Meh, for all the revenue they are losing, I bet they have not ceased spending millions on advertising and consultants and management bonuses. Also, do you think this downtime is being used to thoroughly clean and service the aircraft?
We are forbidden to burn rubbish in our gardens in case the ash destroys the ozone layer or whatever. Anybody have any stats as to the eco-damage those pesky icelanders are doing with their volcano?
Good point. You could have a checkbox marked 'enable Adobe Flash support at the expense of system stability' ( or whatever the poncy Apple equivalent of the checkbox is ).
...If I cant get the torrent of 'The City Slicker', I will have to buy a bootleg dvd and the bootlegger will give that £3 straight to The Terrorists, or I will have to buy it from a RIAA member for £12 and the RIAA member will spend the £12 on cocaine and whores and lawyers, and the lawyers will spend their cut on whores and cocaine and The Terrorists end up with the £12. Torrenting is the only way to get films without funding The Terrorists.
I would think that stupid laws encourage drivers to have no respect for the law. A local straight bit of road (no side roads, no pedestrians, 50 yards of mown grass each side of the road) used to be safe at unlimited speed in the nineteen fifties with crappy drum brakes and no power steering, then it was safe up to 70mph in the nineteen seventies with disk brakes but now it is only safe at up to 40mph when a significant portion of vehicles have anti-lock brakes. I fully expect to see 10mph limits in my lifetime (for peasants of course, cops and ruling class can exceed speed limits now and in the future).
Why does the speed limit not vary dependent on conditions? 20mph outside a school is sensible when kids are around but annoying during school holidays.
Duh, put it in the contract. Don't sell _exclusive_ broadcasting rights of something you still broadcast yourself. Next intractable legal conundrum, please.
Yes. It would definitely be cooler to ride the balloon up and parachute down. Much cooler. Actually, I wonder what it would cost to ride a hot air balloon to high altitude and parachute back? Like 50,000 ft or so? I am thinking of a pilot and passenger, so the balloon is flown down and re-used. Hmm, how would the free-fall times compare? Where's me slide rule?
Heh, I think I save money by dividing tasks across many old ( other people's cast-off ) computers hanging off a lan ( cast-off 100/10 switch, second-hand cat5 cable ). I can do mail and web stuff from all, only needing to go to a particular machine for high performance cutting edge stuff like doom 3. I find that any old heap >600MHz plugged into my tv suffices for video playback of divx or mpeg2 at the 800x600 the crt supports. Maybe this new thing is not for old dinosaurs:-)
If PCs are expensive and unreliable, how can a server be about the same price? Wouldn't it be easier to solve the problem by ordering a server but using it as a desktop?
Most computers have tv-out, newer tvs have vga or dvi or hdmi inputs, why do i need another gadget to go between the two? And what about the starving hollywood executives? This looks like a way of intercepting the precious bluray pixels and selling them to support terrorism!! OMG!!
Most computers have tv-out, newer tvs have vga or dvi or hdmi inputs, why do i need another gadget to go between the two? And what about the starving hollywood executives? This looks like a way of intercepting the precious bluray pixels and selling them to support terrorism!! OMG!!!
What makes you think Mr Roadkill is unmotivated and uneducated? He might be highly motivated to work where he has freedom from micromanaging bosses looking over his shoulder. As for uneducated, you have no idea what his educational achievements are.
You used 'lose' instead of 'loose' when the correct word is 'lose'. Is the interweb broken? Next we will see someone in a car analogy slowing the vehicle by applying the 'brakes'.
Oh FFS! We are in a global war on terror, and those crazy Spaniards pull something like this? It is Thursday morning here in Europe, by Monday all of Spain's society will have collapsed and we will have another Iraq, right on our doorstep. Tuesday, tops.
Do you mean safely as in 'at a speed decided upon by a faceless committee by a process that is secret and based upon data that are also secret'? Gotta respect those speed limits.
So, assuming that Flash video is H.264 AVC, we are trading the huge pain in the ass of Flash players for 75% less 'buffering' time that could be spent looking at another tab? Neat! Personally, I would prefer software that downloaded the film clip, checked it was all there and then let me play it backwards, forwards and pause as I please without hanging the browser or rebuffering the whole thing again. But this is probably just crazy talk.
Could someone please tell me what the point of Flash video(or html 5 video) is? I can watch mpeg2 films on clonky old hardware (remember multimedia PCs?) that won't play Flash, so is it just that flv is a smaller filesize? If so, how much smaller? Is it that flv renderers scale better than mpeg2?
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Meh, for all the revenue they are losing, I bet they have not ceased spending millions on advertising and consultants and management bonuses. Also, do you think this downtime is being used to thoroughly clean and service the aircraft?
We are forbidden to burn rubbish in our gardens in case the ash destroys the ozone layer or whatever. Anybody have any stats as to the eco-damage those pesky icelanders are doing with their volcano?
Good point. You could have a checkbox marked 'enable Adobe Flash support at the expense of system stability' ( or whatever the poncy Apple equivalent of the checkbox is ).
I want to ban kids in cars. Not just juveniles, but those damned kids under 50 who can't drive properly.
...If I cant get the torrent of 'The City Slicker', I will have to buy a bootleg dvd and the bootlegger will give that £3 straight to The Terrorists, or I will have to buy it from a RIAA member for £12 and the RIAA member will spend the £12 on cocaine and whores and lawyers, and the lawyers will spend their cut on whores and cocaine and The Terrorists end up with the £12.
Torrenting is the only way to get films without funding The Terrorists.
I would think that stupid laws encourage drivers to have no respect for the law. A local straight bit of road (no side roads, no pedestrians, 50 yards of mown grass each side of the road) used to be safe at unlimited speed in the nineteen fifties with crappy drum brakes and no power steering, then it was safe up to 70mph in the nineteen seventies with disk brakes but now it is only safe at up to 40mph when a significant portion of vehicles have anti-lock brakes. I fully expect to see 10mph limits in my lifetime (for peasants of course, cops and ruling class can exceed speed limits now and in the future).
Why does the speed limit not vary dependent on conditions? 20mph outside a school is sensible when kids are around but annoying during school holidays.
Duh, put it in the contract. Don't sell _exclusive_ broadcasting rights of something you still broadcast yourself. Next intractable legal conundrum, please.
Yes. It would definitely be cooler to ride the balloon up and parachute down. Much cooler.
Actually, I wonder what it would cost to ride a hot air balloon to high altitude and parachute back? Like 50,000 ft or so? I am thinking of a pilot and passenger, so the balloon is flown down and re-used. Hmm, how would the free-fall times compare? Where's me slide rule?
If branson is devoting the same focus and resources to virgin galactic as he has to my broadband, take your own pressure suit and parachute.
Heh, I think I save money by dividing tasks across many old ( other people's cast-off ) computers hanging off a lan ( cast-off 100/10 switch, second-hand cat5 cable ). I can do mail and web stuff from all, only needing to go to a particular machine for high performance cutting edge stuff like doom 3. I find that any old heap >600MHz plugged into my tv suffices for video playback of divx or mpeg2 at the 800x600 the crt supports. Maybe this new thing is not for old dinosaurs :-)
If PCs are expensive and unreliable, how can a server be about the same price? Wouldn't it be easier to solve the problem by ordering a server but using it as a desktop?
Most computers have tv-out, newer tvs have vga or dvi or hdmi inputs, why do i need another gadget to go between the two? And what about the starving hollywood executives? This looks like a way of intercepting the precious bluray pixels and selling them to support terrorism!! OMG!!
Most computers have tv-out, newer tvs have vga or dvi or hdmi inputs, why do i need another gadget to go between the two? And what about the starving hollywood executives? This looks like a way of intercepting the precious bluray pixels and selling them to support terrorism!! OMG!!!
Pfft! Don't worry, they will find a way of padding the forms to 250Mb.
What makes you think Mr Roadkill is unmotivated and uneducated? He might be highly motivated to work where he has freedom from micromanaging bosses looking over his shoulder. As for uneducated, you have no idea what his educational achievements are.
So the prog rock CDs i buy are expensive because of all the saturation advertising and airplay?
You used 'lose' instead of 'loose' when the correct word is 'lose'. Is the interweb broken? Next we will see someone in a car analogy slowing the vehicle by applying the 'brakes'.
They think it 'could have' significant implications?
Surely they mean it definitely has significant implications and also hasn't?
Is this in violation of the Repo Man's code?
Oh FFS! We are in a global war on terror, and those crazy Spaniards pull something like this? It is Thursday morning here in Europe, by Monday all of Spain's society will have collapsed and we will have another Iraq, right on our doorstep. Tuesday, tops.
Does this mean I should take a sip of tea every time the regenerative brakes are used? These electric cars are much more trouble than anticipated.
Do you mean safely as in 'at a speed decided upon by a faceless committee by a process that is secret and based upon data that are also secret'?
Gotta respect those speed limits.
Could some clever clogs please calculate the possibility of 24 tonnes of fuel being enough to move the shuttle from its usual LEO to a polar LEO?
So, assuming that Flash video is H.264 AVC, we are trading the huge pain in the ass of Flash players for 75% less 'buffering' time that could be spent looking at another tab?
Neat!
Personally, I would prefer software that downloaded the film clip, checked it was all there and then let me play it backwards, forwards and pause as I please without hanging the browser or rebuffering the whole thing again. But this is probably just crazy talk.
Could someone please tell me what the point of Flash video(or html 5 video) is? I can watch mpeg2 films on clonky old hardware (remember multimedia PCs?) that won't play Flash, so is it just that flv is a smaller filesize? If so, how much smaller? Is it that flv renderers scale better than mpeg2?