I believe the reference was to the title of the BBC article, not the submitted text. I presume it was also a joke, poking fun at the british use of "pot plant" rather than "potted plant"
Okay, granted, it wouldnt be hard to *detect* that an ad was playing, but what then? The most you could do is cover it with a black box or something, you can't just make it go away and see the programming that's behind it, and if they mute the audio to replace it with the ad's audio, how do you get that back?
I don't know if anyone else was as stumped by (or even cared about) the triangle diagram in the weekly picture at the bottom of the article as I was, but after toiling over it a bit, I finally gave up and found a solution on a small mathematics site. I found the solution kind of interesting.
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Where did you get your POST code card? I haven't been able to find an inexpensive one
I believe the reference was to the title of the BBC article, not the submitted text. I presume it was also a joke, poking fun at the british use of "pot plant" rather than "potted plant"
Okay, granted, it wouldnt be hard to *detect* that an ad was playing, but what then? The most you could do is cover it with a black box or something, you can't just make it go away and see the programming that's behind it, and if they mute the audio to replace it with the ad's audio, how do you get that back?
I don't know if anyone else was as stumped by (or even cared about) the triangle diagram in the weekly picture at the bottom of the article as I was, but after toiling over it a bit, I finally gave up and found a solution on a small mathematics site. I found the solution kind of interesting.