PIPEDA allows for consent. People buying things online with their credit cards are giving implicit consent to the buyer to have the information provided necessary for the sale. However, people buying things online with their credit cards should have their heads examined, and should use "one off" numbers for transactions, or use a proxy like Pay Pal so that they are not divulging personal information to a buyer they do not know or trust.
People buying software from Intuit are not givng implicit consent to everything in the "shrinkwrap" license which is why the idea that they are using datacenters outside of the country is trouble. I gave up using Intuit software ages ago anyway, and I use the other Canadian tax software instead - Ufile.
I'm running a windows system with 3Gb of memory, and an Nvidia video card. The extra Gb comes in handy when working in Photoshop or Cinema 4D. However, it will cause just about any game you can mention to lock up. I have to have a switch in my boot.ini file so that at system boot up, I can choose a system configuration that works with games and just about everything else, but basically does not use that last gig of RAM at all, or I can choose a configuration that makes the last Gb available, but will not allow any game to function, at all. Cinema 4D, which does use OpenGL rather aggressively, does not seem to tip the graphics driver over in the same way that games do - it must manage memory differently.
I realize this doesn't have much to do with the original poster's problem (he's on OS X) but it does seem more than coincidental that going past 2Gb of memory causes issues on both platforms, with the only common denominator being the presence of an Nvidia card and associated drivers.
Here is my boot.ini for anyone who has a similar set up and wonders what to do about the issues:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional"/noexecute=optin/fastdetect/usepmtimer
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP More Memory"/noexecute=optin/fastdetect/3GB/usepmtimer
What strikes me about the example is that Full Metal Jacket was not a widescreen movie... Why is the HD DVD version of it presented in that format when the theatrical version of it was not?
Nice work linking the nutjob agenda of the evolution deniers with the work of anthropogenic global warming deniers, with no factual basis for the linking whatsoever. One is denied out of ignorance of abundant evidence - the other is denied for the dearth of it.
Boy am I going to get buried for this, but there is a huge difference between agreeing that GW is taking place, and agreeing that we are the cause of it. There ARE alternative theories, and contrary to Mr. Gore's presentation they have been published in peer reviewed journals. And they are not the work of scientists in the employ of the oil and coal industries -- they are the work of people who simply want to find out the truth. Google for the names Dr. Christopher Landsea, Dr. Duncan Wingham, Dr. Richard Tol, or Dr. Henrik Svensmark. The last name is particularly interesting because he does not deny the effects of CO2 on atmospheric temperature, but his research into cosmic ray catalysis of low cloud cover accounts for nearly 1.2 watts per square meter of warming of the 1.4 watts per square meter being predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
There are several very good reasons for not showing An Inconvenient Truth in schools - the presentation is full of factual errors. So many errors that showing it would be anti-educational.
CO2 is not the most active greenhouse gas - water vapour is. The sun is at a 10,000 year peak cycle right now, and its magnetic field is twice as strong as normal. This draws cosmic rays away from the earth, which has a direct effect on the amount of cloud cover -- cloud cover which would reflect sunlight back into space. Because the warming effect of a hotter sun, there is more evaporation taking place from the oceans, which has a feedback effect on the warming (greenhouse effect). The larger amounts of moisture in the air causes ice to form at the south pole (which contains 90% of all of the ice on the earth). Warm currents and moisture are driving the increased intensity of rain and snowfall across the northern continents. Etc. This is a theory which also fits the observable facts, and has been published in peer review journals, and has little, if anything to do with the actions of mankind
The earth is a dynamic system with a couple of points of stability - warm climate - ice age. The fossil record shows that the earth has oscillated back and forth between these two states for millions of years. If you look at a graph of earth temperature going back 7 ice ages, a very striking pattern emerges. It also appears that right now, we are on the upward slope of yet another warming trend... and rather near the peak of the tipping point into another ice age. No matter WHAT we choose to do.
We account for 1% of all atmospheric C02. The rest of it comes from geological venting, biological decay, and the ocean. So, if we were to cut our C02 consumption in half (as Mr. Gore's movie suggests), this means we are affecting one half of one percent of all the C02 in the atmosphere... the twentieth most active greenhouse gas. Doesn't really seem worth it, does it?
The poles are not melting. In fact, evidence shows that they are getting colder. The ice in the Antarctic is melting around the edges yes - big chunks have broken off. But the ice dome as a whole is actually getting thicker.
The sea levels are not rising. In fact, they have dropped in a few places. Displaced people have not had their islands washed away from beneath them - and have not found refuge in New Zealand. That was total fiction in Gore's film.
The total number of peer reviewed articles that do not deny AGW may very well be zero. Its impossible to prove a negative. I also believe the number of peer reviewed articles that do not deny GW is caused by aliens is also zero.
Mr. Gore relies on a discredited temperature graph to show that the twentieth century is the hottest ever - the so called hockey stick, which turned out to be a mathematical anomaly.
Mr. Gore twists the results of ice core data which are built on a house
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had to comment on your Puni Puni Poemy reference in your sig.:)
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I disagree with some elements of the review - I thought the music was well composed, and suited the mood of the game perfectly. I found the character I was playing to be a likeable guy, with some funny comments to make as he makes his way around. Picking up the leech weapon early on in the game makes him comment, "This should rock some shit!"
I found spirit mode to be a very interesting addition to the game play and strategy. Sometimes the gravity stuff seemed gratuitiously used - used for the sake of doing it - but in other places in the game it was downright brilliant, as were some of the portal based puzzles.
Not one of the weapons is a "classic" FPS retread - no pistol, no shotgun, no chainsaw, no "nail gun". There's a rocket launcher of sorts, but interestingly it's only usable on a handful of enemies.
I did find the game to be a tad on the brief side - it definitely left me wanting more. I replayed the game immediately in "Cherokee" mode. The primary difference between "Regular" mode and "Cherokee" mode is there are no health packs or health rechargers - anywhere. This difference forced me to play far more aggressively.
Something else not mentioned in the review is that the game has a dynamic difficulty level - how well you play, and what weapons you favor has an effect on what enemies show up, how many show up, and what kind of ammo you are going to find in the ammo closets and lying around. If you think you are a tough guy, play like it, and the game will ramp up the difficulty for you. Something else that's off in the review is that the spirit world - where you fight for physical and spiritual strength when you die - does change in difficulty throughout the game, with more obstacles blocking your shots, and a tendency to not give you enough of the "kind" of spirits you need. The spirits will also attack you more frequently and rob you of strength.
I never once got lost in the game - its very linear, which is odd given is decidedly non-linear architecture and level design. You will never have to guess where to go, or what to do. Some people might not like this, and enjoy a real brain buster. This game isn't for that. I solve quite enough puzzles at work thank you - I play games to have fun. This game is fun from start to finish, and I really recommend it to people who also look for fun from their games.
[*spoiler warning*]
Maybe I am a softy, but I really felt terrible having to kill off the one person I had been fighting to protect for the first half of the game. There was an emotional intensity both to the character's devotion, and his reaction to that event that made playing the second half of the game even more fun - I was on a trail of vengeance, leaving a wake of death behind me. Having the character yelling at the aliens as he slaughters them was a great addition. Kudos to the designers for making me give a crap about what was going on in the game.
This is part of a larger problem. The search engines, and the desire on the part of webmasters to rank highly on them, causes a distortion in the kind of language we are using on the internet. Its not about the quality of your content or your writing style and how those affect a human reader. Its now about "keyword density". In order to get their page to show up higher in search results, webmasters start to fluff out what they are saying, adding extra words, repeating things repetitiously, adding redundant redundancies, and repeating what they are saying a bunch of different ways. We end up writing for the search engine, not the human beings who have to wade through this crap to find the information they are looking for.
Having said that, this boring headline business doesn't seem to have affected The Register. They usually have some clever ones.
This is my stab at being a pundit. I.E. I am making this up as a likely, but unresearched opinon, unsupported by facts:
Apple wants/needs to start pushing out intel towers and workstations, but cannot because Adobe has not come out with an intel / universal binary of Photoshop -- the #1 reason people buy the big Apple systems like the G5 tower. So Apple puts out BootCamp. Hey, you need to run Photoshop at full speed under our hardware? - boot into Windows XP and run Photoshop there till Adobe gets their act together. Because right now, BootCamp is the ONLY way you are going to get Photoshop to run full speed on your Mac Intel hardware.
I don't see any similar underlying push to have OS X apps run on Windows, but I admit the idea is attractive. Apple is a hardware company, sure, but they are also a software company but why pass the up the chance to sell Apeture or Final Cut to the people who cannot/will not buy Apple hardware? Their money is just as green. But go up against Windows in the OS market? That's just crazy talk.
Another thing the article (about LSD) has dead wrong is his first experience of it. From Hoffman's own account - it was a terrifying and catastrophic experience because he didn't know what was going on, or what the cause was. He though he was going mad, or dying. Not a "pleasant dream on the front porch" as the article suggests. How can the media get so many things wrong at once?
That URL works fine for me. Mind you, I have both QuickTime and Media Player installed on my windows PC. Maybe the problem you are having is that such sites are not set up for anything other than Windows/Mac, which *probably* isn't a Firefox problem per se... Plug-in dependent pages muddy the cross-platform waters - do you blame the browser makers, or the web authors, for relying on plug in technology that doesn't exist on your platform of choice.
Water vapour has always been the #1 greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide isn't even in the top 20. How you get to the conclusion that it must have started with a gas with a very weak effect is beyond me.
This just in: global warming is caused by increased solar radiation.
I think one of the crucial points you misunderstand about evolution is that life did not reach the many forms it is in today by "necessity". Necessity has nothing at all to do with evolution. It may be "necessary" for life to adapt to a hotter climate, increased UV radiation, or increased particulate matter in the air, but until random mutation brings about changes in living systems that might be advantageous in a changed climate, no such adaptations will occur.
Oddly enough, you are incorrect. LCDs have a much smaller color space than CRTs. For example, did you know that most of the LCD displays on the market have 6-bit per channel color? Not nearly enough for color work, sorry. Also, there is nothing inherently different from producing light from solid state sources as there is from analog sources to support any of your statements about the size of the color space. Additionally, you can't get deep blacks from an LCD because you are relying on the ability of the LCD "shutters" to block the light from the backlight - and no LCD on the market is 100% opaque. And I have yet to see an LCD with the same brightness range as a CRT - so your color space theory is right out the window.
All this new technology does is get away from the fluorescent lightsource used in LCD panels, and replaces that with bright LEDs. Thats all.
Give me a PDA with the storage capacity and connectivity of an iPod and I'll think about one. You know, a PDA that you can just plug in with a USB2 or Firewire connector, that doesn't have to mangle all the documents you store on it, or go though some ugly synchronize program. That would be swell.
Liar. The picture you've linked to shows the iPod nano after you've dropped it repeatedly from a jog, bike ride, and out the car window. This is something "respectful" users do? Considering the abuse that was showered on the nano by the guys at Ars Technica, it looks like it would be in pretty good shape.
Any owner of shiney new plastic toys should be familiar with the use of plastic polish or, failing that, toothpaste, to restore the gleam of their toy. Heck, I've used a sheet of white bond to "lap" a perfect shine back onto plastic items, a technique I think would work perfectly with the nano.
Computerworld seems, to me at least, to be rife with lots of sensationalized articles about dubious tech issues. The Air Force article was vague and over-generalized, and didn't explain what security flaw had been exploited by the attacker.
In another article on their site they describe employees intentionally releasing viruses into the workplace network as "workplace violence". Vandalism was probably the word they were looking for, but violence sounds so much more dangerous. Its not much of a suprise that your submission got rejected. I didn't even check out your second URL - it sounded silly.
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Both of your parents have one dominant gene for brown eyes, and one recessive gene for eye color that is not brown. Probably blue.
PIPEDA allows for consent. People buying things online with their credit cards are giving implicit consent to the buyer to have the information provided necessary for the sale. However, people buying things online with their credit cards should have their heads examined, and should use "one off" numbers for transactions, or use a proxy like Pay Pal so that they are not divulging personal information to a buyer they do not know or trust.
People buying software from Intuit are not givng implicit consent to everything in the "shrinkwrap" license which is why the idea that they are using datacenters outside of the country is trouble. I gave up using Intuit software ages ago anyway, and I use the other Canadian tax software instead - Ufile.
I'm running a windows system with 3Gb of memory, and an Nvidia video card. The extra Gb comes in handy when working in Photoshop or Cinema 4D. However, it will cause just about any game you can mention to lock up. I have to have a switch in my boot.ini file so that at system boot up, I can choose a system configuration that works with games and just about everything else, but basically does not use that last gig of RAM at all, or I can choose a configuration that makes the last Gb available, but will not allow any game to function, at all. Cinema 4D, which does use OpenGL rather aggressively, does not seem to tip the graphics driver over in the same way that games do - it must manage memory differently.
W So soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimero soft Windows XP More Memory" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB /usepmtimer
I realize this doesn't have much to do with the original poster's problem (he's on OS X) but it does seem more than coincidental that going past 2Gb of memory causes issues on both platforms, with the only common denominator being the presence of an Nvidia card and associated drivers.
Here is my boot.ini for anyone who has a similar set up and wonders what to do about the issues:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDO
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micr
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micr
What strikes me about the example is that Full Metal Jacket was not a widescreen movie... Why is the HD DVD version of it presented in that format when the theatrical version of it was not?
Nice work linking the nutjob agenda of the evolution deniers with the work of anthropogenic global warming deniers, with no factual basis for the linking whatsoever. One is denied out of ignorance of abundant evidence - the other is denied for the dearth of it.
Boy am I going to get buried for this, but there is a huge difference between agreeing that GW is taking place, and agreeing that we are the cause of it. There ARE alternative theories, and contrary to Mr. Gore's presentation they have been published in peer reviewed journals. And they are not the work of scientists in the employ of the oil and coal industries -- they are the work of people who simply want to find out the truth. Google for the names Dr. Christopher Landsea, Dr. Duncan Wingham, Dr. Richard Tol, or Dr. Henrik Svensmark. The last name is particularly interesting because he does not deny the effects of CO2 on atmospheric temperature, but his research into cosmic ray catalysis of low cloud cover accounts for nearly 1.2 watts per square meter of warming of the 1.4 watts per square meter being predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
There are several very good reasons for not showing An Inconvenient Truth in schools - the presentation is full of factual errors. So many errors that showing it would be anti-educational.
CO2 is not the most active greenhouse gas - water vapour is. The sun is at a 10,000 year peak cycle right now, and its magnetic field is twice as strong as normal. This draws cosmic rays away from the earth, which has a direct effect on the amount of cloud cover -- cloud cover which would reflect sunlight back into space. Because the warming effect of a hotter sun, there is more evaporation taking place from the oceans, which has a feedback effect on the warming (greenhouse effect). The larger amounts of moisture in the air causes ice to form at the south pole (which contains 90% of all of the ice on the earth). Warm currents and moisture are driving the increased intensity of rain and snowfall across the northern continents. Etc. This is a theory which also fits the observable facts, and has been published in peer review journals, and has little, if anything to do with the actions of mankind
The earth is a dynamic system with a couple of points of stability - warm climate - ice age. The fossil record shows that the earth has oscillated back and forth between these two states for millions of years. If you look at a graph of earth temperature going back 7 ice ages, a very striking pattern emerges. It also appears that right now, we are on the upward slope of yet another warming trend... and rather near the peak of the tipping point into another ice age. No matter WHAT we choose to do.
We account for 1% of all atmospheric C02. The rest of it comes from geological venting, biological decay, and the ocean. So, if we were to cut our C02 consumption in half (as Mr. Gore's movie suggests), this means we are affecting one half of one percent of all the C02 in the atmosphere... the twentieth most active greenhouse gas. Doesn't really seem worth it, does it?
The poles are not melting. In fact, evidence shows that they are getting colder. The ice in the Antarctic is melting around the edges yes - big chunks have broken off. But the ice dome as a whole is actually getting thicker.
The sea levels are not rising. In fact, they have dropped in a few places. Displaced people have not had their islands washed away from beneath them - and have not found refuge in New Zealand. That was total fiction in Gore's film.
The total number of peer reviewed articles that do not deny AGW may very well be zero. Its impossible to prove a negative. I also believe the number of peer reviewed articles that do not deny GW is caused by aliens is also zero.
Mr. Gore relies on a discredited temperature graph to show that the twentieth century is the hottest ever - the so called hockey stick, which turned out to be a mathematical anomaly.
Mr. Gore twists the results of ice core data which are built on a house
had to comment on your Puni Puni Poemy reference in your sig. :)
I disagree with some elements of the review - I thought the music was well composed, and suited the mood of the game perfectly. I found the character I was playing to be a likeable guy, with some funny comments to make as he makes his way around. Picking up the leech weapon early on in the game makes him comment, "This should rock some shit!"
I found spirit mode to be a very interesting addition to the game play and strategy. Sometimes the gravity stuff seemed gratuitiously used - used for the sake of doing it - but in other places in the game it was downright brilliant, as were some of the portal based puzzles.
Not one of the weapons is a "classic" FPS retread - no pistol, no shotgun, no chainsaw, no "nail gun". There's a rocket launcher of sorts, but interestingly it's only usable on a handful of enemies.
I did find the game to be a tad on the brief side - it definitely left me wanting more. I replayed the game immediately in "Cherokee" mode. The primary difference between "Regular" mode and "Cherokee" mode is there are no health packs or health rechargers - anywhere. This difference forced me to play far more aggressively.
Something else not mentioned in the review is that the game has a dynamic difficulty level - how well you play, and what weapons you favor has an effect on what enemies show up, how many show up, and what kind of ammo you are going to find in the ammo closets and lying around. If you think you are a tough guy, play like it, and the game will ramp up the difficulty for you. Something else that's off in the review is that the spirit world - where you fight for physical and spiritual strength when you die - does change in difficulty throughout the game, with more obstacles blocking your shots, and a tendency to not give you enough of the "kind" of spirits you need. The spirits will also attack you more frequently and rob you of strength.
I never once got lost in the game - its very linear, which is odd given is decidedly non-linear architecture and level design. You will never have to guess where to go, or what to do. Some people might not like this, and enjoy a real brain buster. This game isn't for that. I solve quite enough puzzles at work thank you - I play games to have fun. This game is fun from start to finish, and I really recommend it to people who also look for fun from their games.
[*spoiler warning*]
Maybe I am a softy, but I really felt terrible having to kill off the one person I had been fighting to protect for the first half of the game. There was an emotional intensity both to the character's devotion, and his reaction to that event that made playing the second half of the game even more fun - I was on a trail of vengeance, leaving a wake of death behind me. Having the character yelling at the aliens as he slaughters them was a great addition. Kudos to the designers for making me give a crap about what was going on in the game.
Having said that, this boring headline business doesn't seem to have affected The Register. They usually have some clever ones.
Then you have not been applying your security patches! :)
Apple wants/needs to start pushing out intel towers and workstations, but cannot because Adobe has not come out with an intel / universal binary of Photoshop -- the #1 reason people buy the big Apple systems like the G5 tower. So Apple puts out BootCamp. Hey, you need to run Photoshop at full speed under our hardware? - boot into Windows XP and run Photoshop there till Adobe gets their act together. Because right now, BootCamp is the ONLY way you are going to get Photoshop to run full speed on your Mac Intel hardware.
I don't see any similar underlying push to have OS X apps run on Windows, but I admit the idea is attractive. Apple is a hardware company, sure, but they are also a software company but why pass the up the chance to sell Apeture or Final Cut to the people who cannot/will not buy Apple hardware? Their money is just as green. But go up against Windows in the OS market? That's just crazy talk.
For every file that you don't download, I'll download three!
Another thing the article (about LSD) has dead wrong is his first experience of it. From Hoffman's own account - it was a terrifying and catastrophic experience because he didn't know what was going on, or what the cause was. He though he was going mad, or dying. Not a "pleasant dream on the front porch" as the article suggests. How can the media get so many things wrong at once?
August 31, 2006. Christmas Season 2006. All of these things put it in the second half of 2006. How is this "much sooner" than the second half of 2006?
That URL works fine for me. Mind you, I have both QuickTime and Media Player installed on my windows PC. Maybe the problem you are having is that such sites are not set up for anything other than Windows/Mac, which *probably* isn't a Firefox problem per se... Plug-in dependent pages muddy the cross-platform waters - do you blame the browser makers, or the web authors, for relying on plug in technology that doesn't exist on your platform of choice.
Water vapour has always been the #1 greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide isn't even in the top 20. How you get to the conclusion that it must have started with a gas with a very weak effect is beyond me.
This just in: global warming is caused by increased solar radiation.
I think one of the crucial points you misunderstand about evolution is that life did not reach the many forms it is in today by "necessity". Necessity has nothing at all to do with evolution. It may be "necessary" for life to adapt to a hotter climate, increased UV radiation, or increased particulate matter in the air, but until random mutation brings about changes in living systems that might be advantageous in a changed climate, no such adaptations will occur.
Oddly enough, you are incorrect. LCDs have a much smaller color space than CRTs. For example, did you know that most of the LCD displays on the market have 6-bit per channel color? Not nearly enough for color work, sorry. Also, there is nothing inherently different from producing light from solid state sources as there is from analog sources to support any of your statements about the size of the color space. Additionally, you can't get deep blacks from an LCD because you are relying on the ability of the LCD "shutters" to block the light from the backlight - and no LCD on the market is 100% opaque. And I have yet to see an LCD with the same brightness range as a CRT - so your color space theory is right out the window.
All this new technology does is get away from the fluorescent lightsource used in LCD panels, and replaces that with bright LEDs. Thats all.
Give me a PDA with the storage capacity and connectivity of an iPod and I'll think about one. You know, a PDA that you can just plug in with a USB2 or Firewire connector, that doesn't have to mangle all the documents you store on it, or go though some ugly synchronize program. That would be swell.
I hope that some day people will use the word "hopefully" correctly.
The "article" on the blog this story points to is full of "may" "could have" "possibly" and other weasle-word disclaimers. Nothing to see here.
Great. Guess I don't need to read the book now.
How did this get moderated as "insightful"?
Fictional mumbo-jumbo "solutions" to real life problems are patently irrational, and have no place in civilized society.
Liar. The picture you've linked to shows the iPod nano after you've dropped it repeatedly from a jog, bike ride, and out the car window. This is something "respectful" users do? Considering the abuse that was showered on the nano by the guys at Ars Technica, it looks like it would be in pretty good shape.
Any owner of shiney new plastic toys should be familiar with the use of plastic polish or, failing that, toothpaste, to restore the gleam of their toy. Heck, I've used a sheet of white bond to "lap" a perfect shine back onto plastic items, a technique I think would work perfectly with the nano.
Computerworld seems, to me at least, to be rife with lots of sensationalized articles about dubious tech issues. The Air Force article was vague and over-generalized, and didn't explain what security flaw had been exploited by the attacker.
In another article on their site they describe employees intentionally releasing viruses into the workplace network as "workplace violence". Vandalism was probably the word they were looking for, but violence sounds so much more dangerous. Its not much of a suprise that your submission got rejected. I didn't even check out your second URL - it sounded silly.
Better luck next time.
This is news? Its some guy's completely unsubstantiated opinion that this would be a good move by Google and Skype. Nothing to see here.