They're just gonna take like only fools and horses right and then make it in the US with the Trotters living in like Venace Beach or something and driving a ford pinto and then they take out all the swear words like plonker and bollocks and stuff cause the yanks don't know shit about stuff like that and then they put in all this cheasy yank stuff like chearleaders and baseball and try to make it funny again but it ends up getting well crap cause thay cant insult old people or young people or deaf people and then it only ends up on some crap cable tv channel and nobody watches it cause there's like 20 old episodes of friends and the simpsons on all the same time and half the time it's just adverts and stuff.
I've have four Nokia phones as I got a new one with each job i took over the past 7 years. Each on has been dropped on the floor a number of times, and generally subjected to a fair bit of abuse. All four of them work, and I have never had a problem with any them.
I doubt a small hard drive could take this kind of punishment. One hard knock, and somethings going to break. I'd much prefer 1G of flash memory in a phone that I know will last me a few years.
>>I thought I read a while ago that the BBC (and possibly Channel 4) were going to open up their archives for watching clips/programmes online. Anyone know what happened to that?
Yes, Channel 4 has a boradband service:
http://www.channel4.com/broadband/
Problem is it's not available outside the UK, which is a shame as its mainly brits living outside the UK that would benifit from a broadband service.
"If you use a TV or any other device to receive or record TV programmes (for example, a VCR, set-top box, DVD recorder or PC with a broadcast card) - you need a TV Licence. You are required by law to have one."
Looks like using one for a DVD player, or your old Commadore 64 would be OK without a licence, the key is "If you use", not "If you have".
You DO need one "If you use" a tuner card in your PC to watch TV, but not if you use it for digitising home movies.
>>A dyslexic bloke I know generates very coherent documentation, emails etc
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro
Yeah, that's an option, but it's not a legal one that provides revanue for the networks. My mate has one on is house, and gets UK channels, unfortunatly I can't see the right part of the sky from my appartment, so it's no good for me...
As a Brtitsh ex pat I must be contributing to that statistic somewhat. I'm really missing BBC, and Channel 4, Phoenix Nights, Father Ted, and a load of good documentories and stuff. Thanks to BitTorrent, and a DIVX campatible DVD player (i recommend one of those), I am getting my fix again. (Check out "The Power Of Nightmares, The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear" fro example, I don't think this will be aired in the US in a hurry...)
I'd be more than happy to pay the BBC licence fee, and watch UK-TV legally here in Sweden, but it's not possible. I can't get it through my cable provider, or over the net.
Channel 4 have a broadband service you can subscribe to, unfortunatly it's not available outside the UK.
The only way to get access to most Brittish TV is via BitTorrent, and the networks can't be loosing too much revenue as they are not provising a service to compete with the illegal downloads. I hope they get their act together soon, I'd much prefer to pay and see the stuff when it's aired.
As for UK leading the world for downloads, what do you expect US TV is crap! We produced this and this, you guys produced this and this.
>>Lighthouse makers just need to move to a new "all-lawsuit" model of revenue like the music and movie industry has. GPS is denying lighthouse makers their constitutionally protected right to obscene amounts of profit.
And what about that band called "The Lighthouse Family", ohhhhh double trouble there...
>>the MSDN copies of XP are only valid for a limited number of installs
I think you can get extra installs if you need them, but you have to ask. The MSDN licence allows you to use as many installs as you want, provided it's for developing, and testing purposes. If you have to set up a lot of test environments on different hardware, I think you are covered. I also think your covered on your home box(en) for all the products (except maybe office).
Arn't the Swedes supposed to me neutral? It would kill the game somewhat if you only had the option to play as Sweden, all you could do is watch, (unless you wanted to play at transporting enamy troops to Norway by train).
At least if you played Switzland you could get to pick a couple of weapons (small Swiss Army knife, Swiss Army knife with compass, Swiss army knife with wood saw etc.)
>>One would think that a tech/science-oriented site such as Slashdot would do a little bit of backround research before publishing articles that will eventually turn out to be hoaxes.
Well at least they only published it once. I think thats pretty good going by slashdot standards.
I heard about a French guy once, who had done the math, and worked out that free-falling with a snowboard is pretty close to the speed and direction of the guys hopping off the 80m ski jumps.
He had a plan to jump from a helicopter, and land on a steep powder field in the Alps somewhere. I think around the time (1994), the record for the highest survived drop on skiis or a board was around 270 feet.
Never heard if he pulled it off or not.
(I heard all this over a few beers in a bar in Chamonix, so I've no idea if theres any truth behind it.)
One thing i think is cool though, is that the speed skiing record is about 75 mph faster than a free-fall sky diver.
Whilst the application may seem apealing, it is actually produced by Satan. As open religoius open source zealots, we must strive to resist the temptations laid before us in the form of "free as in beer" software. Although apealing as it seems, it's actually funded by the devil, and therefore any use of such a product is a path to hell and eternal damnation.
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Yeah but, No but, Yeah but, No but, Yeah but...
They're just gonna take like only fools and horses right and then make it in the US with the Trotters living in like Venace Beach or something and driving a ford pinto and then they take out all the swear words like plonker and bollocks and stuff cause the yanks don't know shit about stuff like that and then they put in all this cheasy yank stuff like chearleaders and baseball and try to make it funny again but it ends up getting well crap cause thay cant insult old people or young people or deaf people and then it only ends up on some crap cable tv channel and nobody watches it cause there's like 20 old episodes of friends and the simpsons on all the same time and half the time it's just adverts and stuff.
1) Smuggle iPods into the Netherlands and trade them for weed.
2) Smuggle weed out of the Nehterlands and trade it for iPods
3) ????
4) Profit!
How long is the HD going to last in a phone???
I've have four Nokia phones as I got a new one with each job i took over the past 7 years. Each on has been dropped on the floor a number of times, and generally subjected to a fair bit of abuse. All four of them work, and I have never had a problem with any them.
I doubt a small hard drive could take this kind of punishment. One hard knock, and somethings going to break. I'd much prefer 1G of flash memory in a phone that I know will last me a few years.
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were having one of their little father and son chats... light sabers drawn and sparks flying.
Vader pinned Luke against a bulkhead and glared into his face, "I know what you're getting for Christmas, Luke," he said, "Ohhh, yes! I know!"
Luke fought himself free and jumped to a higher platform just out of Vader's reach,
"How do you know!?" Luke yelled at him, "How do you know what I'm getting for Christmas!?"
Darth Vader shot Luke an icy glare, "The force is with me... I felt your presents."
The First East Disco Dance Floor
...best parties ever! (I think not...)
1,536 LEDs
128 square feet
4,096 colors
30 frames/second
20,000 hand-soldered connections
100+ Nerds
Zero chicks
In Soviet Russia, oh...
Forget it.
>>I thought I read a while ago that the BBC (and possibly Channel 4) were going to open up their archives for watching clips/programmes online. Anyone know what happened to that?
Yes, Channel 4 has a boradband service:
http://www.channel4.com/broadband/
Problem is it's not available outside the UK, which is a shame as its mainly brits living outside the UK that would benifit from a broadband service.
It's been said before, but I'll say it again.
"They just don't get it."
>>1998-2000 - Using supercomputing VA-Linux beowulf clusters and drawing upon the grit-making skills of Natalie Portman, the NSA was doing bad things.
You'r missing out the Soviet Russia connection...
(or is the Soviet Russia connection missing out you?)
I always thought the law was "If you have equipment capable of receiving..."
But the BBC says this:
"If you use a TV or any other device to receive or record TV programmes (for example, a VCR, set-top box, DVD recorder or PC with a broadcast card) - you need a TV Licence. You are required by law to have one."
Looks like using one for a DVD player, or your old Commadore 64 would be OK without a licence, the key is "If you use", not "If you have".
You DO need one "If you use" a tuner card in your PC to watch TV, but not if you use it for digitising home movies.
It seems any time there's a discussion of TV and BitTorrent, it's:
"I'm gonna torrent my TV, download all the episodes, watch them when i like, who cares if the networks loose out on their add revenue."
No it's:
"Oh no, the networks are canceling the show, not enough viewers and therefore it dosn't justify the add revenue."
Instead of complaining, or pledging money, just STOP TORRENTING THE SHOWS, and maybe the networks will keep it running.
>>A dyslexic bloke I know generates very coherent documentation, emails etc
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a
wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist
and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset
can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it
wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed
ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro
That'll fcuk the splelchekcer
>>Care to suggest any BitTorrent sites? Ever since Suprnova shut down, I'm finding it harder to get my BBC fix.
t s. php
http://www2.digitaldistractions.org:8080/torren
Heven is where the police are British, the lovers French, the machanics German, the chefs Italian, and it's all organsed by the Swiss.
Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the machanics French, the chefs British, and it's all organsed by the Italians.
Hi,
Yeah, that's an option, but it's not a legal one that provides revanue for the networks. My mate has one on is house, and gets UK channels, unfortunatly I can't see the right part of the sky from my appartment, so it's no good for me...
As a Brtitsh ex pat I must be contributing to that statistic somewhat. I'm really missing BBC, and Channel 4, Phoenix Nights, Father Ted, and a load of good documentories and stuff. Thanks to BitTorrent, and a DIVX campatible DVD player (i recommend one of those), I am getting my fix again. (Check out "The Power Of Nightmares, The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear" fro example, I don't think this will be aired in the US in a hurry...)
I'd be more than happy to pay the BBC licence fee, and watch UK-TV legally here in Sweden, but it's not possible. I can't get it through my cable provider, or over the net.
Channel 4 have a broadband service you can subscribe to, unfortunatly it's not available outside the UK.
The only way to get access to most Brittish TV is via BitTorrent, and the networks can't be loosing too much revenue as they are not provising a service to compete with the illegal downloads. I hope they get their act together soon, I'd much prefer to pay and see the stuff when it's aired.
As for UK leading the world for downloads, what do you expect US TV is crap! We produced this and this, you guys produced this and this.
I WANT MY, I WANT MY, I WANT MY BBC
>>Lighthouse makers just need to move to a new "all-lawsuit" model of revenue like the music and movie industry has. GPS is denying lighthouse makers their constitutionally protected right to obscene amounts of profit.
And what about that band called "The Lighthouse Family", ohhhhh double trouble there...
Is there any way to download QuickTime WITHOUT installing iTunes?
Microsoft this, Microsoft that, life without Microsoft. Microsoft vs Linus, Microsoft vs Google, Microsoft vs the world, Microsoft ate my dog.
There's more Microsoft stories here than anything else, about 20 in the past week. Isn't anything better to post about??
>>the MSDN copies of XP are only valid for a limited number of installs
I think you can get extra installs if you need them, but you have to ask. The MSDN licence allows you to use as many installs as you want, provided it's for developing, and testing purposes. If you have to set up a lot of test environments on different hardware, I think you are covered. I also think your covered on your home box(en) for all the products (except maybe office).
>>Last time I played FIFA 2005, I had to turn away because the gore was so bad
You should play the version where you can have Vinnei Jones on the team, makes Quake III look like a walk in the park.
>>the developers are Swedish not American
Arn't the Swedes supposed to me neutral? It would kill the game somewhat if you only had the option to play as Sweden, all you could do is watch, (unless you wanted to play at transporting enamy troops to Norway by train).
At least if you played Switzland you could get to pick a couple of weapons (small Swiss Army knife, Swiss Army knife with compass, Swiss army knife with wood saw etc.)
>>One would think that a tech/science-oriented site such as Slashdot would do a little bit of backround research before publishing articles that will eventually turn out to be hoaxes.
Well at least they only published it once. I think thats pretty good going by slashdot standards.
>>>I found another article [space.com] discussing the asteroid that isn't slashdotted.
The asteroid that isn't slashdotted?
That's the answer, its obvious, just slashdot the asteroid into oblivion.
I heard about a French guy once, who had done the math, and worked out that free-falling with a snowboard is pretty close to the speed and direction of the guys hopping off the 80m ski jumps.
He had a plan to jump from a helicopter, and land on a steep powder field in the Alps somewhere. I think around the time (1994), the record for the highest survived drop on skiis or a board was around 270 feet.
Never heard if he pulled it off or not.
(I heard all this over a few beers in a bar in Chamonix, so I've no idea if theres any truth behind it.)
One thing i think is cool though, is that the speed skiing record is about 75 mph faster than a free-fall sky diver.
Whilst the application may seem apealing, it is actually produced by Satan. As open religoius open source zealots, we must strive to resist the temptations laid before us in the form of "free as in beer" software. Although apealing as it seems, it's actually funded by the devil, and therefore any use of such a product is a path to hell and eternal damnation.