The NFC chip is powered by an induction coil in the reader. In London, the Oyster card is a pre-paid NFC card that can be used to access public transport. There are similar systems elsewhere in the world, including some US cities. We also have some NFC credit cards in circulation, and some places that take them, such as McDonalds, though they are not yet in widespread use.
Except that those sorts of people aren't going to want to deploy their software via the Windows Marketplace. If you want a tablet for that sort of thing, Android is really the only game in town.
CEEFAX has been switched off because analogue TV has been switched off. Anyone with a digital TV can get a very similar service on BBC Red Button, and anyone without a digital TV doesn't have TV anymore.
With the train, there is a half hour check-in time to get through border control and security, and at the other end, you walk off the train straight onto a city centre street.
I recently flew from Nice (south coast of France) to London. It took 9 hours from boarding the bus at Nice Gare Routière (bus station) to arriving at the waiting area at Heathrow Central Bus Station. The actual flying time was only about 2 hours. Even for that journey, the train would have taken pretty much the exact same time, except I would be arriving at St Pancras rather than Heathrow Central. The entire door to door journey in my case would have been 10 minutes longer, but I wouldn't have to worry about luggage restrictions.
If you compare the London to Paris journey, about 1 hour of flying, 7 hours of not flying, the 2h 16m Eurostar trip beats it hands down.
The real constraint is not so much the need to mix freight and passenger traffic on the same track. It is the need to mix intercity and local train services on the same track. If the Virgin train were to travel up the line at 150 mph, it would crash into the back of a London Midland train loading and unloading passengers at one of the many smaller towns along the way.
Perhaps the cities in the US are too far apart for high speed rail to make sense, but if you want to for example get from London to Paris, I can't really think of any reason why you won't go by Euro Star (the high speed rail service between those two cities).
Surplus energy usually isn't stored in batteries. In the UK, it tends to be stored in pumped storage (hydro electric) schemes. You generally use batteries where you need portable supply of electricity. Maybe a fuel cell could replace that some day.
Well once you get to 100% renewable electricity and still have some to spare, then you might consider this. Iceland I think is the only place where that might apply, but they would still be better laying a cable to Scotland or Norway and exporting spare electricity there.
They are illegal in Europe, but I still get them sometimes. Mostly Payment Protection Refund scams, Ambulance Chasers for personal injuries, and before they were scrapped in April, Feed in Tariff solar panels.
Yes, because if you have a source of renewable electricity, it is better to use it as electricity to cut down the amount of fossil generated electricity.
In the UK, we don't have class action suits. However one solicitor can bring a load of individual claims to the court and ask that they be dealt with together in the same hearing as they all deal with the exact same issue. As it is going to take the same amount of lawyer time in court whether there is one claimant or 10,000 claimants, I can't see how doing each case individually could possibly be cheaper.
On 9th July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that Samsung Electronic (UK) Limited's Galaxy Tablet Computers, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 8.9 and Tab 7.7 do not infringe Apple's registered design No. 0000181607-0001. A copy of the full judgment of the High court is available on the following link [link given].
That Judgment has effect throughout the European Union and was upheld by the Court of Appeal on.. A copy of the Court of Appeal's judgment is available on the following link []. There is no injunction in respect of the registered design in force anywhere in Europe.
Unauthorised access to computer material contrary to S1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The maximum penalty for that in the UK is 2 years in prison, although as this is not a very serious example of the offence, it is likely he would get a much lower prison term, probably in the order of a couple of months at most.
Yes that is correct. If you collect personal data for one purpose, you are not allowed to use it for another purpose without the data subject's permission.
For example, if you collect data about a user's web browsing activity for the purpose of advising them if the page they are about to visit contains malware or is a phishing site, you can't then use it for targeted advertising without the user's explicit permission. Burying it in paragraph 11428 of the T&C that they never read is not obtaining their explicit permission.
Firstly, the EU doesn't have the power to tax energy use, that is down to member state governments. Secondly, most people tend not to consider energy efficiency when buying stuff. I do for most things, but not desktop computers where I want the fastest machine I can afford.
If you have something like 100,000,000 workplace computers in the EU and you can reduce power consumption on each one by 50W, that works out at a saving of something like 10TWh of electricity per year.
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And if you are in Britain, you will be taken out by 2mm of snow.
The main advantage is that it is much quicker.
Certainly in the UK, it is a common database used by all 4/5[*] carriers, and I believe the database is shared with other countries around the world.
[*] Orange and T-Mobile are now the same company. I'm not sure if they have fully merged their networks yet, if not, they plan to very shortly.
The NFC chip is powered by an induction coil in the reader. In London, the Oyster card is a pre-paid NFC card that can be used to access public transport. There are similar systems elsewhere in the world, including some US cities. We also have some NFC credit cards in circulation, and some places that take them, such as McDonalds, though they are not yet in widespread use.
Except that those sorts of people aren't going to want to deploy their software via the Windows Marketplace. If you want a tablet for that sort of thing, Android is really the only game in town.
They currently have a 0% market share, behind the market leaders Apple, Android and even Blackberry.
And you can, it is on Red Button now.
CEEFAX has been switched off because analogue TV has been switched off. Anyone with a digital TV can get a very similar service on BBC Red Button, and anyone without a digital TV doesn't have TV anymore.
With the train, there is a half hour check-in time to get through border control and security, and at the other end, you walk off the train straight onto a city centre street.
I recently flew from Nice (south coast of France) to London. It took 9 hours from boarding the bus at Nice Gare Routière (bus station) to arriving at the waiting area at Heathrow Central Bus Station. The actual flying time was only about 2 hours. Even for that journey, the train would have taken pretty much the exact same time, except I would be arriving at St Pancras rather than Heathrow Central. The entire door to door journey in my case would have been 10 minutes longer, but I wouldn't have to worry about luggage restrictions.
If you compare the London to Paris journey, about 1 hour of flying, 7 hours of not flying, the 2h 16m Eurostar trip beats it hands down.
The money owed to China is around $1tn. I don't know what interest rate it is at, but it certainly isn't as high as 10%.
The real constraint is not so much the need to mix freight and passenger traffic on the same track. It is the need to mix intercity and local train services on the same track. If the Virgin train were to travel up the line at 150 mph, it would crash into the back of a London Midland train loading and unloading passengers at one of the many smaller towns along the way.
The reasoning behind it is that people might be more willing to set up their business in Birmingham if London is only a 50 minute train journey away.
Perhaps the cities in the US are too far apart for high speed rail to make sense, but if you want to for example get from London to Paris, I can't really think of any reason why you won't go by Euro Star (the high speed rail service between those two cities).
I don't know about New Zealand, but generally speaking, it is uploading that is illegal, not downloading.
In the offline world, if someone is selling dodgy CDs at a car boot sale, it is the person selling them that gets prosecuted, not the customers.
Surplus energy usually isn't stored in batteries. In the UK, it tends to be stored in pumped storage (hydro electric) schemes. You generally use batteries where you need portable supply of electricity. Maybe a fuel cell could replace that some day.
Well once you get to 100% renewable electricity and still have some to spare, then you might consider this. Iceland I think is the only place where that might apply, but they would still be better laying a cable to Scotland or Norway and exporting spare electricity there.
They are illegal in Europe, but I still get them sometimes. Mostly Payment Protection Refund scams, Ambulance Chasers for personal injuries, and before they were scrapped in April, Feed in Tariff solar panels.
You can most likely be arrested in your country because you broke a US law regarding not hacking into the CIA's computer systems; so yes.
Yes, because if you have a source of renewable electricity, it is better to use it as electricity to cut down the amount of fossil generated electricity.
In the UK, we don't have class action suits. However one solicitor can bring a load of individual claims to the court and ask that they be dealt with together in the same hearing as they all deal with the exact same issue. As it is going to take the same amount of lawyer time in court whether there is one claimant or 10,000 claimants, I can't see how doing each case individually could possibly be cheaper.
They specified the wording as follows:
On 9th July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that Samsung Electronic (UK) Limited's Galaxy Tablet Computers, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 8.9 and Tab 7.7 do not infringe Apple's registered design No. 0000181607-0001. A copy of the full judgment of the High court is available on the following link [link given].
That Judgment has effect throughout the European Union and was upheld by the Court of Appeal on .. A copy of the Court of Appeal's judgment is available on the following link []. There is no injunction in respect of the registered design in force anywhere in Europe.
Unauthorised access to computer material contrary to S1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The maximum penalty for that in the UK is 2 years in prison, although as this is not a very serious example of the offence, it is likely he would get a much lower prison term, probably in the order of a couple of months at most.
Yes that is correct. If you collect personal data for one purpose, you are not allowed to use it for another purpose without the data subject's permission.
For example, if you collect data about a user's web browsing activity for the purpose of advising them if the page they are about to visit contains malware or is a phishing site, you can't then use it for targeted advertising without the user's explicit permission. Burying it in paragraph 11428 of the T&C that they never read is not obtaining their explicit permission.
Firstly, the EU doesn't have the power to tax energy use, that is down to member state governments. Secondly, most people tend not to consider energy efficiency when buying stuff. I do for most things, but not desktop computers where I want the fastest machine I can afford.
If you have something like 100,000,000 workplace computers in the EU and you can reduce power consumption on each one by 50W, that works out at a saving of something like 10TWh of electricity per year.
Those sorts of things are also subject to energy efficiency regulations.