"This is essentially because even the mullahs working their economics out of a seventh century holy book have realised that this is absurd."
Twentieth century secular economics books are themselves a blend of faith and superstition backed by dubious science, anecdotal evidence and post facto rationalisation, so what's the difference between that and getting your economics from a 7th c holy book?
Invisible hand of the market... WTF? Is it a pink hand? and is it really a unicorn?
Some of the clinical software for iOS would be handy, but much of it simply replicates what the doctor has in the office. If they want an iOS device for the average doc, it should be the iPhone. With drug dosing apps, a digital stethoscope and an artificial respiration timer in his pocket, a doctor would be able to respond to any emergency at any time. He's not going to carry the iPad everywhere, though. It'll stay in his medical bag, but it will make it heavier, not lighter.
If every car's connected, who needs 3G? The number of cars on the road suggests a mesh network to me, backed up with a backbone running along motorways and green-signed A roads.
"Even so, E Ink marketing chief Lawrence Schwartz said that the company doesn't believed Triton is an e-book reader component so much as a technology that will enable e-newspapers."
Presumably the increased complexity means a much lower refresh rate.
Apple are doing their very best to kill E Ink. Look at the "interactive ebooks" you can get from the Open University on iTunes U now. They're basically using webkit as an ebook renderer and slowly making ebooks more and more like locally installed webpages.
As an OU student, I'm all for reducing the reliance on multiple media sources, but by working video into a "book", they're breaking its portability. Audio, yes -- that's great, video no.
So the enewspaper angle seems to be a tacit admission by E Ink that this product falls between two stools: it is not for the paperback junkies who currently devour Amazon's Kindle catalogue, and it's not for people looking for a truly rich experience. Personally, I think the best market for colour e-paper is for posters and information signs, which is a form factor significantly over 7"....
MS aren't losing any competitive advantage, as it's still their hardware and no-one's going to port this to the PS3. It will be used by a minority of researchers and hobbyists to experiment with various cool, silly and often downright pointless ideas. And on PCs running Windows, to boot.
When USB was first mooted, it was asked "why not make it daisy-chainable?"
The USB consortium said that they'd designed it to make the hub so simple and cheap that every device would have one built in, and it would look like a daisy chain without any of the compromises to the protocols that would have been required in true daisy chain.
What was the last device you saw that was both USB device and USB hub? Medium to high-end keyboards have one, but my scanner doesn't and my printer doesn't. As desk-bound devices with independent power supplies, they're the perfect candidates. But there's more profit in selling us the hubs separately. Joy.
I suspect he tweeted more precisely, and that the muggers were following his feed on a smartphone at a safe distance, moving in when ye tweeted "I is goin home, yo!"
The posters and newspaper ads don't tend to give that sort of information.
People aren't used to the notion of a docking station. Maybe the netbook will make a bit of a comeback as people get used to HDMI and using the same screen for TV and computing. When my parents' PC was on the blink and I hooked my eee up to their keyboard, mouse and big shiny LCD instead, it became an absolute killer browsing appliance.
Sociologically, the netbook was proof that what consumers want and what the industry supplies are very different things.
For most of us, we don't want ever-increasing performance and we don't want stratospheric storage increases.
We can already do most of what we want with our current computers -- what we want is to make them cheaper and lighter.
But the tech industry insists on increasing capacity and power, at the cost that the full-fat PC continues to be the same size and weight, carrying the same price tag as ever.
Unfortunately, the industry cannot supply the demand for netbooks, as the software is still designed for the spiralling resource availability on a standard PC.
The constant upgrade cycle of hardware and OS has trapped program vendors into following the resource trend, and in fact it benefits them by giving them access to the lucrative upgrade market too.
Progress on the desktop is now progress for progress's sake -- only a few specialists and the few remaining console-less gamers care.
The netbook was the majority telling the industry what we want.
The netbook slump is the result of the industry telling us what they want us to buy.
That would only have happened if people had used mobile phones as detonators on the ground. It's not like this has ever been done before. Ever. And certainly no-one has ever built a bomb inside a mobile phone itself to assassination. Nonono. Well, apart from Yahya Ayyash and Mahmoud Hamshari.
Are you suggesting that capitalism only rewards short term gain?
That's like saying that energy giants won't investigate renewables as long as there's cheap oil underground!!!!
(Heartily sick of people telling me that "Shell will do this, Shell will do that, because they want to stay in business." Well exactly, Shell will continue to pump out and refine cheap oil and make profit from it, precisely because they want to stay in business. Pumping profits into windmills and funny wave schemes would kill their competitivity.)
Yes, fine, jobs overseas and all that, but even from the environmental angle, this is a Bad Thing.
Discouraging UK data centres encourages individual server rooms for people who want to keep their data close at hand.
The mistake here is thinking of data centres in terms of "one site" or "one company". The data centre is an centralisation, often outsourced, to prevent the need for chillers, extractors, air filtration, back up generators, lighting, on-site security etc etc etc in multiple locations. Consolidation and virtualisation reduces the total number of servers. And that's before we've even looked at virtual desktops and the massive carbon savings involved in switching to solid-state dumb terminals.
Attacking the legislation as sending jobs overseas is all well and good, but surely it's better to undermine the environmental case used to justify it.
Data centres cut carbon emissions, so should be rewarded, not penalised, for their density.
Wikipedia -- from Hawai'ian wiki-wiki (quick) and Latin encyclopaedia
Taxi -- from mediaeval Latin via German and French Taxameter/Taximètre.
Coffee -- from Italian "caffè", itself from Turkish "kahveh", which in turn derives from Arabic "qahwah", which possibly derives from the name of the Ethiopian region "Kaffa".
So if tu require a scriver English, solo translate a modicum of the Latin and Greek lexicons into a malformed version peppered with bon mots de francais et un pizza Italiano. A little Deutsh just to upkeepen mit the zeitgeist. If it isn't English now, just give it a few hundred years and it will be once English has properly turned into Pidgin European.
"It's not difficult to learn a 100 or so words that are being used in computer programs' menues"
Learn, computer programs? Everywhere I've been you're just plonked in front of a computer and expected to pick it up as you go along. The whole point of the menu system is to stop you needing training.
(I do still believe in training personally, it's just the rest of the world with unmaintable hacked-up Excel spreadsheets that could be done in a structured and maintainable way in Access in half the time if they knew what they were doing that believe not being trained is in some way admirable.)
Anyway, if we're going to learn 100 or so foreign words, why use English? If people have to learn foreign words to use computers, why not Chinese? Chinese words take up less screen space, after all, and what with the iPhone and all that, screens are finally starting to get smaller again.
Also, with Chinese characters, you don't even have to learn the Chinese word. If you see the Chinese for "cut" you can tie the ideograph to the English word "cut".
Superior in every way.
But localisation is dead easy, so we don't need one single UI language anyway.
Well, .eu covers the UK too. As do the non-geographic names.
And consider all the registrations in Companies House that include some geographical descriptor. Location is part of brand. And some franchises only operate in certain areas (Hertz Wales is distinct from Hertz UK, for example, or it was last time I tried to return a car across the border).
The TLD can and should be used as part of the brand or it is wasted space, and that means allowing subdivisions of this manner.
And in case you didn't notice, TFA does in fact mention ".london" as a possibility.
Look at the fuss over Google allowing competitors to bid on trademarks as adwords.
We're talking misrepresentation here. They're saying basically that CYM has an internationally recognised meaning, and selling it to a third party would open people to use it fraudulently.
Imagine you receive a 419 scam letter purporting to come from a banker in the Cayman Islands. And it has a .CYM address.
So ICANN says "it's not for sale". Seems reasonable to me. (Even though I've been learning Welsh and am very supportive of Welsh nationalism.)
I agree that we need a single European market for intellectual property. But why is it that they mention CDs specifically and not videos?
Censorsh^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFilm classification.
Getting IP laws updated to prevent restriction of trade would be childsplay. There'd be a minor scuffle with the national music royalty collection agencies, but it's hard to argue that they have any rights to border restrictions than any other producer or vendor.
But pushing through a directive to force videos to be sellable across Europe would require one some kind of Europe-wide film classification scheme, which is something which will really set the Daily Mail set on the rampage. Or worse, the abolition of film classification entirely. Won't somebody think of the children?!?
There's a level of nudity in Spanish family drama (Spanish classification 7 yo and above) that would cause Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells to have a cardiac arrest if it was sold in the UK as a PG.
A brick surely would have been falling much faster and the touchdown would have been messy.
If there was no "glide" involved, it would have come down hard on the nose or tail, and I imagine there would be visible damage to them.
Or to put it another way: imagine a brick falling from space and hitting your head. Now imagine Vulture 1 falling from space and hitting your head. Now imagine a small object with the density of brick but the mass of Vulture 1 falling from space and hitting your head. The only survivable one is Vulture 1....
I'm torn between "wow, this is so cool" and "wow, what the hell have they been smoking".
I'm particularly tickled by the notion of dolphin music, but there's been so many people "interpreting" everything from ancient etchings to unusual rock formations as "music"....
"You condemn Israel for protecting itself. Maybe it makes you feel morally superior."
No, we condemn Israel for conducting illegal acts. Even if Mabhuh had been a baby-eating demon from the nether regions of hell's sub-basement level, Israel lost the moral high-ground when they nicked other people's passports.
"Space boffins say they have identified the highest point on the Moon, and that it stands higher above the lunar surface than the summit of Mount Everest does above Earth's."
Last I checked, the summit of Mount Everest was part of the surface of the Earth, and unless there's a sophisticated optical illusion in that photo, this mountain is part of the surface of the moon.
Skiing relies on gravity, of which there is little on the moon. The pitiful 3 degree slope won't help either.
Although that said, apparently the fastest man on the moon was an alpine skiier, who found the technique much better than the loopy bouncing everyone else was doing.
It's just as well the metric system wasn't invented in England. Imagine the Daily Mail's reaction if the kilogramme in question was stored at the Royal Society's headquarters!!!!!!
article: "as if the Gaels aren't getting enough of subsidy"
me: "they aren't" = they aren't getting enough.
Yes they get a subsidy, no they don't get enough.
Urdu, Hindi, Hebrew, French, German, Spanish, Polish... whatever language you care to mention, there are channels available on satellite, cable and the internet. The Urdu community don't need a BBC Urdu channel, because they've already got stuff to watch.
There's practically no Gaelic outside of Scotland, so Scotland is the only country producing Gaelic TV.
As for the "bagpipes and shortbread" comment... you clearly haven't watched the channel much. It is not an extended White Heather Club, it is a TV channel for a general audience. Yes, there's a lot of music output, but that's because music TV is relatively cheap. Yes, most of that's Scottish music, but then Scottish music is cheaper than pop particularly when they piggyback onto existing festivals and awards, as BBC Alba currently do. (And Scottish music is also much more likely to be available in Gaelic!)
The BBC's English channels have some great output -- particularly BBC3's Mongrels -- but much of their stuff would be successful commercially (eg Strictly Come Dancing) and isn't really fulfilling a "public service" role.
I love the BBC and have no problem with paying a license fee to maintain it, but if it wasn't for legislation and public money, nobody would be making Gaelic programming. Public service should be about making programmes no-one else would make, and Gaelic programming falls squarely into this category.
Notice that the *top 10* ebooks are outselling physical books.
It's the inverse-long-tail effect all over again. They said mp3 downloads would widen our musical tastes, and that music would have a longer "shelf-life", but in the end, we found that more people were just buying the latest big thing.
Same here with books -- everyone's buying the latest and greatest, and the out-of-print buyers are a minority.
Is it simply that the internet isn't good for (oh irony!) browsing books or is it that the infinite supply means you never pick up an alternative when the item you were looking for isn't in stock?
Either way, freedom seems to mean discovering less.
"BBC Alba reckons the spectrum should be given to BBC Alba, at least in Scotland - as if the Gaels aren't getting enough of subsidy for a Gaelic-language TV station."
Well they aren't. BBC Alba can't afford to make dramas and they only get a couple of hours of original programming a week, and that programming will be on two or three times in a week.
"The Gaels" are quite explicitly not being subsidised as the BBC Trust have set audience targets of about 3 times as many as the number of Gaelic speakers in the world, and the channel can't be received by half of the people who *do* speak Gaelic, because it's still not on cable or Freeview
A friend of mine used to work in Gaelic TV production, but she's now moved to an English-language production house where her colleagues are absolutely stunned by the pitiful budget she had to work with in her last job.
They've done great things with the money they've got, but the channel is still drastically limited.
There's a tendency to talk about budgets as though they should all be proportional -- well they can't be.
Just as children use more of the schools budget than adults, and people with dry skin are more of a burden on NHS dermatology budgets than people with healthy skin, so Gaelic is a more expensive proposition for TV than English, because the market is smaller, and they don't make Gaelic soaps in Australia or Gaelic sitcoms in the USA. BBC Alba is a public service broadcaster, and public service broadcasters live off public money. Simple as that.
Smartmetering operates perfectly well over existing mobile networks. Dedicating a whole band to smartmetering would mean unnecessary work in repeating the coverage of the existing mobile phone networks.
Wholesale SMS prices are negligible (whereas consumer SMS is the most expensive data delivery mechanism known to man).
Right, that's it: I'm an ethnically-Irish male lesbian.
And as I sincerely doubt there any ethnically-Irish male lesbians in the majority of public sector organisations, they're all going to have to offer me a job, or they won't be being equal.
"It is a major step forward in the fight against global terrorism where liquid is increasingly becoming a common tool for terrorist use and we are proud to be able to contribute to the national security."
What terrorist incidents have occurred using liquids?
Yo man, dis ICBM I has got is da bomb. Check it, it's well blingin -- it like solid gold man. See dat America? She is gonna be like soooooooooo jealous when she sees ma ICBM. She gonna be like "wow, man, you is like cool man".
If your countermeasure is to block the tracking laser, the question is whether a matt coating (diffuse reflection) is more effective than using a refractive coating simply to disperse the specular reflection.
With a highly specular material (gloss black) the tracking laser would have to hit it damn near perpendicular to get a reflection. A clear, highly refractive coating would narrow the margin for error quite considerably.
An ICBM in flight is going to present a truly perpendicular surface to a jumbo jet for at most a fraction of a second, at only two or three points on its flight path, before the end of the first stage.
"@"a tradition that has lasted longer than any of the intervening recording formats"
Accelerating technological change means we will see shorter life spans for products."
That's entirely beside the point. The text you quote refers to the tradition of dire warnings on loss of hearing and wandering into moving traffic. Your response makes no sense.
"Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, a Nigerian-born resident of Accra, Ghana, was jailed for 102 months on Friday after he was convicted of using stolen credit card numbers to steal more than $400,000 from US citizens. Adegoke, who agreed to pay $696,026 in restitution, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in July."
Surely agreeing to pay that much restitution lines him up to be done for further fraud? I seriously doubt he got the extra 300K by any more legitimate means than the 400K involved in the case....
We'd better hope it falls apart shortly after release so that we actually get to see it. That thing reaching Earth intact would be a real culinary millinary moment, and what's the point of it when (to use the popular vernacular) "pictures, or it didn't happen"...?
To be fair, the porn industry is well-known for playing off other people's trademarks. The fact that Hollywood generally leaves them alone is no real excuse.
And considering the minor role face plays in porn, it's not hard to twig what they're up to.
It's a classic fork (in the chess sense, not the source code sense). Use a pocket protector to prevent fraudulent contactless payment snooping and you don't receive incoming calls. Be open to receive incoming calls and have your data exposed.
If we need contactless tech, it should be possible to shield it when not required.
As a Scot, I can sympathise. We have our own parliament with its own budget that keeps getting the rug pulled out from under it by another bigger parliament that changes its budget all the time.
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Unfortunate misreading
"The assistant concerned was "mortified" by the incident, he said, and is currently receiving support from the Co-op's HR department."
I thought for a moment that "he" here referred to "the assistant concerned". That would indeed be mortifying -- mega-massive-man-melons...!
I'm not a muslim but...
"This is essentially because even the mullahs working their economics out of a seventh century holy book have realised that this is absurd."
Twentieth century secular economics books are themselves a blend of faith and superstition backed by dubious science, anecdotal evidence and post facto rationalisation, so what's the difference between that and getting your economics from a 7th c holy book?
Invisible hand of the market... WTF? Is it a pink hand? and is it really a unicorn?
iPads?!?
Some of the clinical software for iOS would be handy, but much of it simply replicates what the doctor has in the office. If they want an iOS device for the average doc, it should be the iPhone. With drug dosing apps, a digital stethoscope and an artificial respiration timer in his pocket, a doctor would be able to respond to any emergency at any time. He's not going to carry the iPad everywhere, though. It'll stay in his medical bag, but it will make it heavier, not lighter.
3G?
If every car's connected, who needs 3G? The number of cars on the road suggests a mesh network to me, backed up with a backbone running along motorways and green-signed A roads.
Interesting conundrum.
"Even so, E Ink marketing chief Lawrence Schwartz said that the company doesn't believed Triton is an e-book reader component so much as a technology that will enable e-newspapers."
Presumably the increased complexity means a much lower refresh rate.
Apple are doing their very best to kill E Ink. Look at the "interactive ebooks" you can get from the Open University on iTunes U now. They're basically using webkit as an ebook renderer and slowly making ebooks more and more like locally installed webpages.
As an OU student, I'm all for reducing the reliance on multiple media sources, but by working video into a "book", they're breaking its portability. Audio, yes -- that's great, video no.
So the enewspaper angle seems to be a tacit admission by E Ink that this product falls between two stools: it is not for the paperback junkies who currently devour Amazon's Kindle catalogue, and it's not for people looking for a truly rich experience. Personally, I think the best market for colour e-paper is for posters and information signs, which is a form factor significantly over 7"....
Exactly.
MS aren't losing any competitive advantage, as it's still their hardware and no-one's going to port this to the PS3. It will be used by a minority of researchers and hobbyists to experiment with various cool, silly and often downright pointless ideas. And on PCs running Windows, to boot.
Let it be.
This bugs me.
When USB was first mooted, it was asked "why not make it daisy-chainable?"
The USB consortium said that they'd designed it to make the hub so simple and cheap that every device would have one built in, and it would look like a daisy chain without any of the compromises to the protocols that would have been required in true daisy chain.
What was the last device you saw that was both USB device and USB hub? Medium to high-end keyboards have one, but my scanner doesn't and my printer doesn't. As desk-bound devices with independent power supplies, they're the perfect candidates. But there's more profit in selling us the hubs separately. Joy.
I'm not going to check, but...
I suspect he tweeted more precisely, and that the muggers were following his feed on a smartphone at a safe distance, moving in when ye tweeted "I is goin home, yo!"
The posters and newspaper ads don't tend to give that sort of information.
Oh, plus...
People aren't used to the notion of a docking station. Maybe the netbook will make a bit of a comeback as people get used to HDMI and using the same screen for TV and computing. When my parents' PC was on the blink and I hooked my eee up to their keyboard, mouse and big shiny LCD instead, it became an absolute killer browsing appliance.
The problem...
Sociologically, the netbook was proof that what consumers want and what the industry supplies are very different things.
For most of us, we don't want ever-increasing performance and we don't want stratospheric storage increases.
We can already do most of what we want with our current computers -- what we want is to make them cheaper and lighter.
But the tech industry insists on increasing capacity and power, at the cost that the full-fat PC continues to be the same size and weight, carrying the same price tag as ever.
Unfortunately, the industry cannot supply the demand for netbooks, as the software is still designed for the spiralling resource availability on a standard PC.
The constant upgrade cycle of hardware and OS has trapped program vendors into following the resource trend, and in fact it benefits them by giving them access to the lucrative upgrade market too.
Progress on the desktop is now progress for progress's sake -- only a few specialists and the few remaining console-less gamers care.
The netbook was the majority telling the industry what we want.
The netbook slump is the result of the industry telling us what they want us to buy.
Ah but...
That would only have happened if people had used mobile phones as detonators on the ground. It's not like this has ever been done before. Ever. And certainly no-one has ever built a bomb inside a mobile phone itself to assassination. Nonono. Well, apart from Yahya Ayyash and Mahmoud Hamshari.
Impossible?
Are you suggesting that capitalism only rewards short term gain?
That's like saying that energy giants won't investigate renewables as long as there's cheap oil underground!!!!
(Heartily sick of people telling me that "Shell will do this, Shell will do that, because they want to stay in business." Well exactly, Shell will continue to pump out and refine cheap oil and make profit from it, precisely because they want to stay in business. Pumping profits into windmills and funny wave schemes would kill their competitivity.)
The article misses the point.
Yes, fine, jobs overseas and all that, but even from the environmental angle, this is a Bad Thing.
Discouraging UK data centres encourages individual server rooms for people who want to keep their data close at hand.
The mistake here is thinking of data centres in terms of "one site" or "one company". The data centre is an centralisation, often outsourced, to prevent the need for chillers, extractors, air filtration, back up generators, lighting, on-site security etc etc etc in multiple locations. Consolidation and virtualisation reduces the total number of servers. And that's before we've even looked at virtual desktops and the massive carbon savings involved in switching to solid-state dumb terminals.
Attacking the legislation as sending jobs overseas is all well and good, but surely it's better to undermine the environmental case used to justify it.
Data centres cut carbon emissions, so should be rewarded, not penalised, for their density.
Well what about English then?
Ambulance -- from French.
Wikipedia -- from Hawai'ian wiki-wiki (quick) and Latin encyclopaedia
Taxi -- from mediaeval Latin via German and French Taxameter/Taximètre.
Coffee -- from Italian "caffè", itself from Turkish "kahveh", which in turn derives from Arabic "qahwah", which possibly derives from the name of the Ethiopian region "Kaffa".
So if tu require a scriver English, solo translate a modicum of the Latin and Greek lexicons into a malformed version peppered with bon mots de francais et un pizza Italiano. A little Deutsh just to upkeepen mit the zeitgeist. If it isn't English now, just give it a few hundred years and it will be once English has properly turned into Pidgin European.
Things must be very different in Russia.
"It's not difficult to learn a 100 or so words that are being used in computer programs' menues"
Learn, computer programs? Everywhere I've been you're just plonked in front of a computer and expected to pick it up as you go along. The whole point of the menu system is to stop you needing training.
(I do still believe in training personally, it's just the rest of the world with unmaintable hacked-up Excel spreadsheets that could be done in a structured and maintainable way in Access in half the time if they knew what they were doing that believe not being trained is in some way admirable.)
Anyway, if we're going to learn 100 or so foreign words, why use English? If people have to learn foreign words to use computers, why not Chinese? Chinese words take up less screen space, after all, and what with the iPhone and all that, screens are finally starting to get smaller again.
Also, with Chinese characters, you don't even have to learn the Chinese word. If you see the Chinese for "cut" you can tie the ideograph to the English word "cut".
Superior in every way.
But localisation is dead easy, so we don't need one single UI language anyway.
No, they're not.
Welsh Y is a schwa phoneme. It is not "uh", no matter how many people say it is.
OK, but...
You'll have to give us our oil-fields back.
Then we'll see who the leeches are.
By that reasoning...
".uk covers Wales. Why does it need it's own?"
Well, .eu covers the UK too. As do the non-geographic names.
And consider all the registrations in Companies House that include some geographical descriptor. Location is part of brand. And some franchises only operate in certain areas (Hertz Wales is distinct from Hertz UK, for example, or it was last time I tried to return a car across the border).
The TLD can and should be used as part of the brand or it is wasted space, and that means allowing subdivisions of this manner.
And in case you didn't notice, TFA does in fact mention ".london" as a possibility.
Ah but...
Look at the fuss over Google allowing competitors to bid on trademarks as adwords.
We're talking misrepresentation here. They're saying basically that CYM has an internationally recognised meaning, and selling it to a third party would open people to use it fraudulently.
Imagine you receive a 419 scam letter purporting to come from a banker in the Cayman Islands. And it has a .CYM address.
So ICANN says "it's not for sale". Seems reasonable to me. (Even though I've been learning Welsh and am very supportive of Welsh nationalism.)
The elephant in the room...
I agree that we need a single European market for intellectual property. But why is it that they mention CDs specifically and not videos?
Censorsh^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFilm classification.
Getting IP laws updated to prevent restriction of trade would be childsplay. There'd be a minor scuffle with the national music royalty collection agencies, but it's hard to argue that they have any rights to border restrictions than any other producer or vendor.
But pushing through a directive to force videos to be sellable across Europe would require one some kind of Europe-wide film classification scheme, which is something which will really set the Daily Mail set on the rampage. Or worse, the abolition of film classification entirely. Won't somebody think of the children?!?
There's a level of nudity in Spanish family drama (Spanish classification 7 yo and above) that would cause Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells to have a cardiac arrest if it was sold in the UK as a PG.
That's where the problems lie.
I always wondered...
I always wondered why there's no such category as "European American"....
.roma
I bet the Roma Nation guys would be a bit upset if Rome got that one....
Not a brick.
A brick surely would have been falling much faster and the touchdown would have been messy.
If there was no "glide" involved, it would have come down hard on the nose or tail, and I imagine there would be visible damage to them.
Or to put it another way: imagine a brick falling from space and hitting your head. Now imagine Vulture 1 falling from space and hitting your head. Now imagine a small object with the density of brick but the mass of Vulture 1 falling from space and hitting your head. The only survivable one is Vulture 1....
I'm torn...
I'm torn between "wow, this is so cool" and "wow, what the hell have they been smoking".
I'm particularly tickled by the notion of dolphin music, but there's been so many people "interpreting" everything from ancient etchings to unusual rock formations as "music"....
Johnny 5 need input...
What is the current limiting factor in liver size?
Is it the size of the animal liver used as a scaffold? (In which case why haven't they tried a more human-sized donor animal?)
Does the nutrition in the VAT fail to penetrate beyond a certain thickness of organ?
These are fairly basic questions, in the grand scheme of things.
Re: Murder
"You condemn Israel for protecting itself. Maybe it makes you feel morally superior."
No, we condemn Israel for conducting illegal acts. Even if Mabhuh had been a baby-eating demon from the nether regions of hell's sub-basement level, Israel lost the moral high-ground when they nicked other people's passports.
Really...?
"Space boffins say they have identified the highest point on the Moon, and that it stands higher above the lunar surface than the summit of Mount Everest does above Earth's."
Last I checked, the summit of Mount Everest was part of the surface of the Earth, and unless there's a sophisticated optical illusion in that photo, this mountain is part of the surface of the moon.
Physics lesson
Skiing relies on gravity, of which there is little on the moon. The pitiful 3 degree slope won't help either.
Although that said, apparently the fastest man on the moon was an alpine skiier, who found the technique much better than the loopy bouncing everyone else was doing.
Er....
Wouldn't you prefer a 0.568 litre...?
Just as well...
It's just as well the metric system wasn't invented in England. Imagine the Daily Mail's reaction if the kilogramme in question was stored at the Royal Society's headquarters!!!!!!
¡Qué viva el buitre!
Mucha suerte para mañana.
Read what I wrote.
article: "as if the Gaels aren't getting enough of subsidy"
me: "they aren't" = they aren't getting enough.
Yes they get a subsidy, no they don't get enough.
Urdu, Hindi, Hebrew, French, German, Spanish, Polish... whatever language you care to mention, there are channels available on satellite, cable and the internet. The Urdu community don't need a BBC Urdu channel, because they've already got stuff to watch.
There's practically no Gaelic outside of Scotland, so Scotland is the only country producing Gaelic TV.
As for the "bagpipes and shortbread" comment... you clearly haven't watched the channel much. It is not an extended White Heather Club, it is a TV channel for a general audience. Yes, there's a lot of music output, but that's because music TV is relatively cheap. Yes, most of that's Scottish music, but then Scottish music is cheaper than pop particularly when they piggyback onto existing festivals and awards, as BBC Alba currently do. (And Scottish music is also much more likely to be available in Gaelic!)
The BBC's English channels have some great output -- particularly BBC3's Mongrels -- but much of their stuff would be successful commercially (eg Strictly Come Dancing) and isn't really fulfilling a "public service" role.
I love the BBC and have no problem with paying a license fee to maintain it, but if it wasn't for legislation and public money, nobody would be making Gaelic programming. Public service should be about making programmes no-one else would make, and Gaelic programming falls squarely into this category.
You're the odd one out then.
Notice that the *top 10* ebooks are outselling physical books.
It's the inverse-long-tail effect all over again. They said mp3 downloads would widen our musical tastes, and that music would have a longer "shelf-life", but in the end, we found that more people were just buying the latest big thing.
Same here with books -- everyone's buying the latest and greatest, and the out-of-print buyers are a minority.
Is it simply that the internet isn't good for (oh irony!) browsing books or is it that the infinite supply means you never pick up an alternative when the item you were looking for isn't in stock?
Either way, freedom seems to mean discovering less.
BBC Alba
"BBC Alba reckons the spectrum should be given to BBC Alba, at least in Scotland - as if the Gaels aren't getting enough of subsidy for a Gaelic-language TV station."
Well they aren't. BBC Alba can't afford to make dramas and they only get a couple of hours of original programming a week, and that programming will be on two or three times in a week.
"The Gaels" are quite explicitly not being subsidised as the BBC Trust have set audience targets of about 3 times as many as the number of Gaelic speakers in the world, and the channel can't be received by half of the people who *do* speak Gaelic, because it's still not on cable or Freeview
A friend of mine used to work in Gaelic TV production, but she's now moved to an English-language production house where her colleagues are absolutely stunned by the pitiful budget she had to work with in her last job.
They've done great things with the money they've got, but the channel is still drastically limited.
There's a tendency to talk about budgets as though they should all be proportional -- well they can't be.
Just as children use more of the schools budget than adults, and people with dry skin are more of a burden on NHS dermatology budgets than people with healthy skin, so Gaelic is a more expensive proposition for TV than English, because the market is smaller, and they don't make Gaelic soaps in Australia or Gaelic sitcoms in the USA. BBC Alba is a public service broadcaster, and public service broadcasters live off public money. Simple as that.
No, it doesn't mention that.
It doesn't mention that because it is not a legal argument. I do not have an automatic right to publish unsolicited adverts for anyone.
It's a moral argument, and incidental to the legal one.
Why would they?
Smartmetering operates perfectly well over existing mobile networks. Dedicating a whole band to smartmetering would mean unnecessary work in repeating the coverage of the existing mobile phone networks.
Wholesale SMS prices are negligible (whereas consumer SMS is the most expensive data delivery mechanism known to man).
Right, that's it: I'm an ethnically-Irish male lesbian.
And as I sincerely doubt there any ethnically-Irish male lesbians in the majority of public sector organisations, they're all going to have to offer me a job, or they won't be being equal.
Fantastic!!!
Examples...?
"It is a major step forward in the fight against global terrorism where liquid is increasingly becoming a common tool for terrorist use and we are proud to be able to contribute to the national security."
What terrorist incidents have occurred using liquids?
Genuine question.
Yeah, check it, blud.
Yo man, dis ICBM I has got is da bomb. Check it, it's well blingin -- it like solid gold man. See dat America? She is gonna be like soooooooooo jealous when she sees ma ICBM. She gonna be like "wow, man, you is like cool man".
Surface melt
Even the best mirror in the world would melt pretty much instantly due to the power of the beam.
Refractive coating?
If your countermeasure is to block the tracking laser, the question is whether a matt coating (diffuse reflection) is more effective than using a refractive coating simply to disperse the specular reflection.
With a highly specular material (gloss black) the tracking laser would have to hit it damn near perpendicular to get a reflection. A clear, highly refractive coating would narrow the margin for error quite considerably.
An ICBM in flight is going to present a truly perpendicular surface to a jumbo jet for at most a fraction of a second, at only two or three points on its flight path, before the end of the first stage.
Err... what?!?
"@"a tradition that has lasted longer than any of the intervening recording formats"
Accelerating technological change means we will see shorter life spans for products."
That's entirely beside the point. The text you quote refers to the tradition of dire warnings on loss of hearing and wandering into moving traffic. Your response makes no sense.
Does... not... com... pute....
Hmmm....
"Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, a Nigerian-born resident of Accra, Ghana, was jailed for 102 months on Friday after he was convicted of using stolen credit card numbers to steal more than $400,000 from US citizens. Adegoke, who agreed to pay $696,026 in restitution, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in July."
Surely agreeing to pay that much restitution lines him up to be done for further fraud? I seriously doubt he got the extra 300K by any more legitimate means than the 400K involved in the case....
We'd better hope...
We'd better hope it falls apart shortly after release so that we actually get to see it. That thing reaching Earth intact would be a real culinary millinary moment, and what's the point of it when (to use the popular vernacular) "pictures, or it didn't happen"...?
To be fair....
To be fair, the porn industry is well-known for playing off other people's trademarks. The fact that Hollywood generally leaves them alone is no real excuse.
And considering the minor role face plays in porn, it's not hard to twig what they're up to.
According to the internet...
According to the internet, the Americans think this is an "Arabian proverb". Personally I think they fell for it, hook line and sinker.
Fork!
It's a classic fork (in the chess sense, not the source code sense). Use a pocket protector to prevent fraudulent contactless payment snooping and you don't receive incoming calls. Be open to receive incoming calls and have your data exposed.
If we need contactless tech, it should be possible to shield it when not required.
Judging by the colour....
Judging by the colour, Stelios is getting as stingy as O'Leary....
As a Scot...
As a Scot, I can sympathise. We have our own parliament with its own budget that keeps getting the rug pulled out from under it by another bigger parliament that changes its budget all the time.
No cuts in Afghanistan.
To be fair, nobody asked Cameron *how* he'd avoid cuts in Afghanistan. His strategy is quite simple: he's reducing the number of blades!!!
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