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"swear off CD purchases for life", well all I can say is .. YOU STUPID FUCKING TWAT!

NO CD'S = NO MP3's = NO MUSIC. Are you lot trying to prove that you are stupid or something?

Because that's what it looks like to the rest of the normal non-geek world.

GET OVER IT. YOU AIN'T THE ARTIST SO YOU HAVE BUGGER ALL RIGHTS TO DISTRIBUTION, OR COPYING. AND IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.

If you want the rights to distribution and eternal copying simply CREATE THE BLOODY MUSIC YOURSELVES! Then you WILL own it. then you can do whatever the fuck you like with it. THEN, and only then do you have rights.

Hell, i'll even give you a link to a piece of software called DANCE EJAY 4 on Amazon.com - HERE. That makes making music *REALL* easy to do ...

It's *REALLY* not that difficult to understand.

If you = artist, you have rights.
If you != artist, you have no rights.

No matter what bullshit way you try and spin it.

BTW, if you haven't already read this book & are even slightly interested in security, I can strongly recommend it. It covers everything from smart cards, nuclear command & control, radio monitoring, GSM, ATM & credit cards, biometrics, through to the standard encryption protocols & e-commerce.

We're just going to pretend that I can close my HTML tags the first time, OK?

Buffy 1-6

Buffy 7.

Pardon my slight exaggeration - the second half of season 7 is only on pre-order.

We're just going to pretend that I can close my HTML tags the first time, OK?

Buffy 1-6

Buffy 7.

Pardon my slight exaggeration - the second half of season 7 is only on pre-order.

Buffy 1-6
7.

Pardon my slight exaggeration - the second half of season 7 is only on pre-order.

Buffy 1-6
7.

Pardon my slight exaggeration - the second half of season 7 is only on pre-order.

See James Blish's The Triumph of Time (1958), part of his Cities in Flight series.

Did anyone else recognise the opening theme as a cheap sample from the Solaris soundtrack?

Compare for yourself ...

There is a very good book called 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary' Contains a very interesting history of dictionaries in particular the OED. Might not sound it but it is a real page turner.

IBM has been producing Compact Flash Type 2 form-factor micro drives for some time now.

Here's one:

Clicky!

Or try this version which is superb (DON'T get the re-mix version though).

If you like War of the Worlds, try Jeff Wayne's musical version. Get the original (when I lived in the US, I had to order it from the UK because I could only find the remix in the US which has had lukewarm reviews at best)
Amazon.co.uk has it.

Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide is a good alternative, if slightly more advanced. A full review can be found on the Amazon website.

Learning Perl
When it comes to working a little "behind the scenes" magic for a Web site or putting together a UNIX script which interrogate databases and produce reports based on the information they contain, there are few better languages to do the job than Perl.
Learning Perl draws on the expertise of two of the major supporters of this highly flexible language, Randal Schwatrz and Tom Christiansen, to produce an introductory manual which manages to be concise yet informative throughout.
Weighing in at a mere (for a computer manual) 271 pages it achieves admirably what it sets out to do--teach Perl basics and no more. From the introduction to the different variable types through hash arrays, file access, process management and coding for the World Wide Web, it's a well-paced easy-to-understand book which assumes a rudimentary knowledge of programming but no more.
With its multitude of clear examples which help to hammer home the many points made and set exercises at the end of each chapter, it builds knowledge rather than drowning the reader with information as many other books seem to do.
This is the first in a series of books on the subject from O'Reilly Publishing, the others being Programming Perl, Advanced Perl Programming and the Perl Cookbook and it truly is a great introduction to a language which is enthusiastically supported by developers and Web coders worldwide. Well worth a read.

A lot of the discussion focusses on target market. With a little lateral thinking, Samsung as well as the resellers like Dynamism could widen this significantly. An example could be to use it as a home entertainment controller through LIRC combined with a funky custom interface. c.f. this expensive S.O.B., the Philips Pronto.

With this example of course the battery life is not right. I'd like to hear other people's example uses, demonstrating the value of the new Zauruses.

(btw, this is an example that I would personally implement, keeping the unit plugged into a wall socket when using it as a remote control; in fact I was gonna do this about 6 months ago but spent the money on a stupid impulse buy instead :'( )

Heh... another useful book just sprang to mind, try Learning Python. There isn't really much between the two books... although a see Amazon offer a discount, wheras with the other one you don't get a discount... anyways your choice :)

Python in a Nutshell is a great Python book, it really helped me at least!

here.

Yes, I know B7 is available on VHS. I want it on DVD though (I may preorder the region 2 release from). IMDb said Children of the Stones was unavailable in all formats, but apparently is already out in region 2.

Yes, I know B7 is available on VHS. I want it on DVD though (I may preorder the region 2 release from). IMDb said Children of the Stones was unavailable in all formats, but apparently is already out in region 2.

Good point, I'd forgotten about that. And I was reading Look to Windward the otherday, too.

To be fair, you could go back to the original.

So, having never thought about this before and having 1 million people in the forum who have, what do I need to do to play the Region-2/PAL DVDs on my Region-1/NTSC system?

I assume the Region coding is no problem and can be handled in at least 1 of 3 ways (below). But does the PAL/NTSC formating matter? Won't the DVD-Player just reformat the MPEG to whatever the TV expects?

I assume I can get around the Region coding (MPAA bastards) by:

1. Buying/Modding my DVD player to region free mode;
2. Using the Windows Control Panel setting to turn the DVD-Drive into a Region-2 drive. I have to 2 DVD-Drives, I assume 1 can be R1 and the other R2; or
3. Rip the DVD to the hard drive and during ripping romove the Macrovision & Region coding.

Amazon.co.uk are taking orders for the DVD release of Series 1 of Blake's Seven here
no sign of it on Amazon.com yet, but then it doesn't come out until September anyway. Region 2 DVD's only, but I'm sure that won't prove much of a hindrance.. Otherwise, the entire series has been available on BBC VHS video for some time, and can regularly be found in its entirety occupying lots of shelf space in second-hand record shops across the UK

It's been done before, many many years ago. see Bicycling Science

Move along there, nothing to see.

T&K

Once upon a time I wanted an MP3 streaming server, none of the ones I looked at did what I wanted. So I did the standard thing and designed my own.

After releasing my first version to freshmeat I had about five subscribers to the project.

These subscribers gave me patches, feedback, and encouragement.

Doing a websearch for the project name I discovered by accident that the the package made it into Gentoo, and similarly Netbsd without any feedback or involvement from myself!

The next step was my becoming a Debian Developer so that I could upload it there - and not worry about other people doing a bad job without me. (Not a real concern; I had wanted to join Debian for some time anyway).

Now life is good - I've no idea if it's in RedHat because I've not touched it for years, but SuSE include it the *BSD's and Gentoo cover it, and Debian gets the latest versions all the time.

Freshmeat lists 120+ subscribers to the project, and it's probably on the verge of becoming an official GNU package sometime soon.

If you use it and like it buy something nice? </ObPlug>

It's from Pratchett's Discworld books.

Somehow I doubt, rkz, that you are also Gilly Collinson from North Yorkshire who wrote this review on Amazon.co.uk over two years ago, and are just duplicating it here for the edification of us all.

Mod the parent down. Moderators, please stop smoking the crack.

You miss the point entirely.
The fact that Andrew Wiles deviant cases abound doesn't negate the value of the article's point, any more than a particular quantum phenomenon renders Newton's equations of motion useless.
While Newton is wrong when enough significant figures are included, these simplified equations do just fine for describing, say, an unladen swallow in flight.
Does mean that I've got to get some work done before meine kleine fraulein takes me off the market...

on the other hand, amazon japan seem to be all for shipping things to the US, though - any maybe to other countries like hungary too; so maybe give them a try.

It might be a better idea to try Amazon UK if you're in Hungary, as opposed to Amazon Japan. If nothing else, the shipping would be cheaper. It's what people do in Israel, anyway.

--Dan

It would probably be better to buy things from either European or Hungarian resellers. Instead of Amazon.com, use Amazon.co.uk. Instead of Dell.com, use Dell.hu IBM, again, use IBM.hu instead of IBM.com. Simple really.

The plot is from "Day of the Triffids", but with zombies instead of plants. That was a book though, and I'm not aware of any other film version...

Whilst we are plugging a UK film I'd also like to advertie Deathwatch.

From Amazon:

A small group of English soldiers find themselves in a labyrinth of abandoned German trenches in Deathwatch, a reworking of the classic British supernatural horror tale as a redemptive allegory amid the wider horror of the Great War. The very earth has had its fill of blood and this lost company may already be in hell: imagine the BBC TV film All the Kings Men (1999) crossed with Cube (1997), as realised by a young Ridley Scott. Only Charlie Shakespeare, an impressive Jamie Bell, is sufficiently innocent to realise the evil of the trenches is turning comrade against comrade, resulting in the gradually escalating carnage.

Ok, not entirely related to the main topic, but it's a good film and it's not often the UK actually put out a good film in a year, let alone 2 great films!

For a mere £15 you can watch it on your region-free DVD player. Eat that, MPAA fascists!

Um, I don't know if you missed what I said after that sentence... as far as I know, because of the special media and format and stuff, software for the Gamecube has to be approved by Nintendo before it can be published, and they allowed Freeloader to come out, so that's what I was referring to when talking about the example they were setting.

Have you ever read Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, how about ? How about any of the good weblogs? Or KSR Mars trilogy, Jules Verne

People don't care about science, they don't understand science for the most part. People understand people, they like to read stories about normal people in extraordinary circumstances, that's why `reality tv' is so popular.

The first (hu)man on Mars landing on Mars would be hugely important for human curiosity, the journey to Mars would be even more important, imagine doing a part `reality tv' show and part science/education show from the Mars-bound shuttle. Do it right and everybody would watch.

The probes would still do the science, people haven't done any scientific measurements for a while now, since the invention of computers, people don't measure accuratly enough for our level of understanding anymore.

When your probe says gravity 0.4G, pressure 15mbar, T=259K, F=22.5W/m2, your scientists could tell you the probe was broken, very few places on mars would get those conditions anyway

...but you'd likely get images of astronauts jumps about with suits weighing twice their body weight with silvered visors and planting flags, that's the money shot, as long as it's not a Nike flag (unless they pay for the whole damn thing) nobody would really care which flag it was, it was manmade

One of the most important things to come out of the Moon landings didn't involve landing on the moon, it was Frank Borman's photograph of earthrise. The probe wouldn't think of doing that.

For the scientists, who do care about the science. The people who land on Mars would do so in the knowledge that they are there for about a year until the planets align again, keeping 6 people alive without any external help for 24 months isn't easy (or possible yet). The biosphere project wasn't completely succesful because of the leaky window seals and the double glazing which blocked too much sunlight.

On Mars, we won't have the luxury of pumping more oxygen in, it'll will likely need to be extracted from the ferrous soil or grown in inflatible greenhouses. The technology to maintain this human habitat in an environmentall neutral way would have huge impact on the way we live on Earth...sustainable farming and production, recycling waste products, space ice cream (well I like it :)

BB

Though unfortunately Amazon.co.uk seems to be down at the moment

Why choose only one when you can have them all.

You might change your mind if you read about the design and implementation of KSH . Particularly look over some of the flaws that /bin/sh has which drove Mr Korn to creat his version.

Look at this page from the hardware section of amazon UK, it's actually been out for a while now.

Performance tips for modern laptops which has a section on fine-tuning X-settings to get rid of the "wash-out" effect that lcd screens often have.

If they don't want people buying their songs individually, why do they sell singles?

If they don't want people buying their songs individually, why do they sell singles?

If they don't want people buying their songs individually, why do they sell singles?

If they don't want people buying their songs individually, why do they sell singles?

If they don't want people buying their songs individually, why do they sell singles?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LE6 P/ref%3Ded%5Fsoc%5F%5F1%5F1/202-9856137-4642241

If not, maybe it should come with a coupon for a checkup at Pearle Vision...

You'll be laughing on the other side of your MP3 player when the latest CD from $YOUR_FAVOURITE_BAND won't work either.

And you can bet it'll happen. "Hey," they'll think to themselves, "practically no-one complained before. It works!" By which time it'll be too late to stop.

For example, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 "includes anti-copying technology that is intended to prevent unlawful copying of the CD with a PC". I've yet to find out if I'll be able to play it at all on my Mac...

Show me a site that has real-time transaction processing that can be recovered in the event of a problem. You can't because it cannot be done with MySQL.

Sure it can be done with MySQL. Amazon is selling the MySQL Transactions and Replication Handbook if you'd like to read up on it.

Before you go spouting off about how good MySQL is, please learn something about transaction processing and real back-end enterprise applications.

Sounds like you might want to take your own advice.

Sony has a lot of the same problems, unfortunately.

SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America) often decides that the most innovative and cool games from SCEE are too good for America. e.g. Wipeout Fusion and Dropship were turned down by SCEA, Vib Ribbon for PlayStation was never released, and so on. If you've written yet another FPS, though, SCEA will release it.

Sometimes other companies (like BAM!) have stepped up and bought US distribution rights for Sony's European and Japanese titles. Sometimes not.

I really don't understand why SCEA turns down games that are on sale in Europe, delaying their distribution in the US by months or preventing it entirely. It's not even like they have to translate the game from Japanese.

Latest example: Silent Hill 3. On sale since May in Europe. Why the hell isn't it on sale in the USA? They expect us to wait until August while everyone on the net raves about it. Yeah, that makes sense.

FYI the Beagle2 probe is named after the HMS Beagle that carried Darwin on his world travels, whence he galvanised his ideas on the origin of species

The HMS Beagle though, was named after a dog