If the "o" makes the same sound in "ouvr" as it does in "ov", then "ouvr" is next-to-impossible to pronounce (not to mention doesn't sound like it's supposed to).

If this is a phonetic system, the "o" has to always make the same sound.

So? This isn't Flash. You don't need it to visit 95% of the web. You hardly ever need it – I didn't even have it installed.

Check the add-ons; if you don't have "Shockwave for Director", it isn't even installed. "Shockwave Flash" is the flash player (not Shockwave).

It's amazing! 9 out of 10 people they stop after spotting them with the rod actually have bombs! What that says about the people that aren't being stopped is a mystery...

Hmm I wonder if this law will let me disconnect a router from the internet... or a Root name server.

• Tracking the trackers
• Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice
• The Inexact Science Behind D.M.C.A. Takedown Notices

VLC 0.8.7 (Fedora 8) and VLC 1.0.2 (Fedora 11) both seem to be able to cope with the low bitrate Yahoo links.

I selected OpenNetworkStream from the File/Media menu and pasted the URL in the http stream box and VLC managed to decode the real stream URLs from the Yahoo links ok.
On the higher bitrate links both versions of VLC hang after a few frames.

Is anyone else having problems with these feeds on Linux with VLC ?

The 200k/s Windows Media stream seems to work ok, but the higher resolution streams just display a few frames of video and then lock up.

The Real Media stream only provides audio, but it seems to be at about 60 seconds ahead of the Windows Media streams.

Computer, show me all ship-like objects, in any profile. Ah, there it is."

We are working on it IVOA.

This is a very important feature not only for the NOs, but also for businesses who would provide these phones to their field teams.

.... just not that good for the actual users.

If i had my way, I would never see an advertisement.

How would /. raise the money to pay for their web servers ?
If it was a subscription only service would you pay to read it ?

2. We switch to different packaging. Instead of making disks larger we cram more of them into the same space similar to CPU cores - same MTBF per disk but lots of them presented out by one physical interface.

Um ... isn't that what RAID does ?
What you describe would just move the the the RAID controller inside the drive enclosure rather than on the PCI bus.

Unless you were thinking that we create a 10Tbyte disk from 10 x 1Tbyte discs, so if one fails you would only have to replicate 1Tbyte of data rather than the whole 10Tbyte.
In which case, the RAID controller would have to be able to 'see' inside the 10Tbyte virtual disc to know which of the internal discs had failed and what needed replicating.
So a 10Tbyte 'virtual' disc created by LVM gluing 10 x 1Tbyte RAID 1 arrays together to make them look like one large 10Tbyte disc ? .... all in one little box that could overheat, driven by one power supply that could fail or spike damaging the LVM or RAID controller chip corrupting the whole lot.

You need a license if you watch or record TV as it's broadcast

Also from the TV licensing site:

You do not need to be covered by a TV licence (extremely long url):

• If you are using these websites to watch television programmes that are not being shown on TV at the same time. This is often described as a "catch up" service.
• To view video clips on the internet, as long as what you are viewing is not being shown on TV at the same time as you are viewing it.

We don't own a TV. We do watch BBC programs from the iPlayer site, but only after they are broadcast (using standard Flash plugin NOT the DRM AdobeAir version). which means that technically we don't have to pay for a TV license. However we decided we would because we like what they produce and are happy to contribute something. IF the BBC start to add DRM to everything, we will probably reconsider.

Cloud computing is just proprietary computing by another name. It can still be useful, but the control lies with the cloud owner rather than the user.

If you see cloud compute as a 'software service' system like Google Mail or Google Docs, then perhaps yes.
We use cloud compute in the 'generic virtual machine provider' sense.

We use a couple of cloud compute providers to host our web servers. We pay a monthly fee and get the root password to a standard Linux virtual machine, what we install on it is up to us. If the physical hardware that is hosting our server fails, we just install it somewhere else. All of the install process is automated, and we can transfer our server and data from one provider to another in a couple of hours*.

We can alter the machine resources (cpu, memory disc) whenever we like.
We review the costs on a regular basis and can move to another provider if think we can get a better deal**.

* Installing from backup on to a new machine takes about 10min, the biggest delay is waiting for cached DNS records to catch up.
** We currently use two providers, one in the US and one in the UK and currency exchange rates can make a significant difference.

Why a USB connector ? That causes the same problem as making SSD cards use the SATA interface - the serial interface becomes slower than the things it is connected to.

What I would like to see is a set of sockets on the motherboard, mapped into the main memory address space (not PCI), a physical switch on the board to make them read only and software in the BIOS to make them look like a bootable disk.

Four sockets with 16 or 32G in each would give you enough space to store the entire OS. I don't know how Windows would handle it, but in a Unix or Linux based system it would be fairly easy to mount the devices as read only partitions and map them into the filesystem. This would be ideal for a server system, mapping the entire OS into the main memory address space and making it read only.

In fact all the BIOS would need to do is make the first 100M visible as a boot partition, and leave the OS to handle the rest.