Actually, it is indeed possible to buy a car without a radio, new cars infact, at least in america.
Strictly speaking, the only cars without radios are *strippers* as in the cars sold on holidays for a below sticker price. I happen to like *strippers* as they typicaly have manual transmisions, and it's not like I don't own a car stereo that I really like. My car in fact was sold without a radio at all, but was equiped with speaker wires. Friends cars too, who also prefer manual transmisions, again no radio, as it's assumed that people are going to come in on the holiday, see the cheep strippers they are offering, and buy the really cool one with the go faster stripes.
Apparently, it has turned into the same sort of issue as "virii", a lot of people use it which makes even more people assume that it is correct usage.
The funny thing about english or any other dynamic language, if enough people use it for a number of years... it becomes correct. The fact that we are moving tward a google driven world serves to accelerate this process, as in you must learn popular spellings / mispellings in order to get the right information. Over time, the incorrect will become accepted and the correct will become archaic.
Anyone still using win9x really ought to upgrade to windows 2k/XP. It will save you a lot of headaches.
Unless your hardware just isn't supported in win2k / winxp, in which case, it's more moolah.
I mean, I got to admit, I prefer 2k over win98se as far as relibility, uptime, and for the most part no blue screen of death, or atleast an automatic reboot after one. In fact, I have a laser printer, panasonic 6500 or something... after one of the earlier service patches, blue screen of death. Not like I can't emulate an HP under win2k, but a 600dpi laser emulating a 300 dpi is a loss that I wouldnt' have to experence if I stayed with win 9x. Unless you know of a new laser that allows the end user to add raw toner... i'm stuck unless I happen to find a cool used one.
I've since switched lasers, to one that works, mostly anyway.
But if one using a sub pentium II machine, with sub 32megs of ram, and is perfectly happy with sub word 97.... great, more power to ya. You might beable to find enough ram to make 2k / xp happy, or you can not bother and still have a perfectly working glorified word processor.
There is already established business that uses this. They're called "private detectives". Actually, the best vantage would probably be in front of the subjects a few rows and off to the side. That way you can identify faces.
I was not aware there already was a website dedicated to theater hanky-panky. I know there is a treand of amature stuff being sold for top dollar, but not specificly theater porn. As far as themes go... I can see people buying it...
As far as faces go, this sounds tame enough to be legal... but as far as porn goes, I think people buy porn to see genitals bigger then life and cum shots. Comming soon to a website near you.... Popcorn and Cumshots... or.... Cinema hotdogs are tasty. Oh baby!
This is what the infrared settings on camcorders are for. There should be special exceptions for people taping patrons vs the movie;-)
Yep...
1. Pay the $7.00 to go see a film, so you can sit in the back row with your camcorder on the infrared. 2. Start a subscription website of your filmings 3. PROFIT!!!!
Why don't they use their own security personnel to throw out people with cameras?
Perhaps because a person with a camcorder is still a paying customer... and if I were hollywood, I would be paranoid that theaters would be tolerent of this fact.
Besides, then they would have to employ more people, and why bother when you can get the police to do it if it's a crime?
or the days that you knew it was recorded in hong kong, when you can see the shadows of people's heads below the screen, and all of them are holding small camcorders.
Is that what it's about? I thought it was about back row theater pornography, where in many cases the people engaging in concentual sex acts are not quite of their majority. After all, this is a major problem too.
So I say, go for a higher-end model from a name brand manufacturer like Sony, Philips, etc. and have something that you can enjoy for years(with much better support from the company and industry), instead of something that will work for a while and eventually break down after 6-12 months because of bad parts....that's not a nice thing to have happen.
This is assuming that the Sony, Philips, etc will work above and beyond 6 months.
Seriously... while they are more respected names, in order to keep sales up, they have to lower the cost of their equipment. Sad but true... to lower costs, one must cut corners. End result... it's all crap...
Terrorists cause planes to crash due to bogus information sent to the GPS, simulating a no fly zone situation, and causing them to crash into buildings.
The FAA has been reported as saying "Yep, it's doing it's job, we couldn't see such a useful feature being exploited".
The FAA is also considering trained monkeies to replace the crew. Passangers, who will be given shock buttons, seems to enjoy this idea... far too much.
1. Buy wine two seasons before the winter, and prime them your self, add sugar and yeast to produce small bubbles 2. Sell them in the holidays 3. Profit!
So what you are saying is: Thanks to Tivo, you haven't been introduced to new shows that you might like. And now that you're tired of watching repeats of shows you once liked, you are quitting TV completely.
I think the best argument for Tivo is you have the magic ability to actually catch interesting things at odd times, so you can be social at normal times and actually having something to talk about, what you watched on tv.
Get a five stage Reverse Osmosis water filter. They are truly amazing.
Or just move to a city that has kick ass tap water. When friends visit, they'll ask why every resturant serves the best bottled water they have ever tasted.
Everything you make with it tastes better, even coffee or tea itself
I find that even britta filtered water from my tap makes my tea taste odd... But good tap or well water and it's just fine. Perhaps if I lived in LA and had to resort to filtered water, i'd have to add some of the minerals filtered out, perhaps with a splash of cholorine and a few salt crystals.
This actually made me sad as there seemed to be a market for internet ready appliences... and this would have filled the nitch quite nicely. A real computer you could get somewhat real upgrades for, that actually have somewhat decent graphics to boot.
- Laserdisc
I'm not sure I'd consider these to be a flop... no more or less so then VHS. More of a nitch market, limited acceptance... sorta made obsolete by DVD... but by no means a flop in my book. Now old style videodisk... now there's a flop! Not even a niche market for that one, it's worse then that it's dead jim.
Actually... I started seeing these pen computers on closeout more often then I saw them stocked on the shelves. I remember going with a friend to some stupid "make your own business meeting"... where they actually had some good advice, but basicly wanted your money in order to get their product to make it EZ. They tried to get you in selling CDs that claimed to be website development software... but in reality they were just hyperlinks on autorun, but with a big bold friendly $299.99 pricetag on them.
In exchange for the money they wanted, and monthly fee for their website for a minium of 1 year... you got a pen computer running Windows CE.
I know they spent so much bother and effort trying to say "Oh it's diffrent then a regular PC.... that 16 megs of ram is more then enough to do such and such", but it seemed that even there it was practicaly impossible to sell a free PC without the "giga this and mega that" {Dell reference}.
As far as So what if the software couldn't tell a handwritten prescription of Lysergic Acid Dythelemide from Lysterine and Diet Coke!... I have to say the apple newton was the biggest hit since madlibs. One of the first things I wrote on what was "explore your world". It transformed that to "trust the fungus".
That's the problem, that you can't buy Word+Excel for a "reasonable" price.
Yes you can.. you can either buy them ala cart for like $200 (or so) a pop... or get Office Small Business edition, or even the full edition for about $500. Less you forget the days of getting a copy of wordperfect and lotus 123 and d-base. Like it or not, based on past cost for similar products, this is damn reasonable for popular comercial software. A $500 pc with $500 of software that does most of everything you need it to do in a business enviroment is pretty damn good.
Naturally, a package deal will have a price break over all the pieces individually, but this "price break" is artificial in that the individual component prices are so high that they know you'll go ahead and spend $400~ on more than you need.
Actually... part of Microsoft's success is the fact that they offered products at lower prices then the other guys. The key advantage to a company who produces something so easy to replicate is the fact that you can make excelent profits.
If you consider $200 a pop for their power applications, Word and Excel, they by all means consider their Works package, or Open Office.
I honestly don't now how artifical it is. As in... it's a company who's in business, they have every right in choosing what price to sell their products. I'm sure there a logic behind it... as in the price of office seems roughly equal to the cost of their power applications. It's even wonderful the fact that the cost of office is so reasonable that all the PCs in the office can have all the applications installed. No more worry about shared documents and not having the right thingie to open it.
The market drives these forces.. and microsoft is doing very well, Office is very popular. If open office causes them to explore new options, great! If it lowers the price of their products, great.
They should sell Word for 150, Excel for 150, and Word+Excel for 200 or 250. That would be much more reasonable.
And the cable companies should offer specific channels they normaly offer in a package ala carte. It would be COOL for that person who only watches the home and garden channel, but whether or not this makes good business sence or not. As in, could they actually foot the bill for their feed if people just choose a channel they want and pay a fraction of that monthly fee for it. It's possible, but you'd have to prove it on paper, and they'd have to agree to it, or a goverment agency would have to get involved. Or you can accept the package that has what you want, and on that rare case something pops on that you want to watch.
Could microsoft lower the price on programs in their office package? This is possible.
Should they? Well, unfortunatly this is their choice as this is their business. I personaly am happy with the cost of Microsoft Office as is. I think it's nice on one of my PCs to actually beable to read that odd Access or Powerpoint document. In an office enviroment, it's so nice to just have all the applications on each PC rather then having to fight with administration to get them to buy a damn copy of this program you need to use. And clearly, their current business model has worked very well for them, even if you hate microsoft you have to admit that.
You could be right, they might have to lower prices as a direct result of open office... but personaly I always hope Office is cheeper then ala carte, cause otherwise, I have to fight with someone to buy the puppy even if it's cause of that one annoying person who sends me a stupid power point file.
(Which they can do since they don't need to support a 20 year old BIOS or OS.)
You now, 10 years ago I would be most annoyed with this. I mean, part of the reason I went with the PC was because of the massive amount of legacy ability. I could, for example, run a copy of ms-dos v 1.1 {now with graphics} in the event that I actually needed to. Downward compatability one of the major things that sold me on the PC.
In the year 2003, I could care less about downward compatability. I can get new versions of software online easily.
On the mac front... getting yellow dog installed on a pre g5 powermac is a pain in the tookus, and it's not like there are many things I miss... though that old style monitor connection with a db15 to HD15(vga) with dipswitches that define bootup resolution was kinda spiffy.
The spokeswoman said the government was unhappy with Microsoft's refusal to sell individual programs from its standard Office package, which includes e-mail, spreadsheet and word-processing application
Perhaps the middle-eastern market is diffrent then the american one... but near as I'm aware you can still by Outlook, Word, and Excel seperatly. However, it makes little sence to as if you need two MS applications, you might as well buy Office. At least the american price is something like $200 for excel, $200 for word, and like $100 for outlook. The office professional edition is like $500 from buy.com, not sure about the SB edition, the upgrade is about $300 from buy.com.
Now... whether or not you can buy one copy of Office and install word on one machine, excel on another, and outlook on another is a little bit unclear to me. Back in 2000 I did actually ask microsoft about this, they... being tech support said "I don't know, sounds reasonable to me, but I don't know".
My experence is mostly B.C.... and the accent differs slightly from Washington, Montana, and Oregon, but not by much. There are exceptions where the accent is more pronounced... typicaly these people when asked say they are from either Quebec... Manitoba, or Saskatchewan.
There is that other accent i've heard in BC.. which seems like a cross between Northern Manitoba and Torronto which is the "American vietnam draft dodger i'm canadian now 'eh" accent.
That said, having spent the first 28 years of my life in the Detroit area, I'll give the average CBC sportscaster the nod over any American network easily. They actually come to the event with a solid background in whatever subject they are covering, instead of merely reading off the teleprompter and trying to out-chuckle the other guy...
This is probally why we import sportscasters.
I'm not a big sports fan, but I do get CBC.. in the form of CBUT out of Vancover I believe. While I am not big on sports, it's not uncommon for friends to visit to catch sporting events here, just because they prefer CBC to the American coverage, esp for the olympus where I believe 18-20hours a day is dedicated to coverage of the games.... vs the American coverage which is pretty much 4hours or so.
I can't speak for the amount of background the CBC sportscasters have for I don't know the background my self.... I can agree I'd much rather try to ignore CBC sportscasters then american ones because it's easier to ignore non-chucking sportscasters then chuckling ones. Also, I tend to notice more errors in gramar with the american ones, which makes it more difficult to ignore them.
(Doing the wildly exaggerated "Captain Kirk" impression which, despite watching a lot of classic Star Trek, I've never actually seen him do.)
Good gawd, you have never been in the dentist's office, under Nitris... trying a Kirk impression?
"I... Must... Resist.... Drug..." -*-konk-*-
My dentist does not use gas.. so I have never had a chance... but i'm sure if I got gassed when I was a pre-teen... I would try to do that infamous Kirk impression where by will alone he was always the last man standing on the bridge whenver gased, vacumed, or anything else threatened to knock him out.
".... I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal.... I was in My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!"
When talking to Canadians... about that usual run of the mill Canadian accent... they say that Canadians don't really have an accent... that most sound like American sportscasters.
I make sure to point out, there is no such thing as an American sportscaster as we import them all from Toronto... with the exception of one or two who say they are from Winnipeg... though actually born and raised in northern Manitoba... who wactually do say 'eh.
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Try to buy a car without a radio. (-;
Actually, it is indeed possible to buy a car without a radio, new cars infact, at least in america.
Strictly speaking, the only cars without radios are *strippers* as in the cars sold on holidays for a below sticker price. I happen to like *strippers* as they typicaly have manual transmisions, and it's not like I don't own a car stereo that I really like. My car in fact was sold without a radio at all, but was equiped with speaker wires. Friends cars too, who also prefer manual transmisions, again no radio, as it's assumed that people are going to come in on the holiday, see the cheep strippers they are offering, and buy the really cool one with the go faster stripes.
Apparently, it has turned into the same sort of issue as "virii", a lot of people use it which makes even more people assume that it is correct usage.
The funny thing about english or any other dynamic language, if enough people use it for a number of years... it becomes correct. The fact that we are moving tward a google driven world serves to accelerate this process, as in you must learn popular spellings / mispellings in order to get the right information. Over time, the incorrect will become accepted and the correct will become archaic.
Anyone still using win9x really ought to upgrade to windows 2k/XP. It will save you a lot of headaches.
Unless your hardware just isn't supported in win2k / winxp, in which case, it's more moolah.
I mean, I got to admit, I prefer 2k over win98se as far as relibility, uptime, and for the most part no blue screen of death, or atleast an automatic reboot after one. In fact, I have a laser printer, panasonic 6500 or something... after one of the earlier service patches, blue screen of death. Not like I can't emulate an HP under win2k, but a 600dpi laser emulating a 300 dpi is a loss that I wouldnt' have to experence if I stayed with win 9x. Unless you know of a new laser that allows the end user to add raw toner... i'm stuck unless I happen to find a cool used one.
I've since switched lasers, to one that works, mostly anyway.
But if one using a sub pentium II machine, with sub 32megs of ram, and is perfectly happy with sub word 97.... great, more power to ya. You might beable to find enough ram to make 2k / xp happy, or you can not bother and still have a perfectly working glorified word processor.
Screw Windows98, what about us MS DOS users?
Former MS Dos users may consider the wonderful featured filled world of PC DOS 2000 by IBM. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/dos/
Only $50.00 to download... $67.00 on 3.5 inch disks
Note, you'll need 18.5 megs of free space to install this one. Packed full of goodness and y2k support.
Support I believe to be extra......... alot extra.
There is already established business that uses this. They're called "private detectives". Actually, the best vantage would probably be in front of the subjects a few rows and off to the side. That way you can identify faces.
.... Cinema hotdogs are tasty. Oh baby!
I was not aware there already was a website dedicated to theater hanky-panky. I know there is a treand of amature stuff being sold for top dollar, but not specificly theater porn. As far as themes go... I can see people buying it...
As far as faces go, this sounds tame enough to be legal... but as far as porn goes, I think people buy porn to see genitals bigger then life and cum shots. Comming soon to a website near you.... Popcorn and Cumshots... or
This is what the infrared settings on camcorders are for. There should be special exceptions for people taping patrons vs the movie ;-)
Yep...
1. Pay the $7.00 to go see a film, so you can sit in the back row with your camcorder on the infrared.
2. Start a subscription website of your filmings
3. PROFIT!!!!
Why don't they use their own security personnel to throw out people with cameras?
Perhaps because a person with a camcorder is still a paying customer... and if I were hollywood, I would be paranoid that theaters would be tolerent of this fact.
Besides, then they would have to employ more people, and why bother when you can get the police to do it if it's a crime?
defintitely knew it was recorded in a theater
or the days that you knew it was recorded in hong kong, when you can see the shadows of people's heads below the screen, and all of them are holding small camcorders.
Is that what it's about? I thought it was about back row theater pornography, where in many cases the people engaging in concentual sex acts are not quite of their majority. After all, this is a major problem too.
So I say, go for a higher-end model from a name brand manufacturer like Sony, Philips, etc. and have something that you can enjoy for years(with much better support from the company and industry), instead of something that will work for a while and eventually break down after 6-12 months because of bad parts....that's not a nice thing to have happen.
This is assuming that the Sony, Philips, etc will work above and beyond 6 months.
Seriously... while they are more respected names, in order to keep sales up, they have to lower the cost of their equipment. Sad but true... to lower costs, one must cut corners. End result... it's all crap...
Terrorists cause planes to crash due to bogus information sent to the GPS, simulating a no fly zone situation, and causing them to crash into buildings.
The FAA has been reported as saying "Yep, it's doing it's job, we couldn't see such a useful feature being exploited".
The FAA is also considering trained monkeies to replace the crew. Passangers, who will be given shock buttons, seems to enjoy this idea... far too much.
1. Buy wine two seasons before the winter, and prime them your self, add sugar and yeast to produce small bubbles
2. Sell them in the holidays
3. Profit!
Which is why europeans love to laugh at stupid americans who refer to it as "French Champagne".
Nor more stupid then americans saying *english muffins*.
So what you are saying is: Thanks to Tivo, you haven't been introduced to new shows that you might like. And now that you're tired of watching repeats of shows you once liked, you are quitting TV completely.
I think the best argument for Tivo is you have the magic ability to actually catch interesting things at odd times, so you can be social at normal times and actually having something to talk about, what you watched on tv.
Get a five stage Reverse Osmosis water filter. They are truly amazing.
Or just move to a city that has kick ass tap water. When friends visit, they'll ask why every resturant serves the best bottled water they have ever tasted.
Everything you make with it tastes better, even coffee or tea itself
I find that even britta filtered water from my tap makes my tea taste odd... But good tap or well water and it's just fine. Perhaps if I lived in LA and had to resort to filtered water, i'd have to add some of the minerals filtered out, perhaps with a splash of cholorine and a few salt crystals.
- AmigaOne
This actually made me sad as there seemed to be a market for internet ready appliences... and this would have filled the nitch quite nicely. A real computer you could get somewhat real upgrades for, that actually have somewhat decent graphics to boot.
- Laserdisc
I'm not sure I'd consider these to be a flop... no more or less so then VHS. More of a nitch market, limited acceptance... sorta made obsolete by DVD... but by no means a flop in my book. Now old style videodisk... now there's a flop! Not even a niche market for that one, it's worse then that it's dead jim.
Actually... I started seeing these pen computers on closeout more often then I saw them stocked on the shelves. I remember going with a friend to some stupid "make your own business meeting"... where they actually had some good advice, but basicly wanted your money in order to get their product to make it EZ. They tried to get you in selling CDs that claimed to be website development software... but in reality they were just hyperlinks on autorun, but with a big bold friendly $299.99 pricetag on them.
In exchange for the money they wanted, and monthly fee for their website for a minium of 1 year... you got a pen computer running Windows CE.
I know they spent so much bother and effort trying to say "Oh it's diffrent then a regular PC.... that 16 megs of ram is more then enough to do such and such", but it seemed that even there it was practicaly impossible to sell a free PC without the "giga this and mega that" {Dell reference}.
As far as So what if the software couldn't tell a handwritten prescription of Lysergic Acid Dythelemide from Lysterine and Diet Coke!... I have to say the apple newton was the biggest hit since madlibs. One of the first things I wrote on what was "explore your world". It transformed that to "trust the fungus".
That's the problem, that you can't buy Word+Excel for a "reasonable" price.
Yes you can.. you can either buy them ala cart for like $200 (or so) a pop... or get Office Small Business edition, or even the full edition for about $500. Less you forget the days of getting a copy of wordperfect and lotus 123 and d-base. Like it or not, based on past cost for similar products, this is damn reasonable for popular comercial software. A $500 pc with $500 of software that does most of everything you need it to do in a business enviroment is pretty damn good.
Naturally, a package deal will have a price break over all the pieces individually, but this "price break" is artificial in that the individual component prices are so high that they know you'll go ahead and spend $400~ on more than you need.
Actually... part of Microsoft's success is the fact that they offered products at lower prices then the other guys. The key advantage to a company who produces something so easy to replicate is the fact that you can make excelent profits.
If you consider $200 a pop for their power applications, Word and Excel, they by all means consider their Works package, or Open Office.
I honestly don't now how artifical it is. As in... it's a company who's in business, they have every right in choosing what price to sell their products. I'm sure there a logic behind it... as in the price of office seems roughly equal to the cost of their power applications. It's even wonderful the fact that the cost of office is so reasonable that all the PCs in the office can have all the applications installed. No more worry about shared documents and not having the right thingie to open it.
The market drives these forces.. and microsoft is doing very well, Office is very popular. If open office causes them to explore new options, great! If it lowers the price of their products, great.
They should sell Word for 150, Excel for 150, and Word+Excel for 200 or 250. That would be much more reasonable.
And the cable companies should offer specific channels they normaly offer in a package ala carte. It would be COOL for that person who only watches the home and garden channel, but whether or not this makes good business sence or not. As in, could they actually foot the bill for their feed if people just choose a channel they want and pay a fraction of that monthly fee for it. It's possible, but you'd have to prove it on paper, and they'd have to agree to it, or a goverment agency would have to get involved. Or you can accept the package that has what you want, and on that rare case something pops on that you want to watch.
Could microsoft lower the price on programs in their office package? This is possible.
Should they? Well, unfortunatly this is their choice as this is their business. I personaly am happy with the cost of Microsoft Office as is. I think it's nice on one of my PCs to actually beable to read that odd Access or Powerpoint document. In an office enviroment, it's so nice to just have all the applications on each PC rather then having to fight with administration to get them to buy a damn copy of this program you need to use. And clearly, their current business model has worked very well for them, even if you hate microsoft you have to admit that.
You could be right, they might have to lower prices as a direct result of open office... but personaly I always hope Office is cheeper then ala carte, cause otherwise, I have to fight with someone to buy the puppy even if it's cause of that one annoying person who sends me a stupid power point file.
(Which they can do since they don't need to support a 20 year old BIOS or OS.)
You now, 10 years ago I would be most annoyed with this. I mean, part of the reason I went with the PC was because of the massive amount of legacy ability. I could, for example, run a copy of ms-dos v 1.1 {now with graphics} in the event that I actually needed to. Downward compatability one of the major things that sold me on the PC.
In the year 2003, I could care less about downward compatability. I can get new versions of software online easily.
On the mac front... getting yellow dog installed on a pre g5 powermac is a pain in the tookus, and it's not like there are many things I miss... though that old style monitor connection with a db15 to HD15(vga) with dipswitches that define bootup resolution was kinda spiffy.
The new Dell DVD +R/+RW drives now come with a stack sensor. When your stack gets too low, it pops up a button to order more.
Dell has said, "Oh yea... all our free devices are ones where you can only get the supplies from us, otherwise, why would it be free?"
The spokeswoman said the government was unhappy with Microsoft's refusal to sell individual programs from its standard Office package, which includes e-mail, spreadsheet and word-processing application
Perhaps the middle-eastern market is diffrent then the american one... but near as I'm aware you can still by Outlook, Word, and Excel seperatly. However, it makes little sence to as if you need two MS applications, you might as well buy Office. At least the american price is something like $200 for excel, $200 for word, and like $100 for outlook. The office professional edition is like $500 from buy.com, not sure about the SB edition, the upgrade is about $300 from buy.com.
Now... whether or not you can buy one copy of Office and install word on one machine, excel on another, and outlook on another is a little bit unclear to me. Back in 2000 I did actually ask microsoft about this, they... being tech support said "I don't know, sounds reasonable to me, but I don't know".
Haven't talked to many people west of Ontario
My experence is mostly B.C.... and the accent differs slightly from Washington, Montana, and Oregon, but not by much. There are exceptions where the accent is more pronounced... typicaly these people when asked say they are from either Quebec... Manitoba, or Saskatchewan.
There is that other accent i've heard in BC.. which seems like a cross between Northern Manitoba and Torronto which is the "American vietnam draft dodger i'm canadian now 'eh" accent.
That said, having spent the first 28 years of my life in the Detroit area, I'll give the average CBC sportscaster the nod over any American network easily. They actually come to the event with a solid background in whatever subject they are covering, instead of merely reading off the teleprompter and trying to out-chuckle the other guy...
This is probally why we import sportscasters.
I'm not a big sports fan, but I do get CBC.. in the form of CBUT out of Vancover I believe. While I am not big on sports, it's not uncommon for friends to visit to catch sporting events here, just because they prefer CBC to the American coverage, esp for the olympus where I believe 18-20hours a day is dedicated to coverage of the games.... vs the American coverage which is pretty much 4hours or so.
I can't speak for the amount of background the CBC sportscasters have for I don't know the background my self.... I can agree I'd much rather try to ignore CBC sportscasters then american ones because it's easier to ignore non-chucking sportscasters then chuckling ones. Also, I tend to notice more errors in gramar with the american ones, which makes it more difficult to ignore them.
(Doing the wildly exaggerated "Captain Kirk" impression which, despite watching a lot of classic Star Trek, I've never actually seen him do.)
Good gawd, you have never been in the dentist's office, under Nitris... trying a Kirk impression?
"I... Must... Resist.... Drug..." -*-konk-*-
My dentist does not use gas.. so I have never had a chance... but i'm sure if I got gassed when I was a pre-teen... I would try to do that infamous Kirk impression where by will alone he was always the last man standing on the bridge whenver gased, vacumed, or anything else threatened to knock him out.
".... I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. ... I was in My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!"
When talking to Canadians... about that usual run of the mill Canadian accent... they say that Canadians don't really have an accent... that most sound like American sportscasters.
I make sure to point out, there is no such thing as an American sportscaster as we import them all from Toronto... with the exception of one or two who say they are from Winnipeg... though actually born and raised in northern Manitoba... who wactually do say 'eh.