The battery on the PSP is a clip-in style one, and you'll be able to buy extras one to take with you. Its not a screw-in style like the iPod battery. Theres no need to buy an external battery pack.
Introducing secrecy into the coding group is a bad thing whatever the project, but working on something on the scale of Firefox without knowing where the project is headed? Thats a receipe for disaster.. One of the good things about Firefox has been the transparency with which the developers have worked so far. Its easy to know whats going on.
Whats more, there are one or two of us out here that don't want a myriad of features specifically oriented to one corporation. I'd be more than happy with Google producing a line of Google plugins and extensions, but coding them into the browser itself? That sort of thing leads to code forks... and thats not a good thing for the Firefox project on the whole.
Or your GTA character must eat PizzaHut's pizza to survive?
I just wish Rockstar would put Pizza Huts into the GTA universe. It'd be like playing Micheal Douglas in Falling Down. With more blood. And rocket launchers.
The BBC, just like any other rational business, is out to make money off of this while the rest of the world could benifit greatly from it.
Nope. The BBC need the codec in order to save themselves a bucketload of cash in the future when they make their digital program archive available over the internet (something they have to do according to their Charter). They're not intending to make pots of money from the codec, they just want it to exist so they can use it themselves.
The BBC is funded by government, but thats where the relationship ends. The UK government has absolutely no say whatsoever in what the BBC spends its money on. If the BBC wants to develop video codecs then theres nothing the UK government can do about it. Thats one of the reasons the BBC news is able to remain impartial, and often reports on the UK government making a mess off things. See the Hutton report for details.:)
2005: Good. 2006: Ok I suppose. 2007: Yikes. Thats an unreasonable insurance company.. everyone come to Acme Insurance where we'll be fairer.
So long as theres competition in the market the rules will never be completely unfair simply because one company could remain fair and get all the customers. Thats how capitalism works.
The police see, and act on, incidents as they're seen on the CCTV. Prior to CCTV they would only be recorded if someone made a complaint. As most violent street crime is a drunken fight outside a pub not much was ever brought to the attention of the police. Therefore CCTV has increased the amount of *reported* crime that goes into the stats. Thats really very different to there actually being more. Overall crime rates in the UK have been falling for the last 10 years or so.
I assume you weren't mugged as you would probably have mentioned it. I would also assume you didn't mug anyone yourself, you'd have mentioned that too.
Cell phone manufacturers (Nokia, SonyEricsson, Sagem, etc) actually make a nice healthy profit on the phones. Its the telco companies that then pass the phones on to the customers at a loss.. which they make back easily on the users that send 1000 text messages a month..
UNITING AND STRENGTHENING AMERICA BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE TOOLS
REQUIRED TO INTERCEPT AND OBSTRUCT TERRORISM (USA PATRIOT ACT)
Its an acronym. Terrorism is what the T in Patriot stands for. It was drawn up for no reason other than to fight terrorism. Using it to fight other things is beyond its scope.
You don't work from home, you don't carry a pager, and you don't give them your cell phone number. If they don't want to pay for the means of contacting you, they can try your answering machine and hope for the best.
But I will. All at my own expense. When I get your job as you've been dismissed coz your productivity dropped...
They state that each disc will encrypted so that it will only play on one particular academy members player. So it will be obvious who ripped the copy... how many academy members will be willing to risk being found out?
Better yet, as I'm a Brit I can make a killing buying these chips and sellng them on to countries that my government doesn't have silly rules against. Exactly the same way Europeans used to buy IBMs and sell them to Russia during the cold war.
1. US government make silly rules. 2. I start import/export co. 3. ??? 4. Profit.
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You paid money to a company you had no details of?
Err.. I've got this bridge for sale..
The battery on the PSP is a clip-in style one, and you'll be able to buy extras one to take with you. Its not a screw-in style like the iPod battery. Theres no need to buy an external battery pack.
Introducing secrecy into the coding group is a bad thing whatever the project, but working on something on the scale of Firefox without knowing where the project is headed? Thats a receipe for disaster.. One of the good things about Firefox has been the transparency with which the developers have worked so far. Its easy to know whats going on.
Whats more, there are one or two of us out here that don't want a myriad of features specifically oriented to one corporation. I'd be more than happy with Google producing a line of Google plugins and extensions, but coding them into the browser itself? That sort of thing leads to code forks... and thats not a good thing for the Firefox project on the whole.
Hardly news. The gaming population already have PS2s and don't need a cosmeticly different version.
And an Apple G5 'Sphere' would roll off your desk..
Or your GTA character must eat PizzaHut's pizza to survive?
I just wish Rockstar would put Pizza Huts into the GTA universe. It'd be like playing Micheal Douglas in Falling Down. With more blood. And rocket launchers.
But http://www.bbc.co.uk is actually just about usable..
The BBC, just like any other rational business, is out to make money off of this while the rest of the world could benifit greatly from it.
Nope. The BBC need the codec in order to save themselves a bucketload of cash in the future when they make their digital program archive available over the internet (something they have to do according to their Charter). They're not intending to make pots of money from the codec, they just want it to exist so they can use it themselves.
The BBC is funded by government, but thats where the relationship ends. The UK government has absolutely no say whatsoever in what the BBC spends its money on. If the BBC wants to develop video codecs then theres nothing the UK government can do about it. Thats one of the reasons the BBC news is able to remain impartial, and often reports on the UK government making a mess off things. See the Hutton report for details. :)
but all it takes is a nice little Time Base Corrector to strip the digital crap out to clean up the signal
;)
This is for digital television broadcasts. If you strip the digital information out you'll be left with a blank screen.
2005: Good.
2006: Ok I suppose.
2007: Yikes. Thats an unreasonable insurance company.. everyone come to Acme Insurance where we'll be fairer.
So long as theres competition in the market the rules will never be completely unfair simply because one company could remain fair and get all the customers. Thats how capitalism works.
The police see, and act on, incidents as they're seen on the CCTV. Prior to CCTV they would only be recorded if someone made a complaint. As most violent street crime is a drunken fight outside a pub not much was ever brought to the attention of the police. Therefore CCTV has increased the amount of *reported* crime that goes into the stats. Thats really very different to there actually being more. Overall crime rates in the UK have been falling for the last 10 years or so.
I assume you weren't mugged as you would probably have mentioned it. I would also assume you didn't mug anyone yourself, you'd have mentioned that too.
:)
Looks like the cameras work then.
You're pinning your hopes of getting a girlfriend on which MP3 player you have?
/. ... you'll fit right in.
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What they don't tell you is that the chip is 4 feet square.
Cell phone manufacturers (Nokia, SonyEricsson, Sagem, etc) actually make a nice healthy profit on the phones. Its the telco companies that then pass the phones on to the customers at a loss.. which they make back easily on the users that send 1000 text messages a month..
Muhahaha.. when my killer robot rabbits are finished you will be bankrupt!
http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Terrorism_militias/2 0020925_patriot_act.html
UNITING AND STRENGTHENING AMERICA BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE TOOLS
REQUIRED TO INTERCEPT AND OBSTRUCT TERRORISM (USA PATRIOT ACT)
Its an acronym. Terrorism is what the T in Patriot stands for. It was drawn up for no reason other than to fight terrorism. Using it to fight other things is beyond its scope.
So I should pay more than I need to for storage in order to keep StorageTek in business?
Err.. no.
You don't work from home, you don't carry a pager, and you don't give them your cell phone number. If they don't want to pay for the means of contacting you, they can try your answering machine and hope for the best.
But I will. All at my own expense. When I get your job as you've been dismissed coz your productivity dropped...
2005: MS withdraw all discounts for Dell.
2005: MS grant discounts to other OEM PC suppliers.
2006: Dell have no business customers left.
They state that each disc will encrypted so that it will only play on one particular academy members player. So it will be obvious who ripped the copy... how many academy members will be willing to risk being found out?
Isn't that whats sent *after* censorship?
Better yet, as I'm a Brit I can make a killing buying these chips and sellng them on to countries that my government doesn't have silly rules against. Exactly the same way Europeans used to buy IBMs and sell them to Russia during the cold war.
1. US government make silly rules.
2. I start import/export co.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Cheers.
The "Cassini" bit is named after Giovanni Domenico Cassini, a famous maths bloke.
a ti cians/Cassini.html
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathem