The Greek authorities had an public open day at a military air base. The holidaymakers (planespotters) were writing down registration numbers, when they were noticed by a lieutenant and arrested for "collecting information likely to be useful to the enemy".
If you wanted a cheap entry level camera, Dixons was the place to go. However, they didn't help themselves by trying to push Kodak's Advantix format, in which the cost of developing each picture was based on the type of picture you wished to take (panorama, normal, large). Taking a full set of 30 frames could end up costing around 40 pounds, not including the film reel. For that amount of money you could buy a large capacity memory card. Going on a 2-week holiday, you could end up spending the equivalent of a medium-range digital camera. Not forgetting the risk of having whatever you photographed considered illegal eg. foreign air show.
I really meant the unnaturally high densities of crowding entire extended families into single rooms. As happened in Edinburgh during the 1600's:
The 1603 Union with England led to the Scottish King leaving Edinburgh and the city ceasing to be the location of the court. However, the Scottish Parliament continued to be based here, in Parliament House - now the centre of the Scottish legal system: housing the Court of Session, the Court of Criminal Appeal, and the Advocates Library (building began in the 1630's). But Edinburgh continued to Grow. It was overcrowded, noisy and filthy. By the 1700's people complained that they could smell the stench from Dalkieth, 8 miles away. It is from around this time when the name "Auld Reekie" began to be used to describe the city. This crammed, rat infested world where people lived in squalor and where hygiene was practically non existent, was prone to epidemics. Unsurprisingly the 1644-1646 plague outbreak hit Edinburgh hard, even forcing the parliament to move temporarily to Stirling . One Street, Mary King's Close below the City Chambers, was particularly badly effected, prompting the authorities to seal it off in 1645, locking both sick and healthy in together to await their deaths. For an insight into Edinburgh's 17th century living conditions, guided tours of this perfectly preserved close, supposedly haunted by the victims of the plague, have been proving popular ever since its recent reopening.
I don't really get how that will happen. Yes, I agree that we treat this planet pretty badly, but I think the planet and humans are tough enough to take it.
Combine that with the constantly increasing population densities in our cities, and the odds of some kind of pandemic increase.
You just have to look at any intensive farming methods, to see that the occurrence of parasites increases whenever organisms are placed in population densities that don't occur naturally.
And they also have a good number of technical pages on their HIFAR nuclear reactor, which actually looks more than a gas tank than a nuclear reactor. They could always put up some camouflage netting and disguise it so it isn't so noticable from space.
Actually, it's sad at how many beginning CS students are D3D fanboys these days, bashing OGL at every turn.
Very true. One phrase that comes to mind is "We took the high-end workstation technology, threw out all the CAD related stuff, and optimised the remaining code". Without actually explaining what exactly the "CAD related stuff" was.
If this really does happen, then it would be because the UI is using texture memory and device context state. Aeroglass would have the common sense to remove itself from texture memory when a DirectX application is running, but wouldn't (want to) have a clue when an OpenGL application is running.
Mostly, though, I like the sea of blinking LEDs when I walk through my dark office on the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night (don't worry - I work at home)
The main unit fits around the wrist like a skrill from Gene Roddenbury's "Final Conflict" and the finger mounted laser reader gives that Borg like look.
Amazingly, there was actually a warehouse where the staff went on strike because they were being forced to wear these systems, and resented being made to look like a character from a science fiction movie.
Personally, I'd prefer a system with 10 laser pointers. Then I could increase my productivity by 1000% and everybody could call me Edward Laserhands.
That doesn't mean your vote was completely wasted, though. If enough people vote for some party,
I voted for the Green party - mainly because I'm got up of the way the city council hands over playing fields and primary schools to luxury property developers, while ignoring the protests of parents and school boards. Not that local residents could afford them or that the number of units goes anywhere near local demand.
Oh, and a disclaimer: it's my fault too, as in the end I didn't vote either. I didn't see that there was any real point; my constituency (Hornchurch) is split roughly 45/45 Tory/Labour, with the remaining 10% or so "other" (mainly Lib Dem). Not much of a choice, if you ask me.
You are better off than most constituencies - usually one party has a dominant majority that can never be displaced. If it's a low-income neighbourhood dependent on benefits, Labour are voted in. If it's an neighbourhood of secluded executive homes or retirees who have paid off their mortgages, the Tories are voted in. If it's neighboorhood of professional couples on basic pay, then the Lib-Dem's will get in and if there's a hung vote they'll form an alliance with the party that get the most votes. The best that could happen is if we had more independent candidates that fought for local issues and didn't just do what the national parties told them what to do.
I did vote in the last election, but couldn't bring myself to vote for Labour or the Tories. Not that it made any difference - a dominantly Tory stronghold.
And if anyone dares change the constituency boundaries to make it a fair, they only end up aggravating local sentiments.
Not only will we now see adverts along the freeway, but now the advertisers will be able to play audio jingles or just some subliminal sounds like a soft drink can being opened and the drink fizzing while it's being poured into the glass.
Although, there could be practical applications. There were some conceptual projects where cars were able to determine the location of each other using RF communications. The idea of this was to prevent crashes during times of restricted visibility (fog, blizzards). And having emergency messages being broadcast locally wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Because the government wants people take more financial responsibility for the lives (students loans for university education, mortgages for housing, private pension schemes for retirement), and also wants people to have more children earlier to keep the worker/pensioner ratio in balance.
Because savings rates offered by banks are meagre and stocks are not doing as well as they used to be, this only leaves property to invest in. So there is a national obsession with trying to get onto the property ladder as soon as possible, which is also encouraged by TV series promoting get-rich-quick schemes based on property improvement.
As an example, our neighbour who was an electrician lived in a entry level top-floor two bedroom victorian apartment. He bought out the access rights to the attic (which had no lighting, walls or windows), redeveloped it into to a loft apartment with bay windows and balcony - thereby doubling the value of his investment.
Traditionally, a first-time couple who buy a cheap run-down property and do it up themselves over a couple of years then move on up the property market. Now, there are privately owned companies which do this methodically within months, then move onto the next house.
Well, I think the reason you can't find staff is blindingly obvious. You may be wanting IT staff in the short term, but what guarantee can you give them that you won't outsource their jobs in the long term?
Also, can an entry-level member of staff afford a house in your area? Is there a good range of local entertainments; restaurants, bars, fitness centres.
Is it a small town dominated by neds, scallies, chavs?
You're being pulled in every direction you can see ground. However, the forces cancel out in all sideways directions, so the only force not cancelled out is straight downwards. If you were to hollow out a hole all the down to the centre of the Earth and out the other side (assuming you could deal with the heat and pressure), you would find that you are still being pulled downwards, but the gravity decreases the closer you are to the centre of the Earth. And if you jumped down this hole you would keep bouncing from end to end until air friction brought you to a stop at the centre of the Earth.
To work out the contre-of-gravity for arbitary shapes, you break up the shape into convex pieces, work out the centre-of-gravity of those pieces, then sum the centre-points weighted by mass.
It might happen if there's an electrical storm due t o solar flares or extreme weather conditions. Radio listeners in Scotland were able to listen to East European FM channels for an afternoon/evening due to a disturbance in the ionosphere.
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The Greek authorities had an public open day at a military air base. The holidaymakers (planespotters) were writing down registration numbers, when they were noticed by a lieutenant and arrested for "collecting information likely to be useful to the enemy".
And of course the information was already online.
If you wanted a cheap entry level camera, Dixons was the place to go. However, they didn't help themselves by trying to push Kodak's Advantix format, in which the cost of developing each picture was based on the type of picture you wished to take (panorama, normal, large). Taking a full set of 30 frames could end up costing around 40 pounds, not including the film reel. For that amount of money you could buy a large capacity memory card. Going on a 2-week holiday, you could end up spending the equivalent of a medium-range digital camera. Not forgetting the risk of having whatever you photographed considered illegal eg. foreign air show.
I really meant the unnaturally high densities of crowding entire extended families into single rooms. As happened in Edinburgh during the 1600's:
The 1603 Union with England led to the Scottish King leaving Edinburgh and the city ceasing to be the location of the court. However, the Scottish Parliament continued to be based here, in Parliament House - now the centre of the Scottish legal system: housing the Court of Session, the Court of Criminal Appeal, and the Advocates Library (building began in the 1630's). But Edinburgh continued to Grow. It was overcrowded, noisy and filthy. By the 1700's people complained that they could smell the stench from Dalkieth, 8 miles away. It is from around this time when the name "Auld Reekie" began to be used to describe the city. This crammed, rat infested world where people lived in squalor and where hygiene was practically non existent, was prone to epidemics. Unsurprisingly the 1644-1646 plague outbreak hit Edinburgh hard, even forcing the parliament to move temporarily to Stirling . One Street, Mary King's Close below the City Chambers, was particularly badly effected, prompting the authorities to seal it off in 1645, locking both sick and healthy in together to await their deaths. For an insight into Edinburgh's 17th century living conditions, guided tours of this perfectly preserved close, supposedly haunted by the victims of the plague, have been proving popular ever since its recent reopening.
I don't really get how that will happen. Yes, I agree that we treat this planet pretty badly, but I think the planet and humans are tough enough to take it.
Have you heard about the antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria being found in hospitals?
Combine that with the constantly increasing population densities in our cities, and the odds of some kind of pandemic increase.
You just have to look at any intensive farming methods, to see that the occurrence of parasites increases whenever organisms are placed in population densities that don't occur naturally.
Wouldn't that be Algae underlords?
Out of curiousity, which road was this?
I know some of the bridges in the Bay Area required toll booth payments.
And there maybe some in other states as well.
Until the Australian government made this complaint, I didn't know that Australia had any nuclear reactors, or that they had only one.
However, after doing a Google search, I find that that they actually have a concise list of nuclear facilities in a government website.
And they also have a good number of technical pages on their HIFAR nuclear reactor, which actually looks more than a gas tank than a nuclear reactor. They could always put up some camouflage netting and disguise it so it isn't so noticable from space.
Oh, that's a rip-off. You can make your own far cheaper, and it blocks out psychotronic mind control rays at the same time.
So what happens if they use obscene, derogatory, insulting, or threatening language?
Do you still relay the message?
Actually, it's sad at how many beginning CS students are D3D fanboys these days, bashing OGL at every turn.
Very true. One phrase that comes to mind is "We took the high-end workstation technology, threw out all the CAD related stuff, and optimised the remaining code". Without actually explaining what exactly the "CAD related stuff" was.
If this really does happen, then it would be because the UI is using texture memory and device context state. Aeroglass would have the common sense to remove itself from texture memory when a DirectX application is running, but wouldn't (want to) have a clue when an OpenGL application is running.
Mostly, though, I like the sea of blinking LEDs when I walk through my dark office on the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night (don't worry - I work at home)
You should try and get an Symbol's WS1000 wearable system with a RS1 Ring Scanner
The main unit fits around the wrist like a skrill from Gene Roddenbury's "Final Conflict" and the finger mounted laser reader gives that Borg like look.
Amazingly, there was actually a warehouse where the staff went on strike because they were being forced to wear these systems, and resented being made to look like a character from a science fiction movie.
Personally, I'd prefer a system with 10 laser pointers. Then I could increase my productivity by 1000% and everybody could call me Edward Laserhands.
They should have used aviation fuel - that's much harder to ignite.
That doesn't mean your vote was completely wasted, though. If enough people vote for some party,
I voted for the Green party - mainly because I'm got up of the way the city council hands over playing fields and primary schools to luxury property developers, while ignoring the protests of parents and school boards. Not that local residents could afford them or that the number of units goes anywhere near local demand.
(Play music: Steppenwolf - The Ostrich).
That's like the story where a city council was about to send bailiffs to recover an overdue library book from a mobile library.
Oh, and a disclaimer: it's my fault too, as in the end I didn't vote either. I didn't see that there was any real point; my constituency (Hornchurch) is split roughly 45/45 Tory/Labour, with the remaining 10% or so "other" (mainly Lib Dem). Not much of a choice, if you ask me.
You are better off than most constituencies - usually one party has a dominant majority that can never be displaced. If it's a low-income neighbourhood dependent on benefits, Labour are voted in. If it's an neighbourhood of secluded executive homes or retirees who have paid off their mortgages, the Tories are voted in. If it's neighboorhood of professional couples on basic pay, then the Lib-Dem's will get in and if there's a hung vote they'll form an alliance with the party that get the most votes. The best that could happen is if we had more independent candidates that fought for local issues and didn't just do what the national parties told them what to do.
I did vote in the last election, but couldn't bring myself to vote for Labour or the Tories. Not that it made any difference - a dominantly Tory stronghold.
And if anyone dares change the constituency boundaries to make it a fair, they only end up aggravating local sentiments.
They played a similar game with the PSP - there was a sign outside our local video game store:
"Pre-order your PSP today - these WILL sell out on launch day.
You can easily map different domain names onto the same IP address, then convert the domain name into a user directory.
... you have
Look at slashdot
http://www.slashdot.org/~BillyZ
http://www.slashdot.org/~michael
Etc...
Approximately 900,000 different users on a single IP address
Not only will we now see adverts along the freeway, but now the advertisers will be able to play audio jingles or just some subliminal sounds like a soft drink can being opened and the drink fizzing while it's being poured into the glass.
Although, there could be practical applications. There were some conceptual projects where cars were able to determine the location of each other using RF communications. The idea of this was to prevent crashes during times of restricted visibility (fog, blizzards). And having emergency messages being broadcast locally wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Turn on, turn in, drop out!!
That's got a familiar ring to it.
Because the government wants people take more financial responsibility for the lives (students loans for university education, mortgages for housing, private pension schemes for retirement), and also wants people to have more children earlier to keep the worker/pensioner ratio in balance.
Because savings rates offered by banks are meagre and stocks are not doing as well as they used to be, this only leaves property to invest in. So there is a national obsession with trying to get onto the property ladder as soon as possible, which is also encouraged by TV series promoting get-rich-quick schemes based on property improvement.
As an example, our neighbour who was an electrician lived in a entry level top-floor two bedroom victorian apartment. He bought out the access rights to the attic (which had no lighting, walls or windows), redeveloped it into to a loft apartment with bay windows and balcony - thereby doubling the value of his investment.
Traditionally, a first-time couple who buy a cheap run-down property and do it up themselves over a couple of years then move on up the property market. Now, there are privately owned companies which do this methodically within months, then move onto the next house.
Well, I think the reason you can't find staff is blindingly obvious. You may be wanting IT staff in the short term, but what guarantee can you give them that you won't outsource their jobs in the long term?
Also, can an entry-level member of staff afford a house in your area? Is there a good range of local entertainments; restaurants, bars, fitness centres.
Is it a small town dominated by neds, scallies, chavs?
All the large companies without IT departments went bankrupt.
You're being pulled in every direction you can see ground. However, the forces cancel out in all sideways directions, so the only force not cancelled out is straight downwards. If you were to hollow out a hole all the down to the centre of the Earth and out the other side (assuming you could deal with the heat and pressure), you would find that you are still being pulled downwards, but the gravity decreases the closer you are to the centre of the Earth. And if you jumped down this hole you would keep bouncing from end to end until air friction brought you to a stop at the centre of the Earth.
To work out the contre-of-gravity for arbitary shapes, you break up the shape into convex pieces, work out the centre-of-gravity of those pieces, then sum the centre-points weighted by mass.
It might happen if there's an electrical storm due t o solar flares or extreme weather conditions. Radio listeners in Scotland were able to listen to East European FM channels for an afternoon/evening due to a disturbance in the ionosphere.