Also, the coppers in Britain are sensitive to tsunami hacking issues, because they found a bloke who had sent 40 false emails out to the familes of missing people and told them that thier relations were dead! He pretended he was in the government Home Office. The bloke got 6 months inside.
There was a fuzz made a couple of years back when the temperature in Brighton hit 100 degrees for the first time ever. I expect there was confusion about the scale in some quarters, although it was obviously Centigrade because the sea hasn't boiled over. Not yet, anyway!
The british often use Fahrenheit as well, and always use it when talking about the weather, except for the forecasters, who mix everybody up by using Centigrade. Some pedants in Britain also correct you use the term Centigrade, because they reckon it should be Celcius, but Centigrade was taught for years in schools, and nobody uses Celcius except for a few boffins.
Also, only boffins use Kelvin, which is odd because it is named after a British scientist, (Lord Kelvin).
The British generally use imperial measures (inch/foot/yard/pint/pound/stone/mile/gallon/furlo ng(!)) interchangeably with metric (or SI) units, so there is a generally air of confusion about the exact size of things in the UK. Multiple trips back to the hardware store are required to get the part you need.
The government has tried for years to make a conversion, but it has resulted in a kind of permanent half-way house situation. I believe the same thing is happening in Canada.
There was a case a few years back when a probe to mars hit the surface at 10 thousand miles an hour because of a units mix up between british and american boffins!
The wings for this plane are so big that they are floated out to see on a huge barge down the Dee Estuary in Wales, and taken by ship to be assembled with the reat of the plane in Toulouse, France. On the way, the wings pass on a special vehicle through several hunred yards of farm land and cross a main road. Thise Europeans know how to do big engineering projects.
"They're idiots. Fuck 'em" - a fine thing to write about parents who are grieving thier son who was a US soldier. What if I wrote "you're an idiot, fuck you" - see, it's not very nice, is it?
Unless he was Welsh, in which case, he might say that English is a form of German, not a native tongue of the British Isles (although he would probably say it in English, because only 1/4 of the Welsh speak Welsh).
Another idea is to get a box which you do have root rights to, and do all your work on that. Then just give admin a tape with the stuff on it and tell him or her the installation procedure.
Thanks for letting me know about Atanasoff, who is a relatively obscure figure over here, whereas Turing and Wilkes are venerated as the fathers of modern computing, and Babbage as the Granddaddy of them all. Wilkes was British, and he was first to make a proper digital "stored program" computer, although perhaps you know more about that than I do. It just goes to show how mad it is, and I actually think it is quite possible for many people to "invent" the same thing at around the same time because the "world is ready", so to speak.
It often happens that the British invent something and Americans claim it. Everybody here (Cambridge, UK) would tell you that Logi Baird invented the television, but Americans learn it was some other bloke. It's mad.
Was Rumsfeld a database expert too?
"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. "
This sounds like the most foolish idea I've heard yet. The last thing you need when a spacecraft emergency happens is some stupid robot making suggestions about what to do, and consuming vital battery life while its at it. What you need is good backup redundancy, and plenty of telemetery to tell the guys down here (where they can use smart tools) to find out what the hell is going on up there.
Yes, the Isle of Mann is a Crown Dependency nearer Great Britain than Ireland. It is famous for TT races, 3 legged cats, a very old parliament and as a tax haven. The Canadian Museum of Civilization is not in Ottawa (which is in the province of Ontario), but Gatineau, which is in the french speaking province of Quebec.
When you are on Luna, Earth is orbiting you. So Earth is Luna's moon, and Luna is Earth's moon. It's a two-body situation, and the Newtonian equations to describe the gravity and motion of both bodies are the same.
It's also laziness to distiguish between planets and satellites, as the difference (in orbital terms) is only one of scale. The earth is luna's moon, isn't it?
The political decision in the USA has usually been "combining arbitrary databases is undesirable, and to prevent it we will not have a universal ID"
Given the current state of things, many people think that was naive. It certainly hasn't been running that way over the last three years. Do you think it will swing back to how things were?
To determine whether the social tradeoff is negative or positive is a political decision. If you have the chance to design with scalabilty in mind, then allow a proper political decision to be made on the social tradeoff, then you are in a good position whether not the final tradeoff is negative or positive. But if you deliberatly design without scalabilty, and a subsequent political decision is made that the tradeoff is positive, a lot of unnecessary work would be added.
I don't comment on the social trade-off (that's not my bag), but if the social trade-off is positive, databases would need to be integrated and there are technical reason why different databases need the same key. Why is this a red-herring, though!
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Also, the coppers in Britain are sensitive to tsunami hacking issues, because they found a bloke who had sent 40 false emails out to the familes of missing people and told them that thier relations were dead! He pretended he was in the government Home Office. The bloke got 6 months inside.
There was a fuzz made a couple of years back when the temperature in Brighton hit 100 degrees for the first time ever. I expect there was confusion about the scale in some quarters, although it was obviously Centigrade because the sea hasn't boiled over. Not yet, anyway!
The british often use Fahrenheit as well, and always use it when talking about the weather, except for the forecasters, who mix everybody up by using Centigrade. Some pedants in Britain also correct you use the term Centigrade, because they reckon it should be Celcius, but Centigrade was taught for years in schools, and nobody uses Celcius except for a few boffins. Also, only boffins use Kelvin, which is odd because it is named after a British scientist, (Lord Kelvin). The British generally use imperial measures (inch/foot/yard/pint/pound/stone/mile/gallon/furlo ng(!)) interchangeably with metric (or SI) units, so there is a generally air of confusion about the exact size of things in the UK. Multiple trips back to the hardware store are required to get the part you need.
The government has tried for years to make a conversion, but it has resulted in a kind of permanent half-way house situation. I believe the same thing is happening in Canada.
There was a case a few years back when a probe to mars hit the surface at 10 thousand miles an hour because of a units mix up between british and american boffins!
Not only do I marvel at it, I went to Long Beach and I've been inside it!
Yes - the wings are made in Pays de Galle (Wales)!
The wings for this plane are so big that they are floated out to see on a huge barge down the Dee Estuary in Wales, and taken by ship to be assembled with the reat of the plane in Toulouse, France. On the way, the wings pass on a special vehicle through several hunred yards of farm land and cross a main road. Thise Europeans know how to do big engineering projects.
You criticise them for doing something without using the legal system, then you criticise them for using the legal system!
"They're idiots. Fuck 'em" - a fine thing to write about parents who are grieving thier son who was a US soldier. What if I wrote "you're an idiot, fuck you" - see, it's not very nice, is it?
close harmony singing really gets on your tits
I have often heard that men in other parts of Britain have tits, but I didn't believe it until now!
Buy a smaller set and sit closer!
Unless he was Welsh, in which case, he might say that English is a form of German, not a native tongue of the British Isles (although he would probably say it in English, because only 1/4 of the Welsh speak Welsh).
Another idea is to get a box which you do have root rights to, and do all your work on that. Then just give admin a tape with the stuff on it and tell him or her the installation procedure.
Thanks for letting me know about Atanasoff, who is a relatively obscure figure over here, whereas Turing and Wilkes are venerated as the fathers of modern computing, and Babbage as the Granddaddy of them all. Wilkes was British, and he was first to make a proper digital "stored program" computer, although perhaps you know more about that than I do. It just goes to show how mad it is, and I actually think it is quite possible for many people to "invent" the same thing at around the same time because the "world is ready", so to speak.
It often happens that the British invent something and Americans claim it. Everybody here (Cambridge, UK) would tell you that Logi Baird invented the television, but Americans learn it was some other bloke. It's mad.
Even more interesting is the compound interest equation : (P = C (1 + r/n)) ** nt
Was Rumsfeld a database expert too? "As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. "
This sounds like the most foolish idea I've heard yet. The last thing you need when a spacecraft emergency happens is some stupid robot making suggestions about what to do, and consuming vital battery life while its at it. What you need is good backup redundancy, and plenty of telemetery to tell the guys down here (where they can use smart tools) to find out what the hell is going on up there.
Yes, the Isle of Mann is a Crown Dependency nearer Great Britain than Ireland. It is famous for TT races, 3 legged cats, a very old parliament and as a tax haven. The Canadian Museum of Civilization is not in Ottawa (which is in the province of Ontario), but Gatineau, which is in the french speaking province of Quebec.
When you are on Luna, Earth is orbiting you. So Earth is Luna's moon, and Luna is Earth's moon. It's a two-body situation, and the Newtonian equations to describe the gravity and motion of both bodies are the same.
It's also laziness to distiguish between planets and satellites, as the difference (in orbital terms) is only one of scale. The earth is luna's moon, isn't it?
I'll buy it for you and ship it to you!
Given the current state of things, many people think that was naive. It certainly hasn't been running that way over the last three years. Do you think it will swing back to how things were?
To determine whether the social tradeoff is negative or positive is a political decision. If you have the chance to design with scalabilty in mind, then allow a proper political decision to be made on the social tradeoff, then you are in a good position whether not the final tradeoff is negative or positive. But if you deliberatly design without scalabilty, and a subsequent political decision is made that the tradeoff is positive, a lot of unnecessary work would be added.
eCash is cash, that's why it's called eCash. I'm on about cashless - no paper, no cards, no nothing, just identity.
I don't comment on the social trade-off (that's not my bag), but if the social trade-off is positive, databases would need to be integrated and there are technical reason why different databases need the same key. Why is this a red-herring, though!