I was part of the team that moved the 'red button' services across to use same page numbers (with an extra digit prepended for content not available on analogue TV) - my former workmate Andrew wrote about this here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pressred/2009/05/assigningpagenumbers.shtml
Cx was always great for speedy updating, but the client (journalist) software was clunky. It did help the BBC learn the importance of writing concise summaries for textual viewing many years ago (which was very helpful when the Web came along)
It was always *digital* but TX-d on analogue circuits. I'll miss it, but the info there is still available, and guess what? Life moves on. > 98% of UK people have digital TV now and the switchover went well. Still free at point of reception, still advert-free.
"I've made it a point the last couple times I've moved to make sure I have good access to transit options."
I take your points (time behind a wheel wasted, etc) - but is what I quoted you on such a revelation?
I like in the UK ("London, England") and don't drive. I have never moved somewhere without looking at 'good access to (public transport) options"
Is it really so rare in the US for people to consider how they'd get to work, or play, or their friends, by public transport that you consider it noting that recently you have been doing so?
When I've been to LA or NYC there have always been good, all night, cheap public transport options available. Is this not the case outside the E/W coasts?
It does exist. The Nokia tablets (n800/810) run Flash.
If you give Adobe enough money, they'll port Flash to your device's arch. Doesn't mean you'll be able to download and run it on a random box you're running Linux on for fun though.
'are you saying that everything on a Blackberry's drive is encrypted and therefore unretrievable if the password is lost?'
Yes, it is.
Individuals might have a blackberry with no encryption, and a weak password.
Anyone - like this guy - with a corporate blackberry will have an encrypted device and compulsory (annoying to the user - useful in this case) constant password checking and strong(ish) password policy enforcement.
'any european want to chime in here? from ANY country to any country- so long as it's all EU? I simply find that ubelievable..'
Nope, that's pretty correct -->http://www.euractiv.com/en/security/border-cont rol-single-eu-border/article-138329
'One of the fundamental principles of the EU project is free movement: EU citizens should be able to move freely and easily between member states. This means the withering away of borders within the Union and, concomitantly, the strengthening of controls at external borders. '
Going into and out of the UK (England, etc) is harder -there's a sea in the way, for start, and we haven't signed up to the directive
But on continental Europe, it's exactly as the OP said. Occasionally there'll be spot checks, but it's normally just a formality.
Myth just tunes to it (alongside the digital multiplex) and grabs a lot of info. It's not perfect, but it means we don't need to bother with zap2, radio times, etc
'Quick history lesson: British Subjects have to pay a television tax, which is collected annually based on the number of televisions (and type) in each household'
Quick reality check - this is bollocks. The licence is paid per household, and isn't dependent on the number of TVs in the household.
Walmart fucked up. "Like, did you know that American pillowcases are a different size than German ones are?" he asked. Wal-Mart Germany ended up with a huge pile of pillowcases they couldn't sell to German customers."
I know that and I'm neither American nor German.
That said, this hasn't disappeared - the stores have been bought, and Walmart won't be doing some of this again:
'....management had threatened to close certain stores if staff did not agree to work to working longer hours than their contracts foresaw and did not permit video surveillance of their work.'
Ugh. Still, the poster above seemed to think that the jobs and shops run by Walmart would go away at the slightest hint of state intevention - and the link you posted shows that not to be the case - thanks
Who knows, who cares (they don't, neither does Walmart)
* So then is it good or bad that they can work at WalMart?
Neither. It's many things, none of which are simple enough to reduce to a good/ bad or moral argument
* If WalMart disappeared these people would never work again?
What, disappeared like something from a child's story book? Please explain how Walmart could 'disappear'
* Would people be better off if WalMart had, in exchange for less growth, always paid its employees more than they were willing to work for?
'People'? Which people? Rephrase: If employees/ unions/ the state forced Walmart to pay more out in wages and less out in stock dividend, who would suffer? The stock owners and bosses at Walmart. Would Walmart 'disappear' as a result? No.
And what about people who work in Walmart because it's the only job that they can get? They can't stop working there....
In France their wages, hours, holiday, etc would be protected. So for them, perhaps, the state provides a friendly, helpful barrier against the raw unfettered capitalism that you think is something you can just opt out of when you want.
'The wealth now accruing to the already wealthiest segments of our society represents an illegitimate TRANSFER of wealth from the American middle class.'
And, of course, a transfer of wealth to the rest of the world. Benefitting mainly rich American capitalists, but still benefitting a large amount of non US workers.
Ah, I see the problem, here. You're an idiot. Well. No wonder.
We're talking about wifi, and poverty, you're talking about the Olympics. and medals (??) and commies (?????)
'I'll fight poverty, sure'
And howm exactly, Mr Clark Kent, are you fighting poverty? By not eating so many chocolates?
'Poverty is one thing, inequality another.'
And there we were just agreeing that they are two sides of the same coin, and that there's no/absolute/ definition of poverty that doesn't take into account relative inequality. Go back to your medals, Batman.
'Are you naturally retarded, or did it actually take some effort to write that response?'
Ah, a natural debater.
'the problem is that people continue to shift the definition of what it means to be poor.'
Yes, society does that. It's called relative poverty, or inequality.
'I don't mind giving money to make sure that people have the basic necessities of life'
Hurrah!
Don't you think that in a developed, civilised country, internet access becomes a necessity?
Would you give it up? No? Oh, but the poor shouldn't have it. I ask again, what exactly is the baseline? Food, a home. Warmth? New clothes, or will old clothes do? Should having kids be a 'luxury'?
"if your family is "low-income" by the conventional measure (poverty line) you probably shouldn't be spending money on wi-fi"
Care to share with us anything else that you think people on low incomes shouldn't be spending money on?
Books? Holidays? Clothes?
On the other hand, perhaps subsidising people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to go online is a good thing. Maybe that way they'll, you know, learn stuff/ get jobs/ have fun - all the things everyone else uses the Net for.
Oh, right, this is/. The market will take care of it, riiiight?
Slashdot Mirror
This [Teletext/Cx, branded as CeeFax for consumers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext%5D is (one of the many) the standard that my department (BBC R&D) helped invent - http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1975_12.shtml
I was a baby then but nowadays we still used the standard to test the next-gen DTV aerial signal 25 years on http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP160.pdf)
I was part of the team that moved the 'red button' services across to use same page numbers (with an extra digit prepended for content not available on analogue TV) - my former workmate Andrew wrote about this here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pressred/2009/05/assigningpagenumbers.shtml
Cx was always great for speedy updating, but the client (journalist) software was clunky. It did help the BBC learn the importance of writing concise summaries for textual viewing many years ago (which was very helpful when the Web came along)
It was always *digital* but TX-d on analogue circuits. I'll miss it, but the info there is still available, and guess what? Life moves on. > 98% of UK people have digital TV now and the switchover went well. Still free at point of reception, still advert-free.
The site ("BBC News of America") mentioned isn't a BBC site.
It's registered to an individual in Pakistan, is full of odd typos, doesn't have the BBC logo and seems to only have one contributor
Worse News: I suggest *you* consult the gramm[a]r police.
Reading the FA, it could be that the faxer sent the fax the wrong way up/ down - so the office received a blank fax.
This would seem a perfectly valid reason to reject the submission
So, one of your employees is late.
What's this got to do with texting?
"I've made it a point the last couple times I've moved to make sure I have good access to transit options."
I take your points (time behind a wheel wasted, etc) - but is what I quoted you on such a revelation?
I like in the UK ("London, England") and don't drive. I have never moved somewhere without looking at 'good access to (public transport) options"
Is it really so rare in the US for people to consider how they'd get to work, or play, or their friends, by public transport that you consider it noting that recently you have been doing so?
When I've been to LA or NYC there have always been good, all night, cheap public transport options available. Is this not the case outside the E/W coasts?
Confused of London
It does exist. The Nokia tablets (n800/810) run Flash.
If you give Adobe enough money, they'll port Flash to your device's arch. Doesn't mean you'll be able to download and run it on a random box you're running Linux on for fun though.
'are you saying that everything on a Blackberry's drive is encrypted and therefore unretrievable if the password is lost?'
Yes, it is.
Individuals might have a blackberry with no encryption, and a weak password.
Anyone - like this guy - with a corporate blackberry will have an encrypted device and compulsory (annoying to the user - useful in this case) constant password checking and strong(ish) password policy enforcement.
'The Daily Mail reports that thousands of protesters have been allegedly killed, yet, I don't see any mention of that on mainstream media'
? The Daily Mail is about as mainstream media as it gets.
The UK press, TV and radio is *full* of reports about Burma. Is it not being reported wherever it is that you live?
#sudo apt-get install evil-government-monitoring-program
ah, a debian user.
this should do it - #USE=CIA emerge evil-government-monitoring-program
By the time it's finished compiling, the sentence will be finished
'any european want to chime in here? from ANY country to any country- so long as it's all EU? I simply find that ubelievable..' Nope, that's pretty correct -->http://www.euractiv.com/en/security/border-cont rol-single-eu-border/article-138329
'One of the fundamental principles of the EU project is free movement: EU citizens should be able to move freely and easily between member states. This means the withering away of borders within the Union and, concomitantly, the strengthening of controls at external borders. '
Going into and out of the UK (England, etc) is harder -there's a sea in the way, for start, and we haven't signed up to the directive
But on continental Europe, it's exactly as the OP said. Occasionally there'll be spot checks, but it's normally just a formality.
'A system of values ("morality") that's grounded in reality and reason is fairly straightforward.'
Fine. Please define this, taking into account historical and geographical differences - to *your* 'system of values'
Myth just tunes to it (alongside the digital multiplex) and grabs a lot of info. It's not perfect, but it means we don't need to bother with zap2, radio times, etc
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/EIT
'Quick history lesson: British Subjects have to pay a television tax, which is collected annually based on the number of televisions (and type) in each household'
Quick reality check - this is bollocks. The licence is paid per household, and isn't dependent on the number of TVs in the household.
Walmart fucked up. "Like, did you know that American pillowcases are a different size than German ones are?" he asked. Wal-Mart Germany ended up with a huge pile of pillowcases they couldn't sell to German customers."
I know that and I'm neither American nor German.
That said, this hasn't disappeared - the stores have been bought, and Walmart won't be doing some of this again:
'....management had threatened to close certain stores if staff did not agree to work to working longer hours than their contracts foresaw and did not permit video surveillance of their work.'
Ugh. Still, the poster above seemed to think that the jobs and shops run by Walmart would go away at the slightest hint of state intevention - and the link you posted shows that not to be the case - thanks
Questions from you.
* Why is it the only job they can get?
Who knows, who cares (they don't, neither does Walmart)
* So then is it good or bad that they can work at WalMart?
Neither. It's many things, none of which are simple enough to reduce to a good/ bad or moral argument
* If WalMart disappeared these people would never work again?
What, disappeared like something from a child's story book? Please explain how Walmart could 'disappear'
* Would people be better off if WalMart had, in exchange for less growth, always paid its employees more than they were willing to work for?
'People'? Which people? Rephrase: If employees/ unions/ the state forced Walmart to pay more out in wages and less out in stock dividend, who would suffer? The stock owners and bosses at Walmart. Would Walmart 'disappear' as a result? No.
Are your questions bizarrely naive? Yes.
And what about people who work in Walmart because it's the only job that they can get? They can't stop working there....
In France their wages, hours, holiday, etc would be protected. So for them, perhaps, the state provides a friendly, helpful barrier against the raw unfettered capitalism that you think is something you can just opt out of when you want.
So? Set up your own programme to bring OLPC-style devices to the US.
This isn't funded by Western governments, but by people who want to bring low cost, low power devices to non US kids. What's your problem?
'The wealth now accruing to the already wealthiest segments of our society represents an illegitimate TRANSFER of wealth from the American middle class.'
And, of course, a transfer of wealth to the rest of the world. Benefitting mainly rich American capitalists, but still benefitting a large amount of non US workers.
Ah, I see the problem, here. You're an idiot. Well. No wonder.
/absolute/ definition of poverty that doesn't take into account relative inequality. Go back to your medals, Batman.
We're talking about wifi, and poverty, you're talking about the Olympics. and medals (??) and commies (?????)
'I'll fight poverty, sure'
And howm exactly, Mr Clark Kent, are you fighting poverty? By not eating so many chocolates?
'Poverty is one thing, inequality another.'
And there we were just agreeing that they are two sides of the same coin, and that there's no
'Are you naturally retarded, or did it actually take some effort to write that response?'
Ah, a natural debater.
'the problem is that people continue to shift the definition of what it means to be poor.'
Yes, society does that. It's called relative poverty, or inequality.
'I don't mind giving money to make sure that people have the basic necessities of life'
Hurrah!
Don't you think that in a developed, civilised country, internet access becomes a necessity?
Would you give it up? No? Oh, but the poor shouldn't have it. I ask again, what exactly is the baseline? Food, a home. Warmth? New clothes, or will old clothes do? Should having kids be a 'luxury'?
er, run it under strace, gdb, etc?
.gnome* out of the way?
mv your
add a new test user and see if it works with that?
gnome apps shouldn't (don't) 'fail') - what's going on with your setup/distro, etc?
"if your family is "low-income" by the conventional measure (poverty line) you probably shouldn't be spending money on wi-fi"
/. The market will take care of it, riiiight?
Care to share with us anything else that you think people on low incomes shouldn't be spending money on?
Books? Holidays? Clothes?
On the other hand, perhaps subsidising people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to go online is a good thing. Maybe that way they'll, you know, learn stuff/ get jobs/ have fun - all the things everyone else uses the Net for.
Oh, right, this is
'It has been shown that cameras increase car accident rates by between 7 and 24 percent.'
? says who?
Ah, the actual link 'http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/news.asp?ID=117'
Which explains either
a) cameras deliberately/ randomly cause accidents
b) more accidents are reported/ detected when there are cameras present.
Which do you think is the more probable?
'it would start to become a mudslingfest like the name calling at the start of the Iraq war.'
Yeah, just like that. Suse cofounder leaves. rejoins vs the Iraq war. *just* like that.