Most valuable asset?
Yeah, right.
Like this: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-03-03/
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The same thing, only with LED edge backlighting and added thinness.
For digital SD input, whack up the "Sharpness" control and feed a spot of MPEG noise control in too. It does a great job of sorting out the blurriness and artefacting on upscaled input and is one of the better things about these sets. Helpful here is that the settings can be individually configured for a given input source so adding the post-processing to the SD inputs to get a decent upscaled result doesn't affect HD goodness.
The worst thing that I've found (which you didn't even touch on) is that the panel's viewing angles are abso-bloody-lutely atrocious. Anything either side of dead straight on degrades rapidly, achieving "unwatchable washed-out shite" by about 45 degrees off axis. I suppose it's possible that the CCFL backlighting makes the 400 better in this regard? Can you confirm?
Incidently, that may be the "suggested" price but you'd be insane to pay anywhere near that. That's about what I paid for the 700.....
The confusion on spec here would also point to it being the YeeWay device. In the pic of that you can clearly see one full size USB "A" port and an adjacent USB on-the-go (both master and device) port in mini-usb format.
So it's got two USB ports, but as one of them's labelled "OTG" and is a different type this may have confused a few people.
What the hell's up with the door?
Looks like it's too big for the hole. Some sort of optical illusion / weird perspective effect or does it really stick up above the roof when closed like that (and presumably leaks like a bucket with holes in when it rains)? If the latter, why can't we see the top of the one on the other side?
Looks like someone screwed up in Photoshop and then went on to build the result.
"We believe this type of attack could only be conducted with nation-state support and backing,"
Yes, 'cos no l33t d00d h4x0r has ever produced a cunningly crafted worm using Windows exploits to target a specific software landscape in the past, have they?
I suggest that Kaspersky give up the day job and go over full time to writing for the Daily Mail.
I'd suggest that an alternate view here would be that Kaspersky found that it was yet another Russian cybercrime gang behind it and the Russian government told 'em in no uncertain terms to cover this up to avoid souring their relations with Iran. If it were thought to be a "nation state", it'll take all of five minutes for the finger to be pointed at Israel and the US*, which will suit the Russians quite nicely.
I can haz conzpirasy yes?
*'Cos everyone'll see "Iran" and conveniently overlook both all the other places hit and that Iran weren't even the first on the receiving end. Can't let pesky facts get in the way of a good conspiracy now, can we?
You can be both confident and dead.
You'll find that a suitably overlooked motorcycle moving at speed* through a junction at green will do that for you one day. The number of bleedin' cyclists who think, like you, that red lights, give way signs and such are advisory that I've had a "near miss" with while biking through London in the past is quite scary.
*Even at 30mph, taking a 500cc or larger machine in the side is *really* going to ruin your day.
Or they could just stick with what they know and reject the humungous retraining/migration/refactoring/interfacing/transitioning/inevitable-huge-fuckup costs associated with that little lot.
"This could help Britain at a time of economic trouble..."
I'm not sure that a massive "replace everything" project with an inevitable umpty-something billion price tag on it is quite what anyone needs when they're broke.
Too right.
I can see this one tagging onto those mailed lists of "clever sounding brand names that tanked in other markets 'cos the maker was too bleedin' stupid to think about what it might mean internationally.".
You know, along with wax tadpole cola, cars that advertise your pathetic knob size and such.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=munting
Therefore: Munting - as above, Munter - one who's only chance of getting any is by munting.
You work it out. At the risk of the banhammer I'd say feel free to post your interpretation as I'd be interested to see what linguistic behemoth the colonials come up with for that one. I don't think that "fugly" quite conveys the full horror here...
Obvious problem, if the server with the RAID array has gone unexpectedly titsup in full cry, there's a real likelyhood of the RAID set being compromised. A variety of failures could cause this, not least of which is the RAID card itself deciding to have a bad day.
Presumably the replication side works on a "known good" basis so any partially written or corrupted cack from server A that just went pear-shaped never makes it into the copy on server B.
"Nuclear power for commercial vessels is becoming significantly more attractive.............not least from an environmental perspective,"
<Sad old git>
When I were a lad, it were simple in the environmental activism business: Nuclear bad, non-nuclear good and every long-haired, kaftan wearing freak that could carry a banner knew it. Now there's all these bright young lads with thir sharp suits and their carbon emissions figures touting nuclear power as a good thing.
It's enough to make you want to take off your sandals and shave.......
</Sad old git>
Who appear to have an inside track to nobble the Beeb if last night's "Spooks" is anything to go by.
Apparently you can put one of these electropulse superweapons under the Palace of Westminster and this is the ULTIMATE DEFENCE AGAINST TERRORISM!!!!!!111!!!!!
That should stop any pesky reality checks interfering with the signing of humungoresearchwonga cheques. After all, when it comes to convincing MPs that something's a Good Thing you can't beat easily knocking off 40-knot drug-subs stuffed with explosives in the Thames*, can you?
*However hopelessly bleedin' unlikely *that* may be.
Nouvelle cuisine is all about tiny portions artistically presented in the middle of the plate, not a mountain of food piled all over it.
I was once taken to a nouvelle cuisine restaurant stateside. When I was told where we were going to eat I puzzled over how the miniscule portions associated with nouvelle cuisine could be reconciled with my experiences of Yank food servings to date.
The answer turned out to be 3 foot plates with huge servings of top-notch grub artistically presented in the middle. I suppose I should have guessed.....
I hate to say it, but I suspect there'll be an app for that.
Seriously, why not? As it runs iOS I'd have thought that "other services" could be implemented on a "download the app" basis, once they've jumped through all the hoops to get the blessing of Jobs on their apps of course. I believe there's already an iPlayer app for iPhone and iPad and I wouldn't be surprised to see this crop up as a download for ATV too.
That would make it very interesting indeed. "Game changing" even.....
I think this is the first time I've used *that* icon. I feel a strange need to bleat now.
You mentioned Melton Mowbray Pork Pies. Those deliciously artery-clogging pieces of heaven which aren't available over here at all.
Thanks for ruining my weekend. The only way it could get any worse now is if something reminded me of Garner's pickled onions or mature Cheddar cheese.........DAMN!