I've seen Cambodia's IT infrastructure improve over the last several years, but they still rely on much older, used equipment as their primary source of hardware. The most basic factor is cost. For someone earning about $100 a month (generally considered middle-class and able to reasonably sustain a small family), the prospect of a brand new computer, phone, or other device is unthinkable. Even a PC setup with monitor, UPS, keyboard, and mouse will run you $250. It'll be about 4 years old, but it runs Windows XP or Vista quite well because of lack of service packs. Plus, it's fully loaded with software since the concept of copyright hasn't been fully embraced.
I guess if you could bring low cost, reasonable electronics to the developing world they would embrace it instead of used equipment. I'll let you know when I see it for sale on the streets of Phnom Penh or Siem Reap. For now, it's all used PCs (mostly Dell and HP) and Nokia phones.
I typically have someone in the row ahead of me recline as far as humanly possible, which can be frustrating but is tolerable. I hope I don't get someone sitting next to me who is flailing wildly trying to perform a copy and paste shortcut.
I seem to remember the Atari 2600 games that were mostly junk because of the complete lack of control over the quality of content. If you've ever played the ET and fell into a hole about a thousand times, you know what I mean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)
Extremely strict oversight might not be great, but neither is total anarchy.
Anyone know what brand of SAN went down? My company had a similar issue where our SAN had a major outage, and the vendor claimed it was "an error that never happens, we swear".
I tried a third party accessory that lets you plug in a keyboard and mouse, but the latency was nasty. It just wasn't responsive enough to be usable.
If they sold a keyboard and mouse that compared to the PC gaming experience, I'd buy it.
Completely Agree. My son has a set and loves it. It's far superior to the Radio Shack 200-in-1 kit that I had as a kid. Those used wires and springs, and were a total pain. This new set is a heck of a lot easier and just as entertaining.
My apologize for using the term "Intellectual Property" without verbose explanation.
I am personally more centrist on most issues. For example, I don't believe that immediate and drastic removal of all drug laws would make sense. Yes, the drug laws we have are crazy and should be reformed. Similarly... copyright, patent, and trademark law are also totally nuts. However I don't believe that throwing it all out the window is a rational option either. I like the idea that if I create something intangible that is also unique, that I will get some reasonable amount of protection around that work.
As long as Libertarians are caricatured as pot smokers and anarchists, the party will be doomed to fringe status.
I actually don't see many radios there, and it seems like almost everyone has a cell phone. Since most can double as a music player, people gravitate to that instead. Also, the preferred transportation is motorbike, which doesn't have one at all.
Along with weather bulletins, I saw during the elections last year that political parties would also send broadcast messages to cell phones. Now THAT would be annoying, but it also is quite telling on how that device is viewed as a primary method of getting information to the masses.
I was in Cambodia last week, when I saw a weather alert sent to locals via a free SMS. It was warning people that a storm was spotted with dangerous lightning, so people should go indoors.
In a place without the weather channel, I thought this was a rather inspired way to easily inform people of approaching danger.
If the ads are holding up the delivery of the site, load them last. It's not too hard to structure a site so that the primary content renders and gets delivered while other stuff loads next.
Our company has support analysts that will shadow a user's machine for troubleshooting. The masking is a necessity for us. We want plausible deniability if someone claims a hacked account.
I hate to say this, but the front page of/. has not been a good indicator of business success. If it was, then Linux would be King of the Desktop OS, and the EU would be preparing antitrust litigation against RedHat.
However, I do agree with your main point. I wouldn't be surprised if this was their way of marketing the new product. How much is it costing them? About $0?
This is one of the reasons I voted FOR Obama/Biden. After the Bush administration, I kinda like the idea of getting a random nugget of insider information delivered this way. It's totally unfiltered! Sure, it's not the best way, and definitely not safe, but it's better than nothing.
I also figure that the handlers around Biden will begin limiting his access to really sensitive stuff. So I'm enjoying the fun while it lasts. Perhaps he can get his hands on some Area 51 stuff and attend a convention where he decides to "dispel some rumors" by explaining that there are no aliens, just some cool anti-gravity stuff...
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I've seen Cambodia's IT infrastructure improve over the last several years, but they still rely on much older, used equipment as their primary source of hardware. The most basic factor is cost. For someone earning about $100 a month (generally considered middle-class and able to reasonably sustain a small family), the prospect of a brand new computer, phone, or other device is unthinkable. Even a PC setup with monitor, UPS, keyboard, and mouse will run you $250. It'll be about 4 years old, but it runs Windows XP or Vista quite well because of lack of service packs. Plus, it's fully loaded with software since the concept of copyright hasn't been fully embraced.
I guess if you could bring low cost, reasonable electronics to the developing world they would embrace it instead of used equipment. I'll let you know when I see it for sale on the streets of Phnom Penh or Siem Reap. For now, it's all used PCs (mostly Dell and HP) and Nokia phones.
I typically have someone in the row ahead of me recline as far as humanly possible, which can be frustrating but is tolerable. I hope I don't get someone sitting next to me who is flailing wildly trying to perform a copy and paste shortcut.
I'd like to propose a new Internet meme: "Dave with a V".
Please mod up. I followed Nate's analysis of the 2008 election and was amazed to see him nail the results to within a few electoral votes.
Perhaps all we need to add to make Clippy successful is an authoritative German accent.
Mod this up
I can't wait to start a business installing a dashboard switch to turn it on and off, or just to rip it out.
I seem to remember the Atari 2600 games that were mostly junk because of the complete lack of control over the quality of content. If you've ever played the ET and fell into a hole about a thousand times, you know what I mean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game) Extremely strict oversight might not be great, but neither is total anarchy.
Anyone know what brand of SAN went down? My company had a similar issue where our SAN had a major outage, and the vendor claimed it was "an error that never happens, we swear".
I tried a third party accessory that lets you plug in a keyboard and mouse, but the latency was nasty. It just wasn't responsive enough to be usable. If they sold a keyboard and mouse that compared to the PC gaming experience, I'd buy it.
It's idle. The editors seem to think that their opinion of what is interesting will match the reader's.
Completely Agree. My son has a set and loves it. It's far superior to the Radio Shack 200-in-1 kit that I had as a kid. Those used wires and springs, and were a total pain. This new set is a heck of a lot easier and just as entertaining.
My apologize for using the term "Intellectual Property" without verbose explanation.
I am personally more centrist on most issues. For example, I don't believe that immediate and drastic removal of all drug laws would make sense. Yes, the drug laws we have are crazy and should be reformed. Similarly... copyright, patent, and trademark law are also totally nuts. However I don't believe that throwing it all out the window is a rational option either. I like the idea that if I create something intangible that is also unique, that I will get some reasonable amount of protection around that work.
As long as Libertarians are caricatured as pot smokers and anarchists, the party will be doomed to fringe status.
Agreed. This confuses me as a Libertarian. I believe an individual has the right to choose whatever they want to do with their intellectual property.
I actually don't see many radios there, and it seems like almost everyone has a cell phone. Since most can double as a music player, people gravitate to that instead. Also, the preferred transportation is motorbike, which doesn't have one at all.
Along with weather bulletins, I saw during the elections last year that political parties would also send broadcast messages to cell phones. Now THAT would be annoying, but it also is quite telling on how that device is viewed as a primary method of getting information to the masses.
I was in Cambodia last week, when I saw a weather alert sent to locals via a free SMS. It was warning people that a storm was spotted with dangerous lightning, so people should go indoors.
In a place without the weather channel, I thought this was a rather inspired way to easily inform people of approaching danger.
Please mod up. It's a rare first post that is relevant and entertaining.
If the ads are holding up the delivery of the site, load them last. It's not too hard to structure a site so that the primary content renders and gets delivered while other stuff loads next.
Our company has support analysts that will shadow a user's machine for troubleshooting. The masking is a necessity for us. We want plausible deniability if someone claims a hacked account.
I hate to say this, but the front page of /. has not been a good indicator of business success. If it was, then Linux would be King of the Desktop OS, and the EU would be preparing antitrust litigation against RedHat.
However, I do agree with your main point. I wouldn't be surprised if this was their way of marketing the new product. How much is it costing them? About $0?
Yup, feel free to crank it from 640x480 all the way to 800x600!
i was thinking Release Candidate 0
Celtic
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/nov/11/nation/chi-talk-code-namesnov11
This is one of the reasons I voted FOR Obama/Biden. After the Bush administration, I kinda like the idea of getting a random nugget of insider information delivered this way. It's totally unfiltered! Sure, it's not the best way, and definitely not safe, but it's better than nothing.
I also figure that the handlers around Biden will begin limiting his access to really sensitive stuff. So I'm enjoying the fun while it lasts. Perhaps he can get his hands on some Area 51 stuff and attend a convention where he decides to "dispel some rumors" by explaining that there are no aliens, just some cool anti-gravity stuff...
I get the feeling this discussion is going to go down the same road that the Manga guide to Statistics one did...
So, now you can run reports on the instances of tentacle penetrations based on any number of hierarchies and dimensions!