You should see the price of books and cars if you think that's bad. I've seen stickers that say things like "$49.99 USA/$94.99 Canada", for a book published in 2005! At the time the Canadian dollar was worth about $0.82 US.
For several years, the United States WAS the only country with nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. The United States under had the means to directly dominate the entire world. It refrained from doing so.
According to the Quebec Agreement, the USA was bound to not use them without the consent of Canada and the United Kingdom.
That also means that Canada and the UK were just as guilty as the USA for the bombing of Japan.
I realize it's still a 'cable' coming into your house, but it's not the standard definition of 'Cable.':)
No, I suppose not, and it's not marketed as suck, either. It's called "Max Entertainment Services". TV and Internet.
Does your provider also offer a PVR? i.e. how do you 'watch one show and tape another'?
There's a PVR. It's about a month old, I was playing with one before they were officially released, they're kind of neat, but I don't have one. If you have HDTV you can only have one PVR, because a HD signal takes about 10mbps to stream reliably, but with standard def you can have 3 or 4.
As a consumer I can change providers if I want. There are at least 3 tv providers in my area and two telephone providers.
Really, how is it an issue for analog cable signals to be coming in and your phone service to still support pulse dialing even though you're not using them?
Well, analog cable signals can't come in on the technology they're using, IPTV. MPEG-4 streams are hard to make analogue. Pulse still works, you just can't get a line that only has pulse dialing. The newer digital switches use a lot of resources to handle pulse dialing, so its use is discouraged.
All this means is you have to buy TV's with digital tuners or rent a converter box for every analog TV you own now and you couldn't try out an antique phone if you ever inherited one.
I'm not aware of any TVs that have a built in IPTV decoder, and all the antique phones of any interest are the crank style anyway. Rotary phones are a dime a dozen, so are pulse to touch tone converters.
And IPTV means that all I need to capture my tv signal is a computer with ethernet and VLC.
I love living where I do. You can no longer get pulse tone dialing service from the phone comapany, and my digital cable service is pure digital, no analogue signals coming to my house:)
I think we're talking about different issues. Compared to a "Triple E" Senate, PEI is under represented. One of the "E"s is Equal, or an equal number of senators for each province. This is to prevent acts that seriously hose a small province to the benefit of a large one. Senators should be the voice of the province in the federal government. Ontario is no more important in confederation than PEI.
Alberta should have the same number of senators as every other province. Personally, I think each province should have 10. No more, no less, only because it makes a nice round 100 senators.
I work for SaskTel;) And you're right, it is 900m, I brainfarted that comment. But 900m is close enough to get the max bandwidth out of these DSLAMS with the ADSL2+ cards that are in them. They're neat, I was on a team installing them in cabinets, and they server 196 customers and can have several gigabit connections hooked up to them. They currently have one.
Another neat thing about them is that SaskTel is working with Alcatel to develop them, we're the first company to use them. Sort of like the Lucent Stingers we were using before had gigabit connections that were made just for SaskTel so we could make Max work.
I'd like to be able to elect my senators. I'd also like to have the same number of senators for my province as every other province. Too bad that's not going to happen because it would transfer some power away from Ontario and Quebec.
ISS7 is already available in workstation form with Vista. It's all right, doesn't piss me off nearly as much as IIS5 or 6. Now to get Tomcat and PHP going.....
Still, I think it's pretty wacko to for the government to be able to assert copyright over the image of a coin -- after all, the "government" is supposed to be the people. Oh -- maybe not in Canada. I think it's still part of the English monarchy, and I froget whether the monarch governs with the consent of the people, or whether she holds her position by divine fiat.
A few things:
1) In Canada the government serves the Crown, who represents the Canadian people. 2) There is no such thing as the "English monarchy", it was abolished in 1707 when the United Kingdom was formed, but that's neither here nor there. 3) Notwithstanding point 2, the Crown, or the monarchy, is the Canadian monarchy, nobody else's. We share the Crown the person with many other countries, but the institution is separate. In theory we can kick out the British Queen and replace her with our own.
And yes, she theoretically holds her position by devine fiat, just look at a Canadian coin. They say "Elizabeth II D.G. Regina", which means "Elizabeth II by Grace of God, Queen".
You would think that wires run to the closest exchange, but that is not always the case. I saw a case at USWest (LONG ago), where the closest exchange was across the street, but because it was added later, our wires ran several miles up the road.
You used to be able to tell by phone number. Every exchange had its own set of NXXs, and you could only get your phone number out of one exchange. That all has changed so you can't tell anymore.
That said, I work for a phone company, and we have a policy that nobody in a city should be more than 900m from a DSLAM. We do it because we compete with the cable company for television, and our TV service runs over our DSL connection.
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and the HDD is BLANK i.e. no prior partitions (having an exiting partition table can cause problems - which is often the problem with installing to an SATA drive) Check
Windows installer complains that no disk drives are installed. To remedy this there are two options: 1) Install a floppy drive and use the F6 option to add the drivers from the floppy into the installation, or 2) create a custom XP installation CD that includes the SATA drivers.
I chose option 2. I also made sure it included drivers for the chipset, video, and included.Net 2.0. I generally use a CDRW and make a new image any time I need to install windows on that machine.
The problem is that the Silicon Images SATA controller on that motherboard doesn't emulate standard ATA like the nVidia and most other chipsets do. I'm not blaming Microsoft for not including support for these chipsets, there are just too many to support. That said, they could have made the installer capable of installing drivers off of a third party driver CD.
Shh... Everybody knows that Canada consists entirely of Ontario and Quebec. That's why they're called "Central Canada" by the Easterners, even though they're clearly East of the geographic centre of Canada.
Yes, but in Europe you can't just drive to to the USA and then cross the border in a town with a population of 100 and not worry about getting caught not paying customs.
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You should see the price of books and cars if you think that's bad. I've seen stickers that say things like "$49.99 USA/$94.99 Canada", for a book published in 2005! At the time the Canadian dollar was worth about $0.82 US.
For several years, the United States WAS the only country with nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. The United States under had the means to directly dominate the entire world. It refrained from doing so.
According to the Quebec Agreement, the USA was bound to not use them without the consent of Canada and the United Kingdom.
That also means that Canada and the UK were just as guilty as the USA for the bombing of Japan.
... in government run beer stores....
Actually, there have been talks for the Caribbean nation of Turks And Caicos to join Canada.
They've been ongoing for more that 100 years. I don't expect to see anything anytime soon.
And besides, the article mentions Cape Breton, which is already part of Nova Scotia.
I realize it's still a 'cable' coming into your house, but it's not the standard definition of 'Cable.' :)
No, I suppose not, and it's not marketed as suck, either. It's called "Max Entertainment Services". TV and Internet.
Does your provider also offer a PVR? i.e. how do you 'watch one show and tape another'?
There's a PVR. It's about a month old, I was playing with one before they were officially released, they're kind of neat, but I don't have one. If you have HDTV you can only have one PVR, because a HD signal takes about 10mbps to stream reliably, but with standard def you can have 3 or 4.
So you like lack of choice as a consumer?
As a consumer I can change providers if I want. There are at least 3 tv providers in my area and two telephone providers.
Really, how is it an issue for analog cable signals to be coming in and your phone service to still support pulse dialing even though you're not using them?
Well, analog cable signals can't come in on the technology they're using, IPTV. MPEG-4 streams are hard to make analogue. Pulse still works, you just can't get a line that only has pulse dialing. The newer digital switches use a lot of resources to handle pulse dialing, so its use is discouraged.
All this means is you have to buy TV's with digital tuners or rent a converter box for every analog TV you own now and you couldn't try out an antique phone if you ever inherited one.
I'm not aware of any TVs that have a built in IPTV decoder, and all the antique phones of any interest are the crank style anyway. Rotary phones are a dime a dozen, so are pulse to touch tone converters.
And IPTV means that all I need to capture my tv signal is a computer with ethernet and VLC.
That's correct, my TV is IPTV over DSL, so channels 2-60 can't be analogue.
I love living where I do. You can no longer get pulse tone dialing service from the phone comapany, and my digital cable service is pure digital, no analogue signals coming to my house :)
Actually, as Vista is VERY different under the hood, it's NT 6.0. 2000 was NT 5.0, XP was 5.1, and XP x64 was NT 5.2.
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I think we're talking about different issues. Compared to a "Triple E" Senate, PEI is under represented. One of the "E"s is Equal, or an equal number of senators for each province. This is to prevent acts that seriously hose a small province to the benefit of a large one. Senators should be the voice of the province in the federal government. Ontario is no more important in confederation than PEI.
Alberta should have the same number of senators as every other province. Personally, I think each province should have 10. No more, no less, only because it makes a nice round 100 senators.
Oh, and Manitoba. I thought you'd mentioned it with all the rest of the West.
Or Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, or Prince Edward Island. They all have too few senators, too.
But yes, I'm from Saskatchewan.
I work for SaskTel ;) And you're right, it is 900m, I brainfarted that comment. But 900m is close enough to get the max bandwidth out of these DSLAMS with the ADSL2+ cards that are in them. They're neat, I was on a team installing them in cabinets, and they server 196 customers and can have several gigabit connections hooked up to them. They currently have one.
Another neat thing about them is that SaskTel is working with Alcatel to develop them, we're the first company to use them. Sort of like the Lucent Stingers we were using before had gigabit connections that were made just for SaskTel so we could make Max work.
I'd like to be able to elect my senators. I'd also like to have the same number of senators for my province as every other province. Too bad that's not going to happen because it would transfer some power away from Ontario and Quebec.
I'm still waiting for a Qtopia based CDMA smartphone.
That sucks. Our company guarantees you're at most 600m from a DSLAM, so you can get HDTV over our IPTV service. If we say 10mbps, that's what you get.
ISS7 is already available in workstation form with Vista. It's all right, doesn't piss me off nearly as much as IIS5 or 6. Now to get Tomcat and PHP going.....
Still, I think it's pretty wacko to for the government to be able to assert copyright over the image of a coin -- after all, the "government" is supposed to be the people. Oh -- maybe not in Canada. I think it's still part of the English monarchy, and I froget whether the monarch governs with the consent of the people, or whether she holds her position by divine fiat.
A few things:
1) In Canada the government serves the Crown, who represents the Canadian people.
2) There is no such thing as the "English monarchy", it was abolished in 1707 when the United Kingdom was formed, but that's neither here nor there.
3) Notwithstanding point 2, the Crown, or the monarchy, is the Canadian monarchy, nobody else's. We share the Crown the person with many other countries, but the institution is separate. In theory we can kick out the British Queen and replace her with our own.
And yes, she theoretically holds her position by devine fiat, just look at a Canadian coin. They say "Elizabeth II D.G. Regina", which means "Elizabeth II by Grace of God, Queen".
Canada hasn't had dollar bills in 20 years :)
You say that as if people from Ontario can tell the difference.
You would think that wires run to the closest exchange, but that is not always the case. I saw a case at USWest (LONG ago), where the closest exchange was across the street, but because it was added later, our wires ran several miles up the road.
You used to be able to tell by phone number. Every exchange had its own set of NXXs, and you could only get your phone number out of one exchange. That all has changed so you can't tell anymore.
That said, I work for a phone company, and we have a policy that nobody in a city should be more than 900m from a DSLAM. We do it because we compete with the cable company for television, and our TV service runs over our DSL connection.
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Windows installer complains that no disk drives are installed. To remedy this there are two options: 1) Install a floppy drive and use the F6 option to add the drivers from the floppy into the installation, or 2) create a custom XP installation CD that includes the SATA drivers.
I chose option 2. I also made sure it included drivers for the chipset, video, and included
The problem is that the Silicon Images SATA controller on that motherboard doesn't emulate standard ATA like the nVidia and most other chipsets do. I'm not blaming Microsoft for not including support for these chipsets, there are just too many to support. That said, they could have made the installer capable of installing drivers off of a third party driver CD.
Shh... Everybody knows that Canada consists entirely of Ontario and Quebec. That's why they're called "Central Canada" by the Easterners, even though they're clearly East of the geographic centre of Canada.
Yes, but in Europe you can't just drive to to the USA and then cross the border in a town with a population of 100 and not worry about getting caught not paying customs.