Actually Canadians speak (on average) the most "neutral" english. It's the most easily deciphered by other english speakers (regardless of dialect).
As a result we're somewhat in demand for radio and announcing and such in other nations. I don't know how much in demand, but as I understand there is one. Especially for some internation outfits.
Whether we speak "pure" english, well, that's a debate that could last forever. Consider languages change constantly over time, no one can truly speak a "pure" english.
It's easier to control the emissions of a handful of large factories/power stations than thousands of little cars the haven't been up to standards for the last ten years because they're old and poorly kept.
With large centralized electrical production, but it by fossil fuels, it's easier to develop/install scrubbers and create enforcable regulations to decrease emissions. Not so easy with cars.
Segfaults? Sounds to me like you were trying to destroy objects that didn't exist. That's not the compiler's fault, that's yours. How can a compiler expect that your destroy command might destroy something that doesn't exist? C is a loose language. It's designed to give maximum power through minimal limitations. As a result you can have lots of programs. If you're writing something small, use PHP, VB, Perl, Python, whatever, but C/C++ is probably overkill. Something large? Perl, Python, VG, they may not be powerful enough to do what you need. It's a case of finding which tool is better for the job.
But I understand what you're saying. Right now I'm working mostly in Delphi and I've come across lots of bugs in the libraries and there's nothing you can do except bite the bullet.
It's a compound thing. Bugs in OS, bugs in drivers, bugs in compiler, bugs in the development environment, and then bugs from the app programmer.
I think this is a result of capitalism. Don't get me wrong, I like capitalism, but it doesn't work on the best product surviving, it works on which comes out first and has the best marketing. As a result products are pushed to be released before they're ready instead of when they're complete.
Plus, PCs are too general purpose. If you have one tool for a specific job you have less problems. Look at Unix, generally the tools are small and specific. If it has a bug or doesn't work, your replace it, or it gets fixed and it usually doesn't affect anything else. Once everything is interdependant and complex it's more prone to bugs, and bugs become amplified by compounding them (drivers, os, etc).
I don't think there's an easy solution for this one...
Neat concept, but it could be annoying for trying to chat with multiple friends at once (each walking to each other's regions). And since all of the rooms are connected, what if you are trying to get to a specific room to meet a certain person?
What I think would be a cool project in terms of networking would be to develop a p2p system like this that does not require a master server at all. I've been trying to mentally figure this out... how would you contact your buddy across the world if you don't know their IP address... how would you get it? Could you get it using pop servers? What about if they're behind a NAT server.
Build that, and I think you'll revolutionize p2p networks. Until then there will always be a central server mapping addresses.
Damn gopher holes, routing around my backdoor. Guess I'll have to close up my ground floor Windows to stop them from coming in and gnawing at the foundation.
You could bury it in Nevada then nuke the area. Once people see the desolate waste land that destroys all life and sucks your will to live right out of you... Oh wait, it's Nevada. Nevermind.
Just put a casino nearby, then nobody will care where the nuclear waste is.
I don't know about other universities or countries, but at my university in BC, engineering is a four year degree where you come out with a B.Eng (not a B.S.). It takes five years because of co-op.
However, in BC and I believe most (if not all) of the other provinces, you must have been working as an engineer for at least four years before you can apply to get your P.Eng (Professional Engineer).
So we can't just call ourselves Professional Engineers upon graduation, it takes about nine years.
I don't think this is a whole lot different. Just a different set of hoops to jump through to be called a professional. I think engineers are just as professional as doctors, etc.
Of course there are a hell of a lot of other careers that would need to be included in that list as well.
On topic again, What bothers me the most is how they're charging for the extension. Sure have criteria, that's fine and dandy, but to charge like that? It makes me think of the frequency spectrum, somehow the right to use parts of something that just exists can be sold and no one else is allowed to use it. I understand the theory but sometimes when I'm thinking the right way, it bothers me.
You don't always have a choice about your email address.
I never use my main email to subscribe to things, but it is a well known isp, as a result, the pound it with possible name combinations, the result, I get spam, and lots of it.
Also, I don't know how many do this anymore, but isps sometimes used to subscribe you to whitepages types of things.
But yes, people who don't patch have only themselves to blame. That's why updating services are available.
Okay, I have to say I am in favour of the RIAA winning on this...
My only question is how did they get access to find out? A police officer can't search a house without a warrent, and anything they find without a warrant is inadmissable in court? Unless someone sqealed on the company. If the RIAA used illegal means (ie, hacking) then they're just guilty of another crime. But alas, I don't know how they found out, just that it's a little suspicious that they did.
And stupid company, you don't set a machine up specifically for that. Maybe turn a blind eye and pretend you didn't know employees were using a server like that, but don't endorse it!
Or if the company had the server open to the world.
It would have been okay if all of the music had been purchased by the company:) But I don't know many companies that will buy CDs for their employees.
I like the comparison someone made about the RIAA to the mafia... organised crime has now become legit!:)
So when I'm 55 will I be able to speak out of turn?
I know this is a little, well, maybe a fair bit offtopic, but I was wondering if someone could explain the difference between SuSe and Mandrake to me. I'm looking to reinstall linux but I don't want to go through the painful set up of getting everything working. I had that with Debian. Even though I thought Debian was the best thing in the world once it was set up, it was a pain to set up. I guess I'm looking for a best of both worlds type thing. Installing comparable to says Windows for ease of install, and setup maintenance like in Debian.
You mean someone is actually going to use Wavelets for something???? Egads, all I've ever seen is endless r&d on it and it never seems to go anywhere, even though they claim that it would revolutionize compression in the image world!
Horray for wavelets! Now if only someone would re-explain them to me. I didn't catch it the first time and no one has said anything high level enough since (I'm not interested in the nitty gritty at this point)
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Read the theories about there being about 20 dimensions. That will bend your mind.
Ahh good old string theory:)
Of course just because you can't conceptualize travelling through time because it's not space, doesn't mean it's not possible.
I figure it's unlikely, but I'm alway open to the possibility. Although I hope it never happens, we've seen the way everything else we invent gets handled once the scientists are through with it (re large bombs, etc)
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I find if funny how people make pseudo-philosophical research into time travel and determine that it's not possible. Especially the "I can't comprehend it so there for it can't happen".
Most prevelent theory is that a time traveller cannot travel back to before when time travelling was invented. There for we can't be visited since we can't time travel.
I point to experiments where clocks run more slowly at high speeds or further away from the gravity of earth. I think this somwhat shows that time is a "thing" and not a concept or a measuring of events.
Of course I've never studied intently into physics, though I did love the mind bending stuff.
Of course the guy that wants to do this experiments says that his experiment is based off of the theory or relatively which does not take into account quantum mechanics, which may mean that his experiment will likely fail. But it doesn't hurt to try now does it? As long as my universe is still intact after he's done:)
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as I understand the Americans started it and burnt down our parliament first... but my history is rusty.
Actually Canadians speak (on average) the most "neutral" english. It's the most easily deciphered by other english speakers (regardless of dialect).
As a result we're somewhat in demand for radio and announcing and such in other nations. I don't know how much in demand, but as I understand there is one. Especially for some internation outfits.
Whether we speak "pure" english, well, that's a debate that could last forever. Consider languages change constantly over time, no one can truly speak a "pure" english.
Splish splah I was making a hack,
all on a Saturday night...
Precisely what I was thinking!! Good thing someone else wrote it otherwise I'd have to write more than this.
Actually it would be less pollution.
It's easier to control the emissions of a handful of large factories/power stations than thousands of little cars the haven't been up to standards for the last ten years because they're old and poorly kept.
With large centralized electrical production, but it by fossil fuels, it's easier to develop/install scrubbers and create enforcable regulations to decrease emissions. Not so easy with cars.
But if they found you guilty the first time and you hadn't committed the crime, then you could sue the government right?
Land in jail for 20 years.
Sue goverment, get 20 million or so.
Land back in jail for another 20 years.
Use eBay extensively.
That'd be the pattern right?
If you had read you would have noticed that he's protected by the statute of limitations. It's been over five years.
Perhaps you didn't see the net loss of $17.6 million for the company.
Whether a company is making profits or losing money, the employees still get paid (be them coders or CEOs).
Caldera is not making money. The employees are, but then again, would you work for a company if you were losing money working there?
Segfaults? Sounds to me like you were trying to destroy objects that didn't exist. That's not the compiler's fault, that's yours. How can a compiler expect that your destroy command might destroy something that doesn't exist? C is a loose language. It's designed to give maximum power through minimal limitations. As a result you can have lots of programs. If you're writing something small, use PHP, VB, Perl, Python, whatever, but C/C++ is probably overkill. Something large? Perl, Python, VG, they may not be powerful enough to do what you need. It's a case of finding which tool is better for the job.
But I understand what you're saying. Right now I'm working mostly in Delphi and I've come across lots of bugs in the libraries and there's nothing you can do except bite the bullet.
It's a compound thing. Bugs in OS, bugs in drivers, bugs in compiler, bugs in the development environment, and then bugs from the app programmer.
I think this is a result of capitalism. Don't get me wrong, I like capitalism, but it doesn't work on the best product surviving, it works on which comes out first and has the best marketing. As a result products are pushed to be released before they're ready instead of when they're complete.
Plus, PCs are too general purpose. If you have one tool for a specific job you have less problems. Look at Unix, generally the tools are small and specific. If it has a bug or doesn't work, your replace it, or it gets fixed and it usually doesn't affect anything else. Once everything is interdependant and complex it's more prone to bugs, and bugs become amplified by compounding them (drivers, os, etc).
I don't think there's an easy solution for this one...
What I think would be a cool project in terms of networking would be to develop a p2p system like this that does not require a master server at all. I've been trying to mentally figure this out... how would you contact your buddy across the world if you don't know their IP address... how would you get it? Could you get it using pop servers? What about if they're behind a NAT server.
Build that, and I think you'll revolutionize p2p networks. Until then there will always be a central server mapping addresses.
Damn gopher holes, routing around my backdoor. Guess I'll have to close up my ground floor Windows to stop them from coming in and gnawing at the foundation.
remain active? Depends on how you mean, because it has been proven that bones and muscles deteriate over the long term with little gravity.
You could bury it in Nevada then nuke the area. Once people see the desolate waste land that destroys all life and sucks your will to live right out of you...
Oh wait, it's Nevada. Nevermind.
Just put a casino nearby, then nobody will care where the nuclear waste is.
He wouldn't fly into space if he's falling at a rate proportional to the curvature of the earth. Now I wonder how fast he'd have to fall...
I'm thinking if the headbutt must be that bad, then the guy's head must explode or something!! That'd be cool!
I don't know about other universities or countries, but at my university in BC, engineering is a four year degree where you come out with a B.Eng (not a B.S.). It takes five years because of co-op.
However, in BC and I believe most (if not all) of the other provinces, you must have been working as an engineer for at least four years before you can apply to get your P.Eng (Professional Engineer).
So we can't just call ourselves Professional Engineers upon graduation, it takes about nine years.
I don't think this is a whole lot different. Just a different set of hoops to jump through to be called a professional. I think engineers are just as professional as doctors, etc.
Of course there are a hell of a lot of other careers that would need to be included in that list as well.
On topic again,
What bothers me the most is how they're charging for the extension. Sure have criteria, that's fine and dandy, but to charge like that? It makes me think of the frequency spectrum, somehow the right to use parts of something that just exists can be sold and no one else is allowed to use it. I understand the theory but sometimes when I'm thinking the right way, it bothers me.
You don't always have a choice about your email address.
I never use my main email to subscribe to things, but it is a well known isp, as a result, the pound it with possible name combinations, the result, I get spam, and lots of it.
Also, I don't know how many do this anymore, but isps sometimes used to subscribe you to whitepages types of things.
But yes, people who don't patch have only themselves to blame. That's why updating services are available.
I wonder if I can patent putting your pants on one leg at a time... then I just need to copyright the phrase and I'll be set for life!
The Dean of Engineering at my university was overheard saying "Boy, switching the curriculum from C to Java was a big mistake".
Java has some really nice features but I find it more useful in the learning situation. In real life I found C and C++ much more useful.
Okay, I have to say I am in favour of the RIAA winning on this...
:) But I don't know many companies that will buy CDs for their employees.
:)
My only question is how did they get access to find out? A police officer can't search a house without a warrent, and anything they find without a warrant is inadmissable in court? Unless someone sqealed on the company. If the RIAA used illegal means (ie, hacking) then they're just guilty of another crime. But alas, I don't know how they found out, just that it's a little suspicious that they did.
And stupid company, you don't set a machine up specifically for that. Maybe turn a blind eye and pretend you didn't know employees were using a server like that, but don't endorse it!
Or if the company had the server open to the world.
It would have been okay if all of the music had been purchased by the company
I like the comparison someone made about the RIAA to the mafia... organised crime has now become legit!
So when I'm 55 will I be able to speak out of turn?
I know this is a little, well, maybe a fair bit offtopic, but I was wondering if someone could explain the difference between SuSe and Mandrake to me.
I'm looking to reinstall linux but I don't want to go through the painful set up of getting everything working. I had that with Debian. Even though I thought Debian was the best thing in the world once it was set up, it was a pain to set up.
I guess I'm looking for a best of both worlds type thing. Installing comparable to says Windows for ease of install, and setup maintenance like in Debian.
Which would be my best bet?
I hope I don't start a flame war, but thanks!
It's good to see the porn comments piling up. This is worse than the body count in a bad slasher flick.
You mean someone is actually going to use Wavelets for something???? Egads, all I've ever seen is endless r&d on it and it never seems to go anywhere, even though they claim that it would revolutionize compression in the image world!
Horray for wavelets! Now if only someone would re-explain them to me. I didn't catch it the first time and no one has said anything high level enough since (I'm not interested in the nitty gritty at this point)
Read the theories about there being about 20 dimensions. That will bend your mind.
:)
Ahh good old string theory
Of course just because you can't conceptualize travelling through time because it's not space, doesn't mean it's not possible.
I figure it's unlikely, but I'm alway open to the possibility. Although I hope it never happens, we've seen the way everything else we invent gets handled once the scientists are through with it (re large bombs, etc)
I find if funny how people make pseudo-philosophical research into time travel and determine that it's not possible. Especially the "I can't comprehend it so there for it can't happen".
:)
Most prevelent theory is that a time traveller cannot travel back to before when time travelling was invented. There for we can't be visited since we can't time travel.
I point to experiments where clocks run more slowly at high speeds or further away from the gravity of earth. I think this somwhat shows that time is a "thing" and not a concept or a measuring of events.
Of course I've never studied intently into physics, though I did love the mind bending stuff.
Of course the guy that wants to do this experiments says that his experiment is based off of the theory or relatively which does not take into account quantum mechanics, which may mean that his experiment will likely fail. But it doesn't hurt to try now does it? As long as my universe is still intact after he's done