so a stirling engine converts heat into torque. if you tried to mechanically power something directly it wouldnt go too fast but you could stick a clockwork mech on the end and then release the stored energy as and when you like... e.g. for rotating the dish!
it was also a scot that invented the steam engine, i forgot his name of course but we all know about stephenson who was just the first guy to stick wheels on one.
i always used to have the same theory about wind power, wouldnt all the windmills absorb and slow down the wind thus changing weather patterns? but then i remembered about mountains!
of course it depends on your taste in films, the rocky box set is £25 in one store near where i work. bought Solaris last week for £4 from Virgin Megastore. Having about 6 stores within half a mile of where i work all fighting to get rid of lots of stock at cheap prices is great. And then there's the (probably legally dubious) ex rentals from my local blockbuster and choice videos offering newish films at low low prices. in this instance i tend to buy really obscure/foreign films that are highly unlikely to have been watched that many times = bargains.
obviously i dont know how well this all translates across the pond but basically i hardly ever rent and when i do it's because it's 7pm and me and the missus are a bit bored of my japanese samurai film collection and she sends me to the video store to find something "girly". we dont go online and find something to watch in a couple of days.
but having said that i'm far too tight to fork out the cash for the stanley kubrik boxed set. now i might be tempted to rent THAT for a few quid, a whole weekend of kubrik and post it back. handy. think i just defeated my own point!
isnt there a photodevelopment service (kodak?) that not only gives you your hardcopy film prints + negatives back but the lot also on a CD too. handy! and i have noticed that if you scan in a standard photo on max dpi you can zoom in stupid amounts (cost of film dependant) which is cool. once digital cameras provide aforementioned 10*6 foot 300dpi print out i'll be happy with them. until then i'll be buying film flavoured. infact i'm buying one this weekend!
as for dixons, they're trying to ditch all the old technology to big themselves up in the tech market. essentially moving away from fridges and towards ipods. this is just another step in that direction, not the death-of-film.
exactly, use linux for the server under the stairs an windows for your girlfriend's laptop. just a question of suitability for purpose. linux isnt (yet) suitable for normal people to use on their normal computers. not that windows is either, but she knows how to use that, if i told her that she had to login as root and edit a config file because something went fubar she'd look at me blankly and say "what?"
A virus spreads iteslf by infecting existing files (e.g. executables)
A worm spreads by exploiting system vunerabilities directly
A trojan is malicious code pretending to be something else (e.g. britneyspearsnaked.avi.exe)
Often trojans will be used to install worms, which in turn propogate their "parent" trojans. Which is analogous to the facehugger/geiger-alien method of reproduction.
re: XP / Vista only... i have no bones with this, (an IE6 renderer upgrade would be nice though) after all when ford brings out a new model everyone doesn't bitch and yell that they arent releasing an "upgrade" for the rest of the ford owners to get the nice shiney sat nav unit, do they?
If MS is to construct a less buggy more secure OS/Browser then it needs to wipe the slate clean with Vista and have zero quirks for the sake of backwards compatibility.
It's a no win situation. they make it backwards compatible then everyone complains about the bugs, miriads of config options and slow execution of software. make it brand new and everyone complains about the lack of support for the old bugs and options!
"Remote Assistance is faster, uses less bandwidth, and can function through Network Address Translation (NAT) firewalls"
ooh looky, an MS security hole^D^D feature that allows access through firewalls
...is command lines, meaningless three letter acronyms and pipe scripts with hundreds of flags and switches.
well i for one am jumping straight into this revolution. i just smashed my mouse with a hammer and am going to track down a CGA monitor on ebay.
could be useful for a triple setup, use your ram and hd as you normally would but all the crap that windows usually sticks in the vcache and swap file could be stashed on the Solid State drive. you could then feasibly dump your ram state into it when doing a shutdown and have an instant "reboot" but as the standard HD still has everything on it if the battery backup fails then you can still do a standard boot. if you use it as a speedy ramdisk too you could build a redundancy setup on your standard HD that mirrors it, (albeit not in real time, obviously) keeping your frequently accessed documents and suchlike to hand but also safe from said power failures
just today polished off my XP taskbar BBC news ticker. thought, hmm, with some more cunning coding i could use any feed and build a personalisable home page portal... f****g google
just wandering how long it might be until DRM systems simply refuse to play ANY non drm enabled media...i.e. install open source software from cd, play my friend's bands new demo CD, the DVD of my wedding, the photo CD of my daughter as a baby etc...
..every few years, extra time to party (or recover from said party). however, my brother's birday is at the other end of the year and he occasionally gets 23 hour birthdays, haha!
it'd be nice if windows didnt absolutely unhackabbly insist that the window that has focus is on top. on my good ole amiga you could chose how to dish focus out and bring windows to the front. i set it so you had to click on the title bar specifically to bring it to the front. simple and when shovelling files about i could drop them into a text editor/ photoshop/browser etc without the application's resulting focus making the folder window dissapear behind it, forcing me to fish it out again or resize everything so that they sit next to each other. far too simple, i know. (IIRC you can do this in KDE too)
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it's not asif the concept is revolutionary, i was planning to do the same thing myself until i found out that these two were at it
so a stirling engine converts heat into torque. if you tried to mechanically power something directly it wouldnt go too fast but you could stick a clockwork mech on the end and then release the stored energy as and when you like... e.g. for rotating the dish!
it was also a scot that invented the steam engine, i forgot his name of course but we all know about stephenson who was just the first guy to stick wheels on one.
i always used to have the same theory about wind power, wouldnt all the windmills absorb and slow down the wind thus changing weather patterns? but then i remembered about mountains!
i love the shading and the use of simple lighting and silhouettes to draw the required scene a perfect example of where less is more!
except that if you're writing a scientific or engineering or political document that require tables of data you should use tables. obviously
of course it depends on your taste in films, the rocky box set is £25 in one store near where i work. bought Solaris last week for £4 from Virgin Megastore. Having about 6 stores within half a mile of where i work all fighting to get rid of lots of stock at cheap prices is great. And then there's the (probably legally dubious) ex rentals from my local blockbuster and choice videos offering newish films at low low prices. in this instance i tend to buy really obscure/foreign films that are highly unlikely to have been watched that many times = bargains.
obviously i dont know how well this all translates across the pond but basically i hardly ever rent and when i do it's because it's 7pm and me and the missus are a bit bored of my japanese samurai film collection and she sends me to the video store to find something "girly". we dont go online and find something to watch in a couple of days.
but having said that i'm far too tight to fork out the cash for the stanley kubrik boxed set. now i might be tempted to rent THAT for a few quid, a whole weekend of kubrik and post it back. handy. think i just defeated my own point!
isnt there a photodevelopment service (kodak?) that not only gives you your hardcopy film prints + negatives back but the lot also on a CD too. handy! and i have noticed that if you scan in a standard photo on max dpi you can zoom in stupid amounts (cost of film dependant) which is cool. once digital cameras provide aforementioned 10*6 foot 300dpi print out i'll be happy with them. until then i'll be buying film flavoured. infact i'm buying one this weekend! as for dixons, they're trying to ditch all the old technology to big themselves up in the tech market. essentially moving away from fridges and towards ipods. this is just another step in that direction, not the death-of-film.
exactly, use linux for the server under the stairs an windows for your girlfriend's laptop. just a question of suitability for purpose. linux isnt (yet) suitable for normal people to use on their normal computers. not that windows is either, but she knows how to use that, if i told her that she had to login as root and edit a config file because something went fubar she'd look at me blankly and say "what?"
they're called Trojans:
A virus spreads iteslf by infecting existing files (e.g. executables)
A worm spreads by exploiting system vunerabilities directly
A trojan is malicious code pretending to be something else (e.g. britneyspearsnaked.avi.exe)
Often trojans will be used to install worms, which in turn propogate their "parent" trojans. Which is analogous to the facehugger/geiger-alien method of reproduction.
not all movies are made in hollywood, you know.
you do know that, right?
some exec rubs his hands in glee thinking of yet another "if you can't beat 'em buy em" investment opportunity...
re: XP / Vista only... i have no bones with this, (an IE6 renderer upgrade would be nice though) after all when ford brings out a new model everyone doesn't bitch and yell that they arent releasing an "upgrade" for the rest of the ford owners to get the nice shiney sat nav unit, do they? If MS is to construct a less buggy more secure OS/Browser then it needs to wipe the slate clean with Vista and have zero quirks for the sake of backwards compatibility. It's a no win situation. they make it backwards compatible then everyone complains about the bugs, miriads of config options and slow execution of software. make it brand new and everyone complains about the lack of support for the old bugs and options!
my favourite part is the 4" long ethernet cable from port to port. couldn't just run a wire and crimp an rj45 on the end!
i'm gonna try this tonight... let's see if i can get PWS (IIS4) to run on it!
"Remote Assistance is faster, uses less bandwidth, and can function through Network Address Translation (NAT) firewalls" ooh looky, an MS security hole^D^D feature that allows access through firewalls
yup. and yup, i's pissing it down
...is command lines, meaningless three letter acronyms and pipe scripts with hundreds of flags and switches. well i for one am jumping straight into this revolution. i just smashed my mouse with a hammer and am going to track down a CGA monitor on ebay.
could be useful for a triple setup, use your ram and hd as you normally would but all the crap that windows usually sticks in the vcache and swap file could be stashed on the Solid State drive. you could then feasibly dump your ram state into it when doing a shutdown and have an instant "reboot" but as the standard HD still has everything on it if the battery backup fails then you can still do a standard boot. if you use it as a speedy ramdisk too you could build a redundancy setup on your standard HD that mirrors it, (albeit not in real time, obviously) keeping your frequently accessed documents and suchlike to hand but also safe from said power failures
just today polished off my XP taskbar BBC news ticker. thought, hmm, with some more cunning coding i could use any feed and build a personalisable home page portal... f****g google
"It Just Works" > DIP switches
just wandering how long it might be until DRM systems simply refuse to play ANY non drm enabled media...i.e. install open source software from cd, play my friend's bands new demo CD, the DVD of my wedding, the photo CD of my daughter as a baby etc...
black wednesday?
..every few years, extra time to party (or recover from said party). however, my brother's birday is at the other end of the year and he occasionally gets 23 hour birthdays, haha!
it'd be nice if windows didnt absolutely unhackabbly insist that the window that has focus is on top. on my good ole amiga you could chose how to dish focus out and bring windows to the front. i set it so you had to click on the title bar specifically to bring it to the front. simple and when shovelling files about i could drop them into a text editor/ photoshop/browser etc without the application's resulting focus making the folder window dissapear behind it, forcing me to fish it out again or resize everything so that they sit next to each other. far too simple, i know. (IIRC you can do this in KDE too)