University of Waterloo is THE place to go for Computer Science, Mathematics, or any sort of Engineering in Canada.
I'm taking CS there right now, and comparing to some of my friends who are taking it elsewhere in the country, I have yet to find any university that comes close to matching Waterloo's program.
Simply because one activity costs more than another doesn't make that activity any 'more legal'. Costs incurred by infringment isn't something that would be taken into account, it just means that smart criminals will be less likely to do it that way because their margin of profit is less.
You are not off base, except for the fact that your vote at the polls reflecting this attitude, unless of course, you chose to vote for some party that is not either Republican or Democrat. Both of them have a long history of strong-arm trade tactics, and if you believe that voting for the other party, the one that is not in power, will change anything then yes you are off base.
The trick would be, to have an open text format so that ANYONE can create an ebook that can be read on it. That way you can say, import all of the texts from Project Gutenberg. You'll never run out of reading material.
every CD you will listen to for the next year for less than $500 (that's about 50 CD's for the slow in math
Where do you buy your cd's?? And I'm being serious here, I have never seen new (or relatively new) cds being sold for anywhere near 10 bucks a pop. American money or Canadian, cds are selling for 18-19 US here, which is usually about 25 Canadian. If you check your math, that is on the realm of about 26 CDs in american money, or 20 in Canadian.
Your point is valid, but that does not mean that the parent is overrated. I'm in the process of getting my comp sci degree at the moment (one more year to go) and I came by computers in much the same way you did (though I'm 21). For me, it is depressing to know that a significant percentage of the people in my class *are* doing it for the money, and really don't have much of a clue and/or don't particularily care about the subject. It is extremely frustrating to try to work with people like that because for a large part they are willing to freeload on others to do their work, slipping through using tricks and (as my university puts it) "excessive collaboration". These are the people that will be unhappy when they get a tech job, because they are unhappy with doing the tech work at school to begin with.
I think the sentiments from which Open Source benefits are directed against the dealings of a number of big software companies, not against the fact that most of these are American.
not solely against the fact that most of these are American. You cannot deny that anti-American sentiment goes hand in hand with a desire to be less dependant on American technology.
And yes, I am quite aware of the difference between corporate America, and the American government, but I am also aware of how ever increasingly your government is becoming a corporate puppet, to flip-flop which ever way the dollar flows.
I do, but why have a machine to do punching at all? Florida used machines to punch holes (not the electronic kind, but they're still machines) and look what happened.
Just because a machine did the punching, doesn't mean the ballot is flawless. And we all know how diligent voters are in ensuring that their cards have been punched correctly.
Better yet, this is a good case for simple paper, mark your 'X' in the big circle, and votes are counted by hand.
These things cause more problems and have more holes than they fix, even machine scanned punchcards showed their flaws in the last US general election.
Just an aside to your statement (which is indeed valid), your grandmother is in fact 'connected' even though you do not regard her as such. Email does require internet access, and though she may not 'surf the web' she is indeed connected to it. Limited usage is still validly classified as usage.
For example, if I own a radio, but only turn it on to check the weather for 30 seconds each morning, I would still be classified as someone who 'listens to the radio' though the time spent is negligable (sp?).
True democracies do not exist in any form on this world today.
The United States is not a true democracy for many reasons that do not have anything to do with speech at all.
And finally, a true democracy does not require freedom of speech to work. It requires an electorate that can make informed choices. Granted that it would be difficult for such a system to operate with restrictions on speech, and be suceptable to corruption, but that does not mean that free speech is necessary.
Depends on whether or not it was credited. A wholesale copy if credited to the original author, as far as I am aware (IANAL), is fine. A direct copy WITHOUT credit is plagerism.
But, wires may be cheap... on earth. But shipping a few thousand miles of wire is not only extremely bulky, the weight would be quite large, and might even be more expensive than putting up satellites in the long run.
But bandwidth isn't eveything. Shuttling communication back and forth in such a way would not only be expensive, but inconvienient if such a radio telescope was manned.
In a case like this, as with the mars probes, is not that we can move large amounts of data in a short period of time, but that we can remain in constant touch.
Before doing anything like building a manned base on the far side of the moon... or even an unmanned radio telescope for that matter, is to create a series of 'stationary' communication satellites in moon orbit for communication.
The very idea of being free from interference, also prevents us from retrieving data due to the giant piece of rock in the way.
One of these emails almost got me when it came to my university email account.
I'm just glad that I read my emails and recognized the fact that my computer, since its off campus, cannot actually send mail through the university smtp server and thus the 'spam' originating from my computer couldn't possible have occured.
Exactly, I'd love to be able to drop the cash on something like this. When I go to class I don't lug textbooks around (they are of no use in lectures really) just a folder with papers. 16 pounds isn't enough on its own to be inconvienient and it has enough power to do 3D graphics class assignments in the lab and not have to use a POS unix terminal.
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Hey, didn't anyone tell you? Security through obscurity doesn't work!
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University of Waterloo is THE place to go for Computer Science, Mathematics, or any sort of Engineering in Canada.
I'm taking CS there right now, and comparing to some of my friends who are taking it elsewhere in the country, I have yet to find any university that comes close to matching Waterloo's program.
Simply because one activity costs more than another doesn't make that activity any 'more legal'. Costs incurred by infringment isn't something that would be taken into account, it just means that smart criminals will be less likely to do it that way because their margin of profit is less.
Considering it is the correct spelling of the word, I presume its accepted in your country as well.
No, that display is in roentgens... that is less than 1000 mR/hour.
You are not off base, except for the fact that your vote at the polls reflecting this attitude, unless of course, you chose to vote for some party that is not either Republican or Democrat. Both of them have a long history of strong-arm trade tactics, and if you believe that voting for the other party, the one that is not in power, will change anything then yes you are off base.
Simple, it would use them.
So, you're advocating that instead of waiting for the next big meteor to destroy us all.. we go out and do it ourselves?
The trick would be, to have an open text format so that ANYONE can create an ebook that can be read on it. That way you can say, import all of the texts from Project Gutenberg. You'll never run out of reading material.
every CD you will listen to for the next year for less than $500 (that's about 50 CD's for the slow in math
Where do you buy your cd's?? And I'm being serious here, I have never seen new (or relatively new) cds being sold for anywhere near 10 bucks a pop. American money or Canadian, cds are selling for 18-19 US here, which is usually about 25 Canadian. If you check your math, that is on the realm of about 26 CDs in american money, or 20 in Canadian.
Your point is valid, but that does not mean that the parent is overrated. I'm in the process of getting my comp sci degree at the moment (one more year to go) and I came by computers in much the same way you did (though I'm 21).
For me, it is depressing to know that a significant percentage of the people in my class *are* doing it for the money, and really don't have much of a clue and/or don't particularily care about the subject. It is extremely frustrating to try to work with people like that because for a large part they are willing to freeload on others to do their work, slipping through using tricks and (as my university puts it) "excessive collaboration".
These are the people that will be unhappy when they get a tech job, because they are unhappy with doing the tech work at school to begin with.
I think the sentiments from which Open Source benefits are directed against the dealings of a number of big software companies, not against the fact that most of these are American.
not solely against the fact that most of these are American. You cannot deny that anti-American sentiment goes hand in hand with a desire to be less dependant on American technology.
And yes, I am quite aware of the difference between corporate America, and the American government, but I am also aware of how ever increasingly your government is becoming a corporate puppet, to flip-flop which ever way the dollar flows.
I do, but why have a machine to do punching at all? Florida used machines to punch holes (not the electronic kind, but they're still machines) and look what happened.
Just because a machine did the punching, doesn't mean the ballot is flawless. And we all know how diligent voters are in ensuring that their cards have been punched correctly.
Better yet, this is a good case for simple paper, mark your 'X' in the big circle, and votes are counted by hand.
These things cause more problems and have more holes than they fix, even machine scanned punchcards showed their flaws in the last US general election.
Just an aside to your statement (which is indeed valid), your grandmother is in fact 'connected' even though you do not regard her as such. Email does require internet access, and though she may not 'surf the web' she is indeed connected to it. Limited usage is still validly classified as usage.
For example, if I own a radio, but only turn it on to check the weather for 30 seconds each morning, I would still be classified as someone who 'listens to the radio' though the time spent is negligable (sp?).
I'm sorry, 100ft diameter does not translate into 90m in diameter. Its approximately 30m in diameter, or about 15m radius.
True democracies do not exist in any form on this world today.
The United States is not a true democracy for many reasons that do not have anything to do with speech at all.
And finally, a true democracy does not require freedom of speech to work. It requires an electorate that can make informed choices. Granted that it would be difficult for such a system to operate with restrictions on speech, and be suceptable to corruption, but that does not mean that free speech is necessary.
Proposed Budget Expenditures for the State of California for the year 2004-2005 is 99.144 Billion Dollars (Budget Summary)
In 2003-2004 the Canadian Government budget weighed in at approximately 180.7 Billion Dollars (Expenditures)
Please note that the Canadian Government expenditures do not include provincial or municipal tax revenue.
Depends on whether or not it was credited. A wholesale copy if credited to the original author, as far as I am aware (IANAL), is fine. A direct copy WITHOUT credit is plagerism.
Its 6 digits, 7 if you count the '.'
True, you make a valid point.
But, wires may be cheap... on earth. But shipping a few thousand miles of wire is not only extremely bulky, the weight would be quite large, and might even be more expensive than putting up satellites in the long run.
But bandwidth isn't eveything. Shuttling communication back and forth in such a way would not only be expensive, but inconvienient if such a radio telescope was manned.
In a case like this, as with the mars probes, is not that we can move large amounts of data in a short period of time, but that we can remain in constant touch.
Before doing anything like building a manned base on the far side of the moon... or even an unmanned radio telescope for that matter, is to create a series of 'stationary' communication satellites in moon orbit for communication.
The very idea of being free from interference, also prevents us from retrieving data due to the giant piece of rock in the way.
One of these emails almost got me when it came to my university email account.
I'm just glad that I read my emails and recognized the fact that my computer, since its off campus, cannot actually send mail through the university smtp server and thus the 'spam' originating from my computer couldn't possible have occured.
Exactly, I'd love to be able to drop the cash on something like this. When I go to class I don't lug textbooks around (they are of no use in lectures really) just a folder with papers. 16 pounds isn't enough on its own to be inconvienient and it has enough power to do 3D graphics class assignments in the lab and not have to use a POS unix terminal.