In jolly ole England we use international road signs, very few of which have any English language text on them so that non-English-speaking drivers can still use our roads. The maximum clearance signs have an iconic representation of the vertical clearance and a height marked on them (http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/Signsandmarkings/index.htm, under "Warning Signs"). They are not marked "Max Headroom", he was an animated character on 1980s TV.
That's common practice, mainly so that emergency vehicles can get in. Another way is to put the barriers on all access routes except one. Ok, so you still get truckers coming in on that one, but if you make the right road the access road you get rid of most of the problem, and if you build the barriers strong enough and it's hard enough to turn around then the truckers may still be there when the traffic warden turns up on Tuesday morning...
Quite frankly, I don't see how you can take points away from someone caught with a camera. You can't prove who was driving the car. This has been controversial in the UK. Essentially, the registered keeper is obliged to declare who was driving at the time of the offence. This has been challenged as being a breach of the European equivalent of the fifth amendment, but has been upheld. I'm not sure what happens if the person the registered keeper names denies being the driver, but I suspect it's for the registered keeper to prove -- I've certainly heard of drivers being held liable for parking fines when their vehicle was supposed to be in repair shop.
Possibly even more of an issue is vehicles using false license plates. The criminals look around car parks and find the registration number of a car the same model and colour as theirs, and get a bent license plate maker to make them the false plates: http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/extra/series2/car_cloning.shtml.
If the BBC shows a rerun of Sesame Street that claims that 1 + 1 = 2, do they have to give equal time to mathematicians who claim that it isn't? (Where would they find them?)
If the program was wrong, it wasn't wrong because they had the wrong number of scientists on each side.
Fine, but I need a pile of text books and standards to do my job, and most are only available on paper. Changing desk means moving more than I can carry. I've worked for organisations in the past that rather overestimated the paperless office, and it was a nightmare. Fortunately (and not entirely by chance) I work for a more enlightened company now.
Depends what you call the "social networking movement". Computer based social networking existed for a long while before LiveJournal, going back to dial-up subscription services such as The Well http://www.well.com/ and CiX http://conferencing.cixonline.com/. It wasn't called social networking then, but that's what it was.
It seems to ignore a third view -- that intelligence is (pretty much) fixed, but we need to learn to use it. The capacity of a beer tankard might be fixed, but a pint tankard is as useless as a half-pint tankard until you put some beer into it.
The law is full of arbitrary figures, and pretty much has to be. Even if you made the minimum a multiple of the consequent losses, the multiplier is still an arbitrary figure. Even if the multiplier is 1 or 0. All that means is that the numbers should be subject to review and renegotiation. You can't get rid of them.
I think you argue effectively against your own case that it's the MB that counts. I'm on my 3rd MB (and 4th set of fans, second monitor, and I've been waiting over a month for replacements for the dead videocards) on my Mesh computer in just 18 months. The manufacturer might cover the OEM stuff, but would the warranty cover replacement software (when specialist stuff I use costs almost US$10,000 per seat -- not unusual for a vertical app)? Answer: no.
I don't think it's just the publicity $. For most of the general public (by which, according to/. custom, I really mean me) nanotechnology is the stuff that keeps Jack Harkness alive and heals Ratchet. Ok, it went a bit wrong in The Empty Child, but The Doctor sorted it out.
Unless you think that it's all product placement, and it's the publicity $ that has made it a beneficial sci-fi staple...
> I wouldn't buy it
Why not? It looks like an improvement to me. Pretty much all DVDs have all the ads anyway, this looks like it could be a way to lose them. Although I suppose it depends where they put their ads (polite suggestions only, please).
I abandoned O2 for Vodafone because the O2 coverage was terrible where I live (a suburb of London); no signal at ground level, I was able to get a weak signal by the window in one bedroom. Coverage isn't so great.
But aren't we on a different frequency here in ths UK? It would be quite easy for the UK experience not to be the same as the US experience.
I agree. I'm no scientist, but it sounds like philosophy and science just had a nasty one night stand they will soon regret Yes, I expect they would -- philosophy is a parent of science, so a one-night stand between the two would be a pretty bad idea.
If it's not waterproof, when I drop it in the bath I'll be $400 down instead of $10 down. And will I have to turn my book off during take-off and landing? Oh look, I'd need to change my mobile phone service provider! How much does EVDO cost, anyway? I can't find anybody offering UK-based contracts? Can I mark text with different coloured hi-lighters and draw diagrams in the margin?
Looks to me as if it might find a place alongside the book, but I don't see it being a replacement any time soon.
They had to sell off some of their land recently to keep going (this is now getting turned into a local housing estate). To be fair, they probably had a lot more land than they needed. I did my apprenticeship there in the 1970s; there was a huge field at the back where we had a whole pile of aviation navigation aids set up, as well as far more squat brick-built huts than anybody could want in peacetime.
Of course, the issue with selling off the land is that it means they're living on capital rather than revenue, which I suppose is a problem.
I often respond to telemarketers by asking "Are you incompetents who don't know the regulations relating to your business, or crooks who ignore it?", but as more and more are operating from overseas, and so from outside the coverage of the regulations that isn't working as well as it used to, and the TPS (the UK equivalent of the DNC list) is looking increasingly irrelevant.
A few of them will not be underage -- most pupils will have their 16th birthday in their final year, and the age of consent in the UK is 16. It is cutting things a bit fine, though.
AT&T... [is] noticeably absent from the coalition not wanting to support a device that favors Google over other providers. WHAT?! They support devices that favor Apple over other providers. Does anyone else see this hypocracy? Not as hypocrisy, no. If they said that all coalitions should be provider-neutral it would be hypocrisy. If they just say that this coalition conflicts with their existing deals then it's not hypocrisy at all.
Slightly off-topic, but a random quote I received today seems to be related: "I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" Which would be why he spent the last couple of decades of his life believing in fairies and trying to contact the dead. Like everybody else, he wasn't really working with absolute proof. As soon as we make the jump from pure abstraction (logic and math) to the "real world", proof is no longer absolute.
It was also, almost certainly a mistake. Even when their own lawyers told them that they were acting illegally and told them to withdraw the downloads? Ignoring their own legal advice was just another mistake? Well, I hope it proves to be, but not in the sense you meant.
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In jolly ole England we use international road signs, very few of which have any English language text on them so that non-English-speaking drivers can still use our roads. The maximum clearance signs have an iconic representation of the vertical clearance and a height marked on them (http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/Signsandmarkings/index.htm, under "Warning Signs"). They are not marked "Max Headroom", he was an animated character on 1980s TV.
That's common practice, mainly so that emergency vehicles can get in. Another way is to put the barriers on all access routes except one. Ok, so you still get truckers coming in on that one, but if you make the right road the access road you get rid of most of the problem, and if you build the barriers strong enough and it's hard enough to turn around then the truckers may still be there when the traffic warden turns up on Tuesday morning...
Possibly even more of an issue is vehicles using false license plates. The criminals look around car parks and find the registration number of a car the same model and colour as theirs, and get a bent license plate maker to make them the false plates: http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/extra/series2/car_cloning.shtml.
If the BBC shows a rerun of Sesame Street that claims that 1 + 1 = 2, do they have to give equal time to mathematicians who claim that it isn't? (Where would they find them?)
If the program was wrong, it wasn't wrong because they had the wrong number of scientists on each side.
Fine, but I need a pile of text books and standards to do my job, and most are only available on paper. Changing desk means moving more than I can carry. I've worked for organisations in the past that rather overestimated the paperless office, and it was a nightmare. Fortunately (and not entirely by chance) I work for a more enlightened company now.
Depends what you call the "social networking movement". Computer based social networking existed for a long while before LiveJournal, going back to dial-up subscription services such as The Well http://www.well.com/ and CiX http://conferencing.cixonline.com/. It wasn't called social networking then, but that's what it was.
It seems to ignore a third view -- that intelligence is (pretty much) fixed, but we need to learn to use it. The capacity of a beer tankard might be fixed, but a pint tankard is as useless as a half-pint tankard until you put some beer into it.
The law is full of arbitrary figures, and pretty much has to be. Even if you made the minimum a multiple of the consequent losses, the multiplier is still an arbitrary figure. Even if the multiplier is 1 or 0. All that means is that the numbers should be subject to review and renegotiation. You can't get rid of them.
I think you argue effectively against your own case that it's the MB that counts. I'm on my 3rd MB (and 4th set of fans, second monitor, and I've been waiting over a month for replacements for the dead videocards) on my Mesh computer in just 18 months. The manufacturer might cover the OEM stuff, but would the warranty cover replacement software (when specialist stuff I use costs almost US$10,000 per seat -- not unusual for a vertical app)? Answer: no.
I don't think it's just the publicity $. For most of the general public (by which, according to /. custom, I really mean me) nanotechnology is the stuff that keeps Jack Harkness alive and heals Ratchet. Ok, it went a bit wrong in The Empty Child, but The Doctor sorted it out.
Unless you think that it's all product placement, and it's the publicity $ that has made it a beneficial sci-fi staple...
> I wouldn't buy it Why not? It looks like an improvement to me. Pretty much all DVDs have all the ads anyway, this looks like it could be a way to lose them. Although I suppose it depends where they put their ads (polite suggestions only, please).
Maybe, but that doesn't affect coverage does it? Unless you get your revenge launching RPGs at their masts.
I abandoned O2 for Vodafone because the O2 coverage was terrible where I live (a suburb of London); no signal at ground level, I was able to get a weak signal by the window in one bedroom. Coverage isn't so great.
But aren't we on a different frequency here in ths UK? It would be quite easy for the UK experience not to be the same as the US experience.
"Bzz"
"What's that, Bumbly?"
"Bzz"
"Network bottleneck at the 4th-floor router? How did that happen?"
"Bzz"
"Faulty ethernet card in room 402? Quick! We'd better get down there and save them!"
If it's not waterproof, when I drop it in the bath I'll be $400 down instead of $10 down. And will I have to turn my book off during take-off and landing? Oh look, I'd need to change my mobile phone service provider! How much does EVDO cost, anyway? I can't find anybody offering UK-based contracts? Can I mark text with different coloured hi-lighters and draw diagrams in the margin?
Looks to me as if it might find a place alongside the book, but I don't see it being a replacement any time soon.
When the backdoor has been exposed and they continue to promote it, I think the balance of probabilities begins to shift.
I often respond to telemarketers by asking "Are you incompetents who don't know the regulations relating to your business, or crooks who ignore it?", but as more and more are operating from overseas, and so from outside the coverage of the regulations that isn't working as well as it used to, and the TPS (the UK equivalent of the DNC list) is looking increasingly irrelevant.
A few of them will not be underage -- most pupils will have their 16th birthday in their final year, and the age of consent in the UK is 16. It is cutting things a bit fine, though.