Wait a minute. You mean to say that these two examples are poor because they are created and owned by white africans? Thats the first time I've actually heard a clear-cut racist statement on Slashdot. How disgusting.
"I strongly believe that helping people in dire need of assistance is far more important than helping those who just need a small boost to
get their living standards up to Western levels."
With that kind of reasoning everyone would still be poor. The ones who are reaching western levels are bringing the others with them.
If I thought that it was ok that the poor regions of africa would remain poor, I would agree with you. However, since the hope of many is that people will be able to improve their life, not prolong starvation, the posting is highly relevant. The fact that you don't see this is probably due to the fact that you've never been to africa and therefore fail to realise that africa is not a homogenous region where everyone is poor and illiterate.
"And any really successfull Egyptian company is likely to find the local equivalent of the BSA knocking on their doors"
HAHAHA! - you make me laugh!
When the BSA comes to southern africa they better know how to handle a gun before trying any of that shit. A AK47/74 cost less than a legal version of win98/w2kme. Blowing someone away is free. You do the math.
I think your view might be a bit dated. I used to live in Lusaka, Zambia. They've got malls, wireless internet access, two mobile phone nets (GSM). The cities in southern africa usually sports a small upperclass and a middleclass of varying size.
Well, go ahead and send them a loaf of bread if that makes you feel better. To make africa prosper a decent infrastructure is needed, both technical as well as judicial and political. A good free-trade agreement would also help a lot. Receiving gifts never developed any country.
Maybe it's a hard concept to grasp for people outside of africa: africa is quite heterogenous; there is everything from starvation to cities where wireless Internet access for a growing middle/upperclass is available.
They'll never manage to cram 21million users on their network. They're already having performance problems. I think that they're not even accepting new subscriptions due to this (last time I heard anyway). I'm also hearing rumours that DoCoMo are considering switching to WAP (from people working with the UMTS rollout in Tokyo).
Chivas sux. The same distillery (chivas brothers) makes "Revolver" which is pretty smooth though. I prefer the more harsh stuff like Caol Ila or Lagavullin.
- you just need one single WAP-gateway in the states to reach the WAP-services available in Europe since the connection is done over public internet - the 1900 band is available in the states. WAP sux though.
so?
while you dream about unclonable phones the japanese are creating the next version of the internet. You can moan and groan about the clonability - they've still got broadband phones with 65K+ colours +200 hours of standby for a 100$. And thats today. I could go on ranting if it wasn't for the fact that I'm to drunk. Waddafuck - its friday night over here...
multltihead gets my head spinning. Whaddafucks ammater whith that guy - once the stock exchanges close - you can relax. whys this guy staying at work (conclusion; multihead==finance). This guy actually starts gaming then!!? When I realized that this week wuz going to end well (no stoppages) I got drunk right away.......
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I would have agreed with you a year ago. - lately I installed Win NT on my Dell latitude CPi. It took roughly 6 hours with 10 floppys worth of driver downloads. Same machine took 15 minutes to get up and running under Red Hat Linux (including sound + printer) without _ANY_ extra driver downloads. - I installed a cable modem with Linux - took about 3 minutes. Installed the same cable modem under Windows 98 - took several days before I figured out that the cable modem _WOULD NOT WORK_ on a machine with an internal modem. And that was a winmodem(! - kinda ironic).
The difference is that no user ever installs windows - it comes preinstalled while you just have to do it yourself when you choose Linux.
I guess that was the point of getting it to the supreme court right away - would have resulted in a ruling more quickly. So I guess MS won. This will now drag on for 2yrs+ which means forever (internet time) Lets just hope that the "acceptable business conduct" he (the judge) prescribed can keep those MS'ers of our backs:-/
the girl(guide) at the Boo.com (#oooh nooo!#) site used to giggle if you clicked on her tits. They removed it pretty quickly though:-(. I thought it was kinda cute..
I agree totally! I remember my lecturer in GUI-design saying that because of this Eudora was a prime example of software with a "disturbing GUI". Moron.
My personal favourite were the "..that damn tcp/ip driver is acting up again" and the "you might as well stop typing as no-one is listening at the moment":-) /m
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Thinker? - judging by your arguments, your ability to think seems seriously impaired.
Wait a minute. You mean to say that these two examples are poor because they are created and owned by white africans? Thats the first time I've actually heard a clear-cut racist statement on Slashdot. How disgusting.
"I strongly believe that helping people in dire need of assistance is far more important than helping those who just need a small boost to get their living standards up to Western levels."
With that kind of reasoning everyone would still be poor. The ones who are reaching western levels are bringing the others with them.
If I thought that it was ok that the poor regions of africa would remain poor, I would agree with you. However, since the hope of many is that people will be able to improve their life, not prolong starvation, the posting is highly relevant. The fact that you don't see this is probably due to the fact that you've never been to africa and therefore fail to realise that africa is not a homogenous region where everyone is poor and illiterate.
"And any really successfull Egyptian company is likely to find the local equivalent of the BSA knocking on their doors"
HAHAHA! - you make me laugh!
When the BSA comes to southern africa they better know how to handle a gun before trying any of that shit. A AK47/74 cost less than a legal version of win98/w2kme. Blowing someone away is free. You do the math.
I think your view might be a bit dated. I used to live in Lusaka, Zambia. They've got malls, wireless internet access, two mobile phone nets (GSM). The cities in southern africa usually sports a small upperclass and a middleclass of varying size.
Well, go ahead and send them a loaf of bread if that makes you feel better. To make africa prosper a decent infrastructure is needed, both technical as well as judicial and political. A good free-trade agreement would also help a lot. Receiving gifts never developed any country. Maybe it's a hard concept to grasp for people outside of africa: africa is quite heterogenous; there is everything from starvation to cities where wireless Internet access for a growing middle/upperclass is available.
They'll never manage to cram 21million users on their network. They're already having performance problems. I think that they're not even accepting new subscriptions due to this (last time I heard anyway). I'm also hearing rumours that DoCoMo are considering switching to WAP (from people working with the UMTS rollout in Tokyo).
Chivas sux. The same distillery (chivas brothers) makes "Revolver" which is pretty smooth though. I prefer the more harsh stuff like Caol Ila or Lagavullin.
Well, just look at Mir - they got infected with a macrovirus...#sigh#
ESA uses Linux in their satellites though...
UMTS - next June in Tokyo.
- you just need one single WAP-gateway in the states to reach the WAP-services available in Europe since the connection is done over public internet - the 1900 band is available in the states. WAP sux though.
so?
while you dream about unclonable phones the japanese are creating the next version of the internet. You can moan and groan about the clonability - they've still got broadband phones with 65K+ colours +200 hours of standby for a 100$. And thats today. I could go on ranting if it wasn't for the fact that I'm to drunk. Waddafuck - its friday night over here...
My hovercraft is full of eels
multltihead gets my head spinning. Whaddafucks ammater whith that guy - once the stock exchanges close - you can relax. whys this guy staying at work (conclusion; multihead==finance). This guy actually starts gaming then!!? When I realized that this week wuz going to end well (no stoppages) I got drunk right away.......
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uin:61587512
I would have agreed with you a year ago.
- lately I installed Win NT on my Dell latitude CPi. It took roughly 6 hours with 10 floppys worth of driver downloads. Same machine took 15 minutes to get up and running under Red Hat Linux (including sound + printer) without _ANY_ extra driver downloads.
- I installed a cable modem with Linux - took about 3 minutes. Installed the same cable modem under Windows 98 - took several days before I figured out that the cable modem _WOULD NOT WORK_ on a machine with an internal modem. And that was a winmodem(! - kinda ironic).
The difference is that no user ever installs windows - it comes preinstalled while you just have to do it yourself when you choose Linux.
I guess that was the point of getting it to the supreme court right away - would have resulted in a ruling more quickly. So I guess MS won. This will now drag on for 2yrs+ which means forever (internet time) :-/
Lets just hope that the "acceptable business conduct" he (the judge) prescribed can keep those MS'ers of our backs
the girl(guide) at the Boo.com (#oooh nooo!#) site used to giggle if you clicked on her tits. They removed it pretty quickly though :-(. I thought it was kinda cute..
I agree totally! I remember my lecturer in GUI-design saying that because of this Eudora was a prime example of software with a "disturbing GUI". Moron.
:-)
My personal favourite were the "..that damn tcp/ip driver is acting up again" and the "you might as well stop typing as no-one is listening at the moment"
/m
Aiiieeee!!!
Maybe you should try the "violent anal dilation" described here:l
http://uber.chorn.com/ds9/ds9.9706/msg00276.htm