I love the quote and I agree with your point, but what numbers are you using? Wikipedia has the London £2012 budget at £9.3 billion, and the current ITER cost at â16 billion (£12.9 billion).
What I miss most from my old MZ-R35, is the headphone remote. By modern standards it was large, with more controls than an iPod Shuffle, but everything was usable one handed by touch alone. The rewind/seek controls were a twist cap. I had a half hearted go at adapting one, but it would take more SMD fu than I can muster.
This is (slightly) offtopic, but I'll take the hit. It seems strange to me that digital still cameras and DSLR cameras don't offer webcam functions, at least I haven't found any that do. Thy typical have a much better sensor, lens and optical zoom than any dedicated webcam; can record high resolution video and connect as a USB device. So why is a USB webcam mode not incorporated?
There are multiple measures of an X driver. Nvidia's proprietary driver provides good 3D support on recent hardware, but they lack support for older hardware and RANDR. Doing multi monitor support their own way means it doesn't integrate well. Nouveau supports older hardware better but lacks 3D and power management in comparison. If Nvidia were to support the open source efforts with documentation rather than just the closed source driver, then perhaps Nouveau would progress quicker. Nvidia's support is better than zero, but it's not as great as it could be.
As I recall they addressed aiming at the sails during the first revisit. They couldn't focus the beam on the fabric as it fluttered in the air, so stated it wasn't a viable approach - I'm sure there's a clip on Youtube if you car to check.
I understand that the PLCs are connected to the Wincc machine by some sort of network, presumably for monitoring and reprogramming. I'd like to ask how you think the Stuxnet worm has reached the Wincc machines - over the Internet, or by infected media/laptops being plugged in?
I'm guessing you can't speak for Iranian ICT practises, but how isolated from the Internet are such systems? I presume nowadays sites are interlinked for remote monitoring. Are these over airgapped, dedicated lines or do they ever share infrastructure with office Intranets using for instance a VPN or encrypted tunnel?
To reiterate my comment at TFA, that they're no doubt going to approve.
I would like to know how you arrived at your headline - £32000/day for the Birmingham City Council website?
Your quote "To date we've invested £48.4m..." from http://www.capita.co.uk/about-us/Pages/Birmingham.aspx gives a figure spent by Service Birmingham (£48.4 million), and that page states SB were "established in April 2006 to provide the Council’s information and communications technology (ICT) services". That's 1596 days ago assuming 2006-4-30 to 2010-9-12. Dividing one by the other gives £30325/day, I presume you performed a similar division to reach £32000/day. However I cannot see how you conclude that the £48.4 million was spent entirely on the BCC website, and hence justify your headline.
To declare my interests I worked at Service Birmingham - the Capita/Birmingham City Council joint venture - until Jan 2010. Except for about 5 days as a testing volunteer I did not work on the CMS for birmingham.gov.uk. I have no financial interest in SB or Capita, but I do pay council tax to BCC. I await your answer.
You do realise this isn't the first incidence? Botnets have been installing key loggers and stealing sensitive data for years now. Credit card numbers harvested thus sell for a few dollars/thousand.
I don't believe that's correct. AES is to the best of our knowledge uncrackable by the NSA with current computing resources. The flaws that have been discovered publically are minor and inconsequential. It is possible that the NSA has a practical attack against AES, and others but that they choose not to reveal this as GHCQ did not reveal their cracking of Enigma.
Practically this doesn't make much difference to 99.9% of us The NSA is unlikely to go after us little guys, the risk of revealing their secret would outweigh the benefit. However if you're ever holding the UN to ransom don't assume that AES, RSA et al are secure against a national government.
IPython is an interactive interpreter that will allow you to skip the brackets in many cases, but you'll still need them in an script. Certain editors and IDEs have a mode that auto-complete/inserts the brackets.
The benefit of having print as a function, is that one can override it:
old_print = print
def print(*args, **kwargs):
# Do something custom, maybe filtering, time stamping
old_print(*args, **kwargs)
Using the logging module is normally a better approach than print though...
Thank you for the examples. I fear Dos Equis counts as a bad use of Flash to my tastes, and I've found it annoying rather than stylish. It breaks use of the back/forward controls, bookmarking of pages. Text on The Most Interesting Show page is barely readable, and I cannot resize it. Admittedly it's better than , my usual example of bad Flash.
The game looks fun enough. Not sure why it can't be a real flash game, embedded in the page, rather than being restricted to Mac or Windows.
Flash exists because there is a gap between making disgusting prefabbed square forms, and fluid, interesting and deeply creative content; Something that tells your customers and competitors "hey, we have style!".
I'm curious, could you point to a site that exemplifies this?
I agree there's a gap that currently only Flash fills - namely delivering content that is a game, an animation, an audio track or a video. I've yet to see a site where I thought Flash used as a design element was an improvement, so I'm interested to see your take on it. Regards, Alex.
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I love the quote and I agree with your point, but what numbers are you using? Wikipedia has the London £2012 budget at £9.3 billion, and the current ITER cost at â16 billion (£12.9 billion).
It's silly to us as well.
Regards, A Brit
Thanks, I didn't know that one. Ctrl+Shift+V is the equivalent in OpenOffice/LibreOffice
What I miss most from my old MZ-R35, is the headphone remote. By modern standards it was large, with more controls than an iPod Shuffle, but everything was usable one handed by touch alone. The rewind/seek controls were a twist cap. I had a half hearted go at adapting one, but it would take more SMD fu than I can muster.
So long Mini-Disc
This is (slightly) offtopic, but I'll take the hit. It seems strange to me that digital still cameras and DSLR cameras don't offer webcam functions, at least I haven't found any that do. Thy typical have a much better sensor, lens and optical zoom than any dedicated webcam; can record high resolution video and connect as a USB device. So why is a USB webcam mode not incorporated?
There are multiple measures of an X driver. Nvidia's proprietary driver provides good 3D support on recent hardware, but they lack support for older hardware and RANDR. Doing multi monitor support their own way means it doesn't integrate well. Nouveau supports older hardware better but lacks 3D and power management in comparison. If Nvidia were to support the open source efforts with documentation rather than just the closed source driver, then perhaps Nouveau would progress quicker. Nvidia's support is better than zero, but it's not as great as it could be.
As I recall they addressed aiming at the sails during the first revisit. They couldn't focus the beam on the fabric as it fluttered in the air, so stated it wasn't a viable approach - I'm sure there's a clip on Youtube if you car to check.
I understand that the PLCs are connected to the Wincc machine by some sort of network, presumably for monitoring and reprogramming. I'd like to ask how you think the Stuxnet worm has reached the Wincc machines - over the Internet, or by infected media/laptops being plugged in?
I'm guessing you can't speak for Iranian ICT practises, but how isolated from the Internet are such systems? I presume nowadays sites are interlinked for remote monitoring. Are these over airgapped, dedicated lines or do they ever share infrastructure with office Intranets using for instance a VPN or encrypted tunnel?
To reiterate my comment at TFA, that they're no doubt going to approve.
I would like to know how you arrived at your headline - £32000/day for the Birmingham City Council website?
Your quote "To date we've invested £48.4m ..." from http://www.capita.co.uk/about-us/Pages/Birmingham.aspx gives a figure spent by Service Birmingham (£48.4 million), and that page states SB were "established in April 2006 to provide the Council’s information and communications
technology (ICT) services". That's 1596 days ago assuming 2006-4-30 to 2010-9-12. Dividing one by the other gives £30325/day, I presume you performed a similar division to reach £32000/day. However I cannot see how you conclude that the £48.4 million was spent entirely on the BCC website, and hence justify your headline.
To declare my interests I worked at Service Birmingham - the Capita/Birmingham City Council joint venture - until Jan 2010. Except for about 5 days as a testing volunteer I did not work on the CMS for birmingham.gov.uk. I have no financial interest in SB or Capita, but I do pay council tax to BCC. I await your answer.
Sincerely, Alex Willmer
That one is "And then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the antennas down my left side."
You do realise this isn't the first incidence? Botnets have been installing key loggers and stealing sensitive data for years now. Credit card numbers harvested thus sell for a few dollars/thousand.
The standards to which the EU are trying to move are litres/100 km or kWh/km
Jackeey Wallpaper if it's the same one Engadget reported http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/29/lookouts-app-genome-project-warns-about-sketchy-apps-you-may-ha/
I really hope Blackberry get issued an injunction, then perhaps our elected overlords would get the message about obvious patents*.
* That is, amongst the tide of crap they suddenly receive.
Much as I'd like to agree with you. Evidence?
Well lets make them more relevant :). What are the names of some please?
Simple, they'll erase any record of them.
AFAICT the limit is now back up to 350/hour, and has been for a day at least. This is in the UK, in case it's turned regional.
I don't believe that's correct. AES is to the best of our knowledge uncrackable by the NSA with current computing resources. The flaws that have been discovered publically are minor and inconsequential. It is possible that the NSA has a practical attack against AES, and others but that they choose not to reveal this as GHCQ did not reveal their cracking of Enigma.
Practically this doesn't make much difference to 99.9% of us The NSA is unlikely to go after us little guys, the risk of revealing their secret would outweigh the benefit. However if you're ever holding the UN to ransom don't assume that AES, RSA et al are secure against a national government.
No sarcasm, or piss taking, I really am curious. Why does switching to Bittorrent mean fewer trojans/infections?
Is this satire or industry analysis? I can't tell.
Completely off-topic, but did your friend perhaps say "Don't inflame, inform."
IPython is an interactive interpreter that will allow you to skip the brackets in many cases, but you'll still need them in an script. Certain editors and IDEs have a mode that auto-complete/inserts the brackets.
The benefit of having print as a function, is that one can override it:
old_print = print
def print(*args, **kwargs):
# Do something custom, maybe filtering, time stamping
old_print(*args, **kwargs)
Using the logging module is normally a better approach than print though...
Thank you for the examples. I fear Dos Equis counts as a bad use of Flash to my tastes, and I've found it annoying rather than stylish. It breaks use of the back/forward controls, bookmarking of pages. Text on The Most Interesting Show page is barely readable, and I cannot resize it. Admittedly it's better than , my usual example of bad Flash.
The game looks fun enough. Not sure why it can't be a real flash game, embedded in the page, rather than being restricted to Mac or Windows.
I'm curious, could you point to a site that exemplifies this?
I agree there's a gap that currently only Flash fills - namely delivering content that is a game, an animation, an audio track or a video. I've yet to see a site where I thought Flash used as a design element was an improvement, so I'm interested to see your take on it. Regards, Alex.