As a Rockford files Buff, I encourage everyone to watch the Episode "The House on Williis Avenue". Basically, they stumble on a "datacenter" in that era, 1978. And the purpose of it is to know everything from everyone.
For whatever reason (careful sourcing of components, instead of "this week's cheapest" I would imagine), Apple didn't suffer the infamous bootleg-electrolyte-formula capacitor debacle of the first part of this century on any of its own motherboards that I know of, that had plagued so many Wintel machines.
They suffered from bad capacitors in the iMac G5. Several persons had to replace their motherboard once or twice ! I have one home that works, but the MLB was replaced twice on it.
I'm too green to talk about general Novell. However. In a Mac OS X environment you want to keep as platform agnostic as you possibly can, Novell eDirectory kick Active Directory's ass. The Web GUI (iManager) let you toy with lots of the inner working of LDAP without too much fuss. It's a crying shame it didn't take it's place as a wonderful LDAP/Configuration server in general.
I paid a consultant to tailor eDirectory to my needs and it's awesome. License fees are so low. It makes my Microsoft audit people freak out.
I just need to find a way to interface &%?*?&%$?$ Windows to it...
Several cars in Montreal Canada had their internal battery explode. Drivers said that they weren't able to avoid many potholes and overloaded their batteries.
City officials still maintain that they are on the tip of the tide, had this technology be invented ten years ago, no more electric dam would be required.
With pieces of viaduct falling on people, free but shitty healthcare (don't trust what Michael Moore says about it, we wait more than 30 minutes in the emergency), roads with so many potholes that you are basically ruining your car on them and totally retarded attitude about technology, I would prefer to pay for my own things.
I will just buy my iPods, iPhones, CD and DVD'S, memory cards in a USA WalMart. The drive to champlain NY is too short not to benefit from it. Even if I need more gas than the price of the Levy, I'll do it for the principle.
1. They pay no income taxes when they work 2. They pay no sales taxes 3. They have no restrictions (or almost) to bring anything from other countries 4. Their electricity is free. 5. They have province-paid bungalows (They are nice) 6. They almost all harvest a welfare check every month, sometimes more than one. Hell even provincial police can't go on their territory without getting shot.
They really suck. I vote for no more money for these cockroaches.
Let mobile services provider do their job, that is sell Wireless voice and data service. The actual phones should be sold by specialized stores or the phone manufacturers themselves.
It's a bit more troublesome for non-GSM phone, but it would still make perfect sense. You can sorta alreay do that with GSM phones, provided they are unlocked. Switch the SIM and you're done. No support for your phone from the provider though.
No ISP is selling you the computer to go on the Internet.
If I told you that 52 % of your salary would be gone *poof* for at best mediocre public services, I,m sure you would scream. (52 % = 15 + 22 + 15) I'm not even counting good wine and liquor in that: there is an awful lot of taxes on a good bottle of cognac or grappa here.
Round it out as you want, you can pay a friggin good health insurance and tuition for kids when your paycheck is not cut in half. I traveled the states for 3 years, and talked to people. People with my job down there are having a lot more for their money. Not to neglect also is the fact that technologically, it is way in advance. As an example, the TiVo is starting to appear here. It's not even distributed yet, you can just use it and get schedules.
We're always the last ones on the block to have the goodies. The iPhone, maybe in 10 years ?
French canada does not have an ounce of choice in regard to stores and some chains. I miss a lot some nice and inexpensive stores down there....
Going back to the thread, there used to be a Levy on iPods and they wanted to bring it back not so long ago. On the biggest iPod, the levy would be around 75 $. My point is simply that if I pay a levy, I will fill my iPod with downloaded tunes.
I disagree sharply on US healthcare. When someone here has a "special" disease or the wait time is too long, they often send the person to the States. Health insurance down there cost a fortune and I know it, but at least when you go to the hospital, you're not losing your time and they are cleaner than here. I know it's not as uniform as I think but still, they are way ahead of us as far as equipment and conditions.
The point is only that at least in the US you have the freedom to take a Private Health Insurance and pay for nice private schools. Here, you pay already a fortune for public systems that doesn't work well at all.
The numbers , exactly: For a 40K Salary
Federal Tax: Provincial Tax: 22 % (http://www.impotexpert.ca/windows/impotnet/mod_fi scales.asp) Provincial Tax: 15 % of the first 37 178 $ 22% of the rest rounds out to about 16 % (http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/faq/taxr ates-e.html)
I admit I went a bit overboard, but don't forget also that;
You pay about 15 % taxes, more on liquor and tobacco
Products that aren't avail. here because of stupid language laws (I'm a french speaker and these laws are like the gestapo) or because we are too retard to have proper suppliers of technology here get taxed at the customs, Heavily. It's your task to prove that It's not avail. here and it's impossible to do. That's why a TV in the US is always less expensive than here; we're getting screwed by the customs.
Anyone want my canadian citizenship for a US one ? You would be crazy to live here.
Canada and especially Quebec are the most heavily taxed people of the entire north america.
When you get: 50% of your salary gobbled by income taxes 15% of sales tax,
Liquor, wine and Gas are even more taxed, for free but shitty healtcare (Expect to wait a day at the emergency), shitty roads with potholes and exchangers that are falling to pieces (And killing people), public schools that are understaffed and poor.
Do you understand the Canadian people to be greedy and pissed ? At least let us download freely for christ sake !
If they out back levy on iPod, I'm sorry, but I will fill it illegally. I paid the Levy, I bought the music.
Compared to Other Smart Phones such as the Sony Ericsson p990 which is not even distributed here and since it is not a quad band phone, the coverage would be iffy, the iPhone is really competitively priced.
Thing is, not a lot of people are going to pay big bucks for a really smart phone. However, Recalling how much the original iPod was, and how limited it was in the first place, I think the iPhone will succeed.
The Newton was a failure because Apple didn't want to develop the device further. Lots of changes were required which would have been very hard and very expensive in 1997. Color, long battery life, hard disk, synchronization with enterprise mail/schedule systems etc... The Newton OS 2.0 was a patchwork and was very hard to maintain. The Newton 2100 and 130 are still today way ahead of the Palm.
The iPhone is effectively the return of the Newton, fully rewritten, much more versatile and useful than the Newton. It's just too bad there is no handwriting recognition.
People want those series translated in "Quebec French". You lose a great deal of intonations and such. Also, cable and Sat provider here must comply with stupid laws that prohibits you from getting more than 50 % English TV channels. To make the matter worse, you can't have HBO or Cartoon Network here at all.
That means we have to wait for stupid translations or worse 'Spin offs' that are totally not like the original series.
I understand the language laws, but I have the right to have as many choice as my south neighbors.
It worked pretty well in Mac OS 9. You could login to the machine by selecting your username and then saying a passphrase. The default was: "My Voice is my password"
Thing is, it was local accounts only, no directory system at this point, much less for voiceprints !
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As a Rockford files Buff, I encourage everyone to watch the Episode "The House on Williis Avenue". Basically, they stumble on a "datacenter" in that era, 1978. And the purpose of it is to know everything from everyone.
They lost the floor plans graphics as well as the Captive portal Splash Pages HTML files.
Took me half an hour to fix. TBH, it's not so bad, the new templates for the splash pages look more modern .
So Walt is coming back ?
I have a dishwasher from them and it's almost impossible to get clean glasses. There are spots in the top drawer that works better than the others. :-(
For whatever reason (careful sourcing of components, instead of "this week's cheapest" I would imagine), Apple didn't suffer the infamous bootleg-electrolyte-formula capacitor debacle of the first part of this century on any of its own motherboards that I know of, that had plagued so many Wintel machines.
They suffered from bad capacitors in the iMac G5. Several persons had to replace their motherboard once or twice ! I have one home that works, but the MLB was replaced twice on it.
I'm too green to talk about general Novell. However. In a Mac OS X environment you want to keep as platform agnostic as you possibly can, Novell eDirectory kick Active Directory's ass. The Web GUI (iManager) let you toy with lots of the inner working of LDAP without too much fuss. It's a crying shame it didn't take it's place as a wonderful LDAP/Configuration server in general.
I paid a consultant to tailor eDirectory to my needs and it's awesome. License fees are so low. It makes my Microsoft audit people freak out.
I just need to find a way to interface &%?*?&%$?$ Windows to it...
A company who didn't have a car with anything else than a right angle and looked like a butter box until the end of the 90's.
Another good reason to move out ! Taxing the Internet !
To be frank, I don't think this will fly !
"What also floats in water?
- Bread. - Apples.
- Very small rocks. - Cider! Great gravy.
- Cherries. Mud. - Churches."
I knew that small rock would float one day !
They were visionary !
Several cars in Montreal Canada had their internal battery explode. Drivers said that they weren't able to avoid many potholes and overloaded their batteries.
City officials still maintain that they are on the tip of the tide, had this technology be invented ten years ago, no more electric dam would be required.
In Quebec, it is the same thing as in ontario... Though driving here is a sport. Avoiding potholes EXTREME !
Or got crushed under a crumbling viaduct
Or got their car broken because of potholes
Or got gouged by every single retail store because we pay more for everything... And to top that, we're the most heavily taxed area in north america.
Exactly.
With pieces of viaduct falling on people, free but shitty healthcare (don't trust what Michael Moore says about it, we wait more than 30 minutes in the emergency), roads with so many potholes that you are basically ruining your car on them and totally retarded attitude about technology, I would prefer to pay for my own things.
What I'm getting isn't worth half of my salary.
Equipment for which you get charged to death at the customs. Even finding store that will ship here is a challenge.
Ebay? "Will ship to United States only" on all interesting listings.
Just don't do it.
It'S a BAAAAD country for geeks. We're always ten years behind the US.
I will just buy my iPods, iPhones, CD and DVD'S, memory cards in a USA WalMart. The drive to champlain NY is too short not to benefit from it. Even if I need more gas than the price of the Levy, I'll do it for the principle.
We're taxed enough here. No need to add more.
Those people already got everything free:
1. They pay no income taxes when they work
2. They pay no sales taxes
3. They have no restrictions (or almost) to bring anything from other countries
4. Their electricity is free.
5. They have province-paid bungalows (They are nice)
6. They almost all harvest a welfare check every month, sometimes more than one. Hell even provincial police can't go on their territory without getting shot.
They really suck. I vote for no more money for these cockroaches.
Digital Music (CD's and MP3 especially) are a source of ear cancer.
Come On !
Exactly.
Let mobile services provider do their job, that is sell Wireless voice and data service. The actual phones should be sold by specialized stores or the phone manufacturers themselves.
It's a bit more troublesome for non-GSM phone, but it would still make perfect sense. You can sorta alreay do that with GSM phones, provided they are unlocked. Switch the SIM and you're done. No support for your phone from the provider though.
No ISP is selling you the computer to go on the Internet.
If I told you that 52 % of your salary would be gone *poof* for at best mediocre public services, I,m sure you would scream. (52 % = 15 + 22 + 15) I'm not even counting good wine and liquor in that: there is an awful lot of taxes on a good bottle of cognac or grappa here.
Round it out as you want, you can pay a friggin good health insurance and tuition for kids when your paycheck is not cut in half. I traveled the states for 3 years, and talked to people. People with my job down there are having a lot more for their money. Not to neglect also is the fact that technologically, it is way in advance. As an example, the TiVo is starting to appear here. It's not even distributed yet, you can just use it and get schedules.
We're always the last ones on the block to have the goodies. The iPhone, maybe in 10 years ?
French canada does not have an ounce of choice in regard to stores and some chains. I miss a lot some nice and inexpensive stores down there....
Going back to the thread, there used to be a Levy on iPods and they wanted to bring it back not so long ago. On the biggest iPod, the levy would be around 75 $. My point is simply that if I pay a levy, I will fill my iPod with downloaded tunes.
I disagree sharply on US healthcare. When someone here has a "special" disease or the wait time is too long, they often send the person to the States. Health insurance down there cost a fortune and I know it, but at least when you go to the hospital, you're not losing your time and they are cleaner than here. I know it's not as uniform as I think but still, they are way ahead of us as far as equipment and conditions.
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The point is only that at least in the US you have the freedom to take a Private Health Insurance and pay for nice private schools. Here, you pay already a fortune for public systems that doesn't work well at all.
The numbers , exactly:
For a 40K Salary
Federal Tax:
Provincial Tax: 22 % (http://www.impotexpert.ca/windows/impotnet/mod_f
Provincial Tax: 15 % of the first 37 178 $ 22% of the rest rounds out to about 16 % (http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/faq/tax
I admit I went a bit overboard, but don't forget also that;
You pay about 15 % taxes, more on liquor and tobacco
Products that aren't avail. here because of stupid language laws (I'm a french speaker and these laws are like the gestapo) or because we are too retard to have proper suppliers of technology here get taxed at the customs, Heavily. It's your task to prove that It's not avail. here and it's impossible to do. That's why a TV in the US is always less expensive than here; we're getting screwed by the customs.
Anyone want my canadian citizenship for a US one ? You would be crazy to live here.
Fact:
Canada and especially Quebec are the most heavily taxed people of the entire north america.
When you get:
50% of your salary gobbled by income taxes
15% of sales tax,
Liquor, wine and Gas are even more taxed, for free but shitty healtcare (Expect to wait a day at the emergency), shitty roads with potholes and exchangers that are falling to pieces (And killing people), public schools that are understaffed and poor.
Do you understand the Canadian people to be greedy and pissed ? At least let us download freely for christ sake !
If they out back levy on iPod, I'm sorry, but I will fill it illegally. I paid the Levy, I bought the music.
Well...
Compared to Other Smart Phones such as the Sony Ericsson p990 which is not even distributed here and since it is not a quad band phone, the coverage would be iffy, the iPhone is really competitively priced.
Thing is, not a lot of people are going to pay big bucks for a really smart phone. However, Recalling how much the original iPod was, and how limited it was in the first place, I think the iPhone will succeed.
The Newton was a failure because Apple didn't want to develop the device further. Lots of changes were required which would have been very hard and very expensive in 1997. Color, long battery life, hard disk, synchronization with enterprise mail/schedule systems etc... The Newton OS 2.0 was a patchwork and was very hard to maintain. The Newton 2100 and 130 are still today way ahead of the Palm.
The iPhone is effectively the return of the Newton, fully rewritten, much more versatile and useful than the Newton. It's just too bad there is no handwriting recognition.
Well It's worse in Quebec....
People want those series translated in "Quebec French". You lose a great deal of intonations and such. Also, cable and Sat provider here must comply with stupid laws that prohibits you from getting more than 50 % English TV channels. To make the matter worse, you can't have HBO or Cartoon Network here at all.
That means we have to wait for stupid translations or worse 'Spin offs' that are totally not like the original series.
I understand the language laws, but I have the right to have as many choice as my south neighbors.
It worked pretty well in Mac OS 9. You could login to the machine by selecting your username and then saying a passphrase. The default was: "My Voice is my password"
Thing is, it was local accounts only, no directory system at this point, much less for voiceprints !