With a recent plain-ordinary-development project, I was in the office four days of the week to try and keep an intuitive "handle" for what we were doing, and would save up concentration-dependant tasks for home on Wednesdays. That worked well, for me.
Another engineer worked strictly from home, and had dispropriately more trouble than I.
A third worked from a remote office, and quit our project to work with the people who sat at the next desks.
I suspect this fits one of a family of U-shaped curves, with "bad" at both end of the U and good in the middle, but with quite different shapes for projects with different co-ordoination needs.
Canada has a set of per-province plans that originally covered just major injury, then were upgraded to include proactive doctor visits. The doctors are private, the hospitals are typically from bond drives in the cities and the payments are collected by employers, separate from taxes.
Works reasonably well, and backstops low-cost benefits plans the employers offer, like dental and drug plans.
For example, as a kid my parents paid into the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan, and dad campaigned door to door on a bond drive for the Chatham General Hospital. When I broke my heel, it got fixed in that same hospital, and OHIP paid for it.
In Canada, you can order them from any retailer, or from Kobo.
When I searched Google for "kobo prices" I got the list that I cut and pasted into the article, and a link to https://www.kobo.com/devices/c... that tries to sell you just the expensive stuff.
No, a friend had the android dev and it was grungy. I have an old touch and a new aura one, and both have a nice newish UI that I find pretty good. My only complain is that Rogers, one of our duopoly ISPs, hates Kobo and loves Kindle (hmmn, $ issues perhaps?) and makes me go to the competition's hot-spots to synchronize things.
Regrettably, the courts are aware of the "incidental" creation of copies in each location, as entered into evidence in suits about copyright and copies. They know full well that there is a copy made in RAM in Ireland, then another in the US, then the final copy on the printer in the US, the place where the data is wanted.
If I request a web page from a site in the EU, I don't have to obey EU law, but the server administrator in the EU does. If the EU says "No foreigners may see this", then he can't serve it to me, so I can't import it.
I might really really wish to view it, but if it's in the EU, EU laws apply.
Alas, I usually see the opposite: it's like being in a room full of people, all exclaiming "Ooh! Shiney!" all day.
Only once was a chat useful: a small group of us communicated with team members at a particular customer while trying to debug a problem. And it was a free and trivial chat program, just a reflector for telnet.
Ask a lawyer to write a latter of inquiry to the city's in-house counsel. A polite question from godlike being to godlike being as almost as good as one between sysadmins (;-))
I love it when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (colloquially "the horsemen") catch crooked nerds. They look so surprised when the horse shoulders their door out of the way!
As to the specific assertion above, signatures are used by the court in deciding if the credit-cared holder must pay, or if it is fraudulent. See CanlII, Western Currency Exchange Ltd. v. National Bank of Canada, 2002 ABPC 147 at https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/a...
You wrote "Merchants want to get rid of signatures because it's what the credit card companies use to shift the cost of fraud onto the merchants. "
That's the main point I was trying to make.
This is Ross Anderson's security group at Cambridge, UK, who were the first folks to note that the signature requirement was so the customer was protected, not the bank.
Probably by frustrating the police like crazy on one hand (when looking for a particular person) but on the other hand making it easy for them to lay false charges (when they have a person they want to blame already).
Sure, but the question was could the community produce something as good at those two guys? Bearing in mind that the community still includes folks like David Patterson and Carlo Séquin, I think that's trivially true (;-))
No, they stood on the shoulders of the work of the engineers who came before them.
And yes, there were hundreds in the history of the project, just not all at one time. SPARC started out as the "Berkeley RISC" project, which also had two leading proponents, David Patterson and Carlo Séquin, qv.
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With a recent plain-ordinary-development project, I was in the office four days of the week to try and keep an intuitive "handle" for what we were doing, and would save up concentration-dependant tasks for home on Wednesdays. That worked well, for me.
Another engineer worked strictly from home, and had dispropriately more trouble than I.
A third worked from a remote office, and quit our project to work with the people who sat at the next desks.
I suspect this fits one of a family of U-shaped curves, with "bad" at both end of the U and good in the middle, but with quite different shapes for projects with different co-ordoination needs.
0.5%: Thanks!
North American companies used to quote my customers about 3%. EU ones quoted andout 1/2%, but wouldn't or couldn't do business in the US and Canada.
Tried hard, always worrried about next year, not next quarter, and got punished for it.
Canada has a set of per-province plans that originally covered just major injury, then were upgraded to include proactive doctor visits. The doctors are private, the hospitals are typically from bond drives in the cities and the payments are collected by employers, separate from taxes.
Works reasonably well, and backstops low-cost benefits plans the employers offer, like dental and drug plans.
For example, as a kid my parents paid into the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan, and dad campaigned door to door on a bond drive for the Chatham General Hospital. When I broke my heel, it got fixed in that same hospital, and OHIP paid for it.
In Canada, you can order them from any retailer, or from Kobo.
When I searched Google for "kobo prices" I got the list that I cut and pasted into the article, and a link to https://www.kobo.com/devices/c... that tries to sell you just the expensive stuff.
Mr Google is your friend (;-))
No, a friend had the android dev and it was grungy. I have an old touch and a new aura one, and both have a nice newish UI that I find pretty good. My only complain is that Rogers, one of our duopoly ISPs, hates Kobo and loves Kindle (hmmn, $ issues perhaps?) and makes me go to the competition's hot-spots to synchronize things.
Kobo uses DRM if and only if the author or publisher requires its use.
About 80% of the books I have on my Kobo Touch are ordinary .epub with no DRM.
--dave
[Full disclosure: Kobo is a fomer customer of mine. I worked with them because they aren't DRM-happy]
..l. but not from Wally-mart (whom I quite dislike, but don't attribute VidAngel to)
No way are they "at least $120"
Kobo is a customer of mine, and I have both a Touch and a top-line Aura one.
In 80-cent Canadian dollars the prices are:
Kobo Mini. $59.99
Kobo Touch. $99.99
Kobo Glo. $129.99
Kobo Glo HD. $129.99
Kobo Touch 2.0. $129.99
Kobo Aura. $149.99
Kobo Aura HD. $169.99
Kobo Aura H2O. $179.99
Expect cheaper in the 'States, and even cheaper at Wallmart.
Regrettably, the courts are aware of the "incidental" creation of copies in each location, as entered into evidence in suits about copyright and copies. They know full well that there is a copy made in RAM in Ireland, then another in the US, then the final copy on the printer in the US, the place where the data is wanted.
If I request a web page from a site in the EU, I don't have to obey EU law, but the server administrator in the EU does. If the EU says "No foreigners may see this", then he can't serve it to me, so I can't import it.
I might really really wish to view it, but if it's in the EU, EU laws apply.
Alas, I usually see the opposite: it's like being in a room full of people, all exclaiming "Ooh! Shiney!" all day.
Only once was a chat useful: a small group of us communicated with team members at a particular customer while trying to debug a problem. And it was a free and trivial chat program, just a reflector for telnet.
Ask a lawyer to write a latter of inquiry to the city's in-house counsel. A polite question from godlike being to godlike being as almost as good as one between sysadmins (;-))
Free Aaron Schwartz!
Hmmn, perhaps we can petition God for a new life for him. Maybe upload him to one of IBM's Watson computers?
I love it when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (colloquially "the horsemen") catch crooked nerds. They look so surprised when the horse shoulders their door out of the way!
You can't prove anything of the sort... .
As to the specific assertion above, signatures are used by the court in deciding if the credit-cared holder must pay, or if it is fraudulent. See CanlII, Western Currency Exchange Ltd. v. National Bank of Canada, 2002 ABPC 147 at https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/a...
No, it isn't. The signature is only there to prove that YOU aren't commiting fraud, so you get a refund of the money taken from you.
You wrote "Merchants want to get rid of signatures because it's what the credit card companies use to shift the cost of fraud onto the merchants. " That's the main point I was trying to make.
Seek legal advice
If you sign, you can prove it if someone forges your signature.
It's not for the bank or the merchant: merchants want to get rid of them, so they won't have to repay false charges.
PINs and the like are way too insecure: for example, see https://www.lightbluetouchpape...
See Chip and PIN is broken, https://www.lightbluetouchpape...
A follow-up was Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack, https://www.lightbluetouchpape...
This is Ross Anderson's security group at Cambridge, UK, who were the first folks to note that the signature requirement was so the customer was protected, not the bank.
Probably by frustrating the police like crazy on one hand (when looking for a particular person) but on the other hand making it easy for them to lay false charges (when they have a person they want to blame already).
--dave
[English, ambiguity is your middle name]
Sure, but the question was could the community produce something as good at those two guys? Bearing in mind that the community still includes folks like David Patterson and Carlo Séquin, I think that's trivially true (;-))
No, they stood on the shoulders of the work of the engineers who came before them. And yes, there were hundreds in the history of the project, just not all at one time. SPARC started out as the "Berkeley RISC" project, which also had two leading proponents, David Patterson and Carlo Séquin, qv.