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^^^ This x1000, all of the kids starting businesses and using the cool new thing Google Apps and forwarding it to their personal Gmail account have no concept of this.

People who do this are really annoying and have no concepts of separating business and personal life. If you don't mix business with pleasure then why are you doing it with your e-mail? How hard is it to check two accounts or have two accounts setup on your phone? There are some lines where business and personal shouldn't cross and e-mail is one of them.

How does the appearance look? You send e-mail to foo@business.com and then funkyjizzbeats20@gmail.com replies to you! What could be more professional than that?

Also, what about security? How would people feel to know you've forwarded an e-mail they sent to a business account to your personal account? Is this just something no one thinks about?

I appreciate your story, but it's very frustrating when people like you take away spots in tax payer funded universities from REAL Canadians who plan on staying and working to make this country a better place.

I hope the laws get changed to avoid loopholes like this in the future.

Wow you really have no clue... that really amazes me.

The difference is for instance the cost of airlifting those citizens out of war zones will by far dwarf any taxes they may pay back while working in the country for 1-2 years before going back to the other one once the war is over. That's also IF they work and don't go on social assistance programs.

Canada is now experiencing this issue with a lot of Chinese who come here to get a passport as well. To most people, citizenship is the one thing you go all in on. By not doing so it hurts most countries and costs them a lot of money.

I'm not going to reply to you again, it's people with beliefs like yours who damage society as a whole.

Your comment doesn't add any value to the discussion, nor is it a very good attempt at humour. What the parent is trying to say is that the OP is coming back to take advantage of a tax payer funded institution even though he doesn't plan on working in the country. If you disagree with his views perhaps you should work on rephrasing your comment.

I don't understand why people are down voting this comment. It seems like the OP is a "citizen of convenience" like those in Lebanon who only wanted to make use of their Canadian citizenship when war broke out despite the fact that some of them hadn't been back to Canada in 5+ years.

Not that this really has a place in the main discussion, although it does involve citizenship in a different way.

I'm going to go against what most people are saying and disagree that this is a good thing. Too often companies like this are only after the money. For some reason their company STRONGLY reminded me of Zynga, which in my opinion is not a good thing.

If they were after the quick buck then they would definitely do this. Also, if you're working for a company who's only purpose is to copy other companies, you should realize it's all about money...

Perhaps you'd rather have these exceptional citizens just staying in their bunks not doing anything or even better, back in society?

I can't find any more information anywhere else on the beta... any ideas?

I wouldn't say they look awful, there's a difference in the background part of the image but the main focus has little change.

It's a trade-off, but I would imagine that if there's thousands of files it could be a significant savings on bandwidth, and you could always keep the original for download but not display puroses.

To all the people hating on this guy - he has a point. The company in the article is going about it's business quietly and PRODUCING while many companies on here do a lot of talking...

So while his manner of discussing this was definitely not diplomatic, that doesn't deter from the fact he has a point.

Do you have Twitter/E-mail? I have a few questions you might be able to answer.

I agree with your thoughts about originality, but people always saying Apple does everything original is wrong. For both Microsoft, Apple and others they'll rarely ever launch something that's truly original.

Apple's timeline was iPod > iPhone > iPad (You could even argue that without the theft of millions of songs aka MP3's Apple wouldn't be bankrupt).

Microsoft's timeline was DOS > Windows > Server Products > Dynamics etc.

I would say it's very rare that doing something completely different than your baseline business is going to work. For that reason and the fact that the shareholders want you to be profitable is why you'll not see very many established companies pushing the edge.

Did anyone find the Verge's live blog much more easier to use?

Also, is anyone aware of a way to "pause" a live blog? That would be worthwhile if say you get a call...

You mean how like Apple was so original with an MP3 player?

Has there been any development on that lately? They haven't even updated the blog for over a year.

Don't you think this is an awesome opportunity for Square to explain to the author how charge backs work and why he should have money in his account? Perhaps if they used something other than cryptic replies they could help him understand the entire process and help make him even more of a Square advocate than he was before? That would be a HUGE differentiator from PayPal.

I would definitely say funding is for increasing customer service and trying to create as many advocates of your service as possible!

Irrespective of if the author was correct in his use of the service, how is not replying for days prompt and how is tersely worded e-mails informative and professional? The whole thing reminded me of PayPal.

Don't you think you should've posted this in a seperate link? It seems like you're trying to hang off Appifier's coattails...

It's their own choice to stick to e-mail, that's a seperate discussion as not using a phone would definitely affect you in this society.

My point is that using VoIP may be cheaper, but it is of vastly inferior quality and will annoy the person you're talking to. If you only use voice once in a while buy a bunch of minutes, you're not subsidizing anyone as the network wouldn't have been built without voice, so one could argue the voice users are subsidizing YOU.

People who do this are very annoying(aka CHEAP!). Mainly because most VoIP calls have low quality and have static issues. When you call me and I can't see the number of the person who's calling, that's annoying. It's also annoying if you break up or I can hear a time delayed echo of everything I just said and then have to wait for you to hear it. When this happens I don't want to talk to you as it's a painful experience. If you can't afford $20/month for a voice plan then perhaps you should just have a tablet and stick to e-mail?

Well I agree with Hanselmen:

"The 10,000 people on the planet that care about Web Sockets are not your customers, and while using Web Sockets might get you mentioned on TechCrunch, supporting only Web Sockets is a great way to cut your potential audience in half."

But it all depends on who you're looking to as your market. I'd go as far to say that the group of people who DON'T support web sockets is exponentially bigger than the ones who do...

When I get this message when viewing with IE 9 you should fail your web developer! (Unless you don't want to market to 60% of the Internet.)

Your browser doesn't (yet!)

Chrome, Firefox, and Safari support websockets right out of the box. https://andbang.com/you-need-websockets-yo

What are they doing that has to absolutely be done with sockets? I can't comment on the product they're offering but this is annoying to say the least as I can't see the site.

(I'm not saying I like IE, but it's the only browser that works great with higher DPI settings and scales properly for using a browser on a laptop with a 1080 res.)

You should fire your web developer... How can your homepage not work with IE9? Seriously - WTF do you need websockets for on your homepage? I can maybe (notreally) see it for your application but product sites should be available for all browsers and not discrimiinate.

These tools remind me of the Icy Hot Stuntaz: http://stuntaz.cjb.net/

I'll give everyone a great example of why I hate Flash:

So I downloaded the new Flash 11 and installed it, the 64 bit version so I can now use 64 bit IE. I have IE 9 set to not accept third party cookies. In Flash, I don't want cookies set either so I go to the global settings and make sure no sites can save anything on my computer. Now Flash doesn't work at all. No where. It should work on some sites that don't require cookies but it won't even load. I'm not sure why this is but the only solution I've found is to completely uninstall Flash, restart my computer and then reinstall it and allow every site to store Flash cookies on my computer. I've replicated the issue with Firefox and Chrome.

Strangely enough Youtube worked during these issues - because of HTML 5.

Also, there's a bug in Flash 11 in Windows 7 where for some reason the taskbar doesn't get hidden when you full screen a flash video.

Flash could've been useful, but Adobe's coders are the worst in the business. All they had to do was make it small, efficient and easy to use. Essentially they did the exact opposite and only had a business model because there were no competitors. In addition, they have security issues and all these random strange issues which should never happen.

I liken Flash to Blackberry and how RIM is allowing Android apps on it's service. It has to do that to stay relevant because no one is going to use it otherwise. Adobe Flash would be dead within 5 years if they didn't switch their tools to work with HTML 5.

Now the question is, why would developers create two versions of the videos - one for Flash and one for mobile HTML5? Why wouldn't they just create an HTML5 video that plays on both mobile and standard browsers?

Just because you've "chatted" with someone doesn't mean that you know him in any professional capacity, let alone his company. Good people can work at bad companies and follow their rules.

Calling someone in for an interview, then filling it and not telling that person is a douche move.

Thanks for the article, it was a good read and interesting. I have one thing to ask you about that really bothers me when companies do it. This gets old REALLY fast:

"Unlimited plan subject to terms and conditions."

Why don't you simply rename the plan if it's not really unlimited?

In Canada the company in the west that's running this is Telus and they have the exact same issue. Originally they were offering it with the 15mb and 19mb ADSL 2+ profiles with a Thomson Speedtouch modem and a D-Link gateway or you could substitute your own router. When they moved to the VDSL2 profiles they started using the Actiontec VDSL modem/router combo which is a requirement.

There's no way to turn bridge mode on and the best you can do is turn on the DMZ and run your own router out of that. However, you're then double NAT'd which possibly could slow your connection down and it also allows the ISP to have a direct line into your personal network with wich they can mess any settings.

The main complaint is that the ISPs used to just own the line form the node to your modem and now they are DEMANDING to control your internal network as well which is a fucking joke.