It looks like the 'NY Times' has learnt from the failure of 'The Times' in its paywall. Once Murdoch setup his paywall for those papers, they basically ceased to exist as far as online was concerned and their paper based readership fell the most out of all UK papers (11.7%). In essence the only way is down if you consciously pull up the drawbridge, since the quality is not high enough to get new readers to pay.
By making the paywall essentially voluntary, they get money from the dumb, but don't lose the smart. It won't save them, but its not going to be so fast a decline as it could be.
Sorry, wrong. Restricted most definitely IS a classification level in the UK - something that cause problems whenever something is passed to the US since they are suppose to then treat it as confidential. You can have, say, "RESTRICTED - Staff", where staff is the caveat - but its still covered by the same classification restrictions as normal Restricted.
The UK regulator has been talking to the advertising standards people, and its likely the voluntary 'code of practice' will get toughened up to prevent ISPs using the 'upto' get out in advertising. Of course there is the risk that Cameron will scotch things, but the requirement for 'typical' speeds is likely in the medium term future.
If that well was capable of 1Mbpd BP would have been holding more than a party for a safety record - they would have been giving thanks to their chosen deity for a cast iron miracle.
NO single well ever produces that volume of oil, ever. We are talking about 10,000 bpd if BP were really lucky.
What the hell is this article doing being pushed to the front page? Its pretty obvious that most people haven't got the faintest clue about oil exploration if this isn't just laughed at as an onion article.
As has been demonstrated recently, the board of the company is the biggest threat to the continued survival of the company. Not only are many incompetent, they are often woefully out of touch and prone to making decisions to protect their bonuses rather than the health of the company (excuse me while I take the corporate jet to beg for a loan so I can continue to pay my 'bonus').
What's needed is for an application that looks over the shoulder of each board member and reports back their actions to the shareholders. THAT would be a good place for an external, outsourced company. Monitor the board 24 hours a day and analyse the data flows.
They coined the term many years ago, and its only recently (within this year) that people have started to use it for low powered intel boxes. Its the same market space and its likely they can claim that in the time between then and now they have been pursuing more discrete solutions.
Its a pity that this intel netbook crowd didn't learn more lessons from Psion about how to create workable small scale computers.
For such a CTO you need to make sure they are NOT just a information technology person - the real growth areas for the future are all outside IT. You need someone with a broad viewpoint and the ability to see the connections across widely varying areas. You also need them to be able to see consequences and how things will play out in future. An IT person is probably one of the worst picks you could make, too myopic.
By imposing the terms Google has, they have ensured that only a small subset of ideas will only ever be submitted to them. No commercially viable ideas can be proposed, and their instance that they can ignore the creator means they will only get what nobody really cares about.
Google should get a clue, up the funding by an order of magnitude, ensure the individual benefits ($1m minimum) AND maintains control and then they might get something worthwhile. If you have a solution to the energy crisis you will not be submitting to Google so they can rape you and the world over with it.
Their issue is less to do with the business and more to do with the business model. These services make it easier to find the really cheap deals (eg Prague for £1). However Ryanair don't make money out of these, they want you to not want to search via their system and go for the £129 tickets instead. In the end Ryanair will lose though, as people find the cheap deals via these services, and then go to the Ryanair site to directly book the best deals.
The difference is third world families have little conception of a life with more in it than they are used to. Families in this future time would know what they had lost and the direction it was headed. The difference drives different behaviour patterns, maybe not in the terminally stupid but certainly in those that can see beyond the immediate term. Its happened before.
Every one of them more likely than Duke Nukem or a flying car, plus there are loads of other ways things can go wrong. At least one is bound to happen... its kind of like playing Russian Roulette with a machine gun.
By 2048 the concept of a national currency will have devolved back into a token based economy founded on barter. Those few that survive will focus on securing the necessities of life. Whole regions will be uninhabited as global warming turns them progressively to desert.
Personal transportation will be a thing of the past. What movement occurs will either be human powered or the preserve of the feudal lords. The only areas where an energy rich economy continues to exist will be those of the Middle East, at least those parts not a radioactive wasteland. Most oil will be vegetable oil, and with the collapse of intensive agriculture there won't be much of that.
Many of the major cities will be going underwater as sea levels rise following the accelerating collapse of the Greenland glaciers and the lack of funding to support management measures. Diseases come in waves across the globe, each wave wiping out more than are born. There is a general malaise, a depression of opportunities lost. Most do not want to bring children into this world.
You do realise that the person who's recognised for all the BBC and ARM work was Roger Wilson? Which probably explains why he/she was not at the event - not wanting to call attention to the sex change...
What a lovely way for Microsoft, err sorry, Apple to find themselves in court. I'm sure the EU will look forward to the fresh cash injection. If Microsoft find themselves hundreds of millions of Euros down the swanny for failing to document APIs and make them available, what will be the fine for actively trying to prevent competitors having the same access to the machine that Apple does?
I guess Sun have read the API and know they can bend Apple over their own arrogance.
I mean, come on. Its well known that governments will attempt to physically raid companies in search of the evidence they don't have. This is a high tech firm. Surely any sensible CEO would ensure that any questionable docs were held securely in another (corrupt) country, behind heavy duty encryption and only accessible by remote session.
Its not as if there would be a vast number of them, and the skills to make this invisible to the raiding agencies are not likely to be in short supply in somewhere like Intel.
All you can assume is that these raids are a show of force, not seriously expected to deliver anything of value.
An unsettling issue is that the doctor or hospital generally considers that THEY own your record. Think about that for a second...detailed records of you and your peccadilloes and someone else thinks they own and have the right to do what they want with your data.
In a world where that little vulnerability were straightened out open standards based ways of working with your personal data would come by default. You should be able to store and deploy your data, under your control, will any medical professional only being allowed to access and add to those records with your permissions. The only way to make that work is for hospital systems to use open standards, no more proprietary systems and no corporate data caches.
If you need a PS2 or PS3 to run guidance algorithms, you don't know how to write guided missile control software. A 68000 is more than most missiles have.
I suggest you go and talk to someone in engineering. No doppler radar can be assumed to be accurate in all circumstances, there are multiple reflection effects that can introduce significant errors to the radar measurement. Plus you talk about speed of light and latency which have no real bearing on doppler processing.
If the driver has a steady lock on GPS then frankly I'd trust it more. There is less interference possible and the error terms are easily computable. The same is not true of doppler.
From the looks of it, this is another scenario that underestimates the impact of a pandemic. Not only is there the usual underestimate of disease lethality, the plan usually assumes that a sizeable percentage of people WILL STILL GO IN TO WORK. Who the hell is going to bother going to work if people are dying? Look at the overreaction on terrorism - people will panic, barricade the doors and threaten to shoot anyone that approaches. Within 1-2 weeks of the first signs in the US, all businesses and systems will be at a standstill. Nobody will be there to keep things running.
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Capt. Jack might dust himself off, but the rest of them die and stay dead (eventually).
They are going to start making Red Dwarf again.
It looks like the 'NY Times' has learnt from the failure of 'The Times' in its paywall. Once Murdoch setup his paywall for those papers, they basically ceased to exist as far as online was concerned and their paper based readership fell the most out of all UK papers (11.7%). In essence the only way is down if you consciously pull up the drawbridge, since the quality is not high enough to get new readers to pay. By making the paywall essentially voluntary, they get money from the dumb, but don't lose the smart. It won't save them, but its not going to be so fast a decline as it could be.
Note, this sounds very much like a follow on from the competition the MoD ran in 2008, focused on Afghanistan issues. £20m is chump change anyway. http://www.science.mod.uk/engagement/grand_challenge/grand_challenge.aspx
Sorry, wrong. Restricted most definitely IS a classification level in the UK - something that cause problems whenever something is passed to the US since they are suppose to then treat it as confidential. You can have, say, "RESTRICTED - Staff", where staff is the caveat - but its still covered by the same classification restrictions as normal Restricted.
For the competition journey. What's a good figure?
The UK regulator has been talking to the advertising standards people, and its likely the voluntary 'code of practice' will get toughened up to prevent ISPs using the 'upto' get out in advertising. Of course there is the risk that Cameron will scotch things, but the requirement for 'typical' speeds is likely in the medium term future.
If that well was capable of 1Mbpd BP would have been holding more than a party for a safety record - they would have been giving thanks to their chosen deity for a cast iron miracle.
NO single well ever produces that volume of oil, ever. We are talking about 10,000 bpd if BP were really lucky.
What the hell is this article doing being pushed to the front page? Its pretty obvious that most people haven't got the faintest clue about oil exploration if this isn't just laughed at as an onion article.
As has been demonstrated recently, the board of the company is the biggest threat to the continued survival of the company. Not only are many incompetent, they are often woefully out of touch and prone to making decisions to protect their bonuses rather than the health of the company (excuse me while I take the corporate jet to beg for a loan so I can continue to pay my 'bonus').
What's needed is for an application that looks over the shoulder of each board member and reports back their actions to the shareholders. THAT would be a good place for an external, outsourced company. Monitor the board 24 hours a day and analyse the data flows.
Actually they probably will win.
They coined the term many years ago, and its only recently (within this year) that people have started to use it for low powered intel boxes. Its the same market space and its likely they can claim that in the time between then and now they have been pursuing more discrete solutions.
Its a pity that this intel netbook crowd didn't learn more lessons from Psion about how to create workable small scale computers.
For such a CTO you need to make sure they are NOT just a information technology person - the real growth areas for the future are all outside IT. You need someone with a broad viewpoint and the ability to see the connections across widely varying areas. You also need them to be able to see consequences and how things will play out in future. An IT person is probably one of the worst picks you could make, too myopic.
Some of us watch Dr Who instead.
By imposing the terms Google has, they have ensured that only a small subset of ideas will only ever be submitted to them. No commercially viable ideas can be proposed, and their instance that they can ignore the creator means they will only get what nobody really cares about.
Google should get a clue, up the funding by an order of magnitude, ensure the individual benefits ($1m minimum) AND maintains control and then they might get something worthwhile. If you have a solution to the energy crisis you will not be submitting to Google so they can rape you and the world over with it.
Spoken like a marketing weasel trying to split hairs. It doesn't work on all sites, they said it did, they lied - that is all.
Their issue is less to do with the business and more to do with the business model. These services make it easier to find the really cheap deals (eg Prague for £1). However Ryanair don't make money out of these, they want you to not want to search via their system and go for the £129 tickets instead. In the end Ryanair will lose though, as people find the cheap deals via these services, and then go to the Ryanair site to directly book the best deals.
The difference is third world families have little conception of a life with more in it than they are used to. Families in this future time would know what they had lost and the direction it was headed. The difference drives different behaviour patterns, maybe not in the terminally stupid but certainly in those that can see beyond the immediate term. Its happened before.
Every one of them more likely than Duke Nukem or a flying car, plus there are loads of other ways things can go wrong. At least one is bound to happen ... its kind of like playing Russian Roulette with a machine gun.
By 2048 the concept of a national currency will have devolved back into a token based economy founded on barter. Those few that survive will focus on securing the necessities of life. Whole regions will be uninhabited as global warming turns them progressively to desert.
Personal transportation will be a thing of the past. What movement occurs will either be human powered or the preserve of the feudal lords. The only areas where an energy rich economy continues to exist will be those of the Middle East, at least those parts not a radioactive wasteland. Most oil will be vegetable oil, and with the collapse of intensive agriculture there won't be much of that.
Many of the major cities will be going underwater as sea levels rise following the accelerating collapse of the Greenland glaciers and the lack of funding to support management measures. Diseases come in waves across the globe, each wave wiping out more than are born. There is a general malaise, a depression of opportunities lost. Most do not want to bring children into this world.
You do realise that the person who's recognised for all the BBC and ARM work was Roger Wilson? Which probably explains why he/she was not at the event - not wanting to call attention to the sex change...
What a lovely way for Microsoft, err sorry, Apple to find themselves in court. I'm sure the EU will look forward to the fresh cash injection. If Microsoft find themselves hundreds of millions of Euros down the swanny for failing to document APIs and make them available, what will be the fine for actively trying to prevent competitors having the same access to the machine that Apple does?
I guess Sun have read the API and know they can bend Apple over their own arrogance.
I mean, come on. Its well known that governments will attempt to physically raid companies in search of the evidence they don't have. This is a high tech firm. Surely any sensible CEO would ensure that any questionable docs were held securely in another (corrupt) country, behind heavy duty encryption and only accessible by remote session.
Its not as if there would be a vast number of them, and the skills to make this invisible to the raiding agencies are not likely to be in short supply in somewhere like Intel.
All you can assume is that these raids are a show of force, not seriously expected to deliver anything of value.
A better question is who owns your record?
An unsettling issue is that the doctor or hospital generally considers that THEY own your record. Think about that for a second...detailed records of you and your peccadilloes and someone else thinks they own and have the right to do what they want with your data.
In a world where that little vulnerability were straightened out open standards based ways of working with your personal data would come by default. You should be able to store and deploy your data, under your control, will any medical professional only being allowed to access and add to those records with your permissions. The only way to make that work is for hospital systems to use open standards, no more proprietary systems and no corporate data caches.
OpenEHRs are a sideshow next to that.
If you need a PS2 or PS3 to run guidance algorithms, you don't know how to write guided missile control software. A 68000 is more than most missiles have.
You're in marketing.
I suggest you go and talk to someone in engineering. No doppler radar can be assumed to be accurate in all circumstances, there are multiple reflection effects that can introduce significant errors to the radar measurement. Plus you talk about speed of light and latency which have no real bearing on doppler processing.
If the driver has a steady lock on GPS then frankly I'd trust it more. There is less interference possible and the error terms are easily computable. The same is not true of doppler.
From the looks of it, this is another scenario that underestimates the impact of a pandemic. Not only is there the usual underestimate of disease lethality, the plan usually assumes that a sizeable percentage of people WILL STILL GO IN TO WORK. Who the hell is going to bother going to work if people are dying? Look at the overreaction on terrorism - people will panic, barricade the doors and threaten to shoot anyone that approaches. Within 1-2 weeks of the first signs in the US, all businesses and systems will be at a standstill. Nobody will be there to keep things running.