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Me too - I'm buying ex-lease high end Dell 1600x1200 IPS screens because using 3x24" 16:9 is like watching a tennis match - you are constantly twisting your neck from left to right

See also "time value of money" - if you don't have to buy the spares until they fail, all that extra money is worth something to you.

There is a reason Toyota and co don't have 6months of parts on hand - and it isn't due to shortage of shelf space

Probably signals a market collapse in the last 2years. Dell and co either ordered, or suppliers thought they would order lots of new big screen monitors, so fab lines were setup, components were bought, screens were made.

... and then the world (or at least those who still had jobs ) ... bought tablets.

Well I will feel very disappointed if we don't see all the athletes eating there every day

I'd buy that - except I live in a city with 1:4 hills!

Here even the outdoor gear coop charges >$900 for a single speed and says it's ideal for "urban life' - which tells you everything about the market for them.

CISCO got the contract for most of the network infrastructure based on the kit being donated to education afterwards.

Apparently it will be donated to $$$$ CISCO certification courses run at CISCO training centers. And of course training == education

So they get paid £££ to install the kit, then they get a tax right-off to donate it to themselves and then they get to charge people £££ to use it to become CISCO certified engineers!

McDonalds is the official fast food sponsor of Londinium MMXII !

The original spirit was a few Greek men running around naked to show that they were racially superior to all other peoples.

The rest of the Olympic 'traditions' were invented at the 1936 games for not-dissimilar reasons.

Crass commercialisation is probably the "nice side" of the olympics.

"Dasani - London tapwater with added toxic levels of Benzene"

Admittedly the tag line needs some work, but with a good enough Logo it will sell.

If children wish to draw "one-eyed trouser snakes" or Lisa Simpson performing an intimate act, on their school books that's fine.

I just don't think that consenting adults should be exposed to this sort of thing - especially not splashed over every wall

A real eco solution would be to make cheap and simple 'supermarket bikes'

At the moment the $75 bikes in Walmart are terrible - but mostly because they try and copy $750 bikes with 24gears and full suspension. If you wanted a green solution make very simple, single gear, hub brakes, steel frame bikes in the same factory for $50 and make millions of them.

There is a city bike rental scheme here, but like all the other rental/free bike schemes around the world - it uses some 'novel' bike design which somehow end up costing $1000 each! And so either require credit cards and security or they only distribute 10 of them around the city.

Start with laws rewriting copyright to make it a CRIMINAL offence to use: the name of the country's capital city together with either the numeric value of this year, or the name of the season between spring and autumn.

Spending $Bn of taxpayers money on 'infrastructure' that is going to be used for 2weeks and then given away for next to nothing to friends/supporters afterwards. And at the same time cutting funding to schools and community sports.

Using the army as cheap labour when the company given the contract for security decided it was going to be profitable enough and walked away

All this so a bizarrely coiffured lunatic and his oily friends in Westminster can appear on global TV

I think you mean 12th Century.

Elected leaders of major democratic nations bending over to do what the divinely appointed leaders of a bunch of steroid cases say

With a title like that the lawyers will be onto you.

You should use the official euphemism: "Steroid Event 0x7DC"

Not necessarily. The costly part of recycling is separating materials. If this has cardboard with a waterproof coating or plastic skin (as it appears) or is glued to other components like the rubber tires then it could be very expensive to process. And at the end you are left with almost worthless cardboard.

An aluminium or steel bike is recycled in exactly the same way as a car - and we have got very good at that process - and at the end you have valuable scrap aluminium.

Ironic that being disposable makes it 'greener' than a steel bike that will last for 10+ years

And steel or aluminium is a lot more recyclable than cardboard.

Conservative can also mean use #define, macros and casts rather than those new fangled templates ;-)

IIRC the guidelines are a reasonable compromise between recommending new 'safe' but relatively unfamiliar and tricky constructs - and sensible advice to avoid #define and macros.

There are often other constraints in real time and safety critical systems - like avoiding allocations and exceptions. But these docs aren't specific avionics rules, there is an awful lot of code in a project like this that never gets onboard the airframe.

The article seemed to be saying that since android is based on a FOSS kernel, and FOSS is a cancer (in Balmer's famous words) then people will pirate Android apps. Of course iOS is based on an essentially public domain BSD kernel where you are free to copy it all you want.

But you could read it to say, the Google app store is more open than Apple's restricted/approved walled garden and this allows more pirate apps. The article isn't very clearly written.

Of course the open access also avoids the many stories we get on here about - my original app was arbitrarily removed by someone at Apple because they thought it was the copy of another app - and I can't talk to anyone about it.

"it’s open - with the corrosive mentality that surrounds such openness."

That's must be why Oracle and IBM have never made money supporting their products on Linux - it's that corrosive mentality of having the core of the underlying kernel be open source.

For the requirements - a heavy but symmetric load over narrow roads - it's a pretty good solution. At least until you have to stop!

Interestingly, trading inherent stability and rigidity for more control effort to give you a lighter more manouverable design is something we have only just "reinvented" with some fighter aircraft (and the Segway ;-)

In spite of having active/computer control systems fro 30years we still do seem to stick to the 19C railway engineering mentality of - build it big/strong/stable/rigid/heavy

Can you imagine dumping 100lb of earth into a chinese one and tipping it out at the top of a hole - to build a canal or railway?

They are fundementally different concepts. A european wheelbarrow is an earth moving tool - essentially a bucket on wheels. A chinese wheelbarrow is a man powered cart. It's like claiming a sack trolley is better than a pallet truck because it can go down stairs

The JSF (joint strike fighter) C++ coding standards are also a good starting point http://www.jsf.mil/downloads/down_documentation.htm

They are a bit heavy handed on "thou shalt not" - but if you use them as guide - and really think if breaking a rule is worth it in a specific case - they are good conservative practice.

And how much did she know about them?

The design of the fan blades of the Rolls Royce jet engines on an A380 are a closely guarded secret and yet we allow people to fly on it without a security clearance - even people from Seattle, even Boeing employees (although they do have to sit outside!)

One of the real problems with the Shuttle is/was the cold war paranoia of Nasa. I worked on Hubble and 20years afterwards I still (as a Brit citizen) wasn't allowed inside JPL for an anniversary celebration

Even weirder is why she would need a security clearance.

I hate to break it to you - but the Rooskies already know about space !

Statistically unconvincing ?

Java is great - right upto the point where it isn't/

Do a similar example where you want to replace the values in situ and find that Java is making a copy of the entire array every time. At that point you are stuck, there is no way out. C may be difficult but it lets you do anything you want.

note: yes Java may have a flag that says do int array in place, in this case - but you know what I mean.

As a physicist this always annoyed me about about maths lectures.

You spend half of your physics degree learning certain classes of integrals when in practice everyone you really need to solve is done numerically. Yet you get half a class on numerical methods it you're lucky

It was intended as a Godel-joke !

Things like tequilla or vodka. The way people seem to drink the stuff despite the taste - rather than inhaling a good scotch

In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc. the 'live2 crew' won on their parody of "Pretty Women", because they were making a comment on the original song. While family guy lost "when you wish upon a weinstein" because they merely appropriated the "when you wish upon a star" song to comment America's stereotype of Jews. But they weren't saying anything about the song.

Basically I can parody your work to make a comment on it. I can't appropriate it to parody someone else.

Weird Al gets permission from the artist - but that's mainly a, don't cause trouble, keep the record company happy.

He would still have to pay for the rights to the music owners when the song is used, although the owner of the music rights may well not be the artist. Which is why some songs are performed live but not on the albums - the payment for singing "happy birthday" at a concert is very different from putting out a cd of it.

ps - I am not a lawyer - although my dog has been trained to piss on their BMWs