I am Canadian and I'm going to tell you what corporate Canada is all aboot eh. We have this cool day called Jean Cretien day, in which we celebrate our last Prime Minister, Jean. We all have lots of donuts that day and talk about hockey, but the catch is, its in French. Another thing to be aware of is that we have Naked Fridays at all companies. Its not only a good idea, but its the law. You have to freeze your bacon off in your coporate igloo though. Anyhow, thats corporate Canada for you. Hope you like it.
Umm.... I think you're missing the idea... they're not beaming light to the Earth, but rather microwave (radio waves with a frequency greater than 300MHz is a microwave) to base stations on the Earth. Now, this may sound like it could be very dangerous, but the density of these waves is lower than current cell phones. Birds, planes, whatever could cut the beam, and not be fried. I've seen a working model of a system like this, currently being developed by the Canadian Space Agency, and its quite impressive. There are safety concerns, including terrorism, I definately agree, but I'm sure a solution can be found.
What they're not showing is the comments a few lines above that says, "/* Code herein copyright IBM Corp. Originally designed by Michael Anderson, programmer IBM Corp.*/" in the Linux Kernel, and in the System V kernel, "/* Note to self, changed this ripped off code so it looks like SCO's and not IBM's.*/"
About three years ago, I saw a display at Canada's largest student run science and technology show at the University of Saskatchewan - College of Engineering. The Canadian Space Agency displayed a working model of a satellite that would capture the Sun's rays, and convert them to power via a massive array of solar cells. The device would then beam the electricity to Earth base stations via microwave radiation (these are just electromagnetic rays much like your microwave oven generated, not what you make think of radiation as (ie. beta, gamma, xray, etc)). The rays would have a power lower density so that animal life would not be affected. They would place a bunch of these satellites in orbit, with a good amount of redundancy. It is estimated that only three of these would be required to take on the entire world's power consumption needs, with ground stations all over the world. I actually saw a working model, where they used a 60W incandescant light bulb to power this little satellite model, which beamed the energy to a map of the world (about 3 feet away) with little LED's all over the place. It was quite interesting, and I hope their research proves fruitful, as it is a fair amount more environmentally friendly that most other power alternatives. Also to get the entire world on this, you would not have to convert say the United Kingdom to 120V RMS/60Hz from 240V RMS/50Hz, as each base station could convert the energy to whatever it deems necessary for the grid. A world-wide power grid would require major changed to a lot of the countries as there are different standards for voltage and frequency, among other things.
4 inch range, yes until you short circuit a resistor on the PCB, then 12 feet. mwuahahaha.;) Only the receive it 4", the send it much much more. which became evident to me when I put a TV remote control emulator on it, and would shut off the TV in the student lounge when people least expected it... oh what fun.
Looks like a last ditch effort by these idiots to keep a strangle hold on their monopoly. I would be against sharing of MP3s if the artist got a good chunk of the cash from CD sales, but the sad reality of it is the artist gets very little, as does the store who's selling it, while these greedy pieces of crap live in their fancy Bel-Air mansions drinking latte's.
I think the CRTC's decision is a bad one. In my area, the telco is a Crown Corporation, which is owned by the people(SaskTel). We paid the money to lay the telecommunications infrastructure via taxes, and cost of service, and now some other company can come, and capitalize on our expenditures. This is ludicrous. If the CRTC was truly all for competition, it would allow our television over DSL (SaskTel MAX to be packaged separate from the broadband internet service. They would also force cable companies such as Shaw Cable and Rogers Cable to open up their broadband infrastructure to competing cable companies. Broadband prices are a drop in the bucket in Canada compared to other parts of the world, including some areas of the United States, where a 384kbit/s connection costs someone as much or more than a 3mbit/s DSL connection would cost me here in Canada. ($99CDN/mo), or a 2mbit/s DSL connection ($60CDN/mo).
Last year I had the opportunity to meet a (Francophone) Quebecois family. They were vacationing in Western Canada, and were friends of my sister-in-law. They seemed like very nice people, and were actually quite friendly. They grew more in love with my area of the country when they found out that we here in Western Canada dislike the people of "Golden Triangle" that area around Toronto and rest of the "centre of the universe". My father used to be stationed in Quebec while in the RCAF during the cold war. He loved Quebec... the people of that province are extremely friendly. I don't know much about the Francophone/Anglophone laws, so I won't delve into that subject. I just think that a few extremist Quebecois have ruined it for the rest of the great ones. Vive la Quebec!
About a year ago I purchased a Toshiba Satellite 1900 laptop. It came with two recovery CD's, in which you put the CD in the drive, reboot, and it tells you it will wipe everything, press okay to continue... yadda yadda yadda... With that one, if you partition your hard drives, etc it does not touch the partition table, it simply formats the primary partition (if its FAT32 or NTFS). I never did try making the first partition EXT2 or EXT3, but I'll assume it wouldn't know what to do in that case. The fact of the matter is you don't need the real windows CDs nor have you ever needed them. I had absolutely no problem getting linux on that thing and dual botting it with WindozeXP. The only thing I had a hitch with was my Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card... which was actually easy to fix.
Current flows from a negative source to a positive source... opposites attract, and since electrons are free (for the most part they can be though of as a "soup"), they flow to the positively charged particles. I'm not sure what charge the ground and the clouds have, but I think its the opposite I recall a debate about it in the 80's and 90's, and I recall the conclusion being that lightning goes from the ground to the cloud, and its just an illusion that it goes the other way, they used cameras with extremely high shutter speeds... so we could conclude that the ground is negative, and the clouds positive...
During the late 1940's, a Canadian company called A.V. Roe Canada, was working on a project for the USAF (or the fore-runner to it... the Army Air Force), the project was to create a working flying saucer. They suceeded in what was called the AVRO Car... they were testing it in New Mexico... it shows pictures in the 1950 World Almanac, and how it crashed while testing due to instabilities in the air frame... this is what crashed in Roswell... they said it was a weather balloon, because at the time, it was a classified project...
On another note, A.V. Roe Canada made a supersonic interceptor called the AVRO Arrow, in which its air frame was wind tunnel tested to withstand mach 8 speeds. They never did get the Iroqous engines that they were building into them, but with engines that put out much much less thrust, the Arrow broke mach 2... anyhow, long story short, the Canadian government scrapped the arrow program, and many bright Canadian engineers left for the USA and Great Britain. Noteably Jim Chamberlain left for NASA and worked on the Apollo project... this loss caused the "Brain Drain", in which many bright young engineers and technical people left Canada for better jobs/money elsewhere.
Yet another example of people not thinking about what they read, and/or believing everything they see on the internet or in the mass media. I once read that aliens landed nearby, but that doesnt make it true. First of all, prove I have a honeypot, and not just a linux box sitting there with nothing on it. I normally run stuff to monitor peoples connections to my systems... prove otherwise. "Innocent until proven guilty." Next, its my God given right to monitor my systems, and as such, I am of the belief that anyone saying I can't are in violation of my constitutional rights. Hence, don't believe everything you read...
I just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in... I'm sure many of you will agree with me that SCO sucks. Oh, damn, I'm going to get sued for saying that. I take it back. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Linux based on BSD UNIX? Okay, so if thats true... and we already know that SCO is based on System V Release 4 and XENIX, then what the heck kind of grounds does SCO have? Anyways, I think they suck, and IBM should buy them, and then fire all the losers in management at SCO. Nuff said.;-)
Actually, you aren't receiving any electrons from the lines. What is happening, is you are cutting the flux lines of the electricity, inducing a current in your bike (or whatever metallic object, be it a car, or whatever). This is part of Faraday's Law/Lenz's Law. The fact that mere micro-volts at most would be produced, is a testament to the fact that the electrons motion (induced by the electro-magnetics field of the H-V transmission lines) would not be nearly enough to ground out (because the breakout voltage of the rubber in the tire is much higher. By the same token, the bike is too small. If you ran a wire (say barbed wire that a farmer may have out in a pasture) parallel to a H-V transmission line, you could probably get a little bit of power off it. This is straight loss, and is not a crime, because its deemed non-recoverable loss by the majoriy of power utilities. The charge of your bike and yourself isn't 'neautral', it would be essentially 'neutral' as compared to the ground, however you're not taking into account the small voltage, among other things.
I don't think I can say anything that hasnt been posted already. I just want to express my deepest condolences to the crew, their families, and to the American people. Being a canadian engineering student, I have always dreamed of working for NASA in the USA, a lifelong dream, that I one day hope to accomplish.. although working for the Canadian Space Agency would also suffice. This is a very sad day on so many levels. On the level of the loss of life, as well as on the engineering side... as the Challenger explosion in 1986 set back the American space program... I can only hope that NASA presses on, and that congress doesn't stifle funding even more. Also a sad day to the American people, as well as here in Canada... astronauts were my childhood heros, and still are. Godspeed STS-107 crew... Godspeed.
Ever since I was young, I've had a wierd ability to remember almost everything, very well... a photographic memory (I dont know anyone that doesnt remember like that.. If I say "elephant" you'll get a picture of one in your head, not a picture of the word)... anyhow, I dont know this sounds wierd, but I remember crawling across the floor when I was about 8 months old (I was walking by 9-10 months), all my aunts were there. I also remember my mother rocking me to sleep beside my crib. I watched a program on discovery channel a few years back that said that they can only theorize how old you must be to have a memory, and by these psychologists (I can't remember where they were from) figure around 5 months of age... everything prior is instinct... An interesting subject either way...
Quite alright, your opinion is yours. I can see where you're coming from in a way, however I haven't taken a DB class yet... perhaps next year... but final year undergrad in the program does have a DB class... kind of like which came first, the chicken or the egg, I guess... I don't even know how the program here rates...
At my university -- University of Saskatchewan, we used a book called Data Structures and Software Development to introduce us more or less to OOP, its a second year class, and although 1st year science students learn Java, they hardly learn proper OO programming, while engineers like myself learn C/C++. The book itself was written by two profs, and is in my opinion a very good book.
All hail uber-programming god Bertrand Meyer for creating Eiffel! Although, ISE doesn't create a GPL version of Eiffel to my knowledge, they just make EBench, which you have to pay for. Actually, I really hated the language when I first learned it in my second year comp sci class last year, but now I must say, that its grown on me... ahh the joys of being forced into coding by way of OOP... instead of C++ which is rather pseudo-OOP.
That is why it is indeed a paradox... quantum physics may not agree with this, however, relativity does. You must be suffering from brain damage to believe that an electron volt is synonymous with mass. As you stated, an electron volt is the voltage required to move an electron through a 1 volt potential... this is not a mass, as it can be converted to the SI standard unit for energy called a joule, which by the metric (SI) definition is defined as a newton x metre. So in essense, you are telling me that your power company is creating mass, which would break the conservation of mass law in physics, which is one of the most fundamental laws. So when you start believing something as idiotic as that, you are indeed setting yourself at the same supposed level as myself.... I dont profess to be a physicist, but I have gotten into debates with pysicist and post-doctural fellows, regarding massless particles. Yes they are essentially massless, that is because the mass is infinitesimal, and if you pull out that book labelled dictionary with all the dust on it (note, the dust may actually cover some or all of the letters), and look that word up, you may start to understand what I'm saying. Do I believe it entirely? No.... and if you read what I stated, you would note that I said modern theories state this... so when you start to flame someone, know what you're talking about, flame with tact, and couth.
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I am Canadian and I'm going to tell you what corporate Canada is all aboot eh. We have this cool day called Jean Cretien day, in which we celebrate our last Prime Minister, Jean. We all have lots of donuts that day and talk about hockey, but the catch is, its in French. Another thing to be aware of is that we have Naked Fridays at all companies. Its not only a good idea, but its the law. You have to freeze your bacon off in your coporate igloo though. Anyhow, thats corporate Canada for you. Hope you like it.
PS I really am Canadian, eh.
Umm.... I think you're missing the idea... they're not beaming light to the Earth, but rather microwave (radio waves with a frequency greater than 300MHz is a microwave) to base stations on the Earth. Now, this may sound like it could be very dangerous, but the density of these waves is lower than current cell phones. Birds, planes, whatever could cut the beam, and not be fried. I've seen a working model of a system like this, currently being developed by the Canadian Space Agency, and its quite impressive. There are safety concerns, including terrorism, I definately agree, but I'm sure a solution can be found.
What they're not showing is the comments a few lines above that says, "/* Code herein copyright IBM Corp. Originally designed by Michael Anderson, programmer IBM Corp.*/" in the Linux Kernel, and in the System V kernel, "/* Note to self, changed this ripped off code so it looks like SCO's and not IBM's.*/"
Incorrect grammar. Should have been "...Ham radio shone."
About three years ago, I saw a display at Canada's largest student run science and technology show at the University of Saskatchewan - College of Engineering. The Canadian Space Agency displayed a working model of a satellite that would capture the Sun's rays, and convert them to power via a massive array of solar cells. The device would then beam the electricity to Earth base stations via microwave radiation (these are just electromagnetic rays much like your microwave oven generated, not what you make think of radiation as (ie. beta, gamma, xray, etc)). The rays would have a power lower density so that animal life would not be affected. They would place a bunch of these satellites in orbit, with a good amount of redundancy. It is estimated that only three of these would be required to take on the entire world's power consumption needs, with ground stations all over the world. I actually saw a working model, where they used a 60W incandescant light bulb to power this little satellite model, which beamed the energy to a map of the world (about 3 feet away) with little LED's all over the place. It was quite interesting, and I hope their research proves fruitful, as it is a fair amount more environmentally friendly that most other power alternatives. Also to get the entire world on this, you would not have to convert say the United Kingdom to 120V RMS/60Hz from 240V RMS/50Hz, as each base station could convert the energy to whatever it deems necessary for the grid. A world-wide power grid would require major changed to a lot of the countries as there are different standards for voltage and frequency, among other things.
4 inch range, yes until you short circuit a resistor on the PCB, then 12 feet. mwuahahaha. ;) Only the receive it 4", the send it much much more. which became evident to me when I put a TV remote control emulator on it, and would shut off the TV in the student lounge when people least expected it... oh what fun.
Looks like a last ditch effort by these idiots to keep a strangle hold on their monopoly. I would be against sharing of MP3s if the artist got a good chunk of the cash from CD sales, but the sad reality of it is the artist gets very little, as does the store who's selling it, while these greedy pieces of crap live in their fancy Bel-Air mansions drinking latte's.
I think the CRTC's decision is a bad one. In my area, the telco is a Crown Corporation, which is owned by the people(SaskTel). We paid the money to lay the telecommunications infrastructure via taxes, and cost of service, and now some other company can come, and capitalize on our expenditures. This is ludicrous. If the CRTC was truly all for competition, it would allow our television over DSL (SaskTel MAX to be packaged separate from the broadband internet service. They would also force cable companies such as Shaw Cable and Rogers Cable to open up their broadband infrastructure to competing cable companies. Broadband prices are a drop in the bucket in Canada compared to other parts of the world, including some areas of the United States, where a 384kbit/s connection costs someone as much or more than a 3mbit/s DSL connection would cost me here in Canada. ($99CDN/mo), or a 2mbit/s DSL connection ($60CDN/mo).
Last year I had the opportunity to meet a (Francophone) Quebecois family. They were vacationing in Western Canada, and were friends of my sister-in-law. They seemed like very nice people, and were actually quite friendly. They grew more in love with my area of the country when they found out that we here in Western Canada dislike the people of "Golden Triangle" that area around Toronto and rest of the "centre of the universe". My father used to be stationed in Quebec while in the RCAF during the cold war. He loved Quebec... the people of that province are extremely friendly. I don't know much about the Francophone/Anglophone laws, so I won't delve into that subject. I just think that a few extremist Quebecois have ruined it for the rest of the great ones. Vive la Quebec!
About a year ago I purchased a Toshiba Satellite 1900 laptop. It came with two recovery CD's, in which you put the CD in the drive, reboot, and it tells you it will wipe everything, press okay to continue... yadda yadda yadda... With that one, if you partition your hard drives, etc it does not touch the partition table, it simply formats the primary partition (if its FAT32 or NTFS). I never did try making the first partition EXT2 or EXT3, but I'll assume it wouldn't know what to do in that case. The fact of the matter is you don't need the real windows CDs nor have you ever needed them. I had absolutely no problem getting linux on that thing and dual botting it with WindozeXP. The only thing I had a hitch with was my Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card... which was actually easy to fix.
Current flows from a negative source to a positive source... opposites attract, and since electrons are free (for the most part they can be though of as a "soup"), they flow to the positively charged particles. I'm not sure what charge the ground and the clouds have, but I think its the opposite I recall a debate about it in the 80's and 90's, and I recall the conclusion being that lightning goes from the ground to the cloud, and its just an illusion that it goes the other way, they used cameras with extremely high shutter speeds... so we could conclude that the ground is negative, and the clouds positive...
In five years, we'll be seeing advertisements with the following line:
"SCO, a division of IBM."
mwuahahahaah what a bunch of retards.
During the late 1940's, a Canadian company called A.V. Roe Canada, was working on a project for the USAF (or the fore-runner to it... the Army Air Force), the project was to create a working flying saucer. They suceeded in what was called the AVRO Car... they were testing it in New Mexico... it shows pictures in the 1950 World Almanac, and how it crashed while testing due to instabilities in the air frame... this is what crashed in Roswell... they said it was a weather balloon, because at the time, it was a classified project...
On another note, A.V. Roe Canada made a supersonic interceptor called the AVRO Arrow, in which its air frame was wind tunnel tested to withstand mach 8 speeds. They never did get the Iroqous engines that they were building into them, but with engines that put out much much less thrust, the Arrow broke mach 2... anyhow, long story short, the Canadian government scrapped the arrow program, and many bright Canadian engineers left for the USA and Great Britain. Noteably Jim Chamberlain left for NASA and worked on the Apollo project... this loss caused the "Brain Drain", in which many bright young engineers and technical people left Canada for better jobs/money elsewhere.
In short... what a bunch of fucking morons....
Yet another example of people not thinking about what they read, and/or believing everything they see on the internet or in the mass media. I once read that aliens landed nearby, but that doesnt make it true. First of all, prove I have a honeypot, and not just a linux box sitting there with nothing on it. I normally run stuff to monitor peoples connections to my systems... prove otherwise. "Innocent until proven guilty." Next, its my God given right to monitor my systems, and as such, I am of the belief that anyone saying I can't are in violation of my constitutional rights. Hence, don't believe everything you read...
BASED on ya moron. Read it more clearly. The look and feel to Linux is more or less BSD. SVR4 is much different...
I just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in... I'm sure many of you will agree with me that SCO sucks. Oh, damn, I'm going to get sued for saying that. I take it back. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Linux based on BSD UNIX? Okay, so if thats true... and we already know that SCO is based on System V Release 4 and XENIX, then what the heck kind of grounds does SCO have? Anyways, I think they suck, and IBM should buy them, and then fire all the losers in management at SCO. Nuff said. ;-)
Actually, you aren't receiving any electrons from the lines. What is happening, is you are cutting the flux lines of the electricity, inducing a current in your bike (or whatever metallic object, be it a car, or whatever). This is part of Faraday's Law/Lenz's Law. The fact that mere micro-volts at most would be produced, is a testament to the fact that the electrons motion (induced by the electro-magnetics field of the H-V transmission lines) would not be nearly enough to ground out (because the breakout voltage of the rubber in the tire is much higher. By the same token, the bike is too small. If you ran a wire (say barbed wire that a farmer may have out in a pasture) parallel to a H-V transmission line, you could probably get a little bit of power off it. This is straight loss, and is not a crime, because its deemed non-recoverable loss by the majoriy of power utilities. The charge of your bike and yourself isn't 'neautral', it would be essentially 'neutral' as compared to the ground, however you're not taking into account the small voltage, among other things.
I don't think I can say anything that hasnt been posted already. I just want to express my deepest condolences to the crew, their families, and to the American people. Being a canadian engineering student, I have always dreamed of working for NASA in the USA, a lifelong dream, that I one day hope to accomplish.. although working for the Canadian Space Agency would also suffice. This is a very sad day on so many levels. On the level of the loss of life, as well as on the engineering side... as the Challenger explosion in 1986 set back the American space program... I can only hope that NASA presses on, and that congress doesn't stifle funding even more. Also a sad day to the American people, as well as here in Canada... astronauts were my childhood heros, and still are. Godspeed STS-107 crew... Godspeed.
Ever since I was young, I've had a wierd ability to remember almost everything, very well... a photographic memory (I dont know anyone that doesnt remember like that.. If I say "elephant" you'll get a picture of one in your head, not a picture of the word)... anyhow, I dont know this sounds wierd, but I remember crawling across the floor when I was about 8 months old (I was walking by 9-10 months), all my aunts were there. I also remember my mother rocking me to sleep beside my crib. I watched a program on discovery channel a few years back that said that they can only theorize how old you must be to have a memory, and by these psychologists (I can't remember where they were from) figure around 5 months of age... everything prior is instinct... An interesting subject either way...
Quite alright, your opinion is yours. I can see where you're coming from in a way, however I haven't taken a DB class yet... perhaps next year... but final year undergrad in the program does have a DB class... kind of like which came first, the chicken or the egg, I guess... I don't even know how the program here rates...
At my university -- University of Saskatchewan, we used a book called Data Structures and Software Development to introduce us more or less to OOP, its a second year class, and although 1st year science students learn Java, they hardly learn proper OO programming, while engineers like myself learn C/C++. The book itself was written by two profs, and is in my opinion a very good book.
All hail uber-programming god Bertrand Meyer for creating Eiffel! Although, ISE doesn't create a GPL version of Eiffel to my knowledge, they just make EBench, which you have to pay for. Actually, I really hated the language when I first learned it in my second year comp sci class last year, but now I must say, that its grown on me... ahh the joys of being forced into coding by way of OOP... instead of C++ which is rather pseudo-OOP.
you need to adjust your panties, dude.... while your at it.... get laid... that'll releave some of the tension.
That is why it is indeed a paradox... quantum physics may not agree with this, however, relativity does. You must be suffering from brain damage to believe that an electron volt is synonymous with mass. As you stated, an electron volt is the voltage required to move an electron through a 1 volt potential... this is not a mass, as it can be converted to the SI standard unit for energy called a joule, which by the metric (SI) definition is defined as a newton x metre. So in essense, you are telling me that your power company is creating mass, which would break the conservation of mass law in physics, which is one of the most fundamental laws. So when you start believing something as idiotic as that, you are indeed setting yourself at the same supposed level as myself.... I dont profess to be a physicist, but I have gotten into debates with pysicist and post-doctural fellows, regarding massless particles. Yes they are essentially massless, that is because the mass is infinitesimal, and if you pull out that book labelled dictionary with all the dust on it (note, the dust may actually cover some or all of the letters), and look that word up, you may start to understand what I'm saying. Do I believe it entirely? No.... and if you read what I stated, you would note that I said modern theories state this... so when you start to flame someone, know what you're talking about, flame with tact, and couth.