Except that I heard from http://www.sciencefriday.com/ (but can't remember exactly where) that there are issues with vitreous storage of nuclear waste. When the alpha radiation occurs what effectively happens is there is a kick on the atom releasing the alpha particle and this shakes the crystal lattice and over time it degrades the glass into something which is much less durable.
I'm all for Nuclear Power to play a part in the over all power generation system (maybe even a huge part) but we need to come up with more and better ideas about storage.
But even if we ignore that, a 20 minute drive to work in an electric car followed by recharging over 8 hours would be fine by me. But now we get the ability to travel hundreds of miles and get the car recharged whilst we stopping off at the services. Because I live in the UK, all I need now is some way of recharging overnight by catching the rainfall with a water wheel and I'll be able to drive for free.;-)
"Our technology is infallible. You *must* have compromised your card / PIN. You will get no refund nor compensation."
What this does is point out that the first sentence is not correct and that the second does not automatically follow. I am not particularly protective of or abusive towards Chip-And-Pin but the "Nothing to do with me mate. You'll have to prove it." attitude of the banks is kind of annoying. I'm much more happy paying my taxes to find this kind of issue rather than modding the housing to play Tetris.
The "Off" button on the front of the TV is probably just a mechanical switch to interrupt the power. If you turn it off and then back on again, it reverts the alarm function back to off, the display is set to "Normal 1" and I have to rejig it. I get the feeling that it is just the way this was made.
My Cable TV box on the other hand is much more modern and every time takes ages to scan, verify, authenticate etc. onto the cable network and this would benefit from a new chip to store all of this once and not need to discover most of it each time.
I'm basically looking to get this adopted so that when I upgrade my TV and A/V kit next year I can do it with a view to keeping my power consumption (and energy bills) down. It's all self, self self,;-)
I don't want this in my PC to boot my O/S quicker. I want this in my TV / Video / STB / whatever so that I can turn them off at night and not have to wait for ages for them to be reinitialised / scan for frequencies / whatever they actually do when they are turned on. It would also make me not have to reprogram my favourites and display settings, which currently do not survive a power cycle. Get these into modern A/V technology and we can finally do away with the necessity of standby just to speed up watching the TV in the morning.
All I had to do was google for "Eat a peck of dirt" and the sixth on the list is a New Scientist page from 1998
I was very interested in your article on the possible dangers of excessive hygiene ("Let them eat dirt", 18 July, p 26).
As a child I remember being told by my mother that "you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die", a peck being two gallons.
Is this another case of scientists catching up with what has been common knowledge for generations?
If you want to fork out for the premium content you can get the full text here.
I'm presuming that in eight years time some other publication will 'discover' this again and maybe someone will link to me instead of Susan Taylor...
Yeah. To get access to that you need an acoustic coupler and just dial a load of numbers in Sunnyvale California. I believe the industry standard for back-door passwords is "Joshua"
Well, if the next 24 years have nothing in the way of contrition from Sony I'd be very tempted to still shun them.
*** very far fetched analogy alert ***
To draw tenuous parallels, Libya doesn't seem to have been involved in any terrorism since the mid/late 1980's but they had to demonstrate their change of heart before being tentatively accepted back.
I know that it is not fair to compare Sony and Libya directly but at the moment consumers have been abused by Sony and their level of remorse seems to only extend to "We're sorry we got caught" not "We're sorry we did it in the first place"
As I said, I am not enthused by the PS3 from the information I have received, so with regards to the PS3 I just can't find the energy to become excited or even that bothered about it.
There's no way I'm buying one, not because it is good / bad / indifferent, not because it is cheap / expensive / reasonable but because the buggers tried to shaft us with that damn rootkit.
As it is, I'm not convinced I need to spend that much money on a console irrespective of who produced it so chalk me up as one of the angry apathetic.
I'd say the overall crumbling of society / end of life on earth would have more of an effect than a switch in the polarity. Those Van Allen belts are darn useful and I don't have enough sun cream at the moment.
The only law I can think of in the UK is the "Sexual Offences Act 2003" which has the power to bring Britons to trial in the UK for alleged sex offences committed abroad but only if they are also considered crimes in that country.
I find it weird that an American who is 18 might be brought before a US court if they drank in a UK pub. Or if an American drove a car in the UK with a passenger who was drinking beer (dunno if that would wash because it is only illegal in certain states...) Or even an American who goes to Amsterdam, gets spliffed up and then prosecuted for it upon his / her return.
That will be reusable as in "We are all reused parts of supernovae" or "We all have a billion atoms of Julius Caesar's body incorporated into our own" and not "Just pick it up , dust it off and we're ready to go again!"
Given that most people are talking about beating up people who use the phone in a concert / film theatre / class room where you don't need technology any more sophisticated than a loud voice and the ability to shout "Oi. Idiot. Turn the bloody thing off will you?" I just want to say that this will be a massive boon for the Emergency Services. Currently there are places (film theatres libraries and train carriages spring to mind) where the owners try to block all of the signal to stop people from talking. I'm okay about this as their choice as owners but it becomes a problem when there is an emergency and you need the Fire / Ambulance Service to get in and use their communication systems. At least now it is at a touch of a switch to turn it off an on again.
I also want to say that the brain surgeon justification is very contrived and Mr. Farren should be ashamed to have used it. If you absolutely have to be contactable for the next two hours then ensure that the restaurant / cinema / train carriage / brothel has signal before you enter.
Don't let him meet Captain Cyborg
It starts with a little electrode in the brain to "better understand human consciousness" but pretty soon it is an Orwellian nightmare
You can find more from Kevin's Yamaha YM3812 ^W^W mouth here
Well it took over a minute to start to draw the page when there were no posts on it. I expect that this is now being hammered because people are going to The Great Internet Porn-Off instead. I wonder if that is coral cached too...
It took me five attempts over 10 months to read Neuromancer. I never got further than chapter 5 before putting the book down and picking up my medication to stop my head hurting. The time it actually clicked I also had to put the book down and reach for the medication, but that was for a celebration instead. I swear blind that the book is genius but it is not for the unwary to just pick up without some preparation first.
The link at the bottom of the page labelled "About PPARC" obviously goes too close to a singularity and ends up in a parallel universe with a quantum difference of this address is a 404 page. They've got me convinced.
A friend of mine from Australia lived in Cambridge for five years. She never once had a TV nor a TV licence. However, every six months she got a letter from the TV Licencing buffoons telling her that she was on a list and that it was a criminal offence to watch TV without having a TV licence. The letters finished with a suggestion that this was probably due to moving house recently and if she just paid up then there would be no prison for her. Suffice it to say that at no point did anyone knock on the door even though the house was a Victorian terrace and there were at least three TVs in neighbouring houses.
It is all a load of rubbish that they have vans roaming the streets trying to find the licence-less houses. They just have a mailmerge routine set to print letter to The Occupier, $HOUSE_NO, $ROAD_NAME trying to imply that the Police will be round if you don't pay now.
Sadly it isn't restricted to picking on foreigners as there are a numberofsites with similar stories to tell. I could go on but I won't.
It's like those job adverts who mention "competitive" rates of pay. Competitive meaning better for the employer (less money) or competitive meaning better for the employee (more money).
But back to the article, it really shouldn't matter as all you need to do is keep a large number of DVDs on your list and make them diverse (not all within 2 month of release. Get some classics in there to mix it up.) The only problem I have with this is that they seem to be saying that they will only ship a certain amount of discs each day / week / month which would really annoy me. I'm unemployed at the moment and it is completely practical for me to receive three DVDs in the morning, watch them, in the day and send them back in the evenings post.
If you say that the shipping is Monday evening post from warehouse, Tuesday morning arrive at my door, Tuesday evening back into the post again after being watched, Wednesday morning arrive back at the warehouse, Wednesday evening post a new set from the warehouse etc. I could easily get a three or four day turn around on a group of discs.
FTA it shows a graphic which says that you will get throttled if you have more than nine rentals per month. I could get flagged within a fortnight and I am not just copying the discs for my own library. I'm actually watching the discs. It seems rather shortsighted if you ask me.
I'd still prefer it if they had a couple of battalions of actual human beings out there. I doubt that the cost / benefit analysis has been done for this. Probably just makes people think they are being watched which will either make them feel secure or vindicated about their Orwellian nightmares. They'll all be checking out womens cleavages anyway...
Just imagine if you've just been done for downloading it off a p2p network and applying a cracked serial. That'd hurt. I'm not speaking from experience, just imagining...
I can't tell you the number of times that I have mislaid my pig's hearts in the dark. Now I'll never need to do my "abomination against $DEITY" experiments with the light on again.
*mwhahah*
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Except that I heard from http://www.sciencefriday.com/ (but can't remember exactly where) that there are issues with vitreous storage of nuclear waste. When the alpha radiation occurs what effectively happens is there is a kick on the atom releasing the alpha particle and this shakes the crystal lattice and over time it degrades the glass into something which is much less durable. ;-)
I'm all for Nuclear Power to play a part in the over all power generation system (maybe even a huge part) but we need to come up with more and better ideas about storage.
But even if we ignore that, a 20 minute drive to work in an electric car followed by recharging over 8 hours would be fine by me. But now we get the ability to travel hundreds of miles and get the car recharged whilst we stopping off at the services. Because I live in the UK, all I need now is some way of recharging overnight by catching the rainfall with a water wheel and I'll be able to drive for free.
The "Off" button on the front of the TV is probably just a mechanical switch to interrupt the power. If you turn it off and then back on again, it reverts the alarm function back to off, the display is set to "Normal 1" and I have to rejig it. I get the feeling that it is just the way this was made. ;-)
My Cable TV box on the other hand is much more modern and every time takes ages to scan, verify, authenticate etc. onto the cable network and this would benefit from a new chip to store all of this once and not need to discover most of it each time.
I'm basically looking to get this adopted so that when I upgrade my TV and A/V kit next year I can do it with a view to keeping my power consumption (and energy bills) down. It's all self, self self,
I don't want this in my PC to boot my O/S quicker. I want this in my TV / Video / STB / whatever so that I can turn them off at night and not have to wait for ages for them to be reinitialised / scan for frequencies / whatever they actually do when they are turned on. It would also make me not have to reprogram my favourites and display settings, which currently do not survive a power cycle. Get these into modern A/V technology and we can finally do away with the necessity of standby just to speed up watching the TV in the morning.
If you want to fork out for the premium content you can get the full text here.
I'm presuming that in eight years time some other publication will 'discover' this again and maybe someone will link to me instead of Susan Taylor...
Yeah. To get access to that you need an acoustic coupler and just dial a load of numbers in Sunnyvale California. I believe the industry standard for back-door passwords is "Joshua"
Well, if the next 24 years have nothing in the way of contrition from Sony I'd be very tempted to still shun them.
*** very far fetched analogy alert ***
To draw tenuous parallels, Libya doesn't seem to have been involved in any terrorism since the mid/late 1980's but they had to demonstrate their change of heart before being tentatively accepted back.
I know that it is not fair to compare Sony and Libya directly but at the moment consumers have been abused by Sony and their level of remorse seems to only extend to "We're sorry we got caught" not "We're sorry we did it in the first place"
As I said, I am not enthused by the PS3 from the information I have received, so with regards to the PS3 I just can't find the energy to become excited or even that bothered about it.
There's no way I'm buying one, not because it is good / bad / indifferent, not because it is cheap / expensive / reasonable but because the buggers tried to shaft us with that damn rootkit.
As it is, I'm not convinced I need to spend that much money on a console irrespective of who produced it so chalk me up as one of the angry apathetic.
I'd say the overall crumbling of society / end of life on earth would have more of an effect than a switch in the polarity. Those Van Allen belts are darn useful and I don't have enough sun cream at the moment.
I haven't seen such a dramatic knee jerk reaction since I saw a marionette being controlled by a sufferer of Parkinson's Disease.
Hmmm, I just reread that and I want to point out that I'm not actually doing anything with / to the Queen. I was just trying to be topical.
The only law I can think of in the UK is the "Sexual Offences Act 2003" which has the power to bring Britons to trial in the UK for alleged sex offences committed abroad but only if they are also considered crimes in that country.
I find it weird that an American who is 18 might be brought before a US court if they drank in a UK pub. Or if an American drove a car in the UK with a passenger who was drinking beer (dunno if that would wash because it is only illegal in certain states...) Or even an American who goes to Amsterdam, gets spliffed up and then prosecuted for it upon his / her return.
I'll just stay here with my 80 year old monarch.
I mean a quick butchers at Google gives 155,000 entries for "Offshore hosting" which kind of removes the teeth from this.
That will be reusable as in "We are all reused parts of supernovae" or "We all have a billion atoms of Julius Caesar's body incorporated into our own" and not "Just pick it up , dust it off and we're ready to go again!"
Given that most people are talking about beating up people who use the phone in a concert / film theatre / class room where you don't need technology any more sophisticated than a loud voice and the ability to shout "Oi. Idiot. Turn the bloody thing off will you?" I just want to say that this will be a massive boon for the Emergency Services. Currently there are places (film theatres libraries and train carriages spring to mind) where the owners try to block all of the signal to stop people from talking. I'm okay about this as their choice as owners but it becomes a problem when there is an emergency and you need the Fire / Ambulance Service to get in and use their communication systems. At least now it is at a touch of a switch to turn it off an on again.
I also want to say that the brain surgeon justification is very contrived and Mr. Farren should be ashamed to have used it. If you absolutely have to be contactable for the next two hours then ensure that the restaurant / cinema / train carriage / brothel has signal before you enter.
I'll just keep my money in my bank account and spend the time watching my currently owned DVDs / Videos.
Don't let him meet Captain Cyborg
It starts with a little electrode in the brain to "better understand human consciousness" but pretty soon it is an Orwellian nightmare
You can find more from Kevin's Yamaha YM3812 ^W^W mouth here
Well it took over a minute to start to draw the page when there were no posts on it. I expect that this is now being hammered because people are going to The Great Internet Porn-Off instead. I wonder if that is coral cached too...
It took me five attempts over 10 months to read Neuromancer. I never got further than chapter 5 before putting the book down and picking up my medication to stop my head hurting. The time it actually clicked I also had to put the book down and reach for the medication, but that was for a celebration instead. I swear blind that the book is genius but it is not for the unwary to just pick up without some preparation first.
The link at the bottom of the page labelled "About PPARC" obviously goes too close to a singularity and ends up in a parallel universe with a quantum difference of this address is a 404 page. They've got me convinced.
A friend of mine from Australia lived in Cambridge for five years. She never once had a TV nor a TV licence. However, every six months she got a letter from the TV Licencing buffoons telling her that she was on a list and that it was a criminal offence to watch TV without having a TV licence. The letters finished with a suggestion that this was probably due to moving house recently and if she just paid up then there would be no prison for her. Suffice it to say that at no point did anyone knock on the door even though the house was a Victorian terrace and there were at least three TVs in neighbouring houses.
It is all a load of rubbish that they have vans roaming the streets trying to find the licence-less houses. They just have a mailmerge routine set to print letter to The Occupier, $HOUSE_NO, $ROAD_NAME trying to imply that the Police will be round if you don't pay now.
Sadly it isn't restricted to picking on foreigners as there are a number of sites with similar stories to tell. I could go on but I won't.
It's like those job adverts who mention "competitive" rates of pay. Competitive meaning better for the employer (less money) or competitive meaning better for the employee (more money).
But back to the article, it really shouldn't matter as all you need to do is keep a large number of DVDs on your list and make them diverse (not all within 2 month of release. Get some classics in there to mix it up.) The only problem I have with this is that they seem to be saying that they will only ship a certain amount of discs each day / week / month which would really annoy me. I'm unemployed at the moment and it is completely practical for me to receive three DVDs in the morning, watch them, in the day and send them back in the evenings post.
If you say that the shipping is Monday evening post from warehouse, Tuesday morning arrive at my door, Tuesday evening back into the post again after being watched, Wednesday morning arrive back at the warehouse, Wednesday evening post a new set from the warehouse etc. I could easily get a three or four day turn around on a group of discs.
FTA it shows a graphic which says that you will get throttled if you have more than nine rentals per month. I could get flagged within a fortnight and I am not just copying the discs for my own library. I'm actually watching the discs. It seems rather shortsighted if you ask me.
I'd still prefer it if they had a couple of battalions of actual human beings out there. I doubt that the cost / benefit analysis has been done for this. Probably just makes people think they are being watched which will either make them feel secure or vindicated about their Orwellian nightmares. They'll all be checking out womens cleavages anyway...
Just imagine if you've just been done for downloading it off a p2p network and applying a cracked serial. That'd hurt. I'm not speaking from experience, just imagining...
I can't tell you the number of times that I have mislaid my pig's hearts in the dark. Now I'll never need to do my "abomination against $DEITY" experiments with the light on again.
*mwhahah*