Cornflakes have an energy density of 15.75 MJ/kg, according to the nutritional information on a box I have here. It seems to me that energy density is not a very relevant measurement.
That sounds like Ryanair, not Easyjet. Ryanair now has a ridiculously large wheelchair surcharge following the court case they lost. Easyjet seems fairly straightforward about its charges. You do have to pay extra for using a credit card, but you can avoid this by using a debit card. Seems reasonable enough to me.
In the UK a business must advertise prices including VAT (possibly as well as the VAT-exclusive prices) unless it sells mostly to VAT-registered businesses.
However some shops have an annoying advertising practice of claiming to sell at "VAT-free" prices (illegal) or "paying the VAT for you" (required by law), which really means they reduced the selling price by about 15% to what the price would previously have been without VAT.
Your contract almost certainly has a clause in it allowing the service provider to change it unilaterally by giving you notice. That seems to be standard practice for utility contracts here, anyway. You can at least cancel without charge if the changes are in the utility's favour.
The OSI 7-layer model was the basis of an actual OSI protocol stack. Back in the 80s governments were preparing to use this for all their networks. In practice the protocols were too complex for interoperability, whereas TCP/IP is relatively simple and highly interoperable. I guess some people are embarrassed by the failure of OSI as a protocol stack and want to claim credit for the invention of protocol stacks, most of which don't really fit the model that well.
Virus doesn't have a plural in Latin because it's a mass noun. Second declension masculine nouns change ending from -us to -i (single i) in the plural, but "virus" does not follow that declension.
You're probably thinking of toxoplasma. It lives in at least rats, cats and humans. Apparently one of its effects on the brains of rats is to make them less afraid of cats, making them more likely to be eaten. It may cause a similar reduction in risk-averseness in humans.
Some companies that use generation numbers for their products just skip number 4 because it is considered unlucky in Japan in the same way that number 13 is considered unlucky by some people in the west (the Japanese words for "four" and "death" are similar). This is why there is no Palm IV for example. Maybe there's something in it.;-) However IE 4 was very successful - in my opinion it was the first usable version of IE and it would probably have killed Netscape even if it wasn't bundled.
The current UK proposal is to store all the details in a big central database. This would result in a single point of failure and infiltration in an authentication system that is supposed to be used ubiquitously. The sensible way to implement biometric ID cards (for what they're worth, which for general public use is not a lot in my opinion) is to put the biometric details for its authorised user on the card plus a signature on those details made by the issuing authority. Of course the CA for such signatures would also be a juicy target, but by using several levels of CAs it is possible to reduce the need for access to the master signing key and to mitigate the damage resulting from disclosure of a normal signing key. PKI enables offline checking for a while using cached public keys.
Time was when you would go to a local shop and the people there would actually know who you were without having to scan you. Chain stores tend to treat their workers poorly so they don't stick around and get to know the customers. This is why those stores have to resort to "loyalty" cards and such like.
In 2002, except for auto parts stores, 7.5 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores in the US was in Wal-Mart.
I'm surprised it isn't higher, given their apparent dominance. Here in the UK, it was recently announced that the Tesco supermarket chain has 13% of the total retail market.
Oddly enough, I learned that from a TV ad for HSBC that is running in the UK now. (It just says the gesture is rude, but one can guess how.) This factoid (among others) is supposed to demonstrate how well they understand foreign customs. Why this should make someone choose to bank with HSBC, I'm not sure. Perhaps the idea is that they will do a better job of picking investments overseas.
The referendum will apparently be on ratification of the constitution. AIUI there is currently no written constitution, only treaties, so this will not be a rewrite.
They aren't parking meters. They are payment stations which each cover a large number of bays. They take credit cards (which need to be validated) as well as coins, they can report which bays have been paid for and which haven't, and they can adjust prices according to (anticipated) demand.
It seems that hearing one side of a conversations is more distracting than hearing both sides, perhaps because when you hear both sides the conversation is a fairly constant noise.
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If you join the Japanese navy you get to dance... I think.
Cornflakes have an energy density of 15.75 MJ/kg, according to the nutritional information on a box I have here. It seems to me that energy density is not a very relevant measurement.
That sounds like Ryanair, not Easyjet. Ryanair now has a ridiculously large wheelchair surcharge following the court case they lost. Easyjet seems fairly straightforward about its charges. You do have to pay extra for using a credit card, but you can avoid this by using a debit card. Seems reasonable enough to me.
In the UK a business must advertise prices including VAT (possibly as well as the VAT-exclusive prices) unless it sells mostly to VAT-registered businesses.
However some shops have an annoying advertising practice of claiming to sell at "VAT-free" prices (illegal) or "paying the VAT for you" (required by law), which really means they reduced the selling price by about 15% to what the price would previously have been without VAT.
Your contract almost certainly has a clause in it allowing the service provider to change it unilaterally by giving you notice. That seems to be standard practice for utility contracts here, anyway. You can at least cancel without charge if the changes are in the utility's favour.
The OSI 7-layer model was the basis of an actual OSI protocol stack. Back in the 80s governments were preparing to use this for all their networks. In practice the protocols were too complex for interoperability, whereas TCP/IP is relatively simple and highly interoperable. I guess some people are embarrassed by the failure of OSI as a protocol stack and want to claim credit for the invention of protocol stacks, most of which don't really fit the model that well.
What are you talking about? AmigaOS didn't support anything but rectangular opaque windows, which couldn't even be moved off-screen.
Virus doesn't have a plural in Latin because it's a mass noun. Second declension masculine nouns change ending from -us to -i (single i) in the plural, but "virus" does not follow that declension.
Amazingly, what's really risky for the baby of an HIV+ mother is not sharing her blood stream for 9 months but drinking her milk.
You're probably thinking of toxoplasma. It lives in at least rats, cats and humans. Apparently one of its effects on the brains of rats is to make them less afraid of cats, making them more likely to be eaten. It may cause a similar reduction in risk-averseness in humans.
Some companies that use generation numbers for their products just skip number 4 because it is considered unlucky in Japan in the same way that number 13 is considered unlucky by some people in the west (the Japanese words for "four" and "death" are similar). This is why there is no Palm IV for example. Maybe there's something in it. ;-) However IE 4 was very successful - in my opinion it was the first usable version of IE and it would probably have killed Netscape even if it wasn't bundled.
The current UK proposal is to store all the details in a big central database. This would result in a single point of failure and infiltration in an authentication system that is supposed to be used ubiquitously. The sensible way to implement biometric ID cards (for what they're worth, which for general public use is not a lot in my opinion) is to put the biometric details for its authorised user on the card plus a signature on those details made by the issuing authority. Of course the CA for such signatures would also be a juicy target, but by using several levels of CAs it is possible to reduce the need for access to the master signing key and to mitigate the damage resulting from disclosure of a normal signing key. PKI enables offline checking for a while using cached public keys.
Time was when you would go to a local shop and the people there would actually know who you were without having to scan you. Chain stores tend to treat their workers poorly so they don't stick around and get to know the customers. This is why those stores have to resort to "loyalty" cards and such like.
I'm surprised it isn't higher, given their apparent dominance. Here in the UK, it was recently announced that the Tesco supermarket chain has 13% of the total retail market.
Newbie. You should have used good old Hollerith strings.
Seriously, though, I did start with Basic and not Fortran.
Nope, that counts from 11 to 110. 1-based indexing is such a losing choice.
DeCSS obviously does not of itself infringe copyright or other IPR. The problem there is the DMCA and similar laws elsewhere in the world.
Oops, I didn't notice that. That means it doesn't set a precedent.
The magic copyrighted string won't hold up in (US) court - see Sega v Accolade .
She? Andrea is a masculine name in Italy.
Oddly enough, I learned that from a TV ad for HSBC that is running in the UK now. (It just says the gesture is rude, but one can guess how.) This factoid (among others) is supposed to demonstrate how well they understand foreign customs. Why this should make someone choose to bank with HSBC, I'm not sure. Perhaps the idea is that they will do a better job of picking investments overseas.
The referendum will apparently be on ratification of the constitution. AIUI there is currently no written constitution, only treaties, so this will not be a rewrite.
That may be so, but the Wright brothers invented the plane for the specific purpose of aerial bombing.
They aren't parking meters. They are payment stations which each cover a large number of bays. They take credit cards (which need to be validated) as well as coins, they can report which bays have been paid for and which haven't, and they can adjust prices according to (anticipated) demand.
The PHS mobile system supports that. Unfortunately it's almost unknown outside of Asia.
It seems that hearing one side of a conversations is more distracting than hearing both sides, perhaps because when you hear both sides the conversation is a fairly constant noise.