I know somebody that just got plain gold rings and then used the money saved on this an other superfluous arrangements (honestly, do you need to throw a party for all that people half of which you don't know?) to take a one month brake in Europe.
Most of my married mates's wives no longer wear their wedding ring, they prefer jewellery chosen by themselves anyway, so frankly, what is the point?
But it is not as brain dead as in the litigious US of A.
In the UK you'll find there is still some degree of banter in most offices and people know when something is meant as a joke or as an offence, in most cases where involuntary offence is caused an apology will suffice.
Unfortunately US corporate is permeating UK corporate culture by means of European Head Offices of USian companies based in London and other parts of Europe.
These companies bring with them all their legal baggage and I am sad to say that UK people are catching up pretty fast.
That is the problems with today's "entrepreneurs": they forget that profit is a consequence of providing a better good or service, not of abusing their loyal costumers.
It is no great Engineering feat to accept a range of voltages from the charger and put the necessary circuitry in the gadget to deal with whatever it receives.
Then you would standarize to 2 or 3 connectors that would match different voltage ranges.
Manufacturers of all kind of electronics go to extreme pains to ensure that chargers and connectors differ as much as possible from each other.
Basically they are all acting anti competitively forcing consumers to buy the chargers made by themselves.
Governments and standard bodies are equally culprit for not standardizing all this big mess.
There is no technical reason why we could not be standardized to 2 or 3 different chargers for varying amounts of current and to one or two types of connectors on any gadget. This would open the market to competition and we could choose the solutions that suit us best. Buying a charger for a mobile phones is the most ridiculous exercise, you know you are buying something clearly overpriced just because the connector is different (very often the same manufacturer having different connectors, thus ensuring the consumer has no choice in the matter).
As things stand it may very well be that the same charger could work for 3 or 4 devices but all this anticompetitive mess forces people to have 3 or 4 instead.
We are being abused but some people can think only about insomnia....
Most expats find that the friendliness is not faux. Friendliness to strangers is instilled in you when you grow up in Mexico. It is basic good manners and is basic politeness instilled even in the humblest of families. "Bienvenido a su humilde casa" (welcome to this your humble home) is a polite form of welcoming signalling that you will be looked after. It is a cultural thing that many USians and other foreigners fail to understand miserably.
Rich people who seem showy will be a blanks for rip-offs everywhere. I personally have been the target of people trying to pull a fast one on me in places as diverse as Namibia (by both white and black scammers), Vietnam, Thailand, France or the UK (and needless to say Mexico itself).
Such things happen when you are visibly different. Deal with it.
As for all expats in Mexico living in gated communities, well, it just comes to show how little you know about Mexico. I have visited all of Mexico (all the 32 capital cities of all the states, plus many other innumerable towns and villages) and I can say with authority that expats not all live in gated communities. Not even in Mexico City. Very paranoid people do, but many other live like any other middle class people with the same apprehensions and joys.
Honestly, to think that most expats are in Mexico only looking for hookers reflects on you rather than in the reality of the situation at hand.
Most expats find the people friendly and welcoming, the climate benign, life not so hectic, the food delicious. Yes, there are serious problems, but even conceding that 1 person kidnapped a day is really bad, that still means more than 100000000 do not experience such problems and carry with their life undisturbed.
They will make a pain for you to get a visa and if you have a funny sounding name you will be put in all kind of sinister lists and your laptop may be confiscated on arrival for no reason whatsoever.
If you are from an EU country you can apply to companies in other EU countries (most big US companies have big offices in the EU) for internshios, since guess what? You are legally entitled to do so.
I ignore which reasons you may have for thinking going to the US now is such a good idea, from the professional point of view you can achieve the same or better development by applying to companies in the EU. If you really must go to the US you can join an US company with the view to be relocated there eventually, or perhaps to travel there as part of your duties in a regular job.
You want to program proprietary? Go ahead, fight the world all on your own.
If you think you can offer the same quality in your own, offering code whose source can't be seen, well, only MS can do that, and even them will find this more and more difficult now that even Sun is opening as much code as they can.
The problem with making money by selling software is that it goes against the normal flow of ideas and the creation of cultural goods.
You could want to make money by selling bottles full of air, that does not mean you have a right to do so.
But if you think MS is giving their money for nothing, you will discover, like many other aggravated parties in the past, that they simply don't do that.
If Apache ever becomes irrelevant we may very well come back to this news as the starting point of its demise....
There are many situations in which the death of somebody would benefit third parties, but that is no reason to enact stupid laws to protect the rights of dead people.
Under the same assumption, old people should be able to continue owning property after they kicked the bucket....
You can take measures to get some degree of confidence regarding any applications.
You put a bloody allegory that is frankly pointless, doing what you are suggesting (allow people to put whatever they think they need) is, using another better known allegory, to allow the fools run the asylum.
Vietnam didn't. I travelled there several times with my laptop and never had any issues.
Can somebody give me a good reason why I should not continue my personal boycott against travel to the US?
I would have to leave all my gadgetry behind at home. Absolutely appalling. It is not the fact that a seizure can happen, but that nonchalantly the authorities have the power to keep your stuff for as long as they please. Nice way to nick an iPod.
I used to go to old U.S. of A. once a year, spending a reasonable amount of money each time (hotel, plain tickets, etc.) and a few times I took stop overs in the US in my way home when visiting my family, for which uncle Sam surely derived some money as well.
I know nobody cares, but more and more people are *actively* avoiding the US when travelling.
I went to Canada instead earlier this year, and the difference could have not been starker: I was granted a visa on arrival (I am Mexican, no bloody way that would ever happen in the US, even if I was coming from Europe, as I normally do), the people are friendly and although are losing soldiers to the Taliban more than what would be reasonable to expect, they are not idiotically paranoid.
USians: when are you going to recover the essence of the goodness that your country promised when it was founded?
They have broken the law, cheated on business partners, used underhanded tactics in the OS to stifle competition.
That has nothing to do with capitalism. Capitalism does not work without the respect and adherence to the rule of law, and needless to say, one is immoral because one chooses to, not because one is a capitalist.
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I know somebody that just got plain gold rings and then used the money saved on this an other superfluous arrangements (honestly, do you need to throw a party for all that people half of which you don't know?) to take a one month brake in Europe.
Most of my married mates's wives no longer wear their wedding ring, they prefer jewellery chosen by themselves anyway, so frankly, what is the point?
For slashdot I don't care if somebody gets my password.
For my bank I am willing to take a token, card or whatever makes my account as secure as possible.
But it is not as brain dead as in the litigious US of A.
In the UK you'll find there is still some degree of banter in most offices and people know when something is meant as a joke or as an offence, in most cases where involuntary offence is caused an apology will suffice.
Unfortunately US corporate is permeating UK corporate culture by means of European Head Offices of USian companies based in London and other parts of Europe.
These companies bring with them all their legal baggage and I am sad to say that UK people are catching up pretty fast.
Multiply by 15 or 20 bucks.
To be generous, I would say you have been overcharged by at least 50%.
If that does not matter to you my guess is that it matters to many others.
Protecting against voltage or current peaks is not black magic.
That is the problems with today's "entrepreneurs": they forget that profit is a consequence of providing a better good or service, not of abusing their loyal costumers.
It is no great Engineering feat to accept a range of voltages from the charger and put the necessary circuitry in the gadget to deal with whatever it receives.
Then you would standarize to 2 or 3 connectors that would match different voltage ranges.
J'ai un clavier franÃais, vous insensible motte!
Manufacturers of all kind of electronics go to extreme pains to ensure that chargers and connectors differ as much as possible from each other.
Basically they are all acting anti competitively forcing consumers to buy the chargers made by themselves.
Governments and standard bodies are equally culprit for not standardizing all this big mess.
There is no technical reason why we could not be standardized to 2 or 3 different chargers for varying amounts of current and to one or two types of connectors on any gadget. This would open the market to competition and we could choose the solutions that suit us best. Buying a charger for a mobile phones is the most ridiculous exercise, you know you are buying something clearly overpriced just because the connector is different (very often the same manufacturer having different connectors, thus ensuring the consumer has no choice in the matter).
As things stand it may very well be that the same charger could work for 3 or 4 devices but all this anticompetitive mess forces people to have 3 or 4 instead.
We are being abused but some people can think only about insomnia ....
We need to assume our political responsibility individually.
One messianic apparition will not solve the problems of the country, only the daily grind of ungrateful political work will eventually bear fruit.
Bar weapons reserved for the military, you can have guns for your personal protection.
Most expats find that the friendliness is not faux. Friendliness to strangers is instilled in you when you grow up in Mexico. It is basic good manners and is basic politeness instilled even in the humblest of families. "Bienvenido a su humilde casa" (welcome to this your humble home) is a polite form of welcoming signalling that you will be looked after. It is a cultural thing that many USians and other foreigners fail to understand miserably.
Rich people who seem showy will be a blanks for rip-offs everywhere. I personally have been the target of people trying to pull a fast one on me in places as diverse as Namibia (by both white and black scammers), Vietnam, Thailand, France or the UK (and needless to say Mexico itself).
Such things happen when you are visibly different. Deal with it.
As for all expats in Mexico living in gated communities, well, it just comes to show how little you know about Mexico. I have visited all of Mexico (all the 32 capital cities of all the states, plus many other innumerable towns and villages) and I can say with authority that expats not all live in gated communities. Not even in Mexico City. Very paranoid people do, but many other live like any other middle class people with the same apprehensions and joys.
Honestly, to think that most expats are in Mexico only looking for hookers reflects on you rather than in the reality of the situation at hand.
Most expats find the people friendly and welcoming, the climate benign, life not so hectic, the food delicious. Yes, there are serious problems, but even conceding that 1 person kidnapped a day is really bad, that still means more than 100000000 do not experience such problems and carry with their life undisturbed.
.. and yet hate the abomination that perl is.
The US does not want you.
They will make a pain for you to get a visa and if you have a funny sounding name you will be put in all kind of sinister lists and your laptop may be confiscated on arrival for no reason whatsoever.
If you are from an EU country you can apply to companies in other EU countries (most big US companies have big offices in the EU) for internshios, since guess what? You are legally entitled to do so.
I ignore which reasons you may have for thinking going to the US now is such a good idea, from the professional point of view you can achieve the same or better development by applying to companies in the EU. If you really must go to the US you can join an US company with the view to be relocated there eventually, or perhaps to travel there as part of your duties in a regular job.
Who has threatened you with bogus patent violations?
By copying technology everybody knows is theirs?
Honestly, where is your sense of logic?
I try to use GPLed software only.
BSD and BSD like successful projects are prime target to be easily swallowed by big corps with enough cash.
Apple hijacked lots of BSD stuff and the community got back zilch.
If you think the regular Joe is going to benefit in any way with MS's involvement in Apache, you are truly naive.
You want to program proprietary? Go ahead, fight the world all on your own.
If you think you can offer the same quality in your own, offering code whose source can't be seen, well, only MS can do that, and even them will find this more and more difficult now that even Sun is opening as much code as they can.
The problem with making money by selling software is that it goes against the normal flow of ideas and the creation of cultural goods.
You could want to make money by selling bottles full of air, that does not mean you have a right to do so.
We are talking about a good friend making a bad move by befriend the neighbourhood bully.
That some people that have benefited from embracing open methods of development do not know who their friends and enemies are.
Novell, Xandros and it seems now the Apache Foundation are going to bed with a very dangerous partner. May the bunnies protect them all.
But if you think MS is giving their money for nothing, you will discover, like many other aggravated parties in the past, that they simply don't do that.
If Apache ever becomes irrelevant we may very well come back to this news as the starting point of its demise....
There are many situations in which the death of somebody would benefit third parties, but that is no reason to enact stupid laws to protect the rights of dead people.
Under the same assumption, old people should be able to continue owning property after they kicked the bucket....
You can take measures to get some degree of confidence regarding any applications.
You put a bloody allegory that is frankly pointless, doing what you are suggesting (allow people to put whatever they think they need) is, using another better known allegory, to allow the fools run the asylum.
Vietnam didn't. I travelled there several times with my laptop and never had any issues.
Can somebody give me a good reason why I should not continue my personal boycott against travel to the US?
I would have to leave all my gadgetry behind at home. Absolutely appalling. It is not the fact that a seizure can happen, but that nonchalantly the authorities have the power to keep your stuff for as long as they please. Nice way to nick an iPod.
I used to go to old U.S. of A. once a year, spending a reasonable amount of money each time (hotel, plain tickets, etc.) and a few times I took stop overs in the US in my way home when visiting my family, for which uncle Sam surely derived some money as well.
I know nobody cares, but more and more people are *actively* avoiding the US when travelling.
I went to Canada instead earlier this year, and the difference could have not been starker: I was granted a visa on arrival (I am Mexican, no bloody way that would ever happen in the US, even if I was coming from Europe, as I normally do), the people are friendly and although are losing soldiers to the Taliban more than what would be reasonable to expect, they are not idiotically paranoid.
USians: when are you going to recover the essence of the goodness that your country promised when it was founded?
They have broken the law, cheated on business partners, used underhanded tactics in the OS to stifle competition.
That has nothing to do with capitalism. Capitalism does not work without the respect and adherence to the rule of law, and needless to say, one is immoral because one chooses to, not because one is a capitalist.
The data should stay in the company's intranet and be accessed remotely via a VPN and using remote desktop software of some kind.