Well, you'd have to bundle up. In the cold snaps (not ALL winter, but several times a winter), we'll get warnings that exposed flesh freezes in under two minutes. Trust me, it doesn't take much of that before most people aren't willing to walk any distance. Note that for much of the winter, most of us start our cars a few minutes before driving to work in order to defrost them and heat them up. And, of course, we plug in our cars to the mains in order to melt the oil on cold nights.
I spent the vast majority of my university career taking the bus and walking. It is not fun.
Depends entirely on your definition of 'unfeasible'. I'd need to leave for work a little after 6:30 am to get to work for 8:30. On the way back, iirc, I could get home as soon as 7:20 pm or thereabouts if I leave at 5:30. In other words, four hours of commute PER DAY. I don't work downtown; I work at a location roughly 63 Ave (halfway between downtown and the southern edge of the real city) and fairly central east-west-wise. I live in the northwest area of the city, well within city bounds. The LRT (rail transit) doesn't apply to me, it's not even remotely close to where I need to be.
I don't consider that amount of travel time feasible. Sure, I could move but that's not the point.
Well, don't forget as well that you'll be paying a full year of insurance for BOTH vehicles, at least here. That said, insurance for a motorbike is hardly a significant expense. Insurance on a car, on the other hand...
Motorcycles only make sense in environments where there's no or very little snow. Here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, you simply can't get by with a motorcycle as your sole means of transportation. By the middle or end of October, you can't ride it any more. Not until probably May.
Nintendo has two research and development groups and a 'Software Planning Division' group, amongst a few others. How can divisions that don't directly produce income be profitable? Sure, they are INDIRECTLY responsible for profits of OTHER divisions...
I've had good experiences with Trend Micro, apart from their complete lack of tech support response. My experience shows that Trend Micro works at least as well as Norton Antivirus with SIGNIFICANTLY less drain on the system resources.
AVG is worth looking at though as others have pointed out, it won't be free for you.
Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought your boss was discriminating against them not because of their work but because the work was done for gay and lesbian groups. In any case, we are pretty far off-topic here, so I'll drop it.
You are under an obligation not to discriminate against certain protected groups. Having a policy of never hiring black people would be illegal, for example.
I'm curious, is that legal in the U.S.? That is, tossing out a resume because the applicant designed sites for gay and lesbian groups? It certainly isn't in Canada.
VMWare does not emulate SSE3 instructions. If your CPU supports SSE3, you'll be able to use these instructions inside of VMWare. If it doesn't, you won't. I think you misunderstand how VMWare works.
No, not personal work-related use. PERSONAL USE. "The Service is made available to you for your personal use only." -- gmail terms of service, section 2.
Using gmail for commercial reasons, such as using it as your work email address, are explicitly prohibited.
For the love of god. The Gmail terms of use prohibit you from anything other than personal use. If I saw a company using gmail as their corporate email server, I'd make sure never to do business with them.
It is certainly my experience that nmake doesn't allow parallel builds. Also, Electric Cloud (I have _no_ connection with them) seems to think this is still the case.
That's interesting, I approach things exactly in the opposite direction. I am developing for Windows but use Linux as my primary operating system. I use KDevelop and prefer it over Visual Studio (disclaimer: haven't tried VS2005). I just find too many things are missing from VS for my liking. Good svn integration, doxygen, good command-line tools like find and grep, sloccount, etc. etc. etc. Additionally, compiles are SLOW using Visual C++. Much much slower than in Linux when I use ccache and also distcc (though I'm not using distcc at the moment). Even without ccache and distcc, Linux still wins pretty handily because nmake STILL doesn't support parallel builds to take advantage of hyperthreading and multiple CPUs (though I'm not using those at the moment, either).
I don't really see this being a big problem. I am assuming, of course, that your employer pays you for all 24 hours in the day, of course. Let's see, where I live, the government mandates overtime at time-and-a-half past eight hours in a day. Or double-time past twelve hours in a day. That works out to 6.65 times my base pay. So yes, I'd happily not socialise with my coworkers, provided I get AT LEAST a 565% raise. Heck, I'll even carry a pager for that.
Last time I checked, 100% of the monies collected from the very beginning were still with the record companies. Nobody had been able to find a single example of an artist who had received even $1 from the levies. This may have changed in the last year, however.
Grrr, I cannot find the source to cite. My belief was that it was part of the Telecommunications Act but I can find no reference to it in there. It is entirely possible that this part has been superceded as I read about this in the EARLY 90s.
Basically, it was illegal to use telecommunications services to provide access to forums containing profanity, to anyone under the age of majority. The law was written back in the days of BBSs but also applied to the Internet. As it would be impossible to prevent access to _all_ such forums, the end result is that it became illegal to allow people under the age of majority to use the Internet.
Interestingly enough, it also used to be illegal to route IP packets from a Canadian source to a Canadian destination through any foreign country, including the U.S. This may no longer be restricted.
I expect that you will view these claims with suspicion as I am not able to cite them. I'm truly sorry about that, I really did search for a source. You should rightly consider that I may be inventing this story or that it simply no longer holds true.
This is a good idea in theory but will not work in practice. It is technically illegal in Canada for minors to use the Internet. It's an old and obscure law which prevents minors from being able to use telecommunications to access content with curse words, believe it or not. Anyway, every ISP I have used in Canada has explicitly stated in their terms of use that only people 18 or over may use their services.
Therefore, if you have a minor child who accesses porn, _you_ the parent are responsible because you have failed to prevent the child from accessing the Internet, as you promised to do and as you are required to do by law. Obviously, virtually nobody does this.
In any case, I am planning to write a letter to the CRTC asking them to strip Telus of their common-carrier designation.
SCO claims that not only is the GPL not a valid license but that this results in any software released under that license to be de-facto released to the public domain. This is pretty ahem imaginative, but it means that they feel they are free to distribute MySQL et al under any terms whatsoever that they wish.
I don't think it is at all fair to blame the industry. They present as an example the Sims Online development team. That team had 40% women, but women make up only about 20% of the potential candidates. In other words, the Sims Online team either found some way to attract twice as many female applicants as average or disproportionately favoured women during the interview. If we are going to blame them, we should blame them for not hiring an appropriate number of males.
That said, I accept that our industry has a significant problem attracting women into the field. In fact, we have a significant problem attracting anyone into the field at the moment, and we generally treat our employees like crap. But I fail to see why we should be blaming industry. If only twenty percent of the grads are women, isn't that either a societal problem or a problem with the education system?
That's not at all true. See here (specifically, the section on Private Copying. "The act [of copying a musical work such as an audio CD...] onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording." I do not need to already own the copyrighted material. The whole presumption of innocence doesn't make much sense as everyone prosecuted for a crime (that is, for a criminal act) is presumed innocent in Canada (also, in the U.S.).
The Canadian legal system has shown quite plainly that you do not need to own the CD. You are not infringing copyright. In fact, you don't even need to be making a copy onto an audio recording medium for which you have paid a levy, or for which a levy would normally be exacted.
There's much more than just bill C-32, of course. There's the clear statements of the Copyright Board of Canada and there's case law. I'm sorry, but you are simply wrong on this. It is possible that what you state may apply if this new legislation gets passed, however, but my reading shows that it would still be legal to make a copy of a CD for private use. I cannot immediately cite that, however.
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Well, you'd have to bundle up. In the cold snaps (not ALL winter, but several times a winter), we'll get warnings that exposed flesh freezes in under two minutes. Trust me, it doesn't take much of that before most people aren't willing to walk any distance. Note that for much of the winter, most of us start our cars a few minutes before driving to work in order to defrost them and heat them up. And, of course, we plug in our cars to the mains in order to melt the oil on cold nights.
I spent the vast majority of my university career taking the bus and walking. It is not fun.
Depends entirely on your definition of 'unfeasible'. I'd need to leave for work a little after 6:30 am to get to work for 8:30. On the way back, iirc, I could get home as soon as 7:20 pm or thereabouts if I leave at 5:30. In other words, four hours of commute PER DAY. I don't work downtown; I work at a location roughly 63 Ave (halfway between downtown and the southern edge of the real city) and fairly central east-west-wise. I live in the northwest area of the city, well within city bounds. The LRT (rail transit) doesn't apply to me, it's not even remotely close to where I need to be.
I don't consider that amount of travel time feasible. Sure, I could move but that's not the point.
Well, don't forget as well that you'll be paying a full year of insurance for BOTH vehicles, at least here. That said, insurance for a motorbike is hardly a significant expense. Insurance on a car, on the other hand...
Motorcycles only make sense in environments where there's no or very little snow. Here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, you simply can't get by with a motorcycle as your sole means of transportation. By the middle or end of October, you can't ride it any more. Not until probably May.
Cite?
Nintendo has two research and development groups and a 'Software Planning Division' group, amongst a few others. How can divisions that don't directly produce income be profitable? Sure, they are INDIRECTLY responsible for profits of OTHER divisions...
I've had good experiences with Trend Micro, apart from their complete lack of tech support response. My experience shows that Trend Micro works at least as well as Norton Antivirus with SIGNIFICANTLY less drain on the system resources.
AVG is worth looking at though as others have pointed out, it won't be free for you.
Heh. Here I am, thinking of upgrading my home system from 800 gigs to 1020 gigs with one of these suckers. Pull out an 80 gig drive, slot in a 300.
I use mine to store Doctor Who episodes. But I have a girlfriend so I'm not a totally lost case.
Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought your boss was discriminating against them not because of their work but because the work was done for gay and lesbian groups. In any case, we are pretty far off-topic here, so I'll drop it.
You are under an obligation not to discriminate against certain protected groups. Having a policy of never hiring black people would be illegal, for example.
I'm curious, is that legal in the U.S.? That is, tossing out a resume because the applicant designed sites for gay and lesbian groups? It certainly isn't in Canada.
VMWare does not emulate SSE3 instructions. If your CPU supports SSE3, you'll be able to use these instructions inside of VMWare. If it doesn't, you won't. I think you misunderstand how VMWare works.
No, not personal work-related use. PERSONAL USE. "The Service is made available to you for your personal use only." -- gmail terms of service, section 2.
Using gmail for commercial reasons, such as using it as your work email address, are explicitly prohibited.
For the love of god. The Gmail terms of use prohibit you from anything other than personal use. If I saw a company using gmail as their corporate email server, I'd make sure never to do business with them.
If, on the other hand, your time does have value, Linux is generally cheaper than the alternatives.
It is certainly my experience that nmake doesn't allow parallel builds. Also, Electric Cloud (I have _no_ connection with them) seems to think this is still the case.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by integrated browse information, but is this similar to the intellisense-like features of KDevelop?
That's interesting, I approach things exactly in the opposite direction. I am developing for Windows but use Linux as my primary operating system. I use KDevelop and prefer it over Visual Studio (disclaimer: haven't tried VS2005). I just find too many things are missing from VS for my liking. Good svn integration, doxygen, good command-line tools like find and grep, sloccount, etc. etc. etc. Additionally, compiles are SLOW using Visual C++. Much much slower than in Linux when I use ccache and also distcc (though I'm not using distcc at the moment). Even without ccache and distcc, Linux still wins pretty handily because nmake STILL doesn't support parallel builds to take advantage of hyperthreading and multiple CPUs (though I'm not using those at the moment, either).
To each their own.
How are you defining real scientists? Are you sure you aren't suffering from the No True Scotsman fallacy?
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I'm not particularly disagreeing with you, mind you.
I don't really see this being a big problem. I am assuming, of course, that your employer pays you for all 24 hours in the day, of course. Let's see, where I live, the government mandates overtime at time-and-a-half past eight hours in a day. Or double-time past twelve hours in a day. That works out to 6.65 times my base pay. So yes, I'd happily not socialise with my coworkers, provided I get AT LEAST a 565% raise. Heck, I'll even carry a pager for that.
Last time I checked, 100% of the monies collected from the very beginning were still with the record companies. Nobody had been able to find a single example of an artist who had received even $1 from the levies. This may have changed in the last year, however.
Grrr, I cannot find the source to cite. My belief was that it was part of the Telecommunications Act but I can find no reference to it in there. It is entirely possible that this part has been superceded as I read about this in the EARLY 90s.
Basically, it was illegal to use telecommunications services to provide access to forums containing profanity, to anyone under the age of majority. The law was written back in the days of BBSs but also applied to the Internet. As it would be impossible to prevent access to _all_ such forums, the end result is that it became illegal to allow people under the age of majority to use the Internet.
Interestingly enough, it also used to be illegal to route IP packets from a Canadian source to a Canadian destination through any foreign country, including the U.S. This may no longer be restricted.
I expect that you will view these claims with suspicion as I am not able to cite them. I'm truly sorry about that, I really did search for a source. You should rightly consider that I may be inventing this story or that it simply no longer holds true.
This is a good idea in theory but will not work in practice. It is technically illegal in Canada for minors to use the Internet. It's an old and obscure law which prevents minors from being able to use telecommunications to access content with curse words, believe it or not. Anyway, every ISP I have used in Canada has explicitly stated in their terms of use that only people 18 or over may use their services.
Therefore, if you have a minor child who accesses porn, _you_ the parent are responsible because you have failed to prevent the child from accessing the Internet, as you promised to do and as you are required to do by law. Obviously, virtually nobody does this.
In any case, I am planning to write a letter to the CRTC asking them to strip Telus of their common-carrier designation.
SCO claims that not only is the GPL not a valid license but that this results in any software released under that license to be de-facto released to the public domain. This is pretty ahem imaginative, but it means that they feel they are free to distribute MySQL et al under any terms whatsoever that they wish.
I don't think it is at all fair to blame the industry. They present as an example the Sims Online development team. That team had 40% women, but women make up only about 20% of the potential candidates. In other words, the Sims Online team either found some way to attract twice as many female applicants as average or disproportionately favoured women during the interview. If we are going to blame them, we should blame them for not hiring an appropriate number of males.
That said, I accept that our industry has a significant problem attracting women into the field. In fact, we have a significant problem attracting anyone into the field at the moment, and we generally treat our employees like crap. But I fail to see why we should be blaming industry. If only twenty percent of the grads are women, isn't that either a societal problem or a problem with the education system?
That's not at all true. See here (specifically, the section on Private Copying. "The act [of copying a musical work such as an audio CD...] onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording." I do not need to already own the copyrighted material. The whole presumption of innocence doesn't make much sense as everyone prosecuted for a crime (that is, for a criminal act) is presumed innocent in Canada (also, in the U.S.).
The Canadian legal system has shown quite plainly that you do not need to own the CD. You are not infringing copyright. In fact, you don't even need to be making a copy onto an audio recording medium for which you have paid a levy, or for which a levy would normally be exacted.
There's much more than just bill C-32, of course. There's the clear statements of the Copyright Board of Canada and there's case law. I'm sorry, but you are simply wrong on this. It is possible that what you state may apply if this new legislation gets passed, however, but my reading shows that it would still be legal to make a copy of a CD for private use. I cannot immediately cite that, however.