those few stories) but what if you live in the area of the building that was blacked out? There only seemed to be the one car lift, so you're stuck walking up the stairs while you get to hear your neighbour revving their car in and out of their garage and car lift every morning and evening!
Isn't that then counted as a spoiled vote or something, a bit like voting for both?
IIRC I think Australia has some form of "none" vote, but they have a "you must go and vote" law.
Not even RTFA - just hover over the link and you'll see it's manchester.ac.uk. Or even simpler then RTFS and see that it mentiones "...team at the UK Centre for Tissue Regeneration (UKCTR)".
;)
Basically, it's the real and original Manchester
It's not quite the "real and original" Uni of Manchester though as Victoria University, Manchester, took over UMIST and stole our established date! It wasn't a merger, it was a takeover. A takeover I tell you! TAKEOVER!
Ahem.
Yes, that's a good feature, but it doesn't explain why domain names are bad, just why having to specify a protocol can be bad. It is also good as well, though, because it lets me specify that I want to use the secured on the unsecured version of my Webmail (for example).
They shouldn't, and I didn't say that they should. It's important for the browser to know so that it accesses the correct resource, though (either HTTP, secured HTTP, FTP, etc).
Why should you care? I thought that was one of the points of the web? And don't tell me about phishing, people still fall for phishing scams even when the URL is exposed. It's just not helpful.
Simple example 1: I read a story on Slashdot, and (shock!) I RTFA. TFA then has a link to a blog post (because Slashdot seems to have people posting links to blogs that link to blogs that link to news). That blog post has a link to a BBC branded page. With an address bar I can easily see whether it is a spoof trying to gain reputability or whether it is the real thing and therefore credible.
Simple example 2: Phishing. Yes, there's a percentage of people who fall for it even with the address bar, but how many more would fall for it without the address bar? That's a bit like saying speed limit signs don't stop some people doing 40mph in a slow residential 20mph zone, so lets just remove all of the speed limits so people have to guess whether it is a 20 or 30mph zone (or higher).
Never used it and don't use any alternatives.
Strangely enough, they do.
Erm, maybe not. Quick question: How does your theoretical browser tell the difference between the subdomain "del" of the "icio.us" domain and the domain "delicio.us"? And if it can't then how do you plan to control people so that the owners of the "icio.us" domain can't add the "del" subdomain or so that "delicio.us" can't be registered after the subdomain was created? And how do you stop someone buying up a two or three letter domain and stopping people registering domains by filling their site with subdomains of all combinations of letters? And what about if it was 'intelligent' enough not to need to know the TLD, how would it know you didn't mean delicious.com?
How would it do that without knowing what the bookmark sites were? And who would determine which bookmark sites should and shouldn't be listed? And before you have bookmarks if you're not a search engine person and someone can't guarantee they'll turn up top for a result? How would Audi guarantee to get visitors to their website if all they could say was "search 'audi cars' online" and they weren't always top because there were dozens of search engines?
And back in the original time when they made the 'mistake' of making the address bar visible then how would you have found things then? I don't think there were too many top-quality search engines and bookmarking sites?
A lot of it is very idyllic, but I don't think it would work.
It already does cover computers - on the condition that they can receive terrestrial and related broadcast signals. I think it also covers mobile phones (although I don't know of a standard tuner card for a mobile!)
Having said that I'd be somewhat worried if a computer without a tuner required a TV license. The only way I'd think it was reasonable was if it didn't increase the cost, since I already have to pay for my TV (which is mainly used for watching BBC News 24, QI and Formula 1!)
iTunes as a player is okay on the whole, but iTunes as a music store is bad. The DRM is awkward and incompatible with other players and it is only recently they started doing DRM free music.
If I am buying music then I preferred the web-based interface of some site I can't remember the name of that stocked independents. I got a free month subscription with Linux Format one issue and used it then cancelled it. I'd not normally bother with subscription, but DRM-free MP3s on a free month is okay
They did have a client as well for mass download, but it was optional and you could download from a normal browser if you wanted. That's a better way round that is more accessible, rather than forcing iTunes on you if you want to buy MP3s.
Possibly is a bit painful, but we do have some part albums and some freebies from Coke label offers so the tagging wouldn't work for those. My car has a tape player, so having a CD isn't much use there. We do have an FM transmitter though, so that's where the MP3 player gets used.
I did consider burning and ripping but didn't feel like wasting the CDs (and I don't own any RWs). At least with the "play, record and cut" I can listen through the album at the same time before slicing it into individual MP3s.
Sorry, mistake in the original post. She had an iPod, which she now doesn't have. She has a different MP3 player instead.
Yes, you don't have to buy through iTunes, but if you've got an iPod and want to buy occasional tracks or buy whole albums cheaper than most places sell them (except perhaps Amazon, where you have to pay postage instead if you're buying a single album at a time) then iTunes store is the simple choice. Two years ago there weren't many other (legit) options, especially if you didn't get enough music to make one of these subscription-based services worth it.
I use iTunes in Windows, but only because I like the party shuffle and its filter, and because other options like WinAmp or Media Player don't appeal. Other than the fact that it stands out and is different then I don't have a problem with iTunes, just the DRM store. In Linux I personally use Exaile.
I'd be interested to see how you buy your iTunes Plus songs without iTunes ;)
DRM is a pain. My, erm, brother's sister's nephew's uncle's wife bought some old iTunes MP3s back when they were all DRMed. She now doesn't have an MP3 player and my brother's sister's nephew's uncle is having to play them through iTunes, record them through Goldwave and save them as MP3s. Not perfect, but it works for those who aren't audiophiles. It does mean that she realises buying from iTunes with DRM was a bad idea, though.
I don't know whether it is licensing costs going up or paybacks going down (roughly the same thing I guess) but I spent a year of my degree working for one of the newer big names in branded computers (I won't say who specifically, but they're an offshoot company from two other big electronics firms).
During that time I worked in IS Dev, so we made the software that let Sales edit the websites while not letting them break things. From what I was told then there was a ranked scheme as to where the "X recommends Windows Y" was and how much money MS paid. When I started there it was moderately high (top quarter) and reasonably discrete. By the time I left they were looking to mirror Dell and get extra money by ruining the header of the page and plastering it in the top 30-40 pixels.
The many joys of corporate funding.
Now, if only customer Dell survived as well with matching support to a corporate Dell (which seems to be good and stable) then maybe I'd consider buying one for being so quiet. Having said that, maybe I'd rather know what brand is in my machine and just pick it all myself and build it.
Because a charity needs money?
:P
And to all who modded me "Troll" and "Flamebait" I say "bah" at your inability to see an insightful and tongue-in-cheek comment about the number of Slashvertisements there are
Why not save your money and just do what others do - post a pure slashvertisement or an article that uses your blog (or similar website) that's filled with adverts and a link to the real news source as "TFA"?
Alternatively, why pay to see your server go down in flames when someone can post an article on Slashdot, Digg or one of the others and you can have it done for free?
Either that or I pay attention to BBC and more reputable sources ;)
Okay, so in hindsight then "make" isn't the best choice of word, but the BBC and the Times seem to have good grammar. ITV, Five, and any of the Fox/CNN-like news from the US that we see over here is potentially a bit more borderline.