Well, at least in the Toronto area, I get 60GB up/down any-time limit for $34.99 a month.
However, your limits have the advantage of just slowing down your speed to dial-up speeds, instead of charging "over quota" prices of around $1.20 per gig.
Well, the problem is that there is horrible telcom there (for ADSL/Cable that is).
Almost all the wiring was originally laid out in the 60s for cable, and earlier then that for phone service, and at the time, there was no plans for data transmission. It's all been catch-up ever since (Rogers a few years back was accused of selling service it couldn't provide to East Toronto (Scarborough) so that it could pay for the upgrades to that area with the profits from the service it didn't have).
HOWEVER, you can get 40mbps internet connections in downtown Toronto for about $40 a month in select locations (basically right where the physical pipe comes in from the states, and your building needs to be wired specifically for fiber-optic internet access, but there are places it can be bought. Eventually that will be expanded, but I have no idea the time-table for that.
Seeing as how I have just visited Australia (2 weeks ago), the internet in Sydney is CRAP compared to Toronto. 7gb on-peak bandwidth limits? Are you kidding me? That's ridiculously low. I knew other people there that were getting 2GB (TWO!)GB download limits on their ADSL before the over-quota throttling. That's at $34 a month. ADSL2 (non big-pond crap).
I get (for the same price) 60GB a month. My speeds are lower (because I don't want to spend the $11 more to get the 6mbps 'express' service from Rogers). Rogers admittedly doesn't 'let' you run 'servers' (but, dyndns works for that), and the upload speeds aren't great, and they throttle BT connections (encryption works for that), but even in the big cities you (Australians) are getting hosed.
Your cell phone service is far superior however, at least in terms of price for what you get on your pre-paid cap systems. Rogers (the only GSM carrier) is only starting to roll out HDPSA service in Toronto, everywhere else in the country still has GPRS coverage. Everwhere else is just the bolt-on EDGE 2.5G crap. There isn't really an option for anything faster, it doesn't exist. We don't even have proper coverage on all our major highways, and 'the north' literally has no signal at all. You have to get either a CB or a sat-phone if you want to make outside contact.
However, rural areas (and WA is pretty out there, there is basically nothing there) always get the short end of the stick. It's not that it's the politicians who don't live there, it is that there are no PEOPLE in WA for the infrastructure improvements to really make the money back on.
Not that our internet service is all rainbows and unicorns. It's far-too expensive for what you get and what you are paying for in relation to world broadband rates, and the fastest ADSL/Cable service is 18mbps at $99 a month, but admittedly, in Toronto at least, the service is reliable (DSL is a bit flakey, cable is better), and fiber-lines are starting to be laid out in the major downtown cores, and Bell, Rogers, and Telus are apparently trying to make a country-wide WiMAX network, but that's still in planning stages right now.
The US does not have something like that, nationally, there are the Visa (PLUS), and MasterCard (Maestro, cirrus) networks that are used nationally there, but from what I can tell, the banks just can't agree on how to get it done with full interoperability, their own networks are usually interoperable with one of the major networks, and most ATMs will take those major networks cards.
In Canada, we do have a nation-wide EFTPOS system that works everywhere. It's called Interac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac). It is hugely popular, accepted almost everywhere, but it cannot be accepted online, except at some very specific retailers who take "Interac Online" payment. As of very recently, it can even be used in the US with their machines that uses the NYCE network (if you belong to one of the banks that made an arrangement with Interac, to allow NYCE to debit from your account, which includes all the major players except for CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) and BMO (Bank of Montreal), but 3/5 ain't bad for something that started 3 years ago.
Rogers does not offer an "unlimited" plan (max 100gb upload/download transfer @ 5 megabit down) except for "buisness/enterprise" users.
As for all the other stuff, there are lots of smaller DSL ISPs here, just they don't have advertising budgets as Rogers is a mega corporation here. They own radio stations, cable tv networks, cable tv distribution, voip, internet and cell phones. They can get away with it.
As for MP3 tags, that is only partially true. I have moved songs from one iTunes library to another, by moving only the actual audio files itself, without moving the database, and it works perfectly, and it automatically re-imported the "default" metadata. It did loose play counts, star ratings and the like, but that is to be expected. It did keep the song title, artist name, etc. just fine (the file names were random too), so I have found that iTunes in that regard is pretty smart.
The trick is to get the tags right the first time, otherwise its a royal PITA, which I had to deal with when I was using 'amp.
They did make a force-feedback mouse back in the day. It never went anywhere and was physically tethered to the mouse pad, but they did try and release a product on it.
There was like one game that was compatible, and that was black/white (original)
I want a drive that never breaks down too, and I bet so do the manufacturers. Imagine the marketing "gaurnteed to never fail, ever!"
However, HDDs have moving parts. All devices with moving parts break. Hard drives break.
Of course, flash memory has no moving parts, and is therefore less likely to break, however, writes are slow, its hideously expensive (for hdd size capacity), and there is an eventual write limit on how many times it can be written too. Yet, when flash memory becomes (more) affordable for real-life capacity, failure rates SHOULD go down, because then the motor can't wear out, only the actual chips.
Exacltly, and Apple does NOT support parallels. They "support" Boot Camp (they don't actually support it, they just make it), an entirely different product. If parallels dosn't work, you talk to parallels.
Well...... its not the same. nLite requires windows to be re-installed to do that patching (via the RyanVM patch), this is designed to be a patch utility that does not require re-installing windows.
Assuming it works of course, nLite does indeed work, this box is running via an nLite made windowz disk. (with RyanVM updates and driverpacks drivers slipstreamed)
"Although it required a command line fix, that's not say it's much different than tweaking some ones registry on a windows box. "
When was the last time that you heard of anyone who didn't know that Linux existed (beyond the occasional article in the finantial pages of their local newspaper) even hearing of a registry (beyond the "your comptuer needs registry cleaning and its free because you were the 1 billionth visitor to this webpage!!!!" or even knowing what "regedit" was? Perhaps such a person exists, but I have not met them.
That above comment does not apply to anyone remotely familiar with windows (or someone who did some quick reading on google), but in the context of getting "idiot" windows users to use ubuntu it fits. At my store, I send away for the free ship-it ubuntu disks, and when someone inquires about linux, I hand them the disk, give a very quick run-down about how its similar/different, and say that the ubuntu forums are a good place to start if they need questions or have problems. Why? Because its not my place to convert them to a system that they know little to nothing about, from a system that they know little about, but everyone uses it so they can at least ask their cubeville neighbour a question if they have problems. They can be told there are other options, but if they dont want to fiddle around installing drivers via the command line to get their PCI-E videocard working (which has happened to me every time I tried to get linux on my system except with linspire), or downloading driver wrappers to get their wireless cards (maybe) working, then buy a mac.
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I listen to CBC Radio 3 (the Canadian equivalent to BBC Radio 6(uk), TripleJ (aus), and the NPR music shows).
Oh, and it's good.
http://radio3.cbc.ca/
Also found in the "Alternative" and "Public" directories of the iTunes 'radio' section tab.
It's an understatement to call the Montreal scene great. It's certainly the best scene in Canada, and one of the top 5 in North America.
I have found that 'pop-up blockers' work rather well.
What a remarkably useless story.
You must be new here.
Well, at least in the Toronto area, I get 60GB up/down any-time limit for $34.99 a month.
However, your limits have the advantage of just slowing down your speed to dial-up speeds, instead of charging "over quota" prices of around $1.20 per gig.
Well, the problem is that there is horrible telcom there (for ADSL/Cable that is).
Almost all the wiring was originally laid out in the 60s for cable, and earlier then that for phone service, and at the time, there was no plans for data transmission. It's all been catch-up ever since (Rogers a few years back was accused of selling service it couldn't provide to East Toronto (Scarborough) so that it could pay for the upgrades to that area with the profits from the service it didn't have).
HOWEVER, you can get 40mbps internet connections in downtown Toronto for about $40 a month in select locations (basically right where the physical pipe comes in from the states, and your building needs to be wired specifically for fiber-optic internet access, but there are places it can be bought. Eventually that will be expanded, but I have no idea the time-table for that.
Seeing as how I have just visited Australia (2 weeks ago), the internet in Sydney is CRAP compared to Toronto. 7gb on-peak bandwidth limits? Are you kidding me? That's ridiculously low. I knew other people there that were getting 2GB (TWO!)GB download limits on their ADSL before the over-quota throttling. That's at $34 a month. ADSL2 (non big-pond crap).
I get (for the same price) 60GB a month. My speeds are lower (because I don't want to spend the $11 more to get the 6mbps 'express' service from Rogers). Rogers admittedly doesn't 'let' you run 'servers' (but, dyndns works for that), and the upload speeds aren't great, and they throttle BT connections (encryption works for that), but even in the big cities you (Australians) are getting hosed.
Your cell phone service is far superior however, at least in terms of price for what you get on your pre-paid cap systems. Rogers (the only GSM carrier) is only starting to roll out HDPSA service in Toronto, everywhere else in the country still has GPRS coverage. Everwhere else is just the bolt-on EDGE 2.5G crap. There isn't really an option for anything faster, it doesn't exist. We don't even have proper coverage on all our major highways, and 'the north' literally has no signal at all. You have to get either a CB or a sat-phone if you want to make outside contact.
However, rural areas (and WA is pretty out there, there is basically nothing there) always get the short end of the stick. It's not that it's the politicians who don't live there, it is that there are no PEOPLE in WA for the infrastructure improvements to really make the money back on.
Not that our internet service is all rainbows and unicorns. It's far-too expensive for what you get and what you are paying for in relation to world broadband rates, and the fastest ADSL/Cable service is 18mbps at $99 a month, but admittedly, in Toronto at least, the service is reliable (DSL is a bit flakey, cable is better), and fiber-lines are starting to be laid out in the major downtown cores, and Bell, Rogers, and Telus are apparently trying to make a country-wide WiMAX network, but that's still in planning stages right now.
Probably because they have no way of verifying that you owned the original unless you send back an old copy.
Though they would likely charge you a shipping and handling fee as well as a materials fee for the new disk itself.
Some publishers do offer stuff like that.
No, a mod chip is "illegal" because you are "circumventing copy protection" which under the DMCA is illegal.
The copy protection is: no non-original games.
And seeing as how you don't own the game, but only a license to play the game, it doesn't matter anyway.
The US does not have something like that, nationally, there are the Visa (PLUS), and MasterCard (Maestro, cirrus) networks that are used nationally there, but from what I can tell, the banks just can't agree on how to get it done with full interoperability, their own networks are usually interoperable with one of the major networks, and most ATMs will take those major networks cards.
In Canada, we do have a nation-wide EFTPOS system that works everywhere. It's called Interac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac). It is hugely popular, accepted almost everywhere, but it cannot be accepted online, except at some very specific retailers who take "Interac Online" payment. As of very recently, it can even be used in the US with their machines that uses the NYCE network (if you belong to one of the banks that made an arrangement with Interac, to allow NYCE to debit from your account, which includes all the major players except for CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) and BMO (Bank of Montreal), but 3/5 ain't bad for something that started 3 years ago.
Well, Toronto has a windmill built by centennial college by the highway.
I havn't noticed any real decrease in fuel efficiency.
No that I drive anywhere near it and there is only one.....
Rogers I believe dosn't throttle the speed after you go over the limit.
They just charge an additional $1.70 per gig that you go over.
How could I forget!
They also offer pagers as well.
(offtopic: the Jays actually look like that no matter how well they do this year, they will still finish 3rd in their division, whats up with that?)
Rogers does not offer an "unlimited" plan (max 100gb upload/download transfer @ 5 megabit down) except for "buisness/enterprise" users.
As for all the other stuff, there are lots of smaller DSL ISPs here, just they don't have advertising budgets as Rogers is a mega corporation here. They own radio stations, cable tv networks, cable tv distribution, voip, internet and cell phones. They can get away with it.
As for MP3 tags, that is only partially true. I have moved songs from one iTunes library to another, by moving only the actual audio files itself, without moving the database, and it works perfectly, and it automatically re-imported the "default" metadata. It did loose play counts, star ratings and the like, but that is to be expected. It did keep the song title, artist name, etc. just fine (the file names were random too), so I have found that iTunes in that regard is pretty smart.
The trick is to get the tags right the first time, otherwise its a royal PITA, which I had to deal with when I was using 'amp.
Was it not MS who released the "dev kit" for potential X-Box developers?
I had not heard of Nintendo doing something like that.
Yes, and the reason why it takes 5 days is basically this:
1 day to diagnose it and order the part
2-3 days to get the part (shipped by DHL from California)
1 day to install it.
Which when the math is done, 4-5 days.
(I work in the service dept. for an apple reseller/repair centre in Toronto)
Actually, I already did tell the politicians to do that.
But in nice language that they would actually read.
Oh, and the person to contact is David Emerson Contact Page
And remember kids, you can mail a letter FREE (no postage required) to the government if you want.
They did make a force-feedback mouse back in the day. It never went anywhere and was physically tethered to the mouse pad, but they did try and release a product on it.
There was like one game that was compatible, and that was black/white (original)
I want a drive that never breaks down too, and I bet so do the manufacturers. Imagine the marketing "gaurnteed to never fail, ever!"
However, HDDs have moving parts. All devices with moving parts break. Hard drives break.
Of course, flash memory has no moving parts, and is therefore less likely to break, however, writes are slow, its hideously expensive (for hdd size capacity), and there is an eventual write limit on how many times it can be written too. Yet, when flash memory becomes (more) affordable for real-life capacity, failure rates SHOULD go down, because then the motor can't wear out, only the actual chips.
Exacltly, and Apple does NOT support parallels. They "support" Boot Camp (they don't actually support it, they just make it), an entirely different product. If parallels dosn't work, you talk to parallels.
Well ...... its not the same. nLite requires windows to be re-installed to do that patching (via the RyanVM patch), this is designed to be a patch utility that does not require re-installing windows.
Assuming it works of course, nLite does indeed work, this box is running via an nLite made windowz disk. (with RyanVM updates and driverpacks drivers slipstreamed)
Understood, thats the problem with reading with +2 sometimes, I missed the above post.
"Although it required a command line fix, that's not say it's much different than tweaking some ones registry on a windows box. "
When was the last time that you heard of anyone who didn't know that Linux existed (beyond the occasional article in the finantial pages of their local newspaper) even hearing of a registry (beyond the "your comptuer needs registry cleaning and its free because you were the 1 billionth visitor to this webpage!!!!" or even knowing what "regedit" was? Perhaps such a person exists, but I have not met them.
That above comment does not apply to anyone remotely familiar with windows (or someone who did some quick reading on google), but in the context of getting "idiot" windows users to use ubuntu it fits. At my store, I send away for the free ship-it ubuntu disks, and when someone inquires about linux, I hand them the disk, give a very quick run-down about how its similar/different, and say that the ubuntu forums are a good place to start if they need questions or have problems. Why? Because its not my place to convert them to a system that they know little to nothing about, from a system that they know little about, but everyone uses it so they can at least ask their cubeville neighbour a question if they have problems. They can be told there are other options, but if they dont want to fiddle around installing drivers via the command line to get their PCI-E videocard working (which has happened to me every time I tried to get linux on my system except with linspire), or downloading driver wrappers to get their wireless cards (maybe) working, then buy a mac.