Driving constantly at slower speed definitely saves fuel for the single vehicle. Driving with an erratic, typically slower, speed because you are not paying attention while on the phone will increase fuel consumption; accelerating on and off is wasteful. Further, traffic is not a single vehicle but an aggregate of many vehicles. In your phone induced daze, you are also slowing traffic around you, which then has to accelerate to jockey into position, overtake and regain highway speed; also wasteful.
As another Aussie I look on this discussion (and others I have partaken in) regarding the taxation system of the U.S.A. and can't help but think that even our old sales tax system was streets ahead in the simplicity stakes.
If it works so well, why aren't you already paying $0 for your energy bills?!?
For precisely the same reason that:
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes [nuclear generated] electrical energy too cheap to meter.
Lewis Strauss, Chairman, US Atomic Energy Commission, 1954.
is an obviously farcical statement. There is always a long way between the marketing statements of those with a vested interest or ideology to push, and reality.
Using an extreme position (on either side of the debate) is not the way forward. Insisting that solar thermal is useless and should not be pursued because it cannot go from no market share to the whole market overnight is about as sensible as saying that we should ban oil because it is not zero emission.
Surely the raison d'être for a promo CD is to promote the freakin' content: i.e. the more people hear the CD the better. On-selling the CD is extending its reach further than UMG's original gift of it did. UMG should realise this, STFU, and let someone else promote their product at no cost.
The article implies that there neither sales tax nor company income tax (of the MS subsidiary/partner) exists in India. Is this the case? Is the tax on royalties the only tax income the Indian people get from software peddlers in India?
I live in Brisbane, Australia where we have a metro region transit system called, in a spooky parallel, Translink (one ticket to rule them all). They're in the process of rolling out a "smart" card, with the imaginative name of "Go Card". All I can say is that I hope the SF one works better than this much delayed and troubled system. For example, to calculate correct fares the point of entry and exit of a trip needs to be known. The bus-mounted units know this from in-built GPS units, but nobody thought to check that they work in the large, underground city bus terminals or account for loss of signal. The net result is under/overcharging of passengers using these terminals and no recourse.
You may be lucky though. Brisbane seems to have already bought up all the "cheap junk" to implement their readers and vending machines:)
Surely we'll have to wait for directional, oxygen-free, hand-plaited, super-conducting cables that only come pre-cut in matched sets with superconducting power cables. Of course, such cables would be incomplete without solid gold plugs fitted by deaf vestal virgins and a name that gratuitously includes the words "Reference" or "Ultimate". My stereo is quivering in anticipation;)
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This application was filed the same day as an application entitled "System With Response to Cosmic Ray Detection" (application No. 10/882,898, now Patent 7,166,847) with the sane inventor.
Meaning that the insane one was allowed to try and patent this?;)
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Just like the Earth's polar regions the Moon's polar regions receive extended periods of sunlight. The low axial and orbital plane inclinations mean that when the Sun is below the horizon at the pole it is not far below the horizon. This leaves open the possibility that the peaks of tall mountains would be in near permanent sunshine. The most promising mountain peaks are at the south pole.
Even in these locations the Sun would definitely disappear during a lunar eclipse.
And what are they going to do to stop that? Put security checkpoints before the security checkpoints??
Curiously enough, that's exactly what happens at Istanbul's international terminal. You cannot enter the terminal without X-ray screening of _all_ your luggage and thus you cannot carry anything even vaguely pointy etc. in any of your luggage. Effective at stopping massive havoc at the security point, no. Convenient, no. Pants-wetting scary when you are stopped because you forgot about a knife that has been in your (checked) luggage for at least the past five years...flashes of Midnight Express followed by Flying High (Airplane!).
It's actually not that dangerous, if it blows in re-entry it will go over a big enough area to just fade into the background radiation, and if it comes down in one piece they can go gather it up.
"Worse yet, if you sign up for a subscription, you're saying that it's okay for the music service to wipe out your music collection if you cancel. Imagine walking into your living room as all your books disappear because you changed libraries, or your DVD collection disappears because you switched from Blockbuster to Netflix."
Indeed you might be, which why subscription services remain subscribed. However author's position conveniently ignores the 800lb gorilla in the room. As things stand now, removing the books/CDs/DVDs from your shelf is called theft. By supporting ubiquitous DRM the author is supporting the 'right' of content authors to unilaterally remove all the books/CDs/DVDs from your shelf without you having to switch library and without you having any recourse in the matter. In the author's DRM-laden utopia the concept of theft is twisted to included copyright infringement and exclude the digital equivalent of theft by removing access to paid-for services. This is not a Good Thing.
Until last week I had the same experience. However, on my return from NZ I was able to pass through the immigration line without human involvement. After placing the chipped passport in a scanner and answering some trivial questions I presented my visage to an automated camera (presumably connected to some face recognition system). When it finished the gate opened. I then had to wait ten minutes for my non-chipped passport friends to come through the queues:D
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) not quantifiable enough for you? Certainly makes a mere 700-odd square metres seem a trifle...but then SKA is a radio telescope.
For example, if "teh terrist" wanted to send a message like "attack now", why couldn't the message be given via a pre-arranged signal -- say the image shows Osama wearing a silver watch for "It's go time", and a gold watch for "wait out the Americans". No one can detect a "hidden message" because there is none.
This works provided that all the possible messages are known beforehand, you can meet in person to exchange the definitions of the messages, one simple message per image holds, and there are not too many of them. As soon as you get a number of possible messages larger than can easily be remembered you need to commit it to paper (a code book) and risk compromise of the code through compromise of the code book. If you cannot meet in person then you must transmit the code book without losing cover. If you try to make a code general enough to convey a wide range of messages (e.g. a code for each letter of the alphabet and numbers) then you start making your message images look more suspicious because of a larger number of slight visible differences than can be statistically analysed.
Surely a bulk shipment of DVD/CD media will show up on X-ray machinery already in use? The X-ray machine doesn't need food or shelter, won't crap on the floor, and you already have trained operators. What have they gained here?
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Driving constantly at slower speed definitely saves fuel for the single vehicle. Driving with an erratic, typically slower, speed because you are not paying attention while on the phone will increase fuel consumption; accelerating on and off is wasteful. Further, traffic is not a single vehicle but an aggregate of many vehicles. In your phone induced daze, you are also slowing traffic around you, which then has to accelerate to jockey into position, overtake and regain highway speed; also wasteful.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the MySQL AB rationale. Perfectly sane to my eyes.
CEOs read their own mail?!
Never would have believed if I hadn't read it here :)
As another Aussie I look on this discussion (and others I have partaken in) regarding the taxation system of the U.S.A. and can't help but think that even our old sales tax system was streets ahead in the simplicity stakes.
For precisely the same reason that:
is an obviously farcical statement. There is always a long way between the marketing statements of those with a vested interest or ideology to push, and reality.
Using an extreme position (on either side of the debate) is not the way forward. Insisting that solar thermal is useless and should not be pursued because it cannot go from no market share to the whole market overnight is about as sensible as saying that we should ban oil because it is not zero emission.
Surely the raison d'être for a promo CD is to promote the freakin' content: i.e. the more people hear the CD the better. On-selling the CD is extending its reach further than UMG's original gift of it did. UMG should realise this, STFU, and let someone else promote their product at no cost.
One that springs to mind is OZtion and they have the audacity to allow a range of ways to pay the seller including PayMate or PayPal (if you must).
The article implies that there neither sales tax nor company income tax (of the MS subsidiary/partner) exists in India. Is this the case? Is the tax on royalties the only tax income the Indian people get from software peddlers in India?
I live in Brisbane, Australia where we have a metro region transit system called, in a spooky parallel, Translink (one ticket to rule them all). They're in the process of rolling out a "smart" card, with the imaginative name of "Go Card". All I can say is that I hope the SF one works better than this much delayed and troubled system. For example, to calculate correct fares the point of entry and exit of a trip needs to be known. The bus-mounted units know this from in-built GPS units, but nobody thought to check that they work in the large, underground city bus terminals or account for loss of signal. The net result is under/overcharging of passengers using these terminals and no recourse.
You may be lucky though. Brisbane seems to have already bought up all the "cheap junk" to implement their readers and vending machines :)
"Smart" my...
Ratpoison is on the way there
You are not alone. First thing that bites the dust on my machines is all that flowery crap that seems to so enthrall some.
Surely we'll have to wait for directional, oxygen-free, hand-plaited, super-conducting cables that only come pre-cut in matched sets with superconducting power cables. Of course, such cables would be incomplete without solid gold plugs fitted by deaf vestal virgins and a name that gratuitously includes the words "Reference" or "Ultimate". My stereo is quivering in anticipation ;)
Meaning that the insane one was allowed to try and patent this? ;)
Just like the Earth's polar regions the Moon's polar regions receive extended periods of sunlight. The low axial and orbital plane inclinations mean that when the Sun is below the horizon at the pole it is not far below the horizon. This leaves open the possibility that the peaks of tall mountains would be in near permanent sunshine. The most promising mountain peaks are at the south pole. Even in these locations the Sun would definitely disappear during a lunar eclipse.
Curiously enough, that's exactly what happens at Istanbul's international terminal. You cannot enter the terminal without X-ray screening of _all_ your luggage and thus you cannot carry anything even vaguely pointy etc. in any of your luggage. Effective at stopping massive havoc at the security point, no. Convenient, no. Pants-wetting scary when you are stopped because you forgot about a knife that has been in your (checked) luggage for at least the past five years...flashes of Midnight Express followed by Flying High (Airplane!).
Like they gathered up the radioisotope thermal generator from Apollo 13's Aquarius lunar lander (currently in the Tonga Trench)? Or perhaps like the Russion Mars 96 probes RTGs that are somewhere in Chile.
From the article:
Indeed you might be, which why subscription services remain subscribed. However author's position conveniently ignores the 800lb gorilla in the room. As things stand now, removing the books/CDs/DVDs from your shelf is called theft. By supporting ubiquitous DRM the author is supporting the 'right' of content authors to unilaterally remove all the books/CDs/DVDs from your shelf without you having to switch library and without you having any recourse in the matter. In the author's DRM-laden utopia the concept of theft is twisted to included copyright infringement and exclude the digital equivalent of theft by removing access to paid-for services. This is not a Good Thing.
Perhaps while they're reading every piece of email they could perform a useful service and remove the spam!
If only the error in GPS position were that small that you could distinguish two receivers on opposite ends of a 6" gizmo.
Until last week I had the same experience. However, on my return from NZ I was able to pass through the immigration line without human involvement. After placing the chipped passport in a scanner and answering some trivial questions I presented my visage to an automated camera (presumably connected to some face recognition system). When it finished the gate opened. I then had to wait ten minutes for my non-chipped passport friends to come through the queues :D
At least you can opt out (or not opt in). The previous Government of this fair land thought it wise that USENET groups should be subject to involuntary blocking (through the Australian Communications and Media Authority, http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=INT_IND_CONTENT_ABOUT). Of course contractual secrecy has been used to avoid any knowledge of the groups blocked and (hopefully) criticism thereof. See, for example, http://www.internode.on.net/content/usenet-news/#What_groups_does_the_Australian .
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) not quantifiable enough for you? Certainly makes a mere 700-odd square metres seem a trifle...but then SKA is a radio telescope.
This works provided that all the possible messages are known beforehand, you can meet in person to exchange the definitions of the messages, one simple message per image holds, and there are not too many of them. As soon as you get a number of possible messages larger than can easily be remembered you need to commit it to paper (a code book) and risk compromise of the code through compromise of the code book. If you cannot meet in person then you must transmit the code book without losing cover. If you try to make a code general enough to convey a wide range of messages (e.g. a code for each letter of the alphabet and numbers) then you start making your message images look more suspicious because of a larger number of slight visible differences than can be statistically analysed.
Using http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~elenc/Calculators I get a redshift of z=0.073 roughly equal to 1 Glyr (approx 307 megaparsecs)
Surely a bulk shipment of DVD/CD media will show up on X-ray machinery already in use? The X-ray machine doesn't need food or shelter, won't crap on the floor, and you already have trained operators. What have they gained here?