And don't have 4-5x the latency of products shipped from a planet's width away.
It only takes a few days to fedex a package from china. When talking about timescales tomake and assemble a batch of 10K boards a few days is insignificant and it's not like the pi is big or heavy.
They have talked about releasing them but I don't think they have actually done so yet.
Plus as the AC says broadcom don't like dealing with small operations (the pi guys are getting a break because they have a guy on the inside) so even when released they will be of limited utility.
If you are going to bitch about the customs issue please at least learn what you are talking about. Customs duty is a percentage not a per-item fee.
The problem is that the percentage varies by "type of goods", the complete assembly falls under a category that attracts no duty whereas at least some of the component parts fall under categories that do attract duty.
Unfortunately because the Pi guys haven't released either thier BOM or the quotes they got for construction it's kinda hard to tell how significant the duty issue really is in their case.
The thing isou can't just drive a convoy of oil trucks from one of the big well-connected cities further south to Nome because the roads don't exist. You could fly fuel in but afaict doing so is a VERY expensive option and it wouldn't surprise me if the airport capacity simply didn't exist to move enough. So the normal thing to do is to bring fuel in by sea in the summer and store it for the winter.
Which is great until someone miscalculates demand and they run out of fuel in the middle of winter. Presumablly someone looked at the options and decided that using icebreakers to bring a russian fuel tanker in was the least bad one.
* I have no idea about the frozen north of other places
The article is a bit vauge it sounds like radioative material from the fukushima disaster transferred to the gravel pit (probablly via groundwater) and contaminated the gravel that was used to make the concrete.
Be aware that the combination of an unsecured wifi connection with a captive portal while conviniant for users is fundamentally insecure. The actual data traffic is unencrypted (unless the particular application/website uses application level encryption) and anyone can gain access by spoofing the IP/MAC of an existing client.
Shipping containers have to survive being stacked high on ships in high seas, craned arround ports and so-on. Therefore they are built far more sturdily than regular lorry trailers which really only need to keep the weather out.
1: undercover spot checks, send someone in with a load of copper and see if they can get cash for it and/or set up survielance for a while to see if any cash transactions are made. 2: cross-check the company books. For each unit of scrap metal the dealer sells check he has corresponding records for incoming scrap metal. If the dealers records show a suspisciously high volume of small transactions then start watching him more closely (e.g you could count the cars in and out of the yard and compare it to the transaction count).
IIRC newer aluminium alloys are better than older ones but it still isn't something you really want in an installation that isn't under tight control. Building wiring is rarely under tight control (whatever the powers that be might like to believe).
Power companies on the other hand can use it successfully because they can keep tight control over what parts and procedures are used for jointing it. Plus power company wiring is usually outdoors so a bad joint overheating isn't so serious as it would be inside the walls of your house.
AIUI at least in the UK to prosecute someone for receiving stolen goods requires showing that they "knew or should have known" they were stolen. That can be quite a hard thing to prove. A truckload of copper wire from a theft isn't going to look much different from a truckload of copper wire stripped out in a legitimate building project.
OTOH a specific law can require scrapyard owners to put in place policies that discourage theives. One such policy could be to require ID to be shown and recorded with each sale. Another would be requiring a minimum hold time before scrap is processed (crushed, melted etc).
It may well be years away for them depending on how many IPs they have spare and how stable the size of their customer base is.
I suspect his insistence that it would be instantanous and transparent either means 1: He hasn't got a clue 2: They don't have any plans 3: They are hoping they can wait for everyone else to transition first. 4: They really plan to deploy IPv4 NAT instead of deploying IPv6 but they don't want to admit that.
I have to say of the various solutions for giving users without a public v4 IP access to v4 services NAT64 is the one I like least since it involves messing with DNS (which among other things will probablly make it fundamentally incompatible with dnssec), adds additional complexity to the translation (need to translate between protocols as well as translate addresses) and can't support legacy applications or devices.
DS-lite seems like the best solution to me. The access network can be V6 only, it's horizontally scalable, legacy clients can be supported by implementing it at the CPE and it doesn't mess with IPv6 service at all.
Lukilly I have a railcard and virgin trains have a great but unadvertised (the planner sites know about it but i've never seen it advertised anywhere) concession allowing railcard holders to use "off-peak" tickets on all trains so for me personally it's not so bad.
Virgin trains also offer an off peak single for half the price of an off-peak return if you buy it with some other type of single ticket for the other half of the journey. Again the planners know about this but i've never seen it advertised and the planners will generally try to push you towards advance tickets by default.
When I lose my railcard or if that concession goes away I suspect I will just avoid going to london on weekdays at all unless I really have to or someone else is paying. If I REALLY have to go to london on a weekday and pay for it myself after I lose my railcard i'll probablly try and get some kind of advance ticket for the journey down and stay into the evening so I can come back on an off-peak train.
My understanding is that wet shaving with a blade gives smoother results than dry shaving with an electric shaver but it's going to make a mess of foam and hair so you want to do it somewhere you can rinse down easilly such as the shower.
What is hard is preserving anonymity while providing a means for detecting foul play whatever the source (including the equipment manufacturer) and doing it all in a way normal people can understand and trust.
MPs every 4-5 years (it's up to parliment when to call an election with a limit of 5 years between elections) Councillers every year (normally one third of the council is replaced each time) MEPs every 5 years
Some places also have an elected mayor and there are also occasional refferendums (either local or national)
Sometimes more than one thing is decided at the same time but when it is there are seperate ballot papers for each. IIRC there are seperate ballot boxes too.
Propositions are completely alien to us as is the idea of electing judges and minor government posts.
What I actually worry about is that the added capacity encourages more people and companies to have more trips into London, where they will use the tube to get to their final destinations and that is really hard to upgrade.
Worse there is no "london central", instead there is a splattering of terminus stations. Furthermore there are few "heavy rail" links across london, none of which go to euston. So anyone using this link to travel somewhere via london (rather than to london itself) will most likely end up using the tube to get from euston to whichever station connects to the destination they want.
Amusingly the planner even tells you to use the tube to go from euston to kings cross/st pancras even though it's probablly quicker to walk.
Lets hope they go through with the plan to link high speed 1 to high speed 2, run domestic services that actually go that route and preferablly improve onward connections from ashford towards eastbourne/brighton so that at least some passengers are taken off the tube.
I'd think consistent inflation (all prices rising equally) would have little affect on either the poor. The poor have little assets or debts and if they do have debts they are at such high interest rates that a few percent per year inflation is negligable compared to the interest on the loan while the rich have most of their wealth locked up in assets. The rich probablly won't be affected much either as the majority of their wealth will be in assets not cash/bank balances.
The people really impacted would be the middle classes with mortgage holders benefiting while those with savings and no mortgage lose out.
The thing is what we have been increasingly seeing recently is not consistent inflation but "stagflation" (prices rising but wages not). That hurts the poor most as the majority of their income is spent on essentials.
Yeah advance tickets can be cheap if you are prepared to book a long way in advance and spend a lot of time waiting arround to ensure you don't miss your booked train.
Oh and if things go wrong and you have an advance ticket it can make the situation worse for you. See for example http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2617052&cid=38672314 where they guy was delayed an extra four hours (on top of an existing four hour delay) by the combination of having an advance ticket and being given wrong information by the train operator.
Sounds reasonable to me, they are running low on a product for which they are alternatives that will be superior in most cases but they want to keep some in-stock just in case someone REALLY wants that exact product. So they crank the price to a level where superior products are cheaper.
The UK is a member of the EU and has been since long before the euro existed. The UK and denmark negotiated opt-outs when the treaty that formed the euro was drawn up and have no immediate plans to enter. Sweden are technically required to join the EU but are trying to stay out on a technicality and several of the new EU countries haven't met the criteria for joining the euro yet (they are technically required to join eventually but afaict no timescale was ever set).
Last I heard the tools for preparing the SD card image had not been released because they were still in discussions with broadcom about the details of distribution licensing for the GPU blob needed to boot the thing (it's a somewhat strange setup, the GPU boots first and then loads the kernel for the CPU). As with most arm SOCs the build of the kernel will probablly be pi specific but the rest of the distro should be pretty standard.
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And don't have 4-5x the latency of products shipped from a planet's width away.
It only takes a few days to fedex a package from china. When talking about timescales tomake and assemble a batch of 10K boards a few days is insignificant and it's not like the pi is big or heavy.
for some odd reason.
The problem is that duty levels are set to placate certain interests not to make the system make sense as a whole.
Also afaict customs dutys are set by the EU as a whole not by indvidual countries which means there is even more beuracracy.
They have talked about releasing them but I don't think they have actually done so yet.
Plus as the AC says broadcom don't like dealing with small operations (the pi guys are getting a break because they have a guy on the inside) so even when released they will be of limited utility.
If you are going to bitch about the customs issue please at least learn what you are talking about. Customs duty is a percentage not a per-item fee.
The problem is that the percentage varies by "type of goods", the complete assembly falls under a category that attracts no duty whereas at least some of the component parts fall under categories that do attract duty.
Unfortunately because the Pi guys haven't released either thier BOM or the quotes they got for construction it's kinda hard to tell how significant the duty issue really is in their case.
The thing isou can't just drive a convoy of oil trucks from one of the big well-connected cities further south to Nome because the roads don't exist. You could fly fuel in but afaict doing so is a VERY expensive option and it wouldn't surprise me if the airport capacity simply didn't exist to move enough. So the normal thing to do is to bring fuel in by sea in the summer and store it for the winter.
Which is great until someone miscalculates demand and they run out of fuel in the middle of winter. Presumablly someone looked at the options and decided that using icebreakers to bring a russian fuel tanker in was the least bad one.
* I have no idea about the frozen north of other places
The article is a bit vauge it sounds like radioative material from the fukushima disaster transferred to the gravel pit (probablly via groundwater) and contaminated the gravel that was used to make the concrete.
Be aware that the combination of an unsecured wifi connection with a captive portal while conviniant for users is fundamentally insecure. The actual data traffic is unencrypted (unless the particular application/website uses application level encryption) and anyone can gain access by spoofing the IP/MAC of an existing client.
Shipping containers have to survive being stacked high on ships in high seas, craned arround ports and so-on. Therefore they are built far more sturdily than regular lorry trailers which really only need to keep the weather out.
I can think of a couple of ways
1: undercover spot checks, send someone in with a load of copper and see if they can get cash for it and/or set up survielance for a while to see if any cash transactions are made.
2: cross-check the company books. For each unit of scrap metal the dealer sells check he has corresponding records for incoming scrap metal. If the dealers records show a suspisciously high volume of small transactions then start watching him more closely (e.g you could count the cars in and out of the yard and compare it to the transaction count).
IIRC newer aluminium alloys are better than older ones but it still isn't something you really want in an installation that isn't under tight control. Building wiring is rarely under tight control (whatever the powers that be might like to believe).
Power companies on the other hand can use it successfully because they can keep tight control over what parts and procedures are used for jointing it. Plus power company wiring is usually outdoors so a bad joint overheating isn't so serious as it would be inside the walls of your house.
AIUI at least in the UK to prosecute someone for receiving stolen goods requires showing that they "knew or should have known" they were stolen. That can be quite a hard thing to prove. A truckload of copper wire from a theft isn't going to look much different from a truckload of copper wire stripped out in a legitimate building project.
OTOH a specific law can require scrapyard owners to put in place policies that discourage theives. One such policy could be to require ID to be shown and recorded with each sale. Another would be requiring a minimum hold time before scrap is processed (crushed, melted etc).
It may well be years away for them depending on how many IPs they have spare and how stable the size of their customer base is.
I suspect his insistence that it would be instantanous and transparent either means
1: He hasn't got a clue
2: They don't have any plans
3: They are hoping they can wait for everyone else to transition first.
4: They really plan to deploy IPv4 NAT instead of deploying IPv6 but they don't want to admit that.
out of interest do you remember if they were using regular IPv6 addresses, 6to4 addresses (2002::/16) or teredo addresses (2001:0::/32)?
I have to say of the various solutions for giving users without a public v4 IP access to v4 services NAT64 is the one I like least since it involves messing with DNS (which among other things will probablly make it fundamentally incompatible with dnssec), adds additional complexity to the translation (need to translate between protocols as well as translate addresses) and can't support legacy applications or devices.
DS-lite seems like the best solution to me. The access network can be V6 only, it's horizontally scalable, legacy clients can be supported by implementing it at the CPE and it doesn't mess with IPv6 service at all.
Lukilly I have a railcard and virgin trains have a great but unadvertised (the planner sites know about it but i've never seen it advertised anywhere) concession allowing railcard holders to use "off-peak" tickets on all trains so for me personally it's not so bad.
Virgin trains also offer an off peak single for half the price of an off-peak return if you buy it with some other type of single ticket for the other half of the journey. Again the planners know about this but i've never seen it advertised and the planners will generally try to push you towards advance tickets by default.
When I lose my railcard or if that concession goes away I suspect I will just avoid going to london on weekdays at all unless I really have to or someone else is paying. If I REALLY have to go to london on a weekday and pay for it myself after I lose my railcard i'll probablly try and get some kind of advance ticket for the journey down and stay into the evening so I can come back on an off-peak train.
My understanding is that wet shaving with a blade gives smoother results than dry shaving with an electric shaver but it's going to make a mess of foam and hair so you want to do it somewhere you can rinse down easilly such as the shower.
What is hard is preserving anonymity while providing a means for detecting foul play whatever the source (including the equipment manufacturer) and doing it all in a way normal people can understand and trust.
I can't speak for ireland but in the UK we elect
MPs every 4-5 years (it's up to parliment when to call an election with a limit of 5 years between elections)
Councillers every year (normally one third of the council is replaced each time)
MEPs every 5 years
Some places also have an elected mayor and there are also occasional refferendums (either local or national)
Sometimes more than one thing is decided at the same time but when it is there are seperate ballot papers for each. IIRC there are seperate ballot boxes too.
Propositions are completely alien to us as is the idea of electing judges and minor government posts.
What I actually worry about is that the added capacity encourages more people and companies to have more trips into London, where they will use the tube to get to their final destinations and that is really hard to upgrade.
Worse there is no "london central", instead there is a splattering of terminus stations. Furthermore there are few "heavy rail" links across london, none of which go to euston. So anyone using this link to travel somewhere via london (rather than to london itself) will most likely end up using the tube to get from euston to whichever station connects to the destination they want.
Amusingly the planner even tells you to use the tube to go from euston to kings cross/st pancras even though it's probablly quicker to walk.
Lets hope they go through with the plan to link high speed 1 to high speed 2, run domestic services that actually go that route and preferablly improve onward connections from ashford towards eastbourne/brighton so that at least some passengers are taken off the tube.
I'd think consistent inflation (all prices rising equally) would have little affect on either the poor. The poor have little assets or debts and if they do have debts they are at such high interest rates that a few percent per year inflation is negligable compared to the interest on the loan while the rich have most of their wealth locked up in assets. The rich probablly won't be affected much either as the majority of their wealth will be in assets not cash/bank balances.
The people really impacted would be the middle classes with mortgage holders benefiting while those with savings and no mortgage lose out.
The thing is what we have been increasingly seeing recently is not consistent inflation but "stagflation" (prices rising but wages not). That hurts the poor most as the majority of their income is spent on essentials.
there's a fare on the same route for £22.60.
Yeah advance tickets can be cheap if you are prepared to book a long way in advance and spend a lot of time waiting arround to ensure you don't miss your booked train.
Oh and if things go wrong and you have an advance ticket it can make the situation worse for you. See for example http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2617052&cid=38672314 where they guy was delayed an extra four hours (on top of an existing four hour delay) by the combination of having an advance ticket and being given wrong information by the train operator.
Sounds reasonable to me, they are running low on a product for which they are alternatives that will be superior in most cases but they want to keep some in-stock just in case someone REALLY wants that exact product. So they crank the price to a level where superior products are cheaper.
Yeah It should have said "Sweeden are technically required to join the eurozone" sorry.
That's a somewhat embarrasing mistake, writing a post about the difference between the EU and the Eurozone and then mixing them up myself :(
The EU is NOT the same thing as the eurozone.
The UK is a member of the EU and has been since long before the euro existed. The UK and denmark negotiated opt-outs when the treaty that formed the euro was drawn up and have no immediate plans to enter. Sweden are technically required to join the EU but are trying to stay out on a technicality and several of the new EU countries haven't met the criteria for joining the euro yet (they are technically required to join eventually but afaict no timescale was ever set).
Last I heard the tools for preparing the SD card image had not been released because they were still in discussions with broadcom about the details of distribution licensing for the GPU blob needed to boot the thing (it's a somewhat strange setup, the GPU boots first and then loads the kernel for the CPU). As with most arm SOCs the build of the kernel will probablly be pi specific but the rest of the distro should be pretty standard.