Let's go way back to Roger Wilco's days in the very early 90s and I believe it was SQ4 or 5 where the Sprint logo would appear at the end of every space transmission.
Yes, gravy on fries in Ottawa. Try the poutine at the downtown McD's, or most any of the restaurants near the airport. My Canadian co-workers warned me to specify "no gravy" when ordering a meal, and sure enough, it was a standard at just about every chain, with the exception of an Outback steakhouse.
Shoulda specified... It's more that McDonald's is offering gravy that made me do a double take rather than we have gravy. IMO, the best thing that goes with their shoestring fries is their McNugget BBQ sauce.
KFC's chicken gravy is a bit pale and anemic, but is semi decent.
I'm from the Canadian capital with the world's biggest dildo (Toronto) and have travelled extensively across Southern Ontario and had only ever come across gravy at the big chain restaurants if they have poutine.
Having said that, the best fries come from chip wagons parked around small towns and cross roads out in the country side where the fries are either hand cut or pressed through an old fashioned fry press.
Gravy for fries is, IMO, best made from beef drippings. That dark rich luscious robust gravy....
1. Liberal arts college 2. Artsy fartsies 3. Starving students or parents who are budget conscious.
I went to a liberal arts college too, and as a graduate looking back on that experience, I have one observation.
As much as we liked to think we are expanding our minds, thinking outside of the box and bucking trends, the majority of us still went for the path of least resistance and followed the herd because it was so difficult to be the iconoclast and march to the beat of a different drum.
What that means is that the vast majority of computers will be M$ based. A few windbags will talk about Linux vs the evil corporate M$ (not having any idea what BSD, BeOS or any other marginal open source OS is). They will either try to install the OS or get a friend to do so.
Over time, they'll not have a clue about what's going on, go back to Windows, graduate and become a sales and marketing jockey for one of those companies they crapped all over during their idealistic days in university.
But hey, what do I know? I'm just another jaded IT worker who happens to have a liberal arts education....
Being from north of hte border, I'm a little ignorrant of the e-rate program.
But here's my attempt to pull it together.
Computer exposure for kids is good only to a certain degree. Giving them access to the internet so they can do their research, browse, chat online and then cut and paste their assignments into powerpoint presentations isn't a good thing.
Let's quit with trying to keep up with the home users and get back to teaching kids how to learn and explore their world live and in person.
There was a minute or two of extra time at the end of the show because of the difference between Canadian and American timeslot lengths, so they decided to add something "uniquely Canadian" and put in Bob and Doug in the "Great White North".
Actually...
I believe there was a rule at that time that some TV shows had to have a certain percentage of Canadian content in order to quallify for funding or broadcast within our borders.
More a situation like Monty Python's "Contractual Obligations" album rather than fitting in a 22 minute time slot.
SCTV cast and crew looked among themselves and rolled their eyes. And soon were born a couple of stereotypical Canadians sitting on an old couch infront of a map of Canada with Canadian beer in hand spouting "eh?, Hoser, aboot and etc... to drive home the fact that there was indeed Canadian content in the show.
A Rebel turned into a 10D, you're still missing a few of the features but for all the R&D that went into the 10D, the pictures I've seen come out of one makes it worth its price rather than buying a 300D/Rebel and hacking it.
R&D and all things that it took to develop the 10D, Canon definitely deserves the extra they charge for it. As much as I or anyone else wants something for nothing, these cameras are not outrageously priced and I believe it a fair price they ask for it.
I can't get to the article so I have no idea what the hack is, but if it's a matter of firmware, I think they should have pulled a Handspring and used ROMs rather than PROMs in the Rebel.
Someone else sarcastically pointed out before that rocket fuel is a more stable fuel than hydrogen....
Current space shuttles launchers are fueled by hydrogen and oxygen combustion out the tail end.
Payloads and riders are currently hurled into space at amazingly high speeds by controlled explosions of highly unstable materials behind them.
The Hindenburg was only one accident while we've lost two shuttles along with their crew to spectacular accidents as well as losing countless other unmanned test vehicles powered by the same stuff.
When will people get over the Hindenburg and see that blimps are indeed an inexpensive way of moving things around?
Did anyone here catch a recent (within the last month) episode of National Geographic on China on PBS?
The Chinese rely heavily on coal as a cheap means of heating. The major auto manufacturers have geared up to make and sell vehicles and sales are projected to skyrocket well past any other country in the world.
The Chinese government, not wanting to scare any business away, has relaxed environmental controls so that only the "Euro 2" standard for emissions on vehicles is in place. Note that Euro 5 is what's reported as current and our own North American standards are far more strict.
There is a constant layer of smog in the cities and our North American way of life is being exported and consumed heavily by those that have moved into the cities.
If the poster saw alot of bikes there, he must've been in a museum.
I have no idea how much (if any) money this saves, but I think its really cool... and got way too excited about it the first time I noticed it.
Lemme guess... you lost your excitement when you realized that:
1 - Unit won't jam and flash out of order like the old lollipop looking meters if you stick pennies into it.
2 - You can't just top up the meter any time you want. You have to wait as close to the expiry on the ticket to get a new slip in order to prevent overlap and wastage of money.
3 - You can't use someone else's time on the meter since they drive off with the ticket/receipt or you can't be nice and give it to someone else easily.
I wonder what the cost analysis is on these new ones vs. the old mechanical lollipops.
Those requied guys to go around and collect change, unjam gum and coins every now and again.
The new solar ones require a wireless connection, initial outlay, VISA/MC/AMEX/etc accounts, someone to still go around and collect change, unjam, repair and refill paper. Plus they don't work terribly well when it gets to 20 below freezing.
Geez, I wish I was the shmuck who came up with that idea.
For those that recall the radio station Quebec spoof of the I Am Canadian beer commercial, one part comes to mind.
"And although I can't turn right on a red light, but Tabernac! I can go straight through them!"
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Goes right back to that thread about hot rods and PCs.
Some are interested purely in performance.
Of those, there are the straight line speed freaks, tight cornering freaks, altogethering racing freaks...etc.
Some are interested only the aesthetics of the car. Neon, bouncing and turning the trunk into a giant subwoofer.
Off in another corner, you've got those who are cooking food ontop of their engines, putting real aviation wings (to fly), turning the car into an amphibious vehicle, sitcking incredibly weird looking chasis on a vehicle frame.
With someone sticking a computer inside a software box, it certainly looks like computers have made it to the same level that automobiles have in the minds of people.
But seriously, what do you expect a single game company to do about this? Stand up and be the good guys? Compete with other companies with much lower labor costs? Save the world?
A company that makes widgets and whatsits that are indistinguishable from the competitor's products would have to compete. Quantity for the lower cost is what drives that biz.
However, I would think a video game involves alot of qualitative factors that the cost to produce wouldn't be as much of a factor here.
Then again, apart from variations of the FPS theme, video games these days look pretty much the same.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who has been thinking that.
Ever since the first time I read about someone cutting a case open and putting plexi glass on the side with IDE cables in coloured tubes and neon lights that pulse to the sound of the games, the only thing I could think of at the time was the customized car scene.
I think you'll also find that the current crowd of 4 cylinder hot rodders are also the same kids who'll customize their computers.
Fascinating to see what once was the realm of geekdom now becoming quite mainstream.
In the case you're thinking of, how did the court accept the testimony of someone who was (it seems) poking where they shouldn't have been on someone's private property?
No idea. The only thing I know was that this guy was charged.
My concern is that I'm an on site IT guy or digitician as this article points out. I'm concerned at what my customers and prospective customers will think of when using me next, privacy issues and my obligations to society..
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Touché!
Indeed a good point.... Least we forget about no longer needing to be discreet about buying porn off of high up store shelves.
The more I see extreme situations of of a way of life, the more I think the world should be a balance of opposing ways.
At least that's what I remember it being called.
When private corporation accounted for over half of what was and content on the Internet.
I think it was 1997 or 1998.
Sniff.
Let's go way back to Roger Wilco's days in the very early 90s and I believe it was SQ4 or 5 where the Sprint logo would appear at the end of every space transmission.
They can play classical music or maybe some old jazz tunes from 80 years back?
Didn't Ian Wright or Tony Bourdain use one of these in Japan in their respective TV shows?
Which means that they do exist and are used somewhere in the world.
I'm gonna guess and say that whoever mod'd this one informative missed the author's tongue in cheek point of "freedom" being "dictated".
I would've seen it as funny.
Yes, gravy on fries in Ottawa. Try the poutine at the downtown McD's, or most any of the restaurants near the airport. My Canadian co-workers warned me to specify "no gravy" when ordering a meal, and sure enough, it was a standard at just about every chain, with the exception of an Outback steakhouse.
Shoulda specified... It's more that McDonald's is offering gravy that made me do a double take rather than we have gravy. IMO, the best thing that goes with their shoestring fries is their McNugget BBQ sauce.
KFC's chicken gravy is a bit pale and anemic, but is semi decent.
I'm from the Canadian capital with the world's biggest dildo (Toronto) and have travelled extensively across Southern Ontario and had only ever come across gravy at the big chain restaurants if they have poutine.
Having said that, the best fries come from chip wagons parked around small towns and cross roads out in the country side where the fries are either hand cut or pressed through an old fashioned fry press.
Gravy for fries is, IMO, best made from beef drippings. That dark rich luscious robust gravy....
BTW, even the McDonald's in Ottawa would offer gravy on their fries. Gravy on McDONALD'S FRIES??? What is this heresy?
Gravy on fries in Ottawa?
Prove it.
Poutine at BK and KFC while these gawd awfully too salty McLobster rolls out in Quebec and the maritimes but that's about it.
A few factors to consider here
1. Liberal arts college
2. Artsy fartsies
3. Starving students or parents who are budget conscious.
I went to a liberal arts college too, and as a graduate looking back on that experience, I have one observation.
As much as we liked to think we are expanding our minds, thinking outside of the box and bucking trends, the majority of us still went for the path of least resistance and followed the herd because it was so difficult to be the iconoclast and march to the beat of a different drum.
What that means is that the vast majority of computers will be M$ based. A few windbags will talk about Linux vs the evil corporate M$ (not having any idea what BSD, BeOS or any other marginal open source OS is). They will either try to install the OS or get a friend to do so.
Over time, they'll not have a clue about what's going on, go back to Windows, graduate and become a sales and marketing jockey for one of those companies they crapped all over during their idealistic days in university.
But hey, what do I know? I'm just another jaded IT worker who happens to have a liberal arts education....
I heard nothing about HAM during the blackout last year and I doubt Wi-Fi would've made much of a splash.
But going to public parks and using HAM equipment would mean portable power and thus blackout-resistent.
More than I can say for heavy resource based Wi-Fi.
http://www.bugme.net/bugme/
Best of sticky notes plus ability to scribble something down.
IMO.
Being from north of hte border, I'm a little ignorrant of the e-rate program.
But here's my attempt to pull it together.
Computer exposure for kids is good only to a certain degree. Giving them access to the internet so they can do their research, browse, chat online and then cut and paste their assignments into powerpoint presentations isn't a good thing.
Let's quit with trying to keep up with the home users and get back to teaching kids how to learn and explore their world live and in person.
... Training students with a suite of programs that (unfortunately) aren't used by most of the corporate world?
/.'rs, Repeat after me.
Yes, it's good for StarOffice to gain a foothold in the next generation. But being proficient in it won't get you a job.
My fellow Canucks
Gov't funded and developed Unisys Icons running QNX will be the computer and OS of Canadians coast to coast for every and all applications.
There was a minute or two of extra time at the end of the show because of the difference between Canadian and American timeslot lengths, so they decided to add something "uniquely Canadian" and put in Bob and Doug in the "Great White North".
Actually...
I believe there was a rule at that time that some TV shows had to have a certain percentage of Canadian content in order to quallify for funding or broadcast within our borders.
More a situation like Monty Python's "Contractual Obligations" album rather than fitting in a 22 minute time slot.
SCTV cast and crew looked among themselves and rolled their eyes. And soon were born a couple of stereotypical Canadians sitting on an old couch infront of a map of Canada with Canadian beer in hand spouting "eh?, Hoser, aboot and etc... to drive home the fact that there was indeed Canadian content in the show.
A Rebel turned into a 10D, you're still missing a few of the features but for all the R&D that went into the 10D, the pictures I've seen come out of one makes it worth its price rather than buying a 300D/Rebel and hacking it.
R&D and all things that it took to develop the 10D, Canon definitely deserves the extra they charge for it. As much as I or anyone else wants something for nothing, these cameras are not outrageously priced and I believe it a fair price they ask for it.
I can't get to the article so I have no idea what the hack is, but if it's a matter of firmware, I think they should have pulled a Handspring and used ROMs rather than PROMs in the Rebel.
Someone else sarcastically pointed out before that rocket fuel is a more stable fuel than hydrogen....
Current space shuttles launchers are fueled by hydrogen and oxygen combustion out the tail end.
Payloads and riders are currently hurled into space at amazingly high speeds by controlled explosions of highly unstable materials behind them.
The Hindenburg was only one accident while we've lost two shuttles along with their crew to spectacular accidents as well as losing countless other unmanned test vehicles powered by the same stuff.
When will people get over the Hindenburg and see that blimps are indeed an inexpensive way of moving things around?
Did anyone here catch a recent (within the last month) episode of National Geographic on China on PBS?
The Chinese rely heavily on coal as a cheap means of heating. The major auto manufacturers have geared up to make and sell vehicles and sales are projected to skyrocket well past any other country in the world.
The Chinese government, not wanting to scare any business away, has relaxed environmental controls so that only the "Euro 2" standard for emissions on vehicles is in place. Note that Euro 5 is what's reported as current and our own North American standards are far more strict.
There is a constant layer of smog in the cities and our North American way of life is being exported and consumed heavily by those that have moved into the cities.
If the poster saw alot of bikes there, he must've been in a museum.
Minus 20 degrees centigrade and Toronto humidity in February.
The LCD display was slow to move and the button to advance the time required a few bangs to loosen up.
I have no idea how much (if any) money this saves, but I think its really cool... and got way too excited about it the first time I noticed it.
Lemme guess... you lost your excitement when you realized that:
1 - Unit won't jam and flash out of order like the old lollipop looking meters if you stick pennies into it.
2 - You can't just top up the meter any time you want. You have to wait as close to the expiry on the ticket to get a new slip in order to prevent overlap and wastage of money.
3 - You can't use someone else's time on the meter since they drive off with the ticket/receipt or you can't be nice and give it to someone else easily.
I wonder what the cost analysis is on these new ones vs. the old mechanical lollipops.
Those requied guys to go around and collect change, unjam gum and coins every now and again.
The new solar ones require a wireless connection, initial outlay, VISA/MC/AMEX/etc accounts, someone to still go around and collect change, unjam, repair and refill paper. Plus they don't work terribly well when it gets to 20 below freezing.
Geez, I wish I was the shmuck who came up with that idea.
For those that recall the radio station Quebec spoof of the I Am Canadian beer commercial, one part comes to mind.
"And although I can't turn right on a red light, but Tabernac! I can go straight through them!"
Goes right back to that thread about hot rods and PCs.
Some are interested purely in performance.
Of those, there are the straight line speed freaks, tight cornering freaks, altogethering racing freaks...etc.
Some are interested only the aesthetics of the car. Neon, bouncing and turning the trunk into a giant subwoofer.
Off in another corner, you've got those who are cooking food ontop of their engines, putting real aviation wings (to fly), turning the car into an amphibious vehicle, sitcking incredibly weird looking chasis on a vehicle frame.
With someone sticking a computer inside a software box, it certainly looks like computers have made it to the same level that automobiles have in the minds of people.
But seriously, what do you expect a single game company to do about this? Stand up and be the good guys? Compete with other companies with much lower labor costs? Save the world?
A company that makes widgets and whatsits that are indistinguishable from the competitor's products would have to compete. Quantity for the lower cost is what drives that biz.
However, I would think a video game involves alot of qualitative factors that the cost to produce wouldn't be as much of a factor here.
Then again, apart from variations of the FPS theme, video games these days look pretty much the same.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who has been thinking that.
Ever since the first time I read about someone cutting a case open and putting plexi glass on the side with IDE cables in coloured tubes and neon lights that pulse to the sound of the games, the only thing I could think of at the time was the customized car scene.
I think you'll also find that the current crowd of 4 cylinder hot rodders are also the same kids who'll customize their computers.
Fascinating to see what once was the realm of geekdom now becoming quite mainstream.
In the case you're thinking of, how did the court accept the testimony of someone who was (it seems) poking where they shouldn't have been on someone's private property?
No idea. The only thing I know was that this guy was charged.
My concern is that I'm an on site IT guy or digitician as this article points out. I'm concerned at what my customers and prospective customers will think of when using me next, privacy issues and my obligations to society..
Here ya go....
Boy Scout Leader Faces Child Porn Charge