I see that A LOT of that kind of stuff. I tend to call it "Frankstein design" or "building by adding parts until you have a freak monster of an application"... It was a 10-line script at first (done for a one-time job) but with time, and stuff patched and ajusted, it became an important 10000 line application that drives the major financial database... No way to patch the thing because the last one who knew anything about it retired 3 years ago, and COBOL programmers aren't cheap these days...
is gone in Canada... They changed to "The Source/La Source"... The only store in Montreal that still sells anything close to Ham stuff is Active...
So the idea of buying a scanner, while a good idea, is almost impossible here... I haven't seen any in my entire life (except in auctions or HAM conventions)
At least inside the office, there was a feeling of "we're defending the artists!"
And that feeling is really nothing more than an illusion. You are really defending a bunch of shareholder. But than again, legaly, they are right: copying music is illegal... at least, until we find a better way to pay artist than distribuing cds. I would rather support groups like http://musiccreators.ca/ than a big Corp.
This Trojan is probably the brainchild of one individual among the RIAA/MPAA out to impress the Brass to get a promotion... or something... It has the signature of the same 'we-dont-get-tech' as before...
Good point. But I still don't understand why the entire system is biased toward electronic voting machine versus optical reading device...
Can anyone explain the enduring popularity of those voting machines despites the numerous flaws?
GNU tar has been around and available to just about every system known to man for well over a decade. I don't mean to be rude, but cope with modern technology.
# tar -z
tar: z: unknown option
tar: usage tar [-]{txruc}[eONvVwAfblhm{op}][0-7[lmh]] [tapefile] [blocksize] [[-C directory] file]...
The CD I used to install this machine is dated 2004.... some UNIX vendors prefer 'backward compatible' to 'modern technology'...
But hey, calling a 1-800 number can be quite fun, since they're paying for the call. May be fun to do an automated calling thing that calls, presses random numbers, speaks sloooooooowwwwwwlllllly...
Or simply call and put on hold...
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I agree, to an extent. I do make music despite the fact that I can't make money from it, because I enjoy the act of creation, and I agree that most musicians probably would continue to do so. I just don't think that a world where the only way to make music for a living is to perform it live will necessarily result in a better world.
Then, we, as a society, need to re-think the relation with have with our own artists. We need to re-think the extend of the copyright law. The technologies aren't going away... we have to learn to deal with them...
I see someinitiativesgoing in the right direction but I don't see them making a big chnage in the long run... I don't think it will stop the localconglomerate (among others) from taking most of the money from CD sells and leaving most of the artists with less money than a burger-flipper.:(
"The Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a post-war baby boom followed by a decrease in births as the country modernized in the latter part of the 20th century (notable aspects including the shift from agricultural to urban lifestyles and the increasing tendency for women to remain in the workplace). Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world (85.2 years for women and 78.3 years for men in 2002 [2]). By 2007, over 20% of the population will be over the age of 65. The changes in the demographic structure have created a number of social issues, particularly a potential decline in the workforce population and increases in the cost of social securities like the public pension plan.
The population started declining in 2005, as the 1.067 million births were exceeded by the 1.077 million deaths. Assuming current birth and death rates, the 2005 population of 128 million would decline to 100 million in 2050, and to 64 million in 2100. The main problem will be the financial crisis that comes from having a higher and higher dependency ratio (nonworking young and old compared to working ages.) Demographers and government planners are currently in a heated debate over how to cope with this problem.[3]. Immigration and birth incentives are sometimes suggested as a possible solution to provide younger workers to support the nation's aging population. Immigration, however, is not publicly popular as recent increased crime rates are often attributed to foreigners living in Japan."
Women in Japan increasingly choose to remain active workers (as in having a career) instead of having childrens(or so I heard)...
Never atribute something to malice when it can be attributed to stupidity, lazyness and/or management (ie. all of the above)
They probably just don't care.... You would have to convince them that the time they take supporting that CSM (because they left it in there), would be beneficial...
In others words, if you want to void your warranty, do whatever you want, but don't run crying to us after, else you'll be paying a Genius(TM) for your troubles...
I remember that in the early days here in.au the banks ran batch processing late at night and the ATM's often couldn't connect to verify account balances. The fallback position was that the ATM would just give out the money and the account would eventually go into debt.
The Montreal Casino Desjardins ATM still does that I think... sometime during the night while the rest of the network is down for 5 min, this one is still working and will give out money even of the account is empty...
Here in Canada, you get to chose your own PIN, when you are issued the card at the bank. Depending on the bank, you can change your PIN at an ATM or at the counter.
I have account in 2 banks and they do things differently:
Desjardins ( the local Quebec cooperative financial group... www.desjardins.com) uses 5 digits Pins numbers but you have to change the number at a counter...
NBC (National bank of Canada nbc.ca) uses 4 digits Pin numbers but you can change it at any NBC ATM)
My credits cards don't have any Pin numbers... everything is still done by signature...
I have a friend who once worked in a Call Center where the policy was someting like: "Someone else must be able to work at your desk", so NOThING was permitted...
Of course, it was a call center, so everyone just wanted to get out of there at the first occassion...
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I see that A LOT of that kind of stuff. I tend to call it "Frankstein design" or "building by adding parts until you have a freak monster of an application"... It was a 10-line script at first (done for a one-time job) but with time, and stuff patched and ajusted, it became an important 10000 line application that drives the major financial database... No way to patch the thing because the last one who knew anything about it retired 3 years ago, and COBOL programmers aren't cheap these days...
So the idea of buying a scanner, while a good idea, is almost impossible here... I haven't seen any in my entire life (except in auctions or HAM conventions)
When I read this 'bonding', my first tought was "Chi?"
Comes from the word Anal and the greek word Logus (meaning 'to look like')
Thus the original meaning of 'Looking like an Ass'
This Trojan is probably the brainchild of one individual among the RIAA/MPAA out to impress the Brass to get a promotion... or something... It has the signature of the same 'we-dont-get-tech' as before...
Good point. But I still don't understand why the entire system is biased toward electronic voting machine versus optical reading device...
Can anyone explain the enduring popularity of those voting machines despites the numerous flaws?
I still puzzles me why americans don't use something simpler...
hell, if India (with a BIGGER population) is capable of holding elections without soo much trouble, why can't the US do it?
# tar -z
tar: z: unknown option
tar: usage tar [-]{txruc}[eONvVwAfblhm{op}][0-7[lmh]] [tapefile] [blocksize] [[-C directory] file]
The CD I used to install this machine is dated 2004.... some UNIX vendors prefer 'backward compatible' to 'modern technology'...
I see some initiatives going in the right direction but I don't see them making a big chnage in the long run... I don't think it will stop the local conglomerate (among others) from taking most of the money from CD sells and leaving most of the artists with less money than a burger-flipper.
You forgot to take into cosideration
~500 000 000 km^2 * ~10km = ~ 1 * 10^9 km^3 of air
it took a big part of that energy...
No need to - the "AMP" part of LAMP runs on Windows as well.
So in this case it's WAMP.
Or WIMP if you use IIS...
Japan building robots to take care of the elderly just means less jobs for their youth, which means less incentive to have kids in the first place.
You have to problem backward... It's more along the lines of:
"Japan building robots to take care of the elderly because there is less youth"
From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAPAN ):
"The Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a post-war baby boom followed by a decrease in births as the country modernized in the latter part of the 20th century (notable aspects including the shift from agricultural to urban lifestyles and the increasing tendency for women to remain in the workplace). Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world (85.2 years for women and 78.3 years for men in 2002 [2]). By 2007, over 20% of the population will be over the age of 65. The changes in the demographic structure have created a number of social issues, particularly a potential decline in the workforce population and increases in the cost of social securities like the public pension plan.
The population started declining in 2005, as the 1.067 million births were exceeded by the 1.077 million deaths. Assuming current birth and death rates, the 2005 population of 128 million would decline to 100 million in 2050, and to 64 million in 2100. The main problem will be the financial crisis that comes from having a higher and higher dependency ratio (nonworking young and old compared to working ages.) Demographers and government planners are currently in a heated debate over how to cope with this problem.[3]. Immigration and birth incentives are sometimes suggested as a possible solution to provide younger workers to support the nation's aging population. Immigration, however, is not publicly popular as recent increased crime rates are often attributed to foreigners living in Japan."
Women in Japan increasingly choose to remain active workers (as in having a career) instead of having childrens(or so I heard)...
Yes! We're all individuals!
Never forget that you are unique, just like everyone else...
Never atribute something to malice when it can be attributed to stupidity, lazyness and/or management (ie. all of the above)
They probably just don't care.... You would have to convince them that the time they take supporting that CSM (because they left it in there), would be beneficial...
In others words, if you want to void your warranty, do whatever you want, but don't run crying to us after, else you'll be paying a Genius(TM) for your troubles...
I remember that in the early days here in .au the banks ran batch processing late at night and the ATM's often couldn't connect to verify account balances. The fallback position was that the ATM would just give out the money and the account would eventually go into debt.
The Montreal Casino Desjardins ATM still does that I think... sometime during the night while the rest of the network is down for 5 min, this one is still working and will give out money even of the account is empty...
Here in Canada, you get to chose your own PIN, when you are issued the card at the bank. Depending on the bank, you can change your PIN at an ATM or at the counter.
I have account in 2 banks and they do things differently:
Desjardins ( the local Quebec cooperative financial group... www.desjardins.com) uses 5 digits Pins numbers but you have to change the number at a counter...
NBC (National bank of Canada nbc.ca) uses 4 digits Pin numbers but you can change it at any NBC ATM)
My credits cards don't have any Pin numbers... everything is still done by signature...
I have a friend who once worked in a Call Center where the policy was someting like: "Someone else must be able to work at your desk", so NOThING was permitted...
Of course, it was a call center, so everyone just wanted to get out of there at the first occassion...
Bah!
Move to Canada. Problem solved.
Color changes with temperature or humidity?
Bah! We already have that up north... and it's free... it's called 'snow'
The machines used in Montréal (the ones I saw) where optical scanners with a sealed box to contain the ballots.
The problems we had, was that the center database that was used either crashed or could not handle the load...
Either way thoses sealed box are getting recounted by hand... In the municipal court... In front of provincial judges...
(in exactly the same way people who "share" Sony/BMG music via p2p etc infringe on Sony/BMG's and the the artists' copyrights).
Not sure about the English language, but in my own we have a saying for this: "Do what I say, not what I do"