If you`re wanting to sound british call him a `tit` - although a boob is a breast it`s not really an insult. You could of said he `made a boob` if he F`cked something up...
We used to be able to purchase DVD`s from any store and rent them out in the library i work in - much in the same way we do with cd`s. It was costing us roughly £12 per dvd. But because the movie industry is losing SO much cash hand over foot we now have to purchase the special rental copies from suppliers at roughly £40 a copy. We can`t afford to buy as many dvd` - so they lose more money. Go figure...
Yip. Sounds like the time I opened a new port and put a public pc thru the corporate network. Luckily the *friendly* IT guy pointed out my error. Didn't go near the switch for a LONG time....
The point i was making (or trying to make) is that public libraries are not just for education. They are places for entertainment also - hence the fiction, the cd's, the dvd's. Yes we have Language tutors on cd, yes we have BBC Nature documentaries on DVD. We also have Britney Spears on cd and American Pie on DVD. Ok - so Britney and American Pie are maybe not your cup of tea, but they are legitimate resources in a public library. Perhaps not a University Library but we are talking about *Public* libraries.
As for going to the Library to write your diary, why not? You wouldn't leave it lying around, but then you wouldn't leave the job application you just filled in at the library lying around either. People use libraries in many ways - not just research. Personal development comes in many forms and i could rant on about that but i won't.
You pulled me up for comparing fiction with myspace - yet you compare this with kids using a DS during class? come on...
So what option should I be using in Truecrypt for my partition that i've got encrypted? I'm using the default out the box encryption -can't remember what off the top of my head, i'm at work.
I'm not bothered about the government breaking it - it contains banking information and other stuff they could get at anyway, Just yer average cr/hacker.
My pc is a dualcore Athlon64 with 2 gig of ram if that makes a difference.
I appreciate people wish to share photos etc online with friends and family. The slashdot crowd take old pc`s and turn em into servers.
Surely the way forward for home users is networked storage that probably use less AC than a PC? Especially as we are now seeing combined adsl-router-NAS with built in raid. Is there then less chance of getting owned than with a MS based system? I know server 2003 that this is based on is more secure than previous MS offerings, but still...
err - so the iPhone is gonna have every phone number i'll ever want(tm) in the memory will it? Perhaps i want to phone a number on a business card that i'll rarely use, perhaps i'll see an advert in the paper and wanna call it. The list goes on....
The library that i work at needs software thats supported. Our IT Dept would demand it or we wouldn't get an SLA.
I've not RTA yet, so i dunno if paid support is available - but someone offering such a service may make this system more viable for cash strapped libraries.
I was about to say "Yeah but the first five topics on the Slashdot front page are about apple... lets talk about bias!" Then I realised i was in the Apple section. *ahem*
The point I am (perhaps badly) making is that US companies lobbied congress as they felt threatened by Foreign gambling sites. Should the UK allow US companies to operate casinos here in the UK when US casinos have damaged British gambling sites?
Channel 4 news here in the UK just had a report on this. It said it was in part pressure from the US casinos that's pushed this bill. The UK is opening up to US casinos to allow them to open `Supercasinos` - we'll have to see now what happens there, should they go ahead if British companies are not allowed a level playing field?
*offtopic* someone wanting £160 for two tickets to see the killers? lot of money for a gig. You can see them at a festival next summer for that... yes i know it's not as `intimate`
Just another example of people not buying tickets to see bands anymore but to sell on Ebay. I wish the fuckers at Ebay would stop allowing the re-sale of tickets but they're making too much money off it./rant
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>a total boob
If you`re wanting to sound british call him a `tit` - although a boob is a breast it`s not really
an insult. You could of said he `made a boob` if he F`cked something up...
Can the 360 stream media from a NAS?
I'm not trolling - i thought it couldn't.
Most of my media files are on NAS - If i'm in the living room streaming stuff with my 360 i don't want
my pc on in the other room...
probably off topic but....
We used to be able to purchase DVD`s from any store and rent them out in the library i work in - much in the same way we do with cd`s. It was costing us roughly £12 per dvd. But because the movie industry is losing SO much cash hand over foot we now have to purchase the special rental copies from suppliers at roughly £40 a copy. We can`t afford to buy as many dvd` - so they lose more money. Go figure...
Yip. Sounds like the time I opened a new port and put a public pc thru the corporate network.
Luckily the *friendly* IT guy pointed out my error. Didn't go near the switch for a LONG time....
The point i was making (or trying to make) is that public libraries are not just for education.
They are places for entertainment also - hence the fiction, the cd's, the dvd's. Yes we have Language tutors on cd, yes we have BBC Nature documentaries on DVD. We also have Britney Spears on cd and American Pie on DVD. Ok - so Britney and American Pie are maybe not your cup of tea, but they are legitimate resources in a public library. Perhaps not a University Library but we are talking about *Public* libraries.
As for going to the Library to write your diary, why not? You wouldn't leave it lying around, but then you wouldn't leave the job application you just filled in at the library lying around either. People use libraries in many ways - not just research. Personal development comes in many forms and i could rant on about that but i won't.
You pulled me up for comparing fiction with myspace - yet you compare this with kids using a DS during class? come on...
>>legitimate research
Posting on Slashdot?
Why shouldn`t kids use Myspace? Maybe we should get rid of all Fiction books as well - I mean they`re
not for legitimate research.
Libraries are for everyone - don`t be such a snob.
off topic(ish) but...
So what option should I be using in Truecrypt for my partition that i've got encrypted?
I'm using the default out the box encryption -can't remember what off the top of my head, i'm at work.
I'm not bothered about the government breaking it - it contains banking information and other stuff they could get at anyway, Just yer average cr/hacker.
My pc is a dualcore Athlon64 with 2 gig of ram if that makes a difference.
from the article:
"destroying an aging Chinese weather satellite target"
so it was one of their own satellites. The US didn't own it - whats the problem?
I appreciate people wish to share photos etc online with friends and family.
The slashdot crowd take old pc`s and turn em into servers.
Surely the way forward for home users is networked storage that probably use less AC than a PC?
Especially as we are now seeing combined adsl-router-NAS with built in raid. Is there then less chance of getting owned than with a MS based system? I know server 2003 that this is based on is more secure than previous MS offerings, but still...
>>What on earth are you dialling numbers for?
err - so the iPhone is gonna have every phone number i'll ever want(tm) in the memory will it? Perhaps i want to phone a number on a business card that i'll rarely use, perhaps i'll see an advert in the paper and wanna call it. The list goes on....
The library that i work at needs software thats supported.
Our IT Dept would demand it or we wouldn't get an SLA.
I've not RTA yet, so i dunno if paid support is available - but someone offering such a service may make this system more viable for cash strapped libraries.
>>I hope NTL hurry up and bring out a PVR.
They have. Got some promotional material thru my door about it yesterday.
>>No I've nothing to hide. I've nothing to share either.
you just have...
*hmmm* perhaps i should give the list of reasons why you disappointed me this year....
Yeah cause you don't have naked people "hugging" photos anywhere on your pc...
you're so fuckin leet...
Does it hurt?
insightful? shoot me now.....
This was a(n unfunny ) *joke*
Then I realised i was in the Apple section. *ahem*
...when it came out as I wanted to see it and the downloads were mobbed.
I got RC1 dvd in the post at work *this morning*
(and yes, perhaps I do have more money than sense - but I blow cash on other crap, so what the hell)
>>There's nothing nationalistic going on here.
Sure...
The fact that lots of *tax free* gambling was going ahead has nothing to do with this...
dream on.
>>We're talking about internet gambling
You don't say...
The point I am (perhaps badly) making is that US companies lobbied congress as they felt threatened by Foreign gambling sites. Should the UK allow US companies to operate casinos here in the UK when US casinos have damaged British gambling sites?
I need TP for Bunghole....
I am Cornholio!
Are you threatening me?
Channel 4 news here in the UK just had a report on this. It said it was in part pressure from the US casinos that's pushed this bill. The UK is opening up to US casinos to allow them to open `Supercasinos` - we'll have to see now what happens there, should they go ahead if British companies are not allowed a level playing field?
*offtopic*
/rant
someone wanting £160 for two tickets to see the killers?
lot of money for a gig. You can see them at a festival next summer for that...
yes i know it's not as `intimate`
Just another example of people not buying tickets to see bands anymore but to sell on Ebay.
I wish the fuckers at Ebay would stop allowing the re-sale of tickets but they're making too much money off it.
replying to my own post... *ahem*
I wonder if only aac files will be gapless? or will it do mp3 as well
maybe if encoded with lame?