Will take me a little while to find it again but Harper had funding cuts for the CBC put into his budget back when they were reporting on some scientists that harper was gagging.
CBC folded, they removed the story from their web site, the only place you can find it now is on independent sites.
The Harper Government is putting heavy pressure on the CBC not to televise it. The other news interests are being pushed down by their corporate overlords.
People in Ontario: This is what you have voted into our Canadian government. Even Ignatieff was better than this.
My frustration isn't with the iPad, the iPad does what it is/intended to do by Apple/ fantastically well.
It is in no way intended for a business environment however. Those that keep trying to force it to be are just using it as a status object. The thing IS a toy. Its a toy for consumption of the internet, the same way a Nintendo Entertainment System was a toy for consumption of the programs written and stored on compatible cartridges. Neither of those devices has any place in a serious workplace. Technically the Nintendo could be used for displaying presentations etc(I saw this done once by the IT shop, coolest way to sneak a video game console into work ever), but it was in no way what it was designed for.
I bought one of the things for my aunt. She uses it to get email and check facebook. Which is the type of activity the iPad is good for. At the time the Android devices were far inferior in user experience.
The Galaxy Tab has changed this a lot and if I were buying it now I would be weighing my options much more carefully.
As you can see however, my frustration has nothing to do with the iPad itself. I personally don't like any Apple products except for the Mac computers, and those are on the way out the back door for me as well because they're moving towards a walled-garden approach with them the same as everything else. If however they simply provided me with an "advanced user" interface I'd probably have many more apple products in my own home.
Android devs have only had something decent to work with for the last 12 months, and there are already many times more useful business apps on the android market than in the apple market, despite there being far less apps in total and having had less time to develop them.
The iPad is a status toy, anyone who thinks otherwise is just trying to fool themselves.
If you think that stuff is as remotely wingnut as most of the shit Santorum believes then you need to get out of the house more often.
Besides which, he dropped the cap and trade plan after it was made clear to him how much damage it would do. He was made to see reason, thats enough for me. Being reasonable is a very very good quality in a president.
The shit Santorum does he won't even redact.
Also - To be fair, the civil rights movement could do with more socialism. A lot of times to me they just seem like they are play-acting at being a civil rights movement.
Seriously? You don't know whats wrong with the US?
Lets just take the #1 cause for example:
Much of the population thinks that the 4th word you used, "Read" is a dirty word not fit for polite company. They glorify sports and hollywood to the detriment of all else. The only thing that should ever be read are necessities, like the sports page, or a tabloid about your favorite star.
Having friends in the US all over the place, of varying ages, I can tell you that its gotten to the point where a guy just admitting to reading a book that you weren't forced to read often gets you lumped into the outcast "creepy nerd" pool.
I meant ever. There was a problem with SW:KotoR 2 with it crashing like clockwork after an hour playing that took 13 days to resolve. Other than that, and one 6 hour period where there was a conflict with WoW on my 4890, which I heard about after it was fixed already, there haven't been any major problems that I know about that could possibly have effected me.
Unless he's running Linux, for which I will admit ATI/AMDs driver support has been nearly or completely non-existant for quite some time, he's totally full of shit.
I have never gone more than a total of two weeks with a driver-related problem on an ATI card on a windows based system for any game. As opposed to NVidia from whom I haven't purchased a card since the debacle where I couldn't play SW:KotoR for over a month due to their problems.
To be fair, if he's running Linux, he shouldn't really have purchased that card anyways since its a huge waste of money.
They put Stephan Dione and then Michael Ignatius in as leaders. To be honest, I don't even know who the liberal leader IS at the moment and I don't really care.
I'm voting NDP next election. The liberals can't get their act together, and anyone that isn't pants-on-head retarded is better than harper.
Its the harper government thats trying to get all of this various legislation pushed through for their corporate buddies.
The Chretien government said "No. We'll put a tax on blank media, because we agree that it will be primarily used to copy your works. We'll let you have control over the distribution of that tax to the artists whom you represent. We are not however installing any laws that would give you any kind of direct control over the Canadian people"
The Harper Government says "Wait, how big was the yacht you mentioned is under construction and will be done just in time for my planned retirement?"
Right, you're completely full of shit, and apparently you've decided to mod me down even though you have no idea what you are talking about as you obviously DO NOT live in Canada. The reader in the phones will read either a UICC card or a pure sim card. There is a tri-mode antenna in the fucking phone that will broadcast on any of the technologies.
Virgin in Canada essentially resells Bell service. Bell uses SIM tech for ease of international compatibility purposes for travelers.
Learn what the fuck YOU are talking about before you criticize someone else.
That link only deals with daily numbers. If you attempted to use that you would actually come up with a figure of 52 hours/average a week, but the data is so non-specific for anything other than a daily basis that its total guesswork to get there.
" As previously mentioned, Americans work approximately 47.1 hours each week; "
No, I am not going further than wikipedia/google for a slashdot post. Admittedly that statistic once I look at it again is 151 hours average based on all cable subscribers, there is a full 20%+ of the population that drags the stats for the BLS figure down a fair chunk since these are effectively zero numbers added into the other equation.
However from your own source, since it just helps to prove my statement:
On an average day, nearly everyone age 15 and over engaged in some sort of leisure activity, such as watching TV, socializing, or exercising. Of those who engaged in leisure activities, men spent more time in these activities (5.8 hours) than did women (5.1 hours). (See table 1.)
We'll say 5.4 hours on average for everyone that matters then, or 45 hours a week. Of that time about 4.5+ hours daily is spent on recreation or TV. The rest is divided between computer time, only some of which is relevant to helping your situation, probably in about the same proportion as people spend watching CNN or NPR out of their 45 hours a week.
Yes, I understand people do what they enjoy, I also understand that when so much of your life is taken up for pure enjoyment, almost NONE of it is spent actually giving a shit about how you're governed, or what you should do about it.
Average American works 47+ hours/week. Average American also consumes 35+ hours of TV per week.
Explain to me how the fuck this can't be considered distracting the masses? This means that, since its an average, 50%+ of your god damn population spends 90% of its waking time either at work or watching the boob tube. Considering the average commute is another 2.5 hours a week, and well, getting something to eat, raising children and every other damned thing has to come out of that other 10%... you see where I'm going with this.
I should note to the above however that he IS going CDMA to CDMA and this may be making things easier for a regular basis deal. He HAS used it to pick up a sim in Germany for a week which he had slightly more trouble with due to having to reconfigure the phone but as I recall worked perfectly fine once he got it working.
People have been talking for decades about using/EXISTING TECHNOLOGY/ to make laptops run on fuel cells.
This has even been prototyped before. The technology has been there for a minimum of 15 years now.
If apple was patenting the fuel cell, or even some specific technology that made it possible to run a laptop on a fuel cell, this wouldn't be a problem.
The problem here is that all of the tech already exists and apple is simply patenting "Running a laptop on a fuel cell".
Its not purely geothermal, but a lot of it has to do with pressure as well, however the ambient starting temp is 370 degrees, so as soon as there is any sort of friction and drilling action, yes, water will flash to steam. The coolants they use past even 8km are far more suited than water.
Because they are theorizing about layers of the core from which we can't even get a core sample, let alone a good look at. Deepest hole ever drilled is something like 12km and the depth at which this shit is is more in the 1000-2000km range than the 12km range.
It should be noted that the reason that they had to stop @ 12km was that we havent been able to engineer any drill bits that can withstand the heat much below that. 15km is the theorized maximum drill depth with current technology but no one has even gotten close to that. Last attempt was still over 2km off.
They hold some, just usually not as many as a Union would.
That was partially my point. In a Union situation the Union holds everyones chips and thus can effectively negotiate. Also someone that is actually GOOD at negotiating can be appointed to do so on behalf of all represented employees.
So... Yes, it was. Be it from lack of ability or lack of cards, individuals suck at negotiating. Period.
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Will take me a little while to find it again but Harper had funding cuts for the CBC put into his budget back when they were reporting on some scientists that harper was gagging.
CBC folded, they removed the story from their web site, the only place you can find it now is on independent sites.
http://asweweresaying.blogspot.com/2010/10/scientists-defy-harper-gag-rules.html
The above is the story.
The CBC has been saying "How high" every time harper says "jump" ever since.
Yes. We are.
The Harper Government is putting heavy pressure on the CBC not to televise it. The other news interests are being pushed down by their corporate overlords.
People in Ontario: This is what you have voted into our Canadian government. Even Ignatieff was better than this.
You don't seem to understand my frustration.
My frustration isn't with the iPad, the iPad does what it is /intended to do by Apple/ fantastically well.
It is in no way intended for a business environment however. Those that keep trying to force it to be are just using it as a status object. The thing IS a toy. Its a toy for consumption of the internet, the same way a Nintendo Entertainment System was a toy for consumption of the programs written and stored on compatible cartridges. Neither of those devices has any place in a serious workplace. Technically the Nintendo could be used for displaying presentations etc(I saw this done once by the IT shop, coolest way to sneak a video game console into work ever), but it was in no way what it was designed for.
I bought one of the things for my aunt. She uses it to get email and check facebook. Which is the type of activity the iPad is good for. At the time the Android devices were far inferior in user experience.
The Galaxy Tab has changed this a lot and if I were buying it now I would be weighing my options much more carefully.
As you can see however, my frustration has nothing to do with the iPad itself. I personally don't like any Apple products except for the Mac computers, and those are on the way out the back door for me as well because they're moving towards a walled-garden approach with them the same as everything else. If however they simply provided me with an "advanced user" interface I'd probably have many more apple products in my own home.
Android devs have only had something decent to work with for the last 12 months, and there are already many times more useful business apps on the android market than in the apple market, despite there being far less apps in total and having had less time to develop them.
The iPad is a status toy, anyone who thinks otherwise is just trying to fool themselves.
If you think that stuff is as remotely wingnut as most of the shit Santorum believes then you need to get out of the house more often.
Besides which, he dropped the cap and trade plan after it was made clear to him how much damage it would do. He was made to see reason, thats enough for me. Being reasonable is a very very good quality in a president.
The shit Santorum does he won't even redact.
Also - To be fair, the civil rights movement could do with more socialism. A lot of times to me they just seem like they are play-acting at being a civil rights movement.
Seriously? You don't know whats wrong with the US?
Lets just take the #1 cause for example:
Much of the population thinks that the 4th word you used, "Read" is a dirty word not fit for polite company. They glorify sports and hollywood to the detriment of all else. The only thing that should ever be read are necessities, like the sports page, or a tabloid about your favorite star.
Having friends in the US all over the place, of varying ages, I can tell you that its gotten to the point where a guy just admitting to reading a book that you weren't forced to read often gets you lumped into the outcast "creepy nerd" pool.
Pfft, we don't shake angry beavers, we shake angry pine martens. Slightly smaller but 1000x more vicious.
If you really get us mad we'll start throwing cod chunks and unleash the sea gulls.
Agreed.
Where do I get me some freaky blue night-vision eyes?
I meant ever. There was a problem with SW:KotoR 2 with it crashing like clockwork after an hour playing that took 13 days to resolve. Other than that, and one 6 hour period where there was a conflict with WoW on my 4890, which I heard about after it was fixed already, there haven't been any major problems that I know about that could possibly have effected me.
Proper manufacturer wouldn't even matter.
Unless he's running Linux, for which I will admit ATI/AMDs driver support has been nearly or completely non-existant for quite some time, he's totally full of shit.
I have never gone more than a total of two weeks with a driver-related problem on an ATI card on a windows based system for any game. As opposed to NVidia from whom I haven't purchased a card since the debacle where I couldn't play SW:KotoR for over a month due to their problems.
To be fair, if he's running Linux, he shouldn't really have purchased that card anyways since its a huge waste of money.
"increasing H-1B visas for highly skilled coders; stopping Congress from defunding DARPA"
Defunding DARPA yes. Increasing H-1B visas? Thats bullshit if ever I heard it.
Whats the difference if the jobs stay in the US or not if you're just going to import the workers from over there anyways?
Sigh, teach me not to proof read - Michael Ignatieff.
One of the most despised people in canadian politics. A lot of Ontario voted conservative simply because they hated Ignatieff so badly.
They put Stephan Dione and then Michael Ignatius in as leaders. To be honest, I don't even know who the liberal leader IS at the moment and I don't really care.
I'm voting NDP next election. The liberals can't get their act together, and anyone that isn't pants-on-head retarded is better than harper.
Its the harper government thats trying to get all of this various legislation pushed through for their corporate buddies.
The Chretien government said "No. We'll put a tax on blank media, because we agree that it will be primarily used to copy your works. We'll let you have control over the distribution of that tax to the artists whom you represent. We are not however installing any laws that would give you any kind of direct control over the Canadian people"
The Harper Government says "Wait, how big was the yacht you mentioned is under construction and will be done just in time for my planned retirement?"
Right, you're completely full of shit, and apparently you've decided to mod me down even though you have no idea what you are talking about as you obviously DO NOT live in Canada. The reader in the phones will read either a UICC card or a pure sim card. There is a tri-mode antenna in the fucking phone that will broadcast on any of the technologies.
Virgin in Canada essentially resells Bell service. Bell uses SIM tech for ease of international compatibility purposes for travelers.
Learn what the fuck YOU are talking about before you criticize someone else.
That link only deals with daily numbers. If you attempted to use that you would actually come up with a figure of 52 hours/average a week, but the data is so non-specific for anything other than a daily basis that its total guesswork to get there.
" As previously mentioned, Americans work approximately 47.1 hours each week; "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%E2%80%93life_balance
I did a tiny bit of math on this second one, quickly and in my head, so I could be off +/- an hour or so, I aimed low and put a + sign after it.
"151 hours of TV content per month"
http://www.myce.com/news/TV-consumption-at-all-time-high-15573/
No, I am not going further than wikipedia/google for a slashdot post. Admittedly that statistic once I look at it again is 151 hours average based on all cable subscribers, there is a full 20%+ of the population that drags the stats for the BLS figure down a fair chunk since these are effectively zero numbers added into the other equation.
However from your own source, since it just helps to prove my statement:
On an average day, nearly everyone age 15 and over engaged in some sort of leisure activity, such as watching TV, socializing, or exercising. Of those who engaged in leisure activities, men spent more time in these activities (5.8 hours) than did women (5.1 hours). (See table 1.)
We'll say 5.4 hours on average for everyone that matters then, or 45 hours a week. Of that time about 4.5+ hours daily is spent on recreation or TV. The rest is divided between computer time, only some of which is relevant to helping your situation, probably in about the same proportion as people spend watching CNN or NPR out of their 45 hours a week.
Yes, I understand people do what they enjoy, I also understand that when so much of your life is taken up for pure enjoyment, almost NONE of it is spent actually giving a shit about how you're governed, or what you should do about it.
Average American works 47+ hours/week. Average American also consumes 35+ hours of TV per week.
Explain to me how the fuck this can't be considered distracting the masses? This means that, since its an average, 50%+ of your god damn population spends 90% of its waking time either at work or watching the boob tube. Considering the average commute is another 2.5 hours a week, and well, getting something to eat, raising children and every other damned thing has to come out of that other 10%... you see where I'm going with this.
I should note to the above however that he IS going CDMA to CDMA and this may be making things easier for a regular basis deal. He HAS used it to pick up a sim in Germany for a week which he had slightly more trouble with due to having to reconfigure the phone but as I recall worked perfectly fine once he got it working.
Virgin for both. He uses a Nexus One due to the tri-mode transmitter. There are several blackberries that will also work.
Yes, it can be done. I know a guy that travels back and forth between Canada and the US about once a month that does this now.
I don't think SIM is what you think it is...
You can actually use the same SIM on a CDMA or a GSM network if the phone can transmit on both technologies and its set up properly.
While Virgin has other options than using SIM cards, they are very much usable on a CDMA-only network.
You're missing the point.
People have been talking for decades about using /EXISTING TECHNOLOGY/ to make laptops run on fuel cells.
This has even been prototyped before. The technology has been there for a minimum of 15 years now.
If apple was patenting the fuel cell, or even some specific technology that made it possible to run a laptop on a fuel cell, this wouldn't be a problem.
The problem here is that all of the tech already exists and apple is simply patenting "Running a laptop on a fuel cell".
Its 370 Degrees at that depth.
Its not purely geothermal, but a lot of it has to do with pressure as well, however the ambient starting temp is 370 degrees, so as soon as there is any sort of friction and drilling action, yes, water will flash to steam. The coolants they use past even 8km are far more suited than water.
I'm sorry, twelve and a quarter kilometres, which still fits with my "They were still over 2km off the 15km mark"
Thanks for the link though.
Because they are theorizing about layers of the core from which we can't even get a core sample, let alone a good look at. Deepest hole ever drilled is something like 12km and the depth at which this shit is is more in the 1000-2000km range than the 12km range.
It should be noted that the reason that they had to stop @ 12km was that we havent been able to engineer any drill bits that can withstand the heat much below that. 15km is the theorized maximum drill depth with current technology but no one has even gotten close to that. Last attempt was still over 2km off.
They hold some, just usually not as many as a Union would.
That was partially my point. In a Union situation the Union holds everyones chips and thus can effectively negotiate. Also someone that is actually GOOD at negotiating can be appointed to do so on behalf of all represented employees.
So... Yes, it was. Be it from lack of ability or lack of cards, individuals suck at negotiating. Period.