Alas British postcode doesn't resolve to single buildings, Jon Abbott, it varies depending on where you live. My parents postcode gives even numbered houses on their suburban street, 21 properties. My postcode resolves to 3 houses ( I live on the edge of town near a farm).
You can have a play by going to http://www.royalmail.com (free login required) and trying "address finder" and typing in a postcode. Choice of English language or Welsh.
The DDC is such a pain in the ass when you're used to LOC....But personally I find the DDC obnoxious"
This is like saying "The (OS I hate) is a pain in the ass when you're used to (OS I love).. but personally I find the (OS I hate) obnoxious". Back up with facts. Come on, even the OS-war emails on slashdot at least say "I hate Windows because of disfunction X, Y, Z".
At least back up your point of view with some facts, tell us about the differences in the schemes, why one is more preferable to the other.
If the tech's ok, for sure. I trust a lot of my expensive portable technology to rechargeable AA batteries, after all. I guess if it's a coupla bucks only then probably its not an issue, but if non reusable fuel cells are 50 dollars a pop for 10 hours use, then yup, I'd be interested to check it out. What about you?
Surely somebody could just market a refiller like you get refiller aerosol cans for reusable lighters? 500ml can with nozzle that pokes into the fuel cell, give it a shot, and you're refueled?
Ok so we know that the big fuel cells companies will try to sit on top of this like homer_ca says, insist their brand can't be mixed. but surely somebody is likely to come out with the Taiwanese / Chinese made generic refillable version, hack the technology?
Not an engineer, so can somebody let me know if this is feasible or if I am missing a technical limitation here?
I think the range of this thing is - what - 10 to 30 feet?
Excuse my ignorance - information please. Would the iTrip be broadcasting on frequencies that might be used by emergency services (fire, ambulance, police..)? This is usually one of the 'safety' reasons for being unhappy about illegal broadcasting that UK gov. gives when having a go at pirate radio stations.
What is the distance these things can broadcast to? In the UK, 30 feet can quite easily mean from your room right into the middle of the town high street (lots of UK towns still follow mediaeval street plans). So I guess if they *do* broadcast on channels the govt. wants to use, and they *do* broadcast 30 feet, the govt *will* be upset. Don't want dead spots down the street where old Bill can't pick up base station...
some for and against here ((I've moved Table 1 from the bottom to the top for people who want to scan quickly)
http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/guides/jgreview.htm
Table 1. The dissemination and translation of knowledge in lectures (Agnew and Elton, p.11).
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What the teacher planned to say in the lecture
What the teacher thought was said in the lecture
What was actually said in the lecture
What the students wrote down in their notes
What the students remembered during an exam
What the students regained after graduation
--
"According to Agnew and Elton (p. 1) the word lecture is derived from the medieval Latin word lectura, meaning "to read aloud," which helps explain why most of us have endured (or even delivered) a boring lecture. If lectures are tedious, the authors ask, why bother with them? They respond that lectures are useful for two reasons. First, they are efficient. Lectures can cost-effectively enroll large numbers of students. Introductory courses often rely on 500-page textbooks laden with factual material (e.g., deBlij and Muller 1997). Lectures can help the teacher plan the course, ensuring that the textbook is covered by the end of the semester. The authors even suggest that lectures can help improve "cognitive skills such as memorizing facts" (p. i). External factors also make the lecture indispensable. A growing number of students are attending university but the number of tenure-track faculty has not increased commensurately. With fixed resources, universities hire temporary instructors to teach large introductory lectures.
Second, lectures can be entertaining and pedagogically sound, if teachers are creative. Agnew and Elton accept that lectures are a pragmatic response to real problems, but they ask what is wrong with lectures? And, can students actually learn from lectures? Formal lectures, where the teacher delivers a 50-minute monologue to students, have several drawbacks. As class sizes increase, teachers are less able to give individual attention to students. Detractors also criticize the authoritarian teacher-student relationship that underlies the lecture monologue (Freire 1998). Instead of passively receiving knowledge, students should be encouraged to discuss ideas with the teacher and other students (Mayo 1999). Finally, the authors note how ideas flow from lecture notes to the student in a stepwise fashion (Table 1). At each step, misunderstandings can occur. If this happens, the lack of time and the authoritarian role of the teacher may inhibit students from asking questions or challenging ideas presented in class.
I've heard some fairly good arguments to suggest that the lecture itself is a mediaeval form of presenting information and is now out of date as a way of transforming knowledge. What do students gain by sitting listening to the great master spout his wisdom?
Several lecturers I know have moved to providing their "lecture" online (e.g. hypertext document) and use the allocated lecture time for a follow up workshop, requiring the students to have already read and considered the "lecture" and to come along with some sort of academic response. Seems a far more effective use of teaching time to me, far more likely to be of value to students.
"Thank you for officially beginning the obligatory Second Amendment flame-war. I will counter by making the obligatory mention of Columbine. "Columbine". Your turn."
... And I in turn will make the obligatory rest-of-the-worldian observation "wow, aren't these crazy Americans obsessed by guns?"
...Hate to boring and serious, but it is actually a threat to marine wildlife. Add up all the nondegradable rubbish floating around out there that sea life can be poisoned by, the illegally dumped engine oil, broken up cargos, dumped chemical and radioactive nasties, and you're not looking at doing the environment any favours. What comes around, turns around.
ok I am a vegetarian, so what do I care, but hey, you guys who like sea food, woahh, I thought you'd be a little bit worried about the stuff your favourite dish has been eating.... (feel free to make fun veggie jokes, I like em too;-) , my favourite dishes are grown in shit, but hey it's worth thinking about eh?....).
We really should try to clean up the seas and stop being free and easy about how we transport and dump our crap, it will all come back eventually. I grew up by the English Channel, one of the busiest sea ways in the world, umm, do I ever go swimming in there? take a guess.....
JR Rowling and initials and fashion...
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A Game of Thrones
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I heard that "J.R." Rowling was asked by her publishers to drop her given name and go with the initials because they were worried school boys wouldn't read a novel written by a woman -- she was asked to do it by the money people rather than wanting to do it herself....
"Except that plexiglass doesn't need power, is pretty resistant to shaking and twisting, doesn't mind a little water, isn't affected by EMP... "
Waitaminute. You mean they are still using pencil-and-paper instead of computers to control those things down there? (same argument for against manual vs. computer navigated subs, surely?)
(Not a lawyer but would be interested to hear from one if TheCrazyFinn wishes to find out more...)
There is no such thing as "British Law". I believe there is "English" law (I think this covers England, Wales, Northern Ireland, principly, further info welcomed) and Scots law, covering Scotland... (apologies to various other bits of the UK that I've missed, history makes things sooooo complicated)
I'd be happy if anybody can provide a URL leading to some exact definitions, but as a starter, if somebody offers you a contract that is legal under British law, and it says so in black and white, it's worth nothing!! (found this out from our lawyer when we were writing up AUPs for our little company).
An extreme example maybe but The Sun is the mostly widely read paper in the UK (highest circulation figures). Most Europeans have distinct reservations about the UK press and its opinion forming effect on the UK populace.
stupid Americans/ French / British?
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Chicken Run
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· Score: 1
Interesting... so far I've heard the "undefrosted chicken error" story as UK scientists lending machine to dumb Americans, Americans lending machine to dumb French, Americans lending machine to dumb British...hmm... truly in folklore territory methinks! Anybody actually got a credible reference they can provide? or is it alas just another cool urban myth to laugh at the people we currently think are stooopid?
(don't kid yourself - the US and Europe are *not* friends right now)
Well I'm still friends with my pals who have US passports so there are some exceptions:-))
Seriously though this kind of simplistic statement is the sort of thing politicians come out with - come on! I'd guess that away from the politicans, most of the scientific and business community are getting on just fine, trading research and business just as they ever have done. Few influential organisations or research teams are bounded along strictly national lines these days, I'm sure...
You make fine points, FreeLinux, but eek, please don't mix up England with the UK. England is a constituent part of the United Kingdom.
Trust me, mistakes like that will not win you a lot of friends when you step off the plane in Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland, step into the nearest pub and declare loudly "hey it's great to be here in England" (grin).
methinks you must be crazy yankee driving big car on fat freeway?:-)
Me an Olde European living in streets where plus/minus "a few inches" is all the space it takes for a courier bike rider to drive a 600cc bike down at 60mph, difference between me parking my car or not, or little old lady in mini car getting shouted at by White Van Man "come on darling, you could get a truck down there!":-)
Methinks plus/minus a few inches is the difference between cutting through East London at 30mph or taking the side off several very expensive cars on the way... how about you phone me when GPS / Galileo gets down to plus / minus 5mm and then I might buy one of those self driving cars....
where do you use a watch, that's the question...
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Wristwatch USB Drive
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Parent has a fine point, it's the one that's bothering me. USB drive on watch = good idea because I carry my watch everywhere so I'll always have my data nearby... but... if the watch can't take my lifestyle and I need to have "office watch" and "other places watch" the memory resource is no longer ubiquitous and so loses its value...
Conclusion - I'll buy this watch if it can take my lifestyle. Which has some fairly mundane but demanding requirements like cycling home in the rain, fixing my house and my watch getting knocked around a bit, oops, washed my hands and forgot to take my watch off, etc....
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Alas British postcode doesn't resolve to single buildings, Jon Abbott, it varies depending on where you live. My parents postcode gives even numbered houses on their suburban street, 21 properties. My postcode resolves to 3 houses ( I live on the edge of town near a farm).
You can have a play by going to http://www.royalmail.com (free login required) and trying "address finder" and typing in a postcode. Choice of English language or Welsh.
cool pictures, cheers. Do you know how they light it to get the projection effect?
Bit of clarity please, England and Britain are not the same place.
Not sure if the pilot program you mention is being tested right across Britain or only in England...
The DDC is such a pain in the ass when you're used to LOC....But personally I find the DDC obnoxious"
This is like saying "The (OS I hate) is a pain in the ass when you're used to (OS I love) .. but personally I find the (OS I hate) obnoxious". Back up with facts. Come on, even the OS-war emails on slashdot at least say "I hate Windows because of disfunction X, Y, Z".
At least back up your point of view with some facts, tell us about the differences in the schemes, why one is more preferable to the other.
If the tech's ok, for sure. I trust a lot of my expensive portable technology to rechargeable AA batteries, after all. I guess if it's a coupla bucks only then probably its not an issue, but if non reusable fuel cells are 50 dollars a pop for 10 hours use, then yup, I'd be interested to check it out. What about you?
Surely somebody could just market a refiller like you get refiller aerosol cans for reusable lighters? 500ml can with nozzle that pokes into the fuel cell, give it a shot, and you're refueled?
Ok so we know that the big fuel cells companies will try to sit on top of this like homer_ca says, insist their brand can't be mixed. but surely somebody is likely to come out with the Taiwanese / Chinese made generic refillable version, hack the technology?
Not an engineer, so can somebody let me know if this is feasible or if I am missing a technical limitation here?
which lecture were you at? are the lecture notes online?
I think the range of this thing is - what - 10 to 30 feet?
Excuse my ignorance - information please. Would the iTrip be broadcasting on frequencies that might be used by emergency services (fire, ambulance, police..)? This is usually one of the 'safety' reasons for being unhappy about illegal broadcasting that UK gov. gives when having a go at pirate radio stations.
What is the distance these things can broadcast to? In the UK, 30 feet can quite easily mean from your room right into the middle of the town high street (lots of UK towns still follow mediaeval street plans). So I guess if they *do* broadcast on channels the govt. wants to use, and they *do* broadcast 30 feet, the govt *will* be upset. Don't want dead spots down the street where old Bill can't pick up base station...
"Do I need to tell you he was British (PhD University of Cambridge)?
I don't get it, what does this bit mean?
http://www.glos.ac.uk/gdn/guides/jgreview.htm
Table 1. The dissemination and translation of knowledge in lectures (Agnew and Elton, p.11).
--
What the teacher planned to say in the lecture
What the teacher thought was said in the lecture
What was actually said in the lecture
What the students wrote down in their notes
What the students remembered during an exam
What the students regained after graduation
--
"According to Agnew and Elton (p. 1) the word lecture is derived from the medieval Latin word lectura, meaning "to read aloud," which helps explain why most of us have endured (or even delivered) a boring lecture. If lectures are tedious, the authors ask, why bother with them? They respond that lectures are useful for two reasons. First, they are efficient. Lectures can cost-effectively enroll large numbers of students. Introductory courses often rely on 500-page textbooks laden with factual material (e.g., deBlij and Muller 1997). Lectures can help the teacher plan the course, ensuring that the textbook is covered by the end of the semester. The authors even suggest that lectures can help improve "cognitive skills such as memorizing facts" (p. i). External factors also make the lecture indispensable. A growing number of students are attending university but the number of tenure-track faculty has not increased commensurately. With fixed resources, universities hire temporary instructors to teach large introductory lectures.
Second, lectures can be entertaining and pedagogically sound, if teachers are creative. Agnew and Elton accept that lectures are a pragmatic response to real problems, but they ask what is wrong with lectures? And, can students actually learn from lectures? Formal lectures, where the teacher delivers a 50-minute monologue to students, have several drawbacks. As class sizes increase, teachers are less able to give individual attention to students. Detractors also criticize the authoritarian teacher-student relationship that underlies the lecture monologue (Freire 1998). Instead of passively receiving knowledge, students should be encouraged to discuss ideas with the teacher and other students (Mayo 1999). Finally, the authors note how ideas flow from lecture notes to the student in a stepwise fashion (Table 1). At each step, misunderstandings can occur. If this happens, the lack of time and the authoritarian role of the teacher may inhibit students from asking questions or challenging ideas presented in class.
I've heard some fairly good arguments to suggest that the lecture itself is a mediaeval form of presenting information and is now out of date as a way of transforming knowledge. What do students gain by sitting listening to the great master spout his wisdom?
Several lecturers I know have moved to providing their "lecture" online (e.g. hypertext document) and use the allocated lecture time for a follow up workshop, requiring the students to have already read and considered the "lecture" and to come along with some sort of academic response. Seems a far more effective use of teaching time to me, far more likely to be of value to students.
"Thank you for officially beginning the obligatory Second Amendment flame-war. I will counter by making the obligatory mention of Columbine. "Columbine". Your turn."
... And I in turn will make the obligatory rest-of-the-worldian observation
"wow, aren't these crazy Americans obsessed by guns?"
...Hate to boring and serious, but it is actually a threat to marine wildlife. Add up all the nondegradable rubbish floating around out there that sea life can be poisoned by, the illegally dumped engine oil, broken up cargos, dumped chemical and radioactive nasties, and you're not looking at doing the environment any favours. What comes around, turns around.
ok I am a vegetarian, so what do I care, but hey, you guys who like sea food, woahh, I thought you'd be a little bit worried about the stuff your favourite dish has been eating.... (feel free to make fun veggie jokes, I like em too ;-) , my favourite dishes are grown in shit, but hey it's worth thinking about eh?....).
We really should try to clean up the seas and stop being free and easy about how we transport and dump our crap, it will all come back eventually. I grew up by the English Channel, one of the busiest sea ways in the world, umm, do I ever go swimming in there? take a guess.....
Touche! hehehe apologies.....
I heard that "J.R." Rowling was asked by her publishers to drop her given name and go with the initials because they were worried school boys wouldn't read a novel written by a woman -- she was asked to do it by the money people rather than wanting to do it herself....
"Except that plexiglass doesn't need power, is pretty resistant to shaking and twisting, doesn't mind a little water, isn't affected by EMP...
"
Waitaminute. You mean they are still using pencil-and-paper instead of computers to control those things down there? (same argument for against manual vs. computer navigated subs, surely?)
(Not a lawyer but would be interested to hear from one if TheCrazyFinn wishes to find out more...)
There is no such thing as "British Law". I believe there is "English" law (I think this covers England, Wales, Northern Ireland, principly, further info welcomed) and Scots law, covering Scotland... (apologies to various other bits of the UK that I've missed, history makes things sooooo complicated)
I'd be happy if anybody can provide a URL leading to some exact definitions, but as a starter, if somebody offers you a contract that is legal under British law, and it says so in black and white, it's worth nothing!! (found this out from our lawyer when we were writing up AUPs for our little company).
An extreme example maybe but The Sun is the mostly widely read paper in the UK (highest circulation figures). Most Europeans have distinct reservations about the UK press and its opinion forming effect on the UK populace.
Interesting... so far I've heard the "undefrosted chicken error" story as UK scientists lending machine to dumb Americans, Americans lending machine to dumb French, Americans lending machine to dumb British ...hmm... truly in folklore territory methinks! Anybody actually got a credible reference they can provide? or is it alas just another cool urban myth to laugh at the people we currently think are stooopid?
I'll have you know Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited made some of the finest motorcycles in the world. How dare you call it a "worthless entity".
Some yankee is going to believe you and get themselves into a right pagger...
(don't kid yourself - the US and Europe are *not* friends right now)
Well I'm still friends with my pals who have US passports so there are some exceptions :-))
Seriously though this kind of simplistic statement is the sort of thing politicians come out with - come on! I'd guess that away from the politicans, most of the scientific and business community are getting on just fine, trading research and business just as they ever have done. Few influential organisations or research teams are bounded along strictly national lines these days, I'm sure...
Trust me, mistakes like that will not win you a lot of friends when you step off the plane in Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland, step into the nearest pub and declare loudly "hey it's great to be here in England" (grin).
Me an Olde European living in streets where plus /minus "a few inches" is all the space it takes for a courier bike rider to drive a 600cc bike down at 60mph, difference between me parking my car or not, or little old lady in mini car getting shouted at by White Van Man "come on darling, you could get a truck down there!" :-)
Methinks plus
Conclusion - I'll buy this watch if it can take my lifestyle. Which has some fairly mundane but demanding requirements like cycling home in the rain, fixing my house and my watch getting knocked around a bit, oops, washed my hands and forgot to take my watch off, etc....