So how do you find out how to get home when you're flight's been over booked and you're landing in a different airport 200 miles from where you started?
I don't just browse the web for fun. I use it as my main reference library.
It kind of falls over when you realise that iPods are selling like hot cakes. Draconian? Is that because you can't go to your mates and copy his entire music collection on to your iPod?
I use iTunes as a way of organising my personal music (either bought on CD or samples from Vinyl) and iPod for playing it. DRM is only an issue if you download from iTunes.
Basically Jon get's some limelight and for a very short while Apple are beaten. Meanwhile people who actually like and use iTunes legitimately find that Apple has to restrict the service more and more. And so Jon is screwing it up for everyone else.
As some one who works in an industry where DRM and encryption is a fact of life I know that it's a balance between complexity and the *appearance* of security. Basically you make it difficult for the average joe to crack the system, complex enough to satisfy the media supplies, but simple enough to make it cost effective. It's a status quo that is fine as long as no one breaks it, or at least only a very few break it.
Jon is breaking that status quo and to achieve what? Not success as Apple just plugs the gaps. The only solution can be short term fame and self gratification. He's a twat!
Oh I agree. As long as you don't buy the stuff that comes from a chemical factory you can get a good beer from US independents. I'm rather partial to the stronger beers from the Sierra Nevada Brewery Company. Even the strength isn't bad. At 5.2% it's adequate. But blimey aren't your pints small. The bottles are tiddly.
Then perhaps it's the Fundies who have a big, unhappy surprise in store for themselves when they die.
The sad fact is that if they are wrong their consciousness wont survive death and therefore they'll never know they were wrong. You can't test the proposition of a heaven without non destructive testing!
...Sinclair Spectrums appeared to have twice as many memory chips as they needed because Sinclair bought chips where half of the chip was faulty as they were a lot cheaper and then sorted them by bank.
You must be American. Here in Europe everyone (well okay many many people) use Bluetooth. It seems to me that in any queue of cars waiting for traffic lights drivers have bluetooth headsets on.
I for one use bluetooth to sync my phone to my Mac, sync my PDA to my phone, control my Mac from my phone, use my phone as a wireless modem for my PDA or my laptop, use my Mac as a 'wireless router' for my PDA i.e. provide it with a net connection...
Talking on a cell phone whilst riding a motorbike, clever. I agree that car drivers and some bikers don't look out for cyclists but then how many cyclists actually follow the rules of the road. I've almost taken out cyclists a number of times when they've decided a junction with traffic lighs is clear and just cycled across on red. Cyclists don't pay insurance, road licence or the like, and aren't registered and so many of them think the rules don't apply to them.
As for quiet motorcycles, the noise regulations in europe, which are skewed towards making motorcycles even quieter than cars, already make bikes so quiet people can't here you comming. A noisy exhaust *is* a safety feature.
I work here. The building is limestone/sandstone and has been cleaned so the stonework is a sort of sandy colour. Everything around it is black. In fact most of 'old' West Yorkshire is black. That's because of all of the soot from British industry in the Georgian and Victorian eras and the early Twentieth Century. In fact, all the way up to the point where the clean air act was introduced which prevented the burning of coal which hadn't been treated. That made it expensive and caused the destruction of many fine Victorian cast iron fire places as gas fires were fitted. Coal is not clean.
It's where my interest in computers came from. Initially I would keep my Dad company and help him with his model railway. Wiring that up got me interested in electronics in the seventies and it was in those electronics magazines I saw the magic that was the hobbyists computer, Altair 8800s, UK101s and the like.
One of the nearby cities, Kingston upon Hull (or just Hull as it's generally known) has had IPTV for some years. The hardware uses an ARM processor and the set top box version of RISC OS.
Interesting you can thank the privatisation of the telephone system for this development. The telephone system here in the UK used to be run and managed by the Post Office. Then when it was sold off the whole lot was bought by British Telecom (now BT) except for the network around Hull which was bought by the local Council (local government). Eventually the was privatised and became Kingston Communications who were for a while, the only phone company that wasn't BT. So the government restrictions on BT supplying television didn't apply and Kingston set up their own digital television service.
The first system I used with this facility was RISC OS which was on the Acorn 32 bit RISC computers and was back in 1989. In fact the operating system supports a protocol which allows anyone to replace the standard help application. It was another six years before I saw it on a Windows platform.
The U.S. and Canada are symbiotes both economically and security-wise. More integration is better for everyone. I think a really good idea is Canada becoming a commonwealth of the U.S., like Puerto Rico.
Go from the commonwealth of an ex-colonialist to the commonwealth of a wannabe one. Nice move!
They attact the WTC because it's a big fuck off building in NYC and so will get them noticed and kudos with their supporters.
As for the islam, christian thing, I personally think that people who believe all the shit need their heads examined and if we banned religion around the world it would be a whole lot nicer place. I have friends who are christian or muslems and they are nice people. They get on well with one another too. Unfortunately there is a minority of loonies which messes it up for everyone else and the only way stop that is to ban the whole thing.
The thing that I loath most is that I am being lumped in with these loonies because the people speaking loudest are pushing the religion thing all the time. I hate Blair for kissing Bush's butt because we then get tarred with the religious brush and as a nation Britain isn't. In fact if a politian started using religion in campaging his career would be cut short because he wouldn't be trusted any more.
What is it that Bill Bailey says. "Britain is great. It's constitutionally a christian country, it's socially a secular one and when asked in a poll what religion they are most Brits would reply, Jedi!".
I know plenty of people who use computers provided they don't look like computers and they don't know they're computers. They are happy with their games consoles, their digital TV set top boxes, their DVD players and their mobile phones. But if you took them all away and replaced it with a computer that did exactly the same they would look at you in horror.
Then there are people like me who like their technology to be bleeding edge but invisible. I would much rather have the ability to stream media from my LAN via my set top box, than watch TV on my computer.
A recent survey has shown there are now actually more mobile/cell phones in the UK than there are people. With the cheap 'pay as you go' phones and every contract giving you a free one, it's actually quite hard to get a contract without a phone. Right now there are two dead phones laying on the floor behind me which I really should through in the bin/trash. There are also two perfectly servicable phones in a drawer downstairs, one being my old T68i because I got an upgrade, and one being a virtually unused new phone which was unwanted but came with a contract.
For a while I never used the land line, the only thing it was used for was for ADSL and to receive calls from those who haven't learnt yet that it's easier to get me on my mobilel. But then a couple of months ago a set of four DET phones was bought for the house coming to about $15 a phone. We only bought them because our landline phones are old and faulty but because they are easy to use and I've got one next to my desk I now use the landline.
But basically most people I know don't worry about the price differential between land and mobile costs. Everyone who wants a mobile has got one now. And, although clever, I really don't think their will be a market for an either or phone.
The commandment is generally now considered to be "Thou shalt not commit adultery". But that depends upon what the term adultery actually means.
Originally the commandment was something along the lines of "Do not covert thy neighbours wife!". Basically the law was against sleeping with someone elses wife. Anyone else was fair game and marriage didn't come in to it. Don't forget that during old Testament times polygamy was the order of the day. Abraham, for example, had many wives.
The seven of the original ten commandments were actually refactored in the new testament by paul (in letters to the corrinthians) but again I think pre-marital sex wasn't specifically a sin. I believe that one is from the catholic church.
The reason Catholic priests are celibate is because in the old days there was a land ownership issue in the church. When a man passed on, the land would have ended up under his wife's ownership.
Actually it wasn't the wives they were worrying about. Women couldn't own property. It was the sons. Having sons would mean the church lost property. Being celibate meant the church gained property either by people entering the church bringing it with them or through bequeathments.
Strictly it wasn't originally celibacy just a prohibition of marriage. Priests and monks still had sex, that's what nuns were for.
A theory isn't a guess. A hypothesis is a guess. A theory is a reasonable explanation to explain the facts. Thinking the universe was blown from the nose of the Great Green Arkle Seizure is a guess. Coming to the conclusion that the Universe is billions of years old given the sum of the accumulated knowledge of the whole of mankind is a bit more than a guess.
And by the way the existence of a person called Jesus as described in the Bible is not generally accepted by all scholars. Far from it. The balance of probabilities are that there was a Jesus living around that region at about the time. The only evidence for all the rest is the Bible which is church propoganda written some years after the event.
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So how do you find out how to get home when you're flight's been over booked and you're landing in a different airport 200 miles from where you started?
I don't just browse the web for fun. I use it as my main reference library.
...pointless.
Current resolutions for digital cinema are not as good as good HD TV. You should never underestimate the resolution of 35mm film.
It kind of falls over when you realise that iPods are selling like hot cakes. Draconian? Is that because you can't go to your mates and copy his entire music collection on to your iPod?
I use iTunes as a way of organising my personal music (either bought on CD or samples from Vinyl) and iPod for playing it. DRM is only an issue if you download from iTunes.
Basically Jon get's some limelight and for a very short while Apple are beaten. Meanwhile people who actually like and use iTunes legitimately find that Apple has to restrict the service more and more. And so Jon is screwing it up for everyone else.
As some one who works in an industry where DRM and encryption is a fact of life I know that it's a balance between complexity and the *appearance* of security. Basically you make it difficult for the average joe to crack the system, complex enough to satisfy the media supplies, but simple enough to make it cost effective. It's a status quo that is fine as long as no one breaks it, or at least only a very few break it.
Jon is breaking that status quo and to achieve what? Not success as Apple just plugs the gaps. The only solution can be short term fame and self gratification. He's a twat!
Oh I agree. As long as you don't buy the stuff that comes from a chemical factory you can get a good beer from US independents. I'm rather partial to the stronger beers from the Sierra Nevada Brewery Company. Even the strength isn't bad. At 5.2% it's adequate. But blimey aren't your pints small. The bottles are tiddly.
One's that matter, kind of. We have a sixth of the population of the US and one hundred and fiftieth of the gun crime.
Doh! That should have read "with non destructive testing!".
Then perhaps it's the Fundies who have a big, unhappy surprise in store for themselves when they die.
The sad fact is that if they are wrong their consciousness wont survive death and therefore they'll never know they were wrong. You can't test the proposition of a heaven without non destructive testing!
...Sinclair Spectrums appeared to have twice as many memory chips as they needed because Sinclair bought chips where half of the chip was faulty as they were a lot cheaper and then sorted them by bank.
You must be American. Here in Europe everyone (well okay many many people) use Bluetooth. It seems to me that in any queue of cars waiting for traffic lights drivers have bluetooth headsets on.
I for one use bluetooth to sync my phone to my Mac, sync my PDA to my phone, control my Mac from my phone, use my phone as a wireless modem for my PDA or my laptop, use my Mac as a 'wireless router' for my PDA i.e. provide it with a net connection...
Bluetooth is great.
Talking on a cell phone whilst riding a motorbike, clever. I agree that car drivers and some bikers don't look out for cyclists but then how many cyclists actually follow the rules of the road. I've almost taken out cyclists a number of times when they've decided a junction with traffic lighs is clear and just cycled across on red. Cyclists don't pay insurance, road licence or the like, and aren't registered and so many of them think the rules don't apply to them.
As for quiet motorcycles, the noise regulations in europe, which are skewed towards making motorcycles even quieter than cars, already make bikes so quiet people can't here you comming. A noisy exhaust *is* a safety feature.
I work here. The building is limestone/sandstone and has been cleaned so the stonework is a sort of sandy colour. Everything around it is black. In fact most of 'old' West Yorkshire is black. That's because of all of the soot from British industry in the Georgian and Victorian eras and the early Twentieth Century. In fact, all the way up to the point where the clean air act was introduced which prevented the burning of coal which hadn't been treated. That made it expensive and caused the destruction of many fine Victorian cast iron fire places as gas fires were fitted. Coal is not clean.
It's where my interest in computers came from. Initially I would keep my Dad company and help him with his model railway. Wiring that up got me interested in electronics in the seventies and it was in those electronics magazines I saw the magic that was the hobbyists computer, Altair 8800s, UK101s and the like.
One of the nearby cities, Kingston upon Hull (or just Hull as it's generally known) has had IPTV for some years. The hardware uses an ARM processor and the set top box version of RISC OS.
Interesting you can thank the privatisation of the telephone system for this development. The telephone system here in the UK used to be run and managed by the Post Office. Then when it was sold off the whole lot was bought by British Telecom (now BT) except for the network around Hull which was bought by the local Council (local government). Eventually the was privatised and became Kingston Communications who were for a while, the only phone company that wasn't BT. So the government restrictions on BT supplying television didn't apply and Kingston set up their own digital television service.
The first system I used with this facility was RISC OS which was on the Acorn 32 bit RISC computers and was back in 1989. In fact the operating system supports a protocol which allows anyone to replace the standard help application. It was another six years before I saw it on a Windows platform.
The U.S. and Canada are symbiotes both economically and security-wise. More integration is better for everyone. I think a really good idea is Canada becoming a commonwealth of the U.S., like Puerto Rico.
Go from the commonwealth of an ex-colonialist to the commonwealth of a wannabe one. Nice move!
They attact the WTC because it's a big fuck off building in NYC and so will get them noticed and kudos with their supporters.
As for the islam, christian thing, I personally think that people who believe all the shit need their heads examined and if we banned religion around the world it would be a whole lot nicer place. I have friends who are christian or muslems and they are nice people. They get on well with one another too. Unfortunately there is a minority of loonies which messes it up for everyone else and the only way stop that is to ban the whole thing.
The thing that I loath most is that I am being lumped in with these loonies because the people speaking loudest are pushing the religion thing all the time. I hate Blair for kissing Bush's butt because we then get tarred with the religious brush and as a nation Britain isn't. In fact if a politian started using religion in campaging his career would be cut short because he wouldn't be trusted any more.
What is it that Bill Bailey says. "Britain is great. It's constitutionally a christian country, it's socially a secular one and when asked in a poll what religion they are most Brits would reply, Jedi!".
Did you know there's never been a communist economy in a democratic political system?
Yes, India!
But look at the price. this doesn't look like a PC either and is somewhat cheaper!
...that it's a computer.
I know plenty of people who use computers provided they don't look like computers and they don't know they're computers. They are happy with their games consoles, their digital TV set top boxes, their DVD players and their mobile phones. But if you took them all away and replaced it with a computer that did exactly the same they would look at you in horror.
Then there are people like me who like their technology to be bleeding edge but invisible. I would much rather have the ability to stream media from my LAN via my set top box, than watch TV on my computer.
A recent survey has shown there are now actually more mobile/cell phones in the UK than there are people. With the cheap 'pay as you go' phones and every contract giving you a free one, it's actually quite hard to get a contract without a phone. Right now there are two dead phones laying on the floor behind me which I really should through in the bin/trash. There are also two perfectly servicable phones in a drawer downstairs, one being my old T68i because I got an upgrade, and one being a virtually unused new phone which was unwanted but came with a contract.
For a while I never used the land line, the only thing it was used for was for ADSL and to receive calls from those who haven't learnt yet that it's easier to get me on my mobilel. But then a couple of months ago a set of four DET phones was bought for the house coming to about $15 a phone. We only bought them because our landline phones are old and faulty but because they are easy to use and I've got one next to my desk I now use the landline.
But basically most people I know don't worry about the price differential between land and mobile costs. Everyone who wants a mobile has got one now. And, although clever, I really don't think their will be a market for an either or phone.
The commandment is generally now considered to be "Thou shalt not commit adultery". But that depends upon what the term adultery actually means.
Originally the commandment was something along the lines of "Do not covert thy neighbours wife!". Basically the law was against sleeping with someone elses wife. Anyone else was fair game and marriage didn't come in to it. Don't forget that during old Testament times polygamy was the order of the day. Abraham, for example, had many wives.
The seven of the original ten commandments were actually refactored in the new testament by paul (in letters to the corrinthians) but again I think pre-marital sex wasn't specifically a sin. I believe that one is from the catholic church.
The reason Catholic priests are celibate is because in the old days there was a land ownership issue in the church. When a man passed on, the land would have ended up under his wife's ownership.
Actually it wasn't the wives they were worrying about. Women couldn't own property. It was the sons. Having sons would mean the church lost property. Being celibate meant the church gained property either by people entering the church bringing it with them or through bequeathments.
Strictly it wasn't originally celibacy just a prohibition of marriage. Priests and monks still had sex, that's what nuns were for.
A theory isn't a guess. A hypothesis is a guess. A theory is a reasonable explanation to explain the facts. Thinking the universe was blown from the nose of the Great Green Arkle Seizure is a guess. Coming to the conclusion that the Universe is billions of years old given the sum of the accumulated knowledge of the whole of mankind is a bit more than a guess.
And by the way the existence of a person called Jesus as described in the Bible is not generally accepted by all scholars. Far from it. The balance of probabilities are that there was a Jesus living around that region at about the time. The only evidence for all the rest is the Bible which is church propoganda written some years after the event.
But Cardiff's in Wales!