except a very few like 24 and Survivor, when after the first series' endings were spoiled by the newspapers reporting them months before they were shown, so they're mpow shown days after the original.
They seem to have started picking up on that a bit here too now. At least Survivor is shown close to real time (a couple of day's delay). The Apprentice is still a few weeks behind I think and no word on the latest 24 season appearing any time soon though.
There are far more high rating American programs the British ones. The current top twenty are all American or Australian. "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" are the current heavy hitters with various CSI variants continuing to have a solid impact too.
Data for the last ratings period.
A friend of mine at university used to have "Tempus Fugit" in his email signature file. This pretentiousness could not go unpunished so we changed it to "I wank daily"
He was sending out emails with it on for a week before a professor wrote to him telling him to change it to something more appropriate.
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Finally, the system spits out the UMD when you slightly twist the console
Every review I've read suggests that rumour is untrue. Is this something you've experienced?
"Analogue" is only correct if you're writing British English."
I'd suggest that the distinction between the dialects of "American" and "British" English is largely an acedmic one. People don't worry about sticking wholly within one dialect, nor should they. Victorhooi seems to be an Aussie, it seems quite reasonable that the language he uses is an amalgam of both "British" and "American" dialects.
It is, if not incorrect, at least poor style to use the two conventions inconsistently.
That's a funny position for you to take now because that's exactly what you were advocating Laughable....
Okay, I see this all the time. The word is "analog", not "analogue". "Analogue" is something that is analagous to something else. "Analog" is the opposite of "digital".
Do you get called a moron all of the time too?
Analogue and analog share the same meanings which ever way you spell them.
Hmm. Sounds like an interesting way to attack the ticket-taking security at the event. It would be very interesting to know what would have happened if you had printed out the tickets with corrupted barcodes. The automated turnstiles would not have allowed you in, of course, but it would have been interesting to see how the people running the system would have reacted. Odds are high that they would have allowed you in.
I doubt it, no valid ticket no entry. Without the valid barcode it's just a piece of folded up A4 paper that anyone could produce.
I'd expect that I'd have been able to go to one of the ticket collection points and had the tickets reissued, as long as I had the credit card on me that I used to purchase the tickets. Would have been a pain in the ass though.
I bought some tickets to a sporting event. XPDF screwed up the barcode on them. Good job I noticed and used Adobe's reader to print them otherwise I (and the three friends I also got tickets for) would have got to the venue and been unable to get through the turnstiles.....
that wouldn't be the case. After all it's not as if other sales channels (ie physical CD's from physical stores) are or ever have been magically immune to copying.
The key advantage to online sales is cutting out a lot of middle men and the convenience to customers that allows them to buy when the desire is there rather than having to go to a shop. IE they can reduce the cost of distributing their merchandise and increase it's accessibility and value to customers.
The labels are insane for buying into this DRM snake-oil. It will never be significantly effective and the degree to which it is defective inevitably makes the very product they are selling less valuable to the paying consumer.
On average I used to buy 3+ CDs a month. When they came out with "copy controlled" CDs that would not work with my Network Walkman (or laptop, or Xbox etc) I simply stopped buying any CDs thus afflicted (with the single exception of Radiohead's "Hail To The Thief" as I was seeing them in concert and thought it would be good to know the album properly beforehand). Fortunatly there are still some labels who haven't gone down this road but I am buying far less now.
I thought one of the advantages to decoupling the various Mozilla components would be that they could develop on timeframes that made sense individually.
The problem bicyclists (and many motorcyclists) have is with people in their automobiles who fail to properly look out
It's also worth realising that part of the problem is that cyclists are fundamentally harder to see and even while looking for you drivers still have to keep en eye on what's happening in front of them etc.
I don't drive a bike but my car is fairly low and I know there's a good chance that someone in a 4WD (SUV) stands a good chance of not seeing me if I'm just behind them or even directly parallel with them. Therefore it's sensible to spend as little time as possible in such a position.
I think vehicle design/choice is often more of a factor than callous inattention while driving.
you're still going to have to test your sites on Netscape 4.7, IE 5, etc. or you're going to have issues with the 30-40% of the market who hasn't upgraded yet.
While I don't mean to be a prick, I have to disagree with you on the issue of most people having done drugs. Out of my peers, none of us have done illegal drugs once
Well there's a statistically valid sample method!
"Most" certainly isn't far wrong.
Here's a quote (page 28) of a 1999 US study putting ~40% of people having done illicit drugs at one time of there lives and from the figures there there was an upward trend. Indeed, 2003 stats have it still nudging towards 50%.
Is that there would be far fewer car accidents if, instead of air bags, cars and a pointy spike mounted on the steering wheel.
I think a strong factor is the degree to which the "danger" is immediate though. I'd expect that with spamming, similar to peer to peer copyright infringement and maybe drugs as another poster mentioned there is a strong tendancy for a "I'll never be the one who gets caught" mentality.
The law will certainly deter some people but I think a lot of people can quite easily convince themselves it won't effect them.
Perhaps when they've finished adding things to it.
They only just added a "plain" html interface which is a fairly important feature for a "1.0" release.
a) The data on your hard disk isn't encrypted so having an index encrypted doesn't buy you any real security.
b) Even if it was encrypted, the decryption key would have to also be on your computer for Google Desktop to use it anyway so would be fairly easily snarfable by someone who had enough access to get at the index.
c) Google Desktop runs as an http server on localhost. Anyone with enough access to get to the index could more easily query the Google interface directly for whatever they are interested in.
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Hope it hasn't invited any of it's mates to the picnic.
Questioning the theory of relativity and the theory of evolution is something that is frequently done by educated people.
This is how we get a better and more refined understanding.
There are far more high rating American programs the British ones. The current top twenty are all American or Australian. "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" are the current heavy hitters with various CSI variants continuing to have a solid impact too. Data for the last ratings period.
If only!
A friend of mine at university used to have "Tempus Fugit" in his email signature file. This pretentiousness could not go unpunished so we changed it to "I wank daily"
He was sending out emails with it on for a week before a professor wrote to him telling him to change it to something more appropriate.
Laughable....
I'd expect that I'd have been able to go to one of the ticket collection points and had the tickets reissued, as long as I had the credit card on me that I used to purchase the tickets. Would have been a pain in the ass though.
I bought some tickets to a sporting event. XPDF screwed up the barcode on them. Good job I noticed and used Adobe's reader to print them otherwise I (and the three friends I also got tickets for) would have got to the venue and been unable to get through the turnstiles.....
that wouldn't be the case. After all it's not as if other sales channels (ie physical CD's from physical stores) are or ever have been magically immune to copying.
The key advantage to online sales is cutting out a lot of middle men and the convenience to customers that allows them to buy when the desire is there rather than having to go to a shop. IE they can reduce the cost of distributing their merchandise and increase it's accessibility and value to customers.
The labels are insane for buying into this DRM snake-oil. It will never be significantly effective and the degree to which it is defective inevitably makes the very product they are selling less valuable to the paying consumer.
On average I used to buy 3+ CDs a month. When they came out with "copy controlled" CDs that would not work with my Network Walkman (or laptop, or Xbox etc) I simply stopped buying any CDs thus afflicted (with the single exception of Radiohead's "Hail To The Thief" as I was seeing them in concert and thought it would be good to know the album properly beforehand). Fortunatly there are still some labels who haven't gone down this road but I am buying far less now.
I thought one of the advantages to decoupling the various Mozilla components would be that they could develop on timeframes that made sense individually.
I don't drive a bike but my car is fairly low and I know there's a good chance that someone in a 4WD (SUV) stands a good chance of not seeing me if I'm just behind them or even directly parallel with them. Therefore it's sensible to spend as little time as possible in such a position.
I think vehicle design/choice is often more of a factor than callous inattention while driving.
"Most" certainly isn't far wrong. Here's a quote (page 28) of a 1999 US study putting ~40% of people having done illicit drugs at one time of there lives and from the figures there there was an upward trend. Indeed, 2003 stats have it still nudging towards 50%.
Is that there would be far fewer car accidents if, instead of air bags, cars and a pointy spike mounted on the steering wheel.
I think a strong factor is the degree to which the "danger" is immediate though. I'd expect that with spamming, similar to peer to peer copyright infringement and maybe drugs as another poster mentioned there is a strong tendancy for a "I'll never be the one who gets caught" mentality.
The law will certainly deter some people but I think a lot of people can quite easily convince themselves it won't effect them.
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Valicert certificates are in Firefox 1.0.1 (and I'd bet in Mozilla too). I just looked and also tested at https://www.godaddy.com/
Indeed...
Look at the licence, it seems to me that's the "control" is something he certainly isn't overly interested in.
He probably just wants to offer a product he can be proud of, maybe so people will appreciate his work and choose to support him.
Perhaps when they've finished adding things to it. They only just added a "plain" html interface which is a fairly important feature for a "1.0" release.
It runs on localhost, 127.0.0.1, not whatever public IP address your PC may have.
a) The data on your hard disk isn't encrypted so having an index encrypted doesn't buy you any real security.
b) Even if it was encrypted, the decryption key would have to also be on your computer for Google Desktop to use it anyway so would be fairly easily snarfable by someone who had enough access to get at the index.
c) Google Desktop runs as an http server on localhost. Anyone with enough access to get to the index could more easily query the Google interface directly for whatever they are interested in.