You're right - I confused Eurobrun and Brabham. I'm still certain there was a link with Zakspeed and BMW however - maybe Zakspeed built under license, a la Playtech and Petronas?
I remember Zakspeed using Yamaha engines as well, but they kept blowing up as well if I recall correctly.
No such thing. Try Williams, an organisation that has won plenty of races and championships, but that hasn't been doing well for quite a few years now.
Williams used to dominate with Honda engines, then with Renault. BMW are just another engine supplier - they'll come and go like the others.
Same with this McLaren Mercedes stuff. They did badly this year too - why? Because the original car was a McLaren-Ilmor with a cheque written by Mercedes to have a badge on it. This year, Merc believed their own hype and tried to bring more of the engine design in-house. The result was a rubbish engine, which was down on horsepower and also had a tendency to blow up.
BMW have tried to enter F1 as an engine supplier before. Remember Zakspeed? Eurobrun? No, neither does anyone else.
Cheers,
Ian
Re:The way things are going...
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Parents are going to start charging their children "Being Born Fees"
As a new parent, I can tell you that the babies already charge a ton of those to me...:-)
Genuine question here, as I don't know the answer. In the UK, it's the norm for supermarkets to offer online shopping. Places like Tescos, Sainsbury's, Waitrose etc. do a reasonable business from it, with Tesco's being the most successful. I use the Tesco service regularly in fact.
Is that not the case in the US? Don't the main supermarkets do this as standard?
One thing, tho - what's the multimedia problem with RH8? The mp3 issue?
Yes, that's it. I should probably pick a default multimedia player and install that, but on the whole I like leaving distros in their default state for new users, in order that they can get support more easily. I don't mean unconfigured - obviously I set up their mail and show them around Open Office and what have you, but I do try not to install non-standard packages on installations meant for someone else.
Snap. Quicken is the reason I'm still on Windows as well. I have nine years' worth data in it, and I'm not migrating onto something that's worth.
Crossover supports it in 'Silver' mode, but I'd need not only Gold support but a guaranteed upgrade path for future versions. Of course Crossover cannot give such a guarantee, so Windows remains the only practical option.
Can't use a Mac either - it's the UK version I use, and there's no Mac UK version of Quicken.
Good post. I do this now for friends who ask me to set up machines for them - I will no longer install copies of 98 or whatever it is they've got - either they have the genuine Windows install disk, or I tell them it's illegal and offer to put RedHat on instead.
I'll have to find a different distro now due to RedHat's stance on multimedia, but the princicple will stay the same. Don't want to pay for Windows? Fine. Don't use it then.
For the record I run two XP boxes - one desktop, one laptop - and a few different Linux distros courtesry of Virtual PC for Windows
No. But it runs faster on multiple CPUs when you're also running a dozen other processes, including Virtual PC, which itself is running another six or seven processes.
This chip is more interesting than just the normal megahertz hike. It's the first of the desktop hyperhreaded chips - previously only available in the Xeon range (well, from Intel anyway. Other manufacturers had them).
This is something I'm interested in. I currently run a dual-CPU box of two 533Mhz Celerons on a BP6 board. I've wanted my next machine to be a dual-CPU has well, but now I'm not certain. Perhaps the hyperthreading will take care of that for me? Who knows, it's too early to say as yet. But I'll be keeping an eye out on the benchmarks for this chip, whereas I've more or less ignored the Mhz races for the last couple of years.
A pro-sony judge may decide that ripping a cd is illegal, even for fair use, as the DMCA isnt 100% clear. This bill would tell the judge that its legal
I agree the point, but to my mind the answer would be to amend the DMCA, not to introduce a second bill. If it's the DMCA that isn't clear, then introduce clauses which set out its limits and applicability.
I'm not from the US, so I can't support this bill anyway. However, if I was I'd still have a moral objection.
You are allowed to do anything not made illegal. In the UK, laws set out the limits to your rights, they do not enumerate them. So a law affirming that I have the right to eat cheese, to take a daft example, would be pointless because there is no law saying that I cannot eat cheese. If a law banning cheese came in to force, then the correct action would be to repeal that law, not to introduce another one limiting it.
Didn't Sir alec guiness (may he rest in peace) request some percentage of the star wars profits, and recieve them?
Remember young Jedi..."percentage of the gross".
That's how Sir Alec Guiness, a man well used to the ins and outs of the film industry, managed to get his money. I believe Peter Cushing got the same deal, although I may be wrong in that. Percentage of the gross, not percentage of the profits.
If everyone ripped just 1 SACD via analog out and converted said album to mp3s, you would have millions of those still out there to download.
Yeah, but I don't want to download them. I'm legal - I buy my music. I don't use file sharing networks.
The point is...wouldn't SACD's trick of protecting its highest quality version whilst still allowing a lower-but-still-good version to be encoded be a good compromise when it comes to copy-protection? The studios protect their best, and I still get to make copies for the car and encode to MP3 for my portable. I'm not trying to rip off the studios and get free music - I'm just trying to make use of what I've bought.
Why does everyone forget that music can be "ripped" using analogue gear as well.
Oh I don't. But analogue ripping is at 1x only, and if I've got decent enough source material to compress down to 128kpbs/192kpbs anyway, then that's all I need for portable use.
...most SACD discs are hybrid, meaning there is also a regular CD layer which can be read and copied as usual. Only the higher quality SACD layer is copy protected.
Now isn't this the perfect way to go about copy-protecting music? You see, if I want to encode to MP3 (and I do, I'm an iPod owner) then, as I read your statement, I'd be able to do it. I wouldn't get the best available quality, but so what? I'm compressing it to a lossy format anyway which is only going to get played over a set of headphones.
Is this the compromise we've been looking for? Non-protected mid-range quality which allows us to rip and encode as we choose, followed by a layer of higher-quality music which can't be ripped? I'd be satisfied with that.
Yeah, but the customer was a German as well. He was shocked at the response, and he will have already made all necessary cultural allowances.
It's worth skipping from The Register to the original German, then running the customer's letter through babelfish. You might get a better idea of why he got such a response - the letter talks about the inevitable hacking, and how BMG have lost him as a customer. Read it...he's being fairly inflammatory himself.
Saturday Night Live, Chevy Chase in the famous "Landshark" Skit
Aah...that'll be why then. I'm not in the US, so haven't seen it.
Cheers,
Ian
Re:At last...the perfect London commuting tool
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is "cheers" used in informal letters for the most part?
Informal only. If in London, you might have heard people saying "Cheers mate" to each other. Maybe...
Another thing is that while I've been living in the south for about seven years now, I'm actually from Sheffield in northern England, so some of my speech patterns are different to those of actual southerners.
I think most people over the age of 12 knew what he was referencing anyway.
I'm 30, and have absolutely no idea what's being referenced. Could someone please let me know?
Cheers,
Ian
At last...the perfect London commuting tool
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...and I'm only semi-joking. I live next to the Thames in Marlow (~20 miles to the west of London), and if I could use this to get into central London before nipping out and finishing the rest of the journey by road, I'd be delighted.
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I remember Zakspeed using Yamaha engines as well, but they kept blowing up as well if I recall correctly.
Cheers,
Ian
Because....? I should point out that I've been closely following F1 for about eighteen years now.
Cheers,
Ian
Williams used to dominate with Honda engines, then with Renault. BMW are just another engine supplier - they'll come and go like the others.
Same with this McLaren Mercedes stuff. They did badly this year too - why? Because the original car was a McLaren-Ilmor with a cheque written by Mercedes to have a badge on it. This year, Merc believed their own hype and tried to bring more of the engine design in-house. The result was a rubbish engine, which was down on horsepower and also had a tendency to blow up.
BMW have tried to enter F1 as an engine supplier before. Remember Zakspeed? Eurobrun? No, neither does anyone else.
Cheers,
Ian
As a new parent, I can tell you that the babies already charge a ton of those to me... :-)
Cheers,
Ian
Is that not the case in the US? Don't the main supermarkets do this as standard?
Cheers,
Ian
Yes, that's it. I should probably pick a default multimedia player and install that, but on the whole I like leaving distros in their default state for new users, in order that they can get support more easily. I don't mean unconfigured - obviously I set up their mail and show them around Open Office and what have you, but I do try not to install non-standard packages on installations meant for someone else.
Cheers,
Ian
Crossover supports it in 'Silver' mode, but I'd need not only Gold support but a guaranteed upgrade path for future versions. Of course Crossover cannot give such a guarantee, so Windows remains the only practical option.
Can't use a Mac either - it's the UK version I use, and there's no Mac UK version of Quicken.
Cheers,
Ian
I'll have to find a different distro now due to RedHat's stance on multimedia, but the princicple will stay the same. Don't want to pay for Windows? Fine. Don't use it then.
For the record I run two XP boxes - one desktop, one laptop - and a few different Linux distros courtesry of Virtual PC for Windows
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
No. But it runs faster on multiple CPUs when you're also running a dozen other processes, including Virtual PC, which itself is running another six or seven processes.
Cheers,
Ian
Could be wrong, but I believe Sun's SPARC do an SMT-based varient. They don't report themselves as multiple cores to the OSes though.
Cheers,
Ian
This is something I'm interested in. I currently run a dual-CPU box of two 533Mhz Celerons on a BP6 board. I've wanted my next machine to be a dual-CPU has well, but now I'm not certain. Perhaps the hyperthreading will take care of that for me? Who knows, it's too early to say as yet. But I'll be keeping an eye out on the benchmarks for this chip, whereas I've more or less ignored the Mhz races for the last couple of years.
Cheers,
Ian
Neither - it is good strategy to limit (or remove) bad laws, and it is possible to change a law without repealing it.
The passing of new law to limit existing is the problem. The amendment of existing law is the more sensible way of going about it.
Cheers,
Ian
I agree the point, but to my mind the answer would be to amend the DMCA, not to introduce a second bill. If it's the DMCA that isn't clear, then introduce clauses which set out its limits and applicability.
Cheers,
Ian
You are allowed to do anything not made illegal. In the UK, laws set out the limits to your rights, they do not enumerate them. So a law affirming that I have the right to eat cheese, to take a daft example, would be pointless because there is no law saying that I cannot eat cheese. If a law banning cheese came in to force, then the correct action would be to repeal that law, not to introduce another one limiting it.
Cheers,
Ian
Remember young Jedi..."percentage of the gross".
That's how Sir Alec Guiness, a man well used to the ins and outs of the film industry, managed to get his money. I believe Peter Cushing got the same deal, although I may be wrong in that. Percentage of the gross, not percentage of the profits.
Cheers,
Ian
Yeah, but I don't want to download them. I'm legal - I buy my music. I don't use file sharing networks.
The point is...wouldn't SACD's trick of protecting its highest quality version whilst still allowing a lower-but-still-good version to be encoded be a good compromise when it comes to copy-protection? The studios protect their best, and I still get to make copies for the car and encode to MP3 for my portable. I'm not trying to rip off the studios and get free music - I'm just trying to make use of what I've bought.
Cheers, Ian
Oh I don't. But analogue ripping is at 1x only, and if I've got decent enough source material to compress down to 128kpbs/192kpbs anyway, then that's all I need for portable use.
Cheers,
Ian
Now isn't this the perfect way to go about copy-protecting music? You see, if I want to encode to MP3 (and I do, I'm an iPod owner) then, as I read your statement, I'd be able to do it. I wouldn't get the best available quality, but so what? I'm compressing it to a lossy format anyway which is only going to get played over a set of headphones.
Is this the compromise we've been looking for? Non-protected mid-range quality which allows us to rip and encode as we choose, followed by a layer of higher-quality music which can't be ripped? I'd be satisfied with that.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
It's worth skipping from The Register to the original German, then running the customer's letter through babelfish. You might get a better idea of why he got such a response - the letter talks about the inevitable hacking, and how BMG have lost him as a customer. Read it...he's being fairly inflammatory himself.
Cheers,
Ian
Aah...that'll be why then. I'm not in the US, so haven't seen it.
Cheers,
Ian
Informal only. If in London, you might have heard people saying "Cheers mate" to each other. Maybe...
Another thing is that while I've been living in the south for about seven years now, I'm actually from Sheffield in northern England, so some of my speech patterns are different to those of actual southerners.
Cheers,
Ian
I'm 30, and have absolutely no idea what's being referenced. Could someone please let me know?
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian