You don't need an apostrophe when indicating the plural form of a noun. "Tandys" is the correct word. The apostrophe would be used when talking about something belonging to the Tandy, such as "the Tandy's power supply".
So, let get this straight, some people are upset because the "conspiracy" plots are becoming more prevalent. Well, if you watch the show for its entertainmet value, who cares, as long as it's entertaining?
The point is that if we want to watch dramas about government conspiracies, we can go and watch the X-Files. I personally don't like the X-files any more for that very reason, and so to see the same sort of banal shit creep into Stargate is a tiny bit irritating, and makes me think "for fcsk's sake I might aswell switch over to the X-files". Stargate has many of its own quite remarkable merits, it does not need to borrow stuff from other shows.
Ah yes, Win9x is bloody awful. At least Windows 2000 and XP use a different root folder for crap like bookmarks and such like ("Documents and Settings"), which in my case removes 4,000 odd files from the Windows folder.
Why Win98SE? While 2000/XP aren't perfect, they're a darn site better than anything based on Windows 95.
How about getting rid of drive letters in Windows/Dos and having mount points!
I agree. However that's likely to cause the biggest outrage amongst the J. Average Users you've ever seen. "Where's my A: drive, where's my S: drive, where's my Word icon". We've all heard it, and we all know it would happen. You'd basically need to retrain more or less everyone who for the past 20 or so years have always had a C: drive.
42,000 files in/under your Windows folder? Hell, you need to re-install, it's well bloated out with crap that is. I only have 15,500 in mine, and that's a reasonably fresh version of XP (average installation ~2gb for those who don't know)
Those are both 19" Diamond Plus monitors. The one on the right is the DP91 and the one in the centre is the updated DP92 (same tube, different case and better onscreen software).
The LCD on the left is an LG Flatron 575MS and it's wonderful
Well let's try and work this out shall we. These are rough calculations that I did:
Assuming DVD video is 768kbps, that's 96 kbytes per second required for the video. Over a minute that's 5760kb.
Now let's assume that 6 channels of audio are encoded at 160kbps (being generous). That's 20 kbytes per second per channel, giving 120 kbytes per second for all channels, which is 7200 kbytes per minute for audio.
5760kb plus 7200kb is 12,960kb, which is 12.65mb of memory required to store one minute of film with 6 channel audio.
I don't know about you, but I had PCs with 12mb of RAM 6 years ago.
Of course I could have done all that completely wrong. You did mention HD video, and I have no idea what the bitrate on that is but surely it can't be that amazing. I've got 64mb of RAM in my PDA, I'm pretty sure they can get that into a 17" AV unit.
Again, unless some genius figures out how to bring holographic recording to the home, consumer-grade recordable DVDs won't have two layers. This is why their capacity is halved compared to commercial DVDs
I'm very confident that it's only a matter of time before that happens though. Granted it won't be tommorow and it won't be cheap, but it will happen.
I personally have no need for recording devices. As a satellite subscriber anything I want to watch usually comes around once a fortnight on the repeats anyway:)
My DVD collection is also something I'm concentrating on. I never collected VHS, I was always waiting for "the next format", that didn't degrade over time and was a little more convenient than a VHS, and lo and behold we have it, DVD, hurrah.
Yes yes, DVD MPAA DCMA, other abbreviations, are evil, rah rah.
Yes, I too am a little cynical about this. All small-time ISPs in the UK are having a tough time, hell, the large ones are too. While I don't doubt that they were DOS'd, a part of me suspects that it came at just the right time, affording C9 a legimate excuse to close down their operation, in effect they were given someone to blame other than themselves.
I picked up a splendid little PC just before Christmas. It was second hand, and not particularly well specced, but it's absolutely perfect for playing MP3s and DivX movies.
It's a Celeron 400, with 64Mb RAM, 4.3gb disk, 52x CD ROM, onboard VGA (including composite and s-video TV-out), USB, Sound, 100-baseT network; and I picked it up for £89 GBP ($129) second hand. It doesn't have any expansion slots though, so if you're not happy with any of the onboard peripherals you're a bit stuffed.
It's not quite as small as the ones in this article, but it's definately cute, and goes well with all my AV equipment. I'm currently looking for a wireless keyboard and mouse for it.
They don't make this particular model any more of course with that spec, but I do believe they sell a "modern day" equivalent, for about 700 quid, with a TFT screen and a 1Ghz processor or something, I didn't pay much attention to the new one.
Since the.museum TLD is still in its experimental phase, these domains haven't been delegated to their registrants yet, but resolve as CNAME records in the TLD root, pointing at the other domains each site already has.
Thus,.museum addresses can currently only be used as additional addresses for sites that already have some other domain. MX records haven't yet been set up, so email to these domains won't yet work
So when you say ".museum TLDs are live", what exactly does that mean? "Live, unless you want to do anything other than point a CNAME at your website"? That doesn't seem very "live" to me. Another half-arsed botched TLD job. *sigh*.
If you can't make fun of the French and the Welsh, who can you make fun of?
Well quite. There's always the Scots I suppose but it isn't nearly as rewarding.
Of course, the Welsh and the French have deep historic similarities. There's that funny language that's a cross between French and Welsh that they speak in parts of northern France and in areas of Cornwall - "Breton" is it?
Blimey yeah, I was in the States about a month ago and we filled up our Mitsubishi Spyder Eclipse for a tenner. I was foaming at the mouth.
You may remember that we tried to "have a word" with the goverment about that last year. There was a nationwide fuel blockade by the truckers and the nation ran dry within days. But did Tony sit up and listen? Did he fuck. He just brought in emergency legislation to make the protests illegal so he could have the protesters arrested. That's what happens when you protest in Britain. And they call this a democracy;)
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You don't need an apostrophe when indicating the plural form of a noun. "Tandys" is the correct word. The apostrophe would be used when talking about something belonging to the Tandy, such as "the Tandy's power supply".
So, let get this straight, some people are upset because the "conspiracy" plots are becoming more prevalent. Well, if you watch the show for its entertainmet value, who cares, as long as it's entertaining?
The point is that if we want to watch dramas about government conspiracies, we can go and watch the X-Files. I personally don't like the X-files any more for that very reason, and so to see the same sort of banal shit creep into Stargate is a tiny bit irritating, and makes me think "for fcsk's sake I might aswell switch over to the X-files". Stargate has many of its own quite remarkable merits, it does not need to borrow stuff from other shows.
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Ah yes, Win9x is bloody awful. At least Windows 2000 and XP use a different root folder for crap like bookmarks and such like ("Documents and Settings"), which in my case removes 4,000 odd files from the Windows folder.
Why Win98SE? While 2000/XP aren't perfect, they're a darn site better than anything based on Windows 95.
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How about getting rid of drive letters in Windows/Dos and having mount points!
I agree. However that's likely to cause the biggest outrage amongst the J. Average Users you've ever seen. "Where's my A: drive, where's my S: drive, where's my Word icon". We've all heard it, and we all know it would happen. You'd basically need to retrain more or less everyone who for the past 20 or so years have always had a C: drive.
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42,000 files in/under your Windows folder? Hell, you need to re-install, it's well bloated out with crap that is. I only have 15,500 in mine, and that's a reasonably fresh version of XP (average installation ~2gb for those who don't know)
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Hence I said "Of course I could have done all that completely wrong". I invited correction.
I notice you haven't actually been able to give me the correct facts. That speaks volumes. Who needs to get the clue?
Those are both 19" Diamond Plus monitors. The one on the right is the DP91 and the one in the centre is the updated DP92 (same tube, different case and better onscreen software).
The LCD on the left is an LG Flatron 575MS and it's wonderful
Stuii
Well let's try and work this out shall we. These are rough calculations that I did:
Assuming DVD video is 768kbps, that's 96 kbytes per second required for the video. Over a minute that's 5760kb.
Now let's assume that 6 channels of audio are encoded at 160kbps (being generous). That's 20 kbytes per second per channel, giving 120 kbytes per second for all channels, which is 7200 kbytes per minute for audio.
5760kb plus 7200kb is 12,960kb, which is 12.65mb of memory required to store one minute of film with 6 channel audio.
I don't know about you, but I had PCs with 12mb of RAM 6 years ago.
Of course I could have done all that completely wrong. You did mention HD video, and I have no idea what the bitrate on that is but surely it can't be that amazing. I've got 64mb of RAM in my PDA, I'm pretty sure they can get that into a 17" AV unit.
Stuii!
Again, unless some genius figures out how to bring holographic recording to the home, consumer-grade recordable DVDs won't have two layers. This is why their capacity is halved compared to commercial DVDs
I'm very confident that it's only a matter of time before that happens though. Granted it won't be tommorow and it won't be cheap, but it will happen.
I personally have no need for recording devices. As a satellite subscriber anything I want to watch usually comes around once a fortnight on the repeats anyway :)
My DVD collection is also something I'm concentrating on. I never collected VHS, I was always waiting for "the next format", that didn't degrade over time and was a little more convenient than a VHS, and lo and behold we have it, DVD, hurrah.
Yes yes, DVD MPAA DCMA, other abbreviations, are evil, rah rah.
Stuii!
Take two monitors into the office? That's nothing
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PS: I run Windows. Deal.
Fake submissions, not really released. Yah. Comedic value provided for the day.
Yeah, like heaven forbid you should actually verify stories before you put them up ... to suggest such a thing would be pure heresy I'm sure.
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Yes, I too am a little cynical about this. All small-time ISPs in the UK are having a tough time, hell, the large ones are too. While I don't doubt that they were DOS'd, a part of me suspects that it came at just the right time, affording C9 a legimate excuse to close down their operation, in effect they were given someone to blame other than themselves.
Of course, I have no evidence of this. IANAISP.
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It's a Celeron 400, with 64Mb RAM, 4.3gb disk, 52x CD ROM, onboard VGA (including composite and s-video TV-out), USB, Sound, 100-baseT network; and I picked it up for £89 GBP ($129) second hand. It doesn't have any expansion slots though, so if you're not happy with any of the onboard peripherals you're a bit stuffed.
It's not quite as small as the ones in this article, but it's definately cute, and goes well with all my AV equipment. I'm currently looking for a wireless keyboard and mouse for it.
Pictures here: front , rear
They don't make this particular model any more of course with that spec, but I do believe they sell a "modern day" equivalent, for about 700 quid, with a TFT screen and a 1Ghz processor or something, I didn't pay much attention to the new one.
Cute :-)
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So you spend thousands more for a wired wardrobe. Then what happens when it gets dirty or goes out of style?
Style? What sort of a geek are you?!
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Sorry, but do Slashdot authors live on different planets to each other or something?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/06/044420 9&mode=thread
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Since the .museum TLD is still in its experimental phase, these domains haven't been delegated to their registrants yet, but resolve as CNAME records in the TLD root, pointing at the other domains each site already has.
Thus, .museum addresses can currently only be used as additional addresses for sites that already have some other domain. MX records haven't yet been set up, so email to these domains won't yet work
So when you say ".museum TLDs are live", what exactly does that mean? "Live, unless you want to do anything other than point a CNAME at your website"? That doesn't seem very "live" to me. Another half-arsed botched TLD job. *sigh*.
I bet the .museum payment system is "live".
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I lived in Aberystwyth for three years, where the three most popular occupations were drinking, shagging, and committing suicide.
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If you can't make fun of the French and the Welsh, who can you make fun of?
Well quite. There's always the Scots I suppose but it isn't nearly as rewarding.
Of course, the Welsh and the French have deep historic similarities. There's that funny language that's a cross between French and Welsh that they speak in parts of northern France and in areas of Cornwall - "Breton" is it?
Definately some in-breeding going on there
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Here is some information on Rugby for our American viewers. It's basically like your version of "football", except with a number of differences:
There. Now if you could do the same for us every time Thanksgiving/Independance Day/Labour Day comes around, we'd be most awfully grateful.
Bung ho, chaps
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It's still a crap PC in a box that costs a grand.
OH LOOK IT'S A CRAP PC INNA SILVER BOX THAT COSTS A GRAND.
*bargepole*
Make a version of that with a network port on the back instead of the hard disk, and halve the price, and then we'll talk. Not before.
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"big three"? "DBS"?
Yes, I'm a lame Brit. Deal.
So the difference in price between you and us is mainly taxes?!
Aye, 85% of the price of a litre of petrol is tax in one form or another (including VAT, which is the equivalent of sales tax)
[Queen] What the deuce do you keep her around for, then? Oh, right, I guess they need something to fill the tabloids with..
She also makes lots of money out of Americans by letting them wander around Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle ;-)
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Blimey yeah, I was in the States about a month ago and we filled up our Mitsubishi Spyder Eclipse for a tenner. I was foaming at the mouth.
You may remember that we tried to "have a word" with the goverment about that last year. There was a nationwide fuel blockade by the truckers and the nation ran dry within days. But did Tony sit up and listen? Did he fuck. He just brought in emergency legislation to make the protests illegal so he could have the protesters arrested. That's what happens when you protest in Britain. And they call this a democracy ;)
The Queen has no legislative or executive powers.
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