Yeah. Better get all those millions of people who enjoy reality tv to write in and tell the networks to stop broadcasting what they want to watch. dammit.
Slight problem with your plan; it's very unlikely that people who enjoy reality TV possesses any degree of literacy. In addition, such people do not watch TV shows because they enjoy them, but because the commercials told them to.
It's trivial to get region-free players in the UK; even Tesco (the UK's number one supermarket brand - think Wal-Mart without the greeters) sell them openly. The only places that won't are Sony Centres, quelle surprise, and Dixons Group stores (think Circuit City but with staff that would fail the Turing Test).
The funny thing is that staff at shops that won't sell them (or refuse to tell you the remote code for unlockable players) try to claim that it's 'illegal' for them to do so. Which is strange as the staff at the Panasonic store were quite happy to unlock my new player for me - filthy criminals!
Did I say I supported the right anymore than the left? No I didn't. But the original post was that the UK Government wasn't left wing. However it's tax and spend economic policy, it's love of enforced 'equality' and the massive growth in public sector employment shows that it is.
For the record I won't vote for any party that won't keep it's hands off my rights and my money. So most elections I end up voting for the (old) Liberal Pary, or spoiling the ballot paper.
They want to impose Government oversight on every part of the economy. They've increased taxes by a record amount since coming to power and used this money to fund demographics most likely to vote for themselves. They've banned (or as least trying to ban) everything that their supporters don't like: smoking, cars, hunting, politically incorrect speech, guns, a two chamber democracy. They've flooded the airwaves with propaganda by making the Government the biggest single advertising spender in Britain.
I mean the display, rather than the internals. Like you say, mechanical watches are very expensive and have a limited market. However my point was that people wear watches as a form of personal decoration that also tells the time. For that purpose analogue displays are considered superior to digital, regardless of what's inside.
On a nit-picking note (on Slashdot?!?) I have to point out that not all mechanical watches sweep, and not all digital timed/analogue display watches 'tick'. Though a sweeping second-hand is usually a sign of a quality watch.
People wear analogue watches because they look much nicer than tacky digitals. Wrist watches are essentially jewellery that is culturally acceptable for both men and women to wear. That fact that analogue displays are more readable at glance is merely a bonus.
Yes - we should give up our independence and freedom in order to secure (slightly) cheaper music. Brilliant. What's you cure for a stubbed toe? Cutting one's foot off?
Ignoring your inane suggestion for a second I don't see anything wrong with Apple's behaviour. They're not a monopoly and they can charge as much as they like for their product. If people find it too expensive they shouldn't buy it. If sales stayed low Apple would soon cut their prices.
There is no point running Solaris on x86 hardware - unless it's as a dev/test environment for Sparc production machines. If you're running a fully x86 shop then Linux/*BSD is the best choice - they were built with the architecture in mind and their lack of scalability isn't an issue on a 4 processor box.
However, if you need an ultra-reliable, 128Gb, 32 processor server you buy a Sun and run Solaris on it. It's the only operating system that can fully take advantage of Sun's high-end hardware.
Yes, you could run Solaris x86 exclusively in a PII/III shop. But you wouldn't gain anything from doing so.
Not any more - when there is quantifiable evidence that your product is better than the opposition you can name them. For example, the credit card adverts that not only claim to have lower rates than the others - but explicitly compare them by name: "At only 5% it's lower than Lloyds TSB, HSBC, Natwest...".
You don't see too much of it outside financial services because very few industries have products that can be compared in this manner.
This isn't just a problem with the US (though it is particulary advanced there). All the large Anglo countries suffer from the same problem, as do most of the EU member states. People have been bribed with welfare and 'tax breaks', blinded by manipulation of the media and outright lied to by their leaders - the result? A populace who actually take comfort in the fact that they have no control of their leaders and so no control over their own lives. I have no pity for people so willing to be exploited.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who's been having Wine issues with the 9600XT. Like you I get good performance with OpenGL apps and general desktop related gumph. But as soon as I run Wine the graphics card switches off! The machine stays running, and no errors are reported, but the card just shuts down. Very annoying.
Sadly, as this machine is a shuttle and I need decent 3D performance for my own coding work I'm stuck with it. There's no way on Earth that a GeForce is going to fit in the case:(
BulldogDSL are very cheap, plus they offer 400Kbit/s upstream on their central London ADSL services (not much use for you I know). There are loads of similar companies that offer low-cost ADSL, but they tend not to be 'known brands'.
There's this little town in the south of England called London. People in the hamlet of London have had access to >4Mbit/s ADSL for the last few years. Many providers offer 2Mbit SDSL connections as well. Even my parents, in the back water that is Hampshire , can get 2Mbit/s ADSL at a reasonable price.
Either you live in the Scottish Highlands or you haven't looked very hard.
The only one that looked vaguely interesting was Chaos League (I used to be huge fan of the Blood Bowl tabletop game). I actually have the Chaos League Demo on my machine at home waiting to be installed and tried out. Suffice to say it's going to be deleted as soon as I get home, and there is no chance at all of me buying the game. Many thanks to whoever runs the Boycott Starforce site!
Sun sell them, and everything that Sun sells costs far more than it should. A 1Gb memory upgrade from Sun would bankrupt many small countries.
The UltraSparc cost a lot to develop, but compared to IA-32 chips has a tiny market. Thus it doesn't benefit from the economies of scale that Intel/AMD have.
This is straying hugely off topic but I'm hoping no moderators are reading down this far.
Doctors and birth control cost money everywhere. Somebody somewhere has to pay for them. In the US it's the people using them, in European countries it's whoever the government wants to foot the bill. How is forcing people to pay for the mistakes (and having a child you can't afford is a mistake) of others a good thing?
In addition there is no such thing as a 'social conscience'. It's just a polite term to describe organised theft.
Lots of companies make such devices - they're monitors with SVHS/composite inputs. Perfectly capable of displaying the output of DVDs and consoles, but devoid of the tax incurring UHF receiver. Most mid to high-end LCD monitors have at least a composite input. Failing that you can buy VGA output boxes for all the major consoles at Lik Sang.
If you're using a MD player as a portable recording device then it's unlikely you're going to have much in the way of title information. The real-time transfer is undoubtedly a pain, but most budding musicians are unlikely to be recording Ring Cycle length epics (at least not on a weekly basis).
All the musicians I know (which I'll admit, isn't a huge number) use MD for ad-hoc recording. The recorders are cheap and durable; as are the discs. They are also so common in the UK that people don't bother trying to steal them anymore.
Tempest 2K on the Jaguar is the greatest twitch game ever. I keep a Jaguar on my desk at home (connected to an LCD monitor via some AverMedia box) just to play Tempest during compiles.
Someone's already done this. There are torrents around of LD->DVD rips of the original trilogy, sans Lucas' updates. Not that I've downloaded them of course - because, obviously, I'd never engage in the theft of copyrighted material. However for those more morally flexible than myself the torrents are out there.
I concur. The last two companies I've worked at have made some attempt to outsource high-level work (usually Java). In both cases the experiment failed because of the abysmal quality of code that was produced. It was pretty clear that the 'expert, degree level' people we'd paid for had about a weeks programming experience between them.
Companies do not, have not and never will outsource because it results in good quality work. That's merely a lie to placate their customers. They outsource because it cuts costs and lower costs means higher stock price. Now given that most company directors have bonuses tied to rises in stock price, and the damage the outsourcing causes won't become apparent for a few years; it's pretty obvious why outsourcing is occuring.
Pah I say! Pah! The greatest computer of the 80's was clearly the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. How could anything compete with it's classic design, surreal colour system and the awesome 'dead flesh' keyboard. The C64 had a full sized space bar - just like computers made in the Soviet Union! Solid proof that owning a C64 made you a filthy red!
Now if you don't mind "3D Ant Attack" has just loaded...
I've never had any problems with it. Everything has worked as advertised and requires the minimum of maintenance. The occasional "sudo pkg-get upgrade" is all that's required.
I've only ever used it on Solaris 9/Sparc. However they claim that builds are targeted at Solaris 8 on both Space and x86, with special Solaris 9 versions built as required. Given the quality of the system I see no reason not to believe them.
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Slight problem with your plan; it's very unlikely that people who enjoy reality TV possesses any degree of literacy. In addition, such people do not watch TV shows because they enjoy them, but because the commercials told them to.
The funny thing is that staff at shops that won't sell them (or refuse to tell you the remote code for unlockable players) try to claim that it's 'illegal' for them to do so. Which is strange as the staff at the Panasonic store were quite happy to unlock my new player for me - filthy criminals!
For the record I won't vote for any party that won't keep it's hands off my rights and my money. So most elections I end up voting for the (old) Liberal Pary, or spoiling the ballot paper.
Sounds pretty bloody left wing to me.
On a nit-picking note (on Slashdot?!?) I have to point out that not all mechanical watches sweep, and not all digital timed/analogue display watches 'tick'. Though a sweeping second-hand is usually a sign of a quality watch.
People wear analogue watches because they look much nicer than tacky digitals. Wrist watches are essentially jewellery that is culturally acceptable for both men and women to wear. That fact that analogue displays are more readable at glance is merely a bonus.
Ignoring your inane suggestion for a second I don't see anything wrong with Apple's behaviour. They're not a monopoly and they can charge as much as they like for their product. If people find it too expensive they shouldn't buy it. If sales stayed low Apple would soon cut their prices.
However, if you need an ultra-reliable, 128Gb, 32 processor server you buy a Sun and run Solaris on it. It's the only operating system that can fully take advantage of Sun's high-end hardware.
Yes, you could run Solaris x86 exclusively in a PII/III shop. But you wouldn't gain anything from doing so.
You don't see too much of it outside financial services because very few industries have products that can be compared in this manner.
This isn't just a problem with the US (though it is particulary advanced there). All the large Anglo countries suffer from the same problem, as do most of the EU member states. People have been bribed with welfare and 'tax breaks', blinded by manipulation of the media and outright lied to by their leaders - the result? A populace who actually take comfort in the fact that they have no control of their leaders and so no control over their own lives. I have no pity for people so willing to be exploited.
Sadly, as this machine is a shuttle and I need decent 3D performance for my own coding work I'm stuck with it. There's no way on Earth that a GeForce is going to fit in the case :(
BulldogDSL are very cheap, plus they offer 400Kbit/s upstream on their central London ADSL services (not much use for you I know). There are loads of similar companies that offer low-cost ADSL, but they tend not to be 'known brands'.
Either you live in the Scottish Highlands or you haven't looked very hard.
Or, more usefully, dental implants. As good as your original teeth but with the added advantage that broken teeth can be replaced in a few hours.
The only one that looked vaguely interesting was Chaos League (I used to be huge fan of the Blood Bowl tabletop game). I actually have the Chaos League Demo on my machine at home waiting to be installed and tried out. Suffice to say it's going to be deleted as soon as I get home, and there is no chance at all of me buying the game. Many thanks to whoever runs the Boycott Starforce site!
Doctors and birth control cost money everywhere. Somebody somewhere has to pay for them. In the US it's the people using them, in European countries it's whoever the government wants to foot the bill. How is forcing people to pay for the mistakes (and having a child you can't afford is a mistake) of others a good thing?
In addition there is no such thing as a 'social conscience'. It's just a polite term to describe organised theft.
Lots of companies make such devices - they're monitors with SVHS/composite inputs. Perfectly capable of displaying the output of DVDs and consoles, but devoid of the tax incurring UHF receiver. Most mid to high-end LCD monitors have at least a composite input. Failing that you can buy VGA output boxes for all the major consoles at Lik Sang.
All the musicians I know (which I'll admit, isn't a huge number) use MD for ad-hoc recording. The recorders are cheap and durable; as are the discs. They are also so common in the UK that people don't bother trying to steal them anymore.
Tempest 2K on the Jaguar is the greatest twitch game ever. I keep a Jaguar on my desk at home (connected to an LCD monitor via some AverMedia box) just to play Tempest during compiles.
So it's not all bad news then!
Someone's already done this. There are torrents around of LD->DVD rips of the original trilogy, sans Lucas' updates. Not that I've downloaded them of course - because, obviously, I'd never engage in the theft of copyrighted material. However for those more morally flexible than myself the torrents are out there.
Companies do not, have not and never will outsource because it results in good quality work. That's merely a lie to placate their customers. They outsource because it cuts costs and lower costs means higher stock price. Now given that most company directors have bonuses tied to rises in stock price, and the damage the outsourcing causes won't become apparent for a few years; it's pretty obvious why outsourcing is occuring.
Now if you don't mind "3D Ant Attack" has just loaded ...
I've only ever used it on Solaris 9/Sparc. However they claim that builds are targeted at Solaris 8 on both Space and x86, with special Solaris 9 versions built as required. Given the quality of the system I see no reason not to believe them.