It will provide you with 5 broadcast channels. Yes, broadcast channels--cable or satellite will cost substantially extra. These are not specialty or niche channels. They just contain your usual mix of re-runs, soap operas, sitcoms, and miniseries; you will love some of these programs, dislike others, and ignore many of them. And, yes, there will commercials.
FWIW, the TV licence is only for the two terrestrial BBC channels, which are commercial free (and I guess the new BBC3 & BBC4 digital 'freeview' channels). ITV1, Channel 4 & Channel 5 are commercial channels and receive no money from TV licence fees. Many years ago, we were also required to pay a small licence fee for receiving BBC radio stations, but that was eventually relaxed. Interestingly, registered blind persons get a discount on the fee. I wonder if colour blind viewers only have to pay for a black & white license?
I can't be bothered to look up the US or British regulations on this, but the relevant section of the Canadian regulations can be found here (under "602.5 Compliance with Instructions"). Anyone who can potentially cause panic amongst other passengers is compromising the safety of the aircraft.
Of course he's a tool. Whether you like it or not, you must realise that the pilot of the aircraft has the final say about who can and cannot board the aircraft under their command. They are perfectly entitled to have anyone removed from the plane, and furthermore does not even need to provide an explanation. If the pilot say's "you're off" then it's end of story. Nobody can overrule him in the matter. Having some jackass wandeing down the aisle of a plane wearing a supected terrorist button could at the very least awake concerns amongst other passengers with a nervous disposition and/or a less (more?) developed sense of humour. This guy should consider himself lucky that he was thrown off when the plane was still on the ground.
Argue with godlike authority if you like, but don't whine when you get struck by lightning.
At risk of sounding like a tree hugger, I have to say that the cool factor of the pictures is somewhat diminished by the fact that these creatures are.... well.... dead. I was kind of expecting to see some nice photos of the animals in there natural habitat where they would generally look a lot better. It would be ironic if one or more of the specimens turned out to be extremely rare, consequently making these the first and last photos of a potentially endagered species.
"To seek out new life and new civilisations...and grill them with a knob of butter and a sprig of parsley. Mmmmmm."
Well, actually there is. You forget why region codes were introduced in the first place. It is not uncommon for movies to be released anything up to six months earlier in the US and Canada than in Europe (for whatever reasons known only to the movie industry, but hey, it's their product they can sell it when and where they like). This can lead to a situation where a movie is available stateside on DVD before it has even been shown in Europe. Without region codes, people would be mass-importing DVDs from the US into Europe and selling them to people who would no longer pay to watch them on the big screen.
I am not claiming to support the methods used by the movie industry, but importing/reselling DVDs in the above manner could be construed as illegitimate.
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This is will be great for backups...
You really think so? In my experience with the floppy hole punching trick, it worked great, but the resulting floppies tended to be less reliable due to bing pushed a little beyond their rated capacity. I would not mind betting that the resulting CDs would not only be more prone to read errors, but should your proprietary (read 'more expensive and harder to obtain') high density drive fail, you would not be able to just plug in any available drive to retrieve your backups. You would have to buy another special drive.
Except that your DVD drive in your Mac will be region coded - yes, even in the G4 notebooks!. Actually you are allowed to set the region code 5 times, which is pretty useless if you frequently travel an legitimately own DVDs from multiple regions.
I live in Canada and one day discovered that my wife had been playing both region 0 and region 1 DVDs in her TiBook. One day, she asked me why her laptop was now locked into region 1. Solution? As the machine was still under warrantee, I called Apple and insisted that they replace the drive with a new one, which they promptly arranged. We now have another five lives. Go figure!
if you were load up an AK-47 with Eminem and LL Cool J, would it be classified as a weapon of mass destruction? Hans Blix is going to be busy if these things become popular.
Within a couple of years you will not even be able to log into windows without standing with your hand on your heart, pledging allegiance to the gilded image of Chairman Gates and singing the anthem. All together now...
Does apple expect to sell macs because "the masses" will want to use OS X so badly that they'll buy Macs next?
Obviously. And they make some pretty sexy looking hardware too. Before you start shouting that the looks aren't important, take a look at the cars people drive. Take a look at the money they spend on curtains and carpets and non-essential items for purely aesthetic reasons.
The only excuse for not porting it is to make you buy apples
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I can have it page me whenever there is movement in the shower. Ooops! Thinking aloud again.
...I would not be using email in the first place.
Feeling lucky eh?
Probably before I get the mp3 I queued up 6 weeks ago
Posted this as a reply to the wrong comment. My bad.
I can't be bothered to look up the US or British regulations on this, but the relevant section of the Canadian regulations can be found here (under "602.5 Compliance with Instructions"). Anyone who can potentially cause panic amongst other passengers is compromising the safety of the aircraft.
Argue with godlike authority if you like, but don't whine when you get struck by lightning.
"To seek out new life and new civilisations...and grill them with a knob of butter and a sprig of parsley. Mmmmmm."
It only smells that way.
...they should consider who supplies most of their water. Just the thought of all that water makes me want to go pee in a reservoir.
I am not claiming to support the methods used by the movie industry, but importing/reselling DVDs in the above manner could be construed as illegitimate.
I live in Canada and one day discovered that my wife had been playing both region 0 and region 1 DVDs in her TiBook. One day, she asked me why her laptop was now locked into region 1. Solution? As the machine was still under warrantee, I called Apple and insisted that they replace the drive with a new one, which they promptly arranged. We now have another five lives. Go figure!
I have to ask. Just how did you find that link? Oh, maybe I'd rather not know.
if you were load up an AK-47 with Eminem and LL Cool J, would it be classified as a weapon of mass destruction? Hans Blix is going to be busy if these things become popular.
As long as they get their tits out 8)
...comes a great army of lawyers.
... but the other 54,000 complaints turned out to be spam.
"Developers, developers, developers, developers.."
I'm not missing the point at all. It was tongue in cheek. Cmd-Option-Esc gives you a GUI front-end to kill -9.
kill command? You command line junkies are all the same. try Cmd-Option-Esc :)