Assuming the capital costs of this thing will be twice the launch costs (which I think would be pretty conservative) and assuming a failure rate of 20% (i.e. 20% of the cash put into launch and capital is up in smoke) then your calcs give a payback time of 5 years, which is not bad. Halving the efficiency takes it up to 10 years, which is not great but still better than nuclear.
There's probably someone out there who could say exactly that about their 360. My computer has failed (after 4 years heavy but not 24/7 usage, the motherboard blew), my neighbours have had their GPU go from a dodgy capacitor and I don't even want to go into the territory of software failures.
I remember at the launch of Vista it was cheaper to buy it from the States and ship it over here than buy it here. I'm guessing it's something to do with the massive sterling/dollar fluctuations.
The short answer is that it doesn't. Parliament can overturn those rights, as it already has done with the right to bear arms (though that is not as universal as the other two).
The long answer is that the European Union will defend those rights, and the Lords have a habit of knocking sense into the Commons before it gets that far. One of the greatest ironies is that the (unelected) Lords have done more to defend our liberties than the (elected) Commons.
We do have a constitution. Parliament is the supreme power in the nation though, so effectively the constitution can be changed with a simple majority vote in the Commons.
It probably isn't unconstitutional, because if Parliament passes a law to sanction it (which it probably will in our elected dictatorship) then it becomes part of the constitution.
I can think of many reasons the government might object to the roads being dug up; firstly the surface of the roads is never adequately repaired, leaving permanent damage to the roads. Often to lay fiber to your community (e.g. the village where my parents live) would involve digging up large tranches of busy road that are vital traffic routes.
Out of curiosity, why can't we tunnel under roads using robots to lay fiber?
Yeah, but this is the UK. Telecoms companies don't have psuedo-monopolies here like they do in the States. It is one of the permanent mysteries of this country that our roads seem to be dug up every other week (and have the damaged surface to prove it!) without having any appreciable difference in the services we receive.
Check out this rebuttal of the idea that waste heat from electronics is equivalent to heating.
It does depend where you are, but in the UK we mostly use gas to heat houses. Electrically heated houses usually use storage heaters, which use electricity at night when there's lower demand and the electricity would be wasted (because you can't turn a power plant on and off at the flick of a switch).
I'm not an expert on DNS. Can someone explain to me, as simply as possible, why this is a bad thing? I understand that it's a pain to be redirected to some random ad-laden piss-poor search page, but what will this break?
This is not a troll or flamebait, I genuinely want some education.
I've never heard fanny mean arse over here (SE England/London). I have heard bum to mean a person who is a waste of space as well. Also have heard arse to mean someone disapproved of.
Are you sure this wasn't a flaw with the razr? My dad had one of those, on the same network as me, and he couldn't get a signal where I could with an old Nokia brick (TM).
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The scalability of the Red Hat virtualization solution has been incremented to support 192 CPUs and 1GB hugepages.
Here.
Yes, I know an enterprise solution needs good virtualisation more than flash, it's still funny.
So yeah, there's no US support. They don't bother to explain why.
Probably the same reason there's no Hulu support here and no iPlayer support in the States; licensing issues.
It does happen though, it's not a total perversion of the natural order when Europeans get something cool you can't get in the States, it's just rare.
Assuming the capital costs of this thing will be twice the launch costs (which I think would be pretty conservative) and assuming a failure rate of 20% (i.e. 20% of the cash put into launch and capital is up in smoke) then your calcs give a payback time of 5 years, which is not bad. Halving the efficiency takes it up to 10 years, which is not great but still better than nuclear.
That's not the half of it. Every issue of Private Eye has an example of the News Corp communal silence.
You can't use iPlayer outside the UK, but you can use it within the UK but without a TV License.
You can't watch live TV in the UK without a TV License.
Erm...this table salt was grown without fertilisers or pesticides?
I used to work in a supermarket. It was so much fun watching people trying to work out how to ask for the non-'organic'-certified products.
"Excuse me, where are the inorganic apples?"
My computer is on 24/7. It hasn't failed yet.
There's probably someone out there who could say exactly that about their 360. My computer has failed (after 4 years heavy but not 24/7 usage, the motherboard blew), my neighbours have had their GPU go from a dodgy capacitor and I don't even want to go into the territory of software failures.
Traitor! I'm telling the Queen on you!
I remember at the launch of Vista it was cheaper to buy it from the States and ship it over here than buy it here. I'm guessing it's something to do with the massive sterling/dollar fluctuations.
Your Government doesn't regard your rights as inviolable.
For all that your post has been modded troll, this statement is correct.
The short answer is that it doesn't. Parliament can overturn those rights, as it already has done with the right to bear arms (though that is not as universal as the other two).
The long answer is that the European Union will defend those rights, and the Lords have a habit of knocking sense into the Commons before it gets that far. One of the greatest ironies is that the (unelected) Lords have done more to defend our liberties than the (elected) Commons.
We do have a constitution. Parliament is the supreme power in the nation though, so effectively the constitution can be changed with a simple majority vote in the Commons.
It probably isn't unconstitutional, because if Parliament passes a law to sanction it (which it probably will in our elected dictatorship) then it becomes part of the constitution.
Not with this particular minister, no.
I can think of many reasons the government might object to the roads being dug up; firstly the surface of the roads is never adequately repaired, leaving permanent damage to the roads. Often to lay fiber to your community (e.g. the village where my parents live) would involve digging up large tranches of busy road that are vital traffic routes.
Out of curiosity, why can't we tunnel under roads using robots to lay fiber?
Yeah, but this is the UK. Telecoms companies don't have psuedo-monopolies here like they do in the States. It is one of the permanent mysteries of this country that our roads seem to be dug up every other week (and have the damaged surface to prove it!) without having any appreciable difference in the services we receive.
Check out this rebuttal of the idea that waste heat from electronics is equivalent to heating.
It does depend where you are, but in the UK we mostly use gas to heat houses. Electrically heated houses usually use storage heaters, which use electricity at night when there's lower demand and the electricity would be wasted (because you can't turn a power plant on and off at the flick of a switch).
Hmm, that bank example is very interesting and one I hadn't heard before. Thanks.
I'm not an expert on DNS. Can someone explain to me, as simply as possible, why this is a bad thing? I understand that it's a pain to be redirected to some random ad-laden piss-poor search page, but what will this break?
This is not a troll or flamebait, I genuinely want some education.
Just use Spotlight? Or alternatively switch to the view that shows you all previous folders. It's the one that looks like french windows.
Er, OpenDNS does exactly this. Only I don't think it has an opt-out.
I suppose the most disturbing thing about that is that the
three duplicate images presenting them as thugs
are supposed to be promo shots!
This was my first thought. Most of the females in games I can think of are pretty over-represented.
Russia may make money out of central heating, but Russians have to pay for theirs.
A couple of modifications;
I've never heard fanny mean arse over here (SE England/London).
I have heard bum to mean a person who is a waste of space as well.
Also have heard arse to mean someone disapproved of.
Are you sure this wasn't a flaw with the razr? My dad had one of those, on the same network as me, and he couldn't get a signal where I could with an old Nokia brick (TM).