I have to say, it's amusing to see the suggestion that the Nebula awards are less cliquey than the Hugos. The Nebulas are voted on only by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and internal SFWA politics often play a part in the process. The Hugos, by contrast, can be voted on by anyone who cares enough to stump up thirty bucks for a supporting Worldcon membership, and very few of the voters have any political connection with the candidates.
I just checked on their website. There's still a free player available, they just keep making it harder to get to the link for the free one as opposed to the one that costs $10.
If you've not heard of Alfred Bester, William Gibson or Orson Scott Card, then you're not qualified to have an opinion on the "greatest work of science fiction ever".
And after the first few hundred false postives, most people will stop doing this. Read the article -- the maths is counter-intuitive, but under Bruce's (extremely optimistic) assumptions, with 99.99% accuracy, there will be 10,000 false positives for every genuine positive.
Actually, I think you'll find that the UK invented it, and you owe us for 225 years of usage fees. Don't worry though -- as of 20 January this year, you don't have to pay us anything for the next four years.
We're talking about the UK, not the US. The rules won't be made by politicians at all, they'll be made by career civil servants who are not political appointees and do a good deal of thinking, and then they'll be approved or rejected by the politicians.
The police will miss no revenue at all, because they don't get to keep speeding fines. Allowing the police to keep any part of the proceeds of the enforcement of any law is a truly horrible idea, much much worse than this stupid speed limiter trial that will never actually come to anything.
If your citizens think the should be able to speed, why doesn't "opposition from citizens" get rid of speed limits? If they don't, then why do they oppose enforcement of the limits?
And remind us again, for how long were all the Interstate speed limits set at the insanely low figure of 55mph? I guess your opposition wasn't too effective that time round.
To say the UK government is "planning" to introduce mandatory speed limiters is overstating the case considerably. They're conducting trials.
If they actually move towards a proposal to implement this, then the public debate and outcry will begin, and they'll stop. The biggest objection and the showstopper will be the thought that French motorists visiting the UK will be able to speed with impunity.
I'd far rather wait until it's ready than have incomplete and buggy releases rushed out to meet a predetermined schedule, which is what those "professional" software houses do far too frequently. Not having a rigid schedule is one of the benefits of open source, not a liability.
If you can actually get to a geek on the phone, you don't need a password -- "I'm the sysadmin for <ISP> and your mail servers are rejecting SMTP connections on port 25" will do nicely. The problem is getting past the non-geeks on first-line tech "support".
You have to pay a license if you have equipment that is capable of receiving TV broadcasts. If you disable the tuners in your VCR, TV and so on, and use them only for video games and prerecorded videos, you don't need a license, although you should probably keep proof that the tuners have been disabled to hand.
As someone else commented, the UK's population is about 60 million. However, note two other points:
Turnout is substantially higher in the UK, so in fact the US only has about three times as many voters
If you've got five times the population, you've got five times as many people to count the votes, and five times the tax base to pay for it, so in fact you're counting three times the votes with five times the resources, and it should be easier in the US.
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I have to say, it's amusing to see the suggestion that the Nebula awards are less cliquey than the Hugos. The Nebulas are voted on only by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and internal SFWA politics often play a part in the process. The Hugos, by contrast, can be voted on by anyone who cares enough to stump up thirty bucks for a supporting Worldcon membership, and very few of the voters have any political connection with the candidates.
I just checked on their website. There's still a free player available, they just keep making it harder to get to the link for the free one as opposed to the one that costs $10.
According to www.annanova.com, the FAA has ruled out terrorism as a cause of the crash.
If you've not heard of Alfred Bester, William Gibson or Orson Scott Card, then you're not qualified to have an opinion on the "greatest work of science fiction ever".
And after the first few hundred false postives, most people will stop doing this. Read the article -- the maths is counter-intuitive, but under Bruce's (extremely optimistic) assumptions, with 99.99% accuracy, there will be 10,000 false positives for every genuine positive.
Actually, I think you'll find that the UK invented it, and you owe us for 225 years of usage fees. Don't worry though -- as of 20 January this year, you don't have to pay us anything for the next four years.
Actually, I think you'll find that $1 million is megafunding. Nanofunding would be $0.000000001.
We're talking about the UK, not the US. The rules won't be made by politicians at all, they'll be made by career civil servants who are not political appointees and do a good deal of thinking, and then they'll be approved or rejected by the politicians.
The police will miss no revenue at all, because they don't get to keep speeding fines. Allowing the police to keep any part of the proceeds of the enforcement of any law is a truly horrible idea, much much worse than this stupid speed limiter trial that will never actually come to anything.
And remind us again, for how long were all the Interstate speed limits set at the insanely low figure of 55mph? I guess your opposition wasn't too effective that time round.
If they actually move towards a proposal to implement this, then the public debate and outcry will begin, and they'll stop. The biggest objection and the showstopper will be the thought that French motorists visiting the UK will be able to speed with impunity.
I'd far rather wait until it's ready than have incomplete and buggy releases rushed out to meet a predetermined schedule, which is what those "professional" software houses do far too frequently. Not having a rigid schedule is one of the benefits of open source, not a liability.
If you can actually get to a geek on the phone, you don't need a password -- "I'm the sysadmin for <ISP> and your mail servers are rejecting SMTP connections on port 25" will do nicely. The problem is getting past the non-geeks on first-line tech "support".
You have to pay a license if you have equipment that is capable of receiving TV broadcasts. If you disable the tuners in your VCR, TV and so on, and use them only for video games and prerecorded videos, you don't need a license, although you should probably keep proof that the tuners have been disabled to hand.