I have a T21 (I know its not the latest model, cos I have one of those too) It used to run WIndows XP, but now it doesnt - owing to a WIndows Update it has some kind of interrupt related crash during the boot sequencce. It wont run FreeBSD either, which it also used to.
I was going to throw it away, but I have a lot of acccessories for it, so I thought I would just try Ubuntu. It runs Ubuntu fine! (well it is kind of slow at some things, but if you use a phone on 3 as your modem, most things run like cold treacle anyway.)
What is it with people thinking that what the 3rd world needs are computers? What they need is clean water, learn better agriculture, and to get an education that will allow them to live a better life.
What is it with people like you? Have you been there? no!
The reason for poverty is not lack of resources, it is lack of a legal structure that delivers contract enforcement. This means that it is impossible to ahve organisations bigger than a small family with any degree of confidence, except by the use of force.
This is a cultural problem. (Helped immensely by the spread of Christianity and democracy).
Computers are immensely powerful in the 3rd world becausee the enable family-sized organisations to do massively bigger projects.
If they were sometimes required to directly push the levers to turn right, cut the ignition wire to stop the car, or remove and disassemble the motor (and then rebuild it) to recharge fuel, they would all use taxis.
Actually, some of us old timers grew up with British motorbikes. Every weekend you had to strip the engine and rebuild it. Now I can replace a turbo faster than the average taxi will arrive. I can rebuild an automatic gearbox faster than I can get a taxi over the Christmas holiday.
Yes, I learned about the command line on ttys in the 1970's too. And my mother was a Fortran programmer (IBM709 and 7090).
But I know people of all ages who save files in a random directory with a pointless name and then cant find them.
I have said it before, and I'll say it again. Spam is there to induce payment through credit/debit cards. If it was made illegal for (American) card companies to process the payment for transactions solicited through spam, there would be no spam. In other words, follow the money and yes, Its the Americans wot done it
Some of us move from one region to another quite frequently. Region locking is a complete show-stopper.
Only Americans could think
this is acceptable to consumers. The rest of the world sees this as more justification
for buying the pirate version instead of the legit version which is "goods not of merchandisable quality"
and therefore every bit as illegal here as the pirate version.
Unfortunately their form appears unable to accept perfectly legit email addresses!
The problem is either ".co.uk" is not accepted, or possibly that I have my own domain name.
Either way, it does not accept "anne@thwacks.co,uk" (or near equivalents) as an email address. Theyn will have to do better than that if they want to save the world!
I really don't want my 5-year old kids exposed to this level of graphic imagery.
Nope, but they will be, whether you like it or not, until such time as the US government
does something pretty horrendous to the poeple sending this stuff. (I personally recommend
rocket-propelled grenades up the posterior.)
Until then my experience (as a grandparent with Internet since it was ARPANET experience) is
that you are probably best exposing them to it and letting them develop their own immune system.
Growing up with no concept of what people mean by "nasty shit" is a risky business.
Or was my mind was corrupted by all that ASCII porn?
What possible reason does the government have to introduce ID cards?
Thats easy... given the humungous costs being claimed by the implementors, and the likely tenderers, I'd say "bribery and corruption" is the most credible answer.
Their track record of granting insane amounts of tax-payers money
to cronies on pathetic pretexts is pretty strong!
Of course, its entirely possible that the decision makers are just stupid, and being conned by some crafty IT solutions providers. I have not conducted a brain-cell count of our top politicians, as my hands are both busy. However, at a guess, an entire government with less than 10 brain cells is a bad risk.
Recently, I have tried sending picture messages. The successs rate is about 1 in 7. This may
well be cross-network issues, and in some cases, I was trying to send from one country to another (I live in Europe - another country can be an hour's drive here.) I have also tried sending to Nigeria and Jamaica. The pictures did not get there either.
I do not know how much I was charged for these failed attempts, but I am reasonably sure it was expensive.
I have a phone with no camera, because I go to places where the security policy forbids cameras for work. Even professional ranges like the Nokia E series and Blackbury no longer offer a no-camera model!
The phone manufactuers have lost the plot entirely.
If you think that is piracy, you might want to spend an afternoon off the coast of Somalia. Or maybe a week in the South China Sea? (I dont recommend it: Google is your friend) However, I suggest sending a few *IAA investigators to the South China Sea to put an end to piracy there. What ever the outcome, that really would improve the world.
The problem is people who think a decade is a long time. I expect uptimes of a decade, and have no intentions of rewriting old code just cos my grandchildren have graduated. Hell, I have known it to take a decade to get the OS to support my hardware (OpenBSD on UltraSparc).
Currency was simply unnecessary through most of Egyptian history. Ancient Egypt was a command economy and the overwhelming majority of its trade was internal. Under those circumstances, at least in a pre-industrial state, currency is a needless complication.
While there may not have been coins, I dont know, and probably were no bank notes (IFAIK invented in 16th century), there are Egyptian payroll records, and procurement records. It is reasonable to assume that at least some people participated in a paid economy.
P.
My guess is that the success of Ancient Egypt was exactly down to paying people to work. There were slaves too, but payment was for skilled work (eg carpenters, plasterers and stone masons) was probably the big economy.
Obviously, you have not been to rural Africa! Ability to use MS Word is a highly marketable skill there.
Since a high proportion of the adults are functionally illiterate, they need to employ someone else to write for them. This applies most especially to those who control the money and power - and in the best position to pay for your services.
Furthermore, if you have plans to go to the big city and get a job with the government (who have stolen most of the money from the people), you will need a good working knowledge of MS Word to construct a credible CV.
Well, the fundamental idea behind it was used in the National Semiconductors COP - a 4 bit processsor in the late 1970s.
Incidentally, I worked with Transputers,and the concept died for many reasons
1) The comms channel was a wierd, proprietry protocol, and not HDLC - completely fatal
2) In the event of an error, the entire Transputer netowork locked up - competely fatal
3) Mrs Thatcher eventually agreed to fund the project with $50,000,000 the same day that United Technology (can you say 6502, or was it Z80) cancelled a project saying "in the world of Microprocessors $50,000,000 is nothing". - Two fatal errors here (a) expecting the UK government to fund anything reasonably sensible, and (b) Making it clear that the project is insufficiently funded to survive
4) The project was taken over by the French - whose previous achievements in both hardware and software are [white space here].
5) Inmos, who made it, (a) tried to force people to use a new language, at a time when there was a new language every month, (b) took two years to discover that the target market wanted C, and (c) never discovered the appropriate language was Algol68.
In short, the company was run by a clever but narrow minded geek, who failed to take advice from others in the industry (including other narrow minded geeks, like me, etc).
It's not Lego's fault you tried to do something insanely stupid.
The **AA don't exactly support this theory. According to them, If someone, unknown to you,
replaced your brakepads with Lego bricks and you crashed, if would be your fault, because
you, by having brake pads, permitted them to be replaced by others unknown.
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Thinkpads are usually very good about it.
I have a T21 (I know its not the latest model, cos I have one of those too) It used to run WIndows XP, but now it doesnt - owing to a WIndows Update it has some kind of interrupt related crash during the boot sequencce. It wont run FreeBSD either, which it also used to.
I was going to throw it away, but I have a lot of acccessories for it, so I thought I would just try Ubuntu. It runs Ubuntu fine! (well it is kind of slow at some things, but if you use a phone on 3 as your modem, most things run like cold treacle anyway.)
FYI... ...
Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
Papa Wemba
Guillaume Tell
Osadebe
The Oriental Brothers
Ebenezer Obey
etc
What is it with people like you? Have you been there? no!
The reason for poverty is not lack of resources, it is lack of a legal structure that delivers contract enforcement. This means that it is impossible to ahve organisations bigger than a small family with any degree of confidence, except by the use of force.
This is a cultural problem. (Helped immensely by the spread of Christianity and democracy).
Computers are immensely powerful in the 3rd world becausee the enable family-sized organisations to do massively bigger projects.
Actually, some of us old timers grew up with British motorbikes. Every weekend you had to strip the engine and rebuild it. Now I can replace a turbo faster than the average taxi will arrive. I can rebuild an automatic gearbox faster than I can get a taxi over the Christmas holiday.
Yes, I learned about the command line on ttys in the 1970's too. And my mother was a Fortran programmer (IBM709 and 7090).
But I know people of all ages who save files in a random directory with a pointless name and then cant find them.
I am a UK user, and I am begining to worry that Windows and Firefox updates might exceed my "fair use" limits.
I have said it before, and I'll say it again. Spam is there to induce payment through credit/debit cards. If it was made illegal for (American) card companies to process the payment for transactions solicited through spam, there would be no spam. In other words, follow the money and yes, Its the Americans wot done it
Only Americans could think this is acceptable to consumers. The rest of the world sees this as more justification for buying the pirate version instead of the legit version which is "goods not of merchandisable quality" and therefore every bit as illegal here as the pirate version.
The problem is either ".co.uk" is not accepted, or possibly that I have my own domain name.
Either way, it does not accept "anne@thwacks.co,uk" (or near equivalents) as an email address. Theyn will have to do better than that if they want to save the world!
Nope, but they will be, whether you like it or not, until such time as the US government does something pretty horrendous to the poeple sending this stuff. (I personally recommend rocket-propelled grenades up the posterior.)
Until then my experience (as a grandparent with Internet since it was ARPANET experience) is that you are probably best exposing them to it and letting them develop their own immune system.
Growing up with no concept of what people mean by "nasty shit" is a risky business.
Or was my mind was corrupted by all that ASCII porn?
No Need: its the same as the labour party manifesto
Thats easy... given the humungous costs being claimed by the implementors, and the likely tenderers, I'd say "bribery and corruption" is the most credible answer. Their track record of granting insane amounts of tax-payers money to cronies on pathetic pretexts is pretty strong!
Of course, its entirely possible that the decision makers are just stupid, and being conned by some crafty IT solutions providers. I have not conducted a brain-cell count of our top politicians, as my hands are both busy. However, at a guess, an entire government with less than 10 brain cells is a bad risk.
I do not know how much I was charged for these failed attempts, but I am reasonably sure it was expensive.
I have a phone with no camera, because I go to places where the security policy forbids cameras for work. Even professional ranges like the Nokia E series and Blackbury no longer offer a no-camera model!
The phone manufactuers have lost the plot entirely.
If you think that is piracy, you might want to spend an afternoon off the coast of Somalia. Or maybe a week in the South China Sea? (I dont recommend it: Google is your friend) However, I suggest sending a few *IAA investigators to the South China Sea to put an end to piracy there. What ever the outcome, that really would improve the world.
What is the point of even having a mafia if they don't assasinate spammers?
The problem is people who think a decade is a long time. I expect uptimes of a decade, and have no intentions of rewriting old code just cos my grandchildren have graduated. Hell, I have known it to take a decade to get the OS to support my hardware (OpenBSD on UltraSparc).
The language of preference for beach parties?
Sure it is the Leprechauns, did you not know that?
While there may not have been coins, I dont know, and probably were no bank notes (IFAIK invented in 16th century), there are Egyptian payroll records, and procurement records. It is reasonable to assume that at least some people participated in a paid economy.
P. My guess is that the success of Ancient Egypt was exactly down to paying people to work. There were slaves too, but payment was for skilled work (eg carpenters, plasterers and stone masons) was probably the big economy.
Mod parent +1, Seuss
Wrong on both counts: I live in London (UK) you insensitive clod.
Since a high proportion of the adults are functionally illiterate, they need to employ someone else to write for them. This applies most especially to those who control the money and power - and in the best position to pay for your services.
Furthermore, if you have plans to go to the big city and get a job with the government (who have stolen most of the money from the people), you will need a good working knowledge of MS Word to construct a credible CV.
Your post should be modded "-1 Rubbish"
Please can I wear unmatched braces while lighting the fire?
Incidentally, I worked with Transputers,and the concept died for many reasons
1) The comms channel was a wierd, proprietry protocol, and not HDLC - completely fatal
2) In the event of an error, the entire Transputer netowork locked up - competely fatal
3) Mrs Thatcher eventually agreed to fund the project with $50,000,000 the same day that United Technology (can you say 6502, or was it Z80) cancelled a project saying "in the world of Microprocessors $50,000,000 is nothing". - Two fatal errors here (a) expecting the UK government to fund anything reasonably sensible, and (b) Making it clear that the project is insufficiently funded to survive
4) The project was taken over by the French - whose previous achievements in both hardware and software are [white space here]. 5) Inmos, who made it, (a) tried to force people to use a new language, at a time when there was a new language every month, (b) took two years to discover that the target market wanted C, and (c) never discovered the appropriate language was Algol68.
In short, the company was run by a clever but narrow minded geek, who failed to take advice from others in the industry (including other narrow minded geeks, like me, etc).
You don't know what you are missing - a well flung socket wrench can inflict major damage to any household environment!
1 Fling socket wrench
2 ...
3 Profiteroles
The **AA don't exactly support this theory. According to them, If someone, unknown to you, replaced your brakepads with Lego bricks and you crashed, if would be your fault, because you, by having brake pads, permitted them to be replaced by others unknown.
(stupid car analogy to WIFI jacking)