You appear to have missed the main thrust of the grandparents argument: drug addicts only commit crime because they can't afford their drugs. They can't afford their drugs because they're from black market suppliers. They're only available from black market suppliers because they're illegal. Therefore, if they're legalised, they become so cheap that practically anyone could afford a habit.
As for you not wanting to see needles in a newsagents - since when were you put in charge of what people should be allowed to do to their own lives and bodies?
How about this for a contender? Blue and purple wool dreads down to my bum, airbrushed sparkly motorcycling goggles, 5 visible facial piercings and a flesh tunnel, luminous pink and blue tie dye T-shirt, fluorescent plastic jewellery, black cargo pants and black trainers. I love those few days before I take December off on holiday!
All that said, I'm in the UK, and my boss couldn't care less;_;
One would imagine you could turn one core off to preserve power. Then you have the best of both worlds - a laptop that runs for ages off a single charge, but can still crunch numbers like a demon when the time comes.
After coming out of a nightclub into the painfully bright dawn after nine and a half hours of dancing, etc., I couldn't care less what the coffee tastes like.
The software includes many gnu tools, but the underlying compiler does not appear to be gnu based.
Is this any surprise? My understanding was the Cell's a vector process, and despite the recent upgrades to GCC, it's still fairly awful at autovectorisation.
The reason there are all these different sized batteries is that to maximise energy density, the battery has to fit in the space left in a device after you've crammed all the electronics in. As such the battery is a bizarre device specific shape.
In the case of a fuel cell, the fuel cell will also have to be a funny size. The difference is that a large proportion of it will be a fuel tank. Fuel, unlike electricity, is easy to transfer in bulk, fast.
Instead of putting fuel cartridges in the device, you can just push the cartridge into a receptacle and fill refill the device in an instant. The cartridge can then be recycled before you go merrily on your way making mobile phone calls, etc.
Having fallen victim to thought loops many times, I'd personally say it's the equivalent of a watchdog timer that fixes it, and not some inherent quantum property that prevents the mind getting into them in the first place.
What, you mean an encryption algorithm, like a One Time Pad, that's completely uncrackable as long as the keys are secure, which of course they will be, because they're sent over the quantum channel?
That's a genius idea! The bad sectors and general failures that HD floppies are reknowned for will provide completely uncrackable encryption!/me goes to patent it
The depressing nature of Microsoft's vast array of bugs induces a general cumulative increase in malaise in society as a whole, rather than having any incidents that jump out and grab you.
Only 4 or five of the 80 or so are regional variants, and that's because we straddle two local broadcast areas. Probably 20 or so are essentially radio. 5 are BBC. The remaining 60 are advertising supported commercial channels, although a number of them are musical jukebox/shopping/gaming channels, so get additional revenue from people SMSing/phoning. I believe the distribution of digital terrestrial is fairly uniform, other than the odd extremely remote area, although I could be wrong.
There are other channels available over terrestrial, but they're subscription only. I'm not sure how many we get by satellite - certainly comparable.
As for falling behind, it's simply a case of market penetration. I work for a supplier of digital set top boxes, so I've been able to observe this to an extent. The drive for digital happened a lot earlier here, and the market's slackening off in the UK, whereas the US market is still expanding nicely. Also, we have to make some really horrible provisions for some US companies - things like hybrid digital/analogue boxes, etc. Not to mention the stupendous number of complicated analogue video connections - over here, you tend to get two SCART sockets for analogue, and you can daisy chain, etc. - hopefully HDMI and the increasing use of PVRs should sort all that out though. I'd also consider your ATSC standard a bit backward and parochial - yes, it's all multiplexed MPEG streams, but if you used DVB like everyone else, you too could enjoy cheap as chips boxes.
BTW, the UK license fee is per household, not television.
You really only get 8 digital channels through your attic antenna?
Here in the UK, we went from picking up 5 snowy channels on analogue through a dinky little set top aerial (our main service is satellite - this is a little tele in the bedroom), to about 80 crystal clear DVB-T channels, all for free.
If your experience is good, or even typical, of the digital terrestrial ATSC experience, then no wonder your country is falling so far behind with digital television.
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Let's face it, in todays CS departments, appearances are deceptive where gender's concerned!
You appear to have missed the main thrust of the grandparents argument: drug addicts only commit crime because they can't afford their drugs. They can't afford their drugs because they're from black market suppliers. They're only available from black market suppliers because they're illegal. Therefore, if they're legalised, they become so cheap that practically anyone could afford a habit.
As for you not wanting to see needles in a newsagents - since when were you put in charge of what people should be allowed to do to their own lives and bodies?
It's easy to release earlier when you've stripped most of the planned features out!
Baths/sinks/central heating systems are run from a boiler, either on demand, or with a hot water tank.
However, in the case of an on demand boiler, none of the activities performed with such devices are inconvenienced by having to wait for hot water.
Obviously the editors use such a device when posting stories!
"It is a poor man who can not make up Oscar Wilde quotes" - Oscar Wilde
How about this for a contender? Blue and purple wool dreads down to my bum, airbrushed sparkly motorcycling goggles, 5 visible facial piercings and a flesh tunnel, luminous pink and blue tie dye T-shirt, fluorescent plastic jewellery, black cargo pants and black trainers. I love those few days before I take December off on holiday!
;_;
All that said, I'm in the UK, and my boss couldn't care less
Maxwell's demon can crunch numbers fast enough to track individual elemental particles, so I'd say that's pretty fast.
One would imagine you could turn one core off to preserve power. Then you have the best of both worlds - a laptop that runs for ages off a single charge, but can still crunch numbers like a demon when the time comes.
After coming out of a nightclub into the painfully bright dawn after nine and a half hours of dancing, etc., I couldn't care less what the coffee tastes like.
Ah, happy memories of their ice creamy thingies.
Not to mention New Labour's plan of keeping a registrar of transsexuals. Which minority will come after that?
New Labour: Putting the National back into Socialist!
More importantly: how good is the Jeff Minter visualiser in the firmware?
Oi! Yorkshire's not the 3rd world! ;_;
The software includes many gnu tools, but the underlying compiler does not appear to be gnu based.
Is this any surprise? My understanding was the Cell's a vector process, and despite the recent upgrades to GCC, it's still fairly awful at autovectorisation.
Can anyone clarify?
Nonsense! The Australians are a fine race! Hand picked by British judges!
This is what fuel cells will allow.
The reason there are all these different sized batteries is that to maximise energy density, the battery has to fit in the space left in a device after you've crammed all the electronics in. As such the battery is a bizarre device specific shape.
In the case of a fuel cell, the fuel cell will also have to be a funny size. The difference is that a large proportion of it will be a fuel tank. Fuel, unlike electricity, is easy to transfer in bulk, fast.
Instead of putting fuel cartridges in the device, you can just push the cartridge into a receptacle and fill refill the device in an instant. The cartridge can then be recycled before you go merrily on your way making mobile phone calls, etc.
Having fallen victim to thought loops many times, I'd personally say it's the equivalent of a watchdog timer that fixes it, and not some inherent quantum property that prevents the mind getting into them in the first place.
How can the Christian God be rational, yet work in mysterious ways?
Europe has the USA
I fixed your spelling for you.
What, you mean an encryption algorithm, like a One Time Pad, that's completely uncrackable as long as the keys are secure, which of course they will be, because they're sent over the quantum channel?
That's a genius idea! The bad sectors and general failures that HD floppies are reknowned for will provide completely uncrackable encryption! /me goes to patent it
The depressing nature of Microsoft's vast array of bugs induces a general cumulative increase in malaise in society as a whole, rather than having any incidents that jump out and grab you.
I'd imagine one of the great benefits is that printed cells aren't as susceptible to teratomata, whereas I suspect cultured organs may well be.
Only 4 or five of the 80 or so are regional variants, and that's because we straddle two local broadcast areas. Probably 20 or so are essentially radio. 5 are BBC. The remaining 60 are advertising supported commercial channels, although a number of them are musical jukebox/shopping/gaming channels, so get additional revenue from people SMSing/phoning. I believe the distribution of digital terrestrial is fairly uniform, other than the odd extremely remote area, although I could be wrong.
There are other channels available over terrestrial, but they're subscription only. I'm not sure how many we get by satellite - certainly comparable.
As for falling behind, it's simply a case of market penetration. I work for a supplier of digital set top boxes, so I've been able to observe this to an extent. The drive for digital happened a lot earlier here, and the market's slackening off in the UK, whereas the US market is still expanding nicely. Also, we have to make some really horrible provisions for some US companies - things like hybrid digital/analogue boxes, etc. Not to mention the stupendous number of complicated analogue video connections - over here, you tend to get two SCART sockets for analogue, and you can daisy chain, etc. - hopefully HDMI and the increasing use of PVRs should sort all that out though. I'd also consider your ATSC standard a bit backward and parochial - yes, it's all multiplexed MPEG streams, but if you used DVB like everyone else, you too could enjoy cheap as chips boxes.
BTW, the UK license fee is per household, not television.
You really only get 8 digital channels through your attic antenna?
Here in the UK, we went from picking up 5 snowy channels on analogue through a dinky little set top aerial (our main service is satellite - this is a little tele in the bedroom), to about 80 crystal clear DVB-T channels, all for free.
If your experience is good, or even typical, of the digital terrestrial ATSC experience, then no wonder your country is falling so far behind with digital television.