The area of an embassy is not the sovereign territory of the respective country. It is however protected by international treaties. I'm not sure what happens when this treaty is broken, the treaty itself doesn't spell it out (you can read it yourself, it's only 16 pages), but I'm pretty sure that you'd need to make a case in an international court. In any case an attack itself is not just cause for a war, it's also not a proportional response. I'm not sure what you think an "act of war" is, but not every act of agression is legal grounds for a war.
While those are great photos, they are still tiny: reducing the image size can appear to dramatically improve image quality. It's hard (for me, anyway) to tell if the shooting conditions were that difficult, e.g. how bright the interior of the instrument or the outsides in the other shot are -- of course, that may just be testament to the quality of the shots! The iPhone won't take photos with a small depth of field like in the sphere photo, though most compacts won't either under non-exceptional circumstances, so I guess that's a moot point.
Also, aren't Canon (S90, S95, S100) and Panasonic (LX3, LX5) pretty much the ones who've been getting the larger-sensor-compact thing started? And those have been available for years, now, 2008 for the LX3 if you're considering it compact.
Beautiful images... in thumbnail sizes... if the lighting is generous.
They are better than nothing in a spot, but if you're expecting to take photos, say on a trip or family photos, a good compact P&S will give you a better shooting experience and far better results, while still being pocketable. A decent compact with at least some manual settings is also a much better way to learn the basics than a smartphone camera.
I didn't like the article, either, it raises many issues but doesn't seem to deal with any of them in a sufficient way. But calling for energy efficiency is hardly neo-malthusian, it's just common sense. Every strategy towards a sustainable energy economy I'm aware of requires significant improvements in energy efficiency. The good thing is that there are still lots of low hanging fruit when it comes to improving efficiency: huge amounts of energy used to heat up or cool down housing can be saved by improving isolation, for example. Or just think of the transportation sector, both bulk as well as personal transportation.
If it were just up to the western world, reducing the overall energy consumption should be incredibly easy. I'm pretty sure it's already stagnated in Europe; for Germany, it has remained constant at around 14000 PJ since the 90s. Unfortunately, that's where his point about sharing finite resources equitably among nations comes in -- we need to reduce our consumption while simultaneously allowing for an increase in developing countries, while desperately trying to prevent their per-capita energy consumption from coming anywhere close to our (soon: historic) extremes.
Also, the Bulletin isn't a pro-nuclear shill publication. While I can't rule out that they have an overall pro-nuclear energy bias, they're most famous for covering issues of nuclear armament and proliferation (the clock thing). I briefly looked at the nuclear energy articles and they didn't strike me as particularly partisan; they have a moderately optimistic article about the recent German commitment to phase out nuclear energy, which I'm pretty sure marks them as anti-nuclear fringe in US terms.
I *really* hate gamepads for these kinds of games, but Skyrim is the first one where I made the switch. It's still aggravating sometimes, but for the most part -- especially walking around and watching the scenery, which I seem to do a lot of --, it's fine. Combat is more difficult and shooting arrows in particular is MUCH more difficult, I'm sure it's "costing" me an entire difficulty level at least. It's sometimes frustrating when you die and it feels like the controls are part of the reason. But I try to take that as part of the challenge; archery is still very useful, for example. OTOH, some parts just plainly work better, e.g. the menu system is braindead for keyboard/mouse, but it's *fantastic* for gamepad (huge inventory lists can be a problem). It's also nice to have analogue controls for walking, the one thing that's more precise with a gamepad.
And it does mean I get to play the game sitting on a couch and displayed on a projector, which made this easily the most immersive gaming experience I have had in a long time.
It also gets easier as you get used to it. At first it reminded me of when I switched to controlling FPS games with wasd+mouse instead of purely the keyboard (guess I'm dating myself here). Still don't know how anyone can stand playing an FPS with a gamepad, though.
The manual (or maybe the Nokia 5800XM manual which I also looked at) actually has a parapraph saying "don't use your local emergency number or 911 or 112 in your PIN", or something to that end.
Apparently it as produced with LibreOffice (metadata, if you can't spot it). Is the source odt file for the journal available? It's fairly clear that designing the journal was not a priority, and I think that's fine, but in terms of sane defaults, Latex would have produced a much better looking document. E.g. the odd positioning of "Software:" on page 19 just wouldn't happen, left aligned instead of justified is very strange, no hyphenation.
If you're worried about the increased work load (without cause, in my experience), you could crowdsource the effort, same goes for still accepting submissions in HTML, ODT or MS formats to avoid scaring off people who aren't used to Latex.
Someone else mentioned installing it at the border -- yet another reason for completely wiping the system before and after a border check. There are two known cases where this happened. In another case, they broke into someone's home and installed the software on two computers. None of these cases involved terrorism, or child abuse, for that matter.
And again, you get 8/10 for snark, but not a whole lot of points for thinking along. The modern kind of mall always was a largely private thing (though often generously subsidised, no doubt), but instead of walking around in a private mall to visit stores, you could also walk around on public streets to visit stores. I guess it's fair to put modern malls in one line with market places (eminently public places) and market halls (e.g. this, don't know if those were typically publicly owned). Another example for public places that are now sort of private are all kinds of public transportation, e.g. the FFM airport case I referred to or the MTA Photo Ban thing which was discussed on Slashdot on numerous occasions.
What freedom exactly is being undone by not allowing pictures to be taken on private property (like a mall)?
Okay, let me spell it out for you: As malls get increasingly popular, people spend more and more time on private property. While people used to be able to walk around their town and take photos, they are increasingly unable to do so. And obviously, malls aren't the only places that used to be public but now aren't and taking photographs is only the least of the things people lose. Being searched on entry or exit? Wow. I'm assuming political speech is out too, but of course people like you are going to jump up and down screaming "it's not censorship because it's not the government doing so".
The ideal solution would be to raze the fucking malls and reassert public ownership of things like public transport, but in case that clashes with ideology, you can walk a middle ground of extending some civic rights to these places. This isn't particularly insane, last year a German court ruled that Frankfurt airport (a corporation where the public is a major stock holder) could not abolish the freedom of assembly on their premises.
How much competition is there? I thought China Mobila is dominating the market, and according to Wikipedia, there are just three mobile phone operators, all of them state-owned.
Sounds to me like you're describing some serious cultural anxiety there.
And you're deluding yourself about the difference between the UK and continental Europe. The UK isn't so different and the various countries in continental Western Europe aren't as similar as you seem to think. Having been in all of those places, the difference between Germany and the UK is smaller than, e.g., the difference between Germany and Italy or Spain. In either case, the similarities dominate. And the dissimilarities within the countries (e.g. between urban and rural, richest vs poorest 10%) are more significant than the dissimilarities between the countries.
It's obviously not even the same ball park as the difference between Mexico and the US; I mean, that's just ludicrous.
For 2010 (Electricity Net Generation: Total (All Sectors)), it lists roughly 44% coal, 23% NG, 20% nuclear, 6% hydro, 2% wind, and the rest is peanuts.
Just to let you know I appreciate the customer outreach you're doing here.:) Keep up the good work, I like where Firefox has been going recently and, despite how it may sometimes look, I doubt I am the only one.
Your metric for establishedness of a theory is flawed because it fails to take into account the rise in population (and even greater rise in scientific output per capita). GR could be considered to be more established than Newtonian physics, because, even though it's been the main paradigm for a shorter time, in this time it was recognised (and not disproven) by a larger number of people.
No. The two aren't as separable as some geeks would like them to be. Politics/law shape technology; technology shapes politics/law. And in both directions, the influence is significant. Of course there are segments of technology (and politics) where this is less important than for others.
Seems like REPLs have gotten more popular recently. I guess I don't really get it, I found a good interactive debugger more useful as a learning tool. Particularly with rich abilities to inspect variables and variable hierarchies. A REPL-like tool as one feature of such an environment is nice to have, sure. But just the REPL on its own seems really limiting.
Hm? World population is roughly 7 billion. I'm sure there's several billion mobile phone users out there. Wikipedia refers to "over 5 billion", but that might just be the number of active phones, number of users will be a bit lower.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the max. throughput will depend on the character of the transmission. If a router can transmit 400Mb/s in the best case, the worst case performance will be lower.
I'd speculate that the best case is a single stream of large but not huge packets between the local and a single remote host, maybe even circumventing NAT; the worst case will be many many streams of small packets between several NAT'ed local hosts and a multitude of remote hosts, which sounds similar to BT traffic. Finally the question is how much of a difference does it make, and I have no idea.
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The area of an embassy is not the sovereign territory of the respective country. It is however protected by international treaties. I'm not sure what happens when this treaty is broken, the treaty itself doesn't spell it out (you can read it yourself, it's only 16 pages), but I'm pretty sure that you'd need to make a case in an international court. In any case an attack itself is not just cause for a war, it's also not a proportional response. I'm not sure what you think an "act of war" is, but not every act of agression is legal grounds for a war.
While those are great photos, they are still tiny: reducing the image size can appear to dramatically improve image quality. It's hard (for me, anyway) to tell if the shooting conditions were that difficult, e.g. how bright the interior of the instrument or the outsides in the other shot are -- of course, that may just be testament to the quality of the shots! The iPhone won't take photos with a small depth of field like in the sphere photo, though most compacts won't either under non-exceptional circumstances, so I guess that's a moot point.
Also, aren't Canon (S90, S95, S100) and Panasonic (LX3, LX5) pretty much the ones who've been getting the larger-sensor-compact thing started? And those have been available for years, now, 2008 for the LX3 if you're considering it compact.
Beautiful images... in thumbnail sizes... if the lighting is generous.
They are better than nothing in a spot, but if you're expecting to take photos, say on a trip or family photos, a good compact P&S will give you a better shooting experience and far better results, while still being pocketable. A decent compact with at least some manual settings is also a much better way to learn the basics than a smartphone camera.
I didn't like the article, either, it raises many issues but doesn't seem to deal with any of them in a sufficient way. But calling for energy efficiency is hardly neo-malthusian, it's just common sense. Every strategy towards a sustainable energy economy I'm aware of requires significant improvements in energy efficiency. The good thing is that there are still lots of low hanging fruit when it comes to improving efficiency: huge amounts of energy used to heat up or cool down housing can be saved by improving isolation, for example. Or just think of the transportation sector, both bulk as well as personal transportation.
If it were just up to the western world, reducing the overall energy consumption should be incredibly easy. I'm pretty sure it's already stagnated in Europe; for Germany, it has remained constant at around 14000 PJ since the 90s. Unfortunately, that's where his point about sharing finite resources equitably among nations comes in -- we need to reduce our consumption while simultaneously allowing for an increase in developing countries, while desperately trying to prevent their per-capita energy consumption from coming anywhere close to our (soon: historic) extremes.
Also, the Bulletin isn't a pro-nuclear shill publication. While I can't rule out that they have an overall pro-nuclear energy bias, they're most famous for covering issues of nuclear armament and proliferation (the clock thing). I briefly looked at the nuclear energy articles and they didn't strike me as particularly partisan; they have a moderately optimistic article about the recent German commitment to phase out nuclear energy, which I'm pretty sure marks them as anti-nuclear fringe in US terms.
He did not waiver from it... except when he did, as in this story.
I *really* hate gamepads for these kinds of games, but Skyrim is the first one where I made the switch. It's still aggravating sometimes, but for the most part -- especially walking around and watching the scenery, which I seem to do a lot of --, it's fine. Combat is more difficult and shooting arrows in particular is MUCH more difficult, I'm sure it's "costing" me an entire difficulty level at least. It's sometimes frustrating when you die and it feels like the controls are part of the reason. But I try to take that as part of the challenge; archery is still very useful, for example. OTOH, some parts just plainly work better, e.g. the menu system is braindead for keyboard/mouse, but it's *fantastic* for gamepad (huge inventory lists can be a problem). It's also nice to have analogue controls for walking, the one thing that's more precise with a gamepad.
And it does mean I get to play the game sitting on a couch and displayed on a projector, which made this easily the most immersive gaming experience I have had in a long time.
It also gets easier as you get used to it. At first it reminded me of when I switched to controlling FPS games with wasd+mouse instead of purely the keyboard (guess I'm dating myself here). Still don't know how anyone can stand playing an FPS with a gamepad, though.
The manual (or maybe the Nokia 5800XM manual which I also looked at) actually has a parapraph saying "don't use your local emergency number or 911 or 112 in your PIN", or something to that end.
That seems unlikely. I think pretty much all GSM devices have the capability (apparently it's in the spec, "112" should work globally). The N900 just doesn't advertise the feature. It's mentioned in the manual, though: http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/support/product/nokia-n900/userguide/?action=onlineuserguidepagechange&pFile=GUID-67F9E8D2-51A2-4A60-B635-69F60530E852-139_FILE001.html
Apparently it as produced with LibreOffice (metadata, if you can't spot it). Is the source odt file for the journal available? It's fairly clear that designing the journal was not a priority, and I think that's fine, but in terms of sane defaults, Latex would have produced a much better looking document. E.g. the odd positioning of "Software:" on page 19 just wouldn't happen, left aligned instead of justified is very strange, no hyphenation.
If you're worried about the increased work load (without cause, in my experience), you could crowdsource the effort, same goes for still accepting submissions in HTML, ODT or MS formats to avoid scaring off people who aren't used to Latex.
I've got to hand it to you two, that's almost textbook material for petty internet bickering. :)
Someone else mentioned installing it at the border -- yet another reason for completely wiping the system before and after a border check. There are two known cases where this happened. In another case, they broke into someone's home and installed the software on two computers. None of these cases involved terrorism, or child abuse, for that matter.
Source (German, obviously): http://taz.de/Staatstrojaner-gegen-Drogendealer/!79701/
And again, you get 8/10 for snark, but not a whole lot of points for thinking along. The modern kind of mall always was a largely private thing (though often generously subsidised, no doubt), but instead of walking around in a private mall to visit stores, you could also walk around on public streets to visit stores. I guess it's fair to put modern malls in one line with market places (eminently public places) and market halls (e.g. this, don't know if those were typically publicly owned). Another example for public places that are now sort of private are all kinds of public transportation, e.g. the FFM airport case I referred to or the MTA Photo Ban thing which was discussed on Slashdot on numerous occasions.
What freedom exactly is being undone by not allowing pictures to be taken on private property (like a mall)?
Okay, let me spell it out for you: As malls get increasingly popular, people spend more and more time on private property. While people used to be able to walk around their town and take photos, they are increasingly unable to do so. And obviously, malls aren't the only places that used to be public but now aren't and taking photographs is only the least of the things people lose. Being searched on entry or exit? Wow. I'm assuming political speech is out too, but of course people like you are going to jump up and down screaming "it's not censorship because it's not the government doing so".
The ideal solution would be to raze the fucking malls and reassert public ownership of things like public transport, but in case that clashes with ideology, you can walk a middle ground of extending some civic rights to these places. This isn't particularly insane, last year a German court ruled that Frankfurt airport (a corporation where the public is a major stock holder) could not abolish the freedom of assembly on their premises.
How much competition is there? I thought China Mobila is dominating the market, and according to Wikipedia, there are just three mobile phone operators, all of them state-owned.
Sounds to me like you're describing some serious cultural anxiety there.
And you're deluding yourself about the difference between the UK and continental Europe. The UK isn't so different and the various countries in continental Western Europe aren't as similar as you seem to think. Having been in all of those places, the difference between Germany and the UK is smaller than, e.g., the difference between Germany and Italy or Spain. In either case, the similarities dominate. And the dissimilarities within the countries (e.g. between urban and rural, richest vs poorest 10%) are more significant than the dissimilarities between the countries.
It's obviously not even the same ball park as the difference between Mexico and the US; I mean, that's just ludicrous.
How strange. I typically introduce myself with my name.
I'm not an expert, but I'm not sure how representative those numbers for the energy mix are. I found this page which seems to be more reliable: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/index.cfm#electricity
For 2010 (Electricity Net Generation: Total (All Sectors)), it lists roughly 44% coal, 23% NG, 20% nuclear, 6% hydro, 2% wind, and the rest is peanuts.
Torrenting usually involves redistribution, though.
Just to let you know I appreciate the customer outreach you're doing here. :) Keep up the good work, I like where Firefox has been going recently and, despite how it may sometimes look, I doubt I am the only one.
Your metric for establishedness of a theory is flawed because it fails to take into account the rise in population (and even greater rise in scientific output per capita). GR could be considered to be more established than Newtonian physics, because, even though it's been the main paradigm for a shorter time, in this time it was recognised (and not disproven) by a larger number of people.
No. The two aren't as separable as some geeks would like them to be. Politics/law shape technology; technology shapes politics/law. And in both directions, the influence is significant. Of course there are segments of technology (and politics) where this is less important than for others.
Seems like REPLs have gotten more popular recently. I guess I don't really get it, I found a good interactive debugger more useful as a learning tool. Particularly with rich abilities to inspect variables and variable hierarchies. A REPL-like tool as one feature of such an environment is nice to have, sure. But just the REPL on its own seems really limiting.
Hm? World population is roughly 7 billion. I'm sure there's several billion mobile phone users out there. Wikipedia refers to "over 5 billion", but that might just be the number of active phones, number of users will be a bit lower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the max. throughput will depend on the character of the transmission. If a router can transmit 400Mb/s in the best case, the worst case performance will be lower.
I'd speculate that the best case is a single stream of large but not huge packets between the local and a single remote host, maybe even circumventing NAT; the worst case will be many many streams of small packets between several NAT'ed local hosts and a multitude of remote hosts, which sounds similar to BT traffic. Finally the question is how much of a difference does it make, and I have no idea.
Not to mention the iPod Touch and many other devices.