I don't think Canada and Japan have much in the way of overt censorship, although the Canadians do have that weird ISP-censoring thing going on that I'm not sure would be legal in the U.S.
Does Canada still control what music is broadcast by requiring a certain percentage be by Canadian artists?
Think about your phone company (cell or landline), what made you go with that service plan.
I moved to a different building on campus about 1.5 years ago and lost my cell signal at my desk from my current provider. Now that my contract is up, I'm switching to the only cell provider that provides a cell signal to my desk. Advertising doesn't matter. Of the four providers in my area, only one provides a signal to my desk.
It can cost hundreds of thousands to produce and market a CD. Only if the 'artist' has no talent.
I'm having a brain fart here and I can't recall the band's name, but I've been a Santana fan, with emphasis on their early stuff, since their first album came out. Recently I glanced at an article in the dead trees version of our local newspaper that mentioned a local band that had a Santana-like sound. I 'Googled' the band name for a link to their web site, listened to samples of their self-produced studio and live CDs, and ordered both online. All done without the overhead of a 'record company'.
My MP3 player fits in the palm of my hand or in my pocket and has a 15 hour playing time. My cell phone has a 2 hour talk time and several day stand-by time, which in my case translates to about 2 days between charging. Why would I risk missing/losing an important phone call to listen to music?
Let's also not forget that all battery powered devices have a limited number of recharge cycles. Why would I want to shorten the usefull life of my cell phone battery to listen to music?
The actual innovation is making a Kernel Transaction Manager, along with a resource manager for the filesystem. The KTM means that transactions can be inherited from parent process to child or joined by a cooperating process. Having a transactional filesystem means that all file operations can be all-or-nothing.
Yes. DEC DTM does this with the file system (RMS). I've been away from DEC and VMS for too long to remember if it handles the cooperating process part. Perhaps someone can refresh my memory.
There's nothing in the Constitution that grants the Supreme Court, or any other part of the Federal government, the power to judge the constitutionality of any law.
I think the latter, though, pretty conclusively proves that most criminals are dumb enough to get caught - unless you believe Japanese criminals are dumber than American ones (wouldn't their cops be too, then?). The vast majority of criminal cases could be solved through simple effort and legwork, but often those are resources that are not readily available.
AFAIK, the high conviction rate in Japan is mainly due to the fact that persons accused of crimes in Japan have very few rights.
I only want a cell phone for ONE purpose...an emergency phone to keep in the car.
If your emergency phone will be only used to dial 911, you don't need service at all. All cell phone networks in the U.S. are required by law to connect any cell phone to an emergency call center when someone dials 911. In that case, simply buy a cheap working phone with charger, from the newspaper classified ads, auction web site, etc.
As someone who uses a PC at work for heavy development (everything from Windows device drivers to large.NET apps and ASP.NET websites) I have never *once* needed to edit the registry, or known anyone else in the office need to...
Then you're lucky enough to never have needed to apply any of the VS/.NET hot fixes. Last week I had the C# compiler die and request that VS2005 ask me to send an error report to MS. I let it send the error report and got back a link to a hot fix which included editing the registry.
Both languages have some advantages. My biggest complaint against C-derived languages is case sensitivity. Of course, I'm an old fart who started writing code back in the days of punched cards and uppercase-only line printers, so I never had to worry about it. I still don't understand why I should have to remember why balance and Balance are different variables and what the differences are. If one is the previous balance and the other is the current balance, then please name the variables appropriately.
Some things I like about C#: - The USING statement for auto-disposing of scarce resources. I understand that the next version of VB.NET will have something similar. - Autoincrement and decrement operators. x += 1 is better than x = x + 1, but I'd still like to be able to write x++. - (NewType)x vs. Cast(x,NewType) as mentioned above.
Some things I like about VB.NET: - With/End With - Select Case - This is so much more powerful than the C# switch statement.
The C# IDE refactoring support is far superior to the VB.NET IDE refactoring support.
Because the VB.NET compiler is running in the background, the VB.NET IDE catches some syntax errors that the C# IDE doesn't catch until an explicit compile. Sometimes the C# Intellisense/autocomplete will cease to display anything, indicating that there's a syntax error somewhere, but it isn't always obvious where, so an explicit compile is required.
Your doctors are one thing, given that they're highly paid, highly educated professionals and a computer is one of their tools, but secretaries are quite another. They're lucky to be where they are, and usually don't have any special qualifications or skills that would justify giving them access to their PCs beyond the job they're hired to do.
You've got that completely backwards. You'd be amazed at the number of MDs that can't even operate their pocket digital dictation devices. That is changing, but it will probably take another generation to get to the point where 90%+ of the MDs are computer literate.
The same goes for most managers in non-technical environments. It's the 'secretaries', that so many people here denigrate, that actually get the work done. I remember my wife struggling to do financial analysis on an underpowered 386 while her boss used his brand-new top of the line PII to print his email.
Later that day a batch of transactions are sent to the processing company. This is how the merchant gets paid. Why isn't this done immediately? Because there is a per-batch charge on top of the authorization charge. So it makes sense to build up a number of transactions to be sent over at the end of the day.
It depends upon the transaction type and the merchant.
I go to the grocery store, three minutes from my house, and buy cat food with the debit card. when I walk in the door with the cat food, if my wife is in our online banking at the time, she will tell me, "You spent $4.29 on cat food. Please shred the receipt as I've already entered it into Quicken."
Note, this does NOT show up as a pending transaction as it does when we eat at a local restaurant that indeed batches transactions once a day.
If you did that, you'd be shooting yourself in the foot, not because you pissed off the customer, but because you just ate up part or all your profit on that sale. Why? MC & Visa 'encourage' merchants to swipe cards by charging higher transaction fees for non-swiped cards and telephone authorizations. Keep that up and you'll put yourself out of business.
There's also the issue of factory installed radios/cd changers and navigation systems. My Acura has XM built-in. If you get the navigation system, the UI is via the nav system. That's an obvious major issue for the merger.
This is incorrect. XM apparently has commercials on the talk channels. I don't listen to the talk channels, so I can't confirm. XM has no commercials on their own music channels. There are limited commercials on the stations provided by Clear Channel.
For the price of Sirius, I can buy a CD a month. In 4 months, I have a bigger variety then what they play anyhow.
Obviously not a recent release.
Then there's the question of how you know what to buy. I live in one of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. and there is no jazz station on the radio. A local college station plays a few hours of jazz a week, but that's it. If I want to hear new jazz, I have two choices:
1) Go to a B&N once a week and rummage through the CDs, looking for new CDs. 2) Buy a subscription to Sirius or XM, which in my case is XM since that's the radio that came standard in my vehicle.
Just scheduling the changes, writing change plans (with rollbacks), and dealing with randomness (failed disks, etc.) takes serious time. This new law was a very BAD IDEA.
Yet, if your car failed to start if you weren't buckled up, people would go ballistic
You don't remember 1974 in the U.S.?
For a few years beginning with 1974 model year cars, the cars were required by federal law to only start if the driver and front seat passenger, if any, had fastened their seatbelt.
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I don't think Canada and Japan have much in the way of overt censorship, although the Canadians do have that weird ISP-censoring thing going on that I'm not sure would be legal in the U.S.
Does Canada still control what music is broadcast by requiring a certain percentage be by Canadian artists?
Think about your phone company (cell or landline), what made you go with that service plan.
I moved to a different building on campus about 1.5 years ago and lost my cell signal at my desk from my current provider. Now that my contract is up, I'm switching to the only cell provider that provides a cell signal to my desk. Advertising doesn't matter. Of the four providers in my area, only one provides a signal to my desk.
Wal-Mart in Oxford, Ohio moved its store location to outside the city limits after its tax-exempt status expired.
Oxford has/had a Wal-Mart??? When I went to school there, I think the only national chain there was Dominos Pizza.
It can cost hundreds of thousands to produce and market a CD.
Only if the 'artist' has no talent.
I'm having a brain fart here and I can't recall the band's name, but I've been a Santana fan, with emphasis on their early stuff, since their first album came out. Recently I glanced at an article in the dead trees version of our local newspaper that mentioned a local band that had a Santana-like sound. I 'Googled' the band name for a link to their web site, listened to samples of their self-produced studio and live CDs, and ordered both online. All done without the overhead of a 'record company'.
Correct. I have no intention of ever buying anything from itunes, so I avoided paying the Apple tax by buying a generic MP3 player.
My MP3 player fits in the palm of my hand or in my pocket and has a 15 hour playing time. My cell phone has a 2 hour talk time and several day stand-by time, which in my case translates to about 2 days between charging. Why would I risk missing/losing an important phone call to listen to music?
Let's also not forget that all battery powered devices have a limited number of recharge cycles. Why would I want to shorten the usefull life of my cell phone battery to listen to music?
The actual innovation is making a Kernel Transaction Manager, along with a resource manager for the filesystem. The KTM means that transactions can be inherited from parent process to child or joined by a cooperating process. Having a transactional filesystem means that all file operations can be all-or-nothing.
Yes. DEC DTM does this with the file system (RMS). I've been away from DEC and VMS for too long to remember if it handles the cooperating process part. Perhaps someone can refresh my memory.
There's nothing in the Constitution that grants the Supreme Court, or any other part of the Federal government, the power to judge the constitutionality of any law.
I think the latter, though, pretty conclusively proves that most criminals are dumb enough to get caught - unless you believe Japanese criminals are dumber than American ones (wouldn't their cops be too, then?). The vast majority of criminal cases could be solved through simple effort and legwork, but often those are resources that are not readily available.
AFAIK, the high conviction rate in Japan is mainly due to the fact that persons accused of crimes in Japan have very few rights.
I only want a cell phone for ONE purpose...an emergency phone to keep in the car.
If your emergency phone will be only used to dial 911, you don't need service at all. All cell phone networks in the U.S. are required by law to connect any cell phone to an emergency call center when someone dials 911. In that case, simply buy a cheap working phone with charger, from the newspaper classified ads, auction web site, etc.
A spokesman said Campbell will become a vice president at United Health Care.
I'm already having enough trouble with Useless Health Care as it is.
As someone who uses a PC at work for heavy development (everything from Windows device drivers to large .NET apps and ASP.NET websites) I have never *once* needed to edit the registry, or known anyone else in the office need to...
Then you're lucky enough to never have needed to apply any of the VS/.NET hot fixes. Last week I had the C# compiler die and request that VS2005 ask me to send an error report to MS. I let it send the error report and got back a link to a hot fix which included editing the registry.
Both languages have some advantages. My biggest complaint against C-derived languages is case sensitivity. Of course, I'm an old fart who started writing code back in the days of punched cards and uppercase-only line printers, so I never had to worry about it. I still don't understand why I should have to remember why balance and Balance are different variables and what the differences are. If one is the previous balance and the other is the current balance, then please name the variables appropriately.
Some things I like about C#:
- The USING statement for auto-disposing of scarce resources. I understand that the next version of VB.NET will have something similar.
- Autoincrement and decrement operators. x += 1 is better than x = x + 1, but I'd still like to be able to write x++.
- (NewType)x vs. Cast(x,NewType) as mentioned above.
Some things I like about VB.NET:
- With/End With
- Select Case - This is so much more powerful than the C# switch statement.
The C# IDE refactoring support is far superior to the VB.NET IDE refactoring support.
Because the VB.NET compiler is running in the background, the VB.NET IDE catches some syntax errors that the C# IDE doesn't catch until an explicit compile. Sometimes the C# Intellisense/autocomplete will cease to display anything, indicating that there's a syntax error somewhere, but it isn't always obvious where, so an explicit compile is required.
Your doctors are one thing, given that they're highly paid, highly educated professionals and a computer is one of their tools, but secretaries are quite another. They're lucky to be where they are, and usually don't have any special qualifications or skills that would justify giving them access to their PCs beyond the job they're hired to do.
You've got that completely backwards. You'd be amazed at the number of MDs that can't even operate their pocket digital dictation devices. That is changing, but it will probably take another generation to get to the point where 90%+ of the MDs are computer literate.
The same goes for most managers in non-technical environments. It's the 'secretaries', that so many people here denigrate, that actually get the work done. I remember my wife struggling to do financial analysis on an underpowered 386 while her boss used his brand-new top of the line PII to print his email.
Later that day a batch of transactions are sent to the processing company. This is how the merchant gets paid. Why isn't this done immediately? Because there is a per-batch charge on top of the authorization charge. So it makes sense to build up a number of transactions to be sent over at the end of the day.
It depends upon the transaction type and the merchant.
I go to the grocery store, three minutes from my house, and buy cat food with the debit card. when I walk in the door with the cat food, if my wife is in our online banking at the time, she will tell me, "You spent $4.29 on cat food. Please shred the receipt as I've already entered it into Quicken."
Note, this does NOT show up as a pending transaction as it does when we eat at a local restaurant that indeed batches transactions once a day.
If you did that, you'd be shooting yourself in the foot, not because you pissed off the customer, but because you just ate up part or all your profit on that sale. Why? MC & Visa 'encourage' merchants to swipe cards by charging higher transaction fees for non-swiped cards and telephone authorizations. Keep that up and you'll put yourself out of business.
There's also the issue of factory installed radios/cd changers and navigation systems. My Acura has XM built-in. If you get the navigation system, the UI is via the nav system. That's an obvious major issue for the merger.
XM rebroadcasts SOME ClearChannel content. Those are the channels I don't listen to.
XM has commercials on all stations.
This is incorrect. XM apparently has commercials on the talk channels. I don't listen to the talk channels, so I can't confirm. XM has no commercials on their own music channels. There are limited commercials on the stations provided by Clear Channel.
For the price of Sirius, I can buy a CD a month. In 4 months, I have a bigger variety then what they play anyhow.
Obviously not a recent release.
Then there's the question of how you know what to buy. I live in one of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. and there is no jazz station on the radio. A local college station plays a few hours of jazz a week, but that's it. If I want to hear new jazz, I have two choices:
1) Go to a B&N once a week and rummage through the CDs, looking for new CDs.
2) Buy a subscription to Sirius or XM, which in my case is XM since that's the radio that came standard in my vehicle.
Just scheduling the changes, writing change plans (with rollbacks), and dealing with randomness (failed disks, etc.) takes serious time. This new law was a very BAD IDEA.
You've had over a year to plan for it.
Yet, if your car failed to start if you weren't buckled up, people would go ballistic
You don't remember 1974 in the U.S.?
For a few years beginning with 1974 model year cars, the cars were required by federal law to only start if the driver and front seat passenger, if any, had fastened their seatbelt.