An OS like XP? I don't have to reboot my work PC. When I do it maybe takes 5 minutes and that's because the machine's 6 years old. My Windows Vista at home kicks the crap out of that and is up in about 2 minutes.
I don't like to come down on the side of 'the Man' but in all honesty I don't see why anyone should ever be filming a film with recording equipment in the cinema.
The studios want him in jail for breaking the law. Thankfully that didn't happen but equally the guy's a class A MORON who should have maybe read those warnings before the film that told him the penalties he could face if he attempted to film the movie, eh?
I find it hard to have sympathy for dribbling incompetents.
Ah yes, very true. My comment was really to counter the argument that Australia doesn't have enough water to support the current population, which you've done an even better job of debunking than I did. Cheers:D
Do you have any idea how many nationalities there are in the world? 2.3% coming from a tiny country on the other side of the world is most definitely a lot.
Yes that is a lot of Bangladeshis for sure. but it is notunder any circumstances the same as saying "a lot of Londoners are Bangladeshi". If you can't see that then you have no grasp of English, let alone any grasp of numbers.
Recycling water would help greatly, though. As you say, the tanks are now allowed or must be as my future Brisbanite father-in-law has one. He claimed there was a plan to build a dam or something similar about 20 years back but it was vetoed at the time.
The problem is that Australia doesn't recycle water. The reason they don't is because they have a peculiar habit of asking the population to vote on things and people are very hard to convince of this sort of thing.
Here in the UK we've survived for generations on recycled water but Queenslanders would rather go parched than drink 'shit'.
You've got to admire the illegal immigrant bullshit. The majority of immigrants to the UK (and the target of reactionary media hate) are eastern Europeans who are perfectly legal. The media loves to muddy the water so much it's no surprise the government are having such an easy time of getting people to think this is a good idea.:(
Yeah, that's a lot of songs. My boss got bored waiting and used to set up playlists of bands he loved (New Order, say) to leave playing over night on his work PC in order to more represent his loves!:-D
Ah, but that's only true early on I assure you. And if you really want to get round this you can leave your PC playing stuff while you're out.
But it's really down to time. My profile initially had a lot of albums I'd only just got and most new albums will bubble up. Similarly, while I'm a massive Radiohead fan it's been 8 years since OK Computer came out so I don't really listen to it that much. But over time the new albums that were over-enthusiastically listened to have dropped.
Still, those artists in my Top 10 really do represent the music I've been listening to most and is a good idea of the things I'm into.
No system can be perfect but I'd rather not have to re-rate a song as I get bored of it or rate it again as I find I keep listening to it.
The main negative for last.fm is that you can only get through 3 or 4 tracks when listening to someone like Godspeed You Black Emperor while you could get through 28 Buzzcocks tracks in the same time. Moreover, tracks under a certain length are never counted, which is a not good for some hardcore acts.
1-5 scale says more about how one likes the song than just what happens to get played (especially since the point of itunes means one can listen to a whole slew of music on random)
But that's STILL the point. Why listen to a whole slew of tracks on random if you don't like them? It will only clock a track if you play more than 75% of it (IIRC) so skipping will mean that track is ignored.
The whole idea is to check what you listen to, not what you'd like to think you listen to.
"TiVo described the service as non-intrusive, relevant, interactive advertising on an opt-in basis."
But a girl I'm friends with will get porn recorded to her TiVo by it despite having no interest in such stuff. It just seems to decided to do this every now and again.
I wouldn't be that sure they can target correctly.
To some degree we are arguing at cross purposes. When I referred to the machine as being 'borked' I meant that there was malware of some sort hiding on there.
Clearly you put anything that is wrong with the machine at the feet of Microsoft, which I'll accept even if I don't agree with, making more sense of your either/or 'blame MS or blame Firefox coders'.
Personally I think you are letting people off the hook a bit there since you are basically suggesting (as far as I can see, taking it to it's obvious conclusion) that users aren't stupid, they just use stupid computers.
I don't know about games being stable. I know my new machine is borked in a hardware sense for games. I know this because the old machine was a beaut but this new one will crash with games. But I don't play games any more so I just do all the other stuff.
The software thing isn't a case of biting the bullet, by the way. It's about whether that software even exists under another O/S and it's about businesses that can't change for a lot more reasons than the cost to themselves. In the ideal world everyone would use a great O/S but this isn't that world.
To suggest that the answer to Firefox (comparatively a simple piece of software) not working is to get a new machine and O/S rather than Firefox attempt to fix it is unworkable in 99% of cases I would say.
(Personally, I don't have any problems at all with Firefox crashing under windows. I'm arguing the theory not the fact.)
Everytime someone points out a flaw, even a well known one, the zealots rush to mock the person.
And you think why people still stay away from FF.
Is the key one. "Use a different O/S, retard" is about the most pointless remark you can make, unless you're about to stump up the £1000's of pounds it's going to take to replace all the software they use. Personally I don't even know if the software I have on Windows exists on (say) Macs - I've so far known two Mac fanboys who can't do the things with music that I can do with Cool Edit Pro.
But I digress,
If I have to blame one or the other for some firefox-related bug, who do you think I'm going to pick? Come on, we are talking choices of A) Microsoft and B) someone other than Microsoft.
But don't you get kind of bored of assuming Microsoft are the reason? I mean, other people seem to be able to get software to run on Microsoft machines with good stability. Yes, it's possible they are trying to undermine Firefox but why would they bother? IE isn't making them money in the way MS-DOS was when they sabotaged DR-DOS for Windows. And I still need to use IE to access my work's online MS Exchange email, for example.
I would say it's more logical to blame Firefox for the problems or possibly the user's machine which could be utterly borked. To turn round and claim "Oh it'll be Microsoft" is simply to put the problem into a big black hole and ignore it, which I consider pretty stupid.
Yeah, but why would you use Dreamweaver? Textpad and a browser all the way, baby!
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I think the Light Fantastic is better but not by much. Personally I think the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Discworlds are the only truly great ones.
The others have moments of greatness but they're too concerned with having a plot with humourous touches. The early stuff is just plain weird but great with it, much like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
the AM antenna is a ferrite rod inside the radio with a coil around it
A solenoid, you mean? Interesting.
It would be interesting to work out the best portability to performance version, though. Like I say, its use might not be worthwhile for just going out and about but on other trips.
BBC 5 Live is only on MW you see, which is part of the problem. Radio 4 is luckily on LW. Of course, if they can fit it with a DAB then BBC7 is there too and life's much much nicer:-D
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so they can surf the net while booting up. They're only pissed off becuase there's nothing else to do.
An OS like XP? I don't have to reboot my work PC. When I do it maybe takes 5 minutes and that's because the machine's 6 years old. My Windows Vista at home kicks the crap out of that and is up in about 2 minutes.
What the hell is that? Wow. I too was thinking 15-30 minutes seemed ludicrous.
I don't like to come down on the side of 'the Man' but in all honesty I don't see why anyone should ever be filming a film with recording equipment in the cinema.
The studios want him in jail for breaking the law. Thankfully that didn't happen but equally the guy's a class A MORON who should have maybe read those warnings before the film that told him the penalties he could face if he attempted to film the movie, eh?
I find it hard to have sympathy for dribbling incompetents.
Ah yes, very true. My comment was really to counter the argument that Australia doesn't have enough water to support the current population, which you've done an even better job of debunking than I did. Cheers :D
Yes that is a lot of Bangladeshis for sure. but it is not under any circumstances the same as saying "a lot of Londoners are Bangladeshi". If you can't see that then you have no grasp of English, let alone any grasp of numbers.
A lot of Londoners are NOT Bangladeshi. Fact.
Recycling water would help greatly, though. As you say, the tanks are now allowed or must be as my future Brisbanite father-in-law has one. He claimed there was a plan to build a dam or something similar about 20 years back but it was vetoed at the time.
Compared to over 7,000,000? I hope to god you don't work in any job involving maths or statistics if 2.3% of something is your idea of 'a lot'.
A Londoner is one who lives in London so the answer to your question is as soon as they take up residence in London.
2.3% of Londoners are Bangladeshi (I presume in fact this is 'of Bangladeshi origin') which is definitely not 'a lot'.
The north coast of Australia is tropical and largely unoccupied. Of course, it's also full of salt-water crocodiles!
The problem is that Australia doesn't recycle water. The reason they don't is because they have a peculiar habit of asking the population to vote on things and people are very hard to convince of this sort of thing.
Here in the UK we've survived for generations on recycled water but Queenslanders would rather go parched than drink 'shit'.
Indeed. The problem with jokes for nerds is we get all nerdish about them. :D
You've got to admire the illegal immigrant bullshit. The majority of immigrants to the UK (and the target of reactionary media hate) are eastern Europeans who are perfectly legal. The media loves to muddy the water so much it's no surprise the government are having such an easy time of getting people to think this is a good idea. :(
A driving licence is only an alternative if you can drive and at that point surely you would be paying for the licence anyway?
:D
What's with all this crappy American spelling of licence by the Brits here, anyway? You use the 's' when it's used as a verb in proper English.
Yeah, that's a lot of songs. My boss got bored waiting and used to set up playlists of bands he loved (New Order, say) to leave playing over night on his work PC in order to more represent his loves! :-D
Ah, but that's only true early on I assure you. And if you really want to get round this you can leave your PC playing stuff while you're out.
But it's really down to time. My profile initially had a lot of albums I'd only just got and most new albums will bubble up. Similarly, while I'm a massive Radiohead fan it's been 8 years since OK Computer came out so I don't really listen to it that much. But over time the new albums that were over-enthusiastically listened to have dropped.
Still, those artists in my Top 10 really do represent the music I've been listening to most and is a good idea of the things I'm into.
No system can be perfect but I'd rather not have to re-rate a song as I get bored of it or rate it again as I find I keep listening to it.
The main negative for last.fm is that you can only get through 3 or 4 tracks when listening to someone like Godspeed You Black Emperor while you could get through 28 Buzzcocks tracks in the same time. Moreover, tracks under a certain length are never counted, which is a not good for some hardcore acts.
1-5 scale says more about how one likes the song than just what happens to get played (especially since the point of itunes means one can listen to a whole slew of music on random)
But that's STILL the point. Why listen to a whole slew of tracks on random if you don't like them? It will only clock a track if you play more than 75% of it (IIRC) so skipping will mean that track is ignored.
The whole idea is to check what you listen to, not what you'd like to think you listen to.
WinAMP plays that stuff. Does it just latch onto my existing WMP codecs, then, or is it a Windows-only program?
/. can watch this anyway.
I'd guess the vast majority of
"TiVo described the service as non-intrusive, relevant, interactive advertising on an opt-in basis."
But a girl I'm friends with will get porn recorded to her TiVo by it despite having no interest in such stuff. It just seems to decided to do this every now and again.
I wouldn't be that sure they can target correctly.
Okay,
To some degree we are arguing at cross purposes. When I referred to the machine as being 'borked' I meant that there was malware of some sort hiding on there.
Clearly you put anything that is wrong with the machine at the feet of Microsoft, which I'll accept even if I don't agree with, making more sense of your either/or 'blame MS or blame Firefox coders'.
Personally I think you are letting people off the hook a bit there since you are basically suggesting (as far as I can see, taking it to it's obvious conclusion) that users aren't stupid, they just use stupid computers.
I don't know about games being stable. I know my new machine is borked in a hardware sense for games. I know this because the old machine was a beaut but this new one will crash with games. But I don't play games any more so I just do all the other stuff.
The software thing isn't a case of biting the bullet, by the way. It's about whether that software even exists under another O/S and it's about businesses that can't change for a lot more reasons than the cost to themselves. In the ideal world everyone would use a great O/S but this isn't that world.
To suggest that the answer to Firefox (comparatively a simple piece of software) not working is to get a new machine and O/S rather than Firefox attempt to fix it is unworkable in 99% of cases I would say.
(Personally, I don't have any problems at all with Firefox crashing under windows. I'm arguing the theory not the fact.)
But I digress, But don't you get kind of bored of assuming Microsoft are the reason? I mean, other people seem to be able to get software to run on Microsoft machines with good stability. Yes, it's possible they are trying to undermine Firefox but why would they bother? IE isn't making them money in the way MS-DOS was when they sabotaged DR-DOS for Windows. And I still need to use IE to access my work's online MS Exchange email, for example.
I would say it's more logical to blame Firefox for the problems or possibly the user's machine which could be utterly borked. To turn round and claim "Oh it'll be Microsoft" is simply to put the problem into a big black hole and ignore it, which I consider pretty stupid.
Yeah, but why would you use Dreamweaver? Textpad and a browser all the way, baby!
I think the Light Fantastic is better but not by much. Personally I think the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Discworlds are the only truly great ones.
The others have moments of greatness but they're too concerned with having a plot with humourous touches. The early stuff is just plain weird but great with it, much like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
the AM antenna is a ferrite rod inside the radio with a coil around it
:-D
A solenoid, you mean? Interesting.
It would be interesting to work out the best portability to performance version, though. Like I say, its use might not be worthwhile for just going out and about but on other trips.
BBC 5 Live is only on MW you see, which is part of the problem. Radio 4 is luckily on LW. Of course, if they can fit it with a DAB then BBC7 is there too and life's much much nicer