Re: The largely unsuccessful - but rather good - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
ST TMP - everything you could want in Star Trek, but spread over a large distance.
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some articles online say that Corning had invented a tough glass (Chemcor) in the 1960s which they stopped producing in the 1990s. Come the smartphone age, they started thinking what they could do, went back to Chemcor and came up with a new (and patentable) formulation which is Gorilla glass.
@Freetard
Right so now we need a "cool wall" for aircraft.
Concorde goes over on the right under "thermodynamically immobile"
And then we put everything else to the left. May I suggest Saunders-Roe Princess (that one might be more "oh my word!" than cool), Avro Vulcan, Supermarine Spitfire Mark V, as going up the chilly end.
Since it is the Statutory Instruments that will have the actual content of the law, there is a possibility that
the appropriate SI does not come around for a while, by which point some opposition could have been mustered.
The Act includes some more headliney (even noteworthy) targets which might receive preferential treatment - eg "shareholders of UK quoted companies binding votes on directors’ pay"
Spotted this one in the mix "•Removing the need for retailers to notify sales and hiring of television sets" - presumably the requirement was linked to the TV license
High Fructose Corn Syrup is just fructose and glucose. And in a similar ratio to honey (about 55/45)
Profitably because it makes glucose syrup, which comes cheaply from Corn (Maize) , have a similar taste profile to sugar (sucrose). Sucrose when consumed is readily converted in the acidic stomach into its two components - glucose and fructose - in a 50/50 ratio.
Making large amounts of saccharide-laden drinks available at cheap prices, and then consuming then is the problem, not the specific carbohydrate profile.
@AC
naval defence is not so much the concern, and you imply there's still a human in the loop
the concern seems to be more over eg automonous drone flying across a city looking for insurgents with technicals or carrying rpgs and shooting them up without recourse to an overseer to say "actually that's a roll of carpet"
perhaps a ban would allow self-defence (anti-missile missiles) but not counter-offence (a missile automatically launched at the area where the anti-ship missile originated.
Was Oracle's offer a "here's the cash, let's never talk of this again" offer or a "yes, we were in the wrong, you were treated badly but we think this is a reasonable sum to cover legal costs and your suffering"?
In the first case if taken up, while outsiders might suspect it was an admission of guilt, it's not been made clear and she would not be able to say that she was harassed while working at Oracle, there might also be some residual stigma/rumours implying that she made it up, "couldn't take the heat", "what do you expect from a woman" etc
"time before they start selling something WITHOUT an OS installed!"
But they won't sell many to the average public.
My reasoning:
1) The ordinary person expects to switch their machine on and for it to work, not to have to load the software themself
2) Poor level of support from the OEM for the user. Though cheap for the OEM, and good for the local IT shop (bad for family members who have to support relatives unpaid).
Not to say there isn't room to sell bare machines to businesses and expert but the larger businesses would always be in a position to negoiate on licencing and the number of the latter alone wouldn't be a great dent in Microsoft's revenue.
Isn't the greatest worry about Bitcoins (or other digitial currency) not that someone might be able to nick, con or otherwise appropiate your coins for their own use, but that someone might try and do a Goldfinger (film not novel) on the whole kaboodle and reduce it all to a worthless memory?
I'm not so sure the statement about peer-to-peer automatically translates to "p2p is the criminals' friend" (though that may have been what he was thinking)
Some (not all) internet traffic may be compared to postal services. You might want emails, and definitely voice traffic, to get the equivalent of "Next day by 9am" while a software distribution could come 2nd Class. But post is paid for at the point of sending and internet by the (supposed) size/capacity of the pipe it comes down.
Perhaps a more granular form of service provision where you could pay per month for a certain speed for your ordinary traffic, and a different price for voice traffic and a separate price again for p2p traffic in a manner similar to paying for bundles of cable channels. But aside from the difficulty of getting a mechanism - and provider enthusiasm - for that, takeup would be dependent on customers. Not all would want to buy the Premium Sports voice speed but would accepting a lower speed for p2p see a saving too.
out of curiosity, I had a look at O2s offers on this phone.
24 Months cheapest is pay £60 and £11/month
18 Months cheapest is pay nothing and £19/month - there's no option to have a lower tarriff cost and pay more for the phone, I guess you're expected to buy it outright - in fact you'd get more for less money (certainly in data) on buying the phone and spending £10/month pay-and-go.
In theory, that's what British Sugar do in one of their Norfolk factories.
Leaving aside the burning of fossil fuels to produce the heat and power needed to evaporate tonnes of water, one part of the process involves the deliberate production of CO2 from limestone which is then bubbled through the extracted sugary water to clean and clarify it. A lot of that CO2 is recombined with the calcium from the limestone to form new carbonate but there is a CO2 enriched exhaust which is directed into a big tomato growing greenhouse. Not 100% effective but economic, and the sugar industry has been relentlessly chasing any efficiency it can incorporate for decades.
High carbon steel is at most about 2% carbon, beyond that and you are actually producing something like cast iron.
So to produce a ton or so (a tonne - forget the US, they don't know what a real ton looks like) of hydrogen gas you will have 4 tons of carbon giving 400 tons of steel.
I don't disagree its not a start, but there needs to be a way of removing the carbon as it is formed without diluting the liquid metal "reactor". Perhaps another adjunct - that doesn't react with hydrogen - is required to help the carbon precipitate out....
perhaps providers should be made to state explicitly which agreed standards they do meet or put in a disclaimer along the lines of "LTE-B is not a term recongised by the standards body, and anyway the speed you do get will be entirely dependent on what you mobile provider gives you not what the technology is. If in doubt remember your home broadband is supposed to be super mega bleeding fast, but it isn't is it?"
Apparently the tax relief on the vouchers was set up at about 15p (but in whatever it was in "old money" then) in 1948, but never adjusted for inflation thereafter.
So even by the 1970s the most a 15p voucher would buy was three packs of KP Outer Spacers, or about 4 packets of Rolo's. Hardly a square meal to set you up for another 3 hours in the office.
reasonable to charge a bit extra if extra work is involved.
non payment example - gift wrap. "that box of chocs is a tenner, and for a quid extra, I'll put it in some pretty paper"
You see the hidden cost when you go to your corner shop and it says "minimum spend £5 for debit cards".
If you buy a Yorkie (other chocolate bars are available) shelf price 70p and pay cash, that's done and dusted.
But they don't want you paying for it by debit card because they'll be charged say 25p to do so, and that's a big chunk of the profit they would have made on your purchase
On one hand, the US dropped nuclear weapons on Japan to avoid a ground war involving lots of military deaths (and also -according to some - to find out if an atom bomb was really as devastating as a British scientist had calculated for them ).
On the other the US and its allies had a stand-up fight back and forth across the Korean peninsular without using atomic weapons on the enemy.
So what's an unworldly regime suppose to work out from these two events - that the US hate Japanese facism more than the Asian communism?
Yes now I rethink what I wrote I had probably meant to Phrase it as somewhere between "decided" and "realised" but betwrrn this Blackberry virtul keyboarf and text prediction I have ended up implying the government of the day WAS correct when my actual position is more they MIGHT havr been right
regarding the accent...
BBC Radio 4 Extra has the moderately comic "Alison and Maud" in its schedule (should be available on iPlayer) Set in/near Norwich one of the supporting characters - Mr Mullet - has a fairly authentic accent. Not as impressive as Samuel in NIck Warburton's "On Mardle Fen" series though. Also the work of the Nimmo Twins.
One last thing - the homonyms. My wife criticizes the way I pronounce "bear" "beer" and "bier" exactly the same. Best thing to do though is to get yourself down to Neatishead and afterwards go for a listen to the locals. But remember to leave before night falls!
If a company has to say that a piece of prose is it's a mission statement (rather than just saying what it does) , then they have already gone down in my estimation.
I'm not expecting English Literature in a company's brochures or website, but ordinary plain English Language would do.
(shouldn't be one to talk - I got a B in the former but only a C in the latter when I took my O-levels. And in the former I answered the question about Macbeth without having read the text only going en masse with the class to see the Polanski film)