Outsourcing in the U.S.
25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: News | 0 Comments
Outsourcing has been a hot topic lately, all over the world but specially in the US, where many many companies have chosen to outsource part of their operations to cheaper countries such as India, China or Russia. The issue is reaching unseen proportions and even some democratic candidates for presidency (such as Howard Dean) are already planning some measures against it. Now, Yahoo is carrying a very interesting story about a report in which several american tech firms defend the idea of moving jobs overseas... While I agree on some of their claims, the last one is simply outrageus (and I am not a US citizen): "The problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S". So basically, the guy is asking for highly skilled workes who are willing to work for peanuts while the CEOs, CTOs, CFOs and CxOs earn 15 times more. Guess you don't have to be american to find that outrageous...Apple stuff
25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: News | 0 Comments
Apple released a couple of days ago several new products including the iPod mini. Francesc talks about them in his blog so there's no need to write more about them
Also related to Apple, I found the following, detailed and well-written What is MacOS? article. For those who want to know more about the Mac OS X system in general, withouth unnecessary technical words, this is a great resource. Did you know that I've been thinking about getting myself a Mac lately? O
The Abyss
25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: Movies | 0 Comments
Some time ago I bought a copy of the double disk edition of The Abyss. The movie tells the story of a group of deep sea divers, working for a petrol company, that end up in a mission to find what cause an American nuclear submarine to sink. But things are not quite what they seem and they'll soon realize that something else is happening down there...I really liked the movie, specially because of its claustrophobic feeling since most of it happens underwater. Acting is also quite good and the effects, well, sometimes they look a bit dated but they're good if you think that the movie was made in 1989. The special edition pack comes with two DVDs and a director's cut edition with over 40 minutes of additional footage (for a total of 2h and 43 minutes), kind of like what the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings movies have done recently
It had been ages since I last watched it but I can say that the extended edition added to the movie, specially in the end, when we get to know more about why those "creatures" are going to do what they are going to do... (I'm trying not to give too many spoilers )You could give it a try, it's a good one
Eating my own dog food
25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: General | 1 Comments
It's time to start eating my own dog food and therefore, I have upgraded this site to the latest development version of pLog, I hope that it all works fine
SCO, IBM, Novell, AT&T and SuSE in the #os IRC channel
25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: Geeky | 0 Comments
If any of you knows what's been going on for a while now with SCO, "their" Unix rights, IBM, Novell and so on, you'll love this one...
w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich! /msg atnt haha. idiot. whoops. was that out loud? rotfl lol why r u laffin at me? dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now. wtf? hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now. haha, your linux sucks. lol lol lol no wayz, i will sell more linux than u! your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux fur IBM. can we do linux with you? Ich bin nicht sicher... *cough* Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen. * SuSE is now SuSE[UL] * SCO is now caldera[UL] can we play? we're bored... we'll go too. sure! * turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL] * conectiva is now conectiva[UL] redhat: you should join! Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich. haha. no. lamers. what about you debian? we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years. no one wants my linux! i got owned. u all tricked me. linux is lame. * caldera[UL] is now known as SCO i'm going back to unix. yeah! want to do unix with me? haha. no. lamer. lol snap! :~( hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm. wtf? yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix. lol heraus laut lachen lol shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck. go ahead. baby. andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that? oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever. actually, we still own unix, you can't do that. wtf? we bought it from u. whoops. our bad. i own u. haha ibm: give me all your AIX now! whatever. lamer. * ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@* * SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
HP to integrate support for WMA in iPod (updated)
25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: News | 0 Comments
Not long ago I wrote here that Apple had licensed the iPod to HP. Well, now HP has announced that HP is working closely with Apple to provide support for Windows Media Audio files for the iPod. Now, isn't that good news? I think it's the icing on the iPod cake, making it surely the most elegant and useful, feature-wise, player in the market (price notwithstanding)Now, in a foreseen move, Microsoft has dismissed the move and commented that this is a bad move for consumers because this will limit their choices to Apple products. If you are capable of reading between lines, this basically means that customers will be limited to Apple products instead of Microsoft products (what a surprise!) and that they're now pretty much screwed, since rumors say that M$ is about to open a new online music service and HP will install preinstalling iTunes in every new computer, which is a bad thing.
In my case, I couldn't care less about those folks from Redmond say. If I ever have a Mac, I'll buy an iPod
UPDATE 13-01-2004: Turns out that this wasn't true news. Or perhaps it was but looks like something has changed... So, no more WMA for the iPod.