This is the best I can come up with. Personally, I have a few stickers of bands that I like, along with an Apple sticker I found at work. The Apple logo looks kind of cool on an IBM laptop! You can find some really cool stickers at skateboard and snowboard shops, if that is your thing.
If you want a soudcard with external connectors how about a Hercules Game Theatre XP? ANd no, the XP doesn't stand for XPerience. At least I don't think it does.
THis soundcard has a breakout box with digital ins and outs. Optical and coax. Midi ins and outs. RCA ins and outs. And a headphone out. Got mine for 200 bucks Canadian, but that was almost a year ago.
Who knows what happened. Obviously Wappel's handlers told him something, and he believed it. I guess only the old man know for sure...
One final point. While I appreciate what you are getting at, I find it practically impossible to belive that the Chretien Liberals could succeed at such a task. This is a man who doesn't know what pepper spray is, and has such lack of brains to appoint Elinor Caplan to cabinet. Not to mention the likes of Jane Stewart and mismanagement of billions of dollars.
Quite frankly, creating such a database is beyond the capability of this government.
Let's ask this - how did Mr. Wappel (sp?) know how that veteran had voted? The one he wouldn't help cause he didn't support the Liberals?
This kind of information is easily gotten via simple door to door canvassing, or perhaps a simple phone call. Are you suggesting that there is a database keeping track of who people vote for? Last I checked it was a secret ballot.
This turned out to be so much hype. Sure, they tried to create a database, and once word got out, it was quickly gassed. HRDC (Human Resources Development Canada) even offered to send you whatever info they had in it, provided you requested it by letter before a certain date. Supposedly the database was destroyed, but even if it wasn't who really cares?
All it had in it was mostly tax records, and where you have been employed, and your past addresses. All which can be found out anyway, if you know where to look. Unfortunately, I don't know where to look.
I predict that in the not-too-distant future, broadband Internet access will be considered a utility like power and water, and will be treated by most governments as such
If this is the case, then be prepared for the government to privatize. If the Ontario government is any indication of the Canadian way of things, that is.
But wait a sec, telecommunications is already privatized. Sorry, couldn't resist a chance to jump on the provincial tories.
Why is it that Rogers (one of the Canadian providers of the @home service) was able to switch over to their own backbones after the excite@home fiasco
Actually, I believe that Rogers is still using a lot of @home's network. Try and do a traceroute to anywhere and look at the names of servers you are passing through. From my house (in North York, Ontario) I pass through about 5 @home servers, even to ping servers I know are located in Toronto. Rogers isn't on their own yet...
I thought there was only 2 words that CITY TV censored out. Forgot about god when succeeded by damn. For fear of offending sensitive readers, the other word they censor is the notorious "c" word.
This was actually one point I forgot to bring up, but my opinion is of the opposite. Usually I watch games on CBC. There is a digital channel that rebroadcasts CBC as a digital channel.
From what I can tell, they simple encode the analog feed and that's it. However, by switching back and forth during a game, it is clear to me that the CBC analog picture is much easier on the eyes. The picture might be better on the digital channel, but there is extreme pixellation around the puck.
This might also have something to do with my TV. I want to see a hockey game broadcast completely digital, right from the camera on up.
Digital cable is LOWER resolution then even normal cable
Really? I can't back this up, but I have digital cable, and to me the digital channels look and sonud much better than the old analog ones.
Some digital channels are just rebroadcasting analog signals, and those do tend to look worse. However, that is just not true for the digital channels.
Here in Toronto, Rogers Cable has about 40 digital channels. I really notice the quality when watching things that are shot on film. The digital broadcast tends to bring out the flaws in lower quality recordings.
I'm not sure on the specifics of the system, ie bandwidth usage per channel, but I do know what looks better to my eyes, and the (pure) digital channels look much better than analog.
FWIW, I have a 35-inch, plain old TV, with the digital box connected via S-video
Electricity in Ontario will no longer be cheap in 2002. The government has decided to privatize Ontario Hydro. Obviously not taking the lesson from California and Alberta.
Prepare for brownouts. Prepare for rates to soar. Not sure what you can do, but I'd do my best to use as little AC as possible in this new server room.
I was just playing with one of these things literally minutes ago.
Got it from ID Innovations Inc. Cost around 50 bucks Canadian from a catalog. Simply connects to the keyboard port and passes the decoded information as keystrokes. No drivers required. All you'd need to do is design your application to recognize specific text strings.
Tried all sorts of cards too. Drivers licence, credit card, health card, etc. All of them worked.
Amazing how much info can be stored in one of those mag stripes.
OK, I'm not up to 80+ gigs yet, but I recently decided to back up 9 gigs of data (ok, mostly music!)
Burning to CD was the simplest choice for me. Sure it took me about a week with my 2X burner, but these files will never change. All of this stuff is already sorted on my drive. Anything new that comes in goes in an incoming directory. When that directory has 650 megs in it, write it to a CD.
The hardest part is the inital multiple-gigabyte backup. Once that is done, weekly backups to CDR are quite painless.
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I wonder if it would also increase the capacity on city subways and buses. Now instead of having commuters with thier briefcases and backpacks, everyone is also lugging one of these things with them.
Interesting that Cogeco in Windsor only hits one @home server. A traceroute from Rogers@Rogers in Toronto to anywhere will hit 5 @home servers. THe first appears to be in Buffalo, and then Hartford, somewhere in Rhode Island, back to Connecticut and then New York. After that it jumps onto alter.net.
What will happen to all of these servers/routers? Rogers still uses @home IP addresses. WHat will happen to these?
I recall that Canada and the US had a dispute recently concerning the launch of a Canadian build satellite. It had as good or better (within 3 metres) resolution that anything the US military had in operation. The United States refused to launch it, citing a possible security risk.
I think the US went so far as to threaten cancellation of military contracts that had been rewarded to Canadian firms.
Does Canada dare defy NASA or NAS or USAF or GWB again?
Also, does anyone know if said satellite was actually launched? Last I heard Canada was asking the ESA and even Japan to launch it.
Finally. As interesting as all the studies about caffeine are, it is refreshing to read one about my other vice. So it is only good for bacteria. At least it is good for something.
I really like the last sentence. Serving beer to bacteria. Could have sworn it was talking about me and my friends!
New IBM Netvista's also have small cdrom drives. I think it is just a laptop cdrom, but I haven't actually had a chance to take one apart. My first thought was also what if one of those things fails?
Luckily, IBM is pretty good with replacement parts, but once the warranty is over, who knows?
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This is the best I can come up with. Personally, I have a few stickers of bands that I like, along with an Apple sticker I found at work. The Apple logo looks kind of cool on an IBM laptop! You can find some really cool stickers at skateboard and snowboard shops, if that is your thing.
I retired my "Genuine Intel Pentium" 100MHz processor last year. Guess I'm out of luck.
If you want a soudcard with external connectors how about a Hercules Game Theatre XP? ANd no, the XP doesn't stand for XPerience. At least I don't think it does.
THis soundcard has a breakout box with digital ins and outs. Optical and coax. Midi ins and outs. RCA ins and outs. And a headphone out. Got mine for 200 bucks Canadian, but that was almost a year ago.
Wappel's "our records indicate..."
Who knows what happened. Obviously Wappel's handlers told him something, and he believed it. I guess only the old man know for sure...
One final point. While I appreciate what you are getting at, I find it practically impossible to belive that the Chretien Liberals could succeed at such a task. This is a man who doesn't know what pepper spray is, and has such lack of brains to appoint Elinor Caplan to cabinet. Not to mention the likes of Jane Stewart and mismanagement of billions of dollars.
Quite frankly, creating such a database is beyond the capability of this government.
Let's ask this - how did Mr. Wappel (sp?) know how that veteran had voted? The one he wouldn't help cause he didn't support the Liberals?
This kind of information is easily gotten via simple door to door canvassing, or perhaps a simple phone call. Are you suggesting that there is a database keeping track of who people vote for? Last I checked it was a secret ballot.
big brother government database on all citizens
This turned out to be so much hype. Sure, they tried to create a database, and once word got out, it was quickly gassed. HRDC (Human Resources Development Canada) even offered to send you whatever info they had in it, provided you requested it by letter before a certain date. Supposedly the database was destroyed, but even if it wasn't who really cares?
All it had in it was mostly tax records, and where you have been employed, and your past addresses. All which can be found out anyway, if you know where to look. Unfortunately, I don't know where to look.
Broadband is a tool to further our national identity.
Too bad Rogers is about 45% owned bt AT&T. Very patriotic!
I predict that in the not-too-distant future, broadband Internet access will be considered a utility like power and water, and will be treated by most governments as such
If this is the case, then be prepared for the government to privatize. If the Ontario government is any indication of the Canadian way of things, that is.
But wait a sec, telecommunications is already privatized. Sorry, couldn't resist a chance to jump on the provincial tories.
Why is it that Rogers (one of the Canadian providers of the @home service) was able to switch over to their own backbones after the excite@home fiasco
Actually, I believe that Rogers is still using a lot of @home's network. Try and do a traceroute to anywhere and look at the names of servers you are passing through. From my house (in North York, Ontario) I pass through about 5 @home servers, even to ping servers I know are located in Toronto. Rogers isn't on their own yet...
I thought there was only 2 words that CITY TV censored out. Forgot about god when succeeded by damn. For fear of offending sensitive readers, the other word they censor is the notorious "c" word.
One last thing to note is the hockey test:
This was actually one point I forgot to bring up, but my opinion is of the opposite. Usually I watch games on CBC. There is a digital channel that rebroadcasts CBC as a digital channel.
From what I can tell, they simple encode the analog feed and that's it. However, by switching back and forth during a game, it is clear to me that the CBC analog picture is much easier on the eyes. The picture might be better on the digital channel, but there is extreme pixellation around the puck.
This might also have something to do with my TV. I want to see a hockey game broadcast completely digital, right from the camera on up.
Digital cable is LOWER resolution then even normal cable
Really? I can't back this up, but I have digital cable, and to me the digital channels look and sonud much better than the old analog ones.
Some digital channels are just rebroadcasting analog signals, and those do tend to look worse. However, that is just not true for the digital channels.
Here in Toronto, Rogers Cable has about 40 digital channels. I really notice the quality when watching things that are shot on film. The digital broadcast tends to bring out the flaws in lower quality recordings.
I'm not sure on the specifics of the system, ie bandwidth usage per channel, but I do know what looks better to my eyes, and the (pure) digital channels look much better than analog.
FWIW, I have a 35-inch, plain old TV, with the digital box connected via S-video
Electricity in Ontario will no longer be cheap in 2002. The government has decided to privatize Ontario Hydro. Obviously not taking the lesson from California and Alberta.
Prepare for brownouts. Prepare for rates to soar. Not sure what you can do, but I'd do my best to use as little AC as possible in this new server room.
I was just playing with one of these things literally minutes ago.
Got it from ID Innovations Inc. Cost around 50 bucks Canadian from a catalog. Simply connects to the keyboard port and passes the decoded information as keystrokes. No drivers required. All you'd need to do is design your application to recognize specific text strings.
Tried all sorts of cards too. Drivers licence, credit card, health card, etc. All of them worked.
Amazing how much info can be stored in one of those mag stripes.
OK, I'm not up to 80+ gigs yet, but I recently decided to back up 9 gigs of data (ok, mostly music!)
Burning to CD was the simplest choice for me. Sure it took me about a week with my 2X burner, but these files will never change. All of this stuff is already sorted on my drive. Anything new that comes in goes in an incoming directory. When that directory has 650 megs in it, write it to a CD.
The hardest part is the inital multiple-gigabyte backup. Once that is done, weekly backups to CDR are quite painless.
Block Heaters? Don't all cars still have these things in them? Who needs a remote starter when the engine block is already warm enough?
Plug it in, and forget about it until the morning.
2 Words.
Doobie Snacks!
Hey, didn't you see ID4?
It's all Apple Notebooks up there!
I wonder if it would also increase the capacity on city subways and buses. Now instead of having commuters with thier briefcases and backpacks, everyone is also lugging one of these things with them.
Where are we supposed to store them?
I remember this book. Landreth was know as "The Cracker"
"The Cracker is cool. The Cracker is good."
If I recall correctly, that is a direct quote!
Interesting that Cogeco in Windsor only hits one @home server. A traceroute from Rogers@Rogers in Toronto to anywhere will hit 5 @home servers. THe first appears to be in Buffalo, and then Hartford, somewhere in Rhode Island, back to Connecticut and then New York. After that it jumps onto alter.net.
What will happen to all of these servers/routers? Rogers still uses @home IP addresses. WHat will happen to these?
My girlfriend rollerblades to school every day. She listens to a Dlink MP3 CD player. She told me that it rarely skips.
CD audio is much more prone to skipping than MP3 discs.
I recall that Canada and the US had a dispute recently concerning the launch of a Canadian build satellite. It had as good or better (within 3 metres) resolution that anything the US military had in operation. The United States refused to launch it, citing a possible security risk.
I think the US went so far as to threaten cancellation of military contracts that had been rewarded to Canadian firms.
Does Canada dare defy NASA or NAS or USAF or GWB again?
Also, does anyone know if said satellite was actually launched? Last I heard Canada was asking the ESA and even Japan to launch it.
Finally. As interesting as all the studies about caffeine are, it is refreshing to read one about my other vice. So it is only good for bacteria. At least it is good for something.
I really like the last sentence. Serving beer to bacteria. Could have sworn it was talking about me and my friends!
New IBM Netvista's also have small cdrom drives. I think it is just a laptop cdrom, but I haven't actually had a chance to take one apart. My first thought was also what if one of those things fails?
Luckily, IBM is pretty good with replacement parts, but once the warranty is over, who knows?