Interesting info regards NTL... esp as I have just found out that they now own telewest "my ISP" that 100Mb..looks fun
Just a quick update regards
"If you receive British TV to your PC now by way of a tuner card you need a license"
Taken from the licencing faq http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/gethelp/faqs.jsp
Under the Communications Act 2003, you need a television licence to receive or record television programmes. This applies if they are received by a satellite, cable or land based transmitter. If you are watching any satellite service, controlled from within or outside the UK, you must have a television licence.
You may have been informed, in the past, that a television licence was not required if you received television program services from outside the United Kingdom. This was changed in the Communications Act 2003, and if you are using your TV to receive or record television programmes broadcast by satellite from outside the UK, you are now legally required to have a TV licence.
So in Uk even if I never have any means of accessing uk tv e.g. using foreign satellites only I still have to pay the theiving bbc. You could even take this to mean that I should have a tv licence just for have internet and a pc as I can get foreign tv on-line... which I think is just sick... Ok if I want to watch BBC yes I should pay, but I don't... hence I refuse to pay
I've been semi following this id for a while over here and one of the reasons that it was not passed by the house of lords in the first time was due to the government refusing to give any accurate costings for the indivdual, but they were giving overall figures of total cost to implement and they were demanding it to be compulsory. At the time it was being priced by various economic specialists at anything from £100 to £399 per person.... thus it would cost me even more just to exist in the uk. Which concidering that I already have to pay for my driving licence, my passport etc and now on top I have to pay for a card with ALL my details etc on it. I find it VERY hard to trust the government when they say that all the economic experts are completely wrong and the card will "only" cost around £30 to £90
The latest with the "only for passports" is only for passports at the moment with the option for complete compulsory id to follow. This linked with the database that is going on including the dna database that is being built via the police (dna from anyone suspected of a crime is taken and kept regardless of whether guilty and they are even starting to do the same from victims of crime)
I am just glad that I can renew my passport next year 2007 before this comes in and then get the hell out of the uk
And please don't even start with the "but it will help in the fight against terror" The more you rely on one card and electronics to "prove" who someone is the easier it is to fake
Not only do we have to pay for cable... but ontop of that you have to pay £130 a year just for having a tv in your house. This is regardless how we receive our tv signals
As it happens I have had sudden power loss resulting in the engine cutting out at various speeds (dodgy fuse box wiring that took ages to trace). Your engine stops being powered thus your car starts to slow, but due to the momentum the engine keeps turning over. It is less noticable that sticking the brakes on lightly. Also due to the drag of the non running engine it alone will bring you to a controlled stop even if your brakes fail (just not a quickly obviously). In some cases depending on speed etc the slowing of the car is not much worse than just taking taking you foot completely off the pedal.
You can always simluate this "carefully" by just turning off your ignition whilst driving....please only try this in a straight line incase the steering lock engages
AVG free anti virus "find on google" works very well updates daily or more if required and they are working on the Vista version at the moment. I emailed them a couple of weeks ago to try to get anti virus for my vista beta
We get the same sort of deal in UK regards up/down ratios with most people on 125K or 250K up. I've just chnaged to a 4M down I get a whole (please don't fall of your chairs in shock) 384K up. Hence it can take me a long long time to catch up uploading:-(
Regards the broadcast of your sound system, you are able to play it back and even have someone else listen. The time that you have to worry about copyright and broadcasting is, as far as I know down to the number of people that can hear it. This also varies from country to country and can get very strange at times
I would try www.DbPoweramp.com for their music converter. Freeware and you can select genre etc before ripping and change any titles as you wish. When you start it checks on freedb to see if it reckonizes the cd and so far I have found it very good. Also if you have a cd that is not on their database you can submit it thus helping to keep it up to date.
Or for editing mp3 you already have I use Moosic. Basic straight forward and can do batch converts, extracting from filename, freedb intergration as well and freeware again. Not the fastest but I can do 2-300 mp3 in a batch with no probs. www.bluecowmedia.com/MOOsic/
Hope this might help
I think thats a case of he's no good so it's easier to promote him out the way than sack him. A way of management I have never managed to head my head round but it seems to happen at times. I'm not sure how it is in the USA, but here in UK it can be a ***pain to sack someone at times...gone are the days of going "your sacked" without very good reason and even then it can drag on for ages, esp if they are the sort of people who believe they are "perfect" and never wrong
My only comment regards the lack of change of price of games compared to the cost to produce them is the one factor I feel you might be missing... 20 years ago playing "video" games was much more of a minority market. Whereas now it is a major market, thus they are making far more profit due to having a vastly bigger market
Well said.......... It's nice to find someone else who thinks this is stupid that the people with the least get stuffed by paying extra for it. It's not just with the elec / gas that this happens. I'm in UK and I got a speeding ticket, which I have the choice of paying straight away or over instalments if I am unable to afford the full cost in one go.......... what they dont mention very clearly is that if you go for installments then you get charged court costs on top !!!! Thus having lost my job awhile a ago I am now stuffed with a higher fine because I have less money than other people....
Just one small point.... It's not about having to filter out child porn. The issue is about children looking at porn on the internet... or so the government claims..:-)
I fully agree with all the above advice and my 2p's (uk) worth is that at times you can be safer on broadband instead of dial-up. For example if you have a cable modem (dont know how it works on adsl so keeping quiet)then you have NO risk of some dodgy dialler software getting in and changing your dial-up number to a premium rate number because it's not connected to the phone line at all !!!
Just one point regards " Passive tags hold very little data, usually just an ID - or serial number (around 1K-ish - historically)"
Am I missing something here with very little data 1K.. I am old enough to remember when you could fit an entire working chess game into 1K.... early sinclair computers. So I cannot believe the very little data
I am interested that what I consider one of the biggest problems with all these Voip we have in the UK has not been mentioned... or I missed it
That is no matter which Voip you sign up for you are limited in that if you want to call someone from it then they have to be on either a landline, mobile or the same Voip as yourself. I do not know of any Voip that is able to call a different service as in Skype to msn for one example. So will this voip be the same.
If I wrong on this please..please let me know as I am sick of having to have different services all running to speak to different people
Ok in your experiance it did not work...but you are NOT the entire world..... Many years ago I had to wear glasses due to a weak right eye.... (note this is a muscle problem not a deformed lens etc). After 6 months I was lucky enough to be refered to the eye dept in the local hospital (UK this is) and I was given sets of cards with excersises to do everyday and was told that either do them or end up with glasses for the rest of my life and my eyes would just get worse.
Thankfully I did do these and even 30 years later I still have very good eyesight with no need for glasses.
So just remember that because something does not work for you does not mean it is BUllSHIT
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You wanted to make a polite statement.......... Sorry but..If a company can't bother to have its own domain name or is blatant about using free-mail for its official corporate functions, then they appear no better than the stereotypical pimply kid running a business out of his parents' basement. I don't know how many customers bypass you because of this amateurish idea
Pimply kid running business out of parents bedroom... amateurish.... cannot bother.
Hardley polite and I thing you deserved every comment
Regards your comment about windows having no way to change the user folders (my documnents) etc... Just right click on the folder in the start menu... select properties... then click Move and then move it to whatever folder / drive you wish. This way I have my documents etc all on my data drive... so if I need to reinstall xp then all I need to do is just change the location once installed to my data drive and all back as was before with no problems and no loss of data
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Interesting info regards NTL... esp as I have just found out that they now own telewest "my ISP" that 100Mb..looks fun Just a quick update regards "If you receive British TV to your PC now by way of a tuner card you need a license" Taken from the licencing faq http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/gethelp/faqs.jsp Under the Communications Act 2003, you need a television licence to receive or record television programmes. This applies if they are received by a satellite, cable or land based transmitter. If you are watching any satellite service, controlled from within or outside the UK, you must have a television licence. You may have been informed, in the past, that a television licence was not required if you received television program services from outside the United Kingdom. This was changed in the Communications Act 2003, and if you are using your TV to receive or record television programmes broadcast by satellite from outside the UK, you are now legally required to have a TV licence. So in Uk even if I never have any means of accessing uk tv e.g. using foreign satellites only I still have to pay the theiving bbc. You could even take this to mean that I should have a tv licence just for have internet and a pc as I can get foreign tv on-line... which I think is just sick... Ok if I want to watch BBC yes I should pay, but I don't ... hence I refuse to pay
I've been semi following this id for a while over here and one of the reasons that it was not passed by the house of lords in the first time was due to the government refusing to give any accurate costings for the indivdual, but they were giving overall figures of total cost to implement and they were demanding it to be compulsory. At the time it was being priced by various economic specialists at anything from £100 to £399 per person.... thus it would cost me even more just to exist in the uk. Which concidering that I already have to pay for my driving licence, my passport etc and now on top I have to pay for a card with ALL my details etc on it. I find it VERY hard to trust the government when they say that all the economic experts are completely wrong and the card will "only" cost around £30 to £90
The latest with the "only for passports" is only for passports at the moment with the option for complete compulsory id to follow. This linked with the database that is going on including the dna database that is being built via the police (dna from anyone suspected of a crime is taken and kept regardless of whether guilty and they are even starting to do the same from victims of crime)
I am just glad that I can renew my passport next year 2007 before this comes in and then get the hell out of the uk
And please don't even start with the "but it will help in the fight against terror" The more you rely on one card and electronics to "prove" who someone is the easier it is to fake
Not only do we have to pay for cable... but ontop of that you have to pay £130 a year just for having a tv in your house. This is regardless how we receive our tv signals
As it happens I have had sudden power loss resulting in the engine cutting out at various speeds (dodgy fuse box wiring that took ages to trace). Your engine stops being powered thus your car starts to slow, but due to the momentum the engine keeps turning over. It is less noticable that sticking the brakes on lightly. Also due to the drag of the non running engine it alone will bring you to a controlled stop even if your brakes fail (just not a quickly obviously). In some cases depending on speed etc the slowing of the car is not much worse than just taking taking you foot completely off the pedal.
You can always simluate this "carefully" by just turning off your ignition whilst driving....please only try this in a straight line incase the steering lock engages
Not so much governments but industry..... I'm sure you have noticed things like "The World Bank" etc
AVG free anti virus "find on google" works very well updates daily or more if required and they are working on the Vista version at the moment. I emailed them a couple of weeks ago to try to get anti virus for my vista beta
We get the same sort of deal in UK regards up/down ratios with most people on 125K or 250K up. I've just chnaged to a 4M down I get a whole (please don't fall of your chairs in shock) 384K up. Hence it can take me a long long time to catch up uploading :-(
Regards the broadcast of your sound system, you are able to play it back and even have someone else listen. The time that you have to worry about copyright and broadcasting is, as far as I know down to the number of people that can hear it. This also varies from country to country and can get very strange at times
I would try www.DbPoweramp.com for their music converter. Freeware and you can select genre etc before ripping and change any titles as you wish. When you start it checks on freedb to see if it reckonizes the cd and so far I have found it very good. Also if you have a cd that is not on their database you can submit it thus helping to keep it up to date. Or for editing mp3 you already have I use Moosic. Basic straight forward and can do batch converts, extracting from filename, freedb intergration as well and freeware again. Not the fastest but I can do 2-300 mp3 in a batch with no probs. www.bluecowmedia.com/MOOsic/ Hope this might help
I think thats a case of he's no good so it's easier to promote him out the way than sack him. A way of management I have never managed to head my head round but it seems to happen at times. I'm not sure how it is in the USA, but here in UK it can be a ***pain to sack someone at times...gone are the days of going "your sacked" without very good reason and even then it can drag on for ages, esp if they are the sort of people who believe they are "perfect" and never wrong
My only comment regards the lack of change of price of games compared to the cost to produce them is the one factor I feel you might be missing... 20 years ago playing "video" games was much more of a minority market. Whereas now it is a major market, thus they are making far more profit due to having a vastly bigger market
Well said.......... It's nice to find someone else who thinks this is stupid that the people with the least get stuffed by paying extra for it. It's not just with the elec / gas that this happens. I'm in UK and I got a speeding ticket, which I have the choice of paying straight away or over instalments if I am unable to afford the full cost in one go.......... what they dont mention very clearly is that if you go for installments then you get charged court costs on top !!!! Thus having lost my job awhile a ago I am now stuffed with a higher fine because I have less money than other people....
Just one small point.... It's not about having to filter out child porn.
The issue is about children looking at porn on the internet... or so the government claims..:-)
I fully agree with all the above advice and my 2p's (uk) worth is that at times you can be safer on broadband instead of dial-up. For example if you have a cable modem (dont know how it works on adsl so keeping quiet)then you have NO risk of some dodgy dialler software getting in and changing your dial-up number to a premium rate number because it's not connected to the phone line at all !!!
Enjoy the speed and "almost" always on. broadband
"Maybe someone should send them a copy of 'The Joy of Sex?'
Tried that already via an RSS feed. It broke!"
Style... LOL
Just a quick point. It's not child porn they claim to be looking for.... It's children looking at porn. Just a slight difference :-)
Very interesting post
Just one point regards " Passive tags hold very little data, usually just an ID - or serial number (around 1K-ish - historically)"
Am I missing something here with very little data 1K.. I am old enough to remember when you could fit an entire working chess game into 1K.... early sinclair computers. So I cannot believe the very little data
I am interested that what I consider one of the biggest problems with all these Voip we have in the UK has not been mentioned... or I missed it
That is no matter which Voip you sign up for you are limited in that if you want to call someone from it then they have to be on either a landline, mobile or the same Voip as yourself. I do not know of any Voip that is able to call a different service as in Skype to msn for one example. So will this voip be the same.
If I wrong on this please..please let me know as I am sick of having to have different services all running to speak to different people
Zontar
Ok in your experiance it did not work...but you are NOT the entire world..... Many years ago I had to wear glasses due to a weak right eye.... (note this is a muscle problem not a deformed lens etc). After 6 months I was lucky enough to be refered to the eye dept in the local hospital (UK this is) and I was given sets of cards with excersises to do everyday and was told that either do them or end up with glasses for the rest of my life and my eyes would just get worse.
Thankfully I did do these and even 30 years later I still have very good eyesight with no need for glasses.
So just remember that because something does not work for you does not mean it is BUllSHIT
You wanted to make a polite statement.......... Sorry but ..If a company can't bother to have its own domain name or is blatant about using free-mail for its official corporate functions, then they appear no better than the stereotypical pimply kid running a business out of his parents' basement. I don't know how many customers bypass you because of this amateurish idea
Pimply kid running business out of parents bedroom... amateurish.... cannot bother.
Hardley polite and I thing you deserved every comment
A= Amps...strangely enough
Regards your comment about windows having no way to change the user folders (my documnents) etc... Just right click on the folder in the start menu ... select properties... then click Move and then move it to whatever folder / drive you wish. This way I have my documents etc all on my data drive... so if I need to reinstall xp then all I need to do is just change the location once installed to my data drive and all back as was before with no problems and no loss of data