Urban sprawl is not created by automobile, it's created by people who don't want to live in big cities. I just moved 60km away from Montreal because it gives me two time the house and 5 times the lot for the same price, and a lot less pollution and noise.
And even if in big cities you live near a lot of people, I can say that since I moved (4 months ago) I met a lot more people than all the time I lived in the city. In an appartment building, nobody talk to it's neigbour.
I saw a documentary earlier this summer I think that talked about urban sprawl, saying that squeezing a lot more people in appartment building would be more ecological than building suburbs. Hey! Whe're not chickens that you can squeeze in tiny cages just because it make more sense ecologycally! we want to have space to live!
I work on a data wharehouse for a bank and everytime my client ask for a change or an addition to this system, we propose him a clean and elegant solution. 9 times out of 10 he says that it's too expensive (looking only a the short term investment and not the long term benefits). And we have to come back with a minimal solution, sometimes he even demands a throw-away one-time solution. I hate it when we have to do ugly programming like that...
What's the difference between protecting your culture by legislating, and protecting small businesses by legislating?
A lot of you here where happy when Microsoft was punished for occupying too much space in the OS market. Why does the government have to "protect" other OSes, any strong OS doesn't need a protection to succeed...
I live in Quebec and I'm what you call a "pure laine". The language laws have been created to protect the majority of french speaking people against the abuse of the minority of english people. There was a time in Montreal not long ago when if you didn't talk english, no one would hire you. It was almost impossible for a french speaking person to go up on the hierarchy of a big "english owned" business. It's that kind of discrimination that made these laws necessary.
But now, since the francophone have been given a chance to occupy some space of their own, and since people are more open minded these days, I agree that this kind of law should be relaxed a little, and let the french survive on it's own strenght.
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This survey doesn't take into account the fact that a lot of the people who say they can use their computer have no clue about the way it works.
It's the same thing with cars or TV for that matter. So knowing how to operate something does not mean that you can repair it when it's broke.
Seen that way, the gap has always been there, it's just that the number of things that people don't understand is increasing.
Urban sprawl is not created by automobile, it's created by people who don't want to live in big cities. I just moved 60km away from Montreal because it gives me two time the house and 5 times the lot for the same price, and a lot less pollution and noise.
And even if in big cities you live near a lot of people, I can say that since I moved (4 months ago) I met a lot more people than all the time I lived in the city. In an appartment building, nobody talk to it's neigbour.
I saw a documentary earlier this summer I think that talked about urban sprawl, saying that squeezing a lot more people in appartment building would be more ecological than building suburbs. Hey! Whe're not chickens that you can squeeze in tiny cages just because it make more sense ecologycally! we want to have space to live!
If you want to see another strange explosion engine, but one that is currently a working prototype go there:
http://www.quasiturbine.com/
I work on a data wharehouse for a bank and everytime my client ask for a change or an addition to this system, we propose him a clean and elegant solution. 9 times out of 10 he says that it's too expensive (looking only a the short term investment and not the long term benefits). And we have to come back with a minimal solution, sometimes he even demands a throw-away one-time solution. I hate it when we have to do ugly programming like that...
What's the difference between protecting your culture by legislating, and protecting small businesses by legislating? A lot of you here where happy when Microsoft was punished for occupying too much space in the OS market. Why does the government have to "protect" other OSes, any strong OS doesn't need a protection to succeed... I live in Quebec and I'm what you call a "pure laine". The language laws have been created to protect the majority of french speaking people against the abuse of the minority of english people. There was a time in Montreal not long ago when if you didn't talk english, no one would hire you. It was almost impossible for a french speaking person to go up on the hierarchy of a big "english owned" business. It's that kind of discrimination that made these laws necessary. But now, since the francophone have been given a chance to occupy some space of their own, and since people are more open minded these days, I agree that this kind of law should be relaxed a little, and let the french survive on it's own strenght.