I used to be in a similar situation. I started having intermittent problems with Hotmail about four years ago. The worst part is that the messages just vanish without being delivered or bounced. It seems to me that Hotmail isn't spec compliant from this regard. It was particularly bad sending to one friend of mine, and got to the point where I'd CC his wife who had a non-Hotmail account. Hotmail support were actually responsive for a while, but of course I didn't really get anywhere with that. These days I just don't bother running a mail server... in fact I'm kind of glad not to have the extra hardware running day and night in my home.
The one thing I like about my Dell laptop at work compared with my MacBook at home is that PC manufacturers make docks. I don't have to unplug/insert a bunch of cables every time I want to move.
CC is a very useful field. It shows things like the recipient isn't required to respond, or they've been included as an FYI. It drives me nuts when people misuse the To: header. It's often just a sign of laziness, although in fairness it occasionally can be because they need some help finding the right person. We work across three time zones eight hours apart (London, Shanghai and San Francisco), so I need copies of conversations that I can find later via X1 rather than waiting for the small window I'm online at the same time with somebody who will be able to answer my questions, but putting my in the To field of those threads would be wrong.
BCC is also very useful, but I tend to avoid it if I certainly don't want the recipient to accidentally reply to the whole thread and reveal that they were included (then I tend to forward my message instead). I use BCC by far the most frequently if I'm pruning recipients from long email threads. I mention what I've done in the first line of the email, and then anybody who should be on the thread will know what I've done and re-add themselves if they really want to.
The bitrate of the iPlayer content isn't sufficient for SD resolution, so the HD resolution issue is rather moot. I watch it all at 1080p anyway:) Then again, my partner doesn't notice the artefacts and macro-blocking, and she isn't bothered when it degrades to a lower bitrate stream due to network congestion. For most people, it's simply not important to worry about.
I can't say I've missed anything because it wasn't made available, although I have when it wasn't available for long enough. Again, that's moot. When I had Tivo I found if I didn't watch things quickly then it all just backed up and I'd end up deleting unwatched anyway.
If I could get Freeview, I still wouldn't get the PS3 PVR add-on. I'm definitely not putting another computer in the living room to run MythTV. In a few years, most TVs in the UK will come with services live RoxioNow or UltraViolet built-in in to them, if not domestic catch-up TV services like the iPlayer. In the US, that service already carries TV programming. Hooray for the cloud and less crap cluttering our homes.
Seeing as everything from the Beeb is on iPlayer, why bother?
I've been VCR/PVR freee for a few years now, and I really don't miss it. Catch-up TV via my PS3 (or now Freesat box) has been good enough. Sure, some of the features and video quality are missing, but then I guess I'm just not bothered enough by TV.
I got my first Tivo about 2001 when I was living in Canada. Tivo weren't offering service in Canada at the time, with some BS excuse about having to translate everything in to French and that being too much work for them (I think their general slowness to develop or adapt to the market changes is what's held them back, incidentally). So there was a strong community in Canada around hacking these Tivos to make them work in a place with no service. It was pretty cool, and required some application called Simplicity to emulate the Tivo servers to provide the EPG, etc. Maybe there's some future in this in the UK, which would certainly save having to deal with the far less appealing prospect of a MythTV box.
You're much more trusting than me! My card stays within my eye sight. Another pet peeve of mine when Stateside is the fondness of people to walk off with the card when charging it...
Then you discover another annoying quirk particular to N. America: you have to know how much you want to spend before you fill the tank. Not very amusing when you're trying to fill a rental car for the first time... on the way to dropping it before an early morning flight.
Rather topical Daily Chart" over at the Economist last week. Yes, HTC have held their own, but look at poor Nokia. Totally squeezed out by Apple, who with a < 5% market share are taking > 50% of the profits. Looking at their downward spiral, it's clear that Nokia need something radical. It needs to be more radical than the Razr was for Motorola.
Why is fraud such a problem in the US? Is it because credit card companies are lax with their security? I'm being devil's advocate a little here because I have been a victim of fraud an identity theft in N. American, and now having moved to Europe, I see how pathetic standards and security is in N. America.
It's a pain in the arse visiting the US and not being able to use my credit card easily to fill up my rental car because the pump requires a zip code to accept the card. Nowhere else I've been does this. Why?
We have seen in the past how well the.net for Firefox stuff went over. It caused all sorts of uproar, confusion and problems.
Not really. It just upset some people on/., who aren't really representative. Most people didn't even know... so I guess it didn't cause so many problems.
5. It will cause problems with the browser and maybe the OS.
Again: highly unlikely, but if you want to have little fantasies and tell little scare stories, have fun.
Yawn. The codec license is included in the price of Windows. If you're not on Windows, you don't have access to it. If you are, there's mo additional cost. What's your point?
Interesting article over at The Economist analyzing how much cheap Chinese imports have saved Americans money by keeping domestic manufacturing in check. Americans like their goods cheap more than they like wage inflation it seems.
I did some Googling... HDMI doesn't carry CC signals. It's now up to the source device to render CC. And orginially it was primarily N. American (NTSC, line 21). There are probably no Blu-ray discs on the planet that use CC as most of them will require HDMI output. For BD, other HD sources, the rest of the world, other technologies are used instead of CC.
So anyway... what was your original point? I see no restriction imposed by 3D.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Isn't closed captioning an analogue N. American TV thing? On Blu-ray, subtitles and menus can be stereoscopic, can be made to float over the video, or the video can even automatically switch to 2D when they're showing. There's no reason why films at the cinema can't support subtitling either.
If you factor in the differences in labour costs, overheads, etc, is the Chinese military budget that different to the US one? Software engineers are a fifth or cheaper in Shanghai for instance, which is why so many companies have off-shored or out-sourced.
has bad support for multiple instances (if you are running more than one session on the same machine, firefox won't even launch)
Wrong. I regularly have it running concurrently under two logon sessions on Windows 7 Enterprise x64. I took my local admin privs away from my domain account, so I often login concurrently with a local admin account when I'm doing something that will need me to type my password a lot and an admin cmd prompt isn't sufficient. Thus I frequently have two instances of FF.
I'm looking around for something at the moment too. I've started shooting a lot in RAW and doing non-destructive editting, and it's chewing up disk space! The prices you quoted are higher than I want to pay... but I'm looking for advice for something I can hide away in the corner of my living room. Perhaps around 2-4TB, primary requirements are quiet and fast. Any suggestions?
I'd also suggest that as our eyes look around a scene, they adjust for whatever we're looking at directly. Cameras don't do this localised adaptation so effectively need to have a greater range than the eye.
The status bar is the first line of defence before clicking on potentially dangerous links (ok, maybe second, after commonsense). It shows to where obfuscated URLs are going, which is quite helpful if it's in a well constructed phishing email. I've had a few good Facebook forgeries, but the status bar confirms most quickly if the links go to Facebook or not. I think this is actually a really big problem in smartphones, BTW, as they tend to strip away all of these visual cues.
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I used to be in a similar situation. I started having intermittent problems with Hotmail about four years ago. The worst part is that the messages just vanish without being delivered or bounced. It seems to me that Hotmail isn't spec compliant from this regard. It was particularly bad sending to one friend of mine, and got to the point where I'd CC his wife who had a non-Hotmail account. Hotmail support were actually responsive for a while, but of course I didn't really get anywhere with that. These days I just don't bother running a mail server... in fact I'm kind of glad not to have the extra hardware running day and night in my home.
Might as well throw in USB 3.0 as well.
The one thing I like about my Dell laptop at work compared with my MacBook at home is that PC manufacturers make docks. I don't have to unplug/insert a bunch of cables every time I want to move.
CC is a very useful field. It shows things like the recipient isn't required to respond, or they've been included as an FYI. It drives me nuts when people misuse the To: header. It's often just a sign of laziness, although in fairness it occasionally can be because they need some help finding the right person. We work across three time zones eight hours apart (London, Shanghai and San Francisco), so I need copies of conversations that I can find later via X1 rather than waiting for the small window I'm online at the same time with somebody who will be able to answer my questions, but putting my in the To field of those threads would be wrong.
BCC is also very useful, but I tend to avoid it if I certainly don't want the recipient to accidentally reply to the whole thread and reveal that they were included (then I tend to forward my message instead). I use BCC by far the most frequently if I'm pruning recipients from long email threads. I mention what I've done in the first line of the email, and then anybody who should be on the thread will know what I've done and re-add themselves if they really want to.
Not worth the effort. I could just download to a laptop and hook it up to the TV for less effort.
The bitrate of the iPlayer content isn't sufficient for SD resolution, so the HD resolution issue is rather moot. I watch it all at 1080p anyway :) Then again, my partner doesn't notice the artefacts and macro-blocking, and she isn't bothered when it degrades to a lower bitrate stream due to network congestion. For most people, it's simply not important to worry about.
I can't say I've missed anything because it wasn't made available, although I have when it wasn't available for long enough. Again, that's moot. When I had Tivo I found if I didn't watch things quickly then it all just backed up and I'd end up deleting unwatched anyway.
If I could get Freeview, I still wouldn't get the PS3 PVR add-on. I'm definitely not putting another computer in the living room to run MythTV. In a few years, most TVs in the UK will come with services live RoxioNow or UltraViolet built-in in to them, if not domestic catch-up TV services like the iPlayer. In the US, that service already carries TV programming. Hooray for the cloud and less crap cluttering our homes.
Seeing as everything from the Beeb is on iPlayer, why bother?
I've been VCR/PVR freee for a few years now, and I really don't miss it. Catch-up TV via my PS3 (or now Freesat box) has been good enough. Sure, some of the features and video quality are missing, but then I guess I'm just not bothered enough by TV.
I got my first Tivo about 2001 when I was living in Canada. Tivo weren't offering service in Canada at the time, with some BS excuse about having to translate everything in to French and that being too much work for them (I think their general slowness to develop or adapt to the market changes is what's held them back, incidentally). So there was a strong community in Canada around hacking these Tivos to make them work in a place with no service. It was pretty cool, and required some application called Simplicity to emulate the Tivo servers to provide the EPG, etc. Maybe there's some future in this in the UK, which would certainly save having to deal with the far less appealing prospect of a MythTV box.
You're much more trusting than me! My card stays within my eye sight. Another pet peeve of mine when Stateside is the fondness of people to walk off with the card when charging it...
Then you discover another annoying quirk particular to N. America: you have to know how much you want to spend before you fill the tank. Not very amusing when you're trying to fill a rental car for the first time... on the way to dropping it before an early morning flight.
Rather topical Daily Chart" over at the Economist last week. Yes, HTC have held their own, but look at poor Nokia. Totally squeezed out by Apple, who with a < 5% market share are taking > 50% of the profits. Looking at their downward spiral, it's clear that Nokia need something radical. It needs to be more radical than the Razr was for Motorola.
Why is fraud such a problem in the US? Is it because credit card companies are lax with their security? I'm being devil's advocate a little here because I have been a victim of fraud an identity theft in N. American, and now having moved to Europe, I see how pathetic standards and security is in N. America.
It's a pain in the arse visiting the US and not being able to use my credit card easily to fill up my rental car because the pump requires a zip code to accept the card. Nowhere else I've been does this. Why?
Not really. It just upset some people on /., who aren't really representative. Most people didn't even know... so I guess it didn't cause so many problems.
Again: highly unlikely, but if you want to have little fantasies and tell little scare stories, have fun.
Yawn. The codec license is included in the price of Windows. If you're not on Windows, you don't have access to it. If you are, there's mo additional cost. What's your point?
Interesting article over at The Economist analyzing how much cheap Chinese imports have saved Americans money by keeping domestic manufacturing in check. Americans like their goods cheap more than they like wage inflation it seems.
Was this on your phone (sounds a bit cheap for Rogers Wireless :P), or did you mean GB?
I did some Googling... HDMI doesn't carry CC signals. It's now up to the source device to render CC. And orginially it was primarily N. American (NTSC, line 21). There are probably no Blu-ray discs on the planet that use CC as most of them will require HDMI output. For BD, other HD sources, the rest of the world, other technologies are used instead of CC.
So anyway... what was your original point? I see no restriction imposed by 3D.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Isn't closed captioning an analogue N. American TV thing? On Blu-ray, subtitles and menus can be stereoscopic, can be made to float over the video, or the video can even automatically switch to 2D when they're showing. There's no reason why films at the cinema can't support subtitling either.
If you factor in the differences in labour costs, overheads, etc, is the Chinese military budget that different to the US one? Software engineers are a fifth or cheaper in Shanghai for instance, which is why so many companies have off-shored or out-sourced.
Is this with a shared profile?
It started with a lot of staff from the BBC. Go figure.
Wrong. I regularly have it running concurrently under two logon sessions on Windows 7 Enterprise x64. I took my local admin privs away from my domain account, so I often login concurrently with a local admin account when I'm doing something that will need me to type my password a lot and an admin cmd prompt isn't sufficient. Thus I frequently have two instances of FF.
Huh? When was NTLM last a problem in a Mozilla browser?
Come on, that's a bit weak.
How are the Drobe drives noise-wise?
I'm looking around for something at the moment too. I've started shooting a lot in RAW and doing non-destructive editting, and it's chewing up disk space! The prices you quoted are higher than I want to pay... but I'm looking for advice for something I can hide away in the corner of my living room. Perhaps around 2-4TB, primary requirements are quiet and fast. Any suggestions?
I'd also suggest that as our eyes look around a scene, they adjust for whatever we're looking at directly. Cameras don't do this localised adaptation so effectively need to have a greater range than the eye.
Be careful dude: if you become too agitated, you might come unstuck from the mud
The status bar is the first line of defence before clicking on potentially dangerous links (ok, maybe second, after commonsense). It shows to where obfuscated URLs are going, which is quite helpful if it's in a well constructed phishing email. I've had a few good Facebook forgeries, but the status bar confirms most quickly if the links go to Facebook or not. I think this is actually a really big problem in smartphones, BTW, as they tend to strip away all of these visual cues.