"The iTunes Music Store in Canada works with the Canadian dollar, and purchase and download of songs requires a valid credit card with a billing address in Canada."
Glancing over a book called "Writing Secure Code" by Howard and LeBlanc, from the Microsoft Press and that touts the following quote on the front cover:
"Required reading at Microsoft - Bill Gates"
Makes me wonder if blaming the language is easier than the possiblity of the code being more sloppy than it should. The book recommends many ways to avoid buffer overflows and such.
They likely don't block Canada because American citizens living here can still vote, and there are likely more American citizens in Canada than most other countries, seeing as we're neighbouring the US of A.
Although not officially an equation, more of an operator, the Laplace transform is extremely useful in my program of study (computer engineering) and it makes complex problems much simpler to solve.
Amen. I myself am a computer engineering student in Canada's top engineering university and know of graduates from here. They are having a hard time finding jobs. I'm not even sure I'll be able to get one once I'm done here without having to do post-secondary like you are.
The Xbox uses straight off the shelf hard disks, I saw a video of a guy opening one, it had an off-the-shelf 10 GB Maxtor hard disk drive in there. Replace with a WD 250 GB JB and voila.
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A bad rep for high cost internet services...
A ***Celeron*** 2.0
256 megs of ram (PC2100! Ack!)
a LEXMARK printer (mucho ink cartrige price)
12 months of service at a ridiculous rate for dialup
A mini tower (forget upgrades) and a mere 250W PSU
And the fact that you can get a better deal for dialup from any other ISP makes you wonder just why they'd do something like this... You can very likely newegg yourself a better PC for the same cost using a lower priced ISP
Means they also want a bad rep for PC services!
Take what I say with a grain of salt, for I have had bad experiences with a celeron before, but I don't think I'm far off the mark here.
What really woke me up was their statement that only 6% of the worlds engineers are educated in the USA.
As a University engineering student in Canada's likely best known engineering school, we got to learn about the licensing process and what it is to be an engineer.
I think part of the problem is the constant abuse of the word "engineer" in the United States. In this country (Canada) you cannot designate yourself an "engineer" without being licensed by your provincial body (at least here in Ontario). The word is protected to protect the public from people who don't have the necessary license and/or training to perform engineering tasks. The best example of this is the MSCE designation, which Microsoft had agreed to not use MSCE (Microsoft Certified Engineer) in 2001 and now reversed their decision.
The provincial bodies are now considering enforcement, and they are well within their right to do so. I went to a Microsoft presentation recently here and in their software development jobs, and 3/4 of their "college" (University here) full-time positions had the word "engineer" in them . (For those who don't want to RTFA, there is Program Manager, Software design engineer, Software design engineer in test, and software test engineer). Choice quote from the article:
Pointing out the differences in the
requirements to earn an MSCE designation
and a P.Eng. licence, Lemay notes: "It
is important for the public to know that
the term 'engineer' refers to a person with
a university engineering education and engineering
experience who follows a professional
code of ethics, not someone with just
a few months IT training."
I'm sure there are more examples of this at other companies, for example the term "network engineer" and other such titles given without certification or engineering licenses.
Holding in the middle of the pack is definitely not a disgrace for these budget processors.
I don't understand, a chip that costs less, has more cache, and has been a proven good chip (the Athlons) beat this new processor which is considered budget...
I myself bought a Duron 650 3 years ago, it lasted me that long. When my PSU died, I decided to upgrade to a 2500+, and left my old computer alone. Last Christmas I went home and set up some new Dell PCs my family bought with 2.4 Celerons, and just from watching a fresh install of XP running (which is usually fast) I almost swore that the 2.4 Ghz Celerons were slower than my rebuilt Duron 650 Mhz, and this is without benchmarks.. it probably wasn't 'factual' by a stopwatch's perspective, but it shows just how bad these chips inherently are.
It's also nice to see a push for another browser that might stand up to IE. After dancing with a very serious CWS infection on someone else's PC I was about ready to rip out IE from XP which is of course not easy to do. Hopefully as new browsers come they will have more protection against these hijacks and will be as compatible as IE is with everything out there on the Internet.
Not to be overly simplistic about answer this, but two wrongs won't make a right (the system as it is, and not doing anything about it), in an optimistic light if many patents get overturned it might embarrass the system into change, or at least expose it to more of the general public who use the common 'patented' technologies. Cleaning off the ridiculous patents might prevent frivolous cases from making it to court as well, and with a clogged up court system as it is, that wouldn't hurt either. I'm sure we can all think of a patent case that seems obvious that it shouldn't be in the courts but is. On an offtopic note, happy birthday me, still up to post on/. at 2 in the morning EST.
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In my native tongue (French), Noël means Christmas. Wonder if that's a hint...
We've seen this before:
Here
From TFA:
"The iTunes Music Store in Canada works with the Canadian dollar, and purchase and download of songs requires a valid credit card with a billing address in Canada."
Which is fine for me, but not for Americans..
All your code are belong to SCO
What about Apple's famous 1984 commercial? That was pretty important...
Video here for those who don't remember...
This is GNU/FOSS compliant...
http://gnaughty.sourceforge.net/
"we don't need to see it to know it's factually innacurate" (Referring to a comment made by the White House in regards to Fahrenheit 9/11)
Maybe people should do even just a little bit of research before making statements like that...
1) Firefox 1.0 Released
2) Halo 2 Released
3) John Ashcroft Resigns
4).... Profit!!!
What a day it's been!
Glancing over a book called "Writing Secure Code" by Howard and LeBlanc, from the Microsoft Press and that touts the following quote on the front cover:
"Required reading at Microsoft - Bill Gates"
Makes me wonder if blaming the language is easier than the possiblity of the code being more sloppy than it should. The book recommends many ways to avoid buffer overflows and such.
Or something like that...
If there's one thing America needs, it's more lawyers. Can you imagine a world without lawyers?
-Lionel Hutz, "Marge In Chains"
Video clip of this
They likely don't block Canada because American citizens living here can still vote, and there are likely more American citizens in Canada than most other countries, seeing as we're neighbouring the US of A.
To denote in Maple notation,
F(s) = int(exp(-s*t)*f(t),x=0..infinity);
Although not officially an equation, more of an operator, the Laplace transform is extremely useful in my program of study (computer engineering) and it makes complex problems much simpler to solve.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I'm oh-so-glad there's no DMCA in Canada.
Or just the usual Nobel prizes...
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I know I know, it's alright on
Amen. I myself am a computer engineering student in Canada's top engineering university and know of graduates from here. They are having a hard time finding jobs. I'm not even sure I'll be able to get one once I'm done here without having to do post-secondary like you are.
The Xbox uses straight off the shelf hard disks, I saw a video of a guy opening one, it had an off-the-shelf 10 GB Maxtor hard disk drive in there. Replace with a WD 250 GB JB and voila.
KHAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!
And the fact that you can get a better deal for dialup from any other ISP makes you wonder just why they'd do something like this... You can very likely newegg yourself a better PC for the same cost using a lower priced ISP
Means they also want a bad rep for PC services!
Take what I say with a grain of salt, for I have had bad experiences with a celeron before, but I don't think I'm far off the mark here.
As a University engineering student in Canada's likely best known engineering school, we got to learn about the licensing process and what it is to be an engineer.
I think part of the problem is the constant abuse of the word "engineer" in the United States. In this country (Canada) you cannot designate yourself an "engineer" without being licensed by your provincial body (at least here in Ontario). The word is protected to protect the public from people who don't have the necessary license and/or training to perform engineering tasks. The best example of this is the MSCE designation, which Microsoft had agreed to not use MSCE (Microsoft Certified Engineer) in 2001 and now reversed their decision.
The provincial bodies are now considering enforcement, and they are well within their right to do so. I went to a Microsoft presentation recently here and in their software development jobs, and 3/4 of their "college" (University here) full-time positions had the word "engineer" in them . (For those who don't want to RTFA, there is Program Manager, Software design engineer, Software design engineer in test, and software test engineer). Choice quote from the article:
I'm sure there are more examples of this at other companies, for example the term "network engineer" and other such titles given without certification or engineering licenses.
Obligatory...
Move to Canada... for Great Justice!!
(And French-speaking people aren't so bad, I'm one of them! *waits to be modded down*)
From TFA:
Holding in the middle of the pack is definitely not a disgrace for these budget processors.
I don't understand, a chip that costs less, has more cache, and has been a proven good chip (the Athlons) beat this new processor which is considered budget...
I myself bought a Duron 650 3 years ago, it lasted me that long. When my PSU died, I decided to upgrade to a 2500+, and left my old computer alone. Last Christmas I went home and set up some new Dell PCs my family bought with 2.4 Celerons, and just from watching a fresh install of XP running (which is usually fast) I almost swore that the 2.4 Ghz Celerons were slower than my rebuilt Duron 650 Mhz, and this is without benchmarks.. it probably wasn't 'factual' by a stopwatch's perspective, but it shows just how bad these chips inherently are.
It's also nice to see a push for another browser that might stand up to IE. After dancing with a very serious CWS infection on someone else's PC I was about ready to rip out IE from XP which is of course not easy to do. Hopefully as new browsers come they will have more protection against these hijacks and will be as compatible as IE is with everything out there on the Internet.
Not to be overly simplistic about answer this, but two wrongs won't make a right (the system as it is, and not doing anything about it), in an optimistic light if many patents get overturned it might embarrass the system into change, or at least expose it to more of the general public who use the common 'patented' technologies. Cleaning off the ridiculous patents might prevent frivolous cases from making it to court as well, and with a clogged up court system as it is, that wouldn't hurt either. I'm sure we can all think of a patent case that seems obvious that it shouldn't be in the courts but is. On an offtopic note, happy birthday me, still up to post on /. at 2 in the morning EST.
New commands at the drive through:
Kill Cow
hash Meat
Mk Burger
Mount Burger
srv Burger