Sure I'm listening to their radio station, and watching their website - but so are thousands of other people in foreign countries (with things like the BBC World Service) who don't have to pay this tax.
The World Service is actually paid for by a grant from the UK Foreign & Commomwealth Office, and is therefore not paid for by licence-fee payers. There are lots of people in continental Europe who are able to enjoy MW & LW broadcasts eminating from the UK, but there is little that can be done about this broadcast overspill. I'd certainly agree that these people should pay something towards the fee.
If the BBC have any sense, they will be trying to set up an international payment system now. A fee to allow people use of the TV Player, for example. I wonder if international access is something being discussed during the current charter review?
Who remembers boot sector viruses, eh. These days, they're not useful as they disable the machine and make it useless. Unless a new strain of virus emerges, that didn't disable the machine, and allowed it to boot in another way... I hope the boot sector checking continues.
Get over yourself, it's just an in-joke writ large. An "All Your Base" for 2005. I mean, what would the blogosphere talk about if they didn't invent stuff like this? They've have to talk about their cute cat.
You can't but do mockery of creationists and such people. It's plain impossible for any rational creature to treat them seriously. And the Flat Earth Society or the Noodly Appendage cult are damn funny indeed.
Look, I'm in stitches. Well, let's all enjoy the jape, as representatives from both sides stand with their backs to each other & arms folded, both raising their noses and making "huff" sounds. Very useful. Though, at least it brightened up my dull, worthless blog today, and I didn't have to talk about my cat AGAIN.
A lot of members of the Flat Earth Society are just evolutionists poking some fun at people defending religious doctrine, by defending an even more obsurd one. Which, I have to admit is a pretty good gag.
Also counter-productive, since mockery of your rivals (are you listening, noodly appendage people?) is likely to only lead to your opponents strengthening their resolve against you. Therefore, "gags" like this are actually more damaging.
The point is, just because you see a failure mode in it doesn't mean that that he old way didn't have the a similar one
That is true, but shouldn't these so-called "car manufacturers" be coming up with methods which have NO points of failure, rather than the same number as before? They take away one method, and replace it with a similar one. No, this smacks of marketing first, practicality second.
Gee, this article didn't even mention it (not that I can get to it, going off the reply on the blog linked below). Man pages. And info, come to that matter. How often does Google become the default man page. I suppose most would brand this a virtue.
How can you tell, if you don't run an up-to-date virusscanner?
He means he's never had a virus that popped up a message box saying, "Hello, I am a virus!!!1" As for those silent, invisible keyloggers - different matter altogether...
It's a fair point, but I suppose a key difference is that if the car makers released a defective product, people could die because of it. Having to re-install Windows is a pain, sure, but no-one dies.
Cue posts about hospitals running Windows... ok, in certain circs there is a valid agrument. I don't think you can stretch it to cover the average Joe. A refund might be nice, though.
Rather than addressing the real problem of why nontechnical users had trouble finding where their files were, the idiot UI designer for WinFS decided to take idiocy to its most proper level: at no time should a user ever be able to find a file.
As an aside, the Windows Search function has to be the worst thing ever written - even after you remove the mutt. Many times I've used it to search for filenames (not even text within files), only to be told that there are no results. Yet I know the file is there. Sure enough, after painful manual searching that the Search function is supposed to do for me, I find the file, and every time the filename matched the spec I chose. Let's hope WinFS actually allows people to find their files - at the moment, this doesn't happen 100% of the time.
No no, you don't understand, these days a cancellation after a handful of episodes means that the world loves it and we must now fling out a movie.
This is gonna bomb spectacularly isn't it? Wouldn't they need everyone in the world who's even heard of Firefly to go along if they want to break even? (last count: 350)
beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated
Cor, this'll be the Google-enabled future that everyone's talking about! Sounds great!
I used IE back in the day because netscape & the rest were unwieldy. Then IE became difficult, so I switched to Mozilla. Then to Firefox, after Mozilla became clunky. This is almost perfect. So it would take something pretty damn special by Google to make me change. And searching a fem e-mails ain't it.
I'm not sure I like the idea of offering up all my data to the public saying, "here, have a go at cracking this, you have the rest of your life to try - or wait for some undiscovered vuln". Especially when it seems so easy to check if a file is hidden in there (steghide info on 1000 jpegs?)
Interestingly, in the UK this game would probably have been rated 18 anyway. So the revelation that there was a sexy mini-game (only available via a mod, FFS) caused not a ripple over here. In fact it was only the furore over it in the US that brought it to our attention. The notion that there is a huge moral and sexual difference between 17- and 18-year-olds which needs to be protected was placed into sharp relief. We really can't see the problem. Sex or violence, 18 is the arbitrary limit. As it is, we already have a more dangerous problem, in that parents take no notice of the ratings anyway. What has happened to parental responsibility today? Does our media offer too much unsuitable content to control?
Am I missing something? Just leave one of the phones in your house off the hook. Voila... nobody can get through.
I take it your line doesn't have the feature found in a lot of countries, where a loud siren wails down the phone if you leave it off the hook for more than 3 minutes.
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Making $3.50 per table every 2 hours will not keep them in business. It's all about getting drinks out the door.
MOD PARENT UP. Tha's the reason that the whole free wifi thing has struggled to take off in coffee-shop-type situs, except where a flat fee is paid or it's Starbucks, who can take the hit (maybe one Starbucks in a a locale goes wifi, so the overspill can be accomdated in the other 4 within 10 mins walking distance). Note I live in the UK. However we were promised an always-connected utopia.
Well, it is a Sanyo 8100....picture phone that is only a couple of years old. With only a numbered keypad, and multiple letters assoc. with each key...how else do you text message if not pressing each key a number of times?
Have a look in your phone's manual about "T9" text entry. Or look it up on Google. If it's been on your phone all this time, I will laugh like a drain.
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Sure I'm listening to their radio station, and watching their website - but so are thousands of other people in foreign countries (with things like the BBC World Service) who don't have to pay this tax.
The World Service is actually paid for by a grant from the UK Foreign & Commomwealth Office, and is therefore not paid for by licence-fee payers. There are lots of people in continental Europe who are able to enjoy MW & LW broadcasts eminating from the UK, but there is little that can be done about this broadcast overspill. I'd certainly agree that these people should pay something towards the fee. If the BBC have any sense, they will be trying to set up an international payment system now. A fee to allow people use of the TV Player, for example. I wonder if international access is something being discussed during the current charter review?
Who remembers boot sector viruses, eh. These days, they're not useful as they disable the machine and make it useless. Unless a new strain of virus emerges, that didn't disable the machine, and allowed it to boot in another way... I hope the boot sector checking continues.
I got 633 seeds, 14 connected to me. Your BT client is broke.
Get over yourself, it's just an in-joke writ large. An "All Your Base" for 2005. I mean, what would the blogosphere talk about if they didn't invent stuff like this? They've have to talk about their cute cat.
You can't but do mockery of creationists and such people. It's plain impossible for any rational creature to treat them seriously. And the Flat Earth Society or the Noodly Appendage cult are damn funny indeed.
Look, I'm in stitches. Well, let's all enjoy the jape, as representatives from both sides stand with their backs to each other & arms folded, both raising their noses and making "huff" sounds. Very useful. Though, at least it brightened up my dull, worthless blog today, and I didn't have to talk about my cat AGAIN.
A lot of members of the Flat Earth Society are just evolutionists poking some fun at people defending religious doctrine, by defending an even more obsurd one. Which, I have to admit is a pretty good gag.
Also counter-productive, since mockery of your rivals (are you listening, noodly appendage people?) is likely to only lead to your opponents strengthening their resolve against you. Therefore, "gags" like this are actually more damaging.
The point is, just because you see a failure mode in it doesn't mean that that he old way didn't have the a similar one
That is true, but shouldn't these so-called "car manufacturers" be coming up with methods which have NO points of failure, rather than the same number as before? They take away one method, and replace it with a similar one. No, this smacks of marketing first, practicality second.
Gee, this article didn't even mention it (not that I can get to it, going off the reply on the blog linked below). Man pages. And info, come to that matter. How often does Google become the default man page. I suppose most would brand this a virtue.
How can you tell, if you don't run an up-to-date virusscanner?
He means he's never had a virus that popped up a message box saying, "Hello, I am a virus!!!1" As for those silent, invisible keyloggers - different matter altogether...
It's a fair point, but I suppose a key difference is that if the car makers released a defective product, people could die because of it. Having to re-install Windows is a pain, sure, but no-one dies.
Cue posts about hospitals running Windows... ok, in certain circs there is a valid agrument. I don't think you can stretch it to cover the average Joe. A refund might be nice, though.
The army don't use stones to fight wars, but its still illegal to beat someone to death with one.
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Well done, you take this week's prize for Most Confusing Analogy on
Rather than addressing the real problem of why nontechnical users had trouble finding where their files were, the idiot UI designer for WinFS decided to take idiocy to its most proper level: at no time should a user ever be able to find a file.
As an aside, the Windows Search function has to be the worst thing ever written - even after you remove the mutt. Many times I've used it to search for filenames (not even text within files), only to be told that there are no results. Yet I know the file is there. Sure enough, after painful manual searching that the Search function is supposed to do for me, I find the file, and every time the filename matched the spec I chose. Let's hope WinFS actually allows people to find their files - at the moment, this doesn't happen 100% of the time.
The cost is just spread out over thousands of people, instead of having them all in one place.
What about the cost to the environment? Ah yes, this is also spread out over many thousands (billions) of people.
That was exactly the point I was going to make. The only purpose printers have is to shred as much paper as possible
Er, sounds like you have one broken printer there. Might I recommend an engineer call?
No no, you don't understand, these days a cancellation after a handful of episodes means that the world loves it and we must now fling out a movie. This is gonna bomb spectacularly isn't it? Wouldn't they need everyone in the world who's even heard of Firefly to go along if they want to break even? (last count: 350)
Make no mistake about it; this is the ultimate form of petty bullshit and both sides win while the consumer ultimately loses.
Quite right - but you can make sure that they utimately lose by not buying into the format.
beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated
Cor, this'll be the Google-enabled future that everyone's talking about! Sounds great!
I used IE back in the day because netscape & the rest were unwieldy. Then IE became difficult, so I switched to Mozilla. Then to Firefox, after Mozilla became clunky. This is almost perfect. So it would take something pretty damn special by Google to make me change. And searching a fem e-mails ain't it.
I'm not sure I like the idea of offering up all my data to the public saying, "here, have a go at cracking this, you have the rest of your life to try - or wait for some undiscovered vuln". Especially when it seems so easy to check if a file is hidden in there (steghide info on 1000 jpegs?)
They're just audio files, right? Like the hundreds I have on my hard drive? Am I missing something? I never did see a book on MP3.
Interestingly, in the UK this game would probably have been rated 18 anyway. So the revelation that there was a sexy mini-game (only available via a mod, FFS) caused not a ripple over here. In fact it was only the furore over it in the US that brought it to our attention. The notion that there is a huge moral and sexual difference between 17- and 18-year-olds which needs to be protected was placed into sharp relief. We really can't see the problem. Sex or violence, 18 is the arbitrary limit. As it is, we already have a more dangerous problem, in that parents take no notice of the ratings anyway. What has happened to parental responsibility today? Does our media offer too much unsuitable content to control?
Meanwhile, that post was spelled perfectly, as far as I can tell.
How embarrassing.
Send him a mail, the address is right there.
Am I missing something? Just leave one of the phones in your house off the hook. Voila ... nobody can get through.
I take it your line doesn't have the feature found in a lot of countries, where a loud siren wails down the phone if you leave it off the hook for more than 3 minutes.
Making $3.50 per table every 2 hours will not keep them in business. It's all about getting drinks out the door.
MOD PARENT UP. Tha's the reason that the whole free wifi thing has struggled to take off in coffee-shop-type situs, except where a flat fee is paid or it's Starbucks, who can take the hit (maybe one Starbucks in a a locale goes wifi, so the overspill can be accomdated in the other 4 within 10 mins walking distance). Note I live in the UK. However we were promised an always-connected utopia.
Well, it is a Sanyo 8100....picture phone that is only a couple of years old. With only a numbered keypad, and multiple letters assoc. with each key...how else do you text message if not pressing each key a number of times?
Have a look in your phone's manual about "T9" text entry. Or look it up on Google. If it's been on your phone all this time, I will laugh like a drain.