No... Las Vegas is not planned to be incorporated into the high-speed train system. Core Cities are Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Miami, Orlando, Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York City, Buffalo, Boston, and Montreal.
I think that one of these cities are not like the others. That being said, I would love a high speed rail link from my province to major urban areas in the US. If Montreal is to be included in some sort of upgrade, then the rail line from Montreal to Albany needs some serious repair. I took the train from Montreal to Phillydelphia a few years ago and was shocked at how slow the ride was. In Quebec, the train crossed Autoroute 20(freeway) and once the train got into the US and the Adirondacks, it snaked along between the mountains and Lake Champlain.
If the Canadian dollar improves in value v. the US dollar, weekend shopping trips to NYC could be a common occurence.
Well it stimulates the computer stores with their sales of DVDs and burners. Also, the ISPs make some bucks, so it's not all bad. Plus, everyone needs a go-to-guy for 'free' software.
All my data resides on the server. The last time the server died, the motherboard went kablooey (if that's a word, even though it's not). So, when I bought a new one, I thought I would just stick the old drive in the new server on / and then move the data over to the new server's drive, reformat the first drive for the new server's OS. However, CentOS seemed to find all needed drivers so I just left things as they were, well with two drives instead of one.
When I replaced the desktop machine, I just gave the old machine away. Since there was no data on the machine, It was easier to remove Linux and put Windows on it all the while renaming it to it's new owner...my mom.
However, I your post has prompted me to consider developing a new succession policy. Also, as I start adding things to the network such as a printer, mp3 player, drives etc, I guess, I will need to develop a series of names à la IKEA.
I had a Belkin duplex cover thing splitter, so I have 6 plugs to choose from, that broke after a few months. I have never experienced a splitter breaking in my lfetime (until this one).
The only weird thing that happens is that Apache stops for no good reason every once in a while.
I'm jealous that I don't get to participate in the conspiracy theory. If my system did go down, I'd use the time offline to put Slackware back on the server. CentOS keeps working so I let it go. Oh well!
Since I use CentOS on the router PC and Ubuntu on my desktop PC, I download my ISOs. However, there must still be a distro that sells reasonably pressed CDs or DVDs. Maybe you can get him to buy one of those distros?
I totally understand that. I travel into the US between 10 and 20 times per year, usually by car. They seem to want to look in the trunk more often than pre-911. In those trunk inspections, I've been asked why I brought a cooler (camping) and why I had two spare tires (a full-sized spare and the regular spare), a power supply (for jump starting the car and charging the laptop), but never why I had a laptop. (The laptop has GPS software on it, a wireless card, and recent episodes of my favourite UK soap.)
I feel like I'm being one of these, 'you don't have anything to worry about people if you aren't doing anything wrong people', but the border guys are just doing their jobs. I notice a difference between the way I travel and the way an acquaintance travels. I have my passport and my dog's immunisation papers ready to hand to the border guy. I have printouts of hotel room/campground reservations or maps from Google to friends' places and work ID ready to show the guys. I answer their questions with one or two word answers. A buddy of mine seems to get the secondary inspection at least 3 times per year because he can look grubby, is fuzzy on where he is going and doesn't always answer.
here here....I bumped my vista machine up from 1G to 3G and the change has been phenomenal. I partially blame HP for not equipping the computer with enough RAM to run the OS, but why does an OS need 3 Gigs to run well?
I think faxing filled an important niche in its time, but the world has moved on so it's time to let go of it. Newer copy machines even let you email your scanned documents which is far more convenient than faxing ever was. I'd rather see companies put their energy into standardizing an email encryption system rather than trying to keep faxing alive.
Warning: Anecdote coming
I agree that faxes are on their way out. I work in a law office (as the office nerd, not a lawyer) and over the past decade, I've notices a shift in the way that work gets assigned. Before, there would always be paper waiting to be picked up at our fax machine with work to be be assigned or added to paper files. Now, nearly every secretary has a scanner on her desk. I have a collection of scanned images of sigatures that we can paste into word-processor documents and print into PDF docs in order to email to clients pending the arrival of originals. I know that this method is insecure, non-court admissable and bridge technology at best. With extra security in office buildings slowing down couriers, and forcing couriered packages into our internal mail system, this method gives clients documents that are as good as a photocopy almost instantly. The down side to this is that more PDF files are being passed around. The problem we are facing now is mailboxes being full. Our mailbox quotas are too low. Why people scan at 1200dpi colour when 300-600dpi BW is fine, I don't know. What I do know is that when we used to get 20-40 faxes a day, we now get 3-5 and they are usually SPAM (or is it spam).
While I agree that faxes are on their way out, they still have their place. I just wish we could replace a bunch of them on our floor with one PC with a fax server. We can print or save the ones we want and delete the spam (or block the spammers phone numbers). So, instead of one fax machine per 25 employees, we could replace it with one fax server per 100/200 employees.
Owners *really* need to monitor their pets, and ideally have them on a leash or enclosed in some area when their outside to keep them safe. Spoken like a person with no experience with a beagle or other scent hound. I recently lost a beagle because a window in my house was open an inch. He managed to open the window and vanish. Some dogs are clever and quick. A GPS device might not stop a dog from running into the street, but it might make it easy to track him down instead of walking, biking or driving up and down every bloody street in the neighbourhood screaming the dogs name those rare ocasions he does a runner.
If you really want your tube (and it is only one max all the time) all for yourself with no one else interfering and up all the time, it is available (that's a low price too).
I have to call bullshit on your post. I couldn't find my province on the list and I couldn't enter my postal code.
"There are plenty of people saying that this "scandal" somehow affects every article on Wikipedia, even the ones on the boiling point of water, and that is mostly because they have an agenda to take it all down."
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Yeah, Some people say the boiling point of water is 100 degrees and others who insist that it's 212 degrees.
If you're trying to imply that the Canadian political system is somehow immune to such excesses, you're wrong. The reason companies spend a boatload of money on US elections is because US elections matter a great deal to their bottom line; on the other hand, who governs Canada simply doesn't matter much to corporations or anybody outside Canada.
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While you are correct that the interest in Canadian federal general elections are limited to the northern part of North America, the money tied to US elections is just off the map compared to other democracies, even ones with larger economies than that wonderful country on the northern shores of the Great Lakes. I see it as more of a problem with fixed election dates. If you don't know when Parliament is going to be dissolved, you want to save your resources for the election call. The biggest downside to Westminster-style parliaments is that it does give the advantage in the game to the governing party who can ask the Crown (or president in parliamentary governed republics) to dissolve Parliament and call an election.
The United States Border Patrol is currently conducting random (i.e. unlawful) searches within our own borders. I recently traveled through New Mexico and was stopped at a checkpoint north of Las Cruces (about 65 miles north of the US-Mexico border) and the border patrol performed an illegal search of my vehicle.
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I had the weirdest experience this summer. I was meeting up with friends on a camping trip in the Adirondacks, but drove alone becuase I coundn't get the Friday off work. I came across a Border Patrol checkpoint just south of Tupper Lake NY, which is I think 100km or so south of the QC/NY boundary. I have a British licence plate on the front of my car (with the same letters and numbers as my Quebec plate on the back). After they realised the front plate was decoration and that I was Canadian, they waved me through. No ID, no questions, no look inside the car. If they are close the Canadian border, but not scrutinising Canadians, what the hell were they up to?
I came into Facebook by way of multiple invitations. Things kept annoying me about it, especially the crap applications. Once the beacon story broke last week, I just had enough and ran my security levels to the top and removed all my data and photos. I guess I'm one of the marginal minority of annoyed. The only question I have is: If the number of people annoyed were so marginal, why didFacebook react so quickly?
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You say it like it's a bad thing.
Call me Ms Grumpypants, but my ideal man is not someone whose idea of a fulfilling life is playing some stupid first-person shooter game.
Until we all spreak Esperanto, I would hope that it contains an American to British English translator too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IX6K77zHwg
(Not the Chaser's best, but will do.)
Wouldn't that be 0.1Gig.
I dunno. Detroit has two car border crossings.
I am waiting for Blackware, but don't want Batrick Bolkerding to over-extend himself.
If these dogs are like my dogs, they would be drooling at the thought of it.
No... Las Vegas is not planned to be incorporated into the high-speed train system. Core Cities are Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Dallas, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Miami, Orlando, Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York City, Buffalo, Boston, and Montreal.
I think that one of these cities are not like the others. That being said, I would love a high speed rail link from my province to major urban areas in the US. If Montreal is to be included in some sort of upgrade, then the rail line from Montreal to Albany needs some serious repair. I took the train from Montreal to Phillydelphia a few years ago and was shocked at how slow the ride was. In Quebec, the train crossed Autoroute 20(freeway) and once the train got into the US and the Adirondacks, it snaked along between the mountains and Lake Champlain.
If the Canadian dollar improves in value v. the US dollar, weekend shopping trips to NYC could be a common occurence.
Well it stimulates the computer stores with their sales of DVDs and burners. Also, the ISPs make some bucks, so it's not all bad. Plus, everyone needs a go-to-guy for 'free' software.
All my data resides on the server. The last time the server died, the motherboard went kablooey (if that's a word, even though it's not). So, when I bought a new one, I thought I would just stick the old drive in the new server on / and then move the data over to the new server's drive, reformat the first drive for the new server's OS. However, CentOS seemed to find all needed drivers so I just left things as they were, well with two drives instead of one.
When I replaced the desktop machine, I just gave the old machine away. Since there was no data on the machine, It was easier to remove Linux and put Windows on it all the while renaming it to it's new owner...my mom.
However, I your post has prompted me to consider developing a new succession policy. Also, as I start adding things to the network such as a printer, mp3 player, drives etc, I guess, I will need to develop a series of names à la IKEA.
Mine are server, desktop, laptop & xbox. I put a lot of thought ito those names.
I had a Belkin duplex cover thing splitter, so I have 6 plugs to choose from, that broke after a few months. I have never experienced a splitter breaking in my lfetime (until this one).
awww nothing eventful happened to my old PIII mini-Optiplex 110 running CentOS that I use as a home router/file server.
[jsd@www ~]$ uptime
15:36:53 up 64 days, 9:16, 1 user, load average: 2.47, 1.86, 1.57
[jsd@www ~]$
The only weird thing that happens is that Apache stops for no good reason every once in a while.
I'm jealous that I don't get to participate in the conspiracy theory. If my system did go down, I'd use the time offline to put Slackware back on the server. CentOS keeps working so I let it go. Oh well!
Since I use CentOS on the router PC and Ubuntu on my desktop PC, I download my ISOs. However, there must still be a distro that sells reasonably pressed CDs or DVDs. Maybe you can get him to buy one of those distros?
For poutine, he'd have to consider McGill instead of Waterloo.
I totally understand that. I travel into the US between 10 and 20 times per year, usually by car. They seem to want to look in the trunk more often than pre-911. In those trunk inspections, I've been asked why I brought a cooler (camping) and why I had two spare tires (a full-sized spare and the regular spare), a power supply (for jump starting the car and charging the laptop), but never why I had a laptop. (The laptop has GPS software on it, a wireless card, and recent episodes of my favourite UK soap.)
I feel like I'm being one of these, 'you don't have anything to worry about people if you aren't doing anything wrong people', but the border guys are just doing their jobs. I notice a difference between the way I travel and the way an acquaintance travels. I have my passport and my dog's immunisation papers ready to hand to the border guy. I have printouts of hotel room/campground reservations or maps from Google to friends' places and work ID ready to show the guys. I answer their questions with one or two word answers. A buddy of mine seems to get the secondary inspection at least 3 times per year because he can look grubby, is fuzzy on where he is going and doesn't always answer.
here here....I bumped my vista machine up from 1G to 3G and the change has been phenomenal. I partially blame HP for not equipping the computer with enough RAM to run the OS, but why does an OS need 3 Gigs to run well?
I think faxing filled an important niche in its time, but the world has moved on so it's time to let go of it. Newer copy machines even let you email your scanned documents which is far more convenient than faxing ever was. I'd rather see companies put their energy into standardizing an email encryption system rather than trying to keep faxing alive.
Warning: Anecdote coming
I agree that faxes are on their way out. I work in a law office (as the office nerd, not a lawyer) and over the past decade, I've notices a shift in the way that work gets assigned. Before, there would always be paper waiting to be picked up at our fax machine with work to be be assigned or added to paper files. Now, nearly every secretary has a scanner on her desk. I have a collection of scanned images of sigatures that we can paste into word-processor documents and print into PDF docs in order to email to clients pending the arrival of originals. I know that this method is insecure, non-court admissable and bridge technology at best. With extra security in office buildings slowing down couriers, and forcing couriered packages into our internal mail system, this method gives clients documents that are as good as a photocopy almost instantly. The down side to this is that more PDF files are being passed around. The problem we are facing now is mailboxes being full. Our mailbox quotas are too low. Why people scan at 1200dpi colour when 300-600dpi BW is fine, I don't know. What I do know is that when we used to get 20-40 faxes a day, we now get 3-5 and they are usually SPAM (or is it spam).
While I agree that faxes are on their way out, they still have their place. I just wish we could replace a bunch of them on our floor with one PC with a fax server. We can print or save the ones we want and delete the spam (or block the spammers phone numbers). So, instead of one fax machine per 25 employees, we could replace it with one fax server per 100/200 employees.
I have to call bullshit on your post. I couldn't find my province on the list and I couldn't enter my postal code.
"There are plenty of people saying that this "scandal" somehow affects every article on Wikipedia, even the ones on the boiling point of water, and that is mostly because they have an agenda to take it all down."
---Yeah, Some people say the boiling point of water is 100 degrees and others who insist that it's 212 degrees.
If you're trying to imply that the Canadian political system is somehow immune to such excesses, you're wrong. The reason companies spend a boatload of money on US elections is because US elections matter a great deal to their bottom line; on the other hand, who governs Canada simply doesn't matter much to corporations or anybody outside Canada.
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While you are correct that the interest in Canadian federal general elections are limited to the northern part of North America, the money tied to US elections is just off the map compared to other democracies, even ones with larger economies than that wonderful country on the northern shores of the Great Lakes. I see it as more of a problem with fixed election dates. If you don't know when Parliament is going to be dissolved, you want to save your resources for the election call. The biggest downside to Westminster-style parliaments is that it does give the advantage in the game to the governing party who can ask the Crown (or president in parliamentary governed republics) to dissolve Parliament and call an election.
I usually consider a crash SL's way of saying find something else to do.
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I had the weirdest experience this summer. I was meeting up with friends on a camping trip in the Adirondacks, but drove alone becuase I coundn't get the Friday off work. I came across a Border Patrol checkpoint just south of Tupper Lake NY, which is I think 100km or so south of the QC/NY boundary. I have a British licence plate on the front of my car (with the same letters and numbers as my Quebec plate on the back). After they realised the front plate was decoration and that I was Canadian, they waved me through. No ID, no questions, no look inside the car. If they are close the Canadian border, but not scrutinising Canadians, what the hell were they up to?
I came into Facebook by way of multiple invitations. Things kept annoying me about it, especially the crap applications. Once the beacon story broke last week, I just had enough and ran my security levels to the top and removed all my data and photos. I guess I'm one of the marginal minority of annoyed. The only question I have is: If the number of people annoyed were so marginal, why didFacebook react so quickly?