Not sure if my first post made it through, so here we go again.
Novus Telecom (www.novustelecom.com) is a new and very small company in Vancouver, British Columbia. They currently only service a few high tech condo buildings and maybe a business or two. They run all their own line, so they don't have to answer to the local cable or telephone monopolies, and their entire setup is run on Linux.
p>They also provide cable over fiber and voice over IP LD, both of which I have through them and get for a very cheap package deal.
I get up to 10 Mbs, their TOS is very non limiting, they don't care how many computers you have on your connection, nor do they limit the amount of IPs you have (within reason I assume). My internet access only costs me $40 and the speed is amazing, far faster than ADSL (around 8-15 times faster according to them).
I was also informed by one of the techs for the company that my particular condo (which is pre-wired with fiber to each unit) has it's own private OC3 line, which is obviously overkill, however I assume they have future plans for it, either that or they were expecting a lot more heavy bandwidth users. My condo building is connected to a fancy new movie theater (no digital projector yet though), however it's not inconcievable that with an OC3, they could be planning to transmit feature films over a network.
Hope this doesn't sound like a commercial, but I am totally happy with my provider.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the company Novus Telecom by now, maybe I am the only slashdot reader with service from them.
They are a new company in Vancouver, British Columbia. I have not been able to find out much technical information about them as I would like, although I did talk to one of the techs briefly and he said that their entire operations was being run on Linux.
They only service high tech condo buildings and a company or two (they are still very small), I was lucky enough to have them in my building, where each condo is pre-wired with fiber and actually has an accesible BIX panel behind a wall cover.
I don't know who funds them, but I was told (by the tech) that they run their own lines, thus they don't have to answer to any of the monopolies such as the local cable company or telephone company. I have also been told that running to my particular condo building is it's own OC3 line, which is obviously overkill, but I am assuming they have larger plans in the future for my building, which is connected to a fancy new movie theater (perhaps films transmitted over a network, dunno).
Nevertheless, I get amazing transfer rates at the low rate of $40 Canadian a month, and excellent 24/7 service, plus they don't limit the number of IP's you have (dynamic), and their TOS is quiet lax in what you want to do with the service, and they don't care how many computers you have hooked up to a single account.
They also provide a full package of cable with a movie channel, also very cheap, and voice over IP long distance service (both of which I have).
The only bad part is they don't service many places, so I can't hook my friends up with them, but it gives them a reason to be jelious when they come over:)
French is... it may sound sexy, and living in Canada I heard enough of it, but its grammer rules and all other rules of it are totally lame, and they just plain don't have words for somethings, and are not allowed to makeup words unless the french langauge police say it's ok.
Personally I don't feel that technical jargon (regardless of the industry) is any language other than it's own. Much like slang, it is made up, and exists as a kind of third language or buffer between two or more other languages.
If I invent something and call it a "Fritnal", just because I speak English, does not make it an English word IMO, just as the word "Zip" in Zip drive is not a part of any language, it's a proper name, and exists on it's own. I also feel this is true with existing words, sure the words Palm and Pilot are english words, but when used to represent a product they are no longer English.
I think what most of these higher ups who complain about certain languages dissapearing among the tech sector are too detached and not realizing that we as a culture of techie and geek people have created our own language thats transends all other languages so that we can understand one another, and we have our own jargon and slang.
I don't really see the need to worry about us hurting a language when in reality what we are doing is creating a new language, much like in Bladerunner where a lot of people spoke the street language which was a combination of slang, jargon and words from all languages, and I see nothing wrong with that.
Besides if you ever take a non techie/geek and have them listen to two geeks talking in a server room, and every second or third word is something they don't understand or have never heard of, to them we are speaking another language. It's not really any different when you go to say a rave, it has entirely it's own culture and language, just as the hip-hop culutre has it's own, and street kids have their language and so on.
Language should be fluid and allowed to grow, change, combine with other languages, not stagnate and be forced to remain within parameters of what and can not be said. Language is just another boundry to break so that we can live as one planet and not a bunch of people who's governments are too scared to let them mix freely.
I am a Canadian citizen moving back to Vancouver after working in Silicon Valley for 3 years, I had previously worked in Vancouver at computer positions, but nothing that paid really well (ie, a startup internet cafe). Now that I am returning, I will be looking for Jr - Mid level SA work in Vancouver (strictly SA, not coding other than basic scripts and HTML). I have 2 years of experience with IRIX and SGI hardware, and have a previous 3 years of experience with other unix flavours and Windows (95/98/NT). My question is, what type of salary can I expect to get for my skills in Vancouver ?
I saw that an AC posted he was a SA with 5 years of experience in Vancouver and making $65k (which seems quite high for Vancouver, but then I do not have any expereince at the pay rates in this field in Vancouver, I am making around $50k in the states right now and I figure even with the exchange rate, I would be making less than that.
Could all the AC (or whoever else) that posted about Canada (specifically Vancouver) salaries, please send me e-mail, so that I could ask you some more questions and get some advice on the best ways (web sites, etc) to be looking for SA jobs in Vancouver. My address for this is: meerkat@squeep.com
cryptdox said: 2. The camera work was absolutly shitty. It made my head hurt just looking at it. Of course, I look at computer monitors all day, where things don't move around too much. But at least they could have rented one of those mini-SteadyCam things. It was just really amateurish.
To which I reply: Are you really this much of a complete idiot ???? The film was supposed to look like it was shot on a 16mm B/W camera and a camcorder, done by a group of students with no budget. What the hell would a group of poor students be doing with an expensive and heavy stedicam rigg while hiking through the woods ?
Your the one who is too retarted to understand that the witch was just a legend, nothing more. It could have been a serial killer that lived in the woods, an old hermit or dozens of other possible things, upon which the legend of the witch had been based. You don't need to believe in the supernatural to appreciate and be scared by this film.
"setting new trends in beauty" by a guy. That's about as funny as it gets.
Queer males like myself set fashion and beauty trends all the time and are often the leaders in the fashion, hair and make-up industry. I don't feel that gender has anything to do with competance.
what do you people have against Jar Jar? I mean.. I thought Yoda was annoying as HELL
Yes !!! Someone else agrees, I liked Jar Jar, and I completly hated Yoda with his stupid conviluted circular senile logic and the way he talked. Your several hundred years old, learn proper grammer like everyone else around you. I wanted to drop kick the little toad evertime he talked.
This is it. I finally can't take it anymore. I have to defend Binks, DiCaprio, and all the other unjustly bashed beings who are unlucky enough not to appeal to 15-yr-old-pimply-hacker-types and their brethen. You see, Star Wars is a movie, which means that it has to appeal to a general audience.
I couldn't agree more, also on that same note there is a large amount of gay and bisexual male geeks that find the idea of casting someone attractive like Leo to be a good thing. All you straight boys had princess Leia in her gold bikini, you don't here us bitchin about that do you ?
Your both wrong about why it aired earlier. It aired on TNT, un-announced at 1am, so that it would make the cut off date to be considered for the upcoming Emmies.
I have been waiting for this movie for many months and had it booked on my palm pilot. All geek comments aside, I grew up with a huge crush on Anthony Michael Hall and loved his geek/nerd look. He's gained wait, and changed a bit, but I still can't wait to see it, I think it's going to be a fun movie. I really hope that the songs I have heard on the trailer will be available on a soundtrack as it contains some great music from 60-80's
I don't know if slashdotters are still reading this topic, but I really need a Irix client for SETI. I was told that when it first started out, one was availalbe, and if I submit a bug report, it lists an irix build as one of my choices, yet I can not find it anywhere, and I have sent several e-mails to seti. If anyone actually has this client, could they please e-mail it to me at lnx@netcom.com
I remember WWIV, I used to run a WWIV board, gawd that was a great program. I had a kick ass system at the time, 8088 with EGA and a 40M HD, had a 4 colour dot matrix printer too, think it cost my parents several thousand dollars, of course all I can remember at the time was that I was upset that when I had asked for a computer it was not an Apple II, like the one I used at the local library. However I am really glad my parents made the right choice and I learned PC architecture because of it.
Anyway I rant WWIV, and the entire BBS could be run off a 720k 5.25 floppy, thus freeing up precious harddrive space. I drew tons of ansi art, nothing that great though, had lots of really cool door games, my favourite being the one where you were placed at a shell prompt and had to try to hack into various government computers and such, and then there was that other one where you owned planets and produced grain and other things and could war with other users, but as the sysop you could of course cheat:) I also remember that I had like 15 different protocols for up/downloading, although people only really used x/y/zmodem, I wanted to make everything possibly availalbe.
Those were the good days, and WWIV was such a great program, sigh..... Hey if anyone on here remembers a BBS in Iowa called Tri-Force, that was mine !
I am glad to see other people who also thing UF sucks. I was worried I was gonna go to read the comments and everyone would be praising it. The artwork is horrible, the jokes are lame and contrived, and I never laughed at a single strip, not even a chuckle.
Also how many people thing that if this exact same scenario had not happeend at some white-bread, middle class, beaver cleaver school, but instead had happened at some inner city, most black/latino high school, the press wouldn't have even given it a 10th of the coverage.
Who here remembers back in the 80's when a couple of TV movies came out about the the horros of D&D ? I really wish I could get a hold of those movies or even remember their names as they would be great fun to watch, they would be right in cult status like Reefer Madness.
It's been a long time, but I vaguly remember the movies showing a bunch of kids playing D&D in a basement and they were all having hallucinations (maybe they were taking LSD while playing as well) and one of the kids thought he could fly because his character could and so he dove off the roof.
It was really stupid, but looking back it's no different than what is going on now. And in response to one of the AC's posts, I agree that schools are to blame, not guns, bombs, internet, video games, etc... If the school system wasn't designed to create a clique environment and make people feel inferior, things like this wouldn't happen as often. The over emphasis of sports and gym in school, automatically creats a lesser class of people to be shunned and made fun of if they can not perform as well in those activities. While I do not advocate killing people and feel what the two kids did was wrong, I can totally justify their feelings towards being mistreated by jocks and preps.
As a side note, being from Canada, I do find it interesting that there has not been any school shootings despite exposure to the same violent media, I honistly did not know that statistic. I think that in itself says something (although I don't know exactly what) about Canada's policy on gun control and how it is a good thing.
No flames from NRA members please, I live with one:)
In regards to Hitchcock's rules about banning latecomers, I have to agree. I wish lucas had this rule for TPM and I wish is was theater law for every other movie.
I am so sick of getting settled in, sitting at just the right height, everything comfortable, the picture starting and I am either blinded by the light of some jerk opening the door to the theater, or some a-wipe who decides that coming 5 mins late into the movie and then wanting a seat in the middle of the theater and causing everyone to stand up as he moves across. Of course the worse has to be the family unit that comes in late dragging their brats up and down the aisles while whispering and trying to find a seat.
Personally I don't see the point in watching a movie when you have missed even a min of the intro, having worked in the movie industry, I know how important the scene of a movie is to dictate the audiences opinion of it. Of course what ticks me off even more is people who jump up out of their seats and start leaving the theater even before the first credit has run, whats up with that ? Would it really kill you to sit through the credits and not disturb other people and pay respect to all the names of people who put hard work and creativity into the film ? Sheesh...
I work for SGI, and I love the cube, I thought it was a great logo, however it is sadly and definetly going away. They have been working on this new logo and image for over a year now and have apparently put a lot of time and money into it. We all recieved a long presentation and information on using the new logo/colour/font, etc and to immediatly quit using the ond one. Today we are being given new badges and t-shirts with the new logo. I for one am taking pictures of all the signs around campus before they tear them down or change them.
>Sheesh! For the uninitiated, EBN actually stands >for Evolving Binary Nostrils, a
I wasn't sure if you were joking or mistaken. EBN is a electronic noise band, and the EBN stands for Emergency Broadcast Network. Their URL is at: http://www.waxtrax.com/bands/ebn.html
Opera is a great web browser and my browser of chocie and now that it's going to be available for Linux, I love it even more. I don't see it as being ugly, but to each his own, however what it is is an extremly usefull and functional tool, where I can be logged into and actually have a fully useable and understandable overview of 8 websites at the same time or more.
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Not sure if my first post made it through, so here we go again.
Novus Telecom (www.novustelecom.com) is a new and very small company in Vancouver, British Columbia. They currently only service a few high tech condo buildings and maybe a business or two. They run all their own line, so they don't have to answer to the local cable or telephone monopolies, and their entire setup is run on Linux.
p>They also provide cable over fiber and voice over IP LD, both of which I have through them and get for a very cheap package deal.
I get up to 10 Mbs, their TOS is very non limiting, they don't care how many computers you have on your connection, nor do they limit the amount of IPs you have (within reason I assume). My internet access only costs me $40 and the speed is amazing, far faster than ADSL (around 8-15 times faster according to them).
I was also informed by one of the techs for the company that my particular condo (which is pre-wired with fiber to each unit) has it's own private OC3 line, which is obviously overkill, however I assume they have future plans for it, either that or they were expecting a lot more heavy bandwidth users. My condo building is connected to a fancy new movie theater (no digital projector yet though), however it's not inconcievable that with an OC3, they could be planning to transmit feature films over a network.
Hope this doesn't sound like a commercial, but I am totally happy with my provider.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the company Novus Telecom by now, maybe I am the only slashdot reader with service from them.
They are a new company in Vancouver, British Columbia. I have not been able to find out much technical information about them as I would like, although I did talk to one of the techs briefly and he said that their entire operations was being run on Linux.
They only service high tech condo buildings and a company or two (they are still very small), I was lucky enough to have them in my building, where each condo is pre-wired with fiber and actually has an accesible BIX panel behind a wall cover.
I don't know who funds them, but I was told (by the tech) that they run their own lines, thus they don't have to answer to any of the monopolies such as the local cable company or telephone company. I have also been told that running to my particular condo building is it's own OC3 line, which is obviously overkill, but I am assuming they have larger plans in the future for my building, which is connected to a fancy new movie theater (perhaps films transmitted over a network, dunno).
Nevertheless, I get amazing transfer rates at the low rate of $40 Canadian a month, and excellent 24/7 service, plus they don't limit the number of IP's you have (dynamic), and their TOS is quiet lax in what you want to do with the service, and they don't care how many computers you have hooked up to a single account.
They also provide a full package of cable with a movie channel, also very cheap, and voice over IP long distance service (both of which I have).
The only bad part is they don't service many places, so I can't hook my friends up with them, but it gives them a reason to be jelious when they come over :)
Check em out at www.novustelecom.com
French is... it may sound sexy, and living in Canada I heard enough of it, but its grammer rules and all other rules of it are totally lame, and they just plain don't have words for somethings, and are not allowed to makeup words unless the french langauge police say it's ok.
Personally I don't feel that technical jargon (regardless of the industry) is any language other than it's own. Much like slang, it is made up, and exists as a kind of third language or buffer between two or more other languages.
If I invent something and call it a "Fritnal", just because I speak English, does not make it an English word IMO, just as the word "Zip" in Zip drive is not a part of any language, it's a proper name, and exists on it's own. I also feel this is true with existing words, sure the words Palm and Pilot are english words, but when used to represent a product they are no longer English.
I think what most of these higher ups who complain about certain languages dissapearing among the tech sector are too detached and not realizing that we as a culture of techie and geek people have created our own language thats transends all other languages so that we can understand one another, and we have our own jargon and slang.
I don't really see the need to worry about us hurting a language when in reality what we are doing is creating a new language, much like in Bladerunner where a lot of people spoke the street language which was a combination of slang, jargon and words from all languages, and I see nothing wrong with that.
Besides if you ever take a non techie/geek and have them listen to two geeks talking in a server room, and every second or third word is something they don't understand or have never heard of, to them we are speaking another language. It's not really any different when you go to say a rave, it has entirely it's own culture and language, just as the hip-hop culutre has it's own, and street kids have their language and so on.
Language should be fluid and allowed to grow, change, combine with other languages, not stagnate and be forced to remain within parameters of what and can not be said. Language is just another boundry to break so that we can live as one planet and not a bunch of people who's governments are too scared to let them mix freely.
I am a Canadian citizen moving back to Vancouver after working in Silicon Valley for 3 years, I had previously worked in Vancouver at computer positions, but nothing that paid really well (ie, a startup internet cafe). Now that I am returning, I will be looking for Jr - Mid level SA work in Vancouver (strictly SA, not coding other than basic scripts and HTML). I have 2 years of experience with IRIX and SGI hardware, and have a previous 3 years of experience with other unix flavours and Windows (95/98/NT). My question is, what type of salary can I expect to get for my skills in Vancouver ?
I saw that an AC posted he was a SA with 5 years of experience in Vancouver and making $65k (which seems quite high for Vancouver, but then I do not have any expereince at the pay rates in this field in Vancouver, I am making around $50k in the states right now and I figure even with the exchange rate, I would be making less than that.
Could all the AC (or whoever else) that posted about Canada (specifically Vancouver) salaries, please send me e-mail, so that I could ask you some more questions and get some advice on the best ways (web sites, etc) to be looking for SA jobs in Vancouver. My address for this is:
meerkat@squeep.com
cryptdox said:
2. The camera work was absolutly shitty. It made my head hurt just looking at it. Of course, I look at computer monitors all day, where things don't move around too much. But at least they could have rented one of those mini-SteadyCam things. It was just really amateurish.
To which I reply: Are you really this much of a complete idiot ???? The film was supposed to look like it was shot on a 16mm B/W camera and a camcorder, done by a group of students with no budget. What the hell would a group of poor students be doing with an expensive and heavy stedicam rigg while hiking through the woods ?
Gawd, your a complete retard.
SIMPLY THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF "WITCHES" RETARDED
Your the one who is too retarted to understand that the witch was just a legend, nothing more. It could have been a serial killer that lived in the woods, an old hermit or dozens of other possible things, upon which the legend of the witch had been based. You don't need to believe in the supernatural to appreciate and be scared by this film.
"setting new trends in beauty" by a guy. That's about as funny as it gets.
Queer males like myself set fashion and beauty trends all the time and are often the leaders in the fashion, hair and make-up industry. I don't feel that gender has anything to do with competance.
Rko
what do you people have against Jar Jar? I mean.. I thought Yoda was annoying as HELL
Yes !!! Someone else agrees, I liked Jar Jar, and I completly hated Yoda with his stupid conviluted circular senile logic and the way he talked. Your several hundred years old, learn proper grammer like everyone else around you. I wanted to drop kick the little toad evertime he talked.
Rko
This is it. I finally can't take it anymore. I have to defend Binks, DiCaprio, and all the other unjustly bashed beings who are unlucky enough not to appeal to 15-yr-old-pimply-hacker-types and their brethen. You see, Star Wars is a movie, which means that it has to appeal to a general audience.
I couldn't agree more, also on that same note there is a large amount of gay and bisexual male geeks that find the idea of casting someone attractive like Leo to be a good thing. All you straight boys had princess Leia in her gold bikini, you don't here us bitchin about that do you ?
Rko
Your both wrong about why it aired earlier.
It aired on TNT, un-announced at 1am, so that
it would make the cut off date to be considered
for the upcoming Emmies.
I have been waiting for this movie for many months and had it booked on my palm pilot. All geek comments aside, I grew up with a huge crush on Anthony Michael Hall and loved his geek/nerd look. He's gained wait, and changed a bit, but I still can't wait to see it, I think it's going to be a fun movie. I really hope that the songs I have heard on the trailer will be available on a soundtrack as it contains some great music from 60-80's
Mama had a chicken, Mama had a cow, Dad was proud,
.mil and .gov
He didn't care how....
Sorry, had to say it...
Rko
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Sgi, we put the . in
I don't know if slashdotters are still reading this topic, but I really need a Irix client for SETI. I was told that when it first started out, one was availalbe, and if I submit a bug report, it lists an irix build as one of my choices, yet I can not find it anywhere, and I have sent several e-mails to seti. If anyone actually has this client, could they please e-mail it to me at lnx@netcom.com
I remember WWIV, I used to run a WWIV board, gawd that was a great program. I had a kick ass system at the time, 8088 with EGA and a 40M HD, had a 4 colour dot matrix printer too, think it cost my parents several thousand dollars, of course all I can remember at the time was that I was upset that when I had asked for a computer it was not an Apple II, like the one I used at the local library. However I am really glad my parents made the right choice and I learned PC architecture because of it.
:) I also remember that I had like 15 different protocols for up/downloading, although people only really used x/y/zmodem, I wanted to make everything possibly availalbe.
Anyway I rant WWIV, and the entire BBS could be run off a 720k 5.25 floppy, thus freeing up precious harddrive space. I drew tons of ansi art, nothing that great though, had lots of really cool door games, my favourite being the one where you were placed at a shell prompt and had to try to hack into various government computers and such, and then there was that other one where you owned planets and produced grain and other things and could war with other users, but as the sysop you could of course cheat
Those were the good days, and WWIV was such a great program, sigh..... Hey if anyone on here remembers a BBS in Iowa called Tri-Force, that was mine !
I am glad to see other people who also thing UF sucks. I was worried I was gonna go to read the comments and everyone would be praising it. The artwork is horrible, the jokes are lame and contrived, and I never laughed at a single strip, not even a chuckle.
Also how many people thing that if this exact same scenario had not happeend at some white-bread, middle class, beaver cleaver school, but instead had happened at some inner city, most black/latino high school, the press wouldn't have even given it a 10th of the coverage.
Who here remembers back in the 80's when a couple of TV movies came out about the the horros of D&D ? I really wish I could get a hold of those movies or even remember their names as they would be great fun to watch, they would be right in cult status like Reefer Madness.
:)
It's been a long time, but I vaguly remember the movies showing a bunch of kids playing D&D in a basement and they were all having hallucinations (maybe they were taking LSD while playing as well) and one of the kids thought he could fly because his character could and so he dove off the roof.
It was really stupid, but looking back it's no different than what is going on now. And in response to one of the AC's posts, I agree that schools are to blame, not guns, bombs, internet, video games, etc... If the school system wasn't designed to create a clique environment and make people feel inferior, things like this wouldn't happen as often. The over emphasis of sports and gym in school, automatically creats a lesser class of people to be shunned and made fun of if they can not perform as well in those activities. While I do not advocate killing people and feel what the two kids did was wrong, I can totally justify their feelings towards being mistreated by jocks and preps.
As a side note, being from Canada, I do find it interesting that there has not been any school shootings despite exposure to the same violent media, I honistly did not know that statistic. I think that in itself says something (although I don't know exactly what) about Canada's policy on gun control and how it is a good thing.
No flames from NRA members please, I live with one
In regards to Hitchcock's rules about banning latecomers, I have to agree. I wish lucas had this rule for TPM and I wish is was theater law for every other movie.
I am so sick of getting settled in, sitting at just the right height, everything comfortable, the picture starting and I am either blinded by the light of some jerk opening the door to the theater, or some a-wipe who decides that coming 5 mins late into the movie and then wanting a seat in the middle of the theater and causing everyone to stand up as he moves across. Of course the worse has to be the family unit that comes in late dragging their brats up and down the aisles while whispering and trying to find a seat.
Personally I don't see the point in watching a movie when you have missed even a min of the intro, having worked in the movie industry, I know how important the scene of a movie is to dictate the audiences opinion of it. Of course what ticks me off even more is people who jump up out of their seats and start leaving the theater even before the first credit has run, whats up with that ? Would it really kill you to sit through the credits and not disturb other people and pay respect to all the names of people who put hard work and creativity into the film ? Sheesh...
My little rant....
I work for SGI, and I love the cube, I thought it was a great logo, however it is sadly and definetly going away. They have been working on this new logo and image for over a year now and have apparently put a lot of time and money into it. We all recieved a long presentation and information on using the new logo/colour/font, etc and to immediatly quit using the ond one. Today we are being given new badges and t-shirts with the new logo. I for one am taking pictures of all the signs around campus before they tear them down or change them.
>Sheesh! For the uninitiated, EBN actually stands >for Evolving Binary Nostrils, a
I wasn't sure if you were joking or mistaken. EBN is a electronic noise band, and the EBN stands for Emergency Broadcast Network. Their URL is at:
http://www.waxtrax.com/bands/ebn.html
Opera is a great web browser and my browser of chocie and now that it's going to be available for Linux, I love it even more. I don't see it as being ugly, but to each his own, however what it is is an extremly usefull and functional tool, where I can be logged into and actually have a fully useable and understandable overview of 8 websites at the same time or more.