"The Home Office claims that it has no current plans to enforce the law."
Similar assurances were made to the jews by the Nazi party when they were encircling them with laws in the 1930s.
Every time a see a password like this "12ol3jkh!!asrdfw9g8" or "^TFGY78UH" I want to vomit. Why not make your password something like "This chicken tastes like shit!"
Because after all that effort they still let someone else (you) see it!
I wonder if Windows 8 will actually default to the correct time zone _after_ I've already told it what country I am in. I was amazed to find that Windows 7 still, after all these years, didn't when I was setting up my new laptop last week.
And for anyone who thinks this guy is legit - why won't he just publicly reveal his so called discoveries? He could then patent them and make a fortune. Our IP laws are stronger than ever.
Maybe the idea, then, is to hide his technology, by offuscation, from other people's patents.
Personally, if I just invented some free energy source I would release all the plans for the benefit of the world and put all my resources into proving the concept for scientific verification. Maybe there's a problem with that approach that has stopped others dead in their tracks that I haven't thought of.
The way to make something sound louder than anything else is to use multi-band dynamic range compression like they do with FM radio. Normalizing doesn't fix this because the peak waveform may be the same, it's just that dynamic range compression means you get a constant instead of an occasional peak.
It is possible to measure perceived loudness and crank it down if it is above a certain unacceptable threshold. That way normal programs wouldn't be affected but only nasty adverts are culled.
A better solution would be to make excessive audio-cooking illegal. The penalty could be that the offender is strapped to an electric chair and is electrocuted by his own dynamically-compressed waveform. Then they'll be sorry. Ha!
Since Wikipedia is releasing the code to the Puppet application "which lets us write code that manages all of our servers like a single large application", I will release my "SockPuppet" application which allows me to manage all _MY_ Wikipedia articles like a single large community.
Any law that comes with an assurance that it "usually" won't be fully enforced does not belong in a civilised society. Again this is the same as with drug laws where, in the UK, you might be let off with a caution for possession but the law says you can be thrown in jail for up to seven years (for class-A substances such as MDMA).
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So I can free get air-con from an entangled box somewhere on Antartica and heat from an entangled box somewhere in Death Valley. Great!
I thought they were a man's alcohol company. And they come out with loved-up hippy ecstasy-head stuff like this?
This is an excellent training tool to prepare students for later life and situations like:
1) Waiting for a train that is cancelled
2) Watching paint dry
3) Racing snails with chronic fatigue syndrome through molasses
That's what Chinese tablets running ICS are like.
"The Home Office claims that it has no current plans to enforce the law." Similar assurances were made to the jews by the Nazi party when they were encircling them with laws in the 1930s.
Every time a see a password like this "12ol3jkh!!asrdfw9g8" or "^TFGY78UH" I want to vomit. Why not make your password something like "This chicken tastes like shit!"
Because after all that effort they still let someone else (you) see it!
Until MS ports Office to Linux, Linux is safe from this particular vulnerability.
They don't need to. Office 2007 works flawlessly on Linux under Wine.
You don't need historical analysis. I've seen first-hand that buying a woman steak or lobster helps me reproduce.
Here's a hysterical analysis. I've seen first-hand that buying a vegan woman steak or lobster does not help me reproduce.
If I remember correctly, someone once said that religion is the opiate of the masses
In cases like this it's more like meth than opium!
They will have to call it the NTSC-M One, of course!
I wonder if Windows 8 will actually default to the correct time zone _after_ I've already told it what country I am in. I was amazed to find that Windows 7 still, after all these years, didn't when I was setting up my new laptop last week.
Microsoft are evil. I don't touch their OS, I don't touch their software and I am not touching their search engine. So there.
To see such significant and lasting changes to neural chemistry, just type "alcohol brain scan" without the quotes into a picture search engine.
Plus the user interface pages end in "aspx". Which is the mark of the BEAST!
...and I have to admit I've never seen him suffer from atmospheric dust damage.
The first "fluid dynamics research" project is to design its own cooling system.
And for anyone who thinks this guy is legit - why won't he just publicly reveal his so called discoveries? He could then patent them and make a fortune. Our IP laws are stronger than ever.
Maybe the idea, then, is to hide his technology, by offuscation, from other people's patents. Personally, if I just invented some free energy source I would release all the plans for the benefit of the world and put all my resources into proving the concept for scientific verification. Maybe there's a problem with that approach that has stopped others dead in their tracks that I haven't thought of.
The way to make something sound louder than anything else is to use multi-band dynamic range compression like they do with FM radio. Normalizing doesn't fix this because the peak waveform may be the same, it's just that dynamic range compression means you get a constant instead of an occasional peak.
It is possible to measure perceived loudness and crank it down if it is above a certain unacceptable threshold. That way normal programs wouldn't be affected but only nasty adverts are culled.
A better solution would be to make excessive audio-cooking illegal. The penalty could be that the offender is strapped to an electric chair and is electrocuted by his own dynamically-compressed waveform. Then they'll be sorry. Ha!
Microsoft doesn't have anything to do with it.
Apart from being the inspiration for it!
I've been a Mac admin for 25 years. BSD is a Mac OSX.
CDs are silver disky type things that don't take as long to burn as DVDs do. I'm impatient when I am installing an OS!
Seems like a throwaway feature to me.
Seems like a really useful feature to me!
I'd like to continue to be able to use my computer and other devices.
And I'd like to stop you! Ha ha ha ha haaah!
Berlusconi's a cunt
FTFY: Il Duce's a cunt.
Instant karma!!! Italy credit rating slashed by Moody's from Aa2 to A2
Since Wikipedia is releasing the code to the Puppet application "which lets us write code that manages all of our servers like a single large application", I will release my "SockPuppet" application which allows me to manage all _MY_ Wikipedia articles like a single large community.
Any law that comes with an assurance that it "usually" won't be fully enforced does not belong in a civilised society. Again this is the same as with drug laws where, in the UK, you might be let off with a caution for possession but the law says you can be thrown in jail for up to seven years (for class-A substances such as MDMA).