You're not including provincial income taxes which are generally significantly higher than state income taxes; and, with the exception of Alberta (I think), have the same progressive nature as federal income taxes.
The human rights tribunals are indeed a travesty of the notion of free speech. Having said that, you don't get 20 years for running afoul of one of these kangaroo courts - and you certainly don't run the risk of losing your head.
I too have a hard time reconciling these conflicting feelings. The best I can come up with is that the greater good sometimes requires holding one's nose... really tightly. I can only hope that we are indeed doing the right thing by being in Afghanistan - otherwise we will have wasted a lot of lives, time, and money.
And yet Apple will still probably sell a metric assload of new MacBooks.
Can you possibly elaborate on how the metric assload unit compares to the more familiar imperial assload unit to help those of us not versed in the SI system to understand the magnitudes involved?
OTOH, Preston Manning's Reform Party would not have introduced such an anti-consumer bill as C-61. What we have today is a reconstituted Progressive Conservative party that happens to have a number of former Reform Party people, and is guided by the pro-big business principles of the old PC Party. Sigh.
Remote works fine for changing channels; albeit channel changes are slow. Also, I don't know if the CRTC mandates firewire in Canadian cable boxes. But I'm in Vancouver using Shaw Cable and firewire was enabled out-of-the-box on the DCT-6200 I bought at Best Buy.
MythTV supports firewire access to cable boxes. MythTV can do both capture and channel changing via firewire. I currently have a MythTV box hooked up to a Motorola DCT-6200, and this allows me to record HD (as well as SD) channels. Having said that, some Cable companies will encrypt "premium" channels making this solution useless for those channels. However, for my needs at least, MythTV+firewire+DCT-6200 works fine. Throw in OTA HD channels (which in my location look significantly better than their cable versions due to compression in the latter) and life is good for my simple needs.
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I see support for a number of other Hauppauge cards and USB devices, but nothing on the HVR-1600. Did this not make it in?
Down with wide-screen, indeed. A 20 inch 1600x1200 (4:3) is more real estate than a 20 inch 1600x1050 (16:10) (we're talking monitors here, not laptops), yet the price is about the same. And that's assuming you can still get the 4:3 model. I can only hope my 4:3 monitors last until that aspect ratio makes a come back
You simply can't select songs safely when you're driving. Which results in nice symmetry, since you simply can't drive safely when you're selecting songs.
I'm afraid that can't be correct. He was "imprisoned forever by a force field powered by an eternal battery" and is thus incapable of making visits to Earth, even transiently.
If you point out the name-calling in the GP's statement, I'll take your statement seriously.
The article I replied to addressed the MSFT employee as "M$ lackey". I've always considered "lackey" as a derogatory term and dictionary definitions of the word certainly seem to back up my interpretation.
And on topic: just because an MS employee thinks MS is doing a great job at providing documentation, anyone is entitled to provide his or her opinion on that effort in response. It's called dialog and it's what you open yourself up to once you make a comment on a public site.
There's a difference between a reasoned response backed up with some substance (as was posted by mugnyte) and what is basically an ad hominum attack.
BTW, for the record, I believe that past experience definitely suggests taking a wait and see attitude on this move by MSFT as that company has shown no love of OSS in the past; calling it or the GPL, a "cancer", a "virus", and "un-american" - and this by senior MSFT people such as Ballmer. However, that doesn't mean that we need to call every MSFT employee that submits a post a name (e.g. "lackey"). We should instead indeed engage them in dialog and indicate to them what our position is and why we have that position. We may not make a convert out of the MSFT employee but any third party fence-sitters are more likely to be converted by this approach rather than the approach taken by the post I responded to. An added bonus is that we don't provide free ammo for MSFT sales people to use to scare off potential switchers.
It's responses like these that make MSFT employees think we're all a bunch of fanatical morons. The MSFT employee apparently made a good faith effort to explain the situation as he understood it. Rather than call him names we should just appreciate the effort.
Did these people get what they (somewhat) deserve for downloading and applying an officially not-ready-for-prime-time update, or were they the victims of automatic update of a badly tested official update.
What ever happened to the notion of second sourcing? Shouldn't any self-respecting government require that there be more than one complete implementation of whatever standard it decides upon? As such, even if OOXML becomes an ISO standard, as is likely, it would seem to me that the next battle should for the requirement of 2nd sourcing. Given the fact that MSFT seems to have made the OOXML standard unimplementable, it would seem unlikely that there will be a 2nd source for a OOXML office suite (not to mention the fact that no company will waste its time trying to compete with MSFT in this manner). This is in contrast to ODF, which has several competing implementations.
Should OpenOffice.org not have a definite advantage here?
I got a DNS-323 a few weeks ago. I installed telnet and NFS on it. I do not use it for RAID. It has the 1.03 firmware. It has been great for me.I don't know about 20GB files, but I transferred about 8 single side DVD size files (~4.5GB) using NFS and they all made it over correctly (checked with md5sum). So far, I'm mostly using it to serve music and videos to my MythTV front-end via NFS.
I agree that not having ext3 is a bummer.
So for my non-RAID, NFS usage of the DNS-323, I've been very happy with it. I can't speak to RAID or SMB.
The web interface doesn't appear to support Canadian listings. This makes it unusable for a number of people (like me). I'm using Schedules Direct now; and as someone else aptly put it, I can think of worse places to send my money.
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Although, in this case "freedom" does indeed apply (without the sarcasm).
And your relationship to Robert William "Willie" Pickton is what?
With the obvious exception of the gays at the Springfield steel plant.
You're not including provincial income taxes which are generally significantly higher than state income taxes; and, with the exception of Alberta (I think), have the same progressive nature as federal income taxes.
The human rights tribunals are indeed a travesty of the notion of free speech. Having said that, you don't get 20 years for running afoul of one of these kangaroo courts - and you certainly don't run the risk of losing your head.
I too have a hard time reconciling these conflicting feelings. The best I can come up with is that the greater good sometimes requires holding one's nose ... really tightly. I can only hope that we are indeed doing the right thing by being in Afghanistan - otherwise we will have wasted a lot of lives, time, and money.
And yet Apple will still probably sell a metric assload of new MacBooks.
Can you possibly elaborate on how the metric assload unit compares to the more familiar imperial assload unit to help those of us not versed in the SI system to understand the magnitudes involved?
Dang.
OTOH, Preston Manning's Reform Party would not have introduced such an anti-consumer bill as C-61. What we have today is a reconstituted Progressive Conservative party that happens to have a number of former Reform Party people, and is guided by the pro-big business principles of the old PC Party. Sigh.
Remote works fine for changing channels; albeit channel changes are slow. Also, I don't know if the CRTC mandates firewire in Canadian cable boxes. But I'm in Vancouver using Shaw Cable and firewire was enabled out-of-the-box on the DCT-6200 I bought at Best Buy.
MythTV supports firewire access to cable boxes. MythTV can do both capture and channel changing via firewire. I currently have a MythTV box hooked up to a Motorola DCT-6200, and this allows me to record HD (as well as SD) channels. Having said that, some Cable companies will encrypt "premium" channels making this solution useless for those channels. However, for my needs at least, MythTV+firewire+DCT-6200 works fine. Throw in OTA HD channels (which in my location look significantly better than their cable versions due to compression in the latter) and life is good for my simple needs.
I see support for a number of other Hauppauge cards and USB devices, but nothing on the HVR-1600. Did this not make it in?
Isn't Sarkozy the chap who has a big announcement/idea/plan every minute of the day and absolutely none of them actually go anywhere?
Is so, then nothing to see here, folks, keep moving along.
Down with wide-screen, indeed. A 20 inch 1600x1200 (4:3) is more real estate than a 20 inch 1600x1050 (16:10) (we're talking monitors here, not laptops), yet the price is about the same. And that's assuming you can still get the 4:3 model. I can only hope my 4:3 monitors last until that aspect ratio makes a come back
Two words: Tiananmen Square
Demonstrates the hypocrisy of the Cuban embargo in all its glory.
for every time I've heard: "our code base is crap, let's rewrite it from scratch".
I'm afraid that can't be correct. He was "imprisoned forever by a force field powered by an eternal battery" and is thus incapable of making visits to Earth, even transiently.
... wait ... xeon transients - never mind
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The article I replied to addressed the MSFT employee as "M$ lackey". I've always considered "lackey" as a derogatory term and dictionary definitions of the word certainly seem to back up my interpretation.
There's a difference between a reasoned response backed up with some substance (as was posted by mugnyte) and what is basically an ad hominum attack.
BTW, for the record, I believe that past experience definitely suggests taking a wait and see attitude on this move by MSFT as that company has shown no love of OSS in the past; calling it or the GPL, a "cancer", a "virus", and "un-american" - and this by senior MSFT people such as Ballmer. However, that doesn't mean that we need to call every MSFT employee that submits a post a name (e.g. "lackey"). We should instead indeed engage them in dialog and indicate to them what our position is and why we have that position. We may not make a convert out of the MSFT employee but any third party fence-sitters are more likely to be converted by this approach rather than the approach taken by the post I responded to. An added bonus is that we don't provide free ammo for MSFT sales people to use to scare off potential switchers.
It's responses like these that make MSFT employees think we're all a bunch of fanatical morons. The MSFT employee apparently made a good faith effort to explain the situation as he understood it. Rather than call him names we should just appreciate the effort.
Did these people get what they (somewhat) deserve for downloading and applying an officially not-ready-for-prime-time update, or were they the victims of automatic update of a badly tested official update.
I agree. MSFT should just pick up its marbles and go home. That'd teach those commies. Oh wait ....
What ever happened to the notion of second sourcing? Shouldn't any self-respecting government require that there be more than one complete implementation of whatever standard it decides upon? As such, even if OOXML becomes an ISO standard, as is likely, it would seem to me that the next battle should for the requirement of 2nd sourcing. Given the fact that MSFT seems to have made the OOXML standard unimplementable, it would seem unlikely that there will be a 2nd source for a OOXML office suite (not to mention the fact that no company will waste its time trying to compete with MSFT in this manner). This is in contrast to ODF, which has several competing implementations.
Should OpenOffice.org not have a definite advantage here?
I got a DNS-323 a few weeks ago. I installed telnet and NFS on it. I do not use it for RAID. It has the 1.03 firmware. It has been great for me.I don't know about 20GB files, but I transferred about 8 single side DVD size files (~4.5GB) using NFS and they all made it over correctly (checked with md5sum). So far, I'm mostly using it to serve music and videos to my MythTV front-end via NFS.
I agree that not having ext3 is a bummer.
So for my non-RAID, NFS usage of the DNS-323, I've been very happy with it. I can't speak to RAID or SMB.
The web interface doesn't appear to support Canadian listings. This makes it unusable for a number of people (like me). I'm using Schedules Direct now; and as someone else aptly put it, I can think of worse places to send my money.