> If they did it in Thailand, they could do it in India
India has such a HUGE variety of languages that almost 100% of computer users know English and are often unwilling to use PC's in their native language. (I belong to this category). A Hindi version of WinXP would suck totally... in the market and everywhere.
I was involved with a bit of work on Pango rendere r for my mother tongue... the unicode renderer was fairly easy to handle - but the translation was a horror . Imagine translating Abort:)
Look at all the scripts available in Indic languages , and that's just the first grid. You might realize why India reads , writes and speaks english.
It ain't easy, it ain't viable... but a blind eye towards home-piracy and a watchful eye on corporate licensing has been MS's ploy in India.
An actual encounter with something containing an IUD might be shocking to most slashdotters, but think about why you've never seen anything that could contain IUD. The odds are infinitesimal.
Yeah, right:)...
The only thing an IUD is going to kill is a few million sperm... but a single man produces enough to fertilize all women in Europe between 18 and 35 . But what if an IED kills HIM !!! *paranoia*
PS: how a "single" man produces sperm is another question altogether....
And add the final deceleration when g-forces really pull you down ?...
*vomit*...
throwing up and seeing it form a perfect sphere of liquid puke (cohesion in no gravity should be strong enough) is worth the trip.. especially if you blow it towards someone else:)
I've often thought about why the most famous scientists in the world were Jewish.... The more I think about it , the Darwin theory seems more probable.
Evolutionary Pressure is what happens when you wipe out a huge amount of a species at the same time. When Hitler & Co wiped out a lot of Jews, the few Jews who were smart enough to see it coming escaped... And so on..
Generations of high evolutionary pressure on a once numerous species either kills them by interbreeding or makes them highly selected for survival. It is actually true that "Whatever doesn't kill you , makes you stronger" in an evolutionary timeframe.
Frank Herbert's Dune crystallises this idea in a far more dramatic way... (Love that book)..
Disclaimer: I'm in India and I'm prolly biased too
> our sway to move to Open Source solutions in our
companies and to develop Open Source Software.
Anything that reduces the barrier of entry to any company is a threat to existing companies. But a Free market would ensure that they fight fairly. Here geography is overcome to (thanks to a side-effect of US Defence project called DARPANET) ensure that the market is becoming wider and deeper.
Open Source will open up the market for small players. I don't see any politicians on their payroll. US can talk all about Freedom and then enforce a protective market, for example Cars imported were heavily taxed due to pressure from the Detroit lobbies.
A truly open world would compete on pure intelligence (or in PHB terms Human Resources) and would upset the current slant towards billion dollar based competition. It's a scary thought , but only if you are a racist (and elitist) bastard.
Unlike a magentic tape or disk - DVDs do not degrade in storage . It's cheap , easy to write , are read on most computers (at least in 5 years). They do not become obsolete because media disintegrates - so they are not likely to disappear totally .
The concept of optical storage is not going to die anytime soon - and the disks (VCD to DVD) are an ideal way to use it . We might be using quarter inch thick , non rotating crystal cubes in 2014 , but it'll still be optical storage - but we won't be going online on a congested network to get it when we feel like. Imagine waiting 5 minutes for your favourite pr0n flick to load up - you'll almost be done by then:)
Microsoft grew up on the desktop by defying the "Network is the computer" and bringing it to the induvidual "PC". This is just Microsoft admitting they were perhaps wrong:)
Do not underestimate the bandwidth of a concorde full of DVDs
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For the time I've looked at routers (briefly) , I've already noticed the BusyBox Hall Of Shame - where router vendors have refused to comply to the license. But I sincerely fear that all this work might get "embrace and extend and sell" by a company - like what happened for the BSD TCP/IP stacks (ok, do an nmap -O on your favourite MS box).
But this is good for colleges and other places where the concentration of "guys who can stop by and fix the router" is high. Also not to mention the tinfoil factor of a readonly-livecd router (but does it have remote logging).
But for the record the first commercial X11 release was in 1986...
The original was named X386 (yes, after an intel 386). Also I should say XFree86 was named "Free" not because it was , but because it rhymed with three.
And that's how it ended up:)... rhymes with three, but is not free
You cannot pay Royalty licensing for a GPL'd codebase...
GPL is very clear about that... quoting...
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
Novell might be forced to make it proprietary if Microsoft enforces a "RAND" license that says , "You cannot redistribute sources without a license from us , which will also be RAND, Thank you".
As I listen to my CDs with Winamp and browse slashdot with FireFox 0.8...
I've almost forgotten the people who made it possible... it's become second nature... Thanks for reminding me:)
Especially about the part about Justin Frankel using Vim...
And maybe this was a first post ?... (but I did read the articles)
Being the imaginative , day dreaming type , I've always seen stories rather than read them...
Like seeing a sandworm while reading dune or seeing the patronus (made of glittering points of light) from a low angle (only hooves visible) making ripples on the lake as it runs... Or see Arthur Dent flying around trying to grab his bag with the bottle of retsina...
The Harry Potter movie literally destroyed that picture I had in mind, because a movie still cannot give me the "real" feeling the book gave me..
But I guess , illusions provided by a book cannot be enjoyed by everyone... some just need a little "CG" help.
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There's this custom PNG decoder ... and I'm just curious
India has such a HUGE variety of languages that almost 100% of computer users know English and are often unwilling to use PC's in their native language. (I belong to this category). A Hindi version of WinXP would suck totally ... in the market and everywhere.
I was involved with a bit of work on Pango rendere r for my mother tongue ... the unicode renderer was fairly easy to handle - but the translation was a horror . Imagine translating Abort :)
Look at all the scripts available in Indic languages , and that's just the first grid. You might realize why India reads , writes and speaks english.
It ain't easy, it ain't viable ... but a blind eye towards home-piracy and a watchful eye on corporate licensing has been MS's ploy in India.
Microsoft gains the same things it gained when it shipped Internet Explorer for Mac OS a few years back..
An actual encounter with something containing an IUD might be shocking to most slashdotters, but think about why you've never seen anything that could contain IUD. The odds are infinitesimal.
Yeah, rightThe only thing an IUD is going to kill is a few million sperm ... but a single man produces enough to fertilize all women in Europe between 18 and 35 . But what if an IED kills HIM !!! *paranoia*
PS: how a "single" man produces sperm is another question altogether....> 12,000 foot plunges
...
...
...
...
:)
s = ut + 1/2 a * t * t;
with a vertical velocity of 0 from the dive
that makes it
t* t = 819.something
makes it less than 30 seconds of no gravity ??
And add the final deceleration when g-forces really pull you down ?
*vomit*
throwing up and seeing it form a perfect sphere of liquid puke (cohesion in no gravity should be strong enough) is worth the trip.. especially if you blow it towards someone else
Anyway Pocket PC viruses are going to be rarer than one for Macs
Reminds of Donut , the .NET virus ... but there hasn't been a real one in the wild yet ?.
bash$ alias kill='chmod -R 0666 /'
I've often thought about why the most famous scientists in the world were Jewish .... The more I think about it , the Darwin theory seems more probable.
... (Love that book) ..
Evolutionary Pressure is what happens when you wipe out a huge amount of a species at the same time. When Hitler & Co wiped out a lot of Jews, the few Jews who were smart enough to see it coming escaped... And so on..
Generations of high evolutionary pressure on a once numerous species either kills them by interbreeding or makes them highly selected for survival. It is actually true that "Whatever doesn't kill you , makes you stronger" in an evolutionary timeframe.
Frank Herbert's Dune crystallises this idea in a far more dramatic way
> our sway to move to Open Source solutions in our companies and to develop Open Source Software.
Anything that reduces the barrier of entry to any company is a threat to existing companies. But a Free market would ensure that they fight fairly. Here geography is overcome to (thanks to a side-effect of US Defence project called DARPANET) ensure that the market is becoming wider and deeper.
Open Source will open up the market for small players. I don't see any politicians on their payroll. US can talk all about Freedom and then enforce a protective market, for example Cars imported were heavily taxed due to pressure from the Detroit lobbies.
A truly open world would compete on pure intelligence (or in PHB terms Human Resources) and would upset the current slant towards billion dollar based competition. It's a scary thought , but only if you are a racist (and elitist) bastard.
The concept of optical storage is not going to die anytime soon - and the disks (VCD to DVD) are an ideal way to use it . We might be using quarter inch thick , non rotating crystal cubes in 2014 , but it'll still be optical storage - but we won't be going online on a congested network to get it when we feel like. Imagine waiting 5 minutes for your favourite pr0n flick to load up - you'll almost be done by then :)
Microsoft grew up on the desktop by defying the "Network is the computer" and bringing it to the induvidual "PC". This is just Microsoft admitting they were perhaps wrong :)
Do not underestimate the bandwidth of a concorde full of DVDs
But this is good for colleges and other places where the concentration of "guys who can stop by and fix the router" is high. Also not to mention the tinfoil factor of a readonly-livecd router (but does it have remote logging).
DB2 since 1999 on Linux ... :)
I wonder if that might qualify as a better AD for IBM . (a eminesque boy watching Wimbledon , "The future is Open" )
But Wimbledon is not an "Open" technically is it ?.
(though I bet IBM never though about advertising on the French Open)
Java to IL examples ...
DotGNU Support in Parrot CVS | Parrot Support in DotGNU CVS
*g* -- I like parrot -- In fact I want Parrot to become the FreeSoftware VM :)
DotGNU's java compiler can compile stuff like this (which was my Demo program for a LONG time).
It uses parts of classpath + C# glue and never got fully developed because nobody was interested. (and the javalib therefore never hit the CVS)
A Dcop Component Tree in WinForms , An HTML Renderer (compona.com not open yet) A PieChart control A simple IDE ...
and much much more (I don't want that box totally slashdotted) !!!
**Disclaimer**
I'm a recent CS graduate who has been working on DotGNU for the last 3 years (yes, three years this August).
DotGNU has about 5-6 developers working on everything :)... lend a hand ...
Silicon + Implants in one sentence ... should have guessed ;-)
The original was named X386 (yes, after an intel 386). Also I should say XFree86 was named "Free" not because it was , but because it rhymed with three.
And that's how it ended upMDI Windows.Forms in DotGNU , an IDE in Windows.FOrms on DotGNU , Gtk# on DotGNU ...
Is there any difference you see ?. (sorry working on DotGNU for 2 years without pay has clouded my senses)..GPL is very clear about that ... quoting ...
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.Novell might be forced to make it proprietary if Microsoft enforces a "RAND" license that says , "You cannot redistribute sources without a license from us , which will also be RAND, Thank you".
As I listen to my CDs with Winamp and browse slashdot with FireFox 0.8 ...
I've almost forgotten the people who made it possible... it's become second nature ... Thanks for reminding me :)
Especially about the part about Justin Frankel using Vim...
And maybe this was a first post ?... (but I did read the articles)
If you had 13 fingers , you'd be either very unlucky or use a base 13 to write stuff :)
Being the imaginative , day dreaming type , I've always seen stories rather than read them ...
... Or see Arthur Dent flying around trying to grab his bag with the bottle of retsina ...
..
Like seeing a sandworm while reading dune or seeing the patronus (made of glittering points of light) from a low angle (only hooves visible) making ripples on the lake as it runs
The Harry Potter movie literally destroyed that picture I had in mind, because a movie still cannot give me the "real" feeling the book gave me
But I guess , illusions provided by a book cannot be enjoyed by everyone... some just need a little "CG" help.
That's just the data .... not the bandwidth used .
..
And over a mobile line and using the control channel bandwidth too
Pretty impressive.