Santa doesn't keep track of who is nauty, or nice.
He simply tracks who's nice. It's a significantly shorter list, last estimate was somewhere around... 1.
Due to the bizarre nature the act it can only be impossible on RETAILERS in Canada. (Retailers pass the levy on to the consumers, technically it is supposed to be included in the price. London Drugs (kind of like Walmart) specificly doesn't include the levy in the price and is in the process of challenging the requirement.
If I order CD-Rs from the U.S. I will not be charged the levy. (I will on the other hand be charged GST, and probably PST).
The problem is IT isn't treated like your local mechanic, if you (general) treated your mechanic the way people treat IT he would tell you to take your car elsewhere.
When a mechanic tells you it will take 3 hrs to fix your car, but confirms it might be less and he'll call you as soon as it's done you accept it.
When IT says the problem will take 3 hours to fix you tell them they have an hour.
When the mechanic says sorry, it took longer than 3 hours because... , you'll be upset but let him do his job.
When IT says sorry, it's going to take longer than expected you tell them to wrap it up and fix it later. Later never comes and the problem migrates until it hits critical priority and they have 15 minutes to fix what would have taken an hour more to fix previously, but now they aren't sure how to proceed since it was left in an unknown state.
And, you blame them for the problem in the first place; regardless of their lack of any prior involvement.
One of my sisters likes telling the store of how they had discussed a book in class in great detail. The teacher going to great depths about how the story originated, etc. Later the teacher was able to get the author of the story to appear before the class, where she dismissed every 'insight' into the story as being completely wrong and misinformed.
They could easily relate to the fact Apple's opengl is -slow-.
Between Carmacks comments, the comments from the developer of X-Plane, the experience I've had with World of Warcraft, I can honestly say Apple's opengl sucks for speed.
As far as I know the implementation is very good from a conformance standpoint. But all comments relating to Display Lists are negative, and they are used to speed up rendering of a scene.
I played Wow last night after installing the update.. might have made a bit of a difference but it wasn't huge. My PC (with a better video card admittedly) blows away my G5 on frame-rates.
It did work, but several methods have been found to reduce the effect SA had to the point where it was no longer relevant.
Completely Jamming, or disabling the GPS system is the only thing which would have enough of an effect.
Seriously, 100 meters isn't off by much where you average ordanance is distributed in a 20-30 or more, radius arround your target, and that assumes some very high accuracy.
Significant number of lefties write atrociously. I'm one of them.
I do, on other hand play many sports right-handed. Oddly enough, not all sports. Tennis is left-handed, baseball, hockey right handed. Soccer right foot.
And it doesn't correlate with how I was shown how to play.
There are correlations with dyslexia. There is also correlations showing that the percent of the population that is left-handed and homosexual is statistically higher than the percent of the population that is homosexual.
There are indications certain types of brain injuries could lead to being gay, similar brain injuries may lead to being left handed. Doesn't imply all left-handed people have any form of brain injury.
I've been in many circumstances where the population of left and right handed was significantly out of proportion to the average population.
There seems to be a link between spacial tasks and handedness, but there is also a link between spacial taks and being male/female.
My grade 12 drafting class of about 10 people (small class) was 5 right handed, 5 left.
As for accidents, I've seen how lefties tend to use power tools and I can tell you they are more inclined to have an accident because they are using them incorrectly. If a powertool is design to be held in the right hand you shouldn't fight it, the powertool will probably win.
(While using a radial arm saw, using the right hand the hold the left side of the piece of wood down, while the left hand pulls the saw towards the user is just looking for trouble. Seen it done many times.).
Most likely I am genetically left-handed, both me and my mother are left handed. We both prefer to use a computer with the mouse on the right, leaves the dominant hand on the keyboard. Righties have it backwards.
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Patent laws in Canada and the United States are different, and as such the length of time the patent is valid may mean that a drug currently covered by a patent in the US would not be covered in Canada.
But that has absolutely NOTHING to do with why drugs are cheaper in Canada. Name Brand drugs are cheaper in Canada. In many cases by as much as 80%.
The Canadian government negotiates the rates for a number of drugs. They make a commitment to purchase a large quantity and the drug company agrees to the price.
By the way, you might want to check out drug prices around the world. Nowhere in the world does anyone pay the kind of prices that exist in the United States.
Counterfeit drugs, according to the FDA, is any drug supplied from any source which does not have EXACTLY the same packaging and EXACTLY the same markings on the drug as have been registered with the FDA. This is Regardless of whether the drug is from the same production line, but put into a different style of packaging by the same manufacturer.
A company can simply provide the Canadian government with different style packaging and then, when imported back into the United States it will be considered a counterfeit drug.
You may not like the socialist aspect to Canadian healthcare, but quality of the drugs is not an issue.
There is an auction house, so you can auction off a bunch of stuff if you'd like.
You can trade with players, or you can sell back to the vendors. Selling to vendors is a way to get the money quick, but it is only a fraction of the items real value.
Check out www.x-plane.com and you'll see mentioned of the author having some issues with really low frame-rate on his new scenery for version 8 of X-plane. (The scenery is brutal. But it runs on a PC, and kills a Dual processor G5.).
I looked into it a bit and it looks like Apple's implementation allocates too much memory and causes thrashing (in memory) if the Display Lists are too large. I suspect it is the same reason iD hasn't released Doom III for the Mac, simply put the current OpenGL code cannot push that much data.
You can convert it yourself. I can't remember the steps off hand, but it was NOT a challenge. I converted mine from Mac format to FAT32. (I was hoping I could use a stand-alone device to put images onto it, but it failed to work). I really should switch mine back to HFS.
I bought a Mac (G51.6) a yeah ago, the current OS runs a Mach kernel with a BSD layer for Unix compatibility.
It means you get the benfits of a microkernel in a Unix-like environment. (device drivers don't require a re-compile / linking, etc).
An accessible Unix like environment, with a large level of compatibility for open source programs.
A GUI that was designed to be used, not just look pretty. (It does though). A base set of applications that are strong enough for daily use, and easy enough for the casual user.
A programming environment that makes putting together a small application, with nice looking windows easy.
The next version of the OS (Tiger) adds in some system-wide features which will make the playform even sweeter.
Most of what I've grown to like about the Mac is that is appeals to the technical side of me in it;s clean design without limiting it's functionality.
(now if they can just fix openGL to not suck as bad as it does right now... )
You can get high-speed Internet in some very remote places in Canada.
While it has taken time to become available I personally know a few people who love several miles from the nearest town that now have DSL. (and I mean small town).
The companies installing Cable or DSL broadband are getting incentives to do so, but so what, companies in Canada and the U.S. get tax breaks for more useless reasons.
One begins to wonder whether the department, or (in MANY cases) subsidiary company is getting money based on the hours worked, billing the parent company, or another department, therefor padding their budget.
It's like the movie industry, movies don't make money, all the subsidiary companies make money.
I laughed when I made it to that part of the article.
I buy dress pants from a place that does almost the same thing. If your there on the right day they ask you to come back in 20 minutes. If your not there on the right day you have to pick them up another day, but it is NOT a hassle in any way. The sales clerk will chalk the pants and you just have to pick them up when they are done.
Never had a problem, never had to try the pants on twice, if I buy multiple pairs of the same style they use the size of one for the others.
You do realize many other countries will follow with the Fingerprinting, and that most people who travel in the 'free world' will then have had their fingerprint taken by atleast 1 country, and there is a likely hood the country is a part of Echelon.
So the data will be traded back to your country and they will have a nice collection of fingerprints for everyone who travels outside the United States.
(best part: Finger print identification is NOT accurate. shh, don't tell anyone.)
Googles search option LOCALLY combines LOCAL data with web search results. It is a feature you can turn off if you wish. At no point does it submit the resulting data to Google.
Google's (web) search intercepts the query and submits it to the web, and to the local search function, when results fromthe web are returned the results from the local search are merged (ON YOUR MACHINE).
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Reduces solcializing by 23.5 minutes, watching tv by 10 minutes and shortens sleep by 8.5 minutes, leaving a net gain of 18 minutes a day.
So, does this mean for every hour I play on the Internet I get 18 minutes added to my day? I'd say that's a bonus.
As for the socializing, yeah, uh-huh whatever. Didn't do it before the Internet, thats what MMORGs are for.
Santa doesn't keep track of who is nauty, or nice.
He simply tracks who's nice. It's a significantly shorter list, last estimate was somewhere around... 1.
USB 2.0 has sufficient bandwidth if the device performs onboard encoding. (MPEG2 for instance).
Nope.
Due to the bizarre nature the act it can only be impossible on RETAILERS in Canada. (Retailers pass the levy on to the consumers, technically it is supposed to be included in the price. London Drugs (kind of like Walmart) specificly doesn't include the levy in the price and is in the process of challenging the requirement.
If I order CD-Rs from the U.S. I will not be charged the levy. (I will on the other hand be charged GST, and probably PST).
On the other hand; lending my entire CD collection and them copying it -IS- perfectly legal under the act.
The problem is IT isn't treated like your local mechanic, if you (general) treated your mechanic the way people treat IT he would tell you to take your car elsewhere.
When a mechanic tells you it will take 3 hrs to fix your car, but confirms it might be less and he'll call you as soon as it's done you accept it.
When IT says the problem will take 3 hours to fix you tell them they have an hour.
When the mechanic says sorry, it took longer than 3 hours because
When IT says sorry, it's going to take longer than expected you tell them to wrap it up and fix it later. Later never comes and the problem migrates until it hits critical priority and they have 15 minutes to fix what would have taken an hour more to fix previously, but now they aren't sure how to proceed since it was left in an unknown state.
And, you blame them for the problem in the first place; regardless of their lack of any prior involvement.
Since when does the Authors opinion count!?
One of my sisters likes telling the store of how they had discussed a book in class in great detail. The teacher going to great depths about how the story originated, etc. Later the teacher was able to get the author of the story to appear before the class, where she dismissed every 'insight' into the story as being completely wrong and misinformed.
They could easily relate to the fact Apple's opengl is -slow-.
Between Carmacks comments, the comments from the developer of X-Plane, the experience I've had with World of Warcraft, I can honestly say Apple's opengl sucks for speed.
As far as I know the implementation is very good from a conformance standpoint. But all comments relating to Display Lists are negative, and they are used to speed up rendering of a scene.
I played Wow last night after installing the update.. might have made a bit of a difference but it wasn't huge. My PC (with a better video card admittedly) blows away my G5 on frame-rates.
Selective Availability doesn't actually work.
It did work, but several methods have been found to reduce the effect SA had to the point where it was no longer relevant.
Completely Jamming, or disabling the GPS system is the only thing which would have enough of an effect.
Seriously, 100 meters isn't off by much where you average ordanance is distributed in a 20-30 or more, radius arround your target, and that assumes some very high accuracy.
911 was chosen as it is 9 pulses followed by 2 (seperate) pulses.
000 would be 30 pulses (with a break between sets of 10).
911 was originally implemented when the majority, if not everyone, still had pulse dial.
It was a combination which was thought to prevent misdials.
It is blazingly fast. I expected it to be slowwwww.
Can somebody outline how it works?
Significant number of lefties write atrociously. I'm one of them.
I do, on other hand play many sports right-handed. Oddly enough, not all sports. Tennis is left-handed, baseball, hockey right handed. Soccer right foot.
And it doesn't correlate with how I was shown how to play.
There are correlations with dyslexia. There is also correlations showing that the percent of the population that is left-handed and homosexual is statistically higher than the percent of the population that is homosexual.
There are indications certain types of brain injuries could lead to being gay, similar brain injuries may lead to being left handed. Doesn't imply all left-handed people have any form of brain injury.
I've been in many circumstances where the population of left and right handed was significantly out of proportion to the average population.
There seems to be a link between spacial tasks and handedness, but there is also a link between spacial taks and being male/female.
My grade 12 drafting class of about 10 people (small class) was 5 right handed, 5 left.
As for accidents, I've seen how lefties tend to use power tools and I can tell you they are more inclined to have an accident because they are using them incorrectly. If a powertool is design to be held in the right hand you shouldn't fight it, the powertool will probably win.
(While using a radial arm saw, using the right hand the hold the left side of the piece of wood down, while the left hand pulls the saw towards the user is just looking for trouble. Seen it done many times.).
Most likely I am genetically left-handed, both me and my mother are left handed. We both prefer to use a computer with the mouse on the right, leaves the dominant hand on the keyboard. Righties have it backwards.
Patent laws in Canada and the United States are different, and as such the length of time the patent is valid may mean that a drug currently covered by a patent in the US would not be covered in Canada.
But that has absolutely NOTHING to do with why drugs are cheaper in Canada. Name Brand drugs are cheaper in Canada. In many cases by as much as 80%.
The Canadian government negotiates the rates for a number of drugs. They make a commitment to purchase a large quantity and the drug company agrees to the price.
By the way, you might want to check out drug prices around the world. Nowhere in the world does anyone pay the kind of prices that exist in the United States.
Counterfeit drugs, according to the FDA, is any drug supplied from any source which does not have EXACTLY the same packaging and EXACTLY the same markings on the drug as have been registered with the FDA. This is Regardless of whether the drug is from the same production line, but put into a different style of packaging by the same manufacturer.
A company can simply provide the Canadian government with different style packaging and then, when imported back into the United States it will be considered a counterfeit drug.
You may not like the socialist aspect to Canadian healthcare, but quality of the drugs is not an issue.
There is an auction house, so you can auction off a bunch of stuff if you'd like.
You can trade with players, or you can sell back to the vendors.
Selling to vendors is a way to get the money quick, but it is only a fraction of the items real value.
The bottleneck is OpenGL on the Mac.
Check out www.x-plane.com and you'll see mentioned of the author having some issues with really low frame-rate on his new scenery for version 8 of X-plane. (The scenery is brutal. But it runs on a PC, and kills a Dual processor G5.).
I looked into it a bit and it looks like Apple's implementation allocates too much memory and causes thrashing (in memory) if the Display Lists are too large. I suspect it is the same reason iD hasn't released Doom III for the Mac, simply put the current OpenGL code cannot push that much data.
You can convert it yourself.
I can't remember the steps off hand, but it was NOT a challenge. I converted mine from Mac format to FAT32. (I was hoping I could use a stand-alone device to put images onto it, but it failed to work). I really should switch mine back to HFS.
You pay for the engineering.
I bought a Mac (G51.6) a yeah ago, the current OS runs a Mach kernel with a BSD layer for Unix compatibility.
It means you get the benfits of a microkernel in a Unix-like environment. (device drivers don't require a re-compile / linking, etc).
An accessible Unix like environment, with a large level of compatibility for open source programs.
A GUI that was designed to be used, not just look pretty. (It does though). A base set of applications that are strong enough for daily use, and easy enough for the casual user.
A programming environment that makes putting together a small application, with nice looking windows easy.
The next version of the OS (Tiger) adds in some system-wide features which will make the playform even sweeter.
Most of what I've grown to like about the Mac is that is appeals to the technical side of me in it;s clean design without limiting it's functionality.
(now if they can just fix openGL to not suck as bad as it does right now... )
You can get high-speed Internet in some very remote places in Canada.
While it has taken time to become available I personally know a few people who love several miles from the nearest town that now have DSL. (and I mean small town).
The companies installing Cable or DSL broadband are getting incentives to do so, but so what, companies in Canada and the U.S. get tax breaks for more useless reasons.
The problem with this is the same as the problem with printing catalogs, etc.
You give the company what they ask for. They cannot, and will not accommodate every companies whim on providing the data.
One begins to wonder whether the department, or (in MANY cases) subsidiary company is getting money based on the hours worked, billing the parent company, or another department, therefor padding their budget.
It's like the movie industry, movies don't make money, all the subsidiary companies make money.
1.45MB won't fit on a standard-format floppy.
I want a phone with Bluetooth, without a Camera, and I don't want an N-Gauge.
And I want my cellphone provider to sell me the damn thing.
I laughed when I made it to that part of the article.
I buy dress pants from a place that does almost the same thing. If your there on the right day they ask you to come back in 20 minutes. If your not there on the right day you have to pick them up another day, but it is NOT a hassle in any way. The sales clerk will chalk the pants and you just have to pick them up when they are done.
Never had a problem, never had to try the pants on twice, if I buy multiple pairs of the same style they use the size of one for the others.
You do realize many other countries will follow with the Fingerprinting, and that most people who travel in the 'free world' will then have had their fingerprint taken by atleast 1 country, and there is a likely hood the country is a part of Echelon.
So the data will be traded back to your country and they will have a nice collection of fingerprints for everyone who travels outside the United States.
(best part: Finger print identification is NOT accurate. shh, don't tell anyone.)
Googles search option LOCALLY combines LOCAL data with web search results. It is a feature you can turn off if you wish. At no point does it submit the resulting data to Google.
Google's (web) search intercepts the query and submits it to the web, and to the local search function, when results fromthe web are returned the results from the local search are merged (ON YOUR MACHINE).
How is this a privacy problem?