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Comment Just wait till the re-issues... (Score 1) 98

Lego have re-issued sets before, including large/expensive ones, as a "Legends" line. There's also been adhoc re-issues of sets other than the Legends line. All it takes is Lego to do the same again with the few sets that are being ridiculously hoarded and traded at obscene prices for some people (Those who bought early) being left with no gains and some (those who bought in older sets late) being left hugely out of pocket. The more they push it as an investment idea, the more Lego may realise there's demand for the sets to be reissued.

Comment Re:was popular in Ireland too (Score 1) 160

RTE has Aertel which was on the analogue services until they closed this morning, and is still available as a DVB insert on satellite (and possibly digital terrestrial - it was, but they suggested they'd turn it off too).

They also have the exact same data and page numbers in an MHEG5 app and a web interface to it also:

http://www.rte.ie/aertel/desktopxhtml/100-1.html

Don't think its that popular anymore, but it was common to see pubs leave 150 (lotto results) or the rotating football results page (222? I think?) up on a TV in the corner to save staff being asked the same questions over and over or being asked to change channel.

Comment Beware of FTTx (in some situations) (Score 1) 165

My house has FTTH. Except its dark, ever since the firm providing it went bankrupt and was bought by another that promptly went bankrupt itself. It *was* sold at 10mbits and 20mbits when they were in business, at a time when DSL was usually 512k or 1mbit. So I'm stuck with 3mbit DSL, due to the estate having been connected to a second-string exchange as the telco never thought anyone would want DSL with FTTH. The rest of the town gets either 8mbit or 24mbit depending on who they get service from. Then, to make it worse, as the FTTH provider had an early IPTV package, the cable company never cabled this estate. They legally could (totally unregulated market) but they decided it wasn't worth it. They have the rest of the town cabled. They now offer 150/10mbit. I've decided its time to move house!
Supercomputing

Submission + - PS3 Folding@home project gets Guinness record (news.com)

mytrip writes: "t's a small thing, but Sony got some good news today related to its troubled PlayStation 3 video game console. In fact, the system helped set a new Guinness World Record.

The record was set by Stanford University's Folding@home project, a distributed computing system utilizing PS3s among other computers, to help scientists study the effects of a process called "protein folding" on a series of serious diseases.

Well, Guinness has apparently certified the project as the world's most powerful distributed computing system. According to a release from Sony, Folding@home topped 1 petaflop last month, meaning that it surpassed a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. By comparison, the well-known SETI@home project has topped out, according to Wikipedia, at around 265 teraflops, or 265 trillion floating point operations a second."

Windows

Submission + - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

swaha writes: "Microsoft is apparently threatened by open source software running under Vista and has imposed limitations on memory size on GCC compiled programs that were not present under either XP or Win 98SE or even MS-DOS."
The Internet

Submission + - Canadian ISP Blocking Encrypted Email

An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist reports that Rogers, one of Canada's largest ISPs, has implemented new technologies that may limit access to basic services such as email. The move comes as a result of Rogers packet shaping, which limits the bandwidth allocated to peer-to-peer applications. Many P2P apps now encrypt their data, so in response Rogers is simply degrading all encrypted traffic and in the process mistaking encrypted email traffic for BitTorrent traffic.

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