I flew Cathay Pacific recently, and they were using Linux for their in-flight entertainment too (my screen was stuck in standby at the start of the flight, so I got to see it reboot).
Use a foreign card in UK, or a UK card overseas. In my recent experience using a UK card in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand, you get a mixture of chip and PIN, chip and sign, swipe and sign and even swipe and PIN, the last of which I thought was never supposed to work with UK cards (it didn't on my last trip to NZ before they rolled out chip capable readers, then I was always asked to sign, or in some cases rejected because the retailer did not accept signing as an option).
A year out of the industry is not going to be looked on favourably by future employers, so even receiving full pay for the duration is not enough compensation for such a restrictive term in my contract. HR normally backs off when you point things out in these terms.
while your former employee is unemployable due to the non compete, you must pay him a compensation for his unemployability. I don't remember how much but it's a certain percentage of the salary.
Anything less than 100% would not be acceptable IMHO.
Sharia law to the extent proposed (I don't think it was the Archbishop who proposed it, he was commenting in support of a proposal from elsewhere - the Muslim Council maybe) is certainly allowed in the UK, as is any non-binding arbitration process between two parties in a civil disagreement, it just doesn't have the backing of the law, so if someone in a civil dispute turns around and refuse to honour the judgement of an Islamic court which they previously consented to hearing their dispute, everything has to start over again in the County Court. The law change proposed would give Islamic courts the same recognition Jewish courts already have (ie, once both parties give consent to hearing in that court, the decision becomes legally binding), so any refusal to accept its judgement would either have to be properly appealed to the High Court or bailiffs could be called in without wasting taxpayers' money on a further County Court trial.
If parallax is a potential source of incorrect results, then the designers of the systems should be doing everything possible to eliminate any bias resulting from it. Randomizing the order of candidates displayed should be enough.
The official city of Paris has 2 million, but the metropolitain area more like 11 million.
London has 7.5 million, and the metropolitain area 13 million.
And to complicate things further, the City of London has a resident population of 7.8 THOUSAND.
I thought copyright violation became exclusively a criminal matter in the US with the introduction of the DMCA. Before that it was only a criminal matter if it involved interstate commerce or the postal system, or something along those lines.
Yes, the conversion to run on a Dalvik VM is an extra step after compiling to.class files. This is similar to the way J2ME KVMs work. But in addition to the actual bytecode, you also need to consider the standard Java class libraries which Jython may rely on, many of which are not present on an Android system.
Yes, word processing is using a computer for the vast majority of business users. But these battery figures are usually obtained by measuring the battery life of constant "typical" word processing type usage, measuring the battery life of a completely idle system with the screen, wifi and other subsystems off and the CPU running at its slowest clock rate without actually being in sleep mode, then averaging them - on the basis that users do not constantly use their PCs. So with recent advances in reducing the power consumption at idle, these figures are becoming increasingly unrealistic.
"Contract manufacturers can generally produce computers more cheaply because their entire operations are narrowly focused on finding efficiencies in manufacturing..."
Efficiencies like employing 12 year olds to work 16 hour days in the factory, and other practices that are difficult for a US brand-name company to get away with without distancing themselves through outsourcing.
I remember switching first to Excite, then Hotbot, then Altavista as my regular search engine before I started using Google. By the time Google came out, Altavista had deteriorated to the point where I was revisiting hotbot and excite, or using one of the Meta search engines for normal searches. Until Google brought out image search, hotbot still had its place, as it let you restrict searches to particular media types (I mainly used it to search for images, as there just wasn't that much interesting video and audio content around; unless you were searching for porn).
Altavista rocked when it first started, not because its search results were any better than Lycos, Excite, Hotbot and others of the time, but because it was fast. Google rocked when I first started using it (in 2000 IIRC) for the same reason, and because the front page was free of the ads and portal baggage that had started to invade search engines by then.
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"Little Johnny Flashed his bits on youtube".
Or did you have a different Abobe product in mind?
BluRay has already been superseded. By BitTorrent for distribution and hard drive space for storage. Once the studios catch up and start distributing legal content the same way, BluRay will die a natural death.
Then they might have a defence against trademark infringement. If the company wants to throw lawyers at them anyway, they might not be able to afford to fight it, and if they're using the domain in bad faith (nothing but a page of ads, passing their page off as the company, or using it purely to badmouth the company), that defence might not work.
It's pretty much assumed that the high diesel standards was a play by the US automakers to keep European diesel technology out of consumer vehicles.
My understanding is that it was not the European diesel technology that could not meet US emissions standards for passenger cars, but the type of diesel available in the US. In Europe ultra low sulphur diesel has been standard for a number of years, and manufacturers design their cars for that, but it has only been available in the US since last year.
GNOME - the graphical environment, and gstreamer - the multimedia encoding/decoding subsystem? (maybe the latter is not a GNU project though, I'm not sure).
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I flew Cathay Pacific recently, and they were using Linux for their in-flight entertainment too (my screen was stuck in standby at the start of the flight, so I got to see it reboot).
Use a foreign card in UK, or a UK card overseas. In my recent experience using a UK card in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand, you get a mixture of chip and PIN, chip and sign, swipe and sign and even swipe and PIN, the last of which I thought was never supposed to work with UK cards (it didn't on my last trip to NZ before they rolled out chip capable readers, then I was always asked to sign, or in some cases rejected because the retailer did not accept signing as an option).
A year out of the industry is not going to be looked on favourably by future employers, so even receiving full pay for the duration is not enough compensation for such a restrictive term in my contract. HR normally backs off when you point things out in these terms.
Anything less than 100% would not be acceptable IMHO.
Sharia law to the extent proposed (I don't think it was the Archbishop who proposed it, he was commenting in support of a proposal from elsewhere - the Muslim Council maybe) is certainly allowed in the UK, as is any non-binding arbitration process between two parties in a civil disagreement, it just doesn't have the backing of the law, so if someone in a civil dispute turns around and refuse to honour the judgement of an Islamic court which they previously consented to hearing their dispute, everything has to start over again in the County Court. The law change proposed would give Islamic courts the same recognition Jewish courts already have (ie, once both parties give consent to hearing in that court, the decision becomes legally binding), so any refusal to accept its judgement would either have to be properly appealed to the High Court or bailiffs could be called in without wasting taxpayers' money on a further County Court trial.
If parallax is a potential source of incorrect results, then the designers of the systems should be doing everything possible to eliminate any bias resulting from it. Randomizing the order of candidates displayed should be enough.
And to complicate things further, the City of London has a resident population of 7.8 THOUSAND.
I thought copyright violation became exclusively a criminal matter in the US with the introduction of the DMCA. Before that it was only a criminal matter if it involved interstate commerce or the postal system, or something along those lines.
Yes, the conversion to run on a Dalvik VM is an extra step after compiling to .class files. This is similar to the way J2ME KVMs work. But in addition to the actual bytecode, you also need to consider the standard Java class libraries which Jython may rely on, many of which are not present on an Android system.
I think it's fairly clear from the list of points raised that the GP is a Daily Mail reader, unaware of the existence of other newspapers.
There are standards for interfacing to automotive computers. So yes, it is simple.
Surely the Stasi is still fresh in some Germans' minds (though admittedly not those in Bavaria).
Clinton launched attacks Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998. OK, they weren't full out war, but they were attacks on a sovereign country.
Yes, word processing is using a computer for the vast majority of business users. But these battery figures are usually obtained by measuring the battery life of constant "typical" word processing type usage, measuring the battery life of a completely idle system with the screen, wifi and other subsystems off and the CPU running at its slowest clock rate without actually being in sleep mode, then averaging them - on the basis that users do not constantly use their PCs. So with recent advances in reducing the power consumption at idle, these figures are becoming increasingly unrealistic.
No, they take their inputs from Bloomberg. There was a chain of events here, not just the all powerful Google.
As long as you want to keep paying money to whoever is selling you international patents, plots on the moon and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Efficiencies like employing 12 year olds to work 16 hour days in the factory, and other practices that are difficult for a US brand-name company to get away with without distancing themselves through outsourcing.
I remember switching first to Excite, then Hotbot, then Altavista as my regular search engine before I started using Google. By the time Google came out, Altavista had deteriorated to the point where I was revisiting hotbot and excite, or using one of the Meta search engines for normal searches. Until Google brought out image search, hotbot still had its place, as it let you restrict searches to particular media types (I mainly used it to search for images, as there just wasn't that much interesting video and audio content around; unless you were searching for porn).
Altavista rocked when it first started, not because its search results were any better than Lycos, Excite, Hotbot and others of the time, but because it was fast. Google rocked when I first started using it (in 2000 IIRC) for the same reason, and because the front page was free of the ads and portal baggage that had started to invade search engines by then.
"Little Johnny Flashed his bits on youtube".
Or did you have a different Abobe product in mind?
BluRay has already been superseded. By BitTorrent for distribution and hard drive space for storage. Once the studios catch up and start distributing legal content the same way, BluRay will die a natural death.
Then they might have a defence against trademark infringement. If the company wants to throw lawyers at them anyway, they might not be able to afford to fight it, and if they're using the domain in bad faith (nothing but a page of ads, passing their page off as the company, or using it purely to badmouth the company), that defence might not work.
My understanding is that it was not the European diesel technology that could not meet US emissions standards for passenger cars, but the type of diesel available in the US. In Europe ultra low sulphur diesel has been standard for a number of years, and manufacturers design their cars for that, but it has only been available in the US since last year.
No, I'm suggesting that calculating your marginal tax rate is not always as simple as looking at just the income tax rate bands.
GNOME - the graphical environment, and gstreamer - the multimedia encoding/decoding subsystem? (maybe the latter is not a GNU project though, I'm not sure).