So what piece of ID would you present? I don't recall there being a National Voters ID card.
Oh, right you're probably thinking "any form of government issued photo ID". Well I'm thinking bullshit. Your driver's license is to operate a motor vehicle, your health card (in Canada) is for presentation at a hospital when receiving medical services, and your Passport is required by foreign governments, not your own. Therefore, either you have to be a licensed driver, have a state run medical plan, or interest in foreign travel to vote? That's not in your constitution.
But our politicians are too scared to come right out and make this just like Nazi-era Germany where you have to present your national papers.
Not at the time we weren't. In fact, the note from Ballmer said something like -- Delete all emails older than one month. Keep nothing. Don't be stupid about this. Delete them all.
"There are rules for these sorts of things, and the cops broke most of them, thus making them as much the criminal..."
Ah, which brings us to the next point... place the police officer under arrest for use of excessive force. Not sure about the laws in the State of California, but in Canada, the officer is commiting an indictable offense and therefore can be subjected to a citizen's arrest, reasonable force can be used to against the officer to prevent him from continuing the indictable offence, and he can be detained until authorities arrive.
If something is worth posting, I don't see why anyone would immediately discredit the article with a comment like "Because I'm sure no one would go on the air and try to drum up a scandal aimed at the biggest target they can find. "
The process to do this is intentionally difficult, and should be even more difficult than what it is. Microsoft has put the pricing of Small Business Server at a point where a small business can actually afford to own a server. By having others take advantage of lowered pricing for all their server needs really defeats the purpose, and cheats the little guy out of software that he couldn't otherwise afford.
But your post is +5 funny in my books none the less.
1. Intel announced the design of the AMD quad core before AMD.
2. AMD's marketing consists of saying that AMD is true quad core and intel has slapped two dual cores on the same chip. 2+2 is always 4. Think about it AMD.
3. AMD's processors are being outperformed by intel and AMD still has not dropped their price to be inline with intel's price/performance. Is AMD counting on vendor lock in from motherboards and peripherals?
Maybe you're not ready for one for your living room, but I'm looking for the order form! Who wouldn't want this? And if you think the price is outrageous, consider how expensive LCD TV's were 7-10 years ago.
The article's prediction of 2% seems to be "off" considering all the other forecasts that I've read. In Canada, we also have a policy of only using a small portion of our own home produced oil and still are required to buy from external sources like the US and Saudi. So exports should show as a projected increase greater than 2%, but time will tell.
The makers of that "money graph" don't seem to know how to do any extrapolation. Canada shows a decline in exports for the next 15 years which is absurd. As the Alberta Tar Sands become more and more viable Canada's exports will increase substantially. Shell is already heavily invested out there and so are numerous other oil companies. If anyone is interested they can check some of the statistics.
Agreed! Finally, someone else that sees through the bullshit. The science is great, but touting future uses, especially something as specific as an MP3 player, is ridiculous; leave the applications to the engineers.
I am all for fair use. But the fact that Google copies, changes, reassembles, etc. copyrighted information without anyone's consent should be challenged. The challenge, while difficult to overcome at first may potentially lead to Google winning the case and setting a precedent whereby all information publicly available on the internet would be entered into the public domain or at least break ground for fair use.
Then buy something else that does exactly what you're looking for. Oh, you can't find one you say. Yeah imagine that. So you want AVI support, despite the seemingly endless number of new codecs that are required for that format. You'll complain when you download an AVI and the codec is not available.
I'd like my 360 to cook me breakfast in the morning... eggs. Ever heard of that Microsoft. I want eggs support. Get on it.
Since when do we have a National ID card?? Closest we *might* have are our driver's licenses that are only province wide but seem to be a requirement for just about anything we do these days. I lost mine and couldn't even receive a package from fed-ex with an assortment of other photo ID because it wasn't "government issued." We also have provincial health cards, but not everyone was required to get a new one that includes photo identification.
So just what exactly are you referring to?
Just like the Media Center PC's from Microsoft, that have gained "less than favourable traction" since their release, Intel's brand of Viv marketing to bring digital content to the living room is lacking the user friendly features that the average consumer is looking for.
The idea of building a server to house your media collection is fascinating to the nerds out there, but for the average movie fanatic, the thought of mixing the right hardware and software on a file server that resides else where in the house is not appealing. Further, like any other home computer, this server will require maintenance. The last thing most consumers want when they come home after sitting in front of their office computer for 10 hours is to have to retreat to the home office, patch their server, download their favorite shows, etc. etc. just so they can finally veg out.
Well said. Its exactly these kind of programming models that lead to bloated and largely unmainatainable code. In my experience, these technologies are well suited to quick and dirty projects and the programmers that assume them. You can turn a working product out pretty quickly, but extending the functionality and debugging become anything but trivial tasks.
People, and usually not developers, are still caught up in the idea of a programming language instead of the concept of applying an API or SDK to a task. My favorite example of this is the often held C++, C#, Visual Basic debate -- everyone has their syntax preference, but at the end of the day its the paradigm you apply that matters and not the language.
A politician giving an address in German instead of French is not more effective as his points will still remain the same. The language isn't the tool, the intention is the tool.
No, I'm not saying that. But ever since they started capping home subscribers' broadband connection to anywhere between 10 and 100 Gig/month, some ISP's have started charging an additional $20 per GB. You probably won't hear much about it though, see all we're a pretty complacent culture here Canada.
Yeah, you're right. It's 2:30am, so insert sleep deprived excuse here... On the other hand, that's still a $40million/year donation and that does seem more reasonable.
Just in case the significance of this is lost on some people, here are some facts. 600Mbits of bandwidth is 5 times more than the entire rest of Oregon state university uses combined! This will allow 50 million people per day to download free software. This kind of bandwidth is usually measured in $$'s, and this is a multimillion dollar donation to a great cause.
Currently, the top ISP's here in Canada value bandwidth at $20/Gigabyte. so 600Gbit/sec = 75GigaBytes per second, times the number of seconds in a year (31,536,000) = 2,365,200,000 GigaBytes... so by those numbers, they could write off upwards of $40Billion per fiscal year!
My favorite piece of network technology at Harvard is their system to shut off a student's WiFi network access when they have a scheduled class.:) Been in use for a while now, and it sure cut down on the kids at the back of the class yelling "PWNED YOU!" during a lecture.
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So what piece of ID would you present? I don't recall there being a National Voters ID card.
Oh, right you're probably thinking "any form of government issued photo ID". Well I'm thinking bullshit. Your driver's license is to operate a motor vehicle, your health card (in Canada) is for presentation at a hospital when receiving medical services, and your Passport is required by foreign governments, not your own. Therefore, either you have to be a licensed driver, have a state run medical plan, or interest in foreign travel to vote? That's not in your constitution.
But our politicians are too scared to come right out and make this just like Nazi-era Germany where you have to present your national papers.
Not at the time we weren't. In fact, the note from Ballmer said something like -- Delete all emails older than one month. Keep nothing. Don't be stupid about this. Delete them all.
"There are rules for these sorts of things, and the cops broke most of them, thus making them as much the criminal..."
Ah, which brings us to the next point... place the police officer under arrest for use of excessive force. Not sure about the laws in the State of California, but in Canada, the officer is commiting an indictable offense and therefore can be subjected to a citizen's arrest, reasonable force can be used to against the officer to prevent him from continuing the indictable offence, and he can be detained until authorities arrive.
And when President McCain steps up in 2008, the cry starts all over again.
If something is worth posting, I don't see why anyone would immediately discredit the article with a comment like "Because I'm sure no one would go on the air and try to drum up a scandal aimed at the biggest target they can find. "
Let people RTFA and discuss it in the comments.
The process to do this is intentionally difficult, and should be even more difficult than what it is. Microsoft has put the pricing of Small Business Server at a point where a small business can actually afford to own a server. By having others take advantage of lowered pricing for all their server needs really defeats the purpose, and cheats the little guy out of software that he couldn't otherwise afford.
But your post is +5 funny in my books none the less.
1. Intel announced the design of the AMD quad core before AMD. 2. AMD's marketing consists of saying that AMD is true quad core and intel has slapped two dual cores on the same chip. 2+2 is always 4. Think about it AMD. 3. AMD's processors are being outperformed by intel and AMD still has not dropped their price to be inline with intel's price/performance. Is AMD counting on vendor lock in from motherboards and peripherals?
Maybe you're not ready for one for your living room, but I'm looking for the order form! Who wouldn't want this? And if you think the price is outrageous, consider how expensive LCD TV's were 7-10 years ago.
The article's prediction of 2% seems to be "off" considering all the other forecasts that I've read. In Canada, we also have a policy of only using a small portion of our own home produced oil and still are required to buy from external sources like the US and Saudi. So exports should show as a projected increase greater than 2%, but time will tell.
The makers of that "money graph" don't seem to know how to do any extrapolation. Canada shows a decline in exports for the next 15 years which is absurd. As the Alberta Tar Sands become more and more viable Canada's exports will increase substantially. Shell is already heavily invested out there and so are numerous other oil companies. If anyone is interested they can check some of the statistics.
Agreed! Finally, someone else that sees through the bullshit. The science is great, but touting future uses, especially something as specific as an MP3 player, is ridiculous; leave the applications to the engineers.
Come on, you know batteries were available. You can't tell me that there were free TV's in everyone's hands but no batteries around for miles ;)
I am all for fair use. But the fact that Google copies, changes, reassembles, etc. copyrighted information without anyone's consent should be challenged. The challenge, while difficult to overcome at first may potentially lead to Google winning the case and setting a precedent whereby all information publicly available on the internet would be entered into the public domain or at least break ground for fair use.
Then buy something else that does exactly what you're looking for. Oh, you can't find one you say. Yeah imagine that. So you want AVI support, despite the seemingly endless number of new codecs that are required for that format. You'll complain when you download an AVI and the codec is not available. I'd like my 360 to cook me breakfast in the morning... eggs. Ever heard of that Microsoft. I want eggs support. Get on it.
The first two editions were also great books. An indispensable resource for sure and mandatory reading for my devs.
Since when do we have a National ID card?? Closest we *might* have are our driver's licenses that are only province wide but seem to be a requirement for just about anything we do these days. I lost mine and couldn't even receive a package from fed-ex with an assortment of other photo ID because it wasn't "government issued." We also have provincial health cards, but not everyone was required to get a new one that includes photo identification. So just what exactly are you referring to?
Doesn't Lego have a patent on the whole block stacking concept? Looks like they're in for a legal battle on this one. :)
Just like the Media Center PC's from Microsoft, that have gained "less than favourable traction" since their release, Intel's brand of Viv marketing to bring digital content to the living room is lacking the user friendly features that the average consumer is looking for.
The idea of building a server to house your media collection is fascinating to the nerds out there, but for the average movie fanatic, the thought of mixing the right hardware and software on a file server that resides else where in the house is not appealing. Further, like any other home computer, this server will require maintenance. The last thing most consumers want when they come home after sitting in front of their office computer for 10 hours is to have to retreat to the home office, patch their server, download their favorite shows, etc. etc. just so they can finally veg out.
Well said. Its exactly these kind of programming models that lead to bloated and largely unmainatainable code. In my experience, these technologies are well suited to quick and dirty projects and the programmers that assume them. You can turn a working product out pretty quickly, but extending the functionality and debugging become anything but trivial tasks.
Guess that makes me a fellow nutjob.
People, and usually not developers, are still caught up in the idea of a programming language instead of the concept of applying an API or SDK to a task. My favorite example of this is the often held C++, C#, Visual Basic debate -- everyone has their syntax preference, but at the end of the day its the paradigm you apply that matters and not the language.
A politician giving an address in German instead of French is not more effective as his points will still remain the same. The language isn't the tool, the intention is the tool.
Gigabit to Megabit is a factor of 1000... am I missing something?
No, I'm not saying that. But ever since they started capping home subscribers' broadband connection to anywhere between 10 and 100 Gig/month, some ISP's have started charging an additional $20 per GB. You probably won't hear much about it though, see all we're a pretty complacent culture here Canada.
Yeah, you're right. It's 2:30am, so insert sleep deprived excuse here... On the other hand, that's still a $40million/year donation and that does seem more reasonable.
Just in case the significance of this is lost on some people, here are some facts. 600Mbits of bandwidth is 5 times more than the entire rest of Oregon state university uses combined! This will allow 50 million people per day to download free software. This kind of bandwidth is usually measured in $$'s, and this is a multimillion dollar donation to a great cause.
Currently, the top ISP's here in Canada value bandwidth at $20/Gigabyte. so 600Gbit/sec = 75GigaBytes per second, times the number of seconds in a year (31,536,000) = 2,365,200,000 GigaBytes... so by those numbers, they could write off upwards of $40Billion per fiscal year!
Congratulations TDS and OSL!
My favorite piece of network technology at Harvard is their system to shut off a student's WiFi network access when they have a scheduled class. :) Been in use for a while now, and it sure cut down on the kids at the back of the class yelling "PWNED YOU!" during a lecture.