a commonly uttered truism here that you need to be working for at least 1 1/2 years to be able to actually say you KNOW what you're doing
So you are saying it is easy stuff then? I did a full 2 years at a manufactureing plant. When I left the only thing I really knew was my narrow field of functional test enginerring. Sure I knew of the other types of tests and the process of making a computer. But I would never say I KNEW what I was doing.
Like the rest of my dept I was just faking it and hopeing no one would really notice.:-)
Remember CBC... aims for a wide audience, so pr0n is not mentioned.
Which CBC are you talking about?? Would this be the CBC that didn't censor Kid's in the Hall ever? The CBC that has no problem portraying sex durring prime time? The CBC that did a rather graphic expose of pay-per-view hard core porn. Or is this some other CBC that I haven't heard about?
The CBC is one of the most permissive of all the big broadcast networks in North America. Edged out by CITY (in Toronto) and who can forget Blue Nuit on TQS. And before you Euros get all upity: yes CBC is pretty prudish by European standards. Yes, it is sad.
Before you write, read. Read the whole discuss paper. The paper covers many different areas not covered in the news article. Some parts, such as the intercept proposals, aren't acceptable. Other parts of the paper make a lot of sense.
For example read the section on Interception of Email. The gist of this section is that email interception can and has fallen under two conflicting sections of the Criminal Code. In some cases a judge ruled that the email was a private communication and subject to those laws. In another case a judge ruled that email was subject to the less onerous search and seizure laws. The criminal code is not clear on the matter. So the discussion paper simply asks 3 questions:
* should there be a specific provision in the Criminal Code in relation to how an e-mail should be acquired?
* if such a provision should be included, what kind of procedural safeguards should be imposed?
* should the type of order to be obtained in order to acquire an e-mail vary depending on the stage of the communication or delivery process?
These are three important questions! How do you want your email protected under the Criminal Code and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The Dept of Justice is asking for your inpupt on these and other important questions regarding your privacy.
Read the whole paper and send send in your opinions. You do not need to comment on all sections. Specify which section your comments reference. Be clear. Check your spelling (unlike me). Check your grammar. Reread what your wrote. Wait a day after writeing before sending (from some sober second thought).
This draft is not in conflict with section 8 of the Charter. Read the actual "discussion draft" and you will see that the proposal states:
The central tenet of the proposal is that service providers would be required to have the technical capability to provide access to the entirety of a specific telecommunication transmitted over their facilities,
subject to a lawful authority to intercept. This would include the content and the telecommunications-associated specific data associated with that telecommunication.
Note "subject to a lawful authority to intercept." This indicates that a court order would be required prior to the interception and collection of any data as per The Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
I believe that your arguement under para 2.b is probably valid.
At any rate this draft will not become law. It won't even make it to a draft bill. Canadians won't stomach it. Ask anyone who does tech support and they will tell you that they often recieve calls from older men (and teenaged boys) asking how to clear the Netscape URL drop down menu before the wife (or parents) get home. These same people would rather believe that it is harder to intercept their surfing habits, and that there isn't infrastucture in place to be used at a moments notice.
Although they perform different functions, IE is to Windows what bash is to Linux.
That is an interesting comment. I don't have a problem with IE installed by default, and I don't like IE. However I don't like the sledge hammer approach to integration. I think this is the vendor's main complaint.
It is also worth checking out IEI. Check out the embeded single board computers. Embeded SBC There is quite a variety of socket370, transmeta, and NS Geode boards. For ordering boards in Canada contact Tri-M. Not all boards are listed on the website but most are listed in the pdf price list(in USD). I have not ordered anything from these guys yet. I am considering a ISS-102R-300 board, with 3 ethernet, and NS Geode 300mhz, for $275 USD. Or possibly one of the compact socket 370 boards.
Also, why is it necesary to copy MS's combination of email, group messaging, and calendaring in a single app?
You probably want atleast the email and calendaring closely coupled if not the same app. If I arrange a meeting an email is sent to all those invited. Those reading the email are given the option of accepting or rejecting the meeting. If accepted the meeting is automagically added to the readers calendar. I have used a couple of different calendaring systems. Those systems that work and are actually used have email and calendaring somehow integrated. Complete systems like this only make sense in an office type environment. Until you have worked in such an environment it is hard to understand why exchange is so popular.
<aside> There is often talk of the next killer-app. Email is the basic killer-app of the Internet. Usenet and instant messageing are extentions of email. Calendaring *was* the next killer-app but no one noticed. I don't even think MS understands what makes exchange so popular. If MS is smart the next app they will included in Exchange is a proper multi-author versioning system similar to their current version system (SourceSafe??). That too will be killer. None of this is even close to new. A system like this already exists on IBM big iron. I understand that Lotus Notes does this as well. These are all bussiness killer apps. If you want to really replace Exchange you need all of this. Add an LDAP contact sheet, and input forms and you will have some killer software. The pieces are all there, it just needs a group of dedicated coders to put it all together. </aside>
I used to agree with you 100%. But after seeing several people swoon over tabbed browseing I decided to force myself to use tabs for a week to see what I was missing. Tabs rock. Try them out for a while.
Specifically try: load links in backrgound, bind middle click or control click to open new tab.
Queen's... definitely up there with Waterloo and U of T as far as the quality of engineering goes.
That is my point exactly. All Canadian engineering schools are right up there with UofT. Although UofT is usually rated as the best overall, UofT is not the best in all fields.
UofT is an excellent school. But for engineering all Canadian schools (that offer engineering, 40+) are good. Due to the strict accreditation standards, from a high level all the schools are very similar. And believe it or not are right up there with the best from the USA. There is a big "however." Each school does somethings better: have different programs, better teachers/funding for field X, etc. Personally I prefer the smaller class size you will find at the smaller Unis. My graduateing year had 300 students across all fields.
For those considering Engineering in Canada, do not get too hung up on which school is best for you. It is good to find a school that you will like, but not worth stressing over. In the end, regardless of where you go, the best the profs can hope to achieve is to expose you to enough topics that you will know enough to find and read the correct book. All the Canadian schools achieve this goal.
The 9000 is actually the sucessor to the 7000 line. The 8500 is faster and more expensive then the 9000. There will be a 9500 as is mentioned on the Anandtech site. The numbering is confussing. Typical. Recall GForce4-MX cards from Nvidia.
There was more to the test then just test driving. The vendor worked with us to find the appropriate system. At the time it came down to dual Pents, or dual Xeons, a gig of ram, and a big disk. A SCSI system was tested as was an IDE. The IDE drive won, as disk space was an issue, not disk speed. I believe a gig of ram was the best you could get at the time without going into really big bucks. The only real question was if the Xeon was going to be fast enough to make a difference and justify the cost.
He is a lucky git. CG animation is a great job if you can handle the life style. Most of his work is short contracts and in different cities. It is mostly tv and some movie post production. Some times he gets to live at home and visit with the client every other week. For other jobs he moves closer to the client.
I agree with you. The best part of travelling around to band meets was meeting all the people and running wild after ditching the chaperones. Then agian daddy might be scared that his little boy (only 1 year short of an adult!) will get into trouble. It is a foolish worry. As with anything that takes dedication to do well the other kids are all going to be pretty clean cut as they don't have time between pratices to get into real trouble. We still got into trouble, but it was all minor nuisance stuff:-)
On a more serious note travelling away from home can be an excellent opportunity to learn some real life skills. As a group, those of us who toured around tended to be more mature, self reliant or independant, and more out going then our peers. I think encourageing your son to sit in the hotel room and play video games is just wrong. Instead this kid should be encouraged to get out of the hotel room to see the town and meet his fencing peers.
Get a Pelican case as used by anyone who carries expensive electornics into the field includeing journalists world wide. These cases are a hard plastic shell lined with foam that you can easily cut to your needs. Find them at a camping goods shop, or better photography shop near you.
Believe it or not I have done this with 3D MAX. I was assisting a 3D MAX user purchase a workstation. We walked into a reasonably large shop told them he had 3k to burn and asked them what systems they had that we could easily setup to test. The first 2 shops said "no." The third was smarter and he bought a dual Xeon with gobs of ram, and a rediculous 21" monitor. (I suspect that the final bill, which I did not handle, was more than the 3k.) More importantly this shop bought repeat bussiness.
The trick is there was no "might buy." This guy was buying a system from the shop that was going to let him run some tests. It helped that the shop had a rackmount Xeon system that they were getting ready to deliver to another customer. But if they didn't we were willing to wait until they had some stuff worth testing. It was worth the shops time to install winnt, 3D MAX, and load the big models. The only caveat is that most shops won't have top of the line sitting around. Instead you have to test on the best they have and extrapolate. In your case a single test on an Athlon probably would have shown that it was top dog. Remeber that you already had a dual pent to test on.
This dosen't help you now, but next time you need a workstation consider making the sale conditional on a few tests. If you are buying a high end system you are a customer the vendor should want to work with. It is cliche: make the vendor work for the sale.
The simple truth is that I am tired of the iditos who make driving a life threatening experience.
The deeper truth is that through our North American view that driving a car on public roads in right, we have created unserviceable public transportation. We have made the car an intregal part of our lives. Millions of people around the world do no rely on a car and live happy, fullfilling lives to a standard of living as high or higher then ours.
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Fortunately planes still have pilots who do the actuall piloting of the plane.
I think the tool are are looking for is 'wget.'
a commonly uttered truism here that you need to be working for at least 1 1/2 years to be able to actually say you KNOW what you're doing
:-)
So you are saying it is easy stuff then? I did a full 2 years at a manufactureing plant. When I left the only thing I really knew was my narrow field of functional test enginerring. Sure I knew of the other types of tests and the process of making a computer. But I would never say I KNEW what I was doing.
Like the rest of my dept I was just faking it and hopeing no one would really notice.
Remember CBC ... aims for a wide audience, so pr0n is not mentioned.
Which CBC are you talking about?? Would this be the CBC that didn't censor Kid's in the Hall ever? The CBC that has no problem portraying sex durring prime time? The CBC that did a rather graphic expose of pay-per-view hard core porn. Or is this some other CBC that I haven't heard about?
The CBC is one of the most permissive of all the big broadcast networks in North America. Edged out by CITY (in Toronto) and who can forget Blue Nuit on TQS. And before you Euros get all upity: yes CBC is pretty prudish by European standards. Yes, it is sad.
After reading the article it is obvious that news.com's Declan McCullagh didn't read the discussion draft either.
Before you write, read. Read the whole discuss paper. The paper covers many different areas not covered in the news article. Some parts, such as the intercept proposals, aren't acceptable. Other parts of the paper make a lot of sense.
For example read the section on Interception of Email. The gist of this section is that email interception can and has fallen under two conflicting sections of the Criminal Code. In some cases a judge ruled that the email was a private communication and subject to those laws. In another case a judge ruled that email was subject to the less onerous search and seizure laws. The criminal code is not clear on the matter. So the discussion paper simply asks 3 questions:
* should there be a specific provision in the Criminal Code in relation to how an e-mail should be acquired?
* if such a provision should be included, what kind of procedural safeguards should be imposed?
* should the type of order to be obtained in order to acquire an e-mail vary depending on the stage of the communication or delivery process?
These are three important questions! How do you want your email protected under the Criminal Code and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The Dept of Justice is asking for your inpupt on these and other important questions regarding your privacy.
Read the whole paper and send send in your opinions. You do not need to comment on all sections. Specify which section your comments reference. Be clear. Check your spelling (unlike me). Check your grammar. Reread what your wrote. Wait a day after writeing before sending (from some sober second thought).
draft
Note "subject to a lawful authority to intercept." This indicates that a court order would be required prior to the interception and collection of any data as per The Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
I believe that your arguement under para 2.b is probably valid.
At any rate this draft will not become law. It won't even make it to a draft bill. Canadians won't stomach it. Ask anyone who does tech support and they will tell you that they often recieve calls from older men (and teenaged boys) asking how to clear the Netscape URL drop down menu before the wife (or parents) get home. These same people would rather believe that it is harder to intercept their surfing habits, and that there isn't infrastucture in place to be used at a moments notice.
It is a rare talent that can recognize when it is time to move on.
there is tax for this service
That would be the 'S' in GST.
Although they perform different functions, IE is to Windows what bash is to Linux.
That is an interesting comment. I don't have a problem with IE installed by default, and I don't like IE. However I don't like the sledge hammer approach to integration. I think this is the vendor's main complaint.
It is also worth checking out IEI. Check out the embeded single board computers. Embeded SBC There is quite a variety of socket370, transmeta, and NS Geode boards. For ordering boards in Canada contact Tri-M. Not all boards are listed on the website but most are listed in the pdf price list(in USD). I have not ordered anything from these guys yet. I am considering a ISS-102R-300 board, with 3 ethernet, and NS Geode 300mhz, for $275 USD. Or possibly one of the compact socket 370 boards.
There are still a number of groups that are mostly spam free. (and the ocational bonus good'ol flame war!) rec.aquaria is generally spam free.
Also, why is it necesary to copy MS's combination of email, group messaging, and calendaring in a single app?
You probably want atleast the email and calendaring closely coupled if not the same app. If I arrange a meeting an email is sent to all those invited. Those reading the email are given the option of accepting or rejecting the meeting. If accepted the meeting is automagically added to the readers calendar. I have used a couple of different calendaring systems. Those systems that work and are actually used have email and calendaring somehow integrated. Complete systems like this only make sense in an office type environment. Until you have worked in such an environment it is hard to understand why exchange is so popular.
<aside>
There is often talk of the next killer-app. Email is the basic killer-app of the Internet. Usenet and instant messageing are extentions of email. Calendaring *was* the next killer-app but no one noticed. I don't even think MS understands what makes exchange so popular. If MS is smart the next app they will included in Exchange is a proper multi-author versioning system similar to their current version system (SourceSafe??). That too will be killer. None of this is even close to new. A system like this already exists on IBM big iron. I understand that Lotus Notes does this as well. These are all bussiness killer apps. If you want to really replace Exchange you need all of this. Add an LDAP contact sheet, and input forms and you will have some killer software. The pieces are all there, it just needs a group of dedicated coders to put it all together.
</aside>
I used to agree with you 100%. But after seeing several people swoon over tabbed browseing I decided to force myself to use tabs for a week to see what I was missing. Tabs rock. Try them out for a while.
Specifically try: load links in backrgound, bind middle click or control click to open new tab.
Queen's ... definitely up there with Waterloo and U of T as far as the quality of engineering goes.
That is my point exactly. All Canadian engineering schools are right up there with UofT. Although UofT is usually rated as the best overall, UofT is not the best in all fields.
The original quote is "Vasser bashing." It is a reocurring theme on The Simpsons.
UofT is an excellent school. But for engineering all Canadian schools (that offer engineering, 40+) are good. Due to the strict accreditation standards, from a high level all the schools are very similar. And believe it or not are right up there with the best from the USA. There is a big "however." Each school does somethings better: have different programs, better teachers/funding for field X, etc. Personally I prefer the smaller class size you will find at the smaller Unis. My graduateing year had 300 students across all fields.
For those considering Engineering in Canada, do not get too hung up on which school is best for you. It is good to find a school that you will like, but not worth stressing over. In the end, regardless of where you go, the best the profs can hope to achieve is to expose you to enough topics that you will know enough to find and read the correct book. All the Canadian schools achieve this goal.
The 9000 is actually the sucessor to the 7000 line. The 8500 is faster and more expensive then the 9000. There will be a 9500 as is mentioned on the Anandtech site. The numbering is confussing. Typical. Recall GForce4-MX cards from Nvidia.
Sorry, I was a trumpeter.
There was more to the test then just test driving. The vendor worked with us to find the appropriate system. At the time it came down to dual Pents, or dual Xeons, a gig of ram, and a big disk. A SCSI system was tested as was an IDE. The IDE drive won, as disk space was an issue, not disk speed. I believe a gig of ram was the best you could get at the time without going into really big bucks. The only real question was if the Xeon was going to be fast enough to make a difference and justify the cost.
He is a lucky git. CG animation is a great job if you can handle the life style. Most of his work is short contracts and in different cities. It is mostly tv and some movie post production. Some times he gets to live at home and visit with the client every other week. For other jobs he moves closer to the client.
I agree with you. The best part of travelling around to band meets was meeting all the people and running wild after ditching the chaperones. Then agian daddy might be scared that his little boy (only 1 year short of an adult!) will get into trouble. It is a foolish worry. As with anything that takes dedication to do well the other kids are all going to be pretty clean cut as they don't have time between pratices to get into real trouble. We still got into trouble, but it was all minor nuisance stuff :-)
On a more serious note travelling away from home can be an excellent opportunity to learn some real life skills. As a group, those of us who toured around tended to be more mature, self reliant or independant, and more out going then our peers. I think encourageing your son to sit in the hotel room and play video games is just wrong. Instead this kid should be encouraged to get out of the hotel room to see the town and meet his fencing peers.
Get a Pelican case as used by anyone who carries expensive electornics into the field includeing journalists world wide. These cases are a hard plastic shell lined with foam that you can easily cut to your needs. Find them at a camping goods shop, or better photography shop near you.
Believe it or not I have done this with 3D MAX. I was assisting a 3D MAX user purchase a workstation. We walked into a reasonably large shop told them he had 3k to burn and asked them what systems they had that we could easily setup to test. The first 2 shops said "no." The third was smarter and he bought a dual Xeon with gobs of ram, and a rediculous 21" monitor. (I suspect that the final bill, which I did not handle, was more than the 3k.) More importantly this shop bought repeat bussiness.
The trick is there was no "might buy." This guy was buying a system from the shop that was going to let him run some tests. It helped that the shop had a rackmount Xeon system that they were getting ready to deliver to another customer. But if they didn't we were willing to wait until they had some stuff worth testing. It was worth the shops time to install winnt, 3D MAX, and load the big models. The only caveat is that most shops won't have top of the line sitting around. Instead you have to test on the best they have and extrapolate. In your case a single test on an Athlon probably would have shown that it was top dog. Remeber that you already had a dual pent to test on.
This dosen't help you now, but next time you need a workstation consider making the sale conditional on a few tests. If you are buying a high end system you are a customer the vendor should want to work with. It is cliche: make the vendor work for the sale.
The simple truth is that I am tired of the iditos who make driving a life threatening experience.
The deeper truth is that through our North American view that driving a car on public roads in right, we have created unserviceable public transportation. We have made the car an intregal part of our lives. Millions of people around the world do no rely on a car and live happy, fullfilling lives to a standard of living as high or higher then ours.