Uh huh. Sure it will. Just like it was going to last time around.
Quebec has great wealth, which it squanders. The infrastructure has decayed past the point where it should be condemned (almost all of it, not just a bridge or two) and any new construction has to pay the mafia tax. Unions and the culture mean that if you want a construction project done you need to hire workers from outside the province during the construction holiday.
I have a friend who was involved with an exploratory test well project in the shale gas fields north east of Montreal. A company from Alberta brought in a bunch of equipment and hired locals to run it. Except the locals wanted their customary hour plus lunch hour (plus travel time), smoke breaks, etc. With expensive equipment sitting idle, the company decided to call it quits. Not to mention Quebecers can't decide whether they even want to develop most of their resources in the first place.
Quebec gets a lot of leverage out of nationalistic threats, but I think the average Quebecer knows very well that separation would be a complete catastrophe. The province is far better off staying in the country and enjoying all its special privileges. Anyway, having the NDP sweep the province doesn't exactly say "nationalistic fervour."
I bought an original iPad as soon as they were available in Canada. The extra productivity and convenience of carrying around fully annotated and searchable scientific papers with me, on a device that made them easy to read, alone made it more than worthwhile.
Yes, some early adopters buy for status. Others buy because a product has finally come along that does what they need, and buying one immediately is more than worth the premium you'd avoid by waiting for a year.
Probably. But it's not a tablet. B&N is VERY careful to market it as an ebook reader. It's priced like an ebook reader and it's capabilities are very good for an ebook reader. By not calling it a tablet, it doesn't get compared to an iPad.
Apple did invent what most people think of as a tablet today - a sub 2 lb device with a screen significantly bigger than a phone or PDA, a capacitive touch screen (no stylus) and an OS purpose built for a small screen and touch interaction.
The previous definition of a tablet, which is now essentially defunct, was basically a notebook computer with the screen reversed, running a desktop OS and using a stylus.
The keys on the iPad keyboard are the same size as the keys on a macbook. It's a very good design for the intended use, not so good if you're standing and need to type more than a few words. Of course, there's the split keyboard in iOS 5 to address just that case.
Or buy a cheap tablet if you want a cheap tablet. Just don't think you're getting an iPad replacement.
These companies seem to like shooting themselves in the foot. Apple sort of (re)defined what a tablet should be, and like it or not, that's the standard that people measure things against. Expensive Android tablets measure up well. Cheap tablets, of course, don't. Amazon and Barnes and Noble are successful selling eBook readers because they DON'T call them tablets.
The Nook is more of an ebook reader than a tablet. 7" is a great size for reading a paperback. Not so great for a lot of the things you might want a tablet for, including reading technical books and papers that have figures and don't reflow nicely.
You should try being on the no fly list. I just got back from a flight that connected through the US and as usual got dragged down to the special room. This time they asked to see my (lack of) tattoos! The customs guy actually swore when he scanned my passport.
Which is why, whenever we contemplate something unpopular with the Americans like legalizing pot or withdrawing from Afghanistan and somebody brings up "well, the US is our biggest trading partner...."
Which has always sounded like an excellent reason to me why we SHOULD piss of the US and force ourselves to diversify a bit. Or even just find someone else to buy our oil. Ralph Klein, a former premier of Alberta took a lot of flack for being a right wing redneck, but instead of always appeasing the US he arranged several provincial trade missions to other countries.
In Canada we don't. American-style copyright bills have been introduced multiple times and have withered away and died every time. The heritage and/or industry ministers usually lose their jobs over it too. That doesn't stop the government from TRYING though.
0% of Canadians voted for the party that formed the government. 100% of Canadians (who voted) voted for an individual to represent their local concerns in parliament. When Canadians remember that, our parliamentary system will work just fine.
"did you know that Canadian healthcare system (that many US liberals are quite jealous of) is actually run on provincial level, with voluntary cooperation and coordination via the feds? Furthermore, any province has right to opt out."
Sort of. Health care is under the jurisdiction of the provinces, but most of the money to pay for it comes from the federal government. So health care gets very good protection because in most cases both the provinces and feds would have to cooperate to damage it. Unless you're Quebec and can pull random crap with the health care system because threatening to withhold funds from Quebec is a no no.
Are you referring to Her Majesty's Official Opposition? Recall that the minor (and regional) party that formerly held that position is now the government.
In Canada a good scandal can break a political party. The Liberals haven't had a real shot at forming the government for years because someone hired an ad agency he shouldn't have. Before that, the conservative party, which had a decade long grip on power was decimated by introducing an unpopular tax and some kickbacks from Airbus. They never recovered - the present conservative party is basically the Reform Party, renamed Alliance, renamed Conservative Party of Canada.
I know my common name is on it. Trips to or near the US are loads of fun. Last time they forgot to hassle me so I thought it was done but today as I was going through customs the agent scanned my passport, said "shit" under his breath and escorted me to the special room. The agents there asked if I had a tattoo, make me prove I didn't then waved me on.
Google announced that if you want to be an Android licensee you have to follow their rules about what you can and can't do with/to Android. To avoid fragmentation, or some such.
A lot of the machine learning algorithms we use today are based on statistical or classification techniques that are mathematically connected to neural networks, and their development has in part been inspired by them. Many of our machine vision and hearing algorithms are based on phenomenon that have been observed in the brain's visual and auditory cortex. The differences of Gaussians in SIFT, or the wavelets in SURF for example.
Have we got a machine that wakes up one day, says hello and asks for a cheeseburger? No, of course not. That's kind of the end goal, isn't it? But we've come a LONG way in the bits and pieces, and claiming that progress is not due at all to studying how the brain does it shows a lack of understanding of the underlying principles.
They're not building perceptrons like you might for a high school science fair project. IBM has put considerable effort into cortical mapping, uses simulated neurons that exhibit spiking behaviour, simulates axonal delays, has made some effort at realistic synapses, etc. (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/dmodha/SC09_TheCatIsOutofTheBag.pdf)
But wait... are you the original AC who was criticizing IBM for simply trying to copy the features of a brain without understanding it? Are you suggesting that IBM should try to copy the features of a brain MORE closely? Make the runway and fake radio antenna look better?
He also measured voltage, not energy. It's likely that his cells topped out at their designed voltage in something less than full sunlight, giving the tree an advantage, voltage-wise even though the two were probably much closer together in energy production.
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Thank you. I'll be stealing that.
Uh huh. Sure it will. Just like it was going to last time around.
Quebec has great wealth, which it squanders. The infrastructure has decayed past the point where it should be condemned (almost all of it, not just a bridge or two) and any new construction has to pay the mafia tax. Unions and the culture mean that if you want a construction project done you need to hire workers from outside the province during the construction holiday.
I have a friend who was involved with an exploratory test well project in the shale gas fields north east of Montreal. A company from Alberta brought in a bunch of equipment and hired locals to run it. Except the locals wanted their customary hour plus lunch hour (plus travel time), smoke breaks, etc. With expensive equipment sitting idle, the company decided to call it quits. Not to mention Quebecers can't decide whether they even want to develop most of their resources in the first place.
Quebec gets a lot of leverage out of nationalistic threats, but I think the average Quebecer knows very well that separation would be a complete catastrophe. The province is far better off staying in the country and enjoying all its special privileges. Anyway, having the NDP sweep the province doesn't exactly say "nationalistic fervour."
I bought an original iPad as soon as they were available in Canada. The extra productivity and convenience of carrying around fully annotated and searchable scientific papers with me, on a device that made them easy to read, alone made it more than worthwhile.
Yes, some early adopters buy for status. Others buy because a product has finally come along that does what they need, and buying one immediately is more than worth the premium you'd avoid by waiting for a year.
Probably. But it's not a tablet. B&N is VERY careful to market it as an ebook reader. It's priced like an ebook reader and it's capabilities are very good for an ebook reader. By not calling it a tablet, it doesn't get compared to an iPad.
Apple did invent what most people think of as a tablet today - a sub 2 lb device with a screen significantly bigger than a phone or PDA, a capacitive touch screen (no stylus) and an OS purpose built for a small screen and touch interaction.
The previous definition of a tablet, which is now essentially defunct, was basically a notebook computer with the screen reversed, running a desktop OS and using a stylus.
The keys on the iPad keyboard are the same size as the keys on a macbook. It's a very good design for the intended use, not so good if you're standing and need to type more than a few words. Of course, there's the split keyboard in iOS 5 to address just that case.
Or buy a cheap tablet if you want a cheap tablet. Just don't think you're getting an iPad replacement.
These companies seem to like shooting themselves in the foot. Apple sort of (re)defined what a tablet should be, and like it or not, that's the standard that people measure things against. Expensive Android tablets measure up well. Cheap tablets, of course, don't. Amazon and Barnes and Noble are successful selling eBook readers because they DON'T call them tablets.
The Nook is more of an ebook reader than a tablet. 7" is a great size for reading a paperback. Not so great for a lot of the things you might want a tablet for, including reading technical books and papers that have figures and don't reflow nicely.
"with Quebec Nationalists gaining strength."
Um, you mean the BQ, who went from 47 seats to 4 in the last election? THOSE nationalists?
You should try being on the no fly list. I just got back from a flight that connected through the US and as usual got dragged down to the special room. This time they asked to see my (lack of) tattoos! The customs guy actually swore when he scanned my passport.
Which is why, whenever we contemplate something unpopular with the Americans like legalizing pot or withdrawing from Afghanistan and somebody brings up "well, the US is our biggest trading partner...."
Which has always sounded like an excellent reason to me why we SHOULD piss of the US and force ourselves to diversify a bit. Or even just find someone else to buy our oil. Ralph Klein, a former premier of Alberta took a lot of flack for being a right wing redneck, but instead of always appeasing the US he arranged several provincial trade missions to other countries.
In Canada we don't. American-style copyright bills have been introduced multiple times and have withered away and died every time. The heritage and/or industry ministers usually lose their jobs over it too. That doesn't stop the government from TRYING though.
"no government in Canada"
No government OF Canada. The NDP has formed several governments in Canada, at the provincial level.
0% of Canadians voted for the party that formed the government. 100% of Canadians (who voted) voted for an individual to represent their local concerns in parliament. When Canadians remember that, our parliamentary system will work just fine.
"did you know that Canadian healthcare system (that many US liberals are quite jealous of) is actually run on provincial level, with voluntary cooperation and coordination via the feds? Furthermore, any province has right to opt out."
Sort of. Health care is under the jurisdiction of the provinces, but most of the money to pay for it comes from the federal government. So health care gets very good protection because in most cases both the provinces and feds would have to cooperate to damage it. Unless you're Quebec and can pull random crap with the health care system because threatening to withhold funds from Quebec is a no no.
"the NDP"
Are you referring to Her Majesty's Official Opposition? Recall that the minor (and regional) party that formerly held that position is now the government.
In Canada a good scandal can break a political party. The Liberals haven't had a real shot at forming the government for years because someone hired an ad agency he shouldn't have. Before that, the conservative party, which had a decade long grip on power was decimated by introducing an unpopular tax and some kickbacks from Airbus. They never recovered - the present conservative party is basically the Reform Party, renamed Alliance, renamed Conservative Party of Canada.
You can replace the battery in an iPhone for about $20. It's actually FAR cheaper than the extra battery I bought for my pre-iPhone RAZR.
I know my common name is on it. Trips to or near the US are loads of fun. Last time they forgot to hassle me so I thought it was done but today as I was going through customs the agent scanned my passport, said "shit" under his breath and escorted me to the special room. The agents there asked if I had a tattoo, make me prove I didn't then waved me on.
Google announced that if you want to be an Android licensee you have to follow their rules about what you can and can't do with/to Android. To avoid fragmentation, or some such.
Because they have this idea that if they know what you like they can make the spam INTERESTING to you, and then you'll LIKE it.
Personally I think it's crap, but a lot of people buy into it.
A lot of the machine learning algorithms we use today are based on statistical or classification techniques that are mathematically connected to neural networks, and their development has in part been inspired by them. Many of our machine vision and hearing algorithms are based on phenomenon that have been observed in the brain's visual and auditory cortex. The differences of Gaussians in SIFT, or the wavelets in SURF for example.
Have we got a machine that wakes up one day, says hello and asks for a cheeseburger? No, of course not. That's kind of the end goal, isn't it? But we've come a LONG way in the bits and pieces, and claiming that progress is not due at all to studying how the brain does it shows a lack of understanding of the underlying principles.
They're not building perceptrons like you might for a high school science fair project. IBM has put considerable effort into cortical mapping, uses simulated neurons that exhibit spiking behaviour, simulates axonal delays, has made some effort at realistic synapses, etc. (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/dmodha/SC09_TheCatIsOutofTheBag.pdf)
But wait... are you the original AC who was criticizing IBM for simply trying to copy the features of a brain without understanding it? Are you suggesting that IBM should try to copy the features of a brain MORE closely? Make the runway and fake radio antenna look better?
I should hope so. You can't resolve anything the Apollo astronauts left on the moon with any existing telescope on the planet.
He also measured voltage, not energy. It's likely that his cells topped out at their designed voltage in something less than full sunlight, giving the tree an advantage, voltage-wise even though the two were probably much closer together in energy production.
It's a young naturalist award. Not a science award.