while Hermsh Obernikle is a poor choice as a typical belgian name
Second that:) Real Belgian names sound like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Eddy Merckx, Jozef Plateau, Maria Deweert, Paul Smets, Wim Peters, Pieter-Paul Rubens, Sarah Bettens, you get the idea.
Onkelinx' responsibilities are Employment and Labour, and also Equal Opportunities. Especially opportunities with regards to education and employment, I suppose. Since more and more jobs require the employee to be familiar with a PC, the idea is to provide people that can't afford it themselves with a PC to gain familiarity with it, which will (hopefully) allow them to find a job more easily, or to find a better job.
By the way, Belgium is also a high-tax country, and there are all kinds of arrangements for people without jobs. Don't know about washing machines though.
She's not really responsible for 'equality', but for 'equal opportunities' (or 'equal chances', I don't know the exact translation of the Dutch 'gelijke kansen' or French 'Egalité des chances'). A slight difference perhaps, but a significant one in my opinion. Clearly, not everyone is equal, but I think everyone should be given equal opportunities.
Well, I did it myself in a hurry, so it's not perfect. First, the correct link to the newspaper article in Dutch. Next, my attempt to translate it:
"Computer for every family" - 10/01/2002
Minister Onkelinx wants to eliminate the fact that lower incomes lag behind on IT
If it depends on federal minister for Equal Opportunities Laurette Onkelinx, every Belgian family will shortly own a PC. She is serious about it, since she already started talking with software gigant Microsoft and PC producer Compaq.
"Today not nearly everyone has access to the new technologies, that keep getting more and more important, especially on the labour market", Onkelinx says in an interview with La Dernière Heure. "To change that situation, we have started negotiations with multiple partners. We're talking to the European Investment Bank, and they seem to like the project. Further, we have alreadt talked with Compaq and Microsoft."
"We have indeed had contact with cabinet Onkelinx. Being the leader in the PC market, we should of course be interested in such a project", says Thierry Van Bever from Compaq. "There needs to talked more; nothing is definitive." A similar sound from Microsoft: "We were addressed for our operating system", spokeswoman Els Stevens confirmed.
It's not clear who was the right to a computer with Internet access. It's also not decided yet how it will (possibly) cost to the families. The minister doesn't doubt the project will turn out well: "I hope to be ready for all modalities in March. Thousands of families will then have a computer and internet access at their disposal. Moreover, it concerns not only families with the lowest incomes."
Number of PCs
The number of PCs per hundred inhabitants in our county was 31 in March 2001, as follows from a survey by ICTA, the Association of Information and Communication Industries. That leaves us in the middle of the European pack, after the Netherlands and Ireland, but before Germany and Great Britain. In what way that translates to the families, is not clear. According to a survey by the Communication department, by the end of 1999 already 58% of the families had a computer. 7% of the people who where questioned said they were considering the purchase of a PC in 2000.
Concerning the number of internet connections, we're slowly running ahead of the European average. In the European Union, 30% of the families had an internet connection by the end of 2000; in Belgium it was 31%. Besides, our country is the best cabled in the world, which gives us a headstart with the distribution of broadband internet. What's more, Belgium is world leader in the development en production of ADSL.
It's possible to run everything in RAM (just use memfs's), and to run without a swap, but should a runaway process or memory leak get you with no swap, your machine is as good as dead;)
True, when too much memory is used in one way or the other, it can kill machine. But, I wonder, is it better when you have swap? I mean, I used to have 256 MB RAM, and 256 MB swap space. Now I have 896 MB of RAM, and no swap space. I would think chances of low memory conditions occuring are less with 896 MB RAM, even without swap space.
I guess it would even be better to have lots of RAM and a few gigs of swap space, but I'd rather use those extra gigs for an MP3 copy of my music CDs.
You're right of course, that's why the article says:
"The human eye, however, perceives blue at a much lower resolution than red and green. Having the same number of red, green, and blue sub-pixels on a screen creates an image with more blue information than the eye can receive, so a percentage of that blue information is superfluous.
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The whole concept is based on that fact. It's just CmdrTaco {mis|not }reading the article.
I think it's a kludge that kilo means 1024 in kilobyte, while it means 1000 in kilometer, kilogram, kilonewton, kilovolt etc. It's time we give it up, and accept correct terms. I agree kibi sounds ridiculous, but that's just a matter of habit. We'll get used to it.
Besides, not everywhere in CS kilo is 1024 and mega is 1024*1024: in datacommunications, the correct numbers are used. 10 mbit/s is 10000 bits per second.
This seems like it would work for any regular polygon as well
A circular one can never go down the hole, while for example a square cover, when turned 45 degreeds around the vertical axis and 90 degrees around the appropriate horizontal axis (not very probable, I know) can go down.
BTW, here in Belgium they are square (and I have never seen one going down the hole).
Nobody but me understands MY desktop, but everybody understands a forest.
I thought I understood a forest and trees. Then I started to learn CS, and a textbook said 'If you have a tree and you remove the root from it, the result is a forest.'. Brilliant. I have a biology background, and the first time I read that sentence was when I was browsing trough the book, and not paying very much attention to the context. It was a very weird thing to read. Until I read the context, of course, I'm not an idiot.
At the moment my other half knows what a floppy disk is (it looks like a floppy disk, and you can put files on it). She knows that the "hard disk" is a "big floppy disk inside the computer", and that she should copy from the later to the former whenever she needs to keep a safe copy.
Correction:... she should copy from the latter to *at least* 3 instances of the former whenever she needs to keep a safe copy.
They use the same DLL's I guess, but they're not the same. Try it: kill the explorer.exe process using Task Manager. All Explorer windows are gone, the taskbar is gone, but Internet Explorer windows are still open.
(To restore explorer, assuming the Task Manager is still open, click File->New Task (Run), and type Explorer. Or type c:\winnt in the IE address bar and double-click explorer.exe)
Many jurisdictions require businesses to accommodate those with disabilities. If a site uses Macromedia Flash technology for its main presentation, how will people with visual disabilities read it?
That's still another point, and one on which I tend to agree with you.
Yes, actually, it is. Just because you and your friends go there all the time, it doesn't mean that it's popular.
Are you trying to say that popular equals good? Since when is there a direct relation between popularity and quality?
That aside, I'm absolutely not impressed with the quality of the Belgian Indymedia site (can't speak for other versions, didn't read them). Bad grammar, bad writing style, non-impartial reporting. So I partially agree with you, but I don't agree that the quality of something is determined or indicated by its popularity.
If you really want to oppose this at the level where it matters, then encrypt. Dont write your senator, dont address the fine folks in Brussels. Encrypt.
Remember, encryption makes the internet a cozy bedside chat. Use it with your lovers, and use it with your friends.
I guess encryption has its uses, but this doesn't seem to be one of them...
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I also made an attempt at an English translation.
The linux.be forum [linux.be] already has lots of interesting comments
Yes, and even more comments can be found in this thread in be.comp.os.linux
Second that :) Real Belgian names sound like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Eddy Merckx, Jozef Plateau, Maria Deweert, Paul Smets, Wim Peters, Pieter-Paul Rubens, Sarah Bettens, you get the idea.
By the way, Belgium is also a high-tax country, and there are all kinds of arrangements for people without jobs. Don't know about washing machines though.
Ministry of Employment and Labour, also responsible for Equal Opportunities (not Equality!)
She's not really responsible for 'equality', but for 'equal opportunities' (or 'equal chances', I don't know the exact translation of the Dutch 'gelijke kansen' or French 'Egalité des chances'). A slight difference perhaps, but a significant one in my opinion. Clearly, not everyone is equal, but I think everyone should be given equal opportunities.
Here's the correct link to the article (still only in Dutch, but I'll try to translate in a following post).
In my experience, X-Win32 from Starnet also works very well. And don't forget Cygwin/XFree86, a Windows port of XFree86.
Actually, it is 0.13 m (micrometer). Micron has since long been deprecated in favour of micrometer, part of our beloved SI system of units.
I guess it would even be better to have lots of RAM and a few gigs of swap space, but I'd rather use those extra gigs for an MP3 copy of my music CDs.
Of course you're right...
When was it defined as a power of two? The meaning of mega, kilo, deca, hecto, pico, nano, femto etc. was defined as powers of two back in 1960, when the SI system of units was defined as a standard in the scientific world.
I think it's a kludge that kilo means 1024 in kilobyte, while it means 1000 in kilometer, kilogram, kilonewton, kilovolt etc. It's time we give it up, and accept correct terms. I agree kibi sounds ridiculous, but that's just a matter of habit. We'll get used to it.
Besides, not everywhere in CS kilo is 1024 and mega is 1024*1024: in datacommunications, the correct numbers are used. 10 mbit/s is 10000 bits per second.
A circular one can never go down the hole, while for example a square cover, when turned 45 degreeds around the vertical axis and 90 degrees around the appropriate horizontal axis (not very probable, I know) can go down.
BTW, here in Belgium they are square (and I have never seen one going down the hole).
He mentioned XP as a viable *development* platform, not on the embedded side.
I thought I understood a forest and trees. Then I started to learn CS, and a textbook said 'If you have a tree and you remove the root from it, the result is a forest.'. Brilliant. I have a biology background, and the first time I read that sentence was when I was browsing trough the book, and not paying very much attention to the context. It was a very weird thing to read. Until I read the context, of course, I'm not an idiot.
Correction: ... she should copy from the latter to *at least* 3 instances of the former whenever she needs to keep a safe copy.
Exactly, it should have been 42.
(To restore explorer, assuming the Task Manager is still open, click File->New Task (Run), and type Explorer. Or type c:\winnt in the IE address bar and double-click explorer.exe)
I tried both Mozilla 0.9.5 and Konqueror 2.2.1, and both gave totally different results, and both did not look like they were correct.
That's still another point, and one on which I tend to agree with you.
That may very well be, but one should be ranting againts pointless animations and stupid timewasting intros, not about Flash an sich.
That aside, I'm absolutely not impressed with the quality of the Belgian Indymedia site (can't speak for other versions, didn't read them). Bad grammar, bad writing style, non-impartial reporting. So I partially agree with you, but I don't agree that the quality of something is determined or indicated by its popularity.
Remember, encryption makes the internet a cozy bedside chat. Use it with your lovers, and use it with your friends.
I guess encryption has its uses, but this doesn't seem to be one of them...
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