Baystar are not selling their shares right now - they just doubled their stock by buying the 20,000 shares that the Royal Bank of Canada just cashed out of.
Okay, only mark your diaries if you are Fedora inclined like me;)
Fedora Core 2, if on schedule (which, AFAIK it still is) is due to be available from mirrors on the 17th of this month.
The actual distibution is sceduled to start going out to the mirrors on the 14th but I think the mirrors will be requested to keep it locked till the 17th.
If they don't make it to the release deadline it may lead to some IRC antics rather like the ones mentioned in the article.
Yes, you guessed correctly that I was trying to imply 8 Megabytes buffer which I thought was a very small ammount considering the rate at which it could be exhausted.
Of course, it would be interesting to know if that same 8MB buffer is available for all write modes including CDR which could be quite useful as it is a reasonable ammount.
Knowing the data-rates that can be involved with DVDs I would have thought that 8Mb is only maybe a seconds worth of 'incident' time during a write.
As it is, I've already reached a happy medium where I only burn at 12x on my CDR because I know that no matter how shoddy the media I use in the drive is, i've got a 99% chance of a sucessful burn.
I imagine, that if I was to buy a DVD writer I'd end up in the same 'middle-ground' - I don't even know if I can find a use for all this 'speed' when writing sessions are usually relegated to coffee breaks and lunchtimes anyway.
Weight and Balance is an extremely critical factor for flight safety. Even the largest airliners must have carefully controlled weight-distribution to avoid the CofG going 'out of bounds' during various stages of flight (including different trim and fuel states).
Generally speaking you are correct that in the UK (and much of the EU) winning defence cases have their legal fees charged to the loosing prosecution. This of course is not without its draw-backs (insurance claim systems are silly here too) but it's generally quite fair.
It suprises me that the US hasn't adopted a simmilar system. You do have to wonder when the courts are working for themselves more than for justice or the individual.
I do feel for your parents and their business enterprise; my Father had a simmilar situation at the start of the 80s being frivolously sued over a faulty hard-disk (probably all 2Mb worth back then) - fortunately, the UK legal system is as full of loop-holes as any other and because his company was 'limited' with little or no assets, the case against his company was dropped (no gains to be had) - This, of course, meant that his company would now have to close as any capital gained thereafter could cause a new legal challenge.
It is wrong that people should bring lawsuits 'because they can' when such differences could be settled by simple negotiation.
I think it was frankly brilliant that the Russians could keep Mir ticking when they couldn't even launch to resupply it during the Gorbachev coup.
Its often been said that its orientation computer had the same processing power as an early Nokia phone (not strictly true) but through brilliant ingenuity, it stayed working.
The station was even hardy enough to sustain 'battle-damage' after it's argument with an over-enthusiastic Progress delivery.
It was a superb peice of engineering that really was up there for ages - I was very sad to see Mir go.
Since time immortal - er or since/. started, everyone of every race, colour and creed (even Darl McBride) has had the right to be a troll and (hopefully) be modded into obscurity.
Just found that a Fire-Safety officer at the Birmingham sister exchange had once been quoted as saying: "There was strict no smoking rules with staff only being allowed to smoke in the mess room. If a serious fire were to break out in the exchange the people down there would only have about 30 seconds to live."
I personally remember when a section of house-brick wall partially collapsed in the Bristol-street motors underpass on the Bristol road, revealing what appeared to be a huge concrete plug for one of the original level access tunnels used in construction.
Birmingham Anchor stretched from Bristol road / Smallbrook Queensway in the South, to Telephone House in the West, Church street in the East and almost all the way North to Hockley Circus.
Apparently the water-table has risen in recent years and now BT has to pay for Anchor to be pumped out constantly.
Why not call Microsoft UK on +44 870 60 10 100.
We were on the phone to them for most of Friday asking them why they suddenly decided to start charging for terminal server licences. (As of December 2003 in Europe I believe.)
I don't know for sure (because I avoid MS products) but an associate was complaining the other day that he had to pay 700 euros for 5 extra terminal services licences for his business, whereas VNC or remote X costs nowt.
I calmed him down (he'd been on the phone to Micro "We felt like changing the licence agreement"soft) and described an alternative, non-MS system which he is this week implementing with my help.
I shouldn't do this first gear hard launch in front of leading personal and some committee.. that's fine with me... after all, what did I lose, except for those several hundreds microroengen
I still do not understand why they need to be open-source, if they work perfectly well to render 3d visuals *right-now* then they are going to be working perfectly well for future applications in the future including desktops.
AFAIK the drivers are simply there to interpret rendering instructions to the GPU in a format that it understands. As long as the control set (eg: OpenGL) is interpreted by them, all is well.
Is this just a case of not liking closed-source drivers or is there another underlying problem?
Is shoud think the RISCOS would be a better solution for an ATM than it ever was for a desktop.
BTW, I'm not totally averse to Arc's etc, I have a 4000 series here somewhere that I hacked a NIC into and managed to get on the internet (how proud of myself was I?);)
What they've gone for here that gives a good Anime 'feel' is a 'Parallax' effect of filming; something the Matrix did not employ.
The basis of this idea is that in the animated animes, the forground would be moved frame by frame in relation to the backround moving in the opposite direction. - This is effectively an easy way for animators to quickly produce the effect of the camera moving within a scene.
The effect in this film appears to be replicated by actually moving a camera with a telephoto lense across the scene.
All in all, from the trailer, the effect appears good and in combination with other anime-esque effects although I could see how it would become annoying in live-action if over-used.
The motion effects in anime nearly all stem from the animators tricks to avoid having to constantly redraw cells when they can just move them around.
Its quite an amusing transposition of techniques to watch.
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Baystar are not selling their shares right now - they just doubled their stock by buying the 20,000 shares that the Royal Bank of Canada just cashed out of.
Okay, only mark your diaries if you are Fedora inclined like me ;)
Fedora Core 2, if on schedule (which, AFAIK it still is) is due to be available from mirrors on the 17th of this month.
The actual distibution is sceduled to start going out to the mirrors on the 14th but I think the mirrors will be requested to keep it locked till the 17th.
If they don't make it to the release deadline it may lead to some IRC antics rather like the ones mentioned in the article.
Yes, you guessed correctly that I was trying to imply 8 Megabytes buffer which I thought was a very small ammount considering the rate at which it could be exhausted.
Of course, it would be interesting to know if that same 8MB buffer is available for all write modes including CDR which could be quite useful as it is a reasonable ammount.
The general point I was making is that I always buy 'bargain' disks - some of which may be visably faulty before they've even been in the drive.
Burning at 12 speed on a 2 year old drive pretty much guarantees success
And as I said, when you do burning in the time that the system would otherwise be unused, you get 100% resource dedication to the operation.
Knowing the data-rates that can be involved with DVDs I would have thought that 8Mb is only maybe a seconds worth of 'incident' time during a write.
As it is, I've already reached a happy medium where I only burn at 12x on my CDR because I know that no matter how shoddy the media I use in the drive is, i've got a 99% chance of a sucessful burn.
I imagine, that if I was to buy a DVD writer I'd end up in the same 'middle-ground' - I don't even know if I can find a use for all this 'speed' when writing sessions are usually relegated to coffee breaks and lunchtimes anyway.
Weight and Balance is an extremely critical factor for flight safety. Even the largest airliners must have carefully controlled weight-distribution to avoid the CofG going 'out of bounds' during various stages of flight (including different trim and fuel states).
Some examples from the British AAIB archives:
12 Jan 1999: Fokker F27-600 crash nr Guernsey.(load moved)
18 Sep 1996 Boeing 737-4Q8, G-BSNW (Uncommanded roll due to incorrect fuel balance).
18 June 1972 Trident G-ARPI crash after takeoff at Heathrow (Weight and Balance as a contributory factor).
Generally speaking you are correct that in the UK (and much of the EU) winning defence cases have their legal fees charged to the loosing prosecution. This of course is not without its draw-backs (insurance claim systems are silly here too) but it's generally quite fair.
It suprises me that the US hasn't adopted a simmilar system. You do have to wonder when the courts are working for themselves more than for justice or the individual.
I do feel for your parents and their business enterprise; my Father had a simmilar situation at the start of the 80s being frivolously sued over a faulty hard-disk (probably all 2Mb worth back then) - fortunately, the UK legal system is as full of loop-holes as any other and because his company was 'limited' with little or no assets, the case against his company was dropped (no gains to be had) - This, of course, meant that his company would now have to close as any capital gained thereafter could cause a new legal challenge.
It is wrong that people should bring lawsuits 'because they can' when such differences could be settled by simple negotiation.
I think it was frankly brilliant that the Russians could keep Mir ticking when they couldn't even launch to resupply it during the Gorbachev coup.
Its often been said that its orientation computer had the same processing power as an early Nokia phone (not strictly true) but through brilliant ingenuity, it stayed working.
The station was even hardy enough to sustain 'battle-damage' after it's argument with an over-enthusiastic Progress delivery.
It was a superb peice of engineering that really was up there for ages - I was very sad to see Mir go.
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are belong to us :)
They hadn't yet put a tax on sunlight / gravity.
Better keep it quiet - we'll only give them ideas
It's very similar to when a character in a movie will look at the camera and toss off a one-liner to the audience.
Well I would have thought that means an 'Aside' but surely you'd get in trouble if you tossed-off to the audience.
Why didn't I become a plumber?
:)
Because then you'd have bad hands and torn skin like me
A Plumber no more...
Since time immortal - er or since
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Just found that a Fire-Safety officer at the Birmingham sister exchange had once been quoted as saying: "There was strict no smoking rules with staff only being allowed to smoke in the mess room. If a serious fire were to break out in the exchange the people down there would only have about 30 seconds to live."
There is another one of these subterranian exchanges under Birmingham and it is of the same sort of size.
Birmingham Anchor Exchange
I personally remember when a section of house-brick wall partially collapsed in the Bristol-street motors underpass on the Bristol road, revealing what appeared to be a huge concrete plug for one of the original level access tunnels used in construction.
Birmingham Anchor stretched from Bristol road / Smallbrook Queensway in the South, to Telephone House in the West, Church street in the East and almost all the way North to Hockley Circus.
Apparently the water-table has risen in recent years and now BT has to pay for Anchor to be pumped out constantly.
I take great offence to being called a liar.
Why not call Microsoft UK on +44 870 60 10 100.
We were on the phone to them for most of Friday asking them why they suddenly decided to start charging for terminal server licences. (As of December 2003 in Europe I believe.)
Or you could ask a European reseller?
BackOffice.be 715.96euro
GreyMatter (uk) 533.45GBP
I don't know for sure (because I avoid MS products) but an associate was complaining the other day that he had to pay 700 euros for 5 extra terminal services licences for his business, whereas VNC or remote X costs nowt.
I calmed him down (he'd been on the phone to Micro "We felt like changing the licence agreement"soft) and described an alternative, non-MS system which he is this week implementing with my help.
I shouldn't do this first gear hard launch in front of leading personal and some committee.. that's fine with me... after all, what did I lose, except for those several hundreds microroengen
;)
Thats my kind of radiation-researcher
I understand now. Thanks
I still do not understand why they need to be open-source, if they work perfectly well to render 3d visuals *right-now* then they are going to be working perfectly well for future applications in the future including desktops.
AFAIK the drivers are simply there to interpret rendering instructions to the GPU in a format that it understands. As long as the control set (eg: OpenGL) is interpreted by them, all is well.
Is this just a case of not liking closed-source drivers or is there another underlying problem?
My Nvidia Linux drivers run perfectly in 2d and 3d.
I don't understand exactly what you are getting at.
Is shoud think the RISCOS would be a better solution for an ATM than it ever was for a desktop.
;)
BTW, I'm not totally averse to Arc's etc, I have a 4000 series here somewhere that I hacked a NIC into and managed to get on the internet (how proud of myself was I?)
What they've gone for here that gives a good Anime 'feel' is a 'Parallax' effect of filming; something the Matrix did not employ.
The basis of this idea is that in the animated animes, the forground would be moved frame by frame in relation to the backround moving in the opposite direction. - This is effectively an easy way for animators to quickly produce the effect of the camera moving within a scene.
The effect in this film appears to be replicated by actually moving a camera with a telephoto lense across the scene.
All in all, from the trailer, the effect appears good and in combination with other anime-esque effects although I could see how it would become annoying in live-action if over-used.
The motion effects in anime nearly all stem from the animators tricks to avoid having to constantly redraw cells when they can just move them around.
Its quite an amusing transposition of techniques to watch.
America hits N Korea with nuclear force:
China panics.
Its worth remembering that China has both a nuclear arsenal and the means to deliver it anywhere in the world.
Now *that* is M.A.D.