Interesting Links for 11-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore
  (tags: computers design )
• Derivatives trader: 'The trouble is, regulators are idiots'
  (tags: regulation finance london money )
• External auditor: 'Nobody at a bank can have a complete overview any more'
  (tags: banking uk finance )
• Melinda Gates wants family planning back on the global agenda
  (tags: contraception family GatesFoundation )
• 'Snooper's charter' delayed after last-minute coalition talks
  (tags: privacy politics uk )
• Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies
  (tags: employment business france )
• Communications interception — dazed half-memories of a conference call with Julian Huppert
  (tags: law politics uk internet privacy )
• Community coming back for a final season of 13 episodes
  (tags: tv community )
• Facebook now charging people if they want to make sure their friends see their posts.
  (tags: facebook money )
• Heliosphere's long-theorized bow shock does not exist
  (tags: astronomy space physics )
• Maternal antibodies to gluten linked to schizophrenia risk in children
  (tags: schizophrenia gluten )
• Susceptibility to autism may be the price we pay for being human.
  (tags: autism brains humanity intelligence genetics )
• The salesman and the developer
  (tags: business marketing sales development )
• Facebook Rolls Out File-Sharing for All Groups
  (tags: files facebook sharing )
• Smartphone users think differently to those with non-smart mobiles.
  (tags: mobile_phones behaviour society technology )

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

Isn't that sort of thing (one of) the point(s) of formats like rar? Break a big file up into several small ones.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to figure out how to get rar files to play on either my TV or my VLC.

[naath.livejournal.com]

I'm sure VLC can do this... in fact I'm sure I have HAD VLC DO THIS in the past (I forgot how). But OK, inserting the faff of turning the rar files into a more congenial video format does make this a slightly less desirable method.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it can be done. I've just never been able to figure it out. avi and MP4 for the win.

[zz]

rar files are just a different sort of zip file. using something that can open such things, like 7-zip, you can extract the file(s) contained within.