Yes very much so! Since this is publicly funded, there should be a different system. Imagine if users accumulated "demerit" points for bad computer practise and getting their computers infected, resulting in ISPs charging them more. This might actually help to encourage people to educate themselves better too. Of course, like with driving, it could be lessened with good behaviour over time, or using antivirus.
Yes, traditional instruments do require more manual dexterity, but the appeal of electronic instruments is about something else entirely.
With a traditional instrument, the musician is limited by what's even possible to play, but with computers and electronics, only the brain is the limit. The range of easily-produced sounds and sequences is vastly, vastly broader with electronic instruments, and that is where they truly shine. Musical creation becomes limited only by what the mind can conceive, and there really is something to be said for that.
If you lived in Ottawa, like I do, you'd understand that we're nearly the most absurdly "politically correct" place on earth. This is reflected by a common effort to be "inclusive" to other schools of thought.
Also, there are more complainers and "letter writers" in Ottawa than any other city on Earth. I'm sure, so none of this seems out of the ordinary to me.
I'm not bound by their rules. Without their guidance and enforced good morals, I'm going to harm all of you by calling you douches to hurt your feelings. Hopefully, the massive amount of hurt feelings from this post will cause a ripple effect across the continent, resulting in the biggest Internet flamewar of our era. We should all be thanking Verizon for taking a stand against assholes like me.
The only time I've been on-call was with a company with around 8 employees and only one would need to be on-call at once. We would take shifts for one week at a time, and there wasn't pay for being specifically on-call, but any call that we have do act on resulted in a minimum of 3 hours of pay, because that is the legal minimum shift time in Alberta as far as I know.
This never really seemed unfair, because it was one week out of 7 or 8, and we were all working together to hold the place together.
I'm amazed how critical we all are of this stunt, over nitty-gritty details like not taking off from the ground, or being "only 23 miles". Sure, the article has a bit of questionable information, but no matter how you look at it, this guy is full of awesome and has far more balls than most of us. The design and the execution of these stunts is far from trivial.
I've been using unison for many years and it works just fine and should be as secure as ssh. It's even smart enough to warn on errors caused by things like synchronizing between case sensitive/insensitive filesystems and illegal characters.
Combined with dynDNS for the home computer, and I'm all set anywhere.
I'd mod that up if I could.
It's not rocket science to figure that one out.
More consumers require more resources and produce more waste. Is that so hard to admit?
I've been quite aware of scheduled throttling by Bell for a year or so, because it's quite obvious. My 16Mbit connection saturates at any time of the day from any server good enough, as long as it's a "typical" download - not p2p. The torrent traffic is the only thing I ever see affected, but on some level, I feel like Bell is doing me a favour. See, after 100Gigs in a month, I get charged $1/Gig. Every month, I'm near 100Gigs, and not quite over. I subscribe to an RSS torrent feed, and rtorrent runs 24/7, just because it's low maintance, and I don't have to touch it. If Bell didn't throttle, I'd certainly be pushing far more than 100Gb every month, and would have to pay for it. The torrent traffic is not urgent, and it goes fast during the day. Every download still completes within a day or so, so it's just not an issue to me. If Bell didn't do the throttling for me, I'd have to figure out some other way of preventing myself from hitting the 100Gig limit.. and that sounds like too much effort on my part.
I certainly remember 180-Solutions for being the last straw for me ever using MSIE. Several times they got me with their creative drive-by-installs back in the day, and those were just about the only malware infections I've had in my life. They're an absolute scumbag company and I'm glad about the outcome of this.
What do you mean? Vista doesn't support ext2 by default, but I've used this driver on XP and Vista without any trouble at all. I don't think not supporting something out of the box equates to making something hard to do.
I've only tried Evermore Office, which is a near-perfect Chinese MS Clone that retails for $15 or $50 for the enterprise version. It even runs on Linux and possibly Mac. It works for me, but I still keep wishing there were a better free solution, because I really don't like OpenOffice.org, but I still use it for basic stuff.
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Yes very much so! Since this is publicly funded, there should be a different system. Imagine if users accumulated "demerit" points for bad computer practise and getting their computers infected, resulting in ISPs charging them more. This might actually help to encourage people to educate themselves better too. Of course, like with driving, it could be lessened with good behaviour over time, or using antivirus.
Yes, traditional instruments do require more manual dexterity, but the appeal of electronic instruments is about something else entirely. With a traditional instrument, the musician is limited by what's even possible to play, but with computers and electronics, only the brain is the limit. The range of easily-produced sounds and sequences is vastly, vastly broader with electronic instruments, and that is where they truly shine. Musical creation becomes limited only by what the mind can conceive, and there really is something to be said for that.
If you lived in Ottawa, like I do, you'd understand that we're nearly the most absurdly "politically correct" place on earth. This is reflected by a common effort to be "inclusive" to other schools of thought. Also, there are more complainers and "letter writers" in Ottawa than any other city on Earth. I'm sure, so none of this seems out of the ordinary to me.
I'm not bound by their rules. Without their guidance and enforced good morals, I'm going to harm all of you by calling you douches to hurt your feelings. Hopefully, the massive amount of hurt feelings from this post will cause a ripple effect across the continent, resulting in the biggest Internet flamewar of our era. We should all be thanking Verizon for taking a stand against assholes like me.
The only time I've been on-call was with a company with around 8 employees and only one would need to be on-call at once. We would take shifts for one week at a time, and there wasn't pay for being specifically on-call, but any call that we have do act on resulted in a minimum of 3 hours of pay, because that is the legal minimum shift time in Alberta as far as I know. This never really seemed unfair, because it was one week out of 7 or 8, and we were all working together to hold the place together.
I'm amazed how critical we all are of this stunt, over nitty-gritty details like not taking off from the ground, or being "only 23 miles". Sure, the article has a bit of questionable information, but no matter how you look at it, this guy is full of awesome and has far more balls than most of us. The design and the execution of these stunts is far from trivial.
I've been using unison for many years and it works just fine and should be as secure as ssh. It's even smart enough to warn on errors caused by things like synchronizing between case sensitive/insensitive filesystems and illegal characters. Combined with dynDNS for the home computer, and I'm all set anywhere.
I'd mod that up if I could. It's not rocket science to figure that one out. More consumers require more resources and produce more waste. Is that so hard to admit?
I've been quite aware of scheduled throttling by Bell for a year or so, because it's quite obvious. My 16Mbit connection saturates at any time of the day from any server good enough, as long as it's a "typical" download - not p2p. The torrent traffic is the only thing I ever see affected, but on some level, I feel like Bell is doing me a favour. See, after 100Gigs in a month, I get charged $1/Gig. Every month, I'm near 100Gigs, and not quite over. I subscribe to an RSS torrent feed, and rtorrent runs 24/7, just because it's low maintance, and I don't have to touch it. If Bell didn't throttle, I'd certainly be pushing far more than 100Gb every month, and would have to pay for it. The torrent traffic is not urgent, and it goes fast during the day. Every download still completes within a day or so, so it's just not an issue to me. If Bell didn't do the throttling for me, I'd have to figure out some other way of preventing myself from hitting the 100Gig limit.. and that sounds like too much effort on my part.
I certainly remember 180-Solutions for being the last straw for me ever using MSIE. Several times they got me with their creative drive-by-installs back in the day, and those were just about the only malware infections I've had in my life. They're an absolute scumbag company and I'm glad about the outcome of this.
What do you mean? Vista doesn't support ext2 by default, but I've used this driver on XP and Vista without any trouble at all. I don't think not supporting something out of the box equates to making something hard to do.
I've only tried Evermore Office, which is a near-perfect Chinese MS Clone that retails for $15 or $50 for the enterprise version. It even runs on Linux and possibly Mac. It works for me, but I still keep wishing there were a better free solution, because I really don't like OpenOffice.org, but I still use it for basic stuff.