I think the reference was to 'The End', the first episode of series 1, during the first 10 minutes of which Rimmer kills everyone except Lister and the Cat by doing a dodgy repair to a drive plate.
No, they're not. In the UK all undergraduate Batchelors degrees are 3 years, excepting medicine, vetenery science and dentistry, and all can cary honours within those 3 years. You can take a year in industry to make them 4 years in total. Some (very limited) courses called 'Undergraduate Masters' take 4 years, but end with a Masters-level qualification (MMath, MEng, MGeol, etc...) and with a year in industry this would take 5 years. There is no extra 'honours year'.
Re:How is this different than a food chemist?
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Subtle.
For those who don't get it, Margaret Thatcher was suprisingly also involved in the invention of soft-frozen ice-cream.
I think you are misunderstanding the situation. The British DTT system was indeed set up and trialled by the BBC before OnDigital even tendered for control. You should probably research the BBC R&D department a bit more.
They were also pivotal in the development of DAB radio, and this invention went on to spawn the MP3 audio compression technique (further developed by Thompson and Frauenhofer) (DAB, of course, using MP2).
I think it is legal for me to download the prisoner DVD rips
Well, except that The Prisoner was made by ITC, an independant commercial company, and was broadcast by the predecessor of the very commercial ITV. You know, except for that minor point
That's pretty neat
It's also a pretty big assumption. Microsoft probably don't charge $50 per license.
If they get their operating system 'lite' on a device that is being marketed at the 50% of the world that currently doesn't have computer access, that's approximately 3 billion more people who will associate MS with OS. 3 Billion more people who will expect to use MS products if they ever work in an office or similar.
Just in case anyone is interested (probably not...) but my attempts to transcode the stream to a DD/AC-3 stream failed, trying avisynth/virtualdub, and a few others.
Somehow, however, the copy of XBMC I am running (can't remember the version No.) seems to automatically do asf->ac-3 transcoding, so it 'just worked'
And I can assure you that the 5.1 mix through a decent surround sound system sounds absolutely amazing!
It seems like a pretty excellent copy IMO, and I'm sure that the Radio 4 encoder is tweaked to be better at spoken word than music.
I aslo (not that anybody cares I suppose) recorded it using my Sky+ box and outputted it to my iRiver iHP-140 using a toslink cable. So technically that should be a superior 192Kb MP2 stream, but as it is outputted as a ram PCM stream, I can't re-encode it without significant loss of quality. Unless I just write it to audio CD I suppose.
They are not currently offering it in 5.1, it was mastered in 5.1 and downmixed to 2-channel. The 5.1 version will come out next year on DVD-Audio/hybrid.
Look Here for lots of news, including some stuff about the 5.1 version.
plus what the licensing people don't want the general public to realise is that digital TV tuners aren't detectable by their much hyped but rarely seen detection equipment
Surely it is not that hard to re-tune their equipment to the higher frequency produced by the local oscillator in the digital tuner. I mean, even I could probably do that.
I prefer my method:
1) Buy A Bug
2) Insert SD Card
3) Press record button
4) Enjoy 128Kb MP2 recording with no analogue stage
5) Profit!!!
Re:Closer to a BBC Micro.
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Indeed.
This page makes interesting reading for any BBC micro fan. The paragraph after the first table mentions the use of Mode 7 and Teletext. It also mentions the BBC micro teletext adaptor
Just in case you were wondering about the technical details, basically the hack was a code that could be typed into the phone which would stop its realtime clock. The phone actually stored the PAYG credit internally, and used the internal clock to decrease your credit. Basically stopping the RTC would make the phone stop decresing your credit.
The eventual solution was to duplicate the storage of credit in the phone companies system, so if you made more calls than you had credit for, they would just disable your phone.
They don't, but as I mentioned above, the reason the Acorn computer had teletext modes was because of their involvement in the 1980's BBC computer literacy project.
Re:Closer to a BBC Micro.
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Indeed, when the BBC started the BBC literacy project in 1980, it was a requirement of the hardware that it would have a 'teletext' mode. This then became the BBC Micro's 'Mode 7' graphics.
It was O2 (and perhaps others as well) who blocked this as there was a fault in the firmware of the most common Philips pay-as-you-go mobile (the one that was handed out free with a student Barclaycard) which meant you could call out for free. So while they fixed the problem by instituting a system at their end, they profiled all their pay-as-you-go calls, and barred calling to the countries bing called for the longest duration.
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I think the reference was to 'The End', the first episode of series 1, during the first 10 minutes of which Rimmer kills everyone except Lister and the Cat by doing a dodgy repair to a drive plate.
The pitted a standard Mustang against a standard Lotus Elise, both of which can easily be bought in the UK. Moreover, the Mustang costs more.
So, I guess you never heared of the visible human project then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project
No, they're not. In the UK all undergraduate Batchelors degrees are 3 years, excepting medicine, vetenery science and dentistry, and all can cary honours within those 3 years. You can take a year in industry to make them 4 years in total. Some (very limited) courses called 'Undergraduate Masters' take 4 years, but end with a Masters-level qualification (MMath, MEng, MGeol, etc...) and with a year in industry this would take 5 years. There is no extra 'honours year'.
Subtle. For those who don't get it, Margaret Thatcher was suprisingly also involved in the invention of soft-frozen ice-cream.
I think you are misunderstanding the situation. The British DTT system was indeed set up and trialled by the BBC before OnDigital even tendered for control. You should probably research the BBC R&D department a bit more. They were also pivotal in the development of DAB radio, and this invention went on to spawn the MP3 audio compression technique (further developed by Thompson and Frauenhofer) (DAB, of course, using MP2).
I think it is legal for me to download the prisoner DVD rips
Well, except that The Prisoner was made by ITC, an independant commercial company, and was broadcast by the predecessor of the very commercial ITV. You know, except for that minor point
That's pretty neat It's also a pretty big assumption. Microsoft probably don't charge $50 per license.
If they get their operating system 'lite' on a device that is being marketed at the 50% of the world that currently doesn't have computer access, that's approximately 3 billion more people who will associate MS with OS. 3 Billion more people who will expect to use MS products if they ever work in an office or similar.
Nope, must be a different NHS, what with the British one not giving any form of injection/sedation to donors, let alone novocaine.
Just in case anyone is interested (probably not...) but my attempts to transcode the stream to a DD/AC-3 stream failed, trying avisynth/virtualdub, and a few others.
Somehow, however, the copy of XBMC I am running (can't remember the version No.) seems to automatically do asf->ac-3 transcoding, so it 'just worked'
And I can assure you that the 5.1 mix through a decent surround sound system sounds absolutely amazing!
In that case, does anybody know how to extract a 5.1 channel WMA back out to PCM, and then remultiplex it back into AC-3 format?
OK, after my prior fuckup, here is an answer:
I used 'Net Transport' to download the 5.1 version from the link given. I downloaded it (26 Meg file) in about 12 minutes (the joys of JANet).
It is showing up in Media Player as:
Windows Media Audio 9 Professional
128 kbps, 44 kHz, 5.1 channel 16 bit 1-pass CBR.
Now to my question,
I have XBMC on my XBox attached to a DD/DTS amp. Do you reckon I can get it to play this file without any problems/post processing?
Hmm, apparently thay are offering a 5.1 version online.
So that's what it feels like to be wrong.
It seems like a pretty excellent copy IMO, and I'm sure that the Radio 4 encoder is tweaked to be better at spoken word than music.
I aslo (not that anybody cares I suppose) recorded it using my Sky+ box and outputted it to my iRiver iHP-140 using a toslink cable. So technically that should be a superior 192Kb MP2 stream, but as it is outputted as a ram PCM stream, I can't re-encode it without significant loss of quality. Unless I just write it to audio CD I suppose.
They are not currently offering it in 5.1, it was mastered in 5.1 and downmixed to 2-channel. The 5.1 version will come out next year on DVD-Audio/hybrid.
Look Here for lots of news, including some stuff about the 5.1 version.
plus what the licensing people don't want the general public to realise is that digital TV tuners aren't detectable by their much hyped but rarely seen detection equipment
Surely it is not that hard to re-tune their equipment to the higher frequency produced by the local oscillator in the digital tuner. I mean, even I could probably do that.
Unfortunately yes, you did.
And what's he doing in the space-time continuum?
I prefer my method:
1) Buy A Bug
2) Insert SD Card
3) Press record button
4) Enjoy 128Kb MP2 recording with no analogue stage
5) Profit!!!
Indeed. This page makes interesting reading for any BBC micro fan. The paragraph after the first table mentions the use of Mode 7 and Teletext. It also mentions the BBC micro teletext adaptor
Just in case you were wondering about the technical details, basically the hack was a code that could be typed into the phone which would stop its realtime clock. The phone actually stored the PAYG credit internally, and used the internal clock to decrease your credit. Basically stopping the RTC would make the phone stop decresing your credit. The eventual solution was to duplicate the storage of credit in the phone companies system, so if you made more calls than you had credit for, they would just disable your phone.
They don't, but as I mentioned above, the reason the Acorn computer had teletext modes was because of their involvement in the 1980's BBC computer literacy project.
Indeed, when the BBC started the BBC literacy project in 1980, it was a requirement of the hardware that it would have a 'teletext' mode. This then became the BBC Micro's 'Mode 7' graphics.
It was O2 (and perhaps others as well) who blocked this as there was a fault in the firmware of the most common Philips pay-as-you-go mobile (the one that was handed out free with a student Barclaycard) which meant you could call out for free. So while they fixed the problem by instituting a system at their end, they profiled all their pay-as-you-go calls, and barred calling to the countries bing called for the longest duration.
P.S., it looked pretty cool, until they took it out of the box. It is very thick.