I used to be an advanced amateur photographer before I had kids. The kids were born in the days of film photography. I digitized all my film, and I've been storing all of my pictures in a NAS at home, of which I also keep an off-site backup. I don't worry too much about the possible obsolescence of file formats.
It's a fallacious comparison, and a ludicrous insult to the Cuban people who have suffered the opression of a totalitarian regime for more than fifty years.
In double-entry accounting (which is the only proper way to do accounting), one entry reduces assets, and the other increases expenses. So they simultaneously "write off" the asset, and "take a hit" to earnings.
Display: any old TV or monitor. Power: micro-USB standardized GSMA Universal Charging Solution. Keyboard and mouse: via USB port. (You'd be surprised at how prevalent TVs and cellphones are in less deveoped parts of the world.) Granted, you can't use the Raspberry Pi away from the power grid, but I would surmise that in areas were there is no electrification, there aren't many teachers or schools, so you can't really make use of the OLPC, either.
The OLPC hardware is too expensive. Even middle-income countries like El Salvador and Honduras have struggled to get them introduced into schools.
The Raspberry Pi project ("An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25" - http://www.raspberrypi.org/) might just obsolete OLPC.
Another part of the problem is that the music industry needs oligopoly rents in order to sustain the expensive lifestyles of its executives and entertainers.
Yes, but: "(OpenGroupware) currently only works with Ximian Connector 1.2, the new 1.4 version isn't supported yet..."
(from http://www.opengroupware.org/en/users/faq/index.ht ml).
On the other hand, if the people at OpenGroupware were listening, this might just be the boost they need...
Freedom, exercised with respect for others, is a moral good. Conversely, it is morally wrong to put limits on it. What is wrong is over-consumption, from an individual point of view. It should be a moral, individual decision not to indulge in it, just as being generous with others is.
The outsourcing phenomenom is the great wage-leveller of our times: equally qualified people outside the industrial countries are getting the jobs for less pay, while their counterparts in the industrial countries get fired, and will, on the whole, find jobs for a lower wage.
The phenomenom will reach equilibrium when wages (adjusted for transaction costs and other economic barriers) equate.
Another moral issue involved is what the high wages in the industrial countries lead to: superflous consumption. Many who decry outsourcing to less developed countries are, in reality, concerned with the threat to their levels of consumption, much of which they can really do without. In the process, they deny persons in other countries the opportunity to lead a dignified life. It's a sort of sublimed neo-colonialism.
Any achievement of technology or culture has the potential to empower terrorist states.
Open source software cannot be singled out.
The real issue is the moral choice: are all of these achievements to be used for good or for evil?
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I used to be an advanced amateur photographer before I had kids. The kids were born in the days of film photography. I digitized all my film, and I've been storing all of my pictures in a NAS at home, of which I also keep an off-site backup. I don't worry too much about the possible obsolescence of file formats.
...to force obsolescence and upgrade$
Easy: with DC instead of AC.
It's a fallacious comparison, and a ludicrous insult to the Cuban people who have suffered the opression of a totalitarian regime for more than fifty years.
That's how afraid the Cuban government is of the free flow of ideas.
Exactly where in South America is a war going on? Or did you just make that up, like the rest of your improvised thinking?
It is not. It reverted to Panamanian sovereingty after the Torrijos-Carter treaty in the seventies.
In double-entry accounting (which is the only proper way to do accounting), one entry reduces assets, and the other increases expenses. So they simultaneously "write off" the asset, and "take a hit" to earnings.
Display: any old TV or monitor. Power: micro-USB standardized GSMA Universal Charging Solution. Keyboard and mouse: via USB port. (You'd be surprised at how prevalent TVs and cellphones are in less deveoped parts of the world.) Granted, you can't use the Raspberry Pi away from the power grid, but I would surmise that in areas were there is no electrification, there aren't many teachers or schools, so you can't really make use of the OLPC, either.
The OLPC hardware is too expensive. Even middle-income countries like El Salvador and Honduras have struggled to get them introduced into schools. The Raspberry Pi project ("An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25" - http://www.raspberrypi.org/) might just obsolete OLPC.
Another part of the problem is that the music industry needs oligopoly rents in order to sustain the expensive lifestyles of its executives and entertainers.
Microsoft has the luxury of being able to hire the best people...
Of course: if you extract monopoly or oligopoly profits from a market, you can afford this and other luxuries.
Yes, but: "(OpenGroupware) currently only works with Ximian Connector 1.2, the new 1.4 version isn't supported yet..." (from http://www.opengroupware.org/en/users/faq/index.ht ml).
On the other hand, if the people at OpenGroupware were listening, this might just be the boost they need...
Freedom, exercised with respect for others, is a moral good. Conversely, it is morally wrong to put limits on it. What is wrong is over-consumption, from an individual point of view. It should be a moral, individual decision not to indulge in it, just as being generous with others is.
The outsourcing phenomenom is the great wage-leveller of our times: equally qualified people outside the industrial countries are getting the jobs for less pay, while their counterparts in the industrial countries get fired, and will, on the whole, find jobs for a lower wage. The phenomenom will reach equilibrium when wages (adjusted for transaction costs and other economic barriers) equate. Another moral issue involved is what the high wages in the industrial countries lead to: superflous consumption. Many who decry outsourcing to less developed countries are, in reality, concerned with the threat to their levels of consumption, much of which they can really do without. In the process, they deny persons in other countries the opportunity to lead a dignified life. It's a sort of sublimed neo-colonialism.
Any achievement of technology or culture has the potential to empower terrorist states. Open source software cannot be singled out. The real issue is the moral choice: are all of these achievements to be used for good or for evil?
Take a look at http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html.
It's an online copy of the book 'Grokking the GIMP' by Carey Bunks. It's probably the best GIMP reference available.
"May you grok it in fullness!"