It's not 208 million pills. It's 20.8 million pills.

For a population of 2900 people, across 10 years, it works out to 1.9 pills per day per person.

If you spread it across the whole county, it drops to a lot less.

20,800,000 / 26,839 / 10 / 365 = 0.2 pills per person per day.

What's the big deal? ;)

All 3 of the major carriers (Telus, Rogers, Bell) have a special going right now with their budget subsidiaries (Koodo, Fido, Virgin):

$60 / mth for unlimited Canada-wide minutes, unlimited SMS/MMS, voicemail, call display, etc, etc, etc, with 10 GB of data.

The Fido and Virgin deals are actually 5 GB plans with a bonus 5 GB for the first 12 months. The Koodo plan is actually 10 GB of data.

Note: These plans are only available until the 19th of Dec, and they haven't done much advertising for them.

These are for new SIM activations, and only available to customers bringing their own phone. But still a hell of a deal compared to the "normal" plans.

We're on a corporate plan which is includes a 30% discount, and it's still over $150 / mth for 2 phones with only 7 GB of shared data, 300 daytime minutes on one phone and unlimited Canada-wide minutes on the other phone. :( We'll be switching to Koodo shortly ...

They really don't have to make much money from AllAccess to pay for Discovery. From what I understand, they made a profit on Discovery just by selling the rights to Netflix to show overseas. They could get 20 people sign up for their crappy streaming site and still the show has already made a profit.

Netflix paid for most of the production costs for making ST:D, in exchange for the rights to show it outside of the US (with the exception of Canada because of stupid Bell buying the rights to show it on Space/CraveTV). That's also why they get to call it a Netflix Original.

How long before there's a GRUB2 module (installed by default on Gentoo) that will recompile the kernel from source at every boot? And how long after that until SystemD integrates a compile-on-access setup for all managed services?

Just imagine, everytime you turn the system on, everything is recompiled from source, and don't even notice! Everytime something connects to a socket over the network, the service is compiled fresh! :)

Completely false.

You can still upgrade 32-bit installs of FreeBSD to the latest version. And you can do fresh 32-bit installs of the latest FreeBSD version.

PC-BSD (now known as TruOS) has moved to a 64-bit-only version. But FreeBSD still support 32-bit systems.

Maybe even some larvae that would become full-fledged flying insects! From ham to flies in just 7 days!!

NT started life as the next version of OS/2. The original UI (personality) for this OS was the new UI from OS/2. As Windows 3.x became more popular, they added a second personality to it that borrowed heavily from Windows 3.x. There was also a POSIX personality, IIRC. The original filesystem for this OS was HPFS, but Microsoft developed their own filesystem (NTFS) as well. The original releases of NT 3.x included support for HPFS. They also developed the HAL that allowed them to run NT on various CPU architectures (x86, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC) without having to change any of the code running above the HAL.

The multiple personalities on the front-end (you could run OS/2, Windows, or POSIX apps), and the multiple CPU architectures on the back-end really allowed NT to grab a foothold in the server market. But the steep hardware requirements (for the time/compared to DOS/Windows) make it languish in the desktop market.

Later releases of NT removed support for various personalities (mainly the OS/2 one) and CPU architectures (MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC all went the way of the dodo).

There's a great book that details the development of Windows NT from it's OS/2 roots to NT 4.0. I can never remember the name of it, but it really digs into the nitty-gritty of the development arrangements between IBM and MS, OS/2 and DOS/Windows, and the release of NT.

OSS in the 90s supported mixing multiple sound sources into a single audio output stream ... on systems other than Linux. Linux imported a crap version of OSS, never improved it, and declared OSS as dead and outdated ... when other OSes were using it just fine.

FreeBSD still defaults to OSS and supports pretty much all the same non-networked features as pulse.

OpenBSD has a sndio setup that supports pretty much all the same non-networks features as pulse, also running on top of OSS. sndio is also supported on FreeBSD and NetBSD.

There's also an OSSv4 release that can be installed on most Unix-like OSes.

It was only the Linux devs in the 90s who couldn't get OSS working properly. So they scrapped it and wrote a new sound system (ALSA), which didn't really fix anything. Which lead to the development of sound servers running on top to try and hide/work around the issues in ALSA. But they didn't work very well. So PulseAudio was developed to hide/work around the issues with ALSA. And it mostly works. But it's a bandaid, on top of a bandaid, running on a bandaid, with bandaids wrapped around it to hold it all together.

All that being said, PulseAudio does work fairly well these days, and can be used with ALSA or OSS backends on pretty much any Unix-like OS.

RDP has supported headless (is that correct term? Or is it rootless?) windows for ages now, so your remote applications run in local window manager, same as an X11-forwarded app does. So, you can start a single app on a remote host via an RDP connection and have it appear on your local desktop the same as your local apps. And you can do that from multiple remote hosts simultaneously.

RDP has come a long way from the "works like VNC only slightly better" days.

I think the best example of this is comparing the British and US versions of Being Human.

The British version was 6-8 episodes a season. And it was very hard to not binge watch it, as the story was very tight and kept things moving along.

The American version was 26 episodes to a season, with the same story lines. IOW, a hell of a lot of filler. We tried watching it and gave up after 3 episodes because the story moved so slowly.

Same with police procedurals. The British versions get a lot more story in a lot fewer episodes.

The other nice thing about this is that it's $ 5,000 per person, not per infringed work. :) Trying to sue a single person for having a couple hundred MP3 and MKV files on their computer wouldn't be worth the filing fees for most law firms.

We've really tried to shift enforcement operations over to the commercial copiers and seeders, and not the individual end-users. Which is pretty much the opposite way of the ol' US.

The RCMP has also come out publically saying it's not worth their time to investigate individual downloaders, and that they'll be concentrating on investigating commercial / for-profit operations.

It's been awhile since we burnt down any white houses, so, why not? Nothing better to do while we wait for spring. ;)

It's right there in the summary why they care.

Iceland Foods has been going after all kinds of companies from Iceland that try to setup shop in the EU using Iceland in their own company names. Iceland Foods is claiming trademark ownership over the word "Iceland" as used in the EU. Meaning, any Icelandic companies that try to get a foothold in the EU need to change the name they operate under or face a lawsuit from Iceland Foods.

And Iceland Foods is not related to the country of Iceland in any way, shape, or form.

Personally, I hope the Icelandic government prevails, and forces Iceland Foods to change their name to Ice Land Foods, thus allowing all their Icelandic companies to pay homage to their homeland in their new Iceland X company names. :)

D'oh. Touted as something new. Lol.

I blame Google's keyboard on my phone.