you'd be forced by Law to buy a TV license with your new iMac whether you wanted to use it as a TV or not
no you wouldn't. you have to buy a tv licence to watch broadcast TV. if you do not watch broadcast tv, you do *not* need a tv licence. it's that simple.
need a licence: watching terrestrial tv including the bbc watching terrestrial tv excluding the bbc watching cable/satellite tv with or without the bbc watching tv on a computer with a tv tuner
do no need a licence: using your tv just to play video games using your tv just to watch dvd's using your tv as a doorstop using your tv as a paperweight using a computer with a tv tuner, but not watching tv through it.
got it? the tv licence company doesn't like admitting that you can own a tv without paying them money but it's the truth and they'll admit it if you force them into it.
I think you'll find that there are many milliard people who read neither the article, nor the comments on slashdot. we call these people "normal":)
back on topic, I've got an mx700 and it's one of the best mice I've ever had (reminds me of the naksha mouse I bought for my amiga actually, heavier than you'd think, but has a very solid, yet fluid feel).
being as a friend might want my mx700, when the mx1000 comes out in the UK I might well go for one. assuming it works well with my macintrash (which I can't imagine it won't, the 700 works great).
dammit, I wish I could find someone who could provice me with a dvd copy of the laserdisc with the full 5.1 souindtrack and in high quality, but everyone I've asked doesn't know where to find such a thing.
I might add that I'd much rather have a seamless branching edition of the films that allow us to watch either version, and that I would pay for happily.
well, it's not storage, but close (physically). I had to replace a sony vaio custom HD cable (why couldnt they use a standard one? the cable only went a cm ffs). I was rather surprised when I finally found someone at sony who would sell me the exact part I needed. HD cable for a vaio SR11K. for me? £50.
thats £50 for a cable under a centimetre in length, so per metre thats £5000.
most expensive cable I've ever bought (and it accounted for a full quarter of the cost of getting that laptop running (the rest being the cost of the lappie and a HD).
b) US broadcasters (in threory) are independant, and quite fond of the frequency they're on. In Europe, you have national broadcasters.
no, in the UK we have local only channels that aren't available nationally, both on FM and DAB. I've had a dab radio for ages (I've got a sony 777es) and I agree, dab is great, but it's worth noting that while it can be better than FM, it's often not as lots of channels are multiplexed onto each frequency, so the more channels you shoehirn in, the lower the bitrate for each is. I think most stations are about 128k which is a bit disappointing, I've seen channels much lower though.
DAB is great for cars though (althogh I don't have a dab radio in my car alas) as the frequencies stay the same, just that different transmitters are time sliced so that they don't interfere with each other. that way your car can merely choose the strongest signal to play from and the driver hears no loss in audio (unless you plain drive out of range of a transmitter:)
got to admit, I don't like the looks of the bug although I'm sure it's great functionally.
So I'm coughing up £125 for the priviledge of *owning* a telly
well, to be fair, you're paying for thr priviledge of receiving broadcast TV. you don't need a licence just to own a tv if you only use it for video's, dvd's, consoles and the like (ie no broadcast tv at all).
not that it should make you feel any better mind you:)
actually, what I dislike about people like sky tv is that they charge you the earth for alot less service (or so it seems). sky seems to spend it's time just buying shows from other people, while the bbc does that, it also makes shows itself, some of very high quality (some pretty crap admittedly).
sky just seems to be a huge rip off to me, how can they charge you a huge monthly fee for the posrts channel and then have the cheek to ask you to pay even moe to see some boxing match, and then not allow you to record it!
and then carpet bomb it with more and more adverts. ads, or subscription. pick one dammit. that just really pisses me off and I just won't sign up to it. but I suppose I don't watch a huge amount of telly now. I've got freeview (and a tivo*) and thats mostly enough for me.
dave
* please, give us a new UK tivo! I want a high quality dvdv/dvda/sacd player/dvdrw/tivo with huge HD, ethernet, multiple tuners etc. I'll pay a good fee for that
uber multitaskers? call centre employees? yes, some are good, even great, but many of them rank below the great unwashed masses in technical know-how and problem solving abilities... you can tell by the way drag their knuckles...
well, by your logic, where is the cost in the xraid?:) a case can't cost too much, a sata hw raid controller isn't a huge expensive, fw chips cost buttons and hd's are always coming down in price:)
I've looked at the bigger disk and it's better than the big disk as it apparently is raid 0 rather than concat like the big disk but it's still not redundant. thing is, it would prolly be cheaper and more flexible for ppl like us to simple make a nas and cut out the digger disk. just buy a box, sata raid controller and a chunk of disks, problem solved:)
I was just thinking of a simple, neat solution with the matching management tools would be nice, and prolly quite popular.
well, it's very nice, but it is just a stand for an xraid so you need to pay $299 for the stand, and then $8000 (or whatever) for the xraid itself. I was thinking of a slightly cut down version of the xraid. not so many drive bays, no fibre channel (fw800 instead), only one psu, raid controller and maybe ethernet (would be nice for a small workgroup but I suppose not required). could be fairly small so it could sit on a desk next to a g5 and look like it matches.
I'm sure you were expecting this, but their disks are not technically raid as they are not redundant. lose one disk, lose the lot. this means that your data is less safe than it would be just spread across 2 or 4 seperate discs as if ou lose a drive then, you only lose some data, not all.
also, I beleive they don't even qualify as the badly named, raid0 as I under the impression that the disks are concatted together, not striped.
what I'd love to see is an Xraid mini as it were. something with much of the managability of the full size xraid, but not as much redundancy. so perhaps a nice desktop case (to match the g5 *of course*:) that could take 4 or 5 sata disks in hot swap caddies (maybe the same caddies as in the xraid) with a hardware raid controller on board for striping, mirroring and raid 5. a single gig ethernet on the back and then fw400 and 800 ports.
if it had the same cross platform compatibility as the the big xraid, same type of management tools etc, then it could be a big hit, and be an official filling for the big hole that is g5 storage.
sure, the xraid is great and cheap, but it's price of enhtry i still high when all you want is a terabyte or so of fast storage for one of two machines at home, ie no rack to place, no need for redundant psu's and fibre channel connectivity, that kinda thing.
HD video editors esp need something as for the data speeds they need for uncompressed hd (180MBps) thats 4 striped disks which you can't place in a g5 without using third party solutions.
just a thought, come on apple. and when you make one, I just ask for a fully loaded one for myself;)
I've thought about this myself but right now I'm just not gonna do it for several reasons:
1) I'm a big wuss and I'm rwally not sure I can lie there while someone slices my eye open and burns the stuff underneath, while I'm thinking " mm.. bacon"
2) with most normal procedures, if it goes wrong, then you're back where you used to be, with lasik, you could be horribly worse off
3) I beleive that a massive percentage lose alot of night vision, you might not be able to legally drive at night for example
4) the eye is much more prone to infection
5) the army and police won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think
all in all, I just don't trust it yet. last time I went to the opticians (last week), three people there suggested laser treatment and I gave them the above reason, at which point they dropped the act and agreed with me completely and said they'd not do it themselves.
at some point in the future I'd love perfect vision (perhaps with a HUD and tactical data feed;) but I don't think lasik is the way to go for me right now. I'll just stick to buying glasses that are too expensive for the meantime:)
You can't have each line from a different provider - that would require two seperate radios.
I thought it would, but why does that make it impossible. 2 radio's in the phone should be easy peasy really.
dave
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An IPv6 address includes the 64 bit MAC address.
and to quote the page you linked to:
The last 64 bits are reserved for the site use. It is recommended that it be used as 16 bit internal network number and 48 bit MAC address, although sites can do what they liked.
so it is recommended to include the 48bit mac address but it's pretty arbitrary
dave
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Cerf said about two-thirds of the 4.3 billion Internet addresses currently available were used up, adding that IPv6 could magnify capacity by some "25,000 trillion trillion times."
I think that the above is misleading. sure, there is much more capacity for ip addresses in ipv6, but the protocol is designed for sparse ip useage. there will be massive gaps in useage as each lan gets a/64 network for what, up to 200 computers max?
however, I find ipv6 pretty interesting and I'm waiting to get ipv6 delivered to my home dsl (it's coming, it's coming). I've already got my mailserver configured for ipv6 but of course, no bugger has sent me any mail via that protocol as no-one else supports it. hell, I assume my config works but I don't *know*:)
nope, they've fixed it now:( the tech spe3cs no-longer list the carry case or remote, which is annoying. I was planning on buying one and then bitching to apple that they weren't included, but I can't do that now.
according to the tech specs (but not the store), the 40G one does have the carry case. still, the price in dollars converted to pounds is about £213 so quite a significant saving to be made if you can import one. sure the power plug is different, but a simple uk fig 8 cable can fix that.
If they have the negatives, they're still going to have to find someone to make a print like the one I made. They're going to have to pay for a custom printer to make it. Why pay the custom printer as opposed to me (that makes custom prints)?
what if you're dead? what if you've destroyed/lost the negs. what about if you plain refuse?
or what if I decide that I like the way you've taken the photos but I don't happen to like your style of printing. or I want to print them myself (perhaps being a budding darkroom wiz).
why should you have final word over pictures of my wedding? well, right not it's in the contract and agreed so fair enogh, but when the time comes for me I'm going to make my PoV plain about who I want to own the rights.
You can make sip-sip calls. Besides, Gaim already can do iChatAV, right?
afaik, gaim can exchange simple text based messages with ichatav, and probabaly swap files and the like. both are aim clients after all, what I'm wondering is if a phonegaim user wwith me on their buddy list will see the little phone indicating that I've got a mike and can make phonecalls, and would it work if it did?
I couldn't find any mention of it on the phonegaim site but if it's there then that would be great, I know a few people who'd want to know
shame, I was hoping that it would be compatible with ichatAV for the mac, that uses sip to do voice and video conferencing, it seems a missed opportunity to allow phonegaim to speak to ichatav users.
Most GSM services in Europe offer "Second Line" functionality. This means you can have a work and a personal number attached to a single phone.
I was enquiring about this yesterday and it's not as easy as that apparently. O2 might do it for me, but only if I'm registered with o2 themselves, not via a reseller (like cpw). and of course, you can't have each line being a different provider.
smartphones are fantastic. people who bitch about wanting "simple" things are either ignorant of how well-designed phones like the P900 are, or are just too poor to afford them.
perhaps they have different needs from a mobile phone that you do? while I'm sure the p900 is great, it's not for everyone. I for example could easily have afforded a P900 but plain didn't want a phone that big in my pocket that I have to carry around all day. it's just too damn big for me. I ended up with an SE t630 (nearly held out for the k700 but I needed it to be immediately compatible with isync and I wanted to use stuff like salling clicker with it etc).
is a mobile phone that takes 2 sim cards and can use both at the same time.
I have a mobile phone of my own, up to now I've not taken a work phone as I don't want to take 2 phones with me everywhere. surely it can't be too difficult to have 2 sims in a phone, both acive so that you can get calls on either number (each having it's own contract and possibly, different operator) and the phone call tell you who it's from and what number it's going to, so you can see at a glance what the situation is. ideally you could maintain 2 seperate address books too, ie a work and a home one (possibly a field in a single address book maybe)
yes, you can get dualo sim adapters for phones, but thats crap as it's an "either or" situation. you can only have 1 active at once which isn't good enough. I have my home phone on my desk at work and no-one minds if I get personal calls on it.
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you'd be forced by Law to buy a TV license with your new iMac whether you wanted to use it as a TV or not
no you wouldn't. you have to buy a tv licence to watch broadcast TV. if you do not watch broadcast tv, you do *not* need a tv licence. it's that simple.
need a licence:
watching terrestrial tv including the bbc
watching terrestrial tv excluding the bbc
watching cable/satellite tv with or without the bbc
watching tv on a computer with a tv tuner
do no need a licence:
using your tv just to play video games
using your tv just to watch dvd's
using your tv as a doorstop
using your tv as a paperweight
using a computer with a tv tuner, but not watching tv through it.
got it? the tv licence company doesn't like admitting that you can own a tv without paying them money but it's the truth and they'll admit it if you force them into it.
HTH
dave
I think you'll find that there are many milliard people who read neither the article, nor the comments on slashdot. we call these people "normal" :)
back on topic, I've got an mx700 and it's one of the best mice I've ever had (reminds me of the naksha mouse I bought for my amiga actually, heavier than you'd think, but has a very solid, yet fluid feel).
being as a friend might want my mx700, when the mx1000 comes out in the UK I might well go for one. assuming it works well with my macintrash (which I can't imagine it won't, the 700 works great).
dave
That would be difficult because the only SW laserdiscs with 5.1 are the SE versions.
ahh, didn't realise that, I thought that there was a verison of the originals in 5.1. I'd still like an original dvd even if it's in stereo.
dave
dammit, I wish I could find someone who could provice me with a dvd copy of the laserdisc with the full 5.1 souindtrack and in high quality, but everyone I've asked doesn't know where to find such a thing.
I might add that I'd much rather have a seamless branching edition of the films that allow us to watch either version, and that I would pay for happily.
dave
well, it's not storage, but close (physically). I had to replace a sony vaio custom HD cable (why couldnt they use a standard one? the cable only went a cm ffs). I was rather surprised when I finally found someone at sony who would sell me the exact part I needed. HD cable for a vaio SR11K. for me? £50.
thats £50 for a cable under a centimetre in length, so per metre thats £5000.
most expensive cable I've ever bought (and it accounted for a full quarter of the cost of getting that laptop running (the rest being the cost of the lappie and a HD).
dave
which is where the name of the record store HMV comes from.
dave
b) US broadcasters (in threory) are independant, and quite fond of the frequency they're on. In Europe, you have national broadcasters.
:)
no, in the UK we have local only channels that aren't available nationally, both on FM and DAB. I've had a dab radio for ages (I've got a sony 777es) and I agree, dab is great, but it's worth noting that while it can be better than FM, it's often not as lots of channels are multiplexed onto each frequency, so the more channels you shoehirn in, the lower the bitrate for each is. I think most stations are about 128k which is a bit disappointing, I've seen channels much lower though.
DAB is great for cars though (althogh I don't have a dab radio in my car alas) as the frequencies stay the same, just that different transmitters are time sliced so that they don't interfere with each other. that way your car can merely choose the strongest signal to play from and the driver hears no loss in audio (unless you plain drive out of range of a transmitter
got to admit, I don't like the looks of the bug although I'm sure it's great functionally.
dave
So I'm coughing up £125 for the priviledge of *owning* a telly
:)
well, to be fair, you're paying for thr priviledge of receiving broadcast TV. you don't need a licence just to own a tv if you only use it for video's, dvd's, consoles and the like (ie no broadcast tv at all).
not that it should make you feel any better mind you
actually, what I dislike about people like sky tv is that they charge you the earth for alot less service (or so it seems). sky seems to spend it's time just buying shows from other people, while the bbc does that, it also makes shows itself, some of very high quality (some pretty crap admittedly).
sky just seems to be a huge rip off to me, how can they charge you a huge monthly fee for the posrts channel and then have the cheek to ask you to pay even moe to see some boxing match, and then not allow you to record it!
and then carpet bomb it with more and more adverts. ads, or subscription. pick one dammit. that just really pisses me off and I just won't sign up to it. but I suppose I don't watch a huge amount of telly now. I've got freeview (and a tivo*) and thats mostly enough for me.
dave
* please, give us a new UK tivo! I want a high quality dvdv/dvda/sacd player/dvdrw/tivo with huge HD, ethernet, multiple tuners etc. I'll pay a good fee for that
not uber multitaskers like call center employees
uber multitaskers? call centre employees? yes, some are good, even great, but many of them rank below the great unwashed masses in technical know-how and problem solving abilities... you can tell by the way drag their knuckles...
*ahem*
dave
well, by your logic, where is the cost in the xraid? :) a case can't cost too much, a sata hw raid controller isn't a huge expensive, fw chips cost buttons and hd's are always coming down in price :)
:)
I've looked at the bigger disk and it's better than the big disk as it apparently is raid 0 rather than concat like the big disk but it's still not redundant. thing is, it would prolly be cheaper and more flexible for ppl like us to simple make a nas and cut out the digger disk. just buy a box, sata raid controller and a chunk of disks, problem solved
I was just thinking of a simple, neat solution with the matching management tools would be nice, and prolly quite popular.
dave
well, it's very nice, but it is just a stand for an xraid so you need to pay $299 for the stand, and then $8000 (or whatever) for the xraid itself. I was thinking of a slightly cut down version of the xraid. not so many drive bays, no fibre channel (fw800 instead), only one psu, raid controller and maybe ethernet (would be nice for a small workgroup but I suppose not required). could be fairly small so it could sit on a desk next to a g5 and look like it matches.
dave
I'm sure you were expecting this, but their disks are not technically raid as they are not redundant. lose one disk, lose the lot. this means that your data is less safe than it would be just spread across 2 or 4 seperate discs as if ou lose a drive then, you only lose some data, not all.
;)
also, I beleive they don't even qualify as the badly named, raid0 as I under the impression that the disks are concatted together, not striped.
what I'd love to see is an Xraid mini as it were. something with much of the managability of the full size xraid, but not as much redundancy. so perhaps a nice desktop case (to match the g5 *of course*:) that could take 4 or 5 sata disks in hot swap caddies (maybe the same caddies as in the xraid) with a hardware raid controller on board for striping, mirroring and raid 5. a single gig ethernet on the back and then fw400 and 800 ports.
if it had the same cross platform compatibility as the the big xraid, same type of management tools etc, then it could be a big hit, and be an official filling for the big hole that is g5 storage.
sure, the xraid is great and cheap, but it's price of enhtry i still high when all you want is a terabyte or so of fast storage for one of two machines at home, ie no rack to place, no need for redundant psu's and fibre channel connectivity, that kinda thing.
HD video editors esp need something as for the data speeds they need for uncompressed hd (180MBps) thats 4 striped disks which you can't place in a g5 without using third party solutions.
just a thought, come on apple. and when you make one, I just ask for a fully loaded one for myself
dave
I've thought about this myself but right now I'm just not gonna do it for several reasons:
;) but I don't think lasik is the way to go for me right now. I'll just stick to buying glasses that are too expensive for the meantime :)
1) I'm a big wuss and I'm rwally not sure I can lie there while someone slices my eye open and burns the stuff underneath, while I'm thinking " mm.. bacon"
2) with most normal procedures, if it goes wrong, then you're back where you used to be, with lasik, you could be horribly worse off
3) I beleive that a massive percentage lose alot of night vision, you might not be able to legally drive at night for example
4) the eye is much more prone to infection
5) the army and police won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think
all in all, I just don't trust it yet. last time I went to the opticians (last week), three people there suggested laser treatment and I gave them the above reason, at which point they dropped the act and agreed with me completely and said they'd not do it themselves.
at some point in the future I'd love perfect vision (perhaps with a HUD and tactical data feed
dave
68000, not 6800.
I had those chips powering my amiga's, a 7.14mhz 68000 in my a500, a 14mhz 68020 in my 1200 and a 50mhz 68030/68882 in the blizzard board for my 1200.
damn, I feel old too now
dave
You can't have each line from a different provider - that would require two seperate radios.
I thought it would, but why does that make it impossible. 2 radio's in the phone should be easy peasy really.
dave
An IPv6 address includes the 64 bit MAC address.
and to quote the page you linked to:
The last 64 bits are reserved for the site use. It is recommended that it be used as 16 bit internal network number and 48 bit MAC address, although sites can do what they liked.
so it is recommended to include the 48bit mac address but it's pretty arbitrary
dave
Cerf said about two-thirds of the 4.3 billion Internet addresses currently available were used up, adding that IPv6 could magnify capacity by some "25,000 trillion trillion times."
/64 network for what, up to 200 computers max?
:)
I think that the above is misleading. sure, there is much more capacity for ip addresses in ipv6, but the protocol is designed for sparse ip useage. there will be massive gaps in useage as each lan gets a
however, I find ipv6 pretty interesting and I'm waiting to get ipv6 delivered to my home dsl (it's coming, it's coming). I've already got my mailserver configured for ipv6 but of course, no bugger has sent me any mail via that protocol as no-one else supports it. hell, I assume my config works but I don't *know*
dave
nope, they've fixed it now :( the tech spe3cs no-longer list the carry case or remote, which is annoying. I was planning on buying one and then bitching to apple that they weren't included, but I can't do that now.
still, I suppose I wanted the vaja case anyways
dave
according to the tech specs (but not the store), the 40G one does have the carry case. still, the price in dollars converted to pounds is about £213 so quite a significant saving to be made if you can import one. sure the power plug is different, but a simple uk fig 8 cable can fix that.
dave
If they have the negatives, they're still going to have to find someone to make a print like the one I made. They're going to have to pay for a custom printer to make it. Why pay the custom printer as opposed to me (that makes custom prints)?
what if you're dead? what if you've destroyed/lost the negs. what about if you plain refuse?
or what if I decide that I like the way you've taken the photos but I don't happen to like your style of printing. or I want to print them myself (perhaps being a budding darkroom wiz).
why should you have final word over pictures of my wedding? well, right not it's in the contract and agreed so fair enogh, but when the time comes for me I'm going to make my PoV plain about who I want to own the rights.
dave
You can make sip-sip calls. Besides, Gaim already can do iChatAV, right?
afaik, gaim can exchange simple text based messages with ichatav, and probabaly swap files and the like. both are aim clients after all, what I'm wondering is if a phonegaim user wwith me on their buddy list will see the little phone indicating that I've got a mike and can make phonecalls, and would it work if it did?
I couldn't find any mention of it on the phonegaim site but if it's there then that would be great, I know a few people who'd want to know
dave
shame, I was hoping that it would be compatible with ichatAV for the mac, that uses sip to do voice and video conferencing, it seems a missed opportunity to allow phonegaim to speak to ichatav users.
dave
Most GSM services in Europe offer "Second Line" functionality. This means you can have a work and a personal number attached to a single phone.
I was enquiring about this yesterday and it's not as easy as that apparently. O2 might do it for me, but only if I'm registered with o2 themselves, not via a reseller (like cpw). and of course, you can't have each line being a different provider.
dave
smartphones are fantastic. people who bitch about wanting "simple" things are either ignorant of how well-designed phones like the P900 are, or are just too poor to afford them.
perhaps they have different needs from a mobile phone that you do? while I'm sure the p900 is great, it's not for everyone. I for example could easily have afforded a P900 but plain didn't want a phone that big in my pocket that I have to carry around all day. it's just too damn big for me. I ended up with an SE t630 (nearly held out for the k700 but I needed it to be immediately compatible with isync and I wanted to use stuff like salling clicker with it etc).
dave
is a mobile phone that takes 2 sim cards and can use both at the same time.
I have a mobile phone of my own, up to now I've not taken a work phone as I don't want to take 2 phones with me everywhere. surely it can't be too difficult to have 2 sims in a phone, both acive so that you can get calls on either number (each having it's own contract and possibly, different operator) and the phone call tell you who it's from and what number it's going to, so you can see at a glance what the situation is. ideally you could maintain 2 seperate address books too, ie a work and a home one (possibly a field in a single address book maybe)
yes, you can get dualo sim adapters for phones, but thats crap as it's an "either or" situation. you can only have 1 active at once which isn't good enough. I have my home phone on my desk at work and no-one minds if I get personal calls on it.
dave