It won't work here in Montreal. The city presumes that all pedestrians are color blind, and will attempt to cross the street when there is a lull in the traffic (jay-walk at corners). Ergo, Montreal has no "right turn on red" anywhere in it's jurisdiction (the Island). Off the island, RTOR is normal and savings may be obtained there. We also have, in residential areas, speed limits of 30km by schools and parks, and 40km elsewhere. Main streets are maxed at 50km. 50km is 30mph. 40km is around 25mph, and 30km is 20mph. Slower speeds save money,too slow costs.
Yeah totally, so that way the US can be a couple of decades behind, still be pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, and end up with a backwards economy.
That's how the US succeeded, by sitting on its fucking ass.
The USA wants to stay in the 1930's eara when there was the milk-wagon. The milk wagon, pulled by a horse, owner delivering milk bottles to doorsteps, and retrieving milk bottles and milk tickets was supplanted by mass marketing and centralized production. The USA wants to remain with coal and oil as the major energy provider and polluter .
Since you brought up zoning... Some zoning laws don't allow hotels, motels, or a bed and breakfast to be operated in a residential zone. I'm not arguing for or against what NY is doing, I'm just making a point that these operations MAY be in violation of their local zoning laws.
I'm all for what Air BnB does, as long as the original intent is followed. If my neighbor wants to rent out his house while he's out of town, more power to him. I would start to object when a slumlord is buying up the houses in my neighborhood, pimping them out on a daily basis to whomever is passing through town, and not maintaining them.
I mean that is kind of the point of zoning laws, isn't it? If I don't want to live next to a motel (or smelter plant) I am pretty secure in knowing that one isn't going to be built next to my house 2 years after I buy it. And having a stable place to live, knowing who my neighbors are, knowing who I need to keep an eye on is part of the value of living in a residential neighborhood. I certainly don't have the ability to control who my neighbors are, but by choosing to live in a residential area I have a certain expectation that I won't have a new set of neighbors in the house next door every week.
in many jurisdictions, a tenant has a right to remain, destroy the property through abuse or neglect, and complain if the rent increase is more than a prescribed rate. By going AB&B, landlords earn about the same money or a little more, have 70-80% occupency, have premises that are maintained in good order, and they can eject undesirables (drug house, drunkards, etc) by refusing to extend the rental period.
I agree. This is very simple and very great. Bigly! If you won't show your facebook profile then you have something to hide (why wouldn't you if you didn't?). If you have something to hide you are guilty. Seems like good security and can't be abused at all. Finally, we're back to common sense small government!
What if they do not have a facebook profile. Not too many immigrants know more than google, emailing, texting and no phone calling because it is too $$$$
Population decline is an issue in many countries, primarily with low birth rates, but I think here they're speaking of the problems with population aging.
That is why every wealthy country needs immigrants. We need youth, taxpayers and replacements for the oncoming generation that are retiring.
Imagine a world where pigs not only fly, but miraculously slice themselves into bacon before landing in the frying pan without a drop of oil splashing anywhere!
No robots ain't patching my servers, not nohow, no siree!
I know three languages. I started learning the second (French) at age 50 and the third at 60. And with each additional language, I found I could do a better job of problem solving. Moreover, I opened up parts of my brain to accept multiculturalism and new ways of solving problems.
If you are Disney, you want skilled programmers. You really don't care if they are skilled humans.
The current so called President exhibits that effect, We saw it start last summer (2016). It is called bullying and using near insults.
The best thing to do, is ask the person opposing you to help you understand their point of view. And ask them to elaborate further. Sometimes what is confusing to us is clear to "them".
And then you slide in your "what if's" and ask how your "what if's" would work with their views.
Not leaving the house, turning off the gas and the electricity also increases your safety. Whoops, a plane may fall on your house, a sink hole may swallow it up, etc.
Whether these H1B people are here or not, there is no change in your level of insecurity. President T prayed on your fears and superstitions.
I really do not believe that they suppress wages. Sadly, the USA wages are not world competitive. The USA has almost completely priced itself out of the world market. Get your university and health care costs in line with the rest of the world and the manufacturing will return. Canada and other countries produce many many qualified PHD and Master Degree graduates at a cost to the student of 12 to 15k$
The hurricanes and tornadoes in the USA midcountry and flooding will just be acts of the unpredictability of nature. There is nothing that man does that resulted in the increase in frequency and severity. Or are we all wrong?
Are they trying to catch up with wps.com's office product. I left LO for wps writer, wps spreadsheet pgm wps presentation wps is a Windows clone, written with QT and with a ribbon menu system. So much faster to write text with wps than with LO.
However, I have not tried 5.3, which supposedly gives me an optional ribbon menu system (so they say)
Open book law exam in the past, now its open laptop.
"Open book" still requires the test-taker to do their own work. With "open laptop", they can be in collusion with another person who actually answers the questions. Lack of Wifi doesn't fix the problem because they could still use the cellular network, or have an ad-hoc network between two test-takers in the same room who share answers.
Disclaimer: When I was in college, I made money taking tests for other people. In a 200 student lecture hall, nobody notices that. So I think I understand the "cheater" mentality. Many people will put more effort into cheating that what would have been needed to just study and pass legitimately. Part of it is just the thrill of "beating the system."
Wrong. Search software can return phrases containing keywords from th exam question. Find the right phrases, cut and paste, and you have passed an exam, but are incompetent nevertheless.
" If it's the poor who are now the most likely to smoke, it's hard to see how they will ever afford the AUD$40 (USD$30) pack of cigarettes."
That's sort of the point, making it too expensive for the poor and uneducated. That this works, has been demonstrated time and time again in multiple countries.
Experience in Canada (which parallel's Australia in this health issue), is that it is the poorly educated. Most youngsters do not smoke. The smokers are the old generation. Regarding smoking, we just had the harmful smoking week publicity. Here is what we are told "One of every two smokers will die from smoking, and the dealth wll be painful". We cannot smoke in public, in restaurents and where kids are present. Restaurants with summer patios are also taboo for smokers. They may drink, but they cannot smoke. Drinking is not tobacco smoke that can float to the faces of others.
Corp reaction now is to move all development off-shore. Money, like water, has downward pressure. Pack your bags, it's Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to India we go, yes, pack your bags, the market for goods and services has moved. Billions of India and asia citizens versus 350million American.
Trump, watch the consequences of your actions. Do your research before you tweat your next move.
But the ones that do more than pay for the ones that don't
News at 11
Nowadays, Google does not do R&D, they buy the companies that have promising products or services. Lets not sweat the small stuff, lets profit where we can in big stuff ways.
Neither place is broken down, but people in the EU certainly shouldn't throw stones from glass houses. The EU has for several years now been putting MANY self-described fascists into its parliament, and very recently, participating in it in an official manner:
As for Trump, I'm not sure what to make of him. I think his actions are boneheaded because they're going to create international retaliation against US IT firms, thus likely harming the domestic tech sector (Trump seems to like mercantilism as well, which will have a similar impact in other industries) however we can at least definitively say that Trump isn't a fascist, and anybody who says otherwise is either using hyperbole or has no idea what fascism is actually about. The most obvious difference is Trump still favors the individual (and individual liberties) whereas fascism is founded on the premise of a single national identity and almost no individual identity.
No more Privacy, no more encryption Stop online banking Dead!!! Stop online buying Dead!!!! Stop Ebay Purchases Dead!!!! Stop Paypall purchases Dead!!! You Americans and we Canadians whose messages may pass via your network to output locations, and for that matter, the world, will be under USA scrutiny.
The way to defeat this stupid bonehead edict, is to everyone send phony and real encrypted messages. There is no law in so doing. Drown them out by volumes of transactions, not tens, not hundreds, but millions.
Nice editorializing at the end there. You may want to mention that the least-corrupt countries on the list are Nordic states (and New Zealand) with strong social welfare systems and high taxes.
You omitted Canada. Really. And the reason we rank along side NewZealand is for the same reasons -- ith strong social welfare systems and medium high taxes.
The 10TB drives benchmark at around 240 MB/s on their outer track. Figure a 16 TB drive with 1.6x the areal density will be about 25% faster, or 300 MB/s. That's the speed of the outer track. The inner track is half that, or 150 MB/s. And the circumference is proportional to the radius, so the integral between these two speeds (taking into account more data being stored on outer tracks) yields an average speed 1/3 of the way from 300 to 150 MB/s, or 250 MB/s.
So a straight sector-by-sector (sequential) copy of 16 TB drive to another 16 TB drive would take 16000 GB / 250 MB/s = 64000 seconds, or just under 18 hours.
So when are we going to have dual head hard disks. The hard drive logic determines which of the two drive heads can get to the data in the least time. Why not also include RPS (Rotational Positional Sensing)
Community college and state colleges should be free, like it is in civilized countries.
In Quebec, Canada, the community colleges are free, and offer grade 12 and grade 13. Grade 13 is really 1st year univerity (some minor student fees like accident insurance $200, student organizations, etc). The student has to pay for books and for use of chemistry/physics/agriculture/other facilities.
He can be in college, until he has completed the first year of university or the preparation for a trade.
University is about four hundred per course (5 courses per semester). Aside from housing expense, student fees (insurance, etc), A student can get a university bachelor degree in three years at roughly $12,000 cost. Many students earn their university expenses while they attend.
Residents of Quebec have "medicare", our government health insurance. Fees are based on your income taxes. And here, if you do not have a prescription plan, your are obliged to use the government plan. There is a $3000/yr cap on prescribed drug/medication expenses.
Yes, we are spoiled, and yes, we get to choose our doctors and our hospitals and our drug stores
Companies are adjusting their PR to give Trump apparent wins so he will lay off of them. Ford did the same thing. Both companies have had their plans set for a year or more but the PR changes. Yes IBM is hiring American workers in place A and yes they are laying off more American workers in place B to expand over seas.
The truth is the truth. One year to find a plant site, one year to get plans, one year for licenses and then financement. A new plant is probably a 8 year project
Yeah. I can't wait to pay American labor rates for everything I buy.
Now instead of hearing us cry about not being able to afford health insurance, you'll hear us cry about not being able to afford anything.
Trump: Let's Make American Products Expensive Again!!
Before massive outsourcing^W globalization, people used to be able to afford houses and families and medical care on a single income. After siphoning jobs and industries to other countries for 4 decades, how's our economy doing?
One reason aside from labor rates is quality of education. While the States looked only at costs and For profit universities, it also dropped dramatically, the quality of education and the access to higher education. Want a good education and want to be technologically competitive, you must leave the USA for anyone of a dozen countries. Today the average MBA degree is only what a bachelor degree provided some 30 years ago.
Are directors of companies entitled to multi-million dollar salaries? They only directly manage under 20 people. Are they worth 20x these peoples salaries. Pres. Carter had it right. Shareholders deserve the dividends, Managers get salaries, and no manager is worth more than 20x the average corporate salary.
Now you know why IBM is going off-shore. The 6000/yr of domestic hires are in sales. I bet there are fewer than 100 Phds in that 6000.
The solar power industry is doing a wealth transfer from the industrial producer to the individual. Trump will have the States put a law in place making it costly to put up a solar panels and giving roadblocks to all renewable energy. He will not spend money on job retraining for workers replaced by robots. Shame.
Trump is a "look in the Mirror man", he is concerned about his looks and his ego. Make America great is to finance his billionaires, instead of providing means for small businesses. Big conglomerates make money from global trade. Small businesses build and serve the domestic market. The domestic market is too small for large corporate America
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8th gen will suck as bad as 7th gen, so that means the 4th gen stuff will STILL outperform it.
Nah, they will buy amd's Ryzen chips in a modified backage, rebrand them as their own, and resell those.
> Turns out that UPS was right
I see what you did there.
It won't work here in Montreal. The city presumes that all pedestrians are color blind, and will attempt to cross the street when there is a lull in the traffic (jay-walk at corners). Ergo, Montreal has no "right turn on red" anywhere in it's jurisdiction (the Island). Off the island, RTOR is normal and savings may be obtained there.
We also have, in residential areas, speed limits of 30km by schools and parks, and 40km elsewhere. Main streets are maxed at 50km.
50km is 30mph. 40km is around 25mph, and 30km is 20mph.
Slower speeds save money,too slow costs.
Yeah totally, so that way the US can be a couple of decades behind, still be pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, and end up with a backwards economy.
That's how the US succeeded, by sitting on its fucking ass.
The USA wants to stay in the 1930's eara when there was the milk-wagon.
The milk wagon, pulled by a horse, owner delivering milk bottles to doorsteps, and retrieving milk bottles and milk tickets was supplanted by mass marketing and centralized production. The USA wants to remain with coal and oil as the major energy provider and polluter .
Since you brought up zoning... Some zoning laws don't allow hotels, motels, or a bed and breakfast to be operated in a residential zone. I'm not arguing for or against what NY is doing, I'm just making a point that these operations MAY be in violation of their local zoning laws.
I'm all for what Air BnB does, as long as the original intent is followed. If my neighbor wants to rent out his house while he's out of town, more power to him. I would start to object when a slumlord is buying up the houses in my neighborhood, pimping them out on a daily basis to whomever is passing through town, and not maintaining them.
I mean that is kind of the point of zoning laws, isn't it? If I don't want to live next to a motel (or smelter plant) I am pretty secure in knowing that one isn't going to be built next to my house 2 years after I buy it. And having a stable place to live, knowing who my neighbors are, knowing who I need to keep an eye on is part of the value of living in a residential neighborhood. I certainly don't have the ability to control who my neighbors are, but by choosing to live in a residential area I have a certain expectation that I won't have a new set of neighbors in the house next door every week.
in many jurisdictions, a tenant has a right to remain, destroy the property through abuse or neglect, and complain if the rent increase is more than a prescribed rate. By going AB&B, landlords earn about the same money or a little more, have 70-80% occupency, have premises that are maintained in good order, and they can eject undesirables (drug house, drunkards, etc) by refusing to extend the rental period.
I agree. This is very simple and very great. Bigly! If you won't show your facebook profile then you have something to hide (why wouldn't you if you didn't?). If you have something to hide you are guilty. Seems like good security and can't be abused at all. Finally, we're back to common sense small government!
What if they do not have a facebook profile. Not too many immigrants know more than google, emailing, texting and no phone calling because it is too $$$$
Population decline is an issue in many countries, primarily with low birth rates, but I think here they're speaking of the problems with population aging.
That is why every wealthy country needs immigrants. We need youth, taxpayers and replacements for the oncoming generation that are retiring.
Imagine a world where pigs not only fly, but miraculously slice themselves into bacon before landing in the frying pan without a drop of oil splashing anywhere!
No robots ain't patching my servers, not nohow, no siree!
Pigs are not kosher or halal.
Agree with you
I know three languages. I started learning the second (French) at age 50 and the third at 60. And with each additional language, I found I could do a better job of problem solving. Moreover, I opened up parts of my brain to accept multiculturalism and new ways of solving problems.
If you are Disney, you want skilled programmers. You really don't care if they are skilled humans.
The current so called President exhibits that effect, We saw it start last summer (2016). It is called bullying and using near insults.
The best thing to do, is ask the person opposing you to help you understand their point of view. And ask them to elaborate further. Sometimes what is confusing to us is clear to "them".
And then you slide in your "what if's" and ask how your "what if's" would work with their views.
Not leaving the house, turning off the gas and the electricity also increases your safety. Whoops, a plane may fall on your house, a sink hole may swallow it up, etc.
Whether these H1B people are here or not, there is no change in your level of insecurity. President T prayed on your fears and superstitions.
False statement
Senior technologists earn same or more, because they are better qualified.
I really do not believe that they suppress wages. Sadly, the USA wages are not world competitive. The USA has almost completely priced itself out of the world market. Get your university and health care costs in line with the rest of the world and the manufacturing will return.
Canada and other countries produce many many qualified PHD and Master Degree graduates at a cost to the student of 12 to 15k$
What does a doctorate degree cost in the US?
The hurricanes and tornadoes in the USA midcountry and flooding will just be acts of the unpredictability of nature. There is nothing that man does that resulted in the increase in frequency and severity. Or are we all wrong?
Are they trying to catch up with wps.com's office product. I left LO for wps writer, wps spreadsheet pgm wps presentation
wps is a Windows clone, written with QT and with a ribbon menu system. So much faster to write text with wps than with LO.
However, I have not tried 5.3, which supposedly gives me an optional ribbon menu system (so they say)
Open book law exam in the past, now its open laptop.
"Open book" still requires the test-taker to do their own work. With "open laptop", they can be in collusion with another person who actually answers the questions. Lack of Wifi doesn't fix the problem because they could still use the cellular network, or have an ad-hoc network between two test-takers in the same room who share answers.
Disclaimer: When I was in college, I made money taking tests for other people. In a 200 student lecture hall, nobody notices that. So I think I understand the "cheater" mentality. Many people will put more effort into cheating that what would have been needed to just study and pass legitimately. Part of it is just the thrill of "beating the system."
Wrong. Search software can return phrases containing keywords from th exam question. Find the right phrases, cut and paste, and you have passed an exam, but are incompetent nevertheless.
" If it's the poor who are now the most likely to smoke, it's hard to see how they will ever afford the AUD$40 (USD$30) pack of cigarettes."
That's sort of the point, making it too expensive for the poor and uneducated.
That this works, has been demonstrated time and time again in multiple countries.
Experience in Canada (which parallel's Australia in this health issue), is that it is the poorly educated. Most youngsters do not smoke. The smokers are the old generation. Regarding smoking, we just had the harmful smoking week publicity. Here is what we are told "One of every two smokers will die from smoking, and the dealth wll be painful".
We cannot smoke in public, in restaurents and where kids are present. Restaurants with summer patios are also taboo for smokers. They may drink, but they cannot smoke. Drinking is not tobacco smoke that can float to the faces of others.
fucking TIME!
Corp reaction now is to move all development off-shore. Money, like water, has downward pressure. Pack your bags, it's Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to India we go, yes, pack your bags, the market for goods and services has moved. Billions of India and asia citizens versus 350million American.
Trump, watch the consequences of your actions. Do your research before you tweat your next move.
But the ones that do more than pay for the ones that don't
News at 11
Nowadays, Google does not do R&D, they buy the companies that have promising products or services. Lets not sweat the small stuff, lets profit where we can in big stuff ways.
Neither place is broken down, but people in the EU certainly shouldn't throw stones from glass houses. The EU has for several years now been putting MANY self-described fascists into its parliament, and very recently, participating in it in an official manner:
http://www.euractiv.com/sectio...
As for Trump, I'm not sure what to make of him. I think his actions are boneheaded because they're going to create international retaliation against US IT firms, thus likely harming the domestic tech sector (Trump seems to like mercantilism as well, which will have a similar impact in other industries) however we can at least definitively say that Trump isn't a fascist, and anybody who says otherwise is either using hyperbole or has no idea what fascism is actually about. The most obvious difference is Trump still favors the individual (and individual liberties) whereas fascism is founded on the premise of a single national identity and almost no individual identity.
No more Privacy, no more encryption Stop online banking Dead!!! Stop online buying Dead!!!! Stop Ebay Purchases Dead!!!! Stop Paypall purchases Dead!!!
You Americans and we Canadians whose messages may pass via your network to output locations, and for that matter, the world, will be under USA scrutiny.
The way to defeat this stupid bonehead edict, is to everyone send phony and real encrypted messages. There is no law in so doing. Drown them out by volumes of transactions, not tens, not hundreds, but millions.
Nice editorializing at the end there. You may want to mention that the least-corrupt countries on the list are Nordic states (and New Zealand) with strong social welfare systems and high taxes.
You omitted Canada. Really. And the reason we rank along side NewZealand is for the same reasons -- ith strong social welfare systems and medium high taxes.
The 10TB drives benchmark at around 240 MB/s on their outer track. Figure a 16 TB drive with 1.6x the areal density will be about 25% faster, or 300 MB/s. That's the speed of the outer track. The inner track is half that, or 150 MB/s. And the circumference is proportional to the radius, so the integral between these two speeds (taking into account more data being stored on outer tracks) yields an average speed 1/3 of the way from 300 to 150 MB/s, or 250 MB/s.
So a straight sector-by-sector (sequential) copy of 16 TB drive to another 16 TB drive would take 16000 GB / 250 MB/s = 64000 seconds, or just under 18 hours.
So when are we going to have dual head hard disks. The hard drive logic determines which of the two drive heads can get to the data in the least time.
Why not also include RPS (Rotational Positional Sensing)
Community college and state colleges should be free, like it is in civilized countries.
In Quebec, Canada, the community colleges are free, and offer grade 12 and grade 13. Grade 13 is really 1st year univerity (some minor student fees like accident insurance $200, student organizations, etc). The student has to pay for books and for use of chemistry/physics/agriculture/other facilities.
He can be in college, until he has completed the first year of university or the preparation for a trade.
University is about four hundred per course (5 courses per semester). Aside from housing expense, student fees (insurance, etc), A student can get a university bachelor degree in three years at roughly $12,000 cost. Many students earn their university expenses while they attend.
Residents of Quebec have "medicare", our government health insurance. Fees are based on your income taxes. And here, if you do not have a prescription plan, your are obliged to use the government plan. There is a $3000/yr cap on prescribed drug/medication expenses.
Yes, we are spoiled, and yes, we get to choose our doctors and our hospitals and our drug stores
Another Trump victory! All hail the chief!
Companies are adjusting their PR to give Trump apparent wins so he will lay off of them. Ford did the same thing. Both companies have had their plans set for a year or more but the PR changes. Yes IBM is hiring American workers in place A and yes they are laying off more American workers in place B to expand over seas.
The truth is the truth. One year to find a plant site, one year to get plans, one year for licenses and then financement. A new plant is probably a 8 year project
Yeah. I can't wait to pay American labor rates for everything I buy.
Now instead of hearing us cry about not being able to afford health insurance, you'll hear us cry about not being able to afford anything.
Trump: Let's Make American Products Expensive Again!!
Before massive outsourcing^W globalization, people used to be able to afford houses and families and medical care on a single income.
After siphoning jobs and industries to other countries for 4 decades, how's our economy doing?
One reason aside from labor rates is quality of education. While the States looked only at costs and For profit universities, it also dropped dramatically, the quality of education and the access to higher education. Want a good education and want to be technologically competitive, you must leave the USA for anyone of a dozen countries. Today the average MBA degree is only what a bachelor degree provided some 30 years ago.
Are directors of companies entitled to multi-million dollar salaries? They only directly manage under 20 people. Are they worth 20x these peoples salaries.
Pres. Carter had it right. Shareholders deserve the dividends, Managers get salaries, and no manager is worth more than 20x the average corporate salary.
Now you know why IBM is going off-shore. The 6000/yr of domestic hires are in sales. I bet there are fewer than 100 Phds in that 6000.
The solar power industry is doing a wealth transfer from the industrial producer to the individual. Trump will have the States put a law in place making it costly to put up a solar panels and giving roadblocks to all renewable energy. He will not spend money on job retraining for workers replaced by robots. Shame.
Trump is a "look in the Mirror man", he is concerned about his looks and his ego. Make America great is to finance his billionaires, instead of providing means for small businesses. Big conglomerates make money from global trade. Small businesses build and serve the domestic market. The domestic market is too small for large corporate America