And praytell good suh, WTF is a pram? Something like a PROM?
Don't you just love the cultural divide?;-)
A pram is like a push chair, but the baby lies flat and faces the parent. Maybe you call them baby carrages? The only reference I can think of would be Ghostbusters II, where the baby gets taken away in a ghost one, about 2/3rds of the way thru the movie.
Pretty old fashioned now; all the mothers seem to have push chairs that appear to have off-road capabilities (i.e. huge tyres)!
I know of a couple of "illegal" albums where almost all the samples are a little too obvious and noone bothered asking the "original" artists (with their slightly less original music) for permission to use their stuff. I've even made such "illegal" music myself (unreleased)
Seesh, "a couple"? I've got over four gig of this kind of material. "You see boy, the real money is in bootlegging" - simpsons quote, also used at the start of one of these albums.
This stuff is the next big thing. Completely unauthorised, zero respect for samples. And zero commercial value. The kids love it!!
Perhaps I'm just feeling cynical, but why do I get the feeling that these tracks will appear on kazaa, et. al. in no time flat, and the generation raised on Napster will simply take that, rather than supporting these types of enterprises. It's just human nature to take the "easy route".
But the are already there anyway. Creating new mp3s and selling them on a website isn't in any way going to affect the availability of the tracks on p2p. I got two Boards of Canada CDs from WinMX six months ago, and I got some Aphex Twin ones over two years ago on Napster (looking at the file date stamps).
This was before this service was available, and it didn't get in my way...
The question is, can they tempt people like me, who have had "free" music for several years, back into buying music again? I don't think they will be able to...
I just try to do my bit to promote the artists to friends (especially the more obscure stuff I have), and go to live music whenever possible.
This is just the kind of dumb attitude that kills people. As a biased pedestrian/cyclist, I'd like to see drivers stick to the speed limit.
I can see where you are coming from. When colliding with a person, a cars speed is very important in how bad the injury will be. As such, I don't speed in urban areas.
However, I horse it on the motorway, where it is safe to do so. Provided you aren't driving your car beyond it's limits, e.g. taking a hatchback over 100 mph (or an SUV over 50 mph, yes 50 mph, any more is a death-wish), then speeding on the motorway is safe.
The statistics prove it. Very rarely is an accident on the motorway down to speeding. As the parent's parent post says, lack of attention, inexperience or just sheer stupidity is to blame.
However, if I march around in the street, destroying other peoples' property (and, in general, preventing other people from going about their daily lives), you can be damned sure the cops will come and break up the party.
Not quite. If you turn up at a peacefull protest with an anti-Bush slogan, you will get asked to move to a "Free speach zone". No shitting here, google for it. Pro-Bush slogans don't get moved. If you refuse to move to the area (which is out of sight from Bush, the public and TV cameras) you WILL get arrested by the Secret Service.
All to counter terrorism you see. Of course, no terrorist would ever consider using a pro-Bush banner to get closer, no sirrriee!
Sure, it's hardly a facist police state, but it's not the USA we used to respect. And sadly, it seems to get worse with every passing year.
According to your logic, seeing as most places have CCTV, they must be working:)
I have to correct this...most places absoulutely do not have CCTV. My area doesn't, despite being one of the most afflent areas for miles. City centres and areas with a history for violence get them, that's about it.
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What a crock of shit. The above was written by people who practiced slavery. Now I've pointed that out, go read it again. All LIIIESS!!!
I admire the US constitution, don't get me wrong. It was a nice idea, in theory. But seeing as just about everything in it has been nullified by laws passed in the 30 years, it's nothing more than a historical footnote. I saw a good site linked on Slashdot once that had a good break down of the document and listed all the laws that largely made each ammendment worthless.
Sorry, but you are living in a dream world. A piece of paper written a couple of hundred years ago does not a country make. Your current leadership are far more relevant to how your country functions, and with Patriot Act et all, you really don't have a leg to stand on here.
Not to mention all of the liberties taken away from Americans in the name of the "War on Drugs". But then again, American drug laws (and prisons) are less harsh than most other countries.
I disagree. The USA has some of the highest prison populations in the world, made up of mostly drug related offenses. Three strikes and your out, and all that.
The only places off the top of my head that are more strict are the middle east (punishment is usually death) or the far east, where you get to stay in the likes of the Bankok Hilton. Not nice.
They're typically connected to the base by 4 large bolts usually with some type of cushioning, semi-plyable material in between. When a car hits it the four bolts snap and the pole falls over, typically breaking just the bolts and the light and causing minimal damage to the vehicle.
Yeah, you might see them on main highways in the UK, but the streetlamps (which we are talking about here) don't have anything fancy. They are simply cemented into the ground.
It's really not - the UK has the highest incidence of CCTV cameras in the world.
But fortunately, they are all independent systems, like the camera in the petrol station, or the one in the shop. The only linked ones are the traffic ones and the inner-city CCTV ones, and even they are separate from each other.
Just wait until the rest of the world catches up. You will have CCTV eventually, but your system will be completely interlinked, with facial recognition and OCR technologies. Then, we will be the laughing ones!!:-)
He's got a family-owned nitch business, and he is a tech-nut. I don't see *anything* wrong with his only postings on Slashdot being about his products.
I agree. How many folk have things in their sigs linking to products or OSS project they have worked on? Quite a lot. Or, how many "sorry for OUR server melting" posts are there...?
Provided is isn't a "First post, buy the jacket" type of person with nothing to contribute other than noise, then it's not a bad thing. Everyone wants to plug their shit...
I'm not very familiar with the new Canadian privacy law, but the article seems to imply that the protection of an individual's personal data only applies to the individual as a consumer, not the individual as an employee
Fortunately, the UK's Data Protection Act doesn't differentiate between the two. You can look up any employer and see exactly what they claim to store.
(With "claim" beinging the operative world here!! I live in the real world)
PS, fingerprint scanners are common-as-muck in Glasgow pubs. Must be an efficency/speed thing...;-)
I'm also reminded of Microsoft's disputed release of NT 3.51 Workstation vs. Server. The price differential was significant, and the only difference between the two installs was a couple Registry entries.
Workstation had all the same code that Server had; it was just "crippled" by the Registry entries so that Microsoft could make more money selling Server versions to the Enterprise.
But seriously, that was pretty sneaky.
No it wasn't, it was cost effective. Other posters have stated how underselling items works in chip fabrication. A similar thing works in software. By using the same code-base for both versions, you:
Half the lines of code to maintain
Half the bugs (in theory)
You don't need to perform complete test runs on each version
It makes sense for them, bringing down the cost to us. That's the way it works.
Also, when you buy the server, you get support for the server components that you paid for. Try getting support on a hacked workstation install.
Of course, there are downsides. A security flaw in Outlook Express can affect a server because of the shared code. That's bad. The server should have exluded things, rather than being just "workstation plus".
The big problem was that while you could track turnover volume on the gaming tables, you just couldn't track the movement of players very well - there was just no information on that. With this they can have you swipe your awards card when you collect your chips, then watch those chips disperse about the tables. More importantly they can track the ebb and flow - movement vectors for the chips about the floor - that can be very useful information.
Combined with the facial recognition systems already in use, this will give the casino complete visability of the floor. They will know everything going on. Each table would have many readers, one for the dealer and one for each seat. Probably one for where the chips in play lie for each player as well. Data analysis of this would be pretty interesting, as well as very powerful. Do they track hands as well, when they are made visable?
Of course, the consumer will be hurt as all this will be used to maximise their profits. But, it's their casino, you choose to play.
However, tech isn't only helping the casinos, it's helping gamblers in someways. Most on-line casinos offer full hand-history, to prove they aren't cheating. Many players are using this to profile their opponents, and get the edge.
It was a lot easier to find money for the apollo program when there was a race with the soviet
Don't forget, it's the same technologies used to send men on the moon as to send nukes to Moscow. That drive is no longer there. The current Goldstein (terrorism) has no space implications.
It has implications for tracking technologies, but that's not news around these parts.
Agreed. Sounds like a cliche, but I believe it (and VC) to be the best game ever. VC is more of the same, with worthwhile updates and a more polished finish. I can't wait to see the next one. I never pre-order games...but VC was an exception as will this one.
Why do I think it's so great...?
Complete freedom. Lot's of side amusements. Many secrets. Brilliant (and well produced) audio. Good sense of humor. Very little political correctness.
And Tommy from Trainspotting. LOVEFIST!! Just genius.
I can't think of any game that comes close...just as Wipeout brought me to the PSX, GTA brought me to the PS2. Killer app.
When you signed up there should have been a terms of service agreement. If there's nothing stated about the bandwidth limit then you have nothing to worry about.
When I signed up for Broadband, I was careful about service agreements as I wanted to run a few services on the connection for my own private use. There was no such bandwidth restriction when I signed up.
About 6 months to a year later, they changed their policy to introduce limits. The deal was that if you used so much bandwidth over 3-4 days, you would get a warning.
They sent a letter out to all subscribers noting them of the change, and it was covered in some media sources. I immediately replied stating that if I ever received one such warning, I would instantly cancel my account with them entirely, which included telephone and cable TV packages, quite a high monthly cost.
To this date, despite constant high usage, I've yet to receive a warning.:-)
With "MP3 players," the emphasis is usually on quantity, not quality.
Rubbish. It's down to the person who encodes the file, not the playback method!!
I use 96kbit wma files on the move, while my own rips are 192+ mp3, or in the last year or so, the R3mix preset. I down-convert to carry more, as the player is a mobile phone that has cheap headphones and sound hardware. I'm also limited to SD flash media, which is expensive. If I had a different type of device, I'd do it differently.
If you know what you are doing, lossy codecs are fine 99% of the time. Saying mp3 is worse than minidisk is a blatant lie. Maybe if you qualified that with "128kbit/s mp3".
Well, he wouldn't be the first. I've been following the trend of bootleg music for a while, where people make unauthorised versions of songs. Because they are not releasing commerically, they are "free" to sample pretty much anything. In the last year or so, this has become very popular, especially with the European commercial successes of 2manyDJs.
Many of them have also started to produce video. A couple of good ones that come to mind are Eclectic Method and Cartel Communique (who's site is down). Well worth a look.
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Don't you just love the cultural divide? ;-)
A pram is like a push chair, but the baby lies flat and faces the parent. Maybe you call them baby carrages? The only reference I can think of would be Ghostbusters II, where the baby gets taken away in a ghost one, about 2/3rds of the way thru the movie.
Pretty old fashioned now; all the mothers seem to have push chairs that appear to have off-road capabilities (i.e. huge tyres)!
Seesh, "a couple"? I've got over four gig of this kind of material. "You see boy, the real money is in bootlegging" - simpsons quote, also used at the start of one of these albums.
This stuff is the next big thing. Completely unauthorised, zero respect for samples. And zero commercial value. The kids love it!!
But the are already there anyway. Creating new mp3s and selling them on a website isn't in any way going to affect the availability of the tracks on p2p. I got two Boards of Canada CDs from WinMX six months ago, and I got some Aphex Twin ones over two years ago on Napster (looking at the file date stamps).
This was before this service was available, and it didn't get in my way... The question is, can they tempt people like me, who have had "free" music for several years, back into buying music again? I don't think they will be able to...
I just try to do my bit to promote the artists to friends (especially the more obscure stuff I have), and go to live music whenever possible.
Boards of Canada are great as well, but you need to be a little more "chilled" to appreciate... ;-)
PS, never realised BoC were on Warp; learn something new every day.
I can see where you are coming from. When colliding with a person, a cars speed is very important in how bad the injury will be. As such, I don't speed in urban areas.
However, I horse it on the motorway, where it is safe to do so. Provided you aren't driving your car beyond it's limits, e.g. taking a hatchback over 100 mph (or an SUV over 50 mph, yes 50 mph, any more is a death-wish), then speeding on the motorway is safe.
The statistics prove it. Very rarely is an accident on the motorway down to speeding. As the parent's parent post says, lack of attention, inexperience or just sheer stupidity is to blame.
Not quite. If you turn up at a peacefull protest with an anti-Bush slogan, you will get asked to move to a "Free speach zone". No shitting here, google for it. Pro-Bush slogans don't get moved. If you refuse to move to the area (which is out of sight from Bush, the public and TV cameras) you WILL get arrested by the Secret Service.
All to counter terrorism you see. Of course, no terrorist would ever consider using a pro-Bush banner to get closer, no sirrriee!
Sure, it's hardly a facist police state, but it's not the USA we used to respect. And sadly, it seems to get worse with every passing year.
I have to correct this...most places absoulutely do not have CCTV. My area doesn't, despite being one of the most afflent areas for miles. City centres and areas with a history for violence get them, that's about it.
There is no country-wide monitoring system!!
What a crock of shit. The above was written by people who practiced slavery. Now I've pointed that out, go read it again. All LIIIESS!!!
I admire the US constitution, don't get me wrong. It was a nice idea, in theory. But seeing as just about everything in it has been nullified by laws passed in the 30 years, it's nothing more than a historical footnote. I saw a good site linked on Slashdot once that had a good break down of the document and listed all the laws that largely made each ammendment worthless.
Sorry, but you are living in a dream world. A piece of paper written a couple of hundred years ago does not a country make. Your current leadership are far more relevant to how your country functions, and with Patriot Act et all, you really don't have a leg to stand on here.
I disagree. The USA has some of the highest prison populations in the world, made up of mostly drug related offenses. Three strikes and your out, and all that.
The only places off the top of my head that are more strict are the middle east (punishment is usually death) or the far east, where you get to stay in the likes of the Bankok Hilton. Not nice.
Yeah, you might see them on main highways in the UK, but the streetlamps (which we are talking about here) don't have anything fancy. They are simply cemented into the ground.
But fortunately, they are all independent systems, like the camera in the petrol station, or the one in the shop. The only linked ones are the traffic ones and the inner-city CCTV ones, and even they are separate from each other.
Just wait until the rest of the world catches up. You will have CCTV eventually, but your system will be completely interlinked, with facial recognition and OCR technologies. Then, we will be the laughing ones!! :-)
It's often refered to as "an upturned pram on wheels". Look at the picture linked in the parent posts to see why...
I agree. How many folk have things in their sigs linking to products or OSS project they have worked on? Quite a lot. Or, how many "sorry for OUR server melting" posts are there...?
Provided is isn't a "First post, buy the jacket" type of person with nothing to contribute other than noise, then it's not a bad thing. Everyone wants to plug their shit...
Fortunately, the UK's Data Protection Act doesn't differentiate between the two. You can look up any employer and see exactly what they claim to store.
(With "claim" beinging the operative world here!! I live in the real world)
PS, fingerprint scanners are common-as-muck in Glasgow pubs. Must be an efficency/speed thing... ;-)
True, for we all know his talent mainly lies in music...
A zebra crossing is different...there are no traffic controlling lights and pedestrians on it get right of way, always.
No it wasn't, it was cost effective. Other posters have stated how underselling items works in chip fabrication. A similar thing works in software. By using the same code-base for both versions, you:
It makes sense for them, bringing down the cost to us. That's the way it works.
Also, when you buy the server, you get support for the server components that you paid for. Try getting support on a hacked workstation install.
Of course, there are downsides. A security flaw in Outlook Express can affect a server because of the shared code. That's bad. The server should have exluded things, rather than being just "workstation plus".
Combined with the facial recognition systems already in use, this will give the casino complete visability of the floor. They will know everything going on. Each table would have many readers, one for the dealer and one for each seat. Probably one for where the chips in play lie for each player as well. Data analysis of this would be pretty interesting, as well as very powerful. Do they track hands as well, when they are made visable?
Of course, the consumer will be hurt as all this will be used to maximise their profits. But, it's their casino, you choose to play.
However, tech isn't only helping the casinos, it's helping gamblers in someways. Most on-line casinos offer full hand-history, to prove they aren't cheating. Many players are using this to profile their opponents, and get the edge.
BTW, IANAG (gambler) but I know a few... ;-)
What line?
Don't forget, it's the same technologies used to send men on the moon as to send nukes to Moscow. That drive is no longer there. The current Goldstein (terrorism) has no space implications.
It has implications for tracking technologies, but that's not news around these parts.
Agreed. Sounds like a cliche, but I believe it (and VC) to be the best game ever. VC is more of the same, with worthwhile updates and a more polished finish. I can't wait to see the next one. I never pre-order games...but VC was an exception as will this one.
Why do I think it's so great...?
Complete freedom. Lot's of side amusements. Many secrets. Brilliant (and well produced) audio. Good sense of humor. Very little political correctness.
And Tommy from Trainspotting. LOVEFIST!! Just genius.
I can't think of any game that comes close...just as Wipeout brought me to the PSX, GTA brought me to the PS2. Killer app.
Sounds like the country of the previous locations in GTA to me... ;-)
When I signed up for Broadband, I was careful about service agreements as I wanted to run a few services on the connection for my own private use. There was no such bandwidth restriction when I signed up.
About 6 months to a year later, they changed their policy to introduce limits. The deal was that if you used so much bandwidth over 3-4 days, you would get a warning.
They sent a letter out to all subscribers noting them of the change, and it was covered in some media sources. I immediately replied stating that if I ever received one such warning, I would instantly cancel my account with them entirely, which included telephone and cable TV packages, quite a high monthly cost.
To this date, despite constant high usage, I've yet to receive a warning. :-)
Rubbish. It's down to the person who encodes the file, not the playback method!!
I use 96kbit wma files on the move, while my own rips are 192+ mp3, or in the last year or so, the R3mix preset. I down-convert to carry more, as the player is a mobile phone that has cheap headphones and sound hardware. I'm also limited to SD flash media, which is expensive. If I had a different type of device, I'd do it differently.
If you know what you are doing, lossy codecs are fine 99% of the time. Saying mp3 is worse than minidisk is a blatant lie. Maybe if you qualified that with "128kbit/s mp3".
Many of them have also started to produce video. A couple of good ones that come to mind are Eclectic Method and Cartel Communique (who's site is down). Well worth a look.