There are plenty of benefits that would not be considered to be "the dole" such as child benefit which is paid to all parents/guardians. There are also various tax credits which merely reduce the amount of tax paid rather than causing an actual payment to the recipient.
Adam Hart Davies was great. It's a shame that everyone had already given up watching by the time he became a presenter. I didn't realise until it was announced that the show was being axed. Actually, perhaps they should have given him some creative control. "What the Romans did for us" had a lot of the elements that TW was missing. Hell, Local heroes did for that matter.
Exactly the same here. I hadn't noticed either and probably would have tried watching it again if I'd known.
So, here's the salvage plan if the BBC are listening...
1. As 91degrees suggests give Adam Hart Davis more control, and bring in whoever else he needs from Local Heroes and What The {Romans,Victorians,Tudors,Stewarts} Did For Us.
2. Move it to BBC2 at 8pm. It needs to be on early enough for children to watch but if it's on BBC1 then it is forced to compete with Coronation Street etc. on ITV. The 7pm slot is too early for the adults that want to watch it. ISTR it being on Thursday at 8pm when I found it compulsive viewing as a child. It also happens to be a very similar slot to the one occupied by What The * Did For Us. In the current TV climate I don't believe even the old TW would succeed on BBC1 in a prime-time slot.
3. Remove the emphasis on medical and environmental stuff. Bring back the gadgets and the get the inventors themselves in the studio.
4. Ensure that there is a much better mix of pre-recorded stories and studio stuff.
Maybe if the BBC does this they'll end up with a show that people enjoy watching and feel as if they've gained something from it. It won't ever get the viewing figures that it used to get in the seventies and eighties but nothing could today.
I believe a lot of the Horizon episodes are shown in the US as well.
ISTR it's called Nova or something over there...
I get the distinct impression that Horizon is now produced independently and then narrated in both UK and US English. I sometimes get the feeling that when a programme is heavily US-centric they put in a token British part for the UK only which ends up looking out of place.
Surely if the BBC were still making it then it would be an hour long rather than fifty minutes:)
But even Horizon has gone really downhill. They seem to want to present every programme as a mystery story. This can sometimes work well, for example with the acclaimed Fermat's Last Theorem programme, but if the story is weak then it just ends up boring and repetitive. Mind you, at least they can't do the "repeat everything we just said for five minutes before the break" that they do on Channel Four science programmes -- or maybe they do when it is shown in the US.
When the analogue BBC channels show a programme that was originally made in 16:9, they compromise and cut it down to 14:9, which cuts off some of the sides and gives you thin black bars.
...and since the programmes are made within a safe 14:9 frame people with 4:3 sets don't lose anything essential.
The trouble with digital TV is that we now get programmes on analogue in anamorphic occasionally when the autoswitching mechanisms break. Also, the ratio switches that occur after advert breaks and before programmes start don't look pretty either:-)
The book was called "Fermat's Last Theorem" in the UK and the TV programme (which won an award IIRC - it was very good) was shown on Horizon.
Incidentally, I've always realised that all the Horizon and Equinox programmes were a joint effort between the UK/US/Australia/NZ but how much are they tailored for each country? We always seem to get a British voice-over but there often seems to be token British content in a predominantly US-centric programme:-)
Oh, and where is "The Arts & Entertainment Network"?
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For those with less deep pockets there's also BrightSign. They use a lot of them at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
There are plenty of benefits that would not be considered to be "the dole" such as child benefit which is paid to all parents/guardians. There are also various tax credits which merely reduce the amount of tax paid rather than causing an actual payment to the recipient.
I think you'll find that the UK's most listened to station is in fact Radio 2. Radio 1 lost its position during the Matthew Bannister years: See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_1 and http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/1993_to_1997_page.htm .
Don't you need to be British to become a knight?
No, but you need to be a Commonwealth "Citizen" for it to give you the right to use the title "Sir".
Adam Hart Davies was great. It's a shame that everyone had already given up watching by the time he became a presenter. I didn't realise until it was announced that the show was being axed. Actually, perhaps they should have given him some creative control. "What the Romans did for us" had a lot of the elements that TW was missing. Hell, Local heroes did for that matter. Exactly the same here. I hadn't noticed either and probably would have tried watching it again if I'd known. So, here's the salvage plan if the BBC are listening... 1. As 91degrees suggests give Adam Hart Davis more control, and bring in whoever else he needs from Local Heroes and What The {Romans,Victorians,Tudors,Stewarts} Did For Us. 2. Move it to BBC2 at 8pm. It needs to be on early enough for children to watch but if it's on BBC1 then it is forced to compete with Coronation Street etc. on ITV. The 7pm slot is too early for the adults that want to watch it. ISTR it being on Thursday at 8pm when I found it compulsive viewing as a child. It also happens to be a very similar slot to the one occupied by What The * Did For Us. In the current TV climate I don't believe even the old TW would succeed on BBC1 in a prime-time slot. 3. Remove the emphasis on medical and environmental stuff. Bring back the gadgets and the get the inventors themselves in the studio. 4. Ensure that there is a much better mix of pre-recorded stories and studio stuff. Maybe if the BBC does this they'll end up with a show that people enjoy watching and feel as if they've gained something from it. It won't ever get the viewing figures that it used to get in the seventies and eighties but nothing could today.
I believe a lot of the Horizon episodes are shown in the US as well.
:)
ISTR it's called Nova or something over there...
I get the distinct impression that Horizon is now produced independently and then narrated in both UK and US English. I sometimes get the feeling that when a programme is heavily US-centric they put in a token British part for the UK only which ends up looking out of place.
Surely if the BBC were still making it then it would be an hour long rather than fifty minutes
But even Horizon has gone really downhill. They seem to want to present every programme as a mystery story. This can sometimes work well, for example with the acclaimed Fermat's Last Theorem programme, but if the story is weak then it just ends up boring and repetitive. Mind you, at least they can't do the "repeat everything we just said for five minutes before the break" that they do on Channel Four science programmes -- or maybe they do when it is shown in the US.
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That's not flying, that's dropping. The distinction is important, especially when travelling by plane.
In zsh just bind something to history-beginning-search-backward. I'm sure bash will have a similar feature.
When the analogue BBC channels show a programme that was originally made in 16:9, they compromise and cut it down to 14:9, which cuts off some of the sides and gives you thin black bars.
:-)
...and since the programmes are made within a safe 14:9 frame people with 4:3 sets don't lose anything essential.
The trouble with digital TV is that we now get programmes on analogue in anamorphic occasionally when the autoswitching mechanisms break. Also, the ratio switches that occur after advert breaks and before programmes start don't look pretty either
The book was called "Fermat's Last Theorem" in the UK and the TV programme (which won an award IIRC - it was very good) was shown on Horizon.
:-)
Incidentally, I've always realised that all the Horizon and Equinox programmes were a joint effort between the UK/US/Australia/NZ but how much are they tailored for each country? We always seem to get a British voice-over but there often seems to be token British content in a predominantly US-centric programme
Oh, and where is "The Arts & Entertainment Network"?
Actually the MFC is completely open source.
It isn't. Being able to see (and possibly modify) the source code doesn't make it open source.
The MFC source is available purely to make debugging and working around its bugs easier.
some servers (notably, ftp.uk.kernel.org) seem to lag behind for days
:-)
I believe ftp.uk.kernel.org is actually four servers - Demon and three on JANET. Luckily JANET has better LINX connectivity than it used to
British Manufacturing? Wasn't it Timex building Spectrums in the US that killed it off there?