In France you can get a 20Mbps ADSL2 connection for 14.85 euros a month, roughly half of the price of the Be offering hear in the UK.
Check See here if your French is up to it!
I am amazed at the lack of technical knowledge being displayed by contributors to a forum that is supposedly frequented by those of a technical disposition.
'Broadband transmission' is a type of data transmission where a single medium can carry multiple channels at the same time.
Contrast this with a 'baseband transmission' that can carry only one signal at a time. It has got NOTHING to do with speed or throughput.
The thingis that you are not controlling the trains, but rather controlling the track!
DCC copntrolled trains 'know' what direction they are facing on the track. The direction and speed are not controlled by track voltage and polarity.
And yes, DCC does allow trains to make (realistic) engine noises, control signals, switch on lights in carraiges, smoke making devices (so that real smoke comes out smoke stacks).
Before you rubbish this go out and look at a DCC setup.
Once you have been a train driver being a track driver is not the same.
It is really cool when a loco takes a grade and you hear the engine work harder, more smoke comes out the stack some of them can even have a little red light that comes on and varies in intensity to emulate the fireman stoking the boiler!
I for one have an 8 port 10/100 hub in my home, as do lots of my friends and colleagues. I am not convinced that I will ever need embedded Ethernet or an internal modem on my toaster, TV or 'fridge.
Maybe Slashdot should do a poll on home networking.
1) I did not criticise university degrees. I just stuck up for those of us who for what ever reason never got round to getting one.
2) I don't see that my grammar was all that bad. A few spelling mistakes and some flakey punctuation here and there, but hey this is a bulletin board, not a job application.
3) Brit's don't like English lessons from Americans. You don't even speak the Queens English.;-)
Well now some of you are starting to annoy me. I just happen to be one of these 'dumb' non-graduates who is doing just happens to be doing quite nicely running my own IT Consultancy firm. I also just happen to live and work in the UK (at least for the time being. IR35 may change that).
To me a degree would be a 'nice thing to have' but not a be all and end all in itself. I quit school at the age of 16 and spent the next 9 years in the Merchant Navy. The only continent I have not set foot on is Antartica. I would not have traded any of this experience for a first at Oxford, Cambridge or MIT.
So Mr Graduate I take issue with your 'in the UK on average most graduates are smarter than non-graduates' remark. Not in my experience they are not. Dorks abound, educated or otherwise. Just look at our politicians, they nearly all have degrees. 'Nuff said.
And as for NASA Mars trip thing. Go for it.
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lang may yer lum reek!
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In France you can get a 20Mbps ADSL2 connection for 14.85 euros a month, roughly half of the price of the Be offering hear in the UK. Check See here if your French is up to it!
Don't worry, someone else will come along and shaft you for the other 20p.
Well at least it is a start!
Nice to see that us Europeans do some things better than our US cousins ;-)
I am amazed at the lack of technical knowledge being displayed by contributors to a forum that is supposedly frequented by those of a technical disposition. 'Broadband transmission' is a type of data transmission where a single medium can carry multiple channels at the same time. Contrast this with a 'baseband transmission' that can carry only one signal at a time. It has got NOTHING to do with speed or throughput.
He is not an American, just a thick Mick (like a Polack but even more dumb)
Grow Up!
The thingis that you are not controlling the trains, but rather controlling the track! DCC copntrolled trains 'know' what direction they are facing on the track. The direction and speed are not controlled by track voltage and polarity. And yes, DCC does allow trains to make (realistic) engine noises, control signals, switch on lights in carraiges, smoke making devices (so that real smoke comes out smoke stacks). Before you rubbish this go out and look at a DCC setup. Once you have been a train driver being a track driver is not the same. It is really cool when a loco takes a grade and you hear the engine work harder, more smoke comes out the stack some of them can even have a little red light that comes on and varies in intensity to emulate the fireman stoking the boiler!
What a load of old bollocks.
10-4 Good buddy
Thats not bad grammar, thats a type. Grow up.
In the words of the prophet, "Fuck off and die"
I for one have an 8 port 10/100 hub in my home, as do lots of my friends and colleagues. I am not convinced that I will ever need embedded Ethernet or an internal modem on my toaster, TV or 'fridge.
Maybe Slashdot should do a poll on home networking.
Lang may yer lum reek.
Lets just take this one thing at a time.
;-)
1) I did not criticise university degrees. I just stuck up for those of us who for what ever reason never got round to getting one.
2) I don't see that my grammar was all that bad. A few spelling mistakes and some flakey punctuation here and there, but hey this is a bulletin board, not a job application.
3) Brit's don't like English lessons from Americans. You don't even speak the Queens English.
Lang may yer lumb reek.
Aw c'mon. This rates a 1:Funny at least. I laughed out loud.
PS 'tattoo' is spelt with two Ts in the middle.
Well now some of you are starting to annoy me. I just happen to be one of these 'dumb' non-graduates who is doing just happens to be doing quite nicely running my own IT Consultancy firm. I also just happen to live and work in the UK (at least for the time being. IR35 may change that). To me a degree would be a 'nice thing to have' but not a be all and end all in itself. I quit school at the age of 16 and spent the next 9 years in the Merchant Navy. The only continent I have not set foot on is Antartica. I would not have traded any of this experience for a first at Oxford, Cambridge or MIT. So Mr Graduate I take issue with your 'in the UK on average most graduates are smarter than non-graduates' remark. Not in my experience they are not. Dorks abound, educated or otherwise. Just look at our politicians, they nearly all have degrees. 'Nuff said. And as for NASA Mars trip thing. Go for it. ___ lang may yer lum reek!