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Just because you have a bad distributer doesn't mean this isn't good. DSL for me was a 1/2 install of a network card and software. Plug the external modem into the wall and the card, put a phonejack filter on each phone/fax and voila. No upload caps, reasonable price, uses the same phone line as voice with no extra wiring required. The entire kit was sent to me, within 2 days of ordering. The line was even availble before my official turn on date. Sweet. $39.95 1Meg/down 120K/up
I can't wait to get the VDSL when it comes out, the only caveat is that, as another user stated, the backbones will need necessary upgrades to cope.
I was offered a position as team lead for this project back in January. As I understood the project it is meant as a significant savings for the biller. i.e. Your typical service company, cable, phone, department stores send you a bill each month through the snail mail. Under the new service if a customer is signed up to the EPO, the bill is sent electronically. This saves the biller on the cost of printing and paper, the billee can electronically store their bills and pay them via the email. The service is apparently also available for typical mail which would be scanned in and sent (they were a bit unclear on the details of this during the interviews). It sounded like an interesting project. The technology for the project was being purchased from a Boulder company, but I can't recall the name. I was supposed to go down to Boulder and document the technology being developed, come back to Toronto and oversee the continued development of the technology to fit the EPO requirements.
On an off topic note. Jim Henson was at our family farm about 15 years ago (give or take) and wanted to go deer hunting. We didn't let him, but I always thought it was ironic that the creator of fuzzy little muppets wanted to go blow deer's brains out. Kind of like Pee-Wee Herman becoming a sex pervert... ok, bad comparison... >8-)
About what? Being the best country in the world to live in? Oh wait... that's been Canada according to the U.N. for the past five years straight... 8-)
I'm not that familiar with Ebay, however couldn't you just register several identities and bid on your own item to create the illusion of a large bidding scheme (something I believe was alluded to by the original poster).
There was an interesting article in the July Scientific American about something similar to this where sites were classified as hubs and sources, and ranked according to a scheme where the more hubs that linked to you the higher your score as a source, and conversely a hub scored higher depending on the quality of the sources linked to it. They call it hyper linking, due to there determination of quality through the meta information of the actual infrastructure of the web.
The technician's role has already been eliminated in Canada. Package was couriered to me that includes a Nortel 1Mb modem, ethernet card, phone filters. Installation took less than 1/2 hour. Uses the existing phone line (which can be used for voice/fax at the same time) and gives speeds of 1Mb down/ 120Kb up any time of day. No technician is required for anyone that can install a card in their computer.
I had a slightly better experience in Canada with DSL through Sympatico (Bell Canada subsiduary). They have an installation package (discounted until last week) for $49.95(Can$ of course) self-install, $99.95 with a technician. The installation package includes an ethernet card in either PCI or ISA (or laptop equivalent), a Nortel 1Meg modem (960 kb/s downstream, 120 kb/s upstream) and several phone filters etc. The package was couriered to me at work four days before my specified connection date. Installing and configuring the card under Win98 (I know, I know...:) ). As a bonus, my line (although not email account) was already active the next day (3 days before the specified date). Cost per month is 39.95, modem rental is 14.95 (although rental is waived temporarily at least for sales promotion). The software installation of the required ISP programs installed fine from the CD. Entire time from opening the package to getting online, less than 30 minutes. As a side note, I learned not to run a normal phone cable through my surge protector before the modem, as it affects the speed significantly... slower by a factor of 10 or so. With that resolved however, I downloaded a few game demos (easiest large files to find) and got 100 Kilobytes/sec down load during peak hours. Quake II ping times dropped from around 200 ms with a 28.8 modem to 40-50 ms. All in all... an easy experience up here. That may be however because DSL is a latecomer to the battle with cable up here, so they are pulling out all the stops to get customers - even if it means customer service. (Yikes!) Of the two other people I know up here trying to get service, one had no problem (and talked me into it more or less) the other has had some problems with getting the service hooked up. He's on./ though... so he can probably reply when he hits this message. All in all... a very pleasant experience so far... much better than the horror stories I have been hearing about cable modems and their down times / lousy transfer rates.
I found the opposite. I found the acting of both Jake Lloyd and Natalie Portman weak. Perhaps it was just the material they were given to work with however. Both Liam and Ewan were good however. Overall the movie was the weakest of the four - however, it will likely improve significantly once the prequels are viewed as a whole. TPM spends a fair bit of time setting up the plot for the following movies in addition to the stories in TPM. Lucas has recaptured the feel of the original movies and the effects are topnotch (except for some explosions that seemed substandard, and a few lipsynching problems towards the beginning.) The story as a whole however didn't seem as engrossing, the characters didn't draw you into the story. I almost think the amazing cinematic shots hurt the movie ironically... the viewer is left thinking "Wow... that is an amazing shot", rather than being immersed in the story. The souveneir books being sold in Canada are quite well done.
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Just because you have a bad distributer doesn't mean this isn't good. DSL for me was a 1/2 install of a network card and software. Plug the external modem into the wall and the card, put a phonejack filter on each phone/fax and voila.
No upload caps, reasonable price, uses the same phone line as voice with no extra wiring required.
The entire kit was sent to me, within 2 days of ordering. The line was even availble before my official turn on date. Sweet. $39.95 1Meg/down 120K/up
I can't wait to get the VDSL when it comes out, the only caveat is that, as another user stated,
the backbones will need necessary upgrades to cope.
More information on the project is available here .
I was offered a position as team lead for this project back in January. As I understood the project it is meant as a significant savings for the biller. i.e. Your typical service company, cable, phone, department stores send you a bill each month through the snail mail.
Under the new service if a customer is signed up to the EPO, the bill is sent electronically. This saves the biller on the cost of printing and paper, the billee can electronically store their bills and pay them via the email. The service is apparently also available for typical mail which would be scanned in and sent (they were a bit unclear on the details of this during the interviews). It sounded like an interesting project. The technology for the project was being purchased from a Boulder company, but I can't recall the name. I was supposed to go down to Boulder and document the technology being developed, come back to Toronto and oversee the continued development of the technology to fit the EPO requirements.
On an off topic note. Jim Henson was at our family farm about 15 years ago (give or take) and wanted to go deer hunting. We didn't let him, but I always thought it was ironic that the creator of fuzzy little muppets wanted to go blow deer's brains out. Kind of like Pee-Wee Herman becoming a sex pervert... ok, bad comparison... >8-)
About what? Being the best country in the world to live in? Oh wait... that's been Canada according to the U.N. for the past five years straight... 8-)
I'm not that familiar with Ebay, however couldn't you just register several identities and bid on your own item to create the illusion of a large bidding scheme (something I believe was alluded to by the original poster).
There was an interesting article in the July Scientific American about something similar to this where sites were classified as hubs and sources, and ranked according to a scheme where the more hubs that linked to you the higher your score as a source, and conversely a hub scored higher depending on the quality of the sources linked to it. They call it hyper linking, due to there determination of quality through the meta information of the actual infrastructure of the web.
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The article should be located here:
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0699issue/0699raghava
The technician's role has already been eliminated in Canada. Package was couriered to me that includes a Nortel 1Mb modem, ethernet card, phone filters. Installation took less than 1/2 hour.
Uses the existing phone line (which can be used for voice/fax at the same time) and gives speeds of 1Mb down/ 120Kb up any time of day. No technician is required for anyone that can install a card in their computer.
The proper link is actually:
http://www.sympatico.ca
Coconut Monkey
I had a slightly better experience in Canada with DSL through Sympatico (Bell Canada subsiduary). They have an installation package (discounted until last week) for $49.95(Can$ of course) self-install, $99.95 with a technician. The installation package includes an ethernet card in either PCI or ISA (or laptop equivalent), a Nortel 1Meg modem (960 kb/s downstream, 120 kb/s upstream) and several phone filters etc. :) ). As a bonus, my line (although not email account) was already active the next day (3 days before the specified date). ./ though... so he can probably reply when he hits this message. All in all... a very pleasant experience so far... much better than the horror stories I have been hearing about cable modems and their down times / lousy transfer rates.
The package was couriered to me at work four days before my specified connection date.
Installing and configuring the card under Win98 (I know, I know...
Cost per month is 39.95, modem rental is 14.95 (although rental is waived temporarily at least for sales promotion). The software installation of the required ISP programs installed fine from the CD. Entire time from opening the package to getting online, less than 30 minutes. As a side note, I learned not to run a normal phone cable through my surge protector before the modem, as it affects the speed significantly... slower by a factor of 10 or so. With that resolved however, I downloaded a few game demos (easiest large files to find) and got 100 Kilobytes/sec down load during peak hours.
Quake II ping times dropped from around 200 ms with a 28.8 modem to 40-50 ms. All in all... an easy experience up here. That may be however because DSL is a latecomer to the battle with cable up here, so they are pulling out all the stops to get customers - even if it means customer service. (Yikes!) Of the two other people I know up here trying to get service, one had no problem (and talked me into it more or less) the other has had some problems with getting the service hooked up. He's on
For interests sake their web site is:
http://www.hse.sympatico.ca/adsl.html
Coconut Monkey in Toronto
I found the opposite. I found the acting of both Jake Lloyd and Natalie Portman weak.
Perhaps it was just the material they were given to work with however.
Both Liam and Ewan were good however. Overall the movie was the weakest of the four -
however, it will likely improve significantly once the prequels are viewed as a whole.
TPM spends a fair bit of time setting up the plot for the following movies in addition to the stories in TPM.
Lucas has recaptured the feel of the original movies and the effects are topnotch
(except for some explosions that seemed substandard, and a few lipsynching problems towards the beginning.)
The story as a whole however didn't seem as engrossing, the characters didn't draw you into the story.
I almost think the amazing cinematic shots hurt the movie ironically... the viewer is left thinking
"Wow... that is an amazing shot", rather than being immersed in the story.
The souveneir books being sold in Canada are quite well done.