The UK also has the same problem with the rule of law. They get the US spy base at Menwith Hill to do their dirty work in a similar way.
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I thought that Japanese sports cars were falsely restricted because of their export regulations?
A friend of my Grandfather has a Skyline which can be chipped for an extra 100hp. This is because they are intentionally derated to allow them to be exported.
In the UK Family Guy is shown during the day. This means it is heavily edited to make it suitable for showing at this time. Scenes end abruptly and jokes have important bits missing, making the episodes seems less coherent.
That's why I bought the DVD's. The episodes make much more sense (comparatively speaking) without huge chunks missing.
Indeed. I find it hard to believe that there is no-one capable of machining a car part.
The machinist we use at work to make our metalwork will make you anything that can be machined. It might be expensive, but it's eminently possible.
The problem with this system is that not only is it more expensive than rental, it isn't even that much more convenient. For me, the hassle of renting a DVD isn't taking it back as I can do that on the way to work. Actually driving to blockbuster is a pain in the arse though.
Pay per view is much more convenient. In the UK PPV is under $5, and I don't even have to get of the sofa. Now that's convenience.
CD-WOW are a small company and probably can't afford to defencd against these lawsuits.
The BPI are threatening to go after Play and Amazon next. It'll be interesting to see whether they win so easily against bigger companies who can afford lawyers.
I'll be particularly gutted if Play are forced to raise their prices. I buy all my DVDs from there.
Just use me@privacy.net for your email address when posting to newsgroups.
If you want other readers to be able to email you, put an obsfucated address in your signature.
You're quite right. Take a look on amazon.co.uk and you'll see that the first 2 items advertised right at the top of the page are multi-reqion DVD players.
On amazon.com there is no mention of whether a DVD player is multi-region or not.
Companies that are confident with computers are the most likely to use old kit.
At my company we only recently updated our server from a P100 to a 400Mhz K6-2. It serves 10 machines and runs RH7. We have even older stuff including a 486SX which is fine for the hardware monitoring software it runs.
There are lots of spurious references to 9/11 about. The UK satirical magazine 'Private Eye' even has a column about it called 'warballs'.
Here's an example: The tragedy of 11 September has paradoxically led to a boom in the caravan industry, but has this benefited the consumer? -- Caravan Club Magazine.
Some years ago we bought some MIL1553 chips which had been labelled with a laser.
They were all recalled because someone had installed a network card on the Windows machine. The network card driver interrupted the laser writing process long enough for the laser to burn through the package.
Indeed there are a lot of different standards. J1939 is even subdivided into several different sub-protocols. The heavy vehicle stuff (also used by the military) is J1939/71. There are also different versions for factory automation and agricultural vehicles. What's really needed is a CAN type standard (either new or an extension of a current one) to allow standard parts to be hung on a car's bus and used by all manufacturers.
I'm not sure if a fixed OS structure will be particuarly helpful. Different controllers in a car have different requirements. An engine controller is likely to be use a microcontroller rather than a processor which may well be completely incompatible.
The quantities involved mean that throwing in some more RAM is not acceptable. You can save enormous amounts of money by making something run with minimal resources. Consider that something like an MPC56x which is used for many engine controllers. If you can have your software running using just the 32k of onboard RAM you could save many million of dollars. Smaller items such as light clusters or airbags can have 128 bytes of memory and 1K of flash. A fixed OS structure is not going to help here.
I think Cygwin is vitally important for a home system. Consider what my wife uses our home machine for:
1. Sending email. 2. Web browsing. 3. Word processing. 4. Spreadsheets. 5. Building and using a Windows (Cygwin) hosted cross-compiler for an embedded powerpc target processor.
One feature that has made a significant difference to my company is file size.
We have a number of current projects, all with their own suite of documentation. All these documents are under version control, resulting in large databases of changes.
One of my colleagues works from home on dial-up. Enormous file sizes obviously cause him problems. The open office files are 10 times smaller than the Word 97 documents they replaced.
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All the lead is in the monitor glass.
The amount of lead in a base unit is limited to solder and tiny amounts within the ICs.
Indeed.
The UK also has the same problem with the rule of law. They get the US spy base at Menwith Hill to do their dirty work in a similar way.
I thought that Japanese sports cars were falsely restricted because of their export regulations?
A friend of my Grandfather has a Skyline which can be chipped for an extra 100hp. This is because they are intentionally derated to allow them to be exported.
By way of comparison, Seti@Home managed 64 Teraflops over the last 24 hours.
I have to disagree.
In the UK Family Guy is shown during the day.
This means it is heavily edited to make it suitable for showing at this time. Scenes end abruptly and jokes have important bits missing, making the episodes seems less coherent.
That's why I bought the DVD's. The episodes make much more sense (comparatively speaking) without huge chunks missing.
Indeed. I find it hard to believe that there is no-one capable of machining a car part.
The machinist we use at work to make our metalwork will make you anything that can be machined. It might be expensive, but it's eminently possible.
Spike is a good character. It's just a shame he talks like Dick Van Dyke.
The problem with this system is that not only is it more expensive than rental, it isn't even that much more convenient.
For me, the hassle of renting a DVD isn't taking it back as I can do that on the way to work.
Actually driving to blockbuster is a pain in the arse though.
Pay per view is much more convenient.
In the UK PPV is under $5, and I don't even have to get of the sofa. Now that's convenience.
The BPI are threatening to go after Play and Amazon next. It'll be interesting to see whether they win so easily against bigger companies who can afford lawyers.
I'll be particularly gutted if Play are forced to raise their prices. I buy all my DVDs from there.
Quite correct. In fact the most efficient diesel in the world is 50% efficient, allthough it is rather large.
Just use me@privacy.net for your email address when posting to newsgroups.
If you want other readers to be able to email you, put an obsfucated address in your signature.
On amazon.com there is no mention of whether a DVD player is multi-region or not.
At my company we only recently updated our server from a P100 to a 400Mhz K6-2. It serves 10 machines and runs RH7. We have even older stuff including a 486SX which is fine for the hardware monitoring software it runs.
Mozilla already has this functionality. If you click a link that only opens a popup it works as expected, my bank's webpage does this.
I receive over 100 spams a day.
A combination of Spamassassin and POPfile means that only 1 spam a day gets through.
The ads are random. I got a load of whoosing intel ads.
That's not strictly true. My bank once gave me over $1500 by mistake. It took them over six months to notice.
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The UK satirical magazine 'Private Eye' even has a column about it called 'warballs'.
Here's an example:
The tragedy of 11 September has paradoxically led to a boom in the caravan industry, but has this benefited the consumer? -- Caravan Club Magazine.
The UK has been a member of the European Union since 1973.
Recent arguments are with regard to the single European Currency and the forthcoming European constitution, not EU membership.
That would certainly worry me.
Some years ago we bought some MIL1553 chips which had been labelled with a laser.
They were all recalled because someone had installed a network card on the Windows machine. The network card driver interrupted the laser writing process long enough for the laser to burn through the package.
Indeed there are a lot of different standards.
J1939 is even subdivided into several different sub-protocols. The heavy vehicle stuff (also used by the military) is J1939/71. There are also different versions for factory automation and agricultural vehicles. What's really needed is a CAN type standard (either new or an extension of a current one) to allow standard parts to be hung on a car's bus and used by all manufacturers.
I'm not sure if a fixed OS structure will be particuarly helpful. Different controllers in a car have different requirements. An engine controller is likely to be use a microcontroller rather than a processor which may well be completely incompatible.
The quantities involved mean that throwing in some more RAM is not acceptable. You can save enormous amounts of money by making something run with minimal resources. Consider that something like an MPC56x which is used for many engine controllers. If you can have your software running using just the 32k of onboard RAM you could save many million of dollars. Smaller items such as light clusters or airbags can have 128 bytes of memory and 1K of flash. A fixed OS structure is not going to help here.
I think Cygwin is vitally important for a home system. Consider what my wife uses our home machine for:
1. Sending email.
2. Web browsing.
3. Word processing.
4. Spreadsheets.
5. Building and using a Windows (Cygwin) hosted cross-compiler for an embedded powerpc target processor.
One feature that has made a significant difference to my company is file size.
We have a number of current projects, all with their own suite of documentation. All these documents are under version control, resulting in large databases of changes.
One of my colleagues works from home on dial-up. Enormous file sizes obviously cause him problems. The open office files are 10 times smaller than the Word 97 documents they replaced.