What is suprising me is that they are applying for a licence to act as the Police - not mentioning that they could in fact use the bandwidth to stream legal movies to students! Come on, there is a massive opportunity here to set up a working system that students will not only use, but enjoy, and it WILL cut down on piracy. Don't threaten your users - it only increases ill-will, bad sentiment, and people are unlikely to buy your product! Come on MPAA! Get your act together! Stop trying to punish people and just start innovating! Content delivery could save the MPAA, but instead... Their "we are the Police" attitude will kill them...
I thought you were joking until you said William Shatner. He's in everything these days from adverts to daytime tv to covers of Pulp - so it must be true.
No, that would just suck. Big league. One thing I hate about most other Sci-Fi is that you can't drop in and out. Farscape was all right until I skipped a season, then it took me four or five episodes to get back on track - and then I didn't like it. Same with ST:DS9 - that sucked donkey cock. If only Sci-Fi would stick to the format, and change plotlines every 1-2-3 episodes, that'd be great. I don't want to see some major battle every episode, I don't want fillers all the season, I want variety, ie/ A purely comedy episode (a la Window Of Opporunity), A purely story driven episode (a la The Amazonian Hot Women with the chick from Enterprise One), A crossover episode (like Atlantis recently did with SG-1). That's how it should be. I hate 7-8-9-whole season story lines - that turns me away. And that's why I was skeptical about Atlantis - the Wraith could turn out to be a really crapy adversary, but if done right, it could be an excellent foe, just like the Goa-uld.
For those of you interested in spying on your lesbian neighbours... I mean, of course, keeping an eye on your kids at night, check out ebuyer.com and search for "Secure Teddy";) Yes, a wireless video camera inside a teddy bear! Genius!
What I don't get is why they bandy about the fact that they are losing money because of the P2Pers... In the UK, single sales may have dropped, but album sales are at a decade (or longer) high! In fact, more money is being made now than before the P2P's came around... Sure, the BPI may charge a couple of people who have large collections (over 5000) but they do their homework, and sue them, not demand their conviction for criminal offences! Correct me, somebody, if I am wrong, but downloading a song off P2P is _not_ theft, it is at most a copyright violation, in the same way that a band is not supposed to cover another bands song without their permission... Am I getting things round my head, or is the BPI actually taking the right course of action??? BPI do research, and only go after massive shares, RIAA go after Granny's and small Girls... I guess those European anti-corp videos were right;)
Anyone else notice that Microsoft were trying to affect the election in the US? FCKGW? F*CK George W? I like to think of it that way. Although to be honest, he can keep his trousers on and just lose the election for all I care.
Yes, but WHY do they recognise Stephen Hawking? I don't think they idolise him at all... It's because of his synthesized voice - mention the name, and kids will have no idea he is an astrophysicist - just that he is a "brainy guy" (as someone I just asked described him) with a funny voice. It's only when you ask true geeks about him that the Star Trek references come in, as well as the Futurama, and the brief mention of astrology (no, it's astronomy dear... oh never mind...) But the truth is, today's child is more likely to recognise some here-today-gone-tomorrow celebrity than someone like Prof. Hawking who excels at what he does. Why? Because Science just ain't that glamourous... Unless it's presented by Philippa Forrester:)
A perfect example of this is the Spoof Science Series "Look Around You" which was on the BBC a couple years back (series two filming now...) which would not have been anywhere near as good without the narrator. If anyone wants a copy, and by copy I don't mean BitTorrent, then Amazon and other retailers have the DVD of series 1. It WILL make you laugh if you grew up with crappy science programmes like I did:) Enjoy...
To be honest, if you're sad enough to play computer games for a living (says here sitting at a Linux workstation at university trying to organise a meeting for the computer society) then you will probably never need "performance enhancement":)
Go back to a monarchy? We have a monarchy officially... In fact, we're technically a democratic constitutional monarchy (although we don't actually have a constitution...)
Because rules of space would suck. And suck hard. Who would police it??? Essentially at the moment, the area we define as space is without law, no-one owns it, you can do what you like (theoretically, in practice if you blow up a satellite, someone is coming after you...) as long as it doesn't cross into another countries airspace on its way up...
I thought I specified that it was the Government, and the Military (as I understand it, correct me if I am wrong) are a branch of Government. And don't correct my English:) Or I'll correct yours (ok, you spelt everything right, THIS TIME)
But yes, I see your point, however, Korea, Iran et al are getting spanked by the US when it comes to preventing certain fields of technology, such as Nuclear Refinement etc...
To be honest, if I was voting in America, I would vote Bush. Bush may have been a crap decision, but Kerry is just a slightly less experienced Bush, who is riding on the fact that he served in Vietnam, and won't stop talking about war in general. That's why I liked Al Gore, why I liked Bill Clinton, and why I like Howard Dean. They're genuinely nice people, who wouldn't be taken for a ride. Al Gore was at least partly responsible for the internet we have today, so he's got to have at least SOME sense! At the current time though, I would vote for neither, and there isn't an easy place on the net to explain to we, foreigners, about the third party (no pun intended) candidates.
I find this notion preposterous - the US has a massive number of satellites for the purposes of espionage, and general usage that they are trying to prevent other countries from doing. Lead by example, not hypocrisy. If I was the leader of a country that had a satellite shot down, or the head of a corporation that had their spacecraft blown up if it was entering US airspace (and by this, I mean under 100km) and had submitted a suitable may-day, then I would be looking for retribution. The same goes for Nuclear Weapons - how come the US seems to be the only country that is allowed to build them? Russian nuclear missles are being destroyed left, right and centre, the British and French are happy with just a few, yet the US happens to have several THOUSAND... Hypocracy is an awful thing.
I'm not anti-US, by the way, I'm just anti-US government. And that doesn't make me a hippie, that makes me British...
That's a bad example. If you can see the lights coming towards you, diverging at the same rate, you always turn right. Always always always. But yes, I'm beginning to learn the error of my ways:)
I have had a simulated power failure at night, and that was damned scary... But the way I knew which one to land on was that the runway was about 2 or 3 times wider than the taxiway. But yeah, not all are like that, I know... But I stand by my word that if you are flying IFR (and yes, I admit, I have had no IFR training) that theoretically, should you not be able to land with jsut the localiser, glideslope, and altimiter calibrated to QFE (height above ground)?
As it happens, I was in a 767 about 5 years back and I actually heard someone use an A-N receiver! So I just assumed there still was a third seat guy, who I assumed on that assumation was a navigator...
How about getting rid of plane food, since in the slight chance you get a bad batch, the entire crew can get diarrhea and not be able to land the plane. [sarcasm]Not seen airplane have we:) [/sarcasm] In fact, in real life, the crew all eat different meals, so that if one is taken ill, the plane can still land. All three crew positions are flight capable - nav, co-pilot and pilot. And terrorism measures ARE necessary, but the fact is that if someone wants to take down a plane - they ARE going to do it, whatever you try to do.
I'm sorry, WHY do you have to tell the difference between red, green, yellow blue and white lights?
Red is end of the runway. Green is the beginning of the runway. The pattern gives it away, not just the colour. You should be landing at the far end of the Christmas tree, which co-incides with the Green lights.
Secondly, the Blue lights... For a taxiway... By which time you have already landed... and it's obvious that the green lights in the centre are the centreline - you could do it colourblind.
White would be the hardest - although you only need to know that it's the airport rather than the highway, in which case you look for a flashing beacon, or even better, the two strobed lights at the threshold.
Or even better, just home in on RNAV at the airport, then dial up the ILS and do a glideslope/localiser approach. You don't actually need colour at all, apart from the maps when you are navigating, which when Mode S transponders become common place, can essentially be done without the viewscreen... You should know if you fly IFR that the viewscreen should only ben used for traffic lookouts - you must be able to fly through cloud etc.
I'm only actually a VFR pilot, and I've just bullshitted a lot, but to all intents and purposes, you don't need colour outside of the cockpit!
I have spent some time in Finland, as I help with the Assembly demo party there, and Akiba sponsor... They're cool guys, and they were really good when it came to me having to buy 15m of Cat6 cable from them (although they didn't have Cat7:))
Anyway, back on topic... I believe alkaa is the verb to drink alcohol, and laskenta is something about a port or something... Lentokenta means airport, and lento definately means aeroplane.
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What is suprising me is that they are applying for a licence to act as the Police - not mentioning that they could in fact use the bandwidth to stream legal movies to students! Come on, there is a massive opportunity here to set up a working system that students will not only use, but enjoy, and it WILL cut down on piracy. Don't threaten your users - it only increases ill-will, bad sentiment, and people are unlikely to buy your product! Come on MPAA! Get your act together! Stop trying to punish people and just start innovating! Content delivery could save the MPAA, but instead... Their "we are the Police" attitude will kill them...
It's like Viagra... The US has it up, Europe wants it up, and the Chinese want theirs up too... :)
I thought you were joking until you said William Shatner. He's in everything these days from adverts to daytime tv to covers of Pulp - so it must be true.
No, that would just suck. Big league. One thing I hate about most other Sci-Fi is that you can't drop in and out. Farscape was all right until I skipped a season, then it took me four or five episodes to get back on track - and then I didn't like it. Same with ST:DS9 - that sucked donkey cock. If only Sci-Fi would stick to the format, and change plotlines every 1-2-3 episodes, that'd be great. I don't want to see some major battle every episode, I don't want fillers all the season, I want variety, ie/ A purely comedy episode (a la Window Of Opporunity), A purely story driven episode (a la The Amazonian Hot Women with the chick from Enterprise One), A crossover episode (like Atlantis recently did with SG-1). That's how it should be. I hate 7-8-9-whole season story lines - that turns me away. And that's why I was skeptical about Atlantis - the Wraith could turn out to be a really crapy adversary, but if done right, it could be an excellent foe, just like the Goa-uld.
For those of you interested in spying on your lesbian neighbours... I mean, of course, keeping an eye on your kids at night, check out ebuyer.com and search for "Secure Teddy" ;) Yes, a wireless video camera inside a teddy bear! Genius!
Good Morning Dave ;)
What I don't get is why they bandy about the fact that they are losing money because of the P2Pers... In the UK, single sales may have dropped, but album sales are at a decade (or longer) high! In fact, more money is being made now than before the P2P's came around... Sure, the BPI may charge a couple of people who have large collections (over 5000) but they do their homework, and sue them, not demand their conviction for criminal offences! Correct me, somebody, if I am wrong, but downloading a song off P2P is _not_ theft, it is at most a copyright violation, in the same way that a band is not supposed to cover another bands song without their permission... Am I getting things round my head, or is the BPI actually taking the right course of action??? BPI do research, and only go after massive shares, RIAA go after Granny's and small Girls... I guess those European anti-corp videos were right ;)
Anyone else notice that Microsoft were trying to affect the election in the US? FCKGW? F*CK George W? I like to think of it that way. Although to be honest, he can keep his trousers on and just lose the election for all I care.
Yes, but WHY do they recognise Stephen Hawking? I don't think they idolise him at all... It's because of his synthesized voice - mention the name, and kids will have no idea he is an astrophysicist - just that he is a "brainy guy" (as someone I just asked described him) with a funny voice. It's only when you ask true geeks about him that the Star Trek references come in, as well as the Futurama, and the brief mention of astrology (no, it's astronomy dear... oh never mind...) But the truth is, today's child is more likely to recognise some here-today-gone-tomorrow celebrity than someone like Prof. Hawking who excels at what he does. Why? Because Science just ain't that glamourous... Unless it's presented by Philippa Forrester :)
A perfect example of this is the Spoof Science Series "Look Around You" which was on the BBC a couple years back (series two filming now...) which would not have been anywhere near as good without the narrator. If anyone wants a copy, and by copy I don't mean BitTorrent, then Amazon and other retailers have the DVD of series 1. It WILL make you laugh if you grew up with crappy science programmes like I did :) Enjoy...
To be honest, if you're sad enough to play computer games for a living (says here sitting at a Linux workstation at university trying to organise a meeting for the computer society) then you will probably never need "performance enhancement" :)
Geddit? No? Honestly, wasted! Wasted I tell thee!
Go back to a monarchy? We have a monarchy officially... In fact, we're technically a democratic constitutional monarchy (although we don't actually have a constitution...)
So there...
I'm British, and I was referring to the lack of experience Kerry has as head-of-state, with all the relationships that go with it.
Because rules of space would suck. And suck hard. Who would police it??? Essentially at the moment, the area we define as space is without law, no-one owns it, you can do what you like (theoretically, in practice if you blow up a satellite, someone is coming after you...) as long as it doesn't cross into another countries airspace on its way up...
I thought I specified that it was the Government, and the Military (as I understand it, correct me if I am wrong) are a branch of Government. And don't correct my English :) Or I'll correct yours (ok, you spelt everything right, THIS TIME)
But yes, I see your point, however, Korea, Iran et al are getting spanked by the US when it comes to preventing certain fields of technology, such as Nuclear Refinement etc...
To be honest, if I was voting in America, I would vote Bush. Bush may have been a crap decision, but Kerry is just a slightly less experienced Bush, who is riding on the fact that he served in Vietnam, and won't stop talking about war in general. That's why I liked Al Gore, why I liked Bill Clinton, and why I like Howard Dean. They're genuinely nice people, who wouldn't be taken for a ride. Al Gore was at least partly responsible for the internet we have today, so he's got to have at least SOME sense! At the current time though, I would vote for neither, and there isn't an easy place on the net to explain to we, foreigners, about the third party (no pun intended) candidates.
I find this notion preposterous - the US has a massive number of satellites for the purposes of espionage, and general usage that they are trying to prevent other countries from doing. Lead by example, not hypocrisy. If I was the leader of a country that had a satellite shot down, or the head of a corporation that had their spacecraft blown up if it was entering US airspace (and by this, I mean under 100km) and had submitted a suitable may-day, then I would be looking for retribution. The same goes for Nuclear Weapons - how come the US seems to be the only country that is allowed to build them? Russian nuclear missles are being destroyed left, right and centre, the British and French are happy with just a few, yet the US happens to have several THOUSAND... Hypocracy is an awful thing.
I'm not anti-US, by the way, I'm just anti-US government. And that doesn't make me a hippie, that makes me British...
That's a bad example. If you can see the lights coming towards you, diverging at the same rate, you always turn right. Always always always. But yes, I'm beginning to learn the error of my ways :)
I have had a simulated power failure at night, and that was damned scary... But the way I knew which one to land on was that the runway was about 2 or 3 times wider than the taxiway. But yeah, not all are like that, I know... But I stand by my word that if you are flying IFR (and yes, I admit, I have had no IFR training) that theoretically, should you not be able to land with jsut the localiser, glideslope, and altimiter calibrated to QFE (height above ground)?
As it happens, I was in a 767 about 5 years back and I actually heard someone use an A-N receiver! So I just assumed there still was a third seat guy, who I assumed on that assumation was a navigator...
How about getting rid of plane food, since in the slight chance you get a bad batch, the entire crew can get diarrhea and not be able to land the plane. :) [/sarcasm] In fact, in real life, the crew all eat different meals, so that if one is taken ill, the plane can still land. All three crew positions are flight capable - nav, co-pilot and pilot. And terrorism measures ARE necessary, but the fact is that if someone wants to take down a plane - they ARE going to do it, whatever you try to do.
[sarcasm]Not seen airplane have we
I'm sorry, WHY do you have to tell the difference between red, green, yellow blue and white lights?
Red is end of the runway. Green is the beginning of the runway. The pattern gives it away, not just the colour. You should be landing at the far end of the Christmas tree, which co-incides with the Green lights.
Secondly, the Blue lights... For a taxiway... By which time you have already landed... and it's obvious that the green lights in the centre are the centreline - you could do it colourblind.
White would be the hardest - although you only need to know that it's the airport rather than the highway, in which case you look for a flashing beacon, or even better, the two strobed lights at the threshold.
Or even better, just home in on RNAV at the airport, then dial up the ILS and do a glideslope/localiser approach. You don't actually need colour at all, apart from the maps when you are navigating, which when Mode S transponders become common place, can essentially be done without the viewscreen... You should know if you fly IFR that the viewscreen should only ben used for traffic lookouts - you must be able to fly through cloud etc.
I'm only actually a VFR pilot, and I've just bullshitted a lot, but to all intents and purposes, you don't need colour outside of the cockpit!
Just remembered, Alko is alcohol... alkaa I think is work... I think someone thwopped me last time I got that wrong :) What can I say! En puhu suomea!
I have spent some time in Finland, as I help with the Assembly demo party there, and Akiba sponsor... They're cool guys, and they were really good when it came to me having to buy 15m of Cat6 cable from them (although they didn't have Cat7 :))
Anyway, back on topic... I believe alkaa is the verb to drink alcohol, and laskenta is something about a port or something... Lentokenta means airport, and lento definately means aeroplane.
you pick the place with the most boring, unchanging, weather on Earth.
So, Norwich then?