Vibration analysis - I assume you mean the geophones that are placed downhole will help. However more comprehensive global coverage with seismometers would be better. The global seismometer net (instigated to monitor nuclear detonations from the the 1950s) is predominantly northern hemisphere.
Fracture mechanics - potentially. However the mechanics of crust/mantle deformation are better studied through other avenues.
"The Lawyer of Farid Modarresi and Hossein Abdollah Pour declared on Friday that his clients are to be tried today for charges of insulting high-ranking officials of the Islamic Republic (two members of the Expediency Council and the former President, Mohammad Khatami) and taking action against the national security. Earlier trials had taken place through the Qom Revolutionary Court branch in June and July, leading to convictions of up to 90-day jail terms for these webloggers. This trial is, thus, an appeal hearing." taken from http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2005/10/appea l-hearing-of-webloggers-from-holy.html
Regarding the original post, if a school doesn't want its pupils to blog, it can probably find ways to do so. In the same way, 20 yrs ago if you started printing unofficial newspapers/ student rags in your garage, your chool would be pissed off. As far as I am concerned it is a non-issue. The US and everyone else have bigger things to worry about and more prominent rights abuses
I wasn't saying that. Simply they are both part of the overall strategy of the BBC's New Media group to make more of the BBC's content available to the public in a variety of forms. I appreciate that they are very different beasts, in fact I'm not sure they need to meet.
I am unaware of the design basis, you are probably right!
Disclaimer: I don't work for beeb, but I know some people who do including one of the architect's for this initiative
The idea is that everyone will be able to access any BBC programming (TV and radio) for 7 days after broadcast, you watch what you want, when you want. Its a great concept, perhaps a bit restrictive. It's a BBC branded player incorporating DRM (to keep the 7 day limit) and distributed via P2P There is also an interesting piece in today's Times, p68 (UK)
"BBC New Media announced in May the next phase in the development of the BBC's integrated Media Player (iMP): an extensive three month content trial that will begin in September 2005.
I think those figures have to be considered alongside this information.
Firstly the 450M people is for the entire EU at end 2004, 75M joined the eurozone in May 2004 as part of the EU enlargement programme - Poland Czech Republic, etc.
The 5 largest markets are United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy & Spain. Roughly population of those markets is 300M. Placing them on a par with USA
The USA has a higher disposal income, GDP per head and PPP than europe (generally)
Combine those factors and I would tend to agree with the other replies above, market saturation levels are different between the USA and Europe.
disclaimer: I'm from UK and I hope I haven't fallen for a troll
The following stats in general conflict with your opinion. Xbox stats follow what you say, the picture is quite different for other consoles. Especially if you then normalise for population, gdp per head, whichever other metric you choose.
hear, hear!
I am moderately compute literate, but find myself in the positions outlined in the previous post. I agree with everything joe said.
OpenOffice is great, my company uses MS products. I tried using OO at home but my excel models wouldn't translate.
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Whilst the study will provide insight to many issues, it will not help as you have described.
The expanding/contracting earth hypothesis has long been discredited. It was originally proposed as a mechanism for mountain/basin formation. See this excerpt from Kearey & Vine, Global Tectonics (excellent book on the subject I used studying geology at uni)
http://books.google.com/books?id=usiqam9p7GAC&pg=RA1-PA248&lpg=RA1-PA248&dq=expanding+contracting+earth+hypothesis&source=web&ots=zMEsYJotvA&sig=zlFveSBMr73m6Srq3ahXADG8Vkc
Vibration analysis - I assume you mean the geophones that are placed downhole will help. However more comprehensive global coverage with seismometers would be better. The global seismometer net (instigated to monitor nuclear detonations from the the 1950s) is predominantly northern hemisphere.
Fracture mechanics - potentially. However the mechanics of crust/mantle deformation are better studied through other avenues.
mod parent up hilarious!
Well, that's what happens when you don't have your parliament in your capital.
;)
Then the proles can keep an eye on them
Freedom of speech faces greater challenges ...
a l-hearing-of-webloggers-from-holy.html
"The Lawyer of Farid Modarresi and Hossein Abdollah Pour declared on Friday that his clients are to be tried today for charges of insulting high-ranking officials of the Islamic Republic (two members of the Expediency Council and the former President, Mohammad Khatami) and taking action against the national security. Earlier trials had taken place through the Qom Revolutionary Court branch in June and July, leading to convictions of up to 90-day jail terms for these webloggers. This trial is, thus, an appeal hearing."
taken from http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2005/10/appe
Regarding the original post, if a school doesn't want its pupils to blog, it can probably find ways to do so. In the same way, 20 yrs ago if you started printing unofficial newspapers/ student rags in your garage, your chool would be pissed off. As far as I am concerned it is a non-issue. The US and everyone else have bigger things to worry about and more prominent rights abuses
I wasn't saying that. Simply they are both part of the overall strategy of the BBC's New Media group to make more of the BBC's content available to the public in a variety of forms. I appreciate that they are very different beasts, in fact I'm not sure they need to meet.
I am unaware of the design basis, you are probably right!
Disclaimer: I don't work for beeb, but I know some people who do including one of the architect's for this initiative
o ries/2005/05_may/16/imp.shtml
The idea is that everyone will be able to access any BBC programming (TV and radio) for 7 days after broadcast, you watch what you want, when you want.
Its a great concept, perhaps a bit restrictive. It's a BBC branded player incorporating DRM (to keep the 7 day limit) and distributed via P2P
There is also an interesting piece in today's Times, p68 (UK)
"BBC New Media announced in May the next phase in the development of the BBC's integrated Media Player (iMP): an extensive three month content trial that will begin in September 2005.
iMP offers UK viewers the chance to catch up on TV and radio programmes they may have missed for up to seven days after they have been broadcast, using the internet to legally download programmes to their home computers." taken from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/st
I think those figures have to be considered alongside this information.
Firstly the 450M people is for the entire EU at end 2004, 75M joined the eurozone in May 2004 as part of the EU enlargement programme - Poland Czech Republic, etc.
The 5 largest markets are United Kingdom, Germany,
France, Italy & Spain. Roughly population of those markets is 300M. Placing them on a par with USA
The USA has a higher disposal income, GDP per head and PPP than europe (generally)
Combine those factors and I would tend to agree with the other replies above, market saturation levels are different between the USA and Europe.
Data from Eurostat - a European Union Agency
http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/portal/page?_pagei
disclaimer: I'm from UK and I hope I haven't fallen for a troll
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The following stats in general conflict with your opinion. Xbox stats follow what you say, the picture is quite different for other consoles. Especially if you then normalise for population, gdp per head, whichever other metric you choose.
"From gaming-age: http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=336
All shipment figures as of December 2004.
PS2
19.47m Japan
32.86m USA
29.06m Europe
81.39 Total
XB
1.70m Japan (asia pacific- some discrepancy as sony and microsft count as japan, others count as Europe/Pal)
13.20m USA
5.00m Europe
19.90m Total
GC
3.78m Japan
10.11m USA
4.13m Europe
18.02m Total
GBA
15.48m Japan
32.82m USA
17.44m Europe
65.74 Total
DS
1.45m Japan
1.36m USA
0.03m Europe
2.84m Total
"
Taken from http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=1
It's worth remembering that a camel is a horse designed by a committee :)
There are two big issues with the location of New Orleans. Hurricanes is one of them. The 2nd and potentially longer term issue is the switching course of the Mississippi and corresponding delta lobes (areas where river deposits sediment) The following link shows the change over the past 5000 years ( a geological blink of an eye) http://faculty.gg.uwyo.edu/heller/Sed%20Strat%20Cl ass/Sedstrat6/mississippi_delta_lobes.htm
taken from http://faculty.gg.uwyo.edu/heller/Sed%20Strat%20Cl ass/Sedstrat6/sedlect_6.htm
that might cause a problem for francophones/francophiles
hear, hear! I am moderately compute literate, but find myself in the positions outlined in the previous post. I agree with everything joe said. OpenOffice is great, my company uses MS products. I tried using OO at home but my excel models wouldn't translate.
Thank you for your reply re IRA atrocities - nice to know some people can get their facts straight.