I fired off my letter, and today I received a reply from Joe, my MP.
Thank you for your letter concerning the proposed increased levy on recordable media. As you may be aware my colleague Loyola Hearn has written to the Secretary General of the Copyright Board, Claude Majeau, when this issue first arose requesting that this levy be immediately reassessed and removed from all blank audio recording media in Canada as quickly as possible. It remains my strong opinion and that of the PC Party of Canada, that this levy is yet another punitive form of taxation, which Canadians should not be expected to pay. I have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your letter to Mr. Hearn for his information. I trust that this is satisfactory.
Thank you again for writing and for sharing your views with me.
The levy is payable on all media that qualify, without regard to end use. No purpose is served by asking that the tariff include a mechanism that would allow those who can prove that they use qualifying media for purposes other than reproducing musical works to be exempted from payment or to receive a refund.
How long will it be before I'm convicted of murder for buying bullets...?
There's only one answer to that question. Wind River's slogan is "How Smart Things Think". Based on recent patent rulings, I'm pretty sure they've got the field covered with that slogan. Maybe that'll help them with this.
I think this is a perfect example of what a good engineering program is all about. Engineering isn't just about what's best, it's about learning from the mistakes of others while gleaning the best elements of their designs for future use. As a Waterloo Mech grad, I think back to the basic engineering teaching tenets of "This is good design" (e.g. The F-117A) and "This is bad design" (e.g. The Tacoma Narrows bridge - I LOVE THAT MOVIE).
This new course can be looked at from both perspectives. C# is state-of-the-art, easy to use (it's case-insensitive just like VB!), has a great support organization behind it, and will undoubtedly achieve good market penetration. On the other hand, it's very new, still has flaws, has security holes, and is generally not quite ready for prime time. Since these students are the ones who will be coding the next generation of languages (face it, a lot of them will probably end up at MS), it's better that they should be familiar with what's out there now, and what's wrong with it.
On the other hand, I'm now a six-year Java vet, and I have no intention of switching...
You forgot to include the students that spend 4 years getting semi-useless degrees (okay, I'm being generous with the "semi"), and then default on their government loans.
These posts are not informative, they're almost all off-topic. The original post is not asking a question, it's pointing out an informative article that explains in detail how to download and compile the JDK (1.3!, not 1.2-beta) and required patches for FreeBSD, and then set up Tomcat to work there.
That fact that someone was able to download and copy some files on both Linux and Windows is pretty much irrelevant to the spirit of the post (Tomcat/FreeBSD How-To). Labelling such posts as informative when they provide no information that wasn't in Victoria Chan's article seems silly to me.
Most of these save their registry settings "just in case" its reinstalled and don't fully uninstall themselves.
BING!! Number one answer!
These artifacts make it even harder to deal with an already arcane and unnecessarily complex system. When something doesn't work, and I need to go registry-spelunking looking for problems, it's amazing how much of this detritus I find.
Find out what these companies are looking for. Since they are the ones making the OS's, you can see what kind of considerations will be valuable in actually _using_ the OS's. Make a list of the attributes listed in the job postings for the companies to see what kind of knowledge is required. If you can work on developing the OS, you can surely use it to develop other things.
I think this page qualifies the Clue Browser as another Company X-dot-com product. If you're willing to go that route, then you can't ignore Espial's escape browser either...
neither Einstein, not Tesla, nor any other great minds of the past seeked glory and recognition. They did it for the sake of the people, or at least just for the heck of it (read: science) but never seeked a reward. He does.
Perhaps you might do a little more research. Tesla was cool, but...
Einstein was a philanderer who used his celebrity to bed women
Edison blatantly stole the work of Tesla for his own enrichment. Edison later also tried to discredit Tesla for his work on A.C.
Even Stephen Hawking has used his acclaim to his own enrichment. How is an appearance on Star Trek "for the sake of the people"?
("God is the mathematical formula which runs our universe"). errr... hideous herecy,
Not heresy to an atheist...
this is something for those scandalous magazines that you can buy at any grocery store, not for slashdot!
On that point, I agree... This is not "Stuff that matters"
And there's also the fact that most telescopes are focused on something WAY OUT THERE. There are very few scopes looking at near-Earth asteroids. I don't remember the numbers, but I'm pretty sure it's less than 10% of the sky that's covered in any one night. It's a low-budget item for the powers-that-be.
Slashdot Mirror
186,000 Miles per Second. It's not just a good idea. IT'S THE LAW.
"If the customer so desires, you shall cut them a cheese..."
That makes sense, since a driver's license is all you need to buy dynamite in some places...
And while I'm pro-gun, I still found this funny...
Do you know if a local paper has a website with pictures (of the spider web...)?
I've been to the bars in Northern BC. You're more likely to find grizzlies and a man eating cougars (after last call)...
That was my first reaction too... Whoa! Did I type porndot! instead of slashdot?
There's only one answer to that question. Wind River's slogan is "How Smart Things Think". Based on recent patent rulings, I'm pretty sure they've got the field covered with that slogan. Maybe that'll help them with this.
Paris has had an interactive "You want to see it, tell us the address" site for a few years now. It's not 3D, but it's available to the public.
This new course can be looked at from both perspectives. C# is state-of-the-art, easy to use (it's case-insensitive just like VB!), has a great support organization behind it, and will undoubtedly achieve good market penetration. On the other hand, it's very new, still has flaws, has security holes, and is generally not quite ready for prime time. Since these students are the ones who will be coding the next generation of languages (face it, a lot of them will probably end up at MS), it's better that they should be familiar with what's out there now, and what's wrong with it.
On the other hand, I'm now a six-year Java vet, and I have no intention of switching...
You forgot to include the students that spend 4 years getting semi-useless degrees (okay, I'm being generous with the "semi"), and then default on their government loans.
FUFME has been there for a couple of years now...
These posts are not informative, they're almost all off-topic. The original post is not asking a question, it's pointing out an informative article that explains in detail how to download and compile the JDK (1.3!, not 1.2-beta) and required patches for FreeBSD, and then set up Tomcat to work there.
That fact that someone was able to download and copy some files on both Linux and Windows is pretty much irrelevant to the spirit of the post (Tomcat/FreeBSD How-To). Labelling such posts as informative when they provide no information that wasn't in Victoria Chan's article seems silly to me.
BING!! Number one answer!
These artifacts make it even harder to deal with an already arcane and unnecessarily complex system. When something doesn't work, and I need to go registry-spelunking looking for problems, it's amazing how much of this detritus I find.
Thankfully, there's a MAME download for those who can't imagine it...
- Wind River
- QNX
Find out what these companies are looking for. Since they are the ones making the OS's, you can see what kind of considerations will be valuable in actually _using_ the OS's. Make a list of the attributes listed in the job postings for the companies to see what kind of knowledge is required. If you can work on developing the OS, you can surely use it to develop other things.I think this page qualifies the Clue Browser as another Company X-dot-com product. If you're willing to go that route, then you can't ignore Espial's escape browser either...
Does that apply to the philosophy that "If a human constructed it, a human can deconstruct it"? If so, it's a fallacy...
That's "waist". And don't forget the other parts...
Perhaps you might do a little more research. Tesla was cool, but...
- Einstein was a philanderer who used his celebrity to bed women
- Edison blatantly stole the work of Tesla for his own enrichment. Edison later also tried to discredit Tesla for his work on A.C.
- Even Stephen Hawking has used his acclaim to his own enrichment. How is an appearance on Star Trek "for the sake of the people"?
("God is the mathematical formula which runs our universe"). errr... hideous herecy,Not heresy to an atheist...
this is something for those scandalous magazines that you can buy at any grocery store, not for slashdot!
On that point, I agree... This is not "Stuff that matters"
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Actually, the article says this was nowhere near that big...
But it IS kinda scary thinking that they do get that much bigger...
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