Receiver fails to detect CC ID chip - customer gets hassled by security/alarms go off.
If it is not detected how would they know to hassle you?
Because you're walking out of the store with a bag full of products, but the system has detected no method of payment.
Also, what happens if I forget something, and go back to get it? When I leave for the second time, do I get charged again for the stuff I've already paid for?
We (I and a group of friends) once got some very strange looks from a teacher at our school as we sat around a computer which was dialling out, and we were discussing the differences between the handshake on the school computer and our computers at home.
Thats exactly how banks got started.
Money was needed to fund a war, and the nobles were pissed off at already high taxes, so a clever guy came up with the idea of the "Bank of England". He got rich people to invest in his new company, and loaned the money to the government at 8% per annum. He then gave the investors a "bank note" which constituted a promise from him to the bearer of the note to pay some or all of the balance on request.
Thus he got to spend the money twice.
The government never got round to paying him back, by the way. Heard of "the national debt"?
The three advantages you list are exactly what they need.
1/ Low power consumption - uses batteries, so you don't need to plug it in (you'd be lucky to find somewhere to plug it in in the undeveloped areas, wouldn't you).
2/ Portability - so it can be shared by communities - is one of the main aims of the project.
3/ Pen based interface - so people can be taught to read and write using it.
The two disadvantages :
1/ Limit in capability - less than 5 years ago my desktop was based on the StrongArm, and I can tell you it wasn't 200Mhz. It was still a lot faster than the ix86's around at the time.
2/ Requirement to build prop. hardware - the project doesn't manufacture - it licenses (or will) the manufacture out to tech companies. I'd say this was an advantage because they can keep the price down by using the lowest bidding contractor.
I seem to recall several people getting into the TARDIS at one time or another, but it was probably due to some implausible but well-explained happiness of circumstance that they were able to do so.
Perhaps this will allow a reincarnation of the earlier Dr. Who TV series in a new form, or perhaps even a new movie. I remember watching these when I was young, very cool stuff despite its age
I read somewhere recently that there will be a new series of Dr Who sometime next year - the Doctor has not yet been announced (probably not Paul McGann, so the Beeb wasted the entire 8th Doctor on a film).
Actually, the the TARDIS has an infinite number of keyholes inside the one (apparent) keyhole on the outside. Only The Doctor knows which is the right one, and only he has a key.
No, because if they remain unsold, MS will simply reduce production levels. If they are all bought, and people keep on buyingthe consoles but not the games, production goes up, profit goes down.
One million bases (called a megabase and abbreviated Mb) of DNA sequence data is roughly equivalent to 1 megabyte of computer data storage space
This assumes that 1 base is stored per byte - a ridiculous waste of space - 4 bases can be stored per byte, and so 1x10^6 bases is roughly equivalent to 256K, therefore the entire genome only requires ~750Mb, and so should compress to fit on a 700Mb CD
The above quoted figure (3Gb) holds true if you want to store the information as a text file, but why would you? An app to decode the 4 bases/byte format should easily fit on the CD along with the data.
A text file holding genome information typically shows compression to 35% of its original size when gzipped, so when combine with the 4 base/byte compression, it should comfortably fit.
No, He confused their tongues, and created differing languages, to confound their plans to build a tower to the heavens, fo rif they could do that, then nothing would be impossible for them.
I don't see where destruction or world government come into it.
Fiat's right. The funny thing is that the film was partly funded by Fiat, because obviously the Fiat factory got publicity, but the only Fiats in the film were the police cars. You know, the one's that kept breaking down chasing the Minis.
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Nah, Red Dwarf mines.
YES. ELITE! I'll have to dig my joystick out.
Because you're walking out of the store with a bag full of products, but the system has detected no method of payment.
Also, what happens if I forget something, and go back to get it? When I leave for the second time, do I get charged again for the stuff I've already paid for?
Receiver fails to detect CC ID chip - customer gets hassled by security/alarms go off.
Receiver fails to detect goods/detects wrong number. Makes stock inventory no easier, overcharging and undercharging still a problem.
Cash sales. Some people don't have a CC a) because they can't get one (age limitations, credit problems) or b)because they don't want one.
We (I and a group of friends) once got some very strange looks from a teacher at our school as we sat around a computer which was dialling out, and we were discussing the differences between the handshake on the school computer and our computers at home.
Except that Hotmail already has a system like this in place. Subscribers get more options/space.
The government never got round to paying him back, by the way. Heard of "the national debt"?
No, but it does mean your insurance company probably won't pay out.
300 Gigawatts? They'd fuse the bloody thing! The flux capacitor is designed only for 1.21 Gigawatts. Fools.
Here on \. you're allowed to verb words.
Well, yes. That's what fatal means.
The three advantages you list are exactly what they need. 1/ Low power consumption - uses batteries, so you don't need to plug it in (you'd be lucky to find somewhere to plug it in in the undeveloped areas, wouldn't you). 2/ Portability - so it can be shared by communities - is one of the main aims of the project. 3/ Pen based interface - so people can be taught to read and write using it. The two disadvantages : 1/ Limit in capability - less than 5 years ago my desktop was based on the StrongArm, and I can tell you it wasn't 200Mhz. It was still a lot faster than the ix86's around at the time. 2/ Requirement to build prop. hardware - the project doesn't manufacture - it licenses (or will) the manufacture out to tech companies. I'd say this was an advantage because they can keep the price down by using the lowest bidding contractor.
Done some digging around, and it would appear the series is scheduled for November 2003.
Timomthy Spall (Auf Wiedersein Pet, All or Nothing) was rumoured to be cast as the 9th doctor, but that has been quashed by the BBC.
I may be missing something, but surely the onlt way a speed camera can raise revenue is if you (or someone else) speed past it.
I seem to recall several people getting into the TARDIS at one time or another, but it was probably due to some implausible but well-explained happiness of circumstance that they were able to do so.
Actually, the the TARDIS has an infinite number of keyholes inside the one (apparent) keyhole on the outside. Only The Doctor knows which is the right one, and only he has a key.
No, because if they remain unsold, MS will simply reduce production levels. If they are all bought, and people keep on buyingthe consoles but not the games, production goes up, profit goes down.
The above quoted figure (3Gb) holds true if you want to store the information as a text file, but why would you? An app to decode the 4 bases/byte format should easily fit on the CD along with the data.
A text file holding genome information typically shows compression to 35% of its original size when gzipped, so when combine with the 4 base/byte compression, it should comfortably fit.
1 tonne is 10% larger than 1 short (or US) ton, but a british ton (or long ton to you yanks) is only 20lbs (10kg) different.
Actually, 1000kg is 1 tonne, which is not the same as 1 ton.
The difference between the two is only a few pounds, but, if you're going to be picky, then do it right.
I don't see where destruction or world government come into it.
Fiat's right. The funny thing is that the film was partly funded by Fiat, because obviously the Fiat factory got publicity, but the only Fiats in the film were the police cars. You know, the one's that kept breaking down chasing the Minis.
The Bhagavad Gita Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) Permutation City (G. Egan) Silence of the Lambs etc. (T. Harris) Some more Asimov.