In municipal elections in Toronto, we also have pencil and paper ballots, which are then optically scanned. You fill in an arrow next to your candidate's name:
Joe Schmo [== ==
like this
Joe Schmo [==#==
And then it is fed through a scanner. Results are available soon after the polls close, and you have all the ballots if you want to recount (which you could do manually if you wanted to.)
I use it every day. I use it for remote X from my linux box upstairs. It's extremely useful, and more importantly free (student, yay). It's really the only option.
I had this problem with my router, an SMV 7004AWBR IIRC (which is basically the same as the DLink and US Robotics models with the print servers).
At one point (on an earlier model?) the que might have been lp, but they changed it, I suppose to make more sense for windows users. They just never changed the documentation. I had to dig around for a while.
What constitutes a mental patient? Millions of people in the United States meet the definition of Depression... that's a mental illness. Should they all be put in hospitals?
Mental illness is just a group of illnesses, severe or minor, like 'liver illnesses' or 'skin conditions'. Do we put force everyone with acne to remain in hospital?
Which of course means it's also a River in Canada -- Same as the Thames, Don, Humber, and Avon. In this case, it is part of the Trent-Severn waterway, a long canal system which travels up from lake ontario, and features cool mechanized portages for houseboats.
The thing is that the hologram currencies ARE the old ones. The new ones have ultraviolet coats of arms, UV-sensitive fibres (which glow in a different colour) and special gold maple leaf patterns that change depending on viewing angle, not to mention the watermarks, raised numerals and braille.
And those are just the $5 & $10 (US $3.75 and US $7.50). The larger currencies will probably have more features, like the aforementioned holograms (the 5 and 10 never had 'em).
The denominations with holograms havn't been updated yet. Currently only the $5 and $10 bills are in their revised form, but the $20 is due out soon. The pre-hologram >$20 currency is VERY rare to find in circulation, and unless the person paying their bill is an old lady who doesn't get out much, it would raise eyebrows.
Unlike some countries which have only recently started to revise their currency regularly, Canada has been doing this for a while (We seem to have managed the transition to $1 coin a little better than our friend Susan B. Anthony). Every decade to 15 years the Bank of Canada restart the rollout cycle with a new series, one bill every year or so, with the higher value bills coming later to take advantage of technology and knowledge gained from designing the less valuable ones -- of course, a change of monarch would tend to mess that schedule up.
The hologram ones are late 80's to the beginning of the 90s. Before that, the $20s and up were somewhere around the late 70s, and relied on more traditional raised ink techniques.
Again, a large surge in '78-era currency would raise suspicion.
You can already buy readers for GC cards that hook up to your computer, allowing you to modify the save game files.
This is a large problem in Phantasy Star Online, where your characters aren't stored on the server, but on the cards. People create high level items in their inventories, and then distribute them to other players, totally unbalancing the game. It isn't uncommon to see new characters running around with weapons that normally would have required beating the end boss on very hard difficulty -- three times.
This is always a problem in any game... just because the memory cards were until now proprietary doesn't mean that people aren't hacking them already. It's just like people using a UFO on their SNES and storing saved games on floppy disks...
If you have a country like Zimbabwe where a third of the population is infected (according to the WHO) then I don't think that 'avoiding prostitutes' is going to protect your average citizen.
The fact is that Tens of millions of people are infected. In parts of sub-saharan Africa, a boy born today has a 50% chance of getting AIDS, and thus probably dying from it. This is a serious problem, and invoking your dog doesn't make it less so.
Tell those who received blood transfusions that AIDS discriminates. Once it gets to such high percentages in the general population, your country is screwed Socially and Economically. So much for your working-aged population. Something has to be done, and passing judgement on them for having sex at all won't let them have their country back.
1. Canada is small. 2. Canada is seen by currency traders as heavily reliant on natural resource related industries.
Given everything is in terms of $US, it's probably better to think in terms of how the $US is doing. The dollar has been falling recently what with all the war worries. It has rebounded in the past few days now that war is innevetable (certainty of outcome is more important than the outcome).
Canadian dollar fluctuations rarely have much to do with Canada. Unless we raise our interest rates, like we've been doing (spurring foreign investment eager to get that higher interest rate relative to the US).
The problem with modern paper is that it's very acidic, which is evidenced by the number of cheap pulp novels from the 50s and 60s which are already a brown crumbling mess, whereas older volumes seem none the worse for wear.
There has been a movement lately towards acid-free paper, even for cheaper books, which should keep longer.
But we're talking here about 7000 undergraduates, and from the sound of it, most of them probably enrolled in a humanities/liberal arts programs. When the poster mentioned the publics general willingness to use MS products, outside of "subgroups of the IT/Geek community", I'm pretty sure he felt that "CS/CEN/EE professors" fell into that group, regardless of their university affiliation.
We're the ones always carping about choice. I'm willing to make the choice for linux, but forcing Linux onto 7000 students, who might just want to use hotmail in the library, or catch a quicktime CNN news clip, is extreme enough to merit contention.
Well, as this thread is for the most part geared towards more professional applications, I would say that a professional probably wouldn't want to be running his sound through Arts if he's worried about latency.
What happens if you have a movie playing underneath a transparent X cursor? Will you see the animation through it, or just a static segment from when you first placed the cursor? Kind of like a pseudo-transparent aterm that doesn't refresh itself?
As to the other commentor, I didn't mean that we got more energy at any one place (all though the southernmost point of Canada is south of Oregon) but that we just get more total energy given it's the 2nd largest country in the world.
To be fair, not only is Canada bigger and thus receives more sun, since it is a northern country there are parts where the sun doesn't set for months at a time...
If you read the article you would see that Opera is perfectly capable of rendering the page that MSN sends to IE. If you change Opera to identify itself as IE, no problem.
The problem here is that if you've set Opera to the report the true user-agent, MSN sends a page with a broken CSS file that tells the browser to render the content so that the page becomes unreadable--Here, they set a negative margin on content in some divs so that the first couple words in any column are overlapped by the div to the left, frustrating the viewer. Even IE chokes on the page they give to Opera:
http://deb.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/opera7.p ng
Personally, I have great affection for my onboard S3 Trio 64V+. Sure, it isn't accelerated, and with only 2MB of VRAM you're not gonna get much performance... and there was that whole issue of pre-4.1.x X corrupting the display if you switch back and forth from a virtual console, not to mention the fact that it only became supported with Xfree86 not supporting the card until around 4.0.2...
Why not? I use Mandrake, and everything it KDE-centric. I rarely if ever use gtk apps (apart from my brief daliance with Gnome 2.2... very pretty, but the presence of gtk1.2 apps messed it up). It's just personal preference.
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In municipal elections in Toronto, we also have pencil and paper ballots, which are then optically scanned. You fill in an arrow next to your candidate's name:
Joe Schmo [== ==
like this
Joe Schmo [==#==
And then it is fed through a scanner. Results are available soon after the polls close, and you have all the ballots if you want to recount (which you could do manually if you wanted to.)
I use it every day. I use it for remote X from my linux box upstairs. It's extremely useful, and more importantly free (student, yay). It's really the only option.
I had this problem with my router, an SMV 7004AWBR IIRC (which is basically the same as the DLink and US Robotics models with the print servers).
At one point (on an earlier model?) the que might have been lp, but they changed it, I suppose to make more sense for windows users. They just never changed the documentation. I had to dig around for a while.
There is one for Toronto here. You could always ask them what they use.
Well, AM 640 is always going under with all their various formats.
And the New VR is still going strong. Just like the New RO and all the other CityTV-bought stations.
What constitutes a mental patient? Millions of people in the United States meet the definition of Depression... that's a mental illness. Should they all be put in hospitals?
Mental illness is just a group of illnesses, severe or minor, like 'liver illnesses' or 'skin conditions'. Do we put force everyone with acne to remain in hospital?
Which of course means it's also a River in Canada -- Same as the Thames, Don, Humber, and Avon. In this case, it is part of the Trent-Severn waterway, a long canal system which travels up from lake ontario, and features cool mechanized portages for houseboats.
The thing is that the hologram currencies ARE the old ones. The new ones have ultraviolet coats of arms, UV-sensitive fibres (which glow in a different colour) and special gold maple leaf patterns that change depending on viewing angle, not to mention the watermarks, raised numerals and braille.
And those are just the $5 & $10 (US $3.75 and US $7.50). The larger currencies will probably have more features, like the aforementioned holograms (the 5 and 10 never had 'em).
The denominations with holograms havn't been updated yet. Currently only the $5 and $10 bills are in their revised form, but the $20 is due out soon. The pre-hologram >$20 currency is VERY rare to find in circulation, and unless the person paying their bill is an old lady who doesn't get out much, it would raise eyebrows.
Unlike some countries which have only recently started to revise their currency regularly, Canada has been doing this for a while (We seem to have managed the transition to $1 coin a little better than our friend Susan B. Anthony). Every decade to 15 years the Bank of Canada restart the rollout cycle with a new series, one bill every year or so, with the higher value bills coming later to take advantage of technology and knowledge gained from designing the less valuable ones -- of course, a change of monarch would tend to mess that schedule up.
The hologram ones are late 80's to the beginning of the 90s. Before that, the $20s and up were somewhere around the late 70s, and relied on more traditional raised ink techniques.
Again, a large surge in '78-era currency would raise suspicion.
You can already buy readers for GC cards that hook up to your computer, allowing you to modify the save game files.
This is a large problem in Phantasy Star Online, where your characters aren't stored on the server, but on the cards. People create high level items in their inventories, and then distribute them to other players, totally unbalancing the game. It isn't uncommon to see new characters running around with weapons that normally would have required beating the end boss on very hard difficulty -- three times.
This is always a problem in any game... just because the memory cards were until now proprietary doesn't mean that people aren't hacking them already. It's just like people using a UFO on their SNES and storing saved games on floppy disks...
If you have a country like Zimbabwe where a third of the population is infected (according to the WHO) then I don't think that 'avoiding prostitutes' is going to protect your average citizen.
The fact is that Tens of millions of people are infected. In parts of sub-saharan Africa, a boy born today has a 50% chance of getting AIDS, and thus probably dying from it. This is a serious problem, and invoking your dog doesn't make it less so.
Tell those who received blood transfusions that AIDS discriminates. Once it gets to such high percentages in the general population, your country is screwed Socially and Economically. So much for your working-aged population. Something has to be done, and passing judgement on them for having sex at all won't let them have their country back.
Except that Netscape hasn't based anything on Mozilla since 1.0 was rebaged as NS7.
Webloggers can specify nearest airport locations in their FOAF files.
o af/foaf-a-matic.html
r /2 002/month/12#9 (airport stuff)
a f. shtml
http://xmlns.com/foaf/
http://www.ldodds.com/f
http://www.perceive.net/pages/page/articles/yea
http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/01/fun_with_fo
(moveable type stuff)
True, but on the other hand:
1. Canada is small.
2. Canada is seen by currency traders as heavily reliant on natural resource related industries.
Given everything is in terms of $US, it's probably better to think in terms of how the $US is doing. The dollar has been falling recently what with all the war worries. It has rebounded in the past few days now that war is innevetable (certainty of outcome is more important than the outcome).
Canadian dollar fluctuations rarely have much to do with Canada. Unless we raise our interest rates, like we've been doing (spurring foreign investment eager to get that higher interest rate relative to the US).
The problem with modern paper is that it's very acidic, which is evidenced by the number of cheap pulp novels from the 50s and 60s which are already a brown crumbling mess, whereas older volumes seem none the worse for wear.
There has been a movement lately towards acid-free paper, even for cheaper books, which should keep longer.
Yes, many of 'us'. We're computer geeks.
But we're talking here about 7000 undergraduates, and from the sound of it, most of them probably enrolled in a humanities/liberal arts programs. When the poster mentioned the publics general willingness to use MS products, outside of "subgroups of the IT/Geek community", I'm pretty sure he felt that "CS/CEN/EE professors" fell into that group, regardless of their university affiliation.
We're the ones always carping about choice. I'm willing to make the choice for linux, but forcing Linux onto 7000 students, who might just want to use hotmail in the library, or catch a quicktime CNN news clip, is extreme enough to merit contention.
Well, as this thread is for the most part geared towards more professional applications, I would say that a professional probably wouldn't want to be running his sound through Arts if he's worried about latency.
I've also had a few blue screens using Cygwin on XP. Not fun. First XP crash I'd ever seen in months using it.
What happens if you have a movie playing underneath a transparent X cursor? Will you see the animation through it, or just a static segment from when you first placed the cursor? Kind of like a pseudo-transparent aterm that doesn't refresh itself?
Why is this rated Informative? If anything, it's Too Much Informative.
Shh... don't tell anyone :)
As to the other commentor, I didn't mean that we got more energy at any one place (all though the southernmost point of Canada is south of Oregon) but that we just get more total energy given it's the 2nd largest country in the world.
To be fair, not only is Canada bigger and thus receives more sun, since it is a northern country there are parts where the sun doesn't set for months at a time...
Well, I think that turning on Font Smoothing would, in the vernacular sense, be 'changing font settings'... :)
If you read the article you would see that Opera is perfectly capable of rendering the page that MSN sends to IE. If you change Opera to identify itself as IE, no problem.
p ng
The problem here is that if you've set Opera to the report the true user-agent, MSN sends a page with a broken CSS file that tells the browser to render the content so that the page becomes unreadable--Here, they set a negative margin on content in some divs so that the first couple words in any column are overlapped by the div to the left, frustrating the viewer. Even IE chokes on the page they give to Opera:
http://deb.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/opera7.
This is sabotage.
Read the original report here:
http://deb.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/
Personally, I have great affection for my onboard S3 Trio 64V+. Sure, it isn't accelerated, and with only 2MB of VRAM you're not gonna get much performance... and there was that whole issue of pre-4.1.x X corrupting the display if you switch back and forth from a virtual console, not to mention the fact that it only became supported with Xfree86 not supporting the card until around 4.0.2...
wait a minute...
Why not? I use Mandrake, and everything it KDE-centric. I rarely if ever use gtk apps (apart from my brief daliance with Gnome 2.2... very pretty, but the presence of gtk1.2 apps messed it up). It's just personal preference.