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Send message Joined: 15 May 09 Posts: 4472 Credit: 18,448,326 RAC: 22,385 |
Live feed from the BOINC converence, Coming from the Windy City USA so think time difference if expecting anything in other parts of the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInqortnPdw |
Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1496 Credit: 95,522,203 RAC: 0 |
Chicago isn't the windiest in the US. (Based on OLD data.) It is said to be based on politician's blather. "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest. |
Send message Joined: 28 May 17 Posts: 49 Credit: 16,998,801 RAC: 8,102 |
There are several possible origins of the nickname. The one mentioned on the Hancock tower tour is when Chicago lobbied to host the World Fair. |
Send message Joined: 15 May 09 Posts: 4472 Credit: 18,448,326 RAC: 22,385 |
There are six videos posted from the conference so far. Most are interesting even if they don't directly help with running boinc as a cruncher. |
Send message Joined: 15 Jan 06 Posts: 637 Credit: 26,751,529 RAC: 653 |
Live feed from the BOINC converence, Coming from the Windy City USA so think time difference if expecting anything in other parts of the world. The standard time zones were set in Chicago in 1883, at the instigation of the railroads. The idea then spread throughout the world. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-11-06-8802130818-story.html |
Send message Joined: 16 Jan 10 Posts: 1084 Credit: 7,654,484 RAC: 4,384 |
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Send message Joined: 15 May 09 Posts: 4472 Credit: 18,448,326 RAC: 22,385 |
Live feed from the BOINC converence, Coming from the Windy City USA so think time difference if expecting anything in other parts of the world. "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism." Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local mean times were synchronised and a single standard time applied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time |
Send message Joined: 15 Jan 06 Posts: 637 Credit: 26,751,529 RAC: 653 |
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism." I think they are saying that the GDPR got them. It is a wonder that it does not happen more often.
Certainly Greenwich was designated as the prime meridian first, and the basis for standard time. (I have done the usual tourist thing and straddled the line). I think that Chicago added the time zones, necessary for a large country like the U.S. and then the world. |
Send message Joined: 3 Sep 04 Posts: 126 Credit: 26,610,380 RAC: 3,377 |
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. Search for ct-xpm-1988-11-06-8802130818-story and use Google's cache. |
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