I don't know if you missed this one, but Fido is now owned by Rogers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fido_Solutions Their service is still better on many accounts (for example, by-the-second billing) but it will no doubt get sucked into the quagmire of crap that is Rogers.
I don't think anything's going to improve on this front until we have a change of government in Canada. Look at the copyright legislation the Conservatives wanted to introduce! They are in the palm of the CRIA.
I don't know if you folks caught this in the U.S., since it was a Canadian study, but earlier this month a report in the Public Library of Science Medicine journal showed that U.S. drug companies are spending twice as much on marketing as on research. Here's the report from the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2008/01/03/drugs.html
I certainly won't argue that Vista is a crappy bloated OS, etc. etc. You wouldn't catch me dead using it!
What we're all set for is turning that crappy bloated OS into a crappy non-bloated OS, thereby reducing unnecessary hardware upgrades, excess power use, DRM-related nonsense in Windows Media Player, and so on and so on. In the mean time, people can use more useful software on their Windows machines (which is generally ported Unix-based software anyway) thereby easing the eventual transition to Linux.
But really, it was just an off-hand joke.
Hey, wait a minute. Space tourism is cool, and breaking governments' monopoly of space travel has its merits, but is no one concerned about the environmental damage this is going to wreak?
Why is there no discussion of how much carbon these rockets are going to be spewing into all levels of the atmosphere?
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I don't know if you missed this one, but Fido is now owned by Rogers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fido_Solutions Their service is still better on many accounts (for example, by-the-second billing) but it will no doubt get sucked into the quagmire of crap that is Rogers.
I don't think anything's going to improve on this front until we have a change of government in Canada. Look at the copyright legislation the Conservatives wanted to introduce! They are in the palm of the CRIA.
No, no! It's up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, select, start. Of course, that just buys you more free moves.
It doesn't actually say... in Italian, nor in Googlenglish.
I don't know if you folks caught this in the U.S., since it was a Canadian study, but earlier this month a report in the Public Library of Science Medicine journal showed that U.S. drug companies are spending twice as much on marketing as on research. Here's the report from the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2008/01/03/drugs.html
I certainly won't argue that Vista is a crappy bloated OS, etc. etc. You wouldn't catch me dead using it! What we're all set for is turning that crappy bloated OS into a crappy non-bloated OS, thereby reducing unnecessary hardware upgrades, excess power use, DRM-related nonsense in Windows Media Player, and so on and so on. In the mean time, people can use more useful software on their Windows machines (which is generally ported Unix-based software anyway) thereby easing the eventual transition to Linux. But really, it was just an off-hand joke.
Great. Now somebody turn this into a virus, and we're all set.
Hey, wait a minute. Space tourism is cool, and breaking governments' monopoly of space travel has its merits, but is no one concerned about the environmental damage this is going to wreak? Why is there no discussion of how much carbon these rockets are going to be spewing into all levels of the atmosphere?
Is it a bad sign that I find these pictures sexy?
In other news, the successor to Vista will not require hardware.