Comment Re: Sooo Samsung can brick products remotely eh? (Score 5, Funny) 161
Intentionally sometimes!
Intentionally sometimes!
DIstance Selling regulations in UK have been superceded by Consumer Contract Regulations as of 13th June 2014. it does not provide for a cooling off period for services where the consumer has agreed to provision of those services before completion of a minimum 7 day cooling period except where the provider has failed to provide information in accordance with the regulations.
more info see : http://www.which.co.uk/consume...
The BBC and NHK collaborated to demonstrate this system during the olympics , broadcasting to 3 sites in UK , 2 in US and 2 in Japan.
Further detail See http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchanddevelopment/2012/08/the-olympics-in-super-hi-visio.shtml
The opening/closing ceremony were broadcast live whereas during the rest of the week a daily hour long highlights package covering the opening ceremony and specific events package was compiled and broadcast on a daily basis.
I was fortunate enough to experience the system at Bradford Museum of the Moving Image on a 15 metre square screen and a couple of megawatts of sound..
With reputedly only 3 cameras in the world camera angles were somewhat limited, the opening ceremony coverage placed you in the heart of the stadium as if you were an audience member showing off the wide field of vision offered. I found the 22 channels of sound to be somewhat overwhelming in volume which I judged to be a bit of a cheap trick to impress. As with initial experience of Hidef the enhanced resolution can lead one to examine detail towards the edge of the field of vision. I was slightly disappointed that there was some blockiness at the edge. This may be due to focussing issues, focus is performed away from the camera.
All in all I found it quite comparable to the Imax experience excepting lack of 3d.
Purportedly a primary benefit is a reduction in crime or should that be the detection of crime! But given UK governments track record on cost reductions this seems unlikely to be realised.
It's a case of another land grab for more monitoring powers after they failed last time round with a Labour administration.
it should be interesting to see those who opposed whilst in opposition supporting it now they are in power.
That its written in PHP doesnt make it inherently good or bad after all a dictionary contains the words making up both the most expressive poetry and the simple tabloid headlines.
A Conversation relies upon a vocabulary in common and in my experience(defined above) Drupal fails to clearly define that vocabulary and explain it readily.
It seemed appropiate to the task but I would probably not choose to develop in it subsequently
Having invest 300hrs+ in drupal 6 and having a bookshelf of some 15 books on specific aspects I remain disappointed by the sprawling architecture and lack of cohesion of this product.
I look forward to a book that can bring order to the chaos that i perceive drupal currently to be with its multitude of modules however this evidently is not that book.
On a secondary note with drupal 7 currently in its fifth alpha iteration i suspect this book is designed with obsolescence in mind.
Maybe somehow i failed to drink the kool-aid
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