Hasn't anyone here seen "A View To A Kill"? I bet those Iraqis and North Koreans really wish Max Zorin hadn't been thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge by James Bond.
Surely some of those white-suited Stormtroopers should be pink. Or blue.
What do you think of P2P and file sharing?
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As it probably wasn't around last time you used a computer...I'm thinking of copyright-infringing file sharing such as music, software and films here. Should we accept that computers and ADSL mean the end of copyright on recorded media, are these people just acting out of a sense of community (personally, I'd NEVER charge anyone for a copy of software) or are they all evil thieves who should be hunted down?
Seeing as SP1 puts it on there even if Sun Java is already present. From which point onwards you are prompted to download critical updates for MS Java, even though it's never used.
Universal TV remotes have been around for aeons - in addition, most satellite box manufacturers also supply the codes to make your TV volume control work without having to swap remotes. The really clever ones work by receiving and learning the codes emitted by the original remote - probably a "circumvention device" under the DMCA.
Surely with precedents like these, the suit will just get thrown out? I hope it costs the garage door manufacturer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Cars built before 1973 don't pay road tax (technically "vehicle excise duty" which has nothing whatsoever do to with spending on roads). That's the only "reduction" based on age.
There is a sliding scale of duty based on petrol/diesel fuel and CO2 emissions. You pay between 100UKP a year for the smallest petrol car and 155UKP. It's a stupid, widely evaded tax which penalises low mileage drivers and should have been replaced with extra fuel tax ages ago.
I think not. So it's just another boring accelerator that pre-fetches links, which never work for me because I appear to surf in an unpredictable manner.
Most people don't d/l mp3z and then burn them. They listen to them for a bit, and if they like them enough, they go and buy the CD. You see, MP3 isn't good enough on a halfway decent stereo, even if it sounds OK in the car or on PC speakers. How many tracks do you see on Kazaa in.wav format?
Of course, audiophiles will argue that CD quality isn't good enough either, but that's straying OT.
This illustrates everything that's wrong with software patents. You're not really getting anything for your money if you pay either of these guys, but if you got your own R&D geeks to come up with a video compression format independently, you can bet some of their ideas would infringe either the MPEG4 or the MS patent.
MPEG4 should be free (as in beer) because, at the end of the day, it's only an algorithm. Imagine if the Greeks charged us every time Pythagoras' Theorem was used or quoted.
In the computer age intellectual property is like the Emperor's new clothes. In the nanobot age, tangible property will be the same (you like your neighbour's BMW...fine, just make a quick copy), but I won't go into that now...
Displacement isn't terribly relevant: in a normally aspirated engine that is strong enough to cope with high rpms, it's the inlet valve area that determines power. Have a look at this. Also consider that the most powerful engines (over 1,000 bhp) ever used in F1 were a mere 1.5 litres - OK, they had turbochargers, but they also spun damn fast.
You're obviously not a Linux user. Until Apple change their minds and release Quicktime for *nix, RealPlayer is all you've got for movie trailers and streaming content. Yes, I hate Real's website, the way they bury the free player under a ton of advertising and the irritating default options (StartCenter sucks), but at least they're supporting an alternative platform.
Sorry, you're out by an order of magnitude on the effective MP of film. You can get a sharp 30" x 20" print from ISO 100 35mm film. Try doing that with a 6MP digicam; Canon recommend 300 pixels per inch on the final print, so doing the maths gives you 54MP (multiply by 3 for a typical non-Foveon sensor).
Digicams are nice to have around (how would I sell on eBay without one?), but at the moment they're pretty useless for serious enlargements. You've also got a major storage problem on long holidays unless you also own a notebook computer.
Re:Toilet-water CPU Cooler
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Computer Room Hot?
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One problem is going to be that the lukewarm water in the cistern will promote mould growth and possibly legionella bacteria. Additionally, if you live in a hard water area then calcite will foul the inside of the CPU water block, making it less effective. The big cold water cistern in your loft (if you have one) would be better anyway - there's about 80 gallons in mine and it would take rather a long time to heat that to any appreciable extent.
The trend here is very much towards widescreen 16:9 TVs, but still using the standard PAL 625-line resolution. It's good enough unless you have a 42" plasma screen or a projector, when there isn't really enough detail there and HDTV would be a benefit.
Maybe the reason for HDTV in the States is that NTSC has slightly lower resolution and the picture quality deteriorates more quickly as screen sizes go up? At least you get to watch your DVDs at the proper speed - ours are speeded up by 4%!
At the moment the UK focus is on making everything digital, which actually gives lower quality than a really good analogue signal. However, it allows the Government to sell bits of the radio spectrum after the analogue signal has been turned off.
My favourite conspiracy theory of all time is that the fatal Lynmouth floods of 1952 were caused by RAF cloud-seeding experiments. This is well worth a read.
Re:Even if he was off..
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E ~ mc^2
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Rather more disturbingly, it showed that nuclear weapons were possible, i.e. you only need to lose a little bit of m to make an awful lot of E.
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Hasn't anyone here seen "A View To A Kill"? I bet those Iraqis and North Koreans really wish Max Zorin hadn't been thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge by James Bond.
Surely some of those white-suited Stormtroopers should be pink. Or blue.
As it probably wasn't around last time you used a computer...I'm thinking of copyright-infringing file sharing such as music, software and films here. Should we accept that computers and ADSL mean the end of copyright on recorded media, are these people just acting out of a sense of community (personally, I'd NEVER charge anyone for a copy of software) or are they all evil thieves who should be hunted down?
I hope it's as successful as Windows Product Activation ;-)
"Free list of expansion cards that fit in white slots"
Seeing as SP1 puts it on there even if Sun Java is already present. From which point onwards you are prompted to download critical updates for MS Java, even though it's never used.
I bet they got some funny looks in the parking lot when they all busted out of the SAAB naked and started whipping each other with larch twigs ;-)
Surely with precedents like these, the suit will just get thrown out? I hope it costs the garage door manufacturer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
...the decision applied solely to Disney products, I could quite happily live without a single copy of their saccharine tosh.
Cars built before 1973 don't pay road tax (technically "vehicle excise duty" which has nothing whatsoever do to with spending on roads). That's the only "reduction" based on age.
There is a sliding scale of duty based on petrol/diesel fuel and CO2 emissions. You pay between 100UKP a year for the smallest petrol car and 155UKP. It's a stupid, widely evaded tax which penalises low mileage drivers and should have been replaced with extra fuel tax ages ago.
Will the picture still go all fuzzy and the sound wobble when it gets to an - ahem - action scene?
I think not. So it's just another boring accelerator that pre-fetches links, which never work for me because I appear to surf in an unpredictable manner.
Of course, audiophiles will argue that CD quality isn't good enough either, but that's straying OT.
MPEG4 should be free (as in beer) because, at the end of the day, it's only an algorithm. Imagine if the Greeks charged us every time Pythagoras' Theorem was used or quoted.
In the computer age intellectual property is like the Emperor's new clothes. In the nanobot age, tangible property will be the same (you like your neighbour's BMW...fine, just make a quick copy), but I won't go into that now...
Displacement isn't terribly relevant: in a normally aspirated engine that is strong enough to cope with high rpms, it's the inlet valve area that determines power. Have a look at this. Also consider that the most powerful engines (over 1,000 bhp) ever used in F1 were a mere 1.5 litres - OK, they had turbochargers, but they also spun damn fast.
You're obviously not a Linux user. Until Apple change their minds and release Quicktime for *nix, RealPlayer is all you've got for movie trailers and streaming content. Yes, I hate Real's website, the way they bury the free player under a ton of advertising and the irritating default options (StartCenter sucks), but at least they're supporting an alternative platform.
Digicams are nice to have around (how would I sell on eBay without one?), but at the moment they're pretty useless for serious enlargements. You've also got a major storage problem on long holidays unless you also own a notebook computer.
One problem is going to be that the lukewarm water in the cistern will promote mould growth and possibly legionella bacteria. Additionally, if you live in a hard water area then calcite will foul the inside of the CPU water block, making it less effective. The big cold water cistern in your loft (if you have one) would be better anyway - there's about 80 gallons in mine and it would take rather a long time to heat that to any appreciable extent.
ISTR that Quake 3 actually switches the monitor to a 60Hz refresh rate. It flickers visibly with a bright map. So yes, I see what you're saying.
The hair hasn't grown back though :-(
Maybe the reason for HDTV in the States is that NTSC has slightly lower resolution and the picture quality deteriorates more quickly as screen sizes go up? At least you get to watch your DVDs at the proper speed - ours are speeded up by 4%!
At the moment the UK focus is on making everything digital, which actually gives lower quality than a really good analogue signal. However, it allows the Government to sell bits of the radio spectrum after the analogue signal has been turned off.
My favourite conspiracy theory of all time is that the fatal Lynmouth floods of 1952 were caused by RAF cloud-seeding experiments. This is well worth a read.
Rather more disturbingly, it showed that nuclear weapons were possible, i.e. you only need to lose a little bit of m to make an awful lot of E.
Begun this Clone War is!
So download all your goat pr0n before Jan 20 ;-)