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  1. Re:A reich that will last a thousand years! on Blu-ray Coming Out On Top? · · Score: 1

    The standard says nothing about centuries, other than that the first two digits of a year can be used on their own to represent the century, for example the "century" component of 2005-12-15 is '20'. The ISO 8601 concept of a century is different to the vernacular, where we are in the 21st Century.

  2. Re:Well, what about SMTP? on EU Approves Data Retention · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google has assets in the UK, and does business in the UK. We can tell them to "obey UK law or go home and stop doing business here". China did it, and so can we.

    Hang on - did I just compare my country to China? 8-O

  3. Re:Would this not void common carrier status? on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm a wikipedian, which means that I want to find and correct mistakes in Wikipedia. So I mentioned it here, in order to try to flush out the truth.

    I think there are two uses of the term "common carrier", one technical and one more vernacular. I'm not a USian, though, and I don't think the same rules apply in blighty.

  4. Re:Years are Ordinal Numbers on Blu-ray Coming Out On Top? · · Score: 1

    I don't really care, personally. I'm quite happy to use whatever convention is most convenient, I don't have a reason to be dogmatic about any one calendar system and what it calls a year that happened a hundred generations ago.

  5. UK equivalent on Review of WidowPC Sting 917 Gaming Laptop · · Score: 1

    Rock Direct do a machine with a very similar spec. There's a 64 X2 version too. Similar price as well. I have an earler model from the same manufacturer and I'd recommend them.

  6. Re:No link? on Review of WidowPC Sting 917 Gaming Laptop · · Score: 1
  7. Re:A reich that will last a thousand years! on Blu-ray Coming Out On Top? · · Score: 1

    I think it is only reasonable to conclude that the answer is still unclear. After all, according to ISO 8601:2000 we are currently in Century 20, and I don't think we are quite ready to start numbering centuries starting at zero, despite what the C programmer in me might like.

  8. Re:Years are Ordinal Numbers on Blu-ray Coming Out On Top? · · Score: 1
    Adding a zeroth year between 1 BCE and AD 1 would be extraordinarily stupid and mathematically innumerate.

    Too late. Astronomers have been using this convention for some time already, though.
  9. Re:A reich that will last a thousand years! on Blu-ray Coming Out On Top? · · Score: 1

    No, ISO 8601:2000 stipulates that the year before year 1 is referred to as the year 0, and the year before that is the year -1. Therefore according to the international standard for dates, centuries are from 2000-2099, 2100-2199, etc.

    Technically, everyone that refused to celebrate the new millennium on 1 Jan 2000 and held out for 1 Jan 2001 missed out because the ISO declared those that had already celebrated it to have been retroactively correct. Serves 'em right, I say, I celebrated both and got 2 parties out of it.

  10. Re: Not at the... on North Pole Heads South · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia agrees with the OP, that Magnetic North is a geomagnetic south pole.

  11. Re:Sounds like a great idea, but... on Child's Play Hits $200,000 · · Score: 1

    If there was a charity devoted to bringing the families of long-term sick children out of debt, then I wouldn't even hear about it. Because it's Child's Play, a gaming charity organised by Penny Arcade, I do know about it, and I can do something that both gives to the needy, and gives me a warm glow for doing something that I can understand on an emotional level.

    There needs to be diversity in charity, if it all went to "the No.1 most important cause", then it would do a lot less than it does by being spread out.

  12. Re:So why no photos? on Child's Play Hits $200,000 · · Score: 1

    Has any of the stuff been delivered, though? It might be stacking up to be delivered all at once. It's certainly better for the environment that way, and cheaper.

  13. Re:Doom doesn't actually suck on Still No Director For Halo Movie · · Score: 1
    It's on DVD already?

    Not legally. I don't know how my friend got hod of it, but it was a good quality transfer, probably from a screener.
  14. Doom doesn't actually suck on Still No Director For Halo Movie · · Score: 1

    I saw Doom on DVD a month ago, and it was rather good. I especially liked what they did with the "pink demon" monster, and the FPS sequence was cool.

  15. cio-today link crashes Firefox on Google Fixes IE Bug · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me? I'm using Ff 1.5 on Windows XP, and it just locks up halfway through loading that page.

  16. Re:Cory on DRM on NYT Opinion Piece on DRM And P2P · · Score: 1
    The DVD is your property and so is the DVD player, but if you break the region-coding on your disc, you're going to run afoul of anticircumvention.

    That's what happened to Jon Johansen, a Norweigan teenager who wanted to watch French DVDs on his Norweigan DVD player. He and some pals wrote some code to break the CSS so that he could do so.
    Did he? I thought it was to watch them on Linux. Norway and France are in the same DVD region.
  17. .con on ICANN Meeting Passes on .com, .xxx decisions · · Score: 3, Funny

    All scammers, spammers, phishers, and other Internet fraud should be conducted through .con domains.

  18. Re:Orangutang on A Solution for the Ten Letter Acrostic Puzzle? · · Score: 1

    Wiktionary doesn't list it as an alternate spelling:

    Alternative spellings

            * orang utan
            * orang-utan
            * orangoutan
            * orangoutang

  19. Re:Backwards on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    Yahoo! vs. Google was just an example, not "the big picture".

  20. Re:Give up all common-carrier status and maybe on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    A lot of people are saying "they might lose common carrier status", yet Wikipedia says that they aren't common carriers. Who is right?

  21. Re:I'm all for it. on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    A lot of people are saying "they might lose common carrier status", yet Wikipedia says that they aren't common carriers. Who is right?

  22. Re:Would this not void common carrier status? on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, they aren't common carriers.

  23. Re:They just never quit on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    Any noun can be verbed. I emplane myself at one airport, and deplane myself at the other. What's wrong with that?

  24. Re:Autogenerated content? on MMOG Designers Throw Down Over Instancing · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of the galaxy was uninhabited, you couldn't even get to it without exploiting bugs in the game as there was nowhere to get your ship repaired. The original Elite was better, it had random galaxies, but they were fairly uninteresting other than a couple of missions that were hand-coded. Randomly generating an interesting, challenging world is really, really hard, and you would just find masses of players congregating around the scripted areas or the most interesting random bits.

  25. Re:Dupe on MMOG Designers Throw Down Over Instancing · · Score: 1

    No, this is NOT a dupe of the article MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE!