Radio 1 plays a total of 2 hours of rock music a week (midnight until 2:00am on Tuesdays -- not exactly prime time, and not a time when I can feasibly listen to it). And even then, they don't play any of the rock I actually like.
From what I've heard of the rock show if you don't like that kind of rock I doubt you'd find much satisfaction in USA rock radio.
Precisely. And just to make it worse, here in the UK we don't even have genre-specific radio stations like the rest of the world.
As an ex-pat living in the USA now I can tell you that you don't know how lucky you are. You may not like 99% of the music in played on Radio 1 (they do have a rock show though right?) - but they do have play of something like 2000 different records a week, and cover lots of genres that don't get a station here, and never get played anywhere on US radio (except maybe on college stations).
Here in the USA we have local genre stations but the problem is that their playlists are more like 40 records a week. So no matter how much you like POD or Nickleback (I don't) - you're bound to get sick of them after hearing their songs for the 5th time that day.
Radio is unlistenable to me over here. I've learned to appreciate the UK stations for actually playing songs that - although I may not buy - I haven't heard 500 times before.
What I want to know is why we haven't seen Family Guy on DVD here in the U.S.? The U.K. has a Season 1 DVD, as well as a Futurama DVD. They even have an announcement for the Simpsons, Season 2 DVD.
The same reason you can buy Enterprise on VHS and whole seasons of DS9, B5, Voyager, Buffy etc. The UK market is different from the US. For one thing they don't have syndication. In the US it's thought that allowing TV shows to be sold in on VHS or DVD would hurt syndication ratings.
Also in the UK the sale of VHS episodes is high because it usually takes a few months for the TV shows to be shown on regular TV over there. For example I first saw ST:TNG on VHS about a year before I saw it on TV (in the UK).
You should only complain about linux kernel being unstable when you run a vanilla 2.4 kernel. pktcdvd.c is not part of the standard kernel, it's part of Jens Axboe's packetised cdr writing patch - which is alpha quality. That patch is not even in 2.5.5-pre1 so you can't really blame linux - only the buggy patched version you have running!
So assuming this will be considered a democratic issue: we have 7500 for, 15000 against and 7000 "spoiled ballots".
Can we assume from this that the US government will actually take this to heart and revise the settlement? Hopefully the US government will show what it means to be a proper democracy and not ignore the people in favour of corperate interests.
X-ray CCDs don't work the same way that optical do. You don't integrate for long exposures on the CCD chip. Instead the chip is read out very rapidly (100-10000's of times a second depending on the mode).
The hope is that in any one CCD pixel only one X-ray photon will have fallen during the short exposure - the energy of this photon can be measured by the number of electrons in the pixel.
Using this method the instrument effectively measures for quantities for each photon: x,y position on the chip, arrival time and energy.
As the information is this detailed the information spacecraft star trackers (which measure the position drift of the spacecraft) can be used to convert the x,y into Right Ascension and Declination (essentially the position on the sky) of each X-ray photon, which then makes reconstructing into a coherent unblurry image realitively simple
As an aside to this some of you might have noticed the flaw in the CCD design, which is that if a X-ray source (i.e. a black hole) is too bright then the chances of more than one photon landing in the CCD pixel even when the CCD is read out 10000 times a second is quite high. This problem is caused "pile up", which means that Chandra is pretty bad at looking at bright sources.
>Even "Trainspotting" had an American in a lead >role, although he pulled off the accent better >than most. > > Err, who? > > Robert Carlyle : Scottish > Ewan McGregor : Scottish > Johnny Lee Miller : English > Ewan Bremner : Scottish
Perhaps Americans consider the tourist who gets beaten up in the pub as a main character?:o)
>As for the Alpha being a better processor than the UltraSPARC, that's debatable
I don't think that there's any debate that $2000 will get you a better Alpha box than a Sparc - even with these price cuts. This is really what I was alluding to.
>Interesting. Why do you say Linux support is better on the Alpha?
It's more mature, it's more commonly used, it's more in sync with current kernel developement (Sparc patches are always going into as AC patches). That's not to say that sparc support for Linux isn't good - it's just 99% to Alpha's 100%. (BTW I've got a old Sparc 5 here running linux so I've got experience with Sparc Linux).
Although this is cheap for a Sparc - you'd get much more bang for buck and better hardware if you bought a $2000 Alpha system. Alphas are just better/faster processors than Sparcs, and the Linux support is much better (you DON'T want to run a proprietery OS do you???). For $2000 you're basically getting a low end PC with a UltraSparc processor - no SCSI/Creator3D or anything good - a real base model.
The cheaper Ultras (think it was a an Ultra 5 - can't remember) that I've used are PCI based and have IDE hard drives. In this way they're more like a PC, and therefore should be cheaper to fix.
Why do the US bother? I mean - anyone who wants to get Encryption software can through illegal (getting US versions of software over the internet is piss easy) or legal (i.e. GnuPG) means. The only people this affects is businesses trying to sell software.
Call me stupid but I just don't understand these laws.
> Yes, we all had a hard time installing linux the first time
Not my experience. 19 months ago I bought my first x86 PC (having previously being an Amiga owner). I built the computer myself (also a first for me) and after construction was faced with the decision - what to install first. I had a Windows 95 OSR2 CD and a Redhat 5.0 CD (cheapo CD). Went for windows as I wanted to try out some games:o) Had no end of trouble with windows - ended up formatting my HD from scratch and trying RH5. Within 30 minutes I was up and running, X, sound everything.
OK - so I'd bought my hardware specifically with Linux in mind - but Linux hard to install? Bollocks. The hardest thing about Linux is working out what to do with it after you've installed it.
Sadly: 'The science and engineering team is investigating a degradation in the front-side illuminated CCD chips of the Advanced charge-coupled Device Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)'
And here lies the rub - the CCDs are degrading due to the radiation in the environment AXAF works in. This was suggested before launch - but in reality no-one knows what the environment is like in the AXAF orbit. The CCDS have already started to lose spectral resolution - this is very bad. AXAF may end up as junk (well OK - you'll still have the HRC microchannel plate detector). And before anyone suggests it - no there won't be a Hubble like repair on the cards - the orbit is too high for the Shuttle.
Sadly: 'The science and engineering team is investigating a degradation in the front-side illuminated CCD chips of the Advanced charge-coupled Device Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)'
And this is the rub - the CCDs are degrading due to the radiation in the environment AXAF works in. This was suggested before launch - but in reality no-one knows what the environment is like in the AXAF orbit. The CCDS have already started to lose spectral resolution - this is very bad. AXAF may end up as junk (well OK - you'll still have the HRC microchannel plate detector).
FYI: There's a port of Linux to VAX architecture being developed as well. Although it's not as far along as NetBSD's.
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~atp/linux-vax/
...and there's probably more out there as well:o)
This piece just comes across as another sore *BSD user wondering why Linux is getting all the press. I might shed a little light as to why Linux is more popular.
OK so basically Linux is past the point of being a hacker OS and normal people are starting to use it. I've seen evidence of this as work mates (who use Linux at work) have started installing Linux at home. The major difference is then that Linux is damn easy to install now compared to a couple of years ago. I've got a FreeBSD installation at home because I wanted experience in installing it - and I must say that at several times I was pretty baffled during the installation process - and this after 7 years of Unix admin experience.
The conclusion *BSD's are still the domain of hackers/sysadmins - it's a great OS - but linux is making quicker inroads to the normal user market.
*BSDers will probably argue that the installation process is more powerful and that it's actually easy. But the fact is that it's just not that easy for Joe Public.
What this usually stems from is that the UK TV companies sometimes buy the TV version of the movie from the USA - and that's where the movie is edited. Thankfully this practice is diminishing (esp. after the abominations that are the US TV versions of Robocop and The Excorcist).
Hate to reply to my own message - but I meant to add that Caldera Openlinux has a built in USB stack based on the old USB stack (pre-Linus version) - and wondered how well that worked... i.e. is it good enough for this thin client business....
Given that USB is not really a stable thing in Linux yet - what USB stack are Compaq going to be using on this device? Other than that it sounds pretty cool.
Well perhaps this will make Hasbro standardise the International naming of this product - which is called "Cluedo" in the UK (and everywhere else AFAIK).
We in the UK have been putting up with everything gettting renamed to the US version for a while, the latest tragedies being Opal Fruits turning into "Starburst" (s*** name) and "Oil of Ulay" becoming "Oil of Olay"
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Radio 1 plays a total of 2 hours of rock music a week (midnight until 2:00am on Tuesdays -- not exactly prime time, and not a time when I can feasibly listen to it). And even then, they don't play any of the rock I actually like.
From what I've heard of the rock show if you don't like that kind of rock I doubt you'd find much satisfaction in USA rock radio.
Precisely. And just to make it worse, here in the UK we don't even have genre-specific radio stations like the rest of the world.
As an ex-pat living in the USA now I can tell you that you don't know how lucky you are. You may not like 99% of the music in played on Radio 1 (they do have a rock show though right?) - but they do have play of something like 2000 different records a week, and cover lots of genres that don't get a station here, and never get played anywhere on US radio (except maybe on college stations).
Here in the USA we have local genre stations but the problem is that their playlists are more like 40 records a week. So no matter how much you like POD or Nickleback (I don't) - you're bound to get sick of them after hearing their songs for the 5th time that day.
Radio is unlistenable to me over here. I've learned to appreciate the UK stations for actually playing songs that - although I may not buy - I haven't heard 500 times before.
The same reason you can buy Enterprise on VHS and whole seasons of DS9, B5, Voyager, Buffy etc. The UK market is different from the US. For one thing they don't have syndication. In the US it's thought that allowing TV shows to be sold in on VHS or DVD would hurt syndication ratings.
Also in the UK the sale of VHS episodes is high because it usually takes a few months for the TV shows to be shown on regular TV over there. For example I first saw ST:TNG on VHS about a year before I saw it on TV (in the UK).
I'm not going to disagree with you on that one. Every problem I've had to do with Windows has been a driver issue.
You should only complain about linux kernel being unstable when you run a vanilla 2.4 kernel. pktcdvd.c is not part of the standard kernel, it's part of Jens Axboe's packetised cdr writing patch - which is alpha quality. That patch is not even in 2.5.5-pre1 so you can't really blame linux - only the buggy patched version you have running!
So assuming this will be considered a democratic issue: we have 7500 for, 15000 against and 7000 "spoiled ballots".
Can we assume from this that the US government will actually take this to heart and revise the settlement? Hopefully the US government will show what it means to be a proper democracy and not ignore the people in favour of corperate interests.
Why not just watch the Playmates on Fear Factor instead?
...which has to go down as one of the most cynical ratings grabs of all time. For shame, NBC. FOR SHAME!!!
X-ray CCDs don't work the same way that optical do. You don't integrate for long exposures on the CCD chip. Instead the chip is read out very rapidly (100-10000's of times a second depending on the mode).
The hope is that in any one CCD pixel only one X-ray photon will have fallen during the short exposure - the energy of this photon can be measured by the number of electrons in the pixel.
Using this method the instrument effectively measures for quantities for each photon: x,y position on the chip, arrival time and energy.
As the information is this detailed the information spacecraft star trackers (which measure the position drift of the spacecraft) can be used to convert the x,y into Right Ascension and Declination (essentially the position on the sky) of each X-ray photon, which then makes reconstructing into a coherent unblurry image realitively simple
As an aside to this some of you might have noticed the flaw in the CCD design, which is that if a X-ray source (i.e. a black hole) is too bright then the chances of more than one photon landing in the CCD pixel even when the CCD is read out 10000 times a second is quite high. This problem is caused "pile up", which means that Chandra is pretty bad at looking at bright sources.
Hope this help!
>Even "Trainspotting" had an American in a lead >role, although he pulled off the accent better >than most.
:o)
>
> Err, who?
>
> Robert Carlyle : Scottish
> Ewan McGregor : Scottish
> Johnny Lee Miller : English
> Ewan Bremner : Scottish
Perhaps Americans consider the tourist who gets beaten up in the pub as a main character?
I refer the honorable gentleman to:
:o)
http://www.definitelinux.com/
A UK based linux distro based on Redhat with all the extra securty goodies that Redhat can't export to the UK.
Anyway - the UK is in Europe you dope!
>As for the Alpha being a better processor than the UltraSPARC, that's debatable
I don't think that there's any debate that $2000 will get you a better Alpha box than a Sparc - even with these price cuts. This is really what I was alluding to.
>Interesting. Why do you say Linux support is better on the Alpha?
It's more mature, it's more commonly used, it's more in sync with current kernel developement (Sparc patches are always going into as AC patches). That's not to say that sparc support for Linux isn't good - it's just 99% to Alpha's 100%. (BTW I've got a old Sparc 5 here running linux so I've got experience with Sparc Linux).
Although this is cheap for a Sparc - you'd get much more bang for buck and better hardware if you bought a $2000 Alpha system. Alphas are just better/faster processors than Sparcs, and the Linux support is much better (you DON'T want to run a proprietery OS do you???). For $2000 you're basically getting a low end PC with a UltraSparc processor - no SCSI/Creator3D or anything good - a real base model.
The cheaper Ultras (think it was a an Ultra 5 - can't remember) that I've used are PCI based and have IDE hard drives. In this way they're more like a PC, and therefore should be cheaper to fix.
Why do the US bother? I mean - anyone who wants to get Encryption software can through illegal (getting US versions of software over the internet is piss easy) or legal (i.e. GnuPG) means. The only people this affects is businesses trying to sell software.
Call me stupid but I just don't understand these laws.
> Yes, we all had a hard time installing linux the first time
:o) Had no end of trouble with windows - ended up formatting my HD from scratch and trying RH5. Within 30 minutes I was up and running, X, sound everything.
Not my experience. 19 months ago I bought my first x86 PC (having previously being an Amiga owner). I built the computer myself (also a first for me) and after construction was faced with the decision - what to install first. I had a Windows 95 OSR2 CD and a Redhat 5.0 CD (cheapo CD). Went for windows as I wanted to try out some games
OK - so I'd bought my hardware specifically with Linux in mind - but Linux hard to install? Bollocks. The hardest thing about Linux is working out what to do with it after you've installed it.
Sadly: 'The science and engineering team is investigating a degradation in the front-side illuminated CCD chips of the Advanced charge-coupled Device Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)'
And here lies the rub - the CCDs are degrading due to the radiation in the environment AXAF works in. This was suggested before launch - but in reality no-one knows what the environment is like in the AXAF orbit. The CCDS have already started to lose spectral resolution - this is very bad. AXAF may end up as junk (well OK - you'll still have the HRC microchannel plate detector). And before anyone suggests it - no there won't be a Hubble like repair on the cards - the orbit is too high for the Shuttle.
Sadly: 'The science and engineering team is investigating a degradation in the front-side illuminated CCD chips of the Advanced charge-coupled Device Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)'
And this is the rub - the CCDs are degrading due to the radiation in the environment AXAF works in. This was suggested before launch - but in reality no-one knows what the environment is like in the AXAF orbit. The CCDS have already started to lose spectral resolution - this is very bad. AXAF may end up as junk (well OK - you'll still have the HRC microchannel plate detector).
I have a theory regarding Microsoft's moves here. They buy a random software company - then sit back and read Slashdot for the following day.
/. and use them to formulate a super plan to screw Linux!
/. community get to contribute. :o)
Then they collate all the conspiracy theories from the super geeks that read
"Open Source" World Domination if you like - all the members of the
FYI: There's a port of Linux to VAX architecture being developed as well. Although it's not as far along as NetBSD's.
:o)
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~atp/linux-vax/
...and there's probably more out there as well
This piece just comes across as another sore *BSD user wondering why Linux is getting all the press. I might shed a little light as to why Linux is more popular.
OK so basically Linux is past the point of being a hacker OS and normal people are starting to use it. I've seen evidence of this as work mates (who use Linux at work) have started installing Linux at home. The major difference is then that Linux is damn easy to install now compared to a couple of years ago. I've got a FreeBSD installation at home because I wanted experience in installing it - and I must say that at several times I was pretty baffled during the installation process - and this after 7 years of Unix admin experience.
The conclusion *BSD's are still the domain of hackers/sysadmins - it's a great OS - but linux is making quicker inroads to the normal user market.
*BSDers will probably argue that the installation process is more powerful and that it's actually easy. But the fact is that it's just not that easy for Joe Public.
What this usually stems from is that the UK TV companies sometimes buy the TV version of the movie from the USA - and that's where the movie is edited. Thankfully this practice is diminishing (esp. after the abominations that are the US TV versions of Robocop and The Excorcist).
KDevelop is still in beta so segfaulting should be expected. Don't complain about that sort of thing until the thing hits 1.0.
Anyway - if you're such a code monkey then why not find out the cause of the segfault and fix it - that's the whole idea of GPL'd software isn't it?
Hate to reply to my own message - but I meant to add that Caldera Openlinux has a built in USB stack based on the old USB stack (pre-Linus version) - and wondered how well that worked... i.e. is it good enough for this thin client business....
Given that USB is not really a stable thing in Linux yet - what USB stack are Compaq going to be using on this device? Other than that it sounds pretty cool.
Well perhaps this will make Hasbro standardise the International naming of this product - which is called "Cluedo" in the UK (and everywhere else AFAIK).
We in the UK have been putting up with everything gettting renamed to the US version for a while, the latest tragedies being Opal Fruits turning into "Starburst" (s*** name) and "Oil of Ulay" becoming "Oil of Olay"
Anyway - http://www.cluedo.com points to Hasbro's web site if anyone's interested!