Posts by peter 45 493 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Guess what. Youtube do pay Royalties. (Remember few years back when PRS wanted more money for their licence so Google decided not to play their videos).
If you think that you are not getting paid, I'd have a word with the PRS to see where the money has gone.
Good luck.
possible alternatives
1. Saving up
2. Buying cheaper, less capable handset
3. Borrow from bank
4. hire
5. hire purchase
6. Buy second hand
Want me to go on?
Any of these can be done without HAVING to be locked into the operator. In fact if you think about it, why was the SIM standard created in the first place? It wasn't to enable operators to lock handsets, was it?
Leaving out all the 'pardon' and 'I cannot understand, can you say it again'
Him - (Said in almost unintelligible Indian accent) Hello. How may I help you?
Me - My car has a puncture and I cannot undo the bolts. Can you send someone please?
Him - Certainly. What is your postcode?
Me - Um. Don't know. I'm on the hard shoulder of the motorway.
Him - Can you knock on someones door to find out the post code?
Me - No. I'm on the Motorway. There are no houses on a motorway.
Him - Ok, can you see a streetname?
Me - Errr. No. I'm on the M3 motorway.
Him - Can you go to the end of the street and see if you can see a name?
Me - Errr. No. I'm on a motorway. It doesn't have street names. Its called the M3. I'm on the M3 southbound just past junction 6.
Him - ........Can you spell M3 please?
Never really had much of a problem with download speeds in the evenings, but from the rare times I am at home during the day, it seems that the download speed slows to virtually zero.
Bandwidth Hogs slowing the download during the evenings i can understand, but during the day? Are Talktalk throttling severly during the day to sell high value daytime bandwith to business customers?
Are the British Army vehicles (Mastiff for example) which has a warning next to the fuel filler cap warning not to have any transmitters on whilst refueling.
Its a diesel engine.
Bet the elf and safty twonk who came one up with that one has never tried to set light to diesel with rf sparks....or even a match (probably the same one who wanted 'danger of electrocution' stickers plastered over equipment running off 24 volts. He didn't understand that 24V is not 240V.).
"legal obligation to protect a company's intellectual properties". yes but that legal obligation can mean many things and can be, for example, asking a little notice to be placed in the pub acknowledging copyrights/trademarks. By no means does it mean they MUST send the legal nuclear option.
'serving' their own interests and 'protecting' their sources of income.?
Best quote yet was from Inspector Gadget who wrote
"At least we now know why those of us at the lower end of the scale have always been told to make ‘no comment’ at an incident until a senior officer arrives. Seems like they were protecting their second income!"
"As an experiment," Corman said, "explain to your children what it is you're trying to explain to your chief security officer. If they get it and he doesn't, then the problem isn't with you."
Just done that with my wife (not saying she has the intelligence of my children. She is intelligent, just not an expert or even working in the field).
When she says 'that makes no sense', I know it is not my inability to make my blithering idiot of a security officer see beyond the statement 'its the rule' to see why the rule exists and when 'the rule' might not cope for specific circumstances or new information.
"if your accounts department is particularly officious". Wot, like the Accounts Department in every Company I have ever worked for you mean?
I have even had one company tell me they were putting my Overalls down as a tax benefit as it was possible to use them at home.
From switching on to editing my first document of the day - 5 passwords including
two randomly generated and one that has to change every month and two others that are different for each project.
Number of different passwords to use all the different software applications on top of the 5 above- 7 passwords
Also, if you get any one of them wrong more than three times, your account freezes and you have to get the IT guy to physically visit your desk to ensure you are who you say you are before they will unlock.
Do I write them down? Of course I do. Don't be silly.
Agree. After all one can equally lambast those who o bought the music just because she is dead. In my book as morally suspect as this who cash in on her death. Sony didn't have to put the price up, and people didn't have to buy the music at that price.
"Look at the alternatives" Like the alternative of having Journalists who are *not* a bunch of amoral scum-sucking trotters who get their stories by amoral and illegal methods you mean?
"but for all the harm it has done, it's done as much, if not more good". And that is a good excuse or a get-of-of-jail-free card is it? Good thing that the rest of us don't subscribe to the "you are fine just as long as you some good" morality.
P.S. I understand that Cock-fighting used to be a very popular sport. Should we have kept that 'cos it was popular?
Once knew a Claims Assessor and he described his job as a Claims Prevention Officer.
Does not matter that the Insurance companies say their job is to 'assist' the Claimant to make a 'fair' claim, 'cos his job was basically to find any excuse possible to disallow or reduce the claim. He got bonuses based on the difference between the claimants claim and the final payout.
Claim assessor come to your house to 'help you assess the damage' ? Don't make me laugh. His job is to poke into all corners of the house, damaged or not, noting ALL the content's value 'cos if the value is higher than the insured limit, it gets reduced and he get a bonus. Even though you are claiming for damage and not theft, he will check the security of your windows. If it isn't the same as stated on the insurance form, claim will be rejected.
It is the householder responsibility to fill the form in accurately, but be under no illusions what a Claim Assessor is there to do when the insurance company sends him round to 'help you'.
"insurance companies could afford computers that could count into double digits for no claims years, too."
Yeh, and managed to sort out the no-claims information they give you at the end of the year and the information they insist on to take out insurance.
Last insurance company I went with would only give an 'over 5 years' type of information at the end of the year, but their insurance quote form insisted on an exact number of years (and would then only allow 5 years if you got an 'over 5 years' statement.)
I have not had a claim for over 10 years, but can now only claim 6 because of this .
"border guards are humourless drones" and arrogant little shits to boot.
We were also herded off the plane through immigration into a holding area just so the aircraft could be re-fueled. The first person was called forward to be fingerprinted but was disabled and could not move fast enough for the aforementioned little shit's liking. He stormed off shouting that he 'didn't have to put up with this'. We didn't see him again for half an hour and the whole compliment of 747's passenger's were left just queuing. Not allowed forward, not allowed backward. No toilets, no refreshments, no chairs and no air conditioning.
The aircraft had actually finished refueling before the first passenger has been 'immigrated' and it took 4 hours to get everyone through the whole process.
Still, as long as it helps America's War on Terror. (sarcastic icon)
But we all knows that copyright violation (opps...sorry....PIRACY) puts money in the pockets of organised crime and Terrorism. Also I'm pretty sure Ive heard that al queda are terrorists. QED he is .
What more justification do the Americans need to place a order an XXXL jump suit with reinforced crotch?
"So what you really need is some kind of brilliant tablet with a built in case/stand that has a keyboard in it to avoid the input problem "
Wot? Like the Transformer Tablet with keyboard that I am using to type this on now then? Holds the screen at a good viewing angle, gives you 2 USB ports and extra battery life thrown in and you can close it up to protect the screen.
Tablet? no thanks.
"Evidence of past crimes and convictions may however affect the credibility of a witness..." but evidence of past crimes and convictions however may not be used to affect the credibility of the accused (except under very narrow and specific cirmumstances).
That strikes us normal people as a tad one sided. No doubt legally correct and necessary to provide the accused a fair trial by having no trace of influence on this trial from past history, but still unfair to my definition. As a normal person unburdened by years of legal training and legal niceties, would I be tempted to redress the balance? Yep. Am I wrong not to bow the combined wisdom of the cleverest in the land. Probably, but I would still be tempted.
I think you are correct, but looked at from another angle.........
The FITs were set in place to kick start the manufacturing/install base so that the costs came down sufficiently for it it be a viable investment. Yes, they are using Taxpayer's money to subsidise, but the whole business whas never going to take off without it.
I think that most people would agree that if the costs come down low enough that everyone can afford to fit these panels, make/save money and also reduce emisions it can hardly be a bad thing.
However, I think that the problem is that the manufacturing/install costs have come down, but still not enough to make it financially viable without large FITs. The cuts in FITs the Government are proposing are too big to keep this kick-start going so the whole new infrastructure is going to fall over.
If that happens, all the government has done is to use taxpayer's money to subsidise those with 10-15k and a house roof to spare (and even then I did not think the finances stack up for it to be anything other than a long term (over 15 years) investment, with inherent risks that the maintenance/repair costs would kill any profits.).
I think that since you looked inside the box you have 'observed' it and collapsed the wave function. So the answer is Yes or No.
(Yes I know that Schrödinger meant it as a ridiculous case and Niels Bohr never had in mind the observer-induced collapse of the wave function, but hey)
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