Here in the UK, the standard is for all phones to be supplied network-locked (unless you buy a SIM-free handset from a non-mainstream supplier). I believe that retailers are obliged to provide a non-locked handset if you specifically ask for one, but they typically get around that by not having them in stock - they rely on the facts that most people a) don't know they can get an non-locked device if they ask for it, or b) don't want to wait for a non-locked device to come into stock.
HP are pretty good with this kind of information now, too (and not just for laptops). There's a wealth of information and videos in their 'Customer Self Repair' section online here: http://h20464.www2.hp.com/index.html
just about the only thing you can't do with a PS3 is use it as a DVR.
This might be true in the US, but in other regions the PlayTV hardware add-on enables you to do exactly that. PlayTV allows you to watch live free-to-air TV and HDTV through the PS3, and record those programs to the PS3's hard drive.
I bought the PlayTV add-on (I'm in the UK) as it was cheaper than buying a standalone DVR for free-to-air broadcasts, and have found it to be easier to use and far more reliable than the standalone alternatives available here
That just means when you arrive at the theater, and the owner refuses you entrace, you can yell, "Congratulations dumb shit. You just lost $20 worth of sales," and walk away.
Businessmen hate losing money.
I think you'd be hard pushed to find too many cinemas in the UK where the owner is actually on site when you show up to watch a film - they're nearly all owned by the big chains these days unfortunately.
Also, we pay for things in Pounds Sterling in the UK.... for the time being, at least.
Don't all new PS3 games check that you have a certain minimum firmware installed, and force you to update to that minimum before you can play the game? I.e. your current games may well work, but will newly released ones?
This appears to be nothing like the Nokia service from TFA. All this is is a pre-pay credit card (of which there have been many available in the UK for a while now), which is only available to O2 customers and has the added function that they send you a text message when your balance changes. It does not let you pay for your stuff with your mobile, and it does not let you top it up using your mobile phone (although you can top it up at O2 shops and mobile phone 'Pay Points').
Don Foster said: "The Conservatives' incompetence when they were in government has made laws designed to...protect children from harmful DVDs unenforceable"
I don't think a law passed in 1984 was designed for DVDs, considering they were still ten years from making an appearance at that time.
The same objection also applies to many other non-solutions to the problem, like using a Linux distro that encrypts your entire file system. Even assuming this would be within the technical means of the average person who wanted to do encryption, it's still going to look suspicious as long as the vast majority of people are not doing it
It's already within the means of the average person who wants to 'do encryption' - as part of the (very simple) install process for Ubuntu 9.04 it asks you if you want to install full file system encryption or not.
Agreed, it wouldn't have surprised (or bothered) me in the slightest if track-side in-game ads had appeared in Wipeout HD, I kinda expected it as they already have advertising hoardings on the tracks, but slowing down the loading process is just out of order.
I'm in the UK, played Wipeout HD with the 2.0.1 update and the Fury DLC last night, no ads there, although according to the Double Fusion press release from TFA it'll only be a matter of time unfortunately.
The 4 GB file size limit can be a bit of a hassle at times.
Indeed, I fell foul of it at the weekend with my Playstation 3. The PS3's PlayTV hardware add-on lets you record digital TV broadcasts to the PS3 hard drive, and in turn allows you to copy these recordings to a USB stick for use wherever you like. This falls down when you record something over about 2 hours long as the file is then over 4GB, and the PS3 only supports USB drives formatted in FAT32.
Same here.
Unlike for you, I, and no doubt most others on slashdot, hype about internet browsers tends to completely bypass most 'normal' people - I meet plenty of people who've had Firefox installed for a long time by a third person who simply told them 'it's better/faster/more secure than Internet Explorer', but these people had no idea they could do other things like tabbed browsing (that previously they couldn't do with IE, and as they haven't gone back to it they're still none the wiser) as it wasn't an obvious feature until now.
...is that Firefox finally has an 'open a new tab' icon by default (adjacent to the last open tab in the list), I know that you can add an icon yourself, and that double-clicking the tab bar opens a new tab, but I know plenty of people that weren't even aware that tabbed browsing is a feature of Firefox as it wasn't obvious!
Unfortunately my C64 met an unfortunate end via a knocked-over TV back in about 1990 (I was ten). I still have my Amiga 500+ though, and every couple of years I dust it off for a good session on The Greatest Game Of All Time, it never skips a beat.
So because one movie (which relied heavily on green screen techniques) looked bad to you in high definition, you won't ever try another? What about movies that don't use green screens?
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Here in the UK, the standard is for all phones to be supplied network-locked (unless you buy a SIM-free handset from a non-mainstream supplier). I believe that retailers are obliged to provide a non-locked handset if you specifically ask for one, but they typically get around that by not having them in stock - they rely on the facts that most people a) don't know they can get an non-locked device if they ask for it, or b) don't want to wait for a non-locked device to come into stock.
HP are pretty good with this kind of information now, too (and not just for laptops). There's a wealth of information and videos in their 'Customer Self Repair' section online here: http://h20464.www2.hp.com/index.html
Surely it's 'copying-and-pasting'?!
....how much ice did you catch?
just about the only thing you can't do with a PS3 is use it as a DVR.
This might be true in the US, but in other regions the PlayTV hardware add-on enables you to do exactly that. PlayTV allows you to watch live free-to-air TV and HDTV through the PS3, and record those programs to the PS3's hard drive. I bought the PlayTV add-on (I'm in the UK) as it was cheaper than buying a standalone DVR for free-to-air broadcasts, and have found it to be easier to use and far more reliable than the standalone alternatives available here
That just means when you arrive at the theater, and the owner refuses you entrace, you can yell, "Congratulations dumb shit. You just lost $20 worth of sales," and walk away.
Businessmen hate losing money.
I think you'd be hard pushed to find too many cinemas in the UK where the owner is actually on site when you show up to watch a film - they're nearly all owned by the big chains these days unfortunately. Also, we pay for things in Pounds Sterling in the UK.... for the time being, at least.
Don't all new PS3 games check that you have a certain minimum firmware installed, and force you to update to that minimum before you can play the game? I.e. your current games may well work, but will newly released ones?
This appears to be nothing like the Nokia service from TFA. All this is is a pre-pay credit card (of which there have been many available in the UK for a while now), which is only available to O2 customers and has the added function that they send you a text message when your balance changes. It does not let you pay for your stuff with your mobile, and it does not let you top it up using your mobile phone (although you can top it up at O2 shops and mobile phone 'Pay Points').
I don't think a law passed in 1984 was designed for DVDs, considering they were still ten years from making an appearance at that time.
I've had no problems using VGA on several different HD TVs - you just need to set the resolution to the native resolution of the screen.
It's already within the means of the average person who wants to 'do encryption' - as part of the (very simple) install process for Ubuntu 9.04 it asks you if you want to install full file system encryption or not.
Agreed, it wouldn't have surprised (or bothered) me in the slightest if track-side in-game ads had appeared in Wipeout HD, I kinda expected it as they already have advertising hoardings on the tracks, but slowing down the loading process is just out of order.
I'm in the UK, played Wipeout HD with the 2.0.1 update and the Fury DLC last night, no ads there, although according to the Double Fusion press release from TFA it'll only be a matter of time unfortunately.
That link you posted isn't to the free openoffice.org, it appears to be some scam site trying to get people to pay to download openoffice.org
- - Prodigy: Fire Starter
Also from the same band:
As I have the entire Prodigy discography on my iPod I could be perceived to be in danger....
Just a small example: Prodigy - Out of Space
Indeed, The Prodigy wrote the track Their Law in direct response to the passing of this law.
Last.fm haven't 'cut the UK off', in fact the UK is one of three countries (along with the US and Germany), where Last.fm is still available for free.
The 4 GB file size limit can be a bit of a hassle at times.
Indeed, I fell foul of it at the weekend with my Playstation 3. The PS3's PlayTV hardware add-on lets you record digital TV broadcasts to the PS3 hard drive, and in turn allows you to copy these recordings to a USB stick for use wherever you like. This falls down when you record something over about 2 hours long as the file is then over 4GB, and the PS3 only supports USB drives formatted in FAT32.
Your post indicates that you seem to have inadvertently logged in to Slashdot rather than Yahoo! Answers.
Same here. Unlike for you, I, and no doubt most others on slashdot, hype about internet browsers tends to completely bypass most 'normal' people - I meet plenty of people who've had Firefox installed for a long time by a third person who simply told them 'it's better/faster/more secure than Internet Explorer', but these people had no idea they could do other things like tabbed browsing (that previously they couldn't do with IE, and as they haven't gone back to it they're still none the wiser) as it wasn't an obvious feature until now.
...is that Firefox finally has an 'open a new tab' icon by default (adjacent to the last open tab in the list), I know that you can add an icon yourself, and that double-clicking the tab bar opens a new tab, but I know plenty of people that weren't even aware that tabbed browsing is a feature of Firefox as it wasn't obvious!
If you go to either mozilla.com or getfirefox.com they now offer Firefox 3.5 as their main offering, not a Release Candidate
Unfortunately my C64 met an unfortunate end via a knocked-over TV back in about 1990 (I was ten). I still have my Amiga 500+ though, and every couple of years I dust it off for a good session on The Greatest Game Of All Time, it never skips a beat.
So because one movie (which relied heavily on green screen techniques) looked bad to you in high definition, you won't ever try another? What about movies that don't use green screens?