Wrong Britain does have free speech now. That a bunch of terrorist supporting politicians (and it would have been much better if it had include the terrorist supporting bigot Ian Paisley) where denied the right to have their poison spread on TV and radio before free speech legislation was enacted is neither here nor there.
That's fine because at the moment there are *very* few boxes that can receive HD content and this only applies to HD content. You can keep watching that SD content to your hearts content as nothing is changing there.
No ITV, Channel 4 and Five all cost you as well, in higher prices of the goods we buy so they can pay for the adverts. Anyone who thinks they are free is naive.
Yes he is the BBC operates under a Royal Charter, and has nothing to do with the executive. The license fee is collected by a none governmental organization, and goes direct to the BBC. They are also responsible for enforcement of the license fee, but they are *NOT* part of the government. Just like if I where to somehow hack Sky's encryption and watch their excuse for TV without paying them any money they could take me to court and have me fined.
At no point does any money pass through HM Treasury.
Where I live the norm is to have thermostatically controlled gas central heating. Also the difference between summer and winter daylight hours is significant. Air conditioning is extremely rare in domestic properties anywhere in the U.K.
This means in the summer I hardly use artificial lighting, until late at night where the heat output of an incandescent light bulb can make a noticeable difference in taking the late night chill off a room.
In the autumn and winter, I have the central heating on when it is dark because it is cold, and as it thermostatically controlled the heat from the incandescent light bulbs means my central heating works a little less. If I replace these with energy efficient bulbs it will just make my central heating work harder.
The advantage of any energy efficient light bulb where I live is going to me marginal at best, and potentially negative when you take the manufacturing of the bulb into account.
Just because you happen to live somewhere where all this is not the case does not mean I don't.
I have saved more carbon output by insulating my house properly and installing a modern condensing boiler than I could ever save from switching to energy efficient light bulbs by several orders of magnitude. If every house in the UK was brought up to the same standard of insulation as mine is now we could easily meet our Kyoto targets doing just that.
That is because the police got very tired of the hassle and expense the massive inquiries that inevitably followed when some moron pointed a replica gun at someone, and a police marksman shoots them.
Personally if you point a replica gun at someone, especially a policeman don't whine when you get shot.
Try the Supermicro X7SLA-H motherboard. Has an Atom 330 processor (so it's 64bit and dual core) along with 4 SATA ports, dual GbE, some PCI and PCI express expansion slots and a serial port with a BIOS that supports redirection over the serial console, all in a Flex ATX board. The max of 2GB RAM is a bit limiting, but otherwise the best low power home mini server board that I can find.
It also has a fan on the Northbridge, but there are plenty of silent after-market coolers to fix that.
There is a great deal stopping Microsoft changing the protocol between Outlook and Exchange, it is called their installed client base.
Just imagine that Exchange 2010 only worked against Office 2010. There would be huge squeals of protest from pure Microsoft shops if they tried that stunt that they would not even contemplate it for one minute.
Of course Apple have done the wrong thing, they have implemented the http web interface to exchange which is much more open to change than the binary MAPI interface. Personally if I had been in charge at Apple I would have at least tried to strike a deal with the Openchange people to license the libmapi library under something more favourable to them than GPL3.
My personal belief is that a BSD type license for libmapi would be the best choice because it would get it integrated into more product sooner.
But lots of time why would I do that? A DNS server running on say RHEL 4 which is up to date is just as good as the day it was installed. The option to only need to reinstall when the box itself is ditched is in my opinion well worthwhile.
For CentOS 5 (and for that matter puka RedHat), you can get XFS on the vanilla RedHat kernel by installing kmod-xfs from the CentOS extras repository. Though now you don't need that at all.
Lack of a in advanced long term planned update support is one drawback of Debian. Redhat's seven year support offering is very useful. We have only just recently ditched our last RHEL3 boxes, and we have significant numbers of RHEL4 boxes that are not going to be upgraded anytime soon.
Another is there is very little third party software that supports Debian either. So for example we use IBM's GPFS and TSM extensively. You hackor this onto Debian but don't bother ringing IBM tech support if you have a problem. The same I imagine goes for Oracle or DB2 or SAP or...
Don't get me wrong I have been using Debian at home now since 1994, but in a workplace server environment it takes a lot to beat RHEL/CentOS, and for me Debian is not even close.
Nah, you got REGIS on the VT200 series, but it was all green, amber or grayscale. One of the things that bugs me is that no VT100 emulator I have seen, and specifically xterms and the like do the double height emulation.
Hate to break it to you, but the government is not involved in the collection of the license fee.
That said the foreign office does pay the BBC a substantial sum of money to run the World Service. However the bulk of that programming is not viewed or listened too in the UK.
It has more from India I think you will find, and cricket seems to be on the wain in the Caribbean in favour of athletics.
Cricket is reasonably popular in the Netherlands, heck they managed to beat England in the recent 2009 20-20 World series. Oh the shame; but we beat Australia in the Ashes and that is what really counts. Anyway that is continental Europe, so he is flat out wrong.
The only team sport more widely played is Soccer. I believe around one fifth of the worlds population come from countries where cricket is a major sport.
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Wrong Britain does have free speech now. That a bunch of terrorist supporting politicians (and it would have been much better if it had include the terrorist supporting bigot Ian Paisley) where denied the right to have their poison spread on TV and radio before free speech legislation was enacted is neither here nor there.
That's fine because at the moment there are *very* few boxes that can receive HD content and this only applies to HD content. You can keep watching that SD content to your hearts content as nothing is changing there.
Explain how Freeview is different from Freesat in that regard.
No ITV, Channel 4 and Five all cost you as well, in higher prices of the goods we buy so they can pay for the adverts. Anyone who thinks they are free is naive.
Absolutely, if you are not using the TV tuner to view or record live broadcast pictures then you don't need a license.
However the Crown is not part of the government.
Yes he is the BBC operates under a Royal Charter, and has nothing to do with the executive. The license fee is collected by a none governmental organization, and goes direct to the BBC. They are also responsible for enforcement of the license fee, but they are *NOT* part of the government. Just like if I where to somehow hack Sky's encryption and watch their excuse for TV without paying them any money they could take me to court and have me fined.
At no point does any money pass through HM Treasury.
Or you could just fit two LED's back to back they are after all diodes.
Yes there is, the manufacture and importation of incandescent lightbulbs at 100W and over into the E.U. is now illegal.
Where I live the norm is to have thermostatically controlled gas central heating. Also the difference between summer and winter daylight hours is significant. Air conditioning is extremely rare in domestic properties anywhere in the U.K.
This means in the summer I hardly use artificial lighting, until late at night where the heat output of an incandescent light bulb can make a noticeable difference in taking the late night chill off a room.
In the autumn and winter, I have the central heating on when it is dark because it is cold, and as it thermostatically controlled the heat from the incandescent light bulbs means my central heating works a little less. If I replace these with energy efficient bulbs it will just make my central heating work harder.
The advantage of any energy efficient light bulb where I live is going to me marginal at best, and potentially negative when you take the manufacturing of the bulb into account.
Just because you happen to live somewhere where all this is not the case does not mean I don't.
I have saved more carbon output by insulating my house properly and installing a modern condensing boiler than I could ever save from switching to energy efficient light bulbs by several orders of magnitude. If every house in the UK was brought up to the same standard of insulation as mine is now we could easily meet our Kyoto targets doing just that.
Ford tried that one, and when found out C became much larger. It is not a good business plan.
According to the soviets Afghanistan does indeed have significant reserves of oil and gas, in particular gas.
Try Googling "northern afghan oil platform"
That is because the police got very tired of the hassle and expense the massive inquiries that inevitably followed when some moron pointed a replica gun at someone, and a police marksman shoots them.
Personally if you point a replica gun at someone, especially a policeman don't whine when you get shot.
Try the Supermicro X7SLA-H motherboard. Has an Atom 330 processor (so it's 64bit and dual core) along with 4 SATA ports, dual GbE, some PCI and PCI express expansion slots and a serial port with a BIOS that supports redirection over the serial console, all in a Flex ATX board. The max of 2GB RAM is a bit limiting, but otherwise the best low power home mini server board that I can find.
It also has a fan on the Northbridge, but there are plenty of silent after-market coolers to fix that.
There is a great deal stopping Microsoft changing the protocol between Outlook and Exchange, it is called their installed client base.
Just imagine that Exchange 2010 only worked against Office 2010. There would be huge squeals of protest from pure Microsoft shops if they tried that stunt that they would not even contemplate it for one minute.
Of course Apple have done the wrong thing, they have implemented the http web interface to exchange which is much more open to change than the binary MAPI interface. Personally if I had been in charge at Apple I would have at least tried to strike a deal with the Openchange people to license the libmapi library under something more favourable to them than GPL3.
My personal belief is that a BSD type license for libmapi would be the best choice because it would get it integrated into more product sooner.
But lots of time why would I do that? A DNS server running on say RHEL 4 which is up to date is just as good as the day it was installed. The option to only need to reinstall when the box itself is ditched is in my opinion well worthwhile.
Why if the majority of your infrastructure is RedHat/CentOS would you install say SuSE or Debian to serve static HTML?
Personally I would fire someone who did that.
For CentOS 5 (and for that matter puka RedHat), you can get XFS on the vanilla RedHat kernel by installing kmod-xfs from the CentOS extras repository. Though now you don't need that at all.
Lack of a in advanced long term planned update support is one drawback of Debian. Redhat's seven year support offering is very useful. We have only just recently ditched our last RHEL3 boxes, and we have significant numbers of RHEL4 boxes that are not going to be upgraded anytime soon.
Another is there is very little third party software that supports Debian either. So for example we use IBM's GPFS and TSM extensively. You hackor this onto Debian but don't bother ringing IBM tech support if you have a problem. The same I imagine goes for Oracle or DB2 or SAP or ...
Don't get me wrong I have been using Debian at home now since 1994, but in a workplace server environment it takes a lot to beat RHEL/CentOS, and for me Debian is not even close.
Nah, you got REGIS on the VT200 series, but it was all green, amber or grayscale. One of the things that bugs me is that no VT100 emulator I have seen, and specifically xterms and the like do the double height emulation.
There will be still more people who simply didn't bother to read it.
Hate to break it to you, but the government is not involved in the collection of the license fee.
That said the foreign office does pay the BBC a substantial sum of money to run the World Service. However the bulk of that programming is not viewed or listened too in the UK.
It has more from India I think you will find, and cricket seems to be on the wain in the Caribbean in favour of athletics.
Cricket is reasonably popular in the Netherlands, heck they managed to beat England in the recent 2009 20-20 World series. Oh the shame; but we beat Australia in the Ashes and that is what really counts. Anyway that is continental Europe, so he is flat out wrong.
The only team sport more widely played is Soccer. I believe around one fifth of the worlds population come from countries where cricket is a major sport.
It is possible as we have managed a conviction in the UK for a thoughtless bitch http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7792229.stm.
Though I feel 21 months is getting off lightly when the maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 10 years.
The seemed to manage it for the bastard that caused the Selby rail crash. Though five years and out in half for what he did was not enough.