Actually, it is very difficult for many people to immigrate and work here, but it becomes much easier if they can justify some sort of social assistance. Being from an immigrant family myself, I can honestly say I have nothing against immigration. I definitely have problems with Canada's cracked up policies that make it difficult for the skilled to enter and contribute and easy for others to enter and be supported... perhaps only until they can stand on their own, which does put some merit on the Canadian policy, but it still gives the short end of the stick to peoiple like your friend's husband from France.
Try thinking outside the box before you apply your limited experience and assume everything works like you alone have experienced. It has nothing to do with "xenophobia". That is a weak way to try to win an argument, and doesn't due justice to free sharing of ideas. You should be ashamed of yourself for throwing that at me.
Or, you could do what Canada also does, provide some immigrants with all the benefits of citizenship and support of Canadian society with little of the responsibility or even the requirement to work for what they get, taking money from existing citizens through high taxes to feed those fleeing far less supportive cultures. There is nothing wrong with welcoming immigrants, but there is definitely a lot wrong with giving anyone a free ride on the backs of hardworking Canadians, immigrants or not. That isn't promoting equality. Forcing an existing citizen to finance the training of a newcomer so the newcomer can compete for the same job is wrong.
Unless I live in a different Canada than you, I would have to say that "integration" is not the hallmark of Canadian immigration policy. It never has been. We're not the melting pot, we're the mosaic. Remember highschool social studies?
Please note: "Saddam and terrorism", not Saddam the terrorist.
My tongue-in-cheek comment wasn't meant to imply that Saddam = terrorism. Whatever the reasons Bush wants to bombs the bejesus out of Baghdad may be, I would rather see that money spent on something that is arguably national security related than beating down a monopoly. I like free enterprise, and the US government spends too much time and effort trying to control Microsoft, IMO.
I'd rather see a competant competitor beat them down. Of course the trick is getting a competant/powerful competitor capable of doing so. Microsoft wouldn't be where they are without the cooperation of other companies, so you can't just blame Microsoft. Maybe the whole system is corrupt and doesn't work... but Linux itself is proof that not even Microsoft can eliminate all competition and external innovation. Time will tell if Microsoft can maintain their stranglehold on the desktop market, but we'll never know if they would have been brought down without the government interfering.
Ya, good thing those Democrats focused on the dire threat that is Microsoft and ignored Saddam Hussein and terrorism all those years.
I can't imagine how horrible it would be to live in a world where the (evil) practices of a megacorp in a free-enterprise system allowed them to dominate the marketplace and destroy all competition... I'm sure that if Microsoft wasn't stopped they would have <sarcasm>destroyed MacOS, Linux, and the commercial UNIXes</sarcasm> with their unchecked eevvvvvuuuuuull!
Of course, it is the Clitnon administrations legacy that Apple, the myriad Linux vendors, and the commercial UNIX vendors survived. Sure, terrorists are bad, mmm'kay, and Bush is going after them, BUT AT WHAT COST?! MY GOD MAN, SOMEBODY MUST SAVE THE LINUX!
I just realized I dared to actually type "Microsoft" without a dollar sign or derogatory tweak of the name. Does that mean I'm going to get labeled as a sympathizer and driven out of the/. community?
I thought the canonical piece of facehuggerware is/was (is "was" appropriate as of XP SP1?) Explorer/Internet Explorer.
It wraps itself around your OS, sticks itself down your throat into the core of all functionality, and implants little BSODs that burst out of the OS randomly. Fun.
A small collection of average cluebies switching to MacOS is hardly inspiring. I'd rather see a collection of smart people, at least I'd trust their opinions.
I love the smell of government-created competitive disadvantage in the morning.
I'm not sure how things work in the US, but in Canada this kind of law would be open to quite a bit of challenge on that issue alone.
The players in the recording industry need to be slapped with antitrust investigations or something roughly equivalent to bring the truth out into the open.
An easy to use kernel config tool? There is one, its is called "make xconfig".
There is a point where tools go beyond ease of use and step into "too easy to be dumb". There is nothing wrong with asking and expecting users to think. A system which allows users to remain clueless forever is not properly designed, contrary to popular belief. The point of tools, computers expecially, is to empower people, not let them wallow in their own ignorance but with a pretty GUI.
Forget WINE, how about a... beowulf... cluster. UNGH. I tried to hold it back, sorry folks.
This makes things like Attack of the haX0r1ng Dreamcasts much more nasty. The "exploit physical security/drop dreamcast on open internal network/enumerate network from the inside" stuff was big at DefCon X this year, proving that its isn't all about wireless hacking now. An X-Box + Mandrake ups the ante for IT network admins.
I wonder if this is viewed as a rightful exercising of intellectual property rights or more fodder for anti-trust from the point of view of the Justice Department?
Mod chips, legal issues aside, are one of the "value adds" of the console market. Cracking down on this will drive Microsofts target audience away. Perhaps they've shot themselves in the foot with this.
My point is that the story already got posted on the day of the release, resulting in Red Hat's site being almost unusable for most of Sept. 30th and Oct. 1st. The fact that the post was "late" is irrelevant in and of itself. The point that it is redundant, by a matter of a couple days, is relevant.
The mirrors were not given time to prepare for the onslaught. Please try to understand before you comment in such a mindless derogatory way. I realize it would be a major departure from/. standard operating procedure, but change is a <sarcasm>Good Thing</sarcasm>. Nice use of a Jargon File cliche, by the way.
... a broadband connection away from the bad people sharing that network with you. I hope you have strong passwords and some sort of ACL or firewall in between your VNC box and the world.
VNC is a dangerous toy without security, whether that be via SSH or tunnelling plus a firewall.
Have these anti-gaming proponents for a moment stopped to consider that being alive, including interacting with ones peers, is the cause of "anxieties", "anger", and "aggression"? Good thing there is other options than being forced to "interact" with peers, who often provide temptation to do break the law and get in trouble, provide endless hours of abuse and torment, etc. While there may exist a threshold for healthy subjection to torment by teenage peers, I am certain that I am posting among many old men and women who have exceeded it.
GNOME + Metacity is zippy as hell. Mandrake is zippy. I'd rather gnaw my own leg off than use KDE, but that is because I was attacked by a KDE as a child. I'm getting over it, the therapy is helping...
It had a keyboard and mouse, Q3A, Unreal Tournament, and provided acceptable FPS play despite crappy TV resolution.
That being said, the PC kicked/kicks/will kick its ass in terms of quality, but there is something about the convenience and low maintenance fun of a console.
I still do 99% of my gaming on a PC. If consoles get too prevalent the average clue level of gamers will drop even more, and I don't think the world needs people dumber than the worst of what Counter Strike has to offer. Our society will be stripped down to quick exchanges of "YUO ARE TEH SUCK".
Its going to be just like UO and Evercrack. You start as a useless little "hero" wannabe with barely noticable powers, and in order to succeed, you need to quit your job (or just not show up, like a former coworker did until he go fired for... not showing up) and/or setup some scripts so your hero can fish/knit all day to develop skills. Then you script repeated selling behavior of the fish or knitted products so you can raise money to build your secret lab, hideout, or whatever.
Its a revolution in gaming! Systematic boredom, but with superpowers! w00t!
I thought the way it went was Europe and Canada finally got over their inertia and apathy to beat Hitler back, meanwhile the US did nothing until they got brutally spanked by the tiny island nation of Japan, then went on a tear in the Pacific against the forces of the aforementioned tiny island nation?
Anyways... enough history. There is something somewhat scary about the thought of hooking up with old BBS denizens. I don't know about you guys, but the BBSes I used to frequent were 10% geek, 5% relatively welladjusted but non-techie people, and 85% freak. I didn't go to "geek meets" then, and I certainly don't want to see what the passage of time has done to people who were barely human 10 years ago. Its not worth the risk, I don't want to get bitten or licked or see anyone in a Pulp Fiction Gimp outfit.
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Try thinking outside the box before you apply your limited experience and assume everything works like you alone have experienced. It has nothing to do with "xenophobia". That is a weak way to try to win an argument, and doesn't due justice to free sharing of ideas. You should be ashamed of yourself for throwing that at me.
Unless I live in a different Canada than you, I would have to say that "integration" is not the hallmark of Canadian immigration policy. It never has been. We're not the melting pot, we're the mosaic. Remember highschool social studies?
My tongue-in-cheek comment wasn't meant to imply that Saddam = terrorism. Whatever the reasons Bush wants to bombs the bejesus out of Baghdad may be, I would rather see that money spent on something that is arguably national security related than beating down a monopoly. I like free enterprise, and the US government spends too much time and effort trying to control Microsoft, IMO.
I'd rather see a competant competitor beat them down. Of course the trick is getting a competant/powerful competitor capable of doing so. Microsoft wouldn't be where they are without the cooperation of other companies, so you can't just blame Microsoft. Maybe the whole system is corrupt and doesn't work... but Linux itself is proof that not even Microsoft can eliminate all competition and external innovation. Time will tell if Microsoft can maintain their stranglehold on the desktop market, but we'll never know if they would have been brought down without the government interfering.
Could simply be "my way or the highway, NY or no Apple at the show, change is back, wahhh wahhhh".
The big question is: is this a strong arm tactic or a Steve Jobs temper tantrum?
Ya, good thing those Democrats focused on the dire threat that is Microsoft and ignored Saddam Hussein and terrorism all those years.
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I can't imagine how horrible it would be to live in a world where the (evil) practices of a megacorp in a free-enterprise system allowed them to dominate the marketplace and destroy all competition... I'm sure that if Microsoft wasn't stopped they would have <sarcasm>destroyed MacOS, Linux, and the commercial UNIXes</sarcasm> with their unchecked eevvvvvuuuuuull!
Of course, it is the Clitnon administrations legacy that Apple, the myriad Linux vendors, and the commercial UNIX vendors survived. Sure, terrorists are bad, mmm'kay, and Bush is going after them, BUT AT WHAT COST?! MY GOD MAN, SOMEBODY MUST SAVE THE LINUX!
I just realized I dared to actually type "Microsoft" without a dollar sign or derogatory tweak of the name. Does that mean I'm going to get labeled as a sympathizer and driven out of the
This is definitely "News for Nerds", but I don't know if I can agree with "Stuff that matters".
It wraps itself around your OS, sticks itself down your throat into the core of all functionality, and implants little BSODs that burst out of the OS randomly. Fun.
The moment you start trusting without question is the moment you should give up paying attention to security. Trust is a vulnerability.
A small collection of average cluebies switching to MacOS is hardly inspiring. I'd rather see a collection of smart people, at least I'd trust their opinions.
I'm not sure how things work in the US, but in Canada this kind of law would be open to quite a bit of challenge on that issue alone.
The players in the recording industry need to be slapped with antitrust investigations or something roughly equivalent to bring the truth out into the open.
What I'm wondering is if anyone put this much effort into debunking Apple's Switch ads, or if the parodies mockeries were viewed as enough?
The level bosses in Internet are really tough, though. The "AI bots" created to play Internet and collect all the stuff are the best, such as Google.
There is a point where tools go beyond ease of use and step into "too easy to be dumb". There is nothing wrong with asking and expecting users to think. A system which allows users to remain clueless forever is not properly designed, contrary to popular belief. The point of tools, computers expecially, is to empower people, not let them wallow in their own ignorance but with a pretty GUI.
This makes things like Attack of the haX0r1ng Dreamcasts much more nasty. The "exploit physical security/drop dreamcast on open internal network/enumerate network from the inside" stuff was big at DefCon X this year, proving that its isn't all about wireless hacking now. An X-Box + Mandrake ups the ante for IT network admins.
Mod chips, legal issues aside, are one of the "value adds" of the console market. Cracking down on this will drive Microsofts target audience away. Perhaps they've shot themselves in the foot with this.
The script kiddies using automated scans barely qualify as cunning humans, they aren't the big threat.
My point is that the story already got posted on the day of the release, resulting in Red Hat's site being almost unusable for most of Sept. 30th and Oct. 1st. The fact that the post was "late" is irrelevant in and of itself. The point that it is redundant, by a matter of a couple days, is relevant.
The mirrors were not given time to prepare for the onslaught. Please try to understand before you comment in such a mindless derogatory way. I realize it would be a major departure from /. standard operating procedure, but change is a <sarcasm>Good Thing</sarcasm>. Nice use of a Jargon File cliche, by the way.
Red Hat 8 was released on Monday, as covered in Red Hat 8.0 Reviewed.
VNC is a dangerous toy without security, whether that be via SSH or tunnelling plus a firewall.
Have these anti-gaming proponents for a moment stopped to consider that being alive, including interacting with ones peers, is the cause of "anxieties", "anger", and "aggression"? Good thing there is other options than being forced to "interact" with peers, who often provide temptation to do break the law and get in trouble, provide endless hours of abuse and torment, etc. While there may exist a threshold for healthy subjection to torment by teenage peers, I am certain that I am posting among many old men and women who have exceeded it.
GNOME + Metacity is zippy as hell. Mandrake is zippy. I'd rather gnaw my own leg off than use KDE, but that is because I was attacked by a KDE as a child. I'm getting over it, the therapy is helping...
Microsoft is playing Pokemon with developers... gotta collect them all!
It had a keyboard and mouse, Q3A, Unreal Tournament, and provided acceptable FPS play despite crappy TV resolution.
That being said, the PC kicked/kicks/will kick its ass in terms of quality, but there is something about the convenience and low maintenance fun of a console.
I still do 99% of my gaming on a PC. If consoles get too prevalent the average clue level of gamers will drop even more, and I don't think the world needs people dumber than the worst of what Counter Strike has to offer. Our society will be stripped down to quick exchanges of "YUO ARE TEH SUCK".
Its a revolution in gaming! Systematic boredom, but with superpowers! w00t!
Anyways... enough history. There is something somewhat scary about the thought of hooking up with old BBS denizens. I don't know about you guys, but the BBSes I used to frequent were 10% geek, 5% relatively welladjusted but non-techie people, and 85% freak. I didn't go to "geek meets" then, and I certainly don't want to see what the passage of time has done to people who were barely human 10 years ago. Its not worth the risk, I don't want to get bitten or licked or see anyone in a Pulp Fiction Gimp outfit.