I don't know of any mainstream desktop boards that offer any more than 0/1/0+1, which is either unreliable (0) or inefficient (1/0+1).
RAID 5 is what you want, it's just bloody expensive to get it (in hardware) at the moment. If one of your drives fails, you just take it out, stick in a replacement and it will rebuild the array for you from the parity information on the other drives. Fast read/write and good redundancy.
The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification FYI) rates all games, but the vast majority get a PG or U/Uc rating and are available to all.
Quite a few console games are now getting 12 ratings and some are getting 15s, with a handful of PC and console games being give an 18 rating. Frankly I don't see a problem with this - all the information on how they decide their ratings is listed on their website and it reduces the ability of shitty parents to complain about games their kids played before the killing spree because it's a criminal offence to sell a BBFC rated Game/DVD to someone under that age.
In all honesty, our film/game censorship is really pretty lax compared to the US, especially with regard to sex - although ironically, when it comes to porn, you still win.
Ignoring the fact that it won't run on Anything older than a 9x00 series ATI card or GF5x00 series nVidia card. It repeatedly drops to desktop on my old 9800 machine - the ATI support is terrible, presumably because nVidia is the way it's meant to be played.
Then there's the problem that if the game ever crashes, I then can't start a single player game without deleting all my user config files from the game folder, otherwise it just loops on the "Start Server" screen.
Then there's the fact that you can't play on the 32 and 64 player maps in single player mode without a mod. And there aren't any bots for LAN play.
This game stinks of EA forcing the developers to rush it out to suit their schedule rather than waiting until it was actually finished.
No, the last season was the Fourth - there were only ever 4 seasons of Futurama, but Fox in their infinite wisdom decided to show the 4th season in two parts and label the 2nd part as season 5.
Except now we have yet another TLD which will be underused by its target audience and flooded with spammers, phishers and domain squatters, leading to even greater pollution of search engine results.
Production Values are something that are often over-valued - similar to Graphics in games.
Take Red Dwarf, for example - a successful Sci-Fi comedy. It started on a very low budget, but it didn't matter, because the scripts were excellent. In fact, it actually went downhill after they started adding fancy CGI because part of the appeal was its "low budgetness".
If the story is good, you don't need a $2 million an episode budget to tell it - people will watch it for the story.
I personally have no problem limiting my freedom a bit, for the sake of national security. But when the government abuses my goodwill, and uses it so shamelessly, I feel like being raped again and again.
It's a well known fact that once you give goverment powers, you're never going to get them back.
The fine is question was related to Microsoft's Proposal for implementing the changes that the EU requested. They had until June 1st to submit said proposal or face a "late" fine.
They've already been fined almost 500 million Euros for their original Monopoloy conviction.
The deadline is tonight. The punishment has already been decided It will take until the 20th to decide if Microsoft's proposal is crappy enough to deserve the fine. Then they either fine them or they don't.
They've already told Microsoft to piss off when they asked for an extension to this deadline - hell, they've had 6 months to come up with a proposal, now they're just stalling for time.
There's no real doubt that Microsoft will submit a proposal, however, given their previous efforts, it's likely to be another "Well we'll do *bits* of what you asked and charge people for it" proposal.
20 days from now means something like $100,000,000 in retroactive fines even *if* Microsoft then immediately handed in an acceptable new proposal on the same day.
And I'm still not sure if they've actually paid the ~500 million Euro fine that was imposed originally.
People (and by "people" I mean those who buy their PCs off the shelf from Dell or PC World) will still buy Intel.
Certainly in the UK, I could count on one hand the number of AMD adverts I've seen on TV. If you buy a computer, it has to have a "Pentium Processor", otherwise it's some kind of unreliable knock-off.
Now if suddenly AMD-based PCs were more commonly available off the shelf AND Intel got a bad reputation because of these chipsets, then *maybe* some people will start buying AMD instead, but it's far from certain.
Slashdot Mirror
For all you know it was the Quantum Fireball :p
I don't know of any mainstream desktop boards that offer any more than 0/1/0+1, which is either unreliable (0) or inefficient (1/0+1).
RAID 5 is what you want, it's just bloody expensive to get it (in hardware) at the moment. If one of your drives fails, you just take it out, stick in a replacement and it will rebuild the array for you from the parity information on the other drives. Fast read/write and good redundancy.
Worse than that, what happens if your friend is storing the encrypted information on your PC and you *don't have* the decryption key?
Are the police really going to believe "I don't have it, they're not my files"?
Yeah, those Fins are famous for their clogs.
The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification FYI) rates all games, but the vast majority get a PG or U/Uc rating and are available to all.
Quite a few console games are now getting 12 ratings and some are getting 15s, with a handful of PC and console games being give an 18 rating. Frankly I don't see a problem with this - all the information on how they decide their ratings is listed on their website and it reduces the ability of shitty parents to complain about games their kids played before the killing spree because it's a criminal offence to sell a BBFC rated Game/DVD to someone under that age.
In all honesty, our film/game censorship is really pretty lax compared to the US, especially with regard to sex - although ironically, when it comes to porn, you still win.
The game is bugged beyond belief.
Ignoring the fact that it won't run on Anything older than a 9x00 series ATI card or GF5x00 series nVidia card. It repeatedly drops to desktop on my old 9800 machine - the ATI support is terrible, presumably because nVidia is the way it's meant to be played.
Then there's the problem that if the game ever crashes, I then can't start a single player game without deleting all my user config files from the game folder, otherwise it just loops on the "Start Server" screen.
Then there's the fact that you can't play on the 32 and 64 player maps in single player mode without a mod. And there aren't any bots for LAN play.
This game stinks of EA forcing the developers to rush it out to suit their schedule rather than waiting until it was actually finished.
No, the last season was the Fourth - there were only ever 4 seasons of Futurama, but Fox in their infinite wisdom decided to show the 4th season in two parts and label the 2nd part as season 5.
Branson is English, as are most of his Virgin Group companies.
Except now we have yet another TLD which will be underused by its target audience and flooded with spammers, phishers and domain squatters, leading to even greater pollution of search engine results.
Yay.
Production Values are something that are often over-valued - similar to Graphics in games.
Take Red Dwarf, for example - a successful Sci-Fi comedy. It started on a very low budget, but it didn't matter, because the scripts were excellent. In fact, it actually went downhill after they started adding fancy CGI because part of the appeal was its "low budgetness".
If the story is good, you don't need a $2 million an episode budget to tell it - people will watch it for the story.
An absolutely fucking spectacular Verisign Christmas Party.
You'd think by now people would automatically try the Coral Cache version of the page when a link is Slashdotted.
You can also get the whole of last nights programme here:
/ newsnight.ram
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/newsnight
At least until 22:30 GMT tonight.
Last time I checked, Yahoo doesn't auto-increment your age in your profile - so you're still probably 2.
Spot on - well, apart from the teeny, tiny fact that Stargate: Atlantis wasn't based on a movie.
Atlantis is a spin-off of SG1, which *was* based on a movie and, having lasted 9 series, can't be doing too badly.
I personally have no problem limiting my freedom a bit, for the sake of national security. But when the government abuses my goodwill, and uses it so shamelessly, I feel like being raped again and again.
It's a well known fact that once you give goverment powers, you're never going to get them back.
FFShow does a great job of DivX (And others) playback without having to install a multitude of codecs + crapware.
Thank You Google Cache
For now at least, that's the list of mirrors for the software - most still seem to be hosting it.
The fine is question was related to Microsoft's Proposal for implementing the changes that the EU requested. They had until June 1st to submit said proposal or face a "late" fine.
They've already been fined almost 500 million Euros for their original Monopoloy conviction.
They were labelled that by the tabloids for not towing the government line on Iraq - I don't know anyone who actually called them that.
You mean until EA starts patenting everything in sight.
The deadline is tonight.
The punishment has already been decided
It will take until the 20th to decide if Microsoft's proposal is crappy enough to deserve the fine.
Then they either fine them or they don't.
They've already told Microsoft to piss off when they asked for an extension to this deadline - hell, they've had 6 months to come up with a proposal, now they're just stalling for time.
There's no real doubt that Microsoft will submit a proposal, however, given their previous efforts, it's likely to be another "Well we'll do *bits* of what you asked and charge people for it" proposal.
20 days from now means something like $100,000,000 in retroactive fines even *if* Microsoft then immediately handed in an acceptable new proposal on the same day.
And I'm still not sure if they've actually paid the ~500 million Euro fine that was imposed originally.
So either rip the original to your PC and burn lots of copies or rip the copy to your PC and burn another copy.
It's like the generational copy protection on Sony Mindiscs - you can circumvent it with a Line In jack.
People (and by "people" I mean those who buy their PCs off the shelf from Dell or PC World) will still buy Intel.
Certainly in the UK, I could count on one hand the number of AMD adverts I've seen on TV. If you buy a computer, it has to have a "Pentium Processor", otherwise it's some kind of unreliable knock-off.
Now if suddenly AMD-based PCs were more commonly available off the shelf AND Intel got a bad reputation because of these chipsets, then *maybe* some people will start buying AMD instead, but it's far from certain.