Because I had to issue this claim in the County Court against Eyetech when they shipped me a DOA board and were particularly reluctant to refund my money. I got my judgement against Eyetech with a cheque following shortly thereafter.
IMO, AOS 4.0 is dead if the only way to run it is to deal with that company. Perhaps others have had better experiences, but for obvious reasons, I'm unable to recommend them at all.
Heh. Not that this is necessarily a bad idea. TV has definitely become either poorer quality, or otherwise just seems that way (i.e. our standards have improved). I'm not at all impressed with some of the dreck coming out at the moment.
And yes, I'm doing TV Turn Off Decade - I gave it up at the start of 2000, so I'm nearly half way there already.
Do you know what happens when you turn the TV off and don't turn it back on for four years? You don't miss it at all. You get much more free time for other stuff like, erm... posting to slashdot!
If this is what most people really believe, it's no wonder that downloaded DivX files look terrible:p
NTSC has 525 vertical lines, of which about 480 are visible. Horizontal resolution depends on the bandwidth of the signal (i.e. whether you're using actual composite NTSC, S-Video, or whatever) but you're talking up to 720 pixels across.
In other words, you should really be aiming for something close to DVD Video standards or it'll look terrible. You might be able to get away with a 640x480 panel if you're only going to use NTSC sources (or don't mind PAL stuff being cropped).
Don't talk to me about GNER!!! Last year on March 20th they removed my bike by breaking the lock on it at York station as an "anti-terrorist" measure. They then wanted a lost property fee for it back, sent it to Newark, back to York - despite saying it's not their "policy" to send bikes by trains...
So you immediately went to the police about the criminal damage (to your lock) and extortion (the "lost property fee")?
It actually seems a really interesting technology. The CPU itself can generate virtual machines that can run different OS's simultaneously. Kinda like hyperthreading but on a much lower level.
Sat on a shelf next to me is an Amiga 4000/040, made in 1993. It has a 68040 CPU in it, which is fully virtualizable (which means that you can run an OS in userspace by pretending to the OS that it's in kernelspace). Most other non-toy CPU architectures are fully virtualizable (e.g. SPARC, PPC, and various mainframes). The notable exception? x86.
It's nice to see that Intel has finally been dragged kicking and screaming into the 1970s. Give them another 20 years, and they might "invent" RISC.
My dream ISP service agreement would be one that guarantees full access to all ports and protocols, but the ISP reserves the right to shut off my connection if it is hijacked.
Like my ISP? Slightly less than 28 of your Earth pounds a month for the 500kb/s connection, and I've got a couple of/28 networks hanging off it.
LW is... not much used, except for BBC Radio 4. Sometimes LW Radio 4 broadcasts different stuff to FM; they use it for cricket commentary for example. Atlantic 252 (kHz)- a pop/rock station- started in the late 80s; that frequency was sold at some stage to a talk station, but it seems to be silent now.... so Radio 4 is all alone again.
According to the frequency list I found, 252kHz is RTE Radio 1. It's actually an Irish station, but covers the UK as well.
Actually Ibiblio is hosting the files on behalf of CC on behalf of the winners. The files are also uploaded to the Internet Archive here here and here. IA has offered to host any CC-licensed content free of charge.
Am I the only person to notice the irony of Open Source films on there being encoded in propietry formats sich as Windows Media and Quicktime?
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Lets assume 350 code examples, that makes $227,500
A hit-man cost about $30,000. hmmm....
Sorry Darl McBride, it's not personaly, it's just economics.
I clearly need to move to a nicer area. The going rate for a hit round here is less than a tenth of that. And the body would probably dissolve in the river...
> Sun has also added a new security tool with Solaris Privileges. This lets the root user create sub roots that can have permission, for example, to patch applications but not to touch hardware components.
When will I see it in Debian stable? =b
I already have it on my woody boxes, thanks to Linux-Vserver.
And it works a treat.
yeah, because newspapers don't have ANY annoying advertisements...
Last I checked, adverts in newspapers didn't flash at you, cause the newspaper to be... slow... to... read..., or use some dodgy crash-prone plug-in that makes the paper disappear half way through reading it.
My high-tech home could use a working hoover, a comfortable sofa, and some cats would be nice. Much more useful than another toy that breaks after six months, and definitely more conducive to a pleasant environment.
[...]all you need to wire to chips is power, end of distance limit between chips, and forget problems of spilling something on the board! Even with current germanium version it'll work perfect for connectors between boards.
You haven't thought this through, have you? One of the problems with chips is that they can't get signals between points on the chip fast enough because the speed of light limits it. So how is light going to make it any faster when it travels at, erm, the speed of light?
Even more interesting is that the deal includes free voice (and fax/data - if you're perverse enough) calls to all UK landlines. The hidden catch is that it's 5p/min at all to call your VoIP number, which is more than a regular long-distance call (1p/min, with the right carrier), a similar trick to the mobile companies. Calls between VoIP phones are free though.
I love my 4M+. I got it for the grand total of 15, and spent a few quid on cleaning solvents to make it look brand new. It had 123,000 sheets on the clock, and I managed a further 1,500 sheets on the "empty" cartridge that was in it. These things just won't die.
A warning about buying old laser printers is the power consumption. Some are especially bad in that they don't go into a power-saving mode so can draw upwards of 1kW constantly. Either make sure you've got some form of power saving, or remember to switch it on only as long as you require to do printing.
It is true that it takes non-trivial effort to implement triangulation based upon the signal strength of your cellular phone[...]
Well, yes, triangulating on the strength of the signal would be pretty tricky because the strength is not proportional to distance. So it's not done like that.
GSM timing requirements are quite tight, and so the phone needs to know when to transmit to not clobber other calls on the cell. So there's a small amount of negotiation (effectively a ping) which tells them what the transmission delay is. Since we already know the speed of light, it's trivial to turn that delay into a distance.
Picture the 1980s, if you can remember them. Box of "Ready Brek" (an instant porridge-like substance available at least in the UK). Add hot water, spoon of instant coffee. Mix up. Sorted.
in the UK, outboard DTT STBs now start at 50 bucks
Mmm, you seem to have currency conversion isses there, I suspect.
DTTV seem to start at around the 50 quid mark, with the average being about 69. So it's starting at about $75 and typically $100.
OTOH, most of the DTTV boxes out there are the "free" units given out by the now-defunct OnDigital system. So people are generally watching DTTV only because they didn't pay anything for the equipment.
"The. Eight. Oh two. Packets to. London. Are running approximately. Sixty Five. Minutes late. GNER apologise for the late running of your Internet Connection."
"The nine-*crackle* packets from *garble* will now be arriving at platform *mumble*."
[ on power usage in dorm rooms ]
anyways.. being conservative on the above figures.. I get 2070 watts drawn.. at 120 volts (average US voltage in the wall socket.)
My quarterly electricity bill is approximately 45 all year round. The power costs about 5.6p/kWh, so anybody with a calculator can determine that the power draw of this house averages about 400W.
Peak power usage for the house (excluding hardwired appliances, i.e. cooker, shower and washing machine) is less than 1kW. Perversely, I can draw 3kW from a single outlet (13A at 220v) - and there's four per room.
However, what I really want to know is how a student in a dorm room requires two to four times the power of a house with two geeks, a half dozen computers, plus our other toys.
You still get plagued with Flash popups unless you do a bit of hacking of your etc/hosts file[...]
It's even easier than that - don't install the Flash plugin. When was the last time you found a useful site that used it? That I'm missing out of adverts and websites full of eye candy for the hard-of-thinking does not worry me.
[somebody proposed delegating unknown domains to a NSI nameserver so that it would defeat the BIND patch.]
They would have to do this for every unregistered domain, which would be impractical. The problem with the wildcard is that it catches all unreg domains under the given TLD by default.
Not really much more difficult, because you can wildcard NS records just like any other RR.
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IMO, AOS 4.0 is dead if the only way to run it is to deal with that company. Perhaps others have had better experiences, but for obvious reasons, I'm unable to recommend them at all.
Heh. Not that this is necessarily a bad idea. TV has definitely become either poorer quality, or otherwise just seems that way (i.e. our standards have improved). I'm not at all impressed with some of the dreck coming out at the moment.
And yes, I'm doing TV Turn Off Decade - I gave it up at the start of 2000, so I'm nearly half way there already.
Do you know what happens when you turn the TV off and don't turn it back on for four years? You don't miss it at all. You get much more free time for other stuff like, erm... posting to slashdot!
If this is what most people really believe, it's no wonder that downloaded DivX files look terrible :p
NTSC has 525 vertical lines, of which about 480 are visible. Horizontal resolution depends on the bandwidth of the signal (i.e. whether you're using actual composite NTSC, S-Video, or whatever) but you're talking up to 720 pixels across.
In other words, you should really be aiming for something close to DVD Video standards or it'll look terrible. You might be able to get away with a 640x480 panel if you're only going to use NTSC sources (or don't mind PAL stuff being cropped).
So you immediately went to the police about the criminal damage (to your lock) and extortion (the "lost property fee")?
Sat on a shelf next to me is an Amiga 4000/040, made in 1993. It has a 68040 CPU in it, which is fully virtualizable (which means that you can run an OS in userspace by pretending to the OS that it's in kernelspace). Most other non-toy CPU architectures are fully virtualizable (e.g. SPARC, PPC, and various mainframes). The notable exception? x86.
It's nice to see that Intel has finally been dragged kicking and screaming into the 1970s. Give them another 20 years, and they might "invent" RISC.
Like my ISP? Slightly less than 28 of your Earth pounds a month for the 500kb/s connection, and I've got a couple of /28 networks hanging off it.
According to the frequency list I found, 252kHz is RTE Radio 1. It's actually an Irish station, but covers the UK as well.
Am I the only person to notice the irony of Open Source films on there being encoded in propietry formats sich as Windows Media and Quicktime?
P.S. UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
A hit-man cost about $30,000. hmmm....
Sorry Darl McBride, it's not personaly, it's just economics.
I clearly need to move to a nicer area. The going rate for a hit round here is less than a tenth of that. And the body would probably dissolve in the river...
When will I see it in Debian stable? =b
I already have it on my woody boxes, thanks to Linux-Vserver. And it works a treat.
Last I checked, adverts in newspapers didn't flash at you, cause the newspaper to be... slow... to... read..., or use some dodgy crash-prone plug-in that makes the paper disappear half way through reading it.
My high-tech home could use a working hoover, a comfortable sofa, and some cats would be nice. Much more useful than another toy that breaks after six months, and definitely more conducive to a pleasant environment.
You haven't thought this through, have you? One of the problems with chips is that they can't get signals between points on the chip fast enough because the speed of light limits it. So how is light going to make it any faster when it travels at, erm, the speed of light?
Full details are at BT's Broadband Voice Website
A warning about buying old laser printers is the power consumption. Some are especially bad in that they don't go into a power-saving mode so can draw upwards of 1kW constantly. Either make sure you've got some form of power saving, or remember to switch it on only as long as you require to do printing.
Well, yes, triangulating on the strength of the signal would be pretty tricky because the strength is not proportional to distance. So it's not done like that.
GSM timing requirements are quite tight, and so the phone needs to know when to transmit to not clobber other calls on the cell. So there's a small amount of negotiation (effectively a ping) which tells them what the transmission delay is. Since we already know the speed of light, it's trivial to turn that delay into a distance.
Picture the 1980s, if you can remember them. Box of "Ready Brek" (an instant porridge-like substance available at least in the UK). Add hot water, spoon of instant coffee. Mix up. Sorted.
Mmm, you seem to have currency conversion isses there, I suspect. DTTV seem to start at around the 50 quid mark, with the average being about 69. So it's starting at about $75 and typically $100.
OTOH, most of the DTTV boxes out there are the "free" units given out by the now-defunct OnDigital system. So people are generally watching DTTV only because they didn't pay anything for the equipment.
"The nine-*crackle* packets from *garble* will now be arriving at platform *mumble*."
anyways.. being conservative on the above figures.. I get 2070 watts drawn.. at 120 volts (average US voltage in the wall socket.)
My quarterly electricity bill is approximately 45 all year round. The power costs about 5.6p/kWh, so anybody with a calculator can determine that the power draw of this house averages about 400W.
Peak power usage for the house (excluding hardwired appliances, i.e. cooker, shower and washing machine) is less than 1kW. Perversely, I can draw 3kW from a single outlet (13A at 220v) - and there's four per room.
However, what I really want to know is how a student in a dorm room requires two to four times the power of a house with two geeks, a half dozen computers, plus our other toys.
Now coming, OpenAsprin 0.1! With the aid of the Asprin-HOWTO, you too can work out how to assemble tablets yourself from random household ingredients.
It's even easier than that - don't install the Flash plugin. When was the last time you found a useful site that used it? That I'm missing out of adverts and websites full of eye candy for the hard-of-thinking does not worry me.
They would have to do this for every unregistered domain, which would be impractical. The problem with the wildcard is that it catches all unreg domains under the given TLD by default.
Not really much more difficult, because you can wildcard NS records just like any other RR.