Now, on to another silly question - arent canadians charged extra tax on recordable media to offset recording industy "losses"? So if they are getting paid, how can they still go after P2P sharers???
The levy on recordable media is to account for the reproduction of copyrighted works, yes. However, it is only under the provisio that the end user of the copy perform the actual copying.
Case 1: You like a CD I have. You come over to my house, rip that CD on my computer, burn it onto another CD, and leave. No problem.
Case 2: You like a CD I have. I rip the CD on my computer, burn it onto another CD, and give it to you. Copyright infringement.
This is why the recording industry cannot go after downloaders. It is the end consumer of that music that is initiating the copying. On the other hand, uploaders, people who are pushing the file down, are arguably infringing copyright. Of course, we did have that court ruling which stated that leaving files in a shared folder on your computer is equivalent to leaving books next to a photocopier. The downloader is initiating the transfer, and the uploader is just a passive data store.
This is one of the movies that I'm going to see on the band-aid principle. It's probably going to hurt, but you have to take it off eventually, so you might as well just get it done. If it doesn't hurt, well hey, you just got lucky.
Other movies that fall into this category: Matrix sequels and any movie adaptation of your favourite novels.
Personally, the only times I've complained about picture quality is _with_ digital cable. The number of compression artefacts is just disgusting. I'd rather have a slightly snowy picture, if it means it won't degenerate into nine orange blocks when that oil tanker blows up.
Close, but I'd make a couple of changes to your suggestions.
Document why you are choosing PostgreSQL over [foo]. Why you are choosing to roll your own templating system. Why you are going to fork off jobs in a separate process rather than doing them in one process. Why you are going to write this going to write this particular thingy as a C extension.
A design document is something that should be written completely before the first line of code is entered. It is something that can be used to ensure that your design meets each and every one of the requirements in an efficient manner so that you don't start coding, realize you something is missing, and have to kludge it in.
I believe this type of scammer is called a "quick change artist." My mum has a great story about how she got taken for a couple of quid while working retail in London, only to take 10 pounds off the next guy that tried it by talking faster than him.
Up here in Canada the smallest bill is a five. When you go to some strip joints, however, you can purchase $1 "coupons" in convenient paper, which tuck into g-strings quite nicely. Elegant solution to the problem, IMHO.
The region of Waterloo (ON, CAN) has aerial photography at 10cm resolution (~4in) in B&W for 2000 and 2003. I've been looking for a house, and this is a really great site for checking out the state of yards without visiting them. You can see trees, fences, the size of driveways, if the house is going to be in the shadow of an apartment building . ..
I honestly have no issue with 10cm resolution being available to the general public. No tin foil on my head.
Yes, it is the last cycle. These are murder simulators. Manhunt has been called the video game equivalent of a snuff film. I am working with an Oakland, CA prosecutor in a murder trial in which the older gang members used GTA 3 to train teens to do carjackings and murders. The Army uses these games to break down the inhibition to kill of new recruits.
Older gang member: So what went wrong, bizatch? Why'd you let that ho get away in her ride?
new recruit: Ease up, T-man. I done been lookin' for the triangle button, but it ain't been nowhere to be found. What up with that shiznit? I thought you say GTA be teachin' me everything I need to know.
Similarly and extending from that, there is no law of anything that says that if you have a long series of 1's that it's more likely that your next number will be a 0. The "law of averages" is commonly cited here but there's really no such law.
In fact, the opposite is more likely the case. If you have a long stream of 1's, that in and of itself may be an indication that your "random" number generator is not really random at all, and is actually predisposed to generating 1's, thus increasing the probability of the next digit being a 1.
This is simply an effect of "random" number generators being real-world devices, and not what one could mathematically describe as "fair." You can bet that if someone rolls a die twenty times in a row and it always comes up 4, I'm going to put my money on the next roll coming out 4 as well.
In Canada at least, you can no longer purchase concentrations higher than 30%. I still treasure my bottle of 99.5% Deet and related toluamides Muskol. Nothing keeps the bugs off better!
I don't know what you're talking about. Gabe has a problem with Sony products, and then everyone dies in a car crash. Seems like a perfectly consistent ending to a storyline to me. What were you waiting for, some kind of moral? How about don't get in a car that Tycho is driving.
Hence the importance of a good co-op program (or internships, as they are called in the states, iirc). The University of Waterloo Engineering and CS programs take 5 years to complete, with no summer breaks, but by the time you finish, you've completed six 4-month co-op terms, with real employers, doing real jobs, in the real world (and usually for real money).
Several of my friends spent their co-op terms at Microsoft, starting out in testing, moving up to code monkey, and by the time they graduated and were hired (with 2 years cumulative experience), they were offered jobs as project managers.
My first co-op job was in IT. I very quickly figured out that it was something I did not want to be doing for the rest of my working life. Then it was on to software, which I also didn't enjoy that much. By my 4th co-op term, I landed a job at a hardware design company, and haven't looked back. I graduated with 1 year of hardware design experience, and now happily work at my job designing image sensors.
To anyone out there considering post-secondary education, I heartily endorse programs that allow you to get real-world experience before graduation. Not only does it help you figure out if you're going to like it, and get you the experience that gives you an edge up on your resume, you'll often find that it will almost pay for your schooling too.
I've had this explained to me as a result of commercials trying to get the best quality sound out of what they have to deal with.
Normally, with TV shows, conversation will be at a normal level, but at some points, explosions, squealing tires, or screaming parents will require higher volumes. Since you've only got so much resolution, you set the peak volume at the highest you can broadcast, and scale everything else accordingly.
Commercials, on the other hand, don't have as large a range of different sound levels. Over 30 seconds, you'll probably only have talking, or a car zooming around. Take the largest amplitude of someone talking and set that at the max you can broadcast, and overall your commercial is a heck of a lot louder, but you get better sound quality in terms of volume resolution.
Symphonie Fantastique was composed by Berlioz, based on an opium-induced nightmare. It's successes like that which convince me I need to take more drugs.
Legally, the only vehicle that can run red lights is a postal truck. Even with siren and lights flashing, emergency vehicles are supposed to wait for greens. That's what these doohickeys do, is change the light to green in the direction the emerg vehicle is coming from.
IIRC, the postal truck rule comes from emergency dispatches during wartime.
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Now, on to another silly question - arent canadians charged extra tax on recordable media to offset recording industy "losses"? So if they are getting paid, how can they still go after P2P sharers???
The levy on recordable media is to account for the reproduction of copyrighted works, yes. However, it is only under the provisio that the end user of the copy perform the actual copying.
Case 1: You like a CD I have. You come over to my house, rip that CD on my computer, burn it onto another CD, and leave. No problem.
Case 2: You like a CD I have. I rip the CD on my computer, burn it onto another CD, and give it to you. Copyright infringement.
This is why the recording industry cannot go after downloaders. It is the end consumer of that music that is initiating the copying. On the other hand, uploaders, people who are pushing the file down, are arguably infringing copyright. Of course, we did have that court ruling which stated that leaving files in a shared folder on your computer is equivalent to leaving books next to a photocopier. The downloader is initiating the transfer, and the uploader is just a passive data store.
This is one of the movies that I'm going to see on the band-aid principle. It's probably going to hurt, but you have to take it off eventually, so you might as well just get it done. If it doesn't hurt, well hey, you just got lucky.
Other movies that fall into this category: Matrix sequels and any movie adaptation of your favourite novels.
All in favour of the Springfield Aid slash Perverted Arts bill?
Wioll have been.
Personally, the only times I've complained about picture quality is _with_ digital cable. The number of compression artefacts is just disgusting. I'd rather have a slightly snowy picture, if it means it won't degenerate into nine orange blocks when that oil tanker blows up.
Close, but I'd make a couple of changes to your suggestions.
Document why you are choosing PostgreSQL over [foo]. Why you are choosing to roll your own templating system. Why you are going to fork off jobs in a separate process rather than doing them in one process. Why you are going to write this going to write this particular thingy as a C extension.
A design document is something that should be written completely before the first line of code is entered. It is something that can be used to ensure that your design meets each and every one of the requirements in an efficient manner so that you don't start coding, realize you something is missing, and have to kludge it in.
No ozone layer, eh?
After the detection of a gamma-ray burst, world governments band together and outlaw CFC-free aerosol cans.
Do your part for humanity! Use CFC-powered spray deodorant
I believe this type of scammer is called a "quick change artist." My mum has a great story about how she got taken for a couple of quid while working retail in London, only to take 10 pounds off the next guy that tried it by talking faster than him.
Up here in Canada the smallest bill is a five. When you go to some strip joints, however, you can purchase $1 "coupons" in convenient paper, which tuck into g-strings quite nicely. Elegant solution to the problem, IMHO.
Check this site:
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http://locator.region.waterloo.on.ca/
(warning - I have only seen it work in IE).
The region of Waterloo (ON, CAN) has aerial photography at 10cm resolution (~4in) in B&W for 2000 and 2003. I've been looking for a house, and this is a really great site for checking out the state of yards without visiting them. You can see trees, fences, the size of driveways, if the house is going to be in the shadow of an apartment building . .
I honestly have no issue with 10cm resolution being available to the general public. No tin foil on my head.
From the article:
Yes, it is the last cycle. These are murder simulators. Manhunt has been called the video game equivalent of a snuff film. I am working with an Oakland, CA prosecutor in a murder trial in which the older gang members used GTA 3 to train teens to do carjackings and murders. The Army uses these games to break down the inhibition to kill of new recruits.
Older gang member: So what went wrong, bizatch? Why'd you let that ho get away in her ride?
new recruit: Ease up, T-man. I done been lookin' for the triangle button, but it ain't been nowhere to be found. What up with that shiznit? I thought you say GTA be teachin' me everything I need to know.
Similarly and extending from that, there is no law of anything that says that if you have a long series of 1's that it's more likely that your next number will be a 0. The "law of averages" is commonly cited here but there's really no such law.
In fact, the opposite is more likely the case. If you have a long stream of 1's, that in and of itself may be an indication that your "random" number generator is not really random at all, and is actually predisposed to generating 1's, thus increasing the probability of the next digit being a 1.
This is simply an effect of "random" number generators being real-world devices, and not what one could mathematically describe as "fair." You can bet that if someone rolls a die twenty times in a row and it always comes up 4, I'm going to put my money on the next roll coming out 4 as well.
In Canada at least, you can no longer purchase concentrations higher than 30%. I still treasure my bottle of 99.5% Deet and related toluamides Muskol. Nothing keeps the bugs off better!
I figure it was the telephone sanitizers. The hairsylists still haven't found anything to do yet.
Hey, if we can't build interstellar ships, we'll have to make do with interplanetary, right?
I don't know what you're talking about. Gabe has a problem with Sony products, and then everyone dies in a car crash. Seems like a perfectly consistent ending to a storyline to me. What were you waiting for, some kind of moral? How about don't get in a car that Tycho is driving.
Hence the importance of a good co-op program (or internships, as they are called in the states, iirc). The University of Waterloo Engineering and CS programs take 5 years to complete, with no summer breaks, but by the time you finish, you've completed six 4-month co-op terms, with real employers, doing real jobs, in the real world (and usually for real money).
Several of my friends spent their co-op terms at Microsoft, starting out in testing, moving up to code monkey, and by the time they graduated and were hired (with 2 years cumulative experience), they were offered jobs as project managers.
My first co-op job was in IT. I very quickly figured out that it was something I did not want to be doing for the rest of my working life. Then it was on to software, which I also didn't enjoy that much. By my 4th co-op term, I landed a job at a hardware design company, and haven't looked back. I graduated with 1 year of hardware design experience, and now happily work at my job designing image sensors.
To anyone out there considering post-secondary education, I heartily endorse programs that allow you to get real-world experience before graduation. Not only does it help you figure out if you're going to like it, and get you the experience that gives you an edge up on your resume, you'll often find that it will almost pay for your schooling too.
A classy on-screen rendition of the ironclad destroying the Martian walker. That was the most powerful scene in the book for me.
We don't want to be part of your missle defense system. What makes you think we'll let you use our vast forests to fuel your energy-hungry economy.
;)
Keep your light out of our country!
link!
Isn't it kinda' hard for them to take credit for it when it's got a giant friggin' Canadian flag on it?
I've had this explained to me as a result of commercials trying to get the best quality sound out of what they have to deal with.
Normally, with TV shows, conversation will be at a normal level, but at some points, explosions, squealing tires, or screaming parents will require higher volumes. Since you've only got so much resolution, you set the peak volume at the highest you can broadcast, and scale everything else accordingly.
Commercials, on the other hand, don't have as large a range of different sound levels. Over 30 seconds, you'll probably only have talking, or a car zooming around. Take the largest amplitude of someone talking and set that at the max you can broadcast, and overall your commercial is a heck of a lot louder, but you get better sound quality in terms of volume resolution.
My solution is the mute button.
Are the nests of wire as bad as these?
The Jim Saga, Part 1
The Jim Saga, Part 2
Symphonie Fantastique was composed by Berlioz, based on an opium-induced nightmare. It's successes like that which convince me I need to take more drugs.
Well, depending on how shy you are, you can always go to the bathroom and get a drink refill while sitting right there watching the movie...
Legally, the only vehicle that can run red lights is a postal truck. Even with siren and lights flashing, emergency vehicles are supposed to wait for greens. That's what these doohickeys do, is change the light to green in the direction the emerg vehicle is coming from.
IIRC, the postal truck rule comes from emergency dispatches during wartime.