well it also gets you about a dozen other channels on digital TV, 5 national radio networks and dozens of local radio stations, plus a very good website.
other countries have TV licenses too, and some of their state TV stations carry adverts as well!!!
With the new system you merely wave a card near a reader on the machine. London Underground are currently claiming that you shouldn't even need to take the ticket out of your bag. Ok, I've worked in buildings with card controlled access like this in the past, and I'm not sure this will actually work, but that is another rant.
it probably will work, they have this in place on the HK underground already.
yes but unfortunately if unchallenged the record companies will put the "protection" on more and more CDs until even yer wicked cool indie group who sell to 3 men and a dog will have this insidious protection too.
it might be ok, i got a load of 5.25" floppies for an Apple//c yesterday, they all date from 1984-5... and so far work fine! maybe Apple DOS is more durable;)
why don't you use one of those security chain devices to chain the computer to the desk? they're pretty cheap, though i know a lot of PCs don't provide bolts or holes for attaching the chain... thoughful of them.
iMacs have always been pretty impossible to expand (except RAM which is very easy) but its horses for courses. "power" mac users who want to add stuff buy the towers, everyone else who doesn't want to expand buys the iMac
but alphabetical representation is *not* better for chinese. you see, mandarin has 1000s of homophores which can make reading pinyin a bit difficult, for example there are several "qing"s, and dozens of "shi"s! often we can use marks or numbers to denote tones (e.g. qing3, shi2) but its still not as easy than characters, which are unique to each "word".
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well it also gets you about a dozen other channels on digital TV, 5 national radio networks and dozens of local radio stations, plus a very good website.
other countries have TV licenses too, and some of their state TV stations carry adverts as well!!!
With the new system you merely wave a card near a reader on the machine. London Underground are currently claiming that you shouldn't even need to take the ticket out of your bag. Ok, I've worked in buildings with card controlled access like this in the past, and I'm not sure this will actually work, but that is another rant.
it probably will work, they have this in place on the HK underground already.
they ought to sell 'em on ebay! ;)
why don't you learn both? then you got both bases covered ;)
yes but unfortunately if unchallenged the record companies will put the "protection" on more and more CDs until even yer wicked cool indie group who sell to 3 men and a dog will have this insidious protection too.
$500 for a Mac512K?!
;)
:D
someone gave me one for nothing earlier this year
obviously if i become destitute i can sell my retro mac collection in that shop
yes, me. so that is 1 at least ;)
well its supposed to be noon on 1st april
"No Luke, I am your bass player"
"I find your lack of a solo disturbing"
"The lyrics are strong with this one"
"Jimi Hendrix has taught you well"
they should just sell all those old computers back to westerners on eBay. ;)
no, but its an infinite loop ;)
cheaper than replacing a computer though ;)
it might be ok, i got a load of 5.25" floppies for an Apple //c yesterday, they all date from 1984-5... and so far work fine! maybe Apple DOS is more durable ;)
why don't you use one of those security chain devices to chain the computer to the desk? they're pretty cheap, though i know a lot of PCs don't provide bolts or holes for attaching the chain... thoughful of them.
iMacs have always been pretty impossible to expand (except RAM which is very easy) but its horses for courses. "power" mac users who want to add stuff buy the towers, everyone else who doesn't want to expand buys the iMac
in england its usually (well around here anyway) pronounced as jew-DAY-ism
well it runs ok on my 350MHz G3 mac but once you open classic it slows down. its fast enough to use OSX but not as fast as OS9 which is the problem
but alphabetical representation is *not* better for chinese. you see, mandarin has 1000s of homophores which can make reading pinyin a bit difficult, for example there are several "qing"s, and dozens of "shi"s! often we can use marks or numbers to denote tones (e.g. qing3, shi2) but its still not as easy than characters, which are unique to each "word".
you're correct but we're argueing different points ;)
so what? it still means there are many people who want to use the internet in chinese - which is the point here surely?
chinese is also used in taiwan, singapore, malaysia, indonesia and so on by sizeable populations
actually there are millions of pages already in chinese but as you can't read it you probably haven't noticed ;)
why should they have to learn english when there are 100s of companies and 1000s of individuals already providing content in chinese?
because it can be done and its fun to try.
you're on slashdot, you shouldn't need any more reason. in any point OSX is not exactly ultra fast on a G3 box
digital radio available over satellite has been available in the UK for years, on Sky Digital
yeah but the link referred to was a special deal, sold out within half an hour if you go to that website!!
as for that psion thing, looks nice but i generally listen to radio well away from a computer