In the mean time I note that Mininova still has in excess of 200 seeds and leaches active on the Fallout 3 DLC released a few days ago. So that's some good anti-piracy filter.
See the story "A Little Something For Us Tempunauts" by Philip K Dick which is remarkably similar to this. It's the the anthology "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
A 'tribute' to Communism, which is rather a bog-standard critique of so-called Communist states. Doesn't talk about the inherent flaws of a communist system but instead talks about how evil Stalin was.
Valid point, mostly irrelevant, not worth watching. Nothing you won't have learned in highschool.
Wow. Talk about "entitlement generation" - you fit the profile perfectly. Sorry but you're going to just have to pay, same as I paid for my previous OS upgrades. The real world doesn't hand-out free lunches.
What your sig says:
My $7 per month dialup connection can download TORCHWOOD in just three hours! Who needs broadband internet? (wink)
Thinking about it, the extended-roman texts are 128bits and contain 160 characters. That works out as 0.8bits/character, within Shannon's estimated range for English (0.6-1.3).
This is reminding me of Shannon Entropy. I'm guessing human thought contains a similar amount of bits whether it's expressed in Chinese (high bits/character) or French (low bits per character).
If they did allow subscription or microtransactions, then that would allow them to open iPlayer more widely. But it would cause TV-licence rebellion here because we'd be paying for the content twice. They'd have to scrap the TV licence. Doesn't sound too bad, but if you try to explain the concept to a BBC employee they look at you as though you've suggested they shag a chicken.
The issue is that it is possible now to watch all of the BBC's programming on demand for a week after it is broadcast without having a TV. No TV=no TV license. And the BBC is trying to expand its tax into this new medium.
Actually the Google connection seems excessively tenuous; likely they'll just charge us £200 for the privilege of having a functioning internet connection.
The bigger question is why should they bother? They can just work on existing projects, put patches out and delay the decision to fork until if and when it becomes necessary.
I always think that politics as a career is self-selecting towards power-mad ego-freaks. If you're a fundamentally liberal (classical) person then the appeal of politics is low except in societies with low freedom.
Perhaps in the West we will see the resurgence of Liberal parties as people become fed up with the encroachment on our civil liberties (from both Left and Right).
The giveaway in software technology was on the part of traitorous corporations that decided to outsource, in the name of short-term profit, and without regard to the very economy that made them big in the first place.
The American economy pressured them to do it. They reduced costs for goods sold to American consumers*, because their consumers demanded it, and they returned increased profits to their (primarily) American investors.
The problem with free trade is that its benefits are disparate and hard to quantify (e.g. an extra 0.5% on GDP annually, slightly lower inflation), while its downsides are specific and easy to see (a closed factory).
*A comparison between the effects of labour competition and reduced goods prices is easy to find; real wages in the US have fallen, implying that labour competition is the larger effect at the moment. This isn't sufficient to judge the benefits or lack thereof of free trade, not least because no-one has tried it yet.
In fairness to the Metropolitan force, since 7/7/2005 they've killed three people. In toto. Compare that to how many, for example, the LAPD have topped in that time. You're actually more likely to be killed by a Londoner than London's police force.
The problem is that of the three people they've killed, two were outright manslaughter and one was probably unnecessary. But they tend to close ranks.
It's like when you walk into a Tube station and see ten of the Met's finest standing there. In theory you ought to feel safer, but in practice you wonder what's happening that you don't know about.
Until it becomes the norm for planes to be flanked by fighters, seeing them is just going to make people worried.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless you turn off the uploading...
In the mean time I note that Mininova still has in excess of 200 seeds and leaches active on the Fallout 3 DLC released a few days ago. So that's some good anti-piracy filter.
why would slashdot go to a British newspaper for Australian news
It's the Times of London. That means it is an Australian newspaper.
See the story "A Little Something For Us Tempunauts" by Philip K Dick which is remarkably similar to this. It's the the anthology "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
one of the UK tabloids posted topless photos
If by 'one of' you mean 'all of, every issue'. It's called Page 3 and it's a national institution. The German papers are worse.
Wikipedia says it's mass. What is the Imperial mass unit if it isn't lb?
A 'tribute' to Communism, which is rather a bog-standard critique of so-called Communist states. Doesn't talk about the inherent flaws of a communist system but instead talks about how evil Stalin was.
Valid point, mostly irrelevant, not worth watching. Nothing you won't have learned in highschool.
What you say:
Wow. Talk about "entitlement generation" - you fit the profile perfectly. Sorry but you're going to just have to pay, same as I paid for my previous OS upgrades. The real world doesn't hand-out free lunches.
What your sig says:
My $7 per month dialup connection can download TORCHWOOD in just three hours! Who needs broadband internet? (wink)
Stop verbing nouns!
Welcome to first past the post. We've been using it longer than you, and it still sucks.
TV Licence is only mandatory for live streams. Evidence here, from Auntie herself.
Thinking about it, the extended-roman texts are 128bits and contain 160 characters. That works out as 0.8bits/character, within Shannon's estimated range for English (0.6-1.3).
Interesting, no?
This is reminding me of Shannon Entropy. I'm guessing human thought contains a similar amount of bits whether it's expressed in Chinese (high bits/character) or French (low bits per character).
If they did allow subscription or microtransactions, then that would allow them to open iPlayer more widely. But it would cause TV-licence rebellion here because we'd be paying for the content twice. They'd have to scrap the TV licence. Doesn't sound too bad, but if you try to explain the concept to a BBC employee they look at you as though you've suggested they shag a chicken.
The issue is that it is possible now to watch all of the BBC's programming on demand for a week after it is broadcast without having a TV. No TV=no TV license. And the BBC is trying to expand its tax into this new medium.
Actually the Google connection seems excessively tenuous; likely they'll just charge us £200 for the privilege of having a functioning internet connection.
The bigger question is why should they bother? They can just work on existing projects, put patches out and delay the decision to fork until if and when it becomes necessary.
Otherwise they're just re-inventing the wheel.
I would say open it in OOo, but since that can open MSdoc files that MS Office can't, it's probably not the best yardstick.
I always think that politics as a career is self-selecting towards power-mad ego-freaks. If you're a fundamentally liberal (classical) person then the appeal of politics is low except in societies with low freedom.
Perhaps in the West we will see the resurgence of Liberal parties as people become fed up with the encroachment on our civil liberties (from both Left and Right).
I've never burned a CD-ROM. Many CDs, but never a CD-ROM.
Maybe the system will draw a distinction between a CD/DVD-ROM and a CD/DVD-Anything else.
In all seriousness, does anyone know if these zero-day exploits affect Preview? 1729's post implies that they wouldn't, but I'm curious.
The United States has limited direct democracy in the form of ballot-paper propositions.
The giveaway in software technology was on the part of traitorous corporations that decided to outsource, in the name of short-term profit, and without regard to the very economy that made them big in the first place.
The American economy pressured them to do it. They reduced costs for goods sold to American consumers*, because their consumers demanded it, and they returned increased profits to their (primarily) American investors.
The problem with free trade is that its benefits are disparate and hard to quantify (e.g. an extra 0.5% on GDP annually, slightly lower inflation), while its downsides are specific and easy to see (a closed factory).
*A comparison between the effects of labour competition and reduced goods prices is easy to find; real wages in the US have fallen, implying that labour competition is the larger effect at the moment. This isn't sufficient to judge the benefits or lack thereof of free trade, not least because no-one has tried it yet.
In fairness to the Metropolitan force, since 7/7/2005 they've killed three people. In toto. Compare that to how many, for example, the LAPD have topped in that time. You're actually more likely to be killed by a Londoner than London's police force.
The problem is that of the three people they've killed, two were outright manslaughter and one was probably unnecessary. But they tend to close ranks.
It's like when you walk into a Tube station and see ten of the Met's finest standing there. In theory you ought to feel safer, but in practice you wonder what's happening that you don't know about.
Until it becomes the norm for planes to be flanked by fighters, seeing them is just going to make people worried.
There are low flying planes all the time. They're just not normally flanked by a pair of F-15s over Manhatten.