Of the two main pumped storage facilities in the U.K. Dinorwig takes six hours to deplete it reservoir and Cruachan takes 22 hours, but has to keep 12 hours for black start of the grid should it ever be needed. There was a proposal to build another significant facility on Exmoor, but with the dash for gas it was abandoned as not being required. Gas fired power stations can respond much quicker than nuclear and coal to changes in demand.
It has, there are several types of photosynthesis out there, the main ones being C3 and C4 carbon fixation, with C4 fixation being more efficient than C3. If we could retro fix the C4 method that is used by maize, sugar cane, millet to things like rice, wheat, barley and other stable foods could lead to huge increases in crop yields.
Retrofitting nitrogen fixing would not go amiss either.
Since when was it legal to make retroactive changes to the law in the UK? Fine extend it for new works, but I have audio book recordings of works that are out of copyright (think classics like Dickens, Austen etc.), and in the not to distant future the recording would have been out of copyright as well. That is they would be totally free. When I spent considerable sums of money on these audiobooks down the years that was a consideration in my purchase.
Now they are proposing to retroactively change this so that these recordings will not become totally free in my lifetime. As such I want my money back.
No they are not made up, but nobody ever gets *SUCKED* out of a plane. You can get *BLOWN* of a plane however. It is basic 101 physics, air molecules cannot pull they can only push. Basically the pressurized plane undergoes a failure that allows air to move out the plane to equalize the pressures. As it does so it pushing things along.
Especially as you would be going 15444 times faster than the speed of light. The kinetic energy of 1kg of mass traveling at that speed (leaving aside that it is impossible) is equivalent to 2.5billion megatons of TNT so no need for any explosive component.
The date of the patent is critical. Just imagine that there was a new screw head that was patented in say 2005, and Apple held that patent. They could then stop anyone else manufacturing and selling suitable screwdrivers them to the public.
As it is, a quick Google will lead you to someone selling a suitable screwdriver as the patent has long since expired.
Or you fit your camera with an Eye-Fi SD card, and load your 3G mobile phone with WiFi hotspot software tunneled over an encrypted VPN link back to your own server. Then moments after you take the photo is is no longer in the camera or even the country:-)
The first DVD recorder cost in the UK over 20,000GBP which Google tells me is around 32,000USD. I cannot remember what the blanks cost, but I do remember they only had a capacity of 3.95GB, and the burner was only good for around 1,000 discs. That was circa 1998, wind forward 12 years and a burner is under 20GBP now does all formats including dual layer.
Simply not true. There is sufficient desert space available to generate at least 40 times the current total world energy consumption as electricity. This is only assuming a conversion ration of about 12% which is actually quite low from what is achievable.
Except they used a modified Audi A2, I would expect because it has a very low drag figure and being made of Aluminium is very light. In fact I would not be surprised if they did not use the 3l variant that has extra drag reducing features to allow a l.2l diesel variant to achieve 100km with less than 3l of fuel. The first production car to do so I believe. Shame Audi stopped production really.
I don't see how not upgrading older lines is going to make things any worse down the line. In fact, it seems more likely that it'll make future upgrading cheaper. Consider this: If we upgraded the entire communication infrastructure of the U.S. every time we thought of something faster, how much more money would've been spent on it?
Which is why you put in single mode fibre to the home. You might need to change stuff at either end, but that is it. Once in it will do any speed you want for the foreseeable. Right now it is known to be good for AT LEAST 100Gbps. Given that all the vast bulk of the cost is in the laying of the cable, do it right now with single mode fibre and you will never need revisit it.
As an English person I find your comments highly insulting. I personally speak English not British English just plain English and it will always be so. In sort just like other languages that are spoken outside their mother country, there is English (as spoken in England), American English, Canadian English etc.
It happened in Canada so might be different from the UK. Waving a knife or other weapon or engaging in threatening behavior without touching someone would constitute assault. Once you touch them, it instantly becomes battery, and if you harm them it becomes bodily harm of various degrees (in the UK that would be actual and grievous). Most people fail to understand that assault does not require touching them.
However you are likely to have some difficulty convincing a judge that blowing bubbles from a small container is threatening behavior. If you cannot make that stick then it is not assault.
It reminds me of the classic Monty Python sketch from the Holy Grail where the castle defender says "I fart in your general direction".
Right so seven years ago lots of fibre was put in, and initially it was not all used, and now it is. Hum given that the a fibre link has a lifetime greater than seven years any notion of overbuilding has in fact proved to be a load of rubbish.
In fact I could argue that given that as it is now almost all being used that far from massive over building of capacity, there was in fact massive under building of capacity.
More likely that any form of compulsorily purchase could take months if not years of legal wrangling to get through. Far cheaper in the long run to offer silly money. Very few people won't move when offered 1.7 million USD for an acre of land.
Two problems with that. Firstly the United Kingdom "purchased" its war materials from the USA, they where not free. Just like we did in WWI. This massive transfer of wealth is what made the USA so rich so quickly and conversly why we have no empire anymore. We have only recently finished paying the loans off. The whole "lend lease" program happened because Wall Street bankers where rubbing their hands in glea with the thought of all the money they could make.
The second problem is that the defeat of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain signalled the end of Germany's plans to invade permantly, and thanks to Ultra we knew this to be the case. This all happened long before the USA actually got involved. Even if they had won they where struggling to put together a suitable naval operation to actual make the invasion work. Remember it took years of preparation for the reinvasion of mainland Europe, so the notion that Germany could have done the opposite without similar preparation is somewhat laughable.
Nah, they must be doing some sort of model detection. I have just tried getting it on my brand new Toshiba AC100 (aka Android netbook) and it says Skype is unavailable for my handset... Ok it's not a handset, but I have a dual core 1GHz Cortex A9 CPU with a 1024x600 screen and a webcam all running under 2.1 so lack of resources is not the problem.
Right so you live in Norway where the majority of electricity generation is from zero/low carbon sources, and you generally heat your houses with electricity due to the lack of a domestic gas grid. In addition due to the latitude that you live at you need to heat the house for around 2/3 of the year. So for some utterly insane reason you start using CFL and now LED light sources!!!
Do you have even the vaguest understanding of thermodynamics??? You do realize that unless you swap out your CFL's and LED's when you have the heating on you are actually doing more harm than good as the amount of CO/2 produced in the manufacture of CFL's and LED's is really quite high? What a complete and total tool.
The EU version of the DMCA specifically only provides protection for effective encryption measures. So for example the first time the CSS wast taken to the European Court the ruling was that it was not an effective encryption measure and the case was thrown out. The fact that due to flaws in the scheme an ordinary PC can crack the CSS encryption in less than a second makes it ineffective and thus not eligible for protection.
If HDCP simply required gathering 40 public keys from 40 different bits of hardware to work out the master key then it is highly likely that it would be ruled and ineffective encryption measure and thrown out.
Similarly your two bit scheme would also fall foul of the requirement to be effective.
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Of the two main pumped storage facilities in the U.K. Dinorwig takes six hours to deplete it reservoir and Cruachan takes 22 hours, but has to keep 12 hours for black start of the grid should it ever be needed. There was a proposal to build another significant facility on Exmoor, but with the dash for gas it was abandoned as not being required. Gas fired power stations can respond much quicker than nuclear and coal to changes in demand.
It has, there are several types of photosynthesis out there, the main ones being C3 and C4 carbon fixation, with C4 fixation being more efficient than C3. If we could retro fix the C4 method that is used by maize, sugar cane, millet to things like rice, wheat, barley and other stable foods could lead to huge increases in crop yields.
Retrofitting nitrogen fixing would not go amiss either.
Since when was it legal to make retroactive changes to the law in the UK? Fine extend it for new works, but I have audio book recordings of works that are out of copyright (think classics like Dickens, Austen etc.), and in the not to distant future the recording would have been out of copyright as well. That is they would be totally free. When I spent considerable sums of money on these audiobooks down the years that was a consideration in my purchase.
Now they are proposing to retroactively change this so that these recordings will not become totally free in my lifetime. As such I want my money back.
No they are not made up, but nobody ever gets *SUCKED* out of a plane. You can get *BLOWN* of a plane however. It is basic 101 physics, air molecules cannot pull they can only push. Basically the pressurized plane undergoes a failure that allows air to move out the plane to equalize the pressures. As it does so it pushing things along.
Port the Android UI over the Symbian kernel. Much as I like Linux as a kernel for a phone it sucks.
Especially as you would be going 15444 times faster than the speed of light. The kinetic energy of 1kg of mass traveling at that speed (leaving aside that it is impossible) is equivalent to 2.5billion megatons of TNT so no need for any explosive component.
The date of the patent is critical. Just imagine that there was a new screw head that was patented in say 2005, and Apple held that patent. They could then stop anyone else manufacturing and selling suitable screwdrivers them to the public.
As it is, a quick Google will lead you to someone selling a suitable screwdriver as the patent has long since expired.
Or you fit your camera with an Eye-Fi SD card, and load your 3G mobile phone with WiFi hotspot software tunneled over an encrypted VPN link back to your own server. Then moments after you take the photo is is no longer in the camera or even the country :-)
The partners of the firms in question are significantly at risk of being disbarred.
The first DVD recorder cost in the UK over 20,000GBP which Google tells me is around 32,000USD. I cannot remember what the blanks cost, but I do remember they only had a capacity of 3.95GB, and the burner was only good for around 1,000 discs. That was circa 1998, wind forward 12 years and a burner is under 20GBP now does all formats including dual layer.
Simply not true. There is sufficient desert space available to generate at least 40 times the current total world energy consumption as electricity. This is only assuming a conversion ration of about 12% which is actually quite low from what is achievable.
Except they used a modified Audi A2, I would expect because it has a very low drag figure and being made of Aluminium is very light. In fact I would not be surprised if they did not use the 3l variant that has extra drag reducing features to allow a l.2l diesel variant to achieve 100km with less than 3l of fuel. The first production car to do so I believe. Shame Audi stopped production really.
At 20USD per kg lithium can be extracted from sea water in a near inexhaustible amount 230 billion tonnes
I don't see how not upgrading older lines is going to make things any worse down the line. In fact, it seems more likely that it'll make future upgrading cheaper. Consider this: If we upgraded the entire communication infrastructure of the U.S. every time we thought of something faster, how much more money would've been spent on it?
Which is why you put in single mode fibre to the home. You might need to change stuff at either end, but that is it. Once in it will do any speed you want for the foreseeable. Right now it is known to be good for AT LEAST 100Gbps. Given that all the vast bulk of the cost is in the laying of the cable, do it right now with single mode fibre and you will never need revisit it.
As an English person I find your comments highly insulting. I personally speak English not British English just plain English and it will always be so. In sort just like other languages that are spoken outside their mother country, there is English (as spoken in England), American English, Canadian English etc.
And there application to satellite dishes is not new either. A quick Google shows that such dishes are readily available in the UK.
http://www.aerialshack.com/metronic-flat-satellite-dish-with-builtin-p-1398.html
http://www.southernsat.co.uk/cart/index.php?l=product_detail&p=226
It happened in Canada so might be different from the UK. Waving a knife or other weapon or engaging in threatening behavior without touching someone would constitute assault. Once you touch them, it instantly becomes battery, and if you harm them it becomes bodily harm of various degrees (in the UK that would be actual and grievous). Most people fail to understand that assault does not require touching them.
However you are likely to have some difficulty convincing a judge that blowing bubbles from a small container is threatening behavior. If you cannot make that stick then it is not assault.
It reminds me of the classic Monty Python sketch from the Holy Grail where the castle defender says "I fart in your general direction".
Right so seven years ago lots of fibre was put in, and initially it was not all used, and now it is. Hum given that the a fibre link has a lifetime greater than seven years any notion of overbuilding has in fact proved to be a load of rubbish.
In fact I could argue that given that as it is now almost all being used that far from massive over building of capacity, there was in fact massive under building of capacity.
More likely that any form of compulsorily purchase could take months if not years of legal wrangling to get through. Far cheaper in the long run to offer silly money. Very few people won't move when offered 1.7 million USD for an acre of land.
Go read up on the contorted legal stuff that went on in the EEC treaty of 1974. In short they are not binding.
Two problems with that. Firstly the United Kingdom "purchased" its war materials from the USA, they where not free. Just like we did in WWI. This massive transfer of wealth is what made the USA so rich so quickly and conversly why we have no empire anymore. We have only recently finished paying the loans off. The whole "lend lease" program happened because Wall Street bankers where rubbing their hands in glea with the thought of all the money they could make.
The second problem is that the defeat of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain signalled the end of Germany's plans to invade permantly, and thanks to Ultra we knew this to be the case. This all happened long before the USA actually got involved. Even if they had won they where struggling to put together a suitable naval operation to actual make the invasion work. Remember it took years of preparation for the reinvasion of mainland Europe, so the notion that Germany could have done the opposite without similar preparation is somewhat laughable.
A bit tricky given that we have no written constitution...
Nah, they must be doing some sort of model detection. I have just tried getting it on my brand new Toshiba AC100 (aka Android netbook) and it says Skype is unavailable for my handset... Ok it's not a handset, but I have a dual core 1GHz Cortex A9 CPU with a 1024x600 screen and a webcam all running under 2.1 so lack of resources is not the problem.
Right so you live in Norway where the majority of electricity generation is from zero/low carbon sources, and you generally heat your houses with electricity due to the lack of a domestic gas grid. In addition due to the latitude that you live at you need to heat the house for around 2/3 of the year. So for some utterly insane reason you start using CFL and now LED light sources!!!
Do you have even the vaguest understanding of thermodynamics??? You do realize that unless you swap out your CFL's and LED's when you have the heating on you are actually doing more harm than good as the amount of CO/2 produced in the manufacture of CFL's and LED's is really quite high? What a complete and total tool.
The EU version of the DMCA specifically only provides protection for effective encryption measures. So for example the first time the CSS wast taken to the European Court the ruling was that it was not an effective encryption measure and the case was thrown out. The fact that due to flaws in the scheme an ordinary PC can crack the CSS encryption in less than a second makes it ineffective and thus not eligible for protection.
If HDCP simply required gathering 40 public keys from 40 different bits of hardware to work out the master key then it is highly likely that it would be ruled and ineffective encryption measure and thrown out.
Similarly your two bit scheme would also fall foul of the requirement to be effective.