We hire a video jukebox system at uni. The videos are encoded somehow to stop us putting a disc of mpegs on, and keep us subscribing.
We also rent the machine for £x a week.
We get the money back from students giving us their loan cheques to watch/listen to some stuff.
However we are still allowed to pump a composite video signal and a ballance audio signal into the boxm and broadcast whenever we want.
Whiles theres a chance they cant do this (legally), or even get into trouble from the area manager, there is also a chance the system is designed to allow additions.
Slashdot should be working to counteract this, not by trying to become still more geeky and elitist, but by trying to attract a more middle-of-the-road audience.
Slashdot is news for nerds. Want a more "normal" audience go elsewhere.
mgrochmal writes "One of the items bouncing around the rumor mills is EyeTV, a TiVo-like device for Apple computers. Made by El Gato Software, it hooks up to one of the Mac's USB ports and captures MPEG-1 video, with a choice
between a VideoCD-compatible recording, or a higher quality recording. You can read about a preview build of it, as well as read a comparison between it and a TiVo." It doesn't come with a hard drive; and here I was, thinking I wouldn't fill up my new 160GB hard drive any time soon. Silly me.
cant proove you guilty so harras you until you pay up.
Isnt the license for any equipment capable of receiving broadcast tv?
Thats besides the point though. The BBC do advertsie - about 5-10 minutes an hour of bbc adverts (radio times, bbc programs, radio programs, idents), and the digital channels have logos all the time.
I live in the UK, and my parents have just moved to greece. I'm also researching where I can move to escape the oppresive police state that labour have us in.
Moving your belongings though 1) Forget your car, sell it. We drive on the left over here, and have right hand drive cars, not left hand. 2) TV. It might work, but I doubt it. We use Pal. Get one over here. 28" widescreens are from £300 ($450) up. DVD players about £90 up ($140). Sky TV (multichannel) or cable arround the £40($60) per month charge. ADSL/Cable arround £30 ($45)pm.
Make sure you get a region free dvd player otherwise your region 1 disks wont work in our region 2 players.
Digital terrestial TV is taking off here too.
Your Computer will work, but SWITCH THE VOLTAGE before you plug in! We use 230VAC, not 110. You'll need new power cables.
Try this one too http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/ 06/19 17250&mode=nested&tid=99
Income from motorists (petrol and road tax) in of the order of \xa330bn. Expendi ture on road maintenece is in the order of \xa36bn.
to the NHS for healthcare in looking after the broken bodies of victims of ca rs
Do smokers pay enough for all the lung cancer treatments? I'm sure that the £30bn difference between expenditures and costs on roads covers this. Cant find any concrete figures though.
in asthma
Professor Emeritus Stanley Feldman, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
- "In the last 40 years the level of (outdoor) air pollution has decreased dramati cally"
"Nevertheless the incidence of asthma has risen"
"Pollution does not cause bronchitis or asthma, nor does wearing a so-called an ti-pollution mask do anything except identify the wearer as a sucker"
"...the available evidence does not support a causative role [re. asthma] for ou tdoor air pollution"
The National Asthma Campaign says that house-dust mite droppings are the number one asthma trigger, but also points out new evidence that the mites can actually
cause asthma to develop in the first place.
PM10 particulates causing lung cancer The National Asthma Campaign says that house-dust mite droppings are the number one asthma trigger, but also points out new evidence that the mites can actually
cause asthma to develop in the first place.
PM10 particulates causing lung cancer
Petrol transport sources contribute only 5% of PM10s. Diesel transport sources; i.e., the buses, taxis and diesel rail locos so-beloved of the anti-car lobby, c ontribute nearly four times this amount (19%).
pumping CO2 and other greenhouse gasses into the air...
96.5% of all carbon dioxide emissions are from natural sources, mankind is respo nsible for only 3.5%, with 0.6% coming from fuel to move vehicles, and about 1% from fuel to heat buildings.
And I have to stop and give way to the buggers on the way to the shops. Make cars give way to pedestrians, I say!
Causes even more congestion, and congestion is bad for the economy, quite simply . Besides while the cars are waiting for you to slaunter arround the road, the d elivery vans are stuck at the end of the queue - unable to stock your shops.
Spend the money for this scheme on relieving congestion
Not to dis, but these are the type of issues software developers need to think about when they are programming for the masses. How many folks fired up freeciv, played a game where they were the only person, and just gave up?
I played for ages, figured the AI player was really crap. I had airplanes before I realised I truly was alone:(
Driving to London from Exeter to see a show isn't *remotely* the same as driving into London every day as a commuter.
Of course, hence Of course this was a saturday, and we left on sunday evening. I imagine the week is different!
2) The cost paid by you to drive to London isn't *remotely* the same as the cost to society and the environment of you driving to London.
No, its much higher.
for the last few weeks I've being staying in a room which backs on to the mainline near exeter st davids. Every train going to south devon or cornwall comes through here (including at night, very lound AND annoying).
Aside from being louder then a motorway (constant noise, easy to block out), and screaching breaks, shouting and clanging at 3AM, the number of passenger trains that go past about 20% full is a lot more polution then 2 people in a 50mpg car.
Trains are overcrowded, especially at rush hour. Want to add another couple of million people to them?
Congestion charging doesnt bother the rich, just makes it harder for the sub £40,000 brigade.
having a camera flash going off in your face would render you unable to drive safely for at least a few seconds.
Since when have speed cameras been about safety? Its not like they're in front of schools. They are revenue raisers to pay for donuts, and thats about it.
Personally, I think you have to be an idiot to want to drive into London, and I'm all in favour of this scheme, but I would like to see the charge doubled for people driving SUVs...
Really? We went to london for the weekend to see phantom. Leaving from Exeter, we had to get the 5:30AM train to avoid spending more then £50 each on the tickets. After paying £10 parking, we find the train was canceled. The next one was 4 hours later (this was a saturday).
Instead we hoped in my ford escort, drove up the m5, stopped off for coffee on the way, along the m4, refueled just after getting off, stopped at hammersmith, I bought a shirt, had breakfast, carried on driving, parked at the top of hyde park, and got to the hotel arround the same time our original train would have got into london. Was the same price too (Parking £6.50, fuel £40, Breakfast £10, map £5. Total arround £60. Rail ticket & parking was £58.
Of course this was a saturday, and we left on sunday evening. I imagine the week is different!
Getting arround in london is different, tube all the way.
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Lyx owns, blah blah blah, but under windows, to do word processing/type setting, it is 10 clicks away to write in my native, non-english, language. Under linux, i can't even find a faq for it. I don't even want to think what is necessary to actually print.
What language?
qt/gtk widgets are STILL slower than win32 widgets, watching dvd with XINE takes 40% of my CPU
Thats somethign to do with graphics access, when I watch a DVD I dont usually have widdgets on screen
I guess if you payed by credit card they could link the credit card and loyalty card purchases, but I usually had 2 or 3 of these cards in my wallet, and frequently swapped them with other family members.
I think they've stopped it now - but I moevd out of the area
Also do you have a card to track your purshing at a groserys store? Opps - discount card?
No, and I never will. The only discount cards I have dont have any of my information on - you get given them free, store points on, then trade them in for vouchers).
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We hire a video jukebox system at uni. The videos are encoded somehow to stop us putting a disc of mpegs on, and keep us subscribing.
We also rent the machine for £x a week.
We get the money back from students giving us their loan cheques to watch/listen to some stuff.
However we are still allowed to pump a composite video signal and a ballance audio signal into the boxm and broadcast whenever we want.
Whiles theres a chance they cant do this (legally), or even get into trouble from the area manager, there is also a chance the system is designed to allow additions.
Unplug the jukebox, take the speaker wires and maybe the amp, and plug a normal cd player in. Simple.
Slashdot should be working to counteract this, not by trying to become still more geeky and elitist, but by trying to attract a more middle-of-the-road audience.
Slashdot is news for nerds. Want a more "normal" audience go elsewhere.
On a more serious note, until I can render my entire featurelength movie with full 3d animation effects in realtime I won't be satisfied.
If its in real time, it doesnt really matter how long the movie is does it?
mgrochmal writes "One of the items bouncing around the rumor mills is EyeTV, a TiVo-like device for Apple computers. Made by El Gato Software, it hooks up to one of the Mac's USB ports and captures MPEG-1 video, with a choice between a VideoCD-compatible recording, or a higher quality recording. You can read about a preview build of it, as well as read a comparison between it and a TiVo." It doesn't come with a hard drive; and here I was, thinking I wouldn't fill up my new 160GB hard drive any time soon. Silly me.
"BOOO, MPAA sucks, give us back our rights! Its disgusting how senators get bribed"
"OOh, shiny DVD's"
I just can't wait for the protest rallies against the Two Towers!
You mean Rename "The Two Towers" to Something Less Offensive Petition
get a decent computer then
But then again my parents used to live 15 miles west of manchester, and had cable or ADSL.
We get free tv which is funded by the license fee (BBC), or adverts (ITV, C4, C5, handful of digital channels).
To get more channels you can pay more money.
cant proove you guilty so harras you until you pay up.
Isnt the license for any equipment capable of receiving broadcast tv?
Thats besides the point though. The BBC do advertsie - about 5-10 minutes an hour of bbc adverts (radio times, bbc programs, radio programs, idents), and the digital channels have logos all the time.
What about java. Cross platform, has AWT and Swing, can do 2D graphics and 3D graphics, even has xml in 1.4
What will you lose?
I live in the UK, and my parents have just moved to greece. I'm also researching where I can move to escape the oppresive police state that labour have us in.
/ 06/19 17250&mode=nested&tid=99
Moving your belongings though
1) Forget your car, sell it. We drive on the left over here, and have right hand drive cars, not left hand.
2) TV. It might work, but I doubt it. We use Pal. Get one over here. 28" widescreens are from £300 ($450) up. DVD players about £90 up ($140). Sky TV (multichannel) or cable arround the £40($60) per month charge. ADSL/Cable arround £30 ($45)pm.
Make sure you get a region free dvd player otherwise your region 1 disks wont work in our region 2 players.
Digital terrestial TV is taking off here too.
Your Computer will work, but SWITCH THE VOLTAGE before you plug in! We use 230VAC, not 110. You'll need new power cables.
Try this one too
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06
Cars cost me (a non-driver) money
Really, lets see
subsidies to the roads
Income from motorists (petrol and road tax) in of the order of \xa330bn. Expendi
ture on road maintenece is in the order of \xa36bn.
to the NHS for healthcare in looking after the broken bodies of victims of ca
rs
Do smokers pay enough for all the lung cancer treatments? I'm sure that the £30bn difference between expenditures and costs on roads covers this. Cant find any concrete figures though.
in asthma
Professor Emeritus Stanley Feldman, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
-
"In the last 40 years the level of (outdoor) air pollution has decreased dramati
cally"
"Nevertheless the incidence of asthma has risen"
"Pollution does not cause bronchitis or asthma, nor does wearing a so-called an
ti-pollution mask do anything except identify the wearer as a sucker"
The Department of Health, in its Report on transport and health, 1999
(section C5 p44)
"...the available evidence does not support a causative role [re. asthma] for ou
tdoor air pollution"
The National Asthma Campaign says that house-dust mite droppings are the number
one asthma trigger, but also points out new evidence that the mites can actually
cause asthma to develop in the first place.
PM10 particulates causing lung cancer
The National Asthma Campaign says that house-dust mite droppings are the number
one asthma trigger, but also points out new evidence that the mites can actually
cause asthma to develop in the first place.
PM10 particulates causing lung cancer
Petrol transport sources contribute only 5% of PM10s. Diesel transport sources;
i.e., the buses, taxis and diesel rail locos so-beloved of the anti-car lobby, c
ontribute nearly four times this amount (19%).
pumping CO2 and other greenhouse gasses into the air...
96.5% of all carbon dioxide emissions are from natural sources, mankind is respo
nsible for only 3.5%, with 0.6% coming from fuel to move vehicles, and about 1%
from fuel to heat buildings.
And I have to stop and give way to the buggers on the way to the shops. Make
cars give way to pedestrians, I say!
Causes even more congestion, and congestion is bad for the economy, quite simply
. Besides while the cars are waiting for you to slaunter arround the road, the d
elivery vans are stuck at the end of the queue - unable to stock your shops.
Spend the money for this scheme on relieving congestion
Not to dis, but these are the type of issues software developers need to think about when they are programming for the masses. How many folks fired up freeciv, played a game where they were the only person, and just gave up?
:(
I played for ages, figured the AI player was really crap. I had airplanes before I realised I truly was alone
Driving to London from Exeter to see a show isn't *remotely* the same as driving into London every day as a commuter.
Of course, hence
Of course this was a saturday, and we left on sunday evening. I imagine the week is different!
2) The cost paid by you to drive to London isn't *remotely* the same as the cost to society and the environment of you driving to London.
No, its much higher.
for the last few weeks I've being staying in a room which backs on to the mainline near exeter st davids. Every train going to south devon or cornwall comes through here (including at night, very lound AND annoying).
Aside from being louder then a motorway (constant noise, easy to block out), and screaching breaks, shouting and clanging at 3AM, the number of passenger trains that go past about 20% full is a lot more polution then 2 people in a 50mpg car.
Trains are overcrowded, especially at rush hour. Want to add another couple of million people to them?
Congestion charging doesnt bother the rich, just makes it harder for the sub £40,000 brigade.
having a camera flash going off in your face would render you unable to drive safely for at least a few seconds.
Since when have speed cameras been about safety? Its not like they're in front of schools. They are revenue raisers to pay for donuts, and thats about it.
Sending a text while driving? Thats safe!
You can get good people using the system though. Phoning you up to say your brake lights out.
Personally, I think you have to be an idiot to want to drive into London, and I'm all in favour of this scheme, but I would like to see the charge doubled for people driving SUVs...
Really? We went to london for the weekend to see phantom. Leaving from Exeter, we had to get the 5:30AM train to avoid spending more then £50 each on the tickets. After paying £10 parking, we find the train was canceled. The next one was 4 hours later (this was a saturday).
Instead we hoped in my ford escort, drove up the m5, stopped off for coffee on the way, along the m4, refueled just after getting off, stopped at hammersmith, I bought a shirt, had breakfast, carried on driving, parked at the top of hyde park, and got to the hotel arround the same time our original train would have got into london. Was the same price too (Parking £6.50, fuel £40, Breakfast £10, map £5. Total arround £60. Rail ticket & parking was £58.
Of course this was a saturday, and we left on sunday evening. I imagine the week is different!
Getting arround in london is different, tube all the way.
Dont you need an apple?
Lyx owns, blah blah blah, but under windows, to do word processing/type setting, it is 10 clicks away to write in my native, non-english, language. Under linux, i can't even find a faq for it. I don't even want to think what is necessary to actually print.
What language?
qt/gtk widgets are STILL slower than win32 widgets, watching dvd with XINE takes 40% of my CPU
Thats somethign to do with graphics access, when I watch a DVD I dont usually have widdgets on screen
One word, Two characters...
42!
nope, never, not once. It was a great deal
I guess if you payed by credit card they could link the credit card and loyalty card purchases, but I usually had 2 or 3 of these cards in my wallet, and frequently swapped them with other family members.
I think they've stopped it now - but I moevd out of the area
Also do you have a card to track your purshing at a groserys store? Opps - discount card?
No, and I never will. The only discount cards I have dont have any of my information on - you get given them free, store points on, then trade them in for vouchers).
Chewey.