Well, let's not forget that the choice for Mayor was between Ken Livingstone (thrown out of our most left-wing major political party for being too extreme) and Geoffrey Archer (now in prison) so it's not as if we could have elected anyone better.
Ken only got the job because he was percieved as the lesser of the evils on offer.
As for my car slowing down public transport, I'm intruigued as to how I slow down tube trains, overground trains or the docklands light railway which all run on rails not roads.
Maybe you are referring to the quarter mile of my 13 and a half mile journey that is also used by buses? At the times I travel, I'm hardly interrupting a bus service that is only suppised to run once every 15 minutes, and has an entire lane of the road exclusively devoted to it, am I?
The main reason that toll boths are not being suggested is that the charge is not for entering or leaving the zone, but for using a vehicle within it during certain hours.
You still have to pay the charge if you drive from one place in the zone to another, even if you do not cross the boundary... a distinction which ruled out my first idea of buying a second car and keeping one inside the zone and one outside, and therefore not paying the toll:-(
more FUD here... "11 miles an hour is the best you can get in London"... pure rubbish! Take a drive down the A12, and look at all the black skid marks just before the gatso speed-trap cameras. Those are caused by people slowing down to avoid being caught travelling at over 50 mph.
"the peak average speed is three miles per hour", ignoring for a momnet that the phrase "peak average" is a non-sequitur, can you explain how I managed to travel the 13.8 miles to work today in 45 minutes, despite going through 8 miles of roadworks on the A13?
I call FUD on that post. It takes me 45 minutes to go from my house in the 'burbs to my office in the centre by car and over 2 hours by public transport.
The only way you could possibly get the figures you suggest is if both your home and your office are located on the same tube line, and are only a minute or two's walk from the nearest stations.
To get from my home to office by public transport requires a 5 minute walk to a bus stop, a 15 minute bus journey, a tube journey of 15 minutes, then changing lines and another tube journey of 25 minutes, then another 10 minute walk. Even if every service is empty enough for me to get onto and waiting for me when I get there, I can't make this journey quicker than the 45 minutes door-to-door that my car takes.
No, the original poster is suggesting that the traffic lights are timed to allow better flow of traffic.
Authorities here had already admitted (sorry, no link to hand) that they use deliberatley bad signal timing to discourage people from travelling down certian roads.
I already use a flexitime solution, and am never held up by congestion when I drive into London (I am often held up by by roadworks and bad traffic light timing, but tolls won't alter that) but I will still be charged if the tolls go ahead, as they cover the entire business day.
Yes.. I think it's worth explaining for our international audience that the notoriously left-wing Mayor of London (who is setting up this scheme) was thrown out of the ruling Labour Party.
He was (so he claims) also once approached by the KGB to become a spy, during his time as leader of the Greater London Council. He pointed out that he had made London a 'nuclear free zone' (this was in the cold-war era), and asked the recruiter if the Russians had made such a bold socialist move in Moscow. When the recruited said they had not, the man who is now our mayor said he was probably too socialist to join the KGB, and left:-)
1) Public transport is already full to bursting point.
2) Pulic transport is practically non-existent between the hours of midnight and 5am.
The main reason I personally drive into the proposed congestion charging zone every working day is that the journey takes 45 minutes bay car, using about 1 pound of petrol, and by public transport it takes a minimum of 2 hours, and costs over 4 pounds. Also my car is air-conditioned (none of the public transport is) and is able to get me home if I work past midnight.
In my experience, most of the traffic congestion is due to taxis blocking the roads looking for (or picking up/dropping off) passengers, roadworks that are never finished, bad traffic light timing and because large parts of the road network are reserved for buses only.
It has already been proved that this can be done using only the technology that was available in 1960s Russia, so it's not exactly rocket sci^H^H^H^H^H erm... It's not as if there is anything groundbreaking about the science here, as he says in the answer to my question.
His achievement will be in showing that his trip can be done affordably by a private individual, not that it can be done at all.
Is here: http://stationerystore.opnet.co.uk/detail.asp?Prod uctCode=459778
It's RED, it's cheaper than the swingline, it's ELECTRONIC and you can see all the workings through the transparent casing (so you don't need to mod your stapler case)!
My company uses Virtual PC to solve this, we just run our old PC accounting software on the Mac.
VPC is perfect for this situation, as it's not a particularly speed critical task, and the cost of buying VPC to run your existing software is probably less than the cost of buying a Mac alternative (if one existed) would be, and that is without factoring in the cost of learning a new app.
I'm sure that for far less than $1.5 billion, they could have set up a company that does everything that PayPal does, but without PayPal's reputation for treading mightly close to the borderline between incomptence and plain old criminality?
Does anyone have any theories as to why Ebay want to be tarnished with PayPal's reputation rather that setting up the alternative to paypal that people want?
How much of your project requires technological innovation on your part, and how much is just a question of raising funding to duplicate exisiting technology that governments have already researched?
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Emagic already have a free version of Logic, called Logic Fun, that roughly fits the bill.
It's only got 4 tracks, and no CD-burning built in, but it's free, and comes in Mac and PC flavours (for now)
You can download it from http://www.emagic.de/german/education/download.htm l (this page is in German, but the application is English language)
The sensibility of this decision rather depends on how much of the Emagic's expenditure went into the PC version, and supporting the myriad hardware combinations and windows versions that the PC environment has.
If the PC version consumed 70% of their development and support costs, but only provided 35% of their revenue, then it's probably a sound business decision to cut it off, regardless of the advantage Apple would gain from the software moving to a single platform only.
Maybe it would be a better idea to find whoever decided that carrying NUCLEAR MATERIAL (I'll shout if you do) on trains that any dumbass can derail was a good idea, and knock some sense into them?
Aynway, the horse has clearly bolted, shutting down the whole damn internet won't put it back in the stable. Anyone who wants this information probably has it by now, the judge has only made things worse by drawing attention to it in this way.
Google counts as a single page both their cache and the site in it's current form, so the number of web pages you can get to from a google search is significantly higher than the number of pages they have actualy 'indexed'.
This is far more important to me as a user than some extra pages that alltheweb may have (presumably because they ignored a few 'nobots' tags? that Google's crawlers respected?)
A band called Future Sound of London (aka FSOL) have been doing this for years, they send out their lighting rig and stage set, and pipe the audio live to the gig over ISDN.
At the risk of responding to a troll, I suggest you look at a map of Britain and a map of Russia before thinking British train journeys are going to be comparible in length to Russian ones.
As for 'exactly how that is not a good way of comparing statistics', I'll spell it out once more... it does not reflect the chance of being killed when boarding a train, because it factors in length of journey and freight movements.
As any 12 year old math student could tell you, it does not "It provides you exactly with the chance of being killed if you take train for X hours" because trains do not travel at a uniform constant speed, or carry a uniform constant number of passengers.
As for "head to head collisions" not being a "train safety" issue, you are just so far ouside the bounds of rationality that I don't know how to begin to correct you!
...oh, and as was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Britain's train companies are not responsible for the rails at all, the rails have been contracted out to a different company.
Measuring 'fatalities per million train km' isn't a very useful way to compare statistics about train safety, when trains in (for example) Britain are largely used for short and busy commuter routes and trains in Russia (who appear to have the safest trains by an order of magnitude if you take those statistics at face value) are probably mostly transporting freight over huge distances.
Follow this procedure: 1) Draw a venn diagram consisting of 2 sets. 2) label them 'the rich' and 'the poor'. 3) Note the lack of overlap. 4) Mark the positions in these sets of "yourself" and ""Bill Gates"
The solution to your problem should become clear to the mathemtically adept (if not , you can have a laugh at the pair of boobies you just drew).
...which leads to the real problem for this chip... marketing
How is any PC manufacturer is going to turn round to it's customers and say "you know all that stuff Apple was telling you about the megahertz myth? Well, they were right and we were conning you which meaningless speed measurements all this time"?
Moving this chip out of the 'well informed geek' sector of the market will be tough, imho.
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Well, let's not forget that the choice for Mayor was between Ken Livingstone (thrown out of our most left-wing major political party for being too extreme) and Geoffrey Archer (now in prison) so it's not as if we could have elected anyone better.
Ken only got the job because he was percieved as the lesser of the evils on offer.
As for my car slowing down public transport, I'm intruigued as to how I slow down tube trains, overground trains or the docklands light railway which all run on rails not roads.
Maybe you are referring to the quarter mile of my 13 and a half mile journey that is also used by buses? At the times I travel, I'm hardly interrupting a bus service that is only suppised to run once every 15 minutes, and has an entire lane of the road exclusively devoted to it, am I?
The main reason that toll boths are not being suggested is that the charge is not for entering or leaving the zone, but for using a vehicle within it during certain hours.
:-(
You still have to pay the charge if you drive from one place in the zone to another, even if you do not cross the boundary... a distinction which ruled out my first idea of buying a second car and keeping one inside the zone and one outside, and therefore not paying the toll
more FUD here... "11 miles an hour is the best you can get in London"... pure rubbish! Take a drive down the A12, and look at all the black skid marks just before the gatso speed-trap cameras. Those are caused by people slowing down to avoid being caught travelling at over 50 mph.
"the peak average speed is three miles per hour", ignoring for a momnet that the phrase "peak average" is a non-sequitur, can you explain how I managed to travel the 13.8 miles to work today in 45 minutes, despite going through 8 miles of roadworks on the A13?
I call FUD on that post. It takes me 45 minutes to go from my house in the 'burbs to my office in the centre by car and over 2 hours by public transport.
The only way you could possibly get the figures you suggest is if both your home and your office are located on the same tube line, and are only a minute or two's walk from the nearest stations.
To get from my home to office by public transport requires a 5 minute walk to a bus stop, a 15 minute bus journey, a tube journey of 15 minutes, then changing lines and another tube journey of 25 minutes, then another 10 minute walk. Even if every service is empty enough for me to get onto and waiting for me when I get there, I can't make this journey quicker than the 45 minutes door-to-door that my car takes.
No, the original poster is suggesting that the traffic lights are timed to allow better flow of traffic.
Authorities here had already admitted (sorry, no link to hand) that they use deliberatley bad signal timing to discourage people from travelling down certian roads.
I already use a flexitime solution, and am never held up by congestion when I drive into London (I am often held up by by roadworks and bad traffic light timing, but tolls won't alter that) but I will still be charged if the tolls go ahead, as they cover the entire business day.
Yes.. I think it's worth explaining for our international audience that the notoriously left-wing Mayor of London (who is setting up this scheme) was thrown out of the ruling Labour Party.
:-)
He was (so he claims) also once approached by the KGB to become a spy, during his time as leader of the Greater London Council. He pointed out that he had made London a 'nuclear free zone' (this was in the cold-war era), and asked the recruiter if the Russians had made such a bold socialist move in Moscow. When the recruited said they had not, the man who is now our mayor said he was probably too socialist to join the KGB, and left
2 reasons....
1) Public transport is already full to bursting point.
2) Pulic transport is practically non-existent between the hours of midnight and 5am.
The main reason I personally drive into the proposed congestion charging zone every working day is that the journey takes 45 minutes bay car, using about 1 pound of petrol, and by public transport it takes a minimum of 2 hours, and costs over 4 pounds. Also my car is air-conditioned (none of the public transport is) and is able to get me home if I work past midnight.
In my experience, most of the traffic congestion is due to taxis blocking the roads looking for (or picking up/dropping off) passengers, roadworks that are never finished, bad traffic light timing and because large parts of the road network are reserved for buses only.
It has already been proved that this can be done using only the technology that was available in 1960s Russia, so it's not exactly rocket sci^H^H^H^H^H erm... It's not as if there is anything groundbreaking about the science here, as he says in the answer to my question.
His achievement will be in showing that his trip can be done affordably by a private individual, not that it can be done at all.
Well, if Good Omens is a 'big hit' with a Gillam/Gaiman partnership in the credits, I'm sure the Watchmen movie will be a much stronger possibility
Is here: http://stationerystore.opnet.co.uk/detail.asp?Prod uctCode=459778
It's RED, it's cheaper than the swingline, it's ELECTRONIC and you can see all the workings through the transparent casing (so you don't need to mod your stapler case)!
What more could a geek need in a stapler?
My company uses Virtual PC to solve this, we just run our old PC accounting software on the Mac.
VPC is perfect for this situation, as it's not a particularly speed critical task, and the cost of buying VPC to run your existing software is probably less than the cost of buying a Mac alternative (if one existed) would be, and that is without factoring in the cost of learning a new app.
I'm sure that for far less than $1.5 billion, they could have set up a company that does everything that PayPal does, but without PayPal's reputation for treading mightly close to the borderline between incomptence and plain old criminality?
Does anyone have any theories as to why Ebay want to be tarnished with PayPal's reputation rather that setting up the alternative to paypal that people want?
How much of your project requires technological innovation on your part, and how much is just a question of raising funding to duplicate exisiting technology that governments have already researched?
Emagic already have a free version of Logic, called Logic Fun, that roughly fits the bill.
m l (this page is in German, but the application is English language)
It's only got 4 tracks, and no CD-burning built in, but it's free, and comes in Mac and PC flavours (for now)
You can download it from http://www.emagic.de/german/education/download.ht
The sensibility of this decision rather depends on how much of the Emagic's expenditure went into the PC version, and supporting the myriad hardware combinations and windows versions that the PC environment has.
If the PC version consumed 70% of their development and support costs, but only provided 35% of their revenue, then it's probably a sound business decision to cut it off, regardless of the advantage Apple would gain from the software moving to a single platform only.
Maybe it would be a better idea to find whoever decided that carrying NUCLEAR MATERIAL (I'll shout if you do) on trains that any dumbass can derail was a good idea, and knock some sense into them?
Aynway, the horse has clearly bolted, shutting down the whole damn internet won't put it back in the stable. Anyone who wants this information probably has it by now, the judge has only made things worse by drawing attention to it in this way.
You have completely missed the point!
/. story on this case, but I guess it's not redundant until people actually understand it...
There is at least one comment that explains why in every
Microsoft is NOT ON TRIAL for being a monopoly.
There is NOTHING WRONG with being a monopoly under US law.
Microsoft were ABUSING their monopoly, which there ARE laws against.
Google counts as a single page both their cache and the site in it's current form, so the number of web pages you can get to from a google search is significantly higher than the number of pages they have actualy 'indexed'.
This is far more important to me as a user than some extra pages that alltheweb may have (presumably because they ignored a few 'nobots' tags? that Google's crawlers respected?)
A band called Future Sound of London (aka FSOL) have been doing this for years, they send out their lighting rig and stage set, and pipe the audio live to the gig over ISDN.
Can someone bring me up to speed?
1) The link shows it has been approved by "Revcom" - who are Revcom, and why should I be interested in their approval?
2) Seeing as ethernet seems to speed up by an order of magnitude each time, why does the standard not allow for many more x10 jumps?
3) How far is 10Gb Ethernet from getting to the consumer/business market?
At the risk of responding to a troll, I suggest you look at a map of Britain and a map of Russia before thinking British train journeys are going to be comparible in length to Russian ones.
As for 'exactly how that is not a good way of comparing statistics', I'll spell it out once more... it does not reflect the chance of being killed when boarding a train, because it factors in length of journey and freight movements.
As any 12 year old math student could tell you, it does not "It provides you exactly with the chance of being killed if you take train for X hours" because trains do not travel at a uniform constant speed, or carry a uniform constant number of passengers.
As for "head to head collisions" not being a "train safety" issue, you are just so far ouside the bounds of rationality that I don't know how to begin to correct you!
...oh, and as was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Britain's train companies are not responsible for the rails at all, the rails have been contracted out to a different company.
Measuring 'fatalities per million train km' isn't a very useful way to compare statistics about train safety, when trains in (for example) Britain are largely used for short and busy commuter routes and trains in Russia (who appear to have the safest trains by an order of magnitude if you take those statistics at face value) are probably mostly transporting freight over huge distances.
Follow this procedure:
1) Draw a venn diagram consisting of 2 sets.
2) label them 'the rich' and 'the poor'.
3) Note the lack of overlap.
4) Mark the positions in these sets of "yourself" and ""Bill Gates"
The solution to your problem should become clear to the mathemtically adept (if not , you can have a laugh at the pair of boobies you just drew).
...which leads to the real problem for this chip... marketing
How is any PC manufacturer is going to turn round to it's customers and say "you know all that stuff Apple was telling you about the megahertz myth? Well, they were right and we were conning you which meaningless speed measurements all this time"?
Moving this chip out of the 'well informed geek' sector of the market will be tough, imho.