Comment Look out the window (Score 1) 100
Just... look out of the window
Comment Re:200 seconds at Mach 6... (Score 1) 326
How many football pitches is that?
Comment Re:Dear Ubuntu (Score 1) 683
I don't mind what the default colour is - I can always change that. But what I care about is my system getting screwed after performing version upgrades... Properly destroyed once and a major slow-down since going to Karmic...
Comment Re:It's already DRMd (Score 1) 169
From http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/content_mngt/summary/
1.9 The content management technology required to be implemented in receivers under the BBC's proposals would permit unrestricted recordings of HD content onto digital video recorders (DVRs) but would enable broadcasters to control the copying of this content onto other devices and its distribution over the internet. The HD content would only be accessible on other consumer devices which support the same content management technologies as those used in HD receivers.
1.9 The content management technology required to be implemented in receivers under the BBC's proposals would permit unrestricted recordings of HD content onto digital video recorders (DVRs) but would enable broadcasters to control the copying of this content onto other devices and its distribution over the internet. The HD content would only be accessible on other consumer devices which support the same content management technologies as those used in HD receivers.
Comment Re:I wouldn't, but not for privacy concerns (Score 1) 435
Call me horribly naive, but what does it really matter if Google knows something or even loads about my online life? It'll eventually know something about billions of people. I'm sure I'm not that interesting.
Comment Re:What's the big deal? (Score 1) 785
Okay, I'm pretty much a Linux newbie, but installing abrowser fucked my system.
Scotland Building Wave Power Farms 211
eldavojohn writes "Scottish engineers are taking advantage of the huge ocean coast that Scotland enjoys by building a 'wave farm' to harvest electricity from the ocean's powerful waves. These big red tubes have been named the Pelamis System after a sea snake. Max Carcas, the business developer for the firm, says it is 'a bit like a ship at anchor or a flag on a flagpole, it self orientates into the waves ... Waves then travel down the length of the machine and in doing so each of the sections, each of these train carriages, moves up and down and side to side.' These snake-like movements push hydraulic fluid through generators to produce electricity."
