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  1. Re:And get paid 40% less? No thanks. on Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? · · Score: 1

    Stop spreading the rumor that montreal is cheaper!!!! now every one is moving back to montreal. the cost of housing cost increased of 75% over the past 4years! god!

    We had a good time with the low rent for a longtime when PQ and BQ was messing arround. :P

  2. Gates Will always be Gates, a true business tycoon on Unix To Beef Up Longhorn · · Score: 1

    Fellow slashdoters,

    you all have to admit something, Gates will always be gates, a true business tycoon.

    I don;t know if you noticed it, but Gates did it again, strategic business possitioning of its money.

    1) it created FUD by funding SCO

    2) it utilized the momentum where SCO needed money so badly that for its warchesst to purchase a perpetual unix license. (thus not paying the Boris tax to buy SCO as SCO would have loved to)

    3) it will effectively destroy the key UNIX vendor since SCO invested all the money to fight Linux instead of R&D for UNIX

    4) the Inovation in UNIX combined with the userbase, will compensate the stability issue of MS, creating demand.

    There you go! Gates did it again! he eat up a whole market without the incumban realizing it. This is like AppleBasic vs Microsoft Basic, or Sybase vs SQL Server, friends once when you need him, foes when he grows stong!

    This is the way of the tycoons.

  3. Re:I'm not surprised on Too Few American Scientists? Maybe Not · · Score: 1

    Well actualy you forgot one last point, the MBA, and why they are paid 150,000$.

    unlike scientist or enginers, they know the human side of the product. they are the one who transform an inovation to profit. and any great inovation with no actual profit will generate Zero Revenu meaning Zero pay for the eng.

    Nevertheless, there are lots of company who pay more to the scientist that the MBA. because not all MBA are payed 150,000. most of them are payed around 45,000 which is the average salary of a Master of Science. 150,000 is for the cream of the crop, and a Lead Eng, can get that too.

    All in All, its fair game!

  4. Bah.. Non productif 29 Billion Dollars on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 1

    They added up all the 3DS, Maya and Photoshop that teenagers download just to be wanabe 1337...

    I bet that if you add up the money in the pockets of all these teens around the would you would merly get 1 million dollars!

    This is the classic invalid insurance clam, you know, the guy who has a big wearhouse that is loaded with 29Billions "worth" of equipment, but no customer can realy actualy buy one of them since it would cost like 10years of their paycheques. So what does the company do? He burns his wearhouse before he goes bankrupt to claim his insurance money at "his" MSRP.

    Same story here, some softco, just want to alianate potential buyers to claim his insurance claim (which most of the time will be rejected and left with no wearhouse nor money.. MPAA, RIA, SCO?)

    It is a stupid business strategy, even Microsoft is not realy pushing against piracy. He it says it does, but count the number of illegal copies around the world, you know they are not realy pushing it.

    Now Imagine, the day that Microsoft, publish longhorn with a UNCRACKABLE RSA 1024Bit encription requiring a special BIOS to run it. BIOS will be free of charge, but you will have to pay 600$
    20% of its userbase may pay up, 20% will stick with win95/2k, 60% will go to linux or MacOS to protest or maintain their budget.

    Hey 600$ OS+ 1400$ = SLOW Memory Hug LongHorn, vs 1299 for a cooly stylish iMAC with MacOS Tiger running fast as lighting.

    Thank you for reading uptill the end.

    PS: I just notice the funny subtil joke "Redmond, We Got A Problem, The Tiger X is eating our Catles!"

  5. Re:That's good news. on Taiwanese Makers Will Squeeze DVD Recorder Prices · · Score: 1

    bah, as long as tax are in %10 or in A fix rate, you will get your discount.

    I don't know the actual prices but here are two scenarios

    -PERCENTAGE-
    DISCOUNT of 50% :: 200$ * .5 = 100$
    TAX on DVD :: 100$ * 1.15 = 115$
    -still 85$ off-

    or
    -FIX-
    DISCOUNT of 50% :: 200$ * .5 = 100$
    TAX on DID 50$ :: 100$ + 50$ = 150$
    -still 50$ off-

    work you number out, you will still get a discount of something. and i don't know in germany, but people here cuts little coupons to save 30cents on candy bar. discount = good!

  6. Re:Thank Buddha for technology... on A Video Projector That Fits In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    hmmm... roasted hands.. miam. --had to say it.

    ok rate me troll, maintaining high karma takes too much fun out of you life.

  7. Re:Watch for Apple on A Video Projector That Fits In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    well you have to take into account the CEO of the time. since job took back the position of CEO after being kicked out, Apple rebecame mainstream.

    ie. iXYZ except the iSeries :P
    ipod,imac,ipod.... ...iProject

  8. Bah old news, see the live video demo on Tiger Slideshow: Pretty Mac OS X Pictures · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bah old news, see the live video demo of the WWDC 04 Keynotere-broadcast!

    note: click on "Watch Now"!

  9. Re:If there ever was a people needing liberating.. on China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    this is still the eternal philosophical debates:

    1) Judging from the "The intention vs The action"

    2) Rulling by the rulls "a Mass of Greedy and Selfish Ignorants vs a Exortic* Radical Brilliand Individual"

    Any gouvernement is only a conglomerate of ideology in order to perform these two elements
    to Rule and To judge. First it will make the Rules and second it will judge if you follow the rules, how it inforce it are only periferial debates.

    And after centuries of debates on these two core issues, of which faction is the best, there is still no answers.

    Judging from the intension is a preventif actions, it is deemed the best, but you might pusnish those who had the moral stands to stop his own actions before the act. Or the other faction, it will only account you only after the damage is done.
    As, in the communication monitoring, you can deem everyone guilty and track them all, or pinpoint who did somethng wrong and then find the evidences.

    And on the other hand, its a fight about dictature or democracy. A good dictature is someone who want the good for the people, people are ingnorant of the greatness he is building, they think they are opressed. However, whith so much power in their hands, he/she moslikely turn ill in the mind and lead its contry to the desaster.

    Nevertheless, on the other extreme, a contry gouverned by a mass of ignorant, can easily be overtaken by a smart evil dictateur (just like the marketing folk who manage to make you buy something you don't realy need and you thought it had values).

    All in All, both faction are good in theorie, in practice, evil mind can overtake the place. The best way to do it, in my opinion, is to leave things as they are, on one side democracy on the other the communist. if you don;t like where you live, move on and go on the other. The bonnus, in the democratic faction you still have communist parties, and on the communist parties you still have capitalist leaders. Thus, extremes will never be crossed, and each side compete for the beterment of theire theorie, thus preventing the ill minded leaders to harvonc the contrie, since they are accountable to make the contry more prosper than the other to prove its ideology.

    This shall work untill both side merges in the midle and we can form a planetary ferderation, and globalize mankind as one, and finaly get started to protects us from the real threats from outerspace-- as oposed from threats crated by our own ignorances.

    PS: we are still a civilization class 0, lets work toward class I toggeter as depicted by Nikolai Kardashev.

  10. Re: I tought... on Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe BEI4 YAO3 WU2 FU2 [4ff6 302d 4ad3 3695], which (I think) means 'completely unfathomable vast big-head'.

    (however, I don't speak Mandarin, this is just from looking up syllables in the Unihan Database


    I don't speak mandarin neither,

    but i a pretty sure that it means that : "a guy named 'BEI' has dirty pants "

    since i am not sure about the 1234 things, someone please do correct me

  11. Re:An important difference on Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference? · · Score: 1

    to be faire,
    you do have lots of free scripting languages outof the box CSCRIPT, VB, WMI, BATCH, etc. and the AdminPack gives you almost all what BATCH/TCSH scripts (+Python) gives. since you can realy automate about anything and addin

    Also, the DOTNET framework is ABSOLUTELY FREE, you can compile in CLI about anything, working on any enviroment (ok shame on me, the Free dotNET academic conference made me an evangelist for a MS lunch box (delicious by the way)). the ROTOR will run CLI under FreeBSD (Linux not officialy supported last year though) wondering why..

  12. Re:Right approach on What A Portable Media Center Might Look Like · · Score: 1

    this seems like a side story to the PALM vs PocketPC.

    In the begining, one offered stability and simplicity, and the other features and integration.

    At very first, the features and integration is not reliable, expensive and bulky. But as technology improves, price drops, and becoming more and more reliable: useres are willing to adop these extra benefits for a small premium. The leader of the race is soon getting caugthup by the the bulky and slow turtle.

    however, unlike the PDA war, raging in both the business and consumer fields. This battle is on for consumer side, where MS is know to Suck! (ie: Windows XP Home, Windows 9x/ME... ..BOB!)

  13. Re:Stop with the dot com expectations on Recent Grads and Experience Beyond the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    :'(
    I am a recent grad, and i took the helpdesk job! Actualy, as a Helpdesk Analyst, we are a level up from the normal helpdesk.

    It's 2x 7.50/h, but we have a Admin Account for WAX, NT and 2K3 Server. We do Remote Control and other trouble shooting. That was the fun part, but To be honest, we also do go get calls for "how do i do make my excel show a red cell when the number is below zero", when the normal helpdesk didn't manage to answer (vba, or vba-like stuff).

    All in All, its not that bad, although i can;t wait to get my System Analyst Title. Mean while, i have hands on people skill and system mantenance skill. Adding to work for a global network, you do get to see what a REAL network is.

    I have to admit, i am not so proud of my job, but its not that bad too. I did expect more money... but this is good engouh while i look for something better.

    PS: My other friend who knew NOVELL/Linux is getting 45$/h as a Novel Helpdesk Analyst,b****, i am so jalouse, i work more tham him (must answer to a wider range of questions) but he gets more! Helpdesk job aren't all crappy! but don't do ISP support, you will get "I PAY 30$/MO and its NOT WORKING YOU B****, [bla bla bla]".

  14. Re:Hooray for Apple on Industrial Design Excellence Awards 2004 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep! but IBM has that booring Standard Formal Business Design. You do get Air-Bag technology inside your Harddisk, Titanium Chasing wrapping the case...

    But the Notebook itself is ALWAYS BLACK since a good five 10-year.

  15. Re:Lucky - I Work In the Industry! :P on 429,000 Do-Not-Call Complaints · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is ONE Big and EASY way to get rid of the survey's ;)

    If you don't want them to call again, just make sure that you say YES when they ask you are your working for xyz company (competitor servey company or targeted industry) and they will say "Oh Sorry, Thank you for your time"

    This will ensure that your name is registered in they're database as Employee of xyz co. DO-NOT CALL to not false the results!

    Then again, you might just answer a few of them to make things in your favor. I remeber when i was asked about my favorite kind of drink. A few month later, i saw a big price raise. Since then i keep telling them i only drink no brand :p suckers. if everyone does it, pepsi and coke will have to drop the price of the darn thing!

    In short, for serveys, you can either get on the black list, and they won't botter you anymore. Or answer what they don't want to hear, so they adjust ther USP (Unique Selling Proposition) to fit your desire.

    my .02

  16. Re:Goodbye Smoke, Hello Toxic Water. on The Return of the Sparrow Electric Vehicle? · · Score: 1

    Humm let's think...

    Hydro, It flood mass of land, debalancing the local echo system.

    Wind Mills at very large scale, may slowdown the air mass, caussing instability weather effects related to the wind. such as where the rain usualy drops, rivers levels and other of such.

    Solar Panel, well the panels dies too fast and they are non-renewable.

    Ah well why fight, we are doomed, we will never reach the status of Civilisation Class I (mastery of planet system and energy).

  17. Goodbye Smoke, Hello Toxic Water. on The Return of the Sparrow Electric Vehicle? · · Score: 1

    Who said that electric car are ecological?

    In order to make it work, manufacurer are developing fast charge, long lasting bateries.

    Goodbye Smoke, Hello Toxic Water. (acid->toxic rain)

  18. Re:Great on HOPE Conference Gets Wozniak, Mitnick, Biafra · · Score: 1

    Easy...

    Business is abour ROI, to anti-hack you have to understand hacking.

    The Terminator, a killinging machine, actualy know how to heal. Because to kill you must know how to heal in order to make optimal damage.

    Therefore, "1337 hax0ring 5k122z" will enable you to enhance your awareness of the hacking world, thus better identifing potential faws in the computer system or any potential theats.

    Remember, a security leak can seriously damage the company reputation and fincances. so the ROI should can be easily pumped up!

    Be creative. Anyone has "better" examples of ROI?

  19. One Word: Sweet on 200mbps DSL On Its Way? · · Score: 1

    Sweet... well at least until i see the bill. I will be more than happy to use it if it doesn't cost me more than 30buck a month. otherwise well its just overbudget.

  20. Re:Perfect Setup on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 3, Funny

    TO-DO LIST UPDATED:

    3. Patent Profit*

    4. Rule the world**

    NOTE:

    *It will be unprofitable to try to make profit for anyone else than MS. Injunction, will be deposited as soon as you try to make money.

    **Patent the world if required.

  21. Re:$5K? on Gaming PC Makers Take Aim at Lucrative Niche · · Score: 1

    plus you need a second keyboard to play flozen bubbles on your second dual screen.

  22. Re:Hmm... on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 1

    "Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time"

    Great! Now Logitech must be realy pissed! Its market share will be reduced to people using either Amazone or Microsoft :p

    1click and multiple click!

    Ah well there is sitll the mouse gesture things that is not patened. ;)

    I think it would work great with a pen. oh wait.. MS is making tablet pcs...

    we are doomed, we have to wait for voice recognition.. wait again... microsoft is heavily working on voice recognition...

    ok everyone, lets go back to pen and paper.

  23. Re:Stock to TP conversion on SCO and Baystar Strike a Deal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you are laugthing, but RBC is still the richest bank in canada, and still the most profitable bank. Somehow, not mater what they invest in, smart banks always find a way to make money out of the situation. They are sneaky, real sneaky. Most non financial people think that it will serve them a lesson to act so foolishly, but a good bank have smart portfolio managers. meaning that no mater what they do, something else will ofset the losse and turn to profit. The worse part of it, is that the UNOFFICIAL, UNANNOUNCED offseting investment is the secret sauce of the company. Everyone knows that RBC invested in SCO, but i am betting that RBC has investment in beowulf cluster company too, which cost them penuts and are worth a fortune if SCO fails (this is because HPC is the fasted growing segment of it, if SCO is not in the picture.) Yep, so the point is VC may make stupid moves, but BANKS are sneaky creatures that if have secret backup plans worth doulbe as much if sneario one fails.

  24. Re:Cancer? on Hacking the Linksys WRT54G · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well you are already bombarded by your TV, FM, AM Satelite and other radio frequency, more or less you'll die eventualy.

    Beside, if you are woried about living long and healthy. Well first start with the water and the food. they are morelikely to kill you, with all those GMO, pesticied etc..

  25. Re:It's very fashionable... on Strategy Videogame Upsets Chinese, Gets Banned · · Score: 1

    still great people with fair ideas get killed before they get a chance to change things. think kennedy.

    watch THE CORPORATION (very good American documentary) it will portay how Nike and other mega corporation did not changed.

    We are recking our world for the sake of money. America refused to join kyoto for economical reason. and The Day After Tomorow will not be too far from reality.

    This is a endless debate of great philosphers from a century ago.

    GIVE POWER TO THE PEOPLE or THE WISE?

    THE PEOPLE will want what the best for them self.

    THE WISE will want the best for all.

    in both case there are winers and loosers.

    the and both perspective can make a better world as long as the the gouvernment is fair and not corupted.

    Monarchi had mad prospered contry. And when people are not happy they just choped their head off.

    So my .02 is that the FAIR WISE makes a BETTER CONTRY world and DEMOCRACY is present no mater what. if people don;t like what they see they will just go out and chop the head of the leaders (aka, rebellion.) its just a mater of time.
    and this is true for any gov. monarci, tirran, democacy, communisme...

    ONE THING, living in a democatic contry, i ALWAYS wanted a WAY to propose to DECREASE the wages of POLITICIAN. they always cut millions in public fund, but never drop their paycheques. Tell me how can we make this happend? for one thing if i get elected i won't be interested in doing it anymore :P

    PS: GO WATCH "The Corporation" amazing movie!