If somebody can offer a service at a cheaper more efficient price, why not? All this humbug about salaries that one "deserves" to get is purely protectionist and doesn't benefit anybody. Offering cheaper overall inputs provide better value for all Americans to enjoy. If you're peddling global free trade, you've got to be willing to accept that labour needs to move freely and capitalism dictates that the person who can do it cheaper and offers an apple to apple comparison of quality will win. It's pure economics. If somebody can do something cheaper than you can, and is willing to do it, then there is nothing wrong with it.
The one reason I would choose a Dell over Apple anytime is the home support. If anything ever goes wrong with my dell computer, I run a 20 minute diagnostic test, speak to an agent over the phone for 20 minutes and the next day a technician is despatched to my house my the equivalent part. What's better, this warranty is valid for up to 3 years and Dell has never made a fuss. For USD 30 extra on purchase, I get nights and weekend support as well.
For people like my dad where things need to just work, Windows XP with a good firewall and antivirus program coupled with FireFox is sufficient. That and the convenient fact that if anything goes wrong, it'll get fixed by the next day. For that alone, Dell wins my vote.
I must add that I live in Malaysia and Apple here does not offer home service.
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Consider http://www.fastmail.fm. I've been using them for a good few years now and they've been rock solid. The best part of the service is that they have a neutral forum hosted at the popular EmailDiscussions.com forums. Here you can read genuine uncensored feedback about their service.
Their largest account comes with 2GB's of space, IMAP/POP, Spam Assasin, Sieve, 250MB of file space and tonnes more other things. All for only 40bucks a year. They have other plans, so you can pick and choose what you need.
I just bought a Dell Dimension 9150 that comes with the Dual Core processors. In Malaysia, they provide you with all the CDs. Everything down to the drivers comes with the pack that gets delivered. The OS provided is a clean OS. The "recovery" edition is kept on a partition on the HardDrive (takes about 3 gigs or so).
Funny how you guys don't seem to get the CDs in the States.
My Father uses linux too. It's a Mandrake install. I spent 1 week studying exactly what he did in computer, which basically boiled down to
Surfing the internet for cricket scores
Checking and printing email
The occasional word processing
Now I've got it all nicely set up for him. The machine boots up and starts the ADSL connections. He gets his firefox complete with the bookmark toolbar customised to all his favourite websites AND open office to do his occasional work. Just 2 years ago he said he could never use a computer. And today at 65 he's running Mandrake Linux on an old 1ghz Athlon machine.
Don't forget to ask for you academic discount when subscribing! I don't know how much is it everywhere else, but here in Malaysia, a three year subscription costs USD 141 if you're getting the academic discount!
It's easy to sit on your moral high horses and say that Google shouldn't censor news.
However, I feel that it's better for the chinese people to get some access to google, rather than none at all. The Chinese government would not hesitate to completely remove access to google.com. This would greatly trouble a great many number of chinese people.
Stick to the cheap Nokia series.
I got the Nokia 1100 as a replacement for my Nokia 3315 which got lost. The phone is nothing but excellent.
None of the fancies smancies. Great memory for storing tonnes of SMS messages. Extra phone number memory. Battery life is amazing and we still have the good old Snake game.
Why should you feel dirty for thinking properly and lauding the use of patents in the way they were intended to be used? It's ok to stray away from the herd, you know, especially if the other sheep are being dumb and blindly following the blind sheep at the front of the pack.
Maybe he just forgot to take a shower before he posted? *ducks*
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Check out a paper I wrote not too long ago with regards to UML Modelling and use of it in a Business Environment. Attached is its abstract.
This paper explores the communications gap that exists between business clients and developers using Unified Modelling Language(UML) modelling tools to gather software requirements. A methodology for measuring how client expectations form after studying UML models is developed. The methodology provides a formalized measure to show that information loss occurs during the interpretation process. We find that users place a high emphasis on interaction process with software rather than functionality and overall design process traditionally emphasized by developers. This contrasts with developers who feel that UML is the ultimate communication tool to hand down requirements to clients . We conclude that more work is required in the area of client developer communications using UML tools, and that the UML as a communication tool is not as effective as portrayed by the software industry.
If somebody is going to commit something illegal, he'll probably enter the country illegally. Probably through the porous mexican border or the huge coastline that the US has.
Secondly, this is downright disrespectful. Detractors will argue that it's for the safety of the US. Well, I really don't see how it'll help. Once the dude is in the country, and has committed the offence, this sort of system is absolutely worthless. Effort should be put into preventing these sort of tragedies. Efforts like putting more effort into the Israel Palestine crisis, managing Iraq more effectively, stop being so patriachal and showing more respect to the citizens of the world.
I for one, will be taking my tourist dollars elsewhere. Where the authorities respect me. Where I'm not treated like a criminal and people realise that not everybody is out to get them.
I have absolutely no problem if those sites were adult sites. My issue with these dudes is that they are delibrately TRICKING kids into viewing the porn.
Kudos to the authorities for clamping down on this dude.
Am I the only one that sees the irony of this whole submission to slashdot because it was a post about a spammer pretending to have white list access and submitted by a pretender?
Well, people have the option of voting with their wallet and taking their money elsewhere. Australia has tonnes of ISP. Bigpond imposes ridiculous limits, I move to Optus and if they screwup to Blue Planet.
More importantly, if they did tell their users that their IM conversation would be monitored, how would that have affected what conversations that were going on.
If I knew that my yahoo chat messages were being logged, I'd be careful of what I typed. How they observed the participants woudl have severely affected their findings.
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If somebody can offer a service at a cheaper more efficient price, why not? All this humbug about salaries that one "deserves" to get is purely protectionist and doesn't benefit anybody. Offering cheaper overall inputs provide better value for all Americans to enjoy. If you're peddling global free trade, you've got to be willing to accept that labour needs to move freely and capitalism dictates that the person who can do it cheaper and offers an apple to apple comparison of quality will win. It's pure economics. If somebody can do something cheaper than you can, and is willing to do it, then there is nothing wrong with it.
All about New Water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater . Singaporeans have been drinking from Malaysian waste for years...
The one reason I would choose a Dell over Apple anytime is the home support. If anything ever goes wrong with my dell computer, I run a 20 minute diagnostic test, speak to an agent over the phone for 20 minutes and the next day a technician is despatched to my house my the equivalent part. What's better, this warranty is valid for up to 3 years and Dell has never made a fuss. For USD 30 extra on purchase, I get nights and weekend support as well.
For people like my dad where things need to just work, Windows XP with a good firewall and antivirus program coupled with FireFox is sufficient. That and the convenient fact that if anything goes wrong, it'll get fixed by the next day. For that alone, Dell wins my vote.
I must add that I live in Malaysia and Apple here does not offer home service.
Their largest account comes with 2GB's of space, IMAP/POP, Spam Assasin, Sieve, 250MB of file space and tonnes more other things. All for only 40bucks a year. They have other plans, so you can pick and choose what you need.
Funny how you guys don't seem to get the CDs in the States.
- Surfing the internet for cricket scores
- Checking and printing email
- The occasional word processing
Now I've got it all nicely set up for him. The machine boots up and starts the ADSL connections. He gets his firefox complete with the bookmark toolbar customised to all his favourite websites AND open office to do his occasional work. Just 2 years ago he said he could never use a computer. And today at 65 he's running Mandrake Linux on an old 1ghz Athlon machine.WooHoo!
I'm using an old MS Word version that has been modified a gazzilion times and things are really getting messy.
Anybody?
However, I feel that it's better for the chinese people to get some access to google, rather than none at all. The Chinese government would not hesitate to completely remove access to google.com. This would greatly trouble a great many number of chinese people.
Some (censored) google is better than no google.
None of the fancies smancies. Great memory for storing tonnes of SMS messages. Extra phone number memory. Battery life is amazing and we still have the good old Snake game.
Maybe he just forgot to take a shower before he posted? *ducks*
The ethical parameters in this issue is clear. The risks are too high, and the destruction devastating.
It wouldn't be murder per say, but definitely manslaughter. If they catch the guy, I hope the full force of the law comes down on him.
Thank god it didn't go to WASTE!
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Pardon the ignorance but can somebody spell out what impact the findings of this probe will have Science in general?
- If somebody is going to commit something illegal, he'll probably enter the country illegally. Probably through the porous mexican border or the huge coastline that the US has.
- Secondly, this is downright disrespectful. Detractors will argue that it's for the safety of the US. Well, I really don't see how it'll help. Once the dude is in the country, and has committed the offence, this sort of system is absolutely worthless. Effort should be put into preventing these sort of tragedies. Efforts like putting more effort into the Israel Palestine crisis, managing Iraq more effectively, stop being so patriachal and showing more respect to the citizens of the world.
I for one, will be taking my tourist dollars elsewhere. Where the authorities respect me. Where I'm not treated like a criminal and people realise that not everybody is out to get them.Whoever said PSTN was secure? All you need to sniff is a wire and the right equipment. And it's easy to do.
I have absolutely no problem if those sites were adult sites. My issue with these dudes is that they are delibrately TRICKING kids into viewing the porn.
Kudos to the authorities for clamping down on this dude.
99% of the stories in Bollywood have this same plot line and seriously, it's amazing they chalk up 3.6 billion tickets.
Am I the only one that sees the irony of this whole submission to slashdot because it was a post about a spammer pretending to have white list access and submitted by a pretender?
I get all my tech issues resolved by the friendly folk over there.
Vote with your wallet people.
If I knew that my yahoo chat messages were being logged, I'd be careful of what I typed. How they observed the participants woudl have severely affected their findings.