A debate on whether iPhone apps are useful or not is a different matter, but I find this statement ridiculous:
"bad in Britain for the government to use modern technology during a recession"
The British government can request all its citizens to start living in caves and learn how to hunt animals. That's the easiest solution to 'recession', isn't it? In general, I have a high opinion of any regime that tries to keep abreast of the times and embraces the latest technology. That's rare enough in any Government in the first place. Criticize the use and limited reach of iPhones if you wish, but stop claiming that 'use of modern technology is bad during recession'
" I mean seriously, is there any significant portion of any electoral base in the US that wouldn't vote for ending subsidies to oil companies if it were up for a vote? "
Don't get your hopes too high. I don't know all that much about the US, but here, the oil subsidies on petrol were taken away completely last week and boy - what a ruckus it's causing! The amount of stupidity in humans must not be underestimated.
In the EU, Japan, etc., you need special labeling on GM food so that the consumer can choose for himself if he wants to buy it (or not). Let's not confuse Monsanto and it's policies with GM food as a whole...
Maybe, but that dosen't alter the fact that for whatever reason, almost everyone seems to use Windows with the popular ssh client 'PuTTy'. The basic issue is that we have a prevalent culture of "windows is good for daily use and Unix/Linux are good for servers and DB hosting etc." Till this mindset changes, Microsoft will continue to rule the roost.
Well, Mac/Linux still have a long long way to go from the desktop/notebook perspective. There's no way any OS is going to upstage windows anytime soon on that front. In fact, even when it comes to 'corporate software services', even when the database/application that needs to be worked on is hosted on Unix servers, you'll invariably find each developer working on a Windows PC 'telnet-ing'/'ssh-ing' to the Unix machine. All the mails are through MS-Outlook, PPTs/Documents are through MS-Office, and so on. I'm yet to come across a place where this is not the case...
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A debate on whether iPhone apps are useful or not is a different matter, but I find this statement ridiculous:
"bad in Britain for the government to use modern technology during a recession"
The British government can request all its citizens to start living in caves and learn how to hunt animals. That's the easiest solution to 'recession', isn't it? In general, I have a high opinion of any regime that tries to keep abreast of the times and embraces the latest technology. That's rare enough in any Government in the first place. Criticize the use and limited reach of iPhones if you wish, but stop claiming that 'use of modern technology is bad during recession'
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" I mean seriously, is there any significant portion of any electoral base in the US that wouldn't vote for ending subsidies to oil companies if it were up for a vote? "
Don't get your hopes too high. I don't know all that much about the US, but here, the oil subsidies on petrol were taken away completely last week and boy - what a ruckus it's causing! The amount of stupidity in humans must not be underestimated.
I had my hopes high for a moment - I imagined a huge plane the size of a Boeing 747.. silly me ;-)
This is an excellent start though...
In the EU, Japan, etc., you need special labeling on GM food so that the consumer can choose for himself if he wants to buy it (or not). Let's not confuse Monsanto and it's policies with GM food as a whole...
"Frankly, if you dont have $2K for an Enterprise MSDN licensing, you really have no business doing a start up, do you? "
Why can't I choose to spend the $2K on rental costs, eletricity, or just hardware?
"Windows is crap for that"
Maybe, but that dosen't alter the fact that for whatever reason, almost everyone seems to use Windows with the popular ssh client 'PuTTy'. The basic issue is that we have a prevalent culture of "windows is good for daily use and Unix/Linux are good for servers and DB hosting etc." Till this mindset changes, Microsoft will continue to rule the roost.
Well, Mac/Linux still have a long long way to go from the desktop/notebook perspective. There's no way any OS is going to upstage windows anytime soon on that front. In fact, even when it comes to 'corporate software services', even when the database/application that needs to be worked on is hosted on Unix servers, you'll invariably find each developer working on a Windows PC 'telnet-ing'/'ssh-ing' to the Unix machine. All the mails are through MS-Outlook, PPTs/Documents are through MS-Office, and so on. I'm yet to come across a place where this is not the case...