Comment Re:Conservative Hit-piece (Score 3, Insightful) 230
What I don't see is a sane reason to build high speed rail.
Because the ability to move people and goods around very quickly efficiently and with minimal pollution is a good thing?
What I don't see is a sane reason to build high speed rail.
Because the ability to move people and goods around very quickly efficiently and with minimal pollution is a good thing?
Take it over to Corby [UK] Stewart and Lloyds, a steel mill [when we still had them] which had an ICL 1901 or 1902 with a huge drum store.
I don't suppose you ever got to play with the LEO II they had there, did you?
...the BBC have been using RealPlayer streams for radio services almost ever since they started putting shows online.
They did indeed use RealPlayer when they launched on radio streaming (it's Flash based again these days). You know what? I was damn glad they did use RealPlayer, too. Because like it it or not, RealPlayer worked on Linux with Netscape, which meant I could listen to BBC Radio 1. The alternative was Windows Media, which certainly didn't work on Linux (not withstanding some horrible and very unstable hacks or reverse-engineered libraries).
So yes, RealPlayer was the best of a bad bunch, but it was the right decision.
Incidentally I knew the guy who worked at the BBC and created the experimental Ogg Vorbis streams. They seriously considered offering Vorbis streams as an official option, but there really were technical issues with it that meant the idea was dropped. Sadly that was over ten years ago and I can't remember what they were. Ho hum.
Anyone who went to school in the UK in the 1980s grew up on it.
Nope. I was at school from '84 to '95 and never once saw, let alone used, a RISC OS machine. It was BBC's (Masters & B's) at Primary school and RM Nimbuses with DOS/Windows at Secondary school.
Be careful when a loop exits to the same place from side and bottom.