I work for a mobile phone company in the UK. When we do credit checks for people signing up with us we have to take a landline number for the credit check to pass! It's not the phone company's fault, it's the credit agency demanding it. I've had lots of customers getting upset with me because of that.
In the UK you can't pass off a mobile as a landline because they are all in seperate codes starting 07.
we're giving the people of afghanistan food, dumbass. We're giving the military of afghanistan the shaft.
Explain how this is a terrorist attack.
You know, a terrorist attack, like killing 6,000 civilians...
I will explain how this is a terrorist attack. Whether civilians or not, these strikes are killing PEOPLE.
What difference does it make to you if the relative you have lost is a civilian or a soldier? They are still a living person with relationships and friends. This attack is in response to the bombing of the World Trade Centre. Over five thousand died there - how many Afgans will die?
I agree that the Taliban is not a good government and I agree that Osama Bin Laden is evil and needs to be brought to justice, but I disagree that military action is the way to do it. At one point the Taliban offered to put Bin Laden on trial in their country and they were turned down. Proper justice is brought about by the courts and legal punishments, not war.
By starting this war to remove the Taliban the US is doing exactly the same thing that caused the hatred and the terrorism in the first place. Time and time again America has destroyed governments and put their own choice in place instead. This is what causes the hatred. What right has the US got to destroy governments? What right has it to choose the rulers of a country?
Why are we answering a terrorist attack by becoming terrorists ourselves? The people of Afganistan have done nothing against us and are barely able to stay alive, let alone defend themselves. I have not yet seen any proof that Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks on the world trade centre and there is no evidence that the people of Afganistan had anything to do with it.
How does this system affect CD-ROM drives that have a play button? Do they just work in the same way as a hifi cd player? In which case I can just play the CD with the front panel button and record via the SP/DIF connection to my sound card - instant digital copies. Not that I would ever listen to Michael Jackson.
This system is now in use in the UK. The Passports for Pets scheme uses a magnetic implant under the skin of the animal, and any animal entering the country without one of these has to spend six months in quarantine.
Try showshifter. I have been using this for a while with my ATI All In Wonder 128 and it works well. It even integrates with Digiguide to let me record a program by clicking on a program in the listing.
I have a computer next to the TV so that I can use the PC pretty much as a TIVO, with automatic program recording and pausing of live TV.
Unfortunately Digiguide and Showshifter are only available for Windows so I am on the look out for Linux replacements, as well as a decent Linux DVD player.
I think some people here are misunderstanding the Data Protection laws. No one said anything about cutting off all net access to other countries. The law prevents the transfer of Personal Details and customer specific data, eg databases containing details of what I bought. No other data is affected, so there won't be any severing of internet connections. If a company does transfer customer data to a country with less protection then it will be liable for prosecution.
I think this is a good thing. The EU Data Protection laws are there to prevent misuse of personal data. An example: If I were to buy a book from a multinational company in the UK then I would have to give them my address for delivery. At the same time, I would check the box marked "Please tick this box if you do not want to receive special offers carefully selected companies" which would prevent my address and phone number being sold to another company that wants to sell me bookshelves to go with my new book. And who wants to recieve that phone call?
In order to get around the EU law requiring that they honour my request and don't sell my data, the company could send my data to it's US arm and from there sell the data back to a telemarketing company, which could then plague me with phone calls about bookshelves. By making the export illegal the company cannot do this.
I recomend a Sun Sparcstation SLC or XLC. It is basically a complete diskless SPARC integrated with a 17" black and white monitor. A plus is that there is no fan involved.
I boot mine from my Linux box using the SLXT package (based on a linux kernel) and it works well. The only downside is that it takes several minutes to boot over the network. There's an (out of date) article about it at http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/little.html An alternative to SLXT is XKernel
Not to feed the troll, but most of europe has been asleep for the last five hours...
Anyway, to get back on topic, the attitude in the UK is much the same as the US, although there does seem to be a fashion among more famous people to promote their inability to use technology. Why is this?
Gadget take-up here is perhaps a little less, but the people that do get them generally learn to use them. Mobile phone usage in this country has reached well over 60% after this christmas. People complain about their intrusiveness all the time but most have one!
Personally I think that the focus on negative aspects of technology is being created by the government / media/computer security* companies (*delete as your personal paranoia) who all have something to gain from our fear of technology. The security companies want to sell "fixes" such as anti-virus and web blocking software; the governments can get draconian laws passed allowing them unprecedented control over the population. (DMCA, RIP bill) The media can sell fear and paranoia far easier than good news. Who buys a newspaper with "Internet is useful for shopping" as the headline?
The UK TV license is a license to watch broadcast TV. Technically a license is not needed to watch DVD's, tapes or use games consoles, but it is a fight to convince the Licensing people that you aren't receiveing TV. Actually, the way that the law is written it should only apply to over the air TV and not cable, but I don't think that judges are capable of understanding that difference.
Are there any soundcards around that include hardware to accelerate MP3 encoding? Cards like the soundblaster live include programmable chips which the manufacturer can give new functions by updating the drivers; perhaps they can help out here.
Under the RIP act several things have changed. First of all the authorities (any authorities, it's badly worded.) can demand access to your email and the rest of your computer. MI5 has a building dedicated to monitoring links from ISP's. Secondly they can demand a decryption key for anything they cannot read. Failure to come up with a key carries an automatic two year prison sentence. Telling anyone that you have been ordered to give access to your email also carries the two year sentence.
I have a soundblaster live 1024, oem version and it happily outputs both PCM and Dolby Digital signals through the digital output... I have it hooked up to a Videologic Dolby decoder. I have a computer next to the TV for playing MP3's and DVD's and it runs with an ATI all in Wonder 128 for desktop output and a Hollywood Plus card for DVD playback. As for operating system, I would love to have linux on this computer but it doesn't have great support for either the ATI tv output or the Hollywood plus card, although that is on the way. (See http://hem.fyristorg.com/henrikj/em8300/ )
VXworks from Wind River systems (I don't have the URL) was used in the Mars Pathfinder. My university teaches VXworks using robot control systems and the Tornado cross-development system.
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I work for a mobile phone company in the UK. When we do credit checks for people signing up with us we have to take a landline number for the credit check to pass! It's not the phone company's fault, it's the credit agency demanding it. I've had lots of customers getting upset with me because of that.
In the UK you can't pass off a mobile as a landline because they are all in seperate codes starting 07.
Steve.
I will explain how this is a terrorist attack. Whether civilians or not, these strikes are killing PEOPLE.
What difference does it make to you if the relative you have lost is a civilian or a soldier? They are still a living person with relationships and friends. This attack is in response to the bombing of the World Trade Centre. Over five thousand died there - how many Afgans will die?
I agree that the Taliban is not a good government and I agree that Osama Bin Laden is evil and needs to be brought to justice, but I disagree that military action is the way to do it. At one point the Taliban offered to put Bin Laden on trial in their country and they were turned down. Proper justice is brought about by the courts and legal punishments, not war.
By starting this war to remove the Taliban the US is doing exactly the same thing that caused the hatred and the terrorism in the first place. Time and time again America has destroyed governments and put their own choice in place instead. This is what causes the hatred. What right has the US got to destroy governments? What right has it to choose the rulers of a country?
Steve.
Why are we answering a terrorist attack by becoming terrorists ourselves? The people of Afganistan have done nothing against us and are barely able to stay alive, let alone defend themselves. I have not yet seen any proof that Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks on the world trade centre and there is no evidence that the people of Afganistan had anything to do with it.
This war is not justice.
Steve.
How does this system affect CD-ROM drives that have a play button? Do they just work in the same way as a hifi cd player? In which case I can just play the CD with the front panel button and record via the SP/DIF connection to my sound card - instant digital copies. Not that I would ever listen to Michael Jackson.
Steve.
This system is now in use in the UK. The Passports for Pets scheme uses a magnetic implant under the skin of the animal, and any animal entering the country without one of these has to spend six months in quarantine.
Steve.
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Try showshifter. I have been using this for a while with my ATI All In Wonder 128 and it works well. It even integrates with Digiguide to let me record a program by clicking on a program in the listing.
I have a computer next to the TV so that I can use the PC pretty much as a TIVO, with automatic program recording and pausing of live TV.
Unfortunately Digiguide and Showshifter are only available for Windows so I am on the look out for Linux replacements, as well as a decent Linux DVD player.
Steve.
I think some people here are misunderstanding the Data Protection laws. No one said anything about cutting off all net access to other countries. The law prevents the transfer of Personal Details and customer specific data, eg databases containing details of what I bought. No other data is affected, so there won't be any severing of internet connections. If a company does transfer customer data to a country with less protection then it will be liable for prosecution.
I think this is a good thing. The EU Data Protection laws are there to prevent misuse of personal data. An example: If I were to buy a book from a multinational company in the UK then I would have to give them my address for delivery. At the same time, I would check the box marked "Please tick this box if you do not want to receive special offers carefully selected companies" which would prevent my address and phone number being sold to another company that wants to sell me bookshelves to go with my new book. And who wants to recieve that phone call?
In order to get around the EU law requiring that they honour my request and don't sell my data, the company could send my data to it's US arm and from there sell the data back to a telemarketing company, which could then plague me with phone calls about bookshelves. By making the export illegal the company cannot do this.
I hope that all makes sense.
Steve.I recomend a Sun Sparcstation SLC or XLC. It is basically a complete diskless SPARC integrated with a 17" black and white monitor. A plus is that there is no fan involved.
I boot mine from my Linux box using the SLXT package (based on a linux kernel) and it works well. The only downside is that it takes several minutes to boot over the network. There's an (out of date) article about it at http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/little.html
An alternative to SLXT is XKernel
Steve.
Not to feed the troll, but most of europe has been asleep for the last five hours...
/computer security* companies (*delete as your personal paranoia) who all have something to gain from our fear of technology. The security companies want to sell "fixes" such as anti-virus and web blocking software; the governments can get draconian laws passed allowing them unprecedented control over the population. (DMCA, RIP bill) The media can sell fear and paranoia far easier than good news. Who buys a newspaper with "Internet is useful for shopping" as the headline?
Anyway, to get back on topic, the attitude in the UK is much the same as the US, although there does seem to be a fashion among more famous people to promote their inability to use technology. Why is this?
Gadget take-up here is perhaps a little less, but the people that do get them generally learn to use them. Mobile phone usage in this country has reached well over 60% after this christmas. People complain about their intrusiveness all the time but most have one!
Personally I think that the focus on negative aspects of technology is being created by the government / media
Steve.
The UK TV license is a license to watch broadcast TV. Technically a license is not needed to watch DVD's, tapes or use games consoles, but it is a fight to convince the Licensing people that you aren't receiveing TV. Actually, the way that the law is written it should only apply to over the air TV and not cable, but I don't think that judges are capable of understanding that difference.
Steve.
Are there any soundcards around that include hardware to accelerate MP3 encoding? Cards like the soundblaster live include programmable chips which the manufacturer can give new functions by updating the drivers; perhaps they can help out here.
Steve.
Under the RIP act several things have changed. First of all the authorities (any authorities, it's badly worded.) can demand access to your email and the rest of your computer. MI5 has a building dedicated to monitoring links from ISP's. Secondly they can demand a decryption key for anything they cannot read. Failure to come up with a key carries an automatic two year prison sentence. Telling anyone that you have been ordered to give access to your email also carries the two year sentence.
Steve
I would love one of these. Shame about the prices though. Does anyone know a UK supplier? Steve.
I have a soundblaster live 1024, oem version and it happily outputs both PCM and Dolby Digital signals through the digital output... I have it hooked up to a Videologic Dolby decoder. I have a computer next to the TV for playing MP3's and DVD's and it runs with an ATI all in Wonder 128 for desktop output and a Hollywood Plus card for DVD playback. As for operating system, I would love to have linux on this computer but it doesn't have great support for either the ATI tv output or the Hollywood plus card, although that is on the way. (See http://hem.fyristorg.com/henrikj/em8300/ )
Steve.
VXworks from Wind River systems (I don't have the URL) was used in the Mars Pathfinder. My university teaches VXworks using robot control systems and the Tornado cross-development system.
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