Watched a couple of episodes of the last series and really didn't understand it. AFAIK 2 lesbian witches, one of whom is actually dead (although I'm not sure about that).
I expect it's one of those things you've got to watch from the start.
Ah. So it must have gotten into the Dalek mothership through a window or something, yes? Maybe the side door? And that blinking light before they opened the door, that was just it turning un-invisible or something?
Slipped into another dimension (the 'D' in tardis)... that's how it goes through things normally - It doesn't *have* to travel in time to do this.
Also, I'd be surprised if the daleks didn't have dimensional/time shifting missiles by this stage, since they've managed to defeat the time lords (by a mechanism as yet unexplained... I'd expect a time travelling species to be pretty much indestructible under normal circumstances).
I had 3 albums of hers 10 years ago (none of which are available on itunes). You're not suggesting that she's not produced anything for 10 years (I haven't *heard* anything... she never seemed to go anywhere musically and I got bored, but I'd be surprised if she upped sticks and gave up). Indeed, musicmatch lists 6 albums, not 4.
itunes lists 6 songs of her stuff, and none of her solo albums. Pity, since this post reminded me I kinda liked "He walks through walls" and wouldn't mind another copy (the later stuff was a bit pants IMO).
First they advertised with the awful "It pauses live TV!" campaign.. to which the entire population said 'so what?'
Then they seemed to give up on advertising completely.
To completely bury it they then had the infamous "spam TV" incident in which every Tivo in the UK was forced to watch one of the crappiest programmes ever.. on Saturday at 7pm primetime. Great way to get the name out I guess.. it was in the headlines for 3 days... OTOH it proved that the phrase "No publicity is bad publicity" is wrong.
There's no equivalent to the Tivo in the UK at all yet (excepting the remaining Tivos that are still limping along from before they stopped selling them). What we call a 'PVR' is little more than a VCR with a hard disk..
Sky+? Doesn't handle conflicts automatically, deletes the SP if the season ends, doesn't have wishlists, doesn't have suggestions, if you cancel a channel all your existing recordings stop working, only 7 day EPG.. I could go on.
Unfortunately it does have an effect in-game... it unbalances the economy.
More availability of money -> higher prices -> need more money -> buy from gillsellers -> more availablity of money -> etc.
If FFXI it's got so bad that new players have basically no chance.. the inflation rate on Fairy is so ludicrous that you can see an item in the AH, go to farm the money and find it's doubled in price in a couple of days. There are so many people buying that they'll pay absolutely anything - and the gill sellers love this as they make more RL money, so they ramp the prices up as high as possible. Honest players can't afford anything any more, and newbies have no chance (the cash from the lowlevel quests that's supposed to get you started is now not enough to do anything with).
And we're not talking chump change either.. some of the more expensive items are being bought for $500 worth of gill... these aren't people with boring jobs paying $10 to get started - they're effectively buying their way through the whole game.
No it's a testimony to the fact that a lot of news is just regurgitated press releases, and if you attach a fat cheque then you can get it mentioned on the front page.
itunes is often more expensive than CDs.. which is why I refuse on principle to buy from it (it's mostly pure profit.. bandwidth is *much* cheaper than physical media production/distribution).
eg. U2 'All that you can't leave Behind'. iTunes price £9.49 (~$17). Discount store price £8, and you get the physical media thrown in for free.
There already *is* state control of the internet. You're obviously a member of that state so you see no problem with it.
Giving control to the UN is precisely to take it *out* of that control. The US has proven that is is prepared to play politics with its control of the internet (ref. the iq domain) and thus proven that it cannot be impartial. The internet is too important to be under the control of one country.
Everyone gets their own country root, no global.COM or whatever, and can do what they like with it. The root nameservers are then distributed (probably many countries will share, but I imagine china and the US will have their own). This could be done with the current bind software very easily.
This is the same Icann that blocked.xxx because the US Government says so?
This is the same Icann that blocked the.iq domain because the US Government says so.
Icann is setup by, funded and run by the US Government. The US can keep it. Everyone else wants something independent of governments to run the root servers. Screw the politics.
I was passing the nearest store that did apple stuff (we have no apple stores, but a few of the more upmarket stores have apples) and had a squint at their Nano's.
They're damned small.....and every single one was scratched to hell. How does it managed to get scratched in a display cabinet, FFS!!
Every time google indexes a piece of information, you have a new piece of information (the fact that google has indexed it), so the amount of information to index has not decreased, it has remained the same & merely changed form.
There is also other information (eg. the amount of information that google has indexed, the amount of free space they have left) that is constantly changing and requires reindexing. Unfortunately storing that information causes it to change... quantum information anyone??
You also have to appreciate how *fast* information is generated in the real world - the human brain is an efficient information processor, and that still throws away 90% of everything it encounters. Imagine the amount of information generated in the entire world! Even in a small thing... The fact that I'm typing this post now, the time that I'm doing it, the tune I'm listening to whilst doing it, my typing speed, the room temperature, my exact location, my pulse rate...
It's easy to do millions of hours work without it taking millions of years.
1 million hours work done sequentially only takes 114 years. Divide that by only 1000 processors (and there are commercial systems with more than that) and you're down to months.
However at that point there will be 5 billion tb of information to index.
Google will never finish their task, because the amount of information in the world (or at least raw data.. not all of it is really information) is increasing much faster than it's possible to index it.
Nah... everyone uses DHCP these days. Futzing around with IP addresses is something geeks do, not non-techie users. No NVRAM needed either.
I'd guess the transmitter doesn't care about which IP they're on and does a broadcast for them so it can find them... heck, they may even use multicast to broadcast the sound... then the speakers don't even *need* an IP address.
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Watched a couple of episodes of the last series and really didn't understand it. AFAIK 2 lesbian witches, one of whom is actually dead (although I'm not sure about that).
I expect it's one of those things you've got to watch from the start.
Ah. So it must have gotten into the Dalek mothership through a window or something, yes? Maybe the side door? And that blinking light before they opened the door, that was just it turning un-invisible or something?
Slipped into another dimension (the 'D' in tardis)... that's how it goes through things normally - It doesn't *have* to travel in time to do this.
Also, I'd be surprised if the daleks didn't have dimensional/time shifting missiles by this stage, since they've managed to defeat the time lords (by a mechanism as yet unexplained... I'd expect a time travelling species to be pretty much indestructible under normal circumstances).
I'd love to see the networks do that...
"We're not showing 'lost' because it's available on itunes."
Might not have the affect that they want...
I had 3 albums of hers 10 years ago (none of which are available on itunes). You're not suggesting that she's not produced anything for 10 years (I haven't *heard* anything... she never seemed to go anywhere musically and I got bored, but I'd be surprised if she upped sticks and gave up). Indeed, musicmatch lists 6 albums, not 4.
itunes lists 6 songs of her stuff, and none of her solo albums. Pity, since this post reminded me I kinda liked "He walks through walls" and wouldn't mind another copy (the later stuff was a bit pants IMO).
You can get handheld movie players for a lot less than that too, if that's what you want to do.
Saw one this afternoon with a beautiful screen about 50% larger than the PSP... no idea what the battery life is though.
I also imagine it's cached anyway... otherwise the translator would have died long before now.
People are already making money selling oxygen franchises... http://www.baro2.com/
I don't think selling sand to arabs or ice to eskimos has been done yet, but give 'em time...
Tivo killed their own market.
First they advertised with the awful "It pauses live TV!" campaign.. to which the entire population said 'so what?'
Then they seemed to give up on advertising completely.
To completely bury it they then had the infamous "spam TV" incident in which every Tivo in the UK was forced to watch one of the crappiest programmes ever.. on Saturday at 7pm primetime. Great way to get the name out I guess.. it was in the headlines for 3 days... OTOH it proved that the phrase "No publicity is bad publicity" is wrong.
There's no equivalent to the Tivo in the UK at all yet (excepting the remaining Tivos that are still limping along from before they stopped selling them). What we call a 'PVR' is little more than a VCR with a hard disk..
Sky+? Doesn't handle conflicts automatically, deletes the SP if the season ends, doesn't have wishlists, doesn't have suggestions, if you cancel a channel all your existing recordings stop working, only 7 day EPG.. I could go on.
Unfortunately it does have an effect in-game... it unbalances the economy.
More availability of money -> higher prices -> need more money -> buy from gillsellers -> more availablity of money -> etc.
If FFXI it's got so bad that new players have basically no chance.. the inflation rate on Fairy is so ludicrous that you can see an item in the AH, go to farm the money and find it's doubled in price in a couple of days. There are so many people buying that they'll pay absolutely anything - and the gill sellers love this as they make more RL money, so they ramp the prices up as high as possible. Honest players can't afford anything any more, and newbies have no chance (the cash from the lowlevel quests that's supposed to get you started is now not enough to do anything with).
And we're not talking chump change either.. some of the more expensive items are being bought for $500 worth of gill... these aren't people with boring jobs paying $10 to get started - they're effectively buying their way through the whole game.
Crop failures, harsh winters, OK..
Wars?
How does a mini ice age cause wars?
No it's a testimony to the fact that a lot of news is just regurgitated press releases, and if you attach a fat cheque then you can get it mentioned on the front page.
Where do you buy your CDs?
itunes is often more expensive than CDs.. which is why I refuse on principle to buy from it (it's mostly pure profit.. bandwidth is *much* cheaper than physical media production/distribution).
eg. U2 'All that you can't leave Behind'. iTunes price £9.49 (~$17). Discount store price £8, and you get the physical media thrown in for free.
$1.99 for TinToy?
That's a 2 minute animation made several years ago. It's been available online for free for years.
The same for most of the other pixar animations.
Look at it this way... buy 10 of those you have about 20 minutes viewing on a 320x240 screen, or a month of cable. Your choice.
The BBC *are* going to put all their existing content online.
The plan is for 100% of BBC output to be downloadable within a year. They're already running the pilot schemes.
The problem is just making sure that nobody from outside the UK can view it.
Hmm.. Offer new series for $1.99, maybe sell a couple of thousand copies before it's saturated on bittorrent and nobody wants it any more.
Or get US network to by it for $1 million.
I know which I'd go for. If you want to complain complain to the US TV companies that are two shortsighted to buy a programme that's actually good.
Bullshit (oh, and Godwin by the way).
There already *is* state control of the internet. You're obviously a member of that state so you see no problem with it.
Giving control to the UN is precisely to take it *out* of that control. The US has proven that is is prepared to play politics with its control of the internet (ref. the iq domain) and thus proven that it cannot be impartial. The internet is too important to be under the control of one country.
The US has a *lot* more to lose than gain - and not just the revenue for all the spam it sends out either.
.COM, .NET should be moved under .US and left with ICANN, then give the country roots to the countries involved.
All the current
Agreed.
.COM or whatever, and can do what they like with it. The root nameservers are then distributed (probably many countries will share, but I imagine china and the US will have their own). This could be done with the current bind software very easily.
Everyone gets their own country root, no global
Icann not responsible to the US government?
.xxx because the US Government says so?
.iq domain because the US Government says so.
This is the same Icann that blocked
This is the same Icann that blocked the
Icann is setup by, funded and run by the US Government. The US can keep it. Everyone else wants something independent of governments to run the root servers. Screw the politics.
I was passing the nearest store that did apple stuff (we have no apple stores, but a few of the more upmarket stores have apples) and had a squint at their Nano's.
..and every single one was scratched to hell. How does it managed to get scratched in a display cabinet, FFS!!
They're damned small...
I suspect 1.
Every time google indexes a piece of information, you have a new piece of information (the fact that google has indexed it), so the amount of information to index has not decreased, it has remained the same & merely changed form.
There is also other information (eg. the amount of information that google has indexed, the amount of free space they have left) that is constantly changing and requires reindexing. Unfortunately storing that information causes it to change... quantum information anyone??
You also have to appreciate how *fast* information is generated in the real world - the human brain is an efficient information processor, and that still throws away 90% of everything it encounters. Imagine the amount of information generated in the entire world! Even in a small thing... The fact that I'm typing this post now, the time that I'm doing it, the tune I'm listening to whilst doing it, my typing speed, the room temperature, my exact location, my pulse rate...
It's easy to do millions of hours work without it taking millions of years.
1 million hours work done sequentially only takes 114 years. Divide that by only 1000 processors (and there are commercial systems with more than that) and you're down to months.
However at that point there will be 5 billion tb of information to index.
Google will never finish their task, because the amount of information in the world (or at least raw data.. not all of it is really information) is increasing much faster than it's possible to index it.
That would be cool..
Not $1000 cool, but cool.
Nah... everyone uses DHCP these days. Futzing around with IP addresses is something geeks do, not non-techie users. No NVRAM needed either.
I'd guess the transmitter doesn't care about which IP they're on and does a broadcast for them so it can find them... heck, they may even use multicast to broadcast the sound... then the speakers don't even *need* an IP address.