Canadians have a show up here called "Talking to Americans"
It was really a one-time special.
where a guy goes down to the states and asks ordinary people about Canadian people, history and politics, and when the Americans don't know the answers Canadians have a big laugh and we feel better about our country and ourselves because we're not as stupid as the Americans.
Not only ordinary people, Rick Mercer (spelling?) also asked State governors, and university professors, etc.
Like asking political students about Prime Minister Tim Horton's "double double" (Tim Horton's is a Canadian fast food chain - American's would likely not know), which Rick claimed was getting support of both sides of congress (in Canada, a bill passes through parliament first, this is where the Prime Minister is involved [he also appoints congress-people]) (Canadian congress has not rejected a bill for a long time (many years), if I am not mistaken),
Some Americans also saluted "our Eskimo neighbours to the south"...,
sang the national anthem:
Oh Canada!
A great big empty land.
We look to America
For a helping hand....
La la la la (they actually sang this part)...,
respected that the United States may have to bomb the mall in West Edmonton (West Edmonton Mall),
and were disgruntled that a Canadian corporation owns the mining rights to Mount Rushmore.
Though they did show some knowledgeable Americans:
-One guy knew the Montreal Canadians.
-One young kid knew that Canada has provinces instead of states
As well, I am pretty sure they picked the minority of Americans that would bite on such mis-information.
I'm not too worried as it will be all those damn autotrophs infringing on your patent. I really unbind two oxygen molecules. You should know that as I own a patent on the process of using oxygen as a final electron receiver in the electron transfer chain of the KREBS cycle in the mitochondrion of eukaryotic cells, you will be the on paying me massive royalties.
Furthermore, I also own a patent on a method of distributing oxygen throughout the body with the use of hemoglobin molecules suspended in a fluid (plasma) and forced through many tubes of varying size.....
I have never gone above (or even come close if I remember correctly) the limit, but it is annoying to have to check sometimes (as bandwidth use is often sporatically different for different months, etc. [at least for me]).
I don't think they (at least Videon) get the transfer data from the cable modem. They have a page where you can check your traffic allowance usage. It did not change when you rebooted the modem.
What kind of modem do you have? There system worked both with the Motorola and Surfboard modems.
For the last several years, my ISP, Videon, has capped uploaded data to 1 Gig and downloaded data to 10 Gigs. Any extra upload data was $5CDN/128 megs and extra download data was $5/512 megs. They actively advertised as being perfect for multimedia, etc. (bandwidth intensive applications). New customers did not know about the bandwidth limitation in any obvious way unless they read the contract (while the installation guy is at their house). Although a small group of people (including me) raise concerns in the newsgroups, nothing was changed. As well, it did not matter where data was being transmitted to/from (i.e. they still charged for internal network data).
This has been going on for about 3 years (if I remember correctly) now, but may have stopped this month as Videon has joined with Shaw. One user reports going over the limit and not being charged. As I understand, Shaw will simply kick you off if you use excessive (i.e. way above 10G/1G) data transfer.
The solid rocket boosters fall off before the space shuttle exits the atmosphere. They are recovered from an ocean (I forget which) and re-used. On the other hand, the big orange tank carries liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen so that it can burn in the abscence of an atmosphere (space). There are also some smaller tanks of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen on the actual shuttle that are used to correct orbital positions, re-enter, etc. The big orange tank burns up in the atmosphere.
But all of this is largely irrelevant. AMD has insured that it will never be a major player in the future by refusing to ship SMP-ready hardware. The future is in massive parallelism, and that's kind of hard to achieve when your chips are incapable of running together.
If you want to take advantage of next-generation operating systems like Linux or Win2k, do you really want a chip that won't allow you to upgrade to more than one processor? That's what I call locking in your customers, in the worst way possible.
Actually AMD is working on an SMP chipset (I think it is called the 770). There SMP design is far superior to Intel's, as the processors do not share the same bus. Instead, the AMD design uses a "switch" that provides connections for CPUs, Memory, etc.
Heck, get a used Geo Metro (gosh I hate those) for a couple grand a get 50mpg. Just don't try to push the three cylinders to highway speeds...
My family has a used '94 Geo Metro (with its 55 horse 3 cylinder engine). I have personally driven it @ about 110 kph (for you Americans, that is about 69 mph. It isn't as bad as you would think...
Well. Five messsages/hour!!! That would really suck. Think about a mailing list with thousands of users? what would they do. I think all spamers should just go to hell, but I guess that won't happen. AOL users need open relays from AOL since otherwise they wouldn't be able to reliably send mail. I agree that there shouldn't be any publicly acceptable open relays though, but we shouldn't limit message quantity. I think our protocols should allow more traceability to the originator.
What about "Olympic Chair" at the Lake Louise ski area in the Canadian Rockies (trail map with lift at http://www.skilouise.com/stats-maps/frontside.html(Olympic Chair is lift "B"). Of course, they may be exempt as I believe the winter olympics were held there or something (the lift wast built over 30 years ago - and is dead slow [especially since its 2km long and when its -40 and the chair lift can't shift into its higher gear.] but I'm getting off topic) As well, they likely wouldn't sue The resorts of the Canadian Rockies, as they owns 6 ski resorts.
Then a bond should be done based upon ability to pay. E.G. User X (having $50,000 in the bank) suing M$ shouldn't have to put up a bond. But M$ suing user X should.
I have heard of a competition called the "Science Olympics", I'm sorry that I can't provide a link or information, but I *believe* that it is in Canada (where I live), and is a science fair like competition for the students who win their school's science competition. Of course I could be spewing a load of practically anything.
I think when he said "I don't really see any reason to sue here," that he meant in the case of Web designer. I am led to believe that the bullet points are referring to cases worthy of suing and that is more/less confirmed when he says he would expect good work from web designers, but that this isn't worthy of suing over.
I don't live in the US (thankfully - considering the government there), but I think you are thinking about Intellectual property. Sure, it is smart to lock your doors, and insurance companies could (for example) give you lower prices if you have a more secured house, but with physical objects, a criminal must still think about the crime. This is different from intellectual property, if I leave an (unpatented/copyrighted) work on say,/index.html of my webserver, and somebody comes by and gets it, they can keep it.
Let's say there 500,000,000 computers in the US today.
What about other countries
Of those, maybe 5% need a new mouse per year (and that's being REALLY generous). That's 25 million mice sold.
Let's assume that every new computer needs a new mouse, I would assume that more than 25,000,000 new computers are sold each year
Linux has maybe 5% (that's probably a little high, but it works)of the PC market, so that's 1,250,000 Linux users who need mice. OF these, maybe 40% will buy a Logitech mouse. That's 50,000 mice.
1,250,000 * 0.4 = 500,000 Linux users who need new mice.
And probably half of these people would be influenced by whether they are using drivers from Logitech, or ones that someone else has written and uploaded to FreshMeat. So that's 25,000
250,000
mice purchases that could be affect, out of 25 million mice (that's.1%
1%
of total mouse sales). If they make $5 in profit from each mouse, that is a total of $125,000
$1,250,000
per year, which is nothing
nothing?!?
and probably just about what they would have spent to make the drivers.
not any more.
As well, they will sell mice more than one year, a new/different mouse model would also likely be able to borrow mouse driver code from the other drivers as they all use very similar interfaces.
I bougth a Linksys fast ethernet kit (2 10/100 nics, 4 port 100 hub, 2 cables) since I only had a 10 nic that connected to a cable modem. I installed Linux on the computers (one dual-boots to Window$) and never had a problem. Infact, my experience with the Linksys cards was good enough for me to go and buy a third one.
When I was 11 or 12 (I think), I received a credit card application mailed to me from the bank of montreal (a bank in Canada), who later mailed me saying they screwed up and I was too young.
The attachment you are about to open may contain a virus. To continue opening, type "virus threat accepted", otherwise press return.
On a very similar idea you could also have a form where there was the explanation, in which was said at the end to type "yes" or "no" into a text box and click okay. Perhaps something short but unique could be used for each different box. I think "virus threat accepted" is a little long, users might make a typo and not figure it out.
E.G. You are about to format your disk. Formating your disk will erase all the information on it. Type "format" into the text box and click okay to format. Type "no" or click cancel to stop this operation. Remember, this formatting the disk will erase all information on it. --------------- |                            | ---------------     [okay]     [no]
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Like asking political students about Prime Minister Tim Horton's "double double" (Tim Horton's is a Canadian fast food chain - American's would likely not know), which Rick claimed was getting support of both sides of congress (in Canada, a bill passes through parliament first, this is where the Prime Minister is involved [he also appoints congress-people]) (Canadian congress has not rejected a bill for a long time (many years), if I am not mistaken),
Some Americans also saluted "our Eskimo neighbours to the south"...,
sang the national anthem: Oh Canada! A great big empty land. We look to America For a helping hand. ...
La la la la (they actually sang this part) ...,
respected that the United States may have to bomb the mall in West Edmonton (West Edmonton Mall),
and were disgruntled that a Canadian corporation owns the mining rights to Mount Rushmore.
Though they did show some knowledgeable Americans:
-One guy knew the Montreal Canadians.
-One young kid knew that Canada has provinces instead of states
As well, I am pretty sure they picked the minority of Americans that would bite on such mis-information.
Furthermore, I also own a patent on a method of distributing oxygen throughout the body with the use of hemoglobin molecules suspended in a fluid (plasma) and forced through many tubes of varying size.....
I have never gone above (or even come close if I remember correctly) the limit, but it is annoying to have to check sometimes (as bandwidth use is often sporatically different for different months, etc. [at least for me]).
I don't think they (at least Videon) get the transfer data from the cable modem. They have a page where you can check your traffic allowance usage. It did not change when you rebooted the modem.
What kind of modem do you have? There system worked both with the Motorola and Surfboard modems.
This has been going on for about 3 years (if I remember correctly) now, but may have stopped this month as Videon has joined with Shaw. One user reports going over the limit and not being charged. As I understand, Shaw will simply kick you off if you use excessive (i.e. way above 10G/1G) data transfer.
The solid rocket boosters fall off before the space shuttle exits the atmosphere. They are recovered from an ocean (I forget which) and re-used. On the other hand, the big orange tank carries liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen so that it can burn in the abscence of an atmosphere (space). There are also some smaller tanks of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen on the actual shuttle that are used to correct orbital positions, re-enter, etc. The big orange tank burns up in the atmosphere.
Who said what country he was in?
Actually AMD is working on an SMP chipset (I think it is called the 770). There SMP design is far superior to Intel's, as the processors do not share the same bus. Instead, the AMD design uses a "switch" that provides connections for CPUs, Memory, etc.
My family has a used '94 Geo Metro (with its 55 horse 3 cylinder engine). I have personally driven it @ about 110 kph (for you Americans, that is about 69 mph. It isn't as bad as you would think...
Well. Five messsages/hour!!! That would really suck. Think about a mailing list with thousands of users? what would they do. I think all spamers should just go to hell, but I guess that won't happen. AOL users need open relays from AOL since otherwise they wouldn't be able to reliably send mail. I agree that there shouldn't be any publicly acceptable open relays though, but we shouldn't limit message quantity. I think our protocols should allow more traceability to the originator.
What about "Olympic Chair" at the Lake Louise ski area in the Canadian Rockies (trail map with lift at http://www.skilouise.com/stats-maps/frontside.html (Olympic Chair is lift "B"). Of course, they may be exempt as I believe the winter olympics were held there or something (the lift wast built over 30 years ago - and is dead slow [especially since its 2km long and when its -40 and the chair lift can't shift into its higher gear.] but I'm getting off topic) As well, they likely wouldn't sue The resorts of the Canadian Rockies, as they owns 6 ski resorts.
Then a bond should be done based upon ability to pay. E.G. User X (having $50,000 in the bank) suing M$ shouldn't have to put up a bond. But M$ suing user X should.
I have heard of a competition called the "Science Olympics", I'm sorry that I can't provide a link or information, but I *believe* that it is in Canada (where I live), and is a science fair like competition for the students who win their school's science competition. Of course I could be spewing a load of practically anything.
I think when he said "I don't really see any reason to sue here," that he meant in the case of Web designer. I am led to believe that the bullet points are referring to cases worthy of suing and that is more/less confirmed when he says he would expect good work from web designers, but that this isn't worthy of suing over.
I don't live in the US (thankfully - considering the government there), but I think you are thinking about Intellectual property. Sure, it is smart to lock your doors, and insurance companies could (for example) give you lower prices if you have a more secured house, but with physical objects, a criminal must still think about the crime. This is different from intellectual property, if I leave an (unpatented/copyrighted) work on say, /index.html of my webserver, and somebody comes by and gets it, they can keep it.
In the SI (System Internationale), a k means kilo (or thousand) so a kilometer is 1000 meters.
But with computers, since 2^10 is 1024, k is 1024, so a kilobyte is 1024 bytes.
Normally in non-computer/tech issues, a k means 1000.
What about other countries
Let's assume that every new computer needs a new mouse, I would assume that more than 25,000,000 new computers are sold each year
1,250,000 * 0.4 = 500,000 Linux users who need new mice.
250,000
1%
$1,250,000
nothing?!?
not any more.
As well, they will sell mice more than one year, a new/different mouse model would also likely be able to borrow mouse driver code from the other drivers as they all use very similar interfaces.
I bougth a Linksys fast ethernet kit (2 10/100 nics, 4 port 100 hub, 2 cables) since I only had a 10 nic that connected to a cable modem. I installed Linux on the computers (one dual-boots to Window$) and never had a problem. Infact, my experience with the Linksys cards was good enough for me to go and buy a third one.
Use the HTML blockquote tag, please
When I was 11 or 12 (I think), I received a credit card application mailed to me from the bank of montreal (a bank in Canada), who later mailed me saying they screwed up and I was too young.
Try going to openssh.com, they have a free (and legal) version of ssh that does not use the RSA patents.
For the K6-2, why not just use the nice command to put its priority slightly above that of whats compiling?
On a very similar idea you could also have a form where there was the explanation, in which was said at the end to type "yes" or "no" into a text box and click okay. Perhaps something short but unique could be used for each different box. I think "virus threat accepted" is a little long, users might make a typo and not figure it out.
E.G.
You are about to format your disk. Formating your disk will erase all the information on it. Type "format" into the text box and click okay to format. Type "no" or click cancel to stop this operation. Remember, this formatting the disk will erase all information on it.
---------------
|                            |
---------------
    [okay]     [no]
I was able to play MP3s on a 120 mhz cyrix (P150+) under kde and xmms almost seemlessly by setting the buffer to something like 9000.
They are supposedly in an internet cafe for the real-life cermony, I think the two are suppose to happen simultaneously.
"You can now frag the bride."