The information provided to Revenue Canada by your employer is just the very "basic" tax information. For example, your earnings, amount deducted for things like CPP, EI, etc.
Even for a single person with no children, letting Revenue Canada base your taxes on just this information will probably mean your paying more than you should. For example, union dues are usually not reported. That was about $1000 for me last year. If you contributed to an RRSP or charity, that won't be calculated into what you owe. Pay any money for school, or interest on student loans and you'll be missing out on deductions.
Then of course there are people who make income apart from their main job (and of course everyone reports that as income right?).
That's just a few reasons why everyone has to file. However, I'm guessing here, but my bet the real reason everyone has to file every year... so they have your signature which acknowledges that you have provided complete and accurate information to Revenue Canada.
Thats my take but I wouldn't expect the php community (at least not the development part of it) to know what true programming is like. Well at least not a majority of it for sure.
I don't think categorizing a group of people's knowledge of programming based on a language they use is fair or in any way accurate. I know a lot of people who use a lot of different languages, including PHP. Just because someone uses PHP to create a dynamic webpage does not imply that they are not capable of writing incredibly complex and bug free programs in PHP and/or other languages. I could make a statement that C programmers don't program with security in mind since we've seen so many buffer overflows. It doesn't make it accurate or even remotely true.
Well maybe then they wouldn't be attempting to send my mail server spam every 2 minutes from what appears to be some very poor version of a dictionary attack. Its fun to watch some of the attempts. It appears a lot of harvesters pull out 'and' in an email address. In my case, this is actually a *good* thing.
Not only that, but it appears that Mr. Taylor is aware that a least a significant portion of us (geeks, slashdotters, whoever) heavily prefer Linux in most situations, but are not zealots about it. I think both groups can learn from each other if, as Mr. Taylor said, we settle down and get emotions out of it and start with some calm dialogue. For example, I very much prefer Linux for *most* things, but I still have 2 windows machines running at home (compared to I believe 4 linux boxes at the moment). Always use the right tool for the right job, which comes right back to his TCO points. In specific circumstances, yes I believe Windows has a lower TCO than Linux.
As a side note, Mr. Taylor, if you are reading this, a quick thanks for the frank and intelligent discussion that helped give us a little insight and maybe some things to think about
Actually, that's not the submitter. In a slasdot article, the text in italics is what was submitted, the regular text is what the editor added on. In this case, Taco.
If this is aimed at kids in high school that have little or know technical knowledge, how far is this really going to get them? I mean 45 weeks is not exactly a lot of time to learn coding for performance and reliability. I don't think grads with this "degree" are going to be snatched up the day they graduate by big game producers.
Don't get me wrong, an 8 hour download is painful, and I think the whole thing could be solved by simple allowing folks to download a file through other normal distribution means (http, ftp, torrent, etc) that do allow resumes.
That being said, I still believe the requirements are accurate. You need an internet connection to play the game. No, they don't specify the speed, the type, or the reliability. You say it yourself: It seems that the problem is in my phone service rather than the ISP since the same problem exists no matter whose dialup bank I use
Your problem is not with your Internet connection, its with your phone line. If you're power went out half way through the install of some piece of software, would you blame the software company for not saying that a UPS is required for installation?
Remeber what the word requirements means. Does installation of and regular play require broadband internet? No.
Most dial-up service will disconnect you every 5-10 hours
Not where I live, at least not an active connection. I've used both of the two biggest ISPs where I live, and if there is active data transfer happening, you are not disconnected. I've used this in the past to stay connected for days by simple running a ping, or mail check regularaly.
You are trying to add levels of detail to one specific requirement that are not even closely matched in the other requirements. As I said before, if the requirements had to be as exact as your asking, you would see a huge difference in the way all requriements are written, not just the internet connection
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Gee, I have 3Ghz processor, but I'm installing the game on a machine that only has a 16mhz processor. I have a CD-Rom drive, but its not hooked up to this computer.
Suppose they do change it to read broadband internet connection (or highspeed, or whatever). Then suppose my ISP blocks Steam ports. Guess we'll have to change the requirements again. What if I have broadband but my download rate is limited to 3K/sec. How detailed to they have to get?????
I'm not disagreeing with anything you say. What I am saying is that the requirements are accurately stated. To play Half Life 2, you require an internet connection. Technically, an broadband connection is NOT required.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree with you. So, your internet connection disconnected, and thus broadband is actually the requirement. I can sympathize with you, but I can't agree. You pretty much stated that with a 26.4K connection, you could have downloaded the patches and activated the software, thus be able to play the game. If a "reliable and fast" internet connection is deemed to be the necessary wording, then I think we need to reexamine all wording requirements, etc. The requirements are exactly that, requirements. Its required that you have an Internet connection to be able to play. You have one, and with some patience and some luck, you would have been able to play. Its not required that you have broadband.
For example, what if I had a CPU that met the requirements, but I underclocked it. What if I have disk space available, but its on a USB drive which I can't have connected when I play because then I can connect my uber-leet gaming mouse.
Is it? It may have taken awhile, but you could have activated the software with only a 26.4K connection. Thus, and Internet Connection is required. Broadband just makes it faster.
I did something similar, though not quite as mean. I ran a site for awhile that did an image a day. I was checking the stats and found a site that was giving me huge referals. Except they weren't, they had just linked to my image. In any case, used mod_rewrite to instead put an add up for my site. Worked wonders!
Nice comment. I'm Canadian, and yes, I think the PATRIOT Act goes too far, but I agree, its not quite at the level Orwell described in 1984.
And just for my 2 cents on topic, tough luck Canada.:) If you do business that crosses into our country, you need to be held accountable by our laws, whatever they may be. The same holds true in reverse - if we're doing business with your country, then once we, our product, or our communication crosses the border, it's susceptible to whatever laws you have up there
Some of us up north here agree with you completely. A company I have worked with is keeping an eye on this issue right now. Though most of the customers don't know it, some of their information/communication passes through the US. I have brought this issue up to this company, and I think its only a matter of time before the news starts picking this up.
A lot of companies in Canada are in similar situations. They've outsourced parts of their services to US based companies. The problem is with PIPEDA (Canadian Privacy Act). I believe it should be changed in one of two ways:
Explicitly disallow a Canadian company from exporting any of the information protected in the Act
Force companies to explicitly inform existing and potential customers that information held does pass outside the borders of Canada and thus outside the protection of PIPEDA
It is not the job of the US (or any other country) to enforce the laws and protections available to Canadians
Frequently, they will do mass searches, where they search everyone crossing the border. I remeber travelling down to the US (from Sask into North Dakota) for a graduation (my sister had finished a Speech Path degree in Minot). On the trip down, we pulled up to the US crossing, we barely even stopped. Told the guard we were headed to Minot for a grad, and they waved us on. The trip back, pulled up to the Canadian side, and were directed to a lineup where every vehicle was being searched.
Its just something they do once in a while. Also, anytime that union is performing job action (they don't really go on strike) they begin by searching everybody to slow down the crossings and impede business, which puts pressure on the Gov't... well you get the idea.
Not only that, but the forums on sitepoint are a great way to learn. I see (and answer) a lot of PHP questions there, and rarely do I ever see any type of flaming, even for the guys still learning to write their first "Hello World".
I seem to remember reading, and seeing documentaries stating that a significant number of Cisco employees were worth millions since the company rewarded in a similar way, yet these employees weren't flocking out the door. I doubt I would either. If my employer rewarded me in this way for some of the contributions I made, I'd probably be less likely to leave.
g force is not a consideration for velocity. I think what you're wondering about is the g force during acceleration. Now, given that it would take an hour to accelerate to 60Km/s, and we assume that there is constant acceleration from 0 - 60Km/s, we can do some basic work here.
Simple math tells us then that the craft would accelerate at.0167 Km/s/s, or about 16.67m/s/s. Now, 1 G, according to Wikipedia is roughly 9.8m/s/s. So, you would experience a sustained force of less than 2g. Nothing to worry about.
That was the first thing that jumped to my mind as well. The iButton seems built for this type of situation. I'm building my own home alarm and I was trying to think of the best way to do a arm/disarm control panel, and I've pretty much decided to use iButton for it. Nobody has to remember a password, yet if someone loses their iButton, I can update the database to no longer allow that one access to the system.
Try this. Take a standard glass (use an actualy glass glass - makes the saran wrap stick better) fill with ice then with water - but make sure no ice is over the lip of the glass. Place saran wrap over the top to eliminate evaporation. Leave glass in a room temperature environment for several hours or over night. Observer the water level. It will have dropped as the ice melted.
if you're foolish/ignorant enough to have root@% with no password, then anyone can connect to your database remotely and browse your data to their hearts content
That's a little broad. I have to development MySQL servers running. At least one of them has root@% with no password. Go ahead, browse my data. Oh, you'll want the IPs: 192.168.112 and 192.168.1.15. Oh, that's right, they're both behind a firewall (well, actually two firewalls). No port forwarding to either box. You have to either connect internally, or connect remotely (from specific IPs to either SSH or VNC) to another box to get inside.
Of course, for the record, a machine with a root@% account with no password were to exist, anyone connecting to that account could do a lot more than "browse" the data there.
Find me an unbiased opinion and I might actually read the link. You referenced a company that is selling a product to protect against it. They might just have a (financial) reason to mislead potential customers. Do you automatically believe Microsoft when they say TCO is lower for Windows 200x than Linux? Do you automatically believe Ford when they say their truck is the best?
I bought a new video card a few weeks ago and this week I'm feeling a little under the weather, so be careful when you buy a new video card
Doesn't make sense does it? You're giving us the same kind of story. You bought some CRTs, lately you've lost your appetite and having problems shaking a cold, therefore, CRTs must cause loss of appetite and weaken your immune system. Funny, since I've found that when I have a cold, I lose my appetite (might have something to do with the fact that when you have a cold, you nose is typically plugged which lessens your ability to taste food and thus decreases your appetite - no, couldn't be that, must be the monitors).
I've used both and by far perfer good quality CRTs. I find the colours on a good CRT look better than any of the LCDs I've used (Viewsonics, IBM, Compaq, and others). At work I have two machines. If I spend more than an hour or two on the LCD I get headaches, but never a problem on the CRT, even a relatively old CRT.
Go RTFA. What this guy says is that common things you can expect to find in a EULA are enforceable. Things that you would NOT expect to find in a EULA are probably not enforceable. If its not reasonable to expect it in the EULA (assuming you haven't be offered a chance to read it before making the purchase) then its not enforceable. Does that void the entire EULA - I doubt it.
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The information provided to Revenue Canada by your employer is just the very "basic" tax information. For example, your earnings, amount deducted for things like CPP, EI, etc.
Even for a single person with no children, letting Revenue Canada base your taxes on just this information will probably mean your paying more than you should. For example, union dues are usually not reported. That was about $1000 for me last year. If you contributed to an RRSP or charity, that won't be calculated into what you owe. Pay any money for school, or interest on student loans and you'll be missing out on deductions.
Then of course there are people who make income apart from their main job (and of course everyone reports that as income right?).
That's just a few reasons why everyone has to file. However, I'm guessing here, but my bet the real reason everyone has to file every year... so they have your signature which acknowledges that you have provided complete and accurate information to Revenue Canada.
Thats my take but I wouldn't expect the php community (at least not the development part of it) to know what true programming is like. Well at least not a majority of it for sure.
I don't think categorizing a group of people's knowledge of programming based on a language they use is fair or in any way accurate. I know a lot of people who use a lot of different languages, including PHP. Just because someone uses PHP to create a dynamic webpage does not imply that they are not capable of writing incredibly complex and bug free programs in PHP and/or other languages. I could make a statement that C programmers don't program with security in mind since we've seen so many buffer overflows. It doesn't make it accurate or even remotely true.
Well maybe then they wouldn't be attempting to send my mail server spam every 2 minutes from what appears to be some very poor version of a dictionary attack. Its fun to watch some of the attempts. It appears a lot of harvesters pull out 'and' in an email address. In my case, this is actually a *good* thing.
I could have sworn I saw CmdrTaco up there before.
Not only that, but it appears that Mr. Taylor is aware that a least a significant portion of us (geeks, slashdotters, whoever) heavily prefer Linux in most situations, but are not zealots about it. I think both groups can learn from each other if, as Mr. Taylor said, we settle down and get emotions out of it and start with some calm dialogue. For example, I very much prefer Linux for *most* things, but I still have 2 windows machines running at home (compared to I believe 4 linux boxes at the moment). Always use the right tool for the right job, which comes right back to his TCO points. In specific circumstances, yes I believe Windows has a lower TCO than Linux.
As a side note, Mr. Taylor, if you are reading this, a quick thanks for the frank and intelligent discussion that helped give us a little insight and maybe some things to think about
.Actually, that's not the submitter. In a slasdot article, the text in italics is what was submitted, the regular text is what the editor added on. In this case, Taco.
If this is aimed at kids in high school that have little or know technical knowledge, how far is this really going to get them? I mean 45 weeks is not exactly a lot of time to learn coding for performance and reliability. I don't think grads with this "degree" are going to be snatched up the day they graduate by big game producers.
Don't get me wrong, an 8 hour download is painful, and I think the whole thing could be solved by simple allowing folks to download a file through other normal distribution means (http, ftp, torrent, etc) that do allow resumes.
That being said, I still believe the requirements are accurate. You need an internet connection to play the game. No, they don't specify the speed, the type, or the reliability. You say it yourself:
It seems that the problem is in my phone service rather than the ISP since the same problem exists no matter whose dialup bank I use
Your problem is not with your Internet connection, its with your phone line. If you're power went out half way through the install of some piece of software, would you blame the software company for not saying that a UPS is required for installation?
Remeber what the word requirements means. Does installation of and regular play require broadband internet? No.
Not where I live, at least not an active connection. I've used both of the two biggest ISPs where I live, and if there is active data transfer happening, you are not disconnected. I've used this in the past to stay connected for days by simple running a ping, or mail check regularaly.
You are trying to add levels of detail to one specific requirement that are not even closely matched in the other requirements. As I said before, if the requirements had to be as exact as your asking, you would see a huge difference in the way all requriements are written, not just the internet connection
.Gee, I have 3Ghz processor, but I'm installing the game on a machine that only has a 16mhz processor. I have a CD-Rom drive, but its not hooked up to this computer.
Suppose they do change it to read broadband internet connection (or highspeed, or whatever). Then suppose my ISP blocks Steam ports. Guess we'll have to change the requirements again. What if I have broadband but my download rate is limited to 3K/sec. How detailed to they have to get?????
I'm not disagreeing with anything you say. What I am saying is that the requirements are accurately stated. To play Half Life 2, you require an internet connection. Technically, an broadband connection is NOT required.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree with you. So, your internet connection disconnected, and thus broadband is actually the requirement. I can sympathize with you, but I can't agree. You pretty much stated that with a 26.4K connection, you could have downloaded the patches and activated the software, thus be able to play the game. If a "reliable and fast" internet connection is deemed to be the necessary wording, then I think we need to reexamine all wording requirements, etc. The requirements are exactly that, requirements. Its required that you have an Internet connection to be able to play. You have one, and with some patience and some luck, you would have been able to play. Its not required that you have broadband.
For example, what if I had a CPU that met the requirements, but I underclocked it. What if I have disk space available, but its on a USB drive which I can't have connected when I play because then I can connect my uber-leet gaming mouse.
Is it? It may have taken awhile, but you could have activated the software with only a 26.4K connection. Thus, and Internet Connection is required. Broadband just makes it faster.
I did something similar, though not quite as mean. I ran a site for awhile that did an image a day. I was checking the stats and found a site that was giving me huge referals. Except they weren't, they had just linked to my image. In any case, used mod_rewrite to instead put an add up for my site. Worked wonders!
And just for my 2 cents on topic, tough luck Canada. :) If you do business that crosses into our country, you need to be held accountable by our laws, whatever they may be. The same holds true in reverse - if we're doing business with your country, then once we, our product, or our communication crosses the border, it's susceptible to whatever laws you have up there
Some of us up north here agree with you completely. A company I have worked with is keeping an eye on this issue right now. Though most of the customers don't know it, some of their information/communication passes through the US. I have brought this issue up to this company, and I think its only a matter of time before the news starts picking this up.
A lot of companies in Canada are in similar situations. They've outsourced parts of their services to US based companies. The problem is with PIPEDA (Canadian Privacy Act). I believe it should be changed in one of two ways:
It is not the job of the US (or any other country) to enforce the laws and protections available to Canadians
Frequently, they will do mass searches, where they search everyone crossing the border. I remeber travelling down to the US (from Sask into North Dakota) for a graduation (my sister had finished a Speech Path degree in Minot). On the trip down, we pulled up to the US crossing, we barely even stopped. Told the guard we were headed to Minot for a grad, and they waved us on. The trip back, pulled up to the Canadian side, and were directed to a lineup where every vehicle was being searched.
Its just something they do once in a while. Also, anytime that union is performing job action (they don't really go on strike) they begin by searching everybody to slow down the crossings and impede business, which puts pressure on the Gov't... well you get the idea.
Not only that, but the forums on sitepoint are a great way to learn. I see (and answer) a lot of PHP questions there, and rarely do I ever see any type of flaming, even for the guys still learning to write their first "Hello World".
I seem to remember reading, and seeing documentaries stating that a significant number of Cisco employees were worth millions since the company rewarded in a similar way, yet these employees weren't flocking out the door. I doubt I would either. If my employer rewarded me in this way for some of the contributions I made, I'd probably be less likely to leave.
g force is not a consideration for velocity. I think what you're wondering about is the g force during acceleration. Now, given that it would take an hour to accelerate to 60Km/s, and we assume that there is constant acceleration from 0 - 60Km/s, we can do some basic work here.
Simple math tells us then that the craft would accelerate at .0167 Km/s/s, or about 16.67m/s/s. Now, 1 G, according to Wikipedia is roughly 9.8m/s/s. So, you would experience a sustained force of less than 2g. Nothing to worry about.
That was the first thing that jumped to my mind as well. The iButton seems built for this type of situation. I'm building my own home alarm and I was trying to think of the best way to do a arm/disarm control panel, and I've pretty much decided to use iButton for it. Nobody has to remember a password, yet if someone loses their iButton, I can update the database to no longer allow that one access to the system.
Try this. Take a standard glass (use an actualy glass glass - makes the saran wrap stick better) fill with ice then with water - but make sure no ice is over the lip of the glass. Place saran wrap over the top to eliminate evaporation. Leave glass in a room temperature environment for several hours or over night. Observer the water level. It will have dropped as the ice melted.
if you're foolish/ignorant enough to have root@% with no password, then anyone can connect to your database remotely and browse your data to their hearts content
That's a little broad. I have to development MySQL servers running. At least one of them has root@% with no password. Go ahead, browse my data. Oh, you'll want the IPs: 192.168.112 and 192.168.1.15. Oh, that's right, they're both behind a firewall (well, actually two firewalls). No port forwarding to either box. You have to either connect internally, or connect remotely (from specific IPs to either SSH or VNC) to another box to get inside.
Of course, for the record, a machine with a root@% account with no password were to exist, anyone connecting to that account could do a lot more than "browse" the data there.
Replying to my own post, but I'd be more likely to trust this article than the one you referenced:t ml
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/iyh/products/vdt.h
Find me an unbiased opinion and I might actually read the link. You referenced a company that is selling a product to protect against it. They might just have a (financial) reason to mislead potential customers. Do you automatically believe Microsoft when they say TCO is lower for Windows 200x than Linux? Do you automatically believe Ford when they say their truck is the best?
I bought a new video card a few weeks ago and this week I'm feeling a little under the weather, so be careful when you buy a new video card
Doesn't make sense does it? You're giving us the same kind of story. You bought some CRTs, lately you've lost your appetite and having problems shaking a cold, therefore, CRTs must cause loss of appetite and weaken your immune system. Funny, since I've found that when I have a cold, I lose my appetite (might have something to do with the fact that when you have a cold, you nose is typically plugged which lessens your ability to taste food and thus decreases your appetite - no, couldn't be that, must be the monitors).
I've used both and by far perfer good quality CRTs. I find the colours on a good CRT look better than any of the LCDs I've used (Viewsonics, IBM, Compaq, and others). At work I have two machines. If I spend more than an hour or two on the LCD I get headaches, but never a problem on the CRT, even a relatively old CRT.
Go RTFA. What this guy says is that common things you can expect to find in a EULA are enforceable. Things that you would NOT expect to find in a EULA are probably not enforceable. If its not reasonable to expect it in the EULA (assuming you haven't be offered a chance to read it before making the purchase) then its not enforceable. Does that void the entire EULA - I doubt it.