Necrotica - Slashdot User

Comment Worse in Canada (Score 1) 397

by Necrotica on Sunday November 30, 2008 @01:16PM (#25934071) Attached to: iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio

Things are worse in Canada. My new car came with a built-in XM receiver and I immediately signed up. I actually thought that the merger was going to be a good thing in terms of selection. The problem is that Sirius Canada and XM Canada are both separate companies than their U.S. counterparts. I'm guessing that they license the channels and add a few law-mandated French channels. The end result is lack of choice for Canadian subscribers. I was very excited at the thought of being able to get Howard Stern and all the NFL channels. As it turns out none of them are available to Canadian subscribers. Furthermore, the blogs that I've read show that the chance of getting those channels in Canada are slim-to-none.

Submission + - Canadian Coins Not Nano-Technonology Afterall

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Necrotica

on Monday May 07, 2007 @10:15AM

Necrotica writes: "The Globe and Mail reports that an odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defence Department's false espionage warning earlier this year, The Associated Press has learned. The odd-looking — but harmless — "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors travelling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP."

Submission + - Nvidia Shares Affected by Weaker Playstation 3 Dem

Submitted by kog777 on Monday January 29, 2007 @07:27PM

kog777 writes: Growing signs of weaker demand for Sony's new Playstation 3 video game system may be impacting some of its design partners, a new report indicates, with graphics system provider Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), feeling Wall-Street heat today. A series of reports last week pointed to longer than expected shelf-time for Sony's Playstation 3 video-game console, as well growing inventories across the country, raising concern about possible slower demand for the new system.

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