I've known a couple of physics phd students. One of them instantly springs to mind. He was an OK sort of chap, likable, but a bit depressed. I found out what he did his phd on, apparently he spent 3 years bombarding a sample with relatively high energy particles (Don't know what the sample was, nor what the radiation was - he didn't say).
The total result of his experiments were that it did bugger all to the sample. Nothing. No change. He got his phd, and I got my answer to why he was so depressed all the time:-)
The RIAA is *NOT* a business! It's an industry association funded by the members - Sony, BMG, Warner et al.
The only way the RIAA gets shut down is if the member companies decide that it's not in their best interests to continue funding it. The labels might receive bailout money - but I seriously doubt that would happen. If a label collapses who really cares?
The RIAA could lose every single court case and still be in existence.
Wow, they invested in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN? I'm sure it's not an utter failure yet and Wells Fargo might yet achieve their goal of finding the Higgs Boson!
I bet it isn't actually one company. I would have thought that the property sales unit and the mortgage unit are probably seperately registered companies in their own right, who just have the same shareholders, which is a parent shell company. Probably in Barbados somwhere.
So, you'd like us to just roll over and do nothing? We've paid for that work, why should the rest of the world gain the benefit, without at least giving us some recompense? Or should we just give everything away because we're nice people?
Did USA tax payers fund the taking of the photographs? - No. Do USA tax payers fund the National Portrait Gallery? - No. Does the USA own the pictures in the National Portrait Gallery? - Unknown, but probably not.
If copying the photographs would be legal in the States, THEN COPY YOUR OWN FINE ART. I would be quite happy for the NPG to remove all their images and basically have people go in person to the gallery to view them. That would stop you American freeloaders:-)
Oh and while I'm here - stop downloading all that BBC content that you feel you are entitled to, because it's "public service broadcasting". When was the last time you paid for a TV license? Just because your own TV is rubbish, that's no justification for stealing ours.
I'm sorry, but as a native English speaker I had no problems reading the sentence and understanding that it was a point of view. It doesn't even look like a fact.
Or maybe I should rephrase that as:
I think I'm sorry, but as I believe I'm a native English speaker I didn't perceive that I had any problems in understanding that it might have been a point of view. In my view, it didn't look like a fact.:-)
Yes, but 2560x1600@60Hz is even higher. Try doing that on a VGA cable.
Actually the VGA cable isn't necessarily the limiting factor, as long as it is relatively short and properly shielded. The trouble is the DAC's on the graphics cards - which is exactly the point that the GP poster was making. Those that I've seen advertised are 400MHz and max out at 2048x1536@75Hz.
As soon as you get into "really" high resolutions, DVI does make things better, but I agree, 1920x1080@25 isn't that high a resolution, and I run that quite happily over a VGA cable (It's actually 1920x1080@50) on my media centre box.
(I find it strange that you use "fps" rather than the more common Hz when talking about monitor refresh rates. I've never run a monitor at 80Hz, since the options are generally 60, 75, 100, 120)
5-10 computers for a small business? I have 9 computers and 3 consoles that need network connectivity and that's just in my home! OK so when I had the opportunity I also wired the house with Gigabit ethernet, so in this argument I'm with wired all the way!
Not necessarily, there are two modes that you can use the EMV cards in. Plaintext offline PIN, and Encrypted offline PIN. In plaintext offline PIN the card reader presents the PIN to the card in plaintext.
Guess which mode most of the UK cards use, Go on, Guess. (Hint: it's not encrypted.)
It isn't a viable business model, it doesn't need to be, because the RIAA isn't a business. It's a business association made up of record labels, such as Sony, Warner et al - see Link, and it does the bidding of the member companies.
Good. We'll sort of. The actual treaty itself still sucks about the lack of evidence, but at least it's equally unfair. It still took three years though. Maybe it was lost down the back of the sofa.
It really depends on whether the US wants the treaty or not as to whether anybody is pressured.
Take the current US/UK extradition treaty. This allows extradition with less proof than before. The UK has ratified it, and the US has used it to extradite a number of people with less than stellar evidence to back them up (Gary McKinnon, NatWest Three).
The US has not ratified it, and refuses to do so. Why? Because the Irish community in the US is afraid that Britain will use the treaty to extradite IRA fundraisers, and has put pressure on Senate / Congress not to ratify it.
So what does the UK do? Nothing. Takes it. Makes me ashamed to be British.
Yes you're wrong. On the server you make the assumption that everything is going to be a web application. What about services that have nothing to do with web pages?
For example, let's say you're using asynchronous messaging (i.e. MQ or equivalent). Your server is simply taking messages from the queue and processing them. That's where writing in Java is significantly superior than PHP or Perl, because of all the support that J2EE gives you.
Maybe you should look up "de facto standard" and "de jure standard".
De jure standards are indeed created by standards bodies, however de facto standards emerge from whatever people actually use. So the GP poster is correct in using the words "de facto standard" because that's what most people used.
It's not Scotts, it's Scots. And the vast majority of Scots speak English (with a Scottish accent). Only about 1% of the population speak Gaelic. Ditto with the Welsh (although about 15% of them speak Welsh)
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I've known a couple of physics phd students. One of them instantly springs to mind. He was an OK sort of chap, likable, but a bit depressed. I found out what he did his phd on, apparently he spent 3 years bombarding a sample with relatively high energy particles (Don't know what the sample was, nor what the radiation was - he didn't say).
The total result of his experiments were that it did bugger all to the sample. Nothing. No change. He got his phd, and I got my answer to why he was so depressed all the time :-)
The RIAA is *NOT* a business! It's an industry association funded by the members - Sony, BMG, Warner et al.
The only way the RIAA gets shut down is if the member companies decide that it's not in their best interests to continue funding it. The labels might receive bailout money - but I seriously doubt that would happen. If a label collapses who really cares?
The RIAA could lose every single court case and still be in existence.
There's plenty of classical music over 70 years old that's immensely popular
Whooosh
There I did it for you.
Wow, they invested in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN? I'm sure it's not an utter failure yet and Wells Fargo might yet achieve their goal of finding the Higgs Boson!
I bet it isn't actually one company. I would have thought that the property sales unit and the mortgage unit are probably seperately registered companies in their own right, who just have the same shareholders, which is a parent shell company. Probably in Barbados somwhere.
So, you'd like us to just roll over and do nothing? We've paid for that work, why should the rest of the world gain the benefit, without at least giving us some recompense? Or should we just give everything away because we're nice people?
Did USA tax payers fund the taking of the photographs? - No.
:-)
Do USA tax payers fund the National Portrait Gallery? - No.
Does the USA own the pictures in the National Portrait Gallery? - Unknown, but probably not.
If copying the photographs would be legal in the States, THEN COPY YOUR OWN FINE ART. I would be quite happy for the NPG to remove all their images and basically have people go in person to the gallery to view them. That would stop you American freeloaders
Oh and while I'm here - stop downloading all that BBC content that you feel you are entitled to, because it's "public service broadcasting". When was the last time you paid for a TV license? Just because your own TV is rubbish, that's no justification for stealing ours.
I've helped pay for it. You haven't.
I'm sorry, but as a native English speaker I had no problems reading the sentence and understanding that it was a point of view. It doesn't even look like a fact.
Or maybe I should rephrase that as:
I think I'm sorry, but as I believe I'm a native English speaker I didn't perceive that I had any problems in understanding that it might have been a point of view. In my view, it didn't look like a fact. :-)
Yes, but 2560x1600@60Hz is even higher. Try doing that on a VGA cable.
Actually the VGA cable isn't necessarily the limiting factor, as long as it is relatively short and properly shielded. The trouble is the DAC's on the graphics cards - which is exactly the point that the GP poster was making. Those that I've seen advertised are 400MHz and max out at 2048x1536@75Hz.
As soon as you get into "really" high resolutions, DVI does make things better, but I agree, 1920x1080@25 isn't that high a resolution, and I run that quite happily over a VGA cable (It's actually 1920x1080@50) on my media centre box.
(I find it strange that you use "fps" rather than the more common Hz when talking about monitor refresh rates. I've never run a monitor at 80Hz, since the options are generally 60, 75, 100, 120)
5-10 computers for a small business? I have 9 computers and 3 consoles that need network connectivity and that's just in my home! OK so when I had the opportunity I also wired the house with Gigabit ethernet, so in this argument I'm with wired all the way!
Not with the 4850X2 or 4870X2 (like me).
The X Server segfaults on startup: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/364180/
It's not nearly as nice looking when using VESA or RadeonHD.
Not necessarily, there are two modes that you can use the EMV cards in. Plaintext offline PIN, and Encrypted offline PIN. In plaintext offline PIN the card reader presents the PIN to the card in plaintext.
Guess which mode most of the UK cards use, Go on, Guess. (Hint: it's not encrypted.)
It isn't a viable business model, it doesn't need to be, because the RIAA isn't a business. It's a business association made up of record labels, such as Sony, Warner et al - see Link, and it does the bidding of the member companies.
http://www.riaa.com/aboutus.php?content_selector=aboutus_members
It's funded through dues, which all the member companies pay. It doesn't need to make a profit because it's not a business.
Eh? Not that I like Windows, but 64 bit flavours of Windows allow more than 4GB.
If you specifically meant 32 bit OSs you whould have said so - it's not mentioned in your post, and only implied by the GP poster.
You mean like how Leto Atreides became the Kwisatz Haderach, despite coming after Paul who couldn't cut it?
(Just a desperate attempt to get some geekyness back into slashdot...)
Except of course it was Leto Atreides II, not Leto Atreides...
ASRock is the budget sub-brand of Asus.
Not any more. It was floated on the Taiwan stock exchange in 2007.
Good. We'll sort of. The actual treaty itself still sucks about the lack of evidence, but at least it's equally unfair. It still took three years though. Maybe it was lost down the back of the sofa.
It really depends on whether the US wants the treaty or not as to whether anybody is pressured.
Take the current US/UK extradition treaty. This allows extradition with less proof than before. The UK has ratified it, and the US has used it to extradite a number of people with less than stellar evidence to back them up (Gary McKinnon, NatWest Three).
The US has not ratified it, and refuses to do so. Why? Because the Irish community in the US is afraid that Britain will use the treaty to extradite IRA fundraisers, and has put pressure on Senate / Congress not to ratify it.
So what does the UK do? Nothing. Takes it. Makes me ashamed to be British.
Yes you're wrong. On the server you make the assumption that everything is going to be a web application. What about services that have nothing to do with web pages?
For example, let's say you're using asynchronous messaging (i.e. MQ or equivalent). Your server is simply taking messages from the queue and processing them. That's where writing in Java is significantly superior than PHP or Perl, because of all the support that J2EE gives you.
Anthony Burgess. Did you actually know? And I suspect that RAH inventing TANSTAAFL is somewhat exagerrated.
Maybe with a terminator?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_termination
Maybe you should look up "de facto standard" and "de jure standard".
De jure standards are indeed created by standards bodies, however de facto standards emerge from whatever people actually use. So the GP poster is correct in using the words "de facto standard" because that's what most people used.
It's not Scotts, it's Scots. And the vast majority of Scots speak English (with a Scottish accent). Only about 1% of the population speak Gaelic. Ditto with the Welsh (although about 15% of them speak Welsh)
Strangely enough, the City of London is not one of the 32 London boroughs.