this obviously coming from someone who doesn't know any irish people or has ever been to Britain. I myself am British, but have never been forced to "swear allegience to the crown". In fact I never have sworn allegience to the crown, though if I were I asked to I would. Where are you getting this from?
Also if you go back in any country's history you will find things that they are not proud of. USA, UK, Germany, China, Japan, France, hell you name it.
It's the RIP bill introduced by Jack "Police State" Straw. This bill is what we in the UK should be scared of, not the CCTV cameras that invade out public lives.
If you don't know what the RIP bill is then read the article, it is the biggest invasion of our privacy there has ever been.
Well it ain't our fault you were too arrogant to use enigma codes that we gave you, hell we even gave you ones that would of helped prevent Pearl Harbour. But no you didn't need them. Opps
> 1) If you are willing to let the cops film you, you are giving up your civil rights
what? so you think walking down the street is private? I'd hate to walk around with you as I'd expect you'd be banning people from looking at you and confiscating film from anyone that may be taking photos in the area. If there is a CCTV camera watching you the chances are that any other member of the public is watching too.
The question is, can you trust the member of the public who is watching you?
> 2) Police states DO have lower rates of crime
I really think you need to look up what a Police State is.
> 5) Britain already has a really bad image - an inbred monarchy
Yes and Americans are all stupid red necks who shoot their school friends.
Now this statement is about as correct as statement 5 in your post.
Anyway how can the nation that bought you TV, Jet Engines, Telephones, and the Web be said to have "slow technology"?
Oh and we have electricity too, something your beloved California seems to be lacking.
Now for a real life story:
Last year a friend of mine was attacked in the early hours of the morning, luckily this not being the US he wasn't shot. Anyway he didn't have any idea who the attackers were, but went to the police who pulled up the CCTV footage from the time of the attack and within a few days had the attackers in custody. Had it not been for the CCTV the police would never have caught the individuals.
I now feel safer when I'm out late at night. It's nice to feel someone is watching over me;)
Considering that the CCTV cameras in the UK can automatically scan people's faces and match them against a database of suspects, I think reading 7 figures off of a plate will actually be pretty damn easy.
Why is this bad?
A while back a friend of mine was mugged and beaten up. Thanks to those cameras the people who did it were caught and charged within a week.
I like to feel safe when walking around town at night, and this helps me to.
Thou I guess in the US it wouldn't help seeing as you'd probably just get shot from a distance, so never see the attcker on camera.
Well firstly can you be sure your ancestors came from the UK?
Secondly people didn't move to the new world to be more free, they did it as it was a new place to live, otherwise why not move to one of the many other countries in the world?
Also what is so free about the US? Just ask any Japanese people who were living there in the Second World War.
Ok come on, what kind of a review is that, I got to the bottom of the page expecting about 4 more pages of tests, but no he hit conclusion straight away.
Firstly the fact that NS6 takes a few seconds more to load. What like people are constantly closing and reopening netscape? When I boot into Linux I load netscape 6 and unless it crashes it stays loaded until I next boot to Windows for some Counter Strike.
As for 70meg for the HD space. Well I think that's wrong, but can't be sure, but what I can be sure is that most of it is down to the JAVA VM that is supplied. This is the reason that my mozilla nightlies when installed only take 25meg. And anyway what if it is 70 meg for the full install? Hell you can buy a very nice 41gig IBM HD in the UK for 112quid (about 160 bucks, and probably cheaper in the US). I currently have over 46 gig of HD space, by today's standards 70 meg is just a drop in the ocean.
Also the way he calculated the memory usage of the browsers is just wrong, perhaps someone should point the reviewer to a web page that explains the concept of threaded applications.
As to recommend using NS4.7x, are you insane? On old netscape I would get crashes very very often, where as now I am very surprised if i get a crash in netscape 6. Hell even the nightlies of mozilla that I test out are more stable than netscape 4.7x. To recommend NS4.7x seems a very stupid idea, I've been using mozilla since M12, and since NS6 came out with JAVA support I haven't used NS4.7x once and never looked back. Perhaps if the reviewer had actually used the browsers for a length of time rather than to time how quickly they load, see how much mem they use, and run "du" on the directories they might actually have been able to write a useful review.
Yes netscape released NS6 far to early, but it is not a bad browser, the functionality is all pretty much there, all that is required is for them to fix the bugs. As far as i see the browser works fine apart from a few bugs, it's the mail and news that has most of the bugs.
As for the review, very unhelpful, and very irresponsible, this can be very damaging to mozilla and NS6. Mainly because there is a large portion of users out there that think that if someone can string some words together and have it labelled as an article then they must be right.
Right time to clear a few things up
1/ The Japanese PS2 uses software decoding of DVDs
2/ US and UK PS2 use hardware decoding
The chip that is used for the decoding in the US and UK versions is the same chip that Wharfdale use in their 750 DVD player.
I happen to have one of these and must say the quality is outstanding. The player itself is by far the best budget player there is on the market (in the UK at least). The quality of the video is just as good as a more expensive DVD player.
Another great thing is that the chip also plays VCDs better than I've ever seen them played on any other type of system.
I am therefore hoping that the quality of the PS2's decoding should therefore match or be very close to that of the player I have.
Cheers,
Alex
Can Red Hat really be blamed for people allowing the installer to install unknown packages.
In my opinon the people who do this can't be very security concious, let alone be running a misson critical system.
You say Firearms prohibition like it's a bad thing. Hell I worry about guys with knives at night enough, I don't need to worry about being shot in the back for my shoes as well.
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Yes I agree, those rocks can make awful scratches on the Israeli APCs and Tanks.
Cheers,
Alex
Should I take it that TF2 is never going to happen?
:(
If it is still happening then what the bloody hell are you doing wasting your time on a CMS, we want TF2!
Trevor Baylis (inventor fo the clockwork radio) came up with this idea a few years back.
How is gun control destorying Britain? I am very much behind it.
this obviously coming from someone who doesn't know any irish people or has ever been to Britain. I myself am British, but have never been forced to "swear allegience to the crown". In fact I never have sworn allegience to the crown, though if I were I asked to I would. Where are you getting this from?
Also if you go back in any country's history you will find things that they are not proud of. USA, UK, Germany, China, Japan, France, hell you name it.
Quit trolling.
nice one mate
It's the RIP bill introduced by Jack "Police State" Straw. This bill is what we in the UK should be scared of, not the CCTV cameras that invade out public lives.
If you don't know what the RIP bill is then read the article, it is the biggest invasion of our privacy there has ever been.
Well it ain't our fault you were too arrogant to use enigma codes that we gave you, hell we even gave you ones that would of helped prevent Pearl Harbour. But no you didn't need them. Opps
Is this like for people who don't know how to click on a web link?
The reason we pay a TV license is so that we don't have to suffer shitty adverts and crap quailty programs like you do on other Channels.
I myself am very happy with it. 110quid for 12 months is not much for the two best channels there are (BBC1 and BBC2)
Wow, you are confused aren't you.
;)
> 1) If you are willing to let the cops film you, you are giving up your civil rights
what? so you think walking down the street is private? I'd hate to walk around with you as I'd expect you'd be banning people from looking at you and confiscating film from anyone that may be taking photos in the area. If there is a CCTV camera watching you the chances are that any other member of the public is watching too.
The question is, can you trust the member of the public who is watching you?
> 2) Police states DO have lower rates of crime
I really think you need to look up what a Police State is.
> 5) Britain already has a really bad image - an inbred monarchy
Yes and Americans are all stupid red necks who shoot their school friends.
Now this statement is about as correct as statement 5 in your post.
Anyway how can the nation that bought you TV, Jet Engines, Telephones, and the Web be said to have "slow technology"?
Oh and we have electricity too, something your beloved California seems to be lacking.
Now for a real life story:
Last year a friend of mine was attacked in the early hours of the morning, luckily this not being the US he wasn't shot. Anyway he didn't have any idea who the attackers were, but went to the police who pulled up the CCTV footage from the time of the attack and within a few days had the attackers in custody. Had it not been for the CCTV the police would never have caught the individuals.
I now feel safer when I'm out late at night. It's nice to feel someone is watching over me
Considering that the CCTV cameras in the UK can automatically scan people's faces and match them against a database of suspects, I think reading 7 figures off of a plate will actually be pretty damn easy.
Why is this bad? A while back a friend of mine was mugged and beaten up. Thanks to those cameras the people who did it were caught and charged within a week. I like to feel safe when walking around town at night, and this helps me to. Thou I guess in the US it wouldn't help seeing as you'd probably just get shot from a distance, so never see the attcker on camera.
Well firstly can you be sure your ancestors came from the UK?
Secondly people didn't move to the new world to be more free, they did it as it was a new place to live, otherwise why not move to one of the many other countries in the world?
Also what is so free about the US? Just ask any Japanese people who were living there in the Second World War.
Ok come on, what kind of a review is that, I got to the bottom of the page expecting about 4 more pages of tests, but no he hit conclusion straight away.
Firstly the fact that NS6 takes a few seconds more to load. What like people are constantly closing and reopening netscape? When I boot into Linux I load netscape 6 and unless it crashes it stays loaded until I next boot to Windows for some Counter Strike.
As for 70meg for the HD space. Well I think that's wrong, but can't be sure, but what I can be sure is that most of it is down to the JAVA VM that is supplied. This is the reason that my mozilla nightlies when installed only take 25meg. And anyway what if it is 70 meg for the full install? Hell you can buy a very nice 41gig IBM HD in the UK for 112quid (about 160 bucks, and probably cheaper in the US). I currently have over 46 gig of HD space, by today's standards 70 meg is just a drop in the ocean.
Also the way he calculated the memory usage of the browsers is just wrong, perhaps someone should point the reviewer to a web page that explains the concept of threaded applications.
As to recommend using NS4.7x, are you insane? On old netscape I would get crashes very very often, where as now I am very surprised if i get a crash in netscape 6. Hell even the nightlies of mozilla that I test out are more stable than netscape 4.7x. To recommend NS4.7x seems a very stupid idea, I've been using mozilla since M12, and since NS6 came out with JAVA support I haven't used NS4.7x once and never looked back. Perhaps if the reviewer had actually used the browsers for a length of time rather than to time how quickly they load, see how much mem they use, and run "du" on the directories they might actually have been able to write a useful review.
Yes netscape released NS6 far to early, but it is not a bad browser, the functionality is all pretty much there, all that is required is for them to fix the bugs. As far as i see the browser works fine apart from a few bugs, it's the mail and news that has most of the bugs.
As for the review, very unhelpful, and very irresponsible, this can be very damaging to mozilla and NS6. Mainly because there is a large portion of users out there that think that if someone can string some words together and have it labelled as an article then they must be right.
Anyway, enough of that.
Cheers,
Alex
Ummm. what the hell are you talking about?
Have you even used a 2.4.0-test?
Cheers,
Alex
yeah, but at least we don't use ROT13! :)
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cheers,
Alex
Right time to clear a few things up 1/ The Japanese PS2 uses software decoding of DVDs 2/ US and UK PS2 use hardware decoding The chip that is used for the decoding in the US and UK versions is the same chip that Wharfdale use in their 750 DVD player. I happen to have one of these and must say the quality is outstanding. The player itself is by far the best budget player there is on the market (in the UK at least). The quality of the video is just as good as a more expensive DVD player. Another great thing is that the chip also plays VCDs better than I've ever seen them played on any other type of system. I am therefore hoping that the quality of the PS2's decoding should therefore match or be very close to that of the player I have. Cheers, Alex
Can Red Hat really be blamed for people allowing the installer to install unknown packages. In my opinon the people who do this can't be very security concious, let alone be running a misson critical system.
You say Firearms prohibition like it's a bad thing. Hell I worry about guys with knives at night enough, I don't need to worry about being shot in the back for my shoes as well.