And following on from Anonymous Cowpat (who's right), if you own only a radio, you can access ALL of BBC radio and the website for free. The licence fee is ONLY if you own a TV.
Personally, I'd happily pay the licence fee for Radios 3 and 4 alone. The rest is a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
The BBC has a reasonable variety of programmes available, and I don't think you'd call them blogs.
Radio 4 programmes include "Today" (Radio 4's flagship news programme); "From our own correspondent" (an extended piece of reportage); "In Business" (a business programme); and "In Our Time" (a highbrow chat show).
The full list of the BBC's offerings can be found here.
It's not an either/or issue. It seems to me that given that technology is something that many people appear to find rather worrying, if it can be made less daunting, then surely those people are more likely to use it.
To be sure, fashion is important, but I don't believe this is just about style. The success of the iPod (or any other device) is not only down to whether or not it looks pretty. Crucially, it is also down to whether or not it is user-friendly.
So Jonathan Ive, head of design at Apple, trained as an industrial designer, which means that he is concerned with both elegance and ergonomics; he is one of that rare breed who can successfully marry form and function.
All this means that means that the designer has to be alive to the cultural context in which the device is going to be used, as well as the technical niceties of making the thing work at all. Perhaps this gives some clues as to why it is that the design firms remain at the heart of the culture for which they are designing.
At the risk of sounding like an advert (and apologies to those who feel that I do), the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London is building a 3D GIS-based model of London that will and can be used to help the public explore different urban planning outcomes (amongst other things).
For those in doubt about BT's buggeration credentials, there's just this minute been a scene about how awful BT is in the latest (Quandary) Phase of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, currently on BBC Radio 4 (I'm listening to it as I write this).
I can't help feeling that the power elites won't need to seize power from the people. The people will be given the bread and circuses they want, remain apathetic, and simply hand power over on a silver platter.
And then I wonder whether the failure to capture Bin Laden is deliberate. As long as he's out there, the Blairs and Bushes of this world can claim to be defending us from the Great Enemy (Al Quaeda becomes equivalent to The Brotherhood, a possibly fictional enemy, in Orwell's "1984"), while they gradually erode our freedoms.
At some point there'll be an announcement saying Bin Laden has died, but has been replaced by someone even more dangerous, from whom they need to protect us by taking yet more of our freedoms.
And it can also be used as an ordinary USB memory stick (you can 'partition' it for songs and storage, and use it on a Mac or PC), and for the amount of memory is about half the price of the equivalent Sony NW-E-whatever-it-is.
I bought mine because it was a very good value USB memory stick which had th pleasant extra of being able to play music.
PS - why did SONY name the things after London postcodes (The London NW4-3GF MP3 player, anyone?)?
IANAL but if an employee can break a non-disclosure agreement by passing NDA-protected information to a news site, but can then hide behind a cloak of anonymity in the event of their employer following up the leak, wouldn't that (in effect) render the NDA unenforceable?
According to my copy of Apple Design Apple introduced a scanner in June 1987. It was styled in the manner of the Macintosh II by frogdesign. I don't know if it was colour or black and white, though.
How many of the 'Independants' get their money from (or are members of) GreenPeace, the Audobon Society, the Sierra Club and other environmentalist organizations?
And how many 'Independents' joined such organisations because their research led them to the conclusion that they should support such campaigning groups?
If you want the vertical menus beneath the mouse, try Deja Menu, here http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.htm l If you hold down a modifier key and click, a the menu bar pops up, NeXT-style, beneath the cursor. I guess with a programmable mouse, you could simply use a button.
Hope that helps
Nick
The founder of Demos joined Tony Blair's government in 1997 and ran its policy strategy unit until earlier this year. Demos was then and continues to be a highly influential and well-respected think-tank in this country: its views are worth taking seriously.
Of course, whether or not the report will persuade the UK government to buy open source software is, sadly, a different matter.
This might be a stupid question, but how is digital radio broadcast? Is it broadcast as an analogue waveform (surely not), or can valves broadcast digital signals too?
Any explanation wlecome!
I just looked at the BUGTRAQ mailings, and I get the impression that you need physical access to the computer to break in to it.
Have I got that right?
I'm no expert, but I've always assumed that given physical access to a computer, a decent hacker could easily have their evil way with it.
Of course that doesn't excuse Apple's failure to provide a patch and their rather glib upgrade suggestions.
I wrote my PhD on a ten year old (at the time) Apple Mac Quadra 700 (circa 1991) - 68040 at 25 Mhz and 20 MB RAM running Mac OS 8.1, and smoothly too. It used to be the server for the department, before it was pensioned off to me. Nice Machine. Solid, and upgraded with a NUBUS video card for ten quid from eBay to give millions of colours! I use an iBook now, but the Quadra still works fine.
As I understand it, a Nobel (science) prize can only be awarded for work that has subsequently been proved empirically to be true. That's why Einstein didn't get his until the 1920s: only then were his theories proved.
So any theoretical work that wins the Nobel will have done so because it has since been demonstrated to be true (as far as anyone can tell at the time!)
While what you say may be true for predicting markets - and there those who will argue that capitalist markets are crudely predictable - there are certain social behaviours that have tended to repeat throughout history in similar contexts.
Certain cities, for example, have often enjoyed short periods of spectacualr creativity, be it artistic, technological, literary or whatever. No news, perhaps, except that the circumstances in which these florescences occured have been remarkably similar, whether in Ancient Athens, 15th century Florence, 18th century Manchester, early 20th century Paris, 1950s New York; the list goes on.
What they all shared in common was that those being innovative tended to be cultural outsiders, entering a fluid socio-political regime, who could rock the boat somewhat. See Peter Hall's Cities in Civilization for a (much) more detailed account.
What that means, I think, is that yes, societal behaviour can be predicted at a very general level: that is "given a, b and c, you might well get d, and without them, you probably won't". As for predicting individual behaviours, and then predicting the emergent phenomena, well, I too have my doubts.
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And following on from Anonymous Cowpat (who's right), if you own only a radio, you can access ALL of BBC radio and the website for free. The licence fee is ONLY if you own a TV.
Personally, I'd happily pay the licence fee for Radios 3 and 4 alone. The rest is a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
The BBC has a reasonable variety of programmes available, and I don't think you'd call them blogs.
Radio 4 programmes include "Today" (Radio 4's flagship news programme); "From our own correspondent" (an extended piece of reportage); "In Business" (a business programme); and "In Our Time" (a highbrow chat show).
The full list of the BBC's offerings can be found here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/subscrib
Disclaimer: I don't work for the BBC, but I am a huge fan of BBC radio.
It's not an either/or issue. It seems to me that given that technology is something that many people appear to find rather worrying, if it can be made less daunting, then surely those people are more likely to use it.
To be sure, fashion is important, but I don't believe this is just about style. The success of the iPod (or any other device) is not only down to whether or not it looks pretty. Crucially, it is also down to whether or not it is user-friendly.
So Jonathan Ive, head of design at Apple, trained as an industrial designer, which means that he is concerned with both elegance and ergonomics; he is one of that rare breed who can successfully marry form and function.
All this means that means that the designer has to be alive to the cultural context in which the device is going to be used, as well as the technical niceties of making the thing work at all. Perhaps this gives some clues as to why it is that the design firms remain at the heart of the culture for which they are designing.
At the risk of sounding like an advert (and apologies to those who feel that I do), the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London is building a 3D GIS-based model of London that will and can be used to help the public explore different urban planning outcomes (amongst other things).
h tm
About Virtual London here:
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/research/virtuallondon.
About CASA's research here:
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/research/index.htm
Declaration of Interest: Professor Mike Batty, who runs CASA, was one of my PhD supervisors.
And later in the story the children do indeed shop their father...
no happy endings here
For those in doubt about BT's buggeration credentials, there's just this minute been a scene about how awful BT is in the latest (Quandary) Phase of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, currently on BBC Radio 4 (I'm listening to it as I write this).
And Arthur has fallen in love...
True, very true.
(Places tin hat on head)
I can't help feeling that the power elites won't need to seize power from the people. The people will be given the bread and circuses they want, remain apathetic, and simply hand power over on a silver platter.
And then I wonder whether the failure to capture Bin Laden is deliberate. As long as he's out there, the Blairs and Bushes of this world can claim to be defending us from the Great Enemy (Al Quaeda becomes equivalent to The Brotherhood, a possibly fictional enemy, in Orwell's "1984"), while they gradually erode our freedoms.
At some point there'll be an announcement saying Bin Laden has died, but has been replaced by someone even more dangerous, from whom they need to protect us by taking yet more of our freedoms.
(Removes tin hat from head).
Grunherz, Kalisda
Thanks! My fault entirely, though, for not checking my facts (and I have a copy of Apple Confidential, so no excuses there).
All the best
Charlie
Fair point. My mistake.
My original comment wasn't intended to be a troll, by the way, so apologies to anyone offended by it!
As grunherz points out, my comment should have been moderated (-1, misinformed). Personally, I'd have moderated me (-2, plain wrong)!
Macintosh is the operating system, Apple is the company. So an Apple Macintosh is an Apple computer running the Macintosh operating system.
Comments on ZDNet rightly point out that saying "Torvalds runs Mac" is simply a cheap ploy to draw hits, besides being inaccurate.
Quite right!
And it can also be used as an ordinary USB memory stick (you can 'partition' it for songs and storage, and use it on a Mac or PC), and for the amount of memory is about half the price of the equivalent Sony NW-E-whatever-it-is.
I bought mine because it was a very good value USB memory stick which had th pleasant extra of being able to play music.
PS - why did SONY name the things after London postcodes (The London NW4-3GF MP3 player, anyone?)?
IANAL but if an employee can break a non-disclosure agreement by passing NDA-protected information to a news site, but can then hide behind a cloak of anonymity in the event of their employer following up the leak, wouldn't that (in effect) render the NDA unenforceable?
According to my copy of Apple Design Apple introduced a scanner in June 1987. It was styled in the manner of the Macintosh II by frogdesign. I don't know if it was colour or black and white, though.
Hope that helps
How many of the 'Independants' get their money from (or are members of) GreenPeace, the Audobon Society, the Sierra Club and other environmentalist organizations?
And how many 'Independents' joined such organisations because their research led them to the conclusion that they should support such campaigning groups?
Dear Mr Taylor
If you were to ask six questions of the Slashdot community, what would they be, and why those questions in particular?
Affectionately Yours,
Charlie
If you want the vertical menus beneath the mouse, try Deja Menu, here http://homepage.mac.com/khsu/DejaMenu/DejaMenu.htm l If you hold down a modifier key and click, a the menu bar pops up, NeXT-style, beneath the cursor. I guess with a programmable mouse, you could simply use a button.
Hope that helps
Nick
The founder of Demos joined Tony Blair's government in 1997 and ran its policy strategy unit until earlier this year. Demos was then and continues to be a highly influential and well-respected think-tank in this country: its views are worth taking seriously. Of course, whether or not the report will persuade the UK government to buy open source software is, sadly, a different matter.
Shouldn't the computers running Win2K have simply rejected the upgrade?
This might be a stupid question, but how is digital radio broadcast? Is it broadcast as an analogue waveform (surely not), or can valves broadcast digital signals too? Any explanation wlecome!
I just looked at the BUGTRAQ mailings, and I get the impression that you need physical access to the computer to break in to it. Have I got that right? I'm no expert, but I've always assumed that given physical access to a computer, a decent hacker could easily have their evil way with it. Of course that doesn't excuse Apple's failure to provide a patch and their rather glib upgrade suggestions.
I wrote my PhD on a ten year old (at the time) Apple Mac Quadra 700 (circa 1991) - 68040 at 25 Mhz and 20 MB RAM running Mac OS 8.1, and smoothly too. It used to be the server for the department, before it was pensioned off to me. Nice Machine. Solid, and upgraded with a NUBUS video card for ten quid from eBay to give millions of colours! I use an iBook now, but the Quadra still works fine.
As I understand it, a Nobel (science) prize can only be awarded for work that has subsequently been proved empirically to be true. That's why Einstein didn't get his until the 1920s: only then were his theories proved. So any theoretical work that wins the Nobel will have done so because it has since been demonstrated to be true (as far as anyone can tell at the time!)
While what you say may be true for predicting markets - and there those who will argue that capitalist markets are crudely predictable - there are certain social behaviours that have tended to repeat throughout history in similar contexts. Certain cities, for example, have often enjoyed short periods of spectacualr creativity, be it artistic, technological, literary or whatever. No news, perhaps, except that the circumstances in which these florescences occured have been remarkably similar, whether in Ancient Athens, 15th century Florence, 18th century Manchester, early 20th century Paris, 1950s New York; the list goes on. What they all shared in common was that those being innovative tended to be cultural outsiders, entering a fluid socio-political regime, who could rock the boat somewhat. See Peter Hall's Cities in Civilization for a (much) more detailed account. What that means, I think, is that yes, societal behaviour can be predicted at a very general level: that is "given a, b and c, you might well get d, and without them, you probably won't". As for predicting individual behaviours, and then predicting the emergent phenomena, well, I too have my doubts.