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  1. Re:UK and the EU? on UK And EU May Make Unsolicited Email Illegal · · Score: 0
    How is this flambait? It is the truth.

    When British people start reading anything not published by Murdoch, they will learn that the only way the UK can get out of the vice like grip of the americans is to take command of Europe. Not all of Europe is good, and it needs changing. If anyone can do it Britain can.

  2. Re:UK and the EU? on UK And EU May Make Unsolicited Email Illegal · · Score: 1
    'Makes trouble'

    You mean, doesn't toe the German line, like France? Or doesn't join the Euro so it's economy doesn't deflate like Germany?

    If making trouble means getting the best community, long let them continue. If the other countries really want the UK out of it, maybe they should pay them out - oh but wait, the EU wouldn't be able to afford itself if the UK left - but maybe then the others would force the French Farm oversubsidies to be made realistic.

    Believe it or not, if Germany started showing the real good points of being in a European Union instead of trying to dictate to all the other countries, there wouldn't be so much of the trouble making coming from UK, Spain, Italy. It sounds like you don't like competition.

  3. Re:Safari v64 Download on Friday Morning Release Party · · Score: 1
    From the licensing agreement before install:
    The term of this License shall commence upon your download or first use of the Apple Software and will terminate automatically without notice from Apple upon the commercial release of the Apple Software, or June 30, 2003, whichever occurs first.
    Doesn't seem that far away...
  4. Airbus Toulouse on Building the A380 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have done some work in Toulouse for Airbus, and been at both the Central training sites and also Airbus France itself, which is next to the airport. It is incredible walking out of an office across a hanger with two A319s into another office: it is strange to do that when so often at airports the aircraft are always outside, not inside what appears beforehand as an office building! But when I saw the giant hanger that is going to be the assembly area for the A380, it is just astonishing. It was about a month ago, so the roof hadn't been added, but even so it made me realise that the 'little' models in the reception really were not representative of just how big this aircraft is going to be. I've seen the one of the guppy transport craft take off from Toulouse as well, and I didn't really beleive that could get in the air, let alone the A380. It will be really impressive (for someone that really has never been that interested in aeroplanes) to see it fly.

  5. Re:scene screen anyone? on Multimedia Windowpanes · · Score: 1

    Isn't it done in Total Recall as well? I seem to remember Sharon Stone watching the news on a window just before he starts realizing he has no idea who he is.

  6. Re:Inches? Cubits? on Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 · · Score: 1

    Same one that decided on changing Irish road signs for distance into Km, but left the speed limits in Mph perhaps?

  7. Re:The money quote on Killing Others' Malicious Processes · · Score: 1
    "We don't let people who can't drive on our roads, we have a minimumn requirement that you must have the ability to safely operate your vehicle"
    They might have to take a test, but it doesn't mean that they are good drivers, wherever they drive. Those same people might be able to recite the Highway Code: doesn't mean they understand the idea of 'thinking ahead'.

    How are people ever going to learn unless they are educated? Would you stop a five year old from going in a library because he can't read well enough?

  8. Re:PB keyboard backlighting is better on DIY Ambient Light Keyboard Kit · · Score: 1

    Even on a PC it depends on which country you are in. I'm typing this on a French keyboard, and the ` is ALT-7 plus a space as it is assumed to be an accent for the following letter. The & is on the 1 key (no shift required, the numbers require a shift press, which is why most mainland Europeans are so adept at using the number pad). And this changes in each country. Hell, a French Canadian keyboard is even different from a French keyboard.

  9. Re:Firewire 2 is for Xraid on FireWire 2 Coming Soon? · · Score: 1
    And most importantly, they actually interfere, to a very serious degree, with each other. So putting them together in the same device would be, in a word, dumb
    When using both on my Powerbook they don't interfere at all, and so I am interested what you mean by this in case I run into problems in the future. (I had a Windows laptop connected: via a wireless connection to the Powerbook; and a NT network via ethernet. The powerbook was connected to my mobile via Bluetooth and I was downloading pictures from the phone onto the TiBook, which was then sending them onto the network via the other PC. No interference, nothing.)

    Personally I would prefer the bluetooth trinket to be integrated to the computer and not stick out if possible, especially as the back cover is so fragile. It doesn't have to go on to the airport card though.

  10. Re:You misunderstand completely on E ~ mc^2 · · Score: 1

    Agreeing with you and adding my very simplified opinion, science and religion not only can co-exist but were in the past one and the same thing. The only problem was that the ones who didn't understand science came to take charge of the religions around the world and refuted that which they didn't comprehend. (I'm talking between thousands and tens of thousands of years ago here in Neolithic cultures). My arrival at this opinion is based on having been brought up as a Christian (although I always had issues that the priests couldn't answer) and excelling at science at school. I am not a Christian, the closest I think is Pantheism. Having investigated shamenism in ancient cultures, and add to that various other points such as entymology of language etcetera, I have a framework which is personal, and ever evolving.

    Thus science developed, and religion stagnated (at various times depending on the religion). I cannot claim to be religious myself, but that doesn't mean that they cannot co-exist.

    I have one question for you though from your comment: does this mean that for proof of God's existance, you require life?

  11. Re:Doom for 7650! on Nokia 7650 Modified to Record Video Clips · · Score: 1
    Better is to get it for free: Wild Palm.

    It works quite well, but is a bit buggy. Once they sort out the Bluetooth 2 or more player version, then it will be good. Shame it uses up most of the memory though, I need to be able to take photos as well.

  12. Re:7650 Camera Resolution on Nokia 7650 Modified to Record Video Clips · · Score: 1
    it looks like someone's smeared vaseline over the lens.
    Well maybe they have! Actually, joking apart, I have found that it really depends on the lighting. In natural lighting, the shots are crisp, but as soon as I am in an artificial lighting environment, I get very soft focus shots. One thing that really has amused me is if you try to take a picture of the tip of a cigarette, it comes out blue, and not orange as you would expect.
  13. Re:7650 Camera Resolution on Nokia 7650 Modified to Record Video Clips · · Score: 1

    Resolution on the 7650 is pants.

    It's a mobile phone not a professional camera. There is no zoom, the focus is not great, but it's not bad as a phone that can take photos as well. VGA resolution is pretty good for that, I don't know what you were expecting?

    Completely agree about the SDK though. It might be free, but that isn't an excuse.

  14. Re:Here's why. on Nokia 7650 Modified to Record Video Clips · · Score: 1

    Different car radios in the next country over does actually occur, as I found out when I hired a Japanese import car in New Zealand and could only pick up half the band cause the radio only covered the band from 76-92MHz and not 88-108MHz.

    As for taking the phone all over Europe, it's great knowing that the phone will work, SMS will work (most of the time), but don't go trying to use MMS yet. There are no roaming agreements for it. So at the moment, using my 7650 consists of taking photos and emailing them from there or bluetoothing them across to my laptop. I could easily have spent £50 now if they did have roaming agreements. Will they ever learn? Judging by the inability to send texts between Orange and SFR probably not...

  15. Re:The CONGOLESE money scam on Fighting the Nigerian Money Scam · · Score: 1

    Woops yeah, I was looking at the first one that had satellite phone by it...

  16. Re:Never happen on Pentium-Based Macs The Future of Apple? · · Score: 1
    Fact is that Proche is the only independent auto maker left (unless you count Morgan).
    Maybe you didn't know, but there are a lot lot more than just Porsche and Morgan. TVR, Caterham, etc etc. In UK you will see nearly as many TVRs as Porsche.

    You're right about the rest though imo.

  17. Re:The CONGOLESE money scam on Fighting the Nigerian Money Scam · · Score: 1

    The phone number is a UK mobile, not a satellite phone, which would start with 877 or 878 I think.

  18. Re:what the fuck sort of country puts prodigy... on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 1

    Heh, I was dismissing pop music altogether. I suppose that's why I couldn't put either Prodigy or Moby in the category. I suppose I define Pop music not as 'popular' as it used to be, but as Manufactured for the charts. I can't say either Play or Fat of The Land fall into that category. Or maybe I am just putting too much emphasis on their respective histories...

  19. Re:REAL Classics on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 1
    Two things for this mail:

    No 'Energy Flash' by Joey Beltram?????? (I have loads of others, but cannot believe with that list this wasn't mentioned!).

    Don't know the name of a track that sampled The Young Ones do ya, Rik: 'Five pounds to get into my own bedroom? what you going to do, turn it into a Roller Disco!'

  20. Re:what the fuck sort of country puts prodigy... on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Don't think I could ever put Prodigy in the same category as 5ive or S Club however many, and having heard the new single, 'Baby's Got A Temper' I can only slam them into Rock Alternative now. It ain't bad, but it's a long way from 'Your Love'.

  21. Re:Downside to The KLF on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 1

    Hard To Find sometimes get copies, but prepare to pay. You can also contact Beanos who have always looked after me. They have a warehouse full of all music, but the stuff that turns up is incredible.

  22. Re:Don't forget nu skool breaks. on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 1
    You missed out Synthcore, Tech house, Madeitup House.... ;-) Sometime ago, all the labels should have been hereed together into the Mixmag office and detonated..

    Just out of interest, did you like DJ Zinc 138 Trek/My Adidas? If you like 187 Lockdown, maybe the Nu skool breaks that you have listened to has been the darker tek side of things: the Finger Lickin and Carbon stuff is much closer to speed garage (Tina Moore popped into my head then), than BLIM, Koma and Bones, etc. Or can I guess correctly that you don't really like the drum and bass influences?

  23. Re: Pandora's beat-box on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 1
    such charlatans no longer do anything to further turntable art and culture (if they ever did at all, that is),

    Interesting to hear that, and I can only assume that you weren't able to listen to Sasha and Oakenfold ten, twelve years ago, when they were ahead of their time. Oakenfold may have succombed to taking America, and Sasha perhaps become too atentive to detail, but I certainly would contest the italisized statement above: Sasha @ Shelleys in 92, Oakenfold in fields surrounding London, and Digweed in Twilo in 97, all of them forged a sound that still makes the hairs on the back of my neck tingle.

    I think that the list is very incomplete. How can DJ Shadow and Coldcut be missed from the list of Tunrtablists? For trance, people like Steve Lawler or Yousef? For house, probably the best person to have played on the terrace, excepting Danny T, Eric Morillo? Drum & Bass!: Hype, Roni Size, Aphrodite. Live acts: Daft Punk, Kraftwerk etc.

    I think you get the point: with Mixmag, the poll is skewed by twelve year olds sending in their entries of the DJs who have put together Cream Anthems or whatever, and I can agree with you about it for that reason, but I wouldn't say that link gives anything like the Top 100 DJs in the world. There are too many Asian and Antipodean DJs missing for that to be the case.

  24. Re:FIX THE LINK on Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites · · Score: 3, Informative
  25. Re:25 Hours in a day? Change of side on Isn't it Time for Metric Time? · · Score: 1
    From here: perhaps. I also heard that in fact Napolean despised the English that much that he wanted to do the opposite of them as well.

    Don't know about the salute, but doesn't sound likely to me..