Tivos have been working with PAL and available in the UK for a while. I've had one for about six months. Dixons do the only model available - a Thompson box.
...to have the time to sit through a 12 hour marathon of Farscape or B5 without having the kids crawling all over you.
First off, I realise your post wasn't intended very seriously. Purely for the purpose of this reply however, I've decided to have a sense-of-humour bypass.
I'm a geek who finds, much to his surprise, that without seeming to do anything very much he's ended up with a fiancee, a baby daughter and a Tivo.
This is a good combination.
Without the Tivo, nothing would get watched in a comprehensible fashion. My daughter Sarah would see to that. As anyone who's been in my position knows, babies require an awful lot of both comfort and attention. Even when they're asleep, typically they're asleep on you, thus stranding you on the sofa in the sure and certain knowledge that if you try to move they'll wake up and start screaming at you.
So...
The Tivo is great. It allows me to watch programmes that otherwise would be interrupted, and it also builds up a store of things for me to watch during those sofa-as-desert-island moments.
Just make sure you leave the remote somewhere to hand...
If only this would come to the UK, where I am. Then I could give three thumbs up to a showing of Pong, sit back and wait for Tivo's recommendations to start flooding in.
Of course, with pause and rewind of live TV, I would never again miss a crucial shot...
How is it that if some entity puts their information onto the net, where they would like everyone on the globe to see it, that they are bitching that Google is caching their info to ultimately send them to their site
Not the same entity in this case. The people that put it up aren't the people that wanted it down.
They may be the best search engine around, but like everyone (sans Microsoft) they have very limited "off-topic" funds to fight "pointless" lawsuits.
Agreed, but this one isn't pointless to them. Nothing to do with pro or anti-scientology, any attempt to force controls on content threatens the essence of a pure-bred search engine.
In the UK, the train movements from power stations etc. are available and are on regular schedules.
The regular schedule being "we haven't a clue when we're leaving or arriving either, and yes - you will be delayed along the way". As per every other UK train.
The funny part of this is that the "used price" for the newer books is often higher than the retail price, so why would quick-to-click consumers buy the used version anyway?
Well, I've recently bought a copy of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. This is original book of the brilliant film, a film which for me is probably the best horror ever made.
Sadly, my new book's cover is splattered with "Now a major motion picture!"-type idiocy all over it, and the 'major' picture they refer to is the recent poor quality remake. I have the actors from this 1999 abomination all across the top, whereas I'd prefer to simply erase all knowledge of the film's existence from my memory.
Now, I definitely would have paid extra for an older copy of the book which had a non-film based cover. Sadly, one wasn't available in a reasonable amount of time and so I've ended up with the new cover.
Just one personal example as to why people are sometimes willing to pay for more for older copies.
How can this be a good test? It can only simulate according to program, and programming will be done according to current theory.
In other words, it will simply run through a set of possible behaviours that science currently expects of it. Not it's actual behaviour.
Doing this in the real world might throw up new information that hadn't prevoiusly been predicted. Doing it on a computer seems like an exercise in scientific back-slapping to me.
I thought the Canary Wharf area had some of the newer subway facilities anyway? Britons talk so very negatively of their public transport system. Is it that bad?
Yes, it's that dreadful. I'm delayed on trains usually three out of four journeys. Canary Wharf -does- have some of the newer facilities, and the investors in those facilities are demanding half their money back due to poor performance.
I used to commute in to London by train too (I live about twenty miles west). Gave that up as well because the trains back out of Paddington were so unreliable. I now drive to Ealing (reasonably far west in London), then take the tube the rest of the way.
Takes about two hours for about forty miles. Usually in sardine-like conditions, and with no air-con.
we should not forget that we
built one of the first, and one of the best
underground systems in the world.
Hmm. As a daily Tube commuter (Hangar Lane to Canary Wharf) I'm not too sure I'd agree with that. Certainly one of the first, but I'd argue we've hit classic 'early adopter' syndrome and been left with a load of antiquated nonsense when most other people have long since moved on.
As a train-travelling Britain myself, I can just imagine the announcement:
"NASA Spacetrains (UK) regret to announce the late departure of the 17:48 'Dark Side of the Station' service. This is due to the wrong kind of sub-atomic particles bombarding the track. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
"NASA Spacetrains (UK) regret to announce the cancellation of the 17:53 'Earthside' service. This is due to a shortage of rolling stock. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
"NASA Spacetrains (UK) regret to announce that all anti-clockwise trains are running approximately three hours late. This is due to overrunning engineering works and signalling problems near Mars. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
etc...
(Probably have to have experienced UK trains to find any of that funny. If you have experienced UK trains though, then you have my deepest sympathies.)
All WinXP asked me was, essentially, "What is your Country and TimeZone".
Asked me the same thing. I told it the country (UK), yet it still decided to default me to Pacific Time. Shouldn't the default be GMT?
And, after it knew which country I was in, it then decided to give me a US keyboard by default. Even when I changed it, it decided that I didn't -really- mean it, and kept the US keyboard and US locale as the default System-wide preferences. You have more dialogs to go through to get that sorted out, and it's not at all obvious that you even need to get it sorted out.
It also asked me half way through, after it had formatted my drive and copied various things and then rebooted. I couldn't just answer questions at the beginning, then leave it alone for God knows how long to finish the install.
You happen to have hit a real bugbear in all the Windows installations I've ever used there...
Have to say I mostly agree with those who saying 'define content'. What is it that you want to manage, and on what sort of scale? Most of the products above will cost you an utter fortune.
I've spent a while in this. In 1992 I was doing document image processing, in 1993 document processing with workflow, in 1995 working for a company called the Content Management Corporation (now bust, came this close to getting a deal to be distributed as an Oracle add-in when Oracle web cartridges were being pushed). On top of that, many of my friends worked in the same area. One in particular, who I won't name, has worked in technical pre-sales for a couple of the above products and so knows them well.
Basically, you must define content. You must define what you want to do with content - workflow, revision management, or just a glorified file system? And do take advice of posters above - the world is not composed soley of web pages.
Incidently, I've been given some mod points for this particular thread - a thread on a subject I've been dealing with for eight years. I'll do my best to give away a few intelligent points here and there...
...you can show that they have to reach the end in a certain amount of time, yet seem incapable of doing so because they have to keep doing more and more movements.
If I'm following the person who replied to me correctly, then the paradox can be disproved like this:
Suppose the pole is 10m high. Suppose the Monkey climbs at 1m/s (and starts from zero altitude relative to the base of the pole). How long before the monkey reaches the top?
speed = distance/time time = distance/speed
Substituting, we get: time = 10m/1m/s time = 10s
Following the paradox, the monkey climbs 5m of the pole in 5 seconds, leaving 5m more to climb in 5 further seconds. It then climbs 2.5m in 2.5s, then 1.25m in 1.25s etc.
In other words, no matter how little distance there is to move, there's always enough time left to do it in.
A Monkey climbs a pole, covering half the distance left in every step. When will it reach. The answer is of course never.
Aah, the old paradox. It's based on a false premise though.
To climb a pole, the monkey must move. To move, it must displace molecules of one substance (say air) with that of another (say a monkey hair molecule). In other words, although movement appears to be constant, it is actually a series of discrete steps.
The monkey will reach the top of the pole when its next step cannot be broken down any further - ie. when it has only one molecule of another substance left to displace with its own.
Unless you're into nuclear monkey of course, where it could start splitting up the molecule, then the atoms underneath it and then have a crack at the sub-atomic particles beneath that...
Slashdot Mirror
Cheers,
Ian
First off, I realise your post wasn't intended very seriously. Purely for the purpose of this reply however, I've decided to have a sense-of-humour bypass.
I'm a geek who finds, much to his surprise, that without seeming to do anything very much he's ended up with a fiancee, a baby daughter and a Tivo.
This is a good combination.
Without the Tivo, nothing would get watched in a comprehensible fashion. My daughter Sarah would see to that. As anyone who's been in my position knows, babies require an awful lot of both comfort and attention. Even when they're asleep, typically they're asleep on you, thus stranding you on the sofa in the sure and certain knowledge that if you try to move they'll wake up and start screaming at you.
So...
The Tivo is great. It allows me to watch programmes that otherwise would be interrupted, and it also builds up a store of things for me to watch during those sofa-as-desert-island moments.
Just make sure you leave the remote somewhere to hand...
Cheers,
Ian
Of course, with pause and rewind of live TV, I would never again miss a crucial shot...
Cheers,
Ian
I think it's marvellous. The faster Pokemon can be consigned to history the happier I'll be...
Cheers,
Ian
Not the same entity in this case. The people that put it up aren't the people that wanted it down.
Cheers,
Ian
Agreed, but this one isn't pointless to them. Nothing to do with pro or anti-scientology, any attempt to force controls on content threatens the essence of a pure-bred search engine.
Cheers,
Ian
In otherwords, Google has shuffled responsibility for the fight onto someone else.
If they believe it should be listed, they should have the courage to list it themselves.
Cheers,
Ian
#include <stdio.h>
Says it all really.
Cheers,
Ian
The regular schedule being "we haven't a clue when we're leaving or arriving either, and yes - you will be delayed along the way". As per every other UK train.
Cheers,
Iam
Well, I've recently bought a copy of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. This is original book of the brilliant film, a film which for me is probably the best horror ever made.
Has he lost his mind, I hear Slashdotters say? No, I haven't. I'm not talking about the recent effects-driven dross, I'm talking about one of the edgiest, psychological non-gore horrors that have been filmed.
Sadly, my new book's cover is splattered with "Now a major motion picture!"-type idiocy all over it, and the 'major' picture they refer to is the recent poor quality remake. I have the actors from this 1999 abomination all across the top, whereas I'd prefer to simply erase all knowledge of the film's existence from my memory.
Now, I definitely would have paid extra for an older copy of the book which had a non-film based cover. Sadly, one wasn't available in a reasonable amount of time and so I've ended up with the new cover.
Just one personal example as to why people are sometimes willing to pay for more for older copies.
Cheers,
Ian
In other words, it will simply run through a set of possible behaviours that science currently expects of it. Not it's actual behaviour.
Doing this in the real world might throw up new information that hadn't prevoiusly been predicted. Doing it on a computer seems like an exercise in scientific back-slapping to me.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes, it's that dreadful. I'm delayed on trains usually three out of four journeys. Canary Wharf -does- have some of the newer facilities, and the investors in those facilities are demanding half their money back due to poor performance.
I used to commute in to London by train too (I live about twenty miles west). Gave that up as well because the trains back out of Paddington were so unreliable. I now drive to Ealing (reasonably far west in London), then take the tube the rest of the way.
Takes about two hours for about forty miles. Usually in sardine-like conditions, and with no air-con.
Cheers,
Ian
Hmm. As a daily Tube commuter (Hangar Lane to Canary Wharf) I'm not too sure I'd agree with that. Certainly one of the first, but I'd argue we've hit classic 'early adopter' syndrome and been left with a load of antiquated nonsense when most other people have long since moved on.
Cheers,
Ian
Or even a Briton. Oops.
Cheers,
Ian
"NASA Spacetrains (UK) regret to announce the late departure of the 17:48 'Dark Side of the Station' service. This is due to the wrong kind of sub-atomic particles bombarding the track. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
"NASA Spacetrains (UK) regret to announce the cancellation of the 17:53 'Earthside' service. This is due to a shortage of rolling stock. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
"NASA Spacetrains (UK) regret to announce that all anti-clockwise trains are running approximately three hours late. This is due to overrunning engineering works and signalling problems near Mars. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
etc...
(Probably have to have experienced UK trains to find any of that funny. If you have experienced UK trains though, then you have my deepest sympathies.)
Cheers,
Ian
Bit defeatist, isn't it? How do you know that we don't know anything?
I'm all for humility in science, but abject grovelling seems a bit counterproductive.
Cheers,
Ian
That's true. Astronomers are very close. However, where the hell all these planets are is quite another matter...
Cheers,
Ian
Asked me the same thing. I told it the country (UK), yet it still decided to default me to Pacific Time. Shouldn't the default be GMT?
And, after it knew which country I was in, it then decided to give me a US keyboard by default. Even when I changed it, it decided that I didn't -really- mean it, and kept the US keyboard and US locale as the default System-wide preferences. You have more dialogs to go through to get that sorted out, and it's not at all obvious that you even need to get it sorted out.
It also asked me half way through, after it had formatted my drive and copied various things and then rebooted. I couldn't just answer questions at the beginning, then leave it alone for God knows how long to finish the install.
You happen to have hit a real bugbear in all the Windows installations I've ever used there...
Cheers,
Ian
Have to say I mostly agree with those who saying 'define content'. What is it that you want to manage, and on what sort of scale? Most of the products above will cost you an utter fortune.
I've spent a while in this. In 1992 I was doing document image processing, in 1993 document processing with workflow, in 1995 working for a company called the Content Management Corporation (now bust, came this close to getting a deal to be distributed as an Oracle add-in when Oracle web cartridges were being pushed). On top of that, many of my friends worked in the same area. One in particular, who I won't name, has worked in technical pre-sales for a couple of the above products and so knows them well.
Basically, you must define content. You must define what you want to do with content - workflow, revision management, or just a glorified file system? And do take advice of posters above - the world is not composed soley of web pages.
Incidently, I've been given some mod points for this particular thread - a thread on a subject I've been dealing with for eight years. I'll do my best to give away a few intelligent points here and there...
Cheers,
Ian
I have read the review. It says no such thing.
What is says is that Office under 'ordinary' WINE, ie. not the plug-in, proved more unstable than under Windows.
Cheers,
Ian
Utterly essential that this works for communicating with the outside world.
Cheers,
Ian
If I'm following the person who replied to me correctly, then the paradox can be disproved like this:
Suppose the pole is 10m high. Suppose the Monkey climbs at 1m/s (and starts from zero altitude relative to the base of the pole). How long before the monkey reaches the top?
time = distance/speed
time = 10m/1m/s
time = 10s
Following the paradox, the monkey climbs 5m of the pole in 5 seconds, leaving 5m more to climb in 5 further seconds. It then climbs 2.5m in 2.5s, then 1.25m in 1.25s etc.
In other words, no matter how little distance there is to move, there's always enough time left to do it in.
Cheers,
Ian
You know, that's a hell of a lot easier than the way I learnt.
Cheers,
Ian
Aah, the old paradox. It's based on a false premise though.
To climb a pole, the monkey must move. To move, it must displace molecules of one substance (say air) with that of another (say a monkey hair molecule). In other words, although movement appears to be constant, it is actually a series of discrete steps.
The monkey will reach the top of the pole when its next step cannot be broken down any further - ie. when it has only one molecule of another substance left to displace with its own.
Unless you're into nuclear monkey of course, where it could start splitting up the molecule, then the atoms underneath it and then have a crack at the sub-atomic particles beneath that...
Cheers,
Ian
I keep hearing this. I have two microwave ovens, a cordless DECT digital phone with two handsets, and I run a wireless 802.11b network.
No problems at all. So how come I'm getting away with it?
Cheers,
Ian