Okay, here's my take... The internet contains that quote, and therefore to replace
Everyone knows Usenet is full of spam...
with
THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET
Would mean that you'd have to re-include the quote itself since the internet contains that quote. So you'd have to re-include your inclusion, etc... ad infinitum. And so you'd get a fractal. It might work better if you shrink the internet by half each time...:)
Of course, maybe I'm wrong too... I'm not in math anymore:)
A novel which gives a reasonable view of what might happen... If a sentient alien were to land in Canada, anyway. God forbid if one lands south of the border.:)
You Wrote:
Canada is about to replace the US as the world's largest exporter of electronic and devices and will likely supplant the US as the world's biggest superpower within a few decades.
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I'm a Canadian, but I'll be the first to admit that Canada is NOT likely to "supplant" the US as the world's "biggest superpower" within a few decades.
I'm trying to figure out if you're a currency trader or just a karma whore...
The latest stats I found regarding electronics exports were from 1988, but Canada wasn't even on the map--nor was the US in first place... And this took all of a minute to find. (I'll admit, the post is taking five:)
Anyway, check out: http://www.asci.org.in/publications/ascijl/v20/v20 _1_bow.htm
For electronics exports, we've got Japan, THEN the States, then Germany, UK, France etc... The total size of the electronics industry in a number of nations is also given and Canada is hovering around #10.
It bugs me when people pull facts & statistics out of their ass... If you've got something to back up your claim, by all means, post it!
And my 2 cents... Jamming cellphones is an underthought idea... Next, let people jam police radio if they don't like the idea of having cops on their property, either.
The right idea has already been suggested by a few posters... Just let cellphones be a little smarter so they KNOW when they are in a theatre, or in a car for that matter... And let the owners decide what the phone should do. People don't WANT their phones ringing in a theatre--they're just lazy or forgetful when it does happen.
I mean what I said--it isn't backwards. Say the programmer worked for "Company X". The point is, "Company X" didn't GPL the code. The actual programmer declared the code he wrote to be under GPL, but he never owned the code he wrote, so he didn't have the right to do set the code's license. So another company, "Acme Co.", doesn't even have the right use the code, and certainly doesn't have the right to modify and distribute it under the GPL, since the code was never legally released to be public. The programmer's declaration that the code is under GPL is worthless--the code would have to be put under the GPL by "Company X" for it to be legal.
A programmer doesn't have the right to sell or give awayany of his company's code, whether he wrote it or not. And under this kind of contract, everything he wrote, even at home belongs to his company.
This is actually one of the reasons that GPL'ed code is so scary to some companies. Lots of companies (not only IBM) ask their employees to sign similar contracts which state that the company owns all the code you do at work and at home. So if you want to use GPL'ed code in your product, you have to know that the code wasn't written by a programmer who has signed such a contract--because if it was, he never had the right to GPL the code, and you (and your employer by extension) has therefore stolen code from another company. Which means that the programmer's company has now contributed towards your product, and you don't have the right to GPL your product either. You might also have to worry about the original company seeking damages from you for spilling thier code to the world. It becomes a really sticky situation. The GPL is great, but if you want to use GPL'ed code for any serious purpose, you've got to trust the source.
As an aside, I'm a co-op student at an IBM company, and I'm under one of these contracts. I certainly can't speak for IBM policy or anything like that, but all I have to do to work on an outside project is ask for permission to have it excluded from the contract--it's reasonably easy to do.
Hmmm, sober now, and regretting the nitpick (I think;)
For the record, it was Bacardi 151. And I think you need some Amaretto in that Dr. Pepper mix you suggested... But anyway, I think this is probably as far as an OT thread is supposed to go:)
A lot of people seem to be saying that people who need vision correction should stick with contacts but I've also heard bad things about wearing contacts everyday:
The cornea can get scratched, especially if something gets stuck between the contact and the eye
Contacts may harm the eye's blood circulation
Could laser surgery be a safer long term alternative? Anyone have a link regarding long-term effects of wearing contacts vs. effects of surgery?
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Okay, here's my take... The internet contains that quote, and therefore to replace
...
:)
:)
Everyone knows Usenet is full of spam
with
THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET
Would mean that you'd have to re-include the quote itself since the internet contains that quote. So you'd have to re-include your inclusion, etc... ad infinitum. And so you'd get a fractal. It might work better if you shrink the internet by half each time...
Of course, maybe I'm wrong too... I'm not in math anymore
A novel which gives a reasonable view of what might happen... If a sentient alien were to land in Canada, anyway. God forbid if one lands south of the border. :)
You Wrote:
:)
0 _1_bow.htm
Canada is about to replace the US as the world's largest exporter of electronic and devices and will likely supplant the US as the world's biggest superpower within a few decades.
-------
I'm a Canadian, but I'll be the first to admit that Canada is NOT likely to "supplant" the US as the world's "biggest superpower" within a few decades.
I'm trying to figure out if you're a currency trader or just a karma whore...
The latest stats I found regarding electronics exports were from 1988, but Canada wasn't even on the map--nor was the US in first place... And this took all of a minute to find. (I'll admit, the post is taking five
Anyway, check out: http://www.asci.org.in/publications/ascijl/v20/v2
For electronics exports, we've got Japan, THEN the States, then Germany, UK, France etc... The total size of the electronics industry in a number of nations is also given and Canada is hovering around #10.
It bugs me when people pull facts & statistics out of their ass... If you've got something to back up your claim, by all means, post it!
And my 2 cents... Jamming cellphones is an underthought idea... Next, let people jam police radio if they don't like the idea of having cops on their property, either.
The right idea has already been suggested by a few posters... Just let cellphones be a little smarter so they KNOW when they are in a theatre, or in a car for that matter... And let the owners decide what the phone should do. People don't WANT their phones ringing in a theatre--they're just lazy or forgetful when it does happen.
I mean what I said--it isn't backwards. Say the programmer worked for "Company X". The point is, "Company X" didn't GPL the code. The actual programmer declared the code he wrote to be under GPL, but he never owned the code he wrote, so he didn't have the right to do set the code's license. So another company, "Acme Co.", doesn't even have the right use the code, and certainly doesn't have the right to modify and distribute it under the GPL, since the code was never legally released to be public. The programmer's declaration that the code is under GPL is worthless--the code would have to be put under the GPL by "Company X" for it to be legal.
A programmer doesn't have the right to sell or give away any of his company's code, whether he wrote it or not. And under this kind of contract, everything he wrote, even at home belongs to his company.
This is actually one of the reasons that GPL'ed code is so scary to some companies. Lots of companies (not only IBM) ask their employees to sign similar contracts which state that the company owns all the code you do at work and at home. So if you want to use GPL'ed code in your product, you have to know that the code wasn't written by a programmer who has signed such a contract--because if it was, he never had the right to GPL the code, and you (and your employer by extension) has therefore stolen code from another company. Which means that the programmer's company has now contributed towards your product, and you don't have the right to GPL your product either. You might also have to worry about the original company seeking damages from you for spilling thier code to the world. It becomes a really sticky situation. The GPL is great, but if you want to use GPL'ed code for any serious purpose, you've got to trust the source.
As an aside, I'm a co-op student at an IBM company, and I'm under one of these contracts. I certainly can't speak for IBM policy or anything like that, but all I have to do to work on an outside project is ask for permission to have it excluded from the contract--it's reasonably easy to do.
Hmmm, sober now, and regretting the nitpick (I think ;)
:)
For the record, it was Bacardi 151. And I think you need some Amaretto in that Dr. Pepper mix you suggested... But anyway, I think this is probably as far as an OT thread is supposed to go
I don't usually nitpick, but I'm drunk on 151 proof rum. I guess this is the inner me :)
Jurrasic Park had SGI workstations. I think there might even be a line mentioning them in the movie. But anyway...
Next time, try saying "Please state your name." and THEN "This call is in violation of the TCPA" :)
Now if I could only get DosEMU for WinNT... :)
The cornea can get scratched, especially if something gets stuck between the contact and the eye
Contacts may harm the eye's blood circulation
Could laser surgery be a safer long term alternative? Anyone have a link regarding long-term effects of wearing contacts vs. effects of surgery?