I used to believe that, until I had a son of my own. From observing my son and his friends, the differences between genders start appearing from about 4 months. Put two babies side by side. The girls will reach out to touch the other baby, boys will ignore them. This is almost universal, of course there are a few exceptions, these are probably the girls who will end up as engineers and the boys who will end up as nurses. My son was always encouraged to play with a range of toys, but by 18 months he was only interested in cars, trains and aeroplanes.
I was under the impression that pal VCRS were made to handle NTSC by slowing down from 30 FPS to 25
No, they just convert the colour representation to PAL and output a PAL signal at 30fps. Older TVs (and some newer cheap 14" and smaller TVs) are simple enough that this just works (with a black band top and bottom due to fewer lines on the screen) and newer TVs are designed for it, adjusting their vertical scan to fit the picture on the screen perfectly.
Pretty much all PAL DVD players will output either PAL60 or NTSC if you put an NTSC disc in (modulo region coding issues), and all but the cheapest PAL TVs these days will handle both.
The question is: do you have to put the following sentence in there too?
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met
If so, any of your customers is free to redistribute all the work you provided.
They are free to distribute the work that is released under the BSD license. They are not free to distribute any modifications to that work that you choose to release under a more restrictive license. If they can't figure out which is which, then they'd best not distribute.
Shorter distances do seem to be measured in metres officially now. There is a ridiculous sign on the canal towpath near the centre of Birmingham that points to Wolverhampton (11m) and Birmingham University (500m).
Factories all over the world need to keep two sets of tools already, as they operate in a global market and most likely have US, Japanese and European machinery installed somewhere. If the US switches to metric, they'll finally be able to switch to one set after any US made machinery (and older British machinery) wears out.
When talking to people I discovered that even though the UK has officially gone metric most people still think in imperial units when it comes to body weight and height, liquid volumes, speeds and distances
I too am living in the UK having grown up in an fully metric country, and as others have said, the UK only changed over properly for weights and measures used for trading a few years ago, and still has road signs in miles/mph, so it is not surprising that people are not yet thinking in metric. Add to that the fact that a lot of equipment still in use is really imperial equipment that got converted to metric, so people are still going around thinking that metric needs lots of decimals where the old system was nice and simple. For example, I'm at an age now where a lot of my friends (and myself) are having babies. The weight the hospital gives you officially is now in kg, and all the babies I know have birth weights with three decimal places, which when you convert them to ounces come out to nice round numbers. This isn't a fault with the metric system, its that the NHS's electronic scales were designed to round to the nearest ounce, and the software has been changed to display a metric weight without changing it to round to the nearest 0.1 or 0.05kg.
What's a quarter of a stone? Or a third? A fifth? Your story about division being more convenient only holds true if you carefully choose which Imperial units to demonstrate it with. Because by far the biggest problem with the Imperial system is its inconsistency.
But think of something like/. here. The ads don't get in the way. But they also let the service continue to be free for me. I won't block/. ads unless they start doing something to get them in my way.
Maybe it's just the way I have Firefox setup then. I basically have the same policy as you of only blocking ads that are excessively annoying. For the past few weeks I've been thinking about blocking slashdot's ads (haven't done it yet though), as the one on the top right of the front page often overlaps the first couple of article summaries, so I can't read them properly without clicking through to the comment pages.
Thank you for confirming that. I thought it was only the crappy implementation my Dell laptop came with. I discovered this when I tried to use the Disk Encryption utility that came with it, and after about 10 minutes churning it gave an estimate of 200 hours remaining just to encrypt a few megs of source code. Luckily there was a Cancel button, which after half an hour had managed to decrypt what got encrypted in the first 10 minutes. It would probably be quicker to brute force the key than use TPM if that experience is anything to go by.
North Korea is at least recognized by the UN and has diplomatic relations with quite a few countries (UK, Italy, Germany and Australia among them) though they are probably isolated enough to qualify as a potential hosting site. But the bulk of the content that TPB are distributing is probably seen as immoral western propaganda by the DPRK authorities, so doing a deal with them might prove difficult.
A better bet might be Luxembourg. According to the CIA factbook, the population is just under half a million. The number of registered Slashdot users is about a million. Unlike Sealand, Luxembourg is already recognised as a nation. Monaco, with only 32K people might be an even better bet.
Does the CIA also mention the fact that Luxembourg is a member of the EU, and thus subject to whatever laws and treaties that implies? Monaco also has treaties with the EU to prevent it becoming a haven for European criminals. I think their best bet would be to move to somewhere that has no diplomatic relations with the outside world but unlike Sealand has a defense force and operates as a normal country, somewhere like Trans-Dniester, South Ossetia or Somaliland.
GSM is GSM, there isn't a newer version of it with a different physical layer. You're probably thinking of UMTS, which is a completely different standard, though most UMTS phones are dual mode UMTS/GSM phones.
Retina scanners are not being held back by patents, they're being held back by the public's perception of retina scanning as being too invasive. I don't expect that will change when the patents expire.
Most charities openly report the percentage of money that is spent on real charity vs administration. For example, the About Us page on redcross.org (American Red Cross) says:
An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and programs.
Around 90% seems to the norm, but note the above quote is in terms of money spent, not received. Many charities invest a proportion of the money they raise, to ensure they always have enough in reserve to cover the one off big events.
In the UK, Paypal is registered as a financial institution since FSA changed the rules a few years ago to bring Paypal and similar institutions under its control, so the situation is probably different here than in the US.
I would assume that Paypal would have to put the money into some form of trust, to protect it from being considered as part of their assets in the event of bankruptcy, takeover or similar event. While Paypal is not regulated as a bank, it does have to comply with some regulations, which you as an individual transferring occasional money between friends don't have to worry about.
Not to mention that Linux is probably the only option that covers ALL of the functionality the article talks about (is there a Windows equivalent of Asterisk?), and as an added bonus it does it all for Free.
Oil is only produced on the surface immediately after roasting for Dark and overroasted beans. Starbucks do have a reputation for overroasting though, so I can only guess that they leave them sitting in a storehouse for a few weeks for the oil to evaporate before putting them on the shelves.
I'm no fan of Starbucks, but oil on the surface of the beans means they're not freshly roasted, as it takes time for the oil to reach the surface after roasting.
Not a good sample really. Half of those haven't put out an album in the last ten years, only a couple have been around for less than ten years, and some of them have been dead longer than that!
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I used to believe that, until I had a son of my own. From observing my son and his friends, the differences between genders start appearing from about 4 months. Put two babies side by side. The girls will reach out to touch the other baby, boys will ignore them. This is almost universal, of course there are a few exceptions, these are probably the girls who will end up as engineers and the boys who will end up as nurses. My son was always encouraged to play with a range of toys, but by 18 months he was only interested in cars, trains and aeroplanes.
There are quite a few p2p TV applications, most of them seem to come from China.
I was under the impression that pal VCRS were made to handle NTSC by slowing down from 30 FPS to 25
No, they just convert the colour representation to PAL and output a PAL signal at 30fps. Older TVs (and some newer cheap 14" and smaller TVs) are simple enough that this just works (with a black band top and bottom due to fewer lines on the screen) and newer TVs are designed for it, adjusting their vertical scan to fit the picture on the screen perfectly.
Pretty much all PAL DVD players will output either PAL60 or NTSC if you put an NTSC disc in (modulo region coding issues), and all but the cheapest PAL TVs these days will handle both.
They are free to distribute the work that is released under the BSD license. They are not free to distribute any modifications to that work that you choose to release under a more restrictive license. If they can't figure out which is which, then they'd best not distribute.
Shorter distances do seem to be measured in metres officially now. There is a ridiculous sign on the canal towpath near the centre of Birmingham that points to Wolverhampton (11m) and Birmingham University (500m).
Factories all over the world need to keep two sets of tools already, as they operate in a global market and most likely have US, Japanese and European machinery installed somewhere. If the US switches to metric, they'll finally be able to switch to one set after any US made machinery (and older British machinery) wears out.
When talking to people I discovered that even though the UK has officially gone metric most people still think in imperial units when it comes to body weight and height, liquid volumes, speeds and distances
I too am living in the UK having grown up in an fully metric country, and as others have said, the UK only changed over properly for weights and measures used for trading a few years ago, and still has road signs in miles/mph, so it is not surprising that people are not yet thinking in metric. Add to that the fact that a lot of equipment still in use is really imperial equipment that got converted to metric, so people are still going around thinking that metric needs lots of decimals where the old system was nice and simple. For example, I'm at an age now where a lot of my friends (and myself) are having babies. The weight the hospital gives you officially is now in kg, and all the babies I know have birth weights with three decimal places, which when you convert them to ounces come out to nice round numbers. This isn't a fault with the metric system, its that the NHS's electronic scales were designed to round to the nearest ounce, and the software has been changed to display a metric weight without changing it to round to the nearest 0.1 or 0.05kg.
What's a quarter of a stone? Or a third? A fifth? Your story about division being more convenient only holds true if you carefully choose which Imperial units to demonstrate it with. Because by far the biggest problem with the Imperial system is its inconsistency.
But think of something like /. here. The ads don't get in the way. But they also let the service continue to be free for me. I won't block /. ads unless they start doing something to get them in my way.
Maybe it's just the way I have Firefox setup then. I basically have the same policy as you of only blocking ads that are excessively annoying. For the past few weeks I've been thinking about blocking slashdot's ads (haven't done it yet though), as the one on the top right of the front page often overlaps the first couple of article summaries, so I can't read them properly without clicking through to the comment pages.
Thank you for confirming that. I thought it was only the crappy implementation my Dell laptop came with. I discovered this when I tried to use the Disk Encryption utility that came with it, and after about 10 minutes churning it gave an estimate of 200 hours remaining just to encrypt a few megs of source code. Luckily there was a Cancel button, which after half an hour had managed to decrypt what got encrypted in the first 10 minutes. It would probably be quicker to brute force the key than use TPM if that experience is anything to go by.
North Korea is at least recognized by the UN and has diplomatic relations with quite a few countries (UK, Italy, Germany and Australia among them) though they are probably isolated enough to qualify as a potential hosting site. But the bulk of the content that TPB are distributing is probably seen as immoral western propaganda by the DPRK authorities, so doing a deal with them might prove difficult.
A better bet might be Luxembourg. According to the CIA factbook, the population is just under half a million. The number of registered Slashdot users is about a million. Unlike Sealand, Luxembourg is already recognised as a nation. Monaco, with only 32K people might be an even better bet.
Does the CIA also mention the fact that Luxembourg is a member of the EU, and thus subject to whatever laws and treaties that implies? Monaco also has treaties with the EU to prevent it becoming a haven for European criminals. I think their best bet would be to move to somewhere that has no diplomatic relations with the outside world but unlike Sealand has a defense force and operates as a normal country, somewhere like Trans-Dniester, South Ossetia or Somaliland.
Newer GSM is built on a CDMA physical layer.
GSM is GSM, there isn't a newer version of it with a different physical layer. You're probably thinking of UMTS, which is a completely different standard, though most UMTS phones are dual mode UMTS/GSM phones.
Retina scanners are not being held back by patents, they're being held back by the public's perception of retina scanning as being too invasive. I don't expect that will change when the patents expire.
It isn't really accurate to call MATLAB a Windows tool. I remember using it on Sun pizza boxes in 1992.
Most charities openly report the percentage of money that is spent on real charity vs administration. For example, the About Us page on redcross.org (American Red Cross) says:
Around 90% seems to the norm, but note the above quote is in terms of money spent, not received. Many charities invest a proportion of the money they raise, to ensure they always have enough in reserve to cover the one off big events.
In the UK, Paypal is registered as a financial institution since FSA changed the rules a few years ago to bring Paypal and similar institutions under its control, so the situation is probably different here than in the US.
I would assume that Paypal would have to put the money into some form of trust, to protect it from being considered as part of their assets in the event of bankruptcy, takeover or similar event. While Paypal is not regulated as a bank, it does have to comply with some regulations, which you as an individual transferring occasional money between friends don't have to worry about.
the Justice Department wouldn't allow AT&T to buy up its old subsidiaries
Isn't it more a case of
Not to mention that Linux is probably the only option that covers ALL of the functionality the article talks about (is there a Windows equivalent of Asterisk?), and as an added bonus it does it all for Free.
None of them predict search engines - because they were a genuine and unexpected innovation.
Nonsense! Web search engines were an obvious adaption of Archie, Veronica and WAIS to the new protocol.
Heat is heat, its all kinetic energy.
Obviously you are very knowledgeable on the subject, using big words like that.
Oil is only produced on the surface immediately after roasting for Dark and overroasted beans. Starbucks do have a reputation for overroasting though, so I can only guess that they leave them sitting in a storehouse for a few weeks for the oil to evaporate before putting them on the shelves.
I'm no fan of Starbucks, but oil on the surface of the beans means they're not freshly roasted, as it takes time for the oil to reach the surface after roasting.
Not a good sample really. Half of those haven't put out an album in the last ten years, only a couple have been around for less than ten years, and some of them have been dead longer than that!