I'm from Ontario but I always thought they were used interchangeably to describe the same thing. But from talking to relatives that are state side, it sounded like the big prestigious schools referred to themselves as Universities while the smaller time ones were Colleges.
Whereas in Canada, Ontario particularly, a college was a place to learn a skill after high school while University is supposed to be a place of "higher learning" and not of skills for the workforce.
Which leads me to a gripe.
Seems like more and more, our colleges (in Ontario, Canada) teach skills to prep a person for jobs that are hands on and specific. Might as well be an appreticeship.
Universities OTOH, have gone from furthering the cause of higher learning to pumping out cubicle jockeys. A BA in general arts and sciences is pretty much a high school diploma that'll get your foot into the door.
Other than propagating the cycle, what value is there in promoting University over the trades? How many white collar cubicle jockeys can society sustain?
What's worse is that the punishment for actual theft of a DVD (maybe $50 or 3 hours community service) would be way less than the punishment for copyright violation (years in prison and 10k$'s fine). Because illegal filetraders are soooo dangerous to society, and actual thieves are not.
Let's rephrase my OP.
They'll get the lawmakers to change things so that being an accomplice to copyright is a major offence with major punishment penalties.
They'll haul in the one who is running RODI and acting as the go between and throw them to the dogs.
Afterall, there's no need to hide yourself with P2P activities unless you're doing something illegal? Is there?
Conservatives would give money and the country's assets away to their rich friends who were of "old money" and quite often foreign. (I'm thinking Mulroney and corporatization of Canada, Ontario tories and selling the toll highway to Spain)
Liberals are on the hook now for giving money away to rich friends who are of the nouveau riche and usually Canadian. (Chuck Gite might be french, but he's still Canadian)
The NDP would ideally give the money to the have-nots and labour unions.
The Bloc are like the NDP but they only care about Quebecers.
Given all that, I suppose I'd prefer a combination of whigs and NDP'ers. The money would stay in the country and not necesarily be all put in the hands of folks who'd race across the border for cheap smokes, booze and casinos.
I call shenanigans on the part of the premium popping corn companies! Orville Redenbacker is the only one that comes to mind.
Not sure if it was in/. or somewhere else that mentioned that anything not political that ends up in the news is more likely a press release.
As for popping all kernels, a nice pot with a thick bottom, butter and cheap or expensive kernels will pretty much always yield 100% popped kernels if it's stirred right.
But questions of canon aside, if the Time Lords really are gone, leaving no "ultimate authority" over Time, then timestreams can be messed with at will. Eccleston could be retconned out or made the First Doctor, maybe even both - making Rose (the character AND the episode) a temporal paradox. Yeesh, makes the brain hurt....
Anyone catch "Quiet Undead" and heard that thing about a time war?
I'm probably just way too tired with only 4 hours of sleep this weekend, but regardless that this is a series about a time traveller, I'm seeing visions of Captain Archer, Daniels, that ship that was bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, future guy and Trek's temporal cold war rearing its ugly head into this.
Actually we do...they just happen to be as uncommon up here as they are in the States
Indeed. Beyond the ones I have in encased collector sets, you don't see them much.
I came across a couple of circulation coins in the early 90s and spent them. The two clerks at different stores looked at them puzzled, smirked and each pulled coins out of their own pockets totalling 50 cents for the till, pocketed the 50 cent piece and thanked me.
Reading snopes and some more of these posts, I'm glad we have our monopoly money which has their own very distinctive look when they decide to change things around.
Only time I've ever seen people wonder whether a bill is real or not is when they redesign them and some poor clerk is the first to come across it.
Bills looking alike, concurrent support of the same denomination of bill and coin and different variations of the same coin makes (IMO) US currency just a little funnier than our funny money.
It was a good machine to come across during the tv episode drought of the 90s... Other than being mesmerized by all the elements of the story, I don't remember too much about it.
My favourite is the Gotlieb table, Haunted House.
3 levels; basement, main and upstairs. Freaky haunted house noises to draw your attention and fun game play.
I'd say in my mind, the only actors typecast as Doctor Who are Pertwee and Tom Baker. I hear Troughton suffered for being typecast but he was way before my time. No idea how Hartnell was received and Richard Hurndal was at the end of his life when he played Doctor number 1.
Davison is more typecast as "nice guy" characters rather than the Doctor, Colin Baker should be forgetable and besides, he now looks nothing like he did in the 80s. McCoy will always be the goofy guy (kinda like Mr. Noodles on Elmo) but chasing a big orange pipecleaner in the kids art show Vision On. McGann with his prosthetics and fake hair is far enough from his real self that I don't think I look at him as the Doctor.
There are rabid fans of tv shows but I think it's a British thing and not so much so in the US. If he took on more roles in American films, he may avoid worldwide typecasting.
As far as other actors, Connery was James Bond. In my mind, he's more the Captain of the Red October or the Spanish peacock with a Scottish accent... etc. Walter Koenig was Pavel Chekov but shined as Al Bester and I think I'll have trouble seeing him as Chekov in the upcoming ST:NV episode.
I much rather prefer The Edge 102's version....
But enough is enough with beating ourselves and everyone over the head with a 4 or 5 year old Molson ad campaign.
Let the yanks have their flag waving, crest on their shoulders patriotism. I've happily gone back to the cannuck stereotype of being polite and silent yet proud and fierce.
Just a minor quibble, but Bertrand Russell lived from 1872-1970, while Marx lived from 1818-1883, so unless Russell was a remarkably perceptive 11 year old, the Marx quote came first.:)
Gotta love the interweb. I googled "religion opium for the masses" and found a page with Russell's quote as what inspired Marx.
Oh well, back to my Britannica set in my parents' basement.... 8)
We voted for all these unconstitutional laws and so-called leaders.
IIRC, wasn't it great rifts between the rich and the poor that caused revolutions and the toppling of the many powers that be in the past?
Bertrand Russell wrote "Religion in any shape or form, is regarded as pernicious and deliberate falsehood, spread and encouraged by rulers and clerics in their own interests, since it is easier to control over the ignorant." which led to Marx's comment about Religion being the opium to the masses.
It would seem the most successfull religion in the western world, if not the entire world is Capitalism. The rulers are the ones in political power whereas its clerics are the boards and management of corporations.
IMO, communism was a great idea.... on paper. Perenial high school favourite "Animal Farm" shows where it goes wrong.
Capitalism isn't without its pitfalls either as we see it going awry with private corporations in control of the state and its people. The opium here is the belief that anyone can achieve greatness in capitalism if they work hard. However, with monopolies and oligopolies protecting themselves from competition, there's little room at the top for an ever increasing population. Room is there for some competition but if you happen to become moderately good and if you start to threaten them, they shut you down by either buying you out or burying you. With a preference on the buying out since it feeds more into the illusion that anyone and everyone can break out of the ranks of the poor working class.
But, I suppose with every rising and falling of civilizations throughout time, this one will see its end either from an internal revolt or some product(s) of our advancement which our world becomes deeply dependent proves dangerous to us amd kills us off.
It strikes me as ironic that the govt is fighting to put the ten commandments in schools and public places. I wonder what will happen to a generation of students who walk by a sign that says "thou shall not covet" every day. I wonder if it would make a difference in the consumer society?
A media commentator said it best recently in that with America and the neo conservatives, God only loves the rich, powerfull and corporate America.
If you wanted easy to use, you would probably use a Mac instead of Windows anyway.
True. But again back to VHS vs. Betamax...
Macs are easier, had been more expensive and you could only buy from Apple. The mindshare of Wintel surpassed it during the early and important years.
Today, I'd be willing to guess that everyone in the western world uses Windows or has friends/co-workers/colleagues who use Windows or comes across something that uses it.
It's the social gold standard.
There has to be a compelling reason to leave it, minimum to zero learning curve as well as some good publicity. Quite like what's going on now where people are leaving IE for Firefox.
I'm a sysadmin as well as an on-site tech doing home and business calls. I've broached the subject of *NIX on the desktop with a few people who might seem interested but the truth is, as you stated, people want something that just works simply without having to turn the crank, choke, prime and etc...
Last I checked the/. geeks are passionate about their OS but this isn't the star trek universe where the able can bend over backwards to help those that aren't. Until *NIX is as easy as Windows and a slick marketing team is there to promote, it's always going to be a server OS and obscure desktop OS.
Not everyone has the same needs. Some people use Windows to turn their PC into a game console to play Doom 3, but others will spend their time playing Minesweeper or Solitarie. Guess what... any Linux desktop has those small games and a dozen more.
If you use your computer for web browsing, e-mail and the occasional small game or odd letter, Linux is just fine. If he has to actually maintain that person's PC anyway, it is easier to do that with Linux than with Windows XP Home or something like that.
About all the people I come across as a freelance computer tech are either using their machines with software that doesn't exist or would take too much work to get running in Linux or they're so comfortable with the default do everything for you without having to think method of Windows that switching isn't an option/
I run a couple of FreeBSD servers, have tried it as well as a couple of Linux distros as desktops. Quite frankly, I can't recommend OSS *N*X to anyone for desktop use. And even if they wanted it, I don't have a good enough grasp of it to recommend and support and I don't have the time or patience to figure it out anymore and walk others through it. I'm not about to play salesman and support guy for the unknown...
Sure, windows might be mediocre from a technical standpoint, but so is/was VHS compared to Betamax.
Fragmentation of standards, as the article writes about doesn't help either.
...Even when VHS was the only game in town, SVHS and this new DVHS doesn't seem to be helping its longevity either.
Maintenance workers put a piece of tape over sensor holes on the aircraft and forget to remove them after the task is completed leads to false readings for the tower and warning messages in the cockpit that leads to the plane flying straight into the water.
On cars and especially airplanes, it would be nice if there were two systems in place. One software dependent one and a backup manual one.
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I'm from Ontario but I always thought they were used interchangeably to describe the same thing. But from talking to relatives that are state side, it sounded like the big prestigious schools referred to themselves as Universities while the smaller time ones were Colleges.
Whereas in Canada, Ontario particularly, a college was a place to learn a skill after high school while University is supposed to be a place of "higher learning" and not of skills for the workforce.
Which leads me to a gripe.
Seems like more and more, our colleges (in Ontario, Canada) teach skills to prep a person for jobs that are hands on and specific. Might as well be an appreticeship.
Universities OTOH, have gone from furthering the cause of higher learning to pumping out cubicle jockeys. A BA in general arts and sciences is pretty much a high school diploma that'll get your foot into the door.
Other than propagating the cycle, what value is there in promoting University over the trades? How many white collar cubicle jockeys can society sustain?
What about having to wait for your e-mail!
One word and one link. ChatterEmail.
Copyright violation is not theft.
What's worse is that the punishment for actual theft of a DVD (maybe $50 or 3 hours community service) would be way less than the punishment for copyright violation (years in prison and 10k$'s fine). Because illegal filetraders are soooo dangerous to society, and actual thieves are not.
Let's rephrase my OP.
They'll get the lawmakers to change things so that being an accomplice to copyright is a major offence with major punishment penalties.
They'll haul in the one who is running RODI and acting as the go between and throw them to the dogs.
Afterall, there's no need to hide yourself with P2P activities unless you're doing something illegal? Is there?
The government will rename the country U.C.A (United Corporations of America)... okay, maybe that'll be one of the last things they'll do.
But they'll simply haul the person in who's using the masquerader's address and charge them as an accomplice to theft.
Worked for Star Wars.
Worked for Doctor Who too. Look at how Curse of the Fatal Deaths was received even though it was a complete and total parody.
Nah...
Biodiesel or even restaruant oil!
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here...
But the way I see it, all parties are corrupt.
Conservatives would give money and the country's assets away to their rich friends who were of "old money" and quite often foreign. (I'm thinking Mulroney and corporatization of Canada, Ontario tories and selling the toll highway to Spain)
Liberals are on the hook now for giving money away to rich friends who are of the nouveau riche and usually Canadian. (Chuck Gite might be french, but he's still Canadian)
The NDP would ideally give the money to the have-nots and labour unions.
The Bloc are like the NDP but they only care about Quebecers.
Given all that, I suppose I'd prefer a combination of whigs and NDP'ers. The money would stay in the country and not necesarily be all put in the hands of folks who'd race across the border for cheap smokes, booze and casinos.
Smells like vapourware...
So what happened to these things that were supposed to be released for consumers in 2004?
The Ontario Science Centre used to have a great display of an operating television completely submurged in a small vat of the stuff
Just took my 2 year old there.... although totally renovated, that display is still there.
Looks funky.
I call shenanigans on the part of the premium popping corn companies! Orville Redenbacker is the only one that comes to mind.
/. or somewhere else that mentioned that anything not political that ends up in the news is more likely a press release.
Not sure if it was in
As for popping all kernels, a nice pot with a thick bottom, butter and cheap or expensive kernels will pretty much always yield 100% popped kernels if it's stirred right.
But questions of canon aside, if the Time Lords really are gone, leaving no "ultimate authority" over Time, then timestreams can be messed with at will. Eccleston could be retconned out or made the First Doctor, maybe even both - making Rose (the character AND the episode) a temporal paradox. Yeesh, makes the brain hurt....
What roles do the Gaurdians of Time have then?
Anyone catch "Quiet Undead" and heard that thing about a time war?
I'm probably just way too tired with only 4 hours of sleep this weekend, but regardless that this is a series about a time traveller, I'm seeing visions of Captain Archer, Daniels, that ship that was bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, future guy and Trek's temporal cold war rearing its ugly head into this.
Actually we do...they just happen to be as uncommon up here as they are in the States
Indeed. Beyond the ones I have in encased collector sets, you don't see them much.
I came across a couple of circulation coins in the early 90s and spent them. The two clerks at different stores looked at them puzzled, smirked and each pulled coins out of their own pockets totalling 50 cents for the till, pocketed the 50 cent piece and thanked me.
Reading snopes and some more of these posts, I'm glad we have our monopoly money which has their own very distinctive look when they decide to change things around.
Only time I've ever seen people wonder whether a bill is real or not is when they redesign them and some poor clerk is the first to come across it.
Bills looking alike, concurrent support of the same denomination of bill and coin and different variations of the same coin makes (IMO) US currency just a little funnier than our funny money.
It was a good machine to come across during the tv episode drought of the 90s... Other than being mesmerized by all the elements of the story, I don't remember too much about it.
My favourite is the Gotlieb table, Haunted House.
3 levels; basement, main and upstairs. Freaky haunted house noises to draw your attention and fun game play.
I'd say in my mind, the only actors typecast as Doctor Who are Pertwee and Tom Baker. I hear Troughton suffered for being typecast but he was way before my time. No idea how Hartnell was received and Richard Hurndal was at the end of his life when he played Doctor number 1.
Davison is more typecast as "nice guy" characters rather than the Doctor, Colin Baker should be forgetable and besides, he now looks nothing like he did in the 80s. McCoy will always be the goofy guy (kinda like Mr. Noodles on Elmo) but chasing a big orange pipecleaner in the kids art show Vision On. McGann with his prosthetics and fake hair is far enough from his real self that I don't think I look at him as the Doctor.
There are rabid fans of tv shows but I think it's a British thing and not so much so in the US. If he took on more roles in American films, he may avoid worldwide typecasting.
As far as other actors, Connery was James Bond. In my mind, he's more the Captain of the Red October or the Spanish peacock with a Scottish accent... etc. Walter Koenig was Pavel Chekov but shined as Al Bester and I think I'll have trouble seeing him as Chekov in the upcoming ST:NV episode.
I much rather prefer The Edge 102's version.... But enough is enough with beating ourselves and everyone over the head with a 4 or 5 year old Molson ad campaign. Let the yanks have their flag waving, crest on their shoulders patriotism. I've happily gone back to the cannuck stereotype of being polite and silent yet proud and fierce.
Funny and insightful. Too bad it was posted AC.
Just a minor quibble, but Bertrand Russell lived from 1872-1970, while Marx lived from 1818-1883, so unless Russell was a remarkably perceptive 11 year old, the Marx quote came first. :)
Gotta love the interweb. I googled "religion opium for the masses" and found a page with Russell's quote as what inspired Marx.
Oh well, back to my Britannica set in my parents' basement.... 8)
We voted for all these unconstitutional laws and so-called leaders.
IIRC, wasn't it great rifts between the rich and the poor that caused revolutions and the toppling of the many powers that be in the past?
Bertrand Russell wrote "Religion in any shape or form, is regarded as pernicious and deliberate falsehood, spread and encouraged by rulers and clerics in their own interests, since it is easier to control over the ignorant." which led to Marx's comment about Religion being the opium to the masses.
It would seem the most successfull religion in the western world, if not the entire world is Capitalism. The rulers are the ones in political power whereas its clerics are the boards and management of corporations.
IMO, communism was a great idea.... on paper. Perenial high school favourite "Animal Farm" shows where it goes wrong.
Capitalism isn't without its pitfalls either as we see it going awry with private corporations in control of the state and its people. The opium here is the belief that anyone can achieve greatness in capitalism if they work hard. However, with monopolies and oligopolies protecting themselves from competition, there's little room at the top for an ever increasing population. Room is there for some competition but if you happen to become moderately good and if you start to threaten them, they shut you down by either buying you out or burying you. With a preference on the buying out since it feeds more into the illusion that anyone and everyone can break out of the ranks of the poor working class.
But, I suppose with every rising and falling of civilizations throughout time, this one will see its end either from an internal revolt or some product(s) of our advancement which our world becomes deeply dependent proves dangerous to us amd kills us off.
It strikes me as ironic that the govt is fighting to put the ten commandments in schools and public places. I wonder what will happen to a generation of students who walk by a sign that says "thou shall not covet" every day. I wonder if it would make a difference in the consumer society?
A media commentator said it best recently in that with America and the neo conservatives, God only loves the rich, powerfull and corporate America.
If you wanted easy to use, you would probably use a Mac instead of Windows anyway.
True. But again back to VHS vs. Betamax...
Macs are easier, had been more expensive and you could only buy from Apple. The mindshare of Wintel surpassed it during the early and important years.
Today, I'd be willing to guess that everyone in the western world uses Windows or has friends/co-workers/colleagues who use Windows or comes across something that uses it.
It's the social gold standard.
There has to be a compelling reason to leave it, minimum to zero learning curve as well as some good publicity. Quite like what's going on now where people are leaving IE for Firefox.
You said it!
/. geeks are passionate about their OS but this isn't the star trek universe where the able can bend over backwards to help those that aren't. Until *NIX is as easy as Windows and a slick marketing team is there to promote, it's always going to be a server OS and obscure desktop OS.
This takes the award for summing it up nicely.
I'm a sysadmin as well as an on-site tech doing home and business calls. I've broached the subject of *NIX on the desktop with a few people who might seem interested but the truth is, as you stated, people want something that just works simply without having to turn the crank, choke, prime and etc...
Last I checked the
Not everyone has the same needs. Some people use Windows to turn their PC into a game console to play Doom 3, but others will spend their time playing Minesweeper or Solitarie. Guess what... any Linux desktop has those small games and a dozen more.
...Even when VHS was the only game in town, SVHS and this new DVHS doesn't seem to be helping its longevity either.
If you use your computer for web browsing, e-mail and the occasional small game or odd letter, Linux is just fine. If he has to actually maintain that person's PC anyway, it is easier to do that with Linux than with Windows XP Home or something like that.
About all the people I come across as a freelance computer tech are either using their machines with software that doesn't exist or would take too much work to get running in Linux or they're so comfortable with the default do everything for you without having to think method of Windows that switching isn't an option/
I run a couple of FreeBSD servers, have tried it as well as a couple of Linux distros as desktops. Quite frankly, I can't recommend OSS *N*X to anyone for desktop use. And even if they wanted it, I don't have a good enough grasp of it to recommend and support and I don't have the time or patience to figure it out anymore and walk others through it. I'm not about to play salesman and support guy for the unknown...
Sure, windows might be mediocre from a technical standpoint, but so is/was VHS compared to Betamax. Fragmentation of standards, as the article writes about doesn't help either.
Computer repair rates: /hour /hour if you watch /hour if you help
$20
$30
$60
Damned straight!
My uncle who's a car mechanic gives that quite albeit with different numbers.
I'm worried about the planes!
Check out National Geographic and flight 903 out of Lima airport... An episode called Flying Blind
Maintenance workers put a piece of tape over sensor holes on the aircraft and forget to remove them after the task is completed leads to false readings for the tower and warning messages in the cockpit that leads to the plane flying straight into the water.
On cars and especially airplanes, it would be nice if there were two systems in place. One software dependent one and a backup manual one.