Posts by Will Godfrey
1553 posts • joined Saturday 8th September 2007 11:08 GMT
My most honest comment
... quite a few years ago.
"Sorry about all the globals. I'll try to do better next time."
Re: Hawking: Feet Of Clay
So you're allowed to have a political opinion (as you've just expressed) but Stephen Hawking isn't.
What an arrogant stance.
Re: @Kubla Cant
What is this bath you speak of?
First they came for the Hotmailers;
But I was not a Hotmailer so I said nothing...
Meh
Meh again
and in case you didn't get the message - see icon.
@NomNomNom
You forgot the 4th way:
{fingers in ears} Lalalalalalala
I feel confident they will get exactly the person they deserve.
Re: Where will video conferencing be by the time HS2 is actually working
At the time he was dead right. Now however, he's just dead.
Re: Switzerland
High enough speed... and astonishingly clean.
Boris
"Can nobody rid me of this turbulent priest?"
So...
until the 1990s the Earth was mostly ARMless
Just remember..
Looking directly at the sun is bad for your eyes.
I understand that quite a large reseller is also moving off O2 and (somewhat astonishingly) moving to BT
Brings back memories
I wrote a version of this for the BBC B, then a super-dooper one for the Archimedes, that did proper vector calculations and you could apply spin to the balls by 'swiping' the bat as they met. It also had 'soft' bricks that would slow the ball down and 'shiny' ones that sped it up.
Re: No mention of CC
I got news for you. There are thousands of people who do just that - many of them are also the uploaders of CC material. For starters try:
KVR
Kara-Moon
Soundcloud
Elephant time again
So what happens when the US decides (for reasons beyond comprehension) that your company is 'anti-American'?
No Surprise
So once again we find the EU is protecting us from our own government. No wonder they are trying to persuade the country to pull out.
No mention of CC
I download a lot of music and the occasional vid that is licensed Creative Commons. In fact that is all I download. How does that figure in the calculations? (I bet it doesn't).
Re: We're all going to hell in a handcart
{sigh}
You just reminded me of my first ever fountain pen and the first lesson I learned with it. There is a reason for 'fountain', as you discover if you lift the little filling lever while there is actually some ink in the pen.
Re: And how would this actually be possible?
... to say nothing of the mass swearing when the network goes down.
Re: Boys are not the most natural writers?
Ha! You beat me to it. Might I add:
Gilbert, W.S.
Clark, A.C.
Wells, H.G.
Doyle, A.I.C.
Porter, W.S. (O.Henry)
Well that's another nail in the coffin.
Re: Interesting...
Yes. I noticed that. I wonder if there's some astro-turfing going on.
I'll see your EF36 and raise you one EF37A (for my valve amp of course)
Re: What do people do on these OS's?
There is some very serious audio software available - not bells and whistles stuff but low latency, high connectivity, high reliability.
Re: But what can it do?
If anyone on a techie forum is seriously asking this question, then the answer is quite clearly:
For you, nothing.
Interesting.
So far, the numbers show an almost identical pattern to my own answers.
Arrrgh!
Please give prior warning before mentioning that woman's name.
Re: Sir
I'll go further. I'd be surprised if she didn't know more than the numpties. She has a long history of being well informed.
Too late for us, but you can protect your children by giving then the commonest name you can think of. If there are 5000 John Smiths in Cambridge then the more data you have on all of them the less meaning it actually has.
Inquiring minds need to know
Noun - he is a Prenda
Verb - she just prendaed
Expletive - Oh Prenda!
Which will it become?
I didn't think anyone who wanted to be taken seriously ever used hotmail.
I wonder if that also applies to outlook.com.
Re: lets see a similar campaign to get men (back) into teaching.
I'd like to see a more balanced distribution of teachers, but honestly, what man is going to take the risk these days? One false accusation from a disgruntled pupil (male or female) and not only is your life ruined, but so is that of all your family and friends.
Why bother?
Without in any way denigrating these guys' efforts and the music they've produced, it seems a rather backward thing to do. Would anyone want to re-create the performance of a 1950's tape recorder?
Modern soft synths can do far more than the old analogue ones, and most are fully polyphonic and multi-timbral. A single synth can sound like an entire orchestra, jazz band or just make delicious discrete but complementary electronic sounds. Why do you want to copy the exact effect of a not very stable unpredictable sound generator.
Re: Automatic tills?
@MJI
Absolutely agree. Tried them. Hated them. Like the personal touch of a real human. Also don't want to put anyone out of a job, even one as menial as till operator.
Re: Use too much Leccy? We will turn you off
So how does the smart meter (at the entry to the house) know the difference between a refrigerator and a disabled stair lift?
Pretty Horriffic
Unusually I totally agree with Andrew. This piece of institutionally approved theft has enormous ramifications.
Re: Hah, he's been too busy on the Pan-Galactic highway
Hic!
Shocked! Shocked, I am.
I was totally unaware of this till now. How could that have happened?
Re: old enough to remember the 70s.
But would he remember to tell the councils they couldn't spend the proceeds on building more houses?
Remote access
Nothing could possibly go wrong, could it?
Could it?
Key points for me are that the company is:
A) publicly acknowledging possible future problems.
B) saying it is going to increase R&D spending.
@Lee D
mp3 compression is claimed to only remove the stuff you cant detect, but that moot at best. Even at 320k with quality encoding, you can often easily detect artifacts on HF sounds like cymbals. Added to which not all decoders are equal. I have some mp3s that are reasonable on my elderly iRiver, but absolutely dire played on a 'modern' mp3 player.
Actually...
If you want to do the job properly, yes you do master on headphones, and proper studio monitors, and triple check on the car stereo - which often gives surprising results.
You mean something like...
Redundant
Array of
Inexpensive
Providers
...
You know, for some reason I just don't think that's gonna fly.
provided "permission" has been given
should have the right to opt out
must be done in a measured way
secure the safety of records when a provider’s contract comes to an end
prevent inappropriate sharing
promised that the government's data grab would "not threaten privacy"
All looks swimmingly fine doesn't it? However.... Can anyone remember any instance where such statements have actually turned out to be true (and effective)?
What I find astonishing is that apparently intelligent business people couldn't see this coming. Such collapses have been predicted on here and similar tech sites for ages, so how is it nobody else seemed to see the risks - and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Bad idea calling people clueless when you didn't read the article properly.
zzzzzzZZZZZZ {ploink}
Eh? Wassat?
Oh, sky falling again.
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Re: I see...
I agree. When the bulk of your post is insulting your readers you do indeed fail.
Pah! These forums are getting to be almost as bad as Usenet!
