Canadians are already there. Canada has the world's highest use of debit cards. They are accepted almost anywhere, except for very small stores (which only accept cash). Canadians are also very heavy users of online banking. Personally I find it very convenient, although I use my credit card (no fee) as opposed to my debit card (possible transaction fee).
"A recent survey showed that in 1999, 38 per cent of respondents used debit cards while 39 per cent preferred to pay cash. 16 per cent used credits cards and only three per cent paid by cheque." (Economic News Digest July 2000)
I think debit use has now surpassed cash.
[insert joke comparing low value of Canadian dollar to US dollar here]
In terms of MacOS 9 or MacOS X built-in, RFC2734 standard IP1394 networking, Apple has no plans to build this capability into the OS (as reported to me by Apple development).
You can visit my grad project page for more information on IP1394 and related IEEE-1394 (FireWire) information.
http://www.zayante.com/p1394b/
As I read it, the new spec provides for speeds up to 1.6 Gbps (with room to grow to 3.2
Gbps), 100 Mbps on UTP out to 100m, 200 Mbps on Plastic Optical Fibre (POF) to 50m, 1.6 Gbps on MultiMode Fibre (MMF) out to 100 m.
So I don't know where they got this "room to drive data at up to 3.2Gbps over copper cabling" thing.
I'm sure as long as you work 80 hours a week and take your payment in worthless stock options, some companies will let you shoot off your nerf gun and have as much "fun" as you want.
'Wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains' an article from the Globe and Mail.
Rudyard Kipling's Kim tells of the Great Game, the secret war an otherwise peace-loving British raj conducted against sinister forces of disorder located across the northern passes -- in Afghanistan, to be precise.
I think the key is to make sure you exercise your democratic rights (and responsibilities) in this matter, and if you have any strong opinion either way, just write a short clear letter to that effect.
IPNetRouter will run on relatively underpowered Macs, which gives you an extra level of protection, since the MacOS (before MacOS X) doesn't have many ports/services open for attack by default.
The final tally is still 9000 for Halifax and 30,000 people in the Atlantic region, which is an incredible number particularly for the small Newfoundland communities where most of them ended up.
Report can be found at
Atlantic provinces shelter thousands.
They're reporting on Global National that 9000 Americans will have to spend the night in and around Halifax, as all of their flights to the US East Coast were diverted here.
Just to clarify the Canadian airport situation from the East Coast perspective: with American airspace closed, there are two diversions required - incoming planes coming across the Atlantic and Pacific, and outgoing planes from Canada. Outgoing traffic from Canada to the US has been diverted substantially to the international airport of Halifax and also to New Brunswick (mainly Moncton) airports. Planes coming across the Atlantic have been diverted to Newfoundland - Gander's international airport and the smaller one at St. John's
Yeah, I can't understand why everyone obsesses over "productivity" (more production from the same or less work input) and not over resource efficiency (more production from the same or less resource inputs). Resource inputs includes everything from the inefficient lights in your factory burning 24 hours a day, to the quantities of unused material (and thus unrealized economic return) that pours out as "waste".
In Bester's The Computer Connection (called Extro in the UK) a guy is extracting gold from seawater and trying to give it to artists in the past who died of impoverishment.
down with capitalistic private property!
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We, the Revolutionary Insurgency for All Americans (RIAA) call on you, comrades, to turn your backs on the evils of private property.
It is clear lesson from history that the State, that is to say, the RIAA, knows best in allocating resources. All intellectual property should be held in common, in trust for you, the people, held by the RIAA and licensed out according to our five year profit plan.
We know best who can benefit from which entertainment. Abandon your bourgeois withholding of intellectual property for your private benefit. The masses will rejoice when all property is held in common, for allocation by the State, that is, the RIAA.
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your CDs. Oh and your DVDs, we'll be wanting those too.
In Rome, Mozart attended a performance of the celebrated nine-part Miserere by Antonio Allegri which could be heard only in Rome during Holy Week performed by the papal choir. By papal decree, it was forbidden to sing the work elsewhere, and its only existing copy was strongly guarded by the papal choir. Any attempt to copy the piece or reproduce it in any form was punishable by excommunication. Mozart, however, had heard the work only once when, returning home, he reproduced it in its entirety upon paper.
In the news today, the Copyists and Writers Industry Association (CWIA) decried the recent rise in literacy, along with the easy availability of paper and pencils to "unauthorized individuals".
They reported individuals were copying down speeches and other public utterances, totally without permission, having paid no per-word licensing fee of any kind.
Additionally, they reported that some "word pirates" may be sharing this recorded information with their friends.
The CWIA calls for an immediate ban on widespread literacy training, as well as for the immediate burning of all unauthorized paper.
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Canadians are already there. Canada has the world's highest use of debit cards. They are accepted almost anywhere, except for very small stores (which only accept cash). Canadians are also very heavy users of online banking. Personally I find it very convenient, although I use my credit card (no fee) as opposed to my debit card (possible transaction fee).
"A recent survey showed that in 1999, 38 per cent of respondents used debit cards while 39 per cent preferred to pay cash. 16 per cent used credits cards and only three per cent paid by cheque." (Economic News Digest July 2000)
I think debit use has now surpassed cash.
[insert joke comparing low value of Canadian dollar to US dollar here]
In terms of MacOS 9 or MacOS X built-in, RFC2734 standard IP1394 networking, Apple has no plans to build this capability into the OS (as reported to me by Apple development).
You can visit my grad project page for more information on IP1394 and related IEEE-1394 (FireWire) information.
http://www.zayante.com/p1394b/
As I read it, the new spec provides for speeds up to 1.6 Gbps (with room to grow to 3.2 Gbps), 100 Mbps on UTP out to 100m, 200 Mbps on Plastic Optical Fibre (POF) to 50m, 1.6 Gbps on MultiMode Fibre (MMF) out to 100 m.
So I don't know where they got this "room to drive data at up to 3.2Gbps over copper cabling" thing.
barcode our foreheads and implant the tracking chips and get the whole thing over with
- salary
- vacation
- health benefits
not fun thingsI'm sure as long as you work 80 hours a week and take your payment in worthless stock options, some companies will let you shoot off your nerf gun and have as much "fun" as you want.
'Wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains' an article from the Globe and Mail. Rudyard Kipling's Kim tells of the Great Game, the secret war an otherwise peace-loving British raj conducted against sinister forces of disorder located across the northern passes -- in Afghanistan, to be precise.
Why didn't Linus et al. buy themselves some good laws when they were paper zillionaires?
DShield.org and SANS Incidents are a couple sites that come to mind.
Cool! I bet this thing will catch on as fast as the videophone did!
If I can't listen to Nena's 99 Red Ballons,
can I still listen to the cover by Goldfinger?
I recommend Smoke and Mirrors if you want to see the effect that another "War" has had on the systematic removal of American civil liberties.
In Canada you can donate to the Canadian Red Cross online at Canada Helps.
I think the key is to make sure you exercise your democratic rights (and responsibilities) in this matter, and if you have any strong opinion either way, just write a short clear letter to that effect.
IPNetRouter will run on relatively underpowered Macs, which gives you an extra level of protection, since the MacOS (before MacOS X) doesn't have many ports/services open for attack by default.
The final tally is still 9000 for Halifax and 30,000 people in the Atlantic region, which is an incredible number particularly for the small Newfoundland communities where most of them ended up. Report can be found at Atlantic provinces shelter thousands.
They're reporting on Global National that 9000 Americans will have to spend the night in and around Halifax, as all of their flights to the US East Coast were diverted here.
Just to clarify the Canadian airport situation from the East Coast perspective: with American airspace closed, there are two diversions required - incoming planes coming across the Atlantic and Pacific, and outgoing planes from Canada. Outgoing traffic from Canada to the US has been diverted substantially to the international airport of Halifax and also to New Brunswick (mainly Moncton) airports. Planes coming across the Atlantic have been diverted to Newfoundland - Gander's international airport and the smaller one at St. John's
Yeah, I can't understand why everyone obsesses over "productivity" (more production from the same or less work input) and not over resource efficiency (more production from the same or less resource inputs). Resource inputs includes everything from the inefficient lights in your factory burning 24 hours a day, to the quantities of unused material (and thus unrealized economic return) that pours out as "waste".
The NSA II has way better technology.
In Bester's The Computer Connection (called Extro in the UK) a guy is extracting gold from seawater and trying to give it to artists in the past who died of impoverishment.
There is no cometary belt. There is the Kuiper Belt, proposed source of short-period comets, and the Oort Cloud, source of long-period comets.
Ya, but will they be able to play Hammurabi?
We, the Revolutionary Insurgency for All Americans (RIAA) call on you, comrades, to turn your backs on the evils of private property.
It is clear lesson from history that the State, that is to say, the RIAA, knows best in allocating resources. All intellectual property should be held in common, in trust for you, the people, held by the RIAA and licensed out according to our five year profit plan.
We know best who can benefit from which entertainment. Abandon your bourgeois withholding of intellectual property for your private benefit. The masses will rejoice when all property is held in common, for allocation by the State, that is, the RIAA.
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your CDs. Oh and your DVDs, we'll be wanting those too.
from The Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In the news today, the Copyists and Writers Industry Association (CWIA) decried the recent rise in literacy, along with the easy availability of paper and pencils to "unauthorized individuals".
They reported individuals were copying down speeches and other public utterances, totally without permission, having paid no per-word licensing fee of any kind.
Additionally, they reported that some "word pirates" may be sharing this recorded information with their friends.
The CWIA calls for an immediate ban on widespread literacy training, as well as for the immediate burning of all unauthorized paper.