Well, the only interesting thing about the rollover on Victoria Peak was wondering how long it would take to get down to town again afterwards. I relived my boredom by borrowing a mobile and calling my ex-employer(an ISP) and relaying a tale of power blackouts and panic...they stopped sounding worried when I started giggling:-)
There's been a lot of comment about this, but let me summarise. There are two types of surgery; Photo Refractive Kerotomy and "LASIK". PRK is good for normal myopia while the latter is a newer technique that is supposed to fix the more short sighted of us! The first takes up to 30 seconds (my right eye took 13 seconds) while a laser burnt off a part of your cornea; effectively imagine the surgeon is putting the glasses directly on your eye. PRK seems very effective, certainly in my case, and has been around in the UK for about 15 years now. The big drawback until 6 years ago was that the laser only operated on a 5mm diameter area on your eye; causing halos around lights at night for ppl with wide pupils like me (6mm!). The newer kit works on a 7mm diameter area, which improves things no end. I my case (no astigmatism and 1.25 dioptres short sighted) it was perfect, but the first 24 hours after the op was hell; be warned! The specialists in the UK are Optimax who charge about $650 per eye. I'd definitely reccomend them
Ahem...I suspect that you are rather out of touch with the British political scene. Labour (Democrat equivalents to you Yanks) are the establishment worshippers at the court of the great Bill G, whereas the Tories are those desposed to listen to something new. Try reading the history of the last twenty years in the UK...you soon see who was "anti-establishment", and it wasn't the likes of Tony Blair
Glad to see her Majesty is using a decent OS; our pathetic government seem keener on sucking up to Bill G and insisting NT runs everywhere. Luckily, she's rather practical; what works is OK with her. Gawd bless you ma'am...(pauses to tug forelock). It should be remembered by non-Brits that the "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" bit is important. Most ppl forget..
I laughed at that post more than I had all last week! I really cannot believe Rob hasn't looked at all the links for this lot before whacking (Oer!) them up as a headliner. Ah well, I suppose this is one way of passing a boring tech support shift, and I could always check back in 20 days to see if a) the web cam is fixed, or b) they're naked or whatever:-)
We don't need a single WM or environment for things to be consistent. Conventions like dragging files, making shortcuts, and the location and format of config and log files are good enough. Most of the former have been established, and hopefully LSB will take care of the rest. This will allow anyone to be supported over the phone, which is how most users with problems will get help.
Your points all have validity, but the kernel of the matter is that VBA office apps have the ability to write to the registry; effectively the equivalent of root on Unix. This was a poor design decision, and should be reversed. That being said, people should never click on.exe's!
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Hugo has made this point in a couple of interviews; it would be a shame just to use it for MP3's. Anyone else who's listening; we need the convergence of the PDA and the Rio type devices! Nice IBM microdrive in them, and hours of music plus email and an address book; yum:-)
I couldn't agree more. For the benefit of/.'s non UK readers, Duncan Campbell has been known more as a prominent left winger and purveyor of conspiracy theories than as a journalist for 20+ years now. Doesn't mean we should ignore everything he says, just take it with a sackful of salt. After all, a man who was in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament in the face of this century's most appalingly sucessful authoritarian regime is definitely someone who tends to "fit the facts" to suit his predijuices:-)
Given that everything on Redhat's CD is GPL'ed, I can't see how they are supposed to maintain a monopoly. At least their software is all open, unlike SuSE's YAST tool for example. Fact is, Redhat are reaping the benefit of being the "easiest" Linux to install when more and more Linux newbies are arriving; 'nuff said
What a twit...mp3 is popular because it's an easy way of distributing free high quality copies. Who the hell wants to get rid of it (except record companies of course, assuming they *could*) and all it's infrastructure (eg programs) for a format that means that you have to pay doubtless extortionate rates for music again? I still remember the UK Mondex electronic money trial in Swindon which went swimmingly until they declared that we needed to be charged £1-50 a month for the privilege; the blizzard of returned cards forced two postponements! Mp3 will only be replaced once someone invents a similar free format but with better compression:-) As for broadcast.com? Their only hope is to become a portal like mp3.com, and boyo, you don't get people to go to portals if you charge them!
The Empeg is relatively expensive, but developing a custom mainboard always is; you sure you're up to the task? If you've read some more of the details on the mp3mobile you'll know that some source was released; and copyright issues played a part in the descision not to release more. Finally, I'd better declare an interest; Hugo is my younger brother! PS No one at Slashdot has stock in Empeg:-)
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Well, the only interesting thing about the rollover on Victoria Peak was wondering how long it would take to get down to town again afterwards. I relived my boredom by borrowing a mobile and calling my ex-employer(an ISP) and relaying a tale of power blackouts and panic...they stopped sounding worried when I started giggling :-)
There's been a lot of comment about this, but let me summarise. There are two types of surgery; Photo Refractive Kerotomy and "LASIK". PRK is good for normal myopia while the latter is a newer technique that is supposed to fix the more short sighted of us! The first takes up to 30 seconds (my right eye took 13 seconds) while a laser burnt off a part of your cornea; effectively imagine the surgeon is putting the glasses directly on your eye. PRK seems very effective, certainly in my case, and has been around in the UK for about 15 years now. The big drawback until 6 years ago was that the laser only operated on a 5mm diameter area on your eye; causing halos around lights at night for ppl with wide pupils like me (6mm!). The newer kit works on a 7mm diameter area, which improves things no end. I my case (no astigmatism and 1.25 dioptres short sighted) it was perfect, but the first 24 hours after the op was hell; be warned! The specialists in the UK are Optimax who charge about $650 per eye. I'd definitely reccomend them
Ahem...I suspect that you are rather out of touch with the British political scene. Labour (Democrat equivalents to you Yanks) are the establishment worshippers at the court of the great Bill G, whereas the Tories are those desposed to listen to something new. Try reading the history of the last twenty years in the UK...you soon see who was "anti-establishment", and it wasn't the likes of Tony Blair
Glad to see her Majesty is using a decent OS; our pathetic government seem keener on sucking up to Bill G and insisting NT runs everywhere. Luckily, she's rather practical; what works is OK with her. Gawd bless you ma'am...(pauses to tug forelock). It should be remembered by non-Brits that the "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" bit is important. Most ppl forget..
I laughed at that post more than I had all last week! I really cannot believe Rob hasn't looked at all the links for this lot before whacking (Oer!) them up as a headliner. Ah well, I suppose this is one way of passing a boring tech support shift, and I could always check back in 20 days to see if a) the web cam is fixed, or b) they're naked or whatever :-)
We don't need a single WM or environment for things to be consistent. Conventions like dragging files, making shortcuts, and the location and format of config and log files are good enough. Most of the former have been established, and hopefully LSB will take care of the rest. This will allow anyone to be supported over the phone, which is how most users with problems will get help.
Your points all have validity, but the kernel of the matter is that VBA office apps have the ability to write to the registry; effectively the equivalent of root on Unix. This was a poor design decision, and should be reversed. That being said, people should never click on .exe's!
Hugo has made this point in a couple of interviews; it would be a shame just to use it for MP3's. Anyone else who's listening; we need the convergence of the PDA and the Rio type devices! Nice IBM microdrive in them, and hours of music plus email and an address book; yum :-)
I couldn't agree more. For the benefit of /.'s non UK readers, Duncan Campbell has been known more as a prominent left winger and purveyor of conspiracy theories than as a journalist for 20+ years now. Doesn't mean we should ignore everything he says, just take it with a sackful of salt. After all, a man who was in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament in the face of this century's most appalingly sucessful authoritarian regime is definitely someone who tends to "fit the facts" to suit his predijuices :-)
Given that everything on Redhat's CD is GPL'ed, I can't see how they are supposed to maintain a monopoly. At least their software is all open, unlike SuSE's YAST tool for example. Fact is, Redhat are reaping the benefit of being the "easiest" Linux to install when more and more Linux newbies are arriving; 'nuff said
What a twit...mp3 is popular because it's an easy way of distributing free high quality copies. Who the hell wants to get rid of it (except record companies of course, assuming they *could*) and all it's infrastructure (eg programs) for a format that means that you have to pay doubtless extortionate rates for music again? I still remember the UK Mondex electronic money trial in Swindon which went swimmingly until they declared that we needed to be charged £1-50 a month for the privilege; the blizzard of returned cards forced two postponements! Mp3 will only be replaced once someone invents a similar free format but with better compression :-) As for broadcast.com? Their only hope is to become a portal like mp3.com, and boyo, you don't get people to go to portals if you charge them!
The Empeg is relatively expensive, but developing a custom mainboard always is; you sure you're up to the task? If you've read some more of the details on the mp3mobile you'll know that some source was released; and copyright issues played a part in the descision not to release more. Finally, I'd better declare an interest; Hugo is my younger brother! :-)
PS No one at Slashdot has stock in Empeg