Really? AM reception is fine on my little sports radio and that only has a telescopic aerial about the length of a pen (when folded). But yeah, I was thinking of those flexible plastic T-shaped ones which is large, but then I was considering it for a fixed location point: On holiday it would be useful to just bring a small pair of speakers to plug into the iRiver and also get AM on top of FM.
Ah right, cheers. Shame they don't have some sort of fold up version you could plug in so that if you're taking a trip somewhere it would be an option if the iRiver was your main entertainment system.
I'm no fan of iPods but at a guess the reason they don't include a radio is to keep the design (inside and out) simple, and to make sure the unit is small. I don't think Apple really go in for conspiracies like that.
My iRiver's radio is good and I'm glad I have it but it's only FM. I would love if they could have included an AM but I'm guessing it's either too much power required or the FM radio's just been flung in because they can.
My mobile battery is fine now and can deal with day to day stuff but I can't really see it coping much with TV in my hand.
And on top of that, I'm at a loss to think how often I'd really want to squint at a screen that size. While it's true that I normally have my mobile with me, something like the PSP or similar isn't much larger and seems far more practical.
That's before I even think about what the cost must be to receive these broadcasts.
It's a shame the parent isn't modded higher because having read that 'AIDS is a government creation' piece I now want to know all the contrary evidence so it ceases to scare me as much.
Actually it has already become less virulent according to my friend who has worked in this sort of field. I can't actually provide you with evidence links but it is natural for a virus like HIV/AIDS to do this as the longer it takes before it's killing onset the more chance it has to damage the population.
So, first, that is a completely incorrect application of Occam's Razor.
It's not completely incorrect. The allusion is obvious that if we consider all the likely possibilities, an incorrect initial test is the simplest and most obvious.
On the other hand, there seems to be a lot of interest generated around this, enough for me to wonder that it could be that simple, given that would naturally be the first assumption of the authorities too. Presumably the two samples have been checked a few times now...
There is little as boring as a person who trots out the tired argument about 'opinion vs. fact' with respect to something they know is opinion.
But if you want to argue on that point, I would still say factually that I am correct.
Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and The Matrix make critical lists that the other six movies mentioned do not. Note that I said 'not particularly good', which is an interpretted phrase, so it can mean something very different to you compared to me. And clearly your critical eye is much less critical than mine.
You could, for example, check the IMDB top 100 movies and note that Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back are both in the top 10 and The Matrix is 34. There are no other Matrix films in the top 250; Return of the Jedi is no. 118 and Revenge of the Sith is the only other Star Wars film in the list and down about 230 or something.
So if we take the top 100 films on IMDB to be particularly good movies then what I said was factually correct.
See how pointless it is to argue your opinion against mine like it matters? No one who read what I wrote would have had any trouble understanding me: that of those nine films, three of them are head and shoulders above the other six and no amount of analysis and apologists will change that. Naturally I used a little hyperbole but this is perfectly normal and acceptable.
"The average user doesn't have an arsenal of machines, he has one."
I don't know that I agree with this. I'm not saying you're wrong but one of the problems in the PC world is that you have a piece of equipment that cost you a chunk of cash three years ago and it does some stuff okay but it's too slow.
But you can't sell it on because it's worthless. At the same time we're frugal types in the main so we don't want to just chuck it away. I think people will keep that second unit most likely.
I considered an Apple for my laptop choice earlier in the year but their iBooks are far too bulky to compete with the Vaio T1 from the Sony factory outlet.
I didn't think marketing was so complicated, though? They know full-well that Star Trek doesn't go out of fashion so they start the sets off at £80 a pop and then after a few years you'll be able to get them for £30 in the sales and things as they move it down.
This is standard process: they sell high first to get the people who'll pay anything.
Look at Buffy: now re-released in new packaging at half the price well after the series' maximum popularity.
It's never hard to get these things at bargain prices if you keep looking around and use sites like DVD Price Check you'll get it cheaper.
I think it's a very interesting read and it is serious.
However it doesn't change the fact that the prequels (and indeed Jedi) aren't particularly good movies, even if they have some good moments in them.
I'm reminded of the defenders of the 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies who seemed convinced that the whole Danté allegory made the films better. Clearly it didn't. The two Matrix sequels are turds, no matter how hard their authors tried to be clever.
To be honest I'm a bit surprised at the comments raised here: I took it as read that everyone had been taught all this stuff ad-infinitum at school, but it's probably because I went a liberal wishy-washy inner-London right-on sort of comprehensive.
Basically my initial remark was nothing more than a rather poor attempt at humour at the idea that the concept of using a hurricane as an energy source was a negative feedback (I think?) system. A touch of fairly poor irony.
Regrettably they don't just do these things in a random manner: The first houses to be checked are those that had a licence last year and failed to get one this year, hence next year they would almost-certainly knock at your door, especially as you'd been unhelpful the last time...Unless you moved to a new place!
when they go run out and buy one -- when they come back with the police you have a license
But...then you've just bought a licence. Err. Doesn't that make you officially a failure in the criminal world? Clearly you didn't spend seven years at Evil Medical School to come up with that, did you?
Yes the post realises this: They lived in the UK. Their point was in reference to the ad breaks on UK commercial television (as raised by the parent poster's comments on Sky).
Hope that made sense as I can't remember people's names!
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Really? AM reception is fine on my little sports radio and that only has a telescopic aerial about the length of a pen (when folded). But yeah, I was thinking of those flexible plastic T-shaped ones which is large, but then I was considering it for a fixed location point: On holiday it would be useful to just bring a small pair of speakers to plug into the iRiver and also get AM on top of FM.
Ah right, cheers. Shame they don't have some sort of fold up version you could plug in so that if you're taking a trip somewhere it would be an option if the iRiver was your main entertainment system.
I'm no fan of iPods but at a guess the reason they don't include a radio is to keep the design (inside and out) simple, and to make sure the unit is small. I don't think Apple really go in for conspiracies like that.
My iRiver's radio is good and I'm glad I have it but it's only FM. I would love if they could have included an AM but I'm guessing it's either too much power required or the FM radio's just been flung in because they can.
My mobile battery is fine now and can deal with day to day stuff but I can't really see it coping much with TV in my hand.
And on top of that, I'm at a loss to think how often I'd really want to squint at a screen that size. While it's true that I normally have my mobile with me, something like the PSP or similar isn't much larger and seems far more practical.
That's before I even think about what the cost must be to receive these broadcasts.
It's a shame the parent isn't modded higher because having read that 'AIDS is a government creation' piece I now want to know all the contrary evidence so it ceases to scare me as much.
There is no reason for HIV to become "milder"
Actually it has already become less virulent according to my friend who has worked in this sort of field. I can't actually provide you with evidence links but it is natural for a virus like HIV/AIDS to do this as the longer it takes before it's killing onset the more chance it has to damage the population.
So, first, that is a completely incorrect application of Occam's Razor.
It's not completely incorrect. The allusion is obvious that if we consider all the likely possibilities, an incorrect initial test is the simplest and most obvious.
On the other hand, there seems to be a lot of interest generated around this, enough for me to wonder that it could be that simple, given that would naturally be the first assumption of the authorities too. Presumably the two samples have been checked a few times now...
There is little as boring as a person who trots out the tired argument about 'opinion vs. fact' with respect to something they know is opinion.
But if you want to argue on that point, I would still say factually that I am correct.
Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and The Matrix make critical lists that the other six movies mentioned do not. Note that I said 'not particularly good', which is an interpretted phrase, so it can mean something very different to you compared to me. And clearly your critical eye is much less critical than mine.
You could, for example, check the IMDB top 100 movies and note that Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back are both in the top 10 and The Matrix is 34. There are no other Matrix films in the top 250; Return of the Jedi is no. 118 and Revenge of the Sith is the only other Star Wars film in the list and down about 230 or something.
So if we take the top 100 films on IMDB to be particularly good movies then what I said was factually correct.
See how pointless it is to argue your opinion against mine like it matters? No one who read what I wrote would have had any trouble understanding me: that of those nine films, three of them are head and shoulders above the other six and no amount of analysis and apologists will change that. Naturally I used a little hyperbole but this is perfectly normal and acceptable.
"The average user doesn't have an arsenal of machines, he has one."
I don't know that I agree with this. I'm not saying you're wrong but one of the problems in the PC world is that you have a piece of equipment that cost you a chunk of cash three years ago and it does some stuff okay but it's too slow.
But you can't sell it on because it's worthless. At the same time we're frugal types in the main so we don't want to just chuck it away. I think people will keep that second unit most likely.
I considered an Apple for my laptop choice earlier in the year but their iBooks are far too bulky to compete with the Vaio T1 from the Sony factory outlet.
I didn't think marketing was so complicated, though? They know full-well that Star Trek doesn't go out of fashion so they start the sets off at £80 a pop and then after a few years you'll be able to get them for £30 in the sales and things as they move it down.
This is standard process: they sell high first to get the people who'll pay anything.
Look at Buffy: now re-released in new packaging at half the price well after the series' maximum popularity.
It's never hard to get these things at bargain prices if you keep looking around and use sites like DVD Price Check you'll get it cheaper.
Ah. I was serious, cheers. :-D
Wha? The above three direct replies seem to have real trouble detecting irony. Jesus.
AEton is clearly a god and if I had the first clue how to be a 'fan' of someone I would do it here.
I think it's a very interesting read and it is serious.
However it doesn't change the fact that the prequels (and indeed Jedi) aren't particularly good movies, even if they have some good moments in them.
I'm reminded of the defenders of the 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies who seemed convinced that the whole Danté allegory made the films better. Clearly it didn't. The two Matrix sequels are turds, no matter how hard their authors tried to be clever.
Well yes.
:-D
To be honest I'm a bit surprised at the comments raised here: I took it as read that everyone had been taught all this stuff ad-infinitum at school, but it's probably because I went a liberal wishy-washy inner-London right-on sort of comprehensive.
Basically my initial remark was nothing more than a rather poor attempt at humour at the idea that the concept of using a hurricane as an energy source was a negative feedback (I think?) system. A touch of fairly poor irony.
I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Hmm. But isn't the whole point that global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect, which is caused by the change to the atmosphere?
Oh well, I'm not really an expert. I'm physicist, Jim, not a climatologist.
Err...
Theo
Yeah sorry, I was being vaguely flippant with that remark and there's certainly very shaky evidence that it's down to climate change.
:-D
Unless you live in 'Day After Tomorrow' land where an Ice Age is more like an Ice Afternoon, so quickly does it happen.
So we could actually find a use for this greenhouse effect we're generating.
Of course, once we use this cheap power we stop making greenhouse gases and our power source dies.
D'oh!
(But no, this is very cool.)
Dammit. Why do I never have mod points to push up posts like the above when I really need it! :-D
Don't! Hugh Laurie in House still scares me... I keep expecting him to say something like "Have you ever seen such an enormous pair of trousers".
...They're AMERICAN. I'm not voting. What a swizz. :-(
Regrettably they don't just do these things in a random manner: The first houses to be checked are those that had a licence last year and failed to get one this year, hence next year they would almost-certainly knock at your door, especially as you'd been unhelpful the last time...Unless you moved to a new place!
when they go run out and buy one -- when they come back with the police you have a license
But...then you've just bought a licence. Err. Doesn't that make you officially a failure in the criminal world? Clearly you didn't spend seven years at Evil Medical School to come up with that, did you?
Yes the post realises this: They lived in the UK. Their point was in reference to the ad breaks on UK commercial television (as raised by the parent poster's comments on Sky).
Hope that made sense as I can't remember people's names!