Why? The BBC is not a neutral entity. They are extremely one-sided politically. I have noticed their coverage of the Olympica Torch is more Pro-China.
This is not a problem when it is commercial t.v. When you are forced to pay for it,
Who pays for ITV? Tesco, Morissons, Asda, Sainsburys, etc. etc. It's pretty hard to avoid paying for ITV. Or Sky.
however, this is completely wrong. I say convert the BBC and other public stations to a commercial status, drop the t.v. tax, and let them compete with each other as they should. You can choose not to have a TV.
most shows on the BBC suck, too. Just as with commercial t.v., there's the occasional gem (Dr. Who). But while you, I, and most of Slashdot love Dr Who, there's 50 million people the UK that don't. The BBC has to cater for all of them.
If you have a criminal record it lasts for life. Why is it only five years for corporations? But in most cases you don't get sent to jail for life. It's not like Microsoft are convicted murderers. a 5 year "prison sentence" is more than many people that kill which DUI anyway.
And it's that last line which I have issues with. Is restricting say, the choice of people to give large cash contracts to people who recently murdered their wives a bad thing?
Yes, they might have great peering into the BBC, but they don't have a great connection from their border to the local exchange.
Typically the copper from the exchange to the house is capable of 4Mbit down. There are 200 people to an exchange. The problem is the link from the exchange to the peering point isn't 200*4Mbit. Upgrading this link to a 1:1 contention ratio is what's needed first. It doesn't matter if the link from the Exchange to the House (1st mile) is Gigabit, and the link from the peering point to the BBC is 100 Tbit, the problem is the 10mbit backbone to the exchange, the "2nd mile" as Infinera put it.
Most distro's I wouldn't exactly call small. When it doesn't fit on a single CD (700 MB) it is not small anymore. Most distro's come as multi-CD or these days maybe even multi-DVD releases. My Ubuntu install image is about 12MB, it loads from a PXE boot environment.
Admittedly it then downloads another few hundered meg of packages, but then what makes an OS? Is a SIP proxy/redirect/registrar part of an OS? it's part of ubuntu, 99.99% of people wouldn't know about it, let alone install it.
It's about 90 seconds wages for most people in the UK.
Really? Most people in the UK get paid $280/hour? We pay about £1.07, or $2.16, per litre, or $8.20 per US gallon. The average UK wage is about £12 ($25)/hour, so about 7 minutes work for the average UK wage earner. At the minimum wage its about 12 minutes work.
It seems a little buggy. Having found Mars, and found Venus, I decided to do what I do on google maps, just for a laugh. I guess I hoped for a "3 degrees up, 7 minutes right" or whatever, but instead I got some interesting results.
- 33 Results for venus to mars - Head north on Blue Shore Dr toward Lakeside Dr Blue Shore Dr turns left and becomes Lakeside Dr Lakeside Dr turns right and becomes Shaded Trail Turn right at Highway 109 Turn left at Highway 207....
I work with computers, I don't want to work with them when I get home. Ubuntu just works, no questions asked. At work I use Linux because its so damn easy. I don't get involved with the windows servers or desktops we have, and I'm so glad. I barely touch my Mac laptop, I don't have time to learn a new interface. Linux just works.
Presumably if God created the universe, and set the start location and position of everything in the universe, understands quantum mechanics, and have a grand unified theory tattooed on it's arm, then he is directly responsible for every action in the universe
Currently, you only need a TV licence for a PC if it has a TV tuner in it, which enables you to receive a live broadcast.
No, you need a TV license if you own a device which you use to receive live broadcasts on. A PC with a capture card (for say CCTV) is fine if you don't hook it up to the aerial. Likewise a TV with a DVD player out the back.
It only becomes an offence when you use that PC or TV to receive live television. That includes streaming live TV from the BBC or Sky News over the internet. It doesn't include downloading an episode of Torchwood from iplayer.
Like most Linux users, I work with computers all day (when not in various meetings). When I get home the last thing I want to do is spend time on the computer. That leaves the 40 minute train ride to and from work. I use this to catch up on t'internet (3g dongle), do some fun work, or very very occasionally play a game.
I don't have time to learn a new game, I'd rather bash something arround that I know. I've bought a dozen or so games for Linux in the past, some are still unwrapped, none have made it onto my current laptop. If I play something on the train it's either openttd, or dosbox and railroad tycoon (the original one).
When the train pulls into the station, I hit suspend, throw the laptop in the bag, and it stays there until the next morning (unless something major breaks and the 24/7 team can't cope).
In windows it's not just highlight/middle click, which is a great way of moving text around from a surfing POV (with a mouse), to a data entry POV (keyboard), it's a more involved highlight/rightclick/leftclick -- highlight/rightclick/leftclick or highlight/ctrl-c highlight/ctrl-v
it would get squashed on most any highway (and some city streets) being so slow, and small. That'd be called dangerous driving in the UK. I find the arms-race hilarious if it wasn't so worrying. Ooh, hatchback is bigger than your mini, estate bigger than a hatchback, people carrier bigger than a hatchback, suv bigger than a peaople carrier, hummer bigger than an SUV.
You won't be happy until everyone's driving road trains.
Boot PC F12 - PXE boot "ubuntu-710-server" enter hostname *wait 20-40 minutes depending on time of day and bandwidth*
Fully uptodate, patched installation, ready to go, with essential utils installed like sshd, snmp, npt, etc.
If building a generic box, run "setup.sh", select role, and go. Depending on role thigns like apache are installed. Everyone's happy.
Nagios checked every 6 hours for critical security patches are flags them up, test and dev systems get them installed automatically, live systems get the OK (a manual apt-get upgrade) depending on severity of exploits
That's not my point. My point is that you shouldn't have to pay for iPlayer unless you (a) can use it, and (b) want to use it.
You have to pay even if you only watch itv, you have to pay if you're deaf, you have to pay even if you dont have freeview. It's the way the license fee works.
No. SNO is directly legally obligated to make the source available
The GPL says that a written offer must acompany the code. I.E. on your copyright page say the webapp is copyright, send a stamped address envelope and a floppy disk to "SNO, 1234 Main street, Turin", and we'll send you the code.
How is that different from waking up at 7:00, having lunch at 12:00, and going to sleep at 10:00?
Because the rest of the world uses the 24 hour clock, I get up at 07:30, lunch at 13:00 and sleep at 23:00. It throws most people out when they get up at 19:00, lunch at 04:00 and sleep at 13:00, never know what "today" is.
I really liked the Swatch "Internet Time", but I had doubts about its mathmatical soundness... however, wakingup at 250, having lunch at 500 and going to sleep at 750 would be nice:)
But for most of the earth, which are nowhere near an arbitrary "center" (Greenwich, Geneva, Beijing, wherever), you'd wake up at 850, lunch at 100, sleep at 520.
The guys from Top Gear did a hilarious review of the car last week, and proved that you could indeed drive it TO work (in the elevator, down the corridor, and to your desk). It's even got a handle on the back to pick it up with.
They cut the bit with risk assement, health and safety impacts, modifications to the car to remove the exhaust, and the fact it needed 6 blokes to lift it up to the news 24 studio because there wasn't a large enough lift
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This is not a problem when it is commercial t.v. When you are forced to pay for it,
Who pays for ITV? Tesco, Morissons, Asda, Sainsburys, etc. etc. It's pretty hard to avoid paying for ITV. Or Sky. however, this is completely wrong. I say convert the BBC and other public stations to a commercial status, drop the t.v. tax, and let them compete with each other as they should. You can choose not to have a TV. most shows on the BBC suck, too. Just as with commercial t.v., there's the occasional gem (Dr. Who). But while you, I, and most of Slashdot love Dr Who, there's 50 million people the UK that don't. The BBC has to cater for all of them.
And it's that last line which I have issues with. Is restricting say, the choice of people to give large cash contracts to people who recently murdered their wives a bad thing?
So we won't use ReiserFS then, big whoop.
Yes, they might have great peering into the BBC, but they don't have a great connection from their border to the local exchange.
Typically the copper from the exchange to the house is capable of 4Mbit down. There are 200 people to an exchange. The problem is the link from the exchange to the peering point isn't 200*4Mbit. Upgrading this link to a 1:1 contention ratio is what's needed first. It doesn't matter if the link from the Exchange to the House (1st mile) is Gigabit, and the link from the peering point to the BBC is 100 Tbit, the problem is the 10mbit backbone to the exchange, the "2nd mile" as Infinera put it.
Admittedly it then downloads another few hundered meg of packages, but then what makes an OS? Is a SIP proxy/redirect/registrar part of an OS? it's part of ubuntu, 99.99% of people wouldn't know about it, let alone install it.
Really? Most people in the UK get paid $280/hour? We pay about £1.07, or $2.16, per litre, or $8.20 per US gallon. The average UK wage is about £12 ($25)/hour, so about 7 minutes work for the average UK wage earner. At the minimum wage its about 12 minutes work.
if he's doing an apt job of managing foreign affairs
Ooh, a debian user! He must be good.
It seems a little buggy. Having found Mars, and found Venus, I decided to do what I do on google maps, just for a laugh. I guess I hoped for a "3 degrees up, 7 minutes right" or whatever, but instead I got some interesting results.
....
- 33 Results for venus to mars -
Head north on Blue Shore Dr toward Lakeside Dr
Blue Shore Dr turns left and becomes Lakeside Dr
Lakeside Dr turns right and becomes Shaded Trail
Turn right at Highway 109
Turn left at Highway 207
I work with computers, I don't want to work with them when I get home. Ubuntu just works, no questions asked. At work I use Linux because its so damn easy. I don't get involved with the windows servers or desktops we have, and I'm so glad. I barely touch my Mac laptop, I don't have time to learn a new interface. Linux just works.
It was directly inspired by God
Presumably if God created the universe, and set the start location and position of everything in the universe, understands quantum mechanics, and have a grand unified theory tattooed on it's arm, then he is directly responsible for every action in the universe
Currently, you only need a TV licence for a PC if it has a TV tuner in it, which enables you to receive a live broadcast.
No, you need a TV license if you own a device which you use to receive live broadcasts on. A PC with a capture card (for say CCTV) is fine if you don't hook it up to the aerial. Likewise a TV with a DVD player out the back.It only becomes an offence when you use that PC or TV to receive live television. That includes streaming live TV from the BBC or Sky News over the internet. It doesn't include downloading an episode of Torchwood from iplayer.
Like most Linux users, I work with computers all day (when not in various meetings). When I get home the last thing I want to do is spend time on the computer. That leaves the 40 minute train ride to and from work. I use this to catch up on t'internet (3g dongle), do some fun work, or very very occasionally play a game.
I don't have time to learn a new game, I'd rather bash something arround that I know. I've bought a dozen or so games for Linux in the past, some are still unwrapped, none have made it onto my current laptop. If I play something on the train it's either openttd, or dosbox and railroad tycoon (the original one).
When the train pulls into the station, I hit suspend, throw the laptop in the bag, and it stays there until the next morning (unless something major breaks and the 24/7 team can't cope).
Besides, what's hard about copy/paste?
In windows it's not just highlight/middle click, which is a great way of moving text around from a surfing POV (with a mouse), to a data entry POV (keyboard), it's a more involved
highlight/rightclick/leftclick -- highlight/rightclick/leftclick
or highlight/ctrl-c highlight/ctrl-v
You won't be happy until everyone's driving road trains.
Boot PC
F12 - PXE boot
"ubuntu-710-server"
enter hostname
*wait 20-40 minutes depending on time of day and bandwidth*
Fully uptodate, patched installation, ready to go, with essential utils installed like sshd, snmp, npt, etc.
If building a generic box, run "setup.sh", select role, and go. Depending on role thigns like apache are installed. Everyone's happy.
Nagios checked every 6 hours for critical security patches are flags them up, test and dev systems get them installed automatically, live systems get the OK (a manual apt-get upgrade) depending on severity of exploits
What's a CD?
I don't know... ~12% of the market is still quite a large number of people.
27% in europe, over 40% in some countries.
http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/browsers-barometer/firefox-september-2007/index-1-2-3-110.html
That's not my point. My point is that you shouldn't have to pay for iPlayer unless you (a) can use it, and (b) want to use it.
You have to pay even if you only watch itv, you have to pay if you're deaf, you have to pay even if you dont have freeview. It's the way the license fee works.
No. SNO is directly legally obligated to make the source available
The GPL says that a written offer must acompany the code. I.E. on your copyright page say the webapp is copyright, send a stamped address envelope and a floppy disk to "SNO, 1234 Main street, Turin", and we'll send you the code.
Is the AGPL different?
How is that different from waking up at 7:00, having lunch at 12:00, and going to sleep at 10:00?
Because the rest of the world uses the 24 hour clock, I get up at 07:30, lunch at 13:00 and sleep at 23:00. It throws most people out when they get up at 19:00, lunch at 04:00 and sleep at 13:00, never know what "today" is.
Before trains, nobody cared. Very few people care now.
Only because trains never run on time
I really liked the Swatch "Internet Time", but I had doubts about its mathmatical soundness... however, wakingup at 250, having lunch at 500 and going to sleep at 750 would be nice :)
But for most of the earth, which are nowhere near an arbitrary "center" (Greenwich, Geneva, Beijing, wherever), you'd wake up at 850, lunch at 100, sleep at 520.
The guys from Top Gear did a hilarious review of the car last week, and proved that you could indeed drive it TO work (in the elevator, down the corridor, and to your desk). It's even got a handle on the back to pick it up with.
They cut the bit with risk assement, health and safety impacts, modifications to the car to remove the exhaust, and the fact it needed 6 blokes to lift it up to the news 24 studio because there wasn't a large enough lift
Doctors and emergency workers on call need to be able to be reached at dinner and in movie theaters.
And in tunnels? on planes? In bad signal areas?
If your job relies on you being on call, you can't go to these places. Tough.
echo `sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle_Count` " | " `date` >> load_count
My laptop is about 6 months old, but you'd never guess it
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 590759365028
Also
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 21865678632180
That's 2.5 billion years