Maybe you need to start the Alnwick Liberation Front or something? (or maybe not - the ALF name has been taken). Having locally-established formerly active terrorist organisations worked for Northern Ireland.
...But I don't think you can accuse Californians of ignoring mass transit.
My experience of using the VTA light rail north of San Jose (from a couple of years ago, when I was last there) was that most of the people on it weren't Californian - people from Asia and Europe (I'm guessing mainly short to medium-term workers) seemed to make up good portion of the ridership.
Maybe people from places where "everyone" uses public transport are more like to use it than people born in the US (where "no-one" does)?
How about the BART extension to San Jose?
Isn't there a link up to the BART via Caltrain? Or do timetables make that unusable?
...if all the electricity used was from coal, and the energy delivered was the same, how come burning carbon in a power station produces half the CO2 compared to burning it in a car?
There are differences in the efficiencies of the conversions involved, but I'd need some convincing that it's a factor of two.
What would be really useful, rather than having to rely on some electronic gizmo bleeping, would be some sort of indication at the side of the road - perhaps a large metal plate with some writing on it attached to a pole?
The volume (or at least the loudness) of a Blackberry ring you can do something about.
Pick something to use as the ringtone and create a.MP3 of at at a very low bitrate (using lame, something like lame -b 16 or 32). It'll sound horrible, but it will be loud.
It's easy to get a dd image of a running machine this way (and just as easy to do it using virtualisation-solution-of-your-choice, as everyone who isn't saying "just use dd" is saying).
It's slightly less easy to work out which files have been added, which modified, and which deleted , since you last did it. You'll also need to work out which were changes due to the new software that you installed, and which due to stuff that happens anyway. Changes to text files you may be able to work out what they're for by looking at them, but changes to binary files you can't.
You also need to treat the Windows registry as one or more "files", which you can read with dd, but if you want to get any sense out of it you're going to need to dump it to text first and compare those
The really difficult bit is going through the sheer volume of data that you'll create doing this. How do you know that application a requires component c but didn't install it according to your diff because application b had already installed it?
As part of my job I'll occasionally need to test the effect of a bit of new software in slightly different configurations and then retest it in the same configurations to make sure that it still does what it's supposed to do. Something like VMware is great for this (quicker than dd, because you're not booting off a CD every time you want to make a copy). Neither will help you analyze what's changed between image a and image b though.
As an added bonus, you now have zero platforms to support...
...and the bloke who wrote the article, who's the "Portfolio Manager, Rapid Application Development" is out of a job. You and I may not see this as a bad thing, but I suspect that he would.
Because when you've got a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail.
They already go through the "what can be made available for longer" process for radio - quite a few radio programs (including most of the main news and current affairs ones) are available as podcasts. Where there are differences it's usually where e.g. The Now Show has licensed a bit of music as the payoff for a joke, and whoever owns the dibs on that doesn't want it freely available as an MP3. It wouldn't be rocket science to do the same for e.g. Panorama - no harder than radio's Analysis (not unlike Panorama without the pictures and Paxman), which is already available.
The bloke whose blog it is is the "Portfolio Manager, Rapid Application Development". He's not going to go very far if he just says "there's lots of free stuff that does this already" and then buggers off down the pub.
He has to make it look like he's doing something, and make sure that the buzzword quotient is high enough (hence, I suspect, namechecking Canonical - not widely known as content suppliers).
A "link to a standard media file" may be ideal for you, but to a user who doesn't know that there are alternatives to Windows Media Player / Realplayer / Whatever-their-nephew-installed-for-them-last-week may well be a problem. That's why the existing BBC Podcast links have all the guff about "iTunes, Zencast, Zune" first and only later and mp3 link.
You and I are not target market for his blog - his boss is.
(insert rant about Realplayer here), but it's better-supported by transcoders than some platforms.
I'd transcode the stream myself but, a) don't want to go to the trouble and b) suspect it's against their TOS anyway
I'd be surprised if they're that bothered. The BBC World Service is designed to be heard outside the UK - that's why it's made available to pretty much anyone who wants to retransmit it. It's supposed to be the "voice of the UK government" in a "aren't we all nice and democratic and allow public criticism" kind of way.
I think that it's unlikely that Mark Thompson* is going to fly over to Vermont to stop you running mplayer at home - he's a bit busy at the moment fighting the Daily Mail.
* At the time of writing the director-general of the BBC. Possibly not at the time that you read this.
I'd rather have the old "Monopoly Money" Guilders than any-colour-you-like-as-long-as-its-green US Dollars. Since the move to Euros, it's not been the same.
I wonder what odds you'd have got four years ago if you'd tried to bet that a sitting republican president would effectively nationalize the main US banks?
Probably about the same as Obama really hailing from an icy cavern under Queen Maud Land.
"uSwitch.com has agreed deals with some suppliers across all our services to receive a small commission payment when a customer chooses to switch or apply for a product through us."
I have to decide on a mobile phone to develop for... What would you choose if you had to go with one?
Why not pick the one that's a decent phone? (or browser, or camera, or whatever the hell else you're going to use it for)
Hopefully you'll be using the results of what you've developed for longer than you spend developing it. If not, I think that you've missed the point of "automation".
"During the cruise, the aircraft commenced to bank with about three degrees angle of bank. A passenger was using a wireless mouse and this is suspected to have caused the oscillations. "
This was on a Boeing 747 over the Southern Indian Ocean (if my use of Google is to be trusted).
Unfortunately the one line in a PDF doesn't say much, beyond "ATSB investigation: No".
Slashdot Mirror
In other new, one of the first Olympic venues for 2012 games opens today, ahead of schedule and under budget:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7753734.stm
That's "the sea". It's been there quite some time.
Maybe you need to start the Alnwick Liberation Front or something? (or maybe not - the ALF name has been taken). Having locally-established formerly active terrorist organisations worked for Northern Ireland.
...But I don't think you can accuse Californians of ignoring mass transit.
My experience of using the VTA light rail north of San Jose (from a couple of years ago, when I was last there) was that most of the people on it weren't Californian - people from Asia and Europe (I'm guessing mainly short to medium-term workers) seemed to make up good portion of the ridership.
Maybe people from places where "everyone" uses public transport are more like to use it than people born in the US (where "no-one" does)?
How about the BART extension to San Jose?
Isn't there a link up to the BART via Caltrain? Or do timetables make that unusable?
Assuming we're comparing like with like here...
There are differences in the efficiencies of the conversions involved, but I'd need some convincing that it's a factor of two.
What would be really useful, rather than having to rely on some electronic gizmo bleeping, would be some sort of indication at the side of the road - perhaps a large metal plate with some writing on it attached to a pole?
You make hitchhiking sound like an incredibly dangerous thing to do...
"but m'lud, the plaintiff was asking for it - she was HITCHHIKING".
The last time that I looked most people (of any sex, race, colour or creed) weren't murderers or rapists.
AN Ontario Transportation Board?
How many do they need?
The volume (or at least the loudness) of a Blackberry ring you can do something about.
Pick something to use as the ringtone and create a .MP3 of at at a very low bitrate (using lame, something like lame -b 16 or 32). It'll sound horrible, but it will be loud.
Live Linux CD + dd + sdiff
How tough was that?
The question is "Livecd + dd + sdiff what?"
It's easy to get a dd image of a running machine this way (and just as easy to do it using virtualisation-solution-of-your-choice, as everyone who isn't saying "just use dd" is saying).
It's slightly less easy to work out which files have been added, which modified, and which deleted , since you last did it. You'll also need to work out which were changes due to the new software that you installed, and which due to stuff that happens anyway. Changes to text files you may be able to work out what they're for by looking at them, but changes to binary files you can't.
You also need to treat the Windows registry as one or more "files", which you can read with dd, but if you want to get any sense out of it you're going to need to dump it to text first and compare those
The really difficult bit is going through the sheer volume of data that you'll create doing this. How do you know that application a requires component c but didn't install it according to your diff because application b had already installed it?
As part of my job I'll occasionally need to test the effect of a bit of new software in slightly different configurations and then retest it in the same configurations to make sure that it still does what it's supposed to do. Something like VMware is great for this (quicker than dd, because you're not booting off a CD every time you want to make a copy). Neither will help you analyze what's changed between image a and image b though.
Better beer in Oregon?
The right to a decent education clearly isn't one of them.
So what? Adobe Reader is where the vulnerability is.
As an added bonus, you now have zero platforms to support ...
...and the bloke who wrote the article, who's the "Portfolio Manager, Rapid Application Development" is out of a job. You and I may not see this as a bad thing, but I suspect that he would.
... So, why the 7 days limit on these programs?
Because when you've got a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail.
They already go through the "what can be made available for longer" process for radio - quite a few radio programs (including most of the main news and current affairs ones) are available as podcasts. Where there are differences it's usually where e.g. The Now Show has licensed a bit of music as the payoff for a joke, and whoever owns the dibs on that doesn't want it freely available as an MP3. It wouldn't be rocket science to do the same for e.g. Panorama - no harder than radio's Analysis (not unlike Panorama without the pictures and Paxman), which is already available.
The bloke whose blog it is is the "Portfolio Manager, Rapid Application Development". He's not going to go very far if he just says "there's lots of free stuff that does this already" and then buggers off down the pub.
He has to make it look like he's doing something, and make sure that the buzzword quotient is high enough (hence, I suspect, namechecking Canonical - not widely known as content suppliers).
A "link to a standard media file" may be ideal for you, but to a user who doesn't know that there are alternatives to Windows Media Player / Realplayer / Whatever-their-nephew-installed-for-them-last-week may well be a problem. That's why the existing BBC Podcast links have all the guff about "iTunes, Zencast, Zune" first and only later and mp3 link.
You and I are not target market for his blog - his boss is.
(insert rant about Realplayer here), but it's better-supported by transcoders than some platforms.
I'd transcode the stream myself but, a) don't want to go to the trouble and b) suspect it's against their TOS anyway
I'd be surprised if they're that bothered. The BBC World Service is designed to be heard outside the UK - that's why it's made available to pretty much anyone who wants to retransmit it. It's supposed to be the "voice of the UK government" in a "aren't we all nice and democratic and allow public criticism" kind of way.
I think that it's unlikely that Mark Thompson* is going to fly over to Vermont to stop you running mplayer at home - he's a bit busy at the moment fighting the Daily Mail.
* At the time of writing the director-general of the BBC. Possibly not at the time that you read this.
I bet Beatrix is looking in the mirror and saying "is my nose really that big?"
I'd rather have the old "Monopoly Money" Guilders than any-colour-you-like-as-long-as-its-green US Dollars. Since the move to Euros, it's not been the same.
I wonder what odds you'd have got four years ago if you'd tried to bet that a sitting republican president would effectively nationalize the main US banks?
Probably about the same as Obama really hailing from an icy cavern under Queen Maud Land.
Let me guess - a few years ago your great-grandfather was asking "where does the horse go"?
From the linked website:
"uSwitch.com has agreed deals with some suppliers across all our services to receive a small commission payment when a customer chooses to switch or apply for a product through us."
It's not news, it's, er ... Slashdot.
I have to decide on a mobile phone to develop for ... What would you choose if you had to go with one?
Why not pick the one that's a decent phone?
(or browser, or camera, or whatever the hell else you're going to use it for)
Hopefully you'll be using the results of what you've developed for longer than you spend developing it. If not, I think that you've missed the point of "automation".
ACU pays for the hardware
No they don't. Whoever pays the students' fees pays for it, plus any admin charge the university adds for overseeing the moving around of the money.
Don't forget your hat.
Seems to be this one:
http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/2008/pdf/aws250708.pdf
"During the cruise, the aircraft commenced to bank with about three degrees angle of bank. A passenger was using a wireless mouse and this is suspected to have caused the oscillations. "
This was on a Boeing 747 over the Southern Indian Ocean (if my use of Google is to be trusted).
Unfortunately the one line in a PDF doesn't say much, beyond "ATSB investigation: No".