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Comment Re:Inferior to what? (Score 1) 183

I'm in the Caribbean on a remote island and the biggest problem here is the government dragging the paperwork out. So the satellites are here and they work, but since technically they aren't a company in this country, Starlink shuts the 'roam' account down after 3 months. And the current local internet companies are horrible.

Comment Remotely (Score 1) 226

I work on a remote island in the Caribbean, Middle Caicos, via the Internet. There are only about 100 people on this island, no stores or distractions. I go fishing in my backyard almost everyday before work. I'm sitting on my laptop on the porch with the ocean in the background during work. And at the end of the day I go fishing again, or lobster hunting once the season re-opens, or just take a nice float in the ocean with a beer. If you can work remote, I highly suggest making the jump to really be remote. I couldn't be happier.

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Submission + - Dear Bill Gates, Glyn Moody, and Gartner analysts: it's time to eat crow. (yahoo.com)

head_dunce writes: "Now that Red Hat has officially posted more than a billion dollars in revenue, ($1.13 billion to be exact), the company's PR department sent this funny list of quotes predicting doom. For instance, "We think of Linux as a competitor in the student and hobbyist market but I really don't think in the commercial market we'll see it in any significant way." Bill Gates, 2001."

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head_dunce writes: "Red Hat is coming out way on top in this economy. Total revenue and subscription revenue for this quarter is up 28% year-over-year. Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat said, "Based on the strong first half results, we believe Red Hat remains well positioned to finish fiscal 2012 as the first billion dollar open source software vendor.”"

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