And in the wireless market they are close to nil. Let's face it: Microsoft can charge $50 for a mouse and enjoy fairly good sales, but the public expects 802.11b/g wireless routers to go for around $60. The Belkins and other low-cost manufacturers pushed Microsoft out.
Gehry actually paved his kitchen with asphault, to get an idea of this mans madness/greatness.
How does that imply either madness or greatness? Sounds like a cheap gimmick to me.
He's one of the great modern archetects and now the Boston area is blessed with another fabtastic looking building
Gehry has come back to Toronto (apparently his birthplace) to design the expansion to the Art Gallery of Ontario. Tonnes of money and effort to revitalize this cultural center. Lets just say that his "hockey rink" design has a few naysayers.
On the flip side there are, as always, the pseudo intellectuals who, taking a break from downloading Fur Elise onto their cellphone, breathlessly exclaim that it's the greatest and most innovative expression of form in decades. If you smeared some cat shit on a board and hired a couple of actors to stand around and proclaim it great, these same people would latch onto the social proof and spread the word.
Thus by putting money down on infinitely small chance of SCO winning, they guaranteed fear and anxiety among investors of all their other sane assets
Remember that RBC invested quietly -- they didn't put out a boastful press release proclaiming their faith in SCO (in fact when their investment came to light they actively sought to dispel any notion that they are supporting the case). Most large banks make hundreds of thousands of investments, and this one just got noticed because SCO=satan.
Not to mention that that sum of $50 million was a lifeline allowing SCO to keep slinging their mud.
At the time of the investment, no one really knew what cards SCO was carrying (though there was a presumption that they were credible as it would be tantamount to baseless blackmail otherwise) - if it wasn't RBC, there was certainly tonnes of other investors that would have shored up SCO to sit if it had legs.
SCO isn't exactly drug dealing, eating kittens, or holding slave labour in their basement dungeons (well...that we know of) -- they're operating entirely within the confines of the US legal system. If you don't like what SCO is doing, complain about the legal system that lets them get away with it.
RBC, like many large investment firms, is held hostage by SCO's antics (like most everyone else) because of the negative impact a SCO win would have, so naturally they hedge by holding some of the other side. This is rudimentary investing, and it's just ridiculous when people get moralistic and "ashamed" about it.
So just note that it was Royal Bank who against all common sense invested in SCO in the first place
It's called a hedge, and it's absolutely rudimentary investing. You see in the one hand RBC has a lot of stock in organizations that would be seriously financially penalized if RBC won their case, so in the other hand they wanted to balance that by holding some of the potential threat -- if SCO somehow won, RBC would have a winner to slightly offset the losers.
RBC is cashing out because it's become obvious that SCO is sitting on nothing but promises so there is little risk to the other equity.
As a fellow Canadian, I find your post grovelling, pandering, and embarrasing. As another poster said: We have nothing to prove. This is just another academic advance from another of the world's research institutes, and it's rather pathetic to "see! We matter!" with it.
In any case, do you really think the far-right in the US, the people who will say and do whatever they want to support their pet projects, care about facts (this'll make em see the light)? Of course they don't. They care about promoting xenophobia, paranoia, and the illusion of safety. All to get some funding for the local military base, or the local tech center that's developing a massive big brother database, or whatever other number of slush fund contributors they need to appease. If that means creating an illusion of a complacent Canada because we don't jump everytime their narrowsighted, politically charged so-called-intelligence agencies uncreatively imagine a threat (usually be imagining the prior threat repeating), then that's a price they're will to make someone else pay.
If you have some evidence that the Khadr's committed a terrorist act, or broke any Canadian laws, I encourage you to report it to your local police department, or branch of the RCMP (or, if you're really uppity, CSIS). The son was injured while tagging alongside his fanatical father in a suicidal battle in Afghanistan, but that isn't in and of itself a crime. The mother said some unpleasant things about our nation, but again that isn't a crime.
I may be brutally offended by some of the things the mother has said, and some of the people who this family have consorted with, however these people are citizens (hell I believe the kids were born here), and one of the core tenets of our society is freedom of speech: They have every right to criticize the "gays and drugs" in our society as anyone (well, until bill c250 goes through...).
Saying that a failure to deport these citizens makes us a harborer of terrorists is insipid and misinformed mob talk.
"My work machine was Redhat 7.1, and its uptime was 356 days I think. I was sad to turn it off, but I was moving floors."
Both 2000 and XP are absolutely rock solid from an OS stability perspective, and the only time that reboots are generally required is when installs set the "tell the user to reboot" flag, or security updates that actually require a reboot to come into effect. Of course there was one of those last weekend I believe.
It sounds to me that he didn't hit the brakes before the accident occurred - which could mean he didn't see the person (night time?)
At 150kph+ on closed in urban streets (particularly in Montreal), the potential reaction time is incredibly tight. Couple that with the fact that someone with such incredibly poor judgment likely has incredibly poor driving skills regardless...
It's too bad they don't have any photos of the scene (not the gruesome parts, but rather the cars): A 150+ collision with what was effectively a stationary object would be a devastating collision. As others have stated, it should have been immediately apparent the speeds involved by the deformation of the vehicles.
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They paid me and my friends as well. Trivial amount of money, but it was a free lunch on them.
Of course I did feel a little guilty about it: Strange that they'd pay for an automated testing utility to perform GUI actions for a 20 hour or so interval...
Failing to cover all of the area on your rounds can be explained by oversight or misunderstanding -- it's easy for someone to justify missing a round, making it a non-termination offense, and thus it's easy for workers to take that risk.
Overtly and intentionally overriding the control measures, on the other hand, is fraudulent and obviously negligent. It would be a termination offense (there is no good justification for it), and thus a lot of the people who would do the former will not risk the latter.
In short I hate people devoid of critical thinking.
What's with all of the self-hatred?
Seriously, though, your superficial morality is pretty unsteady. Fake fur looks nice to those who are into that sort of thing, feels nice, and required no animal suffering -- where is the problem? If you really think that people like fur because it "symbolizes skinning animals" then you are unbelievably deluded.
Care to back this up? I wouldn't be willing to say more than any country, but I do know that when stats come out regarding number of hours worked, vacation time, or paternity leave, the US is always the hardest working. I'm saying this as a Canadian, by the way, where when I worked with American counterparts I was always amazed that they would be in the office at 7am their time, leaving a 6pm their time. For things like maternity leave up here it's a year, and down there I think it's like 6 weeks, with many mothers not even taking that miniscule amount.
Ouch. He pulled out the big "trolling" guns, so I guess it's all over. [sigh]
I have a picture of a tiger as the background on my computer desktop - is this simulating catching a tiger and bashing it until it fits inside my cathode ray tube? Do you realize how inane and baseless your blather is?
How would a faux human skin look like you "skinned somebody alive"? Do you mean if you put faux cut marks, and maybe some faux blood on it? If so, then yeah that would be a problem, but if it looks like skin then yes it is a celebration of the beauty of humans.
Humans are unfortunately obsessed with seeing other human's suffering
While I will fully agree that people have a strange attraction to accident scenes, I don't think the real reason is a desire to see suffering. Instead people just want to be a part, however trivial, of an event. If you can say that you saw the blood in a big accident that covers the news, well damnit you're hot shit because you were a "part" of that event, even as a spectator. It's the same for big accidents, big police busts, amazing events, power outages, whatever -- people want to associate themselves with it somehow.
You're prolly the same type of person who thinks wearing "faux fur" is ok because it's not real fur and therefor not really symbolic of skinning an animal and wearing it's fur...
What an unsupported, misguided analogy.
Faux fur is a celebration of the beauty of animals, and given that no animals were harmed in its production, I don't really see an issue with it. It isn't symbolic of skinning an animal any more than dressing up as a alien for Halloween is symbolic of capturing aliens and parading them through our streets, or putting a picture of a tropical paradise symbolizes boxing the island and installing it in your condo.
SVG is seeing gradually increased mind- and market- share, however there is a foreboding cloud in the near future: Longhorn (the next generation Windows operating system) is going to implement an XML-based vector graphic technology similar to SVG (with the same fundamental advantages), but more aligned with.NET APIs and GDI (and thus incompatible with SVG). It seems logical that Internet Explorer 7 will support this format for embedded graphics, and the rest will be history -- Overnight invariably thousands of sites will support the new Microsoft. I say this from the humorously confused perspective of having written an article on SVG that was published by Microsoft's magazine.
As an aside, one of the biggest boosts to SVG, giving it some traction, would have been native support by Mozilla a year or two ago. Instead it was relegated to one-person side projects, and even for third party plug-ins new releases of Mozilla broke them.
Yes, it is straight that you like setting up strawmen. While the original poster may indeed be misinformed and underestimating the performance (the Centrino is quite a fast little machine), I see nothing to justify your complaint about their unstated IPC stand.
It talks about the researchers finding that Intel sent round teams of engineers with "an impressive array of test gear"...
Regardless of whether Intel did a smoke and mirror campaign to fool the naive, their ads are HORRIBLY misleading, implying that magically you'll have wireless access anywhere by buying a Centrino laptop, showing such unlikely locations as base camp on the ascent to the peak of a mountain. In such a case having 802.11b in your laptop would be the absolute least of your technological worries.
I'm well aware that the EU has plans of a GPS type system, however it does seem a bit unfair that the United States foots the bill for virtually the entire world's navigation system. While the system is primarily there for military means, the US could have encrypted the system from day one to avoid non-military use (which is what many other nations would do), or have offered decryption codes to US organizations to give them a competitive advantage. Instead they've offered it free of charge worldwide, even turning selective availability off so that geocaching adventure is even less of an adventure. Perhaps there's an insidius underlying motive (for example getting the world hooked on GPS while keeping their finger on the conceptual power button), but overall it's a praiseworthy thing they've done.
Firstly, whole countries have been blanketed with radio distributed telephony for decades -- indeed the data packet telephony network was the foundation of how the internet spread out to the public, and it's where a large percentage of internet traffic right now runs -- this is a very well proven technology. Disregarding that, the data packet network used to send the document (whether it's over POP3/TCP/IP or V42bis over a POTS) is absolutely irrelevant: That's a nuance of implementation that only myopic geeks get caught up in. The device images a document, and on the other end a facsimile comes out -- whether the packets are sent by smoke signals or DS3 grade lines is nuances.
Of course this is all a red herring argument anyways, as the article said absolutely nothing about satellite internet access. The highest probability is that they're getting internet access via the telephony network. The only difference is that a truck doesn't have to drive a load of letters up to some mountain town. This amazing technological advance has existing in fax form: A device technically invented in 1843.
This is such a non-story that could have been filled by a report objectively analyzing Darl McBride's bowel movements.
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And in the wireless market they are close to nil. Let's face it: Microsoft can charge $50 for a mouse and enjoy fairly good sales, but the public expects 802.11b/g wireless routers to go for around $60. The Belkins and other low-cost manufacturers pushed Microsoft out.
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Gehry actually paved his kitchen with asphault, to get an idea of this mans madness/greatness.
How does that imply either madness or greatness? Sounds like a cheap gimmick to me.
He's one of the great modern archetects and now the Boston area is blessed with another fabtastic looking building
Gehry has come back to Toronto (apparently his birthplace) to design the expansion to the Art Gallery of Ontario. Tonnes of money and effort to revitalize this cultural center. Lets just say that his "hockey rink" design has a few naysayers.
On the flip side there are, as always, the pseudo intellectuals who, taking a break from downloading Fur Elise onto their cellphone, breathlessly exclaim that it's the greatest and most innovative expression of form in decades. If you smeared some cat shit on a board and hired a couple of actors to stand around and proclaim it great, these same people would latch onto the social proof and spread the word.
Thus by putting money down on infinitely small chance of SCO winning, they guaranteed fear and anxiety among investors of all their other sane assets
Remember that RBC invested quietly -- they didn't put out a boastful press release proclaiming their faith in SCO (in fact when their investment came to light they actively sought to dispel any notion that they are supporting the case). Most large banks make hundreds of thousands of investments, and this one just got noticed because SCO=satan.
Not to mention that that sum of $50 million was a lifeline allowing SCO to keep slinging their mud.
At the time of the investment, no one really knew what cards SCO was carrying (though there was a presumption that they were credible as it would be tantamount to baseless blackmail otherwise) - if it wasn't RBC, there was certainly tonnes of other investors that would have shored up SCO to sit if it had legs.
SCO isn't exactly drug dealing, eating kittens, or holding slave labour in their basement dungeons (well...that we know of) -- they're operating entirely within the confines of the US legal system. If you don't like what SCO is doing, complain about the legal system that lets them get away with it.
RBC, like many large investment firms, is held hostage by SCO's antics (like most everyone else) because of the negative impact a SCO win would have, so naturally they hedge by holding some of the other side. This is rudimentary investing, and it's just ridiculous when people get moralistic and "ashamed" about it.
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"seriously financially penalized if SCO won their case"
So just note that it was Royal Bank who against all common sense invested in SCO in the first place
It's called a hedge, and it's absolutely rudimentary investing. You see in the one hand RBC has a lot of stock in organizations that would be seriously financially penalized if RBC won their case, so in the other hand they wanted to balance that by holding some of the potential threat -- if SCO somehow won, RBC would have a winner to slightly offset the losers.
RBC is cashing out because it's become obvious that SCO is sitting on nothing but promises so there is little risk to the other equity.
As a fellow Canadian, I find your post grovelling, pandering, and embarrasing. As another poster said: We have nothing to prove. This is just another academic advance from another of the world's research institutes, and it's rather pathetic to "see! We matter!" with it.
In any case, do you really think the far-right in the US, the people who will say and do whatever they want to support their pet projects, care about facts (this'll make em see the light)? Of course they don't. They care about promoting xenophobia, paranoia, and the illusion of safety. All to get some funding for the local military base, or the local tech center that's developing a massive big brother database, or whatever other number of slush fund contributors they need to appease. If that means creating an illusion of a complacent Canada because we don't jump everytime their narrowsighted, politically charged so-called-intelligence agencies uncreatively imagine a threat (usually be imagining the prior threat repeating), then that's a price they're will to make someone else pay.
If you have some evidence that the Khadr's committed a terrorist act, or broke any Canadian laws, I encourage you to report it to your local police department, or branch of the RCMP (or, if you're really uppity, CSIS). The son was injured while tagging alongside his fanatical father in a suicidal battle in Afghanistan, but that isn't in and of itself a crime. The mother said some unpleasant things about our nation, but again that isn't a crime.
I may be brutally offended by some of the things the mother has said, and some of the people who this family have consorted with, however these people are citizens (hell I believe the kids were born here), and one of the core tenets of our society is freedom of speech: They have every right to criticize the "gays and drugs" in our society as anyone (well, until bill c250 goes through...).
Saying that a failure to deport these citizens makes us a harborer of terrorists is insipid and misinformed mob talk.
"My work machine was Redhat 7.1, and its uptime was 356 days I think. I was sad to turn it off, but I was moving floors."
Both 2000 and XP are absolutely rock solid from an OS stability perspective, and the only time that reboots are generally required is when installs set the "tell the user to reboot" flag, or security updates that actually require a reboot to come into effect. Of course there was one of those last weekend I believe.
Brilliant. Very well done sir.
It sounds to me that he didn't hit the brakes before the accident occurred - which could mean he didn't see the person (night time?)
At 150kph+ on closed in urban streets (particularly in Montreal), the potential reaction time is incredibly tight. Couple that with the fact that someone with such incredibly poor judgment likely has incredibly poor driving skills regardless...
It's too bad they don't have any photos of the scene (not the gruesome parts, but rather the cars): A 150+ collision with what was effectively a stationary object would be a devastating collision. As others have stated, it should have been immediately apparent the speeds involved by the deformation of the vehicles.
They paid me and my friends as well. Trivial amount of money, but it was a free lunch on them.
Of course I did feel a little guilty about it: Strange that they'd pay for an automated testing utility to perform GUI actions for a 20 hour or so interval...
Failing to cover all of the area on your rounds can be explained by oversight or misunderstanding -- it's easy for someone to justify missing a round, making it a non-termination offense, and thus it's easy for workers to take that risk.
Overtly and intentionally overriding the control measures, on the other hand, is fraudulent and obviously negligent. It would be a termination offense (there is no good justification for it), and thus a lot of the people who would do the former will not risk the latter.
In short I hate people devoid of critical thinking.
What's with all of the self-hatred?
Seriously, though, your superficial morality is pretty unsteady. Fake fur looks nice to those who are into that sort of thing, feels nice, and required no animal suffering -- where is the problem? If you really think that people like fur because it "symbolizes skinning animals" then you are unbelievably deluded.
Care to back this up? I wouldn't be willing to say more than any country, but I do know that when stats come out regarding number of hours worked, vacation time, or paternity leave, the US is always the hardest working. I'm saying this as a Canadian, by the way, where when I worked with American counterparts I was always amazed that they would be in the office at 7am their time, leaving a 6pm their time. For things like maternity leave up here it's a year, and down there I think it's like 6 weeks, with many mothers not even taking that miniscule amount.
Ouch. He pulled out the big "trolling" guns, so I guess it's all over. [sigh]
I have a picture of a tiger as the background on my computer desktop - is this simulating catching a tiger and bashing it until it fits inside my cathode ray tube? Do you realize how inane and baseless your blather is?
How would a faux human skin look like you "skinned somebody alive"? Do you mean if you put faux cut marks, and maybe some faux blood on it? If so, then yeah that would be a problem, but if it looks like skin then yes it is a celebration of the beauty of humans.
Is a wig a celebration of scalping?
Not all of the Google servers report off of the same dataset. As such there can be variations depending upon which system served your request.
Humans are unfortunately obsessed with seeing other human's suffering
While I will fully agree that people have a strange attraction to accident scenes, I don't think the real reason is a desire to see suffering. Instead people just want to be a part, however trivial, of an event. If you can say that you saw the blood in a big accident that covers the news, well damnit you're hot shit because you were a "part" of that event, even as a spectator. It's the same for big accidents, big police busts, amazing events, power outages, whatever -- people want to associate themselves with it somehow.
You're prolly the same type of person who thinks wearing "faux fur" is ok because it's not real fur and therefor not really symbolic of skinning an animal and wearing it's fur...
What an unsupported, misguided analogy.
Faux fur is a celebration of the beauty of animals, and given that no animals were harmed in its production, I don't really see an issue with it. It isn't symbolic of skinning an animal any more than dressing up as a alien for Halloween is symbolic of capturing aliens and parading them through our streets, or putting a picture of a tropical paradise symbolizes boxing the island and installing it in your condo.
SVG is seeing gradually increased mind- and market- share, however there is a foreboding cloud in the near future: Longhorn (the next generation Windows operating system) is going to implement an XML-based vector graphic technology similar to SVG (with the same fundamental advantages), but more aligned with .NET APIs and GDI (and thus incompatible with SVG). It seems logical that Internet Explorer 7 will support this format for embedded graphics, and the rest will be history -- Overnight invariably thousands of sites will support the new Microsoft. I say this from the humorously confused perspective of having written an article on SVG that was published by Microsoft's magazine.
As an aside, one of the biggest boosts to SVG, giving it some traction, would have been native support by Mozilla a year or two ago. Instead it was relegated to one-person side projects, and even for third party plug-ins new releases of Mozilla broke them.
Let's get this straight..
Yes, it is straight that you like setting up strawmen. While the original poster may indeed be misinformed and underestimating the performance (the Centrino is quite a fast little machine), I see nothing to justify your complaint about their unstated IPC stand.
It talks about the researchers finding that Intel sent round teams of engineers with "an impressive array of test gear"...
Regardless of whether Intel did a smoke and mirror campaign to fool the naive, their ads are HORRIBLY misleading, implying that magically you'll have wireless access anywhere by buying a Centrino laptop, showing such unlikely locations as base camp on the ascent to the peak of a mountain. In such a case having 802.11b in your laptop would be the absolute least of your technological worries.
I'm well aware that the EU has plans of a GPS type system, however it does seem a bit unfair that the United States foots the bill for virtually the entire world's navigation system. While the system is primarily there for military means, the US could have encrypted the system from day one to avoid non-military use (which is what many other nations would do), or have offered decryption codes to US organizations to give them a competitive advantage. Instead they've offered it free of charge worldwide, even turning selective availability off so that geocaching adventure is even less of an adventure. Perhaps there's an insidius underlying motive (for example getting the world hooked on GPS while keeping their finger on the conceptual power button), but overall it's a praiseworthy thing they've done.
Absolute, positive rubbish.
Firstly, whole countries have been blanketed with radio distributed telephony for decades -- indeed the data packet telephony network was the foundation of how the internet spread out to the public, and it's where a large percentage of internet traffic right now runs -- this is a very well proven technology. Disregarding that, the data packet network used to send the document (whether it's over POP3/TCP/IP or V42bis over a POTS) is absolutely irrelevant: That's a nuance of implementation that only myopic geeks get caught up in. The device images a document, and on the other end a facsimile comes out -- whether the packets are sent by smoke signals or DS3 grade lines is nuances.
Of course this is all a red herring argument anyways, as the article said absolutely nothing about satellite internet access. The highest probability is that they're getting internet access via the telephony network. The only difference is that a truck doesn't have to drive a load of letters up to some mountain town. This amazing technological advance has existing in fax form: A device technically invented in 1843.
This is such a non-story that could have been filled by a report objectively analyzing Darl McBride's bowel movements.