I have a friend who works as a caretaker at a school in Sheffield. They have cameras + loud speakers there, at least. I extrapolated from my data point of 1;) The standard error is of course rather big;)
I agree, in the long run this might is a 'good' thing. All it takes is a few 40-something housewives to get told off for littering and suddenly the mayor will find himself not the mayor, after the next election. I reckon even people quoted in the article as supporting this, will chenge their mind after a petty telling off.
On the other hand, IIRC some (or even most?) schools in the UK have had loud speakers like this for a few years now, so the next generation is already trained to subjugate themselves. So, maybe it is here to stay? I doubt future parents, having been brought up spending most of their lives in sight of a CCTV camera, would allow anything less for their own children. "It was good enough for me..." kind of thing. Besides, what happens if Jonny falls over and hurts himself?
Unfortunately, that cannot have any effect, it is already a done deal. The FTA has already been signed!
The only possibility is to attempt to renegotiate the FTA. No chance in hell of Johnny doing that, and extremely unlikely Labor would do it either in my opinion. Section 8 of the FTA (intellectual property) was all about Johnny bending over to the US media conglomerates, with the complicity of the Australian media conglomerates (which, by and large, are indistinguishable). That is why there was zero mainstream media interest in section 8 during the FTA 'negotiations', although I don't know anyone who read it and was not horrified by it.
The really sad thing is, we got absolutely nothing in return. The Aust. government could probably have bargained a much better deal on, eg, agriculture or mining in exchange for greasing up for section 8, but instead it was presented as a fait acompli and not a part of the serious negotiations.
Johnny loves strolling about the whitehouse lawn with George so much, he sold out his country to do it. Unfortunately, on the federal level, the Labor party is not much of an alternative, and I doubt they have any real chance of winning the next election anyway (at least not with Beazley in the lead). In short, Australia is screwed. The best chance for Australia probably lies in New Zealand; if they can continue to resist imperialism (even if half-heartedly), then in a decade or two if the Australian political climate changes favourably then there will be a regional role-model to follow.
But where is the problem with scaling an election to the population? Sure, for a larger population you need more people counting the votes, but it is exactly in proportion to the population!
I'm not sure this change means what you think. AIUI, this rule only applies in cases where there is a dispute among 'inventors', when there are multiple patent submissions for the same 'idea'. In the USA, the past system has been to attempt to determine who 'invented' the device first, which is often difficult and has led to problems.
The alternative scheme, which is used by many other countries, is to take the first submission.
As far as I know, there is no change in the rules for actually granting patents.
Not true at all. Maybe some languages only have a single form for verbs, but most languages have non-trivial verb conjugations, and many (possibly even English, don't know of an example though) depend on it for disambiguating the grammar. So yes, in many languages, verb conjugation is fundamental.
Ahh sorry, I misread your post. But then, stereo CD's are only 2 channels, how does the 6+1 system distribute them? And even more so, for 2 a channel source how does it avoid having the rear center just mix the left/right rear, as happens for a 5+1 source?
We know that they scan film using a 4000dpi process but how good does that look in 1080p?
Easy. The film is 35mm wide = 1.38 inches, so the horizontal resolution of the scanned image is then just over 5,500 pixels. I would say that should look just fine in 1080p. Or even higher resolution. Definitely no need for new equipment! Filming something in IMAX format and then transferring it, even to HD-DVD would be total overkill.
I agree completely, the blog post is just trolling for ads. He was also stupid, it sounds like something shorted out. But then, after hearing "this crackling sound, and smelled something burning", what does he do? Plug the thing back in and turn it on! Only then did he see flame coming out of it, even then it would have just been a quick flash - the damage to the motherboard was extremely localized.
What part of "We can't tell that from our study" do you not understand?
He goes on to say that experts have already shown that there is a discernable human influence on the current climate warming, but, at the risk of repeating myself, he said "[He] can't tell that from [his] study"...
By the way, Tim Sparks does NOT say "the findings did not go as far as pointing the finger of blame at human-induced climate change", that sentence was invented by the journalist. The quote starts with the next sentence: "We can't tell that from our study".
He does state that humans have an influence on climate warming, but that has been established by countless other studies in the past. Its like saying "humans evolved", or "light travels at a constant speed", or "the earth is flat". It isn't a conclusion he reached from that study.
How is it trolling to wonder if a flaw in their research would skew their results?
Just in case anyone ever reads the stupid AC comment, disregard it. A cooling period in the 70's has no affect at all on their results, which are a direct measurement of the change in the change in the start of spring 1971 to 2000.
Now, maybe if the researchers had concluded from that result that it was caused entirely by man-made events, then that would be up for dispute. But no, from the article:
One of the paper's lead authors, Tim Sparks from the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), said the findings did not go as far as pointing the finger of blame at human-induced climate change.
"We can't tell that from our study but experts have already shown that there is a discernable human influence on the current climate warming."
He explicitly says that his study cannot show that global warming was the cause.
The link does not go to a mirror at all. It goes to a site labelled "Family Medicine Notes: Docnotes - Occasional Notes from a family physician - since 1999". Except the AC screwed up, and it returns
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Page not found -/images/2002/11/08/fracture.jpg
But the domain is www.docnotes.net, it was probably was intended to be some kind of gross medical pic.
LOL! I am not going to bother replying at length to your troll. I'll just mention that if "talks" with "Taliban-infested Afghanistan" are proof of guilt, then the USA are guilty as sin.
I agree, the sanctions were extremely harmful and another solution needed to be found. But trying to claim that Saddam was a threat to US security, and using that to justify a war, just makes you a laughing stock.
That's just silly. We know he did have WMD, we know he wanted various WMD, the point is, did he have any WMD, and was he actively working towards getting any? The answer to both those questions is NO.
And no, you cannot argue that old, non-functioning weapons are the same as functional weapons. That is just inane. Did you even read the linked article?
"While a small number of old, abandoned chemical munitions have been discovered, ISG judges that Iraq unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991," the Iraq Survey Group reported in 2004. "There are no credible Indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical munitions thereafter, a policy ISG attributes to Baghdad's desire to see sanctions lifted, or rendered ineffectual, or its fear of force against it should WMD be discovered."
No, a war crimes tribunal would only need to show that the United States acted illegally. Whatever evidence the USA had as pretext for invading is irrelevant in this regard, either they had proper authority from the UN to invade or they did not.
The opinion of Kofi Annan, and probably the majority of the Assembly, if it ever came to a fair vote, is that the US and its coalition, acted illegally.
Much of the political manouvers in Iraq since the invasion has been concerned with trying to make sure that the early rules imposed by the occupation (especially foreign ownership laws, banking laws etc) will survive a challenge to the legitimacy of the occupation. Some of the conflict over the constitution was exactly over that: there are various clauses that are designed to ensure that contracts signed by the CPA, especially, long term (30 year!) supply contracts with the government, are binding on the Iraqi government.
You have missed the point a bit, I think. Any kind of big media company (Disney especially, but Microsoft is in the same boat), want to actively encourage other people to release their creative works under very free licenses. Preferably, BSD-style. Definitely not share alike (GPL style), but I guess they are prepared to take that gamble?
But I agree, the irony of using proprietary formats for such documents, cannot have escaped the Microsoft Humor Department.
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I have a friend who works as a caretaker at a school in Sheffield. They have cameras + loud speakers there, at least. I extrapolated from my data point of 1 ;) The standard error is of course rather big ;)
On the other hand, IIRC some (or even most?) schools in the UK have had loud speakers like this for a few years now, so the next generation is already trained to subjugate themselves. So, maybe it is here to stay? I doubt future parents, having been brought up spending most of their lives in sight of a CCTV camera, would allow anything less for their own children. "It was good enough for me..." kind of thing. Besides, what happens if Jonny falls over and hurts himself?
The only possibility is to attempt to renegotiate the FTA. No chance in hell of Johnny doing that, and extremely unlikely Labor would do it either in my opinion. Section 8 of the FTA (intellectual property) was all about Johnny bending over to the US media conglomerates, with the complicity of the Australian media conglomerates (which, by and large, are indistinguishable). That is why there was zero mainstream media interest in section 8 during the FTA 'negotiations', although I don't know anyone who read it and was not horrified by it.
The really sad thing is, we got absolutely nothing in return. The Aust. government could probably have bargained a much better deal on, eg, agriculture or mining in exchange for greasing up for section 8, but instead it was presented as a fait acompli and not a part of the serious negotiations.
Johnny loves strolling about the whitehouse lawn with George so much, he sold out his country to do it. Unfortunately, on the federal level, the Labor party is not much of an alternative, and I doubt they have any real chance of winning the next election anyway (at least not with Beazley in the lead). In short, Australia is screwed. The best chance for Australia probably lies in New Zealand; if they can continue to resist imperialism (even if half-heartedly), then in a decade or two if the Australian political climate changes favourably then there will be a regional role-model to follow.
But where is the problem with scaling an election to the population? Sure, for a larger population you need more people counting the votes, but it is exactly in proportion to the population!
The alternative scheme, which is used by many other countries, is to take the first submission.
As far as I know, there is no change in the rules for actually granting patents.
Not true at all. Maybe some languages only have a single form for verbs, but most languages have non-trivial verb conjugations, and many (possibly even English, don't know of an example though) depend on it for disambiguating the grammar. So yes, in many languages, verb conjugation is fundamental.
Ahh sorry, I misread your post. But then, stereo CD's are only 2 channels, how does the 6+1 system distribute them? And even more so, for 2 a channel source how does it avoid having the rear center just mix the left/right rear, as happens for a 5+1 source?
Ahh, they got two more connections for that ;-)
Umm, what rear center? 5.1 has front left, front center, front right, rear left, rear right, and a subwoofer.
Easy. The film is 35mm wide = 1.38 inches, so the horizontal resolution of the scanned image is then just over 5,500 pixels. I would say that should look just fine in 1080p. Or even higher resolution. Definitely no need for new equipment! Filming something in IMAX format and then transferring it, even to HD-DVD would be total overkill.
Heh, fantastic!
I agree completely, the blog post is just trolling for ads. He was also stupid, it sounds like something shorted out. But then, after hearing "this crackling sound, and smelled something burning", what does he do? Plug the thing back in and turn it on! Only then did he see flame coming out of it, even then it would have just been a quick flash - the damage to the motherboard was extremely localized.
He goes on to say that experts have already shown that there is a discernable human influence on the current climate warming, but, at the risk of repeating myself, he said "[He] can't tell that from [his] study"...
By the way, Tim Sparks does NOT say "the findings did not go as far as pointing the finger of blame at human-induced climate change", that sentence was invented by the journalist. The quote starts with the next sentence: "We can't tell that from our study".
He does state that humans have an influence on climate warming, but that has been established by countless other studies in the past. Its like saying "humans evolved", or "light travels at a constant speed", or "the earth is flat". It isn't a conclusion he reached from that study.
Just in case anyone ever reads the stupid AC comment, disregard it. A cooling period in the 70's has no affect at all on their results, which are a direct measurement of the change in the change in the start of spring 1971 to 2000.
Now, maybe if the researchers had concluded from that result that it was caused entirely by man-made events, then that would be up for dispute. But no, from the article:
He explicitly says that his study cannot show that global warming was the cause.So, what exactly is wrong with Konqueror?
Sorry, while reading the other replies I remembered my history better: yes definitely Multics was written in PL/1. Not informative at all!
I didn't know that... so was Multics written in assembly?
and surely it was 1MHz, not 4MHz?
But the domain is www.docnotes.net, it was probably was intended to be some kind of gross medical pic.
I agree, the sanctions were extremely harmful and another solution needed to be found. But trying to claim that Saddam was a threat to US security, and using that to justify a war, just makes you a laughing stock.
And no, you cannot argue that old, non-functioning weapons are the same as functional weapons. That is just inane. Did you even read the linked article?
The opinion of Kofi Annan, and probably the majority of the Assembly, if it ever came to a fair vote, is that the US and its coalition, acted illegally.
Much of the political manouvers in Iraq since the invasion has been concerned with trying to make sure that the early rules imposed by the occupation (especially foreign ownership laws, banking laws etc) will survive a challenge to the legitimacy of the occupation. Some of the conflict over the constitution was exactly over that: there are various clauses that are designed to ensure that contracts signed by the CPA, especially, long term (30 year!) supply contracts with the government, are binding on the Iraqi government.
For documentation, see, for example, this zmag article, or Baghdad Year Zero (Harpers). Plenty of other stuff around too, if you look.
Interesting, latest Konqueror in KDE 3.5 passes it! Impressive!
But I agree, the irony of using proprietary formats for such documents, cannot have escaped the Microsoft Humor Department.
Face it, they are never, ever going to give up on this. You Americans should just bend over and take it. Resisting will only make it more painful.