I've had a few power outages lasting maybe 30 seconds in total, which is rare, because prior to several weeks ago, it has been over a year since the last (20 second) power outage.
It is currently 19C here, with a high of maybe 20. It will cool off to a chilly 6C tonight, so I shouldn't have any problems sleeping. My cat is fine and my AC unit is still sitting in the shed beside my snow shovel.
'Real' digital cash lives at a banking institution, and may be private (depending on your definition of private), but it is not anonymous.
Electronic payment certainly does not have the same advantages as cash. You can't use it without an account. How can you give your child $5 for candy? It is not anonymous, and is not accepted everywhere. Real cash is easier too. Cash is also easily converted between different currencies. It's not as easy to convert a Visa card to a Mastercard.
Traffic laws are a sore spot for me. It pisses me off that a cop will sit on the side of a 6 lane road (3 lanes each way) ticketing people for going faster than the 60km/h speed limit on a divided road with no crosswalks (at the crest of a hill no less). Meanwhile, nearby there is a playground zone with kids playing, and people zip through there, but no cop in sight.
I think that police should focus on areas where they can actually improve public safety, specifically, school and playground zones. It is very, very, very rare to see a police officer ticketing people speeding or passing in a playground zone. Dont get me started on automated systems (multinova, red light cams, speed on green).
Sorry to hear you feel that way. I started my current job in one of (if not the) lowest salaried pay band. In the last 7 years I have change job titles at least twice, have more than doubled my pay, and am now at the lower end of the highest non-management pay band. IT pays better than most other areas of employment. Maybe you just need a new employer, or maybe you aren't cut out for IT.
This is why, I think that you should be able to vote for no one. I would rather have an empty chair represent me than most of the crooks currenly in office.
Western Canada has Memory Express, which is great! Great selection, great prices, and knowledgeable staff. I think they started selling memory (RAM) out of the back of a van, and are now in a few different cities. I'm pretty sure they would ship across Canada, so check them out! Also, I think they actually pay their employees decently, so that it a good reason to shop there too.
Yes, you can type google in the address bar, wait for DNS to timeout, be presented with a google search for google, and then click google.
How will they inform people? Oh I don't know? TV? Website adds? use your imagination. What does.com even mean to most people. It's just something to put after whatever you want to find on the internet. They don't know, or care, why a.com is at the end. Also, I assume that these TLDs would have good google pagerank, so maybe that alone is worth hopping on the bandwagon.
I think it's a stupid idea as much as the next poster here, but I really think this is going to play a part in the future. Imagine typing only "google" into the address bar and getting google. Tickets could take you to ticketmaster. It won't be ticketmaster.tickets, it will just be tickets, with a recirect to ticketmaster.com. It's like taking out the www. "www.google.com" becomes "google.com" becomes "google".
It also is "exclusive". The barrier to entry is rather high for a non-large organization (100K + yearly fees IIRC, which I may not) It would create a divide between the haves and have nots. The havenots get stuck with putting.com or.net or whatever behind their names.
The parent nailed it though. Keywords are back baby!
The line is: Plant vs Animal. It's really not that hard. Animals have this central processing unit that allows the feeling of pain. We call it a brain. Plants, to the best of our knowledge, feel no pain.
Firstly, I like RIM. I currently have a 3 year old Blackberry Tour that still works fine. It's battery still lasts for days depsite it's age. The apps are pretty crappy, yes, but that's okay for me. It workes great as a communication device, which it is.
I also recently bought a playbook (6 months ago), and it is really great! At $200 I don't understand why everyone doesn't have one. It is really a great peice of hardware, and the QNX OS is really good. In 6 months, I have had numerous application level crashes, but only one OS crash. I think that's pretty good.
I'm really looking forward to the new selection of BB phones that actually run QNX. I just hope blackberry is still in business by then... If you haven't tried a playbook yet, try one. It's 1/3 the price of an iPad and it's really great!
Thankfully, all of those problems can be engineered away. Animals? Texas gates and fences. Trees? Cut them back further from the road. Fallen Rock? Chain link hung over the side of the cliff. Flooding/Contruction? Use an emergency beacon that tells the road train to come to a stop.
It didn't communicate the meaning, though. When I read it, I was confused. I have a 'break' key on my keyboard (as do you) and I thought he was talking about that some how. Not sure what the 'break' command would do, but I didn't get the point he was trying to make.
Encrypting everything isn't that easy. There needs to be a key exchange and some way to verify that they key you have been provided hasn't been tampered with. Verisign provides this type of service. So, If I were a government that had large amounts of resources, what would I do? I would get the Verisign key so I can create my own 'verified' keys. Then I just man-in-the-middle that crap out of everything and no one is the wiser.
Unfortunately, most (all?) encrytion schemes rely on some level of trust somewhere along the line. Who can you trust?
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My cat has a better life than me, you insensitive clod!
What does that tell me? That they are planning on selling more copies making a smaller amount per copy?
I've had a few power outages lasting maybe 30 seconds in total, which is rare, because prior to several weeks ago, it has been over a year since the last (20 second) power outage. It is currently 19C here, with a high of maybe 20. It will cool off to a chilly 6C tonight, so I shouldn't have any problems sleeping. My cat is fine and my AC unit is still sitting in the shed beside my snow shovel.
I read the article, and there is no mention of the process they use. I provided my reference, so ball in your court , AC.
I assume this is the same research as this story here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16599-cotton-candy-makes-sweet-blood-vessel-copies.html
I saw a video of this on the newscast, and they guy had a $50 cotton candy machine on his lab table with a "DO NOT EAT" sign attached.
Yea, fuck that reasearch stuff! It only helps the top .1% while the rest of us aimlessly wander the wilderness.
No.
'Real' digital cash lives at a banking institution, and may be private (depending on your definition of private), but it is not anonymous. Electronic payment certainly does not have the same advantages as cash. You can't use it without an account. How can you give your child $5 for candy? It is not anonymous, and is not accepted everywhere. Real cash is easier too. Cash is also easily converted between different currencies. It's not as easy to convert a Visa card to a Mastercard.
Traffic laws are a sore spot for me. It pisses me off that a cop will sit on the side of a 6 lane road (3 lanes each way) ticketing people for going faster than the 60km/h speed limit on a divided road with no crosswalks (at the crest of a hill no less). Meanwhile, nearby there is a playground zone with kids playing, and people zip through there, but no cop in sight.
I think that police should focus on areas where they can actually improve public safety, specifically, school and playground zones. It is very, very, very rare to see a police officer ticketing people speeding or passing in a playground zone. Dont get me started on automated systems (multinova, red light cams, speed on green).
Not many people outside the nerd universe know what the RIAA is.
*Cough* That's Horseshit*cough*
Sorry to hear you feel that way. I started my current job in one of (if not the) lowest salaried pay band. In the last 7 years I have change job titles at least twice, have more than doubled my pay, and am now at the lower end of the highest non-management pay band. IT pays better than most other areas of employment. Maybe you just need a new employer, or maybe you aren't cut out for IT.
I also enjoy the work.
This is why, I think that you should be able to vote for no one. I would rather have an empty chair represent me than most of the crooks currenly in office.
Hay is for horses.
Western Canada has Memory Express, which is great! Great selection, great prices, and knowledgeable staff. I think they started selling memory (RAM) out of the back of a van, and are now in a few different cities. I'm pretty sure they would ship across Canada, so check them out! Also, I think they actually pay their employees decently, so that it a good reason to shop there too.
Yes, you can type google in the address bar, wait for DNS to timeout, be presented with a google search for google, and then click google.
.com even mean to most people. It's just something to put after whatever you want to find on the internet. They don't know, or care, why a .com is at the end. Also, I assume that these TLDs would have good google pagerank, so maybe that alone is worth hopping on the bandwagon.
How will they inform people? Oh I don't know? TV? Website adds? use your imagination. What does
Time will tell...
The parent comment is not funny - Its insightful.
.com or .net or whatever behind their names.
I think it's a stupid idea as much as the next poster here, but I really think this is going to play a part in the future. Imagine typing only "google" into the address bar and getting google. Tickets could take you to ticketmaster. It won't be ticketmaster.tickets, it will just be tickets, with a recirect to ticketmaster.com. It's like taking out the www. "www.google.com" becomes "google.com" becomes "google". It also is "exclusive". The barrier to entry is rather high for a non-large organization (100K + yearly fees IIRC, which I may not) It would create a divide between the haves and have nots. The havenots get stuck with putting
The parent nailed it though. Keywords are back baby!
The line is: Plant vs Animal. It's really not that hard. Animals have this central processing unit that allows the feeling of pain. We call it a brain. Plants, to the best of our knowledge, feel no pain.
Firstly, I like RIM. I currently have a 3 year old Blackberry Tour that still works fine. It's battery still lasts for days depsite it's age. The apps are pretty crappy, yes, but that's okay for me. It workes great as a communication device, which it is.
I also recently bought a playbook (6 months ago), and it is really great! At $200 I don't understand why everyone doesn't have one. It is really a great peice of hardware, and the QNX OS is really good. In 6 months, I have had numerous application level crashes, but only one OS crash. I think that's pretty good.
I'm really looking forward to the new selection of BB phones that actually run QNX. I just hope blackberry is still in business by then... If you haven't tried a playbook yet, try one. It's 1/3 the price of an iPad and it's really great!
Thankfully, all of those problems can be engineered away. Animals? Texas gates and fences. Trees? Cut them back further from the road. Fallen Rock? Chain link hung over the side of the cliff. Flooding/Contruction? Use an emergency beacon that tells the road train to come to a stop.
It didn't communicate the meaning, though. When I read it, I was confused. I have a 'break' key on my keyboard (as do you) and I thought he was talking about that some how. Not sure what the 'break' command would do, but I didn't get the point he was trying to make.
Meh, God just plaed all that there to test our faith... The denial will continue.
Yes, yes. That is an option if you need to communicate securely with a few people, but doesn't scale well, and is a cumbersome process.
Encrypting everything isn't that easy. There needs to be a key exchange and some way to verify that they key you have been provided hasn't been tampered with. Verisign provides this type of service. So, If I were a government that had large amounts of resources, what would I do? I would get the Verisign key so I can create my own 'verified' keys. Then I just man-in-the-middle that crap out of everything and no one is the wiser.
Unfortunately, most (all?) encrytion schemes rely on some level of trust somewhere along the line. Who can you trust?
... and how does that work when you only have a choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich?