So, this is just like the Toshiba that does the same. One of my professors has been using the Toshiba for classes for several semesters. The only difference, I suppose, is that the Toshiba looks like a Toshiba and this thing looks like every other IBM laptop I've ever seen.
Even reading the article doesn't explain why this is so newsworthy, unless you've never seen a laptop with a swivel screen.
This is very old news so I'm not worried about the ramifications of releasing this knowledge, nevertheless I shall be anonymous...
1) Go to Wal-Mart 2) Walk up to the electronics check out desk or automotive counter desk and pull a plastic bag off of the rack. 3) Walk into the games section and pull out one (1) copy of Trivial Persuit 4) Place Trivial Persuit in bag. 5) Walk out of store. 5b) If woman is checking receipts, walk out with larger crowd of people and let them get snagged as you walk by. Ignore anyone saying "Sir.. sir.." 6) Get struck by lightning. Wal-Mart is on God's side, so you must assume that the converse it true.
The application that provides Linux users with the ability to run graphical user interfaces and that uses the X11 standard is Xorg-X11, a fork of the XFree86 project. XFree86 has decided to use a license that might not be compatible with the GPL license; the use of Xorg is therefore recommended. The official Portage tree does not provide an XFree86 package anymore.
I hate the elitists who seek to tear down instead of build!
Militaries and religions have been doing both in succession for thousands of years to great effect. Tear down and rebuild is how any conversion works. Otherwise you're talking about including a person's original ideas in the new theory.
If this new discovery says something truly controvertial to our favorite Middle-Eastern religions do you really think they would just build it on into their beliefs? That's why sermons about undaunting faith and the "armor of God" are so important -- anything to keep the system in stasis.
Oh, please keep those jokes and metaphors going so that maybe people will begin to legitimately care rather than just laugh it off. "If Windows were a car..." jokes should be on billboards.
I'm just curious, is this article here because of the hardcore geekiness of requesting money in $2 bills, or is it on here because it's a chance to bash Best Buy?
Remove the telecoms. Remove the cable companies. Roll out the BPL.
Seriously, the power grid is already universal and can easily make telephone and cable redundant. Imagine getting IPTV and VoIP through the power companies.
Also, every home should be getting the standard 110VAC wall jacks as well as 12V or 24V jacks. Imagine the savings when you can replace several dozen wall-warts as well as computer power supplies with a single home-wide AC->DC converter.
The only down side to all this is that it puts many markets completely out of business. Only a developing country could do this at the moment.
I think it's worth mentioning that 2012 is also the year the gods decide whether or not humanity should live another 13 394-year cycles (5122 years). That's at least according to the Maya and Aztec.
My name is Yon Yonson, I work in Wisconsin, I work in a lumbermill there. The people I meet when I walk down the street, They say,
"What's your name?" And I say,
"My name is Yon Yonsin, I work in Wisconsin..."
I have a PDA that I used to read books on, and then an iPod that I used to read books on. Then I discovered book folds.
Print that sucker out. Our campus labs use Word which does two things I've never figured out how to replace on Linux: 1) Text editing on linux (as far as I can tell) only does things line by line. In Word I can treat the whole document as one big string which makes converting a Project Gutenburg text to a sensibly formatted document involve 3 find&replace commands. (newline to |, || to newline, | to space) 2) Book fold printing. I put the text at a <8pt font (i can read at 4pt), give it 0.2" margins, and set the page as a book fold of 12 pages. It prints out double sided and I simple fold every three pages together to create a physical book. The latest Harry Potter book cost me 35 pages which folded down into a neat little booklet I can fit in my interior coat pocket.
I think the reference is to fact that the government is going into the budget computer business. Remember how before the wall came down East Germany was about to release a car by the people and for the people? It didn't work out for them and they spent several years with nothing to show before the wall went away.
This is like that with computers. The government is in charge of the creation of the computer and the pricing of the internet service "despite" the costs to the manufacturer and telephone companies. It's like a preemption of supply and demand rules. They're trying to get the whole countries foot through the technological door since that tends to be good for business. Such government action is based on what we'd call "leftist ideology" for better or worse.
The federal government of the United States of America does not see an economic gain in making budget computers available for the middle class of this country. The only thing (to my knownledge) that the US government will make available is cheese.
The Republica Federativa do Brasil for some strange reason doesn't find it necessary to the structure of its country to provide cheese to its people. It does however perceive economic benefits for the country at large by administering the creation and distribution of budget computers at minimal cost and harm to its represented peoples.
There's nothing being banned here. It's true that this gives Linux major acceptance headway in that country. But it's also true that buying a foreign product in such volumes by default will send billions of dollars out of the country. The perceived benefits of using the Microsoft operating system just arent great enough to offset this fear. You can still buy Windows if you want, but that's a financial risk the government is relegating to each person.
Slashdot Mirror
We're apparently recreating Slashdot in the form of a Google-fanclub.
So, this is just like the Toshiba that does the same. One of my professors has been using the Toshiba for classes for several semesters. The only difference, I suppose, is that the Toshiba looks like a Toshiba and this thing looks like every other IBM laptop I've ever seen.
Even reading the article doesn't explain why this is so newsworthy, unless you've never seen a laptop with a swivel screen.
Exactly. The big guys always have to take cues from the smaller ones because they simply can't afford to do anything that might be risky.
Political parties do the same thing.
Does that mean Sony is finally going to start shipping an all-weather slipcover for the PSP?
Who else is feeling bad for the old people in Korea?
Oh. Oops.
I'm sure every Wal-Mart in the country is now looking into where a copy of Trivial Persuit was stolen in the last couple decades. Not.
Plus there's the whole thing where they prove I took it since it's still at the place I left it that day so long ago.
I wasn't "sticking it to the man." No one's wringing their hands over it. St. Arbirix's name is relatively unsullied by the mistake.
Anyone who followed the link to my Clemson site should know, I've said dumber things in the public forum.
This is very old news so I'm not worried about the ramifications of releasing this knowledge, nevertheless I shall be anonymous...
1) Go to Wal-Mart
2) Walk up to the electronics check out desk or automotive counter desk and pull a plastic bag off of the rack.
3) Walk into the games section and pull out one (1) copy of Trivial Persuit
4) Place Trivial Persuit in bag.
5) Walk out of store.
5b) If woman is checking receipts, walk out with larger crowd of people and let them get snagged as you walk by. Ignore anyone saying "Sir.. sir.."
6) Get struck by lightning. Wal-Mart is on God's side, so you must assume that the converse it true.
They're trying to win us back.
--Gentoo user
The application that provides Linux users with the ability to run graphical user interfaces and that uses the X11 standard is Xorg-X11, a fork of the XFree86 project. XFree86 has decided to use a license that might not be compatible with the GPL license; the use of Xorg is therefore recommended. The official Portage tree does not provide an XFree86 package anymore.
I hate the elitists who seek to tear down instead of build!
Militaries and religions have been doing both in succession for thousands of years to great effect. Tear down and rebuild is how any conversion works. Otherwise you're talking about including a person's original ideas in the new theory.
If this new discovery says something truly controvertial to our favorite Middle-Eastern religions do you really think they would just build it on into their beliefs? That's why sermons about undaunting faith and the "armor of God" are so important -- anything to keep the system in stasis.
How about the near daily Google updates? Linux has almost become old news.
Wtf? Where are all the Litestep comments?
Since apparently no one's heard of or uses it, Litestep is like fluxbox on Windows and precludes the need for explorer.exe to be running.
Here's an installer.
Here's a module site.
Here and here are some themes for it.
Seriously people. If only the lightweight Linux desktop environments were half as pretty as Litestep.
Using a car as an example (I hate doing this)
Oh, please keep those jokes and metaphors going so that maybe people will begin to legitimately care rather than just laugh it off.
"If Windows were a car..." jokes should be on billboards.
Oblig.
"Your Rights Online" eh?
I'm just curious, is this article here because of the hardcore geekiness of requesting money in $2 bills, or is it on here because it's a chance to bash Best Buy?
Where did firewire go?
I use it on my laptop for everything.
I buy it on all new peripherals.
Everyone I know has it.
In short: Huh?
Remove the telecoms.
Remove the cable companies.
Roll out the BPL.
Seriously, the power grid is already universal and can easily make telephone and cable redundant. Imagine getting IPTV and VoIP through the power companies.
Also, every home should be getting the standard 110VAC wall jacks as well as 12V or 24V jacks. Imagine the savings when you can replace several dozen wall-warts as well as computer power supplies with a single home-wide AC->DC converter.
The only down side to all this is that it puts many markets completely out of business. Only a developing country could do this at the moment.
I think it's worth mentioning that 2012 is also the year the gods decide whether or not humanity should live another 13 394-year cycles (5122 years). That's at least according to the Maya and Aztec.
I guess that puts us just that much closer to authentic blue hair.
Just tell the astronauts to hold their breath when they go outside.
obligatory
My name is Yon Yonson,
I work in Wisconsin,
I work in a lumbermill there.
The people I meet
when I walk down the street,
They say,
"What's your name?"
And I say,
"My name is Yon Yonsin, I work in Wisconsin..."
-- Slaughterhouse-Five
Ahhh. That's exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a million!
I have a PDA that I used to read books on, and then an iPod that I used to read books on. Then I discovered book folds.
Print that sucker out. Our campus labs use Word which does two things I've never figured out how to replace on Linux:
1) Text editing on linux (as far as I can tell) only does things line by line. In Word I can treat the whole document as one big string which makes converting a Project Gutenburg text to a sensibly formatted document involve 3 find&replace commands. (newline to |, || to newline, | to space)
2) Book fold printing. I put the text at a <8pt font (i can read at 4pt), give it 0.2" margins, and set the page as a book fold of 12 pages. It prints out double sided and I simple fold every three pages together to create a physical book. The latest Harry Potter book cost me 35 pages which folded down into a neat little booklet I can fit in my interior coat pocket.
If there's not another option that is *much* better then the current one why bother?
EFF? W3C? IETF?
True, it's not their forte, but if any of them were willing to take it on...
I think the reference is to fact that the government is going into the budget computer business. Remember how before the wall came down East Germany was about to release a car by the people and for the people? It didn't work out for them and they spent several years with nothing to show before the wall went away.
This is like that with computers. The government is in charge of the creation of the computer and the pricing of the internet service "despite" the costs to the manufacturer and telephone companies. It's like a preemption of supply and demand rules. They're trying to get the whole countries foot through the technological door since that tends to be good for business. Such government action is based on what we'd call "leftist ideology" for better or worse.
The federal government of the United States of America does not see an economic gain in making budget computers available for the middle class of this country. The only thing (to my knownledge) that the US government will make available is cheese.
The Republica Federativa do Brasil for some strange reason doesn't find it necessary to the structure of its country to provide cheese to its people. It does however perceive economic benefits for the country at large by administering the creation and distribution of budget computers at minimal cost and harm to its represented peoples.
There's nothing being banned here. It's true that this gives Linux major acceptance headway in that country. But it's also true that buying a foreign product in such volumes by default will send billions of dollars out of the country. The perceived benefits of using the Microsoft operating system just arent great enough to offset this fear. You can still buy Windows if you want, but that's a financial risk the government is relegating to each person.
7 million * $100 hit per computer = $700 million
That's pennies to Microsoft. If only giving away Windows actually cost them anything other than perceived losses.