Is it just me or is there a really big gap between the end of ATI's Rage series and the release of Radeon 9700? The author seemed to have omitted everything during that period, which saw the most dynamic "battle between ATI and nVidia.
Actually, with the amount of extensions available on Firebird, I'd say it's as feature rich (or even more so) than its Big Brother Navigator.
I've also found that Firebird swaps a lot less frequently than the old Mozilla. I mean, when your browser window doesn't freeze for 10 seconds when restored, the difference is incredible.
Unfortunately, the market isn't that "free" either. With powerful trans-national corporations being the only "real" players in the so-called "free market", it would be next to impossible for the Brazilian government to open up the competition.
Personally I think the advantages outweigh the possible problems that might happen. For instance, it is really more convenient to vote on the Internet than mailing in the ballots. It also saves time and money when counting the ballots, and subsequent ballots are also easier to manage. I voted in this NDP leadership election, and I think they did a great job with it. Yes, there were some problems, but overall it was a nice experience, and I think the party shouldn't give up just because of a few mistakes.
"Logged into"? I thought it was only an attempt... woah, if this is true, someone better raise the question during tomorrows convention. I still have suspiscion that the hack might have compromised some votes.
Ah...it all makes sense now. So it is quite likely that the NDP online voting difficulties were caused by the MS SQL worm, since the company, Election.com, used M$ Windows 2000 as their backbone. I just wish they had announced it earlier, so that I didn't have to stare into the monitor for half an hour just waiting to vote. No conspiracy theories of right-wingers trying to sabatage the election then;)
Which brings us to another interesting question: why didn't the NDP consider open source alternatives? Then again, they've hired Election.com to handle the whole process, so I suppose they couldn't really do much about it.
However, Nazism promotes hate towards other human beings; communism does not. When one promotes Nazism, one automatically promotes "hate speech" because the hatred for Jewish/homosexual/disabled people is an inherent aspect of Nazism. Communism, on the other hand, does not promote hatred; it promotes the change of an economic system. Besides, Soviet Russia wasn't communist anyway; it's "Stalinist". Just because a group did evil acts in the name of an ideology, doesn't automatically make it "hate speech"; however when hatred is a fundamental part of an ideology, it is hate speech.
Ogg Vorbis was ported to Sharp's Zaurus earlier this year. It has a 200MHz StrongArm processor too, so I don't see why they can't do the same with Simputer. I would love to have an inexpensive Ogg-capable handheld ^_^
Hmm interesting stuffs. Hopefully the government in this case will step in and subsidise the computer for communities that are not as fortunate as the schools that you mentioned. But one thing at a time;) However, the issue with StrongArm does seem quite pressing. Any good alternative than our "good friend" Intel?
One would think that with at least 500 million people literate, Simputer ought to have some use to the general population. I mean, 52% is quite big to qualify as "elite", wouldn't you think? Remember that this is only a very tiny step in the right direction to solve a really big and widespread problem (actually two, poverty and literacy:P).
Also, Hindi speech recognition is not necessary harder to do than French or English. The difficulty of a language to typical Europeans is usually not an important factor in speech recognition. In fact, with so many phonetic and grammatical irregularities, English is probably one of the most difficult language (widely in use, of course) to be analysed/zed systematically.
And rest assured that this is definitely not a screwed up time consuming and money wasting project by the Big Evil And Corrupted Government (TM). Oooh no.
I suppose the government will have to fund it, at least partially. However, the impact apparently wouldn't be that great, since it is designed to be shared by a community
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Granted, it doesn't have Britney Spears or Moby, but you may be surprised at what you can find there.
Then again, the Markham municipal election offered online voting, so I guess it doesn't really count...
They did say however that with $10K of resources, an average cracker should be able to do the same in about a month. Sounds quite serious!
Is it just me or is there a really big gap between the end of ATI's Rage series and the release of Radeon 9700? The author seemed to have omitted everything during that period, which saw the most dynamic "battle between ATI and nVidia.
I thought it was a flying turtle....
Nah. Time for more pretzels.
What a surprise! It's been posted somewhere else!
When you have a steady decline of CD releases since 1999, obviously the retail stores would be in deep trouble.
Doesn't the RIAA know how to count?
Actually, with the amount of extensions available on Firebird, I'd say it's as feature rich (or even more so) than its Big Brother Navigator.
I've also found that Firebird swaps a lot less frequently than the old Mozilla. I mean, when your browser window doesn't freeze for 10 seconds when restored, the difference is incredible.
Unfortunately, the market isn't that "free" either. With powerful trans-national corporations being the only "real" players in the so-called "free market", it would be next to impossible for the Brazilian government to open up the competition.
Freedom != Market Deregulation
What's installed on the thing anyway? I doubt a simple file server takes up 3 GB of space...
Yes, they are using M$ $erver $000 unfortunately, as demostrated by this Netcraft survey.
And altough everything worked out fine, I personally think this issue is important enough to be discussed at tomorrow's final party convention.
Personally I think the advantages outweigh the possible problems that might happen. For instance, it is really more convenient to vote on the Internet than mailing in the ballots. It also saves time and money when counting the ballots, and subsequent ballots are also easier to manage. I voted in this NDP leadership election, and I think they did a great job with it. Yes, there were some problems, but overall it was a nice experience, and I think the party shouldn't give up just because of a few mistakes.
"Logged into"? I thought it was only an attempt... woah, if this is true, someone better raise the question during tomorrows convention. I still have suspiscion that the hack might have compromised some votes.
Clearly those ppl at Election.com never got to read the article ;)
BTW, I know this is off topic, but just can't resist: Ducasse only 3%? Noooooooo....
Ah...it all makes sense now. So it is quite likely that the NDP online voting difficulties were caused by the MS SQL worm, since the company, Election.com, used M$ Windows 2000 as their backbone. I just wish they had announced it earlier, so that I didn't have to stare into the monitor for half an hour just waiting to vote. No conspiracy theories of right-wingers trying to sabatage the election then ;)
Which brings us to another interesting question: why didn't the NDP consider open source alternatives? Then again, they've hired Election.com to handle the whole process, so I suppose they couldn't really do much about it.
However, Nazism promotes hate towards other human beings; communism does not. When one promotes Nazism, one automatically promotes "hate speech" because the hatred for Jewish/homosexual/disabled people is an inherent aspect of Nazism. Communism, on the other hand, does not promote hatred; it promotes the change of an economic system. Besides, Soviet Russia wasn't communist anyway; it's "Stalinist". Just because a group did evil acts in the name of an ideology, doesn't automatically make it "hate speech"; however when hatred is a fundamental part of an ideology, it is hate speech.
Ogg Vorbis was ported to Sharp's Zaurus earlier this year. It has a 200MHz StrongArm processor too, so I don't see why they can't do the same with Simputer. I would love to have an inexpensive Ogg-capable handheld ^_^
BTW, the FAQ also said that IML is a.k.a "Illiterate Markup Language". Not my words, and no offense intended, of course.
oops...sorry i missed that :(
i better try read comments more thoroughly next time. (it is 5 in the morning)
Hmm interesting stuffs. Hopefully the government in this case will step in and subsidise the computer for communities that are not as fortunate as the schools that you mentioned. But one thing at a time ;) However, the issue with StrongArm does seem quite pressing. Any good alternative than our "good friend" Intel?
actually, it's slightly over 1 billion people as of July 2002.
So, does it make me not a ./er if i don't know the answer? Nooooooo...
One would think that with at least 500 million people literate, Simputer ought to have some use to the general population. I mean, 52% is quite big to qualify as "elite", wouldn't you think? Remember that this is only a very tiny step in the right direction to solve a really big and widespread problem (actually two, poverty and literacy :P).
Also, Hindi speech recognition is not necessary harder to do than French or English. The difficulty of a language to typical Europeans is usually not an important factor in speech recognition. In fact, with so many phonetic and grammatical irregularities, English is probably one of the most difficult language (widely in use, of course) to be analysed/zed systematically.
And rest assured that this is definitely not a screwed up time consuming and money wasting project by the Big Evil And Corrupted Government (TM). Oooh no.
I suppose the government will have to fund it, at least partially. However, the impact apparently wouldn't be that great, since it is designed to be shared by a community
.where is my dear Ogg? :(
btw, time to update the PDA poll :P