And what do you as an ordinary person do while you can't access your money for weeks while the mess of all the failed banks is sorted out? What about the millions of small business? Even if you had plenty of cash to see you through do you think you would have been able to purchase fresh food in the interim?
All Scotland needs to do to get 100% of it's electricity and loads more besides is build a dyke across the Pentland Firth. Unfortunately we are dicking around putting turbines in the stream and are only going to get 1-2GW max. Would be 10 times that with a dyke.
Wrong there is only two pumped storage hydro schemes in Scotland at the moment. Cruachan and Foyers. Though another one has been approved for Coire Glas.
There are dozens of other smaller hydro schemes in Scotland that produce continuous power. Scotland has got a significant proportion (around 1/4 to 1/3) of its power from hydroelectric for decades.
Which for reference anyone in the EU cannot simply be sacked for clicking on that button. Well they can but the courts will then rule it an unfair dismissal so you would be dumb as an employer to sack someone for it.
What a load of obvious rubbish. If the call is peer-to-peer then routing it through a central server could only improve the connection quality if by some means the links from each client to the central server was better than the direct route between each client.
This is a situation that almost never happens in the real world.
Isn't that the major thing though. Who the hell uses a desktop version of Skype any more? If I want a Skype voice call I will just use my mobile phone, which is a million times more convenient. If I want a Skype video call I will go for my tablet first or phone if out and about.
I don't know anyone using desktop skype clients these days. I have even uninstalled the version on my mothers laptop because she does not use it and it's one less thing to be worried about.
Don't know where you live but here in the E.U. it's a legal requirement that the tap water is safe to drink. In fact it is in general purer than spring water.
That said the idiots who think otherwise do make it much cheaper for me to keep a supply of bottled water for emergencies.
The London Underground has different "LOADING GAUGES", but is *ALL* standard gauge track. The two are completely different things.
As such different loading gauges is acceptable; different track gauges especially in an all new system (aka anything built since at least WWII) is a major design screw up from the get go.
Yeah but VLAN support in switches these days is virtually ubiquitous even in SOHO switches. I got 16 ports of 1GbE goodness with VLAN, and link aggregation support for 75GBP the other week in the form of a Netgear GS116Ev2.
My bad for not checking what he was been charged under. However 14 years is still not decades.
Further I severely doubt they will hand down a maximum sentence either. Maximum sentence's are very much the exception in the UK. For example those involved in the Hatton Garden burglary, the biggest in British history only got seven years maximum.
This is the UK not the USA. There is *ZERO* I repeat *ZERO* chance that he will in jail for decades. The maximum sentence in the UK for any copyright offence is 10 years and/or an "unlimited" fine. Further to get the maximum sentence would require you to be profiting financially from the copyright infringement. Also note in the UK damages are limited to *actual* losses.
Here in the UK Spotify costs £9.99 a month which is a whole 16p more than Adele's 25 on CD brand new (just to keep it lined up with comments at the top) which is apparently according to Amazon the number one seller in Popular Music.
If you are willing to buy second hand older stuff is often *MUCH* cheaper, frequently £0.01 plus £1.26 delivery. For example Adel 19 is £4.96 delivered new, One Directions Up All Night is £1.51 delivered. Though music that has withstood the test of time is more in the £5-6 bracket than the £1.26
I can stream and download the load to my phone through the magic of Plex which I already have for the TV/Movies side of things and the additional overhead for music streaming is a rounding error. Less than 100GB for 250 albums in 256kbps MP3 and FLAC so far.
So depending on what and how you buy your CD's Spotify is equivalent to anything from 10 to 95 albums a year if I buy physical CD's. I struggle to see how over say a five year period Spotify is cost competitive with buying CD's.
I would also add that all my music is DRM free and mine forever. Yes the Plex server is costing me and not everyone has the know how to run one, but this is slashdot. Note though the cost of the Plex server is spread out amount my family as the wonders of a VDSL2 link mean that my mother, brother and sister along with their kids make daily use of the Plex server. In addition it serves as offsite backup for other family members photos etc.
Indeed but the standard operating procedure of always having two people in the cockpit at all times that would likely have prevented this incident was already practised by other airlines.
The Z5 compact is waterproof, has a better camera (more pixels, a way faster focus at 0.03s and a dedicated button to take the pictures), has a higher resolution display (full 720p), oh and 32GB of storage with the option of a microSD up to 200GB.
What I never understood about the SFO/LAX to Asia flights is why they could not have done touch and go at some airport on an island in the middle of the pacific.
That is land, refuel and takeoff again 30 minutes later without disembarking the passengers. It would still have been a lot faster than a 747 and it side steps the range issue.
Oh I don't know I would say for vast majority of the population north of the DMZ, there is a good chance the result would be much much better as the result of Kim Jong-un and his cronies starting a hot war.
And there was me thinking the place with the most to loose from rising sea levels by a large margin was Bangladesh. It certainly cannot hope to claim most people, the report cited claims six million people, which is a fraction compared to the 18-20 million people that could be submerged in Bangladesh.
I guess the value of the properties submerged is more in Florida. However to match Bangladesh everyone in Florida would have to be submerged which seems a bit unlikely even on worst case scenarios which of course would see more people in Bangladesh submerged too.
Note that month before day is normally only used in English when there is no year involved. When is you birthday and you might respond March the 15th. When where you born and you would respond the 15th March 2000.
However writing it down as American's do has nothing whatsoever to do with the English language, because the English (aka the people who actually invented the language) use DD/MM/YYYY like the rest of the civilized world. It's only the American's who insist on using illogical date orders.
The problem is how do you have free trade if there is 26 different regulations on everything from the permitted additives to food, to what efficiency standards electrical products must meet.
In the end if it where not for the EU we would have a bunch of civil servants in Whitehall issuing very similar regulations to that which come out of Brussels. Now I admit we have had to change a whole bunch of regulations over the last 30 years as these have been harmonized, but we have been through 99% of that pain so why throw it out now for something that has already passed?
On this matter you have to ask yourself is it better to have a single set of regulations covering a much larger market or a minefield of regulations from 26 countries that it may well be impossible to comply with?
The other question to ask is are the sorts of free trade agreements that you might want with the EU available outside the EU without implementing all the regulations anyway? Clearly looking at countries in Europe outside the EU that is a big fat no.
I also fail to understand how the working time directive is the agenda of the 1%. Surely the 1% would like to see us work unrestricted hours like a bunch of good little wage slaves? I also wonder how abolition of roaming charges is the interests of the 1% either.
While that is a highly useful feature, we found that in our family no matter how hard we tried it would confuse people. That is it seems for example quite determined to randomly classify my brothers eldest daughter as my sister and vice versa. It also thinks that my sisters eldest is my brother and vice versa. Mind you those two combinations listed above do indeed look alike, so much so that my nephew thought the old photo of my brother was of him but was confused at it was not his jumper (sweater for you Americans).
It also can't distinguish between a real person and a photograph of a person. So if you take a photograph of say your brothers children opening presents at their grandma's it tell you that your sister is in the photograph because she is in a photo on the mantelpiece. Highly annoying.
On the other hand it seems to do a better job of correctly differentiating my brothers wife from her identical twin sister! So go figure.
I quote from the landing page for ownCloud "A safe home for all your data. Access & share your files, calendars, contacts, mail & more from any device, on your terms". It's on big letters plastered across the page.
I have a server at home it has my home directory on, NFS/Samba shared to machines in my house. The reasonable expectation is that ownCloud will let me access those same files.
However even if I was misconstrued into what ownCloud was I would still fucking rail at the developers for developing their own security model where every file in ownCloud is owned by the ownCloud user and some crappy PHP code and a database determines what belongs to who, and who can access what.
It's done like this because the web jocks who developed it would otherwise have to deal properly with the Posix user security model and being web jocks who code in PHP have no fucking idea how to do that.
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And what do you as an ordinary person do while you can't access your money for weeks while the mess of all the failed banks is sorted out? What about the millions of small business? Even if you had plenty of cash to see you through do you think you would have been able to purchase fresh food in the interim?
All Scotland needs to do to get 100% of it's electricity and loads more besides is build a dyke across the Pentland Firth. Unfortunately we are dicking around putting turbines in the stream and are only going to get 1-2GW max. Would be 10 times that with a dyke.
Wrong there is only two pumped storage hydro schemes in Scotland at the moment. Cruachan and Foyers. Though another one has been approved for Coire Glas.
There are dozens of other smaller hydro schemes in Scotland that produce continuous power. Scotland has got a significant proportion (around 1/4 to 1/3) of its power from hydroelectric for decades.
Which for reference anyone in the EU cannot simply be sacked for clicking on that button. Well they can but the courts will then rule it an unfair dismissal so you would be dumb as an employer to sack someone for it.
What a load of obvious rubbish. If the call is peer-to-peer then routing it through a central server could only improve the connection quality if by some means the links from each client to the central server was better than the direct route between each client.
This is a situation that almost never happens in the real world.
Isn't that the major thing though. Who the hell uses a desktop version of Skype any more? If I want a Skype voice call I will just use my mobile phone, which is a million times more convenient. If I want a Skype video call I will go for my tablet first or phone if out and about.
I don't know anyone using desktop skype clients these days. I have even uninstalled the version on my mothers laptop because she does not use it and it's one less thing to be worried about.
Don't know where you live but here in the E.U. it's a legal requirement that the tap water is safe to drink. In fact it is in general purer than spring water.
That said the idiots who think otherwise do make it much cheaper for me to keep a supply of bottled water for emergencies.
The London Underground has different "LOADING GAUGES", but is *ALL* standard gauge track. The two are completely different things.
As such different loading gauges is acceptable; different track gauges especially in an all new system (aka anything built since at least WWII) is a major design screw up from the get go.
They built a new rail system in the 1970's and didn't use standard gauge track. Sorry but that is bad design decision right out the block.
Yeah but VLAN support in switches these days is virtually ubiquitous even in SOHO switches. I got 16 ports of 1GbE goodness with VLAN, and link aggregation support for 75GBP the other week in the form of a Netgear GS116Ev2.
My bad for not checking what he was been charged under. However 14 years is still not decades.
Further I severely doubt they will hand down a maximum sentence either. Maximum sentence's are very much the exception in the UK. For example those involved in the Hatton Garden burglary, the biggest in British history only got seven years maximum.
Except circumventing a court order or helping someone else do so is an offence in itself, contempt of court I believe.
This is the UK not the USA. There is *ZERO* I repeat *ZERO* chance that he will in jail for decades. The maximum sentence in the UK for any copyright offence is 10 years and/or an "unlimited" fine. Further to get the maximum sentence would require you to be profiting financially from the copyright infringement. Also note in the UK damages are limited to *actual* losses.
Here in the UK Spotify costs £9.99 a month which is a whole 16p more than Adele's 25 on CD brand new (just to keep it lined up with comments at the top) which is apparently according to Amazon the number one seller in Popular Music.
If you are willing to buy second hand older stuff is often *MUCH* cheaper, frequently £0.01 plus £1.26 delivery. For example Adel 19 is £4.96 delivered new, One Directions Up All Night is £1.51 delivered. Though music that has withstood the test of time is more in the £5-6 bracket than the £1.26
I can stream and download the load to my phone through the magic of Plex which I already have for the TV/Movies side of things and the additional overhead for music streaming is a rounding error. Less than 100GB for 250 albums in 256kbps MP3 and FLAC so far.
So depending on what and how you buy your CD's Spotify is equivalent to anything from 10 to 95 albums a year if I buy physical CD's. I struggle to see how over say a five year period Spotify is cost competitive with buying CD's.
I would also add that all my music is DRM free and mine forever. Yes the Plex server is costing me and not everyone has the know how to run one, but this is slashdot. Note though the cost of the Plex server is spread out amount my family as the wonders of a VDSL2 link mean that my mother, brother and sister along with their kids make daily use of the Plex server. In addition it serves as offsite backup for other family members photos etc.
Indeed but the standard operating procedure of always having two people in the cockpit at all times that would likely have prevented this incident was already practised by other airlines.
The Z5 compact is waterproof, has a better camera (more pixels, a way faster focus at 0.03s and a dedicated button to take the pictures), has a higher resolution display (full 720p), oh and 32GB of storage with the option of a microSD up to 200GB.
What I never understood about the SFO/LAX to Asia flights is why they could not have done touch and go at some airport on an island in the middle of the pacific.
That is land, refuel and takeoff again 30 minutes later without disembarking the passengers. It would still have been a lot faster than a 747 and it side steps the range issue.
Eduroam works reliably for me at several Universities across the UK.
Oh I don't know I would say for vast majority of the population north of the DMZ, there is a good chance the result would be much much better as the result of Kim Jong-un and his cronies starting a hot war.
And there was me thinking the place with the most to loose from rising sea levels by a large margin was Bangladesh. It certainly cannot hope to claim most people, the report cited claims six million people, which is a fraction compared to the 18-20 million people that could be submerged in Bangladesh.
I guess the value of the properties submerged is more in Florida. However to match Bangladesh everyone in Florida would have to be submerged which seems a bit unlikely even on worst case scenarios which of course would see more people in Bangladesh submerged too.
Note that month before day is normally only used in English when there is no year involved. When is you birthday and you might respond March the 15th. When where you born and you would respond the 15th March 2000.
However writing it down as American's do has nothing whatsoever to do with the English language, because the English (aka the people who actually invented the language) use DD/MM/YYYY like the rest of the civilized world. It's only the American's who insist on using illogical date orders.
That's the point Backblaze *HAVE* opened their storage system so anyone can copy it.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog...
The problem is how do you have free trade if there is 26 different regulations on everything from the permitted additives to food, to what efficiency standards electrical products must meet.
In the end if it where not for the EU we would have a bunch of civil servants in Whitehall issuing very similar regulations to that which come out of Brussels. Now I admit we have had to change a whole bunch of regulations over the last 30 years as these have been harmonized, but we have been through 99% of that pain so why throw it out now for something that has already passed?
On this matter you have to ask yourself is it better to have a single set of regulations covering a much larger market or a minefield of regulations from 26 countries that it may well be impossible to comply with?
The other question to ask is are the sorts of free trade agreements that you might want with the EU available outside the EU without implementing all the regulations anyway? Clearly looking at countries in Europe outside the EU that is a big fat no.
I also fail to understand how the working time directive is the agenda of the 1%. Surely the 1% would like to see us work unrestricted hours like a bunch of good little wage slaves? I also wonder how abolition of roaming charges is the interests of the 1% either.
While that is a highly useful feature, we found that in our family no matter how hard we tried it would confuse people. That is it seems for example quite determined to randomly classify my brothers eldest daughter as my sister and vice versa. It also thinks that my sisters eldest is my brother and vice versa. Mind you those two combinations listed above do indeed look alike, so much so that my nephew thought the old photo of my brother was of him but was confused at it was not his jumper (sweater for you Americans).
It also can't distinguish between a real person and a photograph of a person. So if you take a photograph of say your brothers children opening presents at their grandma's it tell you that your sister is in the photograph because she is in a photo on the mantelpiece. Highly annoying.
On the other hand it seems to do a better job of correctly differentiating my brothers wife from her identical twin sister! So go figure.
I quote from the landing page for ownCloud "A safe home for all your data. Access & share your files, calendars, contacts, mail & more from any device, on your terms". It's on big letters plastered across the page.
I have a server at home it has my home directory on, NFS/Samba shared to machines in my house. The reasonable expectation is that ownCloud will let me access those same files.
However even if I was misconstrued into what ownCloud was I would still fucking rail at the developers for developing their own security model where every file in ownCloud is owned by the ownCloud user and some crappy PHP code and a database determines what belongs to who, and who can access what.
It's done like this because the web jocks who developed it would otherwise have to deal properly with the Posix user security model and being web jocks who code in PHP have no fucking idea how to do that.