This is the solution I've been looking for ever since I first started out on the net years ago and wondered "Why can the US government have.gov addresses while the Canadian government has to tack everything to third level domains on gc.ca?" and "Why does Yale get yale.edu, avoiding confusion with the lock manufacturer, and Carleton University get carleton.ca, which could cause confusion with Mt. Carleton and Carleton county in New Brunswick?" (Yes I know it's because the system originated in the US.)
This system is much better organized. The only other suggestion I could bring to it would be to add states/provinces in to the mix. So you would get things like http://bathurst.gov.nb.ca, or http://something.com.nsw.au. Makes for longer addresses, I know, but makes things so much easier to understand and sort. Besides, if you can't remember more then 15 characters in a domain name, you won't get very far online.
Amen brother. I had searched long and hard for a decent keyboard with no "idiot buttons". My search came to an end when my mother bought herself a new P3 800 system a few years ago. It came bundled with a generic Mitsumi PS/2 keyboard. The model I have now is KFK-EA4XT. They have a small footprint and even a pen rack on the top for storing your writables. The touch and feel of them are great too. I checked around for one for my own machine and to my surprise I found that most local stores stock em. And all for the low low price of 19$ CAD.
Here in Canada, on our new $5 and $10 bills, as well as the 20, 50 and 100 that will be coming out over the course of the next few years, braille dots have been added to the top corner. This way the blind as well as people with partial vision impairments can work with the braille and colors.
You might think that the dots would wear off or get damaged in being handled so much, but I've seen a fair bit of banged up new 10s and the dots are hanging on. IIRC, it's some process patented by the Bank of Canada, and it may already be in use in some foreign countries.
The article mentions one of the kids having a 5$ a day habit playing DDR on his lunch break using his lunch money. (Sorry, dont have the exact quote, but its in the bottom of the article.)
It's great that he's exercising and all, and even better if he's losing weight while he's at it, but if he's not eating at all just to play DDR, this can't be good. Wonder how much the school is gonna be on the hook for when the kid stays after school to play DDR and passes out on the machine.
...about as highly developed as the Yukon. If you look at it like that indoor plumbing and paved roads are a good deal.
Actually, I know some Yukoners, and they don't have communal wells or outhouses. They have indoor plumbing. They also have paved roads in/around/to/from Whitehorse. However, in Nunavut (the high arctic), paved roads, or any roads, are almost non-existant simply because of the great distances between communities. It's simpler to simply fly bush planes in and out rather then use trucks and whatnot. Tradeoff is that a bottle of Pepsi will go for a good 6 bucks or so.
(Though not figuring out TV and the 24 hour clock are everywhere indicates he interviewed some incredibly stupid Americans).
Well he did interview a few state governors with similar results. California and Arkensas if IIRC. Oh wait.. Never mind.
Why am I reminded of Chef's TV from that episode with Russell Crowe's Fighing Round the World? (Best episode ever, seen it at least thirty times and know most of the dialogue by heart)
Cingular also uses third-party tester Telephia, a 4-year-old wireless market analysis firm that says it observes 1 billion wireless calls a day on average.
1 billion observed calls a day? Now EVERYONE can know how it feels to live in a rural community full of hicks with cellphone scanners.
If Slashdot keeps on blaring all these spoilers on the front page, I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy watching the X-Files again.
Well, I guess you're in luck, seeing as this is the final episode and all. Oh wait, did I spoil that for you too?
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I've had a GeForce 2 MX 400 in my machine for a year or two now, and I can't say I've ever had a complaint with it. The one thing I wish is that nVidia would roll out a card with a tv tuner and remote (a la ATI Radeon 8500DV). My friend has one of these, and after sampling it, I've come to the conclusion that "I want". But I also want a nVidia card. What I would personally like to see should nVidia attempt this is this idea, but on a GeForce 4 MX 440. This way, the price remains low enough to be competitive, and say what you will about the MX 440 not being a real GeForce 4, it's still a pretty nice card for a good price. But for now, looks like I'll have to make do with my (ATI) PCI input card.
It's not a funding thing. It's just that they don't exactly sell 8086 chips and whatnot at the local BestBuy or CompUSA anymore. So rather then pay a bloody fortune to manufacture these chips, or at least pay someone to do it, if they can get used hardware on eBay for a tiny fraction of the cost of production of one new unit, therefore leaving more cash in the budget to protect you from the near-earth objets you're so worried about, I'm all for it. Then again, it's not MY money their using. I'm Canadian.
If there is, you can be sure my school computer tech won't be seen around much anymore, seeing as his house is a stone's throw from his workplace, which sports a gigabit fiber optic connection..
The thing is he's actually been planning this for a while.
Well, first of all, what happens if you burn out a stick (or chip for that matter) of RAM? You're stuck replacing the whole assembly. Secondly, I'm building a PC now and am only buying enough RAM to get me off the ground. I'll add the full GB when I have the cash to do so. Third, these things would probably run extremely hot. That means we'd need to see a whole new generation of cooling devices, probably a (consumer viable) liquid cooling system.
A few other posters have asked about how to wash a LCD suit. I was reminded of something I saw on TechTV the other day. They build a liquid cooled machine with the moderating liquid poured directly onto the CPU. Turns out this liquid is totally inert. If I remember correctly, it was Chlorofluoroether, but I'm not sure. Anyway, it's sold by 3M mainly to cool supercomputers. Drawbacks are it evaporates insanely quickly (as is to be expected with an ether), and it costs a few hundred dollars a jug. Now all that's left is to find a non-volatile soap to break up the dirt and whatnot so it can be carried away by the ether. And of course a device to filter the ether. And the fact that all this has to be done in a totally closed system to avoid extravagant laundry bills. On the up side, drying time is greatly decreased..
My friend and I decided to build new PCs at the same time to save cash on shipping etc. We both purchased Antec 1240 towers (If you've never seen them, these things are huge. The top of my machine has maybe a half inch of clearence with the bottom of my desk, and I have a rather tall desk.). The only dissapointment was that these cases weren't availible in black (through our supplier anyway). Anyway, my friend came up with a sweet idea for a case mod. First of all, we paint the cases black. The case is completely modular so we can remove everything and paint it seperately (except the top part, which involves removal of pop rivets). Then on one side, we dremel out a trapezoid (actually, we should do this before painting..). Then we take a sheet of non-yellowing Lucite, cut a trapezoid a bit larger on all sides then the one on the case. We stencil on a design, fill in some spaces with black paint, and mount it on the side, painted side facing inward, with 1/4 inch bolts with polished heads (for that industrial look). To complete the mod, we'll (eventually) purchase lights to mount in the top of the case. My friend's plan is to stencil a biohazard logo on the Lucite, black out the parts that are normally red on the logo, allowing yellow light to shine through the logo itself. Also, the light should be visible around the edges of the Lucite.
We went to the local Home Hardware a few weeks ago and already purchased some water-based (to avoid the chance of melting the plastic bezel because the cases are 300$CDN a piece) gloss black paint, a 2 foot x 4 foot sheet of Lucite, 16 polished 1/4 inch bolts, 16 1/4 inch nuts and 2 paint brushes. This should be enough to do the 2 Antecs as well as the case of my old Linux machine (as a test).
Total cost: 50$ canadian total, so 25$ each (not including the lighting of course). And we should have more then enough Lucite left over to do at least a few more cases. So with a little luck, this might just pay for itself. We intend to do this sometime next month when it's dry enough out for the paint to dry quickly. These wicked cases just got a little more wicked.
My dish provider, Bell Expressvu in Canada, already bounces from one station to another for certain programs. Let me explain with a concrete example.
Say I want to watch the Tonight Show. I flip to the Boston NBC affiliate carried with my satelite package. But when Leno comes on, I'm watching the feed from a Canadian station (The New VR or RO I believe). What I think is going on is that they're beaming down The New VR in NBC's spot, as well as it's own. The switch is actually visible. I've already tuned in to Leno early enough to catch the end of the late local NBC news. After the news, there's a slight click and a flash and I'm watching said Canadian channel. So if they can set something to do this at 11:35PM every night, surely they can hire someone to set it to do so every 10 or 15 minutes.
Another example I've seen is the satelite company (and the local cable company) insert their own ads on big american networks like CNN. These ad slots are used to promote the lastest pay-per-view movies, or cooking shows nobody cares about on the community channel (people from Northern New Brunswick will know what I mean...). Again, if these ads can be inserted, why not just switch to the feed from say the Detroit UPN affiliate to the Columbus one come commercial time?
Taking a train from Newfoundland to Toronto is more or less the same concept as driving from Hawaii to Los Angeles. Ok, that's an exagerated metaphore but the fact remains. There are no rail lines on the island of Newfoundland itself to begin with. They were pulled up by CN Rain and converted into walking/hiking trails and the like.
Of course, you CAN get off the island in other ways. But that involves taking a bus to Port-aux-Basques, a ferry ride that takes several hours (plus wait), then a bus ride from Sydney NS to Truro or Halifax to catch the train. Then from there, the train only arrives in Montreal the following day at 8am. Add to that another few hours for the last leg, Montreal to Toronto. All told that's easily 3 days of travel time, maybe even more on a bad day. And that's also neglecting the fact that these bus rides, ferry fare and train tickets would probably cost just as much, if not more then a plane ticket. It's just not viable.
My dad got me a sweet little P166 notebook for my graduation gift. In fact, I'm using it right now. It appears a friend of his was buying old notebooks from Irving Oil and re-selling them in our area. He even knocked 100$ off the price cause I upgraded one of his other machines to Win98. I'm currently running Internet Connection Sharing through my desktop machine upstairs so I can IRC, email and/. from bed. So I recommend looking for companies dumping their old machines.
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But wasn't that "egg" wrong? IIRC, there WAS one image with an X that wasn't uploaded, but as it turned out, it wasn't actually the winner.
Mod parent up!!
.gov addresses while the Canadian government has to tack everything to third level domains on gc.ca?" and "Why does Yale get yale.edu, avoiding confusion with the lock manufacturer, and Carleton University get carleton.ca, which could cause confusion with Mt. Carleton and Carleton county in New Brunswick?" (Yes I know it's because the system originated in the US.)
This is the solution I've been looking for ever since I first started out on the net years ago and wondered "Why can the US government have
This system is much better organized. The only other suggestion I could bring to it would be to add states/provinces in to the mix. So you would get things like http://bathurst.gov.nb.ca, or http://something.com.nsw.au. Makes for longer addresses, I know, but makes things so much easier to understand and sort. Besides, if you can't remember more then 15 characters in a domain name, you won't get very far online.
Amen brother. I had searched long and hard for a decent keyboard with no "idiot buttons". My search came to an end when my mother bought herself a new P3 800 system a few years ago. It came bundled with a generic Mitsumi PS/2 keyboard. The model I have now is KFK-EA4XT. They have a small footprint and even a pen rack on the top for storing your writables. The touch and feel of them are great too. I checked around for one for my own machine and to my surprise I found that most local stores stock em. And all for the low low price of 19$ CAD.
Here in Canada, on our new $5 and $10 bills, as well as the 20, 50 and 100 that will be coming out over the course of the next few years, braille dots have been added to the top corner. This way the blind as well as people with partial vision impairments can work with the braille and colors.
You might think that the dots would wear off or get damaged in being handled so much, but I've seen a fair bit of banged up new 10s and the dots are hanging on. IIRC, it's some process patented by the Bank of Canada, and it may already be in use in some foreign countries.
The article mentions one of the kids having a 5$ a day habit playing DDR on his lunch break using his lunch money. (Sorry, dont have the exact quote, but its in the bottom of the article.)
It's great that he's exercising and all, and even better if he's losing weight while he's at it, but if he's not eating at all just to play DDR, this can't be good. Wonder how much the school is gonna be on the hook for when the kid stays after school to play DDR and passes out on the machine.
It can, but the matches would be SO precice as to eliminate all feeling of romantic conquest.
-Prof John Frink
Absolutely. We don't want a device this powerful falling into the hands of those Anonymous Alcoholics.
...about as highly developed as the Yukon. If you look at it like that indoor plumbing and paved roads are a good deal.
Actually, I know some Yukoners, and they don't have communal wells or outhouses. They have indoor plumbing. They also have paved roads in/around/to/from Whitehorse. However, in Nunavut (the high arctic), paved roads, or any roads, are almost non-existant simply because of the great distances between communities. It's simpler to simply fly bush planes in and out rather then use trucks and whatnot. Tradeoff is that a bottle of Pepsi will go for a good 6 bucks or so.
(Though not figuring out TV and the 24 hour clock are everywhere indicates he interviewed some incredibly stupid Americans).
Well he did interview a few state governors with similar results. California and Arkensas if IIRC. Oh wait.. Never mind.
Since when does Greenland neighbor the US?
I loved the hour-long special. The best part is the Jean Poutine prank linked in the parent. Of course, Bush's reply isn't much more intelligible.
"He understands I want to make sure our relationship with our most important neighbour to the north of us is strong and we'll work closely together,"
Emphasis mine.
Congratulations Canada on preserving your national igloo!
Obviously my experiences are not unique or even rare.
:]
Actually I beg to differ:
I promptly took it back to Office Depot for another one, which they were cheerfully willing to do.
I took it back for a refund (also cheerfully done, and with apologies).
Sounds pretty rare to me.
Why am I reminded of Chef's TV from that episode with Russell Crowe's Fighing Round the World? (Best episode ever, seen it at least thirty times and know most of the dialogue by heart)
"Menu.. Function.. Back.. Enter.. Volume.. HEM..."
*TV sprouts legs arms and laser cannons, walks through a wall and starts shooting at people*
Classic.
Cingular also uses third-party tester Telephia, a 4-year-old wireless market analysis firm that says it observes 1 billion wireless calls a day on average.
1 billion observed calls a day? Now EVERYONE can know how it feels to live in a rural community full of hicks with cellphone scanners.
I really have to move.
If Slashdot keeps on blaring all these spoilers on the front page, I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy watching the X-Files again.
Well, I guess you're in luck, seeing as this is the final episode and all. Oh wait, did I spoil that for you too?
I've had a GeForce 2 MX 400 in my machine for a year or two now, and I can't say I've ever had a complaint with it. The one thing I wish is that nVidia would roll out a card with a tv tuner and remote (a la ATI Radeon 8500DV). My friend has one of these, and after sampling it, I've come to the conclusion that "I want". But I also want a nVidia card. What I would personally like to see should nVidia attempt this is this idea, but on a GeForce 4 MX 440. This way, the price remains low enough to be competitive, and say what you will about the MX 440 not being a real GeForce 4, it's still a pretty nice card for a good price. But for now, looks like I'll have to make do with my (ATI) PCI input card.
It's not a funding thing. It's just that they don't exactly sell 8086 chips and whatnot at the local BestBuy or CompUSA anymore. So rather then pay a bloody fortune to manufacture these chips, or at least pay someone to do it, if they can get used hardware on eBay for a tiny fraction of the cost of production of one new unit, therefore leaving more cash in the budget to protect you from the near-earth objets you're so worried about, I'm all for it. Then again, it's not MY money their using. I'm Canadian.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
If there is, you can be sure my school computer tech won't be seen around much anymore, seeing as his house is a stone's throw from his workplace, which sports a gigabit fiber optic connection..
The thing is he's actually been planning this for a while.
Well, first of all, what happens if you burn out a stick (or chip for that matter) of RAM? You're stuck replacing the whole assembly. Secondly, I'm building a PC now and am only buying enough RAM to get me off the ground. I'll add the full GB when I have the cash to do so. Third, these things would probably run extremely hot. That means we'd need to see a whole new generation of cooling devices, probably a (consumer viable) liquid cooling system.
A few other posters have asked about how to wash a LCD suit. I was reminded of something I saw on TechTV the other day. They build a liquid cooled machine with the moderating liquid poured directly onto the CPU. Turns out this liquid is totally inert. If I remember correctly, it was Chlorofluoroether, but I'm not sure. Anyway, it's sold by 3M mainly to cool supercomputers. Drawbacks are it evaporates insanely quickly (as is to be expected with an ether), and it costs a few hundred dollars a jug. Now all that's left is to find a non-volatile soap to break up the dirt and whatnot so it can be carried away by the ether. And of course a device to filter the ether. And the fact that all this has to be done in a totally closed system to avoid extravagant laundry bills. On the up side, drying time is greatly decreased..
Given enough time in the sun, nothing matches.
The what now? Su..un?
My friend and I decided to build new PCs at the same time to save cash on shipping etc. We both purchased Antec 1240 towers (If you've never seen them, these things are huge. The top of my machine has maybe a half inch of clearence with the bottom of my desk, and I have a rather tall desk.). The only dissapointment was that these cases weren't availible in black (through our supplier anyway). Anyway, my friend came up with a sweet idea for a case mod. First of all, we paint the cases black. The case is completely modular so we can remove everything and paint it seperately (except the top part, which involves removal of pop rivets). Then on one side, we dremel out a trapezoid (actually, we should do this before painting..). Then we take a sheet of non-yellowing Lucite, cut a trapezoid a bit larger on all sides then the one on the case. We stencil on a design, fill in some spaces with black paint, and mount it on the side, painted side facing inward, with 1/4 inch bolts with polished heads (for that industrial look). To complete the mod, we'll (eventually) purchase lights to mount in the top of the case. My friend's plan is to stencil a biohazard logo on the Lucite, black out the parts that are normally red on the logo, allowing yellow light to shine through the logo itself. Also, the light should be visible around the edges of the Lucite.
We went to the local Home Hardware a few weeks ago and already purchased some water-based (to avoid the chance of melting the plastic bezel because the cases are 300$CDN a piece) gloss black paint, a 2 foot x 4 foot sheet of Lucite, 16 polished 1/4 inch bolts, 16 1/4 inch nuts and 2 paint brushes. This should be enough to do the 2 Antecs as well as the case of my old Linux machine (as a test).
Total cost: 50$ canadian total, so 25$ each (not including the lighting of course). And we should have more then enough Lucite left over to do at least a few more cases. So with a little luck, this might just pay for itself. We intend to do this sometime next month when it's dry enough out for the paint to dry quickly. These wicked cases just got a little more wicked.
Actually, I think the technology is here now.
My dish provider, Bell Expressvu in Canada, already bounces from one station to another for certain programs. Let me explain with a concrete example.
Say I want to watch the Tonight Show. I flip to the Boston NBC affiliate carried with my satelite package. But when Leno comes on, I'm watching the feed from a Canadian station (The New VR or RO I believe). What I think is going on is that they're beaming down The New VR in NBC's spot, as well as it's own. The switch is actually visible. I've already tuned in to Leno early enough to catch the end of the late local NBC news. After the news, there's a slight click and a flash and I'm watching said Canadian channel. So if they can set something to do this at 11:35PM every night, surely they can hire someone to set it to do so every 10 or 15 minutes.
Another example I've seen is the satelite company (and the local cable company) insert their own ads on big american networks like CNN. These ad slots are used to promote the lastest pay-per-view movies, or cooking shows nobody cares about on the community channel (people from Northern New Brunswick will know what I mean...). Again, if these ads can be inserted, why not just switch to the feed from say the Detroit UPN affiliate to the Columbus one come commercial time?
Taking a train from Newfoundland to Toronto is more or less the same concept as driving from Hawaii to Los Angeles. Ok, that's an exagerated metaphore but the fact remains. There are no rail lines on the island of Newfoundland itself to begin with. They were pulled up by CN Rain and converted into walking/hiking trails and the like.
Of course, you CAN get off the island in other ways. But that involves taking a bus to Port-aux-Basques, a ferry ride that takes several hours (plus wait), then a bus ride from Sydney NS to Truro or Halifax to catch the train. Then from there, the train only arrives in Montreal the following day at 8am. Add to that another few hours for the last leg, Montreal to Toronto. All told that's easily 3 days of travel time, maybe even more on a bad day. And that's also neglecting the fact that these bus rides, ferry fare and train tickets would probably cost just as much, if not more then a plane ticket. It's just not viable.
My dad got me a sweet little P166 notebook for my graduation gift. In fact, I'm using it right now. It appears a friend of his was buying old notebooks from Irving Oil and re-selling them in our area. He even knocked 100$ off the price cause I upgraded one of his other machines to Win98. I'm currently running Internet Connection Sharing through my desktop machine upstairs so I can IRC, email and /. from bed. So I recommend looking for companies dumping their old machines.