not support receiving ATSC because ATSC is pretty much U.S.-specific
Oh, I didn't know that. So, basically, by being exceptional, Americans lose. Oh well.
I've just been trying to set up a bank account abroad, specifically so that I can move abroad if this country takes a political lurch that I don't like next month. It's always an option.
You mean there is NO other supplier of recording/ fast-forwarding STB in the US? That's astonishing. There are probably a dozen different models on the market (at most 1/6th the size of the US market!) ranging in price from £70 to about £180 depending on hard drive size and brand. One brand is a downmarket breed of Panasonic ; IIRC there is a nearly identical Hitachi with a larger drive. So I can only deduce that there is some non-technical issue not mentioned. I thought the US had courts to prosecute people trying to set up monopolies as you describe for TiVo - and which are obviously profitable for TiVo.
Nope - £80 for a STB (which I needed anyway as my TV is pre-digital, and analogue transmissions have ceased) and the cost of installing an aerial on the apartment's roof. Cost already recouped by not having any satellite or cable service.
Does America no longer have broadcast (as in VHF/ UHF radio waves) TV services?
This pretty much sums up the problem with many wikipedia pages on complex subjects [...] If not then it's a difficult decoding exercise.
Ummm, remind me where in the description of the purpose of Wikipedia that it says the purpose is to provide tuition manuals? There are MOOCs and that sort of thing for that job. Wikipedia is intended to be an encyclopedia - a compilation of the (current) state of knowledge on a subject.
Acquiring knowledge and understanding is not easy, and probably never will be. Which reminds me that it's nearly time for my daily half-hour of German practice.
It had two high-powered license plate reader cameras mounted on top, meaning it had to belong to a government agency.
In this case the ANPR system was a government agency vehicle, but since ANPR is a dull, easily available, commercial product, it doesn't necessarily follow that a vehicle with these devices fitted is owned or run by a government agency.
The wife got hit by £60 charge for spending 3 hours and 15 minutes in a private car park in a motor way last moth - the evidence was a pair of ANPR images of the vehicle entering and leaving the property, with time stamps.
Europe has long had - and increasingly enforced - a thing called the "working time directive". It means that employers cannot require people to work more than certain hours per day, and that they need to have certain amounts of time off from work between working periods. The first people to get hit by it were commercial goods vehicle drivers in the mid-80s - who were then required to have at least 8 (or is it 9) hours away from work between shifts (shifts less than 10 hours long). By the mid-1990s when I was doing safety-critical work in a mining operation, it had extended to us so we were limited to 8-hour shifts with at last 12 hours between shifts.
This is simply the expected (and intended, and designed) spread of the Working Time Directive to cover all work places.
Note : these rules apply to employees. If you're self-employed, you can do what the fuck you want. But anyone who hires you has to follow the rules.
ability to change RF parameters (frequency limits, output power, country codes,
Since when was a country code (up there in the datagram levels of the network model) a parameter of the radio frequency?
I know that different ranges of properties are permitted in different countries, and those may be keyed by lists under country codes - but if that's what they mean they've chosen a really shitty way to express it.
Not wanting to watch adverts makes your child a terrorist. The SWAT team will be along shortly to take the little communist away to a re-education camp.
But if they'd been following the rules that were whipped into them when taking their driving test, they'd have set the vehicle into neutral and set the parking (mechanical) brake before exiting the vehicle. The engine control unit can do what the fuck it wants then, because it is mechanically disconnected from the wheels.
What surprises me about the whole concept of terraforming ANYWHERE is that long, long before we have the industries and technologies to terraform anywhere, we'll have to have indefinitely-stable human habitats in space. At which point, why bother with planets?
YOU might like to feel the wind in your hair as you lay in the sunlight. If you bring them up in a habitat on an asteroid (say, delivering another petatonne of water to Mars from Saturn), they will look at you as if you are insane when you talk about exposing yourself - your skin! un-shielded !! - to thermonuclear radiation frm the Sun.
To quote Cicero (or Catallus - I forget - some dead Roman dude from 500 years into his empire), "Oh tempora, Oh mores!"
Uganda could use this to make books easily available.
"easily" meaning "easily if you have internet access with a screen large enough to read on, and electricity to power that screen" ?
All of which are rare, expensive commodities in Africa in general. True, East Africa has better access to the internet than much of Africa since they landed a major pipe in 2010. But that is still several times average monthly salaries, actual ACCESS to the internet is still an expensive thing.
Don't believe me? Try setting up a satellite dish out in the bush with an un-secured WiFi hotspot on it. See how long it takes your bandwidth to be used up. And that is a dozen kilometres from any village of a thousand people people or more.
This may come as a shock to you, but... baring in mind this is a story about a COUNTRY (you might need to check a dictionary for what that means) which is NOT part of the USA (doubt that will e in your dictionary, but it's a real concept). And, astonishing as it may seem, things are different there.
Do you have any gay friends, relatives, siblings or lovers? If they went to Uganda, they'd be criminals, simply for being gay. And that is the law of the country, backed by their constitution. Challenging it (as in saying "WTF?") is likely to earn you jail time, or at least a beating-into unconsciousness by the police.
Obviously the USA police are learning from the Ugandan police.
What involvement did the pilots have? They were informed of a passenger claiming to be too unwell to fly ; they followed procedure and return to gate. Sure there is other stupid shit involved, but nothing that affects the pilots. If anyone might have been in a position to shut this down, it would have been cabin crew, and it's not at all clear that they knew the substance (I use the word very loosely) of the woman's complaint.
I can only assume that right now all people working bus, taxi, aircraft, ferry, etc services in the US are fingerprinted?
Well, with you being a "supraman", I'm not surprised to see you've brewed up a supra-straw-man : i.e. a particularly weak line of argument which you then procede to demolish.
The significant diffference between the typical taxi trip and the typical bus, aircraft, etc trip is that in one of them, on most occasions the passenger and the taxi company employee (just to rub salt into Uber's business model's wounds) are alone in the cab, while typically the bus, aircraft, ferry has many other passengers present along with the driver and frequently other employees. So, in order to commit a rape, assault, robbery, fraud, etc, the taxi driver can do it without collaborators while in the "mass transit" examples you list, they would have to get assigned to work with their collaborators, and have the collaborating passengers on board to the exclusion of non-collaborating passengers. That's a much harder task.
But hey, you're "the supaman", I'm sure you can come up with a better argument than that.
(Incidentally, in this country, taxi drivers have been subject to "fit and proper person" checks by the police for some decades. Perhaps America should be dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century?)
If you don't like it, don't take up the subscription, and return the "gift" to the friend with a note to tthe effect of : "Thanks, it was a nice idea ; I was sufficiently interested to try to take it up. but after some of the things that site tried to do [give details], I've decided that I'd rather boil my own sex organs than read it on a regular basis. You should be able to get your money back, or exchange it for a different subscription."
Thanks for linking to your sources, AC. No wonder you're so proud of your work as to put your name to it.
So, here's are some relevant links to material published about Ada Lovelace during her bicentenary.
she still doesnâ(TM)t quite fit the mould of a traditional science heroine. Intelligent she might have been, but she was also manipulative and aggressive, a drug addict, a gambler and an adulteress. Alongside the character flaws,
I don't see those as character flaws. Makes her more interesting ; maybe challenging. "Flaws?" Only if she let them be flaws.
I've disembowelled 1940s-era mechanical calculating machines that did storage with a 10x10 array of spring-loaded pins. Given the necessary precision of mass-production (which was Babbage's main problem), then the availability of appropriate memory becomes a question of money. And strong-enough floor beams.
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Oh, I didn't know that. So, basically, by being exceptional, Americans lose. Oh well.
I've just been trying to set up a bank account abroad, specifically so that I can move abroad if this country takes a political lurch that I don't like next month. It's always an option.
So? Buy one from abroad.
You mean there is NO other supplier of recording/ fast-forwarding STB in the US? That's astonishing. There are probably a dozen different models on the market (at most 1/6th the size of the US market!) ranging in price from £70 to about £180 depending on hard drive size and brand. One brand is a downmarket breed of Panasonic ; IIRC there is a nearly identical Hitachi with a larger drive. So I can only deduce that there is some non-technical issue not mentioned. I thought the US had courts to prosecute people trying to set up monopolies as you describe for TiVo - and which are obviously profitable for TiVo.
Nope - £80 for a STB (which I needed anyway as my TV is pre-digital, and analogue transmissions have ceased) and the cost of installing an aerial on the apartment's roof. Cost already recouped by not having any satellite or cable service. Does America no longer have broadcast (as in VHF/ UHF radio waves) TV services?
Ummm, remind me where in the description of the purpose of Wikipedia that it says the purpose is to provide tuition manuals? There are MOOCs and that sort of thing for that job. Wikipedia is intended to be an encyclopedia - a compilation of the (current) state of knowledge on a subject.
Acquiring knowledge and understanding is not easy, and probably never will be. Which reminds me that it's nearly time for my daily half-hour of German practice.
Same for all parents and wannabe parents, before they start trying to have their first (or any subsequent) kids.
In this case the ANPR system was a government agency vehicle, but since ANPR is a dull, easily available, commercial product, it doesn't necessarily follow that a vehicle with these devices fitted is owned or run by a government agency.
The wife got hit by £60 charge for spending 3 hours and 15 minutes in a private car park in a motor way last moth - the evidence was a pair of ANPR images of the vehicle entering and leaving the property, with time stamps.
This is simply the expected (and intended, and designed) spread of the Working Time Directive to cover all work places.
Note : these rules apply to employees. If you're self-employed, you can do what the fuck you want. But anyone who hires you has to follow the rules.
Does it? Are those the things that trigger pressing the fast-forward button?
Since when was a country code (up there in the datagram levels of the network model) a parameter of the radio frequency?
I know that different ranges of properties are permitted in different countries, and those may be keyed by lists under country codes - but if that's what they mean they've chosen a really shitty way to express it.
Not wanting to watch adverts makes your child a terrorist. The SWAT team will be along shortly to take the little communist away to a re-education camp.
Strange design.
And about the same period here, on several geological projects.
[SHRUG] Quick question : how many months have you spent in rural East Africa?
I wouldn't even pay to watch him being gang-banged in a jail then flayed alive. (Though I might pirate the video.)
YOU might like to feel the wind in your hair as you lay in the sunlight. If you bring them up in a habitat on an asteroid (say, delivering another petatonne of water to Mars from Saturn), they will look at you as if you are insane when you talk about exposing yourself - your skin! un-shielded !! - to thermonuclear radiation frm the Sun.
To quote Cicero (or Catallus - I forget - some dead Roman dude from 500 years into his empire), "Oh tempora, Oh mores!"
"easily" meaning "easily if you have internet access with a screen large enough to read on, and electricity to power that screen" ?
All of which are rare, expensive commodities in Africa in general. True, East Africa has better access to the internet than much of Africa since they landed a major pipe in 2010. But that is still several times average monthly salaries, actual ACCESS to the internet is still an expensive thing.
Don't believe me? Try setting up a satellite dish out in the bush with an un-secured WiFi hotspot on it. See how long it takes your bandwidth to be used up. And that is a dozen kilometres from any village of a thousand people people or more.
This may come as a shock to you, but ... baring in mind this is a story about a COUNTRY (you might need to check a dictionary for what that means) which is NOT part of the USA (doubt that will e in your dictionary, but it's a real concept). And, astonishing as it may seem, things are different there.
Do you have any gay friends, relatives, siblings or lovers? If they went to Uganda, they'd be criminals, simply for being gay. And that is the law of the country, backed by their constitution. Challenging it (as in saying "WTF?") is likely to earn you jail time, or at least a beating-into unconsciousness by the police.
Obviously the USA police are learning from the Ugandan police.
What involvement did the pilots have? They were informed of a passenger claiming to be too unwell to fly ; they followed procedure and return to gate. Sure there is other stupid shit involved, but nothing that affects the pilots. If anyone might have been in a position to shut this down, it would have been cabin crew, and it's not at all clear that they knew the substance (I use the word very loosely) of the woman's complaint.
Well, with you being a "supraman", I'm not surprised to see you've brewed up a supra-straw-man : i.e. a particularly weak line of argument which you then procede to demolish.
The significant diffference between the typical taxi trip and the typical bus, aircraft, etc trip is that in one of them, on most occasions the passenger and the taxi company employee (just to rub salt into Uber's business model's wounds) are alone in the cab, while typically the bus, aircraft, ferry has many other passengers present along with the driver and frequently other employees. So, in order to commit a rape, assault, robbery, fraud, etc, the taxi driver can do it without collaborators while in the "mass transit" examples you list, they would have to get assigned to work with their collaborators, and have the collaborating passengers on board to the exclusion of non-collaborating passengers. That's a much harder task.
But hey, you're "the supaman", I'm sure you can come up with a better argument than that.
(Incidentally, in this country, taxi drivers have been subject to "fit and proper person" checks by the police for some decades. Perhaps America should be dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century?)
If you don't like it, don't take up the subscription, and return the "gift" to the friend with a note to tthe effect of : "Thanks, it was a nice idea ; I was sufficiently interested to try to take it up. but after some of the things that site tried to do [give details], I've decided that I'd rather boil my own sex organs than read it on a regular basis. You should be able to get your money back, or exchange it for a different subscription."
Parts of it were built.
So, here's are some relevant links to material published about Ada Lovelace during her bicentenary.
I don't see those as character flaws. Makes her more interesting ; maybe challenging. "Flaws?" Only if she let them be flaws.
There was an Oxford symposium in 2015.
I've disembowelled 1940s-era mechanical calculating machines that did storage with a 10x10 array of spring-loaded pins. Given the necessary precision of mass-production (which was Babbage's main problem), then the availability of appropriate memory becomes a question of money. And strong-enough floor beams.
An hour of my life, NOT wasted.