My father's hometown, in Serbia, has a system like this. You SMS your licence plate number to a 4 digit number, it charges you ~$1 for an hour, half hour, etc, depending on which zone of the city you are in. It's the only way actually - if you don't have a mobile you can't park.
Which happens to be quite handy if you're running late - send another SMS instead of running to pump quarters into a meter.
Another excellent part about this system - you can move your car - and your payment is still valid, because the payment goes with your plate, as opposed to the parking meter.
Right, but if memory serves me correct, some sort of agreement was signed with the British; The laws of HK cannot be changed (grossly, at least) for a 50 year period, or something along those lines.
I'm not sure if that would apply to this, though?
here it is:
Chapter 1, Article 5 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, the constitutional document of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, reads:[2]
"The socialist system and policies shall not be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the previous capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for 50 years."
I suppose this could fall under "way of life". I don't know.
I don't see a problem with diversifying. I assume we'll run out of fissionable material at some date, and if solar can help slow that down, then bring it on.
Slavs that use both alphabets figured this out a long time ago, though.
In Serbian, there are two 'ch's, so somewhat unlike Russian. I think in Russian, the Serbian soft ch is like a Russian "ch" with a soft sign behind it. Anyway, names that end in -itch sound, like.. Mirkovic, or Ivan Ivanovic (Ivanovitch) use this soft character in south Slavic languages; In Latin alphabet they have exact analog character - there is one for all Serbian cyrillic letters (HR and parts of BiH use this latin alphabet exclusively, SRB uses cyrillic & latin).
Corporations are just a concept. Like a government. Or a gang. It's all the same, it's all people. People are quite able to be sociopathic, evil bastards all on their own.
Unfortunately you can't put a corporation in prison when they break the rules. Which is why they tend to have much less of a conscience, versus natural persons.
Not to mention that large organizations make passing blame / guilt quite easy, so the humans pulling the strings manage to sleep at night.
zenith made the first remote controls, they used ultrasonic chimes for signaling. A side affect was the TV would change channels when people dropped pots and pans.
IR sucks. visible sucks even more, because there happens to be a lot of interference. I suppose they could compensate for static levels of ambient light, but you still need line of sight, which is a pain... and you need light, which is a pain if you're watching a movie in the dark on a laptop or so...
RF is really the only way for mobile stuff. Fixed links between fixed installations could be light/laser though. Have fun aligning the laser though, and enjoy the light pollution for less focused light sources. Not to mention that rain, snow, and fog tend to render optical systems useless.
Despite this, Germany is still the largest exporter on *earth*. At least it was, China might have a slight lead now.
Germany exports more than the rest of the EU combined. The EU as a whole is definitely the world's largest exporter (double the US, and close to double China).
Broke is relative. Bulgaria and Romania have the new title of "EU Mexico". Before they joined it was the LV/LT/EE. Before them, it was... probably Portugal, I'm not certain.
Italy is the brokest of the original EEC members though.
My upload with Shaw is so pathetic that I doubt it's even possible to do 20GB in a month. It was better ten years ago (~100kB/s avg), now I get 40kB/s in the middle of the night, at best. Bloody pathetic.
Because the suggested / recommended stuff are things that are related to what you are installing... documentation for the app, related tools that are often used in conjunction with it, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
My father's hometown, in Serbia, has a system like this. You SMS your licence plate number to a 4 digit number, it charges you ~$1 for an hour, half hour, etc, depending on which zone of the city you are in.
It's the only way actually - if you don't have a mobile you can't park.
Which happens to be quite handy if you're running late - send another SMS instead of running to pump quarters into a meter.
Another excellent part about this system - you can move your car - and your payment is still valid, because the payment goes with your plate, as opposed to the parking meter.
presumably you'd need their phone, as well.
Right, but if memory serves me correct, some sort of agreement was signed with the British; The laws of HK cannot be changed (grossly, at least) for a 50 year period, or something along those lines.
I'm not sure if that would apply to this, though?
here it is:
Chapter 1, Article 5 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, the constitutional document of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, reads:[2]
"The socialist system and policies shall not be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the previous capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for 50 years."
I suppose this could fall under "way of life". I don't know.
I don't see a problem with diversifying. I assume we'll run out of fissionable material at some date, and if solar can help slow that down, then bring it on.
'Why should you ever, with all this parallel hardware, ever be waiting for your computer?'
Because I/O is always going to be slow.
Slavs that use both alphabets figured this out a long time ago, though.
In Serbian, there are two 'ch's, so somewhat unlike Russian. I think in Russian, the Serbian soft ch is like a Russian "ch" with a soft sign behind it. Anyway, names that end in -itch sound, like.. Mirkovic, or Ivan Ivanovic (Ivanovitch) use this soft character in south Slavic languages; In Latin alphabet they have exact analog character - there is one for all Serbian cyrillic letters (HR and parts of BiH use this latin alphabet exclusively, SRB uses cyrillic & latin).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshe is the cyrillic char,
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86 is how it is rendered in latin.
Hard 'ch' (the only Ch in Russian alphabet) is rendered like a C with an inverted chevron on top in latin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8C
I like a positive system of transliteration, ambiguity sucks :-/
I'm rather partial to 'russkij', myself.
My Russian is pathetic, I saw something that vaguely resembled 'vnimanie' and had an exclamation point, and went with it.
I don't see how losing due to reputation has anything to with a victory that decimates your forces.
Why does the picture have a warning in Russian if the bunker is in Britain?
Kpdf has been replaced by okular, which is quite nice, imo.
Actions speak louder than party names, but you can go on believing whatever you want.
Why, it's not insightful *at all*.
Corporations are just a concept. Like a government. Or a gang. It's all the same, it's all people. People are quite able to be sociopathic, evil bastards all on their own.
Unfortunately you can't put a corporation in prison when they break the rules. Which is why they tend to have much less of a conscience, versus natural persons.
Not to mention that large organizations make passing blame / guilt quite easy, so the humans pulling the strings manage to sleep at night.
gcc for an AVR target doesn't make an 11k hello world, though.
Probably because that's an application where it matters, and a modern PC it doesn't matter at all.
zenith made the first remote controls, they used ultrasonic chimes for signaling. A side affect was the TV would change channels when people dropped pots and pans.
IR sucks. visible sucks even more, because there happens to be a lot of interference. I suppose they could compensate for static levels of ambient light, but you still need line of sight, which is a pain... and you need light, which is a pain if you're watching a movie in the dark on a laptop or so...
RF is really the only way for mobile stuff. Fixed links between fixed installations could be light/laser though. Have fun aligning the laser though, and enjoy the light pollution for less focused light sources. Not to mention that rain, snow, and fog tend to render optical systems useless.
Despite this, Germany is still the largest exporter on *earth*. At least it was, China might have a slight lead now.
Germany exports more than the rest of the EU combined. The EU as a whole is definitely the world's largest exporter (double the US, and close to double China).
And people would die in the process. Some things need to be regulated.
Steve's deathgrip on what I can and can't do with _my_ device... Why would anyone subject themselves to that?
Broke is relative. Bulgaria and Romania have the new title of "EU Mexico". Before they joined it was the LV/LT/EE. Before them, it was... probably Portugal, I'm not certain.
Italy is the brokest of the original EEC members though.
Unfortunately, it wasn't entirely effective.
I'm still stunned that people would actually give out their passwords.
I assume you're talking about shaw & sasktel?
My upload with Shaw is so pathetic that I doubt it's even possible to do 20GB in a month. It was better ten years ago (~100kB/s avg), now I get 40kB/s in the middle of the night, at best. Bloody pathetic.
Maybe they were just display models, or mockups for shipping or something.
How's that bit about incompetence being more likely than malice go?
Because the suggested / recommended stuff are things that are related to what you are installing... documentation for the app, related tools that are often used in conjunction with it, etc.
Better yet, it should be like Linux -- you only have to reboot if there's there's an update to the kernel.
Amen. Windows' incessant rebooting over nothing drives me nuts.