As a canadian, I'd like to point out that RIM's single largest customer is the US government in various forms (military, civilian, etc). The contract is probably worth a hundred million dollars. I'd be complacent for that much money.
What RIM has to do is offer to have french government blackberries to go through servers in france.
That's all configurable with ZFS. with the blocksize option at creation time. much easier ufs on top of veritas.
From the zfs docs:
The ZFS adaptive replacement cache (ARC) tries to use most of a system's available memory to cache file system data. The default is to use all of physical memory except 1 Gbyte. As memory pressure increases, the ARC relinquishes memory.
ZFS backs off when something else needs the memory. Still configurable if you want, though.
You are right to a certain extent, but you have to realized that current file systems are old and clunky. For a desktop or a few non-critical servers moving to the new tech is a great idea. Down the road, when ZFS is more mature and understood, it's going to be a welcome addition to most production setups. If you ran real-world mission-critical prod setups needing high availability you'd understand.
Imaging you have a huge medical database on several servers and are running out of disk space. To expand, you need to plug in new hard drives, create RAID setups, create partions, move data over, restart the database, verify again and again, downtimes, etc. You can easily and efficiently grow file systems (unless you're using an expensive piece of software like veritas volume manager. With zfs, all I need to do to expand disk space in current WORKING filesytems is:
zpool add oraclefs mirror c1t1d0 c2t1d0
No luns to deal with. No other filesystem bullshit. You have no idea how excited this makes me for services that require large amounts of growing storage.
Read up on zfs here: zfshttp://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/> It is the best thing to come out of Sun in a long time.
In europe it's regulated through the EU. The fact that there were so many different countries with difference cell phone standards is specifically why the europeans got together, created GSM, and then mandated it for all member states so that there would be sleamlessness.
"(e.g. bringng in medicare like every other developed nation)"
I.e. North Korea, Cuba, and the defunct Soviet Union? I guess there's Canada too (and what a crappy system it is, I can tell you as a Canadian).
ie Japan,New Zealand,Australia,Luxembourg,Ireland,Denmark,Austr ia,Finland,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,France,Italy,Spain,Greece.
Canada has a system where there is also very little private delivery of health care and is against the law to bill the end user for health care that the government provides. Most other countries allow private delivery in parallel to their universal themes.
Befor the advent of digital, Nikon ruled the high end photography market. However, with the advent of digital, canon tool it's background in sensors (scanners, etc) and an already established photography market and just plain pulled ahead. They have better image stabalization, lower noise, and more advanced lenses. Next time you're at a sporting event, you'll see red rings around the edges of most of the leses. These are Canon's L series lenses, which are their "luxury" or high end lenses. There's a reason they're used extensivley.
Now that being said, the Nikons are still fine cameras/lenses and their IS isn't shitty or the cameras aren't extremely noisey. If you had a pile of Nikon lenses already and were looking to make the switch to digital, there's nothing wrong with continueing with a nikon camera. If you were starting fresh now, I'd go with Canon.
Precicely. OpenBSD's approach to security is to fix bugs because most security holes are quite plainly software bugs/poor coding. Porting your software on differnet architectures, little/big endians, etc can show some pretty nifty bugs or bad design that could be exploited across platforms.
Plus, having good portable code makes it easier to port to new architectures that have expanded security support like W^X.
A 15 or 20 minute delay makes a stock price useless
Nonesense. I suggest you read "the intelligent investor" by Benjamin Graham. I think Warren Buffet knows more about investing than you do.
Well I would argue that Steve Jobs did at one time have an amazing company completely centred around good technology. Anybody who has had the furtune to have used NEXTSTEP in a real environment knows what I am talking about. (Poor) Marketing is what has burned Jobs in the past.
The issue with the XSERVE is that you only truely want it if you really need it. It's not a drop in replacement for a windows back-office network. I'm still waiting for an exchange killer from apple. They have the potential...
I think you're confusing share price with value of the company, a common misconception to those who don't fully understand the stock market. Google's share price may be higher than that of ford or GM, but those auto companies have a LOT more shares, my friend.
There are some stocks that have share prices in the tens of thousands of dollars. The owners don't split it, because they feel that would leave the company at the mercy of the "idiot masses" so they keep the share price out of range, but these companies have a lot fewer shares.
How about this: a regressive income tax system that takes the poorer at a higher percentage but lower amount than those with more income than, then? You'd see prosperity abound in the US. That's Economics 101.
Which would drive up wages, which would drive up inflation, which would hurt the economy, which would NOT cause prosperity. In the whole process, you'd be taking even more money from the people who have the least, making the problem even worse. That's Economics 201.
Taxes are very complicated. They not only affect behavior (ie taxing cigarettes usually decreases smoking rates, but also increases smuggling), but can have large unforseen consequences.
Many flat tax advocates push for a single national sales tax (for both goods and services) in the USA to replace income taxes. Everybody pays the same percent, so it's fair, right? Well the poorer you get, the greater the percentage of your income you pay on consumption. That means you pay a greater percentage of your income. Exempting certain things (food/clothes/rent), may sound good at first, but now you've exempted the majority of transactions. Replacing income tax with a sales tax that is too high, you may create an underground market. Replacing it with one that's too low, you may not be able to bring in enough revenue anymore.
See how complicated this gets? If it were only so simple to tax poverty to eliminate it. They've tried it before (with different intentions and methods) long ago. It caused revolutions.
90% of convictions involve this kind of police work, not the CSI-type "it's all wrapped up in a week" stuff.
Now they can compare these (and possibly several more pictures that we haven't seen) and narrow it down. The police (who frequent internet child porn rings to help keep tabs on things) may have first seen these pictures turn up around 2001, so they know it would be before 2001. Perhaps that fountain was recently renovated? If it shows the "old fountain" in the pic, then they know it was taken before X date. They go on from there. Then they can take a list of all the people that visited the hotel from records and cross it with a database of known offenders from the area they think the guy is from. They may get lucky. They may even catch the guy for a separate offense and link him back to this. Maybe the hotel archives it's security tapes (unlikely, but you never know) and they can sift through until they see somebody take a picture at the fountain or in the elevator. Hell, this is generating a LOT of publicity, the girl may even phone in and say "OH MY GOD THAT'S ME, IT WAS MY BASTARD UNCLE". Anyways, THAT is what police work is.
The point was to edit out the girl being molested or hide the graphic nature of the photograph, not to win a photo editing contest. If they wanted, they could have spent 3 times as much money editing this, but that would have been a waste of time.
Your mom (or grandmother or great grandmother depending on your age) could have met somebody who would have otherwise died in the war an married him instead. There are a millions of possible outcomes. You COULD have still exsisted, but you more than likely would have not. Even if the same people were married, then it's possible that different circumstances could have let a different sperm get through.
Don't think too hard about the chances, it will hurt your head.
So what you say makes Toronto (and to what you say a lesser extent Vancouver) "American-like" is that:
-They have large Asian communities like some american cities.
-Toronto has a big airport (like london, amsterdam, paris, hong kong, Tokyo)
-Torontonians don't have an accent in any languages (despite it being rated as the most multicultural city in the world)
-Lots of bad traffic (like London, paris, tokyo, etc). Suburban Toronto is a boring, car-obsessed wasteland, like the suburbs anywhere. In toronto itself, there are only a handfull on highways because of the huge opposition to leveling whole neighbourhoods for them in the 60s (read up on the spadina expressway).
-Uninteresting architecture (I agree that outside of Casa Loma, U of T, and some of the older neighbourhoods with beautiful 100 year old victorian houses this is correct)
-Toronto is big (like many cities around the world), not just US ones.
-As for "uptightedness", I've had mixed results. When i first moved I learned a few things. Don't ask anybody who's in a $3000 suit for directions. They are most likely from the suburbs anyways and don't know anything outside of the immediate vicinity of their work. I've asked and been asked a hundred times for/to help and i've provided it every time. If you want to meet truely great people, go into the independant stores and shops. It's the same as any big city, they want your business, it's not like McDonalds where they think you'll come back any time whether your treated like shit or not. The rudest people I've ever met are still from Montreal, but there were still plenty of nice people. I don't label the french as a bunch of jerks, because I know there is a proportionally similar amount of english ones. Of course it's the jerks you always remember.
-Cleanliness. Out of any large transit system in North America, the TTC is still the cleanest i've been on. If you compare the dirtiest parts of all major cities I think you'll find similar results.
-You say that Toronto has a lot to do...like new york. But there's a lot to do anywhere when you look hard enough. There's a lot to do in Paris. Is it therefore like NYC??
I won't disagree with you that Montreal kicks ass. In terms of architecture it is among the best that North America has to offer. I'm going there this weekend and I'm looking forward to Old Montreal. Calgary itself is so beautiful becuase of it's mountains. Toronto is so big abd has so much diversity that you can find anything you disire. Vancouver is possibly the most awsome city in North America, and I still believe that it has the most unrealized potential of any in North America. When they've fixed the crime/drug problem and their population doubles, it's going to beat almost anyting else out there.
All that being said, there are large american business influences in Toronto and Calgary. Alberta exports a lot of oil the the USA, and the GTA has a huge manufacturing economy which mostly goes south. I won't deny that there are some people who are trying to make toronto "more like new york". But there are plenty of differences and similarities to places all over the world. It's a vibrant and cosmopolitan city, and it's a place that should be visited among many others. You can't just lay blanket statements like that and not expect to get into an arguement.
So you don't have me convinced that Toronto is similar in any reasonable way any more or less than any other Candian city.
Please explain to me how Toronto is the most American-like city? Every time I call somebody who says that, they can't back it up. Explain how it's more Americanized that Calgary or Vancouver. Either way, that sounds like a very opinionated statement.
Some people feel that American isn't a proper label for somebody from the united states or America isn't a good other name for the USA, as everybody who lives there and every country is on the "american continent" or and therefore also an american. So "god bless america" means bless the whole continent?:P
As a Canadian, I really don't give a shit, because we have our own adjective (candian, duh), but many people seem to find american offensive in some manner.
so does that make every CD player taxable or does it have to say "Plays MP3's" on the product description?
Well, no. Because you already payed for the CDR with the MP3s on it. The levy was made on MP3 players because they didn't use external media. The question I'm curious about is whether there's a levy on flash media.
But anyways, what this court decided was that they didn't have the authority to levy this on the players themselves, only the media. There is still one more court that this can be appealed to (supreme).
Not if you already changed the firewall rules to stop it.:-)
If you change the firewall rules, the already open states would still be there and you'd have to kill the connection for it to stop. This new feature just gives you more fine grained control. So instead of having to flush all the open states (which would affect everything)
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As a canadian, I'd like to point out that RIM's single largest customer is the US government in various forms (military, civilian, etc). The contract is probably worth a hundred million dollars. I'd be complacent for that much money. What RIM has to do is offer to have french government blackberries to go through servers in france.
From the zfs docs:
ZFS backs off when something else needs the memory. Still configurable if you want, though.
You are right to a certain extent, but you have to realized that current file systems are old and clunky. For a desktop or a few non-critical servers moving to the new tech is a great idea. Down the road, when ZFS is more mature and understood, it's going to be a welcome addition to most production setups. If you ran real-world mission-critical prod setups needing high availability you'd understand.
Imaging you have a huge medical database on several servers and are running out of disk space. To expand, you need to plug in new hard drives, create RAID setups, create partions, move data over, restart the database, verify again and again, downtimes, etc. You can easily and efficiently grow file systems (unless you're using an expensive piece of software like veritas volume manager. With zfs, all I need to do to expand disk space in current WORKING filesytems is:
zpool add oraclefs mirror c1t1d0 c2t1d0
No luns to deal with. No other filesystem bullshit. You have no idea how excited this makes me for services that require large amounts of growing storage.
Read up on zfs here: zfshttp://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/> It is the best thing to come out of Sun in a long time.
In europe it's regulated through the EU. The fact that there were so many different countries with difference cell phone standards is specifically why the europeans got together, created GSM, and then mandated it for all member states so that there would be sleamlessness.
"(e.g. bringng in medicare like every other developed nation)"
I.e. North Korea, Cuba, and the defunct Soviet Union? I guess there's Canada too (and what a crappy system it is, I can tell you as a Canadian).
ie Japan,New Zealand,Australia,Luxembourg,Ireland,Denmark,Austr ia,Finland,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,France,Italy,Spain,Greece.
Canada has a system where there is also very little private delivery of health care and is against the law to bill the end user for health care that the government provides. Most other countries allow private delivery in parallel to their universal themes.
Versus the government resources needed to enforce this? Oh wait, war on drugs, prohibition, etc...if you make it illegal, the bad things go away.
Now that being said, the Nikons are still fine cameras/lenses and their IS isn't shitty or the cameras aren't extremely noisey. If you had a pile of Nikon lenses already and were looking to make the switch to digital, there's nothing wrong with continueing with a nikon camera. If you were starting fresh now, I'd go with Canon.
Precicely. OpenBSD's approach to security is to fix bugs because most security holes are quite plainly software bugs/poor coding. Porting your software on differnet architectures, little/big endians, etc can show some pretty nifty bugs or bad design that could be exploited across platforms. Plus, having good portable code makes it easier to port to new architectures that have expanded security support like W^X.
A 15 or 20 minute delay makes a stock price useless Nonesense. I suggest you read "the intelligent investor" by Benjamin Graham. I think Warren Buffet knows more about investing than you do.
No usless real time stock ticker (are you a speculator or investor?), links to more technical charting, links to options listings...
It's a brand new beta. Give it time for more advanced portfolio (i hope!) additions.
You've obviously never had cable TV. ;-)
Well I would argue that Steve Jobs did at one time have an amazing company completely centred around good technology. Anybody who has had the furtune to have used NEXTSTEP in a real environment knows what I am talking about. (Poor) Marketing is what has burned Jobs in the past. The issue with the XSERVE is that you only truely want it if you really need it. It's not a drop in replacement for a windows back-office network. I'm still waiting for an exchange killer from apple. They have the potential...
I think you're confusing share price with value of the company, a common misconception to those who don't fully understand the stock market. Google's share price may be higher than that of ford or GM, but those auto companies have a LOT more shares, my friend. There are some stocks that have share prices in the tens of thousands of dollars. The owners don't split it, because they feel that would leave the company at the mercy of the "idiot masses" so they keep the share price out of range, but these companies have a lot fewer shares.
Which would drive up wages, which would drive up inflation, which would hurt the economy, which would NOT cause prosperity. In the whole process, you'd be taking even more money from the people who have the least, making the problem even worse. That's Economics 201.
Taxes are very complicated. They not only affect behavior (ie taxing cigarettes usually decreases smoking rates, but also increases smuggling), but can have large unforseen consequences.
Many flat tax advocates push for a single national sales tax (for both goods and services) in the USA to replace income taxes. Everybody pays the same percent, so it's fair, right? Well the poorer you get, the greater the percentage of your income you pay on consumption. That means you pay a greater percentage of your income. Exempting certain things (food/clothes/rent), may sound good at first, but now you've exempted the majority of transactions. Replacing income tax with a sales tax that is too high, you may create an underground market. Replacing it with one that's too low, you may not be able to bring in enough revenue anymore.
See how complicated this gets? If it were only so simple to tax poverty to eliminate it. They've tried it before (with different intentions and methods) long ago. It caused revolutions.
Now they can compare these (and possibly several more pictures that we haven't seen) and narrow it down. The police (who frequent internet child porn rings to help keep tabs on things) may have first seen these pictures turn up around 2001, so they know it would be before 2001. Perhaps that fountain was recently renovated? If it shows the "old fountain" in the pic, then they know it was taken before X date. They go on from there. Then they can take a list of all the people that visited the hotel from records and cross it with a database of known offenders from the area they think the guy is from. They may get lucky. They may even catch the guy for a separate offense and link him back to this. Maybe the hotel archives it's security tapes (unlikely, but you never know) and they can sift through until they see somebody take a picture at the fountain or in the elevator. Hell, this is generating a LOT of publicity, the girl may even phone in and say "OH MY GOD THAT'S ME, IT WAS MY BASTARD UNCLE". Anyways, THAT is what police work is.
Either way, it's still better than doing nothing.
The point was to edit out the girl being molested or hide the graphic nature of the photograph, not to win a photo editing contest. If they wanted, they could have spent 3 times as much money editing this, but that would have been a waste of time.
Don't think too hard about the chances, it will hurt your head.
Everything else shrinks when it cools and expands when it warms.
-They have large Asian communities like some american cities.
-Toronto has a big airport (like london, amsterdam, paris, hong kong, Tokyo)
-Torontonians don't have an accent in any languages (despite it being rated as the most multicultural city in the world)
-Lots of bad traffic (like London, paris, tokyo, etc). Suburban Toronto is a boring, car-obsessed wasteland, like the suburbs anywhere. In toronto itself, there are only a handfull on highways because of the huge opposition to leveling whole neighbourhoods for them in the 60s (read up on the spadina expressway).
-Uninteresting architecture (I agree that outside of Casa Loma, U of T, and some of the older neighbourhoods with beautiful 100 year old victorian houses this is correct)
-Toronto is big (like many cities around the world), not just US ones.
-As for "uptightedness", I've had mixed results. When i first moved I learned a few things. Don't ask anybody who's in a $3000 suit for directions. They are most likely from the suburbs anyways and don't know anything outside of the immediate vicinity of their work. I've asked and been asked a hundred times for/to help and i've provided it every time. If you want to meet truely great people, go into the independant stores and shops. It's the same as any big city, they want your business, it's not like McDonalds where they think you'll come back any time whether your treated like shit or not. The rudest people I've ever met are still from Montreal, but there were still plenty of nice people. I don't label the french as a bunch of jerks, because I know there is a proportionally similar amount of english ones. Of course it's the jerks you always remember.
-Cleanliness. Out of any large transit system in North America, the TTC is still the cleanest i've been on. If you compare the dirtiest parts of all major cities I think you'll find similar results.
-You say that Toronto has a lot to do...like new york. But there's a lot to do anywhere when you look hard enough. There's a lot to do in Paris. Is it therefore like NYC??
I won't disagree with you that Montreal kicks ass. In terms of architecture it is among the best that North America has to offer. I'm going there this weekend and I'm looking forward to Old Montreal. Calgary itself is so beautiful becuase of it's mountains. Toronto is so big abd has so much diversity that you can find anything you disire. Vancouver is possibly the most awsome city in North America, and I still believe that it has the most unrealized potential of any in North America. When they've fixed the crime/drug problem and their population doubles, it's going to beat almost anyting else out there.
All that being said, there are large american business influences in Toronto and Calgary. Alberta exports a lot of oil the the USA, and the GTA has a huge manufacturing economy which mostly goes south. I won't deny that there are some people who are trying to make toronto "more like new york". But there are plenty of differences and similarities to places all over the world. It's a vibrant and cosmopolitan city, and it's a place that should be visited among many others. You can't just lay blanket statements like that and not expect to get into an arguement.
So you don't have me convinced that Toronto is similar in any reasonable way any more or less than any other Candian city.
Please explain to me how Toronto is the most American-like city? Every time I call somebody who says that, they can't back it up. Explain how it's more Americanized that Calgary or Vancouver. Either way, that sounds like a very opinionated statement.
erm, canadian
As a Canadian, I really don't give a shit, because we have our own adjective (candian, duh), but many people seem to find american offensive in some manner.
You mean have the state compete with a government approved monopoly? Who else would compete?
Well, no. Because you already payed for the CDR with the MP3s on it. The levy was made on MP3 players because they didn't use external media. The question I'm curious about is whether there's a levy on flash media. But anyways, what this court decided was that they didn't have the authority to levy this on the players themselves, only the media. There is still one more court that this can be appealed to (supreme).
Not if you already changed the firewall rules to stop it. :-)
If you change the firewall rules, the already open states would still be there and you'd have to kill the connection for it to stop. This new feature just gives you more fine grained control. So instead of having to flush all the open states (which would affect everything)