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chefkoch is now known as chefkoch_AW

chefkoch is now known as chefkoch_AW

hey UK folks: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a93556/vi...

BrianFreud: "bigbucks" fits in that censoring. :)

:)

Have to wonder what part of "unlimited" - ie "no limits" - is considered to also mean "we can slow (limit) the speed of any server(s) we want" or "only for the first x gb/month" or "only for the first 1 mb of a connection"

Yeah, it's all rather silly.

seems like some CEOs discovered business plans from the early dial-ups, and somehow think they can persuade people to accept sudden limits/extra fees on formerly unlimited connections

Back when I had Comcast, they tried that on me once - turned off the line because "we detected a spike in use". I called, pointed out that there was no such clause in the contract. They tried to claim they had reason to think the line was being used by others, due to a spike in use.

At which point I asked them to double check their stats against mine - I'd been on vacation for 10 days; the "spike" was a 50% drop in my normal monthly total bandwidth use :P

BrianFreud: my online banking has been disabled and I think it's 'cause I used it from germany

Heh BrianFreud.

BrianFreud: but I don't see why people going abroad is so suspicious, anyone would think I was logging in from nigeria

lol, sounds like my cell phone - the carrier let me use it in Canada, they when I came back across the border, they permanently disabled the SIMM

it's even a student account, and plenty of degrees involve a year abroad

Natwest have blocked my credit card 'cos I made more than 10 purchases in a second more than once.

how on earth did you manage that?

because according to the cell company, "it indicates a SIMM chip which has been cloned. Noone ever crosses back and forth across the Canadian border once every day."

ahh

because nobody has friends just over the border...

Obviously, if you wanted to steal £15 from someone, the best way to do it wouldn't be 12 seperate transactions of ~£1.25.

That doesn't stand out on a bill at all.

yeah, I'd come up to find this apt, was staying on the Can side cause it was much cheaper for hotels at that time :P

hehe

Tbh, we're likely to get banned from Virgin at some point, our connection, like, doesn't go idle. Ever.

haha

Oh well... if we do have this 2-3 year global depression, just wait, all the companies will be trying this stupid "extra fees for everyday things"

protest!

yup

44 "downloads" queued and 200 seedi.. er.. I mean, in the out folder since about.. the start of this month. <3

at least in the UK, you have the BBC on the right side of the fight

And we still kind of have a functioning legal system. *runs*

lol

and the best TV channels of all time: Maddie1, Maddie2, AllMaddie, MaddieAllTheTime!

I think that's just the newspapers. (I can't actually remember the last time I watched live tv, even my parents have sufficient sky+ that it's not necessary).

ruaok: should I still report bugs with the lucene search if they don't appear in the search on your test server thingy?

track 15 looks weird

Omg, that film causes me so much pain.

and so does track 16 on the 16-track version

clint: its a hidden track and that's the best way to display it. Please see: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/TracksWithMultipleA...

drsaunde: hmm

should those lost in translation ones be added to that wiki page?

nevermind, i seem to have eyesight issues

wow. the Met production of Phillip Glass's "Satyagraha" received an absolutely scathing review. like harsh

yeah, NPR really trashes it

i'm a *huge* opera buff, but 4 hours of phillip glass would be pushing the limit for me

i saw a porduction of messaein' s "st francis of assisi" and had the same mid numbing experience described for Satyagraha

correction - AP, not NPR /me double-checked byline

and yeah, that was a butt-numbing 4 hours too.

Honestly, I think that's true of most long operas though, at least for me

oh not for me...

'tis why I walked out of that Wagner - my ears just were numb to the sound anymore

I must admit, though, for me, opera is perhaps my least favorite form of classical anyhow

the tales of hoffmann production (offenbach) I saw a couple of years ago, kept me on thee edge of my seat the whole performance

the AP review was uglier than anyhing i've read in a while. ouch

Hi I am a bit confused....for some reason I cannot find anyway to play a file through picard

Picard is not a player

in order to actually preform a sound comparison

Why would you be doing a sound comparison within Picard? It's a tagger, not a player

yllona: The reviewer seems to be, from how he starts, somewhat not a fan of 20th century minimalism anyhow. And comments like the ones s/he makes on Sanskrit pronunciation would be true no matter what the work was.

BrianFreud: what's unusual is that last years production of Glass's Appomattox at San francisco opera were absolutely glowing

BrainFrued it should have some ability to launch the file

and unanimous

so you can confirm the tag is valid

that seems like a very basic feature to request...even that it somewhere can launch your media player

for the file

you have selected

is that not part of the tagger?

f209: it's assumed you know what the files you've loaded in Picard are already

It was a part of the old tagger.

yea i thought it was Kerensky98

But it sent the file to your default player.

And that caused alot of bugs so I think it was pulled from this tagger.

Its assumed you already know what the files your trying to tag are..so your assuming their file names are at least partially valid

ya know..i can kinda agree with that...but lets say we have a song that there are three different recordings of

http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/3444 and http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/1167

and you want to actually listen to it..and make sure its the right one

that seems like a very normal situation

well, there's tickets open for it, but that explains why you cannot figure out how to do it - not currently supported :)

thanks...yea i mean...it just seems like a very useful feature...i definitely know of times when i used to find a file that was lets say tagged for example...Elton John - Rocket Man

and ended up being Elton John and Billy Joel - Rocket Man Duet

or something

and the tagger said it was highly similar to the original

using the play feature would help me confirm matches were valid many times in the old version

well, again, the tagger can guess based on your extant tags, and it can try for a puid match, but at base, it assumes you know already what it is you are tagging

hence why there's no "auto-save on lookup" or similar feature

yea I'm still pretty suprised that was removed

thanks though...i thought i was just missing the feature somehow

it wasn't removed really, picard is a complete rewrite, it's just that nobody added it to picard

i see, ok thanks

i like track x of total, but thats jut me

* just me

how do you represent that in tags though?

they both have the track number and the total number of tracks, but they represent it in different says

ways, even

in tags i'd just do 01-01 (disc 1, track 1) i guess

Picard does the 1/12 (track 1 of 12 tracks) like iTunes uses.

I don't think it can be changed.

this program I'm using does tracknumber and tracktotal, I'm not sure whether I should convert my old stuff into that or the new stuff into x/y style

dilemma!

dah?

should I still report bugs with the lucene search if they don't appear in the search on your test server thingy?

how drastic is the bug?

minor

then don't worry about it...

ok then

Hey nikki or anyone else in the UK, which would be more correct? 1983-09-20: Glasgow Apollo, Glasgow, UK or 1983-09-20: Glasgow Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland ?

the former

ok, thanks

or Scotland, UK

yeah, when it comes to Northern Ireland, Wales, or Scotland, never quite sure how those 3 ought to be listed

is GB ever used anymore?

I always put them as UK, because they're not independent countries, but I feel bad leaving the country out

UK is better imo because GB just means england, wales and scotland

nikki: thanks

but confusingly the iso code for the UK is "GB"...

yeah, i saw that when reviewing some docs a couple of weeks back.

wasn't sure *what* to do

hmmm, I've never seen any bootlegs from them, but I guess I'd run into the same for a boot from somewhere like Guam or Puerto Rico, as to whether to include the , USA

they at least have their own iso codes :P

technically it'd be more correct with it, but they don't really need it

techically those are territories, the PR is not happy about that *at all*. and most 'ricans i know, fing a bit offensive. but yes they have their own iso codes