I used to worked at an ISP who had about 25 000 dialup subscribers. (And about 10 000 DSL) They were playing around with the idea of charging a couple more bucks for the service. I got asked to generate a connection usage report. Turns out 60% of the dialup customers had not connected to their service in the past 3 months. (That was 2 years ago, so 75% today would not surprise me at all)

When people are used to automatic billing either on their bank account or their credit card, they tend to forget that they're paying for some services they are not using.

If you can wait until November, the Boxee Box seems to be a really good option. It's boxee based (which is, itself, based on XMBC), cheap (150$), small and does pretty much everything you want.

Plus, it's sexy.

http://www.boxee.tv/box

They apparently also run The Domain Registry of Canada. I received a bunch of letters from these scammers. These guys have scanned the one they received.

http://www.sibername.com/support/droc.php/a

'It will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites.'

Since when is it their job?

When talking to someone else, we can politely stop them and ask : "Sorry, what did you say?". As someone whose first language is not english, I tend to use these words a lot, mostly because of differences in pronunciation. Computers, on the other hand, are supposed to get everything right the first time! Why can't they, like us, ask those simple words instead of making stupid guesses??

I've heard this a lot, if there's no risk then why bother? You have to consider that people who really need treatment sometimes go see an homeopath instead of a real doctor or won't go trough chemotherapy or some other kind of treatment because of these qwacks.

I love the placebo effect, only when used at the right time, on the right people. The fact that they are selling homeopathic products at the pharmacy here in Canada is, in my opinion, a perversion of the professional title that pharmacists hold.

Am I the only one who thinks it looks a bit like ATLAS from the LHC??

Which makes it even more AWESOME.

Calls in the US : 1$/min
Calls to Canada : 2$/min
Data : 10 cents per kB


This is why.

As a Canadian going in the US in the next few weeks, the idea of using my cellphone (For voice or data) scares the crap out of me. I wouldn't mind using a GPS app like this one while having the phone in airplane mode.

99$ is still pretty expensive.

That's what I call good product placement.

They also stopped providing free radio to Canadian users.

Goodbye, Last.Fm

/I just dumped the App in the Trash Bin.

Turns out he's walking in jail now! :

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/16/national/main4870337.shtml?source=mostpop_story

(Former Paraplegic Man Who Claims Spider Helped Him Walk Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges)

Yup, they produced only 300 of them.

Heard that from my Sennheiser rep a few years back. They were selling for around 18 000$ (CAN).

Instead of that bullcr**, they could just stop reducing the dynamic range of our music and give us back the sound our CDs were supposed to produce...

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war