the majority of those left are taking the opportunity to transition to either ICQ or Google Hangouts.
ICQ is only an alternative client to connect to the AIM network these days, and AOL owns it completely. Why would switching to ICQ be helpful to anyone?
By now, anyone still falling for such cheap PR stunts and gimmicks?
Yep. Pretty much everyone is. It's like the Cons haven't figured out that their chicken-little politics isn't working anymore. Keep it cooky cons, and get comfy in opposition.:)
Liberals hold on to honeymoon gains in national polls
Justin Trudeau's Liberals continue to enjoy more support today than they did in the 2015 federal election and have yet to see their poll numbers take a negative turn. ...
The Conservatives are down almost uniformly in most parts of Canada since the election. They have slipped 3.1 points in Alberta, 3.5 points in both Ontario and Quebec, 3.6 points in B.C. and 4.4 points in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Word of warning to non-Canadians who don't recognise the hyperbole: Alberta is a strange land that desperately wants to be Texas. Its politics produce strange ideas like this. It's clearly something in the water that does this, you see people move there from elsewhere in Canada, and it takes them months sometimes years to become normal again when they come back home. What your experiencing here is someone who has been brainwashed and is suffering a level of butthurt as a result of having a Liberal mayor in Calgary, Socialist government at the provincial level, and a Liberal federal government. Its spectacular to watch.
Carry on Mashiki. Tell us more about how the last decade of Conservative incompetence didn't create this housing bubble and the current economic instability.
Yes please. Double removable battery on mine too. External charger and a spare battery means never worrying about charge time, AND it becomes a solution when the charging port gets mucked up.
I'm sure the latter is why they stopped doing this.
Cygwin, VNC, VLC, and Chrome are the first things I install with Windows. This wsfl thing seems more like the experience of running Windows in Parallels on OSX than cygwin. I'm sure there are people who want a linux distro installed in their windows partition, but I'll pass. Cygwin works well, I get an ssh server & client, X server, bash, and more that just works and makes using Windows bearable.
What other choice was there? Not take the deal and possibly end up with a life sentence along with the thousands of other non-violent offenders you folks have incarcerated? The U.S. justice system is completely broken. The lack of a victim in these "crimes" should rule out incarceration.
Update: President Obama granted Brant a clemency on Dec. 18, 2015, along with 94 other federal inmates. She was released from prison on Feb. 2, 2016 ...
"I'm like, 'I didn't kill anybody,'" Brant told me. "They say, 'So what did you do?' 'Well, I was in a relationship with a guy who dealt drugs.' And they're like, 'That's it?' " ...
She's spent the last 21 years of her life behind bars on a first-time, nonviolent drug conspiracy charge.
Nobody in the history of Canada has ever been imprisoned for selling cannabis seeds. Strangely enough, when a U.S. citizen is caught selling illegal firearms across the border, your government refuses to extradite because it's not a crime in the U.S..
Were his crimes violent and criminal in nature, which would warrant extradition, or is this essentially a civil case?
I don't think that will make the slightest bit of difference. Marc Emery was extradited to the US for selling seeds. Something that thousands of people are selling in a large number of states with no repercussions. Not a single person existed to say they were even harmed by him let alone suffered violence. The American government abducted a Canadian who had never set foot in the USA let alone committed any crimes there and held him for 5 years alongside murderers and rapists.
I bought their "Hummingboard" when it came out. It had horrible stability issues, many features didn't work and still don't. The support pages are full of dead links now. Total garbage, once bitten twice shy.
And I received a bunch of Israeli propaganda in my inbox after purchasing that was not expected or wanted.
It's pretty much exactly the same thing as using Google Hangouts on Android, which can also be installed on OSX, iOS, in a browser, etc..
My personal phone is Android, work phone is iOS, personal laptop is a Macbook, work laptop is a PC. Hangouts works everywhere, and so I actively encourage friends and coworkers to use something that isn't vendor locked.
That's why it is a failing of iMessage. It's a pain in the ass having contacts who still use it.
This patent is the best reference I've found so far. It's all proprietary though, Lennox thermostats won't work on a Carrier furnace or air conditioner, etc. And the software seems to be really terrible on all of them.
Every manufacturer seems to be doing it now at least in the higher end models. Lennox has iComfort, Trane has this POS from the topic, Carrier has Infinity. The thermostats are connected to the furnace with 4 wires. R = 24v, C = Common, "i+", and "i-". There's those same terminals at the Air Conditioner. The gas valve has Tx and Rx blinky lights, the blower motor too. The thermostat reads the outdoor temp from the air conditioner's thermistor through the bus, all sorts of sensors in the furnace are readable in the thermostat, CFM of the blower, pressure in the ductwork, supply and return temperatures, etc..
The problem isn't the switch to ECM. It's that they didn't make replacements for when they broke. So repairing a broken ECM inducer motor requires me to replace almost every electronic component in the furnace along with the associated labour costs to do it, even though I'm fully capable of doing it myself. They will not sell them to me.
I'm sure there's a cool factor that means something to somebody. But when you live in a climate that is -40 degrees (celsius and fahrenheit) at times, having your thermostat email you when the furnace has failed is definitely more than cool, it can save you thousands of dollars.
Even on boards without those terminals, you could if you wanted use relays to switch speeds powered by the EAC terminal which is powered any time the fan is on. Except the circuit board is so "smart", that it cant tell how fast the blower motor is spinning anymore and assumes it has failed.
Also.. Everything except the actual motor is made out of plastic. You cannot remove the impeller from the shaft of the motor without breaking it. Once it's broken it cannot be repaired to work reliably at 3000RPM. Even if you could replace it with an equivalent PSC motor and relays, the circuit board communicates with the inducer motor which is no longer there so it will never light the burner even though the pressure switch is closed.
No. It's he inducer motor. If it was the blower motor I could just get a new motor and install it myself. Trust me, I've learned a lot about this furnace since I was suckered into buying it.
No its not. "Legacy" thermostats were essentially a few relays and some operator controls. 24VAC is fed to the thermostat terminal "R" from the furnace or air handler. When it wants the fan to run, it switches 24V to its terminal "G", when it wants heat it puts 24V on terminal "W", Cooling is terminal "Y".
These new "communicating" thermostats are a CANBUS network similar but much more poorly documented than the OBD one in your car. However it does things like send you an email when the furnace is failing, or when the temperature in your house has fallen to where you might have to worry about freezing pipes etc. It can tell you that it failed to ignite several times so you might want to book service before it fails completely.
I wish there was some online presence for people hacking these things. Inside my Lennox iComfort thermostat I found an SD card containing an OS called "MQX RTOS", and a i.MX287 processor.
Over engineered crap. It definitely is worse than most other manufacturers. I learned this when the inducer motor went on my furnace. They sold a furnace with an ECM inducer motor (for efficiency sake?), then stopped making them. So now in order to replace the inducer motor you need a new circuit board, a standard less efficient than what was advertised PSC motor, and someone to completely rewire the furnace with the new wiring harness. Then you need to pay someone labour and parts markup to install the $1400 in parts which they wont sell to you because you're not "Trained in Trane".
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ICQ is only an alternative client to connect to the AIM network these days, and AOL owns it completely. Why would switching to ICQ be helpful to anyone?
Canadians? We don't hate you. We're shocked that you chose a reality star for president, and maybe a bit saddened by it. But it's not hatred.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/canadian-crude-exports-to-us-hit-record-level/article29613525/
Yep. Pretty much everyone is. It's like the Cons haven't figured out that their chicken-little politics isn't working anymore. Keep it cooky cons, and get comfy in opposition. :)
Word of warning to non-Canadians who don't recognise the hyperbole: Alberta is a strange land that desperately wants to be Texas. Its politics produce strange ideas like this. It's clearly something in the water that does this, you see people move there from elsewhere in Canada, and it takes them months sometimes years to become normal again when they come back home. What your experiencing here is someone who has been brainwashed and is suffering a level of butthurt as a result of having a Liberal mayor in Calgary, Socialist government at the provincial level, and a Liberal federal government. Its spectacular to watch.
Carry on Mashiki. Tell us more about how the last decade of Conservative incompetence didn't create this housing bubble and the current economic instability.
Yes please. Double removable battery on mine too. External charger and a spare battery means never worrying about charge time, AND it becomes a solution when the charging port gets mucked up. I'm sure the latter is why they stopped doing this.
And France 7 years earlier than 2030.. France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023
Wouldn't record low levels by definition be the first time we've seen them?
For sure, we've all been there on the access Hollywood bus and said ridiculous things about having molested women.. WTF is wrong with your country?
Cygwin, VNC, VLC, and Chrome are the first things I install with Windows. This wsfl thing seems more like the experience of running Windows in Parallels on OSX than cygwin. I'm sure there are people who want a linux distro installed in their windows partition, but I'll pass. Cygwin works well, I get an ssh server & client, X server, bash, and more that just works and makes using Windows bearable.
Zwaaaaa? Bash is GPL. Linux is GPL. Cygwin is GPL, and LGPL. Why would it be infringement?
Nobody even knew. Chairs were thrown, we did the monkey-boy dance, and everyone had a good laugh about how ridiculous it all was.
How a first-time drug charge became a life sentence for this mother of two
Nobody in the history of Canada has ever been imprisoned for selling cannabis seeds. Strangely enough, when a U.S. citizen is caught selling illegal firearms across the border, your government refuses to extradite because it's not a crime in the U.S..
Strange?
I don't think that will make the slightest bit of difference. Marc Emery was extradited to the US for selling seeds. Something that thousands of people are selling in a large number of states with no repercussions. Not a single person existed to say they were even harmed by him let alone suffered violence. The American government abducted a Canadian who had never set foot in the USA let alone committed any crimes there and held him for 5 years alongside murderers and rapists.
I bought their "Hummingboard" when it came out. It had horrible stability issues, many features didn't work and still don't. The support pages are full of dead links now. Total garbage, once bitten twice shy.
And I received a bunch of Israeli propaganda in my inbox after purchasing that was not expected or wanted.
It's pretty much exactly the same thing as using Google Hangouts on Android, which can also be installed on OSX, iOS, in a browser, etc..
My personal phone is Android, work phone is iOS, personal laptop is a Macbook, work laptop is a PC. Hangouts works everywhere, and so I actively encourage friends and coworkers to use something that isn't vendor locked.
That's why it is a failing of iMessage. It's a pain in the ass having contacts who still use it.
This patent is the best reference I've found so far. It's all proprietary though, Lennox thermostats won't work on a Carrier furnace or air conditioner, etc. And the software seems to be really terrible on all of them.
Every manufacturer seems to be doing it now at least in the higher end models. Lennox has iComfort, Trane has this POS from the topic, Carrier has Infinity. The thermostats are connected to the furnace with 4 wires. R = 24v, C = Common, "i+", and "i-". There's those same terminals at the Air Conditioner. The gas valve has Tx and Rx blinky lights, the blower motor too. The thermostat reads the outdoor temp from the air conditioner's thermistor through the bus, all sorts of sensors in the furnace are readable in the thermostat, CFM of the blower, pressure in the ductwork, supply and return temperatures, etc..
The problem isn't the switch to ECM. It's that they didn't make replacements for when they broke. So repairing a broken ECM inducer motor requires me to replace almost every electronic component in the furnace along with the associated labour costs to do it, even though I'm fully capable of doing it myself. They will not sell them to me.
I'm sure there's a cool factor that means something to somebody. But when you live in a climate that is -40 degrees (celsius and fahrenheit) at times, having your thermostat email you when the furnace has failed is definitely more than cool, it can save you thousands of dollars.
Even on boards without those terminals, you could if you wanted use relays to switch speeds powered by the EAC terminal which is powered any time the fan is on. Except the circuit board is so "smart", that it cant tell how fast the blower motor is spinning anymore and assumes it has failed.
Also.. Everything except the actual motor is made out of plastic. You cannot remove the impeller from the shaft of the motor without breaking it. Once it's broken it cannot be repaired to work reliably at 3000RPM. Even if you could replace it with an equivalent PSC motor and relays, the circuit board communicates with the inducer motor which is no longer there so it will never light the burner even though the pressure switch is closed.
No. It's he inducer motor. If it was the blower motor I could just get a new motor and install it myself. Trust me, I've learned a lot about this furnace since I was suckered into buying it.
No its not. "Legacy" thermostats were essentially a few relays and some operator controls. 24VAC is fed to the thermostat terminal "R" from the furnace or air handler. When it wants the fan to run, it switches 24V to its terminal "G", when it wants heat it puts 24V on terminal "W", Cooling is terminal "Y".
These new "communicating" thermostats are a CANBUS network similar but much more poorly documented than the OBD one in your car. However it does things like send you an email when the furnace is failing, or when the temperature in your house has fallen to where you might have to worry about freezing pipes etc. It can tell you that it failed to ignite several times so you might want to book service before it fails completely.
I wish there was some online presence for people hacking these things. Inside my Lennox iComfort thermostat I found an SD card containing an OS called "MQX RTOS", and a i.MX287 processor.
Over engineered crap. It definitely is worse than most other manufacturers. I learned this when the inducer motor went on my furnace. They sold a furnace with an ECM inducer motor (for efficiency sake?), then stopped making them. So now in order to replace the inducer motor you need a new circuit board, a standard less efficient than what was advertised PSC motor, and someone to completely rewire the furnace with the new wiring harness. Then you need to pay someone labour and parts markup to install the $1400 in parts which they wont sell to you because you're not "Trained in Trane".
Fuck you Trane. I hope you get hit by a Train.
Even harder to start one.