Ya, it's a self published fantasy book. But it's not your run of the mill high fantasy. The author calls it "fantastic realism" where it is a fantasy world, but there isn't some stupid powerful magic to save the day.
I think the superpower reference is based the volume of recoverable oil in Canada. In particular the bitumen in the oil sands, but also conventional oil and natural gas elsewhere on the prairies and off Newfoundland.
Throw in the existing hydroelectric, and potential for a lot more.
We won't talk about all the coal. Coal is bad... m'kay?:)
In my city, we have a community group that takes hand-me-down computers from corporate and government sources, refurbishes them, then makes them available to schools, other community groups and needing individuals. For example, their computers are in the local senior drop in centres, boys and girls club, and I know a few families who've taken computers home. Perhaps your city has a similar organization.
I've always thought fuel cells would be a good option for extreme northern and southern communities.
Solar is nice and all, but less useful the further you are from the equator. Whitehorse Yukon (60.7^ north latitude), for example, has a shortest day of less than 6 hours. Also, winter sun is low in the sky passes through a lot of atmosphere to reach your solar panel, so I imagine efficiencies would be sub-optimal.
But if you could use solar all summer to produce hydrogen that your fuel cell could run off all winter, I think you might be on to something. Remember 6 hours of daylight in December means 18 hours of daylight in June (when you're using little if any lights and heat)
I just don't know if the inherent energy costs of splitting water vs energy gained in a fuel cell would let this be a viable idea. And I wouldn't want to think about paying for such a system.
Basically, if the ISP's are managing service based on content, they are no longer a neutral service provider ("common carrier" like the post office). Therefore they can be held responsible for the content they're providing. (Hey, they're TAKING the responsibility, we're not dumping it on them) Therefore the ISP should be charged with trafficking in child pornography the next time one of their users is charged.
I have no doubt that the lawyers will find a way to get the charges dropped, but it should make for some mighty interesting headlines until they do.
Even up here in the land of the actually free, police are starting to wear cameras (http://globalnews.ca/news/1093386/canadian-police-forces-looking-to-arm-officers-with-cameras/)
In my opinion, a camera on a cop is nothing more than an accurate, verifiable eye witness. It won't see or hear anything the officer won't already see and hear. Much better than an officer's memory and notebook.
Using google glasses... good. It won't provide any more information than the officer already has access to, or that can't be mined off a conventional camera's video. It may just provide the info quicker, when the officer needs it.
Maybe it's because I'm a white guy with a job. Maybe it's because I'm Canadian. But as a rule, I trust cops. Sure you get the odd bad cop, or a good cop making a mistake or having a bad day, but that happens with all people. Giving the cops a tool that provides information that might help reduce mistakes, and provides evidence both for and against them, to me is a good thing.
I'm not sure that you actually looked at the item I linked to. Asus T100 "book" is a new product, only been on the market a couple weeks (local retailers here in Alberta got their first shipment last week). Its not the old android transformer that you may be thinking of. -10" 1388x768. maybe a smidge bigger than the EEE -full windows 8.1 32bit (not RT), comes with Office 2013 home and student. So it'll run just about anything -quad core modern atom processor, 2 gig ram, Intel HD graphics. Office, netflix runs just fine. BF4 won't run, but a few games might be playable (look for demo's on youtube, decide for yourself what's playable). -comes with the keyboard, MicroSD, mini-HDMI, USB3. Ya its a tiny keyboard, but tactile buttons make it quite usable for my small hands to touch type. -supposed to have an 11 hour battery. Haven't clocked mine yet, but haven't had to recharge during the day yet either.
32gig model cost me $400 (Canadian), so its a bit more than the EEE was back in the day, but still half the money of a Surface Pro (which doesn't come with the keyboard). Home and student goes for $150 around here, so makes it a much easier pill to swallow.
I'm still getting all my tools loaded, but this is my new always handy laptop replacement. Very much what the EEE tried to be.
While the max $5k / infraction seems obvious, I'm not sure how to calculate infractions.
For example, let's say I get busted for 2 Disney movies and cracked EA game. Would I be facing max fines of: - $5k - one trip to court = 1 infraction -$10k - 1 infraction from Disney, one from EA -$15k - one for each Disney movie, one from EA - something else (eg because of the EA crack)
Anyone with insight or experience in the Canadian intepretation?
IANAL, but as I read it you can copy a dvd to a backup dvd as the digital lock remains intact on the backup, therefore not circumvented or broken.
However, you cannot rip the dvd to another format because that removes the digital lock.
You can rip music, because there is no digital lock to break, and therefore the format shifting is legit.
I think it's a fuzzy area that a court may have to sort out, if a copyright holder decides to push it (for the grand prize of $5000, not likely, I think)
the Nvidia driver is available as 64 bit (listed under legacy and beta drivers) Steam has previously said they're starting with 32 bit, and will get 64 bit out later. Hey, its beta. Nothing should be considered final.
I have a personal technet subscription, which is effectively renting MS products (annual fee, access to latest software, and other goodies) Work has enterprise licencing, which is not much different.
so... some of us have been renting MS software for years.
Whatever you do, keep the driver accessible controls dead simple. Put the full feature touchscreen/keyboard/jeejaw/whatever in front of the passenger seat.
Not all jurisdictions have a distracted driving law, but they should.
~signed, a guy who puts 10,000 km on his motorbike in a 6 month riding season.
They still shipped 14 million units in Q3, still revenue positive, still have 75 million subscribers. Is this up to iphad numbers? No. But they're still profitable and I think they'll be around for quite a while yet.
Why android? is there an app you need or something? or is it a latest bling thing?
Because Blackberry does the encrypted thing, and if you buy BES you can also set device policies and centrally administer the devices (remote wipe for example).
I do not think it is necessary to reform all organizations to match some illusionary techno elite mold.
Scouts/Guides teach different skills, like what the sun looks like and how to get along with others, that are not well represented by the can't-lift-face-from-LCD crowd.
Badges are about basic skills and sense of accomplishment (little milestones met). Leaderboards are about competition. Each has their merit.
Why not buy RIM? I know (insert blackberry hate here), etc. But owning a proper enterprise device management suite like BES would go a long way to getting iphones & ipads into corporate users hands.
But as the IT guys who has to support both blackberries and iphones, maybe that's just my personal dream.
Why can't all the BB haters just be honest. Its not about touch screen keyboards vs physical keys. Its not about security and central administration vs cool TV commercials
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In anticipation of the release of part 2, I'm re-reading Harbinger by Ian McKinley
Amazon link
Ya, it's a self published fantasy book. But it's not your run of the mill high fantasy. The author calls it "fantastic realism" where it is a fantasy world, but there isn't some stupid powerful magic to save the day.
I think the superpower reference is based the volume of recoverable oil in Canada. In particular the bitumen in the oil sands, but also conventional oil and natural gas elsewhere on the prairies and off Newfoundland.
Throw in the existing hydroelectric, and potential for a lot more.
We won't talk about all the coal. Coal is bad... m'kay? :)
Shouldn't we do a more thorough job of checking the place out for life, before we start painting the landscape with our most powerful weapons?
We should have waited.
~Saxifrage Russel
In my city, we have a community group that takes hand-me-down computers from corporate and government sources, refurbishes them, then makes them available to schools, other community groups and needing individuals. For example, their computers are in the local senior drop in centres, boys and girls club, and I know a few families who've taken computers home.
Perhaps your city has a similar organization.
I've always thought fuel cells would be a good option for extreme northern and southern communities.
Solar is nice and all, but less useful the further you are from the equator. Whitehorse Yukon (60.7^ north latitude), for example, has a shortest day of less than 6 hours. Also, winter sun is low in the sky passes through a lot of atmosphere to reach your solar panel, so I imagine efficiencies would be sub-optimal.
But if you could use solar all summer to produce hydrogen that your fuel cell could run off all winter, I think you might be on to something. Remember 6 hours of daylight in December means 18 hours of daylight in June (when you're using little if any lights and heat)
I just don't know if the inherent energy costs of splitting water vs energy gained in a fuel cell would let this be a viable idea. And I wouldn't want to think about paying for such a system.
Basically, if the ISP's are managing service based on content, they are no longer a neutral service provider ("common carrier" like the post office).
Therefore they can be held responsible for the content they're providing. (Hey, they're TAKING the responsibility, we're not dumping it on them)
Therefore the ISP should be charged with trafficking in child pornography the next time one of their users is charged.
I have no doubt that the lawyers will find a way to get the charges dropped, but it should make for some mighty interesting headlines until they do.
Just kill off the 32 bit version of the o/s and I'll be happy. Seriously, stop it with the 1990's technology, already.
Ya, ya, ya... legacy apps and hardware (drivers). You've got till 2020 when win7 dies to upgrade. Fair-thee-warned.
Even up here in the land of the actually free, police are starting to wear cameras (http://globalnews.ca/news/1093386/canadian-police-forces-looking-to-arm-officers-with-cameras/)
In my opinion, a camera on a cop is nothing more than an accurate, verifiable eye witness. It won't see or hear anything the officer won't already see and hear. Much better than an officer's memory and notebook.
Using google glasses... good. It won't provide any more information than the officer already has access to, or that can't be mined off a conventional camera's video. It may just provide the info quicker, when the officer needs it.
Maybe it's because I'm a white guy with a job. Maybe it's because I'm Canadian. But as a rule, I trust cops. Sure you get the odd bad cop, or a good cop making a mistake or having a bad day, but that happens with all people. Giving the cops a tool that provides information that might help reduce mistakes, and provides evidence both for and against them, to me is a good thing.
I'm not sure that you actually looked at the item I linked to.
Asus T100 "book" is a new product, only been on the market a couple weeks (local retailers here in Alberta got their first shipment last week). Its not the old android transformer that you may be thinking of.
-10" 1388x768. maybe a smidge bigger than the EEE
-full windows 8.1 32bit (not RT), comes with Office 2013 home and student. So it'll run just about anything
-quad core modern atom processor, 2 gig ram, Intel HD graphics. Office, netflix runs just fine. BF4 won't run, but a few games might be playable (look for demo's on youtube, decide for yourself what's playable).
-comes with the keyboard, MicroSD, mini-HDMI, USB3. Ya its a tiny keyboard, but tactile buttons make it quite usable for my small hands to touch type.
-supposed to have an 11 hour battery. Haven't clocked mine yet, but haven't had to recharge during the day yet either.
32gig model cost me $400 (Canadian), so its a bit more than the EEE was back in the day, but still half the money of a Surface Pro (which doesn't come with the keyboard). Home and student goes for $150 around here, so makes it a much easier pill to swallow.
I'm still getting all my tools loaded, but this is my new always handy laptop replacement. Very much what the EEE tried to be.
10" are not gone, just changed.
http://www.asus.com/in-search-of-incredible/us-en/asus-transformer-book-t100/
Hm.... next release will be S words.
Can I vote now for Suffering Succotash?
I know a succotash isn't a critter, but c'mon! It's Sylvester!
While the max $5k / infraction seems obvious, I'm not sure how to calculate infractions.
For example, let's say I get busted for 2 Disney movies and cracked EA game. Would I be facing max fines of:
- $5k - one trip to court = 1 infraction
-$10k - 1 infraction from Disney, one from EA
-$15k - one for each Disney movie, one from EA
- something else (eg because of the EA crack)
Anyone with insight or experience in the Canadian intepretation?
IANAL, but as I read it you can copy a dvd to a backup dvd as the digital lock remains intact on the backup, therefore not circumvented or broken.
However, you cannot rip the dvd to another format because that removes the digital lock.
You can rip music, because there is no digital lock to break, and therefore the format shifting is legit.
I think it's a fuzzy area that a court may have to sort out, if a copyright holder decides to push it (for the grand prize of $5000, not likely, I think)
the Nvidia driver is available as 64 bit (listed under legacy and beta drivers)
Steam has previously said they're starting with 32 bit, and will get 64 bit out later. Hey, its beta. Nothing should be considered final.
I have a personal technet subscription, which is effectively renting MS products (annual fee, access to latest software, and other goodies)
Work has enterprise licencing, which is not much different.
so... some of us have been renting MS software for years.
what's the next story going to be? "How a 2 year old opens drawer full of kitchen knives"?
Seriously, it doesn't matter what you get, there will be a cheep version available. You get what you pay for. No news there.
Whatever you do, keep the driver accessible controls dead simple. Put the full feature touchscreen/keyboard/jeejaw/whatever in front of the passenger seat.
Not all jurisdictions have a distracted driving law, but they should.
~signed, a guy who puts 10,000 km on his motorbike in a 6 month riding season.
A win or a loss, depending upon your perspective. Appropriate for the 200th anniversary of the declaration of the War of 1812.
As can Exchange through Active Sync (on Android or iOS). Don't invest in a company that is posting a billion in hardware losses this year.
Actually, its shy of a half billion Press Release PDF
They still shipped 14 million units in Q3, still revenue positive, still have 75 million subscribers. Is this up to iphad numbers? No. But they're still profitable and I think they'll be around for quite a while yet.
Why android? is there an app you need or something? or is it a latest bling thing?
Because Blackberry does the encrypted thing, and if you buy BES you can also set device policies and centrally administer the devices (remote wipe for example).
So we need a smart-ray to increase the average IQ ;P
I'm thinking more along the line of a clue stick. Preferably with a nail in it, so they get the point.
I do not think it is necessary to reform all organizations to match some illusionary techno elite mold.
Scouts/Guides teach different skills, like what the sun looks like and how to get along with others, that are not well represented by the can't-lift-face-from-LCD crowd.
Badges are about basic skills and sense of accomplishment (little milestones met). Leaderboards are about competition. Each has their merit.
P.S. Get off my lawn
Why not buy RIM?
I know (insert blackberry hate here), etc. But owning a proper enterprise device management suite like BES would go a long way to getting iphones & ipads into corporate users hands.
But as the IT guys who has to support both blackberries and iphones, maybe that's just my personal dream.
Why can't all the BB haters just be honest.
Its not about touch screen keyboards vs physical keys.
Its not about security and central administration vs cool TV commercials
Its about Angry Birds.
And it doesn't play on BB.
Here's the original press release http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=5285
For the TLDR crowd, just scroll down to the bullet list and look at what BB Fusion is offering/promising. I can assure you, these are needed.
-secure network
-enterprise management
-on devices that'll play angry birds.
Hopefully that'll keep everyone happy.