AngusH

But we've had disk quotas before that mostly worked?

If anything it seems an easier problem than processor time.

I recall disk quotas on shared systems at university back in 1998 and I'm sure they existed before that.

Two thresholds IIRC, one at which you get a warning, second at which you can't write any further and the disk write operation fails.

I don't think they deleted files, it was just you couldn't write more than [quota] bytes to your disk.

Is there something particular about cloud based systems that prevent this from working?

ie. is this a specific problem with distributed storage?

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Good point, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Document_Structure#Secti... wikibooks latex guide suggests \chapter is level 0, which gives "=" (1 equals sign),

But then surely the h1 document title should be above that, which would be "=" (1), so a chapter is below at "==" (2)?

\part apparently is -1 in latex, which would be seem to be odd.

But document title isn't part of the latex sectioning hierarchy...

Given that there is a document title, part and chapter, chapter could maybe "===" (3) or maybe "==" (2) if we're not using parts or we don't consider the document title.

I think anyway?

It's unfortunate that the creators of latex did not follow the HTML heading rules better. (despite latex pre-dating html of course)

:-)

Perhaps, although personally I prefer latex, because at its best it is somewhat self describing:

\chapter{Animals}

instead of

== Animals

or should that be:

=== Animals

I think an xml or html like approach is better:

<chapter>Animals</chapter>

One of the big issue is modal states for structure or styling.

I've often found trouble in latex because you are in some state that you didn't expect and somehow have to get out of.

Nested XML would hopefully be more obvious about what your state is.

Docbook probably got this right, but it was too verbose for most.

Ah, interesting and definitely not a Sett.

I had assumed you meant that the stone had been manufactured into a block, but this is clearly something else.

Some kind of special concrete formulation do you think?

The formula kept as a trade secret, then lost when the company closed or got bought or something I suppose?

Rather unfortunate, alas.

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I think it sounds like a Sett:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sett_(paving)

(which is often called a cobblestone)

Edit: Still being laid in Edinburgh...

Although the open source software is copying this "always connected to the mothership" model as well.

I'm thinking specifically of Firefox, but others too.

Apple, for some reason, didn't advertise this change very widely, so it isn't precisely an informed decision.

Like so much of the modern security activity, it doesn't seem to be fully thought out, nor was the possibility of failure considered.

Or maybe such failures were considered and then dismissed? I don't know.

Schwartz Groupe Revenue quoted as €104.3 billion (18/19) and 420,000 employees (per wikipedia)

edit: we all answered together!

It might also be worth including some or possibly all of the $7,403 which is allocated to Institutional support (in the tables).

This page offers a summary of what that classification includes and it includes some clearly essential activities:

https://www.wisconsin.edu/financial-administration/accountin...

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The NHS isn't really a single body (1), it's perhaps easier to think of it like the US army in terms of structure rather than a single organisation.

There is a central organisation that sets overall directions and can give orders. But then there are lots of other organisations that are within it or attached in some way or even privately owned groups that operate in association with it.

Each group usually creates its own web sites and the central organisation doesn't usually interfere unless something is wrong.

The following is AFAIK correct, but it's my personal experience, and I'm not claiming to be an expert on the NHS!

As a simplified example, I am covered by the NHS. In my case NHS Scotland, which is separate from the similar system in England or others in Wales and Northern Ireland.

I am registered with the local NHS GP surgery which puts me on the system and provides most non-emergency access to care.

That GP's surgery is (probably) a private partnership of doctors who own the building and employ themselves and the other staff (nurses, admin, etc).

They get paid by the NHS system as a whole to provide me healthcare, but are not direct government employees.

I actually picked this GP's practice over several others, each of which have their own websites, because its website showed that it was open to new patients and because they offered open clinic times that matched my requirements.

On the other hand, the local hospital is owned (2) by the regional NHS hospital group as a government owned facility which employs the staff there as direct NHS/government employees. Except in emergency, I would go to my GP first, then be referred to the hospital.

However this is a separate organisation from the regional hospital group that operates hospitals in the next major city.

(1) NHS structure and funding: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/default/files/2017-10/NHS...

(2) Though see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_initiative for a more complicated explanation

Excellent to have some calculated numbers!

Two thoughts:

1) Possibly the road could be rearranged to allow travel only in one direction, freeing up at least 1 extra lane?

2) It might be possible to get some of the bigger 50 or 80 capacity transit buses, or some large school buses? One article I found suggested California had in excess of 20,000 school buses, although I'm still looking for a reliable source to back that up.

That's interesting The TFL budget and the mayor's budget don't seem to match precisely, although roughly the same.

I wonder why?

For reference the broken down numbers for the underground alone are on page 25 of that document. (page 13 or so in the pdf)

edit: anon1385 gives the same answer as I did, but wrote faster :-)

I agree with you on the locking down issue. I don't like the ways things are going. :-(

For Mac command line compiling, You need to install the xcode command line tools package

In Xcode 4.5: see Menu->'Xcode'->Preferences->Downloads pane->Components tab. Then click the install button on the "Command Line tools" package

This should give you a working compiler and tool chain (llvm or llvm-gcc)

Hopefully, anyway.

I think the package is actually available separately from the Apple developer tools site, although I don't have a link for it. Links on the ADC site tend to change so often, it's hardly worth quoting them.

So slots appear to be like text frames that the content flows through?

That would be a useful extension if it got more widespread usage.

The thought that occurs to me though is whether this will appear in webkit at some stage or if it is just for the closed source iBooks side of things.

The list posting at W3C suggests that at least some of it may appear in the public webkit at some stage.

have you considered http://fastspring.com and its associated subscriptions site http://saasy.com/?

They can pay into uk bank accounts directly and I think they meet most of the other points.

(disclaimer, uk based customer of fastspring, although not using subscriptions side)

I know nothing of this incubator, but I've heard that banks often ask for personal guarantees. There are various cases I've heard of where the business has failed and people have lost their homes, which were used as guarantee.

It probably comes down to what can be negotiated and I think it's mostly the same as you describe in Germany: Liability is limited unless you agree that it is not.

As a side note, I've had personal experience of one fund which hoped to get back the money given regardless of success or failure. I declined to get involved with them.