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I watch full screen youtube, except I use the zoom function of the compiz desktop thingy. Much better than flash fullscreen!

I just wish the cursor would become invisible when in zoom mode...some hacking may be in order!

Yeah, but I really enjoyed wiring up my house, with the drilling and the cabling and the screwing. It made me feel like a real man.

I later added wireless to the network, purely for my WII because it didn't have an ethernet port on it!

How about this:

1. attach lots (and lots) of these together
2. send them all a small portion of a film (the picture not different parts of the film!)
3. then stick them all together, ensure they play in sync (somehow).

Hey presto! Huge hi-res LCD display...for free (I mean, all the left over magazines will be useful...maybe make a paper mache housing for your new 'TV')

Scary. You've just described myself to a 'T', especially with the completely unfounded superiority complex...

To make matters worse, it seems that 'the older generation' are being convinced into purcahsing lesss secure operating systems. Case in point: I built my mother in law a debian based desktop machine (she only wanted to use facebook). Yet, somehow she was convinced to purchase a laptop (she only uses the machine at a desk) with Windows Vista. She now has 'a virus' and has had to pay PC World money to fix it.

Idiot. And to think my son shares genes with her...don't tell my missus I said that.

That is quite possibly the most brilliant idea I've ever read on one of these, far too frequent discussions, on piracy/TPB. Well done!

"Oh, geez, not the ridiculous "free advertising" argument again. Let's throw out the other Slashdot cliches too, like "obsolete business model," "cultural revolution," and "MAFIAA.""

Just because they are often repeated cliches, does not neccesarily mean they are untrue.

Or by, erm, I dunno, wearing a pair of dark glasses? And if the system can recognise shades then simply wear a pair of crazy Dame Edna Everage style dark-glasses!

I wonder what sort of penetration the P Nes might get?

I think a lot of people are just slaves to consumerism. Here's my story:

My wifes mother wanted access to this 'Facebook' that everybody's talking about. However, she didn't have a phone line and didn't want to be tied to ANY contract or anything of course she didn't want to have to payout loads of cash either. So, I put together a PC for her from bits I had lying around, a very decent Pc as it happened: P4 1.8Gighz, 1Gig ram, Nvidia Gforce4 graphics. I installed Ubuntu with the netbook remix interface (she had never used a PC of ANY kind before but had used a mobile phone). I also bought her a 3 Mobile broadband Pay As You Go dongle. Set it all up, away she went.

A week goes by, she checks facebook, find recipes on google etc. Great, I think, a job well done and another linux user (who doesn't even know it). Great, until she announces that she's buying a laptop because "the computer is too bulky" (meaning the CRT and base unit is too big - even though she has a huge room and even bought a new desk to accomodate the PC!).

So, there you go, even though I had provided her with a perfectly working PC the lure of consumerism was too much and the 'need' to spend some money will create another Windows user!

Well, I'm not doing windows technical support so she can forget that...

Does this mean you could actually burn Goatse onto someones retina? What a horrible thought: the last image you ever get to see being Goatse

I'm sure this still isn't fast enough to capture light filling a room but I'd always dreamt of having such a video camera. Imagine, a recording a someone flicking a light switch and watching in slow-motion as the light bounces around the room filling each area. Aah, I can dream.

Yes, I've seen them:

http://www.geocities.com/james_sager2/

and

http://www.geocities.com/james_sager_PA/

this one dissapeared:

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sager/

but it's still on archive.org

Fascinating stuff James, to a clinical psychologist maybe!

Yes, move your 'crazy' pages - there must be loads of free hosting out there. In fact, that's quite apt - the internet NEEDS sites like yours! I'm fascinated anyway - did you ever build your AI?

I didn't say I thought the BBC content was rubbish. I agree there are some decent programmes on the BBC* (the Louis Theroux(sp?) shows come to mind). I would just like to have the option to payor not to pay. If I didn't live with someone who can't live without TV I wouldn't own one at all but I would sure as hell own a PC! *Saying that though, the ratio of good to rubbish seems about 1:100...plus I'd take channel four news over BBC if I had to.

The BBC has wanted to add 'a PC' onto the list of things that require payment of the license Tax for a long time now. This move has helped them along their way to reaching that goal. They could avoid this by forcing the user to enter the license details upon download of the player or similar. I somehow doubt they will do this though and again choose to force more people into paying.