The problem with the form is that it's based on the very USA/UK way of thinking that something must either be 100% of the solution or is useless with no middle ground possible. Whereas real life(TM) tends to be more granular in nature.
Given that they where both SSBNs it seems somewhat unlikely one would be tracking the other. More likely one would track just long enough to get an idea of the other's course and speed and then head off at 90 degrees to that course.
Inquiring minds want to know... to run this thing, do they have an on-premises nuclear reactor, or just an obscenely high electric bill? TFA is short on details in that department. I'd imagine they have a really large bank of capacitors?
I couldn't count the number of speed cameras I've driven past, but I suspect it's a really large number. I can, however, confidently state that I've never applied the brakes (or done anything else to reduce my speed) as I approached them. Despite my "careless attitude" towards them, I've never been the recipient of a speeding fine... Because I find it remarkably easy to drive within the speed limit!
Nb: I said "within;" not "at". If, in my judgement, the maximum safe speed for the conditions is lower than the speed limit (eg: I have some eejit tailgating me), I slow down rather than continuing to drive at the speed limit.
Contention ratio isn't the ratio of downstream:upstream bandwidth. It's the ratio of how 'oversold' the bandwidth is, with 2Mb 50:1 ADSL you're sharing your 2Mbs with 49 other users (who are, hopefully, not all trying to use it at once).
Contention ratio isn't the ratio of downstream/upstream bandwidth. It's the ratio of how 'oversold' the bandwidth is, thus the worst case scenario for 50:1 is that you'll be sharing your 2Mb (or whatever) bandwidth with 49 over users.
Even the Concorde couldn't pay for itself, and it cut the trip time for a very busy route in half.
Part of the reason that Concorde couldn't pay for itself was that they only ever made 16 production examples. On a day to day basis, Concorde made a profit for British Airways (and apparently contributed a nice "halo effect" to the rest of the business).
There are... Over here in.uk they're organised by the http://bhpc.org.uk/ (British Human Power Club), I would suspect there's a USA-ian equivalent organisation.
do you realise just how hard you are to see when you're on a recumbant cycle???
If the car drivers can't see a recumbent bike which is basically at a height where my eyes are at the same level as theirs, then how do they see the kerbs or the white lines at junctions which are much lower than I am? Not to mention potholes which have a negative height?
Tell me, have you ever ridden a recumbent in traffic or are you just spouting off about something you've never done?:-)
demachina twisted the electrons to say: > Remember what the engineers said about the Titanic before it set sail.
IIRC, they said it was the most unsinkable liner yet built - ie: not unsinkable merely harder to sink than any other liner in existence at the time.
Since you seem to be wanting to make the point that they where wrong, please provide your evidence of other contemperary(sp?) liners hitting icebergs in the same manner and remaining afloat?
> 2. There is something on Mars which hates space probes!
Well given that the Beagle 2 was meant to announce it's successful landing on Mars by playing a piece of music by Blur maybe it's just the case that the Martians have better taste in music than the builders of the Beagle 2?
IYTM, the railways used to be state owned ie. the limp hand of the treasury was upon them preventing any large scale investment, leaving BR with little to do that was more than management of decline
The treasury are, after all, why the folllowing occured:-
(a) ATP (Automatic Train Protection) not installed because it was too expensive, even though Cyril Smith MP said it would be installed "no matter what the cost".
(b) ECML (East Coast Main Line, ie: GNER's route) electrification done on the cheap - hence why it has problems in adverse weather conditions.
(c) Insufficient HSTs bought back in the 1970s, which is still affecting provision of trains to this day...
Alternatively, _All Good Things_ is just an alternature future? Which would be consistent with the Enterprise-D (albeit with three warp nacelles and a BFG(TM)!) still existing after Troi crashed it at the end of Generations.
mattbee twisted the electrons to say: > Unfortunately, 1) I don't understand a fscking word of this document, but wonder whether they're > trying to head off criticism through this addition, and 2) they've specifically excluded > computer software from this!
I agree with you on that one! I've "read" the document and, whilst I want to compain, it's so bloody hard to work out what it's saying that it makes any complaints almost impossible to write!
Coolvibe twisted the electrons to say: > In fact, the absence of laws like these in the country I live in make me proud to be a dutchman.
Err... last time I checked the Netherlands where part of the EU right? You are aware that the EUCD requires that member states transpose it into national law before the 22nd December 2002.
Or to put it another way, this is going to get you in Holland as well... maybe they're just avoiding having any consultation period over on that side of the channel?
1) Compulsory ID cards only make sense if it's requirement to always carry them, and *that* only makes sense if the Police can stop anyone and ask to see them at anytime - at which point you're perilously close to a police state[1].
2) Badly implemented smart cards will make it easy for the theft of other peoples identities.
[1] Of course, Hong Kong has been perilously close (if only in geographic terms) to a police state ever since the Chinese revolution!
> Moral of the story: If you live in the UK, don't bother encrypting either.
> They'll just get their grubby hands on it if they want to.
Actually, speaking as another.uk resident, I'd say encrypt *everything* you can think of - that way the stuff that needs to be encrypted won't stand out so much against the background noise...
Says who? Never heard about that one. Wouldn't be possible anyway, there's by far not enough wind power available (or to be made available) to come even close to replacing nuclear power, and certainly not by the end of the year.
Well according to the BBC the Germans currently get about 3.5% of their power from wind (a 44% increase over the previous year), however (again according to the BBC) they currently get about 33% of their power from nuclear sources and the last plant won't be turned off for about 32 years...
> I think we can all agree Mir has been a disaster from day 1.
Yeah... and we can point the wonderfully successful space station programs run by other nations as.. Oh well, so much for that argument!
> Your analysis of speed cameras is completely incorrect.
You have references or evidence for this statement of course... explain in depth where in particular I went wrong?
> Speed cameras, to be effective, should be
> invisible, and penalties should be issued
> strictly, so that people go slow all the time.
Unless you're proposing a *massive* increase in taxation, then people will just speed on roads that don't have GATSOs. Also magazines, like Max Power print information on hidden speed cameras - plot forward a couple of years and this information will probably be combinable with route generating software...
Picture the scene, you're driving from $STARTING_POINT to $DESTINATION, with your GPS-linked laptop giving spoken directions... then it starts going "warning, GATSO 1 mile... warning, GATSO 0.5 mile"... (Or for a more low-tech solution, locally placed signs by the road side... !)
According to http://www.lovejoy.demon.co.uk/lobbying/bright-gat sos.html a GATSO on the A3064 was painted in bright colours resulting in speeding dropped 80% and injury accidents by 43% - all for the cost of £250.
> Other cameras are speed cameras on roads -
> nothing to fear if you are law abiding.
I could almost believe that if said speed cameras where painted bright yellow (ie: highly visible) instead of being hidden behind bridges and/or road signs.
The former indicates a desire to lower speed, and hopefully reduce accidents[1], the latter makes them a revenue generating device.
[1] The county of Suffolk had 24 road-related deaths in 1998 so they had a crackdown on speeding, reduced road speeds, added extra GATSOs (etc). In 1999, there where 48 road-related deaths and in 2000 56! Clearly that was a worthwhile use of money from the public purse!
> If the US government were to send in the marines
> they'd be invading another country.
Alternatively, if Sealand isn't another country then they've just invaded the United Kingdom and this would also, as you said "violate more treaties than you can count. The repercussions would be horrendous politcally."!
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The problem with the form is that it's based on the very USA/UK way of thinking that something must either be 100% of the solution or is useless with no middle ground possible. Whereas real life(TM) tends to be more granular in nature.
Given that they where both SSBNs it seems somewhat unlikely one would be tracking the other. More likely one would track just long enough to get an idea of the other's course and speed and then head off at 90 degrees to that course.
I couldn't count the number of speed cameras I've driven past, but I suspect it's a really large number. I can, however, confidently state that I've never applied the brakes (or done anything else to reduce my speed) as I approached them. Despite my "careless attitude" towards them, I've never been the recipient of a speeding fine ... Because I find it remarkably easy to drive within the speed limit!
Nb: I said "within;" not "at". If, in my judgement, the maximum safe speed for the conditions is lower than the speed limit (eg: I have some eejit tailgating me), I slow down rather than continuing to drive at the speed limit.
Contention ratio isn't the ratio of downstream:upstream bandwidth. It's the ratio of how 'oversold' the bandwidth is, with 2Mb 50:1 ADSL you're sharing your 2Mbs with 49 other users (who are, hopefully, not all trying to use it at once).
Contention ratio isn't the ratio of downstream/upstream bandwidth. It's the ratio of how 'oversold' the bandwidth is, thus the worst case scenario for 50:1 is that you'll be sharing your 2Mb (or whatever) bandwidth with 49 over users.
To be exact, in order to get Sky you must pay more than the TV license fee in addition to paying the TV license fee.
Even the Concorde couldn't pay for itself, and it cut the trip time for a very busy route in half.
Part of the reason that Concorde couldn't pay for itself was that they only ever made 16 production examples. On a day to day basis, Concorde made a profit for British Airways (and apparently contributed a nice "halo effect" to the rest of the business).
There are ... Over here in .uk they're organised by the http://bhpc.org.uk/ (British Human Power Club), I would suspect there's a USA-ian equivalent organisation.
If the car drivers can't see a recumbent bike which is basically at a height where my eyes are at the same level as theirs, then how do they see the kerbs or the white lines at junctions which are much lower than I am? Not to mention potholes which have a negative height?
Tell me, have you ever ridden a recumbent in traffic or are you just spouting off about something you've never done?
> Remember what the engineers said about the Titanic before it set sail.
IIRC, they said it was the most unsinkable liner yet built - ie: not unsinkable merely harder to sink than any other liner in existence at the time.
Since you seem to be wanting to make the point that they where wrong, please provide your evidence of other contemperary(sp?) liners hitting icebergs in the same manner and remaining afloat?
> 2. There is something on Mars which hates space probes!
Well given that the Beagle 2 was meant to announce it's successful landing on Mars by playing a piece of music by Blur maybe it's just the case that the Martians have better taste in music than the builders of the Beagle 2?
IYTM, the railways used to be state owned ie. the limp hand of the treasury was upon them preventing any large scale investment, leaving BR with little to do that was more than management of decline
The treasury are, after all, why the folllowing occured :- ...
(a) ATP (Automatic Train Protection) not installed because it was too expensive, even though Cyril Smith MP said it would be installed "no matter what the cost".
(b) ECML (East Coast Main Line, ie: GNER's route) electrification done on the cheap - hence why it has problems in adverse weather conditions.
(c) Insufficient HSTs bought back in the 1970s, which is still affecting provision of trains to this day
> Well the new US fighter jet, the F/A 22 is the first plane ever with engines
... The English Electric Lightning was doing supercruise ...
> that can go supersonic using turbofans.
ITYM, second plane ever
without reheat back in the mid 1950s
Alternatively, _All Good Things_ is just an alternature future? Which would be consistent with the Enterprise-D (albeit with three warp nacelles and a BFG(TM)!) still existing after Troi crashed it at the end of Generations.
mattbee twisted the electrons to say:
> Unfortunately, 1) I don't understand a fscking word of this document, but wonder whether they're
> trying to head off criticism through this addition, and 2) they've specifically excluded
> computer software from this!
I agree with you on that one! I've "read" the document and, whilst I want to compain, it's so bloody hard to work out what it's saying that it makes any complaints almost impossible to write!
Coolvibe twisted the electrons to say:
... last time I checked the Netherlands where part of the EU right? You are aware that the EUCD requires that member states transpose it into national law before the 22nd December 2002.
... maybe they're just avoiding having any consultation period over on that side of the channel?
> In fact, the absence of laws like these in the country I live in make me proud to be a dutchman.
Err
Or to put it another way, this is going to get you in Holland as well
The "threats" that I'm aware of are :-
1) Compulsory ID cards only make sense if it's requirement to always carry them, and *that* only makes sense if the Police can stop anyone and ask to see them at anytime - at which point you're perilously close to a police state[1].
2) Badly implemented smart cards will make it easy for the theft of other peoples identities.
[1] Of course, Hong Kong has been perilously close (if only in geographic terms) to a police state ever since the Chinese revolution!
> Moral of the story: If you live in the UK, don't bother encrypting either.
.uk resident, I'd say encrypt *everything* you can think of - that way the stuff that needs to be encrypted won't stand out so much against the background noise ...
> They'll just get their grubby hands on it if they want to.
Actually, speaking as another
Well according to the BBC the Germans currently get about 3.5% of their power from wind (a 44% increase over the previous year), however (again according to the BBC) they currently get about 33% of their power from nuclear sources and the last plant won't be turned off for about 32 years ...
> I think we can all agree Mir has been a disaster from day 1. Yeah ... and we can point the wonderfully successful space station programs run by other nations as .. Oh well, so much for that argument!
> Your analysis of speed cameras is completely incorrect.
... explain in depth where in particular I went wrong?
...
... then it starts going "warning, GATSO 1 mile ... warning, GATSO 0.5 mile" ... (Or for a more low-tech solution, locally placed signs by the road side ... !)
t sos.html a GATSO on the A3064 was painted in bright colours resulting in speeding dropped 80% and injury accidents by 43% - all for the cost of £250.
You have references or evidence for this statement of course
> Speed cameras, to be effective, should be
> invisible, and penalties should be issued
> strictly, so that people go slow all the time.
Unless you're proposing a *massive* increase in taxation, then people will just speed on roads that don't have GATSOs. Also magazines, like Max Power print information on hidden speed cameras - plot forward a couple of years and this information will probably be combinable with route generating software
Picture the scene, you're driving from $STARTING_POINT to $DESTINATION, with your GPS-linked laptop giving spoken directions
According to http://www.lovejoy.demon.co.uk/lobbying/bright-ga
> Other cameras are speed cameras on roads -
> nothing to fear if you are law abiding.
I could almost believe that if said speed cameras where painted bright yellow (ie: highly visible) instead of being hidden behind bridges and/or road signs.
The former indicates a desire to lower speed, and hopefully reduce accidents[1], the latter makes them a revenue generating device.
[1] The county of Suffolk had 24 road-related deaths in 1998 so they had a crackdown on speeding, reduced road speeds, added extra GATSOs (etc). In 1999, there where 48 road-related deaths and in 2000 56! Clearly that was a worthwhile use of money from the public purse!
> If the US government were to send in the marines
> they'd be invading another country.
Alternatively, if Sealand isn't another country then they've just invaded the United Kingdom and this would also, as you said "violate more treaties than you can count. The repercussions would be horrendous politcally."!