That might strike some people as ironic or too bold, but it's actually an excellent question.
Remember, the Prospective Boss is in the management business and not in the geek business.
The person seeking advice here seems to have already decided against a career in the management business.
It is in the manager's interest for that tech person to go as far as possible - as long as it's not into management over his/her head.
I once had a boss who would waffle endlessly on that subject because she really needed me working for her. The best she could honestly offer was "if I climb high enough you can come with me."
Then I got another boss who realized that my success would reflect well on him, and he was extremely supportive. I eventually moved on, and he moved up, and indeed my success did reflect well on him, just as his did on me.
A good Prospective Boss will have a thorough and thoughful answer ready for the question you propose.
You should ask your prospective boss about things that will affect your happiness with their "boss-ing."
Since you were a candidate yourself and withdrew, you have probably already figured out that your new boss is unlikely to be your equal in engineering.
But that's not her job anyway.
You should ask things about leadership philosophy, their personal goals in management, their ideas about telecommuting, about how they balance their work and "real" lives.
Remember that if you are a good engineer, your boss works for you as much as the other way around (unless your boss is the Big Boss of course).
Try to figure out how much you would enjoy having this person around, and how helpful they are likely to be in clearing the way for you to do your best work.
Use no buzzwords.
Thats my style, and it's worked well so far. I've interviewed about half my bosses and haven't had a bad one in 8 years.
I absolutely love my Nokia 3310, but it's "just" a phone of course.
Most of my friends doing the Smart Phone thing have indeed opted for other brands lately (except for one guy who swears by Nokia and doesn't mind a little sidetalkin').
But now I'm working for a startup that wants its website to eventually be Smart Phone compatible, and so I've started looking into what I should have them get me.
Well, I'm pretty late to the discussion but in case anyone is still browsing new posts...
Does anyone know if 0.9 has a setting to open a new TAB instead of a new window when you click an "off-site link" (target="_new" and so on)?
I love Firefox to death but that's the one feature I really wish for every day.
Once you get used to tabbed browsing the worst thing in the world is getting a new window launched when you didn't explicitly desire it. I've gotten in the habit of right-clicking links but sometimes I forget, and some innocent little php bulletin board site throws me into a rage.
It's an even bigger deal when I use my slow laptop, since the new window launch is a matter of time as well as spatial inconvenience.
The main reason SMS-spam is so rare is because you have to pay for every SMS you send. (One exception: the network provider you are currently connected to can send you SMS-s for "free" so of course you get the occasional spam from your provider or whoever you're roaming on.)
The next biggest reason is that SMS *requires* identification.
Now, imagine a bunch of infected phones...
Free SMS-spam with meaningless (since vastly distributed and zombied) originating numbers.
I used to work for Genentech, and they did something similar for their researchers.
Only for the lab researchers IIRC and in any case not for people as low on the org chart as I was... but still, they let those people use a significant portion of their time, and the company's resources (equipment, lab assistants, etc) pursuing whatever they thought was interesting.
Of course the company owned the results. At least one of their major products came from this direction.
They also had a nice sabbatical program. In short, they went pretty far to keep their "high-value" employees happy, and it paid off for them big-time.
As soon as we have normal-sized phones that do all the e-communicating and surfing we normally use our computers for, without looking stupid, then we'll see them replace PDAs for most people.
What I don't get is why the Epia MII-12000, which has a fan, and not one of the fanless ones?
As others have mentioned, it's probably a lot more practical to put a big semi-quiet PC in the next room, but if you're going so far as to go diskless for the project, it seems a bit ridiculous to have a fan on the MB.
The lack of big, recognized, profitable companies behind a lot of the Linux apps is scary to some people.
I just tried out the new SuSE LiveCD because I was curious how PHB-friendly it would be (here in Europe it's the main "business" distro).
There were nice menu options like "Word Processor" and such - but then you launch the app and you get OpenOffice, or (uh-oh) the GIMP for image editing.
I think Novell/SuSE are in a tight spot on that one... it would be so much better for them to customize and corporate-ize some of these apps, even if it's just the chrome and the help text. But that of course would greatly anger the volunteer communities that build and support the programs.
OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird (and many others) have done an admirable job "looking serious." But there are plenty of other perfectly good applications that just look so geeky, so nonserious, so obviously at odds with mainstream business culture, that they are practically begging to not be taken seriously by non-techies.
In some Kases it's beKause of Kutesy Knames, in others it goes deeper.
Honestly, if I were trying to sell a C*O on enterprise desktop Linux, I would be a lot happier talking about "Novell Enterprise Foobar." SuSE takes this pretty far in their marketing materials, but once you have the system in front of you you still have the "problem" of too many options and too many styles.
I just watched that. Leaving aside all questions about the quality of the animation, it appears that the Biker Tux rides his motorcycle through a plate-glass window and into a bunch of other Penguins.
Biker Tux may wish to kill some or all of those imprisoned Penguins, but that is still not a good idea.
Subtitles are never the same as the actual spoken dialog.
Try watching closed-caption TV sometime, where the dialog is (almost) always reproduced exactly.
Note how much space they take up. Note how difficult it is to read all of them while still following the action. Of course the hearing-impaired probably get used to this quickly enough, but if you're not used to it it's really difficult.
When subtitling a movie, you have a very small amount of space in which to convey the dialog in a way that "fits" with the feeling of the movie. And you have to be careful that your audience will have a realistic shot at actually reading them before they make space for the next lines.
Add to that all the normal difficulties of translation.
So, actually, yes, movies that have both dubbed (synchronized) and subtitled versions in a particular language are translated twice (though often the subtitle translation is based on the other). They are two completely different kinds of translation, each with its own requirements.
I've watched director friends go through the subtitling process, and it's a semi-private hell of compromise.
Anyway, as long as I'm digressing here, one more tip: for language learning, if you're not yet up to watching foreign-language films in the original with subtitles off, the next best thing is to watch films you already know very well, dubbed into the language you're trying to learn.
The gigabyte of storage sounds like a big deal, but really it's not. 100MB and a decent spam blocker would also equate to a "lifetime" of e-mails for anyone whose e-mail is sufficiently unimportant that they use a free-as-in-beer service.
The searchability and management of the thing is the key.
I know lots of people who use free e-mail, and a lot of my friends have "free" e-mail on one of my servers. Not one of them is geeky enough to even use folders.
If Google can leverage the search technology and come up with a better UI than their Orkult Dating Service, they're home free. I've not yet checked out Gmail personally, but it seems obvious they will need a different search concept than they use in Google.com - and I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on what they do for their corporate intranet customers.
I think they've probably gotten the message about creepy AdWords, so I don't expect you will see Viagra ads when you're reading your love mails. And as for seeing travel agency ads when you're discussing your next trip, I think people will get used to that very quickly.
Of course this will bring forth a whole new breed of spam: messages designed to show up in your Gmail searches. But hey, no free lunch...
If you're in the prawn... er, pr0n industry and you are fearing outsourcing, I don't think you should be worried about India.
Regardless of whether you're an actor, a cameraperson, a producer, or a computer geek - you should be worried about Central and Eastern Europe.
This outsourcing wave has been underway for years already. On 01 May it's going to become a whole lot cheaper, as certain borders vanish into memory.
So please, before you take yet another jab at the Indians, have a look around the industry in question.
It's really shocking how often self-proclaimed "open-minded" (or even self-proclaimed "smart") people around here default to these borderline-racist positions.
On the one hand, sure, many people (and in the US probably most businesses) either pay the price or don't have the software.
And some high-schooler having a warezed copy of Office is probably a good thing for Microsoft, because that person will likely one day work at a company that buys Office every year because it's what people know.
But if commercial software has no copy protection at all, I do think a lot of people who would otherwise buy it just make a copy.
I've seen this recently with OSX. Since a non-techie user can still use the old "copy the folder" method with Office, Photoshop and Illustrator (those I have personally seen copied that way), some people are just going to get a copy from their friends - and a lot of those people are ones who would otherwise grumble and pay up.
It's the same when you just need to "borrow" the installation CD and everything's peachy.
Copy protection is surely a pain, and I think it's counterproductive to make it too complicated, but as long as there is not even a small technical barrier to copying, a fair number of people will do that instead of buying a license. The whole concept of a "software license" is lost on many people, and unless they have to pay (or jump through some dicey techie hoop) to get the software working, it's more intuitive to them to just "get a copy from Dave" than to go to the store and buy one.
Microsoft apparently thinks the mindshare is worth enough that they don't make a big deal about casual personal copying of their products (or at least they used to not). They can afford it. For a lot of smaller software companies, losing a hundred bucks into thin air is not significantly better than losing it to your competition.
Ms. Stewart, if she goes to some sort of prison, will go there because she broke the law(s) in a most serious way and was found by a jury of her (citizen) peers to be guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
If someone else *should* go and does not, and owes their freedom to a gender or fraternity or whatever, that does *not* mean that Ms. Stewart necessarily should go free.
A little logic would solve this in a flash... and MS is appealing, as well she should and as is within her rights. We can call her a Convicted Felon if we like, but those of us who care about our civic reputations might better refrain. The last legal word has not been spoken.
So before you make a light comparison of Ms. Stewart to the Bush family, maybe you should think for a moment about the foundations of the US legal system.
There may well be crimes for which the Bush presidents (and numerous others) would be charged in somebody's idea of a perfect world.
But that has no particular relevance to the Martha Stewart case, and pretending it does only serves to reduce the seriousness of the anti-Bush position - which I doubt was the intent of the parent post.
Re: point 1) (not keeping Java up-to-date on Win).
I dig your IP mapping project, but why not have a link to a page with the Java applet and say you need Java (or the plug-in etc)?
If you're doing an art project it's one thing to have a plug-in or similar app running on the front page, but I really think an information-based site does better to have a straight HTML front page with links to the shiny things for those who want them.
If I clicked on the "Interactive Map (Java)" link I probably would download a plug-in if necessary, but if I just get a big plug-in-missing block on a front page I usually just ignore it.
Quite interesting. I too have "wished I could" but never really thought twice about building such a thing.
Under Linux/BSD/etc it might be very easy to hack one together... you could just watch the cache (or the squid) and throw everything in a database.
Where I think it becomes more challenging is the small-disk-space requirement. If you have wide-ranging interests you're going to have a pretty huge database pretty quickly.
You might be able to get around that by strictly limiting what you keep - eg, metatags and obviously text content but not pictures or any HTML. Then maybe link into the Internet Archive to get the actual pages (since presumably a lot of them will have changed).
Now, what would be really cool is having all this integrated into the search tool on Firefox.
Imagine you could choose "History" as one of your search engines and it would search your history/cache (the size/lifespan/exclusions of which you have set) and for each result it would give you options to see your cache of the page, archive.org's history of the page, the page itself, Google's cache of the page, etc.
It might also be cool to have a little search appliance that you plug into your network and it does it all for you.
Food for thought anyway... If I wasn't so busy I'd try a squid/postgres version right now.
It seems it becomes a remote control with a nice LED display.
You still have to "add a way to get your PC's Video & Audio signals to your living room TV set." ( that's from the link )
It's a cool use of the box, but since the box itself is not actually playing the video or outputting the video (or even the audio) signal, they shouldn't call it a video player.
I think the make-or-break on this is going to be the standard apps:
Web Browser (hopefully Moz/FF)
Mail client (hopefully Moz/TB)
Office Suite (OO or similar)
The first two MS gives away free, but the open-source free versions are vastly superior.
The second one is better (o blasphemy!) in the MS version, but expensive; whereas the free versions are probably good enough for most people and, well, free.
If I were Ballmer* I would put serious pressure on the Office group to come up with a "good-enough" version that could be bundled with (but not, for anti-trust reasons, overly integrated with) the OS.
Seriously, if you consider the cost of a low- to mid-range PC with fully-legal software then you are looking at serious savings on the office suite alone, at least for small and medium-sized businesses.
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That might strike some people as ironic or too bold, but it's actually an excellent question.
Remember, the Prospective Boss is in the management business and not in the geek business.
The person seeking advice here seems to have already decided against a career in the management business.
It is in the manager's interest for that tech person to go as far as possible - as long as it's not into management over his/her head.
I once had a boss who would waffle endlessly on that subject because she really needed me working for her. The best she could honestly offer was "if I climb high enough you can come with me."
Then I got another boss who realized that my success would reflect well on him, and he was extremely supportive. I eventually moved on, and he moved up, and indeed my success did reflect well on him, just as his did on me.
A good Prospective Boss will have a thorough and thoughful answer ready for the question you propose.
You should ask your prospective boss about things that will affect your happiness with their "boss-ing."
Since you were a candidate yourself and withdrew, you have probably already figured out that your new boss is unlikely to be your equal in engineering.
But that's not her job anyway.
You should ask things about leadership philosophy, their personal goals in management, their ideas about telecommuting,
about how they balance their work and "real" lives.
Remember that if you are a good engineer, your boss works for you as much as the other way around (unless your boss is the Big Boss of course).
Try to figure out how much you would enjoy having this person around, and how helpful they are likely to be in clearing the way
for you to do your best work.
Use no buzzwords.
Thats my style, and it's worked well so far. I've interviewed about half my bosses and haven't had a bad one in 8 years.
I just installed Flashblock on Firefox so I could surf in peace on my old Linux laptop, and now this...
It's interesting enough but doesn't really give you much information - not that I could easily figure out anyway.
It would be nice to see the terms related to each other somehow... like in the hatemap on hatester.
I absolutely love my Nokia 3310, but it's "just" a phone of course.
Most of my friends doing the Smart Phone thing have indeed opted for other brands lately (except for one guy who swears by Nokia and doesn't mind a little sidetalkin').
But now I'm working for a startup that wants its website to eventually be Smart Phone compatible, and so I've started looking into what I should have them get me.
And the new Nokias look very promising.
So - our Finnish friends have definitely heard the criticism, and I'm very curious how the new lineup is going to change things.
Competition is Good.
Looks like I posted the comment in the wrong story. Sorry about that.
Well, I'm pretty late to the discussion but in case anyone is still browsing new posts...
Does anyone know if 0.9 has a setting to open a new TAB instead of a new window when you click an "off-site link" (target="_new" and so on)?
I love Firefox to death but that's the one feature I really wish for every day.
Once you get used to tabbed browsing the worst thing in the world is getting a new window launched when you didn't explicitly desire it. I've gotten in the habit of right-clicking links but sometimes I forget, and some innocent little php bulletin board site throws me into a rage.
It's an even bigger deal when I use my slow laptop, since the new window launch is a matter of time as well as spatial inconvenience.
The main reason SMS-spam is so rare is because you have to pay for every SMS you send. (One exception: the network provider you are currently connected to can send you SMS-s for "free" so of course you get the occasional spam from your provider or whoever you're roaming on.)
The next biggest reason is that SMS *requires* identification.
Now, imagine a bunch of infected phones...
Free SMS-spam with meaningless (since vastly distributed and zombied) originating numbers.
Uh-oh.....
I used to work for Genentech, and they did something similar for their researchers.
Only for the lab researchers IIRC and in any case not for people as low on the org chart as I was... but still, they let those people use a significant portion of their time, and the company's resources (equipment, lab assistants, etc) pursuing whatever they thought was interesting.
Of course the company owned the results. At least one of their major products came from this direction.
They also had a nice sabbatical program. In short, they went pretty far to keep their "high-value" employees happy, and it paid off for them big-time.
Borrow a friend's phone. Preferably one with a large memory.
Write one message. Send it to that phone. Repeat.
When the other phone's memory is full, erase the messages.
Caffeinate. Repeat.
One of the main things driving mobile phone sales is, of course, fashion. Especially among the younger consumers.
And the problem with most of these crossover devices is that they are Huge.
I know a few people with these Nokias and these T-mobile-thingies, and they just look ridiculous.
Now look at Japan.
As soon as we have normal-sized phones that do all the e-communicating and surfing we normally use our computers for, without looking stupid, then we'll see them replace PDAs for most people.
if and when the inevitable should occur...
Wow, that's optimism for you.
For business related death...
So you work for the mob?
What I don't get is why the Epia MII-12000, which has a fan, and not one of the fanless ones?
As others have mentioned, it's probably a lot more practical to put a big semi-quiet PC in the next room, but if you're going so far as to go diskless for the project, it seems a bit ridiculous to have a fan on the MB.
The lack of big, recognized, profitable companies behind a lot of the Linux apps is scary to some people.
I just tried out the new SuSE LiveCD because I was curious how PHB-friendly it would be (here in Europe it's the main "business" distro).
There were nice menu options like "Word Processor" and such - but then you launch the app and you get OpenOffice, or (uh-oh) the GIMP for image editing.
I think Novell/SuSE are in a tight spot on that one... it would be so much better for them to customize and corporate-ize some of these apps, even if it's just the chrome and the help text. But that of course would greatly anger the volunteer communities that build and support the programs.
OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird (and many others) have done an admirable job "looking serious." But there are plenty of other perfectly good applications that just look so geeky, so nonserious, so obviously at odds with mainstream business culture, that they are practically begging to not be taken seriously by non-techies.
In some Kases it's beKause of Kutesy Knames, in others it goes deeper.
Honestly, if I were trying to sell a C*O on enterprise desktop Linux, I would be a lot happier talking about "Novell Enterprise Foobar." SuSE takes this pretty far in their marketing materials, but once you have the system in front of you you still have the "problem" of too many options and too many styles.
I just watched that. Leaving aside all questions about the quality of the animation, it appears that the Biker Tux rides his motorcycle through a plate-glass window and into a bunch of other Penguins.
Biker Tux may wish to kill some or all of those imprisoned Penguins, but that is still not a good idea.
Slightly off-topic note about subtitles:
:-)
Subtitles are never the same as the actual spoken dialog.
Try watching closed-caption TV sometime, where the dialog is (almost) always reproduced exactly.
Note how much space they take up. Note how difficult it is to read all of them while still following the action. Of course the hearing-impaired probably get used to this quickly enough, but if you're not used to it it's really difficult.
When subtitling a movie, you have a very small amount of space in which to convey the dialog in a way that "fits" with the feeling of the movie. And you have to be careful that your audience will have a realistic shot at actually reading them before they make space for the next lines.
Add to that all the normal difficulties of translation.
So, actually, yes, movies that have both dubbed (synchronized) and subtitled versions in a particular language are translated twice (though often the subtitle translation is based on the other). They are two completely different kinds of translation, each with its own requirements.
I've watched director friends go through the subtitling process, and it's a semi-private hell of compromise.
Anyway, as long as I'm digressing here, one more tip: for language learning, if you're not yet up to watching foreign-language films in the original with subtitles off, the next best thing is to watch films you already know very well, dubbed into the language you're trying to learn.
Although talking to people is still better.
The gigabyte of storage sounds like a big deal, but really it's not. 100MB and a decent spam blocker would also equate to a "lifetime" of e-mails for anyone whose e-mail is sufficiently unimportant that they use a free-as-in-beer service.
The searchability and management of the thing is the key.
I know lots of people who use free e-mail, and a lot of my friends have "free" e-mail on one of my servers. Not one of them is geeky enough to even use folders.
If Google can leverage the search technology and come up with a better UI than their Orkult Dating Service, they're home free. I've not yet checked out Gmail personally, but it seems obvious they will need a different search concept than they use in Google.com - and I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on what they do for their corporate intranet customers.
I think they've probably gotten the message about creepy AdWords, so I don't expect you will see Viagra ads when you're reading your love mails. And as for seeing travel agency ads when you're discussing your next trip, I think people will get used to that very quickly.
Of course this will bring forth a whole new breed of spam: messages designed to show up in your Gmail searches. But hey, no free lunch...
Anyway that's my four Forints. Off to RTFA now...
Now really...
If you're in the prawn... er, pr0n industry and you are fearing outsourcing, I don't think you should be worried about India.
Regardless of whether you're an actor, a cameraperson, a producer, or a computer geek - you should be worried about Central and Eastern Europe.
This outsourcing wave has been underway for years already. On 01 May it's going to become a whole lot cheaper, as certain borders vanish into memory.
So please, before you take yet another jab at the Indians, have a look around the industry in question.
It's really shocking how often self-proclaimed "open-minded" (or even self-proclaimed "smart") people around here default to these borderline-racist positions.
I don't completely agree with this.
On the one hand, sure, many people (and in the US probably most businesses) either pay the price or don't have the software.
And some high-schooler having a warezed copy of Office is probably a good thing for Microsoft, because that person will likely one day work at a company that buys Office every year because it's what people know.
But if commercial software has no copy protection at all, I do think a lot of people who would otherwise buy it just make a copy.
I've seen this recently with OSX. Since a non-techie user can still use the old "copy the folder" method with Office, Photoshop and Illustrator (those I have personally seen copied that way), some people are just going to get a copy from their friends - and a lot of those people are ones who would otherwise grumble and pay up.
It's the same when you just need to "borrow" the installation CD and everything's peachy.
Copy protection is surely a pain, and I think it's counterproductive to make it too complicated, but as long as there is not even a small technical barrier to copying, a fair number of people will do that instead of buying a license. The whole concept of a "software license" is lost on many people, and unless they have to pay (or jump through some dicey techie hoop) to get the software working, it's more intuitive to them to just "get a copy from Dave" than to go to the store and buy one.
Microsoft apparently thinks the mindshare is worth enough that they don't make a big deal about casual personal copying of their products (or at least they used to not). They can afford it. For a lot of smaller software companies, losing a hundred bucks into thin air is not significantly better than losing it to your competition.
Ms. Stewart, if she goes to some sort of prison, will go there because she broke the law(s) in a most serious way and was found by a jury of her (citizen) peers to be guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
If someone else *should* go and does not, and owes their freedom to a gender or fraternity or whatever, that does *not* mean that Ms. Stewart necessarily should go free.
A little logic would solve this in a flash... and MS is appealing, as well she should and as is within her rights. We can call her a Convicted Felon if we like, but those of us who care about our civic reputations might better refrain. The last legal word has not been spoken.
So before you make a light comparison of Ms. Stewart to the Bush family, maybe you should think for a moment about the foundations of the US legal system.
There may well be crimes for which the Bush presidents (and numerous others) would be charged in somebody's idea of a perfect world.
But that has no particular relevance to the Martha Stewart case, and pretending it does only serves to reduce the seriousness of the anti-Bush position - which I doubt was the intent of the parent post.
Re: point 1) (not keeping Java up-to-date on Win).
I dig your IP mapping project, but why not have a link to a page with the Java applet and say you need Java (or the plug-in etc)?
If you're doing an art project it's one thing to have a plug-in or similar app running on the front page, but I really think an information-based site does better to have a straight HTML front page with links to the shiny things for those who want them.
If I clicked on the "Interactive Map (Java)" link I probably would download a plug-in if necessary, but if I just get a big plug-in-missing block on a front page I usually just ignore it.
Quite interesting. I too have "wished I could" but never really thought twice about building such a thing.
Under Linux/BSD/etc it might be very easy to hack one together... you could just watch the cache (or the squid) and throw everything in a database.
Where I think it becomes more challenging is the small-disk-space requirement. If you have wide-ranging interests you're going to have a pretty huge database pretty quickly.
You might be able to get around that by strictly limiting what you keep - eg, metatags and obviously text content but not pictures or any HTML. Then maybe link into the Internet Archive to get the actual pages (since presumably a lot of them will have changed).
Now, what would be really cool is having all this integrated into the search tool on Firefox.
Imagine you could choose "History" as one of your search engines and it would search your history/cache (the size/lifespan/exclusions of which you have set) and for each result it would give you options to see your cache of the page, archive.org's history of the page, the page itself, Google's cache of the page, etc.
It might also be cool to have a little search appliance that you plug into your network and it does it all for you.
Food for thought anyway... If I wasn't so busy I'd try a squid/postgres version right now.
Sorry, no. It does not become a video player.
It seems it becomes a remote control with a nice LED display.
You still have to "add a way to get your PC's Video & Audio signals to your living room
TV set." ( that's from the link )
It's a cool use of the box, but since the box itself is not actually playing the video or outputting the video (or even the audio) signal, they shouldn't call it a video player.
I think the make-or-break on this is going to be the standard apps:
Web Browser (hopefully Moz/FF)
Mail client (hopefully Moz/TB)
Office Suite (OO or similar)
The first two MS gives away free, but the open-source free versions are vastly superior.
The second one is better (o blasphemy!) in the MS version, but expensive; whereas the free versions are probably good enough for most people and, well, free.
If I were Ballmer* I would put serious pressure on the Office group to come up with a "good-enough" version that could be bundled with (but not, for anti-trust reasons, overly integrated with) the OS.
Seriously, if you consider the cost of a low- to mid-range PC with fully-legal software then you are looking at serious savings on the office suite alone, at least for small and medium-sized businesses.
* If I were Gates, I'd be reading my DaVincis on the beach and having fun. Why can't that dude chill out and just enjoy life??
That's in my Economist in the bathroom - let's see, at least a week old.
You may mod me offtopic, but I don't quite get the point of announcing such old stuff. Don't the editors check the links? Oh, wait...