The cameras were not installed prior to 2003, and anyway, you can see the bloody things everywhere. On top of that, the technology to do this kind of thing wasn't really feasible much before this anyway.
Yes, there were (and are) cameras everywhere for other surveillance operations, and no doubt the police had access to them if they had the need/warrants - but the congestion cameras certainly weren't.
AFAIK songs on CD do not come with the license required to perform the song publicly through a loud car stereo, or on an overly loud iPod, but people still do it.
Rubbish (I should point out that I dislike Hotmail and do not use it).
Plenty of people use Hotmail, especially less technically able people- for example, most of my musician friends use Hotmail still, despite having broadband at home and other webmail/pop3 options available to them. I suspect this is because too many people have their email address and it is hard to change now.
I can't comment on the junk mail filters, other than my girlfriend uses Hotmail and in the last 4 years I don't think she's had one piece of junk mail in her inbox, and certainly no false positives.
The mailbox size is comparable with GMail (2GB) and has been for some time. This is pretty big for most people. And if you use the site for your email you will be regularly logging in, so you don't need to "keep signing up to keep your account active".
For a Windows user, it doesn't work like Office on Windows, especially things such as keyboard shortcuts, and Microsoft is busy pruning functionality such as VBA from it (no more macros, which are pretty much essential for lots of business use unfortunately).
I remember my dad diligents copying every new CD, that went in the stereo case, to a cassette deck for the car for a while... that's unnecessary when Hybrid tech exists, and impossible when you don't make it easy to copy the new SA-CD to CD.
I would still do this. I don't have room in my car to store lots of CDs as the glove box is too small to store many, and there are few other places to store them, so I'm going to format shift. Besides which, I'm not leaving stuff in the car for the thieves to steal. At least I can easily take my iPod out of the car with me.
That said, I'm not buying downloads when they are so ludicrously expensive. I can usually buy a CD for the same price as an iTunes album download - why would I go for the restricted lower quality option? I just get individual tracks through iTunes and buy the CDs at a supermarket or secondhand.
There is a class G star (like our own Suns class) only 5 light years away - a mere 50 years traveling at 10% C (it'll take about 34 days accelerating at a constant 1 G to reach 10% C).
That's great, but what happens when we realise we are about to smack into a huge lump of rock at 10% C?
And you've read the documents linked in other posts (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure _del.html etc) and debunked the claims? do you have documents to the contrary you can share?
OK, I'm going to bite on this because it is really getting out of hand...
The UK doesn't have that many more CCTV cameras than most other "developed" countries. I've just had two weeks in the Baltimore / D.C. area and I lost count of the number of CCTV cameras I saw, both in public places and on private property.
The huge figures quoted in the UK, as far as I know (and I don't have any sources to quote here, so please prove me wrong) include every kind of CCTV cameras, from those installed within banks and corner stores, to those installed in many ATM machines and traffic monitoring cameras on motorways. If you take that into account, I'm sure other countries fall closely in line too.
Except this is a gross oversimplification. Compression is typically done in a number of bands independantly for mastering. Some bands get compressed to hell and back, others are barely touched - the effect is much the same as "TFAuthor" described - some bands totally go missing. Some get deliberately removed by filtering them out prior to the compression too so that they sound good on the widest range of hardware.
In reality, all three compression techniques (compression, multiband compression, perceptual coding) are highly lossy because you lose the relationships between individual components in the sound. Whether you can hear that with the latter is up to the audiophiles though:)
It does a similar thing using the traffic flow cameras on the roads. It then reroutes you if that traffic flow starts to slow down.
I believe they use the same technology as in the TrafficMaster cameras, which do number plate recognition and then hash the plate and pass it around the system. It can then determine the metrics you describe from that data without requiring any peers as such.
Maybe with your devices. My camera will shoot several 1GB cards on a single charge, more if I use the right lenses (ie no image stabilisation, or if I am careful about how I use auto focus). A 1GB card gives me around 90 8-megapixel shots, which can be enough for a month or enough for an hour, depending on what I'm shooting and why I'm shooting.
I can imagine professional gear will already start to tax these cards - Hasselblad already attach a hard drive to their cameras...
I'm glad I bought Parallels yesterday. Now I get to pay another $40 to upgrade, whereas if I had waited a week it wouldn't have been an issue.
Why can't more companies give upgrades to those who buy just before the release of a new version. Even Microsoft have done this on a large scale in the past, why not the rest?
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The cameras were not installed prior to 2003, and anyway, you can see the bloody things everywhere. On top of that, the technology to do this kind of thing wasn't really feasible much before this anyway.
Yes, there were (and are) cameras everywhere for other surveillance operations, and no doubt the police had access to them if they had the need/warrants - but the congestion cameras certainly weren't.
Who cares anyway?
This would be impressive, given that the congestion charge cameras were only installed in 2003.
Many (most?) UK citizens still don't want to be associated with continental Europe, despite what the government says.
Regardless, I don't see what relevance your statement has here - how about France, Germany, or Sweden instead?
If 15/21 mpg is not a gas guzzler then what is? What planet are you on?
Oh, I see - the US of A.
It depends where in Europe. In the UK there are millions of overhead lines.
Defining murder such that everyone has a common understanding of what is meant by the term is fine.
Implementing murder is illegal.
AFAIK songs on CD do not come with the license required to perform the song publicly through a loud car stereo, or on an overly loud iPod, but people still do it.
Rubbish (I should point out that I dislike Hotmail and do not use it).
Plenty of people use Hotmail, especially less technically able people- for example, most of my musician friends use Hotmail still, despite having broadband at home and other webmail/pop3 options available to them. I suspect this is because too many people have their email address and it is hard to change now.
I can't comment on the junk mail filters, other than my girlfriend uses Hotmail and in the last 4 years I don't think she's had one piece of junk mail in her inbox, and certainly no false positives.
The mailbox size is comparable with GMail (2GB) and has been for some time. This is pretty big for most people. And if you use the site for your email you will be regularly logging in, so you don't need to "keep signing up to keep your account active".
Some people cycle / run / walk to work. Showering first thing on arrival is definitely not a strange thing to do...
Sigh, must...preview...anyway - Really? :-)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/07/143121 0&from=rss>Really?
So you remove the content of all the batteries you take on flights too I guess?
Maybe your head is like an airbag but I like to think there is something with more substance in mine ;-)
10.5 / Leopard, due in October, is 64bit. 10.4 / Tiger (currently in stores / shipped on new macs) is 32bit.
Because it sucks.
For a Windows user, it doesn't work like Office on Windows, especially things such as keyboard shortcuts, and Microsoft is busy pruning functionality such as VBA from it (no more macros, which are pretty much essential for lots of business use unfortunately).
I remember my dad diligents copying every new CD, that went in the stereo case, to a cassette deck for the car for a while... that's unnecessary when Hybrid tech exists, and impossible when you don't make it easy to copy the new SA-CD to CD.
I would still do this. I don't have room in my car to store lots of CDs as the glove box is too small to store many, and there are few other places to store them, so I'm going to format shift. Besides which, I'm not leaving stuff in the car for the thieves to steal. At least I can easily take my iPod out of the car with me.
That said, I'm not buying downloads when they are so ludicrously expensive. I can usually buy a CD for the same price as an iTunes album download - why would I go for the restricted lower quality option? I just get individual tracks through iTunes and buy the CDs at a supermarket or secondhand.
So the grandparent was right - 17 is legal (16 is too, but he was giving an example of where there is a difference, so 17 is perfectly valid).
;-)
However, given that his username has "Texas" in it, he probably just got the facts wrong
That's great, but what happens when we realise we are about to smack into a huge lump of rock at 10% C?
And you've read the documents linked in other posts (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure _del.html etc) and debunked the claims? do you have documents to the contrary you can share?
Why on earth was this moderated troll?
OK, I'm going to bite on this because it is really getting out of hand...
;-)
The UK doesn't have that many more CCTV cameras than most other "developed" countries. I've just had two weeks in the Baltimore / D.C. area and I lost count of the number of CCTV cameras I saw, both in public places and on private property.
The huge figures quoted in the UK, as far as I know (and I don't have any sources to quote here, so please prove me wrong) include every kind of CCTV cameras, from those installed within banks and corner stores, to those installed in many ATM machines and traffic monitoring cameras on motorways. If you take that into account, I'm sure other countries fall closely in line too.
Or maybe I've been sucked in too
Except this is a gross oversimplification. Compression is typically done in a number of bands independantly for mastering. Some bands get compressed to hell and back, others are barely touched - the effect is much the same as "TFAuthor" described - some bands totally go missing. Some get deliberately removed by filtering them out prior to the compression too so that they sound good on the widest range of hardware.
:)
In reality, all three compression techniques (compression, multiband compression, perceptual coding) are highly lossy because you lose the relationships between individual components in the sound. Whether you can hear that with the latter is up to the audiophiles though
It does a similar thing using the traffic flow cameras on the roads. It then reroutes you if that traffic flow starts to slow down.
I believe they use the same technology as in the TrafficMaster cameras, which do number plate recognition and then hash the plate and pass it around the system. It can then determine the metrics you describe from that data without requiring any peers as such.
Maybe with your devices. My camera will shoot several 1GB cards on a single charge, more if I use the right lenses (ie no image stabilisation, or if I am careful about how I use auto focus). A 1GB card gives me around 90 8-megapixel shots, which can be enough for a month or enough for an hour, depending on what I'm shooting and why I'm shooting.
I can imagine professional gear will already start to tax these cards - Hasselblad already attach a hard drive to their cameras...
I'm glad I bought Parallels yesterday. Now I get to pay another $40 to upgrade, whereas if I had waited a week it wouldn't have been an issue.
Why can't more companies give upgrades to those who buy just before the release of a new version. Even Microsoft have done this on a large scale in the past, why not the rest?