There were a few meters on the page to measure things but they were all in English.
I assume you are talking about units of distance. Metres are used almost everwhere exept the USA. Not just Portugal.
30,000m does not round nicely to anything from the pre-industrial measurement system. According to my phone, it is 98,425.1968504 feet, 149.1290861 furlongs and a load of other peculiar things that nobody has ever heard of. The best I can offer is 18.6410985 miles.
They don't care what I plug into it as long as there is only 1 mac address. In fact, I know people who have recently set up with them. They got nice new Netgear wireless routers in the bundle.
It would be sensible sometimes when fixing problems to connect the PC directly. This would help rule out some causes.
They have done similar to the UK. It was the aerospace industry.
Some readings of UK history post WW2 could be seen to show economic sabotage that only changed when we said that we could not afford to help with Korea.
The biggest manufacturer of PC Operating systems in the world still seems to remember that there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte etc.
This does not prove it any more than a bunch of rip-off clowns now overstating their wares by 10% proves it. If you want to have a nice 10^X series. Make up your own names. The existing ones are already defined..
Most of the world does not measure their vehicle speeds in kiloyards per hour. When they wanted to simplify the arithmentic, they adopted metric. The day is 86,400 seconds long. If you want it to be 100,000 you will need to think of a new unit name.
Why didn't they 'redefine' the number of bits in a byte as well? Because that would have made their wares seem smaller. That was all it was about.
To me, a good example of this is the different ways that the UK and the USA use the word "liberal".
In the UK, it means to us a group that is between the right and the left. At the moment, our Liberal party has allied itself with the Conservative party.
As far as I can see, in the USA, many people use "liberal" as the strongest insult imaginable for anyone not as far to the right as them.
I tend to support the Liberals and hope they can do business with the most right-wing mainstream political party in Europe who are very similar your Democrats. Our Liberals are the same as your liberals.
We do not allow any privately owned machines to connect to our network.
You want to work at home? Talk to your manager and get a hospital laptop. Or, if you just want to read your email, a Blackberry.
You want to take work home to do on your own PC? Come and talk to us and, if we are happy you are not taking confidential information (patient information etc), we will give you an encrypted 2GB USB at no cost.
This is pretty much the policy for the entire UK National Health Service. You are forbidden from connecting your own storage devices to our PCs and we are about to roll out Port Control to enforce that.
Every portable data storage device must now be encrypted. You do not store data on your PCs. That is what the network is for.
Until recently, every separate hospital & clinic ran its own email server. These were only accessible offsite from its own equipment that had a VPN set up. They are now rolling out a, web based, national system that can be accessed from any PC you like. Officially, this is much more secure than us peasants can supply.
Of course, the NHS is not there to make a profit. It is supposed to be there for making or keeping everyone healthy. If money is more important to you, I am sure that personal devices will be used.
Mind you, on the cost front, we spend a lot less per head than you and have a fractionally longer life span. Maybe if we spent as much as you we could live to 210...
The trouble is that I don't consider most deniers of AGW to be peers of those who are doing genuine research. They are more likely to be peers with their friends/sponsors in the oil industry and other big businesses.
Just in case someone wonders, no I don't believe that everyone who does not believe in Climate Change is in the pay of the corporates. There will be some few who have done research and come to different conclusions. They are probably in the minority.
Peer review is productive when someone actually reviews it. That is not what those FOI requests were made for. They are made with the specific aim of disproving a conclusion they don't like. A review is neutral and could end up agreeing with the other person. This is not likely to happen here. They have made up their mind already.
I remember we had a demo of these. They seemed like a possible idea but they were kept out by management who have since wanted laptops in places where they are completely counter productive. I am aware of managers who have never taken their laptops out of their docking stations - using them as expensive and slow desktops. I can think of one who swopped his for his secretary's newly issued desktop PC.
Why were CE tablets blocked? They looked too like laptops but would have been used by the less important? I never did figure it out and have kept cynical thoughts to myself.
We now have various tablets and touch screen devices out there. The problem is that they run full blown Windows, They take too long to start and last no longer than any other laptop-like device. Also, they need a lot more care & management than CE devices might have Pity...
There are various other parts too which may or may not be in the UK like the Isle of Man and the Channel Isles and other areas that are definitely the UK but not historically part of their administrative region such as Orkney and Shetland which are legally in Scotland but my grandfather would have strongly disabused you of the notion that he was Scottish even though he served in a Scottish unit in the army!
Back to the point. People in much of the UK are long sick and tired that people refer to the Union Flag as English. I have never voted for the Scottish Nationalist Party. I am British and happy with it. I just wish that the people in the remote SE of the UK (London etc) would realise that the flag that the racist dirtbags wave around is my flag as well as the flag of my friends whose ancestors came here from places like India & Jamaica.
Sorry for the mini rant. It is one of the few things that annoys me!
The Dalek was not showing an English flag. It was in fact the British flag. England is no more the whole of this country than Texas is the whole of the USA. I agree that there are many Texans and English who may not fully appreciate the differences but people on/. are generally less parochial...
If I want to know the "meaning" of GiB, I can look it up in a load of places. I think most people here will at least know about Wikipedia.
Talking about measuring bytes in SI units is less meaningful than measuring time in them. How useful us it to say that a day is 86.4 kiloseconds? Perhaps an SI day would actually be 100kiloseconds and the week be 10^6 seconds. That would be nonsensical because everyone has long standardised on 7*24*60*60 . Changing it for simplicity would not simplify it.
Where was this alternative standard first mooted? The first place I recall seeing it was with HDD capacities. The manufacturers of those may have no interest in international standards. They are not relevant. That is why your drive physical sizes are given in inches, not millimetres etc.
What was the benefit of such a change? They could advertise a 93GB drive as 100 which sounds much better. There is no other benefit. Do you think your fuel sellers should start selling in Litres but calling them gallons and charging the same? If they wanted a unit of their own choosing, they should have made up the name as well. This is deliberately misleading and confusing.
The mislabelling is becoming bigger, the larger the HDDs are. As I said, "1GB" ones may now be 9% under the advertised capacity.
SI units are irrelevant here. 1,000 metres is a kilometre but 1,000 apples is not a kiloapple. There are a number of things that SI units are measured with, like distance, weight voltage and more. Data does not and never has never been part of that collection. The convention is that there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte. The only reason for changing that is to be able to sell things as being bigger than they really are.
Do you think everyone who does not share your misconceptions is stupid then? When I find people I disagree with, I find discussion is better.
I like Ubuntu but if they are going to screw around like that, I will be thinking around for a different distro.
The only people who lie about this have been the HDD manufacturers. Wasn't there a class action about that some time back? I expect the court didn't understand the problem of my 120GB drive actually being under 112!
GiB KiB and all that other rubbish has no meaning. A Kilobyte is 2^10 bytes. A Gigabyte is 2^10 of those and so on. Trying to sell me something that claims to be 1TB but only holds 1,000,000,000,000 bytes is only 0.91TB. That sounds like fraud to me and if the OS is covering that up, it is less trustworthy than it used to be.
I don't know what the definiton of poverty is here, far less in your country but in my opinion it should be under about £10k/$20k. Then there is the not well off which I arbiarily define as less than £25k/$50k for a childless couple and any household that gets more than twice that may not be members of nice country clubs but they are far from poor!
PS - my wife and I both work and so we fall into this last category.
I may not like paying tax, but it is better I do and some who cannot afford decent shoes - far less that nice new 3DTV or foreign holiday, should pay less.
California does not look remotely socialist from here (UK). It does not even look particularly middle of the road. Do you feel this because those nasty people make the rich pay more tax?
Is it funny ethnic jokes time? I am afraid that the world has stereotypes for people from the USA that are as (in)accurate as yours about the French. They include rude, ignorant, fat, parochial and "shoots people for looking foreign".
Good thing the whole world stopped making such jokes 30 years ago...
I'm not even sure I want to even visit the UK anymore
And I would really like to go to the USA again. The problems are getting there, getting in and being safe.
Getting there, we are forced to go through a ridiculous amount of control and surveillance - and that is from a Brit.
Getting in involves getting past your (in)famous immigration. I will get asked questions, may have my property confiscated and may even get jailed for hitting some drone on the fist with my face.
Safe? In the USA? According to the media, everyone carries - law abiding, police, bankers and other criminals.
I once went in uniform. Got to the base and was issued an M16. Next time, I want an M1 Abrams!
Police state? Yes we had someone shot by them here once - Jean Charles De Menezes in 2005. He was unusual. Normally, you need to at least pretend or carry a chair leg or something. Your police are described as a little more trigger happy.
Outside the USA, "Left" has little to do with increasing government power. That is an irrelavent side effect that may or may not occur.
The meaning of the concept is increasing justice in society by helping the downtrodden and needy. That is why Christians find the US link between your far right and your religious so incomprehensible.
It's a good job that the USA has absolutely no far left in its government then! The Democratic Party, for example, fits in well with "mainstream right" parties in other countries such as the UK Conservatives who share some advisers with them.
So if the Repubs see them as wayyy left, where does that leave them if they are well right of moderate right wingers?
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There were a few meters on the page to measure things but they were all in English.
I assume you are talking about units of distance. Metres are used almost everwhere exept the USA. Not just Portugal.
30,000m does not round nicely to anything from the pre-industrial measurement system. According to my phone, it is 98,425.1968504 feet, 149.1290861 furlongs and a load of other peculiar things that nobody has ever heard of. The best I can offer is 18.6410985 miles.
They don't care what I plug into it as long as there is only 1 mac address. In fact, I know people who have recently set up with them. They got nice new Netgear wireless routers in the bundle.
It would be sensible sometimes when fixing problems to connect the PC directly. This would help rule out some causes.
This will stop nosey people in the middle sniffing my searches.
Is there a way of doing an "advanced search" that only brings up HTTPS results - apart from putting that as a part of the search string?
That is also being looked at - also as one of the electoral promises of Nick and friends.
I agree with other people though, we need to keep an eye on all of these things.
In the UK, we are about to start toning our database down.
You are unfortunate as you don't have any real Liberals in your government as we now do...
They have done similar to the UK. It was the aerospace industry.
Some readings of UK history post WW2 could be seen to show economic sabotage that only changed when we said that we could not afford to help with Korea.
The biggest manufacturer of PC Operating systems in the world still seems to remember that there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte etc.
This does not prove it any more than a bunch of rip-off clowns now overstating their wares by 10% proves it. If you want to have a nice 10^X series. Make up your own names. The existing ones are already defined..
Most of the world does not measure their vehicle speeds in kiloyards per hour. When they wanted to simplify the arithmentic, they adopted metric. The day is 86,400 seconds long. If you want it to be 100,000 you will need to think of a new unit name.
Why didn't they 'redefine' the number of bits in a byte as well? Because that would have made their wares seem smaller. That was all it was about.
Is this really 3TB or is it the usual fake measurements?
I suspect the latter - 3,000,000,000,000 bytes (2.73TB) instead of 3 * 2^40 bytes or 3,298,534,883,328 bytes.
To me, a good example of this is the different ways that the UK and the USA use the word "liberal".
In the UK, it means to us a group that is between the right and the left. At the moment, our Liberal party has allied itself with the Conservative party.
As far as I can see, in the USA, many people use "liberal" as the strongest insult imaginable for anyone not as far to the right as them.
I tend to support the Liberals and hope they can do business with the most right-wing mainstream political party in Europe who are very similar your Democrats. Our Liberals are the same as your liberals.
Where does that show we see your conservatives?
We do not allow any privately owned machines to connect to our network.
You want to work at home? Talk to your manager and get a hospital laptop. Or, if you just want to read your email, a Blackberry.
You want to take work home to do on your own PC? Come and talk to us and, if we are happy you are not taking confidential information (patient information etc), we will give you an encrypted 2GB USB at no cost.
This is pretty much the policy for the entire UK National Health Service. You are forbidden from connecting your own storage devices to our PCs and we are about to roll out Port Control to enforce that.
Every portable data storage device must now be encrypted. You do not store data on your PCs. That is what the network is for.
Until recently, every separate hospital & clinic ran its own email server. These were only accessible offsite from its own equipment that had a VPN set up. They are now rolling out a, web based, national system that can be accessed from any PC you like. Officially, this is much more secure than us peasants can supply.
Of course, the NHS is not there to make a profit. It is supposed to be there for making or keeping everyone healthy. If money is more important to you, I am sure that personal devices will be used.
Mind you, on the cost front, we spend a lot less per head than you and have a fractionally longer life span. Maybe if we spent as much as you we could live to 210...
peer review is good
The trouble is that I don't consider most deniers of AGW to be peers of those who are doing genuine research. They are more likely to be peers with their friends/sponsors in the oil industry and other big businesses.
Just in case someone wonders, no I don't believe that everyone who does not believe in Climate Change is in the pay of the corporates. There will be some few who have done research and come to different conclusions. They are probably in the minority.
Peer review is productive when someone actually reviews it. That is not what those FOI requests were made for. They are made with the specific aim of disproving a conclusion they don't like. A review is neutral and could end up agreeing with the other person. This is not likely to happen here. They have made up their mind already.
I remember we had a demo of these. They seemed like a possible idea but they were kept out by management who have since wanted laptops in places where they are completely counter productive. I am aware of managers who have never taken their laptops out of their docking stations - using them as expensive and slow desktops. I can think of one who swopped his for his secretary's newly issued desktop PC.
Why were CE tablets blocked? They looked too like laptops but would have been used by the less important? I never did figure it out and have kept cynical thoughts to myself.
We now have various tablets and touch screen devices out there. The problem is that they run full blown Windows, They take too long to start and last no longer than any other laptop-like device. Also, they need a lot more care & management than CE devices might have Pity...
It's nice to hear that there is a difference...
There are various other parts too which may or may not be in the UK like the Isle of Man and the Channel Isles and other areas that are definitely the UK but not historically part of their administrative region such as Orkney and Shetland which are legally in Scotland but my grandfather would have strongly disabused you of the notion that he was Scottish even though he served in a Scottish unit in the army!
Back to the point. People in much of the UK are long sick and tired that people refer to the Union Flag as English. I have never voted for the Scottish Nationalist Party. I am British and happy with it. I just wish that the people in the remote SE of the UK (London etc) would realise that the flag that the racist dirtbags wave around is my flag as well as the flag of my friends whose ancestors came here from places like India & Jamaica.
Sorry for the mini rant. It is one of the few things that annoys me!
The Dalek was not showing an English flag. It was in fact the British flag. England is no more the whole of this country than Texas is the whole of the USA. I agree that there are many Texans and English who may not fully appreciate the differences but people on /. are generally less parochial...
If I want to know the "meaning" of GiB, I can look it up in a load of places. I think most people here will at least know about Wikipedia.
Talking about measuring bytes in SI units is less meaningful than measuring time in them. How useful us it to say that a day is 86.4 kiloseconds? Perhaps an SI day would actually be 100kiloseconds and the week be 10^6 seconds. That would be nonsensical because everyone has long standardised on 7*24*60*60 . Changing it for simplicity would not simplify it.
Where was this alternative standard first mooted? The first place I recall seeing it was with HDD capacities. The manufacturers of those may have no interest in international standards. They are not relevant. That is why your drive physical sizes are given in inches, not millimetres etc.
What was the benefit of such a change? They could advertise a 93GB drive as 100 which sounds much better. There is no other benefit. Do you think your fuel sellers should start selling in Litres but calling them gallons and charging the same? If they wanted a unit of their own choosing, they should have made up the name as well. This is deliberately misleading and confusing.
The mislabelling is becoming bigger, the larger the HDDs are. As I said, "1GB" ones may now be 9% under the advertised capacity.
SI units are irrelevant here. 1,000 metres is a kilometre but 1,000 apples is not a kiloapple. There are a number of things that SI units are measured with, like distance, weight voltage and more. Data does not and never has never been part of that collection. The convention is that there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte. The only reason for changing that is to be able to sell things as being bigger than they really are.
Do you think everyone who does not share your misconceptions is stupid then? When I find people I disagree with, I find discussion is better.
I like Ubuntu but if they are going to screw around like that, I will be thinking around for a different distro.
The only people who lie about this have been the HDD manufacturers. Wasn't there a class action about that some time back? I expect the court didn't understand the problem of my 120GB drive actually being under 112!
GiB KiB and all that other rubbish has no meaning. A Kilobyte is 2^10 bytes. A Gigabyte is 2^10 of those and so on. Trying to sell me something that claims to be 1TB but only holds 1,000,000,000,000 bytes is only 0.91TB. That sounds like fraud to me and if the OS is covering that up, it is less trustworthy than it used to be.
I don't know what the definiton of poverty is here, far less in your country but in my opinion it should be under about £10k/$20k. Then there is the not well off which I arbiarily define as less than £25k/$50k for a childless couple and any household that gets more than twice that may not be members of nice country clubs but they are far from poor!
PS - my wife and I both work and so we fall into this last category.
I may not like paying tax, but it is better I do and some who cannot afford decent shoes - far less that nice new 3DTV or foreign holiday, should pay less.
California does not look remotely socialist from here (UK). It does not even look particularly middle of the road. Do you feel this because those nasty people make the rich pay more tax?
Is it funny ethnic jokes time? I am afraid that the world has stereotypes for people from the USA that are as (in)accurate as yours about the French. They include rude, ignorant, fat, parochial and "shoots people for looking foreign".
Good thing the whole world stopped making such jokes 30 years ago...
I'm not even sure I want to even visit the UK anymore
And I would really like to go to the USA again. The problems are getting there, getting in and being safe.
Getting there, we are forced to go through a ridiculous amount of control and surveillance - and that is from a Brit.
Getting in involves getting past your (in)famous immigration. I will get asked questions, may have my property confiscated and may even get jailed for hitting some drone on the fist with my face.
Safe? In the USA? According to the media, everyone carries - law abiding, police, bankers and other criminals.
I once went in uniform. Got to the base and was issued an M16. Next time, I want an M1 Abrams!
Police state? Yes we had someone shot by them here once - Jean Charles De Menezes in 2005. He was unusual. Normally, you need to at least pretend or carry a chair leg or something. Your police are described as a little more trigger happy.
Outside the USA, "Left" has little to do with increasing government power. That is an irrelavent side effect that may or may not occur.
The meaning of the concept is increasing justice in society by helping the downtrodden and needy. That is why Christians find the US link between your far right and your religious so incomprehensible.
It's a good job that the USA has absolutely no far left in its government then! The Democratic Party, for example, fits in well with "mainstream right" parties in other countries such as the UK Conservatives who share some advisers with them.
So if the Repubs see them as wayyy left, where does that leave them if they are well right of moderate right wingers?
For comparison, what is the penetration of Windows Mobile at Apple?