They do have a great Co-op program. I went to UOttawa and our co-op program is really good also. It would be even better if the Waterloo students didn't take all the jobs in Ottawa. One Semester on, one semester off is a great way to work your way through school, and it doesn't end up taking much longer than the traditional way. Plus, your school's co-op program can open up connections and get you interviews that you most likely wouldn't be able to get on you own. Also, graduating with a couple years experience is worth a large chunk of money by itself.
For Linux you can just encrypt your swap partition on start up. It creates a random key each time it boots up, so there's no way to recover the data, because the key is lost when you powerdown the machine. I'm not sure if you can create an encrypted swap file on windows. I don't think you can, but you can run without a swap file. Get 4 gigs of RAM, and you should be fine.
Exactly, you don't have to get the college loans. I know people who worked their way though university and never took a loan out. And that was in Engineering, where we had 25 hours of classes and labs a week, plus probably another minimum 10-15 hours a week of work to day outside of going to classes. It would have been much easier for someone in arts who only had 15 hours of classes. It's a little different because I live in Canada, however, I've compared tuition rates, and the price of tuition for a state school is about the same as most Canadian universities. Sure you won't be able to go to Harvard, but not everybody is entitled to everything.
There's a difference between not voting and voting for one side or the other. If I don't vote for anybody, party A is no further and neither is party B. However, if I vote for Party A, then they now have 1 more vote than party B. Party B now has to find 1 person to vote on their side to make it even again, or 2 people to actually get back ahead of party A.
Upon reading the summary, I thought the exact same thing. She already has a pile of money, can't she just let it go? It's not like she's a starving artist here. Plus there's still 2 more movies for her to make money off of.
You don't have to prove you're innocent, they have to prove you are guilty. If the data is cryptographically random, they can't prover there's any data there. This works for the hidden truecrypt partition, as well as the random data you wrote over your hard drive with.
I think the big important part of your post is the trackball. I use a trackball at home and at work, even though I have a large desk in both, and a full desktop computer. I find it nice that it doesn't take up a significant portion of the desk, and that you don't have to constantly re-adjust the position of it. If you are trying to trace a picture in photoshop to cut it out, it's nice to not have to stop your cutting because you've reached the edge of the desk.
However, if you have both gas and diesel, both of which are petroleum products, you can now talk about either one with the same word. As in, the gas station doesn't sell gas, but gasoline and diesel. So, they just say it sells petrol, and be done with it.
Most of the time, when we see companies try to diversify, and go outside their area of expertise, they end up doing a really poor job at it, and losing a lot of money in the process, or even if they get a profit, the money spent to obtain the profit could have been better invested in their core business, and returned a bigger profit. Look at some examples like the Zune, XBox, and Corel Linux. Plus there's other examples of places where a company gets too many products and has internal conflicts ruining it's own products. One example of this would be Sony creating great portable music devices, in terms of hardware and features, but that are completely ruined by all the DRM they throw into them, just to satisfy their entertainment division.
Not really. Let's look at Oracle's core business. Databases. They currently have a super huge enterprise level database and that's about it. If they really wanted to corner the market on databases, they would put out products to compete with Access, SQLLite, as well as an object oriented database. Or maybe they do have these products, but they just aren't that popular. But them they just need to do more marketing. There's plenty of ways to expand your customer base, without creating completely different products, outside your realm of expertise. Cisco used to only make heavy duty routers and switches for businesses. Then they went and bought Linksys, and now they are selling routers for the home market. See how that works?
At the lowest level you are correct. However, what is the reason for people wanting to buy the stock vs. sell the stock. Sure what it really comes down to is that they believe that they will be able to sell the stock for a higher price at some later date, but there has to be some product behind it, or it will eventually collapse, like the dot com bubble. People actually thought all those dot com companies were worth something, and had a chance of selling some kind of product, otherwise, they would have never bought the stock in the first place.
It seems to me that there's a big problem with getting them to the right place. I know of many shops in my area that display the "Wii in stock" sign at all times. I got mine about 6 months back by just walking into a shop that just happened to get them in stock. I think this is the best way to go about it. Whenever you are in, or near a shop that sells the Wii, you should stop in and see if they have any. You will probably get one pretty quickly. I only went to about 1 shop a week, since the Wii started selling, and I got one in March. I wasn't really looking that hard, but if you aren't checking every time you are at a store, you are going to be waiting a very long time before you get one.
I don't think that something like this would take over as the standard form of input, however, it could be useful for doing things like presentations. Imagine if you were in a small meeting, with about 5 people, and each one had a wiimote, and each one was able to draw things on the screen. Somebody watching a presentation could point the wiimote at a diagram to show everyone exactly what part he was asking a question about. Just because it isn't the best solution in all cases, doesn't mean it's can't be a good solution for some cases. And considering that wiimotes are quite cheap, it could work out as a very good solution.
That is true. Like they say, it takes a village. If the parents are the only ones taking any responsibility then it makes the parents' jobs much more difficult. What happens when the child is at school, or at the local library, or at an internet cafe, or anywhere else? It becomes extremely difficult to do your job when everyone else is working against you, whether that job is raising a child, or doing any other task.
Just because they have a new API for getting the random numbers, it doesn't mean that they are using different algorithms for generating those random numbers. Also, they much still have the old APIs in there, otherwise, a lot of programs would fail to work. Since most of the software out there was written pre-Vista, and written to run on Vista, XP, and 2000, it's conceivable that applications on these operating systems are using the vulnerable code.
I picked up a similar laptop around the back to school rush for about $CDN 450. It's a really great laptop. Came with 14.1 inch screen, and 512 MB of ram, but I think everything else was the same. Great little laptop. It was painfully slow with the preinstalled Vista, but I'm running Mandriva with CompizFusion and it works great. The only downside is the battery is only good for about 2-2.5 hours. But I mostly just use it at home one the couch, so really, it actually fits my needs very well.
But when everybody is driving 40 km/h over the limit, the limit needs to be adjusted to affect reality, otherwise, they could charge anybody at any time. Plus, that's getting dangerously close to the new 50 km/h street racing laws.
I can't remember which episode it was, but they've had only about 10 shows so far, so it shouldn't be hard for you to track it down in their podcast. The show is really interesting so it's probably worth listening to all their shows.
For that price, there has to be either some philanthropy involved, or just some geekiness in messing around with the machine. I got a laptop that is much better for about $CDN 450. If you just need a laptop, and don't care about giving to third world nations, or the geek appeal, there are many other better options. However, with that said, I think that this concept might sell quite a few laptops.
Wrong, the trojan is not set to autorun, the computer is set to autorun. The trojan just contains files that means it will be autorun if the computer is set to do so. There's a difference here. I don't know how anybody ever thought that having computers automatically run executable programs without any user intervention was a good thing, but personally, I can't see how computers are still configured by default to run any drive you hook up to them.
My biggest problem with both the Radiohead and Saul Williams (which I'm downloading right now) methods for selling music, is that they don't offer samples. So I can't tell if I like the music. In both cases I had to download them for $0, to find out if I liked it. I ended up paying $4 for the Radiohead album, We'll see if I end up paying for the Saul Williams album. I hadn't heard about Saul Williams doing this. If enough artists start doing it, I would really like to see a single consolidated place where you can see all the artists who are willing to support this model.
According to a study by Industry Canada, file sharers actually buy more music than non-file sharers. All file sharing allows people to do is to find music that they like much easier. The more stuff they find that they like, the more money they will spend on music. If you've only ever heard of Britney Spears, because that's all the radio ever plays, then you can't buy that many CDs.
I think the same thing about speeding laws. The fact that you can often drive 120 km/h in a 100 km/h zone, and not get charged 99.9% of the time, yet at some point there will be some cop who needs to meet a quota, and can find hundreds of people to give a ticket to if they choose. I've always thought that speeding laws were stupid. I think they should actually set the speed limit as a limit, possibly with a small margin to account for errors in their readings, and in your speedometer reading. None of this, every drives 140 along the 401, even though the limit is 100.
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They do have a great Co-op program. I went to UOttawa and our co-op program is really good also. It would be even better if the Waterloo students didn't take all the jobs in Ottawa. One Semester on, one semester off is a great way to work your way through school, and it doesn't end up taking much longer than the traditional way. Plus, your school's co-op program can open up connections and get you interviews that you most likely wouldn't be able to get on you own. Also, graduating with a couple years experience is worth a large chunk of money by itself.
For Linux you can just encrypt your swap partition on start up. It creates a random key each time it boots up, so there's no way to recover the data, because the key is lost when you powerdown the machine. I'm not sure if you can create an encrypted swap file on windows. I don't think you can, but you can run without a swap file. Get 4 gigs of RAM, and you should be fine.
Exactly, you don't have to get the college loans. I know people who worked their way though university and never took a loan out. And that was in Engineering, where we had 25 hours of classes and labs a week, plus probably another minimum 10-15 hours a week of work to day outside of going to classes. It would have been much easier for someone in arts who only had 15 hours of classes. It's a little different because I live in Canada, however, I've compared tuition rates, and the price of tuition for a state school is about the same as most Canadian universities. Sure you won't be able to go to Harvard, but not everybody is entitled to everything.
There's a difference between not voting and voting for one side or the other. If I don't vote for anybody, party A is no further and neither is party B. However, if I vote for Party A, then they now have 1 more vote than party B. Party B now has to find 1 person to vote on their side to make it even again, or 2 people to actually get back ahead of party A.
Upon reading the summary, I thought the exact same thing. She already has a pile of money, can't she just let it go? It's not like she's a starving artist here. Plus there's still 2 more movies for her to make money off of.
You don't have to prove you're innocent, they have to prove you are guilty. If the data is cryptographically random, they can't prover there's any data there. This works for the hidden truecrypt partition, as well as the random data you wrote over your hard drive with.
I think the big important part of your post is the trackball. I use a trackball at home and at work, even though I have a large desk in both, and a full desktop computer. I find it nice that it doesn't take up a significant portion of the desk, and that you don't have to constantly re-adjust the position of it. If you are trying to trace a picture in photoshop to cut it out, it's nice to not have to stop your cutting because you've reached the edge of the desk.
However, if you have both gas and diesel, both of which are petroleum products, you can now talk about either one with the same word. As in, the gas station doesn't sell gas, but gasoline and diesel. So, they just say it sells petrol, and be done with it.
Most of the time, when we see companies try to diversify, and go outside their area of expertise, they end up doing a really poor job at it, and losing a lot of money in the process, or even if they get a profit, the money spent to obtain the profit could have been better invested in their core business, and returned a bigger profit. Look at some examples like the Zune, XBox, and Corel Linux. Plus there's other examples of places where a company gets too many products and has internal conflicts ruining it's own products. One example of this would be Sony creating great portable music devices, in terms of hardware and features, but that are completely ruined by all the DRM they throw into them, just to satisfy their entertainment division.
Not really. Let's look at Oracle's core business. Databases. They currently have a super huge enterprise level database and that's about it. If they really wanted to corner the market on databases, they would put out products to compete with Access, SQLLite, as well as an object oriented database. Or maybe they do have these products, but they just aren't that popular. But them they just need to do more marketing. There's plenty of ways to expand your customer base, without creating completely different products, outside your realm of expertise. Cisco used to only make heavy duty routers and switches for businesses. Then they went and bought Linksys, and now they are selling routers for the home market. See how that works?
At the lowest level you are correct. However, what is the reason for people wanting to buy the stock vs. sell the stock. Sure what it really comes down to is that they believe that they will be able to sell the stock for a higher price at some later date, but there has to be some product behind it, or it will eventually collapse, like the dot com bubble. People actually thought all those dot com companies were worth something, and had a chance of selling some kind of product, otherwise, they would have never bought the stock in the first place.
A laser pen doesn't let you manipulate what's on the screen.
It seems to me that there's a big problem with getting them to the right place. I know of many shops in my area that display the "Wii in stock" sign at all times. I got mine about 6 months back by just walking into a shop that just happened to get them in stock. I think this is the best way to go about it. Whenever you are in, or near a shop that sells the Wii, you should stop in and see if they have any. You will probably get one pretty quickly. I only went to about 1 shop a week, since the Wii started selling, and I got one in March. I wasn't really looking that hard, but if you aren't checking every time you are at a store, you are going to be waiting a very long time before you get one.
I don't think that something like this would take over as the standard form of input, however, it could be useful for doing things like presentations. Imagine if you were in a small meeting, with about 5 people, and each one had a wiimote, and each one was able to draw things on the screen. Somebody watching a presentation could point the wiimote at a diagram to show everyone exactly what part he was asking a question about. Just because it isn't the best solution in all cases, doesn't mean it's can't be a good solution for some cases. And considering that wiimotes are quite cheap, it could work out as a very good solution.
That is true. Like they say, it takes a village. If the parents are the only ones taking any responsibility then it makes the parents' jobs much more difficult. What happens when the child is at school, or at the local library, or at an internet cafe, or anywhere else? It becomes extremely difficult to do your job when everyone else is working against you, whether that job is raising a child, or doing any other task.
Just because they have a new API for getting the random numbers, it doesn't mean that they are using different algorithms for generating those random numbers. Also, they much still have the old APIs in there, otherwise, a lot of programs would fail to work. Since most of the software out there was written pre-Vista, and written to run on Vista, XP, and 2000, it's conceivable that applications on these operating systems are using the vulnerable code.
I picked up a similar laptop around the back to school rush for about $CDN 450. It's a really great laptop. Came with 14.1 inch screen, and 512 MB of ram, but I think everything else was the same. Great little laptop. It was painfully slow with the preinstalled Vista, but I'm running Mandriva with CompizFusion and it works great. The only downside is the battery is only good for about 2-2.5 hours. But I mostly just use it at home one the couch, so really, it actually fits my needs very well.
But when everybody is driving 40 km/h over the limit, the limit needs to be adjusted to affect reality, otherwise, they could charge anybody at any time. Plus, that's getting dangerously close to the new 50 km/h street racing laws.
I can't remember which episode it was, but they've had only about 10 shows so far, so it shouldn't be hard for you to track it down in their podcast. The show is really interesting so it's probably worth listening to all their shows.
For that price, there has to be either some philanthropy involved, or just some geekiness in messing around with the machine. I got a laptop that is much better for about $CDN 450. If you just need a laptop, and don't care about giving to third world nations, or the geek appeal, there are many other better options. However, with that said, I think that this concept might sell quite a few laptops.
Wrong, the trojan is not set to autorun, the computer is set to autorun. The trojan just contains files that means it will be autorun if the computer is set to do so. There's a difference here. I don't know how anybody ever thought that having computers automatically run executable programs without any user intervention was a good thing, but personally, I can't see how computers are still configured by default to run any drive you hook up to them.
Try reading the last sentence of my post.
My biggest problem with both the Radiohead and Saul Williams (which I'm downloading right now) methods for selling music, is that they don't offer samples. So I can't tell if I like the music. In both cases I had to download them for $0, to find out if I liked it. I ended up paying $4 for the Radiohead album, We'll see if I end up paying for the Saul Williams album. I hadn't heard about Saul Williams doing this. If enough artists start doing it, I would really like to see a single consolidated place where you can see all the artists who are willing to support this model.
According to a study by Industry Canada, file sharers actually buy more music than non-file sharers. All file sharing allows people to do is to find music that they like much easier. The more stuff they find that they like, the more money they will spend on music. If you've only ever heard of Britney Spears, because that's all the radio ever plays, then you can't buy that many CDs.
I think the same thing about speeding laws. The fact that you can often drive 120 km/h in a 100 km/h zone, and not get charged 99.9% of the time, yet at some point there will be some cop who needs to meet a quota, and can find hundreds of people to give a ticket to if they choose. I've always thought that speeding laws were stupid. I think they should actually set the speed limit as a limit, possibly with a small margin to account for errors in their readings, and in your speedometer reading. None of this, every drives 140 along the 401, even though the limit is 100.