>>You don't have to pay a licence fee unless you use the equipment to receive TV.
Nope.. Been there, done that.
If the device has a tv tuner in it, you are "receiving tv" regardless of whether you are actually watching or recording it - a number of people, including an organisation that I am involved with, have claimed they only use tv sets for watching dvd/video/xbox but they've still had to pay up - unless you physically rip the tv tuner out of the device, it's "receiveing tv" whenever it is powered up.
The BBC Archive all the radio output for a week, here
they've probably got other arhives too but I'm suposed to be workin so I can't look it up right now..
>> just because your PC is _capable_ of being used to view video, listen to sound, and be connected to the internet?
Yup. That's the situation today with tvs/dvd recorders/tv tuner cards - If you buy any device with a tv tuner in it today, you have to pay the annual fee regardless of whether you use the device only to watch recorded content - if it is _capable_ of recieving a tv signal, you pay.
I betcha they will try and use the same logic for pcs
>>Just show them that your TV is not plugged into an arial
Ummm no. Any device that has a tv tuner in it means that the household is liable for paying the fee. Several have been to court with this defense and lost. If it's at all remotly capabale of receiving and decoding a tv signal then you have to pay - whether it's plugged in or not.
That's the point, they are assuming that in ten years or so, it WILL be a broadcast medium - in much the same way that BBC Radio already is. We don't possess a radio in the house, we just listen to the audio stream over the internet. The day isn't too far away when video will be available this way too - hence the proposal.
They are talking about this tax because they are anticipating that most people will be watching tv by streaming video over t'internet - BBC already have streaming audio for their radio - both live and archives.
It has NOTHING to do with tv tuner cards (which btw are already explicity covered in the license fee FAQ - if you have a TV tuner card or a recordable dvd box, you need a license)
Don't get me started on station id logos! Disney UK has a HUGE animated and brightly coloured logo. I thought it would dissapear after a minute or two but no, its stays for the whole program, completely spoiling any show you watch. I don't mind a discrete almost transparent little logo in the top left of the picture if they really must constantly remind you of which channel you're watching, but when they are a quarter of the screen's height and in full color animation, it's ridiculous. I for one, simply cannot watch anything with logos that big.
I noticed the appalling amount of product placement when I watched a US version of "Weakest Link" recently. Half the questions were of the form "Name the company that makes X" or "Which company has the ad slogan Y" That's not general knowledge at all, it's appalling.
Questions of that ilk would be unthinkable on even commercial tv in the UK.
Because on commercial tv, a "30 minute" program is actualy 10 minutes of adverts interspersed with 20 minutes of low-quality "content" It's ANNOYING - AND... they turn the volume way up when the ad-breaks come on - that infuriates me to hell!
BBC - a 30 minute program is exactly that - 30 minutes of good quality content (well,ok not always!) The BBC is world-renowned for top quality broadcasting.
the construction method is described in the BBC article... timber frame, drywall, then sprayed with concrete.
"But the New Zealand group had to eschew the ancient in constructing the henge as even with modern building equipment, the henge would have taken too long to construct and would have been too expensive.
The eye of a 5-metre tall obelisk points to the south celestial pole
Instead the society's team concocted pillars and lintels from wooden frames, covered those with cement board and wire mesh and sprayed concrete over the structure."
You didn't rtfa did you... It's not embedded linux. He's attached the feeder to his Linux box via a serial link so that he can drop treats to the cats via the internet, i.e. when he's at work.
we've aways had cats and they've always been free to come and go via a catflap. average age... about 10 or so. Never lost a cat to anything you say - right now, we have 3 of them. Only ever heard of one cat killed my a car (mother inlaws, about 25 yeers ago)
Solution to that: TFT monitors. Our cats were NOT happy when we replaced the two CRT pc monitors and the CRT TV with TFT screens - but at least now I can clearly read my screens... A swishing cat's tail over the screen doesn't make for good productivity or gaming!
"So, in 1998, he gathered together scientists from all over the world to analyse his findings. They, too, were stumped and resolved to extend and deepen the work of Prof Jahn and Dr Nelson. The Global Consciousness Project was born. "
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>>You don't have to pay a licence fee unless you use the equipment to receive TV.
Nope.. Been there, done that.
If the device has a tv tuner in it, you are "receiving tv" regardless of whether you are actually watching or recording it - a number of people, including an organisation that I am involved with, have claimed they only use tv sets for watching dvd/video/xbox but they've still had to pay up - unless you physically rip the tv tuner out of the device, it's "receiveing tv" whenever it is powered up.
The BBC Archive all the radio output for a week, here they've probably got other arhives too but I'm suposed to be workin so I can't look it up right now..
>> just because your PC is _capable_ of being used to view video, listen to sound, and be connected to the internet?
Yup. That's the situation today with tvs/dvd recorders/tv tuner cards - If you buy any device with a tv tuner in it today, you have to pay the annual fee regardless of whether you use the device only to watch recorded content - if it is _capable_ of recieving a tv signal, you pay.
I betcha they will try and use the same logic for pcs
>>Just show them that your TV is not plugged into an arial
Ummm no. Any device that has a tv tuner in it means that the household is liable for paying the fee. Several have been to court with this defense and lost. If it's at all remotly capabale of receiving and decoding a tv signal then you have to pay - whether it's plugged in or not.
>>However, it is not a broadcast medium
That's the point, they are assuming that in ten years or so, it WILL be a broadcast medium - in much the same way that BBC Radio already is. We don't possess a radio in the house, we just listen to the audio stream over the internet. The day isn't too far away when video will be available this way too - hence the proposal.
RTFA!!!!
They are talking about this tax because they are anticipating that most people will be watching tv by streaming video over t'internet - BBC already have streaming audio for their radio - both live and archives.
It has NOTHING to do with tv tuner cards (which btw are already explicity covered in the license fee FAQ - if you have a TV tuner card or a recordable dvd box, you need a license)
Don't get me started on station id logos! Disney UK has a HUGE animated and brightly coloured logo. I thought it would dissapear after a minute or two but no, its stays for the whole program, completely spoiling any show you watch. I don't mind a discrete almost transparent little logo in the top left of the picture if they really must constantly remind you of which channel you're watching, but when they are a quarter of the screen's height and in full color animation, it's ridiculous. I for one, simply cannot watch anything with logos that big.
I noticed the appalling amount of product placement when I watched a US version of "Weakest Link" recently. Half the questions were of the form "Name the company that makes X" or "Which company has the ad slogan Y" That's not general knowledge at all, it's appalling.
Questions of that ilk would be unthinkable on even commercial tv in the UK.
Because on commercial tv, a "30 minute" program is actualy 10 minutes of adverts interspersed with 20 minutes of low-quality "content" It's ANNOYING - AND... they turn the volume way up when the ad-breaks come on - that infuriates me to hell!
BBC - a 30 minute program is exactly that - 30 minutes of good quality content (well,ok not always!) The BBC is world-renowned for top quality broadcasting.
I LOATHE watching commercial tv.
It's not EXACTLY what we want. We want high quality ad-free programming. Show me a purely commercial station that does that...
DOn't forget though, you get to watch AD FREE tv -That's gotta be worth the license fee surely.
Try watching old beeb programs such as Yes Minister, or some of the dramas on UK gold, where they insert commercial breaks, it's just bizzare!
My bad... hat should have been /usr/include/*.h of course.
What;s the beef?
/usr/lib/*.h shows that
They're all the same..
grep NULL
there's several standard include files that include lines like
#define NULL 0
ummm yeah it is.. see the Ansi standard, and the c faq that others have pointed out
Works just fine on my gcc compiler
Ummmm... Wrong! Go read your ANSI C standard. NULL == 0 == false by definition. See C FAQ, Q5.2
That's what t'internet is for duh! (cluestick... amazon anyone?)
;)
I'm going to install my humour chip now...
the construction method is described in the BBC article... timber frame, drywall, then sprayed with concrete.
"But the New Zealand group had to eschew the ancient in constructing the henge as even with modern building equipment, the henge would have taken too long to construct and would have been too expensive.
The eye of a 5-metre tall obelisk points to the south celestial pole
Instead the society's team concocted pillars and lintels from wooden frames, covered those with cement board and wire mesh and sprayed concrete over the structure."
You didn't rtfa did you... It's not embedded linux. He's attached the feeder to his Linux box via a serial link so that he can drop treats to the cats via the internet, i.e. when he's at work.
I think he's feeding them stinky fish treats - ya know, those lil fish shaped biscuits? but even so, 5,000 of those is still a lot of food!
but coould you drop food to the kitty from anywhere in the world over the internet?
we've aways had cats and they've always been free to come and go via a catflap. average age... about 10 or so. Never lost a cat to anything you say - right now, we have 3 of them. Only ever heard of one cat killed my a car (mother inlaws, about 25 yeers ago)
Cats are not stupid.
There again, we are in the UK.
rtfa, he needs the linux system so he can dispense food to his kittys over the internet... so wehn he's at work the poor lil pussys don't starve
Solution to that: TFT monitors. Our cats were NOT happy when we replaced the two CRT pc monitors and the CRT TV with TFT screens - but at least now I can clearly read my screens... A swishing cat's tail over the screen doesn't make for good productivity or gaming!
did you RTFA?
"So, in 1998, he gathered together scientists from all over the world to analyse his findings. They, too, were stumped and resolved to extend and deepen the work of Prof Jahn and Dr Nelson. The Global Consciousness Project was born. "