The $100 laptop is not geared toward anyone that is reading slashdot.
Maybe not the OLPC, but the Nokia E61 is a $100 computer ideal for the average/. reader. I should know, I have
one, I am pretty average, and I am reading/.
If mom and dad buy a new computer, and it runs Vista, are they going to downgrade to XP
Dont be too sure. If my parents bought a new PC with Vista on it, You bet the first thing they would
do is phone me to "fix" it - meaning reinstall Win2k - so they can get it to work..
Of course, if they asked me first, I would tell them to get a Mac to avoid those irritating
unpaid support calls.
What would happen if all foreign aid was removed from Africa for two years? The death toll would be in the hundreds of millions.
Nope. A large number of aid workers, and an even larger number of corrupt officials would be out of business. For the rest it would probably be business as usual.
You are under the mistaken belief that aid goes to the poor. Nope. It goes to the corrupt - it is what feeds corruption and incompetent governments. Get rid of aid, and Africa would be booming.
African countires are not poor because they lack resources. They are poor because they lack the rule of law. A major reason for the failure of rule of law is that aid, and aid related corruption, delivers wealth to the worthless while undermining the earning potential of the honest. And Yes, I have been there and seen for myself. I have even posted to/. from Nigeria. using a satellite link to an internet cafe, or a university campus network.
You are clearly madder than Mad Jack McMad on a mad day,
It is obvious to everyone in the country that Bair is easily led by anything shiney,
and has no grasp of the concept of truth.
However, the alternative is not
very convincing "We are the party of convictions - most of us have been convicted of fraud or corruption" has
not been a successful campaign for the Tories. And the liberal-democrat plea "More tax is better - pay more tax" is not going to win them a lot of votes.
"Better the devil you know" is the winner every time! And we all know who is the devil.
Vote for McAbre - the Grim Sweeper" (Private joke, no admittance)
Why have a slice when you can have the whole cake?
Get an FPGA and design your own cpu - then reprogram it on the fly to be another CPU!
Yes, one minute its a VAX, then the next its a Sparc. Then MIPS, then Arm (Arm is quite cute really) and then your own architecture (or maybe DEC10 or CDC7600). Its easy:-) its simple. Just do it (TM).
Yes I have tried. After several years, I decided it was better just to buy a Niagara and have done with it. Sure I could do 10% better than Sun's entire hardware development team, given enough time, but I have a life!
I for one complain about the gimp. I have tried many times to use it, and have yet to even manage to open a file with the gimp.
All I want to do is open a file, rotate it to correct for poor placement in the scanner, and then fix the gamma a bit and maybe crop it... then save the results.
Not demanding, but last time I tried there was no viable help, and no hint as to how to do any of this.
As for MDI, its not a problem. I am OK with MDI, not that I specially like it, My problem is "where the *&%$ are the controls?"
He believed that the economy was like a cake, and it can be shared equally or otherwise. Its not - its like a fire - if you take out all the hot coals, and share them round, it goes out!
He beileved it was necessary to own something to control it: A hire car will still go where the driver steers it, and any fool can adjust the volume on his neighbour's stereo.
He believed the state youod onw the "four factors of production" - one of these is people - owning people is called slavery, and is currently out of fashion.
As for being an economist: there is good sound research that says the more highly qualified an economist, the less reliable his predictions!
in short - Marx: Right: no, Left: yes, Wrong: yes.
80 columns is the convention of IBM Punched Cards. Which go back to before computers.
80 COlumns is the number of characters of 12 point fixed on a page of paper if you have decent margins.
It probably goes back to Gutenberg or Caxton - anyway at least 400 years.
By now people have adapred to it, and our eyes expect 80 columns.
The creid card companies mantain a tight reign on what there licencees can buy and sell. If you fall out of line, your access is cut off io hours. New sites may pop up daily, but its not that easy to get a merchant account. You have to provide an insane amount of documentation - typically directors of the company to have to hand over passports, marriage licences, firstborn sons, etc. If evidence of promotion via spam was grounds for cancelling merchant accounts, and the credit card companies were required to enforce this, then it would stop because it would be pointless. Currently the credit card companies make millions from spam, and will not act against it unless forced to by the government, because they are required by law to act in their shareholders best interests.
I sure as hell want your freedom to have your fellow countrymen send me several thousand spams a day promoting illegal, fake goods curtailed. You are free to provide me your e-mail address so I can forward all my spam to you if you like.
I assure you that educating people, while worth trying, fails on the PT Barnum test - "there's one born every minute".
Actually, I am a European. My spam problem is entirely composed of people advertising products I dont want, cant pay for, and dont believe I would get if I ordered them.
Notwithstanding the above, ALL credit cards, everywhere, are run by American companies. Bush could stop the whole lot in HOURS.
and 99% leads to America. Not only that, virtually every piece of spam, everywhere, requires payment via an American owned credit card.
If the US government made half the effort to restrict use of credit card payements for spam advertised goods that they did for on-line gambling, there would be no spam.
Conclusion:... G Bush is 100% responsible for failing to stamp out spam.
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Actually, many will be re-sold, and have a pirate upgrade, a lot of the rest will end up running Linux/BSD for a distant relative.
and why should they
Because if they don't they will be pushing out spam and viruses to the extent that the entire internet collapses.
That should read:
J&J's lawyers have to have a good chance of getting paid or else they wouldn't even try
More than that, all /. readers know full well, that PHP is actually very good at sucking
while .net is pathetic, even at sucking.
So CSO now wons Apple? whatever next!
You're new here aren't you!
America already has those - why would anyone need another engineer?
Maybe not the OLPC, but the Nokia E61 is a $100 computer ideal for the average /. reader. I should know, I have
one, I am pretty average, and I am reading /.
Business computing means running a word processor and a spreadsheet. Once people realise that what you don't need is Windows, then a PII is fine.
Dont be too sure. If my parents bought a new PC with Vista on it, You bet the first thing they would do is phone me to "fix" it - meaning reinstall Win2k - so they can get it to work..
Of course, if they asked me first, I would tell them to get a Mac to avoid those irritating unpaid support calls.
Nope. A large number of aid workers, and an even larger number of corrupt officials would be out of business. For the rest it would probably be business as usual.
You are under the mistaken belief that aid goes to the poor. Nope. It goes to the corrupt - it is what feeds corruption and incompetent governments. Get rid of aid, and Africa would be booming.
African countires are not poor because they lack resources. They are poor because they lack the rule of law. A major reason for the failure of rule of law is that aid, and aid related corruption, delivers wealth to the worthless while undermining the earning potential of the honest. And Yes, I have been there and seen for myself. I have even posted to /. from Nigeria. using a satellite link to an internet cafe, or a university campus network.
Oh, yeah, massively different! The puppets change, but its the same show!
You are clearly madder than Mad Jack McMad on a mad day,
It is obvious to everyone in the country that Bair is easily led by anything shiney, and has no grasp of the concept of truth.
However, the alternative is not very convincing "We are the party of convictions - most of us have been convicted of fraud or corruption" has not been a successful campaign for the Tories. And the liberal-democrat plea "More tax is better - pay more tax" is not going to win them a lot of votes.
"Better the devil you know" is the winner every time! And we all know who is the devil.
Vote for McAbre - the Grim Sweeper" (Private joke, no admittance)
Get an FPGA and design your own cpu - then reprogram it on the fly to be another CPU!
Yes, one minute its a VAX, then the next its a Sparc. Then MIPS, then Arm (Arm is quite cute really) and then your own architecture (or maybe DEC10 or CDC7600). Its easy :-) its simple. Just do it (TM).
Yes I have tried. After several years, I decided it was better just to buy a Niagara and have done with it. Sure I could do 10% better than Sun's entire hardware development team, given enough time, but I have a life!
Hint: don't try CDC7600 first!
If only we could get $50 HDI cables to go with it!
I cant wait to sell my soul to MS!
All I want to do is open a file, rotate it to correct for poor placement in the scanner, and then fix the gamma a bit and maybe crop it... then save the results.
Not demanding, but last time I tried there was no viable help, and no hint as to how to do any of this.
As for MDI, its not a problem. I am OK with MDI, not that I specially like it, My problem is "where the *&%$ are the controls?"
He believed that the economy was like a cake, and it can be shared equally or otherwise. Its not - its like a fire - if you take out all the hot coals, and share them round, it goes out!
He beileved it was necessary to own something to control it: A hire car will still go where the driver steers it, and any fool can adjust the volume on his neighbour's stereo.
He believed the state youod onw the "four factors of production" - one of these is people - owning people is called slavery, and is currently out of fashion.
As for being an economist: there is good sound research that says the more highly qualified an economist, the less reliable his predictions!
in short - Marx: Right: no, Left: yes, Wrong: yes.
This is one situation where we really NEED the "Ignore" option.
80 COlumns is the number of characters of 12 point fixed on a page of paper if you have decent margins. It probably goes back to Gutenberg or Caxton - anyway at least 400 years.
By now people have adapred to it, and our eyes expect 80 columns.
Does it matter? the IPCC will exonerate everybody anyway, like they always do.
As someone in the UK, can I be the first to say I have no idea what "going postal" means!
The creid card companies mantain a tight reign on what there licencees can buy and sell. If you fall out of line, your access is cut off io hours. New sites may pop up daily, but its not that easy to get a merchant account. You have to provide an insane amount of documentation - typically directors of the company to have to hand over passports, marriage licences, firstborn sons, etc. If evidence of promotion via spam was grounds for cancelling merchant accounts, and the credit card companies were required to enforce this, then it would stop because it would be pointless. Currently the credit card companies make millions from spam, and will not act against it unless forced to by the government, because they are required by law to act in their shareholders best interests.
I sure as hell want your freedom to have your fellow countrymen send me several thousand spams a day promoting illegal, fake goods curtailed. You are free to provide me your e-mail address so I can forward all my spam to you if you like.
I assure you that educating people, while worth trying, fails on the PT Barnum test - "there's one born every minute".
Notwithstanding the above, ALL credit cards, everywhere, are run by American companies. Bush could stop the whole lot in HOURS.
Conclusion: ... G Bush is 100% responsible for failing to stamp out spam.
Look more carefully: the general public has been reared by TV to believe that shallow and unheathy is good.
What planet are you from? Can I go there cheaply?