The summary isn't about 'tech' and 'electric' stuff, but about an announcement of the price of a car model during an IR event. Copypasted not from Forbes, but from WSJ.
Wait what? Your answer isn't making any sense. Did you really understand what I've wrote?
Can't wait to see what this game-changer look like. If the car can live up to my expectation (including a drop in the price of battery pack), I'll certainly be more than interested.
And also think the success of this new model 3 will be necessary if Tesla ever want to enter the major league. With they business model of prepaid and get your car later (closely similar to how aircraft maker operate), Tesla depend on a huge cash entry to be able to multiply their assembly line and manufacture an decent number of car.
What's this constant crap about a boutique car factory that doesn't even sell 5000 cars a month? Give em a break and some time away from the spotlight to get their act together. Geez, it is worse than the iphones.
Hmmm maybe because/. community is interested in tech and electric stuff? And if you want more "business oriented" news may I suggest Forbes's website?
You're not saying that the average hipster will actually read "that part", or much of anything else besides Twitter, are you? Hope not, at least my observation of them is that a tweet is about the maximum their attention span will handle.
Absolutly not. As another./er pointed out, Apple either hided that problem for the lauch or didn't do much research on the matter. I'm sure +99.9% of all Apple watch buyer were not aware the heart sensor might not work if you have a tattoo on that part until this news came out (granted the % of the population with a tattoo on the wrist is low, but still). And since I've learned this on/. only so far, I'm also sure that +99.8% are still not aware of it.
"Even under ideal conditions, Apple Watch may not be able to get a reliable heart rate reading every time for everybody. And for a small percentage of users, various factors may make it impossible to get any heart rate reading at all."
Tattoos being one of the 'various factors'.
So you're saying the average hipster will make the conclusion that the heart sensor might not work because of his tattoo "prior" purchase after reading that part? Really?
You, like many people, are trying to solve the wrong problem. Fix the over-correction and there is no need for rocket powered thrusters in place of the cold gas thrusters. Fix the root cause, don't mask it with a heavy/expensive kludge that will come with a host of it's own failure modes.
I partially agree with this. Correcting the root of the problem seem to be the best solution, but one thing my years in precise robot precision though me is that usually, "asservissement" (french word because I don't know the exact English translation, but I would guess it's control with feedback) is more efficient while correcting the root isn't always possible.
He's a grandmaster until he gets caught cheating. Until then, he dominates the field and the pressure is on for others to cheat as well just so the playing field is level. ( The Tour De France comes to mind, as does US Baseball's Steroid issue, Online Gaming / Gambling, Standardized Tests ( like the SAT, ACT, Bar exam, etc. etc. )
It makes it impossible to compete unless you're bending the rules also.
Makes you wonder of all the "winners" out there, what percentage of them made it to that pedestal legitimately ?
This! And how much further until people start to put intelligent chip directly inside the body? I'm sure it wont be too difficult with today's technology to hide inside your mouth a device that communicate on the internet with a supercomputer at home. The input could come from the tongue and the output could be a speaker to send sound through the bone.
But chest wouldn't be the most lucrative target. Poker or blackjack (card counting) on the other hand seem to be way more lucrative.
Basically your link tell us there's 50% lost in the microwave/laser transmission and that a solar power plan have a life time of ~12 years compared to ground based solar power plan with ~40 years (which is calculated as a 70% lost).
It's interesting at most, but those two factor are clearly not set in stone and could evolve with the advancement of the technologies.
Embarrassed? Not at all. There's retard everywhere and Quebec certainly isn't an exception. I actually love my Quebec but for some reason the rest of the country seem to believe we're isolationists.
Well, we aren't. The young generation doesn't share the hate toward Canada of our elder and from what I've saw in my travel, the young generation from the rest of Canada doesn't seem to hate us either. I like Canada and being Canadian, I just love been a Quebecer more. It doesn't mean I want to separate.
??? When exactly I've said that I've designed only 1 PCB? I've done a little more than a dozen. And before you answer this, I just want to make clear that my intent was never to compete with you to see which one of us was the best PCB designer. You said that you have ton of experience but couldn't find job because of the lack of diploma and Altium experience so I suggested that you suck it up and either learn it, go back to school or find a company in the continent that need someone with your skill.
And about electronics company, that's what my friends in electric engineering told me. They didn't have problem to find jobs and the fact that I don't work for an electronics company doesn't mean anything.
They're the things you *maintain*, certainly not *design* or build. ETS is the new technician factory. You don't have what it takes to design robots. You're an "engineer" the same way an aircraft maintenance engineer is an engineer, because the government says so, not because of what you can actually *do*.
Omg! Well, sadly I cannot discuss my work on forum like those but let me tell you this, you have absolutely *no idea* of what I'm doing in Bombardier. Quite funny to read you thought. Assuming I don't have what it take to be an engineer and that I cannot design shit. Oh well, you can go on about bashing the province, the company, the young all you want if it make you fell better. Not that I really care to be honest.
So now you're showing me some crappy book about money laundering and tell me I'm ignorant? And what does it have to do in this discussion? Afaik money laundering is a problem in most (if not all) country of the world.
Furthermore, I've never said that Quebec wasn't corrupted, I've said it was far less corrupted when compared to the rest of the world : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
And about the Charbonneau Commission, most of those crime doesn't made any significant impact on the economy. We're billion in the red, who the f**k care about 100k$ contract sold to the brother or the cousin? Corruption not the main reason why the province is in the red.
So with all due respect, you know maybe 10% of Altium and 5% of Allegro, and 0% of the PCB design landscape as a profession.
So much for humility. All your claims about the programs being similar are garbage.
What the actual heck? So Altium cannot make PCB now? I'm not claiming the program are identical, I'm claiming they are two different tool with the same purpose so your experience of PCB designer can be used on a employer that look for PCB designer with Altium experience as long as you learn it.
And "robotics" is probably a fancy word for "I assemble PLCs to put labels on lipstick containers and use ladder diagrams to adjust the timing of label maker". Come on, there's no "robotics" in Quebec.
When I say "Robotic", I mean "Robotic" (A.K.A. Industrial Robot). And if there's no robotic, I really wonder what are those odd orange mechanical things I've been working with in the last few years.
I really want to know where you work so I never have the misfortune of working in the same building as you. It's bad enough we're in the same province.
You certainly seem to be a pleasant person so I can say that the sentiment is mutual. I usually avoid answering personal question but what the hell, I work with Bombardier so I you can sleep safe knowing Bombardier doesn't hire PCB designer.
But you're right about one thing, I have to work harder to get out of this inbred province of retards. And yeah, you ETS guys are the laughing stock of all the real engineers I know. They resent you for not having the same workload and same quality of education as they do.
I know a guy who graduated from ETS from when it was just a technical college, so I know very well the history. Spare me, ETS is just a meat-grinder to get kids to pay for an education that may very well never materialize into jobs. How about that Hydro Quebec work program hm?
Yeah I already got your hate for the ETS in your previous post. It's your opinion but I certainly doesn't share it (nor does most of the company in Montreal).
Well, I couldn't know that scholarship wasn't available to you since I didn't know your age. I'm not sure how studying with "Like, crazy hot. Like, movie hot." woman bothered you but I'm not sure Concordia was the best choice.
Also, I'm falling to see how getting an electric engineering degree is stupid for someone with a strong PCB design background but law or administration isn't. But I guess it's your call and your life.
Oh, so that's why. We're more similar that I thought. I also had a similar experience. I've quit school to start working as a Perl/Java/Python/C# programmer with only my high-school diplomat. Sadly, we live in a society that value a piece of paper more than actual skill.
I got lucky thought, I found that out at 23 and decided to go back to college. I don't know how old you are but going back to school is always an option. Plus, since you worked for a long time you should have access to a huge scholarship (I'm serious, simulate it on the government website). It certainly won't be as much than what you have earned but it's probably better than being unemployed.
Well the liberal got elected with a promise to reach zero-deficit budget by any means necessary and, well, it's kinda what they did. What did you expect? And I'm a little tired to hear comment about how "corrupted" the government is. Not only Quebec if far from the worst worldwide but even if you removed all the stuff that came out in the news, those million would still not make a dent in the economy (wanna talk about the hundred billion tax break of the oil company in the US?).
Oh, so I have to be super-confident and positive to apply for jobs, but if I repeat what others tell me, I have a humility problem? *I* don't think I'm that good, I'm just repeating what I've been told.
So...you're passing an interview in this forum? I pointed that out because it was completely nonessential in your comment.
OK, you're clueless. They couldn't be more different if Cadence ran on a Difference Engine. Ever used Allegro? Ah, you're a manager, got it.
No, I know both program and I've done multi-layer and high speed. Granted, faster I've make is about 300MHz on 4 layer but I've used then long enough to know that your experience with Orcad can easily be transferred into Altium.
Sure, where can I download it legally when I'm unemployed?
You're a grown man, I'm sure you can figure out a way if you really want it. That is if you don't want to take a course in some university.
ETS is a hand-holding kindergarten of a failed college that became a "university" through lobbying. That new ETS engineer can't wipe his ass without first reaching for his big TI calculator.
Is it hate that I feel in this post? Either way I got a bunch of friend in that school working on PCB design and they didn't have problem finding job. Why does they can and not you? Only you can answer this one.
I don't think they'll have a "shit load" of experience after 4 years at ETS... LOL, come on.
My point was that if employer require Altium experience and you're competing with those student, it's not hard to figure out that they'll prefer them over you if you don't have it. But if you learn Altium and add your X years PCB design "then" you'll have the edge. But if you don't know the program, they certainly won't be interested to teach you.
You think I didn't find those "jobs" too? Think I didn't apply? You think I have an ego problem but you think you can read my mind? You think a "dozen" across North America indicates a lot of jobs?
I never hear back from them. Ever. You think there aren't 25000 qualified PCB designers in the States? What employer would go to the trouble of hiring someone from Canada in what is, at best, a semi-skilled profession? In *this* economy?! I know a guy who did it back in the telecom boom times, sure.
It was a few minute search to have an idea. I'll certainly not take my night to find all available job in PCB design in NA. Yes there's competition but if you're as good as you say that you are (hell, just 12GHz + 24 layer PCB design is a clear selling argument), I don't get how you could stay unemployed for a long time and not get any interview.
I'm quite surprised a post with so much sensationalism get quoted "Insightful".
the the extent you can't have English signage unless it's smaller than French
False, English can have the same size signage. It just can't be bigger or/and have more emphasis than french. So basically, they force label to be written in french in a french populated province. Big deal, what did you expect? Or course french label should be required on everything. Are label written in English in Italy or in Germany? Especially when label are, well, important?
and they've ever tried to get companies like Best Buy and Home Depot to change to French names
They proposed and quickly made fun of by even the french population. It was a huge blunder that only happened one time and we never heard of anything similar since.
Quebec are a bunch of whiny assholes, who increasingly are trying to pass laws which actively discriminate against anybody who isn't white, French, and Catholic -- to the extent that they want to ban religious symbols, unless of course it's a cross, and then it's OK.
Well there's "whiny assholes" everywhere in the world, big news. You don't have to judge all of us because of a few. Also, this statement is also wrong since the religion ban include the catholic cross. It made the news when they had to remove the crucifix of the Parliament because of a bill they pass and, guess what, they removed it. And now plan on extending the ban of religious symbol on most of the civil servant like the police or elementary school teacher. And they aren't the only secular state/country in the world doing this.
That and they don't even realize they're barely capable of speaking in French -- they're illiterate in both offficial languages. I've known people from France who have to speak to people from Quebec in English because Quebecoise is such a mongrel of a language.
Ha come on. Same as above, judging the majority because of a few illiterate is just stupid. And France isn't better, their teenager is as bad than ours when it come to writing and I'm sure it's the case for the young of the rest of Canada too.
They think they're preserving their culture... when their "culture" is bigotry, a ruined version of the language, and a sense of entitlement mixed in with being whiny cunts.
Well they still speak in french today so I think they preserved it quite fine. I don't see why it seem to piss you off so much. Would you prefer that we give up our heritage and teach English to our kids like good little Canadian? Does a little diversity in the country is such a burden for you?
I'm quite young and I'm a french Quebecer and I still have difficulty to understand all this hate between our elder. Yes, the English screwed the French and the French screwed the English, we get it. Can we just bury the war hatchet and work on our Canada now?
I'll not comment the whole (unnecessary long) post, but here's a few things. First:
Absolutely untrue. I've been told many times I'm the best PCB designer engineers have worked with
Humility much?
Second :
and I do know the biggest tool in the industry, Cadence. Now that the economy is crashed, everyone wants Altium experience.
So basically you're so close-minded that you don't want to learn the new popular software that is, by the way, greatly similar to the one you know already? Resistance to change isn't a virtue that employer want. Suck it up, learn the damn program and use your experience as level to gain an edge over the young. Because if you don't, you can be certain that all the new engineer from the ETS with a shit-load experience in Altium will kick your ass in every interview around Montreal. And as I say, finding job is not especially hard in that domain in North America. I've found easily a dozen job offer for PCB designer in the USA (and even a few in Canada) in a few minutes. Do you even know how to use Google?
Quebec drags down Canada's bottom line. All they do is supply an endless train of bilingual mediocre employees to the Federal Govenment.
Language carries more weight than actual capabilities and skills. What a useless province.
Well I guess Quebec bashing from the rest of the country is to be expected in news like those.
Well like it or now, Quebec bring a shit lot of stuff and specialization for Canada that isn't to look down (aerospace, hydroelectricity and videogame to name a few). Furthermore, I don't know in what world you live but I don't see how speaking a different language is in any way related in actual capabilities or skill.
I've been disappointed with Montreal and Quebec in general for a long time but always fell back on the cop-out "it's not better elsewhere" loser mentality.
It is better elsewhere. But where do they still hire PCB designers?
Oh come on, if you're an up-to-date PCB designer then you should be good enough with computer and the internet to find hundred of job opportunities in Ontario, British-Columbia or even in the USA with a couple clicks. But don't except your quality of life to be substantially better anywhere else, Quebec's quality of life for the middle class is quite high. Also, people complain and are disappointed about their government everywhere else too. Quebec isn't more exceptional than anywhere else.
Allez chier ma gang d'osti de calisse de lèche-cul de tabarnaks.
Christ de modérateur, mon commentaire est 100% on-topic.
Dear Anonymous Coward,
I'm also a Quebecer (and french) and I understand your frustration toward the government (even if I don't share it). But I completely miss the purpose behind the idea of writing a hateful post (not to mention in Quebecer french) about the government in a English and worldwide news website. Did you expect sympathy from this community? Did it make you fell better?
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The summary isn't about 'tech' and 'electric' stuff, but about an announcement of the price of a car model during an IR event. Copypasted not from Forbes, but from WSJ.
Wait what? Your answer isn't making any sense. Did you really understand what I've wrote?
Can't wait to see what this game-changer look like. If the car can live up to my expectation (including a drop in the price of battery pack), I'll certainly be more than interested.
And also think the success of this new model 3 will be necessary if Tesla ever want to enter the major league. With they business model of prepaid and get your car later (closely similar to how aircraft maker operate), Tesla depend on a huge cash entry to be able to multiply their assembly line and manufacture an decent number of car.
What's this constant crap about a boutique car factory that doesn't even sell 5000 cars a month? Give em a break and some time away from the spotlight to get their act together. Geez, it is worse than the iphones.
Hmmm maybe because /. community is interested in tech and electric stuff? And if you want more "business oriented" news may I suggest Forbes's website?
You're not saying that the average hipster will actually read "that part", or much of anything else besides Twitter, are you? Hope not, at least my observation of them is that a tweet is about the maximum their attention span will handle.
Absolutly not. As another ./er pointed out, Apple either hided that problem for the lauch or didn't do much research on the matter. I'm sure +99.9% of all Apple watch buyer were not aware the heart sensor might not work if you have a tattoo on that part until this news came out (granted the % of the population with a tattoo on the wrist is low, but still). And since I've learned this on /. only so far, I'm also sure that +99.8% are still not aware of it.
But it does say this:
"Even under ideal conditions, Apple Watch may not be able to get a reliable heart rate reading every time for everybody. And for a small percentage of users, various factors may make it impossible to get any heart rate reading at all."
Tattoos being one of the 'various factors'.
So you're saying the average hipster will make the conclusion that the heart sensor might not work because of his tattoo "prior" purchase after reading that part? Really?
Um, actually they did.
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
Bullshit! ACTUALLY they edited the page April 29th to add the tattoo part. The cached page from April 27th doesn't have anything about it.
You, like many people, are trying to solve the wrong problem. Fix the over-correction and there is no need for rocket powered thrusters in place of the cold gas thrusters. Fix the root cause, don't mask it with a heavy/expensive kludge that will come with a host of it's own failure modes.
I partially agree with this. Correcting the root of the problem seem to be the best solution, but one thing my years in precise robot precision though me is that usually, "asservissement" (french word because I don't know the exact English translation, but I would guess it's control with feedback) is more efficient while correcting the root isn't always possible.
Cheating is rampant in all things anymore.
He's a grandmaster until he gets caught cheating. Until then, he dominates the field and the pressure is on for others to cheat as well just so the playing field is level. ( The Tour De France comes to mind, as does US Baseball's Steroid issue, Online Gaming / Gambling, Standardized Tests ( like the SAT, ACT, Bar exam, etc. etc. )
It makes it impossible to compete unless you're bending the rules also.
Makes you wonder of all the "winners" out there, what percentage of them made it to that pedestal legitimately ?
This! And how much further until people start to put intelligent chip directly inside the body? I'm sure it wont be too difficult with today's technology to hide inside your mouth a device that communicate on the internet with a supercomputer at home. The input could come from the tongue and the output could be a speaker to send sound through the bone.
But chest wouldn't be the most lucrative target. Poker or blackjack (card counting) on the other hand seem to be way more lucrative.
This stupid idea gets floated every few years. It doesn't work, even in theory. Do the math yourself.
https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-maury-equation-redux/
Basically your link tell us there's 50% lost in the microwave/laser transmission and that a solar power plan have a life time of ~12 years compared to ground based solar power plan with ~40 years (which is calculated as a 70% lost).
It's interesting at most, but those two factor are clearly not set in stone and could evolve with the advancement of the technologies.
Oh yeah you're probably right.
Embarrassed? Not at all. There's retard everywhere and Quebec certainly isn't an exception. I actually love my Quebec but for some reason the rest of the country seem to believe we're isolationists.
Well, we aren't. The young generation doesn't share the hate toward Canada of our elder and from what I've saw in my travel, the young generation from the rest of Canada doesn't seem to hate us either. I like Canada and being Canadian, I just love been a Quebecer more. It doesn't mean I want to separate.
??? When exactly I've said that I've designed only 1 PCB? I've done a little more than a dozen. And before you answer this, I just want to make clear that my intent was never to compete with you to see which one of us was the best PCB designer. You said that you have ton of experience but couldn't find job because of the lack of diploma and Altium experience so I suggested that you suck it up and either learn it, go back to school or find a company in the continent that need someone with your skill.
And about electronics company, that's what my friends in electric engineering told me. They didn't have problem to find jobs and the fact that I don't work for an electronics company doesn't mean anything.
They're the things you *maintain*, certainly not *design* or build. ETS is the new technician factory. You don't have what it takes to design robots. You're an "engineer" the same way an aircraft maintenance engineer is an engineer, because the government says so, not because of what you can actually *do*.
Omg! Well, sadly I cannot discuss my work on forum like those but let me tell you this, you have absolutely *no idea* of what I'm doing in Bombardier. Quite funny to read you thought. Assuming I don't have what it take to be an engineer and that I cannot design shit. Oh well, you can go on about bashing the province, the company, the young all you want if it make you fell better. Not that I really care to be honest.
So now you're showing me some crappy book about money laundering and tell me I'm ignorant? And what does it have to do in this discussion? Afaik money laundering is a problem in most (if not all) country of the world.
Furthermore, I've never said that Quebec wasn't corrupted, I've said it was far less corrupted when compared to the rest of the world : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
And about the Charbonneau Commission, most of those crime doesn't made any significant impact on the economy. We're billion in the red, who the f**k care about 100k$ contract sold to the brother or the cousin? Corruption not the main reason why the province is in the red.
So with all due respect, you know maybe 10% of Altium and 5% of Allegro, and 0% of the PCB design landscape as a profession.
So much for humility. All your claims about the programs being similar are garbage.
What the actual heck? So Altium cannot make PCB now? I'm not claiming the program are identical, I'm claiming they are two different tool with the same purpose so your experience of PCB designer can be used on a employer that look for PCB designer with Altium experience as long as you learn it.
And "robotics" is probably a fancy word for "I assemble PLCs to put labels on lipstick containers and use ladder diagrams to adjust the timing of label maker". Come on, there's no "robotics" in Quebec.
When I say "Robotic", I mean "Robotic" (A.K.A. Industrial Robot). And if there's no robotic, I really wonder what are those odd orange mechanical things I've been working with in the last few years.
I really want to know where you work so I never have the misfortune of working in the same building as you. It's bad enough we're in the same province.
You certainly seem to be a pleasant person so I can say that the sentiment is mutual. I usually avoid answering personal question but what the hell, I work with Bombardier so I you can sleep safe knowing Bombardier doesn't hire PCB designer.
But you're right about one thing, I have to work harder to get out of this inbred province of retards. And yeah, you ETS guys are the laughing stock of all the real engineers I know. They resent you for not having the same workload and same quality of education as they do.
I know a guy who graduated from ETS from when it was just a technical college, so I know very well the history. Spare me, ETS is just a meat-grinder to get kids to pay for an education that may very well never materialize into jobs. How about that Hydro Quebec work program hm?
Yeah I already got your hate for the ETS in your previous post. It's your opinion but I certainly doesn't share it (nor does most of the company in Montreal).
Well, I couldn't know that scholarship wasn't available to you since I didn't know your age. I'm not sure how studying with "Like, crazy hot. Like, movie hot." woman bothered you but I'm not sure Concordia was the best choice.
Also, I'm falling to see how getting an electric engineering degree is stupid for someone with a strong PCB design background but law or administration isn't. But I guess it's your call and your life.
Please rewrite your comment so the French part is conspicuously larger.
Huh? What french part? Or are you asking me to rewrite my post in french?
"No, I know both program and I've done multi-layer and high speed. Granted, faster I've make is about 300MHz on 4 layer b"
So, DC on hobby boards. This is the sign of a healthy tech sector in Montreal?
It was for an internship. I'm not working on PCB design anymore, I've found my way in robotic.
Oh, so that's why. We're more similar that I thought. I also had a similar experience. I've quit school to start working as a Perl/Java/Python/C# programmer with only my high-school diplomat. Sadly, we live in a society that value a piece of paper more than actual skill.
I got lucky thought, I found that out at 23 and decided to go back to college. I don't know how old you are but going back to school is always an option. Plus, since you worked for a long time you should have access to a huge scholarship (I'm serious, simulate it on the government website). It certainly won't be as much than what you have earned but it's probably better than being unemployed.
Well the liberal got elected with a promise to reach zero-deficit budget by any means necessary and, well, it's kinda what they did. What did you expect? And I'm a little tired to hear comment about how "corrupted" the government is. Not only Quebec if far from the worst worldwide but even if you removed all the stuff that came out in the news, those million would still not make a dent in the economy (wanna talk about the hundred billion tax break of the oil company in the US?).
Oh, so I have to be super-confident and positive to apply for jobs, but if I repeat what others tell me, I have a humility problem? *I* don't think I'm that good, I'm just repeating what I've been told.
So...you're passing an interview in this forum? I pointed that out because it was completely nonessential in your comment.
OK, you're clueless. They couldn't be more different if Cadence ran on a Difference Engine. Ever used Allegro? Ah, you're a manager, got it.
No, I know both program and I've done multi-layer and high speed. Granted, faster I've make is about 300MHz on 4 layer but I've used then long enough to know that your experience with Orcad can easily be transferred into Altium.
Sure, where can I download it legally when I'm unemployed?
You're a grown man, I'm sure you can figure out a way if you really want it. That is if you don't want to take a course in some university.
ETS is a hand-holding kindergarten of a failed college that became a "university" through lobbying. That new ETS engineer can't wipe his ass without first reaching for his big TI calculator.
Is it hate that I feel in this post? Either way I got a bunch of friend in that school working on PCB design and they didn't have problem finding job. Why does they can and not you? Only you can answer this one.
I don't think they'll have a "shit load" of experience after 4 years at ETS... LOL, come on.
My point was that if employer require Altium experience and you're competing with those student, it's not hard to figure out that they'll prefer them over you if you don't have it. But if you learn Altium and add your X years PCB design "then" you'll have the edge. But if you don't know the program, they certainly won't be interested to teach you.
You think I didn't find those "jobs" too? Think I didn't apply? You think I have an ego problem but you think you can read my mind? You think a "dozen" across North America indicates a lot of jobs?
I never hear back from them. Ever. You think there aren't 25000 qualified PCB designers in the States? What employer would go to the trouble of hiring someone from Canada in what is, at best, a semi-skilled profession? In *this* economy?! I know a guy who did it back in the telecom boom times, sure.
It was a few minute search to have an idea. I'll certainly not take my night to find all available job in PCB design in NA. Yes there's competition but if you're as good as you say that you are (hell, just 12GHz + 24 layer PCB design is a clear selling argument), I don't get how you could stay unemployed for a long time and not get any interview.
I'm quite surprised a post with so much sensationalism get quoted "Insightful".
the the extent you can't have English signage unless it's smaller than French
False, English can have the same size signage. It just can't be bigger or/and have more emphasis than french. So basically, they force label to be written in french in a french populated province. Big deal, what did you expect? Or course french label should be required on everything. Are label written in English in Italy or in Germany? Especially when label are, well, important?
and they've ever tried to get companies like Best Buy and Home Depot to change to French names
They proposed and quickly made fun of by even the french population. It was a huge blunder that only happened one time and we never heard of anything similar since.
Quebec are a bunch of whiny assholes, who increasingly are trying to pass laws which actively discriminate against anybody who isn't white, French, and Catholic -- to the extent that they want to ban religious symbols, unless of course it's a cross, and then it's OK.
Well there's "whiny assholes" everywhere in the world, big news. You don't have to judge all of us because of a few. Also, this statement is also wrong since the religion ban include the catholic cross. It made the news when they had to remove the crucifix of the Parliament because of a bill they pass and, guess what, they removed it. And now plan on extending the ban of religious symbol on most of the civil servant like the police or elementary school teacher. And they aren't the only secular state/country in the world doing this.
That and they don't even realize they're barely capable of speaking in French -- they're illiterate in both offficial languages. I've known people from France who have to speak to people from Quebec in English because Quebecoise is such a mongrel of a language.
Ha come on. Same as above, judging the majority because of a few illiterate is just stupid. And France isn't better, their teenager is as bad than ours when it come to writing and I'm sure it's the case for the young of the rest of Canada too.
They think they're preserving their culture ... when their "culture" is bigotry, a ruined version of the language, and a sense of entitlement mixed in with being whiny cunts.
Well they still speak in french today so I think they preserved it quite fine. I don't see why it seem to piss you off so much. Would you prefer that we give up our heritage and teach English to our kids like good little Canadian? Does a little diversity in the country is such a burden for you?
I'm quite young and I'm a french Quebecer and I still have difficulty to understand all this hate between our elder. Yes, the English screwed the French and the French screwed the English, we get it. Can we just bury the war hatchet and work on our Canada now?
I'll not comment the whole (unnecessary long) post, but here's a few things. First :
Absolutely untrue. I've been told many times I'm the best PCB designer engineers have worked with
Humility much?
Second :
and I do know the biggest tool in the industry, Cadence. Now that the economy is crashed, everyone wants Altium experience.
So basically you're so close-minded that you don't want to learn the new popular software that is, by the way, greatly similar to the one you know already? Resistance to change isn't a virtue that employer want. Suck it up, learn the damn program and use your experience as level to gain an edge over the young. Because if you don't, you can be certain that all the new engineer from the ETS with a shit-load experience in Altium will kick your ass in every interview around Montreal. And as I say, finding job is not especially hard in that domain in North America. I've found easily a dozen job offer for PCB designer in the USA (and even a few in Canada) in a few minutes. Do you even know how to use Google?
Quebec drags down Canada's bottom line. All they do is supply an endless train of bilingual mediocre employees to the Federal Govenment. Language carries more weight than actual capabilities and skills. What a useless province.
Well I guess Quebec bashing from the rest of the country is to be expected in news like those.
Well like it or now, Quebec bring a shit lot of stuff and specialization for Canada that isn't to look down (aerospace, hydroelectricity and videogame to name a few). Furthermore, I don't know in what world you live but I don't see how speaking a different language is in any way related in actual capabilities or skill.
I've been disappointed with Montreal and Quebec in general for a long time but always fell back on the cop-out "it's not better elsewhere" loser mentality.
It is better elsewhere. But where do they still hire PCB designers?
Oh come on, if you're an up-to-date PCB designer then you should be good enough with computer and the internet to find hundred of job opportunities in Ontario, British-Columbia or even in the USA with a couple clicks. But don't except your quality of life to be substantially better anywhere else, Quebec's quality of life for the middle class is quite high. Also, people complain and are disappointed about their government everywhere else too. Quebec isn't more exceptional than anywhere else.
Allez chier ma gang d'osti de calisse de lèche-cul de tabarnaks.
Christ de modérateur, mon commentaire est 100% on-topic.
Dear Anonymous Coward,
I'm also a Quebecer (and french) and I understand your frustration toward the government (even if I don't share it). But I completely miss the purpose behind the idea of writing a hateful post (not to mention in Quebecer french) about the government in a English and worldwide news website. Did you expect sympathy from this community? Did it make you fell better?
I find this not only useless, it's plain stupid.