Whilst watching the iPhone speech from Jobs I noticed he called the operating system "Oh Ess Ten" - I always thought it was "Oh Ess Ex" - am I wrong or am I wrong?
I was down the pub (in England) one night and thought I could sell a pint glass on eBay - I took the glass home - took some photos - did a nice write up (without lieing) and put it on eBay.com (thought the Americans would like it). Lo and behold - I got $14 for the glass and $7 for p&p. $21 for a pint glass! The guy even wanted me to insure it! And he left me great feedback!!
Got any links on this? Not much Wiki info on Geometric Hashing - I remember my physics teacher at school explaining why a robot has these problems recognising stuff so I'm kinda interested (this was in the 80's so I may have missed some of the newer stuff).
You can only watch BBC online if you live in the UK (we do pay the license fee after all) - have you tried using a UK proxy - it might work... 1st game kicks off in 45 mins...
I'm currently watching the BBC tv coverage on one monitor via my slingbox, BBC online live coverage on the other monitor and listening to talksport radio on my ipaq - I couldn't do any of these last world cup.
Have only been reading/. for about a year (obvious from the uid) and a few weeks ago I came across this wiki article about Slashdot subculture and Slashdot in general. Not sure why I posted that info as a reply to parent?
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...that British Rail (BR - as it was at the time) have a bigger telecoms network than BT (British Telecom). Something to do with train signals and cables down the side of every track. British Rail *does* have a telecoms license and thought about becoming an internet provider as they have *loads* of spare bandwidth (they're only controlling the signals and other low-bandwidth stuff)
So - our train network has a better & bigger telecom network than our phone network - typically British! (Wouldn't surprise me that BT has more trains than BR;))
I agree entirely - when I bought my PS2 copy of San Andeas from Dixons (UK electronic retailer) the guy behind me was there with his 12 yr old son whom he was buying the game for. I chatted to him whilst waiting to get served and he had no idea what the game was about and didn't seem to care that it had a rating older than his son. I got the impression the dad was a caring guy and wouldn't, say, buy his kid an 18 rated film but this was, hey, just a computer game.
When I was 12 (1982) I played lots of violent video games - the crap graphics didn't show it [the violence] as realistically as they do now.
I nearly choked when I read the parents comment. What a narrow minded "we are the world" view. This is the *World* Cup - unlike your World Series it *actually* involves the *whole* world.
The general-public don't *care*. They *delete* a file and think its gone. There's no point explaining that it's only the FAT entries that have gone and their data is still there - they *don't care*. To them it's - gone.
Off-topic - I had an arguement once with a friend of a friend after I'd said you could copy a computer file umpteen million times and you'd still get exactly the same file as the original - they argued that it would decay with each copy and obviously had no comprehension of...... how computers work - my point is - peolpe will believe what they want - "the file *has* been deleted".
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"your significant other..."
You mean your laptop?
Cheers - that makes me an Apple Nub then :)
Whilst watching the iPhone speech from Jobs I noticed he called the operating system "Oh Ess Ten" - I always thought it was "Oh Ess Ex" - am I wrong or am I wrong?
cat internet > /dev/null
We know what's going on - why don't they?
www.tinfoilwallets.com
Oh wait, I made that up...
Is it April fools day?
Off topic: I'm British and I feel I/we have a "special relationship" with the US. And Canada. And Australia. And New Zealand.
We share the *same* language.
On topic: If a US citizen hacked in a UK Military computer - would they be extradited to the UK? I doubt it.
I was down the pub (in England) one night and thought I could sell a pint glass on eBay - I took the glass home - took some photos - did a nice write up (without lieing) and put it on eBay.com (thought the Americans would like it). Lo and behold - I got $14 for the glass and $7 for p&p. $21 for a pint glass! The guy even wanted me to insure it! And he left me great feedback!!
Now - If I could just ramp up my thievery...
Got any links on this? Not much Wiki info on Geometric Hashing - I remember my physics teacher at school explaining why a robot has these problems recognising stuff so I'm kinda interested (this was in the 80's so I may have missed some of the newer stuff).
I've just started a copy of Win98 up in VMWare - Windows Update says there's 50 updates for me...
If you can't watch it you can always listen to it on talksport radio - it's a pretty good UK station.
You can only watch BBC online if you live in the UK (we do pay the license fee after all) - have you tried using a UK proxy - it might work... 1st game kicks off in 45 mins...
Good luck!
I'm currently watching the BBC tv coverage on one monitor via my slingbox, BBC online live coverage on the other monitor and listening to talksport radio on my ipaq - I couldn't do any of these last world cup.
:)
Don't ya just love technology
That's the kind of comment I come here for - none of my pub friends would say that :)
Note to self - remember the = in href statements (parent was missing an "=" in the html - hence the prblem)
Tetchy!
/. for about a year (obvious from the uid) and a few weeks ago I came across this wiki article about Slashdot subculture and Slashdot in general. Not sure why I posted that info as a reply to parent?
Have only been reading
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It was a [bad attempt] at a joke. :)
Whilst you're on your high-horse about Sony = Evil, why-not download Vista
...that British Rail (BR - as it was at the time) have a bigger telecoms network than BT (British Telecom). Something to do with train signals and cables down the side of every track. British Rail *does* have a telecoms license and thought about becoming an internet provider as they have *loads* of spare bandwidth (they're only controlling the signals and other low-bandwidth stuff)
;))
So - our train network has a better & bigger telecom network than our phone network - typically British! (Wouldn't surprise me that BT has more trains than BR
I agree entirely - when I bought my PS2 copy of San Andeas from Dixons (UK electronic retailer) the guy behind me was there with his 12 yr old son whom he was buying the game for. I chatted to him whilst waiting to get served and he had no idea what the game was about and didn't seem to care that it had a rating older than his son. I got the impression the dad was a caring guy and wouldn't, say, buy his kid an 18 rated film but this was, hey, just a computer game.
When I was 12 (1982) I played lots of violent video games - the crap graphics didn't show it [the violence] as realistically as they do now.
I did have a point but now I've forgotten it...
I nearly choked when I read the parents comment. What a narrow minded "we are the world" view. This is the *World* Cup - unlike your World Series it *actually* involves the *whole* world.
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Ya numpty.
The BBC website does explain it's World Cup net coverage and how they're prepared for it... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cu
[BTW - as soon as I can figure out how not to display the whole link in the post I'll give it a go.]
Right-click on the icon and select 'Explore' - you should now be able to explore the network drive you were having trouble with.
Views on starting a PC newbie straight to Linux??????
The general-public don't *care*. They *delete* a file and think its gone. There's no point explaining that it's only the FAT entries that have gone and their data is still there - they *don't care*. To them it's - gone.
... ... how computers work - my point is - peolpe will believe what they want - "the file *has* been deleted".
Off-topic - I had an arguement once with a friend of a friend after I'd said you could copy a computer file umpteen million times and you'd still get exactly the same file as the original - they argued that it would decay with each copy and obviously had no comprehension of