Ask 20 different web company CEOs to complete that sentence. Then ask 20 different I.T. professionals. Then take the 45-55 different answers you received, and try to sort them into less than a dozen piles of more or less compatible answers.
I think we can all agree that Web 2.0 is about pastels.
Are you so fat and lazy that your notebook only weighs 6 to 8lbs? I have an old luggable that weighs 20 lbs. And its carrying case is no larger than a large briefcase.
Luxury. I carry around a full-sized tower under my left arm, an NEC 21" CRT monitor under my right arm, and an IBM model M keyboard on a specially designed carrying attachment on my penis.
What continent is the USA on? Any other countries on that same continent? Any other continents with "America" in the name?
North America. Yes, there's Canada, Mexico, and a bunch of small countries that I'm not going to list. Yes, South America.
Try telling me that I'm an American simply because I live on the continent of North America. I won't yell or anything but I will politely correct you because I'm a Canadian and that's just how we roll. We still use "black" to reference a person's race because using African-American to describe a black Canadian would be confusing. Even the news and the police will use black, white, asian, or native when describing a suspect because "urban" never caught on and skin colour is an obvious part of a description.
In a hundred years, schools have not addressed real life bullying that includes the same things that happens online as well as physical assaults.
Sure they have. They introduced Zero Tolerance policies so that when a kid who is being bullied defends himself from the bully, they both get suspended.
If this is going to work, either a lot more money must be spent getting the teachers up to date (easier said than done, since many of the people on top remain fearful of or overwhelmed by this series of tubes), or they'll have to make getting kids to teach each other (with supervision) a major part of the curriculum.
Or they can send around a teacher who specializes in the topic to the schools in an area. That's how sex ed works where I live. The sex ed teacher(s) visit each school for about a week. An internet safety course wouldn't have to take any longer and the teacher can move on to the next school once it's done.
The lines belong to them, especially the fiber lines, so what fucking right does the government have to tell a company it isn't allowed to use it's own property as it wants even though it is not infringing on anyone's rights? The government has no place in this matter.
Really? The lines belong to them do they? Well maybe they should get their lines off of my property. What's that you say? The only way for the system to work is if everyone allows the telephone company a right-of-way on their property? I suppose if I started up a competing company, that I would be allowed to run fiber through the property of others and through public property. Right? No? Well then it looks like we have a natural monopoly here.
Fuck it, let's just let the phone company charge whatever they feel they can and do what they want. All that competition that they have will let the market decide.
So really, everyone in a county might pay the same rate for water, even though it costs 5x more to provide it to people in the rural areas. They might even be taking a loss to pipe water out there. But they're still, overall, making money, because it costs so much less to pipe water to the densely-populated areas.
Uh, I'm not sure where you are, but I live in a village and we just got water recently. In fact, we're still on a well and septic tank system because we haven't hooked up to it yet. The people outside this village, in the actual rural areas, are all on wells and won't be getting a municipal water system. I'm in an area with plenty of ground water, so maybe it's different in more desert areas.
I'm willing to be the pirate bay causes more bandwidth than all of those combined. And squared.
Bell Canada recently started throttling 3rd-party ISPs so one of them posted graphs showing what the throttling did to their traffic. TekSavvy has a reputation of being the ISP p2p users go to. The 2nd and 3rd graphs break down their traffic. UDP takes up the highest percentage of their traffic and Web takes up the second highest percentage. Peer to peer is third.
Maybe next year, they'll unveil "wiki.slashdot.org" due to overwhelming demand by careless users who want to be able to edit their posts and fix their spelling (and everyone else's posts too!).
Put away your gut reactions and look at the statistics. Boats are more likely to kill your kids than handguns are. Swimming pools are MUCH more likely to kill a neighborhood kid than a loaded, unlocked handgun in the same house. You wouldn't have a pool in the backyard and not teach your kids how to swim, would you?
There is no province or territory in Canada that has a minimum wage close to $11. The highest minimum wage is in Nunavut ($8.37) where the cost of living is extraordinarily high. The typical minimum wage in Canada is about $8 (or less for what the province might consider inexperienced or student workers).
Ontario's minimum wage will be $8.75 at the end of this month, $9.50 as of March 31, 2009, and $10.25 as of March 31, 2010. Of course, NCIX is located in British Columbia, where the minimum wage is $8 like you said.
The good 'ole CBC is a publicly funded crown corp. So yeah, if they want to cut out a revenue stream...go for it...but we're paying for it in taxes.
Except that pretty much any good show is going to show up on your friendly neighbourhood torrent site anyway. A lot of the shows are available in streaming clips anyway. By putting up a torrent themselves, they can save on bandwidth and provide a show that isn't as limited in video and audio quality.
Bastards! Again with the friday night pid of death that also killed Firefly. What-the-fuck!? Why is it that any show I enjoy seems to be a prime canditate for cancelation?
Firefly's timeslot didn't kill it, Fox did. Just like they kill every other promising show.
CBC is Canada's public broadcaster, but it isn't the same as PBS. For one thing, they do run commercials in programming the same way the other commercial broadcasters do.
So...kinda like PBS. The Petroleum Broadcasting System. Though CBC doesn't try to hide their advertisements like PBS does. I think the kids programming block of shows they have in the morning is commercial-free as well.
Its still more than you get on the Discovery Channel anymore...
Discovery Channel in Canada airs a daily hour-long science news show called Daily Planet. They seem to have shifted most of the documentaries off to their other channels, leaving us with Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, How It's Made, Deadliest Catch, and the occasional edutainment piece about scientists who time travel to bring animals from the past.
Though Canada does require a higher standard of evidence than "here's some plain text log files showing that this IP was making available a file named usher.mp3. We don't have any evidence that this file was by the musician Usher or that this file was uploaded to anyone or that it resided on the computer of the person who's name is on the account (not that we have that name since there are privacy laws requiring us to get a court order by providing actual evidence before the ISP will reveal it). But make them give us money anyway."
Of those, only the escape velocity is actually relevant. The gravity at the surface is pretty much irrelevant. The escape velocity on Mars is twice that of the moon, which means it would take 4 times as much energy to leave Mars as it takes to leave the moon. That's in theory. In practise, it's more than that because you actually need more fuel to lift the extra fuel.
That depends on how many different ships there are. It'd be kinda silly to use the same ship to go from the surface of Mars directly to Earth. A scenario that makes more sense is this:
1. Ship to get to Earth orbit from the surface 2. Ship to get from Earth orbit to Mars orbit and back 3. Ship to get from Mars orbit to Mars surface and 4. Either a separate Mars surface to Mars orbit ship or the same orbit to surface ship from above
That way you get to take advantage of more efficient ion engines (or something similar) on the long haul from Earth to Mars and back. Ion engines are efficient, but the acceleration is too low to get to orbit with them.
Really we're talking about hundreds of extra Obama caucus votes vs. Hillary's hundreds of thousands of extra primary votes.
Really? Hundreds of thousands? According to cnn.com right now, Clinton has 1,455,959 votes and Obama has 1,356,330. That's just slightly under 100,000 and a far cry from "hundreds of thousands."
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Ask 20 different web company CEOs to complete that sentence. Then ask 20 different I.T. professionals. Then take the 45-55 different answers you received, and try to sort them into less than a dozen piles of more or less compatible answers.
I think we can all agree that Web 2.0 is about pastels.
Are you so fat and lazy that your notebook only weighs 6 to 8lbs? I have an old luggable that weighs 20 lbs. And its carrying case is no larger than a large briefcase.
Luxury. I carry around a full-sized tower under my left arm, an NEC 21" CRT monitor under my right arm, and an IBM model M keyboard on a specially designed carrying attachment on my penis.
What continent is the USA on? Any other countries on that same continent? Any other continents with "America" in the name?
North America. Yes, there's Canada, Mexico, and a bunch of small countries that I'm not going to list. Yes, South America.
Try telling me that I'm an American simply because I live on the continent of North America. I won't yell or anything but I will politely correct you because I'm a Canadian and that's just how we roll. We still use "black" to reference a person's race because using African-American to describe a black Canadian would be confusing. Even the news and the police will use black, white, asian, or native when describing a suspect because "urban" never caught on and skin colour is an obvious part of a description.
Yes.
The part Canadians like to forget is that Toronto also got torched.
Well, it was called York at the time, but yeah. Something to keep in mind though is that everyone outside of Toronto, hates it.
In a hundred years, schools have not addressed real life bullying that includes the same things that happens online as well as physical assaults.
Sure they have. They introduced Zero Tolerance policies so that when a kid who is being bullied defends himself from the bully, they both get suspended.
If this is going to work, either a lot more money must be spent getting the teachers up to date (easier said than done, since many of the people on top remain fearful of or overwhelmed by this series of tubes), or they'll have to make getting kids to teach each other (with supervision) a major part of the curriculum.
Or they can send around a teacher who specializes in the topic to the schools in an area. That's how sex ed works where I live. The sex ed teacher(s) visit each school for about a week. An internet safety course wouldn't have to take any longer and the teacher can move on to the next school once it's done.
Wouldn't that be the last 1.6 kilometers?
Nah, Canadians are bilingual when it comes to measurement systems.
The lines belong to them, especially the fiber lines, so what fucking right does the government have to tell a company it isn't allowed to use it's own property as it wants even though it is not infringing on anyone's rights? The government has no place in this matter.
Really? The lines belong to them do they? Well maybe they should get their lines off of my property. What's that you say? The only way for the system to work is if everyone allows the telephone company a right-of-way on their property? I suppose if I started up a competing company, that I would be allowed to run fiber through the property of others and through public property. Right? No? Well then it looks like we have a natural monopoly here.
Fuck it, let's just let the phone company charge whatever they feel they can and do what they want. All that competition that they have will let the market decide.
So really, everyone in a county might pay the same rate for water, even though it costs 5x more to provide it to people in the rural areas. They might even be taking a loss to pipe water out there. But they're still, overall, making money, because it costs so much less to pipe water to the densely-populated areas.
Uh, I'm not sure where you are, but I live in a village and we just got water recently. In fact, we're still on a well and septic tank system because we haven't hooked up to it yet. The people outside this village, in the actual rural areas, are all on wells and won't be getting a municipal water system. I'm in an area with plenty of ground water, so maybe it's different in more desert areas.
I'm willing to be the pirate bay causes more bandwidth than all of those combined. And squared.
Bell Canada recently started throttling 3rd-party ISPs so one of them posted graphs showing what the throttling did to their traffic. TekSavvy has a reputation of being the ISP p2p users go to. The 2nd and 3rd graphs break down their traffic. UDP takes up the highest percentage of their traffic and Web takes up the second highest percentage. Peer to peer is third.
Maybe next year, they'll unveil "wiki.slashdot.org" due to overwhelming demand by careless users who want to be able to edit their posts and fix their spelling (and everyone else's posts too!).
There, fixed that for you. Citation needed.
Put away your gut reactions and look at the statistics. Boats are more likely to kill your kids than handguns are. Swimming pools are MUCH more likely to kill a neighborhood kid than a loaded, unlocked handgun in the same house. You wouldn't have a pool in the backyard and not teach your kids how to swim, would you?
Someone's been reading Freakonomics.
BTW which part of the Northern Wastes are you from? I used to live in Montana, which is almost the same as Alberta :)
Near London, Ontario. One thing to keep in mind is that no matter where you're from in Canada, no one really likes Toronto.
The current situation, requiring a passport to visit Canada
Only when flying. You can still drive or boat across the border with the old requirements.
Besides, I vaguely recall that we burned your place down first. :)
Meh, it was just Toronto (or York at the time).
There is no province or territory in Canada that has a minimum wage close to $11. The highest minimum wage is in Nunavut ($8.37) where the cost of living is extraordinarily high. The typical minimum wage in Canada is about $8 (or less for what the province might consider inexperienced or student workers).
Ontario's minimum wage will be $8.75 at the end of this month, $9.50 as of March 31, 2009, and $10.25 as of March 31, 2010. Of course, NCIX is located in British Columbia, where the minimum wage is $8 like you said.
The good 'ole CBC is a publicly funded crown corp. So yeah, if they want to cut out a revenue stream...go for it...but we're paying for it in taxes.
Except that pretty much any good show is going to show up on your friendly neighbourhood torrent site anyway. A lot of the shows are available in streaming clips anyway. By putting up a torrent themselves, they can save on bandwidth and provide a show that isn't as limited in video and audio quality.
Bastards! Again with the friday night pid of death that also killed Firefly. What-the-fuck!? Why is it that any show I enjoy seems to be a prime canditate for cancelation?
Firefly's timeslot didn't kill it, Fox did. Just like they kill every other promising show.
CBC is Canada's public broadcaster, but it isn't the same as PBS. For one thing, they do run commercials in programming the same way the other commercial broadcasters do.
So...kinda like PBS. The Petroleum Broadcasting System. Though CBC doesn't try to hide their advertisements like PBS does. I think the kids programming block of shows they have in the morning is commercial-free as well.
Its still more than you get on the Discovery Channel anymore...
Discovery Channel in Canada airs a daily hour-long science news show called Daily Planet. They seem to have shifted most of the documentaries off to their other channels, leaving us with Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, How It's Made, Deadliest Catch, and the occasional edutainment piece about scientists who time travel to bring animals from the past.
Whether they tax blank CDs or not has no bearing on whether or not distributing copyrighted content without the copyright holder's consent is legal.
In Canada, for example, it's not: http://grep.law.harvard.edu/articles/03/08/22/1655233.shtml
Though Canada does require a higher standard of evidence than "here's some plain text log files showing that this IP was making available a file named usher.mp3. We don't have any evidence that this file was by the musician Usher or that this file was uploaded to anyone or that it resided on the computer of the person who's name is on the account (not that we have that name since there are privacy laws requiring us to get a court order by providing actual evidence before the ISP will reveal it). But make them give us money anyway."
Behold, your answer:
Standing height between 62 and 75 inches
Well shit. I'm 76 inches.
If you're in the US (and if my memory is working correctly, Canada) you ARE paying a RIAA tax on every blank CD you purchase (and probably on DVDs).
Not on DVDs in Canada.
Of those, only the escape velocity is actually relevant. The gravity at the surface is pretty much irrelevant. The escape velocity on Mars is twice that of the moon, which means it would take 4 times as much energy to leave Mars as it takes to leave the moon. That's in theory. In practise, it's more than that because you actually need more fuel to lift the extra fuel.
That depends on how many different ships there are. It'd be kinda silly to use the same ship to go from the surface of Mars directly to Earth. A scenario that makes more sense is this:
1. Ship to get to Earth orbit from the surface
2. Ship to get from Earth orbit to Mars orbit and back
3. Ship to get from Mars orbit to Mars surface and
4. Either a separate Mars surface to Mars orbit ship or the same orbit to surface ship from above
That way you get to take advantage of more efficient ion engines (or something similar) on the long haul from Earth to Mars and back. Ion engines are efficient, but the acceleration is too low to get to orbit with them.
Really we're talking about hundreds of extra Obama caucus votes vs. Hillary's hundreds of thousands of extra primary votes.
Really? Hundreds of thousands? According to cnn.com right now, Clinton has 1,455,959 votes and Obama has 1,356,330. That's just slightly under 100,000 and a far cry from "hundreds of thousands."