So what do people **actually** use to listen to music in the UK?
I'm afraid I'm an old fogey so I listen to R4 (mostly commentary/news and current affairs) and
ClassicFM. Both in my car on the way to work. FM
holds up better in terms of reception quality
in a car AFAICT. I also suffer from cloth ears -
I used to shoot.22 rifle in competition so
I'm a bit deaf in the 6kHz range and as a result
when listening to digital streams, anything above
128kbps is a total loss on me.
I remember reading 'The Naked Sun' by Asimov written in 1957. I was amazed that he had thought of a method of uniquely identifying each robot on the planet by each having a 'badge'
comprising an 8x8 checkerboard. OK, so he didn't include any error correction codes, but the 2-D
barcode concept is, I'm afraid, very old hat.
I understand your sentiment and in some ways I agree, or at least I did until I found that one
of my PC game CDs had degraded to unusability -
it would work 1 in 8 times or thereabouts. Since the CD was needed in the drive to play the game, it would have been very useful to have made a copy of that CD so I could continue playing the game I bought. As it turned out it had some spiffy protection to prevent copying and now my feelings towards Appeal and Infogrames are somewhat low.
OK, so it isn't a big deal in the world plan
of things, but because of this I can't play what I consider to be one of the best games ever - ever again unless I buy it again. Since now Appeal is dead and Infogrames is part of Atari I doubt they will ever re-release it.
As such, if I allow all my friends to come in and say what they want, but I don't want some dirty Italian to come in and start talking smack, I should have a right to do so. And it would keep about half my f'n family out in the process
But there lies a problem. By brother in law is Spanish. My ISP in the UK uses blocklists. Because of someone elses desire to punish a spammers host, my brother in law is punished and so am I. The AC I presume isn't crying freedom for spammers to spam, but for the innocent to be not punished.
I might point out that all natural laws are derived strictly through empirical observation. In fact, that's the very definition of such a law.
Like the Stefan-Boltzmann law that was derived theoretically, not empirically.
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I for one would feel like I was selling the rights of everyone else for a living. I'm not sure how people can feel "good" about doing something like this.
It's the tragedy of the commons I'm afraid. Why do people murder? Why do people steal? Why do people feel the need to break into your house, steal your laptop and your CD collection and then take a shit in your bed? They feel, so long as it is 'them' doing it to 'not them', then it is
a null question. They are sociopaths. 2k years
ago they would have been left outside the village barricade and been told to fend for
themselves and never come back. Now we see them as an tolerated byproduct of freedoms in society
and not ostracising them as a mark of our civil advancement.
On the train service from Copanhagen to Gothenburg (Oslo) we already have WiFi - free of charge (-:
You are forgetting that the UK, at least in terms of public transport and service thereon, is a Third World country. I have to use public transport here every day and across the channel in France & Spain every 6 months and even after N trips the
difference in quality and price between the UK and Europe mainland never ceases to amaze me.
The most expensive part of any network is the labour costs of installing and wires need ducts and if ducts don't exist you have to put them in and you have to comply with building regs otherwise your ass is on the line. This is why the last time we had a 12 storey building fitted out (new purchase of the building) the cost in PCs, gigabit switches and UPSs for same was 400k and the cost of wiring the building was 500k
Do enlighten us - what is this perfect documentation format you have in mind (that existed before texinfo)?
And now we see the goalposts shifting before our very eyes. I said that info pages are worse than man. You say 'Oh no they aren't' a la Widow Twankey and then request a perfect doc system and if I can't, then through your warped logic, ipso facto I'm wrong.
You don't seem to grasp that no document system is either perfect, or even perfect for a single example.
Meeting user expectation is probably the best to target generally. I expect certain things from man and generally I get them. What flags? Thats at the top after synopsis man. What does the command do generally? Thats at the top in the description. How would I use this command in real life? Jump to EXAMPLES using/EXAMP. What does this command relate to? Jump to SEE ALSO with/SEE. No hitting PgDown like a maniac. What about all commands that use foo? 'man -k foo'.
Hell, it isn't perfect, but it does what any system really should do - it meets expectations of a competent user. It is possible, but possibly undesirable to meet the expectations of an incompetent user...
Does this mean no more cruel messages telling us to see the info pages?
I sincerely hope so. The info pages are about as much use as a handbrake on a canoe. I'm very surprised that the info page writers ignored the 'those who seek to re-invent the wheel are doomed to do so badly' adage.
surely that's a good thing in the grand scheme of things.
No, that is tantamont to 'the end justifies the means'. Back in 1215 (yes, nearly 800 years ago) it was recognised that to punish the innocent in place of the guilty was a Bad Thing(TM) (see the Magna Carta articles 39 & 40). Without this simple principle, justice is a crapshoot.
I'm an old enough gamer - started with a ZX 81 and my first FPS on the PC was Catacomb Abyss. Don't blame me that someone rated my first post as interesting - I was hoping for it to be viewed as a funny comment, mostly tongue in cheek. I'll add smilies next time to cater for the hard of thinking.
From the article:
He said the Commonwealth did not seek jail for UTS computer science student Tommy Le, 21, who has pleaded guilty to breaching copyright by mixing music and distributing his compilation tracks on the site.
...but so much criminal crap is produced by so called
professional DJs who should be in jail - we should make
an example of this individual who perpetrates aural GBH.
It was to test how fast it could be done, in case rapid deployment were necessary to either side of the country(ala Blitzkrieg)
< fx: ride of valkyries >
Hundreds of marines on Segways riding over the hill
to repulse invasion of Ivan.
Niet! Comrade! They are trying to make us piss ourselves laughing!
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The two have totally different provenances. They
started in different places with different code
bases.
Complaining that OpenBSD is not like Linux is like
complaining that Linux is not like AIX.
I'd get laughed at if I complained about the lack
of Smitty for Linux.
On second thoughts, I'd get laughed at for wanting
smitty on any OS.
This is a serious piece of software used by alot of professionals to model and simulate prospective aerospace designs
If this is remotely true I am very worried about the next flight I take.
I did my PhD in use of CFD (for liquid flows rather than gas flows but the basics apply) and for simple flow over a sphere to simulate one timestep of 0.5 milliseconds required 15 minutes on a 500MHz dual processor machine using software used in the aeronautics industry.
This is of the order of a million times slower than real time.
Some approximations must be being made for the lift calculations, approximations that make me suspicious of its utility in aerospace design.
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Why, oh why isn't there a Moderate: Missed the Point -1 available?
The degrees are very liberal and the think-tank is very small.
I'm afraid I'm an old fogey so I listen to R4 (mostly commentary/news and current affairs) and ClassicFM. Both in my car on the way to work. FM holds up better in terms of reception quality in a car AFAICT. I also suffer from cloth ears - I used to shoot .22 rifle in competition so
I'm a bit deaf in the 6kHz range and as a result
when listening to digital streams, anything above
128kbps is a total loss on me.
I remember reading 'The Naked Sun' by Asimov written in 1957. I was amazed that he had thought of a method of uniquely identifying each robot on the planet by each having a 'badge' comprising an 8x8 checkerboard. OK, so he didn't include any error correction codes, but the 2-D barcode concept is, I'm afraid, very old hat.
Especially if you use Calculator in Windows 3.1
OK, so it isn't a big deal in the world plan of things, but because of this I can't play what I consider to be one of the best games ever - ever again unless I buy it again. Since now Appeal is dead and Infogrames is part of Atari I doubt they will ever re-release it.
But there lies a problem. By brother in law is Spanish. My ISP in the UK uses blocklists. Because of someone elses desire to punish a spammers host, my brother in law is punished and so am I. The AC I presume isn't crying freedom for spammers to spam, but for the innocent to be not punished.
But will I get compensation when my PC is in London but my data ends up in Maui?
Like the Stefan-Boltzmann law that was derived theoretically, not empirically.
It's the tragedy of the commons I'm afraid. Why do people murder? Why do people steal? Why do people feel the need to break into your house, steal your laptop and your CD collection and then take a shit in your bed? They feel, so long as it is 'them' doing it to 'not them', then it is a null question. They are sociopaths. 2k years ago they would have been left outside the village barricade and been told to fend for themselves and never come back. Now we see them as an tolerated byproduct of freedoms in society and not ostracising them as a mark of our civil advancement.
I think it's more a physical limit, unless you can detect photons that aren't there.
You are forgetting that the UK, at least in terms of public transport and service thereon, is a Third World country. I have to use public transport here every day and across the channel in France & Spain every 6 months and even after N trips the difference in quality and price between the UK and Europe mainland never ceases to amaze me.
Bets on there being a requirement for it to be in the same place too...
And more semi-wireless power - splashpower
The most expensive part of any network is the labour costs of installing and wires need ducts and if ducts don't exist you have to put them in and you have to comply with building regs otherwise your ass is on the line. This is why the last time we had a 12 storey building fitted out (new purchase of the building) the cost in PCs, gigabit switches and UPSs for same was 400k and the cost of wiring the building was 500k
And now we see the goalposts shifting before our very eyes. I said that info pages are worse than man. You say 'Oh no they aren't' a la Widow Twankey and then request a perfect doc system and if I can't, then through your warped logic, ipso facto I'm wrong.
You don't seem to grasp that no document system is either perfect, or even perfect for a single example. Meeting user expectation is probably the best to target generally. I expect certain things from man and generally I get them. What flags? Thats at the top after synopsis man. What does the command do generally? Thats at the top in the description. How would I use this command in real life? Jump to EXAMPLES using /EXAMP. What does this command relate to? Jump to SEE ALSO with /SEE. No hitting PgDown like a maniac. What about all commands that use foo? 'man -k foo'.
Hell, it isn't perfect, but it does what any system really should do - it meets expectations of a competent user. It is possible, but possibly undesirable to meet the expectations of an incompetent user...
I sincerely hope so. The info pages are about as much use as a handbrake on a canoe. I'm very surprised that the info page writers ignored the 'those who seek to re-invent the wheel are doomed to do so badly' adage.
No, that is tantamont to 'the end justifies the means'. Back in 1215 (yes, nearly 800 years ago) it was recognised that to punish the innocent in place of the guilty was a Bad Thing(TM) (see the Magna Carta articles 39 & 40). Without this simple principle, justice is a crapshoot.
I'm an old enough gamer - started with a ZX 81 and my first FPS on the PC was Catacomb Abyss. Don't blame me that someone rated my first post as interesting - I was hoping for it to be viewed as a funny comment, mostly tongue in cheek. I'll add smilies next time to cater for the hard of thinking.
Organisation conducting experiments into reaching other worlds; experiment goes wrong; creatures and entities from other world start appearing.
I'm sure I saw a ginger haired guy with glasses near that reactor... hmmm
He said the Commonwealth did not seek jail for UTS computer science student Tommy Le, 21, who has pleaded guilty to breaching copyright by mixing music and distributing his compilation tracks on the site.
< fx: ride of valkyries >
Hundreds of marines on Segways riding over the hill to repulse invasion of Ivan.
Niet! Comrade! They are trying to make us piss ourselves laughing!
I'd get laughed at if I complained about the lack of Smitty for Linux.
On second thoughts, I'd get laughed at for wanting smitty on any OS.
If this is remotely true I am very worried about the next flight I take. I did my PhD in use of CFD (for liquid flows rather than gas flows but the basics apply) and for simple flow over a sphere to simulate one timestep of 0.5 milliseconds required 15 minutes on a 500MHz dual processor machine using software used in the aeronautics industry.
This is of the order of a million times slower than real time.
Some approximations must be being made for the lift calculations, approximations that make me suspicious of its utility in aerospace design.