I very strongly disagree. I live on a ranch in central Texas. I do not live inside municipal boundaries (hence, no city property tax 8-)). The nearest town is miles (yes, literally MILES) away. The "postal district" is Kempner, Texas. Believe me, I have no trouble with Internet access.
I have my choice of several local ISPs, plus many of the national ones, all with local telephone numbers. AOL, Compuserve, Earthlink and Sprint, among others are just a free phone call away.
My choice of connection types are limited, however - I simply cannot get any form of DSL or ISDN: I am too far from the central office. Cable modem is out of the question - my television comes via C-band satelite.
And to the person who mentioned Lubbock, Texas - The people there have their choice of two local ISPs (maybe more, now) in addition to some of the nationals.
Yes, the US *IS* wired - except maybe for some of the suburbs 8-). Let's hear from some of the more remotely located readers!!
During the last two weeks, according to my notebook, I have worked 56 yours and 48 hours, respectively. Of course, I am only allowed to charge for 40 hours each week because the US government contract I charge to does not include overtime. Where we are, we have no choice: there are hundreds of soldiers gearing up and deploying for an exercise and the software simply has to be ready.
In the commercial world, if we don't make the marketting window, we might as well not have written a line of code. Paying for overtime blows the budget.
Just try to get management types, with their type-A, "just get it done", obsessive personalities that you should be allowed to have a family, hobbies, or any other outside persuits. They got were they are by dedicating themselves completely to their job. Of course, they're now divorced and their family life is an occasional Saturday with the kids. They just cannot understand those of us who want to keep our families.
There are many museums for whom a T-Rex would be a marvelous addition. However, their budgets are just too limited to buy one. There are many of us who have become embarrisingly rich in recent IPos. If you can afford it, why not buy it and donate it to the museum of your choice??
I am a software consultant and my current assignemnt is at a large army base in Texas. The Army has lots of UNIX workstations from a number of vendors. The best thing about Star Office is that it runs NATIVELY on so many of them! One current generation of systems relies upon the Windows Application Binary Interface (WABI) and Microsoft Windows 3.1 with Microsoft Office 4.0. They cannot upgrade since all of the current upgrade paths assume an X86 architecture or, at a minimum, the availability of an X86 add-in card. Neither solution set is feasible for the units which own these systems. Because of the architectural and financial constraints, Star Office is a God-send for them, regardless of any bugs or stability issues. It is still better than what they currently have.
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I have my choice of several local ISPs, plus many of the national ones, all with local telephone numbers. AOL, Compuserve, Earthlink and Sprint, among others are just a free phone call away.
My choice of connection types are limited, however - I simply cannot get any form of DSL or ISDN: I am too far from the central office. Cable modem is out of the question - my television comes via C-band satelite.
And to the person who mentioned Lubbock, Texas - The people there have their choice of two local ISPs (maybe more, now) in addition to some of the nationals.
Yes, the US *IS* wired - except maybe for some of the suburbs 8-). Let's hear from some of the more remotely located readers!!
In the commercial world, if we don't make the marketting window, we might as well not have written a line of code. Paying for overtime blows the budget.
Just try to get management types, with their type-A, "just get it done", obsessive personalities that you should be allowed to have a family, hobbies, or any other outside persuits. They got were they are by dedicating themselves completely to their job. Of course, they're now divorced and their family life is an occasional Saturday with the kids. They just cannot understand those of us who want to keep our families.
There are many museums for whom a T-Rex would be a marvelous addition. However, their budgets are just too limited to buy one. There are many of us who have become embarrisingly rich in recent IPos. If you can afford it, why not buy it and donate it to the museum of your choice??
I am a software consultant and my current assignemnt is at a large army base in Texas. The Army has lots of UNIX workstations from a number of vendors. The best thing about Star Office is that it runs NATIVELY on so many of them! One current generation of systems relies upon the Windows Application Binary Interface (WABI) and Microsoft Windows 3.1 with Microsoft Office 4.0. They cannot upgrade since all of the current upgrade paths assume an X86 architecture or, at a minimum, the availability of an X86 add-in card. Neither solution set is feasible for the units which own these systems. Because of the architectural and financial constraints, Star Office is a God-send for them, regardless of any bugs or stability issues. It is still better than what they currently have.