They almost all said it was because we are closer to the sun in the summer.
I'm sure that's what I was taught at school: that due to the tilt of the earth the hemisphere is (fractionally) closer to the sun and this that causes the variation in temperature. If someone had asked me 5 minutes ago I would probably have repeated that the same 'fact'. But, now that you mention it, it's clearly bollocks.
I also know the real explanation: that it's the affect of the Earth's tilt on the density of solar radiation across the surface.
The fact that they're both not mutually exclusive explains why the first idea survived for so long... along with who knows what else:(
What's so embarrassing? Apart from the Minority Style touch screen and flashing "BADDIE HERE" style targets... Isn't that how the Air Force find their targets? I figured that's why they kept hitting their allies.
But Wikipedia agrees it is "quasi-public (part private, part government)". The detail about it's relationship to the government describes it in more detail, including a quote from an 9th circuit appeals court that "the Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA [the Federal Tort Claims Act], but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations". It ends with "The member banks are privately owned corporations."
As I understand it the Federal Reserve is not a body it's a system. The Board of Directors is a government agency, the Federal Reserve Banks are not.
As to where the power lies? Who knows.
P.S. I'm not even from the USA, feel free to ignore if it's balls.
I was going to say this was an analologists wet dream, until I realised that a) analologist isn't a word, and b) if it was I don't think it would mean what I was thinking.
Anyway: Can we quit it with all the analogies of whether using open WiFi is like stealing your neighbours spade, car, air supply or daughter? WiFi is never going to be that much fun and just because we actually have a chance of doing it, it doesn't mean we have to try make it sound better than it is.
If someone's wireless network is open by accident/misconfiguration that is using something without permission, and it's wrong. Bandwidth is a finite resource and you're using it up and not paying for it, without permission from the person who is. If someone's wireless network is open on purpose (which this article was talking about) then that's not stealing, and it's not wrong: because they're implicitly saying they don't mind paying for you "a bit".
I guess it's kind of like how I don't mind you all breathing in, as long as you promise to breath back out again eventually.
I've checked up and you're correct, it's an EU thing. Odd given the experience I had taking a flight from UK to Greece and back again: On the outward leg liquids were restricted as standard, but coming through security on the return leg I wasn't challenged when I walked through the checkpoint with a bottle. Mostly out of curiosity I stopped to ask: and got a big laugh from the security guard, followed by: "I don't care if you drink water".
Here in the UK, British Telecom has partnered with FON to sell global WiFi access.
That's a pretty big endorsement of WiFi sharing from one of the main players in the UKs broadband market. When you think about it though, it's a huge added value with little investment. Smart move on their part I think.
As another poster mentioned the restrictions on hand luggage have recently been lifted (at all bar a few airports) but there are still restrictions on carrying liquids onto a plane. Even water. This is particularly ridiculous when you discover that only applies to flights leaving UK airports, but can take what you want on coming home.
It also applies to medicines:
My mum has multiple sclerosis and the Rebif medication she takes is temperature/pressure sensitive meaning it must be taken on board the plane along with ice packs to keep it cool. The whole thing comes in a pack with quite long needles.When traveling before the liquid restriction she was only required to take a letter from a doctor to confirm that it was essential to carry the medicines on board, although from experience nobody bothered to read it. After the restriction on liquids was put in place she was refused the right to take it on board unless she "tasted" the substance in the ice packs to prove it was not dangerous. Which it is, but only for consumption.
Tastability, to my knowledge, is not an established indicator of a substances ability to combust.
Thankfully, being aware that the substance was toxic, she point blank refused. Eventually they relented and let her through making the whole unpleasant experience rather pointless. I'd have to question the sense - and legality - of coercing people to consume toxic substances as a means of "security".
See the power consumption data for the laptop. It runs a 2W (versus 10-45W for a normal laptop) in normal mode and down to 0.3W-0.8W when in "e-book" mode. Running that against the battery data which reports 16.5-22Watt-hours gives a normal-usage of 8 to 11 hours, or e-book usage for 20-73 hours.
This isn't comparable to companies supplying old hardware as a goodwill gesture: the OLPC has been thought through and planned for these situations from the beginning.
It sounds identical to the model that Helium is using (multiple articles, single author, ad-based reward). Sounds like it'll be prone to the same problems like you describe.
I think what this story (and your post) show is that if people come to a conversation with a particular intention, they are more open to being hoaxed. For example, you have a girl who is wanting to talk to someone about what's happened to her, or a Christian who wants to convert people, or a Russian who wants to get laid. In each of those cases people are probably too focused on getting what they want to notice inconsistencies.
In other works: distracted people are dumber.
AIDS = ACQUIRED Immune Deficiency Syndrome. That is the immune system gets knackered by the virus and packs in.
Auto-immune means that the body's immune system starts to attack itself, a condition which is largely incompatible with the one mentioned. AIDS deals with the destruction of the immune system by outside causes (whatever they may be). Autoimmune diseases cover the body's own immune system going haywire and destroying the body.
Analogy: AIDS is a demolition crew, Auto-immune is "Extreme Makover: Home Improvement" where the jacuzzi ends up cooking the family.
The Update Manager only checks the servers on a once-a-day (or thereabouts) cycle. If the update happened 1 second after your Update Manager checked the server it will not find out for another 24 hours. Added into this is the fact that the updates may take time to propagate to the server you are using. It may be that they stagger notifications to reduce load or that they are holding off the notification altogether while the servers calm down*: now is about the worst time to be trying to download updates to Ubuntu.
( * that's a lot of "maybes" because I don't know. I do know that last time I got the notification about 2 days after release )
While that means that you're not getting Gutsy the second it's released, does that really matter? This is not a security release: any essential updates will already (assuming you installed them) be applied to your Feisty install. As you've noticed if you want to update manually right away (and bugger the servers) you're quite welcome to do that.
On the Gutsy Apps vs. Feisty apps, doing what you suggest would mean either that copies of Feisty would gradually become Gutsy regardless of whether the owner of the system wanted to upgrade, or installing a pre-release version of the OS. Unfortunately this also means the chance of some breakage: that's the choice available. A release is not just some arbitrary point in time - fixes continue (on all packages) right up until that date. A lot of fixes will be worked back into Feisty (bugs for example) but it wouldn't make sense to keep adding features to an old release - that's what Gutsy is: Feisty plus new stuff.
Having said that it perhaps would be nice to be able to upgrade "stable" packages ahead of time / before general release. This would work for other in-release fixes too: some people are more comfortable with breakage than others. It would probably ease transition and bug fixing if things could be rolled out to these people first - but that's a whole bag of complexity for someone to fix.
Thanks for the explanation - it clears up this bit further down the article:
Thus, although they indicate that high fructose intake should be avoided, they don't necessarily indicate that HFCS is worse than sucrose intake, except insofar as HFCS contains 10% more fructose.
I couldn't understand how those numbers and the earlier ones could both be accurate. Now I get it.
The amount of extra fructose in HFCS as opposed to sucrose is almost inconsequential, especially if the extra sweetness in HFCS leads to less being used.
From Wikipedia...
High fructose corn syrup
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) refers to a group of corn syrups which have undergone enzymatic processing in order to increase their fructose content and are then mixed with pure corn syrup (100% glucose) to reach their final form. The typical types of HFCS are: HFCS 90 (most commonly used in baked goods) which is approximately 90% fructose and 10% glucose; HFCS 55 (most commonly used in soft drinks) which is approximately 55% fructose and 45% glucose; and HFCS 42 (most commonly used in sports drinks) which is approximately 42% fructose and 58% glucose.
Having said that, I'm on the fence about whether it's bad or not.
More significantly, I have *never* seen a truly convincing argument or explanation as to why Europe and Asia are (or were ever) considered separate continents- it seems to be a cultural distinction, which has nothing to do with physical geography.
Arguably, any distinction would be culturally (or nationally) based. I'm sure the people of Central America have very different ideas about which bit they lie in than the rest of us.
Europe is another area where regional definitions are being stretched. At school I was taught that Europe was a continent, but that's a status I have difficulty assigning to it. We're firmly in the West bit of Eurasia. Thankfully, the EU, if nothing else, will allow us to use the designation of "political entity" once it spreads far enough.
On another point... Isreal in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Plants mine soil for carbon. Petroleum is widely used as fertilizer due to this.
Carbon is from the air (CO2). Fertiliser provides nitrogen in the form of nitrates.
It doesn't change you're argument, it's just information.
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When written in ltr language most hierarchies follow that direction. Numbers have the most significant bit(s) at the left, taxonomies are written species:subspecies:variety, pages are identified as home > category > page.
Domain Names are the exception, with the "top level" domain on the right, while the left (most significant bit) can be stuffed with random chaff (a.k.a. subdomains).
I can't help but imagine that this has some impact on how easily people fall for spoofed websites (yourbank.somesite.com vs. com.somesite.yourbank). Being naturally lazy we only read as far down a list as as needed to confirm we have what we're looking for.
Does anyone knows of a historical basis for this decision & do you think it makes any difference?
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Conversely Taiwan would argue that China is part of it.
I'm sure that's what I was taught at school: that due to the tilt of the earth the hemisphere is (fractionally) closer to the sun and this that causes the variation in temperature. If someone had asked me 5 minutes ago I would probably have repeated that the same 'fact'. But, now that you mention it, it's clearly bollocks.
I also know the real explanation: that it's the affect of the Earth's tilt on the density of solar radiation across the surface.
The fact that they're both not mutually exclusive explains why the first idea survived for so long... along with who knows what else
...a post about Minority Report without a single slur against Tom Cruise and Scientology. I feel unclean.
/Much better now.
PS. YOU GUYS ARE LOONS!
A quick search on YouTube showed up this video.
What's so embarrassing? Apart from the Minority Style touch screen and flashing "BADDIE HERE" style targets... Isn't that how the Air Force find their targets? I figured that's why they kept hitting their allies.
It's OK guys. My touchpad sucks too.
Why is the above post moderated Flamebait? It's a valid contribution to the discussion.
"...this is the year of the Linux Desktop"
/hides
Probably got something to do with Zeitgeist: The Movie.
But Wikipedia agrees it is "quasi-public (part private, part government)". The detail about it's relationship to the government describes it in more detail, including a quote from an 9th circuit appeals court that "the Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA [the Federal Tort Claims Act], but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations". It ends with "The member banks are privately owned corporations."
As I understand it the Federal Reserve is not a body it's a system. The Board of Directors is a government agency, the Federal Reserve Banks are not.
As to where the power lies? Who knows.
P.S. I'm not even from the USA, feel free to ignore if it's balls.
I was going to say this was an analologists wet dream, until I realised that a) analologist isn't a word, and b) if it was I don't think it would mean what I was thinking.
Anyway: Can we quit it with all the analogies of whether using open WiFi is like stealing your neighbours spade, car, air supply or daughter? WiFi is never going to be that much fun and just because we actually have a chance of doing it, it doesn't mean we have to try make it sound better than it is.
If someone's wireless network is open by accident/misconfiguration that is using something without permission, and it's wrong. Bandwidth is a finite resource and you're using it up and not paying for it, without permission from the person who is. If someone's wireless network is open on purpose (which this article was talking about) then that's not stealing, and it's not wrong: because they're implicitly saying they don't mind paying for you "a bit".
I guess it's kind of like how I don't mind you all breathing in, as long as you promise to breath back out again eventually.
Oh crap, I came.
I've checked up and you're correct, it's an EU thing. Odd given the experience I had taking a flight from UK to Greece and back again: On the outward leg liquids were restricted as standard, but coming through security on the return leg I wasn't challenged when I walked through the checkpoint with a bottle. Mostly out of curiosity I stopped to ask: and got a big laugh from the security guard, followed by: "I don't care if you drink water".
Seemed quite a sensible position to take really.
Here in the UK, British Telecom has partnered with FON to sell global WiFi access.
That's a pretty big endorsement of WiFi sharing from one of the main players in the UKs broadband market. When you think about it though, it's a huge added value with little investment. Smart move on their part I think.
As another poster mentioned the restrictions on hand luggage have recently been lifted (at all bar a few airports) but there are still restrictions on carrying liquids onto a plane. Even water. This is particularly ridiculous when you discover that only applies to flights leaving UK airports, but can take what you want on coming home.
It also applies to medicines:
My mum has multiple sclerosis and the Rebif medication she takes is temperature/pressure sensitive meaning it must be taken on board the plane along with ice packs to keep it cool. The whole thing comes in a pack with quite long needles.When traveling before the liquid restriction she was only required to take a letter from a doctor to confirm that it was essential to carry the medicines on board, although from experience nobody bothered to read it. After the restriction on liquids was put in place she was refused the right to take it on board unless she "tasted" the substance in the ice packs to prove it was not dangerous. Which it is, but only for consumption.
Tastability, to my knowledge, is not an established indicator of a substances ability to combust.
Thankfully, being aware that the substance was toxic, she point blank refused. Eventually they relented and let her through making the whole unpleasant experience rather pointless. I'd have to question the sense - and legality - of coercing people to consume toxic substances as a means of "security".
See the power consumption data for the laptop. It runs a 2W (versus 10-45W for a normal laptop) in normal mode and down to 0.3W-0.8W when in "e-book" mode. Running that against the battery data which reports 16.5-22Watt-hours gives a normal-usage of 8 to 11 hours, or e-book usage for 20-73 hours.
You can also get a pull-string charger for when there is no supply.
This isn't comparable to companies supplying old hardware as a goodwill gesture: the OLPC has been thought through and planned for these situations from the beginning.
It sounds identical to the model that Helium is using (multiple articles, single author, ad-based reward). Sounds like it'll be prone to the same problems like you describe.
Which, rather ironically, I wrote while answering the door.
I think what this story (and your post) show is that if people come to a conversation with a particular intention, they are more open to being hoaxed. For example, you have a girl who is wanting to talk to someone about what's happened to her, or a Christian who wants to convert people, or a Russian who wants to get laid. In each of those cases people are probably too focused on getting what they want to notice inconsistencies. In other works: distracted people are dumber.
AIDS = ACQUIRED Immune Deficiency Syndrome. That is the immune system gets knackered by the virus and packs in.
Auto-immune means that the body's immune system starts to attack itself, a condition which is largely incompatible with the one mentioned. AIDS deals with the destruction of the immune system by outside causes (whatever they may be). Autoimmune diseases cover the body's own immune system going haywire and destroying the body.
Analogy: AIDS is a demolition crew, Auto-immune is "Extreme Makover: Home Improvement" where the jacuzzi ends up cooking the family.
The Update Manager only checks the servers on a once-a-day (or thereabouts) cycle. If the update happened 1 second after your Update Manager checked the server it will not find out for another 24 hours. Added into this is the fact that the updates may take time to propagate to the server you are using. It may be that they stagger notifications to reduce load or that they are holding off the notification altogether while the servers calm down*: now is about the worst time to be trying to download updates to Ubuntu.
( * that's a lot of "maybes" because I don't know. I do know that last time I got the notification about 2 days after release )
While that means that you're not getting Gutsy the second it's released, does that really matter? This is not a security release: any essential updates will already (assuming you installed them) be applied to your Feisty install. As you've noticed if you want to update manually right away (and bugger the servers) you're quite welcome to do that.
On the Gutsy Apps vs. Feisty apps, doing what you suggest would mean either that copies of Feisty would gradually become Gutsy regardless of whether the owner of the system wanted to upgrade, or installing a pre-release version of the OS. Unfortunately this also means the chance of some breakage: that's the choice available. A release is not just some arbitrary point in time - fixes continue (on all packages) right up until that date. A lot of fixes will be worked back into Feisty (bugs for example) but it wouldn't make sense to keep adding features to an old release - that's what Gutsy is: Feisty plus new stuff.
Having said that it perhaps would be nice to be able to upgrade "stable" packages ahead of time / before general release. This would work for other in-release fixes too: some people are more comfortable with breakage than others. It would probably ease transition and bug fixing if things could be rolled out to these people first - but that's a whole bag of complexity for someone to fix.
Masturbate?
I couldn't understand how those numbers and the earlier ones could both be accurate. Now I get it.
Arguably, any distinction would be culturally (or nationally) based. I'm sure the people of Central America have very different ideas about which bit they lie in than the rest of us.
Europe is another area where regional definitions are being stretched. At school I was taught that Europe was a continent, but that's a status I have difficulty assigning to it. We're firmly in the West bit of Eurasia. Thankfully, the EU, if nothing else, will allow us to use the designation of "political entity" once it spreads far enough.
On another point... Isreal in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Too. Far.
Carbon is from the air (CO2). Fertiliser provides nitrogen in the form of nitrates.
It doesn't change you're argument, it's just information.
When written in ltr language most hierarchies follow that direction. Numbers have the most significant bit(s) at the left, taxonomies are written species:subspecies:variety, pages are identified as home > category > page.
Domain Names are the exception, with the "top level" domain on the right, while the left (most significant bit) can be stuffed with random chaff (a.k.a. subdomains).
I can't help but imagine that this has some impact on how easily people fall for spoofed websites (yourbank.somesite.com vs. com.somesite.yourbank). Being naturally lazy we only read as far down a list as as needed to confirm we have what we're looking for.
Does anyone knows of a historical basis for this decision & do you think it makes any difference?
You've never had a psychotic ex-girlfriend.
(Yes, I know this is Slashdot...)