One of the nice things about the British system of measurement (which pretty nearly only the Americans use officially, though with a few changes) is that the units are exactly the sort of thing you often want about one of. A pint of beer, a gallon of kerosene,.......
Since when did any American want only ONE gallon of kerosene?
I use a central rack which houses a server (email,audio,internet) and all Audio and video hardware. CD's (remember them) are placed in either a single CD player or multi disc player and fed to the chain of amplifiers. Individual power amps feed each room (Kitchen, Bathroom, main bedroom and tv room(5.1)) using speaker cables.
All video goes via an 8 way loftbox - TV, FM, Digi Channel, VCR & CCTV available in the tv room and all bedrooms.
Remote control back to digibox and all amps is by Xantech extenders.
Multi source, multi zone, remote control with everything except the loftbox off ebay
I agree entirely. I use a number of email addresses of which two (main home and main work) I am VERY careful about giving out. Then I use a number of "lower grade" addresses for newgroups, catalogs and the like. When these become clogged with spam I bounce all mail and inform the sender that if they include the word FORWARD in the subject line it will get though to me. I have never had a single spam that has been forwarded as it requires a human to intervene. Result: less than one spam per day
This sounds like a great idea. You can use all those "spare" machines at work for rendering over night (assuming that like me you have dozens of dual processor Macs in the building) BUT unless your project is VERY processor intensive the overheads incurred in sending hundreds if not thousands of uncompressed video images over the network mean that the overall render times can be slower than if done on a single machine with a local very fast disc array.
For an April fool 'joke' to be worthwhile IMHO it should be not obvious that is is untrue and also be funny for those who have worked it out while others have not.
Providing a clickable like in the article which immediately shows the story to be false just isn't clever enought to be funny
I'm not always a killjoy but this is the fourth time today (excluding dupes)
On my fridge ( german can't remember the make off hand) the litle light DOESN'T turn off but goes dim instead Something to do with keeping the internal temperature up if the external temperature is too low. As me how I know Go on. Go on. No, on second thoughts don't, it isn't interesting N
As I'm sure you'll remember ITN newsreader Julia Somerville and her boyfriend Jeremy Dixon were arrested after a Boots the Chemist employee reported them to the police after they took pictures of her children in the bath.
The Register reports that NTL has stated "Our objective is only to limit very frequent or persistent heavy network use that can impact other customers. Therefore we will ONLY contact customers who exceed the daily data limit for three or more days in any consecutive 14-day period.
The Resister had this story in November telling us that Thompson the only manufacturer of UK Tivo's was stopping production so it's no surprise that Tivo has pulled out altogether.
Also interesting is the recent rise in price of new and used Tivo's on Ebay (UK) showing there is still some demand. I recon they canned it before most people had even hears of Tivo.
Nick
Microsoft's problem with doing this is that once they make linux really popular by distributing it, users will realise that they can circumvent the proprietary code by using an alternative open source version.
Then everybody'll be using linux and where will micro$oft be
Tivo WAS sold here in the UK but they are now very difficult to find. Tivo customer services say that they are not selling any more because Thompson have ceased production of PAL units but that they MAY (my emphasis) find another manufacturer at some point in the future. Tivo on ebay now approaching £250! without subscription.
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The player in question, the sv300 can play ordinary dvd's as well so should still qualify as a DVD player anyway
for Nerds or for Americans?
And our language, although you have bastardised it considerably
Since when did any American want only ONE gallon of kerosene?
I use a central rack which houses a server (email,audio,internet) and all Audio and video hardware. CD's (remember them) are placed in either a single CD player or multi disc player and fed to the chain of amplifiers. Individual power amps feed each room (Kitchen, Bathroom, main bedroom and tv room(5.1)) using speaker cables.
All video goes via an 8 way loftbox - TV, FM, Digi Channel, VCR & CCTV available in the tv room and all bedrooms.
Remote control back to digibox and all amps is by Xantech extenders.
Multi source, multi zone, remote control with everything except the loftbox off ebay
N
I agree entirely. I use a number of email addresses of which two (main home and main work) I am VERY careful about giving out.
Then I use a number of "lower grade" addresses for newgroups, catalogs and the like. When these become clogged with spam I bounce all mail and inform the sender that if they include the word FORWARD in the subject line it will get though to me.
I have never had a single spam that has been forwarded as it requires a human to intervene.
Result: less than one spam per day
Nick
This sounds like a great idea. You can use all those "spare" machines at work for rendering over night (assuming that like me you have dozens of dual processor Macs in the building) BUT unless your project is VERY processor intensive the overheads incurred in sending hundreds if not thousands of uncompressed video images over the network mean that the overall render times can be slower than if done on a single machine with a local very fast disc array.
Nick
For an April fool 'joke' to be worthwhile IMHO it should be not obvious that is is untrue and also be funny for those who have worked it out while others have not.
Providing a clickable like in the article which immediately shows the story to be false just isn't clever enought to be funny
I'm not always a killjoy but this is the fourth time today (excluding dupes)
N
It probably won't be much use to you if it did come to the US as India uses PAL not NTSC. However, over here in good ol' England we can't wait
N
Describing film -> VHS as un upgrade is only really accurate in terms of ease of use. In terms of quality it is defititely a downgrade
N
PAL and NTSC signals can be progressive or interlaced but if they are composite signals suitable for transmission they will be interlaced.
N
At first I thought this post was goig to be funny but then I realised it was serious.
You can do all these things already - How does this help?
N
On my fridge ( german can't remember the make off hand) the litle light DOESN'T turn off but goes dim instead
Something to do with keeping the internal temperature up if the external temperature is too low.
As me how I know Go on. Go on.
No, on second thoughts don't, it isn't interesting
N
i'm not
OK so its a one word post but it raised the issue of security for the first time, and quite a discussion followed.
Why was it modded redundant?
Indeed.
As I'm sure you'll remember ITN newsreader Julia Somerville and her boyfriend Jeremy Dixon were arrested after a Boots the Chemist employee reported them to the police after they took pictures of her children in the bath.
N
The Register reports that NTL has stated "Our objective is only to limit very frequent or persistent heavy network use that can impact other customers. Therefore we will ONLY contact customers who exceed the daily data limit for three or more days in any consecutive 14-day period.
So that's all right then
Nick
The Resister had this story in November telling us that Thompson the only manufacturer of UK Tivo's was stopping production so it's no surprise that Tivo has pulled out altogether. Also interesting is the recent rise in price of new and used Tivo's on Ebay (UK) showing there is still some demand. I recon they canned it before most people had even hears of Tivo. Nick
Microsoft's problem with doing this is that once they make linux really popular by distributing it, users will realise that they can circumvent the proprietary code by using an alternative open source version.
Then everybody'll be using linux and where will micro$oft be
Nick
Funny maybe but informative, I don't think so.
N
"Users will downoad "something else" if the market dictates that they have to"
Flash for example
Nick
Probably not that old fashioned, but Uranium enriched for extra armour piercing ability. Leaves loads of radioactivity around. Yummm
N
is a 'Bond' style detector so we can check if any of our clothing has one of these babies before we decide what to do about it.
Nick
Much of the above helpful info is only true if your tv system uses NTSC which those of use in Europe don't.
Tivo WAS sold here in the UK but they are now very difficult to find. Tivo customer services say that they are not selling any more because Thompson have ceased production of PAL units but that they MAY (my emphasis) find another manufacturer at some point in the future. Tivo on ebay now approaching £250! without subscription.