Ummm, nope, truth is not a defense in hate crime prosecutions in Canada. IIRC the courts ruled on that in the Zundel or Keegstra cases. There is an official history in Canada and you better not deviate from it.
I don't know about terribly high failure rates. I must have used maybe 50 hard rives (I don't know really but 50 wouldn't be an exaggeration) in my home systems over the years. I've only ever had one failure and that was a very, very long time ago when the drive actually used a piece of cork to brake against the spindle. Eventually the cork wore perfectly against the shaft and there was too much friction (stiction) to let it spin up without a rap from a screwdriver ( yeah, I know:). Eventually I took it apart and shaved some of the cork off which worked fine until I eventually retired the drive. After that I generally just left drives on all the time rather than spinning them up/down a few times a day.
Tape can be good too... one day I woke up and realized "crap I've got data on a couple of dozen of those old dat tapes and they are 13 years old now..." so I hurriedly started searching for a scsi controller and drive that would work with my current system, and for software that would read the OS/2 backups, and went at it... only one tape was completely unreadable. Some of the rest required just letting the software keep trying to read the drive for up to 24hrs but eventually I got every bit off all but one of those old tapes, so I was kind of impressed with the retention.
Exactly. If the point is backup, i.e. having a second copy, then where you put the drives is important. Here's the most important thing about that: don't put them in the same place you keep the drives/info for which they are the backup. Off site storage! You can rent a safety deposit box for cheap - nice, protected (very!) environmentally controlled storage. Or maybe you have a storage locker with reasonable environmental controls (mine doesn't keep it at 70F but they don't let it freeze or get boiling hot either) so put them in a Pelican storage case or something similar and then in the locker. Once a year take them home and spin them up for a while, do a surface scan and check the smart status. Bob's your uncle you've got good, high quality, safe and cheap backups.
This is what I do. Plus the on-line storage is raided - drives are cheap and your time isn't - so unless both drives crash at once it is very unlikely that I'll need the backups in the first place... but then I think "hmmmm, I guess lightning could get past the surge arrestors and fry them both at once... better keep those backups."
Finally, and this is obviously somewhat dependent on what you are storing, never delete anything. It's amazing how the moment you delete the last copy of some memo, note, picture, email - whatever - you suddenly need it. Or maybe it's not the moment after, maybe it's ten years after. So don't bother trying to figure out what is worth keeping or not, storage is too cheap to waste even 5 minutes thinking about that, just keep it all.
I thought it was well done and they accomplished two major goals. First, they aren't tied to anything that happened in any of the other series or movies which has got to make it incredibly easier on the writers and will I think allow for better scripts.
Second of course is that they have managed to become more appealing to the teen to early 20's demographic. When I was a kid the idea of seasoned adults running the enterprise didn't bother me at all. If anything it was something to which one could aspire. Nowadays it seems gratification from identification needs to be more immediate so voilà, the flagship of the fleet is commanded mostly by people in their teens to early twenties (as if!).
The US just sent an official blaming note to Canada, among other countries, but it's particularly bizarre in the case of Canada since there is a two way land border with posts manned by each country to check incoming traffic to their country. The complaint? The large number of pirated CD's and DVD's Canada allowed to sneak across the US border - into the US - to be sold on the black market in the US. The fact that traffic incoming to the US is screened by, and only by, the US border service didn't seem to make them think this complaint to Canada went off the bizarro-meter scale.
Yeah... the law is weird though. In Canada it is legal to download music. A copyright tax is imposed on blank CD's, which is justified by the downloading - and vice versa. But, IIRC uploading is not legal... so um I have no idea where those torrents being downloaded come from...
This is going to be just like Prohibition, with the public and free sites like PB and MiniNova disappearing one-by-one and private pay sites spring up to take over...
This year being sooooo typical. And Leaving more money in the hands of the people and stimulating an economy to mitigate a vicious recessionary spiral - the fools! I realize that idealogues don't feel a need to be fair or informative but come on...
And balanced budget for over a decade before the Conservatives took office? I don't think so. During the period the Liberals were in power they ran enormous federal deficits for half their reign. Only after hue and cry from the public - and international debt rating agencies threatening to downgrade the Canadian government debt rating - did they start to balance the budget, by raising taxes and offloading the budget burden on Provincial governments. Then they ran small surpluses until they were removed from power. The Conservative government ran a surplus up to the budget ending this Spring. And while running a surplus these last years the Conservative federal government have not just eliminated the deficit but also reduced the federal debt. It is now at about 89% of its historical peak which was reached while the Liberals were in power.
It was the Liberal governments(s) that refused to stop raiding the Unemployment Insurance fund to use as general revenue, leaving a worthless IOU behind and continuing unnecessarily high job killing payroll taxes to do it (to be fair a practice continued by the conservatives although they did start lowering contribution rates). That fund - what would it be now? $35 Billion? - would be really helpful right now just as it was intended to be. If only the Liberals had left it alone.
Just as with the Unemployment Insurance fund the Liberals did the same with their Ponzi-like Canada Pension Plan - which then required contribution rates of 10% of income now to return piss poor pension benefits 35 years later.
child-like and ignorant. If the buffoons had a brain cell in their collective heads, they'd see the value in maintaining a balanced budget, like we'd had for over a decade before those buffoons showed up..
Like I said, if you have a case to make you don't need ad hominem attacks, which debase the level of discourse and reflect more on you than your target.
Yeah, because a life-long series of painful bi-weekly injections is so funny. And prostate cancer - whoo hoo, my Dad couldn't stop laughing when he was diagnosed.
Sorry if what I posted wasn't clear but yes it seems to be the high rate of injection which causes the damage (producing the bruise-like pain). Injecting slowly should reduce this a lot. Also holding the bottle in your hands a minute to warm it up a bit will make the solution a little less thick which should also reduce the damage and pain. I would think the doctor would tell the patient to inject in the thigh muscle not the arm - much bigger muscle, mechanically easier to hit etc. And finally, I think walking quickly is the opposite of what you want to do - relax and let the shot be absorbed before stressing the muscle fibres. Again INAD.
"Child-like and ignorant"? It's my experience that people who resort to such ad hominem attacks do so because they don't ave any facts to back up their case.
Gasoline on a fire will actually put it out if you throw enough on that the liquid gasoline smothers the fire before it becomes gaseous and is ignited in air. But I suspect that you meant that oestrogen make prostate cancer grow rapidly - that is untrue and in fact oestrogen used to be used as a treatment for prostate cancer but it had undesirable side effects.
The wrong levels of testosterone (high or low) will indeed make one more emotionally volatile and have other bad effects. Injecting testosterone will lower natural production and can make the testes change noticeably. Testosterone injection is intra-muscular and I would expect that the reason most users complain is that 1) they puncture the skin too slowly (it stretches and hurts) rather than using a controlled jab, and 2) they inject too quickly. Liquid testosterone is about the consistency of liquid honey... forcing that into a bunch of muscle fibres at a high rate probably damages them, and 3) because it is thick you use a fairly large diameter needle. Testosterone is available in pill form but it is apparently harder on the liver to take it this way.
Testosterone deficiency can be caused by a lot of things, including sleep apnea which can screw up your endocrine system in general - if one snores a lot it may be worth getting checked out. OTOH exercise can increase natural levels.
Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking - if it's stuff entering the US then it's the US border folk that have responsibility not the Canadian. Do the US border people check everyone leaving the US to make sure they aren't taking something into Canada that is unlawful in Canada? Of course not.
No, optimization should start long before you write the first piece of code. IMO the most significant optimizations are done in the design stage. Then yes, by all means, after the code is shown to be working correctly, profile it and tweak the hot spots.
16K!?!?! You had a 16K address space!?!?!?! OMG were you spoiled. Try a 7 bit address space on a PDP-8... ok, the machine could have 4K or 8K but you had to make all your code fit into 128 word pages...
I think you've got the bar a little high there. I'd settle for not continuing to run into bugs that result because people wrote code that copies a string into a buffer without knowing if the buffer was big enough to hold the string. Or, not quite a bug, people who place arbitrary, and small, limits on the size of strings (or numbers) - cause god forbid that anyone have a name longer than 12 characters, or a feedback comment longer than 40 characters, or...
Exactly. This isn't really a copyright issue, although that may be how the family tries to cope with it. This is about the behaviour of a government organization. The agents of that organization did something with official property and it was something that they were not entitled to do. What they did with it had foreseeable repercussions which included the family being psychologically harmed (psychological shock is what is required I think but ianal). It seems to have all the elements of a classic tort. If the organization took no steps to prevent this sort of behavior, which might have simply been a "don't do this" in the rules, then they may be liable for negligence. If the action they take after the fact essentially makes light of the action of their employee (not saying it does) then they are compounding the problem and their liability. These are official people entrusted with information gained in an official capacity - there is an expected standard of care involved.
Any time you take an action which could foreseeably harm another and you do so anyhow then you are opening up yourself up to a lawsuit.
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Since in Canada, truth is a defense,
Ummm, nope, truth is not a defense in hate crime prosecutions in Canada. IIRC the courts ruled on that in the Zundel or Keegstra cases. There is an official history in Canada and you better not deviate from it.
Ensure the survival of creativity by increasing the number of restrictions on people! Way to go creative folk!
I don't know about terribly high failure rates. I must have used maybe 50 hard rives (I don't know really but 50 wouldn't be an exaggeration) in my home systems over the years. I've only ever had one failure and that was a very, very long time ago when the drive actually used a piece of cork to brake against the spindle. Eventually the cork wore perfectly against the shaft and there was too much friction (stiction) to let it spin up without a rap from a screwdriver ( yeah, I know :). Eventually I took it apart and shaved some of the cork off which worked fine until I eventually retired the drive. After that I generally just left drives on all the time rather than spinning them up/down a few times a day.
Tape can be good too... one day I woke up and realized "crap I've got data on a couple of dozen of those old dat tapes and they are 13 years old now..." so I hurriedly started searching for a scsi controller and drive that would work with my current system, and for software that would read the OS/2 backups, and went at it... only one tape was completely unreadable. Some of the rest required just letting the software keep trying to read the drive for up to 24hrs but eventually I got every bit off all but one of those old tapes, so I was kind of impressed with the retention.
Exactly. If the point is backup, i.e. having a second copy, then where you put the drives is important. Here's the most important thing about that: don't put them in the same place you keep the drives/info for which they are the backup. Off site storage! You can rent a safety deposit box for cheap - nice, protected (very!) environmentally controlled storage. Or maybe you have a storage locker with reasonable environmental controls (mine doesn't keep it at 70F but they don't let it freeze or get boiling hot either) so put them in a Pelican storage case or something similar and then in the locker. Once a year take them home and spin them up for a while, do a surface scan and check the smart status. Bob's your uncle you've got good, high quality, safe and cheap backups.
This is what I do. Plus the on-line storage is raided - drives are cheap and your time isn't - so unless both drives crash at once it is very unlikely that I'll need the backups in the first place... but then I think "hmmmm, I guess lightning could get past the surge arrestors and fry them both at once... better keep those backups."
Finally, and this is obviously somewhat dependent on what you are storing, never delete anything. It's amazing how the moment you delete the last copy of some memo, note, picture, email - whatever - you suddenly need it. Or maybe it's not the moment after, maybe it's ten years after. So don't bother trying to figure out what is worth keeping or not, storage is too cheap to waste even 5 minutes thinking about that, just keep it all.
I thought it was well done and they accomplished two major goals. First, they aren't tied to anything that happened in any of the other series or movies which has got to make it incredibly easier on the writers and will I think allow for better scripts.
Second of course is that they have managed to become more appealing to the teen to early 20's demographic. When I was a kid the idea of seasoned adults running the enterprise didn't bother me at all. If anything it was something to which one could aspire. Nowadays it seems gratification from identification needs to be more immediate so voilà, the flagship of the fleet is commanded mostly by people in their teens to early twenties (as if!).
//sysin dd dummy
/. lameness filter objects to JCL being in upper case... hee hee
to them eh?
LOL the
The US just sent an official blaming note to Canada, among other countries, but it's particularly bizarre in the case of Canada since there is a two way land border with posts manned by each country to check incoming traffic to their country. The complaint? The large number of pirated CD's and DVD's Canada allowed to sneak across the US border - into the US - to be sold on the black market in the US. The fact that traffic incoming to the US is screened by, and only by, the US border service didn't seem to make them think this complaint to Canada went off the bizarro-meter scale.
Yeah... the law is weird though. In Canada it is legal to download music. A copyright tax is imposed on blank CD's, which is justified by the downloading - and vice versa. But, IIRC uploading is not legal... so um I have no idea where those torrents being downloaded come from...
This is going to be just like Prohibition, with the public and free sites like PB and MiniNova disappearing one-by-one and private pay sites spring up to take over...
This year being sooooo typical. And Leaving more money in the hands of the people and stimulating an economy to mitigate a vicious recessionary spiral - the fools! I realize that idealogues don't feel a need to be fair or informative but come on...
And balanced budget for over a decade before the Conservatives took office? I don't think so. During the period the Liberals were in power they ran enormous federal deficits for half their reign. Only after hue and cry from the public - and international debt rating agencies threatening to downgrade the Canadian government debt rating - did they start to balance the budget, by raising taxes and offloading the budget burden on Provincial governments. Then they ran small surpluses until they were removed from power. The Conservative government ran a surplus up to the budget ending this Spring. And while running a surplus these last years the Conservative federal government have not just eliminated the deficit but also reduced the federal debt. It is now at about 89% of its historical peak which was reached while the Liberals were in power.
It was the Liberal governments(s) that refused to stop raiding the Unemployment Insurance fund to use as general revenue, leaving a worthless IOU behind and continuing unnecessarily high job killing payroll taxes to do it (to be fair a practice continued by the conservatives although they did start lowering contribution rates). That fund - what would it be now? $35 Billion? - would be really helpful right now just as it was intended to be. If only the Liberals had left it alone.
Just as with the Unemployment Insurance fund the Liberals did the same with their Ponzi-like Canada Pension Plan - which then required contribution rates of 10% of income now to return piss poor pension benefits 35 years later.
child-like and ignorant. If the buffoons had a brain cell in their collective heads, they'd see the value in maintaining a balanced budget, like we'd had for over a decade before those buffoons showed up..
Like I said, if you have a case to make you don't need ad hominem attacks, which debase the level of discourse and reflect more on you than your target.
Yeah, because a life-long series of painful bi-weekly injections is so funny. And prostate cancer - whoo hoo, my Dad couldn't stop laughing when he was diagnosed.
Sorry if what I posted wasn't clear but yes it seems to be the high rate of injection which causes the damage (producing the bruise-like pain). Injecting slowly should reduce this a lot. Also holding the bottle in your hands a minute to warm it up a bit will make the solution a little less thick which should also reduce the damage and pain. I would think the doctor would tell the patient to inject in the thigh muscle not the arm - much bigger muscle, mechanically easier to hit etc. And finally, I think walking quickly is the opposite of what you want to do - relax and let the shot be absorbed before stressing the muscle fibres. Again INAD.
"Child-like and ignorant"? It's my experience that people who resort to such ad hominem attacks do so because they don't ave any facts to back up their case.
Why don't more men get vasectomies? Mmmmmm, let's see - because men can't get pregnant?
Gasoline on a fire will actually put it out if you throw enough on that the liquid gasoline smothers the fire before it becomes gaseous and is ignited in air. But I suspect that you meant that oestrogen make prostate cancer grow rapidly - that is untrue and in fact oestrogen used to be used as a treatment for prostate cancer but it had undesirable side effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer#Prevention has more info.
The wrong levels of testosterone (high or low) will indeed make one more emotionally volatile and have other bad effects. Injecting testosterone will lower natural production and can make the testes change noticeably. Testosterone injection is intra-muscular and I would expect that the reason most users complain is that 1) they puncture the skin too slowly (it stretches and hurts) rather than using a controlled jab, and 2) they inject too quickly. Liquid testosterone is about the consistency of liquid honey... forcing that into a bunch of muscle fibres at a high rate probably damages them, and 3) because it is thick you use a fairly large diameter needle. Testosterone is available in pill form but it is apparently harder on the liver to take it this way.
Testosterone deficiency can be caused by a lot of things, including sleep apnea which can screw up your endocrine system in general - if one snores a lot it may be worth getting checked out. OTOH exercise can increase natural levels.
I am not a doctor.
I think that is an excellent point. It would be very useful if the Ubuntu package manager gave some basic helpful info such as:
Is this a command line app or a gui driven app?
What are the alternatives to this app?
and, as the parent noted, some sort of review. Or a score or something - the Applications menu has this and it would be useful for Synaptic as well.
Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking - if it's stuff entering the US then it's the US border folk that have responsibility not the Canadian. Do the US border people check everyone leaving the US to make sure they aren't taking something into Canada that is unlawful in Canada? Of course not.
or just SWAB x,y
No, optimization should start long before you write the first piece of code. IMO the most significant optimizations are done in the design stage. Then yes, by all means, after the code is shown to be working correctly, profile it and tweak the hot spots.
That's the advantage of coding everything for a universal turning machine.... no goto's, no gosub's, no loops, no blocks, no....
16K!?!?! You had a 16K address space!?!?!?! OMG were you spoiled. Try a 7 bit address space on a PDP-8... ok, the machine could have 4K or 8K but you had to make all your code fit into 128 word pages...
I think you've got the bar a little high there. I'd settle for not continuing to run into bugs that result because people wrote code that copies a string into a buffer without knowing if the buffer was big enough to hold the string. Or, not quite a bug, people who place arbitrary, and small, limits on the size of strings (or numbers) - cause god forbid that anyone have a name longer than 12 characters, or a feedback comment longer than 40 characters, or ...
Division by hand? Don't you just do it in your head?
With all this positive commentary maybe I'll upgrade from QuakeII! Nahhhhhhh, doesn't get any better than Q2 WoD.
That's good to know - are there any AT&T Android phones yet?
Exactly. This isn't really a copyright issue, although that may be how the family tries to cope with it. This is about the behaviour of a government organization. The agents of that organization did something with official property and it was something that they were not entitled to do. What they did with it had foreseeable repercussions which included the family being psychologically harmed (psychological shock is what is required I think but ianal). It seems to have all the elements of a classic tort. If the organization took no steps to prevent this sort of behavior, which might have simply been a "don't do this" in the rules, then they may be liable for negligence. If the action they take after the fact essentially makes light of the action of their employee (not saying it does) then they are compounding the problem and their liability. These are official people entrusted with information gained in an official capacity - there is an expected standard of care involved.
Any time you take an action which could foreseeably harm another and you do so anyhow then you are opening up yourself up to a lawsuit.