I am something of a RH fan boy, so my two cents is not balanced. Still, they have made mistakes in the past, admitted them, corrected them and moved on. I have trust that if this turns out to be wrong, or even not completely straight up, they will admit a mistake and repair the damage as best they can.
I don't have a lot of stock in the market, but i trust what I have with red hat, they try to be honest at least.
Of course we are tracked, but only if they know who you are,and they don't.
"(useless since afaik you need an ID card to get a SIM card)," my SIM card is registered to the manager of the local China Mobile office because i "forgot " to bring my passport. Most cards are bought at streetside vendors who register the phones in their own name (so there are hundreds of phones listed in one individuals name). At least here where I am near Shanghai.
What you don't know is that it is risky to have ANY unregistered meeting with more than 8 people. Outdoors would be even riskier. But people here know that and don't want to meet outdoors, they don't want to get caught and they know more about how to scam the system here than you can even guess. No, I won't talk about what is done (Duh) but it works and keeps them safe enough.
Like my friend who bought a Dell laptop and got a Windows 7 Ultimate DVD OEM thrown in for free? I mean he paid for that didn't he? That's not piracy is it? Oh yeah the store that sold him the laptop suggested that they had beetter provide the warrantee service rather than Dell because they were more "convenient": so very thoughtful of them!
I'm hoping to build a new rig when I get back to the US next Fall and want to make something crazy, the aesthetics of cardboard, for something like this, like a NAS server would be kind of cool, i think i like everything about it. I want to build something like a system on board laptop with a see-through case and a turbine-like cooler than spins up using a little solar booster on the turbine (piss-poor description, i'm counting on my EE brother to help on the details) to cool it. i want rad shit for once in this world.
let me ditto that. I did a 1 semester pilot study of OO.o use by the faculty study of my school in China (multiple languages. multiple use scenarios, multiple expectations of the software) and concluded that the best solution was to design a new icon set that vaguely mimicked a certain well-known companies icon set from the late nineties and just tell everyone that we were using "Office 3.2" a new product designed for schools. The IT department, however, screamed that they did not have the help desk to help people through the upgrade so we are still using 2003 crapware.
Open Office points out that conversion of files can be the biggest problem in switch-overs, and while this is true, most of the conversion problems were happening in the pilot from stuff that had been written in earlier versions of MS Office, and then had things adapted through cut and paste in later versions until any individual document had layers of tables and graphics that didn't fit on the MS pages either and required adaptation. The difference is that everyone is ONLY able to use 2003 now: they Hate 2007 and dread 2010 and didn't even want to consider that "Linux office thing".
People, the pimple on the ass of Progress. I welcome our robot overlords!
ditto, remember that the people who built these machines probably saw their first flush toilet when they went into the factory they are working in (assuming it has flush toilets). When I was working as a consultant in Thailand on a pricy resort project the workers (Hmong tribespeople) lived in (and I mean this exactly and literally) bamboo huts and shit in their rice fields. Then went to work where they were supposed to install European model low-water flush toilets. Duh, they didn't work.
When I was in Kunming, Yunnan, china, they (the school I was working for) decided to "remodel" the building we were living in. The workers who came in lived in the buildings as they did the work. The first thing they did when they moved in was tear out the plumbing and pipes: but they left the electrical in so they could watch TV.
People here (like people there) have no idea what the little things they make actually do and how they actually work. It is magic, plain and simple. Watch a repairman here repair computer stuff, they NEVER tighten screws all the way. You quickly learn here that a tight screw is a stripped screw. So, what did you really expect, no, I knew that Apple crap was the same crap inside, I've stripped down a few Apple boxes for fun.
Sorry, but it is not the IT department. They (almost certainly ) had anti-virus (like my school) and firewalls, had security infrastructure in place and still somebody brought in some baby pictures from home on a USB drive and showed them to their co-workers and boom, there it goes. The Anti-virus got turned off, the virus hooked up a key-logger for grabbing passwords and such and a trojan for a bot-net and (like a nasty at my school in December) added in a cute little routine that cripples clamav or any other (???) plugin that arrives after the fact (i could find them once, but not remove them, a second pass showed the machine as clean when it wasn't and I had to install clamwin a second time in my USB to find it a second time.).
Who was to blame? One of the teachers or the students who had access to what is supposed to be a locked down tight system and who probably unknowingly brought in something for a class from an insecure system. This is the real world, to accept that it is not the fault of companies that produce systems that are failed by design (FBD) is ridiculous. Sure, blame the user, but that does not explain why companies need to blame their customers to escape blame for their shoddy practices.
No, I'm not in IT, but I know how hard they work and how underpaid and harassed they are by users who expect them to do wizardly things.
All you need to do is link this cybercheating to Middle-eastern terrorists through the essay banks in Indonesia and then tie in a Chinese hacker who acts as a middleman and we'll have all the bogeymen in one tidy package.
The fact that it is still students who care more about partying than actually doing something for their parent's money that are the actual perps in this game nomatter the source or the collaterals in the story. The saddest part is that their employers won't care either, they have the paper
On boarding a friend of mine flying from Bangkok was told by the stewardess that everyone had to remove all their carry-on from the overhead bins for takeoff. WTF he thought. As the plane took off the cabin shook so badly that not only did he fear for his life, all the compartment doors flew open, anything in the overhead bins would have fallen out on passenger's heads. Slick.
Another friend traveled on a flight from Bangkok to Moscow, she was the only woman on board and the other passengers all looked (and were) badly beaten. Two weeks of Pattaya bars softened them up for the flight home. She got off in Delhi and vowed never again.
I live in a Chinese village (Suzhou) with 6.5 Million inhabitants. You probably have never heard of it because it is just a village not a real city like Beijing or Shanghai. When I lived in the US at one time I lived in a "city" of 70,000 people. The district of Suzhou I live in has 10 times as many people as that and is just a district of a village in the ex-urbs of a city (Shanghai). City-sized means nothing.
To get the proper size words in the the article needed to consider the existing cloud data center sizes and use multiples of that, maybe that would be amazing maybe not. If not then we would know that this is just a... troll?.. a way to incite fear of the dread Chinese again? Or is it really something stupendous? therefore cool?
What I mean is "watch your language", don't be sucked in by inflammatory, fear producing language that really has little meaning. For a primer on this I suggest Doris Lessing's "Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire" a Space fiction approach (Lessing's terms) to the question of language usage to affect emotions.
In class, where we have WinXP boxes that show on a projector and a 15" monitor, whenever the system crashes, locks up or takes minutes of precious class time to load I smack the screen and fuss at it. My students (Chinese university students) are so shocked by this that it has become part of my reputation as an out of control whackO.
When I point out that it is just a monitor and not the computer they are confused, so i kick the desk where the box sits which is even more frightening to them. What if it crashes!!!!????
People don't yell at their computers because they are afraid of them. The computer (gods/fairies/demons/whatever) might kill the computer if you hurt its feelings. Remember most people have absolutely no idea in the world WTF the box is, does or how it works. When the power goes out in the staff office the first move it to go to the computer and see what the power company has to say about the problem, was it a planned outage, whatever. OH! The computers are off too! Oh my, what will we do???
My other fun and amusement at work is to a) crack open the box and fiddle with stuff inside. People will literally go to the other side of the office when I open it up, so they won't be close to it when the bogey man comes out. or, b) use Knoppix on a USB drive to start up their computer when they have a problem (like a dead HDD) which also causes them to run to the other side of the office and question whether I am installing a virus in their computer. Answer, "yes, the Linux virus, it's deadly"
People, the lice of the earth, I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
Yes, and this means that Win7 is essentially free to the box buyer as well as providing the actual profit that they make because profit margins per unit are so tight because, in our consumer dominated idiocracy we insist on cheap rather than great. The bloat ware is there because YOU want it there, because YOU helped set and support the conditions that are the cause. You wanted cheap PCs, you got them,now either quit bitching about the fallout of YOUR consumer decision ("gimme, gimme, gimme, cheap, cheaper, cheapest, oh goody").
The first step to getting out of this disgusting contretemps is the maker culture: teach yourself, teach your children to DO things, Build things and stay out of the stores.
I bought my daughter to build her own PC two years ago, she still is fearless.
If I'm not mistaken there is a Dutch group that is searching for violations of CC and GPL licenses to try to make voluntary compliance work just by contacting the owners of the data aware and to give them a way to contact the perps.
I suggest that the poster contact the Dutch group in English to ask what to do. Damn near every single Dutch person speaks English (and French and German and Spanish or Italian or god knows what all. My Dutch wife speaks all the above and Thai and Chinese, and feels inadequate in her language skills)
I know someone (maybe most of you) is going to burn me for this but let me point out some things:
the nervous system runs through the entire body, if this kind of process is happening in the brain then it is also happening through the entire body, with attendant field resonance.
In Chinese medicine, one of the most interesting new ideas (from the viewpoint of this new research) is the idea that the acupuncture channels are channels that are built as a result of fields of energy and that, therefore, it is possible to stimulate the channels in different ways (as in strengthening a signal or reducing a signal) by using the needles and either the energy system of the acupuncturist or an auxiliary electronic device to affect the system.
Hate me (verbally only please, not really hate me) if you like, but recent western research (not questionable Chinese research) has shown that inserting acupuncture needles almost anywhere on the body has an effect, often a therapeutic effect, on the body as a whole. More research to follow to try to understand how the needles do this (doesn't appear to be a dopamine--pain--response) but the effect is quite clear.
My wife, who is certified as a TCM doctor and is working on her Masters in TCM through NanJing university school of Traditional Chinese Medicine, says that the Chinese are actually quite behind in this work. Most of the research being done in TCM, especially acupuncture, is being done in Japan or the west (Germany is way ahead of the US in TCM research).
I often see TCM lumped together with Homeopathy or Naturopathy when it has served the health needs of a civilization that was more cultured and advanced than the much of the world is today back when your (and my) ancestors were sleeping with pigs to keep warm. While I totally agree that homeopathy is bogus, confusing the use of mushrooms, herbs and roots to cure illness (it is herbal medicine which exists in an incredibly valuable system that has been built over thousands of years in China as "Zhong Yao" and to a lesser degree in the west as part of Naturopathy) with homeopathy is just confused thinking. If you think they are connected just let me fix you a little Chinese medical brew and a few sugar pills and see which has a bigger kick.
I know I'm weird but I dumped laptops in 2005 and went back to desktop. Well, i didn't NEED the portability and didn't see any reason to pay for something I was no longer using (i was doing international consulting from 94 to 2000 and needed the portability, by 2005 the form factor was an impediment). Now, i got a second hand eeepc when i needed a portable form to plug in to and use, but i haven't turned it on in 3 or 4 months because i don't need it.
What I want a tablet for is to use as a better portable device for carrying my stuff AND doing telephony both through cell and wifi. Nowadays I carry 3 USB sticks (one portable classroom, one with just portable apps and doc storage and one for crash and bleed out situations when everything else fails) and routinely lug around small portable HDDs with backup data for work and home. I want to decrease/end all that. I want Meego on a pixelqi screen with a qualcomm dual core processor (for my brother who works for QC) and a headset that is just earbuds and a clip-on controller/mic combo that is ultra small and convenient (I've got one now that has 50% of the functionality I want). With that I can dump my phone, my USB sticks (except the crash and burn on for emergencies) and reduce the portable drives to one that I move once a month for redundant backup separation storage (home to work and work to home).
That is exactly why I want a tablet and i want it NOW!!!!
I was online with my first laptop at the time and getting my first email address (at netscape.net) and actually remember the show and remember howling at it. I wasn't THAT geeky was I????
Probably should make this anonymous... face the simple facts, students in ed schools are significantly...... more challenged by undergraduate (and graduate) content than libarts or tech students. I took a graduate class in my major offered by my advisor because he totally rocked at teaching (although being rather an unusual person overall) the subject. He suggested that I shouldn't waste my time. Asking why a graduate course would not be worth my time (just the course title would have been a major boost to my transcript) he said simply: This is a course for ed school grad students, we won't be able to cover even half the undergrad "Intro to" content.
Yeah, yeah, what i remember from the days when i NEEDED to download keygens and pirated software was that THEY were often the source of malware. Using Linux like an intelligent person means that I don't have to deal with that particular problem.
I the last five years I have bit torrented thousands, tens of thousands at least files, from PB and mononova and mininova and a dozen other bt sites. In all that time, when i wasn't downloading (as i used to) the low-hanging fruit of pirated software and its appendages, i have almost never had a clinker (malware, crapware, etc.) When i have found one it was, for example, a bt for a file that i wanted (i think it was an ebook of a textbook) that instead was a link to some fake porn (old lame porn as i recall although it was malware and wasn't actually the porn file) file that was trying to hide a.exe file inside a.rar file. Not exactly a useful attack vector on my computer.
Yes, if you are trying to bt pirated software for windows machines and the appended keygens, etc. then you will find a world of hurt at bt sites. so what?
Yeah this is the excuse given by the retailers. By packaging Windows along with all the "free- trial software" they are able to provide the computer at a less than their manufacturing cost price. It does make some sense since the OEM version of win7 for example is really quite cheap. You have to pay extra for the OS upgrade to whatever they are calling all the different levels and then the price jumps above the cost of manufacturing, but the company still makes a slim profit because of the "value-added" malware that comes on the machine to begin with.
Really, the problem is that we need to have ultra-simple boxes with linux inside, owners manual with the full source code printed out and pentalobe screws locking it down. Make it stupid easy to use and sell it based on it's ease and simplicity of use. Forget the freedoms, forget the ability to change things, forget all the reasons you and I use linux, this is for the people who just want something that works, works cheap and works easy. We can do this, AND run linux ourselves on our own DIY boxes using gentoo or slack or fedora or whatever.
I even have a name for the linux version, lets call it Ubuntu! It can use a stupid simple mobile phone desktop with big buttons and lots of cloud storage ability with a small HDD. We'll hire a design guru to design the boxes so they look ultra hip and pay gobs of cash for the roll-out of the product. We will rule in the end because our logo will be a peach with a bite taken out of it and the TS Eliot line: "Do I Dare disturb the universe"
An old friend of mine had lived in Israel for 25 years and then returned to the US. He spent the first two years screaming at the TV news and complaining to anyone around him that "you just don't understand, it's not anything like that!"
He was right. Living in Asia and reading news in the west about China (where I am now) or Thailand (where I lived for almost ten years) I am constantly wanting to shake people. You cannot understand how ridiculous your slant on the news is to us. You see the world through your own eyes which are colored by expectations of reality that do not hold water here.
I am planning to return to the US this year and dread the process. Frankly, I realize that the US that I am returning to is nothing that I can understand. I left before 9/11. Clinton was president. Etc. I will have a lot of trouble seeing your world and expect it to take some time, months at best, before I can see "our" world again.
So, News is determined by people who do not want to challenge your existing world view, they only want to give you (dare I say it???) entertainment-like pieces of adapted information that you can fit into your existing world-view comfortably. Sadly, I understand why they do it.
"Leader of the Most Populous Country in the world"
When people who use computers make an average of $300 a month they can't afford to buy software
But Microsoft has allowed Windows software to be pirated here on purpose so that they could lock in the infrastructure:
All banking software and interfaces use windows based or focused applications (my bank requires WinXP or Vista with IE6 and to access the functionality of the website for online bill paying: firefox will not work, the certificates are trash of course and, because of the mentality that has been engendered by Gate's piracy ploy, the bank also used a virus toolkit to gain access to the registry and install their little kiddie scripts. Obviously I don't pay bills online)
All the applications that the government blesses for use here (such as Baidu, QQ, Tom/Skype, TenCent, not to mention the homebrew games here -- check out Snail Games for example-- ) are built only for Windows.
My bud Lee just bought a new Dell Inspiron laptop here last fall, the vendor GAVE him an OEM disk of Win7 Ultimate. It is NOT a pirate it is a copy of the OEM disk made with permission by a small store owner. Lee ripped it and gave me an iso. it writes its own registration code and contacts the MS server to register it "legally".
Red Flag sucks, frankly. They took a very old RedHat version RHEL5 I think, and then screwed with it until it has lost all real semblance of its origins. Sort of like Apple and BSD.
This is the new strategy now, there is no way they will let the China market go over to Linux, they attack on all fronts. Office 2010? Being given away left and right. Windows Server 8? I can go to the second floor of my building and get the disk, and get free training (in Chinese of course) all provided by MS. They are making no money in China right now, but they have big plans for the future.
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I'm too lazy to fuss with a watch, i look at the sun and guess. Usually I'm within ten minutes, which is good enough.
I am something of a RH fan boy, so my two cents is not balanced. Still, they have made mistakes in the past, admitted them, corrected them and moved on. I have trust that if this turns out to be wrong, or even not completely straight up, they will admit a mistake and repair the damage as best they can.
I don't have a lot of stock in the market, but i trust what I have with red hat, they try to be honest at least.
Win 3.1 came on my 500 Mb HDD for my 1994 laptop so 400 Mb sounds generous.
Sorry, you don't understand the situation here:
Of course we are tracked, but only if they know who you are,and they don't.
"(useless since afaik you need an ID card to get a SIM card),"
my SIM card is registered to the manager of the local China Mobile office because i "forgot " to bring my passport. Most cards are bought at streetside vendors who register the phones in their own name (so there are hundreds of phones listed in one individuals name). At least here where I am near Shanghai.
What you don't know is that it is risky to have ANY unregistered meeting with more than 8 people. Outdoors would be even riskier. But people here know that and don't want to meet outdoors, they don't want to get caught and they know more about how to scam the system here than you can even guess. No, I won't talk about what is done (Duh) but it works and keeps them safe enough.
Like my friend who bought a Dell laptop and got a Windows 7 Ultimate DVD OEM thrown in for free? I mean he paid for that didn't he? That's not piracy is it? Oh yeah the store that sold him the laptop suggested that they had beetter provide the warrantee service rather than Dell because they were more "convenient": so very thoughtful of them!
I'm hoping to build a new rig when I get back to the US next Fall and want to make something crazy, the aesthetics of cardboard, for something like this, like a NAS server would be kind of cool, i think i like everything about it. I want to build something like a system on board laptop with a see-through case and a turbine-like cooler than spins up using a little solar booster on the turbine (piss-poor description, i'm counting on my EE brother to help on the details) to cool it. i want rad shit for once in this world.
let me ditto that. I did a 1 semester pilot study of OO.o use by the faculty study of my school in China (multiple languages. multiple use scenarios, multiple expectations of the software) and concluded that the best solution was to design a new icon set that vaguely mimicked a certain well-known companies icon set from the late nineties and just tell everyone that we were using "Office 3.2" a new product designed for schools. The IT department, however, screamed that they did not have the help desk to help people through the upgrade so we are still using 2003 crapware.
Open Office points out that conversion of files can be the biggest problem in switch-overs, and while this is true, most of the conversion problems were happening in the pilot from stuff that had been written in earlier versions of MS Office, and then had things adapted through cut and paste in later versions until any individual document had layers of tables and graphics that didn't fit on the MS pages either and required adaptation. The difference is that everyone is ONLY able to use 2003 now: they Hate 2007 and dread 2010 and didn't even want to consider that "Linux office thing".
People, the pimple on the ass of Progress. I welcome our robot overlords!
ditto, remember that the people who built these machines probably saw their first flush toilet when they went into the factory they are working in (assuming it has flush toilets). When I was working as a consultant in Thailand on a pricy resort project the workers (Hmong tribespeople) lived in (and I mean this exactly and literally) bamboo huts and shit in their rice fields. Then went to work where they were supposed to install European model low-water flush toilets. Duh, they didn't work.
When I was in Kunming, Yunnan, china, they (the school I was working for) decided to "remodel" the building we were living in. The workers who came in lived in the buildings as they did the work. The first thing they did when they moved in was tear out the plumbing and pipes: but they left the electrical in so they could watch TV.
People here (like people there) have no idea what the little things they make actually do and how they actually work. It is magic, plain and simple. Watch a repairman here repair computer stuff, they NEVER tighten screws all the way. You quickly learn here that a tight screw is a stripped screw. So, what did you really expect, no, I knew that Apple crap was the same crap inside, I've stripped down a few Apple boxes for fun.
Sorry, but it is not the IT department. They (almost certainly ) had anti-virus (like my school) and firewalls, had security infrastructure in place and still somebody brought in some baby pictures from home on a USB drive and showed them to their co-workers and boom, there it goes. The Anti-virus got turned off, the virus hooked up a key-logger for grabbing passwords and such and a trojan for a bot-net and (like a nasty at my school in December) added in a cute little routine that cripples clamav or any other (???) plugin that arrives after the fact (i could find them once, but not remove them, a second pass showed the machine as clean when it wasn't and I had to install clamwin a second time in my USB to find it a second time.).
Who was to blame? One of the teachers or the students who had access to what is supposed to be a locked down tight system and who probably unknowingly brought in something for a class from an insecure system. This is the real world, to accept that it is not the fault of companies that produce systems that are failed by design (FBD) is ridiculous. Sure, blame the user, but that does not explain why companies need to blame their customers to escape blame for their shoddy practices.
No, I'm not in IT, but I know how hard they work and how underpaid and harassed they are by users who expect them to do wizardly things.
Ditto, I want (as I have posted previously) a Meego tablet. badly, and I want it full to the brim with FOSS goodness. that's it, over and out.
All you need to do is link this cybercheating to Middle-eastern terrorists through the essay banks in Indonesia and then tie in a Chinese hacker who acts as a middleman and we'll have all the bogeymen in one tidy package.
The fact that it is still students who care more about partying than actually doing something for their parent's money that are the actual perps in this game nomatter the source or the collaterals in the story. The saddest part is that their employers won't care either, they have the paper
Do NOT fly Russian planes, they are scary.
On boarding a friend of mine flying from Bangkok was told by the stewardess that everyone had to remove all their carry-on from the overhead bins for takeoff. WTF he thought. As the plane took off the cabin shook so badly that not only did he fear for his life, all the compartment doors flew open, anything in the overhead bins would have fallen out on passenger's heads. Slick.
Another friend traveled on a flight from Bangkok to Moscow, she was the only woman on board and the other passengers all looked (and were) badly beaten. Two weeks of Pattaya bars softened them up for the flight home. She got off in Delhi and vowed never again.
I live in a Chinese village (Suzhou) with 6.5 Million inhabitants. You probably have never heard of it because it is just a village not a real city like Beijing or Shanghai. When I lived in the US at one time I lived in a "city" of 70,000 people. The district of Suzhou I live in has 10 times as many people as that and is just a district of a village in the ex-urbs of a city (Shanghai). City-sized means nothing.
To get the proper size words in the the article needed to consider the existing cloud data center sizes and use multiples of that, maybe that would be amazing maybe not. If not then we would know that this is just a... troll?.. a way to incite fear of the dread Chinese again? Or is it really something stupendous? therefore cool?
What I mean is "watch your language", don't be sucked in by inflammatory, fear producing language that really has little meaning. For a primer on this I suggest Doris Lessing's "Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire" a Space fiction approach (Lessing's terms) to the question of language usage to affect emotions.
In class, where we have WinXP boxes that show on a projector and a 15" monitor, whenever the system crashes, locks up or takes minutes of precious class time to load I smack the screen and fuss at it. My students (Chinese university students) are so shocked by this that it has become part of my reputation as an out of control whackO.
When I point out that it is just a monitor and not the computer they are confused, so i kick the desk where the box sits which is even more frightening to them. What if it crashes!!!!????
People don't yell at their computers because they are afraid of them. The computer (gods/fairies/demons/whatever) might kill the computer if you hurt its feelings. Remember most people have absolutely no idea in the world WTF the box is, does or how it works. When the power goes out in the staff office the first move it to go to the computer and see what the power company has to say about the problem, was it a planned outage, whatever. OH! The computers are off too! Oh my, what will we do???
My other fun and amusement at work is to a) crack open the box and fiddle with stuff inside. People will literally go to the other side of the office when I open it up, so they won't be close to it when the bogey man comes out. or, b) use Knoppix on a USB drive to start up their computer when they have a problem (like a dead HDD) which also causes them to run to the other side of the office and question whether I am installing a virus in their computer. Answer, "yes, the Linux virus, it's deadly"
People, the lice of the earth, I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
Yes, and this means that Win7 is essentially free to the box buyer as well as providing the actual profit that they make because profit margins per unit are so tight because, in our consumer dominated idiocracy we insist on cheap rather than great. The bloat ware is there because YOU want it there, because YOU helped set and support the conditions that are the cause. You wanted cheap PCs, you got them,now either quit bitching about the fallout of YOUR consumer decision ("gimme, gimme, gimme, cheap, cheaper, cheapest, oh goody").
The first step to getting out of this disgusting contretemps is the maker culture: teach yourself, teach your children to DO things, Build things and stay out of the stores.
I bought my daughter to build her own PC two years ago, she still is fearless.
ditto, the sig 2
If I'm not mistaken there is a Dutch group that is searching for violations of CC and GPL licenses to try to make voluntary compliance work just by contacting the owners of the data aware and to give them a way to contact the perps.
I suggest that the poster contact the Dutch group in English to ask what to do. Damn near every single Dutch person speaks English (and French and German and Spanish or Italian or god knows what all. My Dutch wife speaks all the above and Thai and Chinese, and feels inadequate in her language skills)
I know someone (maybe most of you) is going to burn me for this but let me point out some things:
the nervous system runs through the entire body, if this kind of process is happening in the brain then it is also happening through the entire body, with attendant field resonance.
In Chinese medicine, one of the most interesting new ideas (from the viewpoint of this new research) is the idea that the acupuncture channels are channels that are built as a result of fields of energy and that, therefore, it is possible to stimulate the channels in different ways (as in strengthening a signal or reducing a signal) by using the needles and either the energy system of the acupuncturist or an auxiliary electronic device to affect the system.
Hate me (verbally only please, not really hate me) if you like, but recent western research (not questionable Chinese research) has shown that inserting acupuncture needles almost anywhere on the body has an effect, often a therapeutic effect, on the body as a whole. More research to follow to try to understand how the needles do this (doesn't appear to be a dopamine--pain--response) but the effect is quite clear.
My wife, who is certified as a TCM doctor and is working on her Masters in TCM through NanJing university school of Traditional Chinese Medicine, says that the Chinese are actually quite behind in this work. Most of the research being done in TCM, especially acupuncture, is being done in Japan or the west (Germany is way ahead of the US in TCM research).
I often see TCM lumped together with Homeopathy or Naturopathy when it has served the health needs of a civilization that was more cultured and advanced than the much of the world is today back when your (and my) ancestors were sleeping with pigs to keep warm. While I totally agree that homeopathy is bogus, confusing the use of mushrooms, herbs and roots to cure illness (it is herbal medicine which exists in an incredibly valuable system that has been built over thousands of years in China as "Zhong Yao" and to a lesser degree in the west as part of Naturopathy) with homeopathy is just confused thinking. If you think they are connected just let me fix you a little Chinese medical brew and a few sugar pills and see which has a bigger kick.
I know I'm weird but I dumped laptops in 2005 and went back to desktop. Well, i didn't NEED the portability and didn't see any reason to pay for something I was no longer using (i was doing international consulting from 94 to 2000 and needed the portability, by 2005 the form factor was an impediment). Now, i got a second hand eeepc when i needed a portable form to plug in to and use, but i haven't turned it on in 3 or 4 months because i don't need it.
What I want a tablet for is to use as a better portable device for carrying my stuff AND doing telephony both through cell and wifi. Nowadays I carry 3 USB sticks (one portable classroom, one with just portable apps and doc storage and one for crash and bleed out situations when everything else fails) and routinely lug around small portable HDDs with backup data for work and home. I want to decrease/end all that. I want Meego on a pixelqi screen with a qualcomm dual core processor (for my brother who works for QC) and a headset that is just earbuds and a clip-on controller/mic combo that is ultra small and convenient (I've got one now that has 50% of the functionality I want). With that I can dump my phone, my USB sticks (except the crash and burn on for emergencies) and reduce the portable drives to one that I move once a month for redundant backup separation storage (home to work and work to home).
That is exactly why I want a tablet and i want it NOW!!!!
I was online with my first laptop at the time and getting my first email address (at netscape.net) and actually remember the show and remember howling at it. I wasn't THAT geeky was I????
Probably should make this anonymous... face the simple facts, students in ed schools are significantly ...... more challenged by undergraduate (and graduate) content than libarts or tech students. I took a graduate class in my major offered by my advisor because he totally rocked at teaching (although being rather an unusual person overall) the subject. He suggested that I shouldn't waste my time. Asking why a graduate course would not be worth my time (just the course title would have been a major boost to my transcript) he said simply: This is a course for ed school grad students, we won't be able to cover even half the undergrad "Intro to" content.
Yeah, yeah, what i remember from the days when i NEEDED to download keygens and pirated software was that THEY were often the source of malware. Using Linux like an intelligent person means that I don't have to deal with that particular problem.
I the last five years I have bit torrented thousands, tens of thousands at least files, from PB and mononova and mininova and a dozen other bt sites. In all that time, when i wasn't downloading (as i used to) the low-hanging fruit of pirated software and its appendages, i have almost never had a clinker (malware, crapware, etc.) When i have found one it was, for example, a bt for a file that i wanted (i think it was an ebook of a textbook) that instead was a link to some fake porn (old lame porn as i recall although it was malware and wasn't actually the porn file) file that was trying to hide a .exe file inside a .rar file. Not exactly a useful attack vector on my computer.
Yes, if you are trying to bt pirated software for windows machines and the appended keygens, etc. then you will find a world of hurt at bt sites. so what?
Yeah this is the excuse given by the retailers. By packaging Windows along with all the "free- trial software" they are able to provide the computer at a less than their manufacturing cost price. It does make some sense since the OEM version of win7 for example is really quite cheap. You have to pay extra for the OS upgrade to whatever they are calling all the different levels and then the price jumps above the cost of manufacturing, but the company still makes a slim profit because of the "value-added" malware that comes on the machine to begin with.
Really, the problem is that we need to have ultra-simple boxes with linux inside, owners manual with the full source code printed out and pentalobe screws locking it down. Make it stupid easy to use and sell it based on it's ease and simplicity of use. Forget the freedoms, forget the ability to change things, forget all the reasons you and I use linux, this is for the people who just want something that works, works cheap and works easy. We can do this, AND run linux ourselves on our own DIY boxes using gentoo or slack or fedora or whatever.
I even have a name for the linux version, lets call it Ubuntu! It can use a stupid simple mobile phone desktop with big buttons and lots of cloud storage ability with a small HDD. We'll hire a design guru to design the boxes so they look ultra hip and pay gobs of cash for the roll-out of the product. We will rule in the end because our logo will be a peach with a bite taken out of it and the TS Eliot line: "Do I Dare disturb the universe"
Oh, call the patent office%
An old friend of mine had lived in Israel for 25 years and then returned to the US. He spent the first two years screaming at the TV news and complaining to anyone around him that "you just don't understand, it's not anything like that!"
He was right. Living in Asia and reading news in the west about China (where I am now) or Thailand (where I lived for almost ten years) I am constantly wanting to shake people. You cannot understand how ridiculous your slant on the news is to us. You see the world through your own eyes which are colored by expectations of reality that do not hold water here.
I am planning to return to the US this year and dread the process. Frankly, I realize that the US that I am returning to is nothing that I can understand. I left before 9/11. Clinton was president. Etc. I will have a lot of trouble seeing your world and expect it to take some time, months at best, before I can see "our" world again.
So, News is determined by people who do not want to challenge your existing world view, they only want to give you (dare I say it???) entertainment-like pieces of adapted information that you can fit into your existing world-view comfortably. Sadly, I understand why they do it.
"Leader of the Most Populous Country in the world"
When people who use computers make an average of $300 a month they can't afford to buy software
But Microsoft has allowed Windows software to be pirated here on purpose so that they could lock in the infrastructure:
All banking software and interfaces use windows based or focused applications (my bank requires WinXP or Vista with IE6 and to access the functionality of the website for online bill paying: firefox will not work, the certificates are trash of course and, because of the mentality that has been engendered by Gate's piracy ploy, the bank also used a virus toolkit to gain access to the registry and install their little kiddie scripts. Obviously I don't pay bills online)
All the applications that the government blesses for use here (such as Baidu, QQ, Tom/Skype, TenCent, not to mention the homebrew games here -- check out Snail Games for example-- ) are built only for Windows.
My bud Lee just bought a new Dell Inspiron laptop here last fall, the vendor GAVE him an OEM disk of Win7 Ultimate. It is NOT a pirate it is a copy of the OEM disk made with permission by a small store owner. Lee ripped it and gave me an iso. it writes its own registration code and contacts the MS server to register it "legally".
Red Flag sucks, frankly. They took a very old RedHat version RHEL5 I think, and then screwed with it until it has lost all real semblance of its origins. Sort of like Apple and BSD.
This is the new strategy now, there is no way they will let the China market go over to Linux, they attack on all fronts. Office 2010? Being given away left and right. Windows Server 8? I can go to the second floor of my building and get the disk, and get free training (in Chinese of course) all provided by MS. They are making no money in China right now, but they have big plans for the future.