Would this not mostly just hurt Chinese interests? What, 90% of the electronics are made in china anyway? So assuming everyone pays the same, Chinese companies would be most hit by this change as I see it, as their bottom line would be going up...
As someone who is pretty into this field, I find it somewhat surprising that no company has taken advantage of user trends.Perhaps it is just too expensive.
I mean 64 bit and multi-threaded stuff has been out for some time. I mean a pretty long time. However typically, a user is still a single core user. Games, applications rarely seem programed to take advantage of multiple cores. Mostly the multiple cores are used by background processes, or running multiple applications at the same time. Most however don't really do all that much of even that. If you really wanted performance gains, you would think you would look at this usage and design something that fit that model.
Like one core that is single and very fast. It would be used for 80% of everything a typical user would throw at it. Then you have several cores of low power slower speed that can pick up any spillover caused by mutiple applications, or the few applications designed for multicore use. I mean in many cases, you are buying a 4 core processor, which is using one core 80% of the time while the other 3 sit idle anyway (and they are all the same speed). Anyway logically it doesn't make any sense, however I conceed that likely it is a manufacturing issue more than anything else (i.e. they could build it, but it would be too expensive). Still for a nimble company looking for a competitive advantage, it seems a smarter route to explore than simply throwing more shitty cores that aren't being use anyway at a problem.
Our experts say only 42% of the audiance laughed. So you owe us 57% of the revenue assoicated with using those copyrighted material. We estimate that your clip had an audiance of 8.9 Billion. Each viewed the clip on average 5 times. The accepted cost of viewing that material is 125$.
You owe us: 3 Trillion 170 Billion 625 Million dolllars.
is the one that can actually predict earthquakes, because he is the one that caused them, he lives in an active volcano, and wants one million dollars! Muhahaha!
In addition, the main point of this storage (as it is probably net loss, at least initially anyway) is that you can harness alternative power sources that unlike Hydro, and Nuclear, Gas, Coal, etc... which is pretty constant, stuff like wind only works when it is windy, and solar, only when sunny.
Using hydro storage is already used (and I am sure it isn't all that great for loss either), to enable the use of these non-constant or stable sources of energy to be used usefully in our electrical grid. The big differnce here is the storage is also portable, so suitable for use in mobile situations like cars, etc...
The big question is how efficent it is. Not that I read the article or anything, but usually these bleeding edge stuff is concept only, and needs a lot of further development to make it viable from an efficency perspective.
I know Bell Canada offers it as a service. For a monthy fee...
There is an app, however because it duplicates a network service offered by your providor it is banned from the AppStore.
If you have a jailbroken phone I have heard you can install it.
Difficutly is, that is just blocks numbers. Which when the phone company is duplious in the whole scheme (i.e. they make money on it also), it is about the equilivent of trying to filter spam email by address. All they have to do is just keep changing their phone numbers. It would of course help to cut down on the number anyway.
The problem I see is not so much that fines are big enough, it is that the laws are not enforced and fines not applied. Not sure if this is a political problem or a resources problem. I remember hearing on CBC that in the 5 years that the laws had been in place, something like only a handful a charges amounting to basically nothing had been made, dispite thousands upon thousands of complaints being made. Why create a law if you have no intention of enforcing it?
Also there is a BIG gaping loophole, that basically says if you have ANY buisness dealings with a company they have free reign to call you day and night over anything they wish. Political parties of course are also exempt.
Saw a power point a few days ago listing Taiwan as under China from some Chinese.
Apparently there is some dissagreement on this point depending on the perspective of the person.
Your statementy might be viewed by many to read, "Foxconn is from New York, not the USA". More complicated than that to be sure. But not as cut and dry as you make it sound, at least globally.
If you want to do a job, that only is available to a few, that many people want, then prepared to be exploited for your desire.
I liken this to the Video Game industry. Programmers and the like, many many would like to make and produce video games. The companies that make these games are aware of this. That is why you hear of stories of companies like EA having employees with super long hours, over long periods of time, and frequent burnout.
In AstroPhysics, it is almost worse. Unlike video games, where you can go independent and create something, and there are a lot of companies and options out there (relitively), in Physics you are going to be working for either a University or the Government. In many cases, simply having access to the things you need, like high tech science, or big infrstructure like telecopes, space assets, or whatever. Anyway same principle applies. It is a popular job, with few positions, be prepared to be taken advantage of.
It is very likely he may have exaggerated a bit to try to make a point or to scare some people off. The basic gist of what he is saying is that if you are going into this field of study, you better really love what you do with a passion, as you will be exploited, and will be working very long hours all the time...
Which really isn't all that big of a strech or a surprise, just stating the obvious.
First of all, they are talking about RFID tags for people enrolled in public school. So this has nothing to do with home school. I'd suggest if your mom has to RFID her kids to keep track of all their attendance, you got bigger problems than this ethical debate.
All I am saying is you will learn ZERO at school, if you do NOT attend any classes. If you attend class, you MIGHT learn something at school. Thus it IS a good indicator. Are there better ones out there? Sure probably. Can those indicators easily be measured using inexpensive RFID tags? Probably not.
Also how long have teachers taken attendance? What, forever since the dawn of time? They probably know nothing, big waste of time, that no one ever does any more... etc... sarcasm....
Attendence in class probabaly is a pretty good indicator or metric of success.
Not saying that RFIDing folks is the right thing to do, however insofar as your arguement that attendence is irrelevent to learning, well I think it sort of falls down. If you don't go to class, it is pretty hard to "learn valuable skills".
I use windows at home, and at work. Probably 90% of OS users use windows at one or the other. A very large percentage of those also use Office. They also have a seach engine and mapping service that they are trying to promote in compitition with Google. They have tried to enter the mobile market against apple (not very well so far). They are supposed to be entering the tablet maket (again, they were first really), to try and beat apple. Probably most the computers on earth run Windows and windows software.
Blogger must be right, Microsoft is totally irrellevent.
You have to think at somepoint with the thousands of patents that they file every year, its just some dude, taking pre-existing ideas, sticking the word "mobile" in front of it, and sending it off to the patent office for approval. Then spaming hundreds of these, manybe thousands (we hear about patent approvals, but how many applications?)... Anyway seriously not a new idea.
Red Baron the video game as a learning tool must have lied to me! Maybe it generated stats from the game, I thought they were historical... (or maybe it was made in Canada...)
As for Dieppe, I blame our troops wearing the same sort of helmets in both war film footage!
Why do I have friends on Facebook that "like" pepsi, amex, costco, walmart, etc...
Why do they post religious jesus quotes in cheesy photos of angles or little girls praying, or images with stupid insperational quotes, or stupid photos of things to "like": Like if you don't want to kill kittens, etc...
Tempted many times to simply post on my wall: "Seriously WTF is wrong with you people!"
As people started posting personal information they found on the internet of the Minister involved, Vic Toews. Including stuff about his divorce, affairs, all sorts of good stuff...
Good Times.
Reminds me of back in the day when Stockwill Day proposed a law to have a referendum vote country wide if anyone was able to get a patition from 10% of the population, so the TV political satire show "This hour has 22 minutes" did an online patition to change Stockwell Day's name to "Doris Day" and got 450,000 signitures....
Yet in the end, they still forced through the whole digital locks BS... No doubt we haven't seen the last of this. They will just wait awhile till people forget, then table it again grouped with budget or some other BS bill like that which is 12,000 pages long that nobody has time to read.
I believe Dieppe was in WWI, didn't we lose that one, or was it we won, but the losses were so agrevious?
Also on the WWI front, so far as Canadians go, Billy Bishop was a WWI fighter ace that was Canadian. Not only did he have more kills than anyone else (in the entire war from any country), it wasn't even close. Everyone hears about the "Red Baron" but he couldn't hold a candle to Billy's accomplishments (I believe it was something like 50+ planes, just looked it up 72!). He also had the distinction of actually surviving the war.
However also I believe we are in general a more multicultural and secular people (I could just be making this up, no citations). So its not a big Jesus VS Mohammad kind of thing. Of course I doubt radicals make much distinction between one type of "unbeliever" and another...
We only told Bush to go to hell when they wanted us to help invade Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. When the US and the UN asked us to go to Afghanistan we agreed.
However note, our current conservative government wanted to go to Iraq also but didn't have power then.
As to the whole "Death to Canada" thing, I would like to think it is because we are nice people, but more than likely we are just insignificant compared to the US in world influance.:(
Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
First thing I thought of when I read the headline:)
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Saw the ads this morning.
70$ for 32bit upgrade not 40$
110$ for 32bit OEM.
So pretty much as expensive as all of their OS really.
Would this not mostly just hurt Chinese interests? What, 90% of the electronics are made in china anyway? So assuming everyone pays the same, Chinese companies would be most hit by this change as I see it, as their bottom line would be going up...
We are still talking about China right?
Nog.
Sisko's kid whatever his name was (I believe I subconciously erased it from my mind).
Worf's kid...
ugh. Airlock. All of them.
As someone who is pretty into this field, I find it somewhat surprising that no company has taken advantage of user trends.Perhaps it is just too expensive.
I mean 64 bit and multi-threaded stuff has been out for some time. I mean a pretty long time. However typically, a user is still a single core user. Games, applications rarely seem programed to take advantage of multiple cores. Mostly the multiple cores are used by background processes, or running multiple applications at the same time. Most however don't really do all that much of even that. If you really wanted performance gains, you would think you would look at this usage and design something that fit that model.
Like one core that is single and very fast. It would be used for 80% of everything a typical user would throw at it. Then you have several cores of low power slower speed that can pick up any spillover caused by mutiple applications, or the few applications designed for multicore use. I mean in many cases, you are buying a 4 core processor, which is using one core 80% of the time while the other 3 sit idle anyway (and they are all the same speed). Anyway logically it doesn't make any sense, however I conceed that likely it is a manufacturing issue more than anything else (i.e. they could build it, but it would be too expensive). Still for a nimble company looking for a competitive advantage, it seems a smarter route to explore than simply throwing more shitty cores that aren't being use anyway at a problem.
Our experts say only 42% of the audiance laughed. So you owe us 57% of the revenue assoicated with using those copyrighted material. We estimate that your clip had an audiance of 8.9 Billion. Each viewed the clip on average 5 times. The accepted cost of viewing that material is 125$.
You owe us: 3 Trillion 170 Billion 625 Million dolllars.
is the one that can actually predict earthquakes, because he is the one that caused them, he lives in an active volcano, and wants one million dollars! Muhahaha!
You better go patent it before Google, Apple, or MS!
I even have a name for it for you. I would call it a (air quotes) "Sail-Boat"
You could use a windmill to charge you car battery. It would just take you forever to charge. Also don't ever run out of charge in a non-windy area.
Can you not picture it, how beautiful would it be to see gridlock of thousands of spinning windmills on the highway! Utopia!
In addition, the main point of this storage (as it is probably net loss, at least initially anyway) is that you can harness alternative power sources that unlike Hydro, and Nuclear, Gas, Coal, etc... which is pretty constant, stuff like wind only works when it is windy, and solar, only when sunny.
Using hydro storage is already used (and I am sure it isn't all that great for loss either), to enable the use of these non-constant or stable sources of energy to be used usefully in our electrical grid. The big differnce here is the storage is also portable, so suitable for use in mobile situations like cars, etc...
The big question is how efficent it is. Not that I read the article or anything, but usually these bleeding edge stuff is concept only, and needs a lot of further development to make it viable from an efficency perspective.
I know Bell Canada offers it as a service. For a monthy fee...
There is an app, however because it duplicates a network service offered by your providor it is banned from the AppStore.
If you have a jailbroken phone I have heard you can install it.
Difficutly is, that is just blocks numbers. Which when the phone company is duplious in the whole scheme (i.e. they make money on it also), it is about the equilivent of trying to filter spam email by address. All they have to do is just keep changing their phone numbers. It would of course help to cut down on the number anyway.
The problem I see is not so much that fines are big enough, it is that the laws are not enforced and fines not applied. Not sure if this is a political problem or a resources problem. I remember hearing on CBC that in the 5 years that the laws had been in place, something like only a handful a charges amounting to basically nothing had been made, dispite thousands upon thousands of complaints being made. Why create a law if you have no intention of enforcing it?
Also there is a BIG gaping loophole, that basically says if you have ANY buisness dealings with a company they have free reign to call you day and night over anything they wish. Political parties of course are also exempt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan
Saw a power point a few days ago listing Taiwan as under China from some Chinese.
Apparently there is some dissagreement on this point depending on the perspective of the person.
Your statementy might be viewed by many to read, "Foxconn is from New York, not the USA". More complicated than that to be sure. But not as cut and dry as you make it sound, at least globally.
If you want to do a job, that only is available to a few, that many people want, then prepared to be exploited for your desire.
I liken this to the Video Game industry. Programmers and the like, many many would like to make and produce video games. The companies that make these games are aware of this. That is why you hear of stories of companies like EA having employees with super long hours, over long periods of time, and frequent burnout.
In AstroPhysics, it is almost worse. Unlike video games, where you can go independent and create something, and there are a lot of companies and options out there (relitively), in Physics you are going to be working for either a University or the Government. In many cases, simply having access to the things you need, like high tech science, or big infrstructure like telecopes, space assets, or whatever. Anyway same principle applies. It is a popular job, with few positions, be prepared to be taken advantage of.
It is very likely he may have exaggerated a bit to try to make a point or to scare some people off. The basic gist of what he is saying is that if you are going into this field of study, you better really love what you do with a passion, as you will be exploited, and will be working very long hours all the time...
Which really isn't all that big of a strech or a surprise, just stating the obvious.
First of all, they are talking about RFID tags for people enrolled in public school. So this has nothing to do with home school. I'd suggest if your mom has to RFID her kids to keep track of all their attendance, you got bigger problems than this ethical debate.
All I am saying is you will learn ZERO at school, if you do NOT attend any classes. If you attend class, you MIGHT learn something at school. Thus it IS a good indicator. Are there better ones out there? Sure probably. Can those indicators easily be measured using inexpensive RFID tags? Probably not.
Also how long have teachers taken attendance? What, forever since the dawn of time? They probably know nothing, big waste of time, that no one ever does any more... etc... sarcasm....
Attendence in class probabaly is a pretty good indicator or metric of success.
Not saying that RFIDing folks is the right thing to do, however insofar as your arguement that attendence is irrelevent to learning, well I think it sort of falls down. If you don't go to class, it is pretty hard to "learn valuable skills".
I use windows at home, and at work. Probably 90% of OS users use windows at one or the other. A very large percentage of those also use Office. They also have a seach engine and mapping service that they are trying to promote in compitition with Google. They have tried to enter the mobile market against apple (not very well so far). They are supposed to be entering the tablet maket (again, they were first really), to try and beat apple. Probably most the computers on earth run Windows and windows software.
Blogger must be right, Microsoft is totally irrellevent.
You have to think at somepoint with the thousands of patents that they file every year, its just some dude, taking pre-existing ideas, sticking the word "mobile" in front of it, and sending it off to the patent office for approval. Then spaming hundreds of these, manybe thousands (we hear about patent approvals, but how many applications?)... Anyway seriously not a new idea.
Red Baron the video game as a learning tool must have lied to me! Maybe it generated stats from the game, I thought they were historical... (or maybe it was made in Canada...)
As for Dieppe, I blame our troops wearing the same sort of helmets in both war film footage!
Why do I have friends on Facebook that "like" pepsi, amex, costco, walmart, etc...
Why do they post religious jesus quotes in cheesy photos of angles or little girls praying, or images with stupid insperational quotes, or stupid photos of things to "like": Like if you don't want to kill kittens, etc...
Tempted many times to simply post on my wall: "Seriously WTF is wrong with you people!"
As people started posting personal information they found on the internet of the Minister involved, Vic Toews. Including stuff about his divorce, affairs, all sorts of good stuff...
Good Times.
Reminds me of back in the day when Stockwill Day proposed a law to have a referendum vote country wide if anyone was able to get a patition from 10% of the population, so the TV political satire show "This hour has 22 minutes" did an online patition to change Stockwell Day's name to "Doris Day" and got 450,000 signitures....
Yet in the end, they still forced through the whole digital locks BS... No doubt we haven't seen the last of this. They will just wait awhile till people forget, then table it again grouped with budget or some other BS bill like that which is 12,000 pages long that nobody has time to read.
I believe Dieppe was in WWI, didn't we lose that one, or was it we won, but the losses were so agrevious?
Also on the WWI front, so far as Canadians go, Billy Bishop was a WWI fighter ace that was Canadian. Not only did he have more kills than anyone else (in the entire war from any country), it wasn't even close. Everyone hears about the "Red Baron" but he couldn't hold a candle to Billy's accomplishments (I believe it was something like 50+ planes, just looked it up 72!). He also had the distinction of actually surviving the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop
However also I believe we are in general a more multicultural and secular people (I could just be making this up, no citations). So its not a big Jesus VS Mohammad kind of thing. Of course I doubt radicals make much distinction between one type of "unbeliever" and another...
We only told Bush to go to hell when they wanted us to help invade Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. When the US and the UN asked us to go to Afghanistan we agreed.
However note, our current conservative government wanted to go to Iraq also but didn't have power then.
As to the whole "Death to Canada" thing, I would like to think it is because we are nice people, but more than likely we are just insignificant compared to the US in world influance. :(
When I first read title, I was thinking that I bet they don't get too many retuns of defective products... :)
But I guess they aren't actually fake, they are just not the Brand they say they are, and don't work as well.
Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
First thing I thought of when I read the headline :)