Oops. I guess I wasn't kidding when I said with links. Anyway, here is what I meant to submit.
Welcome to the official web site of Light Up The World Foundation.
The goal of LUTW is to be instrumental in providing White Light Emitting
Diode home lighting, by both humanitarian and local entrepreneurial means,
to one million people in the developing world by 2005 - thus enabling children
to study in the evenings.
This web site is intended to introduce you to a groundbreaking initiative instigated by
Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Calgary, Canada.The primary purpose of this project is to introduce to
the developing world a safe,
simple, healthy, reliable and
affordable form of home lighting,
using white light emitting diodes
(WLED). This rugged home
lighting system will allow people in
some of the poorest and least
developed rural communities to
light up their homes and raise their
quality of living. Please explore
our web pages to find out more
information about the WLED
home lighting project and how we are making a difference by assisting Nepali
villager's achieve a higher quality of living by their own efforts.
Aug 24, 2002. Join us for the Light Up The World - Rocky Mountain Relay (2
person) at Canmore, Alberta.
All race proceeds support LUTW. Click here for entry forms and info.
The goal of LUTW is to be instrumental in providing White Light Emitting
Diode home lighting, by both humanitarian and local entrepreneurial means,
to one million people in the developing world by 2005 - thus enabling children
to study in the evenings.
This web site is intended to introduce you to a groundbreaking initiative instigated by
Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Calgary, Canada.The primary purpose of this project is to introduce to
the developing world a safe,
simple, healthy, reliable and
affordable form of home lighting,
using white light emitting diodes
(WLED). This rugged home
lighting system will allow people in
some of the poorest and least
developed rural communities to
light up their homes and raise their
quality of living. Please explore
our web pages to find out more
information about the WLED
home lighting project and how we are making a difference by assisting Nepali
villager's achieve a higher quality of living by their own efforts.
Aug 24, 2002. Join us for the Light Up The World - Rocky Mountain Relay (2
person) at Canmore, Alberta.
All race proceeds support LUTW. Click here for entry forms and info.
Over the objections of Microsoft, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she would allow nine states seeking stiff sanctions against the company to have a computer expert demonstrate a version of Windows he has developed that can be customized.
I notice the article does not say "Over the objections of Microsoft and the US Dept of Justice." Maybe the Justice Dept. has decided not to be so vigorous in defending Microsoft.
The quote in the story is a little misleading. Here is the full quote:
Another Microsoft executive, Dave Foster, cut the discussion short:
"No more replies," he wrote. "We need to keep all of this off the
airwaves."
The Microsoft executive is stating that the discussion of what they are doing and why needs to be kept off the email "airwaves." In my mind, this is actually more damning, because it intimates that he knows what they are doing could get them in trouble.
Self-serving story and self-serving poll both on the front page. Although this may be "News for Nerds," I would rather not have Themes.org overkill. Then again, maybe its a slow day.
It was on the front page when I posted, and then by the time I hit submit, it was gone from the front page. I think the answer is in my post above- The deadline is up. That is probably why they replaced it on the main page.
or does it seem like these public comment periods are only publicized on the day the comments are due?
I used to be an expert at just-in-time assignment production, but as I am getting older, I could use a little more time to formulate an intelligent comment.
For those of you who don't think this really matters...
There is a right guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States by the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged." I see this right as upholding and ensuring the preservation of the other rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
Any soldier or historian will tell you that effective, non-compromised communication is one of the deciding factors in battles and wars. In a strange twist of fate (or maybe not so strange), the freedom of speech is tied closely to the right to keep and bear arms. Arms will not do a group of determined individuals a lot of good if they don't have an effective non-compromised communication system. Parallels can be drawn between an attack on the people's right to analyze algorithms and an attack on the people's right to keep and bear arms.
Save your $600. If you want the novelty of a touchscreen try something like this. Casio have been doing these for a long time.
Back in 1985, I had a Casio Calculator watch which had the buttons down the side like a normal digital watch. However, in calculator mode, the display stuff disappeared and the face of watch became a touchscreen. It wouldn't work with gloves or pencils, but I never had a problem with it.
Can anyone show us examples of Linux or other computer user groups working together well with educational districts or institutions? Also useful would be examples of schools which have successfully made the switch to mostly GNU or Open-Source software.
Back in Junior High (1982-1985), I was "into" computers. I thought it would be fun to have a job working with them.
I thought to myself:
By the time I am looking for a job, they will have computers entirely sorted out and get them to do pretty much whatever they want automatically. But they will always eventually need to make something move.
So I went to college and got a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After working for a couple years as an engineer and not doing very well, I decided to make the move into computers and got a job as a programmer. It is nice now to be ahead on my projects instead of always behind and its a bonus to be able to make things happen which "can't be done."
The keys are passion for what you do and fitting your career to your strengths and interests. I was too much of a perfectionist to crank out engineering drawings at an acceptable rate.
This time they have gone too far. I live here in Oregon and have three kids in public schools. I work for a state agency which, like many other state agencies in Oregon is undergoing significant budget cuts.
Portland is a bit of a drive for me, but I am seriously thinking about taking some time off and volunteering to go up there and help them audit machines, wipe hard drives, and install Linux clients or whatever they need. In fact, anyone else who wants to do the same could join me in emailing them here or maybe the help desk here.
Press release from Sun dated June 28, 2000 here says that
registrants who have signed up for the Free Solaris
[SM] Binary License Program within its first 90 days of availability have indicated that they plan to install Sun's operating environment on 260,000 systems.
I feel so mad, I could spam all the schools in my area with a link to the article and the quote
It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine.
How can a 15$ OEM OS force a computer purchaser to use the "pre-installed" OS "for the life of the machine"? Actually shouldn't this qualify as deceptive advertising? Who do you report that to?
but I guess it's not illegal.
I like Google, and want to support their business. So . . . when googling for cockeyed.com and herbalife, a whole slew of google's non-intrusive text-only ads show up on the right side of the results page. This tells me that herbalife must be a pretty popular keyword to advertise on. According to Google's new advertising plan, advertisers are paid per click-through and the more popular the ads, the more each click-through costs. This is getting long-winded, but bottom line is that I went through and clicked each ad just to throw some revenue Google's way.
It's lunchtime here on the West Coast and I like to live dangerously.
Slashdot Mirror
Oops. I guess I wasn't kidding when I said with links. Anyway, here is what I meant to submit.
Welcome to the official web site of Light Up The World Foundation.
The goal of LUTW is to be instrumental in providing White Light Emitting Diode home lighting, by both humanitarian and local entrepreneurial means, to one million people in the developing world by 2005 - thus enabling children to study in the evenings.
This web site is intended to introduce you to a groundbreaking initiative instigated by Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada.The primary purpose of this project is to introduce to the developing world a safe, simple, healthy, reliable and affordable form of home lighting, using white light emitting diodes (WLED). This rugged home lighting system will allow people in some of the poorest and least developed rural communities to light up their homes and raise their quality of living. Please explore our web pages to find out more information about the WLED home lighting project and how we are making a difference by assisting Nepali villager's achieve a higher quality of living by their own efforts.
Aug 24, 2002. Join us for the Light Up The World - Rocky Mountain Relay (2 person) at Canmore, Alberta. All race proceeds support LUTW. Click here for entry forms and info.
LUTW Countries: 2000, 2001 and Projected for 2002.
Light Up The World Project Photos: Everest, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka.
Thank you to our generous supportors: Donations List.
Donation Information.
Welcome to the official web site of Light Up The World Foundation.
The goal of LUTW is to be instrumental in providing White Light Emitting Diode home lighting, by both humanitarian and local entrepreneurial means, to one million people in the developing world by 2005 - thus enabling children to study in the evenings.
This web site is intended to introduce you to a groundbreaking initiative instigated by Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada.The primary purpose of this project is to introduce to the developing world a safe, simple, healthy, reliable and affordable form of home lighting, using white light emitting diodes (WLED). This rugged home lighting system will allow people in some of the poorest and least developed rural communities to light up their homes and raise their quality of living. Please explore our web pages to find out more information about the WLED home lighting project and how we are making a difference by assisting Nepali villager's achieve a higher quality of living by their own efforts.
Aug 24, 2002. Join us for the Light Up The World - Rocky Mountain Relay (2 person) at Canmore, Alberta. All race proceeds support LUTW. Click here for entry forms and info.
LUTW Countries: 2000, 2001 and Projected for 2002.
Light Up The World Project Photos: Everest, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka.
Thank you to our generous supportors: Donations List.
Donation Information.
I notice the article does not say "Over the objections of Microsoft and the US Dept of Justice." Maybe the Justice Dept. has decided not to be so vigorous in defending Microsoft.
The quote in the story is a little misleading. Here is the full quote:
The Microsoft executive is stating that the discussion of what they are doing and why needs to be kept off the email "airwaves." In my mind, this is actually more damning, because it intimates that he knows what they are doing could get them in trouble.
Many of you have probably already read this, but here is an excellent newsletter on security and ID cards.
To paraphrase, the following questions must be answered for each proposed security measure:
Self-serving story and self-serving poll both on the front page. Although this may be "News for Nerds," I would rather not have Themes.org overkill. Then again, maybe its a slow day.
It was on the front page when I posted, and then by the time I hit submit, it was gone from the front page. I think the answer is in my post above- The deadline is up. That is probably why they replaced it on the main page.
or does it seem like these public comment periods are only publicized on the day the comments are due?
I used to be an expert at just-in-time assignment production, but as I am getting older, I could use a little more time to formulate an intelligent comment.
For those of you who don't think this really matters...
There is a right guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States by the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged." I see this right as upholding and ensuring the preservation of the other rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
Any soldier or historian will tell you that effective, non-compromised communication is one of the deciding factors in battles and wars. In a strange twist of fate (or maybe not so strange), the freedom of speech is tied closely to the right to keep and bear arms. Arms will not do a group of determined individuals a lot of good if they don't have an effective non-compromised communication system. Parallels can be drawn between an attack on the people's right to analyze algorithms and an attack on the people's right to keep and bear arms.
What are they afraid of?
The official site to view all of the photos is slashdotted, but for once, we didn't do it.
No Problem. Anything to stop the spread of the evil empire.
I think the papers you are thinking about are here and here with the index here.
Save your $600. If you want the novelty of a touchscreen try something like this. Casio have been doing these for a long time.
Back in 1985, I had a Casio Calculator watch which had the buttons down the side like a normal digital watch. However, in calculator mode, the display stuff disappeared and the face of watch became a touchscreen. It wouldn't work with gloves or pencils, but I never had a problem with it.In response to Microsoft's Strong-Arm Tactics against NW Schools, as discussed on Slashdot here, the Portland Linux Unix Group has been discussing how to go about effectively working with the local school districts and regions.
Can anyone show us examples of Linux or other computer user groups working together well with educational districts or institutions? Also useful would be examples of schools which have successfully made the switch to mostly GNU or Open-Source software.
Counter says 6503 people have visited as of 2:32 pm Pacific Time. Let's see how high we can rev it up.
(Just kidding. I think geocities sites hit a bandwidth cap pretty quick.)
Summaries of Court decisions affecting EULA's can be found here:.
http://www.void.jump.org/EmuFAQ2000/AppendixB.htm
See especially ProCD, Inc. v. Ziedenberg. 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir., 1996).
Back in Junior High (1982-1985), I was "into" computers. I thought it would be fun to have a job working with them.
I thought to myself:
So I went to college and got a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After working for a couple years as an engineer and not doing very well, I decided to make the move into computers and got a job as a programmer. It is nice now to be ahead on my projects instead of always behind and its a bonus to be able to make things happen which "can't be done."The keys are passion for what you do and fitting your career to your strengths and interests. I was too much of a perfectionist to crank out engineering drawings at an acceptable rate.
This is going to be a total rant, but here goes.
This time they have gone too far. I live here in Oregon and have three kids in public schools. I work for a state agency which, like many other state agencies in Oregon is undergoing significant budget cuts.
Portland is a bit of a drive for me, but I am seriously thinking about taking some time off and volunteering to go up there and help them audit machines, wipe hard drives, and install Linux clients or whatever they need. In fact, anyone else who wants to do the same could join me in emailing them here or maybe the help desk here.
Put your money/time where your mouth is.
Give added emphasis to the word "Micro-serfs"
Should be the "keep-some-to-pass-down" dept.
Try gorwell1984 and gorwell1984. Found that one by searching old articles for registrations. There's probably more out there.
-datastew
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