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Re: CDN - The woman behind Canada's national IT strategy

workingroland — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:03:10 -0000

'Stranger' interesting observations, and congratulations on your spelling score. Maybe you should read the article first and take issue with its contents. As to self-regulation, the British were so generous and gave Canadians that idea, which, for your information and contrary to your contention, MANY countries are using to this day. It is based on trust, integrity, and professional responsibility.
You missed the point entirely: does your country open the doors to foreign professionals and kick the local professionals in the but? I doubt it. As to executive mobility, Canada was one of the first signatories of the UN charter that guaranteed freedom and right of movement. Where was your country then? As a Canadian I don't think I owe any stranger anything, but if they decide to come here and I welcome them, they should line up like the rest of us and not jump the cue. After all, you chose to come here. Part of the problem is the constant accommodation of strangers, which other nations have solved through some rather radical and racist solutions, as you may know. That is why we spend so much time teaching ESL in regular English class depriving the locals of other contents so strangers can catch up. See how generous Canada is? All that at the taxpayer's generosity.
Consequently these other countries get a far better return on their IT investment. As you might have gathered by now, I plead for a better bang for the C$ investment especially if it is tax payers money, a challenge Corinne Charette has to rise to and she seems to have the starting idea of consolidating project scopes and implementations. It took me over 20 years to rise to professional accreditations in Canada. And how much time have you invested here? As you know we have some rather unique requirements here due to cultural, politiccal, and climatic conditions. We call that more or less Canadian experience, if you get it! What did you call that in your country you left behind?
Don't get me going about 'medical services' outside Canada. You will be forever sorry.
Also don't get me going about 'superiority', again your words!!! If anything, we are too tolerant and too accommodating. Show me another country that gives that much 'respect' to strangers! Now maybe you could read the article please?

Re: CDN - The woman behind Canada's national IT strategy

workingroland — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:25:27 -0000

If this is a change one can only secretly hope that Corinne Charette takes the tiller and comes about in a major way about Canada's IT tack. It is off-course right now. The worm is in many areas but the most ennoying is that taxpayers pump money into eductation only to discover that local citizens have to compete with total strangers from all parts fo the globe and now the strangers are starting to avoid our shores for greener pastures in other parts of the world. The local is starting to develop grey hair and is still squeezing by and yet recent desasters in Ontario alone show how immature the industry has become.
Stunning that with all the energy put into it, the benefit to Canada and Canadians is slowly approaching a global joke. We no longer value thought out approachees but trial and error quick fixes that are cheap and make the squeeking whell go away yet the problems remain unsolved, or we hide behind the USA cloud and play the branchplant slave to development that is anything but leadership. Please stop in these flash in the pan 'success stories' type news. We gave up our leadership in mobile communications, and the little leadership we had in IT is long gone too. Canada has become a stuffy follower, not a LEADER. I doubt that Corinne Charette is enough to chart a new course back into the race.
Do the math: would you study IT in Canada only to succeed in a pile of debt and then work at mediocre jobs of the 'paint by numbers variety' while decisions are really made elsewhere? Life is too pressious for that.

Sincerely

Re: Six Everyday iPhone Disasters and How to Handle Them - Page 2

workingroland — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:49:34 -0000

Amazing how naive this "advice" is. I did not know that cars have 'power surges' I do know that the 12V battery can generate up to 14.6V on the plug and that the car does have a voltage regulator. Any charge plug is designed around that. So the 'advice' you offered is simply BS! A cellphone battery uses less than ONE headlight! Amzing yarn that is spun in this article.