It means it follows a recognisable pattern, that can be distinguished from random data after the fact but not predicted in advance.

I have never understood what service Tivo are providing for their monthly fee, why doesn't it just work?

If so my colleagues and I cheat every day on a professional basis. We have even taken this cheating to an even more efficient level by using things we call "libraries" where we simple re use code written by other people.

It is DVB-S or DVB-C. The BBC HD is not available over the air, only on satellite and cable. It will be available shortly in some areas but it will use DVB-T2

... and the terms you agreed to when you took the job. The usual deal is that being on call is covered by your salary but if you actually get called out you get more paid for it, usually a standard fee per call rather than an hourly rate. There is usually an on call rota as well so you are not on call 24/7.

Sorry but this is not true, you can be specific about which robots you want to exclude. More importantly google chooses to respect robots.txt and noindex meta tags, if it decided it was in its interest not to respect them - either at all or just for the sites that did the deal - then there is precisely nothing anyone could do about it.

The thing is though if the top 1000 sites used robots.txt and the noindex meta tag to remove themselves from google, then google could just ignore robots.txt and the noindex meta tag for the top 1000 sites and index them anyway. Ultimately if the site is publicly accessible then google can index it and there is nothing anybody could do about it.

The circuit breakers in my house are 30 amps, they protect against current overload in the wiring in my house. The fuses in my plugs are between 3 and 13 amps (as appropriate to the particular appliance) they protect against circuit overload in the appliance and associated wiring. This is not redundancy it is 2 different fuses/breakers that serve totally different purposes.

Most tech cvs/resumes i have seen list the various projects worked on in the career history section. If you wanted to include open source projects that don't relate to a specific job then you could have a cut down career history section with just an explanation of each job and then split out the projects into a seperate section. You could then just put a reference with each project to say which job or open source project it related to. That way your commercial work and open source work get equal precedence and you don't have to relegate your open source projects to their own little ghetto.

Insert is not only useless it is actually irritating that it exists. I always want to type text in insert mode and never in overwrite mode. If I want to overwrite some text i will highlight it first. The only time i am ever in overwrite mode is by accidentally hitting the insert key. A colleague of mine has even gone so far as to prize the key off his keyboard cos he i so fed up of hitting it accedentally.