Your comment appears to say that haloes were widely used in pre-Christian religious depictions. That is not established in your quoted source. Indeed after several hours I can't find a single image of haloes that is BCE.
Christians stole almost every aspect of their religion from other established religions and folk tales. The halo was depicted in BCE images, there already was an existing trifecta of god(s), people were said to have been raised from the dead, turned water into wine, last suppers - the list goes on. Just because you looked in the wrong place doesn't mean they don't exist.
Try this for an image of a BCE halo. You may say it's a sun disk, it looks like a halo to me. I've seen several images of christ with similar "haloes" If you dig deep enough, you'll probably find that the sun disk is a necessary part of being a god in many many religions. But you define halo in the way that suits your argument. And you suck at reading too, if you didn't even follow the link in the "quoted source" you complain about. (hint: Helios, Apollo, Neptune, Vishnu, Krishna, Shiva, Aditya, Shakyamuni Buddha, The Heavenly Emperors, The Great Emperors of the Three Offices)
Ignition takes place a few degrees before TDC - always. You know exactly where the mixture is because the piston has just pushed it all up to the head. They design the inlet ports and the top of the piston to swirl and mix the fuel & air to the most efficient possible mixture. The spark plug is at the top because you want the mixture to burn from the top down, pushing the piston away. Direct injection only regulates the amount of fuel added to the cylinder. It does not "place" the mixture anywhere.
How stupid do you think the existing designs are ? Moving the point of ignition is a waste of time, when the whole device is currently designed to present an adequately mixed fuel to the point where it can be efficiently detonated. Every time. Mechanically enforced. The laser system is going to present ignition at pretty much exactly the same place as the spark plug does now. Unless you redesign the whole mechanical concept of an ICE. (change the cylinder shape, crankshaft, pistons, air intakes, exhaust etc etc). This has been tried already and it's called the wankel rotary engine. The only problem with wankels is they are less efficient. They can develop more power just by adding more fuel, but not more efficiently. Changing the method of ignition will not help that problem.
If you're seeing black sooty exhaust smoke from a diesel, either the fuel rack is turned up too far and it's dumping *way* more diesel in than you can burn, or the air filter is clogged.
No, sorry that's crap. Black smoke is due to mechanical failure, either rings allowing sump oil to burn or some other vector allowing oil into the chamber. Too much fuel gives a blue or white smoke. If you get a turbo blow, you get blue smoke out the back, wrong fuel-air ratio. Black smoke is caused by soot. If you have too much fuel that doesn't burn, it can't turn into soot.
Fly ash and slag are commonly used for insulation materials and concrete. So you could be surrounded by that radiation.
I have driven a tanker collecting it from power stations and delivering it to cement/concrete plants.
Except when they are taken from a UK site then uploaded to a US server, apparently the photographers copyright is meaningless. No licence was asked for or given.
I live about 4 miles from the site. This is about the fourth different story I've heard so far. In the first incarnation, he said that he "offered" to close the party down - no enforcement needed. So all the rest of it has come later, in fact as soon as the national media got involved.
As for that other pub, I assume you're talking about the Double Locks - that place is crap now anyway. I don't know anybody who would go there for a night out now. They used to have about 20 different real ales and ciders, now they have 1 real ale, 2 ciders and the rest is processed crap.
It strikes me that Google is doing an end run around trademark law. What they are doing in fact, is allowing a company to associate a trademark which they do not have the rights to, with their own competing product.
Under trademark law, you cannot primarily describe your product using a trademarked name unless you own the trademark. Yes you can say it's "like" the trademarked version, and yes you can have your product listed near the trademarked one. What you can't do is buy the trademarked term for use in advertising your own competing product. this is the fundamental point of a trademark. Otherwise you can have a big H1 header saying Microsoft® with some tiny small print at the bottom saying "no, not really". Google is selling other peoples trademarks for use by competing companies. This is what's wrong. It doesn't matter what the end user sees, or whether the competing ad then goes on to claim that it is the genuine trademarked article. Google is selling a trademarked term to competitors. It does not have the right to do that. Imagine if your local newspaper allowed your competitors to use your name to direct people to their contact details.
Google are breaking trademark law. They do not own the trademarks concerned, they have no right to sell them to others.
Let me make my point clear - sure, a competitor can place an ad containing someone elses trademark, google can even search for and display ads using that trademark as a search term, but they cannot actively sell that trademark for a competitors use, because they don't have the legal right. The only way a trademark should be used in adwords, is by the trademark holder, and google should not be able to charge for that.
Imagine calling directory enquiries and asking for the number for DuPont, and being given the number for a rival. The rival can use the name in advertising as a comparison, they cannot buy the right to use the name to direct people to them. If I search for Rosetta Stone language course, Rosetta Stone should be at the head of the list, competitors who use Rosetta Stone in their blurb would be listed further down the page, and only because their text contained the searched for terms, not because they paid for the rights to the term "Rosetta Stone", which neither they nor Google have any legal right to.
Prick. Are you sat in front of a keyboard with full access to the internet ? This isn't a written dissertation, it's a live environment. Look around for yourself. You probably would only argue semantics if he had cited other instances.
How did those images get to the US ?
He broke the rules to obtain the images. What he does after that is largely irrelevant. Who cares if he and the Wiki servers are in the US. The server he took the images from was a UK server, run by a UK concern, governed by UK law. You can't duck back over the fence and say nah nah na na nah ! I'm sure the Russians don't give a damn about US copyrights, but the US is sure trying to make them care.
the EU doesn't officially recognise software patents. So it would be ok for us to just copy and resell Windows and stick 2 fingers up at Microsoft would it ? I've a feeling you would find a reason to defend microsofts rights somehow.
In the opinion of the undersigned, the fact that the motion is made jointly by four competitors shows that any claim suggesting the information is valuable or 'proprietary' would be unfounded,
That doesn't follow at all. Competitors would normally agree to not share information in public. It is in all their interests. If they win the motion all their secrets are safe. What point is there in having a competitors secrets if he has yours ? If they were to reveal their secrets, then the data would definitely not be valuable would it. Just making a joint motion does not imply anything, as they haven't shared any data.
Also, the RIAA is specifically set up to act on those competitors behalf. Of course it will be a joint motion. Competitor 1, will you share your data ? - - No. Competitor 2, will you share your data ? - - No. Competitor 3, will you share your data ? - - No. Competitor 4, will you share your data ? - - No.
No more confusing than running a web server on your local machine. You can connect to it using localhost, and see the same things others can see if you open the firewall, and expose that service. X is a server, whether you choose to expose it to the outside world is up to you. But just calling it a server alerts you to the possibilities, and gives an idea of how it works. Remember *nix was designed to be a networked system. There was a time when the X server would be on another machine. It is still capable of that, so why change the name ? Network transparency should be a good thing in this age of fast WANs. And a server doesn't have to be a big machine. Most web servers are actually no more than you have at home. There are more of them to separate tasks and load evenly that's all.
It's only people who don't know anything about the subject who would get confused, and it doesn't take much does it.
Celcius and Kelvin have the same resolution. The rest of your post is rubbish too. When Fahrenheit was first devised, zero was at the hot end of the scale, ie. boiling point of water. That makes sense:p
Probably because all traffic is set to go through their proxies. My 3G provider does the same thing. FTP didn't work, even simple HTTP downloads didn't work, until I completely wiped their settings from the phone, and created a new dial up profile, using just the standard username and password which can be found on the net. Suddenly, no more issues.
Besides, the British are part of the EU too, and they insist on using the imperial system too... Even worse, their imperial system might differ from the other imperial system(s?).
What other imperial systems ? It's called the "Imperial" system because it was ours, we were the empire that "Imperial" refers to ! Inches, yards, furlongs, acres, quarts, grains, ounces, rods, chains, pecks, bushels and hundredweight. The US uses some of the names, but it is not the Imperial system.
Besides which, there is not a factory in the country that measures in anything other than metric units, and hasn't been for a long time. They may provide a handy conversion on the products, but a pint of milk is still sold and marked as 568ml.
As for Napoleon, how did he get on in Russia ? We have prisons around here built by Napoleonic prisoners of war.
A sat nav is a crutch for people who can't or won't navigate. GPS on the other hand is quite useful. I use google maps on my phone, and it comes in very handy for the times when I get close to my destination, but can't quite find it. GPS shows you where you are in relation to your destination, not where to go. I also have TomTom on the phone, and it is crap for what I need. I usually need to use google maps as well as TomTom to get an accurate fix on the destination. So why use TomTom at all ?
I've driven across the states 3 times east to west and back, and most of the way around Australia, and the worst that ever happened was I had to back track 5 miles. I never had a sat nav or gps then.
I have a box full of maps for each county in the UK. The best method is to plan the journey ahead of actually leaving. Work out the main route, motorway or whatever, then find where that road meets the large scale map of the town, and then locate your destination. All you have to do when you reach the town is have a quick look at the map to find the turning before yours and you are all set. You can easily do that while sat at the lights.
I drive a truck, so sat nav is right out anyway. Even the ones that claim to know about low bridges and restrictions don't get it right. A lot of firms have banned their use completely, due to idiots doing what they're told instead of making an informed choice. A sat nav doesn't differentiate between a normal size road and a tiny country lane. A map, and a visual inspection, does.
About the only saving grace for a sat nav is the ETA function. That's useful on occasions, but for navigation, forget it.
Urea is already mass produced and is used as an additive for a catalytic reduction system (SCR) which reduces NOx emissions from diesel engines. Adblue is one brand.
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Absolute bollocks.
Australia were using chip and pin in 2002 when I was there. And my debit card worked too. Not in chip and pin transactions but in the ATM.
I don't know about the US, but every bridge in the UK is signed unless it's at least 16' 6". We also carry a tape measure.
And that's one trucker out of how many per year exactly ?
Christians stole almost every aspect of their religion from other established religions and folk tales. The halo was depicted in BCE images, there already was an existing trifecta of god(s), people were said to have been raised from the dead, turned water into wine, last suppers - the list goes on. Just because you looked in the wrong place doesn't mean they don't exist. Try this for an image of a BCE halo. You may say it's a sun disk, it looks like a halo to me. I've seen several images of christ with similar "haloes" If you dig deep enough, you'll probably find that the sun disk is a necessary part of being a god in many many religions. But you define halo in the way that suits your argument. And you suck at reading too, if you didn't even follow the link in the "quoted source" you complain about.
(hint: Helios, Apollo, Neptune, Vishnu, Krishna, Shiva, Aditya, Shakyamuni Buddha, The Heavenly Emperors, The Great Emperors of the Three Offices)
WTF is a "giant web page" ?
Does this mean you get to scroll forever, or do I need to go and buy a 42 inch monitor ?
WTF ?
Ignition takes place a few degrees before TDC - always. You know exactly where the mixture is because the piston has just pushed it all up to the head. They design the inlet ports and the top of the piston to swirl and mix the fuel & air to the most efficient possible mixture. The spark plug is at the top because you want the mixture to burn from the top down, pushing the piston away. Direct injection only regulates the amount of fuel added to the cylinder. It does not "place" the mixture anywhere.
How stupid do you think the existing designs are ? Moving the point of ignition is a waste of time, when the whole device is currently designed to present an adequately mixed fuel to the point where it can be efficiently detonated. Every time. Mechanically enforced.
The laser system is going to present ignition at pretty much exactly the same place as the spark plug does now. Unless you redesign the whole mechanical concept of an ICE. (change the cylinder shape, crankshaft, pistons, air intakes, exhaust etc etc). This has been tried already and it's called the wankel rotary engine. The only problem with wankels is they are less efficient. They can develop more power just by adding more fuel, but not more efficiently. Changing the method of ignition will not help that problem.
No, sorry that's crap.
Black smoke is due to mechanical failure, either rings allowing sump oil to burn or some other vector allowing oil into the chamber. Too much fuel gives a blue or white smoke. If you get a turbo blow, you get blue smoke out the back, wrong fuel-air ratio. Black smoke is caused by soot. If you have too much fuel that doesn't burn, it can't turn into soot.
Fly ash and slag are commonly used for insulation materials and concrete. So you could be surrounded by that radiation. I have driven a tanker collecting it from power stations and delivering it to cement/concrete plants.
Except when they are taken from a UK site then uploaded to a US server, apparently the photographers copyright is meaningless. No licence was asked for or given.
2 faced bitches.
http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Sowton-party-man-s-anger-police/article-1171221-detail/article.html
I live about 4 miles from the site. This is about the fourth different story I've heard so far. In the first incarnation, he said that he "offered" to close the party down - no enforcement needed. So all the rest of it has come later, in fact as soon as the national media got involved.
As for that other pub, I assume you're talking about the Double Locks - that place is crap now anyway. I don't know anybody who would go there for a night out now. They used to have about 20 different real ales and ciders, now they have 1 real ale, 2 ciders and the rest is processed crap.
It strikes me that Google is doing an end run around trademark law.
What they are doing in fact, is allowing a company to associate a trademark which they do not have the rights to, with their own competing product.
Under trademark law, you cannot primarily describe your product using a trademarked name unless you own the trademark. Yes you can say it's "like" the trademarked version, and yes you can have your product listed near the trademarked one. What you can't do is buy the trademarked term for use in advertising your own competing product. this is the fundamental point of a trademark. Otherwise you can have a big H1 header saying Microsoft® with some tiny small print at the bottom saying "no, not really". Google is selling other peoples trademarks for use by competing companies. This is what's wrong. It doesn't matter what the end user sees, or whether the competing ad then goes on to claim that it is the genuine trademarked article. Google is selling a trademarked term to competitors. It does not have the right to do that. Imagine if your local newspaper allowed your competitors to use your name to direct people to their contact details.
Google are breaking trademark law. They do not own the trademarks concerned, they have no right to sell them to others.
Let me make my point clear - sure, a competitor can place an ad containing someone elses trademark, google can even search for and display ads using that trademark as a search term, but they cannot actively sell that trademark for a competitors use, because they don't have the legal right. The only way a trademark should be used in adwords, is by the trademark holder, and google should not be able to charge for that.
Imagine calling directory enquiries and asking for the number for DuPont, and being given the number for a rival. The rival can use the name in advertising as a comparison, they cannot buy the right to use the name to direct people to them. If I search for Rosetta Stone language course, Rosetta Stone should be at the head of the list, competitors who use Rosetta Stone in their blurb would be listed further down the page, and only because their text contained the searched for terms, not because they paid for the rights to the term "Rosetta Stone", which neither they nor Google have any legal right to.
Are we talking about /. now ?
Oh sorry that's mental age.
Prick.
Are you sat in front of a keyboard with full access to the internet ? This isn't a written dissertation, it's a live environment. Look around for yourself. You probably would only argue semantics if he had cited other instances.
How did those images get to the US ?
He broke the rules to obtain the images. What he does after that is largely irrelevant. Who cares if he and the Wiki servers are in the US. The server he took the images from was a UK server, run by a UK concern, governed by UK law. You can't duck back over the fence and say nah nah na na nah ! I'm sure the Russians don't give a damn about US copyrights, but the US is sure trying to make them care.
the EU doesn't officially recognise software patents. So it would be ok for us to just copy and resell Windows and stick 2 fingers up at Microsoft would it ? I've a feeling you would find a reason to defend microsofts rights somehow.
That doesn't follow at all. Competitors would normally agree to not share information in public. It is in all their interests. If they win the motion all their secrets are safe. What point is there in having a competitors secrets if he has yours ? If they were to reveal their secrets, then the data would definitely not be valuable would it. Just making a joint motion does not imply anything, as they haven't shared any data.
Also, the RIAA is specifically set up to act on those competitors behalf. Of course it will be a joint motion.
Competitor 1, will you share your data ? - - No.
Competitor 2, will you share your data ? - - No.
Competitor 3, will you share your data ? - - No.
Competitor 4, will you share your data ? - - No.
Oh the data can't be worth anything then ????
I hope you have better arguments than that one.
Don't you dare move or eat or go to work.
Why should I pay for your selfish existence ?
Prick.
No more confusing than running a web server on your local machine. You can connect to it using localhost, and see the same things others can see if you open the firewall, and expose that service. X is a server, whether you choose to expose it to the outside world is up to you. But just calling it a server alerts you to the possibilities, and gives an idea of how it works. Remember *nix was designed to be a networked system. There was a time when the X server would be on another machine. It is still capable of that, so why change the name ? Network transparency should be a good thing in this age of fast WANs. And a server doesn't have to be a big machine. Most web servers are actually no more than you have at home. There are more of them to separate tasks and load evenly that's all.
It's only people who don't know anything about the subject who would get confused, and it doesn't take much does it.
So that's accuracy is it ?
Celcius and Kelvin have the same resolution. The rest of your post is rubbish too. When Fahrenheit was first devised, zero was at the hot end of the scale, ie. boiling point of water. That makes sense :p
Probably because all traffic is set to go through their proxies. My 3G provider does the same thing. FTP didn't work, even simple HTTP downloads didn't work, until I completely wiped their settings from the phone, and created a new dial up profile, using just the standard username and password which can be found on the net. Suddenly, no more issues.
What other imperial systems ? It's called the "Imperial" system because it was ours, we were the empire that "Imperial" refers to !
Inches, yards, furlongs, acres, quarts, grains, ounces, rods, chains, pecks, bushels and hundredweight. The US uses some of the names, but it is not the Imperial system.
Besides which, there is not a factory in the country that measures in anything other than metric units, and hasn't been for a long time. They may provide a handy conversion on the products, but a pint of milk is still sold and marked as 568ml.
As for Napoleon, how did he get on in Russia ? We have prisons around here built by Napoleonic prisoners of war.
A sat nav is a crutch for people who can't or won't navigate. GPS on the other hand is quite useful. I use google maps on my phone, and it comes in very handy for the times when I get close to my destination, but can't quite find it. GPS shows you where you are in relation to your destination, not where to go. I also have TomTom on the phone, and it is crap for what I need. I usually need to use google maps as well as TomTom to get an accurate fix on the destination. So why use TomTom at all ?
I've driven across the states 3 times east to west and back, and most of the way around Australia, and the worst that ever happened was I had to back track 5 miles. I never had a sat nav or gps then. I have a box full of maps for each county in the UK. The best method is to plan the journey ahead of actually leaving. Work out the main route, motorway or whatever, then find where that road meets the large scale map of the town, and then locate your destination. All you have to do when you reach the town is have a quick look at the map to find the turning before yours and you are all set. You can easily do that while sat at the lights.
I drive a truck, so sat nav is right out anyway. Even the ones that claim to know about low bridges and restrictions don't get it right. A lot of firms have banned their use completely, due to idiots doing what they're told instead of making an informed choice. A sat nav doesn't differentiate between a normal size road and a tiny country lane. A map, and a visual inspection, does.
About the only saving grace for a sat nav is the ETA function. That's useful on occasions, but for navigation, forget it.
Urea is already mass produced and is used as an additive for a catalytic reduction system (SCR) which reduces NOx emissions from diesel engines. Adblue is one brand.
Well you go off and play with your linux only box then. Oh what, you can't because there are no utilities ? Shame. Without userland, there is no OS.