If the keys are outlined, and the symbols on the keys are illuminated (because they are translucent,) then what information are you missing that is provided by an overhead light?
For your purposes the Nexstar 2 will suck. I have one. It uses a Prolific chipset which is considered inferior to the standard Oxford one--I use it via firewire on my iBook (which you'll want to do since USB is in practice much slower with macs) and had to find a PC with USB to flash the firmware.
The reason I dislike it the most is that it's very dumb. Superior enclosures like the Macally one, and I assume the Oxford ones, are smart enough to spin down the drives when not in use, or when the mac is put to sleep. This one just keeps on spinning indefinitely. This is good if you're editing video or something, but it sucks given how loud the drive is. It is after all a cheap plastic case with many vents, and the constant whine means I only turn it on when I need to. I assume that if this is going in your living room you wont want to have to fiddle behind the TV every time you plan to record a show...
Canadian ministers are legislators. Ministers must be members of the House of Commons (or Senators, but that's rare nowadays.) The executive branch of government limited to the Governor General, who gives royal assent to bills that have been passed by both chambers (and little else.)
As a member, the minister can certainly introduce a bill for consideration (indeed, in practice only bills introduced by ministers get passed, as there are few free votes in Canada.)
It means locked to your provider. GSM phones have all the info on the SIM card, so if you have an unlocked phone you can fly overseas, buy a prepaid card, pop it in and you're off. If you have a locked phone you're stuck with your original provider and hence roaming fees (you'll be identified as a foreign phone, instead of being able to get a hold of a local SIM.)
IIRC in Canada Rogers charges $300 to unlock a phone that came subsidised with a contract.
They changed names again. I think it's just the Candian Revenue Agency now, although I'm not sure. There was an article in the paper wondering why they just didn't go back to Revenue Canada, since that's what people still call them.
I believe Customs was merged with other things in some post-9/11 'border security' thing to appease the Americans.
Something about the Prime Minister being forced out early.
The thing about the Canadian/British system is that control is absolute, but once it starts to crumble, it crumbles rapidly. In Canada especially, where there is stricter party discipline the contrast is more marked, even if such things happen less frequently. Then the PM (Thatcher, for example) has to go.
Doesn't happen often, but a real executive/President could survive longer under the same conditions.
Why are people so obsessed with recall? They're gonna be up for 'recall' in a few years anyways. That's the whole point of elections.
If it was that serious, then they would be voted out then too. If people forget after the fact at an election how bad the original transgression was, that's their fault. I'm glad we don't have a Californian-style system with the potential for perpetual recalls...
There are a lot of cybercafe's in Toronto, and it seems most are run by Koreans (I imagine because they're so popular there. The billing software at the Persian owned cafe near my house is entirely in Korean, not to mention that before they upgraded to XP they were running Korean copies of Win98!).
I go there for lan gaming with my friends, sometimes after hanging out at the bar next door. We did a 2-session overnight Diablo 2 run. It's often packed, with kids, even at 4am (along with the occasional drifter viewing porn). The ones in Chinatown near the University are also busiest at night. The successful ones are all open 24 hours.
There are limits to their 'success', however. Even packed all day, the places are usually pretty dingy, and after a new one opens will all new computers the hardware isn't upgraded all that often (if ever... other than headphones. One I went to apparently bought a batch of Canada 3000 in-flight phones after the airline went bankrupt). I don't see how they can afford to. The rate for students downtown is C$2/hour, with uptown rates around C$3/h after a one time C$5-10 membership (the downtown ones don't try to pull that). I guess they make money on the junk food and Jolt, but still. I once applied for work at one, and they tried to offer me below minimum... for an overnight shift. Maybe it's different in the States. In Washington I went to one that charged US$10 to check my mail!
I remember when the first high-concept cafe (long since gone) opened in the area it was $10/h, had magnetic user cards, per-second billing, Macs.... now competition has reduced things to basements full of eMachines with Geforce2MXs.
In fact, in Toronto there was a giant 60' billboard for Shaolin Soccer above Eglinton Station in Toronto where all the commuters could see it, and I saw the trailer at least a couple times before mainstream movies.
Look, I'm as down with that as the next person, being an Economics student, but this is about people trying to protect their linguistic heritage, surrounded as they are by 300 million anglophones.
They're not forced to do it, they just can't sell their products unless they do it. They still have 300 million other customers (albeit a good 23million Canadians will still get evenly billingual packages).
This is a societal and cultural issue. The point is that the government is willing to sacrifice economic efficiency to protect it's cultural heritage.
Not every problem is best framed in an economic context.
And really, is it that hard to print the damned packages with French on them? If I buy a game in Toronto, chances are the manuals have French sections - somebody has already written the copy. All food products in English Canada already have ingredients listed in both languages.
The fact is Quebec is (if only by de jure definition) a francophone market. Maybe having french appear larger than English is silly (as opposed to the equal weighting afforded int he rest of the country) but that's the way it is.
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There were other dictionaries you know...
So long as apple makes short usb cords (like, say, for mice) then they might as well split the ports.
If the keys are outlined, and the symbols on the keys are illuminated (because they are translucent,) then what information are you missing that is provided by an overhead light?
For your purposes the Nexstar 2 will suck. I have one. It uses a Prolific chipset which is considered inferior to the standard Oxford one--I use it via firewire on my iBook (which you'll want to do since USB is in practice much slower with macs) and had to find a PC with USB to flash the firmware.
The reason I dislike it the most is that it's very dumb. Superior enclosures like the Macally one, and I assume the Oxford ones, are smart enough to spin down the drives when not in use, or when the mac is put to sleep. This one just keeps on spinning indefinitely. This is good if you're editing video or something, but it sucks given how loud the drive is. It is after all a cheap plastic case with many vents, and the constant whine means I only turn it on when I need to. I assume that if this is going in your living room you wont want to have to fiddle behind the TV every time you plan to record a show...
Maybe because of the use of Gnome icons on a lot of distros?
I thought it was fine to loan it to them, and fine for them to copy it, but that you weren't allowed to copy it for them...
Not that I'm religious, but there are lots of questions having to do with things like qualia, intentionality, etc, that aren't really 'scientific.'
How do you falsify claims that can not be replicated by outside observers?
Canadian ministers are legislators. Ministers must be members of the House of Commons (or Senators, but that's rare nowadays.) The executive branch of government limited to the Governor General, who gives royal assent to bills that have been passed by both chambers (and little else.)
As a member, the minister can certainly introduce a bill for consideration (indeed, in practice only bills introduced by ministers get passed, as there are few free votes in Canada.)
I believe they're separate cases.
Corporate greed knows no (international) bounds.
People aren't sheep just because they disagree with you :) It's hard to garner sympathy for Western alienation if you purposefully alienate them.
It means locked to your provider. GSM phones have all the info on the SIM card, so if you have an unlocked phone you can fly overseas, buy a prepaid card, pop it in and you're off. If you have a locked phone you're stuck with your original provider and hence roaming fees (you'll be identified as a foreign phone, instead of being able to get a hold of a local SIM.)
IIRC in Canada Rogers charges $300 to unlock a phone that came subsidised with a contract.
They changed names again. I think it's just the Candian Revenue Agency now, although I'm not sure. There was an article in the paper wondering why they just didn't go back to Revenue Canada, since that's what people still call them.
I believe Customs was merged with other things in some post-9/11 'border security' thing to appease the Americans.
Something about the Prime Minister being forced out early.
The thing about the Canadian/British system is that control is absolute, but once it starts to crumble, it crumbles rapidly. In Canada especially, where there is stricter party discipline the contrast is more marked, even if such things happen less frequently. Then the PM (Thatcher, for example) has to go.
Doesn't happen often, but a real executive/President could survive longer under the same conditions.
Why are people so obsessed with recall? They're gonna be up for 'recall' in a few years anyways. That's the whole point of elections.
If it was that serious, then they would be voted out then too. If people forget after the fact at an election how bad the original transgression was, that's their fault. I'm glad we don't have a Californian-style system with the potential for perpetual recalls...
They're definitely part of a party, but it's not like they'll lose their jobs by occasionally (or always) voting against the party line.
Basilisk is great once you get it running. Allows you to run a freely-downloadable copy of OS 7.5, and patch it to 7.5.5
There are a lot of cybercafe's in Toronto, and it seems most are run by Koreans (I imagine because they're so popular there. The billing software at the Persian owned cafe near my house is entirely in Korean, not to mention that before they upgraded to XP they were running Korean copies of Win98!).
I go there for lan gaming with my friends, sometimes after hanging out at the bar next door. We did a 2-session overnight Diablo 2 run. It's often packed, with kids, even at 4am (along with the occasional drifter viewing porn). The ones in Chinatown near the University are also busiest at night. The successful ones are all open 24 hours.
There are limits to their 'success', however. Even packed all day, the places are usually pretty dingy, and after a new one opens will all new computers the hardware isn't upgraded all that often (if ever... other than headphones. One I went to apparently bought a batch of Canada 3000 in-flight phones after the airline went bankrupt). I don't see how they can afford to. The rate for students downtown is C$2/hour, with uptown rates around C$3/h after a one time C$5-10 membership (the downtown ones don't try to pull that). I guess they make money on the junk food and Jolt, but still. I once applied for work at one, and they tried to offer me below minimum... for an overnight shift. Maybe it's different in the States. In Washington I went to one that charged US$10 to check my mail!
I remember when the first high-concept cafe (long since gone) opened in the area it was $10/h, had magnetic user cards, per-second billing, Macs.... now competition has reduced things to basements full of eMachines with Geforce2MXs.
I think it's the intended price point for devices that will use the 'low-end' OS.
The Yen is their dollar. Makes you pity the cent.
Seriously. Not being able to mount your root disk because you made EVERYTHING into modules in the mistaken belief it would be faster...
"Has it really broken 10% as some people say? That would mean 1 out of every 10 IT workers is out of a job."
Maybe once you fully master percentages, you will find IT employers more receptive.
In fact, in Toronto there was a giant 60' billboard for Shaolin Soccer above Eglinton Station in Toronto where all the commuters could see it, and I saw the trailer at least a couple times before mainstream movies.
Irrespective, or regardless. Pick one.
Blah blah free markets.
Look, I'm as down with that as the next person, being an Economics student, but this is about people trying to protect their linguistic heritage, surrounded as they are by 300 million anglophones.
They're not forced to do it, they just can't sell their products unless they do it. They still have 300 million other customers (albeit a good 23million Canadians will still get evenly billingual packages).
What does this even have to do with free markets?
This is a societal and cultural issue. The point is that the government is willing to sacrifice economic efficiency to protect it's cultural heritage.
Not every problem is best framed in an economic context.
And really, is it that hard to print the damned packages with French on them? If I buy a game in Toronto, chances are the manuals have French sections - somebody has already written the copy. All food products in English Canada already have ingredients listed in both languages.
The fact is Quebec is (if only by de jure definition) a francophone market. Maybe having french appear larger than English is silly (as opposed to the equal weighting afforded int he rest of the country) but that's the way it is.