The problem with that can end up being "when it is broke, how are you going to fix it?"
If I can still buy newly manufactured tubes for a radio made in 1910, you shouldn't have much of a problem fixing that. It may be a niche market in terms of repair, but someone will either make the parts, or be willing to make the parts.
That way you don't have to worry about how well Joe the Sheriff in Backwoods Nowhere does his job.
Except that's exactly what happens up here in Canada. In cases of the provincial police or even the RCMP, if you're on what they call "remote detachment" your office is your house, jail, and sometimes also the hospital and doctors office. You start getting oh 300km or so north outside of southern ontario and that's how it rolls.
And a lot of provinces are questioning having the RCMP as a provincial police, especially with the mass number of screw-ups, never mind that provincial police aren't the best option in many cases either. A small town near me has a OPP detachment, it's very rare that those officers are even in town. Rather they're deployed elsewhere by the main office for the region.
Who the hell tries to bomb Canada? A country stereotyped by polite apologies and maple syrup.
Well that would be the same type of people as last time, and the time before that. Though not the same group as back in the 80's. The last dozen or so terrorist attempts have been attempted by "exceptionally devout muslims" back in the 80's we had two attempts by Sikh's, and back in the 60's and 70's it was the FLQ. Despite what people think Canadians have a very thin skin when it comes to terrorism.
I bet a lot of that $10k fee is due to the software requiring FDA certification.
Oh that wouldn't surprise me, back oh 15 years ago I helped due a transition from paper to electronic. It was right up along the lines of $38k here in Canada for the software. And my family doctor just dumped their old version of Wolf Medical to a new version, total cost for 6 computers? $118k.
Odd, I thought using zip ties was illegal on aircraft. Due to the fact that they can cause vibration damage to cabling, and make it wear through exceptionally quick. While it's been awhile since I was last at a fab plant, they were using low abrasion cloth such as silk to tie cabling together.
The first amendment is out of date. It needs to be extended with the word electronic as currently it seems that electronic papers aren't covered and many people seem to think it should have some exceptions added for things like child porn and national security.
If the constitution was treated as foundational instead of "living breathing" as so many left-leaning folks like to believe, you wouldn't be having this problem with the terminology. In turn, the 1st amendment would hold, and individual laws would then in turn be created. I.e. national security exception, and child porn. In turn cases would be argued against/for in merit in court against said laws. This is what we do up in Canada with the Charter of Right and Freedoms, this is not what you do in the US. In the US, you argue against the 1st amendment in turn twist the meaning from literal to legalese, with a myriad of interpretations.
Really? Having lived here for over a decade, you could have fooled me.
True it's not really a police state, though it does have exceptionally limited freedoms. It also doesn't help that the justice system is so inherently broken to the point that they started appointing lay judges for criminal cases, because the sentences handed out were so weak compared to the crimes committed. While it's not bad per-se, as compared to oh...the UK for instance, there are areas where what would pass in the west as a slap on the wrist will get you into those comfy 3x8' cells.
And really jumping back to the topic at hand, it's not just TOR they're running afraid of but sneaker nets.
Screw the constitution. It is out of date, but people keep standing behind it trying to justify their stance.
I'm sure you feel that way about the 1st amendment too. And thus is the problem when people believe that founding documents are "living breathing" documents, instead of foundational.
We're supposed to believe that before Europeans arrived, the Americas were an idyllic paradise, that suffered no storms, no earthquakes, no wars, no famine. Ehhh - Europeans brought all those evils here, along with smallpox and polio.
Yeah people like to conveniently forget too, that during the original decades that the settlers were landing the storms along the east coast of north america were so severe that half or more of the settlers died out on occasion.
I kinda remember similar stories of MS and all that being posted on/. back in '00. Didn't seem to happen then either, but MS does need to get it's head out of it's ass and actually listen to what consumers want. They seem to be suffering from the "Big3" mentality of the 70's, where in the auto industry they simply stated: "Consumers will drive what we tell them to drive, and love it." Of course that was pretty damn close to the collapse of the entire North American auto industry, and imports took off.
Back when I was a kid we had a flour mill not more than two blocks from my house(about 0.1km). Within roughly 0.25km there was also a highschool and a middleschool, and a grade school around 0.15km from it. Back before we moved to the same area, there was also a fertilizer plant just down the road roughly 0.3km. Industrial plants like what I mentioned and others, it wasn't all that uncommon for houses to spring up near where people worked.
My ultra-portable laptop from 2002 had a single-core 750 MHz Pentium III-M processor....so you're off by at least a couple years if you want it to be as apples-to-apples as the comparison goes
Uh, no. The coppermine T was released in 2000, and there were 1.5Ghz versions in mid 2001, though memory in itself was still limited due to the cost per-unit, I do remember building more than a few thousand machines with 1GB of memory onboard.
A $200 pocket phone can do a lot of things a full desktop PC couldn't do a decade ago.
Like what? Video games, movies, web content, email/IM, well those are all on the same. Calculating large mathematical equations, yep on that one too. No I'm seeing a fundamental lack of what that $200 phone could do compared to a 10 year old PC. In fact, I'd say that they could do the same thing though that new phone is only about on par with that PC from 10 years ago.
I'll be betting that it'll be wrong again. Then again if it's "ice free" by the summer of said year, we'll actually be at a point where we were previous to the last ice age. Which of course could mean really good stuff, or really bad stuff depending on your PoV.
No there's plenty of people in the industry who think like this too, well those that haven't gotten stuck on the tit of "make it quick, make it shit" mentality.
Don't have time to read the article, but I was curious if the government collude in that. Thats the problem we have here.
No, but there is a visa program that's being abused by employers similar to the H1B's in the US. Blazing Cat Fur did a story on it a few days ago(for those that don't know BCF, he is one of the newstrenders here in Canada, he usually breaks a story 2-3 days before hand and the media picks up on it), and the majority of the input workers are going into fastfood especially in places like Alberta. Interestingly enough the last time something similar happened the federal government(conservatives) intervened and changed the law regarding this.
I see you haven't been following the RBC saga up here in Canada, where the Royal Bank of Canada has been 'outsourcing' workers and replacing Canadian ones.
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And I remember ars before the op-ed ramblings on copyright and the video game reviews.
Really? I joined up on ars just after it opened, and they still had copyright and video game reviews. They just have gotten worse over time.
The problem with that can end up being "when it is broke, how are you going to fix it?"
If I can still buy newly manufactured tubes for a radio made in 1910, you shouldn't have much of a problem fixing that. It may be a niche market in terms of repair, but someone will either make the parts, or be willing to make the parts.
One hopes with this extra source of funds Slashdot might hire some editors.
I know you're joking, we all know that /. is powered by dupes and nonsensical editorial write-ups.
Then again, people still fall for spam, phishing, and those fake tech support calls from "the Windows provider" which people fall for.
What the hell. You mean that *wasn't* microsoft calling me, to let me know that my 'nix system was compromised. Son of a...
That way you don't have to worry about how well Joe the Sheriff in Backwoods Nowhere does his job.
Except that's exactly what happens up here in Canada. In cases of the provincial police or even the RCMP, if you're on what they call "remote detachment" your office is your house, jail, and sometimes also the hospital and doctors office. You start getting oh 300km or so north outside of southern ontario and that's how it rolls.
And a lot of provinces are questioning having the RCMP as a provincial police, especially with the mass number of screw-ups, never mind that provincial police aren't the best option in many cases either. A small town near me has a OPP detachment, it's very rare that those officers are even in town. Rather they're deployed elsewhere by the main office for the region.
Who the hell tries to bomb Canada? A country stereotyped by polite apologies and maple syrup.
Well that would be the same type of people as last time, and the time before that. Though not the same group as back in the 80's. The last dozen or so terrorist attempts have been attempted by "exceptionally devout muslims" back in the 80's we had two attempts by Sikh's, and back in the 60's and 70's it was the FLQ. Despite what people think Canadians have a very thin skin when it comes to terrorism.
I bet a lot of that $10k fee is due to the software requiring FDA certification.
Oh that wouldn't surprise me, back oh 15 years ago I helped due a transition from paper to electronic. It was right up along the lines of $38k here in Canada for the software. And my family doctor just dumped their old version of Wolf Medical to a new version, total cost for 6 computers? $118k.
Odd, I thought using zip ties was illegal on aircraft. Due to the fact that they can cause vibration damage to cabling, and make it wear through exceptionally quick. While it's been awhile since I was last at a fab plant, they were using low abrasion cloth such as silk to tie cabling together.
Yes, Win ME was rubbish back then so MS had to react and bring out something better or become less relevant.
I do believe it was called Windows 2000, XP was fine and all but 2K was a league above, beyond and simply glorious in terms of stability.
The first amendment is out of date. It needs to be extended with the word electronic as currently it seems that electronic papers aren't covered and many people seem to think it should have some exceptions added for things like child porn and national security.
If the constitution was treated as foundational instead of "living breathing" as so many left-leaning folks like to believe, you wouldn't be having this problem with the terminology. In turn, the 1st amendment would hold, and individual laws would then in turn be created. I.e. national security exception, and child porn. In turn cases would be argued against/for in merit in court against said laws. This is what we do up in Canada with the Charter of Right and Freedoms, this is not what you do in the US. In the US, you argue against the 1st amendment in turn twist the meaning from literal to legalese, with a myriad of interpretations.
The same holds true with the second amendment.
Really? Having lived here for over a decade, you could have fooled me.
True it's not really a police state, though it does have exceptionally limited freedoms. It also doesn't help that the justice system is so inherently broken to the point that they started appointing lay judges for criminal cases, because the sentences handed out were so weak compared to the crimes committed. While it's not bad per-se, as compared to oh...the UK for instance, there are areas where what would pass in the west as a slap on the wrist will get you into those comfy 3x8' cells.
And really jumping back to the topic at hand, it's not just TOR they're running afraid of but sneaker nets.
Screw the constitution. It is out of date, but people keep standing behind it trying to justify their stance.
I'm sure you feel that way about the 1st amendment too. And thus is the problem when people believe that founding documents are "living breathing" documents, instead of foundational.
We're supposed to believe that before Europeans arrived, the Americas were an idyllic paradise, that suffered no storms, no earthquakes, no wars, no famine. Ehhh - Europeans brought all those evils here, along with smallpox and polio.
Yeah people like to conveniently forget too, that during the original decades that the settlers were landing the storms along the east coast of north america were so severe that half or more of the settlers died out on occasion.
I kinda remember similar stories of MS and all that being posted on /. back in '00. Didn't seem to happen then either, but MS does need to get it's head out of it's ass and actually listen to what consumers want. They seem to be suffering from the "Big3" mentality of the 70's, where in the auto industry they simply stated: "Consumers will drive what we tell them to drive, and love it." Of course that was pretty damn close to the collapse of the entire North American auto industry, and imports took off.
Back when I was a kid we had a flour mill not more than two blocks from my house(about 0.1km). Within roughly 0.25km there was also a highschool and a middleschool, and a grade school around 0.15km from it. Back before we moved to the same area, there was also a fertilizer plant just down the road roughly 0.3km. Industrial plants like what I mentioned and others, it wasn't all that uncommon for houses to spring up near where people worked.
My ultra-portable laptop from 2002 had a single-core 750 MHz Pentium III-M processor....so you're off by at least a couple years if you want it to be as apples-to-apples as the comparison goes
Uh, no. The coppermine T was released in 2000, and there were 1.5Ghz versions in mid 2001, though memory in itself was still limited due to the cost per-unit, I do remember building more than a few thousand machines with 1GB of memory onboard.
A $200 pocket phone can do a lot of things a full desktop PC couldn't do a decade ago.
Like what? Video games, movies, web content, email/IM, well those are all on the same. Calculating large mathematical equations, yep on that one too. No I'm seeing a fundamental lack of what that $200 phone could do compared to a 10 year old PC. In fact, I'd say that they could do the same thing though that new phone is only about on par with that PC from 10 years ago.
Or just a sufficient PC... A modern smartphone has a gigahertz processor, a gigabyte of RAM and for plain 2D it can do a full desktop no problem.
Uh...if sufficient you mean a PC from 2001, then I guess so.
Then we can get rid of the dipshits proclaiming that one mans "terrorist" is another mans "freedom fighter"
Sorry the leftists will throw a hissy fit over it, especially those in the "higher levels of learning" and in general the left-leaning media.
Kinda funny, but the windmills here in Ontario have a negative profit margin of roughly the same daily.
I'll be betting that it'll be wrong again. Then again if it's "ice free" by the summer of said year, we'll actually be at a point where we were previous to the last ice age. Which of course could mean really good stuff, or really bad stuff depending on your PoV.
Only a hardcore gamer would think like this.
No there's plenty of people in the industry who think like this too, well those that haven't gotten stuck on the tit of "make it quick, make it shit" mentality.
Don't have time to read the article, but I was curious if the government collude in that. Thats the problem we have here.
No, but there is a visa program that's being abused by employers similar to the H1B's in the US. Blazing Cat Fur did a story on it a few days ago(for those that don't know BCF, he is one of the newstrenders here in Canada, he usually breaks a story 2-3 days before hand and the media picks up on it), and the majority of the input workers are going into fastfood especially in places like Alberta. Interestingly enough the last time something similar happened the federal government(conservatives) intervened and changed the law regarding this.
I see you haven't been following the RBC saga up here in Canada, where the Royal Bank of Canada has been 'outsourcing' workers and replacing Canadian ones.
Lack of legal precedence doesn't make it legal!
That's odd, every damn lawyer that I've ever seen argue something in court on uses that as a basic premise.