On the other hand. Maybe none of the respondents were actually offered a million pounds, so answered in the negative knowing full well there wasn't a chance in hell they were going to get the money anyway.
You know the saying "I'd give my right arm for a night with her" etc etc.?
Actually Japan has long been known for strictly enforcing its laws online. They are able to do this because the Japanese speaking world is very small and based mostly in Japan, which is policeable. In a Japan where everyone had 20MB+ ADSL or 100MB/S optical FTTH connections when the rest of the world except Korea was arguing over 256KB/s could be sold as "broadband", I recall a case several years ago in which two users of 'winny', a popular P2P application were actually arrested over logs which showed transmission of the data for a movie between the two. The author of the sofware was himself arrested, too.
The English speaking world is far bigger than the US, making policing of matters relevant to English speakers very difficult.
Which one do you have? Cos I have a top of the line HD based Strada that's just over a year old and that sure as hell doesn't. The damned thing keeps trying to send me down 246 which at some times seems to be the *only* crowded road in Tokyo, or to Chiba by highway via Ichikawa when the Wangan is only slighly longer but much much faster.
I think this is a good idea, in theory at least.
But then wait until a couple of months later when all the 'dark' areas inexplicably start go*******NO CARRIER*******
I pay around $57.50 per month including modem rental for optical fiber to my home.
100Mbs down 100Mbs up
Sure it's 'best effort' once it gets to the ISP, but when I've tested it I've gotten over 95Mbps, That's when I can get my home network moving as quickly as that (old computers, wireless cause bottlenecks)
Living in Tokyo sure has its advantages.
You mention South Korea as it it's some bumfuck backwards country, That may be the impression many people have, but South Korea is highly technologically advanced. See Samsung, LG, Hyundai etc. In fact South Korea has the highest number of broadband connections per capita in the world. They were only 5th in the world to hit the 30 million internet user mark, but koreans were surfing 2Mbps connections when most of Japan's 30 million 'internet users' had little more than iMode.
I have the little brother of this thing, Panasonic's 50" plasma which I bought in 2002 when it was still the biggest on the market.
It stopped working last year, so I called the number on the back of the manual, and the same day a tech came to my house, opened up the back, replaced a small module and went his merry way totally free of charge. I didn't produce a receipt or proof of purchase, he just did it because there was a model number on it which proved it was (only just) less than 5 years old, and they have a 5 year warranty.
I've had problems in the past with a Pioneer DV-AX10 and a Denon AVC-A1D in the past. Both times techs came to my house and fixed them on the spot free of charge, Although the former was 'user error' and out of warranty the guy gave me no hassle.
I got the TV as an ex-display model and the others were bought used. But because they were all 'flagship' models, the level of service is something else.
... And for reference, I turned down the brightness on the TV from 100% (store setting) to around 65% on the day I got it. Despite having been on 15 hours per day as the demo model before I bought it, It still looks great after over 5 years of use, so all those decrying plasma life can take heart, when used sensibly they do last a long time.
You mean to say google provided you with a link (an http: link) to another link (a.torrent) which in turn pointed to copyrighted content?
Since google is the one with all the money, why not set the lawyers on google?
Oh right.. because google has enough money to blow your 'copyright infringement' claim out of the water, since they're not providing you with any copyrighted content in this case, (and neither are PB).
Thanks for the reply, nice to hear it from the horse's mouth.
Safari is pretty good anyway, but Camino was also very nice, and Firefox is good for my wife, and therefore good for me, as I'm still trying to wean her off the PC and she keeps giving me stick about the change in user interface.
Not to mention there's some freaky problem with the connection to yahoo japan's image server, but that's for another thread.
I'll give them another try.
I tried to use Firefox and Camino on OSX, but I found very many sites displaying with tiny text. The font appeared way smaller than it should and was very difficult to read. Yes, I know I could set a minimum font size but I'd have to do it for every font, and it would mess up pages where there was a good reason for a tiny font.
Safari rendered all of the pages fine, so now I just use safari, but it did make me wonder. Doesn't anyone else have this problem with Gecko based browsers?
And what's with the fucking lens flare? Isn't this supposed to be a demonstration of scientific interest? not Toy Story 3.
I mean, if they wanted 'realism' they could have given the thing more motion blur, maybe had a few flecks of dust hit the camera and given it more wind shake.
Quite the contrary. Lotus Sametime (chat) is the primary means of communication in our office. Phone is rarely used in-house and e-mail is for more 'official' communications or things which the sending party wants a record of.
On another note, my wife and I are using gmail for domains and I'm finding a very high occurence of my mail getting 'bounced' from servers or simply >dev/nulled. When I was mailing from the provider that hosted the domain this didn't happen, but now the mx records point to google I can't even send an e-mail from home to my own office!
It's bad enough for me, but the fact that my wife's e-mail is also getting lost is proving extremely problematic for me.
--You don't suspect that in a few years we won't have terabyte storage on our personal devices, do you? That would be really short sighted. If we're still here in 7 or 8 years, 1TB will probably be pretty ho-hum.
-We have TB of HD space for what $700-$800? It's not quite there, yet.
It's not quite 2015 yet, either.
Back in 2000 a 128MB Trek thumbdrive was $399. $3.12 per megabyte.
OK hard drives are cheaper. here is a nice historical table of the cost per gigabyte. For reference the number of Mb per $0.01c seems to go up by a factor of around 10 every 5 years. Meaning that 1 TB of storage should be around $70-80 in 5 years time.
Next we'll be hearing that workers who sabotage a company's reputation with its clients are invariably salespeople, or that workers who embezzle money are invariably accountants or working in financial control.
>One thing is certain. Only one device can play 30Mbit H.264 HD files from a network and it's a BD player.
What? The PS3? I wasn't aware of that feature, but it's a pretty important one to me, since my latest home movies are all AVCHD files from Sony's HD-SR1 HD cam.
Yet another 'compelling reason' to 'need' a PS3, right honey? *rubs hands together gleefully*
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On the other hand. Maybe none of the respondents were actually offered a million pounds, so answered in the negative knowing full well there wasn't a chance in hell they were going to get the money anyway. You know the saying "I'd give my right arm for a night with her" etc etc.?
Actually Japan has long been known for strictly enforcing its laws online. They are able to do this because the Japanese speaking world is very small and based mostly in Japan, which is policeable. In a Japan where everyone had 20MB+ ADSL or 100MB/S optical FTTH connections when the rest of the world except Korea was arguing over 256KB/s could be sold as "broadband", I recall a case several years ago in which two users of 'winny', a popular P2P application were actually arrested over logs which showed transmission of the data for a movie between the two. The author of the sofware was himself arrested, too. The English speaking world is far bigger than the US, making policing of matters relevant to English speakers very difficult.
Which one do you have? Cos I have a top of the line HD based Strada that's just over a year old and that sure as hell doesn't. The damned thing keeps trying to send me down 246 which at some times seems to be the *only* crowded road in Tokyo, or to Chiba by highway via Ichikawa when the Wangan is only slighly longer but much much faster.
Then all we need to counter their over-zealous activity is another kind of robot to push them down the stairs.
You're trying to tell me something other than a person has free will?
How preposterous. Next I suppose you'll be telling me animals have souls!
Another advance I'd like to see in Battery Technology, that is for rechargeable batteries to be the same voltage as their alkaline counterparts.
There are many applications where 1.2V just doesn't substitute well for 1.5V.
Dammit. That was the combination to my luggage!
t(^^) I'm doing is as hard as I can.
I think this is a good idea, in theory at least. But then wait until a couple of months later when all the 'dark' areas inexplicably start go*******NO CARRIER*******
I pay around $57.50 per month including modem rental for optical fiber to my home.
100Mbs down
100Mbs up
Sure it's 'best effort' once it gets to the ISP, but when I've tested it I've gotten over 95Mbps, That's when I can get my home network moving as quickly as that (old computers, wireless cause bottlenecks)
Living in Tokyo sure has its advantages.
You mention South Korea as it it's some bumfuck backwards country, That may be the impression many people have, but South Korea is highly technologically advanced. See Samsung, LG, Hyundai etc. In fact South Korea has the highest number of broadband connections per capita in the world. They were only 5th in the world to hit the 30 million internet user mark, but koreans were surfing 2Mbps connections when most of Japan's 30 million 'internet users' had little more than iMode.
I have the little brother of this thing, Panasonic's 50" plasma which I bought in 2002 when it was still the biggest on the market.
... And for reference, I turned down the brightness on the TV from 100% (store setting) to around 65% on the day I got it. Despite having been on 15 hours per day as the demo model before I bought it, It still looks great after over 5 years of use, so all those decrying plasma life can take heart, when used sensibly they do last a long time.
It stopped working last year, so I called the number on the back of the manual, and the same day a tech came to my house, opened up the back, replaced a small module and went his merry way totally free of charge. I didn't produce a receipt or proof of purchase, he just did it because there was a model number on it which proved it was (only just) less than 5 years old, and they have a 5 year warranty.
I've had problems in the past with a Pioneer DV-AX10 and a Denon AVC-A1D in the past. Both times techs came to my house and fixed them on the spot free of charge, Although the former was 'user error' and out of warranty the guy gave me no hassle.
I got the TV as an ex-display model and the others were bought used. But because they were all 'flagship' models, the level of service is something else.
No it doesn't beg the question, but it does indeed raise it. ;)
A known disgruntled previous tenant, her sister who was evicted, is apparently the prime suspect.
You mean to say google provided you with a link (an http: link) to another link (a .torrent) which in turn pointed to copyrighted content?
Since google is the one with all the money, why not set the lawyers on google?
Oh right.. because google has enough money to blow your 'copyright infringement' claim out of the water, since they're not providing you with any copyrighted content in this case, (and neither are PB).
Thanks for the reply, nice to hear it from the horse's mouth. Safari is pretty good anyway, but Camino was also very nice, and Firefox is good for my wife, and therefore good for me, as I'm still trying to wean her off the PC and she keeps giving me stick about the change in user interface. Not to mention there's some freaky problem with the connection to yahoo japan's image server, but that's for another thread. I'll give them another try.
Is it just me?
I tried to use Firefox and Camino on OSX, but I found very many sites displaying with tiny text. The font appeared way smaller than it should and was very difficult to read. Yes, I know I could set a minimum font size but I'd have to do it for every font, and it would mess up pages where there was a good reason for a tiny font.
Safari rendered all of the pages fine, so now I just use safari, but it did make me wonder. Doesn't anyone else have this problem with Gecko based browsers?
And what's with the fucking lens flare? Isn't this supposed to be a demonstration of scientific interest? not Toy Story 3.
I mean, if they wanted 'realism' they could have given the thing more motion blur, maybe had a few flecks of dust hit the camera and given it more wind shake.
>Yeah right. When was the last time a proprietary Microsoft format overtook a reigning defacto standard? .XLS .DOC
.WMA is enjoying quite some success.
Hell, even
Exactly. JP2000 was lossless, was it not?
What happened to that format, anyway? I was expecting it to be ubiquitous by now.
I was told variously that I was a dick, a tit, and an arsehole.
Neuron doesn't have the same ring to it, somehow.
Not unless made-widely-available HD DivX or AVCHD files retain records of the keys used to read the original from which it was encoded.
i.e. "No"
Quite the contrary. Lotus Sametime (chat) is the primary means of communication in our office. Phone is rarely used in-house and e-mail is for more 'official' communications or things which the sending party wants a record of.
On another note, my wife and I are using gmail for domains and I'm finding a very high occurence of my mail getting 'bounced' from servers or simply >dev/nulled. When I was mailing from the provider that hosted the domain this didn't happen, but now the mx records point to google I can't even send an e-mail from home to my own office!
It's bad enough for me, but the fact that my wife's e-mail is also getting lost is proving extremely problematic for me.
-We have TB of HD space for what $700-$800? It's not quite there, yet.
It's not quite 2015 yet, either.
Back in 2000 a 128MB Trek thumbdrive was $399. $3.12 per megabyte.
OK hard drives are cheaper. here is a nice historical table of the cost per gigabyte. For reference the number of Mb per $0.01c seems to go up by a factor of around 10 every 5 years. Meaning that 1 TB of storage should be around $70-80 in 5 years time.
And even then it won't be 2015 yet
Next we'll be hearing that workers who sabotage a company's reputation with its clients are invariably salespeople, or that workers who embezzle money are invariably accountants or working in financial control.
>One thing is certain. Only one device can play 30Mbit H.264 HD files from a network and it's a BD player.
What? The PS3? I wasn't aware of that feature, but it's a pretty important one to me, since my latest home movies are all AVCHD files from Sony's HD-SR1 HD cam.
Yet another 'compelling reason' to 'need' a PS3, right honey? *rubs hands together gleefully*
When we burn bio-fuel, we still release the greenhouse gases responsible for causing climate change.
Aaargh. But we took them OUT of the atmosphere in the first place to grow our biofuel-forming plants
As far as I'm concerned that's the whole friggin point. A net-zero renewable carbon cycle