Like everything else, the earliest CD-Rs were better made than subsequent ones. It's possible those early ones are fine while newer ones are degrading.
My punishment would be the usual fine and penalty points on your licence (if you have such a system), and also the immediate confiscation of your mobile at the roadside. No ifs, no buts. This has the added advantage that it might be politically achievable.
I doubt very much the TLAs have any active role in this. They understand the technology too well to think this could work. Not that your point is without merit in the wider sense, though I'd prefer to think it isn't.
What about all the stuff from that era that was *not* that well made? People don't keep it lying around to show their grandkids: the idea that older appliances were better is a self-selecting myth. Some of it was good, but then so is much of the stuff we make nowadays.
First the infrastructure wasn't there, then economics. Many networks charged to receive SMS, which obviously makes them pretty socially unacceptable to send. Once those issues were sorted, it was simply a case of building network effects to make it worth using for all involved. And ebar in mind cell phones were much slower to take off in America overall (again, for logistical and infrastructure reasons).
Upload speed has no technical reason to be slower than download - they simply throttle it to discourage you from running web servers at home, which is understandable. With a low quality connection like you describe, the download speed will be lower than advertised, but the upload speed should remain constant until the line quality actually becomes bad enough to affect it.
The thing that I find funny, is that had they used the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, they could have saved themselves some very considerable computing resources.
One thing Tesco is not is cheap. It's quite interesting that they don't care about the fact that they are more expensive than Asda across the board; they calculate that with slightly higher product quality and service they will have better profitability. It seems to be working for them.
I don't have to think critically. I just have to refer to the courts who have repeatedly ruled that vaccines did indeed cause autism and the other defects they are claimed to. Oh, wait. None of them have. This girl's case is tragic, but it has nothing to do with vaccine-induced autism. If your claims were correct - and I accept that you have a personal interest in them being correct - the courts would be overflowing with such cases. There are plenty lawyers that would take on such a fight pro bono if they thought they could win it. Where are they?
With a name like "I am the truth", we might expect a little more research than your ill-informed rant contains. Had you read the comments, never mind the article or indeed any independent research, you would know that this case is not being paid for by the manufacturer; it is paid by a government fund set up to compensate the small number of people who do have adverse reactions to vaccines - reactions that are nothing to do with the autism scare, but are simply overblown immune responses that happen in a very small number of cases. Also, please learn to numerate. 10 out of 1000 is 1%. If 1% of people undergoing a routine medical procedure die, something is seriously wrong.
I'm not sure what you are thinking of. The smallpox eradication effort was global and was so successful that, not counting two samples held by the US and Russian governments, it is the first and only species humans have chosen to deliberately make extinct. If a suspected case arose, it would be presumed to be monkeypox or another related disease (which are on the increase since smallpox vaccination stopped).
And everything you are doing is completely pointless; it is a mosquito farting in a thunderstorm. Hassle your congressman to pass a carbon tax or a cap and trade bill so that the developing world can't continue to turn a blind eye to the environment while pointing the finger at America. That would actually be useful.
Actually, a sum of $20m will buy you an annuity-certain of over a million a year at a constant interest rate of 5% and an 80 year term (theoretically; not allowing for costs, fees, and risks).
Dude, I appreciate your spit-laden venomous comments, but consider the source. Michael O'Leary is a past master at coming up with provocative nonsense to get his company's name free advertising in the mainstream media. Find some Youtube videos of him being interviewed and count how often he says the name, mentions the low prices, gives the website address, etc. He is in his way a genius, and we should simply enjoy the show for what it is.
It sounds like you are advocating an inquisitorial as opposed to the UK/US adversarial system. Both have their merits, but the inquisitorial system is much more vulnerable to state capture. That is not a good thing.
That's something of a misrepresentation. British libel law evolved through precedent, and the underlying principle was that one should not say things which one could not show to be true. This leads to some grotesque abuses (as the Singh case shows), but it also means we have (in general) a much more careful media system than in many other countries.
I'd agree up to a point; conversely though, in parts of the world where names are unrestricted - like the US - it is possible to buy parmesan cheese (for example) that bears no relationship whatsoever to what we know as Parmesan cheese. It's simply a hard cheddar which is nothing like its namesake, and that to my mind is verging on fraud. There are plenty other examples as well.
Cite please. Yes, agriculture uses a lot of fossil fuel, but that's simply because fossil fuel is a major energy source in the modern world. I've yet to see any evidence it's irreplaceable.
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Like everything else, the earliest CD-Rs were better made than subsequent ones. It's possible those early ones are fine while newer ones are degrading.
My punishment would be the usual fine and penalty points on your licence (if you have such a system), and also the immediate confiscation of your mobile at the roadside. No ifs, no buts. This has the added advantage that it might be politically achievable.
20 light years = 1.89210568 × 10^20 millimetres. Seems perfectly tractable to me.
I doubt very much the TLAs have any active role in this. They understand the technology too well to think this could work. Not that your point is without merit in the wider sense, though I'd prefer to think it isn't.
What about all the stuff from that era that was *not* that well made? People don't keep it lying around to show their grandkids: the idea that older appliances were better is a self-selecting myth. Some of it was good, but then so is much of the stuff we make nowadays.
First the infrastructure wasn't there, then economics. Many networks charged to receive SMS, which obviously makes them pretty socially unacceptable to send. Once those issues were sorted, it was simply a case of building network effects to make it worth using for all involved. And ebar in mind cell phones were much slower to take off in America overall (again, for logistical and infrastructure reasons).
Upload speed has no technical reason to be slower than download - they simply throttle it to discourage you from running web servers at home, which is understandable. With a low quality connection like you describe, the download speed will be lower than advertised, but the upload speed should remain constant until the line quality actually becomes bad enough to affect it.
The thing that I find funny, is that had they used the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, they could have saved themselves some very considerable computing resources.
One thing Tesco is not is cheap. It's quite interesting that they don't care about the fact that they are more expensive than Asda across the board; they calculate that with slightly higher product quality and service they will have better profitability. It seems to be working for them.
Indeed. It pleases me in a warm, fuzzy way that I read this article in an RSS feed - in Google Reader.
I don't have to think critically. I just have to refer to the courts who have repeatedly ruled that vaccines did indeed cause autism and the other defects they are claimed to. Oh, wait. None of them have. This girl's case is tragic, but it has nothing to do with vaccine-induced autism. If your claims were correct - and I accept that you have a personal interest in them being correct - the courts would be overflowing with such cases. There are plenty lawyers that would take on such a fight pro bono if they thought they could win it. Where are they?
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RTFA. Company not carrying liability.
Now, shut the hell up, would you?
I'm not sure what you are thinking of. The smallpox eradication effort was global and was so successful that, not counting two samples held by the US and Russian governments, it is the first and only species humans have chosen to deliberately make extinct. If a suspected case arose, it would be presumed to be monkeypox or another related disease (which are on the increase since smallpox vaccination stopped).
And everything you are doing is completely pointless; it is a mosquito farting in a thunderstorm. Hassle your congressman to pass a carbon tax or a cap and trade bill so that the developing world can't continue to turn a blind eye to the environment while pointing the finger at America. That would actually be useful.
Actually, a sum of $20m will buy you an annuity-certain of over a million a year at a constant interest rate of 5% and an 80 year term (theoretically; not allowing for costs, fees, and risks).
Dude, I appreciate your spit-laden venomous comments, but consider the source. Michael O'Leary is a past master at coming up with provocative nonsense to get his company's name free advertising in the mainstream media. Find some Youtube videos of him being interviewed and count how often he says the name, mentions the low prices, gives the website address, etc. He is in his way a genius, and we should simply enjoy the show for what it is.
His actual name is Judge, bizarrely enough. The fact he's also a lord in his own right is just the icing on the cake.
It sounds like you are advocating an inquisitorial as opposed to the UK/US adversarial system. Both have their merits, but the inquisitorial system is much more vulnerable to state capture. That is not a good thing.
That's something of a misrepresentation. British libel law evolved through precedent, and the underlying principle was that one should not say things which one could not show to be true. This leads to some grotesque abuses (as the Singh case shows), but it also means we have (in general) a much more careful media system than in many other countries.
Note the UID. Sarcasm here, I think.
I'd agree up to a point; conversely though, in parts of the world where names are unrestricted - like the US - it is possible to buy parmesan cheese (for example) that bears no relationship whatsoever to what we know as Parmesan cheese. It's simply a hard cheddar which is nothing like its namesake, and that to my mind is verging on fraud. There are plenty other examples as well.
Cite please. Yes, agriculture uses a lot of fossil fuel, but that's simply because fossil fuel is a major energy source in the modern world. I've yet to see any evidence it's irreplaceable.
Oh dear. Sir, you scare me. Not because I think you're right, but because I think you're a fruitcake.