Canadian medicare is a service for the pple paid for by the pple.
You can't just wander into canada and get medical service.
As a citizen he can come back to Canada and register for medicare, but there's a waiting period.
I'm a canadian citizen and a resident of Vancouver BC. I only had to wait a few days for my MRI...
It took SIX WEEKS(!!!!) for a standard test to come back with bad news (cells suspicious for cancer). After that things went much much faster...
- appointment with a gynocologist 3 days later - test results confirming cancer 8 days later - appointment with a gyno-oncologist 2 days later - MRI 5 days later - major abdominal surgery 6 days later.
In summary, I had my surgery for cancer 1 month and a day after my initial test came back as "cells suspicious for cancer".
The canadian system needs improvement, but I certainly wouldn't trade it for the american one. I did a LOT of research on cancer when I got sick, and couldn't find anything to recomend theirs over ours.
Interesting how the negatives of EQ2 (in the opinion linked to above) so strongly parallel the negatives that I experienced with SWG.
The two that really stand out for me are...
1) incomplete game and bugs
2) lots of really boring tedious tasks.
Personally I'm waiting for WOW. All the positive reviews I've heard about WOW really seem to be in sync with what I'm looking for in an online game.
In the meantime I'll keep playing Anarchy Online. It certainly has it's faults, but if you don't take it too seriously, there's lots of challenges, variety and interesting gameplay.
It's very common for larger companies to specify what software they want their employees to use. And it's not uncommon for them to specify their employees use a browser other than IE.
Some companies went directly from NN4 to NN7, bypassing NN6 and IE entirely.
If you're an accounting company, your employees might need the web to access tax information, etc etc. They certainly don't need the latest IE widgets to do their job.
If I see a spider in my appartment, I run and scream like a girl. (Not too difficult cause I am a girl!)
Then I go play my MMO, kill things, and pretend they're spiders in my appartment.
The point is that anybody can visit google and use their site. They are creating basic websites that work in any browser.
The rest of us should take heed.
I work for a professional association, and our websites have to work with everybody's ancient netscape 4 installation. And they have to look GOOD in Netscape 4. I don't have to to spend hours getting css positioning to work in every browser.
All content gets saved in a database in a basic non-tables format (tables are used very occassionally for content that needs a more formatted layout). That content is then retrieved into a good old ugly tables template. CSS is only used for font information (colour, face, size, etc, etc).
For anything fancy, I use server-side scripting if possible, javascript for the most basic client side stuff(ie mouse-overs for menu icons), and flash for anything else client based.
Flash only gets used for extra utilities that that the average visitor won't need (online audio presentations, etc). Flash apps work almost anywhere, as long as the user has a plugin installed.
For platforms where tables don't work, I plan on creating separate non-table non-css-positioning templates. More and more pple are using palms and blackberries to access information so it'll be nice to cater to those needs.
IMHO using css-positioning to meet all browser needs is an exercise in frustration. Any advantages css would give me at this point are miniscule compared to the drawbacks. Yes I guess I would save some bandwidth... but we're a small organization so our bandwidth charges are very very small.
And I agree with what a couple posters have said... using your stats to decide whether to support a certain browser is kind of silly. Of course pple using that browser aren't going to visit if you've made the experience difficult for them.
One final thought... if you were running a retail store in the mall would you randomly prevent 5% of your visitors from entering the store? If you're running a business, traffic is money. Don't turn it down.
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Canadian medicare is a service for the pple paid for by the pple. You can't just wander into canada and get medical service. As a citizen he can come back to Canada and register for medicare, but there's a waiting period.
"Contact Canadian Medicare" WFT? You do to your doctor. You know nothing about the Canadian medical system.
I'm a canadian citizen and a resident of Vancouver BC. I only had to wait a few days for my MRI ...
...
It took SIX WEEKS(!!!!) for a standard test to come back with bad news (cells suspicious for cancer). After that things went much much faster
- appointment with a gynocologist 3 days later
- test results confirming cancer 8 days later
- appointment with a gyno-oncologist 2 days later
- MRI 5 days later
- major abdominal surgery 6 days later.
In summary, I had my surgery for cancer 1 month and a day after my initial test came back as "cells suspicious for cancer".
The canadian system needs improvement, but I certainly wouldn't trade it for the american one. I did a LOT of research on cancer when I got sick, and couldn't find anything to recomend theirs over ours.
The two that really stand out for me are ...
1) incomplete game and bugs
2) lots of really boring tedious tasks.
Personally I'm waiting for WOW. All the positive reviews I've heard about WOW really seem to be in sync with what I'm looking for in an online game.
In the meantime I'll keep playing Anarchy Online. It certainly has it's faults, but if you don't take it too seriously, there's lots of challenges, variety and interesting gameplay.
It's very common for larger companies to specify what software they want their employees to use. And it's not uncommon for them to specify their employees use a browser other than IE.
Some companies went directly from NN4 to NN7, bypassing NN6 and IE entirely.
If you're an accounting company, your employees might need the web to access tax information, etc etc. They certainly don't need the latest IE widgets to do their job.
If I see a spider in my appartment, I run and scream like a girl. (Not too difficult cause I am a girl!) Then I go play my MMO, kill things, and pretend they're spiders in my appartment.
I never understood that MMO crafting thing. Why craft fake stuff? If I want to craft something, I'll do that in real life.
The point is that anybody can visit google and use their site. They are creating basic websites that work in any browser. The rest of us should take heed.
Wow, I so agree with you.
I work for a professional association, and our websites have to work with everybody's ancient netscape 4 installation. And they have to look GOOD in Netscape 4. I don't have to to spend hours getting css positioning to work in every browser.
All content gets saved in a database in a basic non-tables format (tables are used very occassionally for content that needs a more formatted layout). That content is then retrieved into a good old ugly tables template. CSS is only used for font information (colour, face, size, etc, etc).
For anything fancy, I use server-side scripting if possible, javascript for the most basic client side stuff(ie mouse-overs for menu icons), and flash for anything else client based.
Flash only gets used for extra utilities that that the average visitor won't need (online audio presentations, etc). Flash apps work almost anywhere, as long as the user has a plugin installed.
For platforms where tables don't work, I plan on creating separate non-table non-css-positioning templates. More and more pple are using palms and blackberries to access information so it'll be nice to cater to those needs.
IMHO using css-positioning to meet all browser needs is an exercise in frustration. Any advantages css would give me at this point are miniscule compared to the drawbacks. Yes I guess I would save some bandwidth ... but we're a small organization so our bandwidth charges are very very small.
And I agree with what a couple posters have said ... using your stats to decide whether to support a certain browser is kind of silly. Of course pple using that browser aren't going to visit if you've made the experience difficult for them.
One final thought ... if you were running a retail store in the mall would you randomly prevent 5% of your visitors from entering the store? If you're running a business, traffic is money. Don't turn it down.