To be fair, why put happily in quotes? why would someone run an illegal copy of a program if it wasn't the program they were happy to use? they'd just pirate (or maybe even buy) the product they were happy with.
I came across the first TV that I've ever seen in the UK that looked like it was built after 1998 that doesn't do NTSC just the other day, I was very surprised, it really is that rare for them not to be fully capable.
Every DVD player I've owned had NTSC/PAL or Auto modes selectable too, though on some content (mostly noticeable on anime) it auto selected incorrectly and the curved edges were noticeably jagged.
It was interesting indeed to see the article on the BSA yesterday, where, though they didn't post their sources, several posters said the BSA takes 3x retail price + $3500 for legal costs for infringements.
stating faster is safer because others are driving like lunatics will only encouraging more to follow suit.
Fact remains that if everyone stuck to the limit, with a little leeway below, but not over, all roads would be a hell of a lot safer.
many will attack this statement because they simply want to be allowed to drive faster, or have the speed limits raised, but even if they were, they'd still probably flaunt the limits wanting to be going quicker than the bulk of traffic, limits on most non urban fast roads were probably set in the knowledge that most will take a 10-15% leway.
British motorways (3 lanes most of the time) the legal limit is 70mph (113kph), most drivers seem to actually spend most of their motorway travel at between 80mph (129kph), and 90mh(145kph) if the road isn't completely packed and it's not uncommon at all to see 100mph (161kph), with the odd 110mph(177kph) lunatic overtaking them if the area is known to not have cameras/
I don't know how that compares to the reality of driving on busy multi lane US roads, but for the most part I've always been told the majority of your traffic crawls.
Where could you ever state that it's unsafe to NOT go faster??? except in the cases where the drivers surrounding you are also going TOO FAST, and thus make an obstacle of you.
Other than for other drivers ploughing into you (which would only happen if they're going too fast), slower would ALWAYS be safer.
Or are you constantly finding yourself chased by gunmen?
A goose is just a lot more expensive than a turkey, and harder to fit in many peoples ovens too.
fantastically good to eat though, and the other posters are right about goose fat based roast potatoes, even if you can feel your heart fall through your belly, still I'd love to try the duck fat roasted ones suggested too...
I disagree with your assumption, when the common man puts his brand new purchased DVD is his brand new DVD player and finds it wont run, takes it back to the store and is told that it's an anti-piracy system that has stopped his legally purchased products from working, then word gets around pretty fast in ALL circles, and no-one wants them any more.
(eg, Sony's Casino Royal not working on Sony's own current off the shelf players)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending them, I'm absolutely livid about the whole thing.
There most certainly were rules broken though, the Data Protection act is very real, and they broke it.
As for the problem, for one thing I'd like to demand new National Insurance Numbers for everyone who's data was lost, and the abolishment of the ID card plan for at least a decade.
That and someone to bang their heads against a copy of TrueCrypt for a few hours.
That's the Sony system for sure, but the Nintendo method of actually just having a shit load of units, selling all of them rapidly anyway, and, you know, actually making some money back on all your r&d and initial production run costs seems to work SO much better for most;)
I'd reserve judgement till you'd personally experienced an 800x600 eInk display really (such as the one Kimble uses), it's considerably different to any LCD/CRT with regards to eyestrain, how your eyes will perceive the resolution.
My post was based on the fact that even should it mention it, it clearly was not with enough impact to have caused even the slightest murmur of a mention from the reviewer, which to me, is not a good demonstration of the effectiveness of the book.
The RIGHT book('s) would be fine, but they should be preaching normalization right from the get go to make damn sure the reader covers it, and is at least aware that if they don't normalize their data they will absolutely suffer. (yes sometimes you need weigh things up as another poster has mentioned, but that's part of it, and you damn well have to know about it in depth to make those judgements effectively)
This review doesn't so much as mention normalization once, so the only conclusion can be the book is utterly rubbish, and the review is merely undeserving product placement on slashdot once again.
Well that's seemed pretty obvious browsing various sites and using various services because....
oo, hang on actually, I was about to say they all seem so slow, oversubscribed, but these days you have to flip a coin to try and decide if a site or service is flooded out, or you're just being crippled by your own ISP.
Either way things really aren't looking too good are they.
Slashdot Mirror
To be fair, why put happily in quotes? why would someone run an illegal copy of a program if it wasn't the program they were happy to use? they'd just pirate (or maybe even buy) the product they were happy with.
unless their access is locked down won't this open them up to a lot of new security vulnerabilities?
;p
like Quicktime seems to be the source of most win32 vulnerabilities at the moment
mod up parent, story seems bunkum.
Good god that's the most horrendously condescending use of an 'insert name' tag I've ever seen.
Excellent, that's what I'd just started browsing to post.
Her position needs her to be impartial on scientific matters, and religion is NOT a scientific matter.
Sounds like she did an excellent job, they only didn't fire her because she could have rightly sued for unfair "creative" dismissal.
I came across the first TV that I've ever seen in the UK that looked like it was built after 1998 that doesn't do NTSC just the other day, I was very surprised, it really is that rare for them not to be fully capable.
Every DVD player I've owned had NTSC/PAL or Auto modes selectable too, though on some content (mostly noticeable on anime) it auto selected incorrectly and the curved edges were noticeably jagged.
It was interesting indeed to see the article on the BSA yesterday, where, though they didn't post their sources, several posters said the BSA takes 3x retail price + $3500 for legal costs for infringements.
That still doesn't counter my main point,
stating faster is safer because others are driving like lunatics will only encouraging more to follow suit.
Fact remains that if everyone stuck to the limit, with a little leeway below, but not over, all roads would be a hell of a lot safer.
many will attack this statement because they simply want to be allowed to drive faster, or have the speed limits raised, but even if they were, they'd still probably flaunt the limits wanting to be going quicker than the bulk of traffic, limits on most non urban fast roads were probably set in the knowledge that most will take a 10-15% leway.
British motorways (3 lanes most of the time) the legal limit is 70mph (113kph), most drivers seem to actually spend most of their motorway travel at between 80mph (129kph), and 90mh(145kph) if the road isn't completely packed and it's not uncommon at all to see 100mph (161kph), with the odd 110mph(177kph) lunatic overtaking them if the area is known to not have cameras/
I don't know how that compares to the reality of driving on busy multi lane US roads, but for the most part I've always been told the majority of your traffic crawls.
Where could you ever state that it's unsafe to NOT go faster??? except in the cases where the drivers surrounding you are also going TOO FAST, and thus make an obstacle of you.
Other than for other drivers ploughing into you (which would only happen if they're going too fast), slower would ALWAYS be safer.
Or are you constantly finding yourself chased by gunmen?
On helicopters?
There are nonlethals on trial at the moment that have similar results to the sick sticks using a special light strobe if I remember correctly.
The joke is of course the increase in perps wearing sunglasses..
Next they'll replace it with "I'm feeling gullible" and make sure it only ever links through to a page that already contains Google ads ;o)
Can't take that long to generate a few thousand points to plot to check distribution of their PRNG.
too used to seeing smallfry here in comparison
A goose is just a lot more expensive than a turkey, and harder to fit in many peoples ovens too.
fantastically good to eat though, and the other posters are right about goose fat based roast potatoes, even if you can feel your heart fall through your belly, still I'd love to try the duck fat roasted ones suggested too...
mmmm, roast spud season is almost upon us. woohoo
I disagree with your assumption, when the common man puts his brand new purchased DVD is his brand new DVD player and finds it wont run, takes it back to the store and is told that it's an anti-piracy system that has stopped his legally purchased products from working, then word gets around pretty fast in ALL circles, and no-one wants them any more.
(eg, Sony's Casino Royal not working on Sony's own current off the shelf players)
Hehe, Yeah, I know, I thought about posting a correction, but was just sitting around waiting for the inevitable.. :)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending them, I'm absolutely livid about the whole thing.
There most certainly were rules broken though, the Data Protection act is very real, and they broke it.
As for the problem, for one thing I'd like to demand new National Insurance Numbers for everyone who's data was lost, and the abolishment of the ID card plan for at least a decade.
That and someone to bang their heads against a copy of TrueCrypt for a few hours.
That's the Sony system for sure, but the Nintendo method of actually just having a shit load of units, selling all of them rapidly anyway, and, you know, actually making some money back on all your r&d and initial production run costs seems to work SO much better for most ;)
I'd reserve judgement till you'd personally experienced an 800x600 eInk display really (such as the one Kimble uses), it's considerably different to any LCD/CRT with regards to eyestrain, how your eyes will perceive the resolution.
My post was based on the fact that even should it mention it, it clearly was not with enough impact to have caused even the slightest murmur of a mention from the reviewer, which to me, is not a good demonstration of the effectiveness of the book.
Database Normalization
The RIGHT book('s) would be fine, but they should be preaching normalization right from the get go to make damn sure the reader covers it, and is at least aware that if they don't normalize their data they will absolutely suffer. (yes sometimes you need weigh things up as another poster has mentioned, but that's part of it, and you damn well have to know about it in depth to make those judgements effectively)
This review doesn't so much as mention normalization once, so the only conclusion can be the book is utterly rubbish, and the review is merely undeserving product placement on slashdot once again.
Actually they've been quite clear that procedure WAS broken
"The chancellor said the civil servant had broken the rules by downloading the data to disc and sending it by unrecorded delivery."
he also stated the information "should never, ever have left the building in which it was stored".
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7104945.stm
don't be daft, they know the rules for secure passwords
it's : Password1
Well that's seemed pretty obvious browsing various sites and using various services because....
oo, hang on actually, I was about to say they all seem so slow, oversubscribed, but these days you have to flip a coin to try and decide if a site or service is flooded out, or you're just being crippled by your own ISP.
Either way things really aren't looking too good are they.