I'd like to see the guy who was interviewed put his python program up on sourceforge... it's neat and small and could do with more exposure... currently, there are precisely 4 links on Google for it, and one's in the article and I haven't a clue what licence he's got for it as there's nothing mentioned in the actual code or anywhere... I really want to know what licence he plans to let us use it under before I start messing with it myself...
they want me to buy it all over AGAIN??? I've already replaced my LPs with CDs... I'm not gonna spend major bucks to get official MP3s to use instead of my CDs... I'll carry on ripping to format shift and play on the mp3 player in my car...
I have a huge home made NAS with all my rips archived in flac and ogg and I've backed all that up onto DVD... I only transcode to mp3 when I want to make a mix disc for the car... the player in the car doesn't handle ogg, my ipod does though... only cos I wiped the OS from it and replaced it with Linux.
Now if they were offering downloads in flac format though... I'd maybe purchase new stuff that way...
Here in Denmark we have our public TV online already, and that plays on all operating systems, although linux is still playing in a lower resolution than under windows. All it requires is installing mplayer and getting the mplayer MS codecs (they are legal in EU).
That is NOT acceptable... the codec used should be non-proprietary and completely free to implement and redistribute. If it can't be distributed in Debian or Ubuntu then it's of no use to me and countless others who prefer to use free as in freedom software. I don't like binary blobs and I'm doing my best to remove them from my machines... If Intel had the sense to make a completely stand-alone graphics card that I could use in my AMD boxes, then I'd dump nVidia in a nanosecond...
When I hear the word "harmonise", I usually think of things being harmonious... however, what happens in looney Euroland is that harmonisation of laws results in things becoming equally bad for everyone... things never become less restrictive, they always manage to find a way for all the most restrictive laws to be kept and amalgated into the new "harmonised" version...
It's a members only club and we have no paid positions... all work is rostered and is a condition of membership. Bar duty, galley duty, safety boat, race officer etc. all done by club members (safety boat requires a qualification for which training is subsidised). We have sufficient members so that you can expect one of each in the year... (those on safety boat do at least two stints on that and get excused one of the others as safety boat personnel are limited in number).
Some of our members are millionaires, but you wouldn't know who they were unless they actually told you... no flashy gin palaces as there isn't room on the moorings for them. The maximum length allowed is twenty one feet. No flashy cars either as we can only access the club via a dirt track we lease from a farmer who's field we have to drive across.
30 year old boat, at least 5 previous owners (has been on one of our club moorings for twenty years).. bought it for £700 two years ago... costs £110 a year for insurance, £100 a year for the mooring, £80 a year club membership... excluding amortized purchase cost, this costs me £40 a month for the months I keep the boat on the water.
This is Yatching on the cheap... so I get really annoyed when components cost silly money just because they're intended for boats... let's see now, "approved" LED running & anchor lights cost some £300 just for the light assembly... I made my own for £25 total... non-slip deck paint £50 a litre... made my own using clean sand mixed in with outdoor grade paint for just £10
Anti-fouling is just about the only thing I can't do myself as I have to use the approved products by law... costs about £20 a year (I get two years applications out of 1 litre)
Charts, instruments and safety gear also cost stupid money, but I do all my sailing on a river so only have to worry about bouyancy aids
firetrucks, maybe.. ambulances? no. There's 1 dude in the back of an ambulance, why should that 1 dude have the right to endanger the lives of countless motorists and pedestrians just so he can save himself?
just wait until it's your turn to be that one dude... that's all I've got to say...
we have a convention in our society that traffic gives way to ambulances etc. on emergency calls... of course if you want to be an asshole then it's your right, but just wait until it's your turn to be the dude in the back... I hope some other asshole delays your ambulance ride...
Everyone (assholes excepted) gives way because they know it could just as easily be themselves needing the ambulance ride one day.
That is one of the major problems with PV showcases like the Australian solar race. they push efficiency more than $/watts which is my the winning cars cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It matters a heck of a lot for my boat... I've only got a limited area available for solar cells... and a required consumption of X Watts per weekend which has to be topped up during the week. I'd love cheaper solar cells... but for some weird reason, the manufacturers seem to think us Yacht owners are made of money... I found it far cheaper to make my own charging regulator / battery changeover system.
corporate critters only have an eye for the next quarterly returns... as long as they can make their killing and successfully cash out their stock options, they don't care about the stockholders really... they don't intend to be around when the crap hits the proverbial fan. They'll be off raiding another company
that's me stuffed then... I took a peek at my Azureus stats... and over the last 250 or so days, I've downloaded 325 GB and uploaded 340 GB... and thats with a paltry 50KB/s upstream... That's a lot of Linux distros... mind you, there's an awful lot of public domain films and music that I download and seed as well.
Mind you, I'm with an ISP that does not have one of these stupid "fair use" policies tied to their "unlimited" accounts... I have broadband via my cable account... and there's a fibre optic feed to a splitter thingy in the basement and I get a short coax run to my flat from that. That coax also carries my phone and TV signals.
I wish they'd just put E17 out properly and get on with messing around with E18...
it (E17) should have been frozen two years ago... If they'd frozen it, then the distros would have included it. Currently, they just provide E16... if you want E17, then you've got to compile it yourself or else find some kind soul who's already done it and provided a repository...
10 weeks pay by any chance??? I'm just curious about the 10 week gap before they can re apply for work there... maybe it's to do with benefits claims or something, maybe they can't claim unemployment if they're only off for 10 weeks. Some one over there please enlighten us...
and just you wait... when this malarkey has been in place for a few months and people are really, really mad at the queues... they'll introduce this nice smart handy RFID implant that allows you to breeze through the checks by just presenting the implant in the back of your right hand...
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you're stuffed if you were stupid enough to have gotten a Gary Glitter tattoo when Glittermania was all the rage...
I'd like to see the guy who was interviewed put his python program up on sourceforge... it's neat and small and could do with more exposure... currently, there are precisely 4 links on Google for it, and one's in the article and I haven't a clue what licence he's got for it as there's nothing mentioned in the actual code or anywhere... I really want to know what licence he plans to let us use it under before I start messing with it myself...
that would be because their victims aren't rich corporations who can buy votes...
ha ha ha ha.....
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wrong side of the pond...
and the correct procedure when being defamed is to sue the defamers... but first you have to sue the website to find out who the defamer is...
there IS precedent...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,73
the teachers involved should sue the websites to get the identities and then sue the posters...
oh wait... that costs money and takes time...
what else could we do... Ah I know... get our union to get the government to block them instead...
la la la la la la... I see no problem.... la la la la la....
That short??? I've signed up mu unborn great-grandchildren to carry on paying my contract...
just like our premier league footballers are doing now to avoid their coaches orders being lifted by the opposition during a match...
they want me to buy it all over AGAIN??? I've already replaced my LPs with CDs... I'm not gonna spend major bucks to get official MP3s to use instead of my CDs... I'll carry on ripping to format shift and play on the mp3 player in my car...
I have a huge home made NAS with all my rips archived in flac and ogg and I've backed all that up onto DVD... I only transcode to mp3 when I want to make a mix disc for the car... the player in the car doesn't handle ogg, my ipod does though... only cos I wiped the OS from it and replaced it with Linux.
Now if they were offering downloads in flac format though... I'd maybe purchase new stuff that way...
If I were a shareholder, I'd be asking for the resignation of the CEO... the buck stops with him...
That is NOT acceptable... the codec used should be non-proprietary and completely free to implement and redistribute. If it can't be distributed in Debian or Ubuntu then it's of no use to me and countless others who prefer to use free as in freedom software. I don't like binary blobs and I'm doing my best to remove them from my machines... If Intel had the sense to make a completely stand-alone graphics card that I could use in my AMD boxes, then I'd dump nVidia in a nanosecond...
Pandora: there is some user interaction to shape the channel with seeds for artist and/or songs to play similar to or avoid.
When I hear the word "harmonise", I usually think of things being harmonious... however, what happens in looney Euroland is that harmonisation of laws results in things becoming equally bad for everyone... things never become less restrictive, they always manage to find a way for all the most restrictive laws to be kept and amalgated into the new "harmonised" version...
/sudo shutdown -h now sent instead of /sudo shutdown -r now
It's a members only club and we have no paid positions... all work is rostered and is a condition of membership. Bar duty, galley duty, safety boat, race officer etc. all done by club members (safety boat requires a qualification for which training is subsidised). We have sufficient members so that you can expect one of each in the year... (those on safety boat do at least two stints on that and get excused one of the others as safety boat personnel are limited in number).
Some of our members are millionaires, but you wouldn't know who they were unless they actually told you... no flashy gin palaces as there isn't room on the moorings for them. The maximum length allowed is twenty one feet. No flashy cars either as we can only access the club via a dirt track we lease from a farmer who's field we have to drive across.
30 year old boat, at least 5 previous owners (has been on one of our club moorings for twenty years).. bought it for £700 two years ago... costs £110 a year for insurance, £100 a year for the mooring, £80 a year club membership... excluding amortized purchase cost, this costs me £40 a month for the months I keep the boat on the water.
This is Yatching on the cheap... so I get really annoyed when components cost silly money just because they're intended for boats... let's see now, "approved" LED running & anchor lights cost some £300 just for the light assembly... I made my own for £25 total... non-slip deck paint £50 a litre... made my own using clean sand mixed in with outdoor grade paint for just £10
Anti-fouling is just about the only thing I can't do myself as I have to use the approved products by law... costs about £20 a year (I get two years applications out of 1 litre)
Charts, instruments and safety gear also cost stupid money, but I do all my sailing on a river so only have to worry about bouyancy aids
just wait until it's your turn to be that one dude... that's all I've got to say...
we have a convention in our society that traffic gives way to ambulances etc. on emergency calls... of course if you want to be an asshole then it's your right, but just wait until it's your turn to be the dude in the back... I hope some other asshole delays your ambulance ride...
Everyone (assholes excepted) gives way because they know it could just as easily be themselves needing the ambulance ride one day.
It matters a heck of a lot for my boat... I've only got a limited area available for solar cells... and a required consumption of X Watts per weekend which has to be topped up during the week. I'd love cheaper solar cells... but for some weird reason, the manufacturers seem to think us Yacht owners are made of money... I found it far cheaper to make my own charging regulator / battery changeover system.
corporate critters only have an eye for the next quarterly returns... as long as they can make their killing and successfully cash out their stock options, they don't care about the stockholders really... they don't intend to be around when the crap hits the proverbial fan. They'll be off raiding another company
I can't find anything on the Debian site itself...
PIMP???
that's me stuffed then... I took a peek at my Azureus stats... and over the last 250 or so days, I've downloaded 325 GB and uploaded 340 GB... and thats with a paltry 50KB/s upstream... That's a lot of Linux distros... mind you, there's an awful lot of public domain films and music that I download and seed as well.
Mind you, I'm with an ISP that does not have one of these stupid "fair use" policies tied to their "unlimited" accounts... I have broadband via my cable account... and there's a fibre optic feed to a splitter thingy in the basement and I get a short coax run to my flat from that. That coax also carries my phone and TV signals.
it (E17) should have been frozen two years ago... If they'd frozen it, then the distros would have included it. Currently, they just provide E16... if you want E17, then you've got to compile it yourself or else find some kind soul who's already done it and provided a repository...
10 weeks pay by any chance??? I'm just curious about the 10 week gap before they can re apply for work there... maybe it's to do with benefits claims or something, maybe they can't claim unemployment if they're only off for 10 weeks. Some one over there please enlighten us...
a cron job to run it and I can do an incremental backup EVERY night to my email account... pity my upstream bandwidth is so crap though...
and just you wait... when this malarkey has been in place for a few months and people are really, really mad at the queues... they'll introduce this nice smart handy RFID implant that allows you to breeze through the checks by just presenting the implant in the back of your right hand...