You're living in cloud cuckoo land. Nice to be idealistic, but it's also unrealistic. Do you really think they didn't consider that HDCP would be cracked? Nothing's unbreakable, it comes down to how much to invest in it versus how long the protection will last. Blu-ray is probably an intermediate format; the goal posts are already moving. You're looking at the business model the wrong way: they've adjusted the it, and the next form of content distribution will work another way. They're trying to stay enough steps ahead of the crackers that enough people will buy/license the content due to laziness or impatience.
FF is a hog. It leaks memory like a sieve and before you know it, 1.5 GB is gone.
You're probably going to blame extensions. But that's like Windows fanbois blaming third party drivers for Windows' instability (not an acceptable argument on/.)
Depth of field doesn't just relate to the aperture size (less DoF for wider aperature/small F-number), but also focal length of the lens (less DoF in telephoto lense or the larger SLR versus compact cameras) and the distance to focussed object (less DoF if it is closer to the camera). Your statement, as the other person points out is wrong. If it requires 1/100th of the light, you might have to close the aperture somewhat, increasing the DoF. This is a really cool DoF Calculator.
What, when residential DSL was just starting out? Yes, I too had one of those terrible grey Nortel modems with their silly linecards at the exchange and pathetic upload speed. Wow, a long time without competition.
Not sure, it's been a couple of years since I moved overseas. When I did see VDSL in the past, it was in an apartment building, and the whole building was wired for the service. It also provided Bell ExpressVu. A per building monopoly!
There's always been competition in the DSL market, thanks to the CRTC. For many people though, this is not enough as it's often a case of a choice between cable or DSL. If your phone isn't up to scratch, then you have no or little choice of ISP. That sucks.
Canada used to be a leader with high speed internet, but has fallen behind in recent years. Why are the DSL resellers limited to the speeds they were offering four years ago? It's about time they were offering ADSL2+, which, ignoring the story's comment about newer fibre based networks, offers up to 25/2.5mbs over phone lines. Not everybody can get that speed of course, but I've just switched over from ADSL to ADSL2+ in London (UK, not ON), and at 3km from the exchange, I'm getting higher speeds than the these resellers in Canada offer.
Those prices don't seem so outrageous when you compare them with say London's Crossrail project. One line, which would not even reach from San Francisco to Sacramento has funding for £15.9 billion (~USD$25 billion), in a city that already has awesome public transport links. One of the stations is being upgraded at the cost of £1 billion. California has a massive economy... which is also screwed by some of their laws.
Perhaps you shouldn't perpetuate this fallacy. Pre-paid is bloody expensive in the UK. The best deal I can get away with for somebody who uses their mobile lightly is £15/month, and quite frequently I'd bust that. Rogers in Canada is known for fleecing their customers, yet I used to a pre-paid credit of CAD$100/year (just over £5/month). This credit would last because my evenings and weekends plan (when I most use the phone anyway) was CAD$0.01/minute (about 0.62p/min). For work visits to the US, I would use a USD$100 credit on Cingular prepaid (now AT&T?), also valid for a year. Pre-paid in the UK is hideously expensive in my experience.
That said, my partner just got an a good monthly plan. She got a new Samsung Galaxy Europa with a reasonable plan for usage from Vodaphone for £15/month.
What an idiot. Should have locked him up for two years... see how fast he can race out of the showers.
IIRC, some kids racing in Toronto (Mt. Pleasant area?) one evening at 140 caused an accident that killed a taxi driver a couple of years ago. He left a family with young kids behind him. I've driven in a lot of countries, but some of the worse driving (yes, worse than in Shanghai!) has been in Toronto and along the 401 and 400 (overly fast, tailgating, etc). People in that area seem to have no clue about driving, which probably starts with the pathetic driving test and lack of enforcement. Anyway, it's good to see the police and Crown prosecuters getting some of these moronic boy racers off the streets.
It doesn't really matter whether these groups are valid or not. Their complaint that the loss of the recent addition of email contact is ridiculous. If they care about their cause, then why does it matter that it costs money? Stationary and stamps cost very little, unless they're in the business of bulking mailing or spamming, in which it's probably better all around that they can't use email for contact.
I should point out that in Canada a stamp isn't required to contact one's MP. If it's such a big deal to this group, then perhaps they should lobby for a similar policy in the UK.
Why would you mention the airline adapter? I don't think I've seen an airline that accepts them. Most airlines with power adapters take standard N. American plugs. If you're not N. American, the chances are that you're travelling with a power adapter anyway. Further more, my MacBook Pro can run off the power on planes, whereas my work Dell overloads the circuit every time.
I'm going to have to take two seconds to run some elisp to fix it;-)
I don't know what you're grinning about... now you've just added some fake history to the list of code changes that I have to filter, or remember to toggle ignoring of white space when I diff.
There's not much danger of a pin pad skimmer, however, because in the US, PINs are protected by each pinpad having a master key injected into RAM before shipping to the site. They are potted in epoxy and have a memory kill switch if you attempt to open them. This works differently from the European system, which is why the US hasn't had to go to "chip and pin".
I find this a bit confusing. Are you comparing using debit cards + PIN to the chip+pin system in Europe/the rest of the world? Which is comparing debit to credit cards. Or are you saying that because there is this debit card infrastructure in place that there is resistance to adding the chip+pin for credit cards? Or something else?
I was a victim of identity theft. Thousands were run on fraudelently issued credit cards. Worse, I had 10K of my pension redeemed and taken, along with 5K from another tax free savings account. The police still weren't interested. In all cases I had to wait for the credit card companies and bank to conduct their own investigations, after I spent a lot of time on the phone and completing paperwork.
Unless you've got someting more than an IP address (e.g. use the webcam in the laptop to photograph/film the user, or a builtin GPS device giving its physical location), then it's time to move on. I hope the person who posted this story has changed all of theit passwords to everything.
That must have been some time ago because x64 Windows is pretty good these days. The only thing that's causing me problems with it at the moment is the lack of Cisco VPN client. As for the 32 bit apps running in 32 bit mode - who cares?
I don't think you know much about the current state of Macs either.
Furthermore, transactions must be a real money maker for them, otherwise why would awards cards exist? They can afford to give you something back, which presumably comes from the transaction fees.
Why do they hate that? They get a percentage on each and every transaction. I would have thought that they want you to pay it off every month, because then they'll offer you more credit to encourage more transactions.
I used to do that, but now I try to use cash as much as I can. I find it's easier spend less with cash... it's something tactile, you can physically feel how much you're handing over, and you get a visual reminder when you're wallet is running low! Furthermore, I hate going through bank and credit card statements with lots of transactions... it's too much of a pain trying to account for each one. Providing financial institutions with data to mine might bother some people too.
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You're living in cloud cuckoo land. Nice to be idealistic, but it's also unrealistic. Do you really think they didn't consider that HDCP would be cracked? Nothing's unbreakable, it comes down to how much to invest in it versus how long the protection will last. Blu-ray is probably an intermediate format; the goal posts are already moving. You're looking at the business model the wrong way: they've adjusted the it, and the next form of content distribution will work another way. They're trying to stay enough steps ahead of the crackers that enough people will buy/license the content due to laziness or impatience.
I don't run Gecko. I run Firefox.
FF is a hog. It leaks memory like a sieve and before you know it, 1.5 GB is gone.
You're probably going to blame extensions. But that's like Windows fanbois blaming third party drivers for Windows' instability (not an acceptable argument on /.)
Depth of field doesn't just relate to the aperture size (less DoF for wider aperature/small F-number), but also focal length of the lens (less DoF in telephoto lense or the larger SLR versus compact cameras) and the distance to focussed object (less DoF if it is closer to the camera). Your statement, as the other person points out is wrong. If it requires 1/100th of the light, you might have to close the aperture somewhat, increasing the DoF. This is a really cool DoF Calculator.
What, when residential DSL was just starting out? Yes, I too had one of those terrible grey Nortel modems with their silly linecards at the exchange and pathetic upload speed. Wow, a long time without competition.
Not sure, it's been a couple of years since I moved overseas. When I did see VDSL in the past, it was in an apartment building, and the whole building was wired for the service. It also provided Bell ExpressVu. A per building monopoly!
There's always been competition in the DSL market, thanks to the CRTC. For many people though, this is not enough as it's often a case of a choice between cable or DSL. If your phone isn't up to scratch, then you have no or little choice of ISP. That sucks.
Canada used to be a leader with high speed internet, but has fallen behind in recent years. Why are the DSL resellers limited to the speeds they were offering four years ago? It's about time they were offering ADSL2+, which, ignoring the story's comment about newer fibre based networks, offers up to 25/2.5mbs over phone lines. Not everybody can get that speed of course, but I've just switched over from ADSL to ADSL2+ in London (UK, not ON), and at 3km from the exchange, I'm getting higher speeds than the these resellers in Canada offer.
Or maybe it's just protectionism and they want to make things hard for RIM in an effort to develop some home grown alternative.
Those prices don't seem so outrageous when you compare them with say London's Crossrail project. One line, which would not even reach from San Francisco to Sacramento has funding for £15.9 billion (~USD$25 billion), in a city that already has awesome public transport links. One of the stations is being upgraded at the cost of £1 billion. California has a massive economy... which is also screwed by some of their laws.
Perhaps you shouldn't perpetuate this fallacy. Pre-paid is bloody expensive in the UK. The best deal I can get away with for somebody who uses their mobile lightly is £15/month, and quite frequently I'd bust that. Rogers in Canada is known for fleecing their customers, yet I used to a pre-paid credit of CAD$100/year (just over £5/month). This credit would last because my evenings and weekends plan (when I most use the phone anyway) was CAD$0.01/minute (about 0.62p/min). For work visits to the US, I would use a USD$100 credit on Cingular prepaid (now AT&T?), also valid for a year. Pre-paid in the UK is hideously expensive in my experience.
That said, my partner just got an a good monthly plan. She got a new Samsung Galaxy Europa with a reasonable plan for usage from Vodaphone for £15/month.
What an idiot. Should have locked him up for two years... see how fast he can race out of the showers.
IIRC, some kids racing in Toronto (Mt. Pleasant area?) one evening at 140 caused an accident that killed a taxi driver a couple of years ago. He left a family with young kids behind him. I've driven in a lot of countries, but some of the worse driving (yes, worse than in Shanghai!) has been in Toronto and along the 401 and 400 (overly fast, tailgating, etc). People in that area seem to have no clue about driving, which probably starts with the pathetic driving test and lack of enforcement. Anyway, it's good to see the police and Crown prosecuters getting some of these moronic boy racers off the streets.
It doesn't really matter whether these groups are valid or not. Their complaint that the loss of the recent addition of email contact is ridiculous. If they care about their cause, then why does it matter that it costs money? Stationary and stamps cost very little, unless they're in the business of bulking mailing or spamming, in which it's probably better all around that they can't use email for contact.
I should point out that in Canada a stamp isn't required to contact one's MP. If it's such a big deal to this group, then perhaps they should lobby for a similar policy in the UK.
Why would you mention the airline adapter? I don't think I've seen an airline that accepts them. Most airlines with power adapters take standard N. American plugs. If you're not N. American, the chances are that you're travelling with a power adapter anyway. Further more, my MacBook Pro can run off the power on planes, whereas my work Dell overloads the circuit every time.
A gaggle of geese might be a better option. Have you heard the racket they make?
I don't know what you're grinning about... now you've just added some fake history to the list of code changes that I have to filter, or remember to toggle ignoring of white space when I diff.
I find this a bit confusing. Are you comparing using debit cards + PIN to the chip+pin system in Europe/the rest of the world? Which is comparing debit to credit cards. Or are you saying that because there is this debit card infrastructure in place that there is resistance to adding the chip+pin for credit cards? Or something else?
In N. America: no. Elsewhere: yes. Elsewhere always checked, even before chip+pin made signatures a novelty and something to be distrusted further.
I don't see why chip+pin readers prevent tipping. The terminal can prompt for a tip amount before agreeing the final total and prompting for the pin.
Thanks for the tip! I'll try that out later.
You think the police will be with that too?
I was a victim of identity theft. Thousands were run on fraudelently issued credit cards. Worse, I had 10K of my pension redeemed and taken, along with 5K from another tax free savings account. The police still weren't interested. In all cases I had to wait for the credit card companies and bank to conduct their own investigations, after I spent a lot of time on the phone and completing paperwork.
Unless you've got someting more than an IP address (e.g. use the webcam in the laptop to photograph/film the user, or a builtin GPS device giving its physical location), then it's time to move on. I hope the person who posted this story has changed all of theit passwords to everything.
That must have been some time ago because x64 Windows is pretty good these days. The only thing that's causing me problems with it at the moment is the lack of Cisco VPN client. As for the 32 bit apps running in 32 bit mode - who cares?
I don't think you know much about the current state of Macs either.
Clearly you don't live in London: feel free to stand on the right, but don't you dare stop if you're on the left!
HSBC in Canada doesn't charge me fees either...
Furthermore, transactions must be a real money maker for them, otherwise why would awards cards exist? They can afford to give you something back, which presumably comes from the transaction fees.
Why do they hate that? They get a percentage on each and every transaction. I would have thought that they want you to pay it off every month, because then they'll offer you more credit to encourage more transactions.
I used to do that, but now I try to use cash as much as I can. I find it's easier spend less with cash... it's something tactile, you can physically feel how much you're handing over, and you get a visual reminder when you're wallet is running low! Furthermore, I hate going through bank and credit card statements with lots of transactions... it's too much of a pain trying to account for each one. Providing financial institutions with data to mine might bother some people too.