The proposed laws would have made cell phones, iPods, car stereos, CD/DVD burners, and skipping commercials illegal in Canada.
We would have had to put former PM Paul Martin in jail for making fun of Canadian Tire ads. 22 minutes would have to go off the air - no more parody!
This might actually be the issue that drags the 30 and under crowd to the polls next election day.
Let's make this an issue. It's more important to me than gay marriage (I don't care), Afghanistan (we should stay), and tax cuts (use the money on something useful, douchebags.)
My daughter loves playing WiiPlay and Disney Princess Adventure
My wife and I play it a little, but we tend to play Raving Rabbids and Trauma Centre: New Blood. That is, when we're not playing board games.
Now here's the kicker - my mom and my mother-in-law ALSO play WiiPlay with my daughter.
I don't have another console or a faster PC because: 1. Time management. I just don't have enough time to play several consoles. 2. Cost. I'm not going to spend my way into debt just so I can play a PS3 / 360. I might get a PS2 this year. 3. I don't want to get into the "arms race" and buy new hardware every year just to keep up.
I think the advantage English has is that we, for the most part, don't care how badly you mangle it.
If you want to speak with an accent, go for it.
Messy writing? Spelling mistakes? No problem.
Confuse you're apostrophe's? Irritating, but still readable. (It took me about a minute to write that first sentence.)
26 characters and you're good to go. You can express any damn sentiment you want.
Compare that to, say, Cantonese, where you have to worry about intonation, angles, way more characters, &etc. Even french speakers get upset when you put the emphasis on the wrong syllables. But English, man, any semi-coherent motherfucker with a keyboard, pencil, pen, paper, dirt path, or whatever can be understood by any motherfucker unfortunate enough to read the gibberish.
I've got a P4 1.8, 512MB RAM, and a Radeon9200. That card was what did me in. I got hosed by the marketing department fucking with the numbers, just like when I bought my old Geforce2...MX. See, MX was ATI's "awesome" line, but NVidia's "crappy" line.
Anyway, my system is enough for NWN, GTA:VC / SA, and others. So yeah, I do play some PC games, but it's going to end once I get antiquated.
I played the original Duke Nukem and it sequel, Duke Nukem II. I got 3D (and Crusader: No Remorse) as a birthday present from my girlfriend at the time (she's now my wife). I am married (to a wonderful woman, a gaming geek) and we've got two kids. The oldest is 4 (today is her birthday). On the weekend, we're going to let her buy her very own Wii game. Yes, she plays Wii and can play by herself, including changing disks and changing the TV to the "Game" input.
I'm 31 years old. I have a degree, a job, a car (paid cash) and a house (with a mortgage, of course). When I hang out in the basement, it's MY basement.
I still play games, of course, and I split my time between the Wii, a borrowed XBox, PC games* and board games. I also play DnD once a week. I play violent games as well, including the GTA series and the upcoming No More Heroes. (Canadian release date is Feb 8) I've enjoyed Burnout quite a lot, and I'm disappointed that there's no upcoming Wii release.
My other hobbies include SCUBA diving and biking.
*I'm pretty much done with PC gaming, simply because I vowed that I'd never buy another video card again. Like the PvP comic, I'm not going to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade my system so it can be obsolete in a year.
However, 3/4 of my EIT time is programming embedded C, and that's been counting towards my P.Eng. certification. I've been using the online reporting system, so I get feedback as I progress, and I know for sure that it's been counting. I'm not sure where you heard that programming isn't acceptable experience, but I'd like to find out.
Also, there is no P.Eng. here - my work is being supervised by a contracting company (and they DO have a P.Eng.), and this time will still count towards my P.Eng certification.
I know that I'm not interpreting incorrectly, as I've talked to APEG-BC directly to confirm that I'm obeying the law.
One of my professors bought a copy of MATLAB to use for solving some filtering equations. (He taught the DSP courses) He installed the program on his laptop, but whenever he wasn't using his internet access, he couldn't use MATLAB correctly. I'm not sure why.
He finally just installed a pirated version and it worked flawlessly.
Technically, he wasn't pirating the software either, since he paid for a full licence. They weren't cheap, either. It runs about $25k for a full version of MATLAB.
I'm an EIT in my last year of EIT time. Once I get my P.Eng. designation, then yes, I would be liable for errors that I make. (I'm Electrical, not Software)
I have written code that is being used right now in life-critical situations. If it fails, there's a good chance that someone would die. The code and electronics that I'm working on right now (a different project) could cause injury or death if they fail.
You don't have to write bug-free code. You just have to do your very best, work to the accepted standards, and make sure your work is checked over by other people. (That's an oversimplification, but it suffices for the/. crowd.) If your work happens to fall through all those cracks, then that's what liability insurance is for.
That's up to your Professional body or Association. In your case, I suppose I'd call you "plague3106". You professional title is whatever your local body lets you nail to the wall.
In Canada, each province has an Act (for example, the Engineers and Geoscientists Act) which spells out the requirements for calling yourself and Engineer and what services you can provide. Penalties for violation are spelled out in the Act. In BC, the penalties range from a warning to suspension to a $25,000 fine. (That's about $26000 USD.)
My point was to say that you CAN be an SE in Canada and that the article is incorrect. You just have to actually be an Engineer.
You CAN be a Software Engineer in Canada. You just have to get a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (or similar) with Software as your discipline. Then register with your appropriate body (APEG-BC in British Columbia) and there you go. The University of Victoria offers a B.Eng. in Software Engineering. For the first four years after graduation, you can call yourself an Engineer In Training. After that, you can get your seal and stamp as a Professional Software Engineer.
In other words, yes, you can call yourself an Engineer. Just not after mailing in box-tops to MS.
Hey, my first computer was a CoCo2. I won one - WON one - in 1985. (It was a lot like a TRS-80, for those who wonder what the hell I'm talking about.)
It's how I learned to program. (Holy smokes, have I been programming for almost 23 years now?) Some of the games were meh, yeah, but others were great. You could get books and magazines that let you make your own games. I remember writing missile command and speedboat and coming up with my own little games. You could save them onto a tape drive (an actual tape recorder) for later use.
I remember the old black and white TV. I was able to tell the difference between red and blue on the B&W TV.
I'll let you say that it's not Ubuntu's fault that it doesn't support the 2nd-largest video card family. If that's how Ubuntu people debug, no fucking wonder it's flawed. ("It can't be MY system that's flawed, since I'm so brillant!") It's surely not the fact that the drivers become unstable after every kernel update. Perhaps there's a sense of ongoing defeatism at ATI because the API on the *nix kernels changes every release. "Fuck it, the driver will only be good for a month, so don't bother QA with it."
So I'll buy that part. Clearly, AMD and ATI (companies I've hardly heard of) are a great deal more amateur than the hundreds of volunteers who work on Ubuntu.
But what excuse is there for passing the resolution test then crashing the PC when you click "ok"?
As for you, you seem to be a nVidia fanboy. My Radeon worked flawlessly under Win2000 and took me less than five minutes to install correctly. Under Ubuntu, a WEEK LATER, someone tells me that it's ATI's fault.
I can only surmise that you disagree and feel like Ubuntu is the best OS ever. That's super.
Why not tell me how to get my card to work? Care to explain the quirky "every resolution passes the test" GUI interface? How about how you have to get battery testing on a desktop and IR port device connection on a wired PC?
I installed it earlier this week. It had been a few years since I rebuilt my Win2000 machine (my primary box), and I decided to give Linux another try (after a miserable time with Storm about ten years ago.)
Have fun if you want to install a video card that's not "on the list". The response I got on the various boards was "you should buy a better video card. 1024 in 2d should be enough. lol" It's a friggin' Radeon (albeit a few years old) not a Voodoo card. (All of which happen to be supported for some reason.)
Really awesome, guys. Really awesome. And yes, I tried installing the proprietary ATI drivers, tried Envy, but it just doesn't work. Even better, if you pick an invalid resolution, it tests FINE, then just blanks out your display when you click "ok".
It seems like every time the kernel updates, the drivers fail. My guess is that there's no stable API and everyone who hates the old function names just renames them (or they tie the names into the kernel version). Egads, that's WAY WORSE than ANYTHING Microsoft has EVER done. Period. (Including ME and BOB.)
That's just the "dustiest table in Pompeii". I've had nothing but problems with it.
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Let's make this an election issue.
The proposed laws would have made cell phones, iPods, car stereos, CD/DVD burners, and skipping commercials illegal in Canada.
We would have had to put former PM Paul Martin in jail for making fun of Canadian Tire ads. 22 minutes would have to go off the air - no more parody!
This might actually be the issue that drags the 30 and under crowd to the polls next election day.
Let's make this an issue. It's more important to me than gay marriage (I don't care), Afghanistan (we should stay), and tax cuts (use the money on something useful, douchebags.)
I stopped playing Mario Galaxy because it's crappy. ;)
I've heard good things about Z&W, and I've got it in mind for the next purchase.
It's also a great game if you're 4 years old.
My daughter loves playing WiiPlay and Disney Princess Adventure
My wife and I play it a little, but we tend to play Raving Rabbids and Trauma Centre: New Blood. That is, when we're not playing board games.
Now here's the kicker - my mom and my mother-in-law ALSO play WiiPlay with my daughter.
I don't have another console or a faster PC because:
1. Time management. I just don't have enough time to play several consoles.
2. Cost. I'm not going to spend my way into debt just so I can play a PS3 / 360. I might get a PS2 this year.
3. I don't want to get into the "arms race" and buy new hardware every year just to keep up.
Maybe they nuked it.
I think the advantage English has is that we, for the most part, don't care how badly you mangle it.
If you want to speak with an accent, go for it.
Messy writing? Spelling mistakes? No problem.
Confuse you're apostrophe's? Irritating, but still readable. (It took me about a minute to write that first sentence.)
26 characters and you're good to go. You can express any damn sentiment you want.
Compare that to, say, Cantonese, where you have to worry about intonation, angles, way more characters, &etc. Even french speakers get upset when you put the emphasis on the wrong syllables. But English, man, any semi-coherent motherfucker with a keyboard, pencil, pen, paper, dirt path, or whatever can be understood by any motherfucker unfortunate enough to read the gibberish.
I'm a sadistic audiophile.
I can hear the plants screaming.
Fucking plants. I'll cut them to bits and fry them in oil.
The irony is that I'm a vegetarian.
Technically, they could say,
"Your alternative to illegal downloading is a ham sandwich. The plan is to have ham sandwiches be a mandatory part of the meal plan. "
and it would follow the letter of the law, if not the spirit.
There you go, every campus in the US. Where's my grant?
Yeah, no kidding.
I said "Ubuntu sucks because you can't use an ATI video card."
The response was fantastic. People modded me as a troll, yelled at me to get a new card, and blamed the problem on ATI's lask of professionalism.
I went back to Win2000. It's a lot faster than Ubuntu anyway.
I've got a P4 1.8, 512MB RAM, and a Radeon9200. That card was what did me in. I got hosed by the marketing department fucking with the numbers, just like when I bought my old Geforce2...MX. See, MX was ATI's "awesome" line, but NVidia's "crappy" line.
Anyway, my system is enough for NWN, GTA:VC / SA, and others. So yeah, I do play some PC games, but it's going to end once I get antiquated.
Like the Penny Arcade comic says - the consoles are just easier.
Yes.
I played the original Duke Nukem and it sequel, Duke Nukem II. I got 3D (and Crusader: No Remorse) as a birthday present from my girlfriend at the time (she's now my wife). I am married (to a wonderful woman, a gaming geek) and we've got two kids. The oldest is 4 (today is her birthday). On the weekend, we're going to let her buy her very own Wii game. Yes, she plays Wii and can play by herself, including changing disks and changing the TV to the "Game" input.
I'm 31 years old. I have a degree, a job, a car (paid cash) and a house (with a mortgage, of course). When I hang out in the basement, it's MY basement.
I still play games, of course, and I split my time between the Wii, a borrowed XBox, PC games* and board games. I also play DnD once a week. I play violent games as well, including the GTA series and the upcoming No More Heroes. (Canadian release date is Feb 8) I've enjoyed Burnout quite a lot, and I'm disappointed that there's no upcoming Wii release.
My other hobbies include SCUBA diving and biking.
*I'm pretty much done with PC gaming, simply because I vowed that I'd never buy another video card again. Like the PvP comic, I'm not going to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade my system so it can be obsolete in a year.
Yes, I greatly over-simplified for the /. crowd.
However, 3/4 of my EIT time is programming embedded C, and that's been counting towards my P.Eng. certification. I've been using the online reporting system, so I get feedback as I progress, and I know for sure that it's been counting. I'm not sure where you heard that programming isn't acceptable experience, but I'd like to find out.
Also, there is no P.Eng. here - my work is being supervised by a contracting company (and they DO have a P.Eng.), and this time will still count towards my P.Eng certification.
I know that I'm not interpreting incorrectly, as I've talked to APEG-BC directly to confirm that I'm obeying the law.
Maybe it's a BC / AB thing.
Funnily enough, that's sometimes true.
One of my professors bought a copy of MATLAB to use for solving some filtering equations. (He taught the DSP courses) He installed the program on his laptop, but whenever he wasn't using his internet access, he couldn't use MATLAB correctly. I'm not sure why.
He finally just installed a pirated version and it worked flawlessly.
Technically, he wasn't pirating the software either, since he paid for a full licence. They weren't cheap, either. It runs about $25k for a full version of MATLAB.
Well, I HAD to, or else I'd get replies of "What's that in real money?".
It's close to par, but the extra cash is to compensate for the cost of conversion.
Not yet.
/. crowd.) If your work happens to fall through all those cracks, then that's what liability insurance is for.
I'm an EIT in my last year of EIT time. Once I get my P.Eng. designation, then yes, I would be liable for errors that I make. (I'm Electrical, not Software)
I have written code that is being used right now in life-critical situations. If it fails, there's a good chance that someone would die. The code and electronics that I'm working on right now (a different project) could cause injury or death if they fail.
You don't have to write bug-free code. You just have to do your very best, work to the accepted standards, and make sure your work is checked over by other people. (That's an oversimplification, but it suffices for the
I'm just happy they didn't make the 4th edition collectible.
You know, you buy a pack of rules, then you have to buy a booster pack of rules if you want to play them in the DnD setting.
"Damn, I was really hoping to get Cleave in this pack."
"Awesome, Whirlwind Attack!"
That's up to your Professional body or Association. In your case, I suppose I'd call you "plague3106". You professional title is whatever your local body lets you nail to the wall.
In Canada, each province has an Act (for example, the Engineers and Geoscientists Act) which spells out the requirements for calling yourself and Engineer and what services you can provide. Penalties for violation are spelled out in the Act. In BC, the penalties range from a warning to suspension to a $25,000 fine. (That's about $26000 USD.)
My point was to say that you CAN be an SE in Canada and that the article is incorrect. You just have to actually be an Engineer.
That's what I came in here to say.
You CAN be a Software Engineer in Canada. You just have to get a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (or similar) with Software as your discipline. Then register with your appropriate body (APEG-BC in British Columbia) and there you go. The University of Victoria offers a B.Eng. in Software Engineering. For the first four years after graduation, you can call yourself an Engineer In Training. After that, you can get your seal and stamp as a Professional Software Engineer.
In other words, yes, you can call yourself an Engineer. Just not after mailing in box-tops to MS.
(I'm an EE. (in Training) )
Hey, my first computer was a CoCo2. I won one - WON one - in 1985. (It was a lot like a TRS-80, for those who wonder what the hell I'm talking about.)
It's how I learned to program. (Holy smokes, have I been programming for almost 23 years now?) Some of the games were meh, yeah, but others were great. You could get books and magazines that let you make your own games. I remember writing missile command and speedboat and coming up with my own little games. You could save them onto a tape drive (an actual tape recorder) for later use.
I remember the old black and white TV. I was able to tell the difference between red and blue on the B&W TV.
There weren't any warnings.
I chose the ATI Radeon drivers, picked out the monitor, set the resolution, and clicked "test".
It then popped up a dialog box that said, "Would you like to keep this resolution? It will revert in 15 seconds."
I clicked the "keep" box since it looked fine.
I then clicked the "OK" box.
The screen went blank. My only choice was to reboot the system.
Sure, I'll buy that.
I'll let you say that it's not Ubuntu's fault that it doesn't support the 2nd-largest video card family. If that's how Ubuntu people debug, no fucking wonder it's flawed. ("It can't be MY system that's flawed, since I'm so brillant!") It's surely not the fact that the drivers become unstable after every kernel update. Perhaps there's a sense of ongoing defeatism at ATI because the API on the *nix kernels changes every release. "Fuck it, the driver will only be good for a month, so don't bother QA with it."
So I'll buy that part. Clearly, AMD and ATI (companies I've hardly heard of) are a great deal more amateur than the hundreds of volunteers who work on Ubuntu.
But what excuse is there for passing the resolution test then crashing the PC when you click "ok"?
As for you, you seem to be a nVidia fanboy. My Radeon worked flawlessly under Win2000 and took me less than five minutes to install correctly. Under Ubuntu, a WEEK LATER, someone tells me that it's ATI's fault.
Awesome, guys. Awesome.
So why am I modded as a troll?
I can only surmise that you disagree and feel like Ubuntu is the best OS ever. That's super.
Why not tell me how to get my card to work? Care to explain the quirky "every resolution passes the test" GUI interface? How about how you have to get battery testing on a desktop and IR port device connection on a wired PC?
Ubuntu is horrible.
I installed it earlier this week. It had been a few years since I rebuilt my Win2000 machine (my primary box), and I decided to give Linux another try (after a miserable time with Storm about ten years ago.)
Have fun if you want to install a video card that's not "on the list". The response I got on the various boards was "you should buy a better video card. 1024 in 2d should be enough. lol" It's a friggin' Radeon (albeit a few years old) not a Voodoo card. (All of which happen to be supported for some reason.)
Really awesome, guys. Really awesome. And yes, I tried installing the proprietary ATI drivers, tried Envy, but it just doesn't work. Even better, if you pick an invalid resolution, it tests FINE, then just blanks out your display when you click "ok".
It seems like every time the kernel updates, the drivers fail. My guess is that there's no stable API and everyone who hates the old function names just renames them (or they tie the names into the kernel version). Egads, that's WAY WORSE than ANYTHING Microsoft has EVER done. Period. (Including ME and BOB.)
That's just the "dustiest table in Pompeii". I've had nothing but problems with it.
Yes, I think that's true. You can't be expected to be a compellable and co-operative witness against yourself, your spouse, or your children.
IANAL.
Yeah, I meant to add at the end:
"On the other hand, if that union hadn't been across the street, they wouldn't have had all the perks and raises."