Anyone who's seen the opening sequence from "Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa" (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind ) can understand the type of flight experience they are trying to produce here.
The freedom with which Nausicaa sails around the skies on a flying machine light enough to carry yet strong enough to carry out some hairy aerobatics has figured in many a daydream. Hayao Miyazaki takes our daydreams and puts them on the big screen.
Of course the reality of FAA regulations and principles of aerodynamics tend to get in the way of truly realizing the dreams but I give kudos to these guys for trying.
I woudl think that Canadians in general would support their Neighbour, USA, as that team is pretty well rated.
And you would be wrong. As noted in a previous post, most Canadians will support their ancestral team or the team that their ancestral country would support if they didn't qualify. I'm typical of this; born in England, moved to Canada at 8, spent 10 years in Japan. I'll support England first, Japan second and hold some respect for Brazil just because they're Brazil.:-)
This whole "why don't Canadians support Canada?" has been analyzed to death on the Canadian news but it all comes down to "Our team isn't anywhere near good enough and we're too devoted to Hockey, the Canadian Football League and baseball.
We also know that the American team's ranking is a crock and an indication that the rating system needs an overhaul.
Most international keyboards are minor derivations of the standard English 101 keyboard with different mappings for diacritical characters. How those mappings and the key labelling will be handled is a relevent point.
Even double-byte languages like Chinese or Japanese can be easily done on English keyboards as the character's pronunciation is typed in roman letters and the space bar hit to bring up a list of charcaters matching that pronunication.
As you can see SkypeOut is cheapest but you need to pay a minimum of $15 up front whether you are using it or not. We don't call Japan that often and it tends to be less than $5/month with perfect voice quality.
The MRO is succesfully in orbit! Congrats to everyone at JPL.
It always gives me goosebumps watching these events where mission control goes from joking and chatting to pin-drop quiet just before re-acquisition of signal and then the yells and whoops of joy when they lock on.
We added the Outlook interface to our Document Management System (Interwoven Website) which allowed users to drag and drop emails and attachments from the Exchange Information Store into the DMS just as though they were moving it to a regular Exchange subfolder.
The nice thing about this was the DMS kept the email metadata (sent time, received time, recipients, etc) and our Exchange store became manageable. Restoring an email and/or its attachments to the DMS was trivial compared to getting something back into Exchange.
You're right. I've been away too long (over 20 years)!
I found one of those fun "Which promises did they keep or break" websites and actually one of the promises they did keep was to scrap the Equity in Education Tax Credit (EETC) as it was known. Details here.
Please note that Ontario != Canada. You did not state it was applicable to only one of Canada's provinces and territories. Readers from other parts of the world may have assumed otherwise as your original post was vague. It also sounded like a significant portion of tuition was refundable.
I have just as much reason to be pissed. Why should parents in Ontario get this wonderful tax break when parents in the other provinces do not?
I have a feeling this will disappear as soon as Mike's out of office.
Please indicate where the CCRA states that private school tuition is tax deductible.
I think you are confused with the Ontario's tax deduction introduced by Mike Harris is 2001. This only allows a percentage of the tuition to be deducted and only for specific types of schools.
Don't forget that parents who send their kids to private schools can deduct the tuition and get their tax money back
This is not true.
In Canada the only way you can deduct any private school tuition expenses for dependents is if it is a religeous school who are registered as a charity and even so this only applied in Ontario. The deduction started at 10% of the tuition amount in 2001 and was supposed to have increased by 10% each year until it reached 50%. This has been vehemently opposed from various quarters.
My son goes to a private school here in BC and that is our choice and our financial burden.
I don't know why the above has been modded flamebait. A lot of what he states is true. The shuttles were to be a first step in a chain of ever-improving space vehicles making access to space simple, safe and cheap. We have now gone far beyond their original expected lifetime and no replacement is expected for years.
The Chinese may not leapfrog the U.S. unless their current manned launch capability is scaled up by three times in the next 5 years and adds a serious heavy-lift component.
If the Russians get tired of waiting for the Americans maybe they will strike a deal with the Chinese to finish off the ISS and possibly add modules outside the origina design specification that benefit Russia and China better.
I get the feeling there is one magic attribute I'm missing otherwise the total lack of contact over the years I've had my resume online just doesn't make sense.
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Launch Director just announced a scrub for today due to the weather.
Anyone who's seen the opening sequence from "Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa" (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind ) can understand the type of flight experience they are trying to produce here.
The freedom with which Nausicaa sails around the skies on a flying machine light enough to carry yet strong enough to carry out some hairy aerobatics has figured in many a daydream. Hayao Miyazaki takes our daydreams and puts them on the big screen.
Of course the reality of FAA regulations and principles of aerodynamics tend to get in the way of truly realizing the dreams but I give kudos to these guys for trying.
I woudl think that Canadians in general would support their Neighbour, USA, as that team is pretty well rated.
:-)
And you would be wrong. As noted in a previous post, most Canadians will support their ancestral team or the team that their ancestral country would support if they didn't qualify. I'm typical of this; born in England, moved to Canada at 8, spent 10 years in Japan. I'll support England first, Japan second and hold some respect for Brazil just because they're Brazil.
This whole "why don't Canadians support Canada?" has been analyzed to death on the Canadian news but it all comes down to "Our team isn't anywhere near good enough and we're too devoted to Hockey, the Canadian Football League and baseball.
We also know that the American team's ranking is a crock and an indication that the rating system needs an overhaul.
Most international keyboards are minor derivations of the standard English 101 keyboard with different mappings for diacritical characters. How those mappings and the key labelling will be handled is a relevent point.
Even double-byte languages like Chinese or Japanese can be easily done on English keyboards as the character's pronunciation is typed in roman letters and the space bar hit to bring up a list of charcaters matching that pronunication.
Geez, one freaking minute and I'm redundant.
Great minds think alike. :-)
Details are here.
I've been looking at the rates we could be paying to call back to Japan between our current landline provider and VOIP alternatives.
This is what I came up with: (All in CAD)
Primus $0.10/min (Current landline)
Yak $0.06/min (Alternate landline)
Skype $0.027/min
CallCentric $0.035/min
SipPhone $0.04/min
IConnect $0.05/min
As you can see SkypeOut is cheapest but you need to pay a minimum of $15 up front whether you are using it or not. We don't call Japan that often and it tends to be less than $5/month with perfect voice quality.
Graham Chapman?? I don't know.
I really don't know.
I really, really really don't know.
I just really don't know.
[whack]
That was Magnus Pyke. I used to watch him on TV in England in the 70s when he had a "science for the masses" type of show like Bill Nye.
Hi! Congrats again!
What's your role on the team? I'm watching on NASA TV.
The MRO is succesfully in orbit! Congrats to everyone at JPL.
It always gives me goosebumps watching these events where mission control goes from joking and chatting to pin-drop quiet just before re-acquisition of signal and then the yells and whoops of joy when they lock on.
Great stuff!
We added the Outlook interface to our Document Management System (Interwoven Website) which allowed users to drag and drop emails and attachments from the Exchange Information Store into the DMS just as though they were moving it to a regular Exchange subfolder.
The nice thing about this was the DMS kept the email metadata (sent time, received time, recipients, etc) and our Exchange store became manageable. Restoring an email and/or its attachments to the DMS was trivial compared to getting something back into Exchange.
Wreck Beach near UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
You're right. I've been away too long (over 20 years)!
:-(
I found one of those fun "Which promises did they keep or break" websites and actually one of the promises they did keep was to scrap the Equity in Education Tax Credit (EETC) as it was known. Details here.
One less reason to move back to Ontario.
We're both wrong. The tax credit no longer exists as it was cancelled by McGuinty as one of his election promises.
Please note that Ontario != Canada. You did not state it was applicable to only one of Canada's provinces and territories. Readers from other parts of the world may have assumed otherwise as your original post was vague. It also sounded like a significant portion of tuition was refundable.
I have just as much reason to be pissed. Why should parents in Ontario get this wonderful tax break when parents in the other provinces do not?
I have a feeling this will disappear as soon as Mike's out of office.
Please indicate where the CCRA states that private school tuition is tax deductible.
I think you are confused with the Ontario's tax deduction introduced by Mike Harris is 2001. This only allows a percentage of the tuition to be deducted and only for specific types of schools.
Don't forget that parents who send their kids to private schools can deduct the tuition and get their tax money back
This is not true.
In Canada the only way you can deduct any private school tuition expenses for dependents is if it is a religeous school who are registered as a charity and even so this only applied in Ontario. The deduction started at 10% of the tuition amount in 2001 and was supposed to have increased by 10% each year until it reached 50%. This has been vehemently opposed from various quarters.
My son goes to a private school here in BC and that is our choice and our financial burden.
I don't know why the above has been modded flamebait. A lot of what he states is true. The shuttles were to be a first step in a chain of ever-improving space vehicles making access to space simple, safe and cheap. We have now gone far beyond their original expected lifetime and no replacement is expected for years.
The Chinese may not leapfrog the U.S. unless their current manned launch capability is scaled up by three times in the next 5 years and adds a serious heavy-lift component.
If the Russians get tired of waiting for the Americans maybe they will strike a deal with the Chinese to finish off the ISS and possibly add modules outside the origina design specification that benefit Russia and China better.
Slashdot Rule #1 Properly preview before posting to ensure you don't appear to be illiterate.
s/That/Those/
That were the plots from at least six different movies wrapped into one post.
Bonus mod points if you name them all!!
Yes, like that, but without the cheese at full magnification.
It would be cool to see the lunar landers and associated detrius but I'm not sure if the resolution would be high enough.
I've applied to over 20 positions on Dice.
No dice, so to speak.
I get the feeling there is one magic attribute I'm missing otherwise the total lack of contact over the years I've had my resume online just doesn't make sense.
Where do you post your resumes?
I've used the large sites such as Monster and a few Canada-specific Tech sites.