Clearly, the submitter doesn't understand the purpose of a consulation in the UK if he thinks this will get the bill thrown out.
The purpose of a public consultation is so that Westminster can tick a box saying "we had a public consultation". If the consultation is favourable, they additionally may say that a bill has public support. If a consultation is negative, the consultation is simply ignored. I've responded to a couple of these consultations and I shan't bother again because they were simply ignored despite volumes of correspondence voicing (often constructive) opposition.
Perhaps a consultation won't be ignored if the majority of the comments are from marginal constituencies, but 19,000 voters can safely be totally ignored if not.
Perl is NOT yesterday. The CPAN is excellent, continues to grow and solves real problems fast.
You may think it's yesterday just because you don't see cgi-bin/foo.pl in URLs any more, but at the back end there's a lot of Perl glue doing important jobs.
Credit cards are fundamentally insecure (the fact you can get money off one by merely knowing the number on the front and the expiry date and a couple of other trivially easy to find bits of information - all of which will be in the whois database). ICANN should think hard - do they really want to be held responsible when the inevitable breach occurs? Do they really want to have to implement PCI-DSS for the networks and systems holding whois data? The decision to hold credit card data in whois is likely to be something that is regretted fairly quickly.
This reads a lot like those future predictions written in 1979 about life in the year 2000... which were hilariously wrong too, perhaps except for one coincidental detail, which in reality turned out to be much more powerful/better/slick than the 1979 prediction reckoned.
I suspect my alarm clock in 15 years will still be the late 1970s clock radio with its green vacuum fluorescent display. I also suspect that there's a pretty decent chance my ride to work will be a bicycle, rather than a car, due to the relentless increase in energy costs.
Where do you get that idea from? Diesel is from a different fraction than gasoline (petrol). One is not an opportunity cost for the other when you refine the oil. You can't "dial back" gasoline to get more diesel and vice versa.
I was at that age during the 80s (left school in 1990). We had a network of BBC Micros (they had a low cost networking technology called Econet - it worked very well - we had an SJ Research fileserver too during the late 80s).
The school itself didn't teach any computer classes at all. They used the computers in the odd class for educational software. The prevailing view amongst the staff were that "computers were for failed mathematicians so we aren't going to teach any computing based GCSE or A levels". The teacher who ran the computer lab seemed to be the only dissenter from this. He made sure that anyone could access the lab during all the school breaks and for a couple of hours after school, so there were a hard core of us in there whenever we could be there - learing 6502 asm (the BBC had a built in assembler!), writing games, that sort of thing. A friend and I wrote a MUD (multi user dungeon) that ran over Econet. We learned a lot, but we got no formal qualifications from this. Fortunately, this didn't actually matter.
Today the school still doesn't teach any computing courses (I don't class as what passes for "IT" in UK schools as computing - IT classes are actually really just office skills classes, how to use Word and Excel, how to type, that kind of thing). They still teach Latin, though. Sigh.
The teacher who ran the lab back then recently sent me the floppy discs I had used back then (I somehow convinced him back in the day to put a disc of mine in the SJ Research fileserver and leave it there, so I would have an 800K disc on the network for my programs - there were no disc drives on any of the machines in the lab). All my discs are still perfectly readable despite being over 20 years old, although I needed to use a program to copy from MDFS-formatted discs to my ADFS based BBC Master. (Generally, I've found 5.25 inch floppies are very reliable, I have many original discs over 25 years old, and they all work)
I'm 40 and I'm learning hardware description language (Verilog) which is about as mindblowingly different to writing C or Java etc. as you can get, but I'm learning it successfully and having a lot of fun doing it.
I also started to learn a foreign language starting at age 36 and I'm now at an advanced level, pushing for fluency soon.
You're never too old to learn, unless you have the defeatist attitude and give up because you think you're too old to learn.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile either. What Henry Ford did is refine it in a certain way (make it so it could be mass produced and available to the masses). Job's Apple refined smartphones in such a way that they were usable to the masses.
For 64 bit you have it the wrong way around - it's Intel who are AMD-compatible (that's why many operating systems still call the architecture amd64, since the x86-64 architecture was from AMD, and not from Intel - Intel being forced to follow AMD when their bet on Itanium failed). So if you want the genuine article for 64-bit, then you ought to be buying AMD.
A motorcycle helmet is a completely different proposition, though. My motorcycle helmet protects a lot more than the very top of my head (for example, it also has some protection for the neck, and of course the sides of the head, the jaw etc), and it is significantly more substantial than a bicycle helmet.
But it would be completely impractical to wear something like a motorcycle helmet for cycling.
But typescript is _open_source_ under a Free (as in freedom) licence, Apache 2.0. How is Microsoft locking anyone in if the actual implementation can be taken and used by anyone?
Sorry, I don't see how this is so, TypeScript is made available under a Free open source software licence (Apache licence). There is no carpet they can pull.
Australia is an oft-cited example. Many Australian territories passed mandatory helmet laws for cycling. Off the top of my head, cycling fell by about 40% in the aftermath, and the injury rate went *up*. (Of course the injury rate may have gone up because the people who were helmet wearers in the first place, and didn't stop cycling, were higher risk takers - and removing the other 40% who were not risk takers from the cycling pool made the accident rate go up - note rate, not absolute value).
Another experiment someone did in Britain was to fit an ultrasonic measuring system to a bicycle to measure how close cars were passing. They tried riding in various different manners, for example further from the kerb (tr.US: curb), with helmet, without helmet, dressed as a woman etc. He found that as a hemetless woman, cars gave him the greatest amount of room, and as a helmeted man, the least amount of room. http://www.drianwalker.com/overtaking/overtakingprobrief.pdf
There's also the theory that the more cyclists on the road, the lower the accident *rate* (absolute numbers may go up) because car drivers are just more used to seeing them. Holland has probably the highest rate of regular cycling, probably the lowest rate of helmet wearing, and probably the lowest cycle accident rate.
In summary, I don't think helmets ever should be made mandatory, and may actually have the unintended consequence of making the remaining cyclists less safe.
Well, perhaps not - if it became public how to transmute sugar into gold, immediately the price of gold would crash and it would be no more valuable than aluminum or iron.
Li-Ion batteries don't actually use a lot of lithium - in my RC heli batteries, the huge ones that are about 4 inches long and 1.5 inches deep/high only contain about 8 grams of lithium.
If they find anything, it's likely to be unicellular. Multicellular life on Earth took billions of years to appear, and we think surface water on Mars disappeared an awful long time ago - probably not giving time for anything more complex than bacteria to appear.
To pick a nit (I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just being pedantic), sugar in Europe is often (mostly?) from sugar beets. Cane sugar for instance doesn't grow in Britain, but sugar beet grows fine.
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Clearly, the submitter doesn't understand the purpose of a consulation in the UK if he thinks this will get the bill thrown out.
The purpose of a public consultation is so that Westminster can tick a box saying "we had a public consultation". If the consultation is favourable, they additionally may say that a bill has public support. If a consultation is negative, the consultation is simply ignored. I've responded to a couple of these consultations and I shan't bother again because they were simply ignored despite volumes of correspondence voicing (often constructive) opposition.
Perhaps a consultation won't be ignored if the majority of the comments are from marginal constituencies, but 19,000 voters can safely be totally ignored if not.
Well except that reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is allowed by the DMCA.
Perl is NOT yesterday. The CPAN is excellent, continues to grow and solves real problems fast.
You may think it's yesterday just because you don't see cgi-bin/foo.pl in URLs any more, but at the back end there's a lot of Perl glue doing important jobs.
Credit cards are fundamentally insecure (the fact you can get money off one by merely knowing the number on the front and the expiry date and a couple of other trivially easy to find bits of information - all of which will be in the whois database). ICANN should think hard - do they really want to be held responsible when the inevitable breach occurs? Do they really want to have to implement PCI-DSS for the networks and systems holding whois data? The decision to hold credit card data in whois is likely to be something that is regretted fairly quickly.
This reads a lot like those future predictions written in 1979 about life in the year 2000... which were hilariously wrong too, perhaps except for one coincidental detail, which in reality turned out to be much more powerful/better/slick than the 1979 prediction reckoned.
I suspect my alarm clock in 15 years will still be the late 1970s clock radio with its green vacuum fluorescent display. I also suspect that there's a pretty decent chance my ride to work will be a bicycle, rather than a car, due to the relentless increase in energy costs.
Where do you get that idea from? Diesel is from a different fraction than gasoline (petrol). One is not an opportunity cost for the other when you refine the oil. You can't "dial back" gasoline to get more diesel and vice versa.
In perspective, 7bn is less than 1% of the direct cost of the Iraq war.
I was at that age during the 80s (left school in 1990). We had a network of BBC Micros (they had a low cost networking technology called Econet - it worked very well - we had an SJ Research fileserver too during the late 80s).
The school itself didn't teach any computer classes at all. They used the computers in the odd class for educational software. The prevailing view amongst the staff were that "computers were for failed mathematicians so we aren't going to teach any computing based GCSE or A levels". The teacher who ran the computer lab seemed to be the only dissenter from this. He made sure that anyone could access the lab during all the school breaks and for a couple of hours after school, so there were a hard core of us in there whenever we could be there - learing 6502 asm (the BBC had a built in assembler!), writing games, that sort of thing. A friend and I wrote a MUD (multi user dungeon) that ran over Econet. We learned a lot, but we got no formal qualifications from this. Fortunately, this didn't actually matter.
Today the school still doesn't teach any computing courses (I don't class as what passes for "IT" in UK schools as computing - IT classes are actually really just office skills classes, how to use Word and Excel, how to type, that kind of thing). They still teach Latin, though. Sigh.
The teacher who ran the lab back then recently sent me the floppy discs I had used back then (I somehow convinced him back in the day to put a disc of mine in the SJ Research fileserver and leave it there, so I would have an 800K disc on the network for my programs - there were no disc drives on any of the machines in the lab). All my discs are still perfectly readable despite being over 20 years old, although I needed to use a program to copy from MDFS-formatted discs to my ADFS based BBC Master. (Generally, I've found 5.25 inch floppies are very reliable, I have many original discs over 25 years old, and they all work)
If you enjoy learning, then you're never too old.
I'm 40 and I'm learning hardware description language (Verilog) which is about as mindblowingly different to writing C or Java etc. as you can get, but I'm learning it successfully and having a lot of fun doing it.
I also started to learn a foreign language starting at age 36 and I'm now at an advanced level, pushing for fluency soon.
You're never too old to learn, unless you have the defeatist attitude and give up because you think you're too old to learn.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile either. What Henry Ford did is refine it in a certain way (make it so it could be mass produced and available to the masses). Job's Apple refined smartphones in such a way that they were usable to the masses.
The French are *considerably better* at using foreign languages than the British (or worse still, the United States).
For 64 bit you have it the wrong way around - it's Intel who are AMD-compatible (that's why many operating systems still call the architecture amd64, since the x86-64 architecture was from AMD, and not from Intel - Intel being forced to follow AMD when their bet on Itanium failed). So if you want the genuine article for 64-bit, then you ought to be buying AMD.
Well, in Australia, when they enacted a mandatory helmet law, 40% of cyclists gave up cycling.
A motorcycle helmet is a completely different proposition, though. My motorcycle helmet protects a lot more than the very top of my head (for example, it also has some protection for the neck, and of course the sides of the head, the jaw etc), and it is significantly more substantial than a bicycle helmet.
But it would be completely impractical to wear something like a motorcycle helmet for cycling.
If having to slow down for a few moments to safely pass a bicycle makes you border on psychotic rage, you aren't fit to be driving a car.
But typescript is _open_source_ under a Free (as in freedom) licence, Apache 2.0. How is Microsoft locking anyone in if the actual implementation can be taken and used by anyone?
Sorry, I don't see how this is so, TypeScript is made available under a Free open source software licence (Apache licence). There is no carpet they can pull.
Australia is an oft-cited example. Many Australian territories passed mandatory helmet laws for cycling. Off the top of my head, cycling fell by about 40% in the aftermath, and the injury rate went *up*. (Of course the injury rate may have gone up because the people who were helmet wearers in the first place, and didn't stop cycling, were higher risk takers - and removing the other 40% who were not risk takers from the cycling pool made the accident rate go up - note rate, not absolute value).
Another experiment someone did in Britain was to fit an ultrasonic measuring system to a bicycle to measure how close cars were passing. They tried riding in various different manners, for example further from the kerb (tr.US: curb), with helmet, without helmet, dressed as a woman etc. He found that as a hemetless woman, cars gave him the greatest amount of room, and as a helmeted man, the least amount of room. http://www.drianwalker.com/overtaking/overtakingprobrief.pdf
There's also the theory that the more cyclists on the road, the lower the accident *rate* (absolute numbers may go up) because car drivers are just more used to seeing them. Holland has probably the highest rate of regular cycling, probably the lowest rate of helmet wearing, and probably the lowest cycle accident rate.
In summary, I don't think helmets ever should be made mandatory, and may actually have the unintended consequence of making the remaining cyclists less safe.
Well, perhaps not - if it became public how to transmute sugar into gold, immediately the price of gold would crash and it would be no more valuable than aluminum or iron.
Li-Ion batteries don't actually use a lot of lithium - in my RC heli batteries, the huge ones that are about 4 inches long and 1.5 inches deep/high only contain about 8 grams of lithium.
If they find anything, it's likely to be unicellular. Multicellular life on Earth took billions of years to appear, and we think surface water on Mars disappeared an awful long time ago - probably not giving time for anything more complex than bacteria to appear.
I think the "island of stability" in this context means a half life measured in seconds rather than milliseconds.
It's a reference to something that happened in IRC. http://www.bash.org/?244321
That's so absolutely not true. Most foods I enjoy today I hated as a kid. Most foods I enjoyed as a kid, I don't eat any more or very infrequently.
To pick a nit (I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just being pedantic), sugar in Europe is often (mostly?) from sugar beets. Cane sugar for instance doesn't grow in Britain, but sugar beet grows fine.