Woah!! Steady on there, Al Jazeera is very much the independent press. It is probably the most independent news organisation originating in the Middle East.
Just because it presents the news with a slant, much in the same way as Fox news, (not a criticism, just a fact), does not make it a propaganda machine.
it has an editorial viewpoint which matches its audience,
Its independence would seem to be demonstrated by the fact that it is attacked just as much by local arab governments for telling the truth as by western ones.
My Profuse apologies Edgar, i appear to have done you a misjustice.
You are quite clearly talking about the POS PC and not the Mac Mini.
I am sure you are a brilliant intelect and a good researcher.
What! why is this modded insightful?
It's just plain wrong
The only available drive is the CDRW/DVD drive.
shame on you mods for not picking him up, and shame on you edgar for not doing your research.
In the UK 112 or 999 are free and can be dialed through a locked keypad on most phones. Because they don't charge for reading text messages or receiving calls, even if you don't have credit you can still do both.
When he said pre-paid sim cards, I presume he meant pre-paid phone accounts. You don't replace your sim card each time, you buy the sim card and top up the account. In the UK most kids with mobiles use prepaid accounts. Hence you can't get into debt because you can't send messages or phone people without credit. Phones are topped up through little machines in mobile shops, buying prepaid numbered cards with a certain value or in the case of my bank, through the ATM.
Actually, Hello or Hullo, as it was originally, were exclamations of surprise co-opted to serve as a greeting following the advent of the telephone. Thus the above usage is closer to it's original meaning than the common meaning today.
I remember a documentary on Newton in which it was stated that he came up with the phrase as a put down to Robert Hooke who disagreed with Newton's position on optics.
Hooke was a hunchback and sensetive about his height. It was in a letter sent by Newton to his rival that he said:
" If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Don't moan, if it wasn't for subsidies from London, you wouldn't have any busses.
The worst thing is that the new bridge over the Taymar that takes you into cornwall is like a trap, they don't charge a toll on the way in, but they do on the way out.
So in general you have nothing to moan about, with your EU/London subsidised bridges/roads/busses/farms
You may not trust the government, but I trust inertia and tradition. America and many other states differ from the UK because of the way their history has evolved. The UK has had a relatively stable government from pretty much the end of the English civil war. Rather than the rapid revolutions which mark the history of other countries, like France, Russia and America, in the UK there has been a gradual evolution of rights and the relationship between the people and the state. This means that in general people are more trusting of the state than they were, mainly because the state has had a tradition of benevolency for such a long period of time. The question i would ask is, What would cause such a change?
Exactly, the point is that The Matrix and LOTR brought Brand New CG techniques to the screen or used them in genuinely innovative ways that made you go "wow" when you first saw them.
When I first saw Bullet Time it had a significant impact on me and made my heart beat that bit faster. When I first saw enormous numbers of soldiers generated using Massive it took my breath away. There was actually very little that was actually innovative in CG terms in the new SW films.
Except that Gibson had the Romans speaking Latin, when in actual fact they would have spoken Greek for most of their everyday usage, using Latin for writing and formal occasions.
But because ABC receives money from direct taxation, its precise funding levels are determined by the government of the day, hence causing a conflict of interest and preventing it from reporting on what the government does.
The BBC license fee is ringfenced and guaranteed, because of the long periods between charter renewal, they can be secure in their funding to a greater extent than ABC in Australia.
This is the perrenial moan of every single person on this island. But, it is rarely as bad as it seems.
Having made a string of trips around the country recently by train, I have had very few delays.
Having had a member of my family break his arm recently, he was served promply and well, and more to the point, for free.
And the licensing laws are under review.
Or you could live in the states, where healthcare costs a fortune, and public transport rarely runs at all.
Or in France, with the best healthcare system in the world, but who's economy hasn't been in the black for the last 23 years, and who are passing the healthcare bills to the next generation.
Or in Germany, where the government is trying to force through painful economic reforms which make Thatcherism look nice.
I think the operative phrase here is, familiarity breeds contempt.
I have been wondering, could the reason for the BBC's support for OSS be due to the terms of their charter review?
Considering how often other media providers try to attack the BBC for their forays outside conventional broadcasting, the release of the codec could be insurance to keep the development going if they are prohibited from continuing.
The main problem is that in Britain it was introduced to replace the council tax, which is based on the size of the house. So the poll tax ended up shifting the burden of taxation onto poorer families.
Under poll tax, a Rich family with a large house but only four members would pay less tax than a poor family in a small house with lots of members, hence the opposition it faced.
What, through advertising and corporate sponsorship?
It always seems odd that despite the overall antipathy towards big corporations on this website, that there are always some who are prepared to sell out their public service broadcasters to the private sector.
What shows are better on those three channels? ITV is a steaming turd of a broadcaster, and while both Channel 4 and Five have their moments, most of their money goes on imports. When was the last time that Channel 4 funded the creation of a programme not involving sex, or the last time Five funded the creation of a programme not involving the Nazis, (I know these are generalisations, but still accurate).
I have to say. Whenever the license fee is discussed, you always get some people who claim, "I never watch any of the BBC's content so why should I have to pay the license fee. Yet, I have never so far met anyone who can prove to me that they never watch the BBC or make use of something paid for through the license fee. I would like to see someone with the guts to display an itemised list of their media schedule.
btw. What the hell are you watching if not on the BBC?
Actually, if i remember the media feeding frenzy at the time, it emerged that British Gas only do this as a last resort. They had sent them various warning letters that they weren't paying their bills, and it was only after four house visits, during which the couple refused to answer or pay, that they turned off the gas.
It then later emerged that the elderly couple were not broke at all, and had just refused to pay.
One of the best bits of advice about information interpretation came from an old history teacher of mine.
He drummed into us that
"there is no such thing as an unbiased source", everything you read, all the information you gather is drawn through numerous filters, based on the personal prejudices and judgement of the people delivering it. Yes there are such things as straight "facts" but you can only have the unbiased "truth" if you have all the relevant facts, and the facts delivered by news sources of any kind will have been filtered by someone.
Slashdot Mirror
Woah!! Steady on there, Al Jazeera is very much the independent press. It is probably the most independent news organisation originating in the Middle East.
Just because it presents the news with a slant, much in the same way as Fox news, (not a criticism, just a fact), does not make it a propaganda machine.
it has an editorial viewpoint which matches its audience,
Its independence would seem to be demonstrated by the fact that it is attacked just as much by local arab governments for telling the truth as by western ones.
Hey, they just changed it from eat to chew!
My Profuse apologies Edgar, i appear to have done you a misjustice.
You are quite clearly talking about the POS PC and not the Mac Mini.
I am sure you are a brilliant intelect and a good researcher.
What! why is this modded insightful?
It's just plain wrong
The only available drive is the CDRW/DVD drive.
shame on you mods for not picking him up, and shame on you edgar for not doing your research.
"Imagine they were filled with tap water"
Anyone for Dasani?
In the UK 112 or 999 are free and can be dialed through a locked keypad on most phones. Because they don't charge for reading text messages or receiving calls, even if you don't have credit you can still do both.
When he said pre-paid sim cards, I presume he meant pre-paid phone accounts. You don't replace your sim card each time, you buy the sim card and top up the account. In the UK most kids with mobiles use prepaid accounts. Hence you can't get into debt because you can't send messages or phone people without credit. Phones are topped up through little machines in mobile shops, buying prepaid numbered cards with a certain value or in the case of my bank, through the ATM.
Actually, Hello or Hullo, as it was originally, were exclamations of surprise co-opted to serve as a greeting following the advent of the telephone. Thus the above usage is closer to it's original meaning than the common meaning today.
I remember a documentary on Newton in which it was stated that he came up with the phrase as a put down to Robert Hooke who disagreed with Newton's position on optics.
Hooke was a hunchback and sensetive about his height. It was in a letter sent by Newton to his rival that he said:
" If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Don't moan, if it wasn't for subsidies from London, you wouldn't have any busses.
The worst thing is that the new bridge over the Taymar that takes you into cornwall is like a trap, they don't charge a toll on the way in, but they do on the way out.
So in general you have nothing to moan about, with your EU/London subsidised bridges/roads/busses/farms
You may not trust the government, but I trust inertia and tradition. America and many other states differ from the UK because of the way their history has evolved. The UK has had a relatively stable government from pretty much the end of the English civil war. Rather than the rapid revolutions which mark the history of other countries, like France, Russia and America, in the UK there has been a gradual evolution of rights and the relationship between the people and the state. This means that in general people are more trusting of the state than they were, mainly because the state has had a tradition of benevolency for such a long period of time. The question i would ask is, What would cause such a change?
Exactly, the point is that The Matrix and LOTR brought Brand New CG techniques to the screen or used them in genuinely innovative ways that made you go "wow" when you first saw them.
When I first saw Bullet Time it had a significant impact on me and made my heart beat that bit faster. When I first saw enormous numbers of soldiers generated using Massive it took my breath away. There was actually very little that was actually innovative in CG terms in the new SW films.
Except that Gibson had the Romans speaking Latin, when in actual fact they would have spoken Greek for most of their everyday usage, using Latin for writing and formal occasions.
Remember, "There are two kinds of Fascists, the Fascists and the Anti-Fascists."
I have to ask, are all the anti-BBC rants on this and the Dirac discussion your handiwork?
Or are there a group of you working in unison?
But because ABC receives money from direct taxation, its precise funding levels are determined by the government of the day, hence causing a conflict of interest and preventing it from reporting on what the government does.
The BBC license fee is ringfenced and guaranteed, because of the long periods between charter renewal, they can be secure in their funding to a greater extent than ABC in Australia.
This is the perrenial moan of every single person on this island. But, it is rarely as bad as it seems.
Having made a string of trips around the country recently by train, I have had very few delays.
Having had a member of my family break his arm recently, he was served promply and well, and more to the point, for free.
And the licensing laws are under review.
Or you could live in the states, where healthcare costs a fortune, and public transport rarely runs at all.
Or in France, with the best healthcare system in the world, but who's economy hasn't been in the black for the last 23 years, and who are passing the healthcare bills to the next generation.
Or in Germany, where the government is trying to force through painful economic reforms which make Thatcherism look nice.
I think the operative phrase here is, familiarity breeds contempt.
I have been wondering, could the reason for the BBC's support for OSS be due to the terms of their charter review?
Considering how often other media providers try to attack the BBC for their forays outside conventional broadcasting, the release of the codec could be insurance to keep the development going if they are prohibited from continuing.
The main problem is that in Britain it was introduced to replace the council tax, which is based on the size of the house. So the poll tax ended up shifting the burden of taxation onto poorer families.
Under poll tax, a Rich family with a large house but only four members would pay less tax than a poor family in a small house with lots of members, hence the opposition it faced.
What, through advertising and corporate sponsorship?
It always seems odd that despite the overall antipathy towards big corporations on this website, that there are always some who are prepared to sell out their public service broadcasters to the private sector.
What shows are better on those three channels? ITV is a steaming turd of a broadcaster, and while both Channel 4 and Five have their moments, most of their money goes on imports. When was the last time that Channel 4 funded the creation of a programme not involving sex, or the last time Five funded the creation of a programme not involving the Nazis, (I know these are generalisations, but still accurate).
I have to say. Whenever the license fee is discussed, you always get some people who claim, "I never watch any of the BBC's content so why should I have to pay the license fee. Yet, I have never so far met anyone who can prove to me that they never watch the BBC or make use of something paid for through the license fee. I would like to see someone with the guts to display an itemised list of their media schedule.
btw. What the hell are you watching if not on the BBC?
What are "adequate" steps, would that be multiple letters and home visits?
Actually, if i remember the media feeding frenzy at the time, it emerged that British Gas only do this as a last resort. They had sent them various warning letters that they weren't paying their bills, and it was only after four house visits, during which the couple refused to answer or pay, that they turned off the gas.
It then later emerged that the elderly couple were not broke at all, and had just refused to pay.
... In London
Radio 1 is the only National pop music radio station.
One of the best bits of advice about information interpretation came from an old history teacher of mine.
He drummed into us that
"there is no such thing as an unbiased source", everything you read, all the information you gather is drawn through numerous filters, based on the personal prejudices and judgement of the people delivering it. Yes there are such things as straight "facts" but you can only have the unbiased "truth" if you have all the relevant facts, and the facts delivered by news sources of any kind will have been filtered by someone.
The only solution for this is pluralism