It's as legal in Canada as DirecTV is. You just have to give it a few beers and it'll work. You just have to go to the US to buy one is all.
I also hear that StarChoice is soon going to be selling receivers with it. Standalone units shouldn't be far behind it.
I am the system administrator for a moderatly sized private elementry school. When I started, the school had very few computing resources at it's 2 campuses. After making a list of what I wanted to accompish in 2 years, I added up the costs and found that they it would be beyod my budget to buy new workstations and build a dedicated server all based on commercial software.
Here's what I've been able to create for the school:
1 workstation for every 4 children
So when a class is in the library there is 1 student per computer. They all run win98.
I am working towards 1 laptop for each teacher
So far there is 2, they are wirelessly 802.11b connected to the network.
Everything on the server is open source and works flawlessly. All of this would have cost a fortune to buy and maintain on a NT server.
I am very interested in what software other people are running if they are doing the same thing that I am. Reply to this comment or e-mail me with what you run, I'd love to share tips.
What an easy way for them to generate statistics on which networks are following the rules and what % of the population is actually paying attention to french shit.
I'm the type of person who likes a lot of information about anything thats wrong with me.
I think people don't neccesarily need to see every chart or every x-ray. But a prognosis with information tailored to individual patients in a portal type of web interface would likely be very bennifical to everyone. WebMD looks like they have everything I could dream of, but it would be alot nicer to get this information from my doctors office rather then a faceless company.
The internet is still about information collection and dessimation right now. People expect to be able to find answers to almost any question they have.
When I go to the doctor to see what's wrong with my body, I use that as a starting point to research out for myself excatly what I have, and what course I need to take to get better. Of course, the doctors oppionion allways rates higher in my mind then anything I find on the web, but having the information and being able to talk on the same level with my doctor on a follow up visit is important and usually very bennificial.
I agree with lots of other people here, secuirty would be my biggest worry. But people do there banking online all the time. As long as you were at least as secure as my banking internet system, I'd feel safe with it. For sure this system should be entirely opt-in / opt-out (and open source:> ).
Wow, those are some great ideas.
I've allways wondered why calendar programs were not 'connectionless'. An open API is a great idea too, but I'd be nervous about using a system with an open API with a calendar program. There's allways bugs and I could see that loud, ugly chick in the cubicle beside me ending up with some meetings across town for a few days one morning:)
A connectionless, open API web based calendar would really shake things up for exchange though!
It's great. I've cancelled my account at the BMO. The Presidents Choice Financial stuff works great. I allways use my interact card and was paying upwards to $20 per month on those stupid $1 service fees. With the PCF, they don't charge for any of those.
The web interface is good too. They'll let you download your transactions as a quicken or microsoft money file so it's easy to budget. You can do everything on-lline, as opposed to some banks where you have to physically go into the bank to get access to some of their services. I like it a lot and have recomended it to most of my family.
I'd bet money that if you forward a link to this/. then the TD would look a little closer at this problem. Especially if it's just a small bit of javascript.
I'd agree with most of the other posts regarding the value of on call work. If your not part of a labour union, it is really tough to get properly compensated for on call work.
After having my boss laugh at the group of us who elegantly presenting solid facts and figures supporting higher pay for on call work, we sold him on the idea of a better information management system.
We now have several things that drastically reduce the ammount of after hours tech support. Things like proper training, access to online courses, a knowledge base system, and a big message on both our pager number and our support site that asks people to use the service only in an emergency and only when they have explored every other support option availiable.
This has worked quite well for us. Allthough I'm still in favor of higher on call support rates, 24/7 tech support allows the company to increase sales which is good.
I think that it's important for students to receive the same rewards through practice programming that people who actually do programming for a living experience. Empowerment is a buzzword used far to often in educational curriculum guidelines, but if you can find a way to make the students feel empowered to do a good job on a project, they will learn more then you can teach them. Reflecting on my programming courses, I remember a teacher who I think demonstrated this very well. He went out to the community surrounding the school and asked if there were any small programming jobs that different businesses required. The response was exceptional; within the first month his classes had 15 different jobs that needed to be done. After teaching basic concepts of programming, students were able to tackle the problems, many of which required different levels of programming knowledge to complete, so he could assign different modules, or parts of the program to different grade levels.
My Canadian bank gives me the opportunity to pay all of my major bills on-line. They've been doing it for sometime now. The company that I'm paying the bill to must set itself up with the bank and the bank must verify that it is a real company providing goods or services. But after this is done once, I can pay them that way without any problems.
I feel relatively secure paying my bills this way (which I do for all of my bills now). For the security risk to my life, I appreciate that it's quick and it takes the entire hassle out of paying my regular bills.
I've never had a technical problem where a bill was unpaid or delayed when using the on-line service. Which is more then I can say for the postal system.
As a side note, Canada's standard postal service is providing the same types of services that Yahoo is but as a free service to Canadians. There's a guided tour of what they offer here: http://www.epost.ca/main/english/index.shtml
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I should have been more specific in what my script does:
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1. I enter in the e-mail address of a HR department or specific person.
2. A cover letter is generated (for the type of job), with the person's name and e-mail address in the header.
3. The cover letter is sent, along with my resume attached to it.
4. My resume has a small vbScript in it that communicates with my server telling me that it was viwed and by who.
So for simply entering in a persons name and e-mail address, I have a somewhat customized resume sent directly to them.
Although just used for fishing (as one person pointed out), it has been very effective, although considered a form of spam by this
I hate spammers as much as the next person, but I've also sent my resume out using a nifty little script I bru'd up to a hundred or so companies.
It's as legal in Canada as DirecTV is. You just have to give it a few beers and it'll work. You just have to go to the US to buy one is all. I also hear that StarChoice is soon going to be selling receivers with it. Standalone units shouldn't be far behind it.
I am the system administrator for a moderatly sized private elementry school. When I started, the school had very few computing resources at it's 2 campuses. After making a list of what I wanted to accompish in 2 years, I added up the costs and found that they it would be beyod my budget to buy new workstations and build a dedicated server all based on commercial software.
Here's what I've been able to create for the school:
1 workstation for every 4 children
So when a class is in the library there is 1 student per computer. They all run win98.
I am working towards 1 laptop for each teacher
So far there is 2, they are wirelessly 802.11b connected to the network.
A dedicated Red Hat 7.2 server
Squid proxy, web page filtering and monitoring Squirrel Mail IMAP web based e-mail, samba, LDAP student/teacher contact and vital information, a MySQL powered bookmark database, Apache Web server, and a digital picture gallery.
Everything on the server is open source and works flawlessly. All of this would have cost a fortune to buy and maintain on a NT server.
I am very interested in what software other people are running if they are doing the same thing that I am. Reply to this comment or e-mail me with what you run, I'd love to share tips.
About the only thing that could improve the geeky charm of that tree would be to use up some of his AOL CD collection. Common, he's got to have one.
Looking back, would you have been on star trek if they didn't pay you?
Your roles before star trek were building into a career and now you are somewhat typecast in a Doogie Howser kind of way.
Yah, the CRTC!
What an easy way for them to generate statistics on which networks are following the rules and what % of the population is actually paying attention to french shit.
Where would be a good place to look for one of the audrey tablets at a "blow out" price?
I realize that 3com's site has them, but where should I look for them in a couple of weeks when 3com dumps these units?
I'm the type of person who likes a lot of information about anything thats wrong with me.
:> ).
I think people don't neccesarily need to see every chart or every x-ray. But a prognosis with information tailored to individual patients in a portal type of web interface would likely be very bennifical to everyone. WebMD looks like they have everything I could dream of, but it would be alot nicer to get this information from my doctors office rather then a faceless company.
The internet is still about information collection and dessimation right now. People expect to be able to find answers to almost any question they have.
When I go to the doctor to see what's wrong with my body, I use that as a starting point to research out for myself excatly what I have, and what course I need to take to get better. Of course, the doctors oppionion allways rates higher in my mind then anything I find on the web, but having the information and being able to talk on the same level with my doctor on a follow up visit is important and usually very bennificial.
I agree with lots of other people here, secuirty would be my biggest worry. But people do there banking online all the time. As long as you were at least as secure as my banking internet system, I'd feel safe with it. For sure this system should be entirely opt-in / opt-out (and open source
Will you see a topic on computer fans turn into a discussion on thermodynamics!
Nice job, you should publish this to a few news-papers, you could probably get a couple of them to pick this up.
Wow, those are some great ideas. :)
I've allways wondered why calendar programs were not 'connectionless'.
An open API is a great idea too, but I'd be nervous about using a system with an open API with a calendar program. There's allways bugs and I could see that loud, ugly chick in the cubicle beside me ending up with some meetings across town for a few days one morning
A connectionless, open API web based calendar would really shake things up for exchange though!
It's great. I've cancelled my account at the BMO. The Presidents Choice Financial stuff works great. I allways use my interact card and was paying upwards to $20 per month on those stupid $1 service fees. With the PCF, they don't charge for any of those.
The web interface is good too. They'll let you download your transactions as a quicken or microsoft money file so it's easy to budget. You can do everything on-lline, as opposed to some banks where you have to physically go into the bank to get access to some of their services. I like it a lot and have recomended it to most of my family.
I'd bet money that if you forward a link to this /. then the TD would look a little closer at this problem. Especially if it's just a small bit of javascript.
I'd agree with most of the other posts regarding the value of on call work. If your not part of a labour union, it is really tough to get properly compensated for on call work.
After having my boss laugh at the group of us who elegantly presenting solid facts and figures supporting higher pay for on call work, we sold him on the idea of a better information management system.
We now have several things that drastically reduce the ammount of after hours tech support. Things like proper training, access to online courses, a knowledge base system, and a big message on both our pager number and our support site that asks people to use the service only in an emergency and only when they have explored every other support option availiable.
This has worked quite well for us. Allthough I'm still in favor of higher on call support rates, 24/7 tech support allows the company to increase sales which is good.
the link on the main /. thread changed. Find it here: http://www.canoe.c a/MoneyNewsTechnology/aug15_cowplandquits.html
I think that it's important for students to receive the same rewards through practice programming that people who actually do programming for a living experience. Empowerment is a buzzword used far to often in educational curriculum guidelines, but if you can find a way to make the students feel empowered to do a good job on a project, they will learn more then you can teach them. Reflecting on my programming courses, I remember a teacher who I think demonstrated this very well. He went out to the community surrounding the school and asked if there were any small programming jobs that different businesses required. The response was exceptional; within the first month his classes had 15 different jobs that needed to be done. After teaching basic concepts of programming, students were able to tackle the problems, many of which required different levels of programming knowledge to complete, so he could assign different modules, or parts of the program to different grade levels.
My Canadian bank gives me the opportunity to pay all of my major bills on-line. They've been doing it for sometime now. The company that I'm paying the bill to must set itself up with the bank and the bank must verify that it is a real company providing goods or services. But after this is done once, I can pay them that way without any problems.
I feel relatively secure paying my bills this way (which I do for all of my bills now). For the security risk to my life, I appreciate that it's quick and it takes the entire hassle out of paying my regular bills.
I've never had a technical problem where a bill was unpaid or delayed when using the on-line service. Which is more then I can say for the postal system.
As a side note, Canada's standard postal service is providing the same types of services that Yahoo is but as a free service to Canadians. There's a guided tour of what they offer here: http://www.epost.ca/main/english/index.shtml