"Viviane Reding, European IT commissioner, says that if a multilateral approach cannot be agreed, countries such as China, Russia, Brazil and some Arab states could start operating their own versions of the internet and the ubiquity that has made it such a success will disappear."
If China, Russia, Brazil and some Arab states start their own Internet like networks I can get rid of the RBL lookup code on my mail system. Excellent!;)
Grr! All of these great things have come from one place, namely the Acorn computing market who could have had it all and blew it. Xara is simply the PC port of ArtWorks for RISCOS. Now Xara is set for potential greatness. Just like when Acorn spawned ARM Ltd, and now ARM cpu's are everywhere. Where are Acorn?
"That hated TPM would disappear from the market, as there's no reason to employ a lock if everyone has a legal right to the key. But as TPM leaves, so do the digital offerings that come with it."
What alternative to providing digital offerings is there? The cartels would have to provide content that complies to the new law one way or another or go out of business.
Tell me about it! Google zapped my account yesterday for no reason, though my traffic hasn't been that high lately so I'm guessing the rumour that they're booting off people who don't make them enough cash might be true, whether it makes sense or not.
That really depends on the consistency of the poo doesn't it?
Having your PC run like poo down your leg when you had some bad beer or a curry the night before could be considered a good thing, at least for the PC.
"They can still lobby the US government to put embargo on US music export to UK. In this case most probably UK would respond with 100% legalizing piracy of the US music."
Please do! It'd be no great loss looking at the current US billboard top 100. With very few exceptions it's shite, the lot of it!
I'm sure I'll get modded down, but it's true. Look at it.. dominated by a twit that was shot 9 times, sellouts making out they're punk, manufactured dross from American Idol, and a whole host of other talentless acts who just like to rub their bling, escalades, gold teeth and crunk in your face.
Your reference to ARM though seemed to imply it was only ever something for the cellphone market. In addition the ARM chip was being used for games, admittedly not portable, but still 32 bit and in 1989 on the Acorn machines when the competition was just 16 bit (Amiga, Atari ST). The only thing stopping a portable perhaps would have been cost.
"Wow, the original Game Boy, released in 1989, uses a 32 bit ARM7? I'm not into the cell phone market, so there's no telling how much of that information was false."
The Gameboy at that point used a Z80 cpu. The ARM cpu did exist in 1989, though it was just the 32 bit ARM2, which you'd usually find in Acorn Archimedes series of computers, the A3000, A540 and A4 laptop. The ARM7 showed up later.
The history of the ARM CPU is so much more than just a heart for cellphones! It's just a shame Acorn never made a direct impact in the USA or you'd know.
"The answer lies in Biology, which I guess you never took."
There's no need to be rude. I'm quite aware of the matter, hence I'm a father (to be) and still in my 20s.
"Your sperm won't be good copies after about 4 decades. For example, the chance of having a baby with Down's Syndrome dramatically increase after the man hits 40."
"As for women, they have a finite supply of eggs. Once they're gone, they're gone."
The eggs, just like sperm, can be frozen and still be good a long time later.
To quote part of the original article...
"So, will this happen in time for some people alive today? Probably. Since these therapies repair accumulated damage, they are applicable to people in middle age or older who have a fair amount of that damage."
Read it and you'll see that the paragraph talks about repairing accumulated damage. It doesn't say it won't apply to reproductive cells.
This isn't new. Around 1993/94 my school friends and I had CB radios, as phonecalls were charged by the minute in the UK local or not. When uni started in 95 we left our irc clients running. IM came along and I use it all the time.
The whole time though, for anything I want to pay serious attention to I'll use e-mail or the phone.
It's just kids wanting instant gratification, same as ever. Nothing has changed; rather they just have more toys to play with. Patience is a virtue.
That's all well and good for the latest and greatest from Gillette, but not for things that don't change every two seconds, such as bags of frozen mixed veg, smoothies, etc.
Add to that the outrageous slotting fees they charge to suppliers to get their products on the shelf. To put a lesser known brand on a shelf in a single store can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and there's no guarantee that they'll put it on a good shelf, keep it there more than a couple of months, stock it properly or try to draw customer attention to it at all.
Wal*mart are the only ones who don't do this, saying that if they believe in the product it'll go on the shelf. That's great, but they continually batter suppliers to lower the cost.
All in all it makes for a very difficult market for small / new food companies to break into.
I remember sometimes waking very early in the morning before school. The morning news and cartoons weren't on yet, the sun was just coming up, only the sound of birds tweeting outside, and I'd switch the TV on to find a Ceefax page displayed with some quiet background music playing. I'd watch it for a minute or two, then grab a big bowl of Cornflakes and put the kettle on. It was always a nice way to start the day.
I digress. The technology was teletext with which the BBC provided CeeFax. ITV provided Oracle. Channel 4 provided C4 teletext.
Acorn added Teletext mode 7 to the BBC Microcomputer. It was great because it used just 1k of screen memory, thus many text adventures used it. With the addition of a teletext adapter such as those sold by Morley or Watford Electronics, you could take teletext transmissions and run them straight into your Beeb. The adapter also allowed for software to be downloaded from teletext pages, which given code size back in the day, was quite viable.
You also will need to get your address via UPS / whoever you use to be listed as a billing address for your credit / debit card or through the wonders of AVS it's likely you'll be turned down when you try and pay for the laptop.
Remembering back to my demo coding days (on various Acorn/ARM systems) the reason the game doesn't scream along at some insane rate when the machine is clocked higher is because the update of the framebuffer is synchronised with the v-sync of the display, which on TVs / non multisync monitors was either 50Hz or 60Hz depending on where in the world you bought your equipment.
If the machine is clocked higher, the only difference is that more code can execute between v-syncs, so the game appears not to slow down when more than a certain number of sprites are being thrown around, etc.
dark404 wrote... What happens when the engine overheats or you get in an accident and the engine is on fire?
"I'm sorry mr. firefighter, only a certified volvo firefighter is allowed to put out this fire"
It's obvious really. This car was designed for aesthetics before functionality by the same beings that damage their feet by cramming them into triangle shaped shoes with high heels because "they look cute!"
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For personal or business accounts? It certainly wasn't done for the latter as of a week ago.
Are you saying it's off-line EVERY NIGHT from 12-4?
Yes, every night at midnight. Sometimes it finishes by 3.45am, but it's usually always the stated 4am.
Next up, perhaps they can fix it so their online banking isn't offline between 12am and 4am. Not everyone is tucked up in bed at that time!
"Viviane Reding, European IT commissioner, says that if a multilateral approach cannot be agreed, countries such as China, Russia, Brazil and some Arab states could start operating their own versions of the internet and the ubiquity that has made it such a success will disappear."
;)
If China, Russia, Brazil and some Arab states start their own Internet like networks I can get rid of the RBL lookup code on my mail system. Excellent!
Grr! All of these great things have come from one place, namely the Acorn computing market who could have had it all and blew it. Xara is simply the PC port of ArtWorks for RISCOS. Now Xara is set for potential greatness. Just like when Acorn spawned ARM Ltd, and now ARM cpu's are everywhere. Where are Acorn?
Boo hiss and all that.
"That hated TPM would disappear from the market, as there's no reason to employ a lock if everyone has a legal right to the key. But as TPM leaves, so do the digital offerings that come with it."
What alternative to providing digital offerings is there? The cartels would have to provide content that complies to the new law one way or another or go out of business.
That sounds too simple to be plausible though.
Tell me about it! Google zapped my account yesterday for no reason, though my traffic hasn't been that high lately so I'm guessing the rumour that they're booting off people who don't make them enough cash might be true, whether it makes sense or not.
I hope Y!PN works out.
That really depends on the consistency of the poo doesn't it?
Having your PC run like poo down your leg when you had some bad beer or a curry the night before could be considered a good thing, at least for the PC.
"They can still lobby the US government to put embargo on US music export to UK. In this case most probably UK would respond with 100% legalizing piracy of the US music."
Please do! It'd be no great loss looking at the current US billboard top 100. With very few exceptions it's shite, the lot of it!
I'm sure I'll get modded down, but it's true. Look at it.. dominated by a twit that was shot 9 times, sellouts making out they're punk, manufactured dross from American Idol, and a whole host of other talentless acts who just like to rub their bling, escalades, gold teeth and crunk in your face.
Riscos , the OS used on 32 bit ARM based Acorn computers, had proper antialiasing of fonts over 15 years ago.
Forget marketeers. A hand that came out of the screen would revolutionise the online porn industry ;)
Your reference to ARM though seemed to imply it was only ever something for the cellphone market. In addition the ARM chip was being used for games, admittedly not portable, but still 32 bit and in 1989 on the Acorn machines when the competition was just 16 bit (Amiga, Atari ST). The only thing stopping a portable perhaps would have been cost.
"Wow, the original Game Boy, released in 1989, uses a 32 bit ARM7? I'm not into the cell phone market, so there's no telling how much of that information was false."
The Gameboy at that point used a Z80 cpu. The ARM cpu did exist in 1989, though it was just the 32 bit ARM2, which you'd usually find in Acorn Archimedes series of computers, the A3000, A540 and A4 laptop. The ARM7 showed up later.
The history of the ARM CPU is so much more than just a heart for cellphones! It's just a shame Acorn never made a direct impact in the USA or you'd know.
Try some research before making wisecracks about British computing.
"The answer lies in Biology, which I guess you never took."
There's no need to be rude. I'm quite aware of the matter, hence I'm a father (to be) and still in my 20s.
"Your sperm won't be good copies after about 4 decades. For example, the chance of having a baby with Down's Syndrome dramatically increase after the man hits 40."
"As for women, they have a finite supply of eggs. Once they're gone, they're gone."
The eggs, just like sperm, can be frozen and still be good a long time later.
To quote part of the original article...
"So, will this happen in time for some people alive today? Probably. Since these therapies repair accumulated damage, they are applicable to people in middle age or older who have a fair amount of that damage."
Read it and you'll see that the paragraph talks about repairing accumulated damage. It doesn't say it won't apply to reproductive cells.
Those raising the point of population problems are assuming that the norm of having children in your 20s and 30s will continue.
Why would you tie yourself down with children at that age if you can live ten times as long?
This isn't new. Around 1993/94 my school friends and I had CB radios, as phonecalls were charged by the minute in the UK local or not. When uni started in 95 we left our irc clients running. IM came along and I use it all the time.
The whole time though, for anything I want to pay serious attention to I'll use e-mail or the phone.
It's just kids wanting instant gratification, same as ever. Nothing has changed; rather they just have more toys to play with. Patience is a virtue.
That's all well and good for the latest and greatest from Gillette, but not for things that don't change every two seconds, such as bags of frozen mixed veg, smoothies, etc.
Add to that the outrageous slotting fees they charge to suppliers to get their products on the shelf. To put a lesser known brand on a shelf in a single store can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and there's no guarantee that they'll put it on a good shelf, keep it there more than a couple of months, stock it properly or try to draw customer attention to it at all.
Wal*mart are the only ones who don't do this, saying that if they believe in the product it'll go on the shelf. That's great, but they continually batter suppliers to lower the cost.
All in all it makes for a very difficult market for small / new food companies to break into.
That's almost as long as it'll take their webserver to return a page during the slashdotting :)
I remember sometimes waking very early in the morning before school. The morning news and cartoons weren't on yet, the sun was just coming up, only the sound of birds tweeting outside, and I'd switch the TV on to find a Ceefax page displayed with some quiet background music playing. I'd watch it for a minute or two, then grab a big bowl of Cornflakes and put the kettle on. It was always a nice way to start the day.
I digress. The technology was teletext with which the BBC provided CeeFax. ITV provided Oracle. Channel 4 provided C4 teletext.
Acorn added Teletext mode 7 to the BBC Microcomputer. It was great because it used just 1k of screen memory, thus many text adventures used it. With the addition of a teletext adapter such as those sold by Morley or Watford Electronics, you could take teletext transmissions and run them straight into your Beeb. The adapter also allowed for software to be downloaded from teletext pages, which given code size back in the day, was quite viable.
For oodles of information on teletext take a look at http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/links.shtml.
Did anyone else originally read the subject as the iRiver PIMP-120?
;)
Well, it is a player
Ok, ok I'll get my coat!
You also will need to get your address via UPS / whoever you use to be listed as a billing address for your credit / debit card or through the wonders of AVS it's likely you'll be turned down when you try and pay for the laptop.
Remembering back to my demo coding days (on various Acorn/ARM systems) the reason the game doesn't scream along at some insane rate when the machine is clocked higher is because the update of the framebuffer is synchronised with the v-sync of the display, which on TVs / non multisync monitors was either 50Hz or 60Hz depending on where in the world you bought your equipment.
If the machine is clocked higher, the only difference is that more code can execute between v-syncs, so the game appears not to slow down when more than a certain number of sprites are being thrown around, etc.
dark404 wrote...
What happens when the engine overheats or you get in an accident and the engine is on fire?
"I'm sorry mr. firefighter, only a certified volvo firefighter is allowed to put out this fire"
It's obvious really. This car was designed for aesthetics before functionality by the same beings that damage their feet by cramming them into triangle shaped shoes with high heels because "they look cute!"