Yeah most, importantly ogg. Because everyone has oggs coming out of their ass. But thats right, they dont. Outside of the geekworld ogg doesnt matter, really it doesnt. Great codec that it is I dont know of any ipod owner that isn't a geek that even understands what an aac or mp3 is - why are they going to care about ogg?
Please quote the part of the linked Beeb article that says low cost OSS thin clients are more important than fresh drinking water, sanitation and affordable housing because I must have missed it.
Reply written on my works PC after running your kill.bat file a couple of times and not shutting down any dos boxes. Outlook and a couple of our homebrew apps are still running quite happily in the background.
This is an Optiplex Gx-280 (PIV 2.4 with 512mb) running XP SP2 and a few patches.
By no means do I want to appear an MS shill, but batter them over the head for the things they clearly do wrong rather than the things you would like to think they do wrong.
If you have multiple XP, 2000 or 2003 boxes why aren't you using SUS?
Its a free download, the approving admin clicks through the Eula once for all PC's and best of all it cuts the bandwidth bill quite a lot too:)
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The "sticking" problem with BBCi seems to be related to the set-top box, freeview telly or whatever you are using.
My next door neighbour had the exact same problem during the Olympics while using a telly with built-in Freeview, while I had no problems at all with it while using a Pace STB for SKY Digital....
Ferrari's massive overspend means that they can find the quickest solution to an engineering problem, not the cleverest. For instance, the dramatic increase in exotic metals that have been used over the last few years (which has been curtailed somewhat this season) - smaller teams cannot compete with Ferrari's spending power and had to engineer a solution round the problems that didnt involve purchasing 15lbs of to solve overheating gearboxes.
Apologies if you didnt get the link to how this affects passing and aero, but aero was the last big engineering improvement in F1, again due to the cost. Windtunnels were rare even 10 years ago but are now seen as mandatory. Great engineering but it has changed the type of racing we see more dramatically than any tyre or engine change I can remember.
Subjective or not its not your opinions that matter. The ones that do belong to Bernie Ecclestone and the FIA. Viewing figures have plummeted over the last 5 years, as have the sponsorship deals and TV revenue. The FIA have made it quite clear that they believe the changes will focus the teams development into other areas and hopefully benefit the sport as a whole.
The way I read the FIA's proposals is that they are guiding the teams towards more traditional engineering in F1 terms (engine and gearbox). If this is combined with the proposal for bigger teams to supply smaller teams with engines this should hopefully drag the back of the field a few seconds closer to the front.
Some excellent improvements suggested there, but I'd add re-introducing turbos and rather than removing pitstops make them optional.
Do you watch F1?
Due to the extremely high performance aero on these cars overtaking has been reduced in some races to near zero - the dirty air produced by the cars makes slipstreaming (very important for overtaking). I do appreciate F1 for the technology and engineering that goes into it, but the style of racing has changed so much over the last 10 years that it has lost much of what made it exciting.
I'm a McLaren fan but couldnt care less about Schuey winning as long as the racing is good to watch. Right now it isnt.
Oops, missed the bit about this years big three. You obviously watch a bit of F1 so you should recognise this by now - its only just getting to half way through the season and theres always a couple of teams who rise through the ranks to punch above their weight in the first half of the season. Get enough points early on and you can still get a respectable finish at the end of the season.
Look at Jordan a few years ago with Frentzen, or the performance of the Saubers of the last 3 years (performing way above their budget). Renault looked like the one team who make the climb up to the big boys, but I think the departure of their technical director Mike Gascoine may have put paid to that.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but never mind....
Ferraris budget 2003 season - 250 million
McLarens budget 2003 season - 120 million
Jaguars budget 2003 season - 70 million
Williams were somewhere between McLaren and Jag, but definitely closer to McLaren.
"But I don't think anyone has ever dominated a sport as much as Schumacher has in the past few years"
You should go look at the history books then. Until Schueys most recent championship Juan Manuel Fangio was the most succesful driver of all time. Unlike Schumacher there was a lot of ex and future champions racing him - something that has been lacking for Schumacher since the late 90's.
Ferrari budget was over 250 million last year. The next biggest spender was McLaren at 120 million. Jags budget last year was in the region of 70 million.
Even with equal budgets Schumacher would probably still be sneaking the championship, but currently no team spends like Ferrari and that is damaging the sport.
"I just hope that the FIA doesn't forget that F1 should be expenisive and high tech"
I would rather the excitement of the sport returned rather than the neutered high-tech parade that we get to watch these days.
The FIA's rule changes are to stop the big three (Ferrari, McLaren, Williams) from just throwing ridiculous amounts of money at a problem rather than engineering a solution.
Also, its a bit strange to see a current review of this model, as we have had 4 of the little beasties in work for well over a year. Still a great little piece of kit though.
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and most importantly, ogg
Yeah most, importantly ogg. Because everyone has oggs coming out of their ass. But thats right, they dont. Outside of the geekworld ogg doesnt matter, really it doesnt. Great codec that it is I dont know of any ipod owner that isn't a geek that even understands what an aac or mp3 is - why are they going to care about ogg?
Uhh have you ever been to an Ipod message board?
The thing is, most iPod users have never been on an iPod message board....
well you better tell that to the folks in the homebrew PSP scene.....
Please quote the part of the linked Beeb article that says low cost OSS thin clients are more important than fresh drinking water, sanitation and affordable housing because I must have missed it.
Previous new posts on the MTA:VC site indicated that they had support from Rockstar in developing it.
Reply written on my works PC after running your kill.bat file a couple of times and not shutting down any dos boxes. Outlook and a couple of our homebrew apps are still running quite happily in the background.
This is an Optiplex Gx-280 (PIV 2.4 with 512mb) running XP SP2 and a few patches.
By no means do I want to appear an MS shill, but batter them over the head for the things they clearly do wrong rather than the things you would like to think they do wrong.
How so? Zaphod and Ford are related - it's mentioned in the first book....
"Just don't try to use your definition on a public forum where most peoples' definitions differ greatly from yours."
And that one sentence sums up the groupthink on here. God forbid that we think for ourselves no matter how it affects our popularity!
"But please, don't demand that I pay money to publishers and artists - I don't necessarily give a shit about them."
Fine, dont use their products then or deprive them of a potential sale of their product. b
If you have multiple XP, 2000 or 2003 boxes why aren't you using SUS?
:)
Its a free download, the approving admin clicks through the Eula once for all PC's and best of all it cuts the bandwidth bill quite a lot too
The "sticking" problem with BBCi seems to be related to the set-top box, freeview telly or whatever you are using.
My next door neighbour had the exact same problem during the Olympics while using a telly with built-in Freeview, while I had no problems at all with it while using a Pace STB for SKY Digital....
usually there is only one of each piece of art. how many of these shitty tellies were made?
Its right down in the southern hemisphere, east of Rand McNally.
Ferrari's massive overspend means that they can find the quickest solution to an engineering problem, not the cleverest. For instance, the dramatic increase in exotic metals that have been used over the last few years (which has been curtailed somewhat this season) - smaller teams cannot compete with Ferrari's spending power and had to engineer a solution round the problems that didnt involve purchasing 15lbs of to solve overheating gearboxes.
Apologies if you didnt get the link to how this affects passing and aero, but aero was the last big engineering improvement in F1, again due to the cost. Windtunnels were rare even 10 years ago but are now seen as mandatory. Great engineering but it has changed the type of racing we see more dramatically than any tyre or engine change I can remember.
Subjective or not its not your opinions that matter. The ones that do belong to Bernie Ecclestone and the FIA. Viewing figures have plummeted over the last 5 years, as have the sponsorship deals and TV revenue. The FIA have made it quite clear that they believe the changes will focus the teams development into other areas and hopefully benefit the sport as a whole.
The way I read the FIA's proposals is that they are guiding the teams towards more traditional engineering in F1 terms (engine and gearbox). If this is combined with the proposal for bigger teams to supply smaller teams with engines this should hopefully drag the back of the field a few seconds closer to the front.
Some excellent improvements suggested there, but I'd add re-introducing turbos and rather than removing pitstops make them optional.
Should have previewed that.
It should have read - the dirty air produced by the cars makes slipstreaming (very important for overtaking) impossible.
Do you watch F1?
Due to the extremely high performance aero on these cars overtaking has been reduced in some races to near zero - the dirty air produced by the cars makes slipstreaming (very important for overtaking). I do appreciate F1 for the technology and engineering that goes into it, but the style of racing has changed so much over the last 10 years that it has lost much of what made it exciting.
I'm a McLaren fan but couldnt care less about Schuey winning as long as the racing is good to watch. Right now it isnt.
Oops, missed the bit about this years big three. You obviously watch a bit of F1 so you should recognise this by now - its only just getting to half way through the season and theres always a couple of teams who rise through the ranks to punch above their weight in the first half of the season. Get enough points early on and you can still get a respectable finish at the end of the season.
Look at Jordan a few years ago with Frentzen, or the performance of the Saubers of the last 3 years (performing way above their budget).
Renault looked like the one team who make the climb up to the big boys, but I think the departure of their technical director Mike Gascoine may have put paid to that.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but never mind....
Ferraris budget 2003 season - 250 million
McLarens budget 2003 season - 120 million
Jaguars budget 2003 season - 70 million
Williams were somewhere between McLaren and Jag, but definitely closer to McLaren.
"But I don't think anyone has ever dominated a sport as much as Schumacher has in the past few years"
You should go look at the history books then. Until Schueys most recent championship Juan Manuel Fangio was the most succesful driver of all time. Unlike Schumacher there was a lot of ex and future champions racing him - something that has been lacking for Schumacher since the late 90's.
Ferrari budget was over 250 million last year. The next biggest spender was McLaren at 120 million. Jags budget last year was in the region of 70 million.
Even with equal budgets Schumacher would probably still be sneaking the championship, but currently no team spends like Ferrari and that is damaging the sport.
"I just hope that the FIA doesn't forget that F1 should be expenisive and high tech"
I would rather the excitement of the sport returned rather than the neutered high-tech parade that we get to watch these days.
The FIA's rule changes are to stop the big three (Ferrari, McLaren, Williams) from just throwing ridiculous amounts of money at a problem rather than engineering a solution.
GB-PVR is great - I use it in conjunction with myHTPC (which is also freeware) and it works like a charm.
As an MCSE you should also know that Exchange 2000/2003 requires IIS before it will even install. Some dependance on the NNTP service......
Agreed.
Also, its a bit strange to see a current review of this model, as we have had 4 of the little beasties in work for well over a year. Still a great little piece of kit though.