There are no prosecutors involved yet. This is the police following up on a death threat. They didn't know if it was a 17 year old kid talking shit, or a someone who would actually be a real threat. Anyway, talking shit and making threats in public always runs the risk that someone will call you out on it, or call the police. The guy should get a warning for being a complete tit, but it needed to be investigated.
Having read more about it, I agree, the police have to get involved when threats are made that this guy did. Yes, in this case it's a shit talking 17 year old. Next time it could be someone who will actually follow through with the threat. Gotta check 'em all.
It probably only took one or two people to report him to the police for them to have to investigate it, find threatening messages posted on a public board, and go an arrest him.
I also doubt it was the comment to the diver himself that triggered the arrest. It was the tweeter's massive meltdown when he got called out.
This is clearly some 17 year old kid shit talking on Twitter. Just a troll. Getting the police involved is ridiculous, unless he was to continue to do it (i.e., harrassment).
Then again, judging from the other tweets this kid has done, he has some serious problems. Some form of Twitter-Tourettes at least.
Hopefully the police will drop it, but the experience will cause the idiot to grow up. Haha, unlikely.
If women can't handle being hit on and joked about by men then they shouldn't be in the workplace to begin with.
Wow. Just wow.
This isn't the local downtown meatmarket nightclub we're talking about. It's a professional working environment. You simply don't have one group of employees targeting another group of employees just because of their sex (or colour, beliefs, etc).
Some people here seem to be living in the 1950s. Amazing.
That's exactly it. I don't see adverts any longer either. But I'll read some of the emails that I've opted in to (yeah, mostly tech shops, etc).
So one solution for the retailers is to create a better relationship with your existing customers to keep them coming back and recommending your company to other people. Stop throwing loads of money at trying to get new customers by increasingly less efficient online adverts, and try different means of promoting your company that will get people's attention.
I will admit to clicking on a few of the Google text adverts and paid-for search results when looking for kitchen white goods recently. Those ads give me more information in a line of text than any flash animated or video advert ever has.
Regardless, it appears that we are mainly talking about a static website here, so there's very little business logic (if any).
The Ajaxey stuff is usually used to update a browser view in a more clever way than the traditional entire-page-refresh.
Because the Ajaxey stuff is doing clever things with ID'd DIVs and SPANs, you need some decent control over your ID naming system so your Javascript knows where to insert/remove/update content on the page. Doing this by hand is far nicer than doing it in a WYSIWYG editor that probably hides implementation details like DIVs away from the user.
Or you could go the other way entirely and use something like Apache Wicket...
Apparently this film is 4% efficient. So if it's perfectly placed you'll be getting 40W during sunlight hours per m^2, compared to 200W from a 20% efficient panel.
So efficiency is an issue when you have ~4m^2 of south facing windows. Better off sticking it on the roof instead, that's more like 10m^2 and a more favourable angle. But only if the cost is dirt cheap, and I'm talking hundreds, not thousands.
I've seen residential solar panels at $0.82 a watt
What does that even mean?
$0.82 per watt generated, over its lifetime? per year? Fixed price per peak Watt-hour at time of purchase?
$820 to get a 1kWp solar array sounds cheap, and you need all the equipment to connect the panels to your home supply, etc. In the UK the prices are (from one website I've just Googled and found): "A 2kWp to 4kWp Home Solar system will cost between £5,000 and £8,000 depending on system size; however, through tax free Feed-in Tariff earnings of up to £900 each year, this can be recovered within 10 years."
One costs $20k, the other (hopefully) costs $2k. Problem with window coatings is that you tend to get windows replaced every so often, so you might not get the long-life of the rooftop mounted solution. Nothing stopping you mounting this on your roof instead.
You'll still be able to clearly see out of the windows with this solution, you wouldn't notice the tinting unless you have an uncoated window nearby, and it apparently doesn't blur/diffuse incoming light.
So you could install these in your car, and keep your battery topped up at all times, *and* have tinted windows...
If these are as cheap as they say they are, then even if they aren't very efficient, it could be worth installing them on suitable windows, especially in offices.
But until they can put figures to efficiency and cost, it's just self-promotion using a promise of something, rather than the thing itself. Tell me when I can buy a 10m roll of "70% Transparent Energy Film" that I can cut to shape and install.
That is what is known as the benefits trap. Benefits have to be of a level to allow someone to survive - food, water, clothes, shelter. You know, the basics and maybe a couple of cheap nice things every so often. You could cut them of course, but don't be surprised if suddenly desperate people resort to increasingly violent crimes in order to survive, and slums are a really nice advert for a country's real level of advancement and civilisation.
The real issue is that wages in many jobs are simply not high enough. Would you work 80 hours a week cleaning/waiting/etc just to live in just as much poverty as being on benefits gets you? From your position of privilege you would probably say "Yes", so I will dampen your enthusiasm by saying that in the real world, there is no "career progression" in these jobs, its that level of work for the rest of your life, to live in an apartment with damp/cockroaches/etc. That's if you can get a job, unemployment isn't exactly low. Yeah, yeah, should have tried harder in school, etc - but many people don't even get the opportunity to get a good education.
Btw, you should note that people on benefits usually spend all their benefits just to survive. I.e., all money being spent on benefits actually ends up back in the economy.
I suspect that for my next phone (around a year away) I'll be downsizing on the screen, etc, as long as it has wifi and acts as a mobile hotspot, and using a tablet for the actual heavy lifting, where the large screen actually makes sense and is usable. The phone is more than capable, but the display, even at 4.2", is too limiting for many applications.
So in this "video unwrappings" what we see are people who can't open a box that has a bit of tape on it, presumably because they've set themselves up for the video with themselves, and the box, and nothing else (well, a shirt collar plastic tag in one case).
In the real world, we've just opened the big cardboard box that the smaller box arrived in, and we have a pair of scissors or a knife in hand to cut through that bit of tape.
The videos are really "how I can't open a box" videos. Pitiful.
Admittedly, Apple's packaging is great, but in the end it's packaging, it's opened once and the box ends up in a drawer, on a shelf, in the loft or in the bin. Not a big deal, totally forgotten about once you've got the device in your hands, powered on, browsing your favourite porn^Hweb site.
But you're a Londoner, we're a curious breed - we will walk up to two miles rather than drive or get public transport, for longer journeys public transport is the primary means of getting around, and the car (if you have one) is used for family trips and shopping, and maybe the school run. Workplaces don't have car parks because it's a dense city, car parks cost a tonne, and there's a congestion charge - all of which push us onto public transport. And the Oyster card makes public transport easy.
Btw, most families in the UK don't have 3 or 4 children, so you are an edge case right now. Give it five years and the situation will change.
That's the cost to the end user, so it is totally comparable.
Europe is the logical place to be marketing electric cars, because the benefit to the end user is far more visceral right now than in the US. We're at $20/100 miles already, so for daily drivers an electric car would cost far less to run, maybe making up for the higher cost of the car.
At an average 8% per year energy density increase, today we are getting over twice the energy density of ten years ago. In 20 years time we will have over 4x the energy density of batteries today if that 8% continues. If, for your average city dweller, today's electric cars can do 95% of their driving needs, then in 20 years time a battery 1/4 of the size will be needed to match today's automobile battery packs (+efficiencies gained from having to move less battery weight along with the car). That should reduce the price of battery packs somewhat, although many people would prefer to be able to quadruple their range instead (maybe that would be something you could hire when you do that twice a year long car journey).
Someone above mentioned Lithium Air as potentially having 10x the energy density of today's batteries (i.e., 30 years worth of 8% increases). If that is the case, and they get it working in the next 10-20 years) then that would probably provide the leap forward that makes everyone switch to the new technology fairly rapidly.
Surely with this technology there will be an inflexion point when it becomes economical to sell electric cars instead of petrol engine cars. This will probably be a combination of rising petrol prices and dropping prices for batteries, and infrastructure for recharging being widely available. Up until that point growth will be fairly staid, then over a period of five-ten years the entire market switches to the new technology. Elon Musk clearly thinks that inflexion point is before 20 years from now.
One thing you cannot do is simply extrapolate a line from a couple of years of electric car sales and assume that is how it is going to continue.
A lot of those stories relate to the Metropolitan Police, who are pretty much one of the most useless and unfriendly policing organisations around. They certainly don't exist to help the public, and run away if things get too difficult, and god forbid that they actually need to do something that might involve thinking or minor effort. They need to be disbanded, and several professional police forces that are more localised to their area of London created to replace them.
abandoning 95% of the features with a simple product that does most things you want in a word processor
I bet the "5%" of features you use in a word processor are not the exact same set of features that I use, or other people use. Hence why there are more features than you use.
many of those complaints also applied to the iPhone (or at least, early versions of it)
Unfortunately Windows Phone 7.5 is competing with the current version of iOS, not the versions available before 2010.
However I agree it would be neat to see a table comparing all OS features (or missing features) across all the current mobile operating systems. I guess this list is a starting point. Wikipedia could have a page: Deficiencies of mobile phone operating systems.
"Supposedly Fixed" - I think we all know not to trust Microsoft's promises any more, they promised the world with all the previous versions of their mobile OSes.
Also even if it is fixed, it is no consolation to someone with a current Windows phone, as none of them can be upgraded to WP8.
The few people I know with a WP7.5 device are not happy with it due to the shortcomings listed. I mean, not being able to block certain phone numbers is a basic requirement for many people (especially somebody with a cranky ex or stalker).
This is great as I missed out on Morrowind the first time around, and recently bought it cheap - but I have a Mac and a Linux box. This solves trying to run the game in VirtualBox or on an underpowered netbook.
All very true, and more-so if you are young and/or single. It is true that possessions (and pets!) own you.
Depending on your circumstances, in many places, it is actually better to be buying a box than to be renting a house. And regardless, it is better to live close to work than further away.
Apart from that, buy the best bed you can afford, you spend around 50% of your time at home in it.
When you have a family, things change, you need a two or three bedroom house, and then you have to choose between expensive and close to work, or cheaper and further away. Schools and partner's needs are important now as well. Things are so much easier at this stage if you've saved $$$ earlier on in life because you decided not to have the penthouse flat:-)
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There are no prosecutors involved yet. This is the police following up on a death threat. They didn't know if it was a 17 year old kid talking shit, or a someone who would actually be a real threat. Anyway, talking shit and making threats in public always runs the risk that someone will call you out on it, or call the police. The guy should get a warning for being a complete tit, but it needed to be investigated.
Having read more about it, I agree, the police have to get involved when threats are made that this guy did. Yes, in this case it's a shit talking 17 year old. Next time it could be someone who will actually follow through with the threat. Gotta check 'em all.
And those are a fraction of the comments he made.
It probably only took one or two people to report him to the police for them to have to investigate it, find threatening messages posted on a public board, and go an arrest him.
I also doubt it was the comment to the diver himself that triggered the arrest. It was the tweeter's massive meltdown when he got called out.
This is clearly some 17 year old kid shit talking on Twitter. Just a troll. Getting the police involved is ridiculous, unless he was to continue to do it (i.e., harrassment).
Then again, judging from the other tweets this kid has done, he has some serious problems. Some form of Twitter-Tourettes at least.
Hopefully the police will drop it, but the experience will cause the idiot to grow up. Haha, unlikely.
In other news, Jan Moir of the nasty UK "news"paper the Daily Mail can write things about athletes being bitches without any police getting involved. This is real personal abuse. http://politicalscrapbook.net/2012/07/jan-moir-olympics-marianne-vos-some-bitch-from-holland-lizzie-armitstead/
If women can't handle being hit on and joked about by men then they shouldn't be in the workplace to begin with.
Wow. Just wow.
This isn't the local downtown meatmarket nightclub we're talking about. It's a professional working environment. You simply don't have one group of employees targeting another group of employees just because of their sex (or colour, beliefs, etc).
Some people here seem to be living in the 1950s. Amazing.
That's exactly it. I don't see adverts any longer either. But I'll read some of the emails that I've opted in to (yeah, mostly tech shops, etc).
So one solution for the retailers is to create a better relationship with your existing customers to keep them coming back and recommending your company to other people. Stop throwing loads of money at trying to get new customers by increasingly less efficient online adverts, and try different means of promoting your company that will get people's attention.
I will admit to clicking on a few of the Google text adverts and paid-for search results when looking for kitchen white goods recently. Those ads give me more information in a line of text than any flash animated or video advert ever has.
View Logic != Business Logic
Regardless, it appears that we are mainly talking about a static website here, so there's very little business logic (if any).
The Ajaxey stuff is usually used to update a browser view in a more clever way than the traditional entire-page-refresh.
Because the Ajaxey stuff is doing clever things with ID'd DIVs and SPANs, you need some decent control over your ID naming system so your Javascript knows where to insert/remove/update content on the page. Doing this by hand is far nicer than doing it in a WYSIWYG editor that probably hides implementation details like DIVs away from the user.
Or you could go the other way entirely and use something like Apache Wicket...
Apparently this film is 4% efficient. So if it's perfectly placed you'll be getting 40W during sunlight hours per m^2, compared to 200W from a 20% efficient panel.
So efficiency is an issue when you have ~4m^2 of south facing windows. Better off sticking it on the roof instead, that's more like 10m^2 and a more favourable angle. But only if the cost is dirt cheap, and I'm talking hundreds, not thousands.
I've seen residential solar panels at $0.82 a watt
What does that even mean?
$0.82 per watt generated, over its lifetime? per year? Fixed price per peak Watt-hour at time of purchase?
$820 to get a 1kWp solar array sounds cheap, and you need all the equipment to connect the panels to your home supply, etc. In the UK the prices are (from one website I've just Googled and found): "A 2kWp to 4kWp Home Solar system will cost between £5,000 and £8,000 depending on system size; however, through tax free Feed-in Tariff earnings of up to £900 each year, this can be recovered within 10 years."
One costs $20k, the other (hopefully) costs $2k. Problem with window coatings is that you tend to get windows replaced every so often, so you might not get the long-life of the rooftop mounted solution. Nothing stopping you mounting this on your roof instead.
You'll still be able to clearly see out of the windows with this solution, you wouldn't notice the tinting unless you have an uncoated window nearby, and it apparently doesn't blur/diffuse incoming light.
So you could install these in your car, and keep your battery topped up at all times, *and* have tinted windows...
If these are as cheap as they say they are, then even if they aren't very efficient, it could be worth installing them on suitable windows, especially in offices.
But until they can put figures to efficiency and cost, it's just self-promotion using a promise of something, rather than the thing itself. Tell me when I can buy a 10m roll of "70% Transparent Energy Film" that I can cut to shape and install.
That is what is known as the benefits trap. Benefits have to be of a level to allow someone to survive - food, water, clothes, shelter. You know, the basics and maybe a couple of cheap nice things every so often. You could cut them of course, but don't be surprised if suddenly desperate people resort to increasingly violent crimes in order to survive, and slums are a really nice advert for a country's real level of advancement and civilisation.
The real issue is that wages in many jobs are simply not high enough. Would you work 80 hours a week cleaning/waiting/etc just to live in just as much poverty as being on benefits gets you? From your position of privilege you would probably say "Yes", so I will dampen your enthusiasm by saying that in the real world, there is no "career progression" in these jobs, its that level of work for the rest of your life, to live in an apartment with damp/cockroaches/etc. That's if you can get a job, unemployment isn't exactly low. Yeah, yeah, should have tried harder in school, etc - but many people don't even get the opportunity to get a good education.
Btw, you should note that people on benefits usually spend all their benefits just to survive. I.e., all money being spent on benefits actually ends up back in the economy.
I suspect that for my next phone (around a year away) I'll be downsizing on the screen, etc, as long as it has wifi and acts as a mobile hotspot, and using a tablet for the actual heavy lifting, where the large screen actually makes sense and is usable. The phone is more than capable, but the display, even at 4.2", is too limiting for many applications.
So in this "video unwrappings" what we see are people who can't open a box that has a bit of tape on it, presumably because they've set themselves up for the video with themselves, and the box, and nothing else (well, a shirt collar plastic tag in one case).
In the real world, we've just opened the big cardboard box that the smaller box arrived in, and we have a pair of scissors or a knife in hand to cut through that bit of tape.
The videos are really "how I can't open a box" videos. Pitiful.
Admittedly, Apple's packaging is great, but in the end it's packaging, it's opened once and the box ends up in a drawer, on a shelf, in the loft or in the bin. Not a big deal, totally forgotten about once you've got the device in your hands, powered on, browsing your favourite porn^Hweb site.
But you're a Londoner, we're a curious breed - we will walk up to two miles rather than drive or get public transport, for longer journeys public transport is the primary means of getting around, and the car (if you have one) is used for family trips and shopping, and maybe the school run. Workplaces don't have car parks because it's a dense city, car parks cost a tonne, and there's a congestion charge - all of which push us onto public transport. And the Oyster card makes public transport easy.
Btw, most families in the UK don't have 3 or 4 children, so you are an edge case right now. Give it five years and the situation will change.
That's the cost to the end user, so it is totally comparable.
Europe is the logical place to be marketing electric cars, because the benefit to the end user is far more visceral right now than in the US. We're at $20/100 miles already, so for daily drivers an electric car would cost far less to run, maybe making up for the higher cost of the car.
At an average 8% per year energy density increase, today we are getting over twice the energy density of ten years ago.
In 20 years time we will have over 4x the energy density of batteries today if that 8% continues.
If, for your average city dweller, today's electric cars can do 95% of their driving needs, then in 20 years time a battery 1/4 of the size will be needed to match today's automobile battery packs (+efficiencies gained from having to move less battery weight along with the car). That should reduce the price of battery packs somewhat, although many people would prefer to be able to quadruple their range instead (maybe that would be something you could hire when you do that twice a year long car journey).
Someone above mentioned Lithium Air as potentially having 10x the energy density of today's batteries (i.e., 30 years worth of 8% increases). If that is the case, and they get it working in the next 10-20 years) then that would probably provide the leap forward that makes everyone switch to the new technology fairly rapidly.
Surely with this technology there will be an inflexion point when it becomes economical to sell electric cars instead of petrol engine cars. This will probably be a combination of rising petrol prices and dropping prices for batteries, and infrastructure for recharging being widely available. Up until that point growth will be fairly staid, then over a period of five-ten years the entire market switches to the new technology. Elon Musk clearly thinks that inflexion point is before 20 years from now.
One thing you cannot do is simply extrapolate a line from a couple of years of electric car sales and assume that is how it is going to continue.
A lot of those stories relate to the Metropolitan Police, who are pretty much one of the most useless and unfriendly policing organisations around. They certainly don't exist to help the public, and run away if things get too difficult, and god forbid that they actually need to do something that might involve thinking or minor effort. They need to be disbanded, and several professional police forces that are more localised to their area of London created to replace them.
abandoning 95% of the features with a simple product that does most things you want in a word processor
I bet the "5%" of features you use in a word processor are not the exact same set of features that I use, or other people use. Hence why there are more features than you use.
many of those complaints also applied to the iPhone (or at least, early versions of it)
Unfortunately Windows Phone 7.5 is competing with the current version of iOS, not the versions available before 2010.
However I agree it would be neat to see a table comparing all OS features (or missing features) across all the current mobile operating systems. I guess this list is a starting point. Wikipedia could have a page: Deficiencies of mobile phone operating systems.
"Supposedly Fixed" - I think we all know not to trust Microsoft's promises any more, they promised the world with all the previous versions of their mobile OSes.
Also even if it is fixed, it is no consolation to someone with a current Windows phone, as none of them can be upgraded to WP8.
The few people I know with a WP7.5 device are not happy with it due to the shortcomings listed. I mean, not being able to block certain phone numbers is a basic requirement for many people (especially somebody with a cranky ex or stalker).
Charity comes without attachments or requirements.
If this article is in any way true, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is in no way acting charitably.
This is great as I missed out on Morrowind the first time around, and recently bought it cheap - but I have a Mac and a Linux box. This solves trying to run the game in VirtualBox or on an underpowered netbook.
Shame the website is completely fuxxed up.
All very true, and more-so if you are young and/or single. It is true that possessions (and pets!) own you.
Depending on your circumstances, in many places, it is actually better to be buying a box than to be renting a house. And regardless, it is better to live close to work than further away.
Apart from that, buy the best bed you can afford, you spend around 50% of your time at home in it.
When you have a family, things change, you need a two or three bedroom house, and then you have to choose between expensive and close to work, or cheaper and further away. Schools and partner's needs are important now as well. Things are so much easier at this stage if you've saved $$$ earlier on in life because you decided not to have the penthouse flat :-)