Odd, I never did ever see a store where that was the case. There was always a supply of systems and games.
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The PSP costs 250 or more. DS is available now for around 120. Are you willing to pay more than double for the promise of better games, graphics and a better screen?
If the DS is selling for $120 where you live it must be doing quite badly! The system is CAD$200 here and even with a friendly exchange rate that comes nowhere close to $120. At best, it would come ot $160.
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Of course when you provide dollar figures that are way off, the DS does seem a better value.
In Canada, the DS is $200, PSP with one free game is $350. The games can be purchased for about $50. Therefore, the system is more around $300 in cost. As for DS games, those are much cheaper at around $35-40.
If a user is interested in purchasing a 1GB card, you can buy those easily for $100 if you are willing to possibly wait a week or two for a sale.
Sony seems to be making the PSP slightly cheaper here. Probably a good idea seeing as how the DS hasn't been selling well at all. Despite all those claims of stores selling out of them, there was always an ample supply at every store I ever checked here.
Remember, all of these prices are in Canadian dollars.
CIBC, through Loblaws and it's stores, offers a President's Choice bank account that gives you free usage of services. Only downside is that you can't get "full service", you can only get self service.
One of the major credit unions where I live is offering a free chequing and interac account.
I have been wondering about this myself lately. I want to sign it with something unique, but I keep hearing that it has to be my actual name. Wouldn't your own made up signature be far more effective?
If the person orders from the internet, there's an address. If a person buys some items from a store, there's no address. At best, there is a security camera.
The one store that first introduced me to the "ASK FOR PHOTO ID" method actually will check every single time if you have written that on your card. It's only one retailer, but it's a start.
All my cards say "CHECK FOR PHOTO ID" on them. It might be possible to forge a non-photo ID, but requiring a picture makes it just slightly more difficult.
One other trick I do is I never have a consistant signature. On all of my cards, I have a signature that looks normal, but when signing anything I use a signature that doesn't look anything like. Only downside is that once when I was trying to buy beer I got refused.
Shouldn't there be no problems staying under a 60GB/month cap with VoIP -- at least for the average user?
60GB is rather generous. Shaw used to only give us 6GB (now 30GB) and Telus is implementing caps of 10GB now.
I had just learnt about Unix time shortly after 100000000 had occured. Seemed a rather shame to miss it. I won't be missing this though! 2000000000 is a rather long time to wait to reach another milestone.
Will the 1.8, 1.9, et cetera releases of Mozilla still be maintained with security updates and be safe to run as a browser even if there is no official final release made of them? Also, how long will these releases go on for?
You are absolutely correct that it is the chance of getting caught. Shame I don't have modpoints, since no one else has modded you yet.
I often hear people claiming we need tougher sentences. Yet, most people it seems -- including them -- break the law because they believe they won't get caught.
Justice Canada did an international study into subjects such as this. What they found that by increasing penalties, in some cases crime ended up going up! Whereas increasing the chances of getting caught did tend to lower it.
Originally, I had hoped for Firefox to be, essentially, the Mozilla suite browser (minus any direct ties to other components). Would it be difficult to port the Mozilla-browser UI to Firefox? That would be fantastic.
If the Mozilla Foundation is going to kill off the suite, I would be happy if they just took Firefox and changed the UI to match the browser from the suite. Surely, as you said, it couldn't be that hard to do that and just change all the default options to those that resemble the suite's?
A month ago I was reading a years old article about Mozilla. One of the advantages they were writing about was that you could create different interfaces with it easily.
Apparently there is demand -- just not much of it. There are many of us who still do use the browser from the Suite. As you said yourself, Firefox is simpler. XP is simpler as well. There are many people who find that a fault. I tried Firefox but got sick of it due to it's IE-user-freindly interface. I've tried to get other people to switch to Mozilla who ended up getting Firefox instead and ended up getting quite mad that they switched back to IE and won't even consider it again!
Firefox for the most part appears as a dumbed down version of Mozilla Navigator. Kind of like comparing Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Many of the options in Firefox have been removed from the Preferences. This requires more changes to be made in about:config.
Firefox enables options that are similar to IE by default (resiszing images).
Firefox's default download behaviour of automatically downloading has forced people who I've gotten to try and move away from IE to end up moving back because they get rather annoyed that they aren't asked where to download a file. One user's problems got even worse when it decided to switch between saving to his Desktop and Home folder.
Mozilla doesn't have an annoying tiny search bar! I rather prefer being able to type long queries and see the whole text and simply either click Search or press Up and then Enter.
Many people also tend to forget that when you install the Suite you have the option to not install components such as the Mail client. Whenever I install it, I only install the browser portion.
so that pages can match even if none of the words in your query actually appear on the page.
Even pages that come up in my search results now that contain my query don't even have anything to do with what I am looking for. Isn't this just adding to the problem?
How about a Did you mean? option that doesn't compare against spelling, but related topics instead?
I cannot comment on a ranch that far away from Fort St John seeing as how I don't live in the region, nor have I been there for quite some years.
For the most part though, it seems every isolated community does have either DSL or cable internet. Native villages of less than a hundred which have no cable television access even have DSL.
Even if DSL or cable access is not available for a ranch outside of Fort St John, there is always satellite which is either available or soon to be available for almost 100% of Canada to use.
There is one factor you haven't taken into consideration. The 95% of landmass that has communities not along the border still have broadband access for less than what Americans pay. You can be living on an island eight hours away from the mainland with only a few thousand people and get broadband access.
In Canada a lot of anime series can easily go for $200 or more -- even in US dollars. It seems rather obscure that a whole season of an American TV series will at most often be $40, while four episodes of an anime series ends up being $45.
All while still advertising UNLIMITED INTERNET ACCESS.
But it is unlimited access. It used to be unlimited usage until the caps came in. Companies such as Shaw explain that access refers to being connected to the internet, not usage when being connected.
Before moving to a larger city we used to go to a local place that had DVDs for $2 or $3 Canadian. It seems here especially that the local places are up to and sometimes more than 50% cheaper than the major retail outlets.
Oddly enough before moving when we first got a Hollywood Video they had the cheapest rates and longest rental periods. All their new movies were only $3, top 100 were $2, and their old stock was $1. In addition to giving you a whole week to watch non-new releases. This ended up forcing the other video rental stores to switch to offering 50 cent rentals. Of course after a while their prices started going up and so did the competition.
There have been ones headlines about Muslims, Germans, and such.
CanWest Global often likes to bring such people to attention and the opposition Conservatives in parliament will of course then blame our immigration department. Sorry that I cannot provide any links at the moment as news story tends to fall off of the net and most of these chases I hear about from television.
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Odd, I never did ever see a store where that was the case. There was always a supply of systems and games.
The PSP costs 250 or more. DS is available now for around 120. Are you willing to pay more than double for the promise of better games, graphics and a better screen?
If the DS is selling for $120 where you live it must be doing quite badly! The system is CAD$200 here and even with a friendly exchange rate that comes nowhere close to $120. At best, it would come ot $160.
Of course when you provide dollar figures that are way off, the DS does seem a better value.
In Canada, the DS is $200, PSP with one free game is $350. The games can be purchased for about $50. Therefore, the system is more around $300 in cost. As for DS games, those are much cheaper at around $35-40.
If a user is interested in purchasing a 1GB card, you can buy those easily for $100 if you are willing to possibly wait a week or two for a sale.
Sony seems to be making the PSP slightly cheaper here. Probably a good idea seeing as how the DS hasn't been selling well at all. Despite all those claims of stores selling out of them, there was always an ample supply at every store I ever checked here.
Remember, all of these prices are in Canadian dollars.
CIBC, through Loblaws and it's stores, offers a President's Choice bank account that gives you free usage of services. Only downside is that you can't get "full service", you can only get self service.
One of the major credit unions where I live is offering a free chequing and interac account.
I have been wondering about this myself lately. I want to sign it with something unique, but I keep hearing that it has to be my actual name. Wouldn't your own made up signature be far more effective?
If the person orders from the internet, there's an address. If a person buys some items from a store, there's no address. At best, there is a security camera.
The one store that first introduced me to the "ASK FOR PHOTO ID" method actually will check every single time if you have written that on your card. It's only one retailer, but it's a start.
All my cards say "CHECK FOR PHOTO ID" on them. It might be possible to forge a non-photo ID, but requiring a picture makes it just slightly more difficult.
One other trick I do is I never have a consistant signature. On all of my cards, I have a signature that looks normal, but when signing anything I use a signature that doesn't look anything like. Only downside is that once when I was trying to buy beer I got refused.
In Canada, there are a few banks that will give you free usage of Interac (Debit).
Shouldn't there be no problems staying under a 60GB/month cap with VoIP -- at least for the average user? 60GB is rather generous. Shaw used to only give us 6GB (now 30GB) and Telus is implementing caps of 10GB now.
I had just learnt about Unix time shortly after 100000000 had occured. Seemed a rather shame to miss it. I won't be missing this though! 2000000000 is a rather long time to wait to reach another milestone.
Will the 1.8, 1.9, et cetera releases of Mozilla still be maintained with security updates and be safe to run as a browser even if there is no official final release made of them? Also, how long will these releases go on for?
You are absolutely correct that it is the chance of getting caught. Shame I don't have modpoints, since no one else has modded you yet.
I often hear people claiming we need tougher sentences. Yet, most people it seems -- including them -- break the law because they believe they won't get caught.
Justice Canada did an international study into subjects such as this. What they found that by increasing penalties, in some cases crime ended up going up!
Whereas increasing the chances of getting caught did tend to lower it.
Originally, I had hoped for Firefox to be, essentially, the Mozilla suite browser (minus any direct ties to other components). Would it be difficult to port the Mozilla-browser UI to Firefox? That would be fantastic.
If the Mozilla Foundation is going to kill off the suite, I would be happy if they just took Firefox and changed the UI to match the browser from the suite. Surely, as you said, it couldn't be that hard to do that and just change all the default options to those that resemble the suite's?
A month ago I was reading a years old article about Mozilla. One of the advantages they were writing about was that you could create different interfaces with it easily.
Apparently there is demand -- just not much of it. There are many of us who still do use the browser from the Suite. As you said yourself, Firefox is simpler. XP is simpler as well. There are many people who find that a fault. I tried Firefox but got sick of it due to it's IE-user-freindly interface. I've tried to get other people to switch to Mozilla who ended up getting Firefox instead and ended up getting quite mad that they switched back to IE and won't even consider it again!
Neither does the Mozilla Suite force you to. Download the net installer and just download Navigator.
Firefox for the most part appears as a dumbed down version of Mozilla Navigator. Kind of like comparing Windows XP and Windows 2000. Many of the options in Firefox have been removed from the Preferences. This requires more changes to be made in about:config. Firefox enables options that are similar to IE by default (resiszing images). Firefox's default download behaviour of automatically downloading has forced people who I've gotten to try and move away from IE to end up moving back because they get rather annoyed that they aren't asked where to download a file. One user's problems got even worse when it decided to switch between saving to his Desktop and Home folder. Mozilla doesn't have an annoying tiny search bar! I rather prefer being able to type long queries and see the whole text and simply either click Search or press Up and then Enter. Many people also tend to forget that when you install the Suite you have the option to not install components such as the Mail client. Whenever I install it, I only install the browser portion.
B.C. politics should be on TV, it should be broadcast world wide. There is Nothing in this world like B.C. politics.
Isn't that what the B.C. Legislature channel is for? As for the world, there's a Webcast of the legislature.
so that pages can match even if none of the words in your query actually appear on the page.
Even pages that come up in my search results now that contain my query don't even have anything to do with what I am looking for. Isn't this just adding to the problem?
How about a Did you mean? option that doesn't compare against spelling, but related topics instead?
I cannot comment on a ranch that far away from Fort St John seeing as how I don't live in the region, nor have I been there for quite some years. For the most part though, it seems every isolated community does have either DSL or cable internet. Native villages of less than a hundred which have no cable television access even have DSL. Even if DSL or cable access is not available for a ranch outside of Fort St John, there is always satellite which is either available or soon to be available for almost 100% of Canada to use.
There is one factor you haven't taken into consideration. The 95% of landmass that has communities not along the border still have broadband access for less than what Americans pay. You can be living on an island eight hours away from the mainland with only a few thousand people and get broadband access.
In Canada a lot of anime series can easily go for $200 or more -- even in US dollars. It seems rather obscure that a whole season of an American TV series will at most often be $40, while four episodes of an anime series ends up being $45.
I got phoned for uploading just over 2Gb and downloading 6GB in a month. That hardly even comes close to excessive.
All while still advertising UNLIMITED INTERNET ACCESS.
But it is unlimited access. It used to be unlimited usage until the caps came in. Companies such as Shaw explain that access refers to being connected to the internet, not usage when being connected.
Before moving to a larger city we used to go to a local place that had DVDs for $2 or $3 Canadian. It seems here especially that the local places are up to and sometimes more than 50% cheaper than the major retail outlets. Oddly enough before moving when we first got a Hollywood Video they had the cheapest rates and longest rental periods. All their new movies were only $3, top 100 were $2, and their old stock was $1. In addition to giving you a whole week to watch non-new releases. This ended up forcing the other video rental stores to switch to offering 50 cent rentals. Of course after a while their prices started going up and so did the competition.
There have been ones headlines about Muslims, Germans, and such. CanWest Global often likes to bring such people to attention and the opposition Conservatives in parliament will of course then blame our immigration department. Sorry that I cannot provide any links at the moment as news story tends to fall off of the net and most of these chases I hear about from television.