That when you look at IT related job offers in the Silicon Area it is hard to find something that is NOT "advanced breakthrough customer advertisement mobile targeting management" platform (in the cloud of course)...
And this is quite boring in the end, and soul crunching, what self respecting geek really wants to do this, of course making money is cool, but spending your life....
If you read his speech what he really say is: Acta good!!, If you do not ask the court of justice, I'll do it and they will say it's good too!!
Then I'll still have to ask you again, drats.....
there are a lot of irritating things in his speech, but in a nutshell he still acknowledge that he has to ask the parliament.
And of course if the ECJ tells him no, he will just be able to say... ohhh bad judges, judges shouldn't make law, sulk, sulk,... (notice the US kind of pattern, about "low making judges are bad..... (when they do not judge as we want them too...)
Well, either Microsoft decided to block FSF just because they do not like them, and that would be "evil", not because blocking the FSF is "bad" but because it's not what they sell to their customers. Or, microsoft deceided that anybody accepting bitcoins is "evil" and necessarily a gambling provider, and then it's even worse, because it's censoring an alternative payment method under false pretence (it would not be the same if they would block saying "we block bitcoin because of...." then the issue would be the... not the lie that puts gambling and bitcoin together.
And even if they correct the situation for the FSF it shows that the implementation model is bad, I do hope that large corporation will think twice before trusting Microsoft on anything...
O goody, so I can vote and then sell my vote to the highest bidder, and of course the vote I made can then be resold by the voting system provider to somebody else...
electronic voting is not a solution, and the idea that people do not vote because "physical voting" is not cool enough is hogwash... Voting is not a video game, and not particularly fun in itself..
and online voting is worse it has no real privacy, and particularly for young people who still live in their parents house it's a really bad idea.
of course it is possible to create a secure voting platform but all the platforms as "secret" protected by "trade secrets" wich is really ridiculous. there is no reason a state could not create an open source voting platform with reviewable code and an independent inspection authority in charge of checking that the machines have not been tempered with. And you would have a machine that enable you to vote, show you the paper slip for verification, transmits the paper slip to a second machine that scans it and gives you an opportunity to check, and then folds it under your eyes and stores it in a transparent urn. but it would be expensive, and would not line the pockets of a private contractors who could also be a donor so it's not happenning
A: Find your oldest skill and try to find an industry that still needs it and has trouble finding people able to maintain old common lisp/cobol/PL1/... code using codasyl databases and such stuff... (boring but might bridge you to retirement). B: Find a job in the Gambling industry it has low "ageism", they want people they feel they can trust (funny isn't it).. C: Create your own company doing anything you like to, and people will expect you to be "old" since you are the big kahuna, and they do not have to know that you are writing the code yourself instead of feeding it to a bunch of H1B visas in your basement.
nb: Forget about "cloud" and other "mot du jour", you might blurb out the truth accidentally about the real issues, and the client really do not like this, moreover, the field is full of 20 something who think they invented it... and are willing to work for one bol of ramen per day.
The "cooler" will have intermitent power, the beeper will be disconnect because it bothers the people near the "cooler", and the mobile phone is "donated" to the administrator's girl friend, and if they happen to have some "smart" technician s/he'll do some "appropriation" on the "cooler's" simcard.
But meanwhile the team will have a nice photo-op opportunity in some nicer/safer zone of africa with cute children, and a nice pool at the hotel...
BTW it's certainly patented by GE or Westhinghouse or some such company... Or maybe some gambling machine producer will find out that this is very similar to : "oups the CPU is overheating, lets send an SMS message to the room manager before the machine stops milking the clients..." and use their patents to milk them...
Moreover keeping medication cold has little to do with tuberculosis, there are many other type of medication / medical supplies that need to be kept cool.
In another news : advanced high tech help veterans pain management (former sergent FooBar used his/her iPad to call mother, mother told him/her to take an aspirine and some warm herbal tee, calming effect of mom's voice, aspirine and camomille + SMS of girl/boyfriend helped feel better...
Basically you cannot readilly know the splitup of your "customers", most probably at least 79 units will want Internet, but some might want a combo mobile+fixed, other a high end triple play and a third the cheapest dsl possible. The "total" cost of triple play for all should not be more than 4000$ a month with free installation. (that would be the approximate price in most well connected cities if each customer buys its own). Now the prices in the US tend to be too high, so their might be a rational for group negociation.
But in practice
Either you have fiber to the building and then you'd want to know what operator is handling this and make sure that they have a decent end user price, and that'll be the best offer. Or you do not have, then the best option is to get your "customer" to sign a paper confirming that they want offer x: Then you show it to all the operators and tell them that the first to commit to fiber to the building within 6 month will get the business, and if they do not make an offer you will use just to demonstrate that you are not happy, and will put in the internal rules of the condo that using their offer is not "nice"...
Most probably either a local cable operator, or one of the telco will think that it's worth its while to connect you.
of course not, since the default "license" on copyright work requires you to ask the right holder. The issue with software is that people expect it to be "different" from another "written work", although there is no real reason for it, except that what you use is typically the "binary" and not the source, this makes it somewhat less obvious (yes I know at the end the only difference between the source and the binary is "cosmetic", but that is not obvious for most users). So people who do add a "say yes" on the GPL try to make the conditions obvious to their users. Moreover by offering an "EULA" like user experience, they try to communicate that this is not just a "freebee" but a real part of the economy, yes it works differently, but nevertheless it's an economical agent just like any other.
The "crux" of the debate is really the following: about 85% of all software is "bespoken"; 15% is "licenced somehow". Free Software in an industrial setup main business model is to extract part of this 85% and put it in the 15% pot, the rational being that since it has to be paid anyway, and since typically it is not worthwhile for one company to spin off a small software activity because the launch cost are to high to leverage just the piece that it built, it is a rational choice to "give it away", and hope that the general development of software will accelerate because we do not need to reinvent the wheel so much.
Damn, I knew I missed something on my computer, I have no win anything partition... But then it's my bad I'm not playing video games, which is the usual excuse... And if i did have a partition, it would be one I paid with my computer (although I would have prefered not to pay it but in practice had no choice, so I delete about 100$ when I cleaned my disk...
And did you ever wonder, why they "had" to have such a partition ? (usually not pirated because it's unfortunately not necessary ?) For instance a friend of mine has an "educational management application" that only runs under windows that she is forced to use because the school she is working for has been conned into a agreement by the local microsoft "partner".... Does that make her an hypocrite, or somebody who has the choice between keeping her job or not ?
Just plain not true, you can use gcc to write non GPL software, and emacs to write a non CC nor FDL book. You are bound by the GPL only if you redistribute the GPL code (modified or not), in the case of the GCC it even says explicitelly that the "chunks of code" it might reuse in the generated code are not GPL, since they are just a "traduction" of your "code"..
The patent issue that you allude to in the video media comment is just the main reason the GPL V3 was created to avoid that people on one hand create liberties using GPL code, and then take them away with software patents..
The issue there is not the GPL but the minefield the US Patent code has created for IT, software patents are always a bad idea.
So that you know that you cannot duplicate this software, slap a price on it, and distribute it while witholding the source. You cannot just do a binary patch changing the license into : "please send me money"...
Getting the "GPL" at installation point is just a way or the "packagers" who provide you with the software to inform you that you might, if you'd wish get the source. Of course they would put it in a separate file, and some do, but it's useful to educate people about the existence of this file, and a spash screen is an easy way.
GPL has nothing to do with a very different issue which is the surveillance society that the media industry is trying to foster on us. The only "interface" is when this industry is trying to use DRM which cannot be implemented with a GPL license (as it would be trivial to make a small modification which would then bypass the control and redistribute it). Then the GPL supporters are aligning themselves with the "piratebay" users.
The wast majority of the "pirates" are windows or macox users, do you think that Apple and Microsoft are "pro piracy" ?
What makes you think that Free Software/Open Source supporters think it's OK to pirate closed source tools ? The only case in which we might think it's acceptable is when we need to circumvent restriction on thirst party content.
We do not want to use closed source tools ever, if we can avoid it.
So if you have a software using a restrictive license, go ahead I'll just avoid using it. But if because of monopolistics shennanighans you stop me from accessing legally purchased content, then yes I might support somebody's efforts to retroengineer your toll booth... Just as you are welcome to read a GPL code to understand a specific protocol and then reimplement it anyway you want, and slap whatever license you want, as long of course as you write your own code.
start a private math school for the children of the parents who while not rich enough to splurge a private college still do not want that the only options left for their children will be "blue collar" which in practice means: - criminal - prison guard - hamburger flipper
It did get awarded, and it will not go to court, unless the "infringer" is rich enough to be able to finance the court procedings against amazon... So the "big guys" will get access to it in a cross licencing deal, and the small guys have to pray that : - either they stay why to small to be noticed - or they grow so fast that the lawers didn't get time to kill them before they are rich enought to play the "mutualy assured destruction game"
nobody just pattented breathing while being somehow interacting with a computer, or "doing something trivial using a computer"... there is really no excuse for pattents anymore...
Even if pattents would not be the worthless piece of skuldugery it became, I cannot understand how this did pass the "obvious to a trained practicant of the art" filter.
At this point my only hope is that in the near future the joblessness in the "first world" will hit 80% and the people finally realize that the situation is just unbearable... and that all our creativity is stolen by: - monetisation of education - confiscation of real estate by the financial system - destruction of invention by outsourcing and brain mushing marketing
Basically they say that they provide more "quality control" than OSM, and that people should check their electronic map, this is not false...
The arguments are very similar to the ones the various encyclopedias offered (and still offer if they haven't disapeared yet) against wikipedia.
But they do recognize value in OSM, so I guess they are more into thinking how in the future leverage OSM, after all the real competition to tomtom is not OSM but google map or bing map on the mobile phones....
They should focus on lowering the price of their hardware, who will pay at least 150€ for a satnav, when they can have something similar for 19€ on an android phone. (since they need the phone subscription anyway, and yes the tomtom is probably "better", but 130€ buys quite a lot of gasoline, even at current prices).
Maybe they'll bring out a 50€ android + osm based navigator, and offer some fun "add ons"
It did cost approximatelly 1 to 3 Billion us$ to sink less than 150 boats or about 10 Million us$ per boat.... well somebody must have made it real good there...
Warning it's based on avaiability in the french market, but since this is quite similar today it should still be helpful. The site is called www.rue-montgallet.com after the name of a popular street with lots of geek friendly shops.
You try http://www.rue-montgallet.com/prix/comparer,portables,700,1,1,1,782=lt1.5,802=10173,1501=23351,min=700,max=1400 I preselected : less than 1.5kg (trust me your sister will be happier with something not too heavy), 1366x768 as requested (i would personally choose a screen size and then try to maximise the definition, I personally have this resolution on my laptop and wish it would be somewhat "taller", i also selected SSD and put the price in the range 700 to 1400€ so that is 1000 to 2000$ (since it includes IVA (sales tax) your price will probably be cheaper so you can splurge on options).
It yields 8 machines 4 Asus 2 HP and 2 Toshiba, I own a Toshiba and am reasonably happy with it, but I would probably choose the Asus which is quite cool looking and since Asus is really it's own ODM it can afford to provide more feature for the price. I would avoid the i7 unless she really needs it (but then she would probably also need a faster GPU) since it really sucks the battery dry in no time nb: If you would put in a slighty higher resolution it would have yielded the Asus zenbook UX31 series, which really looks cool http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX31E/#specifications And still fairly cheap. see http://ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?ref=Products/de/ASRY009VHW.html (for pre installed Linux version, but in German, so just teasing:-))
Microsoft offers a business model that is familiar and non threatening, sure it does not work that well, but then the general feeling is that IT is complicated anyway, and "everybody is doing it". For most business persons, using Microsoft is the sure way of not thinking about IT, using anything else and particularly using an Open Source solution means thinking and making a decision about something they do not want to look at. The alternative would be to delegate to the IT team, but that would be worse, you know "thouse people are weird..."...
And using a disruptive business models sheds a light on one owns business, can my "law business" fore example be handled the same way ? could there be some "open source collaborative platform" giving an useful answer in 95% of the cases ? and putting me out of work ? (well actually asking me to start to really work...).... Better not rock the boat...
Do not worry, destroying competition will fix this for you, they'll retain customers by removing competition, it's more fun to bribe^H^H^H^H^Hinform politicians than to have to interact with pesky tech people and try to understand why giving them money might make you a better provider than the competition... Easier to legislate competition out of the picture.
The Mozilla people make exactly the same error as Netscape did, probably hired the same kind of marketoid loosers to run it as Netscape.
Linux users where the "secure core constituency" for FF, stopping to support them, even by arging "hey you can fix it", means that the platform becomes irrelevant for them, I hesitated to jump over to chromium because I felt that FF needed some support, and I'm not trusting Google that much either, although supporting FF means also accepting the Google cash.... so not that much difference anyway.
Windows and MacOS Users are FF users only because at some point a Linux Hacker told one of them "stop wasting your time, and more importantly my time (well some of us are trying to be diplomatic, so the second part might have been omitted), use a real browser and not a virus magnet, and don't support something that makes your shackle even stronger, switch to FF...
Now the same people who helped promote FF will just say/think, "get lost, where were you in the past 10 years, did you still not get it ? well too bad, go on forking cash over to moloch and please suffer for your foolishness"...
Thanks for the info:-), It's hilarious, well I guess IGT is in an ideal situation to understand casino economy and it makes perfect sense to invite them to join the directorship of yahoo:-) Will they replace her with somebody from bally ?
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That when you look at IT related job offers in the Silicon Area it is hard to find something that is NOT "advanced breakthrough customer advertisement mobile targeting management" platform (in the cloud of course)...
And this is quite boring in the end, and soul crunching, what self respecting geek really wants to do this, of course making money is cool, but spending your life....
so where are the really interesting companies ....
If you read his speech what he really say is: Acta good!!, If you do not ask the court of justice, I'll do it and they will say it's good too!!
Then I'll still have to ask you again, drats.....
there are a lot of irritating things in his speech, but in a nutshell he still acknowledge that he has to ask the parliament.
And of course if the ECJ tells him no, he will just be able to say ... ohhh bad judges, judges shouldn't make law, sulk, sulk,... (notice the US kind of pattern, about "low making judges are bad..... (when they do not judge as we want them too...)
Well, either Microsoft decided to block FSF just because they do not like them, and that would be "evil", not because blocking the FSF is "bad" but because it's not what they sell to their customers. ...." then the issue would be the ... not the lie that puts gambling and bitcoin together.
Or, microsoft deceided that anybody accepting bitcoins is "evil" and necessarily a gambling provider, and then it's even worse, because it's censoring an alternative payment method under false pretence (it would not be the same if they would block saying "we block bitcoin because of
And even if they correct the situation for the FSF it shows that the implementation model is bad, I do hope that large corporation will think twice before trusting Microsoft on anything...
O goody, so I can vote and then sell my vote to the highest bidder, and of course the vote I made can then be resold by the voting system provider to somebody else...
electronic voting is not a solution, and the idea that people do not vote because "physical voting" is not cool enough is hogwash...
Voting is not a video game, and not particularly fun in itself..
and online voting is worse it has no real privacy, and particularly for young people who still live in their parents house it's a really bad idea.
of course it is possible to create a secure voting platform but all the platforms as "secret" protected by "trade secrets" wich is really ridiculous. there is no reason a state could not create an open source voting platform with reviewable code and an independent inspection authority in charge of checking that the machines have not been tempered with.
And you would have a machine that enable you to vote, show you the paper slip for verification, transmits the paper slip to a second machine that scans it and gives you an opportunity to check, and then folds it under your eyes and stores it in a transparent urn.
but it would be expensive, and would not line the pockets of a private contractors who could also be a donor so it's not happenning
A: Find your oldest skill and try to find an industry that still needs it and has trouble finding people able to maintain old common lisp/cobol/PL1/... code using codasyl databases and such stuff... (boring but might bridge you to retirement).
B: Find a job in the Gambling industry it has low "ageism", they want people they feel they can trust (funny isn't it)..
C: Create your own company doing anything you like to, and people will expect you to be "old" since you are the big kahuna, and they do not have to know that you are writing the code yourself instead of feeding it to a bunch of H1B visas in your basement.
nb: Forget about "cloud" and other "mot du jour", you might blurb out the truth accidentally about the real issues, and the client really do not like this, moreover, the field is full of 20 something who think they invented it... and are willing to work for one bol of ramen per day.
The "cooler" will have intermitent power, the beeper will be disconnect because it bothers the people near the "cooler", and the mobile phone is "donated" to the administrator's girl friend, and if they happen to have some "smart" technician s/he'll do some "appropriation" on the "cooler's" simcard.
But meanwhile the team will have a nice photo-op opportunity in some nicer/safer zone of africa with cute children, and a nice pool at the hotel...
BTW it's certainly patented by GE or Westhinghouse or some such company...
Or maybe some gambling machine producer will find out that this is very similar to : "oups the CPU is overheating, lets send an SMS message to the room manager before the machine stops milking the clients..." and use their patents to milk them...
Moreover keeping medication cold has little to do with tuberculosis, there are many other type of medication / medical supplies that need to be kept cool.
In another news : advanced high tech help veterans pain management (former sergent FooBar used his/her iPad to call mother, mother told him/her to take an aspirine and some warm herbal tee, calming effect of mom's voice, aspirine and camomille + SMS of girl/boyfriend helped feel better...
Basically you cannot readilly know the splitup of your "customers", most probably at least 79 units will want Internet, but some might want a combo mobile+fixed, other a high end triple play and a third the cheapest dsl possible.
The "total" cost of triple play for all should not be more than 4000$ a month with free installation. (that would be the approximate price in most well connected cities if each customer buys its own).
Now the prices in the US tend to be too high, so their might be a rational for group negociation.
But in practice
Either you have fiber to the building and then you'd want to know what operator is handling this and make sure that they have a decent end user price, and that'll be the best offer.
Or you do not have, then the best option is to get your "customer" to sign a paper confirming that they want offer x:
Then you show it to all the operators and tell them that the first to commit to fiber to the building within 6 month will get the business, and if they do not make an offer you will use just to demonstrate that you are not happy, and will put in the internal rules of the condo that using their offer is not "nice"...
Most probably either a local cable operator, or one of the telco will think that it's worth its while to connect you.
good luck
of course not, since the default "license" on copyright work requires you to ask the right holder.
The issue with software is that people expect it to be "different" from another "written work", although there is no real reason for it, except that what you use is typically the "binary" and not the source, this makes it somewhat less obvious (yes I know at the end the only difference between the source and the binary is "cosmetic", but that is not obvious for most users).
So people who do add a "say yes" on the GPL try to make the conditions obvious to their users.
Moreover by offering an "EULA" like user experience, they try to communicate that this is not just a "freebee" but a real part of the economy, yes it works differently, but nevertheless it's an economical agent just like any other.
The "crux" of the debate is really the following: about 85% of all software is "bespoken"; 15% is "licenced somehow".
Free Software in an industrial setup main business model is to extract part of this 85% and put it in the 15% pot, the rational being that since it has to be paid anyway, and since typically it is not worthwhile for one company to spin off a small software activity because the launch cost are to high to leverage just the piece that it built, it is a rational choice to "give it away", and hope that the general development of software will accelerate because we do not need to reinvent the wheel so much.
Damn, I knew I missed something on my computer, I have no win anything partition...
But then it's my bad I'm not playing video games, which is the usual excuse...
And if i did have a partition, it would be one I paid with my computer (although I would have prefered not to pay it but in practice had no choice, so I delete about 100$ when I cleaned my disk...
And did you ever wonder, why they "had" to have such a partition ? (usually not pirated because it's unfortunately not necessary ?)
For instance a friend of mine has an "educational management application" that only runs under windows that she is forced to use because the school she is working for has been conned into a agreement by the local microsoft "partner"....
Does that make her an hypocrite, or somebody who has the choice between keeping her job or not ?
Just plain not true, you can use gcc to write non GPL software, and emacs to write a non CC nor FDL book.
You are bound by the GPL only if you redistribute the GPL code (modified or not), in the case of the GCC it even says explicitelly that the "chunks of code" it might reuse in the generated code are not GPL, since they are just a "traduction" of your "code"..
The patent issue that you allude to in the video media comment is just the main reason the GPL V3 was created to avoid that people on one hand create liberties using GPL code, and then take them away with software patents..
The issue there is not the GPL but the minefield the US Patent code has created for IT, software patents are always a bad idea.
So that you know that you cannot duplicate this software, slap a price on it, and distribute it while witholding the source.
You cannot just do a binary patch changing the license into : "please send me money"...
Getting the "GPL" at installation point is just a way or the "packagers" who provide you with the software to inform you that you might, if you'd wish get the source.
Of course they would put it in a separate file, and some do, but it's useful to educate people about the existence of this file, and a spash screen is an easy way.
GPL has nothing to do with a very different issue which is the surveillance society that the media industry is trying to foster on us.
The only "interface" is when this industry is trying to use DRM which cannot be implemented with a GPL license (as it would be trivial to make a small modification which would then bypass the control and redistribute it).
Then the GPL supporters are aligning themselves with the "piratebay" users.
The wast majority of the "pirates" are windows or macox users, do you think that Apple and Microsoft are "pro piracy" ?
What makes you think that Free Software/Open Source supporters think it's OK to pirate closed source tools ?
The only case in which we might think it's acceptable is when we need to circumvent restriction on thirst party content.
We do not want to use closed source tools ever, if we can avoid it.
So if you have a software using a restrictive license, go ahead I'll just avoid using it.
But if because of monopolistics shennanighans you stop me from accessing legally purchased content, then yes I might support somebody's efforts to retroengineer your toll booth...
Just as you are welcome to read a GPL code to understand a specific protocol and then reimplement it anyway you want, and slap whatever license you want, as long of course as you write your own code.
start a private math school for the children of the parents who while not rich enough to splurge a private college still do not want that the only options left for their children will be "blue collar" which in practice means:
- criminal
- prison guard
- hamburger flipper
you will pay more for your gifts, and will have less choices
It did get awarded, and it will not go to court, unless the "infringer" is rich enough to be able to finance the court procedings against amazon...
So the "big guys" will get access to it in a cross licencing deal, and the small guys have to pray that :
- either they stay why to small to be noticed
- or they grow so fast that the lawers didn't get time to kill them before they are rich enought to play the "mutualy assured destruction game"
this is soo sad
nobody just pattented breathing while being somehow interacting with a computer, or "doing something trivial using a computer"...
there is really no excuse for pattents anymore...
Even if pattents would not be the worthless piece of skuldugery it became, I cannot understand how this did pass the "obvious to a trained practicant of the art" filter.
At this point my only hope is that in the near future the joblessness in the "first world" will hit 80% and the people finally realize that the situation is just unbearable...
and that all our creativity is stolen by:
- monetisation of education
- confiscation of real estate by the financial system
- destruction of invention by outsourcing and brain mushing marketing
Basically they say that they provide more "quality control" than OSM, and that people should check their electronic map, this is not false...
The arguments are very similar to the ones the various encyclopedias offered (and still offer if they haven't disapeared yet) against wikipedia.
But they do recognize value in OSM, so I guess they are more into thinking how in the future leverage OSM, after all the real competition to tomtom is not OSM but google map or bing map on the mobile phones....
They should focus on lowering the price of their hardware, who will pay at least 150€ for a satnav, when they can have something similar for 19€ on an android phone.
(since they need the phone subscription anyway, and yes the tomtom is probably "better", but 130€ buys quite a lot of gasoline, even at current prices).
Maybe they'll bring out a 50€ android + osm based navigator, and offer some fun "add ons"
It did cost approximatelly 1 to 3 Billion us$ to sink less than 150 boats or about 10 Million us$ per boat....
well somebody must have made it real good there...
Warning it's based on avaiability in the french market, but since this is quite similar today it should still be helpful.
The site is called www.rue-montgallet.com after the name of a popular street with lots of geek friendly shops.
You try http://www.rue-montgallet.com/prix/comparer,portables,700,1,1,1,782=lt1.5,802=10173,1501=23351,min=700,max=1400
I preselected : less than 1.5kg (trust me your sister will be happier with something not too heavy), 1366x768 as requested (i would personally choose a screen size and then try to maximise the definition, I personally have this resolution on my laptop and wish it would be somewhat "taller", i also selected SSD and put the price in the range 700 to 1400€ so that is 1000 to 2000$ (since it includes IVA (sales tax) your price will probably be cheaper so you can splurge on options).
It yields 8 machines 4 Asus 2 HP and 2 Toshiba, I own a Toshiba and am reasonably happy with it, but I would probably choose the Asus which is quite cool looking and since Asus is really it's own ODM it can afford to provide more feature for the price. :-))
I would avoid the i7 unless she really needs it (but then she would probably also need a faster GPU) since it really sucks the battery dry in no time
nb: If you would put in a slighty higher resolution it would have yielded the Asus zenbook UX31 series, which really looks cool
http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX31E/#specifications
And still fairly cheap. see http://ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?ref=Products/de/ASRY009VHW.html (for pre installed Linux version, but in German, so just teasing
Good luck
Microsoft offers a business model that is familiar and non threatening, sure it does not work that well, but then the general feeling is that IT is complicated anyway, and "everybody is doing it".
For most business persons, using Microsoft is the sure way of not thinking about IT, using anything else and particularly using an Open Source solution means thinking and making a decision about something they do not want to look at.
The alternative would be to delegate to the IT team, but that would be worse, you know "thouse people are weird..."...
And using a disruptive business models sheds a light on one owns business, can my "law business" fore example be handled the same way ?
could there be some "open source collaborative platform" giving an useful answer in 95% of the cases ? and putting me out of work ? (well actually asking me to start to really work...)....
Better not rock the boat...
Do not worry, destroying competition will fix this for you, they'll retain customers by removing competition, it's more fun to bribe^H^H^H^H^Hinform politicians than to have to interact with pesky tech people and try to understand why giving them money might make you a better provider than the competition...
Easier to legislate competition out of the picture.
The Mozilla people make exactly the same error as Netscape did, probably hired the same kind of marketoid loosers to run it as Netscape.
Linux users where the "secure core constituency" for FF, stopping to support them, even by arging "hey you can fix it", means that the platform becomes irrelevant for them, I hesitated to jump over to chromium because I felt that FF needed some support, and I'm not trusting Google that much either, although supporting FF means also accepting the Google cash.... so not that much difference anyway.
Windows and MacOS Users are FF users only because at some point a Linux Hacker told one of them "stop wasting your time, and more importantly my time (well some of us are trying to be diplomatic, so the second part might have been omitted), use a real browser and not a virus magnet, and don't support something that makes your shackle even stronger, switch to FF...
Now the same people who helped promote FF will just say/think, "get lost, where were you in the past 10 years, did you still not get it ? well too bad, go on forking cash over to moloch and please suffer for your foolishness"...
So it's dead... Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Thanks for the info :-), It's hilarious, well I guess IGT is in an ideal situation to understand casino economy and it makes perfect sense to invite them to join the directorship of yahoo :-)
Will they replace her with somebody from bally ?