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vs. http://www.yellowpages.ca/ vs. http://www.musicyellowpages.com/ vs......

Oh hell do a google and check it out for your self.

I have always had more success just looking up companies on industry directories, or the yellow pages than I have with job boards. The yellow page link points to lists of oil companies but it isn't necissary to limit to oil. Every industry is looking for workers.

Drive the streets of Edmonton, Red Deer, and Calgary and many many companies have billboards in front of their locations advertising positions.

I'll ask a couple people where they recommend. Check back here in a couple days.

Yeah, Sony Stores across Canada, for at least 4-5 years now. I'm talking east and west coast, including Quebec ("La Maison Sony" - in Canada, if they bother to localize for Quebec, they are serious. Everything has to be in French to comply with fascist language laws). I've seen them mainly in malls but also bigger retail shops.

They are primarily focused on home entertainment (TVs, Playstations, stereos, etc.) Once I saw a laptop on display but the salespeople were clueless and more interested in the customers buying TVs and walkmans (i.e. the commissions probably suck).

Once I asked them if they could get accessories for my Picturebook and they referred me to Sony Service.

If the US Sony stores are doing PCs, I would be suprised if the same thing happens up here. It's a much smaller market with lots of competition from the big guys (Future Shop/Best Buy) and the local shops in major cities.

That said, my experience in the business trying to sell Sony PC hardware has been: can't get it through the distribution channel in Canada. Retail or grey market (i.e. via US) only. So there is a gap to be filled and maybe that will happen via Sony Store.

So perhaps this is news for Canada too...

Yeah, Sony Stores across Canada, for at least 4-5 years now. I'm talking east and west coast, including Quebec ("La Maison Sony" - in Canada, if they bother to localize for Quebec, they are serious. Everything has to be in French to comply with fascist language laws). I've seen them mainly in malls but also bigger retail shops.

They are primarily focused on home entertainment (TVs, Playstations, stereos, etc.) Once I saw a laptop on display but the salespeople were clueless and more interested in the customers buying TVs and walkmans (i.e. the commissions probably suck).

Once I asked them if they could get accessories for my Picturebook and they referred me to Sony Service.

If the US Sony stores are doing PCs, I would be suprised if the same thing happens up here. It's a much smaller market with lots of competition from the big guys (Future Shop/Best Buy) and the local shops in major cities.

That said, my experience in the business trying to sell Sony PC hardware has been: can't get it through the distribution channel in Canada. Retail or grey market (i.e. via US) only. So there is a gap to be filled and maybe that will happen via Sony Store.

So perhaps this is news for Canada too...

>Have a boilerplate response ready explaining that you only accept documents in open formats

That isn't going to work nearly as well as:

"Our office is standardized on Office 97, and with 200 seats, the cost to 'upgrade' to Office 2003 is beyond our capacity. Please resend the file in a backwards compatible manner."

That will get their computing department to ensure people save their files in a compatible format, as most businesses *are* going to stick to Office 2000 or Office 97. They've probably had that message sent to them dozens of times before you give it to them, so they're going to listen to it.

A one-off "it's not open source" message wouldn't get my suppliers, for example, to stop sending me their pricesheets in Excel files.

This is the same as using corel draw for your graphics. It might not be the graphics industry standard, but all the companies I've dealt with (From the National and Regional Phone Books to Local Newspapers, all the way down to the local Ad-Rag) will explain, in detail, how you can save corel draw files in a manner they will accept. They specifically mention corel draw because it *is* popular enough that not supporting it means lost business (despite popular belief by stupid hoity-toity graphics folks at the local learning centers). However, I'd not expect a document on how to save a compatible Xfig file...

Canada 411 has the paper equiv ads

Apple dominates the desktop publishing market. Apple and Avid dominate the pro-video editing market (and if you think Macs are overpriced, you won't believe what Avid charges). Apple is the single largest vendor of professional audio editing machines in the music business. The only market Apple doesn't have significant market share is in the low-end desktop market, which is used for word-processing, spreadsheets, and accounting software. Apple makes high-end machines with good margins to fuel their R&D. The low end of the desktop market is a cutthroat, bloody mess! Look at Compaq, Packard Bell, AST, NEC, and many others who lost their shirts. Dell is the only company doing well in it because they don't do the R&D thing.

Interesting. I'll check my phone book (I live in a city of 300,000 [Kitchener, Ontario] as far as the yellow pages are concerned):

DTP - 11 hits
Video Production (the only hit for video editing that retuns significant matches) - 32 hits
Audiovisual Production Services (the best I could find for Audio Editing) - 8 hits

Total: 51 shops.

Now, let's give you the benefit of the doubt. Every single one of these places is a Mac shop, because that's what dominates, you say. But let's be fair, let's say my city is pretty average (I think it is -- they run a lot of test trials for products in the city next door).

That means, in ALL OF CANADA, there are: 51 * 100 = 5,100 stores using macs. Let's even say they all have 10 machines (a bit much, but you never know). That means, in all of Canada, there are 51,000 Macs.

?You call that DOMINATING? There's probably 51,000 PCs between all the universities in my town, never mind every single other shop outside those margins that have PCs.

I'm generous when I say Macs have 10% of the market. VERY generous.

Next point...

I also have an old Pentium II machine which can be upgraded to...a faster Pentium II, but not an AMD processor, nor a Pentium III or Pentium IV, because Intel's CPU slots are PROPRIETARY.

BULLSHIT. You can drop in your choice of P II, P III, or C3 processor. If your motherboard is simply too crappy, well, it's not my fault you invested in PC Chips junk.

And, more bullshit, yes, you can upgrade even your 486 motherboard to a P IV. It's called a PCI slot motherboard, and it's the same bullshit "upgrade" that Apple is feeding you. Except they pretend it's a good idea. It isn't.

>Apple embraces more open standards than Microsoft or Intel.

LOL! Show me some Jaguar source code! Why did it take so long to get the iPod working on windows? Why did Apple put Appletalk on your old Mac? Why are all firewire ports I've seen called i.Link, S-400, or IEEE1394?

>Apparently they are, since this article was about Sony's new 12" Powerbook Killer.

Oh yeah, that 12" powerbook. It's so innovative to squeeze a bunch of high-tech into a small box! Look, if you want innovative, look at Gateway's Handbook. Now THAT'S innovative. Heck, I remember those being made back some time around '92 with 286 processors! Apple just dusted off some history books.

The G3 kicked the Wintel machines butts.

Did it? Dollar for Dollar? MIPS to MIPS?

Or was it just in specially optimized applications?

The high end G5 beats the best PC you can build right now with dual Xeon CPU's, and by the time you add all the features the G5 has, the price comes out to within a couple of hundred bucks of the G5.

Fine. And a P4 3 Ghz processor will make the G5 crap its pants if the application isn't designed for multiple processors.

Yeah, except Windows doesn't do 4 CPU's unless you go to their server edition, and for that you have to buy a server licence for every 2 CPU's, which puts the price about $1500 higher. Or you could use Linux, but now you're s