Yup, I understand that some people think OLPC will make for a better world. But this is geek thinking. However for the poor in rural villages, there's much more need for more basic things like clean water and other non-geeky needs.
It is not hard to see why the Christians see common ground. MS and (most) Christians have the same basic business model. Extinguishing other points of view through FUD (total cost of ownership/hell). Missionary == MS sales person/ account manager.
Sure, you would not want to power small devices straight from 400kV or whatever power lines, but it is very easy to get smaller voltages off a power line using corona charging currents etc.
Many languages have words and terms that have no translation into other languages. Often a single word might translate into many words to get the same idea across. As a result, real-time translation becomes very difficult. For example, some languages have only one preposition and don't have words like on, under inside,....
Then, of course there are cultural differences too. A Xhosa girl would like to be told "You remind me of that fat cow over there", whereas your average American chick might not.
This does not have to put Novell in violation of GPL, for multiple reasons:
1)Novell owns IP that has nothing to do with Linux.
2)Even if some code is in Linux, and available under GPL, if Linux are the copyright holders of the code, then they can also release it under different lisences too.
Of course I did not RTFA, because that is not the point of/..
If I ran a foundation that somehow had its mitts on $50M, I'd want to find some way to get some of that money into places where it was more accessable.
Just like the SCO debacle could be interpreted as a way for Darl to pay his brother (SCO's main lawyer) hefty fees to strip SCO and get the cash into the family, I wonder whether a bit of sooping around here could uncover some similar interesting behaviour.
I doubt very much that carriers will be friendly towards open,hack-by-anybody, phones. Most/all carriers require all kinds of certification & testing before they allow vendors to hook up a phone to their network. They also don't like time wasters trying to hook up low volume/low profit phones to their networks. The testing can cost a big bunch of dollars -- ballpark $250k. Now if Joe hacker wnats to spend that, and he can convince the carrier he's going to sell many thousands, he's welcome. Otherwise, at least some part of the phone firmware will be locked down and tamper proof to keep ceritication valid.
I'll make a glaring assumption that we can take the Digital part of the equation. In other words, the comparison between a DSLR and DPAS (digital point and shoot) is about the same as between a 35mm SLR and PAS.
Since my teen years, I've had an SLR. For my wife's 30th bday I bought her a reasonable quality (Pentax) weatherproof aoto load auto focus auto flash PAS. Of course I turned my nose down and continued to use my SLR with clunky lenses and flash etc. So, often, my camera stayed at home in the closet while hers was handy in a pocket, handbag etc. I still have the SLR but I have not used it for over 8 years now.
About 4 years ago we decides digital was worth it. Got a Canon PAS + Zoom. It does a great job and is always handy. A DSLR would just get left behind.
The only time you want a DSLR is if you want to take professional pics. Professionals only account for a few % of the camera toting population.
OK, I'm not a US citizen and not fully familiar with the US voting system, but "voting for anybody but Republican" is not a good strategy.
Lets say that 40% of voters choose Republican and that there are two other parties and that non-Republicans just randomly vote for a non-Republican party. You'll end up with Republican 40 %, Party A 30 % and Party B 30%. IIRC, that means Republican will win. However, if, instead, people just voted Republican or Party A, then Party A would get 60% of the vote.
It is largely this concern with dilution that has driven the USA, and many others, to become effectively a two-party system. To get effective voting that works for minor parties you need proportional representation rather than first past the post.
If you've been with a company for a few years, and youre more than half-competent, you've probably become a domain expert. Unless the company can find a direct hot-swap replacement, they're going to need to pay someone approx the same as you and will have to put up with effective down time of many months while the new hire ramps up. This could delay product releases by as months , costing significant lost revenue.
Or they could pay you more and use golden nails to keep you on your seat.
Unfortunately most management don't recognise domain expertise and like to think of programmers as commoditised entities, just numbers on a spreadsheet.
What they want is perceived hacker-proofness. Joe Sixpack can easily think of ways in which a paper ballot could go wrong (stuffing, losing papers, miscounts), but cannot think of easy ways to hack an electronic system. Therefore to Joe Sixpack, the electronic systemm seems more secure.
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Yup, I understand that some people think OLPC will make for a better world. But this is geek thinking. However for the poor in rural villages, there's much more need for more basic things like clean water and other non-geeky needs.
What does robot taste like?
Besides, run "grep -ir fuck kernel_source".
If Diebold ran the debt clock you'd be able to edit the national debt to any number you wanted.
Make you slow.
Sure, you would not want to power small devices straight from 400kV or whatever power lines, but it is very easy to get smaller voltages off a power line using corona charging currents etc.
Then, of course there are cultural differences too. A Xhosa girl would like to be told "You remind me of that fat cow over there", whereas your average American chick might not.
China, India, wtf??
This does not have to put Novell in violation of GPL, for multiple reasons:
1)Novell owns IP that has nothing to do with Linux.
2)Even if some code is in Linux, and available under GPL, if Linux are the copyright holders of the code, then they can also release it under different lisences too.
Next fight: which version?
If I ran a foundation that somehow had its mitts on $50M, I'd want to find some way to get some of that money into places where it was more accessable.
Just like the SCO debacle could be interpreted as a way for Darl to pay his brother (SCO's main lawyer) hefty fees to strip SCO and get the cash into the family, I wonder whether a bit of sooping around here could uncover some similar interesting behaviour.
So it can't, in all honesty, be called fully open.
I doubt very much that carriers will be friendly towards open,hack-by-anybody, phones. Most/all carriers require all kinds of certification & testing before they allow vendors to hook up a phone to their network. They also don't like time wasters trying to hook up low volume/low profit phones to their networks. The testing can cost a big bunch of dollars -- ballpark $250k. Now if Joe hacker wnats to spend that, and he can convince the carrier he's going to sell many thousands, he's welcome. Otherwise, at least some part of the phone firmware will be locked down and tamper proof to keep ceritication valid.
Since my teen years, I've had an SLR. For my wife's 30th bday I bought her a reasonable quality (Pentax) weatherproof aoto load auto focus auto flash PAS. Of course I turned my nose down and continued to use my SLR with clunky lenses and flash etc. So, often, my camera stayed at home in the closet while hers was handy in a pocket, handbag etc. I still have the SLR but I have not used it for over 8 years now.
About 4 years ago we decides digital was worth it. Got a Canon PAS + Zoom. It does a great job and is always handy. A DSLR would just get left behind.
The only time you want a DSLR is if you want to take professional pics. Professionals only account for a few % of the camera toting population.
D'ya reckon you can type /. comments faster too?
Lets say that 40% of voters choose Republican and that there are two other parties and that non-Republicans just randomly vote for a non-Republican party. You'll end up with Republican 40 %, Party A 30 % and Party B 30%. IIRC, that means Republican will win. However, if, instead, people just voted Republican or Party A, then Party A would get 60% of the vote.
It is largely this concern with dilution that has driven the USA, and many others, to become effectively a two-party system. To get effective voting that works for minor parties you need proportional representation rather than first past the post.
Or they could pay you more and use golden nails to keep you on your seat.
Unfortunately most management don't recognise domain expertise and like to think of programmers as commoditised entities, just numbers on a spreadsheet.
Remember in politics truth is putty.
here are some more: color (colour), milliard (billion), dick (richard).
Language unfortunately gets screwed up and typically ends up going with the mass usage. Colour becomes color. Milliard (10^9) becomes billion...
Then you'd have to be OK with people improving you. Perhaps you'd look good in heels?
Business 1 is their common carrier business which does not do any censoring etc, but just provides common carrier services.
Business 2: Value added services (hosting etc). This business then does all the censoring etc.
I don't think it wise to use local weather as an indicator for global warming.
Hey no harm in wishing!
It's spring now, but we had our coldest June on record this year. It is pretty difficult to equate that with global warming.