I can't remember where I read it (likely newscientist or something) but the mind can focus on typing and thinking, but when you engage the language centres of the brain, the rest of it suffers. Voice recognition is a great thing for people with disabilities that prevent them from properly typing, but for the rest of us it's just a neat feature that'll likely never get used.
And besides that, I can type much faster than I can speak
Or better still, a UV LED
Then, when you're not using your mouse to navigate, you can give yourself a killer tan. You'd be the only bronzed geek in the world.
Strictly speaking, it's not. However, when your liver breaks it down (with the same enzyme as it does with alcohol), the byproducts are nephrotoxic (means it kills your kidneys).
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As for the cheapness of Canadian education - there's an interesting bit in the Economist this week theoreticizing that if Canadian Med Schools charged more, Canada might have less of a problem with Doctors fleeing.
I think that's pretty much bullocks... if Canadian hospitals paid better then yeah, but if medschool cost more, there'd be more people fleeing to pay off student loans
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I saw this article a few days ago, and I realized how much Americans really have to pay for college. McGill ( one the most prestigeous & therefore most expensive colleges in Canada) costs $7000 for international students a year. International students pay a lot more than natives (it's about $1000 a year for Quebec residents).
America needs to stop discriminating based on which college you go to. In Canada, almost all the universities (and all the prestigeous ones, like UBC, SFU, McGill, UofT) are government-subsidised (like the USian state-colleges), and still provide excellent education.
"To I.T. Professionals:
"With great respect, I thank you for your contribution to mankind.
"If you are employed by agencies of any private industry, however, or if
you are employed by a public ministry who writes software or who manufacture hardware for any private company, I ask you to think about your own personal responsibility for what happens to mankind.
"Will private industry open the gates to individual liberty? Or will it
close those gates?
"Will Private industry guarantee the security of our lives and
property? Or will it steal both?
"Please find your own answer to those questions. The future of mankind is
in your hands."
If they want 15 (16 actually) they need to hire another worker. When i started that wasnt gonna happen but now out of work tech workers are easy to find and hire.
Easy to find and hire maybe. Easy to re-train, not so much.
It's been my experience that adding coders halfway through (or worse, almost all of the way through) a project hinders it more than it helps. Not only do you have a worker with crippled productivity (they don't know int Up() from void Down() ), you get the rest of the staff sacrificing productivity to get the new guy up to speed.
If sacd becomes widespread, undoubtedly they'll make sacd-rom. When that happens, either they won't play, or they'll play right on to "pirates'" harddrives.
If they make drivers that prevent that, then the/. crew will find a way around it, or cry bloody murder (or both), a la CSS. If they don't make sacdrom, *I'll* cry bloody murder, because the only optical reader I have is connected to my 2nd IDE channel (and besides, audio-out --> line-in fixes that issue no problem)
This solution would only really work if she's usually relatively still at night, you could set up a simple circut that turns on something when she moves her hand out of the way of a light, or a laser-pointer.
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Also, did anyone see a post with a signature that said "linus" on it? I think I did, and was wondering what that referred to in 1985
that's just his bang path. Evidently "linus" was a large-ish machine in 1984 (probably a system named after the owner/IT guy who had the name of linus)
Soaring isn't really that hard, it just takes a while to get higher, and you have to know where to find lift. The 6,000 foot tow is unnecssary, but it'll make his job a bit easier ( 1000' > 6000' off a mountain is a fairly easy task )
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Yes! Government that does nothing either way.
Then you can be like Canada.
No it's not.
I can't remember where I read it (likely newscientist or something) but the mind can focus on typing and thinking, but when you engage the language centres of the brain, the rest of it suffers. Voice recognition is a great thing for people with disabilities that prevent them from properly typing, but for the rest of us it's just a neat feature that'll likely never get used.
And besides that, I can type much faster than I can speak
Or better still, a UV LED
Then, when you're not using your mouse to navigate, you can give yourself a killer tan. You'd be the only bronzed geek in the world.
I checked the EULA out, and apparantly, it is inconsequential weather or not you click "i agree" or "i do not agree"
Clicking "i do not agree" still brings you to the same page...
So it turns casual pirates into seasoned ones?
People who have now found connections to a world of pirated software, right at their fingertips?
How poisonous is antifreeze?
Strictly speaking, it's not. However, when your liver breaks it down (with the same enzyme as it does with alcohol), the byproducts are nephrotoxic (means it kills your kidneys).
As for the cheapness of Canadian education - there's an interesting bit in the Economist this week theoreticizing that if Canadian Med Schools charged more, Canada might have less of a problem with Doctors fleeing.
I think that's pretty much bullocks... if Canadian hospitals paid better then yeah, but if medschool cost more, there'd be more people fleeing to pay off student loans
I saw this article a few days ago, and I realized how much Americans really have to pay for college. McGill ( one the most prestigeous & therefore most expensive colleges in Canada) costs $7000 for international students a year. International students pay a lot more than natives (it's about $1000 a year for Quebec residents).
America needs to stop discriminating based on which college you go to. In Canada, almost all the universities (and all the prestigeous ones, like UBC, SFU, McGill, UofT) are government-subsidised (like the USian state-colleges), and still provide excellent education.
Yes it is.
It loses electrons, and bonds ionically with non-metals, therefore it's a metal by definition.
"isnt that uh, everyone alive?"
Nope. Clones, deities, demons and Dick Cheney all have to go buy a mXXX machine.
Next you know this clause'll be in MS VC++.
You cannot make another IDE if you're going to use visual studio
Not only does it take longer, it's uncomfortable to say, and makes you look like a weiner.
The transitions between a soft consonant and a hard vowel make me want to cut my lips off (or learn German)
I knew this guy who spoke in abbreviations all the time (el-oh-el) and such... it irritated me to no end
Oh well.
RobotWars (the British one) is better anyways.
"To I.T. Professionals: "With great respect, I thank you for your contribution to mankind. "If you are employed by agencies of any private industry, however, or if you are employed by a public ministry who writes software or who manufacture hardware for any private company, I ask you to think about your own personal responsibility for what happens to mankind. "Will private industry open the gates to individual liberty? Or will it close those gates? "Will Private industry guarantee the security of our lives and property? Or will it steal both? "Please find your own answer to those questions. The future of mankind is in your hands."
But what about when the AI demand equal rights?
No more 24/7 operation (it'll be like running windows). And what if they decide to unionize for better wages?
I bought one, along with a C64 at value village the other day for $10 canadian (for the lot).
best $10 I've spent in a long time
Bullocks.
Even if I do chose to download it, I'm not going to not pay for it when it comes out in theatres. It's LOTR for chrissakes
If they want 15 (16 actually) they need to hire another worker. When i started that wasnt gonna happen but now out of work tech workers are easy to find and hire.
Easy to find and hire maybe. Easy to re-train, not so much.
It's been my experience that adding coders halfway through (or worse, almost all of the way through) a project hinders it more than it helps. Not only do you have a worker with crippled productivity (they don't know int Up() from void Down() ), you get the rest of the staff sacrificing productivity to get the new guy up to speed.
If sacd becomes widespread, undoubtedly they'll make sacd-rom. When that happens, either they won't play, or they'll play right on to "pirates'" harddrives.
/. crew will find a way around it, or cry bloody murder (or both), a la CSS. If they don't make sacdrom, *I'll* cry bloody murder, because the only optical reader I have is connected to my 2nd IDE channel (and besides, audio-out --> line-in fixes that issue no problem)
If they make drivers that prevent that, then the
And have it all be useless. America and Canadia are NTSC. Europe and Asia are PAL.
;)
Just so you know.
This solution would only really work if she's usually relatively still at night, you could set up a simple circut that turns on something when she moves her hand out of the way of a light, or a laser-pointer.
Also, did anyone see a post with a signature that said "linus" on it? I think I did, and was wondering what that referred to in 1985
that's just his bang path. Evidently "linus" was a large-ish machine in 1984 (probably a system named after the owner/IT guy who had the name of linus)
Soaring isn't really that hard, it just takes a while to get higher, and you have to know where to find lift. The 6,000 foot tow is unnecssary, but it'll make his job a bit easier ( 1000' > 6000' off a mountain is a fairly easy task )
Why do the RIAA and the MPAA get more protection than I do?
Simply put, they can buy congressmen. You can't.
I wonder how long untill it runs linux?
It's based on a crusoe processor (no word of which speed though), so basically the ideal OS for it is linux.