Netflix in Canada is much better. But for Amazon Prime Video, the choice is not that large and most of the movies are the worst one. Matter-of-fact, the worst movie I ever watched was on Amazon Prime Video... "Moo Moo and The Three Witches".
After my MBP 2011 almost died I had to decide which way to go... but Apple decided to be a luxury brand now... so I quit. Spending between $3000 and $5000 on a laptop is kind of crazy so I decided to give a try to Windows 10 with WSL. I was quite surprised that Windows 10 was much better than 7 or 8 and very fast! And with WSL I'm pretty happy to get a Linux console anytime I need. But yesterday, after a Windows Update, I got this "Activate Windows" issue... just to remind me that anything can still happen with Microsoft.
It's the providers that are certainly happy! With their stupid package of 5 to 15 minutes of internet per month... because this is the reality! They offer high speed internet that are busted after few minutes at full speed... there is no chance to anyone to be able to detect this bug without busting.
There is a simple solution that is to record the fingerprint encrypted in the employee card. To use it, you have to put the card in the machine and put your finger on the reader. Both must match to valid the operation. Like that, the company doesn't need to store your fingerprint anywhere and the employee "keeps his fingerprint with him".
If everybody do this, then who cares:P But yes, it's true that I don't get a local number. So what I'm doing is I just configure a voip number with a service like Twilio, Anveo or Plivo just to name those 3... and forward the call to my French number! With all the saving, I can afford this little extra fee and I can call them backup if I think the call will be long.
But the point is not this... the point is that as a Canadian, I cannot get a package like this! And it's not the number that is expensive, Twilio rent it for $1cad/month. It was to demonstrate that all the reasons we are given for high price are just plain lies! A representative from Virgin Mobile Canada (own by Bell) called me and asked me some question about my service I had with them... I told her all that. She was so surprised... she said that she understand why I was upset, that she wrote a report about it and that she had nothing else to ask or propose me as nothing can beat that.
When I tell this to people, they all get upset... for few minutes then they just continue. So when I asked on Facebook why do people pay so much, the only good answer was this
"why not?!"
He then added: Yeah... why not as people are not offended more than that and are willing to pay so much anyway.
When they say that the price is high because Canada is a big country and few people... I simply answer this:
French tourists in Canada have a better deal than Canadian themselves! So last time I went to France, I went to one of their SIM card vending machine where I bought the SIM card using my Canadian Credit Card and I'm still using it in Canada!
Using Free Mobile, you get a very good deal in France where you can call in more than 100 countries in the world and 100gb data... But they get also a pretty good deal in 35 countries!
For 20€/month (no contract): - Unlimited calls/sms/mms in that country and France - 25gb data (not as fast as LTE... I get between 2mbit and 4mbit AND 25gb!) - You can choose the network. In Canada, I can choose between Bell, Rogers and Telus (Videotron doesn't accept the connection). So when the speed or network reception is not good in one place, I can switch to another network. - You can "Pause" it by downgrading to the 2€/month deal
That means that my mother, who also kept her Free's sim card, can call me for no extra cost even if we are anywhere within those 35 countries That means also that if I go to USA, I also get this deal for no extra cost
The only thing that cost much more is the Toll Free number. So I just ask them for their "not Toll Free number" so I can call them... for free!:P
That's not really a stupid question but the right question here is "why coming to a technology environment shithole?"
The thing is that is on the day to day, nothing of what you said is happening. That's what we always see in the news.
You have to come here to see how it is. You can walk anywhere in Shanghai in the middle of the night, it's very safe.
You can pretty much do anything you want and that's somewhat a nice freedom feeling.
Doing business is available for foreigners and it's not difficult to start something and then make it official afterward.
Attracting talent is one thing but keeping them is even harder.
You have big companies paying high salaries that gets their employees fly away at the first occasion for a better salary.
And it's all this paperwork for the Internet Police and the random censorship and rules changing anytime and multiple times that makes it difficult to do tech business. And always have to play with VPN is a big issue... it's annoying, frustrating and at some point make you think that you could be in Thailand or anywhere else.
Not in all countries. In Canada (Quebec at least) and Australia, if something is marked at a certain price the seller is required to provide it at that price.
And even at $0 it is a sell. What they could do, is charging for sell taxes.
http://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/en/c...
The thing that surprised me in that news is that it's China Mobile who did that with Huawei.
In China mainland, they did a big screw-up and China Mobile's customers are stuck with Edge unless they use a "special 3G phone" that I never saw any!
Only China Unicom offer a proper technology for high speed wireless data connection.
As they are based in the province of Quebec, they must have a French version of their website.
It's the law and they seems not caring about it at all. There is not even a "Under construction page". Then why they would care about the owner of the pictures?!
In some point, I can understand that.com,.org and.net are on U.S. jurisdiction. But what about IP addresses?
Bloc of IP has been sold to different companies, schools, etc. but it's in some way still managed in the U.S. no?
If they are using Windows, I suggest the full collection of PortableApps from http://www.portableapps.com/
It will runs directly from your flash drive and is really useful!:-)
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It's unbelievable how many hardware are becoming bricks because the company don't want to support it anymore...
A law should force companies to publish at least the server-side code so people could still use their hardware!
You mean like Titanic 2?
Netflix in Canada is much better. But for Amazon Prime Video, the choice is not that large and most of the movies are the worst one. Matter-of-fact, the worst movie I ever watched was on Amazon Prime Video... "Moo Moo and The Three Witches".
too simple!
and as you quoted... “Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
After my MBP 2011 almost died I had to decide which way to go... but Apple decided to be a luxury brand now... so I quit.
Spending between $3000 and $5000 on a laptop is kind of crazy so I decided to give a try to Windows 10 with WSL. I was quite surprised that Windows 10 was much better than 7 or 8 and very fast! And with WSL I'm pretty happy to get a Linux console anytime I need.
But yesterday, after a Windows Update, I got this "Activate Windows" issue... just to remind me that anything can still happen with Microsoft.
It's the providers that are certainly happy! With their stupid package of 5 to 15 minutes of internet per month... because this is the reality!
They offer high speed internet that are busted after few minutes at full speed... there is no chance to anyone to be able to detect this bug without busting.
There is a simple solution that is to record the fingerprint encrypted in the employee card.
To use it, you have to put the card in the machine and put your finger on the reader. Both must match to valid the operation.
Like that, the company doesn't need to store your fingerprint anywhere and the employee "keeps his fingerprint with him".
If everybody do this, then who cares :P
But yes, it's true that I don't get a local number. So what I'm doing is I just configure a voip number with a service like Twilio, Anveo or Plivo just to name those 3... and forward the call to my French number!
With all the saving, I can afford this little extra fee and I can call them backup if I think the call will be long.
But the point is not this... the point is that as a Canadian, I cannot get a package like this! And it's not the number that is expensive, Twilio rent it for $1cad/month.
It was to demonstrate that all the reasons we are given for high price are just plain lies! A representative from Virgin Mobile Canada (own by Bell) called me and asked me some question about my service I had with them... I told her all that. She was so surprised... she said that she understand why I was upset, that she wrote a report about it and that she had nothing else to ask or propose me as nothing can beat that.
When I tell this to people, they all get upset... for few minutes then they just continue.
So when I asked on Facebook why do people pay so much, the only good answer was this
"why not?!"
He then added: Yeah... why not as people are not offended more than that and are willing to pay so much anyway.
When they say that the price is high because Canada is a big country and few people... I simply answer this:
French tourists in Canada have a better deal than Canadian themselves!
So last time I went to France, I went to one of their SIM card vending machine where I bought the SIM card using my Canadian Credit Card and I'm still using it in Canada!
http://mobile.free.fr/fiche-fo...
Using Free Mobile, you get a very good deal in France where you can call in more than 100 countries in the world and 100gb data...
But they get also a pretty good deal in 35 countries!
For 20€/month (no contract):
- Unlimited calls/sms/mms in that country and France
- 25gb data (not as fast as LTE... I get between 2mbit and 4mbit AND 25gb!)
- You can choose the network. In Canada, I can choose between Bell, Rogers and Telus (Videotron doesn't accept the connection). So when the speed or network reception is not good in one place, I can switch to another network.
- You can "Pause" it by downgrading to the 2€/month deal
That means that my mother, who also kept her Free's sim card, can call me for no extra cost even if we are anywhere within those 35 countries
That means also that if I go to USA, I also get this deal for no extra cost
The only thing that cost much more is the Toll Free number. So I just ask them for their "not Toll Free number" so I can call them... for free! :P
Enjoy!
That's not really a stupid question but the right question here is "why coming to a technology environment shithole?" The thing is that is on the day to day, nothing of what you said is happening. That's what we always see in the news. You have to come here to see how it is. You can walk anywhere in Shanghai in the middle of the night, it's very safe. You can pretty much do anything you want and that's somewhat a nice freedom feeling. Doing business is available for foreigners and it's not difficult to start something and then make it official afterward. Attracting talent is one thing but keeping them is even harder. You have big companies paying high salaries that gets their employees fly away at the first occasion for a better salary. And it's all this paperwork for the Internet Police and the random censorship and rules changing anytime and multiple times that makes it difficult to do tech business. And always have to play with VPN is a big issue... it's annoying, frustrating and at some point make you think that you could be in Thailand or anywhere else.
Yay, bloomberg.com is censored. No news, no problems, everything fine within the wall
Not in all countries. In Canada (Quebec at least) and Australia, if something is marked at a certain price the seller is required to provide it at that price. And even at $0 it is a sell. What they could do, is charging for sell taxes. http://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/en/c...
Yes, exactly like "10 cents"... you know the company worth billion of dollars?!
The thing that surprised me in that news is that it's China Mobile who did that with Huawei. In China mainland, they did a big screw-up and China Mobile's customers are stuck with Edge unless they use a "special 3G phone" that I never saw any! Only China Unicom offer a proper technology for high speed wireless data connection.
As they are based in the province of Quebec, they must have a French version of their website. It's the law and they seems not caring about it at all. There is not even a "Under construction page". Then why they would care about the owner of the pictures?!
In some point, I can understand that .com, .org and .net are on U.S. jurisdiction. But what about IP addresses?
Bloc of IP has been sold to different companies, schools, etc. but it's in some way still managed in the U.S. no?
Tested from Shanghai and Beijing, still blocked when going to plus.google.com So I guess it was temporary "issue" ;-)
If they are using Windows, I suggest the full collection of PortableApps from http://www.portableapps.com/ It will runs directly from your flash drive and is really useful! :-)