***** - You get kickbacks from the govt **** - You are tolerated *** - You receive a random beating once a month ** - You receive daily beatings * - Your family receives a bill for the bullet that was put in the back of your head.
He's not afraid to make controversial decisions and stand behind them (something one is going to need when one decides to donate to Project X and not to Project Y).
Boy it sucks to see how poorly this was run.:(
"Nothing has come out of these accounts for months, save about $250/mo auto deducted for telecommunications expenses," Collord wrote. "I went off payroll in June of 2004 when I stopped working full time on this project and haven't incurred any expenses since. I was paid a salary of I believe like $28k per year. I haven't read my LinuxFund email since about January I believe."
$28k/yr. $14/hr. I'd say that's about the quality level the fund
administration appears to have received.
"I'm certainly negligent," he said. "The short story is: the scale at which the business model seems to work is not commensurate with the overhead required to run a nonprofit well. Everyone that's been involved has been lackluster given the range of requisite skills -- technical and administrative and business development in total -- and ultimately burnt out."
Try hiring a good business person. I'll bet you won't even need him/her full-time. In fact, you might be able to get somebody from SCORE very cheaply. Get interns with a biz background. You don't
need geeks to administer the fund. You only need them to decide who gets what.
If you used one of the original Newtons you would have seen this word more times than the sum of all previous times in your life. It seemed that every time I entered a contraction beginning with a capital I, this was what it was interpreted as. Gary Trudeau of lampooned the whole Fiji thing in his Doonesbury strip when the Newton came out.
Really? Ask you Chinese friends to explain the differences between "Big China" and "Little China". Try venturing away from the business/tourist sections. Better yet, try it in a smaller city.
Well, some of the folks at the office are now carrying phones that have over 1 month of standby (no, they do not weigh 5 lbs:), so I guess it's a convenience issue. It's not about being able to charge it every night. It's about being able to forget to charge it for a night (or two) and not miss an important call because it wasn't charged when you need it.
I must have skipped the chapter in early phone history where telemarketers would call at all hours of the day and night.
Emergency services infrastructure was very different in the infancy of the telephone and it wasn't displacing a more reliable method of summoning for help, unless you lived next door to the Policeman/Firefighter/Doctor and they could hear you when you screamed at the top of your lungs.
Blaming China for things like spam just lets them accuse us of stereotyping them or being rascist and this distracts people from valid concerns such as their unfair currency policy and unfair trade practices.
The article said, it was unsure if China would play along. I don't recall it saying "China, the leader in spam" or something. Also if those 25 countries agree to do something and China doesn't, what do you think happens to the percentages?
Have you ever been to the PRC? I've been numerous times. In general, the Chinese are extremely racist, almost to the Asian equivalent of Aryanism.
If this gets substantial traction, China will get it's collective shit together and do something about it. A few days of null-routing their traffic should do the trick.
I see you glossed right over battery life and the lack of a replaceable battery. Both were deal-killers for me. Well, than and there was no desktop sync software (has T-Mo finally released this?) No way was I entering 900+ contacts using that itty bitty kybd.
You want to type words into a cheapo, pocket device, that is clear. Then what? Keep it there and only read from the chepo device? Do more editing on cheapo device? grep text on cheapo device? transfer text to some other device? via what means? how much text?
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Random disconnections while downloading
Failure to connect at all for periods > 24 hrs
I would propose:
***** - You get kickbacks from the govt
**** - You are tolerated
*** - You receive a random beating once a month
** - You receive daily beatings
* - Your family receives a bill for the bullet that was put in the back of your head.
My colleagues and I have found it much more difficult to download email from the US while in the PRC in the past month.
All 8 pages mirrored here.
1) He's always right
2) He's always right
and most importantly:
3) He's always right
[Stallman Defenders: Learn how to take a joke, ok?]
He already runs a successful business.
He's not afraid to make controversial decisions and stand behind them (something one is going to need when one decides to donate to Project X and not to Project Y).
Boy it sucks to see how poorly this was run. :(
"Nothing has come out of these accounts for months, save about $250/mo auto deducted for telecommunications expenses," Collord wrote. "I went off payroll in June of 2004 when I stopped working full time on this project and haven't incurred any expenses since. I was paid a salary of I believe like $28k per year. I haven't read my LinuxFund email since about January I believe."
$28k/yr. $14/hr. I'd say that's about the quality level the fund
administration appears to have received.
"I'm certainly negligent," he said. "The short story is: the scale at which the business model seems to work is not commensurate with the overhead required to run a nonprofit well. Everyone that's been involved has been lackluster given the range of requisite skills -- technical and administrative and business development in total -- and ultimately burnt out."
Try hiring a good business person. I'll bet you won't even need him/her full-time. In fact, you might be able to get somebody from SCORE very cheaply. Get interns with a biz background. You don't
need geeks to administer the fund. You only need them to decide who gets what.
It's called Risk Management.
Yeah, look how fast Debian has been able to move and adapt.
IMHO, well-managed projects need a benevolent dictator at the top to keep things moving.
This is slashdot. No male here has been near a female nipple since being weaned. :)
If you used one of the original Newtons you would have seen this word more times than the sum of all previous times in your life. It seemed that every time I entered a contraction beginning with a capital I, this was what it was interpreted as. Gary Trudeau of lampooned the whole Fiji thing in his Doonesbury strip when the Newton came out.
here
It doesn't have to be false to sow Fear, Uncertainty, or Doubt.
:)
There's another name for it when it's false. It's called Marketing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlying.
Really? Ask you Chinese friends to explain the differences between "Big China" and "Little China".
Try venturing away from the business/tourist sections. Better yet, try it in a smaller city.
Well, some of the folks at the office are now carrying phones that have over 1 month of standby (no, they do not weigh 5 lbs :), so I guess it's a convenience issue. It's not about being able to charge it every night. It's about being able to forget to charge it for a night (or two) and not miss an important call because it wasn't charged when you need it.
I must have skipped the chapter in early phone history where telemarketers would call at all hours of the day and night.
Emergency services infrastructure was very different in the infancy of the telephone and it wasn't displacing a more reliable method of summoning for help, unless you lived next door to the Policeman/Firefighter/Doctor and they could hear you when you screamed at the top of your lungs.
Blaming China for things like spam just lets them accuse us of stereotyping them or being rascist and this distracts people from valid concerns such as their unfair currency policy and unfair trade practices.
The article said, it was unsure if China would play along. I don't recall it saying "China, the leader in spam" or something. Also if those 25 countries agree to do something and China doesn't, what do you think happens to the percentages?
Have you ever been to the PRC? I've been numerous times. In general, the Chinese are extremely racist, almost to the Asian equivalent of Aryanism.
You'd use your telephone?
A throwaway gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc... account?
You do. They wouldn't.
You're betting on your ISP's reliability to get you through in an emergency? Perhaps natural selection is making a comeback.
If this gets substantial traction, China will get it's collective shit together and do something about it. A few days of null-routing their traffic should do the trick.
How often do you charge it? I was lucky to get 24 hours out of a Sidekick II that we tested.
People who use pens have sex with transexuals, or you have to have sex with a transexual in order to use a pen? :)
I see you glossed right over battery life and the lack of a replaceable battery. Both were deal-killers for me. Well, than and there was no desktop sync software (has T-Mo finally released this?) No way was I entering 900+ contacts using that itty bitty kybd.
You want to type words into a cheapo, pocket device, that is clear. Then what? Keep it there and only read from the chepo device? Do more editing on cheapo device? grep text on cheapo device? transfer text to some other device? via what means? how much text?