The school's president should be dismissed with prejudice for his actions, especially trying to bully the school's counseling service into providing him with "evidence" that the student was dangerous. I'd also dump the spineless jerks on the Board of Trustees.
Most mobile phone carriers in the US will charge you for all talking time, even if it was someone else who initiated the call (ie, you pay for telemarketers). Also ridiculous.
What's ridiculous about it? You are tying up an air channel, a scarce and valuable resource, on the carrier's mobile network. It doesn't matter who called first.
"Caller Pays" has the disadvantage that it forces the caller to subsidize the called party's choices in phone technology. Why should the caller get charged more because you made the decision to buy a phone that runs on fairy dust, at a cost of 50p a minute.
VOD will never match the DVR for variety of programming. The cable company has to negotiate with the program supplier for the right to put a show or movie on VOD. That doesn't just mean dealing with a cable network, it means dealing with the production company that created the show or movie.
Aye, but have you noticed a decline in the local moose population? It isn't caused by excessive hunting or climate change. The noble Canadian moose is now fodder for the diamond mines of the North. The mine owners discovered that a moose can do the work of a human miner, and isn't subject to labour and safety laws. Thousands of moose are now living a short and miserable existence in Canada's diamond mines. Don't buy moose diamonds!
There's a difference between damage to an individual and damage to society. When you look at damage to society, the cumulative damage to society caused by a single incident can easily exceed that of a very serious crime against a few people. If it was up to me, white-collar criminals would be eligible for the death penalty or life without parole. A man with a fountain pen can cause more damage to society than a man with a gun.
Building a new instrument package is often not "simple engineering", it's more like research and development that advances the state-of-the-art. When your doing something that nobody has ever done before, you often run into unforeseen problems. It isn't like building a common type of bridge for the 37th time.
How do you ensure that the VM supervisor fairly and efficiently allocates resources to the VMs? The mainframe people put a great deal of work into this area. One badly behaved VM shouldn't be able to degrade the performance of the other VMs.
The USA withdrew from the ABM Treaty, using the procedures for withdrawal that were written into the terms of the treaty.
In regards to the Berne Convention:
Article 35
Duration of the Convention; Denunciation:
1. Unlimited duration; 2. Possibility of denunciation;
3. Effective date of denunciation; 4. Moratorium on denunciation
(1) This Convention shall remain in force without limitation as to time.
(2) Any country may denounce this Act by notification addressed to the Director General. Such denunciation shall constitute also denunciation of all earlier Acts and shall affect only the country making it, the Convention remaining in full force and effect as regards the other countries of the Union.
(3) Denunciation shall take effect one year after the day on which the Director General has received the notification.
(4) The right of denunciation provided by this Article shall not be exercised by any country before the expiration of five years from the date upon which it becomes a member of the Union.
Full Windows Vista use can be achieved on any DirectX 9.0 capable graphics card, which is pretty much any card created since 2002.
You're wrong there. I got burned and had to upgrade to an NVIDIA graphics card for Vista to work properly. I had an almost-new system with an NVIDIA motherboard chipset, ATI AGP graphics card and AMD Athlon64 X2 CPU. This particular combination of hardware works great under XP and runs like crap under Vista. There's some sort of compatibility problem with Vista's AGP support and this set of hardware. It's now a well-known problem, at least to those who got burned by it. It can be "fixed" by replacing the ATI graphics card with an NVIDIA graphics card, or by downgrading the CPU to single-core. Neither Microsoft or NVIDIA have done anything besides deny it was a problem and then offer vague promises of a future fix.
I don't doubt that one could be made to sell for $40. A local store sells a 13" color TV, including digital tuner, for $80. I haven't seen any digital tuners in the stores, just complete television receivers.
Spare batteries are more dangerous than installed batteries?
Yes, they are. An installed battery is protected from physical damage and short circuits. This is a real issue with lithium batteries, that can fail catastrophically when damaged.
They do. I've heard many complaints about Nigerians attempting to pull the counterfeit bank check scam on people who list items for sale on eBay and other forums.
Police departments usually only sell a vehicle when it's worn out. A friend was interested in getting a police surplus Harley-Davidson, but he said that the bikes that he looked at were in pretty bad shape.
Helicopters are insanely expensive to purchase and operate. On second thought, put one into service with a rack of Hellfire missiles and we could apply a little negative reinforcement to the idiots that endanger everyone by running from the police.
Government officials that are corrupt, and embarass the party, often end up with a bullet in the head. A certain amount of corruption can be overlooked, damaging the reputation of the party is far more serious.
I would think digital would avoid the problems with conventional film where the distribution prints get scratched, faded, and lose segments where the film broke and was spliced back together. Plus the masters are subject to being lost and having the colors degrade in strange ways. Many films have been completely lost and others are only available in an incomplete form. At least with DVDs, a film is unlikely to be lost, even if the DVD version doesn't have the same quality as the master print.
I was under the impression that political parties in parliamentary systems expect MPs to vote the party line, except for the rare "free vote". An MP who votes against his party is likely to be off his party's list in the next election.
Electoral College actually make it possible to win with minority vote anyway.
That's intentional. It's an attempt to balance the power of small and large states. A pure direct vote can suck if you live in a less populated region of a larger entity. You can end up with a situation where a few heavily populated regions have so many votes that they ignore the interests of everyone else. It's a real problem in many states.
Another issue is recounts. What happens if candidate A beats candidate B by a tiny margin of the direct vote? There will always be allegations of fraud in some places. What if candidate B asks for a nation-wide recount? The current system tends to limit the damage to a small number of states where there were allegations of fraud and the race was close enough for it to matter.
They both use the same spectrum. The channel remapping is there to lessen confusion for the viewer. If the NTSC signal is on channel 4 and the ATSC signal is on channel 36, they'll map viewer channel 4 to actual channel 36. Many cable systems do something similar with their set-top boxes. It allows them to move programming services to different channels without affecting the channel assignments that their viewers are used to.
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The school's president should be dismissed with prejudice for his actions, especially trying to bully the school's counseling service into providing him with "evidence" that the student was dangerous. I'd also dump the spineless jerks on the Board of Trustees.
No! It's the bicycle riders!
What's ridiculous about it? You are tying up an air channel, a scarce and valuable resource, on the carrier's mobile network. It doesn't matter who called first.
"Caller Pays" has the disadvantage that it forces the caller to subsidize the called party's choices in phone technology. Why should the caller get charged more because you made the decision to buy a phone that runs on fairy dust, at a cost of 50p a minute.
The iRon Butterfly?
VOD will never match the DVR for variety of programming. The cable company has to negotiate with the program supplier for the right to put a show or movie on VOD. That doesn't just mean dealing with a cable network, it means dealing with the production company that created the show or movie.
Aye, but have you noticed a decline in the local moose population? It isn't caused by excessive hunting or climate change. The noble Canadian moose is now fodder for the diamond mines of the North. The mine owners discovered that a moose can do the work of a human miner, and isn't subject to labour and safety laws. Thousands of moose are now living a short and miserable existence in Canada's diamond mines. Don't buy moose diamonds!
Solid state disks can also have a much lower price. With a conventional hard disk, there is a price floor set by the cost of all the mechanical parts.
There's a difference between damage to an individual and damage to society. When you look at damage to society, the cumulative damage to society caused by a single incident can easily exceed that of a very serious crime against a few people. If it was up to me, white-collar criminals would be eligible for the death penalty or life without parole. A man with a fountain pen can cause more damage to society than a man with a gun.
Building a new instrument package is often not "simple engineering", it's more like research and development that advances the state-of-the-art. When your doing something that nobody has ever done before, you often run into unforeseen problems. It isn't like building a common type of bridge for the 37th time.
How do you ensure that the VM supervisor fairly and efficiently allocates resources to the VMs? The mainframe people put a great deal of work into this area. One badly behaved VM shouldn't be able to degrade the performance of the other VMs.
In regards to the Berne Convention:
http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9550/index.html
You're wrong there. I got burned and had to upgrade to an NVIDIA graphics card for Vista to work properly. I had an almost-new system with an NVIDIA motherboard chipset, ATI AGP graphics card and AMD Athlon64 X2 CPU. This particular combination of hardware works great under XP and runs like crap under Vista. There's some sort of compatibility problem with Vista's AGP support and this set of hardware. It's now a well-known problem, at least to those who got burned by it. It can be "fixed" by replacing the ATI graphics card with an NVIDIA graphics card, or by downgrading the CPU to single-core. Neither Microsoft or NVIDIA have done anything besides deny it was a problem and then offer vague promises of a future fix.
I don't doubt that one could be made to sell for $40. A local store sells a 13" color TV, including digital tuner, for $80. I haven't seen any digital tuners in the stores, just complete television receivers.
Which is a myth. Do you have any more pearls of wisdom?
Yes, they are. An installed battery is protected from physical damage and short circuits. This is a real issue with lithium batteries, that can fail catastrophically when damaged.
They do. I've heard many complaints about Nigerians attempting to pull the counterfeit bank check scam on people who list items for sale on eBay and other forums.
Police departments usually only sell a vehicle when it's worn out. A friend was interested in getting a police surplus Harley-Davidson, but he said that the bikes that he looked at were in pretty bad shape.
Helicopters are insanely expensive to purchase and operate. On second thought, put one into service with a rack of Hellfire missiles and we could apply a little negative reinforcement to the idiots that endanger everyone by running from the police.
Government officials that are corrupt, and embarass the party, often end up with a bullet in the head. A certain amount of corruption can be overlooked, damaging the reputation of the party is far more serious.
I would think digital would avoid the problems with conventional film where the distribution prints get scratched, faded, and lose segments where the film broke and was spliced back together. Plus the masters are subject to being lost and having the colors degrade in strange ways. Many films have been completely lost and others are only available in an incomplete form. At least with DVDs, a film is unlikely to be lost, even if the DVD version doesn't have the same quality as the master print.
I was under the impression that political parties in parliamentary systems expect MPs to vote the party line, except for the rare "free vote". An MP who votes against his party is likely to be off his party's list in the next election.
That's intentional. It's an attempt to balance the power of small and large states. A pure direct vote can suck if you live in a less populated region of a larger entity. You can end up with a situation where a few heavily populated regions have so many votes that they ignore the interests of everyone else. It's a real problem in many states.
Another issue is recounts. What happens if candidate A beats candidate B by a tiny margin of the direct vote? There will always be allegations of fraud in some places. What if candidate B asks for a nation-wide recount? The current system tends to limit the damage to a small number of states where there were allegations of fraud and the race was close enough for it to matter.
Mom & Pops often have problems with relatives. There are plenty of psychopaths that are never fired because they are a relative/spouse of the owner.
They both use the same spectrum. The channel remapping is there to lessen confusion for the viewer. If the NTSC signal is on channel 4 and the ATSC signal is on channel 36, they'll map viewer channel 4 to actual channel 36. Many cable systems do something similar with their set-top boxes. It allows them to move programming services to different channels without affecting the channel assignments that their viewers are used to.