and you're telling me that it's not worth giving the government a little more leeway if it could possibly help stop terrorists???
Yeah, I'd say that. Govenment is not to be trusted. That a well known and historically supported truth. Just because it's easier to hand your life over to the gov't and then forgo responsibility, doesn't mean it's the better thing to do.
We are still fighting for our rights, and will be until the human race ceases to exist. Those in power want continued power over those who aren't, and will abridge the latter's rights wholly as much as they see feasible. This is also historically well shown.
I think you need to take some history courses. I'm not talking about America to the Civil War, either. You need look no further than post-WWII America to find numerous examples of it. You have your head in the sand, and believe what the gov't tells you just because the US has had over a hundred years without a coup. Don't.
Has the network sound situation with aRts been fixed yet. Many of us would like to use KDE for thin clients, but are stopped because sound is necessary for something and undoable on KDE. Thus, I'm stuck with Gnome or IceWM,
Yeah, but the internet is not most useful for it's English content for these people. If you look at projects like the one in Laos, they are there to directly help the farmer's quality of life by providing up-to-date pricing so that they don't get shafted by unscrupulous buyers, learn of new government programs for better farming, and do weather checks.
When we developed a large set of images to help teach English, some naturally lended themselves to animation. "Pick up your pencil" would be a little confusing for a six year old without motion, while it's perfectly clear with it.
In fact, everything for that project was png except the animation, and I wish that GIMP could've done that in an open format.
If the data is actually "Top Secret," as in a govenment contractor, then there is no such thing as trust. Everyone is backgrounded that will have access to the data, and constant checks are supposed to be made for changes in behavior, etc... There is no "benefit of the doubt."
Getting FC2 to a state of usability in a home or office environment requires a great deal more labor than I believe should be required. However, my complaints were put into perspective last week when I visited a classroom to start getting it ready for summer term. I walked in on a cursing, overworked desktop support tech who was griping loudly about the inordinate time it takes to install and patch Windows on a roomful of computers -- in an organization that will not pay for disk imaging software or an in-house Windows Update server. "You don't need Microsoft Office installed on these, I hope?" he asked through a fog of sweat and frustration. I acknowledged that I did not. Then he wanted to know if I needed HP printer drivers installed, with a cynical groan about how it would "only take a few more hours."
I used to supervise people who support Windows on the desktop. I had forgotten how bad Windows really is. Suddenly my gripes about Fedora seemed petty
I ran across this site some time ago while looking for EFL materials to contribute to, but it appears to have been in limbo for about two years, and no progress has been made. Perhaps this is the result of lobbying by the major textbook manufacturers? Nah.
My girlfriend had spent the last two months full-time making graphics for our school, and I went to remove the Graphics/ symlink inside my webserver document root, and it removed the actual directory. Amazingly stupid, using rm -rf, but I still don't fully understand why it happened. Perhaps I hard linked by accident?
The weblog entry 'Show me the money' is an interesting tale of Microsoft Money from a developer who now manages software development in the Tablet PC group at Microsoft.
That should read:
The weblog entry 'Show me the money' is an interesting tale of Microsoft Money from a former Misrosoft developer who now waits in line for his free cheese every week.
Wow, I don't expect him to last long there making public statements like this!
This was rather expensive, and likely in the downtown area. Normal rates throughout the country run 15-20 Baht/hr, or about US$0.50, even for places with broadband.
I know that you were joking, but I am going to respond to the quote. The rest of the third world is not waiting and taking notes. Asia has many meetings between the coutnries' respective organizations similar to NECTEC to has out a unified Asian strategy on things like open source software.
Thailand (which I know more about than the other countries), has had government supported open source for many years, including creating SIS (a Linux distro for use as an internet gateway in schools) and the necessary free internet access for the schools using it. They are on version 4.X now, and the program is at least six years old.
The Thai gov't also supports low cost computing initiatives from the Ministry of ICT, with full computers running about 11,000 Baht (~US$270), easily financed through the government bank with little hassle.
To say that other nations are resting on their butts and watching India is a little insulting, don't you think?
A consortium like this normally doesn't happen with the big guy on the block. It's an attempt by the Davids to join together to fight Goliath. That's what these things are and what there're for.
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and you're telling me that it's not worth giving the government a little more leeway if it could possibly help stop terrorists???
Yeah, I'd say that. Govenment is not to be trusted. That a well known and historically supported truth. Just because it's easier to hand your life over to the gov't and then forgo responsibility, doesn't mean it's the better thing to do.
We are still fighting for our rights, and will be until the human race ceases to exist. Those in power want continued power over those who aren't, and will abridge the latter's rights wholly as much as they see feasible. This is also historically well shown.
I think you need to take some history courses. I'm not talking about America to the Civil War, either. You need look no further than post-WWII America to find numerous examples of it. You have your head in the sand, and believe what the gov't tells you just because the US has had over a hundred years without a coup. Don't.
Has the network sound situation with aRts been fixed yet. Many of us would like to use KDE for thin clients, but are stopped because sound is necessary for something and undoable on KDE. Thus, I'm stuck with Gnome or IceWM,
Shit! "its" not "it's." I need to preview next time!
Yeah, but the internet is not most useful for it's English content for these people. If you look at projects like the one in Laos, they are there to directly help the farmer's quality of life by providing up-to-date pricing so that they don't get shafted by unscrupulous buyers, learn of new government programs for better farming, and do weather checks.
Farmers don't need to read Slashdot...
When we developed a large set of images to help teach English, some naturally lended themselves to animation. "Pick up your pencil" would be a little confusing for a six year old without motion, while it's perfectly clear with it.
In fact, everything for that project was png except the animation, and I wish that GIMP could've done that in an open format.
You should look into using it with LTSP and PXE boot. You can then forget about the hard drive altogether.
If the data is actually "Top Secret," as in a govenment contractor, then there is no such thing as trust. Everyone is backgrounded that will have access to the data, and constant checks are supposed to be made for changes in behavior, etc... There is no "benefit of the doubt."
I ran across this site some time ago while looking for EFL materials to contribute to, but it appears to have been in limbo for about two years, and no progress has been made. Perhaps this is the result of lobbying by the major textbook manufacturers? Nah.
Is that the point where you go to sleep because it's all so boring?
Neo: It's just that I thought you were a guy...
Trinity: Most guys do.
My girlfriend had spent the last two months full-time making graphics for our school, and I went to remove the Graphics/ symlink inside my webserver document root, and it removed the actual directory. Amazingly stupid, using rm -rf, but I still don't fully understand why it happened. Perhaps I hard linked by accident?
Because it was an unbelievably negative article? I was just joking, anyway...
You're right!
Na na na na Naaaaaa! I like the water.... Don't you wish that you were wet all day, too?
The weblog entry 'Show me the money' is an interesting tale of Microsoft Money from a developer who now manages software development in the Tablet PC group at Microsoft.
That should read: The weblog entry 'Show me the money' is an interesting tale of Microsoft Money from a former Misrosoft developer who now waits in line for his free cheese every week.
Wow, I don't expect him to last long there making public statements like this!
I don't much care, since neither are available for my chosen platform...
Damn straight!
This was rather expensive, and likely in the downtown area. Normal rates throughout the country run 15-20 Baht/hr, or about US$0.50, even for places with broadband.
With Longhorn being continually pushed back Duke-Nukem-style, XP may very well still be the business standard in 5 years.
I do agree with the general tone of your post, however.
I know that you were joking, but I am going to respond to the quote. The rest of the third world is not waiting and taking notes. Asia has many meetings between the coutnries' respective organizations similar to NECTEC to has out a unified Asian strategy on things like open source software.
Thailand (which I know more about than the other countries), has had government supported open source for many years, including creating SIS (a Linux distro for use as an internet gateway in schools) and the necessary free internet access for the schools using it. They are on version 4.X now, and the program is at least six years old.
The Thai gov't also supports low cost computing initiatives from the Ministry of ICT, with full computers running about 11,000 Baht (~US$270), easily financed through the government bank with little hassle.
To say that other nations are resting on their butts and watching India is a little insulting, don't you think?
Are you confusing the Flash plugin and the Shockwave plugin? They're not the same.
Since when have you been able to get Shockwave for Linux? Flash is released, but I have never found Shock.
Anyway, I thought that Netscape's methods had been used for so long that they were like a standard, anyway? Moz and Konq both use them. Why change?
A consortium like this normally doesn't happen with the big guy on the block. It's an attempt by the Davids to join together to fight Goliath. That's what these things are and what there're for.
Maybe now there will finally be some of the missing plugins like Shockwave.
Not that I really want it, but my kids do.