There is so much pent up demand for transport in the UK that it completely distorts things. You can have a system that is overcrowded, profit making, expensive for users, and underfunded all at the same time. The economic pulls that could fix this are outweighed by things like housing costs.
The comment you are replying to said "usually" and that was in response to the GP that said "I don't believe the London Underground has ever been profitable."
The government did not bail out the London Underground in particular last year but TfL, though I would be surprised if the underground was profitable last year.
Right, cause covid. You know, when no one was using the service but they had to keep operating for front line workers... hard to make money when there are no users.
> The point of looking at the monetary value is that it's a way to quantify how unavailable they are. Land costs money. Where land is scarce, it becomes expensive. Where land is abundant, it's cheap. If landing slots can be acquired cheaply, it means there is availability.
Sure, but I think you're missing the point about the "non-availability." I don't think the cost shows everything.
When there's lots of slots available then the price will be low. When there's few slots available then the price will be high. When there's _very few_ slots available then prices are harder to compare. There's an upper limit on what a company will pay (a slot can only provide so much profit, after all, even if you expect to own it for many years). Prices will presumably start to depend more on who's bidding for them and what deals can be struck.
Free market economics only works if the market is able to respond (i.e. it's relatively liquid).
I'm a big fan of The Old Reader. The UI is quite similar to Google Reader (as I remember it), and because it's only focussed on feeds it's not cluttered with other functionality. There's even a working Windows Phone app (TORUC) for those of us still avoiding Apple or Google.
I've taken out a subscription in the hope that it will last longer than Google Reader or Bloglines (anybody remember that?).
If you're a "data controller," then you may be required to register with the local DPA (Data Protection Authority). In the UK, for example [1]:
"The Data Protection Act 1998 requires every data controller (eg organisation, sole trader) who is processing personal information to register with the ICO, unless they are exempt. More than 400,000 organisations are currently registered."
Whether this registration achieves anything useful is another question.
I don't agree with this strategy. A spare PC under a desk might work perfectly for years without any trouble. Alternatively you might spill coffee over it next week and destroy the server - and your business.
If you don't know how you'll need to scale then chuck up a `t2.nano` instance on AWS and use that. In return for a tiny monthly cost you get:
- solid network connectivity
- disk snapshots for backups
- geographically redundant storage (S3) for static resources so you can survive the server hosing itself
- monitoring of CPU load / status / disk usage
- the ability to scale the server up vertically with the click of a mouse and 60 seconds' downtime
- (with a tiny bit more work and cost) automatic scaling so you cope _automatically_ if the server falls over or load increases
Clearly it's possible for the Swedish prosecutor to find a means to interview him in the embassy. They could use the telephone. They could use a videoconferencing system. They could get on a plane.
Why should they?
They have a valid arrest warrant for a fugitive. Their usual process is for the fugitive to be brought to a convenient location in Sweden for questioning. Why does this fugitive have the right to insist a public servant comes to see them? (Assange's fears about extradition to the US aren't relevant to the Swedish prosecutor if they aren't intending to do that).
If I were a prosecutor dealing with a busy case load I might well do the same: especially when I can leave the whole mess for the UK to deal with!
Because, as confirmed by the Swedish supreme court, that's their fucking job.
> They have a valid arrest warrant for a fugitive. Their usual process is for the fugitive to be brought to a convenient location in Sweden for questioning.
This is not true
>Why does this fugitive have the right to insist a public servant comes to see them?
Why does anyone have a right to due process? Assange has every right to respond to the Swedish enquiry from the UK, but the prosecutor has not allowed him to make his statement on the accusations against him.
>fugitive
What are you smoking? Assange is not a fugitive in Sweden, the only country that could consider him a fugitive is the UK.
>If I were a prosecutor dealing with a busy case load I might well do the same: especially when I can leave the whole mess for the UK to deal with!
But in Sweden you can't, as the courts have confirmed. This is like locking someone up in jail until trial and refusing to interview them because you're busy.
Because it quickly became clear that the alternative was not to be able to interview him, and they have a legal duty to seek justice. Justice has not gotten done by refusing their best opportunity to interview him.
> Their usual process is for the fugitive to be brought to a convenient location in Sweden for questioning.
Yet they deviate from this regularly, and actually did so in another case during Assange's extradition hearings.
> The reasons given, that XUL requires maintenance that Mozilla engineers don't enjoy doing, is a joke considering the amount of effort to maintain XUL is less than 1% of the amount of effort to move Firefox to HTML.
Ah, but maintaining XUL means working on old code (which is boring), but moving Firefox to HTML means working on new shiny code (which is exciting).
Well, or Firefox as a web browser has to render HTML/CSS/JavaScript no matter what, and now that HTML/CSS is at feature parity or better with XUL in the space XUL is meant to occupy, it doesn't make sense for Mozilla to maintain two competing technologies when one receives 95% of their internal developer attention and 99.99999999999999% of external developer attention.
Instead, they plan to render the UI natively, with only "some" parts in HTML.
So, instead of XUL + HTML, we’re going to get GTK + WinForms + Cocoa + HTML. Great, eh?
And we lose the ability to style it with addons – your themes can only change the background image of the header bar, that’s it.
And the remaining addons can’t modify the UI (tree style tabs, bottom tabs, etc) anymore either, instead you can only modify page content.
I’m seriously pissed off now, because Firefox was the last browser where I could actually customize it how I liked it.
I hope the person who made this decision is going to have to use software without any config options and with horrible defaults, like GNOME. For the rest of their life. May their car always have have either 60°C+ heat, or -20°C AC, may their screen of their phone always either be too dark, or too bright.
> Part of the decision has already been made. We are moving Firefox addons (themes and extensions) away from a model where you can perform arbitrary styling or scripting of the browser chrome. This is an engineering-driven decision, and it's unavoidable and necessary for the long-term health of Firefox. Not only are we moving Firefox away from XUL, but we are likely going to make significant changes in the way the UI is structured. It is likely that some parts of the UI will be implemented using native widgets, and other parts will be implemented in HTML, but the exactly DOM structure may involve independent connected with well-defined API surfaces.
Official statement from the Mozilla post in the discussion regarding removal of support for "heavyweight" themes. Emphasis mine.
That’s a pretty clear statement that it won’t be 100% HTML.
Also, the fact that "arbitrary styling and scripting" won’t be possible is another issue.
Tell me how I am supposed to write an addon that adds tab-previews as thumbnails when you hover over a tab like Vivaldi is doing it: http://i.imgur.com/vqysJs1.png ?
How am I supposed to write an addon that colors the navbar and the current tab in the theme color given by the HTML, or, if not existing, the favicon?
With current addons I can do that, with the new addon system, I’m seriously fucked.
You're citing jwz's CADT post in a thread discussing Firefox? It's a product for which people regularly complain about open bugs that are 10 or more years old.
He's right. Mozilla, a $200-300 million a year outfit, currently maintains their software including Firefox. It's a huge C++ application. People who code XUL in their spare time, even a bunch of them, aren't likely to make a dent in keeping parity between a Firefox fork and the main release. They'd likely have trouble even porting it.
So, a fork is a rough solution and will have maintenance issues for an app this size.
There are some stupidly named plugins & libraries out there, not to mention films and music too. Sometimes you need context. One of my favorite bands is called Perfume, results are terrible unless I provide context or type their name in kanji. I say "one of" but there aren't any others <3
I'm thinking more along the lines of collecting the info that google does, but not attaching it to people. Turn it into some sort of group profile that I can elect to be a part of for a particular search- so if I search 'mixers' as one group I get mozilla dev network results, and as a different group I get kitchen equipment, and as a still different group I get local singles' meetups. The difference in the last group is that I wouldn't also get numbers for local divorce lawyers showing up as ads.
(based on TfL's draft budget for 2018-19)