I think Universal just forfeited their right to their share of the cd levy. If we are no longer legally allowed to copy universal cds, they don't get any money from us.
Close, but not firewire. It's reasonable to assume that Apple will release a bigger iPod sometime soon, if so, then this is moot.
What it needs to be an iPod killer is Firewire. The iPod's 5gb is plenty for most people, I know I wouldn't need any more than that, as I only have about 1-2gb of MP3s.
Besides, do you want to copy 20gb worth of songs over USB?
I do own an Apple. It's a late 2001 iBook, Combo drive, my first Mac. It's great, and for this kind of hardware/software combo I don't mind paying Apple. PCs are different though. I'm used to going to Techtronics (A very good computer wholesaler in Saskatoon) and buying the parts I need to build a PC.
I like knowing EXACTLY what's inside my computer when I buy it, it's difficult to determine this with notebooks. The sales guy will always say:
It's got:
Celeron 900
30GB Hard Drive
32mb graphics card
256mb RAMPCI Sound card
10/100 Ethernet
What IDE controller is on the MB?
But what brand of HD? What brand of graphics card? What kind of ram? Does the graphics/sound work with Linux or BSD? When I build it myself I know all this, not so with most notebooks.
The iBook is different, though. I know what's in it:
A motorola G3 600
Toshiba CDRW/DVD combo
IBM TravelStar 30GN 20GB HD
ATI Rage Mobility 8mb graphics
Not that I'd care, it runs MacOS X, that's what I care about. It's a great operating system, probably the best that Apple's produced.
I wonder if they will start making standard notebook parts, so us do-it-yourselfers can build one ourselves. We could stop feeding Compaq, Dell, Apple, and IBM money and just get the parts, a case and a screen and throw it together.
If the city has a population of 50K or more, you will have it. If the city is smaller, it depends on which province you're in. IIRC Moosomin, Saskatchewan (~15K west of the Manitoba border on the TC) has broadband, and a population of 2500.
Saskatoon (225K) and Regina (200K) have it all, Swift Current has cable and DSL, Moose Jaw has DSL. Prince Albert has DSL
Sasktel has a system for sending DSL signals over fibre connections, all of Saskatchewan is on Sasktel's fibre backbone. If the city has paid for it, Sasktel will install a DSL backbone off the fibre drop to the city.
DSL is great in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan for you Americans and people from Toronto:). Sasktel is a great company, who says a Crown corporation shouldn't own the telephone infrastructure?:)
DSL here is C$40 and cable is also C$40. Don't bitch about socialism:)
I've never had to recompile a Linux kernel to change its refresh rates. That's a userspace problem. In Windows, the GUI runs in kernel space, so it probably does do something along the lines of recompiling its kernel, just in the background. It is a microkernel, so it probably unloads that module, changes one of its values, then reloads it. Recompiling, without recompiling. But I am no expert on how Windows works to know if that's how it's done.
In the ease of use department, the Mac wins, hands down. Ease of use does not mean "Works like Windows" it means that the program is easy to use and to figure out.
Have you used MacOS X? It's great. It's easy to use and if you know what you're doing, you can do great things with it. It's stable (Not "Real UNIX" stable, but it's never crashed on me). It's got a BSDish kernel that you don't need to recompile, as well as an excellent GUI called Aqua.
Its only problem is that it is a little slow on my little G3. G4s work so much better for it.
* Big Kick off, throw around lots of money, parties, PR spin
There wasn't one of those, it was just "Here's a site to change your e-mail address from @home.com to @shaw.ca"
* Spend money in an unfocused manner because it'll never run out anyway
* Overcommit
They probably did that, but I can't say for sure.
* Blame: The economy, other companies, other people
Not likely, the economy is shitty, but not THAT shitty, and there are no other companies besides Shaw and Sasktel. Sasktel is a Crown [telephone] monopoly, so it could be hard to compete with.
Shaw is the local cable monopoly, and Sasktel is the local Crown telephone monopoly. They are not going anywhere anytime soon. Sasktel will exist as long as there is a Province of Saskatchewan, and Shaw will exist until some other cable monopoly from Ontario comes and buys them.
I live in Saskatoon with my parents, but go to school in Calgary. We live in a neighbourhood without too many other people, so the "shared bandwidth" thing is not a problem. It was, but then a lot of people switched to Sasktel.
Frankly, I find Sasktel to be great. They provide me with cheap 5 hour/month dialup access that I use with my iBook while not at home. They also have great long distance (unlimited after 6:00pm and weekends), much better than Telus (1000 minutes, after 5:00pm, + weekends).
In Calgary I live in an apartment building with a lot of old people who don't know what "that internet thing" is, so it's not a problem there, either.
Here in Canada our @HOME crap fell, so Shaw took over completly. My service has been great, with transfer speeds of upwards of 700k/s. Upload speeds are slower, but acceptable, in the 100k/s range. So not all companies suck. Maybe they're regulated so that what I get is required, but still.
Universal has forfeited their right to collect any of the blank CD levi because none of their shit will be copied.
In Canada, it's legal to copy a CD for your own use, even if you didn't buy it. For example, I borrow a CD from a friend, and copy it for myself, I didn't break the law. If I copy it for other people, I did.
The CD levi is there to line the pockets of recording companies with the money of people who buy blank CDs to copy their favourite game.
Here, the local Future Shop (Canada's equivalent to Best Buy), is located on one of the major trunk streets. All we have to do is launch a protest in front of the store, and traffic takes a huge dent, causing all sorts of problems all over the city. Future Shop would have to listen.
I wasn't counting theme parks:) If that were the case, I'd only have to drive to the Calgary Zoo:) Kangaroos won't be too far away from them, methinks.
If you think bars on my truck could defend me against a moose, you've never seen one.:) Being a proud member of a very agricultural family here in Canada, I've seen my share of bulls. Bulls can't jump over the fences meant to keep them where they are. Moose can, but you're not a citizen of the Great White North, so you wouldn't have known that.
Oh, the differences between Canadians are Ameriicans go a little deeper than mannerisms. Most Canadians can tell the difference between us by our accents, word choice, canadianisms ("skronk", "chesterfield"), and various other things. To me, it's slightly more difficult than figureing ot who's the Aussi, and who's the Kiwi:)
We've had the same PM for the last two terms too, and then Ontario re-elected him last November to cash in on pity votes for Trudeau had just died. Why do I say Ontario re-elected him? Because his party got about four seats in the Rest of Canada (The part that isn't Quebec or Ontario).
I live in Joe Clark's riding(our name for electorate), I voted for him. He was our PM in 1980,and is now the leader of the Tories.
Our current PM cant speak English OR French, and is stuck with his dick in Quebec, and has the American dick stuck up his ass, I don't really like that man too much.
Oh, our Official Opposition (Canadian Alliance) just kicked out 6 of its loudest voices in parliament, including Debora Grey.
Grey should start her own party, I'd vote for it, I like that woman.. she's a total bitch, just what it takes to run a country.
Yea, don't worry about it. I'm from Canada. I've never seen: polar bears or a seal. I can count on one hand the times I've seen: Beavers, moose (that aren't on the quarter), loons, etc. I have seen a good number of American Bald Eagles, but they imported them from us anyway:)
People often don't realise how big Canada and Austrailia are. To see a polar bear, I'd have to drive ~3000km. To see a moose, well that's a little closer, about 100-200 km.. Moose and deer are quite annoying on the highways, I've nearly hit a moose, and I HAVE hit a deer. They get caught in headlights and fail to run away. Ah well...
Countries like Austrailia and Canada, have a government based on the British Westminster Parliament. These parliaments often assume that their laws are the wishes of the people, but often they are not. Austrailia just got a new prime minister, and I'd assume they also got themselves a new party in the government.
That's it! I'm moving to Germany when I'm done University. Any openings for a Canadian Ex-Pat Engineer looking for less hours over there? I can speak English and French, as well as a little low-German I picked up at church!:)
He was tried and in Montreal, Quebec. He pleaded guilty to 56 of 66 counts of Mischief before the Quebec Youth Court. Judge Gilles Ouellet of the Youth Court heard both the Crown and defence. The other 10 charges were withdrawn.
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I think Universal just forfeited their right to their share of the cd levy. If we are no longer legally allowed to copy universal cds, they don't get any money from us.
Close, but not firewire. It's reasonable to assume that Apple will release a bigger iPod sometime soon, if so, then this is moot.
What it needs to be an iPod killer is Firewire. The iPod's 5gb is plenty for most people, I know I wouldn't need any more than that, as I only have about 1-2gb of MP3s.
Besides, do you want to copy 20gb worth of songs over USB?
Feeding was just a word I chose.
I do own an Apple. It's a late 2001 iBook, Combo drive, my first Mac. It's great, and for this kind of hardware/software combo I don't mind paying Apple. PCs are different though. I'm used to going to Techtronics (A very good computer wholesaler in Saskatoon) and buying the parts I need to build a PC.
I like knowing EXACTLY what's inside my computer when I buy it, it's difficult to determine this with notebooks. The sales guy will always say:
It's got:
Celeron 900
30GB Hard Drive
32mb graphics card
256mb RAMPCI Sound card
10/100 Ethernet
What IDE controller is on the MB?
But what brand of HD? What brand of graphics card? What kind of ram? Does the graphics/sound work with Linux or BSD? When I build it myself I know all this, not so with most notebooks.
The iBook is different, though. I know what's in it:
A motorola G3 600
Toshiba CDRW/DVD combo
IBM TravelStar 30GN 20GB HD
ATI Rage Mobility 8mb graphics
Not that I'd care, it runs MacOS X, that's what I care about. It's a great operating system, probably the best that Apple's produced.
I wonder if they will start making standard notebook parts, so us do-it-yourselfers can build one ourselves. We could stop feeding Compaq, Dell, Apple, and IBM money and just get the parts, a case and a screen and throw it together.
If the city has a population of 50K or more, you will have it. If the city is smaller, it depends on which province you're in. IIRC Moosomin, Saskatchewan (~15K west of the Manitoba border on the TC) has broadband, and a population of 2500.
Saskatoon (225K) and Regina (200K) have it all, Swift Current has cable and DSL, Moose Jaw has DSL. Prince Albert has DSL
Sasktel has a system for sending DSL signals over fibre connections, all of Saskatchewan is on Sasktel's fibre backbone. If the city has paid for it, Sasktel will install a DSL backbone off the fibre drop to the city.
DSL is great in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan for you Americans and people from Toronto :). Sasktel is a great company, who says a Crown corporation shouldn't own the telephone infrastructure? :)
:)
DSL here is C$40 and cable is also C$40. Don't bitch about socialism
I've never had to recompile a Linux kernel to change its refresh rates. That's a userspace problem. In Windows, the GUI runs in kernel space, so it probably does do something along the lines of recompiling its kernel, just in the background. It is a microkernel, so it probably unloads that module, changes one of its values, then reloads it. Recompiling, without recompiling. But I am no expert on how Windows works to know if that's how it's done.
In the ease of use department, the Mac wins, hands down. Ease of use does not mean "Works like Windows" it means that the program is easy to use and to figure out.
Have you used MacOS X? It's great. It's easy to use and if you know what you're doing, you can do great things with it. It's stable (Not "Real UNIX" stable, but it's never crashed on me). It's got a BSDish kernel that you don't need to recompile, as well as an excellent GUI called Aqua.
Its only problem is that it is a little slow on my little G3. G4s work so much better for it.
Oh, MacOS X's core is open source.
There wasn't one of those, it was just "Here's a site to change your e-mail address from @home.com to @shaw.ca"
* Spend money in an unfocused manner because it'll never run out anyway
* Overcommit
They probably did that, but I can't say for sure.
* Blame: The economy, other companies, other people
Not likely, the economy is shitty, but not THAT shitty, and there are no other companies besides Shaw and Sasktel. Sasktel is a Crown [telephone] monopoly, so it could be hard to compete with.
Shaw is the local cable monopoly, and Sasktel is the local Crown telephone monopoly. They are not going anywhere anytime soon. Sasktel will exist as long as there is a Province of Saskatchewan, and Shaw will exist until some other cable monopoly from Ontario comes and buys them.
I live in Saskatoon with my parents, but go to school in Calgary. We live in a neighbourhood without too many other people, so the "shared bandwidth" thing is not a problem. It was, but then a lot of people switched to Sasktel.
Frankly, I find Sasktel to be great. They provide me with cheap 5 hour/month dialup access that I use with my iBook while not at home. They also have great long distance (unlimited after 6:00pm and weekends), much better than Telus (1000 minutes, after 5:00pm, + weekends).
In Calgary I live in an apartment building with a lot of old people who don't know what "that internet thing" is, so it's not a problem there, either.
Here in Canada our @HOME crap fell, so Shaw took over completly. My service has been great, with transfer speeds of upwards of 700k/s. Upload speeds are slower, but acceptable, in the 100k/s range. So not all companies suck. Maybe they're regulated so that what I get is required, but still.
When it's happened before, it does not have very little basis in reality. In fact, it has quite a lot of basis in reality.
Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.
Please tell me it's Commander Keen... :)
Universal has forfeited their right to collect any of the blank CD levi because none of their shit will be copied.
In Canada, it's legal to copy a CD for your own use, even if you didn't buy it. For example, I borrow a CD from a friend, and copy it for myself, I didn't break the law. If I copy it for other people, I did.
The CD levi is there to line the pockets of recording companies with the money of people who buy blank CDs to copy their favourite game.
Here, the local Future Shop (Canada's equivalent to Best Buy), is located on one of the major trunk streets. All we have to do is launch a protest in front of the store, and traffic takes a huge dent, causing all sorts of problems all over the city. Future Shop would have to listen.
Or... Legally copying Music?!? Not all blank cds with music on them are pirated. Local bands, for example, or your own music that you recorded.
Hell, here in Canada, I have plenty of burned cds that are perfectly legal. I borrowed them from a friend, and copied them.
I'll agree with you, mostly.
Part of the War of 1812 was to seal Canada from the USA. That failed. They tried to "liberate" us, but we didn't want to go..
On that point, we did win. On the getting the USA back under the control of the British, we failed.
And that whole burning of the White House, that was revenge for their burning York (Now Toronto).
I wasn't counting theme parks :) If that were the case, I'd only have to drive to the Calgary Zoo :) Kangaroos won't be too far away from them, methinks.
:) Being a proud member of a very agricultural family here in Canada, I've seen my share of bulls. Bulls can't jump over the fences meant to keep them where they are. Moose can, but you're not a citizen of the Great White North, so you wouldn't have known that.
:)
If you think bars on my truck could defend me against a moose, you've never seen one.
Oh, the differences between Canadians are Ameriicans go a little deeper than mannerisms. Most Canadians can tell the difference between us by our accents, word choice, canadianisms ("skronk", "chesterfield"), and various other things. To me, it's slightly more difficult than figureing ot who's the Aussi, and who's the Kiwi
$4.50 if you see a matinee here in Calgary, and in Saskatoon too.
We've had the same PM for the last two terms too, and then Ontario re-elected him last November to cash in on pity votes for Trudeau had just died. Why do I say Ontario re-elected him? Because his party got about four seats in the Rest of Canada (The part that isn't Quebec or Ontario).
I live in Joe Clark's riding(our name for electorate), I voted for him. He was our PM in 1980,and is now the leader of the Tories.
Our current PM cant speak English OR French, and is stuck with his dick in Quebec, and has the American dick stuck up his ass, I don't really like that man too much.
Oh, our Official Opposition (Canadian Alliance) just kicked out 6 of its loudest voices in parliament, including Debora Grey.
Grey should start her own party, I'd vote for it, I like that woman.. she's a total bitch, just what it takes to run a country.
Yea, don't worry about it. I'm from Canada. I've never seen: polar bears or a seal. I can count on one hand the times I've seen: Beavers, moose (that aren't on the quarter), loons, etc. I have seen a good number of American Bald Eagles, but they imported them from us anyway :)
People often don't realise how big Canada and Austrailia are. To see a polar bear, I'd have to drive ~3000km. To see a moose, well that's a little closer, about 100-200 km.. Moose and deer are quite annoying on the highways, I've nearly hit a moose, and I HAVE hit a deer. They get caught in headlights and fail to run away. Ah well...
Countries like Austrailia and Canada, have a government based on the British Westminster Parliament. These parliaments often assume that their laws are the wishes of the people, but often they are not. Austrailia just got a new prime minister, and I'd assume they also got themselves a new party in the government.
That's it! I'm moving to Germany when I'm done University. Any openings for a Canadian Ex-Pat Engineer looking for less hours over there? I can speak English and French, as well as a little low-German I picked up at church! :)
But....
Cruel and unusual punisment might not be illegal in Isreal.
He was tried and in Montreal, Quebec. He pleaded guilty to 56 of 66 counts of Mischief before the Quebec Youth Court. Judge Gilles Ouellet of the Youth Court heard both the Crown and defence. The other 10 charges were withdrawn.
Mafiaboy is in Canada, not the US.