isn't this the wrong question? much more interesting would be the speed of the connection between the "network, which is being built using Cisco hardware" and the existing British internet backbone(s).
OTOH If you don't actually want to end up in the center of paris and/or you don't live close to london on a train line that happens to end up at kings cross/st pancras it's probablly quicker to fly.
In my experience it is more likely to live near a (more or less) decent train line than next to an airport. I lived in Freiburg (south Germany) with fast train connections every hour, the nearest airports were Basel (~ 1 hour away) and Frankfurt (~ 2 hours). The longest tours I took on a regular basis were to Berlin (6 to 7 hours by train) and Bremen (5:30 to 6 hours). Sure, flying would be a little bit faster but much more inconvenient, by plane would have meant that I need to plan my trip beforehand (argh!) - with railway I just walked to the station, bought a ticket and took the next train. And if I missed one by 5 seconds (happened ALL the time, it's impossible for me to memorize departure times...) I just drank some mugs of coffee at the bakery and read a book.
I'm not sure if 5% of the salary counts as "cheap" - here in Germany the average net income per household is 2700EUR [1] and DSL access is around 30EUR.
Also I'm not aware of a correlation between open source usage and piracy, do you have some kind of source for your opinion?
hmm, why stop at the point "mark the paper ballot"? heck, it could be a good idea to *count* those paper ballots without the help of machines.
like everyone else I don't trust human beings - but the at-least-four-eyes principle while creating something essential as election results a sine qua non for democratic societies, it is more transparent to trust in "I know the guys that counted the votes" than to believe in some black-box code.
sure, it would need some hours more until the actual result can be published - so what? here in Baden-Württemberg (a state of Germany) the end results of local elections (complicated election system with panachage and cumulative voting) are often published 3-4 days after the election day - and everyone (even the event-driven media) can handle this delay.
long story short: I want to know my assholes. and the most familiar and transparent assholes are human beings counting paper ballots
under normal circumstances you can always have 2 out of this 3 - regardless of which topic we are speaking (datacenters, code quality, cars*,... - just name it)
> It's simply a matter of installing an underlying DOS that can access modern large drives
or a MFM hdd interface card for PCI-E:) [sorry, had a hard day and one glass of wine too much. but anyway - any hardware hacker around who can build me such a device? I'm interested in such useless but geeky stuff...]
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after reading a little bit more (IANAL et al) the requirements are:
* payment of at least 50% of the former salary
* and not longer than 2 years
okay, seems to be very different to the case described in TFA - thanks for correcting me
at least in Germany such clauses (called "nachvertragliches Wettbewerbsverbot") are legal.
we need a more generic approach, I'm tired of relearning the slogan every couple of hundred days.
what about "2000, the millenium of the Linux desktop!"?
afaik Ubuntu - like Windows Vista - is not a supported platform for IE10. Why should Microsoft's decision push the usage of alternative OS?
isn't this the wrong question? much more interesting would be the speed of the connection between the "network, which is being built using Cisco hardware" and the existing British internet backbone(s).
OTOH If you don't actually want to end up in the center of paris and/or you don't live close to london on a train line that happens to end up at kings cross/st pancras it's probablly quicker to fly.
In my experience it is more likely to live near a (more or less) decent train line than next to an airport. I lived in Freiburg (south Germany) with fast train connections every hour, the nearest airports were Basel (~ 1 hour away) and Frankfurt (~ 2 hours). The longest tours I took on a regular basis were to Berlin (6 to 7 hours by train) and Bremen (5:30 to 6 hours). Sure, flying would be a little bit faster but much more inconvenient, by plane would have meant that I need to plan my trip beforehand (argh!) - with railway I just walked to the station, bought a ticket and took the next train. And if I missed one by 5 seconds (happened ALL the time, it's impossible for me to memorize departure times...) I just drank some mugs of coffee at the bakery and read a book.
Flying is way too inflexible imo.
a couple of unrelated decisions are a sign of ending "the age of speed"?
at the moment China is constructing 17000 km of high-speed railways; *surely* the beginning of an age of speed.
sigh, media...
urpmi apt && apt-get install mono
small fix :)
afaik the nearest one is at least 147100000 km away - and not one of these reactors was launched from earth
okay, probably I was wrong with the OSS/piracy thingy - sorry.
but 20USD for a decent internet connection with 600USD income is imo still not cheap
I'm not sure if 5% of the salary counts as "cheap" - here in Germany the average net income per household is 2700EUR [1] and DSL access is around 30EUR.
Also I'm not aware of a correlation between open source usage and piracy, do you have some kind of source for your opinion?
[1] according to http://de.statista.com/themen/293/durchschnittseinkommen/
hmm, why stop at the point "mark the paper ballot"? heck, it could be a good idea to *count* those paper ballots without the help of machines.
like everyone else I don't trust human beings - but the at-least-four-eyes principle while creating something essential as election results a sine qua non for democratic societies, it is more transparent to trust in "I know the guys that counted the votes" than to believe in some black-box code.
sure, it would need some hours more until the actual result can be published - so what? here in Baden-Württemberg (a state of Germany) the end results of local elections (complicated election system with panachage and cumulative voting) are often published 3-4 days after the election day - and everyone (even the event-driven media) can handle this delay.
long story short: I want to know my assholes. and the most familiar and transparent assholes are human beings counting paper ballots
hey - he is 15. don't overstrain him with ancient relics like AOL
rtfa. and you're right, the guy is called Rene Larsen
glue? are you some MBA in disguise? _real_ men use duct tape :)
it seems you had some bad experiences lately.
under normal circumstances you can always have 2 out of this 3 - regardless of which topic we are speaking (datacenters, code quality, cars*, ... - just name it)
*) and not even a bad analogy :)
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/
(and - to be more generic - on http://www.pp-international.net/ all pirate party organisations are listed)
woosh :P
btw, I like those crunchy chips in the eeePC - can I have one without all the cake around?
huh? I didn't know that EU directives are obligatory for American prisons...
a huge step forward for Europe - one set of rules to bind them all :)
I wrote letters to my regional members of the parliament and one of them reacted - unfortunately she was only the one in the opposition.
the one fron the government coaliation didn't even answer.
I lost completely my believe in politics/politicians - why should I trust someone who didn't even tries to understand my way of life?
> It's simply a matter of installing an underlying DOS that can access modern large drives
or a MFM hdd interface card for PCI-E :)
[sorry, had a hard day and one glass of wine too much. but anyway - any hardware hacker around who can build me such a device? I'm interested in such useless but geeky stuff...]
yes.
but it is not the job of the police to create intransparent block lists - without a chance for the citizens to see the content of this databases.
and the law not even demands judicial control - just some experts group that should check the content of the block list at least once in 3 months.
is it just me or is it censorship to suppress a site for 90 days without a possability to review the decision of a police agency?
NOW I understand the meaning of firewall. thanks a lot!
uh, one hop? (hey - this is slashdot :))
there are many villages with obscene names (at least in English) - what about a trip to Petting?