Gardner has 13 Hugos, which is still somewhat short of Dave Langford's 21. Both of them must have enormously long mantelpices to fit all those rocket ships, though!
Not as the EU, no, the Maastricht treaty in 1997 saw the European Community become the European Union; but the Treaty of Rome establishing the EC was signed in 1957 - a long time before Micro-Soft started selling BASIC compilers.
Maybe your Labour vote was really given to the Tory (or whatever).
It's possible, but it's unlikely to make a difference.
For starters, the count is observed by representatives of all the candidates. If a counter is consistently sorting ballot papers incorrectly, the reps are going to make a noise about it.
Then, if the result is close, any of the candidates may request a recount. And they do, frequently, during General Elections. It's not uncommon for second recounts to occur, and three or more recounts aren't completely unknown (at the 1997 election Mark Oaten won the seat of Winchester with a majority of 2 votes, there were either six or seven recounts). So, while it's possible that my paper might be put in the wrong pile initially, it's unlikely to make a difference to the result of the election - if it's close enough to matter, a recount will be held, and the papers will be rescrutinised.
In the Winchester election mentioned above, the second placed candidate (and sitting MP) Gerry Malone appealed against the result because 55 votes (most of them for him) had been excluded from the final count because they did not bear an official stamp - when the ballot paper is given to the voter it must be stamped by the people manning the polling station.
The High Court agreed that this meant the result was unsafe, and ordered a new election in the constituency. The voters in Winchester didn't agree, however, and this time returned Oaten with a majority of over 21,000!
Yeah, but the Visitors were lying about wanting water - what they really wanted was to eat all the tasty humans. Quite why it never occurred to anybody that wanting water was pretty unlikely I'm not sure (though they did have scientists declared enemies of the state early on).
I also thought it was established that the Kazon were a bunch of bloody idiots.
For series 4 (just finished over here) the main presenter was Craig Charles, as has already been noted. He was assisted in the pits by Julia Peel, and the commentator was the same as it always has been:- Jonathon Pearce, a very shouty man who made his name commentating on football matches for Capital Radio.
In previous seasons Phillippa Forrester was in the pits, and for the first season Jeremy Clarkson was the main presenter, but Nick Hancock's never had anything to do with the show.
Just watched Newsnight. Apparently the three code wheels were not returned with the machine (the reflector wheel was), so this isn't the end of the story yet.
it involves true freedom to do whatever you want with it once you have it
Except, of course, to release it under a more restrictive license, or distribute binaries without making the source available, or using it in proprietary software.
While that is possible, I doubt that would affect the outcome of the Hugo awards, whose voting population is made up more or less exclusively of science fiction fans.
From a fannish point of view, GQ wins hands down over The Matrix. GQ pokes fun at SF, fen, fandom, Trek, and a host of others, all things which appeal to the fannish mindset. The Matrix, on the other hand, provided a hackneyed sub-Dick plot cobbled together with stunning eye-candy. (Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed it).
It doesn't take much to work out which of those two the attendees of the Worldcon are going to vote for.
Plaid aren't the Welsh equivalent of Sinn Fein, they're more akin to the SNP. I think the boyos whose names you're looking to tarnish are the Sons of Glyndwr.
Yes, but good old Leif did make it known to anyone.
I assume you're trying to say that he didn't tell anyone about it. That's not true, the vikings established a small colony on Vineland and there's no reason to believe they would not have stayed, except for the climate changes in the 10th and 11th centuries that made Greenland almost uninhabitable.
There are still old maps that show Vineland. It's quite possible that Cristoforo Colombe saw or heard of these maps before making his expedition - he was, after all, pretty confident he would reach land before he ran out of food and water.
It does say in the article that he has 10 nurses, each working three 10 hour shifts a week. That doesn't come cheap, and isn't available on the NHS (he would be cared for adequately, but not to the extent that would enable him to work at Cambridge).
I agree the Specsavers adverts were a bit tacky, but they did net him $150,000, which goes a long way towards funding the care he needs.
I may be wrong (I don't have a copy of 1984 handy), but I remember it saying somewhere that Airstrip One (the UK) had become a territory of what was the US.
Sort of. Airstrip One was part of Oceania, which also included (IIRC) the Americas, southern Africa and Australasia.
That's if you want to believe the propaganda that Winston was fed, of course. There's also the view that there was no Oceania outside of Airstrip One. When the government controls all forms of communication, including the language itself, it can feed you whatever reality it wants to.
We went over each line of the charges, sometimes debating for four hours on one point.
One thing that may surprise you is that if you had been a member of a jury in Britain and had made that statement, you would be guilty of contempt of court and would be looking at a prison sentence or a hefty fine.
It is illegal over here for members of a jury to discuss any aspect of what happened in the jury room, and illegal for anyone else to ask them what happened. Also, only the jury members are allowed in the jury room; there was a case recently where a profoundly deaf man was refused the right to sit on a jury since he needed an interpreter.
I'm not sure whether I agree with the law at it stands or not. However...
Due to his age at the time of the crime (17 years old), he was not executed but rather given life without possibility of parole.
This shows which legal system is more mature. State murder was abolished in Britain decades ago, and for good reason.
They didn't exactly. What they saw was a decrease (of about 1.7%) in the light received from that star, i.e. that planet was blocking some of the light.
The link above is to an "artist's impression" of what would have been seen with a powerful enough telescope.
Many worldwide banks offer NetBanking as a way of allowing customers access to their account, bill payments, loan payments, etc over the net. The way this is done is not through a browser, but through a secure on-line client terminal, developed by the bank
That may be the way it works in Oz, but here in the UK you do access NetBanking via a simple browser. And because of the US government's insane stance on cryptography, it'll be a browser with crippled, weak security.
The financial institutions over here have made it particularly easy for crackers to get into their systems, so it's probably no big surprise that we're the ones being targetted.
Sigh, I count two uses of "K" in your algorithm. Note the prominent use of "One" in "One-Time-Pad" As soon as you use the pad a second time it's no longer a "One-Time" Pad...
Well, that's hardly a surprise, since what plambert was demonstrating was how easy it is to break the encryption if you re-use your one-time pad.
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OK, so I can't count. With this year's awards Gardner Dozois has 14, and Dave Langford 22. D'oh!
Gardner has 13 Hugos, which is still somewhat short of Dave Langford's 21. Both of them must have enormously long mantelpices to fit all those rocket ships, though!
Interesting textbook. Did it also say the universe was created in seven literal days?
Not as the EU, no, the Maastricht treaty in 1997 saw the European Community become the European Union; but the Treaty of Rome establishing the EC was signed in 1957 - a long time before Micro-Soft started selling BASIC compilers.
It's possible, but it's unlikely to make a difference.
For starters, the count is observed by representatives of all the candidates. If a counter is consistently sorting ballot papers incorrectly, the reps are going to make a noise about it.
Then, if the result is close, any of the candidates may request a recount. And they do, frequently, during General Elections. It's not uncommon for second recounts to occur, and three or more recounts aren't completely unknown (at the 1997 election Mark Oaten won the seat of Winchester with a majority of 2 votes, there were either six or seven recounts). So, while it's possible that my paper might be put in the wrong pile initially, it's unlikely to make a difference to the result of the election - if it's close enough to matter, a recount will be held, and the papers will be rescrutinised.
In the Winchester election mentioned above, the second placed candidate (and sitting MP) Gerry Malone appealed against the result because 55 votes (most of them for him) had been excluded from the final count because they did not bear an official stamp - when the ballot paper is given to the voter it must be stamped by the people manning the polling station.
The High Court agreed that this meant the result was unsafe, and ordered a new election in the constituency. The voters in Winchester didn't agree, however, and this time returned Oaten with a majority of over 21,000!
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
From Robert Anson Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."
No, it was a Gerry & Sylvia Andreson production (who also brought you Stingray, Thunderbirds, UFO, and a host of others).
Yeah, but the Visitors were lying about wanting water - what they really wanted was to eat all the tasty humans. Quite why it never occurred to anybody that wanting water was pretty unlikely I'm not sure (though they did have scientists declared enemies of the state early on).
I also thought it was established that the Kazon were a bunch of bloody idiots.
Nick Hancock? I don't think so.
:- Jonathon Pearce, a very shouty man who made his name commentating on football matches for Capital Radio.
For series 4 (just finished over here) the main presenter was Craig Charles, as has already been noted. He was assisted in the pits by Julia Peel, and the commentator was the same as it always has been
In previous seasons Phillippa Forrester was in the pits, and for the first season Jeremy Clarkson was the main presenter, but Nick Hancock's never had anything to do with the show.
Just watched Newsnight. Apparently the three code wheels were not returned with the machine (the reflector wheel was), so this isn't the end of the story yet.
Except, of course, to release it under a more restrictive license, or distribute binaries without making the source available, or using it in proprietary software.
Did I miss any?
While that is possible, I doubt that would affect the outcome of the Hugo awards, whose voting population is made up more or less exclusively of science fiction fans.
From a fannish point of view, GQ wins hands down over The Matrix. GQ pokes fun at SF, fen, fandom, Trek, and a host of others, all things which appeal to the fannish mindset. The Matrix, on the other hand, provided a hackneyed sub-Dick plot cobbled together with stunning eye-candy. (Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed it).
It doesn't take much to work out which of those two the attendees of the Worldcon are going to vote for.
Plaid aren't the Welsh equivalent of Sinn Fein, they're more akin to the SNP. I think the boyos whose names you're looking to tarnish are the Sons of Glyndwr.
nato.int exists.
Unfortunately Io is a proper name, and thus not a valid Scrabble word.
There are still old maps that show Vineland. It's quite possible that Cristoforo Colombe saw or heard of these maps before making his expedition - he was, after all, pretty confident he would reach land before he ran out of food and water.
BBC2 at 9pm (so after the watershed, too).
Looking forward to it.
It does say in the article that he has 10 nurses, each working three 10 hour shifts a week. That doesn't come cheap, and isn't available on the NHS (he would be cared for adequately, but not to the extent that would enable him to work at Cambridge).
I agree the Specsavers adverts were a bit tacky, but they did net him $150,000, which goes a long way towards funding the care he needs.
Sort of. Airstrip One was part of Oceania, which also included (IIRC) the Americas, southern Africa and Australasia.
That's if you want to believe the propaganda that Winston was fed, of course. There's also the view that there was no Oceania outside of Airstrip One. When the government controls all forms of communication, including the language itself, it can feed you whatever reality it wants to.
William's going to die childless? Poor chap.
I'll drink to that.
One thing that may surprise you is that if you had been a member of a jury in Britain and had made that statement, you would be guilty of contempt of court and would be looking at a prison sentence or a hefty fine.
It is illegal over here for members of a jury to discuss any aspect of what happened in the jury room, and illegal for anyone else to ask them what happened. Also, only the jury members are allowed in the jury room; there was a case recently where a profoundly deaf man was refused the right to sit on a jury since he needed an interpreter.
I'm not sure whether I agree with the law at it stands or not. However...
This shows which legal system is more mature. State murder was abolished in Britain decades ago, and for good reason.
They didn't exactly. What they saw was a decrease (of about 1.7%) in the light received from that star, i.e. that planet was blocking some of the light.
The link above is to an "artist's impression" of what would have been seen with a powerful enough telescope.
That may be the way it works in Oz, but here in the UK you do access NetBanking via a simple browser. And because of the US government's insane stance on cryptography, it'll be a browser with crippled, weak security.
The financial institutions over here have made it particularly easy for crackers to get into their systems, so it's probably no big surprise that we're the ones being targetted.
Well, that's hardly a surprise, since what plambert was demonstrating was how easy it is to break the encryption if you re-use your one-time pad.