I was just going on the big Hg with a slash through it on the side of the box. As it isn't a food stuff I don't think they had to list the ingredients.
And in the EU CFL's come without the mercury that so scares Americans, I have no idea why GE can provide mercury free bulbs from their plant in Hungary but the Chinese ones I get in the US have mercury in them.
But the DDA doesn't actually say that, so someone screwed your employer. All they have to do to comply is provide an accessible office (or meeting room) for wheelchair bound employees/visitors.
Contrary to what the tabloid press will tell you the DDA is pretty mild, all you have to do is provide a reasonable adjustment not make the whole building accessible to wheelchairs. However it did mean that my mate Frank who was in a wheelchair didn't have to give his debit card number to some one from the bank every time he wanted to get money out of the ATM or risk being dropped by us after an evenings drinking when we tried to carry him back down the pub steps.
No, more like "I'd like to change GIS systems, can I get my data back, please?" - Currently if you go with the industry leader you are screwed. For example the US Air Force mandates that all it's bases store their maps in a proprietary DCMA protected format (got to love lobbiests) - This means that the US Air Force Academy spent $25 Million in a non compete tender to ESRI each year to licence the software they need to get to their own datasets (https://www.fbo.gov/index?tab=core&s=opportunity&mode=form&id=01da8bda20d8acaa50c7af0bba1f980c&tabmode=list). This is my taxes going down the drain each and every year.
I guess the EU just got fed up with this sort of tax waste and feels that it is preventing others entering the market. Even if I give my software away I can't beat vendor lock in like that.
While I can understand your problems with illegal immigration. I'm a legal immigrant I pay taxes, I pay fees to the immigration service (and extra processing fees to try to get my documentation before the current ones expire) and I don't get to vote so I have no say in the way your government functions. If more states pass laws like this one I (and I suspect other immigrants) will vote with our feet and leave taking our taxes with us, if you are really unlucky we will take the jobs we do with us. Remember by definition I am not doing a job an American can do - if even one American (who could do the job) had applied I wouldn't have got my visa.
Actually I'm pretty sure I only have to prove my identity (in PA). I certainly don't carry my passport and HI-B visa with me everyday, they are both expensive and fragile documents that I keep in a safe location in my house. I have a PA driver's license (which I had to prove my immigration status to get) which I do carry in my wallet as it is designed for that. The only time I carry my visa (and a letter from my employer saying I really do still work for them) is if I plan to cross the border.
For those who haven't seen one an H1-B visa is a sheet of not quite letter sized paper with very soluble ink (presumably to prevent forgery not just to save money as they cost $600 + $1000 bribe), it would be a real pain in the ass to have to carry it everywhere.
I wondered when they'd get around to doing this. Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't try it sooner.
You can safely assume that if used clothing became fashionable amongst the moneyed classes, clothing manufacturers would try to force Goodwill and the Salvation Army out of business. Value is tied to scarcity, so trying to generate artificial scarcity is a pretty standard tactic. In a field like "intellectual property", where all scarcity is artificial, sharing is viewed as a sin.
unless the public requires us to extract the maximum economic return for our research. In the UK and to a lesser extent the USA researchers are required to make as much money as possible from our research. I've had a lot of problems with university managers when trying to release research code under open licenses.
and from the same BAA site - if you fly from Heathrow you can have as many pieces of carry-on as your airline allows. How can you have a policy that varies from airport to airport?
Not to mention you'll pay $5 a minute to phone a US embassy. And don't think about visiting with out paying the $250 fee and getting an appointment (at $5 a minute).
If you bump your version number to 1.0 you may well see take up increase. We certainly saw that with GeoTools Version 1 never got beyond 0.96 beta. When wee restarted with version 2 we decided to bump the version number regularly and are now at 2.2.0 and 2.3.x. Usage certainly went up
This is a world that speaks RDF, RSS and Dublin Core. If you already speak that dialect of geek, this is your chapter.
Great, now I am going to have to buy several other books just to be able to read this one chapter.
Or save buying several other books since you now know enough to convince your boss that its a bad idea.
That said I have this book and I like it, there are enough new thngs that I might try out (and might even use at work) to be interesting and a few things I already knew and a few that I'm never going to need ever!
Keeping track of the north magnetic pole is Newitt's job. "We usually go out and check its location once every few years," he says. "We'll have to make more trips now that it is moving so quickly."
North pole track-keeper - what an easy job!
Pah - I spent four years of my life doing north pole tracking for my PhD and let me tell you its a thankless task. As soon as you work out where it was its moved. Then people (alright my supervisor) want to know why its moved!
How is it easier to get from Mars to Earth than the other way around? To go from one Orbit to the other, you need the same delta v as the other way around.
because Mars has a lower escape velocity than the Earth. So its easier to throw rock from the surface of Mars to Earth than visa versa.
In general I'm against DRM, but I know that many busineses depend on them and are not going to change thier ways any time soon.
Currently the geographic community is working with in the OGC to develop DRM for geographic products. The plan is to get in early and define a standard to prevent cosy vendor mapping agency tie-ins.
So if we all get behind an open source open standard method of DRM then may be we can avoid the problems which are dogging DRM in the music industry.
If you're dyslexic like me then it can be very advantageous to use a computer. I take notes using a mind mapping program which can convert my map to a set of outline notes that I can import to a word processor and write a fuller report from if I need.
As an academic author I feel the need to point out that we don't actually get rich on textbook sales. I make something like £1 on sales of a £70 book. Not too mention not many people buy my book in the first place. I guess if you have a first year class of 300 and write a required book you might manage to make something.
While you might feel it is ethically questionable for a lecturer to pass on their knowledge to a wider community many of us actually want people to learn about our subject because we find it interesting. Trust me there is way too much work in writing a text book to do it for the money.
However I think one of the differences between UK and USA course books is that we (the UK) don't set the questions at the end of the chapter as pratical assignments (at least not where I work). Thus if a student is happy with using the reference copy in the libary (if they can't actually borrow a copy) there really is no need to buy the book. I only bought 2 text books for my entire degree and I didn't really need those but the pictures were nice.
The OS was very acurate, I imagine they would have been upset at only a metre accuracy.* However it is dificult to match GPS up with OS basemaps as a result of projections changing. Originally OS base mapping was on a county by county projection, which meant that the edges of two counties didn't line up very well. As the OS moved to a national projection rather than completely resurvey they reprojected the old maps to the new base. This persists in places near the edge of counties and has only become a problem when people started to expect thier GPS track to actually land on a road.
They've pretty much resurveyed all the important bits of the country (i.e. where people live) and so this problem occurs most in rural areas.
Ian
*It was the accuracy of British Surveyers in India that lead to the discovery of the geoid. This beacuse as their survey approached the Himalyas the plumb bob of the theodolyts was pulled off vertical leading to a differnce of a few feet in the length of India as measured by triangluation compared to the direct measurement.
Hmm I must have clicked through that bit with out reading it! I'm in the UK and downloaded it with no problems.
I've now had a chance to play with it and it looks nice. Just how useful it is remains to be seen until I can find some time to try to put one of my models into it.
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Sadly I'm back in the US now so I can't go to the store to check.
I was just going on the big Hg with a slash through it on the side of the box. As it isn't a food stuff I don't think they had to list the ingredients.
And in the EU CFL's come without the mercury that so scares Americans, I have no idea why GE can provide mercury free bulbs from their plant in Hungary but the Chinese ones I get in the US have mercury in them.
But the DDA doesn't actually say that, so someone screwed your employer. All they have to do to comply is provide an accessible office (or meeting room) for wheelchair bound employees/visitors.
Contrary to what the tabloid press will tell you the DDA is pretty mild, all you have to do is provide a reasonable adjustment not make the whole building accessible to wheelchairs. However it did mean that my mate Frank who was in a wheelchair didn't have to give his debit card number to some one from the bank every time he wanted to get money out of the ATM or risk being dropped by us after an evenings drinking when we tried to carry him back down the pub steps.
No, more like "I'd like to change GIS systems, can I get my data back, please?" - Currently if you go with the industry leader you are screwed. For example the US Air Force mandates that all it's bases store their maps in a proprietary DCMA protected format (got to love lobbiests) - This means that the US Air Force Academy spent $25 Million in a non compete tender to ESRI each year to licence the software they need to get to their own datasets (https://www.fbo.gov/index?tab=core&s=opportunity&mode=form&id=01da8bda20d8acaa50c7af0bba1f980c&tabmode=list). This is my taxes going down the drain each and every year.
I guess the EU just got fed up with this sort of tax waste and feels that it is preventing others entering the market. Even if I give my software away I can't beat vendor lock in like that.
While I can understand your problems with illegal immigration. I'm a legal immigrant I pay taxes, I pay fees to the immigration service (and extra processing fees to try to get my documentation before the current ones expire) and I don't get to vote so I have no say in the way your government functions. If more states pass laws like this one I (and I suspect other immigrants) will vote with our feet and leave taking our taxes with us, if you are really unlucky we will take the jobs we do with us. Remember by definition I am not doing a job an American can do - if even one American (who could do the job) had applied I wouldn't have got my visa.
Actually I'm pretty sure I only have to prove my identity (in PA). I certainly don't carry my passport and HI-B visa with me everyday, they are both expensive and fragile documents that I keep in a safe location in my house. I have a PA driver's license (which I had to prove my immigration status to get) which I do carry in my wallet as it is designed for that. The only time I carry my visa (and a letter from my employer saying I really do still work for them) is if I plan to cross the border.
For those who haven't seen one an H1-B visa is a sheet of not quite letter sized paper with very soluble ink (presumably to prevent forgery not just to save money as they cost $600 + $1000 bribe), it would be a real pain in the ass to have to carry it everywhere.
I wondered when they'd get around to doing this. Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't try it sooner.
You can safely assume that if used clothing became fashionable amongst the moneyed classes, clothing manufacturers would try to force Goodwill and the Salvation Army out of business. Value is tied to scarcity, so trying to generate artificial scarcity is a pretty standard tactic. In a field like "intellectual property", where all scarcity is artificial, sharing is viewed as a sin.
Booksellers in the UK are already trying to force charity shops to stop selling second hand books near their stores - http://www.thebookseller.com/news/93224-oxfam-accused-of-damaging-independents.html
Ian
Particularly if the research is publicly funded.
unless the public requires us to extract the maximum economic return for our research. In the UK and to a lesser extent the USA researchers are required to make as much money as possible from our research. I've had a lot of problems with university managers when trying to release research code under open licenses.
and from the same BAA site - if you fly from Heathrow you can have as many pieces of carry-on as your airline allows. How can you have a policy that varies from airport to airport?
Not to mention you'll pay $5 a minute to phone a US embassy. And don't think about visiting with out paying the $250 fee and getting an appointment (at $5 a minute).
Cambridge University and some UK high school (US Middle school) kids did this in 2008 - http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008120401
And yet the US is trying to extract a UK citizen to stand trial for hacking US sites while he was in the UK. You can't have it both ways.
Actually a lot of US museums ban photography too, I assumed it was to protect the souls of the pictures.
Ian
Ian
Great, now I am going to have to buy several other books just to be able to read this one chapter.
Or save buying several other books since you now know enough to convince your boss that its a bad idea.
That said I have this book and I like it, there are enough new thngs that I might try out (and might even use at work) to be interesting and a few things I already knew and a few that I'm never going to need ever!
Ian
North pole track-keeper - what an easy job!
Pah - I spent four years of my life doing north pole tracking for my PhD and let me tell you its a thankless task. As soon as you work out where it was its moved. Then people (alright my supervisor) want to know why its moved!
Ian
because Mars has a lower escape velocity than the Earth. So its easier to throw rock from the surface of Mars to Earth than visa versa.
Ian
Currently the geographic community is working with in the OGC to develop DRM for geographic products. The plan is to get in early and define a standard to prevent cosy vendor mapping agency tie-ins.
So if we all get behind an open source open standard method of DRM then may be we can avoid the problems which are dogging DRM in the music industry.
Ian
Ian
While you might feel it is ethically questionable for a lecturer to pass on their knowledge to a wider community many of us actually want people to learn about our subject because we find it interesting. Trust me there is way too much work in writing a text book to do it for the money.
However I think one of the differences between UK and USA course books is that we (the UK) don't set the questions at the end of the chapter as pratical assignments (at least not where I work). Thus if a student is happy with using the reference copy in the libary (if they can't actually borrow a copy) there really is no need to buy the book. I only bought 2 text books for my entire degree and I didn't really need those but the pictures were nice.
Ian
They've pretty much resurveyed all the important bits of the country (i.e. where people live) and so this problem occurs most in rural areas.
Ian
*It was the accuracy of British Surveyers in India that lead to the discovery of the geoid. This beacuse as their survey approached the Himalyas the plumb bob of the theodolyts was pulled off vertical leading to a differnce of a few feet in the length of India as measured by triangluation compared to the direct measurement.
I've now had a chance to play with it and it looks nice. Just how useful it is remains to be seen until I can find some time to try to put one of my models into it.
Ian
Ian