If I had to choose WMA, Mp3 or Vorbis it'd be Vorbis.
Partly because It avoids being hit by patents just to play the tunes back and partly because the Vorbis codec offers the best quality/bitrate tradeoff (IMHO).
I live in Birmingham and Victorian constructions (appart from the few in the centre are few and far between)
The majority of of constructions (as elsewhere in the UK) are composed of flats, post-war terraces, post-war semis and detached and new (post 1965 constructions). None of which have cellars.
It seems a shame that my microdrive gear doesn't work anymore but its only too well known that computer gear doesn't have the working longevity of its casings.
I do think though, that my gear would make a good 'static' museum exhibit;)
The majority of houses in the UK do not have cellars. The majority of those that did pre-1939 have since been bombed flat.
As for the second component of your comment, isn't that stating the obvious?
Personally I'd go for photovoltaic supply as I've nearly succeeded in getting a Mini-ITX based server operating 24/7 on solar power via a bank of 6v FLT batteries.
For heating, being as we face no natural-gas outages just now, I'd recommend by-productive heating from your cooking sources after their normal use. The laws of thermodynamics can be useful when heating a house by this method;)
I must have a dozen Spectrums of various iterations kicking about here - including 2 of the early blue-key types complete with microdrives and microprinters.
I even have a couple of 'docking bases' which allowed (IIRC) you to network up to 16 Speccys together in series.
It just really suprises me that there is enough interest still going in the spectrum to actually warrant a magazine relaunch.
'Back in the day' I used to own my spectrum primarily for gaming. The magazine to have was 'Crash' (complete with cover-mounted cassette). Now there was a real magazine; it wasn't even glossy;)
Not amazing at al really.
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The problem was uncovered because the communications equipment had something like 14 sceduled tests en-route to Saturn using simulated data from Huygens to Cassini.
Obviously, the first scheduled test showed up the problem so from there (in 2000) they knew they had something to fix. 3-4 years to fix a problem using a known set of tools isn't too bad;)
In such cases I hate speculation. If it *can* be done and a person/company/organisation wants to put up the initial capital to get it going then it should be done.
If it isn't done then there will always be the painful 'what if' forever after.
Personally I'd pay up to $250USD for the type of card they're suggesting if it had fast (ie: usable with UT2004) 3D OpenGL acceleration.
And please don't forget to mod *down* all the muppets that think that Hydrogen is in any way more dangerous than Petrol(gasoline), Kerosine or Ethanol;)
XFCE is a powerful but lightweight UI for both older systems and 'power-user' implementations.
Both Gnome and KDE lead the way for moder UI implementations on *nixes and as such require modern hardware to go with them (in general).
Having said that, I've just installed KDE on a second user 1.7GHz Celeron M laptop with a piddling (by modern standards) 128MB ram and it positively flies! - No complaints here.
In the premise of the re-investigation, this is exactly what happened when the pilot first attempted to spool the engines by extra back-stick input. In the Airbus fly-by-wire design, this is meant to spool the engines automatically and hence allow the aircraft to climb at a constant or increased pitch while maintaining minimum neccesary airspeed for the manouever
However, the Airbus didn't respond to the stick movement and the pilot then tried stick + full selected throttles.
The next major point here is that the FDR and CVR don't match up in timing and there is a big question about the actual time lapsed between the selection of full-throttles and the actually computer response. This is where the investigation centres.
Your description of the event is correct to the point of the 'official' line.
The Vel-Satis has a key-card ignition and a 'start' button.
With the car in motion, the ignition cannot be shut-off. In theory, forcibly removing the key-card *would* stop the engine, unfortunately it would also engage the solenoid steering-lock which would be a Bad Thing(tm) at 125mph.
The Vel Satis has a drive-by-wire automatic gearbox which locks into 'drive' over 80mph IIRC (A down-shift at that speed would cause engine damage).
As for the brakes; they could possibly be computer controlled but that fact remains that braking a (comparatively) light car against 225bhp will burn the pads out on the first attempt. - Of course Renault is currently saying there is no sign of abnormal pad-wear but that wouldn't be the first time a corporation has attempted a cover-up - Perhaps even changed the pads when they inspected it.
If you remember that Airbus that crashed at an airshow a few years back when it's Die-By-Wire flight-controls refused to give the pilot TOGA power.
That accident was put down to pilot-error by Airbus and the French (Government) Investigators. The case has now been re-opened on the merit that the CVR and FDR data seems to have been played with.
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I suppose these days you write wall-hacks and aimbots :P
If I had to choose WMA, Mp3 or Vorbis it'd be Vorbis.
Partly because It avoids being hit by patents just to play the tunes back and partly because the Vorbis codec offers the best quality/bitrate tradeoff (IMHO).
If the Antivirus companies were responsible, they'd have done a better job.
If Microsoft was responsible, they wouldn't have included any source code.
If SCO was responsible, they'd have included sourcecode and then sued you for running it
All things taken into consideration, I'm with 'other' on this one
No, Im English; I live on the English First floor typically elevated 14 feet from the surrounding land and accessed by a staircase.
Whish that I were still teenage but...
I live on the first floor.
I live in Birmingham and Victorian constructions (appart from the few in the centre are few and far between)
The majority of of constructions (as elsewhere in the UK) are composed of flats, post-war terraces, post-war semis and detached and new (post 1965 constructions). None of which have cellars.
It seems a shame that my microdrive gear doesn't work anymore but its only too well known that computer gear doesn't have the working longevity of its casings.
;)
I do think though, that my gear would make a good 'static' museum exhibit
The majority of houses in the UK do not have cellars. The majority of those that did pre-1939 have since been bombed flat.
;)
As for the second component of your comment, isn't that stating the obvious?
Personally I'd go for photovoltaic supply as I've nearly succeeded in getting a Mini-ITX based server operating 24/7 on solar power via a bank of 6v FLT batteries.
For heating, being as we face no natural-gas outages just now, I'd recommend by-productive heating from your cooking sources after their normal use. The laws of thermodynamics can be useful when heating a house by this method
Once again, I forget the detail.....
;) )
Weren't microdrive disks sequential-only? - The ones I have while being in good asthetic condition, must have stopped functioning many moons ago.
You've seriously suprised me that the 3.5" standard started so early (I must have led a sheltered life
Suprisingly, in all my Speccy ownership, I never came across that format.
Did they look just like the 'modern' (now legacy) 3.5" disks?
I feel for you with the zen-like patience while 10k of code loads from an audio cassette.
Unfortunatley, I just can't resist giving you nightmares tonight;
BWAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR BIP! BWAAAAAAARRRRRR BEEEEBEBEEEEEBEEEBEEE BIP!
Do you remember those hypnotic lines around the restriced area of the screen too?
Wasn't it the 3" disks?
(Actually 3"x3.5" or something like that).
Things like the spectrum +3, Amstrad CPC etc used the 3" disk format; I forget the capacity now but it wasn't huge.
I must have a dozen Spectrums of various iterations kicking about here - including 2 of the early blue-key types complete with microdrives and microprinters.
;)
I even have a couple of 'docking bases' which allowed (IIRC) you to network up to 16 Speccys together in series.
It just really suprises me that there is enough interest still going in the spectrum to actually warrant a magazine relaunch.
'Back in the day' I used to own my spectrum primarily for gaming. The magazine to have was 'Crash' (complete with cover-mounted cassette). Now there was a real magazine; it wasn't even glossy
The problem was uncovered because the communications equipment had something like 14 sceduled tests en-route to Saturn using simulated data from Huygens to Cassini.
Obviously, the first scheduled test showed up the problem so from there (in 2000) they knew they had something to fix. 3-4 years to fix a problem using a known set of tools isn't too bad
In such cases I hate speculation. If it *can* be done and a person/company/organisation wants to put up the initial capital to get it going then it should be done.
If it isn't done then there will always be the painful 'what if' forever after.
Personally I'd pay up to $250USD for the type of card they're suggesting if it had fast (ie: usable with UT2004) 3D OpenGL acceleration.
Its not that Wine or Doom3 don't support Xinerama but that Xinerama doesn't yet support OpenGL.
However, you *can* run multi-head without Xinerama and run as many OpenGL in-game displays as you can fit video-cards in your system.
Where exactly in my post did I compare Hydrogen, Kerosine, Petrol and Ethane to a battery?
And please don't forget to mod *down* all the muppets that think that Hydrogen is in any way more dangerous than Petrol(gasoline), Kerosine or Ethanol
In Communist China the satellite lands on you!
You'd be looking for XFCE then.
XFCE is a powerful but lightweight UI for both older systems and 'power-user' implementations.
Both Gnome and KDE lead the way for moder UI implementations on *nixes and as such require modern hardware to go with them (in general).
Having said that, I've just installed KDE on a second user 1.7GHz Celeron M laptop with a piddling (by modern standards) 128MB ram and it positively flies! - No complaints here.
I said the aircraft refused to apply TOGA power.
In the premise of the re-investigation, this is exactly what happened when the pilot first attempted to spool the engines by extra back-stick input. In the Airbus fly-by-wire design, this is meant to spool the engines automatically and hence allow the aircraft to climb at a constant or increased pitch while maintaining minimum neccesary airspeed for the manouever
However, the Airbus didn't respond to the stick movement and the pilot then tried stick + full selected throttles.
The next major point here is that the FDR and CVR don't match up in timing and there is a big question about the actual time lapsed between the selection of full-throttles and the actually computer response. This is where the investigation centres.
Your description of the event is correct to the point of the 'official' line.
The Vel-Satis has a key-card ignition and a 'start' button.
With the car in motion, the ignition cannot be shut-off. In theory, forcibly removing the key-card *would* stop the engine, unfortunately it would also engage the solenoid steering-lock which would be a Bad Thing(tm) at 125mph.
The Vel Satis has a drive-by-wire automatic gearbox which locks into 'drive' over 80mph IIRC (A down-shift at that speed would cause engine damage).
As for the brakes; they could possibly be computer controlled but that fact remains that braking a (comparatively) light car against 225bhp will burn the pads out on the first attempt. - Of course Renault is currently saying there is no sign of abnormal pad-wear but that wouldn't be the first time a corporation has attempted a cover-up - Perhaps even changed the pads when they inspected it.
If you remember that Airbus that crashed at an airshow a few years back when it's Die-By-Wire flight-controls refused to give the pilot TOGA power.
That accident was put down to pilot-error by Airbus and the French (Government) Investigators. The case has now been re-opened on the merit that the CVR and FDR data seems to have been played with.
If you're lucky it might even come with that "I was anihilated by Slashdot" crispy-burnt smell