Theres a "Do you miss this chair?" reference, which DD takes literally and askes for the chair to be sent to Washington... He's clearly not planning to take on SG1 in the near future.
However he *does* pilot the prometheus (right before it gets stolen by a bounty hunter who has more than a slight resemblence to the one that kept teasing Picard in TNG).
Atlantis has no depth... It'll get there (remember the first series of TNG?) but it's not there yet.
SG1 has gone the other way - it's *too* familiar so they have a hard time doing anything new. Plus with the Prometheus and earth having Warp/Antigrav it's in real danger of becoming 'Voyager with decent actors'.
The Ipod Mini *still* isn't available in this country after they announced it 2 months ago. People are going into stores asking for it and buying a different MP3 player simply because it's what's available (and the Mini doesn't do anything that the others don't... heck its RRP is about 50% more expensive than the others... it's just got the coolness factor so people want it).
You can't get IRiver or Archos here either, just Thomson, Panasonic and Sony. Those are selling like hotcakes (Sony because of the name, Panasonic because their 10GB player is damn small - about a quarter of the size of an ipod).
There was an initial burst in share price last friday, which pushed the price from 4.1 -> 5.2 by Monday. Not much happened on Tuesday, and there was a sharp drop Tuesday->Wednesday to 4.0. The price stands now at 4.17 which is roughly what is was at a week ago.
The voice done much earlier... most of the script was written later.
The third series was a travesty - it was just a rehash of the existing books with no new content. It completely failed to have any link to the second series, and seemed to have been written by someone who had only read the books and thought that was all there was.
If you've got one of those imacs with the twist-off handle (never tried, since the only ones I see are at the local university, although someone turned one into a fishtank...) then it's quite possible it might come off... those things are only cheap plastic after all.
If they can't afford the budget for the second head, why make up suck a completely lame way of explaining it? It would be more if Zaphod's character to just get bored with it and have it removed or something.
If only phpBB had a proper plugin/theme mechanism that could survive the upgrade....:(
I'm still on 2.0.4. I just mentioned pulling down her sites to attempt an upgrade (I reckon 2 days because the themes she uses are *very* customised) the look I got basically said that if I tried that I'd be sleeping alone for the next week.
To install many plugins requires making changes to the source by hand. Some of the websites I host have several of these, and I'm not even sure which ones (I didn't add them).
Plus, if you use a custom theme you have to recreate it after upgrading, which is a right pain in the arse as all the paths are hardcoded... even with sed/grep it takes an hour or two to turn subSilver into CustomSilver.
The suffragettes only got what they wanted indirectly - by keeping the issue in the public eye. They were pretty much what we would call today a terrorist organisation - having a policy of violence to achieve their aim (Lenin actually thought Syliva Pankhurst was too extreme!). It was the end of World War 1 that was the deciding factor - Women had by then been working in factories and doing 'mens work' and paying taxes for 4 years and it wasn't considered acceptable for them to slink into the background again & go back to being quiet housewives.
Even then Women below the age of 30 didn't get the vote... it took 10 years for popular opinion to equalise the voting age.
There's a nice summary on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/53819.stm
The original stories were all about that, though. Susan Calvin was basically the only one that ascribed emotions to the robots - for everyone else they were just tools 90% of the time.
Even then she never ascribed malice to the robots... she didn't think they were alive. It was always the others that did that (when it suited them - a kind of exagerrated version of when we shout at our computers).
It always turned out to be the humans at fault if a robot was accused of something - it always did exactly what it was told.
I haven't seen the film but I suspect it destroys this separation in the name of 'coolness' - the previews look awful.
If you enable that silly 'Cleartype' thing it'll make your eyes bleed certainly... Switch it off unless you want to be wearing glasses for the rest of your life (it makes the text slightly blurred so your eye works overtime trying to make it sharp again... not good at all).
The monitor is (was) fed by DVI with a good graphics card. Using the VGA input will not affect the output of the display hardware, other than it'll be a little less well defined due to the transition through analogue... it certainly wouldn't cause headaches.
The flickering issue makes sense. The other explanation I heard (that LCD displays too many colours and it confuses the eye) never made much sense to me - epecially given this article:)
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Theres a "Do you miss this chair?" reference, which DD takes literally and askes for the chair to be sent to Washington... He's clearly not planning to take on SG1 in the near future.
However he *does* pilot the prometheus (right before it gets stolen by a bounty hunter who has more than a slight resemblence to the one that kept teasing Picard in TNG).
Atlantis has no depth... It'll get there (remember the first series of TNG?) but it's not there yet.
SG1 has gone the other way - it's *too* familiar so they have a hard time doing anything new. Plus with the Prometheus and earth having Warp/Antigrav it's in real danger of becoming 'Voyager with decent actors'.
Where did you get one with accessories?
In the UK, 20GB Ipod is £299 (~$550) and comes with only a USB cable & AC adapter,
The 40GB comes with the dock and costs £359 (~$650).
The 60GB is not available yet in stores, although is advertised so should come soon.
I'm *really* jealous if you get the 20GB ipods with docks... you get them dirt cheap and with accessories too!
Depends how fast they get it to market...
The Ipod Mini *still* isn't available in this country after they announced it 2 months ago. People are going into stores asking for it and buying a different MP3 player simply because it's what's available (and the Mini doesn't do anything that the others don't... heck its RRP is about 50% more expensive than the others... it's just got the coolness factor so people want it).
You can't get IRiver or Archos here either, just Thomson, Panasonic and Sony. Those are selling like hotcakes (Sony because of the name, Panasonic because their 10GB player is damn small - about a quarter of the size of an ipod).
What's more important is their balance sheet.
$10M in the bank and a burn rate of $3M per quarter.
Unless they get some extra revenue within 6 months they're toast.
There was an initial burst in share price last friday, which pushed the price from 4.1 -> 5.2 by Monday. Not much happened on Tuesday, and there was a sharp drop Tuesday->Wednesday to 4.0. The price stands now at 4.17 which is roughly what is was at a week ago.
nothing to see here... move along.
(http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=stocks:SCOX+)
The post office is a common carrier.
End users are not. In a lost of countries even ISPs are not (they're liable if someone hosts kiddie porn on their serviers).
Actually it is. The article originally said 'GrageBand'. A google search of this returned:
1. Am empty site owned by a squatter
2. A couple of references to an independent band.
3. Zero apple related references.
I assumed 'GrageBand' was a typo or something and guessed 'GrangeBand', which turned out to be worng.
I was playing that on my local arcade years ago.. got pretty good at it once, too.
Seriously though, couldn't the summary have had a *little* content. What is GrangeBand? Some kind of audio editing software?
The voice done much earlier... most of the script was written later.
The third series was a travesty - it was just a rehash of the existing books with no new content. It completely failed to have any link to the second series, and seemed to have been written by someone who had only read the books and thought that was all there was.
If you've got one of those imacs with the twist-off handle (never tried, since the only ones I see are at the local university, although someone turned one into a fishtank...) then it's quite possible it might come off... those things are only cheap plastic after all.
Looks quite nice actually. Don't like the lump on the top though (you can't stack things on it!).
:) (Apple have done some really crappy looking stuff too).
Not nearly as ugly as the original imac
You can buy them from the BBC shop.
The newest one is pretty lame, as it DNA didn't write it - stick to the original ones (primary/secondary phases).
Lamest excuse ever.
If they can't afford the budget for the second head, why make up suck a completely lame way of explaining it? It would be more if Zaphod's character to just get bored with it and have it removed or something.
I had a backup drive with everything mirrored that was unshared and secure and it managed to overwrite my ENTIRE backup as well on that machine.
Umm... why was your webserver writable? (If you'd had a secure webserver the virus would never have been able to install in the first place).
Why was your *backup* writable? (It was clearly *not* 'secure').
If only phpBB had a proper plugin/theme mechanism that could survive the upgrade.... :(
I'm still on 2.0.4. I just mentioned pulling down her sites to attempt an upgrade (I reckon 2 days because the themes she uses are *very* customised) the look I got basically said that if I tried that I'd be sleeping alone for the next week.
phpBB is very hard to upgrade.
To install many plugins requires making changes to the source by hand. Some of the websites I host have several of these, and I'm not even sure which ones (I didn't add them).
Plus, if you use a custom theme you have to recreate it after upgrading, which is a right pain in the arse as all the paths are hardcoded... even with sed/grep it takes an hour or two to turn subSilver into CustomSilver.
This tells you nothing - it's just a standard 'not our fault!' message.
Still trying to find out what the vulnerability actually is so I can test for it.
That's easy... if a program won't run in safe mode or requires register_globals then tough. It doesn't go anywhere near my servers.
Err... you just did.
It's not a zero-sum transaction.
There aren't a finite amount of rights in the world, and if we give some to computers it does *not* mean that we'll have to give up some of our own.
The suffragettes only got what they wanted indirectly - by keeping the issue in the public eye. They were pretty much what we would call today a terrorist organisation - having a policy of violence to achieve their aim (Lenin actually thought Syliva Pankhurst was too extreme!). It was the end of World War 1 that was the deciding factor - Women had by then been working in factories and doing 'mens work' and paying taxes for 4 years and it wasn't considered acceptable for them to slink into the background again & go back to being quiet housewives.
Even then Women below the age of 30 didn't get the vote... it took 10 years for popular opinion to equalise the voting age.
There's a nice summary on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/53819.stm
The original stories were all about that, though. Susan Calvin was basically the only one that ascribed emotions to the robots - for everyone else they were just tools 90% of the time.
Even then she never ascribed malice to the robots... she didn't think they were alive. It was always the others that did that (when it suited them - a kind of exagerrated version of when we shout at our computers).
It always turned out to be the humans at fault if a robot was accused of something - it always did exactly what it was told.
I haven't seen the film but I suspect it destroys this separation in the name of 'coolness' - the previews look awful.
If you enable that silly 'Cleartype' thing it'll make your eyes bleed certainly... Switch it off unless you want to be wearing glasses for the rest of your life (it makes the text slightly blurred so your eye works overtime trying to make it sharp again... not good at all).
The monitor is (was) fed by DVI with a good graphics card. Using the VGA input will not affect the output of the display hardware, other than it'll be a little less well defined due to the transition through analogue... it certainly wouldn't cause headaches.
:)
The flickering issue makes sense. The other explanation I heard (that LCD displays too many colours and it confuses the eye) never made much sense to me - epecially given this article