Yeah, especially bad was the fact that one of those Streetnet modules on a lamp-post on Park St (in Bristol) was inches away from my mate's flat window, totally swamping any WiFi he wanted to use.
Still, it's an hour's worth of downloading porn for free.
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ASP.NET is the best replacement for a horrid, outdated language like PHP.
And ASP.NET can run on Apache now using Mono, so you get the best of all worlds: great dev tools (Microsoft Visual Studio), a great language (Visual Basic/C#) and framework (.NET), a great web server (Apache) and a great server OS (Linux/BSD).
3) The NSA has an extremely bright team of civilians that do the bulk of their cryptoanalysis work. One of which is famous, and not for the work he does in cryptology. You'd actually laugh aloud if you knew. I guess it is his hobby, but someone is taking him seriously.
Did he used to write computer games? (if it's the person I'm thinking of..)
This actually seems to be fairly common with new buildings and works of art in public spaces.
I was working with some people on some new postcards and they asked me to check out the royalties on a couple of new structures in London they'd taken pictures of.
They'd been burned when they sold postcards of the Louvre. The architect who had designed the Louvre Pyramid had complained and they had to pay him about 0.10 in royalties per postcard sold.
Obviously anything over a certain age is copyright-expired, so castles etc are fair game!;)
So.. you download 10,000 songs from Napster in the first month, then cancel your subscription straight away and they are supposed to let you keep all those?
This site provides unbiased, free discussion and support on the topic, including the ways that governments and police forces manipulate this very sensitive issue in order to further stifle our freedoms of speech: http://www.madbadorsad.org/sadbbs/
They used to sell the Nescafé self-heating coffee cans all over the place at first, and I loved them, but the main problem was trying to find one in the stack where someone hadn't already popped the heater at the bottom and ruined it:(
I'm guessing this was one of the major reasons the stores stopped stocking them - people vandalising the products.
I thought they tasted fantastic though. Really nice and creamy coffee.
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"hacked by realloc()"
"realloc()" is the guy that did the hack. His tag was on the RedHat page on the SCO site last night before he obviously thought up something more amusing;)
I would definitely not say that OD2's service is horribly restrictive. Your research must be pretty poor. From what I believe they offer unlimited CD burns and device transfers. I understand Apple only allow 7 transfers/burns of the same playlist.
You could use their 1c/play service forever and not ever have to buy any songs. What makes you think they are trying to make you buy the songs?
They do have to pay the labels for the rights to stream the entire song, yes. They don't have to pay for 30 second clips generally.
Sites that use OD2's system can either use their off-the-shelf system and brand it themselves, or they can build their own site and just integrate with OD2's back-end systems. It's usually the site owners that are being lazy in this respect. British Telecom produced a really nice fully integrated site of their own, under the DotMusic brand I think, but they closed it down.
Sites that use the system are free to choose what catalogue they want, but most are going to choose the whole kit n caboodle, and they'd probably be stupid not to. They are also free to set their own prices as they wish, as with any retailer they just buy at a certain price, but most are selling at the RRP.
The sites are also free to do their own editorial as much as they want. Most probably can't be bothered. I believe the MyCokeMusic.com and Msn.co.uk sites make a particularly special effort to update their editorial content.
The rights deals for the music are different in every country. They probably haven't managed to negotiate the rights for the penny-a-stream in the other countries yet.
UK, France, Germany and Italy are the biggest markets in Europe and obviously the countries to tick off first. Give them a chance! The record labels move very slowly - OD2 were the first digital download provider to get all the labels across Europe, but it took them several years of negotiations to pull it off. This is also why it took Napster, iTunes et al so long.
Funny thing was I did have my house raided for having too many computers once.
Someone saw me carrying loads of computers into my house and told the police I must have been stealing them. Next day 20 burly officers turn up at dawn and take all the PCs and Suns etc in the house.
Thing was - the computers we were carrying in were like old Sun 3/50s that the University was throwing out and said we could have:)
It's from the main tunnels, though I suspect it is actually just the "spare" dummy TBM that has been sat next to the motorway at Folkestone for over 10 years, right next to what was the visitor's centre.
Having beta-tested The Tunnel before it opened I got a chance to get out of the train at the half-way point and take a stroll down the service ("emergency") tunnel - it's much smaller than the 2 main tunnels which run either side - and BOY! What an echo!! 26 miles long... HELLO! Hello! hello....
After all these years there is still no English version of Windows or Office.
Office has an English dictionary option but the application itself is in American (U.S. English). This is the nearest a Microsoft application comes to English.
60 million speakers of English in the UK and no local translation! We still have to put up with "favorites" and "color", while even the few Welsh speakers get their own version!
The only way you're really going to be able to take advantage of it is to plug it into your home theatre setup (or try some of those "surround" headphones).
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Yeah, especially bad was the fact that one of those Streetnet modules on a lamp-post on Park St (in Bristol) was inches away from my mate's flat window, totally swamping any WiFi he wanted to use.
Still, it's an hour's worth of downloading porn for free.
ASP.NET is the best replacement for a horrid, outdated language like PHP.
And ASP.NET can run on Apache now using Mono, so you get the best of all worlds: great dev tools (Microsoft Visual Studio), a great language (Visual Basic/C#) and framework (.NET), a great web server (Apache) and a great server OS (Linux/BSD).
Do you think they created all the buildings manually for all those 39 cities?
Or do they have a clever system for doing it?
I already do that though with my Bluetooth headphones and my Pocket PC in my pocket.
When I'm at the gym I leave the Pocket PC in my jacket and just wander around the equipment with my 'phones on.
3) The NSA has an extremely bright team of civilians that do the bulk of their cryptoanalysis work. One of which is famous, and not for the work he does in cryptology. You'd actually laugh aloud if you knew. I guess it is his hobby, but someone is taking him seriously.
Did he used to write computer games? (if it's the person I'm thinking of..)
This actually seems to be fairly common with new buildings and works of art in public spaces.
I was working with some people on some new postcards and they asked me to check out the royalties on a couple of new structures in London they'd taken pictures of.
They'd been burned when they sold postcards of the Louvre. The architect who had designed the Louvre Pyramid had complained and they had to pay him about 0.10 in royalties per postcard sold.
Obviously anything over a certain age is copyright-expired, so castles etc are fair game! ;)
It's a lot closer than that. Rhapsody (Listen.com) do that today on the PC platform.
;)
Check out the 3GSM conference starting Monday for movement from the mobile side of things
Definitely not 2020 - more like 2006/7.
So.. you download 10,000 songs from Napster in the first month, then cancel your subscription straight away and they are supposed to let you keep all those?
Doesn't sound like a great business model to me!
This site provides unbiased, free discussion and support on the topic, including the ways that governments and police forces manipulate this very sensitive issue in order to further stifle our freedoms of speech:
http://www.madbadorsad.org/sadbbs/
They used to sell the Nescafé self-heating coffee cans all over the place at first, and I loved them, but the main problem was trying to find one in the stack where someone hadn't already popped the heater at the bottom and ruined it :(
I'm guessing this was one of the major reasons the stores stopped stocking them - people vandalising the products.
I thought they tasted fantastic though. Really nice and creamy coffee.
"hacked by realloc()"
;)
"realloc()" is the guy that did the hack. His tag was on the RedHat page on the SCO site last night before he obviously thought up something more amusing
Does anyone have any links for Dual-Link DVI cards for the PC?
I believe there are a couple of them out there, but I wanna run one of these 30" Cinema displays on a PC you see!
And vice-versa. They both have advantages and disadvantages.
Having spent 10 years writing C++ code I still prefer VB.NET over C#.NET as it's quicker to code in.
With your $400 you could have listened to 40,000 songs with OD2's system.
;)
Or own 400+ songs from iTunes, half of which you'll never listen to more than once..
I would definitely not say that OD2's service is horribly restrictive. Your research must be pretty poor. From what I believe they offer unlimited CD burns and device transfers. I understand Apple only allow 7 transfers/burns of the same playlist.
You could use their 1c/play service forever and not ever have to buy any songs. What makes you think they are trying to make you buy the songs?
They do have to pay the labels for the rights to stream the entire song, yes. They don't have to pay for 30 second clips generally.
Sites that use OD2's system can either use their off-the-shelf system and brand it themselves, or they can build their own site and just integrate with OD2's back-end systems. It's usually the site owners that are being lazy in this respect. British Telecom produced a really nice fully integrated site of their own, under the DotMusic brand I think, but they closed it down.
Sites that use the system are free to choose what catalogue they want, but most are going to choose the whole kit n caboodle, and they'd probably be stupid not to. They are also free to set their own prices as they wish, as with any retailer they just buy at a certain price, but most are selling at the RRP.
The sites are also free to do their own editorial as much as they want. Most probably can't be bothered. I believe the MyCokeMusic.com and Msn.co.uk sites make a particularly special effort to update their editorial content.
OD2's services are not subscription services.
They are pay-to-play. 1 cent/1 penny per play. Nothing more, nothing less.
The rights deals for the music are different in every country. They probably haven't managed to negotiate the rights for the penny-a-stream in the other countries yet.
UK, France, Germany and Italy are the biggest markets in Europe and obviously the countries to tick off first. Give them a chance! The record labels move very slowly - OD2 were the first digital download provider to get all the labels across Europe, but it took them several years of negotiations to pull it off. This is also why it took Napster, iTunes et al so long.
They've always had a site of their own:
http://www.od2.com/
Funny thing was I did have my house raided for having too many computers once.
:)
Someone saw me carrying loads of computers into my house and told the police I must have been stealing them. Next day 20 burly officers turn up at dawn and take all the PCs and Suns etc in the house.
Thing was - the computers we were carrying in were like old Sun 3/50s that the University was throwing out and said we could have
It's from the main tunnels, though I suspect it is actually just the "spare" dummy TBM that has been sat next to the motorway at Folkestone for over 10 years, right next to what was the visitor's centre.
Having beta-tested The Tunnel before it opened I got a chance to get out of the train at the half-way point and take a stroll down the service ("emergency") tunnel - it's much smaller than the 2 main tunnels which run either side - and BOY! What an echo!! 26 miles long... HELLO! Hello! hello....
After all these years there is still no English version of Windows or Office.
Office has an English dictionary option but the application itself is in American (U.S. English). This is the nearest a Microsoft application comes to English.
60 million speakers of English in the UK and no local translation! We still have to put up with "favorites" and "color", while even the few Welsh speakers get their own version!
Crazy!
As it wasn't linked in the story, here is the link to the Slashdot interview:
Slashdot interview: Chris Tresco from DrinkOrDie
That 27% on Google includes Windows Millennium, which is essentially just Windows 98 "Third Edition".
Windows Millennium is still supported and I would guess it probably accounts for at least half of that 27%.
So there.
> Chaz
Thing is, when I come over to The States from the UK I get cheated at the gas pumps.
For me a gallon is 4.546 litres.
For you, it's 3.785 "liters".
I think I might start a lawsuit!
> Chaz
Does seem like serious overkill on a handheld!
The only way you're really going to be able to take advantage of it is to plug it into your home theatre setup (or try some of those "surround" headphones).
> Chaz