Toronto is typically -10, going down to -20. Ottawa probably 10 degrees cooler. If you told me those temps in F, I'd convert them in my head before I had any sense of what you are talking about. At 0, there's a 32 degree difference with F, meeting as you say at -40. If I'd lived on the prairies or up north in the territories, maybe I wouldn't have this issue (temps often being closer to -40 in these places).
Some things are deeply ingrained. In Canada, the building industry is still imperial, and people generally talk about their weight in pounds (not stones and pounds like the UK). Australia seems to have converted more thoroughly, although I could talk to older people in imperial.
Inches and feet are units of a nice sized. Most things can be expressed as a whole unit, and when working precisely, they're easy to sub-divide (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc). Try quartering a cm - you end up with fractions of mm. Cm and m seem to be constantly odd numbers or funny fractions.
Americans seem particularly resistant to change. It will take a government with a lot of will to make such a change. A good starting place would be if the government mandated everything it does is metric. This will trickle down as any outside companies working for the government will have to comply, and then it's just a matter of time.
It would be nice if the US started with paper sizes. I was trying to do my Canadian tax return whilst in Australia earlier this year on a long visit, but absolutely nowhere in Melbourne could give me letter sized paper to print on or photocopy to. In the end I decided to come in to the 21st century and filed electronically for the first time. What a pain the arse though.
Ultimately, if you spend time in a country with different conventions, you stop converting and start thinking in the different units, unless you never encounter circumstances. It's a problem if you have to deal with somewhere else that uses a different system. After living on a British base in Cyprus, and for a while in the US, I would think of high temperatures (for the weather) in F, but due to winters in Toronto and Ottawa, of low temps in C. A summer in Shanghai, followed by a summer in Melbourne (47 degrees this Feb - wow!) has finally fixed that.
I imagine it depends on the codec they use. I've brought my Vonage Canada network adapter to the UK, bur found phone calls sounded like CDs skipping. Skype on the otherhand keeps going, even when I was in China and the latency was spiking up to 1000ms.
Why would you live somewhere that requires you to have a car? What a crazy idea. I live in one of the larger cities in N. America and get around on foot or bicycle. It's at my pace. I live life at my pace - smelling the roses, or not. 5.30pm, minutes after finishing work... I'm sailing and chilling on one of the biggest lakes in the world.
I've just got back from five months in Australia. In many ways, Melbourne is very similar to Toronto. I lived 45 km away from the city centre in SE suburbs. Never again. What a horrible way to live. Everything we wanted to do was 30 minutes min., probably 60 minutes drive away, on a highway. Talk about rushing around, not smelling the roses, and not actually doing anything. I loved my time in Australia, but I will never live in suburbia again. Out of the city is incredibly boring, and a dreadful lifestyle.
Each to their own. Some people like it. I don't. I'm looking forward to moving to Europe's second biggest city later this year...
I'm not quite sure of the point of chkdk. I have an S5 (next model up from you). It makes the start-up ridiculously long, and it comes up in preview mode. I tried it for RAW on my last holiday, but found it used ridiculous amounts of space (not surprising) and increased my post-trip processing time immensely. I only used two of the RAWs. These cameras have such noisy sensors that it's to much work dealing with it afterwards and the in-camera processing is generally good enough. If you want better, get a more expensive camera! I guess I can see the benefits of some of the things, but I'd use them so infrequently in a year that it's not worth the slow start times and the hassles of XP not coping properly with partitioned SD cards (mine's an 8GB card, and CHKDK forces it to be partitioned).
I think maybe you don't understand the scale of Hydroelectric production in N. America! I think perhaps you're referring to the US.
Canada produces 61% of its energy from hydro. Hydro-Québec is the world's largest hydroelectric generating company, with a total installed capacity (2007) of 35,647 MW, including 33,305 MW of hydroelectric generation, putting the province of Québec at 94% hydro. During the big east coast power outage a few years ago, Québec exported energy to the neighbouring province (Ontario) and US states (New York, etc).
Does the HTTP spec say anything about the server application timing out the connection? Seems like reasonable behaviour to me. I would be surprised if this isn't a configurable option in Apache too.
People love to hate it, but IIS has matured in to a very good web server. It's my choice over Apache.
Of course, the article isn't from a country notorious for over-stepping its borders in applying its law. The US would never do that, right?
Personally I prefer the UK system. False defamation can cause a lot of damage that might never be fully taken back or fully compensated for. Why should somebody have to prove the defamation is false? That's rather harsh, don't you think? That's like guilty until proven innocent. There are newspapers in the UK that already toe and almost flout the line of this law, and making it laxer does nobody any favours.
If these are reasons you're not going to visit the UK, then most of the world is off-limits to you, including such bastions of "freedom" as the United States. Seems to me that you've got nothing to lose by making such bold statements, and probably never intended to visit anyway. A bit like those hordes of Americans who proclaimed they'd come up here to Canada if GWB were re-elected... um, how many came?
Do you realise how dangerous it is being able to execute anything? If somebody deploying an exploit against this Java issue waits until there is a separate local root exploit, then it's game over. Or as somebody else pointed out, if they can get a user to download something else innocuous sounding, then again, it's all over. And yes, I've had a computer remotely exploited due to a weak password and an unpatched local root security hole.
Then there's the technical aspect that mono will always be running behing the microsoft C#/CLI version, and so your Linux mono application will generally not even run on Windows, or if it's running will be unappealing because it feels old to the MS user. Windows platform cli application almost never run on Linux, so that's not an advantage either.
Surely it would be the other way around? Microsoft are extremely good at backwards compatibilty, and futhermore they haven't ditched the older versions of the.Net Framework any way, so something targetted for 1.0 or 1.1 will still run, even though they're working on newer versions. It's the Linux world where backwards compatibility is constantly being broken. As for appearance, the Mono team have chosen not to implement Windows.Forms (for obvious reasons), so that will be a bigger issue than running on an older version of the framework.
Yes, those odds seem inconceivably low. If an unguided rock can hit a plane with that frequency (1 in 20 times), you'd think we'd be able to develop an anti-ballistic missile system that worked.
That's just ignorance though, and doesn't make it right. It's quite insulting to the people of those other countries within the UK. Don't perpetuate the mistake.
I would guess that there is a Buick factory in Shenzhen. It seems that Chinese cities seem to grant companies monopolies if they agree to building a factory. Shanghai is very VW (every taxi seems to be a VW Satana), as is Hangzhou (every taxi seems to be a VW Passat).
A Chinese colleague of mine in Hangzhou bought a used Buick, which at the exchange rate was more expensive than if he'd bought it Stateside. This is amazing, especially considering he's earning 25% of what our engineers in California earn, and thus that the relative costs of petrol and insurance are also much higher.
The UK made its last repayment at the end of 2006. This is an article from the Beeb about it. Interestingly, there are still WW1 debts still outstanding, which "Adjusted by the Retail Price Index, a typical measure of inflation, £866m would equate to £40bn now, and if adjusted by the growth of GDP, to about £225bn."
You can compare this with 1805 when the Battle of Trafalgar occurred. British government debt then equated 30 times their annual revenue. By winning that battle though, Britain become the dominant power, and presumably paid of the debts of all the wars by plundering the rest of the world.
Quibble: it was the UK, not England, that received the loans from the US.
Rationing in Britain ended 4th July 1954. That's nine years after the war. Compare that with the US and how its standards of living had been shooting up for years.
Why are you asking here? Have you made up your mind and are looking for validation?
Clearly a laptop isn't required for your studies, otherwise more people would have them. Therefore, leave the thing at home. You avoid having to be a bit of an arse, you break people's habits, and what better for the machine's health that you're so worried about than not lugging it about?
So what would be the Linux approach when a package was released with a broken uninstall? Step-by-step instructions to do it manually? I'd rather just download something that does it for me. Much more user friendly thanks.
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Toronto is typically -10, going down to -20. Ottawa probably 10 degrees cooler. If you told me those temps in F, I'd convert them in my head before I had any sense of what you are talking about. At 0, there's a 32 degree difference with F, meeting as you say at -40. If I'd lived on the prairies or up north in the territories, maybe I wouldn't have this issue (temps often being closer to -40 in these places).
Some things are deeply ingrained. In Canada, the building industry is still imperial, and people generally talk about their weight in pounds (not stones and pounds like the UK). Australia seems to have converted more thoroughly, although I could talk to older people in imperial.
Inches and feet are units of a nice sized. Most things can be expressed as a whole unit, and when working precisely, they're easy to sub-divide (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc). Try quartering a cm - you end up with fractions of mm. Cm and m seem to be constantly odd numbers or funny fractions.
Americans seem particularly resistant to change. It will take a government with a lot of will to make such a change. A good starting place would be if the government mandated everything it does is metric. This will trickle down as any outside companies working for the government will have to comply, and then it's just a matter of time.
It would be nice if the US started with paper sizes. I was trying to do my Canadian tax return whilst in Australia earlier this year on a long visit, but absolutely nowhere in Melbourne could give me letter sized paper to print on or photocopy to. In the end I decided to come in to the 21st century and filed electronically for the first time. What a pain the arse though.
Ultimately, if you spend time in a country with different conventions, you stop converting and start thinking in the different units, unless you never encounter circumstances. It's a problem if you have to deal with somewhere else that uses a different system. After living on a British base in Cyprus, and for a while in the US, I would think of high temperatures (for the weather) in F, but due to winters in Toronto and Ottawa, of low temps in C. A summer in Shanghai, followed by a summer in Melbourne (47 degrees this Feb - wow!) has finally fixed that.
I imagine it depends on the codec they use. I've brought my Vonage Canada network adapter to the UK, bur found phone calls sounded like CDs skipping. Skype on the otherhand keeps going, even when I was in China and the latency was spiking up to 1000ms.
You might want re-read the parent post. It contains the following: "I have the CHDK firmware for my S3IS which is awesome;"
I can move to England if I want a two week summer. I don't have to plug my car in for three months to keep it warm there!
Why would you live somewhere that requires you to have a car? What a crazy idea. I live in one of the larger cities in N. America and get around on foot or bicycle. It's at my pace. I live life at my pace - smelling the roses, or not. 5.30pm, minutes after finishing work... I'm sailing and chilling on one of the biggest lakes in the world.
I've just got back from five months in Australia. In many ways, Melbourne is very similar to Toronto. I lived 45 km away from the city centre in SE suburbs. Never again. What a horrible way to live. Everything we wanted to do was 30 minutes min., probably 60 minutes drive away, on a highway. Talk about rushing around, not smelling the roses, and not actually doing anything. I loved my time in Australia, but I will never live in suburbia again. Out of the city is incredibly boring, and a dreadful lifestyle.
Each to their own. Some people like it. I don't. I'm looking forward to moving to Europe's second biggest city later this year...
Any reason you didn't mention the winter?
I didn't say it was. Read the parent. The camera he mentioned has a better sensor, but in all other ways is a predecessor of the S5.
I'm not quite sure of the point of chkdk. I have an S5 (next model up from you). It makes the start-up ridiculously long, and it comes up in preview mode. I tried it for RAW on my last holiday, but found it used ridiculous amounts of space (not surprising) and increased my post-trip processing time immensely. I only used two of the RAWs. These cameras have such noisy sensors that it's to much work dealing with it afterwards and the in-camera processing is generally good enough. If you want better, get a more expensive camera! I guess I can see the benefits of some of the things, but I'd use them so infrequently in a year that it's not worth the slow start times and the hassles of XP not coping properly with partitioned SD cards (mine's an 8GB card, and CHKDK forces it to be partitioned).
Nice idea, not worth the effort.
I think maybe you don't understand the scale of Hydroelectric production in N. America! I think perhaps you're referring to the US.
Canada produces 61% of its energy from hydro. Hydro-Québec is the world's largest hydroelectric generating company, with a total installed capacity (2007) of 35,647 MW, including 33,305 MW of hydroelectric generation, putting the province of Québec at 94% hydro. During the big east coast power outage a few years ago, Québec exported energy to the neighbouring province (Ontario) and US states (New York, etc).
In other places, Norway is at 98.25% hydro.
Does the HTTP spec say anything about the server application timing out the connection? Seems like reasonable behaviour to me. I would be surprised if this isn't a configurable option in Apache too.
People love to hate it, but IIS has matured in to a very good web server. It's my choice over Apache.
Of course, the article isn't from a country notorious for over-stepping its borders in applying its law. The US would never do that, right?
Personally I prefer the UK system. False defamation can cause a lot of damage that might never be fully taken back or fully compensated for. Why should somebody have to prove the defamation is false? That's rather harsh, don't you think? That's like guilty until proven innocent. There are newspapers in the UK that already toe and almost flout the line of this law, and making it laxer does nobody any favours.
If these are reasons you're not going to visit the UK, then most of the world is off-limits to you, including such bastions of "freedom" as the United States. Seems to me that you've got nothing to lose by making such bold statements, and probably never intended to visit anyway. A bit like those hordes of Americans who proclaimed they'd come up here to Canada if GWB were re-elected... um, how many came?
Do you realise how dangerous it is being able to execute anything? If somebody deploying an exploit against this Java issue waits until there is a separate local root exploit, then it's game over. Or as somebody else pointed out, if they can get a user to download something else innocuous sounding, then again, it's all over. And yes, I've had a computer remotely exploited due to a weak password and an unpatched local root security hole.
I guess I'm behind the times! I don't use Mono, just regular .Net on Win32. That really shows how much crap the OP was spouting.
Surely it would be the other way around? Microsoft are extremely good at backwards compatibilty, and futhermore they haven't ditched the older versions of the .Net Framework any way, so something targetted for 1.0 or 1.1 will still run, even though they're working on newer versions. It's the Linux world where backwards compatibility is constantly being broken. As for appearance, the Mono team have chosen not to implement Windows.Forms (for obvious reasons), so that will be a bigger issue than running on an older version of the framework.
Yes, those odds seem inconceivably low. If an unguided rock can hit a plane with that frequency (1 in 20 times), you'd think we'd be able to develop an anti-ballistic missile system that worked.
That's just ignorance though, and doesn't make it right. It's quite insulting to the people of those other countries within the UK. Don't perpetuate the mistake.
I would guess that there is a Buick factory in Shenzhen. It seems that Chinese cities seem to grant companies monopolies if they agree to building a factory. Shanghai is very VW (every taxi seems to be a VW Satana), as is Hangzhou (every taxi seems to be a VW Passat).
A Chinese colleague of mine in Hangzhou bought a used Buick, which at the exchange rate was more expensive than if he'd bought it Stateside. This is amazing, especially considering he's earning 25% of what our engineers in California earn, and thus that the relative costs of petrol and insurance are also much higher.
The UK made its last repayment at the end of 2006. This is an article from the Beeb about it. Interestingly, there are still WW1 debts still outstanding, which "Adjusted by the Retail Price Index, a typical measure of inflation, £866m would equate to £40bn now, and if adjusted by the growth of GDP, to about £225bn."
You can compare this with 1805 when the Battle of Trafalgar occurred. British government debt then equated 30 times their annual revenue. By winning that battle though, Britain become the dominant power, and presumably paid of the debts of all the wars by plundering the rest of the world.
Quibble: it was the UK, not England, that received the loans from the US.
Rationing in Britain ended 4th July 1954. That's nine years after the war. Compare that with the US and how its standards of living had been shooting up for years.
Why are you asking here? Have you made up your mind and are looking for validation?
Clearly a laptop isn't required for your studies, otherwise more people would have them. Therefore, leave the thing at home. You avoid having to be a bit of an arse, you break people's habits, and what better for the machine's health that you're so worried about than not lugging it about?
So what would be the Linux approach when a package was released with a broken uninstall? Step-by-step instructions to do it manually? I'd rather just download something that does it for me. Much more user friendly thanks.
Wasn't it called LiveConnect? IIRC correctly, JavaScript could create and use Java objects, and interface with Java applets.
The ship's beam is 71'. I don't think the deck will be vertical if it's lying on its side, so it will less than that above the bottom
They're going to prevent it from rolling on to its side?