I wish they'd change their licensing fee model as well (yes, I live in the UK).
I don't think they are allowed to broadcast outside of the UK as they don't necessarily own all the content that they broadcast and are not legally allowed to let non-UK people receive all their broadcasts.
The BBC is a very special company with a specific charter. As it is funded by the license fee payers, it has to provide its service to as many people (in Britain) as possible. The unique way it is funded is actually far closer to a government tax than it is to the way Apple gets funded.
If I had a choice, I wouldn't pay for BBC (maybe just Doctor Who episodes), but as I live in the UK and own a TV, I have to cough up the license fee.
I can't buy that atheism is a kind of religion - atheism is the denial of religion where religion is the belief in some supernatural power or being.
Fanatacism is unreasoning/uncritical belief and every atheist I've met tends to be very logical and reasoning about different religions. I'm sure that if someone produced solid, irrefutable evidence for the existence of a deity, I'd re-examine my position.
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I thought the big problem with RAID5 with big disks is the rebuild time. If you get a 2nd drive failure within the rebuild window (possibly 10 hours), you are left with nothing. You also get worse read and write performance - especially during rebuild time.
I always prefer RAID0+1 (striping across pairs of mirrors) to maximise performance. When you need to rebuild, the array still performs reasonably (only one disk needs to be read and one disk to be written).
EULAs are generally not considered valid because they try to restrict your usage without there being a valid contract (i.e. you don't sign anything and you don't get to examine it before purchase etc).
The GPL, on the other hand, gives you the extra right to re-distribute software, providing you comply with it. You're free to ignore it, but then you would have no right to re-distribute it as normal copyright law would apply.
Can't FreeBSD/OS X users work on producing binaries or fixing code compile problems? I appreciate that not everyone's a developer/packager, but surely someone could do it if there was enough people wanting it.
If there's any danger of that happening, it's easy to disable adblock when we want to see and click on ads. Personally, I'll be surprised if it ever happens - I can't think of any site I've liked that has closed down.
I tried ubuntu, kubuntu and xubuntu and really wanted to like them, but I found it trickier to do some of the network configuration that is really easy with YaST. e.g. I couldn't find how to set up a system-wide proxy without creating a bash_profile to set the variables.
There were some other minor issues as well, not show-stoppers, but I've just got very used to the SuSE distributions (I've been using them since version 7 and use SLES for running oracle at work).
I was most impressed by the xubuntu desktop (uses xfce), but it had some reliability issues after running for a few days. When the next version of Ubuntu comes around, I'll give it another go and see if I can get used to it.
What evaluation period?
OpenSuSE is the community version - you must be confusing it with an evaluation of SLED or SLES. You can use openSuSE forever if you want (they'll only provide free patches for about 2 years though).
I've been using the RC of openSuSE 11 and think it's an improvement on 10.3, but probably just an incremental improvement (unless you like KDE4). I've tried some other distros (fedora, ubuntu etc) but keep coming back to SuSE - it just feels more cohesive and I actually like the YaST tool (even though it is somewhat slow and bloated, it's a single point of administration).
Doesn't this highlight the fallacy of a continuous "you"? Consciousness is inherently discontinuous, so the idea of a an intrinsic "you" apart from a series of sensory inputs (internal and external) is fallacious.
Either bad luck or a bad agent as I rate him as an actor. I remember reading that the infamous "tears in the rain" speech was largely improvised by Hauer (and it's my favourite part of the film).
To be fair, Rutger Hauer doesn't need to destroy the movies he's in; they're already rubbish (Bladerunner and Hitcher being about the only exceptions).
You should try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle - it's probably his best written novel. He mostly had to churn out his novels as quickly as possible to pay the rent, but High Castle is an exception.
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That's great and all, but I pay for Sky TV - how can I watch that and cancel my "subscription" to BBC?
Great - how do I cancel my subscription?
I wish they'd change their licensing fee model as well (yes, I live in the UK).
I don't think they are allowed to broadcast outside of the UK as they don't necessarily own all the content that they broadcast and are not legally allowed to let non-UK people receive all their broadcasts.
The BBC is a very special company with a specific charter. As it is funded by the license fee payers, it has to provide its service to as many people (in Britain) as possible. The unique way it is funded is actually far closer to a government tax than it is to the way Apple gets funded.
If I had a choice, I wouldn't pay for BBC (maybe just Doctor Who episodes), but as I live in the UK and own a TV, I have to cough up the license fee.
It's not subscription - if you own a tv capable of receiving BBC, you have to pay the license fee.
Here in the UK, "bobbies" is a slang term for policemen
If they could squash us, they already would have.
It's not like they've just been ignoring us.
I can't buy that atheism is a kind of religion - atheism is the denial of religion where religion is the belief in some supernatural power or being.
Fanatacism is unreasoning/uncritical belief and every atheist I've met tends to be very logical and reasoning about different religions. I'm sure that if someone produced solid, irrefutable evidence for the existence of a deity, I'd re-examine my position.
Surely it's not possible to be an atheist fanatic (unless you believe that atheism is a religion).
IANALSSM, but they use two-thirds potassium chloride to one-third sodium chloride
I thought the big problem with RAID5 with big disks is the rebuild time. If you get a 2nd drive failure within the rebuild window (possibly 10 hours), you are left with nothing. You also get worse read and write performance - especially during rebuild time.
I always prefer RAID0+1 (striping across pairs of mirrors) to maximise performance. When you need to rebuild, the array still performs reasonably (only one disk needs to be read and one disk to be written).
EULAs are generally not considered valid because they try to restrict your usage without there being a valid contract (i.e. you don't sign anything and you don't get to examine it before purchase etc).
The GPL, on the other hand, gives you the extra right to re-distribute software, providing you comply with it. You're free to ignore it, but then you would have no right to re-distribute it as normal copyright law would apply.
Can't FreeBSD/OS X users work on producing binaries or fixing code compile problems? I appreciate that not everyone's a developer/packager, but surely someone could do it if there was enough people wanting it.
If there's any danger of that happening, it's easy to disable adblock when we want to see and click on ads. Personally, I'll be surprised if it ever happens - I can't think of any site I've liked that has closed down.
A big advantage of using adblock is that your browser doesn't even download the ad - less bandwidth used and a slightly quicker browser.
Adblock plus and noscript - those two are essential.
I tried ubuntu, kubuntu and xubuntu and really wanted to like them, but I found it trickier to do some of the network configuration that is really easy with YaST. e.g. I couldn't find how to set up a system-wide proxy without creating a bash_profile to set the variables.
There were some other minor issues as well, not show-stoppers, but I've just got very used to the SuSE distributions (I've been using them since version 7 and use SLES for running oracle at work).
I was most impressed by the xubuntu desktop (uses xfce), but it had some reliability issues after running for a few days. When the next version of Ubuntu comes around, I'll give it another go and see if I can get used to it.
What evaluation period? OpenSuSE is the community version - you must be confusing it with an evaluation of SLED or SLES. You can use openSuSE forever if you want (they'll only provide free patches for about 2 years though). I've been using the RC of openSuSE 11 and think it's an improvement on 10.3, but probably just an incremental improvement (unless you like KDE4). I've tried some other distros (fedora, ubuntu etc) but keep coming back to SuSE - it just feels more cohesive and I actually like the YaST tool (even though it is somewhat slow and bloated, it's a single point of administration).
Doesn't this highlight the fallacy of a continuous "you"? Consciousness is inherently discontinuous, so the idea of a an intrinsic "you" apart from a series of sensory inputs (internal and external) is fallacious.
I thought that C++ was a superset of C. What problem would you encounter compiling C with a C++ compiler?
counter-example: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/
Either bad luck or a bad agent as I rate him as an actor. I remember reading that the infamous "tears in the rain" speech was largely improvised by Hauer (and it's my favourite part of the film).
To be fair, Rutger Hauer doesn't need to destroy the movies he's in; they're already rubbish (Bladerunner and Hitcher being about the only exceptions).
You should try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle - it's probably his best written novel. He mostly had to churn out his novels as quickly as possible to pay the rent, but High Castle is an exception.
I didn't realise that crap actors are now considered a race