and only using their email and approved web sites?
I recall back in the days of Aol,Prodigy and Compuserve where they had internal only sites. The internet wrecked that business model really fast.
And once you filter the web you lose your common carrier status. Something that would legally sting ISP's when all of a sudden there's kiddie porn lawsuits popping up all over the place.
I don't see that coming any time soon as long as there's competition in the ISP space.
From what I have read and heard airline employees saying, the signals can mess up internal electronics on the plane. I always thought that that was bull That's not as funny as the cell phones can cause a gas station to explode myth... For cripes sake there's a battery under the hood of a car... And more electronics in a car than in a cell phone...
I am also a Linux user and MS basher (Like much of Slashdot), but this is just stupid. Me too - just because I am running Gnome on my Linux box doesn't mean that because I am lacking XGL and Beryl/Compiz functionality I'm not running Gnome on Linux. Aero != Vista
democratic oligarchy, in which a small clique of the ultra-wealthy ruling class both court and manipulate the unrestraine
Isn't that a Plutocracy?
Honestly, when your Congressmen are openly bought by lobby groups, you guys should have a really issue with that... Votes in Congress should not be bought by the highest bidder, and it's sad that Congressmen so open are okay with that.
And when your choice is Incumbant Congressional Whore A vs. Challenging Congressional Whore B there isn't a whole hell of a lot anyone can do about it...
And Senators are no better - equally as whorish as their Congressional counterparts.
What if evolution were the big lie? Thing is, if science came out with evidence refuting evolution, people in the scientific community were to welcome it and move on. They wouldn't cling to it like religious people do.
That's the beauty of the scientific method. It thinks with an open mind and openly debates topics. It doens't talk about ignoreance of facts, in fact you need to use fact to support your thesis otherwise no one will listen.
As opposed to anyone who believes solely in the bible who dismisses any empirical reasoning in favour of faith. It defies logic and reason and comes only out of ignorance of fact.
The problem is that virtual currencies such as the QQ dollar are NOT traded on a currency market, and never will be.
Just to point out that the QQ dollar is worth what people will pay for it. Big deal if it isn't officially traded - the market is there and it's already being traded.
Since the virtual currency will never be traded on an open market, its impossible to value your assets correctly
Not true - it may trade at a discount because it's traded in a subordinate market, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to value it correctly.
Recall paper money came to be as a more portable way to carry gold. This electronic currency is there to facilitate online transactions that otherwise couldn't occur because of Chinese restrictions.
Photoshop CS is unstable, and is far from being usable. It is unstable, consumes way too much memory, and all the little menu pieces seem to cross over onto other desktops. You have to make them go away by hitting the tab key before switching desktops or apps.
It's kludgy and hackish and doesn't work very well...
I guess it is better to buy a whole new console... And wiis are not the price of video cards..
$250 - a good graphics card can set you back two bills.
If you ask me, consoles are overrated and are the most expensive way to play games.
Only expensive if you're comparing to pirated games on the PC.
I think that linux will begin to pick up a mainstream following in the future, but we're still a few years out from being a serious competitor to the casual user.
We're real close. My only last couple bones of contention:
1) No good video editor. Cinelerra isn't for the faint of heart, and is unstable. Kino's okay, but nothing to write home about either. Windows movie maker and iMovie both spank Linux. Premier and Final Cut are in a league of their own. 2) Photo printing is spotty at best. I have a Canon i960 that prints beautiful photos, but the driver support for six colour printing in Linux on that printer just isn't there. I have to keep a Windows box around for photo printing. And ever tried to print a photo on 4x6 paper? It's harder than you think in Linux. 3) And this is just me here now, I want Photoshop on Linux. Gimp really just sucks for me. It lacks the features I've really come to like in Photoshop.
So to summarize: Video Editing, Photo Editing, and Photo Printing.
I could give a flying fart about games. If I want to game I'll use my Wii or Xbox 360. It just isn't worth the effort to upgrade hardware all the time to play the latest games. For the price of a good video card I can buy a Wii. The wii IMO has THE interface to replace the mouse-keyboard combo I love, now give me some solid online play and I'll be happy.
Totally OT, but here in Canada, teaching is such a cutthroat profession that it's almost impossible to get a teaching job unless you are a Sciences teacher. My wife has a BA in Geography with an English Minor and a B.Ed, and she can't get into a school to save her life... She caught in the paradox of experience. And worse yet she can't go for her masters because she can pretty much kiss her teaching career good-bye because of the pay hike you get. No one gives an inexperienced teacher jobs here it seems. You either need math or science. Good on your wife.
Any jobs in her state? Here in Canada the message boards are rife with out of work teachers grumbling over the lack of teaching jobs...
If you knew they were cheating why didn't you turn them in?
Because life gets people like this in the end. They'll get into the real world and not be able to put together coherent sentences or cogent arguments. For me, getting a B+ instead of an A isn't going to kill me...
*** DISCLAIMER - > I'm no Micro$oft fanboi, but c'mon folks ***
Really, rethink your post for a sec...
Microsoft built on top of Mosaic which they licensed ( I know the details of the license ). They made it [arguably] better. Say what you will, Microsoft AND Nutscrape both tried to leverage their market share positions. Microsoft may have been better at it, but Nutscrape wasn't exactly free of any stupidity in their own "improvements" too... layer/ilayer tag anyone?
Xbox is a clone of Playstation... Which is clone of Sega Genesis which is a clone of Atari 2600 which is a clone of Pong. Xbox ( JMO ) is an improvement. Especially when you look at xbox live and what it's done.
Money v Quicken I'm not 100% on as I don't use them. From what I can see though it's probably got its own innovations in there.
Again, just to point out that Windows-the-gui is a derivative works, arguably an improvement, but still has its own set of innovations IMO nonetheless. So much so that KDE then copied Windows. ( flame away fanboys, but you know it's true ).
Innovation is not only coming up with a groundbreaking new idea, but improving on existing ideas too.
Otherwise we can say that no auto company has ever innovated because the internal combustion engine was originally thought of by Leonardo da Vinci. After all, the disc brake is a derivative work of the drum brake no?
. It kind of sucks that trust gets tossed out the window so quickly though.
I know people who've made most of their way through their undergrad plagiarizing papers. Not only does that mean my work is all for not, it also sets the bar higher when a prof has read 20 or 30 plagiarized papers. Not that my work's been terrible, but some of those papers are really great, and it makes it harder for me to get a good grade.
I would be happier if they would apply all their resources to better spam prevention.
Like another poster pointed out, I too have had little trouble with yahoo's spam filters. And nowadays spammers are so obvious that a simple right click -> this is spam and you're done. It's hardly a bother at all, and I've seen only one false positive come along. I'm pretty impressed.
. But on Windows, there's nothing I've found close enough to it.
Eclipse? It's gotten pretty damn good lately with awesome language support for pretty much anything you can think of... It's far from perfect and isn't the best performer out there, but it's pretty damned good... I like it for PHP and Ruby development along with RoR and some Python stuff I do too...
When importing items into Canada you do not pay PST on the items at customs, with SOME exceptions.
Again, BS. I live in Cloverdale about 15 mins from the border and I pay PST on anything over $100... They don't bother with groceries or clothes or whatever, but try bringing electronics across and see where that'll get you.
Trust me, there's what they CAN enforce and what they DO enforce. I have a background in accounting and in this case dude you're totally wrong. I was using businesses as an example to illustrate what the letter of the law clearly states.
The BC govt was talking about going after people who live on the BC - Alberta border for shopping in Alberta. Nothing ever came of it, but make no mistake they are fully within their powers to enforce taxation if they like.
This is the third or fourth comment referring to GPS in a cell phone.
No fucking goddamn way I would carry a phone with a GPS in it... I can see the/. articles about that now... FBI wants to search your GPS records without a warrant, followed by a bunch of ignorant responses saying "i've done nothing wrong so why should I care? "
No fucking way is any govt going to track my constant whereabouts TYVM. No, the govt cannot be trusted. They serve their own interest, and that's not necessarily the interest of the greater good.
out of province purchase isn't subject to sales tax unless the company has a local presence, or you live in Quebec. Wrong! You pulled a fact out of your anus. In fact if you're a business and you buy goods out of province you have to self-assess the provincial sales tax and pay it to your government. Furthermore, if you buy a big ticket item like say, a car from Alberta, try insuring it in your province. You'll have to pony up the PST. Furthermore if you buy goods in the US and bring them across the border you also have to pay PST.
Only consumers don't pay PST when buying stuff from other provinces, mostly because the province would have a helluva time enforcing it and they know it. So instead of villainizing your citizens, you can just raise the tax rate by half a percent and be done with it. It's politically unpopular to start charging people with tax evasion en masse for buying stuff out of province.
The big difference in the US is that most states ( except CA and TX ) are much smaller than provinces. In WA state, Seattle to Portland is maybe a 3 hour drive; so that $5000 big screen TV for example is probably worth driving to Portland to purchase it tax free and bring it back.
In Canada, for me to drive from Vancouver to Lethbridge or Calgary, I'd be looking at 14 hours. It certainly isn't worth making that trip to make a purchase. We have physical barriers here that don't exist in the US the same way.
I've yet to meet a USB Scanner, External Disk, Digital Camera, or Name-brand Printer that didn't Just Work with Ubuntu
I'm running Fedora Core so maybe I'm ignorant here... I have a six colour Canon i960 that prints beautiful photos. How can I access driver specific features such as photo printing and borderless printing? Canon itself makes some nice unitilities for photo printing and their driver itself decides when it's a photo to use the photo ink tanks.
I have yet to be able to find a photo printing utility that just works, and I have to find a driver that'll let me select photo paper and hi-res colour from my printer.
The Bells inherited this from the breakup, and have reaped all the benefits since then.
Not that I'm always a huge fan of the way we do things here in Canada, but public ownership of the phone lines has been a good enabler of competition here, both for Long Distance and Residential service. In fact govt can easily legislate that telcos are forced to wholesale their lines to allow for competition too...
How is that? Shouldn't the phone company be properly paid for the use of its network?
I don't know about the US, but here in Canada all phone lines are public domain and the phone companies are licensed to use it.
I'll be it's the same in the US - otherwise you'd have a natural monopoly in telcos - no city is going to allow redundant phone lines all over their city so the telcos can compete.
Part of this is that they are don't trust others to do it "right" or they are afraid of losing their technical skills.
The latter is why I've never made a push to become manager. I fear that once you cross over that threshold there may never be any turning back, and you may run the risk of obsolescence should your technical skills fall behind.
I don't necessarily think a manager needs to be fully versed in the technology they manage, but they certainly need to be able to communicate on a somewhat technical level. The needn't know everything but certainly they need to be knowledgeable in order to be able to easily communicate with those who you manage.
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and only using their email and approved web sites?
I recall back in the days of Aol,Prodigy and Compuserve where they had internal only sites. The internet wrecked that business model really fast.
And once you filter the web you lose your common carrier status. Something that would legally sting ISP's when all of a sudden there's kiddie porn lawsuits popping up all over the place.
I don't see that coming any time soon as long as there's competition in the ISP space.
still a Typical Canuck response.. "oh our shitty content can't cut it so we better regulate it to death".
The sad part is we're putting out some great stuff lately. Corner Gas, Trailer Park Boys, Kenny vs. Spenny...
And the sad part is I too thought it was an April fools headline too... How can we be so daft to think we can regulate a site out of our country?
Umm, you're a moron. Welcome it and move on?
Normally I don't bite on flamebait, but am I a moron because my views differ from yours?
Hello Pot, your black too.
democratic oligarchy, in which a small clique of the ultra-wealthy ruling class both court and manipulate the unrestraine
Isn't that a Plutocracy?
Honestly, when your Congressmen are openly bought by lobby groups, you guys should have a really issue with that... Votes in Congress should not be bought by the highest bidder, and it's sad that Congressmen so open are okay with that.
And when your choice is Incumbant Congressional Whore A vs. Challenging Congressional Whore B there isn't a whole hell of a lot anyone can do about it...
And Senators are no better - equally as whorish as their Congressional counterparts.
That's the beauty of the scientific method. It thinks with an open mind and openly debates topics. It doens't talk about ignoreance of facts, in fact you need to use fact to support your thesis otherwise no one will listen.
As opposed to anyone who believes solely in the bible who dismisses any empirical reasoning in favour of faith. It defies logic and reason and comes only out of ignorance of fact.
The problem is that virtual currencies such as the QQ dollar are NOT traded on a currency market, and never will be.
Just to point out that the QQ dollar is worth what people will pay for it. Big deal if it isn't officially traded - the market is there and it's already being traded.
Since the virtual currency will never be traded on an open market, its impossible to value your assets correctly
Not true - it may trade at a discount because it's traded in a subordinate market, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to value it correctly.
Recall paper money came to be as a more portable way to carry gold. This electronic currency is there to facilitate online transactions that otherwise couldn't occur because of Chinese restrictions.
Funny how the market always finds a way.
Photoshop does run on WINE.
Photoshop CS is unstable, and is far from being usable. It is unstable, consumes way too much memory, and all the little menu pieces seem to cross over onto other desktops. You have to make them go away by hitting the tab key before switching desktops or apps.
It's kludgy and hackish and doesn't work very well...
I guess it is better to buy a whole new console... And wiis are not the price of video cards..
$250 - a good graphics card can set you back two bills.
If you ask me, consoles are overrated and are the most expensive way to play games.
Only expensive if you're comparing to pirated games on the PC.
I think that linux will begin to pick up a mainstream following in the future, but we're still a few years out from being a serious competitor to the casual user.
We're real close. My only last couple bones of contention:
1) No good video editor. Cinelerra isn't for the faint of heart, and is unstable. Kino's okay, but nothing to write home about either. Windows movie maker and iMovie both spank Linux. Premier and Final Cut are in a league of their own.
2) Photo printing is spotty at best. I have a Canon i960 that prints beautiful photos, but the driver support for six colour printing in Linux on that printer just isn't there. I have to keep a Windows box around for photo printing. And ever tried to print a photo on 4x6 paper? It's harder than you think in Linux.
3) And this is just me here now, I want Photoshop on Linux. Gimp really just sucks for me. It lacks the features I've really come to like in Photoshop.
So to summarize: Video Editing, Photo Editing, and Photo Printing.
I could give a flying fart about games. If I want to game I'll use my Wii or Xbox 360. It just isn't worth the effort to upgrade hardware all the time to play the latest games. For the price of a good video card I can buy a Wii. The wii IMO has THE interface to replace the mouse-keyboard combo I love, now give me some solid online play and I'll be happy.
Totally OT, but here in Canada, teaching is such a cutthroat profession that it's almost impossible to get a teaching job unless you are a Sciences teacher. My wife has a BA in Geography with an English Minor and a B.Ed, and she can't get into a school to save her life... She caught in the paradox of experience. And worse yet she can't go for her masters because she can pretty much kiss her teaching career good-bye because of the pay hike you get. No one gives an inexperienced teacher jobs here it seems. You either need math or science. Good on your wife.
Any jobs in her state? Here in Canada the message boards are rife with out of work teachers grumbling over the lack of teaching jobs...
If you knew they were cheating why didn't you turn them in?
Because life gets people like this in the end. They'll get into the real world and not be able to put together coherent sentences or cogent arguments. For me, getting a B+ instead of an A isn't going to kill me...
*** DISCLAIMER - > I'm no Micro$oft fanboi, but c'mon folks ***
Really, rethink your post for a sec...
Microsoft built on top of Mosaic which they licensed ( I know the details of the license ). They made it [arguably] better. Say what you will, Microsoft AND Nutscrape both tried to leverage their market share positions. Microsoft may have been better at it, but Nutscrape wasn't exactly free of any stupidity in their own "improvements" too... layer/ilayer tag anyone?
Xbox is a clone of Playstation... Which is clone of Sega Genesis which is a clone of Atari 2600 which is a clone of Pong. Xbox ( JMO ) is an improvement. Especially when you look at xbox live and what it's done.
Money v Quicken I'm not 100% on as I don't use them. From what I can see though it's probably got its own innovations in there.
Again, just to point out that Windows-the-gui is a derivative works, arguably an improvement, but still has its own set of innovations IMO nonetheless. So much so that KDE then copied Windows. ( flame away fanboys, but you know it's true ).
Innovation is not only coming up with a groundbreaking new idea, but improving on existing ideas too.
Otherwise we can say that no auto company has ever innovated because the internal combustion engine was originally thought of by Leonardo da Vinci. After all, the disc brake is a derivative work of the drum brake no?
. It kind of sucks that trust gets tossed out the window so quickly though.
I know people who've made most of their way through their undergrad plagiarizing papers. Not only does that mean my work is all for not, it also sets the bar higher when a prof has read 20 or 30 plagiarized papers. Not that my work's been terrible, but some of those papers are really great, and it makes it harder for me to get a good grade.
How dare they do this, imspeech the people sending emails to me(scammer or not)
Sorry, but insightful? Mods are you on crack today? He was making a joke... ( You were making a joke right ? )
=D
I would be happier if they would apply all their resources to better spam prevention.
Like another poster pointed out, I too have had little trouble with yahoo's spam filters. And nowadays spammers are so obvious that a simple right click -> this is spam and you're done. It's hardly a bother at all, and I've seen only one false positive come along. I'm pretty impressed.
If you use Firefox, snag Adblock Plus [mozilla.org] and the Filterset.G Updater [mozilla.org
FYI, Adblock Plus advises against Filterset.G - they have their own sets of filters that work better.
I still use it out of ignorance because it works just fine for me TYVM.
. But on Windows, there's nothing I've found close enough to it.
Eclipse? It's gotten pretty damn good lately with awesome language support for pretty much anything you can think of... It's far from perfect and isn't the best performer out there, but it's pretty damned good... I like it for PHP and Ruby development along with RoR and some Python stuff I do too...
When importing items into Canada you do not pay PST on the items at customs, with SOME exceptions.
Again, BS. I live in Cloverdale about 15 mins from the border and I pay PST on anything over $100... They don't bother with groceries or clothes or whatever, but try bringing electronics across and see where that'll get you.
Trust me, there's what they CAN enforce and what they DO enforce. I have a background in accounting and in this case dude you're totally wrong. I was using businesses as an example to illustrate what the letter of the law clearly states.
The BC govt was talking about going after people who live on the BC - Alberta border for shopping in Alberta. Nothing ever came of it, but make no mistake they are fully within their powers to enforce taxation if they like.
(GPS maybe?)
/. articles about that now... FBI wants to search your GPS records without a warrant, followed by a bunch of ignorant responses saying "i've done nothing wrong so why should I care? "
This is the third or fourth comment referring to GPS in a cell phone.
No fucking goddamn way I would carry a phone with a GPS in it... I can see the
No fucking way is any govt going to track my constant whereabouts TYVM. No, the govt cannot be trusted. They serve their own interest, and that's not necessarily the interest of the greater good.
Only consumers don't pay PST when buying stuff from other provinces, mostly because the province would have a helluva time enforcing it and they know it. So instead of villainizing your citizens, you can just raise the tax rate by half a percent and be done with it. It's politically unpopular to start charging people with tax evasion en masse for buying stuff out of province.
The big difference in the US is that most states ( except CA and TX ) are much smaller than provinces. In WA state, Seattle to Portland is maybe a 3 hour drive; so that $5000 big screen TV for example is probably worth driving to Portland to purchase it tax free and bring it back.
In Canada, for me to drive from Vancouver to Lethbridge or Calgary, I'd be looking at 14 hours. It certainly isn't worth making that trip to make a purchase. We have physical barriers here that don't exist in the US the same way.
I've yet to meet a USB Scanner, External Disk, Digital Camera, or Name-brand Printer that didn't Just Work with Ubuntu
I'm running Fedora Core so maybe I'm ignorant here... I have a six colour Canon i960 that prints beautiful photos. How can I access driver specific features such as photo printing and borderless printing? Canon itself makes some nice unitilities for photo printing and their driver itself decides when it's a photo to use the photo ink tanks.
I have yet to be able to find a photo printing utility that just works, and I have to find a driver that'll let me select photo paper and hi-res colour from my printer.
The Bells inherited this from the breakup, and have reaped all the benefits since then.
Not that I'm always a huge fan of the way we do things here in Canada, but public ownership of the phone lines has been a good enabler of competition here, both for Long Distance and Residential service. In fact govt can easily legislate that telcos are forced to wholesale their lines to allow for competition too...
How is that? Shouldn't the phone company be properly paid for the use of its network?
I don't know about the US, but here in Canada all phone lines are public domain and the phone companies are licensed to use it.
I'll be it's the same in the US - otherwise you'd have a natural monopoly in telcos - no city is going to allow redundant phone lines all over their city so the telcos can compete.
Part of this is that they are don't trust others to do it "right" or they are afraid of losing their technical skills.
The latter is why I've never made a push to become manager. I fear that once you cross over that threshold there may never be any turning back, and you may run the risk of obsolescence should your technical skills fall behind.
I don't necessarily think a manager needs to be fully versed in the technology they manage, but they certainly need to be able to communicate on a somewhat technical level. The needn't know everything but certainly they need to be knowledgeable in order to be able to easily communicate with those who you manage.