In the UK on the BBC we have about 3 minutes of adverts per hour, as a gap between the shows and a few bits of internal advertising. On ITV, C4, C5 it's probably about 17 minutes per hour.
I've got a DS, i like playing games on it and that's great. I have neither the money nor the use of a PDA, i wouldn't use it most of the time and it would be a gross waste of my money.
Now if i am able to run a few things on my DS, like browse the net, check my email etc., great! It's another use for a product that i will use.
If all the effort devoted to these hobbyist projects were aimed at commercially viable projects, Linux might stand more of a chance in the mainstream. And isn't that the point of it? To be a hobby, something people do on the side because they find it fun? Are they people that care about Linux being mainstream, or care about using and adapting it to new things that they find enjoyable? People have other things to do, i doubt the people that do this have the time to try and make something commercially viable.
Set up the DS with a browser, use the wireless to get on the internet, the touchscreen would make a great way to navigate the net or type. You could turn it into a PDA of sorts.
But then i've had a copy of Windows Server 2003, directly connected to the internet for years with no firewall using ICS to share the connection, with only the MSBlaster update. It's running perfectly fine, i sometimes use it for browsing the net if my PC is down, i've never detected a problem.
...but then isn't that the whole point about him? We can't understand how he works out things. Sure, it seems weird that he can add shapes and get numbers to us, but it can be perfectly logical to him. I mean, what is multiplication? Basically, adding a number to itself so many times, so how can we "multiply" 2 by 10 without adding two to itself 10 times? Or the reverse, division, it even stranger a concept. We just divise different ways of working with things, numbers etc. Why not working with shapes?
That sounds like Synesthesia, which Horizon did a program about last year. People with synesthesia can see numbers as shapes (A woman described being able to see 1 to 10 in a line, 11-100 stacked above them, and then on and on in blocks of 100), words as colours (Monday is green) and someone could even smell words (His best friend's names made him feel sick).
The program seemed to conclude that we all, to an extent, are synesthetic. Quite a large number of people assosciate colours with days of the week, and we all use words like a "soft/sharp sound", a "bite" to a tase, and so on. Although these words are ones of touch, we use them in other contexts. Cross-referencing the senses in a similar war to more advanced synesthesia.
I seem to be using the internet as a VCR now, as opposed to pirating TV. Every Monday we have a problem with there being three shows on at once, so we watch one, record one on the VCR, and i download the other off the internet.
When we go on holiday, i can download anything interesting i missed without the bother of setting the VCR, organising the tapes so everything fits on and hoping that we didn't forget to hit the "Power" button which sets it to record from the settings.
The fact is, the internet is far more flexible (I can "record" a show a week after it was aired, or one that i missed but wanted to see. I can also "record" more then one show at once), better quality then my VCR and pretty quick (An hour or two for a TV show, i don't really have a problem, i'm not in a rush).
If you give Windows 2003 Server to a knowledgable admin, he will secure the box and make certain that the likelihood of it getting cracked is fairly low. He will know not to put the box on the internet until he's applied all SPs and critical updates. He will know to use an internal SUS or WUS to make sure that the box is updated without exposure to the internet.
Surprisingly, i've had a box running Windows Server 2003 for over a year, the only update installed was for Blaster. Never had any trouble with no firewall and an internet connection that's on contantly. It runs an Apache webserver and Filezilla FTP server too, so it's not like i'm "hiding" it.
But they've got the ability to create a massive barrier to entry. You've got the already set-up production, a ready and willing market to buy your product (Brand loyalty), the ability to manipulate the market and break/create standards to drive out other companies.
When you've got a massive or total control over the market it's very easy to manipulate and prevent others from even starting up, unless they're a company with and willing to throw massive funds at the problem.
Well, maybe "self-funding" was the wrong term, but you try making sense of the bloody charter:
(c) Subject to the prior approval of Our Secretary of State, to provide (whether alone or
together with any other person firm or corporation) sound and television broadcasting
services and communication services (whether by analogue or digital means) and to provide
sound and television programmes of information, education and entertainment funded by
advertisements, subscription, sponsorship, pay-per-view system, or any other means of
finance whether for reception by the general public free of charge or available on individual
demand or encrypted or not in Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the
Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and the territorial waters thereof and elsewhere in the
world (such services being hereinafter referred to as "the Commercial Services")
(g) determine the strategy for and oversee the provision of the Commercial Services in such a
way as to ensure that they are funded, operated and accounted for separately from the Public
Services;
As far as i can make out, that basically says that it can broadcast outside of the UK/Commonwealth provided that it charges/obtains revenue.
For the BBC World Service, that's counted under the "Public Services", which is funded by the BBC/Licence Fee. I presume it's a "gift to the world" or something. However, the cost of the World Service is probably tiny compared to everything else.
See the BBC Royal Charter (PDF) for more details. Reading that reminds me of Sir. Humphrey Appleby's longwinded speeches...
In the charter if the BBC wants to provide services outside the UK they must be self-funding. If you want to see BBCAmerica you need to pay. I'm not sure whether the video news feeds work outside the UK or not.
All those moaning it's slashdotted must be missing the fact that the rest of the BBC pages are still loading pretty damned fast. Browsing BBC News isn't a problem for me. Try a bit harder if you want to Slashdot the BBC.
How about asking: Is the percentage of non-windows viruses out of them the same as the percentage of non-windows machines? Then you might have a bit more context in your figures.
Seeing as time is measured using the cesium atom, i can't quite see an earthquake having an effect on it...
Useless fact courtesy of Bill Bailey.
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But then i live in the UK, ordered a calendar with a week long dispatch wait, predicted to arrive on the 30th December, and i got it on the 23rd December, about 5 days after the order was placed and way before it was predicted to even be dispatched.
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Normal school times in the UK are 8:30 - 9:00. Working a normal 9-5 day, people seem to manage perfectly fine over here.
In the UK on the BBC we have about 3 minutes of adverts per hour, as a gap between the shows and a few bits of internal advertising. On ITV, C4, C5 it's probably about 17 minutes per hour.
I've got a DS, i like playing games on it and that's great. I have neither the money nor the use of a PDA, i wouldn't use it most of the time and it would be a gross waste of my money.
Now if i am able to run a few things on my DS, like browse the net, check my email etc., great! It's another use for a product that i will use.
If all the effort devoted to these hobbyist projects were aimed at commercially viable projects, Linux might stand more of a chance in the mainstream.
And isn't that the point of it? To be a hobby, something people do on the side because they find it fun? Are they people that care about Linux being mainstream, or care about using and adapting it to new things that they find enjoyable? People have other things to do, i doubt the people that do this have the time to try and make something commercially viable.
Because it might actually be useful?
Set up the DS with a browser, use the wireless to get on the internet, the touchscreen would make a great way to navigate the net or type. You could turn it into a PDA of sorts.
But then i've had a copy of Windows Server 2003, directly connected to the internet for years with no firewall using ICS to share the connection, with only the MSBlaster update. It's running perfectly fine, i sometimes use it for browsing the net if my PC is down, i've never detected a problem.
That's actually "What can go wrong, will go wrong"
...but then isn't that the whole point about him? We can't understand how he works out things. Sure, it seems weird that he can add shapes and get numbers to us, but it can be perfectly logical to him. I mean, what is multiplication? Basically, adding a number to itself so many times, so how can we "multiply" 2 by 10 without adding two to itself 10 times? Or the reverse, division, it even stranger a concept. We just divise different ways of working with things, numbers etc. Why not working with shapes?
That sounds like Synesthesia, which Horizon did a program about last year. People with synesthesia can see numbers as shapes (A woman described being able to see 1 to 10 in a line, 11-100 stacked above them, and then on and on in blocks of 100), words as colours (Monday is green) and someone could even smell words (His best friend's names made him feel sick).
The program seemed to conclude that we all, to an extent, are synesthetic. Quite a large number of people assosciate colours with days of the week, and we all use words like a "soft/sharp sound", a "bite" to a tase, and so on. Although these words are ones of touch, we use them in other contexts. Cross-referencing the senses in a similar war to more advanced synesthesia.
I seem to be using the internet as a VCR now, as opposed to pirating TV. Every Monday we have a problem with there being three shows on at once, so we watch one, record one on the VCR, and i download the other off the internet.
When we go on holiday, i can download anything interesting i missed without the bother of setting the VCR, organising the tapes so everything fits on and hoping that we didn't forget to hit the "Power" button which sets it to record from the settings.
The fact is, the internet is far more flexible (I can "record" a show a week after it was aired, or one that i missed but wanted to see. I can also "record" more then one show at once), better quality then my VCR and pretty quick (An hour or two for a TV show, i don't really have a problem, i'm not in a rush).
And it will be perfectly on-topic too, a torrent to download a UK TV show (However, it will be so the Americans can download it).
And if the US Govt. has them, then every script-kiddie in the world will be putting their efforts in too!
If you give Windows 2003 Server to a knowledgable admin, he will secure the box and make certain that the likelihood of it getting cracked is fairly low. He will know not to put the box on the internet until he's applied all SPs and critical updates. He will know to use an internal SUS or WUS to make sure that the box is updated without exposure to the internet.
Surprisingly, i've had a box running Windows Server 2003 for over a year, the only update installed was for Blaster. Never had any trouble with no firewall and an internet connection that's on contantly. It runs an Apache webserver and Filezilla FTP server too, so it's not like i'm "hiding" it.
I've not watched the stream because I'm not installing realplayer, there's a lesson for Bill there as well.
What? That you're not going to install software that isn't his? Wow, you go show him!
"What do you mean "Is the cable plugged in?" of course it is. Oh, wait..."
*Phone goes dead*
But they've got the ability to create a massive barrier to entry. You've got the already set-up production, a ready and willing market to buy your product (Brand loyalty), the ability to manipulate the market and break/create standards to drive out other companies.
When you've got a massive or total control over the market it's very easy to manipulate and prevent others from even starting up, unless they're a company with and willing to throw massive funds at the problem.
Or the spam industry!
"Print your new, longer pen1s today! No need for vi4gra! Download the new 12 inch model today!"
However i fear the nozzle will get clogged half-way through.
Because there are already enough dupes, without making one for every time someone misses an article
A hilarious extract from Bill Bailey:
"Did you know that Americans spend more on porn in one year then the entire national debt of Sub-Saharan Africa"
Now go purchase/find/obtain/download the song that followed: "I will not look at titties for a year"
Well, maybe "self-funding" was the wrong term, but you try making sense of the bloody charter:
(c) Subject to the prior approval of Our Secretary of State, to provide (whether alone or together with any other person firm or corporation) sound and television broadcasting services and communication services (whether by analogue or digital means) and to provide sound and television programmes of information, education and entertainment funded by advertisements, subscription, sponsorship, pay-per-view system, or any other means of finance whether for reception by the general public free of charge or available on individual demand or encrypted or not in Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and the territorial waters thereof and elsewhere in the world (such services being hereinafter referred to as "the Commercial Services")
(g) determine the strategy for and oversee the provision of the Commercial Services in such a way as to ensure that they are funded, operated and accounted for separately from the Public Services;
As far as i can make out, that basically says that it can broadcast outside of the UK/Commonwealth provided that it charges/obtains revenue.
For the BBC World Service, that's counted under the "Public Services", which is funded by the BBC/Licence Fee. I presume it's a "gift to the world" or something. However, the cost of the World Service is probably tiny compared to everything else.
See the BBC Royal Charter (PDF) for more details. Reading that reminds me of Sir. Humphrey Appleby's longwinded speeches...
In the charter if the BBC wants to provide services outside the UK they must be self-funding. If you want to see BBCAmerica you need to pay. I'm not sure whether the video news feeds work outside the UK or not.
All those moaning it's slashdotted must be missing the fact that the rest of the BBC pages are still loading pretty damned fast. Browsing BBC News isn't a problem for me. Try a bit harder if you want to Slashdot the BBC.
Love the up-to-dateness of the article, linking to a BBC program which was aired on BBC Two, 9.30pm, 12 October 2000
How about asking: Is the percentage of non-windows viruses out of them the same as the percentage of non-windows machines? Then you might have a bit more context in your figures.
Seeing as time is measured using the cesium atom, i can't quite see an earthquake having an effect on it...
Useless fact courtesy of Bill Bailey.
But then i live in the UK, ordered a calendar with a week long dispatch wait, predicted to arrive on the 30th December, and i got it on the 23rd December, about 5 days after the order was placed and way before it was predicted to even be dispatched.