Frankly I will be sticking with streetmap.co.uk, multimap.com and the OS's own website that have the highly detailed, instantly recognizable to anyone from the U.K. Ordnance Survey 1:50000 and 1:25000 topographic maps of Great Britain on them. They also have the easily recognisable Bartholomew and OS road atlas maps. In comparison the TeleAtlas road maps suck.
No, but most european countries have suitable projections optimized for the country. So Great Britain should use OSGB36 and Ireland should use the Irish National Grid, and so on and so forth. Instead they look to have imposed some WGS84 based projection on us.
Then you would be utterly wrong. The.wav file format supports all sorts of ways of saving extra metadata to them in the INFO stream. How many programs are able to manipulate this data is another question, but it is most certainly possible.
I take it that you have never heard of snapshots and file system freezes then? It goes like this; freeze filesystem, take snapshot, unfreeze filesystem. Typically this takes place in under 10 seconds. Then you backup using the snapshot which can take as long as you need. Provided you don't run out of snapshot space of course. Then you release the snapshot once the backup is complete. Try man xfs_freeze for information on how you backup on real operating systems.
I the United Kingdom more than half of all internet access is via a broadband connection of some description (either ADSL, cable or better). New broadband connections are running at rates of tens of thousands a day. I have no idea where you live but from a U.K. perspective at least a dial up modem is rapidly becoming an obsolete device.
Firstly how about rather than wasting lots of time building fancy robots to do the job, introducing proper health and safety regulations and *ENFORCING* them?
Secondly you are never going to eliminate injuries completely. Even in an office environment you get injuries; paper can cut quite badly. Therefore the figure of 400,000 injured workers is meaningless, as there is no indication of the seriousness of the injuries, and neither is there any indication of the number of people working in the industry.
Just because moderation is not perfect is no reason to reject it outright. The question is would it be better than the current state of afairs, not whether it would solve all the problems.
I was not questioning the fact that it can be done in Linux. I was mearly pointing out that it can be done under Windows, and that anyone managing a large number of computers under either Windows or Linux is not doing their job correctly if they are visiting individual computers to install software. A point the parent post seemed to be missing.
Clearly you are not playing the Microsoft game, if you are visiting computers to install software. If you have yourself a net installed managed network, backed by an Active Directory you can just as easily install an application on 1, 10, 100 or a 1000 computers. You need to know what you are doing, but it does work and it is an absolute godsend in managing Windows desktops. Everyone is properly patched and up to date, all with the latest virus definitions and all without leaving your office.
Though personally I would prefer if all my users migrated to Linux.
Basically they should be made compulsary for all broadband connections. It is the plethora of cheap USB ADSL modems that are being offered free with connections that it causing the problem.
While the rules are indeed copyright, that is irrelevant as long as the site in question does not have a copy of the rules available for viewing. However one could probably sit down and write a version of the rules that does not infringe the copyright. Remember copyright is for implementation and not ideas, hence Compaq could clone the PC. Board layout is a different matter however, and looks trickier. Though you could probably move some of the double, and tripple letter scores around without too much problem.
Mind you reading the Hasbro website history of Scrabble they only mention purchasing the Trademark in 1972, after previously licensing the game for manufacture, and they only have rights in the United States and Canada. So presumably the estate of Alfred Mosher Butts still owns the copyright on the game (he died in 1993).
The other way to look at it is that there is dozens of different USB-RS232 convertors. Due to the fact that the USB-IF failed to specify a standard way to do this each one needs a different driver. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is nuts. Now if Microsoft where to decided this is the way RS232 -USB converters work, this is the way IEEE-488 converters work etc. it would actually be a dam good thing.
Of course they are, however you have to either pay for them on a CD or wait till they play them on either Radio4 or BBC7 again. You can even buy them as a single CD ready encoded in MP3 format. The site you list above is of course totally illegal.
A lot of brand new radio is very good. In particular if you happen to live in the United Kingdom, and can listen to the output of BBC Radio 4 and it's sister channel BBC7.
As probably the largest producer of English language spoken word material in the world, you could try looking at the BBC material.
On a factual note there is "This Sceptred Isle" series, a 2000 year history of the British Isles that is about 44 hours to start off with. They have plenty of other stuff as well.
On a SciFi note they have HitchHickers Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who, Earth Search and a whole pile more as radio plays. As Fantasy they have the excellant Lord of the Rings dramatization, and a complete canon of Sherlock Holmes among others. They also do a good range of comedy, though much of this does have a U.K. slant.
Outside the BBC there is a whole series of lectures by Feynman if that takes your fancy, try Amazon. If you are into Terry Pratchett, then try ISIS audio books for unabridged audio books of his Discworld novels.
Fortunately for me I live in the U.K. and I get much of this stuff piped directly into my house via digital radio straight onto my hard disk in MP2 format via the wonders of BBC7:-)
Add to that, his description of address formats for the United Kingdom are a load of rubbish, and don't remotely follow the correct addresses for properties laid out by the Royal Mail. Then again must people in the United Kingdon don't either, but that is still no excues for not following the proper Royal Mail approved address format.
May be, but that is because the ISO have deemed that the UK as an abrieviation for United Kingdom is to generic, even though there is only one country in the entire world going by that name. On the other hand US is perfectly acceptable for the USA, with United States being just as generic as the United Kingdom.
The thing is there is no such legal entity as Great Britain and there has not been since 1801. Great Britain existed as a country for less than 100 years, and has not existed for over 200 now. If the island of Ireland ever gets united again, it would come into existance again. However for the time being I live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
That's easy to fix. If Disney wants to extend the copyright from 50 to 70 years say, then it has to go and pay royalties (complete with interest) to all the copyright holders that had their works used royalty free by Disney because it had passed the 50 year mark but not yet reached the 70 year mark, at any point in the past.
It would then immediately become far less favourable for Disney (or any other organization) to presue such copyright extensions. Imagine thay they had to pay out the first 20 years earnings plus interest on Pinochio to the estate of Carlo Lorenzini! It is also morally and ethically fair. If Disney think that Steamboat Willy deserves added protection, then surely Pinochio does as well. Very hard to argue against and not look like obviously greedy and grasping.
Exactly who is exerting this social pressure on the women? As far as I have ever seen it is women's own peer presure and their expectations of what women should be like, and nothing to do with men.
I have never in my life held any such view or opinion that women are not supposed to be smart. On the other hand I have had on several occasions women express the opinion that I *must* believe this to be the case.
You really believe that? Well you would be dead wrong. The Prime Minister would be perfectly entitled under what constitution we have to apoint whatever yes men he felt like to the House of Lords and then select them for the cabinet.
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No actually, what will win is on of the upcomming holgraphic discs, that have capacities that make both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD look positively anemic.
Frankly I will be sticking with streetmap.co.uk, multimap.com and the OS's own website that have the highly detailed, instantly recognizable to anyone from the U.K. Ordnance Survey 1:50000 and 1:25000 topographic maps of Great Britain on them. They also have the easily recognisable Bartholomew and OS road atlas maps. In comparison the TeleAtlas road maps suck.
No, but most european countries have suitable projections optimized for the country. So Great Britain should use OSGB36 and Ireland should use the Irish National Grid, and so on and so forth. Instead they look to have imposed some WGS84 based projection on us.
Then you would be utterly wrong. The .wav file format supports all sorts of ways of saving extra metadata to them in the INFO stream. How many programs are able to manipulate this data is another question, but it is most certainly possible.
I take it that you have never heard of snapshots and file system freezes then? It goes like this; freeze filesystem, take snapshot, unfreeze filesystem. Typically this takes place in under 10 seconds. Then you backup using the snapshot which can take as long as you need. Provided you don't run out of snapshot space of course. Then you release the snapshot once the backup is complete. Try man xfs_freeze for information on how you backup on real operating systems.
As long as it is 8cm DVD's then I am all in. You get about two CD's worth on one of these and of course the size is much smaller to boot.
I the United Kingdom more than half of all internet access is via a broadband connection of some description (either ADSL, cable or better). New broadband connections are running at rates of tens of thousands a day. I have no idea where you live but from a U.K. perspective at least a dial up modem is rapidly becoming an obsolete device.
Firstly how about rather than wasting lots of time building fancy robots to do the job, introducing proper health and safety regulations and *ENFORCING* them?
Secondly you are never going to eliminate injuries completely. Even in an office environment you get injuries; paper can cut quite badly. Therefore the figure of 400,000 injured workers is meaningless, as there is no indication of the seriousness of the injuries, and neither is there any indication of the number of people working in the industry.
Just because moderation is not perfect is no reason to reject it outright. The question is would it be better than the current state of afairs, not whether it would solve all the problems.
I was not questioning the fact that it can be done in Linux. I was mearly pointing out that it can be done under Windows, and that anyone managing a large number of computers under either Windows or Linux is not doing their job correctly if they are visiting individual computers to install software. A point the parent post seemed to be missing.
Clearly you are not playing the Microsoft game, if you are visiting computers to install software. If you have yourself a net installed managed network, backed by an Active Directory you can just as easily install an application on 1, 10, 100 or a 1000 computers. You need to know what you are doing, but it does work and it is an absolute godsend in managing Windows desktops. Everyone is properly patched and up to date, all with the latest virus definitions and all without leaving your office.
Though personally I would prefer if all my users migrated to Linux.
Probably the first sucessful laptop PC clone. Sold like hot cakes. For years Toshiba had around 40% of the laptop market.
Basically they should be made compulsary for all broadband connections. It is the plethora of cheap USB ADSL modems that are being offered free with connections that it causing the problem.
While the rules are indeed copyright, that is irrelevant as long as the site in question does not have a copy of the rules available for viewing. However one could probably sit down and write a version of the rules that does not infringe the copyright. Remember copyright is for implementation and not ideas, hence Compaq could clone the PC. Board layout is a different matter however, and looks trickier. Though you could probably move some of the double, and tripple letter scores around without too much problem.
Mind you reading the Hasbro website history of Scrabble they only mention purchasing the Trademark in 1972, after previously licensing the game for manufacture, and they only have rights in the United States and Canada. So presumably the estate of Alfred Mosher Butts still owns the copyright on the game (he died in 1993).
The other way to look at it is that there is dozens of different USB-RS232 convertors. Due to the fact that the USB-IF failed to specify a standard way to do this each one needs a different driver. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is nuts. Now if Microsoft where to decided this is the way RS232 -USB converters work, this is the way IEEE-488 converters work etc. it would actually be a dam good thing.
Of course they are, however you have to either pay for them on a CD or wait till they play them on either Radio4 or BBC7 again. You can even buy them as a single CD ready encoded in MP3 format. The site you list above is of course totally illegal.
For legal BBC material see http://www.bbcworldwide.com/
A lot of brand new radio is very good. In particular if you happen to live in the United Kingdom, and can listen to the output of BBC Radio 4 and it's sister channel BBC7.
As probably the largest producer of English language spoken word material in the world, you could try looking at the BBC material.
:-)
On a factual note there is "This Sceptred Isle" series, a 2000 year history of the British Isles that is about 44 hours to start off with. They have plenty of other stuff as well.
On a SciFi note they have HitchHickers Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who, Earth Search and a whole pile more as radio plays. As Fantasy they have the excellant Lord of the Rings dramatization, and a complete canon of Sherlock Holmes among others.
They also do a good range of comedy, though much of this does have a U.K. slant.
Outside the BBC there is a whole series of lectures by Feynman if that takes your fancy, try Amazon. If you are into Terry Pratchett, then try ISIS audio books for unabridged audio books of his Discworld novels.
Fortunately for me I live in the U.K. and I get much of this stuff piped directly into my house via digital radio straight onto my hard disk in MP2 format via the wonders of BBC7
Add to that, his description of address formats for the United Kingdom are a load of rubbish, and don't remotely follow the correct addresses for properties laid out by the Royal Mail. Then again must people in the United Kingdon don't either, but that is still no excues for not following the proper Royal Mail approved address format.
May be, but that is because the ISO have deemed that the UK as an abrieviation for United Kingdom is to generic, even though there is only one country in the entire world going by that name. On the other hand US is perfectly acceptable for the USA, with United States being just as generic as the United Kingdom.
The thing is there is no such legal entity as Great Britain and there has not been since 1801. Great Britain existed as a country for less than 100 years, and has not existed for over 200 now. If the island of Ireland ever gets united again, it would come into existance again. However for the time being I live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
That's easy to fix. If Disney wants to extend the copyright from 50 to 70 years say, then it has to go and pay royalties (complete with interest) to all the copyright holders that had their works used royalty free by Disney because it had passed the 50 year mark but not yet reached the 70 year mark, at any point in the past.
It would then immediately become far less favourable for Disney (or any other organization) to presue such copyright extensions. Imagine thay they had to pay out the first 20 years earnings plus interest on Pinochio to the estate of Carlo Lorenzini! It is also morally and ethically fair. If Disney think that Steamboat Willy deserves added protection, then surely Pinochio does as well. Very hard to argue against and not look like obviously greedy and grasping.
Exactly who is exerting this social pressure on the women? As far as I have ever seen it is women's own peer presure and their expectations of what women should be like, and nothing to do with men.
I have never in my life held any such view or opinion that women are not supposed to be smart. On the other hand I have had on several occasions women express the opinion that I *must* believe this to be the case.
You really believe that? Well you would be dead wrong. The Prime Minister would be perfectly entitled under what constitution we have to apoint whatever yes men he felt like to the House of Lords and then select them for the cabinet.
"Shock and Awe" is an English translation of "blitzkrieg".
I would point out that neither do the media producers own the content. All they have is a time limited monopoly right on licensing it.