I feel your pain about the UK spell checker, because the US version of the grammar checker often prefers the "British" rule (as if Oxford and Cambridge could really come to an agreement on that). haha
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Yeah, baby! 4K RAM and a cassette tape drive. Program games yourself or you didn't have anything to play...
Sorry about the "troll" judgement, then, but it had the stadard elements: a strong opinion mixed with disinformation. I agree that Deb is really important, but I think you should look at the list of RH-based distros for an eye opener.
I've been kind of stuck on an RH-derived distro because I need Thai support, but I try Gentoo and Deb every once in a while to see if things I need have made it back into the base distros.
Stay focused, here. The context of this article and my comment was of first languages. The idea is that, somehow, the first language learned and the child's development in that language significantly limit how that child or subsequent adult thinks about the world.
Additionally, this common saying refers to academic studies, and not feelings.
Don't change the domain, here, and then try to tell me that I'm wrong because of it, OK?
In fact, one of the major motivations for teaching Latin and Greek in classical education (despite their being dead languages and outside of the great availability of western lit and science available) was the strong belief that simply the process of learning second and third languages broadened your thoughts and disciplined your mind.
Although the article states that the theory for this was proposed in the 50s, but it seems to me that the general concept predates it by at least a few hundred years.
Whenever someone says, "I understand it, I just can't articulate it," what they really mean is, "I don't understand it."
My life changed when my fifth grade teacher said the same words to me ~mmm mmm~ years ago. I immediately understood the basic truth of that statement and have never wavered in my belief of it.
More directly topical, I have studied three non-western languages (heavily influenced by Sanskrit, Bali, and/or Chinese) and find the mindsets of native speakers to be so shaped by their language that I have to immerse myself in the culture to understand anything more than the simplest conversations. American culture and non-western ones find little common ground unless the latter have been influenced by foreign media.
I got high speed for the first time about three weeks ago. Of course, it's because I just moved to Korea (which the gov't here says has the highest per-capita broadband rate in the world). I've been living on dial-up for -- what? -- ten years...?
In fact, the timeless SF classics don't hit science very much at all. Anyone who writes with specifics about scientific advances in technology is almost immediately discounted, but writers who don't bother to explain how things work can concentrate on the more important aspect of SF: examining the human condition.
Since the dateline is BKK, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they have no chance, and it won't help OSS, either. They made a similar product last year for limited release, and it fell on its face because everybody just kept buying the full, cracked version with everything else you would install on a starter computer for the price of a $4 CD. See my journal for years of discussion on this.
You can see my discussion on piracy relating to this XP release in Thailand in this journal entry of mine from ?yesterday?, and much more about OSS against piracy in Thailand further back through last year. I support your "anything but piracy" stance, BTW.
Well, since I can watch "OnGameNet," channel 31, and see starcraft all day, and every young man that I know (who speaks enough English to get the information) loves it, I believe that StarCraft beats WC CS, and D2 by a two-to-one margin.
Of course that is all in jest, but I did just get broadband today, with 6MB down and 2 MB up for a measely 30K Won per month (?US$28?). Beats my Thailand 56K for about the same price. I'm torrenting FC3Test1 right now.
Well, this reminds me of the "Famous Amos" story. Bare with me... Amos opened a cookie store in my home town in Hawaii. He was very successful. His operation was named "Famous Amos," and his ads were famously bad, always including his likeness.
Unforutately, Amos didn't have the best legal counsel, and was bought out for a lot of money, which he though was a good thing. Until he found out that he couldn't use his own name anymore. His likeness, considered a trademark, was also forbidden. He was a man without name or face.
He almost immediately opened a competing company with a Hawaiian name pronounced NO-NAH-MEI, and spelled "Noname." He had the same bad commercials with his face blacked out. I don't think that he planned to make any money this way, just protest the loss of his name and face.
I now live in Korea, but for the four and a half years that I lived in Thailand, I saw exactly the same thing that you do... I think the difference between the two countries in Linux use will diminish as time goes on, because the Thai government started policies like the one in the story about three years ago, and longer than that for some projects like SiS (School Intranet Server, based on RH).
I have also purchased many Linux CDs at IT malls like Panthip Plaza (though I prefer Zeer Rangsit) sitting right next to the newest release from MS, and costing three times as much. The cops take a cut there, so the CDs run about 150 Baht each (US $4.50), maybe less with a discount. That means that LinuxTLE, Mandrake, or Fedora will cost me 400 Baht, while the guy next to me buys Windows for 150. I try to complain that my software is legal, and that they should cut me an extra discount, but it never works.
What's even worse is when the guys don't check the MD5SUMs (or even know what they are...) and give you that "no exchanges" policy. Sometimes it would just be easier to pirate software than to try to purchase legal stuff.
And how long before that was the previous terrorist attack (by a foreign agency, not OK City) thet took lives in that country? I think that three and a half years proves nothing statistically (because it is well below the mean), and that the success of the "War on Terror" cannot be assessed the way you think that it can.
Did I say the gov't should do a better job of protecting us? Am I a liberal? No to both.
The world is not a safe place. There are reasonable precautions that can be made without impinging on other's rights to freedom, and those should be taken. Anything which involves curtailment of rights, especially the rights to privacy and free speech, should be looked at askance.
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Where's your site? Couldn't keep Win2000 up long enough? hehe
I feel your pain about the UK spell checker, because the US version of the grammar checker often prefers the "British" rule (as if Oxford and Cambridge could really come to an agreement on that). haha
Yeah, baby! 4K RAM and a cassette tape drive. Program games yourself or you didn't have anything to play...
Sorry about the "troll" judgement, then, but it had the stadard elements: a strong opinion mixed with disinformation. I agree that Deb is really important, but I think you should look at the list of RH-based distros for an eye opener.
I've been kind of stuck on an RH-derived distro because I need Thai support, but I try Gentoo and Deb every once in a while to see if things I need have made it back into the base distros.
This has to be a troll, but... How is Gentoo rolled into Debian's numbers?
Don't confuse studying Latin and Greek roots of English words with the study of their grammar, which is what was taught in classical education.
Stay focused, here. The context of this article and my comment was of first languages. The idea is that, somehow, the first language learned and the child's development in that language significantly limit how that child or subsequent adult thinks about the world.
Additionally, this common saying refers to academic studies, and not feelings.
Don't change the domain, here, and then try to tell me that I'm wrong because of it, OK?
Ummm ... basic truth. Try and keep up. My sister is incapable of communication, so I intentionally spole generally.
In fact, one of the major motivations for teaching Latin and Greek in classical education (despite their being dead languages and outside of the great availability of western lit and science available) was the strong belief that simply the process of learning second and third languages broadened your thoughts and disciplined your mind.
Although the article states that the theory for this was proposed in the 50s, but it seems to me that the general concept predates it by at least a few hundred years.
Whenever someone says, "I understand it, I just can't articulate it," what they really mean is, "I don't understand it."
My life changed when my fifth grade teacher said the same words to me ~mmm mmm~ years ago. I immediately understood the basic truth of that statement and have never wavered in my belief of it.
More directly topical, I have studied three non-western languages (heavily influenced by Sanskrit, Bali, and/or Chinese) and find the mindsets of native speakers to be so shaped by their language that I have to immerse myself in the culture to understand anything more than the simplest conversations. American culture and non-western ones find little common ground unless the latter have been influenced by foreign media.
I got high speed for the first time about three weeks ago. Of course, it's because I just moved to Korea (which the gov't here says has the highest per-capita broadband rate in the world). I've been living on dial-up for -- what? -- ten years...?
In fact, the timeless SF classics don't hit science very much at all. Anyone who writes with specifics about scientific advances in technology is almost immediately discounted, but writers who don't bother to explain how things work can concentrate on the more important aspect of SF: examining the human condition.
Less than 70 Baht? I assume you're buying in bulk, then. Standard price is 150 Baht (~US$4) per CD.
Since the dateline is BKK, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they have no chance, and it won't help OSS, either. They made a similar product last year for limited release, and it fell on its face because everybody just kept buying the full, cracked version with everything else you would install on a starter computer for the price of a $4 CD. See my journal for years of discussion on this.
You can see my discussion on piracy relating to this XP release in Thailand in this journal entry of mine from ?yesterday?, and much more about OSS against piracy in Thailand further back through last year. I support your "anything but piracy" stance, BTW.
Well, IBM isn't recommending that anyone deploy it at all just yet.
Well, since I can watch "OnGameNet," channel 31, and see starcraft all day, and every young man that I know (who speaks enough English to get the information) loves it, I believe that StarCraft beats WC CS, and D2 by a two-to-one margin.
Of course that is all in jest, but I did just get broadband today, with 6MB down and 2 MB up for a measely 30K Won per month (?US$28?). Beats my Thailand 56K for about the same price. I'm torrenting FC3Test1 right now.
Well, this reminds me of the "Famous Amos" story. Bare with me... Amos opened a cookie store in my home town in Hawaii. He was very successful. His operation was named "Famous Amos," and his ads were famously bad, always including his likeness.
Unforutately, Amos didn't have the best legal counsel, and was bought out for a lot of money, which he though was a good thing. Until he found out that he couldn't use his own name anymore. His likeness, considered a trademark, was also forbidden. He was a man without name or face.
He almost immediately opened a competing company with a Hawaiian name pronounced NO-NAH-MEI, and spelled "Noname." He had the same bad commercials with his face blacked out. I don't think that he planned to make any money this way, just protest the loss of his name and face.
Since these markets haven't gotten used to Windows,
I don't know about Syria, but Malaysia is definitely used to Windows.
I now live in Korea, but for the four and a half years that I lived in Thailand, I saw exactly the same thing that you do... I think the difference between the two countries in Linux use will diminish as time goes on, because the Thai government started policies like the one in the story about three years ago, and longer than that for some projects like SiS (School Intranet Server, based on RH).
I have also purchased many Linux CDs at IT malls like Panthip Plaza (though I prefer Zeer Rangsit) sitting right next to the newest release from MS, and costing three times as much. The cops take a cut there, so the CDs run about 150 Baht each (US $4.50), maybe less with a discount. That means that LinuxTLE, Mandrake, or Fedora will cost me 400 Baht, while the guy next to me buys Windows for 150. I try to complain that my software is legal, and that they should cut me an extra discount, but it never works.
What's even worse is when the guys don't check the MD5SUMs (or even know what they are...) and give you that "no exchanges" policy. Sometimes it would just be easier to pirate software than to try to purchase legal stuff.
It has happened severa times before, and MS lost the court cases on it, and noone cared. Oh well..
And how long before that was the previous terrorist attack (by a foreign agency, not OK City) thet took lives in that country? I think that three and a half years proves nothing statistically (because it is well below the mean), and that the success of the "War on Terror" cannot be assessed the way you think that it can.
Did I say the gov't should do a better job of protecting us? Am I a liberal? No to both.
The world is not a safe place. There are reasonable precautions that can be made without impinging on other's rights to freedom, and those should be taken. Anything which involves curtailment of rights, especially the rights to privacy and free speech, should be looked at askance.
Hey guy! Thai programmers make about 1.50-2.25 per hour. Startling?