Surely it only negates the purpose if you have a continuous flow of pedestrians. If that is the case, then a sequenced set of lights may well be better.
They don't even necessarily have higher construction costs. Take a look at a mini-roundabout. It consists of a slightly raised section of road (low enough to drive directly over if need be), so the comparison there is road + lights vs road + slight hump.
Here in Europe, the vast majority have a manual gearbox, but maybe that's because we actually like to drive cars. Never understood why, in the "land of the car" you want to neuter the driving experience.
Flawed argument - if imports are cheaper, stopping local produce from competing, and transport costs rise, making imports more expensive, and you now start buying the (previously) more expensive local food, how has your food cost not risen? That is without adding the additional local costs from fuel prices (transport to market, transport of fertilizers etc, heating, lighting and so on).
No, but I work in IT and know how to ensure that I am not being misled. Now look at it the other way round, you call a hotel to book a room, they tell you it will be 5 star, have a TV, en-suite, king size bed, etc. etc. Now when you get to the hotel to use the facility, it's nothing like you were told - is it your fault for not checking (in person) that the room is suitable *before you turn up to use it*?
It all depends on what was said at the time - maybe the demo went badly but the software provider says "oh yes, it will do that in the final version", or made other such promises about the performance and ability.
The real problem is he is making statements without any clue on the subject. Everyone I know who has multiple phones, has them for one or more of the following reasons:
A. Personal mobile B. Business mobile C. Old pay-as-you-go that is not in use anymore D. Spare old phone for emergencies / taking somewhere it might get lost or damaged
I don't know anyone who buys a phone on a network in another country for roaming purposes - if you travel that often you get a spare SIM - that is after all why they exist, and we wonder at how it took the USA so long to catch on to separating the network information from the phone.
As for European users being jealous of USA smartphones, again, he hasn't a clue - I would guess he is of the opinion "iPhone = invented the smartphone" and isn't aware that here in Europe we had phones that did all the iPhone did well before it was introduced. Maybe not in such a management-friendly package. To be honest, until the iPhone was introduced, US produced phones were largely considered a joke compared to the phones produced by Nokia, Ericsson etc.
2 Mbit (around 250 KB/s down) is still about 5x faster than dialup
V90 was 56Kbit down, 33Kbit up (rarely achievable) - not KByte. 2Mbit down, 250kbit up is far better than 5x faster (particularly as the majority of traffic for the average user is down).
So before modding me a troll, or flamebait, or calling me an MS fanboi or shill, please post some technical arguments as to why Linux is better.
No artificial memory and usage limitations (Windows Web Edition cannot be used as an app server and can only address 2Gb of RAM. Standard can only address 4Gb).
No, the original UK cable (as laid in Croydon etc) was copper, not fibre - as an early adopter of cable in the 80's Croydon was very late to get upgraded to fibre.
The researcher is paid to research new IP. That is their job. Therefore any new research belongs to the employer. The cleaner is employed to clean. That is their job. Therefore any new research belongs to them.
Not here in the UK, most of us are just trained to keep an eye out for emergency vehicles and act accordingly. There does seem to be an increase in idiots on the road these days who won't move out of the way though.
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Surely it only negates the purpose if you have a continuous flow of pedestrians. If that is the case, then a sequenced set of lights may well be better.
They don't even necessarily have higher construction costs. Take a look at a mini-roundabout. It consists of a slightly raised section of road (low enough to drive directly over if need be), so the comparison there is road + lights vs road + slight hump.
Here in Europe, the vast majority have a manual gearbox, but maybe that's because we actually like to drive cars. Never understood why, in the "land of the car" you want to neuter the driving experience.
Flawed argument - if imports are cheaper, stopping local produce from competing, and transport costs rise, making imports more expensive, and you now start buying the (previously) more expensive local food, how has your food cost not risen? That is without adding the additional local costs from fuel prices (transport to market, transport of fertilizers etc, heating, lighting and so on).
Try $7.76 per (US) gallon. That's about what we pay in the UK at the moment (£1.30/litre).
It's part of maintaining cache-consistency (I presume between multiple processors etc.) http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0407e/CHDFJICC.html
No, but I work in IT and know how to ensure that I am not being misled. Now look at it the other way round, you call a hotel to book a room, they tell you it will be 5 star, have a TV, en-suite, king size bed, etc. etc. Now when you get to the hotel to use the facility, it's nothing like you were told - is it your fault for not checking (in person) that the room is suitable *before you turn up to use it*?
It all depends on what was said at the time - maybe the demo went badly but the software provider says "oh yes, it will do that in the final version", or made other such promises about the performance and ability.
The real problem is he is making statements without any clue on the subject. Everyone I know who has multiple phones, has them for one or more of the following reasons:
A. Personal mobile
B. Business mobile
C. Old pay-as-you-go that is not in use anymore
D. Spare old phone for emergencies / taking somewhere it might get lost or damaged
I don't know anyone who buys a phone on a network in another country for roaming purposes - if you travel that often you get a spare SIM - that is after all why they exist, and we wonder at how it took the USA so long to catch on to separating the network information from the phone.
As for European users being jealous of USA smartphones, again, he hasn't a clue - I would guess he is of the opinion "iPhone = invented the smartphone" and isn't aware that here in Europe we had phones that did all the iPhone did well before it was introduced. Maybe not in such a management-friendly package. To be honest, until the iPhone was introduced, US produced phones were largely considered a joke compared to the phones produced by Nokia, Ericsson etc.
My bet is on either Money or Evil
Tell that to Hyundai on the Tucson then.
Maybe because that's where the shift-lock key on a typewriter was?
But who would you rather invite round to dinner?
The international standard I believe these days is 112 (works internationally with mobile phones at least). In the UK the traditional number is 999.
2 Mbit (around 250 KB/s down) is still about 5x faster than dialup
V90 was 56Kbit down, 33Kbit up (rarely achievable) - not KByte. 2Mbit down, 250kbit up is far better than 5x faster (particularly as the majority of traffic for the average user is down).
So before modding me a troll, or flamebait, or calling me an MS fanboi or shill, please post some technical arguments as to why Linux is better.
No artificial memory and usage limitations (Windows Web Edition cannot be used as an app server and can only address 2Gb of RAM. Standard can only address 4Gb).
ACT Apricot - you can see specs at http://computermuseum.gre.ac.uk/view.php?id=43
Surely the answer in most cases, and for most people, is 1. However that may not be the same 1 license that anyone else needs.
No, the original UK cable (as laid in Croydon etc) was copper, not fibre - as an early adopter of cable in the 80's Croydon was very late to get upgraded to fibre.
Yes, mine does.
The researcher is paid to research new IP. That is their job. Therefore any new research belongs to the employer. The cleaner is employed to clean. That is their job. Therefore any new research belongs to them.
Not that difficult to understand.
Not here in the UK, most of us are just trained to keep an eye out for emergency vehicles and act accordingly. There does seem to be an increase in idiots on the road these days who won't move out of the way though.
So, the CCD *doesn't* convert the analog light input into digital data then?
Surely you are telling programmers what they can and can not do with *your* code.
Isn't it ironic?