They do incredible work and consistently have one of the lowest administrative costs out of major charities, are secular and are not politically aligned.
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We use Basecamp at our small consultancy, and it is just great. We get daily turnaround times for any bugs/issues with the product, and having client exposure and notification on our todo lists and other project planning saves us a mountain of "status check" emails from our more neurotic clients.
These guys have nailed the "do one thing, and do it well" philosophy of designing a product, and we have benefited greatly from decreased interruptions and happier, more informed clients.
There's a site by Signature Devices called Phat Yaffle (I know... Marketing must have staggered into the office from the prior night's coke binge just long enough to come up with that one) that is doing its best to actually integrate gameplay results into a commerce / community site. Kinda like an e-Chuky Cheeze with the tickets for prizes, but with less disturbing animatronics.
Perhaps more interestingly, the company has released a FOSS (as in beer) cross-platform SDK called Elemental Engine II which ties into the site, and distribution network for said games developed w/ their SDK. The developer gets a cut if the game makes money, otherwise it is playable/downloadable on the PY site. Neat concept, and technically much further along than a lot of other sites.
We as Americans will seriously need to wake up to the fact that wasting literally hundreds of killowatts sitting in traffic slowly pushing around a ton of steel and plastic just to get us from point A to point B is not a right, but a privilege - and one that we will very soon be paying real market value for.
The energy economics of single-passenger cars are so far out of whack with any other decision that a sane and rational person would make, it is truly unbelievable that so many otherwise intelligent people defend driving as some sort of moral right.
Ride a bike, take the bus, return intra-urban rail to our communities, and here's a real shocker: put the businesses near where the people live.
To crib Deffeyes - With all the incredible things can be done w/ hydrocarbons, our grandchildren will one day ask in horror, "You BURNED it?"
OK, so no one is reading these but I misspoke - NSS does use the windows random number generator aka "SystemFunction036" to seed the NSS RNG, but only in combination with a lot of other noise sources. So... less bad?
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Doctors Without Borders (MSF)!
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HOW IS BABBY FORMED?
Does anyone else see the problem of hiding these weapons amongst civilians? This will just get more non-combatants killed, and likely over nothing.
If there were any sort of longshoreman or shipping union with any sense of self preservation, they would refuse to handle this cargo.
Pretty sure the moral is:
Evil Will Always Win Because Good Is Dumb
It is called ANSI/SCTE 52.
http://www.scte.org/documents/pdf/Standards/ANSI_SCTE%2052%202008.pdf
We use Basecamp at our small consultancy, and it is just great. We get daily turnaround times for any bugs/issues with the product, and having client exposure and notification on our todo lists and other project planning saves us a mountain of "status check" emails from our more neurotic clients.
These guys have nailed the "do one thing, and do it well" philosophy of designing a product, and we have benefited greatly from decreased interruptions and happier, more informed clients.
Make 'em work for it!
There's a site by Signature Devices called Phat Yaffle (I know... Marketing must have staggered into the office from the prior night's coke binge just long enough to come up with that one) that is doing its best to actually integrate gameplay results into a commerce / community site. Kinda like an e-Chuky Cheeze with the tickets for prizes, but with less disturbing animatronics.
Perhaps more interestingly, the company has released a FOSS (as in beer) cross-platform SDK called Elemental Engine II which ties into the site, and distribution network for said games developed w/ their SDK. The developer gets a cut if the game makes money, otherwise it is playable/downloadable on the PY site. Neat concept, and technically much further along than a lot of other sites.
Hear! Hear!
We as Americans will seriously need to wake up to the fact that wasting literally hundreds of killowatts sitting in traffic slowly pushing around a ton of steel and plastic just to get us from point A to point B is not a right, but a privilege - and one that we will very soon be paying real market value for.
The energy economics of single-passenger cars are so far out of whack with any other decision that a sane and rational person would make, it is truly unbelievable that so many otherwise intelligent people defend driving as some sort of moral right.
Ride a bike, take the bus, return intra-urban rail to our communities, and here's a real shocker: put the businesses near where the people live.
To crib Deffeyes - With all the incredible things can be done w/ hydrocarbons, our grandchildren will one day ask in horror, "You BURNED it?"
OK, so no one is reading these but I misspoke - NSS does use the windows random number generator aka "SystemFunction036" to seed the NSS RNG, but only in combination with a lot of other noise sources. So... less bad?
Whoops! The above comment still applies, but FF doesn't use OpenSSL, instead they use their own SSL implementation.
Sorry FF devs!
Looks like Firefox on Windows is ok for SSL, as they use their own RNG on Windows in NSS instead of just wrapping the Win32 API.