I don't think they'd be happy to put up with TV if the BBC was changed. Sure, in theory not paying the TV licence is a nice idea, but who wants a world where 100% of the media is commerical? Have you ever been to America?
Now Sky - there's a thing. People seem bizarrely happy to pay far more than the licence fee for a million channels, about two of which are any good. These people seem incapable of using logic.
Hmm.. so you would consider killing someone rather than lose a couple of hundred dollars worth of electronics? I think I prefer the sound of the West Midlands...
When I was doing my PhD our department was working on autonomous robots with helium balloons which were intended for Mars. I guess the work must have started in 1997 or so. It was quite entertaining having so much helium and such large balloons in the lab.
Remote controlled? Pah! Autonomous robots are cool.
We weren't allowed to use 'regular' helium (such as the sort you'd get in party balloons) because it has some dangerous impurities. We had to use 99% pure stuff which was much more expensive. Think about that next time you suck some of the regular stuff in to make your voice go funny - it can't be good if even our university was willing to spend a lot to avoid it.
Here is a link: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/robots/Alta irhtml/
Speak for yourself - I'm a monarchist, and so are a lot of other people under 30 if you look around. There is a lot to be said for the head of state to be trained for it their whole lives, not to be open to corruption thanks to being wealthy and not caring about election results, and being politically neutral. The royals bring a lot of money into the country through tourism (don't kid yourself - they bring in far more than thay 'cost' via the civil list) and people like Prince Charles do a lot for the environment and other good causes (the Prince's Trust etc) and use their position for the good of the country.
I would rather have a monarch than an elected president any day. Your 'cost' argument is seriously flawed. Do you think a president would be any cheaper? How 'cheap' do you think Bush is to run? If we had a president do you think we'd get any tourists going to see them? No, I didn't think so.
You would also need a TV/monitor of course. Then you'd need to use some clunky interface and have a box with fans and hard discs whizzing around in it, the noise of which would certainly get in the way of quieter passages of music.
This device won't be for everyone, but if you just want a small, silent, classy looking device for playing your music then you can't get much better than this.
The iPod is a completely different class of device. Comparing it with this is like chalk and cheese! I have a SLIMP3 and it's a great device - much better in the home than disc-based players. I wouldn't want to take it with me when I go out though - that's what your iPod is for.
The Students Union in most universities will have a book exchange programme (which is really a second hand textbook shop done on a non-profit (or even subsidised) basis. I got quite a few textbooks from the one at my university for about five pounds.
As another poster has said though, all university towns have plenty of second hand bookshops that specialise in text books.
I flew on it when I was 15, which was around 1990. I was doing a summer job for a company that made modems (36.6 ones - really fast at the time and very expensive). They had a good year sales-wise and paid for everyone to have flight on Concorde. It was the first time I'd ever been on a plane, and everything since has been a bit of a let down. It was great - went into the cockpit, drank champagne.... top stuff.
Yeah, bummer if you don't have a telly, but a small price to pay for the BBC I reckon. If the BBC didn't exist then Murdoch would run everything and there would be adverts every two minutes. A bit like American telly really, except probably worse.
So does everyone in the US have their post delivered to those little boxes at the end of their garden? I thought that was just rural areas? That whole systems is completely crazy if you want to avoid problems with people losing post. Why not just have a letter box in the front door of your house like the rest of the world? If you put one in your own house would the postman really refuse to use it??
This is all to do with how difficult it is to ramp-up and down other forms of generation. Demand for electricity varies constantly of course, so the amount generated must also alter. I used to live in the mountains in Wales, and there were two or three windfarms and a hydroelectric dam within ten miles. When I was visiting the dam once I asked the guy there why it wasn't working, and he said that it was only for when there was a surge in demand. The is also the reason why some windfarms don't turn, even on a windy day.
Apparently the nuclear/coal/gas stations burn constantly as the others kick-in to meet peaks - it is easier to do this than run the renewable sources all the time and crank-up the traditional power plants on demand. It's a shame, but it should get less noticable as we build more renewable sources.
As an aside, the people where I lived were generally in favour of the windfarms. They were aware enough of the need for cleaner energy and the fact that the site was ideal to accept that they were necessary.
OK, so let me ask you this: if those responsible for the WTC offered to "not blow any more buildings up" in 'return' for participation in deciding the future of Israel, what do you think the average US citizen would say?
Oh, and there are some more conditions too of course - all of their comrades have to be let out of prison, but they can continue to raise funds for buying guns to use on US troops while making some money on the side training Marxist terrorists in Columbia.
Can you see anyone in the US at all thinking that is acceptable? Whatever happened to 'never giving in to terrorism'?
Not everyone in the UK thinks the way that Murdoch's news empire would have you believe. Many people are seeing the murderers of their friends and family getting let off 'in the name of peace' with nothing to show for it. The fact is that most of the people in Northen Ireland want to be British, and the republicans can't handle the choice of the majority. Tough.
Good grief! Some people are unbelievable. I thought the US Government would ban all such fundraising after the WTC, but here it is for all to see.
One thing that people in the US often don't realise is the pressure our goverment is under to appease terrorists like the IRA - you wouldn't believe how many have been let out of prison on the understanding that they "won't blow anyone up again". These are people who think nothing of planting bombs in pubs or shopping centres full of women and children, just to make their point. I wouldn't call anyone who uses such tactics an 'army' - the only time they kill soldiers is when they leave bombs outside the barracks. These are vicious cowards, plain and simple.
Sorry for the rant, but it disgusts me that there is *anyone* in the US who reads sites like this and actually believes them. Giving them money is like paying to train those hijackers on 9/11 how to fly knowing full well what they want to do - you're just as guilty of murder.
Hmm.. so perhaps we should follow this example and get rid of Bush? Voted in by what was a flawed voting process (where he might not have actually won at al) and a lapdog of big industry? There is your 'bullshit regime'...
I've had my T68 for a while now (6 months?). I have to say that its much more nicely put together than the T68i (which feels all plastic-y). The only 'improvement' made for the T68i is the software upgrade, but you can flash your T68 anyway.
In a nutshell then - go for the T68 and flash the ROM.
There used to be a brand of IDE hard drives called 'Bigfoot'. I can't remember who made them, but the idea was that they were in 5.25" instead of 3.5". Indeed, you did get quite a lot more storage for about the same money. This must have been down to larger platters...
Have you checked out Tele2 (www.tele2.co.uk)? Wireless broadband is actually available all over the place (including here in Bath, although we also have Telewest cable modems which are a better bet).
I've got a Sharp Zaurus and this would suit me fine (much less power drain than wireless Ethernet, and it could talk to my T38 'phone). Does anyone know any technical reason why this card wouldn't work on the Zaurus apart from lack of software (which can be fixed)? I take it that the Palm SD slot is the same as the Zaurus...
For those in the UK, you can buy prebuilt systems without an OS from Novatech (www.novatech.co.uk). Buying your PC without Windows (Linux isn't an option) saves you 80 pounds (299 exc. VAT for a Duran 1GHz).
I don't work for them, but I've used them and they're good.
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I don't think they'd be happy to put up with TV if the BBC was changed. Sure, in theory not paying the TV licence is a nice idea, but who wants a world where 100% of the media is commerical? Have you ever been to America?
Now Sky - there's a thing. People seem bizarrely happy to pay far more than the licence fee for a million channels, about two of which are any good. These people seem incapable of using logic.
Hmm.. so you would consider killing someone rather than lose a couple of hundred dollars worth of electronics? I think I prefer the sound of the West Midlands...
When I was doing my PhD our department was working on autonomous robots with helium balloons which were intended for Mars. I guess the work must have started in 1997 or so. It was quite entertaining having so much helium and such large balloons in the lab.
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Remote controlled? Pah! Autonomous robots are cool.
We weren't allowed to use 'regular' helium (such as the sort you'd get in party balloons) because it has some dangerous impurities. We had to use 99% pure stuff which was much more expensive. Think about that next time you suck some of the regular stuff in to make your voice go funny - it can't be good if even our university was willing to spend a lot to avoid it.
Here is a link: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/robots/Alt
My Motorola A920 is a PDA and 3G phone (video calls etc), and is free. The future arrived last year ;)
Speak for yourself - I'm a monarchist, and so are a lot of other people under 30 if you look around. There is a lot to be said for the head of state to be trained for it their whole lives, not to be open to corruption thanks to being wealthy and not caring about election results, and being politically neutral. The royals bring a lot of money into the country through tourism (don't kid yourself - they bring in far more than thay 'cost' via the civil list) and people like Prince Charles do a lot for the environment and other good causes (the Prince's Trust etc) and use their position for the good of the country.
I would rather have a monarch than an elected president any day. Your 'cost' argument is seriously flawed. Do you think a president would be any cheaper? How 'cheap' do you think Bush is to run? If we had a president do you think we'd get any tourists going to see them? No, I didn't think so.
You can stream uncompressed PCM audio to it, so in a sense it supports anything you want audio-wise.
You would also need a TV/monitor of course. Then you'd need to use some clunky interface and have a box with fans and hard discs whizzing around in it, the noise of which would certainly get in the way of quieter passages of music.
This device won't be for everyone, but if you just want a small, silent, classy looking device for playing your music then you can't get much better than this.
The iPod is a completely different class of device. Comparing it with this is like chalk and cheese! I have a SLIMP3 and it's a great device - much better in the home than disc-based players. I wouldn't want to take it with me when I go out though - that's what your iPod is for.
The Students Union in most universities will have a book exchange programme (which is really a second hand textbook shop done on a non-profit (or even subsidised) basis. I got quite a few textbooks from the one at my university for about five pounds.
As another poster has said though, all university towns have plenty of second hand bookshops that specialise in text books.
I flew on it when I was 15, which was around 1990. I was doing a summer job for a company that made modems (36.6 ones - really fast at the time and very expensive). They had a good year sales-wise and paid for everyone to have flight on Concorde. It was the first time I'd ever been on a plane, and everything since has been a bit of a let down. It was great - went into the cockpit, drank champagne.... top stuff.
> saying he wants a FEMALE doctor this time around,
> or an African American one
Wait a minute.. the Doctor changing skin colour I can understand, but why would be suddenly become American? That makes no sense at all...
Yeah, bummer if you don't have a telly, but a small price to pay for the BBC I reckon. If the BBC didn't exist then Murdoch would run everything and there would be adverts every two minutes. A bit like American telly really, except probably worse.
So does everyone in the US have their post delivered to those little boxes at the end of their garden? I thought that was just rural areas? That whole systems is completely crazy if you want to avoid problems with people losing post. Why not just have a letter box in the front door of your house like the rest of the world? If you put one in your own house would the postman really refuse to use it??
This is all to do with how difficult it is to ramp-up and down other forms of generation. Demand for electricity varies constantly of course, so the amount generated must also alter. I used to live in the mountains in Wales, and there were two or three windfarms and a hydroelectric dam within ten miles. When I was visiting the dam once I asked the guy there why it wasn't working, and he said that it was only for when there was a surge in demand. The is also the reason why some windfarms don't turn, even on a windy day.
Apparently the nuclear/coal/gas stations burn constantly as the others kick-in to meet peaks - it is easier to do this than run the renewable sources all the time and crank-up the traditional power plants on demand. It's a shame, but it should get less noticable as we build more renewable sources.
As an aside, the people where I lived were generally in favour of the windfarms. They were aware enough of the need for cleaner energy and the fact that the site was ideal to accept that they were necessary.
Funnily enough, the length of your forearm is exactly the same length as your foot. Try it!
Erm.. I don't know about the US, but Tivo here in the UK is happy to use my digital cable box...
OK, so let me ask you this: if those responsible for the WTC offered to "not blow any more buildings up" in 'return' for participation in deciding the future of Israel, what do you think the average US citizen would say?
Oh, and there are some more conditions too of course - all of their comrades have to be let out of prison, but they can continue to raise funds for buying guns to use on US troops while making some money on the side training Marxist terrorists in Columbia.
Can you see anyone in the US at all thinking that is acceptable? Whatever happened to 'never giving in to terrorism'?
Not everyone in the UK thinks the way that Murdoch's news empire would have you believe. Many people are seeing the murderers of their friends and family getting let off 'in the name of peace' with nothing to show for it. The fact is that most of the people in Northen Ireland want to be British, and the republicans can't handle the choice of the majority. Tough.
Good grief! Some people are unbelievable. I thought the US Government would ban all such fundraising after the WTC, but here it is for all to see.
One thing that people in the US often don't realise is the pressure our goverment is under to appease terrorists like the IRA - you wouldn't believe how many have been let out of prison on the understanding that they "won't blow anyone up again". These are people who think nothing of planting bombs in pubs or shopping centres full of women and children, just to make their point. I wouldn't call anyone who uses such tactics an 'army' - the only time they kill soldiers is when they leave bombs outside the barracks. These are vicious cowards, plain and simple.
Sorry for the rant, but it disgusts me that there is *anyone* in the US who reads sites like this and actually believes them. Giving them money is like paying to train those hijackers on 9/11 how to fly knowing full well what they want to do - you're just as guilty of murder.
> The Contras in Nicaragua are the only example I can think of.
What about all the US funding that the IRA got (and still gets, to a lesser extent) from the US? They specifically target civilians...
Hmm.. so perhaps we should follow this example and get rid of Bush? Voted in by what was a flawed voting process (where he might not have actually won at al) and a lapdog of big industry? There is your 'bullshit regime'...
I've had my T68 for a while now (6 months?). I have to say that its much more nicely put together than the T68i (which feels all plastic-y). The only 'improvement' made for the T68i is the software upgrade, but you can flash your T68 anyway.
In a nutshell then - go for the T68 and flash the ROM.
There used to be a brand of IDE hard drives called 'Bigfoot'. I can't remember who made them, but the idea was that they were in 5.25" instead of 3.5". Indeed, you did get quite a lot more storage for about the same money. This must have been down to larger platters...
Have you checked out Tele2 (www.tele2.co.uk)? Wireless broadband is actually available all over the place (including here in Bath, although we also have Telewest cable modems which are a better bet).
I've got a Sharp Zaurus and this would suit me fine (much less power drain than wireless Ethernet, and it could talk to my T38 'phone). Does anyone know any technical reason why this card wouldn't work on the Zaurus apart from lack of software (which can be fixed)? I take it that the Palm SD slot is the same as the Zaurus...
For those in the UK, you can buy prebuilt systems without an OS from Novatech (www.novatech.co.uk). Buying your PC without Windows (Linux isn't an option) saves you 80 pounds (299 exc. VAT for a Duran 1GHz).
I don't work for them, but I've used them and they're good.