You are so wrong at so many levels.... I sincerily hope that you might never find how wrong you are.
What you describe is the ideal society based in merit and where everyone gets a chance. The reality is completely different. The reality will show you that some people are more equal than others. That sometimes it is better to "sell" your achievements than actually work to achieve something.
I believe you are misusing the concept of Backup. When you backup something, you are not supposed to change it. I you do, then it will be another version and another file. Otherwise you won't be able to access a past version and that might be the version you need.
I you want a remote storage, then go with some USB disk or a more advanced data storage equipment.
You have a problem withe someone, you pick you the weapon - "ZAP!" - Big space between you and bully. Then you could go away feeling proud of your space weapon.
Perhaps I've been living too long on a cynic world...
But defining what is "Significant bug" will be extremely important, since this is not an unbiased concept, who will decide what is significant or not? Certainly it will not be who reports the bug, but it shouldn't be the one that pays the bill either.
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I wouldn't mind geting a boat and a car in the same package, but... The wheels on that thing don't promisse much off-road traction, and I don't know many seas, lagoons, whatever with an ramp into it.
So, this thing could could function perfecly if used in the city, but if you put it in the open country, with all the mud and rocks, I believe it would fail miserably.
I've been working on a project to implement a marketing tools based on wireless platform, and it will never behave as computer spam. For one simple reason, the company has to pay for each message sent. So, when one company has to pay for the service they will not waste money to bother people that don't want the information.
At this moment one of the requests from the companies is that the service must be subscribed, and not imposed on the users.
Training an algorithm to react in a fast changing environment is much harder and realistic.
If we can put robots to work as a team in an hostile environment (such as a soccer game), we could also have autonomous robots working on mars and reacting in realtime to their surrondings.
So they are only doing this copy protection mechanism to the people that don't realy want to make ilegal copy of the music.
Because, as they admit, a realy commited burglar can retrieve it with a small extra effort.
Isn't it logical? They harass us with this shit, and it won't help the pirates to copy the cds!
Even if Psion falls in disgrace, Epoch must prevail.
Symbian is pushing harder and harder into the mobile phones market, and now I'm waiting for a phone with all the functionalities of a psion.
On the other hand we could also use a Psion with an incorporated mobile phone...
Nevertheless I'll never forget the day when Windows CE lost for Epoch, has the biggest mobile phone manufacters had chosen it to be the OS for their devices. I rememember celebrating has the day MS lost it's charm, and the biggest bill gates flop.
Poor doesn't mean stupidity, illiteracy, or even delinquency...
Unfortunaly, people living in poor conditions doesn't have the pacience to learn, or have other things in mind than learn new skills in computers.
Now, if you don't know this is because you realy don't know some poor people. Next time you pass a homeless, ask him if he wants a computer:)
I agree that computer literacy should be given to everyone, that it should be a goal for every country to have a high technological knowledge. What I don't agree is when some get sacrified for the sake of it...
The image I have of Brazil is from your own countrymen, they do like their coutry but "hate the politians". Brazil is not the only one that sufers from this plague, Portugal is also suffering from lack of good leadership.
Gosh, if you look right, the world is lacking leadership. period.
The US (sorry , my not so humble opinion) is proving once again that total power is something to dread.
You say that a simple computer can change many peoples lives, I agree. It changed mine. What I say is that it doesn't change the life of those that realy need help.
Your argument settles in urban population, middle class to be more precise. I look a little bit bitter because my argument is based after looking into the rural areas and the poor classes.
By the way, I don't have any problems, I'm guessing that you don't have too, the people with problems are the ones who are fighting for a piece of land, or for the wallets of the tourists.
Sorry, I didn't meant to make any offence.
The last article I've read about the rural areas from brazil were a little bleake. Most of it gave focus to the land less and their problems. They didn't have much of a literacy rate...
And I also doubt about the literacy rate of the favelas....
You know, most of the time the small percentage makes de diference... Although, I would question your data... making a census on a country as big as yours must be hard.
Ever tried to get a job saying "I can't read, can't write, but can count as long I've got my fingers"?
It does cost, if it's not much it's because there isn't a big budget and there is no money to buy the computers...
The problem as I see it is that the poor wil think something as "One more thing for the rich guys, no one thinks about us!", and you know? It realy sounds that way. This doesn't solve the problems in the favelas, or in the rural parts of your country.
I think you should solve the problems in the favelas first, and then try to make them aware of the internet world.
This is an escape for most of us, but to them there is little escape from their real problems. The crimes won't go away, the jobs will not appear in the internet, and food will not come from computer...
Some years ago I've seen a soap from Globo, where a politic gave free house appliances to the poorest. Now it should be a great idea, but he forgot to give them electricity first...
It's obvious a joke, but perhaps your ministry didn't see that episode:)
Well, I agree with you when you say that a computer is a great tool to learn.
It's in the Internet the role to break all frontiers and transform the common stupid patriot to an inteligent human being, one which is concerned more with the wellfare of the world than of is idea of a country.
But there is one thing that I don't agree, you will not have much success preaching the ways of the new technology to people that don't have enough basic resources, such as food, security, and a place to live.
This where I disagree with this type of goverment measures... They should focus on more basic needs. Failling that will only bring violence from the ones that most deserve atention.
Do you realy think that the street kids from Rio de Janeiro will ever care about this?
Even it there are computers in the schools? Do they attend to school?
And the people in the north east? Will they have any desire to participate?
You must know better than me, my ideia of brazilian reality comes in second hand...
I don't know if this will be considered off-topic, since the discussion is locked on extra keyboards for palms,but... Hell, it was the device that changed my life so it deserves a litle karma:)
The Psion keyboard is one of the best I've tried, there isn't one single Wince , or PalmOS, machine that compares to it.
I first thought that the keys would be too small, and I wouldn't be able to type fast, but after the first week I typed almost as fast as in a full size keyboard.
Then, I find a device withou a keyboard too troblesome to use, you have to learn a new alfabeth and write with enough care. My handwrite is too screwed to be understood by any OCR, so an Palm device without a keyboard is simple unthinkable for me.
Comparing my Psion S5 with an full featered Laptop, is not even a challenge, the 30 hours autonmy is the thing I like most, right after the keyboard.:)
In Portugal when we get our ID card, they take our fingerprints, so there is national fingerprint database.
Unfortunaly, I don't think it's computerized, so the benefits from it are next to none. Only criminals get into the police files, and those are in digital form.
I remember that the US (and the UK ) do not have an ID card, so when you are asked to identify yourself you end up showing your drivers licence... That's nonsense...
What are you afraid off?
A World DNA database would help a lot in police investigations... And would allow lots of evil experiments to be done... Gee, are there any bones without a catch?
Funny, I always viewed the Black Holes as the ultimate destroyers of the universe, now they seem to encourage the birth of stars!
Amazing, it's like Shiva being the destroyer and Brahma de creator, all the while they are the same being.
I guess that balances the evil with good, so their Karma is also kept balanced, who would guess that even Black Holes, and Gods would worry them self's with such a thing;)
You mean that spamers are wining the war, for now...
But more can be done, the AI ramifications are clear, text interpretation may have a big job here.
I don't see Spam as a problem, just a big incentive for certain technologies that , until now, didn't have a commercial value.
Artificial intelligence, and specially the field of text interpretation will have a field day working against spamers.
I know, not everything worth pursuing should be commercial, but by our misfortune it's the rules of the world we're living in.
As SPAM gets more and more bandwidth we should get more effective filters.
I guess that in a while we will have a war between spamers and filter designers, the same way we have a war of Cryptanalysts and cryptographers, each trying to evade the scrutiny of the other...
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You are so wrong at so many levels.... I sincerily hope that you might never find how wrong you are.
What you describe is the ideal society based in merit and where everyone gets a chance.
The reality is completely different. The reality will show you that some people are more equal than others. That sometimes it is better to "sell" your achievements than actually work to achieve something.
I believe you are misusing the concept of Backup.
When you backup something, you are not supposed to change it. I you do, then it will be another version and another file. Otherwise you won't be able to access a past version and that might be the version you need.
I you want a remote storage, then go with some USB disk or a more advanced data storage equipment.
You have a problem withe someone, you pick you the weapon - "ZAP!" - Big space between you and bully.
Then you could go away feeling proud of your space weapon.
Perhaps I've been living too long on a cynic world...
But defining what is "Significant bug" will be extremely important, since this is not an unbiased concept, who will decide what is significant or not? Certainly it will not be who reports the bug, but it shouldn't be the one that pays the bill either.
I wouldn't mind geting a boat and a car in the same package, but... The wheels on that thing don't promisse much off-road traction, and I don't know many seas, lagoons, whatever with an ramp into it.
So, this thing could could function perfecly if used in the city, but if you put it in the open country, with all the mud and rocks, I believe it would fail miserably.
Sorry for being cynical, but...
Why should I even care for 3 Mbit cable modems if sometimes my provider can even sustain a 500k connection?
3Mb would imply a complete restructure on most cable providers and I doubt that they would invest that kind of money.
I've been working on a project to implement a marketing tools based on wireless platform, and it will never behave as computer spam. For one simple reason, the company has to pay for each message sent.
So, when one company has to pay for the service they will not waste money to bother people that don't want the information.
At this moment one of the requests from the companies is that the service must be subscribed, and not imposed on the users.
Now imagine this... A Supercomputer with a superinteligence ... set to conquer the world.
:)
And after a while theres a blip and he vanishes. You then realise that he was Windows based.
The world rejoices and present eternal thanks to Bill Gates for it's wonderfull OS that helped to save the world...
What a nightmare...
Jugsaws are ok, but they are static.
Training an algorithm to react in a fast changing environment is much harder and realistic.
If we can put robots to work as a team in an hostile environment (such as a soccer game), we could also have autonomous robots working on mars and reacting in realtime to their surrondings.
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So they are only doing this copy protection mechanism to the people that don't realy want to make ilegal copy of the music.
Because, as they admit, a realy commited burglar can retrieve it with a small extra effort.
Isn't it logical? They harass us with this shit, and it won't help the pirates to copy the cds!
Yes... the world is a logical thing!
:-)
Even if Psion falls in disgrace, Epoch must prevail.
Symbian is pushing harder and harder into the mobile phones market, and now I'm waiting for a phone with all the functionalities of a psion.
On the other hand we could also use a Psion with an incorporated mobile phone...
Nevertheless I'll never forget the day when Windows CE lost for Epoch, has the biggest mobile phone manufacters had chosen it to be the OS for their devices. I rememember celebrating has the day MS lost it's charm, and the biggest bill gates flop.
You're right.
:)
Poor doesn't mean stupidity, illiteracy, or even delinquency...
Unfortunaly, people living in poor conditions doesn't have the pacience to learn, or have other things in mind than learn new skills in computers.
Now, if you don't know this is because you realy don't know some poor people. Next time you pass a homeless, ask him if he wants a computer
I agree that computer literacy should be given to everyone, that it should be a goal for every country to have a high technological knowledge. What I don't agree is when some get sacrified for the sake of it...
The image I have of Brazil is from your own countrymen, they do like their coutry but "hate the politians". Brazil is not the only one that sufers from this plague, Portugal is also suffering from lack of good leadership.
Gosh, if you look right, the world is lacking leadership. period.
The US (sorry , my not so humble opinion) is proving once again that total power is something to dread.
You say that a simple computer can change many peoples lives, I agree. It changed mine. What I say is that it doesn't change the life of those that realy need help.
Your argument settles in urban population, middle class to be more precise. I look a little bit bitter because my argument is based after looking into the rural areas and the poor classes.
By the way, I don't have any problems, I'm guessing that you don't have too, the people with problems are the ones who are fighting for a piece of land, or for the wallets of the tourists.
Sorry, I didn't meant to make any offence.
The last article I've read about the rural areas from brazil were a little bleake. Most of it gave focus to the land less and their problems. They didn't have much of a literacy rate...
And I also doubt about the literacy rate of the favelas....
You know, most of the time the small percentage makes de diference... Although, I would question your data... making a census on a country as big as yours must be hard.
and by the way, I'me portuguese. not american.
Ever tried to get a job saying "I can't read, can't write, but can count as long I've got my fingers"?
It does cost, if it's not much it's because there isn't a big budget and there is no money to buy the computers...
The problem as I see it is that the poor wil think something as "One more thing for the rich guys, no one thinks about us!", and you know? It realy sounds that way. This doesn't solve the problems in the favelas, or in the rural parts of your country.
I think you should solve the problems in the favelas first, and then try to make them aware of the internet world.
:)
This is an escape for most of us, but to them there is little escape from their real problems. The crimes won't go away, the jobs will not appear in the internet, and food will not come from computer...
Some years ago I've seen a soap from Globo, where a politic gave free house appliances to the poorest. Now it should be a great idea, but he forgot to give them electricity first...
It's obvious a joke, but perhaps your ministry didn't see that episode
Well, I agree with you when you say that a computer is a great tool to learn.
It's in the Internet the role to break all frontiers and transform the common stupid patriot to an inteligent human being, one which is concerned more with the wellfare of the world than of is idea of a country.
But there is one thing that I don't agree, you will not have much success preaching the ways of the new technology to people that don't have enough basic resources, such as food, security, and a place to live.
This where I disagree with this type of goverment measures... They should focus on more basic needs. Failling that will only bring violence from the ones that most deserve atention.
Do you realy think that the street kids from Rio de Janeiro will ever care about this?
Even it there are computers in the schools? Do they attend to school?
And the people in the north east? Will they have any desire to participate?
You must know better than me, my ideia of brazilian reality comes in second hand...
Well,
This is one of the Great Ideas from the Brazilian goverment...
So we would think, but the real poor people in brazil don't even have Electricity, much more phone lines and money to buy a computer...
This is one more measure to let the rich get cheap computers... In brazil the middle class is quite small...
They should first take the kids from the streets and put them in proper homes and then think about giving them access to internet.
After that they should think about the ecological problems with amazonia...
They have so many problems and what their leads think? No wonder...
I don't know if this will be considered off-topic, since the discussion is locked on extra keyboards for palms,but ... Hell, it was the device that changed my life so it deserves a litle karma :)
:)
The Psion keyboard is one of the best I've tried, there isn't one single Wince , or PalmOS, machine that compares to it.
I first thought that the keys would be too small, and I wouldn't be able to type fast, but after the first week I typed almost as fast as in a full size keyboard.
Then, I find a device withou a keyboard too troblesome to use, you have to learn a new alfabeth and write with enough care. My handwrite is too screwed to be understood by any OCR, so an Palm device without a keyboard is simple unthinkable for me.
Comparing my Psion S5 with an full featered Laptop, is not even a challenge, the 30 hours autonmy is the thing I like most, right after the keyboard.
The praise is given,
This will must be extremely efective in quimiotherapy, perhaps reducing the nasty efects that runs along with those treatments...
Now they can poison the cancer directly, so this should allow an incresead dosage with a direct relation to an increase in the success rate.
I'm just glad to live in this century... Maybe we all live enough to see these criters kill all our disease problems.
In Portugal when we get our ID card, they take our fingerprints, so there is national fingerprint database.
Unfortunaly, I don't think it's computerized, so the benefits from it are next to none. Only criminals get into the police files, and those are in digital form.
I remember that the US (and the UK ) do not have an ID card, so when you are asked to identify yourself you end up showing your drivers licence... That's nonsense...
What are you afraid off?
A World DNA database would help a lot in police investigations... And would allow lots of evil experiments to be done... Gee, are there any bones without a catch?
I won't believe that the 38 million users are all American...
For those belonging to a different country this will kill Napster for sure.
Even if it's a fair deal for a US citizen it won't be for a poor country in Asia, so they have to turn in other direction...
So do we predict an Asian Napster? Of course, they already have a big black market, it's only one step to go digital...
What difference does it make to us? Perhaps it will make more time consuming to dl the files we want, but we will get them for sure.
Before we even think approaching a Black Hole, we should first find cheap way getting of earth (can anyone say Space elevator?).
After we get out, we must colonize the rest of the planets in our solar system, preparing ourselves to go to our closest friend, Proxima Centauri.
If I lived enough to see that I would be very happy, and probably very very very old.
Funny, I always viewed the Black Holes as the ultimate destroyers of the universe, now they seem to encourage the birth of stars!
;)
Amazing, it's like Shiva being the destroyer and Brahma de creator, all the while they are the same being.
I guess that balances the evil with good, so their Karma is also kept balanced, who would guess that even Black Holes, and Gods would worry them self's with such a thing
You mean that spamers are wining the war, for now... But more can be done, the AI ramifications are clear, text interpretation may have a big job here. I don't see Spam as a problem, just a big incentive for certain technologies that , until now, didn't have a commercial value. Artificial intelligence, and specially the field of text interpretation will have a field day working against spamers. I know, not everything worth pursuing should be commercial, but by our misfortune it's the rules of the world we're living in.
As SPAM gets more and more bandwidth we should get more effective filters.
I guess that in a while we will have a war between spamers and filter designers, the same way we have a war of Cryptanalysts and cryptographers, each trying to evade the scrutiny of the other...