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Yes, it will work with a TiVo.

Are you telling the whole truth about why it is not Live enabled? You wouldn't be lying to us now you "designer at Neversoft?" Lying to the public would be bad.

Because I am a big fan of the series and own an XBOX, I checked this out on the Activision Customer support page:

Question
Why is the game not available for Xbox Live?
Answer
Activision and Neversoft have entered into an exclusive co-marketing arrangement with Sony whereby we will be cross-promoting Tony Hawk's Underground for the PlayStation 2 online through national advertising and promotional launch activities. Additionally, Xbox Live's downloadable content controls would make it difficult to allow consumers to import their own face into the game.

(Bolding is mine) Care to tell us more about this "exclusive co-marketing arrangement"? You failed to mention this in your post there. Is this the kind of arrangement wherein Sony pays you a bunch of money not to put the game on Live and this results in them being able to market this fact? I call bullshit. Rebuttal?

i work for a teaching hospital and had two maxtor external drives (with loads of sensitive information on them) go bad. i couldn't destroy the drives (as is policy) or the warranty would be voided. maxtor support referred me to this page that explains their policy on cleaning confidential drives. of course, policies are nothing without implementation...but it put my boss' mind at ease, anyway.

I have the same hard drives (WD1200JB) in a RAID configuration (Promise TX2000), and have had no problems. What is the bug?

I believe the bug he's talking about is the one addressed here. Naturally, right now, as I type this, my desktop is busy mirroring my raid 1 setup of two WD1600JB's. Happily, it seems the fix is fairly easy, but what a thing to see as I'm setting it up for the first time, right?

Bell removed their bandwidth cap a few months ago. See This page for details. My guess is that they were getting killed by Rogers.

Ironically, Rogers was thinking of implementing a bandwidth cap, but In response to Bell eliminating their cap, they backed down.

In some cases, capitalist competition really works!

As for the speed, I've used both and found the two comparable, with Rogers a little faster. Bell (as all DSLs) varies depending on where you are in relation to the phone switching station. Rogers (as in all Cable internet) varies depending on how many people in your vicinity are actively using a cable internet connection.

Bell removed their bandwidth cap a few months ago. See This page for details. My guess is that they were getting killed by Rogers.

Ironically, Rogers was thinking of implementing a bandwidth cap, but In response to Bell eliminating their cap, they backed down.

In some cases, capitalist competition really works!

As for the speed, I've used both and found the two comparable, with Rogers a little faster. Bell (as all DSLs) varies depending on where you are in relation to the phone switching station. Rogers (as in all Cable internet) varies depending on how many people in your vicinity are actively using a cable internet connection.

I used to be a Gillete user but stopped using their products right now! I informed them of that via their customer service site at http://gillette.custhelp.com/

Actually, the site does indeed run asp. I wonder how much time until it gets hacked (must have a nice Sequelserver database behind it. Yum, single quotes!).

Also, some of their FAQs are quite fun.

From time to time, you may see some movies in your queue with a wait status. A wait status is an indication that customer requests have exceeded our inventory levels. We recommend that you keep your movies in the order you would like to view them regardless of the availability status, as it helps us measure the demand for a particular movie.

Below are the three possibilities:

Short Wait: We don't have quite enough copies of this movie to meet all current demand, so we're unlikely to be able to ship it to you right now. We should have enough copies in the near future. The wait for this movie is generally less than 14 days.

Long Wait: There's considerably more demand than available copies for this movie. It's unlikely that we'll be able to send you this movie in the next week or two. The wait for this movie is generally less than 30 days.

Very Long Wait: There is extremely high demand, limited availability and/or a very long wait for this movie. The wait for this movie is generally less than 4 months, but could be longer.

A cool concept, but the nations of the earth would be too fearful of weaponization to allow any one group the chance to control something like that.

We don't have to do it alone. We could just as well lead a partnership of world space agencies to accomplish the same goal. I'd prefer this, actually.

Aside from the ongoing dispute as to the feasibility of assembling a solar-panel whose total potential energy output will exceed that used to construct it.

In the 1970s that might have been the case, but it's demonstrably false today. From an energy payback perspective, most panels reach their break-even point in a little over three years, some in as short as 6 months. Photovoltaic modules have been shown in the real world to produce up to 17 times more energy during their lifetime then used in their construction, and that number is increasing rapidly. More info here and here. (The first is a PDF.)

You should also keep in mind that lunar solar power would be significantly more efficient than terrestrial solar power because the Moon simply receives much more intense sunlight than we do on Earth. You can read more about it in an article Criswell wrote for The Industrial Physicist.

Wow, Linux is being used in a product that Windows isn't even targeted towards. I don't think that Microsoft cares too much if linux is used in these types of devices.

I think they do...

I think they're interested.

Question

Does First-Class Mail still subsidize junk mail?

Answer

We don't use the "J-word." If you are asking does First-Class Mail subsidize advertising mail, the answer is no. It never has, and it can't by law. Each class of mail pays its own way.

"We are in a great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. Either is in such a predicament as the man who was earnest to be introduced to a distinguished deaf woman, but when he was presented, and one end of her ear trumpet was put into his hand, had nothing to say. As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly." -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

1. Go to Netflix.com.
2. Click on Customer Service.
3. Search for Canada.
4. Click on the only answer.

Q: Do you ship internationally?
A: Netflix currently does not rent DVDs outside of the United States with the exception of Puerto Rico, FPO and APO addresses.

1. Go to Netflix.com.
2. Click on Customer Service.
3. Search for Canada.
4. Click on the only answer.

Q: Do you ship internationally?
A: Netflix currently does not rent DVDs outside of the United States with the exception of Puerto Rico, FPO and APO addresses.

Incidently, my mother is actually a supervisor at a USPS facility in NYC. She has made it clear to me on several occassions that bulk mail is a big part of what keeps the USPS going.

You can mention your disgust here:

Reuters Customer Feedback

Don't forget to mock them ruthlessly.

-Rothfuss

Trouble is, as things stand they do interfere, a lot of work has been done on this. FHSS (including 802.11 FH devices) can ruin the performance of a well-tuned DHSS running in the band. IEEE 802.15 TG2 is working on mitigating this in Bluetooth by firmware changes to existing/new kit to reduce likelihood of both transmitting at the same time. Plus in the US, FCC has recently approved changes to band usage that will allow FHSS (incl. Bluetooth) to be more adaptive. Looks like there may be a path to allow OFDM on 2.4GHz soon too (I'd be interested to know if anyone has read anything on OFDM/BT interop? I guess it stands better chance than DSSS since it's multiple carrier - maybe there is still a chance for 802.11g...)

Start here if you want to know more...let's just hope that any modifications to Bluetooth required are done now before many mobile phones are sold. It is next to impossible to get firmware updated on non-tech consumer kit once it's out in the wild (unless there are other, show-stopper, bugs which stop the phone from working correctly - ha, like that's never happened before has it Nokia... ;)

Funny really, I'd have thought Bluetooth would have been better suited to 5GHz. The higher bandwidth available would be useful (both to increase speed and keep bursts short), and the lower range that's possible isn't such a problem for the intended use of Bluetooth.

Of course, 3G licensees and their mobile phone/infrastructure/cash injection suppliers who don't really want free-net hippies eroding the geek local bandwidth market share - after all they have hospitals and cheap booze to pay for - have their own agendas when deciding what tech to push in what band.

Mind you, it's not all bad - personally I'd be quite a bit more interested to see this kind of tech used for the backbone - a neighbourhood is much easier to wire than a long distance link... to get this kind of DX you'll be using fairly tight beams, much less subject to interference, and as long as Bluetooth can be made to tread a little less heavily over local 802.11b base-station installations than it has in the past and share the band fairly then the current generation of cheap(ish) WLAN kit will still be useful and there will be much fun to be had by all...

I hope it does get sorted, things like this could be very cool and while I really don't think d*mned wireless mobile phone headsets are worth the use of free spectrum (*why* can't this kind of thing be run out of *licensed* band if it's run by a commercial service! there should be plenty of that available for lowpower...) I live in hope that everyone'll be able to live together, not stomp all over each other's signal and be happy...

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