How many taxicabs do you see that are new enough to be hybrid?
Ottawa, ON recently passed a law that all cabs have to be less than 5 years old. As you can imagine this prompted rotating random taxi strikes. It was a bad scene.
V2 Records is now their record label, started in 96 after Branson's non-compete clause expired.
So what you're saying is they Virgin as a whole still DOES own a record label, although they might not BE one per se, and its not that business unit doing the suing.
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In a scheme like that, you could have a static IP and not have a static IP at the same time.:-) Or maybe I'm just nuts. Hard to say.
You're not nuts, that's just absolutely not how IPv6 could ever work. Try talking to people about v7 or v8 and some of what you mention may be feasible.
My Canadian co-workers warned me to specify "no gravy" when ordering a meal, and sure enough, it was a standard at just about every chain, with the exception of an Outback steakhouse.
I really want to know what chains you went to in Ottawa, becuase I live here and gravy usually costs extra, unless they ask you first.
I did encounter a pub the other day that offers "pickles" as one of their sides, and it was just 3 sliced pickles in a mug! Awesome.
To add insult to "progression" we get a GST rebate based on taxable income. The more taxable income you have the bigger the rebate.
As someone else pointed out this is not quite true. The GST rebate actually works like an inverted U, as you make more (up to about $15k) you get more because you're spending more (and therefore paying more GST). Then as you start making even more (above around $25k) you start getting less, because you need the break less. And you actually get $56 every four months even if you're making 0 dollars, according to this.
Personally I think this makes a whole lot of sense. And I was pleasantly surprised to discover my amount going up as I got better co-op jobs.
It's in cash, in a series of banks somewhere. Although Microsoft isn't spending it themselves, it is creating the capital backing that allows others to borrow and spend.
But (as many others have pointed out), wouldn't it be much better if they actually bought things from people, or (better still) paid people that money? Thereby transferring actual wealth to these people, rather than leading them into interest slavery?
I, for one, don't want to be on the debt end of the stick when Microsoft finally collapses and starts to call in all those billions in liquid assets. I don't see how you can say that would be anything but a bad scene for the economy.
Unless Bill puts his money underneath his mattress, or buries it in the back yard, then the money is out in the economic system.
I'd agree with you, and am a big fan of that notion, but the problem is that Microsoft keeps the large majority of their reserves as cash. Which just fucks everything up. They need to start investing/spending.
This might be viable, except AMD64 doesn't have "Hyper-Threading" so it can't actually run 2 threads simultaneously.
That wasn't my point. My point is context switches happen many, many, many times a second, especially on single threaded processors. The point is if instead of having one set of AX/BX/etc/etc you have multiple ones you can switch between depending on the context, that's a huge win. Rather than copying in and out every time.
The "more registers" are not accessible by 32-bit applications.
I thought one of the improvements was there were multiple copies of the basic set of 32-bit registers, so different threads wouldn't have to push each other out on a swap?
I've already graduated (B.Sc. in computer science from Rose-Hulman, not like that'll help me find a job in northeast Indiana), and I'm too deep in loan debt to go back for my master's. Is there anything else interesting that I don't have to pay my entire allowance for?
You can probably access library computers with your alumni card, I imagine?
Much of the most recent IEEE Spectrum (like Wired, The Globe and Mail, and any number of good print pulications) post their stuff online. I still haven't gotten around to finishing Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Mother Board article yet. In typical Stephenson fashion it's huge. And in this case, free.
After all, how many CEOs in corporate America have engineering and/or scientific degress?
I apologize that I don't have the source, but I've often heard it quoted that 50% of Fortune 500 CEOs have engineering degrees. Many of them probably have MBAs as well, but engineering is a solid start.
Driving to a book store, standing around looking at covers and forking over a few bucks for something you can find in a Google search seems less intelligent to anyone with half a mind. Slower people might think it's more intelligent to waste your time doing this stuff, but that's not saying much.
Did it occur to you that some people actually ENJOY the act of going to the book store, looking at covers, browsing hundreds of spines visually in minutes by genre, etc.?? I love going to record stores for the same reason. Sure I more often that not order online, but actual, physicaly browsing of a giant media library is an activity I enjoy.
Hell, the last few times I've been home a fellow poor student and I have ended up going out and hanging out at bookstores, making fun of the shitty books on the mass market tables, using her gift card at the in-store coffee house and chatting.
I'd say the time I spent online trying to train Amazon to my interests was much more of a 'waste' of time, because it didn't tell me a hell of a lot I didn't already know.
Unless by "the Internet" you mean web bookstores, then copyright keeps the web from having anything published recently by a "reputable" source until after you are dead and buried. Pick two of recent, reputable, and readable on the Web.
If you're in a University, you probably have access to IEEE Xplore. Hundreds of thousands of reputable, up to date journal articles and conference proceedings. And student membership is quite reasonable as well.
But iTunes' burning AAC files to CD should be considered lossless--the resulting CD audio file is identical to the waveform generated when the AAC is decompressed and played.
Aren't AAC files 48 kHz?? CDs are most definitely 44.1 kHz, so there's some possible data loss.
Your analogy about water is irrelevant because water is not an element. Yes, you are correct, but no, the grandparent was not incorrect. Although he was less general.
Imagine if there were a few dozen channels willing to experiment on high talent, low-budget programming-- the "bush leagues" of TV, I guess, or the equivalent of a band touring underground clubs before hitting the big time.
It's getting more and more rare, but some shows still come up through local public access. Tom Green started out on Ottawa public access. Whether you consider him high talent is another matter.:)
Not if somebody else installed the machine for you. Like my friend who built my first one. Or the other members of the MIS committee at work
i.e. the people who should be maintaining the system for you, then?? At most workplaces if you're not a developer you're not allowed to do updates yourself, and if you are you should know enough to look up command syntax.
That extra two seconds for my connection is sleep time, nothing else.
For who, for you? For them that's an extra 2 seconds they're not getting paid for a busy line/chunk of spectrum, times N thousand customers. And that's bad business. They may be working on it, but they WILL charge you.
How long a delay do you think it would add? One second, mostly of waiting for a response? Maybe two seconds? I'm willing to wait an extra two seconds. It already takes 30+ seconds to connect to the Philippines. 32 seconds won't kill me.
Just think about that for a second. You're talking about a 10% increase in connect time, and therefore the connection equipment would need to be 10% more powerful, or be occupied 10% longer, which means you'd need 10% more equipment everywhere, as you can't just selectively choose where to implement this.
It's not that it's infeasible or that expensive to do on one switch, for a few users. But the phone network is a massive, complex beast, with an absolutely unfathomable amount of equipment that would need to be upgraded. And you want this for free? Fat chance.
Someone actually mentioned elsewhere in the discussion that their service provider was offering a 25 number whitelist for $3.95/month. That sounds reasonable. Then again, so does not using IE and not worrying about it.
No good excuse for that, either. It's hard to believe they can't have that level of granularity.
Uhhh...there's lots of good reasons for that. Either they'd have to install something physical on your phone (not likely), or else they'd have to check every outgoing call against a list of valid/invalid numbers.
Imagine how big that database would be! And how long it would take to search. And how expensive that would be. Maybe you should just keep a better eye on your phone if you're so worried.
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How many taxicabs do you see that are new enough to be hybrid?
Ottawa, ON recently passed a law that all cabs have to be less than 5 years old. As you can imagine this prompted rotating random taxi strikes. It was a bad scene.
V2 Records is now their record label, started in 96 after Branson's non-compete clause expired.
So what you're saying is they Virgin as a whole still DOES own a record label, although they might not BE one per se, and its not that business unit doing the suing.
In a scheme like that, you could have a static IP and not have a static IP at the same time. :-) Or maybe I'm just nuts. Hard to say.
You're not nuts, that's just absolutely not how IPv6 could ever work. Try talking to people about v7 or v8 and some of what you mention may be feasible.
My Canadian co-workers warned me to specify "no gravy" when ordering a meal, and sure enough, it was a standard at just about every chain, with the exception of an Outback steakhouse.
I really want to know what chains you went to in Ottawa, becuase I live here and gravy usually costs extra, unless they ask you first.
I did encounter a pub the other day that offers "pickles" as one of their sides, and it was just 3 sliced pickles in a mug! Awesome.
To add insult to "progression" we get a GST rebate based on taxable income. The more taxable income you have the bigger the rebate.
As someone else pointed out this is not quite true. The GST rebate actually works like an inverted U, as you make more (up to about $15k) you get more because you're spending more (and therefore paying more GST). Then as you start making even more (above around $25k) you start getting less, because you need the break less. And you actually get $56 every four months even if you're making 0 dollars, according to this.
Personally I think this makes a whole lot of sense. And I was pleasantly surprised to discover my amount going up as I got better co-op jobs.
Convergus in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (geographic centre of North America)
Isn't the geographic centre of North America Rugby, North Dakota? Or are you not counting Mexico or something?
The loss of the avro arrow is the reason we don't have a military?
I believe his point was that it's the reason we don't have a military industry. Which is not quite the same thing but definitely linked.
It's in cash, in a series of banks somewhere. Although Microsoft isn't spending it themselves, it is creating the capital backing that allows others to borrow and spend.
But (as many others have pointed out), wouldn't it be much better if they actually bought things from people, or (better still) paid people that money? Thereby transferring actual wealth to these people, rather than leading them into interest slavery?
I, for one, don't want to be on the debt end of the stick when Microsoft finally collapses and starts to call in all those billions in liquid assets. I don't see how you can say that would be anything but a bad scene for the economy.
Unless Bill puts his money underneath his mattress, or buries it in the back yard, then the money is out in the economic system.
I'd agree with you, and am a big fan of that notion, but the problem is that Microsoft keeps the large majority of their reserves as cash. Which just fucks everything up. They need to start investing/spending.
Not to detract from the funny, but from what I've heard the multiplayer is going to be co-op only, for whatever bizarre reason. Quake 4, anybody?
This might be viable, except AMD64 doesn't have "Hyper-Threading" so it can't actually run 2 threads simultaneously.
That wasn't my point. My point is context switches happen many, many, many times a second, especially on single threaded processors. The point is if instead of having one set of AX/BX/etc/etc you have multiple ones you can switch between depending on the context, that's a huge win. Rather than copying in and out every time.
The "more registers" are not accessible by 32-bit applications.
I thought one of the improvements was there were multiple copies of the basic set of 32-bit registers, so different threads wouldn't have to push each other out on a swap?
I've already graduated (B.Sc. in computer science from Rose-Hulman, not like that'll help me find a job in northeast Indiana), and I'm too deep in loan debt to go back for my master's. Is there anything else interesting that I don't have to pay my entire allowance for?
You can probably access library computers with your alumni card, I imagine?
Much of the most recent IEEE Spectrum (like Wired, The Globe and Mail, and any number of good print pulications) post their stuff online. I still haven't gotten around to finishing Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Mother Board article yet. In typical Stephenson fashion it's huge. And in this case, free.
After all, how many CEOs in corporate America have engineering and/or scientific degress?
I apologize that I don't have the source, but I've often heard it quoted that 50% of Fortune 500 CEOs have engineering degrees. Many of them probably have MBAs as well, but engineering is a solid start.
In fact they are indeed giving money but it is only an illusion.
Do you know the defintion of the world illusion? If they're ACTUALLY giving money to schools how is that an illusion?
Driving to a book store, standing around looking at covers and forking over a few bucks for something you can find in a Google search seems less intelligent to anyone with half a mind. Slower people might think it's more intelligent to waste your time doing this stuff, but that's not saying much.
Did it occur to you that some people actually ENJOY the act of going to the book store, looking at covers, browsing hundreds of spines visually in minutes by genre, etc.?? I love going to record stores for the same reason. Sure I more often that not order online, but actual, physicaly browsing of a giant media library is an activity I enjoy.
Hell, the last few times I've been home a fellow poor student and I have ended up going out and hanging out at bookstores, making fun of the shitty books on the mass market tables, using her gift card at the in-store coffee house and chatting.
I'd say the time I spent online trying to train Amazon to my interests was much more of a 'waste' of time, because it didn't tell me a hell of a lot I didn't already know.
Unless by "the Internet" you mean web bookstores, then copyright keeps the web from having anything published recently by a "reputable" source until after you are dead and buried. Pick two of recent, reputable, and readable on the Web.
If you're in a University, you probably have access to IEEE Xplore. Hundreds of thousands of reputable, up to date journal articles and conference proceedings. And student membership is quite reasonable as well.
But iTunes' burning AAC files to CD should be considered lossless--the resulting CD audio file is identical to the waveform generated when the AAC is decompressed and played.
Aren't AAC files 48 kHz?? CDs are most definitely 44.1 kHz, so there's some possible data loss.
the number of atoms in a mole of an element.
Its actually the numer of particles per mole
Your analogy about water is irrelevant because water is not an element. Yes, you are correct, but no, the grandparent was not incorrect. Although he was less general.
Imagine if there were a few dozen channels willing to experiment on high talent, low-budget programming-- the "bush leagues" of TV, I guess, or the equivalent of a band touring underground clubs before hitting the big time.
:)
It's getting more and more rare, but some shows still come up through local public access. Tom Green started out on Ottawa public access. Whether you consider him high talent is another matter.
Not if somebody else installed the machine for you. Like my friend who built my first one. Or the other members of the MIS committee at work
i.e. the people who should be maintaining the system for you, then?? At most workplaces if you're not a developer you're not allowed to do updates yourself, and if you are you should know enough to look up command syntax.
That extra two seconds for my connection is sleep time, nothing else.
For who, for you? For them that's an extra 2 seconds they're not getting paid for a busy line/chunk of spectrum, times N thousand customers. And that's bad business. They may be working on it, but they WILL charge you.
How long a delay do you think it would add? One second, mostly of waiting for a response? Maybe two seconds? I'm willing to wait an extra two seconds. It already takes 30+ seconds to connect to the Philippines. 32 seconds won't kill me.
Just think about that for a second. You're talking about a 10% increase in connect time, and therefore the connection equipment would need to be 10% more powerful, or be occupied 10% longer, which means you'd need 10% more equipment everywhere, as you can't just selectively choose where to implement this.
It's not that it's infeasible or that expensive to do on one switch, for a few users. But the phone network is a massive, complex beast, with an absolutely unfathomable amount of equipment that would need to be upgraded. And you want this for free? Fat chance.
Someone actually mentioned elsewhere in the discussion that their service provider was offering a 25 number whitelist for $3.95/month. That sounds reasonable. Then again, so does not using IE and not worrying about it.
A binary search on a list of, say, ten items?
You're forgetting storage for hundreds of thousands of potentially roaming users. Non-trivial.
No good excuse for that, either. It's hard to believe they can't have that level of granularity.
Uhhh...there's lots of good reasons for that. Either they'd have to install something physical on your phone (not likely), or else they'd have to check every outgoing call against a list of valid/invalid numbers.
Imagine how big that database would be! And how long it would take to search. And how expensive that would be. Maybe you should just keep a better eye on your phone if you're so worried.