I dunno if I wasnt looking anywhere, but I couldnt see exactly how much the media can store - I am assuming it can take an identical amount to a regular CD, but I cannot find clarification anywhere..
Pro'lly just not looking hard enough.
Just looking at this - reminds me of the really old 'printed' flexible vinyl records you used to get with magazines and cereal years and years ago - only the quality was awful, and they didnt last very long. What goes around comes around, eh?:)
Man.. choosing server names.. subject of BIG debates:)
We are currently undergoing a merger which requires us to unify with another site - we are starting from scratch with all our servers, so we get to pick a fresh naming convention. Gone are planets & space related items (Mars, Saturn, Halley, Hubble, Pluto..) and in are Greek Gods and related mythalogical(?) figures (Zeus, Hades, Castor & Pollux, Atlas).
I personally like the new scheme.. makes the systems sound important:)
Wow.. I cant actually believe they are going to start taxing customers for recording media.. how long before other countries follow suit? I know that, living in the UK, they tax EVERYTHING you do - I dont see why recordable media will be any different.
I can't believe that they are gonna tax you per GB on portable MP3 players though.. I am genuinely stunned. Though seeing as some of the coolest ones use laptop harddrives, why not sell the MP3 players as 'bare bones' and then make you go buy the laptop drive seperately:)
I guess my local cinemas did suck.. I got all 3 originals on video and I DO want to see em on the bigscreen.. I just gotta hope they run a similar promotion before "Clones" comes out.
Hm.. just fyi.. in case you ever get stuck with (heaven forbid) an AMD Athlon machine for whatever reason, you could simply go and buy a Zalman 'flower' CPU cooler - has a silent fan, and cools very very well.
For more info, go here:
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?Article ID =133&PageID=4
Just because some people are prepared to put up with several screaming Delta fans in the case, doesnt mean that ALL PC users do - the noise drives me up the wall.
There aint much point in guessing how good or bad the film is going to be.. though I am really hoping that its gonna be good - I need SOME excuse to finally go and see a Star Wars movie on the big screen (too young to see the originals first time around, and rather lamely watched Phantom Menace as a 'look what I taped in the cinema' video CD).
Certainly seems a little darker than Phantom - and the new Boba Fett style character looks pretty cool.
OK - the USA need to stop and realise what they are doing. Nuclear weapons are NOT a good idea - I cannot even believe that Bush is considering using them.
Damn - I have a million things I wanna say about this, but I dont know where to begin. I best not even bother - I will pro'lly get flamed down.
I am interested to know what the American public thinks of this - I would be really really dissapointed in the American Public if they think that using Nuclear Weapons are acceptable!:(
Well what do you do - I personally feel that manned exploration of space is very important. There is so much about it that we do not know yet - theres a lot to explore!
But I also appreciate that the planet has a million other issues they need to resolve - its no good pretending that they dont exist, whilst pumping billions of dollars into space missions. People are starving, we are destroying the planet rapidly, and our resources are running out..
Seeing as it was really one of the first films ever to use Computer Graphics to produce such an impressive end result, I wonder how many of the (apparently few) people watching saw what was going on and realised it was time to change what they were doing and get into the computers in a BIG way?
I have to say.. if Tron wasn't a HUGE advert to show what potential computers had back then, I dont know what else was.
It still astounds me what they managed to do in 1982... I was still using a BBC Micro in 1990 and being really surprised what that could do!
Was the spyware feature somthing that was bolted on AFTER the code was built up from its 'Mozilla' state? If not, how come somthing like this wasnt noticed in the source code sooner.
The DVD really is very good.. I hadn't ever seen Tron properly, but knew that I just HAD to buy it when I heard they were making it into a special edition DVD - the game LightBikes (http://www.lightbikes.co.uk) kinda inspired me:)
It amazes me how the old computer graffix manage to come full circle and look quite impressively retro:)
Definately reccommend this DVD to anyone with a Sci-Fi interest, and of course it should be a part of ANY geeks DVD collection:)
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Why is it that when posts concerning any country OTHER than America end up with some kind of racist comments on/. ? It bewilders me, it really does.
To blame another generation for the wrong doings of their elders is a little odd - I think you would find that many germans are not proud of *some* their history - and in fact I think you would find Germany now to be a very nice place to live and work. I lived there for a number of years, and would gladly go back if I could actually speak German.. I just can't be arsed:)
Just doing a simple little bit of maths.. assuming that every MP3 file they downloaded was 3.3MB:
They downloaded a total of 19.8GB in two days.. If they stayed awake for the full 48 hours, they would have been downloading 412.5MB/hour of data between them. That seems quite possible I guess if they were downloading constantly. But assuming they took 8 hours of sleep a day and didnt download files during that time, that would have been 618.8MB/hour..
I dunno - theoretically, these stats are quite possible, but including all the time it would take to actually find the music, and have to cancel from unreliable sources, it just doesn't make sense for me.
It does seem pretty surprising. They stil try and push through these stupid laws & bills to prevent piracy, yet here is another example that the market is booming.
I can't exactly lay my hands on figures, but I know the same is true of the music industry - not necesessarily their best year or anything like that, but I know that they are definately not hurting from lack of revenue.
Now maybe they can cut some of the cinema prices? I couldnt help but notice that the prices keep ticking up, whilst the adverts get longer and longer..
I have to say that the PS2 would be very sweet in a fileserver role! Its quieter than any PC than I have ever heard, so I could just stick it in the cupboard and leave it on all the time.
In fact, I could see this kit having plenty of uses:)
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Dont ever take up journalism for a profession - your reviewing skills suck ass.
I dunno if I wasnt looking anywhere, but I couldnt see exactly how much the media can store - I am assuming it can take an identical amount to a regular CD, but I cannot find clarification anywhere..
:)
Pro'lly just not looking hard enough.
Just looking at this - reminds me of the really old 'printed' flexible vinyl records you used to get with magazines and cereal years and years ago - only the quality was awful, and they didnt last very long. What goes around comes around, eh?
Well... thanks for that.
Linux works just great for plenty of other people, but thanks for your ever so helpful comments...
We had a 'Titan' and a 'Phoebe' - but they are both gonna get decomissioned real soon :)
:)
Not that it matters *that* much anyway.. we can afford to clash names for a short while
Man.. choosing server names.. subject of BIG debates :)
:)
We are currently undergoing a merger which requires us to unify with another site - we are starting from scratch with all our servers, so we get to pick a fresh naming convention. Gone are planets & space related items (Mars, Saturn, Halley, Hubble, Pluto..) and in are Greek Gods and related mythalogical(?) figures (Zeus, Hades, Castor & Pollux, Atlas).
I personally like the new scheme.. makes the systems sound important
Thats pretty eerie.. I was just planning some kind of 'What are you doing Dave' type response, clicked back, and someone had beat me to it.
:)
Pretty inevitable though I guess
Wow.. I cant actually believe they are going to start taxing customers for recording media.. how long before other countries follow suit? I know that, living in the UK, they tax EVERYTHING you do - I dont see why recordable media will be any different.
:)
I can't believe that they are gonna tax you per GB on portable MP3 players though.. I am genuinely stunned. Though seeing as some of the coolest ones use laptop harddrives, why not sell the MP3 players as 'bare bones' and then make you go buy the laptop drive seperately
What a stupid stupid tax..
I guess my local cinemas did suck.. I got all 3 originals on video and I DO want to see em on the bigscreen.. I just gotta hope they run a similar promotion before "Clones" comes out.
Oh - I dont care about that kinda stuff. I was gonna see Star Wars Ep II at the cinema no matter what.
:)
I can live with being labelled
Hm.. just fyi.. in case you ever get stuck with (heaven forbid) an AMD Athlon machine for whatever reason, you could simply go and buy a Zalman 'flower' CPU cooler - has a silent fan, and cools very very well.
:
e ID =133&PageID=4
For more info, go here
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?Articl
Just because some people are prepared to put up with several screaming Delta fans in the case, doesnt mean that ALL PC users do - the noise drives me up the wall.
The only story I got was some short story about broken links, apologies, and promises to make corrections.
:)
Dont spose you could repost with the correct link? I was actually interested in reading the article.
There aint much point in guessing how good or bad the film is going to be.. though I am really hoping that its gonna be good - I need SOME excuse to finally go and see a Star Wars movie on the big screen (too young to see the originals first time around, and rather lamely watched Phantom Menace as a 'look what I taped in the cinema' video CD).
:)
Certainly seems a little darker than Phantom - and the new Boba Fett style character looks pretty cool.
And of course, Natalie Portman.. any excuse
I am?
Perhaps if you could just elaborate a little bit, I might be able to explain myself a little clearer.
Welcome to the UK ;)
I can't see Blair agreeing with George Bushes nuclear policy. If he does then.. we are all in trouble.
OK - the USA need to stop and realise what they are doing. Nuclear weapons are NOT a good idea - I cannot even believe that Bush is considering using them.
:(
Damn - I have a million things I wanna say about this, but I dont know where to begin. I best not even bother - I will pro'lly get flamed down.
I am interested to know what the American public thinks of this - I would be really really dissapointed in the American Public if they think that using Nuclear Weapons are acceptable!
Well what do you do - I personally feel that manned exploration of space is very important. There is so much about it that we do not know yet - theres a lot to explore!
But I also appreciate that the planet has a million other issues they need to resolve - its no good pretending that they dont exist, whilst pumping billions of dollars into space missions. People are starving, we are destroying the planet rapidly, and our resources are running out..
Perhaps we need to look at what we are doing.
I expected a facetious reply..
I meant to put a disclaimer saying that I didn't quite get the whole Netscape/Mozilla code situation.. I'll remember next time.
Seeing as it was really one of the first films ever to use Computer Graphics to produce such an impressive end result, I wonder how many of the (apparently few) people watching saw what was going on and realised it was time to change what they were doing and get into the computers in a BIG way?
I have to say.. if Tron wasn't a HUGE advert to show what potential computers had back then, I dont know what else was.
It still astounds me what they managed to do in 1982... I was still using a BBC Micro in 1990 and being really surprised what that could do!
Was the spyware feature somthing that was bolted on AFTER the code was built up from its 'Mozilla' state? If not, how come somthing like this wasnt noticed in the source code sooner.
The DVD really is very good.. I hadn't ever seen Tron properly, but knew that I just HAD to buy it when I heard they were making it into a special edition DVD - the game LightBikes (http://www.lightbikes.co.uk) kinda inspired me :)
:)
:)
It amazes me how the old computer graffix manage to come full circle and look quite impressively retro
Definately reccommend this DVD to anyone with a Sci-Fi interest, and of course it should be a part of ANY geeks DVD collection
Why is it that when posts concerning any country OTHER than America end up with some kind of racist comments on /. ? It bewilders me, it really does.
:)
To blame another generation for the wrong doings of their elders is a little odd - I think you would find that many germans are not proud of *some* their history - and in fact I think you would find Germany now to be a very nice place to live and work. I lived there for a number of years, and would gladly go back if I could actually speak German.. I just can't be arsed
Just doing a simple little bit of maths.. assuming that every MP3 file they downloaded was 3.3MB :
They downloaded a total of 19.8GB in two days..
If they stayed awake for the full 48 hours, they would have been downloading 412.5MB/hour of data between them. That seems quite possible I guess if they were downloading constantly. But assuming they took 8 hours of sleep a day and didnt download files during that time, that would have been 618.8MB/hour..
I dunno - theoretically, these stats are quite possible, but including all the time it would take to actually find the music, and have to cancel from unreliable sources, it just doesn't make sense for me.
Agreed. I dont see why you should have to sit through the adverts AND pay a fee to get into the cinema.
:)
;)
That'd be like charging a subscription rate AND showing adverts.. yet websites give you the option of paying to remove adverts.
Cinema should be the same..
Blah blah, rant, whinge.. maybe its just that the office is too warm today
It does seem pretty surprising. They stil try and push through these stupid laws & bills to prevent piracy, yet here is another example that the market is booming.
I can't exactly lay my hands on figures, but I know the same is true of the music industry - not necesessarily their best year or anything like that, but I know that they are definately not hurting from lack of revenue.
Now maybe they can cut some of the cinema prices? I couldnt help but notice that the prices keep ticking up, whilst the adverts get longer and longer..
I have to say that the PS2 would be very sweet in a fileserver role! Its quieter than any PC than I have ever heard, so I could just stick it in the cupboard and leave it on all the time.
:)
:)
In fact, I could see this kit having plenty of uses
Darn, I want my PS2 back!