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Marco, check out the wool coats at L L Bean[^]. They offer free shipping (within the US/Canada) and sell extremely good quality and long-lasting products at fair prices. I've been a regular customer of theirs for about 30 years.
/ravi
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LL Bean. That's a mighty fine shop. I went to their shop in Freeport, Maine in 1988 when it was just a small outlet. In 2007, we went there again and it's now the size of a street block or bigger. There is no better outdoors shop than Bean's though they do sell lots of other junk now.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Thanks Ravi,
Exactly what I was looking for.
Even though we experience a Lot of Snow and cold weather it is hard to find a decent Winter coat in a Swiss Store.
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The Baxter State Parka[^] is very good value for money. It's a goose down coat, and is therefore very warm yet amazingly lightweight. L L Bean has a (rare) sale until the end of Mon 11/11.
Cheers,
/ravi
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Marco Bertschi wrote: If the store isn't located in Switzerland, South Florida......
Yeah, I hear Miami is a real hotspot when it comes to buying sub-zero temperature coats. 
Marco Bertschi wrote: If you suggest a wool lined coat I prefer suppliers who can assure me that Griff never was near to the sheep nor the wool.
That makes sense, but then you will always wonder who did the 'pre-treatment'. It's a slippery slope. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I just wrote down The places where I know someone who could send me the stuff 
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I figured it was something like that. There could be a store in South Florida with a coat that has been sitting in the back for a couple of years, but I doubt you will find a great selection to choose from. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Actually, Florida is an amazing place to look for winter coats if you check out the second hand shops. A lot of people retire down their and get rid of their coats cause they don't need them any more. I had a friend that lived there and she would always send us winter clothes. It was awesome.
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Ok, you got me. I did not consider that angle. When I moved to San Diego, I left all my warm winter clothes at my parents' house in Denmark.
This is a great tip and I think you should post that as a reply to Marco's post so he get's the notification.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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You can have no fears on that score: all the sheep I know end up with a nice cremation. They go out surrounded by their friends and family.
And roast potatoes and gravy.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Mutton and potatoes with gravy - yummy!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm always looking at this page cause I don't always remember all the off the wall date formats. I found this!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx#yyyyySpecifier[^]
So their Y10K compliant as far as formatting a date? But anything over 9999 blows up. Guess MS has a little bit more work to do on Y10K compliance? Hopefully they get it done on time!
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Windows OICU812 will be coming out that year and will take care of that. 
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LOL. Little under 8000 years... they better start working now. Linux probably already supports it
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You are bit of a running gag today, eh! 
My bad - I though you posted this as answer to my Wool lined coat post 
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No I'm really not that funny but the NSA sensors all my output and by the time they get done it's funny.
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Mike Hankey wrote: but the NSA sensors censor all my output
FTFY.
/ravi
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Thanks Ravi, I've been battling with multiple embedded sensor problems since yesterday so must have been a Freudian slip. (I don't know what he was doing wearing a slip though)
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To be honest, I often slip up myself. 
/ravi
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I presume it was his better half:
Fruedian Slip[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Perhaps this is proof that Microsoft Research is working on Time Travel! 
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Don't worry. If you like your four-digit years, you can keep them. Period.
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Ah, memories.
I spent way more time answering customers' inquiries about Y2K compliance than I did analyzing for potential issues. We did not have any failure of systems once 2000 arrived.
I did let customers know of the potential issue in our programs that would happen in 2038 (C's 32-bit time overflows), but I also indicated we expected to have a new version out by then.
Prior to Y2K was the concern about Sept. 9, 1999, which when represented as 9999, might be interpreted as an "end of data" marker. I remember explaining to one employee that such date codes would be six digits long, with zeroes, because of the need for two digits in each of the month and day.
Of course, that brings us back to the year before Y10K; will the year 9999 pose problems in legacy code?
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