Nintendo lack of power

For someone who wields the POWER COSMIC, Silver Surfer sure dies easily in the old Silver Surfer NES game. 

So recently I've read that Nintendo Power was going to cease publication.  It's kind of sad.  It was a big deal back in the day.  But then again, so were EGM and Gamepro. 

The internet killed the print media star. 

Comicbooks and books are next.  It'll be slow, but it'll happen sooner or later. 

Ad bus

Since when did Winnipeg transit start having actual ads on their buses?  Sure half of them are for MTS but still... nice to see the effort.  Good job bus advertising department.

10 Digit Dialing hangups.

So 10 digit dialing is coming to Manitoba.  all 7 digit dialers will be accosted with a network message saying you gotta dial again, stupid.  

Here's what I don't get.  

Why can't Shaw and MTS et all just make it so that anyone who dials a 7 digit number gets a prompt asking if you are dialing 204 or 431?  Can't be that difficult can it? Press 1 for 204 press 2 for 431.  Easy.

I have a VoIP home phone.  My dialing plan is set so that my home phone will continue to allow me to dial 7 digits and go to any 204 number. 

Nobody dials 7 digits on their cell phones anyways.. people just touch the button and dial.  Especially with smart phones.

That said.. I can't wait to get wrong numbers with Boston accents trying to dial 413.  Bruins suck!  Oh wait.. that won't happen to me since I'm keeping my 204 numbers.  

 I think 204 should be a Winnipeg area code, and anyone outside the city should be reassigned to 431.  No particular reason either.  It would simply amuse me if that happened. 

I remember going to the children's museum as a kid and learning about the fact that numbers used to only be a few digits long back in the earliest days of the telephone.  

Oddly enough, Shaw still doesn't have ipv6 support.  That has nothing to do with 10-digit dialing, but it bothers me.