Feng, Google Docs (both simple and really work well), Alfresco (for deeper enterprise needs) even MODx or WordPress (for a more "CMS" approach), but for heaven's sake NOT Joomla! Between its rigidity and security issues it will drive you to the brink (or drink).
You are dating your understanding of history - calling into question your credibility.
As a matter of fact, Canada's navy at the time boasted one of the largest fleets in the world, behind only America and the UK. By the end of WWII the RCN had exercised dominance over the northwest Atlantic.
"AppleTV essentially won't play content unless it's from the iTunes store (like fan-subbed anime) without hacking it."
What are you talking about?
Aside from a handful of albums purchased from iTunes, everything played on my AppleTV including movies, TV shows and music are all brought in from wherever - mostly legit mind you, but not from iTunes. Apple TV is quite happy playing it all - no hacking necessary, no magic.
This whole discussion seems so ironic. If CanCon hadn't mandated SCTV to "be more Canadian", they wouldn't have created the McKenzie brothers parody of CanCon which, in turn, influenced and entertained an entire generation of Canadian youth.
I remember too many late afternoon road hockey games where our trash talk was all done in hoser talk. Loved every minute of it.
Ironically, CBC Radio3 (podcast, streaming and satellite, but not terrestrial) has flouted exactly this new global audience reality with an unapologetically all-Canadian lineup of Indie music. It's gone over so well, they launched a satellite feed on Sirius and their audience is pretty large - and global.
I listen to CBC Radio3, not because CanCon told me to, but because it's great and I see my culture reflected in its programming. Does that mean I HAVE to see "Canadian-ness" in everything I watch or listen to? Of course not. But just making it unapologetically great and Canadian works just fine for me; and simply put, I can't get that anywhere else on the planet, internet or not.
Then your college lab IT rats are completely incompetant. You must be the first person I've ever heard of actually claiming to have experienced complete OS X instability (notwithstanding your college is running 10.1 which, in turn, would prove their incompetance).
I've got luddite clients and parents (and everything in between) running the latest OS X on old boxes and still can't bring the thing down, get it infected or generally mess things up no matter what nonsense they try to do to their machines due to their general lack of understanding.
It just works.
You need to have a talk with your college IT - or their supervisors.
Well, Canada was the leader in bringing fuel cell technology from the proverbial dark ages into the realm of truely applicable technology.
Whether we remain the leader remains to be seen, but fuel cell test buses and cars have been built, tested and funded largely from Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa for many years.
Similarly, Iceland is all over this tech. Probably moreso than Canada in terms of trying to apply it to everyday society right now.
Because I'm likely to fall into the "always on" trap like everyone else, I've automated my "off switch".
The same technology that connects me (email, chat, office VoIP phone) can all be preprogrammed to turn off, or go to voicemail at pre-determined times. Now, I don't even notice that my outside working world has stopped being able to directly infringe on my downtime because the technology is now taking care of that and I just slow down and stop for the day.
My office email stops checking after a certain time, office phone goes straight to voicemail at set times and on weekends. There's an "emergency" contact contingency available that of course, is clear that it's for emergency use only.
And best of all, is that it's automated, because if it wasn't, I wouldn't be strict enough myself.
I do this fairly often with sites and organizations I think really should have their $#%! together enough to have done their due diligence.
But as parent said, I do it politely and point out that many users (of all platforms) choose not to use IE in increasing numbers, and feel much more comfortable - especially in a secured-environment situation - to use their browser of choice.
How much difference have I made? Who knows, but if these places are going to have their blinders removed, they obviously need help.
I don't believe communications infrastructure is subsidized in Canada (and FWIW I do take exception to the "gasp, even Canada" slight in the article summary), other than for underpopulated areas where the private sector wouldn't otherwise have incentive to operate, such as the far north, Nunavut, parts of the Yukon, etc.
The main difference in Canada, is that we have allowed defacto telco (and to some extent cable) monopolies to exist in some form for a little longer - this is quickly changing mind you, thanks to VoIP - than in the US. And as a result, the huge startup costs of the telcos, Bell, Telus etc, and cable companies, Rogers and Shaw and Videotron, were easily covered. In addition, because the competition was often so 1 on 1, it became an exciting "Telco versus Cable" style competition. It pushed regional availability very quickly and it pushed pricing down. Furthermore, the urban density in Canada is higher than in the US, which makes infrastruture-building easier as well.
So, enough of the "gasp, Canada" comments. Our telco policy may not be perfect, but it's made broadband available to a very large part of the population at a very reasonable price.
While "aboriginal" is probably accurate enough, I don't think it conveys the reality that at one time, there were hundreds of organized peoples ruling the lands, trading, interacting and occasionally warring - much like any other nation-entity on the planet.
Also, the name "aboriginal" too often conjures up, colloquially, wearing "funny clothing", "unfamiliar dances and eating strange foods", (the list goes on) as being all that First Nations peoples are about. And we had to get beyond that IMHO because it's not respectful to have such a singular perspective.
Is "First Nations" a politicized creation? Yes, but it had become necessary I think mostly because people were not going to afford proper respect otherwise. Humans are funny that way.
I disagree. There is no single industrial system although we do tend to refer to is as such.
There is, instead a culture of corporate convenience which, as everyone pretty much already knows, pushes any system, or product that enhances their ability to get more product sold for a lesser price.
This works just fine for extracting oil (not always but that's a different environmental discussion), or making little toys or automobiles, but if it's discovered that stabilizing oil for use in margarine merely requires that we alter its structure, then terrific right? The shareholders will reap the benefits of enhanced productivity.
This scenario has been played out more times than anyone wants to really know at the risk of our health. Then when it's discovered the health benefits are a slow deterioration of health, it's been so long in coming that the money has been made.
I can't see how there is any solution to nutrition for the planet other than the simplest, most basic one. Corporate researchers have so far demonstrated to me that they do not have the wisdom or foresight to handle this responsibility. Not that productivity cannot be enhanced within organic farming/growing practices - but just not by altering the structure of food every time it seems like it will solve a problem - we're so adept at taking a short cut just because it suits the boardroom.
Our increased lifespans so far, have come about because of improved sanitation, childhood vaccinations and treatment, and to some degree, availability of nutrition. But as it's already been documented, the children of the United States are about to experience the first ever decrease in life expectancy - not other countries (AFAIK) - mostly due to the same "nutrition" and lack of exercise.
I don't agree at all. A well-planned, well-conceived web-based app needs no more attention than a Windows-centric one.
The problem is that lazy programmers, and their lazy planning results is sloppy execution requiring various client-centric scripting escapes to execute things that should have been server-side in the first place.
And as I recall, the Canadian govt apps also had its Windows bias at first. Ontario had a similar issue when I used their provincial business site.
Then, interestingly enough, they were all head-slapped by some monitoring agency for being "discriminatory" against non-Windows users. Of course, being considered discriminatory is a huge deal in Canada, so everyone quickly jumped in line and fixed up their apps.
And you know what? They work really well now.
Who'd have thought? Democracy working?
Crazy.
Wait! There's a pig flying!!!!
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Feng, Google Docs (both simple and really work well), Alfresco (for deeper enterprise needs) even MODx or WordPress (for a more "CMS" approach), but for heaven's sake NOT Joomla! Between its rigidity and security issues it will drive you to the brink (or drink).
You are dating your understanding of history - calling into question your credibility. As a matter of fact, Canada's navy at the time boasted one of the largest fleets in the world, behind only America and the UK. By the end of WWII the RCN had exercised dominance over the northwest Atlantic.
"AppleTV essentially won't play content unless it's from the iTunes store (like fan-subbed anime) without hacking it." What are you talking about? Aside from a handful of albums purchased from iTunes, everything played on my AppleTV including movies, TV shows and music are all brought in from wherever - mostly legit mind you, but not from iTunes. Apple TV is quite happy playing it all - no hacking necessary, no magic.
Canada has never had a significant nuclear incident.
I was just responding to parent comment claiming that this was a CanCon mandate. It wouldn't be the first time a post wasn't accurate.
This whole discussion seems so ironic. If CanCon hadn't mandated SCTV to "be more Canadian", they wouldn't have created the McKenzie brothers parody of CanCon which, in turn, influenced and entertained an entire generation of Canadian youth.
I remember too many late afternoon road hockey games where our trash talk was all done in hoser talk. Loved every minute of it.
Ironically, CBC Radio3 (podcast, streaming and satellite, but not terrestrial) has flouted exactly this new global audience reality with an unapologetically all-Canadian lineup of Indie music. It's gone over so well, they launched a satellite feed on Sirius and their audience is pretty large - and global.
I listen to CBC Radio3, not because CanCon told me to, but because it's great and I see my culture reflected in its programming. Does that mean I HAVE to see "Canadian-ness" in everything I watch or listen to? Of course not. But just making it unapologetically great and Canadian works just fine for me; and simply put, I can't get that anywhere else on the planet, internet or not.
Then your college lab IT rats are completely incompetant. You must be the first person I've ever heard of actually claiming to have experienced complete OS X instability (notwithstanding your college is running 10.1 which, in turn, would prove their incompetance).
I've got luddite clients and parents (and everything in between) running the latest OS X on old boxes and still can't bring the thing down, get it infected or generally mess things up no matter what nonsense they try to do to their machines due to their general lack of understanding.
It just works.
You need to have a talk with your college IT - or their supervisors.
Of course in many major (otherwise healthy) real estate markets, home values tend to double is as little as 8 years. It's not that unusual.
does a bathroom count as a panic room?
Well, Canada was the leader in bringing fuel cell technology from the proverbial dark ages into the realm of truely applicable technology.
Whether we remain the leader remains to be seen, but fuel cell test buses and cars have been built, tested and funded largely from Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa for many years.
Similarly, Iceland is all over this tech. Probably moreso than Canada in terms of trying to apply it to everyday society right now.
I hear there's a competition starting to see who can hack Mac OS X Intel to run on the CN Tower
Because I'm likely to fall into the "always on" trap like everyone else, I've automated my "off switch".
The same technology that connects me (email, chat, office VoIP phone) can all be preprogrammed to turn off, or go to voicemail at pre-determined times. Now, I don't even notice that my outside working world has stopped being able to directly infringe on my downtime because the technology is now taking care of that and I just slow down and stop for the day.
My office email stops checking after a certain time, office phone goes straight to voicemail at set times and on weekends. There's an "emergency" contact contingency available that of course, is clear that it's for emergency use only.
And best of all, is that it's automated, because if it wasn't, I wouldn't be strict enough myself.
I do this fairly often with sites and organizations I think really should have their $#%! together enough to have done their due diligence.
But as parent said, I do it politely and point out that many users (of all platforms) choose not to use IE in increasing numbers, and feel much more comfortable - especially in a secured-environment situation - to use their browser of choice.
How much difference have I made? Who knows, but if these places are going to have their blinders removed, they obviously need help.
I don't believe communications infrastructure is subsidized in Canada (and FWIW I do take exception to the "gasp, even Canada" slight in the article summary), other than for underpopulated areas where the private sector wouldn't otherwise have incentive to operate, such as the far north, Nunavut, parts of the Yukon, etc.
The main difference in Canada, is that we have allowed defacto telco (and to some extent cable) monopolies to exist in some form for a little longer - this is quickly changing mind you, thanks to VoIP - than in the US. And as a result, the huge startup costs of the telcos, Bell, Telus etc, and cable companies, Rogers and Shaw and Videotron, were easily covered. In addition, because the competition was often so 1 on 1, it became an exciting "Telco versus Cable" style competition. It pushed regional availability very quickly and it pushed pricing down. Furthermore, the urban density in Canada is higher than in the US, which makes infrastruture-building easier as well.
So, enough of the "gasp, Canada" comments. Our telco policy may not be perfect, but it's made broadband available to a very large part of the population at a very reasonable price.
While "aboriginal" is probably accurate enough, I don't think it conveys the reality that at one time, there were hundreds of organized peoples ruling the lands, trading, interacting and occasionally warring - much like any other nation-entity on the planet.
Also, the name "aboriginal" too often conjures up, colloquially, wearing "funny clothing", "unfamiliar dances and eating strange foods", (the list goes on) as being all that First Nations peoples are about. And we had to get beyond that IMHO because it's not respectful to have such a singular perspective.
Is "First Nations" a politicized creation? Yes, but it had become necessary I think mostly because people were not going to afford proper respect otherwise. Humans are funny that way.
uuuh, 'cause they were here first?
I disagree. There is no single industrial system although we do tend to refer to is as such. There is, instead a culture of corporate convenience which, as everyone pretty much already knows, pushes any system, or product that enhances their ability to get more product sold for a lesser price.
This works just fine for extracting oil (not always but that's a different environmental discussion), or making little toys or automobiles, but if it's discovered that stabilizing oil for use in margarine merely requires that we alter its structure, then terrific right? The shareholders will reap the benefits of enhanced productivity.
This scenario has been played out more times than anyone wants to really know at the risk of our health. Then when it's discovered the health benefits are a slow deterioration of health, it's been so long in coming that the money has been made.
I can't see how there is any solution to nutrition for the planet other than the simplest, most basic one. Corporate researchers have so far demonstrated to me that they do not have the wisdom or foresight to handle this responsibility. Not that productivity cannot be enhanced within organic farming/growing practices - but just not by altering the structure of food every time it seems like it will solve a problem - we're so adept at taking a short cut just because it suits the boardroom.
Our increased lifespans so far, have come about because of improved sanitation, childhood vaccinations and treatment, and to some degree, availability of nutrition. But as it's already been documented, the children of the United States are about to experience the first ever decrease in life expectancy - not other countries (AFAIK) - mostly due to the same "nutrition" and lack of exercise.
I don't agree at all. A well-planned, well-conceived web-based app needs no more attention than a Windows-centric one.
The problem is that lazy programmers, and their lazy planning results is sloppy execution requiring various client-centric scripting escapes to execute things that should have been server-side in the first place.
And as I recall, the Canadian govt apps also had its Windows bias at first. Ontario had a similar issue when I used their provincial business site. Then, interestingly enough, they were all head-slapped by some monitoring agency for being "discriminatory" against non-Windows users. Of course, being considered discriminatory is a huge deal in Canada, so everyone quickly jumped in line and fixed up their apps. And you know what? They work really well now. Who'd have thought? Democracy working? Crazy. Wait! There's a pig flying!!!!