The original poster didn't RTFA and I guess you didn't either before posting your flamebait.
The article states that OREGON is testing the idea, not California
The original poster didn't RTFA and I guess nobody else did either.
The article states that OREGON is testing the idea and says nothing about California testing the idea.
Actually, freedom of the press is absolute and we must all remain vigilant to protect it.
This means that sometimes we are defending people or actions that we don't agree with but we must maintain the freedom of the press.
If we start being selective about the information that is protected, that is called "censoring" and that is a slippery slope we don't want to start down.
In the current case, the person who disclosed the information may have violated a trade secret agreement but the press has a right to publish. (And yes, anyone with a web site can call themselves a journalist.)
Best governator?... he don't know math.
Let's see, his first act was to give everyone a car tax refund thereby creating $5 billion in additional debt. Second act was to issue long term bonds so our children will have to pay for this debt (this is a new "birth tax").
Now he wants to dismantle education, health care, and assistance to the poor and disabled so he can give more tax "relief" to the rich folks.
It's the new (Republican) American Dream... once you get yours, screw everyone else./Mark
If you really had RTFA (all the way to the third page... I know it's hard to focus for that long after watching TV), you would have seen that he does make one recommendation:
"But what's the one live CD to carry around with you, not only to wow your friends, but to do actual work quickly and efficiently: BeatrIX."
Actually, PDF creation is very important in any business environment. There is a very clear line between documents that you want people to EDIT (such as when working collaboratively) and documents that you want people to just READ.
Unfortunately, the only tool most people have is a word processor that allows everything to be edited so that tool gets used and we have to open document in edit format just to read it (and deal with "Do you want to save your changes?" dialog).
Having the PDF save option right there is a big advantage.
I've always enjoyed the road sign on the GW Parkway to the "George Bush Center for Intelligence".
This is, of course, Bush the elder. His son has his own view of the world:
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." -- George W. Bush/Mark
Actually, Bill is following the well worn path of earlier robber barrons. Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller were ruthless monopolists and exploiters of workers in their day. They each established foundations to spread good works and improve their image. (After all, you can't take it with you.)
I do applaud the good that Bill is doing with his surplus billions but I don't know about his motivations.
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I recently downsized to a "pay as you go" TracFone Nokia 1100 (GSM). It cost $49.00 with NO contract. It's a small simple, attractive phone (only extra is a suprisingly useful LED flashlight).
I spend less than $10.00 a month on usage (most of the time I'm in my office or home so I don't need the phone much).
The cellular companies COULD provide this with 3G but their pricing structure is aimed for premium users. For instance, Cingular currently offers 135K bps GPRS coverage for $79.00 a month... not cheap. They've announced 3G services for "next year" with higher data rates. However, I don't think they will be lowering their prices to the point where the services would be attractive to anyone not on an expense account.
I work in developing countries quite a bit and it seems that the majority of these government people use free email accounts. I think they are a lot more reliable than the government run mail servers.
I guess I really shouldn't respond to your troll but I do feel that this is a blatant mis-representation of the facts that you could have verified quickly. I just went to the BBC web site and searched for "tsunami us navy" and came up with a list of 68 stories which mention US military contributions to the relief effort such as this:
Even though my zip code area shows as "more than 3" providers, I can't get broadband. I'm too far from the telco office (23000 ft) for DSL and the cable company isn't even thinking about broadband in my area... don't know who the "third" provider might be. The map is useless.
"Before long, and at this rate, companies will literally own the government."
I don't know if you've been paying attention, but the companies took over the government some time ago. Both of our USA political parties jump to meet the needs of business. Voters are bought with lies broadcast in the media (and paid for by business).
You purpose in life here is to work hard (or go into debt) so that you can buy as much stuff as possible.
Any questions?... get back to work and stop wasting time.
I don't know if they are "allowed" to say that since IANAL but they did say that several times. They actually seemed quite pleased with themselves to be able to tell me that they had no responsibility for it to work and that they wouldn't give me a refund under any circumstances.
Oh well, there are vendors other than D-Link that I can use/recommend for future purchases./Mark
D-Link blames Microsoft and says that SR2 breaks their software and hardware. (I'm sure Microsoft would blame it on D-Link.) I just want to get it to work.
I tend to blame Microsoft for most things since their software has been proven time and again to be a dogpile of patches that continually breaks applications./Mark
Vendor (D-Link) told me to uninstall SP2 and to upgrade the Dell BIOS. I upgraded the BIOS but didn't want to uninstall SP2. It still crashes. Vendor says "tough luck", no refunds, you're screwed./Mark
Then why does my new D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ WiFi adapter crash my WinXP (SR2) system every few minutes? This is a full "blue screen of death" crash with airplus.exe as the offending module.
Of course you wouldn't need a brand new project. One of the big advantages of open source is that you can build on what others have done. This is a big attraction for open source in Africa. They can take existing software and tweak it to meet their needs and pass the improvements on.
There are a lot of differences in Africa. The disease AIDS is not much different but the available resources for drugs, personnel, training, lab, electricity, communications, etc. are all problematic. The developed world health care packages all assume that you have a much wider range of drugs, lab, and higher skill levels so they really aren't useful in Africa.
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Even if the average user doesn't have a clue about open source, they benefit from the superior software that the open source process produced.
Yes, the popularity is due to good quality software that is free... and the open source process made that possible.
The original poster didn't RTFA and I guess you didn't either before posting your flamebait. The article states that OREGON is testing the idea, not California
The original poster didn't RTFA and I guess nobody else did either. The article states that OREGON is testing the idea and says nothing about California testing the idea.
If we start being selective about the information that is protected, that is called "censoring" and that is a slippery slope we don't want to start down.
In the current case, the person who disclosed the information may have violated a trade secret agreement but the press has a right to publish. (And yes, anyone with a web site can call themselves a journalist.)
It's the new (Republican) American Dream... once you get yours, screw everyone else. /Mark
"But what's the one live CD to carry around with you, not only to wow your friends, but to do actual work quickly and efficiently: BeatrIX."
Unfortunately, the only tool most people have is a word processor that allows everything to be edited so that tool gets used and we have to open document in edit format just to read it (and deal with "Do you want to save your changes?" dialog). Having the PDF save option right there is a big advantage.
I've always enjoyed the road sign on the GW Parkway to the "George Bush Center for Intelligence". This is, of course, Bush the elder. His son has his own view of the world: "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." -- George W. Bush /Mark
small correction... iQue is a PalmOS PDA with GPS, not a PocketPC /Mark
Actually, Bill is following the well worn path of earlier robber barrons. Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller were ruthless monopolists and exploiters of workers in their day. They each established foundations to spread good works and improve their image. (After all, you can't take it with you.) I do applaud the good that Bill is doing with his surplus billions but I don't know about his motivations.
I recently downsized to a "pay as you go" TracFone Nokia 1100 (GSM). It cost $49.00 with NO contract. It's a small simple, attractive phone (only extra is a suprisingly useful LED flashlight). I spend less than $10.00 a month on usage (most of the time I'm in my office or home so I don't need the phone much).
The cellular companies COULD provide this with 3G but their pricing structure is aimed for premium users. For instance, Cingular currently offers 135K bps GPRS coverage for $79.00 a month... not cheap. They've announced 3G services for "next year" with higher data rates. However, I don't think they will be lowering their prices to the point where the services would be attractive to anyone not on an expense account.
I work in developing countries quite a bit and it seems that the majority of these government people use free email accounts. I think they are a lot more reliable than the government run mail servers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4145 259.stm
Even though my zip code area shows as "more than 3" providers, I can't get broadband. I'm too far from the telco office (23000 ft) for DSL and the cable company isn't even thinking about broadband in my area... don't know who the "third" provider might be. The map is useless.
I don't know if you've been paying attention, but the companies took over the government some time ago. Both of our USA political parties jump to meet the needs of business. Voters are bought with lies broadcast in the media (and paid for by business).
You purpose in life here is to work hard (or go into debt) so that you can buy as much stuff as possible.
Any questions?... get back to work and stop wasting time.
Oh well, there are vendors other than D-Link that I can use/recommend for future purchases. /Mark
I tend to blame Microsoft for most things since their software has been proven time and again to be a dogpile of patches that continually breaks applications. /Mark
I really am getting tired of Microsoft dogpile software. /Mark
Vendor (D-Link) told me to uninstall SP2 and to upgrade the Dell BIOS. I upgraded the BIOS but didn't want to uninstall SP2. It still crashes. Vendor says "tough luck", no refunds, you're screwed. /Mark
Then why does my new D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ WiFi adapter crash my WinXP (SR2) system every few minutes? This is a full "blue screen of death" crash with airplus.exe as the offending module.
/Mark