That's a really cute argument but the fact of the matter is that if Canada were to decide to levy a fine agaisnt Netflix it would have to pay if they want to keep having canadian customers. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out all the ways in which we would screw with Netflix like making their service unavailable in Canada. Frankly, we wouldn't be missing much, we saw a mention of this on the news at a bar and everyone was like, oh well it wouldn't be a huge loss their Canadian service is kind of useless anyway.
We don't force you guys to do business in Canada but if you're going to do it you have to play by our rules. Honestly, all the previous posters claiming the CRTC was toothless and all about supporting monopolies are so wrong, they usually get their way and most of the recent changes they forced have been in customers favor. Example:
It's the dry climate they have in many parts. I'm Canadian too and "newer" cars last an incredible amount of time now ( well by Canadian standards anyway ). I had a 2001 car that I gave to my sister in 2013 and it had some small rust spots on the hood but nothing like the flingstone floors and speed holes of the past that you would've had at that point.
I got a 2005 afterward and it's pristine except for a spot that was badly repaired after an accident that's starting to rust.
I like the idea of electric cars but yeah that price had me laughing pretty hard. I had an engine switched for 3k here ( that was a really cheap and dirty job ) but for 5k I could've gotten a much better quality replacement. Then again I wasn't going to invest 5k in a 12 years old econoline even if it ran fine.
I fail to see how COBOL would teach you about the architecture of computers... It's not like it's a language close to the metal.
Also, I had the unfortunate "opportunity" of learning Cobol in University, I was in the last class taught before they retired the mandatory class. It's like any other programming language in University, after one semester of class you know basically nothing and it covers stuff you could've picked up in a few days of self teaching on the internet.
Depends on your field. In the video game industry, an engineer showing up with a suit for work is automatically viewed with suspicion for various reasons. It's just not part of the culture.
I mean, the CTO of the whole mobile label at Electronic Arts was wearing Jeans on a good day so.. Different industries, different standards, suits make you look unprofesionnal in my industry.
I'm curious, which part of it is moronic? Pretty much everything is a chemical reaction in an organic being.
Do you have an issue with the assumed length of life on earth? I mean, at worse according to young earth creationism it would be a 10 000 year old chemical reaction, still impressive.
Lol, I've seen the poor parts of Liberia (very briefly, yay!) and I don't think there's any kind of mass media reaching those places beside word of mouth.
Well, our job market is rather good right now, we skipped the whole mortgage thingy in 07-08, so no we're not super excited about hosting things that are illegal in the states.
What they're talking about is a somewhat easier task. They don't want to implant new memories, they want NEW ones to be able to form from the user input.
That's going to be extremely difficult but less so than implanting memories, especially from a source other than you.
Like the parent said, the ph of concrete become more and more neutral as the years go by. Here in Quebec pretty much all the old bridges, pedestrian bridges, etc built in the 60s-70s need to be teared down because they're basically 100% concrete and the rebars have swollen make them lose chunks all the time. As you can imagine that's not a very positive experience for cars going under those bridges.
As for sacrificial materials, well the whole point is that they get "sacrified" ie: eaten up before the metal you want to protect. At some point depending on conditions, your anode will have been fully corroded, galvanized or whatever the reaction is. So, it's not going to be indefinitely. I had a to swap the anode on a 4 year old water heater for example because of the water composition here.
Intelisense: There was a trick, you make the intelisense files not writable and then it won't update anymore. Then you use Visual Assist and you're golden:)
Or how about this crazy thought? There's no detachment and re attachment of souls because we don't have a magical out of body spirit presence where our mind is stored:).
Yes and use what? It's not like there's a serious option that's an industry standard. I've never worked in a game studio where artists used something else beside photoshop or someone would even consider something else. They have the same kind of lock in microsoft had, it's not just about the "os" it's about the giant ecosystem of plugin built around photoshop, the millions of line written in custom import script for art assets in most studios, etc.
Also, the thing that strikes me the most is that everyone seems to completely misunderstand the impact of the cloud service being down. They way Creative Cloud works right now is *the same* as Steam works, you use it to download and manage your software. You software is not running in the cloud, it's just a fancy pant download manager. The impact is NOTHING for users who have it installed. The only thing that's impacted is users who want to download photoshop or whatever. They do warn you: "Oh btw, you're not connected to cloud service, make sure to reconnect before the END OF AUGUST if you don't want your software to be disabled.
My users don't really care if their software is being installed through "Steam/Creative Cloud". As a matter of fact they are not allowed to mess with that anyway:). The real story is more how the licensing deals are changing, that's all. For the current studio I'm working at, we've found that *currently* the CC deal is way cheaper and anyway other options are going to disapear. It's not like we're stupid and we don't see what they're doing by trying trap us all with CC licences and THEN jack up the prices but there's not really any choice. Frankly they'd have to jack up prices to some pretty insane level before we'd have to call it quit, too much legacy software is riding on this.
There's a reason why we ask those questions. I always ask the candidate if he can explain to me how a linked list works ( no code ) and then can he please write a small struct/class for a binary tree node. No processing function, just the node with a data payload. Then how would I traverse the tree? The goal is to see if the candidate has some kind of grasp of how pointers work. This is where 90% of the candidates failed. We were also an embedded C++ shop and I needed candidates who knew what a pointer was.
I always asked them questions about personal projects but you needed to demonstrate to me that you had a fundamental understanding of pointers and memory as we had to write a lot of device specific optimization/memory management.
Them words be the truth. HR was pretty clear that we had to have a defense ready in case someone played the discrimination card. That meant written tests that were pass/fail. Even if we interviewed John Carmack, if he did not pass that test HR would refuse him any further interview steps. The interview themselves had to follow a certain pattern and we had to write down what we asked.
As a sidenote, I thought I would've a hearth attack when the manager next to me asked a candidate if she was planning on having kids soon. I was like oh god, oh god, oh god. I guess nothing came of it because we hired her but still.
Well, even if you're only interested in making/receiving calls with your phone, you have to admit that *in general*, it's much easier to manage contacts, call logs, sens SMS, etc when using a smartphone than with a dumb phone or a feature phone. Sending SMS on those feature phones used to be a total nightmare and I would do it only as a last resort.
Heck my dad, my uncle and my father in law ( all above 60 y/old) used to barely be able to make/take calls on feature phones. Now they have the cheapest refurb iphone and without having to teach/show them they use contacts and call logs, according to them it "changed their life" for the better having those contacts on hand at all time.
Look, I'm Canadian and while I'm proud of the standards each soldier has to uphold in our military, I'm afraid Quality might come up a bit short against Quantity. Meaning there are WAY too many Americans for us to suppress in case of a revolution.
That's crazy talk, if you do that you won't be able to charge your clients enormous change fees when they realize they didn't really want a wall, they wanted a 5 bedroom house.
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It's simple, Netflix made claims based on that data. The CRTC called them on it and said they wanted them to prove it with the raw data.
That's a really cute argument but the fact of the matter is that if Canada were to decide to levy a fine agaisnt Netflix it would have to pay if they want to keep having canadian customers. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out all the ways in which we would screw with Netflix like making their service unavailable in Canada. Frankly, we wouldn't be missing much, we saw a mention of this on the news at a bar and everyone was like, oh well it wouldn't be a huge loss their Canadian service is kind of useless anyway.
We don't force you guys to do business in Canada but if you're going to do it you have to play by our rules. Honestly, all the previous posters claiming the CRTC was toothless and all about supporting monopolies are so wrong, they usually get their way and most of the recent changes they forced have been in customers favor. Example:
CRTC wireless code comes into force: Canadians can cancel their contracts without penalty after two years : http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/com1... Slapping down internet throttling by ISP and net neutrality violators: https://openmedia.ca/news/bell... etc.
It's the dry climate they have in many parts. I'm Canadian too and "newer" cars last an incredible amount of time now ( well by Canadian standards anyway ). I had a 2001 car that I gave to my sister in 2013 and it had some small rust spots on the hood but nothing like the flingstone floors and speed holes of the past that you would've had at that point.
I got a 2005 afterward and it's pristine except for a spot that was badly repaired after an accident that's starting to rust.
I like the idea of electric cars but yeah that price had me laughing pretty hard. I had an engine switched for 3k here ( that was a really cheap and dirty job ) but for 5k I could've gotten a much better quality replacement. Then again I wasn't going to invest 5k in a 12 years old econoline even if it ran fine.
I fail to see how COBOL would teach you about the architecture of computers... It's not like it's a language close to the metal.
Also, I had the unfortunate "opportunity" of learning Cobol in University, I was in the last class taught before they retired the mandatory class. It's like any other programming language in University, after one semester of class you know basically nothing and it covers stuff you could've picked up in a few days of self teaching on the internet.
Depends on your field. In the video game industry, an engineer showing up with a suit for work is automatically viewed with suspicion for various reasons. It's just not part of the culture.
I mean, the CTO of the whole mobile label at Electronic Arts was wearing Jeans on a good day so.. Different industries, different standards, suits make you look unprofesionnal in my industry.
I'm curious, which part of it is moronic? Pretty much everything is a chemical reaction in an organic being.
Do you have an issue with the assumed length of life on earth? I mean, at worse according to young earth creationism it would be a 10 000 year old chemical reaction, still impressive.
Lol, I've seen the poor parts of Liberia (very briefly, yay!) and I don't think there's any kind of mass media reaching those places beside word of mouth.
You know, pee is mostly sterile, so pee on hands is not exactly a disease vector :p
Well, our job market is rather good right now, we skipped the whole mortgage thingy in 07-08, so no we're not super excited about hosting things that are illegal in the states.
What they're talking about is a somewhat easier task. They don't want to implant new memories, they want NEW ones to be able to form from the user input.
That's going to be extremely difficult but less so than implanting memories, especially from a source other than you.
I have a hard time believing so much objective-c is being written. Maybe the list assumes that all ios apps are in objective-C which is false.
Like the parent said, the ph of concrete become more and more neutral as the years go by. Here in Quebec pretty much all the old bridges, pedestrian bridges, etc built in the 60s-70s need to be teared down because they're basically 100% concrete and the rebars have swollen make them lose chunks all the time. As you can imagine that's not a very positive experience for cars going under those bridges.
As for sacrificial materials, well the whole point is that they get "sacrified" ie: eaten up before the metal you want to protect. At some point depending on conditions, your anode will have been fully corroded, galvanized or whatever the reaction is. So, it's not going to be indefinitely. I had a to swap the anode on a 4 year old water heater for example because of the water composition here.
Well, he used a computer at some point so it's Slashdot material :)
Intelisense: There was a trick, you make the intelisense files not writable and then it won't update anymore. Then you use Visual Assist and you're golden :)
We could probably already do this, it just wouldnt be cost effective. Good old humans are pretty cheap :)
Or how about this crazy thought? There's no detachment and re attachment of souls because we don't have a magical out of body spirit presence where our mind is stored :).
Anecdotal evidence for the win
Yes and use what? It's not like there's a serious option that's an industry standard. I've never worked in a game studio where artists used something else beside photoshop or someone would even consider something else. They have the same kind of lock in microsoft had, it's not just about the "os" it's about the giant ecosystem of plugin built around photoshop, the millions of line written in custom import script for art assets in most studios, etc.
:). The real story is more how the licensing deals are changing, that's all. For the current studio I'm working at, we've found that *currently* the CC deal is way cheaper and anyway other options are going to disapear. It's not like we're stupid and we don't see what they're doing by trying trap us all with CC licences and THEN jack up the prices but there's not really any choice. Frankly they'd have to jack up prices to some pretty insane level before we'd have to call it quit, too much legacy software is riding on this.
Also, the thing that strikes me the most is that everyone seems to completely misunderstand the impact of the cloud service being down. They way Creative Cloud works right now is *the same* as Steam works, you use it to download and manage your software. You software is not running in the cloud, it's just a fancy pant download manager. The impact is NOTHING for users who have it installed. The only thing that's impacted is users who want to download photoshop or whatever. They do warn you: "Oh btw, you're not connected to cloud service, make sure to reconnect before the END OF AUGUST if you don't want your software to be disabled.
My users don't really care if their software is being installed through "Steam/Creative Cloud". As a matter of fact they are not allowed to mess with that anyway
There's a reason why we ask those questions. I always ask the candidate if he can explain to me how a linked list works ( no code ) and then can he please write a small struct/class for a binary tree node. No processing function, just the node with a data payload. Then how would I traverse the tree? The goal is to see if the candidate has some kind of grasp of how pointers work. This is where 90% of the candidates failed. We were also an embedded C++ shop and I needed candidates who knew what a pointer was.
I always asked them questions about personal projects but you needed to demonstrate to me that you had a fundamental understanding of pointers and memory as we had to write a lot of device specific optimization/memory management.
Them words be the truth. HR was pretty clear that we had to have a defense ready in case someone played the discrimination card. That meant written tests that were pass/fail. Even if we interviewed John Carmack, if he did not pass that test HR would refuse him any further interview steps. The interview themselves had to follow a certain pattern and we had to write down what we asked.
As a sidenote, I thought I would've a hearth attack when the manager next to me asked a candidate if she was planning on having kids soon. I was like oh god, oh god, oh god. I guess nothing came of it because we hired her but still.
Well, even if you're only interested in making/receiving calls with your phone, you have to admit that *in general*, it's much easier to manage contacts, call logs, sens SMS, etc when using a smartphone than with a dumb phone or a feature phone. Sending SMS on those feature phones used to be a total nightmare and I would do it only as a last resort.
Heck my dad, my uncle and my father in law ( all above 60 y/old) used to barely be able to make/take calls on feature phones. Now they have the cheapest refurb iphone and without having to teach/show them they use contacts and call logs, according to them it "changed their life" for the better having those contacts on hand at all time.
Look, I'm Canadian and while I'm proud of the standards each soldier has to uphold in our military, I'm afraid Quality might come up a bit short against Quantity. Meaning there are WAY too many Americans for us to suppress in case of a revolution.
That's crazy talk, if you do that you won't be able to charge your clients enormous change fees when they realize they didn't really want a wall, they wanted a 5 bedroom house.