Firstly, Canada has the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Bill of Rights is the United States. And our freedom of speech is limited compared to our US cousins.
Secondly, how is throttling bittorrent traffic blocking your freedom of speech? So it takes you a few hours instead of a few minutes to download a linux ISO *cough*. I'd like to hear how throttling bittorrent has anything to do with the right for you to express your opinion.
My work provided laptop, running Windows XP, takes a full 13 minutes to boot up to the point where the drive stop thrashing and I can start using it. 5 year old laptop with only 512 megs of RAM + all the corporate software that they install that launches on bootup (anti virus, firewall, OS/software update pushes, etc.. etc...), none of which I can disable.
Shutting down takes about 5-10 minutes, but I usually undock and stick my laptop in my bag long before the shutdown process is finished. I've had a few looks in elevators/walking down the street as the Windows shutdown chime plays from my backpack.
Luckily I'm salaried, and my startup/shutdown is part of my workday. The 15 minutes I spend waiting is usually spent chatting to co-workers about work-related stuff, like catching up on group projects. So its not like the company is losing any productivity from me.
I agree. The lack of Team Fortress for Quake makes me feel like the article is full of fail. I'm not sure if it was the first mod (I seem to remember some Star Wars graphic mods for Warcraft 1), but I do think it was the first extremely popular mod. It was absolutely amazing.
There should be some type of agreement between the countries now that Canada also has a Do Not Call list. Being Canadian, I can attest that the 2-3 daily calls that I get saying "This is your captain speaking, you've won 2 cruise tickets" come from the US. That is pretty much the only telemarketing calls I get outside of companies that I do business with (phone company, bank, etc...).
Talk about weird timing. The ZENN car (Zero Emission No Noise) car has been making the news this weekend as they'll finally be starting to sell them in Canada. Its about time, considering the car is built here, but was only sold to the US and overseas.
21k$ fully loaded. Top speed of 40km/h with an 80 km range on a charge. Perfect for running errands in the city. I particularly like this blurb on their website. 280mpg. 100% Electric, the ZENN doesn't use any gasoline. A gallon of gas has an energy equivalent of 33.5kwh3. One gallon of gas provides the same energy as fully charging the ZENN about 7 times. This is an equivalent fuel economy of 7 x 40 miles = 280 mpg. (National Association of Fleet Administrators, www.nafa.org)
I've been with Dreamhost for about a year, and I must concur that their email service has been pretty rock solid. However, their webhosting service is up and down like a yoyo.
You get unlimited domains, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases. You can choose to use their anti-spam service or not (at no extra charge).
However, Dreamhost has made a deal with Google whereas all new customers have their mail hosted by Google. So if all you're looking for as an email service, might as well go straight to Google itself.
You also have to look at incentives. Currently, if you buy a hybrid in the great province of Ontario, you get a 3000$ credit (1000$ from the provincial government, 2000$ from the feds). So not only will you save on your weekly gas bill, you're saving 3k up front, making the price comparable to buying a non hybrid in the same class of vehicle.
You also have to look at resale value. At least in local markets, the Prius currently loses very little of its value compared to other vehicles. Whether you plan on selling or trading your car in in a few years, a hybrid currently gives you more bang for your buck compared to most other vehicles.
A few years ago the bulk of our servers were moved to a bigger centre in another city. So even when I go into the office I'm remotely doing the work. We moved to a VOIP system at work, so when I'm working from home my office line is forwarded to my home business line. We have offices across the country so most meetings are held via conference calls and/or netmeeting. So there's zero difference between me working from the office and me working from home, except to get some face time with co-workers and the boss (all of them also telecommute, so sometimes I'm actually alone in the office when I do go in!).
I also find that I'm more productive at home than in the office. I don't have people dropping by my desk every 5-10 minutes to chat. I don't have to go out for smoke breaks, and my lunch break consists of taking 3 minutes to heat something up in the microwave. Working from home also allows me to work when I'm feeling under the weather.
I'm also more productive on the home front. While stuck on conference calls that I don't chair or don't require me to be in front of my laptop, I can do things like do the dishes, do some laundry, etc... all while participating on the calls. Not spending 2-3 hours a day commuting also benefits my family life, as I get to spend more quality time with my wife.
Luckily my job and my boss permit me to work from home 3-4 days a week, and I have the fortitude to actually work and not slack off. Heck, I couldn't slack off even if I wanted to. If I did, users would scream when a system/app is down, project managers would scream if I didn't do my part of the work, etc.... For my line of work, telecommuting is a win-win situation.
I don't know where you live, but outside of very old parts of the city, cables run underground. I'd say a rough estimate is only 10% of Ottawa has wires up on poles.
HAN: Han Solo. I'm captain of the Millennium Falcon. Chewie here tells me you're looking for passage to the Alderaan system.
BEN: Yes, indeed. If it's a fast ship.
HAN: Fast ship? You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?
BEN: Should I have?
HAN: It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!
Loosely speaking, he might have not been talking about speed with that last statement, but just the the Millenium Falcon is a well known ship for having made that run. It definitely leaves room for interpretation.
I remember reading in one of the Star Wars books that the Kessel Run was a very dangerous area of space where multiple blackholes and the like existed. Doing the run in 12 parsecs (unit of distance) meant that he didn't take the usual detours around the blackholes and instead flew a course directly through that area of space. Doing the Kessel run in 12 parsecs had nothing to do with speed or time, but with his expertise as a navigator and being extremely good pilot.
File sharing is not legal in Canada. Downloading songs (from source to you) is legal, but uploading is not. Filesharing (IE: P2P like bittorrent) is technically not legalized since you are uploading at the same time as downloading. There is a distinction between downloading and filesharing.
If Apple goes thru with this, it guarantees that I will NOT buy an IPod when my current one dies (hello Zune?). I charge my IPod at work on my Sun desktop and in my car thru my car charger, neither of which runs ITunes. Even if by some miraculous reason Apple releases a Solaris version of ITunes, it will not get installed on my work desktop. This is the stupidest idea to come out of Apple in a long time.
That's incorrect. I'll try to find the link to the WoW forum post regarding this, but a Blue (Community Manager) confirmed that most of the reported spam came from paid accounts and not trial accounts. They were a combination of gold sellers purchased accounts and hacked accounts. Trial accounts have had whisper limitations for months.
Even better. I've had an ATM eat up my debit card before due to mechanical problems with the machine. So by combining the 2, I would have been driving illegaly without a license for 2 weeks while a new card was sent to me. Yup, real brilliant!
A couple of suggestions. Instead of copying to 2 separate harddrives and replacing the HD every year or 2, I would suggest a mirrored RAID instead. You only need to replace a drive once it fails, with very little chance of both drives failing.
That said, if its very important to you to keep these files, you should either burn them to archival DVD or portable HD and keep them offsite (IE: at your office, your parents' house). You never know when you might lose your PC to a fire, theft, flooding, rare chance of both drives failing, etc...
Frankly, if I were to invest in HD, I'd make sure I'm set for the next decade [hopefully...]. No sense buying a 720p or whatever TV now when content for higher resolutions will be out soon enough.
I suggest you read reviews and articles comparing 720p to 1080p. 99% of the population can't discern any quality difference between the 2 (this includes technical reviewers and people in the industry). The quality difference is so minute between 720p and 1080p that its not worth shelling out an extra $1k for a difference you probably wont see anyways.
But this brings up the crux of the problem: should companies assume that any IP in a dynamic range is a spammer email?
Easy answer: Yes. I work as a sysadmin for an ISP. Over 90% of the spam we block comes from dynamic IP ranges (trojaned/zombie machines most probably). A lot of ISPs have or will be putting port 25 blocks on their own dynamic IP space so that their customers can only route port 25 to the ISP's email servers. If you absolutely must run your own mail server, then get a dedicated connection with your own static block of IPs.
So they want to help curb piracy by delaying the release of movies to the Great White North.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Instead of being bombarded and possibly swayed by snazzy ads, trailers, etc.., we would have more information at our disposal find out before a movie even hits our screens whether its worth shelling out 10$ to go see or not. Either looking at US ticket sales, online reviews, chatting with friends in the US, etc..) So in that regard, it would be saving us from some of the Hollywood drivel!:)
I always buy my computer parts from local mom & pop computer stores. Most of the local stores carry a 1 year store warranty on all parts. The few times I've had failures in that time period, all it took was a quick drive to the store, and 20 minutes later I had a brand new replacement in my hands. Heck, I had some RAM blow 18 months after I bought it and they still replaced it free of charge, without my receipt (hooray for customer databases). Their prices are usually equal to or just a tiny bit more expensive than what you could get for buying online, at least in this area.
If your internet connection is mission critical, why go to the lowest bidder in order to save a few bucks (which won't happen when the service goes down, you'll lose money)? When will people realize that for critical services, go for the most reliable you can realistically afford. If it happens to be the cheapest then consider that a bonus, but it shouldn't be one of the main factors in choosing a service. Can you afford a T1 with a DSL backup? How about a DSL with a cable backup, or vice versa? You need to crunch numbers, see how much money/productivity you'll lose for every hour/day without service and decide accordingly.
"Don't approve of this action just because you think it only hurts a bunch of 'right-wing Christian zealots.' Remember fair use! There was a one-to-one copy sold with each of these DVDs---the original and the edited. The filmmakers did not lose one dime, and in fact made money with each copy sold."
Does this mean someone who used the service ended up with 2 DVDs? The original, and the clean version? If so, this is clearly copyright infrigement as only one copy was purchased. Who's to stop Joe from giving the original copy to his brother and keep the clean copy for himself? This means the copy that Joe now has infringes copyright as much as downloading the movie from bittorrent.
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Firstly, Canada has the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Bill of Rights is the United States. And our freedom of speech is limited compared to our US cousins.
Secondly, how is throttling bittorrent traffic blocking your freedom of speech? So it takes you a few hours instead of a few minutes to download a linux ISO *cough*. I'd like to hear how throttling bittorrent has anything to do with the right for you to express your opinion.
My work provided laptop, running Windows XP, takes a full 13 minutes to boot up to the point where the drive stop thrashing and I can start using it. 5 year old laptop with only 512 megs of RAM + all the corporate software that they install that launches on bootup (anti virus, firewall, OS/software update pushes, etc.. etc...), none of which I can disable.
Shutting down takes about 5-10 minutes, but I usually undock and stick my laptop in my bag long before the shutdown process is finished. I've had a few looks in elevators/walking down the street as the Windows shutdown chime plays from my backpack.
Luckily I'm salaried, and my startup/shutdown is part of my workday. The 15 minutes I spend waiting is usually spent chatting to co-workers about work-related stuff, like catching up on group projects. So its not like the company is losing any productivity from me.
There's only one clear choice for such a post: Leo Laporte!
I agree. The lack of Team Fortress for Quake makes me feel like the article is full of fail. I'm not sure if it was the first mod (I seem to remember some Star Wars graphic mods for Warcraft 1), but I do think it was the first extremely popular mod. It was absolutely amazing.
There should be some type of agreement between the countries now that Canada also has a Do Not Call list. Being Canadian, I can attest that the 2-3 daily calls that I get saying "This is your captain speaking, you've won 2 cruise tickets" come from the US. That is pretty much the only telemarketing calls I get outside of companies that I do business with (phone company, bank, etc...).
Talk about weird timing. The ZENN car (Zero Emission No Noise) car has been making the news this weekend as they'll finally be starting to sell them in Canada. Its about time, considering the car is built here, but was only sold to the US and overseas.
21k$ fully loaded. Top speed of 40km/h with an 80 km range on a charge. Perfect for running errands in the city. I particularly like this blurb on their website. 280mpg. 100% Electric, the ZENN doesn't use any gasoline. A gallon of gas has an energy equivalent of 33.5kwh3. One gallon of gas provides the same energy as fully charging the ZENN about 7 times. This is an equivalent fuel economy of 7 x 40 miles = 280 mpg. (National Association of Fleet Administrators, www.nafa.org)
Rick Mercer Report on the car.
I've been with Dreamhost for about a year, and I must concur that their email service has been pretty rock solid. However, their webhosting service is up and down like a yoyo.
You get unlimited domains, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases. You can choose to use their anti-spam service or not (at no extra charge).
However, Dreamhost has made a deal with Google whereas all new customers have their mail hosted by Google. So if all you're looking for as an email service, might as well go straight to Google itself.
Same in Ottawa. Diesel runs 10-20 cents more expensive than regular.
You also have to look at incentives. Currently, if you buy a hybrid in the great province of Ontario, you get a 3000$ credit (1000$ from the provincial government, 2000$ from the feds). So not only will you save on your weekly gas bill, you're saving 3k up front, making the price comparable to buying a non hybrid in the same class of vehicle.
You also have to look at resale value. At least in local markets, the Prius currently loses very little of its value compared to other vehicles. Whether you plan on selling or trading your car in in a few years, a hybrid currently gives you more bang for your buck compared to most other vehicles.
A few years ago the bulk of our servers were moved to a bigger centre in another city. So even when I go into the office I'm remotely doing the work. We moved to a VOIP system at work, so when I'm working from home my office line is forwarded to my home business line. We have offices across the country so most meetings are held via conference calls and/or netmeeting. So there's zero difference between me working from the office and me working from home, except to get some face time with co-workers and the boss (all of them also telecommute, so sometimes I'm actually alone in the office when I do go in!).
I also find that I'm more productive at home than in the office. I don't have people dropping by my desk every 5-10 minutes to chat. I don't have to go out for smoke breaks, and my lunch break consists of taking 3 minutes to heat something up in the microwave. Working from home also allows me to work when I'm feeling under the weather.
I'm also more productive on the home front. While stuck on conference calls that I don't chair or don't require me to be in front of my laptop, I can do things like do the dishes, do some laundry, etc... all while participating on the calls. Not spending 2-3 hours a day commuting also benefits my family life, as I get to spend more quality time with my wife.
Luckily my job and my boss permit me to work from home 3-4 days a week, and I have the fortitude to actually work and not slack off. Heck, I couldn't slack off even if I wanted to. If I did, users would scream when a system/app is down, project managers would scream if I didn't do my part of the work, etc.... For my line of work, telecommuting is a win-win situation.
I don't know where you live, but outside of very old parts of the city, cables run underground. I'd say a rough estimate is only 10% of Ottawa has wires up on poles.
You can always look into NORBAC, the North American Biotechnology Advisory Commission. :P
I remember reading in one of the Star Wars books that the Kessel Run was a very dangerous area of space where multiple blackholes and the like existed. Doing the run in 12 parsecs (unit of distance) meant that he didn't take the usual detours around the blackholes and instead flew a course directly through that area of space. Doing the Kessel run in 12 parsecs had nothing to do with speed or time, but with his expertise as a navigator and being extremely good pilot.
File sharing is not legal in Canada. Downloading songs (from source to you) is legal, but uploading is not. Filesharing (IE: P2P like bittorrent) is technically not legalized since you are uploading at the same time as downloading. There is a distinction between downloading and filesharing.
If Apple goes thru with this, it guarantees that I will NOT buy an IPod when my current one dies (hello Zune?). I charge my IPod at work on my Sun desktop and in my car thru my car charger, neither of which runs ITunes. Even if by some miraculous reason Apple releases a Solaris version of ITunes, it will not get installed on my work desktop. This is the stupidest idea to come out of Apple in a long time.
That's incorrect. I'll try to find the link to the WoW forum post regarding this, but a Blue (Community Manager) confirmed that most of the reported spam came from paid accounts and not trial accounts. They were a combination of gold sellers purchased accounts and hacked accounts. Trial accounts have had whisper limitations for months.
Even better. I've had an ATM eat up my debit card before due to mechanical problems with the machine. So by combining the 2, I would have been driving illegaly without a license for 2 weeks while a new card was sent to me. Yup, real brilliant!
A couple of suggestions. Instead of copying to 2 separate harddrives and replacing the HD every year or 2, I would suggest a mirrored RAID instead. You only need to replace a drive once it fails, with very little chance of both drives failing. That said, if its very important to you to keep these files, you should either burn them to archival DVD or portable HD and keep them offsite (IE: at your office, your parents' house). You never know when you might lose your PC to a fire, theft, flooding, rare chance of both drives failing, etc...
Frankly, if I were to invest in HD, I'd make sure I'm set for the next decade [hopefully...]. No sense buying a 720p or whatever TV now when content for higher resolutions will be out soon enough.
I suggest you read reviews and articles comparing 720p to 1080p. 99% of the population can't discern any quality difference between the 2 (this includes technical reviewers and people in the industry). The quality difference is so minute between 720p and 1080p that its not worth shelling out an extra $1k for a difference you probably wont see anyways.
But this brings up the crux of the problem: should companies assume that any IP in a dynamic range is a spammer email?
Easy answer: Yes. I work as a sysadmin for an ISP. Over 90% of the spam we block comes from dynamic IP ranges (trojaned/zombie machines most probably). A lot of ISPs have or will be putting port 25 blocks on their own dynamic IP space so that their customers can only route port 25 to the ISP's email servers. If you absolutely must run your own mail server, then get a dedicated connection with your own static block of IPs.
So they want to help curb piracy by delaying the release of movies to the Great White North. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Instead of being bombarded and possibly swayed by snazzy ads, trailers, etc.., we would have more information at our disposal find out before a movie even hits our screens whether its worth shelling out 10$ to go see or not. Either looking at US ticket sales, online reviews, chatting with friends in the US, etc..) So in that regard, it would be saving us from some of the Hollywood drivel! :)
I always buy my computer parts from local mom & pop computer stores. Most of the local stores carry a 1 year store warranty on all parts. The few times I've had failures in that time period, all it took was a quick drive to the store, and 20 minutes later I had a brand new replacement in my hands. Heck, I had some RAM blow 18 months after I bought it and they still replaced it free of charge, without my receipt (hooray for customer databases). Their prices are usually equal to or just a tiny bit more expensive than what you could get for buying online, at least in this area.
If your internet connection is mission critical, why go to the lowest bidder in order to save a few bucks (which won't happen when the service goes down, you'll lose money)? When will people realize that for critical services, go for the most reliable you can realistically afford. If it happens to be the cheapest then consider that a bonus, but it shouldn't be one of the main factors in choosing a service. Can you afford a T1 with a DSL backup? How about a DSL with a cable backup, or vice versa? You need to crunch numbers, see how much money/productivity you'll lose for every hour/day without service and decide accordingly.
"Don't approve of this action just because you think it only hurts a bunch of 'right-wing Christian zealots.' Remember fair use! There was a one-to-one copy sold with each of these DVDs---the original and the edited. The filmmakers did not lose one dime, and in fact made money with each copy sold."
Does this mean someone who used the service ended up with 2 DVDs? The original, and the clean version? If so, this is clearly copyright infrigement as only one copy was purchased. Who's to stop Joe from giving the original copy to his brother and keep the clean copy for himself? This means the copy that Joe now has infringes copyright as much as downloading the movie from bittorrent.