The funny thing is, someone driving an ultra efficient low emissions car pays less thanks to the higher mpg. In EU, the significant cost of the fuel per liter is taxes thus efficient car pays less tax. Linking the road tax (i.e., cost of the infrastructure) to the mileage actually makes it more balanced overall.
Currently in UK cars built after 2001 pay the road tax based on CO2 emissions. Anything older pays a flat rate based on the capacity of the engine.
They don't have to track down the cars. During MOT, mileage is one of the values recorded thus it can be used to calculate the taxes. Even though it is relatively easy to clock a car, majority of the people will not bother with it.
I must be showing my age but it's obvious that you've never used pine... Pico was just the editor bit of the pine. Ubuntu's version is actually not pico but nano, which is a clone of pico. Pico & Pine were open source with a nonGPL/BSD licence and eventually got replaced with (surprise surprise!) open-source alpine.
Customers (we Linux users) are making the choices by installing other desktop environments. Unfortunately Ubuntu is not making it easy with forcing us to live with with a massive bug called Unity. Now Mint goes with Gnome 3 which takes out of my list. At the moment [K/X/L]ubuntu appears to be the best choices.
Mint's KDE distribution is always the less-loved-sibling, late releases and poor(er) support. I'm not going to install an other SuSE product ever again as long as they're cooperating with Microsoft (no one said the decisions must be based on pure logic, I am no Vulcan - SuSE used to be one of the best KDE distributions out there, it sued to be close to perfection). I do not see the benefit of Arch or Gentoo or any other fringe distribution at the moment. If I am forced that way I would rather go back to my old love Slackware. And finally I refuse to be a beta tester for RedHat and use Fedora.
Comets are still flying under the guise of Nimrod. Same design, just like US's tanker planes are still based on 707s (or to be exact, the other way around).
Humm, a typical Enterprise-level licence (four sockets, some cores) run to hundreds of thousands of pounds. RAC is an other 15k or so, and then add active dataguard for an other 5k or so. It racks up pretty quickly. Last year's enterprise licence was about £32k per licence and for a four-socket 6-core each server you'd require 12 enterprise licences. And then you would be insane not to have a second server with data guard or RAC. Just checked the US prices, (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/index.html) and the processor licence is now $47.5k for US. For Intel/AMD, you multiply the cores you have by 0.5 to get the processor licence. For the server above, you'd require $570k per server. Of course you might be able to get some reduction in that. Once you count partitioning, Active data guard, advanced compression, total recall etc. etc., say byebye to your budget.
Hubble is an interesting example. Cost of Hubble was 1 billion. Each launch to "fix" Hubble issues was at least 1 billion. It doesn't add up. It would be cheaper to build a series of Hubbles, again and again, with more up to date electronics and avionics every time. The cost would go down thanks to a continuous build and learned lessons and we would have a brand new telescope every 5 years or so.
So many years later, Hubble is about to be dead, finally, and its replacement, JSWT is about to be cancelled due to exploding costs because they kept re-designing it.
It's a bit like Space Station. For 20 years Americans redesigned and redesigned the station. In the end none was used and good old Mir-2 became the basis of the ISS. Once that was up there Americans got their ass into gear and started building components. Also you have to remember, the only reason ISS happened was to prevent all those highly trained Russian Rocket Scientists & Engineers to go and work for "nasty" people.
Until an other Sputnik moment, I am sure that USA will waste its resources in politics and achieve absolutely nothing.
AF has no interest in a manned space programme. An unmanned one on the other hand... Not a lot of people know but NASA's is not the biggest space programme in the world. Air Force and its black project siblings are the biggest money spenders. They launch more often too.
Why should they hang around in any case? Once the launch happens, the control switches to Houston. Why? Because way back the Congress wanted NASA to spend some money in Texas, not Florida.
Not when you have a couple of lads changing the tiles by hand. It's not like a major operation. It's a bad design from start and you can blame the Air Force for that. The wings were their clever idea to achieve cross-range.
Also they did claim it was going to be cheap. I remember all the talk when I was a little lad and then Challenger happened.
Challenger happened mainly because of the Congress because they wanted to build the solid rocket boosters in a far far away state. Then the only was was to ship them by barge. To be able to do that, they had to be in segments. And hence they needed O-rings.It's all about poli-ticks.
They might as well. Republicans are trying to kill as many science projects they can without damaging their pork. JWST is very likely to be canned this month.
Can you send a message from Google's XMPP servers to Facebook's XMMP servers? Last time I looked at it, although the protocol was the same, the servers were closed boxes.
Funnily I don't see anyone complaining about Oracle Enterprise Linux. Weird. Their main aim is undercutting RedHat and making them go bankrupt by selling the same(NOT!) product.
The same product - OEL bundles Unbreakable Linux Kernel. It might be a good thing but breaks compatibility with RHEL/CentOS and caused headaches for me.
But their 5.6 is not out yet. CentOS has 5.6 out and lagging on 6. Since they were released very closely, there was a vote on the CentOS lists on priorities. For example, RHEL 6 is still not certified by Oracle for RDBMS so a lot of people prefer still installing 5.6. Hence majority preferred to get the updates instead of trying out something new.
I guess most employees would have moved on with all of the know-how, passwords and operational procedures, where they are written down, which will be on display in a cellar with no lights on the stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
Last night from the little town I live 30 miles out of London I could only see the major constellations. Everything else was washed out by the light sources.
The Campaign for Dark Skies is doing excellent work here in UK, eventually one day we will have sensible lighting all around us.
Ah, Dear Sir Patrick Moore...
Has he stopped being a misogynist? My share of reverence disappeared after reading his various comments regarding women. He's a relic of the 1900s, not even 20th Century. I hope he retires from public life soon without further damaging himself.
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The funny thing is, someone driving an ultra efficient low emissions car pays less thanks to the higher mpg. In EU, the significant cost of the fuel per liter is taxes thus efficient car pays less tax. Linking the road tax (i.e., cost of the infrastructure) to the mileage actually makes it more balanced overall.
Currently in UK cars built after 2001 pay the road tax based on CO2 emissions. Anything older pays a flat rate based on the capacity of the engine.
They don't have to track down the cars. During MOT, mileage is one of the values recorded thus it can be used to calculate the taxes. Even though it is relatively easy to clock a car, majority of the people will not bother with it.
I must be showing my age but it's obvious that you've never used pine... Pico was just the editor bit of the pine. Ubuntu's version is actually not pico but nano, which is a clone of pico. Pico & Pine were open source with a nonGPL/BSD licence and eventually got replaced with (surprise surprise!) open-source alpine.
Customers (we Linux users) are making the choices by installing other desktop environments. Unfortunately Ubuntu is not making it easy with forcing us to live with with a massive bug called Unity. Now Mint goes with Gnome 3 which takes out of my list. At the moment [K/X/L]ubuntu appears to be the best choices.
Mint's KDE distribution is always the less-loved-sibling, late releases and poor(er) support. I'm not going to install an other SuSE product ever again as long as they're cooperating with Microsoft (no one said the decisions must be based on pure logic, I am no Vulcan - SuSE used to be one of the best KDE distributions out there, it sued to be close to perfection). I do not see the benefit of Arch or Gentoo or any other fringe distribution at the moment. If I am forced that way I would rather go back to my old love Slackware. And finally I refuse to be a beta tester for RedHat and use Fedora.
Any other suggestions are welcome.
Comets are still flying under the guise of Nimrod. Same design, just like US's tanker planes are still based on 707s (or to be exact, the other way around).
Wave a hand to your performance.
Of course it doesn't matter when you're working with toy databases and data sets.
Humm, a typical Enterprise-level licence (four sockets, some cores) run to hundreds of thousands of pounds. RAC is an other 15k or so, and then add active dataguard for an other 5k or so. It racks up pretty quickly.
Last year's enterprise licence was about £32k per licence and for a four-socket 6-core each server you'd require 12 enterprise licences. And then you would be insane not to have a second server with data guard or RAC.
Just checked the US prices, (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/index.html) and the processor licence is now $47.5k for US. For Intel/AMD, you multiply the cores you have by 0.5 to get the processor licence.
For the server above, you'd require $570k per server. Of course you might be able to get some reduction in that. Once you count partitioning, Active data guard, advanced compression, total recall etc. etc., say byebye to your budget.
Latest Version is 13.37....
There's a reason why American Science is going down the drains.
Hubble is an interesting example. Cost of Hubble was 1 billion. Each launch to "fix" Hubble issues was at least 1 billion. It doesn't add up. It would be cheaper to build a series of Hubbles, again and again, with more up to date electronics and avionics every time. The cost would go down thanks to a continuous build and learned lessons and we would have a brand new telescope every 5 years or so.
So many years later, Hubble is about to be dead, finally, and its replacement, JSWT is about to be cancelled due to exploding costs because they kept re-designing it.
It's a bit like Space Station. For 20 years Americans redesigned and redesigned the station. In the end none was used and good old Mir-2 became the basis of the ISS. Once that was up there Americans got their ass into gear and started building components. Also you have to remember, the only reason ISS happened was to prevent all those highly trained Russian Rocket Scientists & Engineers to go and work for "nasty" people.
Until an other Sputnik moment, I am sure that USA will waste its resources in politics and achieve absolutely nothing.
AF has no interest in a manned space programme. An unmanned one on the other hand... Not a lot of people know but NASA's is not the biggest space programme in the world. Air Force and its black project siblings are the biggest money spenders. They launch more often too.
Why should they hang around in any case? Once the launch happens, the control switches to Houston. Why? Because way back the Congress wanted NASA to spend some money in Texas, not Florida.
Not when you have a couple of lads changing the tiles by hand. It's not like a major operation. It's a bad design from start and you can blame the Air Force for that. The wings were their clever idea to achieve cross-range.
Also they did claim it was going to be cheap. I remember all the talk when I was a little lad and then Challenger happened.
Challenger happened mainly because of the Congress because they wanted to build the solid rocket boosters in a far far away state. Then the only was was to ship them by barge. To be able to do that, they had to be in segments. And hence they needed O-rings.It's all about poli-ticks.
They might as well. Republicans are trying to kill as many science projects they can without damaging their pork. JWST is very likely to be canned this month.
Also from the article, "reduced clutter"... It's not clutter people, it's functionality! Don't make them hidden / removed!
Can you send a message from Google's XMPP servers to Facebook's XMMP servers? Last time I looked at it, although the protocol was the same, the servers were closed boxes.
Funnily I don't see anyone complaining about Oracle Enterprise Linux. Weird. Their main aim is undercutting RedHat and making them go bankrupt by selling the same(NOT!) product.
The same product - OEL bundles Unbreakable Linux Kernel. It might be a good thing but breaks compatibility with RHEL/CentOS and caused headaches for me.
But their 5.6 is not out yet. CentOS has 5.6 out and lagging on 6. Since they were released very closely, there was a vote on the CentOS lists on priorities. For example, RHEL 6 is still not certified by Oracle for RDBMS so a lot of people prefer still installing 5.6. Hence majority preferred to get the updates instead of trying out something new.
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You can always use it as a monitor stand or a door stop. At worst, it's always handy when you run out of the bog roll.
Old movie. Now they're made in the communist Republic of China and sold to the capitalist USA and Russia. Weird how things change as time flies.
I guess most employees would have moved on with all of the know-how, passwords and operational procedures, where they are written down, which will be on display in a cellar with no lights on the stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
Last night from the little town I live 30 miles out of London I could only see the major constellations. Everything else was washed out by the light sources.
The Campaign for Dark Skies is doing excellent work here in UK, eventually one day we will have sensible lighting all around us.
Ah, Dear Sir Patrick Moore... Has he stopped being a misogynist? My share of reverence disappeared after reading his various comments regarding women. He's a relic of the 1900s, not even 20th Century. I hope he retires from public life soon without further damaging himself.
A bug only affecting certain oppressive countries?
That's a bit too dodgy to be true. It sounds more like a cover up than the truth.