Like Anonyomous Coward says, you can live your entire life without making any allegiance to the country. So far, I've never had to swear alleigance to the UK in any form.
The phone answer sounds more likely to be correct: someone at the embassy is more likely to know the correct figure today, rather then a fact book, which was published however many months ago.
In addition the phone figure is 1200km are elctrified, which is 60% of the total: implying the total railway is about 1800km long. The fact book figure is a total of 1200km of railway in the country. Ask yourself: are they more likely to be tearing up track or putting it in?
Anyway 1200 is the same as 1201, to 2 significant figures. Except that the two numbers are measuring different things.
Legoland Billund is a big place: kid could easily wonder out of sight in a couple of minutes, while you look at one of the models. If your phone says "kid is near the models of the pyramids", and you are near the models of the pyramids, you stop and look. If the phone says "kid is near the driving school", you leave the models of the pyramids, and go to the driving school and look, there: you are not looking somewhere that the kid is no-where near.
But if you hire the tag at the gate in the morning, and return it to the gate at the end of the day, it won't be able to track the child anywhere else (because it will never get to another w-fi area).
I'm normally opposed to this sort of thing, but in a place like a theme park this sounds great. Assuming that the tag could be hired from the theme park, you need only use it while you are there.
When you are in a place which the parent or the kid knows reasonably well, you can easily arrange a good meeting place if you get seperated, and the kid has a reasonable chance of finding it. OTOH, most people only go to a theme park occasionally: even if you do decide on a meeting place, you could easily get lost en route to it.
It could also help if the child is with the other (custodial) parent: the first parent can quickly check whether other parent is still queueing for a ride, or has gone onto designated meeting spot. Dh and I have tried using mobiles, but as dh's mobile is his work phone he is too likely to get work related calls for it to be particularly useful on his day off.
They've been doing that for a very long time: War Games (the book of the film) came out as a Penguin (with swear words) edition and a Puffin edition (without swear words, 25p cheaper) at the same time, back whenever it was the film came out.
Read a fascinating article here: http://www.timetabler.com/textbooks.html
Basically it says that the books studied in English usually have a much lower reading age then the science/maths textbooks used by the same age group.
If you go from reading a book in English class that you can understand easily - with your teacher explaining the difficult words - to a harder book in science, with no help from the teacher to understnad the book, science will naturally seem harder then other sobjects.
A while ago I read that if you go to different workers and ask them what maths they use in their work, most of them will say "none, really". If you then ask them about their work, you will discover that hairdressers use ratios, as do cooks, painters use areas and volume etc: but none of these identify them as "maths".
I was writing something that allowed you to link between different documents stored on a network at approximately the same time as TBL was coming up with the html. Functionally it was the same concept, although the implementation was different.
It used postscript, and other propriatry software.
A lot of the email I send (and receive) is in reply to usenet posts. I won't know in advance who wants to send me genuinely useful email from comments to usenet posts, nor do they know I have the answer to their question.
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Like Anonyomous Coward says, you can live your entire life without making any allegiance to the country. So far, I've never had to swear alleigance to the UK in any form.
The phone answer sounds more likely to be correct: someone at the embassy is more likely to know the correct figure today, rather then a fact book, which was published however many months ago.
In addition the phone figure is 1200km are elctrified, which is 60% of the total: implying the total railway is about 1800km long. The fact book figure is a total of 1200km of railway in the country. Ask yourself: are they more likely to be tearing up track or putting it in?
Anyway 1200 is the same as 1201, to 2 significant figures. Except that the two numbers are measuring different things.
The most powerful thing about vi is that you can combine any movement command with any editing command, and it will be usable.
I use it for writing the first draft of documentation etc: anything where you just need to get text into a file.
Legoland Billund is a big place: kid could easily wonder out of sight in a couple of minutes, while you look at one of the models. If your phone says "kid is near the models of the pyramids", and you are near the models of the pyramids, you stop and look. If the phone says "kid is near the driving school", you leave the models of the pyramids, and go to the driving school and look, there: you are not looking somewhere that the kid is no-where near.
But if you hire the tag at the gate in the morning, and return it to the gate at the end of the day, it won't be able to track the child anywhere else (because it will never get to another w-fi area).
I'm normally opposed to this sort of thing, but in a place like a theme park this sounds great. Assuming that the tag could be hired from the theme park, you need only use it while you are there.
When you are in a place which the parent or the kid knows reasonably well, you can easily arrange a good meeting place if you get seperated, and the kid has a reasonable chance of finding it. OTOH, most people only go to a theme park occasionally: even if you do decide on a meeting place, you could easily get lost en route to it.
It could also help if the child is with the other (custodial) parent: the first parent can quickly check whether other parent is still queueing for a ride, or has gone onto designated meeting spot. Dh and I have tried using mobiles, but as dh's mobile is his work phone he is too likely to get work related calls for it to be particularly useful on his day off.
They've been doing that for a very long time: War Games (the book of the film) came out as a Penguin (with swear words) edition and a Puffin edition (without swear words, 25p cheaper) at the same time, back whenever it was the film came out.
Read a fascinating article here:
http://www.timetabler.com/textbooks.html
Basically it says that the books studied in English usually have a much lower reading age then the science/maths textbooks used by the same age group.
If you go from reading a book in English class that you can understand easily - with your teacher explaining the difficult words - to a harder book in science, with no help from the teacher to understnad the book, science will naturally seem harder then other sobjects.
A while ago I read that if you go to different workers and ask them what maths they use in their work, most of them will say "none, really". If you then ask them about their work, you will discover that hairdressers use ratios, as do cooks, painters use areas and volume etc: but none of these identify them as "maths".
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I was writing something that allowed you to link between different documents stored on a network at approximately the same time as TBL was coming up with the html. Functionally it was the same concept, although the implementation was different.
It used postscript, and other propriatry software.
A lot of the email I send (and receive) is in reply to usenet posts. I won't know in advance who wants to send me genuinely useful email from comments to usenet posts, nor do they know I have the answer to their question.