Though London is a few hours' drive from Sellafield, and also has the distinction of being a pretty high value target for terrorists (probably the highest-profile one in the UK, and one of the highest in the world). So if 30kg of plutonium (more than enough to make a dirty bomb capable of Chernobyl-grade contamination) went missing from any reactor in Great Britain, it'd be a worry for anyone living in greater London.
To say that Quartz uses the PDF display model is not the same as saying that it uses PDF. The PDF display model (which is basically the same thing as the PostScript display model) is an abstraction for performing imaging operations. Essentially, it consists of awareness of current state (location, pen thickness, colours, transformation matrix) and operations which act on this state (moveto, lineto, rotate, &c.)
A lot of things these days use PostScript-influenced display models (Qt's QPainter is one); which is not the same as saying that a lot of things use PostScript.
I wonder whether anyone has told the Coffeyville, KS chamber of commerce; they could start printing Center of the World postcards and T-shirts, and rename the local diner the Center of the World Diner, and hopefully rake in the tourist bucks.
The difference is that before the British arrived, India consisted of a number of wealthy kingdoms, which had a thriving trade-based economy. (Keep in mind that India is right in the centre of ancient east-west trade routes.) After the British came (well, some time into their stay), the wealth of a subjugated India was channelled back to London, and via there to building an empire. (Not that everything the British did was bad; for one, they did eliminate practices such as suttee and the thuggee cult. Though they did extract a hefty material price from India.)
Australia, however, was predominantly nomadic hunter-gatherer societies, with little to plunder (not counting land); Australia has natural resources such as gold and iron ore, but the aborigines had not begun exploiting those. I'm not sure about Canada, though I doubt if the economic wealth of the Native American tribes would have been in the same league as the Mughals.
Actually, the UK is a net exporter of curry to India; UK curry manufacturers (often founded by immigrants from the Indian subcontinent) now export curry paste/mix to the rest of the world, including India. Meanwhile, tikka masala recently was acknowledged as the English national dish.
Going the other way, a few years ago, the Indian conglomerate Tata Group bought English tea company Tetley's.
A universal, robust, watertight rights-management architecture that can be applied to any content, regulate access at a fine-grained level, allowing rightsholders to sell different types of licences (time limits, per-play limits, geographical and per-seat limits) to any content and be sure of having them enforced.
Many of the more humanistically inclined would not see this as a noble goal alongside the others; nonetheless, it is a priority for the intellectual property industries which dominate the economies of the US and Western nations and there are billions of dollars invested in it, so it is, by weight of numbers, one of the grand technological projects of the early 21st century.
I agree with you there. After the tsunami, BBC News 24 spent two weeks running nothing but human-interest stories about tsunami victims. The situations in Iraq and the Ukraine, for example, drew scarcely a mention, The one thing that snapped them out ot it was the floods in Cumbria.
In the new Tron, the Master Control Program is the good guy, and is besieged by shadowy terrorist pirates who wish to destroy it and replace its rights-management regime with open-source communism.
The government's influence on the BBC is sufficiently limited to render it practically ineffectual. It took BlairCo quite an effort to get Greg Dyke out, but it was largely a token victory for them. Afterwards, the BBC completely failed to be cowered and turn into FOXNews/PBS.
In contrast, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which receives its funds directly from the government, is a very timid, self-censoring beast, erring on the side of backing the government's line and only picking up criticism (i.e., of the Iraq war) after the commercial media have done so, for fear of facing another political purge or budget cut.
Where does BBC News 24 (the cable/satellite/digital TV channel) come in? Is the overseas version produced separately from the UK version? Or does the BBC collect subscription fees from all non-UK transmissions of it?
The US lies between the UK and a lot of other countries (Australia, for one); also, the US has good network infrastructure and quite possibly cheaper hosting than in the UK (due to the pound sterling being expensive relative to the dollar), so it makes sense for the BBC to invest in some hosting sites in the US.
Contrary to popular belief, LJ was not intended as a blog service, in the sense of personal publishing. It is more of a social-network system with built-in diaries, and its features (friends-only posts, user icons, mood/music fields) indicate that.
The key difference is that a blog is for communicating with people, including strangers, interested in a subject (or sharing a set of interests). A LiveJournal is for communicating with one's friends. Communication with friends, by definition, can involve things which an outsider would consider irrelevant or content-free.
What do you mean "made by Tulip"? It's extremely unlikely that they have factories in the Netherlands making their own kit. (The cost would be far too high to make it affordable to do so.) Chances are they do what everybody else does: contract the manufacturing out to factories in the Far East.
Mind you, if you have an iPod or a PowerBook, they didn't come from an Apple factory either. These days, very few companies own both a brand and a factory, at least in fast-changing markets such as technology.
If this is the same as the "Copy Control" system EMI rolled out in Australia last year (and have been putting on almost all of their CDs here since, not to mention letting Warner (who share their pressing plant) use it on theirs), it consists of two things. The CD itself has a corrupt TOC which some CD-ROM drives refuse to read, some return incorrect track lengths, and some read perfectly well. It also contains a track with encrypted Windows Media versions of all the tracks (at a really low bitrate; one title was 47kbps or so) and a player that plays them, after securing the machine so that the thieving user doesn't misappropriate EMI's precious intellectual property. There was a case brought against EMI here by a consumer who claimed that the computer versions of the tracks were of too poor quality; the consumer lost.
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Though London is a few hours' drive from Sellafield, and also has the distinction of being a pretty high value target for terrorists (probably the highest-profile one in the UK, and one of the highest in the world). So if 30kg of plutonium (more than enough to make a dirty bomb capable of Chernobyl-grade contamination) went missing from any reactor in Great Britain, it'd be a worry for anyone living in greater London.
To say that Quartz uses the PDF display model is not the same as saying that it uses PDF. The PDF display model (which is basically the same thing as the PostScript display model) is an abstraction for performing imaging operations. Essentially, it consists of awareness of current state (location, pen thickness, colours, transformation matrix) and operations which act on this state (moveto, lineto, rotate, &c.)
A lot of things these days use PostScript-influenced display models (Qt's QPainter is one); which is not the same as saying that a lot of things use PostScript.
I wonder whether anyone has told the Coffeyville, KS chamber of commerce; they could start printing Center of the World postcards and T-shirts, and rename the local diner the Center of the World Diner, and hopefully rake in the tourist bucks.
East Germany had something similar; the Stasi had hundreds of thousands of informers, with them literally being everywhere.
The difference is that before the British arrived, India consisted of a number of wealthy kingdoms, which had a thriving trade-based economy. (Keep in mind that India is right in the centre of ancient east-west trade routes.) After the British came (well, some time into their stay), the wealth of a subjugated India was channelled back to London, and via there to building an empire. (Not that everything the British did was bad; for one, they did eliminate practices such as suttee and the thuggee cult. Though they did extract a hefty material price from India.)
Australia, however, was predominantly nomadic hunter-gatherer societies, with little to plunder (not counting land); Australia has natural resources such as gold and iron ore, but the aborigines had not begun exploiting those. I'm not sure about Canada, though I doubt if the economic wealth of the Native American tribes would have been in the same league as the Mughals.
And Hinglish has the added charm that anything written in it, even a bureaucratic form, will read like a P.G. Wodehouse novel.
Mind you, in this case, he does have a point. The British Empire did cream off a lot of the wealth of India.
Camels? I think you're off by a few thousand miles.
I know, all those damn furriners look the same...
Actually, the UK is a net exporter of curry to India; UK curry manufacturers (often founded by immigrants from the Indian subcontinent) now export curry paste/mix to the rest of the world, including India. Meanwhile, tikka masala recently was acknowledged as the English national dish.
Going the other way, a few years ago, the Indian conglomerate Tata Group bought English tea company Tetley's.
This "FutureProof" character is very careful not to give any clues to his identity or whereabouts. Do you suppose there is a bounty on his head yet?
Perhaps upgrades in the UK are selling well enough for Apple to have decided against lowering prices for the moment?
Will the US store sell to UK customers? Will US Mac Minis run off 240v?
A universal, robust, watertight rights-management architecture that can be applied to any content, regulate access at a fine-grained level, allowing rightsholders to sell different types of licences (time limits, per-play limits, geographical and per-seat limits) to any content and be sure of having them enforced.
Many of the more humanistically inclined would not see this as a noble goal alongside the others; nonetheless, it is a priority for the intellectual property industries which dominate the economies of the US and Western nations and there are billions of dollars invested in it, so it is, by weight of numbers, one of the grand technological projects of the early 21st century.
If the US dollar declines enough to make American workers competitive against India and China, it could well happen.
Are you one of those Objectivists, by any chance?
You forgot DRM (Palladium).
I agree with you there. After the tsunami, BBC News 24 spent two weeks running nothing but human-interest stories about tsunami victims. The situations in Iraq and the Ukraine, for example, drew scarcely a mention, The one thing that snapped them out ot it was the floods in Cumbria.
In the new Tron, the Master Control Program is the good guy, and is besieged by shadowy terrorist pirates who wish to destroy it and replace its rights-management regime with open-source communism.
The government's influence on the BBC is sufficiently limited to render it practically ineffectual. It took BlairCo quite an effort to get Greg Dyke out, but it was largely a token victory for them. Afterwards, the BBC completely failed to be cowered and turn into FOXNews/PBS.
In contrast, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which receives its funds directly from the government, is a very timid, self-censoring beast, erring on the side of backing the government's line and only picking up criticism (i.e., of the Iraq war) after the commercial media have done so, for fear of facing another political purge or budget cut.
Where does BBC News 24 (the cable/satellite/digital TV channel) come in? Is the overseas version produced separately from the UK version? Or does the BBC collect subscription fees from all non-UK transmissions of it?
The US lies between the UK and a lot of other countries (Australia, for one); also, the US has good network infrastructure and quite possibly cheaper hosting than in the UK (due to the pound sterling being expensive relative to the dollar), so it makes sense for the BBC to invest in some hosting sites in the US.
Contrary to popular belief, LJ was not intended as a blog service, in the sense of personal publishing. It is more of a social-network system with built-in diaries, and its features (friends-only posts, user icons, mood/music fields) indicate that.
The key difference is that a blog is for communicating with people, including strangers, interested in a subject (or sharing a set of interests). A LiveJournal is for communicating with one's friends. Communication with friends, by definition, can involve things which an outsider would consider irrelevant or content-free.
What do you mean "made by Tulip"? It's extremely unlikely that they have factories in the Netherlands making their own kit. (The cost would be far too high to make it affordable to do so.) Chances are they do what everybody else does: contract the manufacturing out to factories in the Far East.
Mind you, if you have an iPod or a PowerBook, they didn't come from an Apple factory either. These days, very few companies own both a brand and a factory, at least in fast-changing markets such as technology.
The drinking age in Britain is 18, which still puts it in the "teenage market".
If this is the same as the "Copy Control" system EMI rolled out in Australia last year (and have been putting on almost all of their CDs here since, not to mention letting Warner (who share their pressing plant) use it on theirs), it consists of two things. The CD itself has a corrupt TOC which some CD-ROM drives refuse to read, some return incorrect track lengths, and some read perfectly well. It also contains a track with encrypted Windows Media versions of all the tracks (at a really low bitrate; one title was 47kbps or so) and a player that plays them, after securing the machine so that the thieving user doesn't misappropriate EMI's precious intellectual property. There was a case brought against EMI here by a consumer who claimed that the computer versions of the tracks were of too poor quality; the consumer lost.
...given how in Australia they have to use special hard disks which spin the opposite way around because of the Coriolis effect.