They aren't always the cheapest, but because they're in a different province, the 8% savings on PST often makes up for the difference.
Another neat feature of NCIX is that they often have Overclocked packages for sale. I think the current one is P4 1.6A + mobo +256DDR, and guaranteed to run at 2.1GHz.
If you live in the Toronto area, CanadaComputers.COM is a good place to get deals on hardware. Unfortunately they don't have an online store, but the prices get updated almost daily. Of course, one of their stores is just a stone throw my from home so it's not a problem for me.
When I saw "Slackware" I immediately thought "Is that still around?".
It was the first distro I intsalled -- on a 486SX 4MB RAM 100MB HD Laptop. I don't remember it being more than 15 floppies... but it has about 8 years. Was the kernel even at verison 1? Was it '93? '94? It's one of the first SLS releases.
Just hop over to FutureShop (aka BestBuy Canada). They have models for less than CDN$100, although I can speak for the quality of those. For about CDN$200 (not much more than a VCR) you can get a pretty decent named brand DVD with 5.1 audio.
I'm sure if the same system can work anywhere else in the world. People in Hong Kong tend to put efficiency over anything else. Even large transaction are often done with cash.
The Octopus card is a great little tool and very convenient for tourists. Except for taxi cabs, I was able to use my card on bus, trains, MTR(subway), boats, tram (upto the Victoria peak), minibus, etc... Being able to use it at 7-11 and fast-food joints is a bonus.
I actually thought it was pretty cool. I walked by a vending machine and did a Jedi butt wave (back pocket had my wallet where the card has contained) and got a Coke out of the machine.
It's one of those neat memory of my trip to Hong Kong... That and all the gadgets on Apliu Street, Shum Shui Po, and Mokng Kok.
I don't think pick-pocketting is such a big concern. I'm not sure what the limits are for an Octopus card but it's not uncommon for HKers to carry thousands $HK in their pocket.
I don't usual have more than CDN$50 in my pocket at any one time so I find the prospect of carrying thousands freightening. But in HK, it seems very normal. Somebody will pull out a $1000 bill to buy a stick of gum at 7-11 and expect to get change for it.
In Canada, I have problems using any bill larger than a $20 at most places. Luckily for us, we have a standardize debit card system (Interac) that is acceptable almost everywhere. It's just a cultural difference.
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Guanhzhou subway has a similar system where it takes the card back once you've used up all the credit. As a tourist, I've only used it for a few trips, not sure if they had the same system as Hond Kong for multiple trips.
This is so true. I used to hold the ignorant view of China until I went there for a vacation earlier this year.
Mind you, I didn't ventured into the really small villages (pop less than 1000) and rural areas, but I could tell things are a lot different that what I used to perceive it as.
I was in a fishing village in souther China with no paved roads, but they had buses with VCD videos playing. And in the same area were more Internet cafe than I'd image people could use. Sure enough when I went in there were half a dozen kids, no more than 12 years old, playing network games.
I spent 2 hours in there checking email and reading news. I certainly didn't feel like anything was being blocked. They had 128bit I.E. browser so I was able to do my banking too.
I could go on forever. Bottom line is that people should stop making ignorant comments about China unless they've been there.
People still don't believe that I used to run a BBS on an 8088 XT clone with a 5 1/4" floppy as the boot/BBS disk and a (then brand new to PCs) 720K 3.5" floppy for data. Every byte was precious.
I used a RAM Disk to improve performance. Yeah, you can make a real big RAM Disk out of the total 640Kb of available memory.
It would always have to go offline when I wanted to debug some Turbo Pascal programs.
This reminds me of lame tv commercial that IBM has been running here. It's for one of their desktop computers.. saying things like "why buy a clone when you can get a real IBM for just $999".
Does anyone still know what a "clone" is? I can't even remember when was the last time I heard that term used. Definately in the 80s.
Canada did not introduce the $1 coin from the start. There are still plenty of $1 bills in circulation. They just stopped printing $1 (and $2) bills and just produced coins.
Frankly I hating these larger coins. If you are not careful you can have $100 worth of it in your car's coin tray before you know it. SO the cash just goes "missing".
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This isn't necessarily a problem either. Many people in Europe speak more than just their coutries official language. And then you some, like the Swiss, that have many official languages in the first place.
Just because Americans are unilingual, don't assume the rest of the world is.
Remember, language didn't stop thousands of people from (legally) immigranting to the US to seek a new life.
I hope everybody remembers to dates their checks properly. It's seems every January some of us tend to make the mistake of writing last year's date. Remember to write "Year of the Horse" instead of "Year of the Snake".;)
Although this is far from creating life, it makes you wonder if our existence is also "unexplainable" even by _the_creator_ (if you believe in such a thing.
Imagine if you advance this technology to the point where you can dump a bunch o fthsi stuff on a planet and wait a few millions to come back and see what happens....
64mb doesn't hold too many 3 megapixel photos in RAW format, never mind the short videos that I will be taking. How many photos do you think you can shoot in 3 weeks? If you don't want to lug a round laptop for 3 weeks a storage wallet would be the best bet.
I need at least 3GB by my estimates (based on previous trips) before I return home and get a chance to transfer the data to my computer, edit and make CDR archives. And what happens when I upgrade to a better camera that does 5mp RAW files?
It not just about price. Why would you buy 20GB of flash card when most of the time you only need 512MB for day to day use? It's much more sensible to buy a storage device for thos elong trips. And in the case of this device, there are other uses when you're not using it as a photo storage wallet.
This product only displays photos. It doesn't solve the primary requirement as an alternative mass digital storage to expensive flash cards or microdrives.
I surprised nobody has meantioned its use as a digital wallet.
Now there are many options available these days including THE Mind@Works Digital Wallet(tm), Terapin Mine, Nixvue Digital Album, etc...
This is actually the first product I've seen that allows you to view the pictures on the LCD. Plus the fact that there are other uses makes it handy when you're not using it as a digital wallet for your photos while travelling.
Depending on price and availability, this may be one option I will consider for my 3 week digital photo storage needs.
Actually I think this is how Chinese years are recorded for historical purposes. It's usally recorded as the Nth year of a Dynasty/Emperor/Revolution. They also have 12 year cycles with the animals and some sort of 60 year cylce.
I still can't get pass the idea of leap months... and the 19 year cycle where "Chinese New Year" can occur anywhere between January 23 to February 20-something of the 'normal calendar'. And strangely enough there are plenty of other Chinese "holidays" that fall on same solar days every year, but on different days of the Chinese Calendar year. Examples are Spring Equinox ("Ching-Ming") and the Winter Solstices ("Dong-Zi"), etc... Well, I guess not strange, since most cultures celebrate the equinox and solstices [{what's the plural of these?}]
BTW, January 25th, 2001 is the new year of the Snake. Lawyers take note.
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They aren't always the cheapest, but because they're in a different province, the 8% savings on PST often makes up for the difference.
Another neat feature of NCIX is that they often have Overclocked packages for sale. I think the current one is P4 1.6A + mobo +256DDR, and guaranteed to run at 2.1GHz.
If you live in the Toronto area, CanadaComputers.COM is a good place to get deals on hardware. Unfortunately they don't have an online store, but the prices get updated almost daily. Of course, one of their stores is just a stone throw my from home so it's not a problem for me.
When I saw "Slackware" I immediately thought "Is that still around?".
It was the first distro I intsalled -- on a 486SX 4MB RAM 100MB HD Laptop. I don't remember it being more than 15 floppies... but it has about 8 years. Was the kernel even at verison 1? Was it '93? '94? It's one of the first SLS releases.
Just hop over to FutureShop (aka BestBuy Canada). They have models for less than CDN$100, although I can speak for the quality of those. For about CDN$200 (not much more than a VCR) you can get a pretty decent named brand DVD with 5.1 audio.
I'm sure if the same system can work anywhere else in the world. People in Hong Kong tend to put efficiency over anything else. Even large transaction are often done with cash.
The Octopus card is a great little tool and very convenient for tourists. Except for taxi cabs, I was able to use my card on bus, trains, MTR(subway), boats, tram (upto the Victoria peak), minibus, etc... Being able to use it at 7-11 and fast-food joints is a bonus.
I actually thought it was pretty cool. I walked by a vending machine and did a Jedi butt wave (back pocket had my wallet where the card has contained) and got a Coke out of the machine.
It's one of those neat memory of my trip to Hong Kong... That and all the gadgets on Apliu Street, Shum Shui Po, and Mokng Kok.
I don't think pick-pocketting is such a big concern. I'm not sure what the limits are for an Octopus card but it's not uncommon for HKers to carry thousands $HK in their pocket.
I don't usual have more than CDN$50 in my pocket at any one time so I find the prospect of carrying thousands freightening. But in HK, it seems very normal. Somebody will pull out a $1000 bill to buy a stick of gum at 7-11 and expect to get change for it.
In Canada, I have problems using any bill larger than a $20 at most places. Luckily for us, we have a standardize debit card system (Interac) that is acceptable almost everywhere. It's just a cultural difference.
Guanhzhou subway has a similar system where it takes the card back once you've used up all the credit. As a tourist, I've only used it for a few trips, not sure if they had the same system as Hond Kong for multiple trips.
This is so true. I used to hold the ignorant view of China until I went there for a vacation earlier this year.
Mind you, I didn't ventured into the really small villages (pop less than 1000) and rural areas, but I could tell things are a lot different that what I used to perceive it as.
I was in a fishing village in souther China with no paved roads, but they had buses with VCD videos playing. And in the same area were more Internet cafe than I'd image people could use. Sure enough when I went in there were half a dozen kids, no more than 12 years old, playing network games.
I spent 2 hours in there checking email and reading news. I certainly didn't feel like anything was being blocked. They had 128bit I.E. browser so I was able to do my banking too.
I could go on forever. Bottom line is that people should stop making ignorant comments about China unless they've been there.
People still don't believe that I used to run a BBS on an 8088 XT clone with a 5 1/4" floppy as the boot/BBS disk and a (then brand new to PCs) 720K 3.5" floppy for data. Every byte was precious.
I used a RAM Disk to improve performance. Yeah, you can make a real big RAM Disk out of the total 640Kb of available memory.
It would always have to go offline when I wanted to debug some Turbo Pascal programs.
... the price will drop by 2009.
Samsung SPH-i330
This reminds me of lame tv commercial that IBM has been running here. It's for one of their desktop computers.. saying things like "why buy a clone when you can get a real IBM for just $999".
Does anyone still know what a "clone" is? I can't even remember when was the last time I heard that term used. Definately in the 80s.
What about the 4th demension? You may be at the right place and right floor, but what if the message is dependent on the time of day/month/season.
OK, if this is true, then I have new uses for AOL CDs other than coasters. No more downloading code, or waiting for CD to arrive... it'll just happen.
And if anyone's worried about AOL messing up Linux, just take the code and release your own "RedHack Linux".
Interesting points, but...
with Charon accelerating towards Pluto slightly faster
Relative to what? When 2 objects are accelerating towards each other, how can you tell one is faster than the other?
Canada did not introduce the $1 coin from the start. There are still plenty of $1 bills in circulation. They just stopped printing $1 (and $2) bills and just produced coins.
Frankly I hating these larger coins. If you are not careful you can have $100 worth of it in your car's coin tray before you know it. SO the cash just goes "missing".
This isn't necessarily a problem either. Many people in Europe speak more than just their coutries official language. And then you some, like the Swiss, that have many official languages in the first place.
Just because Americans are unilingual, don't assume the rest of the world is.
Remember, language didn't stop thousands of people from (legally) immigranting to the US to seek a new life.
I hope everybody remembers to dates their checks properly. It's seems every January some of us tend to make the mistake of writing last year's date. Remember to write "Year of the Horse" instead of "Year of the Snake". ;)
Although this is far from creating life, it makes you wonder if our existence is also "unexplainable" even by _the_creator_ (if you believe in such a thing.
Imagine if you advance this technology to the point where you can dump a bunch o fthsi stuff on a planet and wait a few millions to come back and see what happens....
Haha. There are times when I wish I had mod points.
Speaking of screen shots, what kind of IP addresses are those? Obviously invalid IPv4, but not IPv6 either.
Itmakes you wonder if the game designers knows anything about net technology or hacking at all. So how do you hack in the game, click a "HACK" button?
Unfortunately the site is slashdotted and I could download teh beta/demo.
I may not have been clear about my point.
64mb doesn't hold too many 3 megapixel photos in RAW format, never mind the short videos that I will be taking. How many photos do you think you can shoot in 3 weeks? If you don't want to lug a round laptop for 3 weeks a storage wallet would be the best bet.
I need at least 3GB by my estimates (based on previous trips) before I return home and get a chance to transfer the data to my computer, edit and make CDR archives. And what happens when I upgrade to a better camera that does 5mp RAW files?
It not just about price. Why would you buy 20GB of flash card when most of the time you only need 512MB for day to day use? It's much more sensible to buy a storage device for thos elong trips. And in the case of this device, there are other uses when you're not using it as a photo storage wallet.
This product only displays photos. It doesn't solve the primary requirement as an alternative mass digital storage to expensive flash cards or microdrives.
I surprised nobody has meantioned its use as a digital wallet.
Now there are many options available these days including THE Mind@Works Digital Wallet(tm), Terapin Mine, Nixvue Digital Album, etc...
This is actually the first product I've seen that allows you to view the pictures on the LCD. Plus the fact that there are other uses makes it handy when you're not using it as a digital wallet for your photos while travelling.
Depending on price and availability, this may be one option I will consider for my 3 week digital photo storage needs.
Suddenly the South Park Chinese Volley Ball episode doesn't seem so stupid.
Yes. Or better yet from Chile to South Africa; the longest train ride in the world. I wonder how long that'll to take. It's probably faster swimming.
Actually I think this is how Chinese years are recorded for historical purposes. It's usally recorded as the Nth year of a Dynasty/Emperor/Revolution. They also have 12 year cycles with the animals and some sort of 60 year cylce.
I still can't get pass the idea of leap months... and the 19 year cycle where "Chinese New Year" can occur anywhere between January 23 to February 20-something of the 'normal calendar'. And strangely enough there are plenty of other Chinese "holidays" that fall on same solar days every year, but on different days of the Chinese Calendar year. Examples are Spring Equinox ("Ching-Ming") and the Winter Solstices ("Dong-Zi"), etc... Well, I guess not strange, since most cultures celebrate the equinox and solstices [{what's the plural of these?}]
BTW, January 25th, 2001 is the new year of the Snake. Lawyers take note.