User: mahadiga

Re:Well at MY place,

On: High Tech Misery In China

Marshall Brain has an interesting proposal.

Re:Film at 11...

On: High Tech Misery In China

It did in the USA, the UK, and every other country that went through a transition from a mostly agricultural to an industrial economy.

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." --Oscar Wilde

Solution

On: High Tech Misery In China

I suppose everybody in China should OWN a hand gun.
An armed society is a POLITE society. And it is not FEAR that keeps us polite -- it is RESPONSIBILITY.

Maslow

On: High Tech Misery In China

I wish Chinese regime considers implementing Maslow's hierarchy of needs in their Governance.

Re:A different side of the story

On: High Tech Misery In China

Globalization is Oxymoron till Wage Slavery (in Agriculture, Manufacturing & Services) is prevented in Developing Nations.

Re:No surprises here

On: High Tech Misery In China

Capitalism will sustain only when Race To The Bottom is prevented in Rest Of The World.

FYI

On: MS Critical Patch Fixes 8 Vulnerabilities

It is Microsoft Exchange Software Feature.

Truth

On: False Fact On Wikipedia Proves Itself

Truth is above everything.
And truth is nothing but verifiable past and present.

Different Strategy

On: How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?

This is not about FLOSS or Closed source software being insecure or secure.
This is about MS strategy of making money with customers Innocence and Ignorance.
FLOSS advocates should hire services of able politicians to counter the FUD.

I agree.

On: $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill

We need both Socialism and Capitalism to sustain a great nation.

• Prevent race to the bottom aka Socialism
• Promote race to the top aka Capitalism

Open CRS

On: Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports

OpenCRS

First law of thermodynamics

On: Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable

"Energy can be transformed (changed from one form to another), but it can neither be created nor destroyed."

UbuntuShipIt

On: Microsoft May Be Targeting the Ubuntu Desktop

I recommend decentralization of Ubuntu free CDs distribution to every nation in the world.

DIY

On: US Dept. of Defense Creates Its Own Sourceforge

We can host SourceForge ourselves.

SEC must regulate market capitalization

On: IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries

"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Reagon
I suggest SEC to regulate market capitalization of all NASDAQ listed to no more than twice the company quarterly revenue.
This will

1. Prevent Ponzi type of scams in management and stock markets
2. Will create more opportunities for start-ups resulting in millions of jobs creation in America.

Re:No surprise

On: IT Job Market Is Tanking, But Not For Everyone

I'm damn good at what I do

Companies make money in 2 ways from Customers.

1. Adding value to the Customer
2. Taking advantage of Customer's Innocence and Ignorance

Type 2 Companies won't hire good people like you and me.

Re:Here.

On: Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown

I agree.
Free Markets will succeed only when Race to The Bottom aka Wage Slavery is prevented in the Rest of The World.

Re:When the going gets tough...

On: Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown

Globalization will succeed only when Race to The Bottom aka Wage Slavery is prevented in the Rest of The World.

Re:I doubt

On: Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source

what a steaming pile of crap they had written.

Sometime back I did a code walk-through of Windows CE Kernel code. It is pretty good.

As I said before you won't get Cell Phone for $10

On: $10 Laptop Downgraded By Reality; Now Fancy Storage Device

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1109663&cid=26675327

Expensive

On: Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office?

If the original copy is expensive everybody will prefer to buy the pirated copy.

Let us get real

On: IT Job Market Is Tanking, But Not For Everyone

There is no such thing as Right or Wrong.
Only the priorities change.

Re:No surprise

On: IT Job Market Is Tanking, But Not For Everyone

Layoffs tend to be a way to get rid of a lot of the sub-average to average performers

Why did they hire sub-average to average performers?

Re:Wikipedia

On: Web of Trust For Scientific Publications

This will allow it to overcome the credibility problems that it has.

TRUTH is important than TRUST.

Govt role

On: Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source

Unless Govt mandates Open Source Windows, Microsoft will not do it.