What you're describing is the can be attributed to the effects of the emerging North-American Union rather than Canada being a weak auto market. If our the US and Canada hadn't been so buddy-buddy in 1918 then Canada wouldn't have allowed GM to acquire McLaughlin Motors of Oshawa (now headquarters of GM Canada) and they would have been our automaker.
If the EU had existed pre WWII do you think that there would be as many automakers in Europe as there are today? I bet the UK and German automakers would have taken over and you'd be laughing at France and Italy for not having "domestic car concerns".
Believe me, GM Canada *is* a Canadian auto-maker as much as Toyota of Canada (btw, you linked a dealership there). Do the Canadian people get to control what it does as part of a global corporation? No more than the USA gets to control GM when they're not on the verge of bankruptcy.
The internet providers were given massive tax breaks to improve their networks (fiber to the home and whatnot). Now they not only haven't done that with the money, but the inferior networks they've built instead are reaching capacity.
Somebody should make your ISPs sleep in the bed they made.
I also notice that the TFA appears to reference only cable companies. Cable internet shares bandwidth to the endpoint, a pretty bonehead move if a significant number of endpoints are going to be using it. Maybe this is simply the end of that technology's ability to improve. DSL and FTTH vendors could then capitalize and crush those companies, improving internet access for all. What is stopping this from happening (besides laziness)?
True and false. I used to run a "no name", but we still managed our own server. It depends on how hands on you want to be. Also how many add-on services you want to be able to offer (custom services, game servers, etc).
As an executive on the Engineering student government I have to say that we have been working this academic year to try to stop the garbage that is Blackboard, but it looks like it's being mandated across campus. Stories like this make me realize why it has to be mandated...
For all that people are bitching about Theora, people should:
1) Try using it and seeing how terrible it is.
2) Bitch more about why MPEG4/H.26x/AAC aren't more open/patent free. After all, these are the standards that industry *wants*, and they're going to produce software, hardware and content using these formats. If the FOSS community clings to Theora it will get left behind.
students have found ways to not be discovered I would argue that this is the largest reason.
On my campus, p2p traffic is traffic shaped for residence subnets, and everyone that cares at all about filesharing is on the campus DC++ node (or the super, 100GB+ shared node). Why use p2p when you can grab things at full 100mbit speeds locally? Plus, the people that have cable internet in their rooms are pulling all the latest TV episodes in for you, doing the work of hunting for good files for you.
This campus hub has only been around for about 3 years, and as it catches on I think the sort of trend that MediaDefender is talking about is inevitable.
People that get called on stealing GPLed code typically are making money off it by doing so eg. bundling it with some piece of hardware, or sticking it into their proprietary software that they sell.
Sorry, I meant that as the counter-example to UTC being the only safe way to store dates. Doesn't matter if you store in UTC on Java, DST is still biting you in the ass:)
Any *application* that needs updating because of this is just plain broken. UTC is the only safe way to represent time... as has been proven over and over again. When will they learn? The counter-example is Java. Java uses its own internal lookup tables to determine when DST should start and end for various timezones. They're attempting to provide the same level of DST service as an operating system for their virtual machine; I guess they're not trusting all underlying OSs to be the same in this regards.
And in a complex environment, you don't just upgrade the Java that your applications use. You upgrade in a testing environment, do regression tests then deploy to production. This has been weeks of work so far for my team; it is not a trivial amount of work. And we're in Canada, which is only picking up the DST change to stay in line with the States. Thanks Mr. Bush.
I agree that outside of that, applications that try require patching are hilariously poorly programmed. I know of a certain library implementing date functionality that some people in my industry are using that requires you to recompile your app against a new version and test:)
They've already added an option to control the screen dimming to the redesigned Energy Saver preference panal in the Leopard preview. Scratch this one.
If your app has a properly implemented Window menu, all its windows will be listed in there.
I can't tell if the writer is unhappy that you can't do this on the Dock without the context menu or if he thinks that context menu on the Dock is the only way to get a list of windows. It isn't.
Also learning the keyboard shortcut Cmd-` (beside 1) to switch between an app's windows is your friend.
[PST 3:18] The grid has been reopened to all log-ins. Welcome back!
[PST 3:07 PM] Log-ins will be closed to all except Linden staff while we finish cleaning up the aftermath of the grey goo attack.
[PST 2:44PM] An attack of self-replicators is causing heavy load on the database, which is in turn slowing down in-world activity. We have isolated the grey goo and are currently cleaning up the grid. We'll keep you updated as status changes.
Under an hour from recognizing the problem to fixed. If this were WoW, the servers would have been down 3 or 4 days!
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What you're describing is the can be attributed to the effects of the emerging North-American Union rather than Canada being a weak auto market. If our the US and Canada hadn't been so buddy-buddy in 1918 then Canada wouldn't have allowed GM to acquire McLaughlin Motors of Oshawa (now headquarters of GM Canada) and they would have been our automaker.
If the EU had existed pre WWII do you think that there would be as many automakers in Europe as there are today? I bet the UK and German automakers would have taken over and you'd be laughing at France and Italy for not having "domestic car concerns".
Believe me, GM Canada *is* a Canadian auto-maker as much as Toyota of Canada (btw, you linked a dealership there). Do the Canadian people get to control what it does as part of a global corporation? No more than the USA gets to control GM when they're not on the verge of bankruptcy.
The internet providers were given massive tax breaks to improve their networks (fiber to the home and whatnot). Now they not only haven't done that with the money, but the inferior networks they've built instead are reaching capacity.
Somebody should make your ISPs sleep in the bed they made.
I also notice that the TFA appears to reference only cable companies. Cable internet shares bandwidth to the endpoint, a pretty bonehead move if a significant number of endpoints are going to be using it. Maybe this is simply the end of that technology's ability to improve. DSL and FTTH vendors could then capitalize and crush those companies, improving internet access for all. What is stopping this from happening (besides laziness)?
True and false. I used to run a "no name", but we still managed our own server. It depends on how hands on you want to be. Also how many add-on services you want to be able to offer (custom services, game servers, etc).
As an executive on the Engineering student government I have to say that we have been working this academic year to try to stop the garbage that is Blackboard, but it looks like it's being mandated across campus. Stories like this make me realize why it has to be mandated...
The Canadian provincial health plans don't cover pharmaceuticals.
Sorry, US citizens are being gouged.
Don't know any in NYC, but a lot of places that sell cell phones will recycle phones and batteries.
Yes, send your Li-Ion to a battery recycler. They should not go in the trash.
For all that people are bitching about Theora, people should:
1) Try using it and seeing how terrible it is.
2) Bitch more about why MPEG4/H.26x/AAC aren't more open/patent free. After all, these are the standards that industry *wants*, and they're going to produce software, hardware and content using these formats. If the FOSS community clings to Theora it will get left behind.
On my campus, p2p traffic is traffic shaped for residence subnets, and everyone that cares at all about filesharing is on the campus DC++ node (or the super, 100GB+ shared node). Why use p2p when you can grab things at full 100mbit speeds locally? Plus, the people that have cable internet in their rooms are pulling all the latest TV episodes in for you, doing the work of hunting for good files for you.
This campus hub has only been around for about 3 years, and as it catches on I think the sort of trend that MediaDefender is talking about is inevitable.
/me wants a car analogy. This is /. afterall.
Don't forget the sub-prime mortgage!
I'm going to go ahead and assume that he's using Teksavvy, as he has perfectly described their service breakdown.
http://teksavvy.com/
We were the British in 1812.
People that get called on stealing GPLed code typically are making money off it by doing so eg. bundling it with some piece of hardware, or sticking it into their proprietary software that they sell.
Most pirates don't sell the music they pirate.
Also, Santa Rosa now allows a full 4GB of memory (up from only 3GB recognized when you put 4GB in).
Might not be a big deal yet, but 2GB won't be enough for serious professionals soon enough.
They're working on it! http://www.tuaw.com/2007/05/29/apple-notebook-sale s-up-94-in-april/
You forgot the most obvious line:
IT'S A TRAP!
Sorry, I meant that as the counter-example to UTC being the only safe way to store dates. Doesn't matter if you store in UTC on Java, DST is still biting you in the ass :)
And in a complex environment, you don't just upgrade the Java that your applications use. You upgrade in a testing environment, do regression tests then deploy to production. This has been weeks of work so far for my team; it is not a trivial amount of work. And we're in Canada, which is only picking up the DST change to stay in line with the States. Thanks Mr. Bush.
I agree that outside of that, applications that try require patching are hilariously poorly programmed. I know of a certain library implementing date functionality that some people in my industry are using that requires you to recompile your app against a new version and test
You forgot accessories. Yes, many iPod accessories are somewhat gimmicky, but what other digital music player even HAS accessories?
They've already added an option to control the screen dimming to the redesigned Energy Saver preference panal in the Leopard preview. Scratch this one.
If your app has a properly implemented Window menu, all its windows will be listed in there.
I can't tell if the writer is unhappy that you can't do this on the Dock without the context menu or if he thinks that context menu on the Dock is the only way to get a list of windows. It isn't.
Also learning the keyboard shortcut Cmd-` (beside 1) to switch between an app's windows is your friend.
Under an hour from recognizing the problem to fixed. If this were WoW, the servers would have been down 3 or 4 days!
Especially shocking since that CPU vendor's competitor has recently purchased a company that produces graphics cards...
Bush just needs to choose a building to burn down and be declared chancellor. All the other pieces of the Nazi party are in place...