The fact that a lot of code is licensed GPLv2 ONLY and not v2 or later?
Including Linux... And the fact that all the Copyright holders of Linux are not reachable, and without all of them agreeing it cannot be relicensed?
GPLv3 could not be more restrictive than v2, so they lost their opportunity to include patents- restrictions... IMHO the FSF cornered itself hard with this.
Down here (Minas Gerais) it's R$ 1.50 a 2l PET bottle -- for a good, non-industrialized cachaça. Our poor guys can get so much hammered than yours in the North:-)
You have numbers to prove that the average home made meal in Brazil costs $3.00 just like here in the US?
I live here, and I travel a lot to small cities in the countryside, and I have a lot of relatives below middle-class lines (ie, living on minimum wage = US$ 70/month)
I eat my lunch everyday in a cantina with subdisized prices (I pay US$ 7/month for the privilege) and it costs US$ 4/kg of a very good meal (you can choose lots of vegetables, potatoes, rice, beans, beef, chicken, pork). As I eat normally 400g, and I take one soda can, I pay usually US$ 2 - 2.50 and the cantina normally breaks even in the end of the month, so the $2.50 is probably the cost of my lunch.
If I was to lunch in other restaurant, like the luxury ones in the mall 3 blocks away from my work, I would pay approximately $20 (taking soda, not wine) -- what you seem to pay there in the US.
As I said, the difference is not in the lower bounds, it's in the upper bounds... The most expensive dinner I had with my wife in our 6th anniversary costed me US$ 100. In the best restaurant in town -- I live in the third largest town in Brasil. When I was in St. Martin (French Caribbean) a similar meal for two costed me US$ 300. I'm sure I can spend more in some NYC restaurant.
For $.33, OTOH, you can only buy here in Brasil the same dogfood you can buy in the USofA. The difference is a largest part of our population effectively eats it, because they have no choice
I work for an State Legislature in the 3rd largest (economically) State of Brasil, Minas Gerais. We are switching (OpenOffice.org first, then Firefox...), slowly, but we are.
(Don't worry) Discovering that the Brazilian Bombshell is Portuguese, he is heading for Portugal. Please Steve, bring me some pastéis de nata if you pass by...:-)
Everyone I know... no exceptions... thinks we do have a badly-managed country. Everyone I know knows we have serious education, wealth distribution. Everyone I know knows without a single trace of doubt that to reach the highest posts of our governments one must do one compromise too many... And by my experieace, this is so in any country of the world.
Now, you were not criticizing my country in your post, you were babbling. So, I'll take your post apart:
All of the media (with Veja magazine as the sole exception) and the academia is terribly biased to the left, even more than in the USA, and we have no big right-wing celebrity like Rush Limbaugh to keep some balance.
This is hard:
1. All of the media lefitist? All of the media... that matters in Brasil... is Rede Globo, that is extremely rightwing. RedeGlobo did not let Lula/PT win the elections when he was/they were the "red" Lula/PT... instead they promoted Collor and things went down south.
2. The academia? The academia has being doing nothing since the 1964 coup, when the real leftists were imprisoned or dead. And since then, we only had "opportunists" that are not real leftists, but try to fill in the void.
3. Rush Limbaugh? Give me a break.
Most journalists are soviet era nostalgics.
Please name one journalist that is a soviet era nostalgic, quoting something he said. There isn't none.
About every politician here is for the "social", and it's really hard to find one who defends capitalism and free trade.
Only in their pre-election speeches. Senator Heloisa Helena is one of the few Socialist die-hards, and they ran her off the PT, so she can't do a lot of damage in the extremely-right-wing government we do have now.
Our taxes are insanely high, but no one has the balls to suggest a radical tax cut like what GWB did in the USA.
Brasil cannot maintain the country with the current income. At least, not while paying the huge interests it pays nowadays for its debt. Have you taken one of our interstate roads? They suck. Only few states (SP for instance) can maintain their infrastructure properly. If you drop the taxes, how will you pay for roads, schools, etc?
You must understand: we are not the US with their endless resources. And even USofA's economy is suffering with the tax cut...
World Social Forum? A disgusting bunch of hemp-smoking teenage commie fucktards. They can't bring any solution, because the shit they have in their heads is the cause of these problems.
Come on, and you say people can't take criticism? This is not criticism, it's (a) libel and (b) bullshit. There is a lot of serious people taking part of the Forum, worried about the problems I mentioned thoughout this post, and trying to propose solutions for them... medicine that does not kill the patient, if possible.
But you? You are just screaming "tax cuts!", what puts you in the top of the food chain down here in Brasil -- only upper-middle-class-and-above people think about tax cuts: lower-middle-class-and-below people scream "more schools!", "housing!" and "please, food!"
If you want to do something useful: donate your time or your money for any project with social benefits. Even working for Free Software projects is beneficial. And you don't need to stop watching Fox News -- just stop believing in them.
Even if our President was at some point a professed Marxist, Brasil does have a strong Congress, the current economic policy is absolutely neo-liberalist with a very unregulated marked, combined with emergency social plans like FomeZero.
In the 80s, Brazil went the route of not respecting any outside IP rights for software or hardware.
As I recall (I was in college in the late 80s), what we had was a law prohibiting the importing of cars and computing goods, not a law obliterating copyrights and patents...
FYI, there is a considerable number of people (more than 10 million) under the line of "absolute poverty" in Brasil. They live in the Northern and Northeastern regions, and they starve to death (in the case of Northeastern people, normally in drought seasons, which occur in a 14 year cycle and lasts for 3 years).
Yeah. You can prepare a meal here for US$.33; and it will be as bad as a similarly priced meal is outside the metro areas in the US. Don't be silly.
In the bottom line, meal prices are the same all over... the difference is in the top line. To me, US$ 15 (R$ 40) buys a luxury lunch, sans wine. Now, the *average* meal in BR, even home-prepared, costs US$ 3... as I suppose it can cost in the US.
in the System control panel, you can disable any hardware individually -- forever. The case is that it seems the OP does not know how to do it. This is not a hardware problem, is a support issue:-)
well: adverb, ie, the kind of word that modifies an adjective or a verb. In casu, the verb is "to work": Something works well. Spanish: "bien"; in casu, "algo funciona bien".
good: adjective, ie, the kind of word that modifies a noun. E.g.: She is a good friend. Spanish: "buen", "bueno", "buena"; "ella es una buena amiga".
someone who has the means to do it and reads/. is always welcome to contact the guys and host their website, hence closing this discussion once and for good.
You can quote the entire text of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in your book -- if you quote it one paragraph at a time and suceed each "original book" paragraph with three to five paragraphs of comments, criticism and explanations about said paragraph.
It may even not be the better interface for some things, but it *is* the better way to deploy the things. It is specially better if you have to deploy thousands of copies.
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The fact that a lot of code is licensed GPLv2 ONLY and not v2 or later?
Including Linux... And the fact that all the Copyright holders of Linux are not reachable, and without all of them agreeing it cannot be relicensed?
GPLv3 could not be more restrictive than v2, so they lost their opportunity to include patents- restrictions... IMHO the FSF cornered itself hard with this.
I also watched the entire series (what a finale... I hope we'll get another season...), thanks to my Brit friends and .torrent... :-)
His e-mail is public, but he won't answer you unless you have something interesting to say.
Yeah, that should do.
Down here (Minas Gerais) it's R$ 1.50 a 2l PET bottle -- for a good, non-industrialized cachaça. Our poor guys can get so much hammered than yours in the North :-)
US$ 1 = R$ 2.6
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Minimum wage = R$ 240
People who earn minimum wage here do NOT eat decently.
Cheaper prices, worse quality products, in my city (Belo Horizonte):
1kg chicken meat = R$ 2
1kg beef = R$ 7
1kg potatoes = R$ 1.5
1kg rice (our equivalent to potatoes in our daily food) = R$ 1
1l milk = R$
So you can do the math yourself.
I live here, and I travel a lot to small cities in the countryside, and I have a lot of relatives below middle-class lines (ie, living on minimum wage = US$ 70/month)
I eat my lunch everyday in a cantina with subdisized prices (I pay US$ 7/month for the privilege) and it costs US$ 4/kg of a very good meal (you can choose lots of vegetables, potatoes, rice, beans, beef, chicken, pork). As I eat normally 400g, and I take one soda can, I pay usually US$ 2 - 2.50 and the cantina normally breaks even in the end of the month, so the $2.50 is probably the cost of my lunch.
If I was to lunch in other restaurant, like the luxury ones in the mall 3 blocks away from my work, I would pay approximately $20 (taking soda, not wine) -- what you seem to pay there in the US.
As I said, the difference is not in the lower bounds, it's in the upper bounds... The most expensive dinner I had with my wife in our 6th anniversary costed me US$ 100. In the best restaurant in town -- I live in the third largest town in Brasil. When I was in St. Martin (French Caribbean) a similar meal for two costed me US$ 300. I'm sure I can spend more in some NYC restaurant.
For $.33, OTOH, you can only buy here in Brasil the same dogfood you can buy in the USofA. The difference is a largest part of our population effectively eats it, because they have no choice
So, IOW, yes, you are being silly.
I work for an State Legislature in the 3rd largest (economically) State of Brasil, Minas Gerais. We are switching (OpenOffice.org first, then Firefox...), slowly, but we are.
(Don't worry) Discovering that the Brazilian Bombshell is Portuguese, he is heading for Portugal. Please Steve, bring me some pastéis de nata if you pass by... :-)
Now, you were not criticizing my country in your post, you were babbling. So, I'll take your post apart:
This is hard:
1. All of the media lefitist? All of the media
2. The academia? The academia has being doing nothing since the 1964 coup, when the real leftists were imprisoned or dead. And since then, we only had "opportunists" that are not real leftists, but try to fill in the void.
3. Rush Limbaugh? Give me a break.
Please name one journalist that is a soviet era nostalgic, quoting something he said. There isn't none.
Only in their pre-election speeches. Senator Heloisa Helena is one of the few Socialist die-hards, and they ran her off the PT, so she can't do a lot of damage in the extremely-right-wing government we do have now.
Brasil cannot maintain the country with the current income. At least, not while paying the huge interests it pays nowadays for its debt. Have you taken one of our interstate roads? They suck. Only few states (SP for instance) can maintain their infrastructure properly. If you drop the taxes, how will you pay for roads, schools, etc?
You must understand: we are not the US with their endless resources. And even USofA's economy is suffering with the tax cut...
Come on, and you say people can't take criticism? This is not criticism, it's (a) libel and (b) bullshit. There is a lot of serious people taking part of the Forum, worried about the problems I mentioned thoughout this post, and trying to propose solutions for them
But you? You are just screaming "tax cuts!", what puts you in the top of the food chain down here in Brasil -- only upper-middle-class-and-above people think about tax cuts: lower-middle-class-and-below people scream "more schools!", "housing!" and "please, food!"
If you want to do something useful: donate your time or your money for any project with social benefits. Even working for Free Software projects is beneficial. And you don't need to stop watching Fox News -- just stop believing in them.
Even if our President was at some point a professed Marxist, Brasil does have a strong Congress, the current economic policy is absolutely neo-liberalist with a very unregulated marked, combined with emergency social plans like FomeZero.
In the 80s, Brazil went the route of not respecting any outside IP rights for software or hardware.
As I recall (I was in college in the late 80s), what we had was a law prohibiting the importing of cars and computing goods, not a law obliterating copyrights and patents...
Yeah.
FYI, there is a considerable number of people (more than 10 million) under the line of "absolute poverty" in Brasil. They live in the Northern and Northeastern regions, and they starve to death (in the case of Northeastern people, normally in drought seasons, which occur in a 14 year cycle and lasts for 3 years).
Yeah. You can prepare a meal here for US$ .33; and it will be as bad as a similarly priced meal is outside the metro areas in the US. Don't be silly.
In the bottom line, meal prices are the same all over... the difference is in the top line. To me, US$ 15 (R$ 40) buys a luxury lunch, sans wine. Now, the *average* meal in BR, even home-prepared, costs US$ 3... as I suppose it can cost in the US.
in the System control panel, you can disable any hardware individually -- forever. :-)
The case is that it seems the OP does not know how to do it. This is not a hardware problem, is a support issue
You just (re-?)invented TeX.
Why would an external link be unpractical?
You can prove that a non-trivial program has an error, but you can't prove that it has not (Dijkstra?)
well: adverb, ie, the kind of word that modifies an adjective or a verb. In casu, the verb is "to work": Something works well. Spanish: "bien"; in casu, "algo funciona bien".
good: adjective, ie, the kind of word that modifies a noun. E.g.: She is a good friend. Spanish: "buen", "bueno", "buena"; "ella es una buena amiga".
Ok?
Not really a joke
someone who has the means to do it and reads /. is always welcome to contact the guys and host their website, hence closing this discussion once and for good.
But this is the only way to tell the companies: fix this or the whole world will know how to exploit it.
French people will forget the French language pretty quick living in Québec... :-)
You can quote the entire text of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in your book -- if you quote it one paragraph at a time and suceed each "original book" paragraph with three to five paragraphs of comments, criticism and explanations about said paragraph.
I have some case law stashed somewhere in here.
It may even not be the better interface for some things, but it *is* the better way to deploy the things. It is specially better if you have to deploy thousands of copies.