Four steps
(1)ditch microsoft office & outlook
(2)make everything visible
(3)make everything shareable
(4)taxonomy is knowledge glue
I just did this for all new projects, the solution is Drupal. Every project and sizeable task gets a chunk of taxonomy then you can catch the conversations in blogs, forums, wherever. All new, popular and recommended stuff is shown on a personal front page modelled on the DC.GOV website. All of this is also RSSified so it can go anywhere and be seen on a cellphone. There's a lot of information but also space for showing feeds & inboxes.
Taxonomy takes a bit of work but tagging actually helps build and refine it. Over six months it will stabilize.
WebOffice
All 'documents' should now be written online - either with Writely or the drupal bookmodule. They can be seen, co-edited and generally shared. All drupal mods are wikified. Any text that is proprietary or cannot be written online is a knowledge prison.
It weighs more than a desktop, it uses the same technology that fills pamela anderson and I bought one. Biggest mistake.
It survived Africa but when the thing screwed up Pissonic wouldn't fix it under guarantee BECAUSE I HAD BEEN ROUGH WITH IT!! Light scratching actually but they have diabolical tech support and resellers from hell (also unavailable in Africa)
My advice. Buy two or three laptops on ebay and one of those bulletproof lacie drives. Give the old ones away when you leave.
The price for the dell wouldn't include a monitor adding another 400 reais
The credit is the key thing here because the final price includes the interest charges. A company like Dell charges around 3% per month and the government probably 1.5%.
In all -- there is no comparison with Dell, it exists almost in another world
Dell are the deluxe PCs here and cost *at least* twice as much as a regular box made by the hundreds of small but reputable companies on every other street corner.
You also have to remember that most of these will be shipped with 'generic' windows i.e. pir8
Any Windows OS/server/application/suite costs 3 bucks per cd
You can go and buy Tiger, Win2003 server and XP fully updated for 3 bucks in most places around my part of Brazil.
Linux actually kicks in where M$ has tracked down ever smaller business to squeeze the lucre out of them. Windows continues to be free for most living beyond the reach of the dollar economy.
A Brazilian gov't ministry will be paying around 4 minimum monthly wages (R$600) for an M$ Office license - the equivalent of US$5000 !!!!!!!!!!!
I do a fair few translations and just save the old ones in three columns: paragraphid, language1, language2 then concat them onto everything I did before.
When I get stuck I just grep for the word or phrase I am looking for. When a new tool like this Language Weaver (come on guys use your thesaurus to think of something less Macromedia) comes along, I can just import my crude DB.
Serious though, the best best trans tools still produce garbage.:-(
Yup, me too. I'm dependent on skype prices as I call from Latin America, one connection removed. I find 6.30pm EST the best to call.
I SMS my friends so they can get to a landline, then text me a number to call. Otherwise I give them a 10 second call on the mobile/cell.....Driven by necessity and price
DK
You may be half right.
It's not just the inequality but often the same dreams - wellbeing, ecology and quality of life - that motivate the new arrivals and fill up the favelas
Internal migration is an unfinished business here in Brazil and the big cities are always awaiting the next tide of arrivals.
Curitiba is a heavily taxed and relatively equal part of Brazil. Compare with Rio, Sao Paulo and Brasilia which really live the full duality.
In Rio, the megapoor and the megarich live almost nose to nose as the beachfront towerblocks rise to the same height as the favela shacks stacked up on the hillside behind. In SP and Brasilia the favelas are mainly hidden suburbs with just impromptu squalor popping up under a roadbridge, beside the tracks or beside the fetid creek.
Bas fonds?? New world Bougeosie?
Are those wines? Crumbs, you're worldly.;-)
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Far from captitalism actually.....
Brazil is currently pondering over-riding three aids drugs patents as the cost is so high. Along with South Africa and India it is accustomed to special patenting regimes and 'arrangements'.
At the same time Brazil has been highly praised by the WHO for world leading HIV/AIDS management & prevention. Generics have played a big part.
Remember - it has been Eli Lily that has bankrolled two George Bushes. However, President Lula is a socialist.
If there is a fight waiting to kick off at the WIPO it is Brazil v the USA....................
Translating is hardly ever life and death work but one that is now governed by bidding for translation work on sites like Proz and Translators Cafe.
This is a furious worldwide competition between freelancers and agencies which is being won by those who have the lowest costs and get most from the dollar - offshorers, thirdworlders, expats, homeworkers, sweatshoppers.
I have seen rates shift from 10-15 cents a word to 2-5 cents a word. Nurses have a physical location that moderates how low things can go. The world is bigger than a hospital catchment area and
there is still room for cuts.
Third world software can only really be sourced from pirates until they release a 100 dollar oracle, 50 dollar photoshop and a 20 dollar windows OS.
You can be guaranteed to find the latest big release on sale round the corner from me in Brazil for a buck fifty & sometimes before the actual launch. When the real thing costs 500 (or 6 minimum monthly wages) you can understand there is a tiny official market here. Windows is more or less freeware in the consumer sector - it is pirated. Anyone below the level of multinational will get an OSS or Shareware solution only if they have too and a pirate installation 1st. Officially priced ware is not on the radar.
So when it comes to international pricing there is no world market universal price that works - 500 dollars is expensive anywhere and unaffordable for
the largest chunk of the world.
Now I am using GoDaddy as registrar, I found it's them that's filling the inbox with spam. The default inbox is riddled with bollocks sent to godaddy@mydomain.com.
They're bloody cheap and'll do anything an extra few cents..........
TiVo's audience measurement analysis is based on aggregated data from a sample of 20,000 anonymous TiVo households. TiVo viewership information gauges the interest in programming content by measuring the percentage of the TiVo Super Bowl audience watching in "play" speed. http://www.tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=200
Yup the Brazilian sugarcane fuelled alcocars are still going strong but the latest innovation is the multi fuel car.
You can get a new Gasoline *and* Alcohol powered Fiat or VW or Chevy. Price for a Corsa 1.8 multifuel is $10,000 - just need to get that still up and running!
For another $500 you can get it to also accept Natual Gas.
Price per gallon at the pumps:
Gasoline $2.28
Alcohol $0.93
Natual Gas (metre cubed)$0.26
Who needs electric when you can plant half the country in cane (and burn it off)
There are plenty of streaming books and plays on the BBC radio site. The current Book at Bedtime (GMT and not streaming live) is Jane Eyre and there are Plays, Short Stories and Soaps too. Contemporary and classic.
All content is free -- paid for by the British taxpayer:)
I lost my job and had to train replacements in a currency melt down crackpot dictatorship fundamentalist unequal uninsured nofly vortex.
Yup. The site is now located in the USA.
D.C. actually..... See that dollar fall!
- DK -
I think you'll find that mains power is rare in the market it is intended for - Rural or marginal India. Batteries rule while power surges are frequent.
Desktops need a lot of maintenance and upgrading to keep them sustainable/viable for more than three or four years. Just one person can carry a dozen of these on a bus to the city for flash upgrades.
In a place where families can share a single room the standard amount of space required is not the same as Padsville, USA. Finding a secure, dry space for a fragile PC, monitor & spaghetti is not always possible.
Unquoted student contributors are often fuel for the output of the professorship It's not only cut and pasted recycling of their already published material that fuels this crazy infolation.
I had quite a few ideas lifted by my doctoral supervisors, even the examiners. Sometimes they even took the words. I didn't mind it when they used the neologisms - which are designed to capture a concept in a word and are kind of copyrighted nuggets of insight - but whole lifted paragraphs got my goat(se) a little.
Just because they mark it and have to figure it out a bit doesn't mean they can steal it to fulfil the exponential demand for journal articles.
Slashdot Mirror
These semantic baubles should be dangled from blogs as much as tags should be glued into amazon records.
There's an example here (with the concordance and text stats linked half way down).
If only they were as good with their deliveries (after a three week wait in 2003 I gave up on them)
DK
(1)ditch microsoft office & outlook
(2)make everything visible
(3)make everything shareable
(4)taxonomy is knowledge glue
I just did this for all new projects, the solution is Drupal. Every project and sizeable task gets a chunk of taxonomy then you can catch the conversations in blogs, forums, wherever. All new, popular and recommended stuff is shown on a personal front page modelled on the DC.GOV website. All of this is also RSSified so it can go anywhere and be seen on a cellphone. There's a lot of information but also space for showing feeds & inboxes.
Taxonomy takes a bit of work but tagging actually helps build and refine it. Over six months it will stabilize.
WebOffice All 'documents' should now be written online - either with Writely or the drupal bookmodule. They can be seen, co-edited and generally shared. All drupal mods are wikified. Any text that is proprietary or cannot be written online is a knowledge prison.
Old docs - Knowledge Tree'll hold the old ones
DK
It weighs more than a desktop, it uses the same technology that fills pamela anderson and I bought one. Biggest mistake.
It survived Africa but when the thing screwed up Pissonic wouldn't fix it under guarantee BECAUSE I HAD BEEN ROUGH WITH IT!! Light scratching actually but they have diabolical tech support and resellers from hell (also unavailable in Africa)
My advice. Buy two or three laptops on ebay and one of those bulletproof lacie drives. Give the old ones away when you leave.
I haven't bought anything pissonic since!
DK
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The credit is the key thing here because the final price includes the interest charges. A company like Dell charges around 3% per month and the government probably 1.5%.
In all -- there is no comparison with Dell, it exists almost in another world
DK
Dell are the deluxe PCs here and cost *at least* twice as much as a regular box made by the hundreds of small but reputable companies on every other street corner.
You also have to remember that most of these will be shipped with 'generic' windows i.e. pir8
Any Windows OS/server/application/suite costs 3 bucks per cd
Maybe that adds another dimension, friend
DK
Linux actually kicks in where M$ has tracked down ever smaller business to squeeze the lucre out of them. Windows continues to be free for most living beyond the reach of the dollar economy.
A Brazilian gov't ministry will be paying around 4 minimum monthly wages (R$600) for an M$ Office license - the equivalent of US$5000 !!!!!!!!!!!
Time to get real with software pricing.
DK
When I get stuck I just grep for the word or phrase I am looking for. When a new tool like this Language Weaver (come on guys use your thesaurus to think of something less Macromedia) comes along, I can just import my crude DB.
Serious though, the best best trans tools still produce garbage. :-(
DK
Yup, me too. I'm dependent on skype prices as I call from Latin America, one connection removed. I find 6.30pm EST the best to call. I SMS my friends so they can get to a landline, then text me a number to call. Otherwise I give them a 10 second call on the mobile/cell. ....Driven by necessity and price
DK
Internal migration is an unfinished business here in Brazil and the big cities are always awaiting the next tide of arrivals.
Curitiba is a heavily taxed and relatively equal part of Brazil. Compare with Rio, Sao Paulo and Brasilia which really live the full duality.
In Rio, the megapoor and the megarich live almost nose to nose as the beachfront towerblocks rise to the same height as the favela shacks stacked up on the hillside behind. In SP and Brasilia the favelas are mainly hidden suburbs with just impromptu squalor popping up under a roadbridge, beside the tracks or beside the fetid creek.
Bas fonds?? New world Bougeosie? Are those wines? Crumbs, you're worldly. ;-)
Brazil is currently pondering over-riding three aids drugs patents as the cost is so high. Along with South Africa and India it is accustomed to special patenting regimes and 'arrangements'.
At the same time Brazil has been highly praised by the WHO for world leading HIV/AIDS management & prevention. Generics have played a big part.
Remember - it has been Eli Lily that has bankrolled two George Bushes. However, President Lula is a socialist.
If there is a fight waiting to kick off at the WIPO it is Brazil v the USA....................
DK
This is a furious worldwide competition between freelancers and agencies which is being won by those who have the lowest costs and get most from the dollar - offshorers, thirdworlders, expats, homeworkers, sweatshoppers.
I have seen rates shift from 10-15 cents a word to 2-5 cents a word. Nurses have a physical location that moderates how low things can go. The world is bigger than a hospital catchment area and there is still room for cuts.
DK
Rabbits Don't Hunt Tigers
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
HOOOOOOO HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
I wondered why the bitterness but I see how life passed you by :(
Oregon. And then there is the rest of the world.....
You can be guaranteed to find the latest big release on sale round the corner from me in Brazil for a buck fifty & sometimes before the actual launch. When the real thing costs 500 (or 6 minimum monthly wages) you can understand there is a tiny official market here. Windows is more or less freeware in the consumer sector - it is pirated. Anyone below the level of multinational will get an OSS or Shareware solution only if they have too and a pirate installation 1st. Officially priced ware is not on the radar.
So when it comes to international pricing there is no world market universal price that works - 500 dollars is expensive anywhere and unaffordable for the largest chunk of the world.
You miserable pentelhos, melhor que voces fica queto and learn a bit of portuguese ate voces podem entender tudo que occora nosso mundo.
I thought the USA was becoming bilingual hablando espanol tambien ann so easily understanding gente que fala uma idioma vizinha.
Brazilians can teach you quite a bit about football and guncrime. Tambem suas meninhas sao bem feias, sem bunda, sem graca.
Tchao! DK
They're bloody cheap and'll do anything an extra few cents..........
DK
Greece is the Word
http://www.tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=200
AND THEY JUST SIGNED A DEAL WITH.......NIELSEN !!
You can get a new Gasoline *and* Alcohol powered Fiat or VW or Chevy. Price for a Corsa 1.8 multifuel is $10,000 - just need to get that still up and running!
For another $500 you can get it to also accept Natual Gas.
Price per gallon at the pumps:
- Gasoline $2.28
- Alcohol $0.93
- Natual Gas (metre cubed)$0.26
Who needs electric when you can plant half the country in cane (and burn it off)DK (in Sao Paulo)
The current Book at Bedtime (GMT and not streaming live) is Jane Eyre and there are Plays, Short Stories and Soaps too. Contemporary and classic.
All content is free -- paid for by the British taxpayer :)
-DK-
I lost my job and had to train replacements in a currency melt down crackpot dictatorship fundamentalist unequal uninsured nofly vortex. Yup. The site is now located in the USA. D.C. actually ..... See that dollar fall!
- DK -
Power, Ugrades, Space
I think you'll find that mains power is rare in the market it is intended for - Rural or marginal India. Batteries rule while power surges are frequent.
Desktops need a lot of maintenance and upgrading to keep them sustainable/viable for more than three or four years. Just one person can carry a dozen of these on a bus to the city for flash upgrades.
In a place where families can share a single room the standard amount of space required is not the same as Padsville, USA. Finding a secure, dry space for a fragile PC, monitor & spaghetti is not always possible.
DK
Scanning and cataloging can work backwards too.
Unquoted student contributors are often fuel for the output of the professorship It's not only cut and pasted recycling of their already published material that fuels this crazy infolation.
I had quite a few ideas lifted by my doctoral supervisors, even the examiners. Sometimes they even took the words. I didn't mind it when they used the neologisms - which are designed to capture a concept in a word and are kind of copyrighted nuggets of insight - but whole lifted paragraphs got my goat(se) a little.
Just because they mark it and have to figure it out a bit doesn't mean they can steal it to fulfil the exponential demand for journal articles.
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DK