move to strike, your honor, incomplete data! In Canada, they're called "My Lord". But that's irrelevant:)
The tax subsidies for Sasktel are usually $0. Sasktel is owned by the provincial Crown, but it's extremely profitable. It usually pays the government 500 million dollars per year, ie, 100% of its profits go to the CIC (Crown Investments Corporation, a holding company) which is in turn owned by the government.
The difference between Canada and the US is that our telco monopolies are heavily regulated. The CRTC controls the industry and sets price caps on telephone service.
Actually, Freezemyassoff, Yukon, has broadband, as do East Bumfuk, Saskatchewan, West Bumfuk, Alberta, Southeast Bumfuk, Nova Scotia, Southwest Bumfuk, British Columbia, and Clusterfuk, Ontario.
Saskatchewan was the first province to have broadband, and it has a grand total of 3% of Canada's population.
Places up north where broadband is available: Beaver Creek, Yukon Destruction Bay, Yukon Tagish, Yukon Whitehorse, Yukon Fort Nelson, B.C. Fort McPherson, NWT Hay River, NWT Inuvik, NWT Norman Wells, NWT Yellowknife, NWT Coral Harbour, Nunavut Iqaluit, Nunavut
Actually, in the Province of Saskatchewan, the two biggest cities (Saskatoon and Regina) are 600km and 400km away from the US/Canada border, and the populations of each city are 220k and 200k. They were the first cities in Canada to have broadband. That's right, Saskatoon and Regina had broadband before Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver or Montreal. St. John, NB also had broadband before any of the big cities.
1. For most applications dial-up is "good-enough" - and in the US it is essentially unmetered. (Does Canada have untimed local calls like the US?)
Dial-up is frustrating after you're used to broadband, and yes, all of Canada has unmetered local calls, and I have unmetered long distance calls anywhere in Canada after 17:00.
2. Where I live, we have fibre drops every couple of blocks, and it's feasable to have one put into your house.
3. Where I live, we have one phone company for the entire province. It's a Crown corporation and is regulated. We pay $25/month for full service local calling (ie: call waiting, caller ID, etc), and $22.50/month for unregulated long distance.
The phone monopoly is de facto, not official. Any private corporation can move in and try to win market share, but Sasktel would smack them around a bit and send them packing. IIRC that was part of a CRTC ruling not that long ago.
Alberta doesn't have anything on Saskatchewan for broadband. You can get ADSL from Sasktel in almost any town or city with a hospital, school, or government building with more to come. Sasktel was the first to offer ADSL in North America, with access in Saskatoon and Regina, then a few months later in Moose Jaw and Swift Current. I think you could get broadband in Swift before you could in Calary, but I could be mistaken.
Not to mention that cablecos and telcos have been providing steady, stable, and inexpensive broadband in the major centres for 4+ years.
We've had it in the major centres for 6 years now.
Micro-evolution includes things like the change in color of a moth
I'd say that wansn't any kind of evolution at all, but natural selection. The moths were black or white with more whites before the cliffs turned black, then all the white ones were eaten so the black ones became dominant. No evolution, as there was no mutation, or anything else. It's like claiming that white people with blonde hair are more evolved than black people.
This I'd like to see. Exactly what will happen? The fruit flys become houseflys? They change colour? They get bigger/smaller? What happens when you put fruit flys in a lab?
Is there a Ryerson in the states too, or is it just that famous? The Simpsons have also mentioned Moose Jaw, too, so I guess people down there may have heard of it.
(I can usually do it without even looking, though that still doesn't get me off the hook, for the same reason that conversation interferes with eye movement.) That said, changing radio stations is one of the most common reasons for a crash caused by distractions.
How long 'till somebody gets the bright idea to make a car radio which can't be adjusted while the car is in gear? That'd actually be kind of neat, from an engineering point of view.. if it were me, I'd add a switch like the one in new VWs that keep it from being started when it's in gear. Of course, smart people will figure out that all you need to do is put your car in neutral to change radio stations:)
Burners generate quite a bit of heat, especially under continuous use. Two burners mounted as closely as it looks like Apple will let you begins to approach Pentium heat generation levels.
Does this mean, that when/if I get one, I can dispose of my furnace? Will I get to use AC in winter? That'd be cool.
Would you rather have a 1976 Plymouth Gran Fury or a 2002 ? The '76 certainly gives you more bang for the buck, and depending on the new car of your choice, may even give you more bang, period. But the new car is far more desireable.
Tell us more -- who sells the service, and what kind of government control is there? Is there competition? At what level? (Where I am, there's DSL competition, but only trivial competition -- Ameritech controls everything, and there's just a few other front organizations)
The provincial phone company of Alberta and BC is Telus. They are a private corporation with little competition in the telephone market, and weak competition in the DSL market. The CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecomunication Comission) regulates the telephone and internet market in Canada, and they set price caps and enforce competetion. Telcos in the USA can probably afford to sell broadband for what Telus is selling it for, they just don't want to.
So what's Canada (or Calgary) done differently (and obviously better) than the US?
We (Canada) regulate it. In Saskatchewan (where I live), the only telco is a Crown corporation (IIRC, the only Crown telco left in the country, and there are special CRTC regulations just for Sasktel), there is theoretically competition, thanks to the CRTC, but whenever another telco move in, Sasktel smacks them around a bit and they leave with their tail between their legs. Sasktel, surprisingly, is a very good telco, with $45/month broadband with no cap.
Ok, I've traveled through a bit of eastern Canada, but I can't remember how big the drinks were... so is this a North American thing, or a USA thing to have big soda/soft drink/pop containers?? This is serious business.. who can weigh in?
I'm from western Canada, and when I was in Europe, I was missing my big Froster cups.. I couldn't find anything like that anywhere in the Netherlands or Egypt.
Actually, they aren't the ones running the box. openbsd.org and openssh.org (including the main ftp servers) are run on Solaris at the University of Alberta in Calgary.
Actually, the University of Alberta is in Edmonton. The one in Clagary is the University of Calgary:) You're probably thinking of Theo, who is in Calgary.
This is because the Universtity has offered free bandwidth, and for projects as large as openbsd/openssh, free bandwidth is a godsend.
sunsite.ualberta.ca is very fast, with a fat pipe to the outside world (or at least to the rest of Canada). If I was offered webspace or ftp space on it, I wouldn't turn it down:)
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move to strike, your honor, incomplete data! :)
In Canada, they're called "My Lord". But that's irrelevant
The tax subsidies for Sasktel are usually $0. Sasktel is owned by the provincial Crown, but it's extremely profitable. It usually pays the government 500 million dollars per year, ie, 100% of its profits go to the CIC (Crown Investments Corporation, a holding company) which is in turn owned by the government.
The difference between Canada and the US is that our telco monopolies are heavily regulated. The CRTC controls the industry and sets price caps on telephone service.
Two words: RCMP ditachment.
I'm sure the mounties want internet. It connects them to the rest of the country.
Actually, Freezemyassoff, Yukon, has broadband, as do East Bumfuk, Saskatchewan, West Bumfuk, Alberta, Southeast Bumfuk, Nova Scotia, Southwest Bumfuk, British Columbia, and Clusterfuk, Ontario.
Saskatchewan was the first province to have broadband, and it has a grand total of 3% of Canada's population.
Places up north where broadband is available:
Beaver Creek, Yukon
Destruction Bay, Yukon
Tagish, Yukon
Whitehorse, Yukon
Fort Nelson, B.C.
Fort McPherson, NWT
Hay River, NWT
Inuvik, NWT
Norman Wells, NWT
Yellowknife, NWT
Coral Harbour, Nunavut
Iqaluit, Nunavut
Actually, in the Province of Saskatchewan, the two biggest cities (Saskatoon and Regina) are 600km and 400km away from the US/Canada border, and the populations of each city are 220k and 200k. They were the first cities in Canada to have broadband. That's right, Saskatoon and Regina had broadband before Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver or Montreal. St. John, NB also had broadband before any of the big cities.
We just have bigger, more regulated telcos.
1. For most applications dial-up is "good-enough" - and in the US it is essentially unmetered. (Does Canada have untimed local calls like the US?)
Dial-up is frustrating after you're used to broadband, and yes, all of Canada has unmetered local calls, and I have unmetered long distance calls anywhere in Canada after 17:00.
2. Where I live, we have fibre drops every couple of blocks, and it's feasable to have one put into your house.
3. Where I live, we have one phone company for the entire province. It's a Crown corporation and is regulated. We pay $25/month for full service local calling (ie: call waiting, caller ID, etc), and $22.50/month for unregulated long distance.
The phone monopoly is de facto, not official. Any private corporation can move in and try to win market share, but Sasktel would smack them around a bit and send them packing. IIRC that was part of a CRTC ruling not that long ago.
Alberta doesn't have anything on Saskatchewan for broadband. You can get ADSL from Sasktel in almost any town or city with a hospital, school, or government building with more to come. Sasktel was the first to offer ADSL in North America, with access in Saskatoon and Regina, then a few months later in Moose Jaw and Swift Current. I think you could get broadband in Swift before you could in Calary, but I could be mistaken.
Not to mention that cablecos and telcos have been providing steady, stable, and inexpensive broadband in the major centres for 4+ years.
We've had it in the major centres for 6 years now.
Oracle had a Mac version back in the early nineties.
Apple had a Unix in the early nineties.
Micro-evolution includes things like the change in color of a moth
I'd say that wansn't any kind of evolution at all, but natural selection. The moths were black or white with more whites before the cliffs turned black, then all the white ones were eaten so the black ones became dominant. No evolution, as there was no mutation, or anything else. It's like claiming that white people with blonde hair are more evolved than black people.
This I'd like to see. Exactly what will happen? The fruit flys become houseflys? They change colour? They get bigger/smaller? What happens when you put fruit flys in a lab?
Never noticed it. Who/what is Vasser?
Is there a Ryerson in the states too, or is it just that famous? The Simpsons have also mentioned Moose Jaw, too, so I guess people down there may have heard of it.
Something along the lines of OpenPPC sounds like the ticket to me. Now all it needs is people supporting it, and some might argue a better design :).
(I can usually do it without even looking, though that still doesn't get me off the hook, for the same reason that conversation interferes with eye movement.) That said, changing radio stations is one of the most common reasons for a crash caused by distractions.
:)
How long 'till somebody gets the bright idea to make a car radio which can't be adjusted while the car is in gear? That'd actually be kind of neat, from an engineering point of view.. if it were me, I'd add a switch like the one in new VWs that keep it from being started when it's in gear. Of course, smart people will figure out that all you need to do is put your car in neutral to change radio stations
Something tells me that a Microchannel computer will not be able to run Doom III due to its lack of decent 3D support.
:)
Oh, you meant the Playstation2? Sorry..
Or collect evidence to support adultery as a reason for divorce. That's probably your best bet. Also a good reason why the divorce isn't your fault.
To prove once and for all that math can be fun
Why that big article to prove math is fun. Why not just say you add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs and multiply?!?
Come on, wern't you ever in grade 3?
Burners generate quite a bit of heat, especially under continuous use. Two burners mounted as closely as it looks like Apple will let you begins to approach Pentium heat generation levels.
Does this mean, that when/if I get one, I can dispose of my furnace? Will I get to use AC in winter? That'd be cool.
Would you rather have a 1976 Plymouth Gran Fury or a 2002 ? The '76 certainly gives you more bang for the buck, and depending on the new car of your choice, may even give you more bang, period. But the new car is far more desireable.
Tell us more -- who sells the service, and what kind of government control is there? Is there competition? At what level? (Where I am, there's DSL competition, but only trivial competition -- Ameritech controls everything, and there's just a few other front organizations)
The provincial phone company of Alberta and BC is Telus. They are a private corporation with little competition in the telephone market, and weak competition in the DSL market. The CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecomunication Comission) regulates the telephone and internet market in Canada, and they set price caps and enforce competetion. Telcos in the USA can probably afford to sell broadband for what Telus is selling it for, they just don't want to.
So what's Canada (or Calgary) done differently (and obviously better) than the US?
We (Canada) regulate it. In Saskatchewan (where I live), the only telco is a Crown corporation (IIRC, the only Crown telco left in the country, and there are special CRTC regulations just for Sasktel), there is theoretically competition, thanks to the CRTC, but whenever another telco move in, Sasktel smacks them around a bit and they leave with their tail between their legs. Sasktel, surprisingly, is a very good telco, with $45/month broadband with no cap.
Saskatoon and Regina were the first cities in North America to have broadband. According to DSL Worldwide Directory
Moose Jaw and Swift Current had them before Calgary, IIRC, in 1997. Though on that point, I'm not 100% sure.
Ok, I've traveled through a bit of eastern Canada, but I can't remember how big the drinks were... so is this a North American thing, or a USA thing to have big soda/soft drink/pop containers?? This is serious business.. who can weigh in?
I'm from western Canada, and when I was in Europe, I was missing my big Froster cups.. I couldn't find anything like that anywhere in the Netherlands or Egypt.
Apple also uses IBM Travelstar 40GN hardrives in the iBook.
How do you install this patch if you can't run Win95 in the first place?
Sasktel (the first ADSL provider in North America) has had this for a while.
:)
High speed basic(1.5M, 128k up): $45.99/month
High speed light(128K): $22.95/month
High speed static IP(Basic+Static IP): $59.99/month
High speed enhanced (2.0M down, 384k up): $59.95/month
High speed Extra (3.0M down, 640k up): $95.95/month, $149.95/month.
Personally, I use Shaw's cable modem service, but if I want a static IP and 3mb down, I know where I can get it for $150/month
Actually, they aren't the ones running the box. openbsd.org and openssh.org (including the main ftp servers) are run on Solaris at the University of Alberta in Calgary.
:) You're probably thinking of Theo, who is in Calgary.
:)
Actually, the University of Alberta is in Edmonton. The one in Clagary is the University of Calgary
This is because the Universtity has offered free bandwidth, and for projects as large as openbsd/openssh, free bandwidth is a godsend.
sunsite.ualberta.ca is very fast, with a fat pipe to the outside world (or at least to the rest of Canada). If I was offered webspace or ftp space on it, I wouldn't turn it down