I wasn't talking about how as in technically. I meant how do we convice, because managers are going to look at this and say that they don't know where the line is and / or if their project is going to be ripped from them.
I replaced my venerable Z32 (which worked ok, BTW) with a used HP Laserfet 5L. I had refilled the ink in the Z32 twice, so had to buy a new cartridge (around 1200 Baht) and found the 5L for sale for 2500. It will save me a bundle in ink charges.
I read this story a couple of days ago, and thought it was rather a strange idea. I don't know where access is that slow. At the time, I thought maybe it might be used with the ham radio internet they're going to get in Laos as part of a "empower the farmers" program.
No, but I am suprised that a lower bid was not made for free software. I'm assuming (didn't RTFA) that a nice bid process was followed for such a purpose. Couldn't Redhat have easily underbid them?
This is not flamebait! I want to know where HURD stands now. I mean, when I go to the website, it all looks rosy, but then I don't know yet if they've conquered the 1 GB barrier or what else is left to happen. Anyone have a reasonable system up and running on it?
But everyone does benefit. You put public benefit in quotes, but if it's free software, then they do. It's like saying that Ford shouldn't contribute to a research foundation which publishes the results of its findings, which Ford futher takes and uses to create a new product. The public still got the results, and other corporations, government agencies or non-profits are also able to do the same as Ford.
Which raises the interesting question, i.e., should 501(c)(3) status be granted? In particular, should contributions by AOL to the Mozilla Foundation be tax deductible when AOL will use any work performed by the "public benefit corporation" in its Netscape product?
This is actually pretty nice, and I would like to see it become a trend. Take a large pice of internal work, turn it into free software under a non-profit, and get the writeoff. The public benefits in a big way, so it should be a writeoff.
I hope that someday my stripping of IE with 98lite and replacing it with Mozilla in the Language lab will be looked back at as a good move. Right now, it isn't.
I'll rephrase. I recommended 13th Floor to everyone. I thought it was a good movie, but not great. I certainly thought it was mile above the Matrix, as you will see if you follow the thread up a little. In short, I did like the movie, so I recommended it.
You'll have to clue me in on this one, because I can't quote the Architect at all. I haven't spent my life dissecting the Matrix for meaning. Is it about promising nothing but the truth? or what?
I didn't mean that The 13th Floor was a great movie: it wasn't. Just that it treated the subject in a more interesting way. I felt the story was first and the effects were second, not the other way around. Hey, but I already made the comment today that SF short stories make the best movies. They can flesh them out a little instead of cutting two-thirds of the material out.
No, I'm saying that the first five minutes and the last five minutes of the movie made me ask questions about how. That is not the place to put them to keep suspension of disbelief in place. For that reason I think it was bad, but I thought the first one was, too.
I had thought about that as an explanation of the final scene, but I still won't buy it even if it's the "prison within a prison" scenario. It will take a lot of explaining to get that one fixed for me, and I'm not the only one.
I live in a developing country, so we don't get Oracle commercials, but I always though that it was "unbreakable Oracle" and that it was about clustering for high availability: you know - it doesn't break. I could be wrong, but I don't think the point was that no one could crack it.
I'm no Matrix fan, but I have the DVD besause, you know, the whhooosh stuff. Anyway, I took my GF to see Reloaded, and I say this: if the first minute and the last minute of the movie totally destroy my suspension of disbelief, then how am I supposed to get into it?
I walked out of the room when I say The Matrix because of the junior high philosophy being thrown at me, but this was totally beyond that. This was absolute disregard for self consistancy. How do you get premonitions in the real world about what will happen in a computer simulation? How do you take your power out of that simulation and into the real world?
I saw a much better treatment of the whole "what is real?" philosophical mumbo jumbo in a movie called "The Thirteenth Floor." A computer company makes a simulation for people's amusement, and it explores the moral side of the AI problem. No great special effects, but a much more solid story line.
The PDF export has been backported to OfficeTLE 1.0.2 and has been in there for several months already. I am excited about the MySQL access, instead of going through ODBC, which is a pain for me on a redhat 8/9 based system. Hopefully OfficeTLE 1.1 will be out soon.
Which one? I've had two girlfriends since I came to Thailand. Thanks for the show of love, though.
BTW, Germany is being held as the example to follow for open source in government.
Many of us live in countries not as developed as Germany. The cost to do translation is a grain of sand compared to the desert of the cost of teching English to a nation. KDE and Gnome are good for translation, but sometimes still suffer problems with 8 and 16 bit character sets.
The starting salary for most university grads in Thailand is around 8000 Baht, or US$190 per month. The manual laborers get 100-150 Baht (US$2.50 - 3.75) per day of work.
This is already the situation in Thailand. Most of the local makers are competing so heavily on price that Windows is the option. Liberta computers has their own version of Linux, in fact, standard on every computer. Fully 70% of the computers in any department store run some version of Linux, with the others having WinXP on a "30 day trial."
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I wasn't talking about how as in technically. I meant how do we convice, because managers are going to look at this and say that they don't know where the line is and / or if their project is going to be ripped from them.
All I can say is that this is bad shit. How will we get folks to develop from the LGPL now?
I replaced my venerable Z32 (which worked ok, BTW) with a used HP Laserfet 5L. I had refilled the ink in the Z32 twice, so had to buy a new cartridge (around 1200 Baht) and found the 5L for sale for 2500. It will save me a bundle in ink charges.
I read this story a couple of days ago, and thought it was rather a strange idea. I don't know where access is that slow. At the time, I thought maybe it might be used with the ham radio internet they're going to get in Laos as part of a "empower the farmers" program.
No, but I am suprised that a lower bid was not made for free software. I'm assuming (didn't RTFA) that a nice bid process was followed for such a purpose. Couldn't Redhat have easily underbid them?
This is not flamebait! I want to know where HURD stands now. I mean, when I go to the website, it all looks rosy, but then I don't know yet if they've conquered the 1 GB barrier or what else is left to happen. Anyone have a reasonable system up and running on it?
Depressing, especially Kim Fullerton, who was laid off during maternity leave.
Really, I always thought it was part of the tron/troff pair. As in TRace ON, but that's probably just on my Model I.
But everyone does benefit. You put public benefit in quotes, but if it's free software, then they do. It's like saying that Ford shouldn't contribute to a research foundation which publishes the results of its findings, which Ford futher takes and uses to create a new product. The public still got the results, and other corporations, government agencies or non-profits are also able to do the same as Ford.
Which raises the interesting question, i.e., should 501(c)(3) status be granted? In particular, should contributions by AOL to the Mozilla Foundation be tax deductible when AOL will use any work performed by the "public benefit corporation" in its Netscape product?
This is actually pretty nice, and I would like to see it become a trend. Take a large pice of internal work, turn it into free software under a non-profit, and get the writeoff. The public benefits in a big way, so it should be a writeoff.
I hope that someday my stripping of IE with 98lite and replacing it with Mozilla in the Language lab will be looked back at as a good move. Right now, it isn't.
I'll rephrase. I recommended 13th Floor to everyone. I thought it was a good movie, but not great. I certainly thought it was mile above the Matrix, as you will see if you follow the thread up a little. In short, I did like the movie, so I recommended it.
You'll have to clue me in on this one, because I can't quote the Architect at all. I haven't spent my life dissecting the Matrix for meaning. Is it about promising nothing but the truth? or what?
I didn't mean that The 13th Floor was a great movie: it wasn't. Just that it treated the subject in a more interesting way. I felt the story was first and the effects were second, not the other way around. Hey, but I already made the comment today that SF short stories make the best movies. They can flesh them out a little instead of cutting two-thirds of the material out.
No, I'm saying that the first five minutes and the last five minutes of the movie made me ask questions about how. That is not the place to put them to keep suspension of disbelief in place. For that reason I think it was bad, but I thought the first one was, too.
I had thought about that as an explanation of the final scene, but I still won't buy it even if it's the "prison within a prison" scenario. It will take a lot of explaining to get that one fixed for me, and I'm not the only one.
I live in a developing country, so we don't get Oracle commercials, but I always though that it was "unbreakable Oracle" and that it was about clustering for high availability: you know - it doesn't break. I could be wrong, but I don't think the point was that no one could crack it.
I'm no Matrix fan, but I have the DVD besause, you know, the whhooosh stuff. Anyway, I took my GF to see Reloaded, and I say this: if the first minute and the last minute of the movie totally destroy my suspension of disbelief, then how am I supposed to get into it?
I walked out of the room when I say The Matrix because of the junior high philosophy being thrown at me, but this was totally beyond that. This was absolute disregard for self consistancy. How do you get premonitions in the real world about what will happen in a computer simulation? How do you take your power out of that simulation and into the real world?
I saw a much better treatment of the whole "what is real?" philosophical mumbo jumbo in a movie called "The Thirteenth Floor." A computer company makes a simulation for people's amusement, and it explores the moral side of the AI problem. No great special effects, but a much more solid story line.
The PDF export has been backported to OfficeTLE 1.0.2 and has been in there for several months already. I am excited about the MySQL access, instead of going through ODBC, which is a pain for me on a redhat 8/9 based system. Hopefully OfficeTLE 1.1 will be out soon.
Which one? I've had two girlfriends since I came to Thailand. Thanks for the show of love, though.
BTW, Germany is being held as the example to follow for open source in government.
Many of us live in countries not as developed as Germany. The cost to do translation is a grain of sand compared to the desert of the cost of teching English to a nation. KDE and Gnome are good for translation, but sometimes still suffer problems with 8 and 16 bit character sets.
Can anyone fluent post a good translation? Babelfish just doesn't do it.
The Minstry of ICT and Ministry of Science have set a goal of 50% Linux use within 3-5 years over here.
The starting salary for most university grads in Thailand is around 8000 Baht, or US$190 per month. The manual laborers get 100-150 Baht (US$2.50 - 3.75) per day of work.
This is already the situation in Thailand. Most of the local makers are competing so heavily on price that Windows is the option. Liberta computers has their own version of Linux, in fact, standard on every computer. Fully 70% of the computers in any department store run some version of Linux, with the others having WinXP on a "30 day trial."