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  1. Re:Only Vista on Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day · · Score: 1

    Did your machine crash before you completed?

  2. Re:This is a good thing... on Spotify Retreats To Invite-Only In UK · · Score: 1

    This will explain the structure. PRS is one collecting company for publishers for performance. http://www.bpi-med.co.uk/map1.asp

  3. Re:Evil. -- Make it prior-art not a patent! on Google Patents Its Home Page · · Score: 1

    I do this with music for copyright purposes.

    You have to send it as registered delivery, which is dated, signed and stamped.  I used to us a DLT, now a CF card with the tracks of recorded music, and a piece of paper written using register ink.

    Until opened by the receiver, technically the package is property of the queen.

    I have known of this to be used in court, the Clarke opened the package in court, material was played, case won.

  4. Happy she is being restored. on UK's Oldest Computer To Be "Rebooted" · · Score: 1

    Awesome news. I believe this computer used to belong to Wolverhampton University, however I have seen it in storage in Birmingham for years. Glad it is going back for restoration.

  5. Re:Government sponsered on James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" · · Score: 2, Informative

    BBC World Service is funded by the Foreign Office, not the license fee.

    The BBC is also split into many other companies, outside of the UK they are usually commercial and not funded by the license fee also.

  6. Re:Theory now science? on IBM Images a Single Molecule · · Score: 1

    Theory is not fact until it has been proven by science. Science, where something can be observed, repeated and gives the same/similar outcome every time. That's what I understand theory and science as.

  7. Theory now science? on IBM Images a Single Molecule · · Score: 1

    So, does this mean for all those years when we see a modelled structure of a molecule, it has been theory as one has never been observed? So now, theory has been proven and is now science as it has now been observed?

  8. Till, until and 'til on PCI Express 3.0 Delayed Till 2011 · · Score: 1

    Epic fail with the title? A "till" is a cash register, something you put money into. Do they mean 'til, short for until.

  9. Re:Non-issue on BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth · · Score: 3, Informative

    BT are already on the ball. From 4pm to midnight, iPlayer is unusable for me, rebuffers every 10 seconds. Other services such as Youtube and Vimeo suffer too.

  10. Re:And of course, no non-glossy displays on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 1

    Previous models had 6bit dithered displays.

  11. Re:OpenCL != OpenGL on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 1

    Yes "studio apps" do. High quality plugins and for low latency require external DSP processors, CPU's cannot compute the vast amounts of float and real-time calculations. GPU's on the other hand can.

    The industry choice of tracking software is Avid/Digidesign Pro Tools HD, which requires a Digidesign core system. The core system is a DSP card that sets you back at minimum £8,000 for the low end HD2 version.

    Now, if Apple's Logic Pro used OpenCL for some audio plugins, Pro Tools will really suffer as it would be hard to justify the £8k expense of the HD2.

  12. CPU - Router on The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer · · Score: 1

    I guess a lot of people at /. are just as bad as those who call a computer a "CPU". I'm sure you all call one of those boxes that has a network switch, DHCP server, router, modem etc. simply as a "router".

    I'm fine with a computer being called a CPU, going back in history a CPU was a device on its own, with memory, data etc. being separate. Just winds me up when my girlfriend calls her iMac a "modem".

  13. Re:So much for that Hip "artist" Apple Image. on Apple Rejects Nine Inch Nails iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Pro Tools is more stable and handles multiple audio interfaces very well on Mac OS X, however systems such as Avid Unity just do not work on a Mac. It's a difficult one to judge which is best if your a large production house.

    Final Cut, it's cheap, but boy is it unstable and clunky. Give me my Avid Symphony with Pro Tools HD 2 any day. Just do not get me started on how file managements sucks with Final Cut.

    Do not forget Logic Studio 8. A good contender for music production. If only Apple sorted out Final Cut, and then made them work together like Pro Tools and Avid.

  14. Re:Blame Sarbanes-Oxley on iPhone 3.0 Software Announced · · Score: 1

    Well I bought a handset from O2 in the UK, so your argument is invalid.

  15. Re:Moore's Law on 24x DVD Burners Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    A little shame that 10,000 RPM would result in a 20x burner.

    A 52x burner spins at 26,000 RPM.

    For the record, I have had a new disc shatter while reading. It was a 52x reader, it managed to puncture a hole through the side of my aluminium CoolerMaster case.

  16. Re:TWO video ports? on New iMac, Mac Mini Benchmarks Show Changes Are Slight · · Score: 1

    You can also buy mini-DVI to Dsub if you need one. It is mini-DVI-I if you want to put it like that.

  17. Re:Because they are getting fucked by their own la on Music Industry Conflicted On Guitar Hero, Rock Band · · Score: 1

    A cover is a good idea, If you cover a song the record industry gets nothing in return.

    However, if you cover a song, you still need the publishing copyrights. The fees and royalties for these rights are far more expensive than the recording rights. You'd probably find the rights are owned by someone like a Warner Publishing company so in the end your in a no win situation. D'oh!

    Hey, you wont get the RIAA on your back for your own recordings though.

  18. Re:Can we get rid of the music "industry" soon? on Music Industry Conflicted On Guitar Hero, Rock Band · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you posted this, you beat me to it.

    Music industry is flying at the moment. Record industry is dying a slow and painful death, unless they sort their business models out ASAP.

  19. So why allow your music to be in the game? on Music Industry Conflicted On Guitar Hero, Rock Band · · Score: 1

    I'm really lost with this one. For the music to be used, the developers of the game would require permission from the two copyright holders - publishing and recording copyrights.

    They agree on payment and royalties when they seek copyright permission. So why the fcuk are they moaning after?

    I also wonder how much money is made by labels and publishers in royalties, bet it is a lot more than selling CD a digial versions.

  20. Data Protection Act on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IANAL, but could someone, even if YANAL, please tell where this would come in under the UK's Data Protection Act?

    Surely they can't keep such information if you want it to be removed.

  21. Hybrid machine just like Acorn Computers on Shifting Apps To ARM Chips Could Save Laptop Batteries · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reminds me of the days when Acorn Computers were around with their RISCPC - A machine that was ARM powered, but you could also attach an x86 processor.

    This is so 1990's!

  22. Mac OS X release? on EA Unveils Two New Battlefield Games · · Score: 1

    I thought EA and Apple had a deal of releasing games concurrently for both Windows and Mac?

  23. Re:IMAP on Offline Gmail Launched · · Score: 0

    True, but here in the UK we don't have IMAP Gmail access.

    We can change the account preferences and tell it we live in the USA. But hey-ho, I don't know why Google are reinventing the wheel by using Gears.

  24. Bet it will sound better than the CD album on Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm curious if the sound is not compressed to absolute buggery on Guitar Hero.

    Metallica's last CD album "Death Magnetic" sounded absolutely crap.

  25. Re:Wrong Comparison on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 1

    You do know that power is not always 110/250V AC? Or less for data communication.

    Power is transmitted at 110kV or above, which over a couple of thousand kilo meters equates to a couple of Ohms maximum. Power lines loose more electricity than your home internal wiring. Energy loss for electricity is only in the last mile too.

    If fibre optic was not invented, I'm sure the voltage would be stepped up and back down between data centres to minimise energy loss.