We've heard often by MS Fudmakers (tm) that the GPL is viral but the truth is that MS Office is viral. It is intrisic to proprietary/closed format. What we need to do is to have less pirate versions of Office around.
As a teenager I gave countless copied CDs with Office or Windows on it and it only helped MS. Now I do the opposite. I have Slackware installed (might try some gentoo or Unbuntu soon though) and use solely OpenOffice and when people come to me for help or for software I point them to FOSS alternatives. Open Office works great with it's own format. It just has problems with closed formats. I think being polite and asking people to send me thing in RTF is a good way to save 300$+ on my OS/Office suite.
I lived in Nova Scotia and I was paid so little there that I brought my empty Canadian Beer bottles to Maine so I could pay my mortgage. I had the best of both world! Canadian beer and American money!
I don't know about you but if your time is worth anything buying another hard drive with firewire/usb case is actually cheaper than buying a DVD burner and taking the time to burn your backups. Consider for one second the price of each media and the time for each to burn, not to mention the sorting of your important vs non important data.
the reason why computers give us a good living is because anyone can use it to do plenty of great things.
I say you show what you can do with a computer. Here are a few ideas:
1.Schedule a Skype call with a friend you have as far away on the globe as possible. Explain how a computer takes audio information and transfers it over the internet.
2. View the solar system in 3D (I think there is some open source software that allows you to do that). Explain how a computer can take loads of data and draw it for you.
3. If the classroom has dictionaries tell everyone to look up a complicated word up and race them with the computer. Explain that the computer's strenght is it's speed not it's intelligence. Tell them that you cannot ask a computer to draw a bird but you can use it do store and manipulate a bird picture.
4. open up the computer and explain how each module has it's own specialty: graphics card, audio circuit, network circuits, etc... They'll feel like they've done something really cool.
5. turtle!:) Install Python with the turtle program and challenge them to draw a square with a turtle. Explain to them that a computer is a tool for automation and that is why it is used. Humans still are the ones that have to think to make them automate tasks we ask them to do.
The computer alone can captivate your audience but the great thing is to make them participate. Make them feel like they changed the world by doing something. Let them give you the obvious answers.
I think people enjoy the sense of control they have with a steering wheel and pedals. They don't want a robot taxi, they want to drive.
Any technology that takes away from that pleasure will see more resistance in the market than something that makes your driving cleaner and cheaper. I think hybrid or trybrid (hydrogen, power plug charge, solar cells) running on biodiesel will have more chance to take the market than some computerized taxi.
I downloaded mine from linuxpackages.net (Slackware package prebuilt). So mine along with half the people at the office wasn't counted. So I guess you win some and you loose some in downloads too.
these stats are bad. It shows us that Firefox is still only the browser of choice for nerds. I'd like to see more mainstream sites with high Firefox percentage.
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As a teenager I gave countless copied CDs with Office or Windows on it and it only helped MS. Now I do the opposite. I have Slackware installed (might try some gentoo or Unbuntu soon though) and use solely OpenOffice and when people come to me for help or for software I point them to FOSS alternatives. Open Office works great with it's own format. It just has problems with closed formats. I think being polite and asking people to send me thing in RTF is a good way to save 300$+ on my OS/Office suite.
What about the Lego Chocolate Printer? I remember as a kid eating chocolate coins but I want to eat chocolate bills!! :)
The desktop I bought with Suse Linux pre-installed didn't keep that linux on it. I installed Slackware Windows on it. Shame on me.
Simply make every participant sign a release of responsibility form.
That image for those who want to know was exposed 15 seconds at f/11.0 @ 24mm and ISO 100
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At least he can spell and eat a pretzel without requiring medical assistance.
a pleonasm perhaps.
I lived in Nova Scotia and I was paid so little there that I brought my empty Canadian Beer bottles to Maine so I could pay my mortgage. I had the best of both world! Canadian beer and American money!
you idiot! You're supposed to replace the salt they lick with sodium. That'll make their heads blow off!
Just pee on that *bush* over there.
the problem with Xfce4 is that it's not as easy to install because you have to make special effort to start using it. This turns off aunt Tilly.
I don't want to make 101 decisions when I work on my computer. I want sensible defaults and not have to care about plethoras of unneeded options.
I don't know about you but if your time is worth anything buying another hard drive with firewire/usb case is actually cheaper than buying a DVD burner and taking the time to burn your backups. Consider for one second the price of each media and the time for each to burn, not to mention the sorting of your important vs non important data.
I say you show what you can do with a computer. Here are a few ideas:
1.Schedule a Skype call with a friend you have as far away on the globe as possible. Explain how a computer takes audio information and transfers it over the internet.
2. View the solar system in 3D (I think there is some open source software that allows you to do that). Explain how a computer can take loads of data and draw it for you.
3. If the classroom has dictionaries tell everyone to look up a complicated word up and race them with the computer. Explain that the computer's strenght is it's speed not it's intelligence. Tell them that you cannot ask a computer to draw a bird but you can use it do store and manipulate a bird picture.
4. open up the computer and explain how each module has it's own specialty: graphics card, audio circuit, network circuits, etc... They'll feel like they've done something really cool.
5. turtle! :) Install Python with the turtle program and challenge them to draw a square with a turtle. Explain to them that a computer is a tool for automation and that is why it is used. Humans still are the ones that have to think to make them automate tasks we ask them to do.
The computer alone can captivate your audience but the great thing is to make them participate. Make them feel like they changed the world by doing something. Let them give you the obvious answers.
Any technology that takes away from that pleasure will see more resistance in the market than something that makes your driving cleaner and cheaper. I think hybrid or trybrid (hydrogen, power plug charge, solar cells) running on biodiesel will have more chance to take the market than some computerized taxi.
It's not april 1st yet!
Lots of K's in that komment. Wait a second! We're here to talk about Firefox... Not KDE!!!
I downloaded mine from linuxpackages.net (Slackware package prebuilt). So mine along with half the people at the office wasn't counted. So I guess you win some and you loose some in downloads too.
or lack of standard compliant XHTML
For a minute I thought you were speaking Klingon.
there better be lots of nice pictures with that!
you overestimate people's stupidity! :)
Celvin?
these stats are bad. It shows us that Firefox is still only the browser of choice for nerds. I'd like to see more mainstream sites with high Firefox percentage.