With kids, as with adults, you borrow a badge when you need to pee, or leave to another department. Kids will swap badges to defeat the system.
In the end, I believe that the badges do not add to security in schools. In my grandkids school, all doors are locked, and there is a doorbell that rings in the principals office when someone has to come to pick up a child, or when a child arrives late.
Pickup of a child requires a signin and proof that the parent authorized the pickup (My daughter tells the principal I am OK to take my granddaughter home or to the dentist or to a pediatrician.
My experience with whiz kids who knock my code is to tell me where I did wrong. To explain to me if there is a better way, in terms of efficiency and maintainability.
Sometimes I learn somethings, and often times the whiz kid learns something. I am open minded. I and he have no exclusivity on being geniuses.
An earlier article cited her "belief that the vaccine might be harmful" as her "religious" objection, saying ANY belief is a "religion". That's preposterous on its face, so they may have dug deeper and tried to come up with actual religious ties now. But it's basically "I don't wanna".
=== What is the role of a nurse? Is it to administer patient care? Is it to be sterile, when an epidemic of the flu or strep disease comes around. C difficile is a disease that is transfered from patient to patient via contact. The one carrying the live germs is the nurse. The hospital visitor that presses the elevator button either picks it up or deposits it. Ditto for the flu vaccine. Nurses inhale flu virus, and excel it too. If they are vaccinated, they do not act as flu carriers to the extent that a non-vaccinated person would.
The nurses should abide by the rules, or change professions.
Microsoft locked Windows RT down because it wanted to slowly get rid of the Win32 cruft dating back to the 80s and 90s.
If Microsoft gets rid of the "Win32 cruft dating back to the 80s and 90s", then there will be no reason for anyone to choose Windows over any other operating system. Legacy compatibility and a huge installed base of applications are Microsoft's primary competitive edge, but Ballmer seems to have forgotten this in his Ahab-like quest to chase down Apple.
That cruft does exist now and is used to run things like Office and Notepad etc. but Microsoft can easily rewrite them in the future.
If Microsoft could have ditched legacy API usage for Office that easily, I think they would have done so already in the first release of Surface. At this point, the Office codebase is probably so FUBARed with 20+ years of spaghetti code and the need for backwards compatibility with 500 different document types that I doubt they could rewrite it completely even if they wanted to. Office for MacOS is almost a completely different product, done by a separate business unit. And if Microsoft ever releases a slimmed-down "Office" for iOS and/or Android, then those products will probably be written from scratch, and will not be 100% backwards compatible with anything other than OOXML.
(Of course, any competent programmer could write a better version of Notepad in a month, so that's really not a factor.)
Indeed, version control is the only real solution. We use git at work, and some coworkers insist on "commenting out" code that's no longer needed. I insist that we should delete it. Should we ever need it again, we have version control; and with proper commit messages, old code is easier to find too.
=== I do the following. I take a copy of the code before doing the delete, along with a timestamp. I add a brief paragraph comment in the code to indicate where to find the code before the image. I add to my paragraph, when to delete the paragraph itself. When the 6 months, or 18 months lapses. I delete the paragraph and the code I set aside as a separate file months before. I do not like long descendency paths for subversion or git. If the new code is clean for 18 months, I do a sv removeal and then register it again.
I've been using C for so long that I think I've lost objectivity. C is the first language I learned (other than line numbered basic.) In my mind, C is the language all other languages are judged against.
But if there's any truth to this (when did the TIOBE index become the official word?) it makes me wonder if it's not C itself that is making a comeback, but good old fashioned procedural style programming.
All these fancy new languages with their polymorphism, encapsulation, templates and functional features have lost their sparkle. Programmers are rediscovering that there isn't anything you can't do (even runtime polymorphism) with just functions, structs, arrays and pointers. It can be easier to understand, and although it may be more typing, it has the virtue that you know exactly what the compiler is going to do with it.
=== I do agree with your view if C as the language against which others are compared. I started with C in the 80's with DOS.
C++ is relatively new to me. I do like it for GUI and Windows designing, It is in my toolbox, the only place it fits in. A data structure with C and with an experienced coder like myself, never encounter memory problems, (including leaks).
We think like a home building project. First get the land, then permits, then architecture, then building permit, etc. We work with doing, not with objecting. Laying out a gui interface is in my view, objective functionality. Driving the car is a function. The car is an object. It can be represented by a structure, with functions to manage the vehicle. But my C++ object is the car, and driving it is not a car property, it is what I do to the car. My view is that I don't use a method to drive the car.
Should the USPTO have gone to the public with this question about 25 years ago? I read somewhere that Russia does not provide or recognize software patents. Bravo Russia. And the Russian world appears to run on software as much as anywhere else, and their IT industry is flourishing
This is one of the places where the story rings false. Given any 30 people involved in full-time spying on dozens of other people, it is _inevitable_ that at least one of them would notify the police of this operation. Not only because the activity is illegal, but because very few people can keep quiet about what their wage paying job is for an extended period, and they would inevitably inform lovers, family, or friends. That then multiplies the number of people who might inform on the operation in a plea bargain.
For anyone who's been involved in handling security of any kind, such as a shared administrative password or simply keeping a corporate merger private before the public announcement, it's simply not feasible: it _will_ leak out with many participants.
=== You would have to know that there was spy software on the laptop. You do trust new toys, don't you. What was the TROY horse for?
So why hire people in a 'Right to Work' State if they cannot leave 'at will'. HP certainly thinks that they can fire staff at will...
Because only the will of the nobility counts. The peasants are not supposed to have any will of their own, and must be punished harshly whenever they show signs of developing such a trait.
Honestly, I'm amazed that anyone is still even asking such a question.
=== Most contracts have some stipulations about who you can go and work for when you resign. You can leave to work for a customer, but you probably cannot work for a customer if you do not have permission or if that action harms HP because of confidential HP knowledge. The leapfroggers will have to compensate HP, or GM, on behalf of the LFgrs will need to do so.
Give me a ubuntu rom that works and I'll install it myself.
Yeah, I talked to a Ubuntu guy at an Android conference about this who was showing off a dual Android-Ubuntu runnin Mororola Atrix II. His position was fairly much 'no', since they want to sell this to manufacturers as a feature they can have. Shame, though I can see their point of view.
=== At some point, I think it is possible that Canonical will pull the plug on the desktop Linux system. The thrill and the novelty has warn off and it's time to make some money from Linux. Servers -- yes, phones --yes, desktops --maybe.
Did you miss the part where it said purchases would be rounded to the nearest nickle?
As a Canadian I can tell you that the pennies will disappear quickly, because the banks have been told to collect them.
The place I get my morning breakfast has already started rounding to the nearest nickle. My breakfast comes to $3.66 total, and I am always asked for $3.65
I for one, say "About bloody time!"
Will the Government allow rounding of the gst and pst (Federal and Provincial sales taxes) ? So, where a bill with tax came to $5.16, will the government forgive the penny?
The reason the penny costs so much to keep in circulation is not solely the cost of minting. If a penny costs $0.02 to mint but is used in 10,000 transaction in it's life time that would be ok.
The problem with the penny is that they don't get spent. The mint needs to keep producing new ones for retailers to give out and people go home and throw them in a coffee can.
Oddly, this is the exact argument in favour of $1, $2, and $5 coins. People don't spend coins as easily, they tend fall between couch cushions or collect in jars. Until those jars are emptied, and the couch cleaned those coins are basically a kind of interest free loan the government.
=== Actually, this removing coins from circulation raises the value of the dollar. So, the government should be happy. They are selling money and will likely never have to repay it.
No, that is not right. Your own source specifies that 1.6 cents is the MANUFACTURING cost, not the price of the metal in the penny.
If the metal in the penny was worth more than the penny people would be melting them down, as they did with gold coins. Clearly that is not happening.
Are we really looking at a 5 to one devaluation of the money, where a Nickel will buy what a penny did? Think what that will do to pensioners. EVIL CANADA, THINK OF THE SIDE EFFECTS. DO NOT DO THAT
Unless he's making your own job a lot harder or you're his boss (or project manager), it's not your place. Your "help" will likely only piss him off more and more and cause problems in the office. Not only will it in *no way* benefit you, but it will very likely *hurt* you and your career--since your manager will come to view you as a source of headaches, your co-worker(s) will view you as a pretentious little prick, and (contrary to popular belief) the guy who helps produce better overall product is almost never rewarded for it anyway. About the fastest way for anyone to piss off their co-workers and bosses is to walk around with a "I'm the best coder here" attitude all day, whether it's true or not. Don't do it.
So, STFU and let management deal with him (or not). That's what they're paid for, not you. Don't offer *any* unsolicited criticism, and even if solicited, offer only a few minor criticisms at a time.
In short: Lighten up, Francis.
=== You are absolutely right. However, you might try a diplomatic approach in that you ask the spagetti man if he could help a support person to follow his code. Do find a support person so you are in the clear. Other than that, keep away.
Problem with secure boot is it creates a whole new attack vector. Attempts to solve one problem by creating a new one. When the purpose of attack is to deny access to the machine, what better way than to trip secure boot into action and prevent the machine from running. So you attack software doesn't have to do much of anything at all, just be difficult to remove without a full reinstall and it can leave the rest of the attack to secure boot.
=== Secure boot as implemented by MS is a two way sword. With the skills of present day hackers, they will determine the master key for the bios, and disable MS Windows 8. Now, it will take one key change to disable W8 and another to change the master key to block the bios from accepting new MS keys, hence new MS W8 reinstallations.
Many are listed at 10,000 (or 8,000?) on-off cycles.
Osram Dulux intelligent longlife for instance is rated at 500,000 on-off cycles.
Sure it will cost more than the very cheapest CFLs but it's 5 or so times more, not 50 times more. And that's more than my LED lights are rated at (the ones I bought it's even highly rated.)
Regarding the rating and heat I think it make total sense to at least be able to put a similar power rated light-bulb in the same fixture considering the higher efficiency. I'm not 100% sure it work like that but I can't understand why it shouldn't. Using LEDs those cooling fins get hot but then again a regular lightbulb get very hot to.
You can get CFLs usable with dimmers to. I think what people should take home with them is that you should buy the CFL which fit your needs, not just any CFL. If it's going to be on for long sure buying any may be ok. If it's going to go on and off often buy one for that, if it need to be dimmable buy one for that and if it will be sitting outside like here and may have a -20 degree C around it buy one designed for that.
=== The cfls that our Loews, Home Depot, Ronat, and Costco sell are the 6 for $10.00. These are ok if you turn them on and leave them on.
We get 20F or colder in Montreal. At that temperature most cfls will not light. If they do, the glow is very faint until the bulb warms up. At 0F, CFLs are useless.
LED lights work just fine. I got some LED strips from IKEA, The strips are great for under the kitchen counter operation. I leave them on 24/7 (under 5 watts total). Now I can find my way to the fridge all the time
The reduced cooling should help in lowering the costs of the LED versus the CFL and the reduced energy consumption will be a help as well.
Yesterday I went to Walmart to get new light bulbs, old CFLs I had burned out. There Walmart had LED bulbs in stock, at around $20 a bulb. I ended up going to Sam's to get CFLs, an 8 pack cost less than $6.
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=== Until the number of competitors come along, and the market gets filled, you will pay for leds in the same style you pay for Apple Products.
Did some research, and as 2011, Colombia ranked 4th in price of gas (from most to least) in the whole American continent. USA ranked 15th, and Venezuela ranks last. Curiously, Venezuela is a country that is our immediate neighbor, and their price/gallon is under a dollar. We extract, they extract, but the difference is that their government has seized the properties of many international oil companies, kicking them out of the country, I think that near 2007~2008 they seized ExxonMobil assets and kicked them out, making their refineries state-controlled, which is really awful.
== The oil comes out of the Venezuela ground, the profits go offshore, and the royalties to the government pass through enough hands to be an embarrassment in terms of the net net amount paid to the government. Ergo, the profits go to the people, and the operating expenses and more respectable compensation go to the oil companies. I think the Latin American countries are tired of being raped of their resources.
Microsoft's decline started on Bill Gates' watch. Maybe Ballmer will preside over the "fall" phase. Maybe Ballmer's next trick will be learning to play the fiddle while playing with matches.
=== Gates saw the handwriting on the wall. He saw the pending decline and got out. He knew that software engineering in MS, Oracle, etc is a few years ahead of retail distribution. Both Balmer and Gates knew that Linux would take over the desktop.
Neither counted upon the tablet, with the Android or Apple. Now there will be a FOSS tablet coming soon. Each tablet sold is one less laptop or desktop with Windows on it. Balmer, time to cash out.
The currency is metric. The USA is not using pound, shilling,pense, half penny, etc. The way to do it is to follow Canada's method. start with posting dual temperatures (Celcius and Fahenheit) next start with weights and some measures. Manufacturers will be happy because 3.8 litres is a equivalent to a USA gallon, so the price of gas will be cut by 25% and expressed as litres. Ditto for milk, and everything else liquid (such as booz) After that, car speed indicators are essentially electronic and reprogrammable. Ergo, switch them to Metric display. Old bazoos will not have that option,so provide a sticker with conversion. We drive at 100km speed limit on highways. That is 62.5mph.
There is a process to follow to join the world. Every significant manufacturer who exports from the USA to other countries needs to use metric.
The USA lost a satellite when it was constructed (programmed) in feet and inches, but the partners in the satellite program used meters and centimeters.
Meter, centimeter and millimeter how easy can it get?
Torvalds pointed out that basic operating system theory was more or less set by the late 1960s.
“IBM probably owned thousands of really ‘fundamental’ patents,” he explained. ”The fundamental stuff was done about half a century ago and has long, long since lost any patent protection.”
=== When you are no longer hungry, and you just work to merge in GIT stuff, all developed by others, what is the outcome? I would say you become frustrated and angry, and lose it too often.
To be honest, if the resources of the US were treated in the same way that NK treats it's own people, we'd probably be setting up a colony on Mars right now.
Most of the reason we are not on Mars right now is that people compare the costs of doing that with maintaining standard of living. In NK, there is no health care debate. Everyone there gets free health care, to a maximum of a band aid and a Kim Jong Un lollipop when they have cancer. In essence, you'd almost be better off living on the streets in the US than to be an NK peasant most days.
However, yes, their prestige project of rocket science is moving along, and it will eventually progress. That's what happens when a country focuses itself, even imperfectly, on a narrow set of goals, and treats everything else at a bare minimum level. That focus is part arrogance of their elite class, and partly a need for Kim Jong Un to shore up his power base by keeping his military happy with him.
You could do the same thing in the US too. I assure you, if you did only the minimum you needed to hold down your job, and instead lived in cheap rat infested tenements and ate ramen noodles for your one daily meal, despite the fact that you make more than enough to live in a nice home, you could have a decent nest egg built up. People in the US used to go live in houses they build out of sod so that they could get their hands on some land and make something of themselves. That doesn't mean that I am suggesting that we all sell our houses and go live in shacks to afford good health care, for instance, but a lot of people don't realize that we do actually have a lot of resources at our disposal even if they are limited. It is what we do with those limited resources which makes the difference.
North Korea has chosen its space program over its people, and the space program is progressing because of it.
=== So where does that put Cuba? Cubans healthcare system puts that of the USA to shame. Russian health care system puts the USA's to shame. My son took ill in Russia (he was a tourist). He was admitted to hospital, diagnosed with kidney stones. Had ultrasound to break up the stones, had free prescription drugs, and all at absolutely no cost. And he was a visitor. And he was invited to return after they passed to make certain there were no damages.
True people live less affluent, but they have other benefits, such as warmth of relationships, caring and sharing, and really, lifelong friendships
The Iranian and North Korean governments are a bunch of nutbags with or without the ability to rain down destruction on the rest of the planet. Not every space shot induces panic. Not every country is as stupid or as evil as the worst example you can find.
It's also important to note that the original space race was far from benign. Sputnik was a side venture of the Soviet ICBM program and the main American efforts were also military in nature.
The people that are the most hysterical probably have a properly grounded historical perspective.
=== Whats the big deal. If you were president for life, had access to all the best of the best, from toys to women to power, why would you open your doors to helping your population? Most leaders are not charitable, they are egoists. They believe that Nice guys finish last.
With these small devices becoming ubiquitous, I got to thinking that one of them could eventually replace the bios on a typical mother board.
Does anyone know what processor is used on the motherboard to start the x86 one from Intel or AMD? Is it too complicated to make a mother board that accepts one of the cheaper devices? We could do our own UEFI and avoid the headaches that bios writers are facing.
In a way, the choice of word processor is more or less irrelevant by comparison with the level of trust involved in putting my files in the hands of someone I don't personally know. If anything should happen to files on my own hard drives, I at least only have myself to blame for not having secured or backed them up. But there is always the risk that Google might be compromised, either from the outside or by some rogue sysadmin, and I don't want to even think about trying to claim any redress against Google if they fuck up.
Further, since I live a long way away from urban amenities, I can't count on the availability of a constant internet connection, which could easily put me in a bind if I had my files stored in the so-called "cloud".
So, FWIW, my choice is simple: LibreOffice, since I don't run Windows. There will always be someone who will bitch that the free software suite doesn't have this or that all-important niche feature, but it has pretty much covered everything I need since it was StarOffice - only, of course, infinitely better now.
=== Well, even though I have been using Linux since 2004, and as well LibreOffice, we must recognize that MS Office, in particular Excel and Word, are first in class. I can do things with the latter better and faster. For that reason, I have an old laptop with Windows 7 home and MS Office on it. On my desktop systems (Linux) it is LibreOffice. I do recognize that LibreOffice is on more platforms, and it should be, being open source.
As for Google Docs, I wonder if you give up your privacy to a search engine company that can, in the end, send you advertisements based on your confidential writings.
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With kids, as with adults, you borrow a badge when you need to pee, or leave to another department. Kids will swap badges to defeat the system.
In the end, I believe that the badges do not add to security in schools. In my grandkids school, all doors are locked, and there is a doorbell that rings in the principals office when someone has to come to pick up a child, or when a child arrives late.
Pickup of a child requires a signin and proof that the parent authorized the pickup (My daughter tells the principal I am OK to take my granddaughter home or to the dentist or to a pediatrician.
What would RFID tags add?
My experience with whiz kids who knock my code is to tell me where I did wrong. To explain to me if there is a better way, in terms of efficiency and maintainability.
Sometimes I learn somethings, and often times the whiz kid learns something. I am open minded. I and he have no exclusivity on being geniuses.
An earlier article cited her "belief that the vaccine might be harmful" as her "religious" objection, saying ANY belief is a "religion". That's preposterous on its face, so they may have dug deeper and tried to come up with actual religious ties now. But it's basically "I don't wanna".
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What is the role of a nurse? Is it to administer patient care? Is it to be sterile, when an epidemic of the flu or strep disease comes around.
C difficile is a disease that is transfered from patient to patient via contact. The one carrying the live germs is the nurse. The hospital visitor that presses the elevator button either picks it up or deposits it.
Ditto for the flu vaccine. Nurses inhale flu virus, and excel it too. If they are vaccinated, they do not act as flu carriers to the extent that a non-vaccinated person would.
The nurses should abide by the rules, or change professions.
Microsoft locked Windows RT down because it wanted to slowly get rid of the Win32 cruft dating back to the 80s and 90s.
If Microsoft gets rid of the "Win32 cruft dating back to the 80s and 90s", then there will be no reason for anyone to choose Windows over any other operating system. Legacy compatibility and a huge installed base of applications are Microsoft's primary competitive edge, but Ballmer seems to have forgotten this in his Ahab-like quest to chase down Apple.
That cruft does exist now and is used to run things like Office and Notepad etc. but Microsoft can easily rewrite them in the future.
If Microsoft could have ditched legacy API usage for Office that easily, I think they would have done so already in the first release of Surface. At this point, the Office codebase is probably so FUBARed with 20+ years of spaghetti code and the need for backwards compatibility with 500 different document types that I doubt they could rewrite it completely even if they wanted to. Office for MacOS is almost a completely different product, done by a separate business unit. And if Microsoft ever releases a slimmed-down "Office" for iOS and/or Android, then those products will probably be written from scratch, and will not be 100% backwards compatible with anything other than OOXML.
(Of course, any competent programmer could write a better version of Notepad in a month, so that's really not a factor.)
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Look at Notepad++
Indeed, version control is the only real solution.
We use git at work, and some coworkers insist on "commenting out" code that's no longer needed. I insist that we should delete it. Should we ever need it again, we have version control; and with proper commit messages, old code is easier to find too.
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I do the following. I take a copy of the code before doing the delete, along with a timestamp. I add a brief paragraph comment in the code to indicate where to find the code before the image. I add to my paragraph, when to delete the paragraph itself.
When the 6 months, or 18 months lapses. I delete the paragraph and the code I set aside as a separate file months before.
I do not like long descendency paths for subversion or git. If the new code is clean for 18 months, I do a sv removeal and then register it again.
Maybe you're like me.
I've been using C for so long that I think I've lost objectivity. C is the first language I learned (other than line numbered basic.) In my mind, C is the language all other languages are judged against.
But if there's any truth to this (when did the TIOBE index become the official word?) it makes me wonder if it's not C itself that is making a comeback, but good old fashioned procedural style programming.
All these fancy new languages with their polymorphism, encapsulation, templates and functional features have lost their sparkle. Programmers are rediscovering that there isn't anything you can't do (even runtime polymorphism) with just functions, structs, arrays and pointers. It can be easier to understand, and although it may be more typing, it has the virtue that you know exactly what the compiler is going to do with it.
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I do agree with your view if C as the language against which others are compared. I started with C in the 80's with DOS.
C++ is relatively new to me. I do like it for GUI and Windows designing, It is in my toolbox, the only place it fits in.
A data structure with C and with an experienced coder like myself, never encounter memory problems, (including leaks).
We think like a home building project. First get the land, then permits, then architecture, then building permit, etc.
We work with doing, not with objecting. Laying out a gui interface is in my view, objective functionality. Driving the car is a function. The car is an object. It can be represented by a structure, with functions to manage the vehicle. But my C++ object is the car, and driving it is not a car property, it is what I do to the car. My view is that I don't use a method to drive the car.
Should the USPTO have gone to the public with this question about 25 years ago?
I read somewhere that Russia does not provide or recognize software patents. Bravo Russia.
And the Russian world appears to run on software as much as anywhere else, and their IT industry is flourishing
This is one of the places where the story rings false. Given any 30 people involved in full-time spying on dozens of other people, it is _inevitable_ that at least one of them would notify the police of this operation. Not only because the activity is illegal, but because very few people can keep quiet about what their wage paying job is for an extended period, and they would inevitably inform lovers, family, or friends. That then multiplies the number of people who might inform on the operation in a plea bargain.
For anyone who's been involved in handling security of any kind, such as a shared administrative password or simply keeping a corporate merger private before the public announcement, it's simply not feasible: it _will_ leak out with many participants.
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You would have to know that there was spy software on the laptop. You do trust new toys, don't you.
What was the TROY horse for?
So why hire people in a 'Right to Work' State if they cannot leave 'at will'. HP certainly thinks that they can fire staff at will...
Because only the will of the nobility counts. The peasants are not supposed to have any will of their own, and must be punished harshly whenever they show signs of developing such a trait.
Honestly, I'm amazed that anyone is still even asking such a question.
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Most contracts have some stipulations about who you can go and work for when you resign. You can leave to work for a customer, but you probably cannot work for a customer if you do not have permission or if that action harms HP because of confidential HP knowledge. The leapfroggers will have to compensate HP, or GM, on behalf of the LFgrs will need to do so.
Give me a ubuntu rom that works and I'll install it myself.
Yeah, I talked to a Ubuntu guy at an Android conference about this who was showing off a dual Android-Ubuntu runnin Mororola Atrix II. His position was fairly much 'no', since they want to sell this to manufacturers as a feature they can have. Shame, though I can see their point of view.
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At some point, I think it is possible that Canonical will pull the plug on the desktop Linux system. The thrill and the novelty has warn off and it's time to make some money from Linux. Servers -- yes, phones --yes, desktops --maybe.
Did you miss the part where it said purchases would be rounded to the nearest nickle?
As a Canadian I can tell you that the pennies will disappear quickly, because the banks have been told to collect them.
The place I get my morning breakfast has already started rounding to the nearest nickle. My breakfast comes to $3.66 total, and I am always asked for $3.65
I for one, say "About bloody time!"
Will the Government allow rounding of the gst and pst (Federal and Provincial sales taxes) ? So, where a bill with tax came to $5.16, will the government forgive the penny?
The reason the penny costs so much to keep in circulation is not solely the cost of minting. If a penny costs $0.02 to mint but is used in 10,000 transaction in it's life time that would be ok.
The problem with the penny is that they don't get spent. The mint needs to keep producing new ones for retailers to give out and people go home and throw them in a coffee can.
Oddly, this is the exact argument in favour of $1, $2, and $5 coins. People don't spend coins as easily, they tend fall between couch cushions or collect in jars. Until those jars are emptied, and the couch cleaned those coins are basically a kind of interest free loan the government.
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Actually, this removing coins from circulation raises the value of the dollar. So, the government should be happy. They are selling money and will likely never have to repay it.
Yes, you're right, it costs 1.6 cents per penny.
citation: metro news
No, that is not right. Your own source specifies that 1.6 cents is the MANUFACTURING cost, not the price of the metal in the penny.
If the metal in the penny was worth more than the penny people would be melting them down, as they did with gold coins. Clearly that is not happening.
Are we really looking at a 5 to one devaluation of the money, where a Nickel will buy what a penny did? Think what that will do to pensioners. EVIL CANADA, THINK OF THE SIDE EFFECTS. DO NOT DO THAT
Unless he's making your own job a lot harder or you're his boss (or project manager), it's not your place. Your "help" will likely only piss him off more and more and cause problems in the office. Not only will it in *no way* benefit you, but it will very likely *hurt* you and your career--since your manager will come to view you as a source of headaches, your co-worker(s) will view you as a pretentious little prick, and (contrary to popular belief) the guy who helps produce better overall product is almost never rewarded for it anyway. About the fastest way for anyone to piss off their co-workers and bosses is to walk around with a "I'm the best coder here" attitude all day, whether it's true or not. Don't do it.
So, STFU and let management deal with him (or not). That's what they're paid for, not you. Don't offer *any* unsolicited criticism, and even if solicited, offer only a few minor criticisms at a time.
In short: Lighten up, Francis.
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You are absolutely right. However, you might try a diplomatic approach in that you ask the spagetti man if he could help a support person to follow his code. Do find a support person so you are in the clear. Other than that, keep away.
Problem with secure boot is it creates a whole new attack vector. Attempts to solve one problem by creating a new one. When the purpose of attack is to deny access to the machine, what better way than to trip secure boot into action and prevent the machine from running. So you attack software doesn't have to do much of anything at all, just be difficult to remove without a full reinstall and it can leave the rest of the attack to secure boot.
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Secure boot as implemented by MS is a two way sword. With the skills of present day hackers, they will determine the master key for the bios, and disable MS Windows 8. Now, it will take one key change to disable W8 and another to change the master key to block the bios from accepting new MS keys, hence new MS W8 reinstallations.
Anyone think that it will be done before summer?
It depend on the quality of the bulb.
Many are listed at 10,000 (or 8,000?) on-off cycles.
Osram Dulux intelligent longlife for instance is rated at 500,000 on-off cycles.
Sure it will cost more than the very cheapest CFLs but it's 5 or so times more, not 50 times more. And that's more than my LED lights are rated at (the ones I bought it's even highly rated.)
Regarding the rating and heat I think it make total sense to at least be able to put a similar power rated light-bulb in the same fixture considering the higher efficiency. I'm not 100% sure it work like that but I can't understand why it shouldn't. Using LEDs those cooling fins get hot but then again a regular lightbulb get very hot to.
You can get CFLs usable with dimmers to. I think what people should take home with them is that you should buy the CFL which fit your needs, not just any CFL. If it's going to be on for long sure buying any may be ok. If it's going to go on and off often buy one for that, if it need to be dimmable buy one for that and if it will be sitting outside like here and may have a -20 degree C around it buy one designed for that.
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The cfls that our Loews, Home Depot, Ronat, and Costco sell are the 6 for $10.00. These are ok if you turn them on and leave them on.
We get 20F or colder in Montreal. At that temperature most cfls will not light. If they do, the glow is very faint until the bulb warms up. At 0F, CFLs are useless.
LED lights work just fine. I got some LED strips from IKEA, The strips are great for under the kitchen counter operation. I leave them on 24/7 (under 5 watts total). Now I can find my way to the fridge all the time
The reduced cooling should help in lowering the costs of the LED versus the CFL and the reduced energy consumption will be a help as well.
Yesterday I went to Walmart to get new light bulbs, old CFLs I had burned out. There Walmart had LED bulbs in stock, at around $20 a bulb. I ended up going to Sam's to get CFLs, an 8 pack cost less than $6.
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Until the number of competitors come along, and the market gets filled, you will pay for leds in the same style you pay for Apple Products.
Did some research, and as 2011, Colombia ranked 4th in price of gas (from most to least) in the whole American continent. USA ranked 15th, and Venezuela ranks last. Curiously, Venezuela is a country that is our immediate neighbor, and their price/gallon is under a dollar. We extract, they extract, but the difference is that their government has seized the properties of many international oil companies, kicking them out of the country, I think that near 2007~2008 they seized ExxonMobil assets and kicked them out, making their refineries state-controlled, which is really awful.
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The oil comes out of the Venezuela ground, the profits go offshore, and the royalties to the government pass through enough hands to be an embarrassment in terms of the net net amount paid to the government. Ergo, the profits go to the people, and the operating expenses and more respectable compensation go to the oil companies.
I think the Latin American countries are tired of being raped of their resources.
Microsoft's decline started on Bill Gates' watch. Maybe Ballmer will preside over the "fall" phase. Maybe Ballmer's next trick will be learning to play the fiddle while playing with matches.
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Gates saw the handwriting on the wall. He saw the pending decline and got out.
He knew that software engineering in MS, Oracle, etc is a few years ahead of retail distribution. Both Balmer and Gates knew that Linux would take over the desktop.
Neither counted upon the tablet, with the Android or Apple. Now there will be a FOSS tablet coming soon. Each tablet sold is one less laptop or desktop with Windows on it. Balmer, time to cash out.
The currency is metric. The USA is not using pound, shilling,pense, half penny, etc.
The way to do it is to follow Canada's method.
start with posting dual temperatures (Celcius and Fahenheit)
next start with weights and some measures. Manufacturers will be happy because 3.8 litres is a equivalent to a USA gallon, so the price of gas will be cut by 25% and expressed as litres. Ditto for milk, and everything else liquid (such as booz)
After that, car speed indicators are essentially electronic and reprogrammable. Ergo, switch them to Metric display. Old bazoos will not have that option,so provide a sticker with conversion.
We drive at 100km speed limit on highways. That is 62.5mph.
There is a process to follow to join the world. Every significant manufacturer who exports from the USA to other countries needs to use metric.
The USA lost a satellite when it was constructed (programmed) in feet and inches, but the partners in the satellite program used meters and centimeters.
Meter, centimeter and millimeter how easy can it get?
At least, in the opinion of Linux Torvalds.
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When you are no longer hungry, and you just work to merge in GIT stuff, all developed by others, what is the outcome? I would say you become frustrated and angry, and lose it too often.
Whats wrong with pointing out human nature.
To be honest, if the resources of the US were treated in the same way that NK treats it's own people, we'd probably be setting up a colony on Mars right now.
Most of the reason we are not on Mars right now is that people compare the costs of doing that with maintaining standard of living. In NK, there is no health care debate. Everyone there gets free health care, to a maximum of a band aid and a Kim Jong Un lollipop when they have cancer. In essence, you'd almost be better off living on the streets in the US than to be an NK peasant most days.
However, yes, their prestige project of rocket science is moving along, and it will eventually progress. That's what happens when a country focuses itself, even imperfectly, on a narrow set of goals, and treats everything else at a bare minimum level. That focus is part arrogance of their elite class, and partly a need for Kim Jong Un to shore up his power base by keeping his military happy with him.
You could do the same thing in the US too. I assure you, if you did only the minimum you needed to hold down your job, and instead lived in cheap rat infested tenements and ate ramen noodles for your one daily meal, despite the fact that you make more than enough to live in a nice home, you could have a decent nest egg built up. People in the US used to go live in houses they build out of sod so that they could get their hands on some land and make something of themselves. That doesn't mean that I am suggesting that we all sell our houses and go live in shacks to afford good health care, for instance, but a lot of people don't realize that we do actually have a lot of resources at our disposal even if they are limited. It is what we do with those limited resources which makes the difference.
North Korea has chosen its space program over its people, and the space program is progressing because of it.
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So where does that put Cuba? Cubans healthcare system puts that of the USA to shame. Russian health care system puts the USA's to shame.
My son took ill in Russia (he was a tourist). He was admitted to hospital, diagnosed with kidney stones. Had ultrasound to break up the stones, had free prescription drugs, and all at absolutely no cost. And he was a visitor. And he was invited to return after they passed to make certain there were no damages.
True people live less affluent, but they have other benefits, such as warmth of relationships, caring and sharing, and really, lifelong friendships
The Iranian and North Korean governments are a bunch of nutbags with or without the ability to rain down destruction on the rest of the planet. Not every space shot induces panic. Not every country is as stupid or as evil as the worst example you can find.
It's also important to note that the original space race was far from benign. Sputnik was a side venture of the Soviet ICBM program and the main American efforts were also military in nature.
The people that are the most hysterical probably have a properly grounded historical perspective.
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Whats the big deal. If you were president for life, had access to all the best of the best, from toys to women to power, why would you open your doors to helping your population? Most leaders are not charitable, they are egoists. They believe that Nice guys finish last.
With these small devices becoming ubiquitous, I got to thinking that one of them could eventually replace the bios on a typical mother board.
Does anyone know what processor is used on the motherboard to start the x86 one from Intel or AMD? Is it too complicated to make a mother board that accepts one of the cheaper devices? We could do our own UEFI and avoid the headaches that bios writers are facing.
In a way, the choice of word processor is more or less irrelevant by comparison with the level of trust involved in putting my files in the hands of someone I don't personally know. If anything should happen to files on my own hard drives, I at least only have myself to blame for not having secured or backed them up. But there is always the risk that Google might be compromised, either from the outside or by some rogue sysadmin, and I don't want to even think about trying to claim any redress against Google if they fuck up.
Further, since I live a long way away from urban amenities, I can't count on the availability of a constant internet connection, which could easily put me in a bind if I had my files stored in the so-called "cloud".
So, FWIW, my choice is simple: LibreOffice, since I don't run Windows. There will always be someone who will bitch that the free software suite doesn't have this or that all-important niche feature, but it has pretty much covered everything I need since it was StarOffice - only, of course, infinitely better now.
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Well, even though I have been using Linux since 2004, and as well LibreOffice, we must recognize that MS Office, in particular Excel and Word, are first in class. I can do things with the latter better and faster. For that reason, I have an old laptop with Windows 7 home and MS Office on it. On my desktop systems (Linux) it is LibreOffice. I do recognize that LibreOffice is on more platforms, and it should be, being open source.
As for Google Docs, I wonder if you give up your privacy to a search engine company that can, in the end, send you advertisements based on your confidential writings.