Those 45 to 90 minutes you spend stuck in traffic each day, inhaling noxious fumes and watching your paycheck dwindle in the form of consumed gasoline, are about to get a lot more nightmarish should you choose to ride this. Though the origin of these images are unknown, we're assuming they were snapped somewhere in Asia (or the ninth circle of Hades); essentially, this here public transportation option enables riders to login via a connected PC and get to work before work technically begins. Of course, we've all ideas most riders just fire up
Quake III and get a little LAN action going, but seriously, what kind of torturous mind thought this up? Ever heard of
telecommuting?
Update: Seems these buses are
all about bringing technology to rural areas that might not otherwise have access. Killer!
posted November 10th 2008 8:38AM
Microsoft also has a dozen or so routes that they do this on for employees at Redmond.
If you're even half as productive on the bus as you would be in the office, you're still overall getting more time at home overall. And you don't have the stress of battling the traffic yourself. And the bus gets to go in the car-pool lanes.
It would have been better if they used Wyse X90 thin client laptops. Would have been much lighter and sell of a damage/flight risk. Use a comprehensive connection broker that will allow these guys to be connected to their work desk stations and viola! they are clocking in hours before they get in.
Haha, I just read a thread on here about how the Chinese Government was creating half-way houses in order to quell internet addiction in China. I didn't understand how they could be THAT much more addicted than us in regard to internet usage, but that picture kind of sums that up for me.
What next? Some dude with a whip in the aisle?
Don't forget the beating drums.
Hey guys, this is a mobile computer training bus that Microsoft has donated to help rural Chinese learn how to use computers. It's from last year. Microsoft has donated six of the buses to "serve as computer training centers on wheels as they circulate to rural villages throughout one of China’s most populous province".
"Agricultural workers in China climb aboard high-tech InfoWagons as Microsoft launches rural-computing pilot programs in China and India intended to fuel social and economic empowerment for the world’s underserved populations."
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/apr07/04-22RuralComputing.mspx
Slow news day, huh folks? :o)
"Hey guys, this is a mobile computer training bus that Microsoft has donated to help rural Chinese learn how to use computers. It's from last year. Microsoft has donated six of the buses to "serve as computer training centers on wheels as they circulate to rural villages throughout one of China’s most populous province"."
That explains the huge increase in illegal copies of Windows and Office.
yep. Darren Murphy is a douche and a moron. I wonder why he blogs here. He's an idiot for not back-checking his news. This is old news, these buses were meant for rural areas, and Microsoft donated these to help the people. And this idiot called Darren Murphy didnt even apologize that he made a stupid post. What a moron this guy is.
Uh. No. There are a great majority of us out here that refuse to do one ounce of work unless we get paid. If we arent getting paid, then we're not working. Sorry. Some of us are fed up with the way corporate America treats is software developers. Its time to unionize. By 2010, the majority of software developers will be protected by unions. Like to see these corporate thugs call us at 2am for some software glitch that WE TOLD THEM would happen if they cut the development time and budget to meet the unrealistic marketing jackass' schedules.
Well. That was a long time coming.
Won't happen. You unionize, some punks with internet access in a third world country will gladly take your work for half your asking price. Software development isn't physically restricted, plus development doesn't need an army of programmers anymore - anyone with brains and time on their hands can do that. What software developers in first world countries need to do is show why their programming skills are superior to overseas grunt work in a financial way. Plus, use the laws to your advantage - eg. privacy laws around cross-border flow of information.
Plus, you unionize and those that don't join the union resent you. Just ask the people at Accenture when they bought part of the Telstra's IT department about 6 years ago (their SAP development team), who happen to be part of a union (when they were still a federal govt entity) - Accenture hated those guys, because they were causing problems.
@AL: "some punks with internet access in a third world country will gladly take your work for half your asking price"
Did you just wake up? This has been happening in huge numbers since the late 90s! Ask anyone who used to program for Bank of America or Wachovia or Citibank or Chase/JP Morgan.
Get with the program! Software jobs are outsourced in huge numbers for a LONG time. Unionizing and making it criminal act to outsource would be Utopia, but we can dream.
Noooo!! Please driver wait just a second while I save this file.....
Microsoft has 'Connector' buses all over Seattle area that bus the blue badges (non contractors) in to work. All these buses have Internet access so you can get on the corpnet and work.
Hey, I have a better idea. just provide a simple PC with USB booting enabled, and then all the farmers can just bring their USB stick with OS on it and boot from there.
lol xp nice :D
can it run crysis :P ?
wow this bus is asking for a BREAK IN from thieves.