I believe the way to make it easy for American companies to donate to a Canadian charity is to setup a non-profit organization in the US. I'm not an accountant or tax attourney though so I'm not sure exactly how that would be set up (i.e. I don't know whether a US non-profit would be able to give funds to Canadian OpenBSD developers directly or whether there would have to be a Canadian charity in between).
Anyways, like I said, there is some hassle in setting up a non-profit organization, but it's still probably worth it. I'm sure at least on the U.S. side of things (and probably the Canadian side as well) that it's likely they could find somebody willing to help them setup a non-profit for free if they started looking.
Is this something that can be deducted from Income Tax as a charitable donation?
No because they are not a registered non-profit organization, you cannot deduct contributions to them from your taxes. Honestly, I can't think for the life of me why they haven't become a non-profit yet. I mean, it's somewhat of a hassle yes, but I'm sure the benefits would be worth it. Both NetBSD and FreeBSD have set up non-profit foundations (DragonFly BSD has not).
Seriously, not having non-profit status is certainly part of why they're having trouble getting funding. It means that any contribution made to them is taxed (so they're not able to use all the money that is given to them) and I'm sure it makes companies less likely to donate to them as well because they're not able to deduct their contribution from their taxes either. I mean, I'm not saying this is the silver bullet that would solve their funding problems, but it's certainly part of it and I think it's a bigger part than they realize.
According to a recent article, the pure and simple reason is customer service and overall experience. The author writes, 'When Raymond competitors are focused on cost reduction to increase profitability, Raymond is investing resources to enhance his relationship with his customers. To me, that's impressive. Unfortunately, there are too many companies in the market that could care less about their customers, but Raymond is determined and committed in delivering the experience and not just the product. It's regrettably amusing that Raymond competitors are working hastily to develop clones to reap in success, but what many of them fail to comprehend is that it's not necessarily Raymond that makes him successful, but rather his customer service.'"
An iPod you carry all over the place in your pocket will get more abuse than a monitor on your desk, so a dead pixel in a monitor is more likely the manufacturer's fault (and less likely regardless, thus more likely to be warranteed). Also, notice that in the link you posted, it says Samsung's policy is only good in South Korea.
The screen on an iPod is also completely devoid of any warantee.
Your other points are valid, but why in the world would you think that the screen would have a warranty? Unless you take it out of the box and your screen is broken, I can't imagine any circumstance when a damaged screen wouldn't be your own fault. It's not like a screen is some sort of complex mechanism that should have a warranty against faulty parts causing problems -- it's just a piece of plastic. If it's broken, it's your fault, not theirs, hence no warranty.
Who says OSS folk don't wear suits? Tux wears a suit 24/7 and he's one of our most recognizable mascots. Chuck, the BSD daemon on the other hand wears sneakers most of the time and look where that's got him.
And to all you vegetarians out there, until they make a plant that tastes like bacon, I'm not switching. If God didn't want us to eat animals then why did he cover them in meat?
i've been using amanda at work for the past year now and it's been wonderful.
Sure it seems wonderful now, but work relationships can cause a lot of trouble. I mean, sooner or later she's going to realize you're just using her and then what?
not many people want to work in an industry where finding a job when you are past forty is difficult.
Finding a job past forty is difficult? Silly rabbit,the way it works is you create a startup when you're 26, which is then bought out by a larger company for an obscene amount of money before you turn 30. You use this money to retire on and never have to worry about working again.
This script installs Free implementations of patented algorithms, proprietary codecs, Sun's Java, P2P file sharing programs, non-free programs like Adobe Acrobate, MS true type fonts (unsure about Tahoma; you need a Windows license to use that one), non-free-illegal-in-US codecs, non-free Nvidia binary blobs, and makes some GUI behaviors mimic a W32 environment.
Thanks for the warning, RMS, but some of us live in the real world and have to get real things done.
No, probably not, I read it as him contesting the article's implication that it's just for newbies. This could have been made clearer if he had put a comma in, i.e. "I contest, this is a very handy tool for anyone".
Not to detract from your point, but in my mind, the image file equivalent of finding a music file by humming would be finding a photo by drawing a rough sketch of it. THAT would be really cool.
This software exists. I really don't remember at all what it was called but I found it a few months ago when looking for something else. It's a very interesting idea, but it didn't seem like it worked particularly well for most things. Still though, very cool. I'm sure if you spent a little time, you could caress a link to the page I'm thinking of out of Google.
I want a watch with Bluetooth which syncs my appointments and automatically sets alarms.
That seems like a pain in the ass. If the alarm goes off for the time your appointment is set to, what good is it? You're already late unless you already got there on time. If your watch sounds an alarm before your appointment to allow you travel time, then you've got another problem because not all appointments require the same amount of travel time (i.e. meeting a friend across town vs. going to a meeting just one floor up from you) so you've got to double the amount of times you have to set for your appointments in order to get your watch to sound at the right time, you've got to set the time of the appointment and the time that you want the alarm to go off. At this point you might as well just be setting your watch manually anyways because it would take just as long to punch the times into your PDA manually.
Statistically speaking, it's no less secure than any other sequence. Especially at six digits, that actually makes it more secure from a brute force attack...
This is what I meant when I said that "I guess it doesn't really matter what your PIN is".
However, now that I think about it having an "obvious" PIN also makes it easier for somebody to glean your PIN. That's not a big problem because it's not usually how PINs are gotten, but it does happen. Also, like another response to your post pointed out, if you were bruteforcing PINs you might try the "obvious" ones first (1234, all digits the same, first two digits the same as the last two, etc.).
Huhwhat? I love Opera and it's almost all I use, but it leaks memory like a sieve.
This is true, but when you close Opera it keeps all your tabs and stuff so that when you open it again they're all still there (at least this is how it is by default and I've never known anybody who cared to change it). So, unlike Firefox, if it starts leaking memory to an unacceptable degree, you can just close it and reopen it and you're all set. In firefox, if you tried to do this, you'd lose all the tabs you had open, obviously.
OTOH, trying to close opera when it's blowing 450mb is awful; I generally wind up giving it the old "kill -9".
This is true, when Opera gets real big it's sometimes easier to go into Task Manager (I'm using Windows) and kill the process. More hassle than I'd like, but still better than Firefox. Plus, if I'm just a little more diligent and close/reopen Opera periodically before it gets too big, then it's not a problem.
As far as extensions and what not, I've yet to find a Firefox extension that I wish I had in Opera; and the ones I always install in Firefox are for functionality already included in Opera.
Agreed. Most of the extensions I install in Firefox are to get features in Opera and there are still functions I wish I could have but haven't been written. There are some cool Firefox extensions that give you functions not available in Opera, don't get me wrong, but however cool they are, I haven't found many that provide any great utility in everyday use.
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Huh? Why wouldn't he just take taxed amount out of the 10k?
I believe the way to make it easy for American companies to donate to a Canadian charity is to setup a non-profit organization in the US. I'm not an accountant or tax attourney though so I'm not sure exactly how that would be set up (i.e. I don't know whether a US non-profit would be able to give funds to Canadian OpenBSD developers directly or whether there would have to be a Canadian charity in between).
Anyways, like I said, there is some hassle in setting up a non-profit organization, but it's still probably worth it. I'm sure at least on the U.S. side of things (and probably the Canadian side as well) that it's likely they could find somebody willing to help them setup a non-profit for free if they started looking.
Seriously, not having non-profit status is certainly part of why they're having trouble getting funding. It means that any contribution made to them is taxed (so they're not able to use all the money that is given to them) and I'm sure it makes companies less likely to donate to them as well because they're not able to deduct their contribution from their taxes either. I mean, I'm not saying this is the silver bullet that would solve their funding problems, but it's certainly part of it and I think it's a bigger part than they realize.
Why Everybody Loves Raymond
According to a recent article, the pure and simple reason is customer service and overall experience. The author writes, 'When Raymond competitors are focused on cost reduction to increase profitability, Raymond is investing resources to enhance his relationship with his customers. To me, that's impressive. Unfortunately, there are too many companies in the market that could care less about their customers, but Raymond is determined and committed in delivering the experience and not just the product. It's regrettably amusing that Raymond competitors are working hastily to develop clones to reap in success, but what many of them fail to comprehend is that it's not necessarily Raymond that makes him successful, but rather his customer service.'"
An iPod you carry all over the place in your pocket will get more abuse than a monitor on your desk, so a dead pixel in a monitor is more likely the manufacturer's fault (and less likely regardless, thus more likely to be warranteed). Also, notice that in the link you posted, it says Samsung's policy is only good in South Korea.
Some companies use open source software and they don't pay for it??!! I for one am shocked.
Who says OSS folk don't wear suits? Tux wears a suit 24/7 and he's one of our most recognizable mascots. Chuck, the BSD daemon on the other hand wears sneakers most of the time and look where that's got him.
GOD BLESS SCIENCE!
And to all you vegetarians out there, until they make a plant that tastes like bacon, I'm not switching. If God didn't want us to eat animals then why did he cover them in meat?
Okay, so what does it do, that is, what can it be used for?
Same here, I've got 33 open right now. Things have gotten really out of hand since I realized that opera could make the tab bar go multiline.
However, now that I think about it having an "obvious" PIN also makes it easier for somebody to glean your PIN. That's not a big problem because it's not usually how PINs are gotten, but it does happen. Also, like another response to your post pointed out, if you were bruteforcing PINs you might try the "obvious" ones first (1234, all digits the same, first two digits the same as the last two, etc.).