I'm deeply saddened to read of this incident involving the firefighter. Based on my experiences and observations some 15 years ago from living in the area, there is a deep history of racial tensions and racial segregation among 'whites' and 'blacks' in the area as a whole. Africville, which is now know as Preston/North Preston, generally seen as a community of repressed 'blacks' dating back to the 1900s. Wikipedia has a summary, but if I correctly recall there is a museum in the Halifax area dedicated to explaining the history of the segregation.
In addition, I lived in the Coal Harbour area of Halifx/Dartmouth and left some 15 years ago. I was witness to the first (of now several) riots that broke out at Cole Harbour High School. The first riot was certainly racially motivated, and the later ones from CBC accounts were as well.
The tentativeness of this 'news' seems important. Goes up on a Sunday before markets open. I'd hate to say it, I wouldn't put it past a competitor to drop a rumor like this as a kick in the nuts.
The iPad competitor based on WebOS has me chuckling and dreaming of the possibilities. Steve will be so livid to see this happen I'll be LOL'ing.
Its too bad some cell phones are locked down so much. If price for WebOS wouldn't be so bloody high, would make a really nice project to open source.
From what I've understood, iPhone apps can only be made with XCode. It seems to me that this is also a great way to suck people into Macs. And to properly test your app, you also have to buy an iPhone or iPod touch. And I'm sure people will want to make iPad apps to which requires buying one too. So sure, XCode is free, but to develop the apps, its going to cost over $1500 (if you don't already own a Mac). You still need to make a return on that to recoup investment.
Seems that as long as you own a PC, the Android and Nokia SDKs are more accessible to Devs and you can make the apps in Nix or Windows AFAIK.
Even as Sierra became a bigger game company (up until say 1995), the games they made were somewhat risque and I think they were able to try it out simply because of the low(er) budget constraints. I won't say their adventure games were cheap to make relative to industry costs but, I think games of this sort are more sustainable than the latest 3-D shooter. Without the smaller budgets, we might not have seen games like Police Quest, Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry (don't get me started on the newer 3-D games. I love Wing Commander 1 and 2 and X-Wing fighter. I don't think any newer games I've played have been as memorable as any newer games I've played.
Safe yourself some effort. Quit using manual transmission and get automatic. That way, you can at least get more work done. Or use the knee to change the radio instead.
Its like with Kim Jong-Il. When the old man croaks no one is sure (yet anyways) who will replace him. There is a concern that the successor will be worse.
Murdoch is pushing 80 now. I don't know how much longer he'll be around, but with the extreme views he's promoted on FOX, I'm concerned of the successor - and more importantly, the outcome it will have on future U.S. elections.
I am Canadian but I do watch American news network shows on occasion - entire broadcasts not just YouTube clips.
Funny, before to be a complete ass-hat and douche-bag award winner, there were several career choices and prospects.
Now all you have to do is get a talk-show radio gig or a TV gig that allows you to vent your non-newsworthy anger, opinion and non-sense. Once you get a faithful audience - your anger and opinions rub onto them. The nice community spirit this makes.
Its an unfortunate turn of events. I really like the old-school investigative reporters. They were often criticized on their business and science stories because they aren't experts in the field. But, compared to the crap we have now, its not even an attempt at being professional. Reminds me of the high-school cafeteria.
I loved the Minidisc. The battery life was nothing short of phenomenal as well. It was too bad the format died off. I'd like to see it come back. I've seen some stereo decks that have MD players on them. I would LOVE if my entire music collection were on MD. It would save space and there'd be less chance of scratching and other problems with CDs.
It was the *software* to upload the bloody songs onto the MD that also drove me mad. Sony should have hired better programmers to make the software and management should have removed some of the restrictions on the format.
There was an interview with a (younger) Sony exec I remember reading... I think he was in consumer electronics division. He was well aware of the great technologies Sony had made and he'd always been trying to convince the higher-ups to help out. Those execs were much older, didn't understand technology and wanted to protect all other divisions of Sony - music and movie especially. Shame, they'd have a ton more sales from me.
All I can say is I'm glad the new Splinter Cell for PC has been delayed until the end of the month. I'm hoping they've been able to resolve some of the DRM issues before it goes to Gold.
I'd say this is probably the only game I'm looking forward to. If it doesn't work well, I might have to resort to getting a PS3. I'll miss playing games on my PC though.
Worse yet, to get around this situation and protect your Windows data, you could use an encrypted hard-drive. Now it won't prevent someone from adding a new hard-drive nor hacking your system from the Net. But a 'properly' secured system with an encrypted file system would leave you in a really bad position. You'd now have to reveal your password. And I'm willing to bet, they'll make an excuse of finding anything, simply because if you're using a password - then you must really be hiding something.
I held back on paying SCO for licensing since I've been using a Linux desktop for a while on my personal desktop. I couldn't stand it anymore - sleepless nights, the shakes, sweating, and I took up smoking and booze. I was about to rip out the credit card today after work and pay them. Good thing I read Slashdot first!
All sarcasm. Of course its inconvenient, expensive and wasteful! I was advocating charging $20 a CD and keep on ordering them like they candy!!!!!!
The GP is correct that we do need a practical, (more) secure internet banking system. Even if we're not the victims of fraud, we all pay out of pocket for it. And what if your account is wiped and it takes 2 weeks or more to get it back? I'd like to minimize the risks.
I just never bothered signing up for a Facebook account. I'm 30-something. From talking to friends and co-workers that have FB, its either to stay in contact with the BFF (best-friend-forever), because you run a business (or the company you work for) that requires a lot of public exposure to generate money and a reputation, or everyone just asks you do it.
Even though I'd have quite a few people in my profile, the only advantage would be that I could easily reach people outside of where I live. But there's not a lot of people in that category that I know well enough. There's just way way way too much info that goes into these profiles its too dangerous. It just takes one person who knows someone who knows someone who knows *YOU* to spoil everything. I've heard there's still the option of 'private invite only', but someone will have to convince me why this might be a good idea.
IMO, the whole thing just feels like all the GFs I've had that want to "talk on the phone" with me or any other guys their dating for 2 hours asking "what are you doing?" - this just seems like a "What are you doing?" for everybody you know and don't know + your GF.
I like where your argument is headed, but I think there is a much simpler way to do this without ever having to call a telephone. It will still use the much less complicated CD method and will make an extra source of revenue for the bank. What is it?
Only one login-in per CD - you can only use the CD once and then CD expires. You need to keep these CDs secure and when you want to log in and you're out of CDs - you only have to order more CDs.
Since the CD has a custom build OS, it should be set at a reasonable price to account for the fact an OS is on the CD. $20 wouldn't be a bad deal. And you don't have to worry about remembering tricky passwords or key phrases.
You just might have to work a few more hours to make up for this convenience. But for any items of convenience, when do we not spend money?
That's exactly the problem. Super Mario Brothers 1,2,3 is all based on violent, criminal acts such as: Kidnapping, extortion, killing/murder (stomping on the bad guys), and last assault with a deadly weapon (whilst shooting fireballs).
I haven't played all the Mario games. Mario Sunshine seems to have toned down the violence a bit and made it all cutesy.
It all unfortunately comes down to the language, tone and upbringing of the regulators. At most points where they decide to ban something, its already been decided. They'll rig all the media, committee hearings, manipulate the truth all to get to their objective.
I think the term "Statistics" has become too general that people don't understand how complicated it can be. People think of Statistics as Bob saying to Alice - "Get me the stats on this weeks' sales." Alice just goes digging around and gets Bob the total sales in $, # of units sold.... etc. People don't understand or know of the concepts that are involved in polling, they just thing they called 2,000 random people and that's it. That's statistics to the public and many college graduates.
I had to take a few stats courses for my BA. Learning stats is humbling - I know I really know nothing about it now after taking a few courses. The classes I took assumed you have no inkling of the basics of calculus or algebra (much past grade 9 level). I didn't know any calculus - I took some 1000 level Algebra but, after graduating a few years ago, I'm teaching my self Calc now and I'm realizing how much less I really understood about Stats at the time.
When people really don't understand the underlying mathematical principles they shouldn't use SPSS or Excel. Heck, if you ask people what 2+2 is, they know the answer. But you tell them to apply X or Y to such and such data set with SPSS, they probably won't investigate the results. Print it out with the report. Done! If you use a Stats program you should understand what your data means, what is happening to your data, what it means when X is applied to your data and what the end result means. I don't think a lot of people are humble enough to say they don't really understand. Little white lies!
This seems like its another attempt at a convergence device, which is really what Apple has become. Apple was touting their iPad as the screen has an IPS pannel. I could see this improving video and graphics quality - for images, games and video. I don't know if this will make it better as an e-book reader.
I don't see this device being a tremendously great e-book reader. I'm waiting for some e-ink ones to come down in price. Nice flashy backlit-LCD screen does not work for me as an ebook reader.
What kind of batter time are you looking at in doing this? As I'm looking to replace a Blackberry 87xx series, the N900 sounds like a nice phone. A bit pricey at that though..!
I know what you're probably thinking. I want to figure out how much they make to start a business. My username probably doesn't help much. I intended to phrase it as a rhetorical question.
Would it really be worth getting your server(s) kicked off the Net as a hosting/ISP in order to make some quick bucks off some guys hosting a bot net instead of pursuing likely bigger paying corporate clients?
I don't know much about this ISP. Maybe this is the only type of business they've tried to acquire in the first place.
Yea, I think so. I seem to remember a post on/. where they said a U.S. telco well north of $100 million (I think they said $1 billion) to upgrade their network. They just kept the money.
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I'm deeply saddened to read of this incident involving the firefighter. Based on my experiences and observations some 15 years ago from living in the area, there is a deep history of racial tensions and racial segregation among 'whites' and 'blacks' in the area as a whole. Africville, which is now know as Preston/North Preston, generally seen as a community of repressed 'blacks' dating back to the 1900s. Wikipedia has a summary, but if I correctly recall there is a museum in the Halifax area dedicated to explaining the history of the segregation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africville,_Nova_Scotia
In addition, I lived in the Coal Harbour area of Halifx/Dartmouth and left some 15 years ago. I was witness to the first (of now several) riots that broke out at Cole Harbour High School. The first riot was certainly racially motivated, and the later ones from CBC accounts were as well.
Here are some links:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2008/03/25/coleharbour-violence.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2008/03/26/coleharbour-suspensions.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2008/03/25/coleharbour-violence.html
The tentativeness of this 'news' seems important. Goes up on a Sunday before markets open. I'd hate to say it, I wouldn't put it past a competitor to drop a rumor like this as a kick in the nuts.
The iPad competitor based on WebOS has me chuckling and dreaming of the possibilities. Steve will be so livid to see this happen I'll be LOL'ing.
Its too bad some cell phones are locked down so much. If price for WebOS wouldn't be so bloody high, would make a really nice project to open source.
From what I've understood, iPhone apps can only be made with XCode. It seems to me that this is also a great way to suck people into Macs. And to properly test your app, you also have to buy an iPhone or iPod touch. And I'm sure people will want to make iPad apps to which requires buying one too. So sure, XCode is free, but to develop the apps, its going to cost over $1500 (if you don't already own a Mac). You still need to make a return on that to recoup investment.
Seems that as long as you own a PC, the Android and Nokia SDKs are more accessible to Devs and you can make the apps in Nix or Windows AFAIK.
Even as Sierra became a bigger game company (up until say 1995), the games they made were somewhat risque and I think they were able to try it out simply because of the low(er) budget constraints. I won't say their adventure games were cheap to make relative to industry costs but, I think games of this sort are more sustainable than the latest 3-D shooter. Without the smaller budgets, we might not have seen games like Police Quest, Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry (don't get me started on the newer 3-D games. I love Wing Commander 1 and 2 and X-Wing fighter. I don't think any newer games I've played have been as memorable as any newer games I've played.
Safe yourself some effort. Quit using manual transmission and get automatic. That way, you can at least get more work done. Or use the knee to change the radio instead.
Last week we pulled out of China, and today we're pulling out of Rupert Murdoch.
If this is carefully explained, this could certainly be a candidate for a quote on a t-shirt.
Apologies to you, if you read replies to your post and had to read that line again. Hopefully you won't have the nightmare again. ;)
Its like with Kim Jong-Il. When the old man croaks no one is sure (yet anyways) who will replace him. There is a concern that the successor will be worse.
Murdoch is pushing 80 now. I don't know how much longer he'll be around, but with the extreme views he's promoted on FOX, I'm concerned of the successor - and more importantly, the outcome it will have on future U.S. elections.
I am Canadian but I do watch American news network shows on occasion - entire broadcasts not just YouTube clips.
Funny, before to be a complete ass-hat and douche-bag award winner, there were several career choices and prospects.
Now all you have to do is get a talk-show radio gig or a TV gig that allows you to vent your non-newsworthy anger, opinion and non-sense. Once you get a faithful audience - your anger and opinions rub onto them. The nice community spirit this makes.
Its an unfortunate turn of events. I really like the old-school investigative reporters. They were often criticized on their business and science stories because they aren't experts in the field. But, compared to the crap we have now, its not even an attempt at being professional. Reminds me of the high-school cafeteria.
I loved the Minidisc. The battery life was nothing short of phenomenal as well. It was too bad the format died off. I'd like to see it come back. I've seen some stereo decks that have MD players on them. I would LOVE if my entire music collection were on MD. It would save space and there'd be less chance of scratching and other problems with CDs.
It was the *software* to upload the bloody songs onto the MD that also drove me mad. Sony should have hired better programmers to make the software and management should have removed some of the restrictions on the format.
There was an interview with a (younger) Sony exec I remember reading ... I think he was in consumer electronics division. He was well aware of the great technologies Sony had made and he'd always been trying to convince the higher-ups to help out. Those execs were much older, didn't understand technology and wanted to protect all other divisions of Sony - music and movie especially. Shame, they'd have a ton more sales from me.
All I can say is I'm glad the new Splinter Cell for PC has been delayed until the end of the month. I'm hoping they've been able to resolve some of the DRM issues before it goes to Gold.
I'd say this is probably the only game I'm looking forward to. If it doesn't work well, I might have to resort to getting a PS3. I'll miss playing games on my PC though.
Will everyone please stop ridiculing this article!
We must "shoot data streams containing 'specialized waveforms and algorithms" or the terrorists win!
Worse yet, to get around this situation and protect your Windows data, you could use an encrypted hard-drive. Now it won't prevent someone from adding a new hard-drive nor hacking your system from the Net. But a 'properly' secured system with an encrypted file system would leave you in a really bad position. You'd now have to reveal your password. And I'm willing to bet, they'll make an excuse of finding anything, simply because if you're using a password - then you must really be hiding something.
I have finally found my inner-peace.
I held back on paying SCO for licensing since I've been using a Linux desktop for a while on my personal desktop. I couldn't stand it anymore - sleepless nights, the shakes, sweating, and I took up smoking and booze. I was about to rip out the credit card today after work and pay them. Good thing I read Slashdot first!
All sarcasm. Of course its inconvenient, expensive and wasteful! I was advocating charging $20 a CD and keep on ordering them like they candy!!!!!!
The GP is correct that we do need a practical, (more) secure internet banking system. Even if we're not the victims of fraud, we all pay out of pocket for it. And what if your account is wiped and it takes 2 weeks or more to get it back? I'd like to minimize the risks.
I just never bothered signing up for a Facebook account. I'm 30-something. From talking to friends and co-workers that have FB, its either to stay in contact with the BFF (best-friend-forever), because you run a business (or the company you work for) that requires a lot of public exposure to generate money and a reputation, or everyone just asks you do it.
Even though I'd have quite a few people in my profile, the only advantage would be that I could easily reach people outside of where I live. But there's not a lot of people in that category that I know well enough. There's just way way way too much info that goes into these profiles its too dangerous. It just takes one person who knows someone who knows someone who knows *YOU* to spoil everything. I've heard there's still the option of 'private invite only', but someone will have to convince me why this might be a good idea.
IMO, the whole thing just feels like all the GFs I've had that want to "talk on the phone" with me or any other guys their dating for 2 hours asking "what are you doing?" - this just seems like a "What are you doing?" for everybody you know and don't know + your GF.
I like where your argument is headed, but I think there is a much simpler way to do this without ever having to call a telephone. It will still use the much less complicated CD method and will make an extra source of revenue for the bank. What is it?
Only one login-in per CD - you can only use the CD once and then CD expires. You need to keep these CDs secure and when you want to log in and you're out of CDs - you only have to order more CDs.
Since the CD has a custom build OS, it should be set at a reasonable price to account for the fact an OS is on the CD. $20 wouldn't be a bad deal. And you don't have to worry about remembering tricky passwords or key phrases.
You just might have to work a few more hours to make up for this convenience. But for any items of convenience, when do we not spend money?
I agree. I just use random words/numbers/phrase as the answer.
Mothers' maiden name:
646782132987651316546
OR
Rain Falling on my window
All work. Of course the phrases or word combinations are so simple. I remember them. Who cares if its the right answer.
That's exactly the problem. Super Mario Brothers 1,2,3 is all based on violent, criminal acts such as: Kidnapping, extortion, killing/murder (stomping on the bad guys), and last assault with a deadly weapon (whilst shooting fireballs).
I haven't played all the Mario games. Mario Sunshine seems to have toned down the violence a bit and made it all cutesy.
It all unfortunately comes down to the language, tone and upbringing of the regulators. At most points where they decide to ban something, its already been decided. They'll rig all the media, committee hearings, manipulate the truth all to get to their objective.
I think the term "Statistics" has become too general that people don't understand how complicated it can be. People think of Statistics as Bob saying to Alice - "Get me the stats on this weeks' sales." Alice just goes digging around and gets Bob the total sales in $, # of units sold .... etc. People don't understand or know of the concepts that are involved in polling, they just thing they called 2,000 random people and that's it. That's statistics to the public and many college graduates.
I had to take a few stats courses for my BA. Learning stats is humbling - I know I really know nothing about it now after taking a few courses. The classes I took assumed you have no inkling of the basics of calculus or algebra (much past grade 9 level). I didn't know any calculus - I took some 1000 level Algebra but, after graduating a few years ago, I'm teaching my self Calc now and I'm realizing how much less I really understood about Stats at the time.
When people really don't understand the underlying mathematical principles they shouldn't use SPSS or Excel. Heck, if you ask people what 2+2 is, they know the answer. But you tell them to apply X or Y to such and such data set with SPSS, they probably won't investigate the results. Print it out with the report. Done! If you use a Stats program you should understand what your data means, what is happening to your data, what it means when X is applied to your data and what the end result means. I don't think a lot of people are humble enough to say they don't really understand. Little white lies!
Starting at page one, photocopy the e-book reader. Continue to the end of the book.
The finished product, you should be able to pass along to the kids. ;)
This seems like its another attempt at a convergence device, which is really what Apple has become. Apple was touting their iPad as the screen has an IPS pannel. I could see this improving video and graphics quality - for images, games and video. I don't know if this will make it better as an e-book reader.
I don't see this device being a tremendously great e-book reader. I'm waiting for some e-ink ones to come down in price. Nice flashy backlit-LCD screen does not work for me as an ebook reader.
What kind of batter time are you looking at in doing this? As I'm looking to replace a Blackberry 87xx series, the N900 sounds like a nice phone. A bit pricey at that though..!
I know what you're probably thinking. I want to figure out how much they make to start a business. My username probably doesn't help much. I intended to phrase it as a rhetorical question.
Would it really be worth getting your server(s) kicked off the Net as a hosting/ISP in order to make some quick bucks off some guys hosting a bot net instead of pursuing likely bigger paying corporate clients?
I don't know much about this ISP. Maybe this is the only type of business they've tried to acquire in the first place.
Any reason "SCOTUS" has SCO in the acronym? ;)
It would be interesting to find out how much money they are being paid though.
Yea, I think so. I seem to remember a post on /. where they said a U.S. telco well north of $100 million (I think they said $1 billion) to upgrade their network. They just kept the money.