This news is really not new. I saw this in a documentary by Dr. Ian Stuart on the BBC: "Earth - the Power of the Planet" over a year back.
Why is it getting so much attention now then? 2 stories in 2 days? Did people wake up after a Long Siesta?
I remember watching a Documentary on Earth and the conditions that made it. They called Jupiter our Big Brother for this very protective vacuum cleaner effect.
In My College in the UK, the Computer section in the Library was very very very small as compared to any other courses and the books which are commonly visible in a Computer Scince section like Computer Networks by A. Tannenbaum were missing. All I could see were "For Dummies" Series or other crap teaching Office Software.
The problem does not lie just with your wife's aunt. A friend of mine fixes PCs that come to him usually infected with Virus or Spyware. I keep on telling him to install Firefox to prevent Driveby Downloads. His argument is, it is difficult for people to re-learn using a new browser. I asked him what people had to learn when all they had to do was enter a URL in the URL bar which is at the same location as in Internet Explorer and everything works on clicks. But he still insists on not installing Firefox. I had to convince him to install and use Firefox on his own machine after being infected several times and almost loosing important Company Data,
No. They aren't stolen. They are authentic products. The dealers are actually wholesalers who sell the products loose. We even get manufacturer's warranty on the product, and also receive purchase receipts.
Yes. As an example. In Mumbai, India there is a place to buy Brand New Original Computer Hardware for cheap. These are called grey markets. I once bought a Seagate Harddrive for INR 3000/- The Price tag on the Disk read, INR 8000/- Now they are many people who have made enough profits before selling that disk to me.
But in US and Europe, people usually end up paying the Final Price. Ofcourse, it includes Shipping costs,but still you do get it with huge profits in the pockets of the American Corporates.
For people from this side of the globe a small profit is a big thing. But the equivalent profit in First world countries ends up being negligible.
A lot of people I know don't even have one mobile phone!
unfortunately, I never met one of those people. Most people I have met have one or more than one mobile phones. You would probably be stuck in the 60s if you werent seen with a Mobile phone. Even kids these days have a mobile phone with them.
No one plays games on the desktop anymore. That's for work, or at least surfing and e-mail and such.
Not everyone lives in Rich nations, neither does money flow like Honey everywhere. I bought a game console for the first time in my 26years of life after migrating to UK. As a kid I always played on a computer. The reason, I grew up in a Indian Family, a country where Computer was considered a Luxury and still is.
So yes, there is still a potential for games on Computers.
In the world of open and free software, people develop software only becuase they are motivated to make one usually for personal gain.
Unless someone motivates them, you wont expect them to make softwares that they do not plan to use. There is no lack of talent.
We could have seen a GTA clone on the Linux front by now, but we don't for two reasons, no one is sponsoring any project and no one really is motivated enough to start one.
If someone throws in enough money, they will get what they want.
Us geeks like the CLI even today because we know that the CLI is much more efficint for the kind of task that we do. It is quicker to do many tasks from the CLI than the click>wait app to launch> Click the Tab> Select The Option> Apply> Close. But we need to remember that the population of average user outruns the population of us geeks.
The developers need to continue designing better GUI apps without compromising on the CLI bundle that we still use.
By the way I havent seen any distro that has been dumping any CLI feature in favour of GUI.
In India the cost of texting is as little as 80paisa. i.e 0.80 INR.
Now calculate the difference and make your new calculations on it..
Why do you guys spend so much then. Sue the companies that charge you so much for something which costs next to nothing.
Here in the UK we have this feature on our 3g handsets, but i wonder who really uses it?
I had the option of 1 month free TV, but i did not opt for it. I do not see a necessity to stare at a small Mobile Screen just to watch live tv or a live Football match. Would i even be able to read the scores on such a small display?
This feature is just a display of "We are putting this feature in, just because we can."
I dont Understand this RIAA Crap. The other day i was watching the Movie JUNO. A character in the movie burns a CD containing some songs for Juno. Now is that not illegal according to RIAA? Why not raise a voice against that rather than draggin their ass behind innocent students??
Honestly speaking RIAA and MPAA are not loosing anything near what they claim.
LOGO was never meant to use as a language to be used lifelong. It was mainly a language for the little kids to get an idea into very basic programming logic and simple ideas on using programming for something creative as drawing. U don't expect kids to develop a program to generate the fibonacci series, do you?
I encountered LOGO in my school at a time when I had already used BASIC before at a computer institute. LOGO did seem lame to me then, but i still found value in it for kids much younger who had never learnt programming and needed to start.
It is just like the Lego except its programming.
Time to get this done and over with. I guess this will either be the precedent that will silence others or the beginning of the end for The Penguin. Not necessary the end for the Penguin. Workspaces are a GUI concept. Linux is a kernel.
By the way Linux was born in Finland. So it should be free from US patent violation issues. But I might be wrong. I'm not a LAW grad.
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This news is really not new. I saw this in a documentary by Dr. Ian Stuart on the BBC: "Earth - the Power of the Planet" over a year back. Why is it getting so much attention now then? 2 stories in 2 days? Did people wake up after a Long Siesta?
I remember watching a Documentary on Earth and the conditions that made it. They called Jupiter our Big Brother for this very protective vacuum cleaner effect.
In My College in the UK, the Computer section in the Library was very very very small as compared to any other courses and the books which are commonly visible in a Computer Scince section like Computer Networks by A. Tannenbaum were missing. All I could see were "For Dummies" Series or other crap teaching Office Software.
truecrypt seems to be the best option.
The problem does not lie just with your wife's aunt. A friend of mine fixes PCs that come to him usually infected with Virus or Spyware. I keep on telling him to install Firefox to prevent Driveby Downloads. His argument is, it is difficult for people to re-learn using a new browser. I asked him what people had to learn when all they had to do was enter a URL in the URL bar which is at the same location as in Internet Explorer and everything works on clicks. But he still insists on not installing Firefox. I had to convince him to install and use Firefox on his own machine after being infected several times and almost loosing important Company Data,
No. They aren't stolen. They are authentic products. The dealers are actually wholesalers who sell the products loose. We even get manufacturer's warranty on the product, and also receive purchase receipts.
But in US and Europe, people usually end up paying the Final Price. Ofcourse, it includes Shipping costs,but still you do get it with huge profits in the pockets of the American Corporates.
For people from this side of the globe a small profit is a big thing. But the equivalent profit in First world countries ends up being negligible.
Out of Paranoia about M$ wanting to cripple XP just to push out VISTA, I had advised my friend to stop updating. Seems like my fears were right.
I ordered Elonex ONEt+ http://www.elonexone.co.uk/ for my neice.. She will be 3years old in March.
It is currently available only for pre-booking and will be delivered by Christmas.
wonder who invented those terms, especially since India was known even to ancient Romans and Greeks.
A lot of people I know don't even have one mobile phone!
unfortunately, I never met one of those people. Most people I have met have one or more than one mobile phones. You would probably be stuck in the 60s if you werent seen with a Mobile phone. Even kids these days have a mobile phone with them.
No one plays games on the desktop anymore. That's for work, or at least surfing and e-mail and such.
Not everyone lives in Rich nations, neither does money flow like Honey everywhere. I bought a game console for the first time in my 26years of life after migrating to UK. As a kid I always played on a computer. The reason, I grew up in a Indian Family, a country where Computer was considered a Luxury and still is.
So yes, there is still a potential for games on Computers.
Ah.. I was about to say that.
In the world of open and free software, people develop software only becuase they are motivated to make one usually for personal gain.
Unless someone motivates them, you wont expect them to make softwares that they do not plan to use. There is no lack of talent.
We could have seen a GTA clone on the Linux front by now, but we don't for two reasons, no one is sponsoring any project and no one really is motivated enough to start one.
If someone throws in enough money, they will get what they want.
As kids we are taught, "Sharing is Good Virtue. Share your Toys with your friends. If you got more then share with the needy"
Then in walks these copyright police saying,"DO NOT SHARE. Sharing is a Social Crime. If you Share, You are a a thief, a PIRATE."
A line needs to be drawn somewhere..
Us geeks like the CLI even today because we know that the CLI is much more efficint for the kind of task that we do. It is quicker to do many tasks from the CLI than the click>wait app to launch> Click the Tab> Select The Option> Apply> Close. But we need to remember that the population of average user outruns the population of us geeks.
The developers need to continue designing better GUI apps without compromising on the CLI bundle that we still use.
By the way I havent seen any distro that has been dumping any CLI feature in favour of GUI.
Re read it. It is $0.018 not $1.80.
In India the cost of texting is as little as 80paisa. i.e 0.80 INR. Now calculate the difference and make your new calculations on it.. Why do you guys spend so much then. Sue the companies that charge you so much for something which costs next to nothing.
The ones outside the stores are their own. The one's inside places like stadiums, Malls are owned by the people who run these places.
Now calculate this with the Cost of text in India.
Cost of one Regular SMS=50p(INR 0.50)
So 7490 text messages cost 7490 x INR 0.50 = INR 3745.00
At the present rate as on XE.com, that will be 89.1030 USD or 45.4727 GBP. That is Eight Times Cheaper.
Can anyone tell me why First World Countries charge so much for this when Third World Countries can actually afford it for so less?
Here in the UK we have this feature on our 3g handsets, but i wonder who really uses it?
I had the option of 1 month free TV, but i did not opt for it. I do not see a necessity to stare at a small Mobile Screen just to watch live tv or a live Football match. Would i even be able to read the scores on such a small display?
This feature is just a display of "We are putting this feature in, just because we can."
I dont Understand this RIAA Crap. The other day i was watching the Movie JUNO. A character in the movie burns a CD containing some songs for Juno. Now is that not illegal according to RIAA? Why not raise a voice against that rather than draggin their ass behind innocent students??
Honestly speaking RIAA and MPAA are not loosing anything near what they claim.
LOGO was never meant to use as a language to be used lifelong. It was mainly a language for the little kids to get an idea into very basic programming logic and simple ideas on using programming for something creative as drawing. U don't expect kids to develop a program to generate the fibonacci series, do you? I encountered LOGO in my school at a time when I had already used BASIC before at a computer institute. LOGO did seem lame to me then, but i still found value in it for kids much younger who had never learnt programming and needed to start. It is just like the Lego except its programming.