If there was actual influence by games, one could argue that playing WoW postponed his actions by a couple of years. You could even argue that if WoW had more fresh content, this may not have happened. Start a revolution? Not during a raid.
I don't really see the problem of maintaining anonymity. They way it works here: all citizens allowed to vote get an invitation to do so. This invitation also specifies which voting office to go to (there are procedures to change this to another or even any office, and procedures to have others vote for you). On voting day, you present yourself at the voting office with the invitation and ID, you're checked against a list, and you receive the voting slip. You fill out the slip in a private area, and drop it in the container, as is pretty much common around the world.
What, what? You *dont* require ID to vote? How do they keep track of who is allowed to vote (minors, (illegal) immigrants, convicts)?
One issue I have with the concept of Open Source as the solution for automated voting, is that it really limits the amount of people knowledgeable enough to interpret the code. There's also the question of code vs what's actually running, to some degree. My granny is perfectly able to monitor the manual voting process (and regularly does so), but I don't really see her reading through source code.
Roughly a year ago, the JAL in-flight brochure mentioned the DS being available on some flights and classes. I was wondering about that at the time, given the WiFi capabilities of the DS. Perhaps the airline supplied ones were made without WiFi.
I'm probably strange that way; I prefer regular Coke over Diet Coke (called Coke Light here), but I don't like Coke Zero at all. Similar with Pepsi, Pepsi Light and Pepsi max.
People have been going to foreign cities for millennia without GPS, so I don't think GPS is absolutely necessary for just that purpuse. I agree it might be handy, but so far I've managed fine without, and that includes some cities with few signs, and those is non-western writing.
I'd be the last to state that I have (and use) the latest & greatest in mobile phones, but I know quite a few people who do keep up with the latest models, and none of them uses MMS on anything that could be considered a regular basis. SMS? Sure. Everybody uses that. SMS is also pretty much guaranteed to work on any phone out there. But MMS? It was too rare when it was introduced, and only fairly recently (2-3 years) did it become a common feature.
No interns in Europe? Where did you get that nonsense? All of the Dutch vocational and higher education involves internship at some point, and I would expect it to be similar in other European countries.
The article still has me wondering what kind of security they're on about. I'd assume physical security, as I would suspect IT security to fall under the contract the IOC signed with Atos Origin, which includes the games in 2012. Atos Origin does work together with other partners in this, but knowing Atos Origin, it's doubtful they'd let partners take the spotlight without getting their name in.
Just as long as you realise that my bt traffic will be tagged high prio as well, because I hate to have to wait for people yakking on the phone, we'll get along just fine.
Honestly, I've seen loads of broken flash devices. While the lack of moving parts will make them a lot less vulnerable to shock, I wouldnt just assume it won't suddenly die on you.
They can even do some funky stuff with colored keys and such. So something completely useless (and therefore fun) like a red ESC key is possible. Better yet, they sell models without windows keys....
Things they didn't carry over from the real IBM ones: the detachable cable (really a good thing, this is where most of my IBM's failed eventually), and the keycaps. They still have the latter, but you dont get them by default
Internally, they are pretty much the same. When my unicomp turned out to be not-quite Coke proof, I replaced the inner workings with an original '88 IBM one. It fit without any modifications. Works like a charm too, except for the usual weak spot with the detachable cable.
Cant help but wonder if they even manage to include the 2 general techie mindsets: those that understand and appreciate BOFH humour, and those who dont...
Not quite true. There's various systems in active use that register ALL cars between to portals, calculate the avg speed, and fine for speeding if needed. They do this with some OCR voodoo on the license plates.
Officially, all the data (except for speeders) is deleted afterwards, but it would only be a minor step to store this information for later processing...
Both have little to do with the problems I mentioned: hosts on the same subnet have no idea of the other's MTU sizes; they assume it's the same as their own. My Jumbo-enabled server will send 9000 KB frames to my 'normal' MTU print server, which won't know what to do with 'em.
Essentially, an ethernet segment should be homogenous, so all hosts on it should either support it, or don't. Lacking L2 compatibility means these network segments need to be connected by a L3 device (router).
A future standard could probably ensure compatibility at L2 through some sort of negotiation scheme, but at the moment no such thing exists to my knowledge.
MTU discovery takes place above L2 function, as it relies on routers honouring the Dont Fragment bit. It will NOT tell my host what MTU is supported by hosts on the same subnet, and more importantly, it will NOT change the local MTU. MTU discovery is used to set MSS, which is a layer 4 feature.
Talk of all kinds of jumbo-MTU proposals is nothing new, and irrelevant here unless it's close to becoming a standard. Jumbo frames are not a bad thing per se, it's just not a defined standard for Ethernet at the moment.
Jumbo frames are a non-standard(!) solution to the old problem of Gbit hardware not being able to handle enough frames at wire speed (or related issues, like interrupts per received frame). Modern hardware shouldn't suffer from those problems, so all the advantage to be had is a minor reduction in overhead. And the headache of trying to run a non-standard feature...
There is no way to negotiate jumbo frames between hosts, so on a single L2 broadcast domain, either all hosts should be capable of the same size jumbo frames, or none should use them at all. A router should be able to fragment them, provided the hosts are on different subnets, but most L3 routers (which you'd essentially for the required performance) won't do fragmenting in hardware.
If you've been convicted in a court of law, you are guilty. This is not something you can just shrug off five years down the line,...
Actually, you can. It's the entire basis of the punishment system. After yu've done the time for your crime, you should have a clean slate. I know that in real life it's not quite that simple, because a criminal record isn't exacty a plus in job interviews, but that's besides the point.
Mostly correct. It's more complex than simply 'not prosecuring'. A coffeeshop may have up to 500 grams of Marijuana under the counter, provided they have a license to sell it.
1. There's nothing in the US constitution that says a gun should be available as an over-the-counter consumer good. Most countries with strict gun control in EUrope allow gun ownership for sporting purposes. 3. At the moment, there's no training required at all. Training could be made a requirement to get a gun license, kinda like the drivers license (although if they make it anything like the US drivers ed, they might as well not bother) 4. see point 3 5. Sources?
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If there was actual influence by games, one could argue that playing WoW postponed his actions by a couple of years. You could even argue that if WoW had more fresh content, this may not have happened. Start a revolution? Not during a raid.
Most urbanized? Not really. High, yes, but not the highest, even when not counting city states, island nations and weird places like Belgium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country
Hey, they wanted cheap, they got cheap. We offered them our dike product as well, but they weren't interested.
I don't really see the problem of maintaining anonymity. They way it works here: all citizens allowed to vote get an invitation to do so. This invitation also specifies which voting office to go to (there are procedures to change this to another or even any office, and procedures to have others vote for you). On voting day, you present yourself at the voting office with the invitation and ID, you're checked against a list, and you receive the voting slip. You fill out the slip in a private area, and drop it in the container, as is pretty much common around the world.
What, what? You *dont* require ID to vote? How do they keep track of who is allowed to vote (minors, (illegal) immigrants, convicts)?
One issue I have with the concept of Open Source as the solution for automated voting, is that it really limits the amount of people knowledgeable enough to interpret the code. There's also the question of code vs what's actually running, to some degree. My granny is perfectly able to monitor the manual voting process (and regularly does so), but I don't really see her reading through source code.
Roughly a year ago, the JAL in-flight brochure mentioned the DS being available on some flights and classes. I was wondering about that at the time, given the WiFi capabilities of the DS. Perhaps the airline supplied ones were made without WiFi.
I'm probably strange that way; I prefer regular Coke over Diet Coke (called Coke Light here), but I don't like Coke Zero at all. Similar with Pepsi, Pepsi Light and Pepsi max.
Only when the technical choice becomes political
Also not allowed to output that 5.1 sound through a standard digital link to the amp...
People have been going to foreign cities for millennia without GPS, so I don't think GPS is absolutely necessary for just that purpuse. I agree it might be handy, but so far I've managed fine without, and that includes some cities with few signs, and those is non-western writing.
I'd be the last to state that I have (and use) the latest & greatest in mobile phones, but I know quite a few people who do keep up with the latest models, and none of them uses MMS on anything that could be considered a regular basis. SMS? Sure. Everybody uses that. SMS is also pretty much guaranteed to work on any phone out there. But MMS? It was too rare when it was introduced, and only fairly recently (2-3 years) did it become a common feature.
No interns in Europe? Where did you get that nonsense? All of the Dutch vocational and higher education involves internship at some point, and I would expect it to be similar in other European countries.
The article still has me wondering what kind of security they're on about. I'd assume physical security, as I would suspect IT security to fall under the contract the IOC signed with Atos Origin, which includes the games in 2012. Atos Origin does work together with other partners in this, but knowing Atos Origin, it's doubtful they'd let partners take the spotlight without getting their name in.
Doesnt that conflict with the idea that the tribbles dislike Klingons because of their reptilian ancestry?
(Can't arsed to look any of that up, tho)
Just as long as you realise that my bt traffic will be tagged high prio as well, because I hate to have to wait for people yakking on the phone, we'll get along just fine.
Honestly, I've seen loads of broken flash devices. While the lack of moving parts will make them a lot less vulnerable to shock, I wouldnt just assume it won't suddenly die on you.
They can even do some funky stuff with colored keys and such. So something completely useless (and therefore fun) like a red ESC key is possible. Better yet, they sell models without windows keys....
Things they didn't carry over from the real IBM ones: the detachable cable (really a good thing, this is where most of my IBM's failed eventually), and the keycaps. They still have the latter, but you dont get them by default
Internally, they are pretty much the same. When my unicomp turned out to be not-quite Coke proof, I replaced the inner workings with an original '88 IBM one. It fit without any modifications. Works like a charm too, except for the usual weak spot with the detachable cable.
Cant help but wonder if they even manage to include the 2 general techie mindsets: those that understand and appreciate BOFH humour, and those who dont...
Not quite true. There's various systems in active use that register ALL cars between to portals, calculate the avg speed, and fine for speeding if needed. They do this with some OCR voodoo on the license plates.
Officially, all the data (except for speeders) is deleted afterwards, but it would only be a minor step to store this information for later processing...
Both have little to do with the problems I mentioned: hosts on the same subnet have no idea of the other's MTU sizes; they assume it's the same as their own. My Jumbo-enabled server will send 9000 KB frames to my 'normal' MTU print server, which won't know what to do with 'em.
Essentially, an ethernet segment should be homogenous, so all hosts on it should either support it, or don't. Lacking L2 compatibility means these network segments need to be connected by a L3 device (router).
A future standard could probably ensure compatibility at L2 through some sort of negotiation scheme, but at the moment no such thing exists to my knowledge.
MTU discovery takes place above L2 function, as it relies on routers honouring the Dont Fragment bit. It will NOT tell my host what MTU is supported by hosts on the same subnet, and more importantly, it will NOT change the local MTU. MTU discovery is used to set MSS, which is a layer 4 feature.
Talk of all kinds of jumbo-MTU proposals is nothing new, and irrelevant here unless it's close to becoming a standard. Jumbo frames are not a bad thing per se, it's just not a defined standard for Ethernet at the moment.
Jumbo frames are a non-standard(!) solution to the old problem of Gbit hardware not being able to handle enough frames at wire speed (or related issues, like interrupts per received frame). Modern hardware shouldn't suffer from those problems, so all the advantage to be had is a minor reduction in overhead. And the headache of trying to run a non-standard feature...
There is no way to negotiate jumbo frames between hosts, so on a single L2 broadcast domain, either all hosts should be capable of the same size jumbo frames, or none should use them at all. A router should be able to fragment them, provided the hosts are on different subnets, but most L3 routers (which you'd essentially for the required performance) won't do fragmenting in hardware.
Actually, you can. It's the entire basis of the punishment system. After yu've done the time for your crime, you should have a clean slate. I know that in real life it's not quite that simple, because a criminal record isn't exacty a plus in job interviews, but that's besides the point.
Mostly correct. It's more complex than simply 'not prosecuring'. A coffeeshop may have up to 500 grams of Marijuana under the counter, provided they have a license to sell it.
1. There's nothing in the US constitution that says a gun should be available as an over-the-counter consumer good. Most countries with strict gun control in EUrope allow gun ownership for sporting purposes. 3. At the moment, there's no training required at all. Training could be made a requirement to get a gun license, kinda like the drivers license (although if they make it anything like the US drivers ed, they might as well not bother) 4. see point 3 5. Sources?
Actually, foreign (from outside the EU) imports are subject to VAT, as well as import tax.