Not only filming it.
I'd bet as soon as he finished recording he twittered or tweeted or whatever the term is.
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It always mildly annoys me when I see reports comparing CD buying to music downloads. They're not the same thing at all to my mind.
If I buy a song off itunes, that's all I get, that song. I can put it on my ipod, or play it on my computer perhaps.
If I go to a shop and buy a CD I get a complete package: That song, plus a bunch of others that go with it. I also get a physical object I can keep, show or lend to people. I can take it in the car, play it on any (reasonably modern) hi-fi, etc. etc. I also get a booklet of album art and often all the song lyrics printed out.
I know digital music technology is becoming ubiquitous, so the 'I can take a CD places' comment doesn't really stand up, but an album is still a whole object that is greater than just a given song.
I was about to post a similar 'can we have a full version with EXIF / more camera details' comment, then I realised: hang on, I'm a geek, this is the internet.
Presto manifesto: Bill has the file on flickr, along with the full metadata:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/billius/3813200097/meta/
Badgers paws? Don't mind if I do!
If Dell started selling systems with MacOS, the boys in Redmond really would have to worry. That is, unless of course Dell added Apple's 'premium' to the price too. I can't see it happening either way though. It's always been the case that you can't buy MacOS except on a mac, or buy a mac without MacOS (I know, boot camp etc. but you get the idea). That's part of what sets Apple apart from the down and dirty, any-OS-or-none-at-all world of modern PC sales. And I can't see why Apple would want to change that.
I think these photos though are either a hoax, a bored best buy employee messing about with the stock, or possible even a returned product that someone hacked and that found its way back onto the shelves.
Good stuff. Nice to see the word twatdangle bandied around again!
Really though, I don't mean to marginalise the problems of starving folks, but it seems a little odd to have an apparently high-profile charity for feeding the most obese nation on earth!
Paris because of the mention of shameless self-promotion.
The sorts of things they come up with (and presumably somehow acquire funding) for studies never ceases to amaze me.
Personally I would interpret the results that the people who were told "swear your head off" were so amused by it that they were in a better state of mind to endure.
Apparently...
According to Dr Timothy Wood, freshwater bryozoa expert:
"They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video."
This has been mentioned on all the other blogs that've posted this. Why no mention on El Reg?
I'm a little confused by the tone of this article. Surely this only applies to OEM licenses? How many large organisations use OEM licenses though?
Maybe I don't know any large enough - but all the organisations I know have volume licenses. OEM licenses are for small organisations with little or no real infrastructure, I always thought.
Two pages of bile including incredibly low-budget annotated screenshots which just serve to highlight the author's inexplicable grudge against google.
I personally think it's good that google try these things, whether they work or not. I'm sure more helpful members of the public than this 'writer' can actually contribute and help them improve the project.
While I neither condone nor condemn her 'art', I guess it must've been legal to perform, or she would've been arrested for it or banned from doing it.
From her thinly veiled threat about reporting her critics for their original correspondence I guess that is illegal.
Either way I understand her wanting to hit back, but can't help feel she's asking for trouble!
I find it interesting that if such an attack had been directed against, say: Oxfam, or maybe the Red Cross, it'd be shocking and contemptible. I would decry it as an example of the reason botnets need to be cleaned up and so forth.
However when it happens to the BNP, I struggle to feel any sympathy, and start to wonder if perhaps the murky side of the internet doesn't have its better points.
Paris - she can identify with suddenly being deprived of technology after all of those phones.
I've seen a few articles on this now, and the focus of them all has been "poor flight sim site, destroyed by malicious hacker".
Granted, whoever did this certainly seems to have had acted out of malice, and is certainly guilty of criminal acts. It doesn't much matter in the scheme of things why he/she did it. Vendetta? Revenge? (Things can be tough in the flight sim world, I'm sure!) Money? Just because they can and are the sort of sociopath that will do something like that?
What slightly jars for me though is that the injured party avsim.com is portrayed as the victim of the hacker, when surely they have to take some blame for not having any offsite backups. None! As far as I can gather, not a byte of their apparently irreplaceable data was backed up offsite. I know this was a privately run, for-fun site but still. External disk drives with hundreds of gigabytes of storage capacity are pretty cheap these days. DVD-Rs are a matter of pence. If you have the wherewithall to run a website on your own, I'd be amazed if you didn't realise how important backups are.
Yes this was an awful thing for someone to do, but let's not pretend the proprietors of avsim.com were completely innocent victims!
I have an accelerometer in my SE phone, which is just supposed to change the screen orientation for web browsing, and let you skip tracks with a shake of the phone when playing music.
Neither feature works very well. The inbuilt web browser often just flips the screen at random, and requires a vigorous frustrated shake to try and make it get back to the right way up. The music player track skip too works more often by accident than design.
Paris, because she is happy for you to flip her any way up.
That W7 should come with no browser? How are people going to download firefox? Or how about W7 with firefox preinstalled? Doesn't that just lead to the same situation in reverse?
I like firefox, because I think it's a good product - but whining like this without suggesting anything constructive just makes Mozilla look petty.
Hear hear!
That's the gist of what I was going to comment after reading this article! :)
I await with interest finding out what MS are going to do support-wise and update-wise for XP given that this latest move essentially prolongs its life for at least as long as they support Windows7.
It's just art vs pornography again.
The proud mothers who insist everyone should know what a free spirit they are say it's a beautiful display of the mother-child bond.
The prudes and the hand-wringing-worriers-about-the-children say it's pornography because it shows the naked breast.
The debate is philosophical, and just goes to show that whatever the issue: people are just basically argumentative sods.
But if you're posting to a website you need to abide by the rules of that site, and the rules say it's not allowed. Come on people, it's not hard..
I like this idea. But to be honest, I don't think it'll be that useful for me.
Now if they could make an app for my phone to stop me sending those texts that I always regret, I'd buy it!
It surely wouldn't be hard to make the phone recognise when it takes me more than four attempts to spell each word, and just quietly ignore my requests to 'send' and instead consign the message to a holding area for my mortified review the next morning.
With the sentiments expressed by other posters. I don't see why you would install XP on your EEE unless you had specific apps to run. If that is the case, why did you buy a linux laptop? I've yet to see any common task the EEE (with its stock OS) can't do, and do well.
Admittedly I replaced the stock OS on mine with ubuntu, but that's because I'm a fiddler and like changing things for the sake of it. I do intend to go back to the slightly more performant Xandros though.