I just received this email from Industry Minister Jim Prentice’s office: The Government of Canada has introduced Bill C-61, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act. The proposed legislation is a made-in-Canada approach that balances the needs of Canadian consumers and copyright owners, promoting culture, innovation and competition in the digital age. What does Bill […]
How is it that DivX files that play on the Xbox 360 don’t play on the PS3? Isn’t DivX DivX? I converted some files using ffmpegX, and they play fine on the Xbox 360. The PS3 says it’s an unsupported format. Looks like both platforms play WMV (surprisingly enough) but I can’t find a WMV […]
I guess they couldn’t afford to run the Playstation Network for free forever. Playstation Qore, $24.95/year.
Doors Open Ottawa is an event where participating buildings, which aren’t normally open to the public, open their doors for one weekend and allow the general public to see what’s inside. Many places offer tours, and there are quite a few interesting sites. The Diefenbunker is open, and if you haven’t been there already, it’s […]
Hey, when did iTunes start selling and renting movies in Canada? I just noticed this morning that the iTunes store was showing me movies, and just to make sure it really worked I had to buy a copy of Spinal Tap. It works. $3.99 for a rental, $9.99 to buy a movie, at least for […]
If you’re trying to figure out boost::bind, read this.
Major Nelson’s podcast interview with Marc Whitten indicated that there isn’t going to be the usual Spring Update this year (one of two yearly updates). At least, not in the sense of the usual update that adds new features, like the DivX support added last fall. And, on top of that, they’re going to be […]
Wow.. the Ottawa Citizen has a summary of the new DMCA style law that’s coming in Canada, and I can’t believe our politicans would even consider something like this. Check this out: The proposal includes “civil enforcement†measures which would give security personnel the “authority to order searches†(without a lawyer present) “and other preliminary […]
I needed to scan a document today, so I pulled my trusty Canon LiDE 30 scanner off the shelf. I haven’t used it since the Mac switch, so I went looking for a Mac driver, and found one. Installing it was fun. The installer disk image is a pile of folders and something that might […]
I just submitted a little job to RentACoder (converting an ASP.NET site to PHP for easier hosting – I’m not much of a PHP developer) and part of their new wizard has a bit about estimates. You can supply a deadline, or you can ask the bidders to estimate how long the job will take, […]