Earth will be a miserable place long before that. Like, surface temperatures over the boiling point of water in about a billion years. We better not be ugly bags of mostly water by then.
I'd rather see faster IO than built-in wireless. I can easily add a dongle for wifi or bluetooth if I want it, but the current architectural constraints mean the Pi's not a great board for a low-end, low-power file server.
This is a Canadian thread, so the proper reference is to the Currency Act; specifically, s. 8(2).
Coins are legal tender, but only up to a maximum number of coins depending on the denomination. The most you can use in one transaction is 100 (dimes or nickels).
This proposed legislation is going nowhere in this form.
The bill being put forward by a member of parliament from the NDP, who are at the opposite end of the political spectrum from the governing Conservative parties. It will not get enought support to make it past first reading - it would need the support of the largest opposition party, the Liberals, and they're likely to just ignore it, because politically, it looks like a tax. Also, because there's finances involved, passing the legislation might be considered a confidence vote which would bring down the government and trigger an election, and this just isn't an issue the Liberals want us going to the polls over.
Canada once did have an "ipod tax" of the sort proposed. The "private copying" regime in Canada makes it legal (i.e. not a violation of copyright) to copy music (but not movies, or non-musical audio recordings) for private use onto an "audio recording media". The flip side of the legislation is that a levy (tax) is imposed on "audio recording media" to compensate recording artists for the copies of their music that are copied in this way. For example, there's a levy of about 30 cents per blank CD. However, because the law doesn't model technology very well, there is no levy on blank DVDs, and when they tried to impose a levy on MP3 players several years ago, the Court struck it down, concluding that an MP3 player is not "audio recording media". Hard drives, similarly, are not "audio recording media" because they can hold anything, not just audio. Like I said, the law doesn't model technology very well.
I fail to see why this is a "deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems" and not merely a moderately interesting moment in the corporate history of the respective companies (or, more specifically, in Red Hat's corporate history). Red Hat may represent Linux, but it's not Linux, and market capitalization, being a function of share price, is a less interesting metric then any measurement of the actual use of the operating systems these companies produce. Anyone who remembers the Red Hat IPO will know that share price is more closely tied to hype than to particularly signficant tecnical advances.
Oh, a SMEPED. Why didn't you just say so in the first place? Damn marketing boys with their fancy-sounding "Sectera". How the heck are we supposed to know what a "Sectera" is? That don't even stand for anything!
The industry minister's response is like saying in the controversy concerning battles at the arena, the Industry Minister said "we will continue to leave the matter between the Christians on the one hand and the lions on the other".
Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis have similar subscription case reporters in Canada, where they cooexist peacefully with this free site, where you can freely search and read most "recent" Canadian case law (e.g. from the mid 1990s to date), as well as some older important appellate cases. The paid services have more "editorial content" such as detailed headnotes and cross-referencing to commentary.
The single most important thing lawyers want, other than the case itself, is to know what other cases say about it: which subsequent authorities cite the case, and why? The ability to "note up" a case ("Quickcite" on Lexis-Nexis Canada, "Shepardizing" in Westlaw-speak) to see at a glance if it has been followed, overturned or otherwise commented on is a critical feature for any online repository of case law. Until Malamud's site does this it's not true competition to the subscription sites.
I much doubt whether the average user cares (never mind understands) if the kernel is monolithic, microkernel, or heated corn -- and for what we average users tend to use our compueters for (i.e. running our office apps, surfing the Interweb, listening to music, occassionaly watching video or fixing red-eye in pictures of our children) it's not going to be the kernel that dictates user experience or perception of "slow".
You db admins, SETI enthusiasts and google administrators may care more.
(I turned in my geek card long ago.)
He's not saying he doesn't understand what Skype claims to do (i.e. provide an internet telephony service), but that he doesn't know what it does (e.g. install malware, open up security holes or intentional backdoors by virtue of running as a server app; forward copies of your mailbox to skype.com for international corporate espionage...)
With Microsoft you may not care; if it goes wrong there are deep pockets to sue. With open source you don't care, because you can verify it for yourself. With Skype/Yahoo, your confidence level may vary.
The number of power cycles, 128, is too neat (2^7) to have been random. It's more likely to be a bug in the software than someone actually flipping the switch that many times. If there's a bug in the reset counter, how can I know there's no bug in the vote counter too? (Answer: open source voting machines with a signature mechanism to identify the code the machine actually ran when people were voting).
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Being that the loonie is about $0.78 to the greenback.
Earth will be a miserable place long before that. Like, surface temperatures over the boiling point of water in about a billion years. We better not be ugly bags of mostly water by then.
Lemme guess ... Google's own ad sales don't provide for interstitial ads.
The ISP appears to be these guys
So the Tesla floats like a duck?
It must be made of wood.
Like a witch.
And what do we do with witches?
I'd rather see faster IO than built-in wireless. I can easily add a dongle for wifi or bluetooth if I want it, but the current architectural constraints mean the Pi's not a great board for a low-end, low-power file server.
The likeliest explanation is that Amazon is no longer paying Canonical enough money for this to be default behavior.
Coins are legal tender, but only up to a maximum number of coins depending on the denomination. The most you can use in one transaction is 100 (dimes or nickels).
And past this post, no further information from Slashdot ever reached my location.
And centralize for national surveillance
This will come with a 1.5 gigabit cap to keep the "bandwidth hogs" at bay.
The bill being put forward by a member of parliament from the NDP, who are at the opposite end of the political spectrum from the governing Conservative parties. It will not get enought support to make it past first reading - it would need the support of the largest opposition party, the Liberals, and they're likely to just ignore it, because politically, it looks like a tax. Also, because there's finances involved, passing the legislation might be considered a confidence vote which would bring down the government and trigger an election, and this just isn't an issue the Liberals want us going to the polls over. Canada once did have an "ipod tax" of the sort proposed. The "private copying" regime in Canada makes it legal (i.e. not a violation of copyright) to copy music (but not movies, or non-musical audio recordings) for private use onto an "audio recording media". The flip side of the legislation is that a levy (tax) is imposed on "audio recording media" to compensate recording artists for the copies of their music that are copied in this way. For example, there's a levy of about 30 cents per blank CD. However, because the law doesn't model technology very well, there is no levy on blank DVDs, and when they tried to impose a levy on MP3 players several years ago, the Court struck it down, concluding that an MP3 player is not "audio recording media". Hard drives, similarly, are not "audio recording media" because they can hold anything, not just audio. Like I said, the law doesn't model technology very well.
The only thing the article "ads" to the summary posted here is a pretty splash screen, which in my case tried to sell me SQL Server.
The lead scientist noted that they were "piggybacking" on colleagues' forensics research.
It makes me sound pompous because I am! :)
I fail to see why this is a "deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems" and not merely a moderately interesting moment in the corporate history of the respective companies (or, more specifically, in Red Hat's corporate history). Red Hat may represent Linux, but it's not Linux, and market capitalization, being a function of share price, is a less interesting metric then any measurement of the actual use of the operating systems these companies produce. Anyone who remembers the Red Hat IPO will know that share price is more closely tied to hype than to particularly signficant tecnical advances.
Oh, a SMEPED. Why didn't you just say so in the first place? Damn marketing boys with their fancy-sounding "Sectera". How the heck are we supposed to know what a "Sectera" is? That don't even stand for anything!
From my perspective, it is sufficiently advanced technology to be regarded as magic. Of course, I haven't watched TFA.
The industry minister's response is like saying in the controversy concerning battles at the arena, the Industry Minister said "we will continue to leave the matter between the Christians on the one hand and the lions on the other".
Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis have similar subscription case reporters in Canada, where they cooexist peacefully with this free site, where you can freely search and read most "recent" Canadian case law (e.g. from the mid 1990s to date), as well as some older important appellate cases. The paid services have more "editorial content" such as detailed headnotes and cross-referencing to commentary.
The single most important thing lawyers want, other than the case itself, is to know what other cases say about it: which subsequent authorities cite the case, and why? The ability to "note up" a case ("Quickcite" on Lexis-Nexis Canada, "Shepardizing" in Westlaw-speak) to see at a glance if it has been followed, overturned or otherwise commented on is a critical feature for any online repository of case law. Until Malamud's site does this it's not true competition to the subscription sites.
I much doubt whether the average user cares (never mind understands) if the kernel is monolithic, microkernel, or heated corn -- and for what we average users tend to use our compueters for (i.e. running our office apps, surfing the Interweb, listening to music, occassionaly watching video or fixing red-eye in pictures of our children) it's not going to be the kernel that dictates user experience or perception of "slow". You db admins, SETI enthusiasts and google administrators may care more. (I turned in my geek card long ago.)
I think I read this in an article by Lester del Rey published in Astounding back in 1938!
Chris Pine was in Blind Dating (2006) with Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky was in Murder in the First (1995) with Kevin Bacon
He's not saying he doesn't understand what Skype claims to do (i.e. provide an internet telephony service), but that he doesn't know what it does (e.g. install malware, open up security holes or intentional backdoors by virtue of running as a server app; forward copies of your mailbox to skype.com for international corporate espionage...) With Microsoft you may not care; if it goes wrong there are deep pockets to sue. With open source you don't care, because you can verify it for yourself. With Skype/Yahoo, your confidence level may vary.
The number of power cycles, 128, is too neat (2^7) to have been random. It's more likely to be a bug in the software than someone actually flipping the switch that many times. If there's a bug in the reset counter, how can I know there's no bug in the vote counter too? (Answer: open source voting machines with a signature mechanism to identify the code the machine actually ran when people were voting).