It's about Australian as the vegemite in your sandwich.
It's made in America, by Americans, starring Americans. A casual look at The Wiki will tell you so.
The reason there's an Australian accent over the top is probably because you're watching it in Australia, where, because they've dubbed the narrative, the broadcaster is allowed to classify it as "local content"
I saw Mythbuster's dubbed in Spanish and it took me a little while to put the pieces together as well.
While I applaud the effort to give cheap computing to the underpriviliged masses in China, this may be cause for concern
The fact that a government that still seems to be fairly interested in tramping on all forms of dissidence is involved enough with the OS and hardware so that it falls "in line with the Chinese government's IT policy", makes me a little nervous.
This isn't unusual, MS has always tailored their products so that they fit in with the IT policies of western nations. But from what I have read, China has a somewhat different IT policy to many Western nations.
An IT policy which drives everything underground, away from the policing ears.
An old boss of mine had the quote.
"There's no such thing as quick and dirty. Just dirty."
Which means, as soon as somebody revists the quick and dirty solution you provided (and they always will, no matter what how much "this is just a once off" posturing you do) it will take longer to extend, longer to understand and harder to maintain.
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It's about Australian as the vegemite in your sandwich.
It's made in America, by Americans, starring Americans. A casual look at The Wiki will tell you so.
The reason there's an Australian accent over the top is probably because you're watching it in Australia, where, because they've dubbed the narrative, the broadcaster is allowed to classify it as "local content"
I saw Mythbuster's dubbed in Spanish and it took me a little while to put the pieces together as well.
. It is admittedly hard to characterize Jacko as oppressed (2),
It is just as hard to characterize him as being a black musician.
Did anybody else here read the article?
Did this line send shivers down your spine?
While I applaud the effort to give cheap computing to the underpriviliged masses in China, this may be cause for concern
The fact that a government that still seems to be fairly interested in tramping on all forms of dissidence is involved enough with the OS and hardware so that it falls "in line with the Chinese government's IT policy", makes me a little nervous.
This isn't unusual, MS has always tailored their products so that they fit in with the IT policies of western nations. But from what I have read, China has a somewhat different IT policy to many Western nations.
An IT policy which drives everything underground, away from the policing ears.
An old boss of mine had the quote. "There's no such thing as quick and dirty. Just dirty." Which means, as soon as somebody revists the quick and dirty solution you provided (and they always will, no matter what how much "this is just a once off" posturing you do) it will take longer to extend, longer to understand and harder to maintain.
You're kidding right?
Linux is better than Windows and Mac OS because it's harder to install software?
Take the blinkers off, sunshine.