If the reports about this are correct:
- the manufacturer produced detailed information on how to service the trains, as required by the user.
- the independent repair facility was one of the approved by the government, and had a contract with the user, and used the documents provided by the manufacturer to fix the trains.
- the trains had software code which checked the GPS status (of the train). If it was not moving for a long time OR being serviced by independent repair facility (it had geofenced the areda), it would give bogus error message and the manufacturers technician would come to check.

This is not DRM-ing the parts, or DRM-ing to ensure the quality of the work. This was vendor lock in, as everybody else was accredited by the official agencies in that country.

You don't say....

It is Rimac car beneath, with the different bodywork, and Italian interior.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/...

Yeah, my EU country has the 50% of the average of the last 3 paychecks, until either the time stated in the contract passes or the ex-employer decides to forfeit the NC clause.
Although, it's rarely enforced, as small companies rarely have any extra cash, while big companies don't care.

I agree with the cheap AF to get some hot food that you didn't have to prepare.

But I adore McDonalds as it's the
1. only major chain of fast food in my country (there are others like KFC and Burger King, but they have only a handful of joints in the whole country, and a small number of those are in my city).
2. one of the rare franchise that operates in all the surrounding countries (so I can choose it when I go abroad)
3. when you combine it with the first two, most important for me - it always tastes the same. No surprises, all of their food tastes the same on Monday morning or Sunday afternoon. It gives me a sense of .. security, and knowing I'll eat something familiar that will give me high energy to push through the day.

I'm from eastern Europe, and in 2018 I had a work assignment in Stockholm. I came with two credit cards, and 450 Swedish krona (I expected I'll need it for a first few days and in cases where credit card would be rejected). Two months later, time to go back home, I still had the same 450 krona. Payed everything with the cards, even the public toilets had NFC readers. Some pubs directly refused to deal with cash...

Spent the kronas on souvenirs on the last two days...

The problem of EPUB is that HTML5 is supported in EPUB3. EPUB2 suggested _not using_ JavaScript - some EPUB2 readers do support JavaScript, but mostly they don't. EPUB3 leaves the option of supporting JavaScript?!?

And there lies the problem: Making a self supportive HTML5 (+CSS+JS) page is not that hard. Somebody else suggested that for quizzes and self-learning you need a Moodle server - you don't. Android and IOS browsers support local storage (a few MB, but still storage) in JS. If JS is used than the OP can get zooming he wants. All that is supported in EPUB3 - if there were a decent EPUB3 readers.

The OP should start training in frontend web development (mostly JavaScript). Convert everything to HTML+CSS+JS. Find a suitable JS code if needed (something like http://dublintech.blogspot.hr/... ). Pack it as ZIP. Ship it to users.

At the library of Faculty of Humanaties and Social Sciences at University of Zagreb, Croatia, they connected RFID tags for both users and books to Koha. Koha is a well known open source Integrated Library System, and the guys at Zagreb used open source technologies throughout.

The main guy Dobrica is a genius for this kind of stuff, and you should check out his talk at http://www.slideshare.net/dpav... . It has all the necessary links to other information and to the code they made.

... and there is no answer.

My vote - ditch the daylight savings time, and ditch the time zones. Lets make some timezone global, and everyone uses that timezone. I wrote a comment in Treehugger (http://www.treehugger.com/health/forget-just-getting-rid-daylight-saving-time-lets-get-rid-time-zones-and-go-local.html) 8 months ago, on the previous clock move discussion, and most of it I'll copy here:

For the last 5000 years humans are thought that sun is high in the sky at midday. Only way to detect time were sundials (even if old Romans had hourglass or something like that, they must be watched over constantly so they were not an option for reliable timekeeping). In the last 500 years we have mechanical clocks and we defined parts of day more precisely - hours, minutes, seconds. Timezones are here only in the last 150 years, and daylight savings time in the last 70 (and most people despise daylight savings time as it's not natural).

And daylight savings time is the argument against keeping timezones. Humans chose time measurement according to Earth rotation around the sun. On spring and autumn solstice (equinox) there is 12 hours of light and 12 hours on night. Why didn't they chose 12 as a number of hours, and not 10? Or 8? But as it is, we have hours, minutes and seconds, and our whole physics and other sciences revolve around those units.

So what is time? Or local time? It's just a number which we, humans, decided on. There is another example of time we humans decided: Unix timestamp or epoch. Used in computers it measures number of seconds since January 1st 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC.

What does daylight savings time has with it that's an argument for making time global? The answer: why are we moving clocks back and forth, to accommodate a system which should help us, to natural change of how long does a day and night last. Because our laws, work contracts and everything similar (again, human tools which could be changed) state the beginning and ending of an activity. And instead of changing those, we chose to move the clock?!?!?

I agree, in global time nobody would like to go to bed at 14:00, and go to work at 23:00, because everybody thinks that 14:00 is in the afternoon and 23:00 is in the middle of the night. But for some, if we used a global time system, that 14:00 would be middle of the night, and 23:00 would be the morning. 14 is just a number, a tool. For those whose time would become global, the number would stay the same, for others it would change. But everything would change - Google calendar could not expect that 13 o'clock is time for lunch because in your region lunch is now at 4:00 (and in reality it's somewhere around noon)

And there is another reason to change to global time real soon - space travel. When first colonist go to Moon, Mars and other planets in our solar system, how should they measure time. Locally? To the clock of some nation (first to colonize)? Should they use an Earth second or a Moon or Mars second? Should they still use a second, but set up a different number of seconds for a minute or an hours, and then use a standard 24 hours/day calculation?

We need a global system of time NOW. Used reasonably, with changes in work laws, school calendars etc. But we need IT. Is it Swatch Internet Time, is it UTC time or anything else.

Forces of habits are tough to beat. Only loss in global time is that 12 o'clock is not high noon, with a sun high in the sky. Oh wait, even now that's not the case if you're in a big timezone!

So forget the dayligh savings time, forget the timezones, forget that the time on your watch has a special meaning. You'll wake up in the morning, you'll go to sleep in the evening.

I like when an Anonymous Coward reads without comprehension and then gives some useless remark.

Reuteurs article says: "The draft tax code contains a provision for __Internet providers__ to pay a tax of 150 forints (37 pence) per gigabyte of data traffic, though it would also let companies offset corporate income tax against the new levy. "

So, if ISP pays the tax, where does that tax apply? Because it doesn't say that users need to pay the tax, it says providers. The same is obvious in another passage of the article: "The government's low estimate of revenue suggests it will impose a cap on the amount of tax any single Internet provider will have to pay".

Yes, I know that ISPs will transfer the cost of tax to their customers (and they will do it by the consumed traffic, as they meter it already, I'm not dumb), but my question stands: At which point will the Goverment meter _the providers_?

I tried to find something about it, but there isn't anything worthy in English so:
Where will they meter it? On Budapest Internet Exchange (BIX)? Between Tier 1 to Tier 2 connection? Lower than that? Will they meter somewhere inside ISP's network?

As I can see that most of the data could be cached at the ISP. Netflix is giving away their OCA's to ISP's, and if Netflix can cache their streaming videos, than almost everything could be cached. Yeah, I know, HTTPS is a bitch, but there are ways to build a web application and still have enough places to use HTTP. So the bandwidth could be lowered, if people are ready to get "stale" data.

Another route is to, as somebody suggested, build a massive unregulated wireless (mesh) network. With endpoints inside the goverment buildings (will they pay this tax?). Or extend it to neighbouring countries without the tax! Or use an international ISP over satellite?

The interesting thing is that the idea is over 70 years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... .Gyrobuses used flywheel, Shanghai buses use supercapacitors. And both of those technologies (flywheel and supercapacitors) are used in Formula 1 racing. So the time for going back to electric buses is now.

And there is a memorial center in his home village Smiljan in Croatia http://www.mcnikolatesla.hr/ . Tesla cars are often seen there, as it has a free charger for electric cars (rarity in Croatia), although it's not a supercharger (Elon Musk, what are you waiting for? :D )

Tesla memorial center was a stop during the Croatian EV rally earlier this year, with both Tesla S and roadster models participating (pictures available in gallery on their website)

There is additional problem of installing new software - she must boot the system thawed to install, and that can (if she's not used to Deep Freeze) lead to possible problems and infections. But I agree with Deep Freeze. TeamViewer + Deep Freeze is a great combination. If she does anything bad (change settings, gets infected), Deep Freeze will restore everything after restart. For installation and any bigger problem, TeamViewer to the rescue.

It was done, half a century ago. Energy was saved in kinetic form - by using flywheel. Overhead direct contacts which can be used even today, if some form of near wireless communication (Xbee, Bluetooth) is used to turn electricity on and off. History repeats itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus

I agree for Sennheiser HD201, there's nothing near it for that price. Sure, OP's price range is double the price of HD201, but it easily overruns anything that cost 10-20$ more, and with the difference OP can buy a decent mic :D