It all depends on the transit system where you live. Here the bus is never early, and is usually a little late. I typically get to the stop about the same time that the bus is supposed to arrive, so often times I end up having to run the last block. Having my watch off by up to a minute because I haven't reset it recently is a real pain. Sure I could leave extra early to compensate, and often did when my watch wasn't reliable, but I don't like to do so.
My old watch used to drift by about 10 seconds every month, which means I had to reset it regularly or I would end up missing my bus quite often.
My current watch (Casio G-Shock 1400DA) automatically synchronizes with the atomic clock every night so it's never off by more than a second. Also it's solar powered, so there's no effective loss in battery life.
At my college we all got assigned laptops which were all loaded with the same image. This image contained default shared folders. Seeing the stuff people had shared on the network it was pretty obvious that some of them had no idea that whatever they put in that folder was accessible by everybody connected to the network.
Remember, even 12:00 flashers have computers.
First off Calgary is one word.
Did your wonderful Canadian broadcasts show the thousands of Tampa fans _outside_ the arena each night? Yes they did. However what we saw paled in comparison to what was going on here in Calgary. We had our C of Red, where almost everybody in the stands was wearing a red flames jersey. You had to give away white t-shirts to try to get a similar effect. You had what, ten thousand fans outside the arena? We had eighty thousand. Our city's population is also 40% that of yours (including both metro areas).
I get so sick of all of this whining from north of the border - just because you keep losing to teams in new markets doesn't mean those areas don't deserve teams. Nobody up here is whining because the new market teams are winning. It just doesn't seem right for Hockey to be played in a city where it never snows. Also there are a lot of people who think that the overall level of teams in the league has fallen as the talented players get spread out between too many different teams.
Personally I think that if your team makes the playoffs, yet you can't sell out the building, then you don't have the fan support. Canadian cities are much more likely to sell out an arena than those in the Southern States.
How great was the support in Cal Gary a few years ago when they had to close off sections of the stadium due to lack of attendance? I can't speak for the rest of the Flames Fans, but I can say why I stopped supporting them. In the early 90s the Flames made a lot of bad trades, and I was not happy. They traded away all of our good players, and got crap in return. I decided that I wasn't going to bother cheering for them any more until they got their heads out of their collective asses and made it to the playoffs. They didn't need to win, just make it to the post season. It took them seven years, but then they did it, and all the fans came back, thanking Sutter for fixing our team.
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Research shows that over 25% of MMORPG players play for less than 10 hours per week. Sounds fairly casual to me.
Naw, it's just that they know everybody in Calgary does 10 over anyway, and plan their speed limits / light timing accordingly.
It all depends on the transit system where you live. Here the bus is never early, and is usually a little late. I typically get to the stop about the same time that the bus is supposed to arrive, so often times I end up having to run the last block. Having my watch off by up to a minute because I haven't reset it recently is a real pain.
Sure I could leave extra early to compensate, and often did when my watch wasn't reliable, but I don't like to do so.
My old watch used to drift by about 10 seconds every month, which means I had to reset it regularly or I would end up missing my bus quite often. My current watch (Casio G-Shock 1400DA) automatically synchronizes with the atomic clock every night so it's never off by more than a second. Also it's solar powered, so there's no effective loss in battery life.
At my college we all got assigned laptops which were all loaded with the same image. This image contained default shared folders. Seeing the stuff people had shared on the network it was pretty obvious that some of them had no idea that whatever they put in that folder was accessible by everybody connected to the network. Remember, even 12:00 flashers have computers.
I hate to break it to you, but if they're choosing between two images, one right the other wrong, that's a 50% chance of success on a random guess.