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Yeah, but the moment you introduce ambient light, you need 72Hz/96Hz to reduce flicker. We're stuck with 100-year old standards (well, not quite, we did away with 16fps/18fps a long time ago) and are now trying to adapt old standards to new technology. What would be ideal would be for film to adapt to 50+fps, but that's not going to happen.

... which is silly. There is simply no good reason to do this, apart from to reduce flicker in ambient electrical light. 48Hz projection can cause motion perception issues, for instance, so you're better off with pure 24Hz and no lights. Then again, people put up with 2:3 Pulldown.

The glossy screens have better contrast and colour. I'm all for them.

Cinema is 48Hz? Film is 24fps (24Hz) progressive, NTSC is 30fps interlaced, PAL is 25fps interlaced. 1080i is 30fps interlaced, 1080p is 24fps progressive, 720p is 60fps progressive.

So? If Insider Trading were made legal tomorrow, the stock market would fail. Let's put it like this: To ensure the survival of the Stock Market, they introduced Insider Trading laws. Computer networks existed well before hacking laws were introduced. How do you think the internet would be if they suddenly made intrusion legal?

Cool. Which series? (I'm a huge road-racing fan)

Ethical view? If Insider Trading were legal, the stock market would cease to function. It wouldn't be a stock market any more.

Ok, you win! Which team?

Not true. We just hate the ones that cheated their way to the top ... unless, of course, they don't get caught!

Analogies don't work in this case. The stock market is an abstract concept if you think about it, where people swap faith and trust. If it were like selling and buying cars, it wouldn't need anti-predatory legislation, would it.

I used to be a writer/graphic designer for a role-playing games company until internet agencies started appearing in the late 90s, then I switched over to Systems Manager/Sysadmin and now I've shed the boring bits and I'm just a Sysadmin. I work pretty much exclusively on web-based stuff, installing servers/sites for clients you've heard of, working for an agency you haven't. I'm platform agnostic, working on flavours of Linux and Windows, but I sit at a 24" monitor plugged into a Mac Pro with more RAM than you have.

If the person that sold them to you knew what you knew, they would not willingly sell them. That's where the fraud comes in. When you sell shares, you do so on the grounds that the person doing the buying has access to the same information to you and vise-versa. For the whole stock market to work, it has to be that way. How hard is it to understand that the system requires this kind of honesty to work. It's why it's so heavily monitored and regulated. Unfortunately, the shares business attracts that predatory bastardesque kind of man that will literally sell their morals to the highest bidder. Without these regulations, in a true unregulated libertarian free market, the largest shark gets bigger and wage slavery becomes a reality once more. I'm all for equality and freedom, but some people simply don't deserve it.

Wow. Some of the "take it and screw the morals" opinions here certainly demonstrate why the stock Market is so heavily regulated. Have you no shame? Insider trading is illegal for good reason.

Um, seriously?

The entire stock market is based on making money by taking it off people. Nothing is ever produced from nothing in the stock market. Little wonder it's a den of vipers.

Excellent advice for all things. It's so much easier to keep track of what you're supposed to have told people when it's the truth.

It's a great watch but it looks like the bezel fell off. Still, K2222 lent me his and it impressed me enough that I now want one,

There's only one watch you can wear while driving that: Omega Speedmaster. Moonwatch in a Stingray, it's the only way. Ask Jim Lovell, Alan Sheperd, etc.

If you're breaking it down to biological function, what does that say about arses? /me likes awesome bewbage.

It's not page loading time, it's page generation time. That's a real killer as it means TCP sockets are open for 9 seconds and Apache threads are open for 9 seconds. Given enough traffic, that's death for a server.

Wow, 42 SQL queries and 31 are from the ratings system? Kill it. Kill it with fire!

Today, this one. In other news, my new camera arrived as did this bracelet!

Excellent review!

I wear ... (looks, chooses) an IWC Slevin to work today. I'm sure I should choose something that says what I do or something, or something that matches what I'm wearing, but I don't think like that about watches.

Here's where it gets difficult. Ideally you want to run your entire system encrypted as no matter how clever you think you are, you'll miss stuff like MS Word's temporary files meaning no matter what you delete properly, an investigator on a low-level scan will catch stuff you didn't even know was there.