You have to be a bit more alert, BUT, people use signals when changing lanes and turning, they drive in the right lane on highways only using the left lane for passing, if they want to change lanes they signal THEN change lanes, etc.
I've lived here (Montreal) for 3.5 years. Admittedly, I'm a much better driver now, than I was. This is because I HAVE to be.
Your comment made me laugh. People don't use turn signals.. it's VERY rare to see that.. I'll concede the point about knowing how to use the lanes.. for the most part..
You forgot stopping.. Making a full stop at a stop sign? well, you'll get rear-ended if there's someone behind you.
_I_ hate Wal*Mart because of their parking lots. No, seriously.
It scares me to take my Jeep in there.. there are ENTIRELY too many idiots doing entirely too many stupid things (driving on the wrong side of the "aisles", backing into other people, waiting for a spot (while blocking the road for 20 other people), gridlocking in such a small grid that you can SEE the other side)..
I should document it. Yeah.. ok.. offtopic.. removing karma bonus.
Gotta vouch for JVDS/Rus Foster. I use them to host a bunch of stuff for a very low monthly fee, and am very happy with the response/support/price/features.
Kudos.
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Re:19% of commercial email? At least!
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I think nobody should be using the email protocol for commercial purposes. [snip] You could email them the address and everything else once, but they usually already have that from a puchase receipt.
Wouldn't that constute "commercial purposes"? How about if I run a business, and a customer requests my contact info by email? Is that commercial?
O(1) basically means that each "operation" takes the same amount of time, no matter how many processes need a slice.. (at least that's how I understand it -- I'm no kernel hacker). Helps in responsiveness.
The preemption + the scheduler is what makes it, IMHO. When I click buttons, they click IMMEDIATELY, now (as fast, or faster than windows).
- A responsive scheduler and preemptible kernel (sure, most users won't have a clue what it DOES, but they'll notice the difference). - ALSA (in-kernel) -- for the first time I can remember on Linux, the mixer (non OpenSoundSystem) labels my inputs/outputs properly.
Dude, this is Canada. We's USED to double taxation.
Say, for instance that I buy a $100 item. I get to the register, the total comes to $115.03 (because I'm in Quebec). Why? Because there's GST and PST. GST is 7%, PST is 7.5%. Ok, so you're thinking GST is $7 and PST is $7.50 -- where'd the other 53 cents come from? Allow me to enlighten you.
In Quebec, the total is calculated as: (price + GST) + PST = total. Yes, that's right. Compound taxation.
Most other provinces charge the PST first, and the GST is the compound percentage of the previous total (ie; (price + PST) + GST = total ). Some provinces (Alberta, IIRC -- oil) don't even HAVE PST, and when the GST was introduced (1991, I believe -- Mulroney govt.), the citizens of AB had to start paying sales taxes for the first time.
The Atlantic provinces, however, have HST, which is a "flat 15%".. which sounds like a good deal, because the former PST in New Brunswick was 11% (yes, 11% + 7% on taxable items!), but items like books were only taxed at a GST rate, and no PST was charged. Now, pretty much everything (except food -- unless it's convenience food) is taxed at 15% in NB.
PST - Provincial Sales Tax GST - Goods & Services Tax (Federal) HST - Harmonized Sales Tax (weird formula to compact PST + GST into one easy-to-calculate tax).
Anyway.. SOMEONE'S got to fund our beloved beaurocracy, right?
Alright.. this is way off topic. *checks the No Karma Bonus checkbox*
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Re:Now /. covers maintenance releases?
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It seems it DOES have this mechanism. See here -- there's support for include: and mx: even ptr:... However, I don't want to have to keep tabs on the various ISPs and their changing SMTP servers.. or if one of my users switches to a new ISP, I don't want to have to edit my zone..
Others have mentioned SMTP auth. I agree that in a perfect world, my users would use it.. reality, though, is that these same users should be signing/encrypting their mail.. -- I'm saying that it's difficult to get my users (moderate to none, in the tech-skill department) to comply.
Also, at least one of my users' ISPs blocks outgoing port 25 (to curb worm migration, I guess). (which, yes, can be worked around -- see the previous paragraph).
Slashdot Mirror
Acer is going to be pissed!
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Yeah.. he was definitely confused by the spelling.
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Gary Larson signed the top-right corner, so yes, it's a Farside.
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When it comes to acronyms, GIYF
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Uh... you do realise that you can play any musical instrument that has strings with a bow, right?
Piano.
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You have to be a bit more alert, BUT, people use signals when changing lanes and turning, they drive in the right lane on highways only using the left lane for passing, if they want to change lanes they signal THEN change lanes, etc.
I've lived here (Montreal) for 3.5 years. Admittedly, I'm a much better driver now, than I was. This is because I HAVE to be.
Your comment made me laugh. People don't use turn signals.. it's VERY rare to see that.. I'll concede the point about knowing how to use the lanes.. for the most part..
You forgot stopping..
Making a full stop at a stop sign? well, you'll get rear-ended if there's someone behind you.
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Don't judget a political party by its cover.
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_I_ hate Wal*Mart because of their parking lots. No, seriously.
It scares me to take my Jeep in there.. there are ENTIRELY too many idiots doing entirely too many stupid things (driving on the wrong side of the "aisles", backing into other people, waiting for a spot (while blocking the road for 20 other people), gridlocking in such a small grid that you can SEE the other side)..
I should document it.
Yeah.. ok.. offtopic.. removing karma bonus.
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Debian is your friend in this situation.
The Policy Manual is very specific about how and where your packages behave and install, respectively.
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I really hate the ask-slashdot complainers, usually, but this is just
too much.
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(note: the distortion is unintentional, konq just doesn't like that banner, I guess)
No, but is Flash actually a standard? Erm... no. It's propietary.
FUD.
The flash format has been documented and thus "open" since 1998.
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If it was about raster images, would you expect him to say "Graphics Interchange Format" and "Joint Photohraphic Experts Group" ?
I wouldn't.
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Yeah so long as n% of it is forced Canadian content.
*sigh*
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Gotta vouch for JVDS/Rus Foster. I use them to host a bunch of stuff for a very low monthly fee, and am very happy with the response/support/price/features.
Kudos.
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I think nobody should be using the email protocol for commercial purposes. [snip] You could email them the address and everything else once, but they usually already have that from a puchase receipt.
Wouldn't that constute "commercial purposes"? How about if I run a business, and a customer requests my contact info by email? Is that commercial?
It's too gray to just draw a line like that.
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O(1) basically means that each "operation" takes the same amount of time, no matter how many processes need a slice.. (at least that's how I understand it -- I'm no kernel hacker). Helps in responsiveness.
The preemption + the scheduler is what makes it, IMHO. When I click buttons, they click IMMEDIATELY, now (as fast, or faster than windows).
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- A responsive scheduler and preemptible kernel (sure, most users won't have a clue what it DOES, but they'll notice the difference).
- ALSA (in-kernel) -- for the first time I can remember on Linux, the mixer (non OpenSoundSystem) labels my inputs/outputs properly.
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According to this , GPL v1.0 was released in 1989. RMS released the GNU Manifesto in 1985.
So, it HAS been around a long time, but not 20-30 years.
(and yes, I know it was a joke).
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Dude, this is Canada.
We's USED to double taxation.
Say, for instance that I buy a $100 item.
I get to the register, the total comes to $115.03 (because I'm in Quebec).
Why? Because there's GST and PST. GST is 7%, PST is 7.5%. Ok, so you're thinking GST is $7 and PST is $7.50 -- where'd the other 53 cents come from? Allow me to enlighten you.
In Quebec, the total is calculated as: (price + GST) + PST = total. Yes, that's right. Compound taxation.
Most other provinces charge the PST first, and the GST is the compound percentage of the previous total (ie; (price + PST) + GST = total ). Some provinces (Alberta, IIRC -- oil) don't even HAVE PST, and when the GST was introduced (1991, I believe -- Mulroney govt.), the citizens of AB had to start paying sales taxes for the first time.
The Atlantic provinces, however, have HST, which is a "flat 15%".. which sounds like a good deal, because the former PST in New Brunswick was 11% (yes, 11% + 7% on taxable items!), but items like books were only taxed at a GST rate, and no PST was charged. Now, pretty much everything (except food -- unless it's convenience food) is taxed at 15% in NB.
PST - Provincial Sales Tax
GST - Goods & Services Tax (Federal)
HST - Harmonized Sales Tax (weird formula to compact PST + GST into one easy-to-calculate tax).
Anyway.. SOMEONE'S got to fund our beloved beaurocracy, right?
Alright.. this is way off topic.
*checks the No Karma Bonus checkbox*
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Please submit a story when it support IMAPS.
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$1 per minute?
The company I work for has conferencing for $0.12/min (toll free)
</plug type="shameless">
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Can't "own" the songs? Not like we own them now..
Besides, it's nothing one of these babies couldn't fix.
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I looked it up.. probably others would, too (Ninth Key and other patterns).
(posted with no bonus on purpose -- not whoring)
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Embed the sensors in the roads..
I use this every day to choose which way to go home (red on Decarie (the 15) is particularly bad).
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If that was sarcasm, excuse my reply, but...
... However, I don't want to have to keep tabs on the various ISPs and their changing SMTP servers.. or if one of my users switches to a new ISP, I don't want to have to edit my zone..
It seems it DOES have this mechanism. See here -- there's support for include: and mx: even ptr:
Others have mentioned SMTP auth. I agree that in a perfect world, my users would use it.. reality, though, is that these same users should be signing/encrypting their mail.. -- I'm saying that it's difficult to get my users (moderate to none, in the tech-skill department) to comply.
Also, at least one of my users' ISPs blocks outgoing port 25 (to curb worm migration, I guess). (which, yes, can be worked around -- see the previous paragraph).
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