The heir apparent (Kim Jong-un) has a computing degree (though I suspect the odds of him failing any classes at a university named after his grandfather were pretty slim).
Other than that, it's simply a massively important piece of international news that will have substantial and complex consequences throughout Asia, the ripples of which will spread around the world.
It'll depend on your exchange - if they've got fibre you should be fine, but several exchanges near Oxford have only been upgraded fairly recently, so if you're in the wrong area (particularly one of the more rural areas) then you may be stuck.
The Cowley, Whitney, and Wallingford exchanges should be upgraded in the next couple of months, Thame and Carteton should be done early next year, and Kiddlington's probably more than six months off.
Summertown, Headington, Abingdon, Oxford and Didcot have all already been upgraded. If you're on one of those exchanges then talk to your provider (or switch to Virgin if they cover your area).
Pffft, don't be greedy -- next you'll be expecting something back from your Nortel pension. At least we can keep ourselves warm burning all those lovely options & share certificates they gave us:)
Oh and try to get support from Virgin as a DSL customer - a horrible experience. They clearly regard you as second class customer.
Without wanting to sound too flippant, if you want xDSL don't go with VM -- the reason for going with VM is cable. If you're going xDSL then go with Zen, Sky or BT (depending on the details). From what you say though I guess you were already with VM before the move & wanted to stay with them.
Weird, I work with SMEs accros the south-east, Midlands, and south Wales and the concensus is very much that if you can get VM cable broadband then it's both faster & more reliable than the xDSL alternatives. The main problem of course is one of coverage if you can get VM then it's (generally) better. In your case I can only assume it's oversubscription at a local level as I see very few problems with VM elsewhere. Have VM provided an explanation for the problems?
If it's Fibre, I ask what their coverage is, and then call BS on you using that coverage data.
I believe their cable coverage is around 65-70% of UK households for cable, virtually all of those can currently get up to 50Mbps, and virtually all of those are currently being upgraded to 100 Mbps.
For the other 30-35% it's xDSL the same as BT & everyone else.
I think you may have been listening to BT's marketing department too much if you think the problems lie with Virgin not upgrading their network, being oversubscribed, or offering poor performance.
"The KGB had plenty of women that were willing to do anything for "Mother Russia"." Yep, Anna Chapman even went so far as becoming a realtor, *shudder*.
Many nations intelligence services still use honey-pots, indeed only a couple of weeks ago a Rabbi ruled it was okay for the Israeli intelligence services to do this. Israel & Russia (nee USSR) may have excelled at it for decades, but even the various Western European & North American agencies aren't too averse to a technique that's been proven time & again to work very effectively.
"Coercion" or "compromise" usually, rather than conscience, which would tend to fall under ideology, whereas coercion is primarily blackmail/initmidation/etc
Didn't some students at MIT create a giberish generating program that was able to produce papers that pass peer review?
I doubt it, unless they were sociologists:)
Peer review may not be able to reliably tell for certain if something is correct, but it's often a good mechanism for spotting things that are wrong.
You don't need ten years post-doc work in QCD to spot an error in addition, though if you're trying to extend the number of colours in a gauge theory you probably do:)
An excellent idea, however I suspect that problems may arrise around this point:
> "After use, it can be disassembled using hand tools and the parts reused for many other uses"
since when the immediately utility provided by disassembling-and-reusing the structure is perceived to outweigh the longer term utility provided by its air-filering function the structures will be disassembled & reused.
The problem may be exacerbated by the length of time the "innovative self-assembly technique" requires to instll a new instance of the structure and any additional resources required to install and operate it.
My suggestion would be to focus any further development work in this area on improving the assembly/installation process -- make it quicker, more robust, and less dependent on other resources.
Slightly OT (very heartily approve of the wind-up laptops though) but a few years ago (maybe about 7 or 8 I guess) I was on a training course at Sun with some unix sysadmins from Libya's only ISP -- if memory serves they were a major and two lieutenants.
Although there are now several commercial ISPs operating in the country I believe they're all still heavily monitored by the military. Providing ready access to the Internet for all your nation's school children is highly empowering -- potentially a very positive sign for future liberalisation of their communications.
You mean apart from where it says: the largest global participation sysadmin salary survey, and the bits of the survey where they ask which country you're in, your nearest metro, and what currency you're reporting your salary & benefits in?
There were two TBMs -- one started from Britain, the other from France, the problem with them is no effective reverse gear, so when they met in the middle the British one turned off the main tunnel and dug itself a parking space (where I believe it remains), and the French one continued on to Britain.
Now, I'm hoping that the one on eBay is the French TBM that is now resident in Britain, because if it's the British one then the "buyer collects" clause is a real bitch!
The typos in the letter feel too glaring to be a canary trap; you generally want to avoid "mistakes" like those as they're liable to get corrected, and so remove the signature. You're much better off using synonyms and/or (where appropriate) whitespace.
It can still be a significant issue -- afterall even if surplus COx, SOx & NOx are absorbed/washed away they're still present in the eco-system. Even if the source-fuels are available in limitless supply there are still potential problems with waste by-products (including waste energy (esp heat)), of course this is still a problem with "green" energy sources aswell.
Re guns: If the effects aren't strong enough to measure, why the asymmetry in the "cuckoo" rating for the pro and anti side? Because (like the vast majority of such things) the pro- and anti- positions are themselves asymmetric -- the anto-gun position is not a simple negation of the pro-gun one, similarly the pro-life position is not a simple negation of the pro-choice one.
It's something quite a few studies like this one suffer from, too many fall foul of the same few logical fallacies.
Yes, so? "They" say a lot of things!:) East-Asian politics at the start of the 21st century is radically different to West-European politics at the start of the 20th.
China is in a very strong position -- over the next couple of decades they will became a first rate modern nation; the social, political and economic reforms China is undergoing are similar to the ones Russia underwent -- only China's getting them right where Russia got them wrong. The West pressured Russia for democratic reforms before they were socially and economically able to cope with them, China has been doing it the other way round and although it's slow in adopting the legislative and human rights reforms many people in the West want to see, it's getting there on far more solid ground.
China will persist in sabre rattling for a few years yet -- but it's military is geared towards defense or a land war with it's neighbours; although they periodically growl at Taiwan their ability to invade is very limited due to the focus of their navy on coastal defense. The cost of maintaining it's current military levels is too great for it to be able to afford to restructure sufficiently to wage an effective conventional modern war.
However, we can expect Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong to be vital elements in China's development over the next decade or two -- currently Western sympathies lie with these three, and over time they'll play these cards with the West. China will rattle it's sabre at Taiwan, and a President will get re-elected on the back of negotiating China's recognition of Taiwan's independance (plus a few billion dollars investment in China). China will rattle it's sabre at Tibet, and a Prime Minister will get re-elected on the back of negotiating China's recognition of Tibet's autonomy (plus a few billion euros of investment in China). Hong Kong will be kept as the social and economic airlock between China and the West, with legislatino there being just liberal enough to keep the West involved.
So China gets a few billion dollars, gets rid of a few political hot potatoes (Tibet's quite expensive for China), ramps down it's military spending (a fortune), moves people from the People's Army to farming (a few -- big increase in GM and UK/US style agriculture), construction, and manufacturing (most -- efficient manual labour).
China's not going to be a serious military threat, nobody's ever going to be crazy enough to invade them, and a few reforms will make them a key economic powerhouse by the middle of the century.
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The heir apparent (Kim Jong-un) has a computing degree (though I suspect the odds of him failing any classes at a university named after his grandfather were pretty slim).
Other than that, it's simply a massively important piece of international news that will have substantial and complex consequences throughout Asia, the ripples of which will spread around the world.
It'll depend on your exchange - if they've got fibre you should be fine, but several exchanges near Oxford have only been upgraded fairly recently, so if you're in the wrong area (particularly one of the more rural areas) then you may be stuck.
The Cowley, Whitney, and Wallingford exchanges should be upgraded in the next couple of months, Thame and Carteton should be done early next year, and Kiddlington's probably more than six months off.
Summertown, Headington, Abingdon, Oxford and Didcot have all already been upgraded. If you're on one of those exchanges then talk to your provider (or switch to Virgin if they cover your area).
Pffft, don't be greedy -- next you'll be expecting something back from your Nortel pension. At least we can keep ourselves warm burning all those lovely options & share certificates they gave us :)
just wanted to state that the table in TFA has a few numbers without context and with minimal detail - that's just useless.
So click on the "full research can be found here" link near the bottom of the piece and read the 132 page report if you want the details.
Oh and try to get support from Virgin as a DSL customer - a horrible experience. They clearly regard you as second class customer.
Without wanting to sound too flippant, if you want xDSL don't go with VM -- the reason for going with VM is cable. If you're going xDSL then go with Zen, Sky or BT (depending on the details). From what you say though I guess you were already with VM before the move & wanted to stay with them.
Weird, I work with SMEs accros the south-east, Midlands, and south Wales and the concensus is very much that if you can get VM cable broadband then it's both faster & more reliable than the xDSL alternatives. The main problem of course is one of coverage if you can get VM then it's (generally) better. In your case I can only assume it's oversubscription at a local level as I see very few problems with VM elsewhere. Have VM provided an explanation for the problems?
I believe their cable coverage is around 65-70% of UK households for cable, virtually all of those can currently get up to 50Mbps, and virtually all of those are currently being upgraded to 100 Mbps.
For the other 30-35% it's xDSL the same as BT & everyone else.
You're presumably on xDSL rather than cable, yes?
So using BT infrastructure rather than VM's, and with all the obvious problems of xDSL.
I think you may have been listening to BT's marketing department too much if you think the problems lie with Virgin not upgrading their network, being oversubscribed, or offering poor performance.
Last week's Ofcom report on broadband speeds
"The KGB had plenty of women that were willing to do anything for "Mother Russia"."
Yep, Anna Chapman even went so far as becoming a realtor, *shudder*.
Many nations intelligence services still use honey-pots, indeed only a couple of weeks ago a Rabbi ruled it was okay for the Israeli intelligence services to do this. Israel & Russia (nee USSR) may have excelled at it for decades, but even the various Western European & North American agencies aren't too averse to a technique that's been proven time & again to work very effectively.
"Coercion" or "compromise" usually, rather than conscience, which would tend to fall under ideology, whereas coercion is primarily blackmail/initmidation/etc
Didn't some students at MIT create a giberish generating program that was able to produce papers that pass peer review?
I doubt it, unless they were sociologists :)
Peer review may not be able to reliably tell for certain if something is correct, but it's often a good mechanism for spotting things that are wrong.
You don't need ten years post-doc work in QCD to spot an error in addition, though if you're trying to extend the number of colours in a gauge theory you probably do :)
arXiv holds preprints, so no -- they've not been peer-reviewed.
However it has moderation and endorsement systems which (in theory) spot any Archimedes Plutonium wannabes.
An excellent idea, however I suspect that problems may arrise around this point:
> "After use, it can be disassembled using hand tools and the parts reused for many other uses"
since when the immediately utility provided by disassembling-and-reusing the structure is perceived to outweigh the longer term utility provided by its air-filering function the structures will be disassembled & reused.
The problem may be exacerbated by the length of time the "innovative self-assembly technique" requires to instll a new instance of the structure and any additional resources required to install and operate it.
My suggestion would be to focus any further development work in this area on improving the assembly/installation process -- make it quicker, more robust, and less dependent on other resources.
Slightly OT (very heartily approve of the wind-up laptops though) but a few years ago (maybe about 7 or 8 I guess) I was on a training course at Sun with some unix sysadmins from Libya's only ISP -- if memory serves they were a major and two lieutenants.
Although there are now several commercial ISPs operating in the country I believe they're all still heavily monitored by the military. Providing ready access to the Internet for all your nation's school children is highly empowering -- potentially a very positive sign for future liberalisation of their communications.
You mean apart from where it says: the largest global participation sysadmin salary survey, and the bits of the survey where they ask which country you're in, your nearest metro, and what currency you're reporting your salary & benefits in?
An extensive range of astronomy software is available through the UK's Starlink project
Will they let you LART your lusers with an M16?
There were two TBMs -- one started from Britain, the other from France, the problem with them is no effective reverse gear, so when they met in the middle the British one turned off the main tunnel and dug itself a parking space (where I believe it remains), and the French one continued on to Britain.
Now, I'm hoping that the one on eBay is the French TBM that is now resident in Britain, because if it's the British one then the "buyer collects" clause is a real bitch!
The typos in the letter feel too glaring to be a canary trap; you generally want to avoid "mistakes" like those as they're liable to get corrected, and so remove the signature. You're much better off using synonyms and/or (where appropriate) whitespace.
It can still be a significant issue -- afterall even if surplus COx, SOx & NOx are absorbed/washed away they're still present in the eco-system. Even if the source-fuels are available in limitless supply there are still potential problems with waste by-products (including waste energy (esp heat)), of course this is still a problem with "green" energy sources aswell.
Re guns: If the effects aren't strong enough to measure, why the asymmetry in the "cuckoo" rating for the pro and anti side?
Because (like the vast majority of such things) the pro- and anti- positions are themselves asymmetric -- the anto-gun position is not a simple negation of the pro-gun one, similarly the pro-life position is not a simple negation of the pro-choice one.
It's something quite a few studies like this one suffer from, too many fall foul of the same few logical fallacies.
Yes, so? "They" say a lot of things! :)
East-Asian politics at the start of the 21st century is radically different to West-European politics at the start of the 20th.
China is in a very strong position -- over the next couple of decades they will became a first rate modern nation; the social, political and economic reforms China is undergoing are similar to the ones Russia underwent -- only China's getting them right where Russia got them wrong. The West pressured Russia for democratic reforms before they were socially and economically able to cope with them, China has been doing it the other way round and although it's slow in adopting the legislative and human rights reforms many people in the West want to see, it's getting there on far more solid ground.
China will persist in sabre rattling for a few years yet -- but it's military is geared towards defense or a land war with it's neighbours; although they periodically growl at Taiwan their ability to invade is very limited due to the focus of their navy on coastal defense. The cost of maintaining it's current military levels is too great for it to be able to afford to restructure sufficiently to wage an effective conventional modern war.
However, we can expect Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong to be vital elements in China's development over the next decade or two -- currently Western sympathies lie with these three, and over time they'll play these cards with the West. China will rattle it's sabre at Taiwan, and a President will get re-elected on the back of negotiating China's recognition of Taiwan's independance (plus a few billion dollars investment in China). China will rattle it's sabre at Tibet, and a Prime Minister will get re-elected on the back of negotiating China's recognition of Tibet's autonomy (plus a few billion euros of investment in China). Hong Kong will be kept as the social and economic airlock between China and the West, with legislatino there being just liberal enough to keep the West involved.
So China gets a few billion dollars, gets rid of a few political hot potatoes (Tibet's quite expensive for China), ramps down it's military spending (a fortune), moves people from the People's Army to farming (a few -- big increase in GM and UK/US style agriculture), construction, and manufacturing (most -- efficient manual labour).
China's not going to be a serious military threat, nobody's ever going to be crazy enough to invade them, and a few reforms will make them a key economic powerhouse by the middle of the century.
And she's even got a rather cute website :)