I paid 481 pounds sterling (approx $750) for my TRS-80 model 3 disk controller and one 180k FDD (1982-ish). Anyone got a worse disk storage/cost ratio than that?
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98% eh? I must be the luckiest person in the world. Never had a single fake file from Kazaa.
Or more likely the 98% figure only applies if you're downloading the latest Britney-shit type stuff - this is probably what the RIAA concentrate on when they're putting up fake tracks...
True story: About 20 years ago when I was young and foolish I thought it would be a good idea to spend a night sleeping on the beach near Eastbourne (South Coast of England). Despite building a driftwood fire, by about 2am I was freezing and starting to worry about hypothermia, so I set out for the nearest railway station, which was a little place called Seaford. I arrived at the station about 3am, still freezing and exhausted and the first train wasn't until 6am. The waiting room was locked of course. In desparation I tried the key from my home porch door because it looked like the right sort - and it opened first time, no jiggling required. Inside was a bench, the station cat and *a gas fire*. Just before 6am, refreshed and warmed I relocked the door and left the waiting room just as I'd found it, and the train arrived a few minutes later.
So that's easily solved. Just have a new law which says that all other laws are to be interpreted 'in spirit' and not 'in intention'...
In fact, the UK courts (the higher ones anyhow) often do this. They will say "Parliament could not have intended this law to mean x since it was contrary to the stated intent of the law, therefore we will interpret this law as meaning y even though the actual wording suggests x".
They will refer to the original parliamentary debates if necessary to get the correct intent.
Exactly. Trouble is now there's so much amazing free software that unless you're really keen there's no incentive to write any. 15-20 years ago I used to write stuff (like a music collection database system for example) because that was the only way I'd get it - either it didn't exist or I couldn't afford it. Now I'd just download MySQL or something...
You have to predict further than a week into the future to get any credibility as a psychic.
Oh, I don't know...
A couple of hours would impress me if it was a prediction of the lottery numbers...
<Mystic Meg>
I See... I see... wait... A two digit number!
The first digit is between zero and four! And I see...
Another two digit number! Different to the first one!
No, the point is that before the speed cameras the front cars would race from one junction to the next at up to 60mph and by the time they got to my house (half way between junctions) they would have caught up with the stragglers from the previous 'batch', making a continuous stream. With the 30mph limit they can't catch up until the next junction so you get a 'moving gap'.
Not sure if I'm explaining it very well though...
What the hell are you talking about? We don't even have the concept of Jaywalking in the UK. So I'm supposed to wait 10 minutes for these drivers *all of whom are breaking the law* so I can *legally* cross the road outside my house (there's even a pedestrian island provided in the middle so it's a proper crossing point). Oh and by the way: none of the drivers is at all 'inconvienienced'. All it means it that they get to the next red light a few seconds earlier/later.
My personal experience of speed cameras: I live on a very busy road with a 30mph limit. About 2 years ago a series of speed cameras was installed. Before this, there was a continuous flow of traffic at speeds from 40-60mph with essentially no gaps. It took me up to 10 minutes to get across the road outside my house, and I still had to run to avoid traffic. Now the traffic comes in neat 30mph convoys with gaps (relating to the timing of the traffic lights at a nearby junction). I can cross the road in less than 2 minutes without running.
This got me too; we have to run IE 5.5 at work which AFAIK doesn't even have a patch for this, and we have no say in upgrades etc.
I was in 'at home' mode (mozilla with occassional fully patched IE6 for some sites) where my brain says '@ problem does not apply/fixed.
But I wouldn't have been 'got' in real life since I would have used the browser bookmark to get to the site, not the email link...
It may be 'whack' but realistically only about 10% of voters vote in relation to their local MP or local issues (this is a very rough figure based on various instances where for example an MP with a high profile retires or dies). Personally I will be voting Lib Dem in my seat although this will have no effect since it is one of the safest Labour seats in the country. In general I would vote to keep the Tories out, not to keep Labour in. I would really like to see how a Labour/Lib Dem coalition would work now that they have no fundamental ideological differences, and this might lead to at least a partial PR system in which it really is possible for everyone to vote for the party *or individual* that they feel most comfortable with and have that vote count (and not having to worry about letting the party they detest most in).
Incidentally, I do enage with my MP (Graham Allen, Nottingham North) although all I get are bland polite replies and it's hard to see that I have any effect.
That 45% includes a lots of people who support him because the alternative is worse - the ultra-creepy ultra-authoritarian Tory leader Michael Howard, who has opposed the few mild liberalisations bought in by the Labour govt. such as downgrading cannabis posession penalties and equalising the age of consent for same-sex partners. Realistically the choice is between him and Tony Blair at the next election. So if you're voting you'd better work out which of these will be more authoritarian rather than comparing Tony Blair against some ideal non-existent candidate.
At last a bit of reality. Many on the right and left will oppose this for various reasons. After the MMR business (btw as far as I can tell it is actually about as safe as these things get) there would be massive opposition to any sort of widespread/compulsory program. I don't know what it's like in the US but in the UK at the moment there is a huge distrust of ingesting anything the government says is safe and good. People still remember the BSE business, with a government minister force-feeding his child a beef burger on TV to illustrate how safe British beef was while people were already dying of CJD.
The only people who this could be forced on in the UK is probably convicts, who most people don't give a monkey's for (I wouldn't necessarily oppose this being *an option* for criminals whose crimes were basically to feed a habit, and who had been given normal rehab chances etc. They could (say) have a year in prison or 3 months + jab as an alternative (adjust figures as appropriate).
The 'law of uninteded consequences' tells me that if this sort of vaccination became widespread, so would the demand for drugs that were not blocked by it - hallucinogenics, new coke substitutes, whatever, possibly some of them more dangerous and addictive than ever. Something like this already happened in UK prisons - drugs tests were introduced with lost of priveledges if not clean. The result was that prisoners moved away from the relatively harmless but easy to detect for weeks after consumption (marijuana) to the addictive but less persistent (heroin). Nice result! I've got the impression that a lot of prisons eventually woke up to this and started ignoring positive marijuana tests...
IANAL but I'm sure this is wrong. No UK parents are forced by law to have their children vacinated. They are pressured by schools and doctors with targets to reach, and morally blackmailed etc. but there is no *legal* sanction.
The UK television license (minus collection costs) goes entirely to the BBC which provides 5-8 reasonably good to excellent ad-free television channels (including digital and interactive), a large number of ad-free radio stations, and the UK's most popular website. All include large amounts of quality original content. At about 2 pounds ($3) per week it's a tax I personally am happy to pay.
Never! The Soviet Union 'jokes' are a venerable slashdot tradition which will still be around in the year 3000 when everyone else has forgotten that the Soviet Union ever existed. Have you no respect for pointless and unfunny traditions?
I saw some posters from this campaign and they were along the lines of "4 households in X Street do not have a TV license". No names, no specific addresses, no privacy issues. I read afterwards that it was quite effective.
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Doesn't matter what the medium is or how reliable. You still need physically seperate backups to protect against fire, theft etc.
I paid 481 pounds sterling (approx $750) for my TRS-80 model 3 disk controller and one 180k FDD (1982-ish). Anyone got a worse disk storage/cost ratio than that?
98% eh? I must be the luckiest person in the world. Never had a single fake file from Kazaa.
Or more likely the 98% figure only applies if you're downloading the latest Britney-shit type stuff - this is probably what the RIAA concentrate on when they're putting up fake tracks...
"What's a *man* doing with a *bobby pin*?"
True story:
About 20 years ago when I was young and foolish I thought it would be a good idea to spend a night sleeping on the beach near Eastbourne (South Coast of England). Despite building a driftwood fire, by about 2am I was freezing and starting to worry about hypothermia, so I set out for the nearest railway station, which was a little place called Seaford. I arrived at the station about 3am, still freezing and exhausted and the first train wasn't until 6am. The waiting room was locked of course. In desparation I tried the key from my home porch door because it looked like the right sort - and it opened first time, no jiggling required. Inside was a bench, the station cat and *a gas fire*. Just before 6am, refreshed and warmed I relocked the door and left the waiting room just as I'd found it, and the train arrived a few minutes later.
I wasn't disbelieving you. I've got some right here in my desk drawer still.
So that's easily solved. Just have a new law which says that all other laws are to be interpreted 'in spirit' and not 'in intention'...
In fact, the UK courts (the higher ones anyhow) often do this. They will say "Parliament could not have intended this law to mean x since it was contrary to the stated intent of the law, therefore we will interpret this law as meaning y even though the actual wording suggests x".
They will refer to the original parliamentary debates if necessary to get the correct intent.
Exactly. Trouble is now there's so much amazing free software that unless you're really keen there's no incentive to write any. 15-20 years ago I used to write stuff (like a music collection database system for example) because that was the only way I'd get it - either it didn't exist or I couldn't afford it. Now I'd just download MySQL or something...
Huh? If your MP3 collection and other stuff is valuable, you back it up. If it's backed up you can wipe, install Linux and restore the Mp3s etc.
There might be a number of good reasons for not going to Linux on this laptop but surely this isn't one of them.
Or am I missing something?
Oh, I don't know... A couple of hours would impress me if it was a prediction of the lottery numbers...
<Mystic Meg>
I See... I see... wait... A two digit number! The first digit is between zero and four! And I see... Another two digit number! Different to the first one!
...
</Mystic Meg>And here's the rest...
Next comment:
"When I was a kid we hard-wired our programs on a plug-board"
Following comment:
"When I was a kid we programmed by machining cogs to make a difference engine"
Finally
"When I was a kid we had to manually simulate execution by drawing symbols on a rock with a pointy stick".
No, the point is that before the speed cameras the front cars would race from one junction to the next at up to 60mph and by the time they got to my house (half way between junctions) they would have caught up with the stragglers from the previous 'batch', making a continuous stream. With the 30mph limit they can't catch up until the next junction so you get a 'moving gap'. Not sure if I'm explaining it very well though...
What the hell are you talking about? We don't even have the concept of Jaywalking in the UK.
So I'm supposed to wait 10 minutes for these drivers *all of whom are breaking the law* so I can *legally* cross the road outside my house (there's even a pedestrian island provided in the middle so it's a proper crossing point).
Oh and by the way: none of the drivers is at all 'inconvienienced'. All it means it that they get to the next red light a few seconds earlier/later.
My personal experience of speed cameras: I live on a very busy road with a 30mph limit. About 2 years ago a series of speed cameras was installed.
Before this, there was a continuous flow of traffic at speeds from 40-60mph with essentially no gaps. It took me up to 10 minutes to get across the road outside my house, and I still had to run to avoid traffic.
Now the traffic comes in neat 30mph convoys with gaps (relating to the timing of the traffic lights at a nearby junction). I can cross the road in less than 2 minutes without running.
I *love* speed cameras.
Not until you have been passed by the wallet inspector...
This got me too; we have to run IE 5.5 at work which AFAIK doesn't even have a patch for this, and we have no say in upgrades etc. I was in 'at home' mode (mozilla with occassional fully patched IE6 for some sites) where my brain says '@ problem does not apply/fixed. But I wouldn't have been 'got' in real life since I would have used the browser bookmark to get to the site, not the email link...
It may be 'whack' but realistically only about 10% of voters vote in relation to their local MP or local issues (this is a very rough figure based on various instances where for example an MP with a high profile retires or dies).
Personally I will be voting Lib Dem in my seat although this will have no effect since it is one of the safest Labour seats in the country. In general I would vote to keep the Tories out, not to keep Labour in. I would really like to see how a Labour/Lib Dem coalition would work now that they have no fundamental ideological differences, and this might lead to at least a partial PR system in which it really is possible for everyone to vote for the party *or individual* that they feel most comfortable with and have that vote count (and not having to worry about letting the party they detest most in).
Incidentally, I do enage with my MP (Graham Allen, Nottingham North) although all I get are bland polite replies and it's hard to see that I have any effect.
That 45% includes a lots of people who support him because the alternative is worse - the ultra-creepy ultra-authoritarian Tory leader Michael Howard, who has opposed the few mild liberalisations bought in by the Labour govt. such as downgrading cannabis posession penalties and equalising the age of consent for same-sex partners. Realistically the choice is between him and Tony Blair at the next election. So if you're voting you'd better work out which of these will be more authoritarian rather than comparing Tony Blair against some ideal non-existent candidate.
At last a bit of reality. Many on the right and left will oppose this for various reasons. After the MMR business (btw as far as I can tell it is actually about as safe as these things get) there would be massive opposition to any sort of widespread/compulsory program. I don't know what it's like in the US but in the UK at the moment there is a huge distrust of ingesting anything the government says is safe and good. People still remember the BSE business, with a government minister force-feeding his child a beef burger on TV to illustrate how safe British beef was while people were already dying of CJD.
The only people who this could be forced on in the UK is probably convicts, who most people don't give a monkey's for (I wouldn't necessarily oppose this being *an option* for criminals whose crimes were basically to feed a habit, and who had been given normal rehab chances etc. They could (say) have a year in prison or 3 months + jab as an alternative (adjust figures as appropriate).
The 'law of uninteded consequences' tells me that if this sort of vaccination became widespread, so would the demand for drugs that were not blocked by it - hallucinogenics, new coke substitutes, whatever, possibly some of them more dangerous and addictive than ever.
Something like this already happened in UK prisons - drugs tests were introduced with lost of priveledges if not clean. The result was that prisoners moved away from the relatively harmless but easy to detect for weeks after consumption (marijuana) to the addictive but less persistent (heroin). Nice result!
I've got the impression that a lot of prisons eventually woke up to this and started ignoring positive marijuana tests...
IANAL but I'm sure this is wrong. No UK parents are forced by law to have their children vacinated. They are pressured by schools and doctors with targets to reach, and morally blackmailed etc. but there is no *legal* sanction.
The UK television license (minus collection costs) goes entirely to the BBC which provides 5-8 reasonably good to excellent ad-free television channels (including digital and interactive), a large number of ad-free radio stations, and the UK's most popular website. All include large amounts of quality original content. At about 2 pounds ($3) per week it's a tax I personally am happy to pay.
Never! The Soviet Union 'jokes' are a venerable slashdot tradition which will still be around in the year 3000 when everyone else has forgotten that the Soviet Union ever existed. Have you no respect for pointless and unfunny traditions?
I saw some posters from this campaign and they were along the lines of "4 households in X Street do not have a TV license". No names, no specific addresses, no privacy issues. I read afterwards that it was quite effective.
"Ducks have been known to have sex with the corpses of dead ducks."
Any known cases where they've had sex with the corpses of *live* ducks?