Of course, that assumes that all power plants are coal powered plants that do not attempt reclaim mercury.
Not exactly. It assumes that the coal powered plants are the first ones to have their output reduced if demand drops. It is certainly true that the output of nuclear and hydro plants are more difficult to turn down, though between gas and coal fired plants the choice of which one to turn down probably comes down to which fuel is currently more expensive, and proximity to where the demand is.
If you're talking about the unnatural color balance, then LEDs are no better than fluorescents. If you're talking about the flicker, then you are probably basing your experience on old fluorescent tube fittings that use a magnetic ballast at mains frequency (50-60Hz). Modern compact fluorescent bulbs use a high frequency electronic ballast that eliminates flicker completely.
Those of us unfortunate enough to buy hardware with blue leds on it can share this fact, it's damned annoying.
Visitors often ask me why my near new A/V equipment is in much worse condition than the older stuff. They think the black insulation tape I've got plastered all over the front is holding it together. It's really just there to block the annoying blue lights from burning holes in my retina while I'm trying to watch TV.
I've had my boarding pass marked SSSS at Heathrow. I was flying United to the US though, so it might have been because of the destination country or airline. My ticket was purchased well in advance with my credit card. As far as I could tell, I was picked out of the queue because I was standing behind a woman who looked vaguely middle eastern, and the (American) woman who asked if we were together didn't believe either of us when we both answered "no".
It's not really that stupid if the terrorist keeps on using it. If you know where they've travelled, you can fit it to CCTV data, and see what they look like. Then, next time they use it, you can apprehend them. It is useful. If worryingly Orwellian.
So there's this terrorist that is unknown to MI5, and if they could just get access to everyone's Oyster data they'd figure out who he is? Sounds far fetched to me. Does this mean that everyone who travels to/from Finsbury Park at a certain time on Fridays is going to get their door smashed in, or perhaps followed onto the tube one day and shot 11 times in the head at point blank range?
Only it isn't. They are tracking user activity beyond the websites that use Phorm for their advertising, and even if they were to limit it to those websites, there is still dubious data sharing going on which is probably illegal in the UK if it is not opt-in.
Metro Cards are easy to get; there are vending machines throughout the NY subway system. Oyster cards are difficult to purchase; there are just a few major stations with ticket windows.
Every tube station on the network has ticket windows.
With all due respect, your link uses the above factors to skew the numbers.
Yes, and most of that skewing is in favour of the US, and yet they still come out near the bottom. In the table after that one, they skew the figures even more, and the US comes out near the middle.
"but those studies invariably count things like immigrants sending money home to their family"
Why wouldn't that be counted?
Because it isn't aid. It's individuals keeping their money in the family.
You can make up hypothetical situations as much as you like, the fact is that if a library is useful, and there has been a GPLed library available for years, then someone somewhere will be selling a commercial library that does the same thing, which you can use in your proprietary project. Even if that were not true, there is no sense in crying about the fact that you can't profit from other people's software without giving something back.
The USA is by far the most generous nation regarding giving to the world's poor.
This meme is simply not true. Most developed countries donate more to the world outside their borders' poor both in government and private donations [1]. There are some studies that show private "aid" from the US as being some ridiculous multiple of government aid, but those studies invariably count things like immigrants sending money home to their family, and venture capital. As far as real aid goes, 90% of the money genuinely donated by generous Americans never makes it out of the country (other countries have welfare systems that take care of much of what US charities end up doing).
I think you mean the port towns where the factory ships are based. The hunting takes place in the Southern Ocean, thousands of miles from any Japanese village.
rice that is so expensive to grow in Japan it makes no economical sense.
It makes perfect economic sense for a nation to be self sufficient in the basic necessities for keeping the population alive. Especially when you consider the historical context that a little over 60 years ago the nation faced a US blockade which led to war, and 100 years prior to that had been closed to the world for centuries. The cold war is still recent history, and they had every reason to believe they could be cut off again (having Russia, China and North Korea as your nearest neighbours makes a difference), and the current leadership of the US is still doing their best to convince the world that we are still under threat from OMG!!! EVIL TERRISTS!!!!
When considering the case of a sole developer (for example, me), can I legally revoke the agreement if I wish to do further work proprietary?
If you are the sole developer, you could certainly use a different license for future releases containing your further work, if that is what you mean. Under the GPL you are still the exclusive copyright holder, and you can do what you like with the code, including distributing it under different terms at whim. I doubt you could successfully revoke licenses already issued though. Perhaps the difference between the yes and no answers you have heard revolve around the interpretation of whether "revoke the agreement if I wish to do further work proprietary" only applies to future licenses or past ones too.
1) Israel has finally abandoned the idea of driving the Palestinians out of the territories in order to annex them. That happened under Sharon who for all his faults and corruption has probably contributed most to prospects for peace of any Israeli PM since Rabin. Under Sharon, Israel has shifted an idea of borders back to the Green Line ('67 borders). It is unlikely that a final solution will look much different than those borders.
Why then, was approval granted just last week for expansion of yet another West Bank settlement? It just seems to be a case of say one thing to please the US and UN, and do another to bait the Palestinians so you can justify another military incursion into Gaza.
From the point of view of a business connection, you did need a special line - a direct analog line. Many business switchboards in the early 90s were connected to the exchange digitally via ISDN, and even if they were connected via analog, the internal phone network could be digital, or switched through the switchboard digitally so the signal from analog modems would not make it though unscathed. The ISP guy should have known this and given you a straight answer, particularly since in the early 1990's ISPs were generally run and staffed by people that were doing it for the love of it, not because they saw a quick buck, so they were generally quite knowledgeable about even the most minor details (AOL excepted).
Some media stories surrounding the announcement by the European Union that they were looking at Roaming charges suggested that the high price of data services cross-subsidises lower voice and SMS costs.
I doubt it. SMS at 20 cents per 160 bytes works out to be a lot more of a cash cow for the networks than 3G data, even at 10 euros per Mb, and I doubt the networks get enough volume at that price for data to provide a non-negligible subsidy for voice. The EU needs to get stuck in to the providers for their data charges. At advertised data rates (which admittedly you are never going to get anywhere near), they amount to about 500 euro per minute, and you can double or triple that once you start roaming.
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We already have a classification that fits. Trojan.
Not exactly. It assumes that the coal powered plants are the first ones to have their output reduced if demand drops. It is certainly true that the output of nuclear and hydro plants are more difficult to turn down, though between gas and coal fired plants the choice of which one to turn down probably comes down to which fuel is currently more expensive, and proximity to where the demand is.
If you're talking about the unnatural color balance, then LEDs are no better than fluorescents. If you're talking about the flicker, then you are probably basing your experience on old fluorescent tube fittings that use a magnetic ballast at mains frequency (50-60Hz). Modern compact fluorescent bulbs use a high frequency electronic ballast that eliminates flicker completely.
Visitors often ask me why my near new A/V equipment is in much worse condition than the older stuff. They think the black insulation tape I've got plastered all over the front is holding it together. It's really just there to block the annoying blue lights from burning holes in my retina while I'm trying to watch TV.
You mean the odds are not 100%? How do you survive over there, you must end up with excess levels of blood in your alcohol system, surely?
I've never published any peer reviewed papers, and I drink plenty of beer, so it must be true [burp].
Paris Hilton was out of town on the day they did the survey.
I've had my boarding pass marked SSSS at Heathrow. I was flying United to the US though, so it might have been because of the destination country or airline. My ticket was purchased well in advance with my credit card. As far as I could tell, I was picked out of the queue because I was standing behind a woman who looked vaguely middle eastern, and the (American) woman who asked if we were together didn't believe either of us when we both answered "no".
So there's this terrorist that is unknown to MI5, and if they could just get access to everyone's Oyster data they'd figure out who he is? Sounds far fetched to me. Does this mean that everyone who travels to/from Finsbury Park at a certain time on Fridays is going to get their door smashed in, or perhaps followed onto the tube one day and shot 11 times in the head at point blank range?
Only it isn't. They are tracking user activity beyond the websites that use Phorm for their advertising, and even if they were to limit it to those websites, there is still dubious data sharing going on which is probably illegal in the UK if it is not opt-in.
Every tube station on the network has ticket windows.
Yes, and most of that skewing is in favour of the US, and yet they still come out near the bottom. In the table after that one, they skew the figures even more, and the US comes out near the middle.
Because it isn't aid. It's individuals keeping their money in the family.
You can make up hypothetical situations as much as you like, the fact is that if a library is useful, and there has been a GPLed library available for years, then someone somewhere will be selling a commercial library that does the same thing, which you can use in your proprietary project. Even if that were not true, there is no sense in crying about the fact that you can't profit from other people's software without giving something back.
Isn't collective punishment against the Geneva convention (are you guys in the US still pretending to honor that, I can't remember)?
It's not the only way. You could try spending less on invading other countries.
This meme is simply not true. Most developed countries donate more to the world outside their borders' poor both in government and private donations [1]. There are some studies that show private "aid" from the US as being some ridiculous multiple of government aid, but those studies invariably count things like immigrants sending money home to their family, and venture capital. As far as real aid goes, 90% of the money genuinely donated by generous Americans never makes it out of the country (other countries have welfare systems that take care of much of what US charities end up doing).
I think you mean the port towns where the factory ships are based. The hunting takes place in the Southern Ocean, thousands of miles from any Japanese village.
It makes perfect economic sense for a nation to be self sufficient in the basic necessities for keeping the population alive. Especially when you consider the historical context that a little over 60 years ago the nation faced a US blockade which led to war, and 100 years prior to that had been closed to the world for centuries. The cold war is still recent history, and they had every reason to believe they could be cut off again (having Russia, China and North Korea as your nearest neighbours makes a difference), and the current leadership of the US is still doing their best to convince the world that we are still under threat from OMG!!! EVIL TERRISTS!!!!
If you are the sole developer, you could certainly use a different license for future releases containing your further work, if that is what you mean. Under the GPL you are still the exclusive copyright holder, and you can do what you like with the code, including distributing it under different terms at whim. I doubt you could successfully revoke licenses already issued though. Perhaps the difference between the yes and no answers you have heard revolve around the interpretation of whether "revoke the agreement if I wish to do further work proprietary" only applies to future licenses or past ones too.
Why then, was approval granted just last week for expansion of yet another West Bank settlement? It just seems to be a case of say one thing to please the US and UN, and do another to bait the Palestinians so you can justify another military incursion into Gaza.
Which centuries? The 3rd and the 20th? Because there wasn't a lot of it in between.
From the point of view of a business connection, you did need a special line - a direct analog line. Many business switchboards in the early 90s were connected to the exchange digitally via ISDN, and even if they were connected via analog, the internal phone network could be digital, or switched through the switchboard digitally so the signal from analog modems would not make it though unscathed. The ISP guy should have known this and given you a straight answer, particularly since in the early 1990's ISPs were generally run and staffed by people that were doing it for the love of it, not because they saw a quick buck, so they were generally quite knowledgeable about even the most minor details (AOL excepted).
Perhaps you should start encouraging equal recognition by lobbying management for pay parity with your facilities department.
Most US hotels I've been to have free WiFi in the lobby, but $10 per day in the rooms (provided by T-Mobile or similar).
I doubt it. SMS at 20 cents per 160 bytes works out to be a lot more of a cash cow for the networks than 3G data, even at 10 euros per Mb, and I doubt the networks get enough volume at that price for data to provide a non-negligible subsidy for voice. The EU needs to get stuck in to the providers for their data charges. At advertised data rates (which admittedly you are never going to get anywhere near), they amount to about 500 euro per minute, and you can double or triple that once you start roaming.