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We were there on holidays ;-)
No, you stated you were working. From your article's title: "Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand"
what we're doing is technically a gray zone
Did you file a tax statement and did you pay any taxes on income earned while you were residing in Thailand?
That article just confuses me. It says it is ok and then contradicts it a paragraph later. Eg:
"Digital nomads – people working remotely or running online businesses – in Thailand can legally work there on tourist visas"
But one paragraph down:
"It is unlikely that travellers will be granted a re-entry stamp after two or three visa runs. If your passport is stamped “O-I” (out-in) upon arrival, it is unlikely that you will be able to re-enter the country again should you decide to do a visa run"
Is what they're doing legal? I'm pretty sure a tourist visa means you can't use it for work (activities for which payment is received or capital is gained), even remote work. I'm told that the Thai government is pretty harsh in punishing such things.
No, absolutely not. This is the same mistake the one laptop per child people made.
No absolutely not. The mistake the OLPC people made was trying to make people believe that throwing underpowered overdesigned overpriced laptops at kids would solve any problem other than providing employment to Nicky Negroponte and his gang.
I'm not surprised
Good that you're not surprised. But there's a lot of people out there (and here in the valley) who subconsciously (or consciously) believe that if you're dark skinned with curly hair and athletic, then you're deficient in the intellectual arena, or worse, that you're a thug.
why don't we congratulate everyone who publishes a math paper?
Because not everyone's story defeats a stereotype that is dangerous and damaging. I'm surprised that this has to be explained.
Who are these people?
Ellen Pao, Harvard MBA. Job history was corporate attorney, other non-technical jobs.
Ajit Nazre, Michigan Tech PHD. Job history unclear. Google hits on him mostly indicate a skeezy character. If the BI article is credible, most startups including the ones in India have dropped him like a rock after the lawsuit came out.
Why do they get all the money?
Good question. Most engineers fail to realize how critical all of them are. They fail to demand fair compensation for their time. Instead they treat pats-on-the-back, a beer bust, maybe a gifted $10 ticket to see a scifi movie as major rewards while their management takes the bulk of the compensation pie.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils/ta...
Diversity issues aside, is it true that the token Asian was rejected due to accusations of being a rape apologist?
In this example allwinner is applying the eastern "share, modify, pass around" model, which isn't compatible with the western model of strict license adherence.
I don't think your comment matches reality. Eastern "share, modify, pass around"? How does that even remotely match what is discussed in the google group thread? What All Winner did was to take free and open source GPL code paid for by the community (including competitors), modify said code, make binaries, ship defective non-compliant hardware and software BSP to customers and expect everyone to be silent about it. Nope. That's not an "Eastern model" at all. No need to hide their behavior behind shadowy cultural claims. AllWinner knows what they're doing is illegal.
they will hang your ass
Technically, they hang the victim by his/her neck until death. Execution is applied even for non-violent crimes, like being found in possession of drugs, even small quantities like less than 1 ounce of heroin. Most recent hanging in Singapore was July 2014.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/030926a3.htm
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-hangs-two-convicted-drug...
Yes, but Singapore doesn't prosecute you for reverse engineering. That's why he is there
Is your statement above verified to be true? Has Bunny actually said that?
I'm not a lawyer, but this article seems to suggest that Singapore's legal system is quite similar to the US and does permit prosecution for reverse engineering.
" 7 In broad terms Creative’s claim is grounded on three central allegations of facts, viz: (a) that Aztech reverse engineered (through disassembly) version 1 of the Sound Blaster firmware; (b) that Aztech copied portions of version 2 of the Sound Blaster firmware, particularly in four undocumented commands, E2, F0, F4 and F8; and (c) by loading TEST.SBC into the PC’s RAM and disassembling it, by means of running the DEBUG program, Aztech infringed Creative’s copyright in TEST.SBC. " http://www.singaporelaw.sg/sglaw/laws-of-singapore/commercia...
I started rebuilding my life overseas
Doesn't Bunnie now live in Singapore, not exactly a place known for freedom and empathy for the common man? What does he mean rebuilding his life?
It is not clear that RMS is driven by ego. He's motivated by a very clear goal to keep free software free. Free as in freedom free. As for ESR, well, yup, that's an ego that is sufficient in size to have a gravitational pull. http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2000082800620OPCYKN
Registration is failing for me at the moment.
Hmm... I'm guessing the lack of response means that by "offer", you meant you "can" develop such a product in future.
I assume it is the fact that there is a bottle of Macallan 12 whisky behind him? Yup, that makes me uncomfortable as well. You don't drink whisky without a proper glass.
You say you offer, do you mean you have products that we can buy today? If so, what is the price for your 32" product and can we see detailed specs and a youtube video of it in action?
I used to donate to WWF. I stopped after I watched the ARD greenwashing documentary which alleged that WWF accepted money from large corporations in return for certifying their activities as "sustainable".
I visited Kaziranga in Assam, India which has the highest density of tigers. The local rangers said they don't get any help from these aid organizations. Looking at WWF activities in detail suggests they do almost nothing for the local people. The WWF leadership ( http://www.worldwildlife.org/about/leadership ) has no representation of people who actually live in the areas which are key to survival of these species. In my opinion, that dooms it to failure. My belief is that to save tigers, you have to provide the people who are poaching tigers with a viable financial alternative. I would much rather the person taking a photo of a tiger in the jungle be a genuine local rather than a corporate employee doing greenwashing. http://tigers.panda.org/t2/mars-cindy-jiang-joins-wwfs-tiger...
Would like to know some of the methods that caused the turn-around.
I would have liked to see the raw numbers for each conservation area and the methodology used for the estimation. I am sceptical of the forestry officials as at least some of them were in cahoots with poachers and the trafficking of tiger parts to East Asia.
Also, India needs corridors rather than isolated wildlife islands which is what results in lack of genetic diversity. If I recall, there was an Indian biologist who proposed a 50 year plan to slowly connect the remaining wildlife parks together with thin corridors that ran between populated areas. It would permit animals to safely traverse long routes and thus increase genetic diversity.
replacing the powerful bulb with an under powered LED.
I've also seen that Sony and Epson are selling laser illuminated projectors as opposed to the more common LED/halogen/etc illuminated projectors. Apparently for high luminosity, laser becomes more efficient and less prone to damage than both LED, halogen, incandescent, argon/xenon etc.
But it disappoints me that these projectors just use the laser for illumination. I'm waiting for when we have laser-on-DLP without filters type projectors.
"author is annoyingly in love with himself"
I don't get that at all. The paragraph you quoted strikes me as descriptive, perhaps it could be called flowery, but I don't see the stabbing phrases associated with narcissism.
Not sure why the author seems to insinuate that the problems he/she has described are somehow specific to India. We had a disaster when we outsourced a large piece of design work to Denmark. We found out that the outsourcer in Denmark was themselves outsourcing chunks of work to Ukraine. Our bias assuming that an expensive Scandinavian outsourcer would be magically better than a cheaper Asian alternative led us astray. A mistake we won't make again. The real solution is doing proper due diligence and proper contract maintenance clauses that ensure the outsourcers goals are aligned with yours. That takes work, not just tossing a spec sheet across the wall.
This article is poorly titled. Disappointing since the BBC is capable of better journalism than this. They should be specific that it is backlit LCD screens (especially LED backlights since their spectrum is predominantly in the blue range which simulates morning) rather than what is typically meant when someone says E-readers, ie: readers that use E-Ink panels which are not backlit and thus rely on ambient light.
Part of the "social contract" when you immigrate to the US is to at least make an effort to join your new country
Huh? What social contract are you talking about? Don't use quotes as a goto escape. If there was actually a social contract, then in the valley we'd all be speaking Chumash, Mojave or something like that.
Congratulations. You qualify to be a police officer.
What point are you trying to make?
by setting the display to someone else's terminal.
Bad sysadmin probably put xhost + in the main xinitrc.
Common rookie mistake, but don't blame X for that weakness.
still allow companies like Ranbaxy
The same we still allowed companies like Bayer to do this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_...
The same we still allowed companies like GlaxoSmithKline to do this: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29274822
Ranbaxy - how can people there sleep at night.
The FDA, Bayer, Pfizer, Ranbaxy, big pharma will always sleep well. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/08/0...