The problem with an ITU standard is that there is no such thing as an ITU standard. There are ITU Recommedations instead. And even then there are parts in the recommedations that are "for further study".
Indeed, over here in the UK, I recently got a "free" Nokia 6233 with my contract direct from T-Mobile UK, and it came with Opera Mini 1.2 installed on it already. I've quite happily upgraded to Opera Mini 3 direct from Opera, and put the Gmail app and Google Maps Java app on the phone. Even the Windows Live Search app works okay. All of which is quite handy when I'm only paying £7.50 a month for Web'n'Walk unlimited data.
From what I remember, the FS layer in the Windows NT (2000/XP) kernel is case sensitive, but how the rest of the system sees the file names depends upon which subsystem you are using. The Win32 sub system will allow case-insestive access (case retentive though). If an application was using the Posix subsystem (rare though that is) all the file names would be case sensitive.
I could be wrong on this though, because it is ages since I've done any coding on Windows.
Over here in the UK, you already can be prosecuted for eating, drinking and applying makeup at the wheel, along with talking on your mobile phone without the use of a hands free kit. Most of these are covered under the catch all of "driving without due care and attention" but they have also passed a law specifically covering mobile phones.
One woman recently came to light in the national press
So how is it not true then? That pages says that you can be tested on parallel parking. It is one of the 4 manoeuvres that you could be asked to do. You may not be tested on it, but you might be, so you still have to learn it before the test.
I wasn't tested on parallel parking myself, but I still had to learn it beforehand.
The 4 million domain names that Nominet mentions, only includes the.co.uk, org.uk, net.uk, plc.uk, ltd.uk, me.uk, sch.uk. Domains such as ac.uk, gov.uk, nhs.uk, mod.uk are managed by a different organisation (Janet I believe) and are not counted in this list. So there are more than 4 million UK domain names.
Indeed it can't be that hard, because you can't pass your driving test in the UK without having to learn how to parallel park. So in theory every driver in the UK should know how to do it (except maybe people driving on a foreign licence).
Of course that doesn't mean that some people aren't completely crap at parallel parking...
As far as I know, AAC has a coalition behind it, just as MP3 does. After all AAC is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards, (Apple puts it in an MPEG-4 container), just as MP3 was MPEG-1 Layer 3. So the same MPEG group is still behind the standards and the licensing.
Er, actually it is illegal to sell a video/DVD or a game to to an underage person in the UK, if the item as been rated by the BBFC (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/), as per the 1984 Video Recordings Act (and amended in 1993).
If the game has only been rated by PEGI (http://www.pegi.info/) then there is no legal statute to prevent the game being sold to underage people, though as you say, retailers generally don't.
This web page has been around for ages. The original version is at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html and has been updated loads since. I remember reading this when I first started work after university, back in 1999. Still funny though.
I don't know about the use of the single middle finger, but sticking two fingers up comes from when the English and French fought each other around the time of the battle of Agincourt, in the 15th century.
It stems from the fact that the English archers used longbows (as opposed to the French crossbows). To draw the bow of the longbow back, the two fingers nearest the thumb are used. Hence, if the French ever captured an English archer, they would chop off these two fingers. So during a battle, the English archers would stick these two fingers up at the French, to show they still had their fingers. The rude gesture evolved from there.
Indeed, I also visit the BBC website many times each day, but might go to the main page about once every three months. Most people (many are Firefox users) in my office have the BBC news main page http://news.bbc.co.uk/ set as their homepage, but this wouldn't show up in these statistics.
MI-6 (the Secret Intelligence Service) deals with intelligence and threats outside the United Kingdom. MI-5 (the Security Service) deals with domestic intelligence and threats, such as the IRA and people such as the London bombers.
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.
Actually, the BBC World Service isn't paid for by the license fee. It is paid for by a seperate grant from the Foreign Office, so that comes out of general taxation.
> Britain is trembling in fear 'to the North, South, East and West'.
I'm from London and I have to admit that I am trembling in my boots right now. Ooh, I'm so scared. (That was scarcasm for those that hadn't worked it out.)
Seriously, I'm more annoyed that I keep getting an annoucement when I use the phone that says "The network is busy right now. Please call again later".
The IRA blew more shit up than these fuckwits ever have and that didn't worry people too much. They got to be fuckwits, because they blow themselves up in the name of Allah (or whoever).
If the Japanese want to save energy, they could try using thermal insulation in their houses. One of my friends lived in Japan for three years, teaching English, and his house and paper thin walls and no insulation. I visited him in April and May of two different years and when the sun went down, it would get very cold in the house. We'd have to turn on his electric heaters to stay warm.
And it wasn't just his house, his friends out there had similar problems with their houses.
Coming from the UK, it was wierd, them not having roof insulation or central heating.
This things have already been installed at Heathrow Airport in London, U.K.
I was randomly selected to go through one when I was flying from Terminal 4 back in October 2004. The guy who was operating it, even showed me the images that it produced of my body. It was quite impressive the image that it produced.
The upside of using it was that I got to queue jump the queue for the regular metal detector, so could get to the duty free area (and hence the pub) quicker.
To be fair to CmdrTaco, the original article in the link above doesn't show up on my main page on Slashdot, so I never saw the original article either. I just went back through Monday's articles and it doesn't show up there. Only when I click on the "Games" section does it actually appear. Weird. I haven't set my main page prefs to filter any articles out, so it should be displayed. Hmm, slashdot bug perhaps.
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Calls to US mobiles don't cost any more than phoning any other number in that exchange area. Hence if the mobile has the same exchange number as your home phone, then it looks to you as though the call to the mobile is in fact just a local call. This is the reason that people have to pay to receive calls to their mobiles in the States and in Canada.
Doesn't help to stimulate mobile phone growth, hence the reason why loads more kids in Europe, Australia, etc. have mobiles.
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The problem with an ITU standard is that there is no such thing as an ITU standard. There are ITU Recommedations instead. And even then there are parts in the recommedations that are "for further study".
Indeed, over here in the UK, I recently got a "free" Nokia 6233 with my contract direct from T-Mobile UK, and it came with Opera Mini 1.2 installed on it already. I've quite happily upgraded to Opera Mini 3 direct from Opera, and put the Gmail app and Google Maps Java app on the phone. Even the Windows Live Search app works okay. All of which is quite handy when I'm only paying £7.50 a month for Web'n'Walk unlimited data.
From what I remember, the FS layer in the Windows NT (2000/XP) kernel is case sensitive, but how the rest of the system sees the file names depends upon which subsystem you are using. The Win32 sub system will allow case-insestive access (case retentive though). If an application was using the Posix subsystem (rare though that is) all the file names would be case sensitive.
I could be wrong on this though, because it is ages since I've done any coding on Windows.
Over here in the UK, you already can be prosecuted for eating, drinking and applying makeup at the wheel, along with talking on your mobile phone without the use of a hands free kit. Most of these are covered under the catch all of "driving without due care and attention" but they have also passed a law specifically covering mobile phones.
One woman recently came to light in the national press
So how is it not true then? That pages says that you can be tested on parallel parking. It is one of the 4 manoeuvres that you could be asked to do. You may not be tested on it, but you might be, so you still have to learn it before the test.
I wasn't tested on parallel parking myself, but I still had to learn it beforehand.
The 4 million domain names that Nominet mentions, only includes the .co.uk, org.uk, net.uk, plc.uk, ltd.uk, me.uk, sch.uk. Domains such as ac.uk, gov.uk, nhs.uk, mod.uk are managed by a different organisation (Janet I believe) and are not counted in this list. So there are more than 4 million UK domain names.
Indeed it can't be that hard, because you can't pass your driving test in the UK without having to learn how to parallel park. So in theory every driver in the UK should know how to do it (except maybe people driving on a foreign licence).
Of course that doesn't mean that some people aren't completely crap at parallel parking...
As far as I know, AAC has a coalition behind it, just as MP3 does. After all AAC is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards, (Apple puts it in an MPEG-4 container), just as MP3 was MPEG-1 Layer 3. So the same MPEG group is still behind the standards and the licensing.
Er, actually it is illegal to sell a video/DVD or a game to to an underage person in the UK, if the item as been rated by the BBFC (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/), as per the 1984 Video Recordings Act (and amended in 1993).
If the game has only been rated by PEGI (http://www.pegi.info/) then there is no legal statute to prevent the game being sold to underage people, though as you say, retailers generally don't.
This web page has been around for ages. The original version is at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html and has been updated loads since. I remember reading this when I first started work after university, back in 1999. Still funny though.
I don't know about the use of the single middle finger, but sticking two fingers up comes from when the English and French fought each other around the time of the battle of Agincourt, in the 15th century.
It stems from the fact that the English archers used longbows (as opposed to the French crossbows). To draw the bow of the longbow back, the two fingers nearest the thumb are used. Hence, if the French ever captured an English archer, they would chop off these two fingers. So during a battle, the English archers would stick these two fingers up at the French, to show they still had their fingers. The rude gesture evolved from there.
Indeed, I also visit the BBC website many times each day, but might go to the main page about once every three months. Most people (many are Firefox users) in my office have the BBC news main page http://news.bbc.co.uk/ set as their homepage, but this wouldn't show up in these statistics.
MI-6 (the Secret Intelligence Service) deals with intelligence and threats outside the United Kingdom. MI-5 (the Security Service) deals with domestic intelligence and threats, such as the IRA and people such as the London bombers.
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.
Actually, the BBC World Service isn't paid for by the license fee. It is paid for by a seperate grant from the Foreign Office, so that comes out of general taxation.
And I realise that I mispelt sarcasm.
> Britain is trembling in fear 'to the North, South, East and West'.
I'm from London and I have to admit that I am trembling in my boots right now. Ooh, I'm so scared. (That was scarcasm for those that hadn't worked it out.)
Seriously, I'm more annoyed that I keep getting an annoucement when I use the phone that says "The network is busy right now. Please call again later".
The IRA blew more shit up than these fuckwits ever have and that didn't worry people too much. They got to be fuckwits, because they blow themselves up in the name of Allah (or whoever).
Or indeed from kdm :-)
I reckon it was under the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 See http://www.euro-copyrights.org/index/8/13
If the Japanese want to save energy, they could try using thermal insulation in their houses. One of my friends lived in Japan for three years, teaching English, and his house and paper thin walls and no insulation. I visited him in April and May of two different years and when the sun went down, it would get very cold in the house. We'd have to turn on his electric heaters to stay warm.
And it wasn't just his house, his friends out there had similar problems with their houses.
Coming from the UK, it was wierd, them not having roof insulation or central heating.
This things have already been installed at Heathrow Airport in London, U.K.
I was randomly selected to go through one when I was flying from Terminal 4 back in October 2004. The guy who was operating it, even showed me the images that it produced of my body. It was quite impressive the image that it produced.
The upside of using it was that I got to queue jump the queue for the regular metal detector, so could get to the duty free area (and hence the pub) quicker.
So the UK is in fact the 51st State!
Wow, first post actually had something relevant to say. This must be a slashdot first! :-)
To be fair to CmdrTaco, the original article in the link above doesn't show up on my main page on Slashdot, so I never saw the original article either. I just went back through Monday's articles and it doesn't show up there. Only when I click on the "Games" section does it actually appear. Weird. I haven't set my main page prefs to filter any articles out, so it should be displayed. Hmm, slashdot bug perhaps.
Calls to US mobiles don't cost any more than phoning any other number in that exchange area. Hence if the mobile has the same exchange number as your home phone, then it looks to you as though the call to the mobile is in fact just a local call. This is the reason that people have to pay to receive calls to their mobiles in the States and in Canada.
Doesn't help to stimulate mobile phone growth, hence the reason why loads more kids in Europe, Australia, etc. have mobiles.