The type of media people who work in fast food can play in their cars. Assuming they can afford a car. The cassette player I had when I worked in fast food had something against bass.
I wonder what sort of market factors are going on behind this huge price difference. I always thought steep competition lowers prices, but in Canada we have only one cable Internet provider and maybe two DSL providers. And low prices.
I'm not sure how it is in Telus' areas, but there are tons of DSL providers in southern Ontario. There are 79 ISPs offering DSL in Toronto according to canadianisp.com. Even smaller cities have 30 or so.
Isn't Internet access heavily subsidized in Canada? When we were up there on vacation, there were Internet access terminals (a PC on dialup) in every small town, for rent at $2CDN per HOUR
I live in Ontario and have never seen a terminal that rents for $2/hour. Every library around here (even the small ones) has at least a couple of computers connected to the internet that can be accessed by anyone for free. That is a subsidized program.
I don't believe that DSL or cable internet access are subsidized though except that cable providers have a legal monopoly on their lines.
Hey, if you want an exciting race, go watch NASCAR (or not). As far as the researchers are concerned, it's probably more interesting when these things fail to finish the race than if they all completed the course without difficulty
Hey, NASCAR races are more exciting when that happens too. People love to see stuff break.
What "seperation of church and state" are you talking about? The US constitution says something about the gov not making religious laws, but Canada has no similar prohibition that I know of.
The part of the charter that says we have freedom of religion.
Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: a) freedom of conscience and religion; b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and d) freedom of association.
The US constitution is a little more clear in saying that "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" (not that that stops governments from trying), but the only way to really have freedom of religion is not to stop other's belief systems and not to force people to fund other religions through taxes.
For those who may be confused as to why the Ministry of Education is signing deals for parochial school boards, Ontario has two seperate publicly funded education systems.
There's what is now called the public system (used to be the Protestant system) and the Catholic system. Technically the Canadian constitution has a similar freedom of religion clause to the one in the US constitution which would prevent a publicly funded religious school system but the Ontario constitution also has a clause that allows for one. So we get two sets of school boards. Great fun.
Let me fill you in on something.. Tech support will tell you that you are the only person facing a certain problem even if all of their other customers are having the same problem. They will do that as long as they are sure you can't prove otherwise.
That depends on the size of the company. When I did tech support, it was for a large number of small companies. Usually the highest number of people taking calls for a company would be 4 or 5. It would be rare for the company to tell us a server was down before we figured it out ourselves by the number of people calling at once for the same issue. Once we had some decent evidence that a particular server was down we would tell people something like "We haven't received confirmation from our admins but it looks like that server is down". It was way easier than trying to troubleshoot with them and got them off the phone quicker. That is, unless they were one of those people who likes to bitch about how much we suck and how they're going to "fire us" (change to another company) but never actually will.
Costs are being kept to a minimum by using advanced low-cost technologies and by introducing an optimised synergy with existing production facilities used for Ariane launchers.
It's good that the synergy is optimised. For in a world without optimised synergy, I do not wish to live.
Oh, and for those playing buzzword bingo, I just completed a line.
I've always wondered if you'd cause a plasma leak if you punctured a hole in your monitor...
Yes, but it's easy to fix. You just have to reverse the polarity on the phase manifolds in your keyboard. They're next to the inertial coupling stablizer.
I could be mistaken, but wouldn't open source code for voting machines make it that much easier for someone to hack the machines if they so desired?
Wouldn't open source code for an operating system make it that much easier for someone to the hack a computer if they so desired?
The thing with open source voting machines is that anyone should be able to look at the code and notice a bug that would allow this. With closed source voting machines like Diebold's, the only ones who know if there's some backdoor or buggy code are the people who programmed it.
It will be interesting if the other Canadian specialty channels complain if their new format does not fit the orignial license TechTv Canada had. TNN is running into this when it became SPIKE TV.
TNN changed from The Nashville Network (country music and Dukes of Hazzard) to SpikeTV (whatever 80s and 90s stuff Paramount has the rights to show). That was a much bigger leap than TechTV to G4TechTV.
The other thing to keep in mind is that TechTV Canada has been airing Electric Playground (a G4 show) because of Canadian content rules. TechTV already has some gaming elements to it. Adding G4 shows will just make the network more about gaming and less about technology in general. I don't think they have anything to fear from the CRTC for this.
Living in cities with anything like a decent crime rate, I view mugging and / or damage to equipment that I carry regularly as inevitible, and plan accordingly
A decent crime rate? I think you mean a not so decent crime rate, a bad crime rate, or a shitty crime rate. A place with a decent crime rate would have very few crimes.
The usual rule is that you can only not re-use material you wrote for another reason if someone else owns the copyright (i.e. you sold it) or you have already been awarded course credit for it (on any course, even at another institution).
Really? I copied code out of older programs all the time. It was encouraged. Why should you have to reword something (or recode something) when what you wrote the first time was the best way of saying (or coding) what you wanted said?
If they are POWs then it would be illegal to try them for anything other than war crimes, and they may be held until the end of the war (and needless to say the war ain't over).
Any idea when a war on an emotion (terror) can be declared over? Somehow I expect this will be like the War on Drugs and will never end.
I remember this being brought up about 6 months ago (I think it was just a statement by someone in the gov't rather than a recommendation at that point).
Oh, and you're probably talking about the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) rather than the CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority).
I've heard that rumor floating around but I'd like to see the proof that you can infact copy the CD legally. I know they charge a blanket tax but I'd be very suprised if infact the CRIA has given away the right to prosecut you.
Do you have any links to prove this (and no slashdot opinions don't count)?
How about Part 8 of the Canadian Copyright Act? Plenty of legal speak in it, but the part that matters here is this section:
80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of
(a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording,
(b) a performer's performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or
(c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer's performance of a musical work, is embodied
onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording. (emphasis mine)
The section after that sets up the levy on CDRs, tapes, etc. If you want it explained in something other than lawyer-speak, try this FAQ.
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What's a cassette?
The type of media people who work in fast food can play in their cars. Assuming they can afford a car. The cassette player I had when I worked in fast food had something against bass.
If two cops decide to stand in the same stall with you as you do your business, without any probable cause, they are violating your rights.
What kind of stall are you using that gives enough room for two cops to stand in with you?
Stop using the wheelchair stall and they wouldn't be able to fit.
These providers you're talking about aren't Bell resellers?
Many of them are but some go into their own network. All of them have to go through the local phone company (almost always Bell) for the last mile.
I wonder what sort of market factors are going on behind this huge price difference. I always thought steep competition lowers prices, but in Canada we have only one cable Internet provider and maybe two DSL providers. And low prices.
I'm not sure how it is in Telus' areas, but there are tons of DSL providers in southern Ontario. There are 79 ISPs offering DSL in Toronto according to canadianisp.com. Even smaller cities have 30 or so.
Isn't Internet access heavily subsidized in Canada? When we were up there on vacation, there were Internet access terminals (a PC on dialup) in every small town, for rent at $2CDN per HOUR
I live in Ontario and have never seen a terminal that rents for $2/hour. Every library around here (even the small ones) has at least a couple of computers connected to the internet that can be accessed by anyone for free. That is a subsidized program.
I don't believe that DSL or cable internet access are subsidized though except that cable providers have a legal monopoly on their lines.
Hey, if you want an exciting race, go watch NASCAR (or not). As far as the researchers are concerned, it's probably more interesting when these things fail to finish the race than if they all completed the course without difficulty
Hey, NASCAR races are more exciting when that happens too. People love to see stuff break.
What "seperation of church and state" are you talking about? The US constitution says something about the gov not making religious laws, but Canada has no similar prohibition that I know of.
The part of the charter that says we have freedom of religion.
Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.
The US constitution is a little more clear in saying that "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" (not that that stops governments from trying), but the only way to really have freedom of religion is not to stop other's belief systems and not to force people to fund other religions through taxes.
For those who may be confused as to why the Ministry of Education is signing deals for parochial school boards, Ontario has two seperate publicly funded education systems.
There's what is now called the public system (used to be the Protestant system) and the Catholic system. Technically the Canadian constitution has a similar freedom of religion clause to the one in the US constitution which would prevent a publicly funded religious school system but the Ontario constitution also has a clause that allows for one. So we get two sets of school boards. Great fun.
There's still hope that Hawking will follow Iron Man's lead.
Not only has Hawking built that exoskeleton, but he's also a successful rap artist
Let me fill you in on something.. Tech support will tell you that you are the only person facing a certain problem even if all of their other customers are having the same problem. They will do that as long as they are sure you can't prove otherwise.
That depends on the size of the company. When I did tech support, it was for a large number of small companies. Usually the highest number of people taking calls for a company would be 4 or 5. It would be rare for the company to tell us a server was down before we figured it out ourselves by the number of people calling at once for the same issue. Once we had some decent evidence that a particular server was down we would tell people something like "We haven't received confirmation from our admins but it looks like that server is down". It was way easier than trying to troubleshoot with them and got them off the phone quicker. That is, unless they were one of those people who likes to bitch about how much we suck and how they're going to "fire us" (change to another company) but never actually will.
What's poutine?
A heart attack that you can buy from a restaurant. French Fries, gravy, and melted cheese.
Here, Timon can explain it
Costs are being kept to a minimum by using advanced low-cost technologies and by introducing an optimised synergy with existing production facilities used for Ariane launchers.
It's good that the synergy is optimised. For in a world without optimised synergy, I do not wish to live.
Oh, and for those playing buzzword bingo, I just completed a line.
I've always wondered if you'd cause a plasma leak if you punctured a hole in your monitor...
Yes, but it's easy to fix. You just have to reverse the polarity on the phase manifolds in your keyboard. They're next to the inertial coupling stablizer.
I could be mistaken, but wouldn't open source code for voting machines make it that much easier for someone to hack the machines if they so desired?
Wouldn't open source code for an operating system make it that much easier for someone to the hack a computer if they so desired?
The thing with open source voting machines is that anyone should be able to look at the code and notice a bug that would allow this. With closed source voting machines like Diebold's, the only ones who know if there's some backdoor or buggy code are the people who programmed it.
Ah. The one I forgot about. The one with all the one-way streets.
It will be interesting if the other Canadian specialty channels complain if their new format does not fit the orignial license TechTv Canada had. TNN is running into this when it became SPIKE TV.
TNN changed from The Nashville Network (country music and Dukes of Hazzard) to SpikeTV (whatever 80s and 90s stuff Paramount has the rights to show). That was a much bigger leap than TechTV to G4TechTV.
The other thing to keep in mind is that TechTV Canada has been airing Electric Playground (a G4 show) because of Canadian content rules. TechTV already has some gaming elements to it. Adding G4 shows will just make the network more about gaming and less about technology in general. I don't think they have anything to fear from the CRTC for this.
This is in Southern Ontario.. and it can happen to you.
Want to give a hint as to the name of the city/town? Windsor? Kitchener-Waterloo? London? Someplace smaller?
Living in cities with anything like a decent crime rate, I view mugging and / or damage to equipment that I carry regularly as inevitible, and plan accordingly
A decent crime rate? I think you mean a not so decent crime rate, a bad crime rate, or a shitty crime rate. A place with a decent crime rate would have very few crimes.
The usual rule is that you can only not re-use material you wrote for another reason if someone else owns the copyright (i.e. you sold it) or you have already been awarded course credit for it (on any course, even at another institution).
Really? I copied code out of older programs all the time. It was encouraged. Why should you have to reword something (or recode something) when what you wrote the first time was the best way of saying (or coding) what you wanted said?
If they are POWs then it would be illegal to try them for anything other than war crimes, and they may be held until the end of the war (and needless to say the war ain't over).
Any idea when a war on an emotion (terror) can be declared over? Somehow I expect this will be like the War on Drugs and will never end.
Achilles is in the horse
What movie were you watching? Achilles wasn't in the horse, he climbed the wall during the confusion.
Just practice your "Duck and Cover" drill like Bert the Turtle
And here's a
link to the film. Yay for archive.org!
I remember this being brought up about 6 months ago (I think it was just a statement by someone in the gov't rather than a recommendation at that point).
Oh, and you're probably talking about the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) rather than the CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority).
Why should the user be expected to walk around their own home because one side of the house has coverage but the bathroom doesn't?
I don't know about you, but I prefer not to talk to people in the bathroom.
I've heard that rumor floating around but I'd like to see the proof that you can infact copy the CD legally. I know they charge a blanket tax but I'd be very suprised if infact the CRIA has given away the right to prosecut you.
Do you have any links to prove this (and no slashdot opinions don't count)?
How about Part 8 of the Canadian Copyright Act? Plenty of legal speak in it, but the part that matters here is this section:
80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of
(a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording,
(b) a performer's performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or
(c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer's performance of a musical work, is embodied
onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording. (emphasis mine)
The section after that sets up the levy on CDRs, tapes, etc. If you want it explained in something other than lawyer-speak, try this FAQ.