No, these don't work like SimCity. The microwaves are not the frequency used in ovens -- ie that heat up water. Otherwise they wouldn't be much use on a cloudy day.
It's a very positive development. Orbital solar power is the best foothold for the colonisation, industrialisation and settlement of intrasolar space.
IBM lets you rent-buy mainframes. They ship out a fully equipped mainframe with only some of the components activated. When you need more capacity you ring them, pay the fee, and they apply the codes to activate another pair of CPUs, RAM banks etc.
Mainframes are less atomic than PCs. Pretty much anything and everything is multiply redundant and independently replaceable. That is why they are so expensive.
The British Constitution is widely misunderstood by those who come from countries with explicit constitutions -- in particular the USA.
Basically, more than any modern democracy, Britain's constitution is underwritten by revolution. There have been several revolutions and civil wars, as well as the odd tense standoff, in English history which settled various points of constitutional practice.
One of these events -- the Glorious Revolution -- established with some finality that Parliament, and not Crown, is the supreme source of law in England. The Crown is retained for the same reason programmers have kept fopen() and fwrite(). It's simple, well understood and there's a lot of law that relies on it being there. We kept the interface, not the code.
The English could pass an Act to make themselves a constitutional republic if they so wished. Her Majesty would have no choice but to sign away her monarchy. In any case, she'd still be Queen of Australia, Canada and a number of other countries.
Otherwise you're right about 'unspoken' agreements. The usual term is 'conventions'. They tend to be well established in case law; they are not so much unspoken or unwritten as lacking a single documentary source.
Likewise, Australia's constitution, though written, has a lot of conventions surrounding its meaning that a naive reading would not detect. On paper, for example, the Governor-General as Queen's representative has the power to appoint and dismiss ministers, replace governments or declare war. In practice he or she does not have such a power (but it has been established that they have the power to dismiss a government that cannot pass a budget through the Senate).
Yes, I used to be a law student before I came to my senses.
I know this comment is days too late, but I felt compelled as Australian and internet nerd to correct somebody.
The area of the continental USA is larger than Australia. Not by a huge amount, but it is.
On the other hand, Australia has about 21 million people in the whole country, most of whom live on one coastline. The interior is basically empty, by American standards. The USA is very densely settled by comparison.
The Japanese are buying a list of features: screen size, TV, radio, motion sensors, pedometer, email, circle of protection etc etc. A lot of tech-heads in the West like that approach and also make their decision based on the number of ticked boxes on the back of the display container.
The rest of us just want a phone that makes phone calls without having to click through 50 damn menus. And that looks kind of nice. That's the iPhone.
Having multiple currencies with floating exchange markets has a very, very important advantage: it helps to moderate the impact of inflation in one country on trading partners.
If you choose to have a single currency, you need to set a single supply regime. But what happens if one part of your economy needs cheap and easy money because it's stagnating, while another part needs its money supply tightened to avoid runaway inflation? It can't be done, you're screwed both ways.
Australia had this recently in the gap between New South Wales, the most populated state, which was stagnant, and Western Australia, much more lightly populated but in the midst of a mining boom. Our Reserve Bank chose to fight inflation. Now they're fighting recession. But either way the impact of their policies is uneven within a single currency.
The EU has a similar problem in the Eurozone. What is good for Germany can be bad for Spain, what is good for Greece can be terrible for France. With floating currencies each country can determine its own settings and the market will, more or less, adjust for it.
Of course the total dominance of the US Dollar means that we're all affected by Federal Reserve policy whether we like it or not, but some of the effect is soaked up in exchange rates. Until the crisis hit and everyone fled for US Treasury bonds, the US dollar was falling like a stone because it was too abundantly created by the Fed, which was driving up other currencies. The inflation in prices for US goods was offset by the increase in the price of other currencies.
The above analysis roughly holds in normal conditions. But these aren't normal conditions.
Australia has a one-subject-at-a-time approach to lawmaking and it works well. It is required by the constitution that each tax be in a separate bill and I suppose they liked to do it for everything else.
Consequently it's very difficult to attach riders, which is how pork happens: vast omnibus bills where everyone agrees to vote for each other's riders.
On the downside, Australian politics exhibits the strictest party discipline in the world. That prevents a lot of horse-trading style pork, but it does reduce the amount of actual debate in the Parliament.
Ah I see. You only like us when we have the people YOU want in office. In other words, do what we tell you or we won't be your friend.
Ever had a female friend in love with a total douchebag? Noticed how you drifted apart, how you couldn't understand what she saw in this total wanker? Isn't it great when she comes to her senses?
You sir seem to be stuck at the "but he really looooves meeeeee, nobody understaaaaands, they should leave us aloooone and stop interfering!" stage of the relationship.
I'm not sure I follow your meaning. But it just looks silly if you undermine the consistency of your own ideology. What will all the other ideologies think? Most uncool!
Ask anyone if they want to live, if they say no and flinch when you swing something at them, they're lying. Objective value number 1: life > everything else.
Some people wish to die. Some people have a very strong will to live. Some people have a so-so will to live. Sounds subjective to me.
I want many things the free market wont produce.
Objectively, this means the libertarian system is not producing the most effective result, because a government program WOULD service me.
No, it means that your subjective valuation didn't concur with someone else's. You couldn't come to an agreement, so no trade has occurred. This doesn't change the fact that there was a subjective valuation to start with.
Subjective valuation is the cornerstone of free market economics. What I value something at, and why, could be different from you.
This includes technical differences. For some people that matters, and for them Dvorak layouts have generally been subjectively valued more highly. For everyone else the cost of switching is higher than the perceived value, so they don't.
The author of TFA, writing for a libertarian magazine, has made a fundamental socialist blunder. He has assumed that there is such a thing as objective value and that the market reveals it (or hides it).
This is not new. This argument has been circulated before. It is flawed because it strays from first principles. It is embarrassing for thinking libertarians everywhere because reinforces the stereotype that ideology trumps reality.
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I am amazed you cited Wordpress as better than Drupal. Wordpress is a horrible piece of code, written by people who care only about the newest in oooh-shiney.
I've got several Wordpress sites under administration and they give me nothing but headaches. I'm a rotten sysadmin but Wordpress just makes my life that much harder. My brief foray into Drupal was like a trip to heaven in comparison.
Tip: by far the best way to install and update Wordpress is through the subversion checkout and switch commands.
And need I tell you to perform full database and file backups first? Wordpress database update scripts can and do have... er... unorthodox ideas about safely upgrading old data.
A brilliant little film about how Parkes, near Canberra, was the ground station that actually received the moon landing signal. Same guys as 'The Castle' and 'Bad Eggs', so naturally it's very funny too.
All they need to do is cross WoW with something that failed, for that perfect combination of incredibly tedious bulkiness and frustrating incompletion!
"Driverless" is a better term. Train drivers for Rio and BHP are very expensive and their rosters are very inflexible, which hampers production. It's a hangover from the union days.
datacentreknowledge.com is a goddamn scam. They always manage to make front page at Slashdot by regurgitating somebody's press release. Their summaries are incomplete and poorly summarised. Most of their articles link to other shitty articles in order to boost advertising revenue.
They add. No. Value. Whatsoever. Please stop linking to them, Slashdot.
I don't believe that a DNS blacklist is the proposal. More a blacklist + on-the-fly content analysis. That's why the initial tests show massive slowdowns.
The slowdowns and false positives are the technical argument. I think it's still valid to raise for the reason I raised above.
The technical arguments are not counter-productive. If filtering is technically unviable and the government tries to proceed anyway, then it exposes with great clarity that the motives are not about filtering per se.
Australia's constitution does not have an explicit guarantee of free speech. However in a series of cases starting in the 80s the High Court have found an 'implied right' to free political speech.
The reasoning runs thus: * All Australians are guaranteed a right to vote in elections. * To vote in an election you need to be able to inform yourself. * In able to inform yourself you need to be able to freely discuss political matters. * Ergo, political speech is protected.
This means that the whole project may be unconstitutional as any filter must necessarily cause false positives for political matters. If not, nothing stops websites from adding a "we hate the censorship laws and the ALP" statement to the footer of every page to force the matter.
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I sometimes wonder if SimCity has done more damage to the progress of orbital solar than all other causes combined.
No, these don't work like SimCity. The microwaves are not the frequency used in ovens -- ie that heat up water. Otherwise they wouldn't be much use on a cloudy day.
It's a very positive development. Orbital solar power is the best foothold for the colonisation, industrialisation and settlement of intrasolar space.
IBM lets you rent-buy mainframes. They ship out a fully equipped mainframe with only some of the components activated. When you need more capacity you ring them, pay the fee, and they apply the codes to activate another pair of CPUs, RAM banks etc.
Mainframes are less atomic than PCs. Pretty much anything and everything is multiply redundant and independently replaceable. That is why they are so expensive.
Was there a reason you didn't just mark the username field as unique in the schema SQL? I can't think of one off the top of my head.
The British Constitution is widely misunderstood by those who come from countries with explicit constitutions -- in particular the USA.
Basically, more than any modern democracy, Britain's constitution is underwritten by revolution. There have been several revolutions and civil wars, as well as the odd tense standoff, in English history which settled various points of constitutional practice.
One of these events -- the Glorious Revolution -- established with some finality that Parliament, and not Crown, is the supreme source of law in England. The Crown is retained for the same reason programmers have kept fopen() and fwrite(). It's simple, well understood and there's a lot of law that relies on it being there. We kept the interface, not the code.
The English could pass an Act to make themselves a constitutional republic if they so wished. Her Majesty would have no choice but to sign away her monarchy. In any case, she'd still be Queen of Australia, Canada and a number of other countries.
Otherwise you're right about 'unspoken' agreements. The usual term is 'conventions'. They tend to be well established in case law; they are not so much unspoken or unwritten as lacking a single documentary source.
Likewise, Australia's constitution, though written, has a lot of conventions surrounding its meaning that a naive reading would not detect. On paper, for example, the Governor-General as Queen's representative has the power to appoint and dismiss ministers, replace governments or declare war. In practice he or she does not have such a power (but it has been established that they have the power to dismiss a government that cannot pass a budget through the Senate).
Yes, I used to be a law student before I came to my senses.
I know this comment is days too late, but I felt compelled as Australian and internet nerd to correct somebody.
The area of the continental USA is larger than Australia. Not by a huge amount, but it is.
On the other hand, Australia has about 21 million people in the whole country, most of whom live on one coastline. The interior is basically empty, by American standards. The USA is very densely settled by comparison.
The Japanese are buying a list of features: screen size, TV, radio, motion sensors, pedometer, email, circle of protection etc etc. A lot of tech-heads in the West like that approach and also make their decision based on the number of ticked boxes on the back of the display container.
The rest of us just want a phone that makes phone calls without having to click through 50 damn menus. And that looks kind of nice. That's the iPhone.
In a shocking twist, Mknnnr was also found to have backstabbed Hoolihooli in a deal with Farnanook.
In unrelated news, it has been found that 98% of "Web 2.0" business names are created by cats walking on keyboards. Footage at 11.
Having multiple currencies with floating exchange markets has a very, very important advantage: it helps to moderate the impact of inflation in one country on trading partners.
If you choose to have a single currency, you need to set a single supply regime. But what happens if one part of your economy needs cheap and easy money because it's stagnating, while another part needs its money supply tightened to avoid runaway inflation? It can't be done, you're screwed both ways.
Australia had this recently in the gap between New South Wales, the most populated state, which was stagnant, and Western Australia, much more lightly populated but in the midst of a mining boom. Our Reserve Bank chose to fight inflation. Now they're fighting recession. But either way the impact of their policies is uneven within a single currency.
The EU has a similar problem in the Eurozone. What is good for Germany can be bad for Spain, what is good for Greece can be terrible for France. With floating currencies each country can determine its own settings and the market will, more or less, adjust for it.
Of course the total dominance of the US Dollar means that we're all affected by Federal Reserve policy whether we like it or not, but some of the effect is soaked up in exchange rates. Until the crisis hit and everyone fled for US Treasury bonds, the US dollar was falling like a stone because it was too abundantly created by the Fed, which was driving up other currencies. The inflation in prices for US goods was offset by the increase in the price of other currencies.
The above analysis roughly holds in normal conditions. But these aren't normal conditions.
Australia has a one-subject-at-a-time approach to lawmaking and it works well. It is required by the constitution that each tax be in a separate bill and I suppose they liked to do it for everything else.
Consequently it's very difficult to attach riders, which is how pork happens: vast omnibus bills where everyone agrees to vote for each other's riders.
On the downside, Australian politics exhibits the strictest party discipline in the world. That prevents a lot of horse-trading style pork, but it does reduce the amount of actual debate in the Parliament.
You do if he keeps turning up drunk and pissing on your front door.
Ever had a female friend in love with a total douchebag? Noticed how you drifted apart, how you couldn't understand what she saw in this total wanker? Isn't it great when she comes to her senses?
You sir seem to be stuck at the "but he really looooves meeeeee, nobody understaaaaands, they should leave us aloooone and stop interfering!" stage of the relationship.
We missed you.
Love,
The Rest of The Modern World.
ps. Any chance you could have a word with Australia about internet censorship? That'd be swell.
I'm not sure I follow your meaning. But it just looks silly if you undermine the consistency of your own ideology. What will all the other ideologies think? Most uncool!
Some people wish to die. Some people have a very strong will to live. Some people have a so-so will to live. Sounds subjective to me.
No, it means that your subjective valuation didn't concur with someone else's. You couldn't come to an agreement, so no trade has occurred. This doesn't change the fact that there was a subjective valuation to start with.
Subjective valuation is the cornerstone of free market economics. What I value something at, and why, could be different from you.
This includes technical differences. For some people that matters, and for them Dvorak layouts have generally been subjectively valued more highly. For everyone else the cost of switching is higher than the perceived value, so they don't.
The author of TFA, writing for a libertarian magazine, has made a fundamental socialist blunder. He has assumed that there is such a thing as objective value and that the market reveals it (or hides it).
This is not new. This argument has been circulated before. It is flawed because it strays from first principles. It is embarrassing for thinking libertarians everywhere because reinforces the stereotype that ideology trumps reality.
I am amazed you cited Wordpress as better than Drupal. Wordpress is a horrible piece of code, written by people who care only about the newest in oooh-shiney.
I've got several Wordpress sites under administration and they give me nothing but headaches. I'm a rotten sysadmin but Wordpress just makes my life that much harder. My brief foray into Drupal was like a trip to heaven in comparison.
Tip: by far the best way to install and update Wordpress is through the subversion checkout and switch commands.
And need I tell you to perform full database and file backups first? Wordpress database update scripts can and do have ... er ... unorthodox ideas about safely upgrading old data.
A brilliant little film about how Parkes, near Canberra, was the ground station that actually received the moon landing signal. Same guys as 'The Castle' and 'Bad Eggs', so naturally it's very funny too.
All they need to do is cross WoW with something that failed, for that perfect combination of incredibly tedious bulkiness and frustrating incompletion!
"Driverless" is a better term. Train drivers for Rio and BHP are very expensive and their rosters are very inflexible, which hampers production. It's a hangover from the union days.
datacentreknowledge.com is a goddamn scam. They always manage to make front page at Slashdot by regurgitating somebody's press release. Their summaries are incomplete and poorly summarised. Most of their articles link to other shitty articles in order to boost advertising revenue.
They add. No. Value. Whatsoever. Please stop linking to them, Slashdot.
I don't believe that a DNS blacklist is the proposal. More a blacklist + on-the-fly content analysis. That's why the initial tests show massive slowdowns.
The slowdowns and false positives are the technical argument. I think it's still valid to raise for the reason I raised above.
I take it from your connecting the Gunpowder Plot and the US election that you expect Obama to lose in Diebold-using states?
The technical arguments are not counter-productive. If filtering is technically unviable and the government tries to proceed anyway, then it exposes with great clarity that the motives are not about filtering per se.
Australia's constitution does not have an explicit guarantee of free speech. However in a series of cases starting in the 80s the High Court have found an 'implied right' to free political speech.
The reasoning runs thus:
* All Australians are guaranteed a right to vote in elections.
* To vote in an election you need to be able to inform yourself.
* In able to inform yourself you need to be able to freely discuss political matters.
* Ergo, political speech is protected.
This means that the whole project may be unconstitutional as any filter must necessarily cause false positives for political matters. If not, nothing stops websites from adding a "we hate the censorship laws and the ALP" statement to the footer of every page to force the matter.