You don't seem to understand that if you don't pay for it yourself, they subsidies will cost you 50% more at least, as you not only have to pay the taxes to run the train, but for the bureaucrats who distribute the subsidy and prevent fraud. Not to mention the fraud itself.
Multiply that times tens of thousands of subsidies, and you wonder why western economies are all floundering?
You do realise the trucking industry in the U.S. is subsidised by a mostly free interstate highway system?
I know, it's madness. I guess it depends on your model / philosophy of how a country should be run. Current ConDem government seems to follow the Tory line that trains should be run at a profit, they are a business.
Prices were extreme before the last election. There are massive discounts for season tickets, but these aren't great if you work a mixture of peak and off peak, or only do a few days a week. The current train fare structure encourages 9-5 m-f working.
I live in a railway town and they'd love it if the government announced we need hundreds of new railway carriages built here, need to open up some mothballed steelworks and start turning out new rail lines, get loads of construction workers building improved bridges and tracks etc.
Building infrastructure is a great way out of a recession, as long as you can afford to borrow to build it (the last government screwed that one up by borrowing to pay for non-infrastructural projects when we were in a boom). That infrastructure could be rail, road, power, even new cities.
More importantly, modern VSAT equipment is moderately portable (e.g. in a small vehicle). You can break it down in about 10 minutes and set it up again in about 20.
A bgan is the size of a netbook. If you can get them into the country (no problem in Libya, but Tunisa was hard for journalists -- there was a room in customs with them piled to the ceiling) you're set.
Looks like Microsoft is hitting at the wrong target audience. A lot of IE6 usage comes from corporations, which build many of their intranet applications to work with it (often using ActiveX). There's a *lot* of crappy code out there, which is not easy to migrate. Still those applications are mission critical. So those corporations are stuck with IE6 on the client computers. And of course those users browse not only their intranet with IE6 but the internet as well.
The solution is to disable proxy use by IE, and have Firefox installed for normal browsing.
yeah, with sudo you just do "sudo -s". now you have a nice rootshell, without any further logging and without the need to redecide if sudo is needed on every command. no big advantage to su. but its easier to revoce access of one user without telling all users a new password.
Sure, but then anyone with physical access to the machine can always log in. If you tell people to use sudo when they need to, the number of instances of this is reduced, and you can identify how something was broken.
Sudo (and it's logging) is there to learn from accidental cockups. You already trust the people.
I've noticed a few article lately about how 'real men' login as root at all times
No, they don't. They only do that when they need it, and have configured their systems so they rarely need it.
Indeed, because they have sudo.
Two options 1) Let everyone with a business need to access the box have the root password for cases when they really do need it. In reality, they su to root as soon as they log in. 2) Let everyone with a business need to access the box have unfettered sudo access. This way you can see what mayhem they've caused in the log files.
In my line of work, we've got better things to do than defend boxes against incompetent engineers. If you've got a logon to the box, you should be trustworthy enough to know what you're doing.
As we (IT folks) all found out last time we changed DST, it is NOT just an OS patch.
Yes, as we (IT folks that have a scope more than one increasingly insignificant country) find out every year. Oct 2009 for example, caused fun for servers based on local time Argentina.
Personally I only need to watch out for DST changes on servers in 20 timezones, so it doesn't even happen every year. An OS update should patch things like java as well. Normally you get plenty of warning (tzinfo was updated for the upcoming Egypt/Pallestine changes last year), occasionally you get Argentina.
Of course our systems and workflows are completely based in GMT, we just use localtime for display, so people are aware to check GMT if their local timezone has changed.
If you have an obsolete UScentric view of the world, you may be surprised. Do your system support UTF by any chance?
Could this cause another 'millennium Bug' fiasco?"
If it happened tomorrow? It would cause a few problems. If it happens in March? Probably enough time to fix it. If it happens in October or later, no problem. There's usually somewhere in the rest of the world changes their DST policies on a yearly basis -- I believe parts of the U.S. changed in the last year or two.
It's an OS patch which you wouldn't even notice, a new tzdata file or similar.
Or worse, when the Reavers were occupying the space between planet Miranda and the other nearby colony? Seriously, there were enough reavers to blockade "space"? Their lasers might as well go "pew-pew" for all the realism in the blockade.
Well people aren't jumping over themselves to go anywhere near Somalia. It's only because there's little in the way of alternatives they do.
Now multiply the pirates up by a couple of orders of magnitude, close the suez, and remove any military in the area. Who's going to bother then?
Man, do you people think or do any research at all? Or do you just like trolling?
Mozilla Firefox (~30% of the browser market share) will never have support for H.264. Never. Chrome (~11% of browser market share) no longer supports H.264.
H.264 cannot be the standard for HTML5 video because it is not royalty-free.
That's why WebM is a big deal.
Back in the days when browsers were starting to embed images, were gif and jpeg royalty free? Or did we just live in a simpler time before patent trolls.
In any case, both Chrome and Firefox on windows support h264 thanks to Microsoft's meddling, I fear that h264 will be the standard. Still, not exactly worse than flash-with-h264.
You don't need a gun to kill. You only need your bare hands or a well-placed kick. QED it's not the gun or knife or blunt instrument that kills - it's the owner of the hands/legs
People kill.
You don't need a person to kill. Animals and acts of god can kill without the person, the only constant is the person being killed. QED it's not the person that kills, but the victim.
I've been dying to have access to BBC World streaming, but apparently being in the US prevents me from receiving European propaganda.
BBC World is a commercial channel, its funding comes from advertising and distribution contracts in many regions. American cable companies pay the BBC to carry BBC World, streaming it to the public over the internet would hinder future negotiations.
Likewise, streaming the domestic BBC News channel would impact this, however has the additional problem that sometimes the domestic channel broadcasts things from wires that the BBC only has UK rights for.
Assuming from the outset (as you seem to) that all religion is inherently false,
Given the number of contradictory religions, and contradictory views on those religions, it's a good assumption. Only one can be right, and whatever religion or truth is right, we almost certainly don't have the answer.
They tax fuel in many states, ostensibly for this reason. It's not exactly even because if I own a motorcycle that gets 60MPG I am not paying the same per mile traveled. However, I am arguably doing less damage to the road as well.
Free? Where's the profit in that? In Germany we recently had an increase from 8€ to 29€ (plus another 8-16€ for pictures that can only be used for IDs) for our ID card, which is mandatory to have by law. Just imagine the benefits to businesses with ties to corrupt politicians if they can force citizens to pay them as much as they want by law!
If it's mandatory, then it's a tax. In this case, a flat tax (which hurts the lower paid more)
However NFC chips don't actually save time. If you stop watch an NFC swipe versus a CC swipe you would realize your still waiting for the cashier(yes even the robotic ones) more than the transaction.
Most countries outside the USA require some form of verification on a credit card. Last century it was a signature, which was checked against the card. In the modern age it's a pin number, which is theoretically more secure (but is almost as flawed as the u.s. signature method)
NFC, at least in the UK, is used for small transactions -- newspapers, coffee, tube. Replacing debit card payments with this for these types of low risk transactions is a good thing. Reducing the number of times you enter a pin means you're reducing the number of times your pin can be stolen. It's much faster too.
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False testimony/libel is saying "mr. teacher x is a pedophile".
How about "I think mr. teacher x is a paedophile"?
Or howeabout a newspaper headline stating
Mr teacher x is "is paedophile"
You don't seem to understand that if you don't pay for it yourself, they subsidies will cost you 50% more at least, as you not only have to pay the taxes to run the train, but for the bureaucrats who distribute the subsidy and prevent fraud. Not to mention the fraud itself.
Multiply that times tens of thousands of subsidies, and you wonder why western economies are all floundering?
You do realise the trucking industry in the U.S. is subsidised by a mostly free interstate highway system?
I know, it's madness. I guess it depends on your model / philosophy of how a country should be run. Current ConDem government seems to follow the Tory line that trains should be run at a profit, they are a business.
Prices were extreme before the last election. There are massive discounts for season tickets, but these aren't great if you work a mixture of peak and off peak, or only do a few days a week. The current train fare structure encourages 9-5 m-f working.
I live in a railway town and they'd love it if the government announced we need hundreds of new railway carriages built here, need to open up some mothballed steelworks and start turning out new rail lines, get loads of construction workers building improved bridges and tracks etc.
Building infrastructure is a great way out of a recession, as long as you can afford to borrow to build it (the last government screwed that one up by borrowing to pay for non-infrastructural projects when we were in a boom). That infrastructure could be rail, road, power, even new cities.
Petrol not so cheap these days...
Here in the UK, my local petrol (gasoline) station petrol costs 1.30 a litre, that's 8.03 US dollars / US gallon
(3.79 litres to a US gallon, 1.63 dollars to the GB pound).
My wife and I commute to work, it costs £57 on the train for the 2 of us in peak, or £13 in petrol.
It only makes sense to get the train if only one of us goes in, and only then if it's off peak (£18)
BINGO
More importantly, modern VSAT equipment is moderately portable (e.g. in a small vehicle). You can break it down in about 10 minutes and set it up again in about 20.
A bgan is the size of a netbook. If you can get them into the country (no problem in Libya, but Tunisa was hard for journalists -- there was a room in customs with them piled to the ceiling) you're set.
Looks like Microsoft is hitting at the wrong target audience. A lot of IE6 usage comes from corporations, which build many of their intranet applications to work with it (often using ActiveX). There's a *lot* of crappy code out there, which is not easy to migrate. Still those applications are mission critical. So those corporations are stuck with IE6 on the client computers. And of course those users browse not only their intranet with IE6 but the internet as well.
The solution is to disable proxy use by IE, and have Firefox installed for normal browsing.
what do you mean more efficient at heating?
a 40W lamp in an enclosed, opaque space is exactly as efficient as a 40W heater in that same enclosed space.
It's also exactly as efficient as a 40W CFL (the later is more dangerous and less useful as a light source of course)
yeah, with sudo you just do "sudo -s". now you have a nice rootshell, without any further logging and without the need to redecide if sudo is needed on every command.
no big advantage to su. but its easier to revoce access of one user without telling all users a new password.
Sure, but then anyone with physical access to the machine can always log in. If you tell people to use sudo when they need to, the number of instances of this is reduced, and you can identify how something was broken.
Sudo (and it's logging) is there to learn from accidental cockups. You already trust the people.
I've noticed a few article lately about how 'real men' login as root at all times
No, they don't. They only do that when they need it, and have configured their systems so they rarely need it.
Indeed, because they have sudo.
Two options
1) Let everyone with a business need to access the box have the root password for cases when they really do need it. In reality, they su to root as soon as they log in.
2) Let everyone with a business need to access the box have unfettered sudo access. This way you can see what mayhem they've caused in the log files.
In my line of work, we've got better things to do than defend boxes against incompetent engineers. If you've got a logon to the box, you should be trustworthy enough to know what you're doing.
As we (IT folks) all found out last time we changed DST, it is NOT just an OS patch.
Yes, as we (IT folks that have a scope more than one increasingly insignificant country) find out every year. Oct 2009 for example, caused fun for servers based on local time Argentina.
Personally I only need to watch out for DST changes on servers in 20 timezones, so it doesn't even happen every year. An OS update should patch things like java as well. Normally you get plenty of warning (tzinfo was updated for the upcoming Egypt/Pallestine changes last year), occasionally you get Argentina.
Of course our systems and workflows are completely based in GMT, we just use localtime for display, so people are aware to check GMT if their local timezone has changed.
If you have an obsolete UScentric view of the world, you may be surprised. Do your system support UTF by any chance?
Who has a conference at 16:30 in ANY time zone? I mean, that's prime drinking time.
I often have meetings in the Broadcast Apparatus Room at 16:30
Could this cause another 'millennium Bug' fiasco?"
If it happened tomorrow? It would cause a few problems. If it happens in March? Probably enough time to fix it. If it happens in October or later, no problem. There's usually somewhere in the rest of the world changes their DST policies on a yearly basis -- I believe parts of the U.S. changed in the last year or two.
It's an OS patch which you wouldn't even notice, a new tzdata file or similar.
Or worse, when the Reavers were occupying the space between planet Miranda and the other nearby colony? Seriously, there were enough reavers to blockade "space"? Their lasers might as well go "pew-pew" for all the realism in the blockade.
Well people aren't jumping over themselves to go anywhere near Somalia. It's only because there's little in the way of alternatives they do.
Now multiply the pirates up by a couple of orders of magnitude, close the suez, and remove any military in the area. Who's going to bother then?
You know what I hate? People that don't use reply to all, and force me to forward emails I receive. Idiots.
How about people that reply-all to mis-sent wide-reaching emails with "Why have I got this"
Saying BCC is dead because people use facebook is like saying SSH or FTP is dead, because my mom doesn't use either.
Close enough.
When was the last time you saw anyone but the alpha geek use a stand alone FTP client?
Our journalists are continually using ftp, when it works (often doesn't work from hotels). On the otherhand, anyone with a clue uses sftp.
Man, do you people think or do any research at all? Or do you just like trolling?
Mozilla Firefox (~30% of the browser market share) will never have support for H.264. Never.
Chrome (~11% of browser market share) no longer supports H.264.
H.264 cannot be the standard for HTML5 video because it is not royalty-free.
That's why WebM is a big deal.
Back in the days when browsers were starting to embed images, were gif and jpeg royalty free? Or did we just live in a simpler time before patent trolls.
In any case, both Chrome and Firefox on windows support h264 thanks to Microsoft's meddling, I fear that h264 will be the standard. Still, not exactly worse than flash-with-h264.
You don't need a gun to kill. You only need your bare hands or a well-placed kick. QED it's not the gun or knife or blunt instrument that kills - it's the owner of the hands/legs
People kill.
You don't need a person to kill. Animals and acts of god can kill without the person, the only constant is the person being killed. QED it's not the person that kills, but the victim.
I've been dying to have access to BBC World streaming, but apparently being in the US prevents me from receiving European propaganda.
BBC World is a commercial channel, its funding comes from advertising and distribution contracts in many regions. American cable companies pay the BBC to carry BBC World, streaming it to the public over the internet would hinder future negotiations.
Likewise, streaming the domestic BBC News channel would impact this, however has the additional problem that sometimes the domestic channel broadcasts things from wires that the BBC only has UK rights for.
why would you think they would not come after you on wp7?
Would they go after someone that wrote it for the neo geo? There's probably more users of the later.
To these companies: why are you saddling your machines with software that makes it less enjoyable to use?
Because they get paid a fortune to do so
It's like a student cheating on his homework by copying the smart kid. It will only work as long as the smart kid sticks around.
Most kids just google the answer now, I'm not sure how the analogy holds up.
Assuming from the outset (as you seem to) that all religion is inherently false,
Given the number of contradictory religions, and contradictory views on those religions, it's a good assumption. Only one can be right, and whatever religion or truth is right, we almost certainly don't have the answer.
They tax fuel in many states, ostensibly for this reason. It's not exactly even because if I own a motorcycle that gets 60MPG I am not paying the same per mile traveled. However, I am arguably doing less damage to the road as well.
There's no argument about it. Road damage increases by the 4th power per kg axel weight.
Trucks get off easily because
Free? Where's the profit in that? In Germany we recently had an increase from 8€ to 29€ (plus another 8-16€ for pictures that can only be used for IDs) for our ID card, which is mandatory to have by law. Just imagine the benefits to businesses with ties to corrupt politicians if they can force citizens to pay them as much as they want by law!
If it's mandatory, then it's a tax. In this case, a flat tax (which hurts the lower paid more)
However NFC chips don't actually save time. If you stop watch an NFC swipe versus a CC swipe you would realize your still waiting for the cashier(yes even the robotic ones) more than the transaction.
Most countries outside the USA require some form of verification on a credit card. Last century it was a signature, which was checked against the card. In the modern age it's a pin number, which is theoretically more secure (but is almost as flawed as the u.s. signature method)
NFC, at least in the UK, is used for small transactions -- newspapers, coffee, tube. Replacing debit card payments with this for these types of low risk transactions is a good thing. Reducing the number of times you enter a pin means you're reducing the number of times your pin can be stolen. It's much faster too.