Posts by Syldra 18 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Sep 2009
Either the statement comes from a PR person who knows nothing about IT and used the wrong word unknowingly, or said PR person is French-Canadian and the statement you have read was a (bad) translation. In fact, the term used in the french statement was "soutiré" which is mostly correct as it grossly translate to "extort" in English.
Starting with Busby's guess of Mr Mazkouri's bandwith usage (1,631,600MB) it could go like this :
1maz = 1,556TB or 1593.36GB or 1,631,600.0MB
1mmaz = 1,556GB or 1593,36MB
1µmaz = 1,556MB
1kmaz = 1,556PB
it is large enough to remain useable with current storage (sorry WraithCadmus).
"By his logic the movie, and music industry should be happy places like TPB bother advertising most of the crap they churn out."
The main differences are :
1- I'm pretty sure TPB doesn't link to where you can actually buy the stuff and
2- TPB makes available the work in full
I'm no writer myself and knows none to speak of, but I believe they aren't against exerpts of their books on Amazon/B&N and the likes... Google makes their work searchable so I would think it brings more customers than less...
Actually, I quite like the idea of following the students when at school. The school is responsible for the kids and if a student says he goes to the bathroom but doesn't and goes somewhere and has an accident, I'm sure the parents would come and say "How come you let him go to <insert dangerous place> ?". It's far less invasive than cameras too.
Miracle power is granted by God to one who prays fervently and live a holy life respecting God's commandments.
Witchcraft power is gained by a mix of orgies, sacrifices of virgins, using all kinds of drugs and worshipping the Devil.
I for one prefer the latter, much less hassle...
So if I can't pay for all my children alone, I'm a weight for the system and if I do have enough money it's because I'm overpaid ?
If I really had to "build the barn", then I believe I wouldn't have stopped at 4 kids because I would need hands to help me. More kids now would mean more hands later. And if I had the need to hunt for my food, that would mean even more kids because accidents do happen. Can't really take the chance to have a shortage of hands because the wild boar killed our youngest now can we ?
I can respect your decision of not having children, even if I don't understand it. But don't try to pass it as the one good "self evident" thing to do because it is not. Over population is not the problem, it's over utilization of resource that is. There's room for far more if you don't waste what you don't need. There's already food enough for everyone, but we (developped countries) prefer to throw it in the garbage instead of sharing it with those who need.
Allow me to clear this up a bit, if you will...
From what I gather, it's not so you can browse the web while attending, it's for communities that don't have broadband access available, then they could have an antenna at home and connect to the church's WIFI and get access. The church is for the height only... for coverage.
Thank you !
Syldra
Nice that you could make a reasonable looking poutine... always tought non-Canadian (and I'd say non-french-Canadian) couldn't. I'm impressed !
I usually replace the gravy with spaghetti sauce but the important thing is that it must taste like salty fat.
For those who care, the origin of the word "poutine" is not clear but it would seem it's derived from the english word "pudding" which was, my father told me, some mix of mashed potatoes, lard and gravy and cheese when they could afford some (I'm talking rural Québec of the 50's).
What you describe cannot be done.
I believe those students did a good job given what they wanted to do.
It's all about statistics and probabilities.
If you liked "Song X" by Artist X, there are good chances you'll like the cover by Artist Y, because it uses the same instruments, has the same rythm, speed, whatever they use to categorise songs. You may not like it because Artist Y sucks in general, but the software would be right to propose it because given your taste, you "technically" should like it.
Mind you, I for one use neither.
Hi,
here are some things I believe to be, hmmm... inacurate in the article. But despite that, I do agree with the reporter's view.
- 200m X 100 = 20bn, not 40bn
- they said they'd fit "new" cars with phones so the 200m cars figure is way too high.
- even at 40bn this year, the savings (26bn) are yearly so the project _might_ be cost effective in 2-3 years.
Anyways, nice article really.
Syldra
Mine's the one without the cell phone in the pocket.
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