That depends on whether the law is based on case law and precedents, or statutes. If the laws are based on what parliament passes as law (which is used in most countries under Roman law but perhaps not in the UK) then it would be a matter of looking at the relevant laws. Several centuries of history would not matter one whit if there was a new law passed that allowed it.
My in-law's cousin was top of his class in a city about 150km from Shanghai. Scoring high on tests, he made it into Shanghai university where he also scored pretty high. This got him and his parents a Shanghai Hukou and a job as finance manager after graduation at the same time.
But yeah, if you're of average intelligence you are ordered to stay where you are. Only the very gifted will be mobile both up and sideways.
Totally different from the USA, where every poor kid attends Harvard, of course.
I know they have a horrible track record on brown coal. But right now when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, they produce rather a lot of clean energy quite cheap - so much so the long-standing discussion about grid integration is getting rather urgent.
I think closing their nuclear plants was the wrong decision, in light of the CO2 debate - global climate change is much more urgent than closing well-managed and quite secure nuclear plants. It did take the wind out of the opposition for the government though, which was probably what mattered after Fukushima.
That said, Germany is switching to more green energy because they are running rather low on alternatives.
Actually there's quite a lot of experience with this type of roof nowadays.
Standard roofs locally are covered with bitumen waterproof covering. THis is affected mostly by UV light, which is countered by layering it over with earth and having vegetation on top of it. This can double the lifespan of the waterproof covering.
The weight of a light covering with Sedum (very small, fatty ground-covering foliage that is very robust) will weigh between 50 and 60 kilograms per square meter. If your roof can't hold that, it will have serious trouble with a big snowlayer. Roofs are mandated to hold at least 100 kg/m^2 over 10m^2, and roofs meant to be used as terrace or walked upon for inspection have to be able to hold 250 kg/m^2.
Actually, several Dutch companies are trying to either move their company to Germany, OR build a long cable to draw power from Germany, precisely because of this point.
Right now it turns out that they were so succesful that Germany actually has a competitive advantage over its neighbours who don't have that nice clean and low-cost energy source between 9 and 5. I bet that half the reason France is doing this is because they're seeing the writing on the wall: clean energy is not just clean, it's also becoming cheaper than fossil fuels once you factor in the cost of pollution in densely populated areas.
I mean, nice to see a study confirming "stuff we already know", but not only has this discussion been done to death in academic circles, it's been such a hot topic it was used as the basis for the Jack Vance story "The Languages of Pao" and a mainstay of the A.E. van Vogt stories, most notably the Null-A novels.
And that is even without going into other literature where this was a hot topic about 80 years ago...
. In any case, there are many SSD-only systems now, in which case the swap space is on the SDD whether you like it or not, so there's certainly not an unreasonable thing to try.
The software that comes with my Samsung disables the windows swapfile if you want it to. Since I have plenty of RAM, that's okay with me.
I have the 1TB Samsung 850 Pro, and I'm not giving it up for anything. Any new laptop I buy from now on will have an SSD in it. It's the biggest performance improvement I've ever had, except that time when I installed my first graphics card:)
Golden ratios emerge wherever you have a relationship of T(n)=T(n-1) + T(n-2). Where the first two terms are 0 and 1, you have fibonacci numbers: but no matter what your starting numbers are, the ratio between T(n) and T(n-1) will approach phi (as demonstrated with 'brady numbers').
So it is not at all surprising that phi might crop up in seemingly strange places.
So if the signal would be chaotic, and the second signal was just an echo of the first signal, for some reason occuring exactly one period after the first, then we would see this? Mmm.... nah. I go for the aliens with neutrino beams:)
It is well-known that the government is still very unwilling to touch the heavy industries that pollute the most, especially in cities where there is just one employer. They're also very hesitant to bring polluters to justice, even if they pour poison freely into the river that supplies the city next door with drinking water.
It's high time Chinese folks understood that pollution is not a natural occurrence that cannot be prevented, but occurs because the cost of doing business is paid out of their health.
True - which is why Gamemaker is installed often in classrooms. Gives you a running game in basically an hour. After that, you get to add stuff and then you start programming.
In The Netherlands the standard installation in classrooms nowadays is "Gamemaker". You can teach kids a lot about the first steps of programming while they get a game up and running. Takes them at most an hour for a basic tutorial, and then they can add stuff.
Now that's amazing. They actually read facebook in other countries? Who'd have thought that posting something on a public website would be read by people you work with? Especially when you do that on a site that sends them a mail when you post something?
Yes, the laws in the UAE are very harsh and oppressive. But it's really hard not to notice that when you work there, so it's not a surprise, I hope, that they use it against foreigners that get uppity.
Is it a disgrace the UAE has these laws? Yes. And putting someone 5 years in jail for an outburst is way overboard. But you get paid good wages in the UAE precisely because not a whole lot of people want to work under those conditions. It's like soldiers complaining about danger: what did you think the pay was for?
some meta-information that's probably hidden by default.
Who says it's hidden? There's nothing special about a a filename that means it is visible in the UI. As this very story shows.
You're thinking is being limited by what you are used to. You're lacking imagination to envisage better alternatives.
No, I just envisage what will happen when this is introduced on Windows, with its huge established software pool that doesnt understand that metadata.
Personally, I'm still rather fond of a capability based OS, instead of a rights based one. And the idea that executables can access ANYTHING outside their own directory without explicit permission was stupid from day one. I can imagine quite a view changes that would make an OS much safer.
But adding metadata to files that is not "in your face" is not the best suggestion I've seen for that. And yes, the Explorer could be changed to show status. And a gazillion older programs would not. Because it could have been done already, and it hasn't.
True. I really long for the day we have that, and AnnaKournikova.jpg is actually an executable file because of some meta-information that's probably hidden by default.
I'm sure people will be happy to spend an extra $650 so they can recover their original $700
Given the way insurance works psychologically (people are risk-averse more than they are profit-oriented), you'd be surprised how many takers you'd find at a slightly lower price.
Actually, kickstarter is not allowed to give out equity under US law *yet*, but that may change soon. ANd if they want to stay relevant, they should, because the kickstarter model is starting to show cracks.
A company called Symbid (symbid.nl) has been doing this for quite some time now because they're not in the US and under Dutch law they can already do this. You can invest small sums of money (20 euro and upwards) and in exchange you get equity. That sounds simpler than it is, but it seems to be working for them. They take over all the hassle of the process of issuing shares, the lawyer part of it etc. and make things cheap and easy enough to work for small sums.
If I ever invest money, it will be through something similar. But not through kickstarter. Kickstarter is where you give donations. Investors go elsewhere.
The real mark of the brokenness of our patent system is not patent trolls, but rather that most engineers are forbidden from looking at patents.
Sad but true. The patent system works so much against the original idea behind it, it needs to be taken behind the barn and shot.
On another note, I find it even more offensive that the best way to write the most patents the quickest is to sit on standardization committees. That's a well-known abuse that's completely ignored by ISO and other organizations. Because getting the big organizations onboard means a viable standard, and they won't come on-board unless they can kill off the competitors who weren't in the room.
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That depends on whether the law is based on case law and precedents, or statutes. If the laws are based on what parliament passes as law (which is used in most countries under Roman law but perhaps not in the UK) then it would be a matter of looking at the relevant laws. Several centuries of history would not matter one whit if there was a new law passed that allowed it.
True, but the reverse can happen as well.
My in-law's cousin was top of his class in a city about 150km from Shanghai. Scoring high on tests, he made it into Shanghai university where he also scored pretty high. This got him and his parents a Shanghai Hukou and a job as finance manager after graduation at the same time.
But yeah, if you're of average intelligence you are ordered to stay where you are. Only the very gifted will be mobile both up and sideways.
Totally different from the USA, where every poor kid attends Harvard, of course.
I know they have a horrible track record on brown coal. But right now when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, they produce rather a lot of clean energy quite cheap - so much so the long-standing discussion about grid integration is getting rather urgent.
I think closing their nuclear plants was the wrong decision, in light of the CO2 debate - global climate change is much more urgent than closing well-managed and quite secure nuclear plants. It did take the wind out of the opposition for the government though, which was probably what mattered after Fukushima.
That said, Germany is switching to more green energy because they are running rather low on alternatives.
Actually there's quite a lot of experience with this type of roof nowadays.
Standard roofs locally are covered with bitumen waterproof covering. THis is affected mostly by UV light, which is countered by layering it over with earth and having vegetation on top of it. This can double the lifespan of the waterproof covering.
The weight of a light covering with Sedum (very small, fatty ground-covering foliage that is very robust) will weigh between 50 and 60 kilograms per square meter. If your roof can't hold that, it will have serious trouble with a big snowlayer. Roofs are mandated to hold at least 100 kg/m^2 over 10m^2, and roofs meant to be used as terrace or walked upon for inspection have to be able to hold 250 kg/m^2.
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Actually, several Dutch companies are trying to either move their company to Germany, OR build a long cable to draw power from Germany, precisely because of this point.
Right now it turns out that they were so succesful that Germany actually has a competitive advantage over its neighbours who don't have that nice clean and low-cost energy source between 9 and 5. I bet that half the reason France is doing this is because they're seeing the writing on the wall: clean energy is not just clean, it's also becoming cheaper than fossil fuels once you factor in the cost of pollution in densely populated areas.
I'll take "stupid apple fanboys" for 5 points.
...just to put SCO out of our misery.
Aptly put :)
... I'm off to set up a new marketplace on Tor. Apparently, criminals are really gullible AND use untraceable money! What a great combination :)
I mean, nice to see a study confirming "stuff we already know", but not only has this discussion been done to death in academic circles, it's been such a hot topic it was used as the basis for the Jack Vance story "The Languages of Pao" and a mainstay of the A.E. van Vogt stories, most notably the Null-A novels.
And that is even without going into other literature where this was a hot topic about 80 years ago...
Your use of ad-hominem attacks and posting as an anonymous account says enough about you.
See, we can all do ad-hominem attacks. Join the fun.
. In any case, there are many SSD-only systems now, in which case the swap space is on the SDD whether you like it or not, so there's certainly not an unreasonable thing to try.
The software that comes with my Samsung disables the windows swapfile if you want it to. Since I have plenty of RAM, that's okay with me.
I have the 1TB Samsung 850 Pro, and I'm not giving it up for anything. Any new laptop I buy from now on will have an SSD in it. It's the biggest performance improvement I've ever had, except that time when I installed my first graphics card :)
So what you're saying is we found a neutrino reflector?
Interesting idea. I guess we'll know when the scientists that are now studying the object have finished with their calculations.
Golden ratios emerge wherever you have a relationship of T(n)=T(n-1) + T(n-2). Where the first two terms are 0 and 1, you have fibonacci numbers: but no matter what your starting numbers are, the ratio between T(n) and T(n-1) will approach phi (as demonstrated with 'brady numbers').
So it is not at all surprising that phi might crop up in seemingly strange places.
So if the signal would be chaotic, and the second signal was just an echo of the first signal, for some reason occuring exactly one period after the first, then we would see this? Mmm.... nah. I go for the aliens with neutrino beams :)
Was that before the People's Congres, or after?
It is well-known that the government is still very unwilling to touch the heavy industries that pollute the most, especially in cities where there is just one employer. They're also very hesitant to bring polluters to justice, even if they pour poison freely into the river that supplies the city next door with drinking water.
It's high time Chinese folks understood that pollution is not a natural occurrence that cannot be prevented, but occurs because the cost of doing business is paid out of their health.
True - which is why Gamemaker is installed often in classrooms. Gives you a running game in basically an hour. After that, you get to add stuff and then you start programming.
In The Netherlands the standard installation in classrooms nowadays is "Gamemaker". You can teach kids a lot about the first steps of programming while they get a game up and running. Takes them at most an hour for a basic tutorial, and then they can add stuff.
Now that's amazing. They actually read facebook in other countries? Who'd have thought that posting something on a public website would be read by people you work with? Especially when you do that on a site that sends them a mail when you post something?
Yes, the laws in the UAE are very harsh and oppressive. But it's really hard not to notice that when you work there, so it's not a surprise, I hope, that they use it against foreigners that get uppity.
Is it a disgrace the UAE has these laws? Yes. And putting someone 5 years in jail for an outburst is way overboard. But you get paid good wages in the UAE precisely because not a whole lot of people want to work under those conditions. It's like soldiers complaining about danger: what did you think the pay was for?
some meta-information that's probably hidden by default.
Who says it's hidden? There's nothing special about a a filename that means it is visible in the UI. As this very story shows.
You're thinking is being limited by what you are used to. You're lacking imagination to envisage better alternatives.
No, I just envisage what will happen when this is introduced on Windows, with its huge established software pool that doesnt understand that metadata.
Personally, I'm still rather fond of a capability based OS, instead of a rights based one. And the idea that executables can access ANYTHING outside their own directory without explicit permission was stupid from day one. I can imagine quite a view changes that would make an OS much safer.
But adding metadata to files that is not "in your face" is not the best suggestion I've seen for that. And yes, the Explorer could be changed to show status. And a gazillion older programs would not. Because it could have been done already, and it hasn't.
True. I really long for the day we have that, and AnnaKournikova.jpg is actually an executable file because of some meta-information that's probably hidden by default.
I wonder what could possibly go wrong there.
I'm sure people will be happy to spend an extra $650 so they can recover their original $700
Given the way insurance works psychologically (people are risk-averse more than they are profit-oriented), you'd be surprised how many takers you'd find at a slightly lower price.
Actually, kickstarter is not allowed to give out equity under US law *yet*, but that may change soon. ANd if they want to stay relevant, they should, because the kickstarter model is starting to show cracks.
A company called Symbid (symbid.nl) has been doing this for quite some time now because they're not in the US and under Dutch law they can already do this. You can invest small sums of money (20 euro and upwards) and in exchange you get equity. That sounds simpler than it is, but it seems to be working for them. They take over all the hassle of the process of issuing shares, the lawyer part of it etc. and make things cheap and easy enough to work for small sums.
If I ever invest money, it will be through something similar. But not through kickstarter. Kickstarter is where you give donations. Investors go elsewhere.
I think they - reasonably - expect you to do the math before you enter the market with a solution using their software.
The real mark of the brokenness of our patent system is not patent trolls, but rather that most engineers are forbidden from looking at patents.
Sad but true. The patent system works so much against the original idea behind it, it needs to be taken behind the barn and shot.
On another note, I find it even more offensive that the best way to write the most patents the quickest is to sit on standardization committees. That's a well-known abuse that's completely ignored by ISO and other organizations. Because getting the big organizations onboard means a viable standard, and they won't come on-board unless they can kill off the competitors who weren't in the room.