(BTW, I have nothing against European people, but the nature of business and politics over there is that Overdesign by Committee and overreliance on ISO type stuff is endemic (the one's most vocal about this seem to be Europeans themselves anyway)
Design by Committe gave us GSM, the A-series paper sizes and a lot of other things that made life easier here. It's not all bad.
The Swedish defence research institute http://www.foi.se/ develops a similar system that would use 3+ pairs of microphones to triangulate gun shots. They then link that to a multicamera surveillance system and can then track the individual firing. The idea is to use this at riots to make sure the police gets the right guy (they are often masked, change clothes etc, so it can be difficult to know).
And which would those be? UN membership is currently at 192. By all standards Taiwan is independent, making a total 193. Help me with the missing eight...
Where did you get that figure from? Why 50 or 100 million, why not 500 million (the world population in about 1650)? Why not 1 billion (the world population in about 1820)? Or, indeed, why wouldn't the current world population be able to adapt to a sustainable lifestyle? There is a lot of middle ground between living like an American and a Bangladeshi farmer.
Oh, and the food in the lunch room is not half-bad and cheap for Switzerland.
Yes, maybe, but they have a very limited repertoir... (And I suppose you didn't go to Restaurant #3, at the Prevessin site, that's French cuisine at its worst...)
(Reminds me of the heydays of the mad cow disease, when restaurant #1 put up signs assuring that all meat served was Swiss. Problem was only that Switzerland was #2 in number of mad cow disease cases. So now you know how the Mad Scientist enters the picture. And if you wonder about the sheep on the CERN grounds, they are living dosimeters.)
Is the font (glyph shapes) used for teletext also standardized at a 1974 level? They are horribly ugly, and difficult to read for some people. One would think that nicer looking teletext fonts would be a differentiator for tv manufacturers (well, if tv sets can have 0, 2, 10, 100 or several thousand page caches 2004, they can have blocky, halfblocky or smooth fonts as well).
Yes the guy who found the card should attempt to find the real owner, what better way?... The cabby wouldn't be able to find the person,...
I don't know about how it works where he is from, but in my town, there's a good chance that you pay the cabbie with a credit card. Also, the card was probably lost the same day or the day before, so there is a chance that the cabbie could remember a face or an address.
We, as a society, like pretty things (iPods, IKEA, Jaguar).
IKEA is good design value-for-money, but it is definitely world class design. They are simply not in the game of groundbreaking nor exclusive design.
Why do you think people buy BMWs when they could simply mod a Honda Civic and get the same performance?
Indeed this is what you get when you buy IKEA. Modded second-class furniture that almost looks like first-class furniture. But it's good price-performance, so people buy it.
Just like you have to watch several Felini or Bergman films before you can just enjoy the story without being partly distracted by the non-Hollywood cinematic choices.
I find this odd. How many Bergman films did you have to watch before you could enjoy the drama (or suffer from his demons, whichever)? As a Swede I might be a bit culturally biassed, but still...
will they make the captain use a hands free headsets so they are less likely to get distracted and get in an accident?
I get the joke, but just for the record, studies show that people using hands free are no less likely to get involved in accidents. Turns out that being involved in a conversation is what distracts, not holding the phone in your hand.
When GSM positioning appeared a few years back, finding your friends was one of the "cool" things you could do. I don't know if it really took off, but a colleague of mine used it to track her teenage daughter (who hadn't figured out you could turn it off...).
You are by no means required to buy the book recommended by the professor. You can buy the previous edition, a used one, another book on the same subject or even borrow one at the library. Granted, these other books are a bit harder to come by, but still.
In most university subjects (at least at introductory levels that are not current research), if you can't learn the subject from another book than the one recommended, then there is something wrong with your ability to abstract, and that is the problem you should try to solve.
Indeed, if the recommended books for a course are changed, it shouldn't have very much effect on the used books market (unless there is an enormous difference in quality between the books).
Nobody with 500 channels straps a bomb on. People with air conditioned malls don't want to breed a generation of martyrs, they want to breed a generation of consumers. We win this thing by making nice, not by making more terrorists
I suggest you go back and study the demographics of Al-Qaida or, for that matter, the social structure of palestinian suicide bombers. Surprise! Many are well todo middle class with a future. And then they go to war.
The individual sends 60 million spam emails for four days worth of work and claims that one in 19 of AOL users clicks the links in his mortgage spam (this number should however be taken with a grain of salt, see rules 1 and 2).
It's part of his sales pitch so the figure is probable highly inflated, however, if you are an ISP, it should be possible to measure the HTTP traffic to sites that are advertised in spam to come up with a real figure.
A couple of years ago, I lost my passport in Jaisalmer, fairly close to the Indian-Pakistani border. According to the (Swedish) police I will be notified if my passport is found and turned in to Swedish authorities. I haven't heard zilch since, so I expect the passport went to the Pakistani passport black market and God knows where it will surface.
It is uncommon to turn a temple of religion A into a temple of religion B after conquering a country or region. Usually the conqueror tears down temple A and builds a temple B in the exact same spot (with the stones recovered from temple A). This is how conquerors assert themselves. Moslems definitely did this in Moghul India, and the Hindus of course have done the reverse (indeed quite recently). It has been standard practice in christendom -- there are A LOT of pagan temples under churches around the globe.
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(BTW, I have nothing against European people, but the nature of business and politics over there is that Overdesign by Committee and overreliance on ISO type stuff is endemic (the one's most vocal about this seem to be Europeans themselves anyway)
Design by Committe gave us GSM, the A-series paper sizes and a lot of other things that made life easier here. It's not all bad.
Should be: More info here: http://www.foi.se/presstjanst/faktamaterial/110182 1680.html/
The Swedish defence research institute http://www.foi.se/ develops a similar system that would use 3+ pairs of microphones to triangulate gun shots. They then link that to a multicamera surveillance system and can then track the individual firing. The idea is to use this at riots to make sure the police gets the right guy (they are often masked, change clothes etc, so it can be difficult to know).
More info (in Swedish): http://www.foi.se/
Sorry, 191 UN members. Missing nine.
And which would those be? UN membership is currently at 192. By all standards Taiwan is independent, making a total 193. Help me with the missing eight...
Where did you get that figure from? Why 50 or 100 million, why not 500 million (the world population in about 1650)? Why not 1 billion (the world population in about 1820)? Or, indeed, why wouldn't the current world population be able to adapt to a sustainable lifestyle? There is a lot of middle ground between living like an American and a Bangladeshi farmer.
Fold your cable wrong and you get nasty reflections from the corners. Careful there!
Oh, and the food in the lunch room is not half-bad and cheap for Switzerland.
Yes, maybe, but they have a very limited repertoir... (And I suppose you didn't go to Restaurant #3, at the Prevessin site, that's French cuisine at its worst...)
(Reminds me of the heydays of the mad cow disease, when restaurant #1 put up signs assuring that all meat served was Swiss. Problem was only that Switzerland was #2 in number of mad cow disease cases. So now you know how the Mad Scientist enters the picture. And if you wonder about the sheep on the CERN grounds, they are living dosimeters.)
I wonder how hard it would be to take an existing IMAP server and store things like the evolution calender and task list on it.
In the outlook/exchange paradigm outlook does most of the work. Why not do the same thing with evolution?
Well, just fire up a DAV server next to the IMAP server and there you go.
Untill they surgically graft these fobbles to the children and make them unstealable (ooops not possible), then they are pointless.
Even then, a pedophile could steal a kid and insert him or her into his USB socket.
Is the font (glyph shapes) used for teletext also standardized at a 1974 level? They are horribly ugly, and difficult to read for some people. One would think that nicer looking teletext fonts would be a differentiator for tv manufacturers (well, if tv sets can have 0, 2, 10, 100 or several thousand page caches 2004, they can have blocky, halfblocky or smooth fonts as well).
Yes the guy who found the card should attempt to find the real owner, what better way? ... The cabby wouldn't be able to find the person, ...
I don't know about how it works where he is from, but in my town, there's a good chance that you pay the cabbie with a credit card. Also, the card was probably lost the same day or the day before, so there is a chance that the cabbie could remember a face or an address.
We, as a society, like pretty things (iPods, IKEA, Jaguar).
IKEA is good design value-for-money, but it is definitely world class design. They are simply not in the game of groundbreaking nor exclusive design.
Why do you think people buy BMWs when they could simply mod a Honda Civic and get the same performance?
Indeed this is what you get when you buy IKEA. Modded second-class furniture that almost looks like first-class furniture. But it's good price-performance, so people buy it.
Just like you have to watch several Felini or Bergman films before you can just enjoy the story without being partly distracted by the non-Hollywood cinematic choices.
I find this odd. How many Bergman films did you have to watch before you could enjoy the drama (or suffer from his demons, whichever)? As a Swede I might be a bit culturally biassed, but still...
will they make the captain use a hands free headsets so they are less likely to get distracted and get in an accident?
I get the joke, but just for the record, studies show that people using hands free are no less likely to get involved in accidents. Turns out that being involved in a conversation is what distracts, not holding the phone in your hand.
...BIG MUTHAFUCKIN LASERS.
This is probably the former. That is Class 1 lasers that are unlikely to cause any harm unless you punch them into your eye balls.
Because the windows started to stack in the task bar. I can't understand why it took MS so long to figure that one out.
Could HP+SUSE go the way of Apple+BSD and become an option for those that want friendly non-windows laptop?
People don't buy Macs because they don't want a Windows machine, they buy Macs because they like Macs!
The trend seems to becoming widespread, I guess 10 years and all the old wires are gonna start to be taken down.
Down? Where I live the wires will hardly go any deeper.
When GSM positioning appeared a few years back, finding your friends was one of the "cool" things you could do. I don't know if it really took off, but a colleague of mine used it to track her teenage daughter (who hadn't figured out you could turn it off...).
The service is still available with Telia.
You are by no means required to buy the book recommended by the professor. You can buy the previous edition, a used one, another book on the same subject or even borrow one at the library. Granted, these other books are a bit harder to come by, but still.
In most university subjects (at least at introductory levels that are not current research), if you can't learn the subject from another book than the one recommended, then there is something wrong with your ability to abstract, and that is the problem you should try to solve.
Indeed, if the recommended books for a course are changed, it shouldn't have very much effect on the used books market (unless there is an enormous difference in quality between the books).
Nobody with 500 channels straps a bomb on. People with air conditioned malls don't want to breed a generation of martyrs, they want to breed a generation of consumers. We win this thing by making nice, not by making more terrorists
I suggest you go back and study the demographics of Al-Qaida or, for that matter, the social structure of palestinian suicide bombers. Surprise! Many are well todo middle class with a future. And then they go to war.
The individual sends 60 million spam emails for four days worth of work and claims that one in 19 of AOL users clicks the links in his mortgage spam (this number should however be taken with a grain of salt, see rules 1 and 2).
It's part of his sales pitch so the figure is probable highly inflated, however, if you are an ISP, it should be possible to measure the HTTP traffic to sites that are advertised in spam to come up with a real figure.
A couple of years ago, I lost my passport in Jaisalmer, fairly close to the Indian-Pakistani border. According to the (Swedish) police I will be notified if my passport is found and turned in to Swedish authorities. I haven't heard zilch since, so I expect the passport went to the Pakistani passport black market and God knows where it will surface.
Then I will be on those lists!
It is uncommon to turn a temple of religion A into a temple of religion B after conquering a country or region. Usually the conqueror tears down temple A and builds a temple B in the exact same spot (with the stones recovered from temple A). This is how conquerors assert themselves. Moslems definitely did this in Moghul India, and the Hindus of course have done the reverse (indeed quite recently). It has been standard practice in christendom -- there are A LOT of pagan temples under churches around the globe.