well, is that true? assuming it's going over sea, if the engine fails then I would think it would slow down and land on the surface of the water, where it would slow down alot more. it might not be overly pleasant but I would think it would be possible to do so safely.
besides, should one not be more concerned about the possible loss of life rather than just the cargo?
that just means the refresh rate that it samples the analogue input at. lcd's don't have a refresh rate in the same sense as crt's as they odn't have an electron beam scanning along them, the pixels are either on or off really.
okay, no DVI was bloody silly, there should be at least 2 DVI-I ports but lcd's are fixed resolution, thats just a limitation of the system. A ferrari can costs hundreds of thousands of pounds but can't go off road reliably, why dammit, for that kinda money I expect the thing to fly!
you see my point? they aren't trying to deceive anyone but it's well known that lcd's have a fixed resolution and tend to look ugly in any others.
crisp text? I've yet to see a CRT with text as crisp as an LCD. each pixel is discrete so text is as crisp as can be. old lcd's were crap at motion, thats agreed but new lcd's can be extremely good. the fastest pixel refresh rate I've seen is 25msec. my screen refreshes at 35msec and I've played quake on it with no problems (apart from my gfx card struggling a bit at 1280x1024:). the display seemed perfectly able to keep up.
yes, it's expensive but it's also bloody big. there is a limited market but I'm sure it's not aimed at the consumer, but at business where they have the need and the money for these things. as time goes on these things will get even better and even cheaper but bleeding edge stuff always costs a packet.
I've never seen an lcd panel with dead pixel's. I've got a brand new 18.1" iiyama and it's perfect, my friend has a 15" nec, it's perfect. every laptop I've used has had perfect lcd's. perhaps I've been lucky.
one of the reason I bought an iiyama screen was because they have a 30 day no quibble returns policy so I told the shop that if it had any dead pixels at all it would be coming straight back but I never had to carry that threat out.
have you ever looked at plasma's close up? they're awful, massively hot, pull loads of power from the wall and very heavy.
unless they have imporved them massively recently then the resolution on them isn't very good at all and the image quality sucks. I think that the future of flatscreen tv's will be lcd panels. they can be thinner, use less power, get less hot, are much higher resolution and are made in much higher quantities (not in big tv sizes yet, but they will be)
which is interesting as I seem to remember that the DVI spec says that the LCD monitor has to be able to stretch the image on it's own with no help from the OS or gfx card. the card or OS may do it of course, but the monitor has to be able to as last resort.
I've actually just picked up an lcd monitor and it's fantastic. 1280x1024 and it's as sharp as hell. I admit that it cost a big chunk of overtime but right now it was worth it. it's got a 35msec refresh time so I can watch dvd's or play quake and no smearing (I didn't really notice any). the problem being of course that I had to play q3a in 1280x1024 to look right and my geforce 2 gts struggled a bit but then I'm not much of a games player anyways (except angband;)
one of the cool things about it is that you can literally see every pixel. if you can't read something then just look closer. every pixel is discrete so even small fonts are readable, unlike crt's where small fonts can just disappear into the glass.
I think that modren lcd's are a huge advance over the horribles ones from laptop's of 4 years ago where if you touched the mouse it would disappear.
And since the BSA has the legal right to act on behalf of the companies they represent
but what if the place they want to "inspect" has no software from the BSA members? a completely OSS site for example. surely the burden should be theres to prove copyright infringement *before* coming in like a bull in a china shop?
okay, I know that you're on my side here, it just really pisses me off hearing about the things these people get up to. I just hope never to come across them because if they did I might have to make some difficulyt decisions:(
Courts have held that EULAs (even the shrink-wrap or click-wrap variety) are legally binding, and often they involve signing away many rights, including presumption of innocence.
I'd like to see evidence of this, I was under the impression that (shrink|click) wrapped licence had ever been tested in court as most of them contain absolute rubbish that is completely unenforcable and sometimes illegal.
dave
but the whole point is that it's not a legal demand. it's not a summons or a writ. it's a private organisation asking to be treated like the fbi.
if toyota owners club wrote to my co asking to search the car park for bald tyres, do you think the company would give them the time of day? even if they threatened to go to court.
according to UK law at least, copyright infringement is definatively *not* theft. back in the 70's oxford university took a student to court for theft when he wandered into someone's office, "borrowed" an exam paper, copied it and returned it.
the judge told the university that as they had not actually *lost* a physical item, the student had not commited theft and threw the case out of court.
I actually sent this story (with case references) to the british advertising authority to complain at some BSA radio adverts saying "copyright infringement is theft" but they told me to sod off:(
and who has the authority to ask who told them? they'll just reply that their sources are confidential when actually they just went fishing. although I don't know, I suspect that the BSA finances itself entirely from raid's
of course they can say it, thats the point. all they have to do is say it. if you refuse then they will take you to court. now a rational person might think that you'll win, and you probably will, but it'll cost money and it's essentially extortion.
what right exactly? they are not a governmental body. they are a private body who specialises in extortion and blackmail. there are numerous examples where they have gone and "inspected" a place using scare tactics to get in "we hear they are making bombs there you know, and while you're body cavity searching, mind if we look for pirated software?" and royally fucking up every computer they come across *including those machines that don;t have windows installed* *including machines that are not capable of having windows installed*. it's not like they knew what software to look for on them either. and they won't let ppl from the co involed even watch. they just shut the place down for 4 days or so.
if you had installed some software I wrote on your machine and I sent a friend round to "inspect" your machines at your cost to check that you hadn't installed more than one copy, would you let him in?
the BSA work on behalf of m$ and several other large software companies, not the government. if they came to my place and "asked" to inspect the ISP machines I work on I would refuse to let them in unless I was forcably removed. we have kit that services hospitals etc. no ways would I let those baboons in until lots of bits of papers had been signed by the appropriate ppl
would it be legal? sounds like an unauthorised copy to me where the banner owner don't get any hits. I imagine that caching pages would cause more problems than it solves
it's because the pre-compiled binaries are only precompiled to work nuder certain situations, if the nvidia drivers were poen then they could be ported to, say, freebsd nice and easily. as it is they just won't work.
flexibility is a good thing, but whats flexible here is the market. it's nice to see the PC world making an attempt at leaving legacy stuff behind. now perhaps if abit had left off some a usb controller or an ide controller or two then perhaps you could have some PCI slots, but how many PCI slots do even abit's target market use?
okay, lets see, you'll need a gfx card but that lives on agp. sound card is likely, thats one slot down, ethernet? well, I think most ppl will be happy to use the onboard, it's a 10/100 afaik and perhaps others might perform better, but who'll notice? scsi, this is more likely that ethernet imho.
what else are ppl likely to want to put in? not too much and there is a spare slot. now I'm not saying it is perfect for everyone, but thats true of every motherboard. they all have their quirk's that don't suit someone but I think abit have done alright here. it's a departure from the norm but thats good. otherwise we'd all be using intel boards.
if it doesn't suit, get a different one, but I don;t think it should be bashed just becasue it doesn't suit *you*. it's ncie to see something different and it may well be the way everyone goes in time.
I would have been interested if they had tested the board with 12 drives plugged in as well as a pair of firewire devices and all 10 usb ports being filled with bus powered zip 250's all whirring in unison, with a power sucking 3d gfx card in of course, could it take the power drain?
> a hacker could hide some information somewhere, but what to hide?
good place to hide a rootkit;), much like ntfs's file "streams". unless you know where to look explicitly, you're unlikely to find it in general day to day use...
nope, in the UK (and much of the rest of the world I imagine) you can get virtually *any* dvd player with auto region switching and macrovision disabled. my sony 725 and my fathers pioneer 737 being examples. at the end of the day, the manufacturers do not make 6 different dvd players in each model (oe for each of the common regions, not including 7+). they make one and change something inside the player.
the hardware manufacturers know that outside of america, no-one wants a player that restricts their choice of dvds. if I can get a dvd chepaer in the states hen I should be able to watch it, I paid for it after all.
the cheaper players are "handset hackable", the more ex[pensive ones often need to be "chipped" but companie exist to do these things for you.
in america hardly anyone needs or wants to have a multi-region player but back in the mother country, I beleive that most buyers get multi-region players.
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well, is that true? assuming it's going over sea, if the engine fails then I would think it would slow down and land on the surface of the water, where it would slow down alot more. it might not be overly pleasant but I would think it would be possible to do so safely.
besides, should one not be more concerned about the possible loss of life rather than just the cargo?
dave
that just means the refresh rate that it samples the analogue input at. lcd's don't have a refresh rate in the same sense as crt's as they odn't have an electron beam scanning along them, the pixels are either on or off really.
dave
okay, no DVI was bloody silly, there should be at least 2 DVI-I ports but lcd's are fixed resolution, thats just a limitation of the system. A ferrari can costs hundreds of thousands of pounds but can't go off road reliably, why dammit, for that kinda money I expect the thing to fly!
:). the display seemed perfectly able to keep up.
you see my point? they aren't trying to deceive anyone but it's well known that lcd's have a fixed resolution and tend to look ugly in any others.
crisp text? I've yet to see a CRT with text as crisp as an LCD. each pixel is discrete so text is as crisp as can be. old lcd's were crap at motion, thats agreed but new lcd's can be extremely good. the fastest pixel refresh rate I've seen is 25msec. my screen refreshes at 35msec and I've played quake on it with no problems (apart from my gfx card struggling a bit at 1280x1024
yes, it's expensive but it's also bloody big. there is a limited market but I'm sure it's not aimed at the consumer, but at business where they have the need and the money for these things. as time goes on these things will get even better and even cheaper but bleeding edge stuff always costs a packet.
dave
I've never seen an lcd panel with dead pixel's. I've got a brand new 18.1" iiyama and it's perfect, my friend has a 15" nec, it's perfect. every laptop I've used has had perfect lcd's. perhaps I've been lucky.
one of the reason I bought an iiyama screen was because they have a 30 day no quibble returns policy so I told the shop that if it had any dead pixels at all it would be coming straight back but I never had to carry that threat out.
dave
have you ever looked at plasma's close up? they're awful, massively hot, pull loads of power from the wall and very heavy.
unless they have imporved them massively recently then the resolution on them isn't very good at all and the image quality sucks. I think that the future of flatscreen tv's will be lcd panels. they can be thinner, use less power, get less hot, are much higher resolution and are made in much higher quantities (not in big tv sizes yet, but they will be)
dave
which is interesting as I seem to remember that the DVI spec says that the LCD monitor has to be able to stretch the image on it's own with no help from the OS or gfx card. the card or OS may do it of course, but the monitor has to be able to as last resort.
;)
I've actually just picked up an lcd monitor and it's fantastic. 1280x1024 and it's as sharp as hell. I admit that it cost a big chunk of overtime but right now it was worth it. it's got a 35msec refresh time so I can watch dvd's or play quake and no smearing (I didn't really notice any). the problem being of course that I had to play q3a in 1280x1024 to look right and my geforce 2 gts struggled a bit but then I'm not much of a games player anyways (except angband
one of the cool things about it is that you can literally see every pixel. if you can't read something then just look closer. every pixel is discrete so even small fonts are readable, unlike crt's where small fonts can just disappear into the glass.
I think that modren lcd's are a huge advance over the horribles ones from laptop's of 4 years ago where if you touched the mouse it would disappear.
dave
is there a UK wing or something similar I can give my support to?
dave
that is exactly my point. yes, you probably would win in court but you can't afford to take it far enough to win.
this is what makes it extortion and also barratry I beleive.
I tell you, when I rule the world, this'll all change... :)
dave
but what if the place they want to "inspect" has no software from the BSA members? a completely OSS site for example. surely the burden should be theres to prove copyright infringement *before* coming in like a bull in a china shop?
okay, I know that you're on my side here, it just really pisses me off hearing about the things these people get up to. I just hope never to come across them because if they did I might have to make some difficulyt decisions :(
dave
I'd like to see evidence of this, I was under the impression that (shrink|click) wrapped licence had ever been tested in court as most of them contain absolute rubbish that is completely unenforcable and sometimes illegal. dave
but the whole point is that it's not a legal demand. it's not a summons or a writ. it's a private organisation asking to be treated like the fbi.
if toyota owners club wrote to my co asking to search the car park for bald tyres, do you think the company would give them the time of day? even if they threatened to go to court.
dave
according to UK law at least, copyright infringement is definatively *not* theft. back in the 70's oxford university took a student to court for theft when he wandered into someone's office, "borrowed" an exam paper, copied it and returned it.
:(
the judge told the university that as they had not actually *lost* a physical item, the student had not commited theft and threw the case out of court.
I actually sent this story (with case references) to the british advertising authority to complain at some BSA radio adverts saying "copyright infringement is theft" but they told me to sod off
dave
and who has the authority to ask who told them? they'll just reply that their sources are confidential when actually they just went fishing. although I don't know, I suspect that the BSA finances itself entirely from raid's
dave
of course they can say it, thats the point. all they have to do is say it. if you refuse then they will take you to court. now a rational person might think that you'll win, and you probably will, but it'll cost money and it's essentially extortion.
isn't the legal system wonderful?
dave
what right exactly? they are not a governmental body. they are a private body who specialises in extortion and blackmail. there are numerous examples where they have gone and "inspected" a place using scare tactics to get in "we hear they are making bombs there you know, and while you're body cavity searching, mind if we look for pirated software?" and royally fucking up every computer they come across *including those machines that don;t have windows installed* *including machines that are not capable of having windows installed*. it's not like they knew what software to look for on them either. and they won't let ppl from the co involed even watch. they just shut the place down for 4 days or so.
if you had installed some software I wrote on your machine and I sent a friend round to "inspect" your machines at your cost to check that you hadn't installed more than one copy, would you let him in?
the BSA work on behalf of m$ and several other large software companies, not the government. if they came to my place and "asked" to inspect the ISP machines I work on I would refuse to let them in unless I was forcably removed. we have kit that services hospitals etc. no ways would I let those baboons in until lots of bits of papers had been signed by the appropriate ppl
dave
would it be legal? sounds like an unauthorised copy to me where the banner owner don't get any hits. I imagine that caching pages would cause more problems than it solves
dave
it's because the pre-compiled binaries are only precompiled to work nuder certain situations, if the nvidia drivers were poen then they could be ported to, say, freebsd nice and easily. as it is they just won't work.
dave
flexibility is a good thing, but whats flexible here is the market. it's nice to see the PC world making an attempt at leaving legacy stuff behind. now perhaps if abit had left off some a usb controller or an ide controller or two then perhaps you could have some PCI slots, but how many PCI slots do even abit's target market use?
okay, lets see, you'll need a gfx card but that lives on agp. sound card is likely, thats one slot down, ethernet? well, I think most ppl will be happy to use the onboard, it's a 10/100 afaik and perhaps others might perform better, but who'll notice? scsi, this is more likely that ethernet imho.
what else are ppl likely to want to put in? not too much and there is a spare slot. now I'm not saying it is perfect for everyone, but thats true of every motherboard. they all have their quirk's that don't suit someone but I think abit have done alright here. it's a departure from the norm but thats good. otherwise we'd all be using intel boards.
if it doesn't suit, get a different one, but I don;t think it should be bashed just becasue it doesn't suit *you*. it's ncie to see something different and it may well be the way everyone goes in time.
I would have been interested if they had tested the board with 12 drives plugged in as well as a pair of firewire devices and all 10 usb ports being filled with bus powered zip 250's all whirring in unison, with a power sucking 3d gfx card in of course, could it take the power drain?
dave
if you don't like the onboard components then disable them and buy your own, seems simple enough.
dave
well, I've just gone to check for new versions of the bat (there was :) and when I checked the "whats new" page I found this :)
[*] Configurable option to use reply numbering in the subject line (Account|Properties|Templates|Reply)
does that help?
dave
for me the bat (www.ritlabs.com) comes close, now if oly they did a version for freebsd, even linux would do)
dave
but if you keep watching that LED then you can probably work out all the data thatis being written from the pattern of ultra fast blink's :)
dave
> a hacker could hide some information somewhere, but what to hide?
;), much like ntfs's file "streams". unless you know where to look explicitly, you're unlikely to find it in general day to day use...
good place to hide a rootkit
dave
ahh, there's nothing like a good pun... and this is nothing like a good pun ;)
dave
nope, in the UK (and much of the rest of the world I imagine) you can get virtually *any* dvd player with auto region switching and macrovision disabled. my sony 725 and my fathers pioneer 737 being examples. at the end of the day, the manufacturers do not make 6 different dvd players in each model (oe for each of the common regions, not including 7+). they make one and change something inside the player.
the hardware manufacturers know that outside of america, no-one wants a player that restricts their choice of dvds. if I can get a dvd chepaer in the states hen I should be able to watch it, I paid for it after all.
the cheaper players are "handset hackable", the more ex[pensive ones often need to be "chipped" but companie exist to do these things for you.
in america hardly anyone needs or wants to have a multi-region player but back in the mother country, I beleive that most buyers get multi-region players.
dave