They would recycle old used paper by giving it to us as scrap paper. The problem with this was these were customer lists with the CC and complete addr. I explained to them the concept of downstream liability and it didn't take long they found other papers to hand out.
You've obviously never heard of this story of a Detroit bus driver who showed up drunk to drive elementary school students for their trip to the Mackinac island.
Slashdot: What's the deal with this CHEAP software you guys are using to scramble images. Dole out some money for something that produces images we can actually read, so it doesn't take 2 or 3 tries!!
You think that's bad? How about this.. Refering specifically to call centers: I'm from New-Brunswick (Canada eh!). In NB, real-estate is cheaper (which makes it cheaper for companies to establish themselves) and they get better workers IMO. Why better workers? New-Brunswick is the only province that is truely bilingual (which is something most call centers need), and being a small shitty province like it is, most ppl who graduate from university start off in a call center, unless they're the top of their class or close. This gives them a guaranteed bunch of desperate university graduates who are bilingual, and they pay them a lower salary just because our cost of life is lower. If you work for the same company in a diff. province you'll get payed more for the same job. Now let's see, bilingual people, they pay lower property taxes and such, which means more moeny in their pockets but they still pay us less! Can anyone confirm if working in a smaller province (or state for most of you ppl) means they pay lower corp taxes?? I'd like to add that even from the city I'm from to the city with a university in it, that job still had a 3$/hr difference.
Let's face it, there's a simple reason why they blame the P2P networks. The person who they should really be blaming is the one who acquired the movie from the film company or wherever he got it from in the first place, and then distributed it. Why aren't they putting the blame on these guys? Because they aren't smart enough to find out who he/she is. Then there's operators of these so called topsites. If it wouldn't be from them, and their "races", movies wouldn't go around the internet that fast,and wouldn't be as accessible to the average joe. Why don't they blame FTP site operators? Because although alot of ppl know about FTP sites, it's not something that's known/understood/used by the majority of the internet users. When you say Kazaa or bittorrent or speaking of MP3s Napsters, this is something that everyone, including my grandma was using. It's all about public perception. They want to target whatever is most widely known to the public. It's all about instigating fear in people.
As much as I'd like to say that Canada would have the money to do those kind of upgrades with the suprlus we have, I know it's not true. Lot's of hospitals are claiming being in the red ink already, and are at the verge of having to making staff cuts, inluding the famous Sick Children's Hospital. But eventually, when the the scandals stop and things get better, it would be nice if Canada, and other countries could all connect to that network and share information.
I don't know how much Microsoft is worth, but Billy's personal fortune is estimated at 46 Billion dollars, so I would imagine Microsoft would have as much or more in the bank.
I was interested in getting a TiVo also and I got the same answer as you did. If you have a good spare computer doing nothing, a nice alternative is www.mythtv.org
Slashdot Mirror
This is definately a dupe. From:
1 37217294.html?oneclick=true
:)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096
You can read:
"Miller joined the project in October 1999, just a month or so after it began [...]"
from the second paragraph.
PS: Hooray for democracy (as it exists on slashdot) they finally removed that freakin IMAGE-TO-TEXT app after too many people complained about it
Erik
They would recycle old used paper by giving it to us as scrap paper. The problem with this was these were customer lists with the CC and complete addr. I explained to them the concept of downstream liability and it didn't take long they found other papers to hand out.
Erik
You've obviously never heard of this story of a Detroit bus driver who showed up drunk to drive elementary school students for their trip to the Mackinac island.
Slashdot: What's the deal with this CHEAP software you guys are using to scramble images. Dole out some money for something that produces images we can actually read, so it doesn't take 2 or 3 tries!!
Do we really want microsoft involved in something which will identify us? I think not!
Erik
You think that's bad? How about this.. Refering specifically to call centers: I'm from New-Brunswick (Canada eh!). In NB, real-estate is cheaper (which makes it cheaper for companies to establish themselves) and they get better workers IMO. Why better workers? New-Brunswick is the only province that is truely bilingual (which is something most call centers need), and being a small shitty province like it is, most ppl who graduate from university start off in a call center, unless they're the top of their class or close. This gives them a guaranteed bunch of desperate university graduates who are bilingual, and they pay them a lower salary just because our cost of life is lower. If you work for the same company in a diff. province you'll get payed more for the same job. Now let's see, bilingual people, they pay lower property taxes and such, which means more moeny in their pockets but they still pay us less! Can anyone confirm if working in a smaller province (or state for most of you ppl) means they pay lower corp taxes?? I'd like to add that even from the city I'm from to the city with a university in it, that job still had a 3$/hr difference.
Erik
Erik
I got the first post, wheeeeeeeeeee!
Let's face it, there's a simple reason why they blame the P2P networks. The person who they should really be blaming is the one who acquired the movie from the film company or wherever he got it from in the first place, and then distributed it. Why aren't they putting the blame on these guys? Because they aren't smart enough to find out who he/she is. Then there's operators of these so called topsites. If it wouldn't be from them, and their "races", movies wouldn't go around the internet that fast ,and wouldn't be as accessible to the average joe. Why don't they blame FTP site operators? Because although alot of ppl know about FTP sites, it's not something that's known/understood/used by the majority of the internet users. When you say Kazaa or bittorrent or speaking of MP3s Napsters, this is something that everyone, including my grandma was using. It's all about public perception. They want to target whatever is most widely known to the public. It's all about instigating fear in people.
Kudos for my bank (ScotiaBank)
As much as I'd like to say that Canada would have the money to do those kind of upgrades with the suprlus we have, I know it's not true. Lot's of hospitals are claiming being in the red ink already, and are at the verge of having to making staff cuts, inluding the famous Sick Children's Hospital. But eventually, when the the scandals stop and things get better, it would be nice if Canada, and other countries could all connect to that network and share information.
yes it is.
Erik
Has anyone thought of how long it will take to board this sucker when the flight is booked out.
smart ass
Erik
I don't know how much Microsoft is worth, but Billy's personal fortune is estimated at 46 Billion dollars, so I would imagine Microsoft would have as much or more in the bank.
Erik
I was interested in getting a TiVo also and I got the same answer as you did. If you have a good spare computer doing nothing, a nice alternative is www.mythtv.org
Erik