You're right because "3G" it's the name of an ancient south American "devil" so Cellphone carriers don't support it by fears of natives attacking the cell towers with arrows and stone axes. Also we believe WiFi steals our souls so it's banned from panama all the way down, and even if it weren't banned, We had a lot of trouble with the aforementioned coconut turbocells, chimps and an unknown-to-science-creature that happens to hunt mammals emitting WiFi signals, it's a place forgotten by any God I told you. Also do not even try with satellite stuff, here we have built HUGE slingshots and we load them whit death cat skulls and trow them to satellites because we fear reflection from the sun and moon combined would posses our children and make them crave for iPhones which we have determined that make brown people act like white people so we have to put them down, they start to talk about appz and megapixelz and cloudz and a lot of weird words, in that case we call a catholic sorcerer a "man of the volcano" and the spirit of a long death native hero and they all discuss the way you're supposed to be punished: it's usually being lynched in the main street by hordes of underground dwarfs trained in the fine art of stoning, or, if you're kinda thin, we take you to a "coliseum" where we are delighted seeing your heretic technology being pw0nd by pumas on coca trance while you're being epically smacked down by snuf snuf. Beware.
Now, what you _really_ have to do is:
Local thieves don't give a fuck about your data, they will know how much a laptop cost so going fancy it's not advisable
Plan before hand, know the city ahead so you can know the safer places, that are usually zones of the city were business and high income people are. There IS a lot of local websites about this DIY tourist guides, there are forums so you can request a "route", Spanish/Portuguese wikipedia can be handy too.
Do you know the local language? Some bit of it can be handy, also don't assume nobody speaks English here. Some private universities have groups of bilingual guys (and girls) doing as guides for clueless visitors like you, also it's free (as in a beer).
I would like to think that the sarcasm situation up there it's enough for making a point, but just in case, Third world is not a place that goes on by fucking steam, animal sacrifices and bronze. 3G it's somewhat common place and carriers are somewhat the same all over the continent (name changes from country to country but are the same cartel) so roaming actually works.
The malware you will find here it's the same malware you find there, so you know your enemy.
Obviously you need some sort of VPN but a common badguy will not care to break you p4azzwurdzz, If you're somehow someone carrying sensitive political information you can be 0wned, security agencies here are pretty good and political climate it's mild-hot.
All in all yours is not a technological question, it's something you can figure out by your self planing beforehand. You never told us your main destinations and transport, you have planned that, right?
You mean N America to Central America,from el paso to tijuana? He better just hide in some truck and be done with it.
The closest point from N America to S. America would be from the Florida keys to Cabo de la Vela in Colombia. Hope he brings his GPS to avoid landing in Venezuela pissing off Chavez.
>>For years it's been known that kids from third world countries usually don't suffer from auto-immune diseases and things akin because of the sickly environment they are exposed too. It's simple, if you live constantly with the risk of infection your body will build up a stronger immune system than someone who lives in a bubble.
It's not even related to a harsh environment assuming you think 100.00% of the third world it's like elbonia. I was born very premature, very weak and with an immune system practically absent. My mother, who was raised in harsh conditions knew that the only think that would make me a decent immune system was letting me be a very dirty boy, against medical advise, she created "the country" inside our house in the middle of the city. The pediatrician even told my mom that if I even make it beyond 2 years, it was impossible for me have a normal childhood because interaction with other kids (bacteria, virus, fungi) would kill me. Mom said "meh" and 27 year after I'm the guy who have flu once in a year, no allergies, no skin conditions no nothing.
Let you kids be fucking pigs! they WILL thank you now and every day for the rest of their lives. Be warned, your kid would try to turn your basement into a nasty jungle past puberty and even beyond, untidy environment it's something you attach to psychologically from very early in life. Mi actual room it's so fucked up that some of the girls visiting here had to visit a dermatologist the next day (thats was my acid test for a girl btw), a glass of fresh milk it's fucked up in like 2 hours, a banana turns completely black in 12 hours:)
Yes, we brown people are fucking nasty tanks but don't mind us, mind your bubble kids of today.
Yes I DO HAVE THE RIGHT I'm paying the hosting, I'm the one designing and coding the scripts so everyone in my target can get served a useful website. I use GA so I can know the average screen size = so I can design a better layout. I know where are my visitors coming from in detail that helps me to track and prevent slashdotings, take a look in the beta feature "intelligence". I know whats the most visited content and how much time people reads a random page, so I can plan for better content for my visitors. I can set up a weekly email to my client with the statistics so I save a lot of time and get new ideas from my client to fine tune things or make new stuff, that means more cash for me.
I can't see anything on the GA site that can help me to profile someone say: "Oh is this Argentinian 23yo advertising student who is stealing my brief form scripts again" All I know it's "I had a spike in traffic from Argentina and the only visited page was the brief form" I really doubt Google hires some guy to parse every GA account because you need a meat and bone AI to make a profile from the GA data.
You're very paranoid, the only thing Google capitalize from GA is the integration with AdSense and maybe they hope that if we have more insight about our visitors we can make better sites, who drive more visits ergo more eyes on the ads.
OTOH I really appreciate the link to Piwick and I will give it a try, is not that GA is the only one in the business of analytics, they happen the be better one right now.
Also <b>it's just me or are we seeing a flood in news/spins that try to portray a "bad Google"?</b>
Nope, but thats because my background education is in advertising. You sir, have outlined the wet dream of many advertising companies.
And yes, I'd use a subsidized Google netbook even if I have a real laptop, it's an appliance not a real PC. The same as I'd use a subsidized coffeemaker if it's provided by mi favorite coffee brand under the condition to use it with said brand of coffee only, because I'm going to be buying that coffee anyway.
Also, the coffee brand don't know about my coffee bush in my patio (I have one, really) and Google do not care if I install $random_linux_distro
Well I don't but just because I don't live there, as an external viewer I'd say that it amazes me that such thing have not happened yet, not that I want it to happen really. But do you understand how Cocaine gets into your country? those are thousands of metric tons of dope coming trough your borders, it comes in airplanes, containers and even some guys with very, VERY basic education can, actually, design and build submarines to deliver the dope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdI1y4sdPZE
So, yes, anyone can build a "dirty" submarine in the middle of the $jungle, without your fancy technology and cutting edge tools and get it too close to USA for someone to pick up the package and smuggle it inside. Are you really not concerned? Who needs ports? Those guys don't need a port, or are you telling me that it doesn't matter because no blow ever reaches US streets? really? DIY Submarines are the new shit! from 5 subs built 4 deliver their cargo! and they return and deliver again several times. A dirty (not even nuclear loaded) sub just need to get too close just one time, wait for the right wind forecast and deli#$%%&[SUBMARINE_CABLE_CUT]
Humm I remember now, a little piece of news around the time when Bush was in the office, maybe 6 months before leaving, about him buying a SHITLOAD of real state in that area of Brazil. Maybe the most valuable real state in the world because of the gigantic water reserves there.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5324 (no link because slashcode could not be bothered to render my html tags properly, yes, I have an agenda)
Maybe the power outgage was because Bush were trying to overclock his pc to cope with the performance hit of speech recognition software he just installed. He should go POWER PC FTW!
More on-topic, Brazilian hackers are very good but mostly white hats, maybe they were pissed off because of the misinformation of the first news that hit the media but I also recall a series of severe power outages in urugay or paraguay (neighbor countries to Brazil) some days after the first incident. Maybe some/.er from there can give us some insights?
Bullshit? I have updated disabled and firefox shows me this pearls in the plugins page, note that I did not installed any of them by my own neither was I asked or informed about them:
-2007 Microsoft Office System -Google Update (maybe the bits that mine my usage data so Chrome can know my Firefox habits?) -Microsoft DRM 9.0.0.4503 -Microsoft DRM 9.0.0.4503 (yup, gain)
So, how did they get there? Also this is a fresh install of windows XP SP3 with nLite I haven't installed stuff like Java or.Net yet. Also theres no remove or uninstall button for those, just deactivate.
Yes Microsoft can be a jerk pushing crap in other software but what the hell is doing Mozilla to prevent any random motherfucker to drop a dll in the plugins folder? I can drag and drop a dll from anywhere into the plugins folder, restart firefox and there you go: installed and activated by default as I do for an obscure Quake2 server plugin. I'm bitter, I love FF I have made video tutorials in my language promoting and teaching how to use FF, preaching about security, clients trust in me so they take a test drive on FF and they like it but if FF is ever nailed hard and the PR dept. does it's job I'm going to get burned as a lot of other well intentioned people out there.
It's that fucking hard for Firefox to inform me that a new DLL is installed? How about a pop up window or Yellow bar.. or how about a fucking dancing stoned carebear waving frikin lazerz at animecokemeth speeds raping the motherfucking liquid cristals in my screen flashing @ over 9000Hz in 300pt RED Comic Sans font "NEW PLUGINS INSTALLED" OMG anything will do but please fix that crap or do I have to ask for it to the minister of agriculture of Japan?
I think it's clear than I'm kinda drunk, but the point, whatever it was, remains:D
>> but Windows simply doesn't run as well on AMD chips as it does on Intel chips
What does it mean "doesn't run as well"? Do the AMD CPU behaves obstinate and uncooperative? Started an union? You found high profile political assassination plans on a core-dump? It was going to stab you last night? Bad AMD bad!
Also you say that intel and Microsoft working together as if it's a GOOD thing, what? in 5 year you can run Windows 8 ONLY in intel: chipsets-SSD-CPU-Video Card? Sure THEY would like that.
Any Phenom II can deliver some of these features like shutting down unused cores and underclocking in idle even on Windows XP -- Even a Phenom I can use the "super-turbo-mumbo-jumbo-addinchestoepenis" feature in Windows 7, I've seen it with mine (Ph X3 8650): System is idle so underclocks to 1.3Ghz as soon as I start something like a game or CAD app the CPU goes back to the normal 2.3Ghz and stays there until reaches idles again, and that works out of the box in W7. In XP it's a manual setting and you have to install a driver for it, yet it works flawlessly.
Me? an AMD fanboy? Nah I just like to run any VM without first kissing any manufacturers ass, and for that mere approach by AMD they have my bucks and the ones from the people I build rigs, I've ever hear complains about the "companion AMD CPU" trying to stab them btw.
Huh? You create a game and set different Action Script files according to the target, very much like you use CSS based on useragents. "Bitmaps" may be highly pixel specific but Flash it's more centered in using vector images, in fact, it's a decent design app and it's very friendly with anything vector: svg, eps, AI etc. So maybe hardware acceleration and a very optimized API can yield interesting stuff on the game market.
In general I would like to see Flash to be competitive, hardware acceleration is very welcome but not enough, Adobe should optimize Flash codebase once and for all, theres a lot of old and unnecessary stuff there.
Before I start to crawl under my desk, let me say something, You can hate all that you want that Flash thing, I hate it too when I'd like to see a fullscreen video on my old PIII laptop, I hate it back then when Flash in Linux was a PITA, but Flash is not going anywhere, and I know and you know that nothing good can come out if Silverlight becomes the new Flash, what? the MAFIAA Plugin? No thanks. Just give it a break. Flash may not be open source but you can open source your flash: http://silex-ria.org/
I really hope HTML5 to bring a new paradigm in the streaming video field and a Flash focusing in what it was intended to be in the beginning: a vector animation and interactive presentation/RIA tool.
He he I'm surprised too, I have EVER heard of such Colombian manufacturer. We have other "manufacturers" and all they do is build clones and stick a logo, yet they're better machines/$ than the DELL or Compaq we can order online. But here, unless you're buying a PC for your business, you go to a shop and request the better machine you get for X money. Prices here are on par with the USA prices btw.
A quick look at http://www.haleron.com/ and I can't see a word in spanish or a reference to Colombia or any city or an "about us"
Is it really a Colombian manufacturer? I'd like to know, would be kind of nice to shop for a local netbook.
Sure! You can also ask for the guy to check for mp3s in your hard drive so they can sue your ass for the ones from the mafiaa labels, there is even a lawyer with a calculator just under the counter ready to party! ALL IN ONE PLACE!!
Yeah! is not like tectonic plates are communist or something. Remember to double check a map before the launch, you know/s
500 feet underground * total area of Rusia it's a good bite to the earth's mass, that alone would create all sorts of havoc, as in polar axis swift and a chain reaction of nice 9 grade quakes everywhere.
humm you forgot that not every PC is set to default boot from CD, Average Joe don't want to know what a BIOS is, do, or how is baked.
You're not thinking in a faulty Mobo or RAM that would make the boot from live CD panic
You think the 95% of PC users have an IQ above 110 that is, IMHO, a "hardware requirement" for to you fiddle with Linux. See? Linux is and will be relegated to ~5% of the population because thats the percentage of people with an intelligence "above average" That is, until you don't have to use a shell or edit configs by hand.
I still don't get it, why do you want everybody to use Linux if it's a power tool? Just to steal Windows market share? If thats the case then go to OEMs, fork an parallel distro of Linux (Linux Desktop) and make it a business: with coherent and professional advertising, strategy, market research, strategic alliances and paid support.
I'm fucking tired of seeing how a nice and needed product like Linux is so poorly managed both in brand and strategy. PLEASE if you're not coherent with your promotional strategy you're making more bad than good, if you're not going to sustain your promotional efforts for more than 5 years don't do anything big, it's ironic but all the hatred from developers against the marketing guys, your allergic reaction to anything marketing is what makes Linux to be condemned to be, undeservedly(?), an UNDERDOG.
Leave Aunt Annie with her XP beige box SHE DONT NEED LINUX.. I'd say: THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! they have the time and the tender brain tissue Linux requires. Really, is anyone paying attention IRL?
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You're right because "3G" it's the name of an ancient south American "devil" so Cellphone carriers don't support it by fears of natives attacking the cell towers with arrows and stone axes. Also we believe WiFi steals our souls so it's banned from panama all the way down, and even if it weren't banned, We had a lot of trouble with the aforementioned coconut turbocells, chimps and an unknown-to-science-creature that happens to hunt mammals emitting WiFi signals, it's a place forgotten by any God I told you. Also do not even try with satellite stuff, here we have built HUGE slingshots and we load them whit death cat skulls and trow them to satellites because we fear reflection from the sun and moon combined would posses our children and make them crave for iPhones which we have determined that make brown people act like white people so we have to put them down, they start to talk about appz and megapixelz and cloudz and a lot of weird words, in that case we call a catholic sorcerer a "man of the volcano" and the spirit of a long death native hero and they all discuss the way you're supposed to be punished: it's usually being lynched in the main street by hordes of underground dwarfs trained in the fine art of stoning, or, if you're kinda thin, we take you to a "coliseum" where we are delighted seeing your heretic technology being pw0nd by pumas on coca trance while you're being epically smacked down by snuf snuf. Beware.
Now, what you _really_ have to do is:
Local thieves don't give a fuck about your data, they will know how much a laptop cost so going fancy it's not advisable
Plan before hand, know the city ahead so you can know the safer places, that are usually zones of the city were business and high income people are. There IS a lot of local websites about this DIY tourist guides, there are forums so you can request a "route", Spanish/Portuguese wikipedia can be handy too.
Do you know the local language? Some bit of it can be handy, also don't assume nobody speaks English here. Some private universities have groups of bilingual guys (and girls) doing as guides for clueless visitors like you, also it's free (as in a beer).
I would like to think that the sarcasm situation up there it's enough for making a point, but just in case, Third world is not a place that goes on by fucking steam, animal sacrifices and bronze. 3G it's somewhat common place and carriers are somewhat the same all over the continent (name changes from country to country but are the same cartel) so roaming actually works.
The malware you will find here it's the same malware you find there, so you know your enemy.
Obviously you need some sort of VPN but a common badguy will not care to break you p4azzwurdzz, If you're somehow someone carrying sensitive political information you can be 0wned, security agencies here are pretty good and political climate it's mild-hot.
All in all yours is not a technological question, it's something you can figure out by your self planing beforehand. You never told us your main destinations and transport, you have planned that, right?
>> and N. America to S. America
You mean N America to Central America,from el paso to tijuana? He better just hide in some truck and be done with it.
The closest point from N America to S. America would be from the Florida keys to Cabo de la Vela in Colombia. Hope he brings his GPS to avoid landing in Venezuela pissing off Chavez.
>>For years it's been known that kids from third world countries usually don't suffer from auto-immune diseases and things akin because of the sickly environment they are exposed too. It's simple, if you live constantly with the risk of infection your body will build up a stronger immune system than someone who lives in a bubble.
:)
It's not even related to a harsh environment assuming you think 100.00% of the third world it's like elbonia. I was born very premature, very weak and with an immune system practically absent. My mother, who was raised in harsh conditions knew that the only think that would make me a decent immune system was letting me be a very dirty boy, against medical advise, she created "the country" inside our house in the middle of the city. The pediatrician even told my mom that if I even make it beyond 2 years, it was impossible for me have a normal childhood because interaction with other kids (bacteria, virus, fungi) would kill me. Mom said "meh" and 27 year after I'm the guy who have flu once in a year, no allergies, no skin conditions no nothing.
Let you kids be fucking pigs! they WILL thank you now and every day for the rest of their lives. Be warned, your kid would try to turn your basement into a nasty jungle past puberty and even beyond, untidy environment it's something you attach to psychologically from very early in life. Mi actual room it's so fucked up that some of the girls visiting here had to visit a dermatologist the next day (thats was my acid test for a girl btw), a glass of fresh milk it's fucked up in like 2 hours, a banana turns completely black in 12 hours
Yes, we brown people are fucking nasty tanks but don't mind us, mind your bubble kids of today.
Yes I DO HAVE THE RIGHT I'm paying the hosting, I'm the one designing and coding the scripts so everyone in my target can get served a useful website. I use GA so I can know the average screen size = so I can design a better layout. I know where are my visitors coming from in detail that helps me to track and prevent slashdotings, take a look in the beta feature "intelligence". I know whats the most visited content and how much time people reads a random page, so I can plan for better content for my visitors. I can set up a weekly email to my client with the statistics so I save a lot of time and get new ideas from my client to fine tune things or make new stuff, that means more cash for me.
/code_ate_my_html_tags_bug it's stupid)
I can't see anything on the GA site that can help me to profile someone say: "Oh is this Argentinian 23yo advertising student who is stealing my brief form scripts again" All I know it's "I had a spike in traffic from Argentina and the only visited page was the brief form" I really doubt Google hires some guy to parse every GA account because you need a meat and bone AI to make a profile from the GA data.
You're very paranoid, the only thing Google capitalize from GA is the integration with AdSense and maybe they hope that if we have more insight about our visitors we can make better sites, who drive more visits ergo more eyes on the ads.
OTOH I really appreciate the link to Piwick and I will give it a try, is not that GA is the only one in the business of analytics, they happen the be better one right now.
Also <b>it's just me or are we seeing a flood in news/spins that try to portray a "bad Google"?</b>
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>> Creeped out yet?
Nope, but thats because my background education is in advertising. You sir, have outlined the wet dream of many advertising companies.
And yes, I'd use a subsidized Google netbook even if I have a real laptop, it's an appliance not a real PC. The same as I'd use a subsidized coffeemaker if it's provided by mi favorite coffee brand under the condition to use it with said brand of coffee only, because I'm going to be buying that coffee anyway.
Also, the coffee brand don't know about my coffee bush in my patio (I have one, really) and Google do not care if I install $random_linux_distro
Well I don't but just because I don't live there, as an external viewer I'd say that it amazes me that such thing have not happened yet, not that I want it to happen really. But do you understand how Cocaine gets into your country? those are thousands of metric tons of dope coming trough your borders, it comes in airplanes, containers and even some guys with very, VERY basic education can, actually, design and build submarines to deliver the dope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdI1y4sdPZE
So, yes, anyone can build a "dirty" submarine in the middle of the $jungle, without your fancy technology and cutting edge tools and get it too close to USA for someone to pick up the package and smuggle it inside. Are you really not concerned? Who needs ports? Those guys don't need a port, or are you telling me that it doesn't matter because no blow ever reaches US streets? really? DIY Submarines are the new shit! from 5 subs built 4 deliver their cargo! and they return and deliver again several times. A dirty (not even nuclear loaded) sub just need to get too close just one time, wait for the right wind forecast and deli#$%%&[SUBMARINE_CABLE_CUT]
>> How the fuck do you think we got this far?
Don't know, maybe I'm asking my Neanderthal friend over skype... oh right.
I'd like to see a guide, link or your own tutorial. Sharing is caring :)
Programing languages is this thing that breeds nasty stuff right? So if we ban programing languages we are all safe?
Humm I remember now, a little piece of news around the time when Bush was in the office, maybe 6 months before leaving, about him buying a SHITLOAD of real state in that area of Brazil. Maybe the most valuable real state in the world because of the gigantic water reserves there.
/.er from there can give us some insights?
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5324
(no link because slashcode could not be bothered to render my html tags properly, yes, I have an agenda)
Maybe the power outgage was because Bush were trying to overclock his pc to cope with the performance hit of speech recognition software he just installed. He should go POWER PC FTW!
More on-topic, Brazilian hackers are very good but mostly white hats, maybe they were pissed off because of the misinformation of the first news that hit the media but I also recall a series of severe power outages in urugay or paraguay (neighbor countries to Brazil) some days after the first incident. Maybe some
So my rant was useless?
:p
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1407593&cid=29776261
(no link because stupid slashcode eats my html tags)
I'd install a plugin that does just what I hinted in the end of the post
Bullshit? I have updated disabled and firefox shows me this pearls in the plugins page, note that I did not installed any of them by my own neither was I asked or informed about them:
.Net yet. Also theres no remove or uninstall button for those, just deactivate.
:D
-2007 Microsoft Office System
-Google Update (maybe the bits that mine my usage data so Chrome can know my Firefox habits?)
-Microsoft DRM 9.0.0.4503
-Microsoft DRM 9.0.0.4503 (yup, gain)
So, how did they get there? Also this is a fresh install of windows XP SP3 with nLite I haven't installed stuff like Java or
Yes Microsoft can be a jerk pushing crap in other software but what the hell is doing Mozilla to prevent any random motherfucker to drop a dll in the plugins folder? I can drag and drop a dll from anywhere into the plugins folder, restart firefox and there you go: installed and activated by default as I do for an obscure Quake2 server plugin. I'm bitter, I love FF I have made video tutorials in my language promoting and teaching how to use FF, preaching about security, clients trust in me so they take a test drive on FF and they like it but if FF is ever nailed hard and the PR dept. does it's job I'm going to get burned as a lot of other well intentioned people out there.
It's that fucking hard for Firefox to inform me that a new DLL is installed? How about a pop up window or Yellow bar.. or how about a fucking dancing stoned carebear waving frikin lazerz at animecokemeth speeds raping the motherfucking liquid cristals in my screen flashing @ over 9000Hz in 300pt RED Comic Sans font "NEW PLUGINS INSTALLED" OMG anything will do but please fix that crap or do I have to ask for it to the minister of agriculture of Japan?
I think it's clear than I'm kinda drunk, but the point, whatever it was, remains
>> but Windows simply doesn't run as well on AMD chips as it does on Intel chips
What does it mean "doesn't run as well"? Do the AMD CPU behaves obstinate and uncooperative? Started an union? You found high profile political assassination plans on a core-dump? It was going to stab you last night? Bad AMD bad!
Also you say that intel and Microsoft working together as if it's a GOOD thing, what? in 5 year you can run Windows 8 ONLY in intel: chipsets-SSD-CPU-Video Card? Sure THEY would like that.
Any Phenom II can deliver some of these features like shutting down unused cores and underclocking in idle even on Windows XP -- Even a Phenom I can use the "super-turbo-mumbo-jumbo-addinchestoepenis" feature in Windows 7, I've seen it with mine (Ph X3 8650): System is idle so underclocks to 1.3Ghz as soon as I start something like a game or CAD app the CPU goes back to the normal 2.3Ghz and stays there until reaches idles again, and that works out of the box in W7. In XP it's a manual setting and you have to install a driver for it, yet it works flawlessly.
Me? an AMD fanboy? Nah I just like to run any VM without first kissing any manufacturers ass, and for that mere approach by AMD they have my bucks and the ones from the people I build rigs, I've ever hear complains about the "companion AMD CPU" trying to stab them btw.
FF, not i.e.
Huh? You create a game and set different Action Script files according to the target, very much like you use CSS based on useragents. "Bitmaps" may be highly pixel specific but Flash it's more centered in using vector images, in fact, it's a decent design app and it's very friendly with anything vector: svg, eps, AI etc. So maybe hardware acceleration and a very optimized API can yield interesting stuff on the game market.
In general I would like to see Flash to be competitive, hardware acceleration is very welcome but not enough, Adobe should optimize Flash codebase once and for all, theres a lot of old and unnecessary stuff there.
Before I start to crawl under my desk, let me say something, You can hate all that you want that Flash thing, I hate it too when I'd like to see a fullscreen video on my old PIII laptop, I hate it back then when Flash in Linux was a PITA, but Flash is not going anywhere, and I know and you know that nothing good can come out if Silverlight becomes the new Flash, what? the MAFIAA Plugin? No thanks. Just give it a break. Flash may not be open source but you can open source your flash: http://silex-ria.org/
I really hope HTML5 to bring a new paradigm in the streaming video field and a Flash focusing in what it was intended to be in the beginning: a vector animation and interactive presentation/RIA tool.
*crawls under the desk*
Would you give me your UID? :D
He he I'm surprised too, I have EVER heard of such Colombian manufacturer. We have other "manufacturers" and all they do is build clones and stick a logo, yet they're better machines/$ than the DELL or Compaq we can order online. But here, unless you're buying a PC for your business, you go to a shop and request the better machine you get for X money. Prices here are on par with the USA prices btw.
A quick look at http://www.haleron.com/ and I can't see a word in spanish or a reference to Colombia or any city or an "about us"
Is it really a Colombian manufacturer? I'd like to know, would be kind of nice to shop for a local netbook.
it's the touchpad made of Teflon? You could fry an egg in there! Sounds like a nice combo
Sure! You can also ask for the guy to check for mp3s in your hard drive so they can sue your ass for the ones from the mafiaa labels, there is even a lawyer with a calculator just under the counter ready to party! ALL IN ONE PLACE!!
lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations#National_IQ_estimates
In windows it's easier, you're doing it long
win key+r > format c:
Yeah! is not like tectonic plates are communist or something. Remember to double check a map before the launch, you know /s
500 feet underground * total area of Rusia it's a good bite to the earth's mass, that alone would create all sorts of havoc, as in polar axis swift and a chain reaction of nice 9 grade quakes everywhere.
humm you forgot that not every PC is set to default boot from CD, Average Joe don't want to know what a BIOS is, do, or how is baked.
You're not thinking in a faulty Mobo or RAM that would make the boot from live CD panic
You think the 95% of PC users have an IQ above 110 that is, IMHO, a "hardware requirement" for to you fiddle with Linux. See? Linux is and will be relegated to ~5% of the population because thats the percentage of people with an intelligence "above average" That is, until you don't have to use a shell or edit configs by hand.
I still don't get it, why do you want everybody to use Linux if it's a power tool? Just to steal Windows market share? If thats the case then go to OEMs, fork an parallel distro of Linux (Linux Desktop) and make it a business: with coherent and professional advertising, strategy, market research, strategic alliances and paid support.
I'm fucking tired of seeing how a nice and needed product like Linux is so poorly managed both in brand and strategy. PLEASE if you're not coherent with your promotional strategy you're making more bad than good, if you're not going to sustain your promotional efforts for more than 5 years don't do anything big, it's ironic but all the hatred from developers against the marketing guys, your allergic reaction to anything marketing is what makes Linux to be condemned to be, undeservedly(?), an UNDERDOG.
Leave Aunt Annie with her XP beige box SHE DONT NEED LINUX.. I'd say: THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! they have the time and the tender brain tissue Linux requires. Really, is anyone paying attention IRL?
centipedes in my computor?!