You build to suit the prevailing conditions. Here on the west coast of Scotland, we don't build to withstand earthquakes but we do build to withstand regular 140mph winds.
You could probably do this with extended attributes and then something like inotify to watch when a file has an expiry date set. Every so often a cron job would check if something has passed its expiry date and delete or archive it.
For the monopoly of FEDERAL government, the only solution is to allow the market work, regardless of the circumstances.
You're falling into the trap of thinking that a free market is universally a Good Thing, and it is - up to a point. The free market works well for goods and services when you're dealing with many suppliers up to about the size and importance of a burger van. You can't really have too many burger vans, and in any case the ones that are too expensive, not very good, or only open at weird times won't last long anyway.
For things like the emergency services, where you tend to only have one large supplier of services (how many fire departments do you have in your town?) private industry doesn't work well. There isn't enough competition to drive out poor operating, and the moment you make something privately run the quality of service always drops to the barest minimum that the company can get away with. All the money goes to the shareholders, with the merest trickle diverted to keeping the customers happy.
Look at healthcare in the US, where you pay more in "health insurance" - which always has a slightly protection-rackety ring to it - than most people in Europe pay in taxes for socialised healthcare. In the US even a quick visit to the doctor costs a fortune, and a serious injury can leave you financially crippled if you pay for it. If you don't pay for it, you don't get anything more than the most basic of healthcare - stitched up and thrown on the street.
Compare that with the UK, where you have a choice between socialised healthcare or private healthcare. If you want socialised healthcare, then there may be a bit of a wait. The NHS has been brought to the brink of collapse by 30 years of right-wing misrule and the introduction of an excessive amount of privately-run sub-services like cleaners and caterers. All the same, you'll get your treatment, to a high standard and free.
Or you could go private, for a similar experience to the US. You'll get your surgery right away, as long as you don't mind taking out a second mortgage to pay for a stay in an inadequately-cleaned hospital, with antiquated equipment, and nursing staff from former Eastern Bloc countries who speak no English and are paid around the same as Burger King employees.
You look at weather records and you'll see that in the late 70s and early 80s we had some incredible heatwaves. I was around to remember them, and the records tie in with my recollection of it.
I have to take other people's word for it that there were record-breaking heatwaves in the late 1940s and early 1950s, because I wasn't around. My parents were, and people the same age as them. So were people who actually kept records of weather conditions.
So, according to "the science", there were in fact really ridiculous heatwaves about 30 and about 60 years ago. Science works. Leave the Magic Carbon Pixie out of it.
That is the opposite of the conclusion reached by these two papers. The papers found that the events in these regions are more likely with the current warming, and would not likely have occurred if it were not for the recent warming.
I wish the Magic Carbon Pixie believers would get their story straight, then.
When the weather is unseasonably cold or wet, "weather isn't climate". When the weather is unseasonably warm, "the weather is affected by climate change".
Which is it? For the record, the weather is pretty much the same as it was 30 years ago when we had record-breaking heatwaves in the late 70s and early 80s. I remember one heatwave when it was so hot even up here at 58 degrees north that the tarmac on the roads began melting to the extent that heavy vehicles had to be parked on sheets of plywood or they'd sink. Apparently 30 years or so before that in the late 40s there was a similar heatwave. Gosh, I wonder if it's a cyclical thing, possibly related to sunspots with their 11-year period?
Not really, since the brake servo holds a fairly large amount of air (and thus vacuum). On a car not equipped with auto start/stop, switch the engine off and press the pedal. After at least three or four depressions, the pedal will start to stiffen up - that's the vacuum gone. The brakes still work, you just have to press harder.
In a related way, the old Citroens (slashdot coders please fix extended characters) that use hydraulic systems for the steering, brakes and suspension *do* lose hydraulic power when the engine stops, but there is an accumulator sphere (a green metal ball containing a bubble of gas trapped by a rubber sheet, which is compressed by the hydraulic oil) which powers the brakes for a couple of dozen applications with the engine off. I've driven a Citroen XM (quite a big heavy car) with a broken hydraulic pump belt for around 40 miles - the "Low Pressure" light came on immediately, and the "No really, you have to stop *now*" light came on after about 35 miles. Obviously there was no power-assisted steering and the suspension was slowly sinking (pressure from the rear suspension drives the rear brakes, so that when the car is lightly loaded the braking force is reduced). With no pressure at all the brakes do not work at all, which makes tow-starting one that has sat for a few weeks quite entertaining.
It depends on the gearbox. On most that don't have electronically-controlled selector valves, it will turn the engine once you're above a certain speed.
If it's stuck in gear, you won't lose the power steering since the engine will be getting turned by the momentum of the car.
If you turn the key off, you won't lock the steering. The lock only comes on when you pull the key right out. If you manage to do this by accident, put the key back in and turn it to accessory.
It's called a cutdown device. It activates at a specific altitude. If the balloon doesn't reach that altitude, or for that matter a high enough altitude for the balloon to burst, then it won't fire and won't cut down the payload.
As opposed to the US's libel laws, where the person with the most money can say anything they like about you and then financially cripple you with lawyer's fees if you complain?
Oh, and in the UK we have far stronger privacy laws than the US, where you are basically forced to give any company you want to deal with enough information to assemble an identity theft kit, which they are then free to pass on to anyone they feel like.
I'm more than happy to let them have this, just as long as we also have a black box on our politicians. All addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, financial information and physical location for all the politicians, publically available, all the time.
If they've nothing to hide, they've nothing to worry about.
I don't really see what the US can do about it. If you don't like it, stop bumming rides off us. Go and find someone else to help you lift your payloads into space, now that you have no viable launch vehicles. How are things between you and Iran these days? I hear they're making great progress towards reliable LEO delivery.
I've never really found graphics tablets to be in any way useful for vector work. Also, it's not so much "whip your mouse cursor to the top left", it's move to the top left, wait a few seconds while it decides to do something about it, wait a few more seconds while the windows whoosh randomly about the screen, work out which window you want from the tiny blurry thumbnail, click to select it, click again, and wait a few more seconds while they all whoosh about some more.
That, and the stomach-churningly eyestrain-inducing drop shadows pretty much killed Gnome 3 for me.
After getting rid of the silly menubar-at-the-top thing (one of the biggest misfeatures of Mac OS that makes it so hard to use) and putting the window buttons back where they're supposed to be, I found Unity to be quite good.
Gnome 3 is unusable unless you've got a keyboard with a Windows key (so that's my IBM Model M out, then), and it has seemingly been deliberately designed to be impossible for left-handed people to use effectively. If I'm doing graphics work, I don't want to have to keep taking my hand off the mouse to switch windows.
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... on "leaking" things to the world by leaving prototypes (or pre-release models) in bars and then stirring up an immense media circus.
You build to suit the prevailing conditions. Here on the west coast of Scotland, we don't build to withstand earthquakes but we do build to withstand regular 140mph winds.
Maybe they'll stop putting the images out as .iso files that force you to jump through all sorts of hoops to write them to a USB stick, then.
Well you can do meteor scatter without any predictions - you just keep transmitting a burst and seeing if you get a reply.
If you knew in advance roughly when and where it was going to deorbit you wouldn't need *much* more than that to work it.
... might very well be usable for "meteor" scatter. I wonder if anyone tried it?
In that case, UNESCO should probably kick the warmongering Israelis out too, *again*.
You could fit Visicalc into the codespace of an Arduino. Good luck fitting much of a spreadsheet and the systems variables into 2K of RAM though.
You could probably do this with extended attributes and then something like inotify to watch when a file has an expiry date set. Every so often a cron job would check if something has passed its expiry date and delete or archive it.
For the monopoly of FEDERAL government, the only solution is to allow the market work, regardless of the circumstances.
You're falling into the trap of thinking that a free market is universally a Good Thing, and it is - up to a point. The free market works well for goods and services when you're dealing with many suppliers up to about the size and importance of a burger van. You can't really have too many burger vans, and in any case the ones that are too expensive, not very good, or only open at weird times won't last long anyway.
For things like the emergency services, where you tend to only have one large supplier of services (how many fire departments do you have in your town?) private industry doesn't work well. There isn't enough competition to drive out poor operating, and the moment you make something privately run the quality of service always drops to the barest minimum that the company can get away with. All the money goes to the shareholders, with the merest trickle diverted to keeping the customers happy.
Look at healthcare in the US, where you pay more in "health insurance" - which always has a slightly protection-rackety ring to it - than most people in Europe pay in taxes for socialised healthcare. In the US even a quick visit to the doctor costs a fortune, and a serious injury can leave you financially crippled if you pay for it. If you don't pay for it, you don't get anything more than the most basic of healthcare - stitched up and thrown on the street.
Compare that with the UK, where you have a choice between socialised healthcare or private healthcare. If you want socialised healthcare, then there may be a bit of a wait. The NHS has been brought to the brink of collapse by 30 years of right-wing misrule and the introduction of an excessive amount of privately-run sub-services like cleaners and caterers. All the same, you'll get your treatment, to a high standard and free.
Or you could go private, for a similar experience to the US. You'll get your surgery right away, as long as you don't mind taking out a second mortgage to pay for a stay in an inadequately-cleaned hospital, with antiquated equipment, and nursing staff from former Eastern Bloc countries who speak no English and are paid around the same as Burger King employees.
Your choice.
How can you say "not according to the science"?
You look at weather records and you'll see that in the late 70s and early 80s we had some incredible heatwaves. I was around to remember them, and the records tie in with my recollection of it.
I have to take other people's word for it that there were record-breaking heatwaves in the late 1940s and early 1950s, because I wasn't around. My parents were, and people the same age as them. So were people who actually kept records of weather conditions.
So, according to "the science", there were in fact really ridiculous heatwaves about 30 and about 60 years ago. Science works. Leave the Magic Carbon Pixie out of it.
That is the opposite of the conclusion reached by these two papers. The papers found that the events in these regions are more likely with the current warming, and would not likely have occurred if it were not for the recent warming.
I wish the Magic Carbon Pixie believers would get their story straight, then.
When the weather is unseasonably cold or wet, "weather isn't climate". When the weather is unseasonably warm, "the weather is affected by climate change".
Which is it? For the record, the weather is pretty much the same as it was 30 years ago when we had record-breaking heatwaves in the late 70s and early 80s. I remember one heatwave when it was so hot even up here at 58 degrees north that the tarmac on the roads began melting to the extent that heavy vehicles had to be parked on sheets of plywood or they'd sink. Apparently 30 years or so before that in the late 40s there was a similar heatwave. Gosh, I wonder if it's a cyclical thing, possibly related to sunspots with their 11-year period?
You don't need to. It's Italian, just wait for its own electrical system to do the job.
Not really, since the brake servo holds a fairly large amount of air (and thus vacuum). On a car not equipped with auto start/stop, switch the engine off and press the pedal. After at least three or four depressions, the pedal will start to stiffen up - that's the vacuum gone. The brakes still work, you just have to press harder.
In a related way, the old Citroens (slashdot coders please fix extended characters) that use hydraulic systems for the steering, brakes and suspension *do* lose hydraulic power when the engine stops, but there is an accumulator sphere (a green metal ball containing a bubble of gas trapped by a rubber sheet, which is compressed by the hydraulic oil) which powers the brakes for a couple of dozen applications with the engine off. I've driven a Citroen XM (quite a big heavy car) with a broken hydraulic pump belt for around 40 miles - the "Low Pressure" light came on immediately, and the "No really, you have to stop *now*" light came on after about 35 miles. Obviously there was no power-assisted steering and the suspension was slowly sinking (pressure from the rear suspension drives the rear brakes, so that when the car is lightly loaded the braking force is reduced). With no pressure at all the brakes do not work at all, which makes tow-starting one that has sat for a few weeks quite entertaining.
It depends on the gearbox. On most that don't have electronically-controlled selector valves, it will turn the engine once you're above a certain speed.
If it's stuck in gear, you won't lose the power steering since the engine will be getting turned by the momentum of the car.
If you turn the key off, you won't lock the steering. The lock only comes on when you pull the key right out. If you manage to do this by accident, put the key back in and turn it to accessory.
I'll just leave this here...
It's called a cutdown device. It activates at a specific altitude. If the balloon doesn't reach that altitude, or for that matter a high enough altitude for the balloon to burst, then it won't fire and won't cut down the payload.
As opposed to the US's libel laws, where the person with the most money can say anything they like about you and then financially cripple you with lawyer's fees if you complain?
Oh, and in the UK we have far stronger privacy laws than the US, where you are basically forced to give any company you want to deal with enough information to assemble an identity theft kit, which they are then free to pass on to anyone they feel like.
So how do you compile that and get it into an FPGA without closed-source tools?
I'm more than happy to let them have this, just as long as we also have a black box on our politicians. All addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, financial information and physical location for all the politicians, publically available, all the time.
If they've nothing to hide, they've nothing to worry about.
I don't really see what the US can do about it. If you don't like it, stop bumming rides off us. Go and find someone else to help you lift your payloads into space, now that you have no viable launch vehicles. How are things between you and Iran these days? I hear they're making great progress towards reliable LEO delivery.
I've never really found graphics tablets to be in any way useful for vector work. Also, it's not so much "whip your mouse cursor to the top left", it's move to the top left, wait a few seconds while it decides to do something about it, wait a few more seconds while the windows whoosh randomly about the screen, work out which window you want from the tiny blurry thumbnail, click to select it, click again, and wait a few more seconds while they all whoosh about some more.
That, and the stomach-churningly eyestrain-inducing drop shadows pretty much killed Gnome 3 for me.
After getting rid of the silly menubar-at-the-top thing (one of the biggest misfeatures of Mac OS that makes it so hard to use) and putting the window buttons back where they're supposed to be, I found Unity to be quite good.
Gnome 3 is unusable unless you've got a keyboard with a Windows key (so that's my IBM Model M out, then), and it has seemingly been deliberately designed to be impossible for left-handed people to use effectively. If I'm doing graphics work, I don't want to have to keep taking my hand off the mouse to switch windows.
Have you tried wicd?
I have, about a year ago. Round about the last time it was updated. It used to be fairly decent, but now it no longer even compiles.
Some of the nicest curries I've ever had have been very mild in terms of heat, but with really intense flavours.
You have to go to a curry shop that doesn't have a "Spicy Brown Glop For White People" menu, though. Get the proper desi stuff.