The little bit I have picked up about Canadian history I would say that he did a pretty good job (yeah, despite giving so much to the Quebecoise). Anybody I talked to seems to think Trudeau did a pretty good job and most people look at Chretien in at least a favourable way as well.
Paul Martin will likely be the next PM, and chances are he'll be a Quisling to the Americans, so many Canadians are nervous, remembering how Mulroney sold us out in the same way.
I am only living here for the past 3 1/2 years and don't even hold a Canadian Landed Immigrant status, but even I am getting nervous about Martin becoming the next PM.
On the other hand: I don't see anyone else who might even have a remote chance. I guess it's going to be very interresting to see what happens next in Ontario:
- Who comes after Lastman in Toronto (really, that guy is way past his prime, he isn't even funny anymore). - With Eves gone (I can't see ANYONE voting him back into the office) who will come next?
Interresting times we're living in... And I still think the Canadian Parliament is more entertaining than anything but maybe the british.
Soon every baby born will be required to give a sample. ' for their safety of course'.
Somebody was already suggesting this, as well as the implanted "transmitter" for kids (like the ones they put into animals, though it can be more powerful) in case the child gets kidnapped.
But I'm confused! Every second post in the previous Slashdot article about the sea change in IT said that outsourcing everything you could to someone else was good economically! What are those crazy Germans doing? My head hurts!
I think, the German government is not keen on using Linux over Windows, and they will appreciate when someone comes along with a good-looking statistics that allows them to go Windows without risk of being held liable later.
I am not so sure. SuSE is a german company, thus the money stays within the german economy unlike with the M$ solution where the money would go across the Atlantic.
There always was an interrest in Linux, but they couldn't justify it because nobody big was backing it.
If Munich pulls this off you can expect others to follow suit. Munich isn't really a very poor city there are poorer ones out there.
No I dont think everyone should have a nice car and expensive houses. Health insurance yes, education yes. But in the US what we spend the big bucks for is wants and not needs.
Thank you. I do agree with you, too much wants, not enough needs and advertising and society is constantly trying to tell us what we need.
Most interview questions always fascinated me. Things they asked for senior jobs I would have considered basic knowledge.
Not once did they really drill down. When I asked one of the interviewers why they only asked that stuff his reply: You would be surprised how many people fail those questions. Then they made me an offer.
I have this too, some things download lightening fast (lie a file this morning which I pulled with 80KB/s) and then others they just drip in and I upload more than I download.
Last time I checked I had a 1:2 download to upload ratio, so for every byte I downloaded I uploaded 2.
Either I am the only one in my area who has the file and everybody is coming to me or something is fishy here, at times I am connected to more than 30 nodes at the same time and still only get 5KB/s download.
The price difference isn't that much, neither is the weight gain.
The real beauty is in the cleat, the X1 - X3 ones have problems with dirt getting into it (okay, no rela problem if you're a pure cyclist, but as a Triathlete that IS a big thing).
Furtermore I like that I can freely select the range of float I want on the Zeros in comparision to the X series.
In Toronto there is the "Ride for Heart" thing happening every year, this year I was there early and saw a woman on her Rocket TT with complete Dura Ace Kit TT / Tri set up.
I was just thinking to myself: "Uh, oh, better try to hang with her." In the end I found another guy on his 10 year old, crummy bike and we were riding together, I only saw that woman again when we were at the Turn Around.
She most likely dropped more on her drivetrain than I did on my complete bike (okay, not quite) but I still did better, that made me feel good.
Ah, enough writing, gotta go, have a race in 2 hours. Happy riding.
BTW, what is your opinion of Speedplay Zeros? I have them and love them.
Steel frames are a lot more durable too - your steel bike will probably be in better shape after a minor wreck than an alluminum frame. For that matter, I've seen aluminum forks bend while mounted in a car or truck because of potholes in the road, etc. It's not common, but it happens more frequently than people would like.
I talked with the guy from Cervelo who made my bike and according to them the durability for Al and steel frames is pretty much the same.
The only difference seems to be that once Al goes, it goes there is no slow "cracking" like you have in steel frames.
Having said that: the ride on my Al bike is a lot more comfortable than on my old steel bike.
I don't see a corporate Linux desktop as a 100% solution today.. it's an alternative.. I'm asking "ok, who can get their jobs done with POP/IMAP mail?".
Callcenters? CSRs don't even necessarily need email, they should be fine with a web interface to whatever app they are running in the backend or a 3270 Terminal if the company is cheap and not willing to pay for a "nice" frontend to the mainframe.
But, the sad thing is, that most companies are still afraid of "Unix" in general. I know more than enough managers who in doubt rather buy Microsoft. Why? Because that's what they grew up with and because they think they know it (I am not kidding here).
In one of my old jobs I had a Manager who wanted to replace several Oracle DBs on Sun E3500s with "two or three" NT Servers.
what I have heard and seen from others "in the trade" indicated that after the first conceptual drawings people move over into the computer as it speeds up the process.
Not so sure about this. Yes, the movie might look "2D" but that doesn't mean that someone actually drew the character like in the good old days, then coloured them and shot the image.
There are utilities available these days that allow you to do all that on a computer, so instead of having a pen and paper you have a graphics tablet and software.
maybe not quite but since last week I have GPRS on my T68i and via Bluetooth I connect it to my iBook. So guess where I was sitting on the weekend: In a park with a coffee having full access to the internet.
Sure it was slower than my home network, but for shell, email and webbrowsing it works like a charm.
You know, it always amazes me listening to the slashdot rants and bitches about copyright protection. The "everything should be free, nobody should make money off of anything!" crap astounds me.
Okay, so far I am with you.
If someone creates something, be they a penniless mother of 6 living in a hovel someplace, or a big heartless, greedy corporation, they deserve to profit from it. Why should anyone create anything - programs, music, movies - and get nothing for it?
Okay, this one I can still follow as well.
I'm a capitalist. People's inventions deserve to be protected, because it encourages them to keep on inventing.
Yes, as long as the people are alive. And if a company wants to profit for, say, 20 years of their work that is fine by me as well, but why should "art" (I use the term loosely here) and thus part of our culture be at the mercy of a couple of greedy corporations? Hasn't Disney made tons of money of their Mickey Mouse copyright?
China already has a population problem (see "one child policy" and what that does to the world).
Even if, say, over the next 10 years China would loose 10% of their population while increasing the overall living standard by 10% that would still mean that 900 million people would consume easily as much as as the US is right now. And the US already consumes huge amounts of crude oil and other resources. Some of them renewable, most of them are not.
Slashdot Mirror
... that I just renewed my passport. So for the next 10 years I can travel without any of the biometric "security features".
After that? Don't know, stay at home I guess.
M.
Things are, in general, more liberal up here.
;)
Not to forget more relaxed.
I agree that the US promises a lot but for the average person doesn't really deliver, Canada on the other seems to just deliver without any promise.
I have lived in the US, I grew up in Europe and I think Canada is a great compromise, cold weather not withstanding
M.
Why Unfortunatly?
The little bit I have picked up about Canadian history I would say that he did a pretty good job (yeah, despite giving so much to the Quebecoise). Anybody I talked to seems to think Trudeau did a pretty good job and most people look at Chretien in at least a favourable way as well.
Or what am I missing here?
Paul Martin will likely be the next PM, and chances are he'll be a Quisling to the Americans, so many Canadians are nervous, remembering how Mulroney sold us out in the same way.
I am only living here for the past 3 1/2 years and don't even hold a Canadian Landed Immigrant status, but even I am getting nervous about Martin becoming the next PM.
On the other hand: I don't see anyone else who might even have a remote chance. I guess it's going to be very interresting to see what happens next in Ontario:
- Who comes after Lastman in Toronto (really, that guy is way past his prime, he isn't even funny anymore).
- With Eves gone (I can't see ANYONE voting him back into the office) who will come next?
Interresting times we're living in... And I still think the Canadian Parliament is more entertaining than anything but maybe the british.
Soon every baby born will be required to give a sample. ' for their safety of course'.
Somebody was already suggesting this, as well as the implanted "transmitter" for kids (like the ones they put into animals, though it can be more powerful) in case the child gets kidnapped.
But I'm confused! Every second post in the previous Slashdot article about the sea change in IT said that outsourcing everything you could to someone else was good economically! What are those crazy Germans doing? My head hurts!
Guess not all Governments are evil after all?
M.
I think, the German government is not keen on using Linux over Windows,
and they will appreciate when someone comes along with a good-looking
statistics that allows them to go Windows without risk of being held
liable later.
I am not so sure. SuSE is a german company, thus the money stays within the german economy unlike with the M$ solution where the money would go across the Atlantic.
There always was an interrest in Linux, but they couldn't justify it because nobody big was backing it.
If Munich pulls this off you can expect others to follow suit. Munich isn't really a very poor city there are poorer ones out there.
And if they do that guess what'll happen to your precious Dollar..... And guess how much longer stuff is going to stay as cheap as it is right now.
No I dont think everyone should have a nice car and expensive houses. Health insurance yes, education yes. But in the US what we spend the big bucks for is wants and not needs.
Thank you. I do agree with you, too much wants, not enough needs and advertising and society is constantly trying to tell us what we need.
Time to make a change... I am on it.
M.
Most interview questions always fascinated me. Things they asked for senior jobs I would have considered basic knowledge.
Not once did they really drill down. When I asked one of the interviewers why they only asked that stuff his reply: You would be surprised how many people fail those questions. Then they made me an offer.
Scary.
As far as I know there is no Karma.
I have this too, some things download lightening fast (lie a file this morning which I pulled with 80KB/s) and then others they just drip in and I upload more than I download.
Last time I checked I had a 1:2 download to upload ratio, so for every byte I downloaded I uploaded 2.
Either I am the only one in my area who has the file and everybody is coming to me or something is fishy here, at times I am connected to more than 30 nodes at the same time and still only get 5KB/s download.
I got them for cheap at the Bike Expo :) $100 off, and with some nice talkingn didn't even pay the tax ;)
M.
The price difference isn't that much, neither is the weight gain.
The real beauty is in the cleat, the X1 - X3 ones have problems with dirt getting into it (okay, no rela problem if you're a pure cyclist, but as a Triathlete that IS a big thing).
Furtermore I like that I can freely select the range of float I want on the Zeros in comparision to the X series.
Michael
In Toronto there is the "Ride for Heart" thing happening every year, this year I was there early and saw a woman on her Rocket TT with complete Dura Ace Kit TT / Tri set up.
I was just thinking to myself: "Uh, oh, better try to hang with her." In the end I found another guy on his 10 year old, crummy bike and we were riding together, I only saw that woman again when we were at the Turn Around.
She most likely dropped more on her drivetrain than I did on my complete bike (okay, not quite) but I still did better, that made me feel good.
Ah, enough writing, gotta go, have a race in 2 hours. Happy riding.
BTW, what is your opinion of Speedplay Zeros? I have them and love them.
Steel frames are a lot more durable too - your steel bike will probably be in better shape after a minor wreck than an alluminum frame. For that matter, I've seen aluminum forks bend while mounted in a car or truck because of potholes in the road, etc. It's not common, but it happens more frequently than people would like.
I talked with the guy from Cervelo who made my bike and according to them the durability for Al and steel frames is pretty much the same.
The only difference seems to be that once Al goes, it goes there is no slow "cracking" like you have in steel frames.
Having said that: the ride on my Al bike is a lot more comfortable than on my old steel bike.
I don't see a corporate Linux desktop as a 100% solution today.. it's an alternative.. I'm asking "ok, who can get their jobs done with POP/IMAP mail?".
Callcenters? CSRs don't even necessarily need email, they should be fine with a web interface to whatever app they are running in the backend or a 3270 Terminal if the company is cheap and not willing to pay for a "nice" frontend to the mainframe.
But, the sad thing is, that most companies are still afraid of "Unix" in general. I know more than enough managers who in doubt rather buy Microsoft. Why? Because that's what they grew up with and because they think they know it (I am not kidding here).
In one of my old jobs I had a Manager who wanted to replace several Oracle DBs on Sun E3500s with "two or three" NT Servers.
Got a link to that footage? I don't think I ever saw that.
Interresting,
what I have heard and seen from others "in the trade" indicated that after the first conceptual drawings people move over into the computer as it speeds up the process.
Maybe only some smaller shops do this?
M.
Not so sure about this. Yes, the movie might look "2D" but that doesn't mean that someone actually drew the character like in the good old days, then coloured them and shot the image.
There are utilities available these days that allow you to do all that on a computer, so instead of having a pen and paper you have a graphics tablet and software.
Oh geeze, it has been a while (what? 15 years?).
Anyways, if I remember correctly you have to disable the gun, they blow you up otherwise, there was something in the computer if I am not mistaken.
M.
Well,
;)
what can I say I have achieved ZEN my friend
Fido
Okay,
maybe not quite but since last week I have GPRS on my T68i and via Bluetooth I connect it to my iBook. So guess where I was sitting on the weekend: In a park with a coffee having full access to the internet.
Sure it was slower than my home network, but for shell, email and webbrowsing it works like a charm.
The costs? $50 / month: UNMETERED.
I am convinced.
Okay, so far I am with you.
Okay, this one I can still follow as well.
Yes, as long as the people are alive. And if a company wants to profit for, say, 20 years of their work that is fine by me as well, but why should "art" (I use the term loosely here) and thus part of our culture be at the mercy of a couple of greedy corporations? Hasn't Disney made tons of money of their Mickey Mouse copyright?
M.
China already has a population problem (see "one child policy" and what that does to the world).
Even if, say, over the next 10 years China would loose 10% of their population while increasing the overall living standard by 10% that would still mean that 900 million people would consume easily as much as as the US is right now. And the US already consumes huge amounts of crude oil and other resources. Some of them renewable, most of them are not.