It's very simple. Go back to the reasons for the "digital only" conversion. First, strike out the myth that it's to give HD. Digital HD. Second, remember that the market was not demanding digital TV.
There does seem to be a great deal of confusion regarding this switchover. I've had to explain to my mother about three times, that this doesn't affect her Cable in Canada. She still didn't listen and my father and her went out and bought new cable boxes for three of their TVs. Also I've got in arguments with many people who think that all channels with be switching to HD on in February... again in Canada.
Equal rights. Men are allowed to remove their shirts in public so women are as well.
Neither men or woman are allowed to show their genitals in public so it is fair.
It is called freedom and in most of the free world men and women have the same rights.
That's in public, but what about in a private business? Most will throw you out if you don't wear a shirt or shoes, doesn't matter if you are male or female. I'm not against women breast feeding in public, but I am against businesses being told they have to allow it.
In Vancouver last summer there was a big fuss because a breast feeding woman was asked if she would like to use a changing stall at local clothing store. She wasn't even told she couldn't breast feed in public, she was simple asked if she would be more comfortable if she have some privacy. The woman, who was a professor of womens studies at the local university, thought her rights were damaged because she took the offer as an implied request. The press jumped all over the store and how they had violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the end about one hundred womens went to the store for public breast feeding, the store gave them all cookies and the whole thing dies down.
Personally I don't really have a problem with women breast feeding, but I think there should be some limits and when in public does it really kill some of these women to cover up with a little blanket.
My main beef with my cable operator is I have to subscribe to $60 of crap before I can buy the 'premium channels' I want. The only thing I watch on TV is soccer and hockey. I only watch 6 channels, but to get those I have to have 300 I don't watch. To get the 'premium sports' package I need to subscribe to Basic->Tier 3 digital cable. To get HD Sports I need Basic->Tier 2 Digital + Basic HD. Plus I now see they are nailing me $2/month for each of my digital boxes.
What I hate is businesses which advertise their phone number as a clever words, instead of the actual number... which means nothing to me with my Blackberry.
Funny because for me this Christmas season has showed how bad the economy really is. The malls and shops were relatively slow over the Christmas season. You could barely tell it was Christmas this year. In past years its been a zoo, but this year its was just like a normal weekend. The downtown mall near my house didn't decorate or have a Santa this year, and the only store I encountered with a line was EB. The high end stores seemed the hardest hit. I was in the sony store on the weekend before Christmas and was the only person in the store.
People are going to look for better deals, and when some item can be found for 20 to 50% less online, often with free shipping, of course they are going to turn to the big internet sites.
Very true, the biggest difference I see right now is on Blueray movies. Locally, where I am in Canada, new movies are $45, and old movies are $30+. On Amazon they are $27 and $15 respectively. Free shipping within the week, with far better selection, no way I'm going to buy them locally.
What is almost criminal is that the phone worked perfectly fine, up to the very month that they rolled out their own phone service. My main problem is I live in a condo where my only TV option is the company I have. Because of bundled pricing it doesn't make sense for me to go with an alternate Internet service as it will cost me $10 more a month for a 'slower' service.
Yup, Shaw it is. Yeah I didn't read the small print about PowerBoost being free on my plan. As for my download speeds its not the source, its definitely a shaw cap. Its a constant speed I see all the time. It doesn't matter if its a large Microsoft Binary, a download from my office which is also downtown, or from a friend with the same plan three blocks away(I actually get the lower 60KBps rate at the time in that case, as that's the capped upload speed). Even with shaws own speed test I get these rates. As I mentioned I downgraded and the cap was cut in half. When ever I call and complain, they say "download speeds are "up to 10Mbps'".
But where I am if your in a condo Shaw know they have you by the balls. The utter refuse to take responsibility for any of their cable problems. I foolishly have the Canucks PPV package and with every second game something goes wrong. Just last night it cut out for ten minutes and we missed the first goal. And then when it came back it wasn't the 'Commercial free PPV' feed, but rather just the sportnet feed with commercials from Ottawa. Shaws answer, "The problem was with the Canucks and not us, we are not responsible". Only once have I got any sort of programming credit this year, $3, when the entire first period was off air. Which is an odd amount as its not even 1/3 of the $16 cost of the PPV.
I don't get what the big change is? My ISP already offers several tiers of service for Internet. I can pay $30/month for 256 Kbps; $40/month for 5 Mbps; $51/month for 10 Mbp; $100/month for 25 Mbps. The also screw you by making you pay for 'PowerBoost(TM)' which is $2.95, and allows you to download a "10 MB file in 8 seconds" with the 10 Mbps plan. Which is a real scam as my maths tell me that's what I should be getting with the plan anyways. I don't have it, but maybe that's why my 10 Mbps service seems throttled to 118 KBps, and when i tried to downgrade to a '5 Mbps plan' I went down to around 60KBps. Also when they launched their own Internet phone service my Vonage stopped working, they said I needed another option for $5 to 'speed up net phone service'.
Does Ferrari's Forumla 1 racing team pay for itself? Nah, it's an investment to promote an image.
I couldn't find Ferrari's numbers but McLaren made £3.2M in 2007. They did get £41M in 'free' parts from Mercedes though, so you do have a bit of a point.
Pretty funny how Microsoft made a big deal about how the Zune can "squirt" limited-time limited-play DRM files to other users, but with my Blackberry (and I'm guessing alot of other smart phones) I can send any file via bluetooth. I'm not sure how how easy it is with the Zune, but on my blackberry I just go into the media player, select the file and hit the blackberry button, and select "Send Using BlueTooth".
How does he know that the person is infact the one he wants? It could be someone registering with a false name. No, I guess it could not be cause that is now illegal.
Crap time to cancel my Boris Yeltsin account, before they catch me
The Bunker locations make very sense sense at all. CFS Carp is the only one anywhere close to the government, and even its still 32KM from the parliament in Ottawa. In the event of a ICBM attack, I doubt they could get their in time. The doomsday clock was set to between 7 and 12 minutes during that time.
Looking to where I live, the bunker in BC is in the illogical location of Nanaimo. The government and the entire Canadian fleet is in Victoria (100km away), and the financial centre is in Vancouver (50km of water away). Nanaimo just seems like a very illogical location.
I have two standard passwords that I use and then add three characters to the end that are keyboard based S-Boxed of the first three characters of the domain. So lets say my base password is lK89#8 and I visit slashdot.org so I take the sla and hash it out to woq for a password of lK89#8woq. Although that's not my base password or hash function.
This depends on who you were in the shower with and what you were doing at the time.
Having falled in the shower while doing it I would say it wouldn't be the way to go. I was embarrassing enough to take out the shower curtain and crash out into the floor. Her parents who we were staying with at the time were less than impressed.
I agree about the extra commentary, but I have rather strong feelings about cutting of the end of sports programming... or I guess the end of any programming I guess for that matter. Just this week I was watching Champions League Soccer on TSN2 (Canadian ESPN), and they just cut off the last twenty minutes to go into hockey pregame. I was livid, and called their number and left a long rant about how dumb their programming was. The match didn't run late or go into extra time, and soccer game lengths are extremely predictable, but they still decided to cut off the end to do pregame.
Just wondering is the 30k/s throttled for everything or just bittorrent? I've been testing my Shaw (Canada Cable) connection, and I seem to be capped/limited to 118KBps down / 58KBps up even though I pay for 10 Mbps (1.25 MBps) up and 1 Mbps (125 KBps) down. No matter what I do no normal connection won't exceed this. I have even tried direct transfers from a friend of mine three blocks away who has the same plan and we find we can't exceed 58KBps. I've also tried bittorrent and big downloads from Microsoft (which I mention because at the office downloads from Microsoft are lighting fast) and never do I get above 118KBps. I have called there support line and they say my connection is only 'Up to 10 Mbps download speed', which is fair enough except it never even gets close to that rate. For one month I tried downgrading to a 'Up to 5 Mbps download speed', but found that my connection seemed capped to about 58KBps and my vonage phone wouldn't work most of the time.
Microsoft already makes OneNote, which is has alot more features. I just don't understand why they would want to fight Google with a half baked product, which competes with one they sell.
I got pulled into the police station last year for a whole lot of nothing involving a friend. I was told very clearly that I was being videotaped, with a redundancy audio recording and just to be on the safe side the detective used a personal tape recorder as well. So they would have had copies of everything I said from three different sources, sounds like the california DA could have used such a system.
This is very true. My PS3 doesn't play my PAL movies, and neither does the integrated DVD player in my Panasonic Surround Sound, but my $50 El cheapo DVD recorder does, as does the crap $30 DVD player in the bedroom.
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It's very simple. Go back to the reasons for the "digital only" conversion. First, strike out the myth that it's to give HD. Digital HD. Second, remember that the market was not demanding digital TV.
There does seem to be a great deal of confusion regarding this switchover. I've had to explain to my mother about three times, that this doesn't affect her Cable in Canada. She still didn't listen and my father and her went out and bought new cable boxes for three of their TVs. Also I've got in arguments with many people who think that all channels with be switching to HD on in February ... again in Canada.
Equal rights. Men are allowed to remove their shirts in public so women are as well. Neither men or woman are allowed to show their genitals in public so it is fair. It is called freedom and in most of the free world men and women have the same rights.
That's in public, but what about in a private business? Most will throw you out if you don't wear a shirt or shoes, doesn't matter if you are male or female. I'm not against women breast feeding in public, but I am against businesses being told they have to allow it.
In Vancouver last summer there was a big fuss because a breast feeding woman was asked if she would like to use a changing stall at local clothing store. She wasn't even told she couldn't breast feed in public, she was simple asked if she would be more comfortable if she have some privacy. The woman, who was a professor of womens studies at the local university, thought her rights were damaged because she took the offer as an implied request. The press jumped all over the store and how they had violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the end about one hundred womens went to the store for public breast feeding, the store gave them all cookies and the whole thing dies down.
Personally I don't really have a problem with women breast feeding, but I think there should be some limits and when in public does it really kill some of these women to cover up with a little blanket.
My main beef with my cable operator is I have to subscribe to $60 of crap before I can buy the 'premium channels' I want. The only thing I watch on TV is soccer and hockey. I only watch 6 channels, but to get those I have to have 300 I don't watch. To get the 'premium sports' package I need to subscribe to Basic->Tier 3 digital cable. To get HD Sports I need Basic->Tier 2 Digital + Basic HD. Plus I now see they are nailing me $2/month for each of my digital boxes.
Might be best to turn off the water entirely and drain the pipes rather than risk a burst.
Or just leave a tap trickling in the laundry sink.
What I hate is businesses which advertise their phone number as a clever words, instead of the actual number ... which means nothing to me with my Blackberry.
Where do you draw the line? Whats next? banning legally aged girls that just look really young.
Funny because for me this Christmas season has showed how bad the economy really is. The malls and shops were relatively slow over the Christmas season. You could barely tell it was Christmas this year. In past years its been a zoo, but this year its was just like a normal weekend. The downtown mall near my house didn't decorate or have a Santa this year, and the only store I encountered with a line was EB. The high end stores seemed the hardest hit. I was in the sony store on the weekend before Christmas and was the only person in the store.
People are going to look for better deals, and when some item can be found for 20 to 50% less online, often with free shipping, of course they are going to turn to the big internet sites.
Very true, the biggest difference I see right now is on Blueray movies. Locally, where I am in Canada, new movies are $45, and old movies are $30+. On Amazon they are $27 and $15 respectively. Free shipping within the week, with far better selection, no way I'm going to buy them locally.
What is almost criminal is that the phone worked perfectly fine, up to the very month that they rolled out their own phone service. My main problem is I live in a condo where my only TV option is the company I have. Because of bundled pricing it doesn't make sense for me to go with an alternate Internet service as it will cost me $10 more a month for a 'slower' service.
Yup, Shaw it is. Yeah I didn't read the small print about PowerBoost being free on my plan. As for my download speeds its not the source, its definitely a shaw cap. Its a constant speed I see all the time. It doesn't matter if its a large Microsoft Binary, a download from my office which is also downtown, or from a friend with the same plan three blocks away(I actually get the lower 60KBps rate at the time in that case, as that's the capped upload speed). Even with shaws own speed test I get these rates. As I mentioned I downgraded and the cap was cut in half. When ever I call and complain, they say "download speeds are "up to 10Mbps'".
But where I am if your in a condo Shaw know they have you by the balls. The utter refuse to take responsibility for any of their cable problems. I foolishly have the Canucks PPV package and with every second game something goes wrong. Just last night it cut out for ten minutes and we missed the first goal. And then when it came back it wasn't the 'Commercial free PPV' feed, but rather just the sportnet feed with commercials from Ottawa. Shaws answer, "The problem was with the Canucks and not us, we are not responsible". Only once have I got any sort of programming credit this year, $3, when the entire first period was off air. Which is an odd amount as its not even 1/3 of the $16 cost of the PPV.
I don't get what the big change is? My ISP already offers several tiers of service for Internet. I can pay $30/month for 256 Kbps; $40/month for 5 Mbps; $51/month for 10 Mbp; $100/month for 25 Mbps. The also screw you by making you pay for 'PowerBoost(TM)' which is $2.95, and allows you to download a "10 MB file in 8 seconds" with the 10 Mbps plan. Which is a real scam as my maths tell me that's what I should be getting with the plan anyways. I don't have it, but maybe that's why my 10 Mbps service seems throttled to 118 KBps, and when i tried to downgrade to a '5 Mbps plan' I went down to around 60KBps. Also when they launched their own Internet phone service my Vonage stopped working, they said I needed another option for $5 to 'speed up net phone service'.
Does Ferrari's Forumla 1 racing team pay for itself? Nah, it's an investment to promote an image.
I couldn't find Ferrari's numbers but McLaren made £3.2M in 2007. They did get £41M in 'free' parts from Mercedes though, so you do have a bit of a point.
Pretty funny how Microsoft made a big deal about how the Zune can "squirt" limited-time limited-play DRM files to other users, but with my Blackberry (and I'm guessing alot of other smart phones) I can send any file via bluetooth. I'm not sure how how easy it is with the Zune, but on my blackberry I just go into the media player, select the file and hit the blackberry button, and select "Send Using BlueTooth".
How does he know that the person is infact the one he wants? It could be someone registering with a false name. No, I guess it could not be cause that is now illegal.
Crap time to cancel my Boris Yeltsin account, before they catch me
The Bunker locations make very sense sense at all. CFS Carp is the only one anywhere close to the government, and even its still 32KM from the parliament in Ottawa. In the event of a ICBM attack, I doubt they could get their in time. The doomsday clock was set to between 7 and 12 minutes during that time.
Looking to where I live, the bunker in BC is in the illogical location of Nanaimo. The government and the entire Canadian fleet is in Victoria (100km away), and the financial centre is in Vancouver (50km of water away). Nanaimo just seems like a very illogical location.
I have two standard passwords that I use and then add three characters to the end that are keyboard based S-Boxed of the first three characters of the domain. So lets say my base password is lK89#8 and I visit slashdot.org so I take the sla and hash it out to woq for a password of lK89#8woq. Although that's not my base password or hash function.
Windows essentially has no centralized credentials mechanism that is of real world use
Does a file called passwords.txt on your desktop count?
This depends on who you were in the shower with and what you were doing at the time.
Having falled in the shower while doing it I would say it wouldn't be the way to go. I was embarrassing enough to take out the shower curtain and crash out into the floor. Her parents who we were staying with at the time were less than impressed.
Very often climber's bodies are left on Everest because it's too dangerous to retrieve them
I'd rather my dead body be up there than on the mountain in a hole in the ground getting eaten by worms.
I agree about the extra commentary, but I have rather strong feelings about cutting of the end of sports programming ... or I guess the end of any programming I guess for that matter. Just this week I was watching Champions League Soccer on TSN2 (Canadian ESPN), and they just cut off the last twenty minutes to go into hockey pregame. I was livid, and called their number and left a long rant about how dumb their programming was. The match didn't run late or go into extra time, and soccer game lengths are extremely predictable, but they still decided to cut off the end to do pregame.
Just wondering is the 30k/s throttled for everything or just bittorrent? I've been testing my Shaw (Canada Cable) connection, and I seem to be capped/limited to 118KBps down / 58KBps up even though I pay for 10 Mbps (1.25 MBps) up and 1 Mbps (125 KBps) down. No matter what I do no normal connection won't exceed this. I have even tried direct transfers from a friend of mine three blocks away who has the same plan and we find we can't exceed 58KBps. I've also tried bittorrent and big downloads from Microsoft (which I mention because at the office downloads from Microsoft are lighting fast) and never do I get above 118KBps. I have called there support line and they say my connection is only 'Up to 10 Mbps download speed', which is fair enough except it never even gets close to that rate. For one month I tried downgrading to a 'Up to 5 Mbps download speed', but found that my connection seemed capped to about 58KBps and my vonage phone wouldn't work most of the time.
Microsoft already makes OneNote, which is has alot more features. I just don't understand why they would want to fight Google with a half baked product, which competes with one they sell.
I got pulled into the police station last year for a whole lot of nothing involving a friend. I was told very clearly that I was being videotaped, with a redundancy audio recording and just to be on the safe side the detective used a personal tape recorder as well. So they would have had copies of everything I said from three different sources, sounds like the california DA could have used such a system.
This is very true. My PS3 doesn't play my PAL movies, and neither does the integrated DVD player in my Panasonic Surround Sound, but my $50 El cheapo DVD recorder does, as does the crap $30 DVD player in the bedroom.