Any US company can hire him, at a far lower wage then what I require
I must admit, I see this attitude so often here on Slashdot, sometimes it really astounds me. I live in France, where we also have problems with this kind of attitude.
What do you do when no companies will hire you at a price you find reasonable??? There are a couple of options:
Whine and complain on Slashdot
Go on unemployment, and then get the media to be interested in your hard-luck case
Do something about it:
Move
Start your own company
Really, people, globalization is not the end of the world. Not only that, but people in open source are poised to reap the greatest advantages of globalization. People living in lesser economies simply can't afford the prices of proprietary software from G8 countries. This leaves them with three options: 1) Build it themselves, 2) Pirate it, 3) Open Source.
This means more users, more coders, and eventually, more money . It's quite simple, folks. If you wanna give out free advice, that's your choice, but until localized support is in place, it's up to them to learn from the source, at your rates.
I know what you mean, I've been looking for relatively cheap systems borads. I mean, with the price of fullblown laptops hitting $600 (with 512MB RAM, 40/60GB HD, etc.), I have a real hard time imagining $200 for something like this.
Does anyone know of a source for embedded boards for development that have ethernet/serial/parallel for around the $100 price range? I know it's possible, because you can rip apart most any "broadband router" and get the same for less than $50, but where can you buy the boards alone?
[2] The kind of colour you can't really focus on, really weird, hard to describe.
I'd imagine after that sentence that you wear contact lenses. It took me forever to realise this, because I always thought it was everyone, but one day I had a problem with one of my lenses, took it out, and suddenly I could focus just fine on one of those violet displays. Turns out, my contect lenses (like many others) have UV filters in them, and so anything thet lets out a lot of UV light tends to go blurry.
It kind of makes me worry about all those violet displays now
I live in France, where I have Free as an ISP. The ADSL service is 24Mbps and comes with an ADSL Wifi-MIMO equipped modem (built-in 5 port switch as well), and a Wifi "Television box", that streams MP4-Encrypted HD content over the Wifi without problems. And the content is drop-dead beautiful. In addition, I can receive a second HD stream to my computer while one is playing on the TV, though my Athlon 64 3000+ sometimes struggles with the HD content...
(For those that want to be jealous, I pay 29.99 for this service, which includes a fixed IP, 100 Channels of mixed HDTV and standard digital TV, and unlimited calling to everywhere in 40 some countries, including the US.)
My Quebecois friends insist on the term États-Unisiens. (United-Statesians)
The problem is that your Quebecois friend would be wrong, and his arrogant decision to rename Americans would be confusing, as United-Statesiens might be from Mexico or the US of A. (Mexico is Estados Unidos Mexicanos which means the United States of Mexico in Spanish. [Source: Wikipedia) The fact of the matter is that the United States of America is the only country on either of the two American continents with "America" in it's name, and it is the only part of the name which is not shared with another country on the continet. Hence, Americans from the United States of America, and Mexicans from the United States of Mexico.
Hold the press, folks!!! Comcast actually gets it.
They're going to take a business model (Pay Per View), add value by giving more to the consumer, rather than less (the ability to purchase the DVD), and deliver it at market prices.
You know, it's nice to see a company that actually wants to do business. Sure, you're paying top dollar prices for the media, but most movies you can buy on pay per view are new enough to still be charging premium prices anyway.
If they're smart, they'll offer the option to buy the media after the movie has been seen as well. (For all those users who will want a copy after seeing how great a movie is.) I can think of a number of times when a movie I've seen once has turned out to be a must-own. For example, Fight Club. The movie wasn't about what public perception thought it was about. As soon as I saw it, I knew I would watch it many times, and so bought it
No, seriously, check it out. With Wine Tools to automate the install of basic components (like DCOM98 and Visual C++ redistributable), you can use most of your windows programs on linux. According to Wine Application DB, many version of quicken work just fine under wine.
Heck, I've even gotten a full Visual Studio 6 install going under wine...
For those not in the know, that's the package repository used by Gentoo. If I know what I'm looking, I search there first. (It's based off of the *BSD port trees.) If I know the genre, I can also search there by category.
For those packages that I have no clue for, I generally search the gentoo forums at forums.gentoo.org. Even for non-gentoo linux issues, this forum is very helpful, especially for scratching an itch.
This may seem a bit like zealotry, but portage is the main reason I've abandoned all other linuxes. Almost every time I've wanted software, it's been in the portage tree. The very few exceptions have meant I looked in gentoo's bugzilla for a package that hadn't made it into the public tree yet, and the only time all of this had failed, I wrote my own ebuild and posted it to bugzilla for others to use.
Gentoo: came because I was intrigued by the flexibility, stayed because I don't like installing software, or re-installing OS's, and portage and the rolling upgrades have been fantastic.
Remember back in 1997, when Apple almost died? Steve Jobs had to kill the clones because Apple could not compete with the cheap hardware
People talk about the Jobs reality distortion field, but I've never seen it more in effect than with regards to the "clone wars".
Apple has a product Y that requires widget X to run. In this example, product Y is the computer, and widget X is the operating system. If every competitor making product Y has to buy widget X from you, than you control the competition. If your competition is squeezing you out of the market for product Y, you are either not charging enough for widget X, or you are charging too much for product Y. Plain and simple.
You don't need an advanced math degree to see this. What was killing Apple was not the clones, but the poor management. Jobs came back, but he didn't have to kill the clones to keep Apple afloat. He had to kill the clones to make sure Apple remained a hardware company. And, since Jobs likes the control, he killed the clones.
I think, however, that Steve has grown over the years. Now that he's got more experience under the belt, he's got the perspective of age, and I think he's learned how to manage a multi-billion dollar company. He likes to be agile, and he's doing what is necessary to make sure Apple is. He's taken the hardware division, and made sure that it's not dependant on one type of product (adding iPods). If the market for computers tanks, or at least, the market for Apple computers tanks, the hardware division has a place to go.
At the same time, he's making the software division capable of surviving without the hardware division. If the hardware division goes belly up, the software division is no longer reliant on it to sell product. They can easily adapt OS X to commodity hardware and give it a shot that way.
Finally, Steve has created a web services division. For the moment it only makes money off the distribution of music, but the huge showcase of movie trailers should show that the plan is there for movie distribution as well.
Oh, and one thing I almost forgot to mention, iLife. I used to wonder who was going to be first to the subscription based model of OS sales, and I thought it would be Apple (with.mac). I mean, look how the updates are coming more frequently. But then I realized that Apple has no need. With iLife, they get to have their cake and eat it to. Users pay each time there is an upgrade, and they pay the subscription fee as well. Steve Job's success has nothing to do with a calligraphy class, or dropping out of college. It has to do with the fact that he is a marketing genius.
first Newsweek makes us American's look stupid in the eyes of Muslims
As was pointed out by The Economist, the Newsweek article was not incorrect in content (the Koran was indeed thrown in the toilet), they were just wrong about the CIA admitting it in a specific published report. (It still may be published in a different report.) Excerpt from the story:
Conservative talk-shows and internet sites have depicted Newsweek as yet another liberal, unpatriotic media outlet only too willing to criticise America's conduct in the war on terror. The magazine's defenders argue that the fact that its source couldn't pinpoint the correct military investigative report does not mean that its story was wrong in substance. Testimony from prisoners at Guantánamo, after all, backs up the assertion that guards and interrogators have mistreated the Koran.
According to Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed, three British inmates who were released last year, guards have indeed thrown the Koran in the toilet. Other current detainees have also complained about religious intimidation and humiliation at Guantánamo. Last week, according to both Reuters and Agence France Presse, Southern Command began an inquiry to check if its employees have ever thrown the Koran into the toilet.
What with Microsoft finally coming through on the Xbox backwards compatibility, and now this, it's pretty obvious that all three of the console makers finally get it.
The size of a game library can be just as important as the number of quality games. Consumers like choice. Just like with music, so it is with videogames. This is something that Nintendo failed to address with the Nintendo64 and the Gamecube. It's almost painful to see how well they get it when it comes to the portable market (GameBoy and family), but not their home consoles.
I, for one, am hoping they do the right thing, and make the library available for free. While they'll miss out on some revenues of old games, they'll have a guaranteed sell for the Revolution (and Nintendo typically sells it's hardware at break-even or profit), and a footstep into future sales. Combine this with sales of Gamecube games that will also work in the Revolution, and Nintendo could see itself launched into the forefront of the three console makers.
Interestingly enough, it's mostly thanks to companies like Netflix and Amazon that these companies are beginning to understand. They've made such a profitable market out of niche sales, that big business is being forced to recognize the power that is the little guy, instead of just pandering to hit sales. In the business world, they're calling this "The Long Tail", and it's turning out to be huge money. (So much so, that business executives everywhere are sitting up and taking notice.) There are articles in The Economist and Wired. The traditional thinking has been that 80% of revenues typically comes from 20% of the titles, and it's been true for a long time. However, in the internet world, where you're not limited by shelf space, and you can aggregate diverse markets, the other 80% of titles (niche titles) can bring in as much money as the most popular 20%.
Nintendo has always excelled at putting out hits (Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Pokemon, etc.), which is why I think they've typically ignored this facet of business, but I think that even they may be starting to take notice. Here's hoping so:-)
LOL - I must have a touch of dyslexia, because I thought at first you were a typing Buddhist...:-)
Actually, the typing tutors that are available are hit and miss. One that I find works for the non-typist is Popcap Games'sTyping Shark You'll keep at it because it's actually fun to practice.
I'm sorry, but I don't get this attitude. Do people really think that news should be free?
I really think it's you that is in need of a reality check. News is free. If you don't believe check out any of the multitude of free newspapers, whether they be local community papers, to the ever increasing juggernaut that is the Metro.
but they wouldn't exist without paid subscribers.
What you're paying for with a newspaper is the cost of paper, and delivery, that's it. That's why free newspapers like the Metro can exist, because they have very low paper costs, and require the reader to share the cost of delivery. (You have to go pick it up from one of a much smaller number of available locations.)
to see if they are carrying anything like the depth of stories you see in the newspaper
You've got to be kidding yourself if you think that paying for news somehow makes the news any better. I can buy any number of Star/Sun Magazines or National Enquirers, hell the NY Post practically fits this category. (I know, trolling, sorry;-) ) What makes for good news is the underlying ethic of who's in control at the top. That's it.
I read the Economist, both in print and online, because it's a news magazine that's serious about providing good news. I don't watch Fox News, because I know Fox News is about sensationalist reporting designed to increase viewership with the end result of pushing an agenda.
No windows key. I didn't like it at first but then I realized
I bet you prefer Apple mice, too...
Like it or not, the extra "Windows" key is something that has been missing on x86 PCs for ages, whether you run Linux or Windows. (I run both) Without it, it's much more difficult to go mouseless in a GUI environment. Not to mention all the fantastic keyboard shortcuts you miss out on in Windows without it. (W-D for desktop, W-E for computer explorer, W-R for a RUN dialog...)
On Linux you can map it to your menuing system of choice, or a Meta-key, or just about whatever else. If they really wanted be "Neutral" they could have just put a different picture on the key. All they are right now are lacking...
I mean, it's so nice of you to finally grace us, unworthy Europeans, with your magnificent PSP only nine months after it's launch in Japan.
I feel your pain. I bought a DS in the U.S. over christmas while visiting family (I live in France), but lets be realistic. For the European market, they have to localize the software and packaging into at least French, German, Spanish, Italian, and British (voice actors). It's easier, both resource-wise, and financially speaking, to release to the biggest single-language markets first, and then to hit Europe.
I know it really sucks (especially when my DS was stolen, I couldn't get it replaced), but it's not an attempt to slight Europe in anyway, it's just the reality of business in an international market.
Why not offer customers an alternative that has better performance instead of risking the lose of those customers to another vendor that does?
Why not allow a hugely successful company figure out what's best for it's customers rather than assuming that they would want to please an AMD fanboy.
It's a bit trollish, I know, but Dell isn't hurting. They're doing a great job, even without using AMD. Perhaps doubling the number of configurations would increase their stock on hand, and that would cost more money and cut down on profits. Perhaps it would add complexity to the orders, which might result in poorer customer service. Perhaps the number of customers on a given hardware platform would change, decreasing the amount of testing and QA they could perform per platform, resulting in a loss for customers and vendor alike.
Why not accept the fact that there is more than just a one line blurb, and that maybe Dell actually knows what they're doing...
It's obviously possible, as the Cisco PIX does it, as mentioned above. However, H.323 is not a simple protocol, and it's not as easy to monitor for ports (like FTP, where you can use a very simple regex to search for PORT commands)
So, yes, as I said before, it's possible but there are very few firewalls which have proper support for it.
That may work on one side, and maybe it is a full implementation, but H.323 opens up random ports greater than 20,000, and then communicates this over the control channel. A firewall would have to continually monitor control to keep opening/closing ports as needed.
GnomeMeeting is compatible with Netmeeting on Windows
Maybe, but H.323 (the network protocol *meeting uses) doesn't pass through firewalls without an awful lot of effort. It can pass through a Cisco PIX (en expensive, but very good professional firewall), but I don't know a single consumer grade firewall that can pass H.323, which means that at least one of the ends must be unfirewalled (or using firewall software only). In that case, whoever is unfirewalled needs to be the receiver of the call. It's very limiting, and doesn't suit many needs.
Yeah, sure, that's funnay and all, but for anyone with friends, significant others, family distant from them, this is a godsend. I use Linux every day at work, and at home, but I used to have to boot into Windows at home every weekend so that I could actually SEE my girlfriend.
You see, I live in France, while my now-ex lived in the U.S. On the upside, I'm now dating a French girl, but I'd still like to be able to see my mother, and my sister and brother-in-law. This way, I don't have to boot into Windows at all... (And even when if I ever have to, I'd prefer GAIM on Windows any day over MSN, which is so limiting)
When you go for jobs, there are people who think, "Well, she's going to want to start a family soon, so I'd better not go with her; she's going to be undependable"
This is why paternity leave is so vital to even out the marketplace. If companies have to pay for (and accept) the loss of their male employees in just the same way, it puts them on an equal footing. I live in France, where they have this in place, and I think it's a wonderful thing.
Also, with regards to gender "roles": In the companies I worked for in the U.S., there was nary a woman to be seen in I.T. or dev, but where I work now (I know, anecdotal evidence isn't proof), there are women in all sections of the company. My good friend's wife just finished re-education for I.T. and is now working for the local university.
I know France is a popular target in the U.S., but this is something they're definitely doing right...
State Department contractors are looking to include some shielding
My best friend's husband works for a French company called A.S.K. that makes smart cards, and induction cards, and RFID cards, and he was telling me about the process, and how they're bidding for the American Passport contract.
When I mentioned about the tin foil, he said that none of the samples they've delivered to the U.S. have any shielding, and that there's been no talk at all of shielding of any kind.
<Tinfoil Hat>I truly think this talk of shielding is just to pacify us until it's already a done deal, and it's too late to do anything about.</Tinfoil Hat>
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I'm sorry, but HDMI and HDCP enabled and ultimate media center just don't go together in the same sentence.
Any media center PC that's designed to keep me from recording the TV shows I'm receiving does not qualify as ultimate
Any US company can hire him, at a far lower wage then what I require
I must admit, I see this attitude so often here on Slashdot, sometimes it really astounds me. I live in France, where we also have problems with this kind of attitude.
What do you do when no companies will hire you at a price you find reasonable??? There are a couple of options:
Really, people, globalization is not the end of the world. Not only that, but people in open source are poised to reap the greatest advantages of globalization. People living in lesser economies simply can't afford the prices of proprietary software from G8 countries. This leaves them with three options: 1) Build it themselves, 2) Pirate it, 3) Open Source.
This means more users, more coders, and eventually, more money . It's quite simple, folks. If you wanna give out free advice, that's your choice, but until localized support is in place, it's up to them to learn from the source, at your rates.
Not so nice: $186.5 for one
I know what you mean, I've been looking for relatively cheap systems borads. I mean, with the price of fullblown laptops hitting $600 (with 512MB RAM, 40/60GB HD, etc.), I have a real hard time imagining $200 for something like this.
Does anyone know of a source for embedded boards for development that have ethernet/serial/parallel for around the $100 price range? I know it's possible, because you can rip apart most any "broadband router" and get the same for less than $50, but where can you buy the boards alone?
Off topic, I know, but it might be interesting...
[2] The kind of colour you can't really focus on, really weird, hard to describe.
I'd imagine after that sentence that you wear contact lenses. It took me forever to realise this, because I always thought it was everyone, but one day I had a problem with one of my lenses, took it out, and suddenly I could focus just fine on one of those violet displays. Turns out, my contect lenses (like many others) have UV filters in them, and so anything thet lets out a lot of UV light tends to go blurry.
It kind of makes me worry about all those violet displays now
I live in France, where I have Free as an ISP. The ADSL service is 24Mbps and comes with an ADSL Wifi-MIMO equipped modem (built-in 5 port switch as well), and a Wifi "Television box", that streams MP4-Encrypted HD content over the Wifi without problems. And the content is drop-dead beautiful. In addition, I can receive a second HD stream to my computer while one is playing on the TV, though my Athlon 64 3000+ sometimes struggles with the HD content...
(For those that want to be jealous, I pay 29.99 for this service, which includes a fixed IP, 100 Channels of mixed HDTV and standard digital TV, and unlimited calling to everywhere in 40 some countries, including the US.)
My Quebecois friends insist on the term États-Unisiens. (United-Statesians)
The problem is that your Quebecois friend would be wrong, and his arrogant decision to rename Americans would be confusing, as United-Statesiens might be from Mexico or the US of A. (Mexico is Estados Unidos Mexicanos which means the United States of Mexico in Spanish. [Source: Wikipedia) The fact of the matter is that the United States of America is the only country on either of the two American continents with "America" in it's name, and it is the only part of the name which is not shared with another country on the continet. Hence, Americans from the United States of America, and Mexicans from the United States of Mexico.
They're right! Open source does make it easier to catch bugs, because you have more eyeballs on the code!
In fact, I've noticed a bug in your code already. Your sequence is supposed to be:
AGACTGACTG CT AATGCCCTGHold the press, folks!!! Comcast actually gets it.
They're going to take a business model (Pay Per View), add value by giving more to the consumer, rather than less (the ability to purchase the DVD), and deliver it at market prices.
You know, it's nice to see a company that actually wants to do business. Sure, you're paying top dollar prices for the media, but most movies you can buy on pay per view are new enough to still be charging premium prices anyway.
If they're smart, they'll offer the option to buy the media after the movie has been seen as well. (For all those users who will want a copy after seeing how great a movie is.) I can think of a number of times when a movie I've seen once has turned out to be a must-own. For example, Fight Club. The movie wasn't about what public perception thought it was about. As soon as I saw it, I knew I would watch it many times, and so bought it
WINE
No, seriously, check it out. With Wine Tools to automate the install of basic components (like DCOM98 and Visual C++ redistributable), you can use most of your windows programs on linux. According to Wine Application DB, many version of quicken work just fine under wine.
Heck, I've even gotten a full Visual Studio 6 install going under wine...
Portage.
For those not in the know, that's the package repository used by Gentoo. If I know what I'm looking, I search there first. (It's based off of the *BSD port trees.) If I know the genre, I can also search there by category.
For those packages that I have no clue for, I generally search the gentoo forums at forums.gentoo.org. Even for non-gentoo linux issues, this forum is very helpful, especially for scratching an itch.
This may seem a bit like zealotry, but portage is the main reason I've abandoned all other linuxes. Almost every time I've wanted software, it's been in the portage tree. The very few exceptions have meant I looked in gentoo's bugzilla for a package that hadn't made it into the public tree yet, and the only time all of this had failed, I wrote my own ebuild and posted it to bugzilla for others to use.
Gentoo: came because I was intrigued by the flexibility, stayed because I don't like installing software, or re-installing OS's, and portage and the rolling upgrades have been fantastic.
Re:Everything Enabled? (Score:5, Informative)
Offtopic, but how exactly can it be possible for a question to be moderated informative?
Could it be the same way a question can be moderated funny?
Note to mods: this joke doesn't work if you don't mod this up funny ;-)
Remember back in 1997, when Apple almost died? Steve Jobs had to kill the clones because Apple could not compete with the cheap hardware
People talk about the Jobs reality distortion field, but I've never seen it more in effect than with regards to the "clone wars".
Apple has a product Y that requires widget X to run. In this example, product Y is the computer, and widget X is the operating system. If every competitor making product Y has to buy widget X from you, than you control the competition. If your competition is squeezing you out of the market for product Y, you are either not charging enough for widget X, or you are charging too much for product Y. Plain and simple.
You don't need an advanced math degree to see this. What was killing Apple was not the clones, but the poor management. Jobs came back, but he didn't have to kill the clones to keep Apple afloat. He had to kill the clones to make sure Apple remained a hardware company. And, since Jobs likes the control, he killed the clones.
I think, however, that Steve has grown over the years. Now that he's got more experience under the belt, he's got the perspective of age, and I think he's learned how to manage a multi-billion dollar company. He likes to be agile, and he's doing what is necessary to make sure Apple is. He's taken the hardware division, and made sure that it's not dependant on one type of product (adding iPods). If the market for computers tanks, or at least, the market for Apple computers tanks, the hardware division has a place to go.
At the same time, he's making the software division capable of surviving without the hardware division. If the hardware division goes belly up, the software division is no longer reliant on it to sell product. They can easily adapt OS X to commodity hardware and give it a shot that way.
Finally, Steve has created a web services division. For the moment it only makes money off the distribution of music, but the huge showcase of movie trailers should show that the plan is there for movie distribution as well.
Oh, and one thing I almost forgot to mention, iLife. I used to wonder who was going to be first to the subscription based model of OS sales, and I thought it would be Apple (with .mac). I mean, look how the updates are coming more frequently. But then I realized that Apple has no need. With iLife, they get to have their cake and eat it to. Users pay each time there is an upgrade, and they pay the subscription fee as well. Steve Job's success has nothing to do with a calligraphy class, or dropping out of college. It has to do with the fact that he is a marketing genius.
first Newsweek makes us American's look stupid in the eyes of Muslims
As was pointed out by The Economist, the Newsweek article was not incorrect in content (the Koran was indeed thrown in the toilet), they were just wrong about the CIA admitting it in a specific published report. (It still may be published in a different report.) Excerpt from the story:
What with Microsoft finally coming through on the Xbox backwards compatibility, and now this, it's pretty obvious that all three of the console makers finally get it.
The size of a game library can be just as important as the number of quality games. Consumers like choice. Just like with music, so it is with videogames. This is something that Nintendo failed to address with the Nintendo64 and the Gamecube. It's almost painful to see how well they get it when it comes to the portable market (GameBoy and family), but not their home consoles.
I, for one, am hoping they do the right thing, and make the library available for free. While they'll miss out on some revenues of old games, they'll have a guaranteed sell for the Revolution (and Nintendo typically sells it's hardware at break-even or profit), and a footstep into future sales. Combine this with sales of Gamecube games that will also work in the Revolution, and Nintendo could see itself launched into the forefront of the three console makers.
Interestingly enough, it's mostly thanks to companies like Netflix and Amazon that these companies are beginning to understand. They've made such a profitable market out of niche sales, that big business is being forced to recognize the power that is the little guy, instead of just pandering to hit sales. In the business world, they're calling this "The Long Tail", and it's turning out to be huge money. (So much so, that business executives everywhere are sitting up and taking notice.) There are articles in The Economist and Wired. The traditional thinking has been that 80% of revenues typically comes from 20% of the titles, and it's been true for a long time. However, in the internet world, where you're not limited by shelf space, and you can aggregate diverse markets, the other 80% of titles (niche titles) can bring in as much money as the most popular 20%.
Nintendo has always excelled at putting out hits (Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Pokemon, etc.), which is why I think they've typically ignored this facet of business, but I think that even they may be starting to take notice. Here's hoping so :-)
LOL - I must have a touch of dyslexia, because I thought at first you were a typing Buddhist... :-)
Actually, the typing tutors that are available are hit and miss. One that I find works for the non-typist is Popcap Games's Typing Shark You'll keep at it because it's actually fun to practice.
I'm sorry, but I don't get this attitude. Do people really think that news should be free?
I really think it's you that is in need of a reality check. News is free. If you don't believe check out any of the multitude of free newspapers, whether they be local community papers, to the ever increasing juggernaut that is the Metro.
but they wouldn't exist without paid subscribers.
What you're paying for with a newspaper is the cost of paper, and delivery, that's it. That's why free newspapers like the Metro can exist, because they have very low paper costs, and require the reader to share the cost of delivery. (You have to go pick it up from one of a much smaller number of available locations.)
to see if they are carrying anything like the depth of stories you see in the newspaper
You've got to be kidding yourself if you think that paying for news somehow makes the news any better. I can buy any number of Star/Sun Magazines or National Enquirers, hell the NY Post practically fits this category. (I know, trolling, sorry ;-) ) What makes for good news is the underlying ethic of who's in control at the top. That's it.
I read the Economist, both in print and online, because it's a news magazine that's serious about providing good news. I don't watch Fox News, because I know Fox News is about sensationalist reporting designed to increase viewership with the end result of pushing an agenda.
No windows key. I didn't like it at first but then I realized
I bet you prefer Apple mice, too...
Like it or not, the extra "Windows" key is something that has been missing on x86 PCs for ages, whether you run Linux or Windows. (I run both) Without it, it's much more difficult to go mouseless in a GUI environment. Not to mention all the fantastic keyboard shortcuts you miss out on in Windows without it. (W-D for desktop, W-E for computer explorer, W-R for a RUN dialog...)
On Linux you can map it to your menuing system of choice, or a Meta-key, or just about whatever else. If they really wanted be "Neutral" they could have just put a different picture on the key. All they are right now are lacking...
I mean, it's so nice of you to finally grace us, unworthy Europeans, with your magnificent PSP only nine months after it's launch in Japan.
I feel your pain. I bought a DS in the U.S. over christmas while visiting family (I live in France), but lets be realistic. For the European market, they have to localize the software and packaging into at least French, German, Spanish, Italian, and British (voice actors). It's easier, both resource-wise, and financially speaking, to release to the biggest single-language markets first, and then to hit Europe.
I know it really sucks (especially when my DS was stolen, I couldn't get it replaced), but it's not an attempt to slight Europe in anyway, it's just the reality of business in an international market.
Why not offer customers an alternative that has better performance instead of risking the lose of those customers to another vendor that does?
Why not allow a hugely successful company figure out what's best for it's customers rather than assuming that they would want to please an AMD fanboy.
It's a bit trollish, I know, but Dell isn't hurting. They're doing a great job, even without using AMD. Perhaps doubling the number of configurations would increase their stock on hand, and that would cost more money and cut down on profits. Perhaps it would add complexity to the orders, which might result in poorer customer service. Perhaps the number of customers on a given hardware platform would change, decreasing the amount of testing and QA they could perform per platform, resulting in a loss for customers and vendor alike.
Why not accept the fact that there is more than just a one line blurb, and that maybe Dell actually knows what they're doing...
Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
It's obviously possible, as the Cisco PIX does it, as mentioned above. However, H.323 is not a simple protocol, and it's not as easy to monitor for ports (like FTP, where you can use a very simple regex to search for PORT commands)
So, yes, as I said before, it's possible but there are very few firewalls which have proper support for it.
That may work on one side, and maybe it is a full implementation, but H.323 opens up random ports greater than 20,000, and then communicates this over the control channel. A firewall would have to continually monitor control to keep opening/closing ports as needed.
GnomeMeeting is compatible with Netmeeting on Windows
Maybe, but H.323 (the network protocol *meeting uses) doesn't pass through firewalls without an awful lot of effort. It can pass through a Cisco PIX (en expensive, but very good professional firewall), but I don't know a single consumer grade firewall that can pass H.323, which means that at least one of the ends must be unfirewalled (or using firewall software only). In that case, whoever is unfirewalled needs to be the receiver of the call. It's very limiting, and doesn't suit many needs.
access to young 18+ sluts on webcam
Yeah, sure, that's funnay and all, but for anyone with friends, significant others, family distant from them, this is a godsend. I use Linux every day at work, and at home, but I used to have to boot into Windows at home every weekend so that I could actually SEE my girlfriend.
You see, I live in France, while my now-ex lived in the U.S. On the upside, I'm now dating a French girl, but I'd still like to be able to see my mother, and my sister and brother-in-law. This way, I don't have to boot into Windows at all... (And even when if I ever have to, I'd prefer GAIM on Windows any day over MSN, which is so limiting)
When you go for jobs, there are people who think, "Well, she's going to want to start a family soon, so I'd better not go with her; she's going to be undependable"
This is why paternity leave is so vital to even out the marketplace. If companies have to pay for (and accept) the loss of their male employees in just the same way, it puts them on an equal footing. I live in France, where they have this in place, and I think it's a wonderful thing.
Also, with regards to gender "roles": In the companies I worked for in the U.S., there was nary a woman to be seen in I.T. or dev, but where I work now (I know, anecdotal evidence isn't proof), there are women in all sections of the company. My good friend's wife just finished re-education for I.T. and is now working for the local university.
I know France is a popular target in the U.S., but this is something they're definitely doing right...
State Department contractors are looking to include some shielding
My best friend's husband works for a French company called A.S.K. that makes smart cards, and induction cards, and RFID cards, and he was telling me about the process, and how they're bidding for the American Passport contract.
When I mentioned about the tin foil, he said that none of the samples they've delivered to the U.S. have any shielding, and that there's been no talk at all of shielding of any kind.
<Tinfoil Hat>I truly think this talk of shielding is just to pacify us until it's already a done deal, and it's too late to do anything about.</Tinfoil Hat>