yet Europe has a tiny fraction of the highways we have [citation needed]
Europe has things like the unrestricted German autobahns with *very* high speeds.
The major highways are also the safest roads despite the speed - they are limited access, so exclude pedestrians, bicycles, horses, tractors etc. Only 4% of the fatal accidents occur on the highways, so counting highway accidents separately won't make a great deal of difference. Additionally, junctions tend to be long with acceleration lanes, meaning oncoming traffic is not trying to merge from a standstill, but is going at highway speed while merging reducing the probability of collision.
In any case, at least for the UK (which has much more crowded roads than most parts of the US, and crowded roads tend to be more hazardous) the overall accident *rate* is less than 1/3rd than in the US.
Kinetic energy goes up at the *square* of velocity, so at 25mph you actually have significantly more KE than at 22.7mph (you have 20% more KE to dissipate in a collision at 25 mph compared with 22.7 mph).
Slowing also reduces pedestrian fatalities - at 20 mph, a collision with a pedestrian is unlikely to kill (around 10% chance, according to UK government figures), at 40 mph, it's overwhelmingly likely to kill (90% chance). At 30 mph, this is reduced to 50%. Kinetic energy increases at the square of speed, so small reductions in speed have a proportionately great reduction in collision energy.
Regarding UK roads - generally, the accident rate in the UK is about 1/3rd of the accident rate in the US - UK roads are vastly safer.
However, this probably has a lot to do with driver training which is generally much more thorough in the UK - as well as other things, such as drink-driving laws where a driving ban really means a driving ban - in many parts of the US, they still allow you to drive to work and back if you're "banned" for drunken driving. On the motorway system, it may have things to do with the general better design of junctions which lack things like decreasing radius turns (which seem depressingly common, at least in Texas where I used to live) and insane junction designs like what can be found on the I-610/I-45 junction in Houston, or the hwy-59 / I-610 junction near Westheimer in Houston (both which have almost permanent traffic jams alongside traffic doing 70 mph one lane to the left, with people trying to get out of the stopped lane from a standing start).
Multiple Sclerosis support groups are not in the same business as Microsoft.
Facebook claim a trademark on Facebook and FB, in relation to social networking. So yes, he is using FB in the very area in which Facebook holds a trademark. It is the sloppy reporting of this that makes it look that Facebook is attacking the script. The way trademarks work is that if Facebook do not and are not seen to protect their trademark, they can lose it - and arguably, using the initials FB (which Facebook have a trademark on in relation to social networking) for a script for social networking is infringing and if Facebook were not to ask him to stop, they could lose the trademark.
Lots of people here are totally missing the point.
Facebook isn't trying to stop people from writing scripts that modify the content of the page (get rid of spam), and if it were to go to court, this would not be the subject of the court case. The actual complaint is a trademark violation one for using the term "Facebook", and later, "FB". It also seems their lawyers are unable to do a whois search because they are also demanding he turns over a domain to them that he doesn't actually own.
However, the "cease and desist" (from the scant information that's actually avaialble if you go to the author's web page) is solely about trademark issues. Nothing about what the script actually does. This may or may not be heavy handed, I don't know - but what I can tell is that it has nothing at all to do with what the script does, merely what it was called.
I've not bought bread for one year now, I only bake my own (I don't eat a great deal of bread, so it's not a colossal time expenditure to do a loaf every so often). It does need sugar for the fermentation process - the yeast needs it.
Set theory (what you need to understand to make effective databases, for your "database driven website") is still mathematics. There's more to mathematics than linear algebra or differential calculus.
A probably OT point on etymology - but why is it that in the USA that the main course is called the "entrée"? The first time I had dinner in the USA it had me momentarily confused because you'd expect the "entrée" to be the starter, not the main course (in French, the "entrée" is the starter).
No, it's not that hard to learn another language, especially Spanish/English, which both belong to the Indo-European language tree.
I started learning Spanish (Spain Spanish, since I'm European). After 14 months of learning Spanish I gave a technical talk in that language in Bilbao last year. Now after around 20 months, native Spanish speakers tell me I write better than most natives, I can enjoy watching dramas on Spanish TV (some are harder than others, I still have trouble with things with lots of coloquilaisms). I can't talk anywhere near as fast as a native but I can hold a conversation. I don't live in Spain, all this has been done with a bit of study every day.
I'm 38 this year.
It is a total myth that: (a) adults can't learn another language easily (b) English speakers aren't good at learning languages
Our brains are powerful learning machines. All it takes is application, and finding a fun and interesting way to learn a language. I'm not a natural at language learning - with 7 years of French at school, I can hardly speak a word of that language (basically, because school didn't make it fun so I didn't have the motivation). However, I found fun ways to learn Spanish and I fully expect to have near fluency within the next 14-18 months.
And the Britishness test is a joke - you can try it online - it's full of questions that are totally irrelevant. For instance, questions about speed limits, whose proper place is on the driving test, not a citizenship test.
Kids may have two hands but they are still tremendously weak together. Most toddlers can't even press the button on an aerosol can.
Since you're from the UK, chances are you've never fired a hand gun (I'm also from the UK, but I spent some time living in the US and I did make trips to the shooting range). Every single hand gun that I've fired requires a suprisingly large amount of trigger pressure. Much higher than the rifles I went shooting with when I was in the CCF. Others up thread have said the particular model of gun requires around 10lbs (about 5kg) of trigger pressure to fire - that's significant for an adult's fingers let alone a very small child.
But even code with line numbers could be nice - consider BBC BASIC. It has all the constructs you need to write nice code (named procedures etc), but still has line numbers. The main problem with the older BASICs were that all variables were global, there was no scoping at all.
In which case, why come up with these hugely elaborate schemes? If a simple check for the game media in the drive will defeat normal users, why bother wasting the time to make DRM more sophisticated than this?
Your bad bit of Liverpool isn't the whole country. Even Liverpool (an area which the whole UK makes jokes about as regards to criminality) isn't representitive of the whole UK.
In general it is a *tiny minority* of youth who are like this. The majority only cause typical teenage trouble to their parents and nothing else.
It's not as if it is a specific to the UK problem. There are youth like this all over the world. Only recently I was watching an article on Spanish TV about juvenile delinquency, alcohol abuse, and anti social behaviour in Madrid. Recently there was a news item in the Spanish press about someone who had just been released from prison (who had been implicated in burning a girl to death) being put back in prison again for stealing from cars. There are probably British counterparts to your Spanish friend.
The spamvertisers are *already* advertising and selling products illegally, such as prescription drugs without a prescription, ripped off merchandise, unauthorized copies of proprietary software etc. You don't need to make any new rules, just prosecute the spamvertisers for the laws they already break. The reason these businesses are using spammers to advertise is precisely because what they are doing is already illegal and therefore they cannot use the normal legal advertising channels to hawk their wares.
As someone who likes flying model helicopters, I can see it won't be long until the government bans that on fears that "I might be a terrorist wanting to fly my T-Rex 600 into something", closing off yet another avenue of harmless pleasure.
It's only an "island of stability", relatively speaking as I understand it. That's to say elements in the "island of stability" have half lives measured in a few tenths of a second to a few seconds, rather than milliseconds.
And the fact is saying that human CO2 emissions are "infinitesimal" is to miss the point entirely.
An analogy (that does not involve cars). Imagine the balance between CO2 sources and sinks is like a funnel. Into this funnel, you pour one litre per second of liquid. The funnel can allow up to 1 litre per second to leave, too. Therefore, the level of liquid in the funnel remains the same although 1 litre per second is constantly being added. However, add an infinitesimal increase, let's say, just 0.1% more - just one mililitre extra per second, and as sure as night follows day, the level in the funnel increases and eventually it will overflow. What is more, what we have done is effectively not only added more liquid to the funnel, we have also constricted the exit (by removing carbon sinks). The rate compared to other things is totally irrelevant. The only thing that's relevant is - is the CO2 being added at a rate higher than which it is being removed?
Sorry, that's totally wrong. The Airbus FBW systems do allow reversion back to "just do what the damn human says". However, in the situation that aircraft was in, if it were a 1972 manufactured Boeing 747 with the same fault (no airspeed indication, inside a storm, in a flight regime where stall speed and maximum mach number are very close together) it is likely that the end result would have been the same.
Incidentally, how the A320 allows human handling of exception was very well demonstrated by the United flight that ended up in the Hudson - in which no lives were lost despite a very difficult situation.
To make it understandable, the energy can be converted into a relative "human" form so a person can understand it.
For example, 1TeV is about the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito. While the equivalent of 15% of the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito isn't much (150GeV) it is a LOT of energy for a single subatomic particle.
As a comparison, the Planck energy is about the equivalent of the energy released from burning a full tank of fuel in a typical family car. It shows that even our most powerful atom smashers are puny in comparison to some of what happens in the universe . . .
The EU isn't a country. There are many countries in the EU where you don't have to tell anyone if you don't want to. Of course, if you live in a property pretty much anywhere in the western world you have to register with someone because there will be property taxes of some sort. At least in the UK (an EU country) you don't have to report to the authorities if you're staying somewhere for a while.
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yet Europe has a tiny fraction of the highways we have
[citation needed]
Europe has things like the unrestricted German autobahns with *very* high speeds.
The major highways are also the safest roads despite the speed - they are limited access, so exclude pedestrians, bicycles, horses, tractors etc. Only 4% of the fatal accidents occur on the highways, so counting highway accidents separately won't make a great deal of difference. Additionally, junctions tend to be long with acceleration lanes, meaning oncoming traffic is not trying to merge from a standstill, but is going at highway speed while merging reducing the probability of collision.
In any case, at least for the UK (which has much more crowded roads than most parts of the US, and crowded roads tend to be more hazardous) the overall accident *rate* is less than 1/3rd than in the US.
Kinetic energy goes up at the *square* of velocity, so at 25mph you actually have significantly more KE than at 22.7mph (you have 20% more KE to dissipate in a collision at 25 mph compared with 22.7 mph).
Slowing also reduces pedestrian fatalities - at 20 mph, a collision with a pedestrian is unlikely to kill (around 10% chance, according to UK government figures), at 40 mph, it's overwhelmingly likely to kill (90% chance). At 30 mph, this is reduced to 50%. Kinetic energy increases at the square of speed, so small reductions in speed have a proportionately great reduction in collision energy.
Regarding UK roads - generally, the accident rate in the UK is about 1/3rd of the accident rate in the US - UK roads are vastly safer.
However, this probably has a lot to do with driver training which is generally much more thorough in the UK - as well as other things, such as drink-driving laws where a driving ban really means a driving ban - in many parts of the US, they still allow you to drive to work and back if you're "banned" for drunken driving. On the motorway system, it may have things to do with the general better design of junctions which lack things like decreasing radius turns (which seem depressingly common, at least in Texas where I used to live) and insane junction designs like what can be found on the I-610/I-45 junction in Houston, or the hwy-59 / I-610 junction near Westheimer in Houston (both which have almost permanent traffic jams alongside traffic doing 70 mph one lane to the left, with people trying to get out of the stopped lane from a standing start).
Multiple Sclerosis support groups are not in the same business as Microsoft.
Facebook claim a trademark on Facebook and FB, in relation to social networking. So yes, he is using FB in the very area in which Facebook holds a trademark. It is the sloppy reporting of this that makes it look that Facebook is attacking the script. The way trademarks work is that if Facebook do not and are not seen to protect their trademark, they can lose it - and arguably, using the initials FB (which Facebook have a trademark on in relation to social networking) for a script for social networking is infringing and if Facebook were not to ask him to stop, they could lose the trademark.
Lots of people here are totally missing the point.
Facebook isn't trying to stop people from writing scripts that modify the content of the page (get rid of spam), and if it were to go to court, this would not be the subject of the court case. The actual complaint is a trademark violation one for using the term "Facebook", and later, "FB". It also seems their lawyers are unable to do a whois search because they are also demanding he turns over a domain to them that he doesn't actually own.
However, the "cease and desist" (from the scant information that's actually avaialble if you go to the author's web page) is solely about trademark issues. Nothing about what the script actually does. This may or may not be heavy handed, I don't know - but what I can tell is that it has nothing at all to do with what the script does, merely what it was called.
I've not bought bread for one year now, I only bake my own (I don't eat a great deal of bread, so it's not a colossal time expenditure to do a loaf every so often). It does need sugar for the fermentation process - the yeast needs it.
I think a lot of these things are dodging the real root cause: eating too much while exercising too little.
Set theory (what you need to understand to make effective databases, for your "database driven website") is still mathematics. There's more to mathematics than linear algebra or differential calculus.
A probably OT point on etymology - but why is it that in the USA that the main course is called the "entrée"? The first time I had dinner in the USA it had me momentarily confused because you'd expect the "entrée" to be the starter, not the main course (in French, the "entrée" is the starter).
No, it's not that hard to learn another language, especially Spanish/English, which both belong to the Indo-European language tree.
I started learning Spanish (Spain Spanish, since I'm European). After 14 months of learning Spanish I gave a technical talk in that language in Bilbao last year. Now after around 20 months, native Spanish speakers tell me I write better than most natives, I can enjoy watching dramas on Spanish TV (some are harder than others, I still have trouble with things with lots of coloquilaisms). I can't talk anywhere near as fast as a native but I can hold a conversation. I don't live in Spain, all this has been done with a bit of study every day.
I'm 38 this year.
It is a total myth that:
(a) adults can't learn another language easily
(b) English speakers aren't good at learning languages
Our brains are powerful learning machines. All it takes is application, and finding a fun and interesting way to learn a language. I'm not a natural at language learning - with 7 years of French at school, I can hardly speak a word of that language (basically, because school didn't make it fun so I didn't have the motivation). However, I found fun ways to learn Spanish and I fully expect to have near fluency within the next 14-18 months.
On anything other than full power they will flicker. Dimming is achieved using PWM.
And the Britishness test is a joke - you can try it online - it's full of questions that are totally irrelevant. For instance, questions about speed limits, whose proper place is on the driving test, not a citizenship test.
Kids may have two hands but they are still tremendously weak together. Most toddlers can't even press the button on an aerosol can.
Since you're from the UK, chances are you've never fired a hand gun (I'm also from the UK, but I spent some time living in the US and I did make trips to the shooting range). Every single hand gun that I've fired requires a suprisingly large amount of trigger pressure. Much higher than the rifles I went shooting with when I was in the CCF. Others up thread have said the particular model of gun requires around 10lbs (about 5kg) of trigger pressure to fire - that's significant for an adult's fingers let alone a very small child.
Something does seem a bit fishy.
You may be overestimating the strength of a toddler - most toddlers can't even press the button down on an aerosol can.
We had econet at school. A friend and I wrote a client/server MUD (multi user dungeon) in a mixture of BBC BASIC and 6502 asm. Good times.
I have two BBC Micros at home now :-)
But even code with line numbers could be nice - consider BBC BASIC. It has all the constructs you need to write nice code (named procedures etc), but still has line numbers. The main problem with the older BASICs were that all variables were global, there was no scoping at all.
In which case, why come up with these hugely elaborate schemes? If a simple check for the game media in the drive will defeat normal users, why bother wasting the time to make DRM more sophisticated than this?
Your bad bit of Liverpool isn't the whole country. Even Liverpool (an area which the whole UK makes jokes about as regards to criminality) isn't representitive of the whole UK.
In general it is a *tiny minority* of youth who are like this. The majority only cause typical teenage trouble to their parents and nothing else.
It's not as if it is a specific to the UK problem. There are youth like this all over the world. Only recently I was watching an article on Spanish TV about juvenile delinquency, alcohol abuse, and anti social behaviour in Madrid. Recently there was a news item in the Spanish press about someone who had just been released from prison (who had been implicated in burning a girl to death) being put back in prison again for stealing from cars. There are probably British counterparts to your Spanish friend.
The spamvertisers are *already* advertising and selling products illegally, such as prescription drugs without a prescription, ripped off merchandise, unauthorized copies of proprietary software etc. You don't need to make any new rules, just prosecute the spamvertisers for the laws they already break. The reason these businesses are using spammers to advertise is precisely because what they are doing is already illegal and therefore they cannot use the normal legal advertising channels to hawk their wares.
As someone who likes flying model helicopters, I can see it won't be long until the government bans that on fears that "I might be a terrorist wanting to fly my T-Rex 600 into something", closing off yet another avenue of harmless pleasure.
It's only an "island of stability", relatively speaking as I understand it. That's to say elements in the "island of stability" have half lives measured in a few tenths of a second to a few seconds, rather than milliseconds.
And the fact is saying that human CO2 emissions are "infinitesimal" is to miss the point entirely.
An analogy (that does not involve cars). Imagine the balance between CO2 sources and sinks is like a funnel. Into this funnel, you pour one litre per second of liquid. The funnel can allow up to 1 litre per second to leave, too. Therefore, the level of liquid in the funnel remains the same although 1 litre per second is constantly being added. However, add an infinitesimal increase, let's say, just 0.1% more - just one mililitre extra per second, and as sure as night follows day, the level in the funnel increases and eventually it will overflow. What is more, what we have done is effectively not only added more liquid to the funnel, we have also constricted the exit (by removing carbon sinks). The rate compared to other things is totally irrelevant. The only thing that's relevant is - is the CO2 being added at a rate higher than which it is being removed?
Sorry, that's totally wrong. The Airbus FBW systems do allow reversion back to "just do what the damn human says". However, in the situation that aircraft was in, if it were a 1972 manufactured Boeing 747 with the same fault (no airspeed indication, inside a storm, in a flight regime where stall speed and maximum mach number are very close together) it is likely that the end result would have been the same.
Incidentally, how the A320 allows human handling of exception was very well demonstrated by the United flight that ended up in the Hudson - in which no lives were lost despite a very difficult situation.
To make it understandable, the energy can be converted into a relative "human" form so a person can understand it.
For example, 1TeV is about the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito. While the equivalent of 15% of the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito isn't much (150GeV) it is a LOT of energy for a single subatomic particle.
As a comparison, the Planck energy is about the equivalent of the energy released from burning a full tank of fuel in a typical family car. It shows that even our most powerful atom smashers are puny in comparison to some of what happens in the universe . . .
The EU isn't a country. There are many countries in the EU where you don't have to tell anyone if you don't want to. Of course, if you live in a property pretty much anywhere in the western world you have to register with someone because there will be property taxes of some sort. At least in the UK (an EU country) you don't have to report to the authorities if you're staying somewhere for a while.