You don't get more pixels. In some cases you get *less*! A good analogue picture is *far* better than a digital one.
The broadcast is either 16:9 or 4:3 but the number of pixels doesn't change, only the aspect ratio of the display, so 4:3 will look higher resolition (as the horizontal pixels will be smaller). Standard definition is 720x576.
Some channels (E4 for example) are conserving space by transmitting at a lower resolution still - 544x576 which is 25% less than standard resolution (E4+1 is at full res though.. go figure..)
On top of that it's all mpeg2 compressed, and they're fitting more and more channels into the same space....
It's nowhere near the joke that calls itself Sky TV yet (where the compression is so high some programmes look like they've been done in crayon in 3 colours) but it'll get there...
The extra frequencies are earmarked for sale to the mobile phone companies - that's why the government is pushing so hard for digital.. it'll make millions selling off the unused space.
*if* any frequencies become available in 2012 for TV, then there'll be a bunfight between the BBC who'll probably want to start an HDTV channel (1 or 2 per frequency), and the commercial broadcasters (8 channels per frequency). 8*cash > 2*cash... follow the money...
From a commercial point of view Solaris 10 isn't in the roadmap yet - looking at our customers it's evenly divided between solaris 8 and 9 (couple of solaris 6) and zero solaris 10.
The shift will probably start happing in the next year or so... then we'll have to buy another sparc box to support it (any excuse...)
Actually what happens is Windows programs *do* have dependencies (lots of them, for MSVCRT71 upwards) but they ship all of their dependencies built into the MSI - so you have a 20MB download instead of a 1MB one.
Heck, I've seen installers that bundle the entire.NET runtime in there...
Since on Windows, there are no 'shared' libraries in the true sense (every app is supposed to have its own copy of dependent libraries - writing to System32 is a verbotten, although there are still badly written installers that do).
et your website, hosted in Idaho, taken offline. Say something about Tibet, or a Free Taiwan? Probably get jail time.
If your website in idaho was taken off line for that it could only be cause it was against *US* law (and if you think can get jail time for talking about tibet in the US I'm really glad I don't live there).
Control of the root nameservers is *completely different* to control of domains.
Yes. The UK is just extraditing the webmaster of such a site.
*all* countries have 'hate speech' laws. Including the US. Total free speech is a total myth and always has been. If I put up a website inciting people to kill you and rape your parrot, it would be closed down in the US just as in any country. Quite right too.
It wouldn't break anything really... for example if france decided to have their own root, putting all the US domains under.US (which is one scenario) nothing would break really (you might have some trouble with absolute CNAMEs but most such records are relative so wouldn't be affected).
If countries decided to have their own root and didn't actually change the heirarchy at all - merely added to it (a new.net scenario) nothing would break *at all*.
ICANN done a good job??? I never thought I'd acutally hear anyone defend ICANN for anything, let alone claim it did a good job.
The verisign thing? ICANN did *nothing* - verisign backed down due to public pressure. ICANN's punishment for them? To reward them with the.COM contract pretty much in perpetuity.
You have the.xxx backwards - it was actually a good idea, shot down by the US government because it offended their christian ethics. ICANN could have stood up for its independence - instead it just confirmed it was little more than a department of the US government.
In the UK privatising the railways has been an unmitigated disaster - it's a monopoly, and private companies with a monopoly will be far less efficient than a government run company (who are at least accountable to the electorate).
So much so that part of the railways was put back into state hands as it was about to go bankcrupt (not to mention the safety record had gone down the toilet - people had died. It should have been done sooner.).
Private hospitals for example don't provide emergency or chronic care - only NHS hospitals do that.. there's no money in looking after such things, so they don't (in fact it's damned near impossible to get private health insurance for anything other than curable diseases that you don't have already, so coughs and colds are OK but anything else you're stuffed).
Most speed cameras are on straight, safe roads with no pedestrians where everyone speeds because the limits are ridiculously low for the conditions.
I've heard the speed camera next to use described in *exactly* these terms by some idiot who thought that doing 60 down a 30 zone was perfectly OK (now lost his license, thank god).
Yes it's a long straight road. There's also a school just on the corner that isn't visible if you don't know the area.
Hell, I've narrowly escaped death a couple of times myself when drivers, assuming that red lights don't apply to them, have driven at 50mph+ across the pelican crissing.
If it was a minority of drivers it would be managable, but these last few years it's got to be a majority... stand next to a junction sometime and see how many cars jump red lights.. you'll be surprised.
It takes two photographs about 1/4 seconds apart. From that it's trivial to work out your speed (and both photographs can be produced in court as proof if necessary).
Drivers hate them.. not sure why.. if someone broke into their house they'd expect the police to do something, but if it's *them* breaking the law they get upset???
uPnP isn't windows only, but it's an overcomplex microsoft designed mess... I had a go at implementing it once.. spent a day on it and abandoned it & went for zeroconf instead (takes maybe an hour to write a zeroconf client if you know DNS).
It also leaves your firewall wide open to any piece of malware that feels like opening ports on it, which means anyone who gives a shit about security won't enable it.
Trackers are easy to shut down - they're a failure point on the bittorrent network.. someone has to host the.torrent file, and you have to be able to find that file using traditional methods.
Try googling for torrents - you'll find 90% of the links to torrent downloads are dead - already shut down.
This case is important because it's fully documented with a proper medical history etc. the cases in africa only come to light after the event, and there's no history to draw on.
He's not the first person to 'recover' from HIV, and won't be the last.. the news stories I've seen have made this clear.
I agree debian are sometimes a bunch of elitists... depends on who you deal with (OTOH compared to BSD they're positively laid back... A friend of mine once asked a question simple on a BSD list - he had to send me the transcript as I didn't believe the response when he told me about it).
But to say it takes 'days' to fix an apt problem is just pure exaggeration - I've rarely had anything take more than a few minutes. Compared to RPM hell (go to rpmfind.net, download package, shit it needs another package, back to rpmfind.net, etc. etc.) I'll choose apt every time.
I gave up on RPM distributions precisely because the quality wasn't there.. half of them couldn't even complete their installers unless you selected exactly the correct incantation of packages (some releases of mandrake I never actually managed to install). The debian way is much better - install a minimum system of 100 or so packages and add packages rather than the redhat way of install everything on 6 dvds and spend 4 days removing the crap.
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You don't get more pixels. In some cases you get *less*! A good analogue picture is *far* better than a digital one.
The broadcast is either 16:9 or 4:3 but the number of pixels doesn't change, only the aspect ratio of the display, so 4:3 will look higher resolition (as the horizontal pixels will be smaller). Standard definition is 720x576.
Some channels (E4 for example) are conserving space by transmitting at a lower resolution still - 544x576 which is 25% less than standard resolution (E4+1 is at full res though.. go figure..)
On top of that it's all mpeg2 compressed, and they're fitting more and more channels into the same space....
It's nowhere near the joke that calls itself Sky TV yet (where the compression is so high some programmes look like they've been done in crayon in 3 colours) but it'll get there...
Don't bet on it.
The extra frequencies are earmarked for sale to the mobile phone companies - that's why the government is pushing so hard for digital.. it'll make millions selling off the unused space.
*if* any frequencies become available in 2012 for TV, then there'll be a bunfight between the BBC who'll probably want to start an HDTV channel (1 or 2 per frequency), and the commercial broadcasters (8 channels per frequency). 8*cash > 2*cash... follow the money...
From a commercial point of view Solaris 10 isn't in the roadmap yet - looking at our customers it's evenly divided between solaris 8 and 9 (couple of solaris 6) and zero solaris 10.
The shift will probably start happing in the next year or so... then we'll have to buy another sparc box to support it (any excuse...)
If a corporation is guilty, the CEO goes to jail.
Why is this so hard? (still reeling from the idea that the US doesn't have this basic legal principle).
The CEO is legally responsible for their company. If they can be tied into the criminal act in any way they do the time as if they did it themselves.
This must be some sort of alternate universe where states charge corporations with criminal acts.
You mean that *don't* do this in the US?
That must suck. hard.
Every other country in the world does this - for good reason... corporate responsibility is an important principile.
Linux too.. at least on KDE - browse to CD, highlight mp3 files, drag and drop on mp3 player. done.
Actually what happens is Windows programs *do* have dependencies (lots of them, for MSVCRT71 upwards) but they ship all of their dependencies built into the MSI - so you have a 20MB download instead of a 1MB one.
.NET runtime in there...
Heck, I've seen installers that bundle the entire
Since on Windows, there are no 'shared' libraries in the true sense (every app is supposed to have its own copy of dependent libraries - writing to System32 is a verbotten, although there are still badly written installers that do).
et your website, hosted in Idaho, taken offline. Say something about Tibet, or a Free Taiwan? Probably get jail time.
If your website in idaho was taken off line for that it could only be cause it was against *US* law (and if you think can get jail time for talking about tibet in the US I'm really glad I don't live there).
Control of the root nameservers is *completely different* to control of domains.
Yes. The UK is just extraditing the webmaster of such a site.
*all* countries have 'hate speech' laws. Including the US. Total free speech is a total myth and always has been. If I put up a website inciting people to kill you and rape your parrot, it would be closed down in the US just as in any country. Quite right too.
It wouldn't break anything really... for example if france decided to have their own root, putting all the US domains under .US (which is one scenario) nothing would break really (you might have some trouble with absolute CNAMEs but most such records are relative so wouldn't be affected).
If countries decided to have their own root and didn't actually change the heirarchy at all - merely added to it (a new.net scenario) nothing would break *at all*.
ICANN done a good job??? I never thought I'd acutally hear anyone defend ICANN for anything, let alone claim it did a good job.
.COM contract pretty much in perpetuity.
.xxx backwards - it was actually a good idea, shot down by the US government because it offended their christian ethics. ICANN could have stood up for its independence - instead it just confirmed it was little more than a department of the US government.
The verisign thing? ICANN did *nothing* - verisign backed down due to public pressure. ICANN's punishment for them? To reward them with the
You have the
I have *never* seen any photo printer give the same quality as the sample prints they hand out in stores.
Not even close, in fact. I suspect they're not just using custom drivers, but custom ink and paper too.
Actually it is...
if it's installed a service maybe, or a couple of libraries that it needs.. drag and drop won't cut it - you have to go hunting with a root shell.
It depends on what you're privatising.
In the UK privatising the railways has been an unmitigated disaster - it's a monopoly, and private companies with a monopoly will be far less efficient than a government run company (who are at least accountable to the electorate).
So much so that part of the railways was put back into state hands as it was about to go bankcrupt (not to mention the safety record had gone down the toilet - people had died. It should have been done sooner.).
Private hospitals for example don't provide emergency or chronic care - only NHS hospitals do that.. there's no money in looking after such things, so they don't (in fact it's damned near impossible to get private health insurance for anything other than curable diseases that you don't have already, so coughs and colds are OK but anything else you're stuffed).
Most speed cameras are on straight, safe roads with no pedestrians where everyone speeds because the limits are ridiculously low for the conditions.
I've heard the speed camera next to use described in *exactly* these terms by some idiot who thought that doing 60 down a 30 zone was perfectly OK (now lost his license, thank god).
Yes it's a long straight road. There's also a school just on the corner that isn't visible if you don't know the area.
Hell, I've narrowly escaped death a couple of times myself when drivers, assuming that red lights don't apply to them, have driven at 50mph+ across the pelican crissing.
If it was a minority of drivers it would be managable, but these last few years it's got to be a majority... stand next to a junction sometime and see how many cars jump red lights.. you'll be surprised.
It's not radar.
It takes two photographs about 1/4 seconds apart. From that it's trivial to work out your speed (and both photographs can be produced in court as proof if necessary).
Drivers hate them.. not sure why.. if someone broke into their house they'd expect the police to do something, but if it's *them* breaking the law they get upset???
It's not worth the effort for most.
I get more hits on random ports than known ones (I don't log 137/139/445 either) - I think it's spambots trying to find infected machines.
uPnP isn't windows only, but it's an overcomplex microsoft designed mess... I had a go at implementing it once.. spent a day on it and abandoned it & went for zeroconf instead (takes maybe an hour to write a zeroconf client if you know DNS).
It also leaves your firewall wide open to any piece of malware that feels like opening ports on it, which means anyone who gives a shit about security won't enable it.
Trackers are easy to shut down - they're a failure point on the bittorrent network.. someone has to host the .torrent file, and you have to be able to find that file using traditional methods.
Try googling for torrents - you'll find 90% of the links to torrent downloads are dead - already shut down.
Almost never... since any half decent compliler will spit out a warning at least (and no shipping code should compile with warnings).
This case is important because it's fully documented with a proper medical history etc. the cases in africa only come to light after the event, and there's no history to draw on.
He's not the first person to 'recover' from HIV, and won't be the last.. the news stories I've seen have made this clear.
It predates that... it's a really old theory - crating antigrav by tying buttered bread to cats.
I agree debian are sometimes a bunch of elitists... depends on who you deal with (OTOH compared to BSD they're positively laid back... A friend of mine once asked a question simple on a BSD list - he had to send me the transcript as I didn't believe the response when he told me about it).
But to say it takes 'days' to fix an apt problem is just pure exaggeration - I've rarely had anything take more than a few minutes. Compared to RPM hell (go to rpmfind.net, download package, shit it needs another package, back to rpmfind.net, etc. etc.) I'll choose apt every time.
I gave up on RPM distributions precisely because the quality wasn't there.. half of them couldn't even complete their installers unless you selected exactly the correct incantation of packages (some releases of mandrake I never actually managed to install). The debian way is much better - install a minimum system of 100 or so packages and add packages rather than the redhat way of install everything on 6 dvds and spend 4 days removing the crap.
Probably the same stuff they call Ice White in the UK.
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http://www.sugarboy.co.uk/acatalog/Wrigley_s_Ice_
Don't think it actually works... nice idea though.
Same difference... you've still shutdown all your network services which to the users means you've had downtime. It's a reboot in all but name.