The message logging is good, but I wish it were more portable. Something readable in html or txt.
Pfft. Me too...that's no big deal. I remember all 14 digits of my university library barcode, and it's been over a year since I graduated. I never actually tried to memorize either, I just eventually realized I had stopped checking for them.
Lucky you. The BBSs in my little town were all squeaky clean (OK, there were adult sections, but just for jokes and junk)... all the porn and warez was long distance.;_; When the first ISPs showed up around 10 years ago, it was a godsend.
Then you allow them to only go to the school, and not let them wander off to a strip club. (ie, password-protected account with access restrictions)
Think of it this way: would you a) drive your kids to the library (supervised browsing), b) give them a few bucks for bus fare and send them on their way (unsupervised browsing), c) send them along with someone you trust 100% (either some sort of reliable safe surfing software that doesn't exist yet, or a list of acceptable URLs), or d) send the government to shut down everything that could possibly traumatize your little darlings (which would require either a worldwide police state, or just an American one with really good firewalls).
Much of the cost of electronics is almost always development. If the GP32 had the same market size as Nintendo, they'd be able to sell it cheaper (and it still is a lot cheaper than PDAs with much poorer screens). At the very least, an anti-reflective coating for the GBA would have cost a couple bucks, tops.
1. CRTV is my local cable company. It only serves the town of Campbell River, is locally owned, and is not subsidized from any outside source. They charge $40 Canadian for cable internet, including modem rental. From the rates I've seen from U.S../ers, this seems very low...
2. A telco monopoly is not a free market situation.
In B.C., the cost is about $35 Can. for Telus ADSL, regardless of where you are in the province. The local cable company charges about $40 with modem rental. Sounds like your problem is with your telco monopoly, and this "redistribution" tax is just another way of gouging you.
Um. Actually, houses in rural areas tend to be a LOT cheaper. But actually, that sounds fine - as long as I don't have to pay for your stadium, skytrain, airport, Olympics, and all the other services/institutions that just happen to be located where the population densities (and the housing prices and associated costs) are the highest.
Still, my ADSL is actually less than 40$ Canadian and I'm not aware of any taxes other than GST/PST. I haven't seen any lower prices mentioned by US./ers in this thread, and I've seen some that were much higher. Perhaps your problem is poorly regulated telco monopolies, not this silly fee.
I find daylight (or any bright but diffuse lighting) to be better than a single bright source for the GBA. Still, it sucks that they couldn't make a screen with less glare... I put my GP32 and GBA side by side under my kitchen light: the GBA was almost too bright to look at directly, while the GP32 had a barely-visible purple reflection of the lamp.
...the Gameboy Advances have amazingly crappy screens. My GP32's screen is 50% larger, has an antireflective coating reducing glare to almost zero, and is much brighter than my GBA - if there's enough light to read, there's enough light to use it. Why can't Nintendo manage this?
I doubt it. At that price, I'd probably buy one if it were in good condition - it is difficult to run a lot of old software on modern computers. Plus, in this 31C heat, any computer that doesn't double as a blast furnace is appealing.
Indeed. I could see him having a dual-boot system and using Windows just for games, but he says that it's too slow to do so. Why is he using it at all?
I agree that the Handspring PDAs were great, but I didn't really like Springboards that much - the memory expansions were ridiculously expensive compared to CF (or anything else), but are a must for any medical use. A cheap or bundled adapter for a small flash card (say, pop it open and drop a SD in and forget about it) would have been cool, though.
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Not to mention John Lasseter putting his introductions at the beginnings of Miyazaki's works. He couldn't put them in the Extras section; he just had to make his face the first thing you see after pressing play. Ugh.
I've gotten plenty of individual apps crashing, but the only blue screen I've seen with XP was "unmountable boot volume" after fiddling with some registry settings. Setting LargeSystemCache to =1 is a bad idea. Fortunately, I was able to burn everything on \mnt\nt to a bunch of cds under Linux. (Weirdly, the installer for Windows couldn't make any sense out of its own partition and had to reformat it.)
I'd rather have a PDA that lasted weeks without a recharge than a powerful one with a colour screen (and two hours of battery life), but that seems to be almost impossible these days.
Yeah, that sounds about right. It'd be nice if someone came up with an "E" cell (or whatever), but then there'd be competition and reduced profit margins.
As an aside, the battery pack for my cordless phone is just three AAA NIMH batteries packed together with a connector. o_O
No, the spelling is perfect - He clearly meant "spelled" as in casting magic, rather than "spelt". Presumably, the transcriber used the same sort of quill as the journalist in Harry Potter, but it was defective.
No kidding. That's one of the things I dislike the most about my country - especially since hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk with a truck is a "no fault" situation, according to ICBC.
Well, I pay $420/week in Canada Income Tax (federal and provincial are lumped together), $25/week in CPP, and $33/week in EI. Divide the total by my gross pay* and I pay 31.5%. Not that bad, really - especially since I got back almost $4000 since I didn't start working until I graduated. I'd pay less if I made RRSP contributions, but I'm going to finish paying off my student loans first.
While you also whine about municipal taxes and sales taxes - those exist in the U.S., too. I'm not sure how much, but you can't act like they only have to pay income tax. (And don't forget health insurance - whoops!)
*Which I'm technically not supposed to state, according to my contract. Solving this simple math problem is a violation of the DMCA, which probably applies to Canada by now.
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Pfft. Me too...that's no big deal. I remember all 14 digits of my university library barcode, and it's been over a year since I graduated. I never actually tried to memorize either, I just eventually realized I had stopped checking for them.
Lucky you. The BBSs in my little town were all squeaky clean (OK, there were adult sections, but just for jokes and junk)... all the porn and warez was long distance. ;_; When the first ISPs showed up around 10 years ago, it was a godsend.
Think of it this way: would you a) drive your kids to the library (supervised browsing), b) give them a few bucks for bus fare and send them on their way (unsupervised browsing), c) send them along with someone you trust 100% (either some sort of reliable safe surfing software that doesn't exist yet, or a list of acceptable URLs), or d) send the government to shut down everything that could possibly traumatize your little darlings (which would require either a worldwide police state, or just an American one with really good firewalls).
Because you're being screwed by huge unregulated monopolies, aided and abetted by your own government.
Much of the cost of electronics is almost always development. If the GP32 had the same market size as Nintendo, they'd be able to sell it cheaper (and it still is a lot cheaper than PDAs with much poorer screens). At the very least, an anti-reflective coating for the GBA would have cost a couple bucks, tops.
2. A telco monopoly is not a free market situation.
In B.C., the cost is about $35 Can. for Telus ADSL, regardless of where you are in the province. The local cable company charges about $40 with modem rental. Sounds like your problem is with your telco monopoly, and this "redistribution" tax is just another way of gouging you.
Still, my ADSL is actually less than 40$ Canadian and I'm not aware of any taxes other than GST/PST. I haven't seen any lower prices mentioned by US ./ers in this thread, and I've seen some that were much higher. Perhaps your problem is poorly regulated telco monopolies, not this silly fee.
Yeah - a set of NIMH batteries seem to last at least as long as alkaline, and are cheaper in the long run.
I find daylight (or any bright but diffuse lighting) to be better than a single bright source for the GBA. Still, it sucks that they couldn't make a screen with less glare... I put my GP32 and GBA side by side under my kitchen light: the GBA was almost too bright to look at directly, while the GP32 had a barely-visible purple reflection of the lamp.
...the Gameboy Advances have amazingly crappy screens. My GP32's screen is 50% larger, has an antireflective coating reducing glare to almost zero, and is much brighter than my GBA - if there's enough light to read, there's enough light to use it. Why can't Nintendo manage this?
I doubt it. At that price, I'd probably buy one if it were in good condition - it is difficult to run a lot of old software on modern computers. Plus, in this 31C heat, any computer that doesn't double as a blast furnace is appealing.
Indeed. I could see him having a dual-boot system and using Windows just for games, but he says that it's too slow to do so. Why is he using it at all?
I agree that the Handspring PDAs were great, but I didn't really like Springboards that much - the memory expansions were ridiculously expensive compared to CF (or anything else), but are a must for any medical use. A cheap or bundled adapter for a small flash card (say, pop it open and drop a SD in and forget about it) would have been cool, though.
Not to mention John Lasseter putting his introductions at the beginnings of Miyazaki's works. He couldn't put them in the Extras section; he just had to make his face the first thing you see after pressing play. Ugh.
I've gotten plenty of individual apps crashing, but the only blue screen I've seen with XP was "unmountable boot volume" after fiddling with some registry settings. Setting LargeSystemCache to =1 is a bad idea. Fortunately, I was able to burn everything on \mnt\nt to a bunch of cds under Linux. (Weirdly, the installer for Windows couldn't make any sense out of its own partition and had to reformat it.)
I'd rather have a PDA that lasted weeks without a recharge than a powerful one with a colour screen (and two hours of battery life), but that seems to be almost impossible these days.
No way, you're totally wrong. Far from being encumbered, I'm now enjoying two-handed surfing!
Yeah, cause the 20mg of Na+ (out of 220mg) is really going to make a difference. That's a little less than you'd get from a single potato chip.
As an aside, the battery pack for my cordless phone is just three AAA NIMH batteries packed together with a connector. o_O
Beat up a cop? Hell, all you have to do is dent their car...
I assume that will be followed by KDE 95....
Yeah, in 2095. I can't wait for Mandrake 8589934592!
No, the spelling is perfect - He clearly meant "spelled" as in casting magic, rather than "spelt". Presumably, the transcriber used the same sort of quill as the journalist in Harry Potter, but it was defective.
No kidding. That's one of the things I dislike the most about my country - especially since hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk with a truck is a "no fault" situation, according to ICBC.
Well, I pay $420/week in Canada Income Tax (federal and provincial are lumped together), $25/week in CPP, and $33/week in EI. Divide the total by my gross pay* and I pay 31.5%. Not that bad, really - especially since I got back almost $4000 since I didn't start working until I graduated. I'd pay less if I made RRSP contributions, but I'm going to finish paying off my student loans first.
While you also whine about municipal taxes and sales taxes - those exist in the U.S., too. I'm not sure how much, but you can't act like they only have to pay income tax. (And don't forget health insurance - whoops!)
*Which I'm technically not supposed to state, according to my contract. Solving this simple math problem is a violation of the DMCA, which probably applies to Canada by now.