Don't do it man! Reasons not to: - you'll have to pay more just to live - your tax money will be going towards the American military - you have to pay taxes, but you're not allowed to vote (taxation without representation) - the attitude here generally sucks - Bush owns you - the hockey (if you can find it) sucks - the beer sucks (unless you drink the expensive imports)
Exactly... My guess is that that "40% less" is not 40% less than all states... just the ones that pay a lot, like California.
But since the cost of living is so high in L.A. and San Fran things start to work out. From what I've seen living in both countries is that dollar for dollar many items are the same price or at least close. An American $499 Dell is Canadian $550. An American $2.00 loaf of bread is $1.00 Canadian.
My standard of living will not be changing too much when I move from the States to Canada. Even though I'm taking a pay cut.
From L.A. But, I'm Canadian and just came down to L.A. to make some American money.
I'm part of what Canada calls the "Brain Drain" where large numbers of highly (yet cheaply) educated Canadians rush to the States after graduating. The U.S. (California in particular) provided an opportunity to make a lot of money. My company stopped hiring Canadians (and actually anyone out-of-state) soon after I started, to cut out relocation costs.
I've been saying that companies should out-source to Canada ever since this out-sourcing thing became a big deal. Now that the tide is turning, I wonder what they will rename the "Brain Drain" to!?
We'll be going through space when we have quick flights to the other side of the world. It wouldn't be practical to have passenger jets flying at mach 10 through the atmosphere and making the average passenger pass out. More likely we will be going to space to get to the other side of the world, which will be cheap (and fast) one day.
To optimize Jackito's features (Finger-Touch Control, battery life, fast graphics, Multitasking, Real-Time Processing, etc.), we have had to incorporate Parallel Processing (seven processors) and a powerful Gate-Array
Isn't it counter-intuitive to imply Parallel Processing and powerful Gate-Array would give better battery life??
It won't be for this launch, or even the next one, but hopefully Canada will soon have companies making launch vehicles: The da Vinci Project and Canadian Arrow are showing great potential!
You're kidding right? Who in their right minds would want ISS parts?? ISS will be in a museum on a private space station, or will have been vaporized has it fell apart and pieces of it started crashing towards earth...
People are getting too hung up (pardon the pun) on what the poster said about how great 3D games on a phone will be. While I agree that this isn't the most useful place to have photo-realistic 3D graphics right now (my first thought was the lousy batter life of current full-colour, "hi-res" phones) that's not what's important here.
What is important is that maybe nVidia, ATI et al will see ultra-efficient, ultra-small formfactor as a potentially profitable direction for their graphics chips. Then maybe we will see some systems that will rival PC graphics, and yet fit in the palm of your hand - and can plug into a full-size monitor/hdtv/whatever.
I think we will have to go through a few years of phones being the playground for ultra-small but inefficient technology, but in the end we won't even notice that every phone is a tiny powerful PC - if we're even still carrying phones around!
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But you're not buying it. You're paying for the right to have a copy of it to listen to - and not make copies of it.
Don't get me wrong... I think some major reforms are needed in the music industry. I'd rather pay my money directly to the band if I have to pay for the music I listen to.
I getcha now. Yeah that would be nice. I wonder if that could be done with a plug-in? I would also like the ability to drag a tab from one window to another... Actually.. haven't tried it so that feature might already exist - I'll have to check when I get back to my own machine since I'm in IE right now.
I've gotten very quick with the old "right-click/Open in new tab" trick. I think you can also set up Ctrl-click or Shift-click to open in a new tab can't you?
Although Netscape really screwed me over when they switched the order of the menu options between version 7.0 (which I still have installed at work) and 7.1 (which I have installed at home). Now I end up getting "random results for opening in a new "window or in a new tab!
Having a program that is simple (and small!) is nice, especially when you can add on the features you want.
However, for it to be successful in the mainstream the customization has to be super easy and painless.
I have had difficulties in the past with customizing Mozilla/Netscape, particularly with trying to switch to small buttons/icons, and that's frustrating.
Get a RIM Blackberry (or something similar with a thumb keyboard) - then it'll feel like your playing a hand-held game rather than typing
Plus it'll be like you're using a phone instead of a computer and you'll be able to enter the info quickly and transfer it to a computer later on. Trust me, you can type really fast on those little things after some practice.
Why do you have to have skills in the matter to really care about it?
I have few skills that would help someone get to space, but I managed to build a website as a volunteer for one of the Ansari X Prize contenders. If I could have done more, I would have. I no longer maintain the site, but I'm hoping one day it will sound really cool when I tell my nephew that I was involved in something so ambitious (and hopefully important to the way we live our lives).
Its interesting to note that the article doesn't list the 85 top breakthroughs that have changed the way we live. It lists the 85 top business breakthroughs (very first sentence of the first page of the article).
That changes what could be perceived as a top breakthrough. With this in mind, the Protease Inhibitors and their affect on the HIV virus seem somewhat out of place - unless someone is making some money off of that, which I guess is probably the case. It does explain why viagra is on the list, and although DNA sequencing isn't hard to justify as a major breakthrough, from a business standpoint, a $300 million budget means someone must be interested in its financial aspects!
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Well put, and thanks for the link... Looks like I was looking for about the right salary for my new job.
Oh I've done much more than try to get you 'mericans to move to Canada... I've spread a little of my leftist/liberal propaganda too.
Don't do it man!
Reasons not to:
- you'll have to pay more just to live
- your tax money will be going towards the American military
- you have to pay taxes, but you're not allowed to vote (taxation without representation)
- the attitude here generally sucks
- Bush owns you
- the hockey (if you can find it) sucks
- the beer sucks (unless you drink the expensive imports)
I'm going back dude!!
P.S. the chicks are hot... oh wait... damnit!
Have you ever been to Canada? Canada has spicy Indian food, and bland American food to.
Exactly... My guess is that that "40% less" is not 40% less than all states... just the ones that pay a lot, like California.
But since the cost of living is so high in L.A. and San Fran things start to work out. From what I've seen living in both countries is that dollar for dollar many items are the same price or at least close. An American $499 Dell is Canadian $550. An American $2.00 loaf of bread is $1.00 Canadian.
My standard of living will not be changing too much when I move from the States to Canada. Even though I'm taking a pay cut.
From L.A. But, I'm Canadian and just came down to L.A. to make some American money.
I'm part of what Canada calls the "Brain Drain" where large numbers of highly (yet cheaply) educated Canadians rush to the States after graduating. The U.S. (California in particular) provided an opportunity to make a lot of money. My company stopped hiring Canadians (and actually anyone out-of-state) soon after I started, to cut out relocation costs.
I've been saying that companies should out-source to Canada ever since this out-sourcing thing became a big deal. Now that the tide is turning, I wonder what they will rename the "Brain Drain" to!?
We'll be going through space when we have quick flights to the other side of the world. It wouldn't be practical to have passenger jets flying at mach 10 through the atmosphere and making the average passenger pass out.
More likely we will be going to space to get to the other side of the world, which will be cheap (and fast) one day.
Good pricing idea, poorly executed... they shouldn't have advertised the pricing changes in advance.
Is that in sleep mode?
To optimize Jackito's features (Finger-Touch Control, battery life, fast graphics, Multitasking, Real-Time Processing, etc.), we have had to incorporate Parallel Processing (seven processors) and a powerful Gate-Array
Isn't it counter-intuitive to imply Parallel Processing and powerful Gate-Array would give better battery life??
This sounds like a hoax.
It won't be for this launch, or even the next one, but hopefully Canada will soon have companies making launch vehicles:
The da Vinci Project and Canadian Arrow are showing great potential!
> ISS abandoned, parts sold to private industry
;)
You're kidding right? Who in their right minds would want ISS parts?? ISS will be in a museum on a private space station, or will have been vaporized has it fell apart and pieces of it started crashing towards earth...
I give it 10 years until the second scenario
Umm... no it couldn't!
Development of the X-15 was government funded...
Development of SpaceShipOne, or any X Prize contender for that matter, must be entirely privately funded.
I agree. While I love the idea of the X Prize, I believe it has over-shadowed the significance of what was done today.
That being said, go da Vinci Project!!
People are getting too hung up (pardon the pun) on what the poster said about how great 3D games on a phone will be. While I agree that this isn't the most useful place to have photo-realistic 3D graphics right now (my first thought was the lousy batter life of current full-colour, "hi-res" phones) that's not what's important here.
What is important is that maybe nVidia, ATI et al will see ultra-efficient, ultra-small formfactor as a potentially profitable direction for their graphics chips. Then maybe we will see some systems that will rival PC graphics, and yet fit in the palm of your hand - and can plug into a full-size monitor/hdtv/whatever.
I think we will have to go through a few years of phones being the playground for ultra-small but inefficient technology, but in the end we won't even notice that every phone is a tiny powerful PC - if we're even still carrying phones around!
But you're not buying it. You're paying for the right to have a copy of it to listen to - and not make copies of it.
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Don't get me wrong... I think some major reforms are needed in the music industry. I'd rather pay my money directly to the band if I have to pay for the music I listen to.
We've got a similar problem in the app I am developing for right now.
Unfortunately, this is one of those low priority issues that will only get done when enough people raise a stink or someone gets time (hah!)
I getcha now. Yeah that would be nice. I wonder if that could be done with a plug-in? I would also like the ability to drag a tab from one window to another... Actually.. haven't tried it so that feature might already exist - I'll have to check when I get back to my own machine since I'm in IE right now.
I've gotten very quick with the old "right-click/Open in new tab" trick. I think you can also set up Ctrl-click or Shift-click to open in a new tab can't you?
Although Netscape really screwed me over when they switched the order of the menu options between version 7.0 (which I still have installed at work) and 7.1 (which I have installed at home). Now I end up getting "random results for opening in a new "window or in a new tab!
Sounds like you should write a plug-in :)
Having a program that is simple (and small!) is nice, especially when you can add on the features you want.
However, for it to be successful in the mainstream the customization has to be super easy and painless.
I have had difficulties in the past with customizing Mozilla/Netscape, particularly with trying to switch to small buttons/icons, and that's frustrating.
Behold the return of ASCII porn!
Get a RIM Blackberry (or something similar with a thumb keyboard) - then it'll feel like your playing a hand-held game rather than typing
Plus it'll be like you're using a phone instead of a computer and you'll be able to enter the info quickly and transfer it to a computer later on. Trust me, you can type really fast on those little things after some practice.
Why do you have to have skills in the matter to really care about it?
I have few skills that would help someone get to space, but I managed to build a website as a volunteer for one of the Ansari X Prize contenders. If I could have done more, I would have. I no longer maintain the site, but I'm hoping one day it will sound really cool when I tell my nephew that I was involved in something so ambitious (and hopefully important to the way we live our lives).
Actually, isn't Orleans part of Gloucester? Gloucester being it's own city and a suburb of Ottawa...
:)
I know I'm being an ass, but it's where I grew up and I can remember no better pleasure than kicking Orleans' butt in hockey
Its interesting to note that the article doesn't list the 85 top breakthroughs that have changed the way we live. It lists the 85 top business breakthroughs (very first sentence of the first page of the article).
That changes what could be perceived as a top breakthrough. With this in mind, the Protease Inhibitors and their affect on the HIV virus seem somewhat out of place - unless someone is making some money off of that, which I guess is probably the case. It does explain why viagra is on the list, and although DNA sequencing isn't hard to justify as a major breakthrough, from a business standpoint, a $300 million budget means someone must be interested in its financial aspects!