If you actually read the article, it mentions many of these developers are students. Speaking as a student, I can understand their reluctance to forgo food, shelter, and books for computing horsepower.
In Toronto what happened was that the city and suburbs were all 416, until one day they decided that they would split the numbers. IIRC All people with a postal code starting with M (ie in the city) stuck with 416, but all the people north of Steeles Ave were switched over to 905. You don't have to dial a 1, but all calls even within the city (416 to 416) are 10 digit. Calls from 416 to 905 are also 10 digit, and are usually local, but I think if you call out far enough you could get charged.
On top of that, we now have a new area code (647) that is layered over top of 416... mostly seems to be new cell phones (My friends recent new cell # started with 416-999-9xxx... lol... I suppose the old #s were getting up there). This is also 10 digit.
I didn't mean that it was wrong to criticize the government during an election, just that the moment it became critical of the government it qualified as election advertising and fell under the scope of the laws governing the election.
That's just the way things work... there are rules in Canada governing election advertising, as in many other countries, governing for example how much you can spend, how close to the election you can air your advertisements (perhaps not on the day of), etc.
Canadian political advertising doesn't feature the same level of participation by 'concerned 3rd parties' that you would find in the United States (eg 'Paid for by concerned citizens for...').
We have a complacent populace because we are better off than most other countries. Complacancy isn't a virtue, but I wouldn't say it's a fatal weakness. And while corruption exists in all countries, including ours, calling the Canadian government "seriously corrupt" is insulting to the thousands of political prisoners being tortured world wide. We all have our shameful cases, but Canada certainly doesn't stand out.
The farmers are in jail to make a point, and refused to pay their fines. The government didn't haul them off. There are arguments for and against the board.
Of course he was charged. Running ads critical of the sitting government, during an election, against the law and advice of the Chief electoral officer is going to get you in trouble.
While I don't mean to paint myself as unsympathetic to either cause (and I do feel for the border farmers) these are people who knowingly brought jail time upon themselves for political purposes. Whether they're right or wrong isn't relevant here - It's just important to know that these people are fighting for what they believe in, knowingly, and that the Canadian government didn't just haul these people away in the middle of the night.
The media will be free to report on the trial while it's in progress. The problem here is that this is a pre-trial hearing, and jurors havn't been selected yet.
Though a post above indicated that the levy applies only to 'blank' media. Technically under the law, so long as the manufacturer bundles several tracks along with the player, it shouldn't fall under the levy's jurisdiction. I love lawyers.
Yes, but I thought the Gateways weren't HDTV compatible? If you're into to the realm of thousands of dollars for a TV, you might as well spend a little more to make sure that it will be forward-compatible...
Uhura dancing has got to be up there as one of the worst moments in all of Star Trek history... some of the reviewers were complaining that in Nemesis the TNG cast are getting pretty old (and Riker specifically is getting a little too fat) but at least they didn't strip down and do a little feather dance.
I do agree with you that overall STV wasn't as corny as IX, let alone IV (notwithstanding the rocketboots)
People keep refering to the technical details of resolving the addresse. I was under the impression that no matter what your setup is, if you don't add on a TLD to your address that the browser will just add it for you out of convenience. This is just one of those IE-isms that Mozilla just copied. I think what your asking is how to disable it, not how to manually add things to your/etc/hosts... I know that I used to use http://www to get to @home's homepage for a while.
Not that I can tell you how to disable this feature... all I can say is that server-side approaches seem silly... it's smart-browsings fault, and Mozilla should have an option somewhere.
Oh mercy. The recursive Irony. Deibert would love that.
I'm actually one of his students. I was a participant this summer in a reality TV show he did this summer for public television in Ontario, Into America, about Canadian students traveling around the US. The previous year there was one about students trying to fight for recognition of neglected diseases. Both were organised through his lab. Interestingly enough, one of the other things going on in his lab is work on the monitoring of the Chinese governmental firewall, and the companies that provide the technology for it. This seems to be a hot topic what with the Amnesty report that came out a couple days ago and was posted here.
Always interesting to see the Professor in the news. He seems to have a knack for it. I thought Slashdot would be my last refuge... apparently not.
I'm sure most Slashdot users who used Netscape have moved to Mozilla (I'm running 1.1a), but there is a huge installed base (compared to Mozilla, not IE) of Netscape 4 in corporate and institutional environments. Mozilla and NS6/7 still have a while to catch up.
It's not. If you look in the top right hand corner of the now-Patterned 'Mac OS X' tab on apple's site, you will see that the jaguar spot behind said title is more of ring. This is what makes jaguars easy to distinguish from cheetahs, who would have solid spots.
I heard they had a deal. It was mentioned in that article the other day about microsoft "Stealing their thunder". MS was upset that Apple didn't consider MSN Messenger instead.
I was at a university fair, and a palm rep gave me a CD with their 'educational software package'.
Most of the stuff was pretty useless, but one cool thing they had was a thesaurus (really good when I'm away from my comp and can't use 'dict'). While it was a lot of memory to sacrifice for an m100, I tried it out.
I searched a few words, and it worked well. I asked my dad for a suggestion. He said 'umlaut'. So I entered the word.
4 hard resets later...
I have no idea what they have against Germans. Seems odd that a palm-thesaurus would hose your data because it didn't like the word, or say if you mispelled it... lol.
I have an m100, and I agree that the quality just isn't there. It was a good choice for me, being a student and wanting an inexpensive organizer, but after having it for a while it's acquired a few quirks. The power button was the first thing to go. There was a point where you could still work it as long as you pressed very hard, but that time has long gone.
The date book button also just got harder and harder to activate until one day it just stopped working. The way the m100s flip-cover works, it will move out of the way and allow the button to be repeatedly pressed in your pocket continually throughout the day (if it doesn't come off). This is corrected in the m125, but it's no consolation. At least you can remap the buttons so if you lose the important ones, all isn't lost.
I havn't had any real screen problems (other than losing backlighting due to the power button), but it does seem as if my father's m125 is a little inaccurate when it comes to where you're pointing. It could be him just calibrating it differently, but It really seems off.
To be honest, given the m100's 2MB of memory, small screen and thick body (it could have been smaller if not for the damned faceplates) I might as well have bough the actually upgradeable V, or spent a little more for a Vx. Even today, they've still got it.
Why? Would it make a difference if we called them Carabineri, or FBI, or Scotland Yard or some other name? Sure, they never actually use horses except for tourists so thats a little lame, but it's nice to have a little colour in the government. Names like CSIS and CSE, etc, get boring.
For those who don't know, the RCMP have a few different functions. Originally the Northwest Mounted Police, they were created in order to have a Canadian presence in the western territories, out of fear that the US would just annex the whole damned thing if we didn't actually have any armed people there. That, and those pesky Metis rebels I suppose. They have a few different roles: They are domestic investigative law-enforcement force, kind of like the FBI. In addition, they act as a regular police force in provinces that don't have their own provincial police. So they're also like State Troopers. They don't actually wear those red uniforms except for show.
At my school we have to wear academic gowns to eat in the very Hogwartish dining hall - Oak ceiling, stained glass, gilded rails, long oaken tables, tapestries, that kinda thing - every evening. So some girls spent all friday wearing their gowns around campus all day in a show of dedication to their magical hero, raising the ire of the less formal colleges. Then at night, they just put on some fan accoutrements and ran over to the theatre.
however they don't like to use it. Canadian universities don't seem to like it. I guess they like to be a little nationalistic and use the.ca instead. So we end up with toronto.edu just pointing to
Witness also queensu.ca and mcgill.ca , although I don't think they have.edu names at all. Some people, like the math department, seem to just use the.edu when they refer to their site, but it could be that my professor is just used to that idea. The country thing is acceptable, but I've never really appreciated it's ubiquitous use in some countries... like www.shoddyelectronics.com.tw , or www.random.co.uk . It just seems to give up the whole 'international marketplace' feel that.com is supposed to have.
In Canada we have the same thing, what Quebec being under the Napoleonic Code, and the rest of the country under English Common Law. So now what happens is that of the I 9 (I think? or is it 7?) members of the Supreme Court, 3 have to be from Quebec to deal with the different system.
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Whatever, I meant 'to not forgo'... don't get excited.
If you actually read the article, it mentions many of these developers are students. Speaking as a student, I can understand their reluctance to forgo food, shelter, and books for computing horsepower.
Because the NDP probably thinks that's too old fashioned. They're trying to be 'hip' nowadays, ie Jack.
416 split creating 905 outside of Metro (now just Toronto). 647 overlays 416.
Perhaps to signify it's long distance?
In Toronto what happened was that the city and suburbs were all 416, until one day they decided that they would split the numbers. IIRC All people with a postal code starting with M (ie in the city) stuck with 416, but all the people north of Steeles Ave were switched over to 905. You don't have to dial a 1, but all calls even within the city (416 to 416) are 10 digit. Calls from 416 to 905 are also 10 digit, and are usually local, but I think if you call out far enough you could get charged.
On top of that, we now have a new area code (647) that is layered over top of 416... mostly seems to be new cell phones (My friends recent new cell # started with 416-999-9xxx... lol... I suppose the old #s were getting up there). This is also 10 digit.
It's only 10 digit. You don't have to dial the 1 if you're calling between 416, 905 and 647 (I think that's the new one).
I didn't mean that it was wrong to criticize the government during an election, just that the moment it became critical of the government it qualified as election advertising and fell under the scope of the laws governing the election.
That's just the way things work... there are rules in Canada governing election advertising, as in many other countries, governing for example how much you can spend, how close to the election you can air your advertisements (perhaps not on the day of), etc.
Canadian political advertising doesn't feature the same level of participation by 'concerned 3rd parties' that you would find in the United States (eg 'Paid for by concerned citizens for...').
We have a complacent populace because we are better off than most other countries. Complacancy isn't a virtue, but I wouldn't say it's a fatal weakness. And while corruption exists in all countries, including ours, calling the Canadian government "seriously corrupt" is insulting to the thousands of political prisoners being tortured world wide. We all have our shameful cases, but Canada certainly doesn't stand out.
The farmers are in jail to make a point, and refused to pay their fines. The government didn't haul them off. There are arguments for and against the board.
Of course he was charged. Running ads critical of the sitting government, during an election, against the law and advice of the Chief electoral officer is going to get you in trouble.
While I don't mean to paint myself as unsympathetic to either cause (and I do feel for the border farmers) these are people who knowingly brought jail time upon themselves for political purposes. Whether they're right or wrong isn't relevant here - It's just important to know that these people are fighting for what they believe in, knowingly, and that the Canadian government didn't just haul these people away in the middle of the night.
The media will be free to report on the trial while it's in progress. The problem here is that this is a pre-trial hearing, and jurors havn't been selected yet.
Though a post above indicated that the levy applies only to 'blank' media. Technically under the law, so long as the manufacturer bundles several tracks along with the player, it shouldn't fall under the levy's jurisdiction. I love lawyers.
Yes, but I thought the Gateways weren't HDTV compatible? If you're into to the realm of thousands of dollars for a TV, you might as well spend a little more to make sure that it will be forward-compatible...
Uhura dancing has got to be up there as one of the worst moments in all of Star Trek history... some of the reviewers were complaining that in Nemesis the TNG cast are getting pretty old (and Riker specifically is getting a little too fat) but at least they didn't strip down and do a little feather dance.
I do agree with you that overall STV wasn't as corny as IX, let alone IV (notwithstanding the rocketboots)
People keep refering to the technical details of resolving the addresse. I was under the impression that no matter what your setup is, if you don't add on a TLD to your address that the browser will just add it for you out of convenience. This is just one of those IE-isms that Mozilla just copied. I think what your asking is how to disable it, not how to manually add things to your /etc/hosts... I know that I used to use http://www to get to @home's homepage for a while.
Not that I can tell you how to disable this feature... all I can say is that server-side approaches seem silly... it's smart-browsings fault, and Mozilla should have an option somewhere.
Oh mercy. The recursive Irony. Deibert would love that.
I'm actually one of his students. I was a participant this summer in a reality TV show he did this summer for public television in Ontario, Into America, about Canadian students traveling around the US. The previous year there was one about students trying to fight for recognition of neglected diseases. Both were organised through his lab. Interestingly enough, one of the other things going on in his lab is work on the monitoring of the Chinese governmental firewall, and the companies that provide the technology for it. This seems to be a hot topic what with the Amnesty report that came out a couple days ago and was posted here.
Always interesting to see the Professor in the news. He seems to have a knack for it. I thought Slashdot would be my last refuge... apparently not.
I'm sure most Slashdot users who used Netscape have moved to Mozilla (I'm running 1.1a), but there is a huge installed base (compared to Mozilla, not IE) of Netscape 4 in corporate and institutional environments. Mozilla and NS6/7 still have a while to catch up.
It's not. If you look in the top right hand corner of the now-Patterned 'Mac OS X' tab on apple's site, you will see that the jaguar spot behind said title is more of ring. This is what makes jaguars easy to distinguish from cheetahs, who would have solid spots.
I heard they had a deal. It was mentioned in that article the other day about microsoft "Stealing their thunder". MS was upset that Apple didn't consider MSN Messenger instead.
I was at a university fair, and a palm rep gave me a CD with their 'educational software package'.
Most of the stuff was pretty useless, but one cool thing they had was a thesaurus (really good when I'm away from my comp and can't use 'dict'). While it was a lot of memory to sacrifice for an m100, I tried it out.
I searched a few words, and it worked well. I asked my dad for a suggestion. He said 'umlaut'. So I entered the word.
4 hard resets later...
I have no idea what they have against Germans. Seems odd that a palm-thesaurus would hose your data because it didn't like the word, or say if you mispelled it... lol.
I have an m100, and I agree that the quality just isn't there. It was a good choice for me, being a student and wanting an inexpensive organizer, but after having it for a while it's acquired a few quirks. The power button was the first thing to go. There was a point where you could still work it as long as you pressed very hard, but that time has long gone.
The date book button also just got harder and harder to activate until one day it just stopped working. The way the m100s flip-cover works, it will move out of the way and allow the button to be repeatedly pressed in your pocket continually throughout the day (if it doesn't come off). This is corrected in the m125, but it's no consolation. At least you can remap the buttons so if you lose the important ones, all isn't lost.
I havn't had any real screen problems (other than losing backlighting due to the power button), but it does seem as if my father's m125 is a little inaccurate when it comes to where you're pointing. It could be him just calibrating it differently, but It really seems off.
To be honest, given the m100's 2MB of memory, small screen and thick body (it could have been smaller if not for the damned faceplates) I might as well have bough the actually upgradeable V, or spent a little more for a Vx. Even today, they've still got it.
Why? Would it make a difference if we called them Carabineri, or FBI, or Scotland Yard or some other name? Sure, they never actually use horses except for tourists so thats a little lame, but it's nice to have a little colour in the government. Names like CSIS and CSE, etc, get boring.
For those who don't know, the RCMP have a few different functions. Originally the Northwest Mounted Police, they were created in order to have a Canadian presence in the western territories, out of fear that the US would just annex the whole damned thing if we didn't actually have any armed people there. That, and those pesky Metis rebels I suppose. They have a few different roles: They are domestic investigative law-enforcement force, kind of like the FBI. In addition, they act as a regular police force in provinces that don't have their own provincial police. So they're also like State Troopers. They don't actually wear those red uniforms except for show.
Western as in 'decadent Western Imperialism'...
And it's St. John's. St. John is in New Brunswick.
Just don't let JonKatz near the bar at the reception.
I have nothing to say... it's just that everyone else was commenting...
At my school we have to wear academic gowns to eat in the very Hogwartish dining hall - Oak ceiling, stained glass, gilded rails, long oaken tables, tapestries, that kinda thing - every evening. So some girls spent all friday wearing their gowns around campus all day in a show of dedication to their magical hero, raising the ire of the less formal colleges. Then at night, they just put on some fan accoutrements and ran over to the theatre.
My school (University of Toronto) owns the domain name
.ca instead. So we end up with toronto.edu just pointing to
.edu names at all. Some people, like the math department, seem to just use the .edu when they refer to their site, but it could be that my professor is just used to that idea. The country thing is acceptable, but I've never really appreciated it's ubiquitous use in some countries... like www.shoddyelectronics.com.tw , or www.random.co.uk . It just seems to give up the whole 'international marketplace' feel that .com is supposed to have.
toronto.edu
however they don't like to use it. Canadian universities don't seem to like it. I guess they like to be a little nationalistic and use the
utoronto.ca
Witness also queensu.ca and mcgill.ca , although I don't think they have
In Canada we have the same thing, what Quebec being under the Napoleonic Code, and the rest of the country under English Common Law. So now what happens is that of the I 9 (I think? or is it 7?) members of the Supreme Court, 3 have to be from Quebec to deal with the different system.