Then I suggest you don't come to Canada, or travel to Europe. Where we use forms of English, not used in the US. Oh and I'd skip Singapore while you're at it.
I thought South Korea mostly welcomed people who were defecting from the north.
Not really, if you asked people on the streets you'd find that they'd be happier if China took their pseudo-province with them and dealt with the people there. N.Korea is effectively an entire brainwashed country, and in some cases like another poster pointed out, filled with dangerous brainwashed people.
Not to forget that N.Korea's favorite past time is kidnapping young girls and women from S.Korea and Japan, giving them off as sex slaves to the higher ranking members of the military.
We see the same thing in Canada, the main perpetrators are the Tides Foundation and the WWF. It's gotten bad enough that they're paying money to native groups in order to create an artificial voice on an issue.
And before some liberal moonbat starts whining "omg sunnews" just remember, that out of all the other networks in Canada, they were the only one doing a story on it at first. Because natives are a "sensitive issue" here so they don't want to offend them.
Note that if Canada really wanted to export their oil overseas, they would have just built a pipeline to one of the Canadian ports.
Oh we're trying. We're just dealing with environmental groups with US backing trying to stop that from happening, doubly so when said environmental groups are shoveling money at the natives(indians), to try and stop the pipeline development.
Well you're right. But just not from the government in the US. See in Canada we're dealing with a massive influx of environut dollars from groups like the Tides Foundation among others who are engaged in political activism. This is of course illegal in Canada, and said groups are being investigated now by the RCMP and the CRA(IRS equiv).
If you want to really piss off Canadians, this is how you do it. People here don't take kindly to wingnuts in foreign countries engaging in hypocrisy, or trying to tell us how to do things.
Considering that there's already hundreds of pipelines already running through those "several states" I'd say no. But the people who are opposed to this seem to keep forgetting that.
Chances are this will be from the folks who have no migration path from the software they're using, and they're unwilling to drop it because it "does what it needs to do." We're in a rather interesting era for software, for businesses XP does just fine. The software works, and does it well. So unless your machines have internet access, you're probably going to hold off as long as you can.
On the consumer side, we don't have any big software pushing development. For gaming it's the same deal. And now with Microsoft not sure what it's doing with DirectX, other API's are looking more attractive to developers. OGL and Mantle chiefly, so could this be the beginning of the end of MS desktop dominance? Very possibly. If say Mantle catches on, it could be the deathknell for it. Since it works on AMD and Nvidia cards, it works on any OS since it's handled by the drivers.
True in some cases. Though you'll probably remember that the base draft of most laws are written by politicians, in turn the faults in those law will transfer over because the one doing the draft or final draft listen to the one who wants it written as such. I've seen this in action up here in Canada both in federal and provincial politics, it's very easy to make a non-threatening phrase turn into something that twists the entire meaning and not make it so.
An example from the US: The passing of the restricted magazine law in NYC(I believe it was). The phrasing was explicit, written by politicians, and didn't exclude police, and other law related personal. In turn, it fully disarmed the law enforcement side.
Well if you didnt intend for it to be used in this way, why did you write it in a way that it COULD be used in this way?
Law of unintended consequences. You'll see it any country where laws and lawyers exist. A law is written as X,Y,Z; a lawyer will see it as X,A,C,Y,Z and exploit any and all loopholes that previous precedents or case law will allow. Let's be realistic, some politicians have been lawyers, but your average politician isn't, and they have no idea that "and" is explicit, and "or" can be taken in 12 different ways within a legal framework. Even lawyers who specialize in particular areas get messed up on that.
Well you've been on/. a long time, so you should remember that story that got published here back about 6 years ago where they found it really didn't matter. A single rewrite is usually enough to destroy everything, including anything that may have been done through relocation of faults.
Anything else is extra insurance, but single writes are enough.
Well you would care if you lost your job due to the H1B scam. After all, we have a shortage of skilled programmers in the americas right? Oh we don't...
So now the Canadians are following in America's footsteps, because no government, Liberal or Conservative, wants to be blamed for the next attack.
Haha no. We've been doing this up in Canada long before the American letter agencies did. If you need to see why, look up when the RCMP had the "national security" mandate ripped away and a new spy agency created(CSIS). We've had plenty of terrorist attacks up here, in a few cases by the RCMP. The rest by: Extremist Quebeckers, militant sikh's, muslims(prior to 9/11), indians(or natives if you prefer), eco-terrorists(decades of those), etc, etc, etc.
The difference between what was happening in the past and today is what? If you guess that it's more out in the open you'd be correct. And really in Canada, that's the only difference, the governments of Canada left or right have generally taken a very hard line on ensuring national sovereignty and protection from any enemy.
Yeah...those people named mohammed are likely to be waved through if in your group. However your 4 year old daughter is likely to get her first groping by the government...sorry I mean "enhanced pat down."
Chances are in the GP's case there's something else going on. Since I've got a 7950 and a FX-6300, and can run skyrim on the max settings while getting no frame hitching. Then again it could just be the 290, since there were TDP issues on some batch runs from what I've heard.
But driver quality? Nvidia's drivers are the reason I went to AMD, after nearly a year of them blaming the end user for constant TDR crashes, then deciding to man up and pay to have rigs in the US shipped to California for TDR testing, then releasing a driver which mostly fixed the TDR issues--where they were very quiet on revealing why it was crashing(all they said was "we fixed it in most cases"). Though a few intrepid people found it had to do with the drivers dropping the core and ram voltages so low that the cards became unresponsive and unstable. Then there was the 5-7 months where the 290-3xx series drivers were causing hardlocks across the board for 400,500,600 series owners.
I do remember when ATI's drivers were shit, I owned a couple of radeon cards during that time. But since AMD bought them out, their driver quality has been increasing quite a bit.
If the entire box is dead, wouldn't that imply mishandling during shipping?
Bad batches during production. Seagate used to be famous for this, and if you look back at their 90's financials you can see that for quite a while they were hanging on from folding by the edge of their teeth.
Back in '99 we used to get factory sealed boxes of Seagate drives DOA, or already having cluster collapse. There's nothing quite like 250-500+ brand new units which are all dead or dying, and then shipping them back. I've only started using Seagate again in the last few years.
Maybe the Muslim and Jewish schools don't waste time teaching pseudoscience?
Not sure if troll, or willfully ignorant. Even up here in Canadaland, you find Muslim schools teaching pseudoscience. Not so much the Jewish ones unless they're ultra-orthodox.
How is that odd? Muslims and Jews aren't the fanatical threat to freedom and education that Conservative Christians currently are in America.
Really? Apparently you've never run across a your average non-westernized muslim(or standard conservative muslims), they're more than happy to shove their opinions down your throat. While doing so, they'll also demand that you directly accommodate them. Jews generally are happy to not shove their opinions down your throat on their religious issues, and the more conservative are generally happier to enclave themselves up and run their lives according to how they want to run them.
What I find interesting on the map is the lack of "other religious" institutions that also support the ideology. They don't list muslim schools in VA, MD, or DC, or those in TN, or WI(many of which get public funding or falls under vouchers. But they list the various christian denominations...odd...how very odd. They don't list the Jewish schools either.
Interestingly enough, in some of the currency market circles they're already making noise that this is to limit a run that's already going on. Being a trader myself, I put it at a 40% chance that it's true...it's enough to make me jittery on anything that they're involved in.
On the other hand, real people were expelled, had their homes and villages razed, and are still not allowed to return because they aren't Jewish. This has been happening after WWII and isn't just some ancient fairy tale.
Gee, you mean like all the european and arab pogoms that went on with the Jews? Well never mind that right. Not forgetting that Israel is the only country in the region that will accept almost anyone if they're willing to be productive members of society, and sometimes not even then. How's that working out in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq? Right. If you're not muslim, not a chance. If you're gay, you're probably going to be killed, and if you're female and under the age of 14 and not married yet you're probably getting too old. And while the last part isn't really legal(though it is now becoming so in some countries-to the age of 9), it happens illegally often enough.
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How the hell is something that can run whatever you want, upto and including whatever software you want "locked down like every other console."
Then I suggest you don't come to Canada, or travel to Europe. Where we use forms of English, not used in the US. Oh and I'd skip Singapore while you're at it.
I thought South Korea mostly welcomed people who were defecting from the north.
Not really, if you asked people on the streets you'd find that they'd be happier if China took their pseudo-province with them and dealt with the people there. N.Korea is effectively an entire brainwashed country, and in some cases like another poster pointed out, filled with dangerous brainwashed people.
Not to forget that N.Korea's favorite past time is kidnapping young girls and women from S.Korea and Japan, giving them off as sex slaves to the higher ranking members of the military.
We see the same thing in Canada, the main perpetrators are the Tides Foundation and the WWF. It's gotten bad enough that they're paying money to native groups in order to create an artificial voice on an issue.
And before some liberal moonbat starts whining "omg sunnews" just remember, that out of all the other networks in Canada, they were the only one doing a story on it at first. Because natives are a "sensitive issue" here so they don't want to offend them.
Note that if Canada really wanted to export their oil overseas, they would have just built a pipeline to one of the Canadian ports.
Oh we're trying. We're just dealing with environmental groups with US backing trying to stop that from happening, doubly so when said environmental groups are shoveling money at the natives(indians), to try and stop the pipeline development.
Well you're right. But just not from the government in the US. See in Canada we're dealing with a massive influx of environut dollars from groups like the Tides Foundation among others who are engaged in political activism. This is of course illegal in Canada, and said groups are being investigated now by the RCMP and the CRA(IRS equiv).
If you want to really piss off Canadians, this is how you do it. People here don't take kindly to wingnuts in foreign countries engaging in hypocrisy, or trying to tell us how to do things.
Considering that there's already hundreds of pipelines already running through those "several states" I'd say no. But the people who are opposed to this seem to keep forgetting that.
Chances are this will be from the folks who have no migration path from the software they're using, and they're unwilling to drop it because it "does what it needs to do." We're in a rather interesting era for software, for businesses XP does just fine. The software works, and does it well. So unless your machines have internet access, you're probably going to hold off as long as you can.
On the consumer side, we don't have any big software pushing development. For gaming it's the same deal. And now with Microsoft not sure what it's doing with DirectX, other API's are looking more attractive to developers. OGL and Mantle chiefly, so could this be the beginning of the end of MS desktop dominance? Very possibly. If say Mantle catches on, it could be the deathknell for it. Since it works on AMD and Nvidia cards, it works on any OS since it's handled by the drivers.
True in some cases. Though you'll probably remember that the base draft of most laws are written by politicians, in turn the faults in those law will transfer over because the one doing the draft or final draft listen to the one who wants it written as such. I've seen this in action up here in Canada both in federal and provincial politics, it's very easy to make a non-threatening phrase turn into something that twists the entire meaning and not make it so.
An example from the US: The passing of the restricted magazine law in NYC(I believe it was). The phrasing was explicit, written by politicians, and didn't exclude police, and other law related personal. In turn, it fully disarmed the law enforcement side.
Well if you didnt intend for it to be used in this way, why did you write it in a way that it COULD be used in this way?
Law of unintended consequences. You'll see it any country where laws and lawyers exist. A law is written as X,Y,Z; a lawyer will see it as X,A,C,Y,Z and exploit any and all loopholes that previous precedents or case law will allow. Let's be realistic, some politicians have been lawyers, but your average politician isn't, and they have no idea that "and" is explicit, and "or" can be taken in 12 different ways within a legal framework. Even lawyers who specialize in particular areas get messed up on that.
The cyberweapons are between your fskin' ears. Malware, virii, etc, are just the tools.
Well you've been on /. a long time, so you should remember that story that got published here back about 6 years ago where they found it really didn't matter. A single rewrite is usually enough to destroy everything, including anything that may have been done through relocation of faults.
Anything else is extra insurance, but single writes are enough.
Who cares?
Well you would care if you lost your job due to the H1B scam. After all, we have a shortage of skilled programmers in the americas right? Oh we don't...
So now the Canadians are following in America's footsteps, because no government, Liberal or Conservative, wants to be blamed for the next attack.
Haha no. We've been doing this up in Canada long before the American letter agencies did. If you need to see why, look up when the RCMP had the "national security" mandate ripped away and a new spy agency created(CSIS). We've had plenty of terrorist attacks up here, in a few cases by the RCMP. The rest by: Extremist Quebeckers, militant sikh's, muslims(prior to 9/11), indians(or natives if you prefer), eco-terrorists(decades of those), etc, etc, etc.
The difference between what was happening in the past and today is what? If you guess that it's more out in the open you'd be correct. And really in Canada, that's the only difference, the governments of Canada left or right have generally taken a very hard line on ensuring national sovereignty and protection from any enemy.
Yeah...those people named mohammed are likely to be waved through if in your group. However your 4 year old daughter is likely to get her first groping by the government...sorry I mean "enhanced pat down."
Sure you can. They're ALL giving half the story at best. And those UK papers are more often than not just making things up. A lot like Fox News.
I think you're talking about NBC, and it's gotten so bad if they're not lying they're actually apologizing for lying, attacking, or making things up.
NVidia driver quality vs AMD driver quality...
Chances are in the GP's case there's something else going on. Since I've got a 7950 and a FX-6300, and can run skyrim on the max settings while getting no frame hitching. Then again it could just be the 290, since there were TDP issues on some batch runs from what I've heard.
But driver quality? Nvidia's drivers are the reason I went to AMD, after nearly a year of them blaming the end user for constant TDR crashes, then deciding to man up and pay to have rigs in the US shipped to California for TDR testing, then releasing a driver which mostly fixed the TDR issues--where they were very quiet on revealing why it was crashing(all they said was "we fixed it in most cases"). Though a few intrepid people found it had to do with the drivers dropping the core and ram voltages so low that the cards became unresponsive and unstable. Then there was the 5-7 months where the 290-3xx series drivers were causing hardlocks across the board for 400,500,600 series owners.
I do remember when ATI's drivers were shit, I owned a couple of radeon cards during that time. But since AMD bought them out, their driver quality has been increasing quite a bit.
If the entire box is dead, wouldn't that imply mishandling during shipping?
Bad batches during production. Seagate used to be famous for this, and if you look back at their 90's financials you can see that for quite a while they were hanging on from folding by the edge of their teeth.
Back in '99 we used to get factory sealed boxes of Seagate drives DOA, or already having cluster collapse. There's nothing quite like 250-500+ brand new units which are all dead or dying, and then shipping them back. I've only started using Seagate again in the last few years.
Maybe the Muslim and Jewish schools don't waste time teaching pseudoscience?
Not sure if troll, or willfully ignorant. Even up here in Canadaland, you find Muslim schools teaching pseudoscience. Not so much the Jewish ones unless they're ultra-orthodox.
How is that odd? Muslims and Jews aren't the fanatical threat to freedom and education that Conservative Christians currently are in America.
Really? Apparently you've never run across a your average non-westernized muslim(or standard conservative muslims), they're more than happy to shove their opinions down your throat. While doing so, they'll also demand that you directly accommodate them. Jews generally are happy to not shove their opinions down your throat on their religious issues, and the more conservative are generally happier to enclave themselves up and run their lives according to how they want to run them.
What I find interesting on the map is the lack of "other religious" institutions that also support the ideology. They don't list muslim schools in VA, MD, or DC, or those in TN, or WI(many of which get public funding or falls under vouchers. But they list the various christian denominations...odd...how very odd. They don't list the Jewish schools either.
I'm sure that the HSBC executives will also be arrested for their money laundering soon. Any time now.
Nah, they're too busy telling depositors they can't withdraw their money.
Interestingly enough, in some of the currency market circles they're already making noise that this is to limit a run that's already going on. Being a trader myself, I put it at a 40% chance that it's true...it's enough to make me jittery on anything that they're involved in.
On the other hand, real people were expelled, had their homes and villages razed, and are still not allowed to return because they aren't Jewish. This has been happening after WWII and isn't just some ancient fairy tale.
Gee, you mean like all the european and arab pogoms that went on with the Jews? Well never mind that right. Not forgetting that Israel is the only country in the region that will accept almost anyone if they're willing to be productive members of society, and sometimes not even then. How's that working out in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq? Right. If you're not muslim, not a chance. If you're gay, you're probably going to be killed, and if you're female and under the age of 14 and not married yet you're probably getting too old. And while the last part isn't really legal(though it is now becoming so in some countries-to the age of 9), it happens illegally often enough.