The BBC only licences programs to be broadcast within a 7 day window, which is why the DRM is required for the IMP to get off the ground. For programs the BBC produces it is their choice if they want to make them available for longer, but I dare say that few of them are 100% BBC these days - news probably contains clips from other providers, sport broadcasts are probably licenced from the people hosting the event etc.

As far as I know, this uses superconducting technology, as it's the only way to get the huge currents needed for the huge magnetic fields needed to levitate an entire train.

Because of the way that superconductors work, you can also use them as shielding of magnetic fields, because they expel magnetic fields from themselves, so that could be how it's done.

That is typical bloody-mindedness that I hate to see in people that are at home with their broadband and nice computers. Running OS'es that they brag about and really not knowing what it's like to live in a village with 1000 residents. I use AOL. I have no other choice. I like to use the internet for as many hours as I wish, without being kicked off. Hell, if my area was broadband enabled, then I'd use it. It's not, so I'm buggered. I use AOL because it doesn't have a maximum length of time I can use if you [unlike freeserve and BT], it doesn't kick you off every 2 hours, and it's actually not bad once you get a tool that minimises the aol browser to the taskbar. Think of the little people for a change please.

Windows 3
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Windows 2000

Aieee.... how could you forget about the flagship stamp: Bob?

I can think of no better stamp to use on any "cancellation of service" letter to MS than Bill Gates' alter ego =)

This all sounds horribly familiar, was watching TV about the hanging gardens of babylon, or to be more precise a possible version of the hanging gardens.

now the historical chaps and the engineers worked out that the upper terraces required some 300 tons of water a day, and thus started playing with different ways of getting the water to the top of the gardens.

after a lot of messing around they concluded that the only way they could see this working was to use a screw, passages written by the bloke who built it all could be interpreted to support this and so all was dandy.

but NO! archimedes invented the screw 400 years later, so therefore this argument was wrong! Now I don't wish to sound pompous, but WHAT? why can't two people in history be credited with stumbling across the same idea?

patents thats why, what if I were to sit in my bath (having never heard the word "eureeka") and notice displacement. because someone else noticed this it would appear that, were it to be patented I'm not allowed to think of it.

for a world in which personal freedom is paramount, we seem to be intent on restricting our right to think

Datalas