The size is an independent issue -- both the number of timezones and the existance of remote areas are going to slow things down no matter what method is used to actually record votes.
I'd just like to point out that we in Canada have both two more time zones and many more remote locations and we manage it by paper... the complete results are in by a day or two after election night.
Others have mentioned ways of detection; I have a slightly OT question.
On the CBC, at the start of commercial breaks in MOST programs, depending on the overscan of your TV you can clearly see a small white square appear in the upper-right corner of the TV screen for a half a second.
To answer you and IWannaBeAnAC, this has been brought up before.
I am Canadian. The common link between all the countries mentioned (UK, Australia, Canada) is that they are all essentially parliamentary democracies. You vote for who goes to represent you in your country's lower house, and if your country has an elected upper house, you may vote for someone to represent you in it.
That is pretty simple and easy to count.
Americans, however, having an obviously vastly superior system, have decided that this isn't good enough for them and they vote for upwards of a half a dozen people for various government positions.
This makes counting more difficult, combined with the size of the country.
BTW, Australia uses some e-voting systems; however they were Government-designed, use Linux and are open-source -- you can get the source code from the Australian Government's website, if you so desired.
Others further down in this thread have had great difficulty understanding these pronunciations.
The phenomenon that produces what Americans think is 'aboot' is called Canadian Raising. It becomes incredibly clear that there is a difference if a Canadian says "about boots".
Wikipedia has an article and this site has sound files. Particularly interesting, I find, as a Canadian, is the way Torontonians drop the second 't' in Toronto.
It is odd that you would say this since/dev is actually quite standard..
There is the legacy way (each possible device has a file in/dev, which sucks, badly, when you get into the sheer number of modern devices there are), and the devfs way (where devices are intelligently added to a filepath like/dev/ide/bus0).
Most distros now (except probably Debian) use devfs (as it is a major part of 2.6) with symlinks to the old-fashioned device names (For backwards-compatibility).
Though this doesn't really deserve a response, if they had written it properly it would interact with ALSA/OSS properly and not blindly assume your soundcard is at/dev/dsp...
You know, I don't have any kids, and I guess that leaves me sort of out of the loop with these things, because I had no idea that kids now must be vaccinated for chicken pox before being allowed into public school.
I have heard of nothing of the sort for chicken pox and the flu vaccines where I am, in Ontario. Regulations will, of course, vary from province to provice, state to state, country to country.
Health Canada says diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps and rubella immunizations are REQUIRED for school children unless there is a valid written exemption. Voluntary Hepatitis B immunizations are given in Grade 7, and there legal requirement for your child to be immunized for it. (Though it isn't a bad idea, of course.)
Arguably, the above are fairly important to be immunized against. As you have said, chicken-pox immunizations are, for most people, not really necessary.
(BTW, Have the French decided what to call a computer yet?)
An 'ordinateur'.
At least, that's what they tought me in our French classes, which are part of the elementary (and one year of secondary) school curriculum here in Ontario, but we go by Québecois French which I am told is a bit different.
Still, as far as I know, people in France call it an 'ordinateur'.
More controversial are terms like "télécharger" and "courriel", which is supposed to mean "download" and "e-mail", but many French-speaking people (in Québec and France) simply use "download" and "e-mail"...
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
There is an error in your calculation -- the data has to get from you to the satellite (120ms), then from the satellite to the remote server (120ms), then from the remote server to the satellite (120ms), then from the satellite to you (120ms). It comes to a total of 480ms, theoretical minimum. Realistically, over 800ms.
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I'm inclined to think that, if I wanted to play an online game, I might be better off with the service I have now...
We're lucky, here in Canada the CBC (our national semi-public broadcaster, who must of spend their entire year's budget on it) is airing the Olympics, and their coverage has always been very good for a regular broadcast station -- the Olympics are run virtually all day. (And through a good bit of the evening, too.)
Freedom isn't always a good thing, if we were all completely free there would be anarchy and chaos, and very few people advocate that.
Exactly, that is what this is for.
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Many people, myself included, consider hate speech laws "reasonable limits".
But that doesn't change the fact that Americans are more free in this regard.
Well, I suppose in the most literal sense of the word, yes, but we'll be sitting back and laughing when Americans pass the next PATRIOT-style law.
BTW, the CRTC issue, I doubt has to do with the hate speech laws (the article didn't say this directly), but rather more of the CRTC being that CRTC, that is, a complete abomination.:(
Regarding the position of the address bar, well, it is of course completely up to you. Mine is staying at the bottom.:)
And my setup is not cluttered -- the default 7.23 is, though, I agree. Screenshot of my layout, for comparison sake. (the blank bit between the page area and the button/tool bar is the status bar.)
This means that (for better or for worse depending on your bias) the Canadian gov't can and does curtail free speech
Er?
Constitution Act, 1982 (79)
Enacted as Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) 1982, c. 11, which came into force on April 17, 1982
PART I
Canadian charter of rights and freedoms
Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law:
Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Fundamental Freedoms
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion; b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.
No, we don't have the right to freely carry around guns. I really don't think this is a problem, but appearantly some people (mostly Americans) think it is.
The strangest looking bit, to me, is the "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God", which is a little less seperation between church and state than I would like, but I would say that, in general, this is DEFINATELY not a problem here.
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On the CBC, at the start of commercial breaks in MOST programs, depending on the overscan of your TV you can clearly see a small white square appear in the upper-right corner of the TV screen for a half a second.
Any idea what this is for? Some sort of cue?
I am Canadian. The common link between all the countries mentioned (UK, Australia, Canada) is that they are all essentially parliamentary democracies. You vote for who goes to represent you in your country's lower house, and if your country has an elected upper house, you may vote for someone to represent you in it.
That is pretty simple and easy to count.
Americans, however, having an obviously vastly superior system, have decided that this isn't good enough for them and they vote for upwards of a half a dozen people for various government positions.
This makes counting more difficult, combined with the size of the country.
BTW, Australia uses some e-voting systems; however they were Government-designed, use Linux and are open-source -- you can get the source code from the Australian Government's website, if you so desired.
They, do, obviously, get along perfectly well with Apple compression utilities...
The phenomenon that produces what Americans think is 'aboot' is called Canadian Raising. It becomes incredibly clear that there is a difference if a Canadian says "about boots".
Wikipedia has an article and this site has sound files. Particularly interesting, I find, as a Canadian, is the way Torontonians drop the second 't' in Toronto.
There is the legacy way (each possible device has a file in /dev, which sucks, badly, when you get into the sheer number of modern devices there are), and the devfs way (where devices are intelligently added to a filepath like /dev/ide/bus0).
Most distros now (except probably Debian) use devfs (as it is a major part of 2.6) with symlinks to the old-fashioned device names (For backwards-compatibility).
Audio CDs, for example, are extremely scratch tolerant.
I have had many DVDs that experience playback issues with only minor scratches.
If it is caddy-less it will need some incredible error correction capability..
Can this thing survive a 1/2 metre drop to the floor?
Though this doesn't really deserve a response, if they had written it properly it would interact with ALSA/OSS properly and not blindly assume your soundcard is at /dev/dsp...
University blocks it (if they aren't already firewalling everything except common ports), back to square one..
I have heard of nothing of the sort for chicken pox and the flu vaccines where I am, in Ontario. Regulations will, of course, vary from province to provice, state to state, country to country.
Health Canada says diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps and rubella immunizations are REQUIRED for school children unless there is a valid written exemption. Voluntary Hepatitis B immunizations are given in Grade 7, and there legal requirement for your child to be immunized for it. (Though it isn't a bad idea, of course.)
Arguably, the above are fairly important to be immunized against. As you have said, chicken-pox immunizations are, for most people, not really necessary.
At least, that's what they tought me in our French classes, which are part of the elementary (and one year of secondary) school curriculum here in Ontario, but we go by Québecois French which I am told is a bit different.
Still, as far as I know, people in France call it an 'ordinateur'.
More controversial are terms like "télécharger" and "courriel", which is supposed to mean "download" and "e-mail", but many French-speaking people (in Québec and France) simply use "download" and "e-mail"...
"Beware of geeks bearing GIFs!"
Which of course has a completely different meaning (and contains a pun).
It is a matter of perspective..
There is an error in your calculation -- the data has to get from you to the satellite (120ms), then from the satellite to the remote server (120ms), then from the remote server to the satellite (120ms), then from the satellite to you (120ms). It comes to a total of 480ms, theoretical minimum. Realistically, over 800ms.
It is, however, as with in the States, expensive with terrible bandwidth caps.
This new service is supposed to be "better" in some way, and is at least much cheaper.
I am on 33.6k (on a good day) dial-up:
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Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
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I'm inclined to think that, if I wanted to play an online game, I might be better off with the service I have now...
Generally, with Virtual Hosting services, they run on Solaris, BSD or Linux (There are very few on Windows, AFAIK).
Even if it was a co-lo server/managed hosting, Windows costs more for either solution..
Yes.. a la stories of where one was when JFK was shot.
A two or three hours a day, "plausably live".
We're lucky, here in Canada the CBC (our national semi-public broadcaster, who must of spend their entire year's budget on it) is airing the Olympics, and their coverage has always been very good for a regular broadcast station -- the Olympics are run virtually all day. (And through a good bit of the evening, too.)
BTW, the CRTC issue, I doubt has to do with the hate speech laws (the article didn't say this directly), but rather more of the CRTC being that CRTC, that is, a complete abomination. :(
And my setup is not cluttered -- the default 7.23 is, though, I agree. Screenshot of my layout, for comparison sake. (the blank bit between the page area and the button/tool bar is the status bar.)
Er?
No, we don't have the right to freely carry around guns. I really don't think this is a problem, but appearantly some people (mostly Americans) think it is.The strangest looking bit, to me, is the "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God", which is a little less seperation between church and state than I would like, but I would say that, in general, this is DEFINATELY not a problem here.
The horse's mouth.