They sell studable winter tires, although in many places they are illegal, for the reason you pointed out, plus they destroy the pavement.
On the up side, if you can use them, I hear you can stick to ice as if it were pavement. Though with modern winter tires, even 10" of snow isnt a major issue even for most vehicles. I have only had issues in my corolla with Gislavid winter tires when the snow was high enough to start coming up the hood and over the windshied. If i stopped I couldnt get moving forward again wthout reversing and making a running start at it.
Just for the record, us teksavvy customers (I personally have dual connections from them, we like it so much), are getting throttled. As many know teksavvy is now suing bell as this is not part of the contract.
Anyways, yes we are getting throttled, and no its not teksavvys fault.
If you need an isp, or hate your current isp (I dont know like comwave, cia, rogers,bell,...generic isp here...) switch to teksavvy you will be happy you did! (dont work for them, another happy customer!)
The first thing I thought, and I have thought the idea of analyzing traffic flow on a wide scale could give the individual an edge, as soon as the masses know the way around traffic, the jam will just move.
So unless this algorithm can automatically figure out where traffic is stuck, and route the users in many different ways, this will eventually not work. Not to mention that in many cases (ie try entering downtown toronto from etobicoke), there are only so many ways to go. In my example you have some side streets, bloor, eglington, gardiner, lake shore. But they all suck, and if you suggest the small residential roads, you'll probably sit just as long waiting to turn from road to road. I've tried.
But if it helps at all its worth it imho, its not my money!
I bought a ps3 when they were actually in short supply last year, and had to return it since my tv doesnt support HDCP. I have a 720p hdtv, that has dvi input, and xbox + hddvd outputs at 1080p no problem, the ps3, wouldnt even work for games, all I got was a black screen, which is known to to occur if the hdcp handshake cannot complete properly.
I dont know if they are going to fix this, but until they do, I'm not buying, my hddvd collection works great and looks great, on this tv and my 1080p projector, not so for bluray.
1. when driving you should be monitoring what is going on behind you as well as in front. That is, when your stopped waiting for something you should have left yourself an escape route, whether it is a side walk, or yard, and watch all around your car. If you should happen to see a car coming behind you its trivial to then move into your safe area. Why this is so difficult for 99% of the population to understand is beyond me. It has saved me from being involved in several accidents, just like not tailgating the person in front of you does when they stop suddenly.
Legally it is partially your fault when you are rear ended for not having moved or even noticed the car was coming. I know of several people in ontario who have even received demerit points for failing to avoid, and been fined upwards of 1000$, while sitting oblivious at a red light.
you can pay the cost of the core to keep the core, if for some reason you had sensitive data in your.. oh say water pump.
If apple is going to keep your drive as a core for a remanufactured drive, they sure as shit better give you the value of that part as an auto mechanic would.
And if there is one thing I've learned over the past 6 months (having no prior experience in management), its that if you do up front design, the code is about 10x easier to write for any non-trivial problem. I dont mean going into full uml diagrams and that shit, as my prof in software engineering said "in ten years working in the field I've only ever seen one person willingly write uml specs before programming, they were russian". But coming up with class interfaces and the overall breakdown of the code before writing it, will result in code that is much more modularized and reusable, not to mention easy to write.
That and practice makes perfect. Shit my code from 6 mo's ago is horrifying, and in 6 mo's I'll say that about what I'm writing now. Practice,practice,practice.
The only other thing I can suggest is find a team you enjoy working with. Even if the code is not pretty, at least you can have a good time at work. Thats by far the best part of being in a very high growth startup.;)
Uh.. unfourtunately thats not true and I do think sometime in the near future (12-24 months...) at least some degree of recession will take palec. However, Until then me and my partner who is also 21 years old, just got 4 million in venture capital for our website. No joke.
I concur whole heartedly. I have a 13" macbook, due to the form factor, however if a 12/13" macbook pro was released I would upgrade on my next payday. Price would be a non-issue, since there is no other decent system for this market, and I know its a big market, I know of personally at least 10 people that would jump at a powerful laptop in this form factor.
If they went so far as to allow my to drive two external monitors with it I would be even happier, but i guess thats dreaming:)
filevault can lick my sweaty nat sack. it cant free space until you log out, and when you delete a few movies or iso's out of your home folder your system takes like 45 minutes to shutdown. Personally I'll store my personal info on my fileserver which is secure enough to not have to worry about, and just deal with the dataloss if my laptop is stolen or compromised.
The day UofToronto trys something as assinine as censoring web access, (beyond the obvious attempts to block bittorrent and kazaa), They would have protesters at Kings court Circle the next day. Lets just say I would no longer attend an institution that beleives they have the right to censor what the people who are paying them should see.
I have an HDTV display that can display 1080p but the problem is its first gen so there isnt hdcp over dvi. This is annoying because now, i can either trash the tv or spend another 1000$ on those hdcp remover things or watch my legitimate content degraded by a probably low quality algorithm designed to make it look like shit. why should i have to its my damn tv and HD-dvd or bluray disk!... sigh
I havn't started training yet but from the managers explanation of the work, it seems pretty ridiculous. Ie: returned products must be tested, and when we say it simply wont boot up, it will get back we have to be more specific and say what wont boot up like windows or the hard drive.
I guess it just goes to show you gotta do what you gotta do, at least when you have to pay rent.
Here in Canada, In most of the major cities Ive lived in (Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto) most of the electricity is delivered underground, except in older neighborhoods. Im currently in Toronto and the typical fix to upgrading and repairing is to run another cable along side the existing one with a fancy robotic crawler thing that goes through the pipe the other cables are in. This way, even in a busy downtown street they can run new lines without interupting much of anything.
maybe you americans just aren't as crafty but it seems awefully obvious to me.
In my third year programming languages class, we studied prolog,scheme, and some others but one thing you bring to mind is our assignment: make scheme have classes and inheritence and all that stuff. Wasn't that hard either, when you think about what you are doing.
On the otherhand, I am both shocked, and dismayed that many other universities do not offer such a course.
From what Ive seen this year there has been a distinct lack of games, and the ones out there arent real good. Not to mention everyone i know that used to be hard core gamers no longer have time for it with the last years of university. I think the game developers need to focus on creating a quality game experience, which I hear the Elder scrolls provides, but I've yet to have the time to check it out, hence the problem.
thats my.02c
I have the mediocre at everything hp laserjet 3015, and I love it for the posters purpose, The photo's arent perfect when scanned but at least I can preserve the memory. If you go with this approach you will still be sittin around at the computer but you can watch tv while the scanner goes, just be ready for the boundless number of jams to the ADF (automatic document feeder). Luckily for me I dont shoot film any more, so of my (approx 15000-20000 photos) pictures about 80% are now digital originals backed up in triplicate in multiple geographic regions.
Well, here in Canada where it is not yet a police state, my ISP provides me 100GB a month combined up and down. Not only that I dont get throttled based on what I use it for, and the day they try shit like that Im switching to an alternate provider, as now the gov't has mandated that shaw & rogers allow other companies to use their lines.
That said, I wish I wasnt throttled at 100kb/s or as they like to call it 1mbps (where that comes from is anyones guess...) and 1mb/s down (5mbps in their terms, again no where near accurate try 8mbps or 8.5 maybe after tcp layers and such)
All that and its only like 75 a month after the taxes & cable tv service
If you have ever done any research on universities in canada you would know that lakehead isnt exactly the best school to attend, either academically or otherwise. So this is no real surprise as they are just trying to appeal to some strange subset of youth that think cell phones are dangerous to use so as to boost admissions.
The way I figure at least these people will get a little education, better than not attending a university at all, so let Lakehead have its coffee.
Wouldn't you want something thats lower level? Im not even sure theres much higher a language than python!. perhaps you need to revisit csc108 (into to comp sci).
Go buy the 3.99$ kit from best buy that has a g router and 2 g usb keys. They come out of the box with linux drivers and a link to a site on sourceforge where you can update them/ contribute. The brand is called Blanc (Im in canada btw) and Its a special thats been on since boxing day. Only problem is the router doesnt support static dhcp mappings but nothing my linux box cant handle.
I guess you've personally seen one explode? didnt think so, becasue if you had you would most likely be dead as they pack as much explosive force as a hand grenade.
Btw a high pressure steel scuba tank can be filled to 5250 or more psi depending on the tank, and the filling station.
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They sell studable winter tires, although in many places they are illegal, for the reason you pointed out, plus they destroy the pavement. On the up side, if you can use them, I hear you can stick to ice as if it were pavement. Though with modern winter tires, even 10" of snow isnt a major issue even for most vehicles. I have only had issues in my corolla with Gislavid winter tires when the snow was high enough to start coming up the hood and over the windshied. If i stopped I couldnt get moving forward again wthout reversing and making a running start at it.
Just for the record, us teksavvy customers (I personally have dual connections from them, we like it so much), are getting throttled. As many know teksavvy is now suing bell as this is not part of the contract. Anyways, yes we are getting throttled, and no its not teksavvys fault. If you need an isp, or hate your current isp (I dont know like comwave, cia, rogers,bell,...generic isp here...) switch to teksavvy you will be happy you did! (dont work for them, another happy customer!)
The first thing I thought, and I have thought the idea of analyzing traffic flow on a wide scale could give the individual an edge, as soon as the masses know the way around traffic, the jam will just move. So unless this algorithm can automatically figure out where traffic is stuck, and route the users in many different ways, this will eventually not work. Not to mention that in many cases (ie try entering downtown toronto from etobicoke), there are only so many ways to go. In my example you have some side streets, bloor, eglington, gardiner, lake shore. But they all suck, and if you suggest the small residential roads, you'll probably sit just as long waiting to turn from road to road. I've tried. But if it helps at all its worth it imho, its not my money!
I bought a ps3 when they were actually in short supply last year, and had to return it since my tv doesnt support HDCP. I have a 720p hdtv, that has dvi input, and xbox + hddvd outputs at 1080p no problem, the ps3, wouldnt even work for games, all I got was a black screen, which is known to to occur if the hdcp handshake cannot complete properly.
I dont know if they are going to fix this, but until they do, I'm not buying, my hddvd collection works great and looks great, on this tv and my 1080p projector, not so for bluray.
1. when driving you should be monitoring what is going on behind you as well as in front. That is, when your stopped waiting for something you should have left yourself an escape route, whether it is a side walk, or yard, and watch all around your car. If you should happen to see a car coming behind you its trivial to then move into your safe area. Why this is so difficult for 99% of the population to understand is beyond me. It has saved me from being involved in several accidents, just like not tailgating the person in front of you does when they stop suddenly.
Legally it is partially your fault when you are rear ended for not having moved or even noticed the car was coming. I know of several people in ontario who have even received demerit points for failing to avoid, and been fined upwards of 1000$, while sitting oblivious at a red light.
2. These people are idiots, i totally agree.
you can pay the cost of the core to keep the core, if for some reason you had sensitive data in your.. oh say water pump. If apple is going to keep your drive as a core for a remanufactured drive, they sure as shit better give you the value of that part as an auto mechanic would.
And if there is one thing I've learned over the past 6 months (having no prior experience in management), its that if you do up front design, the code is about 10x easier to write for any non-trivial problem. I dont mean going into full uml diagrams and that shit, as my prof in software engineering said "in ten years working in the field I've only ever seen one person willingly write uml specs before programming, they were russian". But coming up with class interfaces and the overall breakdown of the code before writing it, will result in code that is much more modularized and reusable, not to mention easy to write. That and practice makes perfect. Shit my code from 6 mo's ago is horrifying, and in 6 mo's I'll say that about what I'm writing now. Practice,practice,practice. The only other thing I can suggest is find a team you enjoy working with. Even if the code is not pretty, at least you can have a good time at work. Thats by far the best part of being in a very high growth startup. ;)
Uh.. unfourtunately thats not true and I do think sometime in the near future (12-24 months...) at least some degree of recession will take palec. However, Until then me and my partner who is also 21 years old, just got 4 million in venture capital for our website. No joke.
I concur whole heartedly. I have a 13" macbook, due to the form factor, however if a 12/13" macbook pro was released I would upgrade on my next payday. Price would be a non-issue, since there is no other decent system for this market, and I know its a big market, I know of personally at least 10 people that would jump at a powerful laptop in this form factor.
:)
If they went so far as to allow my to drive two external monitors with it I would be even happier, but i guess thats dreaming
filevault can lick my sweaty nat sack. it cant free space until you log out, and when you delete a few movies or iso's out of your home folder your system takes like 45 minutes to shutdown. Personally I'll store my personal info on my fileserver which is secure enough to not have to worry about, and just deal with the dataloss if my laptop is stolen or compromised.
The day UofToronto trys something as assinine as censoring web access, (beyond the obvious attempts to block bittorrent and kazaa), They would have protesters at Kings court Circle the next day. Lets just say I would no longer attend an institution that beleives they have the right to censor what the people who are paying them should see.
I have an HDTV display that can display 1080p but the problem is its first gen so there isnt hdcp over dvi. This is annoying because now, i can either trash the tv or spend another 1000$ on those hdcp remover things or watch my legitimate content degraded by a probably low quality algorithm designed to make it look like shit. why should i have to its my damn tv and HD-dvd or bluray disk! ... sigh
I havn't started training yet but from the managers explanation of the work, it seems pretty ridiculous. Ie: returned products must be tested, and when we say it simply wont boot up, it will get back we have to be more specific and say what wont boot up like windows or the hard drive. I guess it just goes to show you gotta do what you gotta do, at least when you have to pay rent.
Here in Canada, In most of the major cities Ive lived in (Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto) most of the electricity is delivered underground, except in older neighborhoods. Im currently in Toronto and the typical fix to upgrading and repairing is to run another cable along side the existing one with a fancy robotic crawler thing that goes through the pipe the other cables are in. This way, even in a busy downtown street they can run new lines without interupting much of anything.
maybe you americans just aren't as crafty but it seems awefully obvious to me.
In my third year programming languages class, we studied prolog,scheme, and some others but one thing you bring to mind is our assignment: make scheme have classes and inheritence and all that stuff. Wasn't that hard either, when you think about what you are doing.
On the otherhand, I am both shocked, and dismayed that many other universities do not offer such a course.
If you listen closely in the future i hear a loud BANG! as if a big bubble popped. maybe its just me tho!
From what Ive seen this year there has been a distinct lack of games, and the ones out there arent real good. Not to mention everyone i know that used to be hard core gamers no longer have time for it with the last years of university. I think the game developers need to focus on creating a quality game experience, which I hear the Elder scrolls provides, but I've yet to have the time to check it out, hence the problem. thats my .02c
I have the mediocre at everything hp laserjet 3015, and I love it for the posters purpose, The photo's arent perfect when scanned but at least I can preserve the memory. If you go with this approach you will still be sittin around at the computer but you can watch tv while the scanner goes, just be ready for the boundless number of jams to the ADF (automatic document feeder). Luckily for me I dont shoot film any more, so of my (approx 15000-20000 photos) pictures about 80% are now digital originals backed up in triplicate in multiple geographic regions.
All I have to say is: "I am please to serve the citizens of the City of Tuttle." Guess it is Texas, but sheez, it's called education!
But! Will it bring back the back light in my lcd that crapped out just 10 minutes ago?
Well, here in Canada where it is not yet a police state, my ISP provides me 100GB a month combined up and down. Not only that I dont get throttled based on what I use it for, and the day they try shit like that Im switching to an alternate provider, as now the gov't has mandated that shaw & rogers allow other companies to use their lines.
That said, I wish I wasnt throttled at 100kb/s or as they like to call it 1mbps (where that comes from is anyones guess...) and 1mb/s down (5mbps in their terms, again no where near accurate try 8mbps or 8.5 maybe after tcp layers and such)
All that and its only like 75 a month after the taxes & cable tv service
If you have ever done any research on universities in canada you would know that lakehead isnt exactly the best school to attend, either academically or otherwise. So this is no real surprise as they are just trying to appeal to some strange subset of youth that think cell phones are dangerous to use so as to boost admissions.
The way I figure at least these people will get a little education, better than not attending a university at all, so let Lakehead have its coffee.
cheers
Wouldn't you want something thats lower level? Im not even sure theres much higher a language than python!. perhaps you need to revisit csc108 (into to comp sci).
Go buy the 3.99$ kit from best buy that has a g router and 2 g usb keys. They come out of the box with linux drivers and a link to a site on sourceforge where you can update them/ contribute. The brand is called Blanc (Im in canada btw) and Its a special thats been on since boxing day. Only problem is the router doesnt support static dhcp mappings but nothing my linux box cant handle.
I guess you've personally seen one explode? didnt think so, becasue if you had you would most likely be dead as they pack as much explosive force as a hand grenade.
Btw a high pressure steel scuba tank can be filled to 5250 or more psi depending on the tank, and the filling station.