The House of Lords actually acted as a very strong brake against the worst injustices the last Parliament tried to impose on the country, such as resisting the 90 days without trial law, and various other draconion "antiterror" legislation that the Labour government wanted to impose.
While the House of Lords may not be democratically elected, they have done more to preserve democratic principles than the lot who *are* democratically elected.
This *is* the Daily Mail reporting it. The *Daily Mail* styles itself as a serious newspaper but in fact it's about the same as Fox News and *loves* sensationalistic stories (and cares little about accuracy). The Daily Mail is pitched at the permanently offended middle Englander, and is effectively writes to troll its readership. The Daily Mail hates:
* Technology * Video games * Gays/Lesbians * Immigrants * Teenagers * Motorcycles and motorcyclists * Cyclists and bicycles * Europe (except for cheap vacations in middle Englander holiday ghettos)
The Daily Mail also loves stories about "$EVERYDAY_THING causes cancer".
Turbines have been improving steadily over the years in BSFC (brake specific fuel consumption, in other words, how much fuel needs to flow to provide each bhp). The other thing about turbines is they like to be just run at constant speed, and with electric transmission you can do that (which you can't with a normal automatic or manual gearbox, and most CVTs can't take the power).
TFA states: When you're being sensible with the accelerator pedal, it'll return a maximum range of 560 miles, while spewing a mere 28g/km of CO2, which is pretty spectacular.
Bit like Microsoft Xapata, or the Ford Mondeo (both made up words!) or Aviva or Hewlett-Packard D530. Many names aren't made to be understandable, come from big companies with massive marketing departments, and do fine.
If plants can recolonize a seriously contaminated area after, say, 10-15 years - it doesn't really help humans who need crops continuously. Going a number of years without food is likely to kill a lot of people, even if after a decade or so it's actaully possible to grow crops again.
Since commercial piracy is a money making business, then commercial pirates conceivably have the ability to remove and replace the Blu-Ray drive's normal electronics with their own electronics that they have designed which does their bidding, and make a complete bitwise dump of a disc. With the capability of FPGAs now you don't need a chip foundry to make more or less any device you please.
Apple users don't expect iPads and iPhones to run Macintosh software, even if these devices run a flavour of OSX - Apple doesn't call it that - they call it iOS, so no one expects OS X programs to run on it. If Microsoft were to not call their mobile OS 'Windows', then the confusion would go away. Instead of calling it 'Windows Mobile' which kind of gives the expectation that it's just Windows and you can run desktop software on it, they could call it something else. Perhaps 'Doors'.
China putting on an embargo would also cripple China, too - after all, their income would suddenly go away.
There is a saying: "Owe a dollar, and the bank owns you. Owe a million dollars, and you own the bank". That's to say, if you owe enough it'll hurt the bank more to foreclose on you rather than accept whatever it is you're willing to pay. At the moment it would mortally wound China's economy to embargo the west.
The quantity of oil is not the problem. It's the RATE at which we can extract them that's the problem. These "unconventional sources" as they are euphemistically called do not give a nice gusher like the Saudi fields did. They are slow to extract from and difficult to refine, therefore the rate of production is low and expensive. If the lower rate of production can't supply what we demand now, then we have to go with less oil even if there are massive quantities at the bottom of the sea.
It never was about *quantity*. It always was about rate of production, and that's what is forecast to decrease.
No, the point isn't the oil is going to run out (we're probably only about halfway through what we have). The point is the RATE at which oil can be extracted will decline.
Since economic growth up until now has relied on an ever increasing RATE of oil extraction, economic growth as it happens now will simply be unsustainable, even though there are decades left of actual oil. Consider the euphemistically named "unconventional sources". Canada's tar sands have something like two orders of magnitude more proven reserves than Mexico's Cantarell Field when it was discovered. But after decades of investments, the entirety of Canada's tar sands isn't producing at the rate of the comparatively tiny Cantarell Field when it was at its peak.
You can have infinite oil, but if you can't supply it at the RATE the current economy needs, then oil prices will go up. It's not the oil that's going to run out, it's the *cheap oil* that's going to run out, and right now our economies depend not just on oil, but on *cheap* oil. We already saw this in 2007, it's only the recession that's caused the prices to fall.
The specs don't say whose microcontroller it is, other than it uses a 32 bit ARM core. The point is they are everywhere, not just smart phones and handhelds, but in radio controlled models (where low power and performance is pretty important)
I used to have a RAQ2 (actually, rented dedicated server at RackShack as it then was). The processor was fine, but the RaQ2's I/O performance fell something short of ghastly. If you tried to do any sort of server-side scripting it'd kill the machine, not CPU wise, but I/O wise.
China and Russia are strong, so the US respects them and won't mess with them too much.
Cuba is weak, so the US is free to bully the CUbans. Same goes with Ukraine, remember the steel tarriffs that the US imposed on Ukraine, while China was getting "preferred trading partner" status? Ukraine is weak, China is strong.
Actually, games do fine in a VM. I'm not a Linux desktop user, rather a Mac desktop user. However, on the few occasions I want to play Windows games they run fine under Parallels Desktop (including first person shooters). However, fortunately, most of the games I like run on the Mac too so it's not something I need to do all the time. Infinitely better than dual booting though.
It's using BBC Microcomputers. No segment + offset memory model.
Before jumping into kernels, device drivers and cache strategies (which are subjects beyond 'A' level anyway, which is the level being taught) you still must learn the basics of how a CPU works. This kind of thing will teach that without device drivers, kernels and cache strategies getting in the way and complicating the learning of the *basics*.
You have to have a good foundation to understand all of the rest of the things. For instance, you wouldn't learn a human language by diving straight into an explanation of the past imperfect subjunctive conjugations of verbs, you would start out with simple which teach the basics of how the language fits together. A BBC Micro will do this excellently for computing students - they can learn the fundamentals without getting bogged down with the high levels of complexity of a modern operating system.
As an aside, there are still millions of CPUs being manufactured today without a divide instruction. Take the billions of 8 bit microcontrollers that ship every year.
Not really. Pentium PCs have significant barriers to doing easy low level I/O and have an over complex instruction set. Microcontrollers you have to go through compiling, transferring via JTAG or SPI, running etc.
The BBC Micro on the other hand has the facilities of a microcontroller (A/D ports, GPIO ports, 1MHz bus) but also the immediacy of being able to type a BASIC command and see something happen right now instead of having to fight with power supplies, JTAG leads and setting up a compiler on a PC. The BBC Micro is a very well designed machine, with a much better BASIC interpreter than any other machine of the era (especially the truly terrible Commodore BASIC), which includes proper named procedures and functions, so no GO TO spaghetti. It also has a built in assembler, so if you really want to get right to the metal you can without needing anything else.
But you CAN detect receivers - you can detect the local oscillator (the same method as used by TV detector vans). From this you can tell the frequency the receiver is tuned to.
Now whether this is practical is another matter entirely, you have to be pretty close to the receiver to detect it, so you'd need to blanket the Earth with detectors to find who's receiving the signal.
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The House of Lords actually acted as a very strong brake against the worst injustices the last Parliament tried to impose on the country, such as resisting the 90 days without trial law, and various other draconion "antiterror" legislation that the Labour government wanted to impose.
While the House of Lords may not be democratically elected, they have done more to preserve democratic principles than the lot who *are* democratically elected.
This *is* the Daily Mail reporting it. The *Daily Mail* styles itself as a serious newspaper but in fact it's about the same as Fox News and *loves* sensationalistic stories (and cares little about accuracy). The Daily Mail is pitched at the permanently offended middle Englander, and is effectively writes to troll its readership. The Daily Mail hates:
* Technology
* Video games
* Gays/Lesbians
* Immigrants
* Teenagers
* Motorcycles and motorcyclists
* Cyclists and bicycles
* Europe (except for cheap vacations in middle Englander holiday ghettos)
The Daily Mail also loves stories about "$EVERYDAY_THING causes cancer".
Dan and Dan sum up the Daily Mail very well in this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
Turbines have been improving steadily over the years in BSFC (brake specific fuel consumption, in other words, how much fuel needs to flow to provide each bhp). The other thing about turbines is they like to be just run at constant speed, and with electric transmission you can do that (which you can't with a normal automatic or manual gearbox, and most CVTs can't take the power).
TFA states:
When you're being sensible with the accelerator pedal, it'll return a maximum range of 560 miles, while spewing a mere 28g/km of CO2, which is pretty spectacular.
Bit like Microsoft Xapata, or the Ford Mondeo (both made up words!) or Aviva or Hewlett-Packard D530. Many names aren't made to be understandable, come from big companies with massive marketing departments, and do fine.
Over what time frame?
If plants can recolonize a seriously contaminated area after, say, 10-15 years - it doesn't really help humans who need crops continuously. Going a number of years without food is likely to kill a lot of people, even if after a decade or so it's actaully possible to grow crops again.
That's kind of how Emirates do the first class cabin of the A380 today - proper lounge, with a bar, plenty of space to walk around etc.
With an FPGA, anyone can be a "chip manufacturer" within reason. I strongly suspect HDMI will fall "within reason" of a decent FPGA.
Since commercial piracy is a money making business, then commercial pirates conceivably have the ability to remove and replace the Blu-Ray drive's normal electronics with their own electronics that they have designed which does their bidding, and make a complete bitwise dump of a disc. With the capability of FPGAs now you don't need a chip foundry to make more or less any device you please.
It's a marketing problem.
Apple users don't expect iPads and iPhones to run Macintosh software, even if these devices run a flavour of OSX - Apple doesn't call it that - they call it iOS, so no one expects OS X programs to run on it. If Microsoft were to not call their mobile OS 'Windows', then the confusion would go away. Instead of calling it 'Windows Mobile' which kind of gives the expectation that it's just Windows and you can run desktop software on it, they could call it something else. Perhaps 'Doors'.
China putting on an embargo would also cripple China, too - after all, their income would suddenly go away.
There is a saying: "Owe a dollar, and the bank owns you. Owe a million dollars, and you own the bank". That's to say, if you owe enough it'll hurt the bank more to foreclose on you rather than accept whatever it is you're willing to pay. At the moment it would mortally wound China's economy to embargo the west.
Actually, it's not Igw's Law, it's already called Muphry's Law (a deliberate mis-spelling of Murphy).
HTH, HAND.
The quantity of oil is not the problem. It's the RATE at which we can extract them that's the problem. These "unconventional sources" as they are euphemistically called do not give a nice gusher like the Saudi fields did. They are slow to extract from and difficult to refine, therefore the rate of production is low and expensive. If the lower rate of production can't supply what we demand now, then we have to go with less oil even if there are massive quantities at the bottom of the sea.
It never was about *quantity*. It always was about rate of production, and that's what is forecast to decrease.
No, the point isn't the oil is going to run out (we're probably only about halfway through what we have). The point is the RATE at which oil can be extracted will decline.
Since economic growth up until now has relied on an ever increasing RATE of oil extraction, economic growth as it happens now will simply be unsustainable, even though there are decades left of actual oil. Consider the euphemistically named "unconventional sources". Canada's tar sands have something like two orders of magnitude more proven reserves than Mexico's Cantarell Field when it was discovered. But after decades of investments, the entirety of Canada's tar sands isn't producing at the rate of the comparatively tiny Cantarell Field when it was at its peak.
You can have infinite oil, but if you can't supply it at the RATE the current economy needs, then oil prices will go up. It's not the oil that's going to run out, it's the *cheap oil* that's going to run out, and right now our economies depend not just on oil, but on *cheap* oil. We already saw this in 2007, it's only the recession that's caused the prices to fall.
The specs don't say whose microcontroller it is, other than it uses a 32 bit ARM core. The point is they are everywhere, not just smart phones and handhelds, but in radio controlled models (where low power and performance is pretty important)
I used to have a RAQ2 (actually, rented dedicated server at RackShack as it then was). The processor was fine, but the RaQ2's I/O performance fell something short of ghastly. If you tried to do any sort of server-side scripting it'd kill the machine, not CPU wise, but I/O wise.
ARM is incredibly prevalent - more ARM cores are shipped than what Intel and AMD ships combined. Many devices have multiple ARM-based CPUs.
I have a tiny gyro unit for one of my radio control helicopters. Guess what it contains?
There has also been a jet powered Cri-Cri, powered by two turbines as used by RC modellers. (The cheapest twinjet time on the planet).
China and Russia are strong, so the US respects them and won't mess with them too much.
Cuba is weak, so the US is free to bully the CUbans.
Same goes with Ukraine, remember the steel tarriffs that the US imposed on Ukraine, while China was getting "preferred trading partner" status? Ukraine is weak, China is strong.
In case you're wondering who Steve Furber is, he is also one of the original designers of the ARM CPU.
You're mistaking the EU for a country, it is not. It's an alliance of sovereign nations (and therefore quite different to the United States).
The problem is for parallel operations, we start to run into Amdahl's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
Actually, games do fine in a VM. I'm not a Linux desktop user, rather a Mac desktop user. However, on the few occasions I want to play Windows games they run fine under Parallels Desktop (including first person shooters). However, fortunately, most of the games I like run on the Mac too so it's not something I need to do all the time. Infinitely better than dual booting though.
It's using BBC Microcomputers. No segment + offset memory model.
Before jumping into kernels, device drivers and cache strategies (which are subjects beyond 'A' level anyway, which is the level being taught) you still must learn the basics of how a CPU works. This kind of thing will teach that without device drivers, kernels and cache strategies getting in the way and complicating the learning of the *basics*.
You have to have a good foundation to understand all of the rest of the things. For instance, you wouldn't learn a human language by diving straight into an explanation of the past imperfect subjunctive conjugations of verbs, you would start out with simple which teach the basics of how the language fits together. A BBC Micro will do this excellently for computing students - they can learn the fundamentals without getting bogged down with the high levels of complexity of a modern operating system.
As an aside, there are still millions of CPUs being manufactured today without a divide instruction. Take the billions of 8 bit microcontrollers that ship every year.
Not really. Pentium PCs have significant barriers to doing easy low level I/O and have an over complex instruction set. Microcontrollers you have to go through compiling, transferring via JTAG or SPI, running etc.
The BBC Micro on the other hand has the facilities of a microcontroller (A/D ports, GPIO ports, 1MHz bus) but also the immediacy of being able to type a BASIC command and see something happen right now instead of having to fight with power supplies, JTAG leads and setting up a compiler on a PC. The BBC Micro is a very well designed machine, with a much better BASIC interpreter than any other machine of the era (especially the truly terrible Commodore BASIC), which includes proper named procedures and functions, so no GO TO spaghetti. It also has a built in assembler, so if you really want to get right to the metal you can without needing anything else.
But you CAN detect receivers - you can detect the local oscillator (the same method as used by TV detector vans). From this you can tell the frequency the receiver is tuned to.
Now whether this is practical is another matter entirely, you have to be pretty close to the receiver to detect it, so you'd need to blanket the Earth with detectors to find who's receiving the signal.