The term legal tender does not in itself govern the acceptability of banknotes in transactions. Whether or not notes have legal tender status, their acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved. Legal tender has a very narrow technical meaning in relation to the settlement of debt. If a debtor pays in legal tender the exact amount he owes under the terms of a contract, he has good defence in law if he is subsequently sued for non-payment of the debt. In ordinary everyday transactions, the term 'legal tender' has very little practical application.
There is no need under the Berne Convention to include a copyright notice at all. The original author automatically aquires a copyright allowing them to dictate how their work may or may not be used.
Personally I have some doubt whether 'license' text in a source file has any legal status in itself, or whether it's simply a statement of policy. (See gplv2, clause 5).
But it would be very unwise for somebody downstream to (try and) change the licensing terms, because they're not the copyright holder, and they'd leave themselves wide open to a legal challenge.
that is, a cube 10cm per side. 10x10x10 = 1000 cubic centimeters = 1 litre
The reference mass in Paris is notionally equivalent to the mass of a liter of water at it's maximum density. In fact due to errors in establishing the true maximum density it's out by about 25ppm.
If you define a kg as the reference mass in Paris, pure water at STP has a density of 0.998.23 g/cm3; seawater is around 1.025 g/cm3.
A. Some patients, mainly military personnel, particularly love the robotic nature of the uncovered i-LIMB Hand and prefer not to wear it with a cosmesis glove. However, because of the need to provide a grip surface and to protect the hand from dust and water, Touch Bionics has developed the i-LIMB Skin. This is a thin layer of semi-transparent material that has been computer-modeled to accurately wrap to every contour of the hand.
I wonder what would happen if we were to take a crack team of programmers and turn them lose to rewrite the legal code.
One of the best pieces of advice I received when I started a programming company was to get a lawyer's advice on legal matters. The exact reasoning was 'would you expect a lawyer - however smart they were - to be able to debug complex software?'
But to quote Mercer themselves "The Quality of Living index is based on several criteria used to judge whether an expatriate is entitled to a hardship allowance. A city with a high Quality of Living index is a safe and stable one, but it may be lacking the dynamic je ne sais quoi that makes people want to live in world-renowned cities such as Paris, Tokyo, London or New York."
Or to put it another way, this is a 'safe but boring index', as witnessed by Geneva, Auckland and Brussels (and Vancouver) ranking above the world-renowned ones they list.
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Yes, I remember being allowed to take my father's punched card to the bank to get out ten pounds for him when I was ten or so, which would have been 1971.
And it was ten pounds in pound notes, neatly folded into a plastic holder. He still has some of the holders somewhere and I wouldn't be surprised if he still had a punched card.
According to this timeline Lloyds launched an ATM using a magnetic strip card in 1972.
It's always been the case in the UK that police, ambulance and fire services are subject to the same road laws as everybody else, with a rider that provided they're under orders from their controller to treat a journey as an emergency, and turn on the blue lights, the driver won't personally be responsible and any fine will be waived or paid from central funds.
But the vast increase in speeding tickets due to speed cameras created a bureaucratic nightmare, so it's now been agreed that if the blue lights are visibly illuminated in the camera's picture, no fine will be issued.
The original unix block i/o system used multiply linked buffers, as documented in the Lions (1976) book.
See in particlar page 76 -- "Buffer headers may be linked simultaneously into two lists", "Both the...lists are doubly linked to facilitate insertion and deletion at any point."
The best advice I ever got was to take twice as much money and half as many clothes.
And my advice is not to take any more than you can run with, and nothing you can't afford to lose.
In terms of technology, when I travelled around the world in the early 90s I took a small laptop, mainly so I could keep myself amused on 'waiting days' writing software. (From this grew the RoPS interpreter).
But it's generally not a good idea to show the technology in public and on balance I definitely wouldn't take a Mac -- it's simply too sellable.
The Marianas Trench is 35,813 feet (11521 metres) deep, according to the submariners who went to the bottom of it. So how is this new submersible in any way special?
I work in London, England; 5.67 percent of my gross pay is deducted as national insurance. If I wasn't earning, I wouldn't have to pay.
My father's retired, age 74. He developed a severe heart arrhythmia and was taken to the local accident and emergency department at 3am, blue lights flashing, where he was given a couple of shocks with the paddles. He was stabilized overnight and spent four days in the CCU on a heart monitor. Then he was transferred to a London teaching hospital where they implanted an ICD. He was home the following day.
Total cost to him? nil. Total paperwork? nil. Free healthcare at the point of need.
Even a THOUSAND TIMES the lethal dose of.5 mCi would be a mere tenth of a milligram.
At 9196 kg/m^3 ~= 9 mg / mm^3, that's about a hundredth of a cubic millimeter, assuming it was given in elemental form.
The sheer quantity of alpha radiation it produces also explains why it's used in satellites - "The power density of polonium is unique and made it attractive as a power source. One pound of polonium-210 occupies a volume of approximately 3 cubic inches and produces heat at the rate of 3.6 x 10^8 British Thermal Units (BTUs) per minute or about 64 kilowatts of electric power."
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There is no need under the Berne Convention to include a copyright notice at all. The original author automatically aquires a copyright allowing them to dictate how their work may or may not be used.
Personally I have some doubt whether 'license' text in a source file has any legal status in itself, or whether it's simply a statement of policy. (See gplv2, clause 5).
But it would be very unwise for somebody downstream to (try and) change the licensing terms, because they're not the copyright holder, and they'd leave themselves wide open to a legal challenge.
> I think you meant 1 cubic decimeter
that is, a cube 10cm per side. 10x10x10 = 1000 cubic centimeters = 1 litre
The reference mass in Paris is notionally equivalent to the mass of a liter of water at it's maximum density. In fact due to errors in establishing the true maximum density it's out by about 25ppm.
If you define a kg as the reference mass in Paris, pure water at STP has a density of 0.998.23 g/cm3; seawater is around 1.025 g/cm3.
See wikipedia for more details.
I had Perq 5 in 1987 that had 132Mb of RAM :-)
4Mb of video RAM and 128Mb of general purpose. About £15000 worth at the time...
They thought of that... see the faq:
Q. What about the sci-fi robotic hand?
A. Some patients, mainly military personnel, particularly love the robotic nature of the uncovered i-LIMB Hand and prefer not to wear it with a cosmesis glove. However, because of the need to provide a grip surface and to protect the hand from dust and water, Touch Bionics has developed the i-LIMB Skin. This is a thin layer of semi-transparent material that has been computer-modeled to accurately wrap to every contour of the hand.
It says $18000 per hand in the faq (accessible from the patient gallery link in the original post).
What storage hardware is capable of writing data quickly enough to keep up?
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I wonder what would happen if we were to take a crack team of programmers and turn them lose to rewrite the legal code.
One of the best pieces of advice I received when I started a programming company was to get a lawyer's advice on legal matters. The exact reasoning was 'would you expect a lawyer - however smart they were - to be able to debug complex software?'
But to quote Mercer themselves "The Quality of Living index is based on several criteria used to judge whether an expatriate is entitled to a hardship allowance. A city with a high Quality of Living index is a safe and stable one, but it may be lacking the dynamic je ne sais quoi that makes people want to live in world-renowned cities such as Paris, Tokyo, London or New York."
Or to put it another way, this is a 'safe but boring index', as witnessed by Geneva, Auckland and Brussels (and Vancouver) ranking above the world-renowned ones they list.
Implant an RFID - obviously.
Yes, I remember being allowed to take my father's punched card to the bank to get out ten pounds for him when I was ten or so, which would have been 1971. And it was ten pounds in pound notes, neatly folded into a plastic holder. He still has some of the holders somewhere and I wouldn't be surprised if he still had a punched card. According to this timeline Lloyds launched an ATM using a magnetic strip card in 1972.
I suppose it might be approaching $10 / imperial gallon, but the fuel I bought today was a little over seven dollars per US gallon.
Here's a table of UK prices.
It works out at about 10 UK pence (20c) per mile for my 1200cc car (which happily exceeds 80mph).
It's always been the case in the UK that police, ambulance and fire services are subject to the same road laws as everybody else, with a rider that provided they're under orders from their controller to treat a journey as an emergency, and turn on the blue lights, the driver won't personally be responsible and any fine will be waived or paid from central funds.
But the vast increase in speeding tickets due to speed cameras created a bureaucratic nightmare, so it's now been agreed that if the blue lights are visibly illuminated in the camera's picture, no fine will be issued.
As any physics major can tell you, it takes more energy to get an object moving than to keep it moving
But I'm an engineering major, and I can tell you that that's only the case if you ignore air resistance.
The original unix block i/o system used multiply linked buffers, as documented in the Lions (1976) book.
See in particlar page 76 -- "Buffer headers may be linked simultaneously into two lists", "Both the...lists are doubly linked to facilitate insertion and deletion at any point."
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The best advice I ever got was to take twice as much money and half as many clothes.
And my advice is not to take any more than you can run with, and nothing you can't afford to lose.
In terms of technology, when I travelled around the world in the early 90s I took a small laptop, mainly so I could keep myself amused on 'waiting days' writing software. (From this grew the RoPS interpreter).
But it's generally not a good idea to show the technology in public and on balance I definitely wouldn't take a Mac -- it's simply too sellable.
"Nothing manmade has ever been to the bottom of the trench and returned."
How much do you want to bet?
The Marianas Trench is 35,813 feet (11521 metres) deep, according to the submariners who went to the bottom of it. So how is this new submersible in any way special?
> Unicode will never be flexible enough to be as dominant
never say never -- sooner or later we'll be able to hand write this stuff.
I don't know of a desktop Linux distro which doesn't automount USB storage devices
Not knowing something doesn't make it untrue.
I work in London, England; 5.67 percent of my gross pay is deducted as national insurance. If I wasn't earning, I wouldn't have to pay.
My father's retired, age 74. He developed a severe heart arrhythmia and was taken to the local accident and emergency department at 3am, blue lights flashing, where he was given a couple of shocks with the paddles. He was stabilized overnight and spent four days in the CCU on a heart monitor. Then he was transferred to a London teaching hospital where they implanted an ICD. He was home the following day.
Total cost to him? nil. Total paperwork? nil. Free healthcare at the point of need.
Even a THOUSAND TIMES the lethal dose of .5 mCi would be a mere tenth of a milligram.
At 9196 kg/m^3 ~= 9 mg / mm^3, that's about a hundredth of a cubic millimeter, assuming it was given in elemental form.
The sheer quantity of alpha radiation it produces also explains why it's used in satellites - "The power density of polonium is unique and made it attractive as a power source. One pound of polonium-210 occupies a volume of approximately 3 cubic inches and produces heat at the rate of 3.6 x 10^8 British Thermal Units (BTUs) per minute or about 64 kilowatts of electric power."
Huh? Ionization smoke detector