They're priced different because pricing isn't based solely on the cost to the supplier. Demand, competition, perceived value, price discrimination, etc... all influence the price as well.
I use OpenDNS because in my country they dared to censor the Internet twice using DNS.
Google DNS could be useful if they don't implement any censorship, considering how much hate P2P sites gets from corporations we will see if they manage to stay neutral.
As a non-American, I may trust Google's ethics, but unfortunately, I don't trusts America's. I don't want my personal data subject to American DMCA, wiretapping, or other laws any more than I have to. Fortunately my country hasn't gone that route... yet. I'll stick to my ISPs DNS and my local privacy laws.
DAY 752 - My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from shredding the occasional piece of furniture. Tomorrow I may eat another houseplant and cough it up on the carpeting.
DAY 761 - Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded, must try this at the top of the stairs. In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair...must try this on their bed (again).
DAY 762 - Slept all day so that I could annoy my captors with sleep depriving, incessant pleas for food at ungodly hours of the night.
DAY 765 - Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body, in an attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear into their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little cat I was...Hmmm. Not working according to plan...
DAY 768- I am finally aware of how sadistic they are. For no good reason I was chosen for the water torture. This time however it included a burning foamy chemical called "shampoo". What sick minds could invent such a liquid. My only consolation is the piece of thumb still stuck between my teeth and the tiny bit of flesh under my claws.
DAY 771 - There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise and smell the foul odor of the glass tubes they call "beer." More importantly I overheard that my confinement was due to MY power of "allergies". Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.
DAY 774 - I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit. The Bird on the other hand has got to be an informant. He has mastered their frightful tongue (something akin to mole speak) and speaks with them regularly. I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current placement in the metal room his safety is assured. But I can wait, it is only a matter of time.
And for the love of Pete, switch to a longer password with some nice scrunchy numbers, letters (upper and lower) and a few special characters. [..snip]..Seriously secure password, and you're going to remember the hell out of it. Of course, it helps if you use something memorable to you.
Then you'll never go around saying "Amazing! That's the exact same combination I have on my luggage!"
I have my router set up without a password, and the SSID set to "Bring beer to Apt. 243".
Since then, I've had the pleasure of meeting a few of my neighbors and drinking beer with them.
Aside from anecdotal stories, how do you know piracy was what caused the lack of sales of the game? Why did other, worse games, sell better than this one?
It's quite possible lack of good marketing made the game a commercial failure, and only afterward it gained a cult following, and now everyone's played it, but couldn't buy it easily ?
I could also easily point to several movies that were commercial failures, but 'everyone' has seen and are considered to be some of the greatest movies (Wizard of Oz, off the top of my head.) I doubt piracy was the cause of those movies failures.
Absolutely the first level of the Aliens TC for Doom. The first level. Not one monster on the whole level, but I wasted just about all my ammo shooting at random noises and doors that opened by themselves. -shudder-
The age of consent in Canada is 14,/unless/ the person is in a position of authority, then it's 18. Generally authority means policeman, teacher, swim coach, and I'm pretty sure, someone on AOL who's job it is to protect kids....
For a long time I didn't vote.. Why? I had no idea what was going on. Politics didn't interest me in the slightest... I didn't know the difference between right and left... So, I didn't vote.. Mind you, I didn't complain either....
I think if you don't know what's going on - that's fine. Not everyone/SHOULD/ vote.. There are people that are quite ignorant and that's fine...
What I think SHOULD happen is that on your voter registration card you should have a simple multiple choice test regarding the various platforms of the various parties... you fail the test you don't vote...
But somehow I don't see that coming into effect anytime soon.
I've done a lot of backpacking and as such have used 100s of cyber-cafes... My advice: Use pen/paper.
Almost every system I've seen that keeps track and/or limits the the amount of time you have on a computer is cumbersome, makes it difficult to use the computer, crashes once in awhile and in general just causes headaches...
The best cafes are the ones that mark the time down when you start and when you finish on some paper. No hassles, no problems, much simpler.
I never really got into D&D as a roleplaying game. I played the basic edition, which was good for what it was, but as soon as they went to AD&D I always found the rules were getting in the way of the storytelling.... *roll*playing instead of roleplaying.
Then I found Harn Master. This first thing that impressed me was that there was 1 rule book and about a dozen books on history, countries, politics, maps, religion, arcane arts, details of cities, people who lived and worked in cities. The entire rule set was intended to be as believable as realistic as possible without the rules being encumbering - There were no character classes, thus allowing you to just be a 'person' in the immensly detailed world. The entire world was based on the technology of medieval Europe, but with a bit of magic and monsters thrown in to keep it interesting. Things weren't overdone. As a GM I was always able to scare or amaze the players when they saw magic or a non-humanoid monster...
Harn reminds me more of the world for Tolkein... Fantasy but not overblown... People are still just people... Magic is still revered, and the world is believable... If there are any Role-players out there who are looking for something more along those lines, I would seriously recommend looking into it.
I've had a lot of actual experience with this. I've been researching a bunch of stuff on the history of Quebec city, and been using the Internet for most of it. Using Google, a few other search engines, I'll find a lot of information but most of it is second-hand, urban legend and, often, completly wrong. Not that I don't expect that, but I'd also expect to find good sources listed; they do exist.
For example: try finding a biography on 'Louis Hebert' on the net. You'll find a few pages, some of them good mixed in with the expected crap. But what you WON'T find -- in fact someone had to tell me to look here -- is the entry in The Dictionary of Canadian Biography which includes a bibliography giving original sources. It is hands down the best source for the type of information I need.
After weeks of serching for different historical figures I'd didn't even come across The Canadian Encyclopedia. This site has detailed information, including video and pics, on absolutely everyone and everything Canadian, but I've never seen it come up in the first half dozen pages of a search. Google won't find it even when you limit it to that site
But both these recources are all but lost in the 'deep web'.
This report is mistaken. The first large-scale spamming of Usenet preceeded this one by nearly two months. I remember it well, as I used Usenet pretty heavily at the time.
What about the infamous MAKE MONEY FAST post(s) ? Google archives gives me the first post on Feb 7th, 1990.
These went on for quite a while with everyone discussing if they should call the police/FBI or if it was a freedom of speach issue.
On the #maestro channel on freenode, a bunch of people got talking about this. Although no one there is an expert on the cameras, the conclusion reached was that it was probably an error in the camera. If you look at the original the object is completely white. When you have any object that comes up as completly white you have to take into account problems with the pixels bleeding. Also, the colour image is a combonation of several images (one for each filter) which aren't taken at exactly the same time, so the object may of moved (if it were a peice of airbag, or other stray material that came off during the pyrotechnics that released the cables it might of blown around in the wind). When combining those pictures you would get odd looking object that doesn't convey what it actually looks like.
You can see all the original pictures of the strange object here.
I was doing phone support for a national bank in Canada. One of the problems we routinely had was a connection would freeze-up on a teller's terminal in one of the 1000s of bank branchs across the country.. We'd have to go into a program running on our AS-400 and reset the connection. On the odd occasion it wasn't just one terminal but serveral at the branch. We'd have to get all the tellers to exit out of their terminals for a second, then, in the program, we'd esentially hit the 'back' button, be up one level so we saw all the connections by bank branch instead of by terminal, hit 'backspace' to send the command to reset the connection and then 'y - enter' to confirm.
I got one of these calls, and I went one level up the tree, got distracted by something, and without thinking hit up-backspace-y-enter, going up two levels in the tree instead of one. This reset all the connections for the whole network, to all the banks, all across Canada.
Every phone in the call center started ringing. Every LED that could flash red did so. Everyone in the call centre looked around frantically. I looked at my terminal and almost died on the spot.
Not only had I reset all the terminal connection, but trying to bring them back online flooded the network so as soon as they tried to come back up they all went offline again. It took several hours to get things stabalized and the banks could start serving customers again.
Fortunatly my boss was a decent guy. He saw it as an accident and something that no one should be able to accidently do. The command to reset the entire network was modified so you had to type in your password to confirm, instead of just 'y-enter'
Some scientests take two weeks to create a self-replicating virus? Big deal. Like this Hasn't been done before. Heck, I could manage it in a couple of hours, and I hardn't know how to program. Why the hell is this news?
The CN-tower is actually the tallest free-standing STRUCTURE (not building).
The world's tallest STRUCTURE is the KTHI-TV tower in North Dakota (629m) -- it's supported by guy wires.
The world's tallest structure not supported by guy wires is the Petronius Platform (640m) but since its sits in the ocean it can be argued that it is supported by buoyancy.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, who rate 'tall buildings', say the CN Tower isn't a building because it's not a "frame structure made with floors and walls throughout"
So, that leaves the CN Tower as the world's talles freestanding STRUCTURE - which seems to be completly ignored by the city of Toronto who still try to say it's The Worlds Tallest Building
That helps a lot with bills... But have you ever looked at American coins next to just about any other coins from around the world?
I never even noticed it myself until a German friend pointed it out. There's no numbers on American coins. 'One Dime' is pretty much usless unless you're familiar with the American expression 'dime'.. 'Quarter Dollar' is vaguely more helpful, as long as you speak English.
Every other coin I've ever seem from around the world always has numerals on them, since pretty much everyone in the world recognizes their 1,2,3 and 4s...
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They're priced different because pricing isn't based solely on the cost to the supplier. Demand, competition, perceived value, price discrimination, etc... all influence the price as well.
Unfortunately, it seems MadTV has already claim to the name "iPAD" :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs
I use OpenDNS because in my country they dared to censor the Internet twice using DNS.
Google DNS could be useful if they don't implement any censorship, considering how much hate P2P sites gets from corporations we will see if they manage to stay neutral.
As a non-American, I may trust Google's ethics, but unfortunately, I don't trusts America's. I don't want my personal data subject to American DMCA, wiretapping, or other laws any more than I have to. Fortunately my country hasn't gone that route... yet. I'll stick to my ISPs DNS and my local privacy laws.
The whole thing:
Secret Cat Diary.
DAY 752 - My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from shredding the occasional piece of furniture. Tomorrow I may eat another houseplant and cough it up on the carpeting.
DAY 761 - Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded, must try this at the top of the stairs. In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair...must try this on their bed (again).
DAY 762 - Slept all day so that I could annoy my captors with sleep depriving, incessant pleas for food at ungodly hours of the night.
DAY 765 - Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body, in an attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear into their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little cat I was...Hmmm. Not working according to plan...
DAY 768- I am finally aware of how sadistic they are. For no good reason I was chosen for the water torture. This time however it included a burning foamy chemical called "shampoo". What sick minds could invent such a liquid. My only consolation is the piece of thumb still stuck between my teeth and the tiny bit of flesh under my claws.
DAY 771 - There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise and smell the foul odor of the glass tubes they call "beer." More importantly I overheard that my confinement was due to MY power of "allergies". Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.
DAY 774 - I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit. The Bird on the other hand has got to be an informant. He has mastered their frightful tongue (something akin to mole speak) and speaks with them regularly. I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current placement in the metal room his safety is assured. But I can wait, it is only a matter of time.
And for the love of Pete, switch to a longer password with some nice scrunchy numbers, letters (upper and lower) and a few special characters. [..snip]..Seriously secure password, and you're going to remember the hell out of it. Of course, it helps if you use something memorable to you.
Then you'll never go around saying "Amazing! That's the exact same combination I have on my luggage!"
I have my router set up without a password, and the SSID set to "Bring beer to Apt. 243".
Since then, I've had the pleasure of meeting a few of my neighbors and drinking beer with them.
You can request CCTV video you appear in under the Freedom of Information Act.
Famously, a band recorded a music video using this law. (Playing infront of a CCTV camera, then requesting the video )
Article: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20080641315116
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2iuZMEEs_A
Aside from anecdotal stories, how do you know piracy was what caused the lack of sales of the game? Why did other, worse games, sell better than this one?
It's quite possible lack of good marketing made the game a commercial failure, and only afterward it gained a cult following, and now everyone's played it, but couldn't buy it easily ?
I could also easily point to several movies that were commercial failures, but 'everyone' has seen and are considered to be some of the greatest movies (Wizard of Oz, off the top of my head.) I doubt piracy was the cause of those movies failures.
Absolutely the first level of the Aliens TC for Doom. The first level. Not one monster on the whole level, but I wasted just about all my ammo shooting at random noises and doors that opened by themselves. -shudder-
The age of consent in Canada is 14, /unless/ the person is in a position of authority, then it's 18. Generally authority means policeman, teacher, swim coach, and I'm pretty sure, someone on AOL who's job it is to protect kids....
It'll be legal in Canada, but it'll be banned in the US because it prompts a gay life-style.
I'm guessing you find a high-end sony DVD player with all the latest options, and stick on bar code for the $89.99 DVD on special.
For a long time I didn't vote.. Why? I had no idea what was going on. Politics didn't interest me in the slightest... I didn't know the difference between right and left... So, I didn't vote.. Mind you, I didn't complain either....
/SHOULD/ vote.. There are people that are quite ignorant and that's fine...
I think if you don't know what's going on - that's fine. Not everyone
What I think SHOULD happen is that on your voter registration card you should have a simple multiple choice test regarding the various platforms of the various parties... you fail the test you don't vote...
But somehow I don't see that coming into effect anytime soon.
I've done a lot of backpacking and as such have used 100s of cyber-cafes... My advice: Use pen/paper.
Almost every system I've seen that keeps track and/or limits the the amount of time you have on a computer is cumbersome, makes it difficult to use the computer, crashes once in awhile and in general just causes headaches...
The best cafes are the ones that mark the time down when you start and when you finish on some paper. No hassles, no problems, much simpler.
I never really got into D&D as a roleplaying game. I played the basic edition, which was good for what it was, but as soon as they went to AD&D I always found the rules were getting in the way of the storytelling.... *roll*playing instead of roleplaying.
Then I found Harn Master. This first thing that impressed me was that there was 1 rule book and about a dozen books on history, countries, politics, maps, religion, arcane arts, details of cities, people who lived and worked in cities. The entire rule set was intended to be as believable as realistic as possible without the rules being encumbering - There were no character classes, thus allowing you to just be a 'person' in the immensly detailed world. The entire world was based on the technology of medieval Europe, but with a bit of magic and monsters thrown in to keep it interesting. Things weren't overdone. As a GM I was always able to scare or amaze the players when they saw magic or a non-humanoid monster...
Harn reminds me more of the world for Tolkein... Fantasy but not overblown... People are still just people... Magic is still revered, and the world is believable... If there are any Role-players out there who are looking for something more along those lines, I would seriously recommend looking into it.
Jason
Definatly anti-Bush, not anti-American. The French, for example, love John Kerry
I've had a lot of actual experience with this. I've been researching a bunch of stuff on the history of Quebec city, and been using the Internet for most of it. Using Google, a few other search engines, I'll find a lot of information but most of it is second-hand, urban legend and, often, completly wrong. Not that I don't expect that, but I'd also expect to find good sources listed; they do exist.
For example: try finding a biography on 'Louis Hebert' on the net. You'll find a few pages, some of them good mixed in with the expected crap. But what you WON'T find -- in fact someone had to tell me to look here -- is the entry in The Dictionary of Canadian Biography which includes a bibliography giving original sources. It is hands down the best source for the type of information I need.
After weeks of serching for different historical figures I'd didn't even come across The Canadian Encyclopedia. This site has detailed information, including video and pics, on absolutely everyone and everything Canadian, but I've never seen it come up in the first half dozen pages of a search. Google won't find it even when you limit it to that site
But both these recources are all but lost in the 'deep web'.
This report is mistaken. The first large-scale spamming of Usenet preceeded this one by nearly two months. I remember it well, as I used Usenet pretty heavily at the time.
What about the infamous MAKE MONEY FAST post(s) ? Google archives gives me the first post on Feb 7th, 1990.
These went on for quite a while with everyone discussing if they should call the police/FBI or if it was a freedom of speach issue.
Jason
On the #maestro channel on freenode, a bunch of people got talking about this. Although no one there is an expert on the cameras, the conclusion reached was that it was probably an error in the camera. If you look at the original the object is completely white. When you have any object that comes up as completly white you have to take into account problems with the pixels bleeding. Also, the colour image is a combonation of several images (one for each filter) which aren't taken at exactly the same time, so the object may of moved (if it were a peice of airbag, or other stray material that came off during the pyrotechnics that released the cables it might of blown around in the wind). When combining those pictures you would get odd looking object that doesn't convey what it actually looks like.
You can see all the original pictures of the strange object here.
To the ire of most geeks, the meaning of 'hacker' - according the the public - used to be: someone who broke into computers illegaly.
This article uses it in the context of: Person who is famous/infamous for their computer expertise.
Which is at least a step in the right direction.
Back in the early 1990s I lived in Victoria, BC (where this kid lives now) and there was a little computer shop called 'Mike Rowe Computers'.
Looks like it has gone out of business now, but I wonder if it's somehow related... ?
I was doing phone support for a national bank in Canada. One of the problems we routinely had was a connection would freeze-up on a teller's terminal in one of the 1000s of bank branchs across the country.. We'd have to go into a program running on our AS-400 and reset the connection. On the odd occasion it wasn't just one terminal but serveral at the branch. We'd have to get all the tellers to exit out of their terminals for a second, then, in the program, we'd esentially hit the 'back' button, be up one level so we saw all the connections by bank branch instead of by terminal, hit 'backspace' to send the command to reset the connection and then 'y - enter' to confirm.
I got one of these calls, and I went one level up the tree, got distracted by something, and without thinking hit up-backspace-y-enter, going up two levels in the tree instead of one. This reset all the connections for the whole network, to all the banks, all across Canada.
Every phone in the call center started ringing. Every LED that could flash red did so. Everyone in the call centre looked around frantically. I looked at my terminal and almost died on the spot.
Not only had I reset all the terminal connection, but trying to bring them back online flooded the network so as soon as they tried to come back up they all went offline again. It took several hours to get things stabalized and the banks could start serving customers again.
Fortunatly my boss was a decent guy. He saw it as an accident and something that no one should be able to accidently do. The command to reset the entire network was modified so you had to type in your password to confirm, instead of just 'y-enter'
No, it wouldn't. That would be a corporate decision by Google.
If The Government forced google to remove them, THAT would be censorship.
Jason.
Some scientests take two weeks to create a self-replicating virus? Big deal. Like this Hasn't been done before. Heck, I could manage it in a couple of hours, and I hardn't know how to program. Why the hell is this news?
<RTFA>
Oh. You mean a *biological* virus.
Nevermind.
</RTFA>
The CN-tower is actually the tallest free-standing STRUCTURE (not building).
The world's tallest STRUCTURE is the KTHI-TV tower in North Dakota (629m) -- it's supported by guy wires.
The world's tallest structure not supported by guy wires is the Petronius Platform (640m) but since its sits in the ocean it can be argued that it is supported by buoyancy.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, who rate 'tall buildings', say the CN Tower isn't a building because it's not a "frame structure made with floors and walls throughout"
So, that leaves the CN Tower as the world's talles freestanding STRUCTURE - which seems to be completly ignored by the city of Toronto who still try to say it's The Worlds Tallest Building
Jason
That helps a lot with bills... But have you ever looked at American coins next to just about any other coins from around the world?
I never even noticed it myself until a German friend pointed it out. There's no numbers on American coins. 'One Dime' is pretty much usless unless you're familiar with the American expression 'dime'.. 'Quarter Dollar' is vaguely more helpful, as long as you speak English.
Every other coin I've ever seem from around the world always has numerals on them, since pretty much everyone in the world recognizes their 1,2,3 and 4s...