So to be green they're removing the most environmentally friendly part of the product?
It'd be a much more green initiative to replace the plastic case with a paper and card case that could include basic controls printed on it's various surfaces. They could even go all out and switch to all digital distribution.
It mentions the Conservatives because they could have blocked it. With an election coming up any bill that does not pass before today would have to be re-introduced from scratch in the next parliament.
There's a phase called the 'wash-up' where bills are rushed through with little debate to beat the deadline before an election. If the Conservatives had wanted to they could have kicked up a stink and sunk this bill and campaigned for a better replacement but instead they decided to support it and so it was rushed through at the last minute.
The flywheel is a lot less then 100kg. The whole Williams Hybrid KERS system for F1 was around the 35kg mark so the actual flywheel will be a fraction of that. The flyweel and enclosure is all made of a carbon fiber composite and is made in such a way that if it comes loose it will shatter on impact.
Williams had both a double diffuser and planned to use their KERS system but never got it operational before FOTA announced the decision not to use KERS in 2010.
The issue isn't the sticky pedal it's what you can do about stopping a car once it sticks. In a traditional mechanical car you can simply put the car in neutral, pull over and stop. If for some reason you can't get it into neutral then you could still turn off the car by turning the ignition key to off. With a keyless ignition and all electronic gearbox you rely the designers of your drive-by-wire system to have foreseen this type of situation and have included an appropriate failsafe in their system.
In the case of the runaway Toyota pressing the ignition to turn the car off does nothing (to stop you accidentally turning the car off) and the gear selector wouldn't select neutral (presumably because the accelerator was on full) the correct thing to do is hold down the start button for 3 seconds and that shuts down the engine.
With mechanical systems you can simply disconnect them and they stop working, with electronic systems you need to know a shutdown procedure and these procedurers are currently specific to each model of car.
For those looking at doing this it's worth knowing that as well as iPlayer there is now 4OD, Demand Five and ITVPlayer for all your C4, 5 and ITV watching needs.
They've all ditched their paid for P2P based systems for advertising supported Flash players.
So how much does a gallon of water weigh?
How about that 2 gallon/10l gas can, how much will that weigh when it's full?
In metric it's easy since 1l of water = 1 kg
Gasoline has a relative density of 0.71-0.77 (lets call it 0.75) so in metric 10l of gasoline is 7.5kg
All without a calculator or writing anything down, lets see if you can do that in pounds and inches.
Yes you might have to deal with learning to use 1.25 1.6 and 2.5 more often but it's no less work then learning how many feet are in a mile or fluid oz in a pint etc. Not to mention that the UK and US numbers are often different.
US immigration and security go beyond being serious to the point that they come across as rude and unhelpful.
UK airport security have pulled me aside for a random search whilst joking that it was due to the sports team jersey I was wearing. On a quiet day arriving in amsterdam I've had a guy call over his supervisor just so they could make make stern faces make me worry and then crack a joke about my passport photo. I've chatted with Polish boarder guards about their visits to my home country and had a French immigration officer laugh at my appalling French.
Entering the US I've see people infuriated by officers who will tell them only that they have filled in the wrong green form, or filled the right one incorrectly but will offer no more help to non-english speaking visitors then to send them back to the back of the line. I've waited hours whilst people attempt to have their fingerprints scanned whilst having orders barked at them because they misunderstood the instructions. Most immigration officers I've encountered try to ask questions in a friendly conversational style but in the US it's a cross between an interrogation and a telemarketing script. After a few visits you learn the keywords for your answers and they let you through no problem!
Hands down the best voice commands I've ever used in a phone is Voice Commander for Windows Mobile 5. (I believe it's now included with WM6 as standard.) Not only does it do voice dialling of your contacts and numbers by simply saying "Dial 555 1234" but it also gives you control over the launching apps, mp3 playback, reading SMS messages, signal status and time and appointments.
For a full list take a look at the Microsoft website.
It also doesn't need any training or any setup you just press and speak and it works surprisingly well.
As for hardware that'll depend on your budget and availability but there are lots of options for Windows Mobile powered phones including candy bars and and flip phones.
The only times I've had problems with a router has been with the firmware of my old cable STB that also acted as a modem (it would just drop the connection/DHCP lease at random and the only thing that seemed to fix it was a reboot of both STB and router). Since I got a new modem I haven't had any trouble. I can't remember the last time I had to restart my WRT56G because it wasn't working.
Opera is the king of the user installed browser, WM6 phones will come with Internet Explorer installed, the iPhone and Nokia S60 phones come with a WebKit based browser.
I'm not sure why anyone is expecting handset manufacturers and networks to drop their current default browsers in favour of an unproved and as yet unfinished Mozilla product.
I'm not building a strawman that people oppose every form of ID just that NO2ID oppose everything the government does relating to the national ID scheme. The NO2ID campaign group got hold of a leaked government memo and then preceded to find fault with every paragraph even when there was no real fault to be found. When they couldn't find something to object to in the document they introduce some FUD. In the case I quoted this was about tracking every purchase of age restricted goods. The use of 'Coercion' is another invention of the campaigners to spin the story to insinuate that the government is somehow plotting against the people.
What is actually detailed in the document is a discussion of how one might roll out the plan and which groups would be most likely to see the card succeed and see real benefits ASAP. There is no approach to rolling out the ID scheme that NO2ID would approve of. We already know this because as their name suggests their position is to oppose the national ID scheme in all forms and so there is no need for them to comment on this. Doing so weakens their argument against the cards because it dilutes their message to the (unimportant) minutia of the scheme rather then their fundamental opposition to the scheme as a whole.
I object to ID cards for many reasons but IMHO the actions of those like the author of the comments in the NO2ID PDF don't help they just give the government ammunition to call all those objecting to ID cards reactionists and bury any legitimate concerns about the scheme under the conspiracy theories and FUD that these campaign groups have published.
I'll bite - name them. And ones that _this_ ID card scheme has, not some hypothetical ID card scheme that is nothing to do with that proposed by the UK Government.
That's exactly what this document is, a hypothetical list of objectives of the national ID scheme that ranks the advantages and discusses different ways to roll out the scheme so that enough people sign up to it so that the targeted objectives can be realised.
In an ideal world these objectives represent significant advantages over not having a scheme. These include reducing money laundering, less under-age access to alcohol, easier ID confirmation therefore reducing ID fraud, better border controls and more tightly integrated public services.
I'm not trying to argue for an ID card scheme just that the approach of NO2ID campaigners to discrediting the scheme seems to rely on kneejerk reactions to a document that is actually not that interesting, it just confirms that they are planning and ID scheme and are looking into ways to roll it out that will work well as pilot schemes (you have to start somewhere if you are going to issue millions of cards). There is no 'Coercion' here just NO2ID trying to find something new to react to. Wherever they start the roll out of the scheme NO2ID will find fault and whatever information the card contains or whatever system is used.
I just read through the PDF and can't see anything to get upset about. I don't like the idea of ID cards but the blue comments throughout the document are nothing more then reactionist rants.
The document suggests that
Reducing abuse of age based access to products and services might be a highly desirable outcome for an ID card scheme. Which seems obvious. If you give everyone ID cards it makes it easy to check how old they are when they try to get into an 18 movie or buy alcohol. The comment for this section is
This implies that IPS considers it "highly desirable" to record on the NIR any time you buy alcohol, glue, or an edged tool, rent or buy a DVD, or enter a cinema, pub or club... (etc) Which is the realm of complete paranoia. Surely they can't really mean it? At points it is as if they feel they have to make a comment about every point
Confirm target group(s) for 2009-2011 (a trusted relationship group, followed by young people) - with Ministers and other key stakeholders has the massively insightful comment of
Who else is IPS working for? Well the police, and the rest of the civil service for a start.
I don't like the idea of compulsory ID cards but how is making snide remarks about a document that simply outlines different approaches to and some of the benefits benefits of such a scheme going to help the argument against the scheme?
A National ID card scheme has loads of great advantages and trying to argue that it does not is foolish. The only arguments are either that the disadvantages of such a scheme to civil liberties are too great a cost or that the financial costs are so great that equivalent advantages are cheaper or are simply not required if the price is that high.
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It's not that iPods were more visible among certain subcultures, it's because the iPod is more visible because of those bright white headphones. People advertise the fact that they are using an iPod. If you saw someone walking down the street listening to a Zune you'd probably think it was an iPod with 3rd party headphones.
Yes but the URL in the HTML would now point to a different unique ID because it would have refreshed from the server. If the HTML is cached then nothing is requested from the server and so it wouldn't know. Unless of course you use something like the the CSS based method christo linked to.
How would the server known that the image was cached as opposed to not having been downloaded? The javascript file contains the unique ID and then the browser reports this back to the server a GIF can't do that (without javascript).
But seriously most people leave cookies on and those who know to turn them off are probably the sort of people who regularly clear their cache. The percentage of users you could target with this would be very small for the effort required. If tracking user usage is that important to you then just refuse to serve the page with cookies disabled.
Sony loves traditions, theirs involves forcing proprietary media formats on their customers. Microsoft has a proud tradition of buying its way into new markets.
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Looks like he's done it already. http://bweber.posterous.com/infinite-mario-ai-vs-my-level-generator
So to be green they're removing the most environmentally friendly part of the product?
It'd be a much more green initiative to replace the plastic case with a paper and card case that could include basic controls printed on it's various surfaces. They could even go all out and switch to all digital distribution.
It mentions the Conservatives because they could have blocked it. With an election coming up any bill that does not pass before today would have to be re-introduced from scratch in the next parliament.
There's a phase called the 'wash-up' where bills are rushed through with little debate to beat the deadline before an election. If the Conservatives had wanted to they could have kicked up a stink and sunk this bill and campaigned for a better replacement but instead they decided to support it and so it was rushed through at the last minute.
Only 8 years to go until The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is set free (1967 so out of copyright in the UK Jan 1st 2018)
The flywheel is a lot less then 100kg. The whole Williams Hybrid KERS system for F1 was around the 35kg mark so the actual flywheel will be a fraction of that. The flyweel and enclosure is all made of a carbon fiber composite and is made in such a way that if it comes loose it will shatter on impact.
Williams had both a double diffuser and planned to use their KERS system but never got it operational before FOTA announced the decision not to use KERS in 2010.
http://web.archive.org/web/19991013054427/http://slashdot.org/
Those were the days... 1-click patents and Rambus
The issue isn't the sticky pedal it's what you can do about stopping a car once it sticks. In a traditional mechanical car you can simply put the car in neutral, pull over and stop. If for some reason you can't get it into neutral then you could still turn off the car by turning the ignition key to off. With a keyless ignition and all electronic gearbox you rely the designers of your drive-by-wire system to have foreseen this type of situation and have included an appropriate failsafe in their system.
In the case of the runaway Toyota pressing the ignition to turn the car off does nothing (to stop you accidentally turning the car off) and the gear selector wouldn't select neutral (presumably because the accelerator was on full) the correct thing to do is hold down the start button for 3 seconds and that shuts down the engine.
With mechanical systems you can simply disconnect them and they stop working, with electronic systems you need to know a shutdown procedure and these procedurers are currently specific to each model of car.
For those looking at doing this it's worth knowing that as well as iPlayer there is now 4OD, Demand Five and ITVPlayer for all your C4, 5 and ITV watching needs.
They've all ditched their paid for P2P based systems for advertising supported Flash players.
So how much does a gallon of water weigh? How about that 2 gallon/10l gas can, how much will that weigh when it's full? In metric it's easy since 1l of water = 1 kg Gasoline has a relative density of 0.71-0.77 (lets call it 0.75) so in metric 10l of gasoline is 7.5kg All without a calculator or writing anything down, lets see if you can do that in pounds and inches. Yes you might have to deal with learning to use 1.25 1.6 and 2.5 more often but it's no less work then learning how many feet are in a mile or fluid oz in a pint etc. Not to mention that the UK and US numbers are often different.
US immigration and security go beyond being serious to the point that they come across as rude and unhelpful. UK airport security have pulled me aside for a random search whilst joking that it was due to the sports team jersey I was wearing. On a quiet day arriving in amsterdam I've had a guy call over his supervisor just so they could make make stern faces make me worry and then crack a joke about my passport photo. I've chatted with Polish boarder guards about their visits to my home country and had a French immigration officer laugh at my appalling French. Entering the US I've see people infuriated by officers who will tell them only that they have filled in the wrong green form, or filled the right one incorrectly but will offer no more help to non-english speaking visitors then to send them back to the back of the line. I've waited hours whilst people attempt to have their fingerprints scanned whilst having orders barked at them because they misunderstood the instructions. Most immigration officers I've encountered try to ask questions in a friendly conversational style but in the US it's a cross between an interrogation and a telemarketing script. After a few visits you learn the keywords for your answers and they let you through no problem!
Hands down the best voice commands I've ever used in a phone is Voice Commander for Windows Mobile 5. (I believe it's now included with WM6 as standard.) Not only does it do voice dialling of your contacts and numbers by simply saying "Dial 555 1234" but it also gives you control over the launching apps, mp3 playback, reading SMS messages, signal status and time and appointments.
For a full list take a look at the Microsoft website.
It also doesn't need any training or any setup you just press and speak and it works surprisingly well.
As for hardware that'll depend on your budget and availability but there are lots of options for Windows Mobile powered phones including candy bars and and flip phones.
The only times I've had problems with a router has been with the firmware of my old cable STB that also acted as a modem (it would just drop the connection/DHCP lease at random and the only thing that seemed to fix it was a reboot of both STB and router). Since I got a new modem I haven't had any trouble. I can't remember the last time I had to restart my WRT56G because it wasn't working.
Opera is the king of the user installed browser, WM6 phones will come with Internet Explorer installed, the iPhone and Nokia S60 phones come with a WebKit based browser.
I'm not sure why anyone is expecting handset manufacturers and networks to drop their current default browsers in favour of an unproved and as yet unfinished Mozilla product.
I'm not building a strawman that people oppose every form of ID just that NO2ID oppose everything the government does relating to the national ID scheme. The NO2ID campaign group got hold of a leaked government memo and then preceded to find fault with every paragraph even when there was no real fault to be found. When they couldn't find something to object to in the document they introduce some FUD. In the case I quoted this was about tracking every purchase of age restricted goods. The use of 'Coercion' is another invention of the campaigners to spin the story to insinuate that the government is somehow plotting against the people.
What is actually detailed in the document is a discussion of how one might roll out the plan and which groups would be most likely to see the card succeed and see real benefits ASAP. There is no approach to rolling out the ID scheme that NO2ID would approve of. We already know this because as their name suggests their position is to oppose the national ID scheme in all forms and so there is no need for them to comment on this. Doing so weakens their argument against the cards because it dilutes their message to the (unimportant) minutia of the scheme rather then their fundamental opposition to the scheme as a whole.
I object to ID cards for many reasons but IMHO the actions of those like the author of the comments in the NO2ID PDF don't help they just give the government ammunition to call all those objecting to ID cards reactionists and bury any legitimate concerns about the scheme under the conspiracy theories and FUD that these campaign groups have published.
That's exactly what this document is, a hypothetical list of objectives of the national ID scheme that ranks the advantages and discusses different ways to roll out the scheme so that enough people sign up to it so that the targeted objectives can be realised.
In an ideal world these objectives represent significant advantages over not having a scheme. These include reducing money laundering, less under-age access to alcohol, easier ID confirmation therefore reducing ID fraud, better border controls and more tightly integrated public services.
I'm not trying to argue for an ID card scheme just that the approach of NO2ID campaigners to discrediting the scheme seems to rely on kneejerk reactions to a document that is actually not that interesting, it just confirms that they are planning and ID scheme and are looking into ways to roll it out that will work well as pilot schemes (you have to start somewhere if you are going to issue millions of cards). There is no 'Coercion' here just NO2ID trying to find something new to react to. Wherever they start the roll out of the scheme NO2ID will find fault and whatever information the card contains or whatever system is used.
I don't like the idea of compulsory ID cards but how is making snide remarks about a document that simply outlines different approaches to and some of the benefits benefits of such a scheme going to help the argument against the scheme?
A National ID card scheme has loads of great advantages and trying to argue that it does not is foolish. The only arguments are either that the disadvantages of such a scheme to civil liberties are too great a cost or that the financial costs are so great that equivalent advantages are cheaper or are simply not required if the price is that high.
It's not that iPods were more visible among certain subcultures, it's because the iPod is more visible because of those bright white headphones. People advertise the fact that they are using an iPod. If you saw someone walking down the street listening to a Zune you'd probably think it was an iPod with 3rd party headphones.
The $1600 was for one morning of sales, even at 10-20% margin the guy will make back the $6k in less then a month.
Yes but the URL in the HTML would now point to a different unique ID because it would have refreshed from the server. If the HTML is cached then nothing is requested from the server and so it wouldn't know. Unless of course you use something like the the CSS based method christo linked to.
How would the server known that the image was cached as opposed to not having been downloaded? The javascript file contains the unique ID and then the browser reports this back to the server a GIF can't do that (without javascript).
But seriously most people leave cookies on and those who know to turn them off are probably the sort of people who regularly clear their cache. The percentage of users you could target with this would be very small for the effort required. If tracking user usage is that important to you then just refuse to serve the page with cookies disabled.
You forgot the most important thing Bitch about them on Slashdot!
Sony loves traditions, theirs involves forcing proprietary media formats on their customers. Microsoft has a proud tradition of buying its way into new markets.
Widescreen Newton so it can play iTunes movies?