Or, you could force the first login to change the username and password like another poster wrote further up. Why go at this backasswards at the manufacturing level?
So they shouldn't promote the use of textbooks either. Because regular textbooks can't be used by someone that is completely blind, they need a braille version.
I don't see a difference here and this is just PC poppycock run rampant. Next they'll be banning sports such as football and track and field because people in wheelchairs can't do the farking high jump or hurdles.
Canada is just returning the courtesy show to her citizens by the US. There are Canadians forbidden from entering the US or doing business with the US because they do business with countries or companies in countries of which the US does not approve (such as Cuba). They don't have criminal records, they're just doing business with someone the US hates. This coming from a bunch of moronic hypocrites that sell weapons to a country (Iraq) or train terrorists (bin Laden) and then get a farking surprised look on their faces when it comes back to bite them in the ass. Give me a break.
I'd agree to this. But, only if we built a new airport in the middle of Nunavut or the N.W.T. that all US flights travelling over Canadian airspace would have to stop at. I'd rather not clog up our existing airports with this but I think I nice facility in the middle of farking no where would do well to get our point across.
That's what I'm waiting for. I don't need a cell phone and I'm not willing to drop the kind of money they want for even the cheapest 3GS iPhone to get the functionality. But, if Apple were to put a camera in the Touch I'd buy one immediately, it is the only thing the device is missing.
Why would you want to? It's an E-ink display. Oooh...look at the pretty greyscale.
On top of that, according to two reviews I read that were both posted here on Slashdot last week, the thing is dog slow just displaying the next page of the book you are reading. Think it will do any better with the web?
Yeah, wondering the same thing here too. You don't get stopped by US border security when going to the Canadian border from the US side. You get stopped by Canadian border security. So something is definitely fishy with the account of events being told.
If Apple opens up the iPhone to allow third-party anti-virus programs to run, guess what will happen? All of a sudden there will be viruses for the iPhone. Gee, I wonder why Apple doesn't want to do that?
No sympathy from me for people using hacked iPhones and getting trojans since they knew the risks when they hacked it.
Well, I'd trust a police officer talking on a cell phone to not be distracted over a 16 year old who just learned to drive yesterday, doing the same thing.
I wasn't even referring to Western aid. I was writing about countries that don't even provide their people with basic level services such as medical care and a stable agricultural system. Worrying about broadband is farking ludicrous when people are dropping dead from disease and starvation.
How many people starved to death last year in the USA? Compare that to the number of people that starved to death in Swaziland (one of the countries from the article).
What do you think is more important to the people of Swaziland? A stable and reliable agricultural system or 10 cents/minute cell phone plans?
Came to say this exact thing. Some countries look like they are trying to jump too far ahead while they don't even have the basics covered. If you can't reliably deliver food to your people or provide basic health and medical services the last frickin' thing you and they need is internet access.
No I am not deaf. I just don't care enough (ie. I'm not an adiophile) to actively listen for the differences. So 48Kbps and 106Kbps don't sound all that different to me because I have more important things in my life than worrying about what audio rate a two minute song was encoded at.
As long as the sound is clean and there is no static, no pops, crackles, or hissing, I could care less what it is encoded at. To my ear there really is no difference.
Well it would matter because a cursive signature is more personalized. Expert forgers aside, chances are that the average person out there isn't going to be able to copy your signature if you use cursive. If you just block print it, a 5 year old could copy it. What will then stop someone from using your name on contracts? How will you argue that you didn't sign it?
Now you are saying to yourself, "Well who cares? It doesn't matter!" Well yes it does. My late father used to have a VERY distinct cursive signature. About 12 - 15 years ago there were agents from a new utility company in the area where my parents lived going door to door trying to sign up new customers. My parents were happy with the company they were with and told the salesman "No thanks". Less than a month later my dad gets a letter in the mail thanking him for switching to the new company. He called and told them he wanted to see a copy of the contract and when he received it, it was quite obvious someone else signed it. Boy did the sh#t hit the fan when he called them back threatening lawsuits for identity theft, document forgery, etc.
I wouldn't want a printed "signature" any more than I would want to use 16 bit encryption to do online banking.
When you can get a tablet that will take a decent stylus or your finger, and has e-Ink but does video, THAT is going to revolutionize reading.
No, what is going to revolutionize reading is not the device but the DRM. When you can read any electronic book on a multitude of devices without DRM and format getting in the way, that will revolutionize reading. As it stands now proprietary hardware lock-in stinks and needs to be done away with fast if e-books are to surpass the dead tree kind.
Either avoid Canada or don't expect to have coverage while driving across it. Before I start getting flamed, relax I am Canadian and we all know that we get COMPLETELY SCREWED by Bell, Rogers, Telus, etc. for cellular coverage, data plans and internet usage.
In CoH, I don't really recall *ever* needing to team - except for task forces (which forced a team on you even if you could easily solo all of them), and those were just obnoxiously long, punitively long and boring. Teaming could be fun, but it wasn't necessary.
As you said teaming was necessary for task forces. But when teamed it became obviously very quickly those players that always played solo and didn't know how to function in a team. The number of tanks I came across that couldn't properly hold agro and the number of defenders and controllers with empathy that would only heal themselves was astounding.
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Or, you could force the first login to change the username and password like another poster wrote further up. Why go at this backasswards at the manufacturing level?
So they shouldn't promote the use of textbooks either. Because regular textbooks can't be used by someone that is completely blind, they need a braille version.
I don't see a difference here and this is just PC poppycock run rampant. Next they'll be banning sports such as football and track and field because people in wheelchairs can't do the farking high jump or hurdles.
Canada is just returning the courtesy show to her citizens by the US. There are Canadians forbidden from entering the US or doing business with the US because they do business with countries or companies in countries of which the US does not approve (such as Cuba). They don't have criminal records, they're just doing business with someone the US hates. This coming from a bunch of moronic hypocrites that sell weapons to a country (Iraq) or train terrorists (bin Laden) and then get a farking surprised look on their faces when it comes back to bite them in the ass. Give me a break.
I'd agree to this. But, only if we built a new airport in the middle of Nunavut or the N.W.T. that all US flights travelling over Canadian airspace would have to stop at. I'd rather not clog up our existing airports with this but I think I nice facility in the middle of farking no where would do well to get our point across.
My netbook is running Ubuntu (full desktop version not their netbook remix). So what do you mean they don't run linux?
That's what I'm waiting for. I don't need a cell phone and I'm not willing to drop the kind of money they want for even the cheapest 3GS iPhone to get the functionality. But, if Apple were to put a camera in the Touch I'd buy one immediately, it is the only thing the device is missing.
Doesn't God hold the ultimate copyright on the Pope?
Why would you want to? It's an E-ink display. Oooh...look at the pretty greyscale.
On top of that, according to two reviews I read that were both posted here on Slashdot last week, the thing is dog slow just displaying the next page of the book you are reading. Think it will do any better with the web?
Yeah, wondering the same thing here too. You don't get stopped by US border security when going to the Canadian border from the US side. You get stopped by Canadian border security. So something is definitely fishy with the account of events being told.
If Apple opens up the iPhone to allow third-party anti-virus programs to run, guess what will happen? All of a sudden there will be viruses for the iPhone. Gee, I wonder why Apple doesn't want to do that?
No sympathy from me for people using hacked iPhones and getting trojans since they knew the risks when they hacked it.
I can see it now, someone goes on a 24 hour gaming bender and their insides get liquified due to this thing.
Well, I'd trust a police officer talking on a cell phone to not be distracted over a 16 year old who just learned to drive yesterday, doing the same thing.
Flying is not a right. You want to fly, you get searched. Don't want to be searched? Then don't fly.
I wasn't even referring to Western aid. I was writing about countries that don't even provide their people with basic level services such as medical care and a stable agricultural system. Worrying about broadband is farking ludicrous when people are dropping dead from disease and starvation.
How many people starved to death last year in the USA? Compare that to the number of people that starved to death in Swaziland (one of the countries from the article).
What do you think is more important to the people of Swaziland? A stable and reliable agricultural system or 10 cents/minute cell phone plans?
Came to say this exact thing. Some countries look like they are trying to jump too far ahead while they don't even have the basics covered. If you can't reliably deliver food to your people or provide basic health and medical services the last frickin' thing you and they need is internet access.
Yep. Even the "international" version of the Kindle is not available in Canada. WTF is up with that?
No I am not deaf. I just don't care enough (ie. I'm not an adiophile) to actively listen for the differences. So 48Kbps and 106Kbps don't sound all that different to me because I have more important things in my life than worrying about what audio rate a two minute song was encoded at.
As long as the sound is clean and there is no static, no pops, crackles, or hissing, I could care less what it is encoded at. To my ear there really is no difference.
Exactly. Let them worry about preservation.
Don't most museums have at least one archivist anyways?
Well it would matter because a cursive signature is more personalized. Expert forgers aside, chances are that the average person out there isn't going to be able to copy your signature if you use cursive. If you just block print it, a 5 year old could copy it. What will then stop someone from using your name on contracts? How will you argue that you didn't sign it?
Now you are saying to yourself, "Well who cares? It doesn't matter!" Well yes it does. My late father used to have a VERY distinct cursive signature. About 12 - 15 years ago there were agents from a new utility company in the area where my parents lived going door to door trying to sign up new customers. My parents were happy with the company they were with and told the salesman "No thanks". Less than a month later my dad gets a letter in the mail thanking him for switching to the new company. He called and told them he wanted to see a copy of the contract and when he received it, it was quite obvious someone else signed it. Boy did the sh#t hit the fan when he called them back threatening lawsuits for identity theft, document forgery, etc.
I wouldn't want a printed "signature" any more than I would want to use 16 bit encryption to do online banking.
When you can get a tablet that will take a decent stylus or your finger, and has e-Ink but does video, THAT is going to revolutionize reading.
No, what is going to revolutionize reading is not the device but the DRM. When you can read any electronic book on a multitude of devices without DRM and format getting in the way, that will revolutionize reading. As it stands now proprietary hardware lock-in stinks and needs to be done away with fast if e-books are to surpass the dead tree kind.
I think if they wanted to be that remote they wouldn't be RVing.
Some of us like "soft" remote or Remote 1.0 over "hard" remote / Remote 2.0
Either avoid Canada or don't expect to have coverage while driving across it. Before I start getting flamed, relax I am Canadian and we all know that we get COMPLETELY SCREWED by Bell, Rogers, Telus, etc. for cellular coverage, data plans and internet usage.
In CoH, I don't really recall *ever* needing to team - except for task forces (which forced a team on you even if you could easily solo all of them), and those were just obnoxiously long, punitively long and boring. Teaming could be fun, but it wasn't necessary.
As you said teaming was necessary for task forces. But when teamed it became obviously very quickly those players that always played solo and didn't know how to function in a team. The number of tanks I came across that couldn't properly hold agro and the number of defenders and controllers with empathy that would only heal themselves was astounding.