This happens all the time in real life. DVDs are encrypted because they figured people would copy them unfairly.
No, DVD's were encrypted because they wanted to control what people do with things they buy. They've always known that pirates will always be able to copy dvds using analog->digital->analog anyway.
Now instead of telling my boss that our issue has been escalated to level 2 support I can say "I won't have an answer until Elm0 in #L1nuxd00dz recovers from his caffine induced tirade about how LISP is more elegant that PERL".
This is the problem really. The fact that you'll have the correct answer from IRC before level 1 corporate support has taken your credit card number and given you a log reference is irrellevent. Getting the job done is no longer important.
Yes, and when accidents occur over 90mph, they are horrific
Indeed, however look at who is more likely to be hurt, 100mph on a near-empty seperate carriageway motorway, you lose control, you crash, you have the problem. You have a lot more incentive not to crash than at 40mph past a school in the rain at kicking out time. That's *more likely* to result in an accident in the first place, and the victim is much more likely to be an innocent bystander, and worse, the driver is likely to receive limited injuries, which means that the driver will take more risks.
In the UK, the safest roads (lowest KSI per passanger-mile) are the fastest roads, I believe that's the same throughout Europe.
I drive a car that routinely gets over 50 miles per gallon,
Good for you, although with tiny U.S. prices I'm surprised you're bothered. People in the UK (especially the south east) aren't bothered about fuel consumption, and we pay nearly $7 a (US) gallon.
gone off the left side, ridden up a 45-degree embankment
Doesn't sound like a particularly safe road design.
[travelling at a high speed] routinely is stupid, rude, illegal, and cannot be excused
Stupid? Perhaps, that's subjective Rude? There are many rude things, lane hogging, tailgating. Traveling at a similar speed to everyone else isn't rude. Illegal? In some countries, yes, but as mentioned 90mph is legal in Itally and Germany, 80mph is a standard speed.
Without knowing the condidtions of the road, vehicle and driver, it's impossible to suggest a safe speed.
In England the amount of the fine is directly proportional to your income, by law.
Bollocks. You're thinking of Sweeden (or maybe Norway). It's true that in England and Wales (where the appropiate law applies) your ability to pay will be taken into account, although most of the time you'll get a fixed penalty for speeding.
ever consider slowing down? that [100mph]s really fast.
No, it's not. It may be fast for a car driving past a school, it's slow for an aeroplane though.
Just because your country has roads and legislation that mean a maximum speed of 55mph, it doesn't mean that other countrys don't. 70mph, 80mph, 90mph and even no-limit are standard highway speeds arround the world.
you also pay 60% of it in taxes. Let's talk about takehome pay;)
How much do you pay after federal tax, local tax, state tax, sales tax, medicare, social security, health insurance, pension contribution? What about after paying for food, rent, transport, gas, electricity, water etc. (I.E. what's your disposable income).
Now what does that work out per hour that you actually work and commute (after holidays etc)?
And don't even get me started on those Italians before they joined the Euro. They drove their inflation so sky high until they were all multi-millionairs.
Until 18 months ago everyone in Turkey made at least 9 figures a month
Yes...like pretty much of the rest of the 99% of people that go out to bars to drink...what is your point?
I'd imagine most people in the world would walk to their local pub, or have a designated driver, certainly the case in the Europe. Another example of the laziness of your average yank.
so, you basically have to go somewhere else after drinking there....and in most places, you sure don't want to leave your car there unattended overnight.
So let me get this straight. You drive to a bar, with the intent to drink alcohol, and intend to drive home after? And this is the bars fault?
I hope the production of this didn't come from our TV licenses
BBC World is a commercial channel and receives no license fee money. Many programs are broadcast on World and on normal BBC Channels (Top Gear, Click, joint overnights when maintenence is going on in either N24 or Worlds studios), appropiate finance arragements are made.
No, BBC World is a commercial TV channel broadcast mainly from Television Centre in West London. BBC World Service Radio is funded by the foreign office, and is broadcast mainly from Bush House in the centre of London.
Even worse, I try the realplayer link and get "BBC World is not available in the UK".. Sheesh...
BBC World is a commercial channel, funded and run completely seperatly from the normal BBC news (although staff are shared, BBC World pay for this). The BBC charter doesn't allow it to be broadcast in the UK.
Of course the competition argue that the license fee subsidises BBC World, which it arguably does.
You're not missing much, besides it is available in the UK, point you sat dish to an appropiate satelite.
They'll insist the machine is plugged in, they've pressed the power button, and it's turned on.
You then trek up 3 flights of stairs, arrive at tehir desk, press the power button, and it works. They'll insists "oh that didn't work for me". Yeah right.
Slashdot Mirror
XP/MCE
Certainly sounds liek a Linux app, but I've not heard of it. How does it compare to MythTV?
Recording of this content is prohibited by the content provider
Recompile it (or set the conf file) to ignore content-provider flags.
My mythtv box recorded Dr Who fine last week. Sadly. Had a problem the other week when the football overran by half-an-hour though.
Google tells me that 3 145 miles per gallon = 1 337.07695 kilometers per liter
Why do otherwise educated people, especially Americans, not understand accuracy.
Being very generous, we can assume 3145mpg is accurate to +-0.5mpg, it's probably neared +-2.5mpg.
They get about 3145mpg, which is about 1337km/l.
I travel at 120km/h on the motorway. That's 75mph, not 74.564543mph.
This happens all the time in real life. DVDs are encrypted because they figured people would copy them unfairly.
No, DVD's were encrypted because they wanted to control what people do with things they buy. They've always known that pirates will always be able to copy dvds using analog->digital->analog anyway.
Now instead of telling my boss that our issue has been escalated to level 2 support I can say "I won't have an answer until Elm0 in #L1nuxd00dz recovers from his caffine induced tirade about how LISP is more elegant that PERL".
This is the problem really. The fact that you'll have the correct answer from IRC before level 1 corporate support has taken your credit card number and given you a log reference is irrellevent. Getting the job done is no longer important.
Lowering speed limits helps them a lot.
No it doesn't, you'll still get somebody passing you and immediatly turning left across your path (right in Europe/USA)
Yes, and when accidents occur over 90mph, they are horrific
Indeed, however look at who is more likely to be hurt, 100mph on a near-empty seperate carriageway motorway, you lose control, you crash, you have the problem. You have a lot more incentive not to crash than at 40mph past a school in the rain at kicking out time. That's *more likely* to result in an accident in the first place, and the victim is much more likely to be an innocent bystander, and worse, the driver is likely to receive limited injuries, which means that the driver will take more risks.
In the UK, the safest roads (lowest KSI per passanger-mile) are the fastest roads, I believe that's the same throughout Europe.
I drive a car that routinely gets over 50 miles per gallon,
Good for you, although with tiny U.S. prices I'm surprised you're bothered. People in the UK (especially the south east) aren't bothered about fuel consumption, and we pay nearly $7 a (US) gallon.
gone off the left side, ridden up a 45-degree embankment
Doesn't sound like a particularly safe road design.
[travelling at a high speed] routinely is stupid, rude, illegal, and cannot be excused
Stupid? Perhaps, that's subjective
Rude? There are many rude things, lane hogging, tailgating. Traveling at a similar speed to everyone else isn't rude.
Illegal? In some countries, yes, but as mentioned 90mph is legal in Itally and Germany, 80mph is a standard speed.
Without knowing the condidtions of the road, vehicle and driver, it's impossible to suggest a safe speed.
In England the amount of the fine is directly proportional to your income, by law.
Bollocks. You're thinking of Sweeden (or maybe Norway). It's true that in England and Wales (where the appropiate law applies) your ability to pay will be taken into account, although most of the time you'll get a fixed penalty for speeding.
ever consider slowing down? that [100mph]s really fast.
No, it's not. It may be fast for a car driving past a school, it's slow for an aeroplane though.
Just because your country has roads and legislation that mean a maximum speed of 55mph, it doesn't mean that other countrys don't. 70mph, 80mph, 90mph and even no-limit are standard highway speeds arround the world.
you also pay 60% of it in taxes. Let's talk about takehome pay ;)
How much do you pay after federal tax, local tax, state tax, sales tax, medicare, social security, health insurance, pension contribution? What about after paying for food, rent, transport, gas, electricity, water etc. (I.E. what's your disposable income).
Now what does that work out per hour that you actually work and commute (after holidays etc)?
And don't even get me started on those Italians before they joined the Euro. They drove their inflation so sky high until they were all multi-millionairs.
Until 18 months ago everyone in Turkey made at least 9 figures a month
I've watched every episode of Star Trek, and don't remember these planemos ever being mentioned!
You watched *every* episode? Including the Enterprise episode "Rogue Planet"?
Actually, probably best not to admit it if you did.
To a programmer, "dim employees() as integer" just looks goofy.
True, but VB programmers can vent fustration
Dim managment
Dim users
Dim wits
How many weeks of vacation do the Europeans get?
:p
Standard seems to be 28 days including bank holidays,
34 days including bank holiday, 40 hours a week otherwise. Flexible time (within reason) too.
I am Swedish, I worry a lot about the IP land grab going on
IPv6 will sort that out
pillowcases stuffed with soda cans
Now a pillow fight, prferably involving many girls, I can see the point in that.
The difference between US [tinyurl.com] and China [tinyurl.com].
Not all censored if you know where to look
Never? That's a very, very long time. I would never bet against never. Never always wins.
You're saying duke nukem forever will come out, and run on windows vista on my 286?
Yes...like pretty much of the rest of the 99% of people that go out to bars to drink...what is your point?
I'd imagine most people in the world would walk to their local pub, or have a designated driver, certainly the case in the Europe. Another example of the laziness of your average yank.
so, you basically have to go somewhere else after drinking there....and in most places, you sure don't want to leave your car there unattended overnight.
So let me get this straight. You drive to a bar, with the intent to drink alcohol, and intend to drive home after? And this is the bars fault?
I hope the production of this didn't come from our TV licenses
BBC World is a commercial channel and receives no license fee money. Many programs are broadcast on World and on normal BBC Channels (Top Gear, Click, joint overnights when maintenence is going on in either N24 or Worlds studios), appropiate finance arragements are made.
1) DAB Digital Radio
No, BBC World is a commercial TV channel broadcast mainly from Television Centre in West London. BBC World Service Radio is funded by the foreign office, and is broadcast mainly from Bush House in the centre of London.
Even worse, I try the realplayer link and get "BBC World is not available in the UK".. Sheesh...
BBC World is a commercial channel, funded and run completely seperatly from the normal BBC news (although staff are shared, BBC World pay for this). The BBC charter doesn't allow it to be broadcast in the UK.
Of course the competition argue that the license fee subsidises BBC World, which it arguably does.
You're not missing much, besides it is available in the UK, point you sat dish to an appropiate satelite.
They'll insist the machine is plugged in, they've pressed the power button, and it's turned on.
You then trek up 3 flights of stairs, arrive at tehir desk, press the power button, and it works. They'll insists "oh that didn't work for me". Yeah right.
where it's painfully hard to get past that L1 moron asking "is your power cord plugged in
Most of the time it's useless asking this question, however most of the time it is the problem.
A terabyte is a lot. It will be a lot 5 years later, and quite a lot even 10 years later.
Video might go upto 1024x768x32-bitx100FPS but will not exceed that.
1080p HD video is 1920x1080, about 3Gbit/second, over 1TB an hour.