Welcome to the UK...well, for the cameras anyway: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article5834725.ece

300 times a day...

Oh, and I know that this information is collected in squad cars and transmitted wirelessly every time the car docks at the station, both video and audio...

Erm, if the fact of increasing payments towards fixing you car because you were over the speed limit reduces the cost of insurance, then that is a benefit to the careful driver.

What it is more likely do is improve lawyers income with people arguing with insurance companies over the fact that just because I was speeding earlier, at the point of the accident I was driving within the parameters of the law...

What gets me is if they can put these blackboxes in, and my gps does this anyway, why can't they regulate the speeds of the vehicle on the roads. If you are on the limit, the accelerator doesn't allow further acceleration, except in short bursts (which is needed for accident avoidance in certain situations). Oh wait...the police department won't be able to fine any more.

This is merely a revenue generation type black box. If you're going to do it on the premise of saving lives, go the whole way or don't do it at all...

Stupid Question:

1) Most DVD players these days can be made region-free easily.
2) Converting Blue Rays to upload to Pirate Bay is much harder and needs more beef.
3) Blue-Rays are too expensive...Reduced cost DVDs has only made them more popular.
4) Blue-Ray is Sony...They are destined to fail in a format war...forever.
5) Based on 1) above, I can't watch my Blue-Rays I bought in the UK for my PS3 on my US bought PS3...why? Stupid.
6) Blue-Ray content different per region...Unfair...Won't buy because of this.

I hire my blue-rays...I have no need to buy them...hiring becomes more interesting due to high purchase price. However a good movie I want to keep I will buy on DVD for 1/4 the price...Sit far enough from the TV you can't really tell that much of a difference (maybe in sound yes).

Get an Orange San Francisco PayG phone (circa £99), pay $5 to get it unlocked online and then use ROM Manager to install the Cyanogen 7 RC2.

total cost to you: approx £120 tops.

That explains why doctor's handwriting looks like my 2-year olds...harder to read, more important...Time to start writing in my newly designed crap font....

I didn't select to post anonymously...weird

With access to Pentaho's knowledgebase and support you would have had first class support and access to a wealth of documentation.

Some of this documentation is available on Pentaho's open wiki: http://wiki.pentaho.org/

The Pentaho stack includes two mondrian viewers, jpivot and analyzer. Jpivot is open and free, and you can set this up yourself. Analyzer is an EE feature which allows business users to create analysis views quickly and easily with a drag-drop interface.

Mondrian produces XMLA, so any XMLA client will be able to access Mondrian's output.

If you use the open-source version, sure. If you use the Pentaho BI Suite then no.

You have a central configuration console, schema workbench (available free) for schema design. You can clear the cache programatically by way of a URL or using the API (which can be fine grained down to tuple) or through the user or enterprise-console.

Before spouting such drivel, you should look at what exactly you are using and where you have gone wrong in your assumptions. Then, if you are still confused, contact support should you have a subscription.

Good job it's $ not £

British Trillion is FAR bigger than the American trillian:

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/billion?view=uk

Obviously the locked door could be problematic in case of a fire, but these systems were also hooked in to resolve that issue.

When I was in High school, I developed (not hardware, but the idea and project) for my A-Level coursework an automated library system.
Granted, it didn't use fingerprints, it did use RFID tags in the books and on the library card.

A person would walk in, grab a book, walk out. As they did so, their RFID library card would be logged, as would the books they are carrying, thus a registration of user->book was made.

Any problems may have been just an alarm (user doesn't have their library card on them), or, in a more cynical school, the door to the library would lock and not let you out.

Doesn't the passing of my details to a third party without my consent breach the data protection act of 1999?

What I do in my own time, whether fantasy or otherwise, should bear no impact on my work as long as said past time activities do not interfere with my professional conduct at work.

A joke on a website is a joke, made in jest. One could argue that the consumer of such joke that read and complained should also consider that her actions of viewing said website would lead to information that would not be factually correct and thus should not have been able to make the complaint in the first place.

That person should be fired for abuse of powers! I have one thing to say to the "holier than thou" brigade: STFU and piss in your own yard!

Having said all that, if the context of here being a problematic employee posted above is true, then the company would find any reason to enter the dismissal stage.

A demo is for me to evaluate a game prior to purchase. If I have to purchase the demo, then it's not a demo (short for demonstration).
Call it what it is... X lite (replace X with name of game).