Agreed. Quake II (the game resposible for the loss of 2 years of my life) took quite a bit of flak for the dirty brown look but I loved it. Stroggos was supposed to be a dirty, opressive environment and the color scheme helped captured it perfectly.
The intrusion into Gordon Brown's bank account revealed that he had a massive overdraft and had sold all his family's gold at the bottom of the market. So it wasn't really newsworthy.
You're right in that for most people, the processor speed doesn't matter. Quantity and speed of RAM, HD density and rotation speed and graphics performance have far more influence on how the user perceives the speed of a system. Sadly Intel are still brainwashing people into thinking they need the latest and greatest Core iWhatever for browsing Facebook.
Dell's advertising also used to play heavily on this when they were deeply wedded with Intel. I remember when the 3 GHz P4s first came out. Dell would offer them in systems with 128 MB of RAM and a 20GB 5400 RPM HD coupled with the then dire Intel integrated graphics and people would wonder why the hell their system was so sluggish.
Almost every HD manufacturer has had their ups and downs with their product with regards to relibility but Samsung have always seemed to me to be one of the better ones; even if their performance doesn't quite match their competitors. Seagate went to shit after they acquired Maxtor so I'm hoping that Samsung will rub off on Seagate and not the other way 'round.
Or more specifically European law on freedom of movement for workers and freedom of association. It's the same law that Jean-Marc Bosman used against his football club to get him released from his club when his contract expired.
The problem was, and still is to some extent, that people were blinded by numbers. Televisions would be sold boasting 100 and even 200 vordermans per second (vps), when in reality most people couldn't tell the difference with a 50 vps set. All the time people were being told that high vorderman capability was the future when in reality it was a dead-end technology. I'm not usually an early adopter but when the first vorderman-free TVs came on the market I was first in line.
TV transmissions were moved to Alexandra Palace and continued up until the outbreak of war when there were almost 40,000 TV sets in London. Coverage was fairly widespread so I find it hard to believe that Mr Davis couldn't receive a picture in Dulwich.
I thought Michael Faraday came up with the original gas laboratory burner. Bunsen merely improved on the design. I guess, like the telephone or television, no person can claim to be the sole inventor.
He had the right to a jury trial in crown court but chose to be dealt with by the magistrates. Had he chose a jury trial he would have most likely had a stiffer sentence, so it was a wise choice on his part.
Is there some reason why your bank offers such a poor history of your transactions? It's not like it's hard for them to implement, several years of history for the average customer should be no more than a few hundred KB using decent compression so storage and retrieval shouldn't be an issue.
My bank, Nat West (UK) provides me with 7 years of transactions online which I can easily copy and paste into a spreadsheet. They're obliged to keep 6 years' worth and even if your bank doesn't make them available online, you can demand that they send them to you if you make a request under the Data Protection Act and pay a fee of £10.
The shiny new NetApp appliance that my PHB decided to blow the last of our budget on saves around 30% by using de-dupe, however we could have had 3 times conventional storage for the same cost.
I agree.. Ionospheric research is the most likely explanation. But..
UVB-76 has been broadcasting for 28 years. That's one hell of a long time to do research. It's also survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, a time of great economic turmoil where you'd expect a project like this to be first for the axe. A transmitter like that is not cheap to run or maintain. The transmitter is located in the military district of Moscow. There are two other sites in Russia that are purpose built for Ionosphere research that operate on much higher power, if they have such facilities then why the need for UVB-76?
I'd love to see AM in a smartphone but it's not going to happen, decent MW/LW reception needs a large ferrite rod which would take up a large amount of real estate inside an already cramped case. FM is easy to implement as it uses the headphone lead as the antenna.
What I'm really hoping for is that DRM takes off (no not that DRM). DRM uses the SW bands and in a phone could potentially use the headphone cable as an antenna in the same way as they do for FM.
I work for a PCT and it is the most inefficient and bureaucratic organisation you could possibly imagine. It's running joke that the billions that Labour poured into the NHS would have been better served if they had shovelled the cash into the hospital boilers, in that at least it would have been useful in keeping the patients warm. Even though the disbandment of PCTs puts my livelihood at risk, for the good of the nation and the public purse, they have to go.
You are just recycling the typical Labour fearmongering over the Tories and the NHS. Health spending actually increased in real terms even under Thatcher, but at least you can trust the Tories to ensure that money makes its way to patient care and not into the pockets of the army of middle managers and others in 'non-jobs' that blight the NHS today.
Eh? The SLR was a fine weapon, if anything a slight improvement over the FAL. The only differences were the deletion of full auto (pretty much useless anyway), a folding cocking handle, cut-outs in the breach block and the fact that the thing was built in Imperial measurements.
Squaddies were weeping when they had to give them up for the 1st gen SA80s.
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Agreed. Quake II (the game resposible for the loss of 2 years of my life) took quite a bit of flak for the dirty brown look but I loved it. Stroggos was supposed to be a dirty, opressive environment and the color scheme helped captured it perfectly.
The intrusion into Gordon Brown's bank account revealed that he had a massive overdraft and had sold all his family's gold at the bottom of the market. So it wasn't really newsworthy.
You're right in that for most people, the processor speed doesn't matter. Quantity and speed of RAM, HD density and rotation speed and graphics performance have far more influence on how the user perceives the speed of a system. Sadly Intel are still brainwashing people into thinking they need the latest and greatest Core iWhatever for browsing Facebook.
Dell's advertising also used to play heavily on this when they were deeply wedded with Intel. I remember when the 3 GHz P4s first came out. Dell would offer them in systems with 128 MB of RAM and a 20GB 5400 RPM HD coupled with the then dire Intel integrated graphics and people would wonder why the hell their system was so sluggish.
Ha! Ever since I read about this in the news I've had that song going through my head!
Yep, just got into the game even though I haven't subscribed for over 18 months.. looks like they've activated every account for the next 45 days.
Almost every HD manufacturer has had their ups and downs with their product with regards to relibility but Samsung have always seemed to me to be one of the better ones; even if their performance doesn't quite match their competitors. Seagate went to shit after they acquired Maxtor so I'm hoping that Samsung will rub off on Seagate and not the other way 'round.
Or more specifically European law on freedom of movement for workers and freedom of association. It's the same law that Jean-Marc Bosman used against his football club to get him released from his club when his contract expired.
Hence why they came up with Powershell, which I have to say is rather good, and many Server 2008 tasks demand a basic knowledge of it.
Hell it even has grep (findstr), though sadly it hasn't go a worthy sed substitute.
The problem was, and still is to some extent, that people were blinded by numbers. Televisions would be sold boasting 100 and even 200 vordermans per second (vps), when in reality most people couldn't tell the difference with a 50 vps set. All the time people were being told that high vorderman capability was the future when in reality it was a dead-end technology. I'm not usually an early adopter but when the first vorderman-free TVs came on the market I was first in line.
TV transmissions were moved to Alexandra Palace and continued up until the outbreak of war when there were almost 40,000 TV sets in London. Coverage was fairly widespread so I find it hard to believe that Mr Davis couldn't receive a picture in Dulwich.
That would be the street price. The sub would transport high purity (>90%) coke, by the time it gets to the consumer it's usually around 10-15%.
However the authorities always grossly over-estimate the value of a haul. Looks good for their totals, and helps prosecutors secure higher sentences.
I thought Michael Faraday came up with the original gas laboratory burner. Bunsen merely improved on the design. I guess, like the telephone or television, no person can claim to be the sole inventor.
Right on comrade, we should carry on borrowing and spending and let the next generation pay for it all.
I'm CEO of Neutrality Corp, expect to hear from our lawyers soon.
I totally agree, and I love the fact that Russia just "did it"..
Countries that just "do it" are usually unhindered by democracy.
..explain how to pronounce "PostgreSQL".
Or at least it should.. I don't think I've met two people who say it the same way.
I would not wish ill health on any of those people but Uwe Boll, the man has caused misery for millions of people.
He had the right to a jury trial in crown court but chose to be dealt with by the magistrates. Had he chose a jury trial he would have most likely had a stiffer sentence, so it was a wise choice on his part.
Is there some reason why your bank offers such a poor history of your transactions? It's not like it's hard for them to implement, several years of history for the average customer should be no more than a few hundred KB using decent compression so storage and retrieval shouldn't be an issue.
My bank, Nat West (UK) provides me with 7 years of transactions online which I can easily copy and paste into a spreadsheet. They're obliged to keep 6 years' worth and even if your bank doesn't make them available online, you can demand that they send them to you if you make a request under the Data Protection Act and pay a fee of £10.
The shiny new NetApp appliance that my PHB decided to blow the last of our budget on saves around 30% by using de-dupe, however we could have had 3 times conventional storage for the same cost.
NetApp is neat and all but horribly overpriced.
..can they retire that too? please?
I agree.. Ionospheric research is the most likely explanation. But..
UVB-76 has been broadcasting for 28 years. That's one hell of a long time to do research. It's also survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, a time of great economic turmoil where you'd expect a project like this to be first for the axe. A transmitter like that is not cheap to run or maintain.
The transmitter is located in the military district of Moscow.
There are two other sites in Russia that are purpose built for Ionosphere research that operate on much higher power, if they have such facilities then why the need for UVB-76?
Still lots of food for thought..
I'd love to see AM in a smartphone but it's not going to happen, decent MW/LW reception needs a large ferrite rod which would take up a large amount of real estate inside an already cramped case. FM is easy to implement as it uses the headphone lead as the antenna.
What I'm really hoping for is that DRM takes off (no not that DRM). DRM uses the SW bands and in a phone could potentially use the headphone cable as an antenna in the same way as they do for FM.
I work for a PCT and it is the most inefficient and bureaucratic organisation you could possibly imagine. It's running joke that the billions that Labour poured into the NHS would have been better served if they had shovelled the cash into the hospital boilers, in that at least it would have been useful in keeping the patients warm. Even though the disbandment of PCTs puts my livelihood at risk, for the good of the nation and the public purse, they have to go.
You are just recycling the typical Labour fearmongering over the Tories and the NHS. Health spending actually increased in real terms even under Thatcher, but at least you can trust the Tories to ensure that money makes its way to patient care and not into the pockets of the army of middle managers and others in 'non-jobs' that blight the NHS today.
Now this isn't some cheap British SLR,
Eh? The SLR was a fine weapon, if anything a slight improvement over the FAL. The only differences were the deletion of full auto (pretty much useless anyway), a folding cocking handle, cut-outs in the breach block and the fact that the thing was built in Imperial measurements.
Squaddies were weeping when they had to give them up for the 1st gen SA80s.