Programmers are typically well educated and mobile - they will go where the work is.
Hundreds of contract programmers are said to have left the UK to work abroad becuase of recent tax changes targeted at them. Right now in the UK I know of a number of _US_ programmers who have come here to work on major projects where apparently they can't find enough UK contractors. Probably (given it is a large multinational/US company) some of the work is also being outsourced from the UK back _in_ to the US.
Or perhaps blocking it entirely at the request of the RIAA/MPAA/whatever because it happens to be used by a p2p protocol, thus forcing VOIP users onto more expensive "VOIP enabled" internet connection plans, or back onto PSTN.
Nah, can't see any reason that might happen, wouldn't be in any big company's interest to kill SIP now would it...
Nope (be lovely if it was that simple), because SIP uses incoming (on different, sometimes random, ports) as well as outgoing connections. At least for VOIP, SIP behind NAT usually requires using proxies and/or STUN servers. See eg. here.
Actually that says that they provided the catching kit and that they are in the business of providing parachute systems - not that they provided the parachute system in this case.
like a lot of people, I would if it would do any good.
10 miles from the centre of major city (leeds) and can't even get C5 let alone freeview. They won't even give a date for possibly upgrading the transmitter (presumably they will do it before they switch off analogue, but maybe not, who knows...)
see any number of online conversion tools (this came from this one: http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm).
Of course given the lack of standardisation of the imperial system it is entirely possible that you are being short changed on pints in your location:-)
Pilots crash planes more often, but controller errors can and do result in crashes (not always sole cause, but then there is usually combination of factors in an air crash). Eg.
As of 1 May this year they raised the age from 16 to 18, but with several complex exceptions. Not sure how it applies to archive material - since the inital act of making / distributing the image was legal at the time, they probably won't go after that, but since possession can be illegal and possession is current...
Politicians paint the issue as black and white in public and equate porn with abuse - to quote the IWF - "child abuse images (often referred to as child pornography)". But looking at the laws they make it is clear they are desparately trying to work around the blatant contradictions - eg. an older man has sex with a 16yo girlfriend, fine, but if she emails him a topless photo of herself, he's a child abuser.
Unless of course she moves in with him so he can abu^H^H^H have sex with her more often, in which case he might be able to prove that they were in an "enduring family relationship" (or married, which would be easier to prove but doesn't appear to count as "enduring"...).
Hmm, did we say defendant has to prove, oh dear another burden-of-proof reversal, how did that sneak in... but never mind, we are talking about nasty child abusers (or at least, people who have sex with other people over the age of consent, but same thing really...) after all.
"could be a nineteen-year-old with their seventeen-year-old friend."...which would be legal in the UK (where BT is doing the blocking) - because the age of consent is 16.
Not true - plenty of jobs where people on the ground are working with kit worth more than that. Easy for a forklift or truck driver to cause a lot of damage when moving stuff around.
Hmm, but aren't the broadcasters and FCC etc. about to make it impossible to make your own copy of the event with the new broadcast flag, drm etc.
I guess the broadcasters can't have it both ways - if they want to prevent everyone else copying then seems reasonable they are going to be required to keep definitive copies for evidence...
Being a founder, CEO, chairman, shareholder etc. doesn't mean no contract - in fact I'd say from my experience it normally means more contracts and more complex - unless you own the _whole_ company and answer to absolutely no one else.
Clearly in this case (given the legal action), at some point others came into it and/or he sold out. There will likely have been contracts for those events. Outside of employment contracts, if he was a shareholder there may well be shareholder agreements, company "articles of association" (or whatever the local equivalent), etc. etc.
If it was in his employment contract, then they gave him a job in exchange.
It might have been a termination agreement, in which case they would be modifying original employment terms and probably giving termination payoff also.
Eh ? BT _do_ offer unlimited free local (and national) calls depending on which calling plan you take.
Sure, you pay more monthly fixed charges to get free calls, but then same goes everywhere - "free local calls" normally means you don't get charged any _extra_ for the calls over and above fixed monthly charges, not that you don't pay anything at all.
Digital photography with OCR is already used for speed cameras in the UK. Not sure what distance it will go to, but the cameras are up high over the road lanes and sight along the lane, so I guess camera-plate distance could well be 100ft or more.
Er, you seem to have misunderstood. The article is dicussing policy for dealing with effects of climate change, not policy for trying to avoid it.
To extend the previous quote from the article:
You can't build up every sea wall. You can't fortify every grid. You can't find more water for every farm. We just can't afford it. It's not possible. But you don't really know for certain where gradual climate change is going to hit the hardest, or how abrupt climate change might unfold. And you can't make good decisions about how to respond until you do.
Only realistic response is do nothing.
Should we be trying to minimize the effects of our activities on the environment (at every scale) - yes I would say so, but that is a different question and encompassess far more than just climate change. We could easily pollute ourselves out of existence before we boil/freeze.
Consumers also didn't want it because nothing was released on DAT in original - DAT was _only_ useful for copying (in consumer arena). Quality gain is less (perceived at any rate) if you are copying from analogue, and what digital source would you be copying... a CD. In the early days DAT blanks were almost at CD prices - so very little incentive to use it.
Also, a major reason is that the RIAA etc. actively promoted the hell out of CDs instead. They loved CDs - they were effectively a read-only media early on, and with so much better quality than tapes that people would crave originals and so copying would die... a record execs dream.
Cheap CD writers (and more importantly cheap blank media) then became their nightmare, followed by downloading. Now they know they can't hope to control technologies by expensive writing hardware/media - so they are going for more direct control over what the technology is allowed to do.
Labour cost must be saved elsewhere because item prices are the same.
If you have your exact list and know the store really well, it probably doesn't take a lot longer to pick the goods off shelves than to sit at a checkout and check them all through. Delivery usually is charged for.
Overall, they make a sizable profit on the operation, and have done for some time, see eg. here.
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Which hasn't yet (cloning claims from wierd sects aside) lead to actual procreation - which is what you need to save a species
Programmers are typically well educated and mobile - they will go where the work is.
Hundreds of contract programmers are said to have left the UK to work abroad becuase of recent tax changes targeted at them. Right now in the UK I know of a number of _US_ programmers who have come here to work on major projects where apparently they can't find enough UK contractors. Probably (given it is a large multinational/US company) some of the work is also being outsourced from the UK back _in_ to the US.
From my reading of the decision it sounds ike Diebold _are_ going to have to cover costs, attorneys fees etc. as per (2) above.
That said, I think that is all they are getting hit for - ie. no punitive damages.
type of wheat / flour.
can't see why it's relevant in the context of the grandparent post though...
Or perhaps blocking it entirely at the request of the RIAA/MPAA/whatever because it happens to be used by a p2p protocol, thus forcing VOIP users onto more expensive "VOIP enabled" internet connection plans, or back onto PSTN.
Nah, can't see any reason that might happen, wouldn't be in any big company's interest to kill SIP now would it...
Nope (be lovely if it was that simple), because SIP uses incoming (on different, sometimes random, ports) as well as outgoing connections. At least for VOIP, SIP behind NAT usually requires using proxies and/or STUN servers. See eg. here.
Per your .sig, life is even wierder than that - check out nomato ketchup, eg.
here
and yes it is serious - tomato ketchup for those who are allergic to tomatos...
Actually that says that they provided the catching kit and that they are in the business of providing parachute systems - not that they provided the parachute system in this case.
Maybe they did - but your quote doesn't state it.
like a lot of people, I would if it would do any good.
10 miles from the centre of major city (leeds) and can't even get C5 let alone freeview. They won't even give a date for possibly upgrading the transmitter (presumably they will do it before they switch off analogue, but maybe not, who knows...)
Nope: 1 pint [UK] = 0.5682612 liter
:-)
see any number of online conversion tools (this came from this one: http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm).
Of course given the lack of standardisation of the imperial system it is entirely possible that you are being short changed on pints in your location
Pilots crash planes more often, but controller errors can and do result in crashes (not always sole cause, but then there is usually combination of factors in an air crash). Eg.
M anagement/Linatelookingback.html
t m (if both pilots had ignored ATC and followed onboard TCAS instructions, crash would have been avoided)
. htm
Milan SAS http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Safety_Issues/Risk
Swiss Skyguide ATC crash http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2125838.s
Tenerife http://aviation-safety.net/database/1977/770327-1
Not the same in the UK any more - recent amendment changed definition of "child" wrt. child porn law, upping the age from 16 to 18.
Age of consent remains 16 though - so you can f**k but not take photos.
See http://www.iwf.org.uk/hotline/uk_law.html.
Oh no, it's much more complicated than that. See
http://www.iwf.org.uk/hotline/uk_law.html.
As of 1 May this year they raised the age from 16 to 18, but with several complex exceptions. Not sure how it applies to archive material - since the inital act of making / distributing the image was legal at the time, they probably won't go after that, but since possession can be illegal and possession is current...
Politicians paint the issue as black and white in public and equate porn with abuse - to quote the IWF - "child abuse images (often referred to as child pornography)". But looking at the laws they make it is clear they are desparately trying to work around the blatant contradictions - eg. an older man has sex with a 16yo girlfriend, fine, but if she emails him a topless photo of herself, he's a child abuser.
Unless of course she moves in with him so he can abu^H^H^H have sex with her more often, in which case he might be able to prove that they were in an "enduring family relationship" (or married, which would be easier to prove but doesn't appear to count as "enduring"...).
Hmm, did we say defendant has to prove, oh dear another burden-of-proof reversal, how did that sneak in... but never mind, we are talking about nasty child abusers (or at least, people who have sex with other people over the age of consent, but same thing really...) after all.
"could be a nineteen-year-old with their seventeen-year-old friend." ...which would be legal in the UK (where BT is doing the blocking) - because the age of consent is 16.
Not true - plenty of jobs where people on the ground are working with kit worth more than that. Easy for a forklift or truck driver to cause a lot of damage when moving stuff around.
Or say this incident - blamed on technicians...
Or say you were an air-traffic-controller... - how big a mistake do you want to make.
Hmm, but aren't the broadcasters and FCC etc. about to make it impossible to make your own copy of the event with the new broadcast flag, drm etc.
I guess the broadcasters can't have it both ways - if they want to prevent everyone else copying then seems reasonable they are going to be required to keep definitive copies for evidence...
Being a founder, CEO, chairman, shareholder etc. doesn't mean no contract - in fact I'd say from my experience it normally means more contracts and more complex - unless you own the _whole_ company and answer to absolutely no one else.
Clearly in this case (given the legal action), at some point others came into it and/or he sold out. There will likely have been contracts for those events. Outside of employment contracts, if he was a shareholder there may well be shareholder agreements, company "articles of association" (or whatever the local equivalent), etc. etc.
If it was in his employment contract, then they gave him a job in exchange.
It might have been a termination agreement, in which case they would be modifying original employment terms and probably giving termination payoff also.
Eh ? BT _do_ offer unlimited free local (and national) calls depending on which calling plan you take.
Sure, you pay more monthly fixed charges to get free calls, but then same goes everywhere - "free local calls" normally means you don't get charged any _extra_ for the calls over and above fixed monthly charges, not that you don't pay anything at all.
Digital photography with OCR is already used for speed cameras in the UK. Not sure what distance it will go to, but the cameras are up high over the road lanes and sight along the lane, so I guess camera-plate distance could well be 100ft or more.
See eg. this link
erm, read a little first - rfid does _not_ need a battery.
To extend the previous quote from the article:
You can't build up every sea wall. You can't fortify every grid. You can't find more water for every farm. We just can't afford it. It's not possible. But you don't really know for certain where gradual climate change is going to hit the hardest, or how abrupt climate change might unfold. And you can't make good decisions about how to respond until you do.
Only realistic response is do nothing.
Should we be trying to minimize the effects of our activities on the environment (at every scale) - yes I would say so, but that is a different question and encompassess far more than just climate change. We could easily pollute ourselves out of existence before we boil/freeze.
Well it is sad, but, given that quote, how else can they respond ?
"We know lots about the history of climate change" - great, but can't do anything about the past...
"we know little about the future of climate change" - great, so do we make policy for ice age or global oven, no one knows, so, do nothing.
Consumers also didn't want it because nothing was released on DAT in original - DAT was _only_ useful for copying (in consumer arena). Quality gain is less (perceived at any rate) if you are copying from analogue, and what digital source would you be copying... a CD. In the early days DAT blanks were almost at CD prices - so very little incentive to use it.
Also, a major reason is that the RIAA etc. actively promoted the hell out of CDs instead. They loved CDs - they were effectively a read-only media early on, and with so much better quality than tapes that people would crave originals and so copying would die... a record execs dream.
Cheap CD writers (and more importantly cheap blank media) then became their nightmare, followed by downloading. Now they know they can't hope to control technologies by expensive writing hardware/media - so they are going for more direct control over what the technology is allowed to do.
Labour cost must be saved elsewhere because item prices are the same.
If you have your exact list and know the store really well, it probably doesn't take a lot longer to pick the goods off shelves than to sit at a checkout and check them all through. Delivery usually is charged for.
Overall, they make a sizable profit on the operation, and have done for some time, see eg. here.