Proud to be British - Finally !

[Troll]

Yes, so the jealous and parochial British press would have us believe.
One of the ironies of the current crisis was the Economist urging Germany to be more like Britain
The Germans on the other hand realise that they can compete on quality and the brand "made in Germany" still counts for something, so rather than destroying their manufacturing, they're simply striving,successfully, for the top end.

Outlook for 2010: German Economy on Brink of Radical Restructuring - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

HTH

[Sysman]

FFS, you'd think the BBC could find somebody who knows the difference between "diffuse" and "defuse"

'fraid not.

[Sysman]

download get_iplayer
open terminal (if you've no got a Mac yet.... )
CD to wherever get_iplayer is


To see the list of available programmes type and execute:

./get_iplayer --terse

346: How to Build... - 1. A Nuclear Submarine
347: How to Build... - 2. A Jumbo Jet Engine


Type and execute:

./get_iplayer --get 347

Vola, a DRM free copy to watch as many times as you like

It gives me:

Matches:
342:	How to Build... - 1. A Nuclear Submarine, BBC Two, Factual,Science & Nature,Science & Technology,TV, default

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
INFO: Checking existence of default version
ERROR: Failed to get iphone URL from iplayer site

INFO: No specified modes (iphone) available for this programme with version 'default' (try using --modes=)
ERROR: Failed to record 'How to Build... - 1. A Nuclear Submarine (b00syt1w)'

Any idea what the --modes thing does? I've tried it with --mode=flashnormal, but it complains about that too.

[Sysman]

You can thank Arnie Weinstock for that.

He scuppered the Finniston Report on Engineering so he wouldn't have to pay professional rates to professional engineers.

He gave us the norm of UK businesses paying 90 days late (sometimes up to 180 days late) as well.

Hanging, drawing and quartering is too good for him.

[Sysman]

But at least he kept the share price reasonable.

£12 rather than 12p

His obituary isn't exactly flattering.

He left a contested legacy: supporters pointed to the new tone of precision and sharpness he had injected into British industry in the 1960s; his increasing number of detractors pointed to the negativism, his failure to produce a proper strategy for the electrical and above all electronic manufacturing sector dominated by the General Electric Company, the giant he dominated for over 30 years. Indeed, it is not too much to see that had he shown the slightest breadth of vision Britain would today be a world leader in every aspect of electronic manufacturing.

Fall of the house that Arnie built

[OwlHoot]

Or even, one might guess, defuze.

Arguably "diffuse" would make sense, in the sense of detonating the bombs, even if that meaning obviously wasn't intended.

But maybe if these robots were disposable ...

That's a thought - Why not just use cheap robots that simply toddle up to the bomb and plant a thick titanium or boron carbide cone over it and detonate the thing so the plasma and shrapnel is deflected harmlessly up in the air?

[xoggoth]

I worked at RR Filton and Derby. Most of any credit due is down to me obviously.

[scooterscot]

Any idea what the --modes thing does? I've tried it with --mode=flashnormal, but it complains about that too.

Yes. It specifies the recording resolution of the stream. If you are behind a proxy server make sure you include. This worked for me...


./get_iplayer --p http://127.0.0.1:5405 --get 598 --mode=flashhigh --force

[sasguru]

Outlook for 2010: German Economy on Brink of Radical Restructuring - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

HTH

Read the last paragraph of that typical journalists article. We have the same type of useful idiot writing here for the Economist

HTH, but IDI.

[Troll]

blah blah blah blah.

Just concede that what you wrote was wrong, then we can move on