I'd love to have both FM and AM on my mp3 player - the sound on AM might not be that good, but I enjoy listening to talk stations such as Radio 5 (a BBC news/sport channel in the UK). I'm sure basic FM/AM support wouldn't be too expensive, and I'd be swayed towards a model with this feature.
Yes, a DAB radio would be nice, but I don't really need it, and I think the extra cost would be too much for most people.
It's somewhat dismaying to read one of the comments from Jolene Blalock in the article, apparently regarding the final episode of Enterprise.
There is an awkward silence when the subject of the final episode is broached. "I don't know where to begin with that one," she finally stammers. "The final episode is... appalling."
Here's an overview of how the licensing fee is split (from a BBC article about the changes here).
Viewers pay £10 per month, which is spent in the following way: £5 - terrestrial TV £1 - digital £1.20 - radio £1.50 - local TV and radio £0.30 - Online £1 - transmission and collection of licence fee
The Wine WinMM.dll uses the Wine key and as such ReactOS will fail the check as well.
This check creates a possibile vulnerability for future trojans/viruses to exploit - they could just place this Wine key into the Windows registry, and thus block Windows updates for the user.
And if it required additional effort to update the emulators, I would expect them not to.
Well, if a Microsoft update accidentally broke a part of WINE's compatibility, some people might accuse Microsoft of deliberately breaking it. Why should they take the chance?
Macrovision said the new technology will work in "nearly all" current DVD players when applied to the discs, but it did not specify how many machines could have a problem with RipGuard.
(this is in contrast to the 'maintaining compatibility with existing DVD players' comment in the article linked to by Slashdot).
This is true, however the tested v0.82 is over a year older than v0.9 (which was released last month).
Given that I've found 0.9 to be much faster than both IE and Firefox, it's hard for me to believe that the benchmarks would be the same as v0.82 (since the benchmarks show 0.82 to be as slow as IE/Firefox).
It'd be interesting to see just how K-Meleon compares - it seems extremely fast compared to both IE and Firefox, although it does use the Gecko rendering engine.
For those that haven't heard of it, here's the description from the homepage:
K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla).
Actually, the first link there isn't from Windows source code, it's from the source of a Linux USB camera driver (as you can see when you look at the parent post to it).
This might be a dupe, but the other article only recieved 23 comments since being posted yesterday, probably since it wasn't posted as a headline on the main page (and I for one didn't see it). To me, it does seem like a topic that should be on the front page.
At least now, a lot more people will notice it, and offer more opinions/information on the matter than in the previous posting.
It seems a bit dishonourable to me how/. have essentially told people how to fradulently abuse this shipping deal.
Sure, a lot people would figure it out for themselves, and post it as a comment themselves, but is it really right for/. to post it in the actual article header?
In the UK, we have something called the 'Data Protection Act', and part of this means that you have the right to obtain the personal information that a company holds on you (although a fee may be asked for, to cover administration costs).
I believe that there are some restrictions on what you're able to access, though I'm not entirely sure on what these are. There's a lot more to the act though, and anybody interested can look here
Yes,.WMV files can harm your computer, but so can.EXE files,.JPG files. and many other file types. Unfortunately, the only real way to stop it is by only using sites that you trust.
Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors.
To be fair, the site associated with this program, Suprnova, catalogued a variety of torrents, some legal, others not so legal.
Having said that, doing a search for 'linux' on eXeem only turned up one file, an unofficial guide to getting eXeem to run on Linux (presumably through WINE).
The main EULA that I have a problem with at the moment is on Steam. If you buy HL2, the EULA forbids you from selling your Steam account, and thus this prevents you from selling HL2. You can see this for yourself here. (I'm using a Google cache link here because the Steam forums are down - coincidentally they went down at a time when some people are having problems updating HL2).
Incidentally, if you look at point 2, you will see that Valve claim that all Steam accounts sold on eBay are "either Stolen accounts or opened with stolen credit cards". So, bear that in mind if you decide to sell your legally purchased HL2 on eBay.
A great thing about this program is that any edits that you make to your pictures aren't actually written to the original file.
From the help file:
Picasa never saves over your original files, so you'll never ruin or damage a picture by editing it. Picasa preserves your original photo as a digital negative, so every edit you make is fully undoable. If you want to work with your edited pictures in other programs, you should export or save a copy of them.
For an average home user, this seems great, as it effectively stops somebody overwriting their original files with, say, a badly cropped version, and then later being unable to go back to the original as they've overwritten it. Any changes you make with Picasa don't affect the actual file, as it seems that it transparently applies the changes every time you load.
The one downside of this is that you can't open the 'modifed' version in another program (without exporting it) but for an average user who just wants to do simple work on their own photos, it seems great.
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I'd love to have both FM and AM on my mp3 player - the sound on AM might not be that good, but I enjoy listening to talk stations such as Radio 5 (a BBC news/sport channel in the UK). I'm sure basic FM/AM support wouldn't be too expensive, and I'd be swayed towards a model with this feature.
Yes, a DAB radio would be nice, but I don't really need it, and I think the extra cost would be too much for most people.
There is an awkward silence when the subject of the final episode is broached. "I don't know where to begin with that one," she finally stammers. "The final episode is ... appalling."
Because it was on their front page yesterday :)
Theres's a few articles/discussion on the subject, here here and here
Here's an overview of how the licensing fee is split (from a BBC article about the changes here).
Viewers pay £10 per month, which is spent in the following way:
£5 - terrestrial TV
£1 - digital
£1.20 - radio
£1.50 - local TV and radio
£0.30 - Online
£1 - transmission and collection of licence fee
This check creates a possibile vulnerability for future trojans/viruses to exploit - they could just place this Wine key into the Windows registry, and thus block Windows updates for the user.
Well, they don't always work on Windows either ;)
Well, if a Microsoft update accidentally broke a part of WINE's compatibility, some people might accuse Microsoft of deliberately breaking it. Why should they take the chance?
Also, according to the article on the BBC:
Macrovision said the new technology will work in "nearly all" current DVD players when applied to the discs, but it did not specify how many machines could have a problem with RipGuard.
(this is in contrast to the 'maintaining compatibility with existing DVD players' comment in the article linked to by Slashdot).
Macrovision says its new RipGuard technology will thwart most, but not all, of the current DVD ripping (copying) programs used to pirate DVDs.
(this is in contrast to the 'maintaining compatibility with existing DVD players' comment in the article linked to by Slashdot).
There's another article about this from the BBC here
Given that I've found 0.9 to be much faster than both IE and Firefox, it's hard for me to believe that the benchmarks would be the same as v0.82 (since the benchmarks show 0.82 to be as slow as IE/Firefox).
Maybe, but IE crashes a lot faster than Firefox ;)
For those that haven't heard of it, here's the description from the homepage:
K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla).
Actually, the first link there isn't from Windows source code, it's from the source of a Linux USB camera driver (as you can see when you look at the parent post to it).
At least now, a lot more people will notice it, and offer more opinions/information on the matter than in the previous posting.
Judging from his contributions to charity, it appears that things like poverty do bother him.
Sure, a lot people would figure it out for themselves, and post it as a comment themselves, but is it really right for /. to post it in the actual article header?
I believe that there are some restrictions on what you're able to access, though I'm not entirely sure on what these are. There's a lot more to the act though, and anybody interested can look here
Yes, .WMV files can harm your computer, but so can .EXE files, .JPG files. and many other file types. Unfortunately, the only real way to stop it is by only using sites that you trust.
You can download it from here.
Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors.
Having said that, doing a search for 'linux' on eXeem only turned up one file, an unofficial guide to getting eXeem to run on Linux (presumably through WINE).
Incidentally, if you look at point 2, you will see that Valve claim that all Steam accounts sold on eBay are "either Stolen accounts or opened with stolen credit cards". So, bear that in mind if you decide to sell your legally purchased HL2 on eBay.
From the help file:
Picasa never saves over your original files, so you'll never ruin or damage a picture by editing it. Picasa preserves your original photo as a digital negative, so every edit you make is fully undoable. If you want to work with your edited pictures in other programs, you should export or save a copy of them.
For an average home user, this seems great, as it effectively stops somebody overwriting their original files with, say, a badly cropped version, and then later being unable to go back to the original as they've overwritten it. Any changes you make with Picasa don't affect the actual file, as it seems that it transparently applies the changes every time you load. The one downside of this is that you can't open the 'modifed' version in another program (without exporting it) but for an average user who just wants to do simple work on their own photos, it seems great.
Just wait til someone finally manages to overclock their watch :)