Where I live (Alberta) you are considered "operating" your vehicle if you are in it and you have your keys on your person.
That's right, you can be in the back seat, asleep, and you can be ticketed for DUI or whatever else they decide to stick you with. When our distracted driving law came in about 18 months ago, they specifically highlighted that pulling over to the side of the road and parking was NOT sufficient.
The funny part was when someone mentioned that the cops had put up, not 6 months before, signs saying that if you see a drunk driver, you should call them and trail them while the 911 operator coordinates a cop to nab the drunk. So they specifically made an exception for calling to report a drunk driver on a non-handsfree phone.... So I guess being distracted while following a drunk is for the greater good, or something....
You sound like my boss. Full disclosure, I work at the largest independent publisher in Canada (if you cook in Canada, you probably have one of our titles)- and we went with Kobo exclusively for our ePubs. As a six million dollar paper publisher we sold...... $15k in ePubs last year via Kobo, "the #2 ebookstore in the world, with 48% of the market!!"
I've also noticed that when I travel, or talk to people about ePubs, eBooks, etc, I see iPhones/iPads (quite possibly running iBooks, Kindle App, or Kobo apps), Kindles, Nooks, etc.... I have seen exactly ONE Kobo actually owned by an end-user. I know that anecdotes are not data, but....
How the hell does changing the clock help more in Northern locales? I'm over 54 degrees north, and I can tell you DST simply is moving the goalposts. In the winter I go to work in the dark, I go home in the dark. 1h of oscillation in the clock does nothing* to help that. In the summer, the sun is up at 4 am, and goes down at about 10:30pm (right when I really* want more light, just when I'm trying to sleep).
DST is moronic, and gives absolutely no benefit except for a very narrow band of locations and a very few people whose schedules happen to match the changes. But the rest of us get to come along for the stupid pretend time changes. In an earlier post in this thread, someone mentioned that DST doubles* the time that many of us spend driving directly into the setting/rising sun, and I know that is my #1 problem with the stupid time dance every year.
Nonsense, I finally* got a call from Shaw after my second month of using 1Tb of my 200Gb cap, and they basically said, 'hey, quittit.' No threats, no charges. I have never* received any* copyright warnings either...
Refreshing to see the courts stand up for the citizenry, as opposed to the police. Makes me glad that whole "let's move to the states" plan my wife had fizzled....
My workplace is smack in the (south) center of the city (of over a million people), but due to it being in an "industrial" area, there is absolutely NO high speed available. We're stuck with a $1200/month 5/5 wireless solution.
The local telcos and cable providers will gladly service us for about $50/month, after we spend $60,000-$80,000 to trench to the area (after which everyone else* in the neighbourhood will get to piggyback). Oddly enough, we're not jumping at this...
If this were the case, they would have simply looked at what her ratio was set at (most people have it at about 2, if I recall correctly). Therefore Jamie should be on the hook for 48 tracks, worth approximately $50. Instead, the RIAA folks want to punish her for every* illicit download of those tracks, making her an example. I would argue that this is still unconstitutionally excessive.
After working for a couple years in the aeronautics industry, with a sister who is a nurse and therefore in the healthcare industry, I have concluded that the maximum allowable work hours per (unit of time, ie, hours/day, hours/week, days scheduled in a row) is directly proportional to the likelihood of killing someone.
I was appalled to realize that you could be scheduled for 33 days in a row as a helicopter pilot, after which the regs stated that you are required to give 4 days off. Not counting travel time- often pilots are at least a day's travel out from home/civilization, which would eat up 2 of those 4 days off. My sister used to be required to work 24h shifts with astonishing regularity, and as far as I know that is still the norm.
He doesn't know plain English, it's clear from his fully buzzword compliant post that he's an MBA, and therefore unable to understand anything except his own greatness.
Probably too late, but be aware that the "developers are less than happy" link in the summary autoplays an ad for some marginally NSFW topics (not really NSFW but enough to make some uncomfortable- frank discussions of teen sex, etc.)
We did this exact thing using WD Green drives for our 18Tb backup problem. Got two of 'em, planning on using their built-in rsync for onsite/off siting the data. Unfortunately, the units never broke 1MB/s transfer, and no amount of work with Drobo yielded faster performance reliably. Both of our units are now sitting unused, ($2500 each!), and we put the drives into a RAID-50 8 bay USB3 enclosure. The new unit runs about 150x faster, and ended up costing $400 (prices are for enclosures only, drives were additional).
Most disappointing was Drobo's support- they just seemed to shrug a lot, and were hyper-agressive about closing trouble tickets.
I've maintained for years that due to the inherent self interest of lawyers to making law inaccessible to non-lawyers (ie, convoluted law that requires a lawyer to understand), anyone who holds a law degree / has passed the bar should be prevented from ever holding public elected office where they can enact laws.
On a related note, one of the only places where we let people set their own salaries is politics too....
Here in Canada there are vast areas that can only be accessed by plane or ice road, so all the heavy hauling of equipment, gear, and non-perishable food gets set up in the winter. And yes, there are numerous vehicles sunk (though fewer than you'd think)- the semi's create a dip in the ice that can fracture when approaching the bank if you go too fast.
Actually, I'd argue that the Alberta provincial PC Party has moved (comparatively) centrist with their new leader. So much so that the more right wing elements were up in arms enough to do the usual take-their-ball-home conservative political party split (Alliance, Tea-Party) and formed the Wild Rose Party, a super-right wing party that basically said that they'd crap all over the urban centres to please their rural neocon masters.
Polls had them getting a solid majority, with up to 40% popularity, right up until the recent election. Fortunately for the rest of us, the 'undecideds' came out en mass and thumped them soundly, giving the PC's the province once again... hooray for reasonableness. Though I can hardly believe I just used the word 'reasonable' in describing any modern political process or outcome...
It's almost like the legal system is set up to generate more and more lawsuits, isn't it? It seems like the people who are in charge of creating the laws have some sort of vested interest in keeping the legal system complex, thus requiring more and more specialists in law (I dunno, I'll use the term "Lawyers" to describe these specialists).
Remind me, what percentage of politicians are lawyers?
So your response to an individual who says that he doesn't trust someone who puts aside rational, scientific thought for a belief system in the "sky daddy" is that the rationalist is a "worshiper of selfishness" and that "Bit picture thinking is clearly out of the question for you." And you conclude with "You can thank the Sky-Daddy for some future event that hasn't happened yet."
You sir, are exactly the sort of anti-rational thought individual who is fighting tooth and nail to hold back progress of society and harm everyone* for your personal belief in a bunch of fairy tales told by a group of iron and bronze age desert wanderers. YOU are the problem- smell yourself before you start attacking others for not sharing your personal belief system.
We got nailed with a BSA audit, and we dutifully complied. We counted up all our licences, did a full systems audit, etc, and found we were out by 1 licence, which we purchased and listed as such on the audit. Note that the audit requires you to do a complete licence count back to Windows 95 and such- things that are 15+ years old.
The BSA's response? "We don't like some of your keys, so trot out all purchase records back to 1998." This was two years ago. We keep financial records for 7 years, as required by law, so we did not have receipts back that far. According to the BSA, we are therefore out of compliance, and have to repurchase the software.
We said to them, "we're done with this, this audit has cost our company thousands of dollars in effort, and will no longer comply with your requests." Haven't heard back from 'em since.
I've used both extensively (I work for a book publisher), and I feel just the opposite. e-ink displays seem muddy and washed out to me in anything less than direct sunlight- though I will admit they look great in sunlight. But where LCD shines (cough, sorry for the pun) is in page turns- that half-second pause for each turn makes moving past the CIP, index, and title pages irritating. And if your'e trying to read anything other than a novel, getting 100 pages in can be a nightmare. We make reference books that basically are for all practical uses unusable on e-ink devices.
As well, I find that personally, I run into low light situations far more often than over bright ones. I remember taking a flight, and the person across the aisle from me had a Kindle but due to his reading light not working, he had to pack it away and not read for the 4 hour flight. I read an ebook while listening to tunes on my iPad, then switched to a movie, and kind of chuckled to myself.
I know you said "specifically for reading ebooks", but I also find the fact that the iPad (and presumably the Fire, though I haven't used one of them yet) can do so much more than a simple e-reader that picking one of them up is a far better idea for most people than a single-use device. Your milage may vary tho.
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Where I live (Alberta) you are considered "operating" your vehicle if you are in it and you have your keys on your person.
That's right, you can be in the back seat, asleep, and you can be ticketed for DUI or whatever else they decide to stick you with. When our distracted driving law came in about 18 months ago, they specifically highlighted that pulling over to the side of the road and parking was NOT sufficient.
The funny part was when someone mentioned that the cops had put up, not 6 months before, signs saying that if you see a drunk driver, you should call them and trail them while the 911 operator coordinates a cop to nab the drunk. So they specifically made an exception for calling to report a drunk driver on a non-handsfree phone.... So I guess being distracted while following a drunk is for the greater good, or something....
So they have 5-10 second greens in your town? I cannot imagine your scenario could take much longer than that.
Hyperbole, look up the definition.
"And now Kobo is HUGE in Canada."
... $15k in ePubs last year via Kobo, "the #2 ebookstore in the world, with 48% of the market!!"
You sound like my boss. Full disclosure, I work at the largest independent publisher in Canada (if you cook in Canada, you probably have one of our titles)- and we went with Kobo exclusively for our ePubs. As a six million dollar paper publisher we sold...
I've also noticed that when I travel, or talk to people about ePubs, eBooks, etc, I see iPhones/iPads (quite possibly running iBooks, Kindle App, or Kobo apps), Kindles, Nooks, etc.... I have seen exactly ONE Kobo actually owned by an end-user. I know that anecdotes are not data, but....
I take offence to this! It is an outrage! /froth
How the hell does changing the clock help more in Northern locales? I'm over 54 degrees north, and I can tell you DST simply is moving the goalposts. In the winter I go to work in the dark, I go home in the dark. 1h of oscillation in the clock does nothing* to help that. In the summer, the sun is up at 4 am, and goes down at about 10:30pm (right when I really* want more light, just when I'm trying to sleep).
DST is moronic, and gives absolutely no benefit except for a very narrow band of locations and a very few people whose schedules happen to match the changes. But the rest of us get to come along for the stupid pretend time changes. In an earlier post in this thread, someone mentioned that DST doubles* the time that many of us spend driving directly into the setting/rising sun, and I know that is my #1 problem with the stupid time dance every year.
Nonsense, I finally* got a call from Shaw after my second month of using 1Tb of my 200Gb cap, and they basically said, 'hey, quittit.' No threats, no charges. I have never* received any* copyright warnings either...
Refreshing to see the courts stand up for the citizenry, as opposed to the police. Makes me glad that whole "let's move to the states" plan my wife had fizzled....
No, it's not- you're works are copyrighted regardless of registration or not. I feel you're deliberately misleading us.
The local telcos and cable providers will gladly service us for about $50/month, after we spend $60,000-$80,000 to trench to the area (after which everyone else* in the neighbourhood will get to piggyback). Oddly enough, we're not jumping at this...
If this were the case, they would have simply looked at what her ratio was set at (most people have it at about 2, if I recall correctly). Therefore Jamie should be on the hook for 48 tracks, worth approximately $50. Instead, the RIAA folks want to punish her for every* illicit download of those tracks, making her an example. I would argue that this is still unconstitutionally excessive.
After working for a couple years in the aeronautics industry, with a sister who is a nurse and therefore in the healthcare industry, I have concluded that the maximum allowable work hours per (unit of time, ie, hours/day, hours/week, days scheduled in a row) is directly proportional to the likelihood of killing someone.
I was appalled to realize that you could be scheduled for 33 days in a row as a helicopter pilot, after which the regs stated that you are required to give 4 days off. Not counting travel time- often pilots are at least a day's travel out from home/civilization, which would eat up 2 of those 4 days off. My sister used to be required to work 24h shifts with astonishing regularity, and as far as I know that is still the norm.
He doesn't know plain English, it's clear from his fully buzzword compliant post that he's an MBA, and therefore unable to understand anything except his own greatness.
You forgot "Uniquely unique."
Probably too late, but be aware that the "developers are less than happy" link in the summary autoplays an ad for some marginally NSFW topics (not really NSFW but enough to make some uncomfortable- frank discussions of teen sex, etc.)
DON'T DO THIS.
We did this exact thing using WD Green drives for our 18Tb backup problem. Got two of 'em, planning on using their built-in rsync for onsite/off siting the data. Unfortunately, the units never broke 1MB/s transfer, and no amount of work with Drobo yielded faster performance reliably. Both of our units are now sitting unused, ($2500 each!), and we put the drives into a RAID-50 8 bay USB3 enclosure. The new unit runs about 150x faster, and ended up costing $400 (prices are for enclosures only, drives were additional).
Most disappointing was Drobo's support- they just seemed to shrug a lot, and were hyper-agressive about closing trouble tickets.
I've maintained for years that due to the inherent self interest of lawyers to making law inaccessible to non-lawyers (ie, convoluted law that requires a lawyer to understand), anyone who holds a law degree / has passed the bar should be prevented from ever holding public elected office where they can enact laws.
On a related note, one of the only places where we let people set their own salaries is politics too....
I'd far far far FAR rather live under Redford's Conservatives than the Wild Rose's "Hate the cities, bash the gays" neo-conservatives....
Here in Canada there are vast areas that can only be accessed by plane or ice road, so all the heavy hauling of equipment, gear, and non-perishable food gets set up in the winter. And yes, there are numerous vehicles sunk (though fewer than you'd think)- the semi's create a dip in the ice that can fracture when approaching the bank if you go too fast.
Actually, I'd argue that the Alberta provincial PC Party has moved (comparatively) centrist with their new leader. So much so that the more right wing elements were up in arms enough to do the usual take-their-ball-home conservative political party split (Alliance, Tea-Party) and formed the Wild Rose Party, a super-right wing party that basically said that they'd crap all over the urban centres to please their rural neocon masters.
Polls had them getting a solid majority, with up to 40% popularity, right up until the recent election. Fortunately for the rest of us, the 'undecideds' came out en mass and thumped them soundly, giving the PC's the province once again... hooray for reasonableness. Though I can hardly believe I just used the word 'reasonable' in describing any modern political process or outcome...
Of course robocalls should be discouraged, but is it really illegal to make them?
In this case, completely, 100%, totally illegal. You cannot represent yourself as Elections Canada when in fact, you are not.
It's almost like the legal system is set up to generate more and more lawsuits, isn't it? It seems like the people who are in charge of creating the laws have some sort of vested interest in keeping the legal system complex, thus requiring more and more specialists in law (I dunno, I'll use the term "Lawyers" to describe these specialists).
Remind me, what percentage of politicians are lawyers?
:-/
So your response to an individual who says that he doesn't trust someone who puts aside rational, scientific thought for a belief system in the "sky daddy" is that the rationalist is a "worshiper of selfishness" and that "Bit picture thinking is clearly out of the question for you." And you conclude with "You can thank the Sky-Daddy for some future event that hasn't happened yet."
You sir, are exactly the sort of anti-rational thought individual who is fighting tooth and nail to hold back progress of society and harm everyone* for your personal belief in a bunch of fairy tales told by a group of iron and bronze age desert wanderers. YOU are the problem- smell yourself before you start attacking others for not sharing your personal belief system.
We got nailed with a BSA audit, and we dutifully complied. We counted up all our licences, did a full systems audit, etc, and found we were out by 1 licence, which we purchased and listed as such on the audit. Note that the audit requires you to do a complete licence count back to Windows 95 and such- things that are 15+ years old.
The BSA's response? "We don't like some of your keys, so trot out all purchase records back to 1998." This was two years ago. We keep financial records for 7 years, as required by law, so we did not have receipts back that far. According to the BSA, we are therefore out of compliance, and have to repurchase the software.
We said to them, "we're done with this, this audit has cost our company thousands of dollars in effort, and will no longer comply with your requests." Haven't heard back from 'em since.
I've used both extensively (I work for a book publisher), and I feel just the opposite. e-ink displays seem muddy and washed out to me in anything less than direct sunlight- though I will admit they look great in sunlight. But where LCD shines (cough, sorry for the pun) is in page turns- that half-second pause for each turn makes moving past the CIP, index, and title pages irritating. And if your'e trying to read anything other than a novel, getting 100 pages in can be a nightmare. We make reference books that basically are for all practical uses unusable on e-ink devices.
As well, I find that personally, I run into low light situations far more often than over bright ones. I remember taking a flight, and the person across the aisle from me had a Kindle but due to his reading light not working, he had to pack it away and not read for the 4 hour flight. I read an ebook while listening to tunes on my iPad, then switched to a movie, and kind of chuckled to myself.
I know you said "specifically for reading ebooks", but I also find the fact that the iPad (and presumably the Fire, though I haven't used one of them yet) can do so much more than a simple e-reader that picking one of them up is a far better idea for most people than a single-use device. Your milage may vary tho.
Radical. What do you think we are, barbarians?
I hope my post has in no way offended you, and if it did, I offer my sincere apologies.