Probably because Canada is not part of the US yet, eh?
I'm British, and as such, can't really hear a difference between Canada and the US. However, I am trying to learn, so I can continue to mock those North Americans who can't tell the difference between Australian and Scouse. So, whenever I hear a Canadian speaking, I try to look for things that distinguish. And I can't hear any. 'Specially not any 'eh' at the end of the sentence. Please advise.
I know that for some reason it is *much* easier to be nice and let a VW beetle out from a side road than a BMW or SUV.
BMWs, Jags, Mercs tend to never say thankyou for being let out. They seem to assume that they own the road. Therefore I deliberately don't let them out.
Also, I notice - they're the last to switch their lights on when it starts to get dark - or when there's fog/spray on the motorways. I put that down to them assuming that everyone "can see them because they're so important, in their important car".
Psycho-analyze that.:)
You know, I've been eyeing up Germany as a place to move to. The only thing I'm worried about is that I don't have any formal qualifications - I've always got IT jobs in the UK on the basis of my experience, and interview questions - but other countries can be a lot more rigid about that. How is it in Germany? And what are some of the good IT job sites there?
Actually, it has been possible to communicate at the speed of light for some time using, er, light by (eg) sending up smoke signals or waving. I think you meant "faster than light"...
We, (humans), are bloody amazing. We can shoot something into space, with cameras, and transmitting equipment, so accurately that it skims over the surface of a planet millions of miles away in a few years time. I thought the same when I watched the Mars Lander land. And something like MRI scanners? It's just mindbogglingly amazing technology. We're simultaneously so amazing, and yet so obtuse.
I've brought laptops through US customs at least half a dozen times since 2001 without incident; I've had to take it out of the bag and once I had to open it and let it wake up so the federal douchebag could see that it wasn't running linux or some other commie operating system, but I've never been asked to open directories or files or had to surrender it for any closer inspection.
The mind just boggles. A: that it should be even slightly newsworthy that you can carry laptops through customs, and B: that they are expecting to find enough "interesting" stuff to make it all worthwhile. I'd love to go to the US. It's a large chunk of the world I've never visited. But until it all just chills out a bit, no way. The hardest time I've had at an international border is at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport - and there it was just a long, stern look from a rather cute lady in a uniform. And that's Russia! You know, paranoid, ex-Soviet, James Bond spyland Russia. Not our friends across the Atlantic.
That's not flamebait - it's informative. Virgin aren't a good ISP by most measures. It's sort of the ITV, or Channel 5 of ISPs. If you're from the UK, you'll know what I mean.
Although I'm not sure about the claim about not running fibre to the kerb.
I rang my (otherwise extremely good, if a little more expensive than most) ISP, Zen, and asked for v6. They said they didn't do it, as not enough people had asked for it. I asked if they'd make a note of my request - they said they would.
I offered to run an IPv6 tunnel router for them, if they'd stick it in their network, and hook it up to a v6 feed somewhere. They declined.
I read earlier in this thread that GPS is used for altitude too.
It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button to accidentally reuse a form.
No, chances are that I'm just posting at a normal rate, and your retarded software is doing something stupid.
I suspect you mean an English accent. Scottish or Welsh are very different. In fact, I'd go so far to say that you probably mean a "Posh" Received Pronunciation English accent.
GPS is transmitted at 1.6GHz, I think, and the signals received would be very weak, so it might be possible that a small signal at that frequency could swamp it.
I heard an amateur radio operator operating at 35,000 feet recently. He had a US callsign, and his plane was over the Isle of Wight in the UK. The UK Amateur Radio licencing rules don't allow for operation in an aircraft, so I was a little surprised to hear him operating. So, assuming he was transmitting > 5W, and probably >=100W, I think a few mW of RF from a wireless LAN card, or bluetooth card wouldn't have much effect. 14MHz isn't 2.4GHz, of course.
The website can ask for the information. Whether the browser tells it is at the user's discretion.
Would you be happy with a plugin that stored, and filled in your bank account login details when your bank's site asked for them? Sure, it wouldn't be used as often as this plugin - but the principle remains.
I sure as hell wouldn't. There is too long a history of browser functionality being subverted, despite the best intentions of the initial programmers. It wouldn't be more than a few days until there was an exploit that could access that information without asking you. And a plugin that can query your WLAN card, or GPS device? That's waaaay too much access for an interface to a hostile environment.
I even run Firefox as a separate user on my home system - so any malware can't hose data - but unless I start with GRSec or SELinux, and restrict what that user can see/do, it's still too much access.
It must be remembered that there is a woman in Alabama (not sure if she's still alive, but it's only been 50-odd years, so quite possibly) who was hit by a meteorite.
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Besides, there are no good SVG editors. Inkscape is decent, but crashes easily when editing nodes and doesn't have animation support.
So write one, make a million, and then give me the 25% you'll owe me :)
Probably because Canada is not part of the US yet, eh?
I'm British, and as such, can't really hear a difference between Canada and the US. However, I am trying to learn, so I can continue to mock those North Americans who can't tell the difference between Australian and Scouse. So, whenever I hear a Canadian speaking, I try to look for things that distinguish. And I can't hear any. 'Specially not any 'eh' at the end of the sentence. Please advise.
I'd say real meat women are gonna be in trouble.
I fear you've overlooked a rather important function that "real meat women" bring to the human race.
Cartoons should be done in Motion-SVG.
Why a car's ass would be angry at me, I'll never know.
Why you think a car is "angry at you", I'll never know.
I use engine braking all the time by downshifting as I pull up as it prevents wear on the brakes
Which, do you imagine, is cheaper to replace if you break it? Brakes, or engine?
Don't forget that a US gallon is smaller than a UK gallon, so their MPG will appear worse, and conversely of course, UK mpg will appear better.
I know that for some reason it is *much* easier to be nice and let a VW beetle out from a side road than a BMW or SUV.
BMWs, Jags, Mercs tend to never say thankyou for being let out. They seem to assume that they own the road. Therefore I deliberately don't let them out. :)
Also, I notice - they're the last to switch their lights on when it starts to get dark - or when there's fog/spray on the motorways. I put that down to them assuming that everyone "can see them because they're so important, in their important car".
Psycho-analyze that.
You know, I've been eyeing up Germany as a place to move to. The only thing I'm worried about is that I don't have any formal qualifications - I've always got IT jobs in the UK on the basis of my experience, and interview questions - but other countries can be a lot more rigid about that. How is it in Germany? And what are some of the good IT job sites there?
Actually, it has been possible to communicate at the speed of light for some time using, er, light by (eg) sending up smoke signals or waving. I think you meant "faster than light"...
Cough... radio waves... cough
I reckon I could reject hundreds of patches a day. Probably even more, if I wrote a script.
We, (humans), are bloody amazing. We can shoot something into space, with cameras, and transmitting equipment, so accurately that it skims over the surface of a planet millions of miles away in a few years time. I thought the same when I watched the Mars Lander land. And something like MRI scanners? It's just mindbogglingly amazing technology. We're simultaneously so amazing, and yet so obtuse.
I've brought laptops through US customs at least half a dozen times since 2001 without incident; I've had to take it out of the bag and once I had to open it and let it wake up so the federal douchebag could see that it wasn't running linux or some other commie operating system, but I've never been asked to open directories or files or had to surrender it for any closer inspection.
The mind just boggles. A: that it should be even slightly newsworthy that you can carry laptops through customs, and B: that they are expecting to find enough "interesting" stuff to make it all worthwhile. I'd love to go to the US. It's a large chunk of the world I've never visited. But until it all just chills out a bit, no way. The hardest time I've had at an international border is at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport - and there it was just a long, stern look from a rather cute lady in a uniform. And that's Russia! You know, paranoid, ex-Soviet, James Bond spyland Russia. Not our friends across the Atlantic.
Kelly MacDonald in Trainspotting sort of thing? I can see where you're coming from, aye, I can, laddy. (Oh, and it's "pished" :))
Slashdot, cmon: It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
That's not flamebait - it's informative. Virgin aren't a good ISP by most measures. It's sort of the ITV, or Channel 5 of ISPs. If you're from the UK, you'll know what I mean.
Although I'm not sure about the claim about not running fibre to the kerb.
ATM, I'd guess.
I rang my (otherwise extremely good, if a little more expensive than most) ISP, Zen, and asked for v6. They said they didn't do it, as not enough people had asked for it. I asked if they'd make a note of my request - they said they would.
I offered to run an IPv6 tunnel router for them, if they'd stick it in their network, and hook it up to a v6 feed somewhere. They declined.
It was on 20 metres, USB. I'd guess 100 watts. Although I have no way of judging signal strengths from a plane in the open sky.
It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button to accidentally reuse a form.
No, chances are that I'm just posting at a normal rate, and your retarded software is doing something stupid.
I suspect you mean an English accent. Scottish or Welsh are very different. In fact, I'd go so far to say that you probably mean a "Posh" Received Pronunciation English accent.
GPS is transmitted at 1.6GHz, I think, and the signals received would be very weak, so it might be possible that a small signal at that frequency could swamp it.
I heard an amateur radio operator operating at 35,000 feet recently. He had a US callsign, and his plane was over the Isle of Wight in the UK. The UK Amateur Radio licencing rules don't allow for operation in an aircraft, so I was a little surprised to hear him operating. So, assuming he was transmitting > 5W, and probably >=100W, I think a few mW of RF from a wireless LAN card, or bluetooth card wouldn't have much effect. 14MHz isn't 2.4GHz, of course.
The website can ask for the information. Whether the browser tells it is at the user's discretion.
Would you be happy with a plugin that stored, and filled in your bank account login details when your bank's site asked for them? Sure, it wouldn't be used as often as this plugin - but the principle remains.
I sure as hell wouldn't. There is too long a history of browser functionality being subverted, despite the best intentions of the initial programmers. It wouldn't be more than a few days until there was an exploit that could access that information without asking you. And a plugin that can query your WLAN card, or GPS device? That's waaaay too much access for an interface to a hostile environment.
I even run Firefox as a separate user on my home system - so any malware can't hose data - but unless I start with GRSec or SELinux, and restrict what that user can see/do, it's still too much access.
Give it a few months, and that won't even buy a car.
It must be remembered that there is a woman in Alabama (not sure if she's still alive, but it's only been 50-odd years, so quite possibly) who was hit by a meteorite.
American, you say? Who did she sue about it?