I am sick and tired of Canadian ISP's providing crap for bandwidth - overcharging for this bandwidth - then complaining when I use it.
I used to be with Cogeco Cable... 45 $ a month of a shared, shaped and throttled 6 mbit connection. 2 computers on the same network, at the same time, brought everything to a screeching halt (ie, WoW at 7pm on a weekday).
We got so tired and overall frustrated, we changed to Telus. I pay about the same price for a dedicated 5 mbit line. My traffic is not shaped or throttled... and if a torrent download is slow, I know it's not because of my provider.
The question now is, what makes Telus so different from Bell, Cogeco or other cable providers? Why can't Rogers upgrade their infrastructure? Telus sure did... I know have the phone, internet & TelusTV from the same line... and I sure ain't the only one.
** I do not work for Telus, nor do I know anyone who does, nor am I trying to spin for them. This is based from purely personal experience, after dealing with a few cable companies both here in QC and in the States. Now get off my lawn.
I live in Quebec, and my American wife is actually paid by Emploi Quebec to take French classes, which is great. The area where we live is very much french (20 or so anglophones in a 32,000 people city), and it'll allow her to not only get on the job market faster, but to socialize with other people (friends, family, strangers) without my need to be there to translate. (That's a bad problem in some parts of the province, as a lot of ignorant people just say "We're in Quebec, speak French" and don't even bother trying -- probably one of the main reasons most anglophones have issues here)
That said, I can't stand translations. Most movies and games either sound extremely cheesy, the quebecois accent is way over the top, or it's too much "France" French; same can be said with french productions translated in english.
What I find sad is that they want to force that bad dubbing down our throats for the sake of the langue de Molière, whether we want it or not -- Never mind the fact that a lot of the words used here are borrowed or adapted from English anyways.
Thank you, Gouvernement du Québec, for passing such laws that keep us, the lowly people, isolated from the rest of the world.
I am *the* assistant for a 17-or-so-people engineering consulting firm. I can tell you that my PC is an Athlon 700mhz with 768mb of ram, running Windows 2000.
It can easily take 10 to 12 minutes before I'm actually able to sit down and start up shit without having the freshly-booted box slow to a crawl of death on me.
Lucky for me, we have no such "energy conservation" policies (or not yet, at least), and I can't be bothered with booting every morning (but then again, I get paid for it... fill-it-up-yourself time sheet rather than a clock-in system). Even if and when we do have such a policy, I can tell you without a doubt that I'll get paid for my "booting time"... especially since the bosses can't be bothered to check the time sheets every week, heh (our own version of UAC! Click accept and be done with it)
They will still rip your mail open. We live in Canada, and had a US Federal Reserve check on the way (my wife's tax return)... a simple check in a simple white envelope.
Instead of taking a week like it normally take (thanks to both USPS and Canada Post's dedication), I finally asked a Canada Post worker why a normal envelope would take so long to get here... I was told it was probably detained by US Customs before being shipped out of the US. We finally got the envelope, a whoppin' 4 weeks later...
I for one will try to minimize any kind of papers sent across the border as well as packages. Emails are cheaper, and Western Union is safer.
Starting with outlook 2003, there is a new format of.pst file which doesn't have size limits. Prior to that, 2 gig was the limit. I have to contradict you on this. At the office I work at (an engineer consulting office), I get a copy of all emails that come in or go out through our domain address, for archiving reasons (and because lots of people just read and delete, and come back a week later complaining they can't find such email).
We hit a clusterfuck a couple weeks ago; one of the PST I use got over 10gig. Two entire years of archived emails & attachments, unusable for 3 days. Hell broke loose, if I may say so.
Of course, we managed to repair the corrupted PST and split it in two, but we're still having issues to this day.
- Alcohol often lets a very shy person open up and talk to people they never would normally, therefore breaking an initial barrier (hell, I know). And I have nothing against minors drinking responsibly, even more so with parental supervision. Nothing better than a son sharing his first beer with his father (oh wait, that would imply a certain level of parenting)
- Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Guns are only the means to do it. Otherwise, religion kills people, cars kill people... so on and so forth.
- Tobacco is as evil as that spread crap they sell in the US instead of good old butter. The tobacco companies are just as evil as Wal-Mart. PEOPLE decide to smoke, not the tobacco industry. A bit of frigging self-control never killed anyone.
But then, we have alcoholics. We have gun-crazed people who think everything can be solved by just pulling the trigger. We have 8-year-old kids smoking. Everything can be solved by just getting rid of those so-called 'evils'? Why don't we get rid of all the science books as well? Then maybe the atomic bomb wouldn't have been invented.
People need to get their heads out of the sand, and look reality in the eye. Truth hurts. Deal with it.
I might be modded troll for this, but it's sad to see that still today people hide behind preconceived notions of 'good' and 'evil'.
Wait... doesn't this mean that I, as a Canadian citizen, cannot go to a [insert place here] if my canuckian passport isn't recognized by the US Federal gov't?
Coming up at 6: Everyone else's driver license illegal.
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I am sick and tired of Canadian ISP's providing crap for bandwidth - overcharging for this bandwidth - then complaining when I use it.
I used to be with Cogeco Cable... 45 $ a month of a shared, shaped and throttled 6 mbit connection. 2 computers on the same network, at the same time, brought everything to a screeching halt (ie, WoW at 7pm on a weekday).
We got so tired and overall frustrated, we changed to Telus. I pay about the same price for a dedicated 5 mbit line. My traffic is not shaped or throttled... and if a torrent download is slow, I know it's not because of my provider.
The question now is, what makes Telus so different from Bell, Cogeco or other cable providers? Why can't Rogers upgrade their infrastructure? Telus sure did... I know have the phone, internet & TelusTV from the same line... and I sure ain't the only one.
** I do not work for Telus, nor do I know anyone who does, nor am I trying to spin for them. This is based from purely personal experience, after dealing with a few cable companies both here in QC and in the States. Now get off my lawn.
I live in Quebec, and my American wife is actually paid by Emploi Quebec to take French classes, which is great. The area where we live is very much french (20 or so anglophones in a 32,000 people city), and it'll allow her to not only get on the job market faster, but to socialize with other people (friends, family, strangers) without my need to be there to translate. (That's a bad problem in some parts of the province, as a lot of ignorant people just say "We're in Quebec, speak French" and don't even bother trying -- probably one of the main reasons most anglophones have issues here)
That said, I can't stand translations. Most movies and games either sound extremely cheesy, the quebecois accent is way over the top, or it's too much "France" French; same can be said with french productions translated in english.
What I find sad is that they want to force that bad dubbing down our throats for the sake of the langue de Molière, whether we want it or not -- Never mind the fact that a lot of the words used here are borrowed or adapted from English anyways.
Thank you, Gouvernement du Québec, for passing such laws that keep us, the lowly people, isolated from the rest of the world.
I am *the* assistant for a 17-or-so-people engineering consulting firm. I can tell you that my PC is an Athlon 700mhz with 768mb of ram, running Windows 2000.
It can easily take 10 to 12 minutes before I'm actually able to sit down and start up shit without having the freshly-booted box slow to a crawl of death on me.
Lucky for me, we have no such "energy conservation" policies (or not yet, at least), and I can't be bothered with booting every morning (but then again, I get paid for it... fill-it-up-yourself time sheet rather than a clock-in system). Even if and when we do have such a policy, I can tell you without a doubt that I'll get paid for my "booting time"... especially since the bosses can't be bothered to check the time sheets every week, heh (our own version of UAC! Click accept and be done with it)
OH MY $DEITY! She looks like my mother-in-law... *shudders*
They will still rip your mail open. We live in Canada, and had a US Federal Reserve check on the way (my wife's tax return)... a simple check in a simple white envelope.
Instead of taking a week like it normally take (thanks to both USPS and Canada Post's dedication), I finally asked a Canada Post worker why a normal envelope would take so long to get here... I was told it was probably detained by US Customs before being shipped out of the US. We finally got the envelope, a whoppin' 4 weeks later...
I for one will try to minimize any kind of papers sent across the border as well as packages. Emails are cheaper, and Western Union is safer.
We hit a clusterfuck a couple weeks ago; one of the PST I use got over 10gig. Two entire years of archived emails & attachments, unusable for 3 days. Hell broke loose, if I may say so.
Of course, we managed to repair the corrupted PST and split it in two, but we're still having issues to this day.
- Alcohol often lets a very shy person open up and talk to people they never would normally, therefore breaking an initial barrier (hell, I know). And I have nothing against minors drinking responsibly, even more so with parental supervision. Nothing better than a son sharing his first beer with his father (oh wait, that would imply a certain level of parenting) - Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Guns are only the means to do it. Otherwise, religion kills people, cars kill people... so on and so forth. - Tobacco is as evil as that spread crap they sell in the US instead of good old butter. The tobacco companies are just as evil as Wal-Mart. PEOPLE decide to smoke, not the tobacco industry. A bit of frigging self-control never killed anyone. But then, we have alcoholics. We have gun-crazed people who think everything can be solved by just pulling the trigger. We have 8-year-old kids smoking. Everything can be solved by just getting rid of those so-called 'evils'? Why don't we get rid of all the science books as well? Then maybe the atomic bomb wouldn't have been invented. People need to get their heads out of the sand, and look reality in the eye. Truth hurts. Deal with it. I might be modded troll for this, but it's sad to see that still today people hide behind preconceived notions of 'good' and 'evil'.
Wait... doesn't this mean that I, as a Canadian citizen, cannot go to a [insert place here] if my canuckian passport isn't recognized by the US Federal gov't? Coming up at 6: Everyone else's driver license illegal.