Stop using M$ crap, it has been shown to cause brain rot
Not knowing your age, i can't say if it is the onset of advanced age. I'm 47, I find that and I don't pay attention, at least not as much as I used to, and therefore things are harder to remember.
I get distracted because I think that I know where the conversation, lecture or whatever is going and then I find out it took a different turn somewhere and I lost it.
Once I pay attention, I find that the old grey matter is still serviceable.
If it comes free with the OS it will drive away competitors because Joe-sixpack is not going to spend any money to replace something he got for free, even if it sucks.
On the other hand, if any feature needs to be part of the OS is precisely a form of protection against malware.
Come to think of it, if MS does a bad job of protecting PCs and drives away competition on virus protection, maybe the company will finally implode and let other OSes get a greater market-share.
One needs to be aware of where the money is made. The actual phone manufacturer makes money by selling a locked version to a telecom, the telecom makes money by selling the phone and the phone service to retail clients.
If you get a free phone with a low monthly service charge and then you hack it, you could make expensive calls over IP and pay the telecom, nothing more than the monthly rent.
Thus the telecom needs the phone to be locked to make (more) money and the manufacturer has to lock the phone in order to please the telecom, who is, after all, its client.
Yes, there will be an arms race because its about controlling the money making process.
The idea is very good. Even not performing assets (i.e. unrented buildings) pay property taxes; of course, if I'm getting $3,000 a month rent from an apartment it is very likely that my property taxes will be higher than if it is a rundown hole in the wall, but even then taxes must be paid.
The problem is that the companies seeking longer copyright terms are precisely those whose assets are generating income, so adding 3 or 5 percent tax will not stop them; it will be the consumer who has to pay it through an increase in prices.
The real solution is to limit copyright terms to a reasonable,/i> amount of time; no more than 20 years from registration. Period. No extensions, no games, nothing more. If in 20 years you haven't reaped the just reward for your work, then you will never do it.
If you have reaped your reward, then twenty years is a fair amount of time./P.
One thing you must consider in Plan B (replacing the laptop) is the difficulty of getting an English
version of the OS and keyboard
While OSes are internationalized and have English versions in the same package as other Latin-alphabet
languages (Spanish, French, etc.) I'm not sure it would be true for non-Latin alphabets as would be the case
in Asia.
In another topic, considering that postal systems in many underdeveloped countries is not very efficient
you might want a plan B for your DVDs; a nice padded package might get stolen just out of curiosity and it
will certainly can be opened by postal authorities in many countries to verify its contents.
It is you guys bitching and moaning about such an evil company that doesn't want to donate anymore laptops to poor children; they are such assholes, on my God!.
While you are such a saintly man for donating one fucking laptop (you DID donate one didn't you?); you are such a saint that you are going straight to heaven, boots and all!
I'm not a bitching asshole, I know because I been there helping and not sitting all day in front of a fancy computer thinking I know it all.
I don't like this laptop concept because the more money thrown away into stupid programs the less it is available for good programs, smartass
My email address is in my profile. Any time you take a vacation into Cancn, drop me a line; out of my own pocket I will drive you to the nearest shitty hole for you to experience reality directly; not through your feel-good reality-distortion field..
Has it occurred to you that the world's poorest children need a hell of a lot more than a laptop?
In my country (Mexico) there are many, many poor children who need health-care, food, clothing and education
A laptop is not going to teach such children to read and write or simple mathematics, instead of investing money on First World priorities it should go to basic needs.
The last government of Mexico started a program called "Enciclomedia" to put computers into schools even remote ones; some companies donated computers by the ton, except of course that the these brilliant people didn't take into consideration that computers use electricity and the poorest towns have no electrical power. Absolutely true. Shame.
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Must be a BIG jar! Where do you get so much money?
Stop using M$ crap, it has been shown to cause brain rot
Not knowing your age, i can't say if it is the onset of advanced age. I'm 47, I find that
and I don't pay attention, at least not as much as I used to, and therefore things are
harder to remember.
I get distracted because I think that I know where the conversation, lecture or whatever is
going and then I find out it took a different turn somewhere and I lost it.
Once I pay attention, I find that the old grey matter is still serviceable.
In every other job the time it takes to park the delivery van, stow tools or whatever, it is working time; why shouldn't it be for computers?
If it takes as much as 15 minutes to log in/out, then there is some serious problem with your computer, unless of course your company is using SAP :->
If it is part of your job to sign in and out of the network, then it is working.
I'd love to read what the courts say about it.
If it comes free with the OS it will drive away competitors because Joe-sixpack is
not going to spend any money to replace something he got for free, even if it sucks.
On the other hand, if any feature needs to be part of the OS is precisely a form of
protection against malware.
Come to think of it, if MS does a bad job of protecting PCs and drives away
competition on virus protection, maybe the company will finally implode and let other OSes
get a greater market-share.
One needs to be aware of where the money is made. The actual phone manufacturer makes money by selling a locked version to a telecom, the telecom makes money by selling the phone and the phone service to retail clients.
If you get a free phone with a low monthly service charge and then you hack it, you could make expensive calls over IP and pay the telecom, nothing more than the monthly rent.
Thus the telecom needs the phone to be locked to make (more) money and the manufacturer has to lock the phone in order to please the telecom, who is, after all, its client.
Yes, there will be an arms race because its about controlling the money making process.
Manhattan
I hear real estate is really cheap there nowadays
Plus we would get rid of bear or bull markets, it would Mammoth or Sabertooth Tiger markets:-)
What?
You are in a vacuum, at least if you are a starship, you should be
No kidding!
Last time I was in the States no one would sell me a meter of cord and could not figure out how many litters of gas to put in my car!
Now is the perfect time to convert to the decimal system!
National debt goes from $10.2 trillion to only $10.2 billion (10^6) without paying a single cent of it!
Kids taking an introductory computer course generally are not reading slashdot...
That is why we are nerds, we like stuff that bores other people to tears...
Once you are old enough to realize this, you will function better in the world at large.
You have to taylor the content to the audience.
Not knowing what age range is your audience makes it difficult to give you concrete
advise.
Avoid the history of computers, most young people (i.e. everyone under 40!) finds
it boring and in reality it is useless.
You can use Scratch as a great tool to introduce
programming concepts without the boring theory.
In general, do not bore your audience, that's the secret.
Statistically, they are already more intelligent...
Just see how many people voted for Bush twice
The mistake is that they are charing money instead of charging
Sorry, couldn't resist!
Which will then prove malicious intent; they are government employees but still are lawyers and could risk their careers with such a move.
This kind of activity is carried in the shadows, as soon as you shine a bright light, they disappear into the bushes..
That's what mommy told you anyway. :->
The idea is very good. Even not performing assets (i.e. unrented buildings) pay property taxes; of course, if I'm getting $3,000 a month rent from an apartment it is very likely that my property taxes will be higher than if it is a rundown hole in the wall, but even then taxes must be paid.
The problem is that the companies seeking longer copyright terms are precisely those whose assets are generating income, so adding 3 or 5 percent tax will not stop them; it will be the consumer who has to pay it through an increase in prices.
The real solution is to limit copyright terms to a reasonable,/i> amount of time; no more than 20 years from registration. Period. No extensions, no games, nothing more. If in 20 years you haven't reaped the just reward for your work, then you will never do it.
If you have reaped your reward, then twenty years is a fair amount of time./P.
One thing you must consider in Plan B (replacing the laptop) is the difficulty of getting an English version of the OS and keyboard
While OSes are internationalized and have English versions in the same package as other Latin-alphabet languages (Spanish, French, etc.) I'm not sure it would be true for non-Latin alphabets as would be the case in Asia.
In another topic, considering that postal systems in many underdeveloped countries is not very efficient you might want a plan B for your DVDs; a nice padded package might get stolen just out of curiosity and it will certainly can be opened by postal authorities in many countries to verify its contents.
Good luck and have fun!
Only by teaching them to waste time AI will be become truly human...
I feel I'm beginning to understand ...
Perhaps the greatest achievement of AI would be to understand female behavior
Hey Man! Don't rush to conclusions!
with their thumbs up their buttsThey were accumulating methane to burn when their wind (hot gas) turbines weren't capable of supplying enough juice...
It is you guys bitching and moaning about such an evil company that doesn't want to donate anymore laptops to poor children; they are such assholes, on my God!.
While you are such a saintly man for donating one fucking laptop (you DID donate one didn't you?); you are such a saint that you are going straight to heaven, boots and all!
I'm not a bitching asshole, I know because I been there helping and not sitting all day in front of a fancy computer thinking I know it all.
I don't like this laptop concept because the more money thrown away into stupid programs the less it is available for good programs, smartass
My email address is in my profile. Any time you take a vacation into Cancn, drop me a line; out of my own pocket I will drive you to the nearest shitty hole for you to experience reality directly; not through your feel-good reality-distortion field..
Who do you think is going to teach the children to read smartass?
A laptop?
Think, this people are NOT in the good ol' USA, they are in little communities without roads, electricity, health centers or schools
This type of project is for affluent people to feel good about their charity, not about really helping children..
Much as I hate Bill Gates' company, I applaud his efforts to vaccinate children in poor countries, thus saving their lives...
Has it occurred to you that the world's poorest children need a hell of a lot more than a laptop?
In my country (Mexico) there are many, many poor children who need health-care, food, clothing and education
A laptop is not going to teach such children to read and write or simple mathematics, instead of investing money on First World priorities it should go to basic needs.
The last government of Mexico started a program called "Enciclomedia" to put computers into schools even remote ones; some companies donated computers by the ton, except of course that the these brilliant people didn't take into consideration that computers use electricity and the poorest towns have no electrical power. Absolutely true. Shame.
How about electricity for every child?
They also serve who stand and wait...
/. story tells precisely what the date means: the shutdown of the analog cellular network in the USA.
The next
He, he.
exactly like Microsoft is doing? I'm old enough to remember MS before they were the 800-pound gorilla, but they always had the attitude...
Amen, brother!