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I am convinced that Canada switched to the metric system only to benefit the oil companies. Here is a timeline of Canada's metric conversion. Prior to the change from gallons to litres in 1981, Joe Clark was defeated in the 1980 election by Pierre Trudeau in part due to his proposal to raise gasoline taxes by 18 cents an imperial gallon. Trudeau then raised gasoline taxes in 1982 by 10 cents a litre(45 cent a gal) but 10 cents seemed like less than 18 cents. Now our gas prices vary from 77 cents/litre to $1.20 ($2.92 - $4.55 US gal).

I seem to recall a fish on the dime for a while -- or was that the centennial version?

The centennial coins from 1967 had a different set of animals - dove, rabbit, mackerel (fish), wilcat, wolf and goose.

Here's a site with more than you've ever wanted to know about Canadian coins over tbe years: http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/coins.html

But a U.S. agency that investigated the complaint found no evidence of any secret transmitters, or of any other tampering.

It's not clear why this information failed to find its way into the released U.S. Defence Security Service report.

well, for sure, it would make creating coin vending machines much easier to implement, mechanically. once i was in canada and received a coin that looked like this which i initially thought was fake, but believed later after reading online.

best show ever. 10 minutes of science, and 30 minutes adam hurting himself. i love them.

All these people defending Mythbusters, and not one has mentioned the best feature of the show. Kari is really hot. A bit ditzy, but still really hot.

Regardless, it seems like the show got dumbed down. Especially the later seasons. Maybe I just noticed it more before I stopped watching. It seems like it switched from being about interesting stuff, to being about making the biggest explosion and having a higher potential for injury.

since when do pornos need plots?
they'd be better off without the awful acting and poor dialogue
hours of fun, pure sex, no plot

the "reach out and grab you" idea sounds like something off the 100 worst porn titles of all time list (http://members.shaw.ca/stayasyouare/tohwpmt.html

25Mb/s down at our company in canada. for about $100/month canadian.. so like $4/month US.

http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet /HighSpeedNitro/default.htm

of course, the average american takes up more space....

The first one had me from the beginning, but I got totally lost in the story in HL2. I never did fully understand what was going on or what I had missed since HL1. Recently, I went back and found a site that described the timeline of events and pulled all the pieces together. I'm gonna go back and replay both HL1 and HL2 now that I understand what's going on; I want to re-experience it. For me, HL2 didn't fill in the blanks in the storyline. I do like it, though, now that I understand.

I do like Halo; both "episodes" did a good job (to me) with the storyline; I didn't feel like I was left out like I was in HL2.

YMMV

Bush was elected TWICE (or allowed to take office twice, anyway)... what do YOU think?

I don't think HL2 in itself had a great story line. I do find it more appealing if you followed the with HL1, opposing forces, and blue shift. Also there's a great site here http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/ that sums up just about everything. If you single out HL2's story though, it is kinda boring.

"Idiot" is a medical term for a person with an IQ of less than 20. I'll grant you that it is not used much anymore, but it could be interpreted as a statement of fact, and not as a statement of opinion, and would thus be slanderous (or is that libelous as it is in print?).

... of your ISP expanding over to North America? -- especially in Saskatchewan, Canada. Our current offerings are very limited.

Pretty please?

FTA : A 5-mbps DSL connection from one provider, Shaw, costs Can$44, or about US$40 per month.

I am currently connected through Shaw. I am posting this right now through Shaw. And seeing as Shaw primarily provides cable TV, cable digital phone service, and cable Internet service with cable modems, I find it odd that they would be offering DSL services of any kind. Furthermore, the price is only $44/mo if you rent your modem. Buy it, and you're only paying $39/mo. And for $10/mo more, you can go to a 10Mb plan, 100GB throughput a month.

Maya knowledge, the present age also lasts 13 baktun, the current cycle of the long count will be completed when the count again reaches 13.0.0.0.0, in 2012. http://members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/calnote.htm

Living in Canada as well, why worry about Telus being the telco provider? You have a few other options here... 1. Rogers http://www.rogers.ca/ 2. Vonage http://www.vonage.ca/ 3. Shaw Digital Phone http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/DigitalP hone/ Good luck.

I ran across the Eon website in In February, and didn't give it another thought.
In fact, I'd completely forgotten about it until all the hype yesterday on the web.

Why? Because the gloating, tease you in advance criminal mastermind type that pulls that BS is found only in cheap comic books and novels.
It's the type of plot development that's only taken seriously by 12 year old mentalities.

Geez, if that kind of thing is taken seriously these days, prepare for terror!
http://www.delta-green.com/
http://members.shaw.ca/csstrowbridge/Tulzscha/Main Page.htm
http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/zogg/zogg1.html
http://www.cantonweb.com/procrastinators/
and finally:
http://r33b.net/

Run for the hills! BOOGA-BOOGA!
Or, grab some ice cubes, and chill out alrady!

This means that in Europe, this guys would be really 1337 hax0rs :)

Or, maybe in, say Canada, where we use metric and where UBC happens to be.

The story is very subtle and not at all in-your-face. It's an absolutely amazing story considering there wasn't a single cutscene, and if you pay attention to all of the details in the world you'll be amazed at just how rich the gameworld is. Don't believe me? Check this out: http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/ Not at all pulled out of his @$$, but rather a thourough analysis of everything.

if you would like to know more of the back story of halflife 2, it has been pieced together from ingame newspapers and from a few halflife 2 books
Story of Halflife 2

The best explanation of the Half Life story I have found is here http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/. You are not spoon fed the story in Half Life. Instead, you need to take the time to look around at the objects in the game -- not only listen to what NPCs are syaing, but read newspapers and posters stuck to the wall...

There are a lot of newspaper clippings in the game that tell what happened, you have to have the resolution set decently and some stuff you have to use the zoom on, but if you're just running from room to room you will definately miss it. There was a link to it in another post here, but I'll repeat it, on that page is links to some of the newspapers found in the game.

There are a lot of newspaper clippings in the game that tell what happened, you have to have the resolution set decently and some stuff you have to use the zoom on, but if you're just running from room to room you will definately miss it. There was a link to it in another post here, but I'll repeat it, on that page is links to some of the newspapers found in the game.

I have no idea how 'true' this timeline is, but I found it somewhere a while ago and thought it was a pretty interesting read.

http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm

Two years later, we're quite confident that two million Xbox Live subscribers, more than five million World of Warcraft subscribers and, ironically, more than a million DS Wi-Fi Connection users would disagree with Iwata's statement.

100 million+ PS2 sales.
30m? XBox1 sales.
Several million XBox360 sales.
Who knows how many tens of millions of PCs that games are played on.

Quoting eight million users against roughly 200 million gives maybe 4%.

That's the kind of figure people call statistical error when figuring out say how many people like or dislike a president.

Sure, there are plenty of other games with online components. But to quote 2m plus 5m plus an additional million and claim that makes a mockery of a quote regarding ~200m systems is kind of stretching things.

Even on the XBox - 2m Live subscribers across 30m? sales implies the statement is true: the majority of users do not want an online experience under the terms it's currently offered? 1 in 15? 6.7%? Curiously, 6.7% of the population is also the same percentage that has a sub 80 IQ which puts them in the Borderline Deficiency to Definite Feeble-Mindedness range.

Now I'm all for online gaming. I met my wife on a mud. But "the percentage of the population that are significantly mentally subnormal is also the same percentage as XBox owners who subscribe to XBox Live" is not really a compelling argument that "clearly customers want online gaming."

it looks like shaw has posted a reply here: http://www.shaw.ca/NR/rdonlyres/A19222AC-750B-42CC -AC99-136A5C2EA420/0/VonageMar8.pdf

From their news release section:
    http://www.shaw.ca/NR/rdonlyres/A19222AC-750B-42CC -AC99-136A5C2EA420/0/VonageMar8.pdf

From my interpretation, if you want better QoS, you pay the $10/month - so you get a less likely chance that your packets won't get dropped on network saturation.

Also they like to sell there own phone service saying it eventually connects to a phone line so it doesn't go over the internet but only there private manage IP network.

http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/

"Yes, I've tried more modern versions; the graphics are much more realistic, but there's still really no plot."

What a absolute rubbish! Tell me Halo didn't have a good plot, or Half life 1 and 2? Check this out http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/

"Why not, for example, a space exploration game -- concentrating on the science, economics, and logistics involved, instead of the usual shoot-the-evil-green-aliens theme?"

http://www.eve-online.com/

I'm a shaw user in Calgary. BT works most of the time, but I think they have been playing with the Ellacoya tech quite a bit over the past months. Quite frequently, if I'm running more than one torrent, I'll lose my entire connection for a few minutes at a time (ALL traffic, not just bittorrent).

If BT traffic was just set to alower priority than other traffic, such that BT traffic would still run quick if the pipes could handle it, I wouldn't mind so much. But if they automatically cap it to a tiny level (like they have in areas of Vancouver), or worse DROP everything intermittently like I'm experiencing, it's unacceptable. It sucks to have to wait a few minutes, then reestablish IM, SSH connections, flush DNS caches, etc.

Shaw and Rogers are the two major cable providers in Canada.

Shaw and Rogers are the two major cable providers in Canada.

Does it affect a lot of people? You bet.

Shaw and Rogers are the two major cable providers in Canada.

Does it affect a lot of people? You bet.

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and who hasn't seen..AFRO-CENTRIX #36 - PUMPIN' THE PO-PO We all know the porn industry rakes in billions every year...

Too bad the site is down, I want to try putting a scanner in my camera obscura (http://members.shaw.ca/mhamilto).

(You should see my friend's stereo speakers.)

Are they like this?

You're welcome, but you should be made aware that that conversion table is simply the result of a simplistic formula that Rodrigo de la Jara came up with by comparing the SAT scores accepted as minimal requirements for various high-IQ societies with the actual IQ scores those societies accept as minimum.

Woldry wrote: On the SAT (which, when I took it in the late 1970's, lined up fairly well with IQ test results) I got 1330, which translates roughly to a 133 IQ.

137.78 Wechsler IQ. 140.29 Stanford-Binet IQ.

http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/oldSATIQ.html

BootIt(TM) Next Generation is a great free tool. It even re-sizes existing partitions of many types including NTFS, ext2, FAT32 and many more. I switched to this after using Ghost for a few years, and haven't looked back. I can't say enough positive things about it.

I keep a list of useful extensions here of which I use the ones with a version number next to them; most of those have already been mentioned, but here are some of those that I find quite useful that I didn't see (either weren't mentioned so far or I skimmed over them, sorry ;)

Slim Extension List (0.1) tidies the extension manager by reducing the display size of entries. (Good for people with too many extensions ;)
Stop-or-Reload Button (0.1) make more room on your toolbar by combining the stop and reload buttons.
Flashblock (1.3.1) prevents autoloading of flash files; one click starts them going.
BugMeNot (0.8) extremely useful for browsing news (and other) sites that normally make you 'register for free' when you don't want to.
DictionarySearch (0.9.3) highlight a word and then look it up with just a couple clicks!

Finally, I should mention Cards (0.16.1) 27 Card Games for Firefox (including Solitaire ^_-) Now, you might ask how that's useful, but you'd be surprised how much that can interest some people who have never tried Firefox before... and getting them to switch from IE is a good thing, ne? ;-)

Check out this table for example: http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/IQtable.html

Here are some interesting statistics on the robot ... http://members.shaw.ca/kaus/Link2/Grandizer/Grandi zerLink2.htm/. Unfortunately they're in Korean.

Enjoy

You are right that the grammar must be context-sensitive, but such power can largely be gotten without having the program know what the words mean. In fact, with a modest core grammar, an adaptive grammar parser can work starting with dictionaries consisting of only a handful of words.

Here is some background:

There are four classes of languages in the Chomsky hierarchy, each a subset of the next:
Regular languages - parsed by finite-state automaton
Context-free languages - parsed by push-down automaton
Context-sensitive languages - parsed by linear bounded automaton (finite-tape Turing machine)
Unrestricted languages -parsed by infinite tape Turing machine

Computer science has mostly stuck to the first two types of language and used ad-hoc hacks to make context-free languages imitate true context-sensitive languages when needed, for example in parsers for compilers.The grammars for languages have traditionally been static collections of rules written in Backus-Naur Form. In the late 80's and early 90's, researchers such as Christiansen, Burshteyn, Shutt and Boullier began working on grammars with rules that could be modified on the fly, known as modifiable, adaptive or dynamic grammars. Natural languages have context-sensitive grammars (at least) and cannot be parsed by lower-level grammars without special-purpose code for a totally impracticable number of commonly encountered cases.

Quinn Tyler Jackson, in work from 1993-1998 created a theoretical framework called Meta-S calculus and extended the Backus-Naur notation for adaptive, truly context-sensitive grammars. His first parsing library release applied this to : "an example natural language grammar that, with only a handful of preset words, which included only one noun ("man"), parsed the Gospel According to Mark (King James Version), acquiring nouns during the parse by context." In late 1998 he released a parser generator, PAISLEI, implementing these ideas and in mid-1999 he began publishing papers on the topic.

In 2002, with feedback from Bjarne Stroustrup (the inventor of C++) and Boris Burshteyn (one of the seminal theorists in modifiable grammars) he demonstrated that a clean, elegant adaptive grammar system could parse C++ with similar speed (and linear parse-time increases when fed longer input files) as conventional parsers using ad-hoc code to handle special cases of context-sensitivity.

When doing any parse, whether of natural or computer language, PAISLEI can provide a graphical derivation tree, which in the case of natural languages amounts to a diagram of the sentence. This remarkable software even naturally handles sentences such as "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana", correctly identifying the first instance of "flies" as a verb and the second as a noun.

With a good dictionary and training on a corpus of known-good text, Dr. Jackson's program should be able to do even more astounding things. If I were putting together a grammar checker, OCR or voice-recognition product team, Quinn would be at the top of my must-recruit list.

Isn't that just a mini?

The ipod nano is a small tubular thing...

http://members.shaw.ca/ventro2/nano_large.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/icodenaked/lgp_contest_hack .dmg

This program filters out the noise, leaving only those pixels which belong to the hidden screen shot (on top of a grey background).

Ironic that I wrote it for Mac OS X, eh?

Ok...real links this time (pdfs):

http://www.shaw.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E4279F65-EE08-4E51 -A3CB-1C29D914023B/0/ProtectionofInternetPrivacy.p df

http://www.shaw.ca/NR/rdonlyres/529CAF5B-2594-4FA6 -B45E-27B19D2959BC/0/CustomerPrivacyMediaApril2520 05.pdf

Ok...real links this time (pdfs):

http://www.shaw.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E4279F65-EE08-4E51 -A3CB-1C29D914023B/0/ProtectionofInternetPrivacy.p df

http://www.shaw.ca/NR/rdonlyres/529CAF5B-2594-4FA6 -B45E-27B19D2959BC/0/CustomerPrivacyMediaApril2520 05.pdf

Shaw Cable, based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is well known for supporting customer privacy:

http://www.shaw.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E4279F65-EE08-4E51 -A3CB-1C29D914023B/0/ProtectionofInternetPrivacy.p df&ei=z5wEQ663Fb6sYeGhgOQI(pdf)

Eh. First off, according to the Tom's Hardware article, these players would have to be permanently connected to the internet. Where have I heard about something like that before... Perhaps from DivX, which required the players to be connected to a phone line to "phone home" every now and again... and I'm sure we all know how well that turned out.

Besides, what's to prevent a hacker from filtering out this self-destruct code from the downstream content anyway? I mean, it's not like this internet connection is protected or anything. If the content provider sends a packet to reflash the player, just don't let it get to the player. Have something in between to filter it out.

As usual, there are a bunch of fundamental flaws in DRM that will always keep coming back no matter what the content providers try to do. I see DVD Jon cracking this in a week after it's put out on the streets.

The parent is wrong about Shaw's speeds, they are listed here for the basic speeds, and there is an Extreme package which adds 2Mbps to your downstream, and 512Kbps to your upstream for $10/mo more.

Shaw's Residental Plan is 5Mbps down, 512Kbps up with no "set" limits. The Extreme package gives you 7Mbps down, and 1Mbps up with a 50GB/month limit.