Can anyone comment on this? Seems the least that could be done if your an organ donor.

Any way to see what the discounts, etc were that are part of this contract? Freedom of Information request?

absolutely this. I usually spend a week each summer on an island near Gibsons - Pasley. Coverage is weak and erratic, despite the cell companies claims.

agreed. None of the complainers has bothered to cite any examples.

That is excellent analysis. Thanks. Unfortunately we are now operating in the realm of politics. I signed the petition, but I agree UBB is not the problem. It is the ridiculously low caps. I'm not sure how that point is going to come across in the political discourse we are about to engage in.

is that Python is becoming so popular that they don't want to support it in any shape or form as it is another avenue that (can) lead away from windows dependence.

I draw this amazing conclusion based on the trends from http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1753576&cid=33241516 but using just last 12months and comparing c#, python, java, and ruby.

sure, I'll chime in.

I use unix and windows but would no longer consider myself an expert in all the bits. Thats why a gui wins when I need to search through files in a file system ... but I digress.

The best advice I've read for scripts had something to do with ennabling a script to know if it was interactive or not and present and appropriate interface accordingly. Whether it was through a flag or checking for some other interactive vs. non type thingy (which I can't recall at the moment. :)

I'd like to reframe the question as above.

We use OSS where I work (uni.) but a lot of it is through the back door. When our CIO started he disparaged OSS so that the mgr's were wary of suggesting/promoting it. Yet in all the hallway conversations people are pushing it and it has become a significant proportion of our infrastructure, but I do not think it gets the support it deserves.

The vendors get the money but we use OSS/Free software when it is appropriate. So the question I’ve been pondering is how to get the org. to recognize this increasingly obvious fact through more financial support for the projects that are really making a difference.

Of course one big question is: when is OSS/Free software appropriate? Often we rely on vendors because they provide a complete solution where the alternatives just don’t measure up. It’s hard to argue against a COTS solution here, but I feel it often abdicates responsibility for a solution in favor of a check box against the problem.

Great idea. It really fits in, but nicely counterbalances, the whole corporation as legal individual idea (albeit a psychopath - http://www.thecorporation.com/)
At least from my gut reaction.

I listen to ads sometimes. I'd like to have a mute button that just lowered the volume. Imagine. I'd even listen to a reasonable ad, at a reasonable volume.

Or people can spell Kijiji in the markets it dominates.

Is it just me or is it getting harder to find interesting things to read? Fast flip / Micropayments would be fine if it weren't for my belief that constant browsing leads to decreased interest for general news.

If you believe something is better then install it on your machine (if you have admin rights), wether that be linux or notepad++.

Isn't that how it started with p.c.'s and spreadsheets?