Danger Danger. I might buy a licence to listen to my new Coldplay album this week and assume its a licence FOREVER. But - the bastards go bust and shut down the service 3 years from now to replace it with a SUBSCRIPTION service - now I have to pay a $20 initial purchase plus $5 annual subscripiton for that album.
No. I wan't some media! In my hand - that plays on generic hardware. No more. No less.
When did government ever do anything better, cheaper, quicker than industry? Net access will stay in the private sector because any government can't afford to make it public for a list of reasons starting with 'they can't afford it' and running through to 'they'll fuck it up anyway'.
Net access is a commodity already - pretty soon it will be a utility in the same way petrol stations are. Think petrol stations - not roads. I dont have to sign an exclusive lock in 12 month deal with shell to fill up my tank - and soon enough I wont have to sign up to a long deal for access either - hopefully.
My house in Aberdeen Scotland was built in 1830 - granite, wood, wobbly glass in the windows. Working in the foundations to run some cat5 through a beam the timber is 100% - smelling beautifully fresh when I drilled through it.
The granite walls get re-pointed every 20 - 30 years as they need it. And I believe a few tiles were replaced on the roof after a big storm in 1987.
The wood paneling inside is still almost blemish free - despite a couple of hundred years of existence and being painted and stripped along the way.
It was a posh house when it was first built. The much smaller flat I stayed in previously was 20 years younger - but in a bad way because the granite used was of a lower quality (more porous / micro cracked allowing water in) and the timber in the roof was a lower quality leading it to sag and leak a few times.
I'd be confident that with reasonably caring owners this house will outlast my great-great-great grandchildren with ease.
My concern is that the half million sterling 'posh' homes being built around here at the moment are being built of low quality timber, steel, concrete and plastics. Softwood everywhere. I would be surprised if they were still standing a hundred years from now - they'll certainly be outlasted by my current home.
Anyone else sitting there thinking 'if I tell the story about... lets call him 'Dave' and the petty innappropriate emails he used to send he'll get upset - hes BOUND to recognise himself'
Blogging sucks. No blog is going to attract millions of viewers a day. But a million blogs might.
Give me a service where I can hook up a text, picture, and video connection with my 'posse' and if I'm egocentric enough I'll take it.
The only blogs to make it into the mainstream - i.e. attract a wider audience than their network of friends - will have a tabloid interest - nudity, offensiveness, extreme views, or some other rally call. No offence to that special breed of/.er who have 'popular' journals. But look at the content - hardly recommendations for new distros!
Personally I don't want my 'pub rants' preserved to be thrown back at me in 20 years time when Im up for head of the city council and one of my opponents wants to raise my past life as an ecoterrorist.
Are we talking music here, or just crappy pop like Britney and Boy Bands? I haven't bought a CD in a while where there wasn't at least one (usually a handful) of tracks which on first listen were poor, but grew on me to the point of becoming favoured over the more 'front of shop' tracks.
How many people bought Different Class for Common People and Es and Whizz and now prefer Pencil Skirt and Underwear? Coldplay, Badly Drawn Boy, Missy Elliot, Morcheeba, Beastie Boys, even the Beatles and the Stones!
If your paying by the track you'll never buy them - you'll spend your cash on the hits and ignore the 'filler'. If your buying real music the filler is often the most valuable stuff in the long run.
If you want to build your own compilation CDs without buying the whole albums good luck to you - but surely this is a niche market the rest of us will ignore.
Listen-up smarty-pants web designers. I don't want to be entertained, I don't want to be blown away by your fancy tricks -- I just want to be able to access the information and navigate without a whole lot of fuss,
Unfortunatly the CLIENT wants a whole lot of fuss and toss. The client doesn't want to pay a lot of money for it - so when told "we'll lose 2% of the audience if we don't double the budget to make it Mac compat" he'll say "fuck that! who uses Macs anyways - Gays???"
Its not always the designers - ultimatly the client is always to blame. I don't stay out of jail if it was my Accountant that fucked up my tax return!
I doubt that they will be that targeted. It will be much easier to fusk up 20% of all files, than even 1% of the 'artists on Sony' files.
So when I share high quality images of my paintings, mpgs of my animations, and MP3s of my rabbit eating carrots (all of which I own the copy on) these guys will be fusking them up.
If they only fusk the copyright stuff I applaud them - if people want to listen to Badly Drawn Boy they should buy him. But everyone should be able to share in my art without my having to pay massive badwidth costs on my website!
I found that a couple of blocks of wood, and a power drill with a bit of leather strapped to the bit worked better. Use the wooden blocks to protect your keyboard and spin the drill to slap the blocks as the leather spins!
I stopped this after one of the blocks lodged itself a couple of inches deep in my matress.
The best book I've read in the last few years is All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills. Pure gold - short - but brilliant. His other stuff is also good. No science in sight - but quite a strong observational 'bent' which drives the plots.
The masses need their food and shelter - they WANT their entertainment. Principles are principles - you obviously don't have THAT big a problem with the MPAA if you continue to buy their products. Thats my view, thats their view.
To ditch your principles to see a MOVIE seems pretty sad to me - not to you.
Who doesn't need physics to understand thins? Me? I beg to differ. I did a couple of years of Physics at uni and I dont have a quick intuitive way to suss the potential effects of this kind of kit.
My microwave may 'put out' a kilowatt but whats the apparent energy at 10m, 100m? I have a sneaky recollection that physics has some equations for that kind of shit! I've just forgotten them. They tended to involve squares and cubes and roots!
My physics sucks - anyone got a decent overview of the relative densities coming from Mobile phone masts and these things?
Recently a mobile phone mast was stopped from being erected on my street due to 'concerns over radiation levels' despite the background radiation being some 100x as strong in peoples homes.
Where have you drunk it? I'm no beer snob, but there are about 3 places in Scotland and a fair number in Ireland that do good Guinness. Nowhere in England that I've found. Everywhere else does it, but its harsh, edgy stuff with none of the silkiness of proper Guinness. Guess it doesn't travel too well. But seriously, a good pint of Guinness is a different thing altogether.
Enough of the Guinness bashing. Contrary to most of my peers - it was Guinness and not lager that introduced me to the delights of beer.
I found lagers and pilsners too wishy washy and flowery. Give me a Guinness or some other Stouter beer and I have something to chew on. Much better.
Then coming down from the Guinness you can appreciate the french 'brun' beers, and then their sister 'blanc's which are normally pretty much just lagers with a foamier head and a less chemical taste.
Gotta love the Guinness tho. Or Gillespies - have a pint or three of that if you get the chance.
Exactly. I always think heatsinks are like drugs cops. Change the rules a week bit and you don't need them! Saving everyone a lot of hassle, money, and worries.
Legalise drugs and ban Intel for a better world all round!
At no point did I suggest non-food aid was not required. I simply said that to say food aid was bad was wrong.
In simple terms:
Man One: Dave is a dick, I like Iain. Man Two: Dave isn't a dick! Man One: So. Your saying Iain is a dick! How can you say Iain is a dick?? Stop being such an Iainist!
That money would buy a lot of food, but when I thought of how much that million was, I thought it would buy a lot of tools and education and basic agricultural reform
Your attitude is outdated and patronising.
At the moment in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Zambia and Malawi drought over the past two seasons has drastically hit harvests, leading to 30 million people currently in need of food aid. Other countries are also effected to a lesser extent.
The majority of farms know how to farm, but are fucked without rain. Simple as that. They have the know how and tools, a degree of political stability has returned, but the rain hasn't fallen for a couple of years. No rain, no grain.
Food aid is needed now to get 30 million people in these regions through to the summer - no amount of tools or education will help. If you die in the winter you can't farm in the spring.
The only logical objection to this is the old 'well, there are too many of them, let 30 million die and theres more food to go round next year!' arguement. Funny how thats never suggested for poorer families in the US!
This isn't a world where the clever white guy needs to send over his knowledge to help those stupid Africans work out how to feed themselves. Its a world where the white north owns 90% of the worlds resources and can help out when areas are having a rough time. If it wants to.
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Danger Danger. I might buy a licence to listen to my new Coldplay album this week and assume its a licence FOREVER. But - the bastards go bust and shut down the service 3 years from now to replace it with a SUBSCRIPTION service - now I have to pay a $20 initial purchase plus $5 annual subscripiton for that album.
No. I wan't some media! In my hand - that plays on generic hardware. No more. No less.
When did government ever do anything better, cheaper, quicker than industry? Net access will stay in the private sector because any government can't afford to make it public for a list of reasons starting with 'they can't afford it' and running through to 'they'll fuck it up anyway'.
Net access is a commodity already - pretty soon it will be a utility in the same way petrol stations are. Think petrol stations - not roads. I dont have to sign an exclusive lock in 12 month deal with shell to fill up my tank - and soon enough I wont have to sign up to a long deal for access either - hopefully.
The question is - is 2013 soon!!!
My house in Aberdeen Scotland was built in 1830 - granite, wood, wobbly glass in the windows. Working in the foundations to run some cat5 through a beam the timber is 100% - smelling beautifully fresh when I drilled through it.
The granite walls get re-pointed every 20 - 30 years as they need it. And I believe a few tiles were replaced on the roof after a big storm in 1987.
The wood paneling inside is still almost blemish free - despite a couple of hundred years of existence and being painted and stripped along the way.
It was a posh house when it was first built. The much smaller flat I stayed in previously was 20 years younger - but in a bad way because the granite used was of a lower quality (more porous / micro cracked allowing water in) and the timber in the roof was a lower quality leading it to sag and leak a few times.
I'd be confident that with reasonably caring owners this house will outlast my great-great-great grandchildren with ease.
My concern is that the half million sterling 'posh' homes being built around here at the moment are being built of low quality timber, steel, concrete and plastics. Softwood everywhere. I would be surprised if they were still standing a hundred years from now - they'll certainly be outlasted by my current home.
Anyone else sitting there thinking 'if I tell the story about ... lets call him 'Dave' and the petty innappropriate emails he used to send he'll get upset - hes BOUND to recognise himself'
I meant cell phones - I havent been out of range with my Orange phone in over 2 years of travelling the UK.
Apart from when Im in a bunker or under the Thames - and even then it sometimes works fine!
Even satelite phones wont work on the moon.
A phone smaller than a deck of cards that I can use anywhere : too good to be true!
Insulating my roofspace saves 30% of my heating bills : too good to be true!
Aspirin : too good to be true!
Fibre Optics : too good to be true!
One big bomb that can fuck over a whole country in less that 30 seconds : too good to be true!
1000 hours of music on a walkman with NO TAPES : too good to be true!
Cat Deeley on TV every saturday morning when I wake up : too good to be true!
And yeah - I know these are mainly technology, not science, shoot me! I stand by 3 and 7!
Blogging sucks. No blog is going to attract millions of viewers a day. But a million blogs might.
/.er who have 'popular' journals. But look at the content - hardly recommendations for new distros!
Give me a service where I can hook up a text, picture, and video connection with my 'posse' and if I'm egocentric enough I'll take it.
The only blogs to make it into the mainstream - i.e. attract a wider audience than their network of friends - will have a tabloid interest - nudity, offensiveness, extreme views, or some other rally call. No offence to that special breed of
Personally I don't want my 'pub rants' preserved to be thrown back at me in 20 years time when Im up for head of the city council and one of my opponents wants to raise my past life as an ecoterrorist.
I would gladly pay $20 for 20 great songs.
Are we talking music here, or just crappy pop like Britney and Boy Bands? I haven't bought a CD in a while where there wasn't at least one (usually a handful) of tracks which on first listen were poor, but grew on me to the point of becoming favoured over the more 'front of shop' tracks.
How many people bought Different Class for Common People and Es and Whizz and now prefer Pencil Skirt and Underwear? Coldplay, Badly Drawn Boy, Missy Elliot, Morcheeba, Beastie Boys, even the Beatles and the Stones!
If your paying by the track you'll never buy them - you'll spend your cash on the hits and ignore the 'filler'. If your buying real music the filler is often the most valuable stuff in the long run.
If you want to build your own compilation CDs without buying the whole albums good luck to you - but surely this is a niche market the rest of us will ignore.
Shouldn't it just be kinda cool that we are going to the moon again - instead of all this 'us and them' shite?
Listen-up smarty-pants web designers. I don't want to be entertained, I don't want to be blown away by your fancy tricks -- I just want to be able to access the information and navigate without a whole lot of fuss,
Unfortunatly the CLIENT wants a whole lot of fuss and toss. The client doesn't want to pay a lot of money for it - so when told "we'll lose 2% of the audience if we don't double the budget to make it Mac compat" he'll say "fuck that! who uses Macs anyways - Gays???"
Its not always the designers - ultimatly the client is always to blame. I don't stay out of jail if it was my Accountant that fucked up my tax return!
I doubt that they will be that targeted. It will be much easier to fusk up 20% of all files, than even 1% of the 'artists on Sony' files.
So when I share high quality images of my paintings, mpgs of my animations, and MP3s of my rabbit eating carrots (all of which I own the copy on) these guys will be fusking them up.
If they only fusk the copyright stuff I applaud them - if people want to listen to Badly Drawn Boy they should buy him. But everyone should be able to share in my art without my having to pay massive badwidth costs on my website!
Who says advertisements cant be +4, Informative???
I found that a couple of blocks of wood, and a power drill with a bit of leather strapped to the bit worked better. Use the wooden blocks to protect your keyboard and spin the drill to slap the blocks as the leather spins!
I stopped this after one of the blocks lodged itself a couple of inches deep in my matress.
Off topic? so shoot me!
The best book I've read in the last few years is All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills. Pure gold - short - but brilliant. His other stuff is also good. No science in sight - but quite a strong observational 'bent' which drives the plots.
The masses need their food and shelter - they WANT their entertainment. Principles are principles - you obviously don't have THAT big a problem with the MPAA if you continue to buy their products. Thats my view, thats their view.
To ditch your principles to see a MOVIE seems pretty sad to me - not to you.
Who doesn't need physics to understand thins? Me? I beg to differ. I did a couple of years of Physics at uni and I dont have a quick intuitive way to suss the potential effects of this kind of kit.
My microwave may 'put out' a kilowatt but whats the apparent energy at 10m, 100m? I have a sneaky recollection that physics has some equations for that kind of shit! I've just forgotten them. They tended to involve squares and cubes and roots!
My physics sucks - anyone got a decent overview of the relative densities coming from Mobile phone masts and these things?
Recently a mobile phone mast was stopped from being erected on my street due to 'concerns over radiation levels' despite the background radiation being some 100x as strong in peoples homes.
Where have you drunk it? I'm no beer snob, but there are about 3 places in Scotland and a fair number in Ireland that do good Guinness. Nowhere in England that I've found.
Everywhere else does it, but its harsh, edgy stuff with none of the silkiness of proper Guinness.
Guess it doesn't travel too well. But seriously, a good pint of Guinness is a different thing altogether.
I bought my car and I buy my fuel.
I bought my phone and I buy my calls.
I bought my racket and I pay for court time.
Bonkers?
Enough of the Guinness bashing. Contrary to most of my peers - it was Guinness and not lager that introduced me to the delights of beer.
I found lagers and pilsners too wishy washy and flowery. Give me a Guinness or some other Stouter beer and I have something to chew on. Much better.
Then coming down from the Guinness you can appreciate the french 'brun' beers, and then their sister 'blanc's which are normally pretty much just lagers with a foamier head and a less chemical taste.
Gotta love the Guinness tho. Or Gillespies - have a pint or three of that if you get the chance.
Exactly. I always think heatsinks are like drugs cops. Change the rules a week bit and you don't need them! Saving everyone a lot of hassle, money, and worries.
Legalise drugs and ban Intel for a better world all round!
At no point did I suggest non-food aid was not required. I simply said that to say food aid was bad was wrong.
In simple terms:
Man One: Dave is a dick, I like Iain.
Man Two: Dave isn't a dick!
Man One: So. Your saying Iain is a dick! How can you say Iain is a dick?? Stop being such an Iainist!
The problem is ... even MS dont know when MS release a new version of IE.
That money would buy a lot of food, but when I thought of how much that million was, I thought it would buy a lot of tools and education and basic agricultural reform
Your attitude is outdated and patronising.
At the moment in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Zambia and Malawi drought over the past two seasons has drastically hit harvests, leading to 30 million people currently in need of food aid. Other countries are also effected to a lesser extent.
The majority of farms know how to farm, but are fucked without rain. Simple as that. They have the know how and tools, a degree of political stability has returned, but the rain hasn't fallen for a couple of years. No rain, no grain.
Food aid is needed now to get 30 million people in these regions through to the summer - no amount of tools or education will help. If you die in the winter you can't farm in the spring.
The only logical objection to this is the old 'well, there are too many of them, let 30 million die and theres more food to go round next year!' arguement. Funny how thats never suggested for poorer families in the US!
This isn't a world where the clever white guy needs to send over his knowledge to help those stupid Africans work out how to feed themselves. Its a world where the white north owns 90% of the worlds resources and can help out when areas are having a rough time. If it wants to.
Average response around the world to this announcement being passed on by IT department:
Dell do a handheld? - like my desktop and laptop? Is it black? Does it have a nice carry case? Will it 'work with my laptop'? OK I'll have one! Sweet!
Suit gets a new toy
IT get something else to support thats likely to break a lot
Corp spending rises again
Bingo! Worlds problems solved in a oner! Poor old Palm.