Worth noting that in the UK, the BBC's "iPlayer" project which is currently being rolled out, will provide ad-free TV-over-IP on-demand for anyone with a UK IP address. Thus, just like BBC America, the BBC's adverts are the BBC's way of maximising the value they offer to the UK public, by getting foreigners to watch 'em.
What gets on my nerves is the endless stream of "iPODS ARE DEAD" articles written by talentless IT-writers. Every week, at least, some half-witted pundit is telling the world how the iPod is just about to die out. It's annoying.
This is probably not practical for your situation, but I found that if I started working from home, with a laptop, I could get in to all sorts of positions, and vary them, to release pressure. I can lie down with the laptop on my lap, I can crunch in to a ball, I can sit in a big comfy chair, I can sit on my bed, etc. This has kept RSI at bay for a year or so now - it's as much about the flexibility of being able to move around as much as anything else - if I stay in the same position too long (a couple of hours) now, then it starts to creep back.
Make sure she gets professional help - my physio gave me a bunch of useful exercises, and did some massage to break down scar tissue. Make sure she insists that her doctor refers her - my doctor tried to convince me that what I really needed was some ibuprofen and a week off work:-/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and http://www.cnn.com/ have news completely sewn up in my mind. I wouldn't think of going to a newspaper's website for news - it'll probably be out of date in comparison.
Fun - there are more fun things to do online, and reading a paper newspaper is much much more enjoyable than reading something on your laptop - less eye-strain, less weight, less worrying about $1000 of equipment having coffee spilled on it.
So that leaves Opinion. There's a wealth of opinion on the net already, but some of the best opinion pieces come from newspapers. But I rarely go and seek these out - I'm normally pointed to them by other people. Besides, I read opinion pieces as a leisure activity - so see the above point.
Betamax vs VHS is the much-quoted example. But having worked in anti-virus, it's exactly the same. The best product is rarely the most popular - the most popular is always the one with the best sales and marketing people.
In economics terms, people rarely have perfect knowledge of the market place, and they WILL be taken in by good sales people. EVERY TIME. The reason Google don't need to advertise is because they aren't asking users, who are their primary resource, to pay to use them, so it costs a user absolutely nothing to try Google. There are no invested costs in not using Altavista for a couple of days.
Every 0.x seconds check the position of the cursor. If it had changed, add a new set of coordinates to a value. If it hadn't, add a padding single character value to that value. OnUnload, set this value as a cookie. Read the cookie on a subsequent page.
I doubt I still have the original code, but, pete@clueball.com if you have further questions.
Well before the advent of AJAX, I build javascript to monitor a user's mouse trail and keypresses over a website. It would take this information from event handlers, and serialize it into a cookie, which would be read by the next page they visited on the site, stored, and could then be played back easily through an admin interface.
If you've been assuming this isn't possible, or in use (the company I built it for still uses it, I believe), you're missing a point here.
More details in a back copy of TPJ, who I wrote it up for.
You mean, other than the fact London has been a major target for terrorists for nigh-on 4 years, and this is the first attack to not have been thwated?
What is this 'correct English' of which you speak? Can you send me a copy of the official English language handbook? No. Hrm. Well maybe you could direct me to the official governing body of the English language. You mean, French has one and English doesn't?
Bugger!
Then, how do we know what correct English is? You mean, 'correct' English is by definition 'common' English?! No! But then what will all those semi-intelligent pedants who haven't caught on to the fact that 'should have' is no more meaningful than 'should of', but that 'should of' is much more common in spoken English do? Who knows!
All I can say is that having worked in the publishing industry, you could tell the people who had little intelligence but a lot to prove by how frequently and strongly they misunderstood the fact that there is no 'correct' English, and jumped down the throats of those they perceived to not have as good a grasp on this 'correct' English as they did.
I think they're missing the point slightly here. All the cool kids have iPods, not some 'leenuzx g33kz0rs rule' bulky item from Nomad or Creative, or some other company which has completely failed to impinge on the consciousness of people who are actually having sex with actual real people.
Being British, and having had the drama of getting broadband installed recently, I can completely see the author's point here -
To label a self-deprecating piece by an American who has moved to the UK, and has a lot of positive things to say about the UK as 'xenophobic' is... well, you voted Tory right?
You know, seems to me that as long as I can remember using computers, people have been saying Moore's law can't hold out forever. And, while, I guess, logically, that has to be true, it seems to be out-living most of these predictions. A lot like Apple and FreeBSD:-)
Slashdot Mirror
I think you mean:
/is/ using DRM'd WMV, as it's the only technical solution that satisfies the people who own the non-BBC-produced content.
BBC's iPlayer product
Yes, unless you get the receiver disabled. Same as if you buy a TV, and only use it for video/playstation/whatever
Worth noting that in the UK, the BBC's "iPlayer" project which is currently being rolled out, will provide ad-free TV-over-IP on-demand for anyone with a UK IP address. Thus, just like BBC America, the BBC's adverts are the BBC's way of maximising the value they offer to the UK public, by getting foreigners to watch 'em.
-sheriff
Actually, you're most likely to end up getting them for free if you live in the UK, via the iPlayer project...
Samy, the guy involved with the MySpace worm, wrote some Perl to do this a while ago:
http://samy.pl/chownat/
So I wonder what MS are trying to put pressure on China to do?
They're a business, pulling out of China is bad business. They're bluffing. I wonder what they're trying to win. *yawn*
The chick looking at it and telling the guy breathlessly that she preferred the big black laptops rather than small white ones made it for me :-)
+Pete
What gets on my nerves is the endless stream of "iPODS ARE DEAD" articles written by talentless IT-writers. Every week, at least, some half-witted pundit is telling the world how the iPod is just about to die out. It's annoying.
-sheriff
This is probably not practical for your situation, but I found that if I started working from home, with a laptop, I could get in to all sorts of positions, and vary them, to release pressure. I can lie down with the laptop on my lap, I can crunch in to a ball, I can sit in a big comfy chair, I can sit on my bed, etc. This has kept RSI at bay for a year or so now - it's as much about the flexibility of being able to move around as much as anything else - if I stay in the same position too long (a couple of hours) now, then it starts to creep back.
:-/
Make sure she gets professional help - my physio gave me a bunch of useful exercises, and did some massage to break down scar tissue. Make sure she insists that her doctor refers her - my doctor tried to convince me that what I really needed was some ibuprofen and a week off work
-sheriff
Since when does a bunch of half-baked predictions for the future, without any evidence to back it up at all, constitute "my experience".
+Pete
People read newspapers for:
* News
* Opinion
* Fun
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and http://www.cnn.com/ have news completely sewn up in my mind. I wouldn't think of going to a newspaper's website for news - it'll probably be out of date in comparison.
Fun - there are more fun things to do online, and reading a paper newspaper is much much more enjoyable than reading something on your laptop - less eye-strain, less weight, less worrying about $1000 of equipment having coffee spilled on it.
So that leaves Opinion. There's a wealth of opinion on the net already, but some of the best opinion pieces come from newspapers. But I rarely go and seek these out - I'm normally pointed to them by other people. Besides, I read opinion pieces as a leisure activity - so see the above point.
+Pete
Only, that's not actually true.
Betamax vs VHS is the much-quoted example. But having worked in anti-virus, it's exactly the same. The best product is rarely the most popular - the most popular is always the one with the best sales and marketing people.
In economics terms, people rarely have perfect knowledge of the market place, and they WILL be taken in by good sales people. EVERY TIME. The reason Google don't need to advertise is because they aren't asking users, who are their primary resource, to pay to use them, so it costs a user absolutely nothing to try Google. There are no invested costs in not using Altavista for a couple of days.
+Pete
In fact, when you unsubscribe from the service, you get asked for a reason, which gives the fairly standard (as some of you will know) options of:
:-)
* Spouse found out
* Card was used by a minor
and others
+Pete
For those who didn't get that, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
+Pete
It was pretty simple - the idea essentially was:
Every 0.x seconds check the position of the cursor. If it had changed, add a new set of coordinates to a value. If it hadn't, add a padding single character value to that value. OnUnload, set this value as a cookie. Read the cookie on a subsequent page.
I doubt I still have the original code, but, pete@clueball.com if you have further questions.
+Pete
The Perl Journal. I forget which issue...
Well before the advent of AJAX, I build javascript to monitor a user's mouse trail and keypresses over a website. It would take this information from event handlers, and serialize it into a cookie, which would be read by the next page they visited on the site, stored, and could then be played back easily through an admin interface.
If you've been assuming this isn't possible, or in use (the company I built it for still uses it, I believe), you're missing a point here.
More details in a back copy of TPJ, who I wrote it up for.
+Pete
No effect?
You mean, other than the fact London has been a major target for terrorists for nigh-on 4 years, and this is the first attack to not have been thwated?
+Pete
London-based? They're based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. Does English now automatically mean London-based or what?
+Pete
Uh,
What is this 'correct English' of which you speak? Can you send me a copy of the official English language handbook? No. Hrm. Well maybe you could direct me to the official governing body of the English language. You mean, French has one and English doesn't?
Bugger!
Then, how do we know what correct English is? You mean, 'correct' English is by definition 'common' English?! No! But then what will all those semi-intelligent pedants who haven't caught on to the fact that 'should have' is no more meaningful than 'should of', but that 'should of' is much more common in spoken English do? Who knows!
All I can say is that having worked in the publishing industry, you could tell the people who had little intelligence but a lot to prove by how frequently and strongly they misunderstood the fact that there is no 'correct' English, and jumped down the throats of those they perceived to not have as good a grasp on this 'correct' English as they did.
+Pete
No iPod support.
I think they're missing the point slightly here. All the cool kids have iPods, not some 'leenuzx g33kz0rs rule' bulky item from Nomad or Creative, or some other company which has completely failed to impinge on the consciousness of people who are actually having sex with actual real people.
I doubt we'll hear from them again.
+Pete
I think you miss the point here. As a veteran OBSD user, I can confirm that:
a) The install process is really really easy
b) Except the disklabel part, which is really really hard
+Pete
Being British, and having had the drama of getting broadband installed recently, I can completely see the author's point here -
... well, you voted Tory right?
To label a self-deprecating piece by an American who has moved to the UK, and has a lot of positive things to say about the UK as 'xenophobic' is
+Pete
You know, seems to me that as long as I can remember using computers, people have been saying Moore's law can't hold out forever. And, while, I guess, logically, that has to be true, it seems to be out-living most of these predictions. A lot like Apple and FreeBSD :-)
+Pete
Or maybe he didn't want the public at large going around trying out these two combinations and opening safes?
"Some names have been changed" etc...
+Pete