Of course, that's nothing compared to the 6 billion pounds we've just spent upgrading our Channel Tunnel rail system so that wealthy commuters between London and Paris can shave 20 minutes off their journey
The link isn't to shave off 20 minutes. The link is to go through St. Pancras - a station linked to the north of London. At Waterloo the link was useless for both passengers but more importantly freight which came from the midlands, the north or Scotland. Now it's on its way to being useful again - this link was planned from the very conception of the tunnel.
I'm from Sheffield originally though I now live nearish London - I remember the dismay in the Sheffield local paper (The Star) when this link was postponed. It was considered to be a big boost to the economy to be able to ship freight by rail directly to the European mainland. This is an investment in the economy, not a game to lose 20 minutes here or there.
Of course, I live out to the west of London and was promised crossrail umpteen years ago. That too is an investment in the economy waiting to be made, but I'm not holding my breath.
Perhaps, but I'm not talking about Word. I'm talking about NeoOffice/OpenOffice, which uses 128-bit AES, same as the TrueCrypt you're pointing to. No reason why iWork couldn 't use AES for its encryption too.
Numbers isn't as powerful as the OpenOffice/NeoOffice spreadsheet yet. Even for me, who only uses it to keep track of hosting costs, the lack of autofilter on Numbers means it can't cope with my fairly simple needs (large block of data which I need to see subsets of pretty quickly). You -can- filter, but it's via a long-winded dialog not a nice set of drop-downs a la autofilter.
Others have mentioned ODF, but there's also password-protection missing from iWork. There's ways round of it course - you can create an encrypted disk image and save to that, but that's more faff than just directly password protecting the file.
I like iWork 08 - feels faster and better than iWork 06. I'm still wavering for upgrades though - I'm not a Keynote user which is its strongest feature, and I rarely use Pages beyond a single one-page letter. Numbers won't handle my workload yet, so I may well just wait until the next revision and see if autofilter/ODF support/password protection gets added to that.
I suppose somebody should explain it for the newbs who are passingly curious:...
I could be wrong on this, but the thing is I don't think the grand-parent poster was a newb. I think he's just lost track of all of the rule changes, and to be honest so have I.
It is now literally decades since I played my last game of D&D. Even then however, the rules were just so silly be basically ignored them when playing. The world then was split into D&D and AD&D, with AD&D just having a ludicrous numbers of tables and rules. D&D was the better bet even then, but you ended up buying the AD&D stuff and translating them on-the-fly to more simple D&D rules. And eventually....you just forgot about the rules and told a story, the way role-playing really ought to be. Dice rolls were used and character stats noted, but often I'd just ignore the dice-rolls and get on with the narrative (to the advantage of the players, not because I felt like being a git).
The paragraph being referred to does nothing to convince me that the rules have improved over the years. OK, so this iteration might be an improvement over the last iteration, but anyone who remembers the rules in a thinish paperback with the blue & white cover and a dragon on the front (errr....1980'ish? Slightly before?) will still probably think they've descended into stats-based hell and forgotten the idea of story.
It's up to the DM to fix that of course, but it doesn't sound like the rules are helping.
If you want to convert an old cabinet, there are much easier solutions. Ultimarc, for example, produces several products that convert standard JAMMA interfaces to PC keyboard and video connections...Ultimarc's products, though, appear to allow for the joystick and buttons on a JAMMA cabinet to connect to a PS/2 interface and for the video connector to hook to VGA (refresh and resolutions on arcade machines are different from standard computer modes). They even sell an AGP or PCIe video card that appears to have a special RAMDAC so that you don't have to screw around with getting the weird video modes working....I've never used Ultimarc's stuff, so I have no idea how well it would work. Assuming it's decent, the formula would be pretty simple:
It all works very well indeed. I have an IPAC interface, an ArcadeVGA card, a video amplifier and an UltraStick 360 (USB arcade-style joystick mappable to analogue). This went into a two-player six button Electrocoin cabinet along with a P800, speakers and a wireless adapter for remote admin. The ArcadeVGA allows direct connection to a 15Khz monitor such as the Hanterax 9000 that came with my Electrocoin - no messing around. Resoldering the buttons to connect to the IPAC was easy, and the default IPAC controls map to the default MAME key configurations as well. Top it all off with a MAMEWah front end and my home arcade machine is doing very well for itself.
My only gripe isn't with Ultimarc, it's with the speakers I chose. They have excellent sound quality, no problem there, but they need switching by pressing two buttons simultaneously. I'd like to find some good speakers that can be left in an on position constantly, and will just react to whether power is being supplied or not. All suggestions welcome.
The other thing I'd like is a driver for the ArcadeVGA under Linux. At the moment my home arcade is based on Windows 2000 - the only install of Windows in the house, bar a virtual one I use for running Quicken. I'd like to move over to a Linux solution, but I've read mixed things about the ArcadeVGA under Linux. It works, but there appears to be an amount of faff getting the right resolutions recognised and avoiding that is exactly why I bought an ArcadeVGA in the first place.
All in all though - Ultimarc make excellent products which make refitting a cabinet into a MAME box an entirely straight forward affair. The owner has also been helpful advising me on a few things too. No connection, just a satisfied customer.
From the article: The key to getting the Atari into the mainstream would have been more games...
Err...no. No, the problem was that is was seen purely as a games machine by the mainstream, not as the decent workhorse it actually was. And at gaming, it lost to the Amiga hands down.
His other points about the system are hit and miss. It was the musicians' machine of choice, true. It was the CAD users' machine of choice? Not really, no. It could have been, but it wasn't. The hardware was there, the nice "hi-res" (for 1985/86!) mono monitor was excellent, it had a faster clockspeed than its other 68000-based rivals and utterly outstripped the frankly miserable x86 line of that time, but even so there were attributes of the system that meant it just wasn't going to win. Those attributes were often chosen to cut costs (the awful keyboard for instance) and the costs were being cut because the machine was primarily seen by the market as being for games.
I owned an ST. For years it remained the most productive system I ever owned, running its own code, Mac code via Spectre GCR and PC code via a hardware 286 emulator (ATSpeed or Vortex - not sure I remember which one I used). With Protex, Signum, Calamus and Steinberg 12 it made for a superb home system. But to say it failed to dominate the mainstream due to lack of games? That's just madness.
The BBC said they are going to look at other platforms later. They are just making downloads available to the vast majority of the people who paid for it first, this is normal.
I simply don't believe them though. They claimed they'll report 'within two years' and have already said that timescale is unrealistically short. You also have the head of the project making anti-Apple comments, and Linux hasn't even got a mention.
By tying themselves to Windows DRM, they've closed all their options off already. Microsoft won't be porting this to any other system, so it's a dead end as far as portability is concerned. With that background, I cannot see how they'll ever make this service available on other platforms.
Clockwork Orange was never banned in the UK, it was withdrawn as a self-imposed gesture by Kubrick himself. You'll notice that the moment he died, Clockwork Orange was available for sale in the UK again.
"Croll declined to comment on statements made last week by Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz, who said the use of ZFS would be announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Upon further questioning, Croll would only confirm that Apple had never said ZFS would be a part of Leopard."
That reads like "would neither confirm nor deny to our reporter" to me, not "has denied".
Thing is that I find funny, that its taken 8 versions to have a Draw Circle Tool in Photoshop...The Amiga Dpaint had that from Day one.
Totally different apps. Even the titles give this away: Photoshop DPaint. Photoshop didn't have a draw circle because it's not a drawing or painting application - you would use Freehand or Illustrator for that. Photoshop is for the manipulation of pre-prepared images, and it is unrivalled at this.
Of course, whether you actually need its power rather depends on your line of work. Personally, I don't. iPhoto and Graphic Converter are plenty for me, though I'm keeping my eye on Pixelmator as well. However, those tools are fine for the kind of minor photo retouching I do. To do the full Photoshop workflow I'm not kidding myself - Photoshop has no serious competitor in its field.
I currently run Windows under Parallels, but Linux under VMware Fusion due to the lack of Linux guest tools. The Parallels 3.0 announcement said Linux guest tools were provided, and that was a major reason why I've put down the cash for the pre-order.
He generally wins with around 60,000 pts but it's very good fun.
I got 20,000 on my first try on the real thing in years at the Science Museum. That was the high score of the day, and I can feel the twelve-year old me staring in utter contempt (I'm 35 - asteroids was already not that new when I started playing).
If you run it under Mame you can simulate the flicker, blur, and intensity of the original vector hardware very well. Turn the screen brightness right up and you get a very similar effect to the original with trails and burning phosphor 'bullets'. Cranking up the sound on big speakers helps as well.
Oh, I do and I agree with you completely. I have a MAME cabinet and an ArcadeVGA so that I can use proper arcade screens with corrected brightnesses instead of computer screens. But even so, games like Asteroids and Star Wars are never quite the same. They had a sit-down Star Wars (vector) machine at the exhibition - now that was some fairly intense action, much more so than when just trying the same game on a raster CRT or normal LCD.
Asteroids, on an original arcade machine, is still a great thing to play. I played one a few months ago at the Game On exhibition at London's Science Museum - the intensity of the glows and trails on the screen due to the vector hardware really changed the whole atmosphere.
I still love the raster updates and spent many happy hours on the various PC and Mac ports - Maelstrom in particular, but the original game running on vector hardware is still the version I prefer.
Around ten years ago I was looking to rent a house in Park Royal, London with a couple of friends. We went into a decent house on Twyford Abbey Road for those that know the area (just off Hanger Lane Gyratory).
The landlord was abroad in Tokyo, so it was just ourselves and the agent. Nice house, but whilst looking around we saw a big red button in the main bedroom. For those to whom it's obvious what the purpose was, at that time it was my first encounter with such a device - first encounter for all of us in fact. And so, with the agent waiting downstairs, the conversation went...
Friend 1: "What's that for?"
Me: "I say we press it. That's what big red buttons are -for-."*
Friend 2: "ok" (presses button)
The next scene - pandemonium as the alarms all round the house go off. It's a panic button of course - we'd never come across one at that point, so we pressed it anyway. Up runs the estate agent to find out what we'd done. We tell him - yep, love the house. We'll take it. Oh, the alarm thing? That's fine, it's because we pressed this big red button. Ah - the owner's in Tokyo and you don't know the code? And it's -what- time in Tokyo? Hmm. Err...
And out the house we went, as fast as possible. And away we drove, again as fast as possible. We'd left the agent in charge of a screaming house, which every neighbour for a mile must have heard, and with absolutely no way to shut the alarm off for several hours. It was, as the saying goes, time to be somewhere else.
Still took the house though - lived there for a few years, enjoyed it actually.
Cheers,
Ian
*I was actually quoting a friend of mine, who in turn says he was quoting some film or comic. If you happen to know the source of the quote, I'd be interested to hear it.
I write music. It's not especially amazing stuff, but it's written and some of it is recorded and put out for free. If a net radio station fancies playing a track, then that's fine by me (though I refuse responsibility for their sudden drop in listenership...).
If this completely alien organisation tries making one unit of whatever currency they're charging in, I will go beserk. This is my music, nothing to do with them, and with no contract in place between us I shall offer it as I damned well choose. They have no right to claim ownership of any revenue whatsoever arising from this music.
While your point is excellent, that purpose still might be better served with "us.apple" and "uk.apple".
Indeed, and I completely agree with this. It's the way the UK networks used to be run under JANET (Joint Academic NETwork) in the early nineties. I went to Lancaster University between 1990/1992 - my email address was username@uk.ac.lancs, not username@lancs.ac.uk. Was all switch to internet standard just as I was leaving.
country-based tld's are only there because of nationalism, every country wanted one...
Nope. Take a look at, say, Apple. Here's http://apple.com - familiar, right? Here, on the other hand, is http://apple.co.uk - rather different. Within the UK, Apple Design have the rights to use it. Within the US, it's Apple Inc. that have the right. This isn't a bug or nationalism, it's a feature. I like location-specific URLs. I don't use google.com for example, I use google.co.uk.
Cheers,
Ian
A WiiHelm? What a scream...
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The Mini Cooper dates from about 1968,
It does, but the MINI Cooper dates from about 2002 I think. I also owned original Minis and I'm quite careful in the distinction between them - note the capitlisation. As for the condensation on them - yep, and particularly the distributor. I used to use the washing-up glove trick - cut the tips off the fingers, thread the HT leads through and then wrap the distributor in the rest of the glove. Helped a lot, though it wasn't perfect.
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Choice 1: Just get out of bed on time for that day.
Choice 2: Get hotel in correct timezone, fly there two days before.
et voila.
Cheers,
Ian
Of course, that's nothing compared to the 6 billion pounds we've just spent upgrading our Channel Tunnel rail system so that wealthy commuters between London and Paris can shave 20 minutes off their journey
The link isn't to shave off 20 minutes. The link is to go through St. Pancras - a station linked to the north of London. At Waterloo the link was useless for both passengers but more importantly freight which came from the midlands, the north or Scotland. Now it's on its way to being useful again - this link was planned from the very conception of the tunnel.
I'm from Sheffield originally though I now live nearish London - I remember the dismay in the Sheffield local paper (The Star) when this link was postponed. It was considered to be a big boost to the economy to be able to ship freight by rail directly to the European mainland. This is an investment in the economy, not a game to lose 20 minutes here or there.
Of course, I live out to the west of London and was promised crossrail umpteen years ago. That too is an investment in the economy waiting to be made, but I'm not holding my breath.
Cheers,
Ian
Word document encryption is easily defeated.
Perhaps, but I'm not talking about Word. I'm talking about NeoOffice/OpenOffice, which uses 128-bit AES, same as the TrueCrypt you're pointing to. No reason why iWork couldn 't use AES for its encryption too.
Cheers,
Ian
Numbers isn't as powerful as the OpenOffice/NeoOffice spreadsheet yet. Even for me, who only uses it to keep track of hosting costs, the lack of autofilter on Numbers means it can't cope with my fairly simple needs (large block of data which I need to see subsets of pretty quickly). You -can- filter, but it's via a long-winded dialog not a nice set of drop-downs a la autofilter.
Others have mentioned ODF, but there's also password-protection missing from iWork. There's ways round of it course - you can create an encrypted disk image and save to that, but that's more faff than just directly password protecting the file.
I like iWork 08 - feels faster and better than iWork 06. I'm still wavering for upgrades though - I'm not a Keynote user which is its strongest feature, and I rarely use Pages beyond a single one-page letter. Numbers won't handle my workload yet, so I may well just wait until the next revision and see if autofilter/ODF support/password protection gets added to that.
Cheers,
Ian
I suppose somebody should explain it for the newbs who are passingly curious:...
I could be wrong on this, but the thing is I don't think the grand-parent poster was a newb. I think he's just lost track of all of the rule changes, and to be honest so have I.
It is now literally decades since I played my last game of D&D. Even then however, the rules were just so silly be basically ignored them when playing. The world then was split into D&D and AD&D, with AD&D just having a ludicrous numbers of tables and rules. D&D was the better bet even then, but you ended up buying the AD&D stuff and translating them on-the-fly to more simple D&D rules. And eventually....you just forgot about the rules and told a story, the way role-playing really ought to be. Dice rolls were used and character stats noted, but often I'd just ignore the dice-rolls and get on with the narrative (to the advantage of the players, not because I felt like being a git).
The paragraph being referred to does nothing to convince me that the rules have improved over the years. OK, so this iteration might be an improvement over the last iteration, but anyone who remembers the rules in a thinish paperback with the blue & white cover and a dragon on the front (errr....1980'ish? Slightly before?) will still probably think they've descended into stats-based hell and forgotten the idea of story.
It's up to the DM to fix that of course, but it doesn't sound like the rules are helping.
Cheers,
Ian
Nobody is forcing anyone to watch content produced by the BBC
No, but they are forcing me to pay for it. And I damned well want to use it if so.
Cheers,
Ian
Oh sorry, wrong debate...
Cheers,
Ian
If you want to convert an old cabinet, there are much easier solutions. Ultimarc, for example, produces several products that convert standard JAMMA interfaces to PC keyboard and video connections...Ultimarc's products, though, appear to allow for the joystick and buttons on a JAMMA cabinet to connect to a PS/2 interface and for the video connector to hook to VGA (refresh and resolutions on arcade machines are different from standard computer modes). They even sell an AGP or PCIe video card that appears to have a special RAMDAC so that you don't have to screw around with getting the weird video modes working....I've never used Ultimarc's stuff, so I have no idea how well it would work. Assuming it's decent, the formula would be pretty simple:
It all works very well indeed. I have an IPAC interface, an ArcadeVGA card, a video amplifier and an UltraStick 360 (USB arcade-style joystick mappable to analogue). This went into a two-player six button Electrocoin cabinet along with a P800, speakers and a wireless adapter for remote admin. The ArcadeVGA allows direct connection to a 15Khz monitor such as the Hanterax 9000 that came with my Electrocoin - no messing around. Resoldering the buttons to connect to the IPAC was easy, and the default IPAC controls map to the default MAME key configurations as well. Top it all off with a MAMEWah front end and my home arcade machine is doing very well for itself.
My only gripe isn't with Ultimarc, it's with the speakers I chose. They have excellent sound quality, no problem there, but they need switching by pressing two buttons simultaneously. I'd like to find some good speakers that can be left in an on position constantly, and will just react to whether power is being supplied or not. All suggestions welcome.
The other thing I'd like is a driver for the ArcadeVGA under Linux. At the moment my home arcade is based on Windows 2000 - the only install of Windows in the house, bar a virtual one I use for running Quicken. I'd like to move over to a Linux solution, but I've read mixed things about the ArcadeVGA under Linux. It works, but there appears to be an amount of faff getting the right resolutions recognised and avoiding that is exactly why I bought an ArcadeVGA in the first place.
All in all though - Ultimarc make excellent products which make refitting a cabinet into a MAME box an entirely straight forward affair. The owner has also been helpful advising me on a few things too. No connection, just a satisfied customer.
Cheers,
Ian
From the article: The key to getting the Atari into the mainstream would have been more games...
Err...no. No, the problem was that is was seen purely as a games machine by the mainstream, not as the decent workhorse it actually was. And at gaming, it lost to the Amiga hands down.
His other points about the system are hit and miss. It was the musicians' machine of choice, true. It was the CAD users' machine of choice? Not really, no. It could have been, but it wasn't. The hardware was there, the nice "hi-res" (for 1985/86!) mono monitor was excellent, it had a faster clockspeed than its other 68000-based rivals and utterly outstripped the frankly miserable x86 line of that time, but even so there were attributes of the system that meant it just wasn't going to win. Those attributes were often chosen to cut costs (the awful keyboard for instance) and the costs were being cut because the machine was primarily seen by the market as being for games.
I owned an ST. For years it remained the most productive system I ever owned, running its own code, Mac code via Spectre GCR and PC code via a hardware 286 emulator (ATSpeed or Vortex - not sure I remember which one I used). With Protex, Signum, Calamus and Steinberg 12 it made for a superb home system. But to say it failed to dominate the mainstream due to lack of games? That's just madness.
Cheers,
Ian
The BBC said they are going to look at other platforms later. They are just making downloads available to the vast majority of the people who paid for it first, this is normal.
I simply don't believe them though. They claimed they'll report 'within two years' and have already said that timescale is unrealistically short. You also have the head of the project making anti-Apple comments, and Linux hasn't even got a mention.
By tying themselves to Windows DRM, they've closed all their options off already. Microsoft won't be porting this to any other system, so it's a dead end as far as portability is concerned. With that background, I cannot see how they'll ever make this service available on other platforms.
Cheers,
Ian
Clockwork Orange was never banned in the UK, it was withdrawn as a self-imposed gesture by Kubrick himself. You'll notice that the moment he died, Clockwork Orange was available for sale in the UK again.
Cheers,
Ian
The TFA says:
"Croll declined to comment on statements made last week by Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz, who said the use of ZFS would be announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Upon further questioning, Croll would only confirm that Apple had never said ZFS would be a part of Leopard."
That reads like "would neither confirm nor deny to our reporter" to me, not "has denied".
Cheers,
Ian
Thing is that I find funny, that its taken 8 versions to have a Draw Circle Tool in Photoshop...The Amiga Dpaint had that from Day one.
Totally different apps. Even the titles give this away: Photoshop DPaint. Photoshop didn't have a draw circle because it's not a drawing or painting application - you would use Freehand or Illustrator for that. Photoshop is for the manipulation of pre-prepared images, and it is unrivalled at this.
Of course, whether you actually need its power rather depends on your line of work. Personally, I don't. iPhoto and Graphic Converter are plenty for me, though I'm keeping my eye on Pixelmator as well. However, those tools are fine for the kind of minor photo retouching I do. To do the full Photoshop workflow I'm not kidding myself - Photoshop has no serious competitor in its field.
Cheers,
Ian
It might be fun to bind it to "skip track" and hit it hard whenever that song you meant to delete ages ago comes up.
For such things, might I recommend a Griffin Powermate? Excellent device.
Cheers,
Ian
I currently run Windows under Parallels, but Linux under VMware Fusion due to the lack of Linux guest tools. The Parallels 3.0 announcement said Linux guest tools were provided, and that was a major reason why I've put down the cash for the pre-order.
Cheers,
Ian
He generally wins with around 60,000 pts but it's very good fun.
I got 20,000 on my first try on the real thing in years at the Science Museum. That was the high score of the day, and I can feel the twelve-year old me staring in utter contempt (I'm 35 - asteroids was already not that new when I started playing).
If you run it under Mame you can simulate the flicker, blur, and intensity of the original vector hardware very well. Turn the screen brightness right up and you get a very similar effect to the original with trails and burning phosphor 'bullets'. Cranking up the sound on big speakers helps as well.
Oh, I do and I agree with you completely. I have a MAME cabinet and an ArcadeVGA so that I can use proper arcade screens with corrected brightnesses instead of computer screens. But even so, games like Asteroids and Star Wars are never quite the same. They had a sit-down Star Wars (vector) machine at the exhibition - now that was some fairly intense action, much more so than when just trying the same game on a raster CRT or normal LCD.
Cheers,
Ian
Asteroids, on an original arcade machine, is still a great thing to play. I played one a few months ago at the Game On exhibition at London's Science Museum - the intensity of the glows and trails on the screen due to the vector hardware really changed the whole atmosphere.
I still love the raster updates and spent many happy hours on the various PC and Mac ports - Maelstrom in particular, but the original game running on vector hardware is still the version I prefer.
Cheers,
Ian
One more level of zoom required, Microsoft. Still can't tell what you're actually saying.
Cheers,
Ian
Fred's finest hour.
Around ten years ago I was looking to rent a house in Park Royal, London with a couple of friends. We went into a decent house on Twyford Abbey Road for those that know the area (just off Hanger Lane Gyratory).
The landlord was abroad in Tokyo, so it was just ourselves and the agent. Nice house, but whilst looking around we saw a big red button in the main bedroom. For those to whom it's obvious what the purpose was, at that time it was my first encounter with such a device - first encounter for all of us in fact. And so, with the agent waiting downstairs, the conversation went...
Friend 1: "What's that for?"
Me: "I say we press it. That's what big red buttons are -for-."*
Friend 2: "ok" (presses button)
The next scene - pandemonium as the alarms all round the house go off. It's a panic button of course - we'd never come across one at that point, so we pressed it anyway. Up runs the estate agent to find out what we'd done. We tell him - yep, love the house. We'll take it. Oh, the alarm thing? That's fine, it's because we pressed this big red button. Ah - the owner's in Tokyo and you don't know the code? And it's -what- time in Tokyo? Hmm. Err...
And out the house we went, as fast as possible. And away we drove, again as fast as possible. We'd left the agent in charge of a screaming house, which every neighbour for a mile must have heard, and with absolutely no way to shut the alarm off for several hours. It was, as the saying goes, time to be somewhere else.
Still took the house though - lived there for a few years, enjoyed it actually.
Cheers,
Ian
*I was actually quoting a friend of mine, who in turn says he was quoting some film or comic. If you happen to know the source of the quote, I'd be interested to hear it.
I write music. It's not especially amazing stuff, but it's written and some of it is recorded and put out for free. If a net radio station fancies playing a track, then that's fine by me (though I refuse responsibility for their sudden drop in listenership...).
If this completely alien organisation tries making one unit of whatever currency they're charging in, I will go beserk. This is my music, nothing to do with them, and with no contract in place between us I shall offer it as I damned well choose. They have no right to claim ownership of any revenue whatsoever arising from this music.
Cheers,
Ian
While your point is excellent, that purpose still might be better served with "us.apple" and "uk.apple".
Indeed, and I completely agree with this. It's the way the UK networks used to be run under JANET (Joint Academic NETwork) in the early nineties. I went to Lancaster University between 1990/1992 - my email address was username@uk.ac.lancs, not username@lancs.ac.uk. Was all switch to internet standard just as I was leaving.
Cheers,
Ian
country-based tld's are only there because of nationalism, every country wanted one...
Nope. Take a look at, say, Apple. Here's http://apple.com - familiar, right? Here, on the other hand, is http://apple.co.uk - rather different. Within the UK, Apple Design have the rights to use it. Within the US, it's Apple Inc. that have the right. This isn't a bug or nationalism, it's a feature. I like location-specific URLs. I don't use google.com for example, I use google.co.uk.
Cheers,
Ian
C'mon people, no-one picked up on the reference yet...?
Cheers,
Ian
The Mini Cooper dates from about 1968,
It does, but the MINI Cooper dates from about 2002 I think. I also owned original Minis and I'm quite careful in the distinction between them - note the capitlisation. As for the condensation on them - yep, and particularly the distributor. I used to use the washing-up glove trick - cut the tips off the fingers, thread the HT leads through and then wrap the distributor in the rest of the glove. Helped a lot, though it wasn't perfect.
Cheers,
Ian