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Adaptive Outsourcing Solution by Canada's OPG and Capgemini Via New Horizon System Solutions

Upon full market liberalisation in the Canadian energy sector, Ontario Power Generation OPG needed to divest between 20% and 65% of its former generating capacity in order to comply with the new regulations. OPG needed to reinvent itself in order to trade competitively in a new marketplace, and sought to...

Tags: Ontario Power Generation, Capgemini, Outsourcing, Business Structures, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance

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Nuclear power has political meltdowns

Nuclear power has political meltdownsNo surprises.It was a government run entity. Of course it was overrunning costs. That's what government entities do.Nuclear waste is way less toxic than your current nemesis: coal ash heaps. It's just that people have been successfully indoctrinated to think that nuclear radiation is the most...

Tags: Nuclear Waste, nuclear energy, political meltdown, reactor, meltdown, government, nuclear waste

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Nuclear power has political meltdowns

A next generation nuclear power plant was being developed in Ontario. Now all work has been stopped. The price tag was climbing and the provincial government pulled the plug even though it's pledged to close all coal-burning plants there within five years. Right now about half of Ontario's...

Tags: Nuclear Energy, Finland, Ontario, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-01

How and why to use Sun Ray

I've just moved from Ontario back to my home province of Alberta - where the Sun shines, the air is clean, and the economy is booming. During the move we ran a series of eight chapter summaries, or notes to myself, for a possible book on how and why to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, thin client, Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-08-16

Things that Retard

Things that RetardHumans, what a crockWarning, personality discussion using Myers-Briggs MBTI terminology follows:Let me put this in Personality perspective. J-types (50% of the general population) ABHOR change! These people invest too much time in their box to destroy it and start over. OTOH, SP-types could care less and don't think...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NIMBY, general population

Discussion threads 2006-06-19

Internet over power lines a reality

Internet over power lines a realityInternet over power line interferes with othersInternet over power lines, commonly called Broadband over Power Lines or BPL is one of those ideas that sounds really good if you say it fast. By its very nature it is likely to interfere with many nearby...

Tags: Amateur Radio Relay League, Internet, broadband over power line, powerline, radio

Discussion threads 2005-10-07