Addendum: by saying I have 6-12 paycheques saved up, I'm counting the money I have in a 1-year GIC plus the money in a high-interest savings account. I'd have to be crazy to keep it all in chequing:P
It would be (4) for me. I'm quite pleased with myself since I'm just a lowly grad student (making about 20000 CAD per year). But, I have a dream. I only have to save up another 50 or 60 paycheques and I'll have enough for a down payment on a house! I wish I were kidding:( (for some reason the banks aren't too keen on giving huge mortgages at low interest rates to people with grad student incomes, bah!)
Generally speaking, free software is not used under licence. For example, you do not have to accept the terms of the GPL to use GPL'd software. This is what Richard Stallman calls "freedom 0": the freedom to use a piece of software without accepting the licence it's released under.
an instance of growing or making greater, as quoted from my dictionary. For instance, if you started out with one apple and someone gave you another apple, we would say that there was an increase in the number of apples you had. Applied to democracy, if the people (the "demo" in "democracy") were not able to vote, and then they were given the ability to vote, we would say there was a democratic increase.
Is that similar to the "increase" in freedom we (and Iraq) have experienced?
No. I realize you're trying to be oh-so-cool cynical, but no. Just because some words are often used for political advantage, that does not mean they don't have meaning. It just means they've been used inappropriately.
They had to buy new stuff. And even the article admits some of the money went to training. This isn't necessarily an indication that the higher costs are inherent, just that switching to something new has an initial cost. It would make more sense to see how the costs changed over, e.g., 10 year periods than just after the new technology was introduced.
Personally I think the higher cost would be justified if it led to an increase in democracy. As another poster mentioned, the US is a rich country. If there are demonstrable benefits to the new technology, I would bias in favour of it, even at increased cost.
The big problem, of course, is that the machines are not only expensive, but terrible. They seem to be a step backwards in democracy, not forwards. I live in Canada where we use pencil-and-paper ballots and they work beautifully for our purposes. I can't imagine switching to anything electronic at this point, as it would surely be a step backwards.
Why would you suggest Paris Hilton is stupid? It's an honest question. Because the character she portrays on "reality" TV is stupid? Because she doesn't wear underwear? Because she doesn't have a job? None of those suggest stupidity to me.
I'm not saying Paris Hilton is a genius, but I've yet to find any evidence that she's an idiot. People who accuse her of being stupid, in my experience, tend to be the type that are intimidated by or easily manipulated by the blonde, bubbly, slut stereotype. She's picked an image and exploits it to her full advantage. Yes, she's blonde. Yes, she toys with men. Yes, her childhood was handed to her on a silver platter. None of that to me suggests stupidity.
Consider that Paris Hilton is rumoured to be dubbed "the most overrated celebrity" by the Guinness Book of World Records. She has attained a huge amount of fame and fortune (not all of it inherited) by doing absolutely nothing but playing the media. That doesn't sound like stupid to me.
That sounds pretty good. The only division I might make is with addressable memory. The HuC6280 (used in the TurboGrafx 16) had a 64KiB (16-bit) logical address space, but a 2MiB (21-bit) physical address space. This meant it had an 8-bit data bus (and 8-bit registers), a 16-bit logical address bus and a 21-bit physical address bus.
Actually I don't know the specifics, but the Pentium 3's 36-bit physical address space might be a similar situation (since it only has a 32-bit logical address space).
No, that's not how trademark works. A trademark exists only within an industry (a "trade", if you will). E.g., I could start up a fast-food restaurant called Microsoft or a software company called McDonald's and both would be perfectly fine. Microsoft's trademarks exist only within the software industry, and McDonald's exist only in the food industry. T-Mobile is going after engadget because the two of them are in the same industry and hence are fighting over the same trademarks.
I had POVRay's model in mind. E.g., you can describe an object as being x^2 = z - y, or you can describe it as being a triangle, or you can intersect the two. Tis quite beautiful, but doesn't apply well to rastering me thinks (probably you'd just approximate the functions to polygons, but approximation takes all the fun out of it).
Can this mean finally we don't have to awkwardly try to construct things out of polygons which are more naturally described as functions? Down with polygons!
I agree with your sentiment, but it's not entirely accurate to say you don't get to choose how your power is generated. A lot of jurisdictions will allow you to pay a higher rate for power and the guarantee that the money goes to, for example, wind farms.
First of all, Apple's devices are the only ones out there that produce smug. Measuring greenness based on smug output is unfair to Apple.
Secondly, what? The amount of power a device consumes and the source of the power are completely independent things. There's no reason for them to be considered in the same breath.
Not to harsh on your post's buzz (getting stuff from newegg quickly is pretty sweet), but:
Unlike in the US, there is no federal minimum wage in Canada. In fact (IANAL, but I think) it would be unconstitutional for Canada to have a minimum wage.
There is no province or territory in Canada that has a minimum wage close to $11. The highest minimum wage is in Nunavut ($8.37) where the cost of living is extraordinarily high. The typical minimum wage in Canada is about $8 (or less for what the province might consider inexperienced or student workers).
Also, I can't think of any reason why it would be illegal to hire workers for a month and a half.
Could it just be that newegg is a better company than NCIX, nationality aside?
Maybe I'm a bit ignorant about this, but so far as I know, CBC losing revenue doesn't mean they automatically get more funding. It just means they lose revenue. If I'm not mistaken, changing the amount of money the CBC gets from public sources would require an act of parliament. That's why the CBC has been trying to squeeze out more advertising dollars in recent years.
I think "you're" idea of sudo is a bit shallow. sudo is not just "enter root password and run application as root". Still, it's a good point. runas does have some utility.
That's because the 5 languages he chose are all exactly the same language. Specifically, they're all imperative languages, i.e., languages with statements and variables. Try writing the same thing in languages without statements or variables and I think you'd find that they differ in more than just their syntax.
I have no doubt that Windows has nice foundations, but this never seems to translate into my experience as an end-user. I use a W2K machine at work and quite frankly I spend probably close to 10% of my time there as an administrator. I need to set Thunderbird to be the default mail reader or something. Most of it is just installing new software.
Quite frankly, I've yet to find Windows as good as sudo when it comes to limiting my time as root. On Linux, if I need to execute a 2 second command as root, I run sudo and it takes 2 seconds. On Windows, somehow it's more involved. I end up logging out and logging in as administrator. Then I end up browsing (yikes!) to the download site as administrator to download the installer.
I'm sure it's possible to do all this as a non-privileged user, but Microsoft seems to be trying their hardest to make it inconvenient. Whatever their theoretical underpinnings, Microsoft could take some UI lessons from the Linux folks. They shouldn't be working against the user.
What does the underlying security model have anything to do with idiots running Windows as administrator?
Everything. People run as administrator because they have to.
How is your "poor Windows security model" different than someone running Linux as root?
It's different in that a user does not have to run as root in Linux to get useful work done.
Ever tried to debug as an unprivileged user on W2K? Ever tried to install software? Just what is the Windows equivalent of sudo that ships standard with Windows XP?
Windows is secure once you spend 1 minute creating a non administrator account.
Let me correct that for you: Windows won't let you do anything of substance once you're running as non-administrator. That is the problem.
Disclaimer: this situation has changed somewhat in recent years. However, considering the number of Windows user still running W2K or Windows XP (and for good reason), it's still concerning.
I'd like to get in before too many people start throwing around the term "1984" as if this had anything but the most tenuous connection to the book 1984. Have any of you actually read the book? Not every erosion of privacy is "1984", you know.
Sigh. Anyway. The matter at hand.
I am a former criminal myself, so this matter hits close to home. When I was in my adolescence, I was arrested for breaking and entering, and there was a lot more I did that I didn't get caught for, of course. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm quite successful now, if I say so myself. In my opinion, there are two major reasons why I'm not dead or in jail right now: the John Howard Society (prisoner's rights organization in the Commonwealth), and the Young Offender's Act (which helps keeps the under-18 out of jail).
Being branded as a "criminal" is a big deal. Through the two entities I just mentioned, I spent less than a day in jail and got mandatory counselling and restitution in lieu. I think one of the biggest factors in me turning my life around is that I wasn't branded for the rest of my life. I don't have a record; I don't have to report myself to neighbours. I'm just a regular citizen. It's quite empowering being a regular, fruitful citizen.
What I'm getting at is, even though I avoided it, I recognize the power of stigma. Even if there aren't any concrete restrictions on these kids, just knowing that you're one of the "bad kids" will fuck you up for life. There's no way these kids aren't going to find out they're one of the "bad kids", and once you're branded, it's a really hard uphill battle to get out of that stigma. Everyone looks at them differently; everyone treats them differently. I wouldn't envy them.
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Addendum: by saying I have 6-12 paycheques saved up, I'm counting the money I have in a 1-year GIC plus the money in a high-interest savings account. I'd have to be crazy to keep it all in chequing :P
It would be (4) for me. I'm quite pleased with myself since I'm just a lowly grad student (making about 20000 CAD per year). But, I have a dream. I only have to save up another 50 or 60 paycheques and I'll have enough for a down payment on a house! I wish I were kidding :( (for some reason the banks aren't too keen on giving huge mortgages at low interest rates to people with grad student incomes, bah!)
Generally speaking, free software is not used under licence. For example, you do not have to accept the terms of the GPL to use GPL'd software. This is what Richard Stallman calls "freedom 0": the freedom to use a piece of software without accepting the licence it's released under.
an instance of growing or making greater, as quoted from my dictionary. For instance, if you started out with one apple and someone gave you another apple, we would say that there was an increase in the number of apples you had. Applied to democracy, if the people (the "demo" in "democracy") were not able to vote, and then they were given the ability to vote, we would say there was a democratic increase.
No. I realize you're trying to be oh-so-cool cynical, but no. Just because some words are often used for political advantage, that does not mean they don't have meaning. It just means they've been used inappropriately.
They had to buy new stuff. And even the article admits some of the money went to training. This isn't necessarily an indication that the higher costs are inherent, just that switching to something new has an initial cost. It would make more sense to see how the costs changed over, e.g., 10 year periods than just after the new technology was introduced.
Personally I think the higher cost would be justified if it led to an increase in democracy. As another poster mentioned, the US is a rich country. If there are demonstrable benefits to the new technology, I would bias in favour of it, even at increased cost.
The big problem, of course, is that the machines are not only expensive, but terrible. They seem to be a step backwards in democracy, not forwards. I live in Canada where we use pencil-and-paper ballots and they work beautifully for our purposes. I can't imagine switching to anything electronic at this point, as it would surely be a step backwards.
Why would you suggest Paris Hilton is stupid? It's an honest question. Because the character she portrays on "reality" TV is stupid? Because she doesn't wear underwear? Because she doesn't have a job? None of those suggest stupidity to me.
I'm not saying Paris Hilton is a genius, but I've yet to find any evidence that she's an idiot. People who accuse her of being stupid, in my experience, tend to be the type that are intimidated by or easily manipulated by the blonde, bubbly, slut stereotype. She's picked an image and exploits it to her full advantage. Yes, she's blonde. Yes, she toys with men. Yes, her childhood was handed to her on a silver platter. None of that to me suggests stupidity.
Consider that Paris Hilton is rumoured to be dubbed "the most overrated celebrity" by the Guinness Book of World Records. She has attained a huge amount of fame and fortune (not all of it inherited) by doing absolutely nothing but playing the media. That doesn't sound like stupid to me.
That sounds pretty good. The only division I might make is with addressable memory. The HuC6280 (used in the TurboGrafx 16) had a 64KiB (16-bit) logical address space, but a 2MiB (21-bit) physical address space. This meant it had an 8-bit data bus (and 8-bit registers), a 16-bit logical address bus and a 21-bit physical address bus.
Actually I don't know the specifics, but the Pentium 3's 36-bit physical address space might be a similar situation (since it only has a 32-bit logical address space).
No, that's not how trademark works. A trademark exists only within an industry (a "trade", if you will). E.g., I could start up a fast-food restaurant called Microsoft or a software company called McDonald's and both would be perfectly fine. Microsoft's trademarks exist only within the software industry, and McDonald's exist only in the food industry. T-Mobile is going after engadget because the two of them are in the same industry and hence are fighting over the same trademarks.
I had POVRay's model in mind. E.g., you can describe an object as being x^2 = z - y, or you can describe it as being a triangle, or you can intersect the two. Tis quite beautiful, but doesn't apply well to rastering me thinks (probably you'd just approximate the functions to polygons, but approximation takes all the fun out of it).
Can this mean finally we don't have to awkwardly try to construct things out of polygons which are more naturally described as functions? Down with polygons!
I agree with your sentiment, but it's not entirely accurate to say you don't get to choose how your power is generated. A lot of jurisdictions will allow you to pay a higher rate for power and the guarantee that the money goes to, for example, wind farms.
I think that was the (deliberate) joke, hence the *cough* at the end.
First of all, Apple's devices are the only ones out there that produce smug. Measuring greenness based on smug output is unfair to Apple.
Secondly, what? The amount of power a device consumes and the source of the power are completely independent things. There's no reason for them to be considered in the same breath.
Sorry, Nunavut's minimum wage is $8.50, not $8.37.
Not to harsh on your post's buzz (getting stuff from newegg quickly is pretty sweet), but:
Also, I can't think of any reason why it would be illegal to hire workers for a month and a half.
Could it just be that newegg is a better company than NCIX, nationality aside?
Maybe I'm a bit ignorant about this, but so far as I know, CBC losing revenue doesn't mean they automatically get more funding. It just means they lose revenue. If I'm not mistaken, changing the amount of money the CBC gets from public sources would require an act of parliament. That's why the CBC has been trying to squeeze out more advertising dollars in recent years.
Sorry, I meant the 5 languages that the GP poster mentioned, not the 5 languages mentioned in the article.
I think "you're" idea of sudo is a bit shallow. sudo is not just "enter root password and run application as root". Still, it's a good point. runas does have some utility.
That's because the 5 languages he chose are all exactly the same language. Specifically, they're all imperative languages, i.e., languages with statements and variables. Try writing the same thing in languages without statements or variables and I think you'd find that they differ in more than just their syntax.
Ahh thank you. That doesn't seem so bad.
Thank you!
I have no doubt that Windows has nice foundations, but this never seems to translate into my experience as an end-user. I use a W2K machine at work and quite frankly I spend probably close to 10% of my time there as an administrator. I need to set Thunderbird to be the default mail reader or something. Most of it is just installing new software.
Quite frankly, I've yet to find Windows as good as sudo when it comes to limiting my time as root. On Linux, if I need to execute a 2 second command as root, I run sudo and it takes 2 seconds. On Windows, somehow it's more involved. I end up logging out and logging in as administrator. Then I end up browsing (yikes!) to the download site as administrator to download the installer.
I'm sure it's possible to do all this as a non-privileged user, but Microsoft seems to be trying their hardest to make it inconvenient. Whatever their theoretical underpinnings, Microsoft could take some UI lessons from the Linux folks. They shouldn't be working against the user.
Everything. People run as administrator because they have to.
It's different in that a user does not have to run as root in Linux to get useful work done.
Ever tried to debug as an unprivileged user on W2K? Ever tried to install software? Just what is the Windows equivalent of sudo that ships standard with Windows XP?
Let me correct that for you: Windows won't let you do anything of substance once you're running as non-administrator. That is the problem.
Disclaimer: this situation has changed somewhat in recent years. However, considering the number of Windows user still running W2K or Windows XP (and for good reason), it's still concerning.
Woops. Please mod me -1, redundant. I missed the big about taking samples from all of them.
I'd like to get in before too many people start throwing around the term "1984" as if this had anything but the most tenuous connection to the book 1984. Have any of you actually read the book? Not every erosion of privacy is "1984", you know.
Sigh. Anyway. The matter at hand.
I am a former criminal myself, so this matter hits close to home. When I was in my adolescence, I was arrested for breaking and entering, and there was a lot more I did that I didn't get caught for, of course. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm quite successful now, if I say so myself. In my opinion, there are two major reasons why I'm not dead or in jail right now: the John Howard Society (prisoner's rights organization in the Commonwealth), and the Young Offender's Act (which helps keeps the under-18 out of jail).
Being branded as a "criminal" is a big deal. Through the two entities I just mentioned, I spent less than a day in jail and got mandatory counselling and restitution in lieu. I think one of the biggest factors in me turning my life around is that I wasn't branded for the rest of my life. I don't have a record; I don't have to report myself to neighbours. I'm just a regular citizen. It's quite empowering being a regular, fruitful citizen.
What I'm getting at is, even though I avoided it, I recognize the power of stigma. Even if there aren't any concrete restrictions on these kids, just knowing that you're one of the "bad kids" will fuck you up for life. There's no way these kids aren't going to find out they're one of the "bad kids", and once you're branded, it's a really hard uphill battle to get out of that stigma. Everyone looks at them differently; everyone treats them differently. I wouldn't envy them.
Please, won't somebody think of the children?!