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Saskatchewan School Boards Score Top Marks in Efficiency With New Financial Management System

According to a 2003 survey by Statistics Canada, literacy skills in the province of Saskatchewan are among the highest in Canada. Clearly, education is a top priority in the province, thanks in part to the efforts of provincial government department Saskatchewan Learning. The provincial government funds about 60 per cent...

Tags: Saskatchewan, Financial, Board, Microsoft Corp., Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance

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BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

68% of Canadians like to read newspaper during weekends

Canada’s highest proportions of holiday-bargain shoppers are outlined below: Those most likely to be the bargain sale hunters by using ads from newspapers are living in Atlantic Canada (77%). Women (74%) are more likely than men (62%) to take this view. As for age, those in the older age groupings...

Tags: Education, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-26

66% of Canadians enjoy newspaper ads

66% of Canadians indicate that they enjoy the page advertising and product/service inserts that come with the newspaper, some individuals are more likely than others to say that this is the case: Women (70%) are more likely than men (62%) to agree with this perspective, and 73% of households with...

Tags: Education, Advertisement, Income, Household Income, Operational Accounting, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-25

GOOG-411 expands outside of United States

Today I picked up the phone to give GOOG-411 another test drive, and was thrown back after hearing the prompt "What city and province?". Surely this thing doesn't work for Canada now -- so I said "Regina Saskatchewan". Sure enough, "Please say a business name or category" --...

Tags: Canada, GOOG-411, Recruitment & Selection, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-03-07

45% of Canadians sometimes read the newspaper for the ads

64% of Canadians often keep the inserts and flyers around for a few days so that they can re-read what’s being offered for sale or what’s on special, 45% of Canadians indicate that there are some days when they read the newspaper as much for the ads as for the...

Tags: Advertisement, Household Income, Operational Accounting, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-04

49% of Canadian read newspapers ads to find the best gift

49% of Canadians say they look through newspaper advertisements in order to find that perfect gift for that special occasion. Those Canadians in Saskatchewan/Manitoba (58%) are most likely to do this, followed by those who reside in Alberta/Ontario (51%), and Atlantic Canada/British Columbia (49%) and Québec (45%), according to Ipsos...

Tags: Education, Advertisement, Income, Operational Accounting, Gender And Diversity, Finance, Human Resources, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-28

64% of Canadiand re-read newspaper ads

Ensuring that they don’t miss out on any good bargains, 64% of Canadians often keep the inserts and flyers around for a few days. Those in Saskatchewan/Manitoba and Atlantic Canada (75%) lead the way in this regard. Women (66%) are more likely than men (61%) to take this position. Those...

Tags: Education, Advertisement, Income, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Is Jazz a trojan horse for IBM Rational tools?

CollabNet CTO Jack Repenning called in yesterday, all a-dither about Jazz being a "trojan horse" on behalf of IBM's Rational software tools. Jazz is merely a checkpoint to indicate distributed software development tools are still coming, he said. "I used Rational as a user for years, and...

Tags: Trojan Horse, Tool, IBM Corp., Jazz, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Productivity, Java Development Tools, Viruses And Worms, Open Source, Security, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-07

A light-powered toothbrush?

Would you like to use a light-powered toothbrush which needs no toothpaste and no batteries? It's already available in Japan and North America and it costs about $30. Its rod contains titanium dioxide that generates a plaque-removing electrochemical reaction. This 'solar' toothbrush of the future 'works by releasing electrons that...

Tags: Electron, Light, Rod, Soladey, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-24

All things Kyoto, now they tell us

All things Kyoto, now they tell usNo surpriseNot least because Kyoto deliberately left half of the problem off of the table: carbon-fixation reductions. What matters is the whole emission/fixation balance; reducing emissions while also reducing carbon binding by a greater amount isn't going to help.what happens when you have...

Tags: extinction, Kyoto

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

Microsoft preps customers early in hopes of avoiding DST fallout

Microsoft preps customers early in hopes of avoiding DST falloutToo little, too late.Microsoft systems can not be relied on. Manual updates are common for any client that uses this OS.Quite amazingWhy does this require a patch at all? Why isn't it a simple update of a timezone database? ...

Tags: Storage, Databases, Patches, database, DST, fallout, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-09-16

Are Linus Torvalds, IBM, AMD, others at odds over pushing hardware drivers out of Linux?

Are Linus Torvalds, IBM, AMD, others at odds over pushing hardware drivers out of Linux?You have to remember that Linus is NOT afraid to tell somebody they arestupid. Did you see his video when he was at Google describing git?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8But, I would tend to agree with Linus that full visualization...

Tags: Operating systems, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., operating system, hardware, Linus, Linux, Linus Torvalds

Discussion threads 2007-08-04

Are you ready for DST changes?

Are you ready for DST changes?Yes not sure where I wrk is... Also question on a cpu cooler=)Would this cooler wrk for over clocking??? Thermaltake Beetle 4 in 1 Performance Heatpipe Cooler. Here is the Link (http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-beetle-4-in-1-hsf.html). Also I'm looking at a different Mother Board than the ones you mentioned....

Tags: Newfoundland, DST Change, Thank-you, NRCC-INMS

Discussion threads 2007-03-05

The sun rises on Google Earth

Google Earth has added a new layer in partnership with the Discovery Channel that lets you see video and photography of one of the natures most beautiful events -- sunrise. The new feature can be enabled by following these steps:Find the "Layers" sectionExpand the "Featured Content" nodeExpand the "Discovery...

Tags: Google Earth, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Face on Earth, why it's interesting

People find strange things on the satellite views for Google Maps and Earth, but a discovery posted on Digg caught my attention.  The huge first nations face found near Medicine Hat Alberta is quite the coincidence considering "Medicine Hat" comes from aboriginal roots. With many relatives from this area, the...

Tags: Medicine, Medicine Hat

Blog posts 2006-10-25

Notes on a 2,400-mile move

Things are, of course, behind schedule - mainly because our furniture arrived yesterday (August 5th) instead of the 3rd as promised; but the computer survived the trip and the internet connection works, so I'll be catching up on comment reading and a few other things tomorrow and returning to regular...

Tags: Ranier

Blog posts 2006-08-06

Land value taxation and the stock market

According to economic theory, the shares of a public company should be worth the discounted net present value of its future earnings divided by the number of shares issued. That's theory, but Google today has a market cap of $100 billion on revenues of perhaps $6 billion while Sun has...

Tags: stock market, Sun Microsystems Inc., analogy, surplus, market capitalization, Google Inc., theory, stock

Blog posts 2005-11-04

Saskatchewan: Wheat fields, modern cities.. but no VoIP

Saskatchewan: Wheat fields, modern cities.. but no VoIPSaskatchewan:...the most socialist province in Canada.Is anyone surprised that they'd act like babies when faced with free market competition?SkypeIf you have an ADSL connection, download Skype.SaskTel's Position on VoIPI would like to take this opportunity to respond to Russell Shaw’s commentary, “Saskatchewan: Wheat...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Free trade, SaskTel, VoIP, CRTC

Discussion threads 2005-09-26

Saskatchewan: Wheat fields, modern cities.. but no VoIP

When I think of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, I envision wheat and barley fields as well as the compact, modern cities of Saskatoon and Regina.But no VoIP. Not a one.According to Michael Hennessy, President of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, this is because SaskTel, the exclusive telephony provider in...

Tags: SaskTel

Blog posts 2005-09-26