one, it doesn't cost the software companies a thing. you steal a car, it takes steel, rubber, plastic from somewhere. you make a DIGITAL copy, it costs software co. nothing.
See, it's like this: you steal the car, and the owner gets compensation from his insurance company. He then goes and buys another car, probably the same make. The auto company now has made two sales to an individual that would normally only buy one, and the individual who stole the first car almost certainly would never have bought one, anyway.
I am proud to say that I have lisences for every piece of software on my business and home computers, although, admittedly, 98% of it is open source. You have to make a choice and live with the consequences.
You might try looking here or here or maybe even here.
On second thought, you're right. No "corporate" distributions even support any sort of scripted / unattended install.
I'm going to sleep now. Check my journal.
How about this:
On January 30th, the Ministry of Technology in Thailand announced that 2003 would be the Year of Open Source in Thailand, with the Asia Pacific area countries having named it the center for OSS development in the region. They are expanding their 2 year old low-cost computer initiative, giving Linux to 8 out of 10 computers on the CarreFour showfloor. They are holding a summit of all the major local computer makers, with calls for more local development and OSS games. I'd give links, but they're all in Thai, so mostly useless to the outside world.
Jim from LTSP (part of the consortium) told me last night that the Desktop Summit was kind of a wake-up call for them, that there really needed to be some activist measures taken in a vendor neutral manner. When I checked the website last night after he told me, there still wasn't any official announcement.
It's really sad that you spend so much time posting this comment. It has, itself, turned into a BSD is dying type troll, and yet, still, somehow, manages to get modded insightful every time.
You know what? English has so many transliterated words that later were conjugated improperly that your fight is pointless. I mean, Cambridge and Oxford still fight over syllabuses and syllabi. Bottom line is that language changes often, and rarely follows the rules when it does. You pshawed your English teacher when she berated you about using you instead of one, and I currently bristle at the disappearance of adverbs from the language (He runs fast kills me every time). Let the language move on and evolve.
Please stop, unless you're karma whoring, but then there's little point in that anymore, now is there? Just so you can look at percentage points?
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So was I. I am running everything off of a diskless xterm with networked sound. Give me some credit.
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The last time I did it, XMMS was using 11 megabits per second.
I doubt it. My little workstation uses XMMS all the time with Gimp going and xmms playing through the esound plugin, and the station right now is consuming about 200k for the Coyote Ugly soundtrack. I can (and have) run 25 clients with xmms over a 100Mb network. full screen visualization. Whatever you're doing, I doubt that it's taking 11Mb. I have never pushed a single station over 1. But this one goes to 11...
I would, however, like to see this if only because so many apps are only aware of one or two sound daemons (some only dsp) and this might make network sound easier to set up and more consistent across applications, which is the only real problem that I now run into. Flash, for instance, doesn't seem to like me for using esd.
Well, I live in Thailand and get these all the time. I often watch the English subtitles with my girlfriend so that she can learn some, but often we end up tourning them off because they hurt more htan help. From Monsters, Inc. (which I grabbed randomly to get some examples), the first scene confuses Mr. Bile with Mr. Byrl, Phlegm with film, "the largest mistake" with "the big mistake," and "I'm Monsters' Inc" with "Hey, monster incorporated." Star Wars Episodes IV, V, an VI are atrociously bad. We face it every day, even when you think that you are buying the real item, you often aren't.
Ocean's Eleven is (because of all the slang) rarely correct in any sentence, and often has minutes of blank titles where the translator got totally lost.
I always make the joke that some Malaysian who knows very little English and even less Thai does both the subtitles for the pirates over here. The Thai is sometimes following some parallel story from another universe.
I don't know... Why don't you tell me how to recognize the difference between a dog and a cat...
Incedently, I'm confused why Junior gave up his rook for a knight and no real position in move 17.
Actually, I laid no importance on speed. However, at some point children need to go from counting on their fingers and toes to just knowing the answer. Same goes for multiplication if they want to advance. I actually said that I learned rather late and did it at my own pace, but it didn't make any difference, and you were the one who said to always wait to optimize code with a programmers creed. You are the mathematician and programmer You don't program children. You can't think of them like computers.
Though, I do thank you for the long and drawn out trolling. I enjoyed it. I hope you did, as well. In four years of slashdot, this is the first time that I've never been trolled. You are quite good at it.
Cya
I take it back. You are an asshole. Have you ever even been involved in the education of children? Do you understand how child development works? Why young boys abhor reading? What role independent free thinking and what role memorization play in language acquisition?
If you think that you, singlehandedly, can change primary math education by treating children as programs, then you obviously have never taught one. I hope you grow up before you have children of your own, or that, if you already have them, your husband or wife puts a restraining order against you.
The difference is between rote memorization in table format ("knowing your multiplication tables) and using a long a drawn out algorithm to do so. There's a big difference, and it lies in the speed of access, which is what my original post was about = that early memorization of tables is not necessary for advancing in mathematics, but everyone will find it useful at some time. I was in one of the top five engineering schools with 400 level math courses my freshman year and 500 my sophomore year, so maybe I could be considered a mathematician, as well. Probably not. I don't know....
OT but possibly relavent: My girlfriend Goy has recently become interested in chat with some email penpals, so we got her on Gaim and yahoo (where she already had email), but when she wanted to talk to someone on MSN, we needed to sign her up for passport. It was a painfully long process. After it was all finished, there was a link at the top right of the web page to "check the availability of teh service." I was curious, clicked, and was told that the servers were all up and running with no problems. Goy (see sig for background) was completely confused as I fell out of my chair laughing. I sure hope they are up I said between gasps for air.
No, what I was trying to say was that I did NOT know 6*9, but I could do 5*9 where I halve 9 leaving me with 4, which gives you 40, but it's odd so you add 5 which is 45, after which you add another 9 to get 6*9. I actually knew only my 2s and 5*5, 6*6, 7*7...etc. I read your post, and I thought that my answer was concise, but clear. I guess that I was wrong.
Wrong on all three. Go back to English 101. Do not pass go.
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Funny, all my computers but the server are P133s with 16MbRam and 1Mb S3 video, and they all run Linux with Gimp, Mozilla, and OfficeTLE (OO.o) running almost all the time. I see no problems.
The massive server for these relics from history is a powerhouse Duron 850 with 256Mb.
Go here for some enlightenment on the subject.
Not to be pedantic, but I didn't know my mult table until the 6th grade, mostly because my "gifted" programs taught things like base 8 and 2, and I could complete anything I needed within the required time with integer math like 6*9=9/2*10+5+9=54. When I got to 7th, this method became too slow, so I learned the tables then. Didn't hurt in the long run: I entered WashU at the DiffEq level. It all depends on the student. Loosen up.
How about my anectdotal evidence of two Thai English majors at a university who know how to surf and chat and... nope, that's it. I removed all the pirated MSOffice installs from our language lab, and hired an English student to do some data entry for me. She brought her boyfriend along every time. After using OO.o for about 4 days, during which there was no training outsife of "Save your files to this location," the boyfriend asked me if it was the new Office XP. Thai is not the most computer literate society. They adjusted quite well.
The FIRST thing that I tought about when I read that her bought 50 clients was "Why the h**l didn't he just reuse the old hardware and K12Ltsp.org the whole setup" He could have saved the school thousands and himself hours of admin time.
By the way, are you using the new 3.0, and, if so, how is it? I want to marry it with a Thai distro, which has a new version based on RH8.0 due out next month, but I'll stay with 2.1.2 if it's buggy.
Hey, friend, I looked at BitTorrent some time ago, and while I liked the idea of saving bandwidth that way, I was seriously worried about the security issues. Do you really think that much of the slashdot privacy crowd are going to go for built-in P2P file sharing. The MD5Sum method will have to be improved before I'm going to do that!
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one, it doesn't cost the software companies a thing. you steal a car, it takes steel, rubber, plastic from somewhere. you make a DIGITAL copy, it costs software co. nothing.
See, it's like this: you steal the car, and the owner gets compensation from his insurance company. He then goes and buys another car, probably the same make. The auto company now has made two sales to an individual that would normally only buy one, and the individual who stole the first car almost certainly would never have bought one, anyway.
I am proud to say that I have lisences for every piece of software on my business and home computers, although, admittedly, 98% of it is open source. You have to make a choice and live with the consequences.
You might try looking here or here or maybe even here.
On second thought, you're right. No "corporate" distributions even support any sort of scripted / unattended install.
I'm going to sleep now. Check my journal.
How about this: On January 30th, the Ministry of Technology in Thailand announced that 2003 would be the Year of Open Source in Thailand, with the Asia Pacific area countries having named it the center for OSS development in the region. They are expanding their 2 year old low-cost computer initiative, giving Linux to 8 out of 10 computers on the CarreFour showfloor. They are holding a summit of all the major local computer makers, with calls for more local development and OSS games. I'd give links, but they're all in Thai, so mostly useless to the outside world.
Jim from LTSP (part of the consortium) told me last night that the Desktop Summit was kind of a wake-up call for them, that there really needed to be some activist measures taken in a vendor neutral manner. When I checked the website last night after he told me, there still wasn't any official announcement.
It's really sad that you spend so much time posting this comment. It has, itself, turned into a BSD is dying type troll, and yet, still, somehow, manages to get modded insightful every time.
You know what? English has so many transliterated words that later were conjugated improperly that your fight is pointless. I mean, Cambridge and Oxford still fight over syllabuses and syllabi. Bottom line is that language changes often, and rarely follows the rules when it does. You pshawed your English teacher when she berated you about using you instead of one, and I currently bristle at the disappearance of adverbs from the language (He runs fast kills me every time). Let the language move on and evolve.
Please stop, unless you're karma whoring, but then there's little point in that anymore, now is there? Just so you can look at percentage points?
Eat your own dog food, man...
So was I. I am running everything off of a diskless xterm with networked sound. Give me some credit.
The last time I did it, XMMS was using 11 megabits per second.
I doubt it. My little workstation uses XMMS all the time with Gimp going and xmms playing through the esound plugin, and the station right now is consuming about 200k for the Coyote Ugly soundtrack. I can (and have) run 25 clients with xmms over a 100Mb network. full screen visualization. Whatever you're doing, I doubt that it's taking 11Mb. I have never pushed a single station over 1. But this one goes to 11...
I would, however, like to see this if only because so many apps are only aware of one or two sound daemons (some only dsp) and this might make network sound easier to set up and more consistent across applications, which is the only real problem that I now run into. Flash, for instance, doesn't seem to like me for using esd.
Well, I live in Thailand and get these all the time. I often watch the English subtitles with my girlfriend so that she can learn some, but often we end up tourning them off because they hurt more htan help. From Monsters, Inc. (which I grabbed randomly to get some examples), the first scene confuses Mr. Bile with Mr. Byrl, Phlegm with film, "the largest mistake" with "the big mistake," and "I'm Monsters' Inc" with "Hey, monster incorporated." Star Wars Episodes IV, V, an VI are atrociously bad. We face it every day, even when you think that you are buying the real item, you often aren't.
Ocean's Eleven is (because of all the slang) rarely correct in any sentence, and often has minutes of blank titles where the translator got totally lost.
I always make the joke that some Malaysian who knows very little English and even less Thai does both the subtitles for the pirates over here. The Thai is sometimes following some parallel story from another universe.
I don't know... Why don't you tell me how to recognize the difference between a dog and a cat...
Incedently, I'm confused why Junior gave up his rook for a knight and no real position in move 17.
Actually, I laid no importance on speed. However, at some point children need to go from counting on their fingers and toes to just knowing the answer. Same goes for multiplication if they want to advance. I actually said that I learned rather late and did it at my own pace, but it didn't make any difference, and you were the one who said to always wait to optimize code with a programmers creed. You are the mathematician and programmer You don't program children. You can't think of them like computers.
Though, I do thank you for the long and drawn out trolling. I enjoyed it. I hope you did, as well. In four years of slashdot, this is the first time that I've never been trolled. You are quite good at it.
Cya
I take it back. You are an asshole. Have you ever even been involved in the education of children? Do you understand how child development works? Why young boys abhor reading? What role independent free thinking and what role memorization play in language acquisition? If you think that you, singlehandedly, can change primary math education by treating children as programs, then you obviously have never taught one. I hope you grow up before you have children of your own, or that, if you already have them, your husband or wife puts a restraining order against you.
You are a man who is too full of himself.
Man, they should turn that into a movie.
Keanu as the lead...? No... we need someone brawnier.
The difference is between rote memorization in table format ("knowing your multiplication tables) and using a long a drawn out algorithm to do so. There's a big difference, and it lies in the speed of access, which is what my original post was about = that early memorization of tables is not necessary for advancing in mathematics, but everyone will find it useful at some time. I was in one of the top five engineering schools with 400 level math courses my freshman year and 500 my sophomore year, so maybe I could be considered a mathematician, as well. Probably not. I don't know....
OT but possibly relavent: My girlfriend Goy has recently become interested in chat with some email penpals, so we got her on Gaim and yahoo (where she already had email), but when she wanted to talk to someone on MSN, we needed to sign her up for passport. It was a painfully long process. After it was all finished, there was a link at the top right of the web page to "check the availability of teh service." I was curious, clicked, and was told that the servers were all up and running with no problems. Goy (see sig for background) was completely confused as I fell out of my chair laughing. I sure hope they are up I said between gasps for air.
No, what I was trying to say was that I did NOT know 6*9, but I could do 5*9 where I halve 9 leaving me with 4, which gives you 40, but it's odd so you add 5 which is 45, after which you add another 9 to get 6*9. I actually knew only my 2s and 5*5, 6*6, 7*7 ...etc. I read your post, and I thought that my answer was concise, but clear. I guess that I was wrong.
Wrong on all three. Go back to English 101. Do not pass go.
Funny, all my computers but the server are P133s with 16MbRam and 1Mb S3 video, and they all run Linux with Gimp, Mozilla, and OfficeTLE (OO.o) running almost all the time. I see no problems.
The massive server for these relics from history is a powerhouse Duron 850 with 256Mb.
Go here for some enlightenment on the subject.
I guess the guys at Gnome don't agree with you, and neither does Gambas.
Not to be pedantic, but I didn't know my mult table until the 6th grade, mostly because my "gifted" programs taught things like base 8 and 2, and I could complete anything I needed within the required time with integer math like 6*9=9/2*10+5+9=54. When I got to 7th, this method became too slow, so I learned the tables then. Didn't hurt in the long run: I entered WashU at the DiffEq level. It all depends on the student. Loosen up.
How about my anectdotal evidence of two Thai English majors at a university who know how to surf and chat and ... nope, that's it. I removed all the pirated MSOffice installs from our language lab, and hired an English student to do some data entry for me. She brought her boyfriend along every time. After using OO.o for about 4 days, during which there was no training outsife of "Save your files to this location," the boyfriend asked me if it was the new Office XP. Thai is not the most computer literate society. They adjusted quite well.
The FIRST thing that I tought about when I read that her bought 50 clients was "Why the h**l didn't he just reuse the old hardware and K12Ltsp.org the whole setup"
He could have saved the school thousands and himself hours of admin time. By the way, are you using the new 3.0, and, if so, how is it? I want to marry it with a Thai distro, which has a new version based on RH8.0 due out next month, but I'll stay with 2.1.2 if it's buggy.
Then I'm really confused as to why they bought all new beige boxes
Hey, friend, I looked at BitTorrent some time ago, and while I liked the idea of saving bandwidth that way, I was seriously worried about the security issues. Do you really think that much of the slashdot privacy crowd are going to go for built-in P2P file sharing. The MD5Sum method will have to be improved before I'm going to do that!