"le garage George" was "George's garage" in the 50s.
There were alot more English speaking people in Quebec back then, 25% throughout the province, and 50% in Montreal. Now it's more like 10%/35%.
These laws were brought in place by the French majority with the goal of oppressing the english and encouraging them to leave. And it worked, they have driven hundreds of thousands of english people out of the province over the past 30 years, myself included last year.
after all, it is the language that the great majority of people in that province speak!
Spoken like a true oppressor. If we follow your logic, the federal government should pass laws enforcing the use of english since the great majority of people speak English in Canada.
Oh what, now you don't think things are fair?
Now, I still fail to see how insisting that both languages be used somehow hinders your free speech... just speak freely in both languages!
That is complete utter crap. The provicial government passed laws banning the use of english signs, the law was over ruled in the early 90's when some people complained to the U.N. and the U.N. forced the Quebec governement to change it's laws. That's the only reason english signs are allowed. If the P.Q. fundamentalist had their way, it would even be illegal for english schools to exist.
It is a simple matter of preventing a strong culture to disappear amidst the mass of american culture surrounding it.
If a culture is strong, it does not need protection. The English Canadian Culture does quite well without any protection and we are even more exposed to american influence then the french. I still insist on using "colour" and "night", not "color" and "nite"; I like hockey, not basketball (well, technically that's Canadian too); I drink Beer, not watered down horse piss; guns suck, healthcare rulez, etc, etc.
How many Canadians do you see wrapping themselves in the American flags saying "Praise the Lord, pass me my gun"?
There is nothing to it about preventing free speech.
The U.N dissagreed.
btw, on the suject of the article, this is not the first time the Language Police has gone after internet sites, the first and most famous case was against microbytes.
Why are all Hollywood encryption schemes so vulnerable to hacking, while Slashdot fav's such as SSH and PGP/GPG immune?
They are both fundamentaly different.
SSH/PGP work on public/private key basis; You give people your public key, they encypt using the public key, but only you can decrypt since only you know the private key, and only the private key can be used to decrypt.
HE (Hollywood Encryption - CSS in particular) works the other way around. Only they have the encyption key, but everyone (e.g. dvd players) have the decrytion key (infact, there's actually multiple decryption keys). The point is that programs which decrypt, will need to store the key in some maner to access the media. This places the key in a vunerable state.
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>>Whenever a plantiff brings a suit so laughable it's dismissed, they SHOULD have to pay out the ass.
>Wow, that would actually be a shitload of money, right?
No, the losing lawyers, company executives and shareholders should be forced to eat the settlement in the form of nickels, dimes, quarters, and loonies (a.k.a. dollar coin), and have the pleasure of paying out the ass.
Laptops already do this, and do it quite well. The efficiency of eliminating the DC-AC-DC conversion allows my laptop's "UPS" to last between 2-3 hours when a blackout occurs (well the power saving features of the laptop helps too).
I guess one of the problems with desktops is that the monitors still require AC power, so it'd be useless to have a battery integrated in to the box if it didn't have a DC-AC converter to supply power for the monitor. Then the power wasted to power the Monitor would probably make the savings from skipping the DC-AC-DC conversion for the computer not very worth while.
If you had a DC powered LCD screen, on the other hand, then it would probably make sense.
MS is smart. Since all new Office can read old Office documents, but not vice versa,
Office 2000 had a compatible word format to 97. And I remember a patch was available from Microsoft for office 95 to allow it to import word97 files. Excel/access/etc may be a different story though.
Well, from the telco perspective, they invented a technology (DSL) that allows them to make additional profit from copper networks that *they* built at great expense over the last 80 years. The fact that 3rd parties can get a cut off this network is more of a regulatory miricle than anything else.
But during those 80 years the imcumbents had a government backed monopoly (at least here in canada, so it was a "Public" network. The recent shift in policy tried to undo this but seems to have failed. The consumers funded the creation of the monopoly network, so we should be able to have the choice of an alternate carrier.
I also think the last kilometre (or "mile") are now belongs to the customer (can anyone confirm?), the imcubents are supposed to allow free access to the lines for servicing. The CLECs can either re-route to their own facilities, or lease space from the ILECs at a "fair" rate.
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I saw a report on BCTV the other night (the software was made in BC). From what I saw, the software seems to use and/or be developed on a Micros~1 operating system. So it looks like our reputation for building reliable rebotic arms now lies in the hands of micros~1. Scary.
(oh, one cool thing is that they can do software updates remotely. I wonder how long until the arm gets hacked, anyone care to start a pool?)
Though many AMD users have either burnt or cracked their chips
This sounds odd, you'd think the problems with running cpus at such high temps would be timing related. Mechanicaly, it should be able to go well pass 125C (At the semi I work at, we frequently stress our devices up to 125C (using a temperature forcing "thermonics" system). The chip run slower than normal, but they still run and show no signs of mechanical failure. Plus for operating life reliability data, we also burn-in the chips at 125C for 1000 hours).
... It's the diet coke of cool; only one calorie, not quite cool enough;-)
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Are you sure you're not thinking of wireless ethernet, a.k.a IEEE 802.11b? I can't seem to find any bluetooh products on intel's site. Could you provide a link?
I wonder if these 250000 units count in IDC's OS shipment survey. Is so, this, combined with the tivo and other embedded devices, will surely give a boost to Linux' 2001 numbers.
Why the hell can't they just put the author, title and song list on right on the CD? Audio-Data hybrid CDs are possible, surely they could use this to put a file on the CD that would contain all the important information and still maintain backward compatibility.
This seems like too obvious an idea, maybe I should patent it;-)
How does that happen? You're a student, yet can afford a $3k (US) monitor?
University education is ALOT cheaper here in Canada, the Government pays 80-90% of tuition fees. Some people live with their parents too, so they don't have to pay rent/food/bills/etc, leaving them with money to spend on toys.
As for the LCD vs. CRT thing, I have a laptop with a 15" 1400x1050 display, it's crisp like you wouldn't beleive. The viewing angle thing is the only negative that I have with them. Though, it's advantages more than makes up for its for it's disadvantages (lighter, smaller, no alignment/rotation/focus problems, no flicker-headaches, etc.).
What's up with this, I just noticed that I was still in PDT, it seems we have to change between Standard and Daylight time manually via our preferences. You'd think they could have put a check box to enable an automatic change over.
just a bunch of whores to Bell Canada and Shaw Cable
Don't forget
Microsoft too. That's right, if you want to listen to CRTC hearings over the net, you'll need to have a WiMP supported OS. So much for a commision who's
mandate includes evaluating and approving open standards (NTSC, FM, etc) to "ensure that all Canadians have access to a wide variety of high quality Canadian programming."
I guess that doesn't include their programming and the internet (ok, hearings aren't "high quality", but still, there some hypocrisy here, no? ).
This reminds me of a "who wants to be a millionaire" question:
"a kilobyte is this many bytes:
A:2
B:100
C:1000
D:1000000"
contestant: "oh, that's a tough one, i'm going to have to call my friend, he's a computer Expert"
friend:"gee I don't know, I think it might be 1000, I'm only 50% sure"
The "expert" friend must have been an MSCE to be 50% sure, but the anwser was technically correct
Binary SI Prefixes in this case are Ki
and Mi, or spelled out kibi and mebi. The new standard is only a few years old, and
I still have not seen it used anywhere. But this is definitely
a good thing as it will reduce the posibility of confusion (hopefully).
BTW, in telecom, they also usually use the base 10 SI unit (e.g. 8kb/sec = 8000bits/sec).
I think lending copies or playing it for people also falls under fair use.
Distributing copies on a small scale may also be legal (or just not enforcable). But there must obviously be some point at which copying becomes illegal, whether you're making any money off of it or not. The other AC reply to my post point out that (in the US anyway) there actually is an abitrary limit set for such activity, a Freedom I wasn't aware I had. Thanks ACs.
Bzzzt! Not freedom. Abuse of copyright laws, more like
Bzzzt! It's called Fair Use, You are allowed to make copies of copyrighted material for your own private use. In old tech, this was recording a TV show for later viewing, making copies of your CDs for your car, quoting a paragraph from a book for a book review, etc, etc. Copyright protection schemes are taking away the fair use Freedom that we have been taking for granted for years.
If someone streams something too you, you should be able to record it for later viewing/listening. This is fair use. On the other hand, if you turn around and give copies to other people, this is piracy.
If its as simple as you suggest, then why hasn't anybody written a decoder or player for Linux? There
must be something preventing people from creating an wma2mp3 converter.
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I thought they tried to go after some businesses in Montreal's Chinatown once, I don't know what ever came of it.
There were alot more English speaking people in Quebec back then, 25% throughout the province, and 50% in Montreal. Now it's more like 10%/35%. These laws were brought in place by the French majority with the goal of oppressing the english and encouraging them to leave. And it worked, they have driven hundreds of thousands of english people out of the province over the past 30 years, myself included last year.
after all, it is the language that the great majority of people in that province speak!
Spoken like a true oppressor. If we follow your logic, the federal government should pass laws enforcing the use of english since the great majority of people speak English in Canada. Oh what, now you don't think things are fair?
Now, I still fail to see how insisting that both languages be used somehow hinders your free speech... just speak freely in both languages!
That is complete utter crap. The provicial government passed laws banning the use of english signs, the law was over ruled in the early 90's when some people complained to the U.N. and the U.N. forced the Quebec governement to change it's laws. That's the only reason english signs are allowed. If the P.Q. fundamentalist had their way, it would even be illegal for english schools to exist.
It is a simple matter of preventing a strong culture to disappear amidst the mass of american culture surrounding it.
If a culture is strong, it does not need protection. The English Canadian Culture does quite well without any protection and we are even more exposed to american influence then the french. I still insist on using "colour" and "night", not "color" and "nite"; I like hockey, not basketball (well, technically that's Canadian too); I drink Beer, not watered down horse piss; guns suck, healthcare rulez, etc, etc. How many Canadians do you see wrapping themselves in the American flags saying "Praise the Lord, pass me my gun"?
There is nothing to it about preventing free speech.
The U.N dissagreed.
btw, on the suject of the article, this is not the first time the Language Police has gone after internet sites, the first and most famous case was against microbytes.
They are both fundamentaly different.
SSH/PGP work on public/private key basis; You give people your public key, they encypt using the public key, but only you can decrypt since only you know the private key, and only the private key can be used to decrypt.
HE (Hollywood Encryption - CSS in particular) works the other way around. Only they have the encyption key, but everyone (e.g. dvd players) have the decrytion key (infact, there's actually multiple decryption keys). The point is that programs which decrypt, will need to store the key in some maner to access the media. This places the key in a vunerable state.
Have you been sleeping under a rock?:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensou rce/
IBM's a big company, it'll take a while yet to fully steer the company into a different direction.
>Wow, that would actually be a shitload of money, right?
No, the losing lawyers, company executives and shareholders should be forced to eat the settlement in the form of nickels, dimes, quarters, and loonies (a.k.a. dollar coin), and have the pleasure of paying out the ass.
I guess one of the problems with desktops is that the monitors still require AC power, so it'd be useless to have a battery integrated in to the box if it didn't have a DC-AC converter to supply power for the monitor. Then the power wasted to power the Monitor would probably make the savings from skipping the DC-AC-DC conversion for the computer not very worth while.
If you had a DC powered LCD screen, on the other hand, then it would probably make sense.
Office 2000 had a compatible word format to 97. And I remember a patch was available from Microsoft for office 95 to allow it to import word97 files. Excel/access/etc may be a different story though.
the lcd in the I8k is made by IBM...
4. First we Won (the right to be microsoft free)
3. Then we fought (the hardware manufactures to release specs so that we could support more hardware)
2. Now we are laughing at microsoft for running around waiving their hands and pissing their pants scared.
1. Next we'll ignore them :-)
But during those 80 years the imcumbents had a government backed monopoly (at least here in canada, so it was a "Public" network. The recent shift in policy tried to undo this but seems to have failed. The consumers funded the creation of the monopoly network, so we should be able to have the choice of an alternate carrier.
I also think the last kilometre (or "mile") are now belongs to the customer (can anyone confirm?), the imcubents are supposed to allow free access to the lines for servicing. The CLECs can either re-route to their own facilities, or lease space from the ILECs at a "fair" rate.
(oh, one cool thing is that they can do software updates remotely. I wonder how long until the arm gets hacked, anyone care to start a pool?)
This sounds odd, you'd think the problems with running cpus at such high temps would be timing related. Mechanicaly, it should be able to go well pass 125C (At the semi I work at, we frequently stress our devices up to 125C (using a temperature forcing "thermonics" system). The chip run slower than normal, but they still run and show no signs of mechanical failure. Plus for operating life reliability data, we also burn-in the chips at 125C for 1000 hours).
... It's the diet coke of cool; only one calorie, not quite cool enough ;-)
Are you sure you're not thinking of wireless ethernet, a.k.a IEEE 802.11b? I can't seem to find any bluetooh products on intel's site. Could you provide a link?
I wonder if these 250000 units count in IDC's OS shipment survey. Is so, this, combined with the tivo and other embedded devices, will surely give a boost to Linux' 2001 numbers.
I've been wondering the same thing. Why can't they be black or green papers?
This seems like too obvious an idea, maybe I should patent it ;-)
University education is ALOT cheaper here in Canada, the Government pays 80-90% of tuition fees. Some people live with their parents too, so they don't have to pay rent/food/bills/etc, leaving them with money to spend on toys.
As for the LCD vs. CRT thing, I have a laptop with a 15" 1400x1050 display, it's crisp like you wouldn't beleive. The viewing angle thing is the only negative that I have with them. Though, it's advantages more than makes up for its for it's disadvantages (lighter, smaller, no alignment/rotation/focus problems, no flicker-headaches, etc.).
What's up with this, I just noticed that I was still in PDT, it seems we have to change between Standard and Daylight time manually via our preferences. You'd think they could have put a check box to enable an automatic change over.
Don't forget Microsoft too. That's right, if you want to listen to CRTC hearings over the net, you'll need to have a WiMP supported OS. So much for a commision who's mandate includes evaluating and approving open standards (NTSC, FM, etc) to "ensure that all Canadians have access to a wide variety of high quality Canadian programming."
I guess that doesn't include their programming and the internet (ok, hearings aren't "high quality", but still, there some hypocrisy here, no? ).
This reminds me of a "who wants to be a millionaire" question:
"a kilobyte is this many bytes:
A:2
B:100
C:1000
D:1000000"
contestant: "oh, that's a tough one, i'm going to have to call my friend, he's a computer Expert"
friend:"gee I don't know, I think it might be 1000, I'm only 50% sure"
The "expert" friend must have been an MSCE to be 50% sure, but the anwser was technically correct
Binary SI Prefixes in this case are Ki and Mi, or spelled out kibi and mebi. The new standard is only a few years old, and I still have not seen it used anywhere. But this is definitely a good thing as it will reduce the posibility of confusion (hopefully).
BTW, in telecom, they also usually use the base 10 SI unit (e.g. 8kb/sec = 8000bits/sec).
Distributing copies on a small scale may also be legal (or just not enforcable). But there must obviously be some point at which copying becomes illegal, whether you're making any money off of it or not. The other AC reply to my post point out that (in the US anyway) there actually is an abitrary limit set for such activity, a Freedom I wasn't aware I had. Thanks ACs.
Bzzzt! It's called Fair Use, You are allowed to make copies of copyrighted material for your own private use. In old tech, this was recording a TV show for later viewing, making copies of your CDs for your car, quoting a paragraph from a book for a book review, etc, etc. Copyright protection schemes are taking away the fair use Freedom that we have been taking for granted for years.
If someone streams something too you, you should be able to record it for later viewing/listening. This is fair use. On the other hand, if you turn around and give copies to other people, this is piracy.
If its as simple as you suggest, then why hasn't anybody written a decoder or player for Linux? There must be something preventing people from creating an wma2mp3 converter.
With my cable modem it's WAY faster for me to download copies then rip them from my CDs.
Futhermore, music piracy is just as popular with the "old frontier" people (windoze users?) as it is by us "new frontier" people.