I've not bought a PC from them yet, but I like the look of Hoojum. They certainly seem to be the most ethical manufacturer I've come across. Does anyone else know of any companies that do similar things?
I think my favourite Superior game was probably Ravenskull. It took an absolute age for me to complete, and that was using the maps and solution that I found in a games magazine. I can still remember it's catchy repetitive theme tune now...
I've got a 350, and as far as I'm aware it can only do hardware decoding when you're using the TV-out on the card. It can't use the hardware decoding if you're displaying the images on your monitor. A very worthwhile card to have though.
Broadband over power lines is technically unfeasible because of the ridiculous amount of radio interference generated.
Hmmm... am I missing something then? One of the guys at my work got broadband from Scottish Hydro-Electric and regularly gets speeds of 1Mbps each way.
It's issued by both the Bank of England and the Royal Bank of Scotland
Actually, in Scotland it's issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Bank of Scotland and the Clydesdale bank. In fact, the Bank of Scotland has been issuing bank notes since it was established in 1695, one year after the formation of the Bank of England. OK, pointless trivia lesson over:)
Looking at my S55 just now, you're right - it does just display the IMEI number. It does give you the option of viewing the firmware version, date of manufacture and so on if you press one of the fast keys at this point though.
I was fairly confident it was legal, but I figured I'd better put a disclaimer in there since I'm not a lawyer (not that it's ever stopped the majority of Slashdotters:)
Incidentally, the *#06# is generally good for finding out firmware version etc. as well.
In England you have to have your phone "unlocked" to use it on another network. The process isn't legal, but small shops will do it for about 10 quid.
This is entirely dependent on the network you use. Orange lock all of their phones, whereas Vodaphone generally don't (although a few of their recent Live! offerings have been locked). The process of unlocking the phone is completely legal in a lot of cases. I used to have a Siemens SL42e on Orange. You could unlock it by sending it to an official Siemens support centre. I also had a friend who was going travelling for a few months and wanted to be able to use foreign Pay As You Go SIM cards in his Siemens S55. He phoned up Orange and they unlocked it over the air for him. I know for a fact that Vodaphone's locked version of the Sony Ericsson T610 can be unlocked by applying an official SE firmware to it.
The only country on their borders they are violent against is Israel. I know India and Pakistan don't have particularly friendly relations but they aren't fighting, and I've never heard anything about bad relations between Turkey and Greece or Russia.
Did I just read that properly? India and Pakistan have officially gone to war 3 times since 1947, not to mention numerous minor skirmishes and general tensions. If they were to go to war again then I have no doubt it would end with more "unconventional" weapons being used.
Turkey and Greece have been at odds over Cyprus since the 1960s resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians as well as the creation of between 150,000 and 200,000 refugees.
I sure as hell wanted one. Well for aesthetic purposes anyway. The coolest thing was turning it upside down and lifting the internals out by a handle - very space age.
It's like all the people who want a Mac for gaming. I mean, there's tons of great games on the Mac. Like Warcraft 3. And... Warcraft 3. And the little apple puzzle thingy...... photoshop?
If you're going to more or less directly quote the "Apple Switch" piss-take video on Red vs Blue then at least be honest about it;)
You will have 30 million angry Californians tearing you limb from limb
Making a point is all fine and well but maybe, just maybe, some vital services provided by the hospitals, police, fire brigade might have suffered if nothing was done about getting power back on?
Oh, and about buying an election? It isn't just Republicans who can buy an election
How about not doing this constant "Your side cheated! No, yours did!" crap all the time. You should be demanding campaign finance reform so that nobody can do this anymore.
By the way, there is no such thing as "free health care". It costs money and it costs A LOT.
Sorry you're right. What I meant was health care that is free at the point of delivery. Obviously this requires a huge amount of money, but I think that it is definitely possible to do it well. In the UK there is a constant putting down of our National Health Service for various reasons, almost all stemming from the fact that it is chronically under-funded.
However, if you look at countries such as Sweden, where there are high taxes (upwards of 50% in the highest bracket), there is far more money to provide not only a decent health service (average female life expectancy of 81 years compared to the USA's 79 years for white women down to 75 years for black women), but also other key public services such as education (Sweden has virtually 100% literacy compared to the USA's 85%).
In case you were wondering where all these statistics came from I found them all on my Encyclopaedia Britannica DVD - the only good thing to come from the fact that I once bought a PC from Tiny when I was young and foolish:)
I suppose this is probably off-topic, but it's something I've wondered about for a while. As a Brit, it seems that a lot of vocal Americans think that it's some kind of capital crime to be left-wing. I can't see any reason (other than hedonism) why people would be against fundamental necessities such as free healthcare and the welfare state.
Does this anti-left mentality come from the fact that the US spent 50 years locked in a power struggle with the Commies? Or is it just that all far too many people care about is the Almighty Buck?
This isn't intended as a troll so apologies if I've offended anyone but it's one of these things that just confuses the hell out of me.
What's going to be
important with your PhD is to demostrate that you have practical experience along
with the studies (could be through a summer job, for example).
Don't know what PhDs are like in the States but over here (UK) it's a full time thing. Kind of hard to do a summer job when you're already working 40+ hours a week.
Also, the kernel compile is unfair, because gentoo-sources includes a whole load of patches that Mandrake and Debian don't.
From the article:
The same 2.4.21 source was copied to all machines and compiled using the same options. However, it should be noted that the Debian system used gcc 3.3.1 whilst the Mandrake and Gentoo installations used gcc 3.3.2.
Which leads us to...
Finally, what's with measuring compile times? How is that a fair way of measuring performance?
I don't see any problem with comparing compile times. In the case of Mandrake and Gentoo, it's the same version of gcc being used and the exact same hardware being used each time so it's a reasonable comparison.
it looks like the guys doing the testing got their CFLAGS wrong
That may well be the case, but all that goes to show is that it's really easy to mess things up on Gentoo so that you get crap performance.
The problem with this is that PAL games are usually in 50Hz, and that produces a nasty vertical scroll for us with 60Hz TVs
I don't know if this is true for the PS2 (which is shocking since I own one) but certainly the PAL Gamecube is capable of doing a 60Hz output if the TV and game support it. The bonus disk that comes with GC Zelda is 60Hz only. The Dreamcast was also capable of 60Hz output. I would imagine that most games these days support the 60Hz option unless the developer is too lazy to bother with it.
It was just the earlier comments reminded me of that little quirky and made me smile. Bill Bryson has to be one of the best (if a bit eccentric) commentators about everyday life that there is.
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Looks like someone needs to brush up on their official French speaking countries. ;-)
I've not bought a PC from them yet, but I like the look of Hoojum. They certainly seem to be the most ethical manufacturer I've come across. Does anyone else know of any companies that do similar things?
I think my favourite Superior game was probably Ravenskull. It took an absolute age for me to complete, and that was using the maps and solution that I found in a games magazine. I can still remember it's catchy repetitive theme tune now...
I'm guessing you must be a nerd then, since you seem desperate to win this trivial argument...
I got it here. Price seems to have gone up to ukp 255 now but still a bargain at that price.
BTW: IRiver also makes an Ogg-capable portable, several of them, but their 20gig model is about $399. :(
:-)
Coincidentally enough, my iHP-120 arrived the other day, and only cost me 250
the 350 includes hardware mpeg2 decoding.
I've got a 350, and as far as I'm aware it can only do hardware decoding when you're using the TV-out on the card. It can't use the hardware decoding if you're displaying the images on your monitor. A very worthwhile card to have though.
Broadband over power lines is technically unfeasible because of the ridiculous amount of radio interference generated.
Hmmm... am I missing something then? One of the guys at my work got broadband from Scottish Hydro-Electric and regularly gets speeds of 1Mbps each way.
You're the only person I've ever met who actually likes the pound notes!
It's issued by both the Bank of England and the Royal Bank of Scotland
:)
Actually, in Scotland it's issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Bank of Scotland and the Clydesdale bank. In fact, the Bank of Scotland has been issuing bank notes since it was established in 1695, one year after the formation of the Bank of England. OK, pointless trivia lesson over
Looking at my S55 just now, you're right - it does just display the IMEI number. It does give you the option of viewing the firmware version, date of manufacture and so on if you press one of the fast keys at this point though.
I was fairly confident it was legal, but I figured I'd better put a disclaimer in there since I'm not a lawyer (not that it's ever stopped the majority of Slashdotters :)
Incidentally, the *#06# is generally good for finding out firmware version etc. as well.
In England you have to have your phone "unlocked" to use it on another network. The process isn't legal, but small shops will do it for about 10 quid.
This is entirely dependent on the network you use. Orange lock all of their phones, whereas Vodaphone generally don't (although a few of their recent Live! offerings have been locked). The process of unlocking the phone is completely legal in a lot of cases. I used to have a Siemens SL42e on Orange. You could unlock it by sending it to an official Siemens support centre. I also had a friend who was going travelling for a few months and wanted to be able to use foreign Pay As You Go SIM cards in his Siemens S55. He phoned up Orange and they unlocked it over the air for him. I know for a fact that Vodaphone's locked version of the Sony Ericsson T610 can be unlocked by applying an official SE firmware to it.
The Canadian military is rolling as we speak. Look out, Australia - as soon as the Americans give us a lift, we'll be landing on your shores!
Any Baldwins in the region are advised to leave as soon as possible.
The only country on their borders they are violent against is Israel. I know India and Pakistan don't have particularly friendly relations but they aren't fighting, and I've never heard anything about bad relations between Turkey and Greece or Russia.
Did I just read that properly? India and Pakistan have officially gone to war 3 times since 1947, not to mention numerous minor skirmishes and general tensions. If they were to go to war again then I have no doubt it would end with more "unconventional" weapons being used.
Turkey and Greece have been at odds over Cyprus since the 1960s resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians as well as the creation of between 150,000 and 200,000 refugees.
I sure as hell wanted one. Well for aesthetic purposes anyway. The coolest thing was turning it upside down and lifting the internals out by a handle - very space age.
It's like all the people who want a Mac for gaming. I mean, there's tons of great games on the Mac. Like Warcraft 3. And... Warcraft 3. And the little apple puzzle thingy...... photoshop?
;)
If you're going to more or less directly quote the "Apple Switch" piss-take video on Red vs Blue then at least be honest about it
You will have 30 million angry Californians tearing you limb from limb
Making a point is all fine and well but maybe, just maybe, some vital services provided by the hospitals, police, fire brigade might have suffered if nothing was done about getting power back on?
Oh, and about buying an election? It isn't just Republicans who can buy an election
How about not doing this constant "Your side cheated! No, yours did!" crap all the time. You should be demanding campaign finance reform so that nobody can do this anymore.
By the way, there is no such thing as "free health care". It costs money and it costs A LOT.
:)
Sorry you're right. What I meant was health care that is free at the point of delivery. Obviously this requires a huge amount of money, but I think that it is definitely possible to do it well. In the UK there is a constant putting down of our National Health Service for various reasons, almost all stemming from the fact that it is chronically under-funded.
However, if you look at countries such as Sweden, where there are high taxes (upwards of 50% in the highest bracket), there is far more money to provide not only a decent health service (average female life expectancy of 81 years compared to the USA's 79 years for white women down to 75 years for black women), but also other key public services such as education (Sweden has virtually 100% literacy compared to the USA's 85%).
In case you were wondering where all these statistics came from I found them all on my Encyclopaedia Britannica DVD - the only good thing to come from the fact that I once bought a PC from Tiny when I was young and foolish
I suppose this is probably off-topic, but it's something I've wondered about for a while. As a Brit, it seems that a lot of vocal Americans think that it's some kind of capital crime to be left-wing. I can't see any reason (other than hedonism) why people would be against fundamental necessities such as free healthcare and the welfare state.
Does this anti-left mentality come from the fact that the US spent 50 years locked in a power struggle with the Commies? Or is it just that all far too many people care about is the Almighty Buck?
This isn't intended as a troll so apologies if I've offended anyone but it's one of these things that just confuses the hell out of me.
What's going to be important with your PhD is to demostrate that you have practical experience along with the studies (could be through a summer job, for example).
Don't know what PhDs are like in the States but over here (UK) it's a full time thing. Kind of hard to do a summer job when you're already working 40+ hours a week.
Also, the kernel compile is unfair, because gentoo-sources includes a whole load of patches that Mandrake and Debian don't.
.
From the article:
The same 2.4.21 source was copied to all machines and compiled using the same options. However, it should be noted that the Debian system used gcc 3.3.1 whilst the Mandrake and Gentoo installations used gcc 3.3.2
Which leads us to...
Finally, what's with measuring compile times? How is that a fair way of measuring performance?
I don't see any problem with comparing compile times. In the case of Mandrake and Gentoo, it's the same version of gcc being used and the exact same hardware being used each time so it's a reasonable comparison.
it looks like the guys doing the testing got their CFLAGS wrong
That may well be the case, but all that goes to show is that it's really easy to mess things up on Gentoo so that you get crap performance.
The problem with this is that PAL games are usually in 50Hz, and that produces a nasty vertical scroll for us with 60Hz TVs
I don't know if this is true for the PS2 (which is shocking since I own one) but certainly the PAL Gamecube is capable of doing a 60Hz output if the TV and game support it. The bonus disk that comes with GC Zelda is 60Hz only. The Dreamcast was also capable of 60Hz output. I would imagine that most games these days support the 60Hz option unless the developer is too lazy to bother with it.
Running pirated games is certainly illegal. Running 3rd party games or Linux should not be.
It shouldn't be, but since that would require the use of common sense as opposed to threats and lawsuits I think we can pretty much rule that one out.
Fair enough :)
It was just the earlier comments reminded me of that little quirky and made me smile. Bill Bryson has to be one of the best (if a bit eccentric) commentators about everyday life that there is.