This thing is not as original as it seems. If you know the comic books of Tintin, there is one album where Tintin and his friend (ship cpt. Haddock I believe) explore the sea in a shark-shaped submarine. It has very much the same shape as this thing, including the windows that have the shape of a half sphere.
So, one of the co-inventors is Belgian comic designer Hergé. And Possibly Leonardo da Vinci too, for that matter.
> Last: As people are most concerned about
> themselves (this merrits a '-1 obvious') the
> 103 vote socialist to get more
> money/computers/free healthcare/whatever from
> the government. The 100 vote liberal (or
> central Christian) to pay less taxes.
What a complete bull.
I'm Belgian like you, and in 4 years I will have a decent job I hope (studying Engineering).
I support the system as it is and I'll never vote for the liberals. Some people actually *believe* in a system that tries to help the poor.
Compare it with American/UK English. It's the same language. We actually have a common spelling an common grammar rules, so it's even more the same thing than with the USA/UK English.
> Also remember that products for Windows are
> really optimised for the US market. How well
> will Microsoft have done translations from
> American English to Belgian French and Flemish
> and US dollers to Euros.
Well the translations to Dutch and French are pretty well done. (The Flemish part of Belgium speaks the same language as the people in the Netherlands, Dutch).
Only they fucked up with Win98 (SE? i'm not sure).
There you had the option between two Belgian settings: Belgian/French and Belgian/Wallonie.
Wallonie is the part of Belgium where they speak french;-)
And the Euro-incompatibility is used by MS as a way to force users to upgrade.
> Let's assume that a new computer will not be
> purchased for every person, but rather for
> every household that does not have one. So
> let's assume average household size of 2.5
> people, and half don't have a computer.
The plan is to give a computer to every household that
1. Has no computer yet
2. Can not afford one
The total number of machines will be around the 200,000 number I suppose.
Here in Belgium, a broadband account costs you 35 Euro / month. No way these people can afford that.
And dialup is 1 Euro / hour in the low-traffic hours! Downloading a 1.5 Gig distro will cost you a *lot*.
A better solution would be: supply these people with a free broadband connection. And a cheap 2nd-hand PC if they want too.
Who developed the Pentium? A guy named Pentovski, a russian that came from Elbrus. Intel reigned the market several years.
Who developed the Athlon? A guy, dunno his name, that came from the Alpha team. But of course it's the _whole team_ that matters... and didn't we hear rumors that a lot of good people were leaving Intel last year? Indeed I have yet to see their first decent product this year;-)
Elbrus rules! Somebody fund these people and shake the CPU market!
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This thing is not as original as it seems.
If you know the comic books of Tintin, there is one album where Tintin and his friend (ship cpt. Haddock I believe) explore the sea in a shark-shaped submarine. It has very much the same shape as this thing, including the windows that have the shape of a half sphere.
So, one of the co-inventors is Belgian comic designer Hergé. And Possibly Leonardo da Vinci too, for that matter.
> Last: As people are most concerned about
> themselves (this merrits a '-1 obvious') the
> 103 vote socialist to get more
> money/computers/free healthcare/whatever from
> the government. The 100 vote liberal (or
> central Christian) to pay less taxes.
What a complete bull.
I'm Belgian like you, and in 4 years I will have a decent job I hope (studying Engineering).
I support the system as it is and I'll never vote for the liberals. Some people actually *believe* in a system that tries to help the poor.
Compare it with American/UK English. It's the same language. We actually have a common spelling an common grammar rules, so it's even more the same thing than with the USA/UK English.
> Also remember that products for Windows are
;-)
> really optimised for the US market. How well
> will Microsoft have done translations from
> American English to Belgian French and Flemish
> and US dollers to Euros.
Well the translations to Dutch and French are pretty well done. (The Flemish part of Belgium speaks the same language as the people in the Netherlands, Dutch).
Only they fucked up with Win98 (SE? i'm not sure).
There you had the option between two Belgian settings: Belgian/French and Belgian/Wallonie.
Wallonie is the part of Belgium where they speak french
And the Euro-incompatibility is used by MS as a way to force users to upgrade.
> The total number of machines will be around the
> 200,000 number I suppose.
Sorry, I actually meant that there would be 200,000 people in this situation. So the number of Pc's would be below 100,000 .
> Let's assume that a new computer will not be
> purchased for every person, but rather for
> every household that does not have one. So
> let's assume average household size of 2.5
> people, and half don't have a computer.
The plan is to give a computer to every household that
1. Has no computer yet
2. Can not afford one
The total number of machines will be around the 200,000 number I suppose.
> Simple. Ever here of FTP installs?
Here in Belgium, a broadband account costs you 35 Euro / month. No way these people can afford that.
And dialup is 1 Euro / hour in the low-traffic hours! Downloading a 1.5 Gig distro will cost you a *lot*.
A better solution would be: supply these people with a free broadband connection. And a cheap 2nd-hand PC if they want too.
The system is more about helping people that had bad luck. And about sharing some of your income when you can afford it. What's wrong with that?
Well those are all names of well-known (?) Belgian people. I will hereby suggest some random Belgian names, just for the fun of it :-)
Bert Kraenen
Jan Verdingh
Linda Van Overwijck
Patsy Vertongen
Pronounce *that* !
> chief executive (or whatever you call those
> guys who call the shots when she's out)
We call them 'kabinetchef'. Chief of Cabinet.
Thanks for the link man. Looks really cool: download the OS: 37 kB (!) I guess an integrated browser is not yet there :-)
You have a good point: why criticise new OS'es? People are just trying to do new things. I don't see a problem.
But then again, I am also under the age of 20 (18).
Conclusion: these people are doing reseach, and having fun. If you don't care about new OSes, why bother?
> So why this one?
Because he can. It's allways the same answer
Wouldn't it be nice to have an open-source BeOS? Light, fast, goog-looking, everything you need.
I think it has a future as a striped-down, but complete OS for users that don't need all the feature-loaded standard OS'es.
Long live free choice!
Why to use this for?
Simple: tons of pixmaps themes, speach recognition, video editing, on-the-fly mp3 coding, graphical effects, _!!!GAMES!!!!_
Who developed the Pentium?
;-)
A guy named Pentovski, a russian that came from Elbrus. Intel reigned the market several years.
Who developed the Athlon?
A guy, dunno his name, that came from the Alpha team. But of course it's the _whole team_ that matters... and didn't we hear rumors that a lot of good people were leaving Intel last year?
Indeed I have yet to see their first decent product this year
Elbrus rules!
Somebody fund these people and shake the CPU market!
I've read about this in an issue of C'T (german comp mag) couple o' monts ago