Just a note FYI. There are three cable companies up here, Shaw cable primarily serves western Canada and a few eastern markets. Rogers cable though is the cable mogul in eastern Canada, and Eastlink serves atlantic Canada. The crossover though is negligable so who you have is strictly a function of where you live. I believe there are a couple places in Ontario where you can choose between Shaw and Rogers, and New Brunswick you can choose between Rogers and Eastlink (though don't quote me on that one) otherwise you're stuck with the company in your area.
Easy, REGULARILY. I don't know where the heck you work but I've worked as a developer in four different places not to mention being a Comp Sci student at university, and on the job or at school I deal with women almost as often as I deal with men. There are fewer, that is certain, but scarce is definitely not a term I would apply.
Perhaps the employer you work for has an issue with women in IT which may be why you don't see any in the field, but they are there.
Almost, but the opposite way. I rotate my hand so my index finger is on the right mouse button, and the rest of my fingers are curled around the side of the mouse. I then move my fingers as necessary when I have to click, but for mouse movement I prefer my hand in the above configuration.
1) 100 miles 2) 2800 miles from Nova Scotia to Vancouver * 100 mile distance from border = 280,000 mi^2. 3) Population of Florida + New York state = ~37 million ~= population of Canada 4) Land area of Florida + New York State = 53,927 + 47,214 = 101,141 mi^2
Thats no excuse. Canada has 35.75% of all households connected to broadband, and almost everywhere in the country it can be had for $45 Cdn (under $40 USD) for 5.0Mbps download and 800 Kbps upload.
And, sorry, but we're a bit bigger than the US mainland, with 1/8th of the people:).
Don't knock the achievements of mathematicians because you cannot concieve of an application of the results.
Public-key encryption was only developed in 1976, about 2400 years after the first known discovery of prime numbers.
I'm pretty certain the ancient Greeks at the school of Pythagoras would have been as facinated at discovering the existance of these numbers and discovering new ones as we are today with Mersenne primes. It did take around 100 years before Euclid's Elements proved that there were in fact an infinite number of primes.
No, see the point is that I (being a Canadian) do NOT want my personal records, credit card reports, etc. to be available for the perusal of a Foreign Government because I do business with a Canadian company.
Thats the crux. I know I take my chances whenever I deal with an american company, and thats fine. I accept what happens then, but the problem is that we DO NOT KNOW when our information could be compromised because Canadian corporations have not divulged the use of american contractors.
In the past this wasn't an issue, because the US had essentially the same laws in regards to privacy as we did. But with the introduction of this act, all of a sudden that privacy has been stripped away and now we are left wondering who can access our information? You may not care about the erosion of your rights, and thats fine. We do.
I can't really say:) I'm Canadian. But as to the grasp of humour, you're relying pretty heavily on shared experience to find something funny. I'm aware enough that most of the time I 'get the joke', but there have been a few instances where I've just been left scratching my head. Often I recognize it as humour, but I simply don't share enough of the perspective to find it funny.
Although you wonder about the need to clear things up in the article, it is very useful to those of us who are not american. The statistics are interesting, and they are an indicator to us as to what sort of things to look for in our own students, but I had no idea if flag burning was legal or illegal in the US.
I had very similar sugery, except I was significantly older at the time, probably about 7 or 8. And I can remember exactly what the tile that was used for the floor and half-way up the walls looked like, what I said immediatly after, and even parts of the walk beforehand. Everything else is a complete blank.
The same goes for the 4 times I've separated my left knee, I remember each moment as if it had happened yesterday, and the rather memorable pain that it caused.
Personally I think it has something to do with the rush of emotion that helps cement an event in memory of really 'big' things. Pain especially works wonders in being able to remember something.
If the margin of error is 0.7% and you're extremely cynical then you're not talking about much.
Margin of error works both ways, depending on the level of certaintly (usually trying for 95% or 19 times out of 20 for public surveys) that means that 95% of the time the true value will be within +- 0.7 of 0.88. It is just as likely that the true value is between 1.48% and 1.58% as it is for 0.17% and 0.27%.
The same applies that for 95% certaintly, there is a 2.5% chance that the true value is less than 0.17% and a 2.5% chance that the true value is greater than 1.58%.
Answer to 2: Yes damnit. I also care and have pride in what happens to the CWB (Canadian Wheat Board), our cattle producers, and Bombardier's operations.
"Tough, feminine, sexy without being a slutty, smart as hell, and she even possessed a figure without Laura-Croftian... embellishments."
There in lies the problem though... she's distracting when I'm playing HL2 because that pretty much sums up the ideal of what I look for in a woman. And I pretty much thought the same things about Beyond Good & Evil, and I absolutely loved the game as well.
Now, so-called "eye-candy" in games (Dead or Alive anyone?) are easy to tune out and concentrate on playing because that is all they are... and frankly "Laura-Croftian embellishments" are really not my cup of tea.
True, although that is due to my age and the financial choice of going to a Canadian university. I do intend on visiting some of these places soon now that I'm almost done.
However, my primary reason for saying such is that I have met more than one person who are immigrants, but have been unable to find anything at all good no matter where they go. They only see the downsides to a place, and use that to see only the faults of everyone and everything around them. Its unfortunate, because some of these people have been moving long enough that there is no place that feels like home to them because they can never see what is good about the place they are.
I've lived in a small town in northern Manitoba, in the city of Winnipeg, in Kitchener/Waterloo, and in Toronto (though Winnipeg is my permanent residence). Although Toronto is a big city, impersonal, and everyone is a stranger... and its not a place I would desire to live for a long period of time, the bustle of the city, the amazing diversity, the number of little ethnic towns like cities within the city, and the ability to find anything you could possibly want from anywhere in the world if you look hard enough mean that after living there for awhile gives it its charm. It starts to feel like home too, as does Waterloo and Winnipeg to me. Once you recognize and understand a place, it gets to feel as comfortable as any other place is to you... and then you miss what isn't there less, and cherish the times you are.
I used to miss Winnipeg a great deal when I first left, the people I knew, how you could find a friendly face no matter where you went. (and Winnipeg can be a difficult place to appreciate if you haven't spent a few years there) But now, though I would like to return to live there someday, I won't miss it while I'm away because I'll be too busy living and enjoying the places that I'll be.
I would suggest looking for the beauty in the country you are living in, instead of comparing it to the desirable features of the one you left. Yes, it doesn't have the beaches and sun that Australia has (especially this time of year), I don't know of any place in the world offhand that compares. But try loving what they do have to offer. Take a drive or hike through the black forest, go skiing in the Alps and if the resorts in Germany aren't what you're looking for, Switzerland and Austria are right next door.
I'm Canadian, never been to Germany, never been to Australia (though I would love to visit both places), and have never been to any place that remotely resembles tropical weather. However I have travelled all over my own country and about half of the US, and everyplace you travel to will have something special to offer. You just have to find it, instead of lamenting what was left behind.
There are certain stressful things that get to me and they do so regardless of whether I'm plugged in or not. But they are all generally personality related, or extreme workload (and I mean 100 hour weeks here...). Multitasking and being involved is normal to me, and in itself doesn't bother me or heighten my sensitivity to the small irritants of everyday life.
I do know how stress affects me, and it generally makes me anxious, tired, I have difficulty relaxing, and become easily irritated. Not being plugged in as a state isn't any different to me when I've made the choice to slow down, its not a problem. I prefer accessibility, but I have no problems with being out of touch for weeks at a time. What does cause the same symptoms in me as stress does is when I am involuntarily unplugged, when I didn't want to be. That is what throws me off kilter, and although I can adapt to it, its never comfortable.
That is exactly my reaction. I'm 22 and have grown up in this sort of environment. I'm quite confortable with my gadgets, instant information, and fast pace because its normal. I know how to relax and not let things bother me and really don't worry about stress because its never affected me. What I find more irritating is the slow-down, when I'm not plugged in. I do like to take breaks and unconnected vacations, but an enforced inability only leaves me frustrated and feeling rather isolated (not in general, but isolated from the rest of my country and the rest of the world).
My choice is to be plugged in, I can live with it and be happy, I can judge what is important and needs my attention and what can wait. But damnit, I care about what is happening a world away, I care about the fight that Yuschenko and his supporters are facing in Ukraine, about Darfur and the problems between the government and the rebels, and a thousand other things that are happening around the world. As the great Red Green always says "I'm pulling for ya, 'cause we're all in this together."
Yesterday's 'extreme' high-end is today's 'ordinary' high-end. AMD has been putting out some amazing processors for a couple years now, so if you're looking for an 'ordinary' high-end CPU check out some of their previous offerings. I've been running a 2800+ for over a year now under a lot of stress (I'm a programmer, gamer, and play around with a number of CG renderers) and it still holds up admirably.
You can be philisophical over the fact that 'a tyranny cannot exist without the consent of the people' all you want, but all told the leaders of a country can choose to be good, bad, kind, cruel, whatever. It is their influence that determines how the people are treated, how well the system works, etc. True, the people can revolt and make things better, but then the system has been changed. The leaders control the instance that has placed them in power, so ultimately the success or failure is their responsibility.
I remember when communism was considered a good thing.
Hint: no social or economic system is inherantly good or bad, some have advantages over others and vice versa. It is the leader who determines how a system is used that determines whether that instance of it is good or bad.
Procrastinate further? Well I suppose we've done a fair share of it lately, but Martin said yesterday that until he gets an official written document asking for our participation along with a detailed list of what is being requested, there is no debate. It will not happen on Canadian soil and not one Canadian cent will be spent on Missile Defence until that happens, and if it does, it will go to parliment.
Pretty definitive I'd say... and I must say I very much approve of this approach (and policy of not joining either!)
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Just a note FYI. There are three cable companies up here, Shaw cable primarily serves western Canada and a few eastern markets. Rogers cable though is the cable mogul in eastern Canada, and Eastlink serves atlantic Canada. The crossover though is negligable so who you have is strictly a function of where you live. I believe there are a couple places in Ontario where you can choose between Shaw and Rogers, and New Brunswick you can choose between Rogers and Eastlink (though don't quote me on that one) otherwise you're stuck with the company in your area.
Easy, REGULARILY. I don't know where the heck you work but I've worked as a developer in four different places not to mention being a Comp Sci student at university, and on the job or at school I deal with women almost as often as I deal with men. There are fewer, that is certain, but scarce is definitely not a term I would apply.
Perhaps the employer you work for has an issue with women in IT which may be why you don't see any in the field, but they are there.
Almost, but the opposite way. I rotate my hand so my index finger is on the right mouse button, and the rest of my fingers are curled around the side of the mouse. I then move my fingers as necessary when I have to click, but for mouse movement I prefer my hand in the above configuration.
1) 100 miles
2) 2800 miles from Nova Scotia to Vancouver * 100 mile distance from border = 280,000 mi^2.
3) Population of Florida + New York state = ~37 million ~= population of Canada
4) Land area of Florida + New York State = 53,927 + 47,214 = 101,141 mi^2
Thats no excuse. Canada has 35.75% of all households connected to broadband, and almost everywhere in the country it can be had for $45 Cdn (under $40 USD) for 5.0Mbps download and 800 Kbps upload.
:).
And, sorry, but we're a bit bigger than the US mainland, with 1/8th of the people
Don't knock the achievements of mathematicians because you cannot concieve of an application of the results.
Public-key encryption was only developed in 1976, about 2400 years after the first known discovery of prime numbers.
I'm pretty certain the ancient Greeks at the school of Pythagoras would have been as facinated at discovering the existance of these numbers and discovering new ones as we are today with Mersenne primes. It did take around 100 years before Euclid's Elements proved that there were in fact an infinite number of primes.
Ok, so if you're close to death...
Is that the kind of statement you really want to make, as the last thing people remember you for?!?
No, see the point is that I (being a Canadian) do NOT want my personal records, credit card reports, etc. to be available for the perusal of a Foreign Government because I do business with a Canadian company.
Thats the crux. I know I take my chances whenever I deal with an american company, and thats fine. I accept what happens then, but the problem is that we DO NOT KNOW when our information could be compromised because Canadian corporations have not divulged the use of american contractors.
In the past this wasn't an issue, because the US had essentially the same laws in regards to privacy as we did. But with the introduction of this act, all of a sudden that privacy has been stripped away and now we are left wondering who can access our information? You may not care about the erosion of your rights, and thats fine. We do.
Don't worry, the first two numbers for Korea and Vietnam were both only for american causualties too.
I can't really say :) I'm Canadian. But as to the grasp of humour, you're relying pretty heavily on shared experience to find something funny. I'm aware enough that most of the time I 'get the joke', but there have been a few instances where I've just been left scratching my head. Often I recognize it as humour, but I simply don't share enough of the perspective to find it funny.
Although you wonder about the need to clear things up in the article, it is very useful to those of us who are not american. The statistics are interesting, and they are an indicator to us as to what sort of things to look for in our own students, but I had no idea if flag burning was legal or illegal in the US.
I had very similar sugery, except I was significantly older at the time, probably about 7 or 8. And I can remember exactly what the tile that was used for the floor and half-way up the walls looked like, what I said immediatly after, and even parts of the walk beforehand. Everything else is a complete blank.
The same goes for the 4 times I've separated my left knee, I remember each moment as if it had happened yesterday, and the rather memorable pain that it caused.
Personally I think it has something to do with the rush of emotion that helps cement an event in memory of really 'big' things. Pain especially works wonders in being able to remember something.
If the margin of error is 0.7% and you're extremely cynical then you're not talking about much.
Margin of error works both ways, depending on the level of certaintly (usually trying for 95% or 19 times out of 20 for public surveys) that means that 95% of the time the true value will be within +- 0.7 of 0.88. It is just as likely that the true value is between 1.48% and 1.58% as it is for 0.17% and 0.27%.
The same applies that for 95% certaintly, there is a 2.5% chance that the true value is less than 0.17% and a 2.5% chance that the true value is greater than 1.58%.
Answer to 2:
Yes damnit. I also care and have pride in what happens to the CWB (Canadian Wheat Board), our cattle producers, and Bombardier's operations.
"Tough, feminine, sexy without being a slutty, smart as hell, and she even possessed a figure without Laura-Croftian... embellishments."
There in lies the problem though... she's distracting when I'm playing HL2 because that pretty much sums up the ideal of what I look for in a woman. And I pretty much thought the same things about Beyond Good & Evil, and I absolutely loved the game as well.
Now, so-called "eye-candy" in games (Dead or Alive anyone?) are easy to tune out and concentrate on playing because that is all they are... and frankly "Laura-Croftian embellishments" are really not my cup of tea.
True, although that is due to my age and the financial choice of going to a Canadian university. I do intend on visiting some of these places soon now that I'm almost done.
However, my primary reason for saying such is that I have met more than one person who are immigrants, but have been unable to find anything at all good no matter where they go. They only see the downsides to a place, and use that to see only the faults of everyone and everything around them. Its unfortunate, because some of these people have been moving long enough that there is no place that feels like home to them because they can never see what is good about the place they are.
I've lived in a small town in northern Manitoba, in the city of Winnipeg, in Kitchener/Waterloo, and in Toronto (though Winnipeg is my permanent residence). Although Toronto is a big city, impersonal, and everyone is a stranger... and its not a place I would desire to live for a long period of time, the bustle of the city, the amazing diversity, the number of little ethnic towns like cities within the city, and the ability to find anything you could possibly want from anywhere in the world if you look hard enough mean that after living there for awhile gives it its charm. It starts to feel like home too, as does Waterloo and Winnipeg to me. Once you recognize and understand a place, it gets to feel as comfortable as any other place is to you... and then you miss what isn't there less, and cherish the times you are.
I used to miss Winnipeg a great deal when I first left, the people I knew, how you could find a friendly face no matter where you went. (and Winnipeg can be a difficult place to appreciate if you haven't spent a few years there) But now, though I would like to return to live there someday, I won't miss it while I'm away because I'll be too busy living and enjoying the places that I'll be.
I would suggest looking for the beauty in the country you are living in, instead of comparing it to the desirable features of the one you left. Yes, it doesn't have the beaches and sun that Australia has (especially this time of year), I don't know of any place in the world offhand that compares. But try loving what they do have to offer. Take a drive or hike through the black forest, go skiing in the Alps and if the resorts in Germany aren't what you're looking for, Switzerland and Austria are right next door.
I'm Canadian, never been to Germany, never been to Australia (though I would love to visit both places), and have never been to any place that remotely resembles tropical weather. However I have travelled all over my own country and about half of the US, and everyplace you travel to will have something special to offer. You just have to find it, instead of lamenting what was left behind.
Sorry, I guess I didn't quite say that right.
There are certain stressful things that get to me and they do so regardless of whether I'm plugged in or not. But they are all generally personality related, or extreme workload (and I mean 100 hour weeks here...). Multitasking and being involved is normal to me, and in itself doesn't bother me or heighten my sensitivity to the small irritants of everyday life.
I do know how stress affects me, and it generally makes me anxious, tired, I have difficulty relaxing, and become easily irritated. Not being plugged in as a state isn't any different to me when I've made the choice to slow down, its not a problem. I prefer accessibility, but I have no problems with being out of touch for weeks at a time. What does cause the same symptoms in me as stress does is when I am involuntarily unplugged, when I didn't want to be. That is what throws me off kilter, and although I can adapt to it, its never comfortable.
That is exactly my reaction. I'm 22 and have grown up in this sort of environment. I'm quite confortable with my gadgets, instant information, and fast pace because its normal. I know how to relax and not let things bother me and really don't worry about stress because its never affected me. What I find more irritating is the slow-down, when I'm not plugged in. I do like to take breaks and unconnected vacations, but an enforced inability only leaves me frustrated and feeling rather isolated (not in general, but isolated from the rest of my country and the rest of the world).
My choice is to be plugged in, I can live with it and be happy, I can judge what is important and needs my attention and what can wait. But damnit, I care about what is happening a world away, I care about the fight that Yuschenko and his supporters are facing in Ukraine, about Darfur and the problems between the government and the rebels, and a thousand other things that are happening around the world. As the great Red Green always says "I'm pulling for ya, 'cause we're all in this together."
Yesterday's 'extreme' high-end is today's 'ordinary' high-end. AMD has been putting out some amazing processors for a couple years now, so if you're looking for an 'ordinary' high-end CPU check out some of their previous offerings. I've been running a 2800+ for over a year now under a lot of stress (I'm a programmer, gamer, and play around with a number of CG renderers) and it still holds up admirably.
Yeah, as you can see I am not an english major.
You can be philisophical over the fact that 'a tyranny cannot exist without the consent of the people' all you want, but all told the leaders of a country can choose to be good, bad, kind, cruel, whatever. It is their influence that determines how the people are treated, how well the system works, etc. True, the people can revolt and make things better, but then the system has been changed. The leaders control the instance that has placed them in power, so ultimately the success or failure is their responsibility.
I remember when communism was considered a good thing.
Hint: no social or economic system is inherantly good or bad, some have advantages over others and vice versa. It is the leader who determines how a system is used that determines whether that instance of it is good or bad.
ooh... beowulf!
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I licked one recently... but no, I had my eyes closed when I did, and I didn't much care for the taste.
Procrastinate further? Well I suppose we've done a fair share of it lately, but Martin said yesterday that until he gets an official written document asking for our participation along with a detailed list of what is being requested, there is no debate. It will not happen on Canadian soil and not one Canadian cent will be spent on Missile Defence until that happens, and if it does, it will go to parliment.
Pretty definitive I'd say... and I must say I very much approve of this approach (and policy of not joining either!)