When I learned Spanish, over twenty years ago, "americano" meant anyone from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Now it means anyone from the US and no-one else. This change happened in English long ago and I think we're going to have just leave the word to the Yanks and live without a word for someone from either the North or South Amercas.
The rating of -1 is symptomatic of what slashdot has become. A parroquial and narrow-minded anglosaxon forum full of bigotry. And then you ask why you are hated?
There is no constitutional right to own firearms or any kind of weapon in Venezuela. But there are weapons everywhere. Convicts in our prisons have firearms, and in the last big mutiny in “La Planta” jail in the capital city Caracas, they confronted the military with pistols and automatic rifles for several days with several casualties among the civilian population living nearby. Our vice-president in a government meeting asked the commander in chief of the Venezuelan army, why the jail interns have ammunition belonging to the Venezuelan army. That ended in a quarrel, of course. From the beginning of this year, at least seventeen policemen in Caracas have been killed by criminals to steal their weapons. So, in Venezuela we can not buy legally firearms, foreign currency, maize oil, etc. But we can acquire those good illegally from the government party members and officials through unemployed street sellers (buhoneros). The reason for forbidding the legal purchase of firearms is just public relations in face of a presidential election. But the government uses mobs named “colectivos”, armed by the government itself, to harass the opposition parties and media.
In the early eighties, less than 20% of the college students in the USA (not America) could point where their home state was in a map. So, let's make the survey again. In America (the continent) how many people are creationists?
Because you NEVER have enough speed. Besides most useful libraries are written in C or C++ and lather binds are built for other languages. So, if you want or need to use the latest version, or the library hasn't bindings, you must go for C or C++.
This is not their first article accusing engineers of having an authoritarian mind set. They have a typical humanistic hatred for people in the areas of science and technology, for they feel that engineers and scientists limit the possibilities of imposing an utopian system on society. Also in the past they used to support Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. That gives you an idea of what means libertarian to Opendemocracy. And worst of all, their jargon is typically of a humanities faculties (puck).
World War II was fought because of natural resources. Japan made war against the USA, England and the Netherlands because of a comodities embargo. Germany expanded over Europe because of the "Lebensraum" concept. In both cases, small countries who depended on imported minerals for their industrial development, tried to attain the control over those resources by war. And it goes far far back to the times of Sargon of Akkad (2334 BC - 2279 BC)
I have already used it for a mini2440 with 64Mbytes of ram and a Smagung S3C2440 micrcontroller with a 926T arm core. Buildroot is self contained and lets you configure everything from the kernel up to the applications you want in your system. It is conceived precisely for those small systems with small amounts of ram and a framebuffer instead of a graphics processor. Usefull for other architectures like mips, powerpc, i386, avr32, etc.
America is the name of two continents. An we, mexicans, brazilians, argentinians, chileans, colombians, etc. find the appropiation of the demonim by only a very restricted set of the continent's inhabitants, arrogant and insulting.
The BBC is regarded as pro-Castro and pro-Chavez in Venezuela. And always keeps silent when the opposition is repressed or a local radio station is closed by the state. Private media is always biased, Berlusconi being the most notorious example of media abuse for political porpouses. I don't believe any media anyway, so I read as many different versions as possible and then guess and interpolate.
What is wrong with the moderators today? My post is not a troll. It's fact.
A vehicle which weighs a fraction of current cars using traditional materials, which has no crumple zones, which has never been crash test, which has no air bags, can factually be referred to as a go-cart.
Go-carts often get great mileage compared to cars, but it doesn't make it a real car. In the end its still a go-cart.
What is wrong with moderators these days?!?!?!
What is wrong with the moderators today? My post is not a troll. It's fact.
A vehicle which weighs a fraction of current cars using traditional materials, which has no crumple zones, which has never been crash test, which has no air bags, can factually be referred to as a go-cart.
Go-carts often get great mileage compared to cars, but it doesn't make it a real car. In the end its still a go-cart.
What is wrong with moderators these days?!?!?!
The problem with moderators this days, is that they don't want opinions that not automaticaly praise the post. You can only agree or be funny. It does not matters how informed your opinion is, what matters is the tone. It seems that the desired mood is that of Mike Myes's "Coffee Talk with Linda Richman".(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Talk_with_Linda_Richman)
First of all I am latin american so stop the racist and pseudo-leftist patronizing now. The reasons why peruvian authorities choose Windows over Linux are obvious to me: first, because Windows (whichever version) is the stuff used by characters in tv series from the USA like "Grey' Anatomy", "the Sarah Connors chronicles" etc. Remember when John Connor enters a computer shop? What was the computer running? Vista! And this is the source of information for our decision makers, which are usually the least qualified but best connected people. The second reason is what I call the "click mentality". All what the people wants is to make a click with the mouse and instantly have their pirated music and games automatically downloaded, and open a messaging session for sharing gossips and trivialities. And in Windows, all the applications that allow this download instantly without asking. Most people, including university students, would not mind a laptop if their cellphone had a bigger screen! Many engineering students make sacrifices for buying a Hp49 or Hp50 scientific calculator and they don't learn how to program it or use the embedded symbolic solver either. What matters is to rub it on others faces. I am cooler than you! This is my experience after installing and writing software, and managing computer systems and networks in latin america since the 80's and that includes DOS, every version of Windows, Netware, SCO and Linux. People don't mind technology. The mind "coolness" and instant gratification.
Here in Venezuela we are still waiting for the realization of at least these government projects promissed by the president himself: - Gallineros verticales (vertical chicken farm) - Conucos organoponicos (Organically fertilized intensive urban agriculture) - Ruta de la empanada (tamale track, for tourism...) - Eje Orinoco-Apure (Apure-Orinoco rivers development axis) - Palma aceitera indonesia (Indonesian oil palm for the development of the arid inner flatlands) - Project with Ukraine for the development of a rocket launching base - A 1500MUS$ aluminium plant suposedly agreed with the french government seven years ago. - The reconstrucion of Vargas state after the massive landslides of year 2000
That just to name a few. The government oficially employs and deploys only open software, but their bureocrats use only MS Office and its data formats. In spanish it is said: "Ver para creer". That means: "Seeing is believing". And in this government of Mr. Chavez, speeches and realizations are orthogonal.
The biggest media corporation in Latinamerica is by Chavez side. Gustavo Cisneros, richest man in Latinamerica, owner of the now biggest private TV channel in Venezuela (Venevision, by coincidende? they never surpassed RCTV), owner of DirectTV-Latin, Digitel (only GSM cellphone network in Venezuela) an so on: http://www.geocities.com/expresionverazucv/cisnero s.html The videos you are talking about are no fake, because the events happen here where I live and I witness them. And before talking crap about left-wing and white versus black, I inform you that the opposition in Venezuela concentrates all those who are the daughters and of sons of those those who lost their countries because the all-knowing anglosaxon superiority did not regard the latin and slavic countryes of europe entitled to democracy. The same air of superiority that embargoed the arms acquisition by the Spaniard Republic during the Spaniard Civil War just to not upset Mr Hitler.
I have not seen ANY language for dealing with the bare iron like C in the las 20 years. With Java an C++ you can do what cobol does, but how do you manage the first stacks, heaps and threads? What do you use for writing the first garbage collector,free memory manager or task switcher, or attend interrupts? C is blooming in the embedded market, a far bigger market for computers than business.
Disclaimer : I am Venezuelan. The matter is that he (the president of Venezuela) has relations with a company that supplied the voting machines for the venezuelan elections. Would you allow a voting machine supplier to have relations to either Bush or Clinton? The comments I have read so far, show that for the people of the USA,(I refuse to call them americans) the whole universe revolves around their asses. Their willing ignorance about everything outside their borders could be called "British".
Here in Venezuela we had an electronic voting process recently, and the technology only added to the distrust. In this case seeing is believing and the machines actually hide the physical vote. If you add the problems with the electors lists, as it happened in Florida and also in Venezuela, you end undermining the faith of the people in democracy and sowing the missrespect for the elected. It was not clear here in Venezuela if the transmission of the data happened before or after the clossing of the process, if the transmission was unidirectional, what was transmitted and so on. So, if you can not figure a system that can give confidence to anyone, you will end with a problem of the kind of Florida, but over the whole country. So beware!
The late Isaac Asimov wrote about a single computer that had acces points in the style of an ATM machine, all around the world. The bad thing is that the computer, tired of that burden, tried to commit siucide hiring some terrorists for the job. Do not put all your eggs in the same basket...
You are wrong because there are stablished
scinetifuc and mathematical methods for
generating digital and electronic circuits,
for example: Karnaugh maps, pole-zero placing.
And in civil and mechanical engineering you
have classical mechanics, thermodinamics
and stiffnes theory as fluid mechanics as well.
I ever remember that quote of Titus Livius
put by Donald Knuth at the beginning of his
third volume of the "The art of computer programming":
Cookery is become an art,
a noble science;
cooks are gentleman.
Recently in Germany, the defense ministry
and the army decided NOT TO USE Microsoft
or american software, because they noticed
that data packets where send by idle
computers running Windows 2000 to places
in the states of Washington and Virginia
in the U.S.A.
This added to the concerns that europeans
have about the Echelon network, makes a
stronger case than the cost, from a political
point of view.
Wich country wants a system that is also a
snooper, handling all the sensitive information?
Windows was developed to sell Word in the PC
market, as is told in the book "Hard drive".
The people is hooked to Office. The real
software market is about document handling,
not Internet navigation.
I just wonder how fast would be the Windows
decline, if an independent Microsoft
applications company released a version of Office for unixes.
Re:How to beat Microsoft: The Plain Truth
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· Score: 1
That's true.
Even writting a login name, and then the due
password, is just TO MUCH COMPLICATED for
secretaries. For that reason they fight a
war even against WindowsNT or Windows 2000.
What they really want is something, that after
booting opens Word.
Re:More to installing 2.4?
on
2.2 vs 2.4
·
· Score: 4
I have the same problems with linux-2.4.0 and
the reason can be found in archive:
linux-2.4.0/Documentation/Changes
There states that newer versions of system utilities need to be upgraded.
The list of minimal versions for some packages
is this:
(copied from the Changes file)
============ begin ==========
o Gnu C 2.91.66
o Gnu make 3.77
o binutils 2.9.1.0.25
o util-linux 2.10o
o modutils 2.4.0
o e2fsprogs 1.19
o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21
o PPP 2.4.0
o isdn4k-utils 3.1beta7
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When I learned Spanish, over twenty years ago, "americano" meant anyone from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Now it means anyone from the US and no-one else. This change happened in English long ago and I think we're going to have just leave the word to the Yanks and live without a word for someone from either the North or South Amercas.
The rating of -1 is symptomatic of what slashdot has become. A parroquial and narrow-minded anglosaxon forum
full of bigotry.
And then you ask why you are hated?
Those emails succeed for the same reason that sellers and politicians do: we humans are stupid.
There is no constitutional right to own firearms or any kind of weapon in Venezuela. But there are weapons everywhere. Convicts in our prisons have firearms, and in the last big mutiny in “La Planta” jail in the capital city Caracas, they confronted the military with pistols and automatic rifles for several days with several casualties among the civilian population living nearby. Our vice-president in a government meeting asked the commander in chief of the Venezuelan army, why the jail interns have ammunition belonging to the Venezuelan army. That ended in a quarrel, of course.
From the beginning of this year, at least seventeen policemen in Caracas have been killed by criminals to steal their weapons. So, in Venezuela we can not buy legally firearms, foreign currency, maize oil, etc. But we can acquire those good illegally from the government party members and officials through unemployed street sellers (buhoneros).
The reason for forbidding the legal purchase of firearms is just public relations in face of a presidential election. But the government uses mobs named “colectivos”, armed by the government itself, to harass the opposition parties and media.
In the early eighties, less than 20% of the college students in the USA (not America) could point where their home state was in a map.
So, let's make the survey again. In America (the continent) how many people are creationists?
Because you NEVER have enough speed. Besides most useful libraries are written in C or C++
and lather binds are built for other languages. So, if you want or need to use the latest
version, or the library hasn't bindings, you must go for C or C++.
Fedora 16 is also good for core i5. Opensuse 12.1 kernel crashed all the time.
This is not their first article accusing engineers of having an authoritarian mind set. They have a typical humanistic hatred for people in the areas of science and technology, for they feel that engineers and scientists limit the possibilities of imposing an utopian system on society. Also in the past they used to support Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. That gives you an idea of what means libertarian to Opendemocracy. And worst of all, their jargon is typically of a humanities faculties (puck).
World War II was fought because of natural resources.
Japan made war against the USA, England and the Netherlands because
of a comodities embargo.
Germany expanded over Europe because of the "Lebensraum" concept.
In both cases, small countries who depended on imported minerals for
their industrial development, tried to attain the control over those resources
by war.
And it goes far far back to the times of Sargon of Akkad (2334 BC - 2279 BC)
If your machine can boot from a SD card, you can build a bootable linux system
well under 2GB, including qt and multimedia, using this project:
http://buildroot.uclibc.org/
I have already used it for a mini2440 with 64Mbytes of ram and a Smagung
S3C2440 micrcontroller with a 926T arm core. Buildroot is self contained
and lets you configure everything from the kernel up to the applications
you want in your system. It is conceived precisely for those small systems with
small amounts of ram and a framebuffer instead of a graphics processor.
Usefull for other architectures like mips, powerpc, i386, avr32, etc.
America is the name of two continents.
An we, mexicans, brazilians, argentinians, chileans, colombians, etc.
find the appropiation of the demonim by only a very restricted set of
the continent's inhabitants, arrogant and insulting.
The BBC is regarded as pro-Castro and pro-Chavez in Venezuela. And always keeps silent when the opposition is repressed or a local radio station is closed by the state. Private media is always biased, Berlusconi being the most notorious example of media abuse for political porpouses. I don't believe any media anyway, so I read as many different versions as possible and then guess and interpolate.
What is wrong with the moderators today? My post is not a troll. It's fact.
A vehicle which weighs a fraction of current cars using traditional materials, which has no crumple zones, which has never been crash test, which has no air bags, can factually be referred to as a go-cart.
Go-carts often get great mileage compared to cars, but it doesn't make it a real car. In the end its still a go-cart.
What is wrong with moderators these days?!?!?!
What is wrong with the moderators today? My post is not a troll. It's fact.
A vehicle which weighs a fraction of current cars using traditional materials, which has no crumple zones, which has never been crash test, which has no air bags, can factually be referred to as a go-cart.
Go-carts often get great mileage compared to cars, but it doesn't make it a real car. In the end its still a go-cart.
What is wrong with moderators these days?!?!?!
The problem with moderators this days, is that they don't want opinions that not automaticaly praise the post. You can only agree or be funny. It does not matters how informed your opinion is, what matters is the tone. It seems that the desired mood is that of Mike Myes's "Coffee Talk with Linda Richman".(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Talk_with_Linda_Richman)
First of all I am latin american so stop the racist and pseudo-leftist patronizing now. The reasons why peruvian authorities choose Windows over Linux are obvious to me: first, because Windows (whichever version) is the stuff used by characters in tv series from the USA like "Grey' Anatomy", "the Sarah Connors chronicles" etc. Remember when John Connor enters a computer shop? What was the computer running? Vista! And this is the source of information for our decision makers, which are usually the least qualified but best connected people.
The second reason is what I call the "click mentality". All what the people wants is to make a click with the mouse and instantly have their pirated music and games automatically downloaded, and open a messaging session for sharing gossips and trivialities. And in Windows, all the applications that allow this download instantly without asking. Most people, including university students, would not mind a laptop if their cellphone had a bigger screen! Many engineering students make sacrifices for buying a Hp49 or Hp50 scientific calculator and they don't learn how to program it or use the embedded symbolic solver either. What matters is to rub it on others faces. I am cooler than you!
This is my experience after installing and writing software, and managing computer systems and networks in latin america since the 80's and that includes DOS, every version of Windows, Netware, SCO and Linux. People don't mind technology. The mind "coolness" and instant gratification.
Here in Venezuela we are still waiting for the realization of at least these government projects promissed by the president himself:
- Gallineros verticales (vertical chicken farm)
- Conucos organoponicos (Organically fertilized intensive urban agriculture)
- Ruta de la empanada (tamale track, for tourism...)
- Eje Orinoco-Apure (Apure-Orinoco rivers development axis)
- Palma aceitera indonesia (Indonesian oil palm for the development of the arid inner flatlands)
- Project with Ukraine for the development of a rocket launching base
- A 1500MUS$ aluminium plant suposedly agreed with the french government seven years ago.
- The reconstrucion of Vargas state after the massive landslides of year 2000
That just to name a few. The government oficially employs and deploys only open software, but their bureocrats use only MS Office and its data formats. In spanish it is said: "Ver para creer". That means: "Seeing is believing". And in this government of Mr. Chavez, speeches and realizations are orthogonal.
The biggest media corporation in Latinamerica is by Chavez side. Gustavo Cisneros, richest man in Latinamerica, owner of the now biggest private TV channel in Venezuela (Venevision, by coincidende? they never surpassed RCTV), owner of DirectTV-Latin, Digitel (only GSM cellphone network in Venezuela) an so on:o s.html
http://www.geocities.com/expresionverazucv/cisner
The videos you are talking about are no fake, because the events happen here where I live and I witness them. And before talking crap about left-wing and white versus black, I inform you that the opposition in Venezuela concentrates all those who are the daughters and of sons of those those who lost their countries because the all-knowing anglosaxon superiority did not regard the latin and slavic countryes of europe entitled to democracy. The same air of superiority that embargoed the arms acquisition by the Spaniard Republic during the Spaniard Civil War just to not upset Mr Hitler.
I have not seen ANY language for dealing with the bare iron like C in the las 20 years. With Java an C++ you can do what cobol does, but how do you manage the first stacks, heaps and threads? What do you use for writing the first garbage collector ,free memory manager or task switcher, or attend interrupts? C is blooming in the embedded market, a far bigger market for computers than business.
Disclaimer : I am Venezuelan.
The matter is that he (the president of Venezuela)
has relations with a company that supplied the
voting machines for the venezuelan elections.
Would you allow a voting machine supplier to have
relations to either Bush or Clinton?
The comments I have read so far, show that for the
people of the USA,(I refuse to call them americans)
the whole universe revolves around their asses.
Their willing ignorance about everything outside
their borders could be called "British".
Here in Venezuela we had an electronic voting process recently, and the technology only added to the distrust.
In this case seeing is believing and the machines actually hide the physical vote. If you add the problems with the electors lists, as it happened in Florida and also in Venezuela, you end undermining the faith of the people in democracy and sowing the missrespect for the elected.
It was not clear here in Venezuela if the transmission of the data happened before or after the clossing of the process, if the transmission was unidirectional, what was transmitted and so on.
So, if you can not figure a system that can give confidence to anyone, you will end with a problem of the kind of Florida, but over the whole country.
So beware!
The late Isaac Asimov wrote about a single
computer that had acces points in the style of an ATM machine, all around the world. The bad thing is that the computer, tired of that burden, tried to commit siucide hiring some terrorists for the job.
Do not put all your eggs in the same basket...
You are wrong because there are stablished
scinetifuc and mathematical methods for
generating digital and electronic circuits,
for example: Karnaugh maps, pole-zero placing.
And in civil and mechanical engineering you
have classical mechanics, thermodinamics
and stiffnes theory as fluid mechanics as well.
I ever remember that quote of Titus Livius
put by Donald Knuth at the beginning of his
third volume of the "The art of computer programming":
Cookery is become an art,
a noble science;
cooks are gentleman.
Recently in Germany, the defense ministry
and the army decided NOT TO USE Microsoft
or american software, because they noticed
that data packets where send by idle
computers running Windows 2000 to places
in the states of Washington and Virginia
in the U.S.A.
This added to the concerns that europeans
have about the Echelon network, makes a
stronger case than the cost, from a political
point of view.
Wich country wants a system that is also a
snooper, handling all the sensitive information?
Windows was developed to sell Word in the PC
market, as is told in the book "Hard drive".
The people is hooked to Office. The real
software market is about document handling,
not Internet navigation.
I just wonder how fast would be the Windows
decline, if an independent Microsoft
applications company released a version of Office for unixes.
That's true.
Even writting a login name, and then the due
password, is just TO MUCH COMPLICATED for
secretaries. For that reason they fight a
war even against WindowsNT or Windows 2000.
What they really want is something, that after
booting opens Word.
I have the same problems with linux-2.4.0 and
the reason can be found in archive:
linux-2.4.0/Documentation/Changes
There states that newer versions of system utilities need to be upgraded.
The list of minimal versions for some packages
is this:
(copied from the Changes file)
============ begin ==========
o Gnu C 2.91.66
o Gnu make 3.77
o binutils 2.9.1.0.25
o util-linux 2.10o
o modutils 2.4.0
o e2fsprogs 1.19
o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21
o PPP 2.4.0
o isdn4k-utils 3.1beta7
============ end ===========
So, slashdot is only for yankies in the end?
Wasn't it for the free software community?