Which this article seems to implies it takes Verizon a year to send a technician to 7 cities to connect up a few cables between routers. (And / or maybe install a couple of cards). Maybe Verizon should stop having their techs travel by horseback, they might get it done faster.
I switched to Feedly as well a few days after the announcement, and I've had no real issues with it. It works for my needs, both on the desktop and on the phone.
I've also noticed that since I'm not using GReader any more, I've stopped using G+ as well. Feedly's G+ link sharing seems a bit buggy, so I don't share there, and I don't feel the need or desire to check in on G+ any more one way or another. (Granted I barely share on Facebook either).
My only real beef is email sharing feels a bit cludgy compared to Reader, but even with Reader it wasn't as nice as it used to be.
But with more limited libraries. Netflix.ca for example doesn't have Star Trek series; just the movies. Nor a pile of other things you might want to look up.
Until the Entertainment industry realizes the 'net is Global and packages their products appropriately (ie without Region locks), they're going to continue to be hurt by TPB and similar.
Well it's not just that we need a pseudonym for it; but that for all intents and purposes, we ARE that nickname to people in some social circles.
For example, I've played Everquest for over ten years now. To my guild mates I am my character's name. They'd have no clue who I was if I introduced myself as my real name, but they would if I introduced myself as my character name. (Something proven at numerous Fan Faires I've been to through the years). So is it really a pseudonym if for the circle of people you're dealing with that name is who they know you as?
I know in Facebook I have some EQ contacts, and that's all under real names, and I'm constantly puzzled about who they are (until I remember again, when I have to remember) because all I know them as IS their character name, or at least the name they put out for the EQ/SOE communities.
My parents have a BluRay player, and they complain about how SLOW the damn thing is, the few times they do watch a movie with it. And while they may not realize that DRM is a major reason for that slowness, they do know it takes forever for a movie to start up, so they don't bother watching many.
In any case, it seems that BluRay is still in the early adopter phase as someone else mentioned. I've gone to various RV/Camper shows over the past few years (including this year), and one of the things that strikes me is that even in the higher end camper/trailers, (including the ones that have 4-5 TV's in them) they STILL only come with DVD players; not BluRay players. I suspect that one of the signs of BluRay finally gaining acceptance will be when those RV companies start including it by default.
Surprised they didn't mention Vanguard. It killed Sigil software and the only reason it's still on Life Support is SOE bought it out on the cheap. (See also: Matrix Online before that one was finally killed)
If there were someone really visionary, this could be the opening they need. (Not that it'll happen).
Charge a subscription to access it (you could even charge a subscription to access subsets of the library, like only "Sci Fi" shows, or only Cop Dramas), and do NOT do any geocaching. If someone in South Africa wants to Sub to Hulu to watch USian Cop Dramas, go for it.
Won't happen but it's something I'd love to see some day.
Recently the New Brunswick provincial government signed a deal with XPlornet for province wide High Speed (well mid speed) internet access by 2010. Most of it is going to be provided with Wireless towers (@45$CAD/month) with the rest provided by Satellite (@49$CAD/Month).
My parents use them (back when they were Aernet), and are generally satisfied with the service. It's faster than dialup but still somewhat sluggish, and they rarely have connection problems. Were Rogers or Aliant to decide to finally head out their way, they'd switch in a heart beat, but for now the WISP satisfies their 'net needs.
Could be those reasons. Could also be that if it's an exterior shot, they're using t he flags to cover up/hide some Canadianism from filming in Vancouver/Toronto/Montreal/Other Canadian City substituting for a US city.
Just put blinders around the Screen/Interface, and have a single cable going from the blinders to the box that remains in plain sight to everyone. (And that cable should plug into the interface outside the blinders so you can't unplug it without being seen) That should help prevent messing with the machine physically, but there probably isn't anything/much you can do to thwart a software type attack.
Thoguh really, I liked the system we had here in New Brunswick (Canada) for our Municipal elections. Scan-card readers, the actual readers out in the open where everyone could see them. The only thing out of sight was when you marked the ballot, and the ballots remained available for the recounts if needed.
We had one council seat in Saint John that is going to a re-election because the results were initially 1 vote off one way, then 1 vote off the other way, and finally tied after a recount of the paper ballots that were scanned. (The descrepencies were due to partially spoiled ballots in other sections of the scan cards)
Gotta love the article saying how they got applicants from "As far away as Wilfred Laurier" (a university that is literally a block away from UW) and UofT (90 minutes away by the 401).
In any case, seems like UW's looking at ways to turn their new company budding into a formal process of sorts.
Canadian Travel and Airline groups are pissed about those proposals too ( http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/10/12/airtravel-us.html ). Notice that the regulations also specify flights "Flying Over" US Airspace? So flights from Toronto to Cuba (or any other southern non-US destination) would also fall under those criteria.
Guess Halifax and Moncton Airports better get cracking on expanding their capacity; all those Southern flights may have to fly from the Maritimes to keep out of US airspace. (That or we'll see more Montreal->Moncton->Caribbean flights so they can use the 'just skirting around the edges' clause of the proposals).
Lost didn't get a preplanned number of seasons until late in this season. (The producers started negotiating for how long to keep it going and finally got the deal hammered out a few weeks before the finale; we have a confirmed 3 more years of Lost left IIRC). This season's finale was probably written/edited with that goal now in place in mind.
As for Doctor Who, putting aside issues with the source's credibility, I wonder if this may just be an attempt to get some raw feelings about the series. As in a way to see how the fans react, how the BBC reacts (do they bring in a new crew or fight to keep the old?), and maybe a negotiation tactic by the current crew (to arrange for a lighter season schedule or more money or whatever).
It's definitely possible; I saw a YouTube video linked on the EQII boards of someone who was using the Wiimotes to play EQII. This was back in December I believe, and I don't have the link handy any more.:(
And it's the same standard play you've seen in all the rest of the games so far. I think my biggest beef though is ineffective use of the touch screen. It would've been so much easier to reorganize your monster team by drag/dropping to switch instead of the little menu that was standard in the games. Or tapping the pokeball on the top left of the touch screen to bring up the switch screen in battle and so forth. Little intuitive things like that would've, IMO improved the game play and would've been simple to bring out.
Guess we'll need to wait for Pokemon Opal to be a minor upgrade to Diamond/Pearl with those sorts of tweaks.
NPD stats are North American only right? Maybe after the Christmas Rush, Nintendo's shifting the distribution a bit to equalize it across the regions. So if they are making say 750k/month, in January they sent 500k to North America, and split the remaining 250k in the rest of the world. Now, North America's down to 300k, while Japan and Europe and Asia are splitting the remaining 450k.
That, or Nintendo is shipping proportionally more to Wal*Mart and e-tailers than to the b&m stores that report their stats to NPD.
In Fredericton (New Brunswick) I was in EBGames after work, and I was surprised they still had 4 Wii in stock. Well 3 Wii since someone was buying one while I was browsing (looking for something else). Seems like the supply is slowly starting to catch up to the demand now. Probably by mid-Feb they should be easier to get.
2$ actually. That's our largest coin denomination, and possibly the 'easiest', I would think, to slip a transmitter into since it's a 2-metal coin and the largest common coin we have.
Judging from posts here, those 64k Wii owners who didn't get Zelda, are the 64k Wii owners who couldn't FIND it in any stores in their area.
Wouldn't FFXII and Guitar Hero II be part of the reason for the surge of PS2 sales too?
12 now actually (as of midSeptember), with the Dev's having confirmed that preparation work for #13 and #14 are in the works.
Your points still stand otherwise.:)
Sony always owned the rights to Everquest; they spun off 989 Studios and Verant to develop it, but the rights were always in Sony's hands. When EQ proved to be a hit, they pulled Verant more fully back into teh fold, and respun it as Sony Online Entertainment (SOE). (Don't forget, Qeynos is Sony EQ backwards)
Hmm, funny, I'm in Monterey and I was watching TV and it didn't seem any of the stations reacted much. The two fox stations I get didn't even mention it till 30 minutes after the fact and they were showing the news at the time! (NBC and ABC broke in about 20 minutes after with a quick message but that was about it till their local newscasts)
The problem with building this in orbit is that there is nothing to build it from in orbit. So all the materials, all the equipment and everything has to be shot up from earth.
If we build it on the moon though, we already have all the raw materials we would need to build the stuff (at least we think we do) so we just have to shoot up automatic factories to make it into the panels. Initially, it would be cheaper to just send the finished materials up into orbit from earth (since it would be more expensive to send the factories) but once those factories are up there working well, coating the moon in solar panels, they can keep going as long as they can with the raw materials they have, meanwhile the orbit route for each new panel we have to shoot it up. At some point theoretically, the factories would have created enough panels that their initial cost to build and launch would be less than the cost to build and launch the panels from Earth.
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Actually, they did. Verizon has just yet to deliver. Apparently they don't expect to deliver until the end of the year in any case.
Which this article seems to implies it takes Verizon a year to send a technician to 7 cities to connect up a few cables between routers. (And / or maybe install a couple of cards). Maybe Verizon should stop having their techs travel by horseback, they might get it done faster.
I switched to Feedly as well a few days after the announcement, and I've had no real issues with it. It works for my needs, both on the desktop and on the phone.
I've also noticed that since I'm not using GReader any more, I've stopped using G+ as well. Feedly's G+ link sharing seems a bit buggy, so I don't share there, and I don't feel the need or desire to check in on G+ any more one way or another. (Granted I barely share on Facebook either).
My only real beef is email sharing feels a bit cludgy compared to Reader, but even with Reader it wasn't as nice as it used to be.
Available yes.
But with more limited libraries. Netflix.ca for example doesn't have Star Trek series; just the movies. Nor a pile of other things you might want to look up.
Until the Entertainment industry realizes the 'net is Global and packages their products appropriately (ie without Region locks), they're going to continue to be hurt by TPB and similar.
Well it's not just that we need a pseudonym for it; but that for all intents and purposes, we ARE that nickname to people in some social circles.
For example, I've played Everquest for over ten years now. To my guild mates I am my character's name. They'd have no clue who I was if I introduced myself as my real name, but they would if I introduced myself as my character name. (Something proven at numerous Fan Faires I've been to through the years). So is it really a pseudonym if for the circle of people you're dealing with that name is who they know you as?
I know in Facebook I have some EQ contacts, and that's all under real names, and I'm constantly puzzled about who they are (until I remember again, when I have to remember) because all I know them as IS their character name, or at least the name they put out for the EQ/SOE communities.
I agree with this.
My parents have a BluRay player, and they complain about how SLOW the damn thing is, the few times they do watch a movie with it. And while they may not realize that DRM is a major reason for that slowness, they do know it takes forever for a movie to start up, so they don't bother watching many.
In any case, it seems that BluRay is still in the early adopter phase as someone else mentioned. I've gone to various RV/Camper shows over the past few years (including this year), and one of the things that strikes me is that even in the higher end camper/trailers, (including the ones that have 4-5 TV's in them) they STILL only come with DVD players; not BluRay players. I suspect that one of the signs of BluRay finally gaining acceptance will be when those RV companies start including it by default.
Surprised they didn't mention Vanguard. It killed Sigil software and the only reason it's still on Life Support is SOE bought it out on the cheap. (See also: Matrix Online before that one was finally killed)
If there were someone really visionary, this could be the opening they need. (Not that it'll happen). Charge a subscription to access it (you could even charge a subscription to access subsets of the library, like only "Sci Fi" shows, or only Cop Dramas), and do NOT do any geocaching. If someone in South Africa wants to Sub to Hulu to watch USian Cop Dramas, go for it. Won't happen but it's something I'd love to see some day.
Recently the New Brunswick provincial government signed a deal with XPlornet for province wide High Speed (well mid speed) internet access by 2010. Most of it is going to be provided with Wireless towers (@45$CAD/month) with the rest provided by Satellite (@49$CAD/Month). My parents use them (back when they were Aernet), and are generally satisfied with the service. It's faster than dialup but still somewhat sluggish, and they rarely have connection problems. Were Rogers or Aliant to decide to finally head out their way, they'd switch in a heart beat, but for now the WISP satisfies their 'net needs.
Could be those reasons. Could also be that if it's an exterior shot, they're using t he flags to cover up/hide some Canadianism from filming in Vancouver/Toronto/Montreal/Other Canadian City substituting for a US city.
Just put blinders around the Screen/Interface, and have a single cable going from the blinders to the box that remains in plain sight to everyone. (And that cable should plug into the interface outside the blinders so you can't unplug it without being seen) That should help prevent messing with the machine physically, but there probably isn't anything/much you can do to thwart a software type attack. Thoguh really, I liked the system we had here in New Brunswick (Canada) for our Municipal elections. Scan-card readers, the actual readers out in the open where everyone could see them. The only thing out of sight was when you marked the ballot, and the ballots remained available for the recounts if needed. We had one council seat in Saint John that is going to a re-election because the results were initially 1 vote off one way, then 1 vote off the other way, and finally tied after a recount of the paper ballots that were scanned. (The descrepencies were due to partially spoiled ballots in other sections of the scan cards)
Gotta love the article saying how they got applicants from "As far away as Wilfred Laurier" (a university that is literally a block away from UW) and UofT (90 minutes away by the 401). In any case, seems like UW's looking at ways to turn their new company budding into a formal process of sorts.
Canadian Travel and Airline groups are pissed about those proposals too ( http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/10/12/airtravel-us.html ). Notice that the regulations also specify flights "Flying Over" US Airspace? So flights from Toronto to Cuba (or any other southern non-US destination) would also fall under those criteria. Guess Halifax and Moncton Airports better get cracking on expanding their capacity; all those Southern flights may have to fly from the Maritimes to keep out of US airspace. (That or we'll see more Montreal->Moncton->Caribbean flights so they can use the 'just skirting around the edges' clause of the proposals).
Lost didn't get a preplanned number of seasons until late in this season. (The producers started negotiating for how long to keep it going and finally got the deal hammered out a few weeks before the finale; we have a confirmed 3 more years of Lost left IIRC). This season's finale was probably written/edited with that goal now in place in mind. As for Doctor Who, putting aside issues with the source's credibility, I wonder if this may just be an attempt to get some raw feelings about the series. As in a way to see how the fans react, how the BBC reacts (do they bring in a new crew or fight to keep the old?), and maybe a negotiation tactic by the current crew (to arrange for a lighter season schedule or more money or whatever).
It's definitely possible; I saw a YouTube video linked on the EQII boards of someone who was using the Wiimotes to play EQII. This was back in December I believe, and I don't have the link handy any more. :(
And it's the same standard play you've seen in all the rest of the games so far. I think my biggest beef though is ineffective use of the touch screen. It would've been so much easier to reorganize your monster team by drag/dropping to switch instead of the little menu that was standard in the games. Or tapping the pokeball on the top left of the touch screen to bring up the switch screen in battle and so forth. Little intuitive things like that would've, IMO improved the game play and would've been simple to bring out. Guess we'll need to wait for Pokemon Opal to be a minor upgrade to Diamond/Pearl with those sorts of tweaks.
NPD stats are North American only right? Maybe after the Christmas Rush, Nintendo's shifting the distribution a bit to equalize it across the regions. So if they are making say 750k/month, in January they sent 500k to North America, and split the remaining 250k in the rest of the world. Now, North America's down to 300k, while Japan and Europe and Asia are splitting the remaining 450k. That, or Nintendo is shipping proportionally more to Wal*Mart and e-tailers than to the b&m stores that report their stats to NPD.
In Fredericton (New Brunswick) I was in EBGames after work, and I was surprised they still had 4 Wii in stock. Well 3 Wii since someone was buying one while I was browsing (looking for something else). Seems like the supply is slowly starting to catch up to the demand now. Probably by mid-Feb they should be easier to get.
2$ actually. That's our largest coin denomination, and possibly the 'easiest', I would think, to slip a transmitter into since it's a 2-metal coin and the largest common coin we have.
Judging from posts here, those 64k Wii owners who didn't get Zelda, are the 64k Wii owners who couldn't FIND it in any stores in their area. Wouldn't FFXII and Guitar Hero II be part of the reason for the surge of PS2 sales too?
12 now actually (as of midSeptember), with the Dev's having confirmed that preparation work for #13 and #14 are in the works. Your points still stand otherwise. :)
Sony always owned the rights to Everquest; they spun off 989 Studios and Verant to develop it, but the rights were always in Sony's hands. When EQ proved to be a hit, they pulled Verant more fully back into teh fold, and respun it as Sony Online Entertainment (SOE). (Don't forget, Qeynos is Sony EQ backwards)
Hmm, funny, I'm in Monterey and I was watching TV and it didn't seem any of the stations reacted much. The two fox stations I get didn't even mention it till 30 minutes after the fact and they were showing the news at the time! (NBC and ABC broke in about 20 minutes after with a quick message but that was about it till their local newscasts)
The problem with building this in orbit is that there is nothing to build it from in orbit. So all the materials, all the equipment and everything has to be shot up from earth. If we build it on the moon though, we already have all the raw materials we would need to build the stuff (at least we think we do) so we just have to shoot up automatic factories to make it into the panels. Initially, it would be cheaper to just send the finished materials up into orbit from earth (since it would be more expensive to send the factories) but once those factories are up there working well, coating the moon in solar panels, they can keep going as long as they can with the raw materials they have, meanwhile the orbit route for each new panel we have to shoot it up. At some point theoretically, the factories would have created enough panels that their initial cost to build and launch would be less than the cost to build and launch the panels from Earth.