From Serious Eats Photograph from greenwenvy08 on Flickr According to Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times, Costco—which has a well-deserved reputation as a progressive, worker-friendly company—doesn't take food stamps. This makes no sense. Lee reports that Costco offered three reasons for this: 1. They did not think they would qualify based on the federal government requirements.2. It was too expensive to adapt their equipment to accept food stamps.3. With their annual fee/bulk-purchase model, people on food stamps probably could not shop there anyway. Lee's story painstakingly refutes each of these rationales. The fact that this policy continues in...
Today the Systems Fair in Munich ended. I only spent yesterday and today there helping at the KDE booth. Eckhart and Holger spent all week there and I am deeply impressed that they still were in very good spirits and were lots of fun to manage the booth with The Systems is a rather business oriented fair, so knowledge about KDE and open and free software is not as common as at some other fairs. Still we talked to many other great projects and people. It was good to talk to enthusiastic users nonetheless. Eckhart gave a KDE Education presentation...
Today's debut of the T-Mobile G1 is the first public appearance of an almost fully-baked consumer "Googlephone" -- a phone based on Google's Android operating system. There's just one problem: There is no Googlephone*. And that's something Google must fix, and fast, if it wants its mobile operating system to succeed. Granted, Google's Android operating system has a lot going for it. It's supported by a developer-friendly company, it's Java-based and it's open-source. However, it's going to need a lot more than that if it's going to succeed as a smartphone platform. And by "succeed," I mean "beat the...
