In Edinburgh, the city council tried to implement a Congestion Charge for anyone wishing to drive into the city during peak hours. The idea was to discourage car owners from clogging up the main arteries and slowing down public transport, while at the same time, creating a fund to provide for new public transportation. Various groups have now been or are campaigning for exemptions. These include the following:
Cars used by residents in low income estates on the outer suburbs of the city Cars used for charities Cars used by nurses, doctors, firefighters and other public service workers workin during hours not served by public transport. For people living in the rural countryside, a four-wheel drive is often essential due to flooded lanes and roads. Cars used as an essential tool by self-employed people eg. taxi's, plumbers, care assistants
So far, this has practically exempted every motorist from the city, except for out of town shoppers, who are now being driven out by increased traffic restrictions.
There was an amusing fight between the various city councils. After Edinburgh proposed plans to charge outsides to enter the city, the adjacent city mayors announced they would expand their shopping centres to help their residents avoid having to pay the congestion charge. Edinburgh threaten to file a lawsuit to prevent this. The cities threatened to file lawsuits against the congestion charge. So far, it's a stand-off.
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but what if it was shigueru miamoto! That would would just be the best thing ever! The world leader in inovative gameplay meets the world leader of inovative game technology. It'll never happen, but perchance to dream...
What? Super Mario Hellraiser? Mario battles the evil Boos, while searching for the 100 golden stars and collecting healthpacks, weapons and ammunition in order to prepare for the final battle where he fights Wario in his evil base on Mars using the ultimate weapon; the BFC - Big F***ng Cap
So... do we get rid of HUMMER's or Solar Powered cars? Wouldn't common sense dictate that the bigger car is the threat and should be disallowed?
If your choice is HUMMER's then you should also ban vans, pickup trucks, single-decker and double decker buses, lorries, trucks, not forgetting Hackney taxi's, and anything else that's bigger than a HUMMER.
It's a learning experience. The early air pioneers encountered similar problems when first attempting to add heavy calibre automatic weapons onto aircaft. After the first trial run, they quickly realised that the firing of bullets had to be synchronised to the rotation of the main propellor. I don't know if the inventor had a surname of Klunk or not.
"cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" We have examined various explanations for this phrase; some we reject as impossible, and others suffer from lack of evidence. In particular, the story that it relates to cannonballs stacked on a brass frame on board ship has no historic or scientific support. Without repeating the flawed theory in detail: the word used for a cannonball stand was "garland," not "monkey"; garlands were not brass; and it would have been most unlikely that balls were stacked in such a way that daily pitching and tossing of the ship would free them (which would have to have been the case if the tiny effect of metal expansion from the cold was thought to jar them loose).
Others forgot their locker number upon their return, or didn't remember which finger they had used to check it out.
Various healths clubs in the UK have dispensed with using mechanical keys or allowing customers to use their own padlocks.
Instead, every visitor or member is given a key-fob (a velcro strip with a RF activated chip sealed in a plastic case). To lock/unlock any locker, you just press the key-fob against the locker, and then turn the lock. The light on the locker blinks to indicate whether it is locked or not. If you forget the locker you used, you can use a basic reader beside the door to tell you.
This was tried around 15 years ago by Virtuality. But back then, the helmets were absolutely massive, with a mini CRT monitors for each eye. At the companies peak, there were Virtuality booths close to every Underground station in central London. You could pay around 7 pounds for 20 minutes play. Although the games were simple, they were fun. One game was a first-person shooter, where you tried to shoot flying pterodactyls while trying to avoid being snatched or shooting other players.
Obviously, you could do the same thing today, with consumer VR hardware, but the problem is cost. Consumers are more aware of the cost of playing in an arcade vs. playing at home. If the average game plays for one unit of currency for three minutes, and one person wants to play for three hours, thats 120 units of currency. For three months play, that amount of money would allow you to buy buy a PC + VR headset + broadband. Plus with headsets being as small and light as they are, they would very easily be stolen/broken. And that's not taking into account having to pay for parking, expensive drinks/snacks, worry about your belongings being stolen, your car being broken into, being mugged on the way home, or spend time finding a parking space.
The majority of PHDs in the US (and possibly Europe?) left school (ie: dropped out) at least once while attempting to obtain their undrgraduate degree.
In mainland Europe, only a small percentage of the school-leaver population go onto university (30% at the most). The UK is different with now over 50% going on to university, with the majority of Ph.D students now coming from abroad. Entry requires for Ph.D. usually requires a 2:1 at Honours, or a top-up Masters degree if you don't have a 2:1 or better (most departments now seem to prefer this - as it gives the student the experience of working on a short research project). Back 15 years, it was fairly hard to get a 2:1 or 1st - only quarter of the class was allowed to get 1st and 2:1 respectively. Now, nearly everyone seems to get a 2:1 or better, as this is what employers require.
1. I know what package installed what file. (rpm -qf
On the down side, installing one rpm sometimes requires you to trawl around world trying to find obscure and unknown rpm's.
For example, to install kde-multimedia, I *had* to install the 'musicbrainz' server access libararies rpm. The only site where I could find a server that had the latest version that I needed was in Russia. And I'm still trying to find qt-styles.
"I'm sorry, nobody is available to take your message just now. If you'd would like one of our agents to call you back, please leave your name, address and personal details after the tone."
Back then, the only texture mapping was single plane, if there was any. Nobody ever thought you'd want multiple cube mapped light sources generating projective textures with Gaussian smoothed shadows onto procedurally displacement-mapped surfaces with real-time generated cube-mapped reflections.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.'
After watching "Connections" on the Discovery channel, I always thought it would be cool if you could graph the references between research papers and also do the same for patents.
Reality was predicted to be 80 million triangles/second (with 25 pixel per triangle?). Just about every console system and graphics card now exceeds this.
The human retina consists of 120 million rods (wavelength insensitive) for peripheral vision and 6 million cones (wavelength sensitive for red,green and blue) for central vision. To match the full capability of human vision, you'd need a 12000x12000 monochrome framebuffer covering a field of view 170+ degrees, with a central region 2000x2000 with floating-point RGB colour, and it would have to update around 70 times/second.
Graphics cards and virtual reality headsets are slowly edging up to the resolution for central vision, since there isn't much demand to support peripheral vision resolutions.
Looks like anyone who pre-ordered a GeForce 6800 and hadn't received one is going to cancel the order, and wait for the new board. Reminds me of the days of the "Osborne luggable computer".
Let's not also forget that minimum wage in North American is about £3 whereas it's £5 in the UK and even more inside of large cities like London. Having lived in both countries I think it's a myth that people in the UK make less money and have higher cost of living. Maybe in the past however today I can safely say that you make more in the UK but also pay more.
London has a higher cost of living that the rest of country. To maintain the same standard of living in London that you would have in Edinburgh, you basically have to double your salary. The Home Counties have the highest standard of living (on the green belt, access to three international airports) compared to the rest of the country, but you really have to pay for it. A four-bedroom house in the catchment area of an exclusively middle-class high-school costs around 500K pounds (750K dollars), and the catchment area will only be 200 meters in radius).
In the Bay Area, a software architect will easily make more than 120K dollars, but try asking for a similar salary in London (even though house prices are more if not the same).
I can't have much sympathy. American companies have regularly outsourced to many countries such as Canada and Ireland, yet Americans only complain about Indians.
Mainly because the cost of living in India/China is much lower than Canada or Ireland, so there is no way that workers can compete on salary. And that it is possible for Americans to get permits to work temporarily in Canada and Ireland.
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In Edinburgh, the city council tried to implement a Congestion Charge for anyone wishing to drive into the city during peak hours. The idea was to discourage car owners from clogging up the main arteries and slowing down public transport, while at the same time, creating a fund to provide for new public transportation. Various groups have now been or are campaigning for exemptions. These include the following:
Cars used by residents in low income estates on the outer suburbs of the city
Cars used for charities
Cars used by nurses, doctors, firefighters and other public service workers workin during hours not served by public transport. For people living in the rural countryside, a four-wheel drive is often essential due to flooded lanes and roads.
Cars used as an essential tool by self-employed people eg. taxi's, plumbers, care assistants
So far, this has practically exempted every motorist from the city, except for out of town shoppers, who are now being driven out by increased traffic restrictions.
There was an amusing fight between the various city councils. After Edinburgh proposed plans to charge outsides to enter the city, the adjacent city mayors announced they would expand their shopping centres to help their residents avoid having to pay the congestion charge. Edinburgh threaten to file a lawsuit to prevent this. The cities threatened to file lawsuits against the congestion charge. So far, it's a stand-off.
but what if it was shigueru miamoto! That would would just be the best thing ever! The world leader in inovative gameplay meets the world leader of inovative game technology. It'll never happen, but perchance to dream...
What? Super Mario Hellraiser? Mario battles the evil Boos, while searching for the 100 golden stars and collecting healthpacks, weapons and ammunition in order to prepare for the final battle where he fights Wario in his evil base on Mars using the ultimate weapon; the BFC - Big F***ng Cap
So... do we get rid of HUMMER's or Solar Powered cars? Wouldn't common sense dictate that the bigger car is the threat and should be disallowed?
If your choice is HUMMER's then you should also ban vans, pickup trucks, single-decker and double decker buses, lorries, trucks, not forgetting Hackney taxi's, and anything else that's bigger than a HUMMER.
I thought the title read "Spam has United States Robots".
Are the machines trying to overthrow the humans by burdening them with useless information?
It's a learning experience. The early air pioneers encountered similar problems when first attempting to add heavy calibre automatic weapons onto aircaft. After the first trial run, they quickly realised that the firing of bullets had to be synchronised to the rotation of the main propellor. I don't know if the inventor had a surname of Klunk or not.
IBM has announced they will add 18,800 jobs worldwide in 2004. They say about a third will be in North America.
And they are all lawyers to fight SCO.
Ni-Ni-Ni-Nineteen was the most popular phrase to be programmed into text to speech systems back in the early nineties.
I was told the phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" relates to the three balls that pawn-broker shops had hanging outside as their shop, which is referred to as "the monkey".
From English usage:
"cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
We have examined various explanations for this phrase; some we reject as
impossible, and others suffer from lack of evidence. In particular, the
story that it relates to cannonballs stacked on a brass frame on board
ship has no historic or scientific support. Without repeating the flawed
theory in detail: the word used for a cannonball stand was "garland,"
not "monkey"; garlands were not brass; and it would have been most
unlikely that balls were stacked in such a way that daily pitching and
tossing of the ship would free them (which would have to have been the
case if the tiny effect of metal expansion from the cold was thought to
jar them loose).
Others forgot their locker number upon their return, or didn't remember which finger they had used to check it out.
Various healths clubs in the UK have dispensed with using mechanical keys or allowing customers to use their own padlocks.
Instead, every visitor or member is given a key-fob (a velcro strip with a RF activated chip sealed in a plastic case). To lock/unlock any locker, you just press the key-fob against the locker, and then turn the lock. The light on the locker blinks to indicate whether it is locked or not. If you forget the locker you used, you can use a basic reader beside the door to tell you.
This was tried around 15 years ago by Virtuality. But back then, the helmets were absolutely massive, with a mini CRT monitors for each eye. At the companies peak, there were Virtuality booths close to every Underground station in central London. You could pay around 7 pounds for 20 minutes play. Although the games were simple, they were fun. One game was a first-person shooter, where you tried to shoot flying pterodactyls while trying to avoid being snatched or shooting other players.
Atari and the other console makers also jumped onto the VR bandwagon, even though the headsets were much lighter (later versions of the Virtuality helmet.
Obviously, you could do the same thing today, with consumer VR hardware, but the problem is cost. Consumers are more aware of the cost of playing in an arcade vs. playing at home. If the average game plays for one unit of currency for three minutes, and one person wants to play for three hours, thats 120 units of currency. For three months play, that amount of money would allow you to buy buy a PC + VR headset + broadband. Plus with headsets being as small and light as they are, they would very easily be stolen/broken. And that's not taking into account having to pay for parking, expensive drinks/snacks, worry about your belongings being stolen, your car being broken into, being mugged on the way home, or spend time finding a parking space.
A quick search reveals that copies of this site are available at www.archive.org. Will the judgement apply to third party archives?
The majority of PHDs in the US (and possibly Europe?) left school (ie: dropped out) at least once while attempting to obtain their undrgraduate degree.
In mainland Europe, only a small percentage of the school-leaver population go onto university (30% at the most). The UK is different with now over 50% going on to university, with the majority of Ph.D students now coming from abroad. Entry requires for Ph.D. usually requires a 2:1 at Honours, or a top-up Masters degree if you don't have a 2:1 or better (most departments now seem to prefer this - as it gives the student the experience of working on a short research project). Back 15 years, it was fairly hard to get a 2:1 or 1st - only quarter of the class was allowed to get 1st and 2:1 respectively. Now, nearly everyone seems to get a 2:1 or better, as this is what employers require.
IANAPHD
I am not a pointy-haired director?
Yes, but I was thinking of a visual diagram, like this one
1. I know what package installed what file. (rpm -qf
On the down side, installing one rpm sometimes requires you to trawl around world trying to find obscure and unknown rpm's.
For example, to install kde-multimedia, I *had* to install the 'musicbrainz' server access libararies rpm. The only site where I could find a server that had the latest version that I needed was in Russia. And I'm still trying to find qt-styles.
"I'm sorry, nobody is available to take your message just now. If you'd would like one of our agents to call you back, please leave your name, address and personal details after the tone."
... a console controller for playing 'nethack'.
Back then, the only texture mapping was single plane, if there was any. Nobody ever thought you'd want multiple cube mapped light sources generating projective textures with Gaussian smoothed shadows onto procedurally displacement-mapped surfaces with real-time generated cube-mapped reflections.
From the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.'
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After watching "Connections" on the Discovery channel, I always thought it would be cool if you could graph the references between research papers and also do the same for patents.
Reality was predicted to be 80 million triangles/second (with 25 pixel per triangle?). Just about every console system and graphics card now exceeds this.
The human retina consists of 120 million rods (wavelength insensitive) for peripheral vision and 6 million cones (wavelength sensitive for red,green and blue) for central vision. To match the full capability of human vision, you'd need a 12000x12000 monochrome framebuffer covering a field of view 170+ degrees, with a central region 2000x2000 with floating-point RGB colour, and it would have to update around 70 times/second.
Graphics cards and virtual reality headsets are slowly edging up to the resolution for central vision, since there isn't much demand to support peripheral vision resolutions.
Looks like anyone who pre-ordered a GeForce 6800 and hadn't received one is going to cancel the order, and wait for the new board. Reminds me of the days of the "Osborne luggable computer".
Let's not also forget that minimum wage in North American is about £3 whereas it's £5 in the UK and even more inside of large cities like London. Having lived in both countries I think it's a myth that people in the UK make less money and have higher cost of living. Maybe in the past however today I can safely say that you make more in the UK but also pay more.
London has a higher cost of living that the rest of country. To maintain the same standard of living in London that you would have in Edinburgh, you basically have to double your salary.
The Home Counties have the highest standard of living (on the green belt, access to three international airports) compared to the rest of the country, but you really have to pay for it. A four-bedroom house in the catchment area of an exclusively middle-class high-school costs around 500K pounds (750K dollars), and the catchment area will only be 200 meters in radius).
In the Bay Area, a software architect will easily make more than 120K dollars, but try asking for a similar salary in London (even though house prices are more if not the same).
I can't have much sympathy. American companies have regularly outsourced to many countries such as Canada and Ireland, yet Americans only complain about Indians.
Mainly because the cost of living in India/China is much lower than Canada or Ireland, so there is no way that workers can compete on salary. And that it is possible for Americans to get permits to work temporarily in Canada and Ireland.
A company that sacks 500 programmers needs 500 more VPs to manage all those progra... oh wait that doesn't make sense at all!
That's called the Chewbacca corporate restructuring plan.