If you are the kind of person who would fall for this thing, then you shouldn't even have an internet banking login. If you can't handle it, don't use it.
Do you think that's really the reason? Correlation does not equal causation. It could be because they mostly try to push themselves as a savings bank, and therefore scare off the people who aren't smart enough to save any money. Maybe it's because they're online only, and therefore scare away a lot of users who aren't web-savvy enough to avoid phishing sites. I think this says a lot more about their clients then about their uber-fantastico online login procedures.
Why not go into the coop programme? In the end, it takes an extra semester or two to complete your degree, but with that, you get a lot of job experience, and a lot less debt. I would really question the usefulness of getting a tech degree without any coop experience. If your school doesn't have a coop program, then your school, quite frankly, sucks. I'm not aware of any schools that don't offer coop programs. I'm not saying that all students are rich, but that the top students at the top tech university in the country probably don't have too much to worry about if they budget their money correctly.
I don't think we need broadcast radio anymore. Most new cars have Audio in Jacks, or iPod specific jacks. Or you could just use the old cassette deck with those snazzy adapters. Just download the podcast of your choice, and plug into your stereo system.
Finally, these bands are starting to figure it out. No, not the whole online distribution thing, but the how to do it well thing. I think this is the first offer I've seen like this where you can actually listen to it and sample without opting for the free download. Also, the pricing seems right. $5 for the download album is pretty respectible. However, $10 for the 2CD set makes it really tempting to get the actual CD.
Only having experience with UofOttawa myself, I'd have to quite a agree at the quality of computer science programmes. However, you may want to take a look at the software engineering programmes. Personally I think that a software engineering degree can prepare you much better than a comp sci program for real world programming. Now I could be a little bias, because I have a degree in software engineering. However based on what I've seen from the two disciplines, and the people I've met in both programmes, I'd have to say that software engineering is by far the better programme.
That's what I do, except I don't watch the late night shows. I just watch the shows I would usually watch in the evening, 8-11 PM, and use my time from 8-11 on stuff that I wouldn't be able to do on the bus.
I wouldn't really say that. I'm a Canadian, and most of our students aren't dirt poor. If these really are the best students, they probably have a scholarship covering their most of their tuition. Not only that, tution is probably only around $6000 a year. Not bad for the best tech school in the country. Also, being that they are the best students, they probably get the best co-op placements. If you have a reasonable sized scholarship, and get a good co-op placement, you could probably get through without having any loans.
I think it has a lot to do with it. Japan, which is often claimed to have internet connections, has a population of 127 million, in an area the size of California. Tokyo has a population density of 5796 people / km2. New York only has a population density of 155 people / km2. When you're dealing with that kind of population density, it becomes much more economical to offer fibre optic service. People in Asia/Europe don't really understand how large and sparse Canada and the US are. And I don't think we really quite understand, just how densely packed they are.
That's right. How is that worse than the American system though? There's lots of people paying tons of money, via insurance premiums, who still get mediocre care, or none at all, because they filled in a form incorrectly. Sure people with lots of money can afford the best care, and get the best doctors. But that's a very small percentage of the population. Everyone else is stuck with pretty bad health care. Which not only affects those without, or with bad, health care but those who are rich, because they have tons of people walking around the streets sick, because they can't afford treatment, or because the companies they run have lower productivity because people are sick, or the companies they run have reduced profits, because they have to pay for the insurance premiums.
Let's all remember. 99.99% uptime means that the system is down for a total of 1 hour over the entire year. Hopefully, that hour is spread out over the entire year, but either way, that's pretty good service. if you want 99.99999, which equates to only 5 minutes of downtime in a year, you are going to have to pay for it. Would the extra 55 minutes of uptime make a difference to most people? Probably not. And definitely not enough for the difference in price.
Exactly. They can produce 1, 3 foot by 6 foot sheets per day. Granted they could create more machines, and have more companies producing it, but at current rates, it would take far too long to produce anywhere near the necessary amount to be able to use this in commercial applications.
One good reason is that aluminum is a limited resource. Although there's lots of it around, current estimates show that it will only last for about 200 more years ( source). That may seem like quite a long time, but it probably wouldn't hurt to start investigating alternatives before we run out.
Same for me. Added half an hour of battery life, and probably an hour of actual working time, since I'm not waiting around for Vista to do whatever it is Vista spends all it's time doing. Even with all the stuff they added, I'm still not sure how they made it so slow.
Have any of those "inventions" been patented though? A lot of those systems are much older than software patents also. RDBMS was first proposed in 1970. Although object oriented programming wasn't really used mucn until the 90's, the ideas for it originated in the 60's.
We could have MP3 playback, but not DVD playback. DVD playback of protected DVDs (in the US at least) requires breaking of the DMCA. Abolishing patents would not solve this. Granted, there are legal ways to play back DVDs on Linux, but most people who use Linux don't want to pay to pay the licensing fee. You have to pay the licensing fee on Windows, or on any other implementation. So I don't see the reason you shouldn't have to pay for it on Linux.
Stuff like this never really makes an impact until somebody important gets hit. I remember one reporter sent a copy of the Minister of Privacy's phone records to her, just to show her how easily you could get ahold of somebody's supposedly private phone records, for just a small fee.
It may be too late. They probably hired someone else instead, and didn't even tell you why you didn't get the job (because they think you died??). Seems to me that if they are doing verification on your SSN, it should show up why your number is invalid (like because you're dead). In that case, it would seem that they might just check up, since they recently interviewed you, to see if there was some mistake in the verification.
I've seen very few (if any) software patents that actually included an implementation. Not only that, but how far do you have to deviate from the given implementation or order to get around the patent, or make something else that can be repatented? There's probably hundreds of ways to write a merge sort, that in the end, produce the same result, with about the same efficency (as far as Big-O notation is concerned). You can rearrange certain steps, or just change some trivial things and still end up with the same result. Even wikipedia states that there are several ways of writing the actual "merge" function of mergesort.
I've had my Walmart Special Acer since September. Never had a problem with it. Probably one of the better laptops you could get for $500. Granted, if you run the stock Windows Vista that comes with it, it's slow as molasses in January, but if if you pop a nice Linux distro on it (Mandrive in my case) it becomes quite a good machine.
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If you are the kind of person who would fall for this thing, then you shouldn't even have an internet banking login. If you can't handle it, don't use it.
Do you think that's really the reason? Correlation does not equal causation. It could be because they mostly try to push themselves as a savings bank, and therefore scare off the people who aren't smart enough to save any money. Maybe it's because they're online only, and therefore scare away a lot of users who aren't web-savvy enough to avoid phishing sites. I think this says a lot more about their clients then about their uber-fantastico online login procedures.
Why not go into the coop programme? In the end, it takes an extra semester or two to complete your degree, but with that, you get a lot of job experience, and a lot less debt. I would really question the usefulness of getting a tech degree without any coop experience. If your school doesn't have a coop program, then your school, quite frankly, sucks. I'm not aware of any schools that don't offer coop programs. I'm not saying that all students are rich, but that the top students at the top tech university in the country probably don't have too much to worry about if they budget their money correctly.
Well, if all you have is FM radio, you can still transmit from your iPod to your car stereo via the FM transmitters you can buy.
I don't think we need broadcast radio anymore. Most new cars have Audio in Jacks, or iPod specific jacks. Or you could just use the old cassette deck with those snazzy adapters. Just download the podcast of your choice, and plug into your stereo system.
Finally, these bands are starting to figure it out. No, not the whole online distribution thing, but the how to do it well thing. I think this is the first offer I've seen like this where you can actually listen to it and sample without opting for the free download. Also, the pricing seems right. $5 for the download album is pretty respectible. However, $10 for the 2CD set makes it really tempting to get the actual CD.
Canadian obviously. Didn't you read the summary?
We all know that happened the last time we tried to develop a plane in Canada.
Probably the same people that think Barry is in Northern Ontario.
Only having experience with UofOttawa myself, I'd have to quite a agree at the quality of computer science programmes. However, you may want to take a look at the software engineering programmes. Personally I think that a software engineering degree can prepare you much better than a comp sci program for real world programming. Now I could be a little bias, because I have a degree in software engineering. However based on what I've seen from the two disciplines, and the people I've met in both programmes, I'd have to say that software engineering is by far the better programme.
That's what I do, except I don't watch the late night shows. I just watch the shows I would usually watch in the evening, 8-11 PM, and use my time from 8-11 on stuff that I wouldn't be able to do on the bus.
I wouldn't really say that. I'm a Canadian, and most of our students aren't dirt poor. If these really are the best students, they probably have a scholarship covering their most of their tuition. Not only that, tution is probably only around $6000 a year. Not bad for the best tech school in the country. Also, being that they are the best students, they probably get the best co-op placements. If you have a reasonable sized scholarship, and get a good co-op placement, you could probably get through without having any loans.
I think it has a lot to do with it. Japan, which is often claimed to have internet connections, has a population of 127 million, in an area the size of California. Tokyo has a population density of 5796 people / km2. New York only has a population density of 155 people / km2. When you're dealing with that kind of population density, it becomes much more economical to offer fibre optic service. People in Asia/Europe don't really understand how large and sparse Canada and the US are. And I don't think we really quite understand, just how densely packed they are.
That's right. How is that worse than the American system though? There's lots of people paying tons of money, via insurance premiums, who still get mediocre care, or none at all, because they filled in a form incorrectly. Sure people with lots of money can afford the best care, and get the best doctors. But that's a very small percentage of the population. Everyone else is stuck with pretty bad health care. Which not only affects those without, or with bad, health care but those who are rich, because they have tons of people walking around the streets sick, because they can't afford treatment, or because the companies they run have lower productivity because people are sick, or the companies they run have reduced profits, because they have to pay for the insurance premiums.
Let's all remember. 99.99% uptime means that the system is down for a total of 1 hour over the entire year. Hopefully, that hour is spread out over the entire year, but either way, that's pretty good service. if you want 99.99999, which equates to only 5 minutes of downtime in a year, you are going to have to pay for it. Would the extra 55 minutes of uptime make a difference to most people? Probably not. And definitely not enough for the difference in price.
Maybe the carbon nanotube sheets are made out of, oh, I don't know, carbon? Seems to me there's no shortage of that stuff..
Exactly. They can produce 1, 3 foot by 6 foot sheets per day. Granted they could create more machines, and have more companies producing it, but at current rates, it would take far too long to produce anywhere near the necessary amount to be able to use this in commercial applications.
One good reason is that aluminum is a limited resource. Although there's lots of it around, current estimates show that it will only last for about 200 more years ( source). That may seem like quite a long time, but it probably wouldn't hurt to start investigating alternatives before we run out.
Same for me. Added half an hour of battery life, and probably an hour of actual working time, since I'm not waiting around for Vista to do whatever it is Vista spends all it's time doing. Even with all the stuff they added, I'm still not sure how they made it so slow.
Have any of those "inventions" been patented though? A lot of those systems are much older than software patents also. RDBMS was first proposed in 1970. Although object oriented programming wasn't really used mucn until the 90's, the ideas for it originated in the 60's.
We could have MP3 playback, but not DVD playback. DVD playback of protected DVDs (in the US at least) requires breaking of the DMCA. Abolishing patents would not solve this. Granted, there are legal ways to play back DVDs on Linux, but most people who use Linux don't want to pay to pay the licensing fee. You have to pay the licensing fee on Windows, or on any other implementation. So I don't see the reason you shouldn't have to pay for it on Linux.
Stuff like this never really makes an impact until somebody important gets hit. I remember one reporter sent a copy of the Minister of Privacy's phone records to her, just to show her how easily you could get ahold of somebody's supposedly private phone records, for just a small fee.
It may be too late. They probably hired someone else instead, and didn't even tell you why you didn't get the job (because they think you died??). Seems to me that if they are doing verification on your SSN, it should show up why your number is invalid (like because you're dead). In that case, it would seem that they might just check up, since they recently interviewed you, to see if there was some mistake in the verification.
I've seen very few (if any) software patents that actually included an implementation. Not only that, but how far do you have to deviate from the given implementation or order to get around the patent, or make something else that can be repatented? There's probably hundreds of ways to write a merge sort, that in the end, produce the same result, with about the same efficency (as far as Big-O notation is concerned). You can rearrange certain steps, or just change some trivial things and still end up with the same result. Even wikipedia states that there are several ways of writing the actual "merge" function of mergesort.
I've had my Walmart Special Acer since September. Never had a problem with it. Probably one of the better laptops you could get for $500. Granted, if you run the stock Windows Vista that comes with it, it's slow as molasses in January, but if if you pop a nice Linux distro on it (Mandrive in my case) it becomes quite a good machine.