I live in Calgary and there is a business park that is Telus only - no Shaw. They won't run the lines out unless it is at cost to the business. Considering the normal situation is free install for residential, the infrastructure is obviously in place for that, but it would cost them thousands of dollars to have them lay cables for let's say a block away. The word from the complex owner about internet is "too bad" and no other businesses wanted to split the cost across all of them for something better than Telus there. I don't know the details on both provider's service map, but a city of a million should have each block lit up...

Just like how every legislator who ups the ante against child pr0n is guilty of it too...

I have a 2008 Civic Hybrid in Calgary and the update was applied in January 2011 iirc. I was getting 46.6 mpg on a good tank (the mission was to always get the L/100km to read 5.0 not 5.1).. Now it's around 33 mpg with winter, new tires ( http://www.goodyear.ca/tire/assurance-fuel-max/ which you would think would be good...?) and the firmware update all worked in. It went in for a B12 service a month or two ago and after that, the car now revs to 2500 rpm pretty frequently. Thought it was another update like that, but they explain it with just a replacement to air filters.. Ugh..

Although there's also this story: http://ca.autoblog.com/2011/12/21/honda-extends-2006-2011-civic-hybrid-warranty-over-gas-leak/ which I don't know if that helps.. When asked about that a couple days after that was posted, the Honda service rep I had didn't know anything about it. Could be a Canada difference too. (For whatever reason [sales], only the US got 2009-2011 Civic Hybrids.. I'm still waiting to see about test driving a 2012 Civic Hybrid. My car is paid off though so no need to do anything)

I thought you trusted that Nintendo didn't release hardware just for the sake of releasing hardware. The 3DS is a speed bump, but does add 3D, a gyro from the wiimote tech and a pedometer from the pokewalker. The play coins are a cool feature and improves upon the chances of finding someone to streetpass which is also a cool feature. No one knows the feature list of the next home console (being more important than the spec sheet) and so no one can really say. That said, it is disappointing to know that there are games that are still in development for Wii (like Dragon Quest X) and will look outdated after a new console comes out..

And I had a dream to build a mechanical setup to control a 360 controller to "TAS" Trials HD. That game begs to be demonstrated as a perfect play. But alas, I don't have any skills like that so the dream is dead.. I suppose it would be easier to try to take apart a controller, learn the signalling and basically have a minute long macro button. Any takers?

Obviously, one drawback is the cost, but another is that it only works on black vinyl. Between 1/4 and 1/3 of my collection is clear or coloured which adds to the list of problems.

"I saw a billboard for the lottery. It said, "Estimated lottery jackpot 55 million dollars." I did not know that was estimated. That would suck if you won and they said, "Oh, we were off by two zeroes. We estimate that you are angry!""

You're right about that part.. What I don't get is why enforce a curfew on a subset of youth? If you're going to try to straighten out youth, I would figure that you would want to target teens who would be more likely to commit crimes rather than a group that is less likely to do so.. To punish people for not committing a crime? Bad form imo..

I think you're thinking of Aqua not Cocoa.. Cocoa is Objective C programming for the game engine which is a different ball of wax than what it would be like to port to linux. The graphics libraries being OpenGL - yeah that will help a move to linux, but it's obviously not 100% to the point of running a mac binary on a linux box.

If emergency calls cannot go through under "100%" usage of the tower, something is seriously wrong. There needs to be bandwidth provisioned and reserved for emergency calls for every tower and trunk.

If this does affect emergency calls, AT&T really does need to get their shit together. I assume there are laws in place to enforce the transmission of emergency calls. Hell AT&T gets a free stress test of their network which is something they should be doing anyway. Real world data of extreme usage. Study, learn and yes: build a better network because of it.