Agreed although there are probably easier ways to achieve stable temperatures, e.g. a cellar.
The rest is definitely marketing hype. For remuage the sparkling wine bottles are slowly tipped from horizontal to vertical so that the sediment gathers at the cork end. The sediment can then be removed and the bottle recorked. There should be very little or no sediment in wine that's for sale.
Depending on your use cases OpenStreetMap may be suitable. For commercial use you probably need to set up your own servers but that can work to your advantage in that you're better insulated from random price hikes.
I tried OSM yesterday and it couldn't find my friend's house address in the map. Not that it couldn't navigate there - it said the location didn't exist. Google maps finds it right away.
House-level addressing is probably OSM's greatest weak point, principally because house numbers are insanely boring for volunteers to survey. Try entering the street/town name without the number.
I love OpenStreetMap for exactly this reason. For some time, Google gave me directions to an expressway ramp that had me driving around the block until, I suppose, enough people went forward where it told them they had to turn. Because it was across a one way street, and the lane had a that jogged slightly right (wrong way for the one way), it skipped it. But this would have been easy to fix on OSM yourself.
How do I add an address when I don't know where is the place? I can add this friend's address, because I've been to his house before. But what about a new friend?
But more seriously the idea is that if enough people start contributing to the map, there's no reason it can't be as good as Gmaps.
It's already quite good, depending on your area. In some places the government has supplied the data, which is part of the reason some cities or countries are very detailed, while others much less so.
He's not detained and he's perfectly free to leave the embassy. When he does he'll be charged with jumping bail, something the UK court system takes a dim view of. After that who knows.
You make a good point about the ego thing. We had several enquiries from customers who would prefer custom development rather than make small changes to their business processes so as to be able to use off the shelf products.
Agree 100% and that was my philosophy as well. They key phrase in your comment is "when it doesn't appear to be necessary" In my experience long hours are rarely necessary and certainly not on a continuous basis. Simply measuring hours worked just degenerates into a pissing contest which benefits nobody.
+1 for text only information. I investigated this a few years ago with the intention of auto-generating a news podcast for my train commute. The audio part never happened but I auto-created a text document and synced that to my phone every morning and read it on the train.
I used RSS and a simple home brew page scraper to fetch the data and compile the document. However this was a pain to update and I found that news sites didn't always manage their feeds very well.
I wouldn't mind resurrecting this project so are there any recommendations for open source web scraping software that I could try, rather than rolling my own?
The rest is definitely marketing hype. For remuage the sparkling wine bottles are slowly tipped from horizontal to vertical so that the sediment gathers at the cork end. The sediment can then be removed and the bottle recorked. There should be very little or no sediment in wine that's for sale.