Aye. There are parts of Leeds at the moment that sound like a war-zone.
Very true. The sky was clear when I returned home. Now north Leeds looks foggy and smells of cordite. As I look out of my window the residents of a block of flats oposite appear to be trying to burn down trees with a large bonfire.
Having said all that there are parts of Leeds which are like a war zone all year round.
Yes but don't forget there's impirical evidence of what happens when you drop smaller bombs on London. I know my Grandparents' house was blown up in the war. How many other Brits on/. are the same?
So true. I'd seen it a couple of times then bought the DVD and was rather pissed off when the first time I showed it (to my parents) it had the commentary on. The previous times I had seen it was a on UK rental DVD which presumable didn't have the Holywood edit.
So don't live in London. Up here in Yorkshire there's a great transport system. I have to say that because I now car share I use it frequently but up until a short time ago I used every day and did so for years. It was a bit slow in this morning because of the ice on the hills. It took me a whole half an hour.
Obviously you've never actually used such a facility. I have a clip-on MP3 player for my T68i. A 128Mb memory card is more than suffucient to supply enough music for an hour in the gym and only reduces the battery life by a couple of days out of ten.
...that 802.11 (whatever) is effectively wireless ethernet and bluetooth is effectively wireless USB. The two have different uses.
Bluetooth isn't dead among the people I know. Most of us have bluetooth enabled phones and so pass vcards and the like to one another. There's bluetooth on our PDA's, bluetooth on our DV Cams, etc.
What I would like is a bluetooth stereo comms headset (headphones and mic) as at the moment all I can find are mono ones.
The question is why do you want HDTV? It's big in the US because it's such an improvement over NTSC. PAL (via RGB) is that much closer that it's not worth the effort.
But of course, being from the UK, you have no idea what you are talking about
Generally or specifically. Generally I know quite a lot about what I talk about. Specifically I have American friends, I'm a member of international mailing lists and I read the media, both British and American. I hear about the hate crimes and the deaths, and what has happened to friends and why they keep their sexuality or beliefs secret. Are you telling me incidents like Brandon Teena ("Boy's don't cry") don't happen? Get real!
One of the greatest things about US culture is that it produces a media that is massively diverse. Regardless of what you think of recent consolidation the fact remains that the US press and media is amoung the most, if not clearly the most, diverse media in the world. Thanks to the culture and politics of the US there are more opinions, more views, and more ideas presented here than anywhere in the world. And best yet thanks to our society and how it is setup, we have access to the entire catalog of American media, as well as any number of international sources.
ROFLOL! I dare you to walk in to a bar in a small town in say Kansas State and shout out loud, "I'm gay and I'm proud!".
The US is fine as long as you're white, xtian, straight and male. I wonder how long a gay pagan goth would survive in much of the country. As a nation th US is paranoid, isolationist and egotistical.
You still have to get the video to your display device and in Europe SCARTS are far more useful than a bunch of phono sockets. Especially when the order of decreasing quality is RGB, YUV, Y U+V (S Video), Y+U+V (Composite).
Europe hasn't bothered with HD television because on most standard broadcasts the gain in quality isn't significant enough. On the other hand having a nice switching system, support for inter equipment comunication and widescreen switching is.
These were specifically designed for the purpose of meeting peak demand. Nuclear generators can take hours to days to get on line but the hydro storage plants come on line in seconds. Then using periods of low demand the water is pumped back.
People with minimum wage jobs more than 10 miles from their homes might as well go on welfare at that point - it would cost them money to work. Nobody is going to risk their life for a 3 hour ride on a vespa from the suburbs into the city every day. The automotive industry would be destroyed.
Well duh! They catch a bus. The point is you don't want them to do the 3 hour trip whether on a vespa or in a car. You provide a bus service so that people can work in the city. You provide efficient cheap transportation system. You provide subsidised travel to those on welfare or cheap income.
I live five miles from my local city. Within five minutes walk there are two bus routes with a bus which leaves every ten minutes for the city centre. Fifteen minutes walk away is a train station which has a train every fifteen minutes during rush our and half our outside of rush house I don't work in the city, I work in another town ten miles away. I can catch one of these buses in to my local city and then there's a train every fifteen minutes to the town where I work. I travel in airconditioned luxury. I then either have a five minute walk or a two minute walk dependent upon which train I catch.
Cars are a luxury and not a necessity. This planet cannot afford to support everyone driving everywhere all the time, especially big capacity low economy vehicles. You must get people to pay for the priviledge of driving. The big and more thirsty the car, the more they pay. Use the punative tax to implement clean and efficient transport systems like LPG buses or tram systems.
The world must kill it's love affair with the car. Especially the western world as it sets an example for the rest of the world. How can we try and reduce polution in the third world when we aren't ourselves?
Do I practice what I preach? I've recently got a car after using public transport for two years. If I'm travelling alone I still use public transport, especially long distance (you can sleep on trains). I now drive to work because I car share but if I were to lose my passenger I would return to the buses and train. It's actually cheaper! (~$100 for a months path on the entire West Yorkshire transport system) And that's the whole point.
Provide decent transport that's cheaper than driving and people wont drive. The fuel and car industries wont like it and unfortunately they're the guys who run your goverment.
India has traditionally been isolationist with both business and politics. From what I've read of Indian politics over the years it doesn't surprise me. It's similar with business. It is very hard for a foreign business to set up there because they wish to protect their own burgoning industries. Don't forget the modern Indian nation is only 60 years old and is showing the signs of insecurity that most new nations show. Paranoia, isolationism, protectionism etc. In fact very similar to a slightly less young nation over the pond.
It's not just old languages and maintenance work that's done in India. Having said that my experience is that the Indian coders I've worked with have poor design skills. So I now design systems and provide frameworks and let the subcontractors do the code monkey work.
I don't see a problem with that. Anyone can code (regardless of language) but can anyone design and write good code? No. So you do the clever work and outsource the grind. And when you're in a competitive market you have to find some cost savings somewhere and salaries which are a third European ones are a saving.
I was at York University and it was great. Ah you don't mean this University of York do you! I find it interesting to my old university is relatively new considering the city is getting near to 2000 years old.
But the poster's very first statement says "In a re-run of the Lotus v Borland case that went to the US Supreme Court . .."
The case we are discussing is in the UK! Despite what many think we do actually have our own, much older, legal system. Precedence needs to be set here too!
Sometimes these actions are considered tryable because no precedence current exists. It might be that there's no current ruling as to whether two differently written pieces of software which act the same are copies or not. So it might be that this case is tryable not because the plaintiff might win but because he or she might lose and so set a ruling.
With respect to ideas, computer programs and the like. These are all specifically covered by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 which is the latest version of acts that date all the way back to 1709, common law and the Statute of Anne.
Also a valid question: what are the differences in training and licensing in these other countries?
Well in Britain it's as follows.
At 16 you can ride a 50cc scooter that cannot do more than 30mph. You can ride this on a learner licence but have to take a days training (known as Compulsary Basic Training "CBT") before you're allowed out on it. Once your 17 you can move up to a 125CC 12BHP bike on that learner licence.
At 17 you can drive a car or ride a motorcycle up to 33bhp provided you have a full licence. For either the motorcycle test or the car test you have to have sat the theory exam first before the practical. For the motorcycle test you must have CBT before you can learn for the test.
If you are 21 years old you can ride any bike provided, you have either had a full bike licence for two years, or you have taken accelerated training which is an intensive full time course in the presence of an instructor on a motorcycle of atleast 48BHP.
I wanted some riding experience before graduating on to big bikes so I took CBT and then road a 125CC bike for a few months on a learner licence. I then returned to the training centre and took a week's accelerated access course on a 500CC motorcycle. I actually failed the test at the end and had to return for one more day a month later and passed. I then bought myself an elderly Suzuki GS550 which I rode for a couple of years before progressing on to my current bike, a Kawasaki Zephyr 1100.
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And some of us Pagans (especially the Welsh ones) object to the Irish believing that they are the only celebrators of ancient festivals.
Aye. There are parts of Leeds at the moment that sound like a war-zone.
Very true. The sky was clear when I returned home. Now north Leeds looks foggy and smells of cordite. As I look out of my window the residents of a block of flats oposite appear to be trying to burn down trees with a large bonfire.
Having said all that there are parts of Leeds which are like a war zone all year round.
May the change of dates was due to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. Many special days moved 5 or 6 days then.
Yes but don't forget there's impirical evidence of what happens when you drop smaller bombs on London. I know my Grandparents' house was blown up in the war. How many other Brits on /. are the same?
I can assure you that there is some pretty world-class research in Physics happening at Cardiff.
Too right. Before I work where I do now I worked there and used to write software for gravitation wave detectors.
So true. I'd seen it a couple of times then bought the DVD and was rather pissed off when the first time I showed it (to my parents) it had the commentary on. The previous times I had seen it was a on UK rental DVD which presumable didn't have the Holywood edit.
Actually the MacDonalds analogy is a particularly bad one. Ever heard of The Economist's Big Mac scale of currencies?
So don't live in London. Up here in Yorkshire there's a great transport system. I have to say that because I now car share I use it frequently but up until a short time ago I used every day and did so for years. It was a bit slow in this morning because of the ice on the hills. It took me a whole half an hour.
No problem at my gym. There's no ban on camera phones.
Obviously you've never actually used such a facility. I have a clip-on MP3 player for my T68i. A 128Mb memory card is more than suffucient to supply enough music for an hour in the gym and only reduces the battery life by a couple of days out of ten.
...that 802.11 (whatever) is effectively wireless ethernet and bluetooth is effectively wireless USB. The two have different uses.
Bluetooth isn't dead among the people I know. Most of us have bluetooth enabled phones and so pass vcards and the like to one another. There's bluetooth on our PDA's, bluetooth on our DV Cams, etc.
What I would like is a bluetooth stereo comms headset (headphones and mic) as at the moment all I can find are mono ones.
The question is why do you want HDTV? It's big in the US because it's such an improvement over NTSC. PAL (via RGB) is that much closer that it's not worth the effort.
But of course, being from the UK, you have no idea what you are talking about
Generally or specifically. Generally I know quite a lot about what I talk about. Specifically I have American friends, I'm a member of international mailing lists and I read the media, both British and American. I hear about the hate crimes and the deaths, and what has happened to friends and why they keep their sexuality or beliefs secret. Are you telling me incidents like Brandon Teena ("Boy's don't cry") don't happen? Get real!
One of the greatest things about US culture is that it produces a media that is massively diverse. Regardless of what you think of recent consolidation the fact remains that the US press and media is amoung the most, if not clearly the most, diverse media in the world. Thanks to the culture and politics of the US there are more opinions, more views, and more ideas presented here than anywhere in the world. And best yet thanks to our society and how it is setup, we have access to the entire catalog of American media, as well as any number of international sources.
ROFLOL! I dare you to walk in to a bar in a small town in say Kansas State and shout out loud, "I'm gay and I'm proud!".
The US is fine as long as you're white, xtian, straight and male. I wonder how long a gay pagan goth would survive in much of the country. As a nation th US is paranoid, isolationist and egotistical.
There is no hardware decoder available in Europe, not as PCI card or STB.
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That's what you think
You still have to get the video to your display device and in Europe SCARTS are far more useful than a bunch of phono sockets. Especially when the order of decreasing quality is RGB, YUV, Y U+V (S Video), Y+U+V (Composite).
Europe hasn't bothered with HD television because on most standard broadcasts the gain in quality isn't significant enough. On the other hand having a nice switching system, support for inter equipment comunication and widescreen switching is.
These were specifically designed for the purpose of meeting peak demand. Nuclear generators can take hours to days to get on line but the hydro storage plants come on line in seconds. Then using periods of low demand the water is pumped back.
People with minimum wage jobs more than 10 miles from their homes might as well go on welfare at that point - it would cost them money to work. Nobody is going to risk their life for a 3 hour ride on a vespa from the suburbs into the city every day. The automotive industry would be destroyed.
Well duh! They catch a bus. The point is you don't want them to do the 3 hour trip whether on a vespa or in a car. You provide a bus service so that people can work in the city. You provide efficient cheap transportation system. You provide subsidised travel to those on welfare or cheap income.
I live five miles from my local city. Within five minutes walk there are two bus routes with a bus which leaves every ten minutes for the city centre. Fifteen minutes walk away is a train station which has a train every fifteen minutes during rush our and half our outside of rush house I don't work in the city, I work in another town ten miles away. I can catch one of these buses in to my local city and then there's a train every fifteen minutes to the town where I work. I travel in airconditioned luxury. I then either have a five minute walk or a two minute walk dependent upon which train I catch.
Cars are a luxury and not a necessity. This planet cannot afford to support everyone driving everywhere all the time, especially big capacity low economy vehicles. You must get people to pay for the priviledge of driving. The big and more thirsty the car, the more they pay. Use the punative tax to implement clean and efficient transport systems like LPG buses or tram systems.
The world must kill it's love affair with the car. Especially the western world as it sets an example for the rest of the world. How can we try and reduce polution in the third world when we aren't ourselves?
Do I practice what I preach? I've recently got a car after using public transport for two years. If I'm travelling alone I still use public transport, especially long distance (you can sleep on trains). I now drive to work because I car share but if I were to lose my passenger I would return to the buses and train. It's actually cheaper! (~$100 for a months path on the entire West Yorkshire transport system) And that's the whole point.
Provide decent transport that's cheaper than driving and people wont drive. The fuel and car industries wont like it and unfortunately they're the guys who run your goverment.
India has traditionally been isolationist with both business and politics. From what I've read of Indian politics over the years it doesn't surprise me. It's similar with business. It is very hard for a foreign business to set up there because they wish to protect their own burgoning industries. Don't forget the modern Indian nation is only 60 years old and is showing the signs of insecurity that most new nations show. Paranoia, isolationism, protectionism etc. In fact very similar to a slightly less young nation over the pond.
It's not just old languages and maintenance work that's done in India. Having said that my experience is that the Indian coders I've worked with have poor design skills. So I now design systems and provide frameworks and let the subcontractors do the code monkey work.
I don't see a problem with that. Anyone can code (regardless of language) but can anyone design and write good code? No. So you do the clever work and outsource the grind. And when you're in a competitive market you have to find some cost savings somewhere and salaries which are a third European ones are a saving.
I was at York University and it was great. Ah you don't mean this University of York do you! I find it interesting to my old university is relatively new considering the city is getting near to 2000 years old.
But the poster's very first statement says "In a re-run of the Lotus v Borland case that went to the US Supreme Court . . ."
The case we are discussing is in the UK! Despite what many think we do actually have our own, much older, legal system. Precedence needs to be set here too!
Sometimes these actions are considered tryable because no precedence current exists. It might be that there's no current ruling as to whether two differently written pieces of software which act the same are copies or not. So it might be that this case is tryable not because the plaintiff might win but because he or she might lose and so set a ruling.
With respect to ideas, computer programs and the like. These are all specifically covered by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 which is the latest version of acts that date all the way back to 1709, common law and the Statute of Anne.
British Law specifically excludes the copyrighting of ideas. You can find all about it here.
Also a valid question: what are the differences in training and licensing in these other countries?
Well in Britain it's as follows.
At 16 you can ride a 50cc scooter that cannot do more than 30mph. You can ride this on a learner licence but have to take a days training (known as Compulsary Basic Training "CBT") before you're allowed out on it. Once your 17 you can move up to a 125CC 12BHP bike on that learner licence.
At 17 you can drive a car or ride a motorcycle up to 33bhp provided you have a full licence. For either the motorcycle test or the car test you have to have sat the theory exam first before the practical. For the motorcycle test you must have CBT before you can learn for the test.
If you are 21 years old you can ride any bike provided, you have either had a full bike licence for two years, or you have taken accelerated training which is an intensive full time course in the presence of an instructor on a motorcycle of atleast 48BHP.
I wanted some riding experience before graduating on to big bikes so I took CBT and then road a 125CC bike for a few months on a learner licence. I then returned to the training centre and took a week's accelerated access course on a 500CC motorcycle. I actually failed the test at the end and had to return for one more day a month later and passed. I then bought myself an elderly Suzuki GS550 which I rode for a couple of years before progressing on to my current bike, a Kawasaki Zephyr 1100.