Q1) 23rd October saw Apple introduce the original iPod: in which year … ?
Q2) How did you connect one of the original iPods to a computer: USB, FireWire or SCSI connection … ?
Q3) What’s the smallest model of iPod: the Shuffle, Mini or Nano … ?
Q4) The iPod Touch — like the iPhone and iPad — all use what, as their operating system … ?
Q5) The iPod Classic is controlled using not a touch screen … but what … ?
Q6) Finally … music files on the iPod are usually in the .aac format: which stands for advanced audio … what … ?
Q1) 22nd October, 1966, saw The Supremes become the first girl band to have a US № 1 album to their name. What was the name of the album … ?
Q2) 22nd October, 1983, saw the CND hold their largest ever protest march: what does CND stand for … ?A2) The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Q3) 22nd October, 1978, saw the second Papal inauguration of the year. Who was enthroned as Pope?A3) John Paul 2nd.
Q4) More to the point, whose was the first … ?A4) John Paul 1st.
Q5) 22nd October, 1966, saw double agent George Blake, escape from prison. Which prison had he been held in … ?A5) HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
Q6) Finally … 22nd October, 1859, saw Spain declare war on which North African country … ?A6) Morocco.
“Less than half the size and weight of the Nomad Jukebox plus a firewire connection that can fill the player's 5GB hard drive in only 10 minutes. When so many Windows and Linux users desire a Mac-only device, you know they have done something right.”From MP3 In 2001 In Review.
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Q1) In non-leap years, 13th September is the 256th day of the year: how is 256 shown in binary … ?
Q2) 13th September, 1994, saw the Ulysses probe pass the south pole of what … ?
Q3) More to the point, Ulysses is the Latin translation of the name of which Greek hero … ?
Q4) Moving on … 13th September, 1788, saw which city become the temporary capital of the USA?
Q5) 13th September, 1953, saw Nikita Khrushchev elected as General Secretary of the USSR: what was his full title … ?
Q6) And finally … which New York prison was stormed by National Guardsmen, in order to end a prison riot, on 13th September, 1971?
Q1) 12th September, 2001, saw President George Bush declare a war on … what … ?A1) Terror.
Q2) 12th September, 1846, saw Elizabeth Barrett elope with Robert Browning: in which European country did the two poets live much of their married life … ?A2) Italy.
Q3) More to the point, in which town did they initially live … ?A3) Pisa.
Q4) 12th September, 1910, saw the premiere of the last of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies to be premiered during his lifetime. Which symphony was it … ?A4) His 8th Symphony in E♭ Major. (If you follow that first link, to a performance of the symphony, you can see why it’s been nicknamed Symphony of a Thousand. When Gustav said “Let’s go BIG”, he didn’t muck about!)
Q5) 12th September, 1977, saw the death of which activist … ?A5) Steve Biko.
Q6) And finally … 12th September, 2003, saw the death of legend, Johnny Cash: what was the name of the last UK Top Forty single he released, while he was still alive?A6) Hurt.
“In plain words; now that Britain has told the world she has the H-Bomb, she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject, in all circumstances, nuclear warfare. This is not pacifism. There is no suggestion here of abandoning the immediate defence of this island...No, what should be abandoned is the idea of deterrence-by-threat-of-retaliation. There is no real security in it, no decency in it, no faith, hope, nor charity in it.”J. B. Priestly, 13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984
In Memorium.Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011.
“By contrast many submissions also recognise that copyright needs to accommodate some unlicensed copying that is considered to be fair, in the ordinary sense of the word: whether that involves transferring CD files to a laptop and MP3 player or sharing a family home movie on your Facebook page which makes incidental use of copyright material.”
“We therefore recommend below that the Government should press at EU level for the introduction of an exception allowing uses of a work enabled by technology which do not directly trade on the underlying creative and expressive purpose of the work (this has been referred to as “non-consumptive” use). The idea is to encompass the uses of copyright works where copying is really only carried out as part of the way the technology works. For instance, in data mining or search engine indexing, copies need to be created for the computer to be able to analyse; the technology provides a substitute for someone reading all the documents. This is not about overriding the aim of copyright – these uses do not compete with the normal exploitation of the work itself – indeed, they may facilitate it. Nor is copyright intended to restrict use of facts. That these new uses happen to fall within the scope of copyright regulation is essentially a side effect of how copyright has been defined, rather than being directly relevant to what copyright is supposed to protect.”