3. Set up a neighbourhood network. Get a good router and let your neighbours in on it. Keep the network open. Keep no records of who has what IP address. Then they have no idea who's doing the infriging since you don't know either!
You forgot, be in violation of your acceptable use policy. Not only that, but also you are to be held responsible if you are aware of such activity.
Your information about the levies is incorrect. They were removed from devices such as the iPod and recordable DVDs never had such a levy to being with.
They'll skip a number and just go with XBox 4. Nullsoft and Netscape did it. Just to clarify any possible confusion, I am aware of the reasoning behind the version jumps of the products of those two organisations.
People have done what you have mentioned. However, it requires purchasing equipment and setting things up yourself.
The CRTC has nothing to do with your lack of being able to buy channels individually (with the exception of requiring a certain number of those channels to be Canadian). It is the cable/satellite companies that put them into budles. Most cable/satellite companies allow you to purchase digital channels separately.
With analogue cable, the reason they are in bundles is because you just can't flip a switch and enable access to them. They have to go out to your place and setup the connection. It is just easier -- and cheaper for them -- to offer three or so packages than to offer 50 individual channels.
I suggest you read the CRTC website which explains in detail about your beefs. If you are still not happy, file a complaint with them. They surprisenly do go through those things and respond.
In Vancouver they were thinking about a system for people who drink that would tag you each time you entered a bar/pub. The reason for the system would be to alert bar/pub owners if the person had been causing problems at another establishment and would give a warning that the person could be trouble -- among other things.
Not only that, but with a quick glance at their website, they don't appear to sell Apple products. If Apple starts to catch on, that's also possibly less money TigerDirect makes. This way TigerDirect continues to make money and as you mentioned also possibly could end up getting a nice hefty sum of money.
It's the part where you use the torrent file to connect to a tracker to download the contents from other users. All they have to do is get a listing of users who are uploading/downloading the file from the tracker.
It should be noted that torrents offer some of the worst privacy amongst p2p applications since there is nothing preventing a person from seeing who is uploading and downloading a particular file. With the exception of registration agreements and sometimes needing to have the torrent first -- minor problems.
Most polls these days are putting tory support in front of grit support. Although, as the case with one poll, that was only after people were reminded of the sponsorship scandel. When people aren't reminded of the sponsorship scandel, the numbers are much closer.
I don't understand why everybody thinks that this shows that Nintendo is "behind" or "not prepared" to show Revolution to the public. I think the decision makes perfect sense from a marketing standpoint.
Perhaps because the GameCube ended up becoming that -- behind and not prepared. Nintendo made claims about a launch at the same time as the PS2. Despite being only months away Nintendo kept insisting they were ready. In the end they were off by a year, give or take a few months.
It is odd that you mention that FF currently has beaten Opera when the FF community often seems to brag about how IE's numbers are dropping. If it can happen to IE it can surely happen to FF.
> Dropping reality tv will not make good shows appear.
Well, it does, because the good expensive shows that dont have high enough ratings are canceled to make way for the shovelware.
This is presuming that in order for a show to be good it also must cost a lot of money. There is no reason why a show cannot be low-budget but be a good show due to it's great writing.
You can throw all the money you want at a bad show, but it doesn't mean it'll become great.
Why would the Liberals care about the NDP? When it came time for the budget they didn't care. Why would they bother when all they have to do is get the support of the tories to pass legislation?
You are very right, there are costs with running the device. I haven't looked into how much of a difference there would be. It would have to be at the very least a couple hundred dollars cheaper to run the LCD over those years for it to be financially cheaper -- if I was using a common resolution such as 1280x1024. The problem for myself is that I want a higher resolution and LCDs just don't seem to provide that unless if I got over a $1000 to spend.
I agree when it comes to money. A budget LCD is still more expensive than a budget CRT where I live.
I've thought of switching to an LCD monitor, but the 1280x1024 maximum resolution keeps holding me back from most of them. The only ones that tend to go higher than that can easily cost 1000% more than the equivalent CRT that does.
When a reasonably priced LCD that can do 1600x1200 or greater comes out, then I will be interested.
I used to live in Northern BC as well. Just when it was starting to get bright in the mornings, DST kicked in and all of a sudden it was dark again. Living down south now I wish it kicked in earlier. The sun is practically coming up at 6 it seems before it kicks in.
Sure, we can already get such media from the cable provider. But for the most part, people only have one choice for a cable provider. What this helps allow is the opportunity for competition. I would gladly drop my cable provider for the local internet provider for my television services if it'll be cheaper.
Most people are getting wise to Flash and are installing features like the Firefox plugin that requires you to click on an icon in order to activate a flash component (should you want to).
Most people use Internet Explorer and a lot of them do not even know that Firefox (let alone the plugin) exists. I highly doubt they are getting wise to Flash.
Let's not forget, to a lot of people IE is the Internet and/or Google/Yahoo is a web browser.
If you don't ship it registered, what's stopping the company from saying it never got there? I've heard of people who have waited over a year and have hassled the company numerous times to finally get their rebate. I got two items with a mail-in rebate on Boxing Day (December 26), I got the $10 cheque, but am still awaiting the $60 cheque.
Some businesses will instead just give you the discount at the till and do the work themselves for the rebate.
The only real major downside to getting rid of rebates is that in reality only a very small (less than 10 per cent) of people fill them out which means that in theory they can offer larger rebates for those who do. Of course, that's only in theory.
Welcome to western Canadian internet. Shaw has been doing this for years with limits as low as 6GB. Telus is now starting to enforce their 10GB limit. Shaw has recently moved up to 30GB however. End users for the most part are not let known about this. Both tend to advertise unlimited access -- not to be confused with usage.
If anything is a joke, it's that you're lucky enough to get 60GB. According to Telus, most of their users use no more than a few gigabytes a month. The average user who goes over (about 10% of their users) uses 45GB/month. Yet, Telus offers no plan that allows you 45GB/month unless if you are willing to fork out hundreds of dollars a month! Right now I would be very grateful for a 60GB limit.
Parent is not a troll. This is only done in some regions though. That is why not all users are affected. Just browse their forum at Broadband reports to confirm it yourself.
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3. Set up a neighbourhood network. Get a good router and let your neighbours in on it. Keep the network open. Keep no records of who has what IP address. Then they have no idea who's doing the infriging since you don't know either!
You forgot, be in violation of your acceptable use policy. Not only that, but also you are to be held responsible if you are aware of such activity.
Your information about the levies is incorrect. They were removed from devices such as the iPod and recordable DVDs never had such a levy to being with.
They'll skip a number and just go with XBox 4. Nullsoft and Netscape did it. Just to clarify any possible confusion, I am aware of the reasoning behind the version jumps of the products of those two organisations.
People have done what you have mentioned. However, it requires purchasing equipment and setting things up yourself.
The CRTC has nothing to do with your lack of being able to buy channels individually (with the exception of requiring a certain number of those channels to be Canadian). It is the cable/satellite companies that put them into budles. Most cable/satellite companies allow you to purchase digital channels separately.
With analogue cable, the reason they are in bundles is because you just can't flip a switch and enable access to them. They have to go out to your place and setup the connection. It is just easier -- and cheaper for them -- to offer three or so packages than to offer 50 individual channels.
I suggest you read the CRTC website which explains in detail about your beefs. If you are still not happy, file a complaint with them. They surprisenly do go through those things and respond.
In Vancouver they were thinking about a system for people who drink that would tag you each time you entered a bar/pub. The reason for the system would be to alert bar/pub owners if the person had been causing problems at another establishment and would give a warning that the person could be trouble -- among other things.
Not only that, but with a quick glance at their website, they don't appear to sell Apple products. If Apple starts to catch on, that's also possibly less money TigerDirect makes. This way TigerDirect continues to make money and as you mentioned also possibly could end up getting a nice hefty sum of money.
It's the part where you use the torrent file to connect to a tracker to download the contents from other users. All they have to do is get a listing of users who are uploading/downloading the file from the tracker.
It should be noted that torrents offer some of the worst privacy amongst p2p applications since there is nothing preventing a person from seeing who is uploading and downloading a particular file. With the exception of registration agreements and sometimes needing to have the torrent first -- minor problems.
Most polls these days are putting tory support in front of grit support. Although, as the case with one poll, that was only after people were reminded of the sponsorship scandel. When people aren't reminded of the sponsorship scandel, the numbers are much closer.
From my experiences, in Canada most people don't use AIM (regardless of using AOL as their ISP or not) and instead use MSN.
I don't understand why everybody thinks that this shows that Nintendo is "behind" or "not prepared" to show Revolution to the public. I think the decision makes perfect sense from a marketing standpoint.
Perhaps because the GameCube ended up becoming that -- behind and not prepared. Nintendo made claims about a launch at the same time as the PS2. Despite being only months away Nintendo kept insisting they were ready. In the end they were off by a year, give or take a few months.
It is odd that you mention that FF currently has beaten Opera when the FF community often seems to brag about how IE's numbers are dropping. If it can happen to IE it can surely happen to FF.
> Dropping reality tv will not make good shows appear.
Well, it does, because the good expensive shows that dont have high enough ratings are canceled to make way for the shovelware.
This is presuming that in order for a show to be good it also must cost a lot of money. There is no reason why a show cannot be low-budget but be a good show due to it's great writing.
You can throw all the money you want at a bad show, but it doesn't mean it'll become great.
Why would the Liberals care about the NDP? When it came time for the budget they didn't care. Why would they bother when all they have to do is get the support of the tories to pass legislation?
You are very right, there are costs with running the device. I haven't looked into how much of a difference there would be. It would have to be at the very least a couple hundred dollars cheaper to run the LCD over those years for it to be financially cheaper -- if I was using a common resolution such as 1280x1024. The problem for myself is that I want a higher resolution and LCDs just don't seem to provide that unless if I got over a $1000 to spend.
I agree when it comes to money. A budget LCD is still more expensive than a budget CRT where I live.
I've thought of switching to an LCD monitor, but the 1280x1024 maximum resolution keeps holding me back from most of them. The only ones that tend to go higher than that can easily cost 1000% more than the equivalent CRT that does.
When a reasonably priced LCD that can do 1600x1200 or greater comes out, then I will be interested.
I was on the other side of the province in Rupert.
I used to live in Northern BC as well. Just when it was starting to get bright in the mornings, DST kicked in and all of a sudden it was dark again. Living down south now I wish it kicked in earlier. The sun is practically coming up at 6 it seems before it kicks in.
Sure, we can already get such media from the cable provider. But for the most part, people only have one choice for a cable provider. What this helps allow is the opportunity for competition. I would gladly drop my cable provider for the local internet provider for my television services if it'll be cheaper.
Most people are getting wise to Flash and are installing features like the Firefox plugin that requires you to click on an icon in order to activate a flash component (should you want to).
Most people use Internet Explorer and a lot of them do not even know that Firefox (let alone the plugin) exists. I highly doubt they are getting wise to Flash.
Let's not forget, to a lot of people IE is the Internet and/or Google/Yahoo is a web browser.
Windows boots in only a matter of a few seconds on a 486, if you use version 3.1.
Even XP -- which Microsoft claimed has the fastest bootup ever for a Windows release -- doesn't boot that fast.
If you don't ship it registered, what's stopping the company from saying it never got there? I've heard of people who have waited over a year and have hassled the company numerous times to finally get their rebate. I got two items with a mail-in rebate on Boxing Day (December 26), I got the $10 cheque, but am still awaiting the $60 cheque.
Some businesses will instead just give you the discount at the till and do the work themselves for the rebate.
The only real major downside to getting rid of rebates is that in reality only a very small (less than 10 per cent) of people fill them out which means that in theory they can offer larger rebates for those who do. Of course, that's only in theory.
April 1st!!!
Of course nothing legit *cough* GMail *cough* was ever announced on April Fools Day.
Welcome to western Canadian internet. Shaw has been doing this for years with limits as low as 6GB. Telus is now starting to enforce their 10GB limit. Shaw has recently moved up to 30GB however. End users for the most part are not let known about this. Both tend to advertise unlimited access -- not to be confused with usage.
If anything is a joke, it's that you're lucky enough to get 60GB. According to Telus, most of their users use no more than a few gigabytes a month. The average user who goes over (about 10% of their users) uses 45GB/month. Yet, Telus offers no plan that allows you 45GB/month unless if you are willing to fork out hundreds of dollars a month! Right now I would be very grateful for a 60GB limit.
Even if the transmission is encrypted, it won't do much good if there's a keylogger on the system.
Parent is not a troll. This is only done in some regions though. That is why not all users are affected. Just browse their forum at Broadband reports to confirm it yourself.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/shaw