ISDN isn't always available though.. Bell Canada charges around 110 a month when they do offer it, and most ISP's around here charge around 50 a month for the service, since you're using up two ports on their modem pool.
Unfortunately, Bell will only put ISDN in if they don't have to run repeaters.. so in that case if ISDN was available, DSL might have been anyways.
I can't remeber if it was 9 or 16 dollars a month per pole to run fiber in my city about 5 years ago when we looked into it... but it was obscenely expensive for a quarter mile run.
you should look into the Bell/Rogers WiMax service.. we're right at the fringe area of coverage(the antenna software claims we're linking up from about 11km away), and yet for the most part it's stable at it's 2mbit link speed.
The 10 gb a month bandwidth limits are horrible though.
Because the 27 years of weight adding for crash safety, airbags, ABS, traction control, larger cars, etc, etc have added hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds of weight, which largely hasn't been offset by use of lighter weight materials in the construction of cars
A Smart Diesel has around the same power as that '81 Rabbit, and does similar, with modern crash safety.. but look at how small it is.
I remember reading that the european tests assume you are belted in.. the american ones rely on the airbags more, and american cars would have more padding inside, to the point where it interferes with european testing.
Blackberry data rates already approach your $20.. my plan is one of the cheaper ones my carrier provides, and it's 8 dollars a meg for traffic.. the more expensive plan is $12 a meg.
Combine speech recognition, bionic contacts (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/17/1921217), and this lipreading software, and you've got realtime captioning/subtitles for the deaf.
I agree with the various posters about the late reading age.. I was already programming in BASIC by that age, and was reading at a grade 6 level by then as well.
Too bad google maps won't use the built in GPS on my 7520... it'll talk to a bluetooth gps receiver though.
Though, with the below dialup speeds of the blackberry, and 8 dollar a meg transfer charges, I'm not sure I'd want to do much with google maps anyways.
Sears was responsive enough, not much in slowdowns. However, once you put something into your cart, it wouldn't allow you to remove it... had to delete cookies to get a new cart.
I installed a system with a PATA cdrom on a modern ASUS board.. believe it was one of the P5B's.. Got through windows install, didn't bother installing the JMicron PATA driver because it wasn't strictly needed.
Activated XP with no problem.
Went back and put the JMicron driver in, XP came up with a 'must activate' dialog.. had to call it in on the phone to get it activated.
In the interest of science, I repeated the process with another machine I was building, but didn't call it in. Didn't need the machine for about 4-5 months. When I went back to the machine and turned it on months later, it came up with the must activate part, which it was able to do online.. 120 day timeout on activation had expired so I didn't need a phone monkey.
according to tvfool.com, my dad would have to put up a 900 foot TV tower to get more than about 7 stations, and 144 feet would get him an additional 5 or so over the two he gets now.
I used to be able to listen to Cell phones as a kid back in the early 80's on an ancient 13" b&w tv that still did up to channel 82 or so.. had to be very picky on the manual tuning dial to make out anything.
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Your estate profits when they sue the microwave manufacturer for a defeatable interlock.
Now what will those pesky Canadians think of next?!
we have the service at a facility with bell, and experience similar issues.. we're about 11 km away from the tower though.
ISDN isn't always available though.. Bell Canada charges around 110 a month when they do offer it, and most ISP's around here charge around 50 a month for the service, since you're using up two ports on their modem pool.
Unfortunately, Bell will only put ISDN in if they don't have to run repeaters.. so in that case if ISDN was available, DSL might have been anyways.
RLL encoding vs MFM.
I can't remeber if it was 9 or 16 dollars a month per pole to run fiber in my city about 5 years ago when we looked into it... but it was obscenely expensive for a quarter mile run.
you should look into the Bell/Rogers WiMax service.. we're right at the fringe area of coverage(the antenna software claims we're linking up from about 11km away), and yet for the most part it's stable at it's 2mbit link speed.
The 10 gb a month bandwidth limits are horrible though.
Oh look, we've got Token Ring for wireless!
Because the 27 years of weight adding for crash safety, airbags, ABS, traction control, larger cars, etc, etc have added hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds of weight, which largely hasn't been offset by use of lighter weight materials in the construction of cars
A Smart Diesel has around the same power as that '81 Rabbit, and does similar, with modern crash safety.. but look at how small it is.
Pumps in Canada at least around here anyways, have a label "Volume corrected for 15 C"
US and Imperial gallons vary significantly, 70mpg in imperial is 58 mpg in US gallons.. still quite good.
I remember reading that the european tests assume you are belted in.. the american ones rely on the airbags more, and american cars would have more padding inside, to the point where it interferes with european testing.
Blackberry data rates already approach your $20.. my plan is one of the cheaper ones my carrier provides, and it's 8 dollars a meg for traffic.. the more expensive plan is $12 a meg.
Thanks to a cheaply designed holster, my Blackberry 7510 underwent daily "is local gravity still in effect?" testing, sometimes many times a day.
No problems with it, the casing is scratched up badly, but it still works.
My replacement 7520 undergoes a similar test every couple weeks, and holds up just fine.
Combine speech recognition, bionic contacts (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/17/1921217), and this lipreading software, and you've got realtime captioning/subtitles for the deaf.
39.0 years to payback, at my current usage.
I agree with the various posters about the late reading age.. I was already programming in BASIC by that age, and was reading at a grade 6 level by then as well.
"The company says a channel is dropped when file sharing activity is detected and private conversations are not eavesdropped in anyway."
Well, that sounds like an easy fix... a few fake XDCC offer bots and they'll go away.
Too bad google maps won't use the built in GPS on my 7520... it'll talk to a bluetooth gps receiver though.
Though, with the below dialup speeds of the blackberry, and 8 dollar a meg transfer charges, I'm not sure I'd want to do much with google maps anyways.
"My location" doesn't work on this unit anyways.
Cyber Monday.
Sears was responsive enough, not much in slowdowns. However, once you put something into your cart, it wouldn't allow you to remove it... had to delete cookies to get a new cart.
I installed a system with a PATA cdrom on a modern ASUS board.. believe it was one of the P5B's.. Got through windows install, didn't bother installing the JMicron PATA driver because it wasn't strictly needed.
Activated XP with no problem.
Went back and put the JMicron driver in, XP came up with a 'must activate' dialog.. had to call it in on the phone to get it activated.
In the interest of science, I repeated the process with another machine I was building, but didn't call it in. Didn't need the machine for about 4-5 months. When I went back to the machine and turned it on months later, it came up with the must activate part, which it was able to do online.. 120 day timeout on activation had expired so I didn't need a phone monkey.
according to tvfool.com, my dad would have to put up a 900 foot TV tower to get more than about 7 stations, and 144 feet would get him an additional 5 or so over the two he gets now.
I used to be able to listen to Cell phones as a kid back in the early 80's on an ancient 13" b&w tv that still did up to channel 82 or so.. had to be very picky on the manual tuning dial to make out anything.
Eh, that's what they call it right on their WiMax page, and we have it installed at one of our facilities, since ISDN/T1/DSL wasn't available.
I'm not too surprised they lie though, it IS bell canada after all.