In Canada PC Financial (http://www.pcfinancial.ca) is the way to go. Zero fees, free checks, free interact, and free abm's (only cibc brand ones are free) and their site works like a charm in firefox on linux.:) I've payed $0.00 in fees ever since I've been with them and have never had a problem. You can have as many accounts as you like, checking, savings(higher interest). Whatever you like. If your 18 it's pure gold.
I wish they would make these things programmable with pbasic or even assembly. I would buy one then. But controlling it through a remote control with pre-defined functionality sucks. It's fine for children for about 2 hours but they could hit a whole other domographic by allowing it to be programmed.
That's silly the ticket you had at the time it was stolen, was worth however much the lottery jackpot was and so technically you had the jackpot and hence you lost something you had, namely the winning lottery ticket which entitled you to the jackpot. Now if your ticket was a losing ticket and someone stole the ticket and you claimed you lost the lottery then people would think you're stupid, which is what the RIAA is doing.
What fanciful economics world do you live in where a monopoly controlled by a private company is "effecient"? Private monopolies have just as much dead weight loss as government controlled companies.
there are a lot of conflicting requests around: 'Hey, give me tabs right now' versus 'I want stability, I want a platform that won't break, I want to make sure I have extensability, I want to make sure have manageability,' "
Wait a minute doesn't firefox have all those?
Could someone please explain to me how tabs conflict with stability, extensability, and manageabilty?
Actually public libraries aren't free they're funded by tax money. The government pays out a royalty fee everytime someone "borrows" a book from your local public library unless of course it's been released into the public domain. I think my biggest complaint is that a system that was designed to protect individuals is favoring big corporation. To me that's pretty scary. Disney being the prime example, most of their vault should be public domain. The time to protect the interests of the original authors/producers is long past which leads to a lack of faith in a government that is not protecting the people it should. The other poblem is that traditional economics depends on scarcity of resources, but music isn't scarce, it can be replicated infinitely many times at almost zero cost. The music industry is stuck in the past refusing to adapt and is instead depending on the government to protect it.
Not to mention the fact that a new video game costs somwhere between 50 and 70 bucks CDN and a ticket to a newly realesed movie is in the range of 8 - 11 CDN.
As if it wasn't bad enough that sports games get released year after year with incremental changes that are hardly noticable for $60 CDN. Now there's only one choice for NFL football. So EA can release exactly the same game year after year with nothing more than updated rosters (some would argue that that's exactly what they do now).
A sad for consumers indeed.
:) I never buy football games I just feel bad for Joe Six Pack.
That's not the point. The point is that Joe average doesn't know anything about file formats, uses the default, and doesn't care making life difficult for those who do care. If the default Office file format was an open format the world would be a better place. A world were mac, linux and windows users alike can freely share data. This is a world linux users desperately desire hence all the reverse engineering. Windows users ignorantly could care less unless of course they're Windows users using Open Office:).
The one flaw in your argument is that gamegear required that you go out and buy batteries ad nauseam. Rechargable technology at the time was not great. The psp comes with a rechargable battery which consumers will be far more forgiving of. 3 hour battery life is not uncommon in laptops and people still seem to buy them. I own a gameboy advance and I've never sat and played the thing for 10 hours straight. Infact I've never played it 3 hours straight. For me 3 hours would be plenty. The DS battery life is one of those things that's an impressive stat but in the grand scheme of things most people wouldn't notice the difference unless they were told. I also don't see sony foolishly trying to go out and win over the entire market in one shot, their goals for the system seem realistic the evidence being their modest release numbers. It might start out as a niche market, and more of a status symbol like the ipod, And lets be honest the psp is gorgious to look at and puts the DS to shame in terms of style. The screen of the psp alone will win over many fans. One mistake I think sony did make was going with a propriety memorry stick instead of something like SD. That would of made the system waaaay more desirable, especially with the 1 GB SD cards out now.
I guess the real point here is that there is uncertainty, and so for any group of scientists to claim they know for certain either way is silly.
The problem is they can't invoke the scientific method as they have no way to test their hypothesis in a controlled environment. In other words global warming can't be recreated and let run over and over again changing inputs until a clear understanding of how it works is reached. All they can do is collect data on the phenomenon that is occuring and build simulations which will contain their biases. At any rate I believe in this case it's probably best to play it safe and do what is possible to at least attempt to slow global warming.
How does the fact that IBM has some laptops built in china prove the parent's post wrong? The parent said that Dell uses chinese crap but didn't say that all chinese built components are crap. Even if that was what was said (which is a fair assumption from the racist tone) the fact that IBM uses chinese built components says nothing about Dell's use of chinese built components.
Perhaps but more fish in the tank means less resources for all. The world can only sustain so many people at the quality of life we enjoy. Capitalism in general is not a good distributor of wealth. It is pretty sad to think that we live at such a high qaulity of life on the backs of the poor, but such is the reality we live in. The point being homogenity won't be achieved. Poverty will jus t be a little bit more spread out across the continents, and a select few (not necessarily the most deserving) will get most of the wealth.
I suppose the problem is that regardless of how good a piece of software is people generaly don't like change, and in many cases it's a matter of who has gained a certain amount of power over consumer's based on their sense of safety in familiarity. It goes even further then that, as software companies purposely make it very difficult for people to switch to alternatives as they use thier political and monetary power to force the adoption of standards that require licenses when there are open standards of the same or better quality that don't have the same kind of power behind them that if adopted would give the consumer more options, increase competitivness in the products that use the standard by making it easier for new companies to enter the market, and ultimately provide consumers with better inexpensive products.
No I don't, but sadly you've been mislead by the humanist movement which is very much a religion it's self. The most prominent proponents of the theory of evolution have all signed the manifesto. I only expect you to anaylize the evidence and be aware that the theory has many holes. It's also worth while to not that much of the "evidence" that is still being taught in schools has been proven false. Evolution is not a fact, it's a very weak theory at best, and there is much evidence for Creation that won't be published by many science journals because those in charge are as narrow minded as you. You might take a more ballanced approach and investigate the evidence instead of taking everything taught by science in blind faith.
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In Canada PC Financial (http://www.pcfinancial.ca) is the way to go. Zero fees, free checks, free interact, and free abm's (only cibc brand ones are free) and their site works like a charm in firefox on linux. :) I've payed $0.00 in fees ever since I've been with them and have never had a problem. You can have as many accounts as you like, checking, savings(higher interest). Whatever you like. If your 18 it's pure gold.
I wish they would make these things programmable with pbasic or even assembly. I would buy one then. But controlling it through a remote control with pre-defined functionality sucks. It's fine for children for about 2 hours but they could hit a whole other domographic by allowing it to be programmed.
That's silly the ticket you had at the time it was stolen, was worth however much the lottery jackpot was and so technically you had the jackpot and hence you lost something you had, namely the winning lottery ticket which entitled you to the jackpot. Now if your ticket was a losing ticket and someone stole the ticket and you claimed you lost the lottery then people would think you're stupid, which is what the RIAA is doing.
I would like to but they bought Free Radical. Timesplitters 3 is going to be EA :(
KAAAAHHHHN!!!!
What fanciful economics world do you live in where a monopoly controlled by a private company is "effecient"? Private monopolies have just as much dead weight loss as government controlled companies.
there are a lot of conflicting requests around: 'Hey, give me tabs right now' versus 'I want stability, I want a platform that won't break, I want to make sure I have extensability, I want to make sure have manageability,' "
Wait a minute doesn't firefox have all those?
Could someone please explain to me how tabs conflict with stability, extensability, and manageabilty?
Actually public libraries aren't free they're funded by tax money. The government pays out a royalty fee everytime someone "borrows" a book from your local public library unless of course it's been released into the public domain. I think my biggest complaint is that a system that was designed to protect individuals is favoring big corporation. To me that's pretty scary. Disney being the prime example, most of their vault should be public domain. The time to protect the interests of the original authors/producers is long past which leads to a lack of faith in a government that is not protecting the people it should. The other poblem is that traditional economics depends on scarcity of resources, but music isn't scarce, it can be replicated infinitely many times at almost zero cost. The music industry is stuck in the past refusing to adapt and is instead depending on the government to protect it.
Was there ever?
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I'm going with simple.
Not to mention the fact that a new video game costs somwhere between 50 and 70 bucks CDN and a ticket to a newly realesed movie is in the range of 8 - 11 CDN.
As if it wasn't bad enough that sports games get released year after year with incremental changes that are hardly noticable for $60 CDN. Now there's only one choice for NFL football. So EA can release exactly the same game year after year with nothing more than updated rosters (some would argue that that's exactly what they do now).
:) I never buy football games I just feel bad for Joe Six Pack.
A sad for consumers indeed.
For interest sake what was the average length of your flights? As the parent poster admitted he didn't fly very often.
Agreed, pick the best tool for the job. In this case flash isn't it.
That's not the point. The point is that Joe average doesn't know anything about file formats, uses the default, and doesn't care making life difficult for those who do care. If the default Office file format was an open format the world would be a better place. A world were mac, linux and windows users alike can freely share data. This is a world linux users desperately desire hence all the reverse engineering. Windows users ignorantly could care less unless of course they're Windows users using Open Office :).
The one flaw in your argument is that gamegear required that you go out and buy batteries ad nauseam. Rechargable technology at the time was not great. The psp comes with a rechargable battery which consumers will be far more forgiving of. 3 hour battery life is not uncommon in laptops and people still seem to buy them. I own a gameboy advance and I've never sat and played the thing for 10 hours straight. Infact I've never played it 3 hours straight. For me 3 hours would be plenty. The DS battery life is one of those things that's an impressive stat but in the grand scheme of things most people wouldn't notice the difference unless they were told. I also don't see sony foolishly trying to go out and win over the entire market in one shot, their goals for the system seem realistic the evidence being their modest release numbers. It might start out as a niche market, and more of a status symbol like the ipod, And lets be honest the psp is gorgious to look at and puts the DS to shame in terms of style. The screen of the psp alone will win over many fans. One mistake I think sony did make was going with a propriety memorry stick instead of something like SD. That would of made the system waaaay more desirable, especially with the 1 GB SD cards out now.
I guess the real point here is that there is uncertainty, and so for any group of scientists to claim they know for certain either way is silly. The problem is they can't invoke the scientific method as they have no way to test their hypothesis in a controlled environment. In other words global warming can't be recreated and let run over and over again changing inputs until a clear understanding of how it works is reached. All they can do is collect data on the phenomenon that is occuring and build simulations which will contain their biases. At any rate I believe in this case it's probably best to play it safe and do what is possible to at least attempt to slow global warming.
As far as economic theory goes, tax cuts do stimulate the economy.
That's great, so there's nothing we can do.
How does the fact that IBM has some laptops built in china prove the parent's post wrong? The parent said that Dell uses chinese crap but didn't say that all chinese built components are crap. Even if that was what was said (which is a fair assumption from the racist tone) the fact that IBM uses chinese built components says nothing about Dell's use of chinese built components.
Microsoft stealing code, what else is new?
Perhaps but more fish in the tank means less resources for all. The world can only sustain so many people at the quality of life we enjoy. Capitalism in general is not a good distributor of wealth. It is pretty sad to think that we live at such a high qaulity of life on the backs of the poor, but such is the reality we live in. The point being homogenity won't be achieved. Poverty will jus t be a little bit more spread out across the continents, and a select few (not necessarily the most deserving) will get most of the wealth.
I suppose the problem is that regardless of how good a piece of software is people generaly don't like change, and in many cases it's a matter of who has gained a certain amount of power over consumer's based on their sense of safety in familiarity. It goes even further then that, as software companies purposely make it very difficult for people to switch to alternatives as they use thier political and monetary power to force the adoption of standards that require licenses when there are open standards of the same or better quality that don't have the same kind of power behind them that if adopted would give the consumer more options, increase competitivness in the products that use the standard by making it easier for new companies to enter the market, and ultimately provide consumers with better inexpensive products.
No I don't, but sadly you've been mislead by the humanist movement which is very much a religion it's self. The most prominent proponents of the theory of evolution have all signed the manifesto. I only expect you to anaylize the evidence and be aware that the theory has many holes. It's also worth while to not that much of the "evidence" that is still being taught in schools has been proven false. Evolution is not a fact, it's a very weak theory at best, and there is much evidence for Creation that won't be published by many science journals because those in charge are as narrow minded as you. You might take a more ballanced approach and investigate the evidence instead of taking everything taught by science in blind faith.
What exactly do you know about the creation vs evolution debate?