WordPerfect used to ship with both Canadian English and Canadian French dictionaries. When I haven't been able to find a Canadian dictionary, I've often been able to get an Australian one. If not, I go with the UK dictionary, and add tweaks, since it's generally closer than the US ones. With the UK dictionary, I get colour, neighbour, travelling, modelling, centre, metre, etc. With the American ones, I have to add all those.
Well, I just come in the log cabin from hunting caribou whilst fending off grizzlies (and a couple o' vicious salmon) and I see some post on slashdot mocking Canadian English, eh. Well, as a born and bred Canadian, I feel it's aboot toime someone set the record straight on this whole sordid affair, 'fore a body ends up with a frozen mukluk to the arse.
I'll give it to you straight -- we may wear toques, sit on chesterfields, and pay for our two-fours in loonies, and we may even say "aboot", but we get more beaver than anyone else on the planet.
In the immortal words of Bobby McFerrin, "don't worry, be happy."
I used to live in Mexico and travelled through southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras with a laptop, a digital camera, and a few thousand pesos in my daypack the entire time. As an obvious foreigner, I never once had a problem. I don't know about London, but the stats I've seen for Canada indicated that only 3% of Canadians had been robbed in the 5 years previous to the study. 0.45% of of Canadians had been robbed in an incident involving a firearm. The study also found that the chances of being robbed were higher for criminals than for non-criminals. Obligatory reference.
I realise this doesn't answer your question directly, but my point is that there are probably much better things to worry about than being robbed. Your chances of losing your gear in a car accident are higher.
Actually, you are misunderstanding the APIs. Or I assume you are. These APIs are not so-called automation APIs such as the ones exposed to Applescript on the Mac, or VBA on Windows. The are full APIs that expose an interface to an address-book system. You could perfectly well delete AddressBook off your system and still use these APIs to store and retrieve your contacts.
AddressBook is Apple's front-end for this system. Entourage could just as well use these same APIs, and be Microsoft's front-end.
Apple is providing the same opportunities to developers as they are to themselves. At least in this case.
you will find that gun owenership per capita is higher in Canada
Ummm... not according to the Department of Justice. The linked paper states that 22% of Canadian households had at least one gun, vs. 48.6% of American households. And yes, most were long guns (95% of gun-owning households). I suppose it's possible that gun owning households in Canada own more than twice as many guns as American gun-owning households, driving per-capita ownership over the American value. Either way chances are only one of those is in use at a given time, unless Candians go out armed to the teeth with all their guns at once... so the value of a per-capita ownership statistic in terms of crime is debatable.
To be fair, I think you missed Moore's point. It was not that guns are evil and cause crime. It was that America is currently living in a climate of fear stirred by the media and ultimately caused by American politics and values. He held up gun violence as of one of the worst symptoms of this culture.
Moore used Canada not as an example of perfection embodied in a nation, but as a foil to illustrate differences with the US. What you should be asking is *why* most guns in Canada are rifles and not handguns. Perhaps because Canadians feel less of a need for handguns, and perhaps because our stricter gun control laws are a reflection of the difference between the Canadian and American attitudes toward guns.
If Moore were Canadian, he'd be making movies about Canadian social problems and contrasting them with how other nations deal with them. Every nation has its faults, and every nation can learn from others.
Finally, I have to admit that I never lock my doors when I'm home. I do lock them if I'm going to be out though. His point was that we don't tend to lock them when we're at home. I find it shocking that anyone would actually find that odd.
So the Canadian company that believes having some extensive privacy statement and following it closely will net them better customer relations is deluding themselves.
You are making the incorrect assumption that Canadian and American consumers are one and the same. You are talking about two different nations, two different cultures, with different ethnic, linguistic, and legal backgrounds. As someone who has lived in both countries for a significant amount of time, I have to say that even I am shocked at how different these two nations deal with the same political issues. For examples, see multiculturalism, social programmes, crime, guns, and foreign policy.
That was beautiful. I remember a time when there were a lot of brilliant trolls (oops... wrong site). And now what do we have?! Soviet Russia and... Profit!!!
Yes, my friend! I salute you! And while we're at it, let's bring back OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN and hot grits!
What is so difficult about wrapping your head around the idea there is right and there is wrong?
I had no idead that Dubya read slashdot! Welcome, buddy! And let me give you a hint to keep you from making a bigger fool of yourself: there are shades of grey in this world, and there are many ethical models. I think you'd have a hard time making a case for morality when it comes to pop-up ads or telemarketing.
Possibly one of the best "rants" I've read on slashdot in a long time. You've hit the nail right on the head when it comes to why we should be developing open source software. I couldn't have said it better myself.
In language, what is correct is a matter of widespread adoption, not what someone says is 'correct'. While it's technically 'incorrect' to use punctuation like;) in the middle of a sentence, everyone does it, and I would guess that very few people would consider it incorrect these days. Same goes for the widespread (and one might say 'incorrect') use of 'was' instead of 'were' as the English subjunctive, particularly in the US -- eg. If I was a little less fervent about 24 bytes, I wouldn't be posting to slashdot.
Personally, I haven't seen any indication that anyone has adopted 'gibi' and 'mebi' as anything but ridiculous and pedantic terms, but best of luck on your crusade. I agree that it would be nice to see some kind of distiction, but 24 bytes here and there when you're measuring in megs or gigs... not a problem!
Flying along the edge of a countries airspace happens all the time, by anyone that can get the aircraft/ship in range.
Landing a spy plane in that country without authorisation, however, does not. I'm willing to bet that if a Chinese spy plane were (a) flying that close to American territory and (b) collided with an American fighter plane that there's no freakin' way it would get to stage (c) landing without authorization on an American landing strip. I doubt that it would make it to step (b) though.
I think you may have smoked one too many, my friend. The law hasn't changed quite yet, and when it does, posession of 15g or less of marijuana will unfortunately only be decriminalised, not legalised. You are right in a sense though. Pot is basically defacto legal here in that there is almost no enforcement of simple posession. You can pretty much light up in the middle of downtown without anyone blinking an eye.
On a side note, it's annoying that although recent polls show that more than 50% of the country support full legalisation of pot possession and use, the government is only willing to take push a decriminalisation bill. So technically police could still issue you the legal equivalent of a parking fine for smoking marijuana.
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WordPerfect used to ship with both Canadian English and Canadian French dictionaries. When I haven't been able to find a Canadian dictionary, I've often been able to get an Australian one. If not, I go with the UK dictionary, and add tweaks, since it's generally closer than the US ones. With the UK dictionary, I get colour, neighbour, travelling, modelling, centre, metre, etc. With the American ones, I have to add all those.
Well, I just come in the log cabin from hunting caribou whilst fending off grizzlies (and a couple o' vicious salmon) and I see some post on slashdot mocking Canadian English, eh. Well, as a born and bred Canadian, I feel it's aboot toime someone set the record straight on this whole sordid affair, 'fore a body ends up with a frozen mukluk to the arse.
I'll give it to you straight -- we may wear toques, sit on chesterfields, and pay for our two-fours in loonies, and we may even say "aboot", but we get more beaver than anyone else on the planet.
Eg: in Canada its elvator (like the US) instead of lift
Also, in Canada, it's it's instead of its. *ducks*
I'm sorry, but Bob Marley would not be caught dead singing a song that bad. It was Bobby McFerrin who was responsible for that travesty.
In the immortal words of Bobby McFerrin, "don't worry, be happy."
I used to live in Mexico and travelled through southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras with a laptop, a digital camera, and a few thousand pesos in my daypack the entire time. As an obvious foreigner, I never once had a problem. I don't know about London, but the stats I've seen for Canada indicated that only 3% of Canadians had been robbed in the 5 years previous to the study. 0.45% of of Canadians had been robbed in an incident involving a firearm. The study also found that the chances of being robbed were higher for criminals than for non-criminals. Obligatory reference.
I realise this doesn't answer your question directly, but my point is that there are probably much better things to worry about than being robbed. Your chances of losing your gear in a car accident are higher.
Seen the interfaces for Server 2003 and XP? They rock, plain and simple.
Ah, you must have straggled in from winsupersite.com.
Hold on to your toque, my friend, I have a feeling things are about to get rough for you.
Actually, you are misunderstanding the APIs. Or I assume you are. These APIs are not so-called automation APIs such as the ones exposed to Applescript on the Mac, or VBA on Windows. The are full APIs that expose an interface to an address-book system. You could perfectly well delete AddressBook off your system and still use these APIs to store and retrieve your contacts.
AddressBook is Apple's front-end for this system. Entourage could just as well use these same APIs, and be Microsoft's front-end.
Apple is providing the same opportunities to developers as they are to themselves. At least in this case.
In fact, it seems to me you may as easily ask why Apple didn't write open API's
Ummmm... They did.
you will find that gun owenership per capita is higher in Canada
Ummm... not according to the Department of Justice. The linked paper states that 22% of Canadian households had at least one gun, vs. 48.6% of American households. And yes, most were long guns (95% of gun-owning households). I suppose it's possible that gun owning households in Canada own more than twice as many guns as American gun-owning households, driving per-capita ownership over the American value. Either way chances are only one of those is in use at a given time, unless Candians go out armed to the teeth with all their guns at once... so the value of a per-capita ownership statistic in terms of crime is debatable.
To be fair, I think you missed Moore's point. It was not that guns are evil and cause crime. It was that America is currently living in a climate of fear stirred by the media and ultimately caused by American politics and values. He held up gun violence as of one of the worst symptoms of this culture.
Moore used Canada not as an example of perfection embodied in a nation, but as a foil to illustrate differences with the US. What you should be asking is *why* most guns in Canada are rifles and not handguns. Perhaps because Canadians feel less of a need for handguns, and perhaps because our stricter gun control laws are a reflection of the difference between the Canadian and American attitudes toward guns.
If Moore were Canadian, he'd be making movies about Canadian social problems and contrasting them with how other nations deal with them. Every nation has its faults, and every nation can learn from others.
Finally, I have to admit that I never lock my doors when I'm home. I do lock them if I'm going to be out though. His point was that we don't tend to lock them when we're at home. I find it shocking that anyone would actually find that odd.
So the Canadian company that believes having some extensive privacy statement and following it closely will net them better customer relations is deluding themselves.
You are making the incorrect assumption that Canadian and American consumers are one and the same. You are talking about two different nations, two different cultures, with different ethnic, linguistic, and legal backgrounds. As someone who has lived in both countries for a significant amount of time, I have to say that even I am shocked at how different these two nations deal with the same political issues. For examples, see multiculturalism, social programmes, crime, guns, and foreign policy.
That was beautiful. I remember a time when there were a lot of brilliant trolls (oops... wrong site). And now what do we have?! Soviet Russia and ... Profit!!!
Yes, my friend! I salute you! And while we're at it, let's bring back OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN and hot grits!
Don't laugh too hard -- 10.1 was free for everyone who bought 10.0 and sent in those coupons.
What is so difficult about wrapping your head around the idea there is right and there is wrong?
I had no idead that Dubya read slashdot! Welcome, buddy! And let me give you a hint to keep you from making a bigger fool of yourself: there are shades of grey in this world, and there are many ethical models. I think you'd have a hard time making a case for morality when it comes to pop-up ads or telemarketing.
So if I understand this correctly, this is essentially a convoluted means of expressing that a TV show now "sucks".
One might argue that TV itself has "jumped the shark."
Possibly one of the best "rants" I've read on slashdot in a long time. You've hit the nail right on the head when it comes to why we should be developing open source software. I couldn't have said it better myself.
In language, what is correct is a matter of widespread adoption, not what someone says is 'correct'. While it's technically 'incorrect' to use punctuation like ;) in the middle of a sentence, everyone does it, and I would guess that very few people would consider it incorrect these days. Same goes for the widespread (and one might say 'incorrect') use of 'was' instead of 'were' as the English subjunctive, particularly in the US -- eg. If I was a little less fervent about 24 bytes, I wouldn't be posting to slashdot.
Personally, I haven't seen any indication that anyone has adopted 'gibi' and 'mebi' as anything but ridiculous and pedantic terms, but best of luck on your crusade. I agree that it would be nice to see some kind of distiction, but 24 bytes here and there when you're measuring in megs or gigs... not a problem!
For example, I now work in the adult industry developing porn web sites. [...] and I still get to use my primary skill set.
;)
I'm almost afraid to ask.
Brings new meaning to ripping a disc.
Thanks for giving credit where credit is due!
It's at times like these that one can be proud to be Canadian.
Flying along the edge of a countries airspace happens all the time, by anyone that can get the aircraft/ship in range.
Landing a spy plane in that country without authorisation, however, does not. I'm willing to bet that if a Chinese spy plane were (a) flying that close to American territory and (b) collided with an American fighter plane that there's no freakin' way it would get to stage (c) landing without authorization on an American landing strip. I doubt that it would make it to step (b) though.
If this is the reality of America, then I am incredibly glad I don't live there.
No book or rule can define the relationship of the word between it's author and the reader and they are the only ones that matter in that sense.
Shouldn't that be its?
it's legal to smoke pot here in Canada
I think you may have smoked one too many, my friend. The law hasn't changed quite yet, and when it does, posession of 15g or less of marijuana will unfortunately only be decriminalised, not legalised. You are right in a sense though. Pot is basically defacto legal here in that there is almost no enforcement of simple posession. You can pretty much light up in the middle of downtown without anyone blinking an eye.
On a side note, it's annoying that although recent polls show that more than 50% of the country support full legalisation of pot possession and use, the government is only willing to take push a decriminalisation bill. So technically police could still issue you the legal equivalent of a parking fine for smoking marijuana.
I helped build the channels for most of the products that corporate America is currently using and some they will be using soon.
I thought that was Al Gore...