he does seem to dip the electrode assembly in several pots after manufacture. I can't read what it says on the pots though as it's in french.
As for right metal/right glass I presume that is just a matter of buying the right materials.
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yeah because solid state components that can handle the power and frequency involved in a big radio transmitter are even more expensive than vacuum tubes that can.
Of course, when you use utility computing and your network connection goes down, you're screwed. Likewise when the power goes down you're screwed - it's really no different (actually losing power is worse). So there might be backup systems for some corporations IMO The points of using a generator are 1: it is easy to switch over to backup pool 2: A large proportion of the costs of running a local generator are pretty much proportional to the ammount of hours you run it for. 3: The cost per KWH of using generators is far higher than that of using utility power.
The result is it makes more financial sense to have utlity power and a backup generator than to have a constantly running generator in most cases.
In IT things are quite different. Power costs the same regardless of whether the server is local or remote. Data is king so if you want to be able to switch over to backup after the internet connection goes out your local servers will be having to constantly mirror all data saved to the remote database. By putting high availibilty servers remotely and having local backup servers you are just duplicating functionality for no good reason.
What is IMO a more sensible idea is servers hosted locally but managed and backed up remotely. That way you lose most of the IT staff while keeping the actual servers on site. Quality of support is still an issue though.
That use of the term "UK" really means "England" We have a somewhat weired system of partial devoloution in the UK where there is a british parliment and then the scotish parliment (not sure what ireland has if anything) and welsh assembly which make some descisions independently.
The result is that for example english people have no say in say university fees in scotland but scottish people do have a say in such issues for england.
I think that depends on your setup, if you have a projecter or a massive TV or you sit very close to your TV and you have good eyesight the difference may be significant. If you watch a normal sized TV from the other side of a normal sized lounge you are far less likely to.
The region codes for blu-ray seem rather weired to me. They don't seem to line up with either political boundries (they split china in half!). geographical boundries (why is a small corner of aisa in the american region rather than the asian one) or financial boundries (they grouped europe with africa!).
I wonder what critera were used to set those boundries.
minidisc wasn't too successfull int the american or british consumer because they were quite expensive and there was little prerecorded music on the format. SCMS probablly didn't help much either
In the proffesional and semi proffesional market market though they were very popular because of easy editing and small size. SCMS was annoying but those at the lower end of the market probablly just used analog copying (which was still WAY better than tape to tape copying) and those at the higher end of the market had proffesional decks that did not enforce SCMS.
Pick up a BR player in 6-12 months for $200 and you're golden. BTW do theese players tend to have HDMI passthroughs (in the same way that most modern equipment at least here in europe has scart passthroughs)?
A lot of smaller/cheaper TVs only have one HDMI port so it could become a bit of a pain if the players don't have passthroughs.
A network capable hearts was shipping with windows for workgroups quite some time before that.
it's annoying that the version in XP is crippled to not have network support and running an older version on XP doesn't seem to work for network games either though:(
I run Vista 64, because XP64 has no printer drivers for my printer (s9000). I blame Canon. Canon wrote one for Vista64, but not XP64. Did you try installing the driver they marketed for vista64 on xp64?
that article on some random wiki is pretty vauge in many ways, has several 64 bit specific entries (yes backwards compatibility of the 64 bit editions of windows isn't great but that isn't a vista specific issue) and seems to list even things that have since been patched.
but generally I agree using vista right now is a pain for little real benifit but I don't see any fundamental problems that will stop it slowly replacing XP just as XP slowly replaced 2K.
I'm sorry, apps that never followed the windows spec will fail. This is a GOOD THING. Apps that spend the hour it takes to follow the spec, well, they work. Would MS have said you were noncompliant if you checked membership of the admistrators group to check for admin privilages? IIRC UAC breaks that.
anyway whoevers fault it is that things broke the fact remain that they did. That combined with the general lower performance is not worth the new features for most users right now. IMO an operating systems job is to multitask applications and provide a vendor neutral interface between applications and hardware and to do that as fast and reliablly as possible.
Some games are good on consoles but there are some genres that the console setup just doesn't fit with well. The biggies are the UT style FPS which requires very fast accurate aiming and the RTS game which requires a well controlled pointer (both of which practically require a mouse). A few console games support keyboards and mice but most don't and when they do afacit there is often no option to customise the controls.
Also afaict consoles tend to miss out on all the mods and usermade maps that PC games get.
What does it mean, Apple's become too powerful With itunes it is (or at least was until recently) apples way or the highway, apple knew they could get away with that because apple are the only way to sell DRM'd music to iPod users and at the time the music industry were rabidly agains the idea of non drm online sales.
The music buisness would love to be able to vary the price per song depending on what the song is and to be able to squeeze the online retailers margins down. They can only do that if there is meaningfull competition in the online music retail buisness and the only way to create meaningfull competition in that buisness is to allow sales without DRM. Slowly the big record companies are coming round to the point of view that competition in the online music retail marketplace is more important to them than DRM.
1/l and 0/o (domain names are generally shown in lowercase at least in browsers) look fairly different in most fonts (the main difference between 1 and l is not so much the shape of the character as the different spacing.
Unlike say a and it's crylic equivilent which look pixel for pixel identical in many common fonts.
It's great that nations can use their own languages instead of being forced to use alien Latin-English characters. It may seem great but the internet is supposed to be a worldwide network.
How will a chineese person type the email address of thier russian friend and vice-versa?
How will you report spam when the abuse addresses are in an alphabet you don't recognise?
How will you write down the address for a friend of a helpfull page that just happens to be on a russian site?
For better or worse the basic form of the latin alphabet is the one thing that can be easilly typed by most computer users worldwide.
But each participant has a set of secret keys, and they don't have to be shared. The bottom line is that to view the content your player has to decrypt it, to decrypt it your player needs a key that will decrypt all content your player is supposed to be able to play.
So every manufacture of player hardware has to have a key that will decrypt all the content someone may want to use on that player. It only takes one vendor to leak said key or produce a player from which the decypted bitstream can be recovered (either deliberately or more likely through incompetance) and the pirate has a decrypted copy which they can release onto the pirate networks.
you can do like the blueray and HD-DVD guys did and make a scheme where you can make newer disks not play on machines with revoked keys but that just gets you into a cat and mouse game with the pirates.
The thing about free software is that it is nowhere near as vulnerable to market pressure as a traditional competitor. When the price of linux or firefox or openoffice is free the best MS can do is match it they can never undercut it and because the software is free to start with it is rather hard to cut off developments air supply through market pressure either.
Jail is just a different roof over your head. People get shit done from jail, if that's what they want to do. Probablly depends a bit on what kind of prison you end up in but there are many things you can't do. You can't go out to meet anyone and anyone you invite to meet you is going to know you are in prison. You have to live your life by the prisons rules. I'm not sure if internet access is allowed in some western prisons but if it is I suspect it is heavilly monitored.
I think it is fair to say that most households have at least one newish TV. I think it is also fair to say that most households would be very upset if the main TV was the only one that stayed working.
But TVs aren't the real problem since the TV problem is easilly solved with set top boxes and sometimes ariel upgrades. VCRs and PVRs are a much bigger problem at least in my experiance they don't get on too well with set top boxes if you want to make timed recordings reliablly and they have only moved to integrated digital tuners VERY recently.
If your real life body is put in jail you can't do anything much else while it is there. If someone decides to kill you in real life you can't do anything else again ever. If one of your MMO crits is put in jail you can just switch to another one for a while no big deal. Similarlly you can easilly create large numbers of characters to assist in laundering your ill gotten gains.
In other words an ingame police force is practially worthless when there is no effective way for it to punish or exclude from playing those it catches.
well, that would be a big no. If that was true, DVDs and their quality increase over VHS/SDTV would have never taken off. Look how blue-ray and hd-dvd are doing. Look how laserdisk and VCD did (not counting the brief resurgance of VCD as a poor mans recordable DVD).
DVD had numourous advantages over VHS, quality was only one of them. Others included better longevity, better robustness, smaller size, easier inspection (important for rental places) and special features.
And a quick poll: How many of you think that the government issuing $40 coupons for converter boxes is going to raise the price of converter boxes by $40? In the short term it could cause a shortage that would raise the price a bit but in the long term it's affect on thier price will probablly be in the downward direction. DTV converter boxes do not and will not represent the main consumer of any particular natural resourse and electronics manufacturing has huge economies of scale.
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he does seem to dip the electrode assembly in several pots after manufacture. I can't read what it says on the pots though as it's in french.
As for right metal/right glass I presume that is just a matter of buying the right materials.
yeah because solid state components that can handle the power and frequency involved in a big radio transmitter are even more expensive than vacuum tubes that can.
Of course, when you use utility computing and your network connection goes down, you're screwed. Likewise when the power goes down you're screwed - it's really no different (actually losing power is worse). So there might be backup systems for some corporations
IMO The points of using a generator are
1: it is easy to switch over to backup pool
2: A large proportion of the costs of running a local generator are pretty much proportional to the ammount of hours you run it for.
3: The cost per KWH of using generators is far higher than that of using utility power.
The result is it makes more financial sense to have utlity power and a backup generator than to have a constantly running generator in most cases.
In IT things are quite different. Power costs the same regardless of whether the server is local or remote. Data is king so if you want to be able to switch over to backup after the internet connection goes out your local servers will be having to constantly mirror all data saved to the remote database. By putting high availibilty servers remotely and having local backup servers you are just duplicating functionality for no good reason.
What is IMO a more sensible idea is servers hosted locally but managed and backed up remotely. That way you lose most of the IT staff while keeping the actual servers on site. Quality of support is still an issue though.
That use of the term "UK" really means "England"
We have a somewhat weired system of partial devoloution in the UK where there is a british parliment and then the scotish parliment (not sure what ireland has if anything) and welsh assembly which make some descisions independently.
The result is that for example english people have no say in say university fees in scotland but scottish people do have a say in such issues for england.
I think that depends on your setup, if you have a projecter or a massive TV or you sit very close to your TV and you have good eyesight the difference may be significant. If you watch a normal sized TV from the other side of a normal sized lounge you are far less likely to.
The region codes for blu-ray seem rather weired to me. They don't seem to line up with either political boundries (they split china in half!). geographical boundries (why is a small corner of aisa in the american region rather than the asian one) or financial boundries (they grouped europe with africa!).
I wonder what critera were used to set those boundries.
minidisc wasn't too successfull int the american or british consumer because they were quite expensive and there was little prerecorded music on the format. SCMS probablly didn't help much either
In the proffesional and semi proffesional market market though they were very popular because of easy editing and small size. SCMS was annoying but those at the lower end of the market probablly just used analog copying (which was still WAY better than tape to tape copying) and those at the higher end of the market had proffesional decks that did not enforce SCMS.
Pick up a BR player in 6-12 months for $200 and you're golden.
BTW do theese players tend to have HDMI passthroughs (in the same way that most modern equipment at least here in europe has scart passthroughs)?
A lot of smaller/cheaper TVs only have one HDMI port so it could become a bit of a pain if the players don't have passthroughs.
A network capable hearts was shipping with windows for workgroups quite some time before that.
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it's annoying that the version in XP is crippled to not have network support and running an older version on XP doesn't seem to work for network games either though
I run Vista 64, because XP64 has no printer drivers for my printer (s9000). I blame Canon. Canon wrote one for Vista64, but not XP64.
Did you try installing the driver they marketed for vista64 on xp64?
that article on some random wiki is pretty vauge in many ways, has several 64 bit specific entries (yes backwards compatibility of the 64 bit editions of windows isn't great but that isn't a vista specific issue) and seems to list even things that have since been patched.
but generally I agree using vista right now is a pain for little real benifit but I don't see any fundamental problems that will stop it slowly replacing XP just as XP slowly replaced 2K.
Microsoft SQL Server(both 2005 and 2007)
To be fair sql server 2005 has been patched ( http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/windowsvistasupport.mspx ) and 2008 (it was renamed from 2007 at some point during 2007 hasn't been release yet).
I'm sorry, apps that never followed the windows spec will fail. This is a GOOD THING. Apps that spend the hour it takes to follow the spec, well, they work.
Would MS have said you were noncompliant if you checked membership of the admistrators group to check for admin privilages? IIRC UAC breaks that.
anyway whoevers fault it is that things broke the fact remain that they did. That combined with the general lower performance is not worth the new features for most users right now. IMO an operating systems job is to multitask applications and provide a vendor neutral interface between applications and hardware and to do that as fast and reliablly as possible.
Some games are good on consoles but there are some genres that the console setup just doesn't fit with well. The biggies are the UT style FPS which requires very fast accurate aiming and the RTS game which requires a well controlled pointer (both of which practically require a mouse). A few console games support keyboards and mice but most don't and when they do afacit there is often no option to customise the controls.
Also afaict consoles tend to miss out on all the mods and usermade maps that PC games get.
What does it mean, Apple's become too powerful
With itunes it is (or at least was until recently) apples way or the highway, apple knew they could get away with that because apple are the only way to sell DRM'd music to iPod users and at the time the music industry were rabidly agains the idea of non drm online sales.
The music buisness would love to be able to vary the price per song depending on what the song is and to be able to squeeze the online retailers margins down. They can only do that if there is meaningfull competition in the online music retail buisness and the only way to create meaningfull competition in that buisness is to allow sales without DRM. Slowly the big record companies are coming round to the point of view that competition in the online music retail marketplace is more important to them than DRM.
I disagree completely. The fact that a crime's damage is distributed accross many victims does not mean that it should not have a high punishment.
I'd say 10 seconds jailtime for each spam with the death penalty if that adds up to more than 2 average lifetimes is perfectly reasonable.
1/l and 0/o (domain names are generally shown in lowercase at least in browsers) look fairly different in most fonts (the main difference between 1 and l is not so much the shape of the character as the different spacing.
Unlike say a and it's crylic equivilent which look pixel for pixel identical in many common fonts.
It's great that nations can use their own languages instead of being forced to use alien Latin-English characters.
It may seem great but the internet is supposed to be a worldwide network.
How will a chineese person type the email address of thier russian friend and vice-versa?
How will you report spam when the abuse addresses are in an alphabet you don't recognise?
How will you write down the address for a friend of a helpfull page that just happens to be on a russian site?
For better or worse the basic form of the latin alphabet is the one thing that can be easilly typed by most computer users worldwide.
But each participant has a set of secret keys, and they don't have to be shared.
The bottom line is that to view the content your player has to decrypt it, to decrypt it your player needs a key that will decrypt all content your player is supposed to be able to play.
So every manufacture of player hardware has to have a key that will decrypt all the content someone may want to use on that player. It only takes one vendor to leak said key or produce a player from which the decypted bitstream can be recovered (either deliberately or more likely through incompetance) and the pirate has a decrypted copy which they can release onto the pirate networks.
you can do like the blueray and HD-DVD guys did and make a scheme where you can make newer disks not play on machines with revoked keys but that just gets you into a cat and mouse game with the pirates.
The thing about free software is that it is nowhere near as vulnerable to market pressure as a traditional competitor. When the price of linux or firefox or openoffice is free the best MS can do is match it they can never undercut it and because the software is free to start with it is rather hard to cut off developments air supply through market pressure either.
Jail is just a different roof over your head. People get shit done from jail, if that's what they want to do.
Probablly depends a bit on what kind of prison you end up in but there are many things you can't do. You can't go out to meet anyone and anyone you invite to meet you is going to know you are in prison. You have to live your life by the prisons rules. I'm not sure if internet access is allowed in some western prisons but if it is I suspect it is heavilly monitored.
I think it is fair to say that most households have at least one newish TV. I think it is also fair to say that most households would be very upset if the main TV was the only one that stayed working.
But TVs aren't the real problem since the TV problem is easilly solved with set top boxes and sometimes ariel upgrades. VCRs and PVRs are a much bigger problem at least in my experiance they don't get on too well with set top boxes if you want to make timed recordings reliablly and they have only moved to integrated digital tuners VERY recently.
If your real life body is put in jail you can't do anything much else while it is there. If someone decides to kill you in real life you can't do anything else again ever. If one of your MMO crits is put in jail you can just switch to another one for a while no big deal. Similarlly you can easilly create large numbers of characters to assist in laundering your ill gotten gains.
In other words an ingame police force is practially worthless when there is no effective way for it to punish or exclude from playing those it catches.
well, that would be a big no. If that was true, DVDs and their quality increase over VHS/SDTV would have never taken off.
Look how blue-ray and hd-dvd are doing. Look how laserdisk and VCD did (not counting the brief resurgance of VCD as a poor mans recordable DVD).
DVD had numourous advantages over VHS, quality was only one of them. Others included better longevity, better robustness, smaller size, easier inspection (important for rental places) and special features.
And a quick poll: How many of you think that the government issuing $40 coupons for converter boxes is going to raise the price of converter boxes by $40?
In the short term it could cause a shortage that would raise the price a bit but in the long term it's affect on thier price will probablly be in the downward direction. DTV converter boxes do not and will not represent the main consumer of any particular natural resourse and electronics manufacturing has huge economies of scale.