Some time ago, nearly all cars sold in Brazil are sugar cane ethanol powered, I don't have heard about other so succefull fossil combustible substitution program in any other place.
The fall of oil prices and the end of government subsidize made cost/benefit of ethanol powered cars no more competitive.
Now there are motors who can use any combination of ethanol or gasoline.
There are differences. Americans are not liked in many parts of the world.
"E a reciproca e verdadeira"
We ever tend to generalise by picking one or two stories. And I bet there are lots of terror stories with foreign people in US like have in any other country, but those are the general rule or special cases?
Racism is a common place everywhere and job outsorcing tends to generate flames and more racism.
I think that we have to see others countries people just like ourselves, with desires and necessities.
Seriously, I receive at least two or three scam mails a week saying they are from banks, central bank, government, etc. I know more than one people who gave its password bank account to scammers.
And, with christmas, I received tons of spam e-cards with exe donwloads links and/or attachments.
I agree, it crashes, but in some companies, people had no choice, they have to use OO, just like others impose MS office. And they complain because it is slow, feature less, etc. What I tell them? I tell them that the $$$ diferece will allow to buy a more powerfull computer and the speed diference will disapear. I compare office with a expensive car, and
OO with a popular car, both do almost the same things but not everybody can afford the first.:)
I have seen a lot of people receiving.CDR files from it's publicity agencies and don't knowing what to do. It's funny, but they don't know how to save in JPG to send and I see some of my customers buying a Corel licence just to see the files.
In the other side, this week another customer have received some atachments with OpenOffice files from two different sources. I told them to install OpenOffice because is "free" or "gratis" (as beer?).
Also, I'm knowing of several companies here that are using OpenOffice to cut licence cost, (and the university I work too). I see it as a weak signal of oppenOffice large scale adoption.
For those who have the Office licence why don't install an OpenOffice just to open the files they are receiving?
It's always sad to see some historical thing being shattered.
But this discussion about the better use for the mondy is void. The "money" don't exists at all. They are looking for someone, a philanthropical institution, a person or business, who had some money who they don't want give in form of taxes to government's waste.
There are tons of this type of money circulate around, and charity, ONG's dispute then. The smarter gets it. (I'm not smart enough)
This is the way they survive... maybe they collect 10% of the total and make some repair
Here in Brazil, in the new government with socialist origin, we are having a similar move towards open source.
I have some things that seems obvious to me, but I have no confidence, yet. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think isn't all about money, but what governance calls "strategy", "technology ownership", "Less economical dependency", etc. and they dislikes monopolies and have some spyware fear.
As colateral effects, them sight a rising industry with lots of jobs and new oportunities, more tax money and votes.
I prefer to believe in the visionary Tim Berners Lee with it's Semantic Web ideas. There are lot's of works in that direction.
When we could do searches with semantics, the results would be exponentially better. Until them, my bid is in Google. How many time yet? Ten years?
It's just the power of money: Who have more money, do more things! Like Microsoft.
But airplane was not invented by Wrigth Brothers, was Santos Dumont who do it!;)
I live in a wine producer region close to an Chandom Winery. They import the famous Don Perignon champagne and sell for US500 a bottle. In a visit I asked to the him proved and if it really worth that, and they said that was "almost the same thing" the other who costs U$10...:)
It's the price of the "grife"
I have two hotmail accounts, for about five years, and I had noticed that spam at hotmail reduced a lot.
I had to set the "exclusive filter" that don't let anybody else from my contact list to fall into inbox.
In the spambox, I was recieving 100+ spams per day each account, now I'm getting less than 1-5 per day.
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It was discovered in 1991 by the brazilian astronomer Kepler de Oliveira Filho
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Some time ago, nearly all cars sold in Brazil are sugar cane ethanol powered, I don't have heard about other so succefull fossil combustible substitution program in any other place.
The fall of oil prices and the end of government subsidize made cost/benefit of ethanol powered cars no more competitive.
Now there are motors who can use any combination of ethanol or gasoline.
"It is not clear at this point how the three and a half year-old source code escaped Mainsoft."
You know.. It's simple: code wants to be free
Hummm, "three and a half year-old" I think it's grown enought to walk.
But we don't exist! We exists just when we think. (Descartes) And, when we are reading about cosmology in a economy magazine, we are not thinking! ;)
(I tring to be funny, is better explain before)
People in space *are* Astronauts (from the greek astron, meaning star, and naut, meaning sailor).
:)
And astromouses are the mouses from stars. Anyone knows how is spoken mouse in greek?
What about "ratonaut"?
There are differences. Americans are not liked in many parts of the world.
"E a reciproca e verdadeira"
We ever tend to generalise by picking one or two stories. And I bet there are lots of terror stories with foreign people in US like have in any other country, but those are the general rule or special cases?
Racism is a common place everywhere and job outsorcing tends to generate flames and more racism. I think that we have to see others countries people just like ourselves, with desires and necessities.
Why flamebait? This is funny...
I partially agree with you. The mainstream idea about the average linuxer is that he are an hacker. Then, it could lead people to a wrong conclusions.
But I consider the big mistake of the virus creator, is to give free publicity to those...
There are anybody around that stills taking seriously SCO?
Seriously, I receive at least two or three scam mails a week saying they are from banks, central bank, government, etc. I know more than one people who gave its password bank account to scammers.
And, with christmas, I received tons of spam e-cards with exe donwloads links and/or attachments.
Are there the same problem?
This is not recursive, it's just a loop! :)
I agree, it crashes, but in some companies, people had no choice, they have to use OO, just like others impose MS office. And they complain because it is slow, feature less, etc. What I tell them? I tell them that the $$$ diferece will allow to buy a more powerfull computer and the speed diference will disapear. I compare office with a expensive car, and OO with a popular car, both do almost the same things but not everybody can afford the first. :)
I have seen a lot of people receiving .CDR files from it's publicity agencies and don't knowing what to do. It's funny, but they don't know how to save in JPG to send and I see some of my customers buying a Corel licence just to see the files.
In the other side, this week another customer have received some atachments with OpenOffice files from two different sources. I told them to install OpenOffice because is "free" or "gratis" (as beer?).
Also, I'm knowing of several companies here that are using OpenOffice to cut licence cost, (and the university I work too). I see it as a weak signal of oppenOffice large scale adoption.
For those who have the Office licence why don't install an OpenOffice just to open the files they are receiving?
I can't catch if you are being ironic, but, convicted, liable... to me it seems to be just a semantic game. Or they aren't monopolistc at all? :)
If it is true, this means that they use spam filters!
eheh. There is a bug in my Nokia cell who, sometimes, makes it vibrate without stop when I receive a call.
Trust? With students? Are you joking? ;)
Sorry about my "engrish".
It's always sad to see some historical thing being shattered.
But this discussion about the better use for the mondy is void. The "money" don't exists at all. They are looking for someone, a philanthropical institution, a person or business, who had some money who they don't want give in form of taxes to government's waste.
There are tons of this type of money circulate around, and charity, ONG's dispute then. The smarter gets it. (I'm not smart enough)
This is the way they survive... maybe they collect 10% of the total and make some repair
Here in Brazil, in the new government with socialist origin, we are having a similar move towards open source.
I have some things that seems obvious to me, but I have no confidence, yet. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think isn't all about money, but what governance calls "strategy", "technology ownership", "Less economical dependency", etc. and they dislikes monopolies and have some spyware fear.
As colateral effects, them sight a rising industry with lots of jobs and new oportunities, more tax money and votes.
R$90 for 300k, R$120 for 600k in dolars, USD30 and USD40
I prefer to believe in the visionary Tim Berners Lee with it's Semantic Web ideas. There are lot's of works in that direction. When we could do searches with semantics, the results would be exponentially better. Until them, my bid is in Google. How many time yet? Ten years?
Anybody has a google cache link for it? ;)
It's just the power of money: Who have more money, do more things! Like Microsoft. ;)
But airplane was not invented by Wrigth Brothers, was Santos Dumont who do it!
I live in a wine producer region close to an Chandom Winery. They import the famous Don Perignon champagne and sell for US500 a bottle. In a visit I asked to the him proved and if it really worth that, and they said that was "almost the same thing" the other who costs U$10... :)
It's the price of the "grife"
I have two hotmail accounts, for about five years, and I had noticed that spam at hotmail reduced a lot.
I had to set the "exclusive filter" that don't let anybody else from my contact list to fall into inbox.
In the spambox, I was recieving 100+ spams per day each account, now I'm getting less than 1-5 per day.
Someone can send an amazon link to I buy a copy? Or where I can download a PDF version. ;)
It's a nice christmas gift.