well, no, that's not what I'm saying...although, a while ago my Dell Inspiron 8200 (NVidia AGP card) had a bit of a fit while I was running Debian; similar thing, the graphics chip overheated and the desktop froze then disappeared... to be replaced almost instantly with a shell prompt. I was able to save the machine state and shut down while the poor GPU was starting its half-hour cooldown. When a Windows box does a BSoD you don't get that luxury.
I never got on with Vista, at all. I avoided it like the plague after wrestling with one install, which I eventually gave up on and threw XP on instead.
I didn't say the crashes were Windows' fault, I did say that it was down to an overheating graphics core... which is now solved, the laptop spends most of its time on a wire cage to maximise airflow underneath.
Windows 7 for hosting: Several Linux and an OSX86 virtual machines, most of them farming out to thin clients on my LAN (this laptop has that much juice it's silly), and pumping video to a 19" panel
Linux for getting real work done
through the same laptop via a USB composite capture card, XBOX for games, VCR for analogue ripping.
...is because they have major interest in broadcasting as well. They have the monopoly on cable delivered television in the UK (satellite as well, since it is owned by Sky). It's like asking the Crown Prosecution Service to deliver a compelling case against a police officer for wrongful death.
hm... apparently DC is in fact more efficient over distances longer than about 600km... DC interties are useful because you can synchronise the grids at the DC/AC step instead of trying to adjust the phase angle between two AC grids (which is changeable depending on how stable the two grids are in relation to each other).
spoliation. produce the broken camera in court (hell you don't even have to do *that* much, the mere suggestion should be enough to swing the jury to a not guilty verdict).
To make a recording legal, you need the written consent of ONE party in the conversation. That can be YOU. Covered. This is true for telephone conversations as well.
...under no circumstances may they delete recordings.
Well, no, because that would be spoliation. Not that this doesn't happen a LOT.
Refer to the Rodney King case for a bloody good reason for a cop to want a video recording to disappear. More recently, the Ian Tomlinson murder trial which resulted in the cop who was videotaped in the act of killing a man was acquitted by a bought jury.
So continues the record of the British police, not a single member of whom has ever been convicted of causing or by omission of action causing, a wrongful death.
disobeying a bad law is the ONLY WAY to dispute it!
In fact, it is one of the core obligations of any and every citizen of each and every country which has a Constitution.
Clause 61 of Magna Carta makes it clear that if the People are wronged by the Crown and no remedy is forthcoming after all steps have been exhausted, that the People may take whatever action is necessary to obtain satisfaction without fear of reprisal. As Sir Winston Churchill wrote (A History of the English Speaking Peoples -1956) “The underlying idea of the sovereignty of the law, long existent in feudal custom, was raised by it into a doctrine for the national state. And when in subsequent ages the State, swollen with its own authority, has attempted to ride roughshod over the rights and liberties of the subject, it is to this doctrine (Magna Carta) that appeal has again and again been made, and never as yet, without success.”
The People were previously rebuffed when noble Lords invoked Clause 61 of Magna Carta on 7 February 2001, at which time they asked Her Majesty to withhold Royal Assent from the Treaty of Nice.
On behalf of the People we therefore invoke the authority of: Magna Carta 1215/1297, Clause 61, which states, as repeated with great distinctness by Henry III (1216-72) “ it shall be lawful for every one in our realm to rise against us to use all the ways and means they can to hinder us until that in which we have transgressed and offenced shall have been brought again into due state ”
the Pacific Intertie uses two conductors, each of which is just over 5cm diameter (including the core). The measured dissipation is around 260W/m*. Over the length of the line, 1362km, this equals a net loss through heating the wire of 354MW. The total voltage drop is 114kV. From a source output of 3.1GW, this is a 77% efficiency.
*considering this is about equivalent to solar flux (~0.15W/cm^2), that's a fairly significant loss as far as I can see.
I don't have the figures for the AC line that runs basically parallel to Path 65. I can only assume since most of the rest of the world uses AC almost exclusively for overground transmission that it's more efficient, and that Path 65 is only there to facilitate cross transmission across two unsynchronised grids.
It's not rights holders doing the complaining, it's the industry associations (read: RIAA/MPAA or NZ equivalents), who themselves hold no copyrights apart from their corporate logos.
To them, I refer them to the response given in Arkell -v- Pressdram (1971):
We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell. We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off.
the 25/50/60/120/133/400Hz* standards were just technical compromises based on application, nothing more.
*25Hz: Niagra Project 50Hz: most of the civilised world based on generator, transformer and transmission line size limitations (pretty much) 60Hz: system developed by Lamme to suit most any HV situation 120Hz: (failed) development system (combustion engines just couldn't rotate fast enough to run this frequency) 133Hz: ditto
and then we have DC, system developed by Edison/GE. Problem with DC is that it's freakin' deadly at high voltage and/or current (110V/400A anyone?) (would cause severe muscular spasm to the point of cellular membrane failure and massive cautery), and causes wires to heat to the point of melting, hence no good whatsoever for distance transmission. Great for welding, though. Homes on Edison DC system would have had to have their own generator.
A thought: the rest rate of the human heart is around 60Hz. A harmonic electric shock at this frequency has the potential to interrupt the normal chemoelectric rhythm, causing arrest. At 50Hz the risk is lower (but not by much).
never mind the state of the shielding, what about the overall quality of the bricks?
Some years ago, I came across an increasingly familiar problem with eMachines systems. These things are assembled in California using Chinese components, including Bestec power supplies assembled in Taiwan. The problem with these power supplies was the capacitors. Seems that a rather large batch of them were assembled with GP bronze caps, resulting in thousands of units supplied to eMachines which had the potential to cause data loss, destruction and fire. I actually had an eMachines in for a simple software problem, that when I plugged it in - in front of the client - the power brick literally exploded inside the case (secondary effects of this included a scared witless client and a temporarily blinded tech - me). In short order of finding the pattern of the fault, I had to issue a warning and had one of my major clients put it up on his website.
Lesson here is: if you're a builder, stay the hell away from cheap power supplies, especially stay away from power supplies built with low profile caps. They are NOT designed for the kind of loads a computer PSU is put through and they are totally incapable of handling surges and spikes (which they just transmit to the secondaries). I try and stick to bricks I know, like the Corsair Builder Series or the Antec Truepower. If you're a COTS user and reading this, whip out the screwdriver and check the label on the PSU. If it says "Bestec" or "HiPro", it might be an idea to switch it out for a quality brick before you learn the hard way.
When I have been around data installations, everything got marked and recorded - component boards, memory sticks, hard drives, cabinets, power strips, UPS bricks, cables, even down to any piece of plastic that could potentially house a small bug (such as three pin plugs, notwithstanding the fact that I insisted on using plugs that were moulded to the cable at both ends). During the regular hardware audits, every device, cable and connector was checked against the catalogue. Anything that didn't match up was ripped out immediately and replaced with a known quantity.
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OK. Bad example - OJ Simpson can't act.
If Simon Phoenix wants my iris code, hell he can just have a photocopy! Fuckhead... I'll keep both my eyes.
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well, no, that's not what I'm saying.. .although, a while ago my Dell Inspiron 8200 (NVidia AGP card) had a bit of a fit while I was running Debian; similar thing, the graphics chip overheated and the desktop froze then disappeared... to be replaced almost instantly with a shell prompt. I was able to save the machine state and shut down while the poor GPU was starting its half-hour cooldown. When a Windows box does a BSoD you don't get that luxury.
ah, Vista... the ME of NT.
I never got on with Vista, at all. I avoided it like the plague after wrestling with one install, which I eventually gave up on and threw XP on instead.
I didn't say the crashes were Windows' fault, I did say that it was down to an overheating graphics core... which is now solved, the laptop spends most of its time on a wire cage to maximise airflow underneath.
hm... for me it's:
Windows 7 for hosting:
Several Linux and an OSX86 virtual machines, most of them farming out to thin clients on my LAN (this laptop has that much juice it's silly), and pumping video to a 19" panel
Linux for getting real work done
through the same laptop via a USB composite capture card, XBOX for games, VCR for analogue ripping.
Who was it said "never let facts get in the way of a good argument"?
Some say Murphy, but I think this is a misattribution...
I've seen three Windows 7 crashes - caused by overheating graphics cores, all on the same computer.
BSkyB would disagree with you there. As would OfCom, the Competition Commission - Sky have owned Virgin Media since June 2010.
...is because they have major interest in broadcasting as well. They have the monopoly on cable delivered television in the UK (satellite as well, since it is owned by Sky). It's like asking the Crown Prosecution Service to deliver a compelling case against a police officer for wrongful death.
It will never happen.
hm... apparently DC is in fact more efficient over distances longer than about 600km... DC interties are useful because you can synchronise the grids at the DC/AC step instead of trying to adjust the phase angle between two AC grids (which is changeable depending on how stable the two grids are in relation to each other).
spoliation. produce the broken camera in court (hell you don't even have to do *that* much, the mere suggestion should be enough to swing the jury to a not guilty verdict).
um... wrong. I'll tell you why.
To make a recording legal, you need the written consent of ONE party in the conversation.
That can be YOU.
Covered.
This is true for telephone conversations as well.
...under no circumstances may they delete recordings.
Well, no, because that would be spoliation. Not that this doesn't happen a LOT.
Refer to the Rodney King case for a bloody good reason for a cop to want a video recording to disappear. More recently, the Ian Tomlinson murder trial which resulted in the cop who was videotaped in the act of killing a man was acquitted by a bought jury.
So continues the record of the British police, not a single member of whom has ever been convicted of causing or by omission of action causing, a wrongful death.
We know different.
disobeying a bad law is the ONLY WAY to dispute it!
In fact, it is one of the core obligations of any and every citizen of each and every country which has a Constitution.
Clause 61 of Magna Carta makes it clear that if the People are wronged by the Crown and no remedy is forthcoming after all steps have been exhausted, that the People may take whatever action is necessary to obtain satisfaction without fear of reprisal. As Sir Winston Churchill wrote (A History of the English Speaking Peoples -1956) “The underlying idea of the sovereignty of the law, long existent in feudal custom, was raised by it into a doctrine for the national state. And when in subsequent ages the State, swollen with its own authority, has attempted to ride roughshod over the rights and liberties of the subject, it is to this doctrine (Magna Carta) that appeal has again and again been made, and never as yet, without success.”
The People were previously rebuffed when noble Lords invoked Clause 61 of Magna Carta on 7 February 2001, at which time they asked Her Majesty to withhold Royal Assent from the Treaty of Nice.
On behalf of the People we therefore invoke the authority of: Magna Carta 1215/1297, Clause 61, which states, as repeated with great distinctness by Henry III (1216-72) “ it shall be lawful for every one in our realm to rise against us to use all the ways and means they can to hinder us until that in which we have transgressed and offenced shall have been brought again into due state ”
Aristocratic liberalism?
i.e., we're more equal than you because we have more money.
in the UK the Government *is* a corporation!
they don't even need to know the difference between hardware and software.
All they need to know is that their toaster isn't working the way it should and there's a genius down the road who'll fix it for a blowjob.
oh, no... they get you in your sleep.
two thousand whipped cream charge canisters filled with RBS-nitrox.
I'm here all week.
lemme do the math...
the Pacific Intertie uses two conductors, each of which is just over 5cm diameter (including the core). The measured dissipation is around 260W/m*. Over the length of the line, 1362km, this equals a net loss through heating the wire of 354MW. The total voltage drop is 114kV. From a source output of 3.1GW, this is a 77% efficiency.
*considering this is about equivalent to solar flux (~0.15W/cm^2), that's a fairly significant loss as far as I can see.
I don't have the figures for the AC line that runs basically parallel to Path 65. I can only assume since most of the rest of the world uses AC almost exclusively for overground transmission that it's more efficient, and that Path 65 is only there to facilitate cross transmission across two unsynchronised grids.
It's not rights holders doing the complaining, it's the industry associations (read: RIAA/MPAA or NZ equivalents), who themselves hold no copyrights apart from their corporate logos.
To them, I refer them to the response given in Arkell -v- Pressdram (1971):
We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell. We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off.
the 25/50/60/120/133/400Hz* standards were just technical compromises based on application, nothing more.
*25Hz: Niagra Project
50Hz: most of the civilised world based on generator, transformer and transmission line size limitations (pretty much)
60Hz: system developed by Lamme to suit most any HV situation
120Hz: (failed) development system (combustion engines just couldn't rotate fast enough to run this frequency)
133Hz: ditto
and then we have DC, system developed by Edison/GE. Problem with DC is that it's freakin' deadly at high voltage and/or current (110V/400A anyone?) (would cause severe muscular spasm to the point of cellular membrane failure and massive cautery), and causes wires to heat to the point of melting, hence no good whatsoever for distance transmission. Great for welding, though. Homes on Edison DC system would have had to have their own generator.
A thought: the rest rate of the human heart is around 60Hz. A harmonic electric shock at this frequency has the potential to interrupt the normal chemoelectric rhythm, causing arrest. At 50Hz the risk is lower (but not by much).
never mind the state of the shielding, what about the overall quality of the bricks?
Some years ago, I came across an increasingly familiar problem with eMachines systems. These things are assembled in California using Chinese components, including Bestec power supplies assembled in Taiwan. The problem with these power supplies was the capacitors. Seems that a rather large batch of them were assembled with GP bronze caps, resulting in thousands of units supplied to eMachines which had the potential to cause data loss, destruction and fire. I actually had an eMachines in for a simple software problem, that when I plugged it in - in front of the client - the power brick literally exploded inside the case (secondary effects of this included a scared witless client and a temporarily blinded tech - me). In short order of finding the pattern of the fault, I had to issue a warning and had one of my major clients put it up on his website.
Lesson here is: if you're a builder, stay the hell away from cheap power supplies, especially stay away from power supplies built with low profile caps. They are NOT designed for the kind of loads a computer PSU is put through and they are totally incapable of handling surges and spikes (which they just transmit to the secondaries). I try and stick to bricks I know, like the Corsair Builder Series or the Antec Truepower. If you're a COTS user and reading this, whip out the screwdriver and check the label on the PSU. If it says "Bestec" or "HiPro", it might be an idea to switch it out for a quality brick before you learn the hard way.
for some reason I can't pick up any broadcast between 504-1791KHz unless I'm outside. Nottingham really is an AM black hole.
When I have been around data installations, everything got marked and recorded - component boards, memory sticks, hard drives, cabinets, power strips, UPS bricks, cables, even down to any piece of plastic that could potentially house a small bug (such as three pin plugs, notwithstanding the fact that I insisted on using plugs that were moulded to the cable at both ends). During the regular hardware audits, every device, cable and connector was checked against the catalogue. Anything that didn't match up was ripped out immediately and replaced with a known quantity.
If I didn't install it, it didn't belong.