I've seen a few "what about food before internet?" posts so thought I'd stick my oar in.
I have a friend involved with a project to provide internet access (WiFi because of the lack of existing infrastructure) and cheap, reliable computers to impoverished rural areas of Asia. My first question was the same as above - is being wired more important than food and other issues?
No, but one can help the other. Currently rural farmers can usually sell their produce to one buyer in the area because of the distances involved and lack of other communications. This gives the buyer a monopoly and they therefore set the prices. The hope is that with an improved communication system farmers can deal with several buyers which gives them a a much better negotiating position. They can also start collaborating on technique.
Add to this the ability to improve health and hygiene education (disease is a major problem in these areas) and you have a situation where technology can facilitate real improvements in the quality of peoples lives.
Now of course this article just looks like some kind of corporate magic trick:-
Get WiFi
???
Profit!
However leveraging interest / funds / hardware from this to support programmes such as the one above could have a big and worthwhile effect.
One word is all you need to start investigating a technology. Finding the right word is what expert advice (e.g. Slashdot or asking "any geek") is for.
Furthermore according to the article, region 2 encompasses all of Europe, Japan, South Africa, and the Middle East. The censorship argument falls down the moment a region extends past a single coherently governed area.
When a single region encompasses some of the most diverse moral standards on the planet it might be time to look for other reasons. Like money.
We do most Java server side work with Tomcat which uses XML configuration files.
We create a config.xml file with the appropriate settings for each environment and use an Ant task to apply an XSL stylesheet to get the web.xml and server.xml files we need.
Slashdot Mirror
The police shut down all phones and cell phones.
No they didn't. The problems with the network were caused by congestion. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4659737.stm
If you're using Firefox:- http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic =617
I only installed it a few days ago but it seems to work ok
they make lousy spel chekers
According to Thames Water, "the River Thames is one of the cleanest metropolitan rivers in the world." (PDF).
Still wouldn't see me swimming in it though...
8bit 2D graphics? Luxury! When I were young we had graphics cards made from gravel. Cold gravel. And we were lucky
I've seen a few "what about food before internet?" posts so thought I'd stick my oar in.
I have a friend involved with a project to provide internet access (WiFi because of the lack of existing infrastructure) and cheap, reliable computers to impoverished rural areas of Asia. My first question was the same as above - is being wired more important than food and other issues?
No, but one can help the other. Currently rural farmers can usually sell their produce to one buyer in the area because of the distances involved and lack of other communications. This gives the buyer a monopoly and they therefore set the prices. The hope is that with an improved communication system farmers can deal with several buyers which gives them a a much better negotiating position. They can also start collaborating on technique.
Add to this the ability to improve health and hygiene education (disease is a major problem in these areas) and you have a situation where technology can facilitate real improvements in the quality of peoples lives.
Now of course this article just looks like some kind of corporate magic trick:-
However leveraging interest / funds / hardware from this to support programmes such as the one above could have a big and worthwhile effect.
I have to rely on the Dukes of Hazzard
A HTML document without html, head or body tags? Browsers are pretty forgiving but these pages take the piss.
here
site looks familiar ;-)
I've had a couple of beers but wouldn't that put the gap at 12 seconds? Or maybe I'm still running on pub time...
One word is all you need to start investigating a technology. Finding the right word is what expert advice (e.g. Slashdot or asking "any geek") is for.
Furthermore according to the article, region 2 encompasses all of Europe, Japan, South Africa, and the Middle East. The censorship argument falls down the moment a region extends past a single coherently governed area.
When a single region encompasses some of the most diverse moral standards on the planet it might be time to look for other reasons. Like money.
We do most Java server side work with Tomcat which uses XML configuration files. We create a config.xml file with the appropriate settings for each environment and use an Ant task to apply an XSL stylesheet to get the web.xml and server.xml files we need.
There is a good O'Reilly article that covers tuning I/O with hdparm
Write Once, Debug Everywhere (TM)
or Scramdisk
we were not even allowed to key in the order and after the second drink the robot broke down.
:-)
Also, the control screen in the back room had a bluish tint to it but I'm sure that was just coincidence
(and I agree, the Anchor is definitely better)