I did notice that earlier tonight... but I believe it should be fixed now. I'm not 100% on that, but I think I just made a call for free, and my IP begins with a 7.
That would be so fucking awesome. Install a custom command line bittorrent client, and start downloading huge quantities of music and porn. The strange thing is that this is very possible, and nobody has done it yet.
I've tried voipbuster. They didn't have a Linux client, and when I tried the Windows client, it was laggy as hell, and despite me giving them a dollar, they still cut the phone call off at the 1 hour mark. They may have fixed that now, but I stuck with skype, because despite me having to pay them money, I could use their service on linux, and it didn't give me 5 seconds of lag during calls. Now, skype is free (for my usage). I am sticking with skype.
To be fair though, I do have issues with Skype. Their payment system has gotten much much better than it used to be, but it's still very fascist. I don't remember dealign with anyone else who I had to call and beg them to take my money.
You bring an excellent point to the table with the colour thing. Several of my favorite products routinely get bashed because of their colour. GameCube and Ubuntu Linux are two of the biggest. However, I happen to have an orange laptop... Not my favorite colour by any means (I like cold colours), but I bought the laptop anyway, because I loved the specs. There are very few cases where aesthetics should enter into a review in my opinion.
Like MP3 players. All I ever hear about is iPod because of the aesthetics, even though there are many more affordable and better spec'd MP3 players.
I usually end up resorting to bittorrent for the console press conferences, as you mentioned. I find that there's always SOME smaller news site that has a bittorrent link for those.
I personally can't stand media management software such as Winamp Library (or whatever it's called), Amarok, or iTunes most especially. Just garbage IMO.
What I do is basically I am completely nazi-ish about how my music is named, and tagged. Every single piece of music that goes into my collection is first passed through musicbrainz, and then sorted into the correct folder. The root directory is called Audio. From there, it goes into category, such as Classic Rock, Metal, etc. After that, it's sorted into folder by artist. So you might have Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, or Bob Dylan. From there it's sorted by album.
I basically then load whatever artist or album I want into XMMS. Or even the whole damn thing. (I have a playlist for that). Then I can shuffle it, or skip to a specific song by using Jump To File (Winamp has this as well). Just hit "J". Then type something like "Rolling Stone Dylan" to bring up the song you want.
In other precincts, impossibly high voter turnout figures -- nearly all of them adding to Bush's official margin -- remain unexplained. In the heavily Republican southern county of Perry, Blackwell certified one precinct with 221 more votes than registered voters. Two precincts -- Reading S and W. Lexington G -- were let stand in the officially certified final vote count with voter turnouts of roughly 124% each.
By contrast, in heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County, amidst record turnouts, a predominantly African-American precinct, Cleveland 6C, was certified with just a 07.85 percent turnout. The official count was 45 votes for Kerry versus one for Bush, in a precinct where the day's overall voter turnout would have indicated eight or nine times as many voters.
If I was an American, I would be seriously pissed. As it is, I'm just kind of nervous about how close to the border I live. And shocked that nobody has even questioned this.
What you say is true. However, I think it's fairly telling when the highly technical jobs are located in Canada, such as home networking and Tier 2... And I was also heavily thinking of the case where Toyota refused to build a factory in the US (despite being offered a great deal of subsidies) in favour of Canada, simpyl because of the higher educated workforce. (See my reply to one of your sibling posts for the link).
And sorry, just an addendum to my previous response. It's not that Canadians don't need tech support. It's just that Americans seem to behave a lot differently on the phone than most Canadians I know. It's not at all an uncommon response at my center when telling someone that they are in an outage to have them yell and scream at you to "turn the internet back on". I'm sorry, but I can't possibly imagine that same scenario playing out anywhere around here if there was an outage.
I will say though, that our primary market was Chicago. Which I hear is known for generally cranky people. I have to say that my favorite calls generally came from the East coast (surprisingly). Maine and Mass. were generally quite well mannered. It's just that a very large percentage (maybe about 30%) of the people who called in had the brain power of a flea, and REALLY bad attitudes. (The rest were reasonably well mannered people with the brain powers of a flea).
I used to work tech support for Comcast. I am also in an area that Comcast does not have service (Canada). So you could describe me as a person who had an outsourced job for a while.
I live in a smaller city, where there's really a University and not much else. As a result, the call center has hired just about everyone in town who has the slightest bit of computer knowledge at this point in time. The real life blood of the center though is in international students at the University. It's often difficult for them to find jobs, but they have a great deal of technical knowledge (especially the computer science students). As a result, our center was the highest rated center for Comcast for a very long time.
I got paid a little over $10 CAD/hr. I hear that it's gone up to $11.25 since I quit, but that's likely due to the minimum wage going up (it's $6.25). The call center is a complete shit job, and people only stay to earn money (providing tech support for Americans is right up there with jizz mopper), and the center has to pay us enough over minimum wage to be appealing.
But that's my personal experience. I find it rather interesting that according to the article, Americans get paid ~$3 less than us. But of course I had plenty of experiences with the American call centers. Mainly cleaning up messes that they created. So I guess that the call management people I worked for figured that the extra $3 was justified, as the results were better up here? (Seriously, I could rant for hours on the American call centers... the one in lubbock, tx most especially. And believe me, I wasn't the only one who had to clean up MANY messes from that center.)
So let's assume hypothetically that you were the only one who voted for Bush. All the other votes were deliberately lost, or fictional people were created to outnumber the people who voted for Kerry. Would you still be just as okay with Bush being in power, just because you voted for him?
I voted against Harper. (I'm Canadian). My vote really didn't matter much, as every single last riding in Alberta was blue. (My province). I lost, but I don't have a problem with this, as the election honestly didn't seem rigged. In the case of the Ohio elections, there were more votes than there were citizens of Ohio. Losing in Ohio would be a very very different story.
You know, I seem to recall a few riots in recent history when an election was quite obviously fixed. And yet Americans seem to do none of this. I know that if I was an American, I would be protesting those events every single day.
GameCube has better memory latency. GameCube *might* have a faster CPU. GameCube has more memory bandwidth. GameCube does not have unified memory. Xbox is layed out a lot like a laptop, and I think that's where it ultimately got toasted by the GameCube. After all, why is there nothing on Xbox that runs better than Rogue Squadron III?
Your WFC games should also have the option of transferring your friend code to a new DS. =)
But hey, I mean, the DS has been out for almost 2 years now. The redesign has come a little earlier than the redesign of any other Nintendo handheld, but every Nintendo handheld (except the Game Boy Colour), has had a redesign in its lifetime to make it smaller, brighter, longer lasting. I would have guessed it would come out about 6 months to a year later than it did... but it's here anyway. I am thinking that Nintendo pushed it out the door early because of the PSP people saying how ugly the DS was. They wanted to fix that, before the DS got too entrenched.
And besides, the DS in Japan is just insane. You can sell a used DS to a store for more than it cost when it was brand new, and they will resell it for about double what it originally cost. Nintendo is obviously trying to increase production even further by making a second model.
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I did notice that earlier tonight... but I believe it should be fixed now. I'm not 100% on that, but I think I just made a call for free, and my IP begins with a 7.
That would be so fucking awesome. Install a custom command line bittorrent client, and start downloading huge quantities of music and porn. The strange thing is that this is very possible, and nobody has done it yet.
I've tried voipbuster. They didn't have a Linux client, and when I tried the Windows client, it was laggy as hell, and despite me giving them a dollar, they still cut the phone call off at the 1 hour mark. They may have fixed that now, but I stuck with skype, because despite me having to pay them money, I could use their service on linux, and it didn't give me 5 seconds of lag during calls. Now, skype is free (for my usage). I am sticking with skype.
To be fair though, I do have issues with Skype. Their payment system has gotten much much better than it used to be, but it's still very fascist. I don't remember dealign with anyone else who I had to call and beg them to take my money.
Western Canada or Eastern Canada?
You bring an excellent point to the table with the colour thing. Several of my favorite products routinely get bashed because of their colour. GameCube and Ubuntu Linux are two of the biggest. However, I happen to have an orange laptop... Not my favorite colour by any means (I like cold colours), but I bought the laptop anyway, because I loved the specs. There are very few cases where aesthetics should enter into a review in my opinion.
Like MP3 players. All I ever hear about is iPod because of the aesthetics, even though there are many more affordable and better spec'd MP3 players.
I usually end up resorting to bittorrent for the console press conferences, as you mentioned. I find that there's always SOME smaller news site that has a bittorrent link for those.
However, for actual gameplay footage, I usually find myself coming to these:
http://www.advancedmn.com/ (WMV... uggh)
http://www.gametrailers.com/ (WMV and QT. Better)
So yeah, I usually come to gametrailers for my E3 fix. Posting is prompt, and quality is usually good.
How about these then?
e wArticle&code=20041227&articleId=284 u srept1505.pdf
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vi
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostat
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/certifiable.htm
I suppose that asking an american to do his own research is like asking a baboon to do calculus.
I personally can't stand media management software such as Winamp Library (or whatever it's called), Amarok, or iTunes most especially. Just garbage IMO.
What I do is basically I am completely nazi-ish about how my music is named, and tagged. Every single piece of music that goes into my collection is first passed through musicbrainz, and then sorted into the correct folder. The root directory is called Audio. From there, it goes into category, such as Classic Rock, Metal, etc. After that, it's sorted into folder by artist. So you might have Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, or Bob Dylan. From there it's sorted by album.
I basically then load whatever artist or album I want into XMMS. Or even the whole damn thing. (I have a playlist for that). Then I can shuffle it, or skip to a specific song by using Jump To File (Winamp has this as well). Just hit "J". Then type something like "Rolling Stone Dylan" to bring up the song you want.
Nothing fancy for me please.
Quoth the article:
If I was an American, I would be seriously pissed. As it is, I'm just kind of nervous about how close to the border I live. And shocked that nobody has even questioned this.
You forgot the conversion rate. You made as much as the americans in USD vs CAD. This is probably why you were fired, your inattention to detail.
2 things AC.
1) I quit because the job was horrid. I was offered a raise and promotion if I stayed. I turned them down.
2) $7 USD is not even $8 CAD.
What you say is true. However, I think it's fairly telling when the highly technical jobs are located in Canada, such as home networking and Tier 2... And I was also heavily thinking of the case where Toyota refused to build a factory in the US (despite being offered a great deal of subsidies) in favour of Canada, simpyl because of the higher educated workforce. (See my reply to one of your sibling posts for the link).
And btw... CVGLB?
And sorry, just an addendum to my previous response. It's not that Canadians don't need tech support. It's just that Americans seem to behave a lot differently on the phone than most Canadians I know. It's not at all an uncommon response at my center when telling someone that they are in an outage to have them yell and scream at you to "turn the internet back on". I'm sorry, but I can't possibly imagine that same scenario playing out anywhere around here if there was an outage.
I will say though, that our primary market was Chicago. Which I hear is known for generally cranky people. I have to say that my favorite calls generally came from the East coast (surprisingly). Maine and Mass. were generally quite well mannered. It's just that a very large percentage (maybe about 30%) of the people who called in had the brain power of a flea, and REALLY bad attitudes. (The rest were reasonably well mannered people with the brain powers of a flea).
Toyota seems to agree with me. If that means anything to you.
I used to work tech support for Comcast. I am also in an area that Comcast does not have service (Canada). So you could describe me as a person who had an outsourced job for a while.
I live in a smaller city, where there's really a University and not much else. As a result, the call center has hired just about everyone in town who has the slightest bit of computer knowledge at this point in time. The real life blood of the center though is in international students at the University. It's often difficult for them to find jobs, but they have a great deal of technical knowledge (especially the computer science students). As a result, our center was the highest rated center for Comcast for a very long time.
I got paid a little over $10 CAD/hr. I hear that it's gone up to $11.25 since I quit, but that's likely due to the minimum wage going up (it's $6.25). The call center is a complete shit job, and people only stay to earn money (providing tech support for Americans is right up there with jizz mopper), and the center has to pay us enough over minimum wage to be appealing.
But that's my personal experience. I find it rather interesting that according to the article, Americans get paid ~$3 less than us. But of course I had plenty of experiences with the American call centers. Mainly cleaning up messes that they created. So I guess that the call management people I worked for figured that the extra $3 was justified, as the results were better up here? (Seriously, I could rant for hours on the American call centers... the one in lubbock, tx most especially. And believe me, I wasn't the only one who had to clean up MANY messes from that center.)
So let's assume hypothetically that you were the only one who voted for Bush. All the other votes were deliberately lost, or fictional people were created to outnumber the people who voted for Kerry. Would you still be just as okay with Bush being in power, just because you voted for him?
I voted against Harper. (I'm Canadian). My vote really didn't matter much, as every single last riding in Alberta was blue. (My province). I lost, but I don't have a problem with this, as the election honestly didn't seem rigged. In the case of the Ohio elections, there were more votes than there were citizens of Ohio. Losing in Ohio would be a very very different story.
Actually, I am talking about the 2004 Ohio elections. I posted the link above, but the original post accidently lost it. (teach me not to preview)
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/20 04/1057
THIS LINK should have appeared in my original post
You know, I seem to recall a few riots in recent history when an election was quite obviously fixed. And yet Americans seem to do none of this. I know that if I was an American, I would be protesting those events every single day.
Here's the new link. :)
I'm trying to think of the highest ranking box office successes in history. Here's what I remember.
Star Wars (PG)
Titanic (PG)
ET (PG)
Indiana Jones (PG)
Then I figured that my list was probably terribly incomplete. So I looked up this. Take a look for yourself.
GameCube has better memory latency. GameCube *might* have a faster CPU. GameCube has more memory bandwidth. GameCube does not have unified memory. Xbox is layed out a lot like a laptop, and I think that's where it ultimately got toasted by the GameCube. After all, why is there nothing on Xbox that runs better than Rogue Squadron III?
It uses a rail gun to propel the shells. It's much more accurate than a traditional explosive propulsion system.
Your WFC games should also have the option of transferring your friend code to a new DS. =)
But hey, I mean, the DS has been out for almost 2 years now. The redesign has come a little earlier than the redesign of any other Nintendo handheld, but every Nintendo handheld (except the Game Boy Colour), has had a redesign in its lifetime to make it smaller, brighter, longer lasting. I would have guessed it would come out about 6 months to a year later than it did... but it's here anyway. I am thinking that Nintendo pushed it out the door early because of the PSP people saying how ugly the DS was. They wanted to fix that, before the DS got too entrenched.
And besides, the DS in Japan is just insane. You can sell a used DS to a store for more than it cost when it was brand new, and they will resell it for about double what it originally cost. Nintendo is obviously trying to increase production even further by making a second model.
You can usually get them for about $40 here in Canada.
Unfortunately, I do not. I tried all my usual sources. Sorry man.