If anything, a screen would have a natural tendancy to implode because of the negative internal pressure.
I wonder if the glass smells funny in monitors and TVs. One time, just for the hell of it, a few friends of mine and I smashed a monitor with a baseball bat to see what would happen (actually, it was a play, but I also wanted to see what would happen). Yes, there was an implostion after the first crack, and there was what seemed to be a foggy white substance which filled the air when we were done.
Any thoughts? Could it be a coating on the other side of the glass or some such?
if only we in Canada could fix our stupid national anthem!
Indeed Maple Leaf Forever (served as Canada's national anthem before O Canada was adopted) is sooooo much better:
In Days of yore, From Britain's shore Wolfe the dauntless hero came And planted firm Britannia's flag On Canada's fair domain. Here may it wave, Our boast, our pride And joined in love together, The thistle, shamrock, rose entwined, The Maple Leaf Forever.
[CHORUS] The Maple Leaf Our Emblem Dear, The Maple Leaf Forever. God save our Queen and heaven bless, The Maple Leaf Forever.
At Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane Our brave fathers side by side For freedom's home and loved ones dear, Firmly stood and nobly died. And so their rights which they maintained, We swear to yeild them never. Our watchword ever more shall be The Maple Leaf Forever
[CHORUS]
Our fair Dominion now extends From Cape Race to Nootka Sound May peace forever be our lot And plenty a store abound And may those ties of love be ours Which discord cannot sever And flourish green for freedom's home The Maple Leaf Forever
Yes, by the Highway Patrol/RCMP/What-have-you, but you wouldn't expect the National Guard to be scrambled to intercept your car.
If I thought I could concievably get caught by the RCMP, I most definatly wouldn't expect the National Guard to intercept my car, as the National Guard and the RCMP belong to different countries:)
Just the Sea Kings. Those should be melted and the resulting molten-steel should be poured on the likes of Jean Cretien. That way we'd have a permanent reminder of the stupidity of that man.
As I implied earlier, the need to colorize money is merely the indication of fundemental flaws in it's original design.
What? So your position is that Canadian money is flawed because it has colour? That it is somehow just as easy to look at numbers as it is to see its colour? Let's say, hypothetically I have terrible eyesight and can't read the number on the American bill, what I do? Look at it real close. In Canada, I'd just say "Hey, green!, good I needed $20"
You need the color on the Canadian bills because the denomination isn't printed in every corner.
You need the denomination printed in every corner because the Americans bills don't have colour. Your argument works both ways.
I don't need the demonination printed on the bill because it's colour coded, but you're bills do. I think that if the US colour coded its bills, they'd be the same except for the ink used.
You seem to be missing my point. With Canadian notes, you don't even need to see the number. After looking, I find that the Canadian numbers are in the upper left and lower right of both sides, but it's still easier to look at its colour than its number.
And yes, it would slow me down quite a lot if I had to actually look at the numbers. You have to look at a certain portion of the note, not just at the note in general.
Have you ever had to sort money into stacks of 5s, 10s, and 20s? If you have, I'm sure you'd be all for colour coding your bills.
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Or you could teach the kid numbers. They have to learn it anyway, and a three year old better not be carrying any bills higher than 1s anyway!
Actually, it colour is useful in teaching kids numbers. When I was in kindergarden, The teacher would use colours to distinguish numbers to make it easier for the kids to learn them. She stuck with money colours where there was a demonination of that colour, too. As the kids learn the symbols for numbers, they can revert to colour if they get lost.
Well, I haven't been there in about 3 or 4 years, so I don't have much experience with them. Our vending machines only take coins ($1 and $2 are coins), and there are some machines which take larger notes to make change for the machines which only take coins.
So I figured I'd make a bad joke about it. Those change-making machines here do suck, too, though.
Again, if I want a $5 note, I look for blue, I don't look for the "big fucking number". That's just a waste of time, because then I'd actually have to move it out of my wallet. This way I just open it an look, see a blue piece of paper, pull it out, and give it to the teller. Much simpler than looking for numbers.
When I was last in the USA, I saw these weird slits on the vending machines that wouldn't take $1 bills, what's up with that? What are they for? I always thought it was for bills so you could buy things in them, but I guess they're just illuminated show cases.
I think that's stupid, but then again, I'm not the majority. The loonie is called the loonie because there's a loon on the tail. Following that logic, the $2 should be called the bearie or something similar, due to its bear on the tail. The toonie is the toonie because it rhymes with loonie, but worth two of them.
My personal favourite name for the $2 coin is the moon, because it's the "Queen with a bear behind!":)
I don't know about you, but when I go to buy something, I pull out the wad of cash in my pocket, and pull out the appropriate note based on colour. Even a small fraction of the note (not enough to see the number on it) is enough to tell me its demonination.
It's easier to look for a blue note than a note with $5 written on it. I'm used to counting the colours in my wallet to figure out how much money I have in my wallet. I couldn't even tell you WHERE on the Canadian money the number is printed without looking. It's just the colour that tells me, nothing more. Blue = 5, Purple = 10, Green = 20, Red = 50, Brown = 100, 2 and less are coins.
There is no requirement for the monarch to sign any bill (and thus make it a law), but to refuse to sign would (at least) cause a constitutional crisis. It would possibly spell the end of the monarchy, unless the populace saw it as "right" to refuse to so sign.
I see. In modern times, has it ever been that a sitting monarch (ie Liz II, George V, VI, Edward, etc) has refused to sign a bill? The last time something like that happened here was when Lord Byng (Governor General, Monarch's representative to Canada) refused to dissolve Parliament here at the request of the Prime Minister, and instead offered to the Loyal Opposition leader to form the government. As you say, it caused a big constitutional crisis.
True, but they might be soon. As we all know, Creative is putting Firewire (called SB1394) on their cards. Is it me, or might this be a hint that Creative might put out a Firewire Nomad sometime soon? According to their site, the Nomad Jukebox 3 has Mac support AND Firewire(SB1394). The old Nomadas worked quite happily with iTunes too but there is no indication of the Nomad 3 working with iTunes:(. This might actually be and iPod killer.
Indeed. I just posted that on the mac central forum. Our good friends who lobby the Commons can eat me, I'm getting my MP3 player and its hard drive separatly:).
The question remains though, will Jean (or maybe Joe or John... who knows...) try to get a law passed that will make it illegal to be sold WITHOUT the hard drive? Makes you wonder.
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If anything, a screen would have a natural tendancy to implode because of the negative internal pressure.
I wonder if the glass smells funny in monitors and TVs. One time, just for the hell of it, a few friends of mine and I smashed a monitor with a baseball bat to see what would happen (actually, it was a play, but I also wanted to see what would happen). Yes, there was an implostion after the first crack, and there was what seemed to be a foggy white substance which filled the air when we were done.
Any thoughts? Could it be a coating on the other side of the glass or some such?
In Calgary, Westworld and London Drugs (IE: a really big corner drugstore) had 10.1 CDs for free.
I'm especially impressed because London Drugs was on a street corner in a residential area (Glamorgan, for you Calgarians)
In Saskatoon, CompuSmart and Microage had 10.1 cds for free as well. There is no London Drugs or WestWorld in Saskatoon.
You missed the ultimate Macintosh:
MacOSX.lcCDLXXV (LC475)
This computer was great, it played Dinopark Tycoon and did word processing. What else could you want back in the day?
if only we in Canada could fix our stupid national anthem!
Indeed Maple Leaf Forever (served as Canada's national anthem before O Canada was adopted) is sooooo much better:
In Days of yore,
From Britain's shore
Wolfe the dauntless hero came
And planted firm Britannia's flag
On Canada's fair domain.
Here may it wave,
Our boast, our pride
And joined in love together,
The thistle, shamrock, rose entwined,
The Maple Leaf Forever.
[CHORUS]
The Maple Leaf
Our Emblem Dear,
The Maple Leaf Forever.
God save our Queen and heaven bless,
The Maple Leaf Forever.
At Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane
Our brave fathers side by side
For freedom's home and loved ones dear,
Firmly stood and nobly died.
And so their rights which they maintained,
We swear to yeild them never.
Our watchword ever more shall be
The Maple Leaf Forever
[CHORUS]
Our fair Dominion now extends
From Cape Race to Nootka Sound
May peace forever be our lot
And plenty a store abound
And may those ties of love be ours
Which discord cannot sever
And flourish green for freedom's home
The Maple Leaf Forever
[CHORUS]
Don't forget the first line of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
"Whereas Canada is founded on principles which recognize the Supremacy of God and Rule of Law"
No, he created the two-headed monkey.... with only one head.
Yes, by the Highway Patrol/RCMP/What-have-you, but you wouldn't expect the National Guard to be scrambled to intercept your car.
:)
If I thought I could concievably get caught by the RCMP, I most definatly wouldn't expect the National Guard to intercept my car, as the National Guard and the RCMP belong to different countries
Just the Sea Kings. Those should be melted and the resulting molten-steel should be poured on the likes of Jean Cretien. That way we'd have a permanent reminder of the stupidity of that man.
If it wasn't a note, it wouldn't be in my wallet. And money feels different from normal paper, it is made of cotton or something like that.
As I implied earlier, the need to colorize money is merely the indication of fundemental flaws in it's original design.
What? So your position is that Canadian money is flawed because it has colour? That it is somehow just as easy to look at numbers as it is to see its colour? Let's say, hypothetically I have terrible eyesight and can't read the number on the American bill, what I do? Look at it real close. In Canada, I'd just say "Hey, green!, good I needed $20"
You need the color on the Canadian bills because the denomination isn't printed in every corner.
You need the denomination printed in every corner because the Americans bills don't have colour. Your argument works both ways.
I don't need the demonination printed on the bill because it's colour coded, but you're bills do. I think that if the US colour coded its bills, they'd be the same except for the ink used.
You seem to be missing my point. With Canadian notes, you don't even need to see the number. After looking, I find that the Canadian numbers are in the upper left and lower right of both sides, but it's still easier to look at its colour than its number.
And yes, it would slow me down quite a lot if I had to actually look at the numbers. You have to look at a certain portion of the note, not just at the note in general.
Have you ever had to sort money into stacks of 5s, 10s, and 20s? If you have, I'm sure you'd be all for colour coding your bills.
Or you could teach the kid numbers. They have to learn it anyway, and a three year old better not be carrying any bills higher than 1s anyway!
Actually, it colour is useful in teaching kids numbers. When I was in kindergarden, The teacher would use colours to distinguish numbers to make it easier for the kids to learn them. She stuck with money colours where there was a demonination of that colour, too. As the kids learn the symbols for numbers, they can revert to colour if they get lost.
To pull it out you have to put your fingers in an seperate it from it's fellows. To see the number you do the same thing.
But you don't need to seperate if from its fellows to see its colour. You do need to seperate it from its fellows to see the number on it.
Well, I haven't been there in about 3 or 4 years, so I don't have much experience with them. Our vending machines only take coins ($1 and $2 are coins), and there are some machines which take larger notes to make change for the machines which only take coins.
So I figured I'd make a bad joke about it. Those change-making machines here do suck, too, though.
Again, if I want a $5 note, I look for blue, I don't look for the "big fucking number". That's just a waste of time, because then I'd actually have to move it out of my wallet. This way I just open it an look, see a blue piece of paper, pull it out, and give it to the teller. Much simpler than looking for numbers.
When I was last in the USA, I saw these weird slits on the vending machines that wouldn't take $1 bills, what's up with that? What are they for? I always thought it was for bills so you could buy things in them, but I guess they're just illuminated show cases.
:)
What's cool is Canada's 1935 $20 note. It's got "Princess Elizabeth" on it, who is now the Queen.
:) That hockey scene kinda sucks.
Another cool one is the $50 from 1973, the back has the Mountie's Musical ride. Very cool.
The new ones kinda suck, I liked the belted kingfisher
It's actually commonly known as a "toonie".
:)
I think that's stupid, but then again, I'm not the majority. The loonie is called the loonie because there's a loon on the tail. Following that logic, the $2 should be called the bearie or something similar, due to its bear on the tail. The toonie is the toonie because it rhymes with loonie, but worth two of them.
My personal favourite name for the $2 coin is the moon, because it's the "Queen with a bear behind!"
I don't know about you, but when I go to buy something, I pull out the wad of cash in my pocket, and pull out the appropriate note based on colour. Even a small fraction of the note (not enough to see the number on it) is enough to tell me its demonination.
It's easier to look for a blue note than a note with $5 written on it. I'm used to counting the colours in my wallet to figure out how much money I have in my wallet. I couldn't even tell you WHERE on the Canadian money the number is printed without looking. It's just the colour that tells me, nothing more. Blue = 5, Purple = 10, Green = 20, Red = 50, Brown = 100, 2 and less are coins.
MacOS X could be considered an application which runs on Darwin. Darwin IS open source.
It's like running CDE on Linux. Free OS, non-free application.
Outlook at Mactopia would seem to disagree.
There is no requirement for the monarch to sign any bill (and thus make it a law), but to refuse to sign would (at least) cause a constitutional crisis. It would possibly spell the end of the monarchy, unless the populace saw it as "right" to refuse to so sign.
I see. In modern times, has it ever been that a sitting monarch (ie Liz II, George V, VI, Edward, etc) has refused to sign a bill? The last time something like that happened here was when Lord Byng (Governor General, Monarch's representative to Canada) refused to dissolve Parliament here at the request of the Prime Minister, and instead offered to the Loyal Opposition leader to form the government. As you say, it caused a big constitutional crisis.
Believe me, they're far from running scared.
:(. This might actually be and iPod killer.
True, but they might be soon. As we all know, Creative is putting Firewire (called SB1394) on their cards. Is it me, or might this be a hint that Creative might put out a Firewire Nomad sometime soon? According to their site, the Nomad Jukebox 3 has Mac support AND Firewire(SB1394). The old Nomadas worked quite happily with iTunes too but there is no indication of the Nomad 3 working with iTunes
Wha? There's no copyright enforcement. Put CD in CD drive, tell CD drive to rip cd, encode resulting wav files.
There is no "copyright(ed) device", only newfangled silver discs are "copyrighted".
Indeed. I just posted that on the mac central forum. Our good friends who lobby the Commons can eat me, I'm getting my MP3 player and its hard drive separatly :).
The question remains though, will Jean (or maybe Joe or John... who knows...) try to get a law passed that will make it illegal to be sold WITHOUT the hard drive? Makes you wonder.