I've never had any problems with the CRA or MOT (ontario). I use firefox on windows mostly, so maybe it's just a Linux thing. If there is a problem, make sure you complain to them. If you are having trouble then you might want to complain to the Treasure board since they have specific guidelines stating that websites are supposed to be accessible to everybody, regardless of what type of OS or browser they are running. I'm not sure if the MOT has to follow the same guidelines, because they are provincially operated, but the CRA definitely should have a working site in firefox.
I've never had to install anything for any internet service. Usually they have stuff you can install, but never have I actually had to install anything. Ethernet cable gets plugged from Cable/DSL modem into your computer or router and that's it. DSL usually requires a couple more things like setting up your username and password, but I have never been required to install any software that wasn't actually already part of the operating system.
The employee should be fired. They are the one who actually made the mistake, and who has shown they have no abilities. Managers shouldn't have to take the all the blame for their employees mistakes. If the manager has had a bad track record and this kind of thing happens too often, then maybe he should get fired, but you can't make the judgement that the manager should get fired every time an employee screws up.
Also, it's one thing to make a 70 cm, 80 gram, lizard walk on water. It's a completely different story to get a 2 metre, 4000 pound (my guess, cargo included) personel carrier to walk on water. Just getting the machine to move fast enough is going to require a whole lot of power. The feet would have to be huge, and cause lots of air resistance when trying to move them. Just because an ant can lift 50 times it's own weight, doesn't mean you can build a pickup truck that can do the same.
I often think this same thing about all bipedal walking robots. It's neither the easiest way to make things mobile, nor does it provide the most mobility. If you're dealing with uneven terrain, something with six legs would probably work a lot better, or if you want to cover lots of land, then something with wheels or tank track works better. I can't see two legged robots offering any serious commercial applications, apart from the novelty of having something that looks human. Would you rather have a robot maid that could do all the housework, or a robot maid that could only do half of the housework, but walked on two legs?
These are the same people who never picked up the old program though. Would these not be the same users who would have no idea what was going on if they were used to Office 2003, and you put them in front of Office 12 (I wish they would stop changing the numbering conventions). Training will always be an issue, especially for the people who aren't "power users".
Virus scanners are like front door locks. Any serious cat burglar is just going to grappling hook to the roof and cut a hole through strait into the attic bypassing the door lock entirely.
That has to be the worst analogy I've ever heard. Cutting a hole in the roof is akin to having a virus that displays a giant message on the screen saying "I'm a virus, delete me". Do you think nobody is going to notice you throwing a grappling hook and climbing onto someone's roof? Or are the people in the house not going to hear you when you start to cut the hole?
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I live in Canada too, although I find that there are many TVs with component video. However, there's a lot that don't, and even when they do have component cables, they're located in the back of the TV and hooked up to the DVD player. Moving the TV to get to these cables, and then rehooking up the other device when you are done can be really annoying. Meanwhile, most TVs have composite on the front for easy access. I can't even think of why they would need component cables for the PSP. It's not like the graphics are that good, that they're going to suffer if they use composite video. I agree this is completely stupid. Even though they have adapters to go from component to composite, you should have to get one of those, and this thing should just be using composite.
Slashdot (./ as you call it) works withing controlling the line. However, sometimes it takes 30 seconds for the page to load, some times it only takes 5. Regardless of how fast their servers can send the pages, sometimes there's just little slowdowns along the way that they can't control. When visiting a web page, 30 seconds of lag doesn't make it unusable. It's kind of annoying but you still get to see the web pages. When you're doing VOIP, you need the packets to get to their destination within a certain amount of time or it gets dropped, and the person on the other end doesn't get to hear the sound contained in that packet. There's no re-requesting packets when they don't get to the destination because it's already too late. I'm not a VOIP specialist, but I imagine lag times of anything over a second would be a showstopper for doing VOIP calls. You'd probably want something under 250 ms, garaunteed for all packets. Comparing Slashdot to VOIP is a really bad comparison because one requires very low lag times, while the other could care less.
However, with net neutrality, they wouldn't be able to give priority to any VOIP packets, including their own. It's a double edged sword. On one hand, they want to deliver QOS, on the other hand, people don't want them deciding which packets get better QOS. It would be nice if you could mark a packet as VOIP, and all VOIP packets would get treated as the same, and given a higher QOS over other packets where lag isn't so much of an issue, like large file downloads. However, I think that such a system would be abused, with many users tagging everything as VOIP, or whatever gets them the highest QOS. My personal opinion is that I'd rather have net neutrality, and have all packets treated the same, but we have to realize, that this is not without it's downsides.
I don't want a physical product provided I can re-download anything I buy at a later date if I happen to lose my copy. Having a CD as a hard copy is necessary because I can keep them in a safe place, and don't have to worry about losing my music. I use e-music, because it lets me do just that. Download whatever I've paid for as often as I want to, with no hassle. Digital media really is superior to CD media, provided I don't have to be a backup systems engineer to make sure I don't lose my music.
What could a third party VOIP telco really do to make a more reliable service when they don't control the line. Here's my idea, have a protocol that automatically detects dropped packets, and lowers the bitrate until there's not so many dropped packets, or none at all. Personally, I'd rather hear someone at 8 kbps then hear them at 128 kbps with every other word dropped from the conversation. It might sound like a bad kids walkie-talkie you bought at Walmart, but it's better than dropping words. And if you explain to your users why they are getting bad audio quality, and recommend ISPs in their area that don't have problems with maintaining good connections, then you can help to give the big telcos a reason to give good service to their customers.
Also, make all the features free. Call waiting, call answer, call forwarding, call filtering, and whatever other features you can think up. Telcos charge a lot of money for these extras. By making them free (including them in the monthly rate), you're offering customers a big incentive switch from the other guys. And since most of these features cost very little once they are initially developed, it's a wonder why you would even want to charge for them.
Crossfading and jingles is not harmless to the listener. It destroys the music. If it was harmless, then it wouldn't deter people from streamripping. How would you like it if you were watching a movie, and they decided to play some jingle instead of the dialog from the final scene? I can't remember which country it was (Finland?) but I hear they weren't allowed to play commercials or cut scenes from movies when they were played on TV, because it ruined the artistic integrity, and it's not the way the movie was meant to be seen. Although much music and movies today is lacking in artistic integrity, it's still wrong to cut up and play something over someone else's song.
However, if you're just listening to the stream, you might as well back it up to your hard drive, and then if you hear something you like, you can pluck it out later with some audio program. Granted most web radio is pretty bad quality, max 128 kbps with most of it being 96 or even less. I think it would be nice if you could download whatever songs they played, say in 64 kbps, and then that would convince more people to buy the hi-fi CD version when they felt their audio quality was suffering.
Exactly. It looks like they gave it this name specifically to confuse people. I think OpenOffice should sue them for trademark infringement. I'm pretty sure MS would sue me if I released a product called PointShare portal server.
Does anybody else find it really confusing that MS calls it OOXML. To me, OOXML would mean OpenOffice XML, but then I have to remember that it's ODF, which is the Open Document Format, because it's not specific to OpenOffice. Does anybody think that Microsoft gave it this name specifically to confuse people who would see the acronym and think of OpenOffice?
As another poster mentioned, you can thank extensive copyright for that. Most books written between 1900 and 2000 are still under copyright, and therefore can't be in project gutenburg. I don't like most of the stuff in project gutenburg either, but it's the best we can hope for with the current state of copyrights.
Yes, civilians get a downgraded signal. That still doesn't explain why he was getting a reading 100 miles off course from where he actually was. Especially when he's picking up 5 different satellites. You probably shouldn't get an error over 100 metres let alone 100 miles.
There's other alternatives such as Moissanite/Silicon Carbide which is almost as hard as diamond, lighter, higher refractive index, similar thermal conductivity, and more resistant to heat.
Are such things legislated into existence, or are the people running EU banks just that much more informed about what the real solutions are? Are there different laws for who is held accountable when money goes missing from someone's account? It seems to me like the US/Canadian banks are just trying to make things cheaper, and that, left to make their own decisions, the European banks would have the same crappy security. Is there any reason that the European banks would have something like this. Is it something the customers asked for? Or something that they are required to have?
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requests that you plug you CPU directly into the modem I wasn't aware that CPUs came with Ethernet jacks.
I've never had any problems with the CRA or MOT (ontario). I use firefox on windows mostly, so maybe it's just a Linux thing. If there is a problem, make sure you complain to them. If you are having trouble then you might want to complain to the Treasure board since they have specific guidelines stating that websites are supposed to be accessible to everybody, regardless of what type of OS or browser they are running. I'm not sure if the MOT has to follow the same guidelines, because they are provincially operated, but the CRA definitely should have a working site in firefox.
I've never had to install anything for any internet service. Usually they have stuff you can install, but never have I actually had to install anything. Ethernet cable gets plugged from Cable/DSL modem into your computer or router and that's it. DSL usually requires a couple more things like setting up your username and password, but I have never been required to install any software that wasn't actually already part of the operating system.
The employee should be fired. They are the one who actually made the mistake, and who has shown they have no abilities. Managers shouldn't have to take the all the blame for their employees mistakes. If the manager has had a bad track record and this kind of thing happens too often, then maybe he should get fired, but you can't make the judgement that the manager should get fired every time an employee screws up.
Also, it's one thing to make a 70 cm, 80 gram, lizard walk on water. It's a completely different story to get a 2 metre, 4000 pound (my guess, cargo included) personel carrier to walk on water. Just getting the machine to move fast enough is going to require a whole lot of power. The feet would have to be huge, and cause lots of air resistance when trying to move them. Just because an ant can lift 50 times it's own weight, doesn't mean you can build a pickup truck that can do the same.
I often think this same thing about all bipedal walking robots. It's neither the easiest way to make things mobile, nor does it provide the most mobility. If you're dealing with uneven terrain, something with six legs would probably work a lot better, or if you want to cover lots of land, then something with wheels or tank track works better. I can't see two legged robots offering any serious commercial applications, apart from the novelty of having something that looks human. Would you rather have a robot maid that could do all the housework, or a robot maid that could only do half of the housework, but walked on two legs?
These are the same people who never picked up the old program though. Would these not be the same users who would have no idea what was going on if they were used to Office 2003, and you put them in front of Office 12 (I wish they would stop changing the numbering conventions). Training will always be an issue, especially for the people who aren't "power users".
In case anyone is confused, InvisiblePinkUnicorn is referring to this drawing by M.C. Escher
Looking at all the linked articles, I wasn't actually able to find the equation. Does anybody have the equation?
Does anybody actually buy UMD movies?
I live in Canada too, although I find that there are many TVs with component video. However, there's a lot that don't, and even when they do have component cables, they're located in the back of the TV and hooked up to the DVD player. Moving the TV to get to these cables, and then rehooking up the other device when you are done can be really annoying. Meanwhile, most TVs have composite on the front for easy access. I can't even think of why they would need component cables for the PSP. It's not like the graphics are that good, that they're going to suffer if they use composite video. I agree this is completely stupid. Even though they have adapters to go from component to composite, you should have to get one of those, and this thing should just be using composite.
Slashdot (./ as you call it) works withing controlling the line. However, sometimes it takes 30 seconds for the page to load, some times it only takes 5. Regardless of how fast their servers can send the pages, sometimes there's just little slowdowns along the way that they can't control. When visiting a web page, 30 seconds of lag doesn't make it unusable. It's kind of annoying but you still get to see the web pages. When you're doing VOIP, you need the packets to get to their destination within a certain amount of time or it gets dropped, and the person on the other end doesn't get to hear the sound contained in that packet. There's no re-requesting packets when they don't get to the destination because it's already too late. I'm not a VOIP specialist, but I imagine lag times of anything over a second would be a showstopper for doing VOIP calls. You'd probably want something under 250 ms, garaunteed for all packets. Comparing Slashdot to VOIP is a really bad comparison because one requires very low lag times, while the other could care less.
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Obligatory Simpsons reference:
Skinner: Poland, tell us about your nation's achievements.
Milhouse: Well, uh, I heard they sent a rocket to the sun once... at night! And there was that submarine, with the screen doors...
Skinner: No, no, no, no, no. Young man, you need to do some serious boning!
However, with net neutrality, they wouldn't be able to give priority to any VOIP packets, including their own. It's a double edged sword. On one hand, they want to deliver QOS, on the other hand, people don't want them deciding which packets get better QOS. It would be nice if you could mark a packet as VOIP, and all VOIP packets would get treated as the same, and given a higher QOS over other packets where lag isn't so much of an issue, like large file downloads. However, I think that such a system would be abused, with many users tagging everything as VOIP, or whatever gets them the highest QOS. My personal opinion is that I'd rather have net neutrality, and have all packets treated the same, but we have to realize, that this is not without it's downsides.
I don't want a physical product provided I can re-download anything I buy at a later date if I happen to lose my copy. Having a CD as a hard copy is necessary because I can keep them in a safe place, and don't have to worry about losing my music. I use e-music, because it lets me do just that. Download whatever I've paid for as often as I want to, with no hassle. Digital media really is superior to CD media, provided I don't have to be a backup systems engineer to make sure I don't lose my music.
What could a third party VOIP telco really do to make a more reliable service when they don't control the line. Here's my idea, have a protocol that automatically detects dropped packets, and lowers the bitrate until there's not so many dropped packets, or none at all. Personally, I'd rather hear someone at 8 kbps then hear them at 128 kbps with every other word dropped from the conversation. It might sound like a bad kids walkie-talkie you bought at Walmart, but it's better than dropping words. And if you explain to your users why they are getting bad audio quality, and recommend ISPs in their area that don't have problems with maintaining good connections, then you can help to give the big telcos a reason to give good service to their customers.
Also, make all the features free. Call waiting, call answer, call forwarding, call filtering, and whatever other features you can think up. Telcos charge a lot of money for these extras. By making them free (including them in the monthly rate), you're offering customers a big incentive switch from the other guys. And since most of these features cost very little once they are initially developed, it's a wonder why you would even want to charge for them.
Crossfading and jingles is not harmless to the listener. It destroys the music. If it was harmless, then it wouldn't deter people from streamripping. How would you like it if you were watching a movie, and they decided to play some jingle instead of the dialog from the final scene? I can't remember which country it was (Finland?) but I hear they weren't allowed to play commercials or cut scenes from movies when they were played on TV, because it ruined the artistic integrity, and it's not the way the movie was meant to be seen. Although much music and movies today is lacking in artistic integrity, it's still wrong to cut up and play something over someone else's song.
However, if you're just listening to the stream, you might as well back it up to your hard drive, and then if you hear something you like, you can pluck it out later with some audio program. Granted most web radio is pretty bad quality, max 128 kbps with most of it being 96 or even less. I think it would be nice if you could download whatever songs they played, say in 64 kbps, and then that would convince more people to buy the hi-fi CD version when they felt their audio quality was suffering.
Exactly. It looks like they gave it this name specifically to confuse people. I think OpenOffice should sue them for trademark infringement. I'm pretty sure MS would sue me if I released a product called PointShare portal server.
Does anybody else find it really confusing that MS calls it OOXML. To me, OOXML would mean OpenOffice XML, but then I have to remember that it's ODF, which is the Open Document Format, because it's not specific to OpenOffice. Does anybody think that Microsoft gave it this name specifically to confuse people who would see the acronym and think of OpenOffice?
As another poster mentioned, you can thank extensive copyright for that. Most books written between 1900 and 2000 are still under copyright, and therefore can't be in project gutenburg. I don't like most of the stuff in project gutenburg either, but it's the best we can hope for with the current state of copyrights.
Yes, civilians get a downgraded signal. That still doesn't explain why he was getting a reading 100 miles off course from where he actually was. Especially when he's picking up 5 different satellites. You probably shouldn't get an error over 100 metres let alone 100 miles.
There's other alternatives such as Moissanite/Silicon Carbide which is almost as hard as diamond, lighter, higher refractive index, similar thermal conductivity, and more resistant to heat.
Are such things legislated into existence, or are the people running EU banks just that much more informed about what the real solutions are? Are there different laws for who is held accountable when money goes missing from someone's account? It seems to me like the US/Canadian banks are just trying to make things cheaper, and that, left to make their own decisions, the European banks would have the same crappy security. Is there any reason that the European banks would have something like this. Is it something the customers asked for? Or something that they are required to have?