The working in patterns in some shops (like books and records) are best described as 30 minutes in the morning, 2 hours at lunchtime and 30 minutes before closing, and then weekends. It's very wasteful compared to what a warehouse can do.
The report looks like someone lobbying for more "green" funds by writing an anti-progress report.
They don't seem to like people working from home because it increases urban sprawl, and then assume that leads to more pollution. But if we're working from home, we aren't doing any travelling there, and if we're internet shopping, we reduce most of our travel there too. So, it removes our biggest travelling needs.
I've been working from home for a while, and I rarely drive now. I mix up local shops which I can walk to with internet shopping.
You're talking about movie piracy which is an underground activity.
Without copyright, a projectionist would take a film, get it copied and start selling DVDs of it from a shop. Or perhaps get the film copied onto film, and the cinema down the road would show it, and there's nothing the movie company could do about it.
Now, which cinema is going to show the movie at the cheapest price? The one that's paid a load of money to the studio, or the one down the road?
On the other hand, getting people seeing features that they might be interested keeps some buzz going about it. No-one gets excited about security, they expect security.
Music, plays and books would still be written. Writers and composers have an urge to do it which you don't necessarily have to pay to get them to do. The one that won't happen is epic movies. You just won't get something like the Lord of the Rings trilogy made without copyright.
It should be beyond obvious that some amenities are made economically viable by a large concentration of people, and broadband is one of them.
If it made economic sense (ie, was profitable) to provide those services in rural areas, someone would be doing it. Usually someone *will* provide those services, but not at a cost the end-user will like for casual entertainment use.
That's my biggest problem. Broadband isn't actually that necessary. Some relatives of mine don't have broadband. They're still on dial-up. They don't use internet much except to book flights or order stuff online.
Incidentally, lots of the UK is wired up for broadband. The government and local governments spent money upgrading exchanges to allow for rural areas to be supported. Villages around here with populations of 4,000 and 2,000 that I know have broadband (and ADSL coverage means that you get at least a couple of km of radius of the exchange).You have to be living right in the sticks to not get coverage, which means that wiring those people up costs a huge amount of money per household.
How the hell does any IT system cost £140m? Are they hiring Jonathon Ive to do their screen designs, or the Woz to write their code?
You can hire project managers for like £600-700/day (tops), architects for £500/day (tops) and developers for £300/day. How do you get from that to £140 million? That's like 1000 man years of software development effort.
Even the paid for stuff isn't that expensive. I was looking through the manual for Kentico for a client, and it's very, very nice, both from a user and a developer perspective. Software cost? £4000.
That'll be the invisible hand of the market pickpocketing the public purse again
But this isn't "the market". It's government choosing a supplier on behalf of the people. Which is often catastrophic (the people spending the money don't care how it's spent because it's not their own money), but it isn't the market.
But a rational examination and sifting through all the mountains of history and empirical evidence tells us that we simply cannot trust the people who make, promote, sell and administer these drugs.
No. The history and empirical evidence is that vaccines work very well, with very few side effects.
Cue 100 bitter/. readers complaining because someone who is severely mentally disabled for life might have the benefit of some money to help support her.
No-one's complaining about that. There's a difference between looking after those in need and backing down in a case about vaccines. I have no problem with a government supporting her. I have a problem with a government settling a lawsuit over the vaccines being the problem, and sealing it, rather than winning the vaccine case and then paying separately.
You know that Mad Mel in the Daily Mail will jump all over this case and the whole MMR bullshit will kick off again and children will suffer from diseases that the population used to have hive immunity from.
Five years later, the government settled the case before trial and had it sealed.
In just about every way imaginable, this is the wrong thing to do. We're now going to have more fear-mongering about vaccines with everyone pointing at this case, and because it's sealed, no-one will know why.
It sounds terrible that vaccine + undiagnosed mitochondrial disorder can result in autism, but what happened should be open so that we can learn from it.
On the contrary, I don't think that anyone should make money on EPL
I'm quite OK with pirates making money out of films like that. If you don't have the pirates, women will get it from Blockbuster. That counts as money back to the studio. The studio sees the movie did well and makes more crappy Julia Roberts movies.
The only half-decent bit of acting she did was in Notting Hill, where she had to play a hollywood actress, so didn't actually require any acting.
Yup. If things like second hand CD stores start getting closed down, or eBay resales of CDs, a light will be shone on the issue of copyright. It won't just then be eBay resales and second hand CD stores, but copyright term extensions and so forth.
http://www.khanacademy.org/ [khanacademy.org] really does kick ass. I'm using some of his 5-10 minute videos to supplement my graduate level Linear Algebra stuff. Most of it's straight to the point and if I need clarification on a subject I don't have to turn to the book.
Sounds good, but I can't seem to find the Kobayashi Maru on there.
It's mostly an attempt to con people with that whole "terroir" nonsense. I drink Loire sparkling wine because it's made with the same technique as Champagne, with the same grapes, in an area that isn't that different in climate. And most people I serve it to wouldn't know the difference (it's actually slightly fruitier).
You're quite right. I know a couple of creative agencies that use a lot of Flash despite the fact that they could replace it with JS. They've done Flash, know Flash, and while their stats tell them that people are loading it just fine, won't stop using Flash. And to be fair to them, doing things like animation in JS is a pain in the ass compared to using Flash.
I think that where it matters, where we have a better scientific explanation, (like evolution over creation), then science should be involved. Yes, there's always going to be people telling everyone that god falsifies carbon dating, or planted fossils to test our beliefs, and those people are a lost cause. But most people aren't like that. They're willing to put evidence over faith and we should encourage that.
But I think that "what came before the big bang?" (or if you're saying there's something before that, what came before that) is always likely to be down to people's own beliefs.
Completely OT, but I was recently using the MapDroyd app which provides offline mapping using the OSM data (so you can get a map with GPS position when you can't get a signal) and it really made some country walks a lot easier. So, thanks to all the guys at OSM.
It's very rare that I have to optimise for performance nowadays. I'm not talking about the sensible stuff like putting indexes on tables, but the post-implementation bottlenecks that required you to play around with say, how you were storing data in memory in a program.
That said, I'm going to offload some XML processing needed for my 1st Android development to the server (both for processing speed and to reduce the size of the data packets).
In some cases this is valuable. Why do over 1/3rd of home burglaries take place in the UK? To fund heroin addictions. Why do they need so much money? Because heroin is illegal which pushes the price up. On the other hand, you can get something like the Oklahoma bombings where you can do almost nothing to prevent someone wanting to do it, you just have to accept that it's going to happen.
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That's a very good point.
The working in patterns in some shops (like books and records) are best described as 30 minutes in the morning, 2 hours at lunchtime and 30 minutes before closing, and then weekends. It's very wasteful compared to what a warehouse can do.
The report looks like someone lobbying for more "green" funds by writing an anti-progress report.
They don't seem to like people working from home because it increases urban sprawl, and then assume that leads to more pollution. But if we're working from home, we aren't doing any travelling there, and if we're internet shopping, we reduce most of our travel there too. So, it removes our biggest travelling needs.
I've been working from home for a while, and I rarely drive now. I mix up local shops which I can walk to with internet shopping.
You're talking about movie piracy which is an underground activity.
Without copyright, a projectionist would take a film, get it copied and start selling DVDs of it from a shop. Or perhaps get the film copied onto film, and the cinema down the road would show it, and there's nothing the movie company could do about it.
Now, which cinema is going to show the movie at the cheapest price? The one that's paid a load of money to the studio, or the one down the road?
On the other hand, getting people seeing features that they might be interested keeps some buzz going about it. No-one gets excited about security, they expect security.
Music, plays and books would still be written. Writers and composers have an urge to do it which you don't necessarily have to pay to get them to do. The one that won't happen is epic movies. You just won't get something like the Lord of the Rings trilogy made without copyright.
It should be beyond obvious that some amenities are made economically viable by a large concentration of people, and broadband is one of them. If it made economic sense (ie, was profitable) to provide those services in rural areas, someone would be doing it. Usually someone *will* provide those services, but not at a cost the end-user will like for casual entertainment use.
That's my biggest problem. Broadband isn't actually that necessary. Some relatives of mine don't have broadband. They're still on dial-up. They don't use internet much except to book flights or order stuff online. Incidentally, lots of the UK is wired up for broadband. The government and local governments spent money upgrading exchanges to allow for rural areas to be supported. Villages around here with populations of 4,000 and 2,000 that I know have broadband (and ADSL coverage means that you get at least a couple of km of radius of the exchange).You have to be living right in the sticks to not get coverage, which means that wiring those people up costs a huge amount of money per household.
Exactly. Anyone who's liable to an attack like this probably has bigger things to worry about in their software.
How the hell does any IT system cost £140m? Are they hiring Jonathon Ive to do their screen designs, or the Woz to write their code?
You can hire project managers for like £600-700/day (tops), architects for £500/day (tops) and developers for £300/day. How do you get from that to £140 million? That's like 1000 man years of software development effort.
Even the paid for stuff isn't that expensive. I was looking through the manual for Kentico for a client, and it's very, very nice, both from a user and a developer perspective. Software cost? £4000.
That'll be the invisible hand of the market pickpocketing the public purse again
But this isn't "the market". It's government choosing a supplier on behalf of the people. Which is often catastrophic (the people spending the money don't care how it's spent because it's not their own money), but it isn't the market.
No, I meant hive immunity. Measles affects Borg cubes as well ;)
But a rational examination and sifting through all the mountains of history and empirical evidence tells us that we simply cannot trust the people who make, promote, sell and administer these drugs.
No. The history and empirical evidence is that vaccines work very well, with very few side effects.
No-one's complaining about that. There's a difference between looking after those in need and backing down in a case about vaccines. I have no problem with a government supporting her. I have a problem with a government settling a lawsuit over the vaccines being the problem, and sealing it, rather than winning the vaccine case and then paying separately.
You know that Mad Mel in the Daily Mail will jump all over this case and the whole MMR bullshit will kick off again and children will suffer from diseases that the population used to have hive immunity from.
Five years later, the government settled the case before trial and had it sealed.
In just about every way imaginable, this is the wrong thing to do. We're now going to have more fear-mongering about vaccines with everyone pointing at this case, and because it's sealed, no-one will know why.
It sounds terrible that vaccine + undiagnosed mitochondrial disorder can result in autism, but what happened should be open so that we can learn from it.
On the contrary, I don't think that anyone should make money on EPL
I'm quite OK with pirates making money out of films like that. If you don't have the pirates, women will get it from Blockbuster. That counts as money back to the studio. The studio sees the movie did well and makes more crappy Julia Roberts movies.
The only half-decent bit of acting she did was in Notting Hill, where she had to play a hollywood actress, so didn't actually require any acting.
Yup. If things like second hand CD stores start getting closed down, or eBay resales of CDs, a light will be shone on the issue of copyright. It won't just then be eBay resales and second hand CD stores, but copyright term extensions and so forth.
http://www.khanacademy.org/ [khanacademy.org] really does kick ass. I'm using some of his 5-10 minute videos to supplement my graduate level Linear Algebra stuff. Most of it's straight to the point and if I need clarification on a subject I don't have to turn to the book.
Sounds good, but I can't seem to find the Kobayashi Maru on there.
It's mostly an attempt to con people with that whole "terroir" nonsense. I drink Loire sparkling wine because it's made with the same technique as Champagne, with the same grapes, in an area that isn't that different in climate. And most people I serve it to wouldn't know the difference (it's actually slightly fruitier).
You're quite right. I know a couple of creative agencies that use a lot of Flash despite the fact that they could replace it with JS. They've done Flash, know Flash, and while their stats tell them that people are loading it just fine, won't stop using Flash. And to be fair to them, doing things like animation in JS is a pain in the ass compared to using Flash.
I think that where it matters, where we have a better scientific explanation, (like evolution over creation), then science should be involved. Yes, there's always going to be people telling everyone that god falsifies carbon dating, or planted fossils to test our beliefs, and those people are a lost cause. But most people aren't like that. They're willing to put evidence over faith and we should encourage that.
But I think that "what came before the big bang?" (or if you're saying there's something before that, what came before that) is always likely to be down to people's own beliefs.
Completely OT, but I was recently using the MapDroyd app which provides offline mapping using the OSM data (so you can get a map with GPS position when you can't get a signal) and it really made some country walks a lot easier. So, thanks to all the guys at OSM.
It's very rare that I have to optimise for performance nowadays. I'm not talking about the sensible stuff like putting indexes on tables, but the post-implementation bottlenecks that required you to play around with say, how you were storing data in memory in a program.
That said, I'm going to offload some XML processing needed for my 1st Android development to the server (both for processing speed and to reduce the size of the data packets).
In some cases this is valuable. Why do over 1/3rd of home burglaries take place in the UK? To fund heroin addictions. Why do they need so much money? Because heroin is illegal which pushes the price up. On the other hand, you can get something like the Oklahoma bombings where you can do almost nothing to prevent someone wanting to do it, you just have to accept that it's going to happen.
Will you throw in a rubber band?
It was a long time ago ;)