There *is* an outcry in the press. The Independent started a 'Save Bletchley Park' campaign and the BBC news website (news.bbc.co.uk) has been full of articles about it this summer.
I agree. I was there recently with friends and we loved it, because we knew some of the history and understood what we were looking at. In fact, we went twice because we didn't get to see everything the first time. My wife refused to come along with us and she would have been really bored if she had. I'd guess that the majority of schoolkids wouldn't really be that interested either, though a few might.
They need £7million (that's around $14million in funny money). Apparently IBM and PGP have donated $100,000 which will help, but is a fraction of what they need.
Bletchley Park is well worth visiting. I've been twice recently with friends, as we couldn't see it all in just one day.
You'd also need to rotate one of the lenses in the glasses by 90 degrees, which could be tricky if they're not completely round.
I've wanted a gaming set-up like this for years. Maybe one day someone will start to produce projectors with two polarised DLP chips built in.
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Steve Jobs once said, "The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way."
Microsoft's J. Allard quoted this to his team when they were designing the Zune, telling them "I for one...want to see this guy eat his words. Those are fighting words. He is speaking to every one of us and saying that we don't get it.".
The end result of this was, of course, the brown Zune. Looks like Jobs was right.
I've heard that until recently there were still Vikings in Britain. A community of shepherds in a remote area still spoke an private language amongst themselves. When WW2 broke out, some of them ended up being based in Iceland, and discovered that they could understand the Icelandic speaking locals. Their 'private language' turned out to be Old Norse, handed down from their Viking ancestors.
A lot of people in remote northern parts of the UK have been shown to have Viking DNA.
"Second-gen iPhone Confirmed?" How can you use 'confirmed' with a question mark? It's either confirmed or it's a rumour. The word 'confirmed' is not intended to be ambiguous. In this case, it is definitely not confirmed.
"But it seems to me that we called this great new invention "vector processors" 15 years ago, and there is a reason they arent around anymore."
I'm willing to bet that you typed that on a machine with a vector processor. What happened is that they became integrated into general purpose CPUs. The Altivec unit in my Mac's Power PC chip is a vector processor, as is the SSE unit in Intel CPUs.
If they sack the CEO, they won't be able to replace him. No-one in their right mind would want to take the helm of a dying company involved in these lawsuits.
Even at London I doubt that more than 1% of all landings are made with autoland.
So you should know that Heathrow (just one of London's five airports) handles about 250,000 landings a year. That means that 1% of the total is still an awful lot.
The only experiences that I have ever had with Macrovision are when it's prevented me from playing legitimately owned content. So I'd like to say a great big Fuck You to Macrovision for they way that they have 'increased my consumer value'.
Some people have even wondered whether Microsoft released a restrictive and unpleasant DRM in order to demonstrate to the music industry that DRM is bad for business. Make your own minds up about this.
I don't like DRM, but Apple's is one of the least restrictive (at least to me). If I purchase music from the iTunes store I can play it on my iPod, I can play it on my hi-fi (via airport express) and I can burn it to a CD. There's not a lot else that I want to do with it, so I'm fairly happy. Though I still prefer buying music on CD and ripping it.
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And they're one of the last companies to put quad core into consumer products. In fact, they still don't have a quad core consumer product.
I'm waiting for a quad core iMac to replace my old G5. I think that I still have a few months wait yet.
There *is* an outcry in the press. The Independent started a 'Save Bletchley Park' campaign and the BBC news website (news.bbc.co.uk) has been full of articles about it this summer.
I agree. I was there recently with friends and we loved it, because we knew some of the history and understood what we were looking at. In fact, we went twice because we didn't get to see everything the first time. My wife refused to come along with us and she would have been really bored if she had.
I'd guess that the majority of schoolkids wouldn't really be that interested either, though a few might.
They need £7million (that's around $14million in funny money). Apparently IBM and PGP have donated $100,000 which will help, but is a fraction of what they need.
Bletchley Park is well worth visiting. I've been twice recently with friends, as we couldn't see it all in just one day.
Apparently they might well be able to, and may already have done so:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19415
There is a police.uk domain, so they really ought to be using that.
You'd also need to rotate one of the lenses in the glasses by 90 degrees, which could be tricky if they're not completely round.
I've wanted a gaming set-up like this for years. Maybe one day someone will start to produce projectors with two polarised DLP chips built in.
Steve Jobs once said, "The problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way."
Microsoft's J. Allard quoted this to his team when they were designing the Zune, telling them "I for one...want to see this guy eat his words. Those are fighting words. He is speaking to every one of us and saying that we don't get it.".
The end result of this was, of course, the brown Zune. Looks like Jobs was right.
The Elonex is aimed mainly at kids and the educational market. It's not really designed for Linux geeks.
Given the success of the Eee, I confidently expect many more small Linux-based sub-notebooks to be launched in the next few months and years.
Don't you mean "Year of the Linux Laptop" ;-)
I've heard that until recently there were still Vikings in Britain. A community of shepherds in a remote area still spoke an private language amongst themselves. When WW2 broke out, some of them ended up being based in Iceland, and discovered that they could understand the Icelandic speaking locals. Their 'private language' turned out to be Old Norse, handed down from their Viking ancestors.
A lot of people in remote northern parts of the UK have been shown to have Viking DNA.
Now compare with AAPL. Notice a difference?
just remember the "Golden Rule" folks... who pays the piper calls the tune
You've got that very slightly wrong. The Golden Rule is "Those with the gold make the rules".
Like all laws in Italy which are unpopular and/or unenforceable they will be totally ignored by law-enforcement and people alike...
For example, their traffic laws. Anyone who has ever visited Italy will understand this.
Long before the book came out, I heard a rather naughtier version - "eats bush and leaves".
"Second-gen iPhone Confirmed?"
How can you use 'confirmed' with a question mark? It's either confirmed or it's a rumour. The word 'confirmed' is not intended to be ambiguous. In this case, it is definitely not confirmed.
"But it seems to me that we called this great new invention "vector processors" 15 years ago, and there is a reason they arent around anymore."
I'm willing to bet that you typed that on a machine with a vector processor. What happened is that they became integrated into general purpose CPUs. The Altivec unit in my Mac's Power PC chip is a vector processor, as is the SSE unit in Intel CPUs.
If they sack the CEO, they won't be able to replace him. No-one in their right mind would want to take the helm of a dying company involved in these lawsuits.
With a username of AltGrendel, shouldn't you be getting your mother to do the dirty work?
They've been around for years:a ges/fog_city_hyper_optiks.htm
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He founded Debian and led the Linux Standards Base. I expect that he's used to rough politics.
Even at London I doubt that more than 1% of all landings are made with autoland.
So you should know that Heathrow (just one of London's five airports) handles about 250,000 landings a year. That means that 1% of the total is still an awful lot.
The only experiences that I have ever had with Macrovision are when it's prevented me from playing legitimately owned content. So I'd like to say a great big Fuck You to Macrovision for they way that they have 'increased my consumer value'.
Some people have even wondered whether Microsoft released a restrictive and unpleasant DRM in order to demonstrate to the music industry that DRM is bad for business. Make your own minds up about this.
I don't like DRM, but Apple's is one of the least restrictive (at least to me). If I purchase music from the iTunes store I can play it on my iPod, I can play it on my hi-fi (via airport express) and I can burn it to a CD. There's not a lot else that I want to do with it, so I'm fairly happy. Though I still prefer buying music on CD and ripping it.