The columns of some cathedrals - built before people understood roof trusses - are slightly but definitely bent if you sight along them. The percentage strain is very low, so they don't crack.
Fair enough, but their use should be strictly licensed. They're nice on Britney lookalikes, but I've seen too many fat chavettes with their guts hanging over their waistbands.
The original study also found that people aren't satisfied with 128kbps files. I'm not really an audiophile, but I can tell the difference myself if I convert and burn a 128kbps mp3 onto CD. On the other hand, 256kbps is indistinguishable for most people, and that's what I rip at.
I guess silly software patents should be thrown into the film vs digital debate. There's not a lot you can do to prevent someone else's brand of standard format film or paper being used in your camera, for example.
Patents aside, there might also be an issue reading some of these manufacturers' RAW formats in years to come if you've lost the original CD or it doesn't work on Windows ZZZZ.
Reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode where Rimmer is sentenced for 1,167 counts of second-degree murder (failure to seal a drive plate properly on Red Dwarf, which killed the whole crew except Lister, who was in stasis).
"Each count carries a statutory penalty of eight years penal servitude. In the light of your hologrammatic status, these sentences are to be served consecutively, making a total sentence of nine thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight years."
So the game didn't have the lesbian love scene between Natalie Portman and her decoy Keira Knightley? Looks like they held something back for the movie, anyway.
True: motorcycles (or any short vehicle) are aerodynamically inefficient, and the rider is even worse. The engines on most bikes are also tuned for power rather than efficiency, so you should probably be comparing them to a rally car, which can do as little as 4mpg. They have their place in reducing congestion though.
Look how many people rejected region coding on DVDs. They just buy Far East-sourced players that ignore the region coding (or can easily be switched to do so) and someone will produce non-TC computers if there's the same demand.
I think MS and Intel have underestimated people's determination not to be shafted by The Man.
Thriller writer Nelson DeMille allows people to purchase their name as a character in his novels, for a donation to charity. There's invariably a list of them on the acknowledgements page.
This will just reinforce the new "digital divide" - those who know how to bypass anti-copy controls and exchange files anonymously, and the others who end up paying for stuff. The hackers/crackers are always one step ahead; all the **AA/BPI can do is make it a little more difficult for J.Random Surfer. The easy days of Napster are long gone, and Kazaa isn't what it used to be.
In fact, cutting out 90% of the activity may well satisfy The Man. I can't see that it's worth spending millions chasing down people swapping files among their friends via FTP, private newsgroups etc.
Worse - he actually sent them 50,000UKP because they "needed it" for a processing fee or a bribe or something. Needless to say, that was the last he ever heard from them. Everyone thinks he deserved it for being a greedy idiot!
The Nigerian 419 fraud isn't phishing. The idea is to promise you huge amounts of money and at a later stage in the "transaction" they ask for a processing fee or bribe in order to get the money to your account. Guess what - you never hear from the perps again once you've sent the fee (basically whatever they reckon you can afford, a particularly stupid cousin of my wife lost 50,000UKP).
There is an occasional phishing-like variation where the boys from Lagos want your bank details to try and clean out the account, but the normal MO is to ask you to send money to them.
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for calling their GUI "Aqua" and thereby encouraging stupid people to dunk them in water. Oh wait, that was just on the Mac, wasn't it?
That would be Elton John's house, then?
The columns of some cathedrals - built before people understood roof trusses - are slightly but definitely bent if you sight along them. The percentage strain is very low, so they don't crack.
But based on the number of pr0n uses already, and predictably, identified in this thread so far, some people might LIKE that sort of thing ;-)
No, they were light water-cooled graphite reactors.
Fair enough, but their use should be strictly licensed. They're nice on Britney lookalikes, but I've seen too many fat chavettes with their guts hanging over their waistbands.
That would fit well with the Dark Side® theme then.
Bill Gates will have his heated driveway recabled with this stuff.
The original study also found that people aren't satisfied with 128kbps files. I'm not really an audiophile, but I can tell the difference myself if I convert and burn a 128kbps mp3 onto CD. On the other hand, 256kbps is indistinguishable for most people, and that's what I rip at.
Patents aside, there might also be an issue reading some of these manufacturers' RAW formats in years to come if you've lost the original CD or it doesn't work on Windows ZZZZ.
"Each count carries a statutory penalty of eight years penal servitude. In the light of your hologrammatic status, these sentences are to be served consecutively, making a total sentence of nine thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight years."
There's ALWAYS another sequel to Friday 13th, although given the state of the planet it might go straight to DVD.
Is that you have to take a blue pill first, otherwise you wake up in a bathtub with millions of others, wired to the national grid.
Good Head! Mmmmm...my favorite!
So the game didn't have the lesbian love scene between Natalie Portman and her decoy Keira Knightley? Looks like they held something back for the movie, anyway.
Who cares, so long as Ally Sheedy turns up in her aerobics kit?
True: motorcycles (or any short vehicle) are aerodynamically inefficient, and the rider is even worse. The engines on most bikes are also tuned for power rather than efficiency, so you should probably be comparing them to a rally car, which can do as little as 4mpg. They have their place in reducing congestion though.
I think MS and Intel have underestimated people's determination not to be shafted by The Man.
Thriller writer Nelson DeMille allows people to purchase their name as a character in his novels, for a donation to charity. There's invariably a list of them on the acknowledgements page.
In fact, cutting out 90% of the activity may well satisfy The Man. I can't see that it's worth spending millions chasing down people swapping files among their friends via FTP, private newsgroups etc.
(a) Harvard can't secure its systems properly, so it's partly their fault.
(b) No decisions were changed as a result of the access and no-one altered any data.
(c) Harvard has lost some bright students who passed their (presumably rigorous) selection process.
So is this a stupid decision, or what?
Worse - he actually sent them 50,000UKP because they "needed it" for a processing fee or a bribe or something. Needless to say, that was the last he ever heard from them. Everyone thinks he deserved it for being a greedy idiot!
There is an occasional phishing-like variation where the boys from Lagos want your bank details to try and clean out the account, but the normal MO is to ask you to send money to them.
Surely you should be using a 3000 baud modem with an acoustic coupler? I love WarGames, me, and it's not *just* Ally Sheedy in her aerobics kit.
Maybe you should hire the DVD instead of downloading it from Bit Torrent? ;-)