This is wrong. It is funded by those in Britain who own TVs (actually "broadcast receiving equipment" for the pedantic). I'm a British taxpayer, but I don't own a TV so I don't pay the licence fee.
You don't have to pay the fee, though, especially if you dont have a TV. If you do have a TV set but use it for games, or for DVDs, you don't need a licence either.
Did this change in the last 6 months? I don't own a TV and regularly get the letters from the TV Licensing folks saying that I need to pay because they can't believe I don't own one. The letters are always clear that any TV broadcast receiving equipment is included. This includes TVs, VCRs and PC cards with TV in. It applies even if they are not plugged in.
I'm working today on a Y2K problem that has just come to light. We have a system that turns out to treat 2 digit years >=10 as 19xx. The dates we are using can be anywhere from now to 5 years in the future, so in 2005 we have some dates that are now 1910. Ooops.
It's not hard to fix and not a danger, but the problem is real.
I saw it on some popular history/archaeology programme (probably BBC 2/Channel 4). I think the test was carbon-14 dating. The guy who said it was an archaeologist.
This reminds me of an archaeology programme on UK telly some years ago. An archaeolgoist explained how he had found a very well preserved female skeleton in a peat bog.
In the UK you have to tell the appropriate authorities if you dig up human remains and the police got interested because this bog was only a few hundred yards from a house where a woman had mysteriously disappeared about 20 years before. The police had always suspected the husband, but he had always claimed innocence.
The police went back to him and told him that they had found remains and the guy cracked. He confessed to them how he had killed his wife and dumped her body in the bog.
Several months later, the archaeologist got his results back from the lab proving that the skeleton was Iron Age.
But there is one big difference in three dimensions: there is a constant acceleration in one direction. Imagine doing 3 point turns in a car park if your car kept accelerating towards a wall. Not impossible for everyone, I admit, but it makes it a little hairier.
And if there were a bunch of average drivers doing this in the car park, would you volunteer to stand against the wall their cars were attracted to?
Remember, if you think flying is safe, it is only that because the people who do it are well trained and make an effort with safety. If they didn't, they would be flying for very long.
I noticed that! I can understand that normally mail appearing to come from your email is spam, but when you compose it using their own editor surely they can figure out it might be real.
Is anyone else reminded of the story of how Murphy's Law came into being (where something could be connected up the wrong way round and was)? I'm sure NASA has tightened up its procedures since Challenger/Columbia, but given that these things could be fitted either way it was an accident waiting to happen - thankfully it never did.
According to the article, Epiphany is based on Gecko, so I guess a lot of the code *is* shared. Also, Mozilla has t owork on a wide variety of platforms so it can't be as integrated into a desktop as a more customised browser.
I'm not convinced by 'LOTR: The Musical', but I think some of the stories in the Silmarillion are very suitable for opera. For example, Beren & Luthien and a cut-down version of Turin Turamber. They are short stories with lots of drama & emotion and, of course, plenty of tragedy.
I downloaded the update yesterday and I had problems later, although I didn't lose all networking. There didn't seem to be any sign what the problem was on the Microsoft support site.
So, I read Slashdot and find the answer to my Windows support problem! That's certainly different:)
BTW, to those who said the only way to solve is to reinstall Windows, have you tried rollin gback to the last system checkpoint before the upgrade? (worked for me on XP)
One of the coolest 'prosecutions' for hacking I came across was many, many years ago at school just after they installed a network.
The system manager left a printed copy of the password file lying around(!) and my friend used it to create a login script for a teacher's account that displayed a silly message and then logged out. This wasn't a brilliant hack as he (a) picked the teacher in charge of locks and keys for student lockers and (b) left his nickname in the message (which was known to the system manager).
Some teachers would have got very angry and sent my friend to the head for punishment etc. However, this teacher was a lot more relaxed. Nothing happened for a couple of days, then my friend suddenly found the lock had been changed on his locker and he had to go grovel for a new key...
Asimov suspected (in the introduction to one of his books?) that it was chaos that would probably be the undoing of 'psychohistory', i.e. the individuals you mentioned would have a 'butterfly effect' on history.
I have just ordered the book and one of the things I am interested in is if the science of networks offers some insights that allow you to say something about these kind of systems that are not always subject to "but chaos means we can't say."
However, it is still true that there has been
a problem with Fujitsu drives. According to
our PC supplier there was a 'bad batch of drives'.
Because we are a large customer, our supplier
is providing free replacement drives for all
our PCs that have these Fujitsu drives.
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It's not hard to fix and not a danger, but the problem is real.
"But it's my computer, honest!"
Sorry, can't give more than that...
In the UK you have to tell the appropriate authorities if you dig up human remains and the police got interested because this bog was only a few hundred yards from a house where a woman had mysteriously disappeared about 20 years before. The police had always suspected the husband, but he had always claimed innocence.
The police went back to him and told him that they had found remains and the guy cracked. He confessed to them how he had killed his wife and dumped her body in the bog.
Several months later, the archaeologist got his results back from the lab proving that the skeleton was Iron Age.
Ooops.
And if there were a bunch of average drivers doing this in the car park, would you volunteer to stand against the wall their cars were attracted to?
Remember, if you think flying is safe, it is only that because the people who do it are well trained and make an effort with safety. If they didn't, they would be flying for very long.
I noticed that! I can understand that normally mail appearing to come from your email is spam, but when you compose it using their own editor surely they can figure out it might be real.
Is anyone else reminded of the story of how Murphy's Law came into being (where something could be connected up the wrong way round and was)? I'm sure NASA has tightened up its procedures since Challenger/Columbia, but given that these things could be fitted either way it was an accident waiting to happen - thankfully it never did.
Though presumably not very visible in southern California...
According to the article, Epiphany is based on Gecko, so I guess a lot of the code *is* shared. Also, Mozilla has t owork on a wide variety of platforms so it can't be as integrated into a desktop as a more customised browser.
The key thing to have is an Austin Martin DB5 with revolving number plates of course.
I'm not convinced by 'LOTR: The Musical', but I think some of the stories in the Silmarillion are very suitable for opera. For example, Beren & Luthien and a cut-down version of Turin Turamber. They are short stories with lots of drama & emotion and, of course, plenty of tragedy.
So, I read Slashdot and find the answer to my Windows support problem! That's certainly different :)
BTW, to those who said the only way to solve is to reinstall Windows, have you tried rollin gback to the last system checkpoint before the upgrade? (worked for me on XP)
The system manager left a printed copy of the password file lying around(!) and my friend used it to create a login script for a teacher's account that displayed a silly message and then logged out. This wasn't a brilliant hack as he (a) picked the teacher in charge of locks and keys for student lockers and (b) left his nickname in the message (which was known to the system manager).
Some teachers would have got very angry and sent my friend to the head for punishment etc. However, this teacher was a lot more relaxed. Nothing happened for a couple of days, then my friend suddenly found the lock had been changed on his locker and he had to go grovel for a new key...
Asimov suspected (in the introduction to one of his books?) that it was chaos that would probably be the undoing of 'psychohistory', i.e. the individuals you mentioned would have a 'butterfly effect' on history. I have just ordered the book and one of the things I am interested in is if the science of networks offers some insights that allow you to say something about these kind of systems that are not always subject to "but chaos means we can't say."
However, it is still true that there has been a problem with Fujitsu drives. According to our PC supplier there was a 'bad batch of drives'. Because we are a large customer, our supplier is providing free replacement drives for all our PCs that have these Fujitsu drives.