Fond childhood memories of 'The Beachcombers' not withstanding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beachcombers), I probably wouldn't miss CBC TV if it faded away, other than perhaps 22 minutes of Rick Mercer per week and The National.
CBC *Radio* on the other hand is another matter - It's the only station here in Vancouver that provides drivetime talk that isn't interrupted every five minutes with inane commercials for mattresses or 10 minutes of NFL scores followed by another five minutes of mattress or Ford commercials. I'd miss CBC Radio 1. Radio 2 can go the way of the dinosaur and the dozen kids listening to Radio 3 on the internet can continue...
I can't believe that Canadians DON'T want the Stanley Cup or the Grey cup in HD
You're misunderstanding - Canadians DO want the NHL in hi-def (and a lot get it on pay-per-view), however CBC TV depends a lot on ad revenue, and the *advertisers* aren't willing to pay for the added costs of HDTV, ergo no hi-def CBC, which is the point of the article.
Most reputable dive shops will not rent you a tank of air without a certification. If they will they're not reputable and I would question the safety of their equipment.
I enjoy listening to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven while collating.
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Also, Macs still have tiny market share compared to Intel/AMD boxen. To argue that Macs are driving a revolution when their percentage of the market remains small is false.
Most people still buy their hardware based on price.
VHS won't die until the HTPC appliance fully matures
You're bang-on there... They also have to fall in price. My parents 'program' their VCR all the time, and they bought it for $40 from Future Shop. VCRs have a huge anount of functionality for a very low price.
Sure isn't that easy - Rebuilding a PC from scratch can take HOURS - We've all done it. Not to mention the fact many will just change ISPs when cut off.
Its time we force ISPs to pull the plug on infected client machines or block entire ISPs.
Who compensates them for lost revenue? Let's say they have 1000 infected machines @ $30 / month and they kill them - That's over one-third-of-a-million dollars in lost revenue in one year.
We should give farm subsidies to Afghanies to make it cost effective for them to grow, say, corn, instead of opium poppies. Etc.
I recall reading one right-wing think tank that said the west should buy up the entire yearly opium output from Afghanistan, refine it into morphine and give it to the third world's hospitals. This would be cheaper than the 'war on drugs' and would provide the third world with a drug that they have great trouble obtaining.
But I do agree that we need to handle terrorism and terrorists very seriously and very sternly. It *is* a war. Iraq is a total f*ck job, but we need to focus intelligence, law enforcement, special forces and full military operations on killing every Bin-*, Abu-*, and Al-* that wants to do us harm.
The problem with this solution is it's a losing battle. For every "Bin-*, Abu-*, and Al-*" you kill off, another dozen replace them from a Madrasahs in Pakistan or Afghanistan. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrasasin )
In the meantime those of us in the West have our freedoms eroded piece by piece.
IMHO the only real solution is a very long term one - Things like funding education in Pakistan so the children learn to read and write and learn geography and history and mathematics - Instead of just studying the Koran all day long and learning Israel is evil and America is the great Satan. But sending textbooks to Pakistan so thirty years from now they don't blow up the Golden Gate bridge or explode a dirty bomb in Atlanta doesn't win any votes today.
As far as I can tell money in an OSS project is either made through (to a lesser extent) distribution or (mostly) from support
This is where the OSS model gets confusing for me - Let's say I make a little application (next great chat applet, or a little addictive game or what have you). I work evenings and weekends on this thing and once it's past beta and done I want to sell the thing. If I OSS it, how do I earn money? Support? It installs and it goes - What support? I suppose a Yahoo group might do the trick. Distribution? You just download the thing. Seems to me that keeping it closed and making it 'shareware' would be the path to "3) Profit!!!"
>they could send existing DVD customers away in droves
I think that's an overstatement. In my opinion, the vast majority of DVD viewers rent a DVD (or buy it from Wal*Mart), drop it in their home DVD player and watch it on their televisions. For most people the computer is for "email and watching the internet" and the television is for "watching DVDs and VHSes and 'Deal or no Deal'"
>Oh and they knew if you got a black market phone and hooked it up too
Only if you didn't disable the ringer - Our home had four or five black market phones, but only one of them rang - It was the higher current draw to drive all those ringers that the phone co. detected.
I seem to remember him saying he had a speech synthesizer. plausible... not with such pronunciation though..
In around the same period (if not before) the TRS-80 model 1 & III had a speech synth that operated in a similar manner as portrayed in in Wargames, and, if memory serves, sounded about the same.
Even without deliberate abuse, which will be rampant, the odds of two people labeling the same image in the same way are virtually nil.
Huh? I just played the game for five minutes and my 'partner' and I repeatedly labelled images the same way. Telephone, tree, meeting, magazine... Lots of common tags.
In addition to the other reasons outlined, as ISPs get gobbled up your email address can change outside of your control. Here in British Columbia, in 1994 I signed up with @mindlink.bc.ca - They were bought so my email became @istar.ca. Then istar was purchased and it changed again... You get the idea. BC Tel 'sympatico.ca' addresses all became 'telus.net' email addresses when that merger happened. All the cable modem people around these parts went from @home.ca to @rogers.ca and finally to @shaw.ca. And so it goes...
Ah yes, the shock wave ring which slammed into the Excelsior because "Captain Sulu" didn't think to give the order "adjust course plus 500 meters z axis."
He's intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
I've had several successful interactions with these systems, most recently with United Airlines just the other day.
Anecdotal, to be sure, but proves the systems have at least some worth.
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Fond childhood memories of 'The Beachcombers' not withstanding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beachcombers), I probably wouldn't miss CBC TV if it faded away, other than perhaps 22 minutes of Rick Mercer per week and The National.
CBC *Radio* on the other hand is another matter - It's the only station here in Vancouver that provides drivetime talk that isn't interrupted every five minutes with inane commercials for mattresses or 10 minutes of NFL scores followed by another five minutes of mattress or Ford commercials. I'd miss CBC Radio 1. Radio 2 can go the way of the dinosaur and the dozen kids listening to Radio 3 on the internet can continue...
You're misunderstanding - Canadians DO want the NHL in hi-def (and a lot get it on pay-per-view), however CBC TV depends a lot on ad revenue, and the *advertisers* aren't willing to pay for the added costs of HDTV, ergo no hi-def CBC, which is the point of the article.
Most reputable dive shops will not rent you a tank of air without a certification. If they will they're not reputable and I would question the safety of their equipment.
I enjoy listening to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven while collating.
Most people still buy their hardware based on price.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=1216161
You're bang-on there... They also have to fall in price. My parents 'program' their VCR all the time, and they bought it for $40 from Future Shop. VCRs have a huge anount of functionality for a very low price.
Sure isn't that easy - Rebuilding a PC from scratch can take HOURS - We've all done it. Not to mention the fact many will just change ISPs when cut off.
Where are you going to plug them in?
Who compensates them for lost revenue? Let's say they have 1000 infected machines @ $30 / month and they kill them - That's over one-third-of-a-million dollars in lost revenue in one year.
I recall reading one right-wing think tank that said the west should buy up the entire yearly opium output from Afghanistan, refine it into morphine and give it to the third world's hospitals. This would be cheaper than the 'war on drugs' and would provide the third world with a drug that they have great trouble obtaining.
The problem with this solution is it's a losing battle. For every "Bin-*, Abu-*, and Al-*" you kill off, another dozen replace them from a Madrasahs in Pakistan or Afghanistan. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrasasin )
In the meantime those of us in the West have our freedoms eroded piece by piece.
IMHO the only real solution is a very long term one - Things like funding education in Pakistan so the children learn to read and write and learn geography and history and mathematics - Instead of just studying the Koran all day long and learning Israel is evil and America is the great Satan. But sending textbooks to Pakistan so thirty years from now they don't blow up the Golden Gate bridge or explode a dirty bomb in Atlanta doesn't win any votes today.
Think of the children! For goodness sakes, what about THE CHILDREN??!
This is where the OSS model gets confusing for me - Let's say I make a little application (next great chat applet, or a little addictive game or what have you). I work evenings and weekends on this thing and once it's past beta and done I want to sell the thing. If I OSS it, how do I earn money? Support? It installs and it goes - What support? I suppose a Yahoo group might do the trick. Distribution? You just download the thing. Seems to me that keeping it closed and making it 'shareware' would be the path to "3) Profit!!!"
I think that's an overstatement. In my opinion, the vast majority of DVD viewers rent a DVD (or buy it from Wal*Mart), drop it in their home DVD player and watch it on their televisions. For most people the computer is for "email and watching the internet" and the television is for "watching DVDs and VHSes and 'Deal or no Deal'"
>Oh and they knew if you got a black market phone and hooked it up too Only if you didn't disable the ringer - Our home had four or five black market phones, but only one of them rang - It was the higher current draw to drive all those ringers that the phone co. detected.
I seem to remember him saying he had a speech synthesizer. plausible... not with such pronunciation though..
In around the same period (if not before) the TRS-80 model 1 & III had a speech synth that operated in a similar manner as portrayed in in Wargames, and, if memory serves, sounded about the same.
I do... I'll often skip over there when I'm eating my sandwich to see what's new and amusing / interesting.
Yep - The magazine was "Physics Today." Physics, today, nuclear - None of those matched. But "magazine" did.
Huh? I just played the game for five minutes and my 'partner' and I repeatedly labelled images the same way. Telephone, tree, meeting, magazine... Lots of common tags.
Cite?
In addition to the other reasons outlined, as ISPs get gobbled up your email address can change outside of your control. Here in British Columbia, in 1994 I signed up with @mindlink.bc.ca - They were bought so my email became @istar.ca. Then istar was purchased and it changed again... You get the idea. BC Tel 'sympatico.ca' addresses all became 'telus.net' email addresses when that merger happened. All the cable modem people around these parts went from @home.ca to @rogers.ca and finally to @shaw.ca. And so it goes...
He's intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
Wasn't the 'first' Big Stupid Ring the one around the explosion of Praxis in Trek 6?
I've had several successful interactions with these systems, most recently with United Airlines just the other day. Anecdotal, to be sure, but proves the systems have at least some worth.