I don't know how it really works in the U.S., but in France, if you called an ambulance for a cold, for sure it would be free, but you would end up in the emergency room of the hospital waiting for hours and hours because your condition is not critical... who would do that when you have much better ways to spend a day, especially when you have a cold ?
You'd probably lose your dollars. For instance, under French law, there are two exceptions to this rule.
- When there are maintenance or urgent works to be done (and actually not for just any work)
- When you have noticed of your intention to leave, to allow for visits
In these cases, the schedule of the visits must be agreed by both parties. They cannot exceed two hours or occur during weekends. In any other instance, there is no right of access. Of course, the landlord can ask (like any other person), and he may be denied access without any justification.
But of course, there is no such thing as an universal european law for renting. This may vary from country to country.
From an engineering standpoint, it's not really the question - if there is a design flaw so that the system can fail with a non-negligible probability, it will eventually fail. Bits flip everyday, everywhere, but there should be mitigation in place to take care of that (at least a watchdog).
It's not absurd at all if you think about the different workflows that could be used. If the video was edited on a desktop-based software, some time was already spent transferring the video from the recorder to the desktop, and a wide choice of video codecs are available.
But it's a bit different if the video was taken on a mobile device. Here, the "editing" part might have been much quicker (just a few clippings with the built-in app), and very few codecs might be available.
So it's not really about decoding, but encoding. The idea was to allow people shooting from mobile devices to easily upload content to wikimedia. You might think that this content would have been low quality anyway, but it might be better than no content.
Indeed, along similar lines, it can be argued that the existence of submarine missile platforms such as the Oscar 2 has made carrier battle groups obsolete. However, just like ICBMs, such weapons are available to a very limited number countries, and are only used in an all-out war. They will not be deployed in the kind of wars that have taken place in the recent history.
C code generated from Simulink is also increasingly being used for spacecraft embedded software. Several satellite buses have at least a part of their attitude, orbit and control system running software directly coded in Simulink.
I see a lot of comments about the merits or drawbacks of CSS regions. But in the end, isn't the real issue to be discussed here is the fork of Blink from Webkit ? With the CSS regions and MathML examples, we can see the clear benefit of using a common, open source layout engine. Even if Google was not interested in these features (or rather did not want to commit the resources needed to maintain them), they would have got them "for free" through the work of other contributors to Webkit. I wonder if the gains Google got from forking Blink are really worth these kinds of losses.
And here is a video of such an dogfight. Of course as you say, this does not mean that the plane X is better than plane Y (Rafale and F22 in this case), but this is nevertheless interesting... if anything, just to see how the pilot is really having a hard time pulling out so many Gs.
I'd be curious to know what games you currently play. I've gotten the other way around, where most of the games that actually interest me are not available on PC, unless they are small independent titles.
Yes, this is something rather new, and of course this is not used by everybody - by far. I believe this trend has more traction in Asia than in Europe, that is why you'll see more Asian countries being called "Eurasian" than European countries.
By the letter of the law, the CNIL has a very specific status: this 150 000 € fine is the maximum they can impose.
They can also impose up to 300 000 € fines in case of second offenses, so I as I understand it, Google could be fined again if they keep the offending policy. This would require a new deliberation of the CNIL. They just cannot impose a fine per day of non-compliance like a court would.
Although TFS states that: Citing concerns of the effect increased levels of space radiation may have on the Antares launcher and Cygnus avionics
It is actually written in TFA that: The Cygnus spacecraft would not be affected by the solar event.
Having been involved in the design of some of the avionics onboard Cygnus, I can attest that a S2/S3 class solar event such as this one is well within the specifications of the spacecraft..
I guess the point of the poster was that his private e-mails gets datamined by Gmail, for the purpose of serving ads. The fact that the ad was served by Google itself, or by a third-party, is quite irrelevant for the user experience.
Well, I avoided using the "humorous" or "ironic" words in the submission because it might not be such a fun experience for the sailors aboard. Indeed, it's not totally unexpected for a ship cruising near ice to get trapped in it. So let's just say that personally, I was not expecting this reversal of the roles, as there had been several reports that the Chinese vessel was standing by in open waters.
In many European countries, there is actually a "duty to rescue" law which is actually enforced. For instance in France, you can face up to 5 years in jail for not helping somebody in peril (even if you are not responsible at all of the perilous situation).
Signal scramblers. I know it's illegal in several countries, but it's used very effectively (and legally) in some theaters in Paris.
Of course, that would not prevent someone to take a picture/record a movie of you and then use some facial recognition algorithms at a later time, but it would still mitigate some of the abuse that "instant" facial recognition apps would bring to the table.
The US has conducted a little experiment in 1962 called "starfish", in which they blew up a nuclear missile in space. It created temporary artificial radiation belts which knocked down a number of satellites.
The bottom line is that space has been a war zone long before China did their ASAT missile experiment.
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I don't know how it really works in the U.S., but in France, if you called an ambulance for a cold, for sure it would be free, but you would end up in the emergency room of the hospital waiting for hours and hours because your condition is not critical... who would do that when you have much better ways to spend a day, especially when you have a cold ?
You'd probably lose your dollars. For instance, under French law, there are two exceptions to this rule.
- When there are maintenance or urgent works to be done (and actually not for just any work)
- When you have noticed of your intention to leave, to allow for visits
In these cases, the schedule of the visits must be agreed by both parties. They cannot exceed two hours or occur during weekends. In any other instance, there is no right of access. Of course, the landlord can ask (like any other person), and he may be denied access without any justification.
But of course, there is no such thing as an universal european law for renting. This may vary from country to country.
Did it actually happen? That is the question.
From an engineering standpoint, it's not really the question - if there is a design flaw so that the system can fail with a non-negligible probability, it will eventually fail. Bits flip everyday, everywhere, but there should be mitigation in place to take care of that (at least a watchdog).
This was precisely one of the options of the poll, which was voted against (only about 10% of support).
It's not absurd at all if you think about the different workflows that could be used. If the video was edited on a desktop-based software, some time was already spent transferring the video from the recorder to the desktop, and a wide choice of video codecs are available.
But it's a bit different if the video was taken on a mobile device. Here, the "editing" part might have been much quicker (just a few clippings with the built-in app), and very few codecs might be available.
So it's not really about decoding, but encoding. The idea was to allow people shooting from mobile devices to easily upload content to wikimedia. You might think that this content would have been low quality anyway, but it might be better than no content.
Indeed, along similar lines, it can be argued that the existence of submarine missile platforms such as the Oscar 2 has made carrier battle groups obsolete. However, just like ICBMs, such weapons are available to a very limited number countries, and are only used in an all-out war. They will not be deployed in the kind of wars that have taken place in the recent history.
C code generated from Simulink is also increasingly being used for spacecraft embedded software. Several satellite buses have at least a part of their attitude, orbit and control system running software directly coded in Simulink.
After nearly 300 comments here, has anybody noticed that Adobe has backed off on this decision ?
I see a lot of comments about the merits or drawbacks of CSS regions. But in the end, isn't the real issue to be discussed here is the fork of Blink from Webkit ? With the CSS regions and MathML examples, we can see the clear benefit of using a common, open source layout engine. Even if Google was not interested in these features (or rather did not want to commit the resources needed to maintain them), they would have got them "for free" through the work of other contributors to Webkit. I wonder if the gains Google got from forking Blink are really worth these kinds of losses.
And here is a video of such an dogfight. Of course as you say, this does not mean that the plane X is better than plane Y (Rafale and F22 in this case), but this is nevertheless interesting... if anything, just to see how the pilot is really having a hard time pulling out so many Gs.
I'd be curious to know what games you currently play. I've gotten the other way around, where most of the games that actually interest me are not available on PC, unless they are small independent titles.
It's still much better than Makers.
Yes, this is something rather new, and of course this is not used by everybody - by far. I believe this trend has more traction in Asia than in Europe, that is why you'll see more Asian countries being called "Eurasian" than European countries.
There is a growing trend to count Europe and Asia as a single continent (Eurasia), because physically they are a single entity.
By the letter of the law, the CNIL has a very specific status: this 150 000 € fine is the maximum they can impose.
They can also impose up to 300 000 € fines in case of second offenses, so I as I understand it, Google could be fined again if they keep the offending policy. This would require a new deliberation of the CNIL. They just cannot impose a fine per day of non-compliance like a court would.
Although TFS states that:
Citing concerns of the effect increased levels of space radiation may have on the Antares launcher and Cygnus avionics
It is actually written in TFA that:
The Cygnus spacecraft would not be affected by the solar event.
Having been involved in the design of some of the avionics onboard Cygnus, I can attest that a S2/S3 class solar event such as this one is well within the specifications of the spacecraft..
I guess the point of the poster was that his private e-mails gets datamined by Gmail, for the purpose of serving ads. The fact that the ad was served by Google itself, or by a third-party, is quite irrelevant for the user experience.
Well, I avoided using the "humorous" or "ironic" words in the submission because it might not be such a fun experience for the sailors aboard. Indeed, it's not totally unexpected for a ship cruising near ice to get trapped in it. So let's just say that personally, I was not expecting this reversal of the roles, as there had been several reports that the Chinese vessel was standing by in open waters.
In many European countries, there is actually a "duty to rescue" law which is actually enforced. For instance in France, you can face up to 5 years in jail for not helping somebody in peril (even if you are not responsible at all of the perilous situation).
As a matter of fact, the ship is already surrounded by penguins. What these mischievous beasts are up to can hardly be imagined...
Signal scramblers. I know it's illegal in several countries, but it's used very effectively (and legally) in some theaters in Paris.
Of course, that would not prevent someone to take a picture/record a movie of you and then use some facial recognition algorithms at a later time, but it would still mitigate some of the abuse that "instant" facial recognition apps would bring to the table.
Did you do the same kind of user research study for java ? It seems the same conclusions would be applicable...
It took a long time and quite a lot of resistance, but Firefox finally supports h264 playback through the operating system codecs.
The US has conducted a little experiment in 1962 called "starfish", in which they blew up a nuclear missile in space. It created temporary artificial radiation belts which knocked down a number of satellites.
The bottom line is that space has been a war zone long before China did their ASAT missile experiment.
There are also many people getting run over by cars which were neither quiet nor hard to spot. Natural selection for them too ?