I was hoping I'd have Irish citizenship before I'd have to renew my UK passport, however it looks like that's now a bad idea. Even the Lithuanian passport (which I think I can claim), has gone biometric.
Come bust a move where the games are played...
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The Wii Hits the UK
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"Nintendo UK's product manager for home consoles, Rob Lowe..."
Working with Noah's Arcade all those years ago has finally paid off.
The most sensible post I've seen on this discussion. I never do this usually, apologies, but please mod up.
Yes it's true that some more expensive European cars have US-sized engines, but the average size in the UK and indeed the EU is much more sensible. UK road tax for older cars is almost twice as expensive for engines over 1700cc for instance.
I can see how the argument above about highway design and usage is pertinent, however surely having a 1.6l Golf or whatever would get you off a slip road quick enough (or a turbo diesel, but you guys don't really do diesel cars do you).
I know it's oft repeated, however few Americans seem to listen: be thankful you don't drive 5l monsters in the UK...
...when we have a perfectly good tummy to eat our South Park from with the likes of southparkx.net?
South Park seems to be an anomaly with regard to downloading TV shows in that Comedy Central allow us to do it, or they at least turn a blind eye, since Matt and Trey don't have a problem with South Park being distributed on the interweb.
I doubt this extends to DVD rips but I've certainly been able to get a hold of the latest South Park episodes a few hours after they're shown on Comedy Central over the past few seasons (admittedly I sometimes have to put up with a short clip of some crappy music by the encoder's band but it's a small price to pay) and I haven't heard about the sites in question being threatened by the network or the MPAA.
This seems to be a sensible approach as there will be many fans who'll gladly shell out for the DVD box sets when they're released even though they've got a reasonable TV rip.
I apologise for the stupidity of my fellow citizens. I would now like to place a formal request to the United Nations that a detatchment of physicists is sent to the UK immediately before we are reduced to pointing at the moon and burning those who use black magic to make glowing devil orbs and boxes that trap the voices of men. Our resources to combat such ignorance are already being depleted:
...or actually the rest of the world, it's generally neither illegal or impractical to unlock a mobile for use on any network. AFAIK, the only UK networks who still SIM lock their phones are Orange and T-Mobile (and maybe 3, I forget), and you can get most phones unlocked for about a tenner.
I did so recently with an old SonyEricsson from T-Mobile when I discovered that my Orange Windows Mobile powered PDA was useless as a phone.
The mobile market in the US seems a bit peculiar generally.
I would have thought that the Christopher Walken Method would be more along the lines of this:
1) Engage mugger in frighteningly insane stare
2) Calmly tell mugger that it would be a bad idea to steal your iPod as it would result in their eyeballs being extracted and eaten
3) Watch mugger back off, turn round and run away
Walken scares the hell out of me. Half the time I don't think he even acts, it looks more like the director just lets him out of a padded van and shouts action.
However with Orange UK charging £1 a megabyte for data, actually using the thing could be expensive even if you get a driver for it. Admittedly, Orange and other networks in the UK do data bundles but it's still a (very) big chunk of profit for your network, and prohibitively expensive for many users.
I think the submitter makes a good point about name-space collisions. I also have a country music star namesake, and I'm sure we aren't the only ones. Is there some sort of support network for this problem? Or even a government agency that can investigate why this occurs. Talk about identity theft...
Well yes, a studio is going to use HD, however depending on the specs it could be a good portable solution. Also, the reason I mentioned Digidesign was because their purchase of M-Audio has shown that they're getting more serious about the semi-pro/hobby market, which Apple is also in. As for Pro Tools, I wouldn't really agree. Of course some studios use PCs but in my experience it tends to be at the lower end of the market (also, a lot of my firends who produce electronic music use Windows and Cubase). Pretty much any big studio (I mean the likes of Abbey Road, Air, Strongroom) still use Macs with Pro Tools.
Just because the product in question isn't about the new 8 GHz opticore PowerBook, a yawn certainly isn't necessary. In fact, a FireWire interface from Apple would be pretty damn exciting news. Remember that one of Apple's strongest niches is in music production; not only have Macs been the industry standard platform for pro audio for years, Apple of course now own Logic. A FireWire audio interface would be a smart move, especially since Digidesign's recent purchase of M-Audio.
I've seen google.co.uk show results with the new layout a few times. I thought, "Huh, they've changed the layout" and wondered why it changed back on my next search. Presumably they've been testing it, but I would have thought more/. people would have noticed. Or maybe I'm just special.
A good post. Slightly different from the Japanese situation in that the UK has already ordered, and is partly building a few hundred Eurofighter Typhoons, but I asssume these are are for a different role than the JSF. I didn't see much in the article about the US trying to withhold the code so, as has been mentioned, it seems like posturing.
This may be over simplifying things a little, but this post reminds me a little of Americans complaining about gasolene prices (which are less than half as much as the UK IIRC).
I think that anyone in the UK who could get your talk plan would be pretty happy. 10 cents a text? That's half of the UK average price, and you get as many free calls as you want which is unheard of here (unless it's to landlines, and usually off peak).
Since Europeans tend to send more text messages, most people do have some included in their monthly tariff but I get the feeling that most of my fellow countrymen would react to your post as if you had written this:
Wealth has little to do with it -- In the US, at least in my area, most carriers charge a dollar per litre of gas!
It was also the first browser that could run natively in OS X as far as I remember. When I was working for a web design company in 2000/2001, IE5 for Mac was actually the easiest browser to develop for; Netscape 4 was a nightmare, and I won't even get into IE 4.5. I used IE5 on OS X for a long time and, although it's a dinosaur now (in fact the CSS support on this puppy is probably better), it's another example of the quality of Microsoft's Mac software in comparison to its Windows equivalents. I probably fall into the Apple fanboy catagory but I've used Mac Office often and I've even taken a liking to Windows Mobile. It's not all bad.
Fair Use is very subjective and usually not enshrined in law unless it's for comment or parody, so showing part of the lyrics still has the potential for litigation. To be honest, lyrics sites do publish copyrighted material without permission so technically they're fair game. However I don't believe that this next round of lawsuits will do the image of the MPA, or the music industry in general any favours, and I agree with most of the posters so far in that it's a bit ridiculous. Again, it's interesting to see that this is the American MPA kicking things off; I wonder if the UK body will do the same?
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...or just "Soft"
Boise State stumbles across the Fatal Stupidity Gene while analysing the DNA of this couple.
I was hoping I'd have Irish citizenship before I'd have to renew my UK passport, however it looks like that's now a bad idea. Even the Lithuanian passport (which I think I can claim), has gone biometric.
Working with Noah's Arcade all those years ago has finally paid off.
I can see how the argument above about highway design and usage is pertinent, however surely having a 1.6l Golf or whatever would get you off a slip road quick enough (or a turbo diesel, but you guys don't really do diesel cars do you).
I know it's oft repeated, however few Americans seem to listen: be thankful you don't drive 5l monsters in the UK...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6160877.stm
...when we have a perfectly good tummy to eat our South Park from with the likes of southparkx.net? South Park seems to be an anomaly with regard to downloading TV shows in that Comedy Central allow us to do it, or they at least turn a blind eye, since Matt and Trey don't have a problem with South Park being distributed on the interweb.
I doubt this extends to DVD rips but I've certainly been able to get a hold of the latest South Park episodes a few hours after they're shown on Comedy Central over the past few seasons (admittedly I sometimes have to put up with a short clip of some crappy music by the encoder's band but it's a small price to pay) and I haven't heard about the sites in question being threatened by the network or the MPAA.
This seems to be a sensible approach as there will be many fans who'll gladly shell out for the DVD box sets when they're released even though they've got a reasonable TV rip.
I apologise for the stupidity of my fellow citizens. I would now like to place a formal request to the United Nations that a detatchment of physicists is sent to the UK immediately before we are reduced to pointing at the moon and burning those who use black magic to make glowing devil orbs and boxes that trap the voices of men. Our resources to combat such ignorance are already being depleted:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5399346.stm
Oh dear, here come the torches and pitchforks...
...or actually the rest of the world, it's generally neither illegal or impractical to unlock a mobile for use on any network. AFAIK, the only UK networks who still SIM lock their phones are Orange and T-Mobile (and maybe 3, I forget), and you can get most phones unlocked for about a tenner.
I did so recently with an old SonyEricsson from T-Mobile when I discovered that my Orange Windows Mobile powered PDA was useless as a phone.
The mobile market in the US seems a bit peculiar generally.
Yeah, how's Tim going to get a girl if he doesn't have any skills?
I would have thought that the Christopher Walken Method would be more along the lines of this:
1) Engage mugger in frighteningly insane stare
2) Calmly tell mugger that it would be a bad idea to steal your iPod as it would result in their eyeballs being extracted and eaten
3) Watch mugger back off, turn round and run away
Walken scares the hell out of me. Half the time I don't think he even acts, it looks more like the director just lets him out of a padded van and shouts action.
Very little as far as I'm concerned. And by the way, England != UK.
However with Orange UK charging £1 a megabyte for data, actually using the thing could be expensive even if you get a driver for it. Admittedly, Orange and other networks in the UK do data bundles but it's still a (very) big chunk of profit for your network, and prohibitively expensive for many users.
Actually, you didn't quite get it straight. I don't get any fan mail from said namesake, my post was intended to be a larf.
I think the submitter makes a good point about name-space collisions. I also have a country music star namesake, and I'm sure we aren't the only ones. Is there some sort of support network for this problem? Or even a government agency that can investigate why this occurs. Talk about identity theft...
Well yes, a studio is going to use HD, however depending on the specs it could be a good portable solution. Also, the reason I mentioned Digidesign was because their purchase of M-Audio has shown that they're getting more serious about the semi-pro/hobby market, which Apple is also in. As for Pro Tools, I wouldn't really agree. Of course some studios use PCs but in my experience it tends to be at the lower end of the market (also, a lot of my firends who produce electronic music use Windows and Cubase). Pretty much any big studio (I mean the likes of Abbey Road, Air, Strongroom) still use Macs with Pro Tools.
Just because the product in question isn't about the new 8 GHz opticore PowerBook, a yawn certainly isn't necessary. In fact, a FireWire interface from Apple would be pretty damn exciting news. Remember that one of Apple's strongest niches is in music production; not only have Macs been the industry standard platform for pro audio for years, Apple of course now own Logic. A FireWire audio interface would be a smart move, especially since Digidesign's recent purchase of M-Audio.
I've seen google.co.uk show results with the new layout a few times. I thought, "Huh, they've changed the layout" and wondered why it changed back on my next search. Presumably they've been testing it, but I would have thought more /. people would have noticed. Or maybe I'm just special.
A good post. Slightly different from the Japanese situation in that the UK has already ordered, and is partly building a few hundred Eurofighter Typhoons, but I asssume these are are for a different role than the JSF. I didn't see much in the article about the US trying to withhold the code so, as has been mentioned, it seems like posturing.
One thing though. England != UK.
This may be over simplifying things a little, but this post reminds me a little of Americans complaining about gasolene prices (which are less than half as much as the UK IIRC).
I think that anyone in the UK who could get your talk plan would be pretty happy. 10 cents a text? That's half of the UK average price, and you get as many free calls as you want which is unheard of here (unless it's to landlines, and usually off peak).
Since Europeans tend to send more text messages, most people do have some included in their monthly tariff but I get the feeling that most of my fellow countrymen would react to your post as if you had written this:
Wealth has little to do with it -- In the US, at least in my area, most carriers charge a dollar per litre of gas!
How does it differ from "false digital-delivery" (if there is such a thing)?
I think my friend's headphones have that. We were chuckling about the big label on them that read "DIGITAL"
But aren't the two coldest places on earth Cambridge and Russia? (Sorry just watched Cambridge Spies again)
It was also the first browser that could run natively in OS X as far as I remember. When I was working for a web design company in 2000/2001, IE5 for Mac was actually the easiest browser to develop for; Netscape 4 was a nightmare, and I won't even get into IE 4.5. I used IE5 on OS X for a long time and, although it's a dinosaur now (in fact the CSS support on this puppy is probably better), it's another example of the quality of Microsoft's Mac software in comparison to its Windows equivalents. I probably fall into the Apple fanboy catagory but I've used Mac Office often and I've even taken a liking to Windows Mobile. It's not all bad.
Bit more wang going on in this one though. Even so, it's not all that in your face.
Fair Use is very subjective and usually not enshrined in law unless it's for comment or parody, so showing part of the lyrics still has the potential for litigation. To be honest, lyrics sites do publish copyrighted material without permission so technically they're fair game. However I don't believe that this next round of lawsuits will do the image of the MPA, or the music industry in general any favours, and I agree with most of the posters so far in that it's a bit ridiculous. Again, it's interesting to see that this is the American MPA kicking things off; I wonder if the UK body will do the same?