OK, I looked it up, and you are completly wrong. Compare the crime rates in the US's 30 worst cities, the crime rates in the US's 30 best cities, and this list containing Canadian cities and select US cities.
You'll find that the worst Canadian city would still rank in the top 10 of best US cities (somewhere between NY and Boston), and Toronto would rank as the safest on the list of US best (if it was included).
Sorry I had to handhold you though life, but you're only allowed to be either arrogent or wrong. When you're both it's just annoying.
especially after the things I've read about his previous movies
Wouldn't it make more sense to watch the movies and judge for yourself? Hearing another person's point of view isn't going to hurt you. I agreed with what Moore was saying in Bowling for Columbine, and disagreed with Roger and Me, but both were still worth watching.
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When I read in the summary that he was going to be an Indian-American I naturally assumed that he would still be in N.Y.
Since the actual article says this story will take place in India, the real question is what makes him so American? Is this another example of the phoenomia where Americans call black people from around the world African American (even if they are neither African nor American)?
I heard the changed the E to Expert to aviod problems. It's actually much more apt than engineer anyway, so if they didn't then they should. It's not like MCSEs design anything.
Damn misleading writeup. They are NOT charging for their existing video service, they are creating a "new paid service" directed torward business customers. Before I RTFA'd this article had me worried that I wouldn't be able to chat Mac to PC anymore (the other alternatives before AIM iChat were crap).
The new service is a video conference and web meeting, not a 1 to 1 video chat.
To be fair, and go even further offtopic, the U.S. does have more freedom of speech than Germany and even Canada (where I am right now). The U.S. is far more tolerant of hate-speech, not making any exceptions to their freedom of speech.
In Canada you are not allowed to have any hate-speech in the media, and in Germany if you're doing anything in public related to the former Nazi party you'd better be very careful.
Some countries believe the benifit of allowing hate speech (freedom) do not justify the potential harm. The U.S. on the other hand prefers to err on the side of freedom.
No, the real joke is they put up the unobscured email addresses of the people these pranks were played on in the description of the prank (both for the balloons and the post-its). I hope they have good spam filters.
Both Proteus and Fire support all the major IM platforms on OSX. They also let you group contacts together, so if you have a friend with accounts on ICQ, MSN and AOL they appear as one person, something you have to pay for on Trillian. Personally I'm using the beta for Proteus 4.0.
I would imagine it would be very tough to unionize IT.
First, auto workers, airline pilots, factory labour, etc. tend to work for a small number of companies with high fixed costs. There are IT people in every company, making negotiations and organization difficult.
Second, IT is a very diverse group. Tech support, code monkeys, developers, systems analysts/architects, network admins, management that still does code reviews/coding, etc. It's difficult to lump those positions together, or draw distinctive lines between all of them.
Third, skill as a programmer depends a lot on natural talent, and there's a lot of ego involved. There are lots of really gifted individuals who would rightfully object to being grouped in with people who took a six month course at the local community college.
Fourth, some of us are a lot more worried about our jobs than others. If you're doing helpdesk tech support you should be very worried. If you're spending most of your time meeting with users in person and doing design for a profitable company you're a lot harder to outsource, and have much more job security.
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic was quite good too. Great plot twist. There's still life in the franchise, it's just Lucas is completly incompetant.
That's just one more reason this is a great story for slashdot. It's about a girl who's fairly cute, seems to be left leaning politically, is involved with computers, and owns a apple laptop. If only there was some way to tie in Linux...
Everyone who had even a potential case (The feds, the states, and europe) (individuals are covered via the large suits) has already filed a case.
Microsoft operates all over the world, there are still plenty of countries who could sue. Personally I'm hoping Canada gets in on the act, we could use a bit of cash too:)
If you really are waiting for the disk to spin more threads aren't going to help you, everyone's just going to be sitting there waiting for the IO. The main problem with so many threads is generally bus contention, even with a cache hit rate around 95~98% the bus can saturate quite quickly, and there's always good old Amdahl's Law. Though, if you're waiting for a database to come back with some results in every thread it's going to be a while, so at least you won't be hogging the bus.
You can play Halo though. My first generation 866MHz 12" plays halo fine on an external 19" monitor. You *might* be able to play doom 3 or half life 2 depending on how low you can set the video options.
Not mentioned in the write-up, but the laptops now come with airport extreme (802.11g) standard. That's like a $80 price drop, since many people will be buying that card. I'm typing this on a first generation 12" powerbook where I had to pay for the card, and the processor is 866MHz compared to the 1.3 GHz. Plus, the operating system has upgraded, and the price has dropped.
My 12" works fine for me for light programming and general computer use (email, IM, bittorrent, music, news feeds). With the price drop and feature upgrade it's a really good deal.
If you make it too hard on corporations there's no reason why they can't change countries. I'm sure Canada and many countries in northern/western europe would be happy to have a few more corporate head offices. The head offices can go anywhere so long as:
1. Corporate taxes are cheaper.
2. The country is politically stable.
3. The country has a high standard of living, for executives and their children.
The US doesn't even have a particularly high standard of living, I don't think they are top 5.
Hmm, I would define breaking DRM as civil disobedience, by the qualities of being both non-violent and... well disobedient.
That raises an interesting idea. Back when the British colonized India it was illegal to make soap, because the British wanted everyone to buy the imported soap. Ghandi organized ~10,000 people or so to go down to the river at once and make soap. That's civil disobediance, you can't throw that many people in jail.
For all the people out there who are against DRM in any form, and Americans who are against the DMCA, it would be possible to get a very large group together and bring your laptops to some public place to openly break encryption and circumvent copyright controls. You'd probably have to tell people what you were doing, because it wouldn't be obvious looking at a bunch of people with laptops.
The trouble now is that you can be sued one at a time instead of just halled off to jail, so try not to identify yourself. Not being an American and not being particularly against DRM I wouldn't be participating, but it's a thought. You could put your money where your mouth is and have something to brag about on Slashdot:)
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From their terms and conditions:
"In consideration for this Service, Member agrees to: (1) create only
one account per household and, (2) provide certain current, complete, and accurate
information about Member as prompted to do so by the Service"
Since they send you the checks in the mail you'd have to give a vaild address. I doubt they'd let you register to a P.O. box.
One other thing I haven't seen mentioned yet (though I haven't read to the bottom of the comments) is that this is spyware.
Also from their terms and conditions:
"SENDMAILS CORPORATION collects online behavior
statistical information for our members. Examples of information that we collect,
other than through the registration form, include URL of visited pages, registration
for offerings and IP addresses. Examples of data gathering activities include web page
retrieval, domain tld discovery, and internet port/proxy discovery."
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may be suspended or terminated for unusual or suspicious activity."
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OK, I looked it up, and you are completly wrong. Compare the crime rates in the US's 30 worst cities, the crime rates in the US's 30 best cities, and this list containing Canadian cities and select US cities.
You'll find that the worst Canadian city would still rank in the top 10 of best US cities (somewhere between NY and Boston), and Toronto would rank as the safest on the list of US best (if it was included).
Sorry I had to handhold you though life, but you're only allowed to be either arrogent or wrong. When you're both it's just annoying.
especially after the things I've read about his previous movies
Wouldn't it make more sense to watch the movies and judge for yourself? Hearing another person's point of view isn't going to hurt you. I agreed with what Moore was saying in Bowling for Columbine, and disagreed with Roger and Me, but both were still worth watching.
When I read in the summary that he was going to be an Indian-American I naturally assumed that he would still be in N.Y.
Since the actual article says this story will take place in India, the real question is what makes him so American? Is this another example of the phoenomia where Americans call black people from around the world African American (even if they are neither African nor American)?
I heard the changed the E to Expert to aviod problems. It's actually much more apt than engineer anyway, so if they didn't then they should. It's not like MCSEs design anything.
I'm sick of watching 320x240 ~500kbps, noisy movies and clips when I'm paying for them.
Wow, so YOU'RE the guy who pays for internet porn. I knew there must be someone.
Damn misleading writeup. They are NOT charging for their existing video service, they are creating a "new paid service" directed torward business customers. Before I RTFA'd this article had me worried that I wouldn't be able to chat Mac to PC anymore (the other alternatives before AIM iChat were crap).
The new service is a video conference and web meeting, not a 1 to 1 video chat.
To be fair, and go even further offtopic, the U.S. does have more freedom of speech than Germany and even Canada (where I am right now). The U.S. is far more tolerant of hate-speech, not making any exceptions to their freedom of speech.
In Canada you are not allowed to have any hate-speech in the media, and in Germany if you're doing anything in public related to the former Nazi party you'd better be very careful.
Some countries believe the benifit of allowing hate speech (freedom) do not justify the potential harm. The U.S. on the other hand prefers to err on the side of freedom.
Better than a block, they should force a redirect. It could go to something like:
"You are attempting to access a site we believe is child pornography. If you would still like to view the site click here."
Optionally, they could add "If you choose to continue your IP will be logged" and/or "your information will be sent to the authorities".
Safety for the accidental porn browsers, and if it was actually an anti-BT site people can still get through.
No, the real joke is they put up the unobscured email addresses of the people these pranks were played on in the description of the prank (both for the balloons and the post-its). I hope they have good spam filters.
Both Proteus and Fire support all the major IM platforms on OSX. They also let you group contacts together, so if you have a friend with accounts on ICQ, MSN and AOL they appear as one person, something you have to pay for on Trillian. Personally I'm using the beta for Proteus 4.0.
I would imagine it would be very tough to unionize IT.
First, auto workers, airline pilots, factory labour, etc. tend to work for a small number of companies with high fixed costs. There are IT people in every company, making negotiations and organization difficult.
Second, IT is a very diverse group. Tech support, code monkeys, developers, systems analysts/architects, network admins, management that still does code reviews/coding, etc. It's difficult to lump those positions together, or draw distinctive lines between all of them.
Third, skill as a programmer depends a lot on natural talent, and there's a lot of ego involved. There are lots of really gifted individuals who would rightfully object to being grouped in with people who took a six month course at the local community college.
Fourth, some of us are a lot more worried about our jobs than others. If you're doing helpdesk tech support you should be very worried. If you're spending most of your time meeting with users in person and doing design for a profitable company you're a lot harder to outsource, and have much more job security.
hpuse...with $50 to spre for liquor!
I see you're really putting the liquor budget to use!
I'm in Canada and 50k is the typical rate I'm seeing for myself and my class mates. Computer engineering, with co-op experience.
Maybe times have changed, but I gotta say "con-grat-u-lations" to anybody who gets a 50k/yr job right out of college.
Thank you, I start in June. To be fair though my university had co-op so technically I have the equivalent of two years of experience.
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic was quite good too. Great plot twist. There's still life in the franchise, it's just Lucas is completly incompetant.
That's just one more reason this is a great story for slashdot. It's about a girl who's fairly cute , seems to be left leaning politically, is involved with computers, and owns a apple laptop . If only there was some way to tie in Linux...
Everyone who had even a potential case (The feds, the states, and europe) (individuals are covered via the large suits) has already filed a case.
:)
Microsoft operates all over the world, there are still plenty of countries who could sue. Personally I'm hoping Canada gets in on the act, we could use a bit of cash too
If you really are waiting for the disk to spin more threads aren't going to help you, everyone's just going to be sitting there waiting for the IO. The main problem with so many threads is generally bus contention, even with a cache hit rate around 95~98% the bus can saturate quite quickly, and there's always good old Amdahl's Law. Though, if you're waiting for a database to come back with some results in every thread it's going to be a while, so at least you won't be hogging the bus.
You can play Halo though. My first generation 866MHz 12" plays halo fine on an external 19" monitor. You *might* be able to play doom 3 or half life 2 depending on how low you can set the video options.
Not mentioned in the write-up, but the laptops now come with airport extreme (802.11g) standard. That's like a $80 price drop, since many people will be buying that card. I'm typing this on a first generation 12" powerbook where I had to pay for the card, and the processor is 866MHz compared to the 1.3 GHz. Plus, the operating system has upgraded, and the price has dropped.
My 12" works fine for me for light programming and general computer use (email, IM, bittorrent, music, news feeds). With the price drop and feature upgrade it's a really good deal.
If you make it too hard on corporations there's no reason why they can't change countries. I'm sure Canada and many countries in northern/western europe would be happy to have a few more corporate head offices. The head offices can go anywhere so long as:
1. Corporate taxes are cheaper.
2. The country is politically stable.
3. The country has a high standard of living, for executives and their children.
The US doesn't even have a particularly high standard of living, I don't think they are top 5.
As a matter of fact, I have a friend who's South African. No one questions the legitimacy of this description of his homeland...
Reminds me of this story.
Hmm, I would define breaking DRM as civil disobedience, by the qualities of being both non-violent and ... well disobedient.
:)
That raises an interesting idea. Back when the British colonized India it was illegal to make soap, because the British wanted everyone to buy the imported soap. Ghandi organized ~10,000 people or so to go down to the river at once and make soap. That's civil disobediance, you can't throw that many people in jail.
For all the people out there who are against DRM in any form, and Americans who are against the DMCA, it would be possible to get a very large group together and bring your laptops to some public place to openly break encryption and circumvent copyright controls. You'd probably have to tell people what you were doing, because it wouldn't be obvious looking at a bunch of people with laptops.
The trouble now is that you can be sued one at a time instead of just halled off to jail, so try not to identify yourself. Not being an American and not being particularly against DRM I wouldn't be participating, but it's a thought. You could put your money where your mouth is and have something to brag about on Slashdot
From their terms and conditions:
"In consideration for this Service, Member agrees to: (1) create only one account per household and, (2) provide certain current, complete, and accurate information about Member as prompted to do so by the Service"
Since they send you the checks in the mail you'd have to give a vaild address. I doubt they'd let you register to a P.O. box.
One other thing I haven't seen mentioned yet (though I haven't read to the bottom of the comments) is that this is spyware.
Also from their terms and conditions:
"SENDMAILS CORPORATION collects online behavior statistical information for our members. Examples of information that we collect, other than through the registration form, include URL of visited pages, registration for offerings and IP addresses. Examples of data gathering activities include web page retrieval, domain tld discovery, and internet port/proxy discovery."
From their terms and conditions:
"If your UID logs more than 24 CPU HOURS in one 24 hour period, your account may be suspended or terminated for unusual or suspicious activity."