But it's being pushed by Scottish politicians. I still think it's politics, but for the other side: It's a way for Scotland to demonstrate the have high-tech capabilities too, and are more than just an outpost of England.
It doesn't sound like it, from TFA:
Ministers want to establish the UK spaceport by 2018 - the first of its kind outside of the US.
Eight aerodromes have been shortlisted and Scotland has six of the potential locations.
That said, if Scotland does stay in the UK then it would be the logical choice. Scotland and Northern Ireland are the only parts of the UK where a launch path would not go over another country for a considerable distance.
Cynically I expect that this won't happen by 2018, and nobody expects it to. I think it is something that the government thinks will help get a "no" vote to Scottish independence.
If the French people want the small booksellers etc. they can simply choose now not to go to amazon. Amazon offering cheap shipping isn't forcing anyone to use it.
It comes down to whether you want to make a considered decision on something or rely on the populace's impulse purchases to determine the direction your country moves in.
At least for now with this most recent situation, an online giant has found a relatively quick and easy way to regain the upperhand.
Why the assumption that it is good for for-profit companies to find loopholes and avoid the will of democratically elected governments. The French government has made a decision that will have repercussions. If this is followed, books will be more expensive in France, but they wont lose the independent small bookstalls in town high streets that so many other countries will have. It may also inhibit the ability of online companies to start in France. But, guess what, the people can decide. They can lobby for it to be an election issue, ask their representatives which way they vote, etc. If they don't like the law they can get it changed.
Why is it assumed to be better for a private company with a board who the French people ave no influence upon circumvent this decision?
I've always thought that the best way for Israel to deal with the Muzzy threat is to send in the tanks and bulldozers. Just flatten the area the rockets came from. Offer peace if the other side stop attacking (of course in the case of the Muslims that would be against their religion) but otherwise go in with full strength.
I worked on the beginning of Regan's Star Wars project. We viewed the problem as one in which you try to stop a bullet with a bullet. Add long range and intelligence to the bullet and the problem gets harder.The problem is hard and physics places many constraints on the solution. At one point management thought that space based defense was what we wanted until we showed that the time/distances were too great to be effective. Now we just have a scaled back terminal defense with very limited capabilities.
After all these years the only value that I think that missile defense has is PR. Effective? Not really. Forget Star Wars the movie. It's not going to happen.
I don't like that type of short term thinking. When Y100,000 comes along you'll regret not doing it properly in the first place. Everyone should implement rfc2550.
How is a language without personality and history any good?
Natural languages are not meant to be formal.
Its not meant to be a litterary language, just an easy way that people can communicate with each-other. That's really a moot point as it has obviously failed in this primary aim anyway.
Sellafield in the UK lost nearly 30 kg of plutonium in 2005. But that was on paper only.....except the plutonium washed out to sea. Of course it can't enter the human food chain can it?
Could have been worse? Python is a fantastic first language to learn how programming is done, especially in the context of getting another job done (Science, Math, etc.)
I agree it's a good choice. Personally I think it would be slightly easier to start with typed languages so that you would have more appreciation of the transformations that go on behind the scenes, but at worst that will be half an hour of confusion followed by "ah that's what it was doing for me".
Esperanto would be great.... if everyone else learned it. Simple logical grammar, few irregularities, sounds that are common to a lot of languages, easy to learn.
It's a sort of reverse tragedy of the commons.
Right... so a Microsoft approved curriculum. Good for a trade school, awful for a person who wants to actually learn something.
They could have a patent lawyer in the classroom. The students could carry out an exercise like writing a tic-tac-toe game, then the lawyer could explain how they had infringed 15 user interface patents, a method of representing spatial coordinates as data, and were also guilty of trademark infringement.
call me when a charge lasts a week or so. So long as I have to charge it every day I'l keep my solar powered radio synced watch which has told me the time for the last 5 years without having to touch it.
Read about the new ridiculous rules the FAA imposed about drones...
Until some moron flys one into the path of a commercial airliner, small plane, or helicopter, and people die - than it's "why isn't the FAA doing something about this?"
Slashdot Mirror
How about getting the England football team beyond the first round for the next world cup? This I see as a much better plan for 2018.
We prefer realistic goals.
David Cameron is currently undertaking a feasibility study on the possibility of holding a piss-up in a brewery.
But it's being pushed by Scottish politicians. I still think it's politics, but for the other side: It's a way for Scotland to demonstrate the have high-tech capabilities too, and are more than just an outpost of England.
It doesn't sound like it, from TFA:
Ministers want to establish the UK spaceport by 2018 - the first of its kind outside of the US.
Eight aerodromes have been shortlisted and Scotland has six of the potential locations.
That said, if Scotland does stay in the UK then it would be the logical choice. Scotland and Northern Ireland are the only parts of the UK where a launch path would not go over another country for a considerable distance.
Cynically I expect that this won't happen by 2018, and nobody expects it to. I think it is something that the government thinks will help get a "no" vote to Scottish independence.
If the French people want the small booksellers etc. they can simply choose now not to go to amazon. Amazon offering cheap shipping isn't forcing anyone to use it.
It comes down to whether you want to make a considered decision on something or rely on the populace's impulse purchases to determine the direction your country moves in.
At least for now with this most recent situation, an online giant has found a relatively quick and easy way to regain the upperhand.
Why the assumption that it is good for for-profit companies to find loopholes and avoid the will of democratically elected governments. The French government has made a decision that will have repercussions. If this is followed, books will be more expensive in France, but they wont lose the independent small bookstalls in town high streets that so many other countries will have. It may also inhibit the ability of online companies to start in France. But, guess what, the people can decide. They can lobby for it to be an election issue, ask their representatives which way they vote, etc. If they don't like the law they can get it changed.
Why is it assumed to be better for a private company with a board who the French people ave no influence upon circumvent this decision?
I've always thought that the best way for Israel to deal with the Muzzy threat is to send in the tanks and bulldozers. Just flatten the area the rockets came from. Offer peace if the other side stop attacking (of course in the case of the Muslims that would be against their religion) but otherwise go in with full strength.
I worked on the beginning of Regan's Star Wars project. We viewed the problem as one in which you try to stop a bullet with a bullet. Add long range and intelligence to the bullet and the problem gets harder.The problem is hard and physics places many constraints on the solution. At one point management thought that space based defense was what we wanted until we showed that the time/distances were too great to be effective. Now we just have a scaled back terminal defense with very limited capabilities. After all these years the only value that I think that missile defense has is PR. Effective? Not really. Forget Star Wars the movie. It's not going to happen.
Except perhaps in a galaxy far, far away
That seems completely arbitrary.
It'll put a dampener on their July the 4th celebrations - oh sorry March 2nd - it's Texas.
oh the hubris! Does the rest of the Galaxy know about this? Are they ready?
They're boycotting it because it doesn't sign up to the Andromeda and District port worker's labor union.
This could be combined with automatic electrocution if the test turns out to be positive ;-)
Get with the times! Switch to Y10K compliance already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y...
I don't like that type of short term thinking. When Y100,000 comes along you'll regret not doing it properly in the first place. Everyone should implement rfc2550.
Soundblaster cards don't have the imaginary qualities audiophiles look for?
Maybe you're only imagining that. I imagine that's a possibility anyway.
Does this mean the death of Minix3? That would be a shame I'd like to have seen a good open-source microkernel OS - a sort of "open source OSX".
How is a language without personality and history any good? Natural languages are not meant to be formal.
Its not meant to be a litterary language, just an easy way that people can communicate with each-other. That's really a moot point as it has obviously failed in this primary aim anyway.
Sellafield in the UK lost nearly 30 kg of plutonium in 2005. But that was on paper only.....except the plutonium washed out to sea. Of course it can't enter the human food chain can it?
Could have been worse? Python is a fantastic first language to learn how programming is done, especially in the context of getting another job done (Science, Math, etc.)
I agree it's a good choice. Personally I think it would be slightly easier to start with typed languages so that you would have more appreciation of the transformations that go on behind the scenes, but at worst that will be half an hour of confusion followed by "ah that's what it was doing for me".
Esperanto would be great .... if everyone else learned it. Simple logical grammar, few irregularities, sounds that are common to a lot of languages, easy to learn.
It's a sort of reverse tragedy of the commons.
Right... so a Microsoft approved curriculum. Good for a trade school, awful for a person who wants to actually learn something.
They could have a patent lawyer in the classroom. The students could carry out an exercise like writing a tic-tac-toe game, then the lawyer could explain how they had infringed 15 user interface patents, a method of representing spatial coordinates as data, and were also guilty of trademark infringement.
call me when a charge lasts a week or so. So long as I have to charge it every day I'l keep my solar powered radio synced watch which has told me the time for the last 5 years without having to touch it.
it is the same as stealing money from old women at knifepoint.
You mean you are likely to be pepper sprayed then bludgeoned with a handbag?
Also, does concealing a memory device now automatically imply child porn?
No it could be something really serious like copyright infringement
Read about the new ridiculous rules the FAA imposed about drones...
Until some moron flys one into the path of a commercial airliner, small plane, or helicopter, and people die - than it's "why isn't the FAA doing something about this?"
You mean "until some Muslim flys one ....
Will it run on HURD?
Or maybe not, yours probably revolve around dodgy sex too :-)
That depends - are you talking style or species?