This is the one strange thing I find reading slashdot being British.
Americans seem to view bearing arms as a right, and I don't mean legally, I mean morally.
Th idea that the state can limit your armament is not just laughed upon but ridiculed, and yet
within the UK and Europe, the USA is seen as the antithesis off how to deal with guns.
Deaths from guns are much higher, the police are less safe and guns are actually considered a problem that society has to deal with.
You do realise that over
here the police do not normally carry guns and yet they are much safer than your cops?
I'm actually from Northern Ireland and so I know the consequences of large groups of people
illegally carrying guns and I can assure you that the only thing that comes of more people carrying
is further death. Guns do not solve problems (like crime) they create them. They are self perpetuating.
I also have this problem but I believe it is a genetic trait in my case. My Mum is already pretty bad and fairly regularly forgets my name. My Dad is similarly awful and has to ask other staff who someone is when he's dealing with a CEO etc. I think the two of them combined to give me an unholy alliance of crap memory genes.
Having done research previously I think I have dysnomia as it isn't just names I forget, more generally nouns. I forget words like door, so I would say "could you please open that erm, entrance please" instead.
I actaully don't tend to find the name thing a problem, I just tend to tell people that I can't remember names including my girlfriend's and family's. After that people don't seem to take offence and instead find it funny.
People like to play 'games' with me when I'm in a group of friends because if I go round and name people in a circle, the second time round I'll forget different people.
My girlfriend even found it fairly funny when I called her Mihir in bed, who happened to be my small, male, African house mate.
Yeah because whenever everyone around you is trying to get attention by blowing their trumpets, people sure are likely to want to buy the quiet version.
You misunderstand the technology.
Since BT are going to have exclusive rights they will create edge servers at their ISP. At this point all the network traffic is internal as BT own all the exchanges etc.
If they were trying to host this on a website outside their network it'd never work.
I believe similar things happen for the iplayer with akamai having edges at ISPs. I once calculated how much at standard bandwidth costs that akamai charge what the cost to the BBC would be. It ended up many times the BBC's total budget but with edges I'm sure they save a ton.
Yep and they are using btrfs for the underlying filesystem which is also not at the production use stage.
For me this is quite a co-incidence, I just spent all yesterday reading up on fault taulerant distributed file systems and ceph and seemed quite promising until I realised they are also waiting on kernel 2.6.34 as it has their patches merged.
For anyone who knows more about this stuff, I was quite interested in xtreemfs as it seems to allow you to add nodes anywhere on the internet and it will deal with the fault tolerance/striping. For my purposes I don't care about having massive throughput but unfortunately xtreemfs doesn't seem to be deployed in many places so I don't know how good it is.
Adding codecs to for example the omap3530 is very easy.
Writing the codecs themselves is hard but those who have already written the h264/mpeg4 codecs are very capable.
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Except that ill people cost any economy huge sums of money through missing work or lowering performance.
Just look at the numbers thrown around that the cost of a flu pandemic could have to world GDP.
In the UK, the NHS aims to treat patients as early as possible because the later in a disease that you treat it the more expensive it becomes.
Men are particularly bad at attending their GP early and as a result women cost the NHS more through usage than men below an age of something like 40 or 50. After that the cost for men sky rockets as health problems ignored such as prostate cancer explode and the NHS has to pay for hospital beds, chemotherapy etc. all of which are very costly.
Oh didn't you know? The real reason the US broadband lags so far behind the rest of the developed world is because they don't have the latest and greatest cisco routers!
It's not like Sweden has been able to offer 100mbit connections for years without these new very expensive routers or anything...
And now for the entirely predictable posts claiming low power lighting causes cancer, are crap, and cause global warming...
The first argument goes the mercury in CFLs is going to kill us. This argument comes up and is destroyed every time. It will suffice to say there is little mercury, isn't that dangerous and burning coal puts out a lot more.
Then we attack the lights. They are crap, taking too long to turn on, not being bright enough and so forth. Arguments that might have been true 10 years ago but have been entirely overcome unless you insist on buying the cheapest pos you can find.
I titter when I hear that because incandescent bulbs warm your house it means you don't need as much heating so you are saving energy and helping the environment!
This argument is so weak all I'll say is heating in summer?
Then there is people claiming that CFLs give them headaches, if I had more time I'd point out the studies where people are shown to have similar sensitivity as those who sense EM fields.
This time instead of continuing to spout discredited crap, do a bit of research.
Many system on chips such as the omap3530 have a dsp. These are general purpose and for example the omap3530 can do 720p h264 and mpeg4 decoding.
However adding theora or vp8/6 decoding is a matter of writing a codec for the dsp as opposed to having to create a whole new decoder chip.
Devices that use something similar could add this functionality through patching even after either vp6/8 or theora get some support.
This is very disingenuous. The upgrade guide contains all possible contigency plans incase you have altered system files, or have chosen not to upgrade the kernel etc.
For example look at the debian lenny upgrade notes. They are way longer but generally debian based distros are considered some of the best for upgrades.
Now William, Earl of Dartmouth, has been asked to leave a debate for saying that for hot countries such as Greece and Cyprus to have an "Arctic policy" was "as bizarre as the appointment of Baroness Ashton as the EU's high representative".
ahahaha, I knew it would be ukip. Since they entered Europe they have been a complete an utter farce.
They often vote against their own best interests without realising, a couple have been sent to jail etc.
For a full education I direct you to this pdf.
Slashdot Mirror
This is the one strange thing I find reading slashdot being British.
Americans seem to view bearing arms as a right, and I don't mean legally, I mean morally.
Th idea that the state can limit your armament is not just laughed upon but ridiculed, and yet
within the UK and Europe, the USA is seen as the antithesis off how to deal with guns.
Deaths from guns are much higher, the police are less safe and guns are actually considered a problem that society has to deal with.
You do realise that over here the police do not normally carry guns and yet they are much safer than your cops?
I'm actually from Northern Ireland and so I know the consequences of large groups of people
illegally carrying guns and I can assure you that the only thing that comes of more people carrying
is further death. Guns do not solve problems (like crime) they create them. They are self perpetuating.
I also have this problem but I believe it is a genetic trait in my case. My Mum is already pretty bad and fairly regularly forgets my name.
My Dad is similarly awful and has to ask other staff who someone is when he's dealing with a CEO etc. I think the two of them combined to give me an unholy alliance of crap memory genes.
Having done research previously I think I have dysnomia as it isn't just names I forget, more generally nouns. I forget words like door, so I would say "could you please open that erm, entrance please" instead.
I actaully don't tend to find the name thing a problem, I just tend to tell people that I can't remember names including my girlfriend's and family's. After that people don't seem to take offence and instead find it funny.
People like to play 'games' with me when I'm in a group of friends because if I go round and name people in a circle, the second time round I'll forget different people.
My girlfriend even found it fairly funny when I called her Mihir in bed, who happened to be my small, male, African house mate.
Nope, TFA is just as about enlightening as the summary.
I'll vouch for NHS direct, my Dad wrote the flow charts for it.
The original was written using templates in word97 I'm guessing that was pretty painful.
Yeah because whenever everyone around you is trying to get attention by blowing their trumpets, people sure are likely to want to buy the quiet version.
I'd be interested to know if they do any better than those who play fantasy footaball. My guess is no.
640 light years is enough for anyone
I'd have thought a cosmic ray flipped an important bit.
It has no modding on it but the person who replied
Pissaw, young'uns don't know anything anymore;
Was modded +5 informative!
Looks like its time for some retrospective modding.
You misunderstand the technology.
Since BT are going to have exclusive rights they will create edge servers at their ISP. At this point all the network traffic is internal as BT own all the exchanges etc.
If they were trying to host this on a website outside their network it'd never work.
I believe similar things happen for the iplayer with akamai having edges at ISPs. I once calculated how much at standard bandwidth costs that akamai charge what the cost to the BBC would be. It ended up many times the BBC's total budget but with edges I'm sure they save a ton.
I live in the uk and have always used mine as @gmail.com when giving out my email address and have had no problems.
Yep and they are using btrfs for the underlying filesystem which is also not at the production use stage.
For me this is quite a co-incidence, I just spent all yesterday reading up on fault taulerant distributed file systems and ceph and seemed quite promising until I realised they are also waiting on kernel 2.6.34 as it has their patches merged.
For anyone who knows more about this stuff, I was quite interested in xtreemfs as it seems to allow you to add nodes anywhere on the internet and it will deal with the fault tolerance/striping. For my purposes I don't care about having massive throughput but unfortunately xtreemfs doesn't seem to be deployed in many places so I don't know how good it is.
Adding codecs to for example the omap3530 is very easy.
Writing the codecs themselves is hard but those who have already written the h264/mpeg4 codecs are very capable.
A return? Us b3tards never left.
Here's the pdf of the judgement
It's pretty damn scathing and looks like escalating this further up the court is pointless.
Except that ill people cost any economy huge sums of money through missing work or lowering performance.
Just look at the numbers thrown around that the cost of a flu pandemic could have to world GDP.
In the UK, the NHS aims to treat patients as early as possible because the later in a disease that you treat it the more expensive it becomes.
Men are particularly bad at attending their GP early and as a result women cost the NHS more through usage than men below an age of something like 40 or 50. After that the cost for men sky rockets as health problems ignored such as prostate cancer explode and the NHS has to pay for hospital beds, chemotherapy etc. all of which are very costly.
Oh didn't you know? The real reason the US broadband lags so far behind the rest of the developed world is because they don't have the latest and greatest cisco routers!
It's not like Sweden has been able to offer 100mbit connections for years without these new very expensive routers or anything...
And now for the entirely predictable posts claiming low power lighting causes cancer, are crap, and cause global warming...
The first argument goes the mercury in CFLs is going to kill us. This argument comes up and is destroyed every time. It will suffice to say there is little mercury, isn't that dangerous and burning coal puts out a lot more.
Then we attack the lights. They are crap, taking too long to turn on, not being bright enough and so forth. Arguments that might have been true 10 years ago but have been entirely overcome unless you insist on buying the cheapest pos you can find.
I titter when I hear that because incandescent bulbs warm your house it means you don't need as much heating so you are saving energy and helping the environment! This argument is so weak all I'll say is heating in summer?
Then there is people claiming that CFLs give them headaches, if I had more time I'd point out the studies where people are shown to have similar sensitivity as those who sense EM fields.
This time instead of continuing to spout discredited crap, do a bit of research.
Many system on chips such as the omap3530 have a dsp. These are general purpose and for example the omap3530 can do 720p h264 and mpeg4 decoding.
However adding theora or vp8/6 decoding is a matter of writing a codec for the dsp as opposed to having to create a whole new decoder chip.
Devices that use something similar could add this functionality through patching even after either vp6/8 or theora get some support.
This is very disingenuous. The upgrade guide contains all possible contigency plans incase you have altered system files, or have chosen not to upgrade the kernel etc.
For example look at the debian lenny upgrade notes. They are way longer but generally debian based distros are considered some of the best for upgrades.
Now William, Earl of Dartmouth, has been asked to leave a debate for saying that for hot countries such as Greece and Cyprus to have an "Arctic policy" was "as bizarre as the appointment of Baroness Ashton as the EU's high representative".
ahahaha, I knew it would be ukip. Since they entered Europe they have been a complete an utter farce.
They often vote against their own best interests without realising, a couple have been sent to jail etc.
For a full education I direct you to this pdf.
presumably they will be in deep shit...
On the other hand some of the predictions on slashdot have been bang on such as Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux
I swore I read about this 15 years ago. Slashdots getting worse.
After all in soviet Russia, you own game!