Facebook and Myspace are both cr@p (as all the other imitator sites are also cr@p). Did my statement of fact make you more happy Rupert, or are you just sore on loosing all that money?
Who cares about what format you want to back up to, more important, what CODEC will still be around in 20 years to be able to play the footage you shoot today?
Already I see my high bitrate, frame accurate miniDV camera becoming obsolete in the consumer arena in favour for highly compressed, not frame accurate, hard drive based cameras using MPEG4 video, moving to (consumer) HiDef cameras and they also use high compression MPEG4 and an awful audio codec instead of PCM audio (like for DV). What are the odds of any of these formats being playable in 20 years time, or just transcodeable?
Really, I don't care what boring files you keep... Just the interesting files:-)
I only look at log files to keep an eye on the system or if a user tried to be "smart".
Suppose that doppler radar is slow, and that it takes 5 seconds for it to do a 360 degree sweep. Is a faster system going to improve the generally rubbish weather forecasts of "it might rain today"?
Will the ISP's drop the subscription rates now they dump Usenet?
My last ISP dumped Usenet (which like many still use over 'blogs'). I asked if they were going to drop the subscription cost. They said no, I said bye! That decision cost thousands of subscribers.
It's just an attempt to get rid of all discussion, which is what the governments want, especially "democracies" under pretext of terror or in this case a certain type of "porn".
That's okay, I will not give any money the two-faced Virgin ISP or any two-faced UK record company. How do they feel about the loss of my money as a possible subscriber / music listener?
Those unelected lords are there precisely to stop bad (but popular) laws from being passed. Yes but New Labour have been selling peerages (seats) into the Lords to get their bad laws passed.
You will be nice to your copy of Microsoft Vista at all times. If it registers dissatisfaction about Vista through the use of the webcam or via voice control, Vista will shut down until you start giving it nice thoughts like "Bill Gates is great really", or "I didn't really mean to attack my machine with a chair".
A nice PR stunt, $45m will get about 2km (1.2 miles) of Maglev track (if using the BEST figures quoted in Wiki article).
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation_train:
The Shanghai maglev cost 9.93 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) to build.... China aims to limit the cost of future construction extending the maglev line to approximately 200 million yuan (US$24.6 million) per kilometer.
Good luck to thinking high speed trains are good. When you have science / technologically uneducated morons running a government, the money to build an economy is instead diverted to buy votes to keep the moron government in power. Recently coming up with the following nonsense... http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article4075781.ece
Britain is to be left out of Europe's high-speed rail revolution because the Government has decided that 200mph trains are bad for the environment.
Despite repeated promises to consider the benefits of a dedicated new line capable of carrying passengers from London to Scotland in less than three hours, ministers are thinking again.
In a letter obtained by The Times, Tom Harris, the Rail Minister, said: "The argument that high-speed rail travel is a 'green option' does not necessarily stand up to close inspection. Increasing the maximum speed of a train from 200kph [125mph - the current maximum speed of domestic trains] to 350kph leads to a 90 per cent increase in energy consumption."
When I moved to mostly use Linux, cost of the distro I chose was not an issue. Linux for me gave me things that Windows does not. It's more secure (having to be super user to install or run certain things) means nobody else can run things that can harm the system, it runs on lower spec machines (even though mine is up-to-date), and is more flexible in setup (ie. I an not restricted to a certain typeface or size for for example tool bars).
Linux for me does not yet have a killer app, K3B (CD/DVD burner) and Amarok are better than anything in Windows, but for a start, there is nothing like Photoshop, and no killer video capture and editing software, and for some, games are important too.
Thank goodness that Prince issued this ridiculous DMCA stunt, for a moment there I thought he had become an irrelevance to modern pop music scene. This will definitely make me buy his records now.
As for the other stuff, politicians still don't seem to "get" the internet, whatever law they come up with, there's a way around it. It shows you how dangerously uneducated all those English/Latin/law/history/politics/art degree holding politicians are.
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You will prise my warm AMD only from my cold dead fingers! How dare anyone suggest I get out more.
Facebook and Myspace are both cr@p (as all the other imitator sites are also cr@p). Did my statement of fact make you more happy Rupert, or are you just sore on loosing all that money?
Who cares about what format you want to back up to, more important, what CODEC will still be around in 20 years to be able to play the footage you shoot today?
Already I see my high bitrate, frame accurate miniDV camera becoming obsolete in the consumer arena in favour for highly compressed, not frame accurate, hard drive based cameras using MPEG4 video, moving to (consumer) HiDef cameras and they also use high compression MPEG4 and an awful audio codec instead of PCM audio (like for DV). What are the odds of any of these formats being playable in 20 years time, or just transcodeable?
Suppose that doppler radar is slow, and that it takes 5 seconds for it to do a 360 degree sweep. Is a faster system going to improve the generally rubbish weather forecasts of "it might rain today"?
Will the ISP's drop the subscription rates now they dump Usenet?
My last ISP dumped Usenet (which like many still use over 'blogs'). I asked if they were going to drop the subscription cost. They said no, I said bye! That decision cost thousands of subscribers.
It's just an attempt to get rid of all discussion, which is what the governments want, especially "democracies" under pretext of terror or in this case a certain type of "porn".
That's okay, I will not give any money the two-faced Virgin ISP or any two-faced UK record company. How do they feel about the loss of my money as a possible subscriber / music listener?
You will be nice to your copy of Microsoft Vista at all times. If it registers dissatisfaction about Vista through the use of the webcam or via voice control, Vista will shut down until you start giving it nice thoughts like "Bill Gates is great really", or "I didn't really mean to attack my machine with a chair".
Looks very interesting, but will it trash all your very useful addons and have you swearing for the previous version?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation_train:
The Shanghai maglev cost 9.93 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) to build.... China aims to limit the cost of future construction extending the maglev line to approximately 200 million yuan (US$24.6 million) per kilometer.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article4075781.ece
Britain is to be left out of Europe's high-speed rail revolution because the Government has decided that 200mph trains are bad for the environment.
Despite repeated promises to consider the benefits of a dedicated new line capable of carrying passengers from London to Scotland in less than three hours, ministers are thinking again.
In a letter obtained by The Times, Tom Harris, the Rail Minister, said: "The argument that high-speed rail travel is a 'green option' does not necessarily stand up to close inspection. Increasing the maximum speed of a train from 200kph [125mph - the current maximum speed of domestic trains] to 350kph leads to a 90 per cent increase in energy consumption."When I moved to mostly use Linux, cost of the distro I chose was not an issue. Linux for me gave me things that Windows does not. It's more secure (having to be super user to install or run certain things) means nobody else can run things that can harm the system, it runs on lower spec machines (even though mine is up-to-date), and is more flexible in setup (ie. I an not restricted to a certain typeface or size for for example tool bars).
Linux for me does not yet have a killer app, K3B (CD/DVD burner) and Amarok are better than anything in Windows, but for a start, there is nothing like Photoshop, and no killer video capture and editing software, and for some, games are important too.
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Finger RSI from Microsoft.
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Smart phones + dumb users. Not a good combination.
Yeah, but it couldn't read what would be first post.
The use I would like of CCTV is to put all the cameras on one massive pyre.
He couldn't stop, so he popped.
Thank goodness that Prince issued this ridiculous DMCA stunt, for a moment there I thought he had become an irrelevance to modern pop music scene. This will definitely make me buy his records now.
So just how does Safari react when you go to Microsoft's update website?
So running your own business does have it's uses :-)
How about fingerprinting lobyists so we see who's REALLY behind crackpot laws that get pushed through our respective governments.
Finally we'll have the end of government spin merchants putting their garbage on Youtube http://uk.youtube.com/10DowningStreet
As for the other stuff, politicians still don't seem to "get" the internet, whatever law they come up with, there's a way around it. It shows you how dangerously uneducated all those English/Latin/law/history/politics/art degree holding politicians are.
I saw someone Phlashing their laptop in a public park, he was arrested for public indecency :-)