Been through there many times. In all likelihood whatever service there is will be more or less along the highways.
But if you're up that way take Highway 60 across to Wilno and have the perogies at the Wilno Tavern. Definitely worth the drive, and some nice scenery on the way.
Or geek out at Foymount, a near abandoned outpost from the Cold War DEW Line.
Before getting too carried away, keep in mind that your island may have poor or no cel coverage anyhow.
For that matter there are locations on the Vancouver North Shore where my Telus/Moto phone is useless.
OK, I'll admit that as long you're travelling along the bottom half of the country service is pretty reliable, but the three mega corps that own the cellular business in Canada really don't give a damn about service.
Including, astonishingly enough, more than a few businesses. Am I alone in immediately assuming that a Hotmail address implies a fly-by-night kind of outfit?
Although, strangely, I don't assume the same thing when I see a Gmail address...
Back in the WAY olden times banks made money on the spread between interest paid and interest charged, and there were NO CHARGES of any sort on ordinary bank accounts. Then our Canadian banks got burned in the big South American credit defaults, and started charging account holders, first monthly, then for every thing ever done.
It's become more and more common for me to go days and weeks with no cash whatsoever in my pocket. Credit and Debit will cover nearly everything that I need or want,
I now look back fondly on the days of yore when I would have been embarrassed to use a card to pay for a cup of coffee. Now it's the norm, even though I know that I've pretty much wiped out the retailer profit margin with service charges. (Admittedly at Starbucks or McDonalds that's a selling point...)
Am I alone in finding this story incredibly sketchy? Either the company, the poster, and the police are stunning idiots, or it's just bullshit created to inflame a bunch of slashdotters.
If some kind of attribution can't be found, I call BS.
Like many I embraced Chrome because it seemed that Firefox had become big, bloated, and cumbersome. Chrome seemed to resist the urge to stuff extra doo-dads into the browser, and I like that. (that's the beauty of plug-ins - you can add junk by choice, not because someone decided to add it for you)
The crazy thing is that I spend probably 60% of my time working in browser space, but I rely on the sites and services I use to deliver what I need, not the browser itself.
You wouldn't build Gmail into the browser, so why build in phone service?
Seems to me that there are at least two different questions here, and that most of these comments confuse them.
The first, and perhaps more intriguing, is how a bug like this could sit undetected for years. Regardless of whether it's proprietary or Open Source software, bugs will remain until someone, somewhere finds them.
The second, and this is where Open Source arguably has an advantage, is how soon a vulnerability is patched once it has been found - in this case pretty fast.
And of course whether the patch gets applied to end users' systems.
I've always had OpenOffice installed on my machines, although I default to MS Office for the usual reasons.
When I upgraded Ubuntu to Natty it installed LibreOffice, and I have to say that I'm very impressed. In a nutshell, it feels finished, something that OO never achieved.
LO is still not entirely MS Office compatible, but for many things where that compatibility isn't essential it's my first choice.
"It turns out he's been IDed as the suspect in an armed robbery attempt from earlier in the weekend and police tried to pull him over (no idea if it's because of the robbery or another reason)"
Call me a liberal pinko leftie Communist, but let's remember that even in the US of A there's a presumption of innocence. I would have preferred a trial before the guy was found guilty.
"but rather than stop, he rammed a police cruiser and tried to run over at least one officer on foot"
And I'm kind of assuming that part of the story came from the cops after the fact. And there are those who have a serious belief - and not just criminals - that it's in your best interest to avoid dealing with police these days. There just seems to be too many cowboys who shoot or taser first and ask questions later.
Digging into the CD rack beside me I came up with a 2 CD set for Caldera Open Linux 2.2. I know for sure that I didn't get it working. Don't recall what machine I had in 1999.
I know that I made at least a couple of other attempts before that at getting Linux to work from bootable floppies, and I think one other boxed retail version, so I can count at least twelve or thirteen years of trying various distros at about ten or twelve month intervals. Mandrake. SUSE. A couple that I've forgotten.
Few words strike fear in the heart of people like me like "MAN PAGES."
Last year I tried Ubuntu Lucid, with the utterly painless WUBI installer, and *BANG* -- damned is if it didn't just work, wireless and all, first try. And it turned out to be much faster than the Vista install that came on my Dell.
Finally this month I upgraded to Natty, and have fallen in love with Libre Office, Scribus, and am even quite happy with GIMP - the latter two I never could have seen replacing Photoshop and InDesign, but they are up to handling what I need, and are one hell of lot cheaper.
Plus, on Natty, the out of the box WINE install runs MS Office Word and Excel flawlessly, and fast.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know how many times I have installed and abandoned Opera. I really, really want to like it!
This time it downloaded and installed easily on my Ubuntu box, but when launched it declared that Flash was not installed on my system.
Of course, it is.
Still, clicked through the Adobe website, clicked the "Download" Flash link, and... well, nothing. It just sat there.
Yet again, Chrome wins.
(Tho' I do love Opera on my Android phone)
Been through there many times. In all likelihood whatever service there is will be more or less along the highways.
But if you're up that way take Highway 60 across to Wilno and have the perogies at the Wilno Tavern. Definitely worth the drive, and some nice scenery on the way.
Or geek out at Foymount, a near abandoned outpost from the Cold War DEW Line.
Before getting too carried away, keep in mind that your island may have poor or no cel coverage anyhow.
For that matter there are locations on the Vancouver North Shore where my Telus/Moto phone is useless.
OK, I'll admit that as long you're travelling along the bottom half of the country service is pretty reliable, but the three mega corps that own the cellular business in Canada really don't give a damn about service.
PS - Telus and Bell operate on the same network.
First impressions - Amarok is what I wished Banshee was. Fits my tastes very well - in other words, not iTunes...
KDE is slower than Gnome - noticeably so.
The Notification widget is kinda cool.
Undecided about Dolphin. Honestly I still like Windows Explorer (and always hated OS X Finder).
All in all, it feels like KDE just has more.. "stuff"... and I'm not sure it's "stuff" that I need.
No, just have limited time for trying out new stuff when what I have is working quite well.
Installing right now... like I need more ways to waste my time... :)
I'm finding that the less I use Windows, the less I use Windows, if you know what I mean...
This may devolve into a vi/emacs debate, but I'll ask anyways.
I'm running Ubuntu, and and quite happy with Gnome (having quickly borfed Unity). What could KDE offer that might convince me to try it out?
Including, astonishingly enough, more than a few businesses. Am I alone in immediately assuming that a Hotmail address implies a fly-by-night kind of outfit?
Although, strangely, I don't assume the same thing when I see a Gmail address...
Back in the WAY olden times banks made money on the spread between interest paid and interest charged, and there were NO CHARGES of any sort on ordinary bank accounts. Then our Canadian banks got burned in the big South American credit defaults, and started charging account holders, first monthly, then for every thing ever done.
I was referring the charge that the retailer pays - usually a % of the sale.
It's become more and more common for me to go days and weeks with no cash whatsoever in my pocket. Credit and Debit will cover nearly everything that I need or want,
I now look back fondly on the days of yore when I would have been embarrassed to use a card to pay for a cup of coffee. Now it's the norm, even though I know that I've pretty much wiped out the retailer profit margin with service charges. (Admittedly at Starbucks or McDonalds that's a selling point...)
Mod parent up for a really excellent Arlo Guthrie reference!
Am I alone in finding this story incredibly sketchy? Either the company, the poster, and the police are stunning idiots, or it's just bullshit created to inflame a bunch of slashdotters.
If some kind of attribution can't be found, I call BS.
Like many I embraced Chrome because it seemed that Firefox had become big, bloated, and cumbersome. Chrome seemed to resist the urge to stuff extra doo-dads into the browser, and I like that. (that's the beauty of plug-ins - you can add junk by choice, not because someone decided to add it for you)
The crazy thing is that I spend probably 60% of my time working in browser space, but I rely on the sites and services I use to deliver what I need, not the browser itself.
You wouldn't build Gmail into the browser, so why build in phone service?
(Aside from which, it's already built into Gmail)
Seems to me that there are at least two different questions here, and that most of these comments confuse them.
The first, and perhaps more intriguing, is how a bug like this could sit undetected for years. Regardless of whether it's proprietary or Open Source software, bugs will remain until someone, somewhere finds them.
The second, and this is where Open Source arguably has an advantage, is how soon a vulnerability is patched once it has been found - in this case pretty fast.
And of course whether the patch gets applied to end users' systems.
I've always had OpenOffice installed on my machines, although I default to MS Office for the usual reasons.
When I upgraded Ubuntu to Natty it installed LibreOffice, and I have to say that I'm very impressed. In a nutshell, it feels finished, something that OO never achieved.
LO is still not entirely MS Office compatible, but for many things where that compatibility isn't essential it's my first choice.
Try running a blender near those cheap speakers - you'll hear even more noise.
Ah! At last I know why the TSA would let me bring my Cuisinart on as carry on luggage!
Kudos for encouraging your daughter to go beyond the usual girly-girl commercial sites. Although there would seem to be a logical progression from imaginary adventures to adventures of an entirely different kind,
I didn't need to read the prompts, just automatically started navigating and reading by keyboard.
As always, spacebar = MORE
Although.... Sexy Lens, the First iPhone App That Enables You to See Other People in their Underwear, Truly Delivers Good Results
Yes it exists
Imagine newscasts that didn't include video press releases masquerading as news...
No, do what everyone else does - just whine about it.
"It turns out he's been IDed as the suspect in an armed robbery attempt from earlier in the weekend and police tried to pull him over (no idea if it's because of the robbery or another reason)"
Call me a liberal pinko leftie Communist, but let's remember that even in the US of A there's a presumption of innocence. I would have preferred a trial before the guy was found guilty.
"but rather than stop, he rammed a police cruiser and tried to run over at least one officer on foot"
And I'm kind of assuming that part of the story came from the cops after the fact. And there are those who have a serious belief - and not just criminals - that it's in your best interest to avoid dealing with police these days. There just seems to be too many cowboys who shoot or taser first and ask questions later.
Digging into the CD rack beside me I came up with a 2 CD set for Caldera Open Linux 2.2. I know for sure that I didn't get it working. Don't recall what machine I had in 1999.
I know that I made at least a couple of other attempts before that at getting Linux to work from bootable floppies, and I think one other boxed retail version, so I can count at least twelve or thirteen years of trying various distros at about ten or twelve month intervals. Mandrake. SUSE. A couple that I've forgotten.
Few words strike fear in the heart of people like me like "MAN PAGES."
Last year I tried Ubuntu Lucid, with the utterly painless WUBI installer, and *BANG* -- damned is if it didn't just work, wireless and all, first try. And it turned out to be much faster than the Vista install that came on my Dell.
Finally this month I upgraded to Natty, and have fallen in love with Libre Office, Scribus, and am even quite happy with GIMP - the latter two I never could have seen replacing Photoshop and InDesign, but they are up to handling what I need, and are one hell of lot cheaper.
Plus, on Natty, the out of the box WINE install runs MS Office Word and Excel flawlessly, and fast.
I am one VERY happy user!
Priest says "Hey! You're not allowed in here!"
HB says "Oh yeah? Without me you've got no mass!"
Buh-duh_boomph... I'm here all week...