Interestingly enough:
your.76 and.67 example might work for me like you described,
but.54 and.45 does not feel the same way.
Maybe it's because of being used to round up for values >=5 and 5 feeling much greater than 4 because of that.
Thinking about things like that; other important points (regarding to dollars, not cents) for me might be points like 12/13 and 17/18 as being on the border of "halving 5"
- besides the more obvious "just below a multiple of 10 or 5".
Wasn't there an act of Parliament (/me == American, but they're the ones that compiled this gibberish of a language in the first place) that "he", "his", etc. could, for the sake of preventing linguistic awkwardness, be used for either gender?
Not likely, that sounds reasonable;-)
I sometimes wonder how women perceive texts that have been "PCified",
because I think such texts mostly sound stupid(*) and feel somewhat forced (and because of that: more or less meaningless),
OTOH it is somewhat awkward for me if somebody always uses "she", but I think that's only because
it is unusual and more noticeable that way.
(*) I am German and in German (and in Latin..)its even more awful because there are masculine and feminine forms of almost all words that refer to (groups of) persons;
besides having the he/she problem, imagine
a) two forms for every occupation you can think of, like "manager", "student", "teacher", "assistant", "contestant", "player", every possible job title..
b) "gender-aware" articles, not only "the"
=> You either get horrible long constructions or an (orthographically wrong) construct is used (like writing "(s)he" to address both)
The Romans solved this problem the hardcore macho way (probably the reason why "he" is usually been used):
as soon as there might be one(!) man in an addressed group - he might be one in a crowd of thousands of women - the masculine form is used in Latin.
Now, how about that, linguistic feminazis!;-))
They evidently saw his skills in identifying and essentially publicising weaknesses
To me it seemed more like a PR move back then..
Hire a somewhat capable junior programmer (IIRC he was in IT education/training) you might need anyway
and get your company's name mentioned in the media lots of times.
The most annoying thing about laughter tracks(to me):
If the setting doesn't look cheap/like a stage.
That's other words for: if you can imagine that there really is an audience - ok.
But watching MASH in the US(?) "laughter-track-version" for the first time - knowing only a dubbed version without laughter track: *shudder**barf*
Thank SOMEONE, that there also is a non-laughter english audio track on the RC2-DVDs.
[Also: MASH had a really decent German dubbing compared to most more or less recent series (*):
occasionally a thing didn't make sense due to a pun in the original, but also sometimes things were even funnier than in the original;
And having it followed by Hogan's Heroes (with laughter track), using the same voices: disturbing,but funny]
(*) Futurama: unbearable; one of endless examples?:
Bender: "If anyone asks: say you are my debugger" was translated like "If anyone asks; say your are my insects remover" this:-) would have been an improvement.
Also, they are very likely tracking by IP address.
And at least in Germany almost(*) every home user gets a dynamic ip adress (usually disconnected after 24 hours), so it is also very likely that the same zombie machine shows up more than once in that statistic.
(*)
I think most ISPs don't offer them or only as part of higher priced business subscriptions.
And I'd wager those few people who go through all the trouble and pay extra for a static address for whatever reason are probably more knowledgable about computers and less likely to have their machines hijacked.
it aint nukes keeping China off our backs, we could stave them out long before they'd win any war.
To whom it may apply:
People, please remember the above sentence the next time you complain about agricultural protectionism by other nations or their reluctance to use genetically modified&patented seeds.
To ensure future independance from foreign nations for food supply is a very good reason for a nation to
use subventions or agricultural tariffs to protect its farmers.
There are plenty of copyrighted materials that you can download and share
Yes, I know,
And because we aren't the only ones that know about that, I am guessing that he most likely didn't inform that Spanish RIAA-like group: "Hey, I'm going to download the latest Debian and show that it is legal. Eat this!";-)
That wouldn't be much of an issue, more likely is something like:
"Hey, I own $CD with $track from $artist and I am going to download $track from P2P in class and show that it is legal because of x,y and z. Come and discuss if you think that it is illegal."
And as I said, I simply want to know some more details about what happened
because as I explained in my previous post, there might be circumstances that might put the university's actions into a somewhat more reasonable CYA-perspective
- at least compared to "we were pressured by $evil to fire you because you were going to tell students about legal P2P usage.".
I'm writing this from is running that "evil commie open sores" copyright-protected gnu+linux
So am I, comrade Hudson!;-)
When was the last time you have seen a public CCTV in a German street or public place
That's right, they are not that common here, although the usual suspects every now and then talk about installing some more.
Yesterday, we read about a Professor being fired for stating his opinions in public
To get somewhat offtopic:
Reading that I was upset like probably most people but thinking about it later, I really would like some more information about that case.
There was an interesting comment on the professor's blog that he announced (probably to the university and even to the Spanish RIAA equivalent as he said he told them about the lecture) to download some copyrighted works and then explaining why that wasn't illegal.
Now, if he was wrong about it being legal (who knows..) or it being doubtful, perhaps the university was threatened to be held liable for knowingly supportig copyright infringement.
So maybe this was more a cover-your-ass-reaction from the university('s legal department) than censorship.
Who knows (I don't understand Spanish) if they said something like: "Uh, well, go ahead talking , but you are not allowed to download Episode III using the university's network".
Don't know if that happend, but in that case it wouln't surprise (and upset) me that much..
As to the personal ID cards. I don't think the nationwide DNA databases you mention will be coming anytime soon
I didn't mention the ID cards. I was more going in the direction of lowering the requirements for taking DNA samples of suspects,
like dropping the need for an judge to approve this, widening the number of cases that allow taking DNA samples.
I read an interview with minister Zypries where she herself had to admit after continuous inquiry that her proposed law changes would technically allow the taking and storing of DNA samples in cases like repeated shoplifting or even repeated riding-the-bus-withou-paying.
Well, and the public support for all this after the murder of Mooshammer a few months ago..
(To paraphrase comedian (is there something like "political cabaret artist" in English?) Matthias Richling:
"With all those supporters for extending DNA-collection jumping out of the woodwork and the backing they get now,
you could think that Mooshamer was murdered by a hired killer of the CSU";-)
P.S. I also don't think that the Personlausweis (without RFID chip for fingerprints and DNA)is a bad idea; not sure about the legal requirement to have one, though.
Well that _was_ once true.
People like Gestapo-minister Otto Schily and his lackey Brigitte Zypries as minister of justice don't give a flying f... about the constitiuon and everybody applauds.
Besides from DMCA-like plans to give "Copyright holders" the right to request customer data from ISPs,
they are pushing laws to require ISPs to not only store IPs but also all communication data including visited URLs. email header info, IM data, SMSes, telephone connection data and much more stuff.
The only thing they aren't sure about is how many years ISPs and telcos will be required to store all that information and who pays for it.
Btw. they are also pushing to build nationwide DNA- and fingerprint databases.
The East-German STASI and the Gestapo would have had wet dreams about the infrastructure that is going to be created.
I think it isn't necessary to point out that all this is done "to fight islamistic terrorism"
and to "protect our freedom".
Apropos: because of their severeness the anti-terror laws passed after 9/11 were limited in time and to be reevaluated after five years.
Since they were such a success (not proven), now minster Schiliy and others suggest to keep them forever without a mandatory reevaluation and even extend their scope/power.
Do I even have to conclude this rant by saying that I am much more worried about
the actions of our politicans than about terrorist attacks?
But hey, as long as you have nothing to hide..
The third movie felt "real" (for lack of a better word). Ordinary kids thrown into extraordinary circumstances.
Yes, and that's exactly what I didn't like about it:-)
I somehow got the perception that the Wizard- and the Muggle world were very separated and that most of the kids tended to live more in the Wizard world.
The kids spent most of their time there, you only hear them think about wizard careers and all those (especially "pure blood") wizards who don't know anything about the muggle world:
think of the Weasleys who don't know how to dress like muggles or how their world works, the "Muggle Studies" class or that department at the ministry, Harry seeming to be the only one who didn't know what Quidditch was but the football fan being perceived as odd by the others and so on.
I think it's just a weakness of the books - the whole relation between the wizard and muggle world;
being not the focus of the books, it feels formed as needed for a plot twist or some comical sidestories (culture clashes).
I think we simply got different impression from the books.
Maybe I still suffer from the plot of the fifth book were I always thought that the whole somewhat totalitarian social/political structure of the wizard world was very stupid and unlikely (it really pissed me off)
- especially if you think that lots of the kids/people are more "normal" and are in more or less close contact with relatives and friends in the real world and got some first hand experience of basic democratic principles or even went to school there before going to Hogwarths.
So in a kind of keeping-the-fun-self-defense I chose to view the two worlds as very much separated and all the kids primarily as living in the wizard world
- hence I prefer the robes, not jeans;-))
I have to agree with you; I think the third movie was worse than the others.
IIRC there were some big plot holes for people who didn't know the story;
the Marauders Map (looking very nice) was put very much into the foreground, but it lacked some explaining - for example who created it:
Lupin knew what it was, but there was no explaination why he - but not Snape - did know how to use it (no explaination of the creators' nicknames and that Lupin was one of them).
That could have been nicely integrated with a remark of Harry's father being and Animagus and the shape of Harry's patronus.
Another thing (again IIRC) was that there was no explaination how Sirius knew about PettiDon'tKnowTheSpelling and why he was at Hogwarths - which was the reason for him trying to escape from Ascaban
These might sound like nitpicks (and I might remember them wrong, only saw the movie once last year) but if you don't know the books they are examples of things that create some basic WTF?-feeling.
Also I didn't like the atmosphere. The castle and its surroundings might be a matter of taste,
but I sure didn't like that the students ran around in Jeans and Sneakers instead of their robes most of the time.
I can recommend the audio books read by Jim Dale, they are amazing.
He won some awards (including a Grammy) for them and a Guiness Book entry for "Most Character Voices in an Audio Book".
> and the only other thing by Whedon I can recall seeing is Alien 4, which was mostly rubbish
From what I have read, Joss Whedon might agree with you:
Something about his script being edited so far he didn't want to be associated with that movie any longer - but that might be rumors.
Although there is one Angel episode where he inserted a little remark: "I mean, Roger's always had a thing for those disgusting Alien movies... all that slime and teeth... ugh! He just can't get enough of them! Except for that last one they made, I think he dozed off."
(copy&paste after a quick google search, might not be 100% accurate)
OTOH I know a lot of home users who
a) might not know that there are things to fix
b) don't have broadband and pay per minute for their 56 kbps connection so they aren't going to download hundreds of Megabyte to update their old pre-SP1-XP..
To ease the effects watch and remember Futurama;
stuff like the shelf with the two books labeled "P" and "NP" (IIRC in "Put Your Head on my Shoulder"),
One honest question, definitely not meant as a flamebait:
What I think sucks about Captain Archer: his body language, his way of moving..reminds me of George W. Bush.
Maybe because I don't see/hear W. that often as I'm not from the US, but..
Anyone else noticed similarities?
I'm not sure, but I think there is one little weak point in the calculations - depending on how the copying levy in Canada is intended.
Such a levy has been used to compensate for losses due to any kind of private copying in Germany years ago .
If the Canadian levy too is meant to compensate for all kinds of private copying (not only file sharing) then one could argue against the last part of the calculations.
If I remember it right, the author calculates the estimated loss for artists due to file sharing and argues later that this sum is more than covered by the collected levy;
but if the levy is intended to cover all copying - not only file sharing, but also for example copying CDs for friends - the loss might very well be higher than the compensation.
Never thought I would somehow "defend" the music industry but I liked the study and had a "to nice to be true"-fear while reading it.
But even if the above mentioned criticism is true, it doesn't negate the rest of the author's finding about the overestimated loss claims.
Hey...maybe you are able to answer a question about that display if you have the time?
I want to buy an 19 inch LCD myself and my favorites at the moment are the Iiyama 481 (because of the S-IPS panel, it's slightly cheaper and I read lots of (credible) good test reports about it)
or maybe the Samsung 910T (more features, probably better picture quality because of ?VA panel)
The things I have in mind:
most important: can you use it with Linux? That is: newer Samsung displays come with a windows-only "MagicTune" software to tune the picture and AFAIK some of the monitors don't have all the buttons to access the same functions without the software (example: the SM 193P)
Did you watch DVDs or TV on it? I guess it is fast enough for that...or not?
Do you occasionally play games? Have you by any chance tried the Wing Commander Privateer Remake (can be found on sourceforge) that was mentioned on slashdot a few weeks ago? Or some RPG like Neverwinter Nights (being the only somewhat graphically demanding games I play from time to time)?
Usually you only find experiences with "first person shooter" games on LCDs; and I'm not sure how big the differences are (regarding display speed requirements) between a FPS and for example space battles on a dark background like in Privateer Remake..
Any related first hand experiences are greatly appreciated:-)
The browser-integration of that (relatively) recent feature of allowing cookies only for sessions and have same automatically deleted when you close the browser.
Also, keep in mind that there is an 80K portion of memory that memtest stays resident in, and cannot be tested
From the fun-things-to-do-with-all-that-video-ram-nowadays- department:
A couple of years ago, someone at the German c't magazine wrote a little more-or-less-stable memory test program that used the memory of the graphics card to run from.
I think it is this tool and needs to be unpacked to a bootable floppy disc.
Slashdot Mirror
Interestingly enough: .76 and .67 example might work for me like you described, .54 and .45 does not feel the same way.
your
but
Maybe it's because of being used to round up for values >=5 and 5 feeling much greater than 4 because of that.
Thinking about things like that; other important points (regarding to dollars, not cents) for me might be points like 12/13 and 17/18 as being on the border of "halving 5"
- besides the more obvious "just below a multiple of 10 or 5".
Wasn't there an act of Parliament (/me == American, but they're the ones that compiled this gibberish of a language in the first place) that "he", "his", etc. could, for the sake of preventing linguistic awkwardness, be used for either gender?
;-)
;-))
Not likely, that sounds reasonable
I sometimes wonder how women perceive texts that have been "PCified",
because I think such texts mostly sound stupid(*) and feel somewhat forced (and because of that: more or less meaningless),
OTOH it is somewhat awkward for me if somebody always uses "she",
but I think that's only because it is unusual and more noticeable that way.
(*) I am German and in German (and in Latin..)its even more awful because there are masculine and feminine forms of almost all words that refer to (groups of) persons;
besides having the he/she problem, imagine
a) two forms for every occupation you can think of, like "manager", "student", "teacher", "assistant", "contestant", "player", every possible job title..
b) "gender-aware" articles, not only "the"
=> You either get horrible long constructions or an (orthographically wrong) construct is used (like writing "(s)he" to address both)
The Romans solved this problem the hardcore macho way (probably the reason why "he" is usually been used):
as soon as there might be one(!) man in an addressed group - he might be one in a crowd of thousands of women - the masculine form is used in Latin.
Now, how about that, linguistic feminazis!
They evidently saw his skills in identifying and essentially publicising weaknesses
To me it seemed more like a PR move back then..
Hire a somewhat capable junior programmer (IIRC he was in IT education/training) you might need anyway
and get your company's name mentioned in the media lots of times.
The most annoying thing about laughter tracks(to me):
,but funny]
:-) would have been an improvement.
If the setting doesn't look cheap/like a stage.
That's other words for: if you can imagine that there really is an audience - ok.
But watching MASH in the US(?) "laughter-track-version" for the first time - knowing only a dubbed version without laughter track: *shudder**barf*
Thank SOMEONE, that there also is a non-laughter english audio track on the RC2-DVDs.
[Also: MASH had a really decent German dubbing compared to most more or less recent series (*):
occasionally a thing didn't make sense due to a pun in the original, but also sometimes things were even funnier than in the original;
And having it followed by Hogan's Heroes (with laughter track), using the same voices: disturbing
(*) Futurama: unbearable; one of endless examples?:
Bender: "If anyone asks: say you are my debugger" was translated like "If anyone asks; say your are my insects remover"
this
Just use "sales" as the name. :-)
"sales@<corporationWithAnnoyingAdvertising.com>" will surely get wet pants because of the enhanced brand awareness.
Hmm, I think I misspelled "real" somewhere..
Also, they are very likely tracking by IP address.
And at least in Germany almost(*) every home user gets a dynamic ip adress (usually disconnected after 24 hours),
so it is also very likely that the same zombie machine shows up more than once in that statistic.
(*) I think most ISPs don't offer them or only as part of higher priced business subscriptions.
And I'd wager those few people who go through all the trouble and pay extra for a static address for whatever reason
are probably more knowledgable about computers and less likely to have their machines hijacked.
it aint nukes keeping China off our backs, we could stave them out long before they'd win any war.
To whom it may apply:
People, please remember the above sentence the next time you complain about agricultural protectionism
by other nations or their reluctance to use genetically modified&patented seeds.
To ensure future independance from foreign nations for food supply is a very good reason for a nation to
use subventions or agricultural tariffs to protect its farmers.
There are plenty of copyrighted materials that you can download and share
;-)
;-)
Yes, I know,
And because we aren't the only ones that know about that, I am guessing that he most likely didn't inform that Spanish RIAA-like group:
"Hey, I'm going to download the latest Debian and show that it is legal. Eat this!"
That wouldn't be much of an issue, more likely is something like:
"Hey, I own $CD with $track from $artist and I am going to download $track from P2P in class and show that it is legal because of x,y and z. Come and discuss if you think that it is illegal."
And as I said, I simply want to know some more details about what happened
because as I explained in my previous post, there might be circumstances that might put the university's actions into a somewhat more reasonable CYA-perspective
- at least compared to "we were pressured by $evil to fire you because you were going to tell students about legal P2P usage.".
I'm writing this from is running that "evil commie open sores" copyright-protected gnu+linux
So am I, comrade Hudson!
When was the last time you have seen a public CCTV in a German street or public place
;-)
That's right, they are not that common here, although the usual suspects every now and then talk about installing some more.
Yesterday, we read about a Professor being fired for stating his opinions in public To get somewhat offtopic:
Reading that I was upset like probably most people but thinking about it later, I really would like some more information about that case.
There was an interesting comment on the professor's blog that he announced (probably to the university and even to the Spanish RIAA equivalent as he said he told them about the lecture) to download some copyrighted works and then explaining why that wasn't illegal.
Now, if he was wrong about it being legal (who knows..) or it being doubtful, perhaps the university was threatened to be held liable for knowingly supportig copyright infringement.
So maybe this was more a cover-your-ass-reaction from the university('s legal department) than censorship.
Who knows (I don't understand Spanish) if they said something like: "Uh, well, go ahead talking , but you are not allowed to download Episode III using the university's network".
Don't know if that happend, but in that case it wouln't surprise (and upset) me that much..
As to the personal ID cards. I don't think the nationwide DNA databases you mention will be coming anytime soon
I didn't mention the ID cards. I was more going in the direction of lowering the requirements for taking DNA samples of suspects,
like dropping the need for an judge to approve this, widening the number of cases that allow taking DNA samples.
I read an interview with minister Zypries where she herself had to admit after continuous inquiry that her proposed law changes
would technically allow the taking and storing of DNA samples in cases like repeated shoplifting or even repeated riding-the-bus-withou-paying.
Well, and the public support for all this after the murder of Mooshammer a few months ago..
(To paraphrase comedian (is there something like "political cabaret artist" in English?) Matthias Richling:
"With all those supporters for extending DNA-collection jumping out of the woodwork and the backing they get now,
you could think that Mooshamer was murdered by a hired killer of the CSU"
P.S. I also don't think that the Personlausweis (without RFID chip for fingerprints and DNA)is a bad idea; not sure about the legal requirement to have one, though.
Well that _was_ once true.
People like Gestapo-minister Otto Schily and his lackey Brigitte Zypries as minister of justice
don't give a flying f... about the constitiuon and everybody applauds.
Besides from DMCA-like plans to give "Copyright holders" the right to request customer data from ISPs,
they are pushing laws to require ISPs to not only store IPs but also all communication data including visited URLs. email header info, IM data, SMSes, telephone connection data and much more stuff.
The only thing they aren't sure about is how many years ISPs and telcos will be required to store all that information and who pays for it.
Btw. they are also pushing to build nationwide DNA- and fingerprint databases.
The East-German STASI and the Gestapo would have had wet dreams about the infrastructure that is going to be created.
I think it isn't necessary to point out that all this is done "to fight islamistic terrorism"
and to "protect our freedom".
Apropos: because of their severeness the anti-terror laws passed after 9/11 were limited in time and to be reevaluated after five years.
Since they were such a success (not proven), now minster Schiliy and others suggest to keep them forever without a mandatory reevaluation and even extend their scope/power.
Do I even have to conclude this rant by saying that I am much more worried about
the actions of our politicans than about terrorist attacks?
But hey, as long as you have nothing to hide..
..somewhere at the NASA:
"Sir! Sir! The Russians! The Commies have started to paint the moon red! What shall we do?!"
"Hmm...don't stop them. Load up a shuttle with white paint and when they are finished we'll go up and write 'Coca Cola' on it."
The third movie felt "real" (for lack of a better word). Ordinary kids thrown into extraordinary circumstances. :-)
;-))
Yes, and that's exactly what I didn't like about it
I somehow got the perception that the Wizard- and the Muggle world were very separated and that most of the kids tended to live more in the Wizard world.
The kids spent most of their time there, you only hear them think about wizard careers and all those (especially "pure blood") wizards who don't know anything about the muggle world:
think of the Weasleys who don't know how to dress like muggles or how their world works, the "Muggle Studies" class or that department at the ministry,
Harry seeming to be the only one who didn't know what Quidditch was but the football fan being perceived as odd by the others and so on.
I think it's just a weakness of the books - the whole relation between the wizard and muggle world;
being not the focus of the books, it feels formed as needed for a plot twist or some comical sidestories (culture clashes).
I think we simply got different impression from the books.
Maybe I still suffer from the plot of the fifth book were I always thought that the whole somewhat totalitarian social/political structure of the wizard world was very stupid and unlikely (it really pissed me off)
- especially if you think that lots of the kids/people are more "normal" and are in more or less close contact with relatives and friends in the real world and got some first hand experience of basic democratic principles or even went to school there before going to Hogwarths.
So in a kind of keeping-the-fun-self-defense I chose to view the two worlds as very much separated and all the kids primarily as living in the wizard world
- hence I prefer the robes, not jeans
I think you forgot about something
I have to agree with you; I think the third movie was worse than the others.
IIRC there were some big plot holes for people who didn't know the story;
the Marauders Map (looking very nice) was put very much into the foreground, but it lacked some explaining - for example who created it:
Lupin knew what it was, but there was no explaination why he - but not Snape - did know how to use it
(no explaination of the creators' nicknames and that Lupin was one of them).
That could have been nicely integrated with a remark of Harry's father being and Animagus and the shape of Harry's patronus.
Another thing (again IIRC) was that there was no explaination how Sirius knew about PettiDon'tKnowTheSpelling and why he was at Hogwarths
- which was the reason for him trying to escape from Ascaban
These might sound like nitpicks (and I might remember them wrong, only saw the movie once last year) but if you don't know the books they are examples of things that create some basic WTF?-feeling.
Also I didn't like the atmosphere. The castle and its surroundings might be a matter of taste,
but I sure didn't like that the students ran around in Jeans and Sneakers instead of their robes most of the time.
I can recommend the audio books read by Jim Dale, they are amazing.
He won some awards (including a Grammy) for them and a Guiness Book entry for "Most Character Voices in an Audio Book".
> and the only other thing by Whedon I can recall seeing is Alien 4, which was mostly rubbish
From what I have read, Joss Whedon might agree with you:
Something about his script being edited so far he didn't want to be associated with that movie any longer - but that might be rumors.
Although there is one Angel episode where he inserted a little remark:
"I mean, Roger's always had a thing for those disgusting Alien movies... all that slime and teeth... ugh! He just can't get enough of them! Except for that last one they made, I think he dozed off."
(copy&paste after a quick google search, might not be 100% accurate)
OTOH I know a lot of home users who
a) might not know that there are things to fix
b) don't have broadband and pay per minute for their 56 kbps connection so they aren't going to download hundreds of Megabyte to update their old pre-SP1-XP..
I disagree, I think somebody else should remake the first two. ;P
To ease the effects watch and remember Futurama;
stuff like the shelf with the two books labeled "P" and "NP" (IIRC in "Put Your Head on my Shoulder"),
One honest question, definitely not meant as a flamebait:
What I think sucks about Captain Archer: his body language, his way of moving..reminds me of George W. Bush.
Maybe because I don't see/hear W. that often as I'm not from the US, but..
Anyone else noticed similarities?
I'm not sure, but I think there is one little weak point in the calculations - depending on how the copying levy in Canada is intended.
Such a levy has been used to compensate for losses due to any kind of private copying in Germany years ago .
If the Canadian levy too is meant to compensate for all kinds of private copying (not only file sharing) then one could argue against the last part of the calculations.
If I remember it right, the author calculates the estimated loss for artists due to file sharing and argues later that this sum is more than covered by the collected levy;
but if the levy is intended to cover all copying - not only file sharing, but also for example copying CDs for friends - the loss might very well be higher than the compensation.
Never thought I would somehow "defend" the music industry but I liked the study and had a "to nice to be true"-fear while reading it.
But even if the above mentioned criticism is true, it doesn't negate the rest of the author's finding about the overestimated loss claims.
Thank you :-)
I want to buy an 19 inch LCD myself and my favorites at the moment are the Iiyama 481
(because of the S-IPS panel, it's slightly cheaper and I read lots of (credible) good test reports about it)
or maybe the Samsung 910T (more features, probably better picture quality because of ?VA panel)
The things I have in mind:
That is: newer Samsung displays come with a windows-only "MagicTune" software to tune the picture and AFAIK
some of the monitors don't have all the buttons to access the same functions without the software (example: the SM 193P)
Have you by any chance tried the Wing Commander Privateer Remake (can be found on sourceforge) that was mentioned on slashdot a few weeks ago?
Or some RPG like Neverwinter Nights (being the only somewhat graphically demanding games I play from time to time)?
Usually you only find experiences with "first person shooter" games on LCDs; and I'm not sure how big the differences are (regarding display speed requirements) between a FPS and for example space battles on a dark background like in Privateer Remake..
Any related first hand experiences are greatly appreciated
Another thing to consider:
The browser-integration of that (relatively) recent feature of allowing cookies only for sessions and have same automatically deleted when you close the browser.
Also, keep in mind that there is an 80K portion of memory that memtest stays resident in, and cannot be tested
- department:
From the fun-things-to-do-with-all-that-video-ram-nowadays
A couple of years ago, someone at the German c't magazine wrote a little more-or-less-stable memory test program
that used the memory of the graphics card to run from.
I think it is this tool and needs to be unpacked to a bootable floppy disc.