So, in summary, Canada is NOT A HAVEN from this stupidity. All politicians are for sale, American or Canadian.
Fine. You can just give up, like the coward you are. I, on the other hand, will put some effort into fighting the CPDCI.
You know, effort? Such as writing to my MP, the Ministries involved, the PM, the opposition leaders?
I haven't heard the fat lady yet.
Perhaps a hundred thousand techies meeting on Capitol Hill with portable paper shredders, simultaneously running their various pieces of citizenship documentation through the shredders, lighting the piles of paper on fire and pissing on the ashes?;)
If I were American, I'd be thinking about emigration at this point.
Traditionally we Canadians love needling Americans like a younger sibling needles their big sibling, but in all honesty, anyone who wants to settle down north of the 49th will be welcomed with open arms.
That reminds me of an episode of Gundam Wing. Heero Yui is crawling around an equipment conduit, and the viewer sees a panel marked, in english, "Intel Outside".
As has been said many times already among these responses, there is no reason to use USB 2.0 when FireWire exists.
Yes, there is a reason to use USB2. As far as I know, USB devices won't work on a Firewire port, and will work on USB2 ports. In effect, USB2 will already have it's user base, and Firewire will have to build one up.
Firewire may be a superior technology, but customers will find USB2 more convenient because they've already got the peripherals to go with it. Firewire will remain a high-end professional video tool and nothing more.
Of course, if you'd be willing to show me lots of PC owners who are eager to buy expensive new Firewire peripherals to replace their expensive old USB peripherals, I might change my mind.:)
I don't understand this obession with fonts that some people have. Fonts are a minor concern, except to hardcore graphic designers. Give Linux near-total hardware support and racks full of working-out-of-the-box software at the local Staples or Best Buy, and people will use it.
Every time I discuss Linux with a non-Linux user, they ask about hardware and software. They don't ask the bloody fonts.
Ugly text in X? I've tried KDE 2.2, both with and without anti-aliased fonts, and I can't tell the difference. To me, X looks no better with anti-aliasing. Or are you going to blame my monitor resolution (1280x1024x32 on a 17", a typical user's setup) or my eyesight (20/17, better than normal), or are you just going to attack my lack of aesthetic sensiblities?
Come on, I want a link to studies demonstrating that normal users can (A) tell the difference and (B) care about the difference.
Can you prove your assertions?
(Ah, I love the smell of a flamewar in the morning... ^_^)
IMHO, Fonts are a royal pain, and the main reason more people don't adopt Linux.
Wow! And for all this time I thought it was silly little things like hardware support or getting companies to write applications for it or getting installation to be fast and painless or some tiny little concerns like that.
All this time it was the fonts! My god, you're a genius! I wish I was as insightful as you!
What, like a phone book? The kind that's in every house, office and phone booth?
Palm Advantage 2: Less to Lose
Let's see, if I lose a Palm, I'd lose a very expensive piece of equipment. If I lose a notepad, I've lost about a buck worth of paper. As for backing up data, just keep two notepads with the same info. One at home, one with you.
Palm Advantage 3: Multiple Alarms
A more useful feature, but still not worth the hefty price.
Palm Advantage 4: Rescheduling
Need to change an entry? How about using (gasp!) a pencil?
Palm Advantage 5: Repeating Events
No way does it take hours to write a few lines of text in several different date entries.
Palm Advantage 6: Categories
Gee, it's too bad I never thought of writing out descriptive headers on paper. I could have patented it.
Palm Advantage 7: Other Built-in Applications
All of these functions can be either duplicated by a cheap cellphone, cheap paper pad or cheap digital watch. And the email-through-hotsync feature? If you need to be at your desktop to use the email feature anyway, what's the big advantage?
Palm Advantage 8: Third Party Applications
Ah, the stuff that's actually interesting. Genuine word processing, spreadsheets, interactive programs. Much more useful, but still limited by the screen size and interface.
Maybe I'm just in the wrong target market, but I don't really see how many of these features can't be duplicated by a paper pad for about a thousandth of the cost. The use of a handheld as an actual computer is far more interesting, but still not worth the price. I might get one in a few years when they're more capable and cheaper, though.
Not just the CBC. CTV also had a pretty fun time with Stockwell's problems. On the whole, I'll trust CTV a bit more ( certainly not completely:) ) than the CBC with political stuff.
For you, probably the answer would be: no. If you're mostly into just sci-fi, then most any fantasy, including Tolkien, will probably fail to excite you.
I can only speak for myself as a sci-fi fan, but I what I always disliked about fantasy was how unoriginal most of it was. I've tried reading lots of fantasy books from the local library, but almost all of them read like D&D campaigns gone horribly wrong. I love LOTR, but not much else in fantasy. Is there any newer fantasy that's really original? Something besides the "group of overpowered heroes slaughter orcs and save the world" kind of stuff?
I'd really like to read something better.
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Oh, you've visited Canada recently?
Politicians here don't fear pissing off CEOs as much as they fear pissing off reporters. Witness the media versus Brian Mulroney.
So, in summary, Canada is NOT A HAVEN from this stupidity. All politicians are for sale, American or Canadian.
Fine. You can just give up, like the coward you are. I, on the other hand, will put some effort into fighting the CPDCI. You know, effort? Such as writing to my MP, the Ministries involved, the PM, the opposition leaders? I haven't heard the fat lady yet.
In conclusion, fuck you, and have a nice day.
Perhaps a hundred thousand techies meeting on Capitol Hill with portable paper shredders, simultaneously running their various pieces of citizenship documentation through the shredders, lighting the piles of paper on fire and pissing on the ashes? ;)
If I were American, I'd be thinking about emigration at this point.
Traditionally we Canadians love needling Americans like a younger sibling needles their big sibling, but in all honesty, anyone who wants to settle down north of the 49th will be welcomed with open arms.
After all, it's not the first time.
Do you have funn being a killjoy? You're like the guy who yells out to a crowd exactly what a stage magician is doing.
Just sit back and enjoy the show, dude.
my remaining options are perl, tcl or awk.... hmmm.
Hail to the king, baby.
That reminds me of an episode of Gundam Wing. Heero Yui is crawling around an equipment conduit, and the viewer sees a panel marked, in english, "Intel Outside".
Yeah, but what Kirk had is equivalent to a satellite phone, not a cellular phone.
Why not the LOC itself? Surely they've got the knowledge to make this kind of thing work.
As has been said many times already among these responses, there is no reason to use USB 2.0 when FireWire exists.
Yes, there is a reason to use USB2. As far as I know, USB devices won't work on a Firewire port, and will work on USB2 ports. In effect, USB2 will already have it's user base, and Firewire will have to build one up.
Firewire may be a superior technology, but customers will find USB2 more convenient because they've already got the peripherals to go with it. Firewire will remain a high-end professional video tool and nothing more.
Of course, if you'd be willing to show me lots of PC owners who are eager to buy expensive new Firewire peripherals to replace their expensive old USB peripherals, I might change my mind. :)
This is why email clients with send queues are useful.
Why would you call the best browser out there a fiasco?
No, this is the best browser.
I don't understand this obession with fonts that some people have. Fonts are a minor concern, except to hardcore graphic designers. Give Linux near-total hardware support and racks full of working-out-of-the-box software at the local Staples or Best Buy, and people will use it.
Every time I discuss Linux with a non-Linux user, they ask about hardware and software. They don't ask the bloody fonts.
Ugly text in X? I've tried KDE 2.2, both with and without anti-aliased fonts, and I can't tell the difference. To me, X looks no better with anti-aliasing. Or are you going to blame my monitor resolution (1280x1024x32 on a 17", a typical user's setup) or my eyesight (20/17, better than normal), or are you just going to attack my lack of aesthetic sensiblities?
Come on, I want a link to studies demonstrating that normal users can (A) tell the difference and (B) care about the difference. Can you prove your assertions?
(Ah, I love the smell of a flamewar in the morning... ^_^)
IMHO, Fonts are a royal pain, and the main reason more people don't adopt Linux.
Wow! And for all this time I thought it was silly little things like hardware support or getting companies to write applications for it or getting installation to be fast and painless or some tiny little concerns like that.
All this time it was the fonts! My god, you're a genius! I wish I was as insightful as you!
Just imagine, technology to survive nuclear bombings (copying the survival instincts of the roaches)..
Just, whatever you do, don't let the first of this new race become a teacher at Emperor High School. It'll lead to nothing but trouble.
In another article, I had said that PDAs were pretty much useless.
I take it all back. :)
USENET is not a file-transferring medium; it's meant for discussion in plain/text and nothing else.
Who are you to decide that? Usenet is whatever an individual Usenet user decides to do with it.
This reads like a script of a Voyager episode. You just need to modulate something metaphasic and it would be perfect.
You have got to be kidding me.
Palm Advantage 1: The Find Feature
What, like a phone book? The kind that's in every house, office and phone booth?
Palm Advantage 2: Less to Lose
Let's see, if I lose a Palm, I'd lose a very expensive piece of equipment. If I lose a notepad, I've lost about a buck worth of paper. As for backing up data, just keep two notepads with the same info. One at home, one with you.
Palm Advantage 3: Multiple Alarms
A more useful feature, but still not worth the hefty price.
Palm Advantage 4: Rescheduling
Need to change an entry? How about using (gasp!) a pencil?
Palm Advantage 5: Repeating Events
No way does it take hours to write a few lines of text in several different date entries.
Palm Advantage 6: Categories
Gee, it's too bad I never thought of writing out descriptive headers on paper. I could have patented it.
Palm Advantage 7: Other Built-in Applications
All of these functions can be either duplicated by a cheap cellphone, cheap paper pad or cheap digital watch. And the email-through-hotsync feature? If you need to be at your desktop to use the email feature anyway, what's the big advantage?
Palm Advantage 8: Third Party Applications
Ah, the stuff that's actually interesting. Genuine word processing, spreadsheets, interactive programs. Much more useful, but still limited by the screen size and interface.
Maybe I'm just in the wrong target market, but I don't really see how many of these features can't be duplicated by a paper pad for about a thousandth of the cost. The use of a handheld as an actual computer is far more interesting, but still not worth the price. I might get one in a few years when they're more capable and cheaper, though.
I've been thinking about getting a handheld of some type, and I have a question.
What can one do for me that a notepad, a pen, and a cellphone can't do for considerably less money?
Oh *please*. Slashdot at -1 is like a cross between a kindergarten, a federal prison and a mental institution. No thanks.
Yeah, but isn't that what makes it so much fun?
Not just the CBC. CTV also had a pretty fun time with Stockwell's problems. On the whole, I'll trust CTV a bit more ( certainly not completely :) ) than the CBC with political stuff.
Cool, I'll give them a try. Thanks.
For you, probably the answer would be: no. If you're mostly into just sci-fi, then most any fantasy, including Tolkien, will probably fail to excite you.
I can only speak for myself as a sci-fi fan, but I what I always disliked about fantasy was how unoriginal most of it was. I've tried reading lots of fantasy books from the local library, but almost all of them read like D&D campaigns gone horribly wrong. I love LOTR, but not much else in fantasy. Is there any newer fantasy that's really original? Something besides the "group of overpowered heroes slaughter orcs and save the world" kind of stuff? I'd really like to read something better.
Funny thing is, Foundation won a Hugo for "Best Trilogy" in 1966, and Lord of the Rings was its only contender in that category. :)
:)
I dearly love both, and personally can't imagine putting one above the other, so don't think I'm flaming.