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  1. Re:Invalid Assumptions on Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? · · Score: 1

    Using a database (or any product) very effectively often has little or not translation into working on the guts of the product.

    However, knowing how to use a product effectively is one of the keys to writing useful documentation.

  2. Re:This guy has a sense of entitlement. on Apple Store Employee Attempts To Form Union · · Score: 1

    If he is stuck in a part time position then he is probably does not show any initiative. Showing some initiative should be the first step and trying to pursue full time status.

    Is it just me or doesn't going through all the hassle of trying to unionize his store show some serious initiative?

    Not saying he's a model employee, but there aren't too many people who try to organize unions because it's easy.

  3. Re:also: more doctors, less pay, more compassion. on What US Health Care Needs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You say there's no optimal command style solution to health care...

    The trouble with applying market economics to health care like this is that markets achieve maximum efficiency through consumers acting as -rational- actors seeking to maximize value. When it comes to health care, people are not terribly rational and not terribly good as assigning value.

    Sometimes, it's a matter of information. (Turns out, there might be something in that decade of schooling for doctors.) Sometimes, it's a matter of emotion... I mean, what wouldn't you pay to save your life? What about your arm? Or your vision? (I'd pay damn near anything... I'm just glad I live somewhere where I won't be paying personally.)

  4. Re:correct me if i'm wrong on Google Accused of Bio-piracy · · Score: 1

    Sometimes Google just does it better... or at very least differently.

    To compare, I do plenty of research looking for journal articles through the University of Toronto's access to Scholar's Portal, but sometimes I find stuff on Google Scholar that I couldn't otherwise.

    I guess it's not that one is better than the other, but that the more sources the merrier.

  5. Don't think so... on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Depending on the size of the setup, this would likely not hold. With a hosted key solution like Silhouette , every piece of network hardware between your phones and your provider would need to be on a UPS in order for your phones to remain not just powered on, but useful during an power outage. If the call gateway were located inside the office, it too would have pretty hefty power requirements for a UPS along with the network hardware. That being said, it's possible that VoIP could help push Power-over-Ethernet, just by simplifying one of many points of failure during a power outage... and all the Mitel IP phones seem to support PoE.

  6. Re:PowerPoint? on Toronto Open Source Conference Report · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah... all of our conference spaces at U of T are equipped with XP and PowerPoint and I doubt our techs were going to bother switching for the conference when they'll need to load XP and PowerPoint again for summer section professors who are used to PowerPoint.

  7. Re:Duck tape wallets on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 1

    They went out of style?

  8. Why not Canada? on Can Web Sites Go Offshore For Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    The CRTC (Council of Radio and Telecommunications) has made it clear that they will not attempt to moderate or patrol the internet in any way, as they beleive it is out of their jurisdiction. Hosting in Canada also works around the time added for trans-oceanic sites (well, only to those in the states). The only condition in which content could be forced off a Canadian site is if its considered hate propoganda. In this case the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) has shut down a few sites. Some food for thought.

  9. Re:Go to Qu�bec. on Can Web Sites Go Offshore For Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    Weren't they trying to extend their language laws onto websites hosted in Quebec? For example any english content on a website must also be present in french, or one could be fined.