Couldn't be communications satellites as they are more than 25 years old (even in reality, not just Arthur C. Clarke's article in Wireless World - that is more than 50 years ago). Remember Telstar?
A press release earlier today (from Hawaii - go figure) claims "no problem"; but their web site has been off the air since the tsunami.
I would have thought it well within the danger radius and very low above sea level... implying very expensive damage and (unless warned) serious loss of life. I suppose the picket warships should have been able to give a short warning.
BT already has quite a lot of WiFi-enabled phone boxes using the "Streetzone" label within their "Openzone" brand.
Would be quite useful, except for the fact that most of them are positioned in locations that have nowhere within range suitable for sitting with a laptop... and especially no nearby car parking spaces.
The reviewer says: "I live in a strong reception area which shows me the full potential of this tuner"
Whereas I live in a weak signal area with lots of interference at the boundary of 3 ITV regions - what I am most interested in is how well does it cope in such an area - especially when only a few inches from an operating laptop computer.
"The patent system didn't cause the collapse of the entire Industrial Revolution due to patent infringement". Probably because the patent system then still paid more than lip-service to the terms "new" and "non-obvious" as necessary conditions for a valid patent.
This problem is not unique to software - see http://www.inventored.org/inventors/Kearns/patents.html for someone who is proud to have several patents on something that was almost certainly not new nor non-obvious (variable intermittent screen wipers) yet was upheld by the courts.
Definitely not - repeat NOT - in the Lords. He was once a peer but fought for the right to resign the peerage and was eventually successful and went on to become an MP. At the last (or was it the previous) election he retired from the Commons "To be able to devote more time to politics".
I may disagree strongly with his politics, but cannot disagree with the depth of those beliefs and the quality of his oratory.
Metamoderating today, I was asked to rate whether this deserved a moderation of "Troll".
In spite of the disagreement with my message I could not consider this to be "Fair".
"And, always remember that I can't fix what I can't see. I have to be able to reproduce the problem while being able to run some kind of diagnostic tool. The key to fixing a bug is predictability. Without predictability, I can't fix it, because without predictability I have no way to understand how the complex interactions in modern software cause the specific problem to occur."
Not quite the same situation: The Halifax explosion was in the town's harbour.
The Richard Montgomery is 2Km+ from Sheerness and 10Km+ from Southend-on-Sea [locally referred to as "Southend-on-Mud"] the other side of the estuary.
Furthermore the wreck is underwater (!!) which is going to substantially reduce the flying debris and airbourne shockwave... the exact effects depending on the tides. Southend's tidal range is about 5-6m so I would expect it to be similar on the other side of the estuary.
No - the simple situation is that I don't need _any_ advertising through email. When I want to find out what's cheap at PCWorld I look at their web site. When I want to find to find the cheapest offer on flights to Europe I can search on Google or a more specialised site.
And I really don't need special offers on "Imitrex, Vioxx and Zoloft from Canada CHEAP!" - especially as I am not in the USA.
True, you need a licence to receive TV in the UK tho' there are some anomalies. However, this licence is needed just as much for the subscription or advertising-supported channels (Sky, ITV, C4, C5).
The anomaly comes as follows:
To receive Bloomberg via satellite: need licence
To receive Bloomberg via Cable: need licence
To receive Bloomberg via internet streaming: no need for licence.
The BBC is funded mainly by licence payers, not be general taxation ("the government"). It also gets some income from commercial activities.
This is a bit "nit-picking" as the licence comes close to being a poll-tax.
There is a possible downside to our situation in the UK as well. The goverment wants to move all radio to DAB within a fairly short timescale so they can sell off the band II frequencies (VHF band).
The complexity of the transmission equipment may well make the currently all too common pirate stations impractical - your views may vary on whether this is a good thing.
From a philosophical point of view I dislike moving to a "magic" technology that practically nobody understands in detail from the existing radio technologies that are taught to schoolkids and can be home constructed.
Interesting that both products originate in the UK where - because of short distances - rail is not generally economical for anything other than long-distance freight and commuter passenger traffic.
Another consideration on this new design, where it appears that it is expected that the same driver will operate it both on rail and road, is will it be economical to train (and pay!) drivers to be qualified both as Class 1 HGV (to use on road) and as train drivers?
Truth ("justification") is a complete defence to defamation in the UK.
This may theoretically be true; but it can be that the evidence of this truth is inadmissable in court - or sufficient dirt may be thrown by the plaintiff to make the evidence fail to convince the jury (if there is one) or judge.
"A 20% performance hit really doesn't matter. Look at the rate of speed increases in hardware"
The problem if you take that attitude is that all the places you "don't worry about the performance" tend to add up and performance is at lot worse than down 20%
(not 100% sure on this, but a fairly safe bet). The "library" used for the searches would be the Guardian's own library which would specialise in the information that a newspaper would be likely to want to know. The library searcher was probably the head librarian!
If that couldn't beat Google for the sort of seaches that were requested, there would be some questions to ask about how well the librarian was suited to that job.
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... and I was expecting "Hello world!"
Couldn't be communications satellites as they are more than 25 years old (even in reality, not just Arthur C. Clarke's article in Wireless World - that is more than 50 years ago). Remember Telstar?
A press release earlier today (from Hawaii - go figure) claims "no problem"; but their web site has been off the air since the tsunami. I would have thought it well within the danger radius and very low above sea level ... implying very expensive damage and (unless warned) serious loss of life. I suppose the picket warships should have been able to give a short warning.
Would be quite useful, except for the fact that most of them are positioned in locations that have nowhere within range suitable for sitting with a laptop ... and especially no nearby car parking spaces.
... and how readable the screen is in various states of light - especially bright sunlight.
"Nothing to see there - please move on"
Whereas I live in a weak signal area with lots of interference at the boundary of 3 ITV regions - what I am most interested in is how well does it cope in such an area - especially when only a few inches from an operating laptop computer.
Probably because the patent system then still paid more than lip-service to the terms "new" and "non-obvious" as necessary conditions for a valid patent.
This problem is not unique to software - see http://www.inventored.org/inventors/Kearns/patents .html for someone who is proud to have several patents on something that was almost certainly not new nor non-obvious (variable intermittent screen wipers) yet was upheld by the courts.
I may disagree strongly with his politics, but cannot disagree with the depth of those beliefs and the quality of his oratory.
Microsoft's directory service has "embraced and extended" Kerberos ... does it also have this vulnerability?
It's Gaffa tape :-)
Metamoderating today, I was asked to rate whether this deserved a moderation of "Troll".
In spite of the disagreement with my message I could not consider this to be "Fair".
How on earth has this pleasant little story got onto the list?
"And, always remember that I can't fix what I can't see. I have to be able to reproduce the problem while being able to run some kind of diagnostic tool. The key to fixing a bug is predictability. Without predictability, I can't fix it, because without predictability I have no way to understand how the complex interactions in modern software cause the specific problem to occur."
One Ring for sale. Starting at only ...
The Richard Montgomery is 2Km+ from Sheerness and 10Km+ from Southend-on-Sea [locally referred to as "Southend-on-Mud"] the other side of the estuary.
Furthermore the wreck is underwater (!!) which is going to substantially reduce the flying debris and airbourne shockwave ... the exact effects depending on the tides. Southend's tidal range is about 5-6m so I would expect it to be similar on the other side of the estuary.
And I really don't need special offers on "Imitrex, Vioxx and Zoloft from Canada CHEAP!" - especially as I am not in the USA.
The anomaly comes as follows:
To receive Bloomberg via satellite: need licence
To receive Bloomberg via Cable: need licence
To receive Bloomberg via internet streaming: no need for licence.
The BBC is funded mainly by licence payers, not be general taxation ("the government"). It also gets some income from commercial activities. This is a bit "nit-picking" as the licence comes close to being a poll-tax.
The complexity of the transmission equipment may well make the currently all too common pirate stations impractical - your views may vary on whether this is a good thing.
From a philosophical point of view I dislike moving to a "magic" technology that practically nobody understands in detail from the existing radio technologies that are taught to schoolkids and can be home constructed.
Interesting that both products originate in the UK where - because of short distances - rail is not generally economical for anything other than long-distance freight and commuter passenger traffic.
Another consideration on this new design, where it appears that it is expected that the same driver will operate it both on rail and road, is will it be economical to train (and pay!) drivers to be qualified both as Class 1 HGV (to use on road) and as train drivers?
Truth ("justification") is a complete defence to defamation in the UK. This may theoretically be true; but it can be that the evidence of this truth is inadmissable in court - or sufficient dirt may be thrown by the plaintiff to make the evidence fail to convince the jury (if there is one) or judge.
"A 20% performance hit really doesn't matter. Look at the rate of speed increases in hardware" The problem if you take that attitude is that all the places you "don't worry about the performance" tend to add up and performance is at lot worse than down 20%
(not 100% sure on this, but a fairly safe bet). The "library" used for the searches would be the Guardian's own library which would specialise in the information that a newspaper would be likely to want to know. The library searcher was probably the head librarian! If that couldn't beat Google for the sort of seaches that were requested, there would be some questions to ask about how well the librarian was suited to that job.
3500 sounds about the right sort of size to be designed to give a statistically insignificant number of false positives.