... but will they be just as explosive as LiIon batteries? I don't want to accept a cheap substitute that just goes "phut", I want a proper bang and a flash!
well, you don't actually get a particularly good FM radio for less than 20 quid, but I agree that DAB still has a price premium - especially for in-car radios.
A bigger problem is that there's not much convergence with say mp3 players and/or mobile phones and other media players at a reasonable price... no 60GB ipod with DAB radio for example. This is probably explained by reports I've seen which say that only UK and Denmark have a thriving DAB "ecosystem".
There are parts of London (UK !) where even the regular BBC stations can't be heard due to the pirate stations blasting out low-quality FM. I think there are three problems, firstly that there's very little spectrum space on the FM broadcast band that's spare, and secondly that the "new" Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) system in the UK doesn't have enough bandwidth to cope with the number of radio stations who want to use it, and lastly that it probably costs too much for a radio station to get onto DAB at all.
I am speculating that there must also be a rise in the number of "pirate" internet radio stations too, but of course as and when they become too well known they will be taken "off air".
surely they're not GPL or LGPL because they aren't providing the full source code to your cat (I'd expect a CD with a datafile of their gene map!)... not only that, they're not even providing access to the build tools so you can build your own cat from source.
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how long have you been living where you are, and does that make you a native? If so, I wanna come kill you for your xbox;-)
great news for allergy-suffering biodiesel users
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does this mean when you convert your cat into biodiesel that you won't get allergic reactions to the exhaust fumes?
this would certainly get ME to buy as diesel car as I'm allergic to cats !
All new Vista-compatible Trusted Computing BIOSes that detect OS==Linux get the bomb switch flicked to on!
It's simpler than that, Intel clearly have re-implemented the HCF halt and catch fire machine code instruction!
I think we need to campaign to have a BlueScreenOfDeath machine code instruction - this would allow Vista to be far less bloated since Microsoft wouldn't have to write large code libraries to perform the same task.
I once had (at work) a Dell Inspiron 5000 whose hard drive (IBM travelstar) failed. It had a company maintenance contract on it, Dell utterly REFUSED to take any responsibility for it because it was dual-boot linux and Windows 2000, so I had to lie to them and say it had Windows 98 re-installed off the original disks before they would even talk to me; I then ran their diagnostics floppy (downloaded and installed to floppy via win2k) and it told me "the disk is f***d", at which point they agreed to sent a new drive.
The new drive worked a treat, and never even got Win2k installed on it, but I never told Dell;-)
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I think the problem with modern NiMH or NiCd batteries is that to make them very high energy density they have to sacrifice the thickness of the internal structures, meaning there's a higher possibility of the anode or cathode warping and causing a short, or a chemical breakdown occurring.
They also sometimes screw up their email address info
I have my own domain in.co.uk for which there are some very similar domains in.gov.uk,.ac.uk, and various similar spellings in.co.uk.
I get very fed up with mis-directed emails, and it's quite obvious that many websites don't do any kind of validation before signing people up to mailing lists. The best/worst one recently was from Amazon, and I would have been able to order things using the credit card that someone saved in their account details!!
The best thing to do, if possible, is set their email address to "root@localhost", or "support@" or "postmaster@" if that doesn't work. I used to get pleasure in changing their name to "Complete Loser", so if their username still worked they'd quickly realise someone else had their username/pass... but I got bored of that...
I have an SB Live!Value! card fitted with S/PDIF adaptor from Hoontech; installed in my mp3 jukebox, it works brilliantly with my home cinema system. It took a lot of pain to get the right driver installed which correctly enabled the s/pdif connectors, so I am wondering whether it'd ever work if I upgraded to XP or MCE, I am guessing not, from your comment.
Considering the mind-bogglingly small impact of terrorism
true, but it's all about the way risk is perceived. Yes, more people die in car crashes every month in London than in the bombings, but rather than spend money on improving roads or fixing public transport to reduce car traffic, huge amounts will be spent on "pork" with the gov'ts favourite contractors to create huge IT systems (ID cards, monitoring systems etc).
and so, again, the people we voted in (or got in by default, since voter apathy is rampant, more people vote on Big Brother TV than in Big Brother gov't elections) get to shaft us at our own tax-paid expense!
IMDB user comments suggests that it was the Tangerine Dream soundtrack used only the USA that actually spoiled things, albeit gave it a dramatic ending. However, not having had the chance to compare, I would want to see both and see for myself.
I had some direct experience of spamhaus when I worked for an ISP who once hosted them.
Unlike ORBS and SPEWS, they did care about their reputation, and were responsive as possible - given that they provided a free service and relied on volunteers.
I've heard from people who did get blacklisted that it wasn't too hard.
There's a fairly good chance that many slashdotters benefit indirectly from spamhaus, since most anti-spam systems use a weighting system to identify stuff as spam and will probably look up the sender of an email with spamhaus and use it as part of a "vote" to mark stuff as spam.
We've seen numerous ratings and karma systems set up on a variety of boards and time and time again they've been defeated by people willing to take the time to game them for whatever reason
surely these people who can beat the system are smart enough to make a useful contribution?
if they put all the effort into getting a good reputation, then won't they want to keep it?
rep based systems can work quite well - ebay for instance (although I can tell that a significant number of ebaybuyers don't really think about it too hard).. and here on slashpedia,er,wikidot,er,slashdot - especially if people can tag friends & enemies.
the only movies you can upload are ones where you control the copyright... usually this means you made the movie yourself or paid someone else to do so and they signed over the rights to you.
there's a book called "Join Me", a true very interesting and amusing story of people responding to an anonymous advert. it is surprising how trusting people were, but also it showed there were a relatively small number of nutters around.
The website is at
join me
Yes, the price of ATI included the win of the business, but games consoles are VERY speculative businesses - the product may fall flat or may be huge, so the value of ATI would have included this; however, given the delay in the PS2, it means the xbox360 and wii which contain ATI will get a market lead and so increase the sales.
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... but will they be just as explosive as LiIon batteries? I don't want to accept a cheap substitute that just goes "phut", I want a proper bang and a flash!
A bigger problem is that there's not much convergence with say mp3 players and/or mobile phones and other media players at a reasonable price... no 60GB ipod with DAB radio for example. This is probably explained by reports I've seen which say that only UK and Denmark have a thriving DAB "ecosystem".
I am speculating that there must also be a rise in the number of "pirate" internet radio stations too, but of course as and when they become too well known they will be taken "off air".
Whatever happened to Mercora?
just wait till they breed Kitten Kong
surely they're not GPL or LGPL because they aren't providing the full source code to your cat (I'd expect a CD with a datafile of their gene map!)... not only that, they're not even providing access to the build tools so you can build your own cat from source.
how long have you been living where you are, and does that make you a native? If so, I wanna come kill you for your xbox ;-)
this would certainly get ME to buy as diesel car as I'm allergic to cats !
It's simpler than that, Intel clearly have re-implemented the HCF halt and catch fire machine code instruction!
I think we need to campaign to have a BlueScreenOfDeath machine code instruction - this would allow Vista to be far less bloated since Microsoft wouldn't have to write large code libraries to perform the same task.
I once had (at work) a Dell Inspiron 5000 whose hard drive (IBM travelstar) failed. It had a company maintenance contract on it, Dell utterly REFUSED to take any responsibility for it because it was dual-boot linux and Windows 2000, so I had to lie to them and say it had Windows 98 re-installed off the original disks before they would even talk to me; I then ran their diagnostics floppy (downloaded and installed to floppy via win2k) and it told me "the disk is f***d", at which point they agreed to sent a new drive.
The new drive worked a treat, and never even got Win2k installed on it, but I never told Dell ;-)
I think the problem with modern NiMH or NiCd batteries is that to make them very high energy density they have to sacrifice the thickness of the internal structures, meaning there's a higher possibility of the anode or cathode warping and causing a short, or a chemical breakdown occurring.
I have my own domain in .co.uk for which there are some very similar domains in .gov.uk, .ac.uk, and various similar spellings in .co.uk.
I get very fed up with mis-directed emails, and it's quite obvious that many websites don't do any kind of validation before signing people up to mailing lists. The best/worst one recently was from Amazon, and I would have been able to order things using the credit card that someone saved in their account details!!
The best thing to do, if possible, is set their email address to "root@localhost", or "support@" or "postmaster@" if that doesn't work. I used to get pleasure in changing their name to "Complete Loser", so if their username still worked they'd quickly realise someone else had their username/pass... but I got bored of that...
I have an SB Live!Value! card fitted with S/PDIF adaptor from Hoontech; installed in my mp3 jukebox, it works brilliantly with my home cinema system. It took a lot of pain to get the right driver installed which correctly enabled the s/pdif connectors, so I am wondering whether it'd ever work if I upgraded to XP or MCE, I am guessing not, from your comment.
true, but it's all about the way risk is perceived. Yes, more people die in car crashes every month in London than in the bombings, but rather than spend money on improving roads or fixing public transport to reduce car traffic, huge amounts will be spent on "pork" with the gov'ts favourite contractors to create huge IT systems (ID cards, monitoring systems etc).
and so, again, the people we voted in (or got in by default, since voter apathy is rampant, more people vote on Big Brother TV than in Big Brother gov't elections) get to shaft us at our own tax-paid expense!
IMDB user comments suggests that it was the Tangerine Dream soundtrack used only the USA that actually spoiled things, albeit gave it a dramatic ending. However, not having had the chance to compare, I would want to see both and see for myself.
Unlike ORBS and SPEWS, they did care about their reputation, and were responsive as possible - given that they provided a free service and relied on volunteers.
I've heard from people who did get blacklisted that it wasn't too hard.
There's a fairly good chance that many slashdotters benefit indirectly from spamhaus, since most anti-spam systems use a weighting system to identify stuff as spam and will probably look up the sender of an email with spamhaus and use it as part of a "vote" to mark stuff as spam.
BBC article says no data set for UK/EU/US, but 2nd December for Japan.
surely these people who can beat the system are smart enough to make a useful contribution?
if they put all the effort into getting a good reputation, then won't they want to keep it?
rep based systems can work quite well - ebay for instance (although I can tell that a significant number of ebaybuyers don't really think about it too hard).. and here on slashpedia,er,wikidot,er,slashdot - especially if people can tag friends & enemies.
erm, ok, maybe not :-(
sure you can!
the only movies you can upload are ones where you control the copyright... usually this means you made the movie yourself or paid someone else to do so and they signed over the rights to you.
BENQ?
yup... google for "fractional reserve banking", and then it'll be quickly apparent that diversifying your investments is vital.
see the book at amazon
d'oh, I meant PS3
Yes, the price of ATI included the win of the business, but games consoles are VERY speculative businesses - the product may fall flat or may be huge, so the value of ATI would have included this; however, given the delay in the PS2, it means the xbox360 and wii which contain ATI will get a market lead and so increase the sales.