There was a news piece I read recently where a BBC engineer was interviewed and said their experiments had showed that a faster framerate made a bigger difference to people's perception of an image's quality. They showed a well set up TV at standard res but higher framerate and compared it to a 1080p screen and the former looked better according to the writer. The BBC engineer noted that most of the 'HD is better' was smoke and mirrors anyway because most people's exposure to a normal picture is via a compressed digital feed of some sort and the apparent poor quality is a result of the compression, not the resolution.
I certainly remember being very disappointed with both digital sat and cable images because of the poor colour graduations and sundry pixelation issues compared to my normal analogue signal so I can well believe it.
Dammit, I'm going to have to stick a bit of paper with 'college' on my monitor to remind me. Not the first time I've got that one wrong. For the record, I believe the do collage courses too.
I think you're missing the point, he's being extradited using a law design for *terrorists* and that the US hasn't ratified i.e. we send them our people but the US won't send us theirs.
>Are the prisons in the UK any better?
Sat TV, collage courses, gyms, all the comoforts of home. TBH it depends on the category of prisoner but a chap who sits next to me at work plays football against prison teams and says the one's he sees are pretty cushy. I'm sure others are less savoury and we're always being told how crowded they are so I guess the answer is mixed.
Their large fleet of warships are mostly in mothballs and would take over a year to bring them back into service with another year to competently train crews for them.
No, not in mothballs, just run down in numbers and has been since WW2. Modern warfare that the UK is ever likely to be involved in just doesn't need them. We're still keen on our nuclear subs (well, Blair/Brown are anyway). As our own head of the armed forces noted, the sort of wars that get fought these days are different and we need forces more used to small fast attacks against terrorists and such like.
I'm anti-DP but I fully agree that in the UK at least we're far too light weight with sentences. Life means anything but - you could be out in 8 years. OK, it's on licence, which is probably stricter than most people realise but as say the parents of a murdered shild, knowing the murderer was out and about just 8 years after the event when it's still pretty damned raw for them is a bit of a kick in the teeth.
If you can just wander in without force, it's not B&E
trespassing
Only if they can prove you had intent to cause damage/trouble. Bizarrly, in theory, you can walk in to a strangers house and stand there quite legally. Better yet, if you hurt yourself in their house, you can sue them.
This is one area where I'm more of the American persuasion. If someone is in your house and you don't want them there, you should be entitled to use lots of force to get them out.
Our entire nation is completely apathetic. I have no idea why, but it explains the record emmigration levels.
The non apathetic one's have already gone or are packing their bags. The others are either chavs, chav wannabees (shudder) or just too stupid to care.
Almost every night, when I catch the bus home there's a mad woman who shouts and swears and threatens any young girls/women, often driving them to tears. She then gets on the bus and does the same to the drivers, telling them how crap they are to be a bus driver. No-one ever does a thing. Last week I had words with her and told her to stop bullying etc. Afterwards several people came over to thank me but of course, none of them were willing to actually do something, oh-no.
>When the prosecutor said he would fry, it was a figure of speech.
Which I'm happy to believe but hardly professional behaviour by an official though is it?
In the UK the CPS decided there wasn't enough evidence to bother pushing for a trial and prior to that he'd been warned he could get community service (help in charity shops, that sort of thing) but then the US manages to extradite him using an agreement they refuse to ratify and with threats of the electric chair being thrown at him (and not in a Balmer sort of way) before the trial even begins. Ye Gods.
Compuserve was pretty special back in the day. I used to use it in the UK and it was worth the humungous call fees back then because of what it provided in terms of forums, files, chat rooms etc. There really was nothing else like it and in these days it's all too easy to forget that. Everything else was basic BBS's.
>it's not even for sale here in Europe.
I don't know where in Europe you are but in this part, you can't move for the damn things. Every commuter trip is a joy with people clacking away on their Blackberries like their life depended on it. Not. I reckon maybe 1 in 4 people use them around here?
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There was a news piece I read recently where a BBC engineer was interviewed and said their experiments had showed that a faster framerate made a bigger difference to people's perception of an image's quality. They showed a well set up TV at standard res but higher framerate and compared it to a 1080p screen and the former looked better according to the writer. The BBC engineer noted that most of the 'HD is better' was smoke and mirrors anyway because most people's exposure to a normal picture is via a compressed digital feed of some sort and the apparent poor quality is a result of the compression, not the resolution.
I certainly remember being very disappointed with both digital sat and cable images because of the poor colour graduations and sundry pixelation issues compared to my normal analogue signal so I can well believe it.
Just wanted everyone to know I'm reading this with my mouth open making 'uh?' noises.
Dammit, I'm going to have to stick a bit of paper with 'college' on my monitor to remind me. Not the first time I've got that one wrong. For the record, I believe the do collage courses too.
Which was kind of the point of the phrase "I guess the answer is mixed."
Hey, you don't need to convince me. War on Terror is the ultimate oxymoron from where I'm sitting.
Yay, democracy in action - a +4 Interesting to Troll :-). If only we could do the same with Blair.
Good one, yup you win ;-)
>Yeah, and you still say "tee-yoob" instead of "toob". ;-)
How do you pronounce cube & pube? Pah, you'll be saying aluminum next, whatever that is
I think you're missing the point, he's being extradited using a law design for *terrorists* and that the US hasn't ratified i.e. we send them our people but the US won't send us theirs.
>Are the prisons in the UK any better?
Sat TV, collage courses, gyms, all the comoforts of home. TBH it depends on the category of prisoner but a chap who sits next to me at work plays football against prison teams and says the one's he sees are pretty cushy. I'm sure others are less savoury and we're always being told how crowded they are so I guess the answer is mixed.
I'm anti-DP but I fully agree that in the UK at least we're far too light weight with sentences. Life means anything but - you could be out in 8 years. OK, it's on licence, which is probably stricter than most people realise but as say the parents of a murdered shild, knowing the murderer was out and about just 8 years after the event when it's still pretty damned raw for them is a bit of a kick in the teeth.
Only if they can prove you had intent to cause damage/trouble. Bizarrly, in theory, you can walk in to a strangers house and stand there quite legally. Better yet, if you hurt yourself in their house, you can sue them.
This is one area where I'm more of the American persuasion. If someone is in your house and you don't want them there, you should be entitled to use lots of force to get them out.
Almost every night, when I catch the bus home there's a mad woman who shouts and swears and threatens any young girls/women, often driving them to tears. She then gets on the bus and does the same to the drivers, telling them how crap they are to be a bus driver. No-one ever does a thing. Last week I had words with her and told her to stop bullying etc. Afterwards several people came over to thank me but of course, none of them were willing to actually do something, oh-no.
>When the prosecutor said he would fry, it was a figure of speech.
Which I'm happy to believe but hardly professional behaviour by an official though is it?
In the UK the CPS decided there wasn't enough evidence to bother pushing for a trial and prior to that he'd been warned he could get community service (help in charity shops, that sort of thing) but then the US manages to extradite him using an agreement they refuse to ratify and with threats of the electric chair being thrown at him (and not in a Balmer sort of way) before the trial even begins. Ye Gods.
Compuserve was pretty special back in the day. I used to use it in the UK and it was worth the humungous call fees back then because of what it provided in terms of forums, files, chat rooms etc. There really was nothing else like it and in these days it's all too easy to forget that. Everything else was basic BBS's.
>The Amiga had four channel digital sound in 1985
The Atari 800 had 4 channel sound in 1978. Next?
>it's not even for sale here in Europe.
I don't know where in Europe you are but in this part, you can't move for the damn things. Every commuter trip is a joy with people clacking away on their Blackberries like their life depended on it. Not. I reckon maybe 1 in 4 people use them around here?
>How many programmers haven't learnt programming using C64 BASIC?
Most of them, I'd hazzard a guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musicians_sig ned_to_EMI
>$1.29/1.29/£0.99
Since when did $1.29 = £0.99? £0.65 maybe... Even by the usual ripoff $/£ conversion rates this is a bit much.