It has already been a number of years since a government advisory panel in South Africa produced a survey and guidelines for open-source adoption. It was previously covered on Slashdot.
Unfortunately the original link has gone stale; here is one that works. The first version of the NACI document makes for interesting reading for the lay person.
Somebody apply for a patent on the steps outlined!! That way Microsoft will prevented from following through and will be dancing for us.
nyaahh!
One should also mention...
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...the rift that grew between Jeff Hawkins and 3Com CEO Eric Benhamou, resulting in Hawkins', Dubinsky's and Colligan's leaving to found Handspring.
Hawkins' longtime wish was for Palm to be run by Palm.
His frustration mounted under the wing of US Robotics and later 3Com, when his requests for a spin-off fell on deaf ears.
Read Piloting Palm by Butter & Pogue for that account.
If you were middle aged or had a family of your own I'd take you seriously. However, if you are, say under 25yo, then I'd be inclined to take what you say with a pinch of salt.
If I was French I would be happy that my Government was looking to keep my language alive in the spirit that is French. It's not for us to complain about what they do for their citizens. It's their culture. Likewise with yours.
I work for a firm that sells electronic telecomms products. Part of the functionality that users may experience is provided by software, including user interfaces. Source code for Managment Agent upgrades is not distributed, yet customers are still willing to buy the products, and download the upgrades (for free). I don't think the customers care for the sources. They care to buy a product that does what we say it does for a price they can accept, or they look at another vendor.
Well, unless you're a refugee, you can be sure your government is working for you. Besides, it's unlikely that there's any good cricket players aboard.
I don't know. The man-eating plants of SQII, along with burning paper in the passageway to set off the sprinklers and short-circuit the robots will be something I'll always remember.
The clincher was being miniturised, and then having to turn off Vohul's air supply to kill him, before saving the galaxy from a zillion travelling salesman droids.
The last company I worked for in SA up until 1999 was busy in a co-development with Shell Renuable Resources to provide portable solar power sources, targeted at Africans with no present electricity (and I mean the guys who live in huts). While not aimed at the SA market there were a couple of pilot sites set up locally.
Basically, a tenant received the system, comprising a unit, roughly 1/4 of a cubic metre, and a mast with a solar panel (1m x 0.5m), as well as some 12V lighting. He/she also had access to a catalogue of 12V appliances--eg. radios etc. The unit consisted of a 12V lead-acid truck battery, and some software driven charging and supply management, amongst other things. While you wouldn't expect the system to provide power continuously, I remember the solar panel itself was spec'd at 30W.
Just goes to show that intitiatives are in place to solve the rural electricity problem.
In order to provide a revenue stream, tenants had to purchase prepaid tokens, allowing them to operate the system for 30days at a time.
Without going into too much detail, the token, vending and key management side of things was the mature bit, having been proven over the past 10 years in prepaid, metered mains electricity supply.
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DivX;-): MPEG-4-based movie codec, supposedly developed from a hacked Microsoft MPEG-4 implementation; the video equivalent to MP3.
Dunno, I would have thought the video equivalent to MP3 would be the MPEG (-1) video layers.
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Big Top!
Brings back memories of playing until 4 in the morning.
Those were the games you couldn't copy to the harddrive : (
Looking at the box pic, the thing was written in machine code and ran in a 64k segment, and required CGA. I remember now, it wouldn't work on Hercules monochrome, and there was no way to run Phix/ Klutz to fool the game.
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That's not how von Neuman rolls...
...And first Psystar ship clones Mac.
It has already been a number of years since a government advisory panel in South Africa produced a survey and guidelines for open-source adoption. It was previously covered on Slashdot.
Unfortunately the original link has gone stale; here is one that works. The first version of the NACI document makes for interesting reading for the lay person.
Good to see ever-increasing open thinking there!
Salani kahle.
QUICK!!!
Somebody apply for a patent on the steps outlined!! That way Microsoft will prevented from following through and will be dancing for us.
nyaahh!
Hawkins' longtime wish was for Palm to be run by Palm. His frustration mounted under the wing of US Robotics and later 3Com, when his requests for a spin-off fell on deaf ears.
Read Piloting Palm by Butter & Pogue for that account.
If you were middle aged or had a family of your own I'd take you seriously. However, if you are, say under 25yo, then I'd be inclined to take what you say with a pinch of salt.
If I was French I would be happy that my Government was looking to keep my language alive in the spirit that is French. It's not for us to complain about what they do for their citizens. It's their culture. Likewise with yours.
Fuuunnnnkkkyyyy.....
ehh, you forgot to put the the within the brackets...
Just think of the new price as 0% of the old price
/100) = $0
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0 * ($0
I'm browsing at +4 and I've yet to see a thread about how this is the precursor to DRM-enabled monitors and such.
Everybody got something better to do?
it's a slow Sunday...
...according to his page at AfricanInSpace.
Maybe when he's back he could do an interview for us.
What about embedded software for devices?
I work for a firm that sells electronic telecomms products. Part of the functionality that users may experience is provided by software, including user interfaces. Source code for Managment Agent upgrades is not distributed, yet customers are still willing to buy the products, and download the upgrades (for free). I don't think the customers care for the sources. They care to buy a product that does what we say it does for a price they can accept, or they look at another vendor.
So I would have to lower my hand.
Well, unless you're a refugee, you can be sure your government is working for you. Besides, it's unlikely that there's any good cricket players aboard.
Moving right along...
...two guys from Andromeda!
I don't know. The man-eating plants of SQII, along with burning paper in the passageway to set off the sprinklers and short-circuit the robots will be something I'll always remember.
The clincher was being miniturised, and then having to turn off Vohul's air supply to kill him, before saving the galaxy from a zillion travelling salesman droids.
Offtopic, but interesting none the less:-
The last company I worked for in SA up until 1999 was busy in a co-development with Shell Renuable Resources to provide portable solar power sources, targeted at Africans with no present electricity (and I mean the guys who live in huts). While not aimed at the SA market there were a couple of pilot sites set up locally.
Basically, a tenant received the system, comprising a unit, roughly 1/4 of a cubic metre, and a mast with a solar panel (1m x 0.5m), as well as some 12V lighting. He/she also had access to a catalogue of 12V appliances--eg. radios etc. The unit consisted of a 12V lead-acid truck battery, and some software driven charging and supply management, amongst other things. While you wouldn't expect the system to provide power continuously, I remember the solar panel itself was spec'd at 30W.
Just goes to show that intitiatives are in place to solve the rural electricity problem.
In order to provide a revenue stream, tenants had to purchase prepaid tokens, allowing them to operate the system for 30days at a time.
Without going into too much detail, the token, vending and key management side of things was the mature bit, having been proven over the past 10 years in prepaid, metered mains electricity supply.
Dunno, I would have thought the video equivalent to MP3 would be the MPEG (-1) video layers.
: D
Big Top!
Brings back memories of playing until 4 in the morning.
Those were the games you couldn't copy to the harddrive : (
Looking at the box pic, the thing was written in machine code and ran in a 64k segment, and required CGA. I remember now, it wouldn't work on Hercules monochrome, and there was no way to run Phix/ Klutz to fool the game.
Another good one was J-Bird.