This is much better than not having constitutional rights at all, but it falls short of a system where the courts can keep rogue governments in check.
So far, fortunately, this has only been a problem in places that will A) voluntarily elect rogue governments and then B) not insist that subsequent governments repeal the legislation. i.e. Quebec, where you can be a blatant racist and still get elected to the highest offices.
Perhaps I was unclear. Acts of parliament must be passed by the members by means of a vote. These are not edicts. (Which I felt was worth pointing out to our cousins to the south who frequently forget that they are not the only democracy.)
I was not referring to whether or not the governing party held a majority. (But I can see the confusion as we tend to over use that meaning especially when minority governments are sitting.)
You're forgetting about the Notwithstanding Clause
Uh... no I'm not. Hence the comment "as robust as it gets in Canadian constitutional law".
Invoking notwithstanding requires an act of provincial parliament, this is not something that can be thrown about like a warrant on the whim of an individual judge or a casual rule of engagement that the average cop on the beat can abuse.
So while it is possible for the MAJORITY of a provinces ELECTED representatives to agree to TEMPORARILY overlook certain constitutional provisions for "the greater good" it is rarely invoked at all. (And as an anglophone living in Quebec I can tell you that I am rather familiar with some of the cases where it has been.)
What Unix war? There is the normal bantering from people saying their version of Unix is better then the rest (Which for the most part is normally the version of Unix they know the best) but a Unix war. I haven't heard anything about it. Other then OS X all the other Unixes are in heavy competition against Linux and Windows for its survival.
The first rule of the Unix war is nobody talks about the Unix war. The MIB are on their way, please stay calm.
A lot of people prefer to work through the package management system - its makes install/uninstall and dependencies a lot cleaner.
Different pattern of behavior... as a plugin developer I download Eclipse builds on a regular basis (on average monthly... sometimes almost daily during the June end-game when my patches are being considered), being one version behind is not an option, being four versions behind is unthinkable.
With Eclipse having it's own update/upgrade functionality I really think that distros should drop eclipse packaging.
It's damn misguiding though that distros have some antique version.
I actually felt insulted the first time I tried the pre-packaged Eclipse on Ubuntu (7.04?)... the damn thing ran with gcj and indeed did make Mono look good in contrast.
I'm surprised they aren't filling the storage with "kekekekekekekekekekekeke"...
I can't wait for the Hollywood version: <gravelly voice>On July 4th America celebrates it's independence day, but on July 10th the gold farmers break free! KEK KEK KEK!</gravelly voice>
Do you think a health care system would be immune from the same frustratingly inefficient bureaucracy that plagues all other government programs? Why?
Perhaps my faith in the system comes from living in a country where the politicians behave more like professional lawmakers and administrators than like Jerry Springer.
At $100,000 per employee, you could hire 10 developers, buy all the best equipment and development tools and spend 10 years on the project and still have money left over.
Remember, this is the kind of process they would bring to health care.
Someone in the government makes a bad IT contracting decision and that somehow reflects on how a health system will be run? Whatever you're smoking I want some.
I can't see Adobe spending the time/money to port Photoshop to an untested, unproven platform with an unknown number of users (if Chrome the browser is any indication, it'll be small).
I also can't see a Google OS doing anything other than the internet unless there's either a way to track what you do for advertising purposes, or actual ads embedded in the OS full-time.
Given the other speculative ways Google spends money I CAN see Google paying Adobe for a port or partnering with them to share their experiences from porting Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome.
Anecdotal is the best evidence in this case. I've run Chrome with over 90 tabs, and it kept on chugging.
I've done the same with Opera. I've tried it for fun in IE and Firefox, and it wasn't pretty (or successful).
I've got over 100 tabs open in firefox 3.5 now... Works On My Machine (TM)
There is no way to quickly evaluate any of the technologies to see if it would be an improvement over what we are currently using.
Not true at all... you can download the client/server trial and take it for a spin.
My team just migrated from CVS + Eclipse to Jazz (RTC 1.0) and I can tell you it's like moving forward a decade in sophistication, capability, flexibility and agility. (It also doesn't hurt that they've basically implemented the system I described in my honors thesis a decade ago!)
This is purely anecdotal... but as far as I can tell for my daily usage Chrome is no faster than Firefox 3.5 with adblock. (Adblock ftw)
Anecdotal is the best evidence in this case. I've run Chrome with over 90 tabs, and it kept on chugging. And what does speed have to do with a browser being multi-process? The benefits are security and reliability, with the downside being memory usage.
Actually... in the extreme usage scenario there is a memory advantage to multi-processing as well: closing the process is guaranteed to free the allocated (unshared) process memory. Poor man's garbage collection.
Forking a process on unix-like systems if fairly lightweight but for Windows this will not scale well at all. Why not just have rendering worker threads? Have I missed something?
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Very strange, as magnetic field lines are entirely imaginary.
I guess you've never played with magnets and iron filings?
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Poster was talking about British food. Not International-Food-that-happens-to-be-findable-in-Britain. Curry is no more British than Crepes.
Au contraire, curry is very British, particularly if you had family who left India in '48 like me.
This is much better than not having constitutional rights at all, but it falls short of a system where the courts can keep rogue governments in check.
So far, fortunately, this has only been a problem in places that will A) voluntarily elect rogue governments and then B) not insist that subsequent governments repeal the legislation. i.e. Quebec, where you can be a blatant racist and still get elected to the highest offices.
Perhaps I was unclear. Acts of parliament must be passed by the members by means of a vote. These are not edicts. (Which I felt was worth pointing out to our cousins to the south who frequently forget that they are not the only democracy.)
I was not referring to whether or not the governing party held a majority. (But I can see the confusion as we tend to over use that meaning especially when minority governments are sitting.)
As a matter of fact it was just invoked in the Supreme Court and clearly incriminating evidence was thrown out.
You're forgetting about the Notwithstanding Clause
Uh... no I'm not. Hence the comment "as robust as it gets in Canadian constitutional law".
Invoking notwithstanding requires an act of provincial parliament, this is not something that can be thrown about like a warrant on the whim of an individual judge or a casual rule of engagement that the average cop on the beat can abuse.
So while it is possible for the MAJORITY of a provinces ELECTED representatives to agree to TEMPORARILY overlook certain constitutional provisions for "the greater good" it is rarely invoked at all. (And as an anglophone living in Quebec I can tell you that I am rather familiar with some of the cases where it has been.)
How robust is Canada's analog to the 4th amendment? Does it even have one?..
Part of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which is as robust as it gets in Canadian constitutional law.
8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.
Yep. I remember when I first realized that the adults were all complete morons!
Happy times...
And then I grew up and became one of the morons... *sigh* ... parenting teenagers is a humbling experience.
What Unix war? There is the normal bantering from people saying their version of Unix is better then the rest (Which for the most part is normally the version of Unix they know the best) but a Unix war. I haven't heard anything about it. Other then OS X all the other Unixes are in heavy competition against Linux and Windows for its survival.
The first rule of the Unix war is nobody talks about the Unix war. The MIB are on their way, please stay calm.
A lot of people prefer to work through the package management system - its makes install/uninstall and dependencies a lot cleaner.
Different pattern of behavior... as a plugin developer I download Eclipse builds on a regular basis (on average monthly... sometimes almost daily during the June end-game when my patches are being considered), being one version behind is not an option, being four versions behind is unthinkable.
With Eclipse having it's own update/upgrade functionality I really think that distros should drop eclipse packaging.
It's damn misguiding though that distros have some antique version.
I actually felt insulted the first time I tried the pre-packaged Eclipse on Ubuntu (7.04?) ... the damn thing ran with gcj and indeed did make Mono look good in contrast.
I'm surprised they aren't filling the storage with "kekekekekekekekekekekeke"...
I can't wait for the Hollywood version: <gravelly voice>On July 4th America celebrates it's independence day, but on July 10th the gold farmers break free! KEK KEK KEK!</gravelly voice>
That doesn't answer my question. WHY would anyone depend on the distro for Eclipse? It's pointless. Does anyone actually do that?
The story also touches on the failure of Linux distros to keep pace with Eclipse.
What does that even mean? Does anyone ever get their eclipse from the distro?
Eclipse installation is an unzip... I mean WTF does that mean?
Do you think a health care system would be immune from the same frustratingly inefficient bureaucracy that plagues all other government programs? Why?
Perhaps my faith in the system comes from living in a country where the politicians behave more like professional lawmakers and administrators than like Jerry Springer.
At $100,000 per employee, you could hire 10 developers, buy all the best equipment and development tools and spend 10 years on the project and still have money left over.
Remember, this is the kind of process they would bring to health care.
Someone in the government makes a bad IT contracting decision and that somehow reflects on how a health system will be run? Whatever you're smoking I want some.
I can't see Adobe spending the time/money to port Photoshop to an untested, unproven platform with an unknown number of users (if Chrome the browser is any indication, it'll be small).
I also can't see a Google OS doing anything other than the internet unless there's either a way to track what you do for advertising purposes, or actual ads embedded in the OS full-time.
Given the other speculative ways Google spends money I CAN see Google paying Adobe for a port or partnering with them to share their experiences from porting Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome.
Never a mod point when you really need one.
Anecdotal is the best evidence in this case. I've run Chrome with over 90 tabs, and it kept on chugging. I've done the same with Opera. I've tried it for fun in IE and Firefox, and it wasn't pretty (or successful).
I've got over 100 tabs open in firefox 3.5 now... Works On My Machine (TM)
There is no way to quickly evaluate any of the technologies to see if it would be an improvement over what we are currently using.
Not true at all... you can download the client/server trial and take it for a spin.
My team just migrated from CVS + Eclipse to Jazz (RTC 1.0) and I can tell you it's like moving forward a decade in sophistication, capability, flexibility and agility. (It also doesn't hurt that they've basically implemented the system I described in my honors thesis a decade ago!)
This is purely anecdotal... but as far as I can tell for my daily usage Chrome is no faster than Firefox 3.5 with adblock. (Adblock ftw)
Anecdotal is the best evidence in this case. I've run Chrome with over 90 tabs, and it kept on chugging. And what does speed have to do with a browser being multi-process? The benefits are security and reliability, with the downside being memory usage.
Actually... in the extreme usage scenario there is a memory advantage to multi-processing as well: closing the process is guaranteed to free the allocated (unshared) process memory. Poor man's garbage collection.
Forking a process on unix-like systems if fairly lightweight but for Windows this will not scale well at all.
Yeah, cuz multi-process Chrome on Windows is such a piece of shit?
This is purely anecdotal... but as far as I can tell for my daily usage Chrome is no faster than Firefox 3.5 with adblock. (Adblock ftw)
The Microsoft folks don't seem concerned about this, at least not concerned enough to implement it in IE.
It's implemented in IE8.
You mean render threads right?
Forking a process on unix-like systems if fairly lightweight but for Windows this will not scale well at all. Why not just have rendering worker threads? Have I missed something?
Very strange, as magnetic field lines are entirely imaginary.
I guess you've never played with magnets and iron filings?
I for one welcome our new single celled predatory overlords, but deride their single celled hippy photosynthesizing cousins.
Phylumist!