Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Jimmy Pursey saying awright chavvy?
If he does it would be a very early coinage, as I come from much the same area and time as Mr Pursey, and never heard the word before the late 90's. (Hersham, btw, is an suburb in Surrey. Maybe the equivalent of Pt Chev or Kohimaramara. Not the ghetto).
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If you pay the victim of your crimes off, isn't that corrupting a witness (under s117 of the Crimes Act)?
I'm assuming Veitch will be talking to the cops real soon now, as he just confessed to that, as well as GBH.
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Kyle, it's the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. The term Cullen Fund is just a nickname.
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Musicians may well stop recording music to make a living- because that may become impossible
Hasn't it always been near-impossible in NZ? Of the NZ musicians playing gigs around town and being played on the radio, what percentage have day jobs? 95%?
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enough capacity to store - and then seed via BitTorrent to each and every PVR-cum-node- all the decent TV programmes broadcast in the UK
We could have the same for "all the decent TV progs" in NZ. Running on an iPhone.
Sorry broadcasters - couldn't resist :-)
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Weeding the psychos
I had an idea the other day, when I went to site that uses a simple arithmetic problem instead of a Captcha. You could have an intelligence test to validate posters, e.g:
Treaty Settlements have cost New Zealanders:
a. Far too much to featherbed them bloody maaaari.
b. Billions and billions of dollars
c. Less than the cost of an iPhone each. On the $250 plan. -
Regarding 08wire, it isn't a "loophole" that they're able to do what they like overseas. It's the simple fact that NZ law applies (mostly) only in NZ.
And so it should. Governments shouldn't go claiming extraterritorial jurisdiction, except with very serious things like war crimes, and then preferably by international consensus.
We wouldn't like it if China or Saudi Arabia tried to stop somebody blogging from here on their poltics, would we? (Well maybe some people...)
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In Africa beer and soft drinks are sold in glass bottles. The bottles cost more than the contents, so the people selling them won't let them out of their sight.
Bottle recycling is something where government could do a lot and individuals can do very little. If there were a mandatory 50c deposit on all bottles, then they'd have to collect and reuse them. But then people would whinge about the nanny state putting up the price of beer. Etc.
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its an exact copy of a digital master
Maybe when CD came out.
Today I believe the state of the art for digital studio stuff is 96kHz sample rate with 24 bit samples, right? CD is nowhere near that (44kHz, 16 bit samples).
Dogs can hear the difference...
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Bit of real technical stuff for you here.
A "conventional" CD player, as envisaged when the format was launched, runs the laser past the music in real time, extracts a stream of bits and plays that as sound. Bumps and scratches either interrupt the stream (bad) or move the head back so that it skips (worse).
A computer spins the disk as fast as it can and reads the data into memory, then plays it. Most car CD players do the same thing in order to deal with the bumpiness problem.
CD copy protection schemes faffed with the format in a way that worked on a conventional player, but failed on a digital device. This wasn't that effective, because people wrote better copy software, or just downloaded an unprotected copy instead of buying the CD.
Plus, robbery, copy protected CDs have a warning on them to the effect that they won't play on a computer. So anyone buying them has been warned (they are more or less extinct nowadays).