I'm originally from South Africa (all of my family and a lot of my friends still live there).
Everyone I know down there have diesel generators as backup. The state run utility can't provide enough power to supply the whole country which means that they institute "load shedding" quite often. What this actually means is that you can expect to be without power for 4 hour stretches on a regular basis as they roll these through the country.
I went back there for an extended (8 month) visit last year and the power situation drove me nuts.
Strangely nobody has yet noted that Microsoft Works actually includes a copy Word, and doesn't have it's own word processor software anymore (According to wikipedia they normally package a slightly older version of Word)
This means that everyone using it will instantly be compatible with the majority of business users out there. As much as I am not a fan of the Office software, that's still important for a lot of people.
I don't know about most of Africa being in a developmental state.
Being from Africa originally (South Africa specifically), and having been to quite a few places there, I wonder at your choice of Egypt.
South Africa in particular has an economy nearly twice the size of Egypt and is pretty much regarded as the most developed (both socially and economically) country on the continent (see Wikipedia), and is something like #28 in the world when listing countries by GDP.
In fact, Egypt is #51 on the list, behind Nigeria and Algeria (two other African countries).
Africa isn't as dark as everyone seems to believe. Some places like Botswana, Gabon, the Seychelles and a couple of other ones are actually quite nice. Granted, they don't compare to the US or (most of) Europe, but applying western definitions to them just doesn't work.
Are you sure you specced the same thing as the Mac Pro?
Let's see:
Motherboard : $426 (from your post above) Processors : 2 X $713 = $1426 Seagate 250GB: $67 Gigabyte 7300GT : $78 2GB RAM (from crucial because I could not find FBDIMMs at newegg): 188
I'm already at $2107 and I don't even have the following:
No case (remember it has to be E-ATX compatible, so figure at least another $100). The Apple case is insanely nice, no screws needed, very well designed, great cooling, etc No powersupply ($150 at least, since I can't seem to find 750W power supplies for the Tyan motherboard for less than that.)
If you still think you can do it cheaper, I'd love to see how
In the section about OSX Tiger, the author states this:
Only after booting the system for the configuration phase was Nessus able to identify security issues. Although the issues were not remotely accessible, Nessus was able to determine the version of OS X and therefore enumerate the problems based on its internal database And then:
By default, Apple OS X does not have its built-in servers enabled. For testing the standard binaries, Personal File Sharing, Windows Sharing, Personal Web Server, Remote Login, FTP Access, Apple Remote Desktop, Remote Apple Events and Printer Sharing were all enabled through the Preferences tool And then at the end (and in the summary above):
As far as "straight-out-of-box" conditions go, both Microsoft's Windows and Apple's OS X are ripe with remotely accessible vulnerabilities. So let me get this straight. In the summary he says that out of the box OS X is ripe with remote accessible vulnerabilities, but just a little higher up, he explicitly states that nothing was swithed on and that they had to go switch on all the services to get anything.
If nothing is switched on by default, it hardly means that the "straight-out-of-box" conditions are ripe.
Somethings a little rotten here. If the author can't even stick to his own facts, how are we to take him seriously?
I've been fortunate (or unfortunate) in having the opportunity to immigrate to both the US and Canada, and found that from an immigrant's perspective, it's not different at all.
Nobody wants to hire you because you have no verifiable experience in both countries, you can't get credit because you have no verifiable credit history, neither will just accept your drivers license, you have to go for an actual test to get a new one (although you can drive with your license from an african country for 6 months and that's ok).
I could go on and on, the examples are just to numorous to list.
It's not just Canada and the US. My mom immigrated to the UK and she faced exactly the same thing there.
From my experience of the US and Canada, I have to say though that Canada is a much better place for immigrants. Once you get over the initial hardships, you are accepted for who you are, not because of the color of your skin or which country you come from. Your actually expected to continue embracing your original cultural values, instead of having to conform to everyone else like in the US.
Yes they are.
The $999 Transition Kit includes a 3.6 GHz Pentium system.
"Apple will offer a Developer Kit, which includes 3.6GHz Pentium 4. OS X 10.4.1 for Intel (preview release). Order today; available in two weeks."
I am currently using UCBLogo to teach my 8 year old daughter some basic programming skills.
I found that getting her to draw the shape she wants on paper before she starts doing anything works wonders.
Then, before she een touches the computer, I will play the turtle for her, and follow her directions. THis helps her visualize what is going on much better than the turtle on the screen.
To help her with the angles, I hold a piece of paper that has a circle with some markers on them pointing to the basic directions, and how many degrees it would be both left and right for me to turn.
We've done some basic shapes, and I am currently working on getting some basic variables explained to her (this is MUCH harder than drawing stuff).
I fly radio controlled helicopters with the previous high end Futaba controlled (9ZHP).
The GUI is absulutely essential for heli flying. You use it to set up throttle curves (linear throttle curves cause real problems), pitch curves, servo response times, etc.
Ideally, you want to have a constant rotor speed accross all your throttle and pitch ranges.
For example, it takes less pitch to hover than it does to fly 3d manouvers, or forward, but you also need less throttle to do that. Having the ability to see what your pitch and throttle curves looks like makes it infinately easier to set that up.
There are also situations where you need to mix servo outputs. For example, one of my heli's uses 3pint CCPM (3 servos to move the swashplate up and down and tilt it to move the helicopter), and a gui allows you to easily set this up and tweak it to remove any interaction.
There are a host of other things as well, I could go on forever about how usefull a GUI is.
I've tried both, and have to say that Ubuntu is much nicer (even though I actually prefer KDE over gnome).
What really did it for me was the fact that everything just works. Adding other packages broke nothing, and configuring it was a breeze.
Ubuntu will probably survive a lot longer, given the fact that they essentially have an angel investor (Mark Shuttleworth) bankrolling the project, which means full time developers.
You can buy 64bit Xeons right now, and if you are lucky enough to find one, buy a Pentium 4 with the F extension, then get a motherboard with the 925X chipset, and you are all set.
Dell even has some workstations with the 64bit Pentium 4
If I were you though, I would get an Athlon64 instead, power consumption and heat dissapation is WAY less than a Pentium 4 or Xeon chip
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's time for me to go relearn English again. I'm going to blame it on my Universal Translator, it must be on the fritz again.
0.53% of 100 cents is 0.53 cents. So even if you round it up to the nearest cent it would be $0.01 for every dollar earned.
I'm originally from South Africa (all of my family and a lot of my friends still live there).
Everyone I know down there have diesel generators as backup. The state run utility can't provide enough power to supply the whole country which means that they institute "load shedding" quite often. What this actually means is that you can expect to be without power for 4 hour stretches on a regular basis as they roll these through the country.
I went back there for an extended (8 month) visit last year and the power situation drove me nuts.
Who can't do math? 20,000,000,000 / 30,000,000 = 666.67
OCaml : http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/ocaml/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocaml-eclipse
Granted, I haven't tried it, but then I do mostly Java/C/C++/Objective-C work.
This means that everyone using it will instantly be compatible with the majority of business users out there. As much as I am not a fan of the Office software, that's still important for a lot of people.
I don't know about most of Africa being in a developmental state.
Being from Africa originally (South Africa specifically), and having been to quite a few places there, I wonder at your choice of Egypt.
South Africa in particular has an economy nearly twice the size of Egypt and is pretty much regarded as the most developed (both socially and economically) country on the continent (see Wikipedia), and is something like #28 in the world when listing countries by GDP.
In fact, Egypt is #51 on the list, behind Nigeria and Algeria (two other African countries).
Africa isn't as dark as everyone seems to believe. Some places like Botswana, Gabon, the Seychelles and a couple of other ones are actually quite nice. Granted, they don't compare to the US or (most of) Europe, but applying western definitions to them just doesn't work.
Are you sure you specced the same thing as the Mac Pro?
Let's see:
Motherboard : $426 (from your post above)
Processors : 2 X $713 = $1426
Seagate 250GB: $67
Gigabyte 7300GT : $78
2GB RAM (from crucial because I could not find FBDIMMs at newegg): 188
I'm already at $2107 and I don't even have the following:
No case (remember it has to be E-ATX compatible, so figure at least another $100). The Apple case is insanely nice, no screws needed, very well designed, great cooling, etc
No powersupply ($150 at least, since I can't seem to find 750W power supplies for the Tyan motherboard for less than that.)
If you still think you can do it cheaper, I'd love to see how
If nothing is switched on by default, it hardly means that the "straight-out-of-box" conditions are ripe.
Somethings a little rotten here. If the author can't even stick to his own facts, how are we to take him seriously?
That's not quite true in Canada.
If the private school has a religious affiliation (ie. Catholic schools) you can deduct the tuition from your income.
If it is a non-religious school (also known as an independent school), then you can not deduct any tuition from taxes.
I'm going to have to seriously disagree here.
I've been fortunate (or unfortunate) in having the opportunity to immigrate to both the US and Canada, and found that from an immigrant's perspective, it's not different at all.
Nobody wants to hire you because you have no verifiable experience in both countries, you can't get credit because you have no verifiable credit history, neither will just accept your drivers license, you have to go for an actual test to get a new one (although you can drive with your license from an african country for 6 months and that's ok).
I could go on and on, the examples are just to numorous to list.
It's not just Canada and the US. My mom immigrated to the UK and she faced exactly the same thing there.
From my experience of the US and Canada, I have to say though that Canada is a much better place for immigrants. Once you get over the initial hardships, you are accepted for who you are, not because of the color of your skin or which country you come from. Your actually expected to continue embracing your original cultural values, instead of having to conform to everyone else like in the US.
Virtual Earth should really be named Virtual US.
At least Google Maps works fine for us Canadians (and I believe it does for the UK as well).
In Google's version it even works for some out of the way places like South Africa.
Why can't Microsoft with their unlimited funds get info on the rest of the world?
They make money the same way skype does. Except for the handfull of free places you can call, there are fees for the rest.
See http://www.voipbuster.com/en/rates.html
Yes they are. The $999 Transition Kit includes a 3.6 GHz Pentium system. "Apple will offer a Developer Kit, which includes 3.6GHz Pentium 4. OS X 10.4.1 for Intel (preview release). Order today; available in two weeks."
Believe it or not, there are places where CD's are that expensive.
In the UK: 12.99 GBP = $23.60 USD
In South Africa R160 = $23.50 USD
It even includes a copy of Quicken 2005
I am currently using UCBLogo to teach my 8 year old daughter some basic programming skills.
I found that getting her to draw the shape she wants on paper before she starts doing anything works wonders.
Then, before she een touches the computer, I will play the turtle for her, and follow her directions. THis helps her visualize what is going on much better than the turtle on the screen.
To help her with the angles, I hold a piece of paper that has a circle with some markers on them pointing to the basic directions, and how many degrees it would be both left and right for me to turn.
We've done some basic shapes, and I am currently working on getting some basic variables explained to her (this is MUCH harder than drawing stuff).
You can find UCBLogo at http://http//www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html/
Bah, I hate replying to myself, but I completely forgot about inverted flying.
When you start doing inverted (or 3D) flying, your pitch and throttle curves change to some that looks like a V.
Without the GUI it would be impossible to set something like this up.
I fly radio controlled helicopters with the previous high end Futaba controlled (9ZHP).
The GUI is absulutely essential for heli flying. You use it to set up throttle curves (linear throttle curves cause real problems), pitch curves, servo response times, etc.
Ideally, you want to have a constant rotor speed accross all your throttle and pitch ranges.
For example, it takes less pitch to hover than it does to fly 3d manouvers, or forward, but you also need less throttle to do that. Having the ability to see what your pitch and throttle curves looks like makes it infinately easier to set that up.
There are also situations where you need to mix servo outputs. For example, one of my heli's uses 3pint CCPM (3 servos to move the swashplate up and down and tilt it to move the helicopter), and a gui allows you to easily set this up and tweak it to remove any interaction.
There are a host of other things as well, I could go on forever about how usefull a GUI is.
Their stuff is very nice, but they are insanely expensive. Does anyone know of any other alternatives out there for a MythTV box?
Try Ubuntu Linux at http://ubuntulinux.org/
Up until that I use to go back to Windows for my destops after about a week or so.
Ubuntu installs EXACTLY like you describe and Everything Just Works(tm)
I have been looking for an Athlon 64 notebook that would be able to run Linux (specifically Ubuntu) well.
It should be able to take up to 2GB of RAM, and have a 15 in widescreen (with a good resolution).
Any suggestions?
I've tried both, and have to say that Ubuntu is much nicer (even though I actually prefer KDE over gnome).
What really did it for me was the fact that everything just works. Adding other packages broke nothing, and configuring it was a breeze.
Ubuntu will probably survive a lot longer, given the fact that they essentially have an angel investor (Mark Shuttleworth) bankrolling the project, which means full time developers.
Canada and the UK has had Sony stores for a long time.
Oh, wait, this is news because it happens in the US and the world ends at the US border.
The rest of us in the world does not exist anyway.
They already have.
You can buy 64bit Xeons right now, and if you are lucky enough to find one, buy a Pentium 4 with the F extension, then get a motherboard with the 925X chipset, and you are all set.
Dell even has some workstations with the 64bit Pentium 4 If I were you though, I would get an Athlon64 instead, power consumption and heat dissapation is WAY less than a Pentium 4 or Xeon chip