Who modded this +5?
Even the summary mentions this possibility: if you make a 'silent zone' then the airlines will make this a premium option that costs more. I'm not commenting on the merits of the bill, just that pointing out that a comment suggesting something that's mentioned in the acutal summary (I haven't RTFL) shouldn't be modded insightful.
This town in West Wales (Aberystwyth) has already done this on main roads - not just the lamps but the posts and housings as well. The're a great improvement - I'm about 100 yds from the trunk (main) road here as I type and I have to look closely to see if they're still on. The new lights are very directional (no light pollution) and they have a much better spectrum if you're walking along the road and the illumination seems much brighter. They replaced low-pressure (orange) sodium.
I'm sure that replacing the posts (6m ish tall) cost quite a bit, and I don't know what the efficiency saving is, but the payback must pretty short-term as the Welsh government doesn't have money to burn. It's been a great improvement here.
I'm just posting to say I haven't seen:
>... Plonk.
For years. As in 15, at least. Wow.
Note that this is judgement-neutral, I'm just saying 'hi' to once-familiar term, this is judgement-neutral!
We've been doing this since 2007 (digitally) at the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales. We have a licence to keep for the nation any broadcast TV that we recieve that meets our collection policy. We've been doing it on SVHS (and earlier technology) for decades before. We probably have an order of magnitude fewer channels than they have (UK Freeview - 50 TV & 24 radio) but scaling up the number of channels we keep in the buffer (two weeks) before programme selection wouldn't come close to the pricing mentioned in some of the comments here. We keep the full MPEG-TS as transmitted (so can use the raster subtitle streams if necessary) and ingest them into our Fedora-commons digital repository. We're moving to a version that OCRs the subtitles for improved resource discovery - at the moment we only use the EPG which we convert to our own metadata standard.
We use a commercial system, Imagen from Cambridge Imaging Systems, to capture and select, then our own workflows for technical characterisation, metadata transformation and ingest, but you could use MythTV or some other to buffer two weeks of the entire UK terrestrial output for a lot less than is being mentioned here. We will have a youtube-like interface (but with transcription searches from the subtitles) to search the tens of thousands of recordings that we hold, and it will incorporate digitised material from our own unique collections of film and video.
I'm sure that the BBC or other similar national broadcasters have monsterous systems that eclispe ours or The Colbert Show's - the system we're using was originally designed as one massive PVR for UK universities to try to save resources and share recordings amongst campus users rather than have each student download each progamme to their dorms (and uni storage).
Late to the party, but I've got plenty of email from 1994 with urls in them, eg:
From XXX Thu Sep 29 15:57:01 1994
Subject: Re: your mail
To: XXX@XXX.uk (XXX)
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 15:57:01 +0100 (BST)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Length: 197
Status: RO
> What is the URL for the worldwideweb server on XXXX?
regards,
--
Illtud XXX...
I understand that the patent may cover automatic downloading of the url, and I don't have any html-formatted email from 1994, but nobody had html email clients then, thank ghod.
However, for whatever reason, the Talmudic interpretation has decided that electricity is fire. I'm not sure why, but that is what the orthodox churches teach. So, you aren't allowed to operate electric devices on Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath), in particular your oven. Well that's pretty damn inconvenient in the modern world... So they find all kinds of "loopholes". You can get ovens that have timers longer than 24 hours. You set them up the day before, and they'll heat up (and down) at the prescribed times.
My oven (Bosch) has a 'sabbath' mode. I guessed it was something to do with this, but was suprised to see it in the manual - that's a pretty small share of their customer base that they've accounted for in their programming.
Alex Cox's work as a director lives on, but for UK cinophiles of a certain age, he's also remembered for his 'Moviedrome' series where he introduced TV sceenings of films (BBC2 sunday night, IIRC) with a pre-screening commentary. I certainly watched many classics for the first time on Moviedrome, and many films which weren't available on VHS or highly unlikely to be screened anywhere else on TV.
IMX is intra-frame only, and supported by ffmpeg. ffbmc is better (and easier) at it. It's a flavour of MPEG2.
I'm pretty late to this story, but let me clear up some misunderstandings for posterity's sake:
Disclosure: I've been involved in this effort for at least ten years, I'm head of ICT for one of the UK Copyright Libraries (National Library of Wales), and this story goes way back to the Primary Legislation passed by the UK in 2003, and we've been working on the practicalities of this since before that legislation was passed.
* Yes, Internet Archive and others have been archiving web sites for many years. We're using their software for capturing.
* We've been collecting and archiving web sites by agreement with the web publishers for years via the UK Web archive project.
* What's different here is that the secondary legislation has been passed (in March) that has given the UK copyright libraries the mechanism (agreed with publishers) to extend legal deposit to digital publications, which includes websites.
* This gives the legal deposit libraries the right to add to the national legal deposit collections (the collection of all published material for the UK) digital publications, including ebooks, ejournals and websites.
* Until the 6th of April 2013, we did not have the right (under normal copyright law) to take a copy of websites without permission. Previously we had to request a written agreement from each website we archived to take a copy - obviously this does not scale very far.
* Under the new legislation, we will be taking periodic copies of the entire
* The difference between us and the Internet Archive is intended to be that given the status as a national collection, the material that we collect is intended to be available in perpetuity. Our print collections go back centuries, and the intention is that the digital material we collect now will also be available in centuries to come. You can read about the distributed redundant storage here.
TL;DR : this is a legal thing, not a technical thing, and it's about a lot more than websites.
Newspaper archives. Presumably there would have been plenty of newspaper coverage (or ads) for the tour. If NLNZ don't offer remote access to in-copyright newspaper archives, then they probably have an enquiry service that can look it up for you if you can't pop in to search them yourself. I'm assuming that there are indexed newspaper archives, but the enquiry service should be able to find our for you even if they have to flip pages themselves, your National Library is pretty good.
Termites nest have a strict regulated temperature (like 1 degree Celsius strict) without any ventilation or air-conditioners.
Termite nests have great ventilation!
submitter here. In my original submission I made this point too. Editor obviously thought that wasn't worth mentioning.
Submitter here. I saw the dupe in firehose - it wasn't posted at the time I submitted, and I didn't feel it picked up on the important part of the story - ie the time location of any recording.
jQuery.ajax(url, {
success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR){
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown)) {
);
No return, no exception, the programmer decides how to handle it.
What is success/error here if not handling return values??
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
