Yes, you can win consistently if you can apply strategies like "counter paper with scissors", which is the sort of strategy that second article gives..
It was the policy at my kids' (UK) schools that the the kids couldn't have their phones turned on during the school day, but most had them for the journeys to and from school.
The UK has 1 camera for every 14 citizens and we don't have anywhere near that many here.
Don't believe everything you read; that number has long been discredited. It's more like one for every 33 people (do the sums yourself). And of course most of it isn't state surveillance; most of the cameras are privately owned and run.
Twenty years ago I knew a kid who would threaten to accuse her parents of being pedophiles whenever they didn't let her have her way. Kids might or might not know the details (I think nowadays almost all do) but they certainly know how damaging the accusation is.
It's not ticker-tape. The flight details printed onto lightweight card strips that slot into custom-made holders which slot into a custom-made frame in the controller's desk. The controllers can move them around, annotate them, and hand them to the next controller when required. They've been replaced with electronic flight strips in much of Europe. As the article says, there are a lot of backups to cover the situation in the event of failures. The most likely effect of a failure is flow restrictions, which to the passengers means delays, which are a pain in the butt but are the safe failure mode. There will be risks associated with failure -- there always are. CAP670 says what has to be done to show the risks are adequately managed; section SW01 of that document is likely the bit that/. readers will be interested in.
I would be curious what a nation would look like with most of it's power deliberated at the State level (or province, as I'm in Canada).
Probably much like the EU did a few years ago. Ok, it wasn't -- still isn't -- a nation, but the point is moot if power isn't centralised. Nowadays there's probably too much centralised power for the EU to be a model of that any more, although it's probably still a pretty good model of the way things would be bound to go.
The problem is all about training people on how to use the new software. Using OO Writer instead of Word for example. Sure, sounds simple, the nerds can probably fgure it out without blinking, but it is all the NON-NERDS who make it a very expensive idea to test. They all have to be trained, they lose some productivity for a while, they have to learn how to do new tricks that might be application specific and the like.
How do you think the cost of cross-training from Word 2003 to OpenOffice.Org (or LibreOffice) Writer would compare to cross-training from Word 2003 to Word 2007?
What? Which e-reader did you get? I have a Kindle DX and I'm quite happy with it. The screen is the best I've seen for e-readers
It's a Sony, but that's not relevant. Did you notice how you had to qualify what you said? You're quite happy with it; the screen is the best you've seen for e-readers. It's as if you're arguing that watching a program about the Carribean in high-definition is better than watching it in low definition, when I'm arguing that neither is as good as actually going there.
and the battery life is phenomenal
It's pretty good on my Sony, too. How does it compare with real books? See, as long as e-readers and e-books are trying to impersonate the dead-tree equivalents they're always going to be just a copy. When e-books actually start adding something good, then the technology might really take off. Yes, the ability to search text is something good in the case of reference material (although not as good as having the material properly hyperlinked), but I only really need to do that searching when I'm doing my assignments so I'm sitting at a computer to have the word-processor open, so even though I use the e-book then I still don't use the e-reader (the course I'm doing provides all texts in dead-tree and pdf).
The selection of books isn't bad at all. There are plenty of free books (and occasional special free deals) and most others are LESS expensive than the dead-tree version.
Some are less expensive than the list price, but they usually seem to be the ones selling for a lot less than the list price in the local supermarket too, so the e-books are still more expensive. If you just want something in a genre to read and are not much bothered what then there is probably loads available at sensible prices. If you want a particular book, though, and it's not on the best-seller lists, my experience is that you're unlikely to find it at all, and if you do it will probably be overpriced. The only one I found that wasn't was Shaw's Pygmalion, which I needed for my studies a few years ago. At that time I couldn't find all the free versions that are around now, but I found one that was pretty cheap. I bought it, and used it for that course (on a computer -- this was before I had an e-reader), but it was loaded with DRM that's incompatible with anything I own now so I can no longer view it. That's never happened to me with a dead-tree book.
I have a metric ton of books on mine already. Many are PDFs and freebies provided by my girlfriend (she likes SciFi, too)
I have been very disappointed by the (legal) freebies I've found.
Others are manuals and certification study guides, again mostly freebies I found and PDFs from the software providers.
Yes, I have loads of those. Not on my e-reader, though. On the computer on which I'm actually using the information.
Originally, I didn't want to 'waste my money on another unneeded gadget', but then came the Citrix documentation I had to study for work. Over 5000 pages of PDFs! My girlfriend made a very valid point: "If you worked for me and printed all that out, I would fire you!" And I sure as hell wasn't going to print it at home. Besides, as she also pointed out, who in their right mind would want to carry around 5000 pages? Or even a small part of that? It's inconvenient to say the least, not to mention environmentally unsound. I'm no tree-hugger (far from it) but I do my part. So an e-reader was the right way to go.
Ok, a specific purpose, and maybe an e-reader was the way to go for you. I would have used my laptop.
Then came an amusing, satisfying moment-
I was kicking back, reading a SciFi on my reader, occasionally tapping my way to the next page, when it dawned on my I was reading a SciFi on a device that a few years ago only existed IN A SCiFI!
AND IT WORKS!
So cool!:)
Yes, that's the sort of geek-appeal that made me buy one in the first place. It wasn't enough to keep me using it, though,
I have tried e-books. My reader is now gathering dust, another wasted technology purchase. The selection of titles is still terrible, the prices are inflated and the reading experience is dismal. I'm not saying e-books will never be a better way of accessing books, but they're a way off it yet.
Treaty violations happen all the time, this is true - but this is also an extremely high profile case. Almost every major news organization in both Europe and America are following this like hawks, and it would be impossible to claim a major breach like that to be a "mistake."
So some of the press will make a fuss, yes. Enough to bring down the government or sway the next election? I doubt it.
Most people get them at birth, which is likely to give time for any such problems to be sorted out.
The comment I was replying to said:
They probably all have (or could get) an NHS number.
This implies (quite correctly) that not everyone is assigned an NHS number at (or before) birth. For example, having both been born some thousands of kilometres from Britain, neither my wife nor daughter were assigned an NHS number at birth.
Violations of EU treaty obligations happen all the time. Sure they have consequences, but I reckon a one-off violation affecting a single individual would be seen as a minor matter, possibly just a mistake. Anger would only kick in if it looks as if a State is consistently ignoring their treaty obligations. The most likely consequence is that the EU would say that Assange would have the right to sue Sweden for damages. I suppose the UK could get angry, but the anger wouldn't achieve much, and I can't help thinking that the UK government would actually be pleased at giving the USA what they wanted whilst somebody else gets the blame. Treaty violations only matter in practice if the parties to the treaty care about that particular violation.
It took my wife and (step-)daughter around 6 months each to get their NHS numbers, after several different fuck-ups each. That's perfectly long enough to potentially have tripped up an exam system that relied on them.
Most people get them at birth, which is likely to give time for any such problems to be sorted out. Are there ever any glitches with US SSNs?
Then there are likely to be a number of people who on religious/ stupidity grounds decline to make use of the NHS (I think of an American retard I knew at university who thought that using a NHS doctor service provided by the university as part of his tuition fees would make him a communist, and therefore probably pregnant ; oh, we had fun with that dribbling idiot).
Oh sure, and there are probably people who think the US SSN is the Mark of the Beast and won't use it. Those people can't access services. Fine by me.
Passport number would have worked in my case ; but with some 60-odd nationalities in this town's school system, the possibility is non-zero for getting a clash between (for example) a Samoan and a Iranian passport number that refer to different dates of birth.
The nationality code and issuing office usually form part of what is used as a passport number. The challenge is designing database validation to handle all possible variations, not in getting a unique number.
In addition to the issue with death penalty crimes, Sweden also can't legally turn him over to the US without the UK's approval anyway, under European Union laws (Various extradition rules under the European Arrest Warrant acts).
FTFY. If Sweden puts him on a flight to the USA then it wouldn't do a whole lot of good if the UK complained about it -- which on current showing they'd be unlikely to do anyway.
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Well, the Bible-thumpers can provide a citation for the claim that there was a census, albeit not to a primary source.
Yes, you can win consistently if you can apply strategies like "counter paper with scissors", which is the sort of strategy that second article gives..
If, when I and my children lived in the UK, a teacher had tried to do this I would have sued s/his ass off.
Under what law?
It was the policy at my kids' (UK) schools that the the kids couldn't have their phones turned on during the school day, but most had them for the journeys to and from school.
The UK has 1 camera for every 14 citizens and we don't have anywhere near that many here.
Don't believe everything you read; that number has long been discredited. It's more like one for every 33 people (do the sums yourself). And of course most of it isn't state surveillance; most of the cameras are privately owned and run.
Twenty years ago I knew a kid who would threaten to accuse her parents of being pedophiles whenever they didn't let her have her way. Kids might or might not know the details (I think nowadays almost all do) but they certainly know how damaging the accusation is.
screw these kids
If you try, I suspect you will be the one labelled a pedophile.
Yes, it looks as if I switched to KDE just in time.
that in and of itself wouldn't be a big deal, half of slashdot would be under permanent surveillance.
What gives you the idea we're not?
It's not ticker-tape. The flight details printed onto lightweight card strips that slot into custom-made holders which slot into a custom-made frame in the controller's desk. The controllers can move them around, annotate them, and hand them to the next controller when required. They've been replaced with electronic flight strips in much of Europe. As the article says, there are a lot of backups to cover the situation in the event of failures. The most likely effect of a failure is flow restrictions, which to the passengers means delays, which are a pain in the butt but are the safe failure mode. There will be risks associated with failure -- there always are. CAP670 says what has to be done to show the risks are adequately managed; section SW01 of that document is likely the bit that /. readers will be interested in.
I would be curious what a nation would look like with most of it's power deliberated at the State level (or province, as I'm in Canada).
Probably much like the EU did a few years ago. Ok, it wasn't -- still isn't -- a nation, but the point is moot if power isn't centralised. Nowadays there's probably too much centralised power for the EU to be a model of that any more, although it's probably still a pretty good model of the way things would be bound to go.
The problem is all about training people on how to use the new software. Using OO Writer instead of Word for example. Sure, sounds simple, the nerds can probably fgure it out without blinking, but it is all the NON-NERDS who make it a very expensive idea to test. They all have to be trained, they lose some productivity for a while, they have to learn how to do new tricks that might be application specific and the like.
How do you think the cost of cross-training from Word 2003 to OpenOffice.Org (or LibreOffice) Writer would compare to cross-training from Word 2003 to Word 2007?
What? Which e-reader did you get? I have a Kindle DX and I'm quite happy with it. The screen is the best I've seen for e-readers
It's a Sony, but that's not relevant. Did you notice how you had to qualify what you said? You're quite happy with it; the screen is the best you've seen for e-readers. It's as if you're arguing that watching a program about the Carribean in high-definition is better than watching it in low definition, when I'm arguing that neither is as good as actually going there.
and the battery life is phenomenal
It's pretty good on my Sony, too. How does it compare with real books? See, as long as e-readers and e-books are trying to impersonate the dead-tree equivalents they're always going to be just a copy. When e-books actually start adding something good, then the technology might really take off. Yes, the ability to search text is something good in the case of reference material (although not as good as having the material properly hyperlinked), but I only really need to do that searching when I'm doing my assignments so I'm sitting at a computer to have the word-processor open, so even though I use the e-book then I still don't use the e-reader (the course I'm doing provides all texts in dead-tree and pdf).
The selection of books isn't bad at all. There are plenty of free books (and occasional special free deals) and most others are LESS expensive than the dead-tree version.
Some are less expensive than the list price, but they usually seem to be the ones selling for a lot less than the list price in the local supermarket too, so the e-books are still more expensive. If you just want something in a genre to read and are not much bothered what then there is probably loads available at sensible prices. If you want a particular book, though, and it's not on the best-seller lists, my experience is that you're unlikely to find it at all, and if you do it will probably be overpriced. The only one I found that wasn't was Shaw's Pygmalion, which I needed for my studies a few years ago. At that time I couldn't find all the free versions that are around now, but I found one that was pretty cheap. I bought it, and used it for that course (on a computer -- this was before I had an e-reader), but it was loaded with DRM that's incompatible with anything I own now so I can no longer view it. That's never happened to me with a dead-tree book.
I have a metric ton of books on mine already. Many are PDFs and freebies provided by my girlfriend (she likes SciFi, too)
I have been very disappointed by the (legal) freebies I've found.
Others are manuals and certification study guides, again mostly freebies I found and PDFs from the software providers.
Yes, I have loads of those. Not on my e-reader, though. On the computer on which I'm actually using the information.
Originally, I didn't want to 'waste my money on another unneeded gadget', but then came the Citrix documentation I had to study for work. Over 5000 pages of PDFs! My girlfriend made a very valid point: "If you worked for me and printed all that out, I would fire you!" And I sure as hell wasn't going to print it at home. Besides, as she also pointed out, who in their right mind would want to carry around 5000 pages? Or even a small part of that? It's inconvenient to say the least, not to mention environmentally unsound. I'm no tree-hugger (far from it) but I do my part. So an e-reader was the right way to go.
Ok, a specific purpose, and maybe an e-reader was the way to go for you. I would have used my laptop.
Then came an amusing, satisfying moment- I was kicking back, reading a SciFi on my reader, occasionally tapping my way to the next page, when it dawned on my I was reading a SciFi on a device that a few years ago only existed IN A SCiFI!
AND IT WORKS!
So cool! :)
Yes, that's the sort of geek-appeal that made me buy one in the first place. It wasn't enough to keep me using it, though,
I have tried e-books. My reader is now gathering dust, another wasted technology purchase. The selection of titles is still terrible, the prices are inflated and the reading experience is dismal. I'm not saying e-books will never be a better way of accessing books, but they're a way off it yet.
Just don't type it into the shared document. Simples.
Yes, and look how much harm it did Blair. Crying all the way to the bank, I expect.
Treaty violations happen all the time, this is true - but this is also an extremely high profile case. Almost every major news organization in both Europe and America are following this like hawks, and it would be impossible to claim a major breach like that to be a "mistake."
So some of the press will make a fuss, yes. Enough to bring down the government or sway the next election? I doubt it.
The comment I was replying to said :
This implies (quite correctly) that not everyone is assigned an NHS number at (or before) birth. For example, having both been born some thousands of kilometres from Britain, neither my wife nor daughter were assigned an NHS number at birth.
But you probably had travel documents.
Violations of EU treaty obligations happen all the time. Sure they have consequences, but I reckon a one-off violation affecting a single individual would be seen as a minor matter, possibly just a mistake. Anger would only kick in if it looks as if a State is consistently ignoring their treaty obligations. The most likely consequence is that the EU would say that Assange would have the right to sue Sweden for damages. I suppose the UK could get angry, but the anger wouldn't achieve much, and I can't help thinking that the UK government would actually be pleased at giving the USA what they wanted whilst somebody else gets the blame. Treaty violations only matter in practice if the parties to the treaty care about that particular violation.
Only if anybody relevant complains. And even then it would hardly be "wrath", it would be "oops, be more careful next time".
It took my wife and (step-)daughter around 6 months each to get their NHS numbers, after several different fuck-ups each. That's perfectly long enough to potentially have tripped up an exam system that relied on them.
Most people get them at birth, which is likely to give time for any such problems to be sorted out. Are there ever any glitches with US SSNs?
Then there are likely to be a number of people who on religious/ stupidity grounds decline to make use of the NHS (I think of an American retard I knew at university who thought that using a NHS doctor service provided by the university as part of his tuition fees would make him a communist, and therefore probably pregnant ; oh, we had fun with that dribbling idiot).
Oh sure, and there are probably people who think the US SSN is the Mark of the Beast and won't use it. Those people can't access services. Fine by me.
Passport number would have worked in my case ; but with some 60-odd nationalities in this town's school system, the possibility is non-zero for getting a clash between (for example) a Samoan and a Iranian passport number that refer to different dates of birth.
The nationality code and issuing office usually form part of what is used as a passport number. The challenge is designing database validation to handle all possible variations, not in getting a unique number.
Survival.
Yes, really. And yes, we know.
In addition to the issue with death penalty crimes, Sweden also can't legally turn him over to the US without the UK's approval anyway, under European Union laws (Various extradition rules under the European Arrest Warrant acts).
FTFY. If Sweden puts him on a flight to the USA then it wouldn't do a whole lot of good if the UK complained about it -- which on current showing they'd be unlikely to do anyway.
So what do you think that clause "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means, then? It's not just "born in the US", there's a further restriction.