You haven't told us what part of the EU you hail from, but every adult male Swiss is required to have not only a gun, but something quite capable like an H-K stashed away in their closet. They don't get to keep the ammunition, but they are required to have that automatic weapon at the ready. Going back in time, there were English kings who required the male citizenry to able to shoot a cross bow, the H-K of its day in terms of capabilities. The training to handle a cross bow is no small undertaking.
On January 1, 2005, the EAN.UCC System will open up a whole new era of global supply chain efficiency. Up until this date, the potential of the EAN.UCC System that is used today all around the world has never been fully realized. This is because products coming in to the U.S. and Canada that are typically identified with data structures other than the 12 digit U.P.C. cannot be stored in databases of North American companies. As of this monumental sunrise date, gone will be the inefficiencies that have come with North American databases that could only accept a 12 digit U.P.C.
This family of data structures is known as the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN). If your company's database is built on anything less than 14 digits, you should be making important changes. This 2005 Sunrise kit is here to help you. It will cover the following information:
GTIN Definition GTIN family of data structures Explanation of how these changes affect North American Databases A sample letter you can use to notify your systems/service providers UCC Company Prefix assignment changes and updates related to January 1, 2005 Resources for further information
You Don't Have to Wait till 2005! As soon as you change your databases, your company will be equipped to handle a greater range of global products. The good news is you don't have to wait until 2005 to reap these benefits. If you plan and implement now, your company can immediately take advantage of this powerful global commerce tool.
The guidelines actually say that the software should be changed to cope with 14 digits (from memory - it was a few months back I was reading up on this) to try and future proof things.
The licence fee ("TV Tax") to fund the BBC is applicable in England, Wales and Scotland
By the by, in Wales, you don't get "Channel 4" as seen in England and Scotland, you get "S4C". This is a subsidized channel with lots of Welsh Language programming and some overlap with Channel 4.
Mind you, some regional programming exists in Scotland in Gaelic. Watching Philbert the Frog (Childern's cartoon) in Gaelic is far more entertaining!
I don't use my thumb joints quite as often as you do, but thats how I use my Gameboy - I have fairly small hands, but still find that the thumb knuckle is just right for pressing buttons without having to curl up my thumbs to use the tips.
As to bendy thumbs, mine bend about 85 degrees in the normal direction, and about 40 degrees in reverse.
I think card playing may have contributed to this, you bend the thumb like that to hold a fan of cards - and as a child I would use either hand to hold the fan.
I hope they do iron out an agreement with Ninty (as rumoured) - I will need some good RPGs on my GBA.
Having to make do with the pair of Zelda Games (Oracle of Ages, Oracle of Seasons) that where released on the GameBoy color for now. And these STILL haven't been released in the UK yet!
I know Techtronics mods can disable region coding and macrovision - I have a Pioneer 525 which works just fine.
I have yet to test it, but they claim it will cope with RCE disks.
However, discs can still "disable" buttons on the remote. In addition to the obvious not being able to skip the logos, copyright notices, and occasional trailer - some discs will only let you switch sound tracks and subtitle tracks though the menus!
I also want to be able to use computer generated IR to control the player - but this sort of thing really hinders any attempt to say "go to the start of chapter 2, title 3".
Do any of you know of a company whose mod will disable these "features" as well?
Ian Stewart is currently a professor at the Institute of Mathamatics, University Of Warwick. Even if he wasn't he still has a PhD so he would be Dr. Stewart not Me. Srewart.
He may be a professor but I would hardly call him a university lecturer - while I did my degree at Warwick I think could have done at most one lecture course by him - over four years!
His role at Warwick seems to be writing books, giving public lectures, and promoting Warwick. Next in line would be maths research, and finally teaching students.
I might be exagerating, but I was dissapointed that he didn't teach much...
Slashdot Mirror
Looking at the server's root page (with the PSP user agent):
http://ingame.scea.com/index.html
Lists not only the wipeout folder, but also three icons:
http://ingame.scea.com/icons/folder.gif
http://ingame.scea.com/icons/back.gif
http://ingame.scea.com/icons/blank.gif
Interesting this page uses HTML 3.2 Final (including the H1 tags!) while the wipeout page uses HTML 4.01 Transitional.
So there you go.
You can view the Wipeout Pure place holder PSP page with wget and spoof the user agent string:
g
wget -U "SCEJ PSP BROWSER 0102pspNavigator" http://ingame.scea.com/wipeout/index.html
And the image,
wget -U "SCEJ PSP BROWSER 0102pspNavigator" http://ingame.scea.com/wipeout/US_holding_page.jp
No - NeroLinux is actually released by Nero themselves:
http://ww2.nero.com/us/NeroLINUX.html
The University of Warwick (UK) have been doing this for several years now - with remarkably little outcry.
i d_ cards/
http://www.warwickboar.co.uk/boar/news/library_
The "Warwick Boar" is the student newspaper.
A point well made about formatting telephone numbers.
As a minor aside, the UK has got 3, 4 and 5 digit area codes. For example, 024 is Coventry.
I'm a DOS child, and while I don't use Shift+Insert for Paste, and Ctrl+Insert for Copy I use something similar:
Shift+Insert for Paste
Shift+Del, Shift+Insert for Copy
And yes, I really did use Cut then Paste instead of copy - I don't think I was ever aware of Control+Insert until far to late for my fingers!
Mind you - they do seem to have learnt Ctrl+C as copy these days, given it doesn't have much effect for stopping programs under windows.
http://www.ean-int.org/
EAN does Europe, UCC does North America
Offical website:
http://www.uc-council.org/2005sunrise/
Quoting:
On January 1, 2005, the EAN.UCC System will open up a whole new era of global supply chain efficiency. Up until this date, the potential of the EAN.UCC System that is used today all around the world has never been fully realized. This is because products coming in to the U.S. and Canada that are typically identified with data structures other than the 12 digit U.P.C. cannot be stored in databases of North American companies. As of this monumental sunrise date, gone will be the inefficiencies that have come with North American databases that could only accept a 12 digit U.P.C.
This family of data structures is known as the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN). If your company's database is built on anything less than 14 digits, you should be making important changes. This 2005 Sunrise kit is here to help you. It will cover the following information:
GTIN Definition
GTIN family of data structures
Explanation of how these changes affect North American
Databases
A sample letter you can use to notify your systems/service providers
UCC Company Prefix assignment changes and updates related to January 1, 2005
Resources for further information
You Don't Have to Wait till 2005!
As soon as you change your databases, your company will be equipped to handle a greater range of global products. The good news is you don't have to wait until 2005 to reap these benefits. If you plan and implement now, your company can immediately take advantage of this powerful global commerce tool.
The guidelines actually say that the software should be changed to cope with 14 digits (from memory - it was a few months back I was reading up on this) to try and future proof things.
Snowbeam - the fee is not £100 ($150) per TV, its per houshold with a TV. So for a typical family with at least two TVs only pays £100 per year.
One point is that for students in halls, they have to have a license each if they want to watch TV in their own rooms.
Has anyone read Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress"
Dropping rocks could be as good as trowing nukes - without the fallout!
The licence fee ("TV Tax") to fund the BBC is applicable in England, Wales and Scotland
By the by, in Wales, you don't get "Channel 4" as seen in England and Scotland, you get "S4C". This is a subsidized channel with lots of Welsh Language programming and some overlap with Channel 4.
Mind you, some regional programming exists in Scotland in Gaelic. Watching Philbert the Frog (Childern's cartoon) in Gaelic is far more entertaining!
I don't use my thumb joints quite as often as you do, but thats how I use my Gameboy - I have fairly small hands, but still find that the thumb knuckle is just right for pressing buttons without having to curl up my thumbs to use the tips.
As to bendy thumbs, mine bend about 85 degrees in the normal direction, and about 40 degrees in reverse.
I think card playing may have contributed to this, you bend the thumb like that to hold a fan of cards - and as a child I would use either hand to hold the fan.
Peter
Didn't they release some of the series on the old GameBoy? I think one was released in the UK as "Mystic Quest".
I hope they do iron out an agreement with Ninty (as rumoured) - I will need some good RPGs on my GBA. Having to make do with the pair of Zelda Games (Oracle of Ages, Oracle of Seasons) that where released on the GameBoy color for now. And these STILL haven't been released in the UK yet!
I have yet to test it, but they claim it will cope with RCE disks.
However, discs can still "disable" buttons on the remote. In addition to the obvious not being able to skip the logos, copyright notices, and occasional trailer - some discs will only let you switch sound tracks and subtitle tracks though the menus!
I also want to be able to use computer generated IR to control the player - but this sort of thing really hinders any attempt to say "go to the start of chapter 2, title 3".
Do any of you know of a company whose mod will disable these "features" as well?
Ian Stewart is currently a professor at the Institute of Mathamatics, University Of Warwick. Even if he wasn't he still has a PhD so he would be Dr. Stewart not Me. Srewart. He may be a professor but I would hardly call him a university lecturer - while I did my degree at Warwick I think could have done at most one lecture course by him - over four years! His role at Warwick seems to be writing books, giving public lectures, and promoting Warwick. Next in line would be maths research, and finally teaching students. I might be exagerating, but I was dissapointed that he didn't teach much...