There is an obvious problem with that model that everyone seems to miss. The portion of time that people aren't using the internet is always the same. People will generally be wanting their maximum bandwidth between 6pm and 11pm. Unless you're willing to stick 5 hour latencies on packets, overselling doesn't work.
That document explains no reason to adopt OOXML. Just a bunch of "We found their answer satisfactory but we're not going to tell you what it is." It does say one thing though, that OOXML DOES NOT SUPPORT ANYTHING BUT UCS-2 FOR UNICODE!
It uses XML as a base. XML can use any encoding capable of representing the characters !"'? and =. Yet it remains limited to stone age character representations. In a document format.
If that isn't evidence of a corrupt process, it's evidence of clueless incompetence.
You don't necessarily own it just by having physical access, any sensible machine should have it's boot order protected by BIOS password. Then you've got take the thing apart to drain the CMOS. With this hack, you could probably do it in the time it takes a person to go to the toilet in a cafe (carelessly leaving the laptop with you to make sure nobody nicks it).
Even better, the BBC is working with ISPs to deploy multicast, which should reduce bandwidth costs. This is actually just the age old story of ISPs overselling their bandwidth and the crying foul when people try and use what they've bought. That's where the cost comes in, they have to deploy new tubes to make up for the discrepancy.
I just took a dump, it was amazing, I demand you pay me for it!
Simple fact is, artists do not have a right to get paid for everything they do. The whole notion of recording music on to little discs and selling the disks is just over 100 years old, prior to that they'd have to go out and earn their bread. Imagine if you could record the sound of you doing your job for an hour or so and be getting paid for people using that sound 50 years later.
Perhaps. But then a lot of innocent people who kept their savings with NR would lose money. Confidence in the UK's banking industry would collapse. A large-scale run on every major bank would inevitably follow, and if not rapidly corrected by much more dramatic government action than what we've seen with Rock, that in turn would be followed by the biggest national financial meltdown in history.
The government said it would underwrite individual customers losses, essentially preventing the kind of meltdown you describe, but then went on to stuff the bank full of money in a desperate attempt to keep it afloat.
I think a middle ground option between keep it afloat and let it crash would have been more sensible. Underwrite customer losses, if there are any, and let the bank declare bankruptcy while loaning it just enough money to let it sink gracefully while the auditors come in and sell everything required to repay it's debts. What's left gets to keep going. Admittedly tricky because most of what they owned (bad debt) was worthless.
However when they go after people who speak out against the government or people who tread on the toes of the capitalist elite, they cease to acquire sympathy. I am referring to UK law enforcement, but I gather the US isn't much better.
You forget problem D) getting power to people. If you waste 99% of the electricity you fail to solve D. Nuclear would solve D and would be viable if it weren't for the almost complete moratorium on developing good nuclear power plants. Hence the technology in use today is 50 years old so doesn't work anywhere near as well as it should.
Whether or not it's propaganda depends on how you say it. But that shows that there is a difference between propaganda and just spreading ideas. However if you specifically search for propaganda, it's still propaganda. Propaganda doesn't have to introduce new concepts, it can simply reinforce existing ones or other propaganda can piggy back on it.
Doesn't change the fact the the notion of the bill is stupid.
Calling propaganda a means to spread you ideas is stretching it a bit, probably past the point of breaking. Propaganda is an attempt to get large groups of people to change their beliefs, usually (always ?) for your benefit. An example could be secretly spreading a rumour that Jews drink the blood of gentile children and then publicly denouncing Jews as evil because everyone knows they drink the blood of gentile babies. It's definitely propaganda and would take a fair stretch of logic to call it just spreading your ideas.
I thought this was due to residual phosphorescence of the screen. Are they still lit up after a few hours? My TV still glows faintly even when you pull the power cable.
No it's not. There's more than one company you can buy diesel from (oil conspiracies aside), and if the one you choose starts making diesel from the blood of babies you can choose to go elsewhere. If you were locked into a contract with a particular diesel supplier on receipt of your tractor it would be analogous. For phones companies it's especially bad, given the long history of an absolute zero tolerance for consumers in the phone industry.
Unfortunately yes. The purpose of entities such as the WTO is to regulate internationally. Countries sign up to the WTO on the principle that they will play by their rules, so long as everyone else does. It's voluntary to join up, but the benefits are supposed to outweigh the inconvenience.
However you can't pick and choose the rules, if you violate one, you lose the benefits of joining. Other countries become free to erect trade barriers at will.
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There is a risk in this. What are the chances of being able to use these FON routers to set up a mesh network? My guess would be nil. What BT may be hoping will happen is that everyone gets hooked on their wireless, and ends up forced to use their tubes to get it. The dream of wireless everywhere is that it makes telcos obsolete for the last mile segment of the network, i.e. it removes their market stranglehold. This could be BT trying to pre-empt a Google+700MHz band style thing happening in the UK.
Here in the UK it's pretty much the same, if not worse. Google for Operation ORE to see why it's probably worse here. Hell, we had mobs roaming the streets attacking paediatricians not so long ago.
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There is an obvious problem with that model that everyone seems to miss. The portion of time that people aren't using the internet is always the same. People will generally be wanting their maximum bandwidth between 6pm and 11pm. Unless you're willing to stick 5 hour latencies on packets, overselling doesn't work.
That document explains no reason to adopt OOXML. Just a bunch of "We found their answer satisfactory but we're not going to tell you what it is." It does say one thing though, that OOXML DOES NOT SUPPORT ANYTHING BUT UCS-2 FOR UNICODE!
It uses XML as a base. XML can use any encoding capable of representing the characters !"'? and =. Yet it remains limited to stone age character representations. In a document format.
If that isn't evidence of a corrupt process, it's evidence of clueless incompetence.
Over here in Europe everything has them. As mentioned in the article. Just below the bit where it says they're obsolete.
Has obsolete been redefined?
And where is RS232? What about midi/joystick ports? This is just blatant C-Net karma^Hpagerank whoring and it was allowed in without a second thought.
You don't necessarily own it just by having physical access, any sensible machine should have it's boot order protected by BIOS password. Then you've got take the thing apart to drain the CMOS. With this hack, you could probably do it in the time it takes a person to go to the toilet in a cafe (carelessly leaving the laptop with you to make sure nobody nicks it).
I think the implications are BT being first against the wall come the revolution.
Or alternatively, ISPs could raise the caps on communicating with people in your area. Then you get the automagic caching of BitTorrent.
Even better, the BBC is working with ISPs to deploy multicast, which should reduce bandwidth costs. This is actually just the age old story of ISPs overselling their bandwidth and the crying foul when people try and use what they've bought. That's where the cost comes in, they have to deploy new tubes to make up for the discrepancy.
I just took a dump, it was amazing, I demand you pay me for it!
Simple fact is, artists do not have a right to get paid for everything they do. The whole notion of recording music on to little discs and selling the disks is just over 100 years old, prior to that they'd have to go out and earn their bread. Imagine if you could record the sound of you doing your job for an hour or so and be getting paid for people using that sound 50 years later.
The government said it would underwrite individual customers losses, essentially preventing the kind of meltdown you describe, but then went on to stuff the bank full of money in a desperate attempt to keep it afloat.
I think a middle ground option between keep it afloat and let it crash would have been more sensible. Underwrite customer losses, if there are any, and let the bank declare bankruptcy while loaning it just enough money to let it sink gracefully while the auditors come in and sell everything required to repay it's debts. What's left gets to keep going. Admittedly tricky because most of what they owned (bad debt) was worthless.
However when they go after people who speak out against the government or people who tread on the toes of the capitalist elite, they cease to acquire sympathy. I am referring to UK law enforcement, but I gather the US isn't much better.
Ahem.
I tell you this on behalf of the rest of the world.
You Americans are perfectly free to go fuck yourselves. You ain't getting any royalties from us for the privilege though.
You forget problem D) getting power to people. If you waste 99% of the electricity you fail to solve D. Nuclear would solve D and would be viable if it weren't for the almost complete moratorium on developing good nuclear power plants. Hence the technology in use today is 50 years old so doesn't work anywhere near as well as it should.
Yes. Welcome to the world post Aristotle.
Whether or not it's propaganda depends on how you say it. But that shows that there is a difference between propaganda and just spreading ideas. However if you specifically search for propaganda, it's still propaganda. Propaganda doesn't have to introduce new concepts, it can simply reinforce existing ones or other propaganda can piggy back on it.
Doesn't change the fact the the notion of the bill is stupid.
Calling propaganda a means to spread you ideas is stretching it a bit, probably past the point of breaking. Propaganda is an attempt to get large groups of people to change their beliefs, usually (always ?) for your benefit. An example could be secretly spreading a rumour that Jews drink the blood of gentile children and then publicly denouncing Jews as evil because everyone knows they drink the blood of gentile babies. It's definitely propaganda and would take a fair stretch of logic to call it just spreading your ideas.
Wrong, in Scotland there is an honours year.
I thought this was due to residual phosphorescence of the screen. Are they still lit up after a few hours? My TV still glows faintly even when you pull the power cable.
No it's not. There's more than one company you can buy diesel from (oil conspiracies aside), and if the one you choose starts making diesel from the blood of babies you can choose to go elsewhere. If you were locked into a contract with a particular diesel supplier on receipt of your tractor it would be analogous. For phones companies it's especially bad, given the long history of an absolute zero tolerance for consumers in the phone industry.
Then you should say it as often as possible.
Sounds like the history of Christianity to me, and all the other major religions as well. Daoism might be an exception to this, but I'm not sure.
Or C-S--
Unfortunately yes. The purpose of entities such as the WTO is to regulate internationally. Countries sign up to the WTO on the principle that they will play by their rules, so long as everyone else does. It's voluntary to join up, but the benefits are supposed to outweigh the inconvenience.
However you can't pick and choose the rules, if you violate one, you lose the benefits of joining. Other countries become free to erect trade barriers at will.
Life is like go.
There is a risk in this. What are the chances of being able to use these FON routers to set up a mesh network? My guess would be nil. What BT may be hoping will happen is that everyone gets hooked on their wireless, and ends up forced to use their tubes to get it. The dream of wireless everywhere is that it makes telcos obsolete for the last mile segment of the network, i.e. it removes their market stranglehold. This could be BT trying to pre-empt a Google+700MHz band style thing happening in the UK.
Here in the UK it's pretty much the same, if not worse. Google for Operation ORE to see why it's probably worse here. Hell, we had mobs roaming the streets attacking paediatricians not so long ago.