Or if you look at it another way, the government is enforcing the laws for the corporations - the work done by a company suggesting the traffic signal was not needed was contradicted by a personal submission. Mr Lacy is complaining that this kind of personal initiative has no place in his county.
Exactly this. The UK's road network isn't nearly as extensive as the US road network, and while the measurement taken there is deaths per vehicle mile, you can bet your bottom dollar the average speed for that vehicle mile is very different in the US and the UK. Now I know speed is not the only factor in road deaths, but it's certainly a powerful factor for severity of injury.
I'd also cite the counter-example of Australia, where autos and manuals are nearly equal, with a more extensive road network than the UK but not so much as the US, yet only has a slightly higher death rate than the UK. Compulsory seatbelts help!
Yeah, it's just a pity those aren't used anywhere for real-world elections. IRV is used in Australia and returns a result the same day for 150 electorates. I can't imagine what I'm reading of the Condorcet method would be achievable without a bit of compute power, and then you're just asking for conspiracy theories.
Based on the Australian experience, where we take this one step further with Instant-runoff or Preferential voting, it just means that the smaller parties get a token slice of the vote (10% is considered a high water mark) and the two major parties end up drawing the majority anyway. The intertia of incumbents is much larger than that of a protest vote.
Why is it treason to pass a law that wasn't envisaged by the agrarian founders?
Now, I'm not for the DMCA, but to treat the Consitution like holy writ is wrong. The founders were not omnipotent, clairvoient or even particularly extraordinary men; the constitution as they declared it was to define a set of principles they thought fair. The reason why we have the amendments we have today is because through the years the American public has decided that the founders either didn't think some things through, or were flat out wrong (see: slavery).
The founders had no idea of the transformational nature of computers; hell, 50 years ago they didn't have a clue about the transformation that was soon to take place. The constitution simply doesn't cover the things we do today, and that's why laws that make up the living body of the legal system supplement the consitution.
I've done a undergrad thesis on the impact of the DMCA, and I'm far from agreeing with it or its outcomes. It is a fundamentally biased law favouring corporations and their commercial interests, but that doesn't make it unconstitutional.
(Disclaimer: not a constitutional lawyer. Anyone care to correct me?)
1. The principles of stealth flight are understood, if not well and widely. They don't need to create it from scratch - they just need to apply principles to materials. I'm not saying the Chinese model would be a match for the F-22 right out of the box, but they can reasonably achieve the major goals within a far shorter timeframe than working things out from first principles. And that's even discounting the prospect of espionage sourced plans.
2. I'm not suggesting they'll have as many as the US Air Force fleet in a year, but that going to a full flight model is certainly possible.
3. I'm not suggesting either that it's a matter of throwing bodies at the problem, though there's a degree of parallelisation that is possible here. If they're focused enough, they can have multiple teams working on different models simultaneously, and drawing the best ideas together for the final model. Controlling it all "in-house" rather than having to tender everything out gives an edge to the timelines, if only for avoiding the political overhead.
Again, my point was not that the Chinese will challenge American air superiority in a year, or even the next decade - just that we would do well to remember that different principles apply, and the time it took to develop the first F-22 will not be the time it takes China to produce a competitor.
Not to mention this is the initial test flight. it will be ten years before they have decent production going. remember the raptor's flight demo for the USAF was in 1991, and the first production model flew in 1997.
This is China - in 2004, they didn't have a high-speed rail network worth the name. In 2010, they had approximately 10,000km built. If they want it next year, they'll get it alright.
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Some might consider that silent automatic update an issue, especially if the silently updated new version breaks somehow. Corporate IT departments particularly are none too keen on things that go about updating themselves.
As for your Firefox issue, go to Tools > Options > Advanced > Update and untick automatically update for Add-ons (and probably search engines). There, job done. Yes it isn't the best user interaction decision to update at startup and block the main UI from loading, but it doesn't mean you have to live with it when it clearly ticks you off so much.
Apple updates aren't pushed out OTA, and since Apple controls the full stack they also control the timing and pace of updates. For Android device makers, the underlying updates are pushed to them by Google but ultimately it's up to the device manufacturer to lay on the customisations and tweaks for their devices and push it out, with the co-operation of the carriers if they're doing it OTA. So if a device maker sees more profit in differentiating devices with different OS versions than in pushing out an update for which the user isn't paying, they're not necessarily going to be the keenest to jump on the update bandwagon.
it's a bit of simple economics from the device manufcturer, and fair enough too if they want to continue operating as they did 10 years ago.
Just because the user agrees to be governed by US laws during the course of their normal usage of Twitter does not mean Twitter, Inc. is not subject to the laws of the country in which the user is accessing their service, especially so if they happen to have subsidiaries or other business operations in those countries, e.g. a sales office to handle advertising.
With the Kindle, Amazon was initially imposing a price cap of $9.99 on all books. Apple followed their app store model - set any price you chose, and we'll just take a 30% cut. That pricing flexibility prompted at least one major publisher (forgot the name) to pull all of its books, paper and electronic, from Amazon as a negotiating tactic. Amazon eventually relented, telling the consumer "this isn't what we wanted, blame the publisher" and so we are where we are today. And now, market mechanisms are kicking in as people refuse to pay an obscenely high price for something which holds less value in the customer's mind.
Give the average consumer a little bit of credit, they're not fools like you're making them out to be. Chances are, if they're rebuying Neverending Story on Blu-ray, it's because they like the movie. And chances are that means the VHS tape is now worn out, and the DVD somewhat scratched. It's the equivalent of buying a new copy of a The Catcher in the Rye, because the book you read and loved in high school is now somewhat tatty and falling apart. Most people care about library retention, otherwise they'd resell these things as soon as they were "done" with it, and backwards compatiblity is still a factor - if all Blu-ray players had been sold without any backwards compatibilty to DVDs, you can bet HD-DVD would have won the day by a country mile.
You can bet if you told your mom that to move from a Kindle to a Nook she has to buy all those books again that she's going to complain about it. Most consumers might be resigned to tomorrow's technology obsoleting today's media, but you can bet they would be happier if it didn't.
From the reporting here in Australia, it does appear to be restricted to Australia; Vodafone has come under increasing fire here for poor service, reception and call handling issues, and this just adds a cherry to the pie that is coming for their face.
That said, you'd better hope it's not accepted practice across the international organisation. Vodafone here recently merged with Three (Hutchison) for Australian operations, so it could be either company's policies that were the root cause of this, but both these companies are multinationals and if I was a customer of either outside Australia I'd be at least a little worried.
NFC in mobiles has been used for payments in Asia for years. One of the arguments against the iPhone's success in Japan for instance was that it did not support the NFC payments that other existing Japanese mobiles did.
Not saying it's secure, just saying it has a long-running existing installation that hasn't fallen over yet, so your fears might be a bit of hyperbole going on assumptions.
No, not if you include all the externalities. If you're measuring a race car against a trike going from a standing start on the line, then yes, the racecar wins. If you measure it from "wake up in the morning", the trike gets going a whole lot quicker, for a whole lot cheaper.
(note: please don't take this too seriously. it's just a thought exercise.)
It's a high-impact project, so it has some extra controls - to get write access to the repository, you have to be a special class of user called a "Congressman", and all code commits must be approved by a committee called "the Senate", and ultimately the final approval is vested in the super-user known as "the President". The people using your code get to determine if you keep write access every so often.
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Or if you look at it another way, the government is enforcing the laws for the corporations - the work done by a company suggesting the traffic signal was not needed was contradicted by a personal submission. Mr Lacy is complaining that this kind of personal initiative has no place in his county.
Exactly this. The UK's road network isn't nearly as extensive as the US road network, and while the measurement taken there is deaths per vehicle mile, you can bet your bottom dollar the average speed for that vehicle mile is very different in the US and the UK. Now I know speed is not the only factor in road deaths, but it's certainly a powerful factor for severity of injury.
I'd also cite the counter-example of Australia, where autos and manuals are nearly equal, with a more extensive road network than the UK but not so much as the US, yet only has a slightly higher death rate than the UK. Compulsory seatbelts help!
It's pretty convenient that the US also happens to be the world's largest producer of the stuff too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2005molybdenum_(mined).PNG
Yeah, it's just a pity those aren't used anywhere for real-world elections. IRV is used in Australia and returns a result the same day for 150 electorates. I can't imagine what I'm reading of the Condorcet method would be achievable without a bit of compute power, and then you're just asking for conspiracy theories.
Based on the Australian experience, where we take this one step further with Instant-runoff or Preferential voting, it just means that the smaller parties get a token slice of the vote (10% is considered a high water mark) and the two major parties end up drawing the majority anyway. The intertia of incumbents is much larger than that of a protest vote.
Why is it treason to pass a law that wasn't envisaged by the agrarian founders?
Now, I'm not for the DMCA, but to treat the Consitution like holy writ is wrong. The founders were not omnipotent, clairvoient or even particularly extraordinary men; the constitution as they declared it was to define a set of principles they thought fair. The reason why we have the amendments we have today is because through the years the American public has decided that the founders either didn't think some things through, or were flat out wrong (see: slavery).
The founders had no idea of the transformational nature of computers; hell, 50 years ago they didn't have a clue about the transformation that was soon to take place. The constitution simply doesn't cover the things we do today, and that's why laws that make up the living body of the legal system supplement the consitution.
I've done a undergrad thesis on the impact of the DMCA, and I'm far from agreeing with it or its outcomes. It is a fundamentally biased law favouring corporations and their commercial interests, but that doesn't make it unconstitutional.
(Disclaimer: not a constitutional lawyer. Anyone care to correct me?)
1. The principles of stealth flight are understood, if not well and widely. They don't need to create it from scratch - they just need to apply principles to materials. I'm not saying the Chinese model would be a match for the F-22 right out of the box, but they can reasonably achieve the major goals within a far shorter timeframe than working things out from first principles. And that's even discounting the prospect of espionage sourced plans.
2. I'm not suggesting they'll have as many as the US Air Force fleet in a year, but that going to a full flight model is certainly possible.
3. I'm not suggesting either that it's a matter of throwing bodies at the problem, though there's a degree of parallelisation that is possible here. If they're focused enough, they can have multiple teams working on different models simultaneously, and drawing the best ideas together for the final model. Controlling it all "in-house" rather than having to tender everything out gives an edge to the timelines, if only for avoiding the political overhead.
Again, my point was not that the Chinese will challenge American air superiority in a year, or even the next decade - just that we would do well to remember that different principles apply, and the time it took to develop the first F-22 will not be the time it takes China to produce a competitor.
The markup for 1 kg sure is steep. 220% the price of a thousand individual grams.
Math: you fail it. 1g @ $10 x 1000 = 1kg @ $10,000.
Bulk buy and save!
Not to mention this is the initial test flight. it will be ten years before they have decent production going. remember the raptor's flight demo for the USAF was in 1991, and the first production model flew in 1997.
This is China - in 2004, they didn't have a high-speed rail network worth the name. In 2010, they had approximately 10,000km built. If they want it next year, they'll get it alright.
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Surely you just look up the periodic table? Vandium, Niobium, Tantallum?
(Though from all reports some of these are "conflict minerals" found in abundance in sub-Saharan Africa)
Those are here already. Just add water!
Some might consider that silent automatic update an issue, especially if the silently updated new version breaks somehow. Corporate IT departments particularly are none too keen on things that go about updating themselves.
As for your Firefox issue, go to Tools > Options > Advanced > Update and untick automatically update for Add-ons (and probably search engines). There, job done. Yes it isn't the best user interaction decision to update at startup and block the main UI from loading, but it doesn't mean you have to live with it when it clearly ticks you off so much.
Apple updates aren't pushed out OTA, and since Apple controls the full stack they also control the timing and pace of updates. For Android device makers, the underlying updates are pushed to them by Google but ultimately it's up to the device manufacturer to lay on the customisations and tweaks for their devices and push it out, with the co-operation of the carriers if they're doing it OTA. So if a device maker sees more profit in differentiating devices with different OS versions than in pushing out an update for which the user isn't paying, they're not necessarily going to be the keenest to jump on the update bandwagon.
it's a bit of simple economics from the device manufcturer, and fair enough too if they want to continue operating as they did 10 years ago.
Just because the user agrees to be governed by US laws during the course of their normal usage of Twitter does not mean Twitter, Inc. is not subject to the laws of the country in which the user is accessing their service, especially so if they happen to have subsidiaries or other business operations in those countries, e.g. a sales office to handle advertising.
Maybe he's a Greengrocer's Guild member?
That was the dilemma.
*ducks*
With the Kindle, Amazon was initially imposing a price cap of $9.99 on all books. Apple followed their app store model - set any price you chose, and we'll just take a 30% cut. That pricing flexibility prompted at least one major publisher (forgot the name) to pull all of its books, paper and electronic, from Amazon as a negotiating tactic. Amazon eventually relented, telling the consumer "this isn't what we wanted, blame the publisher" and so we are where we are today. And now, market mechanisms are kicking in as people refuse to pay an obscenely high price for something which holds less value in the customer's mind.
Give the average consumer a little bit of credit, they're not fools like you're making them out to be. Chances are, if they're rebuying Neverending Story on Blu-ray, it's because they like the movie. And chances are that means the VHS tape is now worn out, and the DVD somewhat scratched. It's the equivalent of buying a new copy of a The Catcher in the Rye, because the book you read and loved in high school is now somewhat tatty and falling apart. Most people care about library retention, otherwise they'd resell these things as soon as they were "done" with it, and backwards compatiblity is still a factor - if all Blu-ray players had been sold without any backwards compatibilty to DVDs, you can bet HD-DVD would have won the day by a country mile.
You can bet if you told your mom that to move from a Kindle to a Nook she has to buy all those books again that she's going to complain about it. Most consumers might be resigned to tomorrow's technology obsoleting today's media, but you can bet they would be happier if it didn't.
From the reporting here in Australia, it does appear to be restricted to Australia; Vodafone has come under increasing fire here for poor service, reception and call handling issues, and this just adds a cherry to the pie that is coming for their face.
That said, you'd better hope it's not accepted practice across the international organisation. Vodafone here recently merged with Three (Hutchison) for Australian operations, so it could be either company's policies that were the root cause of this, but both these companies are multinationals and if I was a customer of either outside Australia I'd be at least a little worried.
NFC in mobiles has been used for payments in Asia for years. One of the arguments against the iPhone's success in Japan for instance was that it did not support the NFC payments that other existing Japanese mobiles did.
Not saying it's secure, just saying it has a long-running existing installation that hasn't fallen over yet, so your fears might be a bit of hyperbole going on assumptions.
Aside from the fact that that kind of comment is potentially offensive, TFA has images of Chinese drones at a Chinese airshow last year: Image
No, not if you include all the externalities. If you're measuring a race car against a trike going from a standing start on the line, then yes, the racecar wins. If you measure it from "wake up in the morning", the trike gets going a whole lot quicker, for a whole lot cheaper.
(note: please don't take this too seriously. it's just a thought exercise.)
Yeah, just like how the Iraqis and Afghanis got to vote once they were invaded.
It's a high-impact project, so it has some extra controls - to get write access to the repository, you have to be a special class of user called a "Congressman", and all code commits must be approved by a committee called "the Senate", and ultimately the final approval is vested in the super-user known as "the President". The people using your code get to determine if you keep write access every so often.