As with everywhere else, the technology is no the limiting factor here, but the regulations. It would not be possible under current UK law to mount the transmitter this side of the Channel. I'm not sure about France - you may have more luck there. I the South-East of England, you cannot receieve on of our terrestial channels due to French interferance in that area. Not that anyone watches Channel 5 anywhere else anywy.
I don't know about across the english channel Damn straight you don't! Distance will not be a problem - at only 21 miles (34 km) across at the narrowest point, weather permitting, you can clearly see 'Le Francais' from the White Cliffs of Dover. you can't go any further due to the curvature of the earth WTF? Surely you can't see any further! Actually you're miles out here too. The distance (in km) of the horizon on earth, on a plain, is approximately s(13h) where h is the height (in metres) of the eyes multiplied by the 13, and s is the square root symbol slashcode can't cope with. Were you to mount an antenna on the beach, you would find that the horizan at around 5km away would be a big problem. Stick it up on said White Cliffs of Dover, at 250m above sea level, and you will have no problems with line of sight. The only barrier to this idea is the regulations governing the area. Sources: Channel, Cliffs, Horizan
I suspect, given the prize money on offer, that this may not be viable. However, if you could develop such a craft, I'm sure you could find a way to make some cash elsewhere. Additionally, surely sending the mouse on a trip round the Earth would be easier and cheaper, without affecting the results.
I've had my mouse for nearly 10 years! All they need is a little care and attention, and maybe cleaning the ball every now and again. Of course, many people just go rushing after new toys, like PS2 and scollwheels and second buttons...
This is the kind of game that will keep MMORPG's in the domain of geekdom forever Over 275,000 users, and the fastest growing MMORPG to date. That's a lot of people who don't agree with you. This game is the first to push MMORPGs out of 'the domain of geekdom'. But there's no *game* there Like I already said, take the time to give it a proper try. A lot of people never got into Civ2 or Half-Life through laziness. You try telling me that's 'not gaming'. If you didn't get much beyond the tutorial, your comments on the game (and others) are worthless drivel.
As with all 10 minute play reviews of MMORPGs this is a reflection of the player, not the game... Its so freaking boring...consists of guys looking for raw materials...just a collection of weird geeks... Firstly - WTF were you looking for? MMORPGs get boring for three reasons: 1. You don't understand what's happening - typical of a 10 mins play reviewer. 2. You don't care - you went in expecting to hate it, you don't interact, you don't have a goal, you basically don't want to be there anyway. 3. You're doing the wrong thing. As has been discussed many times, there are multiple types of people. Sounds like you tried being an artisan (achiever, mostly). Try a different class. Get a new char, or just visit a trainer and learn some new skills. You sound like a agressive sulky sort - get into the agressor scene. Go get some Imperial Faction pets, put some effort into becoming a bounty hunter, commando or similar and go round greifing other players. It gives the socialisers something to moan about, the achievers another hurdle and the explorers something to laugh at, then ignore. You'll become the lowest life form, but you won't care, and the game will continue, with or without you. So if you try to draw a conclusion from that population, its a bad idea. Well, SWG took over a quarter or a million subscribers in the first month. That's a lot of people, however you look at it. You may have to be careful with your conclusions, but you can get some very useful stuff from it. MMORPGs now pull over a million regular players. That's a high percentage of regular PC Gamers. Not something you can ignore easily, or package as 'just weird geeks'. And really, how did a rant about 'weird geeks' get +4 Interesting on Slashdot. This is where 'weird geeks' congregate. Trust me, all those MMORPG players who read this are laughing and moving on.
This struggling programmer would like to bet that everyone on a soap box here didn't have to fight tooth and nail to land their job. For many coders out there, rigid 8-6 rules are a hell of a lot better than sitting on a Tesco's checkout. It's a tough life, so put up or shut up. The days when you could tell your boss where to stick their job and walk into another are over. I'm damn grateful to be coding for a living. When my boss says 'jump', I say 'what project code should i booking this to...' Also, your theory opens the way for more middle management. These days the only people who hold onto their jobs are the PHBs who make the remaining coders lives hell to boost their own chances. Sorry to be cynical, but for us young coders, we missed all the money from the dot-coms and now we suffer from the 'laissez-faire' attitude of the older coders. I spent the dot-bomb hacking code at a local software house, pulling experience over money, and now I suffer for it, as the unskilled but lucky PHBs sit around discussing their investments, their yachts and how they 'don't need to work but enjoy it'...
It's "lose," not "loose." It's "a lot," not "alot." And it's "its," not "it's." Isn't it? It's allotted loosely... Seems to be valid english to me. Where are you going with this?
Read the article asshat... And this isn't in the US it is in the UK. Why don't you take your fucking idiotic, shithead, anti-American crap and shove it up your mother's hairy ass.
Erm...
Although you did put your reasoned argument in a polite, informed manner, I would bring these points: Unless we (the UK) just annexed Knoxville, Tennessee, this is in the US.
Other key pointers include the lawsuit currency (dollars), easy availability of weaponary (you need to be a fairly hardcore criminal in the UK to get hold of a gun), and the subject of a lawsuit (not likely in the UK, maybe even not possible).
It may have been misleading, however, since this case was reported in a British newspaper. I would like to point out that our newspapers do also have excellent coverage of events beyond the UK. These are sometimes known as 'World' news or 'International' news.
Of course, one of the biggest selling games of all time is clearly causing the breakdown of law and order in society. GTA has only sold 20 million copies - what are the odds that one of those 20 million people would be some kind of freak anyway? To call this all horseshit seems to be beyond the metal skills of Miss Bede and the family of Aaron Hamel, Jack Thompson and Craig Anderson. Let's just hope this kind of insanity doesn't really make its way to the UK.
Good point. Check out this post by Sphere1952 which quotes Thomas Babington Macaulay making this point in the House of Commons in 1841. It's as true today as it was then. Not only is the present system unworkable, it is also eroding people's faith in the legal system.
B-e-a-u-tiful! Someone who understands about analogies. One day, in a imaginary utopian world, less than 50% of replies will start "Ah, but that analogy is not exactly microscopically the same thing!!!".
Hmm. No. Dumbass. That's why it's an _analogy_. That's why I said "That's like..." not "That's exactly the same as..."
Anyway, pardon my rant. I'll wander back vaguely in the direction of the topic for my next post.
hmm bear in mind the hat i am currently donning says 'Devils Advocate' in large letters. If car theft were to vastly increase, lots of people in the auto industry could capatilise on that for profit. New security, replacement cars and parts, etc. etc. Now combine that with getting info on When, Where and How the cars are stolen! They'd be mad not to use it!
That doesn't make illegal uses (Copyright Infringement) legal, but it helps the case that the network itself has legal uses.
The RIAA would like to see the network removed, therefore may be shooting itself in the foot. This does not affect the moral, ethecial or legal status of Copyright Infringement.
For example, CDs are legal. if the RIAA attempted to outlaw them, then got caught using them, there would red faces.
not the most advanced weapons. The advenced weapons. i.e. the contract in question. Patriotism would encourage you to do what you country asked of you - develope the advanced technology required. Besides, I'm playing Devil's Advocate here, just presenting an idea, not my opinion.
The other side of the coin is that a patriotic scientist would work for the government to ensure that their country was the one with the advanced weapons...
RTFP again, I alrady replied to this. The 'free speach' thing was about the law change - should free speech be locked down in the same fashion? Spam IS NOT an example of free speech.
Seriously this is a big problem too... Who's black Chevvy Suburban is parked in space 4G in the parking lot?
Oooh Me Me ME!! Except we don't get Chevvy Suburbans, parking lots, or brainless pricks like you in the UK headquarters where 5,250 staff just got that email. Dumb users are the problem, not the system.
Only if you are dumb. I'm not saying shut your eyes and hope it goes away. Surely you can cope with setting your mail client to put mail from your friends and colleagues addresses into one box, and everything else into another?
You actually need to sort between useful mail from strangers, and spam from strangers. Surely you don't alllow your 9 year old daughter to do that? Parents should actively control what their young children do on the internet, but that's another issue.
Yeah it's not a perfect analogy, there's no such thing. You're missing the point.
Yeah I know Email is not cost-free - I'm not stupid, and I can read. I am well aware how to suck eggs.
Yeah I know spam is an unwanted problem to our society.
RMFP please.
It's a problem, it ain't going away soon. However you can help yourself by taking a more philosophical approach to it. Human nature causes problems like this.
The Australian government will not solve this one like this - try solving traffic by banning driving, then unbanning people who need to drive.
You are ill-informed, my friend. Modern p2p offers so much more the discerning Copyright Infringer (TM). While copyrighted music in the mp3 format remains the mainstay, these services are also available:
-Movies and TV shows. These are available in a variety of formats, the best and most common being the DivX format. These are less infringing than music, as the profit margin is less, and the volumes are lower due to simple data sizes.
-Software As you mentioned, this is also available, mostly in the form of Computer Games, Microsoft Products, and Viruses.
-Pornography While it is mostly available for simple Copyright Infringement purposes, it is also possible to get yourself arrested for more rigorously enforced crimes, such as peodophila.
-Books and Documents. While many people still prefer the latest Tom Clancy in it's paperback form, many titles are availbale in 'e-book' and audio book format. Many other questionable materials can be found in the form of p2p documents, such as how to make a nitroglycerne in a way that that is dangerous only to yourself, and various 'legal' drugs that will make you realise why no-one bothered to make them illegal...
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As with everywhere else, the technology is no the limiting factor here, but the regulations. It would not be possible under current UK law to mount the transmitter this side of the Channel. I'm not sure about France - you may have more luck there. I the South-East of England, you cannot receieve on of our terrestial channels due to French interferance in that area. Not that anyone watches Channel 5 anywhere else anywy.
I don't know about across the english channel
Damn straight you don't!
Distance will not be a problem - at only 21 miles (34 km) across at the narrowest point, weather permitting, you can clearly see 'Le Francais' from the White Cliffs of Dover.
you can't go any further due to the curvature of the earth
WTF? Surely you can't see any further! Actually you're miles out here too.
The distance (in km) of the horizon on earth, on a plain, is approximately s(13h) where h is the height (in metres) of the eyes multiplied by the 13, and s is the square root symbol slashcode can't cope with.
Were you to mount an antenna on the beach, you would find that the horizan at around 5km away would be a big problem.
Stick it up on said White Cliffs of Dover, at 250m above sea level, and you will have no problems with line of sight.
The only barrier to this idea is the regulations governing the area.
Sources: Channel, Cliffs, Horizan
MOUSE BALLS NOW AVAILABLE AS FRU (Field Replaceable Unit)
Not only is this one not true, it's so damn old it rates it's own prize for age.
Could you not have managed it in less than 1000 lines too please?
I suspect, given the prize money on offer, that this may not be viable.
However, if you could develop such a craft, I'm sure you could find a way to make some cash elsewhere.
Additionally, surely sending the mouse on a trip round the Earth would be easier and cheaper, without affecting the results.
I've had my mouse for nearly 10 years!
All they need is a little care and attention, and maybe cleaning the ball every now and again.
Of course, many people just go rushing after new toys, like PS2 and scollwheels and second buttons...
Well some one was gonna say it anyway I guess
This is the kind of game that will keep MMORPG's in the domain of geekdom forever
Over 275,000 users, and the fastest growing MMORPG to date.
That's a lot of people who don't agree with you. This game is the first to push MMORPGs out of 'the domain of geekdom'.
But there's no *game* there
Like I already said, take the time to give it a proper try. A lot of people never got into Civ2 or Half-Life through laziness. You try telling me that's 'not gaming'. If you didn't get much beyond the tutorial, your comments on the game (and others) are worthless drivel.
As with all 10 minute play reviews of MMORPGs this is a reflection of the player, not the game...
Its so freaking boring...consists of guys looking for raw materials...just a collection of weird geeks...
Firstly - WTF were you looking for? MMORPGs get boring for three reasons:
1. You don't understand what's happening - typical of a 10 mins play reviewer.
2. You don't care - you went in expecting to hate it, you don't interact, you don't have a goal, you basically don't want to be there anyway.
3. You're doing the wrong thing. As has been discussed many times, there are multiple types of people. Sounds like you tried being an artisan (achiever, mostly). Try a different class. Get a new char, or just visit a trainer and learn some new skills. You sound like a agressive sulky sort - get into the agressor scene. Go get some Imperial Faction pets, put some effort into becoming a bounty hunter, commando or similar and go round greifing other players. It gives the socialisers something to moan about, the achievers another hurdle and the explorers something to laugh at, then ignore.
You'll become the lowest life form, but you won't care, and the game will continue, with or without you.
So if you try to draw a conclusion from that population, its a bad idea.
Well, SWG took over a quarter or a million subscribers in the first month. That's a lot of people, however you look at it. You may have to be careful with your conclusions, but you can get some very useful stuff from it.
MMORPGs now pull over a million regular players. That's a high percentage of regular PC Gamers. Not something you can ignore easily, or package as 'just weird geeks'.
And really, how did a rant about 'weird geeks' get +4 Interesting on Slashdot. This is where 'weird geeks' congregate.
Trust me, all those MMORPG players who read this are laughing and moving on.
This struggling programmer would like to bet that everyone on a soap box here didn't have to fight tooth and nail to land their job. For many coders out there, rigid 8-6 rules are a hell of a lot better than sitting on a Tesco's checkout. It's a tough life, so put up or shut up. The days when you could tell your boss where to stick their job and walk into another are over.
I'm damn grateful to be coding for a living. When my boss says 'jump', I say 'what project code should i booking this to...'
Also, your theory opens the way for more middle management. These days the only people who hold onto their jobs are the PHBs who make the remaining coders lives hell to boost their own chances.
Sorry to be cynical, but for us young coders, we missed all the money from the dot-coms and now we suffer from the 'laissez-faire' attitude of the older coders.
I spent the dot-bomb hacking code at a local software house, pulling experience over money, and now I suffer for it, as the unskilled but lucky PHBs sit around discussing their investments, their yachts and how they 'don't need to work but enjoy it'...
It's "lose," not "loose." It's "a lot," not "alot." And it's "its," not "it's." Isn't it?
It's allotted loosely...
Seems to be valid english to me. Where are you going with this?
Read the article asshat ... And this isn't in the US it is in the UK. Why don't you take your fucking idiotic, shithead, anti-American crap and shove it up your mother's hairy ass.
Erm...
Although you did put your reasoned argument in a polite, informed manner, I would bring these points:
Unless we (the UK) just annexed Knoxville, Tennessee, this is in the US.
Other key pointers include the lawsuit currency (dollars), easy availability of weaponary (you need to be a fairly hardcore criminal in the UK to get hold of a gun), and the subject of a lawsuit (not likely in the UK, maybe even not possible).
It may have been misleading, however, since this case was reported in a British newspaper. I would like to point out that our newspapers do also have excellent coverage of events beyond the UK. These are sometimes known as 'World' news or 'International' news.
Of course, one of the biggest selling games of all time is clearly causing the breakdown of law and order in society. GTA has only sold 20 million copies - what are the odds that one of those 20 million people would be some kind of freak anyway?
To call this all horseshit seems to be beyond the metal skills of Miss Bede and the family of Aaron Hamel, Jack Thompson and Craig Anderson. Let's just hope this kind of insanity doesn't really make its way to the UK.
Good point. Check out this post by Sphere1952 which quotes Thomas Babington Macaulay making this point in the House of Commons in 1841. It's as true today as it was then.
Not only is the present system unworkable, it is also eroding people's faith in the legal system.
Yep, that's just what I wondered.
And before anyone says it, no I have ever thought about a beowolf cluster of those...
Apparently I need to reload the page before making sweeping statements.
Since no-one has bothered to answer you, it comes (of course) from The Simpsons.
Ken Brockman (or whatever his name is) the newsreader uses it.
IIRC, he is predicting the invasion of alien ant-like creatures or something similar.
Feel free to correct me on any missing details.
You've never met a DJ have you?
They would announce the band as "Twenty-Em-Pee-Three!"
They have eveything written out phonetically for them.
Of course, I could be giving DJs too much credit. It might not be written.
B-e-a-u-tiful!
Someone who understands about analogies.
One day, in a imaginary utopian world, less than 50% of replies will start "Ah, but that analogy is not exactly microscopically the same thing!!!".
Hmm. No. Dumbass. That's why it's an _analogy_. That's why I said "That's like..." not "That's exactly the same as..."
Anyway, pardon my rant. I'll wander back vaguely in the direction of the topic for my next post.
hmm
bear in mind the hat i am currently donning says 'Devils Advocate' in large letters.
If car theft were to vastly increase, lots of people in the auto industry could capatilise on that for profit. New security, replacement cars and parts, etc. etc.
Now combine that with getting info on When, Where and How the cars are stolen!
They'd be mad not to use it!
This is a legitimate use for the network (maybe).
That doesn't make illegal uses (Copyright Infringement) legal, but it helps the case that the network itself has legal uses.
The RIAA would like to see the network removed, therefore may be shooting itself in the foot. This does not affect the moral, ethecial or legal status of Copyright Infringement.
For example, CDs are legal. if the RIAA attempted to outlaw them, then got caught using them, there would red faces.
ok?
not the most advanced weapons. The advenced weapons. i.e. the contract in question. Patriotism would encourage you to do what you country asked of you - develope the advanced technology required.
Besides, I'm playing Devil's Advocate here, just presenting an idea, not my opinion.
The other side of the coin is that a patriotic scientist would work for the government to ensure that their country was the one with the advanced weapons...
RTFP again, I alrady replied to this.
The 'free speach' thing was about the law change - should free speech be locked down in the same fashion?
Spam IS NOT an example of free speech.
Fine, I won't tell you next time then...
Seriously this is a big problem too...
Who's black Chevvy Suburban is parked in space 4G in the parking lot?
Oooh Me Me ME!!
Except we don't get Chevvy Suburbans, parking lots, or brainless pricks like you in the UK headquarters where 5,250 staff just got that email. Dumb users are the problem, not the system.
Only if you are dumb.
I'm not saying shut your eyes and hope it goes away.
Surely you can cope with setting your mail client to put mail from your friends and colleagues addresses into one box, and everything else into another?
You actually need to sort between useful mail from strangers, and spam from strangers. Surely you don't alllow your 9 year old daughter to do that?
Parents should actively control what their young children do on the internet, but that's another issue.
My answer to all the replies to mine:
Yeah it's not a perfect analogy, there's no such thing. You're missing the point.
Yeah I know Email is not cost-free - I'm not stupid, and I can read. I am well aware how to suck eggs.
Yeah I know spam is an unwanted problem to our society.
RMFP please.
It's a problem, it ain't going away soon. However you can help yourself by taking a more philosophical approach to it. Human nature causes problems like this.
The Australian government will not solve this one like this - try solving traffic by banning driving, then unbanning people who need to drive.
You are ill-informed, my friend. Modern p2p offers so much more the discerning Copyright Infringer (TM).
While copyrighted music in the mp3 format remains the mainstay, these services are also available:
-Movies and TV shows.
These are available in a variety of formats, the best and most common being the DivX format. These are less infringing than music, as the profit margin is less, and the volumes are lower due to simple data sizes.
-Software
As you mentioned, this is also available, mostly in the form of Computer Games, Microsoft Products, and Viruses.
-Pornography
While it is mostly available for simple Copyright Infringement purposes, it is also possible to get yourself arrested for more rigorously enforced crimes, such as peodophila.
-Books and Documents.
While many people still prefer the latest Tom Clancy in it's paperback form, many titles are availbale in 'e-book' and audio book format. Many other questionable materials can be found in the form of p2p documents, such as how to make a nitroglycerne in a way that that is dangerous only to yourself, and various 'legal' drugs that will make you realise why no-one bothered to make them illegal...