Maybe at home but corporate computers are corporate property. There is not expected level of privacy on said property. If you don't want someone at work from looking at your private stuff then don't keep it on business machines.
My point was go to the deepest darkest depths of Rwanda, Sudan, Afghanistan and ask them how much of an impact Linux has on their lives. I think they would rather have clean water and medicine than the clear conscience of running a free OS. It's all about relevance.
Granted in the future, any third world country that needs to build up their technological infrastructure is going to be blessed by the existance of the penguin but until they can get the high mortality rates in check, Billy's donation is more relevant.
The drug companies go along with it because they are still making more than the marginal costs of production, and something is better than nothing.
id software did the same thing with Doom (according to John Romero). They made a deal with the Asian pirate crowd to give them $1 for every game they sold. Figured they may as well get something out of it than nothing.
You are right Technology development is priority but what OS they are running will not dig wells, improve healthcare, upgrade their infrastructure (ok maybe the last a bit but you get my point)
When someone's child dies of a disease that could easily been avoided the last thing he would be concerned with is what OS he should be running.
Priorities in generosity are wrong. I think health is probably more important than computers. Once these countries have dealt with disease, food, debt, etc then what OS they have becomes a bit more of an issue.
Plus most third world countries couldn't give two shits about stealing software from another country.
While I was reading this I had U2 Live at Blain Castle in the background and they were doing Sunday Bloody Sunday. Completely off topic but it was ironical enough to post
Back in 1999, I said to everyone I know. Buy all you want but make sure to sell by the end of year 2001 cause the drop is going to be overwhelming. What really amazed me was how Nortel and JDS was going nuts hiring left and right when they should have realized what was coming around the bend. So two years later all of the people they had hired on and buildings they had built were fired and empty.
Problem is that Clinton was not responsible for the huge job frenzy in 2000 and 2001. Y2K was just as responsible. Everybody stopped buying in 98 and 99 waiting for Y2K to be over except for anything that involved ensuring that Y2K would not affect them (i.e consulting, legacy software updating). Once it was over everybody started spending money hand over fist to make up for a year of waiting.
It was obvious even before 2001 that the upward pressure was going to stop and stop fast. I don't think you can give Clinton all the credit for the economy 3-5 years ago.
That is one of the things I have noticed, most of these Centrino laptops have 1024x768 screens. I would like all of it but have a higher res lcd at least 1280x1024. Course this will cut into the battery time but I hated using the laptop on battery with the lower resolution
If it came with an armstrap (without having to buy it as a separate option) I would get it when my Rio Cali dies. I hate the lanyard thing while running as it bounces all over the place.
However the price for the 512M at 129 CDN is quite attractive. My wife has the Nike psa128 and is finding on her LSD day that she ends up repeating music since it has not memory expansion.
Yes but as any guy knows. Soon enough, you start ignoring the cocktease. At that point either they have to seriously ante up and start looking at OSS or admit they are Microsoft's bitch and roll over and take it.
Part of the problem is that in in the mini-series a good portion of the pilots were killed because their ships were disabled so Galactica does not have as many pilots.
I can understand how someone wouldn't like the new but I tried to watch the old one recently and found that it was cheesy with bad acting almost like it had a sugar coating on everything. Then again back then that was true.
Suprnova was good for it. Actually the show is quite good. I would say less cheesy than the original. The biggest difference is that Boomer and Starbuck are girls. But the plotline is quite interesting.
The battle scenes are good as well but this whole "shaky cam" thing gets annoying especially the quick zoom they do a lot.
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Maybe at home but corporate computers are corporate property. There is not expected level of privacy on said property. If you don't want someone at work from looking at your private stuff then don't keep it on business machines.
Have you seen the Season Finale!?!
I hope they continue it looks like it could get really interesting next season
My point was go to the deepest darkest depths of Rwanda, Sudan, Afghanistan and ask them how much of an impact Linux has on their lives. I think they would rather have clean water and medicine than the clear conscience of running a free OS. It's all about relevance.
Granted in the future, any third world country that needs to build up their technological infrastructure is going to be blessed by the existance of the penguin but until they can get the high mortality rates in check, Billy's donation is more relevant.
The drug companies go along with it because they are still making more than the marginal costs of production, and something is better than nothing.
id software did the same thing with Doom (according to John Romero). They made a deal with the Asian pirate crowd to give them $1 for every game they sold. Figured they may as well get something out of it than nothing.
You are right Technology development is priority but what OS they are running will not dig wells, improve healthcare, upgrade their infrastructure (ok maybe the last a bit but you get my point)
When someone's child dies of a disease that could easily been avoided the last thing he would be concerned with is what OS he should be running.
Priorities in generosity are wrong. I think health is probably more important than computers.
Once these countries have dealt with disease, food, debt, etc then what OS they have becomes a bit more of an issue.
Plus most third world countries couldn't give two shits about stealing software from another country.
It's money.
His foundation has donated money before but I don't think it was this much (something like $10 million for Aids awareness in Africa)
While I was reading this I had U2 Live at Blain Castle in the background and they were doing Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Completely off topic but it was ironical enough to post
Thanks for the citing :)
Back in 1999, I said to everyone I know. Buy all you want but make sure to sell by the end of year 2001 cause the drop is going to be overwhelming. What really amazed me was how Nortel and JDS was going nuts hiring left and right when they should have realized what was coming around the bend. So two years later all of the people they had hired on and buildings they had built were fired and empty.
Problem is that Clinton was not responsible for the huge job frenzy in 2000 and 2001. Y2K was just as responsible. Everybody stopped buying in 98 and 99 waiting for Y2K to be over except for anything that involved ensuring that Y2K would not affect them (i.e consulting, legacy software updating). Once it was over everybody started spending money hand over fist to make up for a year of waiting.
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It was obvious even before 2001 that the upward pressure was going to stop and stop fast. I don't think you can give Clinton all the credit for the economy 3-5 years ago.
Other than that I can't disagree with your post
but even then they do have deadlines...
Poor americans, cd levies are great, you should have had one, then you wouldn't have this issue. :)
Except Mininova can't handle the load (yet) that they have received over the last week.
I usually go between Piratebay and Loki Torrent
I have never been impressed with vaio. They are like the PC Magazine of laptops. All fluff and not worth the money you pay.
That is one of the things I have noticed, most of these Centrino laptops have 1024x768 screens. I would like all of it but have a higher res lcd at least 1280x1024. Course this will cut into the battery time but I hated using the laptop on battery with the lower resolution
yes because a web server or file server is a definite benefit on the desktop. (note the sarcasm) He meant a niche on the desktop
the theatre had him removed for loitering the day before.
If it came with an armstrap (without having to buy it as a separate option) I would get it when my Rio Cali dies. I hate the lanyard thing while running as it bounces all over the place.
However the price for the 512M at 129 CDN is quite attractive. My wife has the Nike psa128 and is finding on her LSD day that she ends up repeating music since it has not memory expansion.
Yes but as any guy knows. Soon enough, you start ignoring the cocktease. At that point either they have to seriously ante up and start looking at OSS or admit they are Microsoft's bitch and roll over and take it.
True but I just watched Ep 11 and they did the snap zoom thing during a non battle scene. The problem with it is it took me out of the show. grrr
Sorry it it there and yes it is annoying after a while.
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Part of the problem is that in in the mini-series a good portion of the pilots were killed because their ships were disabled so Galactica does not have as many pilots.
I can understand how someone wouldn't like the new but I tried to watch the old one recently and found that it was cheesy with bad acting almost like it had a sugar coating on everything. Then again back then that was true.
Frak!! I can't wait that long :)
Suprnova was good for it. Actually the show is quite good. I would say less cheesy than the original. The biggest difference is that Boomer and Starbuck are girls. But the plotline is quite interesting.
The battle scenes are good as well but this whole "shaky cam" thing gets annoying especially the quick zoom they do a lot.
Worth watching I would say but YMMV
My contract ended Dec 31 and I have been looking for a job ever since. I can say it looks better than it did last year this time.