For many years now the first thing I have done when a new machine arrives is take the designed for windows stickers and place them on the front of the trash cans all around the office.
Would be pretty good if one was soldered on the main board of a laptop for the boot drive, still leaving space for a traditional hard drive for mass storage.
I initially hated the glossy screen, and still do to some extent but I started doing some digital photography and my Dell U2711 matt finish screen is totally unusable for previewing photos. The Anti-Glare coating on it is awful, every photo looks like it has bad noise. I wouldn't want to use a glossy screen for every day office work however as I don't want to se myself reflected back at me.
So I need 2 screens a glossy one that doesn't cause noise problems for previewing photos and a matt one for day to day use, I agree that the main screen on a laptop is simply stupid being glossy as if you ever use it somewhere where you can't control the light it is unusable.
Oh please you haven't a clue have you.
In 1984 when the Domesday project was conceived there were no standards for mass storage devices, CD-ROM was nothing more than an idea without any standards. But here is the point that you are missing at the core of the BBC Domesday project were thousands of photographs showing life in Britain in the '80s. There was no system that could handle the data required to hold thousands of digital pictures, not to mention the fact that no computers had the graphics capability to display digital pictures.
It is all well and good for you to criticise what was done then now that you have the benefit of hindsight and can see how technology has progressed now but here are some of the problems. If the project were to be re-run today with the benefit of technologies such as JPEG picture compression and storage technology like DVD-ROM it would still be a struggle to fit all the video, pictures and data on to a single DVD. Back in 1984 a 400k floppy disk was state of the art as was 16 colour graphics.
LV-ROM was a new technology developed by Philips that offered a viable solution by offering a hybrid system that was able to overlay video frames and computer data and it was a technology that philips expected to be a successful standard. However philips not having the luxury of time travel could not see that people would prefer the CD-ROM format due to it's small size and that computers were now able to store images digitally making CD-ROM the format of choice.
The BBC did the best they could with the technology they had at the time, sadly the technology moved in a different direction and left them behind. If the BBC deserve any criticism it would be that they made some mistakes along the way that have prevented this resource from being converted. The main mistake is that they were liberal with their legal approach and did not get every contributor to sign away entitlement to everything including their brain cells so now it is a legal problem that the BBC can not fix with todays modern copyright laws. The second is they lost the film slides of the photos so the only source for the pictures is now a second or third generation video frame.
Actually the BBC domesday project was LV-ROM disc, this is not what you might think it is. Basically it is an Analogue Laser Video disk where the Audio tracks have been used to store digital data to go with the analogue video frames. So the only part of this that is digital is the text that goes with the pictures.
The low quality video frames and text data have been extracted from the laserdisk. The reason this has never been re-issued has nothing to do with technology, but everything to do with copyright. The BBC are not able to re-issue the material as they would have to seek permission from almost 1million contributors.
Actually there might be some merit in this by giving the inmate the option.
Your execution date is X but instead of being executed that day you have the option of being vaccinated with a test vaccine and then can have sex with 24 sex workers that are infected with HIV over the next 6 months. The following 6 months you will be tested for infection resulting in 1 year stay of execution. Some would go for it considering they get to live an extra year and get to go out having had a pleasurable time.
The only danger is that nerds might start trying to get themselves on death row just to get laid.
In the latest news publishers have launched legal action against the postal service for facilitating copyright violation.
It has been discovered that copyright works have been transported through the postal system and publishers say that they are entitled to a payment from the postal service as they have access to material that is not theirs.
A publishers representative has said "Why should the postal service profit from delivering our material to our customers without paying a fee to support our authors. After we send it and before our customers receive it the postal service has unauthorized access to copyright material denying our customers access to it during that period. We therefore believe that the postal service should pay a royalty to cover this period".
Why not use the heat to power a generator that produces electricity ?
Heating is only needed in the winter so that heat gets wasted in the summer. Use it to generate electricity to reduce the consumption.
What exactly will that achieve ?
Since when did you need to give proof of identity to get in, oh wait that will be the next thing that MPAA lobbies for. Movie Identity cards, we welcome our new entertainment overlords.
If Microsoft does comply with the ruling the alternative will be Safari. Why? Well despite Apple & Microsoft being competitors they are both in the same game and understand each other. So Microsoft wants Silverlight to gain a foothold in the market. Easy agree with Apple that Safari will be installed on Windows as long as Apple includes the Silverlight plug-in with both Mac and Windows versions of Safari as standard.
Now Microsoft can legitimately claim that all Windows 7 PC's and All MacOS 10.7 systems have silverlight installed. Making the two main platforms on the desktop silverlight enabled.
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For many years now the first thing I have done when a new machine arrives is take the designed for windows stickers and place them on the front of the trash cans all around the office.
Would be pretty good if one was soldered on the main board of a laptop for the boot drive, still leaving space for a traditional hard drive for mass storage.
I initially hated the glossy screen, and still do to some extent but I started doing some digital photography and my Dell U2711 matt finish screen is totally unusable for previewing photos. The Anti-Glare coating on it is awful, every photo looks like it has bad noise. I wouldn't want to use a glossy screen for every day office work however as I don't want to se myself reflected back at me. So I need 2 screens a glossy one that doesn't cause noise problems for previewing photos and a matt one for day to day use, I agree that the main screen on a laptop is simply stupid being glossy as if you ever use it somewhere where you can't control the light it is unusable.
Oh please you haven't a clue have you. In 1984 when the Domesday project was conceived there were no standards for mass storage devices, CD-ROM was nothing more than an idea without any standards. But here is the point that you are missing at the core of the BBC Domesday project were thousands of photographs showing life in Britain in the '80s. There was no system that could handle the data required to hold thousands of digital pictures, not to mention the fact that no computers had the graphics capability to display digital pictures. It is all well and good for you to criticise what was done then now that you have the benefit of hindsight and can see how technology has progressed now but here are some of the problems. If the project were to be re-run today with the benefit of technologies such as JPEG picture compression and storage technology like DVD-ROM it would still be a struggle to fit all the video, pictures and data on to a single DVD. Back in 1984 a 400k floppy disk was state of the art as was 16 colour graphics. LV-ROM was a new technology developed by Philips that offered a viable solution by offering a hybrid system that was able to overlay video frames and computer data and it was a technology that philips expected to be a successful standard. However philips not having the luxury of time travel could not see that people would prefer the CD-ROM format due to it's small size and that computers were now able to store images digitally making CD-ROM the format of choice. The BBC did the best they could with the technology they had at the time, sadly the technology moved in a different direction and left them behind. If the BBC deserve any criticism it would be that they made some mistakes along the way that have prevented this resource from being converted. The main mistake is that they were liberal with their legal approach and did not get every contributor to sign away entitlement to everything including their brain cells so now it is a legal problem that the BBC can not fix with todays modern copyright laws. The second is they lost the film slides of the photos so the only source for the pictures is now a second or third generation video frame.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/
Actually the BBC domesday project was LV-ROM disc, this is not what you might think it is. Basically it is an Analogue Laser Video disk where the Audio tracks have been used to store digital data to go with the analogue video frames. So the only part of this that is digital is the text that goes with the pictures. The low quality video frames and text data have been extracted from the laserdisk. The reason this has never been re-issued has nothing to do with technology, but everything to do with copyright. The BBC are not able to re-issue the material as they would have to seek permission from almost 1million contributors.
Actually there might be some merit in this by giving the inmate the option. Your execution date is X but instead of being executed that day you have the option of being vaccinated with a test vaccine and then can have sex with 24 sex workers that are infected with HIV over the next 6 months. The following 6 months you will be tested for infection resulting in 1 year stay of execution. Some would go for it considering they get to live an extra year and get to go out having had a pleasurable time. The only danger is that nerds might start trying to get themselves on death row just to get laid.
In the latest news publishers have launched legal action against the postal service for facilitating copyright violation. It has been discovered that copyright works have been transported through the postal system and publishers say that they are entitled to a payment from the postal service as they have access to material that is not theirs. A publishers representative has said "Why should the postal service profit from delivering our material to our customers without paying a fee to support our authors. After we send it and before our customers receive it the postal service has unauthorized access to copyright material denying our customers access to it during that period. We therefore believe that the postal service should pay a royalty to cover this period".
Why not use the heat to power a generator that produces electricity ? Heating is only needed in the winter so that heat gets wasted in the summer. Use it to generate electricity to reduce the consumption.
What exactly will that achieve ? Since when did you need to give proof of identity to get in, oh wait that will be the next thing that MPAA lobbies for. Movie Identity cards, we welcome our new entertainment overlords.
If Microsoft does comply with the ruling the alternative will be Safari. Why? Well despite Apple & Microsoft being competitors they are both in the same game and understand each other. So Microsoft wants Silverlight to gain a foothold in the market. Easy agree with Apple that Safari will be installed on Windows as long as Apple includes the Silverlight plug-in with both Mac and Windows versions of Safari as standard. Now Microsoft can legitimately claim that all Windows 7 PC's and All MacOS 10.7 systems have silverlight installed. Making the two main platforms on the desktop silverlight enabled.