One time I went to an all-you-can eat Sushi restaurant and ate a bunch of 'White Tuna'... Later that day I took a dump... and noticed oily stuff in the toiled. Ended up farting oil for next two days. Felt like Exxon Valdez.
IT Managers have been spending like drunken sailors. It's quite appalling that policies and strategy of most corporate IT shops are dictated by hardware and software vendors who cozy up to the management and staff through gifts, golf games and lunches.
Old hardware is thrown out instead of re-used, and nine times out of ten more powerful (and expensive) hardware/solution is chosen. It's time for IT to tighten the belt and re-direct some of the money lining vendors' pockets to some old fashioned internal R & D.
This is nice, but it relies on electricity. If they can mitigate the need for the thing to be plugged in, this would go a lot further in the areas where electricity is as unreliable as the water supply.
What we should be focusing on, and I am surprised there isn't an X-prize on it yet, is how to get drinkable water from the ocean by using solar power or other non-grid source of energy. Think of all the folks who live along shorelines and do not have access to drinking water.
If we can find an energy-efficient way to extract fresh water out of the ocean, we will be able to reverse the dilution happening due to melting of the polar ice cap, provide water for areas affected by drought and with self-powered irrigation systems turn deserts into arable land.
BTW, the lawyer's name is Ramage - quite appropriate in my opinion.
tr.v., rammed, ramÂming, rams.
1. To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt: rammed the door with a sledgehammer until it broke open.
2. To force or press into place.
3. To cram; stuff: rammed the clothes into the suitcase.
4. To force passage or acceptance of: rammed the project through the city council despite local opposition.
Tomato/MLPPP
http://fixppp.org/index.php?p=documentation
Tomato/MLPPP is a fork of the popular Tomato firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) for consumer broadband routers. The primary goal is to enable users to bond multiple DSL connections using MultiLink PPP (MLPPP), and/or to circumvent Bell Canada's DPI-based throttling by using MLPPP on a single DSL line.
Branch into offering telecom services such as LD, voicemail boxes, VoIP, etc...
If you already have the hardware and internet connectivity, it's only a small step to branch into providing voice services.
Canadian DIDs are cheap and with a couple of DIDs you can provide extension-based vm boxes. Outbound calls within Canada are cheap as well...
Help people connect and keep in touch with their families and friends.
I buy a car, I get the keys
I buy a house, I get the keys
I buy a book, I can do whatever I want with it
Why is it that "buying" software is any different?
If they want to rent it to me, they should do that instead of charging $60 upfront. Maybe that's the new business model. $1/day to play the game. If it sucks, well I will be the judge, and it won't cost me $60 to find out. Survival of the fittest. Methinks appropriate in this case.
Software companies will inevitably lose the cat-and-mouse game in every case. Because they sit opposite to a million monkeys on million typewriters.
That in the same country that won't outlaw guns, which definitely and directly harm people, folks are finding it necessary to ban newsgroups, which do not harm anyone directly or indirectly.
Get your f***n priorities straight.
Hallelujah! The main purpose of patent and IP law was to promote innovation by ensuring that those who innovate are able to reap sufficient financial benefits commensurate with their invested work. It was to do this IN THE INTEREST OF THE SOCIETY.
However, over time, greedy corporations and overzealous lawyer twisted and bent this law to protect interests of individual corporation at the expense of the society at large. This has to be undone.
If you ever worked in a call center you will be familiar with this. There are accuracy, skill set and previous performance rules that can be built into almost any workflow...
MORPHEUS: This is the SCO you know. SCO as it was at the end of the twentieth century. SCO Chicago exists only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Darl McBride's mind.
...and "J" was added, after marketing determined that it would divert the focus from the real purpose of the project...which is railing consumers up the rear end...
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.decafme.org/
One time I went to an all-you-can eat Sushi restaurant and ate a bunch of 'White Tuna'... Later that day I took a dump... and noticed oily stuff in the toiled. Ended up farting oil for next two days. Felt like Exxon Valdez.
Bastards.
ICANN.change.org?
Yes, I am in IT and you/your company may be an exception (kudos).
Does your company have clear ethical guidelines and a procurement department which manages the vendor selection process?
Do you accept lunches/gifts from vendors? Have these ever affected your decision? How can you be certain?
... batteries not included
IT Managers have been spending like drunken sailors. It's quite appalling that policies and strategy of most corporate IT shops are dictated by hardware and software vendors who cozy up to the management and staff through gifts, golf games and lunches.
Old hardware is thrown out instead of re-used, and nine times out of ten more powerful (and expensive) hardware/solution is chosen. It's time for IT to tighten the belt and re-direct some of the money lining vendors' pockets to some old fashioned internal R & D.
of physical memory.
This is nice, but it relies on electricity. If they can mitigate the need for the thing to be plugged in, this would go a lot further in the areas where electricity is as unreliable as the water supply.
What we should be focusing on, and I am surprised there isn't an X-prize on it yet, is how to get drinkable water from the ocean by using solar power or other non-grid source of energy. Think of all the folks who live along shorelines and do not have access to drinking water.
If we can find an energy-efficient way to extract fresh water out of the ocean, we will be able to reverse the dilution happening due to melting of the polar ice cap, provide water for areas affected by drought and with self-powered irrigation systems turn deserts into arable land.
http://www.omm.com/sanfrancisco/
BTW, the lawyer's name is Ramage - quite appropriate in my opinion.
tr.v., rammed, ramÂming, rams.
1. To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt: rammed the door with a sledgehammer until it broke open.
2. To force or press into place.
3. To cram; stuff: rammed the clothes into the suitcase.
4. To force passage or acceptance of: rammed the project through the city council despite local opposition.
Tomato/MLPPP http://fixppp.org/index.php?p=documentation Tomato/MLPPP is a fork of the popular Tomato firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) for consumer broadband routers. The primary goal is to enable users to bond multiple DSL connections using MultiLink PPP (MLPPP), and/or to circumvent Bell Canada's DPI-based throttling by using MLPPP on a single DSL line.
Branch into offering telecom services such as LD, voicemail boxes, VoIP, etc... If you already have the hardware and internet connectivity, it's only a small step to branch into providing voice services. Canadian DIDs are cheap and with a couple of DIDs you can provide extension-based vm boxes. Outbound calls within Canada are cheap as well... Help people connect and keep in touch with their families and friends.
I buy a house, I get the keys
I buy a book, I can do whatever I want with it
Why is it that "buying" software is any different?
If they want to rent it to me, they should do that instead of charging $60 upfront. Maybe that's the new business model. $1/day to play the game. If it sucks, well I will be the judge, and it won't cost me $60 to find out. Survival of the fittest. Methinks appropriate in this case.
Software companies will inevitably lose the cat-and-mouse game in every case. Because they sit opposite to a million monkeys on million typewriters.
That in the same country that won't outlaw guns, which definitely and directly harm people, folks are finding it necessary to ban newsgroups, which do not harm anyone directly or indirectly. Get your f***n priorities straight.
Hallelujah! The main purpose of patent and IP law was to promote innovation by ensuring that those who innovate are able to reap sufficient financial benefits commensurate with their invested work. It was to do this IN THE INTEREST OF THE SOCIETY. However, over time, greedy corporations and overzealous lawyer twisted and bent this law to protect interests of individual corporation at the expense of the society at large. This has to be undone.
If you ever worked in a call center you will be familiar with this. There are accuracy, skill set and previous performance rules that can be built into almost any workflow...
Well DUH! Over 10% of US population is Hispanic. That'll give you a head start...
...now that he's gone public, it's the jury that counts
...no really, somebody's got too much time to be viewing obscure wav files in a hex editor...
MORPHEUS: This is the SCO you know. SCO as it was at the end of the twentieth century. SCO Chicago exists only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Darl McBride's mind.
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Department of Inferior?