Comment Re:Lookig up postal codes is free (Score 1) 168
Having a list of valid addresses, even street names, from the postal code is kind of a big deal for any online retailer.
Comment Re:CP is Price-Gauging (Score 2) 168
For the "redistributable license", meaning you use the data for something other than mailing junk mail, the price went from 4K to around 45K per year. FYI, USPS licensed data of the same kind is around 2K. The same phenomenon happened in Australia (it was about 80K IIRC), again asserting bogus copyright claims over public information.
Comment CP is Price-Gauging (Score 2) 168
From personal experience, Canada Post increased ten-fold their database licensing costs. My company tried to negotiate, and the best CP proposed is some rebates for the first two years, so of course we had to drop them. So, Geocoder, good luck!
Comment Re:Canada? (Score 1) 179
I'm in Canada, and there's a "Call phone" item under the Chat section in Gmail. Installed the plugin, and it works for free for Canadian and US phone numbers. Of course, I don't have a full Google Voice account, but hey free calls are good enough.
Comment Re:I can access this from Canada (Score 1) 179
They're progressively rolling out that feature to all users. I'm in Canada and I've made a few phone calls to my landline in Canada and it works. All calls were free.
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Journal Journal: Nokia 810 -- the cheaper it gets, the more tempting
One of my favorite things from this year's CES is a low-end handheld device aimed basically at teenagers (but I'm mostly a teenager in my overall lifestyle, by some measures) called the Movit, from a company called Giinii.
Submission + - Worst working conditions you had to write code in?
sausaw writes: "I recently had to write code in a hot dusty room for 20 days with temperatures near 107F (~41C); having nothing to sit on; a 64 Kbps inconsistent internet connection; warm water for drinking and a lot of distractions and interruptions. I am sure many people have been in similar situations and would like to know your experiences."
Comment Re:Ahh, the stupidity (Score 5, Funny) 1056
You mean naïveté? Your UTF-8 sucks...
Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks 781
twitter writes "Recent and controversial benchmarks for Windows 7 leave an important question unanswered: 'Is it faster than GNU/Linux?' Here, at last, is a benchmark that pits Ubuntu, Vista and Windows 7 against each other on the same modern hardware. From install time to GUI efficiency, Ubuntu beats Windows and is often twice as fast. Where Windows 7 is competitive, the difference is something the average user would not notice. The average GNU/Linux user is now getting better absolute performance from their computer as well as better value than the average Windows user."
