I think Rogers pulled the same thing as Shaw. And now that they do have a limit written in, they're still trying to prevent users from getting the bandwidth they've paid for. I pay for 100GB a month at "up to" 800kbps down. I'm cool with that. Except that the "up to" is not due to network traffic, it's due to Rogers' traffic shaping; they reduce any BitTorrent connections to worse than dial-up speeds. When I signed up for 800kbps down, it wasn't so I could get email faster. I've found a way around it for now, but if they cut that off too, I'll be taking my business elsewhere.
Realize that you're talking about a place where the government can overrule the highest court in the land, and routinely does so ("notwithstanding clause").
Actually, the federal government has never used the notwithstanding clause, and Québec is (effectively) the only provincial government that has used the clause; see Wikipedia.
Another example: Canada models it's socialized health care system after Cuba and North Korea.
The healthcare systems in these countries are often grouped together because they are the few countries with fully public healthcare. However, Cuba and North Korea have fully public healthcare because they are communist countries, whereas Canada has fully public healthcare because there isn't much demand for private alternatives. Also, Canada's system was not modeled on either of the other countries's systems; all three came into effect around 1960.
Failing to stop after the accident (which did not directly involve him) breaks the law?
But it did involve him; he and his buddy were racing together. Just because he wasn't actually in the crash doesn't mean he wasn't involved in the accident overall. It's like conspiracy; if you plan with someone to commit a crime, even if you aren't the actual one who commits the crime, you're still criminally responsible. I'm not saying these guys planned a fatal collision, but it was a consequence of their racing together, so to some extent they're both responsible.
So hypothetical situation - If, driving down a Canadian highway during a snowstorm I see someone go off the road but keep driving, will they come after me for failing to stop? Sure, you might call such a non-stopper an asshole, but a criminal?
No, you're fine, unless your actions played a part in causing their accident. For example, suppose you turned left in front of their oncoming vehicle, but the gap was too small, so they had to brake hard or swerve to avoid you, losing control and ending up in the ditch. Even if your car was untouched, you could be in trouble for leaving the scene.
I would also have to question the "leading to death" part (he didn't hit the taxi), but I can see that as a bit more a matter of interpretation. But not an accident... Either the collision includes your vehicle, or it doesn't.
As I pointed out above, it's not a matter of whether the collision includes your vehicle, it's whether you were involved (even indirectly) in causing the accident.
If necessary, keep records of the time you spend on figuring out problems, and present this (in accumulated form) to your manager, insisting that training will reduce this.
You might want to be careful, though, that your manager doesn't just decide that laying you off and hiring someone with the training is cheaper.
You could go with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). SAS drives offer the high-end performance of traditional SCSI, and you can also hook up regular SATA drives to an SAS controller if you want to go chep for now and upgrade later, or if you only need some of your drives to have high performance.
SAS hardware is currently a little harder to find than SCSI or SATA stuff, but I'm sure there's a good selection out there if you take the time to look.
I was checking out the Sun Fire 4100 a while ago, and it takes SAS drives, however the form factor is 2.5", and I haven't yet seen any 2.5" SATA drives (I wanted that compatibility). Also, I've heard SATA drives don't work with the Sun Fire 4100's SAS controller anyway. Not sure about that, since the SAS spec says they should work, but just something to keep in mind when you're looking for a server or mobo or controller that supports SAS.
Btw would I be able to see that band in Toronto, Canada; or Hong Kong? Thanks.
I've never noticed it in any city, but if I'm out in the country (an hour northeast of Toronto) on a clear night I can see the Milky Way. As a rule, if you can't see the glow of the city on the horizon, it's probably dark enough that the band of stars will be apparent if the sky is clear.
As per what you posted only, why not, if the ".com.nn" were left off and only ".com" were used, then the request stays within that country. Then remove the top level inference to the ".com" level so the global ".com" is no more.
But then what happens when I want to point to a page at amazon.ca? Let's say for convenience that it's amazon.com.ca. I'm in Canada, so I would write <a href="http://www.amazon.com/something"/>, but someone trying to use that link in the UK would have it work like <a href="http://www.amazon.com.uk/something"/> (which may not exist, and IRL I know it is amazon.co.uk).
Sure, we could all remember to explicitly say.ca or.uk or whatever in our links, but some people will forget (for example, along similar lines, I've seen stuff like <a href="slashdot.org/something"/> which ends up being a relative link, to "something" in the "slashdot.org" directory in the current directory). Also, if I get used to.com turning into.com.ca, then I'm semi-lost when I go to Germany and expect that. I figure it's much easier to force adding the country TLD specification after.com.
Not that I think splitting.com into countries is a good idea, though. There are a lot of sites that are not country-specific; for example Slashdot. Sure, it's in the.org, but you want.org and.net and.com and everything under countries, right? I think the only thing that should be put under.us is.gov and.mil. And.com.us should be created, but the plain.com should remain as is.
Only if they are patched, or work off a time server. And even then, you might not realize a bug is there until something goes wrong.
IIRC, NTP only gives you UTC. To determine what time to show, your computer relies on locally-stored static time zone information. So even synching with a time server doesn't solve the problem. As you also mentioned, though, patching would work.
Scenario: one fine summer morning a factory in upstate New York runs out of left handed blivets. There's a blivet warehouse across the border in Ontario, and there's another one further south. The Canadian warehouse offers a better price because of the weak Canadian dollar (I hear its not so weak these days, but this is a scenario) so the factory calls them first. No answer -- it's an hour earlier in Ontario, so the warehouse office is closed. Guess who gets the order?
Scenario: one fine summer evening a factory in upstate New York runs out of left handed blivets. There's a blivet warehouse across the border in Ontario, and there's another one further south. The factory calls the American warehouse first (maybe arbitarily; I can't be bothered to think of a reason). No answer; the warehouse office is closed for the day. But it's an hour earlier in Ontario, so the Canadian warehouse office is still open. Guess who gets the order?
I'm sure there are worse examples, but the Brooklyn Bridge road is in the East River at high zoom.
If you look more closely, you'll see it actually does line up pretty well. The satellite photo was taken at a bit of an angle, and the height of the bridge deck above the water is making it appear misaligned to the map data. But look by the base of the suspension towers; you can see that at ground level, the alignment is pretty good.
I would expect that any proceeds from the site would be taken in any settlement or judgement against him. As I understand it, the site was shut down by court order; he didn't just give it to the MPAA and get to walk away.
Well, I realize it's not legal. I was saying it for argument's sake. But okay, fine, you're saying it's illegal because it's allowing a copy to be made. What if I destroy my DVD as soon as it's downloaded. Then it's more of a move. But I'm sure it would still be illegal. Question is, should it be?
Is it actually illegal to download a show ripped from a channel that you subscribe to or can receive on an antenna?
Let's say it was the same local affiliate, and they left the commercials in. The person sharing the file would be infringing copyright by making it available to others, but would you be in the clear? After all, what is the difference between that and taping it on a VCR?
Anyone have an answer? The more informed, the better.
Probably just Mac OS X 10.10. Version numbers don't tend to be in decimal format anymore; the period is just a field separator. You have major.minor.build or major.minor.micro or something like that. 10.9 would be followed by 10.10 not 11.0.
And with Mac OS X, there have been major improvements between the minor versions, so I'm not sure what would ever warrant incrementing the major version. They'll probably just stick with 10.x until maybe 10.11 at which point they'll drop the 10, but still call it Mac OS X.
In binary representation of integers, yes, (3 & 2) == 2. But if we're just working with boolean true (>0) and false (0) values, AND behaves like multiplication and OR behaves like addition. Sure, it's not exactly the same thing, but 0*0=0, 0*1=0, 1*0=0, 1*1=1 and 0+0=0, 0+1=1, 1+0=1, 1+1=2 (2 can still be considered "true").
I think the Liberal government burned their good name with the Ontario's provincial election.
It's unfortunate that most people don't seem to realize that the provincial and federal Liberal parties are not the same organization. Paul Martin has publicly disapproved of Dalton McGuinty reneging on his campaign promises. And besides, what choice did McGuinty really have when it turned out that the Tories had been "balancing" the budget by selling off assets? Highway 407 practically printed money for the province, but the Tories sold it off for a short term gain so they could claim the budget was balanced.
showing RIAA's over zelousness in attacking computer technology.
It wasn't the RIAA that took down Kazaa Lite, it was Sharman Networks (the creators of the "real" Kazaa). Kazaa Lite was a reverse engineered and modified version of Kazaa, and Sharman complained it was copyright infringement.
the formatting of a drive isn't going to make it less prone to crashing.
Probably not significanly less prone, but if the filesystem layout is such that the heads don't have to move around as often/much, then there could be less wear and tear put on the drive, so it would take longer to use up its effective lifetime. Like I said, I doubt this effect would be significant, but it's theoretically possible.
You can get away with whatever goes unnoticed on eBay for the most part.
And this is going unnoticed? The auction page is getting hammered by the slashdot crowd, and fark will probably link to it soon. The price is up in the thousands of dollars for something that was bought for $1. I think ebay has probably noticed; they're just deciding what to do about it at this point.
Regardless of any predictions Forrester has made, you can almost be certain that the MPAA/RIAA will try to maintain the status quo at all costs. Only when all hope is lost will they embrace the new content delivery methods, and they'll probably make a killing on them, too.
... viewed by "on-demand" services such as rather than by DVD
Such as what?
but i like fark too! and bsd and linux
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You mean I have to choose between Slashdot and Fark? I think the only ones on that list that will be mutually exclusive are emacs and vi(m). How many other issues on the list have resulted in t-shirts?
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Isn't '.' implicitly in your path in Windows? I wasn't aware there was a way to take it out.
I think Rogers pulled the same thing as Shaw. And now that they do have a limit written in, they're still trying to prevent users from getting the bandwidth they've paid for. I pay for 100GB a month at "up to" 800kbps down. I'm cool with that. Except that the "up to" is not due to network traffic, it's due to Rogers' traffic shaping; they reduce any BitTorrent connections to worse than dial-up speeds. When I signed up for 800kbps down, it wasn't so I could get email faster. I've found a way around it for now, but if they cut that off too, I'll be taking my business elsewhere.
Actually, the federal government has never used the notwithstanding clause, and Québec is (effectively) the only provincial government that has used the clause; see Wikipedia.
Another example: Canada models it's socialized health care system after Cuba and North Korea.
The healthcare systems in these countries are often grouped together because they are the few countries with fully public healthcare. However, Cuba and North Korea have fully public healthcare because they are communist countries, whereas Canada has fully public healthcare because there isn't much demand for private alternatives. Also, Canada's system was not modeled on either of the other countries's systems; all three came into effect around 1960.
But it did involve him; he and his buddy were racing together. Just because he wasn't actually in the crash doesn't mean he wasn't involved in the accident overall. It's like conspiracy; if you plan with someone to commit a crime, even if you aren't the actual one who commits the crime, you're still criminally responsible. I'm not saying these guys planned a fatal collision, but it was a consequence of their racing together, so to some extent they're both responsible.
So hypothetical situation - If, driving down a Canadian highway during a snowstorm I see someone go off the road but keep driving, will they come after me for failing to stop? Sure, you might call such a non-stopper an asshole, but a criminal?
No, you're fine, unless your actions played a part in causing their accident. For example, suppose you turned left in front of their oncoming vehicle, but the gap was too small, so they had to brake hard or swerve to avoid you, losing control and ending up in the ditch. Even if your car was untouched, you could be in trouble for leaving the scene.
I would also have to question the "leading to death" part (he didn't hit the taxi), but I can see that as a bit more a matter of interpretation. But not an accident... Either the collision includes your vehicle, or it doesn't.
As I pointed out above, it's not a matter of whether the collision includes your vehicle, it's whether you were involved (even indirectly) in causing the accident.
You might want to be careful, though, that your manager doesn't just decide that laying you off and hiring someone with the training is cheaper.
SAS hardware is currently a little harder to find than SCSI or SATA stuff, but I'm sure there's a good selection out there if you take the time to look.
I was checking out the Sun Fire 4100 a while ago, and it takes SAS drives, however the form factor is 2.5", and I haven't yet seen any 2.5" SATA drives (I wanted that compatibility). Also, I've heard SATA drives don't work with the Sun Fire 4100's SAS controller anyway. Not sure about that, since the SAS spec says they should work, but just something to keep in mind when you're looking for a server or mobo or controller that supports SAS.
I've never noticed it in any city, but if I'm out in the country (an hour northeast of Toronto) on a clear night I can see the Milky Way. As a rule, if you can't see the glow of the city on the horizon, it's probably dark enough that the band of stars will be apparent if the sky is clear.
But then what happens when I want to point to a page at amazon.ca? Let's say for convenience that it's amazon.com.ca. I'm in Canada, so I would write <a href="http://www.amazon.com/something" />, but someone trying to use that link in the UK would have it work like <a href="http://www.amazon.com.uk/something" /> (which may not exist, and IRL I know it is amazon.co.uk).
Sure, we could all remember to explicitly say .ca or .uk or whatever in our links, but some people will forget (for example, along similar lines, I've seen stuff like <a href="slashdot.org/something" /> which ends up being a relative link, to "something" in the "slashdot.org" directory in the current directory). Also, if I get used to .com turning into .com.ca, then I'm semi-lost when I go to Germany and expect that. I figure it's much easier to force adding the country TLD specification after .com.
Not that I think splitting .com into countries is a good idea, though. There are a lot of sites that are not country-specific; for example Slashdot. Sure, it's in the .org, but you want .org and .net and .com and everything under countries, right? I think the only thing that should be put under .us is .gov and .mil. And .com.us should be created, but the plain .com should remain as is.
IIRC, NTP only gives you UTC. To determine what time to show, your computer relies on locally-stored static time zone information. So even synching with a time server doesn't solve the problem. As you also mentioned, though, patching would work.
Scenario: one fine summer evening a factory in upstate New York runs out of left handed blivets. There's a blivet warehouse across the border in Ontario, and there's another one further south. The factory calls the American warehouse first (maybe arbitarily; I can't be bothered to think of a reason). No answer; the warehouse office is closed for the day. But it's an hour earlier in Ontario, so the Canadian warehouse office is still open. Guess who gets the order?
If you look more closely, you'll see it actually does line up pretty well. The satellite photo was taken at a bit of an angle, and the height of the bridge deck above the water is making it appear misaligned to the map data. But look by the base of the suspension towers; you can see that at ground level, the alignment is pretty good.
I would expect that any proceeds from the site would be taken in any settlement or judgement against him. As I understand it, the site was shut down by court order; he didn't just give it to the MPAA and get to walk away.
Well, I realize it's not legal. I was saying it for argument's sake. But okay, fine, you're saying it's illegal because it's allowing a copy to be made. What if I destroy my DVD as soon as it's downloaded. Then it's more of a move. But I'm sure it would still be illegal. Question is, should it be?
So you're saying I can purchase a DVD, then put it online to have the content stolen, and that's fine?
Let's say it was the same local affiliate, and they left the commercials in. The person sharing the file would be infringing copyright by making it available to others, but would you be in the clear? After all, what is the difference between that and taping it on a VCR?
Anyone have an answer? The more informed, the better.
Probably just Mac OS X 10.10. Version numbers don't tend to be in decimal format anymore; the period is just a field separator. You have major.minor.build or major.minor.micro or something like that. 10.9 would be followed by 10.10 not 11.0.
And with Mac OS X, there have been major improvements between the minor versions, so I'm not sure what would ever warrant incrementing the major version. They'll probably just stick with 10.x until maybe 10.11 at which point they'll drop the 10, but still call it Mac OS X.
In binary representation of integers, yes, (3 & 2) == 2. But if we're just working with boolean true (>0) and false (0) values, AND behaves like multiplication and OR behaves like addition. Sure, it's not exactly the same thing, but 0*0=0, 0*1=0, 1*0=0, 1*1=1 and 0+0=0, 0+1=1, 1+0=1, 1+1=2 (2 can still be considered "true").
It's unfortunate that most people don't seem to realize that the provincial and federal Liberal parties are not the same organization. Paul Martin has publicly disapproved of Dalton McGuinty reneging on his campaign promises. And besides, what choice did McGuinty really have when it turned out that the Tories had been "balancing" the budget by selling off assets? Highway 407 practically printed money for the province, but the Tories sold it off for a short term gain so they could claim the budget was balanced.
It wasn't the RIAA that took down Kazaa Lite, it was Sharman Networks (the creators of the "real" Kazaa). Kazaa Lite was a reverse engineered and modified version of Kazaa, and Sharman complained it was copyright infringement.
Probably not significanly less prone, but if the filesystem layout is such that the heads don't have to move around as often/much, then there could be less wear and tear put on the drive, so it would take longer to use up its effective lifetime. Like I said, I doubt this effect would be significant, but it's theoretically possible.
And this is going unnoticed? The auction page is getting hammered by the slashdot crowd, and fark will probably link to it soon. The price is up in the thousands of dollars for something that was bought for $1. I think ebay has probably noticed; they're just deciding what to do about it at this point.
Regardless of any predictions Forrester has made, you can almost be certain that the MPAA/RIAA will try to maintain the status quo at all costs. Only when all hope is lost will they embrace the new content delivery methods, and they'll probably make a killing on them, too.
Such as what?
You mean I have to choose between Slashdot and Fark? I think the only ones on that list that will be mutually exclusive are emacs and vi(m). How many other issues on the list have resulted in t-shirts?
Wonder if that could hold up in court?