I was in Burma two years ago, and know for a fact that they use Dansguardian, a GPL licenced product. I was surfing the web at one of their internet cafes, and kept coming up with the 'site blocked' message with the Dansguardian name all over it. So, even if companies were banned from dealing with Burma, nothing can stop the junta from downloading and installing open source solutions, or even pirated copies. Killing monks doesn't bother them, why should a bit of 'stolen' software?
Interestingly, in some tourist areas, many internet cafes openly advertised that they had hotmail and other popular email sites (all banned by the govenment), which they were able to get to by using proxies. Like I said, that was 2 years ago, and I'm sure those same cafe owners aren't being so open now about the ways that they can get around government consorship.
This was all over the Canadian news last night, as they also want the passenger lists of any flights merely flying over American airspace, for example, Montreal to Mexico City. They were originally going to have this rule apply to domestic flights that happen to cross American airspace (which is common with a flight like Toronto to Vancouver), but have thankfully backed down. Oh yeah, and people now have 10 days to comment about these new rules.
I realize that they have released google mars, and google moon, but these are just web browser based 2D views of the respective celestial bodies. Wouldn't it be cool if they put these into the Google Earth interface? Imagine being able to virtually fly around and see features such as Olympus Mons in 3D?
I'm not a biologist either, but I'm guessing that the reason that coral and other organisms were able to survive these temperature shifts in the past was because they happened gradually at a much slower rate. Species had time to adapt and/or migrate over thousands of generations. The warming we're seeing now is unprecedented and may be happening too fast for some species to handle.
I realize I'm posting to yesterday's thread, but hopefully a few people will see this.
High tech workers in British Columbia qualify for an exemption from normal labour laws. These are the regulations that don't apply to them:
Employees are not to work more than five consecutive hours without a 30-minute meal break.
Split shifts must be completed within 12 hours.
Minimum daily pay.
Employees must have 32 consecutive hours free from work each week.
Overtime pay.
Employees are entitled to either a paid holiday or extra pay when they work on a statutory holiday.
In other words, no overtime, no paid stat. holidays off, no lunches, and no upper limit on hours per week!
Why was this done? The government granted these exemptions because the industry whined that having these rules in place were making us uncompetitive, and companies wouldn't want to come here. No mention was made that Canadian employees wouldn't want to work under these conditions, either. But hey, there's always desperate workers from other countries who'd be pleased to work mandatory 80 hour weeks!
No, if it's tidally locked, there will be no "immense tides" in the oceans. Tidally locked means the same face of the planet is always facing the star. Just like the same face of the moon faces the earth... the moon is tidally locked to the earth. On this planet, any oceans would be higher at the points closest and furthest away from the star, but unlike the earth, these 'bulges' would never move, and water levels wouldn't change much, therefore no tides, at least from the star alone. The other planets in the system would most likely have some sort of influence on that planet's oceans.
I doubt that would work... it would mean that you're technically working 168 hours/week which is illegal is most places.
I used to work in a job that paid $25 standby pay per 8 hour shift on top of my regular salary to be on call. This obviously doesn't cover the time I was in the office anyway. An extra $400 per week was nice compensation to make up for the fact that I was always at the company's beck and call.
Now, I'm a contractor, and share on-call duty with one other guy. And no standby pay, either. No overtime, despite mandatory 45 hour weeks, no benefits, no paid vacations or holidays. Why am I here again?
To project an image on someone's face, you need to focus it somehow. Think of a movie projector, or the overhead you mentioned. Since there's no lenses involved in this screen, it would be impossible to focus the image from the monitor onto someone's face, or any surface for that matter. All you'd get with this monitor is a diffuse glow, just brighter. This is a silly 'effect' in a movie, as to create it, they would have to use some sort of a projector. The actors would have blinding lights in their eyes... not so good for trying to read the screen!
This isn't being reported in the news for some reason, but EA closed the London, Ontario, Canada studio of DICE yesterday, laying off all the staff there. They got a nice severance package, and they're being interviewed for positions with EA in Montreal and Vancouver. Sucks if they want to stay in London, though.
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A black expanding spot on Jupiter... where have I heard that before? I guess it's happening a year earlier than Arthur C. Clarke predicted?
...or does this guy look suspiciously like Tom Cruise? Maybe he syphoned off the money to fund the building of a spaceship to find Xenu?
No: shame on the editor(s) who added that information. As the ruling said, Wikipedia can't be held liable for information added by its editors.
I was in Burma two years ago, and know for a fact that they use Dansguardian, a GPL licenced product. I was surfing the web at one of their internet cafes, and kept coming up with the 'site blocked' message with the Dansguardian name all over it. So, even if companies were banned from dealing with Burma, nothing can stop the junta from downloading and installing open source solutions, or even pirated copies. Killing monks doesn't bother them, why should a bit of 'stolen' software?
Interestingly, in some tourist areas, many internet cafes openly advertised that they had hotmail and other popular email sites (all banned by the govenment), which they were able to get to by using proxies. Like I said, that was 2 years ago, and I'm sure those same cafe owners aren't being so open now about the ways that they can get around government consorship.
...where the Bill-Gates-as-Borg icon truly applies.
This was all over the Canadian news last night, as they also want the passenger lists of any flights merely flying over American airspace, for example, Montreal to Mexico City. They were originally going to have this rule apply to domestic flights that happen to cross American airspace (which is common with a flight like Toronto to Vancouver), but have thankfully backed down. Oh yeah, and people now have 10 days to comment about these new rules.
Why are you ranting about global warming? ozone hole != global warming
I realize that they have released google mars, and google moon, but these are just web browser based 2D views of the respective celestial bodies. Wouldn't it be cool if they put these into the Google Earth interface? Imagine being able to virtually fly around and see features such as Olympus Mons in 3D?
I'm not a biologist either, but I'm guessing that the reason that coral and other organisms were able to survive these temperature shifts in the past was because they happened gradually at a much slower rate. Species had time to adapt and/or migrate over thousands of generations. The warming we're seeing now is unprecedented and may be happening too fast for some species to handle.
High tech workers in British Columbia qualify for an exemption from normal labour laws. These are the regulations that don't apply to them:
- Employees are not to work more than five consecutive hours without a 30-minute meal break.
- Split shifts must be completed within 12 hours.
- Minimum daily pay.
- Employees must have 32 consecutive hours free from work each week.
- Overtime pay.
- Employees are entitled to either a paid holiday or extra pay when they work on a statutory holiday.
In other words, no overtime, no paid stat. holidays off, no lunches, and no upper limit on hours per week!Why was this done? The government granted these exemptions because the industry whined that having these rules in place were making us uncompetitive, and companies wouldn't want to come here. No mention was made that Canadian employees wouldn't want to work under these conditions, either. But hey, there's always desperate workers from other countries who'd be pleased to work mandatory 80 hour weeks!
If it's in Canada, it'll be a centre, eh?
No, if it's tidally locked, there will be no "immense tides" in the oceans. Tidally locked means the same face of the planet is always facing the star. Just like the same face of the moon faces the earth... the moon is tidally locked to the earth. On this planet, any oceans would be higher at the points closest and furthest away from the star, but unlike the earth, these 'bulges' would never move, and water levels wouldn't change much, therefore no tides, at least from the star alone. The other planets in the system would most likely have some sort of influence on that planet's oceans.
I doubt that would work... it would mean that you're technically working 168 hours/week which is illegal is most places.
I used to work in a job that paid $25 standby pay per 8 hour shift on top of my regular salary to be on call. This obviously doesn't cover the time I was in the office anyway. An extra $400 per week was nice compensation to make up for the fact that I was always at the company's beck and call.
Now, I'm a contractor, and share on-call duty with one other guy. And no standby pay, either. No overtime, despite mandatory 45 hour weeks, no benefits, no paid vacations or holidays. Why am I here again?
To project an image on someone's face, you need to focus it somehow. Think of a movie projector, or the overhead you mentioned. Since there's no lenses involved in this screen, it would be impossible to focus the image from the monitor onto someone's face, or any surface for that matter. All you'd get with this monitor is a diffuse glow, just brighter. This is a silly 'effect' in a movie, as to create it, they would have to use some sort of a projector. The actors would have blinding lights in their eyes... not so good for trying to read the screen!
This isn't being reported in the news for some reason, but EA closed the London, Ontario, Canada studio of DICE yesterday, laying off all the staff there. They got a nice severance package, and they're being interviewed for positions with EA in Montreal and Vancouver. Sucks if they want to stay in London, though.