That's odd. I have an AWE-64 card. I also have a Cyrix based PC. I have not had any problems booting. There is one particular software utility which you can't use with a Cyrix CPU - it won't even let you install it. But it's not a utility I've particularly wanted to use anyway. I've had the Cyrix machine for three years, and I've never had any problems with it. OK - I may not buy another one, but that's mainly because my next computer will be an iMac!
If a Linux version of Microsoft Office can run macros from the Windows version, then it is automatically a better product than Staroffice - from a business perspective. A lot of companies are heavy users of macros, especially in Excel, and without compatibility they're going to stick with Office. Also anyone using Linux and dealing with people using the Windows version of office might want it too. A Linux version of Office is a good hedge against the growing popularity of Linux. Especially if Microsoft is split up...
What about:- Polar Lander Is From Mars, Mars Is From Venus and to the author of...from mars,...from venus tripe - you're from up uranus... Oh well, whatever, nevermind
Sadly, the Wharfedale DVD players sold out very quickly, so I ended up getting one from Dixons (big UK electrical goods retailer) instead. This also had a region hack on the remote where by pressing a couple of buttons you get prompted for region code... This works brilliantly! Quite a lot of DVD players for sale here have similar hacks. There's a very good page here If not, there are loads of places who will open the player up and tweak it... OK - so there are other differences, such as PAL here, NTSC in the states. But most modern TV sets sold here in the last few years should cope admirably. I've got a three year old Sony and it shows NTSC perfectly. The whole region thing is rampant protectionism - designed to stop us importing from another country where prices may be cheaper. So the UK branch of a film company charges more and tries to stop people getting the same movie from their US branch where it's cheaper and has more extras. There's also the censorship angle - where a Region 2 DVD sold in the UK will be subject to BBFC (British Board of Film Censorship) cuts. But it looks like some companies have got the right idea. It could be that many companies making DVD players don't give a toss about the region system and deliberately leave a back door - easily accessible through the remote - so that those of us who want to can get around the whole stupid region thing. I can buy books from America. I can buy CDs from America. Why the heck shouldn't I be allowed to buy a DVD from America - with lots of extras (documentaries, etc) which aren't available on the Region 2 version?
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WTF do you mean by that? A: Hasselblads were the best quality camera money could buy back then. For a mission like that you needed the best equipment to bring back the best photographs. Hasselblads were standard issue. B: They had to be specially modified to stand up to conditions in space and on the moon. Shielded against radiation, kitted out with modified shutter buttons that could be operated wearing spacesuit gloves etc. You sir, are obviously a twat who should be moderated way, way down...
if there are thousands of these photos that have been sitting untouched in the NASA vaults, what about them made them unpalatable for public consumption? Well you know how it is, you get your photos back from developing, and there are always the shots with a bit of camera shake, or where you accidentally chopped off Auntie Mabel's head, or something... I would imagine that there are loads of near duplicates. You don't just take one photo - you take lots - then pick out the best. You only need one picture of an astronaut standing by the LEM, you don't need to see the other dozen(s) from the same shoot.
Thanks for reminding me that when I get paid I really should go and buy this marvellous book. The astronauts used specially modified Hasselblad large format cameras and the quality given by the large negative shows up in these photos. I can't believe the copy negatives were being allowed to rot away (the real negatives are very carefully stored in controlled conditions) as this is world history.
Trevor Bayliss (the guy who invented the clockwork radio) was recently on TV with his latest invention. Generator shoes! As you walk around, they generate electricity so you can power devices or recharge batteries...
Don't have cellphone. Neither want nor need cellphone. ditto laptop, palmtop, whatever. Yeah, I have a PC at home, but I use it for writing, internetting and occasionally games. I never do work stuff on it. I work 37.5 hours a week and I'm not doing overtime without being paid for it... If people are stupid enough to work themselves into an early grave and not have any life other than working, that is their look-out. I prefer to leave work behind me in the evening and enjoy a social life with my friends or do something interesting, entertaining or possibly creative in my spare time... You work 12 or more hours a day if you like. I'll knock off work and go down the pub with my mates. An active, healthy life is more important than money...
I think civil disobedience is the only way to honestly protest this. I think a coordinated effort of DDoS attacks, repeatedly striking the same corporations' sites by people who do it and then fess up afterwards (only to have the site attacked by the next person in line the next day), might have a far more profound effect. Excuse me? And what planet exactly are you from? I'm sure that what you propose would lead to an even greater crackdown, yet more headlines about "those evil hackers" and the end result would be the direct inverse of what everyone (here) wants.
Intelligent discussion from shareholders is the best way to bring people around. No trolls. No flaming. No attacks on company systems. No half-arsed boycotts. Oooh! A bunch of geeks are boycotting DVDs - Oooh! We're so scared!! Good job there are billions of people who have never even heard of slashdot then, isn't it... You have to play these people at their own game, and if that involves buying shares and intelligently discussing this in a calm civilized manner with other shareholders at a business meeting, then this is what has to be done...
OK - so these screens are going to be very expensive at first, but I would imagine they'd come down in price as current flat screens have come down in price. Of course, for anyone in design, CAD, or publishing, or people who do a lot of word processing, screens like this would be ideal - the higher the resolution of the text, the easier it is on the eye. And Quake at that resolution would be pretty nifty too!
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...is kept at the University Of Liverpool. If you want to read more about Wyndham and his work, look at the archive web page which can be found
That's odd. I have an AWE-64 card. I also have a Cyrix based PC. I have not had any problems booting. There is one particular software utility which you can't use with a Cyrix CPU - it won't even let you install it. But it's not a utility I've particularly wanted to use anyway.
I've had the Cyrix machine for three years, and I've never had any problems with it.
OK - I may not buy another one, but that's mainly because my next computer will be an iMac!
If a Linux version of Microsoft Office can run macros from the Windows version, then it is automatically a better product than Staroffice - from a business perspective.
A lot of companies are heavy users of macros, especially in Excel, and without compatibility they're going to stick with Office. Also anyone using Linux and dealing with people using the Windows version of office might want it too.
A Linux version of Office is a good hedge against the growing popularity of Linux. Especially if Microsoft is split up...
What about:- ...from mars, ...from venus tripe - you're from up uranus...
Polar Lander Is From Mars, Mars Is From Venus
and to the author of
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
That would be The Mootrix.
Sadly, the Wharfedale DVD players sold out very quickly, so I ended up getting one from Dixons (big UK electrical goods retailer) instead. This also had a region hack on the remote where by pressing a couple of buttons you get prompted for region code... This works brilliantly!
Quite a lot of DVD players for sale here have similar hacks. There's a very good page here
If not, there are loads of places who will open the player up and tweak it...
OK - so there are other differences, such as PAL here, NTSC in the states. But most modern TV sets sold here in the last few years should cope admirably. I've got a three year old Sony and it shows NTSC perfectly.
The whole region thing is rampant protectionism - designed to stop us importing from another country where prices may be cheaper. So the UK branch of a film company charges more and tries to stop people getting the same movie from their US branch where it's cheaper and has more extras.
There's also the censorship angle - where a Region 2 DVD sold in the UK will be subject to BBFC (British Board of Film Censorship) cuts.
But it looks like some companies have got the right idea. It could be that many companies making DVD players don't give a toss about the region system and deliberately leave a back door - easily accessible through the remote - so that those of us who want to can get around the whole stupid region thing.
I can buy books from America. I can buy CDs from America. Why the heck shouldn't I be allowed to buy a DVD from America - with lots of extras (documentaries, etc) which aren't available on the Region 2 version?
specially modified Hasselblad
materialism isn't everything
WTF do you mean by that?
A: Hasselblads were the best quality camera money could buy back then. For a mission like that you needed the best equipment to bring back the best photographs. Hasselblads were standard issue.
B: They had to be specially modified to stand up to conditions in space and on the moon. Shielded against radiation, kitted out with modified shutter buttons that could be operated wearing spacesuit gloves etc.
You sir, are obviously a twat who should be moderated way, way down...
if there are thousands of these photos that have been sitting untouched in the NASA vaults, what about them made them unpalatable for public consumption?
Well you know how it is, you get your photos back from developing, and there are always the shots with a bit of camera shake, or where you accidentally chopped off Auntie Mabel's head, or something...
I would imagine that there are loads of near duplicates. You don't just take one photo - you take lots - then pick out the best. You only need one picture of an astronaut standing by the LEM, you don't need to see the other dozen(s) from the same shoot.
Thanks for reminding me that when I get paid I really should go and buy this marvellous book.
The astronauts used specially modified Hasselblad large format cameras and the quality given by the large negative shows up in these photos.
I can't believe the copy negatives were being allowed to rot away (the real negatives are very carefully stored in controlled conditions) as this is world history.
Or the guy who invented the clockwork radio?
Trevor Bayliss (the guy who invented the clockwork radio) was recently on TV with his latest invention. Generator shoes! As you walk around, they generate electricity so you can power devices or recharge batteries...
Don't have cellphone. Neither want nor need cellphone. ditto laptop, palmtop, whatever.
Yeah, I have a PC at home, but I use it for writing, internetting and occasionally games. I never do work stuff on it.
I work 37.5 hours a week and I'm not doing overtime without being paid for it...
If people are stupid enough to work themselves into an early grave and not have any life other than working, that is their look-out.
I prefer to leave work behind me in the evening and enjoy a social life with my friends or do something interesting, entertaining or possibly creative in my spare time...
You work 12 or more hours a day if you like. I'll knock off work and go down the pub with my mates.
An active, healthy life is more important than money...
I think civil disobedience is the only way to honestly protest this. I think a coordinated effort of DDoS attacks, repeatedly striking the same corporations' sites by people who do it and then fess up afterwards (only to have the site attacked by the next person in line the next day), might have a far more profound effect.
Excuse me? And what planet exactly are you from?
I'm sure that what you propose would lead to an even greater crackdown, yet more headlines about "those evil hackers" and the end result would be the direct inverse of what everyone (here) wants.
Intelligent discussion from shareholders is the best way to bring people around. No trolls. No flaming. No attacks on company systems. No half-arsed boycotts. Oooh! A bunch of geeks are boycotting DVDs - Oooh! We're so scared!! Good job there are billions of people who have never even heard of slashdot then, isn't it...
You have to play these people at their own game, and if that involves buying shares and intelligently discussing this in a calm civilized manner with other shareholders at a business meeting, then this is what has to be done...
OK - so these screens are going to be very expensive at first, but I would imagine they'd come down in price as current flat screens have come down in price.
Of course, for anyone in design, CAD, or publishing, or people who do a lot of word processing, screens like this would be ideal - the higher the resolution of the text, the easier it is on the eye.
And Quake at that resolution would be pretty nifty too!