their possible sale to an unnamed 3rd party, described as a 'leading private equity investment firm'. Alias is currently owned by SGI, and the transaction is still considered to be tentative... SGI announced that they don't know if they'll sell Maya to somebody.
Why are we in the U.S. always the last to get new cellular toys?
Because you have several competing, incompatible cellular networks, when the rest of the world seems to have enough sense to agree on GSM. GSM is an easier, and denser market to conquer. The US market comes second, when something GSM is proven to work well commercially.
I don't use Linux, but I sure as fuck use Firefox. You idiots are turning an excellent browser into a weapon in your imaginary war.
And you're so right! I use Lynx on Windows XP personally, and I'd really like these Windows fanatics to stop referring to Lynx as the poster child for their imaginary war of XP's CLI against Linux's.
Lynx has nothing to do with the command-line Windows movement for chrissake. I mean, it works great on any OS!
Don't get too used to the FireBird's new name, it's already taken by Hollywood. Way to avoid copyright infringement... I predict another name change very soon.
that the answers you get from camera *owners* such as "I think XYZ is the best" are biased, simply because either they love their camera (with good reasons surely), or they don't like them so much but they'll never tell you "yeah, I bought that but I got had".
Don't be sad. Thanks to my soviet-era communist education, I was convinced in my school years that the Apollo maned missions to Moon are just an expenisve imperialist publicity stunt with no real scientific value.
I had never heard of this feat. I asked around (friends and coworkers) and nobody else I've talked to has heard of them either. They were called 'lunokhod'
You and your friend are not representative of the level of education in the US. If you were, this would be very disturbing, as it would mean the education system is, not a little, but extremely skewed. Any 30 second googling session would have told you Russians were more advanced than the United States in the space race at first, by leaps and bounds.
Why would a geek care? Because IBM, its technological breakthroughs and Watson are very much the foundation of commercial technology as we know it today.
A true geek doesn't necessarily care much about IBM. IBM is a lot more relevant to suits. In fact, IBM redefines the concept of "corporate culture" and "standardized outfit". They also embody the culture of centralized computing (or at least used to) and the company used to be seen as a "benevolent dictator", with its policy of renting computers instead of selling them.
All these things are quite opposite to the world of geeks. Of course, curious and open-minded geeks read about everything, and therefore should read this book as well.
I tried showing them to my pet bull and he immediately became bad-tempered and generally unpleasant to be around of. He's much fonder of the Neptune shots from Voyager really...
That may or may not be impressive depending on what your parents do. My experience with Knoppix is that you parents have better be computer engineers...
Actually, I'm surprised nobody here has emitted the opinion that the article is biased, puts the emphasis on the outsourcing issue on purpose, and surely is part of an elaborate PR conspiracy to entice US companies to hire local computer companies and stop the bleeding of high-tech jobs away from the US. Perhaps even that the outsourced programmer was paid to leak the information, so that the article could be written.
What would your answer have been if the guy lived in Nowhere, NM?
Officials at the New York State Office of Children and Family Services and in Livingston County, where the incident occured, are investigating. Livingston County's social services office is located in Lima, just a few miles south of Rochester, N.Y.
If it's an outsourced programmer, shouldn't it be Lima, Peru?
outsourced programmer posts highly confidential data to a public website, concerning the daily whereabouts of hundreds of children in upstate New York.
In other news: Michael Jackson to move to NY soon.
They should feel bad because they are being paid about 1/7 what the job is actually worth.
1/7th of what the job is worth *in the US*. In India, I suspect they're pretty well paid.
That's the flip-size of globalization my friend: since the end of WW2, the US have been busy opening new markets abroad for themselves. Now the new markets in question start to have the ability to compete on the same fields as US industries, and the ole globalization tactic is backfiring.
The USA hurt european countries bad in its days too, now it's their turn to get hit by emerging countries. Every part of the globe has had a glorious economic world-domination era at some point in history, be it Portugal, Italy, France or Britain. America's has started to decline. Tough luck, you're watching History in progress.
China and India have slowed down the Japanese economy, and now they're banging on your door guys. Time to get used to 10+% unemployment, like the rest of us.
How do you feel about the American programmers that are angry they lost their jobs to outsourcing? Do you think they have a right to be angry?
You don't have to be bitter, it works both ways: many european companies prefer hiring US firms to do software or hardware projects, depriving local computer engineers of their jobs, because of the higher taxes and stricter employment regulations in the EC. Nobody in the US seems to complain about this, or feel bad about jobless EC workers, so why should Indians should feel bad about the US programmers they put out of a job?
The DenverPost reports that 'A California man on Thursday sued a slew of international companies, including a Greeley distributor, alleging the penis-enlargement products they market and distribute do not work
I hope he doesn't plan on paying his lawyers with the money he's waiting for from his business associate and dear friend, Dr. Adelawe Johnson in Lago, Nigeria...
That makes absolutely no sense at all. So reducing the price by a whopping 5% makes them "affordable"?
No, but it keeps the price of a pack under the psychological limit of EUR 5. Over that price, studies have shown that people are much more reluctant to buy.
The article is dated Wednesday 04 February 2004. So this is more like News for Nerds. Stuff that mattered. --8
Come to think of it, you get stale news on Slashdot but you don't pay for them, so it's like selling crap to the poor too. Only in this case, the price is right.
Customers of this new entry level version of Windows would be presented with a clear and easy upgrade path to both Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional, he added.
In France, tobacco companies have started selling packs of cigarettes containing only 19 cigarettes instead of 20. A "crippled" pack of smokes in a sense. Why? so that those who can't afford full-size packs since the latest price rises (read: kids and teens) can buy the 19 cigarette pack and get hooked.
Sounds like Microsoft is doing exactly that with poor countries: snare customers then pull on the knot. "buy our cheapo limited software, then when you need more functionalities, it'll be a lot more expensive to ditch Microsoft and go for free-software than pay for the Microsoft upgrade".
But I guess it's business as usual, all companies do that sort of thing, not just Microsoft, I'm not shouting evil-M$ here. But I do hope the Thai government sees through the trap...
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their possible sale to an unnamed 3rd party, described as a 'leading private equity investment firm'. Alias is currently owned by SGI, and the transaction is still considered to be tentative ... SGI announced that they don't know if they'll sell Maya to somebody.
Why are we in the U.S. always the last to get new cellular toys?
Because you have several competing, incompatible cellular networks, when the rest of the world seems to have enough sense to agree on GSM. GSM is an easier, and denser market to conquer. The US market comes second, when something GSM is proven to work well commercially.
I don't use Linux, but I sure as fuck use Firefox. You idiots are turning an excellent browser into a weapon in your imaginary war.
And you're so right! I use Lynx on Windows XP personally, and I'd really like these Windows fanatics to stop referring to Lynx as the poster child for their imaginary war of XP's CLI against Linux's.
Lynx has nothing to do with the command-line Windows movement for chrissake. I mean, it works great on any OS!
Don't get too used to the FireBird's new name, it's already taken by Hollywood. Way to avoid copyright infringement... I predict another name change very soon.
and all you'll see is huge pink squares on your screen where the nipples should be.
My TV seems to be really bad then, I saw a big star-shaped thingy instead of a tit during the Superbowl.
that the answers you get from camera *owners* such as "I think XYZ is the best" are biased, simply because either they love their camera (with good reasons surely), or they don't like them so much but they'll never tell you "yeah, I bought that but I got had".
price, features and quality? I plan to use it for my summer vacation
You need the most powerful zoom you can find. The bigger the zoom, the further away you can be from the nudist beach.
Don't be sad. Thanks to my soviet-era communist education, I was convinced in my school years that the Apollo maned missions to Moon are just an expenisve imperialist publicity stunt with no real scientific value.
And gee, they were almost right...
I had never heard of this feat. I asked around (friends and coworkers) and nobody else I've talked to has heard of them either. They were called 'lunokhod'
You and your friend are not representative of the level of education in the US. If you were, this would be very disturbing, as it would mean the education system is, not a little, but extremely skewed. Any 30 second googling session would have told you Russians were more advanced than the United States in the space race at first, by leaps and bounds.
Luckily...a few months later, Pearl Harbor happened
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Pfft, the best thing that happened to computing is Python Harbor. Perl Harbor sucks
Why would a geek care? Because IBM, its technological breakthroughs and Watson are very much the foundation of commercial technology as we know it today.
A true geek doesn't necessarily care much about IBM. IBM is a lot more relevant to suits. In fact, IBM redefines the concept of "corporate culture" and "standardized outfit". They also embody the culture of centralized computing (or at least used to) and the company used to be seen as a "benevolent dictator", with its policy of renting computers instead of selling them.
All these things are quite opposite to the world of geeks. Of course, curious and open-minded geeks read about everything, and therefore should read this book as well.
I tried showing them to my pet bull and he immediately became bad-tempered and generally unpleasant to be around of. He's much fonder of the Neptune shots from Voyager really...
(it passed the "can my parents use it" test!).
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That may or may not be impressive depending on what your parents do. My experience with Knoppix is that you parents have better be computer engineers
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Actually, I'm surprised nobody here has emitted the opinion that the article is biased, puts the emphasis on the outsourcing issue on purpose, and surely is part of an elaborate PR conspiracy to entice US companies to hire local computer companies and stop the bleeding of high-tech jobs away from the US. Perhaps even that the outsourced programmer was paid to leak the information, so that the article could be written.
What would your answer have been if the guy lived in Nowhere, NM?
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Officials at the New York State Office of Children and Family Services and in Livingston County, where the incident occured, are investigating. Livingston County's social services office is located in Lima, just a few miles south of Rochester, N.Y.
If it's an outsourced programmer, shouldn't it be Lima, Peru?
outsourced programmer posts highly confidential data to a public website, concerning the daily whereabouts of hundreds of children in upstate New York.
In other news: Michael Jackson to move to NY soon.
even if only 5% of Indians could speak English well, that's still 50 million - more than the number of British that can speak English well
I really don't understand that statement at all. Could you please explain?
Regard,
-- Sir Mountbatten
They should feel bad because they are being paid about 1/7 what the job is actually worth.
1/7th of what the job is worth *in the US*. In India, I suspect they're pretty well paid.
That's the flip-size of globalization my friend: since the end of WW2, the US have been busy opening new markets abroad for themselves. Now the new markets in question start to have the ability to compete on the same fields as US industries, and the ole globalization tactic is backfiring.
The USA hurt european countries bad in its days too, now it's their turn to get hit by emerging countries. Every part of the globe has had a glorious economic world-domination era at some point in history, be it Portugal, Italy, France or Britain. America's has started to decline. Tough luck, you're watching History in progress.
China and India have slowed down the Japanese economy, and now they're banging on your door guys. Time to get used to 10+% unemployment, like the rest of us.
How do you feel about the American programmers that are angry they lost their jobs to outsourcing? Do you think they have a right to be angry?
You don't have to be bitter, it works both ways: many european companies prefer hiring US firms to do software or hardware projects, depriving local computer engineers of their jobs, because of the higher taxes and stricter employment regulations in the EC. Nobody in the US seems to complain about this, or feel bad about jobless EC workers, so why should Indians should feel bad about the US programmers they put out of a job?
The DenverPost reports that 'A California man on Thursday sued a slew of international companies, including a Greeley distributor, alleging the penis-enlargement products they market and distribute do not work
...
I hope he doesn't plan on paying his lawyers with the money he's waiting for from his business associate and dear friend, Dr. Adelawe Johnson in Lago, Nigeria
I was wondering for a long time why no one has gotten around to suing these penis-enlargement guys, because it seems like a pretty blatant ... fraud.
Because they'd rather swallow their monetary losses than admit before a court that they have a small dick?
That makes absolutely no sense at all. So reducing the price by a whopping 5% makes them "affordable"?
No, but it keeps the price of a pack under the psychological limit of EUR 5. Over that price, studies have shown that people are much more reluctant to buy.
The article is dated Wednesday 04 February 2004. So this is more like News for Nerds. Stuff that mattered.
--8
Come to think of it, you get stale news on Slashdot but you don't pay for them, so it's like selling crap to the poor too. Only in this case, the price is right.
Customers of this new entry level version of Windows would be presented with a clear and easy upgrade path to both Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional, he added.
...
In France, tobacco companies have started selling packs of cigarettes containing only 19 cigarettes instead of 20. A "crippled" pack of smokes in a sense. Why? so that those who can't afford full-size packs since the latest price rises (read: kids and teens) can buy the 19 cigarette pack and get hooked.
Sounds like Microsoft is doing exactly that with poor countries: snare customers then pull on the knot. "buy our cheapo limited software, then when you need more functionalities, it'll be a lot more expensive to ditch Microsoft and go for free-software than pay for the Microsoft upgrade".
But I guess it's business as usual, all companies do that sort of thing, not just Microsoft, I'm not shouting evil-M$ here. But I do hope the Thai government sees through the trap
You could connect a Tivo to the phone, so you can pause the TV while talking or driving.