Well one of his more valuable contributions is GPSD which the maritime industry not only uses every day, but hourly. Every time we put to sea the GPS talks to GPSD which in turn drives the chart software that displays our position at the helm. For that code alone I would nominate Raymond for a MacArthur Fellowship.
Actually if you read the company history (the title of which escapes,me at the moment, something to do with a plant as I remember), you will find their heritage is Scottish. A junior member of the great British trading companies in Hong Kong, they actually issue the currency for the Hong Kong government. They have a very interesting culture one element of which was a sinking fund, the annual contribution to which was never published before the annual statements were printed up. When the NY State Banking Dept. (Murial Seibert) objected they merely converted Marine Midland from a state to a fed charter. As savvy Scots they had some notable success until they bought Household Finance Corp. which was a disaster. They quickly righted the ship and cleaned up the mess well before the Mortgage meltdown. They are now the 12th largest bank in the world and own subsidiary in the Bank of the Middle East and Malaysia, Canada, Turkey and a host of others. In fact as an employee I had a 22 page memo of companies which we could not lend money to as they were in some way owned, controlled etc. by HSBC..
Number one choice among banking executives? No way! Ask your Repo man, it was the hardest car to steal. The ignition key on the console to the coil had a steel cable. In order to repo one we had to bring our own coil to hotwire it. We booked off sick when asked to bring one in.
When this happened to another famous Canadian author, Farley Mowat, he wrote a book about it. "My Discovery of America." It's true Mowat and a good read. Perhaps Watts ought to take a page out of Mowats book and start keeping notes in contemplation of a publication.
By the time a US driver hits the 16 lanes of traffic on the 401 north of Toronto (all doing 120k or better) you couldn't pry his fingers off the wheel with a screwdriver. By this time he has come from Detroit, (or Buffalo on the QEW) and has been traumatized by the new Canadians zipping by at the speed of light. If he has neglected to opt for the 407 (daylight robbery in the form of tolls by the Spanish owners), he is caught on the QEW which is a linear parking lot between Appleby Line and the Gardiner Exp. downtown. Its best then if he is packing lunch and a novel to pass the time. If you are enticed to stay with the traffic on the open stretches and they find you 20k or more over the limit, they fine you $2500cdn and impound your car on the spot. Best to keepit under 72mph. Actually I like driving there as they seem most professional.
Uh...sorry to report us sailors have been using the wave action captured in the sink seacock fitting and the wave action to power the fridge for some time. Google marine refrigeration and sniff around and you will find out who sells it. I can't just remember but my impression was that it wasn't one of the cheaper suppliers.
No use getting your knickers in a knot over this. Some years ago we rewired our boat club to the CSU 'standard' of 20 amp plugs. Now I don't know (or really care) how standards are established, but I would tell you that there isn't a boat builder world wide that doesn't use 30 amps. After a couple of seasons of replacing very expensive plugs, we decided that the real standard would prevail.... I don't plan to implement the ISO std. so if you want to talk to my ERP systems you will have to comply with OASIS....moral is that usage determines the standard. End of story
Ok, I wrote my Congressional reps outlining my unhappy take on this piracy and I actually received replies from Mrs. Clinton and Rep. Brian Higgins. The staff cranking out the boilerplate seems to 'get it' and it appears they are being flooded with complaints. Higgins reply contains the following:
"Public and web-based radio stations play an important role in our culture. These stations offer unique, often one-of-a-kind programming free of commercial concerns, and are an important means of public expression. Please know that I will continue to support these stations in the future."
We will see if the commercial pirates prevail but in the meantime here on the North Coast we fortunately have socialized radio from our Canadian cousins. Thank god. There are two popular genres in Canadian music, country and western but the state radio system plays a wide range of material some of it mandated by the Canadian content law. More than that they have real radio as we used to know it. Popular discussion programs hosted by savvy and civil broadcasters, cool music of all varieties (Disc Drive with Jurgen Goth comes to mind,) Satire like the Americans couldn't take, (This Hour has Twenty Minutes, Air Farce, etc). Were to you think Blitzer, Russert and Fresh Air got their early inspiration? Just take a look at the number of Canadians that have succeeded in American broadcasting. Find the CBC on the web from where you are. RIAA ain't gonna shut them down anytime soon.
Nobody listens to local am/fm after about twenty minutes around here.
Right on.....having just completed a run to Minneapolis the decision was if we wanted to be constrained by a fixed ferry schedule given the mid summer vacation traffic. The run on the TriState was a disaster due to the toll booth construction but mitigated by our EZPass acceptability. Comming back we just drove thru Chicago which was very pleasent and a whole lot cheaper.
Having spent a month in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in June, the 'Mericans have a lot to learn about ferry service. Valid public transport without government support ain't never gonna happen. Check out the Rochester to Toronto experience, or the Cats that used to run from Toronto to Queenston and are now for sale in Toronto.
Well PHI did that for us in our payroll product in 1968. John Cullinane and Gil Curtis generalized it for the rest of the world in 1970. You guys bought it as Culprit, Culprit-Audit....in fact we bought three flavors of our own product from them. Any way we thought SGML defined the product in a much more elegant way, and that resulted in HTML, XML, etc.etc.etc... I gonna patent the conversion of English to Sanscrit, you never can tell when it will become popular eh?
There is one, from Compaq in 2000, and it sez Linux is a registered trademare of Linus Torvalds on the bottom.....unfortunately can't use it here as we have plates on both ends of the vehicle.
Well I don't know about McDonalds, but I noticed that Burger King went outa business here in Orchard Park this week. I guess having the best grilled chicken didn't impress your 20 friends.
With all the kids that go into shock as a reaction to peanut butter, it would seem irresponsable to include it on the lunch menu. Its a problem and with our friendly lawyers today it would seem to open Smuckers to a massive lawsuite when a student expires from the reaction. (Uh...the school nurse is either fired due to the budget, or is forbidden to administer the antidote!) Besides who likes Peanut Butter anyway, cream cheese and strawberry is a better dish.......
We welcome The Gates Foundation to the table, but the local Rotary Club has been at this for a long time betore Mr & Mrs Gates got involved. Thanks to your local folks we are striving to eliminate Polio world wide and in fact have done so in the Western Hemisphere. In addition to the huge financial contribution of the Rotarians, you will also have to recognize in many instances the Rotarians are the only agents to administer vacine to the children in areas of conflict and civil war. The local businessman or educator are the only ones capabile of engendering any trust where governments are suspect. Thanks Rotary......
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Well one of his more valuable contributions is GPSD which the maritime industry not only uses every day, but hourly. Every time we put to sea the GPS talks to GPSD which in turn drives the chart software that displays our position at the helm. For that code alone I would nominate Raymond for a MacArthur Fellowship.
Actually if you read the company history (the title of which escapes ,me at the moment, something to do with a plant as I remember), you will find their heritage is Scottish. A junior member of the great British trading companies in Hong Kong, they actually issue the currency for the Hong Kong government. They have a very interesting culture one element of which was a sinking fund, the annual contribution to which was never published before the annual statements were printed up. When the NY State Banking Dept. (Murial Seibert) objected they merely converted Marine Midland from a state to a fed charter. As savvy Scots they had some notable success until they bought Household Finance Corp. which was a disaster. They quickly righted the ship and cleaned up the mess well before the Mortgage meltdown. They are now the 12th largest bank in the world and own subsidiary in the Bank of the Middle East and Malaysia, Canada, Turkey and a host of others. In fact as an employee I had a 22 page memo of companies which we could not lend money to as they were in some way owned, controlled etc. by HSBC..
Number one choice among banking executives? No way! Ask your Repo man, it was the hardest car to steal. The ignition key on the console to the coil had a steel cable. In order to repo one we had to bring our own coil to hotwire it. We booked off sick when asked to bring one in.
When this happened to another famous Canadian author, Farley Mowat, he wrote a book about it. "My Discovery of America." It's true Mowat and a good read. Perhaps Watts ought to take a page out of Mowats book and start keeping notes in contemplation of a publication.
By the time a US driver hits the 16 lanes of traffic on the 401 north of Toronto (all doing 120k or better) you couldn't pry his fingers off the wheel with a screwdriver. By this time he has come from Detroit, (or Buffalo on the QEW) and has been traumatized by the new Canadians zipping by at the speed of light. If he has neglected to opt for the 407 (daylight robbery in the form of tolls by the Spanish owners), he is caught on the QEW which is a linear parking lot between Appleby Line and the Gardiner Exp. downtown. Its best then if he is packing lunch and a novel to pass the time. If you are enticed to stay with the traffic on the open stretches and they find you 20k or more over the limit, they fine you $2500cdn and impound your car on the spot. Best to keepit under 72mph. Actually I like driving there as they seem most professional.
Wasn't Henry Ford who said "if you had asked my customers, they would have asked for a faster horse".
Uh...sorry to report us sailors have been using the wave action captured in the sink seacock fitting and the wave action to power the fridge for some time. Google marine refrigeration and sniff around and you will find out who sells it. I can't just remember but my impression was that it wasn't one of the cheaper suppliers.
No use getting your knickers in a knot over this. Some years ago we rewired our boat club to the CSU 'standard' of 20 amp plugs. Now I don't know (or really care) how standards are established, but I would tell you that there isn't a boat builder world wide that doesn't use 30 amps. After a couple of seasons of replacing very expensive plugs, we decided that the real standard would prevail....
I don't plan to implement the ISO std. so if you want to talk to my ERP systems you will have to comply with OASIS....moral is that usage determines the standard. End of story
Ok, I wrote my Congressional reps outlining my unhappy take on this piracy and I actually received replies from Mrs. Clinton and Rep. Brian Higgins. The staff cranking out the boilerplate seems to 'get it' and it appears they are being flooded with complaints. Higgins reply contains the following:
"Public and web-based radio stations play an important role in our culture. These stations offer unique, often one-of-a-kind programming free of commercial concerns, and are an important means of public expression. Please know that I will continue to support these stations in the future."
We will see if the commercial pirates prevail but in the meantime here on the North Coast we fortunately have socialized radio from our Canadian cousins. Thank god. There are two popular genres in Canadian music, country and western but the state radio system plays a wide range of material some of it mandated by the Canadian content law. More than that they have real radio as we used to know it. Popular discussion programs hosted by savvy and civil broadcasters, cool music of all varieties (Disc Drive with Jurgen Goth comes to mind,) Satire like the Americans couldn't take, (This Hour has Twenty Minutes, Air Farce, etc). Were to you think Blitzer, Russert and Fresh Air got their early inspiration? Just take a look at the number of Canadians that have succeeded in American broadcasting. Find the CBC on the web from where you are. RIAA ain't gonna shut them down anytime soon.
Nobody listens to local am/fm after about twenty minutes around here.
If it is true that they discovered Axions in Buffalo, its about the only thing around here that comes without a charge!
Right on.....having just completed a run to Minneapolis the decision was if we wanted to be constrained by a fixed ferry schedule given the mid summer vacation traffic. The run on the TriState was a disaster due to the toll booth construction but mitigated by our EZPass acceptability. Comming back we just drove thru Chicago which was very pleasent and a whole lot cheaper.
Having spent a month in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in June, the 'Mericans have a lot to learn about ferry service. Valid public transport without government support ain't never gonna happen. Check out the Rochester to Toronto experience, or the Cats that used to run from Toronto to Queenston and are now for sale in Toronto.
The Norwegian Huetigruten is the best ferry ride in the world, bar none. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurtigruten
Well PHI did that for us in our payroll product in 1968. John Cullinane and Gil Curtis generalized it for the rest of the world in 1970. You guys bought it as Culprit, Culprit-Audit....in fact we bought three flavors of our own product from them. Any way we thought SGML defined the product in a much more elegant way, and that resulted in HTML, XML, etc.etc.etc... I gonna patent the conversion of English to Sanscrit, you never can tell when it will become popular eh?
There is one, from Compaq in 2000, and it sez Linux is a registered trademare of Linus Torvalds on the bottom.....unfortunately can't use it here as we have plates on both ends of the vehicle.
Well I don't know about McDonalds, but I noticed that Burger King went outa business here in Orchard Park this week. I guess having the best grilled chicken didn't impress your 20 friends.
With all the kids that go into shock as a reaction to peanut butter, it would seem irresponsable to include it on the lunch menu. Its a problem and with our friendly lawyers today it would seem to open Smuckers to a massive lawsuite when a student expires from the reaction. (Uh...the school nurse is either fired due to the budget, or is forbidden to administer the antidote!) Besides who likes Peanut Butter anyway, cream cheese and strawberry is a better dish.......
We welcome The Gates Foundation to the table, but the local Rotary Club has been at this for a long time betore Mr & Mrs Gates got involved. Thanks to your local folks we are striving to eliminate Polio world wide and in fact have done so in the Western Hemisphere. In addition to the huge financial contribution of the Rotarians, you will also have to recognize in many instances the Rotarians are the only agents to administer vacine to the children in areas of conflict and civil war. The local businessman or educator are the only ones capabile of engendering any trust where governments are suspect. Thanks Rotary......
You want a wooden wheel, well to start you can contact H&L Marine Woodwork, Rancho Dominguez, CA
H_Lmarinewoodwork.com
Let me know how it integrates.....it sure will be pretty.....